I'm now the treasurer for Chapter 44 of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State located in New Bern, NC. That's great, I feel like I'm getting started on something I'll probably be involved with until I die. Joining this organization and also the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers is just a start. When I get to Boise (which still seems like where I'm going once I get out) I'll join any similar organizations there, or create them.

I've already checked the Boise State University clubs and there is no Secular Student Alliance Chapter so if they don't have one by the time I get there (granted that's more than a year from now), I'll do my best to get one started.

All this activist thought really started back when I was in Iraq and found out that people with influence were trying to lie to students in school, and keep evolution from being taught. I see that as an example in microcosm of much that is wrong with our country/society today. We have stopped being a positive example for the rest of the world. Our best measures of intelligence for public schools show us lagging in the international community in math and science (which are basically the only things that can be effectively tested at a global level). Now there are many different idea's about how to "fix" the broken school system, Time magazine listed some in the same issue that it gave the No Child Left Behind Act a C- grade in, but I think that a damn good starting point would be to simply STOP LYING TO CHILDREN!!!!!

Our kids are not allowed to learn because they might end up smart enough to realize how stupid their parents are!

Fucking shameful.