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	<title>Ripples Of Thought, Drip, Dripping From My Mind</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Trapped</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Envision yourself trapped, locked in a box
Under the ground, covered with dirt and rocks
Trapped in the casket, alive for a while
Tearing at the lip in front of you, before you die.
Buried alive, such misery
Buried beneath the earth six feet
Unable to breath other than cold, diminishing air
You let go of your life, you just do not [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Envision yourself trapped, locked in a box<br />
Under the ground, covered with dirt and rocks<br />
Trapped in the casket, alive for a while<br />
Tearing at the lip in front of you, before you die.</p>
<p>Buried alive, such misery<br />
Buried beneath the earth six feet<br />
Unable to breath other than cold, diminishing air<br />
You let go of your life, you just do not care.</p>
<p>You feel yourself start to get somewhat drowsy<br />
Like your tired, uncomfortable, you start to feel lousy<br />
You say your final goodbyes to all left behind<br />
You close you eyes, and step into the blind.</p>
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		<title>To All Of My Faithful Readers&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.jonathancockrum.com/2008/04/16/to-all-of-my-faithful-readers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everybody, just wanted to let you know that my first book, Poetically Advanced Perceptions Of Life, is available for purchase at lulu.com. Just go there, type in Jonathan Cockrum in the search bar, and you’ll find it. It’s a light read, but I’m ensuring you that you’ll enjoy it. Thank you, as always, your [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi everybody, just wanted to let you know that my first book, Poetically Advanced Perceptions Of Life, is available for purchase at lulu.com. Just go there, type in Jonathan Cockrum in the search bar, and you’ll find it. It’s a light read, but I’m ensuring you that you’ll enjoy it. Thank you, as always, your friend with a pen, Jon.</p>
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		<title>The Communist Liberal</title>
		<link>http://www.jonathancockrum.com/2008/03/27/the-communist-liberal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So, today, as I was going through my pre-separation classes, as in, I am getting out of the U.S. Marine Corps, I was approached by another Marine.  This other Marine is a Russian immigrant from Boston and New York City (imagine the accent).  
Anyway, the Russian asked me if I was a Satanist. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, today, as I was going through my pre-separation classes, as in, I am getting out of the U.S. Marine Corps, I was approached by another Marine.  This other Marine is a Russian immigrant from Boston and New York City (imagine the accent).  </p>
<p>Anyway, the Russian asked me if I was a Satanist.  Naturally, I asked him why.  Well, his response was exactly this, “Because you wear that stupid ring.” (To let you know, I wear a ring with a pentacle on it (A pentacle is a five-pointed star inside of a circle, representing the five elements))</p>
<p>Anyway, my response was this, “Well, yea, you uneducated retard, I’m a Wiccan, of course I wear a pentacle.  And, may I ask, what makes it stupid?  Could it be that you are so close-minded that you have no idea what you’re talking about?  And, on that note,  since you’re from Russia, I guess I can only assume you to be a Communist.  Furthermore, being that you’re from Boston and New York City, you must be a Liberal.  Hmmm, how odd to find a Communist Liberal, I didn’t even think that possible.”</p>
<p>Well, needless to say, after killing him with my word usage, I put out my cigarette and went back inside.  He never said another word.</p>
<p>Now, I understand that since he is from Russia doesn’t automatically make him a Communist, but I figure, what goes around comes around.</p>
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		<title>Troubled</title>
		<link>http://www.jonathancockrum.com/2008/03/16/troubled/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What’s this?
It is a troubled man,
Who shall not be named
A troubled man
Who’s lost in life’s game.
Millions of thoughts
Through his head, day and night
He’s so far away and alone
And can’t even conjure anything to write.
He stares through his window
And what does he see?
His life, depressing,
Dismal, and to the lowest degree.
Numerous faces,
Fleet through his mind
He misses some [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What’s this?<br />
It is a troubled man,<br />
Who shall not be named<br />
A troubled man<br />
Who’s lost in life’s game.<br />
Millions of thoughts<br />
Through his head, day and night<br />
He’s so far away and alone<br />
And can’t even conjure anything to write.<br />
He stares through his window<br />
And what does he see?<br />
His life, depressing,<br />
Dismal, and to the lowest degree.<br />
Numerous faces,<br />
Fleet through his mind<br />
He misses some more than others<br />
Some, he’ll miss for all time.</p>
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		<title>Daydreams</title>
		<link>http://www.jonathancockrum.com/2008/02/21/daydreams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I looked into her eyes
She looked back into mine.
I kissed her soft, pink lips
And she returned my kiss.
I pulled her into a hug, a tight embrace
I felt her make a shudder as I caressed her face.
I felt waves of emotion come over me
As I realize how different my life could honestly be.
