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Here we are in 2009. Many things have changed, I’ve had my macbook pro for about a year and a few months, it still amazes me. Something else thats amazing that has happened to me in the last year, I’ve been dating Melanie for 7 months and give or take a few days. It’s been absolutely great, though winter has definitely taken its toll on what we can do, theres nothing really fun for us to do over the winter. I can’t wait for the summer.
I’m going to Paris! April 12th! My Birthday! Jacques and I are going for a week, and its going to be an experience of a lifetime. I also am awaiting my letter from Washington University in Saint Louis. OH PLEASE THE WAIT IS KILLING ME!
I’m tired, rambling ends here.
Merry Christmas everyone! Another year almost over, and with many memorable moments. I want to remember in my own history that this is the year that I moved to the Outer Banks (again). Not such a joyous moment, but in and of itself is a time to remember. Well for Christmas this year, I got a 19″ Samsung LCD tv for my room, that I’m using as a tv and a monitor, as well as few other things such as a down comforter and pillow (soooo comfortable). Happy Holidays everyone.
Why is it that a single match can start a forest fire, but it takes the whole box of matches to light your barbeque.In the 60’s we were taking acid to make the world seem cooler, now we’re taking prozac to make it seem normal.Why doesn’t Tarzan have a beard in the movie?Why do we sterilize needles and alcohol swab people that are about to be put to death by lethal injection? Forgot to cite source but: http://shof.msrcsites.co.uk
I’m not very sure what to write about to day, but I needed to vent for the most part. I am now running a home database server for a few companies down here on the beach. I am running the websites for quite a few of the companies. My dad tried to get me to build a website for his Napa store, but I actually turned down his offer, he told me that because I was his son I should do the website at discount, that discount being 200$ a year for my services. I basically told him to go fuck himself and that I wouldn’t do his page for anything less than 80% of what the other businesses are charged. I explained to him that most of the companies I contract for I charge between $150-$200 a month depending on the scale of what I do for them, that it would not be in my best interests to take 200$ a year for a website that he want updates 4-5 times a week. It wouldn’t be worth it to me to take away from the money I am already making at a variety of other businesses.I’m thinking about college now and frankly I have no idea what to do. My parents are pushing for a state college. If I started out at UNC Charlotte I would have to greatly increase my GPA and Testing scores. I’m hoping that Charlotte will work out, if not I am moving to Saint Louis next year to try and go to Wash U, Saint Louis, MO.
I’ve been getting very very political with my posts lately. I kind of want to turn away from that, but at the same time it interests me to make points about these things. We had a mock congress in our civics class and frankly some of the bills either didn’t make rational sense, or they contradicted other bills. Yet they all were almost unanimously passed. First they passed a bill to legalize the sale and use of Marijuana, but then they passed a bill to make ciggarette sale and use illegal? Contradiction no? On a health base, marijuana and tobacco contain almost the same amount of tar and can both cause lung cancer. They came up with no solution or reason why they would pass one while denying another. Frankly said, banning ciggarette sale would infringe on our rights as citizens. Whereas…marijuana was banned from the start so it never had the chance…I don’t know where I’m going with this…
For years the internet has been a source of E-Commerce, News, and Global Communication. Not only has the internet given businesses the ability to cut out the middle man and sell their product directly to the customer they also are able to sell to a world wide market. E-Commerce has changed the way business functions and has greatly improved business overall. The internet provides a place to submit non-regulated and non-censored material, a place where we can say whatever we want when we want. Free speech on a worldwide level.
If we allow the government to control the internet the government is controlling our right to free speech by making us pay them taxes to have a voice. With new powers they will surely take advantage and attempt to censor the internet and make it to their standards. They will have the power to decide what we can view and when we can view it. The government doesn’t have the right to do this. In the long run I believe that the internet should be free and seperate from a payed standpoint.
