Republican Debates

I’m not a Republican and to be honest, I only watched the CNN/Youtube debate last night in order to have background noise while I cut extemp files.  However, I have to admit that I thought the debate last night was far more interesting than the Democratic ones have been up till now.  The candidates are very diverse and their opinions equally so, perhaps that is the major difference for me.  I have a firm grounding (I think) in who the Democratic candidates are and what they stand for, I’ve only recently gotten interested in the Republican field. 

Additionally, though I support Hillary, they got some wicked sweet burns on her last night.  

But personally, my favorite statement of all things had to be what was said after the question ‘Would Jesus support the death penalty?’  The response from Mike Huckabee- ‘Jesus was too smart to ever run for public office.  That’s what Jesus would do!’ 

 It just seemed like everyone was having so much fun (in that ‘I hate immigrants and taxes that help the poor’ sort of way).  I enjoyed the debate, but I sincerely hope we have a Democratic President in 2008.

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#2

I can’t help but think of you every time I drive past that apartment, and wish things had been different. 

A few reflections, on a bus back from Norfolk (Finally posted today, written 11/10/2007)

First, it is always good to be 100 dollars richer than you were at 4 am.  Now that I am back on the bus and riding home after five rounds of Varsity and Novice LD, I am looking forward to petting my dog and the potential of brushing my teeth.  Through the dark we ride, I’m not sure how I got there, or how we are getting home, something that could categorize how I feel about my life right now, but I know I’ll get there.  Interesting that we are sliding past West Point for the second time, dim lights pointing it out from the darkness, but helping me see that I would not want to stop there tonight, or tomorrow, or anytime in the foreseeable future. 

 

West Point, I hadn’t thought about him in a while, then three days ago I wondered if I was getting sentimental feelings for a relationship that exists better in memory than it ever did in life.  You see, I immortalized him and his actions in my mind, made him a Hercules then, and still had in some regards now.  Even if we both completely changed- could it work?  Idle thoughts as I drive past the coffee shop I meant to stop at.

 

I hear a lot about team history and what comprised it before I joined it.  Veterans encourage new individuals to be like the team was several years ago, but the leaders are graduated and the ones that remember do not teach.  Despite this pressure to belong to the team I never knew, and despite my willingness to align myself with beliefs I never even knew, I fear I will never truly understand.  Additionally, and by saying this I may as well hang a sign around my neck that reads, “yes, I am a tool!” but I cannot be part of that team.  I am part of the new team, for better or worse, that urbandictionary.com’s it at Longview in between rounds of changing someone’s Facebook profile.

 

On this bus-ride I should be thinking about someone or something, a pilgrimage in which I have learned it all, and learned it all too late.  It is the recipe to an incredible soup that I lost moments after garnered.

 ”Just Some Emotional Things”

:sigh:

Deep inhale and exhale,

call your father on the phone. 

Tell him your problems cry out your soul, he’ll help you realize, you’re not yet too old.

Breath in deep those salty tear filled sobs

Drink in your sadness

Get your thirst filled by a homemade red sea

Look to your friends and realize sometimes you have to say it all

Before you can say nothing

Dream of me while you sleep

Pray I’ll be there still

Check my empty room

Run to the street

Wonder if I’ll come home

If that’ll be the promise I keep

For just like that whily old Nanny McPhee

For as long as you need me, there I’ll be

But as soon as you want me, I must leave.