Obama's inaugiration speech ushers in a new era

watching Obama give his inauguration speech it, is clear that we are entering an era of change.

Not only because of the fact that America has now sworn in it's first Black president, but the words Obama spoke show that he will run much differently form the presidents before him in the last few decades.

if his words ring true we will see an America that works with other nations instead of against.

an America that will push for the environment. a nation that will not only be green but responsible for the resources it takes form this earth.

No longer will we let our economy run wild without regulations.

No longer are we in an era where the people running our government seem to loath the office and responsibilities they hold and demand government be smaller.

no instead we will enter an era where government looks and see how well they are running, it not about small or big governments it's about governments that work.

This looks to truly be a great day for the nation

local press goes faux gangsta?

I came across this interesting article talking about the reporting about gangs in the city of Pontiac.

or to be correct the post really talks about how the city doesn't have what it calls a true gang problem.

get the ____ out of here 2008, Hello New Year!!!

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Happy New Year.

well 2008 was full of great surprise for the nation (wow a Black guy is the president)

and some personal set backs for myself and the nation (the economy tanking, rise in foreclosures and unemployment, etc)

hopefully 09 will turn out to be a better year for everyone

hey Adobe lower your prices

I was thinking about buying Adobe CS4 design program but man at $1,300 the programs in that package cost way to much money for me.

even if I just but the programs I want/need I will still end up paying about that much money.

maybe adobe should think about lowering it's prices for poor artist.

at the very least have a short of rent to own choices. so artist can pay a little at a time. though my luck if you did this by the time I finish paying CS5 will be out

OMG it just hit me...Obama won

I know, I know delayed reaction and all.

but the truth is is watching Obama win Tuesday I was mixed with emotions. on one hand i was glad that he won. Not only because he is, will be the first Black president but because he is the first person I voted for and won the presidency and will be going to the white house.

that last bit is the important part because, the emotion I had was that I was a afraid we would face another 2000 like event and the the news casters would take back that win and say the other guy had. it.

But now it is hitting me, it really happened and no one found away to take it back.


Barack Obama is the 44th Prez of the U.S.

I was watching a few news reports talking about Obama and a tear came rolling down my eyes. that didn't happen to me on Tuesday night, I was close but still now waterworks.

I'm still a bit in a daze over all this.

MI ballet 08

I stole the ideal from Michael Dietsch's blog to do a blog post talking about all the people and issues that are on my state's ballet this year.

I did my best to search for site that had information on the people running. (with some exceptions like office where everyone running is a shoe into win giving that they are running in areas where every running will get a seat)

Presidential
Barack Obama/Joe Biden for the Demoratic party

John Sidney McCain/Sarah palin 4 the Republicans

Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clemente 4 the Green Party

Chuck Baldwin/Darrel Castle 4 the U.S Taxpayers party

Bob Barr/Wayne A. Root for he Libertarian party

Ralph Nader/Matt Gonzales for the Natural Law party.



Congressional

United State Senator
Jack Hoogendyk Jr. (Republican)
Carl Levin (Democratic)
Harley G. Mikkelson (Green Party)
Michael N. Nikitin (U.S taxpayers)
Scotty Boman (libertarian)
Doug Dern (Natural Law)

Representative in Congress (9th District)
Joe Knollengberg (Republican)
Gary Peters (Democrat)
Douglas Campbell(Green)
Adam Goodman (Libertarian)
Jack Kevorkian (no party...holy crap Doctor Death is running for congress!!! of course no political party wants him)

Legislative
Representative in state legislature
Scott E. Sampeer (republican)
Tim Melton (Democratic)

State Board

Member of the state board of education (pick 2)
Scott Jenkins (Republican)
Richard Zelle (republican)
John Austin (Democratic)
Kathleen Straus (Democratic)
Dwain Raynolds III (Green)
Karen Adams (US Taxpayers)
Bill Hall (Libertarian)
Jeff A. Steinport (libertarian)

Regent of the U of M (pick 2...and go blue)
Susan Brown (Repub)
John G. LaFond (republican)
Laurence B. Deitch (Democrat)
Denise Illtch (Democratic)
Ellls Boal (Green)
Richard Ryskamp (U.S taxpayers)
Joe Sanger (U.S Taxpayers)
Eric L. Larson (libertarian)
Kerry L. Morgan (libertarian)

Trustee of Michigan State University (no more then 2)
Lisa Bourchard (Repub)
George Scott Romney (Republican)
Dianne Byrum (Democratic)
Diann Woodard (Democrat)
Therese Marie Storm (Green)
Robert Gale (U.S taxpayers)
Crystal Van Sickle (U.S Taxpayers)
David A. Brown (Libertartian)
Joseph Roesenquist (libertartian)

