I'm a mom of two, and they are the most amazing kids in the world, even if they don't always act like it. I am a part time student, but a full time Nerd. I am currently working on my Bachelors in Political Science, and quite possible Economics as well. I hope to be finished by the end of the summer in 2010. Then onwards and upwards to grad school where I plan on earning a PhD in Political Science and my JD concurrently. In other words I should be done with school by the time I reach retirement age.

The political realm is my passion. I am extremely vocal and opinionated when it comes to my beliefs. I do not affiliate with any predefined party and/or ideology simply because there isn't one which aligns with even a small majority of my beliefs. I am willing to listen to anyones views as long as they are presented with intelligence and backed by facts and logic. I do not tolerate asshattery and self righteousness. Passion for your beliefs is fine, but do not try to use emotion to sway me, it will not work. If you cannot debate intelligently, do not engage me in discourse, I will verbally bitch slap you and simply walk away.
I respect everyones beliefs and their right to hold true to them, all I ask is for the same respect in return.

There is also a goofy side to Me, and I immensely enjoy having fun, both here and elsewhere. I will post completely inane things, simply to make people laugh and have fun. However do not assume that due to the fact that some of my content is silly that I am stupid. That would truly be an epic mistake on your part.

Lastly, if you like interacting with me, reading my posts, etc... feel free to invite me. I do not invite anyone due to a completely irrational fear of rejection, so do not read into my lack of forwardness. However, if you have never interacted with me, or have nothing in common with me (not my politics) your invite will most likely be ignored. I do not care to be fodder for a contact collector.

You are The Chariot

Triumph, Victory, Overcoming Obstacles.

The chariot is one of the most complex cards to define. On its most basic level, it implies war, a struggle, and an eventual, hard-won victory. Either over enemies, obstacles, nature, the beasts inside you, or to just get what you want. But there is a great deal more to it. The charioteer wears emblems of the sun, yet the sign behind this card is the moon. The chariot is all about motion, and yet it is often shown as stationary. It is a union of opposites, like the black and white steeds. They pull in different directions, but must be (and can be!) made to go together in one direction. Control is required over opposing emotions, wants, needs, people, circumstances; bring them together and give them a single direction, your direction. Confidence is also needed and, most especially, motivation. The card can, in fact, indicate new motivation or inspiration, which gets a stagnant situation moving again.

Steven Levitt
Sandra Day O'Connor
Olympia Snow
John F. Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
Colin Powell

Playing with my kids
Contact sports
Riding my bike on the trails
Not acting anywhere near my age

My Kids
Football, Hockey, Boxing, Just about any contact sport.
Politics, Debate
Photography, one day I'll post some pics

I like pretty much everything, I'll add more to the player sometime.
I am a Frank Sinatra freak, I have everything he has ever recorded on the original vinyl.

Don't watch TV

There's a few I can watch but for the most part I have the attention span of a gnat when it comes to movies

Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen J Dubner
Politics by Aristotle
The Republic by Plato
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Stand by Stephen King

"People don't like you because they can't label you, and they don't know how to insult you"
~Gun665

"It's easier to slap someone else than to hoist your hero on your shoulders."
~Gun665

"They must follow that old rule of never let the facts get in the way of your opinion."
~Elptrek

"No explaining possible. I can't see into the minds of people unless they have brains."
~Simsfanatique~ Hope Not Hate

"Good friends will come and go, but enemies will always accumulate"
~regurgitated abortion-Regent of Indecency

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."
~Martin Luther King Jr.

“Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred”
~ Jacques Barzun

"Politics is a blood sport."
~Aneurin Bevan

"Man is by nature a political animal."
~Aristotle

"There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect."
~Woodrow Wilson

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
~John F. Kennedy

"Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies."
~Mahatma Gandhi

"Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law."
~Buddha

"Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics."
~George J. Mitchell

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
~John F. Kennedy

"We have a Bill of rights. What we need is a Bill of responsibilities."
~Bill Maher

My Dad