Thursday, May 31, 2007

Tell Iams to Stop Using Animals in Laboratory Tests!

Did you know that cat- and dog-food company Iams conducts cruel laboratory tests on animals? These tests aren't required by a single law. An undercover investigation revealed that animals in Iams' labs were often denied veterinary care and painkillers, were confined to barren cells with no enrichment or companionship, and were used year after year for test after test, when the same tests could be conducted humanely in homes and vet's offices.

Please click the link below to send a quick e-mail to Iams urging the company to join the compassionate companies that do not use animals in laboratories to test food for companion animals.

Victory: Coca-Cola Stops Testing On Animals

Victory: Coca-Cola Stops Testing On Animals! May 31, 2007
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Hey everyone, we've got some huge news for you. We're happy to announce that The Coca-Cola Company has officially pledged to stop funding animal tests! You may recall that their main competitor, PepsiCo declared their commitment to non-animal testing earlier this month, so it's great to see this progress within such huge industries.

The Coca-Cola Company's letter to PETA states in part:
"...We are sending letters to our partners and research organizations who may conduct safety evaluations on... ingredients insisting they use alternatives to animal testing... Recently senior management became aware that research involving rats was being conducted as part of a grant we had funded at Virginia Commonwealth University to study taste reception. We have contacted the University and have discontinued our funding."
Thanks to everyone who has been spreading the word about the horrors of animal testing and encouraging companies to go cruelty-free. Your compassion and dedication are making a difference for so many animals every day!

Maybe it's a coincidence, but The Chicago Tribune Magazine just ran a fantastic story entitled "Ruffling Feathers" which discusses the progress animal rights activists have been making:
"It seems undeniable that, over the past two decades, the ethical arguments of the animal rights movement have caught on with a broader public. Even many skeptics now agree that animals feel pain, should not suffer unnecessarily and should not be subject to every human whim. Their lives, on some level, clearly matter."

Make sure you read the full article here and show your parents, friends, and teachers who give you a hard time! Keep up the great work with the street team, ok?

-Pulin

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Monday, May 28, 2007

Confessions Of A Poet

Life is not what I would like it to be. Life right now is annoying. I want to cry. I really do. I'm tired of being poor, I'm tired of being broke. I'm tired of doing without so Walter won't do without. I'm tired of giving him food that I'm going to eat and go without so he won't get hungry. I don't understand it. I don't understand how I can be so nice and so sweet and so caring and only Sara gives it back to me. Walter is hungry, yeah so I give him my food. Is this how it is going to be for the rest of my life? Me going without so he doesn't have to go without? No, I don't want it to be like that. I need to hurry up and finish school so I can actually have a career and then move out. I'm not taking care of Walter for the rest of his life. He doesn't give a fuck about me at all. Because if he did he would act like it. He used to care. He used to even act like he cared. I'm not his mother, I'm not his wife, I'm his best friend. But there is a point when you just can't take it anymore. There is a point where you push the friendship over the edge. I've been pushed over the edge. Yes, I live here and don't pay any bills at all. But what do I really use? I use the shower every once in a while. I use the electric every once in awhile. I don't know. What is wrong with me that I feel this way? I just feel like I am being used. I come home yesterday and all the milk has been drank, all the Pepsi has been drank, all the Dr. Pepper has been drank, and of course he drank all of his Diet Pepsi. Why are people so fucking selfish? Why do people just suddenly turn into selfish people and only care about themselves? I don't get it. I try hard to help other people. Anyways. I'm going to end this.

Saturday, May 26, 2007

I Believe

1. I believe that life is there to enjoy.

2. I believe crushes are there to crush hearts.

3. I believe true love is there from the start.

4. I believe you should give people chances.

5. I believe you should treat people the same because you never know what they will do for you in the future.

Nitemares, Dreams & Other

When i close my eyes, im filled with terror. It's this feelin i jus cannot shake. I close my eyes and see horrible things happen. I have been having nightmares for the past 2 weeks, but i figured they wud go away. they haven yet. i dunno wat they mean, i dunno why im havin them but it is happenin. here are some of the dreams/nightmares dat i been havin................

