Bitter Bipartisan Bickering Former FBI No. 2 Mark Felt finally admitted publicly on Tuesday that he was the source who leaked secrets about the Watergate investigation to two Washington Post reporters more than 30 years ago. Now, I don't remember much of this, obviously (I wasn't quite 2 years old when Dick resigned), but I do know that it was such an unbelievable event, and as the years went on, the fact that the informant, known only as "Deep Throat", was able to hold onto his secret identity for so long in a crappy shithole place like Washington D.C., where secrets are rarely kept, certainly not for this long. Of course you have these people who are applauding Felt as a 'national hero', for being a whistle blower, for having the guts and strength to stand up and fight against those in power involved in wrongdoing. How interesting is it though, that a bunch of these same people praising Felt, are also on record as having publicly ridiculed Linda Tripp, the whistle blower who went public about Bill Clinton and the infamous "stained dress". Lest I be accused of partisanship myself, it's just as amusing to see people on the other side of the fence blasting Felt for 'not following correct institutional protocol' by not reporting the wrong doing by Nixon through his chain of command. Many of these same people put Tripp up on their shoulders and paraded her around for doing "the right thing" when it came to Clinton's sexual philandering in the White House. I guess some things just never change. Both sides will claim what the other did was worse and come up with plenty of unsubstantiated bullshit to bolster their ignorant arguments, rather than just admit the behavior in question was WRONG and move on. Isn't it interesting that with both Clinton and Nixon, it wasn't even what they did that was worst part of the whole ordeal, but the coverups that followed thereafter? Certainly the best argument that anyone can make is to TELL THE TRUTH!!! I think Nixon would have saved his presidency and Clinton would not have gone down in history for being such a worthless skirt chasing liar had they not tried to cover up their respective scandals, and just dealt with them head on. Yah, well, good luck with that ever happening. Current Lyrical Ramblings She spends her days up in the north park, watching the people as they pass And all she wants is just a little piece of this dream, is that too much to ask With a safe home, and a warm bed, on a quiet little street All she wants is just that something to hold onto, that’s all she needs -Live Like That - 3 Doors Down

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WOW, Crest Whitestrips REALLY do work. I should hope so after paying 33 dollars for them and fighting my way through the Walmart crowd to purchase them. After 2 of the 10 treatments thus far, I can really see a difference. What I don't get about them, is that they are the "Premium Plus" version. Uhm, isn't that a little redundant?? "Oh, these are the 'Premium' white strips over here, and the 'Plus' ones are here, but up here, oh yes, we have the Premium Plus!! You aren't anyone unless you have those!" So anyways, if you see me standing in front of a mirror smiling at myself while striking a pose, don't be alarmed, well, you might want to run, I am sort of insane and all.

Last Sunday was the 22nd, so don't think that it went unnoticed. I hope it was a good day. I was at Guard, sitting through a 6 hour pre-deployment briefing. How funny is it that they can't tell us '100% for sure' that we are being deployed, yet they are handing out mobilization packets and doing showdown inspections on everyone to be sure we have 100% accountability for gear haha. DUH, some secret it is that we are getting deployed.

So why am I talking about it now? Because as of today, it's a sure thing. The 17th of August we begin train up, Ft. Riley, Kansas. Then in November, it's in country, likely Iraq. I'm now allowed to give this information out, of course, I told NO ONE before this : ) (shhhh) Anyways, going to get to bed. And I'm taking my shiny happy teeth with me!!

Current Lyrical Ramblings

That I would be good even if I lost sanity
That I would be good, whether with or without you.

-That I would Be Good, Alanis Morissette