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Rumor Has It, The Ringer, and The Family Stone	May 22, 2006, 11:19PM
by: XangelXmysticsX
Two chick flicks and a comedy (with a chick flick ending). Rumor Has It: This movie is what happened after "The Graduate" (or if you've never seen the movie but you listen to classic rock- "Mrs. Robinson") If you've never seen or heard either- the "Rumor" is this: Man sleeps with older woman. Man sleeps with woman's daughter (whom he goes to school with)- leaving first woman completely jaded against men. Daughter gets married and has kids. Man sleeps with second woman's daughter (first woman's grand daughter)- who happens to be engaged. Pretty predictable 'chick flick'. Great acting, great actors, hilarious story line. (Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner, Shirley Maclaine) The Ringer: Only Johnny Knoxville could pull off something like this. The story of a kind hearted man who can't stand up for himself. He gets in a bind and tries to rig the Special Olympics. Other Olympians catch on and talk him into making a better person of himself. If you're one of those politically correct people, you probably wouldn't like this movie. However, if you're a 'Jackass' fan, I think you'd like it. (I'm not a Jackass fan and I loved it.) A great comedy with a 'chick flick' ending. And for my absolute favorite of the bunch- The Family Stone: Much like my own family actually. It's a romantic comedy set at Christmas time. Man brings home woman. Family drives woman over the breaking point. There's a couple of twists and turns, a few cuts, scrapes and a black eye, but everything works out in the end. Claire Danes did so much better in this than in "Shop Girl". Huge cast, highly active movie (you almost have to have ADD to keep up with it), real life plot.
topic: Movie Reviews
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Secret War	May 21, 2006, 9:44AM
by: Murderous_Breeze
The first sign of their presence began in 1097, by this time, they held a very strong and powerful grip on England who at this point in history was united under one crown by William the Conqueror. The priests of christondom promoted a crusade to capture the holy land of Jerusalem, in the name of Jesus Christ. While the knights of christondom battled against the armies of Islam, outside the high gates of Jerusalem, the secret society were pulling the strings on the outcome. This secret society built on shadow and the ultimate lust for power would be the grand masters of almost every war and major turning point in history. They were known as the Knights of the Temple of Solomon, or simply, the Templar Knights. They believed in the Kabalah, a form of mysticism, Jewish magic dating back to ancient Egypt. While the Crusades were being fought in the name of God and his Will, The Templar Knights were there for their own selfish reasons. The first ever temple of Solomon was built in Jerusalem and was a place of worship for Solomon, one of the greater prophets. After being captured by the Arabian armies, led by the General of Saracens, Salahadin, they abandoned it. But it was not what was in this temple which concerned the Templar Knights, it was what was under it. A golden treasure and holy items believed to be the cup of life, this was the true purpose of the war. After the 3 year war at Jerusalem ended, and when the French finally siezed the great walls of the city. King Richard, King of England at the time was given evidence of the slaughtering that the Templar Knights did to the Muslims of Jerusalem. He also uncovered their true relegion, and labeled them as Heretics to Christianity. Every Templar knight was to be killed, and their temples to be burnt to the ground. A few fled. The templar knights hid in shadow, for if they ever wished to survive they would have to die, or more precisley their name would have to die. They then master minded a plan that has changed the very pages of history, they migrated to the very place that was in need of dire independance from England. Scottland. The death of William Wallace gave the Scottish people less hope, the Templar Knights made a secret alliance with the king of Scottland, Robert the Bruce. The Bruce accepted their alliance and their skill and years of fighting the mighty armies of Islam would pay of. The Scottish met the English forces and defeated them. After the death of the English king, England was left without any throne, by right of succession the King of Scottland became king of England, making the Templar Knights power even more expandable, England and Scottland were now united. The Templar Knights had changed their name by this time, and in 1307 they announced publicly their new Society. A name that would be heard by millions, but understood by a few, the name of Freemasons. Freemasons began to pull the strings of Kings and Queens, holding ultimate power in their hands, and freely being able to endulge in their ancestral rights, the Kabalah. for the next 350 years they would hold Europe in their grip, believing in the prophets of old, that the day would come when the "Devine Creator" would come, and all non-believers woud burn. The biggest turning point of their Masonic way of thinking was the French Revolution (1789-1799). Spreading as far as the land