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I went to her Wake yesterday... It's still chilling for me to say that, but going gave me a bit of closure... I say a bit, because I still can't understand what has happened, and I really don't think I want to understand it, either. The last time I saw her, was this week last year... I had actually wondered what she and the rest of the old group from OHS had been up to since the last time I saw them, and I had this thought just last week... We lost someone special, there's no doubt about it.
For those who couldn't attend, this is the little prayer card that her family had, exactly as it appears on the physical card:

In memory of

Amber Jean Thompson

Born into life
November 15,1990

Born into eternal life
March 22, 2009

Funeral Service
Friday, March 27, 2009

"We knew little that morning,
God was going to call your name,
In life we loved you dearly, In
death we do the same, It broke our
hearts to lose you, You did not go alone.

For part of us went with you, the day God
called you home.
You left us beautiful
memories, your love is still our guide, and
though we cannot see you, You are always by
our side.
Our family chain is broken, and
nothing seems the same, but as God calls us
one by one, the chain will link again.
"

I'm going to miss Amber... I will always remember her as a fairly shy, somewhat insecure, always fun, intelligent, beautiful girl... And I am going to walk away from this with a valuable lesson that I had wished to learn differently... Hold onto the ones we love, and remind them at every opportunity how important they are to us, because we just don't know what direction life is going to take next. I think that in keeping this lesson close to my heart, she'll always be remembered. Amber, goodnight, and may God shelter you from here on out... To everyone else; listen, learn, laugh, love, and live.

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I have to preface this with my beliefs on guns: We should have the right to carry a handgun for our own protection, weapons classified as "assault rifles" are NOT actual assault weapons (they are semi-automatic ONLY, and cannot be modified to fire full auto), the capacity of magazines should be unrestricted, and in all honesty, the only firearms I beliTouns, and shotguns used for hunting, target shooting, and home defense, as assault weapons. He is one of those sorts that believes only police, military, and of course, his body guards should have firearms. What he neglects to mention is that law abiding citizens do not commit gun-crimes, and disarming citizens eaves the police and criminals as the only armed individuals.

Now, off of my pro-McCain, pro-Republican points, this is another issue that came out of the election: Proposition 8. Gay marriage is banned in California. So what happened here? People thought that voting for Barack Obama, a black man, would surely support gay marriage. Well, Here is the problem... I will undoubtedly be called a racist for this, but here goes: Black voters in California are a large reason for the failure of prop 8. Yes, an oppressed minority have become oppressors themselves. Don't believe me? Here are the statistics: 70% African Americans supported prop 8, 53% of Latino voters supported it, and 49% white and Asian Americans supported prop 8 [[link]
Now, here is the reality: throw out all of the African American and Latino votes (Asian Americans voted the same as whites, so their votes do not change the overall percentages), prop 8 would have failed. For Latinos, the reason behind supporting prop 8 was clear: the majority of Latinos are Catholic, which is strongly opposed to homosexuality in general. So why did black voters, an oppressed minority, cast more oppression towards another minority, the homosexuals? Former Santa Clara Superior Court justice LaDoris Cordell, both a lesbian and African American, had this to say: "[T]he roots of {African American] discomfort, I think, go deeper. Sadly, some African-Americans believe that it is only we who should benefit from the gains achieved by the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s. They fear that to allow the gay community to enter the doors of opportunity opened by our struggle, to permit gays and lesbians to share in the fruits of that movement, will diminish those benefits for the black community. Truth is, there is more than enough to go around." [[link]
The shocking thing is, African Americans tend to vote IN FAVOR of civil liberties for all people, not in opposition.

Here is the problem I see: I was raised in white society, believing that racism is dead wrong. The problem is, homophobia is seemingly praised amongst all of society. We have a black president now, and that is great. But it doesn't mean the struggle for the rights of every American is over, not by a long-shot. Until every American enjoys the same opportunities, until the mental image of impoverished Americans is not that of a black person, until Gay Americans can marry, we are not done.

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Sep 24- Contact a campaign
Sep 25- Hopefully start campaign work
Sep 26-30: TBA

Oct 2: Benjamin Kenon concert
Oct 6-10: Jury duty
Oct 11-31: TBA

November 4: Judge of elections, Oswego 18/9

]]> ~ToyotaTrueno http://ToyotaTrueno.deviantart.com/journal/20417846/ http://ToyotaTrueno.deviantart.com/journal/20417846/ Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:17:19 PDT -Caleb B. Ray

George W. Bush, Inaugurated January 20, 2001, and January 20, 2005 respectively. He is little more than a spoiled brat in charge of the world's most powerful military, using it to attack a sovereign nation under the guise of the "War on Terrorism." The man who routinely signs bill filled with so much pork, our Semitic brethren would be damned to an eternity in Hell just by reading them. He has approved illegal surveillance of his own citizens, appointed incompetent nitwits to his staff, raised taxes on the average American, and so much more political dickery. Gasoline was $1.46 per US gallon when he took office. Three days ago, I was left in total ecstasy when I paid $3.82 for a gallon. There is a video of me doing a jig at pump #2 at Shell from that day. He is the worst US president in recent US history. A 2005 Wall Street Journal article ranked him as the 6th WORST president in US history. 11:59:59 am Eastern US time. George Walker Bush's last moment as the President of the United States of America. We celebrate, right? Well, that all depends. If Barack Obama wins, we as a nation might also win. Or not. Obama's presidency is a bit of a wild-card, but that's where I place my bet. So, who exactly do we get if America decides to stay "red?"

