Consolidated Blog(s)

Hi, I wanted to inform anyone who might end up reading this that I just put all my post on this blog. Previously, the entries were scattered between friendster, myspace, and blogger but now I put them all together. I will try to put them back into consequential order to make some sense but I put the original dates so you can see when I originally posted everything.

So, I am excited to start blogging for one thing that held me up was settling on a final place to do it and have everything in one place. So here it is!!!
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I'm still awake and it's nearly 6am. I figured it is a

good time to tell you of how I stood outside
Baruch while Hillary Spoke with a
Obama/Clinton sign. I was walking home
and saw a bunch of News trucks.
I inquired at Baruch College which
was teeming with Secret Service agents.
Hillary Clinton was going to speak.
After seeing it was futile trying to get inside I went home. While home I decided it was silly to hear the speech at home when she was only blocks away. I did not want to go and stand there for no reason. I made a big sign. My sign said: OBAMA
-------------
CLINTON
Unite for a change
08
It was rather large and colorful.

I had my photo taken by press, I was interviewed by a few different international media outlets, asked to stand in backround while reporters reported to Danish, Spanish, Italian, French news live. I was asked to be in a documentaryabout Millenial Generation and interviewed for Japanese radio. Lots of random people took my photo, and I think secret Service took my photo as well. It was successful that I got to be seen by Hill, Bill and Chelsea who saw my sign. That was the primary point. I wanted to reach out.

I went there not to see Hilary but to be seen by her. On my sign it said "Unite for a Change 08"
The point is not me, nor the sign but that
I demostrated a message and that it was so
simple to have an effect. I was threatened by passerbys, yelled at, cheered, I got the thumbs
up by many and my photo taken by many
people to end up where I do not know. People engaged me on the street and it was more often than not a positive exchange. It felt truly democratic to talk to people on the streets. I even heard if from Mccain supporters. We all can make a sign and go out. You can write anything you want. I made it on a normal computer printer. I printed the letters as big as possible.



SO make your own sign and go out and stand for something (literally)!!!

It felt good!

Dangerous Times

Tuesday, October 07, 2008 8:30 am

What is going on with our economy? How is it that a few people have somehow stolen our Nations wealth and after stealing it has the audacity to have the tax payers pay for their theft. The mega corporations, the mega banks and the current Bush regime has moved our money off shore and transferred our dollars into Euros. They also gave our money in form of loans from China to buy oil from the Saudis. This all with out mentioning the war in Iraq and the cost to us nearing a trillion dollars. This is a war costing the US ten billion dollars a month and we wonder why our economy is going under? I heard now a story of a ninety year old woman who could not pay her mortgage to fannie mae and fannie mae insisted she give up her home so this woman shot herself in the chest and nearly died. Fortunately, she lives and they are pushing to let her return to her home from the hospital. What kind of nation forces a ninety year old woman from her home? This is McCain/Palin's America one which every man and woman must fend for themselves as those who predate on them are rewarded. This is the Republican party that prides itself on it's meaness, on being intolerant, hateful, deceitful that has strengthened their own bank accounts at the expense of the American nation. It sickens me to see these right wing lemmins these morons of Americans who find Palin cute and will not take responsibilty for the diaster they created. These Americans are in short un-American. They harm the United States with their poor judgement and ignorance. I fear that they will attempt to steal this election as they did in 2000 and 2000. We must be vigilant of this. We must not let this happen. The world's survival depends on this election. If Obama loses everything will get worse. We might even face a Nuclear holocaust with Iran. These are important times and we must be strong and fight these lunatic Republicans for the benefit of the whole planet and humanity.

Purging people from my life

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Current mood: sad To my friends and former friends, I just deleted over hundred people from myspace and facebook. I am sad about this. Many of these people I have invited to my house, knew as a child, been to their parties, they have been to my parties, and others I barely knew or never even met. I was not planning to do this. My plan was to give notice and let people have a chance to redeem themselves as friends. However, why should I give an ultimatum to people to be my friend? If they wanted to actively be my friend they would. Some routinely flaked on plans, others did not return phone calls and others were not in touch with me at all. That is fine and their right. Recently, my Mother has been in the hospital for the past two weeks and she went there initially because of internal bleeding and fractures in her spine which caused her extreme pain to the point of being unable to move. While in the hospital and on the 4th of July she had a heart major attack and needed to be shocked to save her life. She is stable now but the final prognosis is still unknown,the bleeding continues, and her colon is enlarged which might mean cancer. Her condition is life threatening and it unsure what will occur? Needless to say this has caused much distress and these past weeks have been trying. I have not before now announced this and I do not expect people to be telepathic and/or clairvoyant. Many of those close to me like my girlfriend, my closest friends have been extremely supportive. Others who do know have not even called to inquire what is her condition or to ask me if I am ok. Many of my (former) so called friends of mine do not even know and they do not know this because they do not make an effort to stay in touch with me. Some have not recently returned my phone calls or responded to my emails. I'd like to say I do not care but that would be a lie. If those of you do not know this about me, I am a sensitive person and friendship/loyalty are very important. I am not blaming anyone who does not know or has not called me. I do not have that kind of history with everyone I know and if you are reading this than I do not have any bad feelings towards you. There are others though who I have decided to write off. I think this situation has helped me see who my friends are and who my friends are not. I am tired of people making plans and cancelling last moment, or not even cancelling them but just vanishing the day those plans were made. I am in no need for virtual friends or friends who do not care to know me, see me, talk to me and these friends in one fell swoop are no longer a part of my life. I purged facebook, now myspace, soon my phone and it will be the same in person. I am not bitter, I am admittedly hurt, a little angry perhaps, definitely disappointed but I feel good (as much as one can ridding oneself of dozens of people once considered to be friends) because I know that this is the right thing to do. Some of those I deleted did nothing grievous to me, I expected nothing from them, they offered me nothing they were just faces on my profile or people that added me that I once went to school with or met somewhere. I mean them no offense I just did not see the point anymore of hearing about them or looking at their pictures when we do not even talk, have no intention of meeting and never did. Those are the innocent. The guilty are those who do know me and did not match efforts to be friends, or flaked on plans routinely, did not hear from for long periods, did not return my calls or emails and so on. I doubt I will miss either category. If I am important to them and I offended them by deleting them and they care enough they will let me know and make an effort. IF not than it is no loss. I have never, ever had a problem meeting people anywhere, any place or any time. It was one of my gifts but I cannot force people to be my friend for real and act such. I am with a heavy heart. When ones Mother is ill and this hits you, it puts things into perspective. From this perspective I want people in my life that care about me and want my company. I would rather face things alone than look for people and feel even lonelier. Those who have been there for me I thank them and I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart. with respect and sincerity, Aaron Olivo