which they fled 600 years before. France was falling due to absolute Monarchy, the lesser fortunate people were in rebel. A speach that was given by one Louis De`chou and i quote: "Gentlemen, as i am standing here, and recieving the applause from my right, and the applause from my left, i see we all agree that it was Masonry that made the French Revolution" When the first settlers came to the land of America, they not only brang uncultured people, brutal weapons, but also the Masonic way of thinking. The Freemasons after discovering America were now the most well respected, and least known society in the modern world. The world has just witnessed the first ever Masonic country in the world, America. On April 30th, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall, on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. Or was it the first Mason-President of the United States. Their presence is everywhere, they are the master engineers of the world, the wars that you and your loved ones fight are in shadow, in their name, you are fighting for what they believe in. They are everywhere, when you turn on your television, they are their, they sit with you when you read your newspaper, they listen to you when you turn on the radio, and they feed you the Masonic way of thinking when you see the Presidents and Governments of the world speek out. They have their own laws, they believe in ultimate power, a one world governments. They are the media, they are Christianity, they are the Jews, and they are the Muslims. No one is safe. They pull the strings of the countries of the world, and their decisions are all for the end. For they believe in the Antichrist, The "Great Architect of the Universe". They are the forebringers of him, waiting his arrival. They poison your mind with their garbage day after day, do your own research, dont take my own word for it, read about the history pages that have been whiped out with white ink and the pages stuck together. They are the Freemasons, and for you who wish to be a free thinking mind, you are their greatest fear, for a person who wishes to think freely, is the greatest threat to their plan for ultimate world power. www.infowars.com its all their. You can make a difference.
topic: Life
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Who's Who?	May 20, 2006, 5:39PM
by: untold truth
Some people never let you know who they truly are. They hide behind laughter or sarcasm as a way to deflect you from realizing exactly who they are. They claim that they would never hide anything from you because you know everything about them, but do you? Really? Everyone has at least one dirty little secret that they keep to themselves. Even if it’s not a dirty little secret, there is always something that they don’t tell you. Who they like, what happened when their parents divorced, what happened in the past. There are always those things that are never shared, because we still feel insecure and we don’t feel the need to share, we don’t want to make ourselves vulnerable. Some people hide in that knowledge, they hide because they know that you can’t, and won’t, know everything about them. But the thing is, when secrets are held, you can’t fully trust someone, because they can’t seem to trust you. I know it seems hypocritical but that’s just the way it is. Because everyone does it, everyone keeps secrets. They hide their past as if it were a dirty magazine that they can hide under their beds. Sometimes there are good reasons that the past becomes hidden. I've had a few times in my life that I choose to leave in the past, mostly because it’s too painful to remember. I’ve gone through family issues like everyone else, done things that I'm not proud of, and I’ve swept them under the rug. We are all entitled to keeping our past in the past, but then can we really say that we can trust each other if we don’t know each other for real? The thought of bearing all, showing the world your true self is a scary thought. Everyone could laugh at you and pick on you. You could be hated and beaten. These are just some of the reasons why we are hiding. We don’t let people know about our pasts because it might hinder our future with them. We try to control all the aspects of our lives but the truth is that it cannot happen because we only a small part of a big world, we are only one tiny head amongst the crowd; we are only one person in a room of other people. There are so many different people and cultures in the world that one person cannot control all of the little details in life. You can’t control the people you meet on the street or in your school. You can’t stop the way people think of how you dress or who you hang out with. You have no say in how people will react to who you choose to love or how you choose to live your life. If you can’t control all of that, then why do we try? We are told to live up to our potentials as students, as people, but how does anyone else but us know when we have reached it? What is the whole point of try to reach someone else’s idea of potential? So many questions and no answers. You can try and argue, you can try and reason, but there are no true answers. There is no real right and wrong, only what is put into our heads and what we are told is right and wrong. There is no one