The Bloody-Eulogy Symphonic Suite

Don't even try to guess the title. Read the whole thing. It'll only make sense if you leave descriptive and sincere comments of concern; then and only then will the true brilliance of the Bloody-Eulogy Symphonic Suite shed it's skin, and emerge triumphant in your minds.

Just kidding. Three topics to choose from:

• Orchestra


• Corporal Patrick Tillman


• Bloody Baltimore

ORCHESTRA

In my orchestra, all throughout the year, the violins always have had a special place in there. Firstly, because of the population of violins, which out numbers cellos, violas, and bass, 3:1. Secondly, because of it's nature; it's been known to deliver the melody line, first violins, and the sweet accompany of harmony, the second violins. When I first started out as a violist, I was a second. Year after year, I would always have to play the same rest-note-rest-note pattern; it was boring beyond belief.

But there was one year, I think 8th grade, when I tried out for first violin, and made it. Oh how I was joyed to be released from the bondage of boredom and sheer hatred. I actually knew how it felt to play the melody of different songs, and I never looked back as some of my friends were stuck as seconds.

For our last song this year, however, Mr. Ferntheil has decided to play The Harry Potter Symphonic Suite and The Wizard of Oz. Wow, I thought, we're playing a piece where the audience will actually recognize our songs.

You have no idea how much I hate both of our songs. I can't explain to you how much it's an irrelevant part in comparison to the band. Although, there was this part in Harry Potter where we got the melody for 3 measures--and then it was back to the old useless and boring accompaniment. I've heard the sound track, and it's nothing like this one. Strings actually have some melody, and there's a perfect balance between both the band and orchestra; so harmonically in tune, but we're not playing that. We're playing the "arranged" version by persons unknown. Damn those people.

A TRIBUTE TO CORPORAL PATRICK TILLMAN

We've seen acts of bravery and courage all throughtout wars, past and present. But America, sometimes, forgets or does not know about the underbelly line of heroes. I am here to tell you about one extraordinary man named Patrick Tillman, Corporal. He and his platoon were ambushed April 22, 2004. As his troop was taking fire, the Corporal jumped out of the military combat unit, and "moved into position to supress enemy fire." ¹

Supposedly, Tillman was killed by friendly fire. There is still, however, an investigation taking place. But whether he was killed by Iraqis, or by his own men, his efforts shall not be forgotten; at least not by me. That's the minimum of what I, no, America, owes him. He died fighting for freedom, and I can say that not many people do.

BLOODY BALTIMORE

We live in tough times. Very tough times. It's one thing when there's inhumanity being born of war, but something else when it's reincarnated in this country. The city of Baltimore, however, has gotten accustomed to murder. The Washingtonpost says:

"...Baltimore has one of the nation's highest violent crime and homicide rates. Three years ago, three homeless men were stomped to death on city streets by a pair of teenagers and another young man. Two years ago, seven members of one family died when their home was firebombed after they complained to police that drug dealers were in control of their east Baltimore neighborhood. And two weeks ago, twin infants were found beaten to death, allegedly by their parents, in the trash-strewn basement where they lived." ²

And there's more. Just recently 3 children died; Lucero Quezada, 8, Ricardo Espinoza, 9, and Alexis Espejo, 10. It wasn't strangers that caused their demise; family members did. Adan Espinoza Canela, 17, and Policarpio Espinoza, 22, are suspects held by authorities.

So far, there are no motives; they've only found a large knife and a club. But get this; they found one child decapitated, decapitated, and the two others, "bludgeoned and slashed to death." ³

There were reasons for the prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib, however weak they were. There were reasons for U.S. soldiers to die in Iraq. There were even reasons to kill Nick Berg. But for innocent children of Baltimore to lay decapitated and beaten to death; there is absolutely no reason. The murderers are without excuse.

WORK CITED

• ¹ Rueters. URL: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=...


• ^2-3 The Washington Post. URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64...

Mark Keppel

On Tuesday, May 25, 2004, a 17-year-old boy shot a 12-year-old boy and fled to the nearby Mark Keppel High School. The students there were held there for hours until they were let go from the lock down. Unfortunately, there are no signs of Anthony Castellanos, the suspected murderer.¹

I wonder how it felt to be in the midst of that kind of person. Knowing that at any moment, Castellanos may burst through the door and start shooting. I was only in Mark Keppel for a week, so I was lucky; but all of my friends weren't. They were terrified, but now they're back home, safe at last.

They recalled first hearing about the shootings at Columnbine, of course they were scared also, but nobody had actually experienced the feeling. I really hope Temple City will never have to.

¹ Pasadena Star News. URL: http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/Stories/0,1413...

