Well tonight it finally happened. The old rickety power supply that I was running my Fedora Core “ximz.com” server on finally kicked the bucked. I think a power surge here in Payson may have dealt the fatal blow to my poor power supply. Needless to say I have replaced the power supply and will be returning to South Jordan shortly.

I remember last year during the Democratic convention when John Edwards gave his two Americas speech. He spoke of the America that exists for the haves and the have-nots. At the time he gave the speech it did not resonate with me at all. I was a young student with little though of the macro problems of our country, except as it related to my school assignments.

Now as I see the people displaced from New Orleans it has become painfully clear that there are two Americas. How can we live in a country with such prevalent poverty and hardship? This is the United States, the premiere super power of the world, #1, the country that can do everything. Why are things this way? Why is health care so inaccessible to so many in this country?

We have to change things. Donate money to good causes. Call those lawmakers! Take care of yourself and your family so you can fight for those less privileged than yourself. We need to improve the country for the continued persistence of our nation.

I really wish there were more people who would comment on my website. The only one who comments is the astute Jake Waters. Please write on my site. Make me feel good. Do it to me, write comments to me, love me.

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This evening the Chief Justice passed away. His death comes as a suprise to me. I knew his health was fading, but I didn’t expect this to happen this soon.

We now have two open seats on the Supreme Court. A large part of the future of our nation may be based on Bush’s second decision.

Here is an excerpt of an Op/Ed piece in the New York Times.
Shirt-sleeves rolled up, W. finally landed in Hell yesterday and chuckled about his wild boozing days in “the great city” of N’Awlins. He was clearly moved. “You know, I’m going to fly out of here in a minute,” he said on the runway at the New Orleans International Airport, “but I want you to know that I’m not going to forget what I’ve seen.” Out of the cameras’ range, and avoided by W., was a convoy of thousands of sick and dying people, some sprawled on the floor or dumped on baggage carousels at a makeshift M*A*S*H unit inside the terminal.

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The president, true to form, has failed us again.

–Paul

I can’t believe that I am seeing such a distructive event happening in the United States.
I sincerely pray that live and the city will be saved.

I was viewing statistics for my webpage this morning and I noticed that my podcast has been downloaded 25 times. That really sucks. Jake Waters, who hosts his website on my server, had had nearly 200 downloads of his latest podcast. Jake’s latest podcast has only been online since Thursday night. What am I doing wrong? Feel free to comment!

It is both patriotic and wise to question the actions of our leaders. Today I participated in an anti-bush demonstration that was critical of Bush’s policies.
Click here for pictures of the protest!

For only the second time George is coming to my state. He is coming to speak a the veterans of foreign wars convention at the Salt Palace. Channel 4, in preparation for the visit from our Presidential Idiot, had decided to silence an ad from Cindy Sheean. For the record, all other network affiliates in Utah are running the ad, including KSL which is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (You know… the Mormons). If KSL is running the ad it has to be harmless.

Check out this CBS story: here about the controversy.

I will be with mayor Anderson and others on Monday protesting our bad president.