God or Higher Being, there are many. What is the point in trying to punish others for what they believe in? What is the point in trying to keep up the walls and not let certain people in? The point is to make us think that all humans are different. The point is to separate us and segregate us and make us fight wars against each other so some person can come and say “we kicked your ass now bow to me cause I’m better then you…so HA!” I mean that’s basically it isn’t it? There is no real point to the whole charade. There is no real purpose to the fighting and arguing. There’s no real point in saying “I’m better then you” other then to boost your ego. I mean get a reality check. The worst part is that when we do those kinds of stunts it only shows the person that we want to project, not who we really are. And when you decide to project an image of yourself that is not who you really are, you can make friends, or not make friends, that only know you for that façade. You can’t make real friends, because you’re not letting yourself go. I think that I know why we keep these secrets hidden. Not only do we not want to be judged, or become vulnerable, but we also don’t want one person to have that kind of power over us. The ability to break us down and destroy us if they want. That kind of power is destructive and can tempt someone in too many ways imaginable. Just thinking of someone having that kind of power is enough to make anyone nervous. I mean even married couples never tell all their dirty little secrets. You may want to, but divorce rates are going up so marriage isn’t necessarily forever nowadays. A marriage can break over those tiny little secrets. Ok some of them are big GIANT secrets, but there are still the little ones that could destroy it just as easily. We want this picture perfect life, like those of the people on tv. We want to have a loving family, a dog or a cat, the perfect house in the perfect neighbourhood. But its not gonna happen. Your husband could be abusive, your kids could have health issues, you could live in the worst part of town, and your dog could get rabies. There’s no way to tell what is going to happen every second of your life. Which leads back to control again. The need to be able to make sure that nothing goes wrong, that everything goes along smoothly. But you know its not. There’s going to be those crazy days where your family will drive you up the wall. There’s going to be the inevitable day when your daughter will come home with a boyfriend with tattoos, or your son will be asking to get his lip pierced. You really have no control over anything but yourself, and even that can sometimes fail. Think of all the stupid things you said when you were angry, things you didn’t necessarily mean, or when you say something lame in front of someone you’ve been crushing on for a long time. You can call it fate or destiny, whatever you want, you’ve got no control. What if there is a master plan? Then everything is already decided right? But what if its up to you to make your life what you want? You’re still gonna screw up more then once along the way so why get so beat up about it when it finally happens? Have you ever met someone who is perfect at everything? One of those kids at school who gets 90’s in everything, their clothes are perfect, makeup flawless, and they never make a mistake? They tend to spazz out when a teacher gives then an 85? That’s when you know something thinks that they have control over life, and life just decided to throw them a curve ball. They get so worked up about a stupid 85 that they seem to miss the point. Its not that you got a lower mark, or that your work was not up to snuff, its just that you’ve had a bad day, and you’re going to make mistakes. So don’t moan and groan about it, it’s only one, mark out of hundreds over your schooling career. You just cant seem to get everything perfect, no matter how hard you try. Its just the way things are done. You have to try to move on and accept what life has dropt on your doorstep. I mean is it really going to matter 10, 15, even 5 years down the road? It may seem like it now, but its not the end of the world! Mistakes happen and you have to be able to handle and learn from them when they occur. To just give upon life and say “to hell with it” is just a way of running chicken shit and not wanting to deal with the issues at hand. If you get in a car accident for instance, you have to learn from what happened and you also have to try and make the best of each day. Giving up and offing yourself means that life has gotten the best of you and you weren’t prepared for it. For you to survive you have to stand up and face the problem head on. You have to just get up, dust yourself off, and move on. One of the biggest things about secrets and not telling anyone about them is that you don’t want to feel like their not going love you after what you’ve done. The issue of self-acceptance plays a strong role in this topic. When you can’t accept what you’ve done in the past then you think that no one else can. If you know that someone is always going to be there for you and you know that they love you, then shouldn’t you be able to tell them that secret without shame and without thinking that they will turn and run away from you? Something