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07:09 Apr 28 2011
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My new daily routine (no joke). Wake up, eat, visit friend, go to tanning bed, relax, take a walk, eat, use hot tub, relax, watch a movie & snack, sleep. Not bad huh? Started about a week ago and don't care to stop it lol.
06:58 Apr 27 2011
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"You're not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant." - Harlan Ellison
12:12 Apr 26 2011
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Obama, thanks for ignoring Easter, the most important Christian holiday. The US has 120+ million Christians and less than 10 million Muslims yet Obama has given multiple proclamations for Islamic holidays. Out of touch, hypocritical and totally clueless. Thanks for nothing.
00:02 Apr 21 2011
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FYI, anyone who wants to buy gold, silver, copper, zinc, nickel or lead...by the gram, ounce or pound let me know.
05:42 Apr 20 2011
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I am a strong nationalist and Constitutionalist however I also support the notion of monarchy. Perhaps not for the US, but, I do think monarchy's have their place in the world and I think that you can have both a strong monarchy and free people without relegating the nobility to ceremonial status.
The monarchical system is one of the oldest forms of government only surpassed perhaps by that of tribal leadership and clans. Humanity naturally developed the imperial way and I do feel that there is a degree of Divine Right.
The problem arises when a monarch is given absolute power with no system of checks and balances. But I think that should a system be created with a strong constitution of rights, a separation of direct control between the military and the royals (they can't use the military whenever & however they wish), a government made up of the nobility and elected officials, and then an independent judiciary...I think it could work.
The King's role would be to advise, have a tie breaking vote in the legislature, the ability to introduce laws that could be voted on, and issue policy using limited executive authority (similar to the US president), be the commander of the armed forces in a time of war, and the ability to oversee economic, domestic and foreign affairs with a real voice.
To me there is nothing wrong with that form of government and I see nothing wrong with having hereditary titles. The monarchy could be predominantly funded by their own wealth. To show just how cheap a king/queen can be each UK citisen pays way less than $5/yr to maintain the current system. Now imagine if the Queen could actually do more than what she does?
There's really little point to this other than me writing a bit on how I feel but if people have the right overthrow a king then they should have the right to have a king and damn good one at that.
03:58 Apr 18 2011
Times Read: 732
Ugh those stupid..stupidheads! True democracy is the last hope for America??? Give me a break! Talk about the few and the powerful leading all things and the denial of freedom to everyone else. That's what democracy gives you ya dunce.
Humans are far to flaky and emotional to ever make pure democracy work. Geez, majority rules thus the minority (which in many instances is around 40-48% of the population) gets tossed in the oven. That is pure democracy. And since in most cases the difference between majority and minority is less than 3% all you gotta do is sway the opinions of that 3% and poof you've got your wish.
America is not a democracy. Pure democracy is one of the greatest dangers to human freedom. Legislating "fairness" results in fairness denied. Stop living in fairy land, shut off your "social justice" TV show and quit reading that progressive blog and learn something about reality and the price of democracy.
There's a reason we have a Constitutional Republic. It's to keep folks like me (a minority safe) without forcing you (the majority) to do something you don't want. Why? Because it makes us all equal and it gives Fox the right to report and talk about whatever thing it wants. It gives Glenn Beck the right to only discuss conspiracies and it gives Al Gore the right to be a total idiot. It does not however give Al Gore the right to force Glenn Beck to talk about "differing views". Hell if you really wanted to be fair then we'd be forced to teach the Earth is only 6,000 years old!
Fairness doctrine, democracy, social justice and the right to entitlement is why one day we'll all be speaking Chinese. Because the only way to be fair is to let the radicals have control, those regular conservatives have been the majority far too long..it's just not right.
Piss on a Bible it's free speech, burn a Qu'ran and it's a hate crime. Bull shit.
19:58 Apr 15 2011
Times Read: 745
The New American Way.
"Just in my own lifetime, when a kid fell off his bike, you helped him up, somebody's mom washed it off, gave him a cookie, and out we went back. Look at us now." (from a random interweb comment)
Now, the mom's a pedophile, the kid that helped him will get sued should the cut become infected for not calling 911 right away, the child's mom will lose custody of the boy for giving him such a dangerous toy and the bike maker will be forced to go bankrupt as their million+ customers now all sue for damages.
Some country we live in.
And another thing, why is it when a woman claims some guy assaulted her her name gets censored as "Jane Doe" but his name gets plastered everywhere? Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? It can take years, if ever, for a guy who's name was spread all over by the media as a rapist to recover his reputation if he was found to be innocent.
Not that women faking rape claims is the norm but it does happen and if women and men are no different and all equal, then women shouldn't get ANY protections or additional security than a man does. Jane & John Doe should be fine, then if he's found guilty release his real name.
/End of rant
07:35 Apr 15 2011
Times Read: 764
Well people seemed to have stopped participating in the things I do lol. I miss the days when folks would take part in my journal projects etc.
