that if you can't say anything nice, then you shouldn't say anything at all, and I'm damned near rendered a mute for it.

This is the venue that I have the most freedom, and still, I find myself hitting the delete button nowadays. I feel shame for writing my most heartfelt beliefs sometimes, and it's not because I don't have any conviction in those beliefs, but rather, I realize that I may be preaching to the choir. Regardless, the casual attendee will place me out of context, and it's easy to do when you don't preach the PC lines. In my best Jack Nicholson impression, the truth is, "You can't handle the truth!"

What happened to that world I used to read about where people cared about what was really right or wrong, as opposed to what was politically correct or incorrect? What happened to that world where people cared about truth and justice? Was it all just a fairy-tale and it is actually me that can't handle the truth? And if so, how was I betrayed by the education that was given to me as a child?

It's a dirty, nasty, back-stabbing, toe-stomping, rat race of a world out there, and that's not the America they showed me in the history books. I've chosen what I believe, and what I do not believe from those books. I believe it can be better... but I also believe it's full of shit like the rest of the world.

Even the great and powerful Julius Caesar, after defeating Pompey the Great's army, had to show respect and some kind of remorse when given his head by the Egyptians. Even he could not lead without any followers. Do we enjoy this same luxury, or has the speed of computers only hastened the ability to brainwash with supportive propaganda? I for one feel like we're the butt end of a joke here, and there's not even a real attempt at concealment nowadays...

I'm sure there are others like me in this world, but I just don't know how to identify them. "We" are the anti-social types trying to sort through the shit that races through our brains from the time we wake, until the time we sleep... which also explains why we can't find eachother.

My passion for politics is different than the passions of many. For one, I could never realistically run for any political office, and not too many people will ever take me serious anyway. But the other way that it differs, is that I'm not really educated in politics.

Since I have been on Myspace these last few years, I have spent a LOT of time educating myself, but I discovered something interesting.

I discovered that feelings that I've harbored for most of my life, that I concluded independently through life experience, were not original thoughts at all even if there was little to no influence on my thinking.

That's important to me, because I think that anything we can not derive at with the sheer logic  and natural curiosity of humans, is just learned and repeated, and more than likely, taught for a reason. It's called brain washing.

When I started reading again, and realized that I held the essence and intentions of our founding fathers in my heart, it was really special to me. Further reading has led me to see where THEY had influence from, which dates back thousands of years, which is why I trust myself more and more. The roots of all problems always have and always will come back to human nature. Any laws ever put into place, should always be aimed at attacking the evil side of human nature, but often enough, they embrace evil while nobody is looking.

We've had a hundred years of law embracing evil while nobody was watching. There is no way to get this country back, aside from Revolution, and I'm sure of it. If I myself launched it, I'd be the lone "terrorist" on the news, and I'd never be heard from again, and all for nothing. But I can't wait for the numbers to get pissed off, because we need them now more than ever. When it's time to go in, I'm going to be ready. I will not let my kids grow up as slaves, and anyone that thinks I'm being melodramatic needs to brush up on their history.

We need to take back our government from the bankers with force. There is no other way.

I'm coaching my son's team now. I'm just an assistant coach, and while I know football, and I know kids, I don't know how to teach football to kids. My own son is different because I spend every day with him.

I got an old shitbox dumptruck today, and I'm happier than a pig in shit. I've been lusting after a dump truck for like 10 years, and I finally got it. It is ugly to my family, but beautiful to me. It is a workhorse, or as my first real leader said, "You got yourself a money-maker."

I see the beauty in things that other's do not. I make that dream I see, a reality, when others do not.

Which party was the leading contributor to the propaganda against marijuana in the early 20'th century? I don't know the answer, but it was naive, at best. This will be my next topic, because billions of potheads from then to now can't be wrong....

The conclusions they make are comical.

post script: while I don't know the party, I have seen the story, and it makes WAY more sense than the officially released version. Rumor has it, that the Attorney General (named Dupont), was related to a cotton king of sorts, and did not want hemp to compete with him industrially, so he gave it a Mexican name as we were warring with them to an extent, and made up facts before Senate that 90% of us users, experimented or not, know are not true.

Another day will tell... I promise you I will give you what I find.

That the 16'th Amendment was a tactful and illegal attack on the American people's ability to enforce the proper checks and balances on it's government as was clearly intended and stated within the Constitution, is not debatable to me. In no other instance that I can think of in American law has the BASE of the Constitution been blatantly reversed.

In Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution, it states, "No capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken." The 16'th Amendment is pathetic at best, "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."

From where does it derive this power? Ratification? If so, with ratification do they also derive the power to revoke  the freedoms of speech, press, religion, and assembly? Ratification provides flexibility and adaptation to take measure such are removing arm from felons, which is a reasonable one.

If your Congress voted tomorrow to strip you of your rights to free speech, press, etc, would you take it? Of course not. There would be continental rioting of epic proportions and for good reason; it's illegal. There is no flexibility in the Constitution that provides changes which strip us of our rights.

