I... am beside myself. This is just incredible. Incredible.

I've cried more times tonight than I care to count. This is epic. This is history in the making. This is... a rare moment of absolute, unhindered pride in my country.

Yes we can.

But better yet, yes we did.

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Well...

Lebanon is falling apart at the seams today. Joyous. Air strikes have started again in Darfur... we'll be lucky if the casualties stay in the hundreds. 800 million people will go to sleep tonight not having eaten in 4+ days. The average estimated income per capita for the 2007 fiscal year will be $4,300. Meaning the average person in the world is living off of roughly $13 a day. And all the while, CNN is reporting on the dangers of hand sanitizer.

Some days I truly hope the Mayans turn out right about 2012.

In the meantime, at least Obama's tied with Clinton in the New Hampshire polls. This has been the only ray of light in my day week.


Most of the time, my only wish is that someone could feel the sense of obligation on my shoulders.

Okay, so-- please pay attention to this, folks.

I'll make it short and sweet.

You've probably heard about the situation in Myanmar (Burma). It's horrendous. Sickening. It's evolving, too, but there's still time to stop it before it gets worse. (And if you don't know what I'm talking about, click here.)


If you have 5 seconds' spare time (and let's be honest, you're on LJ so you sure as shit do), please click here to sign the petition.


Thank you.


Really.

Omfg.

I love John Locke.

I always knew it, but now... I love him. I love him so, that if it were possible, I would transport myself back to 1689 and molest marry him. The man is a fucking genius.

"For every church is orthodox to itself, [and] to others, erroneous or heretical. For whatsoever any church believes, it believes to be true and the contrary unto those things it pronounces to be error. So, the controversy between these churches about the truth of their doctrines and the purity of their worship is on both sides equal; nor is there any judge, either at Constantinople or elsewhere upon earth, by whose sentence it can be determined. The decision of that question belongs only to the Supreme Judge of all men, to whom also alone belongs the punishment of the erroneous."

This... this... to be said, publicy, in 1689? *Spazzes with joy* Genius, I tell you. See, before now, I'd only ever read his two treatises of civil government, and read of his "A Letter Concerning Toleration," but never actually read the latter, unabridged, myself. What a difference it makes. (And if you want to read "A Letter Concerning Toleration" yourself WHICH I HIGHLY RECOMMEND then click here.)

GAH. Just-- GAH. *Fondles him* Brilliant man. How I wish I knew of such a man in contemporary times.

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*Runs excitedly back to homework*


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i. I am watching Rumsfeld's goodbye ceremony on CNN. I haven't felt this bubbly and inexplicably happy in months. *giggles* Six years of terror have come to an end. Did you know he's served the second-longest as Secretary of Defense? I know. Of all people to make the top ten, it had to be him. I'll be politically correct here and say he had good intentions. I'm not the type of liberal to say "they're all satanists, it's a conspiracy of malicious, devil-worshipping men!" Nah. No dice. He certainly had good intentions.

Then again, so does the road to hell.

ii. Kofi Annan is no longer the head of the U.N. *weeps* He didn't get as much accomplished as he set out, but he had a lot of cock blocks along the way. And he lead with poise and conviction. I really liked him. And now the United Nations is headed by China. Of course, I <3 me some asians. And I haven't any beef with the Chinese as a people. (Actually, I fangirl them quite a bit. *blushes*) But the Chinese diplomats have directly prevented further help and aid reaching Sudan. China and Russia are on the security council, you see. Along with us and the U.K. (and a couple others), naturally. And so many terrific drafts have been proposed that would make huge progress in ending the genocide and getting aid to the African Union and refugees. And every.single.time. China and Russia have used their powers on the security council to block the drafts from being realized. They give some shit reasons about diction in certain articles and have once even claimed the U.N. is stretched too thin. The real reason is because they have oil and arms profits coming from that region specifically, and without those deals their military budgets would have to shrink. (Mind you, half of these profits are obtained illegally via the black market.) So... naturally, I'm skeptical (<-- euphimism) about this shift in U.N. leadership. But I have hope that they'll come around. Soon. And if they don't, I have hope that the rest of the U.N. will do what's right anyway.

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iii. Yesterday was my last day of semester! I've got a full month off... which I'm sure will pass much too quickly. My official grades won't be released until next week, but our teachers usually let us know the last day of class. Except my history teacher, since our research paper wasn't even due until the last day. *bites nails* I had a 95% in history (Ancient Civ.) before the paper and the final... and those two grades combined = 50% of my final grade, so it's a total toss-up. I'm going to go mad wondering if I pulled the A. *diiiies* But I know the others! :)

English 2810: 99%
Sociology: 104%
English 2140: 100%
Botany: 86%
Ancient Civilizations: ?!?!!!!?SPAZ

Lol, Botany sort of sticks out like a sore thumb, huh? *Angsts* That class killed me. I studied so hard for some of the tests I quite literally became physically ill. I'll spare you the graphic details, but suffice it to say I was hugging toilets a lot this semester. And even with days and days of studying I still barely managed mid-70%'s on the tests. And then I got that 66% recently. UGH. I fail at science. FAIL. But I got a 92% on my Botany final (don't ask me how)! And you know... I'm totally hoping she curves. *shifty eyes* Last semester, one of my friends had her for the exact same class, and she curved everyone's final grades by 13% because 3/4 of the class had failing marks, and the other 1/4 had only C's. (Goes to show how fucking insane and impossible she is!) She told us two days ago she would consider curving for us, too, but "don't bank on it." If she curves even by 4% I will have ultimate victory.

That's quite enough ranting for now. *smiles shyly* But I'll post the grades to that friend meme here, as well: ( grades! )

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