Those Who Cannot Remember The Past, Are Condemned To Repeat It

While I am no fan of McCain, "Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it". George Santayana in "Reason in Common Sense" (Vol 1 of his "The Life of Reason") came to mind last night, with Obama, a Democrat, claiming victory in the 2008 Democrat Primary.

Well it seems Obama, a Democrat, is the young person's canidate. As I've spoken with some younger folks that want to vote for him. So since they mostly fall in the 18-26 year old category, here's a some facts they may want to think about before voting for a Democrat this Fall.

Fact: On May 18, 1917, the Selective Service Act was passed and then used by President Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, during World War I.

Fact: The first (in US history) peacetime draft was The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, and used during World War ll by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat.

Fact: In 1948 the draft was re-instated by President Harry Truman, a Democrat, and was expanded via the Universal Military Training and Service Act in 1951,for the War in Korea.

Fact: US involvement in the Vietnam War was from 1959 to 1975, but it was in 1965 when troops where set in mass under President Lyndon B. Johnson, a Democrat, after the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was passed in August 1964 allowing him to use the draft.

Fact: In 1980 the Selective Service registration was started up again by President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, and remains active till this very day.

I wonder if 18-26 year olds will want to vote for a Democrat after knowing these facts? Iraq may be an unpopular war, but so far no one has been drafted to go, maybe that's the change he keeps talking about?

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

NOTE: NO SPOILERS

Wow, finally got to see Indiana Jones IV. Now there is a one movie that should have never have been made! It was beyond horrible, Harrison Ford, seemed to be just reading his lines, Steven Spielberg's name is no longer synonymous with modern high end special effects, since they all were right out of the 1980's. The only part that saw a modern computer was close ups of Ford's face where it was obvious they had retouched it, but not the other parts in the scene behind him.

The plot, writing, timing, editing, were all off, and hodge-podge at best. In the three previous movies we could suspend disbelief a wee bit on how Indy would get out of a situation, but not this time! They didn't even try to give us a plausible reason for him staying alive through some of the stunts and situations.

The only good thing I can say about the movie, is the current trend of "fore head to lower neck" style of close up wasn't used. For those that don't know, this is used by lazy film makers. It allows for no background work or scene set up needing to be done, since the actor's head fills the screen.

2008 Indy 500

Another Indy 500 has come and gone. I was pulling for Vitor Meira to win, but 2nd isn't shabby!

Someone needs to tell Danika Patrick that this "aint white trash NASCAR", if she wants to act like that (going down pit row looking for a fight) she needs to go race somewhere else!

Techie Thoughts

I haven’t checked the news too much today, since it’s all about Kennedy and his tumor.

So here are a few “Techie” thoughts.

Windows Vista rocks! No really, it does! So far all the complaints against it have been by low end users and the technically challenged. If you know what you’re doing, it really does blow XP out of the water!

The one weird quirk is IE 7 fails on many fronts where as Firefox is great on Vista, go figure!

Now for the shocker! Yahoo search has been blowing Google out of the water for past week or so! It would seem Google has forgotten that it is a search engine, and Yahoo, after many years of dormancy, has woken up!

A Must See

Here is the major problem in the USA today. This lasts for about 80+ minutes. It's called "Maxed Out" and can be seen on Showtime on Demand this month (under all movies).

Of course it has a Leftist lean to it (read anti-Bush), but it does show the Democrats have an equal hand in this too.