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Monday, June 14th, 2004
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9:48 pm - AIM
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Wow, this was a hassle but a long time coming. PLEASE READ THIS... MUY IMPORTANTE
The History: (If you are in a rush- skip to the bottom) This is in brief why I hate AOL. Some of you have probably realized that I have not been online in a few months. The reason being that AOL is refusing to allow me to have the screan name that I have had since 7th grade because they are greedy assholes. (Ok, maybe a little harsh but they really are a pain in the ass.) Upon moving out to Wisconsin last year I decided I had no more se for AOL since my email was based out of my UW Account (bashactman@wisc.edu) and thus, I could function soley on AIM and save $25 or so a month. So I got rid of AOL and worked off of AIM for about 6 months. One beautiful morning I woke up to log on AIM and was told that my sn access was denied. I called AOL (which is always a fun little time) amd was told to go online to their tech support which irratated me a little. I went to their little online tech support chat room and asked why my sn was denied. They told me that they would not help me since I was no longer an AOL customer. That irrated me a lot. So I asked them to give me a number so I could call AIM tech support (since they only have email on their website). They said they would not help me!
So I searched the internet and found a whole lovely community of people with my same problem. I learned that if you orriganally created your sn on AOL and then get rid of your account- they cancel your sn after about 6 months even if you are active on AIM. Ok, no big deal, I was fine switching sn's, what pissed me off ws that I lost my buddy list and thus, lost each and everyone of you wonderful people who I comunicated with. However, there was a ray of hope. Apparently if you contact AIM and explain your problem, you have a slim chance of them reinstating your sn. (I think the chance is about as good as eating lunch peacefuly by the lab theater without Mr. H coming to visit you... and yes, I know that area is off limits now but oh the good old days).
So I emailed AIM who promise to respond within 24 hours to your question/problem. That was last April. I am still waiting for my response.
The Present: So I have finally bit the bullet and conceeded to the people at AOL that they have won and have created a new sn. It is
beantown828
For those of you Newtonites, Bean Town being my nickname that everyone calls me out at Wisc, and 828 being my birthday.
The Important Part: Because I have lost my buddy list, PLEASE PLASE PLASE im me so I can put you all on my list- I really feel like I have lost touch with a lot of you and feel awful about it because I really do care about you all and miss you when I am out west. Because there were about 80 names on my list, I can't even begin to remember the spelling and intricacies of more than about 10 of them so I am relying on you to help me here. Thank you all.
brian
Oh, and guess I should leave a little something for Matloff so here is a quote of the day, "This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating."
-W as quoted in the New York Daily News 4/23/02
...I feel your pain brother
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| Thursday, April 1st, 2004
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7:01 pm - To all current seinors
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Hey all (especially class of 04),
for those of you cotemplating and waiting to know where you will be next year, a friend of mine emailed me this article the other day from the Times. It is written by David Brooks (yes Josh, a conservative columnist) and is one of the best and most rue things I have read in a long time. From a college perspective, it could not be closer to the truth.
Stressed For Success?
By David Brooks
Many of you high school seniors are in a panic at this time of year, coping with your college acceptance or rejection letters. Since the admissions process has gone totally insane, it's worth reminding yourself that this is not a particularly important moment in your life.
You are being judged according to criteria that you would never use to judge another person and which will never again be applied to you once you leave higher ed.
For example, colleges are taking a hard look at your SAT scores. But if at any moment in your later life you so much as mention your SAT scores in conversation, you will be considered a total jerk. If at age 40 you are still proud of your scores, you may want to contemplate a major life makeover.
More than anything else, colleges are taking a hard look at your grades. To achieve that marvelous G.P.A., you will have had to demonstrate excellence across a broad range of subjects: math, science, English, languages etc.
This will never be necessary again. Once you reach adulthood, the key to success will not be demonstrating teacher-pleasing competence across fields; it will be finding a few things you love, and then committing yourself passionately to them.
The traits you used getting good grades might actually hold you back. To get those high marks, while doing all the extracurricular activities colleges are also looking for, you were encouraged to develop a prudential attitude toward learning. You had to calculate which reading was essential and which was not. You could not allow yourself to be obsessed by one subject because if you did, your marks in the other subjects would suffer. You could not take outrageous risks because you might fail.
