I am going to only talk about this one time because I am busy. [inlink]jason,12[/inlink]

1. I can't understand why you live here. There are plenty of conservative neighborhoods that you could live in and feel at home. Why would you live in a little liberal village and then bitch about it? You will never channge the neighborhood's liberal slant, especially during a time when the conservative government's agenda has created such havok and death.

2. Why bother complaining about the local news liberal slant when you can turn on fox news and be satisfied with a conservative agenda 24/7.

3. I am also going to reiterate what (e:rachel) in a more direct way. We can never really settle on these issues. On many issues we are talking about complete binary opposites. These issues include war, gay marriage, tax cuts for the rich, reduction of social services, privatization, increased defense spending, religion involvement with the state and many more. There is no maybe in these. It's pretty much for or against.

4. Most importantly, you said in a previous journal you didn't want to talk about politics because you has been ostracized from other groups for it. Now you are talking about politics and still haven't even laid out what you stand for. That really leaves you in an awkward place. By avoiding actual issues and and not specifying your standpoint most people assume you don't even know what you believe in and that you are perhaps an idiot (fox-sheep) that follows the bush agenda. If I were you I would either drop the subject all togther and stop saying things like "local shit rags" or specify your beliefs so that other peeps people can rip you apart on a more informed level.

I remember (e:holly) and I talking about student plagarism once and how she had this "machine" at work that could seak out plagarism. Well here it is on the net . I noticed them while they were visiting our site for content. It kind of irritates me that they are sellling services based on our text.

What they do:
We prevent and detect plagiarism by comparing submitted papers to billions of pages of content located on the Internet and our proprietary databases. The results of our comparisons are compiled, one for each paper submitted, in custom "Originality Reports." These reports are sent to participating educators, who access the results by logging into their Turnitin account(s).

I canlt belive how these people prey on other people sense of compassion by using cancer. I hope they die.

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From: ATK REB <atk_reb@free.com.pe> Subject: Msg from Mrs Atkins Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 18:19:19 -0500 (PET)

Dear Sir, I greet you in the Name of GOD. I am MRS REBECCA ATKINS from South Africa. I am married to Late MR SMITH ATKINS of blessed memory who was an oil explorer in Kuwait and Brunei for fifteen years before he died in the year 2000. We were married for twelve years without a child. He died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days. Before his death we were both devoted to our God and respect other who serve him. Since his death, I too have been battling with both Cancer and fibroid problems. When my late Husband was alive he Deposited the sum of $18.5million (Eighteen Million, Five Hundred thousand U.S Dollars) with a Deposit Company in Europe.the money is deposited as Family Valuables/Treasure for security reasons. Recently, my doctor told me that I have only six months to live due to my cancer problem, and this lead to a stroke attack which bother me most though because I cannot move as I use to. Having known my condition I decided to entrust this fund to either a philanthropic organization or devoted individual that will utilize this money the way I am going to instructs herein.30% of the US$18.5million goes to you to ensure that you are prepared for the task ahead, 60% of this money will be used in all sincerity to fund philanthropic organization, orphanages, widows and 5% will go to the family Attorney who will prepare the Authorisation and the balance 5% sent to me to at least prepare for my funeral and off-set my medical bills. I am taking this decision because I don't have any child or devoted relations whose behavior has left much to be desired while I am ill and above all I don't want a situation where this money will be used in an UnGodly manner,hence this bold decision. Since my health is Retrogressing by the minute, you will have to send your POSTAL ADDRESS, CONTACT PHONE NUMBER AND FAX and a little details about yourself, because I got your address from the internet after a thorough search. As soon as I receive this information from you I will make arrangement to prepare the Authorization through the family Attorney for you to get Possession of the Deposit. As soon as I receive your reply to my confidential email address. reb_atkins01@cotas.net and the authorization is given to you by me, I will give you the name and contact of the Deposit company where the money was Deposited in Europe, for claims to the consignment. Until I hear from you, I pray that this letter bring you and your family good tiding while my dreams to help humanity rest squarely on your shoulders. May the Almighty God continue to guide and protect you.

