As I sit here doing everything I can to avoid studying for my Latin final, I suppose I'll spew my personal feelings on this Guantanamo information leak mess. Well to correct myself I suppose deeming it as a "leak" is not accurate, for it was purposefully placed upon the world stage for all to see...And judge. Now I will say that I must commend Barack Obama because he kept a campaign promise. He pledged to do shut down the prison and allow for far more "transparency", as it were, and I suppose before I begin to spill my angst against his plan I should applaud him for, if nothing else, keeping one promise.

Now I am what many would call a "jock", so I'll keep this simple (if only for my own sake) and put my feelings in terms that are easily understood. I played linebacker in high school, and a linebacker is like the quarterback/on the field coach of the defense. He knows everything, from where everyone on the defense is to exactly what the offense is going to do. The coach gives the backer a signal to inform him of the play, the backer relays the message to his brothers in pads, and everyone is on board. Plays are secretive. They are code. For example, one play was "53 Fire weak", which translates in football terms to "D tackles line up in the 5 and 3 gap, secondary is in man coverage, and the weak side linebacker is blitzing from the outside". Now what Obama has done is instead of keeping our "plays" secret, he's gone and told the world EXACTLY what we're doing. He told the offense what we're gonna do, so they can just figure a way to go around it. I know that is a bunch of dumb jock lingo, but the simplest of metaphors is usually the best.
Now all of this increased level of "transparency" is all based on what Obama and his followers declare to be the "morally right" thing to do. Morally right? Morals? Now that in and of itself is quite perplexing indeed. The left, and to be fair some members of the right, has decided to do something based on MORALS. But where, I beseech you, where do these "morals" come from? They can't come from God, because as they keep reminding us, our country "is not founded on Christian principals", and therefore it is not founded on any other spiritual deity or pagan beast of any kind. So these "morals" that they have newly come upon have been derived from...nothing? Because what is a moral if it has no solid place of origin (ergo the Bible, Torah, or Koran). Are morals just what makes you feel right instead of what may feel bad or icky? Well apparently kiddos, the answer is an emphatic YES. Morals and beliefs are non existent until they are deemed necessary to pass agenda in Washington. Welcome to the land of the free, enjoy.

And I am happy to have met you. And I agree with you 100%, and that is all because of my father. He always raised me telling me that, "People are always going to tell you that you can't do things just because of your skin color, but when they do that you just smile, tell them that Jesus love's them (because that always pisses people off when they are trying to belittle you), and then go on and do it five times better than anyone." My father started his own architecture firm from scratch and now has a successful business in Houston. And he did it without any government help and without using his race to get ahead. It's amazing what hard work can do.

And it is an excellent opinion. More along the lines of fact, but then again that is just my opinion. It is amazing to me how, in a Democracy, we let the minority over ride the majority. It's as if for the past 40 years the government and the people themselves have let the loudest win just because they don't want to be yelled at.

I absolutely agree. I must confess however having any beliefs at all in this world, especially on a college campus, can start to make me feel like a bit of an outcast. Everyone I see either believes in things that they are just told to because it's what is popular to believe in (like the global warming lunacy, which all hard science has proven absolutely ridiculous for years), or people are so oblivious and just don't care about believing in anything. The point is, what do we do? Do we maintain our personal beliefs and keep them that way? I sure as hell do not want to go around and press my beliefs on others, but at the same time I want people to believe in SOMETHING. How about America? How about the greatness we were built upon? It just astounds me how little people care.

No thank you. I just see all the stupidity out there and it overwhelms me. Take race for instance. My mother is white and my father is black, so for all intents and purposes I have NO race. I'm just an American (one of the first reasons I lost respect for Barack Obama was that he did not acknowledge that he's not one race or the other, it makes the rest of us look bad when we're forced to "pick" a race). I don't see racism, it's all a joke me my generation. My roomate is a redneck, some of my best friends are white, black, asian, half asian half white, and it just goes on and on to the point where theres no rhyme or reason to fuss over it. We're American's, but because some (i.e. liberals) feel that we all need labels and name tags, We're subjected to the old modicum of race and class when my generation has sped past all of that nonsense.

Hey to all of y'all out there. This is my first time to post a comment on here. I'm a college student and was born and bred in Texas. My family raised me on traditional values and principals just as this project states we should live by.

Now I'm for the most part what one would call an average college student. I'm 20 years old, I spend too much of my life in the library, I do more than my fare share of partying and I hang out with a massive range of people from pot heads all the way to football players. I suppose I'm slightly different than others in that I do not drink or do drugs, I spend about 6 days out of the week working out, and I'm an Army ROTC cadet. The point being, I'm not a "radical liberal" or a "conservative nut" by any means. I just want to get out in the world, serve my country, and make a positive difference.
The problem is every time I turn on the news or i get on the internet I can't help but get discouraged. From every politician being a complete lying egomaniac to every radical on both ends of the political spectrum trying to dictate how we should live our lives and what we should speak at all times. I mean take this nonsense with the Miss USA pageant. I have never once seen a pageant, nor do I care who wins cause all the girls are drop dead gorgeous (Miss Texas always being the most beautiful, sorry I'm just real partial), but the idea that she could lose just because she believed something "different" than what is "politically correct"??? That kind of thing just leaves me defeated in all kinds of ways. Either way, it shouldn't matter what you believe as long as you believe in something. It's a d**n beauty pageant!!
From all the politically correct absurdities we have to deal with such as race and separation of religion from just about everything to not even being able to voice your opinion on gay marriage without being butchered by the media and Hollywood, where in the Good Lord's Name is the hope anymore?