like your mother or your sister, or a really close friend that you know you can trust, shouldn’t you be able to tell them? Not necessarily, it’s because you love them that you can have doubts. I mean if you went and told your mother that you were pregnant, could you be sure that she wouldn’t disown you because of it? I know my mother wouldn’t but not everyone has a family like mine. Now if I went off and got a tattoo and she found out, then the trust would be gone. You have to build up that kind of trust over the years and sometimes even then its not enough to make someone understand what you’ve done. This last part of my essay I wrote a while ago before I even knew that I was going to write this, but I think it fits into the topics of this essay almost effortlessly. It doesn’t have a title but its about not being able to like yourself, or trust yourself, or anything else, and then assuming that since you cant, no one else can. Read and enjoy. If I'm not comfortable with myself How can you feel comfortable with me? If I think I’m ugly How can you think I’m pretty? If I think I’m fat How can you think of holding me? If I’m scared of looking in the mirror How can you stand looking at me? If I think I’m horrible How can you say I’m charming? If I say I’m flawed How can you say I’m perfect? If I don’t love myself How can you love me? If I think I’m not worthy How can you hold me in such high regard? If I think I’m untrustworthy How can you trust me so much? If I think I’m alone How can you possibly be there for me? If I think I’m broken How can you say that I’m what you’ve always needed? If I think I’m disgusting How can you think of being with me? If I think I’m problematic How can you think I’m special? If I don’t love myself How can you love me?
topic: Essays
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	May 17, 2006, 10:05PM
by: sonicdemonic
Drugs kill. C'mon, we've all heard it said. They poison the youth. Fester inside society like a chancre or worse. Reduce music to inchoate screaming and distortion. Cause all sorts of sexual malfeasance, ranging from the baring of one ass cheek to both. Clearly a menace. Remember the stories? "I know a girl who knows a guy whose best friend's second cousin tried such-and-such. Now he thinks he's an orange and he tries to peel himself if they let him out of restraints." Back in the late seventies the PCP scare was at its height. PCP. Remember PCP? Kids thought they were winged? Tried to soar off rooftops? Only one small problem - none of my searching has turned up any verifiable proof of the phenomenon of teens suddenly sprouting ambitions a la Icarus. My websearching did turn up *one* chestnut: a poem on crystal meth, authorship claimed by Amanda Canaday of Barriere, B.C., Canada: (excerpted) My power is awesome Try me and you’ll see But if you do you may never break free Just try me once and I might let you go but Try me twice and I will own your soul But whoops! Canaday claimed authorship at a Meth convention in 2005. Then sixteen, she must have been unaware that the poem had surfaced back in 2003, in an Alabama newspaper. One wonders if even in recovery, any of us who have dabbled can be trusted to cite our sources accurately, or if we're engineered to a lifetime of riding the coat-tails of others. My own experience with drugs has been hellish - but I know many, many others who have been at it longer, harder, and have had even more of a hell of it than I. FAR more. What's the worse horror? To languish under the confines of an addiction, or to come out of it, and like James Frey, claim experiences that are not our own? Is a dishonest testimony, albeit one aimed at the salvaging of other flotsamed-and-jetsamed lifes, ultimately more damaging than to do as Wittgenstein says: "Some things must be passed over in silence"? This is the crux of my rant. Claiming false experience will not be harmful if your target is the tweaky-teens or the kid with one eye on eternity and the other on the throttle. But claim it with an intellectual, someone who is astute, someone who is averse to patronizing pap or condescension, and you may well find your subject veering away from you. That sound you hear, as you pipe-dream yet another story of how you woke up in a puddle of your own vomit (and someone else's piss) in a Rock Machine clubhouse, a Hells membership and oath against the Machine tattooed on your chest, somewhere in Lachine? That sound is the sound of another nail in MY coffin. YOUR coffin. The coffin of anyone who knows the sound of bullshit hitting the wall behind their head, and has enough non-sense (and i don't know about you, but *i* got plenty o' nuthin in the sense dept) to retaliate using the first available target: themselves. So be careful out there. Love each other. Don't claim false experience. If you do dope, do it wisely, or if you can't, admit you aren't, and even using it, maintain ties to the health professionals closest to you. But don't tell me - or yourself - that that flaming collision no-one seems to remember five years ago somewhere in Alberta was caused by you fleeing a botched bank job you would have got down pat if buddy hadn't forgotten to tell you the shotgun was fuckin' loaded, man. Because that just sucks. This rant brought to you courtesy of SonicDemonic.
