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We help Hung & Thu moved into their new house yesterday. Had a great get together at Hung & Van's place afterward.

We had a very good choir practice today after church.

David Vitter's number in Louisisana is down below 50% again. I made a contribution today for him. I just want him to win outright instead of having to go into a run-off in December.

I missed the rally at noon today in Miami with president Bush. The rest of the Mighty Texas Strike Force was there. Next time, I am going to designate someone else to pick up the ballots and materials from Dallas County Elections Department and stay in whatever state I will be in until the Monday before election day to fly back to Dallas.

The president is coming to SMU Moody Coliseum tomorrow for a final rally. I picked up the tickets yesterday but because of the Library Board meeting tomorrow, the very first meeting for me, I will have to miss the rally. My brother will make good use of the tickets with our friends at church. Plus, these are general seatings tickets, not the stage tickets like the ones Alexandra gave me in 2002, where they need your social security number to do a security check on you.

In case you haven't voted early, you need to go to an exact location on
election day, Tuesday, November 2nd to vote. Locate your polling place
using your address: http://www.mypollingplace.com/find.php.

I am back in Dallas, ready to go pick up my ballots and other materials from the Dallas County Election Department later today. It was great meeting all the Republicans from Houston, Austin, College Station and Dallas coming to Fort Lauderdale to turn out the vote. I had to come back to Texas but the rest of the group is still in the Ft. Lauderdale area until November 3rd.

The numbers are looking great. The president will carry New Mexico and Wisconsin. It looks like Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania all leaning the president's way. Michigan is close.

I am here in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. We were driving around and saw a great group of folks standing at a corner waving Bush/Cheney '04 sign. Another neighborhood, it was Kerry/Edwards yard sign almost every house. I get to see some political TV ads that you would not see anywhere else.

A bunch of us went to lunch and then I went with Taylor to the Richardson Civic Center for her to vote early. One of the Frosties was there with his push cards, trying to tell us that the Dallas Morning News endorsed Mr. Frost. I told him I walked to Pete. The next thing I know, I came out from the voting place and my two magnets, one says "Support our troops" and the other "God bless America" were gone from the back gate of my pickup truck. May God forgive the Frosty because he knew not what he was doing, stealing in broad daylight!

Came by Baylor Medical Center in Irving to see Larry and Tiffany tonight.

I am ready to fly out to the Sunshire state tomorrow. Fort Lauderdale, here I come!

Jeff Jacoby gave us a question to ponder: why it is OK for John Kerry's faith to shape his stands on social welfare programs and the environment when he vows never to let his stands on abortion and embryonic stem cells be shaped by that same faith?

The Denver Broncos is still nowhere near the team they used to be. Even the Cincinnati Bengals dominates the first half of the game tonight against them.

The Dallas Cowboys has lost three straight games already and they want a brand new stadium with Arlington taxpayers paying half the cost, please! With a current standing of 2-4, I just don't see it. Don't get me wrong, I love the team and want them to win but I just can't bring myself to support the rotten deal that the Cowboys is offering to Arlington taxpayers. Check out the opposition at No Jones Tax.

We had a practice run of our English service today. Then Oanh, Peter, Phuoc, Nhat Nam, Cam Huyen, and Caroline came over my house to volunteer and walked the precinct with me and my brother, doing literature drop for the early voting. We got rained out at about 18:30. We went out to eat and talk for about an hour and a half.

I think my feet are falling off. I have walked a total of about over 7 hours today. First in Richardson, Waterview between Arapaho and Campbell for Pete; I then walked the Carrollton-Farmers Branch area here for Kenny.

I went to my first lunch meeting with the Dallas Junior Chamber of Commerce at Champs over in Addison. Great food and great group of young folks.

Went with my co-worker and fellow Republican Tuan to the WBAP listeners appreciation party over at the Gaylord Texan resort in Grapevine. We got out of work late, got stuck in traffic and I had to stop by my house so we didn't get there on time before the show ended at 18:00. However, I did have a chance to talk to Mark with the Rockwall Young Republican there.

So we have all these great Rock-n-Vote events everywhere, which is good, provided that these newly registered voters choose to become informed voters who know what the heck they are voting for, because there is nothing more terrible as seeing ignorant in action. But the NAACP went a step further and had what is now called Crack-n-Vote, where worker reward people who fraudulently filled out voter registration application with crack cocaine. Now, can you see why Bush does not want to associate with organization like NAACP? I am an American of Vietnamese descent and I think that the NAACP has strayed so far from their original mission that they have become nothing more than a Democratic party auxiliary. If Bush had not reached out to black, how did his support go from 9% to 18% in the last three years? The only group of black folks Kerry has been able to gain more support than Gore are the folks that have less than a highschool diploma and make less than $60,000 a year. Highschool is free (and some even get free lunch) in this country compare to many other countries, particularly Vietnam after 1975 when the commmunist overan South Vietnam, where you have to pay tuition all the way from first grade.

