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I might now have changed my mind about abortions. A recent Drudge report headline shows that more and more women are having late term abortions if their babies have mild defects such as cleft palate or hand/foot abnormalities. I say why not, if your baby isn't perfect, I say go ahead and abort it. "What, the baby will have red hair? let's abort it" "Hey, our baby is going to be at risk to be obese, we don't want a fat kid, abort that bastard."

Read the article here: http://www.drudgereport.com/flash4.htm

In fact, this will give us a new class of citizens, I call them SHAT-Bastards [Should Have Aborted That Bastard]. I'm a victim here, I was born with a genetic code that put me at the risk for obesity, I'm going to sue my parents for not aborting me. It'll be a SHAT-Bastard lawsuit where anyone who isn't perfect or close to it will sue their parents, or demand a pay out from the government.

Hell, we're in the right here, if you can abort a baby if you're poor, why not help a SHAT-Bastard out and abort them if they might be poor too. And just think, the babies that are born from now on can be expected to be perfect. No more below average thinkers, no more weaklings, wouldn't that just be utopia? Come on America, abort that baby.

And to make sure that those people who do not believe in abortion rights don't bother you, we'll make laws that you don't have to be exposed to opinions that contradict your own, just like they're starting to do on the British Isles: http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=614552004

We'll make sure that those nutty extremists that dare disagree with the right of a woman to kill their unborn baby can't get their hateful mail delivered.

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Well, another success, in a way, for conservatives on campus.

Reaction to the new conservative paper was limited to the Network section of the MNDaily, and it was an unfriendly post to be sure, however, read the post here: http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2004/05/24/9693

Sure, the author of the post does get it wrong, it wasn't just the Campus Republicans involved with the paper, it was a big conservative effort. Just the same, it's good to get any press. Also, it warms my heart to see that we pissed off a liberal as much as we did. Making liberals angry is one of the few joys an on campus conservative gets.

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Alright then, let's talk climate as long as I'm bored.

Firstly, this stupid movie coming out is a bunch of bunk, and even liberals are admitting it: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/05/0527_040527_DayAfter.html

Also, the warming of the planet can also be explained by the fact that for the past two decades the earth has been "dim" or not reflecting as much light, read about it here:
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-earthshine,0,1655060,print.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

And the french still suck:

Le Monde Admits Bush Did Not Lie
About Saddam's WMD

…and… promptly proceeds to bury the story at the bottom of page 32!

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Wow, it's been at least two days since I was in Wisconsin, and I have taken several showers, and I still reek of 'scony.

Wisconsin sucks

Damn summer is boring

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Wisconsin sucks

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Well, surprise surprise, another stupid socialist idea fails:

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-france18.html

That shows that France did something stupid in reducing the hours of their normal work week, and that has hurt their economy, and it did nothing for their unemployment rates.

Sucks to France

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It feels good to be totally unproductive for a weekend.

I sat around and watched three baseball games, I saw the Twins beat the White Sox yesterday, I saw the Twins lose to the White Sox today, and I saw the Brewers beat the Atlanta Braves today 4-1.

I now am sure of one thing, I'd trade Matt Lecroy for two dome dogs and half a pint of Guiness.

I'd also like to state that "Balfour" is a bad name for a pitcher.

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I finished up my eighth semester here at the University of Minnesota today, I'll be graduatinig in the fall. During finals week people ask me if I'm done, and I say "yes" they wonder why I'm not more relieved or happy or whatnot. Seriously, as you get older you care less about such things, on top of that, school ain't that big a deal, I have more problems with the paper, these conservative groups that I'm involved with. etc. Those worries don't go away.

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I personally have a great love for philosophy. I like reading philosophy, and I like writing philosophy. Recently, I've been working on a philosophy term paper, and I was walking around outside. People I know would ask me "whatcha doing?" and I would reply "Working on a philosophy paper' to which they would comment "You're just wondering around like a fool."

That's sort of what philosophy is. You do whatever it takes to struggle with an argument, to understand it fuller, then to be able to write on it. I do that by walking around lost or by sitting with a dumb look on my face. People see me and just assume I have a mental problem.

"Mental problem" is a good way to describe philosophy.

I hate finals.

