WEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

I GOT IT! This is the camera I've wanted for a looong time. And now.. I am the proud new owner of Canon Digital SLR RebelXT.. Ohh the pictures are going to flood onto this blog like a bad New Orleans August. Thanks to Best Buy and their 24 month no interest purchase plan I'm set. Now, I will just have to try and figure out ways to come up with the cash for a Macro lens. (christmas *cough cough*)

Soo.. Ansel Adams.. he was a punk compared to the dopeness I'm gonna shoot.
Stand by..

I have a Rhino in my nose..

Im hurtin'. Every year I get a damn cold. It's tell-tale. I feel the snot creeping down the back of my throat and I know it's only a matter of time before Im wheezing like a fat man in the Boston Marathon.

But little did I know I had a rhinovirus. (which Im not 100% sure thats what I have but it does feel oddly like a rhino has been head-butting me so..)

NIH says:
"Rhinoviruses (from the Greek rhin, meaning "nose") cause an estimated 30 to 35 percent of all adult colds, and are most active in early fall, spring, and summer. More than 110 distinct rhinovirus types have been identified. These agents grow best at temperatures of about 91 degrees Fahrenheit, the temperature inside the human nose."
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/cold.htm

And now.. thanks to me.. it's my wifes turn.

Problem is that there is no cure. It has to run it's course. Sure you can knock yourself out with NyQuil like a junkie, but nope.. doesnt cure it. So.. I will sniffle and cough at my pc because I can't take a sick day. Using all my leave over christmas. Ohh well.. hopefully my body will work up some kind of defense to the rhino so I dont go through this in Europe over the Holidays.

Probably a reason why it is the FIRST F%$*ING amendment!

Living in the Washington DC area I find myself getting political now and then.
[Skip to the next blog if you want to avoid this.]
Our country is based on a very clear document, the United States Constitution. Like it or not, these are the rules. Not sure what the constitution really says? Click here http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.html

Now.. there seems to be a trend in this country to say, “ Yeah, well, if they knew then what we know now, they would have done things differently.” Or “ It’s a living and breathing document meant to be changed.” Bullshit.

I’ll grant that the Constitution can be amended, however, the rights that I see there are timeless. Of most important these days is the very first one: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

Simply put, freedom to AND from religion, free speech, press, and assembly.

Today, in the United States, the extreme evangelical Christians, have burrowed themselves so deep into our political system, that they have made a mockery of our very first amendment. Am I chicken little? Let’s look at an example where this actually kills people.

Uganda. Aids. There was, prior to the current administration, a program attempting to stop the AIDS pandemic in Uganda. Its acronym was A.B.C. (Abstinence, Be Faithful, and Condoms.) When this program was started it reversed a 16% AIDS rate to 6%. That is amazing progress. Short lived however. The current administration under pressure from the “neocons” in congress have put legislative requirements on funding so that only abstinence-only programs can receive help. This is outrageous! The distribution of condoms is a public safety factor. The belief that condoms are somehow against their god and subjecting millions of people, both givers of the funds via taxes, as well as recipients here and abroad to their belief kills people and is against rule #1.

I’ve got news for the modern-day American Taliban NeoCons: People have sex. You did and do, I did and do, your kids are/will, It’s not dirty, it’s not foul, and your views about religion need to stay in your church.

So, you have every right to believe that a guy thousands of years ago walked on water, just as I have every right to believe my big toe created the universe, but you do NOT have the right to force your beliefs on the people through our government.

From Cornell Law School: http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/First_amendment : Paragraph 2

“Two clauses in theFirst Amendment guarantee freedom of religion. The establishment clause prohibits the government from passing legislation to establish an official religion or preferring one religion over another. It enforces the "separation of church and state.”

Our silence is our guilt.

My New Hero

"Hi ladies.. maybe you've heard of me.. I'm Jet-Man".
Ohh yeah.. If I were this guy, that would be my wrap. (and I weren't married.)
This is one ballsy dude. (if he were a chick would she be ovarian?)

Damn.. that just looks like to much fun. Like somthing cobra commander on G.I.Joe woulda' had.. no? (anyone see Family Guy last night.. the Cobra Commander part was way to obscure and funny) Check out the site here.

www.yves-rossy.com/en/jetman.php

We don't torture, but want to keep doing it..I mean.. huh?

