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[21 Jul 2006|05:01am] |
If you're reading this, you need to go to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) madrigalskylark and add me there.
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| Humanity |
[18 Apr 2006|02:48am] |
You are a member of this human race.
You judge. You love. You hate. You see. You ignore. You anger. You simplify. You complicate. You distrust. You misjudge. You commit. You forget. You cheat. You tell. You lie. You concede.
Most of all, you contribute. You contribute to the downfall of humanity.
You are the closest thing to God roaming this earth.
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| I Chose To Dance Across The Stages Of The World |
[09 Aug 2005|02:13pm] |
And he says, what do you love to do?
Outside your world,
Who spends time with you?
Whom do you love when you’re not working?
Sweet girl....
Where would you go,
If you had the time?
Crossing some crazy state-line somewhere?
To whom do you cry?
People are unkind,
Sweet girl...
But I chose to dance across the stages of the world.
Everyone said I’d never learn
And I still hear your words
Well, I waited all my life for you
Sweet girl
I did try to come back and listen
You never knew it
I didn’t wish it
And I did hear every answer of every question
It’s all about protection
Still through the sunlighted days I wait
Track a ghost through the fog
The sun is burning me
And you come runnin’ out
In the wind with me
The ocean is your blanket
But I chose to dance across the stages of the world
Everyone said I’d never learn
I still hear your words,
Well, I waited all my life for you
I watched you fly through the world.
In a golden ball
Many are the cities that I never saw at all
Sometimes I feel like I was always on-call
Sometimes even I am allowed to fall
He says, come down here for a
Minute...well, come down here for a minute....
He says, come down here for a minute, sweet girl...
Sweet girl...
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| SKYLARK NETWORK EXCLUSIVE |
[09 Aug 2005|05:11am] |
EDIT: STS-114 Discovery has successfully touched down at Edwards AFB, California
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| New Chapin Plaque Upsets Vets |
[09 Aug 2005|04:08am] |
New plaque at Chapin High upsets veterans, will be removed
Ramon Bracamontes
El Paso Times
Trying to please everyone, El Paso school district officials recently added names to the "Company E" wall of honor at Chapin High School. But now they find themselves having to take it down.
During the summer, on orders from the El Paso Independent School District board, a second plaque was painted in the Chapin rotunda underneath the original memorial to Capt. John L. Chapin and Company E, an El Paso-based unit that served with distinction during World War II. The new plaque, the memorial reads, lists "original members" of Company E who were "not a part of the unit who served in Europe but served their country in other roles."
"That new plaque is flat wrong," said Manuel Rivera, 83, a World War II veteran and member of Company E. "How can they have me and Captain Chapin listed under those who didn't go to Europe? He died over there. I was over there. There are other people on both lists."
Rivera said the new monument also includes the names of men who deserted the unit before it shipped overseas.
When Chapin High School opened five years ago, school district officials, including then-board President Dan Wever, started working on a memorial for John Chapin's National Guard unit, which was activated in 1940 as Company E, 141st Infantry, 36th Division.
This company has been historically documented as one of the toughest fighting units in the Army, consisting of mostly Hispanics from Bowie, Austin and El Paso high schools.
"We wanted the memorial to be a wall of honor, something special, because some of these men died in combat," said Wever, who helped research and verify every name placed on the original wall.
The members of Company E who were left off the original memorial were omitted because they didn't earn the Combat Infantry Badge.
"I think it is a slap in the face of the men who earned the Combat Infantry Badge to be on the same list as those who didn't earn the badge," Wever said. "The majority of Company E didn't go to Europe. Any original listing would be too long, and there would be no way of verifying it."
But since 2001, some El Pasoans have been lobbying the district to add more names to the list.
In August 2004, the school board voted to add a plaque in the rotunda as a compromise.
Luis Villalobos, EPISD executive director, acknowledged that the new plaque is flawed and said it will be taken down.
"We want to apologize to any veteran who may have been offended with the error," Villalobos said.
Apology accepted, Rivera said.
