Mab for president. Mosh or die.

So this morning when I got to Regina's house she talked about an Eminem video that was well worth watching. I looked at her like a mammoth must have looked at three cavemen trying to kill it with sticks. You have got to be joking me.
But she wasn't. Next thing I know I find myself sitting in front of this very computer screen watching a wonderfully written piece of political pop culture being performed by the very white rapper drama-queen whose whiny voice had become lodged in that special place in my heart normally reserved for neo-nazis and Flyers fans. The scary thing being that I actually liked this thing. I think it was great how it appealed to us as the youth of America. A soldier who misses his family being reassigned to Iraq over and over again, a single mother being evicted from her home as Bush gives more tax cuts to the rich. These are things we know about. Things that we want to change. Global warming and oil companies aren't quite as close to us as things like raising taxes on people whose families can't afford it.
One of the reasons I'm so worried about this war is because one of my best friends might be sent to his death if the draft is reinstated.
I like how Eminem can tell politics the way we see it, not the way politicians see it. We don't care so much about voting because it wouldn't directly effect us but my God, if you're going send my friends to Iraq or make my family pay twice as much to make sure we all have health care, you can be damn sure I'm gonna vote this year.
sigh
If only I weren't fifteen.




While watching Kerry deliver his speech to the Cheeseheads, I noticed him talking about how he was going to increase national security, lower healthcare costs, raise minimum wage and fund a better education program than Bush has.. Which is all wonderful and everything, but I just want to know one thing... How does this man think he is going to pay for all this?
I mean I know he's talking about getting rid of Bush insane tax cut for the rich but he's also going to put a 50% tax cut on small business. How can he lower taxes when I thought the only way to really get money for the gov't was to RAISE the taxes? Am I just missing some key ingredient for money-making in the presidency? Are there other ways to get this money?
I mean say you raise minimum wage so families have more money. If they have more money, now they can buy more things. If they do that then there is a bigger demand for these things. The companies have to hire more workers, more people get money, repeat process. That sounds good right? Say the huge corperations have a tax on how many things they sell.. that comes out of their profits. but then theyd take it out of the workers' salaries wouldnt they? hmm.. No, then they'd just have to hire fewer people, pay them just as much, just pay them extra for overtime. So really, if we just made a few laws here and there, we could actually make capitalism work towards paying back the national debt.
If we do that, along with getting rid of the tax cuts for the rich, in a few christmas seasons we'll be right back at normal.
Mab for president.
She can fix stuff.


I was flipping through the Merck manual today and I found some interesting stuff on ADD and depression and stuff. The ADD part was kinda funny. There was a long list of the symptoms of ADD and it said that if a child fit at least eight of the fourteen descriptions, they might have ADD. Yah, I fit about ten of them. I think the only ones I didnt fit were the ones involving fidgeting and stuff. But that may be only because the depression slows down my system immensely. I remember in kindergarden I couldn't stay in my seat after I finished work. Just... couldn't do it. I would get up and go play in the centres while everyone else still struggled with writing a lower-case "A", something I mastered almost as soon as I could hold a pencil.
I also read about different kinds of depression and such trying to diagnose my friends and characters.
Who knew medical guides could be so much fun.