altho i can not vote, i can't help to take interest in the hottest american political issue - 2004 presidential election of course. i always love political debates. after i've had 3 weeks of intensive american politics study, i now have a better understanding of american politics than ever. the biggest surprise i learned is how the federal budget looks. bush led the federal deficit of fiscal year of all time high. it's reaching $500 billion. realize that's only for one year, the total national debt is actually over $7.1 trillion now. isn't that lovely?!

take a look at this graph! the net loss under bush administration is $410 billions while clinton had a net gain of $523 billions.

that alone is reason enough to get bush out of the office.

the budget will be a big problem once all the baby boomers hit retirement age. the fact is most of federal budget is spent paying social security and medicare. right now we have 15 working person to support 1 retired, by 2020, this number will decrease to 2. if the system doesn't change, either the working class will have to pay more tax or the old people will have to get less money. since old people are more likely to vote, you can expect they will not vote to decrease their social security checks. it's really important for the system to change right now.

i visited both bush and kerry's websites. one thing i noticed (unless i overlooked) is that bush doesn't allow any open discussion on his site. you can not leave comments on his blog entries nor does he have a public forum like on kerry's site. that's not very democratic, isn't it? for a person like me who truly enjoys reading educated debates, WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT on bush's site.

i'm happy to read many Republications are leaning toward Kerry. as the history shows, most people still vote according to their party alignment. it's those who are independent or moderate liberty or conservative are likely to vote fully based on issues and integrity.

i'm not sure how Kerry will turn out. but i'm convinced bush is an incompetent president.

How many members of the Bush Administration are needed to replace a lightbulb?

The Answer is SEVEN:

1. One to deny that a lightbulb needs to be replaced

2. One to attack and question the patriotism of anyone who has questions about the lightbulb,

3. One to blame the previous administration for the need of a new lightbulb,

4. One to arrange the invasion of a country rumored to have a secret stockpile of lightbulbs,

5. One to get together with Vice President Cheney and figure out how to pay Halliburton Industries one million dollars for a lightbulb,

6. One to arrange a photo-op session showing Bush changing the lightbulb while dressed in a flight suit and wrapped in an American flag,

7. And finally one to explain to Bush the difference between screwing a lightbulb and screwing the country.

hrm, it doesn't look right. reminds me of my puppy bubo humpping his daddy's leg. LMAO.

a japanese blogger linked me apparently because i own a pomeranian. look at his/her pom

i know exactly how bubo will turn out to be :)

this is cool. i used to make my new icon!

http://illustmaker.abi-station.com/index_en.shtml

a few examples

The worst flood in history:
China, 1931; 3.7 million dead.

The second worst flood in history:
China, 1887; 900,000 dead.

The worst earthquake of the 20th century:
China, 1976; 242,000 dead.

The second worst earthquake of the 20th century:
China, 1927; 200,000 dead.

The worst earthquake in history:
China, 1556; 830,000 dead (est).

The worst famine in history:
China, 1959-61; 20 million dead.

The second worst famine in history:
China, 1876-79; 10 million dead.

The worst civil war in history (second worst war of any kind):
China, 1850-64; The Taiping Rebellion; 20-30 million dead.

China also lost more people in World War 2 (10.45 million) than Germany (5.5 million) and Japan (1.9 million) combined.

check out toybox if you love cute images
http://sugary-sweet.com/toybox/

this is kinda cool.

i never knew there exists dl and dt tags in html

learn something new everyday :)

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/mountaintop/

qbee's summer activity
http://www.supersonicsquirrel.net/qbee/honeycomb/
and i found a few pixel sites from it
http://annezca.prinsesa.net/main.html
http://www.stormynight.net/kianna/Frame2.html

http://www.simply-magical.net/v23.php

it just makes me smile

DodoUpload is a simple upload script that is not featureless. It is partly inspired by http://pix8.net - a used to be free image hosting service. I love the convenience they offered. Back then they don't require you to sign up. You can just browse and upload any image files. They will also rename your file if the name of your file already existed.

This all ended when they started to require registration and payment a few days ago. I wrote this script so I can use my own server the way they used to offer. My script has all the functionalities they have and more. Yet it's very simple to install and use. Take a look at my demostration with user: demo pass: test

Download here

aw hellokitty is 30 years old this year. she's older than me :)
http://hellokitty.com/

1. Take your tabulas username and replace each letter with the corresponding number (a=1, b=2, c=3, d=4, e=5, f=6, g=7, h=8, i=9, j=10, k=11, l=12, m=13, n=14, o=15, p=16, q=17, r=18, s=19, t=20, u=21, v=22, w=23, x=24, y=25, z=26). If your name contains numbers, just use them as they are. so mine

d - 4
o - 15
d - 4
o - 15
z - 26
h - 8
a - 1
n - 14
g - 7
2 - 2
1 - 1

2. Add all of the numbers together, i get:

97

3. Make a note of the first digit of this number, then add the digits of the number together.

16

4. Find the post of this number in your tabulas.
*well, my 8/2003 are imported so i will start with 9/2003
16th post -
September 21st, 2003
wow
POSTED AT 06:18 pm in funny
wow i just got an email called "you deserve a bigger penis". andy said he prefers me not to have one. DARN!

5. Take the digit you noted in step 3, and count that many words into the post.
1st word - wow

6. Use the resulting word in a Google Image Search, and select a picture from the first page.

7. Post the results for us all to see!

result = http://www.grumet.net/weblog/archives/images/bow-wow-med.jpg

must know i'm in need to learn dog vernacular.

http://www.sugary-sweet.com/linny/

it's pretty amazing.. a site made to get rid a notorious spammer brianne. http://fab.lambsonic.com/ and a few of us are suspecting a girl who recently joined dmb is her.