I had fallen asleep and started to dream i suppose, i saw my grandma bean in the dream. She had been standin over me, she was sayin that i needed to quit smokin because i was goin to die da way she died. my grandma bean died of cancer. lung cancer and breast cancer. She said dat if i didnt quit smokin in the next couple months dat i wud get sick den go to da doctor and be diagnosed wit breast cancer, den a month later i wud be diagnosed wit lung cancer. dis dream kinda freaked me out. but none da less i shook it off.

i had a dream which i was not sure wat it meant, i assumed it meant dat da world was comin to an end. i dunno tho. in the dream it seemed like anarchy had errupted all around. da dream took place in some city, i assumed it was in ..:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />..:NAMESPACE PREFIX = ST1 />washington dc, cos it had like a pencil lookin type statue. in da dream people were lootin from stores, people were goin crazy, runnin around, children were cryin, buildings were ablaze all around, police were tryin to stop people from lootin and tryin to calm people down, but people were runnin around everywhere, there were several car crashes, cars on fire, people burnin alive, people screamin in pain and horror, building collapsing, people shootin at each other with guns, da power had wen out. it took place durin day. it must have been summer cos people had on shorts and sunglasses, and i remember it was fairly warm. i saw myself in the dream, and all i was doin was standin there watchin everyone go mad and tryin to hide so no one could find me. i had been standin behind a buildin watchin everythin go on, there mus have been some kind of drive by shootin or somethin cos these 2 groups dat looked like gangs were drivin by each other at da same time side by side but facin different directions, they started shootin at each other and a bullet had grazed me in da neck and i remember seein myself fallin to da ground holdin my neck, blood all over my hands and neck runnin down my shirt, i saw myself gaspin for air, as no one did anything because i suppose no i had seen me standin there, no sooner did i start gaspin for air i woke up from da dream and i couldn't breathe, i kept gaspin for air. i was havin an asthma attack. it was a weird dream and it really freaked me da fuck out. i dunno wat it is supposed to mean. but i know dat i for sure will not go anywhere near DC anytime soon. fuck all dat.

I had a dream dat we will have 3 presidens in less den two years. And dat someone unsucessfully will try to assassinate President Bush in late April to mid-may, followed by a sucessful assassination attempt in July due to a lapse in security leavin President Bush exposed durin an Independance Day photo-op. And in da dream Dick Cheney became da 44th president, but den he suffered from a fatal heart attack in less den nine months. He didn live long enough to appoint a new Vice President under da provisions of da 25th amendment. Im not sure who dis is, but it is mos likely a former governor of a mid-western state, a moderate conservative who is able to gain Democratic approval and a speedy confirmation. Realizing da unusual circumstances under which he came to power, dis 45th president chooses not to seek election in da 2008 race, and serves less den a year as a lame-duck unelected president, but manages to guide da US involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan to a moderately successful close, and leaves office as a respected 'safe pair of hands'. da turn-around in Iraq had paved da way to a republican rebound in 2008 in da White House and Senate, but da house of representatives stayed under democrat control for at least two more elections. Da 46th president had a female VP (and it wasnt Condoleeza Rice.) Dis president will only serve one term, and lose his bid for re-election, due mostly to a brief economic down-turn and recession dat occurs in da last 18 months of his term. The 47th president is a woman and a democrat, but is not Hillary Clinton. Whoever she is, she's not on anybody's radar screen right now. She wins by running as a Washington and party outsider. Her initial candidacy is almost ignored, but gathers a lot of momentum. Her victory is an electoral college landslide, but she does not receive the majority of the popular vote, as a third party candidate draws double-digit support away from traditional Republican voters.I don know wat da hell dis dream was tryin to tell me or why da hell i even had dis dream, i do not like President Bush at all, i think he is a bad president. I don like republicans anyways. who knows.


So i been readin da bible and researchin religion and stuff, but yeah, to my point. I had like dis vision or somethin, i dunno wat it was or wat eva. It was like god told me all dis. I know you are thinkin i am crazy n shit, but dis was so real to me for some reason.....So jus in case like dis was for real, i wan to warn yall, i know im weird or crazy wateva....I come to you all with this warning from God.Some of these I received Sunday morning plus other from 2 holy books.It's a combination and I don't expect everyone to believe me because God told me that only 80percent of you will believe me but all it's not lost. God is pacient but only untill one limit. I simply know these words represent da truth. Ok, let me start. Dis is wat God told me. Is like he came to me in dis vision or wat eva it was dat i had. Earth is going thru serious changes. Da planet will evolve to it's true porpose n form at a higher vibration, a place filled wit love, light n joy but few people will be able to see it cos a clensin it's in progress. Those who don return to faith n to God will be destroyed. Floods, volcano eruptions, earthquakes are only da beginning. Signs will be seen on da sky. Great things n fire will reign da sky. Da weather patterns have already shifted dramatically. These are meant to clean Earth of all evil and bad energies. Earth will shake like neva before n nothing will be like it was. Mountains will have anotha form, the waters will have a new course n da people that will remain are going to become new persons. Very sad will be wen Earth will clense itself. Everything will unfold wen da signal is sent n da dizaster is goin to begin. Some people will die of unknown causes but they either have been called by God or cos of they're evil souls. For da unbelievers n evil people entire rivers of tears will emerge n da gate of goodwill will be closed in front of dem. Da forseen time draws near so heed these warnings dat are bein sent for several years. Da dissapointing is big and in some holy churches my messages are not accepted and den da people does not know wat to do. Don you think dis is anotha work of evil?" i don know really if i even believe n god as i am one of those people dat i don believe it unless i see it but dis dream was so freakin real it scared da fuckin hell outta me dood, for real, so i dunno wat da fuck da think now.