You learned to study subjects that are intrinsically boring to you; slowly, you may have stopped thinking about which subjects are boring and which exciting. You just knew that each class was a hoop you must jump through on your way to a first-class university. You learned to thrive in adult-supervised settings.
If you have done all these things and you are still an interesting person, congratulations, because the system has been trying to whittle you down into a bland, complaisant achievement machine.
But in adulthood, you'll find that a talent for regurgitating what superiors want to hear will take you only halfway up the ladder, and then you'll stop there. The people who succeed most spectacularly, on the other hand, often had low grades. They are not prudential. They venture out and thrive where there is no supervision, where there are no preset requirements.
Those admissions officers may know what office you held in school government, but they can make only the vaguest surmises about what matters, even to your worldly success: your perseverance, imagination and trustworthiness. Odds are you don't even know these things about yourself yet, and you are around you a lot more.
Even if the admissions criteria are dubious, isn't it still really important to get into a top school? I wonder. I spend a lot of time meeting with students on college campuses. If you put me in a room with 15 students from any of the top 100 schools in this country and asked me at the end of an hour whether these were Harvard kids or Penn State kids, I would not be able to tell you.
There are a lot of smart, lively young people in this country, and you will find them at whatever school you go to. The students at the really elite schools may have more social confidence, but students at less prestigious schools may learn not to let their lives be guided by other people's status rules -- a lesson that is worth the tuition all by itself.
As for the quality of education, that's a matter of your actually wanting to learn and being fortunate enough to meet a professor who electrifies your interest in a subject. That can happen at any school because good teachers are spread around, too.
So remember, the letters you get over the next few weeks don't determine anything. Picking a college is like picking a spouse. You don't pick the "top ranked" one, because that has no meaning. You pick the one with the personality and character that complements your own.
You may have been preparing for these letters half your life. All I can say is welcome to adulthood, land of the anticlimaxes.
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| Sunday, February 29th, 2004
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5:47 pm
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this picture was teken by the good doctor himself upon his arrival in Madison a few weeks ago. Interesting shot, amazing we both ended up in the picture.
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| Monday, February 23rd, 2004
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9:50 pm - To all who were in CFC
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Ok, so i know i haven't posted in ages but i figure some of you who were in Cuban Fizzle Crisis (i have no clue how many of you read this) would want to hear this. A few weekends ago, after a night of heavy partying I returned to my dorm to play some music with some friends on my floor. Quite a few people gathered around to listen. I was playing a banjo of all instruments (don't ask) and somebody asked me to play a funny song. So I played my personal favorite from CFC, Boobies. No one believed me that it was an actual song and thought I was pulling shit out of my ass. But alas, I had a cd.
Since then you would not believe how many people have asked to hear the song (the coppy I have is from the Natick show) and how many times I have emailed the mp3 to people. All I can say is that loads of people on my floor now love a band that they only know as a bunch of fun and crazy kids from the East Coast. CFC in Madison... pretty crazy, eh?
In other news I am coming home March 12th-21st. Can't wait to see anyone who will be around.
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| Friday, October 17th, 2003
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11:45 pm - WOW
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I almost never post but this was too good to pass up. Unbelievable that i got it off of mattloff's journal.
In other news, college is amazing. Hope everyone else is doing well. Drop me a line sometime, bashactman@wisc.edu
current mood: tipsy-borderline wasted
current music: bruce (who else)
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| Sunday, March 30th, 2003
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8:49 pm
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The following was published in todays NY Times. I think it is one of the best analytical perspectivs I have read yet (although as everyone knows, I am very bias). If you have a minute, read it.
Mattloff, if you get the chance, I would love for you to respond to it, or at least unblock me from your buddy list so that we can discuss it. I would be interested to hear your opinion on it.
Back Off, Syria and Iran!
By MAUREEN DOWD
WASHINGTON —We're shocked that the enemy forces don't observe the rules of war. We're shocked that it's hard to tell civilians from combatants, and friends from foes. Adversaries use guerrilla tactics; they are irregulars; they take advantage of the hostile local weather and terrain; they refuse to stay in uniform. Golly, as our secretary of war likes to say, it's unfair.
