I just wanna say sorry if you cant hear some of what I say and I sorry to Chris cause I know how bad youre internet sucks. Let me know what you think and if maybe you would like me to post more Video Blogs.
Also I accept all feedback good or bad so dont be shy let me know what you think!
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
What Is Freedom?
Is it having a choice to do whatever you want? Is it being out on your own trying to survive in this world? Is it listening to your self instead of your parents? or, Is it something you watch or listen to that lets you escape reality?
Well as most of you know, tomorrow.... well today my parents(and my sister) are leaving for Michigan and will be gone around 2 weeks. At first I thought it was a big deal, me all alone in this house with no authority other than myself to dictate what to or not to do, Is that Freedom? But after thinking about it these next two weeks aren't going to much different than they would have been if my family was here(the only difference is that it will finally be quiet around here and I don't have too worry about getting yelled at for something) I will still sleep in late, I will still be going to work, and on my days off I will probably still go over to Jeremy's. So there will be no big deviation from my normal life. So is it really Freedom?
Anyway Saturday night right after work I went directly to Jeremy's so that we could play through Gears 2 on co-op and he could get his achievements. We played until about 3am Sunday morning after a "nap" we were back up and playing. IN all it took us 15 hours and 29 minutes to complete it on Insane. We were able to shave close to 5 hours off of Jeremy's original completion time of 20 hours. We then started playing Horde mode around 5pm when I decided I need to get home for dinner(Hmmm Steaks). Monday I spent most of time just sitting at home doing nothing. I woke up today by my sister, now I had to be to work at 4 but I was gonna have to leave early because my sister's FUCKING cat has fleas and we had to "bomb" her room and the living room to kill all of them. So I left early and ran up to Mickey D's for some Mcfeelin' but still ended up at work a good 45 minutes early. Work was pretty boring so I came home and did what I normally do surf the interweb and not do anything productive. I have watched the first episode of Whale Wars(which is free on iTunes right now) so check it out, it turned out to be very good it might be a show I will follow.(Kelly you should check it out) As I was watching that I was also downloading the new episode of House that I missed because of work and again it was amazing!! So now I am just finishing this Blog and I need to get to sleep because I need to get up early and help my dad get ready to go. After they leave I will probably head up to Jeremy's so I will fill you in tomorrow night but until then........
Peace Out!
(For Kelly)
Rise Today-Alter Bridge
Open Your Eyes-Alter Bridge
Broken Wings-Alter Bridge
Washing The World Away-Crossfade
Everything's Wrong-Crossfade
Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)-Lostprophets
All I Ever Wanted-Shinedown
Beyond The Sun-Shinedown
Begin Again-Shinedown
Anthem For The Underdog-12 Stones
This Dark Day-12 Stones
Arms Of A Stranger-12 Stones
The Last Song-12 Stones
Photograph-12 Stones
If you like any or all these songs I suggest you look up the bands and listen to all their songs.
Peace and much Love XOXOXOXOXO
Well as most of you know, tomorrow.... well today my parents(and my sister) are leaving for Michigan and will be gone around 2 weeks. At first I thought it was a big deal, me all alone in this house with no authority other than myself to dictate what to or not to do, Is that Freedom? But after thinking about it these next two weeks aren't going to much different than they would have been if my family was here(the only difference is that it will finally be quiet around here and I don't have too worry about getting yelled at for something) I will still sleep in late, I will still be going to work, and on my days off I will probably still go over to Jeremy's. So there will be no big deviation from my normal life. So is it really Freedom?
Anyway Saturday night right after work I went directly to Jeremy's so that we could play through Gears 2 on co-op and he could get his achievements. We played until about 3am Sunday morning after a "nap" we were back up and playing. IN all it took us 15 hours and 29 minutes to complete it on Insane. We were able to shave close to 5 hours off of Jeremy's original completion time of 20 hours. We then started playing Horde mode around 5pm when I decided I need to get home for dinner(Hmmm Steaks). Monday I spent most of time just sitting at home doing nothing. I woke up today by my sister, now I had to be to work at 4 but I was gonna have to leave early because my sister's FUCKING cat has fleas and we had to "bomb" her room and the living room to kill all of them. So I left early and ran up to Mickey D's for some Mcfeelin' but still ended up at work a good 45 minutes early. Work was pretty boring so I came home and did what I normally do surf the interweb and not do anything productive. I have watched the first episode of Whale Wars(which is free on iTunes right now) so check it out, it turned out to be very good it might be a show I will follow.(Kelly you should check it out) As I was watching that I was also downloading the new episode of House that I missed because of work and again it was amazing!! So now I am just finishing this Blog and I need to get to sleep because I need to get up early and help my dad get ready to go. After they leave I will probably head up to Jeremy's so I will fill you in tomorrow night but until then........