Daydreams.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I looked into her eyes<br />
She looked back into mine.<br />
I kissed her soft, pink lips<br />
And she returned my kiss.<br />
I pulled her into a hug, a tight embrace<br />
I felt her make a shudder as I caressed her face.<br />
I felt waves of emotion come over me<br />
As I realize how different my life could honestly be.<br />
Daydreams.</p>
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		<title>Sorry, Just Venting&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.jonathancockrum.com/2008/02/09/sorry-just-venting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Alright, well, I just feel like I need to vent.  This week has been, by far, the strangest, most stressful week on me mentally.  I can try to explain why, but, even still, it will not even encompass what I have been thinking about.  
To begin, as most know, I learned the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Alright, well, I just feel like I need to vent.  This week has been, by far, the strangest, most stressful week on me mentally.  I can try to explain why, but, even still, it will not even encompass what I have been thinking about.  </p>
<p>To begin, as most know, I learned the absolutely horrible truth about the “Church” of Scientology.  So evil, so disgusting, but, that is a story for another time.  This week also contained a Thursday, as do all weeks, but this week’s Thursday was different.  This week’s Thursday happened to be the anniversary of the passing of one of my best friends, Corporal Jennifer Marie Parcell.  Damn, I miss her so much.  I truly do.</p>
<p>Well, this week, to include the weekend, I learned how hard it is going to be for me to survive, and for my family to survive, when I return home.  Granted, I will finally be home, and I will do everything I possibly can to take care of my family, but, it’s going to be excruciatingly hard.  I already know that I’m in for at least a thirty percent pay cut, and frankly, that scares the hell out of me.  My wife and I hardly survive as it is.  And even after I finally get a job, which is not an easy thing for people like me, who have been deployed to world’s oldest combat arena, a.k.a. Iraq, I’ll be doing something that doesn’t make me happy, I guarantee it.  The reason for veterans of the war having a hard time getting a job back in civilian society is because, by no fault of their own, employers don’t want to have to deal with people with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).  I don’t know what else to say about that.</p>
<p>And, finally, the last thing plaguing me is this.  In roughly five months, I will no longer be taken care of by the Marine Corps, and that scares me because, I need new Health, Life, and Dental insurance for my family and myself.  It has to be affordable, but, I can’t even figure out a good set, because I still don’t know where I’m going to be working or how much I am going to be getting paid whenever I get discharged from Uncle Sam’s favorite fighting force.  I would stay in, but, I have to be able to be with my wife and daughter.</p>
<p>Anyway, I’m sorry for have wasting your time, I really just had to vent.   If you have read this far into this one, well, thank you, it is truly appreciated.</p>
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		<title>Holy Evil Cult Batman!</title>
		<link>http://www.jonathancockrum.com/2008/02/06/holy-evil-cult-batman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Church of Scientology]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[L. Ron Hubbard]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lisa McPherson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Paulette Cooper]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Scientology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Let me ask you this, what do the names Paulette Cooper, Lisa McPherson, Josephus A. Havenith, Margarit Winkelmann, Peter E. Frei, Heribert Pfaff, Roger Nind, Noah Lottick, and Harriet Baker all have in common?  Well, I&#8217;ll tell you, they are all victims, in one way or another, of the evil, extremely large cult, Scientology.
Scientology [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let me ask you this, what do the names Paulette Cooper, Lisa McPherson, Josephus A. Havenith, Margarit Winkelmann, Peter E. Frei, Heribert Pfaff, Roger Nind, Noah Lottick, and Harriet Baker all have in common?  Well, I&#8217;ll tell you, they are all victims, in one way or another, of the evil, extremely large cult, Scientology.</p>
<p>Scientology is an evil, evil cult that destroys lives, extorts, and evil kills people.</p>
<p>For instance, look at the Lisa McPherson case.  Lisa joined the &#8220;Church&#8221; of Scientology in the mid to late seventies.  She was an active member of &#8220;church&#8221; all the way up until 1995 when she was in a minor car accident where she was found wandering around.  She was taken to a nearby hospital where, soon enough, a couple of Scientologists came and picked her up to take her into their care.  She was taken to their hotel, the Fort Harrison Hotel.</p>
<p>17 days later, she was put into the back of a van.  The Scientologists could have taken her back to the Morton Plant Hospital where they originally abducted her from, only 1.1 miles away.  But no, they decided that they wanted to take her to Columbia New Port Richey Hospital, 24 miles away, almost a forty minute drive. ONLY, only, because there was a Scientologist doctor there.</p>
<p>She was immediately pronounced DEAD on arrival.<br />
Lisa was severely underweight, she was dehydrated and she had bruises.  Cockroaches had begun to eat her flesh.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br />
There, if that doesn&#8217;t convince you of the evils of Scientology, go ahead and look up some of the videos on YouTube.  I&#8217;ll say this, I truly support the group Anonymous and everything that they are doing.</p>
<p>Thank you for reading.</p>
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