OK, so my hosting company is telling me that they are aware of the problem, my email being delayed for 3 hours, and are fixing it. They are having to deal with, you guess it right, spam.

Definitely there is a problem with my ky2ninh.org domain email server, starting about early morning yesterday. People sent me emails and I didn't get them until like 3 hours later. I sent an email to two of my own emails addresses: one of them I got within a matter of minutes while the other one still has yet to be received. Hopefully the hosting company will find the problem and resolve fast enough.

O'REILLY: The South Vietnamese didn't fight for their freedom, which is why they don't have it today.
BUSH: Yes.
O'REILLY: Do you think the Iraqis are going to fight for their freedom?
BUSH: Absolutely.

The issue of president Bush not correcting what Bill O'Reilly said during his interview still circulating around in various email lists. If people had watched the interview, they would have seen that the president was neither agreeing with O'Reilly or giving him any kind of answer but rather just ready to get on with the interview. President Bush could have corrected him but we all know the president is not a perfect guy in these kinds of things. For heaven's sake, he's also human. I wish all these Americans of Vietnamese descent would just lay it to rest. Mostly these are Democrats trying to help join Kerry. Why don't we judge John Kerry on his records of 20 some odd years of blocking every single human rights bills which deal with Vietnamese Communist government that came before the US Senate?

The radio show went OK. We ran out of time. I wish I could have covered the proposed stadium for the Cowboys in Arlington a little more extensive. The Cowboys will get their stadium but they may have to sweaten the deal a little bit.

In case you are still one of those undecided voters, here are a list of endorsements that you should see for yourself. Endorsing Kerry: Yasser Arafat, the French, Malaysia's former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, the Arab American Political Action Committee, the Communist Party USA. Endorsing Bush: the National Rifle Association, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Pat Buchanan. I haven't seen outright endorsements from groups like National Right to Life, Christian Coalition, Focus on the Family Action, Americans for Prosperity, National Taxpayers Union, National Federation of Independent Business but from their positions on different issues, the chance of them supporting Kerry is like the chance of hell freezes over.

I read her book, The Fountainhead, but did not know much about Ayn Rand. Today, reading my Federalist 04-42 brief, it mentioned her name. I did a google search and found her biography. The one thing that jumped out at me is her marriage to Frank O'Connor. Here was a Hollywood couple married in 1929 until his death fifty years later, without the irreconcilable non-sense divorce we see with every couple in Hollywood these days.

I proudly cast my vote this morning. This was my very first presidential though not federal election because I had voted in November 2002. There was a line when I came, even though it was rather short at the Richardson Civic Center. It grew almost double the length when I left. There was a Frosty standing outside with her cards.

If one of the following processes is running on your system, you have one of those keystroke recording softwares running, be scared: actmon.exe, bootldr.exe, bpk.exe, loadkk.exe, loadwin.exe, sb32mon.exe, starrcmd.exe, Systems.exe, wsa32.exe, zsnrsdhp.exe.

It's been a while since I check the page for Texas Reciprocal Agreements but now Texans with CHL can legally carry in 12 other states, with 4 of them added this year: Mississipi, Utah, Idaho, North Carolina in addition to Wyoming, Kentucky, Tennessee, Florida, Arizona, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Arkansas.

I twisted my right wrist while holding on to the handle and doing my hamstring leg curl exercise on Friday. I was praying and hoping it would heal itself so I don't have to come see Holmer, a fellow Republican and a friend of mine who is a chiropractor. It didn't get any better but I didn't have too much of a problem getting my tie all fixed up. After the worship service, it got remarkably better.

Came over to Rev. Dinh's house after choir practice and we had a great time eating lunch and watching football, the Carolina Panthers and Philadelphia Eagles, then the Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburgh Steelers. I was tired and felt asleep during the Cowboys game. Had a real short nap and then went over to pick up Tuan and headed over to Mountain View Community College Performing Arts Center for the third debate between Pete Sessions and the other gentleman, the liberal 13-term congressman Martin Frost, who thinks that government is the answer to all problem with one formula of taxing more and thowing more money into any problem we are faced with.

The League of Women Voters hosted the dabate or candidate forum as they called it. The familiar Cal Jilson, Southern Methodist University political professor and political commentator for ABC channel 8 in the Dallas/Fort Worth area was the moderator. Saw and spoke to Keven Ann Willey, a transplanted Arizonian who is the editorial page editor of the Dallas Morning News, one of the three people on the panel which presented questions to the candidates, both from their own and the audience's. I commended her regarding her insistence on North Texas air quality. She spoke at our Metrocrest Republican club monthly meeting back in March of 2003 and air quality was one of her rather passionate issues.