Governor of Wayne State University (2)
Torian J. Bridges (republican)
Danialle Karmanos (republican)
Paul Massaron (Democratic)
Gary S. Pollard (Democratic)
Margaret Guttshall (Green)
Rick Butkowski (U.S Taxpayers)
Terry Halnes (U.S Taxpayers)
Dan Kelzer (Libertarian)
Nicole Michalak (libertartian)

County

Country Executive
L. Brooks Patterson (Republican)
Brenda Lawrence (Democratic)

Sheriff
Michael J. Bouchard (Republican)
Jane Bourdreau (Democratic)

Clerk/Register of Deeds
Ruth Johnson (Republican)
Shella Smith (Democratic)

Treasurer
Pat Dohany (Republican)
Andy Meisner (Democratic)

Drain Commissioner
John P. McCulloch (Elephant party)
Brett Nicholson (Donkey party)

County COmmissioner 10 district
Karen L. Toth (Republican)
Mattle McKinney Hatchett (Democratic)

Judical ...or here come the judge

Justice of Supreme Court (1)
Robert W. Roddis
Cliff Taylor
Diane Marie Hathaway

Judge of Court of appeals 2nd district (pick 3....wait there are only 3 people running they must be happy about the fact that they are all going to win again)
Mark J. Cavanagh
E. Thomas Fitzgerald
Henry William Saad

Judge of Court of Appeals 2nd district (1)
Elizabeth L. Glelcher (only person running so we know that L can't stand for loser)

Judge of Circuit Court (5) is there a reason to care about this 5 people running and there 5 spots
James M. Alexander
Martha D. Anderson
Nanci Grant
Shallna D. Kumar
Rudy J. Nichois

Judge of Circuit Court 6th Circuit non-incumbents(2)
David Carl Anderson
Mary Ellen Brennan
Lisa Gorcyca
Thomas E. Kuhn

Judge of Circuit court 6th circuit incumbet
Leo Bowman

Judge of probate court non-incumbent
Mark Frankel
Daniel A. O'Brien

Judge of District court 50th district incumbent postition
Michael C. Martinez
Cynthia T. Walker

Judge of district court 50th district non-incumbent
Ronda Fowlkes Gross
Richard Terrell Taylor

Community College

Community college board of trustees members (2)
Timothy Terpening
Phillip J. Abraham
Shirley J. Bryant
Sandra L. Ritter
Carlyle Fielding Stewart

community college board of trustees member partial term ending in 2011
Debble Macon
Christopher P. Maloney
Thomas Patrick Sullivan
Sherry Cormier Kuhn

Proposals

Prop 1
Medical Marijuana.

Prop 2
should Michigan allow stem cell research?

8 years after the wassup meme...

Why do marketers feel they most make every thing fun?

I was just listen to an ad on the radio for a computer repair place.

In the ad they had people saying how much they like the service. One of the people, an older sounding guy said that he watch them fix and was having a ball doing so.

now I have to ask how boning is this guys life (or how boring do the advertisers think our lives are) to think that watching your computer get fixed is fun.

and this isn't the only time I've seen/heard ads that try to make boring things (that we need or need done) sound fun.

instead of making things sound fun why not just tell how good your product/service is.

McCain is using his age well during the debates

watching the debates right now and I can't help but notice that even thought people thought that maybe because of the age differences between Obama and McCain, Obama would have an advantage because he is younger and healthier looking (like what happened in the JFK vs Nixon debates)

but I have to hand McCain at least a point for trying play up his age by basically saying Obama doesn't understand blah blah blah.

of course Obama troughs out facts showing that he clearly knows what he is talking about.

but still I think McCain stratagy may play will with older voters, since who feel like they are dealing with know it all whippersnappers.

Obama needs change and a few dollar bills as well!!!

I have decide to take a active inactive role in helping Obama became the next President of the united states of America by being one of his fundraise.

I set a small goal of $200. this is the first time I have done anything like this so I wanted to set a small bar. If I meet it I'll do it again and set the bar higher.

wow I'm getting old

I noticed a few weeks ago that I have grey hairs in my beard.

today my brother noticed them. but it wasn't like he noticed them when he was standing near me...no he spoted them when he was standing on the other side of the living room.

They had their chance to let the Michigan voters voice to be heard.

This Saturday the Democratic party is holding it’s committee meeting to try and figure out what to do with the Florida and Michigan delegates.



I’m from Michigan and I know more about this state’s situation much more then I know about Florida’s so I’m just going to focus on the big mitten.



It seems that right now the Florida delegates are ok with the plan to only have half their votes count, where as the Michigan delegates want all there votes counted.



I didn’t catch who said it but I heard on the radio some guy (a MI delegate) say that they are fighting for this so Michigan voters can be heard.



All I have to say is…hold up!



The Michigan government has had their chances to make sure our vote is counted and they screwed them up.



First off this whole miss is there fault. They choice to move the election up, not the citizens of Michigan. No one turned to me and asked “yo, Martin mind if we move our primaries up?”



