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Friday, May 12th, 2006
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5:50 pm - Fuck AT&T, Sprint, MCI, and Verizon. I wish I could get Qwest.
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I don't think I could even come close to saying this better myself:
"I have absolutely nothing to hide, and would readily comply with a legally obtained search and seizure warrant; however, under no circumstances do I condone the arbitrary suspension of the rights and freedoms so adamantly insisted upon by our Founding Fathers.
The concept that, if you have nothing to hide or nothing to be ashamed of, you should willingly give up your Constitutionally protected rights and submit to the arbitrary, unlawful interference by your government in your personal life is a dangerous, groundless proposition propagated by the enemies of fee men everywhere.
The authors of the Bill of Rights did not provide for exceptions or biased interpretation of their forcefully stated insistence that Congress shall make no law curtailing the freedom of speech (etc.) No man, no court, no legislative body should arbitrarily create exceptions.
The Constitution does NOT say that Congress shall make no law restricting our civil rights, "unless or until the Chief Executive gets an urge to aggrandize his powers"; it does not permit the dissolution of those precious rights "if our great Republic should come under attack by Muslim extremists or lovesick starlet stalkers who decide to shoot the President in order to gain the attention of the object of his demented obsessions"; nor does it provide for the abrogation of those rights if the Attorney General feels the only weapons at his disposal to combat enemy forces within include setting aside pesky, bothersome civil rights.
And most of all, the framers of that precious document (the last citadel against tyranny) did not intend that it should be the sole discretion of the Chief Executive whether or not the citizens of this nation should enjoy the protection of government by law. Threats to national security and national sovereignty are not emboldened by the fears of some that our Constitutionally protected Human Rights provide safe havens for insurgents.
To the contrary, it was with brilliant insight that men like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Ben Franklin, and so many other men of courage and integrity realized that the fabric of our society is strengthened by the inviolability of those rights. To paraphrase Franklin and others: they who believe that it is worth forfeiting some of our rights in order to secure some degree of safety will lose both rights and safety.
Most telling perhaps, is that a solemn oath was prescribed whereby elected officials swear to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution. He who would author even the tiniest infringement of our Constitutional Rights, or support such infringement by vote or judicial decision, is, in my considered opinion, guilty of high treason and perjury. The PATRIOT Act, for example, on its face is illegal and anyone who voted its enactment has forsworn a sacred oath. No amount of rhetoric or obscure reasoning and justification can paint a different face on the deliberate suspension of unalienable rights. Having witnessed history since 1941, I am utterly flabbergasted that, as a nation, such a debate is even remotely entertained by honest, reasonable, patriotic men. "
And to add an afterthought:
FUCK THE NSA IN ITS EAR. BOMB BOMB BOMB. TERRORIST (TERR-ist for bush supporters that seem confused by the entire word) TERRORIST TERRORIST BOMB BOMB BIN LADEN BOMB BOMB.
Hi NSA, welcome to my journal. Eat a dick and die.
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5:13 pm
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I don't know which is sadder. Is it worse that I find this so funny? Or that I am such a nerd as to go "damn, that is in fact quite a good representation of the layout of the first Mario 1 level." ?
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| Sunday, March 12th, 2006
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10:55 am
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| Thursday, March 9th, 2006
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4:15 pm
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| Saturday, December 17th, 2005
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8:20 am
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Spellsword
70% Combativeness, 6% Sneakiness, 67% Intellect, 50% Spirituality
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Aggressive, but with the brains to back it up: You are a Spellsword!
Score! You have a prestige class. A prestige class can only be taken
after you’ve fulfilled certain requirements. This may mean that you're
an exceptionally talented person, but it probably doesn't.
Spellswords combine arcane might with combat know-how. They're
much tougher than mages, like to wear armor, and can cast spells
through their weapons. They're very, very, good at doing lots of damage
to a single target very quickly, and while not quite as tough as most
fighters, are still pretty hard to kill.
