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Stefani that's with an "F" n "E"
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[02 Oct 2006|02:57pm] |
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for real...you creep me out now. what in the hell was i thinking??? i wish i had a big eraser!
in other news... life is grand, work is grand, school is grand (i can see the light at the end of the tunnel), and the boy (dustan)is ever so grand. 1 year 6 months and loving every minute! i can see myself in a white dress and him at the end of the aisle. jeepers!
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[18 Apr 2006|12:52pm] |
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it's almost been a year...it's gone by so fast!
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[06 Mar 2006|02:37pm] |
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and he is lovely :). yesterday was an amazing day...food, kisses, buddy bear, and the cats pajamas. hooray for beautiful endings!
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[10 Jan 2006|02:06pm] |
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i'm sick blah...guess that's what i get for kissing my sick boyfriend.
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| And here's to you... |
[07 Jan 2006|01:37pm] |
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just so you know we're done. you're a liar and a coward and frankly i don't have time for you. have a splendid life.
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[04 Jan 2006|11:39am] |
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so wow it's 2006. amazing how so many things can change in a year. lost love, found love, nieces and nephews, new friends, old friends, losing jobs, finding new ones, new cars, laughing, crying, hormones driving people insane, mission to complete school, arguments, jokes, something about ducks and hot dogs i'll never know. another year in the life of me.
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[12 Dec 2005|10:00am] |
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christmas makes me smile. something about lights and old movies make you feel like a kid again. i hope i never lose the excitement for christmas.
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| Joy!Joy!Joy! |
[06 Dec 2005|01:28pm] |
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it might snow tomorrow!!!
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[18 Nov 2005|04:32pm] |
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so my best friend is in san antonio and i thought i was supposed to go see her this weekend but i haven't heard a word from her...i don't even know if she made it there safely which i'm sure she did. she porbably just hasn't had time to call with her training and all...i dunno i wish i could see her :(. life has been hectic with the baby and my mom breaking her arm...random. work sucks as always but it will due for the time being. i'm getting so excited about thanksgiving because the following day is when we decorate for christmas my most fav holiday ever!!! how i long for cold weather and cocoa.
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| I Hope To God You Read This... |
[14 Nov 2005|10:33pm] |
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you are a pathetic little person and i have had just about enough of you. you obviously know nothing about relationships because you should NEVER ask the person you care about to change themselves or their lives just to make you feel better. you don't ask them to cut people out of their life because you are selfish and insecure. you do not give ultimatums or try to make them feel bad for who they are friends with. do you know what you are doing to him??? do you have any idea how upset you are making him...oh wait that's right this is all about you isn't it? you are making both of our lives miserable because you can't handle our friendship. i have done nothing to you so why do you insist on screwing with my life? i tried to be nice and tell you that you had nothing to worry about that all i wanted is for him to be happy and that you made him happy therefore there are no issues but i'm done being nice you have gone too far. i am not one to cast judgement on people or say rude things about them but you my dear are a bitch, a coniving, manipulative and selfish bitch and quite frankly you can go to hell.
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| Oh Yea... |
[14 Nov 2005|08:35am] |
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| You Are So Transparent... |
[10 Nov 2005|01:58pm] |
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i know what you're doing and it's not going to work. i don't buy remedial tactics. nice try though.
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[10 Nov 2005|09:46am] |
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the only thing i ask is for you to stop taking your insecurities out on me, i am not to blame.
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[07 Nov 2005|10:49pm] |
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i have just been informed that my best friend beth is coming to texas for her job training! yipee!!!! now we don't know exactly where yet but who cares she's going to be in the same state as me!!!! i'm so excited!!! i miss her so much!!!
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| And Here Is The Answer |
[07 Nov 2005|08:21pm] |
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you are right you do not know me. you know nothing about me, who i am, my relationships, my reasonings for anything i do. i could care less if you trust me, we're not friends nor will we ever be. i am not disrespectful i care about the people in my life and for that i shouldn't apologize. how dare you make attacks on my character and above all call me ungodly! i am not jealous. i am not selfish. i am not hateful and i am sure as hell not ignorant. i have made no attacks on you i have done nothing to you. you think i am out to get you, to ruin your relationship with him. get over it, get over yourself. the thing is i'm not going anywhere. i am not going to destroy one of the best friendships i have had in my life because it makes you upset. you can accept it or not, personally i don't care.