I walked for Pete this morning, hanging door hangers to remind our supporters to get out and vote early. Early voting begins Monday, October 18th and ends on Friday, October 29th.

Then joined the Texas Young Republican Federation board meeting. Couldn't join them for dinner because the schedule conflict with the church youth group over at Rev. Bruce's house tonight.

The University of Texas at Dallas College Republican chapter got federated at the Texas Federation of College Republicans meeting today. The meeting took place the same time as the Young Republican so I couldn't be there, which is the next room at the Dallas County Republican Party headquarter to see what was going on but they were pretty loud with all the hand clapping.

We went out for lunch to celebrate a couple people's birthday at work. My boss paid for lunch and we also went bowling for about an hour. The rest of the group took off but I had to come back to work.

The Mighty Texas Strike Force (MTSF) is ready to hit the swing states to make sure our president wins and wins decisively so the other side won't actually call for a recount since they have already raised money for their recount efforts before the election is even held. Our team is shaping up real good. I already booked my ticket, non-stop American Airlines for only $176.70, a pretty good deal! Michael is going to give me a ride between airport and hotel, thank you Michael!

Indoor rock climbing, anyone?

Don't know if this family tree is authentic but I do know that one guy is conservative and for individualism, the other is liberal and for collectivism. I choose individualism everytime.

The last and final debate. Beautiful birdview of Arizona State. The armed forces is already stretching with stop-loss policy. Senator Kerry will not support a draft, but he will have two more divisions, where does he find 36,000 people? Raised the dead the same way he has been able to do with registering them to vote? The president should have hit him continually with where he's going to find the money to fund his 1.2 trillions plan when by the best estimation, rolling back the tax cut only provides at most 800 billions. I thought John Kerry looked rather uncomfortable talking about his faith and how it affects his public policy. I love the fact that in his closing statement, the president constantly driving the point that he will accomplish the next four years, confident that he will win come November 2nd and directly ask for my VOTE.

A great quote from Michael Reagan: "A lot of Reagan conservatives are threatening to cut off their noses to spite their faces. They think that because President Bush hasn't done every single thing they want, or has done some things they didn't want, they should punish him by staying home on Election Day or voting for some third party candidate who hasn't got a chance to win in November. It should be obvious to them that they will therefore help elect the Kerry-Edwards team that will do nothing they want and everything they don't. Somehow this idiocy seems to make sense to them -- dump a conservative president for a pair of socialists who, given four years in the White House, will wreck this country's economy and in the process probably lose the War on Terrorism, as well. What bothers me is the insistence of these dissident conservatives that they are devoted to the legacy of Ronald Reagan, who understood the truth of the old adage, 'Politics is the art of the possible.' In other words, you get what you can and wait for a chance to get the rest. These people think that if they don't get everything they want they are willing to accept nothing, but that's not what my father stood for. My father would say, 'If I can get 80 percent, or 60 percent, or 50 percent of what I'm looking for, I'll take that and I'll go back later on for the rest of it'."

Got it from a friend, check it out: Kerry and Kennedy private talk.

I love airplanes, and this is just too cool: http://globalsecurity.org/military/systems/index.html.

The NRA voter guide is now available.

Senator John Carona spoke at our monthly Northern Dallas Pachyderm club today about the important issues that the legislature will have to face in the session convenes for 140 days beginning January 1st, 2005:

1. The funding of public education: some sort of increase on sales tax (which is not deductible for federal income tax purpose and for every cent on a dollar raised, there will be about 2 billions dollar for state revenue), closing the loophole on franchise tax (which is currently the higher of 4% of a business' profit or .25% of your capital) where companies have subsidiaries out of Texas to avoid paying franchise tax.
2. The prison population in Texas, which has grown very fast over the last twelve years. How to keep the growth down because we cannot afford to build more prisons.
3. Worker's compensation, chiropractors should not be primary care doctors in the case of injured workers.

Yesterday I was helping to call voters for Danny Chandler, our candidate for Dallas County Sheriff and Bill Keffer for State Representative. Today, I was calling for president Bush and Danny Chandler. I also helped stamping the mail pieces: mailing for the Republican Party of Texas.

Great sermon last night by the reverend Thomas Stebins. I had a severed headache and went home right after the service to sleep without eating anything last night.

Went to the babyshower and birthday party after church. Then dropped by the Dallas County Republican Party Victory Center to join other Northern Dallas Pachyderm members to make phone calls to identify Republican voters. From there came over to Chris and MyLinh house for the VPS monthly meeting. It was a rather busy Sunday for me.

I really like what I have seen the last two days: Mel Martinez, Dr. Tom Coburn, Richard Burr are consistently ahead of Betty Castor, Brad Carson, Erskine Bowles for the senate seat in Florida, Oklahoma, North Carolina respectively.