Some of their soldiers are mere children. We know we have overwhelming, superior power, yet we can't use it all. We're stunned to discover that the local population treats our well-armed high-tech troops like invaders.
Why is all this a surprise again? I know our hawks avoided serving in Vietnam, but didn't they, like, read about it?
"The U.S. was planning on walking in here like it was easy and all," a young marine named Jimmy Paiz told ABC News this weekend with a rueful smile. "It's not that easy to conquer a country, is it?"
We will conquer the country, and it will be gratifying to see the satanic Saddam running like a rat through the rubble of his palaces. But it was hard not to have a few acid flashbacks to Vietnam at warp speed.
The hawks want Iraq to be the un-Vietnam, to persuade us that war is a necessary disciplinary tool of the only superpower, that America has a moral duty to spread democracy. This time, we crush the opposition swiftly. This time, the domino theory works in reverse, as repressive regimes in the Middle East fall in a chain reaction set off by a democratic Baghdad. Yet in just a week we've seen peace marches, world opinion painting us as belligerent, and draining battlefield TV images.
We saw American commanders expressing doubts about a war plan that the Pentagon insisted was going splendidly while being vague about the body count. "The enemy we're fighting is a bit different than the one we war-gamed against," Lt. Gen. William Wallace, the Army's senior ground commander, told reporters. (No doubt, that truthful heads up will earn General Wallace a slap down.)
Retired generals were even more critical of the Rumsfeld doctrine of underwhelming force. The defense chief is so enamored of technology and air power that he overrode the risk of pitting 130,000-strong American ground forces — the vast majority of the front-line troops have never fired at a live enemy before — against 350,000 Iraqi fighters, who have kept their aim sharp on their own people.
The incoherence of the battle plan — which some retired generals say is three infantry divisions short — has made the guts and stamina and ingenuity of American forces even more remarkable.
Rummy was beginning to erase his fingerprints. "The war plan," he said, "is Tom Franks's war plan." Tommy, we hardly knew ye.
Paul Wolfowitz, Rummy's deputy, conceded that the war planners may have underestimated the hardiness of the heartless Iraqi fighters.
This admission is galling. You can't pound the drums for war by saying Saddam is Hitler and then act surprised when he proves ruthless on the battlefield.
In their wild dreamscape, the hawks envision Iraq as the rolling start of a broader campaign to bring other rogue states, like Iran and North Korea, to heel.
But in pursuit of what they call a "moral" foreign policy, they stretched and obscured the truth. First, they hyped C.I.A. intelligence to fit their contention that Saddam and Al Qaeda were linked. Then they sent Colin Powell out with hyped evidence about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Then, when they were drawing up the battle plan, they soft-pedaled C.I.A. and Pentagon intelligence warnings that U.S. troops would face significant resistance from Saddam's guerrilla fighters.
In cranking up their war plan with expurgated intelligence, the hawks left the ground troops exposed and insufficiently briefed on the fedayeen. Ideology should not shape facts when lives are at stake.
Asked about General Wallace's remarks, Donald Rumsfeld shrugged them off, noting that anyone who read Amnesty International reports should have known the Iraqis were barbarians.
Rummy was too busy shaking his fist at Syria and Iran to worry about the shortage of troops in Iraq.
As one administration official marveled: "Hasn't the guy bitten off enough this week?"
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1:40 pm
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In light of yesterdays rally, i have decided to post some of my favorite anti-war signs that I saw throughout the day. While I may not completely agree with all of them- I thought many were very clever. Those of you there with me, feel free to add to the list cause I cannot even come close to remembering all of those that we comemted on.
George W. Bush is pro-life: Offer not valid in certain areas.
Let's bomb Texas, they have oil too.
Bush, Chaney, Rumsfeld, The three asses of evil.
Regime change starts at home.
O peration
I raqi
L iberation
yeah right
War is a weapon of mass destruction.
In addition here are some of my memories from the day.
Standing at the top of Boylston St and seeing people as far as the eye could see.
Marching past the apartment and seeing the people waving the French Flag from the window.
Getting a text message on Ari's phone from Jo saying she saw us on T.V.
