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hello, check out chatcat a command line utility I just wrote for catting XML-based adium chat log files to a UNIX terminal. It comes in handy if you want to grep for certain things and be able to read them. Converts the XML data to ascii! enjoy <3

I put this track on and it reminded me of a time long ago when we were happy together.   When we were close and we were naive about how much we loved one another.  At least I was naive about that kind of thing.  I can't remember what track it was, but it was just maybe a chord that reminded me.  Or a smell.  Or something just for a flash cos then a Rancid track came on shuffle play and I was glad you weren't in my life anymore.  Bye.

I love that he rocks out on only a mouse wheel.

Who's standing idly by watching intellectualism get pushed further into the margins?  Who's letting them undo the work of all that came before us?  Where are our heroes?  Are we really a lost cause?  Should we just quit?  We can't.

Please understand, we can't quit now. 

The governments are showing their true faces, they are not ready to give up the power we gave to them when we were scared.  I understand our fear.  It was fear we've never known here in America.  Yes contemporary American soldiers have seen some very heavy shit in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, and elsewhere.  But US civilians have not.  So I understand why it's so easy for us to bitch out.  It wasn't like right after the civil or revolutionary wars, when regular citizens knew what it was to have a cannonball take their cousin's head off right in front of them.  So when we had the tragic, but relatively small events on 9/11 we were exposed to feelings we've never felt.  No one alive had seen an attack on the American mainland.  It was a tragic, tragic day.  People died.  America, the free nation, the proud country of sound ideals and principals, the country I love and would die for has been bleeding ever since 9/11.  We've been bleeding real freedom, we've been bleeding money, we've been bleeding innovation, jobs, trust, and decency.

How far does this have to go?  How much does the government need to know?  How many of our rights do we have to yield in order to get what?  Security?  Mark my words, Joe citizen, YOU and I... we let the terrorists defeat America on 9/11.  The greedy bastards we've elected have been licking their chops for decades waiting for us to get weak.  Well here we are, your kid has ADD, everyone's suffering from "depression", you trust all the wrong people making non choices chasing your stupid carrot on your stupid treadmill.  WAKE UP.

Please wake up.

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