You're both smart and aggressive, which means that you're probably
pretty dangerous when pissed off. You also tend to be somewhat
straightforward, which is nice, and don’t have much use for
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My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: | You scored higher than 76% on Combativeness | | You scored higher than 0% on Sneakiness | | You scored higher than 56% on Intellect | | You scored higher than 60% on Spirituality |
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| Wednesday, December 14th, 2005
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11:04 pm - V1@GR@
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politic bunch nurtures overtures transients
media freshening starry providence Shiites
Choose any l0ve ___ p i 1 1 ___ you want!
empowering odorous unraveled shrunk Oldenburg
applies stimulated bowels Prussian abuse
current mood:  dirty
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| Sunday, August 21st, 2005
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10:11 am - Best comic ever
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Well, on a positive note, I found out I don't have to stay on the east coast next week. I do have to work over there Monday-Tuesday (and maybe Wednesday), but I couldn't get reservations at a hotel, so I'll just come back each day. It's not too bad of a drive, and best of all, hopefully, I won't be bored out of my mind.
Also, best PA Comic ever. Evar!!!!11
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| Saturday, August 20th, 2005
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11:53 pm
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I really fucking don't like these fucking living arrangements.
I feel fucking lonely fucking way too often.
It sucks that I've seen my girlfriend for 4 total hours max from one Sunday to the next. And then the next time I'd be able to see her would be the Thursday after that.
It sucks that the one night free before a morning that doesn't have to be worked was promised away to friends.
It really sucks that on mornings where work starts at 9, one has to go home at 9. But when work starts at 10 the next morning, it's okay to go see a movie that doesn't even start until after midnight.
Fucking Bullshit.
Whatever.
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| Sunday, August 14th, 2005
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10:22 am
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Actually feeling hung over for the first time ever, after last night. Usually, I can drink and nothing whatsoever happens because of the size of my system, but apparently I found the line last night. Went out last night and drank 3 pitchers of amber bock between the 2 of us, which essentially meant that I drank 2 of the 3. After that, I ended up knocking back 3 screwdrivers when we went to a dance club/bar later that night.
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| Friday, August 12th, 2005
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11:59 pm - Might as well say it since it doesn't matter anymore...
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I ended up being pulled into an "emerging leaders" training session thing at work. It was actually pretty fun and informational and managed to actually take my mind off of recent things...
We had to do several questionnaires, one of which was called "PeopleMap" which breaks you down into two of four personality types: Leader, Task, People, or Free-Spirit.
Here's a link that I managed to find online describing the 4 types pretty well
My score was pretty heavily weighted to be heavy on Leader-Free Spirit, and way down at the other end were People, and then Task... with People 1 point ahead of Task. Supposedly that means that I'm a leader that likes challenges and is particularly adept at seeing the big picture and 'rolling with the punches'. It typically also means that I'm pretty open to multiple approaches as long as the end goal is correct. I would say that's pretty on for the most part.
The other test that we did was a Myers-Briggs, which is a pretty common test from what I've heard. I think I've done one of these in the past. Anyway, my result ended up with me being an INTJ, which I think is pretty dead on in terms of my personality. That link is almost the exact text of the sheet that I got, and included the same list of "Famous INTJs". The one that made me smirk was "Mr Darcy" from Pride and Prejudice, which reminded me of something else...
Since it doesn't matter now, I might as well say what the "surprise" was going to be. It honestly wasn't going to be a kitten, what I meant by unique and particularly personal was essentially that I had gone out of my way to take the time to memorize a few particular lines...
In declaring myself thus I am fully aware that I will be expressively going against the wishes of my family, my friends, and I hardly need add my own better judgment. The relative situations of our families is such that any alliance between us must be regarded as a highly reprehensible connection.
You get the point.
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| Tuesday, August 9th, 2005
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8:07 am - Puppy
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I feel like a puppy. Kick it around or ignore it and expect it to be there and happy when you get back.
current mood:  blah
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| Friday, July 15th, 2005
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4:54 pm
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| Thursday, July 14th, 2005
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12:28 am - Geeks
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| Saturday, May 8th, 2004
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11:26 pm - ALMOST DONE
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6 days until graduation!!!!!!!!!!!!1
8 days until I'm back in Florida...
