I’m keepin it real this summer. I’m playing alot of my old FPS’s and sports. Waiting to see how good the I-phone will be. Also doing some light summer reading with the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Can’t wait for all the O8 sports titles to come out.
I’d like to touch on my book for a second because it relates with how America seems to be declining in a way. First you have the corrupt political system putting out a bunch of crap out and nothing happening. Second they had outsiders come into their country and take away their resources so the regular people are unhappy. Third the country is divided on everything and divided we fall.
More in depth look at my points. The first comment is refering to how in Roman times the senate all they wanted to do is stay in power and they were ruthless in pulling it out assasinations ect… With the Emporers it gets worse some were completley perverted don’t want to go into detail. Others were in it for themselves building huge palaces or armies of housing for citizens of Rome. The last type are a bunch of mama’s boy don’t want to do anything. By the end the only way anyone could get control was by bieng a killer/torture just over all mean guy. Now adays we hear about political sex scandals, fraud, big corporations being paid off for supporting a persons campaign, and how nothing will stop it. That mostly is on the GOP side the democrats are just a bunch of big mouthed wusses who don’t do anything to help our country. We have to get out of Iraq in one huge wave and let terrorists take over the middle-east. Pelosi or however you spell her name said she do so much to pass bills in the first meeting of congress well I haven’t heard anything happen yet.
For my second point the romans let in all these outside cultures which detracted from there overall cultural identity which made the population harder to control aand support because of to much demand and not enough supply. Today we are paying the price for illegal immigration because we have to pay for their health care without them paying a dime and are food supply will start to decline with an uncontrolled population rise.
The roman empire was divided into to seprate parts the eastern and western roman empire. They west fell quicker than a bag of rocks in the ocean with barbarians invading everywhere, emporers that were cowards and they had no military to fight the horde. The eastern empire took about 1000 more years to fall because of some average emporers and they were basically the gate way to the east and all the trade going from Europe to Asia went through their lands so they had money to spend so they hired mercinaries to do their biding instead of a profesional army. It also didn’t help that the crusaders came and ransacked them before the empire fell for good when the ottoman turks invade. Today we are divide so badly on everything with the two party system . I know some people that are republicans that won’t even listen to them and vise-verse. Always some group in our country has to oppose what another group put forth. We are a country divide right, left, east, west, north, and south. The only way America in my eyes is if we stand toghether strong and don’t internally destory ourselves.
If I offend anyone with this it is certainly not my intentions to offend any person or group. I only want to point out the similarities between the fall of the Roman Empire and the decline of America.

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To answer your comment on tylers blog, yeah I’m bored as hell.