hasan's power point

So he did a presentation showing that Muslims in the U.S. Military, can be a threat to the U.S. goals.

From his conclusions page. -"Fighting to establish an Islamic State to please God, even by force, is condoned by the Islam."

That was one of his conclusions, his interpretation of his religion.

Here is the actual power point on the Washington Post

Exaggerated stereotypes

Exaggerated stereotype in transformers





Exaggerated Stereotype in a commerciall

I'm so giddy, oh so giddy. . . .

I'm feeling pretty good right now. I finally finished the shotgun class project, got some clips off to the Ogre, and now my work is on his website via his youtube account. It's a little grainy, but I was using some presets on Compressor. I can ask how to get better quality results, but this might lead to some "filthy lucre" in my future.

If you want to see this video in HD quality, go to the Crossroads of the West Gunshow, and find the Crusader Weaponry table. Joe and George will be there talking about training and Slipstream!

And my video!

Here are the youtube clips.

Why even have a mountain west network if it can't even run the biggest game in the conference? Its bs that i can't see my Utes play TCU tonight.

If you need a christmas idea

I would like this book.

I think this is part of carrying a gun responsibility.

Knowing how situations have played out in real life, it can take some of the surprises out of a real confrontation.

Good Drum Corps

This is the Cavaliers amazing show from 2002. Awesome.





This is the James Bond show from 2004. The Cavaliers are so physical, is it any wonder that when you meet a Cavalier in real life, they are skinny as a rail? Could you imagine rehearsing this show for half a day? Whew.


The University of Utah has been trying out some new moves with their Appalachian Spring, and I say good job. Audience, we should applaud their efforts so we can see more cool stuff.

Inaccurate stimulus numbers

So a little while ago, the article doesn't specifiy when, but recently a report appeared that said that the Stimulus had created over thirty Thousand jobs. The White House immediately started using that number to show that the stimulus program is working and on its way to perfection. However, the number is overstated by at least 5,000. Thats as much as the AP could count from the basic, non-exhaustive search it did. These are numbers reported by companies with federal contracts, that counted jobs multiple times. So they said they had hired maybe five people, but only hired one, and kept the rest of the money. Here is a link

Is it any wonder why certain segments of the population are distrustful of the government? It gives contracts to companies and helps them out, sure, but there are so many contractors that it becomes easy to hide overbilling in all the noise. Its hard to draw any specific conclusions about the current government, because I'm sure this has been going on for quite a while. It is easy to think of all the possibilities for corruption that can flourish in an environment such as this. With this in mind, does it make sense that an enormous government program, like health coverage for all, would be spotlessly clean and honest and efficient? When such a relatively small amount of money spent on the stimulus is being wasted?

I'm sure it wasn't Obama's intention to waste money as part of the stimulus, and it likely isn't his intention to waste money with the Health Plan, but when you have so much money flying out to so many parties, some of it is going to evaporate. This number which is reported on the recovery.gov website is a survey from 9,000 contractors. Each one of those is a company, not just a person.

Maybe larger government programs with expanded powers isn't what we need, maybe all we need is just a government with less employees and more efficient spending, just on things that are absolutely necessary.