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Some serious questions

Where are we?

I know that I am in Dale City. And Dale City is in Prince William County. And Prince William County is in Virginia. Which is in the USA. Which is on the North American Continent. Which is in the Northern Hemisphere. And the western depending on how you draw it. And the hemispheres are on Earth which is in the Solar System, 3rd planet from the Sun. Which is part of the Milky Way Galaxy. Which is part of the Universe.

But where is the universe? The universe is by definition everything. But science says the universe is expanding. Where too? If the universe is expanding, that means it must expand into something. Its impossible to expand into nothingness. What is the universe a part of?

If the universe is nothing but another organelle of a yet larger, and unidentified system, how important is one girl in Dale City, Virginia to the future of everything.

Ah yes, but the future. What is that? Is that now? Or how about now? That was the near future. But actually it was the Present. And now the near past. Soon it will pass into the distant past. When did time begin? I know when we started recording it. I know that we’re two thousand and four years into the current era. But when did time begin? Is time actually a cycle. The universe condenses into a ball of matter the size of a pin head, explodes and expands, and then it condenses again. Where is the center of the universe, where is there such a place where the pull of gravity is so intense, that all matter is pulled into a small ball. Once again, where does the universe expand to? Why is it drifting?

In all the millions of years since the current expansion of the universe started stars have shone, planets formed, satellites formed around the planets, life has formed, life has died, planets have died, stars have died. Is earth the only planet that can support life? No. Pure statistics does not support it. Its incredibly arrogant to refuse to believe in other life forms. There is no way that there is only one small planet in the entire universe. What if on some other planet nature has adopted another path of evolution. What if nature has formed species with a diamond shape for the legs of the being, instead of the rectangle that Earth has adopted. What if there are intelligent trees. A species that is strikingly similar to humans, just different. What if?

Where does the universe expand into? When did time start? What effect does one girl Dale City, VA have to do with the future of the everything? What if?

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Weird Google/Yahoo! Searches

Somehow, these are a couple of the "Odder" searches that have had Mookie Rifficc in the results (and yes I know that I linked myself. =P).

1) "Sex Doll Lynchburg VA"

2) "Fucking node girls" (What bothers me more then the fact that my site was some how accessed from that search, was that the person couldn't spell nude right)

3) "giant block of cheese andrew jackson" (Okay so this one does make sense because of my Block Of Cheese post)

4) "what clinical cream is best for my the black spot under mu eye"

5) "bandage wannabe"

6) And then there is this URL "http://porno-news.daehaktopia.co.kr/samback/index.html" according to the CPannel Tracker, I owe it for 124 hits. So at this moment I want to know why I'm linked (or someone comes to my site from a porn site) by a porn site.

Now for some search quires (sorry no links available, you can google it yourself)

1) why dog humps leg

2) female hands strangling

3) kelly siegler bondage

4) dale city castration

5) silhouette t-shirt as seen on gilmore girls

6) cholesterol brocher food

7) talking to teen boys who still gets smacked by their mother or dad

8) name email url post comment blog penis enlargement -spam -blacklist

9) queen mookie

I am very disturbed now. And to think I tried to keep this g-rated. I really need to censor my content more. Heh. The only search that I liked was the "Queen Mookie".

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600 word reflective BS piece

Its exactly what it says. A 600 word BS reflective piece on my project on Arsenic. Almost got in trouble for it. Heh

As the 33rd element on the periodic table, arsenic has been used as a poison. Of the many ways to obtain arsenic, the most noted one was used in the 17th century when arsenic was obtained by dissolving flypaper in water and then letting the water evaporate so that it left behind a powder. Once this powder was collected by the soon to be assassin it could be used either all at once, or slowly over a period of time.

Due to the increase in technology the element has gained several problems that have made it impractical for causing someone’s death. First, it leaves traces of itself in a person’s body, so with the proper technology it could be proven. Another impracticality of arsenic is that it’s nearly impossible to measure it out properly so that the person doesn’t die to suddenly. If too much was dispensed the person could die suddenly and cause suspicion. If too little was dispensed the person’s body could just fight off the poison and eventually create a tolerance for it, for some the worst that would happen when given a dose that was to small would be for a clear complexion and a weight loss. When administered properly though arsenic can cause the victim to become ill and after a lingering illness which would steal the victims strength, the victim would become increasingly fatigued and fall asleep one night, never to wake up again.

Arsenic, unfortunately for assassins, is a metalloid and has a metallic-like taste that is objectionable to tastebuds. This then means that arsenic must be in a powder for so that it can be mixed into drinks or food. The art of dumping the poison on the food indeed became an art. Most people preferred to use poison rings, which featured a compartment that could be flipped open to dump out the arsenic. These rings were employed by the assassin rudely reaching across the table over someone’s food to get something else. The use of the poison rings created the idea, and social taboo, of not letting anyone reach over your food; the taboo is now a part of modern culture and mannerism.

The most famous and most documented instances of murder by arsenic occurred in the Victorian Era. The one woman who will live forever in infamy is Mary Ann Cotton. Marry Ann lived in Britain and earned the title of “Britain’s Mass Murderess” for she killed four husbands and twelve children. Another famous case occurred in Scotland where Dr. Pritchard murdered his wife, and mother-in-law; just so he could marry a servant-girl who he got pregnant. Dr. Pritchard was sentenced to death and he was the last man in Scotland to hanged in public.

Arsenic is also used in pressure treated wood. Though the use of arsenic in pressure treated wood was to end on January 1, 2004 it is still present in millions of homes and yards. With pressure treated wood as the most common deck material the arsenic, which is water soluble in most forms, can drip off of the wood onto anything stored underneath, such as bikes. And whenever a child touches an arsenic treated piece of wood they risk poison because a child’s body can’t tolerate as high of a level of arsenic as an adult. So when a child rides on the aforementioned bike, they can get arsenic on their hands, and as any parent or baby sitter knows, the hands are always put in the mouth. Thus a child is poisoned because of the wood. In Zoos pressure treated wood was banned. Well if monkeys can’t play on it, then neither should children.

For my project, in which I was required to present an element, I chose Arsenic. I chose Arsenic because it seemed to me to be the most sinister, and fun, of all 115 elements. Arsenic appealed to me because it was often used as poison through out history. To show case, and hence “sell” arsenic I decided to attempt to appeal to the meaner side of people, and show its wonderfully horrific uses. This attempt is shown quite clearly on my poster with the title of “Arsenic: The Best Way to Kill”. My idea was not to promote murder or poison, but to convey the information I had gathered in an interesting way which would appeal to today’s society. The society of modern America is obsessed with “evil” and “horrible” concepts, even though it is rarely admitted. The appeal to arsenic is created by the sinister nature the very word Arsenic has. Arsenic does have medicinal purposes when used properly, but like everything else, the good is ignored because it’s the bad we crave.

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