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Well,a few things on the lighter side of thinigs, I did make two Finals edition MNDaily articles, one is with Mr. Dyer: http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2004/05/07/9664

Another is more interesting, I'm "Walter Androjenee" in the following article:
http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2004/05/07/9685

What's funny about this article is that it appear to have been done by someone who had access to the letters@mndaily email account, the email account that you send letters to the editor. I wrote a letter about three weeks ago, that wasn't published, where I listed a bunch of Daily columnists. Some of tose columnists had admitted to being communist, like Diana Fu, others held positions congruent with Marxism. So after I listed the crew, I asked the simple question "How many Goddamned communists do you have working there?"

This is quoted in the article nearly word for word in thte second paragrph:

Using grant funding from the Department of Fatherland Security, the Justice Department and unnamed offices at Number One Observatory Circle, My Newspaper? CEO Shane Heffer assigned an investigative reporter to find out: “How many goddamned communists do you have working there?”

I should complain, but hey, it's still a good question. Last week in the editorial section the Daily admitted it had been doing students a disservice by being so one sided, where conservatives were left to a small portion of the letters section and the occasional guest columnist. Apparently they are trying to make the op/ed section more fair.

I say pick up a copy of the Minnesota Patriot instead.

The last time I applied to the Daily, I actually knew the editor. She was a conservative, and had actually been the pointman for an SFV event. She told me that she looked for a diverse bunch of people who had a diverse background. Diverse means conservatives don't get the job. She thought she had hired one conservative columnist in Steve Snyder, but he went crazy and stopped being conservative, matching more closely a lefty libertine. I told the editor that I was a half hispanic, half scandinavian grandson of immigrants that had been raised in Arkansas and had converted to Christianity after having been an atheist for five years. How diverse a background does a conservative need?

This editor later moved on to a different area of the paper, and recently she sent me an email. This email was a forward from the Bush campaign, they were looking for "Bush-Cheney '04 is seeking communications interns.
We're looking for people with writing experience who are able to stay
through the election in November"

I didn't ask her why she thought I would be a perfect comm intern for the Bush campaign, but I was not even in the running to be a Daily columnist. But that would have been mean.

Anyway, here's the abortion issue spread in the Wake that I did with Fred Hanson: http://www.wakenews.org/Voices/may5/rights.html

Finally, liberal radio sucks: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/col/story/192671p-166266c.html

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You'll have to excuse me, my hands are shaking a little, I just watched the complete video of the young Penn. man getting beheaded.

The full video is available here:
http://www.dreamscapesoftheperverse.com/iraq.htm

I'm not going to link it, since I would highly recommend not watching the video. It is low quality, but the sound is horrifying. I can't describe it. My head is shaking, it's detestable. I question why I watched it.

Here is what I wrote on a scrap of paper before I watched the video

"I'm a little pensive on watching the video. It's quite morbid, this curiosity. But maybe, if I see it, I'll understand the true inhumanity of these people. At least their irrationality."

Now I am certain I don't feel sorry about the prisoner "abuse" BS.

I had the volume up too loud, it's quiet until the end when he screams.

I've seen worse, I've seen most of the faces of death movies, and I've seen blood and whatnot huntinig. But this is affecting me. The sound. Maybe I'll be able to write on this tommorrow.

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I wrote my "transition report" for the new speaker of MSA the honorable Kevin Wendt. The letter is frankly too good to leave between us, so I'll publish it here. The idea is that I'm giving Kevin all he needs to know, even though I got nothing and he knows everything already. I wish him the best of luck as speaker of MSA.

Kevin,

I’m not sho'nuff whut this hyar repo't will does fo' yo'; mah guess is thet yo' haf about ev'rythin' a speaker needs t'git thin's done. Sartinly a grim face, a master of Billy Bob’s Rules, not t'menshun fine judgment. I’m not a-gonna leckure yo' on impartiality o' on runnin' meetin's. Yo' also haf a love an' belief in MSA thet even now ah lack.

No suh, ah cannot give ya' much.

But ah do haf a few thin's fo' yo', one is th' attachment of all th' rules changes. Mah recommendashun on th' rules is simple, read them, dawgone it. When th' rules don’t make sense, make th' right decishun. When makin' decishuns, ah w'd keep fairness a top prio'ity. Puffickion is th' enemah of fine inough.

