Eight Drunken Immortals: The Blog

I'm back from Louisiana

2006-12-31T20:25:00.000-08:00

I'm back from my visit home to Louisiana. I won't comment a lot on my trip home but I will say that I had an absolutely wonderful time.

I loved seeing my family. I can't tell you how much I miss them. I met a couple of nephews that I haven't met before because they had been born since I was home last; my niece and her brother were too young when I left to really remember me.

After this trip, I'm not sure if I can call Portland my home anymore. I want to move closer to my family.

Christmas

2006-12-25T19:26:00.000-08:00

Today was Christmas. I hope everyone had a wonderful day. Christmas is always one of my favorite holidays. I'm going home to Louisiana tomorrow. This will be the first time I've been home in eight years. I'm really looking forward to seeing my family. I will be back on the 31st. I know I haven't been writing a lot lately.

I am reading Mark Steyn's book, "America Alone." I will let you know what I think about it. I am playing "Gears of War" for the 360. It's awesome.

Well, I will see you all in a few days. I'm going to have to get up 3 am. Oh, Boy.

Iraq Surrender Group

2006-12-06T22:51:00.000-08:00

The Iraq Study Group released its report today. As expected it is nothing but a recipe for defeat and appeasement. If the people in control of this country were in control of the United States during World War Two, we would be putting together a Gaudalcanal Study Group and be making recommendations to withdraw from the South Pacific and to begin talks with Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany.

My support for the President is fading very fast. I'm not even sure he even cares if we win this war anymore. The things this group recommends do nothing but give aid and comfort to our enemies. James Baker should be held up, like Jimmy Carter, as a total incompetent and he will do anything to hurt this country and appease our enemies.

I am scared that Western Civilization is on the very verge of falling and that we will find ourselves in a new Dark Age that will make the Dark Ages look like the Renaissance. Every person who lives wants when they die that the world they leave behind will be a better place than we they entered it, but I'm not so sure this will happen. I think things have never looked so bleak as they are now.

Reading and playing

2006-12-03T09:56:00.000-08:00

I finished reading "The Last Command" by Timothy Zahn some time ago. I then read another Star Wars novelization but I'm now reading "World War Z" by Max Brooks. Brooks is the son of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft. I got this book as an Advanced Readers Copy from work. I've been enjoying it very much. The book tells the personal stories of some of the survivors of a world wide Zombie War. The "invasion" catches the world totally unaware, the loss of life and devestation is horrible, and comes close to overwhelming us all and thereby causing the extinction of the human race. I highly recommend this book. I haven't been able to put it down.

I love Zombie movies. I love "Night of the Living Dead" (the original) and I like the new version of "Dawn of the Dead" but my all time favorite Zombie movie is "Shaun of the Dead." There's also a very good and very funny X-Box game out that I like called "Stubbs the Zombie: Rebel Without a Pulse."

I am playing "Kingdom Hearts" right now. Its a fun game. Playing a game with two of the main characters being Goofy and Donald Duck you'd think it would be a kid's game. It's not. I would love to get the sequel, "Kingdom Hearts II," and I hope that after paying some bills on Thursday I might have enough left over to get it. The game I am planning on buying on Thursday is "Star Trek: Legacies." This is a game that I'm looking forward to playing. I'll let you know how it is later.

Venezualan election

2006-12-03T09:00:00.000-08:00

Today Venezuala is holding elections. Little Hugo is up for re-election. I've been paying close attention to this election, first because I want to see Little Hugo get his ass kicked and the real people of Venezuala sent this pathetic little tyrant wannabe packing, hopefully up against a brick wall with a firing squad waiting to give him a little present, and second because I've been to Venezuala and I really liked what I saw. I have always planned to go back and see more of the country but I will not visit as long as Little Hugo is in power.

This worthless little shit has ruined a great country. I'm sure he's going to cheat and will claim victory even if he has not won it. This is always the case with tyrants of his ilk. I wonder if Jimmuh Carter is there "monitoring" this election. If he is there, then you know he will declare Little Hugo the winner. There is not a tin pot, tin horn dictator on this planet that Carter doesn't like. He was the worst President in American history and now he's the worst ex-President in American history. When he passes I hope no one mourns him. Let him be forgotten like he should have a long time ago.

Posts

2006-12-01T23:34:00.000-08:00

I will post a few items this weekend. There are a few things I want to talk about but I want to wait until it's not so late in the evening and after I've had a good sleep. I have been thinking about starting comments again in the next few days but if I begin receiving any shitty posts from liberal freak trolls then I'll shut it off again. I won't take any crap from liberals.

Happy Thanksgiving

2006-11-23T08:05:00.000-08:00

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. May you all enjoy a great meal wil friends and family.

