So, it's been a weekend....never long enough for me though. I'm 26 days into not smoking, I think I "may" have this thing whipped. I did have a weird smoker dream last night though. In the dream, I was with a family member that smokes and I asked for a cigarette. I even justified to myself that it was only 1, that it wouldn't hurt me. When I woke up, thankfully I was not smoking. LOL. However, I DID find it necessary to brush my teeth, like I had smokers breath or something. Like I said, weird!

So, all kids of stuff going on in the news you know...Has anyone seen what is happening in Iraq and Iran lately? Does the majority of our US citizens even pay attention to what is happening? Is it propoganda that keeps us not realizing what is going on, or just the limited media attention that the war is getting now? I can tell many people about the way the republican party has covered up the war and it's efforts to mis-lead the general public into believing the hype and lies, but I would just be a propoganda monger if I did that. Or the SS might show up to quiet me, seeing as how I am a security threat because of my free thinking you know. All of the foreign lack of keep-our-nose-out-of-others-business has left a dirty rotten taste in my mouth. Why? Because of all the s##t we have been fed over the years. Tends to make any one's mouth taste nasty huh?

And another thing...What the hell is the deal with the lawsuit in Michigan over the Street preachers that got removed from the public park? The "Wiccan's" obviously had a Pagan Pride day scheduled with the parks admin! Leave them the hell alone! If a pagan voice had mingled in a christian right protest or march or whatever, they would have been in the wrong as well. We ALL have freedoms that are "supposed" to be respected AND protected by the constitution, whether or not it was written by or approved by the religious ruling party of the time. Listen, do we, as a nation, consider ourselves to be free? If so, why is it so hard to understand that there is more than 1 way to believe? How is it that one person or one denomination has to be a stick in the mud about another person's faith? It is so dumb to claim freedom of religion if that is only a saying for us to trap others into living here and being subjected to a mass of fools and idiots that can't keep their nose out of anothers faith. Especially, a faith that the majority of Christians have no clue about!

I am a prior practitioner of a WIDELY recognized West Isean faith. You can call it what you will, but in that path, there are many god(dess'). Remember, and again the majority does not know this, but, the Sumerian civilization was and is still credited for the majority of the world's religions. At least, they are creditied for recording the first known paths of religion. As they were subjected to many occupations by enemy nations, that faith was diluted and distributed into the world by many means. As has the idea of Christianity. Think about it....The crusades caused the death of countless millions of people that were killed for what? A god's dictation that all non-believers should die? What god demands the death of innocent people of different cultures? Oh, I forgot, the christian god has no other gods before him, right? So that makes it okay to kill those that won't or refuse to convert. I get it.

Okay, enough of the soapbox, for now.