Thursday, September 24, 2009
Miami
9 days until I get to see my girlfriend. I have to drive 9 hours lol but it will be well worth it. It is almost 7 in the morning and I am just straight chilling haha. Well I will blog later.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
bills bills bills
I have way to many bills, i need to find a job asap like quickly, car payment, insurance, and now i need a new tag, and well thats about it but still its stressful ha
work out
I have been working out like its a religion. I would really want to be fit like this picture of ashton kutcher
Call this my inspirational pic ha. It will work.
Call this my inspirational pic ha. It will work.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
some more cnn news
he United States is overhauling Bush-era plans for a missile defense shield in Europe, based partly on the latest analysis of Iran's offensive capabilities, President Obama said Thursday.
President Obama on Thursday says the Bush-era missile defense plan will be replaced with a new system.
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The "new missile defense architecture in Europe ... will provide capabilities sooner, build on proven systems and offer greater defenses against the threat of missile attack than the... program" that former President George W. Bush proposed, Obama said.
Obama said the change of gears was based on an "updated intelligence assessment" about Iran's ability to hit Europe with missiles.
The Islamic republic's "short- and medium-range" missiles pose the most current threat, he said, and "this new ballistic missile defense will best address" that threat.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, speaking from the Pentagon immediately after the president's announcement, denied the United States was "scrapping" missile defense.
"This new approach provides a better missile defense capability for our forces in Europe, for our European allies and eventually for our homeland than the program I recommended almost three years ago," said Gates, who was defense chief in the last two years of the Bush administration and stayed on when Obama took office. Watch as Obama says the new approach is suited to threats of 21st century »
The Bush-era proposal called for the U.S. to set up a radar site in the Czech Republic and 10 missile interceptors in Poland to counter the threat of Iran launching long-range missiles at America's allies in Europe. See how the system would have worked » | See a map of proposed sites under the Bush-era plan »
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American officials from Obama on down insisted Thursday's announcement does not reflect any lesser commitment to European defense.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev welcomed Obama's move with a televised statement of his own from Moscow. Watch how Obama's plan may affect U.S.-Russian ties »
"We appreciate the responsible approach of the U.S. president," Medvedev said, characterizing the new American position as "putting into practice" an agreement he made with Obama earlier this year.
"I discussed this issue with the U.S. president during our meetings in London and Moscow. At that time, in our joint statement, we agreed to, and set in stone that Russia and the United States will seek to work together to assess the risks of missile proliferation in the world," he said.
A top expert at the Council on Foreign Relations backed Obama's decision.
"The system that President George W. Bush proposed ... would have deployed interceptor missiles that had yet to be tested under real-world conditions to defend against long-range missiles that Iran had yet to develop," said the council's senior vice president, James Lindsay.
"Meanwhile, the interceptors would have been useless against the short- and medium-range missiles that Iran is rapidly developing," he said in a written statement.
But the change of gears, while making strategic sense, does present Obama with diplomatic problems, Lindsay said.
"Poles and Czechs worry that his decision signals a softening U.S. commitment to their security. Both countries saw the system as a way to tie themselves more closely to the United States and thereby deter an increasingly belligerent Russia," he said.
"Critics will also insist that the Poles and Czechs are right: He axed the Bush program in a foolish and doomed bid to 'reset' relations with Russia," he said. "Here Moscow isn't likely to be of much help to the White House. The Kremlin will claim a diplomatic victory and it won't offer any concessions in return."
The council released a report Thursday that said repeated technological failures had put the Bush missile plan behind schedule and likely over budget, as well.
Obama's Republican adversaries were quick to accuse him of selling out allies to placate Russia.
The "decision calls into question the security and diplomatic commitments the United States has made to Poland and the Czech Republic," said Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the 2008 Republican nominee for president.
Obama has been seeking a stronger relationship with Russia and better cooperation from the Kremlin to support tough U.N. economic sanctions against Iran if it continues to pursue its nuclear ambitions.
Missile defense has been a sore point in relations between Washington and Moscow, with Russia believing the shield would ultimately erode its strategic nuclear deterrent.
But a senior administration official denied a diplomatic motive to scrapping the missile defense program.
"This has nothing to do with Russia," he said. "The notion that we're abandoning missile defense is completely false. It's evolving into a different system."
At the briefing with Gates, the Pentagon's point man on the issue said the new system will have "hundreds" of missile interceptors.
It also will have mobile radars, including some in space, "that can move to wherever the threat actually emanates and wherever we feel we need to defend ourselves," said Gen. James Cartwright, deputy chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Cartwright contrasted the new sensor technology with the radar systems envisioned in the old plan, which he called "basically left over from the Cold War."
