All_Lost_Things
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Tch. Kicking my breakfast problems upside the head for Basketballl... I think that's what that is anyway... I didn't click on the link and know nothing about sports.
I hate basketball, my aim is sooo bad, I don't think I have EVER made a basket. Sad considering I am one of the tallest people in my school.
I just stick with football... it's kind of fun, but I haven't played it in years, and never as part of a school team... because we don't have one. I suck at that too, I get plowed over all the time. We don't play by professional rules either, we just throw the damn ball and slam into each other trying to get ahold of it. It's violent... and it's great.
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Star Shadow
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I like to play Football, If I played I want to be a CB/WR. What postion do you play?
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All_Lost_Things
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Like I said, we don't play by the biggest set of rules, and there are no real positions; we throw a football and slam into each other as hard as we can trying to get whoever has the ball to drop it. Last time we played someone caught the ball in the face, it was great.
It's actually not really Football in most respects, we just use a football and tackle each other... and if you cross a certain point with the ball your team gets a point. It is a blast though, you should just get a bunch of people together and try it.
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Eh its too bad im in Virginia or id hook you up with an omelette.
Seriously im the designated cook for all of my roomates...which is sometimes overwhelming because i live with 4 other people who all eat different things....and one guy in partucular who eats waaaaaaay too much.
Last weekend...(we all gather round on the weekend when we have off of work and game our asses off) i cooked this dude...and he friggin ate it...4 eggs scrambled, half a pound of bacon, 6 pancakes, and 2 cinnamon rolls.
All Lost Things...you said youre into comps...to what extent do you mean exactly? Programing, repair, web design? Sorry, not meaning to pry i just find it interesting when someone else shows a found interest.
Mainly because thats how i make my living...i work and i mean all day most of the time on graphic programs. I currently design and promote all variations of promo stuff for a lot of the local bands around here...everything from fliers, posters, buisness cards, cd jacket designs, cd cover designs, bumper stickers, t-shirts, you name it.
However thats just side work...but for actual work i do art for a screen printing company.
Ok thats enough about me...
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Star Shadow
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You can thank Bush for that. He blew all of that money on nothing. And yet kids in the us are not learning enough. You think Education would be important. In the year 2030 this country will crash.
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All_Lost_Things
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Think it will take that long? We've already hit the downward spiral, and I'm not talking about anything Bush has done, and at this point I don't think there is anything Congress can do to pull us out of it. Also, Bush didn't spend any money at all, to my knowledge he just proposes where it should go, Congress says yes or no
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Star Shadow
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They are all Republicans, if Bush didn't answer to the attacks it would made their futures look really bad. We the tax payers/voters control their futures. But sadly everything is fix too like as everyone supports the cause of the economy. There are no real answers, just questions.
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All_Lost_Things
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03-19-2005 22:34 |
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Yeah the but there are more Republicans than Demorcrats, most Demorcrats wanted what the public wanted. It's hard to say what would had been different if Kerry would had been in office. But I bet it would been better from what Bush has done so far.
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All_Lost_Things
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First lesson of politics: You always want what the public wants; Kerry wore that one well, I'll give him that. I am not a fan of Bush, or Kerry, and at the moment, not a fan of Congress as a whole. They are NOT worried about the economy as much as they'd like people to think. Sure, it's on their list, and probably rather high up on their list, but at the moment they seem to be more concerned with keeping parents and corperations happy than anything else. They condone the attacks on people for downloading music and movies, aka copyright infringment. If I download a bunch of music, the FBI can raid my house. WTF? But at the SAME time, they are working on legalizing copyright infringment in the cases of things like ClearPlay, which can edit out questionable content on DVDs. This is editing copyrighted material, and a lot of directors are complaining and fighting it, but the government isn't listening to that. They are listening to whining parents instead. As an American I am SUPPOSED to be granted equal treatment to everyone else under the law, but in THIS case I am not, due to circumstance; and not a circumstance like accidentally killing someone versus murder, nothing that marginal. What they are doing is not accidental, AND it is being opposed. With that said, I would like to once again say that I am very, VERY unhappy with Capital HIll right now... and that we should blow it up.
(Good thing that goat blood is still over my door...)
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didn't you see Bush's address to Congress, I think it was. Half the group clapped, the other half sulked. It was great. |
That always happens no matter who the President is.
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Careful. Technically threatening to blow up Congress is a federal crime even if you are just kidding, just like saying "I'm going to kill the President" is also a crime.
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Republicans represent the interests of less than 7% of the country's population (i.e. rich people). Democrats represent...uhhh...uhhh....who the hell knows...least of all them.
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Star Shadow
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Yeah I understand what your saying. Both Demorcrats and Republicans are both the same. No matter what you still get screwed over no matter what.
Now All Lost Things they are watching your house now. The man is after you now 
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All_Lost_Things
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I think the goat blood will keep them away.... or so I hope. It's hard to say.
You know, the whole 'it's illegal to threaten Congress' thing kinda made me think for a moment about something: I'm supposed to be free to say whatever I want in America. Now, in the case of Congress or the President, I can understand limitations to some extent, because if you are threatening to do it... you know, you might, and they are a bit on the vital side to the government and, as such, the functionality of the nation. Given that it is true with all threats that you might do it, but it is just more understandable with Capital Hill.
What really bothers me is that... if I say to someone, in school, "stop kicking the back of my desk, or I'm gonna hit you with something" I get called down to the office, and am informed that I just made an illegal threat, and also that if I continue I will face suspension and possible legal action.
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Would they rather I just hit the kid? Worse case scenerio with that is that I get suspended for a day or two... unless I beat him with a weapon or throw him out a window or something like that. I've had this happen to me before, too, the threatening a kid thing I mean, and it's always bothered me....