However, it doesn't look all that sure for Pete Coors. His number and Ken Salazar's in Colorado has been back and forth so it's a deadheat there. I am hoping Pete Coors would pull ahead in the next 23 days. Alaska, the whole state is Republican but former governor Tony Knowles proves to be a very serious challenger for senator Lisa Murkowski to keep her seat. I hate the fact that we will lose the Republican senate seat in Illinois, barring any miracle there.

I am continually reminded that your character is the sum of your habits. It is so true if you think about it.

Let congresswoman Susan A. Davis (D-CA 53rd) know what you think about letting the "assault" weapon ban expired, about gun control and 2nd amendment right in general: http://www.house.gov/susandavis/survey/survey_october_2004.html.

HR163 to bring back the draft introduced by Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-NY 15th) was voted down by the US House of Representative on October 5th, 2004 by a 402-2 margin.

The president really nailed that most liberal senator tonight. Had a great time watching the debate over at Karen's place.

I thought this is rather funny: http://www.cafepress.com/chicksheartdick.

You have seen those yellow ribbons on cars and trucks. They are magnets and you can buy them from http://www.magnetamerica.com/PRM.html or talk to me.

Helena, Larry, Bruce, my brother Quan and I had fun celebrating Sukkot over at Randall and Karen's along with a whole bunch of people from Baruch Ha Shem and also a few of their friends. Charles Lingerfelt catered the food and it was excellent.

My Bush-Cheney '04 yard sign got stolen on Monday so I put the two I have left on the inside of my windows. It's sad isn't it when the other side resorts to stealing my signs?

Martin Frost knows he's in trouble so he's started taking out TV slot to run ads against Pete. This is the guy that is afraid to tell people he's a Democrat. Just saw one on NBC 5 tonight regarding airline security. Let's go ahead and plan a retirement party for Mr. Frost along with the senators Kerry and Edwards, shall we?

The genocide in Sudan, nobody said anything about it for the last two years except the conservative Christians. Now, once secretary Powell brought it up, the Kerry-Edwards people jumped on it, and now, Times magazine has started to cover it. It's so predictable, come on!

In case you need to practice speed reading, check out the four volumes of "A Counterintelligence Reader".

We had our first 2004-2005 executive board meeting for the Dallas County Young Republican for the night before the general membership meeting. We had a whole bunch of candidates addressing the group. NBC channel 5 was also there tonight for a little while. Had to run for the vice presidential debate in the middle of the general membership meeting.

The vice president could have sat up a little straighter, have a little more color on his face and have done better without placing his chin on his hands while he spoke. It was obvious after tonight that the Bush-Cheney campaign playing not to lose in these debates. Both the president and vice president so far have been very, very conservative, didn't attack the other guy as we should. Karl Rove is a genius so will have to trust him with the stragegy.

John Edwards had good color and very good posture, looking right into the camera. His impatience and breaking the rule were the only drawbacks. The one thing the Bush-Cheney campaign should nail Edwards I believe is in his closing statements when he said good defense is the best offense, that's something America cannot afford, ever!

I think John Edwards was making a strong case for the president to go after Iran and North Korea. This further proved that the president was right on target when he called the axis of evils for what they are. Let's see if either of them would flip-flop when the president goes after Iran and North Korea in his second term.

Camp went really well considering the fact that I didn't spend much time preparing as previous years. My brother took most of the responsibility for food preparation. It was pouring rain in wave on the way to Turner Falls but the whole time we were there, it was dry. It was rather windy the night we got there. Both Friday and Saturday nights, it was freezing. I wore a shirt and a sweater the first night and four layers of shirts and sweater the second and still had a hard time sleeping. During the day, it was most wonderful however. We had a great time hiking. There was even lifeguard at the pond this year.

Had opportunity to talk with Rev. Thach for all the two hours driving back from camp. It was very insightful. I admire him for a life well-lived. He's 68 but his physical endurance is much more than most of us in our 20s and 30s.

Got the four books by Dallas Willard I ordered last Thursday: Divine Conspiracy, Renovation of the heart, Hearing God, The spirits of the disciplines.

The mainstream media establishments refuse to cover this: insourcing.

Reminding all Asian Americans that regarding minorities, president Bush made 28 high level appointments of Asian Americans, which required US Senate confirmation during his first three years in office, based totally on merit and not a quota system. Some of the names are: secretary of labor Elaine Chao, secretary of transportation Norman Minelta, assistant attorney general for the US Justice department office of legal policy Viet Dinh .... Bill Clinton made no Asian American senate-confirmed level appointment in his first term and only 9 in his second term.

The draft: SS89 was introduced by the Democratic senator from South Carolina Earnest F. Hollings and HR163 was introduced by the Democratic congressman from New York 15 congressional district Charles B. Rangel.

Print your own copy of the 2005 Freedom Calendar.