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So they both participated in a religious debate with the author of ‘The Purpose Driven Life’ at some church called Saddlebags or something similar.  What exactly makes that ok?

Did we NOT just reform Iraq’s government because it was based on religion?  Do we NOT have seperation of church and state?  We’re throwing out our OWN RULES and showing our utter hypocrisy.  Both McCain and Obama showed how they really don’t understand our government by appearing in the debate.

America no longer even keeps its own values straight.  Maybe that’s why our citizens no longer do either.  I don’t know, but it was terribly irresponsible and an anti-patriotic sentiment for the church to even SUGGEST hosting, let alone go through with it…and grand finale…for the candidates to PARTICIPATE.  All around bad behavior.  Mike Gravel really still does have my heart <3

PS- Don Werner of Northfield has to be one of the most ignorant neo-conservative religious right members that I have ever heard.  If anyone reads the Northfield News, you know you can count on him to be there to not only screw up American politics, but also the religion he claims to be a part of.  Two for two Don, keep ‘er up!

ASome people believe that our country is a single religion nation. It is not.  We were built on the basis of freedom, a term we toss around at every turn yet seldom admit what it really means.  To some we’re only free when it suits their religious psuedo-political ideals.  Just because something is against your religion doesn’t mean you have to ban everything outright.  Why is it that right wing neo conservatives feel the need to buckle down the whole country to a certain religion’s standards?

Lack of religion is causing our country to lose their morals. Nope, wrong again.  There’s a lot of factors that play into this, including bad parenting, misguided government control, etc etc.  I think a lot of what happened here is that people started to take advantage of our ‘freedom’ without fully taking on the included responsibilities.  We’re supposed to WATCH THE NEWS.  We’re supposed to FOLLOW CAMPAIGNS.  We’re supposed to be ACTIVE IN OUR COMMUNITY.  But of course as long as we GET WHAT WE WANT as SOON AS WE WANT IT, we’re happy.  We’re a fat culture, in more ways than ever.

Our government cannot be trusted. That actually sounds like something someone on the right wing would say.  The fact is, it’s Bush that can’t be trusted.  I am so gung ho about people getting their faith restored in our government it’s not even funny.  I want people to see tangible effects of the government doing positive things here and abroad.  We don’t need to help anyone else right now (Iraq), what we need is to clean up our own country and take the initiative to help out.

There will be change once a new president is elected. This one I’m really worried about.  I’m not so much against a conservative president, but McCain?  No.  People…how has Bush helped us?  Really?  It’s ridiculous that we’d even consider a presidential conidate that has so much in common with our current caricature of a president.  Obama at least should’ve gotten a decent rival.  One that wouldn’t make me want to leave the country if he were to be elected.

As a closing thought, do we really exist?  There has yet to be proof.  One day at a time.  Live and then die.  Let’s not squander our time making artificial rules that mean nothing in the grand scheme of time.

In perspective, I can’t get married.  Why?  Because the religious right thinks it’s an abomination.  I didn’t choose to be gay.  To put it bluntly, I do not want to procreate.  As in I have no interest in doing what is required.  That is definitely a genetic trait that is abnormal, seeing as how most males want to get as much tail as they can, but it’s not something to cry witch over either.

I will die.  Whether or not I die happy in the arms of my husband does not seem like a choice that is fair to make by another person.  I hate how people choose these witch hunt topics that never have anything to do with what’s really going on.  Love is biological, it’s not religious.  Don’t make it something it’s not.  And last time I checked, love was not offensive.

Joey and I went to Mall of America to celebrate our 6 months of dating, half a year, whoo!  It was amazing.  He is amazing.  Our relationship is amazing.

I’ll detail tomorrow, it’s ten to three and I want to sleep.  But I had a lovely day and I love my boyfriend.  Plus a random chick told us we were a cute couple while we were walking past.

I know it’s late, but thanks to everyone who attended my graduation party two weeks ago.  I had a really good time and I hope you guys did to.  I enjoyed seeing a lot of people that I hadn’t seen in a long time.  Thank you to everyone who took time out of their schedule to see me and commemorate one of my bigger life steps.  It really did mean a lot to me.

