Imagine

To quote the film Walk Hard: the Dewey Cox Story, "There's no limit to what we can do when we -- imagine." The character saying the line was supposed to be an early Lennon. Haha. All jokes and bad references aside, using the imagination is something that is necessary for children. Unless a child learns what his or her mind is capable of, he or she will never try to expand the limits of that ability. It's like John Candy said in Uncle Buck, "I don't want to know a six-year-old who thinks about their student careers." Let kids be kids for what precious little time they can be. They'll have to grow up eventually and when they do, it would be nice if they could remember the days when candy made them smile.

Red Badge of Courage

The judge who stood up and said that even sex offenders have the right to be protected from illegal search-and-seizure should be given a medal. After a person is out of jail and off of probation, he or she (men aren't the only perverts in the world, don't lie) has served his or her time to society and should be left alone. Sex offenders have to register with their local governments and register so that the whole neighborhood knows who the freak that just moved into town is, I think we owe them a little bit of privacy in their own home.

Difference Made

Ok, no more fooling around, it's time for me to get back in the swing of things and, boy, do I have a list of stuff to write about. The article referenced here is an opinion article about how Obama getting elected won't change the political scene for the better, but that the political scene has already changed to allow him to be where he is now. I have to agree with him. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton can both testify to the difficulty of being a black man running for President. Neither of them got nearly this close. I think that's because Obama isn't running as a black man, he's running as an American who has policies he believes in. He's not the race-card playing, white-man hating, hate-speech giving black politician everyone seems to be afraid of. Hopefully those kind of politicians will be voted out of the system and more Obamas will be voted in.

A brief note: blacks are not the only group of people who play a race card or hate people of different colors, or give invective-laced orations, but Obama can't bring change to those other groups (white men), that's what I'm here for.

Wow

The Dark Knight was the best movie of the summer. No argument, period, the end. Great. Everybody go see it so that I can talk about it without spoiling it.

I also said that I would update you all on what happened last night. Everything went off without a hitch. I wasn't nervous at all, it just felt like I was supposed to be up there speaking to people. I think I'll be able to do this for a long time. I'm going to enjoy doing it, so I hope you all enjoy watching.

It's Been a While

I don't think I ever really liked the song of this title by the group Staind, but it fits what I want to talk about. I realized last night that it's been about a week and a half since I last wrote anything. This is for a couple of reasons. I'm still trying to get used to my schedule and finding time to write when I actually feel like writing is difficult (I don't like writing much). The other reason is that there hasn't been very much news that I have thought needed extra comment. I hope you've all been keeping up with my shared news, because I haven't stopped reading news and I haven't stopped sharing it. There has been a lot that has been going on in the world, just not much that I think needs more said. I do have a few articles stored up that I think I'll write about over the weekend. I also have to do my Independence Day blog. I like national holidays, what can I say? Thanks for sticking with me everybody, I'm still here.