Well, the short, rather crude answer is a living corpse and a cunt. Now, here is the reality of this situation; Sarah Palin will be the 45th President. John McCain's days are numbered, at least if you are willing to follow statistics. The 2007 CIA World Factbook calculated the average life expectancy for a male in the US to be 75.15. McCain is 72 years old. He has suffered several bouts of cancer, which, for now at least, is in remission. In 2010, Americans will be in mourning over the death of President McCain. At least that's how I see it.

Now, Lieutenant Commander (USN) John McCain is a war hero. I will not deny him that. He bravely served our country. From October 26, 1967 until March 14, 1973, Lieutenant Commander McCain endured the worst sin of humanity: torture. He was shot down and captured by the North Vietnamese. He was savagely beaten and tortured, but he stayed strong, stronger than any man should. Presented with the same situation, I would have died from the stress some time in May of 1967. McCain is a hero.

Here's the problem with his hero status; he is damaged beyond repair, mentally. five and a half years of beatings and torture will damage anyone to the core. If war veterans that have never been a Prisoner of War suffer from nightmares many years after their war is over, I do not want to even think about the hell this man must relive every time he closes his eyes. The stress of the presidency will crush him mentally and physically. I fear he will either lock up under the strain, or go the opposite direction, and unleash a wave of brutality upon the world. Child abuse is where I draw this conclusion from. Victims of physical abuse become abusers themselves, sexual abuse often raises the next generation of rapists, emotional abuse also carries on. John McCain was tortured. The brutality of mankind is stored in his body, his mind, and soul, and like the adult that was abused as a child, he may return the brutality to mankind. I am honestly terrified by this prospect.

Sarah Palin, the Vice and soon-to-be President in this little scenario. What do we know about her? Not too much, and that is a dangerous prospect as well. She is the governor of Alaska, champion of the bridge to nowhere. Oh she hates wolves and polar bears too. Her position on the Iraq war is dismal, and she is directly quoted as saying "I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq." If John Kerry was a flip-flopper, then Palin must be the flip-flopping grand-master. First she wastes US taxpayers' money, weaseling more than 450 MILLION dollars out of the US treasury for the bridges to nowhere. Then, she flipped and was the champion of halting the portly-pork-barrel bridges. She did it! Our tax dollars were spared the abuse! "So, Governor Palin, we have a war in in the middle east right now, and it costs roughly $274 million a day(source: [link]). We gave you two days worth of funding, and you don't want a bridge anymore, so... Can I have the check back?" And Palin absorbed the misappropriated funds into Alaska. This is your fiscally conservative President heir apparent.

Now, I find it repugnant to attack a candidate's family, but I will say this; Palin and her moral greatness, opposing ALL abortion, pusher of abstinence based sex-ed, is also an expectant grandmother. Her daughter, Bristol Palin, is five months pregnant. Bristol Palin was born in 1990. too young... ]]> ~ToyotaTrueno http://ToyotaTrueno.deviantart.com/journal/20263955/ http://ToyotaTrueno.deviantart.com/journal/20263955/ Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:49:02 PDT
Favorite Genres of Music: Rock, Blues, Celtic Punk

Most Favorite Music Genre: Rock

Least Favorite Music Genre: Rap

Favorite Artists: Yoji Shinkawa

Favorite Poets: Sylvia Plath

Favorite Writers: Jack Kerouac

Favorite Books: Jurassic park

Favorite Style or Digital Art: I dunno

Operating System: OSX

MP3 Player of Choice: iPod

Shell of Choice: Brass Center-fire

Skins of Choice: Deer

Favorite Game: Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

Favorite Cartoon Characters: Kirika (NOIR), Lisa (e`X-Driver), Spike

Personal Quote:

Favorite Funny Unanswerable Questions To Ask Random People:


Favorite Quotes from Movies:
"And Shepherds we shall be
For thee, my Lord, for thee.
Power hath descended forth from Thy hand
Our feet may swiftly carry out Thy commands.
So we shall flow a river forth to Thee
And teeming with souls shall it ever be.
In Nomeni Patri Et Fili Spiritus Sancti." -Boondock Saints
"Good shooting... Shitty shooting." -Boondock Saints
"God creates dinosaurs, God destroys dinosaurs. God Creates man, man destroys God, man creates dinosaurs."-Jurassic Park


Favorite Comical Quotes:
"Ever get so drunk you punch a wall?
Ever get so drunk you mistook a 12-year old for a wall?
That's why I'm not allowed to babysit anymore"-Josh Jacobson

Tools of the Trade: Pencils, ink, foam, bodyfill, paint

Birthday: August 10

Age: 20

Horoscope: Leo

Birthstone: Peridot

Birth State: Illinois

Gay, Straight or Bi: Straight

Religion: None.