Peace Out!
(For Kelly)
Rise Today-Alter Bridge
Open Your Eyes-Alter Bridge
Broken Wings-Alter Bridge
Washing The World Away-Crossfade
Everything's Wrong-Crossfade
Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)-Lostprophets
All I Ever Wanted-Shinedown
Beyond The Sun-Shinedown
Begin Again-Shinedown
Anthem For The Underdog-12 Stones
This Dark Day-12 Stones
Arms Of A Stranger-12 Stones
The Last Song-12 Stones
Photograph-12 Stones
If you like any or all these songs I suggest you look up the bands and listen to all their songs.
Peace and much Love XOXOXOXOXO
Friday, November 7, 2008
Tameing My Addiction!
More to come a little later....
OK before I begin I want to plug my cousin's blog, she just started and all I ask is to check it out and tell her what you think of it. Kelly's Musical Salvation
(Chris you have started a blogging army it just keeps spreading!!!)
Also another thing that I am going to do in the next couple of days is write somebody a letter, a "real" letter and if you are reading this you know who you are. I really can't wait, I think it will be good to sit down and write a nice well thought out hand written letter, then wait for one in return.
OK so now the theme of this blog... ADDICTION!! specifically my addiction to the internet and computers in general. One of my friends seem to be worried while the other one is like "there is nothing wrong with an addiction to the internet" so in the coming week I am going to try to cut back the amount of time that I check things on the internet like my Facebook, Digg, and all the blogs I follow(which is up to 7 now).
This whole thing came about when we were up in Orlando and I was constantly on one of Chris' laptops(no matter how badly his internet sucked!) and then it continued to when I was at Jeremy's house and I kept checking all my aforementioned websites. He obviously thinks that I have a problem because it went as far as to lock me out of his laptop and wouldn't let me check my Facebook before I left. So yea some people say it is not good but some say there is nothing wrong with it so let me know what you all think (even though I already know what a couple of you are gonna say).
I want to get into a couple days ago because I haven't blogged in a couple of days but I will try to keep it short.
Wednesday I had the day off so I woke up fairly early(for me) and wanted to try and meet up with Jeremy(I wanted to talk to him about how Obama won Wooo!!) and his Mom down here in Bonita because they clean houses down here, after finding out that I probably would never get in I desperately scrambled to find something to do. I finally decided to just drive around, I ended up getting something to eat and then headed to Coconut and walked around for a bit. I called Jeremy back and asked if it would be alright if I spent the night so that the next day we could all go together(eric included) to get our Xmas Ball tickets, after a confirmation I got ready and left for his house (eric also planned on going up after work[with some alcohol] and hang out for tomorrow). Shortly after arriving at Jeremy's his dad pulled in. When he came through the door the dogs were all jumping on each other and I guess his dad was pissed about something cause he took a swipe at spunky and in a matter of seconds all you could hear was high pitched crying and you could tell something was wrong because his back legs just kind of buckled. So after a couple "what the hell"s we quickly drove him to the vet. They were gonna keep him overnight to see if the shot they gave him would work. As soon as we got back Jeremy and I went straight to his room and talked for a couple hours. I just want to say how much I love talking to Jeremy because we always have something to talk about and we can usually talk for awhile, Jeremy is kinda like my Malerie but he is a male and is living in Florida (now only Chris, Jeremy, and I will get that but I say it because him and I can talk about anything) soo yea. At around 11 Eric finally got there and we talked about his horrible weekend and started drinking, then we finally started playing some Guitar Hero. Eric and I got pretty buzzed and we finally called it quits at like 2:30am.
The next day wasn't as exciting we woke up kinda late but shortly we all left Jeremy and his mom had to go get spunky(who ended up with like 2 fractures on his pelvis so yea his dad is a dick who beats up on small animals?.. assholes do!) and Eric and I drove down to the radio station to buy ours and Jeremy's concert ticket. It was a pretty easy process and we also saw Zito and Garrets mail(eric said it was Epic hahaha) Eric continued on to his house to help his father and I continued on to my house so that my mom and I could switch out vehicles. OK so my parents traded in my Explore for a Minivan but I now drive the car and my mom drives the minivan(the reason for the minivan is the trip my family is taking to Michigan for two weeks they leave next Wed. Soooo.... PARTY AT MY HOUSE?!?! (Kelly don't tell them when they are up there hahaha)) While I was waiting for my mom I was texting Jeremy and he said he was bored and I thought what if I borrow one of Eric's controllers then we could play some Xbox, as soon as I proposed that Jeremy said he could trade in some games for Gears of War 1. When we were done switching cars I stopped by Erics then went to Jeremy's. We played for a couple hours until 9, because we all know whats on Thursdays at 9................ Thats right Supernatural, as soon as it was over I left for home. I did a lot of surfing then went to bed.
