Suspension of Disbelief

As you can see I've seemingly ran out of things to say after five years.  Go figure!  At any rate, I don't plan on closing down this site or simply letting it disappear.  Likely posts will be further and fewer between than regular, but such is life.  In the end, it's actually a good thing that I have less to say.  It means that nothing is bothering me and I have nothing of great importance to dwell on.  Anyways, that's about it. Cheers, FFF

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There is too little action taken in politics currently. Politicians talk, although I suppose they always have, a good game, but nothing gets done. So, Obama is angry at BP for not doing anything... Well then do something about it! I am so sick and tired of pandering. The Democratic Party is worried that if they do anything to upset the status quo that they will lose seats in the next election. In short, they are depending on pandering to the middle instead of encouraging their base to vote by voting like Democrats. This weakness, real or imagined, is going to destroy the Democratic majority in November. This Congress has been a lame duck since it's inception. You might suggest that it passed health care. But at what cost? The real plan, the one of Truman and Kennedy, was demolished and replaced by a facsimile of ineffective stupidity. Democrats need to take a stand. They need to find an issue that is important to their base and run with it. This in-between, let's ...

16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 17 Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. 18 For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, 19 Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, 20 Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken; 21 No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God. (Leviticus 21:16-21) ------------------------------------------------- And THIS book was the dogma adhered to throughout Europe for over a millennium.  Charming...

So, I guess it wasn't until this evening, as I was sitting in my dorm room after my summer class, that I really started to realize that the semester was over.  In many ways, I'm happy it is over.  I'm tired of classes and I'm tired of work.  I need a break.  But there is no denying that I had some very good times as well.  While some of them didn't end the way I wanted them to, it's not as though I'd rather they hadn't happened at all.  So, overall I guess I'm sad and relieved that the year was over.  It's time for summer sunshine and more time to do many of the things that I had been putting off all winter because of time constraints. Regardless, it will be sad packing up the rest of my stuff tomorrow and shutting the book on another memory-filled year.  But, life goes on and so will I with it.  I've already got plans for the summer, for once, and I'm very happy with them so far. Most years I don't like moving out, mostly because i...