Hypocrisy with an Ocean of Retardation

Today I came home and saw a delicious hot dog/chip/coke combo on the kitchen counter. While I was eating it, the sudden thought of Jonh Kerry popped into my mind. I'm not sure if it's because the hot dog had the shape of a 'dick,' and hence Kerry, or if I psychically discovered John's favorite food. So I went upstairs and came up with this:

The year is finally coming closer for re-elections. Now, every president does things that don't appeal to some people, and does some things that favor others, but nothing comes close to the statements, actions, and opinions of John Kerry. I don't know to much about the delicate "card-house" of politics, but I recognize dumbasses pretty well. Let's take a look at the evidence:

BEING LED INTO CONTRADICTION NATION

• The War In Iraq- On October 2002, Kerry stated that he is in full support for the war on Iraq. Exactly one year later, Kerry stated that we should not have engaged in war. He claimed Bush did everything wrong. Why the sudden change in opinion?



• Behind the Military's Back- Here is a quote from Mens News Daily, "Kerry now claims he always supported and always fought for the soldiers. Yet when reviewing his book, The New Soldier, much of the text is found to be anti military, including charges that our service personnel committed unspeakable atrocities against the Vietnamese, including rape, torture, disfigurement and murder."¹



• "The Biggest Nothing In History"- In 1971, Kerry called for an immdediate withdrawal of the U.S. soldiers in Vietnam. He called it, "The biggest nothing in history." On February 26, 2004, Kerry said he did not regret supporting the war in Vietnam.²



• War Criminal- Here's a quote that explains itself.
  

  "There are all kinds of atrocities, and I would have to say that, yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed in that I took part in shootings in free fire zones. I conducted harassment and interdiction fire. I used 50 calibre machine guns, which we were granted and ordered to use, which were our only weapon against people. I took part in search and destroy missions, in the burning of villages. All of this is contrary to the laws of warfare, all of this is contrary to the Geneva Conventions and all of this is ordered as a matter of written established policy by the government of the United States from the top down. And I believe that the men who designed these, the men who designed the free fire zone, the men who ordered us, the men who signed off the air raid strike areas, I think these men, by the letter of the law, the same letter of the law that tried Lieutenant Calley, are war criminals." ³

  
  
  John, however, is in constant hypocrisy as he relentlessly persecutes U.S. Military soldiers.
  
  

MORALLY AND INTELLECTUALLY WRONG

• Questions Bush- Kerry, apparently, questions Bush on his actions to protect the American people from the threat of terrorism and Saddam Hussien.
  
  
• "The Right to Choose"- Let's say it flatly; Kerry supports the right to kill children. He calls it, euphemistically, "The Right to Choose."



• Tried to Use Berg's Dad- I'm not sure if the Nick Berg video is real, but Nick's family is pretty certain it is. Even so, John F. Kerry was seen entering the Berg house; "This grave robber has met with Nick Berg's father in an apparent attempt to turn him into a campaign prop." ⁴
  



• A Profane President?- The president, of any country, should have some superior class. That includes removing profane words from one's vocabulary; at least in public. Kerry, however, refuses to do so, and speaks profanity in front of live reporters and video cameras.

THE IDIOTIC, SENSELESS, AND ADMITTEDLY FUNNY

• Teresa- How can the would-be president of the United States not know how to pronounce his own wife's name right, let alone handle all of America?
  
  

  "...One condo commando asked the candidate where the missus [Wife] was. He used the normal American pronunciation ("Ter-EE-suh”), and so did Kerry in replying that she was up in Daytona Beach, though he warned that we’d be seeing more of her...Problem is, as ace columnist Michelle Malkin noted in the March issue of NewsMax Magazine, the Massachusetts Democrat’s highfalutin foreign-born wife calls herself 'Teh-RAY-zah.' The Eurotrash pronunciation is no doubt part of the ketchup queen’s inability to identify with all things American, even her hubby." ⁵




• Not a Very Nice Man- John Kerry called his secret service agent a "son-of-a-bitch" when the agent accidently went in front of John, causing Kerry to fall over. Afterwards he said to a reporter, "I don't fall down, the 'son of a b*itch' knocked me over."
  
  
• A Lying Irish- John Kerry said before that he wasn't Irish, and he always corrects people when they say he has an Irish ancestry. The Globe, however, has reported many instances where his staff openly acknowledges that he is in fact, Irish. Only after the public knew about it, did Kerry change his opinion. It's not a big deal about his ancestry, but to lie about such a small thing?

HARD TO BE WITH

• Officers Told Kerry To Leave Vietnam-Thomas Wright, once a soldier in the same platoon as Kerry, told reporters that the would be Democratic president had bad behavior problems, and thus at Wright's request, was assigned to another platoon.
  

  "I had a lot of trouble getting him to follow orders," Wright recalled. "He had a different view of leadership and operations. Those of us with direct experience working with Kerry found him difficult and oriented toward his personal, rather than unit goals and objectives."