How does Article 1 section 8 protect us, and why did we just give it away when we would never allow our freedom of speech to be negotiated? The answer is not simple to the common people because not everyone has the time to see what is happening right before their very own eyes aside from their basic freedoms, and we failed to see the importance. The problem here is NOT taxes. Taxes are indeed inevitable and you're kidding yourself if you think otherwise. The only thing this law served to do was to put the federal government in a position to dangle funds in front of states that complied, and all checks and balances went out the window that very day it was signed into play.

The greatest document ever written in a civilized society was compromised at the point where the common person could not recognize it's significance lest they'd been briefed on thousands of years of politics amongst civilizations as Thomas Jefferson had.

I'm from Greater Boston, born and raised. We're in a rather privileged area of the country, if I do say so myself. You probably also know that I did not grow up privileged at all, but quit the opposite rather. I'm not rich, but according to statistics, we're at the top 10% of society in terms of income. I find that hilarious on one hand because I could make WAY more if I really cared, but sad on the other hand, because I am by no means living an extravagant lifestyle. What I have chosen instead is true peace, and happiness, and enjoying every moment that I have here. When in comparison with the stats, and seeing it all around me, what I'm witnessing is an enormous population of working poor and it isn't right.

Most of these working poor work for your retail stores, fast food chains, and customer service type jobs. They, as Americans, don't even have the time to pull out a calculator and figure out that they're making near poverty level because we work more hours in an average day than any country in the world.

It's even worse if I compare myself to someone in Indiana. I promise you, I could do 3 roofs here in Boston, and buy a house outright in Indiana, and that isn't right. What isn't right about it, is that my politicians are on board with big spending and backing bad bills that they don't even look at to gather funding for some project they have going that will win them merit with voters, while that same law probably screws that guy in Indiana and he's not for it.

With enumeration, there is no displacement of power, and that's the way it should be. Moreover, a law in Indiana doesn't work here, and vice-versa, and we've given away a vote and accountability.

In an imaginary world where I was President, the problems we have are simply fixed. First, repeal the 16'th amendment, and distribute the money per enumeration of census as was intended. In doing so and inviting the states to implement their own policies, it promotes a more healthy atmosphere for competition and the states falling behind in attracting constituents will adapt policies that work better, therefore providing more accountability of government.

In repealing the 16'th amendment, we would automatically assume some kind of decline in regulation. The poor have been brainwashed that deregulation will open the doors for the rich to exploit the poor, but I think the opposite. I think the bureaucratic mess and the costs associated with their miles of red tape for the most menial of tasks serve as the financial burden on the poor that stifles their talent from shining against the rich.

Next, I would gradually induce tariffs on imports to close the gap between the cost of our labor versus the cost of labor to the people in China. The mass imports we're allowing is obviously making our job pool smaller, while at the same time, it laughs in the face that we eliminated slavery. We're enabling the slavery of the people of China, and we ought to be ashamed of ourselves. What's worse, we're lowering our own standards to theirs, and soon we will not be much different.

Can't leave without addressing the, "Trickle down theory." The Republicans tow this line, and I never understood it. YOU CAN"T RUN A BUSINESS WITH NO CUSTOMERS. I'll say it again; you can't run a business with no customers. I like Reagan, but this one is too easy for me.

Anyway, that's all I have to say. I hope I was slightly clear and concise and can speak to people from both sides. I'm not a politician. I'm just calling it as I see it.

I've been reading a lot lately... real books, even, not just the stuff on the internets:)

Currently I'm reading "Fall of the Roman Republic" by Plutarch. What I thought I was getting would be more aptly titled, "Fall of the Roman Empire," but all that I got was more of history repeating itself for TWO THOUSAND fucking years!

The Germanic tribes that sought to take Rome, were the Muslim terrorists of their day, as evidenced by the women of their own tribes slaughtering their husbands and children before committing suicide, so as to avoid eternal slavery. I find it hilarious to note that as the Germanic tribes pushed forward past the base of the Romans fortification for a steady march of six days, they taunted them that they would give their wives messages for them once they made them their domestic slaves. It was a modern day, "I'll tell your bitch you said hi."

The Germanic tribes were defeated, but the Republic would continue to fall. I found it interesting to additionally note from Wikipedia, that two thousand years ago they had a system with checks and balances and seperation of powers as it's center point, much like our own Constitution was founded on, and that they too suffered an attack and corruption through translation.

And where they faltered as we have, is their uncontrolled and unfettered adulation of their own governments, who hijacked it in the name of greed for power and material possessions.

I can see it in my own city right now as we speak. I do not like my mayor one bit. Nor do I oppose the person wishing to replace that mayor. My problem is the fact that her name is Judith Flanagan Kennedy, and she's selling the acronym J.F.K., and the people are buying it. Massachusetts just fucking loves Kennedy's. Meanwhile, I scramble about seeking what her opinions and goals are, and I can find nothing. I even went to her office, and got no picture whatsoever of what she thinks or what would be her plan..