They then jacked things up again when they let the deadline to issue a revote slip by.



If they really wanted the Michigan voters voice count then they would have worked over time to get that done…but there lazy butts just let it go.



What I think the Michigan delegates are fighting to make sure the people of Michigan get who they want in office but instead they are fighting to get whoever they want in office.



If we had a recount and Obama’s name was on the ballot unlike in the Michigan primaries I think the out come would be vastly different.



A lot of people didn’t vote because they where told (by our local news media) that there vote wasn’t going to count.

Lil Martin Jackson Show pilot

my first podcast




lil me talking about politics.

lady with a skull and crossbone shirt

Here a picture I drew awhile ago of woman with a skull on her shirt

will things ever go right?

it feels like all my plans in life keep getting trashed.

sigh

THE X's DOOM IN 30 MINUTES OR LESS page 11

The guy in the Glowface costume falls to the ground



Mrs. X lands a flurry of punches on the guy in the Glowface costume



The head pops off the cheap Glowface costume revealing that it’s really just a teenager in it



TEENAGER

Please, please don’t hit me

anymore.



Mrs. X picks the teenager up by the collar



MRS. X

Where’s the real Glowface?



Standing by the skeeballs is Lorenzo Suave and Glowface in a cheap costume that looks like a teenage



LORENZO

I think it’s time to leave



GLOWFACE

Yes



In the middle hole of the skeeball the timer on the grenade counts down to one



The two are just about to run when the skeeball game blows up.



Sending them flying in the air



FADE OUT

THE X's DOOM IN 30 MINUTES OR LESS page 11

The guy in the Glowface costume falls to the ground



Mrs. X lands a flurry of punches on the guy in the Glowface costume



The head pops off the cheap Glowface costume revealing that it’s really just a teenager in it



TEENAGER

Please, please don’t hit me

anymore.



Mrs. X picks the teenager up by the collar



MRS. X

Where’s the real Glowface?



Standing by the skeeballs is Lorenzo Suave and Glowface in a cheap costume that looks like a teenage



LORENZO

I think it’s time to leave



GLOWFACE

Yes



In the middle hole of the skeeball the timer on the grenade counts down to one



The two are just about to run when the skeeball game blows up.



Sending them flying in the air



FADE OUT

THE X's DOOM IN 30 MINUTES OR LESS page 10

TUESDAY

Wait it’s just cheese?



Tuesday runs toward her family



TUESDAY

Guys…that…er…thing is just

cheese.



Truman pulls his head out of the cheese monster’s grip



TRUMAN

Cheese?



Truman opens his mouth extremely wide and starts eating his way free from the cheese monster



Mrs. X pulls out a katana sword and starts slice the cheese monster



MRS. X

I guess it’s time to cut it.



Mr. X pulls out a wind-up teeth toy



MR. X

I got just the thing



Mr. X puts the toy to the cheese and it starts eating away



The Cheese monster runs away



A guy in a cheap Glowface costume walks by with a bunch of little kids crowding around him



Mrs. X looks over at the guy in the cheap Glowface costume



Mrs. X squints her eyes



MRS. X

Glowface.



Mrs. X jump kicks the guy in the Glowface costume

THE X's DOOM IN 30 MINUTES OR LESS page 9

Mr. X throwing grenades in the middle skeeball hole.



BRANDON

(V.O)

is really just skeeball.



The grenade gets stuck in the hole



Brandon talking to Tuesday



BRANDON

But the main trap is…



Mr. X looks at the table



Their pizza has arrived



MR. X

Look family the food is here.



The X’s gathers around the pizza



Mr. X cuts the pizza



The cheese wobbles around and…



Jumps up as the cheese monster



The cheese monster hits Mr. X



Mrs. X unloads two guns into the cheese monster john woo style



The bullets just sink into the cheese monster



The cheese monster grabs Truman



TUESDAY

How do we stop it?



Brandon shrugs



BRANDON

I don’t know how do you beat

cheese

THE X's DOOM IN 30 MINUTES OR LESS page 8

Mrs. X turns toward Tuesday



MRS. X

Wha…



The toy mole start firing a flurry of bullets.



Mrs. X dives behind a token machine



MRS. X

Oh yeah it looks like I just

got upgrade to fire arms

training.



Mrs. X pulls out a rocket-launcher and fires at the whack-o-mole machine



KABOOM



Truman about to dive into the balls



BRANDON

(V.O)

the balls in the pool of balls

are really land minds



Truman sees a kid to afraid to jump into the pool



Truman gives a dark little giggle and sneaks up to the kid and…



Pushes him in the pool of balls



The balls explode as the kid lands on them.



The kid flies up with each explosion



BOOM BOOM BOOM



Truman looks around nervously and then sneaks away



Brandon talking to Tuesday



BRANDON

And those skeeballs your dad…