The new plan includes three types of missiles to shoot down incoming threats -- Patriot missiles, which defend a single location; SM-3 interceptors, which he said could protect "a general area like the area from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C."; and large ground-based interceptors in Alaska and California.
Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said that the Missile Defense Agency's budget would remain the same through fiscal year 2015.
"Now that the plan is official, we are working with MDA to review all costs," he said.
The Government Accountability Office reported in February that the MDA had spent about $56 billion since since 2002 and is budgeted to spend an additional $50 billion through 2013.
The European strategy, the MDA said, is budgeted at $4.5 billion.
Cartwright did not say how much the new plan would cost compared with the old one. But he pointed out that Patriot and SM-3 missiles are significantly cheaper than the interceptors the Bush proposal relied on.
"You do not want to go after large numbers [of missiles] with the very expensive missiles unless it's absolutely essential," he said.
He said the fact that the United States sells Patriot and Aegis systems to other countries reduces the cost to Washington. The SM-3 missiles are part of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense systems.
Other countries, he said, are helping to fund the research and development of the systems.
The first phase of the system is due to be in place in 2011, with the subsequent phases rolling out around 2015, 2018 and 2020, he said.
"It's a more advanced system, more cost-effective and efficient," the senior administration official said before the president and Gates spoke.
"The technology has evolved in a way that allows you to deploy a system that is more effective in countering both short-, medium- and long-range missiles," said the official, contrasting the types of missiles that Iran, for example, is believed to have with intercontinental ballistic missiles of the kind feared during the Cold War.
The Bush administration had cited the perceived nuclear threat from Iran as one of the key reasons it wanted to install the missile shield in Eastern Europe.
But a 60-day review mandated by Congress and ordered by Obama recommended the new approach that was unveiled Thursday.
A U.S. delegation held high-level meetings Thursday in Poland and the Czech Republic to discuss the missile defense system. Officials in both countries confirmed the system would be scrapped.
In a statement, Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer said that Obama told him in a Wednesday phone call that the United States was shelving its plans. Fischer did not say what reason Obama gave him for reconsidering.
A spokeswoman at the Polish Ministry of Defense also said the program had been suspended.
"This is catastrophic for Poland," said the spokeswoman, who declined to be named in line with ministry policy.
Poland and the Czech Republic had based much of their future security policy on getting the missile defenses from the United States. The countries share deep concerns of a future military threat from the east -- namely, Russia -- and may look for other defense assurances
President Obama on Thursday says the Bush-era missile defense plan will be replaced with a new system.
1 of 3
The "new missile defense architecture in Europe ... will provide capabilities sooner, build on proven systems and offer greater defenses against the threat of missile attack than the... program" that former President George W. Bush proposed, Obama said.
Obama said the change of gears was based on an "updated intelligence assessment" about Iran's ability to hit Europe with missiles.
The Islamic republic's "short- and medium-range" missiles pose the most current threat, he said, and "this new ballistic missile defense will best address" that threat.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, speaking from the Pentagon immediately after the president's announcement, denied the United States was "scrapping" missile defense.
"This new approach provides a better missile defense capability for our forces in Europe, for our European allies and eventually for our homeland than the program I recommended almost three years ago," said Gates, who was defense chief in the last two years of the Bush administration and stayed on when Obama took office. Watch as Obama says the new approach is suited to threats of 21st century »
The Bush-era proposal called for the U.S. to set up a radar site in the Czech Republic and 10 missile interceptors in Poland to counter the threat of Iran launching long-range missiles at America's allies in Europe. See how the system would have worked » | See a map of proposed sites under the Bush-era plan »
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American officials from Obama on down insisted Thursday's announcement does not reflect any lesser commitment to European defense.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev welcomed Obama's move with a televised statement of his own from Moscow. Watch how Obama's plan may affect U.S.-Russian ties »
"We appreciate the responsible approach of the U.S. president," Medvedev said, characterizing the new American position as "putting into practice" an agreement he made with Obama earlier this year.
"I discussed this issue with the U.S. president during our meetings in London and Moscow. At that time, in our joint statement, we agreed to, and set in stone that Russia and the United States will seek to work together to assess the risks of missile proliferation in the world," he said.
A top expert at the Council on Foreign Relations backed Obama's decision.
"The system that President George W. Bush proposed ... would have deployed interceptor missiles that had yet to be tested under real-world conditions to defend against long-range missiles that Iran had yet to develop," said the council's senior vice president, James Lindsay.
