oh... and on my political beliefs... smaller less intrusive government is better government - thats a clearly republican idea - and sort of the reason that America was invented. And so in general, I support the Republican party.

Both parties support killing. One supports killing the unborn, the other supports killing mean people, and innocent people in other countries. They are both wrong so that cancels out the issue of "killing" as a way for me to pick a policital party.

Democrats try to take more of my money to waste on stuff. At least the republicans try to let local governments make more of those important decisions.

UNFAIR jesse you are mean

why is it that I constantly have to come on here and stand up for my homies.

earlier this week, I had to come on here, and bust shaunas chops for beating up on my girl Kairsie, Shauna got so flusterd that she didnt know what to say, and tried to change the topic.

now I got to stand up for my boy jon.

Jesse - besides the fact that you are an orange alien with green antennea with a big butt... the reason your butt is so big is that you are full of crap.

Jon never said on his blog that he agreed with or believes the news media "scandals." Maybe he found them ironic.

And then the purple elephants came by riding on their pogo sticks and I asked one of them if they could teach me how to ride a pogo stick and they did, and it rocked until I hopped on a stone and flipped over. Then the giraffe took me to get some ice cream.

well, as long as it isn't bashing his own political beliefs, that is.

Yay! Hey Everyone, if you'll check Jon's blog for yesterday, you'll discover that Jon believes EVERYTHING he reads in the media. Wait, let me correct that cause Jon will get on my case: Jon passes on whatever he reads in the media (including tabloids) and comes across as believing it.

Dangit, I just don't check this blog often enough! I soooo would have loved to do some special editing to some posts... lets see if i can find them:

Jon-

- Don't argue too much. Kaiser Blog Nazi Wilhelm Jesse IV will think you're actually upset and begin to get very angry and tell you not to post such things. So when you're explaining to Jamie why exactly he's wrong, at least try to be funny about it.

becomes

- Don't be mean. We love and honor Kaiser Blog Nazi Wilhelm Jesse IV because he is looking out for our well being and the healthiness of our relationships. We should be courteous when we discuss things so that we don't hurt peoples feelings while we make our point. Jesse was absolutely right in this request, so let's honor it.


AND

Rebecca:

"I hope I do a good job and even if I don't, I bet it's good enough for government work. :) About the pointers - Blog Nazi Jesse won't censor me because he loves me too much. Plus, he likes to flirt with my younger sister and he can't do that if he's angered me. "

becomes

"I hope I do a good job and even if I don't, I bet it's good enough for government work. :) About the pointers - Blog Nazi Jesse won't censor me because he loves me too much. Plus, my younger sister is in love with him, so I wouldn't say anything to upset him anyway."


So yeah, as long as you blog frequently enough, none of your posts get edited. How's THAT for incentive?


By the way, i need a major change. Like, not just some random big change, but a change in my major. According to a test I took yesterday in Bio, I suck at that class. Maybe I should switch to communications and do video editing, etc. :)

Amanda, could you at least wait for me to debase and mock you before calling me dumb? I mean, honestly. Who says I was going to "attack [your] character or political affiliations"? You know what happens when you ass-u-me.
I'll write more later when I have more time.

Jon, sometimes you're dumb. That's all I have to say. I will not respond to any attacks upon my character or political affiliations for any of these remarks. So there. (Don't take it personally)

I like Bush so bite me. Attack me if you will, but I shall not be moved. I shall not, I shall not be moved. I shall not, I shall not be moved. Just like a tree that's planted by the riiiiiiiiiveeeeer. Iiiiiiii shall nooooott bbeeeeeeee mmoooooooooooooooooooooooooooveD. I'm actually not a complete political idiot. (Bec says it's due to her "tutelage." I say she should shouldn't tutelage in polite company.)

Uxorious was Dictionary.com's Word of the Day for Monday September 29, 2003.

"I've hared taht you can mix up the ltetres in a wrod and as lnog as the fsrit and lsat lertets are the smae, you can sltil raed it." That's really freakin' funny. Speaking of your sister, how is she doing? Still doing the whole video thing?