I’m not sure if many of you have heard, but Viacom sued Google for all the user’s information on YouTube because of some copyright issues.  This is why I don’t like the current set of Media Conglomerates.  They don’t care about the consumer. All they care about is the profits they’ll make off of you.  Obviously any sane company would work with Google to get copyrighted video clips off of YouTube.  Money crazed media companies however want to play big brother and monitor every single video you watched and every single video search you performed.  And sadly, they won that suit.  How can such a gross violation of privacy like that be allowed?

It’s just like the RIAA.  They sue everyone who they think has downloaded music illegally, sometimes winning and sometimes not, but artists have seen none of the money.  The whole point of the suits, according to the RIAA is because bands, artists, performers, etc are losing money.  Yet any money they win does not filter back to the artists at all.

Our American economy is out of control.  Just like the artificially inflated gas prices at the pump.  How can the oil companies be taking in record profits if they’re only raising prices because of global demand?  That would only result in the same profits coming in if they were taking the same margin.  Obviously they’re not.

Money makes the world keep spinning <3

They are so fickle.  First they are rabid Obama fans, and now that FISA crap hits they’re all denouncing him as just another dirty politician.

Get an opinion and keep it folks.  This is why I find commenting there useless, the people have no brains.

If you’re not busy, I’d love to have your company =]

I wrote kind of a free verse / prose poetry piece that addresses my view of the current administration’s handling of government. I know not everyone is trained in decrypting poetry, so I’ll just point out that in pieces I am addressing the president, but in some cases I’m addressing the role of government in general. It also contains punctuation but is purposefully not separated by any periods. If you want to know how to read it it goes at a continually faster rate and increasingly frantic from the narrator’s perspective.

Is it my faith you seek, because you already had it, or was it just my simple starry eyed admiration that you wanted to keep with your propaganda machines constantly telling me over and over what my ideals are and what my beliefs are and who I should hate and who I should love and who deserves the war that we bring to them, only because they have brought it unto themselves in the first place, is it that or did you just want me content as you went on your little rampage taking me for granted, trying to keep me in a coma as the chaos ensued around my hospital bed but you kept my ears plugged and my eyes covered, well, you tried but somehow I got the remote and turned on the TV, and even with the poor reception I saw what you never intended me to see and what you never wanted me to hear, and I saw how you deceived me and I heard the illegitimacy of your lies and suddenly my mind was clearer than it had ever been before and I was simply a slave and you were my master and the whole situation was no longer something innocent it was a rape of my innocence and you were over me panting and I still had it in my head that no meant no but there comes a point when your voice just stops working because you’ve been screaming so much and through it all you never heard me you covered my head and did you work and somehow everyone else looks past me and looks to you and supports you and I shout out again for help but people tell me to be quiet and I look in your eyes and wonder how I could’ve been one of those people who told others to hold their tongues when they cried for help and I wondered how I was the one who saw your bloody hands and somehow managed to be silent when mothers screamed that their children were being slaughtered and after all I’ve been through who am I to ask for anyone else’s help, who am I to expect anyone else to listen and suddenly the responsibility is falling on my shoulders because now I sit back and do nothing as your followers bow and bow again, defend you as the blood pools around your feet, fight for you as the blood pools around the world, and they just keep on chanting in time with you and I can’t for the life of me understand this madness that everyone is caught up over, I can’t understand why I’m no longer in the land of the free, I can’t understand why people are holding guns up to their heads and pulling the trigger when they could swear to god they’re pointing it at the enemy.

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For any of you who are willing to valiantly try out new software, there it is, the download page is finally up!  I’m going to try it out.

Right now it appears they don’t have an option for those of us on XP SP3, but I will get to the bottom of that and report on it.  If it does work, I’ll post screenshots on this post.

Or, is that a completely outdated question?  Because to call it immoral would hinge on us having an accepted set of moral standards.  In some ways, we do.  Obviously people do not normally accept, say, murder as a moral thing to do.  In other ways though we project some of our religious beliefs on others and hold them to the same standards that we voluntarily (read: VOLUNTARILY) submit ourselves to.  it seems to interfere a disturbing amount with American politics even though we’re now in the 21st century.

