Does Hollywood Have Top Secret Clearance?

OK, so I'm surfing the web earlier this week, when I come across this story (NetScape.com) about Charlie Sheen.
Now, this isn't a story about Charlie's career, or famous family, or (my favorite part), his collection of former HOTTIES (Ginger Lynn, AND Denise Richards in the same lifetime? I mean Come-on!). No, this was about Chuckie's (very timely) theory about how 'W' helped plan the 9/11 attacks. Yeah, Chas, first let's lose the bong. Your reaction time has a Half-Life. Second, what are you a structural engineer, now? Part of C-Dog's rant is about how the tower collapses looked "too controlled"... So, 'W' knew EXACTLY where to tell his hijacker friends to crash into the buildings?
And the hijackers' small aircraft pilot training was good enough to allow them to fly WIDEBODY PASSENGER JETS with that kind of precision? Umm..NO. Charles started going into his explanation of the theory, why our Prez would do such a thing, (oil, lucrative contracts for his friends, just to use the War Machine), but the whole thing just kinda' fell off...Like he saw something shiny.

That reminded me of another "Intelligence Specialist"; Sheryl Crow. Yep, she's hot, she can sing and play like the dickens, AND she apparently has her finger on the pulse of international espionage, and conspiracy. My wife and I were watching Sheryl on TV one night. I dig her music, I certainly like watching her, but things went south quickly. Sheryl once played a USO show for the troops during our totally un-necessary involvement in Kosovo. Ms. Crow insisted that she would never play for anybody but US troops again. Whatever. Apparently, war is OK when a Dem (Clinton) gets us involved in it. When 'W' does, it's a "campaign of misinformation".
The concert we were watching quickly turned into a political platform for the left.
OK, you wanna talk misinformation? All the lefties, especially Hollywood, and mainstream media can talk about is oil. Iraq has this HUGE oil supply, and we're there to steal it. OK, why are Iraqis paying almost nothing for gas, and I'm paying $2.50 a gallon? If we just stole this massive reserve, shouldn't prices be dropping? Second, other than oil, there are two differences between Saddam, and Milosevic; Milo never had any chemical weapons to use on his own people, and he was a Christian. So basically Sheryl was saying Kosovo was OK because we had a Dem in the white house, and we were going after a Christian. Both mass-murderers, both evil dictators, mass-graves, the whole bit. But Slovodon never attacked any of his neighbors, or sponsored terrorist attacks, or produced and used WMD on his own people. Did we go in to Iraq at the wrong time, on bad intel'? Yes, the resources would've been better used in the hunt for Osama. Besides, it was always just a matter of time before Saddam would do something stupid again, and give the world a reason. But he can't do that anymore, can he? HMMMMMM.....
By the way Hollywood insiders, a little scoop for ya'...Most of the insurgents ARE NOT Iraqis who want the US out, they are Syrians, Jordanians, Saudis, Egyptians, etc. who are inciting some Iraqis. "The News" just fails to tell you about the people who don't hate us in Iraq, and it's most of 'em. Did you ever notice how Slick Willy always got us involved in stuff right around the time another one of his scandals was blowing up?
- "Don't look at that intern going down on me, look at all these Tomohawk missiles I'm throwing at Saddam."
-"Don't look at that Whitewater investigation, look at our troops ousting this small-time semi-dictator"
-"Don't look at Vince Foster 'killing himself', look at this fiasco in Somalia."
-Three times Al Qaeda hit US interests during Bill's terms, WTC bomb, US barracks in Saudi Arabia, and the USS Cole. All three times, he said we would get those responsible, all three times certain African countries offer up Osama's head, 'cause he's hiding out there. All three times Bill says "NO". Who is conspiring with terrorists? I guess that depends on what your definition of IS is.

By the way again...I'm still waiting for Alec Baldwin to move out of the country, and for Tim and Susan to uncover that huge Oil Industry scandal, so I can have my solar-powered car, and organic chai tea, and for Sean to come and give me a million dollars; my kids think I'm an evil dictator. (Do you suppose Sean's million was in with all that cash they caught Saddam with?) Don't even get me started on Michael Moore, Bill Maher, Green Day, or System of a Down.

Please Hollywood, stick to entertaining, leave the spy stuff to the CIA.

Peace, Love, and real intelligence,

SAB

Me, You, and Religion

O.K., so I work with a couple of guys who are not only more conservative than me and my Brother CP put together, they are also very religious....And very opinionated (read: stubborn) about their own interpretations of what the Bible says. As you may know, CP and I were brought up Catholic (read: guilt-ridden), with all the "I'm not worthy", and "I'm a sinner just for being" you can handle.

The big argument a couple weeks ago was; Did Jesus die for our sins as in many people- one sin per person, or one person- many sins? Or maybe many people - many sins? Like alot of things in the Bible, you could read it both ways...And like many things in the Bible, I personally think, it is that way to MAKE you think.

The problem, in my small-scale two-guys-at-work case, and I believe, in the world, is that alot of us are so caught-up in our own up-bringing, our own opinions, our views of what is right, that we fail to see the Common Freaking Sense right in front of our faces.

Now, mind you, this is my view of CFS... I don't think it really matters which, and how many sins Jesus died for, I don't think it matters if you're a Christian, a Jew, a Muslim, a Bhuddist, or whatever. I don't think it matters how you interpret your Bible, or holy word of choice (as long as you don't pervert a peaceful religion, that goes for you Ultra-Christians too, not just Muslims)
or how you choose to worship (once again, within limits). I think if you try to do the right thing, try to be the best person you can, and follow the Golden Rule (every religion has a version, but they all say the same thing), your God, your savior, your prophet, will accept you into your Heaven.

Being enthused, or adament about your reigion is fantastic, until you start trying to push it on other people as the only one that's right. My family and I choose to remain with the Catholic Church, it's the church I was raised in, baptized in, was an Altar-boy for. But, I also understand that my church is partially based on what Emperor Constantine thought should be the story of Christ. Thousands of years of religions fighting each other, crossing-over one another, and just getting lost in translation will create enough debate without our ego's help. So I don't push my belief system on anyone. Think of it this way, 95% of the world believes in a Higher Power, and 95% of the teachings in all the different disciplines are damn-near word-for-word, so why can't we all see eye to eye?

probably the same reason that we can't have CHRISTMAS anymore, in a country where 95% of us are Christian.

Don't be hatin'

SAB

Illinois Governor's Race

Well folks, it's Judy Barr-Topinka going up against Blago here in the flatlands. Hmm...A very liberal Republican at best this Judy, not that I'm a huge fan of the ultra-right, but I think Judy is a Repub only because the incumbent is a Dem. You wanna know why I consider myself more of a conservative? Because at least you KNOW up-front the Republicans are in it for themselves and their friends; The Dems gotta lie and say they're all about the little guy, the minorities, the homeless, homosexuals, and whoever is the "Cause-Group-of-the-Day". How many homeless people do you think John Kerry had over for dinner this week?