Comments off

2006-11-10T22:18:00.000-08:00

I've turned off comments. I already feel bad enough about what I said on Tuesday and I know the liberals would love to rub it in. I beat myself up all the time about it, I don't need others to beat me up as well. I was told that I really hurt my reputation but I never thought I had a reputation to begin with. Liberals will think that I've turned chicken by doing this and that I don't really want to debate. Well I just will have to disappoint them. I started this blog for myself and if I have to continue it with just myself then that's just the way it will have to be.

Wow

2006-11-10T11:41:00.000-08:00

The new trailer for Spider Man 3 is out at IFilms. It rocks. Talk about a sweet looking movie. This is one movie I cannot wait for. I will be there the first day.

I was thinking

2006-11-10T10:25:00.000-08:00

I was thinking that maybe after my extreme overreaction to the election on Tuesday, that I should comment less on politics and more on other things. Getting away from so much politics might be a good thing. There's a lot more to life and my interests than politics.

I will continue to mention and post political thoughts. I have to. Politics is definitely one of my interests but thinking about them all the time like I did for this election is what got me into trouble. I'm also a gamer and a reader. I will now try to post my thoughts on games that I'm playing and what I think about them and books that I'm reading and what I think about them. I'm also going to get back to talking about my martial arts. This site is named after one of the most colorful and exciting Kung Fu styles. I shouldn't have drifted away from it.

I'm currently re-playing "Knights of the Old Republic" by Bioware. This is one of the classic games for the XBox. I also just purchased the new game "Gears of War" and will begin playing it in the very near future. I will let you know what I think as I go along.

The book I'm currently reading is "Star Wars:The Last Command," by Timothy Zahn. As you can tell I love Star Wars. There are a huge number of Star Wars books published and this book and the other two books in its series are among the best in the genre. Actually with the exception to the movie tie-in books and a few books like "Splinter of the Mind's Eye," and The Adventures of Lando Calrissian and The Adventures of Han Solo books, this series, I think, are the first three books in the current crop of Star Wars books. Star Wars books have there own seperate shelf areas in the science fiction sections of most bookstore. I haven't bought the three new Star Wars books that have recently been published, "Betrayal," "Bloodlines," and "Path of Destruction:A Novel of the Old Republic." I just don't have the money. I will probably have to wait until they come out in trade paper or even get one used or even have to wait until I find one in used trade paper. Oh, well but I do have a lot to keep me entertained until then.

Enough (with updates)

2006-11-10T10:09:00.000-08:00

Enough is enough. Yes, I know my Masters of Science Degree is in Writing but my emphasis was in Book Publishing not in Creative Writing. I have never claimed to be a writer. I know what my limitations are and writing is just not a skill that I possess. I love to read. I have hundreds of books, ranging from science fiction (a lot of those) to mysteries to history and so on, but the thought of writing one myself is just beyond me. My interests in Publishing has never been editing or writing. I want to be a Designer or even go into Bookselling. One of my dream jobs is to work in or operate a bookstore. I think I would enjoy being a Buyer for some bookstore somewhere. At least I'd get a chance to get all the free Readers Copies the publishing houses send to Buyers.

Also, how many other famous writers out there make mistakes. I would love to see an unedited manuscript by some famous writer. Even the best make mistakes, full of grammatical errors, poor word choice, run on sentences and poor sentence structure.

Update: You know, I was wrong about fussing at you for telling me about another mistake I made in my spelling and grammar in a past post. I'm keeping what I just wrote up so that I can show I'm not trying to hide anything as others accuse me of. Thank you Alek for pointing out my goof. Once you showed me, I spotted what I did wrong, right away. Please help keep me honest. I take what you said in the spirit of a stern but honest teacher pointing out what I did wrong in the hope that I will learn from my mistake and that it only make me a better writer and blogger. Enough is not enough. Thank you.

Thanks Charles Johnson

2006-11-08T16:07:00.000-08:00

Last night as some of you know I went totally unhinged. I won't go into what I said because I don't want to repeat it. Charles Johnson over at LGF accepted my sincere apology and deleted the nasty posts I left over there. I appreciate that. He is a true gentleman. I still am very embarrassed by writing the word "quite" when I should have written "quit." What a stupid mistake for someone who just got her Masters in Writing with a 3.5 GPA. I was a very good student and usually I'm good at spelling. Last night Marian was not here. Yeah, maybe that's it. I went far, far away and something else took my place. I was playing "Knights of the Old Republic" for XBox and maybe a bit of the Dark Side of the Force reached out and took me over. Well, I'm back on the Light Side now. I can't promise I won't get angry again and I do have a bit of a temper, but I'll try not to go that bad again. Stop me if I do, please.

