New Year’s resolutions are for people who lack the ability to be honest with themselves. If you really want to quit smoking or lose weight—Do it now. Don’t resolve—take action. Just do it, not because of some slogan on a box of Nike’s—because the second you resolve to do something—you are hesitating. Hesitation doesn’t accomplish anything.
For some reason I’ve been meeting a lot or writer’s lately. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a while, but I’ve always stopped myself. I’m way too critical. I have some ideas and I begins to write a story, but they seem to all end up being dragged to the recycle bin. So I’ve decided to write a blog. I’ve started this before, I’ve written some things here and there, but I always felt like I need some kind of gimmick. Blogs that have a lot of reader seem to be about something, perhaps cookie recipe blog, or a political activist blog.
I don’t want to do that. I tried here and there, but I don’t think it’s for me. I thought about doing a blog that reviews as seen on TV products, which is ironic because I don’t even watch TV. There needs to be an objective third party review of all these products. Some are decent and some are huge rip offs.
This is not going to be about a subject though. This is going to be a verbal exercise. I’m just going to commit myself to write every day for ten to thirty minutes, just to practice. The grammar may not be perfect, I might not throw in many polysyllabic words and no one will probably read it. I might write about my friends, or doing some card tricks at bars, or dating, or whatever. I’m not sure yet.
This is more like a diary, but with no key and I’m not hiding it under my bed.
I had an epiphany the other day. Someone asked me what changed about me? She knows who she is and I’m not going to mention why, but after careful consideration I realized what it was. I have found the key to happiness. This is the key that will set yourself on the path to accomplish all your hopes and dreams. Anything in life is for the taking if you just recite this little incantation. It works like magic. Brace yourself. Here it is:
“I do not give a fuck.” That’s all you have to do. Of course I don’t really believe in “magick,” but this is as close as you’ll get to anything supernatural. Let me explain. Let’s say you meet a woman at the grocery store and you think she’s really attractive, and you want to meet her, but you chicken out. Maybe it’s because you haven’t shaved, or you’re not feeling very attractive because you’re bumming it in your pajamas or maybe you’re just a pussy that has no self-confidence. If you didn’t give a fuck you would have asked for her number. Maybe she would have said no, maybe she would have given you a fake number or maybe you would have met the woman of your dreams, but if you give a fuck it makes you hesitate. If you don’t give a fuck, you become indifferent to rejection and are able to take action.
It took me a long time to learn this. I used to be too polite, I was always afraid to say what I really wanted to say in general. When religion came up, I used to just go with the flow and keep my mouth shut and just pretend that pray with everyone at the table. I don’t do that anymore, and I feel a lot better about myself.
When it comes to writing though—I still give a fuck. What if I’m not good enough, what If I don’t know what I’m doing what if my vocabulary isn’t up to par? What if I don’t know how the story is going to end? What if my character development isn’t good enough? What if I don’t have enough information? What if what I write is offensive? What if it gets rejected?
A better question is. . . What if I just don’t give a fuck?
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Squatting on Wall Street
I saw this Occupy Wall Street protest and I’m not really sure what these people are trying to accomplish. If you want to protest at a publicly traded company—try Starbucks. Those greedy bastards that give their employees’ health insurance have only earned me 19.24% on my money. Better yet protest by not using Google. I’ve lost 13% with that stock.
What is Wall Street? It’s a street in New York where stocks are traded. Stocks are shares of corporations. You too can own a share of stock in a company, or multiple shares in several companies. Why would you want to protest this market? If you don’t like big oil, (which I freely admit, I’m not part of that crowd) would it make sense to protest outside of Auto Zone because they sell Pennzoil?
I used to make a couple hundred bucks a month playing online poker, (usually) averaging about one losing month per year. I read a couple books on investing and decided to start putting some of that money into the market in 2009. It’s a good thing too, because if I would have left a lot of that money on FTP—it would have been gone. I did this because I started seeing people have their withdrawals confiscated by the government. Part of what I had left on the site was probably seized by the government, but most of it was either grossly mismanaged, or straight out stolen, . . .but looking back, the writing was on the wall. I probably won’t ever get that money back. Luckily I put most of my money on PokerStars and the stock market.
Even if the market goes down by 50% tomorrow I’m still ahead.
I like the stock market. I like looking for low P/E ratios on stocks that pay dividends. I’m not rich, granted, but I also enjoy putting money into 401K’s. I like that the government let’s me defer my tax liability to invest. I don’t like paying taxes. I think the government has mismanaged Social Security even worse than Full Tilt Poker has managed player deposits.
