i can imagine that senator hatch right now is ticked at senator bennett. hatch was the sponsor of the marriage protection amendment that failed to pass a couple of days ago. supporters were only one vote shy of it passing in the senate. i first heard bennett's stance on this issue over a year ago before i even interviewed for the internship. he has always said he doesn't support a flag burning amendment and sure enough he stuck to his guns and voted against it. even with tremendous support of the amendment from utahns, the senior senator of our state being the amendment's main sponsor, there being only one vote away from the two-thirds need, and overwhelming support from republicans and bush, he still voted with what he believed was right. i admire him and totally agree with his decision and reasoning, however was his decision right to vote against it when a number of polls in utah have shown the state's support for it. of course when they were showing this on the news all last week, i never heard a word about bennett. even when a reporter was asked which senators are probably being lobbied the most right now, she listed a few of the more popular ones but no bob. you know hatch was all over him this week. anyway, hatch just wasted everyone's time in the united states senate once again.
ashdown is the dem in utah running against hatch this year and the poor guy has no chance. even if he actually had campaign funds, or if he hired a stylist, or even if he had both of those and was republican, i think he'd be lucky to get a quarter of the votes. we'll see. sadly i won't be here to participate. i should see what's going on in colorado. maybe i could pick which election i want to vote in.
someone needs to create a new war video game. it doesn't matter which war, but i will say world war 1 since there aren't very many of those type of games out there. you can play the usual range of difficulties like easy, medium, hard or whatever, but there should be one level called realistic or something. the level of difficulty is basically how it would have been in real life or in that actual battle. you couldn't get shot seven times before dying. they would also have to make accuracy of weapons real as well as the amount of gunfire we would all be under. i suppose you could say that games today might have "legendary" levels which are near impossible and probably close to the real thing, but unless they advertise it as such, i'm not satisfied with just playing the hardest level. they've tried things in other games like if you get shot in the leg, you now limp or can't walk. wait a second, it's coming to me. this game already exists and it's operation flashpoint. it came out like four years ago. never mind then. it's a great game. more should be made like it. this one wasn't wwi, but the next best thing: fictional cold war, circa. 1980. a few more games are coming to me as well, but it would still be cool to be in some trench battle that was to as close to the real thing as we can make it.
myspace sucks because their music section depends on what retards put out there. their selection is just too small and random.
i’m going to see the rentals at the end of this month. this is beyond being stoked. i wouldn’t even be this excited if i were seeing the weez again. unless they were playing in my living room, then i guess that would top the rentals. it’ll be fabulous and i cannot wait.
The New World (2005): an extremely visual, pg-13 telling of john smith and pocahontas. the opening to the movie and first twenty minutes or so are flawless. the music and stillness of the scenes really show the peace and calm that existed before the eurotrash landed in the americas. the beginning also had one of the most effective and efficient montages i've ever seen. you really get a sense of what these different groups of people were going through during this moment in world history. the story was somewhat similar to dances with wolves, only that john dunbar is john smith, and stands with a fist is pocahontas, although you'd never know she was pocahontas because they never say her name in the film. the locations where they shot the film were very believable. it feels like they really are in an untamed eastern united states. there is very little dialogue and i sometimes wished there had been more because it was sometimes hard to really get deep into the characters when they say nothing. i didn't like the ending very much but the first half is amazing. the story of how things turn out just didn't do it for me. it's hard to complain about story elements that are taken from historic accounts because no one wants to change history too much for the sake of entertainment. that's assuming this movie was somewhat authentic to what really happened. i'm going to have to recommend skipping this movie. it's decent and has lots of really high points, but it just kind of loses steam by the end. don't see.
fair, B-
yesterday my mom, younger brother and me went tubing down the provo river. the water was a crisp 50 degrees but the temperature outside made the two hour float quite enjoyable. tonight we are going to the stadium of fire thing in provo. we never go because we can see most of the fireworks from outside the stadium and the headlining act for the show is always a crappy country singer. this year is no exception, as lee ann womack will be there. opening for her will be beach boys, queen, and abba cover bands and some variation of osmond children. i'm not sure it could get much worse. but we did buy tickets this year because leeann womack has been upstaged because taylor hicks is now the main act. so we are pretty stoked to see him. we'll also get a different view of the fireworks than usual. and it's a nice way to end our time here in utah. i remember kim and i going to a byu game before i had moved out here. since then i can't remember a single time we've been back to the stadium. but tonight we'll be there. right now kim is out buying new carpet for our condo. sucks we won't get to enjoy it, but it's gonna be pretty sweet when it's done. i probably have a million other things to say but i must be off.
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