Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Robin Williams' Plan for Peace!

Robin Williams' plan...

"I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a plan for peace. So, here's one plan."

1) "The US will apologize to the world for our "interference" in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those "good 'ole' boys," we will never "interfere" again.

2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany, South Korea, the Middle East, and the Philippines. They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.

3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave. We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of whom or where they are. They're illegal!!! France will welcome them.

4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available
to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.

5) No foreign "students" over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a "D" and it's back home baby.

6) The US will make a strong effort
to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in t he Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while.

7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go someplace else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)

8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not "interfere." They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given
to the army. The people who need
it most get very little, if anything.

9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island someplace. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, t he building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.

10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us "Ugly Americans" any longer. The Language we speak is ENGLISH...learn it...or LEAVE...Now, isn't that a winner of a plan?

"The Statue of Liberty is no longer
saying "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses." She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'you want a piece of me?' "

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Not much so far ...


The first half of this semester has been going fast. I only have one class this first half, Book of Mormon 2. This allows me to get a few more hours at work. I'm getting 16 or more hours every week. The school doesn't want me to work more than 20. I get close to that sometimes.

What I do for work varies. I am a Teaching Assistant for a lab that meets twice a week. It is Geology 102, a generals class. I also give tours of the mineral museum to elementary and middle school kids. Some other duties are proctoring tests, grading tests and assignments, tutoring, and being a lab assistant. I am the acting president of the Geology Society here. That, along with being the president of the BYU-Idaho student chapter of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

Since I can see the light at the end of the BYU-Idaho tunnel, I've been going through my stuff and selling what I don't need. When you settle down, you end up amassing greats amounts of junk/stuff. This is the reason why Mom and Dad can't move.

My field camp starts May 30th. We'll spend the first and last weeks here in Rexburg, but the rest of the time we'll be in the Big Hole and Beaverhead Mountains of eastern Idaho mapping. We'll be dry camping, so that means no shaving or showering. I want to stay somewhat sanitary while out there, so I'm thinking on getting baby wipes or something like that and AXE for daily personal hygiene. Any suggestions on what to do are welcome.

I'm not sure what I'm doing this Memorial Day. I was thinking of heading down to Utah or possibly Washington. I'm able to get someone to cover me at work for my few hours on Friday, so I would be able to head out about 12:30pm on Thursday and have a four-day weekend. But with everyone coming down here the next weekend, I'm not sure what to do.

I woke up to a snow covered Rexburg last Saturday and now it is sunny and 80 degrees here and the only AC in my car. It warmed up to fast.