Eh...

I'm starting to really go crazy from being home for so long, and I still have over a month to go. This is gonna be an interesting 6 weeks or so until January to go back to CUA. I'm watching CSI: Miami, a show I dispise, but I can't hear anything because I'm listening to music on my laptop.

Oh well.

I'm going back to the fut....I mean, back to DC

That headline just came upon me like a lightning bolt. Thank God that it's happening, even if for a few days. Better than nothing.

I've also decided that I want to go back to Ireland. Take buses around the countryside, go to the different cities and towns around. See the countryside outside of the Dublin area. Apparently, my cousin will be living in Russia, so my mom told my aunt that the next person to come visit him will probably be me. That statement basically guarantees me a trip to Moscow, which will be extremely weird like Shanghai, but just as awesome. Probably buy a nice hat or something, haha. Should make sure I have a working iPod by then or I'll go crazy on a plane ride.

I've also forgotten how much I love Mannheim Steamroller. Great music, not just for the Christmas music either, but that stuff is the best.

This is your captain signing off....

(I dunno what to say, my brain is jumping for joy though.)

Also, is it just me or is the name Sydney becoming extremely common? I've seen the name like 7 times within a span of 4 days, including once in a video game. Strange, haha.

I have now realized why I don't like coming home...

I'm stuck around a bunch of fools who act like high schoolers and don't have anything going for them, except for one guy who has his head screwed on right, although he is a Democrat, I'll just have to work on that later. I feel that I'm growing up and almost everyone around me my age is not and still thinks they are in high school.

There isn't much to do in Rochester when you've lived here for so long, because aside from the few things that I have yet to do, and continuously regret not having done already (Nick Tahou's garbage plate), there is nothing left to do. Wandering Wegmans late at night with someone and trying to find interesting stuff to buy is now one of the things I actually enjoy. Of course I enjoy being home with my family and doing stuff with them, but I like to have more choices than I am restricted to.

Plus, it's not that I hate my family, I love my family. I just feel that I'm growing up and that not being in college, even on a leave of absence, draws me back into a world that I would like to move on from. I'd rather sit in a room and watch West Wing or something like that with my CUA friends than go out and party with my friends back home. I think it's just allowing me to show a side that I really am, and not just hiding myself within a group that I would honestly prefer not to associate with. Being able to fit in very well with a group of people where I don't have to pretend to be someone I'm not is why I miss CUA more than almost anything else (although having a single room all to myself was pretty cool).

Be ready for my triumphal return, because it will happen, and if someone tries to tell me "No" I'll be telling them to smell the burning rubber of a car flying down the highways to DC.

Leavin'

Well, I have to take a leave of absence from college for some time, unfortunately. It is disappointing to me, but it has to be done. I don't know what I'll do when I get home, but I'll be going back to get my degree. It's unfortunate that at the same time, destructive things have to happen to friendships. When people don't get along, war happens. And while I may sound like I'm begging to grab a gun and run out shooting like crazy, the last thing I want to see is a war happen. The Civil War fractured families and almost destroyed the Union. Why can't people just get along. I'm not asking for world peace, because I know that is basically asking Hell to freeze over. But why can't certain groups just get along. And of all times, when I'm leaving.

Thanks a lot douchebags for making my last couple of days here for a while feel like a living Hell. Not all of you are the "douchebags," and those of you who aren't, I'll miss you all dearly. I've never felt more accepted by someone here than almost anywhere else.

As said in the movie "Just Friends", which might I add is a hilarious movie, "shakes come and go, but friends are furr-ever."

AIG Bailout and Bill on Off-Shore Oil Drilling

It seems that something every hour ruffles my feathers in more than one way these days.

Tonight, it is the government bailout of AIG, where the feds have promised $85 billion to keep AIG, the world's largest insurance agency, solvent. This also gives the government an 80% stake in the company.

Well, this is going well. Companies go bankrupt, the federal government bails them out with billions upon billions of dollars, and the companies survive. Well, that is not what capitalism is all about. This is making the US government look more socialist than ever before, considering when companies went under during the Great Depression, they, for the most of it, weren't bailed out, instead everyone lost their money. We should not be bailing out these companies. Of course people will lose their money, but letting these companies go under get the weak links out of the system, allowing other companies to flow into those positions, and bring new ideas into the system. That is my thing with AIG.