i had anotha dream, once again about President Bush, i don know wat dis means but here is da dream.......it was nearin da end of President Bush's term, and he was up for re-election, he was standin outside da white house talkin to da press n takin pictures for da press. Da security were not as tight dat day for some reason. He was standin there smilin and talkin wit da press when all of a sudden a gun shot rings out, and barely misses President Bush, no one gets hit or is hurt. But everyone starts panickin and security rushes president bush away to safety. It was weird, i dunno why i keep havin these dreams about president bush, i don even like him, he freakin sucks as president.

i had dis dream earlier today, i say earlier today cos i haven slept yet, it is 556am now but da dream took place at i wan to say around 5 somethin pm on february 16th....i dreamed dat a terrorist of arab descent blew up a buildin n Los Angeles. It was daytime, i heard someone say 4th and Hope Street. There was dis parkin garage dat had a huge gappin hole in it and thick black smoke was everywhere. Scary dream as there were homeland security people dressed n these hazmat type camel colored outfits doin air quality tests n things.

ok so i had dis dream dat there will be dis storm dis year dat starts with an "S", Sam or Samantha dat will bring floodin to da east coast. it will be a slow movin storm dat will create floods but i don think it will bring strong winds as in my dream i didn see dat. I cud'n narrow down any state. but dis kinda freaks me out cos i live on da east coast, n if we get floodin im sure to die cos i sure da fuck don know how to swim very well.

I had anotha dream dat dar is goin to be another plane crash, i cud'n tell where it was at dat i saw dis plane crash but it was in a busy city, and several, tons of people even, got killed in dis plane crash, not jus da people dat were on da plane but wen da plane crashed it landed in da middle of da city sendin cars flyin, cars catchin ablaze, people completely freakin squashed like pancakes due to da fact dat they had been walkin down da street......i dunno wat da fuck i been havin dreams like these for or if they are tryin to tell me something or wateva....

ok so den i had dis otha dream dat i was watchin tv den da news came on n said dat Colin Powell n President Bush, and others were in a bad plane crash. They were still lookin for survivors, but den da reporter said dat someone close to Powell said dat da crash wasn an accident, it was intentional to kill Powell n Bush. Den i woke up. I don get wat da hell dis dream means i really wish i cud stop fuckin dreamin about bush, i freakin dispise dat fucker. da funny thing is, we don have cable at my apartment so i dunno why i had dis dream but it seemed so real. cos n da dream i was wearin exactly wat i woke up wearin. it was weird.

ok so for anotha one of my freakin dreams, i now wish dat i wud stop havin dreams....ok so here it is.......someone dat has supposedly been dead for awhile will all of a sudden reveal dem selves and shock da world, because he was supposedly dead. den i woke up. n dis is freaky cos i cud'n make out n da dream who it was but wen i woke up i thought to myself, humm i wonda who it cud be or even if dis dream means anything or is real...but thought to myself, cud it be Tupac Shakur, or Elvis Presely? humm dat wud be da shit if it was...but anyways, dat was my dream....

ok so dis dream was um kinda strange to me....i had a dream dat in May of dis year i will find out dat im pregnant wit twins, and dat my children will change da world n a big way, im not sure wat kinda way da dream didn exactly tell me but dat they will change da world. weird...hum i dunno....

ok so i know dat im da kinda person dat don believe n somethin unless i can see it but dis fuckin dream scared da hell outta me real fuckin quick..ok so i was layin on da couch n i fell asleep and started havin dis dream......jesus came to me in my dream and told me to believe in his father, to let him help me and understand me and for me to get to know him. jesus also told me dat his father does exists, and for people like me who don believe cos i cant see him or da ones who jus all together do not believe at all or do not care, dat his father, da almighty god himself will reveal himself to da world at da end of dis year. ok so dis really freaked me out. i guess n a way u cud say i am afraid to die, n come on now u know how it is wen like ur life is flashin n front of ur eyes or u think ur goin to die ya know, yea dis freaked me out....so many thing wen thru my head after i had dis dream.....