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| Jagged Little Pill |
[08 Aug 2005|11:03pm] |
I'm copying Don, because he's cool to copy from. I'm making a friend's quiz to see how well all of you out there know me. Fill in the questions with the answers, and comment (I promise to fill in the rest with the correct answers if you can't answer some). Good luck. And...begin!
(Note: This is the EXTENDED quiz...the shorter one is in a bulletin on MySpace)
01. What type of MP3 player do I sport on my waist?
02. What is the make and model of my first car?
03. What day did I come out to my mother? (specific or non-specific date)
04. Where did I just get employed at? (hint: MySpace profile)
05. What is the name of my massive website network?
06. What is the name of my political blog?
07. What is the name of the first song I mixed? (I'll also take the artist)
08. Where am I going to school at for the Spring semester?
09. Who is my favorite singer?
10. What is my favorite band?
11. Name one of the two people I first came out to.
12. Name the first place I came out at.
13. Name the community centre I volunteered at.
14. Who is my friend at Channel 4 in El Paso?
15. Name the TV station I'll be interning at in the Spring (option Sacramento).
16. Name the radio station I'll be interning at in the Spring (option San Francisco).
17. What office supply am I hiding behind in my latest photo?
18. I made a compilation album recently called "Satiations". Who was the only artist on that album?
19. What song was used in the Fall Meet The Husky video last year? (hint: see number 7)
20. Other than journalism, what club or team did I belong to at Chapin?
Pencils down.
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| More Photos |
[08 Aug 2005|02:50am] |
New photos to feast upon.
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| Angry Vacaville Mom Protests President |
[07 Aug 2005|08:09am] |
(CBS/AP) The angry mother of a fallen U.S. soldier staged a protest near President Bush's ranch, demanding an accounting from Bush of how he has conducted the war in Iraq.
Supported by more than 50 demonstrators who chanted, "W. killed her son!" Cindy Sheehan told reporters: "I want to ask the president, 'Why did you kill my son? What did my son die for?"'
CBS News Correspondent Mark Knoller reports that the passion of Sheehan's message reflects the polarizing effects of war and may be why some in the administration tried late last month to call the conflict something else.
Sheehan, 48, didn't get to see Bush, but did talk about 45 minutes with national security adviser Steve Hadley and deputy White House chief of staff Joe Hagin, who went out to hear her concerns.
Appreciative of their attention, yet undaunted, Sheehan said she planned to continue her roadside vigil, except for a few breaks, until she gets to talk to Bush. Her son, Casey, 24, was killed in Sadr City, Iraq, on April 4, 2004. He was an Army specialist, a Humvee mechanic.
"They (the advisers) said we are in Iraq because they believed Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, that the world's a better place with Saddam gone and that we're making the world a safer place with what we're doing over there," Sheehan said in a telephone interview after the meeting.
"They were very respectful. They were nice men. I told them Iraq was not a threat to the United States and that now people are dead for nothing. I told them I wouldn't leave until I talked to George Bush."
She said Hagin told her, "I want to assure you that he (Bush) really does care."
"And I said if he does care, why doesn't he come out and talk to me."
Sheehan arrived in Crawford aboard a bus painted red, white and blue and emblazoned with the words, "Impeachment Tour." Sheehan, from Vacaville, Calif., had been attending a Veterans for Peace convention in Dallas.
The bus, trailed by about 20 cars of protesters and reporters, drove at about 15 mph toward Bush's ranch. After several miles, they parked the vehicles and began to march, in stifling heat, farther down the narrow country road.
Flanked by miles of pasture, Sheehan spoke with reporters while clutching two photographs, one of her son in uniform, and the other, a baby picture, when he was seven months old.
She said she decided to come to Crawford a few days ago after Bush said that fallen U.S. troops had died for a noble cause and that the mission must be completed.
"I want to ask the president, `Why did you kill my son? What did my son die for?" she said, her voice cracking with emotion. "Last week, you said my son died for a noble cause and I want to ask him what that noble cause is?"
White House spokesman Trent Duffy said response that Bush also wants the troops to return home safely.
"Many of the hundreds of families the president has met with know their loved one died for a noble cause and that the best way to honor their sacrifice is to complete the mission," Duffy said.