Gravel hopes to have all the Iraqi deployed troops home withing 120 days of being in office. Even though he is currently trying to lead his campaign trail he see no reason to cease his actions that are required of him by Senate. Most of the Democratic and Republican candidaties for President are failing to meet their Senatorial duties and are focusing more on their campaigns. Mike Gravel is trying to instill in the other candidates that he thinks that they should hold off on their campaigns for the next 40 days and consistently vote against the current President’s veto of stopping the war in Iraq. It seems to be his ideal that the candidates are not actively doing their duty to congress, in retrospect how can these candidates work towards stopping the war in Iraq and bringing our troops home if they can’t oppose the war in their current jobs. In my on opinion I agree with Gravel and think these candidates need to fulfill their responsibilities to the states and the people that they represent now and focus on their campaign later. If they do something to thwart the war in Iraq in the Senate they will recieve more recognition for what they’ve done in their campaign in the long run. Gravel hopes to bring about cooperative efforts with all nations in the Middle East once he gains the Presidency so that we can collectively work to bring about peace, but in his own senatorial role he continues to make do with what he can, the Presidency will only bring him more power with which he can interact with the Middle Eastern nations.
Gravel opposes creating war with Iran and believes that a war in Iran would further interrupt national security.
Gravel: Power to the People! (National Initiative for Democracy)
Mike brings a point to politics, he thinks that we should stop focussing on winning the election and focus on the real issues. While Senators are running their campaign trails and not being active in office legislation on killing in Iraq, Habeus Corpus ignorance, and border control are passing by without a vote. We need to fix the nation at the sacrifice of a campaign trail.
Okay so this is just a slight update, I have submitted my application for interim work at Mandriva Linux Corp. I am hoping that within a few day/weeks I will know exactly if I was accepted for the internship. I’m going to have to have some sort of job once I get to Paris…
Ron Paul
I’m very impressed with Republican Presidential Candidate Ron Paul, I was introduced to his views by a kid in my Civics class, after I was given a lengthy memorabilia I went on to see what his views were. Now in most situations I would never vote for a Republican Candidate solely based on the fact that I don’t really agree with most of the conservative views that they try to impose on the general public. Personally I prefer to dissent from religion and therefore have opposition to pro-life, I think that it should be pro-choice, I feel that its the decision of the woman to decide if she feels it right to bring a child into a world at this point in time and into their lives. Ron Paul is a pro-life candidate like most other Republican conservatives, but he does not impose his personal opinion of pro-life. The reason I like him is that he doesn’t want to change the laws on abortion, he has his views and he understands that they are not the same views as others and that he doesn’t have the right to decide that, and to prevent abortions is against the constitution. In his own right he has some very conservative views but at the same time chooses not to impose them. In a way I guess hes a socially conservative but politically neutral. He’s one of the only Republican candidates that I’ve heard about that is all for woman’s rights and the right’s of the impoverished man.
In another note Ron Paul is against imposing internet regulations. If you don’t know what they are Internet Regulations are as follows: Gov’t imposure of the rights you have to express yourself on an international networking level. Some Gov’t representatives want the ability to tax the internet and control what sites you are allowed to visit and what material publishers can add to their web pages. By controlling the internet and being able to tax you for use of the internet the government is turning people away from expressing themselves with free speech. The government doesn’t charge us taxes to voice our opinions publically, so how can they charge us to voice our opinions on the internet (blogs, press pages, etc).
I’m done talking about Ron Paul for a moment I want to go one to talk about the rights that are guaranteed to every U.S. citizen. Free speech! If the government can control my right to voice my opinion through my blog by charging me to access and write my blog and have my web page on the internet, they may as well charge me to speak out loud every day. They already charge us for the right we should have to assemble peacefully by making us pay to obtain permits of assembly. The government discourages free speech by making the ability to voice your opinion publically hard to obtain.
On another note I strongly oppose emminent domain. The goverment has the right to take the private property we OWN and to redistribute it as public use property. Not only that but they give us the lowest possible value our home is worth. Emminent Domain takes the property of the common man, impoverished or wealthy, at a low cost and runs public property such as interstates through the property when they can come up with alternative routes or they can offer better funding to those they take land from.
