Can You Be That Stupid?

Here's one. No child left behind. Bullshit. No child led ahead is more like it. This past year to go to UMass Amherst I paid out of pocket (not counting loans) 4,200 cash. Next year because of President Bush's education policy I will have to pay 9,650 in cash (not including what loans I might get). In fact, it'll be 10,650 if he gets rid of the Perkins Loan as he's planning to do to fund his war on terrorism.

Well guess what. HE created the war on terror; HE is the cause of terror. HE is the reason that Iraq is about to enter into a civil war, Afghanistan is in revolt, oil prices are skyrocketing, the economy is bust, the dollar is losing ground to the British Pound, and the reason that China and India are surpassing us in every way (except for human rights, naturally). But what good is human, worker's rights if there are no jobs in this nation? What use is a job when even with it you don't make enough money to pay off your debt? What use is a President who claims to be protecting America when in actuality he is bankrupting it and throwing the burden of debt onto our children.

More than 80% of the terrorists that attacked on 9-11 were from Saudi Arabia. Yet we have not invaded them, even though they do harbor and fund "terrorist activities". If it were our intent to hunt down terrorist funding countries to freeze their assets then we would have attacked the Saudi's first. But that's not what HE wanted. HE wanted something else, an ally to set against OPEC. That's what we have in Kuwait, and now that's what HE thinks we can get in Iraq and Afghanistan. Think about it. Iraq and Afghanistan were countries with limited military power. Neither were well supported by other nations in the area. Why not attack Iran; Iran's dictator is trying to (PUBLICLY) gain nuclear capacity. There's no doubt about this; they've SAID it. They are trying to get weapons of mass destruction! It's not a joke, there is no punch line, they are a threat to everyone. Iraq was not. Afghanistan was not. We attacked them however because HE thought that we could control them like we control the Israelis.

HE was wrong. They are on the brink of civil war. There will be a civil war. There is nothing we can do to stop it. We couldn't even put down a minority insurgency in either country! Never mind trying to adjucate a religious war between three separate groups AND an insurgency trying to push us out. We don't have enough manpower in the Middle East now! When war breaks out we will have no chance of stopping it. Furthermore, all that we have worked for in Iraq and Afghanistan, creating a government, fixing oil refineries, water plants, electric plants, all of it costing this country almost 500 billion dollars will be all for waste! The interim government will crumble and they will plunge into civil war.

What did we lose? Our economy, education, freedoms, privacy, jobs! All of the above, and MORE! George W. Bush has bankrupted this country to profit big business, oil and Haliburton. He took our money and used it to fund a war that did nothing but make us less safe, jobless, and more poor. Because of George W. Bush, I have to come up with $10,650 next term. I have to. He doesn't have to. In three years he'll retire on his nice presidential pension and forget about the rest of us who have to rely on financial aid, who have to pay off $35,000 worth of debt or more, who have lost their jobs to a nine year old girl in China because it was cheaper to send manufacturing overseas.

We're on a losing a losing war and there's nothing we can do about it for three more years. All I can ask is when are the poor people of this country going to realize that it is the president that they voted for that caused them to lose their jobs, pensions, freedoms, education, and privacy. It is THEIR vote that made it this way. Let's make a vow in 2008, a vow to vote for the party that's sole aim is to HELP people not feed off the work of others. Republicans get rich off us, they get rich off our war, off outsourcing our jobs! For Christ's Sake in 2008, no matter who runs or whether they like football or baseball, whether they came from the north or the south, vote for the person that is looking out for YOU and YOU ALONE, for all of our sakes, VOTE DEMOCRAT.

Clearing Things Up

Let's just get one thing straight before I continue with this project...

Everything I say is well thought out and designed for a purpose, a purpose that perhaps you do not understand, likely do not agree with, and, or think is not worth merit. Unfortunately, herein lies the truth. You do not think it is worth merit, you do not agree with it, you do not understand it. It is not my place to make you do anything. I am simply speaking my mind about a plethora of different subjects, life, politics, religion, and so forth. I am not stupid. I know that in the present state of this world, many of the things I say seem unlikely. However, just because something is a longshot does not make it worth less, or any less likely to happen. Things either happen or they don't. There is no in between. You can only make a prediction on whether or not they will based on the past and present, not the future. The problem is that predictions are for the future, not the past or the present. For things to change as they need to change much change is needed, enough change to change what change change changed. I am a believer in the impossible, and sometimes it will happen. (1918. 1918. 1918.) Even when the past and the present tell us otherwise, sometimes the future holds a suprise or two, or three, or eleventy, if you pardon my wordplay.

Hopefully you follow me. Hopefully I've cleared up a couple of misconceptions. If not, oh well, I can't force you to understand my point of view.