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Freedom of Speech is not an absolute right in the United States. There are several types of speech not covered by the First Amendment which are considered illegal such as speech that is ruled "obscene", slander, seditious speech (inciting people into acts of violence), or threats made against individuals in the government.
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Yeah everything works on around the goverment to have the upper hand in everything. It's ok for the President to tell somebody to kill, but self-defence only takes effect in the laws eyes only. The goverment spend too much time telling us how to live our lives, but yet they don't really see what happening on the streets. The government controlls everything, and we're just pawns paying them to do what ever they want.
The only way we will see justice if the people get control of the government, but that will never happen.
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Even then, there's not going to be any 'justice'. People have gotten control of the government before, they've had revolutions, and it never works, because nobody can agree on anything, and there'll always be one jerk who wants to boss everyone else around. You can kill or exile that one jerk, but more will take his place.When the people rise up and throw off their oppressors, all that happens is they then become oppressors. You can't win.
Having read "Animal Farm" has given me a pretty negative outlook on life, I guess, but Orwell knew his stuff. 
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All_Lost_Things
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1984 was one of the greatest books ever written, and I believe it was by Orwell. I have been paranoid ever since reading it.
Now, about the freedom of speech thing, I am, by now, fully aware of what is illegal and stuff, I just find some of it rather stupid. What really bothers me the most about it is that America uses freedom of speech as one of its hallmarks of greatness... buutt... I'm not really free to say whatever I want. Laws are tightening around that subject too, and it's quite annoying. I am pretty sure that when the Bill of Rights was written up, it meant that we were free to say whatever we want. The Constitution is meant to be absolute, but because it was left open ended, it's not. Instead, it's circumstantal; it's okay for him to say this, but not me, it's okay for her to walk there, but not me, it's okay for me to say this, but not them. That bothers me.
I think the government is 'just' enough for what it is and what it does. I think that the biggest problem with governments is that most people forget that we are, in oh so many aspects, just like apes. Tendency for thinking and violence are natural processes, as is dominance. We've decided that violence is wrong, which is to quite a large extent stupid, and now we've come to the idea that singular domination is wrong... which is where a lot of problems are arising. Natural order is the correct way of things, and in apes, as well as many other animals, singular domination IS the natural order of things. Human complexity is also governing complexity, so we cannot stick with something that simple. So we, by our actions, make and break every type of government ever made. By that I mean, we build a system thinking it will work, but because humans are complex we build complex governments and, like all complex things, if a single piece gives out somewhere, the whole process is destroyed or distored.
Look at communism for instance, the 'perfect' government. People take what they need, help each other, and the government helps when it needs to until it eventually never needs to and vanishes. Great idea, but humans can't work with something that simple because, it is quite complex. How can you give someone the power to regulate without expecting them to make circumstances for them to exercise their power? How can you expect the people to work and do anything for nothing but what they need? In both cases you can't, and somewhere one of the pieces falls out of place, and the whole thing collapses. Big mess.
USA system; people vote officals that represent their views into office to... represent them. Does it work? No more than communism really, our system just hasn't collapsed yet. A person can say anything to make you vote for them, and they can drag out and lob around the mistakes every other politican running against them has ever made, and they do it too. Great, we're electing a bunch of cut-throats who don't care about the reputations of everyone around them, that's gonna be great once they are in Congress. Even if the politican is truthful (imagine that) you cannot possibly tell every facet of their personality by what they tell you. Looking at the years before 2001, no one would have asked the candidates their response to a terroist attack on the country, so when it happened, you had no idea what the people you voted for where going to say. Much less weither or not they agreed with your views. See the problem there?
But we do what we do in an attempt to be fair, that has to be said, and it's a noble cause I suppose, but it just doesn't work out all the time.
Personally, my biggest problem with Bush arises from that fact; our type of government is noble, but it's neither the correct way to govern people, nor is it the only way. Just because a country doesn't govern democratically doesn't mean it's terrorist, or that it's supporting terrorism. Our country supports terror as much as any other country! Bush seems hellbent on declaring any non-democratic nation as terrorist. Bothers me.
But, anyway, like I said before, our system isn't that bad, it's not perfect, but there are worse.
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. A person can say anything to make you vote for them, and they can drag out and lob around the mistakes every other politican running against them has ever made, and they do it too. Great, we're electing a bunch of cut-throats who don't care about the reputations of everyone around them, that's gonna be great once they are in Congress. Even if the politican is truthful (imagine that) you cannot possibly tell every facet of their personality by what they tell you. Looking at the years before 2001, no one would have asked the candidates their response to a terroist attack on the country, so when it happened, you had no idea what the people you voted for where going to say. Much less weither or not they agreed with your views. See the problem there? |
The thing with that is , if nobody would go out and vote the congress would pick the canaidates themselves. We really have no chioce, either we do it or they will do it for us. It's not fair every election is a bad one. Nobody heard of a good campainge. Every elcection has noting but negetive ads, lies, scandles, and so on. And no matter what, until the government maks a absolute change, believe it or not we'er cleaning up their mess everyday out of our pockets.
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There hasn't been a Democratic system that worked since Ancient Greece. They had the right idea: everybody had to serve in the government. It was a lottery thing, like jury duty. That's the difference between a real Democracy and a representative republic. In a Democracy, the people serve, so they make sure their needs are being met, instead of the needs of some company that's paying off their Representative. Voting is bullshit; people shouldn't have to win a government position, it should be everybody's right. If there's no voting, people can't buy votes; it would solve a lot of problems if our Congressmen were just picked randomly.
Now that I think of it, whatever happened to Greece? Did they get invaded, or what?
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