"Meanwhile, the interceptors would have been useless against the short- and medium-range missiles that Iran is rapidly developing," he said in a written statement.
But the change of gears, while making strategic sense, does present Obama with diplomatic problems, Lindsay said.
"Poles and Czechs worry that his decision signals a softening U.S. commitment to their security. Both countries saw the system as a way to tie themselves more closely to the United States and thereby deter an increasingly belligerent Russia," he said.
"Critics will also insist that the Poles and Czechs are right: He axed the Bush program in a foolish and doomed bid to 'reset' relations with Russia," he said. "Here Moscow isn't likely to be of much help to the White House. The Kremlin will claim a diplomatic victory and it won't offer any concessions in return."
The council released a report Thursday that said repeated technological failures had put the Bush missile plan behind schedule and likely over budget, as well.
Obama's Republican adversaries were quick to accuse him of selling out allies to placate Russia.
The "decision calls into question the security and diplomatic commitments the United States has made to Poland and the Czech Republic," said Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the 2008 Republican nominee for president.
Obama has been seeking a stronger relationship with Russia and better cooperation from the Kremlin to support tough U.N. economic sanctions against Iran if it continues to pursue its nuclear ambitions.
Missile defense has been a sore point in relations between Washington and Moscow, with Russia believing the shield would ultimately erode its strategic nuclear deterrent.
But a senior administration official denied a diplomatic motive to scrapping the missile defense program.
"This has nothing to do with Russia," he said. "The notion that we're abandoning missile defense is completely false. It's evolving into a different system."
At the briefing with Gates, the Pentagon's point man on the issue said the new system will have "hundreds" of missile interceptors.
It also will have mobile radars, including some in space, "that can move to wherever the threat actually emanates and wherever we feel we need to defend ourselves," said Gen. James Cartwright, deputy chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Cartwright contrasted the new sensor technology with the radar systems envisioned in the old plan, which he called "basically left over from the Cold War."
The new plan includes three types of missiles to shoot down incoming threats -- Patriot missiles, which defend a single location; SM-3 interceptors, which he said could protect "a general area like the area from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C."; and large ground-based interceptors in Alaska and California.
Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said that the Missile Defense Agency's budget would remain the same through fiscal year 2015.
"Now that the plan is official, we are working with MDA to review all costs," he said.
The Government Accountability Office reported in February that the MDA had spent about $56 billion since since 2002 and is budgeted to spend an additional $50 billion through 2013.
The European strategy, the MDA said, is budgeted at $4.5 billion.
Cartwright did not say how much the new plan would cost compared with the old one. But he pointed out that Patriot and SM-3 missiles are significantly cheaper than the interceptors the Bush proposal relied on.
"You do not want to go after large numbers [of missiles] with the very expensive missiles unless it's absolutely essential," he said.
He said the fact that the United States sells Patriot and Aegis systems to other countries reduces the cost to Washington. The SM-3 missiles are part of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense systems.
Other countries, he said, are helping to fund the research and development of the systems.
The first phase of the system is due to be in place in 2011, with the subsequent phases rolling out around 2015, 2018 and 2020, he said.
"It's a more advanced system, more cost-effective and efficient," the senior administration official said before the president and Gates spoke.
"The technology has evolved in a way that allows you to deploy a system that is more effective in countering both short-, medium- and long-range missiles," said the official, contrasting the types of missiles that Iran, for example, is believed to have with intercontinental ballistic missiles of the kind feared during the Cold War.
The Bush administration had cited the perceived nuclear threat from Iran as one of the key reasons it wanted to install the missile shield in Eastern Europe.
But a 60-day review mandated by Congress and ordered by Obama recommended the new approach that was unveiled Thursday.
A U.S. delegation held high-level meetings Thursday in Poland and the Czech Republic to discuss the missile defense system. Officials in both countries confirmed the system would be scrapped.
In a statement, Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer said that Obama told him in a Wednesday phone call that the United States was shelving its plans. Fischer did not say what reason Obama gave him for reconsidering.
A spokeswoman at the Polish Ministry of Defense also said the program had been suspended.
"This is catastrophic for Poland," said the spokeswoman, who declined to be named in line with ministry policy.
Poland and the Czech Republic had based much of their future security policy on getting the missile defenses from the United States. The countries share deep concerns of a future military threat from the east -- namely, Russia -- and may look for other defense assurances
cnn news
Federal agents searched Najibullah Zazi's apartment and another home in the same Denver suburb on Wednesday in connection with the terrorism probe, which emerged Monday with a series of raids in the New York borough of Queens. A law enforcement official told CNN that diagrams showing how to make bombs were found on the computer Zazi had with him when he was stopped in New York during a recent visit, but his lawyer, Arthur Folsom, dismissed that allegation.
