WHAT KIND OF RETARDED BACKWARDS PRIMITIVE BARBARIC SOCIETY IS THIS THAT IS STILL USES SOMETHING AS RIDICULOUSLY IDIOTIC AS A DEATH PENALTY???!!

HAHA!!!  I FEEL SMART NOW!!!

(quotes from http://quotes.prolix.nu/War/)

"Never has there been a good war or a bad peace." ---Benjamin Franklin

"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 NOT CLOTHED." ---Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a CRIME." ---Ernest Hemingway

"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country.  But in modern war, there is NOTHING sweet nor fitting in your dying.  You will die like a DOG for NO GOOD REASON." ---Ernest Hemingway

"What difference does it make to the DEAD, the ORPHANS, and the HOMELESS whether the MAD DESTRUCTION is wrought under the name of TOTALITARIANISM or the holy name of LIBERTY and DEMOCRACY?" --- Gandhi

"Join the army, meet interesting people, KILL them." ---graffiti

"Naturally, the common people don't want war. . . but after all it is the LEADERS of a country who determine the policy. . . the people call ALWAYS be brought to do the bidding of the leaders.  THAT IS EASY.  All you have to do is to tell them they are being ATTACKED, and DENOUNCE THE PACIFISTS for lack of PATRIOTISM and exposing the country to DANGER.  IT WORKS THE SAME IN EVERY COUNTRY." ---Hermann Goering

"VIOLENCE IS THE FIRST REFUGE OF THE INCOMPETENT." ---Isaac Asimov

"The battle was over.  Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few yards of useless mud." ---John Fowles

"'Anything worth living for,' said Nately, 'is worth dying for.'  And anything worth dying for,' answered the old man, 'is certainly worth living for.'" ---Joseph Heller

"Anyone who truly wants to go to war, has NEVER TRULY BEEN THERE BEFORE!" ---Larry Reeves

". . . and they all want the same thing - not to lie UNDER the earth, but to WALK UPON IT - without crutches." ---Peter Weiss

PEOPLE WILL NOT WELCOME LIBERATION AT THE POINT OF A GUN

for anyone who's interested, maple's running the log1 contest this year.  online.  with the answers typed into little boxes and the correct format, and it's full of bugs.  my computer spammed me with warning signs that wouldn't close so by the end of the test, i had 20 little warning signs at the bottom of my window.  and michael got a proxy error so none of us know if his test counted.  and it says no calculators but how's anyone going to enforce that?  and everyone gets different randomly-generated questions!  how's that fair?  it's all very confusing, i only got 48% and i think i missed several because i didn't type them in the correct format.  also we only get 30 minutes but after time runs out, we're still allowed to finish the question we're currently working on.  i think that's bogus.  theoretically, someone could spend an hour on the last question and it would be fine!

last year the test was given on paper, which seems to be much more accurate and efficient.

An Ode to Mathematics

there once lived a small spotted brown and black cat,

who loved to do math and ignored mouse and rat,

but instead sat thinking all day on a mat.

he died of a huge headache and that was that.

let p be an integer prime.

now solve this hard problem in time,

using parity,

multiples of three,

and other such methods sublime.

but two men walked inside,

then three men came out.

and scientists wondered

how this came about.

one claimed, "they multiplied."

"we count wrong," thought one.

the third said, "if one more

goes in, there are none!"

http://www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/AYB2.swf

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!!!

today, my english class did poetry presentations.  first, mrs. R put up statistics for the their eyes were watching god test, and only one person in my whole class got an A and that was a low A too, it was 91 (ask me how i know that), and then we did poetry presentations.  my assigned poem was about some moron called ty kendricks who was in trial for killing a black man.  but he got off easy because he was white.  so it was really about prejudice.  mujen read the poem and did a few questions, then i did my analysis part.  i wrote notes on a piece of paper and looked off it, but i was still getting disoriented and i got stuck a couple times, but i covered all the stuff in some random order.  mrs R was having an issue over how people said "like" a lot, and i didn't use "like" once!  but that's just because i've been watching myself since 8th grade and go out of my way to avoid "like."  except in cases where "i like pizza" or "that sounds like a violin," but anyways.  by now, you've doubtless noticed all that long paragraph was to give my new background music a chance to really take off.

five little ducks went swimming one day

over the hills and far away

inevitably, one got gulped by a fox

then mother duck would be at a loss

for when she said "quack quack quack quack"

always, one less duck came back

i took the PSAT today and the math was fine.  notice what i'm not saying.