Ok.. the president says we don't torture, yet he doesn't want the Senate to pass a law saying we can't. Sheep.. mindless sheep. Our silence is our culpability.

From ABC News:
PANAMA CITY, Panama Nov 7, 2005 — President Bush on Monday vigorously defended U.S. attempts to interrogate suspected terrorists after the public disclosure of secret CIA prisoner camps in eastern European countries. "We do not torture," he declared.

"There's an enemy that lurks and plots and plans and wants to hurt America again," Bush said. "So you bet we will aggressively pursue them but we will do so under the law."

Over White House opposition, the Senate has passed legislation banning torture. With Vice President Dick Cheney as the point man, the administration is seeking an exemption for the CIA. It was recently disclosed that the agency maintains a network of prisons in eastern Europe and Asia, where it holds terrorist suspects.

Jesus was born.. now consume..

Ania and I went to many stores this weekend. Random stuff actually.. Target, Marshalls, Bed Bath Beyond. [Yeah, I know, many qoutes from the movie Old School are forthcoming.] But the weather was phat, birds we're singing, blah blah blah, but in the stores.. right up front.. Christmas. I still have my cute pumpkin and scarecrow on my porch. I AM NOT READY FOR CHRISTMAS TREES. The reason for the season? Consume. It is not about some dude who was born in a field by a virgin. (which I dont get that end of the story. Sperm, egg, the end.) But, again, I digress. Every single item of anything I see that mentions the holidays has to do with buying somthing.

Soo.. I'll be in Poland this year again for xmas, where nausiating christmas propoganda is minimal, families get together, don't go nuts buying each other stuff. If I was God, which I'm not 100% convinced I'm not, I would be seriously pissed off!

My Next Pet

I dunno. How. Why. It's just for you to enjoy. You can visit the very highly produced HTML masterpiece of-a-website where I got it from and figure it out yourself. Strange things happen when you Google "retarded".
http://www.couronne.net
niiiice midi..

No really, I was just leaving..thanks

Ok. I'll admit it. I bought beer as a kid with a fake ID that looked nothing like me. It might as well been a 60 year old black man, but seriously..
How does an inmate on death row use a fake ID to escape jail?

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I mean Kahh-mawn.
["It was convincing enough that the deputy let him out of the facility," Martin said.] Who was the deputy, deputy dog? The fuckin guy is 6ft 230lbs.

Maybe next he'll be an aide for Cheney.

Ever Get The Feeling The Retards Are Runnin' the Show?

Remember the go-go 90's? Yeah.. they were cool huh? We used to be the most powerfull country in the world and hey, we had friends. Now.. not so much.
For people that don't know me, and might stumble on to this blog [nobody's come yet] my wife is Polish and we are moving to Eastern Europe in 2 years. I love Europe for many reasons, but one in particular is their "stay out of each others business" attitude. Not on a government scale, I can't speak to that, but on a smaller scale. Life is more efficient there. People don't ask, "How are you?" unless they mean it. Don't ask if you dont want to hear.

But, my point is this. The current US administration is pissing away every last ounce of pull we have.. *anywhere*..

The Chinese have got to be amazed.. they are sitting there just draining us of all our power by subsidizing our consumerism frenzy that is reminiscent of a drunk at last call. All they need to do is pull the plug and we're fucked.

This country is going down the toilet and nobody seems to give a shit. We just can't seem to get it.. it is possible.. it happened to Rome. Bush and his cronies are fucking this country and it's people in the ass and we're taking it.

urban myth

Ok.. Halloween was everything I had hoped for. My wife Ania, myself, and our good friends Mark & Aga rolled down to Ocean City Saturday afternoon and the Party started as soon as we got there. We stayed with my very good friends Craig & Dani and it was absolutely fantastic.

See the photos here: http://www.desimon.com/halloween

We partied hard Sat night and got right up on the day after which I call Hair-Ah-De-Dog-Day and with the help of some Bloody Marys we had a killer day, ate raw bar at Fagers Island, watched the sunset, and then drove home.

And I spotted Sasquatch (sp?) I'm to lazy to look it up.
THANK YOU CRAIG AND DANI!!!