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[04 Nov 2005|11:08am] |
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it isn't wise to rant and bitch online about petty things you know nothing about. do not presume to know my relationships and make judgements just because you are insecure. do not worry about the times i call or the conversations we have because it is all none of your business. how do you know what i have to say to him isn't important? and even if it's not and if i just feel like talking i have every right he is MY best friend. i do have respect for him...only him. do not give him ultimatums because it will surely leave you sad in the end. he was my life for 2 years and you're not going to take that away from me because you are scared. our friendship isn't going anywhere it is going to stay as it is wonderful and deeply important to me. so how about having a little respect for me.
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| Exactly... |
[07 Sep 2005|01:47pm] |
An Unnatural Disaster: A Hurricane Exposes the Man-Made Disaster of the Welfare State
by Robert Tracinski
Sep 02, 2005
by Robert Tracinski
It took four long days for state and federal officials to figure out how to deal with the disaster in New Orleans. I can't blame them, because it also took me four long days to figure out what was going on there. The reason is that the events there make no sense if you think that we are confronting a natural disaster.
If this is just a natural disaster, the response for public officials is obvious: you bring in food, water, and doctors; you send transportation to evacuate refugees to temporary shelters; you send engineers to stop the flooding and rebuild the city's infrastructure. For journalists, natural disasters also have a familiar pattern: the heroism of ordinary people pulling together to survive; the hard work and dedication of doctors, nurses, and rescue workers; the steps being taken to clean up and rebuild.
Public officials did not expect that the first thing they would have to do is to send thousands of armed troops in armored vehicle, as if they are suppressing an enemy insurgency. And journalists—myself included—did not expect that the story would not be about rain, wind, and flooding, but about rape, murder, and looting.
But this is not a natural disaster. It is a man-made disaster.
The man-made disaster is not an inadequate or incompetent response by federal relief agencies, and it was not directly caused by Hurricane Katrina. This is where just about every newspaper and television channel has gotten the story wrong.
The man-made disaster we are now witnessing in New Orleans did not happen over four days last week. It happened over the past four decades. Hurricane Katrina merely exposed it to public view.
The man-made disaster is the welfare state.
For the past few days, I have found the news from New Orleans to be confusing. People were not behaving as you would expect them to behave in an emergency—indeed, they were not behaving as they have behaved in other emergencies. That is what has shocked so many people: they have been saying that this is not what we expect from America. In fact, it is not even what we expect from a Third World country.
When confronted with a disaster, people usually rise to the occasion. They work together to rescue people in danger, and they spontaneously organize to keep order and solve problems. This is especially true in America. We are an enterprising people, used to relying on our own initiative rather than waiting around for the government to take care of us. I have seen this a hundred times, in small examples (a small town whose main traffic light had gone out, causing ordinary citizens to get out of their cars and serve as impromptu traffic cops, directing cars through the intersection) and large ones (the spontaneous response of New Yorkers to September 11).
So what explains the chaos in New Orleans?
To give you an idea of the magnitude of what is going on, here is a description from a Washington Times story:
"Storm victims are raped and beaten; fights erupt with flying fists, knives and guns; fires are breaking out; corpses litter the streets; and police and rescue helicopters are repeatedly fired on.
"The plea from Mayor C. Ray Nagin came even as National Guardsmen poured in to restore order and stop the looting, carjackings and gunfire....
"Last night, Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco said 300 Iraq-hardened Arkansas National Guard members were inside New Orleans with shoot-to-kill orders.
" 'These troops are...under my orders to restore order in the streets,' she said. 'They have M-16s, and they are locked and loaded. These troops know how to shoot and kill and they are more than willing to do so if necessary and I expect they will.' "
The reference to Iraq is eerie. The photo that accompanies this article shows a SWAT team with rifles and armored vests riding on an armored vehicle through trash-strewn streets lined by a rabble of squalid, listless people, one of whom appears to be yelling at them. It looks exactly like a scene from Sadr City in Baghdad.