  And if that weren't enough, only some time later, "Wright referred to the three Purple Hearts awarded to Kerry, which allowed him to leave Vietnam for the U.S." ⁶

WHY IS KERRY EVEN RUNNING?

It's one thing when the American public doesn't vote for Kerry, but the democrats also? Yes it's true, a group called the "Democrats for Bush" support the current president instead of Democrat Kerry. What does this bring into question about Kerry's choice of actions? With the supporting evidence above even more questions rise. For instance, WHY IS KERRY EVEN RUNNING?

So anyways, that was fun. Let's hope someone brave enough to withstand America's scrutiny will rise and challenge Mr. Bush, not that he's a bad president, but just to redeem the presidential election honor; after a man like this, we're gonna need a darn good runner-up.

WORK CITED

• ¹ Mens News Daily. URL:_________.


• ² North Texas Indy Media Center. URL:http://www.ntimc.org/newswire.php?story_id=530&media_type=IMAGE


• ³ John Kerry, on NBC's "Meet the Press" April 18, 1971. URL: http://outdoorsbest.zeroforum.com/zerothread?id=201012&postid=2315600


• ⁴ Free Republic. URL: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1135006/posts


• ⁵ News Max. URL:__________.


• ⁶ World Net Daily. URL: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38483

Nick Berg a Fraud?

When I first heard about Nick Berg, the 26 year old American who had his head cut off in Iraq, my heart nearly dropped. I became even more horrified when I heard how he was decapitated; a thick knife through the right side of his neck, and then the left in the midst of his screaming.

What really got me, though, was a picture of Nick's dad and brother on the front lawn, crying.

But when I was finding more stuff about Nick, I found tons of articles stating his decapitation is a fraud. Here's what I've found so far:

MILITARY BEHIND THIS?

There are alot of suspicious dates that have been lied by the U.S. Military. Many sources say that the "Beheading of Nick Berg" is nothing more than an attempt to swerve attention away from the naked photos of Iraqis.

• Descrepancies-Here is a quote:
  

  "Berg's last known whereabouts was in U.S. custody. On April 1, Beth A. Payne, the U.S. consular officer in Iraq, sent an e-mail to the family of Nick Berg. It stated that Ms. Payne had located Nick, and he was currently in custody of the US military. She wrote, "I have confirmed that your son, Nick, is being detained by the U.S. military in Mosul. He is safe. He was picked up approximately one week ago. We will try to obtain additional information regarding his detention and a contact person you can communicate with directly. This is distinct from the next point... The US military has stated that Berg was never in US custody and that he had been in custody of the Iraqi police. The Iraqi police adamantly deny he was ever in their custody. (See again: The Unanswered Questions of Nick Berg's Murder.) If this is so, we have to conclude that either the email from Ms. Payne was incorrect or that the US military has been lying." -Break For News

  
  


• Similiar-There are alot of pictures that have dragged attention to a white chair; both in the photo of Nick Berg in the hands of the "terrorists," and in the photo of the U.S. Military prison, Abu Ghraib. In both photos, the wall colors are of the same hue. And, in the video, you see a glimpse of a military hat and sweater.
  
  Here is the article: http://aztlan.net/berg_abu_ghraib_video.htm.
  

THE VIDEO

• Dates-The military reported they found Nick's body Monday, May 10th. But the video itself is dated May 11th.



• Dubbed-Screaming starts while Berg is not moving and before he is touched. Here is a quote:
  

  "Whatever the mismatch in the speaker and video, videotape cognoscenti have said the scream was amateurishly dubbed into the tape. The writer of this K5 article reviewed this issue closely: The screaming starts (at 4:31 - on the copy I viewed, not the time stamp) about 5 to 6 seconds before Berg is touched (at 4:36) and he is moved to his side. He is just sitting there like a lump. While the screaming commences for (1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 seconds), his head doesn't move and his mouth doesn't appear to move (though the tape is blurry), nor does he seem to be physically screaming at any time. Yet the audio plays a loud vigorous screaming. The exact same dubbed screaming continues after the long time jump and a bit of a time gap with silence and after some cutting on the head, during which Berg is not moving. This screaming seems clearly dubbed and is highly incongruous with Berg's lack of activity." -Break For News




• Time Stamp-There is a big jump in the time stamp that goes from 2:44:40 to about 13:45:47. The first time is when Nick is reading his statement, and the second one is when his head was held up.



• The Time Itself-The time itself is in Military time, and not Arabic.



• Different Men-The man who was doing the cutting, the one in all black, was not the same man who held up the head. In the video, however, it shows the man who was doing the cutting to be the same man who picked up the head. Obviously there is some descrepancies here.