Watching the idiot sitting on top of the lamp post at the rally cursing at all of us becuse we were rallying against the war.
Watching the same idiot flap his arms as he fell to the ground when the lamp post broke.
Marching with the drummers and every few minutes listen to the wistle that would symbolize the call for 30,000 people to yell "Drop Bush, not bombs!"
Dancing in the street by Shreeve Crump and Low to the beat of the Boston Drummers and ring of the church clock.
When Newton South marched with Newton Dialouges and Mrs. Planenie (sp?)
Seeing Cascino and his family- a true symbol of an anti-war movement.
Marching past the cop who was decked out in riot gear yet giving us the peace sign and a big thumbs up.
Watching the spectators in awe as the streets of boston were filled with people being patriotic to this country.
Seeing my dad recalling the days when he stood on the common protesting and hearing him say how proud he was of me.
Being with good friends to share the moment.
In a weekend that has been mared by disapointment and in a world that has that has been dominated by shock and sadness- this one couple of hours I will remember for a long time in a very bittersweet yet fond way.
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| Friday, March 28th, 2003
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7:30 pm - Senate Remarks by Robert C. Byrd, March 19, 2003
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"The Arrogance of Power"
US Senator Robert C. Byrd said yesterday "I believe in this beautiful country. I have studied its roots and gloried in the wisdom of its magnificent Constitution. I have marveled at the wisdom of its founders and framers. Generation after generation of Americans has understood the lofty ideals that underlie our great Republic. I have been inspired by the story of their sacrifice and their strength. "
Senator Byrd said "But, today I weep for my country. I have watched the events of recent months with a heavy, heavy heart. No more is the image of America one of strong, yet benevolent peacekeeper. The image of America has changed. Around the globe, our friends mistrust us, our word is disputed, our intentions are questioned."
He added "Instead of reasoning with those with whom we disagree, we demand obedience or threaten recrimination. Instead of isolating Saddam Hussein, we seem to have isolated ourselves. We proclaim a new doctrine of preemption which is understood by few and feared by many. We say that the United States has the right to turn its firepower on any corner of the globe which might be suspect in the war on terrorism. We assert that right without the sanction of any international body. As a result, the world has become a much more dangerous place."
He added "We flaunt our superpower status with arrogance. We treat UN Security Council members like ingrates who offend our princely dignity by lifting their heads from the carpet. Valuable alliances are split. After war has ended, the United States will have to rebuild much more than the country of Iraq. We will have to rebuild America's image around the globe."
Senator Byrd said "There is no credible information to connect Saddam Hussein to 9/11. The twin towers fell because a world-wide terrorist group, Al Qaeda, with cells in over 60 nations, struck at our wealth and our influence by turning our own planes into missiles, one of which would likely have slammed into the dome of this beautiful Capitol except for the brave sacrifice of the passengers on board. The brutality seen on September 11th and in other terrorist attacks we have witnessed around the globe are the violent and desperate efforts by extremists to stop the daily encroachment of western values upon their cultures. That is what we fight. It is a force not confined to borders. It is a shadowy entity with many faces, many names, and many addresses. But, this Administration has directed all of the anger, fear, and grief which emerged from the ashes of the twin towers and the twisted metal of the Pentagon towards a tangible villain, one we can see and hate and attack. And villain he is. But, he is the wrong villain."
Senator Byrd asked "What is happening to this country? When did we become a nation which ignores and berates our friends? When did we decide to risk undermining international order by adopting a radical and doctrinaire approach to using our awesome military might? How can we abandon diplomatic efforts when the turmoil in the world cries out for diplomacy? Why can this President not seem to see that America's true power lies not in its will to intimidate, but in its ability to inspire?"
Senator Byrd said "The case this Administration tries to make to justify its fixation with war is tainted by charges of falsified documents and circumstantial evidence. We cannot convince the world of the necessity of this war for one simple reason. This is a war of choice."
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| Wednesday, March 26th, 2003
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8:29 pm - Thanks Ari
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| Monday, March 24th, 2003
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5:23 pm
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RE11MA: Students back from Spring Break at SFU are on strike. Trying to shut down the college altogether. I heard this said, "We remember our older brothers and sisters demonstrating against the Vietnam War, and we feel exactly the same way about this one. Except, we don't have time for another Vietnam - we are trying to get it over with NOW, not years from now."