Be flexible, th' palm tree survives th' hurricane this hyar way.

Don’t lose th' gavel, ah paid fo' thet bitch outta pocket.

Know th' histo'y of MSA, thar is a packet on thet which I’ll give yo'. Do some online research through th' MNDaily website t'see whar our group has been recently. Read Billy Bob’s Rules, be familiar wif th' Senate rules, an' watch th' British House of Commons. Mr. Nath an' ah have both had an English view of debate, it bein' mo'e lively an' interestin'.

Be skeppical, ah reckon.

Varmints haf their ideas of thin's, an' they take upon themselves them ideas like they take upon mo'e Holy matters. Some even fo'git Holy matters intirely. Keep yer faif close t'yo'.

Th' resolushuns fo' th' last semester is bein' bundled, an' I’m writin' out th' amendments t'them, an' hopefully they’ll git typed up. But resolushuns is meanin'less in th' gran' scheme of thin's. We haf fo'ty years (47 acshully) of resolushuns, an' t'compile them'd take sevahal volooms, let alone th' time t'read them, dawgone it. Our o'ganizashun has corntradicked itse'f offen. ah w'd put no faif in ennythin' thet happened befo'e 2002.

Have a loud voice when needed, cuss it all t' tarnation. Look tired when ya’ar. When someone screws up a moshun, try t'he'p them, dawgone it.

Smile.

Git a stopwatch.

Read thet cornsteetooshun of ours. Don’t read th' office policy.

Yo' haf mo'e than ah got. Th' old MSA is now gone fo'evah wif th' graduashun of mahse'f an' Mr. Dyer. Thet old MSA is bess lef' daid.

Mah last decishun as Speaker is thet th' MSA eleckshuns were held in a fair manner, thet th' votes were counted proper, th' results legitimate. In fo'um, varmints look t'yo' fo' o'der an' leadership. Don’t bo'e them, don’t waste their time, don’t allow exec varmints t'do th' same. They set an' look atcha. Remember they is hopin' fo' yer success too, so be cornfident.

Yer th' judicato' of this hyar o'ganizashun. Don’t let ennyone challenge yer power. Th' Speaker kin suspend enny ackshun at enny time. Ah used thet power once, pray yo' don’t need t'use it.

An' gain some weight.

Sincerely,





The Honorable Shotgun Andrade

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Well, there have already been some reactions to my post on the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal. Of course, people can't beleive that I have such a lax view on this. However, I think a description of the initiation rituals at my high school are ini order.

For the wrestling team, any new members of the high school squad were targeted. I believe I was a sophomore at the time. After practice, the coaches left the wrestling room. Then all the upper classmen ganged up on the newbies. We were chased until caught, and then we were pinned down. Our shorts were pulled down, and then a bucket of snow was poured on our exposed genitals. And we're talking a lot of snow here. We were held down a long time. I ended up hurting one of the seniors when I struggled, and I later tackled the wrestling team captain, which resulted in a second round for me.

For the football team, sophmores were required to dress in women's clothing or to wear makeup and lipstick or wear tighty whiteys over our trousers, we then had to go to school all day like this carrying around a stuffed toy. If someone got our stuffed toy we were required to do up downs until we puked. At one point during the day some senior tried to take my stuffed animal, I grabbed him, and shook him until he gave it back. The guy was lucky I didn't hurt him, I outweighed him by a hundred pounds at least.

There were other initiation rituals, varsity hockey players took their youth into a bathroom, fit a dozen or so guys into a single toilet stall, stripped them naked, and locked the guys into the stall. Then they threw several dollars in change over the wall and would not allow the guys out until they had the correct change.

And I consider these mild initiation techniques. I'm certain Greek frat/sororities are worse.

So, unless those Iraqis were connected to car batteries or otherwise physically assualted I don't find myself feeling at all sorry about their situation.

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If there are any new readers that have been directed this way because of the ad I placed in the newest U of M publication "The Minnesota Patriot" I say welcome. Hopefully the Minnesota Patriot can continue to grow and become succesful.