Today was also boring all I did was sleep in late then took a nap and went to work. But now I have some bad news. Ok so last week I saw on the schedule that there was a new trainee and their name was Skylar and Jeremy and I both know only one Skylar, we were joking about what the chances were that the new guy was actually going to be that well obviously the chances were great because when I clocked in and went out to the line guess who I saw?.... FUCKING SKYLAR LONGWELL HOLY SHIT!! yea it really must be a small world... well city but you know. What was worse was that he had to follow me around and I had to train him! argh Why Me?!?!?
Now I will give you my plans for the next couple of days because I probably wont be home to blog and Jeremy won't let me use his laptop so.....
Tomorrow- Go to work
Go to Jeremy's
Play GoW2(Gears of War 2)
Go to sleep really late(or really early however you wanna look at it)
Wake up
Play more GoW2
then I don't know
So until my next post.......
Peace Out!
OK before I begin I want to plug my cousin's blog, she just started and all I ask is to check it out and tell her what you think of it. Kelly's Musical Salvation
(Chris you have started a blogging army it just keeps spreading!!!)
Also another thing that I am going to do in the next couple of days is write somebody a letter, a "real" letter and if you are reading this you know who you are. I really can't wait, I think it will be good to sit down and write a nice well thought out hand written letter, then wait for one in return.
OK so now the theme of this blog... ADDICTION!! specifically my addiction to the internet and computers in general. One of my friends seem to be worried while the other one is like "there is nothing wrong with an addiction to the internet" so in the coming week I am going to try to cut back the amount of time that I check things on the internet like my Facebook, Digg, and all the blogs I follow(which is up to 7 now).
This whole thing came about when we were up in Orlando and I was constantly on one of Chris' laptops(no matter how badly his internet sucked!) and then it continued to when I was at Jeremy's house and I kept checking all my aforementioned websites. He obviously thinks that I have a problem because it went as far as to lock me out of his laptop and wouldn't let me check my Facebook before I left. So yea some people say it is not good but some say there is nothing wrong with it so let me know what you all think (even though I already know what a couple of you are gonna say).
I want to get into a couple days ago because I haven't blogged in a couple of days but I will try to keep it short.
Wednesday I had the day off so I woke up fairly early(for me) and wanted to try and meet up with Jeremy(I wanted to talk to him about how Obama won Wooo!!) and his Mom down here in Bonita because they clean houses down here, after finding out that I probably would never get in I desperately scrambled to find something to do. I finally decided to just drive around, I ended up getting something to eat and then headed to Coconut and walked around for a bit. I called Jeremy back and asked if it would be alright if I spent the night so that the next day we could all go together(eric included) to get our Xmas Ball tickets, after a confirmation I got ready and left for his house (eric also planned on going up after work[with some alcohol] and hang out for tomorrow). Shortly after arriving at Jeremy's his dad pulled in. When he came through the door the dogs were all jumping on each other and I guess his dad was pissed about something cause he took a swipe at spunky and in a matter of seconds all you could hear was high pitched crying and you could tell something was wrong because his back legs just kind of buckled. So after a couple "what the hell"s we quickly drove him to the vet. They were gonna keep him overnight to see if the shot they gave him would work. As soon as we got back Jeremy and I went straight to his room and talked for a couple hours. I just want to say how much I love talking to Jeremy because we always have something to talk about and we can usually talk for awhile, Jeremy is kinda like my Malerie but he is a male and is living in Florida (now only Chris, Jeremy, and I will get that but I say it because him and I can talk about anything) soo yea. At around 11 Eric finally got there and we talked about his horrible weekend and started drinking, then we finally started playing some Guitar Hero. Eric and I got pretty buzzed and we finally called it quits at like 2:30am.
