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Today we finally had a rather large amount of snow hit our town. Normally we've had an inch or 5 for the past 2 months but this year it strangely waited so long. Well I had to go out and shovel. I'm not about to complain, I like it. It makes me feel good to do something that helps. Maybe that's why I love my job. I'm just a busser at a near-by restaurant but I like when they ask me questions or just jest with me if I'm cleaning a table next to a couple or giving them more water. Ever since…

My girl and I were talking last night about Occupy Wall Street and we could not figure out what the main purpose is.  We have been watching it unfold since it started 5 days after our daughter was born and we still can’t find what the main purpose is.  It seems that there are a great number of people that are willing to support a movement for change but what is that change they are seeking? 

We have heard terms like the 99%, the 1%, big government and so on but I think we…

I always enjoyed reading when I was young, sometimes to the point that it would get me in trouble. I would ignore teachers in class when they were trying to teach me actual facts so that I could focus more on the fictional scenarios in my favorite author's books. I would stay up late and miss the bus in the morning, sometimes purposely. In my youth I had even gone as far as stealing books that I wanted bad enough but couldn't afford. It was so much easier to live in a book than it was in…

Being able to read the posts on this site, gives me hope because it reminds me that there're still critical and realistic thinkers out there<3

(this blog is really short,  because the status update limit is really small:\) 

Tim DeChristopher addressed the court and the judge today. This is what he said:

Thank you for the opportunity to speak before the court.  When I first met Mr. Manross, the sentencing officer who prepared the presentence report, he explained that it was essentially his job to “get to know me.”  He said he had to get to know who I really was and why I did what I did in order to decide what kind of sentence was appropriate.  I was struck by the fact that he was the first person in this…

Tonight I rode my bike around town. The town I live in is small so it doesn't take very much effort to go from one side to the other. I have lived here for a very long time and know every nook and cranny like no other. I have wandered these streets thousands of times, years and years of memories like every inch of pavement. Maybe that's why I live in my past so much. Feeling every change like a stab in my heart. Like my whole world has been shifted light-years off it's course. It's probably…

The Peapod Foundation, created by the Black Eyed Peas, collaborated with Adobe Youth Voices, a non-profit spearheaded by The Adobe Foundation, to create a new public service announcement (…

To encourage cancer patients and their caregivers to actively work with their physicians to learn what can be done to lower the risk of infection before starting chemotherapy,…

Okay, so I think that we all by now understand that change needs to come about in this world. I also know, and I'm sure that all of you know as well, that music is one of the best ways to connect with people. People that we know, people that we don't know, and people that would otherwise never even have thought about any ideas that we propose. Of course, not everyone is an amazing musician who's gonna change the entire world with his or her one breakout song. But, band organization is a…

More of the same, where's the "change" we were promised? Joe Biden threatened to impeach G.W. Bush over unconstitutional wars. http://www.infowars.com/hypocrite-biden-threatened-bush-impeachment-over-unconstitutional-war/

Why does the executive branch/Obama, Bush defy the Constitution in favor of the United Nation's agenda?