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Generally I refrain from just straight up talking about what I did during a certain day, but I like to mention things that happen that are in someway intriguing or distasteful. So, I woke up early and drove to KC with Adam and his fianceé Rachael. He managed to convince her that the song “Oh come, Oh come Emmanuel” was an England family tradition for Wedding ceremonies. She was mad at Adam for most of the trip for this joke.

Anyway, we went to KC, and we traveled to the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum. The first exhibit outside is a fake liberty bell with a painted crack in it, and next to it is a sundial which is constantly in the shade of a tree. Sundials are mostly for show anyway. Feasibly, this was a Treedial.

Inside was mostly historical stuff (I touched all the stuff that siad “Don’t touch”, including two cars and a grand piano). But there were two instances of note. The intro film we watched told about how he won the senate

Narrator: They were farmers. He was a farmer. And he talked to them about farming. And they believed him.

That was my favorite line, like the movie was accusing him of making shit up or something. Like he really tricked those stupid farmers.

The second thing was an exhibit called “Decision making” which was a short film except it asked us questions that were either yes(blue) or no(red), and the audience voted. Well, anyway there were some hillbillies behind us who kept voting for increased surveillance, including wiretaps, eliminating free speech and every other conservative viewpoints in homeland surveillance. And so the tape would be like “Most of you believe that freedom of speech must be limited in war time.” and crap like this. Anyway, in between votes were little blurbs about Truman. Well, finally, the last question was whether the government should have the right to read your personal e-mail without your consent. We managed to win this vote and it said, “Most of you said it was not OK for the government to read your e-mail. In times of war, it is important that the government be able to find out information in order to fight threats like terrorism.” I looked at Luke and said “Did the movie just tell us we were wrong?” Basically, the whole booth was a War on Terrorism propaganda plan, except because of the crazy guys behind us we hadn’t realized it until the very end.

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