Nationality: American

Eye color: grey

Favorite Animal: Ocelot

Favorite Dog: Any working dog

Favorite Mythical Creatures: Griffin

Career Goal: Campaign manager

Character: I'm pretty fucking awesome in general

Favorite singers: Clifton Roy and Benjamin Kenon

Favorite Songs:
If I ever leave this wold alive- Flogging Molly



Favorite Actors: I dont really have a favorite.

Favorite Films: Boondock Saints, Reservoir Dogs, Dark Knight

Favorite Theatre Plays: Jesus Christ Superstar.

Favorite Colors: British Racing Green

Favorite Flower: None

Favorite Foods: Maguro

Favorite Drinks: Dark Beers... whisky of any kind

Favorite Candies: Watermelon flavored Jolly Ranchers

Fruit: Apples

The Worst Food: Canned veggies

The Worst Drink: Soy milk.

The Worst Singer: TO GODDAMN MANY

The Worst Movie: too many

The Worst Book: Twilight series

What Languages Do You Speak: English, enough japanese to pass as a retarded 3 year old

The Best Experience In Your Life: I have so many.

The Worst Experience In Your Life: Middle school.

When were you the happiest: When I met Sarah

When were you the saddest: yeah... let's not go here

Who Do You Want To Go On A Deserted Island with: Hmm... Tasha and Kayla, no question... I'd need Sean too, Adrian, Jislaine, Bri,

Bad Habit: Fingernail biting.

What would you do if you were invisible for a day: Espionage

Person Most Wanted To Get Stuck On A Lift With: I dunno

Favorite Websites:
I dunno

Favorite Shows: Discovery Channel sundays

Favorite Shoes: My Ferrari SF Pumas <3

Least Favorite Shoes: anything that doesn't have a sensitive sole

Anti: biotic

Things That The World Could Do Without:

Things That Should Go To Heaven: My friends

Things That Should Go To Hell: I dunno

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How do I stay busy? Well...

PROJECT: MGS4
Short stories

PROJECT: MGS4
Pink foam. That is my media. I am going to hand carve the foam, and do my magic. I will bring to life a miniature GEKKO and an approximately life-sized Metal Gear Mk. II, and various other little goodies and gadgets from MGS4

Short Stories:
I have a few on the way, including a MGS original fan fic. The first one to be posted is going to be in installments, and is going to be more along the lines of a horror story taking place in a subterranean hell in a Swiss mountain. The first installment will be in a few hours. I will be looking for help on the main characters name. This is your official look at the future!

THANKS FOR 1500 VIEWS!

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Materials:
-10 oz. Whole milk, Half&half Cream is preferred though
-3oz. Cognac
-1oz Khaluha
- a large glass

Combine the cognac and khaluha first, and give it a gentle stir. Then pour in the milk. The pouring action should give it a nice basic mix, but it will still need more stirring. For this, I use an old-fashioned shake mixer on its lowest setting, and this gives it a nice, frothy texture. Enjoy!

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"God creates Dinosaurs, God destroys dinosaurs. God creates Man, Man destroys God, Man creates Dinosaurs"

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Wishing you a Merry Christmas filled with love,
Caleb

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There exists some hope for us though. Sad but true, the chivalrous men the exist today will never see it, but chivalry will come back! Our code is in print, there are documented actions. We lose animals to extinction, but not ideals. Though we are dead and gone, chivalry will surface to dominate once more!

]]> ~ToyotaTrueno http://ToyotaTrueno.deviantart.com/journal/14533797/ http://ToyotaTrueno.deviantart.com/journal/14533797/ Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:04:53 PDT She, she is my baby... and I'm going to lose her... My only hope for the car, strangely enough, is to give up all hope. My belief that this will help is not unfounded... Two and a half years ago, while I was searching for her, I gave up on finding one... Three hours after I gave up, my close friend, Samir Farukh called me, and said he had found her! I hope that fate will smile the same way twice... But if it won't, Samir is coming to my rescue again... Since he has just bought a new Audi, he needs to sell his current one... And it looks like I am going to be the buyer. Saying goodbye forever is the hardest thing I've ever had to do. To all of my friends, I love all of you, and thank you for being there for me. To Samir, I owe you more than I can ever repay. You are clearly a cut above the rest, and I consider it one of my greatest honors being your friend.
I will always remember her

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