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Created on: January 08, 2009
Yes I can now be a communist.
Yes I can purchase red meat.
Yes I can move to Canada and protest the occupation in Iraq.
Yes I can eat tuna NOT whales.
Yes I can loose all my money to identity theft.
Yes I can lick the cream off the oreos before I eat the cookie.
Yes I can ride my bicycle in the street.
Yes I can fight for my country.
Yes I can drink 100% fruit juice.
Yes I can be intelligent and still get an F.
Yes I can dun' gon' get me an education tru high skool.
Yes I can starve.
Yes I can have the freedom to write whatever I want online.
Yes I can be taken away by the police at a rally against George Dubya.
Yes I can knit.
Yes I can live in a blue state, support being red, then vote blue.
Yes I can be free to live my religion.
Yes I can get sent home for dressing like santa.
Yes I can watch a student bring a gun to school.
Yes I can get killed by that student while a man in Wyoming hunts deer he doesn't eat.
Yes I can recieve the call to prayer.
Yes I believe happy cows come from California but good milk comes from Vermont.
Yes I can write a senator.
Yes I can wait a year for a letter from that senator.
Yes I can change.
Yes I believe we have a right to change.
No you cannot make mechangemy mind.
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