However, also, the new bill that was just passed on off-shore drilling is also making my blood boil. What genius said "oh, well, let's compromise by allowing drilling to happen 50 MILES offshore. That will appease the Republicans." Since studies have shown most of the oil is within 50 miles of the shoreline, this is nothing except a political ploy by the Democrats to say that they supported easing the pain at the pump, and at the same time, following Democratic lines to keep the off-shore drilling mostly blocked. Nancy Pelosi should be disgraced.

And as of right now, I'm listening to a discussion about how screwed up the Student Government is at CUA. A brand new student government to replace the old one, and it's already completely broken.

Why does it seem like the whole world is just a giant pot of crap with the good things simmering out of it? Oh yeah...

Britain is lost!

According to the The Sunday Times on Sunday the 14th of September, Sharia law is legally binding in Great Britain under a clause in the Arbitration Act of 1996. This means that all civil cases judged in a Sharia court are legally binding, such as divorce, inheritance, and other such cases.

Now, Sharia law is biased against women, non-Muslims, and is medieval in what actions are considered criminal and the sentences which are given out against such crimes are cruel, unusual, and biased in nature. Victims of rape are executed, while the rapist is let free. A non-Muslim who is accused of almost any crime by a Muslim is not only treated as a criminal instead of accused, but trying to refute the claims of a committed crime are almost impossible due to the bias against non-Muslims in Sharia law.

This is absurd. The British are losing their country to the Muslims. Why British law is being underdone by a foreign, biased court system is a question that all British should be asking themselves. If the Muslims who live in Britain want to live under Sharia law, they should go back to the Middle East where Sharia law rules over any other law, and not try to force a country with customs that are radically different to adjust to what foreigners want. The British have to realize they are losing their country to a foreign presence that does not want to be British, instead they want the British to be like them. The citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland have to speak out against such travesties and elect in a new government that will govern for all British, and not give such support to a people who would rather live as Muslims in a Muslim country, and not live as British in Great Britain.

My beef with islam

I've been reading many news articles about what the muslims have been doing to other religious and ethnic groups in the regions where they are the vast majority, or even where they are in the low minority. It disgusts me as a man, a Catholic, and even a human being what they do to others. Kidnappings which lead to faked marriages which cause forced conversions, raping a women then not only blaming the woman, but the woman will get stoned for the rape, claiming that your religion keeps you from being able to do certain things, such as recently when a muslim lawyer refused to stand when a Dutch judge would enter the room, claiming his religion says he's not allowed to do that, or the recently reported news articles over muslims leaving their jobs at a meatpacking plant because they weren't allowed to stop work for their ramadan prayers.

These dogs are trapped in their Middle Ages and either refuse, or can't, move on. Raping a woman, then just claiming "oh, she tempted me," should not be an excuse for that rape. That woman has been scarred, mentally and physically. Why she is forced to bear the consequences of that is beyond any understanding of human understanding. To execute the victim and not the perpetrator is cruel and unusual, VERY unusual. Or when a claim is made about a non-muslim, who may or may not have done such crime, whether that crime makes sense or not, and then the non-muslim is treated like a criminal and not the accused, then is executed for such trivial things such as saying "Damn muhammad to hell." These make no sense to me.

This sickens me, I am revolted by these hateful, intolerant, inconsiderate, demanding people. They want everyone to conform to their expectations, then when those can not be done, they claim "racist," or some other form of bigotry against their religion.

Well, I say to these people who claim that their religion is not represented by these maniacs, they better start speaking out in large numbers, condemning everything these hate-mongers say and preach. If they don't I'll never have faith or trust in them, because I don't know what their real feelings are about certain ideals or positions.

If there is not one muslim who can say to me with a stern face, and tell me that these people do not represent real islam, backing up their facts with true qu'ran teachings, I will never trust any muslim for the rest of my life. If they want to live in my country, where my family has lived for many generations, and want to call themselves Americans, they better conform to our way of life, because I'll be damned if I'm going to conform to their needs, especially if it inconveniences me. Act like an American, if you want to live under such rules, go back to the hellhole you came from where it's hot and dry, and all you can see for miles in certain areas is nothing but sand and dry land. Go back to where you cam from if you don't want to live under American rules and American law. Because if my daughter is raped by a man who then claims that "she tempted me, Allah tells me so," will be lucky if he doesn't get the stuffing beaten out of him or shot for that matter.

Bring it on.