:: The Blurst of Times ::

:: 11.23.2003 ::

Here's me giving the finger to the Mahattan Police Department: *bam* That's for the outragious $120 you're fining me for missing a stop sign.

Here's me giving the thumbs up to my Resources teacher: *yeah* That's for postponing the due date of my research paper until after the break.

Here's me giving you my schedule: I will be in O-town sometime Tuesday night until Friday morning. Then I will be in Des Moines until Sunday. Then I will go back to Manhattan. You know my number and my address - check me out.

Here's me ending this.

"But that's totally feather-pluckin' insane!"
:: Freddy F. at 4:35 AM [+] ::
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As defined by 100% of the scientific population, and 99.999% of the global populace:
Critical Habitat - specific areas within a species' range with physical or biological factors that are essential to survival and reproduction of the species, or which may require special management to maintain the species.

As defined by the George W. Bush administration:
Critical Habitat - such designations are not necessary for the perpetuation of many plant and animal species.
If someone burned down his house in the name of development, population, or agricultural interests we shouldn't care.

He would want it that way.

"If you're not part of the cure, you're part of the disease. Father Time will tell us who concedes..."
:: Freddy F. at 9:21 PM [+] ::
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Time to get political -

I have been hovering on the brink of political re-activism the last couple months. I remember how passionate I was back in high school about issues at local, regional, and global levels and I wonder where all that went. Well, I kind of know where it went, but now I wonder how I'm going to get it back. So while I wonder how I'm going to get it back consider this.

House Resolution 1904: will reduce the opportunities for citizen input into the forest management agenda and opens forests to natural resource harvesting - not specifically timber, but presently for oil and gas wells.

In an era of increase public concern regarding forest fires, the federal government is taking steps to protect rich private interests (of those living in timber regions and of private companies who want to line their pockets with federally owned timber) while completely undermining the power of the Forest Service as an institution of multiple-use and as a protector of the Endangered Species Act. I guess as long as you are going to end up filthy rich, you have no problem sending the nation to the ecological shitter.

Other information: here, here, and here.

Maybe this will be my cause.

"These bastards stole their power from the victims of the us versus them years, wrecking all things virtuous and true..."

:: Freddy F. at 7:41 PM [+] ::
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There was a flurry of responses - all a resounding "yeah!" So let's roll with this:

1) I need to find some motivation to really crank out some good projects in the closing weeks of this semester.

2) My environmental law class for next semester got cancelled. Thus I enrolled in "Fundamentals of Acting." Hey - it's time to have some fun.

3) I met a girl. She's really nice. Why am I trying to run like hell?

"Linger on, your pale blue eyes..."
:: Freddy F. at 11:41 PM [+] ::
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It seems like it would be pointless at this time to restart this journal unless I am going to be devout and write to it everyday. And I don't know if I can promise that. I feel bad skimming over the big things that have happened in the last few weeks (months) only to spend time in the upcoming days speaking of the drivel of day to day life. Nothing feel less accomplished. Should I restart?

In the meantime, the new Rancid album has been hitting home for the last two months.

"Well, America's a safe place if you're gonna leave it; and the rhetoric is there, if you're gonna read it..."
:: Freddy F. at 4:10 PM [+] ::
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