"There's no diagram of a bomb. There's no information like that," Folsom told reporters as he walked his client to his second meeting with federal agents. If something like that had turned up on Zazi's computer, he said, "Do you really think the FBI would have allowed us to walk out of here last night?"
Zazi, an Afghan national, gave writing, fingerprint and DNA samples to FBI agents Wednesday during a "very friendly, very cordial" interview, Folsom said. He said Zazi has no ties to terrorism, and he believes his client drew investigators' attention "because he stayed at a house owned by an old friend of his who was under observation from the FBI."
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But according to law enforcement sources with knowledge of the investigation, the Colorado searches were part of a probe that began with Zazi and led to New York.
A former counterterrorism official briefed on the investigation also said bomb instructions were found, but could not say where. The former official said backpacks, computers and maps were found during the searches in New York, and field tests turned up positive for explosives. But initial tests often yield false positives, and the former official was unaware whether more definitive tests had been concluded.
The case began with a New York police informant, with authorized FBI wiretaps used to further develop the case, the former counterterrorism official said. Agents launched the raids after police stopped Zazi on the George Washington Bridge during a recent visit to New York, raising concerns that he would figure out he was under surveillance, the former official told CNN.
Wednesday, Folsom said Zazi stayed in one of the apartments that was raided after he drove to New York from Denver to sort out a business issue. Sources close to the investigation told CNN that the Queens raids were spurred by a confluence of events in the city -- including the upcoming U.N. General Assembly session and President Obama's Wall Street speech on Monday.
It's believed to be the first time Afghan nationals are suspected of possible involvement in an alleged terror plot targeting the United States. But FBI director Robert Mueller told a Senate committee Wednesday that he did not believe the investigation had revealed any "imminent danger."
"There's no diagram of a bomb. There's no information like that," Folsom told reporters as he walked his client to his second meeting with federal agents. If something like that had turned up on Zazi's computer, he said, "Do you really think the FBI would have allowed us to walk out of here last night?"
Zazi, an Afghan national, gave writing, fingerprint and DNA samples to FBI agents Wednesday during a "very friendly, very cordial" interview, Folsom said. He said Zazi has no ties to terrorism, and he believes his client drew investigators' attention "because he stayed at a house owned by an old friend of his who was under observation from the FBI."
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But according to law enforcement sources with knowledge of the investigation, the Colorado searches were part of a probe that began with Zazi and led to New York.
A former counterterrorism official briefed on the investigation also said bomb instructions were found, but could not say where. The former official said backpacks, computers and maps were found during the searches in New York, and field tests turned up positive for explosives. But initial tests often yield false positives, and the former official was unaware whether more definitive tests had been concluded.
The case began with a New York police informant, with authorized FBI wiretaps used to further develop the case, the former counterterrorism official said. Agents launched the raids after police stopped Zazi on the George Washington Bridge during a recent visit to New York, raising concerns that he would figure out he was under surveillance, the former official told CNN.
Wednesday, Folsom said Zazi stayed in one of the apartments that was raided after he drove to New York from Denver to sort out a business issue. Sources close to the investigation told CNN that the Queens raids were spurred by a confluence of events in the city -- including the upcoming U.N. General Assembly session and President Obama's Wall Street speech on Monday.
It's believed to be the first time Afghan nationals are suspected of possible involvement in an alleged terror plot targeting the United States. But FBI director Robert Mueller told a Senate committee Wednesday that he did not believe the investigation had revealed any "imminent danger."
Can i have yo numba
can i have it. I am bored So my dad is supposed to come over later to grab a few things, I am not sure what to say to him. he is going to get a few of his tools, I was thinking about my old job and I am going to blog some memories about it in a minute
alright
So i just woke up about 10 minutes ago or so and already took a shower. Awesome. I am stressing because of the job thing, its driving me nuts, but i am sure I can pull through it homie haha, well aside from that i feel energetic, i need to get out of the house bla. My mom is still in the hospital and she has to go back to ICU because of her heart rate is to high.