topic: Rants
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Shop Girl	May 11, 2006, 1:45AM
by: XangelXmysticsX
Well, I'm a huge Steve Martin fan, and quasi huge Claire Danes fan. This movie is typical for her (especially after watching 'My So Called Life')... But this movie is nothing like what I was used to seeing from Martin. After watching movies such as "Three Amigos" and "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels", you'd expect Martin to write a novella with some actual comedy in it. "Shop Girl" is.... amusing. Amusing only because it's one of those things that when it happens to someone else it's funny, but if it were to happen to you... Like falling down the stairs. This movie was so real, that is was unreal. It had potential to be a very good 'chick flick'. But in my opinion, it fell short (on the very good part- it's still a chick flick). There were a lot of holes in the film. In one scene, a person would do something and, even though we the audience know WHY they did it, it wasn't ever brought out again.
topic: Movie Reviews
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King Kong	May 10, 2006, 2:03AM
by: XangelXmysticsX
I was a little let down by the movie. Though my only reasoning: Jack Black plays a bad guy. I sat through the whole movie waiting for at least one joke, one trademark smirk. Nothing. All in all it was a good movie; Very well put together. I have never seen the original, so I can't make some witty comparison. I do know, however, that Jack Black's character will have you talking to your television screen. After being type cast as an air head comedy fellow, it was quite a suprise to see how well he played the serious dramatic role. He makes you despise his character with such a passion that, well, quite frankly, I found myself hoping that Kong or some other monstrosity would eliminate him.
topic: Movie Reviews
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Aesthetically Overdosed	May 5, 2006, 8:09AM
by: Neurotoxic
Elongated necks, bound feet, impossibly puny corsets, piercing in unsavoury places, applying white lead-paint to the face, plucking hair and plastic surgery. All this suffering is committed beneath the banner of trying to be beautiful. Or should I say “beautiful”? After all, one’s perception of what is lovely is purely subjective, influenced by your genetic makeup and your society. Different cultures have different expectations of beauty, though one thing I’ve noticed is the “impossible” factor. I concluded that what popular culture considers “beautiful” is what is unachievable for the working common masses… Someone asked me “why” today… If one can look into history, you can see how social/cultural values evolve, alter and modernise. Before, food was scarce… obese were considered to be representatives of power and wealth because they could afford food and luxuries, and as history dictates, power and wealth usually go hand in hand with the trendsetters who dictate what beauty is and isn’t. Well that’s the way it worked until post-modernism kicked in and the sub-cultures of punk and outbranches, burst forth with their safety pins and anarchy rants. But still; to look or belong in a clique, you need enough money to do it. So, anyway, as you can notice from ancient/pre-modernism artworks, obese women were considered beautiful. It was symbolic of rich living and fertility. Look at Botticelli and Michelangelo’s frescoes and paintings. Obese were the charming ones. Obese were desirable. Obese were sex goddesses. Obese were what men want. Being obese was probably impossible considering food was scarce. Therefore since it was hard to achieve, and due to the idiocy and boredom of the upper class, it was deemed beautiful. Don’t believe me? Go look at those Artemis paintings – the Goddess of the Wild Things [she has many titles, I know]. Fast forward into the 17th century or so, and in the Victorian era, you see women squeezing themselves into corsets in an attempt to be slim waisted and flat chested. Why? Because childbearing gave you wide hips and large breasts. Most women in this era bore many children so, in order to stand out, you had to look like as if you had never given birth. Suck in your stomachs, wear big dresses so you look like as if you’re floating when you walk. That’s what was beautiful. Fast forward again to the present. Food is no longer scarce in the big bad world of America, Australia and any other country that has drowned itself in capitalism. You can eat to your heart’s