Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten,
habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Kommunist.

Als sie die Sozialdemokraten einsperrten,
habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Sozialdemokrat.

Als sie die Gewerkschafter holten,
habe ich nicht protestiert;
ich war ja kein Gewerkschafter.

Als sie die Juden holten,
habe ich nicht protestiert;
ich war ja kein Jude.

Als sie mich holten,
gab es keinen mehr, der protestieren konnte.

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When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,
I did not speak out;
I was not a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.

---Martin Niemoller, "First They Came"

once, there was a boy named sine and a man named tangent.  and there was a girl named cosine.  now, sine and cosine were short, but tangent was tall.  so sine climbed on top of cosine.  and sine over cosine equals tangent!  haha!

---chenyu lin, master of entropy: complicating the world one ordered system at a time

down with the idiots in congress trying to get flag-burning banned.  as of now, the government of this country is barely upholding a fundamental policy that defines this country: FREEDOM.  to ban flag-burning is to utilize dictator-like restrictions against the paramount freedom of speech established by the constitution so long ago.  my sincerest applause and gratitude to those few with sense in the senate that kept this moronic bill from progressing.

http://www.human-evolution.org/images/burn.gif

an extremely neatly written quote:

"As a believer in freedom, limited government, and a staunch supporter of individual rights, one might think that an amendment to the constitution to protect an inanimate object at the expense of personal liberty and outside the context of personal property is --and not to put too fine a point on it-- insane. There are many Civil libertarians, coalitions of veterans, religious leaders, and other Americans who believe that such a constitutional amendment would undermine the very principles for which the American flag stands."

---http://www.human-evolution.org/feature_flag_burning.php

and as for this whole fuss in general, and considering the current situation this country is in today, HASN'T THE GOVERNMENT GOT ANYTHING BETTER TO DO THAN SIT AROUND DEBATING WHETHER OR NOT PEOPLE CAN BURN LITTLE PIECES OF WORTHLESS, INANIMATE CLOTH?

geez.

why change yourself for the worse to conform to the demands of your lecherous, jealous pseudo-friends?

in this country, to ensure fair, unbaised trials, the jury is pulled from the ignorant masses of the american population, a people easily swayed by their pre-developed prejudices and a well-delivered speech.

there is something wrong with this country when "justice" is determined by who can hire a more effective lawyer, as opposed to whether a person committed a crime or not.  minor medical slips are penalized by millions of dollars in courts, simply because a persecuting lawyer appeals well to a jury intent on helping "everyday people", while punishments for serious criminals vary vastly depending on how convincingly a lawyer can portray a murderer as a previously abused child.  a person who commits a crime is punished fairly whether their lawyer can speak persuasively or not, right?

wrong.

TWO OF THE DUMBEST PHILOSOPHIES I'VE EVER HEARD ARE AS FOLLOWS:

1) DON'T STUDY.  IF YOU STUDY AND THEN DON'T DO WELL, YOU'LL FEEL LIKE IT'S A WASTE OF TIME.  SO AVOID TRYING AND FAILING.

2) COMPETITION IS BAD.  BEING TOO COMPETITIVE IS NOT FUN AND WHEN YOU'RE LESS COMPETITIVE, YOU HAVE MORE FRIENDS.

NOW WHAT KIND OF IDIOT WOULD BELIEVE SOMETHING LIKE THIS??!!!  IS IT BETTER TO ACCEPT CERTAIN FAILURE AND BE AN UNMOTIVATED LOUT?  OR TO CATER TO A PACK OF JEALOUS PSEUDOFRIENDS?  WHY IS IT NECESSARY TO EMBRACE BEING A LOSER?  WHAT KIND OF "FRIENDS" WOULD WANT A FRIEND TO BE A LOSER??!!!

THESE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT WILL BE THE FUTURE LEADERS AND PRESIDENTS.  THESE FAKE LEADERS WILL ACT ON POPULAR APPROVAL AND BASK IN THE SUPPORT OF THE IGNORANT, ENVIOUS, UNMOTIVATED MASSES.  THOSE THAT NEVER ACT FOR FEAR OF FAILURE, AND THOSE THAT BASK IN THE PERCEIVED SUPPORT OF LECHEROUS "FRIENDS."  THIS IS THE END OF UPRIGHT LEADERS AND THE DAWN OF THE AGE OF THE CRAWLING, LOWLY, SNIVELLING RULE BY POPULARITY WHO WILL "LEAD" OTHERS INTO GUARANTEED FAILURE AND INSIGNIFICANCE!  AND SO, POLICY IS DICTATED BY THE WORST, TREACHEROUS, CONFORMIST MEMBERS OF ANY GROUP.  TO PEOPLE WHO THRIVE ON APPARENT SUPPORT,

DON'T PRETEND TO BE A LEADER.

http://kevan.org/johari?name=wobster109

http://kevan.org/nohari?name=wobster109

but if you say anything really mean, better use a fake name. . . .

following the decision on the mussaoui case, i am proud of the country and the jury for renouncing the violent solution and instead judging with fairness and justice.  after years of horrendously unpatriotic, unjust, and downright stupid laws under idiotic names, such as the "patriot act," this country is finally living up to the expectations written into its constitution.  entering the trial, the public opinion had seemed generally in favor of the death penalty, and humans have a tendency to follow the majority opinion.  it is much easier to be swept along by public demands rather than to make one's own decisions, for there is a security in knowing a decision will be popular and supported.  mussaoui's behavior in court has only worsened his position, and a death sentencing would doubtless have been popular.  however, the jurors have managed to reject easy decision-making based on public opinion and instead, have taken the more difficult and responsible task of thinking for themselves what a just decision would be, and they have acted as such.  and it is individual thinking and a conviction in one's own beliefs of what is right that distinguish humans from the mindless animals that only strive for survival.  a human must have his or her own beliefs as well, not just accepting what is easy.  and so, there is yet hope for the irrational, often mindless race of men.

 looking back at the last few entries, it has not been a good month

 STUPID AP EURO DUMB ESSAYS EVERYTHING ALL DONE FREEDOM!!! DEATH FROM SCORE REPORTS ASDF STUPID STUPID STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*sigh*