The next day wasn't as exciting we woke up kinda late but shortly we all left Jeremy and his mom had to go get spunky(who ended up with like 2 fractures on his pelvis so yea his dad is a dick who beats up on small animals?.. assholes do!) and Eric and I drove down to the radio station to buy ours and Jeremy's concert ticket. It was a pretty easy process and we also saw Zito and Garrets mail(eric said it was Epic hahaha) Eric continued on to his house to help his father and I continued on to my house so that my mom and I could switch out vehicles. OK so my parents traded in my Explore for a Minivan but I now drive the car and my mom drives the minivan(the reason for the minivan is the trip my family is taking to Michigan for two weeks they leave next Wed. Soooo.... PARTY AT MY HOUSE?!?! (Kelly don't tell them when they are up there hahaha)) While I was waiting for my mom I was texting Jeremy and he said he was bored and I thought what if I borrow one of Eric's controllers then we could play some Xbox, as soon as I proposed that Jeremy said he could trade in some games for Gears of War 1. When we were done switching cars I stopped by Erics then went to Jeremy's. We played for a couple hours until 9, because we all know whats on Thursdays at 9................ Thats right Supernatural, as soon as it was over I left for home. I did a lot of surfing then went to bed.
Today was also boring all I did was sleep in late then took a nap and went to work. But now I have some bad news. Ok so last week I saw on the schedule that there was a new trainee and their name was Skylar and Jeremy and I both know only one Skylar, we were joking about what the chances were that the new guy was actually going to be that well obviously the chances were great because when I clocked in and went out to the line guess who I saw?.... FUCKING SKYLAR LONGWELL HOLY SHIT!! yea it really must be a small world... well city but you know. What was worse was that he had to follow me around and I had to train him! argh Why Me?!?!?
Now I will give you my plans for the next couple of days because I probably wont be home to blog and Jeremy won't let me use his laptop so.....
Tomorrow- Go to work
Go to Jeremy's
Play GoW2(Gears of War 2)
Go to sleep really late(or really early however you wanna look at it)
Wake up
Play more GoW2
then I don't know
So until my next post.......
Peace Out!
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
History Has Been Made And Change Is Coming!
Obama is now the next President.
I honestly have no words to describe the amount of happiness and pride I have right now.
Everything Will Be Alright!
CHANGE IS COMING!!!!
Peace to everyone with Much Love I say goodnight on this, such a monumentally Historic day in the time line of the World.
I honestly have no words to describe the amount of happiness and pride I have right now.
Everything Will Be Alright!
CHANGE IS COMING!!!!
Peace to everyone with Much Love I say goodnight on this, such a monumentally Historic day in the time line of the World.
My 37th Blog!
My title isn't just a crack on Chris' from the other night, I picked that because I couldn't think of anything good enough to sum up my entire (crazy) weekend. So lets just jump into it.
Friday October 31 (Halloween), 2008
The day started off normal enough I had work and was invited to a Halloween party, it was when I was on the computer when it hit me, "oh shit a costume". So I sent a text to Ryan asking if they were mandatory, they weren't but I thought what the hell I will get something. So I drove to work early picked up my paycheck cashed it and headed to Party City. After about 30 minutes of deciding I finally picked up some Pimp accessories. After I got home I had about half an hour to get ready and leave for work. It was pretty boring, I just wanted to leave and go to the party, that is when I got a text from Ryan asking if I had Saturday off. I thought to myself why would he be asking that so I went out to my car and gave him a call and found out what him and Lauren had so geniusly come up with, A TRIP TO ORLANDO!! After confirming with Jeremy and again with Ryan it was set we were really going to do it. So Jeremy's mom met me down in Estero where we then headed to Ryans and begin our own Odyssey. We hadn't even gone as far as Jeremy's exit when everyone kind of rethought this whole idea but we had already told Chris we were committed and we couldn't let him down. So we were traveling up I-75 at a decent rate when a couple people (I won't name names but *cough* Lauren and Jeremy *cough*) had to go to the bathroom which delayed our arrival in Orlando. Again we continued until we hit Orlando so we called up Chris to make sure we got off on the right exit. We had but still was totally unsure of where to go after that, but wait a minute... Jeremy had google maps on his phone and surely he can direct us in the right direction... wait no, no we ended up getting a hundred times more lost (i don't know about you but that is pretty fucking LOST!!) it was even worse because as we were looking for the possible right road all we could see were gun store, liquor store, gun store. Yep we were in the ghetto at 2 a.m. (super fun! I know) after about 45 minutes of this we decided to call Chris and get real directions. After 15 minutes of Chris guided driving we were at our destination, and we proceeded to give Chris the biggest orgy hug he has ever had (only if there were less sausages). After the hugfest we continued inside where we got up with Chris and talked about: Politics, Colbert Report, Computers, Programing, Window 7, Video Games, and a whole bunch of other stuff that I can't remember probably because it is too insignificant. It was around 5 a.m. before we were all tired enough to go to sleep.