Yes, most Christians believe that homosexuality is a sin.  Or at least giving into homosexual desires.  And I’m completely willing to defend their right to believe that because I believe that we live in a free society and I value individuality and free thought.  The problem arises when these Christian groups try to put their values into motion through legislation.  A perfect example would be the proposed amendment that tried to define marriage as between a man and a woman.  Why, if I do not accept a certain religion’s beliefs should I have to care or conform to them?  This is AMERICA!  Land of the FREE!!  That is the beauty of the whole situation.  If I want to tell you Satan created cats to be his spies and we should never keep them as pets because they would corrupt us, I can totally do that.  But would it be appropriate to propose an amendment outlawing cats as pets?  Does that really seem reasonable at all to you?  So while I fully respect the view that homosexuality is a sin and immoral, I don’t personally believe that.  And I refuse to follow any law that would condemn the biological process of love simply because a group would love to play ‘high and might, I’m right you’re wrong’ with America.

If we did evolve as Darwin hypothesized, there are always going to be little offshoots of a species that either survive or die off.  I would not be the one to argue that being gay is normal.  I think it’s just another human oddity such as depression, schizophrenia, genius level intelligence, or artistic ability.  It’s just something you’re born with.  The four aforementioned things can also be factors of life of course, just as being gay might be.  Does a male become gay if he sees a vagina too early ala lactose intolarents having drank milk too young?  I don’t honestly know and I think if the public is seeking an answer it’s a misguided waste of time.  You can ponder and ponder and ponder how Stephen Hawking comes up with his theories, but he’s already published his thesises.  Now it’s time to look at the information in front of you and try and make the best of it.  I think I’m simply getting at the fact that I don’t understand why a religion would want to make someone feel even worse about their life if they can’t even help something.  But, y’know, congrats anti-gays, we have the highest suicide rates.  You must be doing something right.  Show God’s love, huh?

We only get a limited amount of time on earth.  Obviously.  Because we are going to die.  So what’s the point of wasting time judging each other when we could just spend more time making the quality of life better for each other?  That is more imporant than making money.  That is more important than making sure you have a cookie cutter American Dream family.  Whatever you can do to make your life and the lives of those around you better is what you ought to be doing.  Not condemning and literally wrecking lives.  Religion is being abused and ruining lives.  That’s what it comes down to.  If you want to argue your point, look no further than the verses that explain how God gave us free will.  He did not appoint anyone to rule the earth in his stead.  In fact God made the very same point I’m making: make life better for those around you.  That doesn’t mean appealing for legistlation that goes against your beliefs, but that definitely does not call for advocating legislation that ruins lives for millions of Americans.

I don’t think half the people who call themselves Christians in this country understand the religion they think they belong to.  And you will be in no better boat if God does end up coming down from a cloud and smiting anyone who didn’t believe in him.  God doesn’t want lukewarm Christians, remember?

So I got this envelope today with no return address and my name && address written in a male high school-esque script.  And I opened it.  And there was nothing in it.

Clues:
- Male writing (high school?)
- Post marked Feb 20, 2008 / Denver, Co
- Envelope type that is opaque (blue lining inside)
- No mistakes on my address, the person was looking at my address while they wrote it or had it memorized

Anyways, yeah, just pondering for kicks and giggles.  I don’t know where or who was writing to me, but I’m going to count it as fan mail.  The first physical fan mail I’ve gotten.  Unless it was hate male.  Oh well.

Second order of business is geeky.  Does anyone here want me to run through the beta versions of Digsby (instant messaging program), A.viary (free online image editing suite), Microsoft’s Download Center beta, and Wordpress 1.4 beta?  If no one tech-y actually reads my blog it wouldn’t do much good.  So I have to ask.  Comment or email me if you want me to…

Third order of business is TAKASHI SENSEI’S EMAIL.  If you still read my blog (doubtful, but hey?) I want your  携帯電話のメール.  It’d be really cool.  Yay.