Is this guy serious, or what?

Why does ‘U’ have to be the 21st letter? It should be the first letter. But since it’s not…let’s examine the number 21. Most youngsters believe they should be adults at 18...the old timers want them to be adults at 21...actually old timers want you to act like an adult way earlier than that, but they still put new boundaries until you are at least 35. When you are thirteen…they want you to start being responsible. They allow you to go to a movie theater on your own to watch a PG-13 movie. Thirteen, give or take a few years, is the age when boys start developing pubic hairs, and sexual thoughts. The girls start to bleed monthly, and start wondering what it is about guys that attracts them so much…

At age fifteen, again give or take a few years, we have been thrown into high school. Many of us have lost our virginity, our innocence. Our natural instincts have been persecuted as the loss of innocence. In my days of being 15...the year 1990, we were able to secure a couple of permits. One permit to drive with an adult…and one permit to work a job. At 16 we could become LEGAL to work, and to drive. We also are presented with the chance to skip high school, and opt for the GED. At 18, we are allowed to buy some of the necessary evils of the world. Pornography, cigarettes, rolling papers, and explicit lyrics CD’s. We are also “allowed” to die in wars for our country, pay taxes to support our country, and go to jail for defying our country.

After suffering from the nothingness known as 19...we escape teenage, fly through 20, and land on 21. Now we are allowed to buy and possess alcohol. We no longer have fear of being drunk, because we have the legal right to be so.

It’s not until you are 23 (conveniently after a ‘normal’ person would have graduated college) to get financial aid for school, disregarding your parents status (you must provide your parents income for financial aid, despite whether or no t they will support your thirst for knowlege.) When you are 25, the insurance companies start to respect you as an adult driver, and afford you cheaper car insurance. When you are 30, you are viewed as a full blown adult. We all say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, that you should love yourself, if you want somebody to love you. But when people hear that number 30...it brings about many thoughts. What have you done with your life? What do you hope to accomplish?

*Of course the answers are measured against what society tells you. I will footnote this statement after I finish this timeline…

When you are 35, you are full fledged allowed to run for president of this U.S.A. As time goes on, though, we realize that a man 35 years of age 200 years ago (when the constitution was written), was relatively (in respect to his peers) further than a man of 35 today. Is it right to follow a man who isn’t as wise as his predecessors of the same age were? Or is he more wise, by having learned from history?

 

*Who are the people that control this country? Is it the do-nothing generation of older humans, having paid their dues, done the dirty work, and now hoping to reach their goal of ruling the country? Or is it the do-nothing generation of people, who built, organized, and pushed for advancement that should run this country? We are allowed to vote at 18...something I purposefully left out of my time line. Wouldn’t it make sense that the people that make this nation work, be the ones that make the decisions? Why have we become completely bored with politics? Why does it seem like there is too much confusion to advance our new found ideas? We are the people. Why don’t we stand up, and fight against everything that we complain against? If we complain, it must be wrong. If it is not wrong, let somebody spell it out for us…otherwise, what the fuck are we doing? Can we not admit mistake? We see the media pointing out the mistakes of other humans. We all know that there are other crimes against humanity that never make it to the headlines. So can we all feel like we’ve never made a mistake? Sometimes we learn from our own mistakes…and sometimes we learn from others, mistakes…Why be ashamed of a mistake, when we know that our fellow humans have committed mistake after mistake, just like us?

which one did I write first?

I'm grounded.  While I am grounded I will remain on the ground, and take this opportunity to write, while the baseball game is in the background.  This isn't groundbreaking news or anything.  I hate to ground your high spirit, but this is my playground, and I stand on the grounds that you will learn something.  Otherwise you will remain on the ground, while the rest of us fly.  We inhabit this ground.  This ground is shared by all.  When the water rises, find higher ground.  But believe it or not, we are all on common ground.     