Remain Blessed, MRS REBECCA ATKINS. NOTE; All replies should be forwarded to my confidential email address: reb_atkins01@cotas.net

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Who put links to our site from pearljam.com
The link is down now but we had 5 visitors come from there befre it went down.

Thanks for the link whoever you are rom the Buffalo Directory


And you at Jacob's Neurological Institute

[inlink]metalpeter,160[/inlink] Metalpeter, two of those are of (e:emily) 's old house.

How crazy is this ommision of history? I am so glad that I found this example. It is preceisely why I think everyone in the world who has access should keep a journal, because someday, "they" will try and rewrite all history. Imagine the story about the world trade center attack when its told in 3005.

Labor Day History (by the department of Labor) - - No mention of May Day

May Day and Labor Day (ruckus at Washington.edu ) -

I remember when I lived in Germany, I attended a May day celebration and asked about its origins. The people their laughed at my ignorance telling me it started as an American Holiday. The reaosn I didn't know at the time is precisely because I was taught form texts like the first link while attending public school.

Has anyone read Virtual Communities by Howard Rheingold? You can read it free online at

He is a great writer and although the book is somewhat dated, most of the issues are very thought provoking. What is even more exciting is that I converted all of the chapters to audio MP3s with the AT&T voices I bought a couple months back. It's fun listening to the computer read it to you and you could always load it into your MP3 player.

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So I think this being sick thing has taken my weird food cravings to the next level. I am now eating korean indian fushion meal. It is kimchee and tofu with spinach paneer and rice. I have a feeling this is something only a spice ignorant white person would eat, hahaha. It makes my throat feel better. Maybe I will package it as a throat tonic.

Whoa, the upstairs people [inlink]ajay,147[/inlink] sound fun. Hi upstairs people, tis iz (e:flacidness) ok thats all i had to say was hi.

TK just hijacked this journal but I got it back now. I am still very sick. One of my students came to me to ask what she should do about grad school. She is currently enrolled in some telecommunications graduate degree at Canisius but really wants to pursue her dream of being a 3D animator.

She said she doesn't want to learn philosophy and such and wanted to really concentrrate on the animation. I was so torn because I myself had the same fork in my road. I ended up going to graduate school for my MFA for media studies at UB as most of you know. The questions is, did I make the right choice, or should I have persued something job oriented? Will I become a much more enriched, informed artist whose work reflects the critical analysis of the theories presented to me. I guess that has already happend. I dropped by interest in aesthetics and glitz and started working more towards social purposes. But where has this brought me.

I made me hate 3D stuff, which is not what I ever intended. It mad eme realise how mind numbing and meaningless it is. It just seams so fake and worthless. The pinacle of this is when I spent $20 on my American flag 3D airboat [inlink]paul,145[/inlink].

So what am I trying to say here. Now I am a conflicted, guilt ridden, overzelous, social-techno freak and I like it. Maybe I would have been happier being a 3D animator. Maybe it would have felt empty. Anyways, all this crap was running through my head when she asked me. I told her to just pursue her dream, why couldn't I ever follow my own rules. Who am I to know. I hate being sick.

I guess I am happy with my choice. Accept l probably (99.99998% likeliness) chose the wrong school and the wrong language and continent but the right thing in terms of not having gone into 3D animation. I really ended up prefering web programming and digital communication, right?

After fending off illness during the visit from our plague ridden guests, and even remaing germ free while (e:terry) and (e:mike) were sick, I am sick. My throat hurts so bad. I had to cancel my office hours today because it hurts to talk and wanted to save my energy for class tonight.

I got the cutest email from (e:holly) , well actually her mom sent it to her, saying reading her journal made her feel close to (e:holly). It makes me happy to hear things like that.