--Thomas Paine, Common Sense
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."
President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
The fact of the matter is that the oil is running out. It is, after all, a finite resource, and the world is consuming it at a dizzying pace. People complain now when the price of gas goes up a few cents and are never satisfied when it falls; how will they respond when the price skyrockets to $4.00, $5.00, $6.00 a gallon? Or when there isn't any available even at those prices? One is reminded, chillingly, of bacteria in a petri dish that consume everything in their path, reproducing far too rapidly, only to all starve together when resources run out. Somebody get me a fiddle. I think the city might be burning.
Stew
interj. phrase suggesting that someone disrespect something.
"Buddy - Stew!"
Born on a pirate ship to unkempt parents, I grew up on a lollipop farm in southeastern Michigan, where, unbeknownst to my kin, I harbored a deep and growing resentment towards sugared candies of all sorts, including lollipops and, for reasons that are as yet entirely unclear to me, especially licorice. At school I was known as "lollipop girl" and my cadre of outcast friends were, predictably enough, "the lollipop guild." Lightly did I suffer my tormentors and eventually they left me alone, fearing my scorn in later years when the lollipop business took off and my family became lords of a sugared candy empire that the world, to put it quite bluntly, simply was not ready for.
For me, of course, this was torture of the worst kind.
Most people neither understand nor appreciate my predicament. It's easy for someone on the outside looking in to only see the positives, or what they would consider positives- the money, the fame, the women, the sugared candies, all the trappings of a life of luxury. But, with the exception of the women, they were things I had no interest in. The sea was calling me. My swashbuckling heritage could not lightly be put aside, and I knew, deep in my soul I knew, that I was a buccaneer. It was only a matter of time.
Real stuff about me:
I can be very funny. For some reason being around girls helps.
I want to be a lawyer some day, but I'm obviously not in a rush.
Zero piercings, zero tattoos, and I wear neither jewelry nor cologne.
I'd rather be happy in life than successful in a career.
My personality type is INTP.
I used to have a high IQ (150) but I've allowed my brain to rot and now it's like 125. This does not make me happy.
I don't read enough. I don't think enough. I spend too much time online.
I'm very liberal at heart but in practice very pragmatic and therefore more of a moderate.
I have two older brothers and one younger sister.
In May of 2004 I graduated Summa Cum Laude from Western Michigan University with a B.A. in Political Science.
Wal-Mart is the devil. It destroys small businesses and is sapping the life out of the American economy.
I think Fight Club is by far the most overrated movie I have ever seen.
I know the difference between each of the words in the following groups: to & too; your & you're; their, there, & they're; who & whom; and lol & lmao.
I think the "online now" feature on Myspace is creepy.
I eat a lot of bread and pasta.
I'm very tall and have large hands and feet. My arms are very thin.
I spent six years in the navy. I was against the war in Iraq.
I'm shy in unfamiliar situations, but with people I know I can be downright ebullient.
I don't understand what "Support the Troops" means. When I was in, no one was saying this. We lacked adequate funding for spare parts. From what I hear, they still do.
My favorite band is U2. Radiohead is second.
Global warming is real. Pretending otherwise is not only stupid but dangerous as well.
I drive a 1999 Honda Civic. It's red.
I like hockey.
I don't understand why it's popular to consider yourself a redneck.
I believe that we will experience a severe oil shortage in our lifetime, probably in the next 7 years. Demand is currently equal to available supply, and it is only a matter of time before supply outstrips demand and the shit hits the fan.
Almost everything I've posted on this profile is true. The bit about Martha Stewart is totally made up.
I like playing Trivial Pursuit. Most people don't like to play against me because I usually win.
I'm not a pessimist. I'm an optimist with a bad attitude.
We're all naked people in disguise.
If you can hear a piano fall you can hear me coming down the hall.
Have a nice day!
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