A little about myself and this blog, I'm a U of M psychology and philosophy student who has served various positions in the student government on campus. I was also the president of Students for Family Values and I'm presently the president of CFACT (Collegians for a Constructive tommorrow) a fiscally responsible environmentalist group.

This blog is really about rants, spelling errors, and miscellaneous crap I find on the net. So read around if you like, or just never come back. I ain't paying for the webpage, so it's not like I care all that much if you leave.

Marty Andrade

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Am I the only one that doesn't care a wit about this prisoner "abuse" crap? Seriously, we need to remember that the people in this prison were in this prison for a simple reason, they were trying to kill our troops and citizens.

These "tortures" were nothing worse than some of the initiation rituals I went through in High School athletics. Certainly, members of Frats and Sororities have had more humiliating acts done to them. And you know what...THESE PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO KILL AMERICANS

I can't feel sorry for them at all.

I'm so sick of our pansy patty cake society that can't handle anything even slightly low brow. The other part of this equation is that these tactics probably worked. I bet valuable information that lead to lives saved were garnered in these acts. It's not like we were putting bamboo shoots under their fingernails.

Heck, I wouldn't mind getting in on this action. We could dress these prisoners up like street walkers [$2 crack whores if you will], take pictures, and force them to sing "the love shack" in front of their American hating families. (That by the way is close to one of the former initiation rituals of the Alexandria High School Cardinal football team)

Some of these prisoners were even asking that they be shot rather than suffer through humiliation.

Pansies.

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The real Bush:

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/05/06/loc_moment06.html

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Circumstances are like Clouds continually gathering and bursting--while we are laughing the seed of some trouble is put into the wide arable land of events--while we are laughing it sprouts it grows and suddenly bears a poison fruit which we must pluck.
(John Keats, letter to his brother and sister, spring 1819)

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that poem is one of my favorites of Edgar Allen Poe's

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Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.

But he grew old —
This knight so bold —
And o'er his heart a shadow
Fell as he found
No spot of ground
That looked like Eldorado.

And, as his strength
Failed him at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow —
"Shadow," said he,
"Where can it be —
This land of Eldorado?"

"Over the mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,"
The shade replied —
"If you seek for Eldorado!"

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It's El Dos de Mayo!

And that's all that matters today.

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This is so huge I can't beleive that it hasn't made the news yet, but read this:

"NASA scientists have found that cirrus clouds, formed by contrails from aircraft engine exhaust, are capable of increasing average surface temperatures enough to account for a warming trend in the United States that occurred between 1975 and 1994. According to Patrick Minnis, a senior research scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., there has been a one percent per decade increase in cirrus cloud cover over the United States, likely due to air traffic"

Read the story here:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16528

global warming is now explained, for the most part. HOLY SHIT.

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Well, it's El Dos de Mayo! time here at the U of M. This means all the conservatives and right wingers on campus meet up for a 12 hour celebration of times past and activism ahead. We start this Sunday, at 3:30pm at Sally's on Washington Avenue here in Minneapolis. After which, about 8pm, we'll be goinig to Stub and Herb's. About midnight, we truck our way into the Philips Nieghbourhood to gather at the Pizza Shack. Everyone is welcome, it's a good time.

On an entirely different note, I have to say that Henry Long, God Bless him, is and can be annoying. We had our standard end of year BBQ down by the river flats. We had the standard assortment of grilled creature and starch. Henry wanted to play football. Which would be fine, except for the fact that he wanted me to play football.

I hate football.

However, I'm the type of guy who can suspend his hatred to try to have a good time. But, my knee is bad, I have a bad back, etc. In fact, i had spent the last week or so nursing a knee injury back to health. So I played a little. Figure this, by the ennd of the game I end up hurting my knee again, the thing looks like a basktball right now as I desperately try to ice it before my skin's ability to expand expires.

That's not the worst part, after we got done, I decide to put Hank into a wrestlers cradle, and try a few arm bars and wrist locks on him. He whines like a woman about how bad his back is.

Trying to sleep last night, tossinng and turning thanks to the pulsating pain, I thought about Henry. I screamed at the top of my lungs as I spent another hour awake holding an ice pack "DAMN YOU HENRY."

That pissed off some of the people who live nearby.

I don't care.

Next time I see Henry, I have a few key locks to test out on him.

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