Saturday November 1, 2008
I awoke to the voice of GlaDos(a lovely way to wake up) I noticed Jeremy and Chris were up and talking and looking at his laptop so I kinda just drifted back to sleep again, a little bit later I got back up and noticed that the room was missing two people so I called Chris to see where they had run of to. I found out that they were across the way at Steak N' Shake(or as Jeremy would say Shaky's) so I quickly put on my shoes and walked over to join them. It wasn't long before we headed back over so that Chris could get ready to go to class from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. As he left the rest of us tried to figure out how to kill 8 hours. The only thing we could come up with was a mall so we headed out to find it hoping not to get lost. It wasn't far or hard to find, we just parked in front of the Super Target and began walking around stopping in stores if they were interesting enough we finally came upon a Pet Smart so we went in to check out some of the animals only to find that a few needed someone to adopt them. Ryan with his big ol' heart wanted one so bad (it was only $40) but we (Jeremy, Lauren and I) how bad of an idea it was so we continued on. After a meal at "Orlando's" Miller Ale House and lots of killed time we noticed there were still like three hours left so we looked around and saw the movie theater and we thought about what movies were out and if there were any good ones. Lauren said Zack and Miri Make A Porno, and that was all the convincing I needed. After about a 30 minute wait the movie finally started. I just wanna say that it was a fucking hilarious movie from beginning to end and I highly recommend it to everyone(well maybe not Christians haha) so after the movie ended we made our way back to Chris' to wait for him to get there. I got a call from Chris and he asked if anyone was up for some Fazoli's. I was definitely up for that (finally I get to go to the famous Fazoli's from Chris' blog yay me) After a really delicious meal we headed back to do what we did the previous night with some movies thrown in like Across the Universe and Superbad. Unfortunately I was stuck on Spore so I really didnt pay much attention. Shortly after Superbad ended everyone was really ready for bed so we thought it best to rest before the trip back tomorrow.
To Be Continued......
I know most of you guys will hate that but it is my blog so...
"Whatever, Whatever I Do What I Want!"
Peace Out!
Friday October 31 (Halloween), 2008
The day started off normal enough I had work and was invited to a Halloween party, it was when I was on the computer when it hit me, "oh shit a costume". So I sent a text to Ryan asking if they were mandatory, they weren't but I thought what the hell I will get something. So I drove to work early picked up my paycheck cashed it and headed to Party City. After about 30 minutes of deciding I finally picked up some Pimp accessories. After I got home I had about half an hour to get ready and leave for work. It was pretty boring, I just wanted to leave and go to the party, that is when I got a text from Ryan asking if I had Saturday off. I thought to myself why would he be asking that so I went out to my car and gave him a call and found out what him and Lauren had so geniusly come up with, A TRIP TO ORLANDO!! After confirming with Jeremy and again with Ryan it was set we were really going to do it. So Jeremy's mom met me down in Estero where we then headed to Ryans and begin our own Odyssey. We hadn't even gone as far as Jeremy's exit when everyone kind of rethought this whole idea but we had already told Chris we were committed and we couldn't let him down. So we were traveling up I-75 at a decent rate when a couple people (I won't name names but *cough* Lauren and Jeremy *cough*) had to go to the bathroom which delayed our arrival in Orlando. Again we continued until we hit Orlando so we called up Chris to make sure we got off on the right exit. We had but still was totally unsure of where to go after that, but wait a minute... Jeremy had google maps on his phone and surely he can direct us in the right direction... wait no, no we ended up getting a hundred times more lost (i don't know about you but that is pretty fucking LOST!!) it was even worse because as we were looking for the possible right road all we could see were gun store, liquor store, gun store. Yep we were in the ghetto at 2 a.m. (super fun! I know) after about 45 minutes of this we decided to call Chris and get real directions. After 15 minutes of Chris guided driving we were at our destination, and we proceeded to give Chris the biggest orgy hug he has ever had (only if there were less sausages). After the hugfest we continued inside where we got up with Chris and talked about: Politics, Colbert Report, Computers, Programing, Window 7, Video Games, and a whole bunch of other stuff that I can't remember probably because it is too insignificant. It was around 5 a.m. before we were all tired enough to go to sleep.