content. Due to the introduction of fast-food chains and a large number of packaged and convenience foods [etc], obesity has spread like a plague. Suddenly, becoming obese wasn’t such an unachievable goal. In fact, if you have money to spill and time to blow, becoming obese is suddenly easier than being thin. And thus…the hordes of being ‘skinny’ has impeded upon us as waif-thin celebrities and models which trot out their skeletal frames. Stick-thin is the new fat. In fact, big breasts are back ‘in fashion’. Women don’t exactly need to breastfeed anymore, with the introduction of baby formula. Contraception [that actually works] got invented; women have more control. Abortion is legal in some places now so big breasts are now on the unachievable list for the average female, which is therefore desirable. Perfect porcelain skin, bones that jut out... These are mainstream ideas of what’s beautiful and pretty much no one has these attributes. So I ask you, what is beautiful? Beautiful is: The phenomenon of the experience of pleasure, through the perception of balance and proportion of stimulus. It involves the cognition of a balanced form and structure that elicits attraction and appeal towards a person, animal, inanimate object, scene, music, idea, etc. Or more simply, beautiful is what a person feels towards that which arouses their senses. This all depends on upbringing, society and social values. Programmed into everyone’s simple minds is the sense of proportion, that a female or male must have a certain proportion to appeal to them. Men find women with proportionate bodies [breasts, hips etc.] more attractive then someone say who was extremely skinny with very large hips. This is consistent with females, who may be physically attracted to males with a nice chest and abs, to someone who had a muscly chest and a flabby stomach. So in conclusion, I leave you with a question: What do you find beautiful? Neurotoxic. www.google.com http://goldennumber.net/beauty.htm Thanks to Jack.
topic: Various
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parents, just a bad day what do you think	May 2, 2006, 1:29PM
by: brokn_within_secrets
What the hell has gone wrong in the world? Optimistic assholes have the rights to become parents. People who can’t even handle their own lives are asked to run those of innocent and helpless children. Who, in my opinion, will in the long run suffer from having arrogant, hypocritical, want to be parents who have no idea what to do to handle the role of an adult. And have no idea how to rid of their adolescent ways. Now, not all the parents are this way. Some, a few I know of, could care less if their children were getting into trouble and making the same mistakes they once did. Because they don’t wish to be the hypocritical parent that nearly every child should or will at one point hate to have. They allow their children to experiment with drugs and alcohol starting stories with “well when I was your age….” Nobody gives a shit you’re a parent whether you say its okay for your children to experiment with certain things or not, your child will do what ever they wish to do. So act like an adult and take responsibility. So yesterday was my 16th birthday I had my boyfriend and one of my best friends over. And like normal my asshole of a step mother decides to ruin my birthday and even manipulate my father into being a complete ass so she could chuckle in the background at how naïve my father is. These oblivious lies that is so obvious to everyone except my stupid ass of a father. Now you see I don’t call for my father, when I want him I walk up to him, because I don’t wish to call him dad. To me he is Dan. No parent deserves the privilege of being called mom or dad if they have no idea what it means or what to do while taking the responsibility and role of a parent. Don’t get me wrong I love Dan. He use to be the only one I wanted to talk to, things change… people change. He’s a great guy, but only when he wants to be. Or when he decides to be himself, which is becoming more and more rare. But god should not of let such a childish and self centered person conceive four children and three others to some one else. When these children will all end up ultimately despising him for the way that he is and the way he pretends to be for the sake of his own wants and needs. What a disgrace to humanity. You may be asking “what’s the point of me writing this for you all to see.” It’s out of pessimistic boredom. And so I can know what you think.
