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New Years resolutions never work. I want to know who came up with the idea to think about ways to improve our lives, get healthier and be better people ONCE A YEAR. Should you not do that everyday? Waiting around until the end of the year to come up with some resolution that you probably won't follow through on seems to be a recipe for disappointment if you ask me. I think the best new years resolution is just not have one. I'm going to live day by day and do whatever the hell it is that is going to make me happy. The fact is I already know that I need to take care of myself and that I shouldn't be a lazy tit who sits on my ass and eats complete crap while watching lame reality TV. I know that I should read every once in a while, educate myself on things I don't know shit about and in general try not to be an ignorant sod. All I'm aiming for this year is having fun and stop worrying so much.

So all I have been hearing about lately is how the auto industry is on it's last leg and it is pretty much up to the government to bail them out or otherwise the United States is going to lose billions of dollars and tens of thousands are going to be out of work. Now we have to stop and think for a second about how this all ended up happening. The huge corporations built huge, gas guzzling, SUV's, trucks and cars that were inferior to their Japanese counter parts in regards to quality, economy and even style. Now because of the economic crisis, and the fact that their companies are swirling down the shitter, they've gone before congress to ask for a bailout plan. So what do these slapdicks do? They all fly to D.C. in their own private luxury jets. It kinda reminds of the audacity that Ol Dirty Bastard had when he rolled up to pick up his wellfare check in a limo. It's like panhandling in a Gucci suit. Even if we are dumb enough to give these assholes one red cent, what ...

Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are

It happened. The Republican reign is finally over for at least the next four years. Americans have finally grown tired of living in fear of its own government. War, scandal, mockery of justice, we have all endured an administration that had it's own personal interests placed before the American people. I think this is a great milestone, a sign that tolerance has become a part of the American people once again. We have a black president. To hear or write those words is a miracle considering the incredible hurdles black Americans have had to struggle with since being forcefully torn from their homeland and brought to America as slaves. America has shown that we as a people can look past gender and race and truly see what it is important. People all over the world are rejoicing with the news that Barack Obama is the new leader of the greatest country on earth. Our country now has a leader that believes in the American people. He believes in all Americans. Not just the "Real Ameri...

So I went and voted this morning and to honest I was a little worried that I might end up waiting in long lines so I made sure to bring a book. Thankfully when I got to the polling place in my precinct there was no line and no wait. I literally walked in, filled in a couple of ovals with my bic pen and walked out. Pretty easy. Now we just have to wait around and see how many other people filled in the same ovals as me with their bic pens and we'll know who our next president will be. So we're just one step closer to hopefully working on rebuilding our country and giving back to the people that really need help right now. The only thing I could really think about when I left the polls is how over the last eight years we've seen so many absurd things happen and the absurd way that they were dealt with. I feel that good things are on the way and I purely intend on remaining optimistic about what we have to look forward to.

Tomorrow our country will decide who will become our next president. I have read many news articles stating that countries all over the world are keeping their eyes on what is going on with our election. It simply goes to show how much of an impact this election is going to have not only on our country but the rest of the world. The lives of billions of people are going to be affected by who ends up taking office. Our world is in desperate need of someone that is going to have the rationale to make decisions that are going to start helping people. I have to admit I am nervous, I don't think I can tolerate the Republicans taking control of the white house again. The lack of logic in their decision making and political agendas haven't helped our country for the last eight years and they certainly will not help us for the next eight. I'm tired of it, I'm tired of thinking about it, tired of arguing with people about what is what should be pretty simple: the idea of making ...

So I have been doing a lot of thinking lately about the people that I know and associate myself with. I know that it can be hard for some people to do, but you have to stop and take a look at who is really your friend and who isn't. Bob Marley once said "Your best friend could be your worst enemy and your worst enemy your best friend". I am starting to come to the realization that most people that I really don't like are some of the people that I could possibly learn the most from. I have grown to accept the fact that I have faults and that I need people that point out those faults on a daily basis or I will never do anything to correct them. One of my best friends told me recently that I bitch too much. I bitch about traffic, the weather, or how pretty much nothing goes my way. So I am now having to deal with the fact that some people think I am a whiny bitch and that does not feel too good. But I think that it will only in the end make me a better person because I a...

So the House didn't pass the bill that is supposed to bail out Wall Street yesterday, and I'm wondering if this is going to be a good thing or a bad thing. It does not really seem fair to me that the citizens of the United States should have to pick up the tab on what was apparently years and years of unregulated loan practices. And all of this with the hope that one day the American people may profit from buying all these assets that no one really even knows what they are worth. I am no fuckin genius when it comes to politics but from what I can already tell about the Bush administration and how the president is basically trying to once again bully the American public into following along with one of his economic policies to me sounds like a disaster in the making. So we have practically a decade of crooks on Wall Street using questionably lending practices that didn't follow procedure, and now we are all stuck with having to pay for the government to clean up their mess. ...

