I'll miss your journals SQB. :( I hope you reconsider. If not, take care of yourself and maybe our paths will cross in the future.

I would like to dedicate this post to certain people who have not posted in a while *looking at you jillian. How in the world am I supposed to stalk you if you do not update? Speaking of which, I have IMed you twice in the past week to no response. I don't hold that against you as I assume it is your parents online. Good thing I didn't say anything inappropriate, well, THAT inappropriate.

On to other things. I am really enjoying some of the new banners.

That is quite the rant (e:maureen) . I totally understand and agree with you. Try not to let their ignorance get you down. It is their problem not yours.

Hmmm. I came back from a party in my building today to my roommates parents in the apartment. I am so socially awkward and hate small talk, so I am hiding in my room right now. That is kind of rude I guess. I just really hate being forced to chat about nothing with people that I kind of know.

Hmmmm. Hopefully I can be productive this weekend. I have to go check my voice mail to see if my cousin called when I was out. He was supposed to call me so we could meet up tomorrow, while he is in town. I would've waited for the call, but I did that last week and he didn't call until 8 hours after he said he would. This forced me to miss a meeting that I had to be at. Its not that I would mind skipping the meeting if I got to see him, but skipping the meeting just to wait for a call that never came ticked me off. Oh well. Hopefully he called and we can do something tomorrow. Talk to you all later.

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That is such an interesting version of the song. Very unnerving. I saw them back in May at the Patriot Center. It was a good show, though I have to admit, I went to see James Iha more than APC. I miss the Smashing Pumpkins and will take what I can get.



the image was stolen from Infinite Pics all the Smashing Pumpkins Pics you could ever need.

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Though this does sound scary, it is all just grandstanding. If the Supreme Court wants to hear a case, it will hear a case and there is nothing short of a constitutional amendment that will stop them. Laws such as these are to allow legislators to go back to their districts, say they did something to fight these great social ills, and then blame the courts when they say it is bs. Congress knows full well this doesn't mean anything other than something to tell the consituents.

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Though they are trying to give an appearance of fairness, I believe the news is biased. Just go to the signers of the petition and see how many reporters signed their name. I am not saying that it is a good or bad thing. Some of the best and most important news reporting was done by muckrakers with an agenda. It is just important that we are aware of the fact the media is biased.

Because I am bored and a big loser, I read through all the signatures on the petition and their are quite a few recognizable names including many reporters both for the News and TV as well as Kevin Gaughn-regionalism activist. I know there is no way to verify that these are actually them, but interesting none the less

Why are there no fucking happy mediums with me!!!!!!!!!!

Hey Everyone,
My sister is doing a project for her photography class on photojournalism, and I was wondering if anyone knew of any protest/marches/rallies etc scheduled in the Buffalo area that she could go to and document. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Hey all. I'm in the computer lab right now killing time between classes. I just read an article about policy subsystems and their role in the formation of some of the most important policies in the country and noone really pays attention to them. It was a really good article. I had to read it for my Political and Organizational Leadership class. It has been a really good class so far. It is just the type of stuff I want to study - how the government actually functions etc. I also have to do another reading for this class today from the book "Who's Running America: The Bush Restoration" by David Rusk . I highly reccomend reading this book if you even want to know who has the REAL power in America. It is actually the latest in a series of books that goes back to the Carter Administration. With each presidential administration, Rusk writes a new book about who the elites in society are, from business, to government, to special interest, to nonprofits etc. He looks at where they come from, how they got there etc. It is really interesting to see who controls the power and how they got to control it. He takes a fairly positive approach in his research and looks at who has the power by breaking each grouping (government, business) by the most powerful actors in each - the department heads, CEOs, CFOs and they shows where they came from. He does not make value judgements as to whether it is good that they all come from the same few schools etc, he lets you draw your own conclusions. I cannot strees how important it is to know who these people are. They are the ones that control America and making the decisions that affect everyone. But anyway, I already read the chapter, I just have to go to the book store and look over it again as I have a quiz on it but I still don't have the book and neither does the library.

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THough I think this would be a great idea ( I am a huge supporter of public transportation), isn't that sort of what they did on Main Street and that killed business. I agree, it would be great and such an improvement if it worked but I have my doubts. We don't need another sucking sound that is most of Main