Saturday November 1, 2008
I awoke to the voice of GlaDos(a lovely way to wake up) I noticed Jeremy and Chris were up and talking and looking at his laptop so I kinda just drifted back to sleep again, a little bit later I got back up and noticed that the room was missing two people so I called Chris to see where they had run of to. I found out that they were across the way at Steak N' Shake(or as Jeremy would say Shaky's) so I quickly put on my shoes and walked over to join them. It wasn't long before we headed back over so that Chris could get ready to go to class from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. As he left the rest of us tried to figure out how to kill 8 hours. The only thing we could come up with was a mall so we headed out to find it hoping not to get lost. It wasn't far or hard to find, we just parked in front of the Super Target and began walking around stopping in stores if they were interesting enough we finally came upon a Pet Smart so we went in to check out some of the animals only to find that a few needed someone to adopt them. Ryan with his big ol' heart wanted one so bad (it was only $40) but we (Jeremy, Lauren and I) how bad of an idea it was so we continued on. After a meal at "Orlando's" Miller Ale House and lots of killed time we noticed there were still like three hours left so we looked around and saw the movie theater and we thought about what movies were out and if there were any good ones. Lauren said Zack and Miri Make A Porno, and that was all the convincing I needed. After about a 30 minute wait the movie finally started. I just wanna say that it was a fucking hilarious movie from beginning to end and I highly recommend it to everyone(well maybe not Christians haha) so after the movie ended we made our way back to Chris' to wait for him to get there. I got a call from Chris and he asked if anyone was up for some Fazoli's. I was definitely up for that (finally I get to go to the famous Fazoli's from Chris' blog yay me) After a really delicious meal we headed back to do what we did the previous night with some movies thrown in like Across the Universe and Superbad. Unfortunately I was stuck on Spore so I really didnt pay much attention. Shortly after Superbad ended everyone was really ready for bed so we thought it best to rest before the trip back tomorrow.
To Be Continued......
I know most of you guys will hate that but it is my blog so...
"Whatever, Whatever I Do What I Want!"
Peace Out!
Monday, November 3, 2008
This Stuff Usually Goes On My Random Blog!
...but I am bored and I actually want someone other than Chris to see and watch these.(all these were on DIGG)
Here a couple articles I want you to read. The first about Atheism and the second about... well you will see.
By now you've probably heard about Senator Elizabeth Dole's ad attacking her opponent Kay Hagen as being an Atheist despite the contrary and having taught Sunday school. But here's the bigger issue for me, "What's wrong with being an Atheist anyway?" Are we Atheists (I'm not technically an Atheist but in the category as a nontheist) somehow unAmerican? The suggestion from Dole is that being an Atheist is anti-American.
Yet radical Christians like herself often say that there shouldn't be a religious test for political office and for judicial nominations. They love the double-standard. They love to only focus on the second half of this section in the first amendment to the Constitution highlighted. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. Their defense of this double standard is usually something like this, "Well Christianity is the truth!!" And yet no one can in no empirical or legal way prove this to be so.
TPJ: In other news: Another conservative adds his name to the long list of other conservatives backing/voting for Barack Obama:
(CNN) — Former Reagan chief of staff Ken Duberstein told CNN's Fareed Zakaria this week he intends to vote for Democrat Barack Obama on Tuesday.
Duberstein said he was influenced by another prominent Reagan official - Colin Powell - in his decision.
"Well let's put it this way - I think Colin Powell's decision is in fact the good housekeeping seal of approval on Barack Obama."
---End of Transmission---
Charlotte, N.C. - There has been a lot of speculation that Barack Obama might win the election due to his better "ground game" and superior campaign organization.
I had the chance to view that organization up close this month when I canvassed for him. I'm not sure I learned much about his chances, but I learned a lot about myself and about this election.
Let me make it clear: I'm pretty conservative. I grew up in the suburbs. I voted for George H.W. Bush twice, and his son once. I was disappointed when Bill Clinton won, and disappointed he couldn't run again.
I encouraged my son to join the military. I was proud of him in Afghanistan, and happy when he came home, and angry when he was recalled because of the invasion of Iraq. I'm white, 55, I live in the South and I'm definitely going to get a bigger tax bill if Obama wins.
I am the dreaded swing voter.
So you can imagine my surprise when my wife suggested we spend a Saturday morning canvassing for Obama. I have never canvassed for any candidate. But I did, of course, what most middle-aged married men do: what I was told.
At the Obama headquarters, we stood in a group to receive our instructions. I wasn't the oldest, but close, and the youngest was maybe in high school. I watched a campaign organizer match up a young black man who looked to be college age with a white guy about my age to canvas together. It should not have been a big thing, but the beauty of the image did not escape me.
Instead of walking the tree-lined streets near our home, my wife and I were instructed to canvass a housing project. A middle-aged white couple with clipboards could not look more out of place in this predominantly black neighborhood.