topic: Life
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George W. Bush's Resume	May 1, 2006, 2:04PM
by: MyLastBlkRose
Here it is, I recieved it in the mail, and almost died reading it, it is hilarious, and sad... George W. Bush's Resume George W. Bush The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, D.C. 20500 Past Work Experience Ran for congress and lost. Produced a Hollywood slasher B movie. Bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas; company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock. Bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money. Biggest move: Traded Sammy Sosa to the Chicago White Sox. With father's help (and his name) was elected Governor of Texas. Accomplishments in Previous Positions Changed pollution laws for power and oil companies and made Texas the most polluted state in the Union. Replaced Los Angeles with Houston as the most smog-ridden city in America. Cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas government to the tune of billions in borrowed money. Set record for most executions by any governor in American history. Became president after losing the popular vote by over 500,000 votes, with the help of my father's appointments to the Supreme Court. Accomplishments As President Attacked and took over two countries. Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury. Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history. Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period. Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market. First president in decades to execute a federal prisoner. First president in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record. First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in U.S. history. After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history. Set the record for most campaign fundraising trips than any other president in U.S. history. In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their job. Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in U.S. history. Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period. Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in U.S. history. Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television. Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in U.S. history. Presided over the biggest energy crises in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed. Presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have. Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans. Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind. Dissolved more international treaties than any president in U.S. history. My presidency is the most secretive and unaccountable of any in U.S. history. Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S. history (the 'poorest' multimillionaire, Condoleezza Rice, has an Exxon oil tanker named after her). First president in U.S. history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt. Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world. First president in U.S. history to order a U.S. attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation. Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States. Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in U.S. history. First president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the human rights commission. First president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the elections monitoring board. Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in U.S. history. Rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant. Withdrew from the World Court of Law. Refused to allow inspectors access to U.S. prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions. First president in U.S. history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. elections). All-time U.S. (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations. My biggest lifetime campaign contributor presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation). Spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in U.S. history. First president in U.S. history to unilaterally attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community. First president to run and hide when the U.S. came under attack (and then lied saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1) First U.S. president to establish a secret shadow government. Took the biggest world sympathy for the U.S. after 9/11, and in less than a year made the U.S. the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in U.S. and world history). With a policy of 'disengagement' created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years. Fist U.S. president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability. First U.S. president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the U.S. than their immediate neighbor, North Korea. Changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts. Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated U.S. law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts. Failed to fulfill my pledge to get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive.' Failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the United States Capital building. After 18 months I have no leads and zero suspects. In the 18 months following the 9/11 attacks I have successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States. Removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in U.S. history. In a little over two years created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided the U.S. has ever been since the Civil War. Entered office with the strongest economy in U.S. history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down. Records and References At least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine (Texas driving record has been erased and is not available) AWOL from National Guard and deserted the military during a time of war. Refuse to take drug test or even answer any questions about drug use. All records of my tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away to my father's library, sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view. All records of any SEC investigations into my insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view. All minutes of meetings for any public corporation I served on the board are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view. Any records or minutes from meetings I (or my VP) attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review. For personal references please speak to my daddy or uncle James Baker (they can be reached at their offices of the Carlyle Group for war-profiteering.)
topic: Life
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Change The Focus	April 30, 2006, 2:02PM
by: untold truth