I start work on June 7th...
I see Karen whenever she gets her ass down to Florida, I can't wait :)
Lots of alone-time for us in my apartment <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
current mood:  happy
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| Tuesday, April 13th, 2004
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9:24 pm - DVDs
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Well, I've had to put myself on a temporary moratorium for a few months in terms of buying DVDs, since I ended up bringing home two purchases today, in the form of Kill Bill Vol. 1, and the Band of Brothers miniseries... for a total of like $115 :P Not much for some people, but for a po' college student like me, a fortune. Add to that the purchase of the FIfth Element and Stargate the other day for $10 each, and I've more than broken my budget for them for a while, at least until I start working. This brings my collection up to:
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Fifth Element
Stargate
Clerks
Mallrats
Chasing Amy
Dogma
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Suicide Kings
The Pianist
Gladiator
American History X
Boondock Saints
The Usual Suspects
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Snatch
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
The Shawshank Redemption
Training Day
Traffic
Fight Club
Punch Drunk Love
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Basic
Memento
O Brother Where Art Thou
LA Confidential
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Matrix
Matrix Reloaded
Matrix Revolutions
Star Wars 1: Phantom Menace
Star Wars 2: Attack of the Clones
American Beauty
Mission Impossible
Mission Impossible 2
Blues Brothers
Willy Wonka
Kelly's Heroes
Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now
Planet of the Apes
Tomb Raider
Face/Off
Braveheart
The Sixth Sense
Galaxy Quest
Ferris Beuller's Day Off
The Royal Tenenbaums
Unbreakable
A Beautiful Mind
Road to Perdition
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Men in Black
Men in Black II
Canadian Bacon
My Cousin Vinny
Animal House
Spaceballs
Blazing Saddles
Barbershop
Undercover Brother
The Score
Cats and Dogs
Shrek
Dr. Strangelove
The Replacements
South Park : Bigger Longer and Uncut
Star Trek Generations
Star Trek First Contact
Star Trek Insurrection
Star Trek Nemesis
Equilibrium
Pirates of the Caribbean
Saving Private Ryan
Monty Python's Meaning of Life
Xmen
Xmen 2
Tears of the Sun
1941
TV Shows:
Band of Brothers
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Futurama - Season 1
Futurama - Season 2
Futurama - Season 3
Family Guy - Volume 1
Family Guy - Volume 2
Upright Citizen's Brigade
Movie Collections:
Dolemite/Rudy Ray Moore
Jurassic Park
Indiana Jones
current mood:  ecstatic
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| Saturday, April 3rd, 2004
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7:33 pm - Politics
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I remember being told before that "If you're not liberal when you're young, you don't have a heart; If you're not conservative when you're old, you're a fool." I don't know about the latter part as I'm far from old, but the trend so far with me seems to be that as I get older, I'm getiting more liberal. I mostly attribute it to the fact that when I was younger, I was obviously more idealistic and inexperienced with the world. It's not hard to want things to be ideal and to have every single aspect of everything treated equivalently when you don't know how things "actually work." I won't ever entirely dismiss conservative ideas (save religious censorship ones), as yes, given an ideal society, you can treat everyone as an exact equivalent as they'd have started perfectly equal, and everyone could work fairly for everything they have. Of course, none of the people in positions of power would be so greedy as to defraud their fellow man, and would probably do things for the common good.
As all of this is obviously not the case, I find it hard to not be more and still maintain a heart :P.