ok so those are da dreams dat i have been havin recently.....dat is one reason i am still awake rite now...i kinda freaked out to go to sleep....i don wan no more weird shit happenin 2 me while im asleep.....
I sit here and think and wonder. Why I can't seem to ever do anything right. I feel like I'm not good enough for Sara. I feel like I stick my foot in my mouth all the time and say the wrong things. What are the right things to say? Is there such thing as the right things to say to her? How can I make her happy? How can I make her not mad at me when I say things? What am I saying that seem to be the wrong things to say to her? This I cannot answer. I'm not a smart person and I do not claim to be. I'd like to think I've become somewhat more of an intellectual person. I used to try to act stupid that way people who laugh at me. Because if they were laughing at me I felt like they thought I was funny. When in reality they were laughing at me because they thought I was stupid. Things are weird and the way we feel is weird sometimes. I guess all I've ever want was to be liked by people. I've been trying for years to have people like me. Yet some just don't like me. I don't know why this is and I do not know how I can change that. I wonder sometimes if I seem fake to people. I do not try to act fake. I try to act like myself. This is who I am. I'm emo. I can't help it. Before I came out of the closet I wasn't exactly what you would call emo. At least, it wasn't shown to people. I kept it all bottled inside. I never told anyone how I felt. I kept the way I felt bottled up inside and written down in my diary that I had. But all in all. This is me. This is the real me. The is who I am. I can't help who I am. Anyways. To my Subject of this blog. "I Just Can't Seem To Do Anything Right" I feel sometimes that I am not good enough for Sara. And I also feel that she could do much better than me. I feel that I am not very good in a relationship. Maybe I'm just not cut out for relationships. I don't know. I do know that I love Sara with all of my heart and soul. I would be lost without her. She means everything to me. I've made my decision. All I want out of life now is to be able to spend the rest of my life with her. I want to be able to start a family with her. Even though the subject of us having kids is a touchy one, I still feel like we can do it. We can do anything we put our minds to, we can do it together. I feel that our love is strong enough and that we can do it. I love her so much and I couldn't be anymore happier if she would spend the rest of her life with me. I asked her to marry me. I'd been asking her this on and on again. She always said, "I'm not getting married." Well I asked her this again the other day. She told me yes this time. I was so happy and got the biggest grin on my face. She makes me so fucking happy and she simply doesn't realize this. I love her with all I have in me. I wish she could see how happy she makes me. Maybe I just don't show her how happy she makes me. And if that is the case. I need to try a lot fucking harder at that. I know she will read this because she is the only one who is set to read this and, if she does read this I want her to know how much I love her. It hurts me when she talks about killing herself, or that she just wishes she would die. And the reason it hurts me, which this she doesn't know, but, if she died, I would die. I couldn't quite possibly live myself. When you are with someone and you fall in love, you two become one. Two bodies, one soul. I feel like we are soulmates and that fate brought us together. Many may say I am just a fool. But this is what I believe. I love her very much and I will be damned if I let anyone hurt her or make her feel bad. Yes, I wrote some of the things that upset me in my journal tonight. I let her read it. She got a smile on her face. I hope she realizes how much I truely love her and how I would be incomplete without her. Anyways, I'm tired of typing and I don't know what else to say. I suppose I shall end this now and let her read this.

Sara, if you read this, just know how I am truely sorry if I have ever hurt you or if I have ever upset you. I have never meant to cause you pain, suffering or any harm. I love you with all of my heart and soul. I believe that you and I are meant to be together. So please babydoll, don't EVER for a second think that I will leave you for someone else. I need to do some changing in my life. Changing for the better. Without you I would be a complete wreck. You are the most positive thing in my life. Look how you helped me get off drugs and alcohol. Without your support I would have never been able to do that and I thank you so much. I want you to know that you are appreciated by me, and loved by me and that will never change. Baby I don't ever want to think about us not being together because I want to spend the rest of my life with you. The thought of losing you just completely kills me and tears me apart.

Lots of Love & Peace,
Homie G

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Tortured Souls

The changing began,
As dooms scythe pierces
My darkened soul, my cascade
Of tears fall upon howling eyes
Stop! Stop!
We are the fallen ones
Our mind a destructive playground
Walk around the halls & you'll see the namesof the tortured souls
Could this be the antichrist, following us
We walk around with chains bound to our bodies
Like slaves commanded by Satan
Razor sharp knives pierce our bodies
As Satan commands us what to do like soldiers in the army
We've reached the darkest part of our tortured souls
There's a hole in our hearts that seeps from our chests
Bound and gagged, sliced and torn
We are tortured souls, living in this hell
When Satan demands we become obsessed and possessed
By our fears not to let him go
We are tortured souls living life in a manic aggression
We are weak human beings, brought to this earth
By Satan, he works through our eyes, we are his slaves
We are the tortured souls, we scream in pain
Hell crushing flames shine through the darkness
Satan's demons attack us with deadly demonic wrath
As we realize we have sinned, this is our punishment
We are tortured souls who look deep down in the black pits Of our hearts, delivering Satans sinister message of doom
We are tortured souls