According the Associated Press, as of July 19th, "Since President Bush launched his bid for re-election on May 16, his campaign has raised at least $41.4." Hmm. That's a lot of money for someone to win an unopposed primary. And it's great that you tell Amanda how to vote - now we have another one in the Anyone But Bush camp! :)

And grammar, pronunciation, and syntax don't matter for you - you work for a Republican.

I would base objectivity on the definition of it - "Uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices." I think it doesn't exist. Does anyone disagree with me?

Forget C words. This is the best word EVER:

uxorious \uk-SOR-ee-us; ug-ZOR-\, adjective:
Excessively fond of or submissive to a wife.

It is batty to suppose that the most uxorious of husbands
will stop his wife's excessive shopping if an excessive
shopper she has always been.
--Angela Huth, "All you need is love," [1]Daily Telegraph,
April 24, 1998

:) I'm going to have Matt tatoo it on his arm.

have all you lovely readers gone to my personal blog and educated yourselves on African Politics? if not go now and see the history you have missed!

oh wait... Swing Kids was set in Germany... oh yeah, the nazi's

hmmmmm well they did say they were sorry.

thats right, raise your voice, sacrifice yourself, and lower your weapons. Thats what im talkin about. Its time for a new president - or a real long trip to germany.

As Jon plugs his ears and starts singing "Potty Mouth" by Danielson Famile at the top of his lungs... this blog is a degenerative den of wickedness and evil.


Shauna, you need to call me. I don't have your phone number in your new dorm room. Or e-mail me. Either way. But soon, like as in today.

Just finished writing a paper about the film Swing Kids, if you have never seen it you should watch it, anyway, i thought this was a good quote from it so i am going to share it with you.

"We must all take responsiblity for what is happening in out country. If those of us who have a voice do not raise it in outrage at the treatment of our fellow human beings we will have collaborated in their doom."

so i have been doing some studying this very early morning for my african politics test and well if you wanna learn something, go read my blog, but warning, it is quite long and educational!!

5... Prayer blog? he he are you joking?
praying is supposed to be done in your closet - not for the whole world to see.

but seriously, if youve got prayer concerns or whatever, you can certainly voice them here. We can get serious for a bit if necissary. Actually it would be pretty random to be serious for a piece.

oh... and on my 4th post now...
BTW... jon & jamie your previous discussion about cookies is boring - get a life. It was all a freakin misunderstanding. The only discount i need when cookies are involved, is the "Two Finger" discount.

As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way.
--Jack Handy Deep Thoughts

there you go acting all bigotted about who can and can't live in your freakin country. Well if you don't like it than you can leave mentality. Dag thats so red-neck. You mutant mardy minty Meat-head.

"This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of WAR" --George W. Bush
hmmmm not an act of terrorism? hmmm ok

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. --Lily Tomlin

People freakin gave their life so we could complain. And now you want to take that "God given" right away from us? Well is it worth fighting for, or dying for? So I will fight and picket for my girl to be able to make any statement she wants about Bush, and on top of that, you will sit there and listen to it! OR ELSE. OR ELSE or else you can ummm move to freakin Germany.

now see if you can tell when im sarcastic and when im not ha...

This country is going to hell in a handbasket, and what we really need is change. I vow that if I get into office, everything will freakin change - and then well.... hmmmm .... then it will be.... ah hmmmm .... well better!

hughgggghhhh.... well glad I got that out of my system... my wife would have my neck for using the word "freakin" so much, but I sort of like to use it... so as long as shes not listening hehe :)

if shauna ever gets elected to anything, im gonna freakin leave the planet. wow.

"...And if Bush gets re-elected, I'm moving to Germany."

Kairsie, i am by no means a avid Bush supporter, but honestly, people making statements like that is really frustrating. many people had made that statement when Bush got elected, they were going to move to another country, and guess what, they are still here. I personally believe if an individual is going to make a statement like that then they damn well better follow through! too many times people make that type of statement lightly, in an effort to show how supportive (or unsupportive depending on your perspective) they are and that they are truly serious about what they believe etc. but in the end, it just shows that they really are not as convicted about the cause as they want everyone to think, because the thing they said they were gonna do, yeah they didn't do it.... so if come November we see Bush get re-elected, shall i come over and help you pack for your new life over in Germany?

I don't mean to sound harsh, but that statement is one of my pet peeves!! i mean if you truly are going to do what you say then good, if not, then don't say it at all...

