so maybe what you were really expressing was concern about being desserted on an island with a bunch of conservative foolios! perhaps it makes sense that you worry about everyone who is less conservative, and open-minded leaving the country. then we would really be in a position of ultra-conservative corruption. if this is the case, perhaps i judged you wrongly. i too am a feminist, i am a lover, a thinker, a fighter (just ask cessibaby) for equality, i have taken a morning after pill and if i conceived today, i would have an abortion because i am far from ready emotionally to be a mother. i just don't want to see our country end up in a civil war. i don't believe in war. i don't believe in violence. i don't believe in bush. i don't believe in religion. i don't believe we make all that much of a difference in the world. that is why we hold so much respect for ghandi or martin luther king jr. those were people who made a difference. i always believed i would be so much more. maybe it is not too late. but for now, i am just a starbucks barista, disgrunted with corporate america, the same fools that pay my own rent. i wanted so much more for myself and i wanted so much more for this country. the bush regime continues...and i continue to sit here in an akward silence trying to grasp why anyone would want to have a child in this country. people in my famly left ireland to find a better place to live. they sat cold, hungry, and diseased on a ship for months just waiting to see that freedom symbol, lady liberty. i really can't imagine they would've gone to such an effort had they realized that our america is turning into a witch hunt for the thinkers and do-ers and dreamers and idealists. maybe bush is right about something. there are weapons of mass distruction, his weapons that are destroying my passion about life.