The Tommunist Manifesto

                As a great country that expects itself to at least be around for the collapse of Mother Nature at the helms of its byproducts, we certainly are not making the necessary changes to do so. We have the technology to change our political process for the better. Up until now, it has been necessary to have representatives of the people to make decisions because there was no system to inform and easily collect votes. It is very apparent that there are multitudes of ways we can collect votes and inform on a daily basis.

                It is imperative for any culture to make sacrifices if it is to continue existing. Ancient and present civilizations have sacrificed lives, economical gains, and intellectual gain. We need to sacrifice time. We need to sacrifice the feeling that we can live on a daily basis ignorant of the issues that face a country. We need to stop selling our principles and freedoms to the highest bidder. We can no longer continue being a corrupted republic. 

                The process to such is neither easy nor smooth, nor is it going to be perfect. It should however alleviate the corrupted aspects that are rampant presently. Before I discuss the process to an updated form of government, perhaps I should make clear the problems currently, and in the future. The people we have been electing to vote (presumably congruent to what we would decide) for us have had their voting decisions bought by corporations that don’t agree with the general public (otherwise, why would they have to buy their influence). The current system is entirely too dependent on a bipartisan ideology.  Either you are for it, or you are against it. The current system is entirely too dependent on keeping its constituents in the dark and politically ignorant. The current system places an emphasis on rhetoric and eloquent speech, and not enough on actions. The government has become a place of luxury and bullying. Holding a political office is a position of servitude, and is a position that answers to its people. Lawyers and Business persons at the political level hardly know what it is to serve.

                Those are the problems that I see worth mentioning, and I guess I wasn’t very thorough in citing examples or even elaborating, but I would like to get into the how, of this process to a direct representation governance. The first thing we must tackle is the uninformed. Giving the uninformed any political power will result in a failure. We began with work, schools, shelters, and libraries. Twice a month, the first and third Thursday of every month, work places, schools, shelters, and libraries will lay host to political forums. Information on all aspects of governmental issues will be provided, free of any bias or personal filters. In the work place, from 3p – 5 p places of employment (with 15 or more employees) must offer an area to accommodate a political discussion, and recommend active involvement with incentives. Similarly schools will offer the same for students, shelters for the homeless, and libraries for whoever remains. The government will also provide a 24/7 television program that informs of current issues and is also has an interactive call in section for questions and debates.  Voting will be enabled 24/7 via the internet, with username – password verification, made within the most up to date security encryption. As you vote you have a chance to read about the issues once more, and then vote accordingly (with an option to abstain), or to submit your own amendments to the issue, which will be considered, discussed and then voted on again in a timely fashion.

                For the first two years, this will be merely to get people accustomed to the new legislative process, and the current system in place will remain. The votes will be tallied and used to influence those that represent, but the new system will not be fully enacted. The new legislative process would have certain restraints put into place to allow for decision to be made by the majority. In order for anything to be passed it must garner votes by 60% of the population able to vote. This is of course a drastically larger number than the American elections currently get. The reason we will achieve this (and hopefully even larger turnout) is because we have put into place, a free forum for political discussion, multiple options for getting active that involve all of the socially constructed economical classes. 

The need for America to shift to a new form of democracy is here. The general population is no longer being represented and our freedoms are being infringed upon. We have the technology and the power to change this. There does not need to be a major revolution, instead, we need to think of this as an evolution; a change to adapt to the current struggling world. Like many empires and democratic nations before us, we can easily lose the war against time and the kind of challenges time presents, or we can take action and strive to enrich our nation. Instead of stifling our citizens from any cognitive growth, we should facilitate it and plant seeds for the future of the great nation.

I signed in with the intent of just spewing out political ramblings that have been bothering me as of late.
   But I think its time I update on my life.

I did not graduate from NAU this semester as I was slated to do.
  This is infact Tom's record of collegiate academics.
2001 - 2002: A wasted year at a community college. Never wanted to attend community college. Straight A's despite little effort on my part. Credits transfer to REAL college as gen. studies. all 56 or so of them.
2002 - 2003: NAU As I consider it, my freshman year of college. Excellent year, decent grades.
2003 - 2004: NAU Fall semester was great... Spring semester wore down on me as far as long distance relationship ( I literally left Flagstaff for Tucson thurs- tues every week).
2004 - 2005: UofA Miserable. Horrible learning environment. Good grades, non transferable back to NAU. Spring semester again was not so good as I became engaged and realized I would not be returning to UA.
2005 - 2006: NAU Again, fall semester good, spring semester bad. Spring semester spent finding myself, and not really happy with life at the time.
2006 - 2007: NAU Fall semester is decent. Spring semester bad. Spring semester spent in whirl wind of emotions, the hope of having normal hearing and the crushing of that dream really fucked me up mentally. My computer this past semester crashed 8 times, I repaired it 7 (during the semester, I have since fixed it 10 times out of 9 crashes). Due to financial situations, I also started classes four weeks late. A lot of things that to me, sound out of my control that resulted in the poor semester. Of course I am to blame for it in the long run.