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| Wednesday, February 26th, 2003
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3:16 pm - Helen Thomas
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Well, after going a long time without updating my journal, i have decided to update again. How often and when- who knows. The following transcrpit was inspired by aris jornal and is a conversation between Helen Thomas and Ari Fliecher. For those of you who dont know of helen thomas, she is one of the longest and most respected members of the White House Press Core. Thomas has asked very tough questions of all presidents whether it be Johnson, Nixon, Reagon, Clinton or now Bush. The following is one such session.
January 6, 2003 – 12:35 P.M. EST
MR. FLEISCHER: Good afternoon and happy New Year to everybody. The President began his day with an intelligence briefing, followed by an FBI briefing. Then he had a series of policy briefings. And this afternoon, the President will look forward to a Cabinet meeting where the President will discuss with members of his Cabinet his agenda for the year. The President is going to focus on economic growth, making America a more compassionate country, and providing for the security of our nation abroad and on the homefront.
And with that, I'm more than happy to take your questions. Helen.
HELEN THOMAS: At the earlier briefing, Ari, you said that the President deplored the taking of innocent lives. Does that apply to all innocent lives in the world? And I have a follow-up.
MR. FLEISCHER: I refer specifically to a horrible terrorist attack on Tel Aviv that killed scores and wounded hundreds. And the President, as he said in his statement yesterday, deplores in the strongest terms the taking of those lives and the wounding of those people, innocents in Israel.
MS. THOMAS: My follow-up is, why does he want to drop bombs on innocent Iraqis?
MR. FLEISCHER: Helen, the question is how to protect Americans, and our allies and friends --
MS. THOMAS: They're not attacking you.
MR. FLEISCHER: -- from a country --
MS. THOMAS: Have they laid the glove on you or on the United States, the Iraqis, in 11 years?
MR. FLEISCHER: I guess you have forgotten about the Americans who were killed in the first Gulf War as a result of Saddam Hussein's aggression then.
MS. THOMAS: Is this revenge, 11 years of revenge?
MR. FLEISCHER: Helen, I think you know very well that the President's position is that he wants to avert war, and that the President has asked the United Nations to go into Iraq to help with the purpose of averting war.
MS. THOMAS: Would the President attack innocent Iraqi lives?
MR. FLEISCHER: The President wants to make certain that he can defend our country, defend our interests, defend the region, and make certain that American lives are not lost.
MS. THOMAS: And he thinks they are a threat to us?
MR. FLEISCHER: There is no question that the President thinks that Iraq is a threat to the United States.
MS. THOMAS: The Iraqi people?
MR. FLEISCHER: The Iraqi people are represented by their government. If there was regime change, the Iraqi --
MS. THOMAS: So they will be vulnerable?
MR. FLEISCHER: Actually, the President has made it very clear that he has not dispute with the people of Iraq. That's why the American policy remains a policy of regime change. There is no question the people of Iraq --
MS. THOMAS: That's a decision for them to make, isn't it? It's their country.
MR. FLEISCHER: Helen, if you think that the people of Iraq are in a position to dictate who their dictator is, I don't think that has been what history has shown.
MS. THOMAS: I think many countries don't have -- people don't have the decision -- including us.
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| Tuesday, June 18th, 2002
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12:41 am - completion
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junior year is done. Mixed emotions, but overall, relief.
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| Monday, June 3rd, 2002
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12:07 am
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Hmmm, kinda wierd
Im tired
Im sick of school
I am angry with certain parental people
I have done homework all day
I still have more to do
No more congress for 3 months (= too much free time?!?)
Yet, I am pretty happy.
Jeeze, I hate it when I can't explain my emotions
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Reflection for the day,
"Alber Einstien was so slow to speak as a child that his parents were afraid he was retarted. When they asked a teacher what courses the boy should take, the teacher replied that it did not matter since the boy would never be a success at anything."
-The AMERCIANS A History
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| Thursday, May 23rd, 2002
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10:42 pm
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ok, so i just finished packing. I have a box filled with over 50 files and I am so phsyed to leave for pittsburg tomarrow morning for nationals. See you all on Monday!