Just for fun

So here we are, on common ground.  What is common?  What is ground?  It is obviously debatable, but common means other big words like prevalence, conformity, and equality.  It means simple words like popular, normal, and typical.
None of these words describe common to a tee...or T...or tea.  In fact, no one word means exactly the same as another one word, otherwise we wouldn't need two words.  Sometimes though, words can have a way of being extremely similiar.  It's only the intricate details of the words that set them apart.  In this way those words are common.  Their definitions are common to each other.  Sometimes one word is commonly used to depict a variety of different things.  Sometimes a variety of words are used to depict a common definition.  Now looking at this text will lead you to believe that the word, "common" is commonly used by this post, or even this poster.  But that would be a common mistake.  Push the limits of the common ways of speaking.  The internet has common abbreviations that everybody understands, such as LOL, A/S/L, NM, and N/M.  Also internet users may commonly spell words differently to save typing effort, such as wat, k, and puter.  Before the internet became so big, these abbreviations were nowhere near common knowledge.  OK...I'm sure the readers of this message are commonly annoyed...so I shall stop.

here's the letter, I'll show you the response later.

Dear George W. Bush,        

      I hopefully imagine that all of your actions have been to secure our freedoms.  Unfortunately, you know, and I know that they have not.  When this country was born, we had a good amount of freedoms.  As time passes, our freedoms begin to dwindle.  Is this your fault?  Probably not.     

     I am an electrician.  In the National Electric Code, it is stated that we may not legally add electrical wiring to an illegal condition.  As the codes change, we understand that certain wiring situations were created before we knew that they were dangerous.  So as of now, we need to allow those conditions to exist, knowing that eventually somebody will have to correct them.  At all costs, we are NOT allowed to use an illegal situation to create any new situations.    

     If we, as a nation, are worried about terrorism on American soil, then we should have a greater number of troops in our own nation to protect us.  We have the resources in this country to survive on our own.  I used to live on an Air Force base.  Since I moved away from that base, I have very rarely seen any military troops securing my freedoms.  I can only depend upon the media to see what they are doing for me.  I pay my taxes, I expect protection.  What other reason for a government do we have?     

     You are a Republican.  If we look into history, Republicans have supported individual freedoms, and the lack of a government trying to control each and every one of our lives.  Has the platform of the Republican Party changed so much that we may have to dismiss what the party originally believed in?      Let's explore the word "republican."  Does it not come from the word "republic?"  And if so, why are the nations that we the people are supposed to be so "vehemently opposed" labelled republics?  China, Thailand, the old U.S.S.R. and others are all calling themselves "Republics."  So are we like them?  Or are they what the original Republicans sought to achieve?     

     Let me show my true colors, as I feel that I am backed by all of my fellow citizens.  I think that most people think that we are forced to deal with your platform, as well as the Democratic platform.  Your platform seems to promote big business, and monopolies, while the Democrats seem to support more laws, more confusing laws, and less aptitude to really address our individual problems.  You say, "We can't please everyone"  I say, "we can"  Why?  Because we are all human beings on this earth, following the laws that God has set forth on us.  God would not want any of his children to suffer, while others who spoil the earth enjoy lives of luxury.  If you ask me, the exploitation of Mother Nature will burn in your soul forever.     

     So have fun in this short life of yours, for you know that you will be denied any perfect happiness that God has offered you.  You sold your soul George.  No matter what your Public Relations officers do to make your material life better, you will still burn in hell.      Maybe that doesn't bother you...because maybe you don't truly believe in God...which makes you a hypocrite, and a liar.     I don't want to vote for John Kerry...I don't want to vote for you...I just want to continue living the life that I have so much enjoyed up until this point.  If you want my advice, and you realize that my advice has helped more people than your "patriot act" will ever help, here are my rules to life.

1.  Treat people the way you want to be treated

2.  Accept responsibility for your actions.    

     It's been said that the simplest answer is usually the correct one.  This letter will be sent to a multitude of people.  And your response will also be relayed to them...It's up to you to decide what is the best scenario for the millions that look up to you.  