She will win. I will even vote for her, but I'm not happy about it, just less happy with what we have.  This is the mediocrity to which we have been reduced to; blind voting. A hope that the next person in line will at least be better than the last.

It's sickening. Really, it is. I am disgraced by the human race that we value so little that we wander so stupidly but bravely when others depend on our vote also.

We are now the Roman Empire, for anyone without a scorecard. We're going to fall, because we think we're so much better off than the rest of the world, when the truth is, we're clinging slightly to a system that was better than the rest of the world. It is almost gone.

My wife and I pulled up in front of the middle school we'd gone to (though then referred to as Jr. High), and though I am much bigger now, the building is still large and impressive to me. We were here to transfer my daughter out of the charter school she was in, and back into the public schools because we discovered that my third grader son had the same homework as she did in sixth grade.

Anyhow, we enter through the front doors, up a short set of stairs, and find the main office is immediately through a door to the right. Though it was a different office than I remember from going there, it had enough old ladies in the most boring pant suits and accessories to let us know that we were in the right place.

The sole younger woman comes immediately to our aid like the pack mule she probably is around there, and inquires as to our reason in their presence. We explain that we had pulled our daughter from the public schools and sent her to a charter school only to find that the curriculum there was not even close to being up to par and would now like to re-enroll her.

A couple of the older ones now jump into the conversation,  obviously ready to please at the mere mention that their school is superior to another. So my wife is talking to them and they're talking to each other like women often do (about everything other than what they're supposed to be talking about), and the friendliest of the older ladies cuts out to assist a young girl that has just walked into the office.

I watch as the two exchange words, but I don't even try to listen and have no idea what they're saying. The conversation finishes at, "Well, what are you even doing here? Aren't you supposed to be in class? You're just being disobedient now, aren't you?"

"Disobedient." It should not have bothered me so much, but it did. Throughout the day, I was doing things, and I kept coming back to that word. "Disobedient."

Here's the thing; I think it's just the selection of the word that bothers me, and not necessarily the meaning she'd intended, though I'm not sure of it. The first thing that popped into my head when she used that word was a dog. A dog can be obedient or disobedient.

To me, this was symbolic of an antiquated approach of parenting and/or teaching. It implies that they are talking AT children and not TO children. It implies that there are no choices at all in the matter, and that the child should just obey. It puts the  parent or teacher in the position of authoritarian and punisher and creates an unnecessary wall between them and the child. It is a direct attack on a person's free-will and will ALWAYS trigger the fight or flight defense mechanism in the child.

Should the child become accustomed to picking the flight option in life, chances are, that child will become a subservient with low self esteem. Should the child feed the impulse of free will and fight, they will do so more and more often, leading to the child becoming rebellious to all authority. The problem with this, in my mind, is that the wall never had to be built, and fight or flight were not the only options available.

Here's how the situation could have been the same but less of an attack for the child. "Aren't you supposed to be in class right now? Isn't it against the rules to just get up and walk out of class? Do you think that's a smart decision since it could get you suspended?

Both ways say virtually the same exact thing. Casting them as disobedient, to me, puts a wall directly in  the way of getting any rational thought to pass through their heads and only puts them on defense. My way makes them think about their own actions on their own, and make their own choice with no person wishing to punish them all the time.

Anyway, I lost a little of the passion of writing this as it got broken in half. One thing I know though, is that any person that would allow themselves to be forced to do anything not of their own free will is never going to make it in life. Free will and our right to protect it without hurting another is as natural as breathing. Helping another to be in a habit of analyzing how they use their own free will seems to me to be a much more productive way to go about it than forcing or implying, "obedience", and it leaves them in a situation where they don't learn to think and only learn to rebel.

Youth football is up and running. Today my boy had a 2 td game in a scrimmage. They were LONG td's, but just td's nonetheless .

Later in the day, we went to see a local Semi-Pro football team. That's when the crazy idea hit. I think I could be a productive player on that team if I quit bad habits and get to training. I was a fierce hitter and I just left the game. I most certainly can get back my top level with one year of training, but I definitely can't play the game again much longer. I feel like I don't want to miss it.

I should quit smoking and quit drinking. I should work out when my son is practicing, but my own way. But can I? Will I? I really want to hit someone... not violently. In sport.

...from roofing in Massachusetts.

It's really just a matter of principle. I could keep going, and adjust, but I don't want to waste my time. Materials doubled in 2 months. Insurances are through the roof. I can't get licensed without going to school now, even though I had the license and did everything above and beyond the building codes. I'm plenty competent.

I have no interest in adjusting, because it's a moronic move in a recession. A recession is a pull, of the push and pull system. The push is corporations. The pull is back to the people. We need pull. We need real pull. The little man is getting tossed aside for corporate bankers, and accountants, and lawyers, and marketing people. Those people all control the politicians.

You can bet that I'll be working. And I won't do anything illegal. I won't ask anyone in any system for one dime. And I will pay my bills, without subjecting myself to the path of paid slavery. Try to regulate me from being a great trash-picker.