A very large I'm sorry

2006-11-07T23:50:00.000-08:00

I said some very bad things tonight. I just wanted to apologize for them.

When a man like David Frum, whose work I've read and admire sends me a reply castigating me for, not just my bad spelling of the word quit but what I said, then I know I've really gone off the deep end. I'm not really this bad. I'm usually a very easy going type person.

I'm sorry. I can't take back all that I said but I can ask that those of you who I haven't alienated to please forgive me. I've deleted those posts so they are no longer to be found on my blog. I'm not quitting. I can't now. I just wonder if all the posts that were from Anonymous were from one person or several people.

Thank God for "Lurch" Kerry

2006-11-01T00:13:00.000-08:00

Thank God for John "Lurch" Kerry. He is the gift for the Republican party that just keeps on giving. He has just assured a Republican victory on Tuesday. Keep on talking, buddy. What you have to say is much appreciated.

Election in a week

2006-10-30T21:30:00.000-08:00

One of the most important elections in this nations history is in a little over a week. The thought that treasonous, cowardly Demoncrats could take over Congress is a thought that is too evil to contemplate. I don't think that it will happen. First I don't think that Democraps are anywhere near in the lead as they think they are, second I don't think that any of these polls that show that Republicans are trailing are correct. I think that no one who really cares even answers these polls because they know that whatever they answer it will be misrepresented. These "polls" are rigged. Third, the American people are not stupid. They realize what we are fighting and they know that the Republican party is the ONLY party that can protect this country from the Islamopignazi's that threaten this country. Soon this country will be the only bastion of civilization left and we must do whatever we have to protect it. The Democrats will not win. They will lose like they always do and I will love every minute of it, watching them collapse in pain and despair.

Happy Birthday to Michelle Malkin

2006-10-20T10:55:00.001-07:00

Happy Birthday to Michelle Malkin. Michelle's sites, Michelle Malkin and Hot Air, are two of my favorite sites. I check them several times a day to see what insightful things she has to say. Keep up the great work Michelle. You are definitely one of the best. Happy Birthday.

China trip

2006-10-15T13:25:00.000-07:00

I know that I may have mentioned in the past that I was planning on going on my martial arts China trip in 2007. After reading in several blogs about the Chinese Army's massacre of several unarmed, innocent Tibetan refugees last week or the week before, I have decided not to go. I cannot in good conscious support a country that murders innocent people. Some would say that by not going I am not helping the regular people of China, when I should be condemning the leaders of China instead. Well, I say that the regular people of China, even if they did not actively participate in the murder, are just as guilty as those who shot those Tibetans. By living in China they bear some of the guilt of what happened as much as the soldiers who did the shooting.

Something I said

2006-10-15T11:38:00.000-07:00

Over in Little Green Footballs, I posted something about possible Muslim seething over the 2012 London Olympics being held during the month of Ramadan. This is what I wrote:

"Hopefully by 2012 the world would have had it's fill of these Islamopignazi's and eliminated the whole filthy lot of them. The world would be so much better without Islam. Commit genocide."

Well, I apologized for this comment. I did it to keep from possibly being banned and I didn't want that. I really didn't mean it. I don't have anything to apologize for. I still think that the world would be so much better off without Islam. We need another Crusade. Wipe out the whole filthy lot of them. After they have been wiped out, we could give Israel control of the entire area. They would run it a lot better than the creatures swarming over it now.

Just thinking

2006-10-14T16:28:00.000-07:00

Maybe the West should let the Islamopignazi's and other third world thug's fight among themselves until they have killed each other. After they have killed themselves off, we can go in there and wipe out whoever's left. This would require quaratining the entire Middle East and Africa but it could be done. No food, no medicine, no weapons, nothing goes in until it is over. By the end they would be fighting with tool and claw. After these creature's are all dead, then we would take over.

These people are incapable of taking care of themselves. They have given up any chance of living independent lives. I would call them children but that would not be a good description. They are animals and need to be controlled like we control wild animals. If a wild animal kills a person, hunters will go out and kill that animal. This is what we should be doing with these wild animals. Reinstitute colonialism.

Prediction

2006-10-13T08:27:00.000-07:00

Here's a quick prediction for the November elections. Saxton will win Governor here in Oregon. The Republicans will win and retain control of both the House and the Senate. The Dimocraps will freak out and completely implode with their Moonbat freaks abandoning the party and going totally insane. That's that.

Quick thoughts

2006-10-07T22:53:00.000-07:00

Just a couple of quick thoughts I had tonight at work. I will be writing more now that we are getting ready for the extremely important election.