What explains bands of thugs using a natural disaster as an excuse for an orgy of looting, armed robbery, and rape? What causes unruly mobs to storm the very buses that have arrived to evacuate them, causing the drivers to speed away, frightened for their lives? What causes people to attack the doctors trying to treat patients at the Superdome?
Why are people responding to natural destruction by causing further destruction? Why are they attacking the people who are trying to help them?
My wife, Sherri, figured it out first, and she figured it out on a sense-of-life level. While watching the coverage one night on Fox News Channel, she told me that she was getting a familiar feeling. She studied architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, which is located in the South Side of Chicago just blocks away from the Robert Taylor Homes, one of the largest high-rise public housing projects in America. "The projects," as they were known, were infamous for uncontrollable crime and irremediable squalor. (They have since, mercifully, been demolished.)
What Sherri was getting from last night's television coverage was a whiff of the sense of life of "the projects." Then the "crawl"—the informational phrases flashed at the bottom of the screen on most news channels—gave some vital statistics to confirm this sense: 75% of the residents of New Orleans had already evacuated before the hurricane, and of those who remained, a large number were from the city's public housing projects. Jack Wakeland then told me that early reports from CNN and Fox indicated that the city had no plan for evacuating all of the prisoners in the city's jails—so they just let many of them loose. [Update: I have been searching for news reports on this last story, but I have not been able to confirm it. Instead, I have found numerous reports about the collapse of the corrupt and incompetent New Orleans Police Department; see here and here.]
There is no doubt a significant overlap between these two populations--that is, a large number of people in the jails used to live in the housing projects, and vice versa.
There were many decent, innocent people trapped in New Orleans when the deluge hit—but they were trapped alongside large numbers of people from two groups: criminals—and wards of the welfare state, people selected, over decades, for their lack of initiative and self-induced helplessness. The welfare wards were a mass of sheep—on whom the incompetent administration of New Orleans unleashed a pack of wolves.
All of this is related, incidentally, to the incompetence of the city government, which failed to plan for a total evacuation of the city, despite the knowledge that this might be necessary. In a city corrupted by the welfare state, the job of city officials is to ensure the flow of handouts to welfare recipients and patronage to political supporters—not to ensure a lawful, orderly evacuation in case of emergency.
No one has really reported this story, as far as I can tell. In fact, some are already actively distorting it, blaming President Bush, for example, for failing to personally ensure that the Mayor of New Orleans had drafted an adequate evacuation plan. The worst example is an execrable piece from the Toronto Globe and Mail, by a supercilious Canadian who blames the chaos on American "individualism." But the truth is precisely the opposite: the chaos was caused by a system that was the exact opposite of individualism.
What Hurricane Katrina exposed was the psychological consequences of the welfare state. What we consider "normal" behavior in an emergency is behavior that is normal for people who have values and take the responsibility to pursue and protect them. People with values respond to a disaster by fighting against it and doing whatever it takes to overcome the difficulties they face. They don't sit around and complain that the government hasn't taken care of them. And they don't use the chaos of a disaster as an opportunity to prey on their fellow men.
But what about criminals and welfare parasites? Do they worry about saving their houses and property? They don't, because they don't own anything. Do they worry about what is going to happen to their businesses or how they are going to make a living? They never worried about those things before. Do they worry about crime and looting? But living off of stolen wealth is a way of life for them.
People living in piles of their own trash, while petulantly complaining that other people aren't doing enough to take care of them and then shooting at those who come to rescue them—this is not just a description of the chaos at the Superdome. It is a perfect summary of the 40-year history of the welfare state and its public housing projects.
The welfare state—and the brutish, uncivilized mentality it sustains and encourages—is the man-made disaster that explains the moral ugliness that has swamped New Orleans. And that is the story that no one is reporting.
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| Life Is Not Whatnot and That's None of Your Business... |
[03 Aug 2005|01:17pm] |
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so it's been awhile...a long while. life is ever changing and confusing, sometimes dull, sometimes routine and sometimes sad. i hate my job and hoping to find a new one. i procrastinated on applying for financial aid so now i have to wait until Dec and start winter classes so while everyone else is on break i will be in school fun fun. i'm tired all the time, i work all the time...do you ever feel like you're losing touch with yourself?
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