Reflection for the day:
"Yankees suck, Yankees suck,"
-any real baseball fan
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| Tuesday, May 14th, 2002
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10:38 pm
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| Monday, May 13th, 2002
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10:56 pm
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Everything is so confusing in my life right now. I wish i could just take a week and have time stop in its tracks, just to think things over. I feel like I have upset someone who I have been trying to please and as a result, I feel so selfish.
I have nationals in less than two weeks. I wish I could just sit at my computer and prep for them, just to take my mind off everything. I am sick of thinking and anylyzing everything, I wish I could sometimes just accept things for face value and not divulge into layers upon layers of them. I didnt mean for this to sound so negative, I'm really not that unhappy. I just feel kinda down for some reason. Oh well, I'm sure sleeping in on Wednesday will do me well. Thank you sophomores.
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Reflection for the day
"You can fool some of the people all of the time or all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people, all of the time.
-Abraham Lincoln
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| Wednesday, May 1st, 2002
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6:49 pm - In refute
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Mr. Mattloff,
With all due respect, and since you didnt leave your comment section open, I want to appolagize for your recent reason for relocation. But at the same time, just like you strongly believe that a women has a right to choose, I strongly believe that people should have the right to have a say in our democratic system. By voting for the override, we left the decision to the people and clearly, their decision was clear-better schools, better safety and a better way of life. So thank you for saying thank you to all those who voted for the override, anytime pal.
At the same time however, I understand your concearn. Retired people deserve lower taxes. That is why Newton is currently 34th on a long list of cities that have the most expensive taxes. By voting to affirm the override, we only affirmed what everytown with the exception of watertown has allready done. Needham, for example, has passed two overrides. I dont think an extra $400 a year will bankrupt any elderly person, especially one who lives in Newton.
But what this extra $400 does is affirm a long standing position of excellence in the Newton Public Schools. It affirms that every student will have a fair and wonderful chance to learn. It affirms that every resident can feel safe in a post September 11th world. It affirms that all residents can retain high property values and without exception affirms that Newton will continue to remain one of the greatest places to live in the Commenwealth of Massachussetts. No one likes to see taxes increased, but unfortunately, when the state cuts your funding and has a governor that spends reckliously on projects such as the Big Dig and the "I Need to Steal More Police Helicopter Fund" there is unfortunitly no other viable alternative. Unfrtunitly, that is how things are in this world now.
But the fundamental, underliying theme, is that I deserve a better education. Bryan, Talya, Mike, Eric, Tim, Sandy, Adi and the whole lot of them deserve a better education. Clearly you need a better education because currently, you seem quite uneducated on the subject. The floor is open for debate my friend, you started it, back it up.
Brian Shactman
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| Sunday, April 28th, 2002
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man it has been a very wierd weekend. A lot of stuff going on, all of which is very confusing. States was a bit of a dissapointment for me, I placed fifth which was good but I think I could have done better. I feel especially bad for my friend Dan Chaparian who got screawed in the judging because they didnt count one of his speeches. O, well there is always next year.
current mood:  anxious
current music: elton john Levon
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| Friday, April 26th, 2002
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11:55 pm
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tomarrow is my day. I have been gearing up for this tournament for so long and now, on its eve I am ready, phsyed and calm (although I guarrentee I woun't be calm come tomarrow morning). Things are going really well for me right now, hopefully, they will continue for one more saturday. Its nothing too important- only the state championiship. Good luck Shaq (its a motavation thing)
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| Saturday, April 13th, 2002
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11:07 am
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life is good right now. Today I am going to the sox yankees game. Tomarrow I leave for D.C. to look at Georgetown, Goerge Washington and Maryland. From there on wednesday I leave for Fort. Lauderdale Florida and the Whyndam Resort, host to this years National Congress Tournament Of Champions (my first nationals!) and come home late monday night, hopefully with a big trophy in my carry-on suitcase. Have a kick ass break everyone, when we get back, its the home stretch, it will be over soon and then... SUMMER.
reflection for the day
something i came across in my research for this weeks tournament, kind of liked it.
"The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one."
-Hubert Humphrey
current mood:  cheerful
current music: Janice Joppland- break my heart
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