Welcome to my site. OK, so the baseball season has not exactly gone as I had expected or hoped. The Diamondbacks are off to a very very very slow start. The bright spot came today with Randy Johnson throwing a perfect game over the Braves. Watching the game was as close as it has come to game 7 of the '01 series. With the way the season has gone, we'll take what we can get.

I say welcome to Tempe even though I live about one hundred feet inside of Mesa from the Tempe border because it seems I spend more time there.

There really is no definite purpose for this website other than "why not" (but you can't discount self promotion you know!, haha). I am taking a break from school until July 5th most likely when I begin the quest for a Masters degree. It seems after going to college for all these years with all the change of majors I may as well make it a second career, and maybe something will come of it. That is when I can get all of you to pay me to do your computer stuff.

But now in the spirit of the Presidential campaign, let me share a few quotes that are very interesting, but not suprising. You be the judge!

"[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs." -- From a letter signed by Joe Lieberman, Dianne Feinstein, Barbara A. Milulski, Tom Daschle, &John Kerry among others on October 9, 1998

"The threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real, but as I said, it is not new. It has been with us since the end of that war, and particularly in the last 4 years we know after Operation Desert Fox failed to force him to reaccept them, that he has continued to build those weapons. He has had a free hand for 4 years to reconstitute these weapons, allowing the world, during the interval, to lose the focus we had on weapons of mass destruction and the issue of proliferation." -- John Kerry, 10/9/02

"(W)e need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime. We all know the litany of his offenses. He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation. ...And now he is miscalculating America’s response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction. That is why the world, through the United Nations Security Council, has spoken with one voice, demanding that Iraq disclose its weapons programs and disarm. So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real, but it is not new. It has been with us since the end of the Persian Gulf War." -- John Kerry, 1/23/03

More to come....


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