18:44 Apr 13 2011
Times Read: 777
I'm thinking about running for president, well, sorta.
I'm still a decade or so from being old enough to actually run but I do think that I should start a "Xzavierfor2012" site for the purpose of addressing the issues and hopefully being a force for discussion. This country has a lot of problems and Americans are seeing more and more that most elected officials really don't care what the people want nor do they care what the Constitution says.
I may not be old enough to run for president but I have been involved in politics for years, helped support and run several independent and "under-dog" campaigns for local offices, governor (fact the guy I helped went from #8 in the 2000 election to #3 in the '04) and even president in the 08 election. I've also taught Constitutional law and I've got a bit of an interesting point of view being gay, Christian and of course belonging to a "vampire" site.
Anyway, I'd like you all to send me your thoughts on issues facing the country or your local area that you think need to be addressed. It can be anything from the federal debit to Libya to the right to marry your cousin lol. Seriously, tell me what you want to talk about, what you'd like to see happen and maybe through this project I can help.
It'll take a few to get everything set up and for now at least it's going to be a free website (not a .com, .org, etc)
People do this kind of thing all the time and some actually make a difference and that's all I want to do.
18:57 Apr 10 2011
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Well I got home safely last night after a 5 hour drive. The drive up was actually very hard and by the time I got to his apt I was in a lot of pain but thankfully the drive home wasn't so bad.
While I was there Kevin upgraded his phone and added me onto his plan so now I've got a new phone and a plan with actual national coverage (unlike the Cricket I had lol).
Being the helpful sort that I am I helped a friend with a paper they had to write for school on a sex ed programme. So when I'm done with it, lol, I'm going to put it up here so y'all can read how great I am haha. Honestly though I think it's pretty good. People don't really think about all the stuff that goes into teaching kids (in 3 dif age groups) about sex, abuse and development.
As for my trip, was there for 3 weeks and had a pretty nice time..better than last time for sure lol. Got to meet a few new folks to which was nice. And of course I already miss being up there and having someone around.
23:02 Apr 07 2011
Times Read: 801
I'm working on an article dealing with morality and why it should be guided by supporting these 3 main areas: personal freedom, individual determination and well-being; not controlled by religion (that means Christianity, Islam and even atheism), individual/group prejudices or legislated as morality should govern our laws not the other way around.
Anyway I'm almost on the 5th page, should be around 10 pages long. I'm going to post it on my blog www.jacobboglewrites.com
Since I'm in Indiana right now and will be leaving for home in a few days it may not be posted until next week but I just wanted to let y'all know what I've been up to and to expect it :)
17:36 Apr 07 2011
Times Read: 817
OMG! I'm watching "Newcastle", a flick about surfing & homos & coming of age etc. Well it's based in Australia and there are dozens of the most beautiful guys I've ever seen in one place. I'm so selling everything and moving there, see ya!
lol
/drool/
00:47 Apr 07 2011
Times Read: 825
I know I've said this many times before but watching this movie has made me think about it all the more.
I utterly adore the male form. Boys are among the most brilliant of Gods creations and just so damn sexy! lol
00:26 Apr 06 2011
Times Read: 837
In around 6-7 years about 97% of living WWII vets will have died. There are only 2 WWI vets alive today and none in the US.
When I was born the oldest living person was born in 1870, today no one is alive from before 1896. When I was younger I had the pleasure of meeting several people born in 1889-1895. And when my mom was born a vet of the civil war was still living! (of course I've been able to met several true sons and daughters of Confederate veterans)
Today there are less than 70 people on Earth born before 1900.
To me it's a very sad and interesting thing. When I was a kid it was the 1990s and my whole world experience was of people being born in the 1900s and so it was a really cool thing (though to me at least not super rare) for someone to be born in the 1800s. But today that's all changed and even those born 1900-1919 are becoming incredibly few. I remember thinking how cool it would be to meet someone from the 1800s and now one day it will be cool to meet a person born in the 1980-90s.
I do have what's commonly known as "Peter Pan Syndrom" so I've always seen myself as young and even today I feel like I should be 17-20, not my actual age.
It amazes me when I hear about kids born less than a decade after me talking about "old" movies like Free Willy. When I was a kid I watched "Gone With the Wind" for fun, that's an older movie, not something less than 20 years old.
Of course it also freaks me out that ANYTHING in my life could be 20 years old.
Part of all this is of course because time goes on and you have new generations but I can't help but feel a large part of it is because kids today are not cultured, they aren't exposed to what they should be, they don't get to talk to people who gave us the world we have now (WWII vets, people who grew up without electricity, etc) and so they haven't formed the proper respect they should.
This is mostly a rambling of mine but I thought it was worth sharing.
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Sulks
15:26 Apr 28 2011
heh. Hectic!
Need to re-plan my own schedule, yours sounds just about right LOL