Jay

an opinion from a friend

humans seem to be able to be one of the only ones who dont know what we're
supposed to be or do, we try all the time to establish our independence yet
still we strive for togetherness, we rape and pillage and fix then brake all
at the same time with no real balance. in alot of ways i believe that humans
are there own population control. all other animals out there in the small
world have an enemy. small fish have bigger fish, zebras have lions, mice
have cats and cats have dogs(not to say that each one of those animals
doesn't have a shitload of other things to watch out for). people just seem
to have themselves. sure there are plenty of things out there that could
kill us but none of which that in the right situation can "outsmart us" or
out plan us as the case of human existance has proved. what tends to be
human nature is to find any and all ways of breaking what rules nature has
bestowed apon us and to make new meaning of them, at one point it was
believed impossible to fly without the wings of a bird. at another point
electricty was something to be feared in its rawest forms of unharnessed
mass but now it is one of the simplest concepts of our everyday lives, this
can be said for alot of things discovered that boggled intelegent minds.
unfortunatly hidden deep within all of us is the desire to change the things
surrounding us without having to leave our areas of "comfort". in so many
ways humans have abandoned the natural adaptation process and created a
variety ways of being able to adapt there surroundings instead. humans
wern't made to survive the cold so we came up with heaters and heavy
clothing. we weren't made to be able to fight big animals so we invented
weapons that could do it for us. knowing these things we continue to change
our boundries and ultimately the boundries of natures too. now that leaves
me at a point i didnt even know existed til i got here in this, is that with
all of our ability to defile natures being what realy stops us from
destroying nature itself, other than those with knowledge we do not yet
have. some rules must exist or there would eventually be no balance, we
would find too manys ways as humans to destroy everything in time. and yes i
have to admit that along with creating (or finding) those rules alot of
negative can come, such as those who will ultimatly capitalize from the
suffering of others, its not without my understanding that people would be
more than capable of doing just that without those rules. do i agree that
the methods currently used to makes those rules known are right or in any
ways close to perfection, no. but i do believe that they are much better
than the methods of our ancestors who tended to be much more violent with
there beliefs. example= egyptians, greeks. im with those who are willing to
change things for the better. theres no doubt in my mind i would support a
major overhaul and downsize of all our forms of government, but to deniey
the relevance for there simplest gestures is not something im willing to do.
not because im bound to them, but i respect the fact that without something
somewhere telling the majority of people out there what is or isnt right
there would be far more problems. and please before you turn my last
statement against me i would like to elaborate a few things. "government" in
my mind should be a system of "values" passed on to everyone whether they
care for them or not because it will always be that persons final judgement
whether they do something anways. values to me means absolute rights and
wrongs. for example nuclear bombs should not exist, guns should not be used
to kill other people unless you intend to eat them, toxic waste and for that
matter any trash should be disposed of properly, burning someone elses house
out of anger or fun should not be allowed, and other stupid shit that really
should be common sence but never is should be punishable by some kind of
action. taxes and fines are agreeably retarded. if a law must be passed that
children must learn a basic set of knowledgable things in their life make
the parents of even the children themselves be responsible for comphensating
there teachers.if someone wants to kill themsleves fine (quickly or slowly
and painfully). if all forms of government dissappeared there would be some
other manipulative asshole out there more than willing to destroy what it is
that we've got going. i mean at one point before history books and colonys
and religions there had to be a time before government was around right? so
if it was so great why did people give it up to join the ranks of a
selectable society. its bound to happen thats why. its human nature, to
control and be controlled at the same time. to make a suggestion or an order
and hear a reply. to learn from the same people you tought. to poke, poke,
poke and know that all your poking will only lead you to an all to
uncontrolable outcome. its what we do best. we're humans and without
boundries we will end up at a far worse end than that of having someone
leaching off of us, or finding that theres an obstacle in the way of doing
something you probably shouldn't be doing anyways. so yes i believe things
in our systems need to change but not all things, just the ones that really
dont mean shit in the long run, and the ones that protect and serve the few
and not the whole.

Jefferson on Politics & Government: Inalienable Rights

The government is set up in such a way that if we all decided to get healthier all at once by quitting smoking and drinking, it would royally fuck their budget up.  No taxes from those entities.  Were all those taxes going to solve only problems created by people drinking and smoking?  You know that isn't true.  So this country would go through tough times if we got healthy.  Imagine a government that doesn't want us to be healthy.  No wonder we don't have a universal healthcare plan.