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I would like to say that from the osnet of this series of wars for peace (which doesn't make sense on it's own to begin with), that I recognized that the idea of a 'War on Terrorism' was crazy and nonsensical. But sadly, I can't.  Read More »

I'm 17, and this year I've shot up in social development. For a large part of my life I was without friends, and without people to communicate with, I was even alienated from my family, as I didn't know how to communicate. But as I've developed, and my ideas better accepted, I've had to fall back on old knowlege to learn how to deal with new social problems.

I realized the kind of image I put out to people when I went to a party, and was there past 1 AM. There was no concern at all from my mother. It wasn't out of carelessness (as it was her car I was at the party with), but out of confident trust. My parents raised me to be a moral person that understands consequences to some actions, and understands basic rules, and adhere to them. My mother trusts me to go where I please, because she is confident that I still follow the rules: I know not to do drugs, not to consume alcohol, and all those other obvious things. I was also raised to be resonsponsible: My parents were seldom ever around, and when I did see them, they didn't pay too much attention, so our relationship was all about trust and responsibility. I was told to do things over the phone, without guarantee of punishment or reward, just to get them accomplished at some point before they arrived. Often these were chores. After years of doing so, I now have nearly limitless personal freedom: I can stay out late, I can bring friends over whether my parents are home/aware or not, I can talk on the phone, use the internet alone without any monitoring, whatever I wish to do.  Read More »

Tomorrow's the first day of school. A few months ago I donated $30 to the <a xhref="http://kicktheoilhabit.org">Kick the Oil Habit</a> campaign.

I got the T-Shirt about 2 weeks ago. I plan to wear it to school, but I know my principal is conservative and might not like it (although I should be OK wearing it, I think?).

What has been your experience with going to school with "politicalwear"? That is, clothing that may state political opinions, or advertises a political cause.  Read More »

Bush: You see, the ... thing is what they need to do is to get Syria, to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it's over

As said at the G8 conferece. Remember to turn off those microphones, dudes...

http://adamboulton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/07/bush_blair_unpl.html

I encourage you to read the full transcript - I found it incredibly amusing. Good way to instill family values, Mr. Bush. The white house simply said his words go at face value until he comments on it. I just find it amusing that the whole thing was because a microphone was still on.  Read More »

Good evening comrades. I hope your day has been pleasurable. Mine's been a bit warm, but other than that, I've been rather OK.

My thoughts today eventually curved to freedom. As I laid on a couch, chilling with a coke can on the coffee table, and thought about all the things occuring the MIddle East. How, over here, rockets flying into countries there is a little blurb on CNN, barely visible to the American media. Even ThinkProgress hasn't covered it, making me have to turn to CNN, whom had little as well. In essence, I wondered - where are the protests? Surely, some Israelis aren't happy about Israel's constant attacks on Palestinians, and undoubtedly on Lebanon (again). Then I realized: The cup of freedom we have here does not equip with the drop of Israel.  Read More »

Every decade seems to have it's own set of words that underlines what happened in it. In the 50s/60s, one of those words by most asked would probably be "civil rights" or "personal freedoms."

What do you think are some words to describe (so far) our decade? I could think of the below:

"Occupation" "Conflict" "Suburbanism" "Educationalism" "Informational" "Commercialist" "Ignorance" "Fear" and "Militarism."  Read More »

This is an issue I'm shocked people aren't discussing here on ProgressiveU. Clearly, this is an issue of importance - it's an issue that I think is going to be fought over in the coming years, after the fundamentalists get over their wet dreams of abortion-free America.

Christover Reeve (sp?) was victim of a spinal cord injury. He ended up dying, and his life might've been saved had stem cell research been legal.  Read More »

Americans are pretty much taught all their lives that Capitalism is inherently good, and Communism is inherently bad. Socialism tends to be hunched in with Communism. Is Socialism that bad, though? Is it a governmental system or a policy? This gets mushy.

I see socialism more as a policy - the government takes care of the people, rather than the people taking care of the government (like in Capitalism). I like this a lot better than Capitalism - we all can take care of eachother (Like Canada) rather than being all on our own. Yes, Canada has a higher unemployment rate - but you can bet those unemployed people get enough money to live on until they get another job. My father went through a struggle with unemployment - he barely had enough to feed himself, let alone the child support and bills on top of it.  Read More »