The Potential of the US of A

Friday, July 04, 2008

It's the fourth of July and we are celebrating our independance. I might wonder if we would not be better off under British rule these days? However, we are independant and the last seven years I have been ashamed of this nation. Do not get me wrong, I love my country, I love the people and what in theory the US is to stand for. Unfortunately, this nation is run by a moronic tyrant and more so by the .05% who control 99% of our nation's wealth. This is intolerable, it is immoral and it must end. I call on all Americans to stand up to the injustices that are occuring all around us. We have the potential to be "a light unto nations" and spread Democracy, peace, and well being to the rest of the world. Instead we are a dark, stormy cloud that brings misery, war, hunger,greed and promotes the basest of human values. We have become a greedy, spoiled, indulgent nation. This is not the US of A I love or was taught about as a child. This is a faux US. This US is a fraud and we are not a fraudlent people, we just have been misled by fraudulent leaders. We have allowed them to run things while it is up to us (all of us) to get involved and change things. ENOUGH is ENOUGH! Stand strong Americans, be proud, fight for our rights, stop feeding the consumerism monster, stop the destruction of our planet, and stop waiting for others to take responsibility to do what is right. Stop remaining passive, indifferent, selfish and mindless! We are the people, for the people and by the people. WE! You and ME! US as in U.S! I will not rest until I see the America reach it's potential. I want to restore the vision this nation was founded on. Restore the truth and end the lies. I want us to be the US of A we meant it to be and not the exclusive playground of the .05% rich who seem to own everything under the sun and think it is their right to do so. Be proud, be strong, be American but more importantly be a kind, conscientious American. I love you all and I am proud to be a TRUE American. Bush and his ilk are traitors to this nation and the American people.

Me and G-d

Monday, June 16, 2008

I am not a particularly religous person. I sin daily. I am Jewish but not a good Jew. However, I do believe in G-d. I believe I am insignificant in the universe and that I am a mere spark, an insect or even less compared to the grandeur of the universe. I was just outside in nature. I felt the dew on my skin, the wet grass on my bare feet, and the darkness all around. I could see lightning bugs, and hear strange sounds from the woods and this made me feel so alive. I looked at the darkened sky and prayed. I prayed for my family, for others families and for the world. I asked G-d for strength to do the things I hope to do. I wanted to sleep outside but instead eventually went inside. However, the feeling I was left with is that there is something powerful that exist in the universe and we can give it any name we like. For this rant I will cal it G-d and I will proclaim that I believe in G-d and that I challenge anyone to prove G-d does not exist. I will not dare to convince anyone differently for let people come to their own conclusions but I know that G-d is good. I believe that in all our cruelty and the cruelty of nature that we are good as well. We must do good. We must feel good. We must fight for good and believe in the goodness of creation. What else is there? What, where, why, when, who? The five Ws. We are the five Ws and when you are fighting for your daily scraps ask yourself: why are you here? who are you? what are you? when are you? and where are you? Ask those questions and if you cannot answer them than go ask G-d!

America is ready for a Black president if you believe it is!

Sunday, May 25, 2008 2:48 am

Current mood: optimistic I am not going to accept what I hear from people that the US of A is not ready for a black president. When will the US be ready than? We are ready for it and it is about time. We cannot afford to let ourselves to be held back by fear and ignorance any longer. Even those who have nothing against a black president are hindering the possibility with their doubts. Yes, I once wondered the same thing but Obama has proven to me that the US is as ready as ever. We have plenty of ignorant racist in this world but I do not believe they are the majority. I refuse to believe in this. We are ready for change! We must all speak to everyone we meet and tell them "we are ready!!!". We are ready to throw off the yoke of imperialism and take back our Earth from the greedy corporations and the families that own them. They are the problem. Are you a problem or part of the solution? Look in the mirror and ask yourselves this. Practice random acts of kindness! Today and everyday!!!