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United States vs. Iraq
(round 2)

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Arrived in Maine a few days ago, and now relaxing in the warm sun, mowing the lawn, and just generally [ insert relaxing related word here ]. I've driven roughly 3,500 miles already, and we're taking a break before beginning the boomerang trip back west.

As we've traveled north, the trees have become lighter and lighter, since the leaves have just come out here, but have been out for a few weeks in places like Colorado or Ohio.

We are planning on going out to Cliff Island in Casco Bay at some point this weekend. Other than that, I think this time is just recharge time, and preparations.

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A quick visit with the grandparents and some chipped beef on toast.

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Made it across the country with the blasted trailer, and unloaded. Now to Maine.

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An abandoned campground, where there are about 100 empty spots. Eerie, yet peaceful.

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'So quickly that we didn't even know.' - Greg Brown

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Dare I ask why?

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Taking a break from Indiana and its 55 mph speed limit. Maybe I'll see some bald eagles.

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Finally. I thought I would never get out of Kansas.

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Just caught up to the same freight train from Lamar.

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I just watched a freight train rocket through Main St.

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A short length of coal cars waits patiently just outside of Hugo, CO.

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People have spelled out their names in stones along the highway. Also, a big ass sand dune. Wow.

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State number two.

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White snow everywhere. The clouds are screaming through the trees as the sunlight breaks through.

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So I put together a CD full of (somewhat) random music for the triplecross. It's a collection of songs that I have been hearing lately that all have something to do with traveling. Or else they are just fun to listen to while traveling. Especially travelling on a flat, paved surface at deadly speeds.

'triplecross' is:

1. Gimme The Car/Violent Femmes
2. Into The Great Wide Open/Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
3. Stickshifts And Safetybelts/Cake
4. Rolling/Soul Coughing
5. Interstate Love Song/Stone Temple Pilots
6. Theme From Rawhide/The Blues Brothers
7. Hotel California/The Eagles
8. The Idiot Kings/Soul Coughing
9. Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger/Daft Punk
10. Riders On The Storm/The Doors
11. Kiss Off/Violent Femmes
12. Heaven & Hot Rods/Stone Temple Pilots
13. Boulevard Of Broken Dreams/Green Day
14. Screenwriter's Blues/Soul Coughing
15. Nearly Lost You/Screaming Trees
16. Running Down A Dream/Tom Petty
17. Never Gonna Come Back Down/BT

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I am interested in the idea of colonization of the mind. What is colonization of the mind? It is when an outside force directs itself into the mind, and enforces your thought patterns in a way that are predictable and desirable to the outside force.

Looking at the definition of colonization (courtesy of dictionary.reference.com):

Something controlled remotely: a dependency. This is what happens when your mind is colonized. You become some kind of robot, remote-controlled by media, peers, and generally anyone but yourself.

So how does colonization happen? Simply put: repetition. Repetition. Repetition. Get it? Repetition. You see the same images in the newspaper, you see the same images on your television, you see the same images on the Internet, you see the same images on the billboards. Where does it come from? Peer groups, media, government. Any place that has an interest in maintaining control.

Is the idea new? Hell no. I'm just illustrating a point that has been covered many times over. Bell Hooks talks about freeing your neocolonized mind in "Killing Rage," and Harlan Lane talks about colonization (literally) of Burundi and how the labels applied to the indigenous people there are just as destructive as the labels applied to the deaf community.

Break free, declare independence, and speak truth to power. Too much for one day? Yup.

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