-Fly Free Forever

Life Experience

There are two fundamental types of feeling, regardless of what psychology will tell you. There are those that make you feel warm inside, like you want to get up and shout something to the world (and if you're Tom Cruise, you just might). And, there are those that make you feel empty, like a lead weight has pulled you down through your feet. They come in different degrees, and sometimes it is almost impossible to differentiate between them.

I can't speak for others, but seeing as though we are all fundamentally the same, the experience will be similar for everyone.

Ever have a day where everything seems to be on the up and up? Where time and space mold to your command. The very fabric of the universe seems to be bending in your favor.

Fate. Some use that word to describe illogical occurrences. On your way to the mall, you have a blow-out and skid into a telephone pole. When you come to you see the face of a person you haven't seen since high school looking down at you from above the ambulance stretcher. You are stabilized, heal right up, and reconnect with someone you never thought or dreamt of seeing again. You get married, have kids, and live happily ever after. Fate.

I don't see things as fate in the ususal sense. I believe that the path you follow in life is not cut for you. I believe that one is like a ball rolling down an inclined chute. So long as you keep to the straight and narrow, you coast along at a fairly rapid pace. Then again, if you choose to veer off course and climb the embankment, you're going to slow down a bit. If you slow down enough and go off course enough, then maybe just maybe the chute will move a little in that direction and your path will change.

Using my own life experience I can illustrate. My high school used "block scheduling." Basically the same thing that all colleges use, I had four classes up until the new year, and four new ones after that till the end of the year. I went into it rather blase about the whole school thing, as I suppose most people are most years. I rocked the boat; I veered off course. In doing so I met up with people I would not have even thought to have otherwise. I had the time of my life, it was quite possibly the most fun I'd ever had in my entire life. Actually, I'm positive it was. I was able to get an entirely new look at myself, at my life, at life in general.

And then the term ended. I didn't have classes with these people, I had never met them outside of school. They weren't, after all, my "group". I don't know why I cared. I really didn't like my "group" anyways. If ever I hated something I did, perhaps that is a contender. There were two thousand students in my school, yet there wasn't a week I didn't still see them, even then. In the hall, at lunch, something like that. And I was contented to feed off that and went no further.

Graduation. And then I was gone. But even then, in a city of 55,000 I still found my way to them, in passing of course. It didn't help that many of them were a year younger than me, and therefore were still in school for another month. Or that others still moved on to college, across the state, across the country. Even after all that time, we kept up appearances, we kept bumping into one another.

Is this fate? In the general sense, I don't think so. It's my choice, and theirs too. But I think that though the straight and narrow seems usually to be the "easy way" for you needn't slow down or fight momentum, maybe the course was already corrected. Which ever the case, fate or not, I know that certain paths in life make me and others try to break me. I don't know which one this is supposed to be, but I've enjoyed it immensely. Even with the millions of people in this nation, and the hundreds or thousands of miles between us, I still have faith, and sometimes even look out over my shoulder, just in case they happen to be following behind.

[In a way, this time personified my pen name. It is my goal in life, one of them anyways, to be free of road blocks and manmade traps, to soar above this life in a rocket ship of my desire, to live fullest every day, to fly free forever.]

Let's Make a Deal

Okay, I'll make you a deal conservatives. If you change who you are, what you stand for, your goals, intentions, beliefs, and tendencies, I'll vote for you. You speak about uniting the country; here's your chance. You've got ten seconds.

[In the meantime... The Agnostic's Creed...

I do not believe in God, the Father almighty,
creator of heaven and earth.

I do not believe in Jesus Christ, God's only Son, our Lord,
(a man may have existed but he was not the son of God any more than I am)
who was not conceived by the Holy Spirit,
or born of the Virgin Mary,
(in the days of old, people found it to be disgraceful to have bastard children, so the conception was "immaculate")
suffered under Pontius Pilate, (lots of people did, why not)
was crucified, died, or was buried; (again, lots of people were)
he descended to the dead (people die).
On the third day he did not rise again; (no comment)
he did not ascend into heaven, (the Church trying to scare people into donating, sadly successfully)
he is not seated at the right hand of the Father (lefties do it better),
and he will not come again to judge the living and the dead (this is a pipe dream created by the church to make people believe that they should give them money. For shame.)

I do not believe in the Holy Spirit, (I believe in my own conscience)
or the holy catholic church, (pedophilia)
or the communion of saints, (elitist)
perhaps the forgiveness of sins, (I believe in forgiveness)
or the resurrection of the body, (when you're gone from this world, you are gone for good)
and possibly the life everlasting (we'll see).



That was at least ten seconds. Have your response? No? Oh well, can't say I didn't try. Too bad, I guess you don't want to be bipartisan. Very well. I'll see you in 2008.