Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Hannah's Political Rant

iSeeing as how different political primaries are going on across the country at this time, I thought I'd take a brief interlude from updating you on my oh so fascinating life to say a brief word about politics. Thrilling, I know (you say as your mouse frantically searches for anything that will take you light years away from this website). I used to hate politics myself (and I certainly don't call myself obsessed or enthralled with it as some individuals I know), but I've gotten a little more interested as of late thanks to all the insane things going on.
Firstly, let me implore you to please go to the polls and vote for Ron Paul. Why, you might ask? Well, in my humble opinion he has the best ideas to get our country back on track (such as cutting the insane amounts of government spending, getting our troops out of Iraq/Afghanistan, and loosening the chokehold that our government is slowly imposing on our supposedly free nation). He also appears to have the best shot of all the Republican nominees at beating Obama as he appeals to, not only Republicans, but Independents and Democrats as well.
And why, you may ask, is it important that Obama not be reelected? Oh heavens, where do I even begin? Should I start by noting how Obama is all talk and no action (after all, he promised to get all the troops out by this point in time as well as restore our economy, which he has actually wrecked thanks to all his increased spending), or by commenting on how Obama seems to care nothing for the individual freedoms of Americans? After all, this is the same man who has instituted national healthcare (oh yeah, that doesn't reek of Socialism one bit), as well as, more recently, martial law and has pushed for internet piracy laws that, believe it or not, will end up destroying internet businesses as well as prohibiting free speech on the internet. So technically Obama could prosecute me for saying this stuff about him if these laws got passed. Basically, then, our dear old president has succeeded only at pushing our economy farther down the tubes, taking away freedoms of Americans slowly but surely, and ensuring that our troops will be overseas fighting useless battles for quite some time yet. And people actually want to reelect this guy? If that does happen, I think I'm moving to Australia....
Oh, and one more thing. Don't you find it suspicious that though there's been all this talk of the Republican primaries, there's been nothing about the Democratic primaries? In fact, they're not even having one this year because, supposedly, Obama is a sure win. Oh please. So you're telling me that there's not even one other Democrat who wants to run against Obama? Or any Democrats who will vote for other candidates versus Obama? It seems awfully suspcious to me. As though the Obama administration ensured that no Democratic primary would occur in the first place so as to ensure Obama's lock-in as the Democrat nominee. So, if this administration found the power to do that, who knows what else they have the power to do under the radar (seeing as how there's virtually no media coverage of this lack of Democratic primary). Creepy, right?
So, bottom line is, when your state's primary gets here, VOTE FOR RON PAUL! And then vote for WHOEVER is running against Obama. If you choose to listen to me that is....Okay, I'm done now. I promise. Normal life can resume once more ;)

Monday, January 9, 2012

Oh My

It has been entirely too long. You probably thought I'd fallen off the face of the earth, right? Well, I hope you at least missed me a little. *hint hint*...;) Anyways, I am back, hopefully for good this time. Though you never know how crazy my life will get once my second semester of school starts. Two jobs + the cruel torture of that thing known as the *dun dun dun* honors *gulp* program + plus the massive amounts of homework poor college students receive because their teachers think they have no life outside of it might leave me no free writing time whatsoever. But hey, who says a girl can't make time?

Anyways, what has my year looked like you might ask? Well...where do I begin? I decided on a college, had one of the best summers of my life, started college, had my heart broken and crushed into little tiny pieces, quit my hosting job, got a serving job (recently on top of my job at the psych office that I wouldn't give up for the world), survived the semester (oh the stories I have from this experience known as college...), met some out-of-this world people, and realized that without God I would be a ball of emotional wreckage. So yeah, it's been some year. I might have to catch you up gradually. We'll see....For now, though, I'll end with a quote I found today that I see as particularly inspiring (especially for someone like me who tends to dwell on the past and all the times I've made a mess of things).

“Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Until next time ;)