This probably seems like somewhat of a random jut into this topic, particularly considering the general lack of posts before this :P however, many of the idiot superreligious conservatives here have driven me into absolute fits of confusion. As though this school as a whole was not conservative enough, there is a group on campus called "YCT" - The Young Conservatives of Texas. These idiots love to have "protests" depending on whatever minority group is celebrating some sort of (for once) positive aspect of their lives. Examples of this in the past have included a protest against Affirmative Action during Black History Month - nevermind the fact that there are so few black students here that I don't know how they could even ASSUME that this school confirms to affirmative action. Further, their bright idea for this was to have a bake sale - where they only have a select number of cookies that they'll sell to white people (who also pay more) while they have a lot more cookies for "other races". I personally enjoyed pointing out to them that what they were actually protesting race-based scholarships and quotas and NOT affirmative action, but it's pointless to argue with these idiots ;)
Anyway, to continue the "it's pointless to argue with these idiots" thread. Recently, the GLBTA (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Alliance) here at Texas A&M celebrated Gay Pride Week, and in response, the YCTs decided to have "Heterosexual Pride Week". Now, while admittedly, this is a dumb idea in and of its own, yes, there is nothing specifically wrong with the idea. However, while they claim that their goal is "promoting Heterosexual pride" rather than trying to oppress homosexuals, this seems incredibly laughable, especially when you have a bunch of neo-nazi looking guys with shaved-heads standing around holding up signs that state "Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve." and "Heterosexuals: Promoting Life on this Planet since its Creation." Of course, none of them would remotely listen to arguments in passing, especially any comments about the Adam & Steve poster- Them: "What do you mean that by saying this it means that we're stating that Homosexuality is wrong? No, we're just promoting heterosexual pride"
I swear... people here are so frustrating sometimes. It's great dating a wonderful girl that's not a Jesus-freak? :P
current mood:  confused
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| Thursday, February 19th, 2004
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5:13 pm - Hi
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| Wednesday, December 17th, 2003
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7:38 pm - Done for the semester and in a great mood!
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Finished my last exam today, I think I did great on it. Feeling great in general. I am now officially on break for a month! Tomorrow is going to be a long day, but it's worth it, as I'll be spending it in my car driving from Texas to Florida in order to see my beautiful, wonderful girlfriend, whom I'll be spending tons of time with this break :) :) :) CAN'T YOU TELL I'M HAPPY?!?!?!?!
Also getting stuck on this song:
La Vida es un Carnaval
Todo aquel que piense que la vida es desigual,
tiene que saber que no es as,
que la vida es una hermosura, hay que vivirla.
Todo aquel que piense que est solo y que est mal,
tiene que saber que no es as,
que en la vida no hay nadie solo, siempre hay alguien.
Ay, no ha que llorar, que la vida es un carnaval,
es m bello vivir cantando.
Oh, oh, oh, Ay, no hay que llorar,
que la vida es un carnaval
y las penas se van cantando.
Todo aquel que piense que la vida siempre es cruel,
tiene que saber que no es as,
que tan solo hay momentos malos, y todo pasa.
Todo aquel que piense que esto nunca va a cambiar,
tiene que saber que no es as,
que al mal tiempo buena cara, y todo pasa.
Ay, no ha que llorar, que la vida es un carnaval,
es m bello vivir cantando.
Oh, oh, oh, Ay, no hay que llorar,
que la vida es un carnaval
y las penas se van cantando.
Para aquellos que se quejan tanto.
Para aquellos que solo critican.
Para aquellos que usan las armas.
Para aquellos que nos contaminan.
Para aquellos que hacen la guerra.
Para aquellos que viven pecando.
Para aquellos nos maltratan.
Para aquellos que nos contagian.
current mood:  energetic
current music: Celia Cruz - La Vida es un Carnaval
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| Monday, December 15th, 2003
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2:04 pm - Ever wonder
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Ever wonder if black pornstars are thinking "Yeah bitch, take that for centuries of oppression!" while hammering white chicks exceptionally hard?
Just a thought!
current mood:  lonely
current music: none
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| Sunday, December 14th, 2003
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7:42 pm - Movie was O.K.
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Rabbit-proof Fence wasn't bad... I mean, it was pretty good, but I find it hard to praise it as much as some have (Ebert and Roper called it one of the best films of the year (2002)). It was averagely directed. The message of the film was wonderful, but I find it hard to praise a film simply for a message, unless it's something entirely unique.
It seemed to me as though the praise was directed at the message of the movie rather than the application of the actual film. Anyway, I wouldn't mind seeing it again, though I probably wouldn't purchase it.
current mood: lonely
current music: none
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