Matt Mauldin

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I just added a new link to my sponsors (see the right-hand sidebar) for BlowOutCongress.com.  This website was started by Jeff Bolton, the 5-9am morning show host on KLIF – turn your dial to 570 AM if you are in the Dallas area.

I think this effort is a great idea, because all the politicians in DC are liars and thieves.  We need to send them packing.  And don’t get me wrong, I’m not just talking about the Democrats.  All of the Republicans are completely spoiled brats, too.  The entire bunch of politicians view us as line-items on their own personal budget – sources of income (e.g. taxpayers) instead of citizens of this country.  I wrote a short post about it here.

Grassroots efforts like this are popping up all over the place.  Just Google search for keywords like replace congress or remove incumbents.  These organizations are a natural progression of the underlying feelings of many citizens of this country, and they are best demonstrated by the recent reception many politicians have received from their own constituents.  Here are a few examples:

Lloyd Doggett’s meeting on Obamacare in Austin, TX – 1 Aug 2009

This guy is in Austin, Tx, one of the few blue counties in Texas.  Look at his face -he doesn’t really care about any of these people.  In fact, as you will see in the video, he just quits the meeting and tries to leave.  We don’t want quitters for our elected officials.

Russ Carnahan Gets Laughed At

This one is great. Here’s an idiot spouting off the lines he’s been spoonfed about saving money by spending money on healthcare, and his own constituents just laugh.

Obama Goes Off on a Heckler! (my personal favorite)

Footage of Barack Obama handling a few hecklers.

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The Fires of Heaven? You bet – they were burning hot in this book!  Let’s see:

• Rebel Aes Sedai found
• Birgette is in the real world now
• Morgase abandons her throne and flees her country
• A huge battle with tons of Aiel against each other
• Mat displays his exceptional ability at strategery
• Rand Egwene and Avienda fighting with the One Power
• Three Forsaken dead. One captured
• Caerhein and Camelyn are now under the Dragon Banner

Wow – this book was action packed. And you know what the best part was? No Perrin!  Sorry man, but your storyline sucks right now.  In fact, it has sucked since the beginning.  In The Eye of the World, Perrin learned he can communicate with wolves, and soon after he was forced to kill a couple of men in self defence.  Since then, he has whined and moaned about everything he’s been forced to do.  I’m glad he wasn’t in this book because it would have added suckiness to a great addition to the Wheel of Time.

Beyond that, this was just a fun book to read.  The Rand, Mat, and Nynavea/Elayne plotlines moved forward quite a bit.  It was odd that Egwene was not involved in more of Rand’s plotline, but as I mentioned in my post on the last book, her path is much different even though she’s physically in the same location as Rand.

Looking ahead, I can see why she didn’t take too much of a part in this book.  Elayne and Nynavea needed to get to Salidar before Egwene’s next actions can happen – and I’m really looking forward to that.  In fact, I remember the maneuvering in Salidar as one of the most well-written pieces in the entire series.  Can’t wait to get there.

On to the next one: Lord of Chaos.  And oh man, I’ve only got a few short months to finish the series before A Memory of Light: The Gathering Storm is released (slated for November 3, 2009).  I better get reading.

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