morning time
I am like beyond bored and whats really weird, is my moms dog came into my room and is asleep on the couch and my cat is laying on my chest right now, its alot of fun oh yea. lol
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
kanye west taylor swift
FUNNY. Alright kanye your an ass haha. that was funny though. I mean alright taylor swift sings really good but she always sings about the same stuff. A boy. She should sing about the economy or something or money problems that would make her cooler. Its like alright taylor your a hot 19 year old correct but quit singing about boys all the time. I read comments on youtube from guys saying marry me to taylor swift and yet she sings like she has a heartbreak its like shut up. the day she makes a song about the world or something will probably be near the apocolaypse. Kanye its your turn. Didnt your mother die? stop acting like a fool. yo um good job but beyonce should of won. thats messed up, now the apology has been accepted by taylor swift so I guess it makes it all better. ha
ok so its the second day without a job and its like bla this sucks, there isnt anything to do around the house. eh. My girlfriend got me a battery and a phone charger for my phone and fedexed it to me and i just got it. What was weird is the fedex guy got out the truck and fed my moms dog a milkbone and I was like aww thats either really sweet or he just fed that dog rat poisen....call it fedx the poisen hahaha. I make myself laugh. um update on my cat, its a ninja so its name is ninja, he has gotten a little bigger, but hes the devil im sure. well later
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
this sucks
so today I got fired from my job and everyones like well at least your going to jacksonville (miami maybe) so it sucks alot but i am sure that some how and some way i can make it through, Food lion sucks anyway, dont ever work there ha. Of course I would say that becuase they fired me right, well idk what to say
Monday, September 14, 2009
ok
So my Mother isnt really getting anybetter in the hospital. I hope shes gonna be ok. :(
Ninja my kitten is retarded it climbs walls and always attacks me while I am sleeping
I made a youtube video about him thats it for now
Friday, September 11, 2009
clean day
Today I am going to clean and rearrange some things for ninja to be more comfy in my room, today i believe was his first day using the cat litter box, (i wonder how he climbed in). Ummmmm after I clean i will blog ha
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
someday
I make the dumbest titles anywho, i have become addicted to twitter its official, its pathetic but I only do it becuase it traffics people to this blog and you click on the crazy ads and give robbie money so its cool I appreciate you helping paying my bills, umm i notice that I spend 6 dollars almost everyday on vaults because i drink them all the time, and every payday I have bought a 5 pack of hanes white tee comfort soft, and i wont lie they are comfy i mean super comfy. I love Jesus bye bye
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
boot camp
was a movie I watched last night and I fell asleep and set my alarm clock for 630 am so I can go running because the best time to run is when the sun rises, keeps me occupied while listening to blink 182, idk what it is but when I run its like it has to be blink 182. Gay? um anyway. The movie was just weird I thought, but I slept and I had a dream my mom sent me to boot camp which she could never do that because im 22 haha. be like um negative momma lol. My dream was just weird though like kinda scary so I just woke up about ten minutes ago and its almost 430 and it would be pointless to go back to sleep so guess I will just stay up until its time to go running, which I have no idea where I want to run this morning, trails, this weird suburb off of columbia rd, I have no idea I might just run in traffic across i20 see you there business people haha, just kidding. I will probably go to the place of columbia rd, there is always this army guy running when I go there and we run and talk I think his name is rick?. well rick your a cool guy but your like 40 and your never going to see this blog but your a cool guy anyway, and chances are I will see you this morning, so lets talk about life when I get there K? Alright well bye peeps
Saturday, September 5, 2009
im weird because i hate goodbyes I got misty eyes as they said farewell
Alright so its been since tuesday since my parents split. It sucks my dad is moved out and lives in south augusta. My mom is handling it alot better than I thought she would. its just a long proccess ahead for her and my sister. A small part of me wishes I wasnt leaving but I still have to begin my own life. I have changed alot after listening to owl city so much, Idk the music just does something to me I get a thousand hugs from ten thousand lightning bugs as they teach me how to dance. insane song. I just dont like doing the whole seperate parent thing its rough. really rough
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
so today sucks ass
sorry i cussed, but......today really blows, my father is divorcing my mother. and I have been trying to help my mom but shes pissed, this is like the craziest day in a long time, not sure what to do.
mood=pissed
Monday, August 31, 2009
my birthday
kinda lame I am getting old, now 22 ha. it was ok I suppose I really only ate cake and ice cream and hung out with brandon for the rest of the day, went to the mall best buy and the kawasaki dealership, not to much of anything so I am getting off peace.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Today sucks
well I woke up to go get a tattoo from my buddy pj, turned out excellent and than I came home and got ready for work and left for work and on gordon highway a idiot swerved me off the road causing me to smack into a guard rail going 60 my car isnt to bad but its not the prettiest thing in the world I am still kinda upset but hey it happens right?
well later peace
well later peace
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