I want a 2010 Ford Mustang with the 3.5 liter Ecoboost motor, lowered, and with Sync.
12/09/2008
11/04/2008
10/27/2008
10/14/2008
A Brighter Day Will Come
<br /><a href="">Obama '08 - Vote For Hope</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/mcyogi?pg=embed&sec=1891426">MC Yogi</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com?pg=embed&sec=1891426">Vimeo</a>.
10/09/2008
9/30/2008
September Madness
9/26/2008
Resemblance
When I stare at this picture, there are so many things about him that remind him of myself. There are the obvious facial features, but something instinctual that I can't quite put into words. I guess what I'm really trying to put to rest is my wife's claims that I'm not the baby's daddy.
9/22/2008
9/15/2008
9/11/2008
Dahlias
9/05/2008
9/04/2008
Jacob Palmer
Born on 09/02/08 at 10:50 p.m. weighing 8lbs. 8oz. and 20.5" long. Baby is healthy, mom is recovering, and dad is tired...
4/06/2008
Sunday Driver
You would think that getting some basil for your favorite pasta recipe would be as easy as going to the nearest Albertson's, or if they happened to be out you could try the Fred Meyer a mile away, or if they didn't have it there that you could rely on the Safeway at the edge of town, and if they didn't have it there you could cross the town and find it at the Safeway that's located downtown, and if not there...where? Where is the basil in Bremerton?
Note to self: plant some basil.
Note to self: plant some basil.
4/02/2008
Bremerton Marina
I was performing some inspections yesterday and snapped this shot from one of the penthouse decks.
Later in the day, the Mayor sent this picture.
Later in the day, the Mayor sent this picture.
3/03/2008
Car Shopping
Christy and I are shopping for a replacement vehicle for the late Jesusmobile. There are some minimum requirements that we have established; 4 doors, automatic transmission, big backseat, plenty of cargo room, CD player, less than $10,000, 2 cup holders, torque, etc. While there are plenty of Toyota Camry's, Volvo 850 GLT's, and Mazda Protege's that fit the bill, I keep insisting on the Audi R8, or the sexiest car on the planet right now. Sure, it's missing 2 doors, a backseat, some cup holders, and far exceeds our price range, it comes with the option of an automatic transmission and CD player. The shit-ton of torque is standard, bonus.
2/12/2008
Things passengers/drivers do that annoy you?
This question was recently posed in a message board that I frequent and as I began preparing my response by listing the items that truly annoy me I realized: I very much dislike having passengers in my car and I hate being the passenger in any vehicle.
1/21/2008
MLK Day
Excerpt from fair.org:
After passage of civil rights acts in 1964 and 1965, King began challenging the nation's fundamental priorities. He maintained that civil rights laws were empty without "human rights" - including economic rights. For people too poor to eat at a restaurant or afford a decent home, King said, anti-discrimination laws were hollow.
Noting that a majority of Americans below the poverty line were white, King developed a class perspective. He decried the huge income gaps between rich and poor, and called for "radical changes in the structure of our society" to redistribute wealth and power.
"True compassion," King declared, "is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring."
By 1967, King had also become the country's most prominent opponent of the Vietnam War, and a staunch critic of overall U.S. foreign policy, which he deemed militaristic. In his "Beyond Vietnam" speech delivered at New York's Riverside Church on April 4, 1967 — a year to the day before he was murdered — King called the United States "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."
From Vietnam to South Africa to Latin America, King said, the U.S. was "on the wrong side of a world revolution." King questioned "our alliance with the landed gentry of Latin America," and asked why the U.S. was suppressing revolutions "of the shirtless and barefoot people" in the Third World, instead of supporting them.
In foreign policy, King also offered an economic critique, complaining about "capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries."
You haven't heard the "Beyond Vietnam" speech on network news retrospectives, but national media heard it loud and clear back in 1967 — and loudly denounced it. Time magazine called it "demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi." The Washington Post patronized that "King has diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people."
In his last months, King was organizing the most militant project of his life: the Poor People's Campaign. He crisscrossed the country to assemble "a multiracial army of the poor" that would descend on Washington — engaging in nonviolent civil disobedience at the Capitol, if need be — until Congress enacted a poor people's bill of rights. Reader's Digest warned of an "insurrection."
King's economic bill of rights called for massive government jobs programs to rebuild America's cities. He saw a crying need to confront a Congress that had demonstrated its "hostility to the poor" — appropriating "military funds with alacrity and generosity," but providing "poverty funds with miserliness."
How familiar that sounds today, more than a quarter-century after King's efforts on behalf of the poor people's mobilization were cut short by an assassin's bullet.
After passage of civil rights acts in 1964 and 1965, King began challenging the nation's fundamental priorities. He maintained that civil rights laws were empty without "human rights" - including economic rights. For people too poor to eat at a restaurant or afford a decent home, King said, anti-discrimination laws were hollow.
Noting that a majority of Americans below the poverty line were white, King developed a class perspective. He decried the huge income gaps between rich and poor, and called for "radical changes in the structure of our society" to redistribute wealth and power.
"True compassion," King declared, "is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring."
By 1967, King had also become the country's most prominent opponent of the Vietnam War, and a staunch critic of overall U.S. foreign policy, which he deemed militaristic. In his "Beyond Vietnam" speech delivered at New York's Riverside Church on April 4, 1967 — a year to the day before he was murdered — King called the United States "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."
From Vietnam to South Africa to Latin America, King said, the U.S. was "on the wrong side of a world revolution." King questioned "our alliance with the landed gentry of Latin America," and asked why the U.S. was suppressing revolutions "of the shirtless and barefoot people" in the Third World, instead of supporting them.
In foreign policy, King also offered an economic critique, complaining about "capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries."
You haven't heard the "Beyond Vietnam" speech on network news retrospectives, but national media heard it loud and clear back in 1967 — and loudly denounced it. Time magazine called it "demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi." The Washington Post patronized that "King has diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people."
In his last months, King was organizing the most militant project of his life: the Poor People's Campaign. He crisscrossed the country to assemble "a multiracial army of the poor" that would descend on Washington — engaging in nonviolent civil disobedience at the Capitol, if need be — until Congress enacted a poor people's bill of rights. Reader's Digest warned of an "insurrection."
King's economic bill of rights called for massive government jobs programs to rebuild America's cities. He saw a crying need to confront a Congress that had demonstrated its "hostility to the poor" — appropriating "military funds with alacrity and generosity," but providing "poverty funds with miserliness."
How familiar that sounds today, more than a quarter-century after King's efforts on behalf of the poor people's mobilization were cut short by an assassin's bullet.
1/10/2008
Pictures from Lowell
These are some pictures that my friend Lowell, a Harborside Condominiums resident, shared with me.
1/06/2008
1/01/2008
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