Am I the only person who does not know Bec? .....probably.

Actually, despite the apperance of this blog, it's *SUPPOSED* to be completly random and senseless. Jamie and Jon decided to over-throw it....so we just kinda deal with it.

::ponders if the "bad spelling and grammar" comment made by Jon is affiliated with me:: ::shrugs::

...And if Bush gets re-elected, I'm moving to Germany.

Jon, i am so proud!! you said Bloke!! :)

Bec, it's OK to waste our tax dollars. Every dollar that goes to you is a dollar that didn't go to kill some poor bloke in Iraq or Afghanistan or any of the myriad other nations my tax dollars have helped decimate. By the way, welcome to our discussion. Just some pointers:

- Don't argue too much. Kaiser Blog Nazi Wilhelm Jesse IV will think you're actually upset and begin to get very angry and tell you not to post such things. So when you're explaining to Jamie why exactly he's wrong, at least try to be funny about it.

- Be prepared for this blog to stagnate for long periods of time. It will come back.

- Watch your spelling and grammar. Especially if you are complaining about someone else's blatant ignorance of the English language. (And yes, I know that was a sentence fragment.)

- Vote Anyone But Bush in 2004

And I think that should do it.

So based on what you've said about worldviews, would you agree with the statement "Objectivity is a myth."? Just curious.

Before I begin, let me just establish that this is, in fact, me. The one and only. Man...I hope Bec doesn't take advantage of having my blog password. It's bad enough knowing that Jesse can "edit" my posts....

Anyway, Jamie: It's Becky, not Becca. But really, it's Bec.

Others: Okay...so here's a pretty random thing that happened to me this week. My dad set me up on a date.....and it WASN'T with Matt! :) Okay...so it wasn't a date AT ALL, but it still cracks me up. My dad is such a nut. So anyway, I went to this Justice & Mercy banquet last night at Yoders (Man, I am totally NOT a dutchy-food lovin' kind of girl!), and I thought it was going to be totally boring. It was, however, quite informative, and even enjoyable. FYI Bec- I was in the room with many-a-politician...maybe some of their politicalishness has soaked in. :) Perhaps there is hope for me yet! :)

I LOVE the word "catastrophe!" ...and catastrophic is even more fun to say!

Oh, by the way....I'm baaaaaack. You may now rejoice with overwhelming gladness. :)

Oh, and....I'M GOING TO BOSTON! I'M GOING TO BOSTON! I'm so excited, because I'M GOING TO BOSTON!

caveat, cozen

Well, unless I am mistaken, I believe the post below by 'Bec' was the first of hers on this fair blog of ours. I'd like to be the first to extend a welcome to our new neighbor on the block. However, I had to look twice as it appeared our new neighbor busted on our blog as well as on our ears, which as far as mine go, cetainly are not deaf. :)

So, welcome to the block, Becca, and we would welcome anything you have to add to our discussion. By the way, Becca, it was nice to meet you the other week at Zion. You and your family are, or course, welcome at any time.

In response to your post, I would make a small distinction....I would argue that being a political conservative is not an "affiliation". It is quite differnt then being a Republican or Libertarian or something. I would rank being a political "conservative" or "liberal" as a bit higher then a given party affiliation. I have yet to decide what part it plays in my worldview.

Kelly, i was going list Conspicuous consumption... :) yay for Sociology type terms!

I've been wanting to respond to whole bunch of the things you all said on this sucker of a blog but didn't..... it takes alot of time I think and I'm not sure that it is always worth it because I don't want to just spew forth and have it fall on deaf ears.....wow, run on. This is Bec not Amanda just so you all know.... can't figure out why I can't work the blog on my computer at work....any suggestions? Anyway - that's not important now.... I think Jamie and Jon (although I know very little about either of you) that you really hit on some key points in the political debate and ones that are NEVER going to be resolved. And, honestly, do we really want them to? It is sooo much fun to disagree! :) But the key I think is the worldview thing that you briefly hit on Jamie. I think that political affiliations are the result of your worldview not a worldview in itself. A worldview (sick of the word yet?) is a framework through which you filter your world. It is intensely individual and above categorizing. In a way, it takes your empirical world and runs it through your normative framework to see how things line up. Anyway - simply my humble opinion - take it or leave it. It is frustrating to me to see inconsistency in people's worldviews even though there are some in my own. For example, the issue of human life. I am deeply committed to the principle of protecting the innocent life of the unborn but don't find such vehemence in myself when it involves the capital punishment of an innocent individual. Maybe it is the incapablity of the unborn to defend themselves but when it occurs to an adult I kinda think, "Wow, that's a bummer. But win some lose some.....". Almost embarrassed to write it.... more later maybe but my hands are too cold to type....perhaps time to turn the heat on....

