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The 411 My name is allan jeanjaquet, and every once in a while, I'm infamously referred to as just jeanjacket. I am a generally happy person. I am male, I am straight, and neither are ever in question :) I graduated from Hanford High School Class of '06 and was born October 15, 1987, making me a Zodiac Libra born in the Chinese year of the rabbit. I don't know what idiot said that Filipinos are Pacific Islanders, but yes, I am Asian, I am Filipino, and I am proud of a colorful heritage. I am moderately triligual, able to speak Spanish more effectively than the language of my own country, Tagalog, and have a better-than-average grasp of the language you are at this very moment reading. Currently, I am living in Richland, WA, a place I have comfortably called home for the last 5 years, but I'll never forget my hometown roots in Houston, TX. I am and will forever be a Texas boy at heart.
My views This is my disclaimer: My family is number one. You do not touch my family or my home if you have a problem with me because I will protect them with my every last breath. That aside, my family and friends, and the obstacles I have faced and have overcome with them over my few years of life, serve as the catalyst to the formation of the person that I am and the attitude with which I approach life at all of its infinite angles. I am unbelievably open-minded, with a malleable understanding and acceptance of damn-near everything. I like to challenge people's ways of thinking, I contemplate current events, on a whim, I spend hours researching something I just thought of, and I call every single night-time worker at the Jack-in-the-Box drive-thru "Carlos".
I love to laugh, and couldn't go a day without it. You might not see it, but I'm a sensitive person. I make a great listener, and give decent advice that's derived from the experiences I've weathered, ask anyone that's ever talked to me... but, at the same time, I'm in every way a realist, a practical thinker. I don't hand out bullshit; I say what I think, even if I know it's not what you want to hear. If you know me, you know I don't do drama. I do my best to avoid it through honesty and communication. In my life, I've come to realize the power of open and honest communication in all types of relationships, romantic or otherwise, and it is because of this, that honesty, loyalty, and trust in all forms has taken rank as that which I value most in my life, second only to the well-being of my family. Sometimes you can really knock people off balance using blatant honesty to handle a situation. I'm a head-on person. If I have a problem with you that I feel is worth my time to try and resolve, I will bring it up to you directly. At the same time, I don't make assumptions, even based on other people's words and opinions about you, because I believe in that communication. I will forever and always believe in finding out who a person is for myself, even against all recommendation and outcome.
I'll admit, I'm damn competitive, and I like being the best at everything I do. I carry an air of confidence about myself, not to be confused with cockiness nor fool-hardiness. If you beat me at something and I get butthurt, don't worry, I'll get over it pretty damn quick. I always do. If something's going on in your life, and you end up taking it out on me, don't sweat it, apologize if you want, but I never take things personally. I'll always take the time out to understand a situation.
I cherish and appreciate the things and people in my life that support me and keep me happy; I cut out the things that don't. I don't dwell on the past; I learn from it and move on. I resolve things quickly and get on with life. That's how I am... I live, breathe, and preach the words, "Don't sweat the small stuff," (they're good words to live by) because I have truly come to understand that there are bigger things in this world than the little dramas in which we often find ourselves consumed. Just appreciate life and what it has to offer. Protect your own values, and for fuck's sake, live it up.
I enjoy a life of good friends, great times, moving conversations, and the occasional glass of wine (...or shot of rum :P). I live with very, very few regrets.
Political views Affirmative action is one of the biggest jokes of the American legal system and likely one of the largest travesties of modern civilized culture. I have no if's and's or but's about abortion. It's wrong. I won't hate you for having done it, I won't not talk to you if you choose to do so in the future, but know that that is exactly where I stand. I'd vie for something like life without parole, but knowing our penal system, the death penalty should stick around for a little while. With immense overcrowding in our prisons, I'd rather have 'em dead than have a murderer or rapist back out on the streets in 3 years. Illegal immigration is a problem with deleterious effects in which requires a cure. They drive up the costs of medicare, lower property values, receive constant government aid that they aren't even entitled to in the first place out of OUR tax dollars, and they still have the balls to use their ungranted "right to assemble" to protest for more. Get the fuck out of America, and come back in legally through the process of naturalization. You leave a country that you do not like to come to a better one yet you show it no respect and then demand equal rights? It just doesn't work that way.
- Nathan Williams

I believe that Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein were threats to both America and their respective countries that have rightly been eliminated. You can argue that all you want, but suppose there were a reiteration of Saddam's previous Anfal Campaign, suppose Iraq had turned into another Rawanda, we'd be telling a different story. We're in Iraq trying to finish what we started, and regardless of whether or not you agree that we should be there, you must understand how absurdly meaningless the deaths of American soldiers would be if we left now. And don't you dare come at me with, "This is just like Vietnam!" Because I will rebuttal with a page of reasons why it is most certainly not. Ut humiliter opinor, of course, Hillary Rodham Clinton should not be elected President of the United States. Sorry to all you female activists, but have you listened to her speak? Stalin and Lenin would be among her biggest fans. With politics becoming more of a "popular trend" than a serious matter, the privilage to vote in America should be protected by a political aptitude test... as the majority of American youth is a bunch of shit-for-brains bandwagoners that blindly, yet zealously, follow the media like month-old babies looking for mommy's tits to suck on. I don't mind having an argument with you, but you better have something more than a recycled opinion and years of blind belief behind your stance. I research the hell out of every position I take. I've debated each of the aforementioned topics above, plus the legality of Texas secession, the constitutional quote-unquote "Right to Privacy", the constitutionality of the separation of church and state, etc and have researched and cited every single position I took on each. If you irrationally argue with emotion and zeal in opposition to rationally arguing with logic and fact, I will walk away from your ignorant ass and just say, "you win".

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
- Malcom X

I fight for the things that I believe in, and call out the people that oppose me. It's a right that I have that I am thankful to be able to exercise. I believe in the purest forms of equality and freedom, and I am steadily thankful every single day that I live in the most powerful nation in the world that not only provides the closest to both, but also allows me the legally protected ability to fight for more when I don't agree. Though opinionated and aggressive I may be about many things, at the end of the day, I'm a patriot that says, "America, love it or leave it."
Right now I still sing, I still dance, and I'm doing my best not to be a lazy piece of crap. Until recently, I was living at home with my little sister because my mom moved to Austin, Texas to pursue a job opportunity, leaving my little sister to finish out the school year. If you ask me if it scared me taking care of my little sister, I'll tell you what I tell everyone else: I've been doing this for years since my parents split up, switching between father and brother roles. My little sister is my little girl; I've had a hand in raising her to become the strong and resillient girl she is and I will always be there to hold her hand, or swat away the worthless men she might meet throughout her life if ever she needs me to. I'm a family man at heart, and this is what I do best. For right now, I live on my own in a nice, roomy, and well-put-together one-bedroom apartment that I stay sure to keep clean. You'll be hard-pressed to find someone my age with a place like mine :) Currently working as a Dealer and Floor Supervisor at Classic Island Casino on Gage, I'm just trying to make a living while putting away some money for college.
Looking ahead I'm not really sure where my life is headed, but for now the plan puts me in Austin, Texas in Fall '08 where I'll be attending the University of Texas, or Austin Community College and eventually lead into UT. What do I eventually want to do? Where do I want to be after college? Good questions for which I do not yet have an answer, but, hey, I'm not worried about it... because I know that somehow, no matter what I do, I'm going to make it.
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AIM -- AOSM allan
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