We knocked on doors and voices from behind carefully locked doors shouted, "Who is it?"
"We're from the Obama campaign," we'd answer. And just like that doors opened and folks with wide smiles came out on the porch to talk.
Grandmothers kept one hand on their grandchildren and made sure they had all the information they needed for their son or daughter to vote for the first time.
Young people came to the door rubbing sleep from their eyes to find out where they could vote early, to make sure their vote got counted.
We knocked on every door we could find and checked off every name on our list. We did our job, but Obama may not have been the one who got the most out of the day's work.
I learned in just those three hours that this election is not about what we think of as the "big things."
It's not about taxes. I'm pretty sure mine are going to go up no matter who is elected.
It's not about foreign policy. I think we'll figure out a way to get out of Iraq and Afghanistan no matter which party controls the White House, mostly because the people who live there don't want us there anymore.
I don't see either of the candidates as having all the answers.
I've learned that this election is about the heart of America. It's about the young people who are losing hope and the old people who have been forgotten. It's about those who have worked all their lives and never fully realized the promise of America, but see that promise for their grandchildren in Barack Obama. The poor see a chance, when they often have few. I saw hope in the eyes and faces in those doorways.
My wife and I went out last weekend to knock on more doors. But this time, not because it was her idea. I don't know what it's going to do for the Obama campaign, but it's doing a lot for me.
Oh and this picture(I have way too much to say about this fucking picture)
I am going to wait until tomorrow to write about my awesome weekend cause I want to go through all the events and I am afraid that if I start it now I wont get any sleep at all. I want to do it tomorrow when I can devote 2-4 hours hopefully I will be able to pull my self away from Spore long enough hahaha(JK). Until tomorrow........
PEACE OUT!
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Here a couple articles I want you to read. The first about Atheism and the second about... well you will see.
By now you've probably heard about Senator Elizabeth Dole's ad attacking her opponent Kay Hagen as being an Atheist despite the contrary and having taught Sunday school. But here's the bigger issue for me, "What's wrong with being an Atheist anyway?" Are we Atheists (I'm not technically an Atheist but in the category as a nontheist) somehow unAmerican? The suggestion from Dole is that being an Atheist is anti-American.
Yet radical Christians like herself often say that there shouldn't be a religious test for political office and for judicial nominations. They love the double-standard. They love to only focus on the second half of this section in the first amendment to the Constitution highlighted. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. Their defense of this double standard is usually something like this, "Well Christianity is the truth!!" And yet no one can in no empirical or legal way prove this to be so.
TPJ: In other news: Another conservative adds his name to the long list of other conservatives backing/voting for Barack Obama:
(CNN) — Former Reagan chief of staff Ken Duberstein told CNN's Fareed Zakaria this week he intends to vote for Democrat Barack Obama on Tuesday.
Duberstein said he was influenced by another prominent Reagan official - Colin Powell - in his decision.
"Well let's put it this way - I think Colin Powell's decision is in fact the good housekeeping seal of approval on Barack Obama."
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Charlotte, N.C. - There has been a lot of speculation that Barack Obama might win the election due to his better "ground game" and superior campaign organization.
I had the chance to view that organization up close this month when I canvassed for him. I'm not sure I learned much about his chances, but I learned a lot about myself and about this election.
Let me make it clear: I'm pretty conservative. I grew up in the suburbs. I voted for George H.W. Bush twice, and his son once. I was disappointed when Bill Clinton won, and disappointed he couldn't run again.
I encouraged my son to join the military. I was proud of him in Afghanistan, and happy when he came home, and angry when he was recalled because of the invasion of Iraq. I'm white, 55, I live in the South and I'm definitely going to get a bigger tax bill if Obama wins.
I am the dreaded swing voter.
So you can imagine my surprise when my wife suggested we spend a Saturday morning canvassing for Obama. I have never canvassed for any candidate. But I did, of course, what most middle-aged married men do: what I was told.
At the Obama headquarters, we stood in a group to receive our instructions. I wasn't the oldest, but close, and the youngest was maybe in high school. I watched a campaign organizer match up a young black man who looked to be college age with a white guy about my age to canvas together. It should not have been a big thing, but the beauty of the image did not escape me.
Instead of walking the tree-lined streets near our home, my wife and I were instructed to canvass a housing project. A middle-aged white couple with clipboards could not look more out of place in this predominantly black neighborhood.
We knocked on doors and voices from behind carefully locked doors shouted, "Who is it?"
"We're from the Obama campaign," we'd answer. And just like that doors opened and folks with wide smiles came out on the porch to talk.