Confluence. Coda. Comeuppance.

And Jamie, I never leveled charges of racism. There's that projection again. I simply pointed out bigoted actions. Apparently it was problematic enough for the university to shut it down.

I never said that these students were bigoted or racist rednecks. I said that their actions gave the appearance of that. There's a big difference. I'm sure they had the best of intentions. But there are better ways of making a point so that you don't alienate the very people you allegedly are trying to help. I never said that I support affirmative action. I think this cookie sale provides a good jumping off point for having that discussion. I'm working on it, but haven't finished it enough to post it on my blog. Oh, BTW, thanks for the link to Dennis Kucinich's home page. I'd been looking for that. :)

Oh yeah, good point j-dawg.

And there is, of course, no reason that I'd like to know what you or my other friends back home would want prayer for... cuz it's not like I pray for you or anything...

Prayer blog would definitly be a bad idea, because I don't think God has Internet access...The cost of wireless access is just too expensive.

I've learned that I really like "c" words, like contiguous, codify, and Christendom. Does anyone else have some good "c" words? What is YOUR favorite "c" word?

oh, and do you or do you not want a prayer blog?

Are you guys done being defensive yet? Cuz I'm sure it would be more productive to move on to the next topic of debate. How do you feel about the fact that Arnie is running for the California governor position, and about the fact that he might actually win?

Jon....I disagree with your logic in in the following instances...

Your post said, ....they "instead just looked like bigoted idiots."

You assume that because 1 black student filed a complaint, that somehow that clearly gives proof of racism... Hardly. It gives reason to examine it closer, but not proof. Because someone thought it does not make it true.

"And were they Republican? Who else in Texas would be considered a "Young Conservative"? " - Jon....there are quite a few people who are conservative that are not Republican. There are also quite a few people that call themselves Republican that ARE NOT conservatives. In this story, it is possible that many of them happened to be registered Republican, but to assume that it was a group of Republicans is incorrect. Being a Republican is simply a political affiliation. Conservatism could almost be called a world view...Hmmm, actually, I will have to think about that statement...would political "conservatism" and "liberalism" be termed "world views". Maybe they are parts of my world view...Hmmm, interesting question....thoughts anyone? What is the definition of a "world view"? Can I have more then one "world view"?


"Yes, I know that statement doesn't identify the party affiliations of the SMU students, but it clearly paints the picture."

This is exactly the reasoning you disagree with in your statement: "This is where that whole "projection" thing comes into play. Read my post. Did I ever say they were white?" No, you didn't "say" it , but my friend you didn't have to....it came through loud and clear.

No, Jon, I didn't miss the entire point of your post, rather I responded to the underlying assumptions that I read in your post. I was responding to this paragraph...

"And people wonder why I'm a registered Democrat. The Young Conservatives of Texas organized the sale as a protest of affirmative action, but instead just looked like bigoted idiots."

I didn't race to defend affirmative action. I admit, I did allow my view of affirmative action to creep in at one point, but that was not the purpose for my reply. Rather, I wanted to challenge the view that somehow one is a bigot if one questions the policy of affirmative action. When I read the post, it said to me that if you disagree with affirmative action as the way to fix the racial problems we have in this country that some how it makes you a racial bigot. I don't know if affirmative action is the best way to solve racial injustices in our country. Show me that it is and I'll probably support it, but at this point, the point has not been proved to me. In fact, I wonder if it doesn't hurt more then helps...

And finally, the following quote from Jon's blog: "Rush agrees with it, so it must be right!" I never thought I'd see the day....!!! ;-)

I'll get back to you with the answer to your other question just as soon as I can find my calculator....

MMMMmmmmm i want some cookies!!