I am often told to stop looking towards others to try to fix what is wrong with me. I’m told to focus on the life I live, the people I surround myself with, and the habits I form while I am young. I try to live my life in a way that will benefit me later on when my habits are solid and written in stone, in a way that people won’t mind being around me when I’m old and gray. One of the best ways to on through life is to focus on what is right for you. No one else can tell you what is right for you. You have to know when to stand up and when to pick your battles. Only you can decide what course your life is going to go on, what roads you will take, whose lives you will touch. We each have times in our lives when we let something go too far, when something we know is wrong happens in front of our eyes and we do nothing to stop it. Sometimes we let it go because we don’t want to seem like an outsider and be alienated because of the choices we make. Other times its because we don’t have enough strength in our moral minds to fight enough to correct the wrong that was made. Most of the time it is both. We don’t want to lose the place in society that we have made for ourselves. So we try our hardest to fit in. It’s like a survival of the fittest game: those who are on the outside of society are the weak and the get killed off first, but those who abide by and conform to societies rules are the ones who prosper and survive. We have lots of pressure put on us to fit in and conform, this almost always has some effect on how we act with our friends, family, co-workers, bosses, acquaintances, and anyone we might happen to pass on the street. When we cross these boundaries that are placed down before us, we go against the status quo, making us a target for ridicule and alienation. So although we may want to help someone who is homeless on the street, or we may want to hang out with someone at school who has a tendency to shy away from everyone and is considered a “freak” or an “outcast”, we still drift away from the opportunities that are given to us. We go and try to fit in because it is a form of self-preservation. Although we would like to go and help, we have to think about the effect our actions could have. We are programmed to make sure that we fit in, so although the primitive instinct would be to go and help, you most likely won’t because of the consequences that could follow. We want to break the cycle, but who knows when that’s really going to work. I mean seriously?? We’ve been programmed and modified since birth to be what society told us to be. Do you really think that we are actually capable of breaking the cycle? I think we can make headway, but I also think that the people doing the brainwashing are too bloody smart to make a simple mistake like giving us free will. I mean some on. Think about it. We all think that we are unique and special. We all try different ways of standing out amongst the crowd of “wannabes”. We try new clothes, hairstyles, different makeup, new shoes, body piercing, and tattoos. It just seems like a way to make us pay for things. The more shit we buy, the more money they make. And face it, ours is a society largely based on material wealth. If we were smart, we would stop buying things, learn to live our own ways, and have our own type of freedom. Everyone seems to want that at some point in their lives, the freedom to do whatever we want with no repercussions. But we can’t because of the progression of the human race. Although it was inevitable, the rules we’ve made as a whole didn’t have to be so strict or harsh. We have, of course, made advancements and gotten rid of some of the rules. Things such as equal rights for women, and changes in the judicial system. These are advancements for the good of the whole. But there are things that just poison the whole. Things like us being told and brainwashed into thinking that “thin is in and pretty”. I mean when did starving yourself to the point of anorexia constitute as being “cool”?? That is one of the worst things that has happened. Self-worth and morale has practically been thrown out the window for the hope that “I could have a size 0 waist and I will be popular because I’m skinny and cute!” C’mon, really? If you go on some bad quick-and-slim diet, get skinny, and people begin to like you, they are not real friends. If they didn’t talk to you before you were skinny, then don’t hang with them. Things like these are what are killing our society as a whole, and taking us down fast. We need to wake up and realize what is happening to our world. During the movie Focus, one of the main characters, Larry, kept looking at himself in the mirror and fixing his glasses. I think he was doing this as a way of re-confirming where he was in life. I took the glasses as a symbol of his subconscious rebellion against the problems going on around him, the alienation, conformity, and racism. When he looked at himself and readjusted his glasses, it was like he was telling himself that if he stayed the same, didn’t change for anyone but himself, and if he fought the battle of conformity, he would be able to survive and continue on with the life he was now fighting for. He was someone who was trying to break the mold. As much as he didn’t want to, he was still fighting it. We all have a bit of that fighter in us; we just tend to not let it out as often as we should. We keep it locked away in a safe place where it won’t cause any disruptions. By doing this we are suppressing a part of ourselves, and that, my friends, is not healthy at all. We should be able to say what we want and not have to worry about having anyone talk behind our backs because of our views. I have heard a quote that is something I try to live by: “Some things can’t be unsaid, so say what you mean and don’t doubt it or apologize for it” Saying what you mean when you mean it is something that people should try to embrace more often. What happens if you ignore the fact that something is wrong and there is something you can do about it, and you choose to do nothing? That is something that should be stopped in its tracks. I know, as we all certainly do, that one person that we’ve seen at one point in our lives, that was never the most popular, or prettiest, the one that just wasn’t “cool”, and the one that was the most obvious target for bullying. And we’ve all stood by while that kid was getting bullied, and we all did nothing. Sure you don’t want to admit it now because you know you were wrong in not doing anything, but it always happens. This is because, even at a young age, we tend to form our little “groups” which often exclude others. This has to be stopped. It’s just not “cool” to cut someone out, call someone a name, or to degrade someone for who they are. You should never assume that you’re better then someone just because you look better, or you have more money, or your boyfriend is a football player. That’s just lame. So start to stand up. Question what you’re being told by your peers, the mediasand your friends. Make your own opinions and don’t cut others out because they don’t fit in. Don’t be stupid, be smart.
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