• Sneakers?-This one is more funny than credible. There's one guy in the video wearing white tennis sneakers; and these are supposedly terrorists?

OTHER EVIDENCE

There's to much to type, so here's another quote:

"Berg shown in video wearing orange jumpsuit known to be of U.S. issue. The orange jump suit "appears" to be identical to the jumpsuits used at Guantanamo. (Compare with pictures at Guantanamo.) The orange jumpsuit was standard US military issue to men in custody. It is unlikely Berg would continue wearing a U.S. custodial uniform if he had been released by the military as they claim. The fact he was still wearing the suit is both anomalous and suggestive. One wonders: Was there an immediate transfer of Berg from the US military to unknown persons, preventing Berg from discarding his US prison garb?

When Berg is decapitated, there was almost no blood. If Berg were still alive at this point, with the cut starting at front of throat, blood would have been spraying everywhere. Berg's severed head, the floor, Berg's clothes, and even the hand of the 'Arab' who decapitated Berg had no visible blood on it. When the executioner holds up Berg's head immediately following what is represented as an actual decapitation of a living person, there is no significant blood flow from the neck or blood splatters showing anywhere on the executioner.

Berg seems limp just before the beheading. It is not clear if he was moving after the time skip in the tape. While on the ground, Berg's body didn't seem move except in response to the captors movements. Although held down, Berg would have tried to instinctively wiggle and writhe away from captor's grip and use of a knife. (That is unless he was long dead after the cut in the tape.) A surgeon would very likely testify that the beheading did not cause the death.

The lack of spurting blood and lack of movement suggests Berg was already dead at the time of the alleged decapitation. During the beheading, Berg's eyes are not seen. Camera angle made it impossible to see if Berg's eyes were open or glassy. Berg very probably was killed before the staged beheading. Did the captors have no stomach for the beheading of a living person?"

CONCLUSION

To tell you the truth, I'm just as confused as anyone else is. I really have no idea whether to believe Nick Berg was beheaded by the al-Qaida group, or the U.S. Military. Maybe it's just my longing believe that there can't be people with absolutely no moral values at all.

I really hope this is all a fraud. Not so I can bad mouth the Military, but so Nick Berg can come home. But I think that's already to late, since we already have found his body. But then the question remains, because he's already dead, who did it? I think we owe it to Nick and the rest of the world, to find out for sure.

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Articles To Read:

• http://aztlan.net/berg_abu_ghraib_video.htm


• http://www.rense.com/general52/anom.htm


• http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/5/15/22827/0477


• http://marc.perkel.com/archives/000233.html

What's This?

After Eric's post on the new Blogger look and fresh templates, I just had to try it out. I was amazed at how much work had been put into Blogger's redesign. Even more amazed to see the new templates in store.

I don't know why I signed up for an account in the midst of my already active (well not active per se) synik account. Maybe it's just the nice templates that have drawn me here; I really have no idea. What even puzzles me more is my relunctancy to get my own domain. I think I'm just lazy. And that would probably explain my absence from blogging or web designing.

Well let's see, it's been around 4 months (I made that number up) since I last updated, and alot--I mean ALOT--has happened.

Let's start at the beginning of the school year. The TCHS School District found out I lived 8 feet (I made up at number too) too far away from the TC School area, and thus I was forced to attend a school near my father's place: Mark Keppel.

There, I was influenced by alot of people in almost every aspect of my life. Marijuana was commonly seen at lunch, cigarettes were usually smoked behind shadows, and I can guarantee you almost 80% of the school's students are--or were--involved in gang related activities. Every single day during lunch there would be the "Oooooo" from everyone who had just witnessed something like a loud sneeze. Then one person would say just let the sneeze go. And then there would be a fight.

However, in spite of all the idiocy, I made some close friends. My lawyer said I had a strong case in getting back to TC because of my orchestra background; but now that I had adjusted to my new friends and my new life style, I just didn't see the need to go back. But there was that conviction, that ecstasy, that compassion from my lawyer that changed my mind.

I went to court, told the 12 judges my story, they cried (just kidding), and unanimously voted me back to TC. The first day I got back was a wednesday; and it was there that I saw a mass Christian meeting taking place near the flag pole.

A month later, my friend Eric told me about Christ. I becamer a follower from then on. And it was strange how my perception of Christianity changed when I really dug deep and found the truth. It's so different and unique in comparison to other religions. In no other religion, does a God come onto earth and make Himself nothing; and then die just for our salvation. In no other religion do the Scriptures--the foundation of the religion itself--come backed with historical evidence beyond belief. In no other religion do prophecies be made and fulfilled. In no other religion have I changed my complete assumption of life and so on, and in no other religion have I felt so loved.

So here I am, 5 weeks before freshman year ends. But I know this is only the beginning of a lifetime I still have to finish, so see you around.