Grandmothers kept one hand on their grandchildren and made sure they had all the information they needed for their son or daughter to vote for the first time.
Young people came to the door rubbing sleep from their eyes to find out where they could vote early, to make sure their vote got counted.
We knocked on every door we could find and checked off every name on our list. We did our job, but Obama may not have been the one who got the most out of the day's work.
I learned in just those three hours that this election is not about what we think of as the "big things."
It's not about taxes. I'm pretty sure mine are going to go up no matter who is elected.
It's not about foreign policy. I think we'll figure out a way to get out of Iraq and Afghanistan no matter which party controls the White House, mostly because the people who live there don't want us there anymore.
I don't see either of the candidates as having all the answers.
I've learned that this election is about the heart of America. It's about the young people who are losing hope and the old people who have been forgotten. It's about those who have worked all their lives and never fully realized the promise of America, but see that promise for their grandchildren in Barack Obama. The poor see a chance, when they often have few. I saw hope in the eyes and faces in those doorways.
My wife and I went out last weekend to knock on more doors. But this time, not because it was her idea. I don't know what it's going to do for the Obama campaign, but it's doing a lot for me.
Oh and this picture(I have way too much to say about this fucking picture)
I am going to wait until tomorrow to write about my awesome weekend cause I want to go through all the events and I am afraid that if I start it now I wont get any sleep at all. I want to do it tomorrow when I can devote 2-4 hours hopefully I will be able to pull my self away from Spore long enough hahaha(JK). Until tomorrow........
PEACE OUT!
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Having Fun Hanging Out With Chris In Orlando!!!
Honestly I don't care that I missed out on going to a real party and getting shit faced for Halloween because I have much more fun talking to and hanging out with Christopher Hays. It is soo awesome to actually be up here in person instead of looking at his room through the lens of a camera or talking to Chris digitally over Facebook or or any other form of digital communication. In my book this is probably the best Halloween ever because I have missed Chris ever since the last time he visited Ft. Myers.
We left at around 10 and were on track to reach Hays' house by 1am which =3 hours travel time but as soon as we reached Orlando everything went to shit. Seriously everything was fun until we got off of I-4 and started to search for Chris' apartment. after a little bit of looking around we found that we were lost so we called Chris and asked him for help but Jeremy said that he had google maps on his phone and that he would be able to guide us safely to Chris'. That is when we made the fatal mistake of trusting Jeremy's Helio instead of Chris' epicness and intelligence. So we spent close to an hour going around circle after circle(we were really fucking lost[unfortunately it wasn't on an island]) We then finally decided to call Chris and get the right directions. with the help of Chris we were able to get to his apt fairly quickly(we should have listened to him from the beginning) As we finally pulled up on his hotel/apartment he walked outside and we rushed him and all gave a huge party hug(5 people 1 hug) For the past couple hours we have already talked about computers, programming, politics(well Obama haha), watched a little Colbert Report and laughed a lot. I am not sure what tomorrow... I mean today will hold but we will just have to wait and see. So it is me MASSive O signing out from Orlando!!! using one of Chris' laptops(hehehe) so until my next blog which will hopefully be tomorrow morning(probably between 1-2 a.m.) so until then.....
Peace Out!! From Orlando Motherfucker!!!!
We left at around 10 and were on track to reach Hays' house by 1am which =3 hours travel time but as soon as we reached Orlando everything went to shit. Seriously everything was fun until we got off of I-4 and started to search for Chris' apartment. after a little bit of looking around we found that we were lost so we called Chris and asked him for help but Jeremy said that he had google maps on his phone and that he would be able to guide us safely to Chris'. That is when we made the fatal mistake of trusting Jeremy's Helio instead of Chris' epicness and intelligence. So we spent close to an hour going around circle after circle(we were really fucking lost[unfortunately it wasn't on an island]) We then finally decided to call Chris and get the right directions. with the help of Chris we were able to get to his apt fairly quickly(we should have listened to him from the beginning) As we finally pulled up on his hotel/apartment he walked outside and we rushed him and all gave a huge party hug(5 people 1 hug) For the past couple hours we have already talked about computers, programming, politics(well Obama haha), watched a little Colbert Report and laughed a lot. I am not sure what tomorrow... I mean today will hold but we will just have to wait and see. So it is me MASSive O signing out from Orlando!!! using one of Chris' laptops(hehehe) so until my next blog which will hopefully be tomorrow morning(probably between 1-2 a.m.) so until then.....
Peace Out!! From Orlando Motherfucker!!!!
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