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^ And you should like getting your A's. Don't set your goals any lower!

I'm not right politics or left politics or up politics or down politics. I'm correct. :D

Woah! Nice idea! Seriously, would that work? :o

@Quoi_Tu: Colleges see the big deal. :/

Supermassive Black Hole by Muse (just finished) Hoodoo by Muse I've recently started listening to Muse, and all of their work has been all brilliant. From the epic, quick-moving Knights of Cydonia to the slow, latin-inspired Hoodoo, their style is varying and brilliant. Awesome! So awesome! Can you really expect any less from a band leader who's into conspiracy theories, futurism, the apocalypse, and science? :D I do wish, however, that the music video for Starlight was in space or some alternative reality and not on a stupid boat. :|

Megakiller, it's not the end of the world, but still, strive for excellence. If you find B's unacceptable, then good for you. It's a good habit. Ask your teachers what went wrong, and don't stress over it.

^ Brilliant speech.

Needs more cowbell. Seriously. Starlight by Muse - The Music Video!

I can't explain it. It's the way the catchiness of the song mixes in to your mind or something like that. The drums, the guitar, the...everything! It's awesome. It makes me feel amazing, like I can take on the whole world. I feel invincible and full of energy and life. Listening to that perfect song...awesome. Music...awesome! Good night.

I'd rather be misplaced as chocolate milk mix and drank by someone. Yeah, but would it be worth it to have to sit through all of those Rob Schneider movies? :P

That's freaking amazing! I would be worried that the car would've caused damage if the balloons ever popped. Or, maybe it'll float away to the heavens...

Gonna have to agree with you on this one. You say that like it's a bad thing. :?

^ Spongebob (mainly their older episodes) is pretty good IMHO.

Lol at the name Rusty. I don't like to think about death, but I would like to be cremated (the Viking burial sounds awesome, but still, I have to be creamated, my live body still being intact after death ftl...) and have someone scatter the ashes, preferrably near someone I love. That way I will stay dead, and people will always remember me. It would also be cool if a family member snorted my ashes, as something to remember me by (Keith Richards FTW!). :lol:

Yomom, when I say that most of America won't get conned into charismatic leaders, I mean it. America, I think, is very skeptical nowadays on leaders and can detect them fairly well. Remember Hitler? He emerged from a time where everyone was in a bad state. Germany suffered a humiliating loss at World War 1, there were debts to be paid, and confidence was low. Then Hitler comes in and motivates everyone by scapegoating all of the Jews (and everyone else he hated). Hitler gave everyone hope in that bad time, and everyone just obeyed. They had no other choice. People will generally only be persuaded by a ruler like that in times of crisis. And even then, you still have to depend on everyone to see through their disguise. You have to trust them and let everyone be in control of their own thoughts, because they'll come around. Banning people like the BNP party from speaking won't do any good. If you put limits on what's acceptable and what's not, you're no better than those who are trying to speak the crap, and not only will people lose confidence, but the actual people trying to speak their crappy views will just get more popular in the long run.

Gonna finish up high school, go on to college (Yale ftw?) and become a doctor. That's my current idea. Not exactly sure what my specialty will be yet though.

^ I meant that people should live with the few idiots who post racist, insensitive crap like this and let those few idiots die out. So please, bother to say where I've gone wrong. You haven't told me anything useful so far. So, what was wrong with my statement? Please tell me.

^ Please, bother. There isn't much to repeat, anyway. You barely said a damn thing. What is so god damn bad about saying that people have a right to whatever they [bleep]ing want to say that you have to get all pissy about it? I'm no expert at this crap. I posted my opinion and backed it up as well as I could, if that's not sufficient for you then go to hell. There's absolutely nothing wrong with this statement: People have a right to their opinion. No matter how completely racist or insensitive it is. Live with it, and let this crap die out.

You have a right to be worried, and I'm sure he'll be relieved to get it back. No problems! :)

Okay. The power of speech, as you say, is powerful enough to persuade a nation to go under the rule of a bad ruler. I say that's pretty unlikely in this modern world, but even though it's possible, it's a risk we need to take. You can't take away people's right to free speech because they try to take away people's rights. It's not right. It's not right that the idiots who say those things say them, but it's just not right to take away that right. Even if they're racist. Instead, have a good defense; don't just ban them because you don't like them. Of course, yomom, people can be charismatic. They can persuade, and even though I don't think that persuasion is strong enough to turn an entire nation under their rule, I could be wrong. You might be right that a ruler could do that, but it's probably not going to happen (we're in a modern society for god's sake), and if it does, something will be done about it. We need to take that risk, I say. Is that sufficient enough, Bubsa?

^ If you read the paragraph of text above me, you'll see a new point. :|

You think that the small minority of bad thinkers that might be persuaded will decide the fate of the entire country? Besides the fact that those who do detect bad rulers will probably speak out and try to do something about it, I don't think that would be realistic, especially in this modern world. Sure, it's happened in the past, but we learn from the past, right? Anything is possible, but... Silencing views like this just puts the modern democratic world we live in today down a slippery slope that will lead to its fail. Free speech is god-given. You just can't take it away. Bubsa, I thought you were being overcritical. But that's beside the matter now. Yes, they should be able to speak. Read the paragraph above this one.

Bubsa, I'd like it if you'd stop flaming me. Of course people can lose their free speech if they use slander or hurt people or something like that. Their opinion, however, should be able to be expressed. What's wrong with that? Who's job is it to tell people right from wrong? Yomom: Are you saying now that people can't be trusted to vote? Sure, voting has gone down, but that's a separate problem. Those that vote aren't just going to mindlessly pick a random candidate to vote for (there is a chance that a select few will). That's why the age for voters is 18. Besides that, people nowadays aren't that mindlessly ignorant to the views because patriotism has gone down significantly, also considering the fact that those who just breeze by school probably either won't vote later on in life or will learn some kind of politics. That doesn't mean that this generation will start to care about politics. It just means that they can pretty much be able to detect a bad ruler when they see one. Assuming that all Americans aren't secure from their minds is definitely implying that a dictatorship is in order. And a dictator (or extreme demagogue) in today's modern American democracy? I don't think that'll be very common.

Yeah, my friend's mom has MS. It's a horrible disease.

It gave a good message. We shouldn't take things for granted and appreciate everything we have.