Haven't posted in a while, and I'm glad I didn't because I'm sure that no one wants to hear me bitch or whine about how this is possibly the worst year I have had in my entire life. We're only a little more than a third of the way through this wretched year, and I the only good thing that has happened so far is I have finally made the last payments on two of my student loans. I just broke a toe yesterday, and I can't stand on my right foot. This really sucks because I have been trying really hard to get back into shape this year. I have been living off protein shakes, bananas and water lately. I was determined to be able to see my abs again this year. Superficial as it is, I had it set as a goal so I could get my ass up everyday and go to the gym. I can't even walk anywhere right now without crutches, which blows because everyone I run into wants to know what the hell I did to myself. Blows my goddamn mind, like I intended to fuck up my own foot. I need to ...

So Bush is calling taking out Saddam Hussein and the war in Iraq a victory. I doubt it will ever cease to amaze me how completely oblivious this guy is to what is really happening in the world. Our economy sucks, unemployment is on the rise, millions of American citizens still without health care, and Bush acts like our world is a better place. I can't think of much that hasn't already been said a million times by people a lot smarter than me, in probably more eloquent and powerful ways, but for christ's sake, I cannot believe that this idiot still thinks that we have a chance at winning a war that was lost a long time ago. What is really scary is that I'm convinced that even he believes the same bullshit him and his corrupt administration spew to the public everyday. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's dead, thousands of American troops dead, an even more unstable middle east, and pretty much the entire world hates America and George Bush more than ever. Our country i...

I remember being a young kid, I still can't remember exactly how old I was, when my Dad sat me down and we watched 2001: A space odyssey. It instilled in me as a very young person a fascination with astronomy and physics. I was in awe of the grandeur of the universe, our own solar system, and how we are all part of something so exponentially bigger than the small world that we live in. It made me curious about delving into the deep waters of physics, why the universe functions in the way it does. It struck a chord deep within me to try to learn about why things that we see everyday work the way that they do, which led me to try to understand all things I saw in life at a much deeper level. I wish I could have met the man that made me clarify how I see things around me and also produced some of my favorite literary works. This man had vision and will be dearly missed. R.I.P.

All I can say is that it really isn't the most exciting book I have ever read, but it is by far one of the best. Anthony Swofford really does a good job of painting a picture of what war is like for an average grunt, and the humiliation, torment, and agony a lot of the soldiers go through when fighting wars. The emotional and physical stress that soldiers go through is tremendous, every single facet of their life is hardship. The soldiers constantly have to wrestle with the fact that they don't know where, when, or how they might die. They have to deal with having emotional support severed from them. This happens mostly by finding out their wife or girlfriend has either separated from them, or is cheating on them, and the humiliation and despair that comes with losing their partner. To compound their problems, they are subject to seeing death and destruction all around them. They have to see it, smell it, even taste it. Their lives are small and insignificant, stripped of all i...

I just got done reading an article in the independent (www.indyweek.com) about a girl and her brother that are from Columbia living in North Carolina who have been illegal immigrants most of the time that they have spent here in the United States. The older brother was lucky enough to have found a girl that would marry him so that he could get his green card and live here legally which enabled him to get and education and decent work. His younger sister is not as fortunate. She is very smart, does well in school and got accepted to UNC. Unfortunately she will not be able to go to school because she does not have access to any kind of financial aid because she is not a documented student, and even if she did get financial aid, she would still have to pay out of state tuition even though she has lived in NC for seven years. I think that there is a lot seriously wrong with our country, when some that lives here works hard and makes a good effort at contributing to society and their commun...

So I just finished reading "My Friend Leonard". I really liked "A Million Little Pieces" even though most of it was fabricated, it was still a great story about someone overcoming addiction. I really liked the writing style of the first book, it had a gritty, no bullshit aura about it. It really made you feel for the guy going through all the hell that he did as a crack head trying to recover and rebuild his life, and how tough it is to deal with the effects on your body, mind, and psyche. I felt that I could really relate to how the guy felt in the first book, how he felt that he really had no purpose as a human being, and that people treated him as such. I feel like I could understand the way that he felt about himself and his life, like sometimes you feel like you just can't fight with the world around you anymore. I felt like I could understand what it is really like to be someone that is fighting addiction, and how hard it can for someone going through some...