"It is a message the president has heard time and again from those he has met with and comforted. Like all Americans, he wants the troops home as soon as possible."
The group marched about a half-mile before local law enforcement officials stopped them at a bend in the road, still four to five miles from the ranch's entrance. Capt. Kenneth Vanek of the McLennan County Sheriff's Office said the group was stopped because some marchers ignored instructions to walk in the ditch beside the road, not on the road.
"If they won't cooperate, we won't," Vanek said.
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| New LJ community |
[07 Aug 2005|06:44am] |
I've started an LJ community to highlight my photos (you can friend it if you want to see more photos like the ones I've been displaying, or even join if you want to show off your own photos!)
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) shutterbuggers is the community.
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| Pointless Entry #29 |
[06 Aug 2005|11:58pm] |
J: oh gawd
J: squirrels rock meh socks off
Matthew: I took the picture.
Matthew: Stupid fucking squirrels.
J: they're awesome!
Matthew: They keep me awake, those damn bastards.
Matthew: I'm gonna sell all of the squirrels in my area to the lady on 'Rat Race'
J: meanie
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| Who Knew? |
[06 Aug 2005|08:08pm] |
"Mr. Play-it-safe was afraid to fly...he packed his suitcase and kissed his kids good-bye. He waited his whole damn life to take that flight, and as the plane crashed down, he thought: Well, isn't this nice?"
Oh, grow the fuck up. I just felt the need to say it.
Other news, happy birthday to Jason tomorrow (7 August). Bob's birthday is 15 August, so happy early birthday to him. Happy WAY early birthday to Chad (1 September), and cutegenius will be turning another year older on 3 September.
"Welcome to a new kind of tension..."
Oh, and my laptop's sorta back to life. My grandma asked me if I wanted a new laptop for Christmas, and I said "Sure". She asked if I wanted a Dell or something else. Didn't know what to say (iBook, Powerbook...something like that), but I think I'm gonna go with something along the lines of an iBook or Powerbook. I figure, one for graphics and one for music (the Northgate for graphics, and the iBook for music and whatever else iBooks do).
Hey, look at that! Someone has a crush on me. Oh, God...this couldn't have come at a worse time, either. Yeah, I have a crush on him too...but whatever. Not gonna happen...I won't allow it.
Well, maybe.
JMT Tickets @ Alice @ 97.3.
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| Kohl's--That's More Like It |
[05 Aug 2005|07:29pm] |
Job interview on Monday at Kohl's department store.
General Manager seemed eager to want me to join their Kohl's family.
Gotta fill out that application. Monday, I got to pick up my textbooks as well.
$219 for textbooks this semester. Be lucky you're still in high school with those crappy book covers.
If you're in college...you feel my pain.
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| BUSTED! Chapin Assistant Principal Caught Using Marijuana |
[02 Aug 2005|02:57am] |
http://www.kvia.com/Global/story.asp?S=3586333&nav=AbC0c6wX
EL PASO, TX. - After months of legal wrangling, ABC-7 has uncovered new details on a school district drug investigation which led to the firing, or resignation of 27 El Paso school district employees.
Initally, the El Paso school district at refused to release documents under a Freedom of Information request on March 16. ABC-7 appealed, and obtained letters of termination with the backing of the Texas Attorney General.
The information obtained confirms what ABC-7's previous I-Team investigations have revealed, that school district employees were involved in the drug investigation, and one additional one person on this list that the I-Team had previously not been aware of.
According to EPISD documents an Assistant Principal, Henry Gregory from Chapin High School was using marijuana, Teacher Francisco Velez found to be using cocaine and Paraprofessional Alejandro Castro who was using marijuana and cocaine.
The fourth person connected to the initial school district investigation, according to the documents requested by the I-Team, is Paraprofessional Reynaldo Llamas, who was terminated for using cocaine.
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| MySpace, Part 3 |
[31 Jul 2005|08:08pm] |
MySpace people and gay people will probably get this.
It showed up in my profile earlier tonight. I swear it's true...
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