Noted: 2006 -2007 was the Official fourth year of college. To me this makes sense, my fourth year at NAU, with hardly any transferable credits from the other two institutions. And the fact that I have two semesters left as I failed three Spring semesters here? It makes sense that I'm a fifth year senior. I understand all of that. But its very hard to give that justification in the real world. I did attend college for the past six years.
  I'm under pressure to abandon my goals of receiving my college degrees that I have honestly worked decently hard for. I do understand this being brought up. I really do. It makes sense if every semester is horrible. I would almost rationalize that I should attend college full time in the fall only, as Spring seems to be my down fall.
 And i'll be the first to admit my study skills have disappeared slowly. I'll be the first to admit that I've chosen social activity over class more than 50% of the time when presented with the two options. I'll be the first to admit that I have on occassion forgotten that I'm in college to attend school.
What I Will Not Admit: I will not admit that I should not return to school. I will not admit that I am a bad student. I will not admit that I am simply not suited to be a college graduate. I will not admit that I will not be able to graduate.
Obviously some changes need to take place, and I know just where to begin:
Study skills - I need to return to the school is my job mentality/ school as I grew up. School and homework is my job, 7am - 5pm. Clock in, clock out. Read ahead if I'm done.
Sleeping habits - this is a big one. I have fought a sleeping disorder for a very long time. I need to train my body (which I've been doing for the past three weeks) to wake up at 6:30a every day. weekends included. Regardless of sleep received, and eventually my body will fall into a pattern of sleeping around midnight to 2a everynight!
Social habits - since I'm treating school like a job, I wouldn't want to get fired for not showing up, now would I?

To me, this whole explanation of my college career is pretty simple. I have one year left to finish up a BS and at least one BA degree. I have a year left, for a multitude of reasons, I have a tendency to say "shit happened during the spring semesters, which influenced my performance". Yes, I crafted that so it doesn't blame those events and make excuses. I realize I, I, received those grades because of MY actions or lack there of.

I know that I will be successful in my last year run for commencement. I know that I will receive exemplary marks and will come out on top. I have been offered a pretty good offer to work for a company that is in its sophomoric year, and hope that I can shelve that offer for a year, which sounds highly probable.

I'm done with that discussion. Ask questions if you have them, look at me disgustingly for having been a bad student in previous years, or continue on reading to my political concerns. Maybe all three? I mean, if you have time.

Recently, I've become more aware of the liberally based correlation between Bush and Hitler. The relationship that is being forced here is disgusting and nothing more than mere rhetoric that will influence the mis informed.
While I would go into that debate, which this debate amongst bloggers is fluent and easily googled; I feel it does open the door into looking at our government and its republic government. 
Perhaps the reason the Bush = Hitler relationship is plausible in the minds of some, is the fact that Bush's name is used in the dictorship mannor akin to Hitler and his Regime. And is it entirely wrong to view the Namesake Bush as such? The power that the Executive branch has taken over, seems to be growing.
  I cannot wrap my head around the entire government of America mentality. The government is meant to be elected by us, and then an extension of our voices in debates that we may not be able to personally attend, and to vote based on the informed decisions of its constituents. Unless all of our (constituents) decisions are being swayed by corporate pay-offs, then our representative should not be either. Justices should be voted on by us directly. President and Cabinent members should be voted on by us. Every part about our government of the people, by the people, for the people should be held to that statement. By the people. For the people. The masses are not being represented. A four year term for president makes us wait for change, even if we all want it. Of course I understand on certain things that it may take four years to see results. How about after 22 months we take a National Vote of Confidence? If not, they finish out until month 24, as we have 2 months for a new election that takes effect immediately on the 24th month. The system of checks and balances is no longer functioning properly, otherwise I wouldn't be so heavily focused on the executive branch presently. 
  Actually, as I've been writing, I've been feeling less of a drive to write about politics, or at all really.
  I would say I will post a little more frequently, but I'll let it be a surprising event on the occasion that it happens again any time soon.

I was in the middle of typing a paper, well, its actually 7/8 finished, but whatever...

and I saw the cutest/ most inspiring thing on the television.
   The weirdest movie is playing, basically this kid watches his whole neighborhood all day everyday from his neighbor's lawn. One of the houses and gentleman he was watching seemed to be on the creepy, may have killed his family type, as he was doing a lot of late night heavy bag removal, and seemed to be cautious and go undetected. Of course there's a point in the movie (albeit this is no where near the central issue in the movie) when the kid and the girl he's pursuing finally go up to the guys house to enter and look inside at the horrors within!
  They of course get stopped at the door when the owner walks up to them from behind. Casually says, I'll bet you'd like to see what I've been doing in there. As they try to run, he nudges them inside the door and they fall into a pool.  Mind you, this was the front door. The man had been digging a pool in his living room, and trying his best to replicate Tahiti for his wife. That was the destination of their the second honeymoon before she had fallen ill and was then confined to a wheel chair.
  It struck me, because I've realized that is the type of man I strive to embody. Make the best of the situation, but not only that, take it as far as I could and work hard to do my best at making my future family happy. Even if that means tearing up my living room.
Well back to work for now. I guess I have some things to write about soonish.

I got the news today that I am not a candidate for the middle ear surgery.

What we were hoping to be found on the CT scans was a problem with my middle ear, specifically the three bones that turn air waves into vibration. Whether they had become spongy, malformed or in general they were not properly intact and functioning.

Oddly enough the day before I got the results (yesterday) in Audiology class, we discussed both the surgery and the condition I have (and why it makes me not a candidate for surgery). The description of my hearing pattern and whatnot during the class led me to believe that I wasn't a candidate, or that I wouldn't get a completely "normal" hearing level due to the mixed style of loss.

So not only that, but, my hearing disability is definitely dangerous, and its degenerative nature is absolute.
I'm sad upon hearing the results, I prepared for both possibilities, but knowing how bad my inner ears are from being underdeveloped, has hurt more than I expected.
When I got the message I cried,  very unexpectedly and uncontrollably.

Well, just felt I'd update on that situation.