1)A vote for the Democrats is a vote for Al Queda.

2)Nancy Pelosi is Osama Bin Laden's favorite Democrat.

There's more to the story

2006-10-02T22:18:00.000-07:00

Everywhere you turn, everyone is talking about the Rep. Mark Foley scandal that broke over the weekend. What Foley did is disgusting. If he talked like that to any of my nephews like that that, I'd fly to Washington or Florida, rip his balls off and shove them down his throat. I also think there is a lot more to this story than has been shown. Who had the IM's for so long? Did the "page" play Foley along? Was the "page" in on trying to sting Foley? Did someone know that Foley was like he is, and find a willing "page" and lead Foley along? Coming so close to an important election, I smell a DemocRat. I'm sure they are up to their dirty eyeballs in this.

Last Night at the Rose Garden

2006-09-24T14:13:00.000-07:00

Last night, I worked a concert at the Rose Garden. The performer was a man named Juan Gabriel. I've never heard of him before last night. To say his music and voice was underwhelming is to not describe it accurately. His backup musicians and his band drowned out his voice every time they got even halfway loud.

Gabriel is a very popular Mexican pop singer. If he is as popular as he is described, then the state of Mexican music is pretty bad. Watching him onstage, I could tell he is so Gay. My Gaydar started giving me major signals.

It's funny that last night, we have a major Mexican performer and tonight we have a major English performer who are both gigantic Queens, Juan Gabriel and Elton John. Is this a gay weekend at the Rose Garden.

Watching the audience which was totally Mexican, I kept thinking where is the INS when you need them. I'm sure they could have rounded up a whole bunch of people if they had wanted to. It's a shame the US Government or the City of Portland or the State of Oregon, will not take do their job. When I walked out of the building, I almost wanted to shout that I was glad to be back in the United States and not in Mexico anymore.

I think the Rose Garden may have hidden the US flag. I looked for where it usually hangs from the rafters and I couldn't see it. I don't know if they deliberately hid it or it was just behind the drapes they hung to close off the 300 level. I did see flags of Mexico. If they want their music so badly, then they should go back to Mexico to listen to it.

I got my Black Belt

2006-09-18T22:13:00.000-07:00

I went to Boise this weekend for my Black Belt test. I was the only person from Portland Chinese Shao-lin Center to test. We met in the park on Saturday morning. The day started cold and overcast but the sun came out as we were starting testing. Out of maybe 20 people testing, only three of us were double testing from 2nd Brown Belt to 1st Black Belt.

I passed but I feel like I just did okay. I didn't get the score I was hoping for. I knew I screwed up some of the forms I did but I don't know ones. It wasn't the fault of the testing panel, it was mine. I knew I'd screw up someway, somehow. I can't help but feel that they just passed me because they felt sorry for me.

After the testing, there was a black belt demonstration. It was enjoyable. I was kind of feeling sorry for myself but I did enjoy the demonstration. One of the forms demonstrated was Drunken Beggars Bowl and Stick. I saw this demonstrated in Denver and I really want to learn this. I'm glad that it will be the form taught in Boise next year.

After lunch, we went back to the school to learn the form. The form was Dragon Pa Kua. I want to practice it and try to remember it. It wasn't a hard form but it will take a lot of practice to remember.

Sunday we tried to go to the Sawtooth Mountains but forest fires in the area kept us from going. We ended up spending some time in the small town of Idaho City. I bought a nice antique medicine bottle from an antique store. We left Boise this morning and made it back here around 3 pm.

Right now, I'm suffering from a cold, sore throat, monstrous headache and I'm really tired. I'm now going to take some Zicam and go to bed. If I didn't need the hours so badly, I'd skip work tomorrow.

More thoughts on Mr. Miller

2006-09-11T17:54:00.000-07:00

I've been thinking about Mr. Miller all day.

I wonder what he was thinking about in the moments before the planes hit. Was he thinking that he didn't really want to be at work, that it was just too beautiful a day and he was wanting to go out and enjoy the day. Was he thinking about his family and the coming weekend. Was he thinking about college football games or pro football he was planning on watching on TV.

How can someone even begin to comprehend what was about to happen to him. I hope he is at peace. I know that God is up there. I am sure that Mr. Miller is up there with Him and that one day I can meet Mr. Miller and be his friend, if not in this life, then in the life after death.

I am not good with words. I am frightened that these last two entries could never express what I feel and that I am doing a disservice to Mr. Miller and am dishonoring his memory. Forgive my poor thoughts and writings. I can never adequately give honor to the memory of a good man, Mr. Robert Alan Miller, 46, of Matawan, NJ. May God be with you.