I like watching my 401K grow. I expect to have swings. I don’t mind the swings, in fact I kind of like them. Don’t get me wrong, it sucks to have your money go up or down 5% in any given week, but I like the fact that when it goes down, I get to put my money in when stocks are a discount. I made some mistakes investing in the stock market, but I’ve also learned from them. I’m down about 7% right now and I’m okay with that
I think the government has a duty to protect people against fraud, but here’s the thing about fraud you usually don’t see it until it’s too late. Let’s face it, Greenspan and Bernanke made a lot of mistakes in this area. A lot of Objectivists, like me even vilify Greenspan. He’s the ultimate example of what happens if you compromise on your principles. Regulation of a free market is no longer a free market. That being said, there seems to be something immoral about telling people the can afford a house when they can’t. It seems to me, that the problems of this economy were not the problems of Wall Street—a lot of people lost their shirts in the stock market. The problem seems to be with the deceptive evaluations of risk, predatory lending, and sub-prime mortgages. If someone has bad credit-they probably should not get a mortgage. If someone makes $30,000 a year, they can’t afford a $400,000 house. I wish I could tell you what the hell a derivative is, but I can’t.
I think one of the problems is that if you ask the average Joe on the street what is the Dow Jones Industrial Average? They don’t have a clue. S&P 500? It’s one of those things on the news that terrify them when it goes down. If you ask 10 people which president is on the dime, you might get one person to give you the correct answer, if you’re lucky (without checking their smart phone—made by some “diabolical corporation”) I can tell you Rosevelt’s on the dime, but I only have a vague idea of what derivatives are and have an even vaguer idea of why critics say it lead the economic collapse.
I’m not a fan of government spending, but I think I could live with it a little better if they start using some of that money to teach kids about money. Learn about the stock market. How is money made in this economy?
When I was in high school, I had one semester of economics. That’s not enough. I was lucky enough to have a teacher that actually started a bank with seven of his friends. They only needed a million dollars, but were able to lend out more than that( I want to say 3 million, but it was about 16 years ago so I’m not sure) He taught us about thinking at the margin by bringing in a couple dozen doughnuts and having a couple students eat as many as they could. I learned that the world has never had a 100% capitalist economy, nor a 100% socialist economy.
I learned that greed is good, contrary to popular belief.
Money is not backed by gold (at least not anymore) It’s only an idea, a representation of value.
I watched a video showing some of these Occupy Wall Street people. Here’s my question. What is the goal of these protestors? One man said there are no jobs for teenagers. Will protesting “Wall Street” create more jobs for teenagers than lowering (or eliminating) the minimum wage? I don’t smoke marijuana, but legalizing it would do way more to create jobs in in this country than protesting Wall Street. We might even get some of these hippie pot heads to work, since they wouldn’t have to pass piss tests anymore.
Another protester says if you paid more in taxes then General Electric, you should be here. WTF? Corporations don’t pay taxes—people do. If you decided to put $15 bucks in a GE rather than blow it on a pitcher of beer(B.T.W. I’m not against beer by any means)—you would have earned $1.30, not counting fees of course. How much of that should be taxes? Let’s say you also bought Rite Aid and lost .50 cents on that share. Should you not be able to deduct that to pay for GE’s taxes? What if you lose money one year and gain the next? You can’t subtract the previous year’s losses on the current year’s tax liability. Hey. . . what if you get taxed 30 cents on that GE share, but the company decided to raise it’s products prices to make your EPS $1.60?--Who’s paying the tax now?
What is Wall Street? It’s a street in New York where stocks are traded. Stocks are shares of corporations. You too can own a share of stock in a company, or multiple shares in several companies. Why would you want to protest this market? If you don’t like big oil, (which I freely admit, I’m not part of that crowd) would it make sense to protest outside of Auto Zone because they sell Pennzoil?
I used to make a couple hundred bucks a month playing online poker, (usually) averaging about one losing month per year. I read a couple books on investing and decided to start putting some of that money into the market in 2009. It’s a good thing too, because if I would have left a lot of that money on FTP—it would have been gone. I did this because I started seeing people have their withdrawals confiscated by the government. Part of what I had left on the site was probably seized by the government, but most of it was either grossly mismanaged, or straight out stolen, . . .but looking back, the writing was on the wall. I probably won’t ever get that money back. Luckily I put most of my money on PokerStars and the stock market.
Even if the market goes down by 50% tomorrow I’m still ahead.
I like the stock market. I like looking for low P/E ratios on stocks that pay dividends. I’m not rich, granted, but I also enjoy putting money into 401K’s. I like that the government let’s me defer my tax liability to invest. I don’t like paying taxes. I think the government has mismanaged Social Security even worse than Full Tilt Poker has managed player deposits.
I like watching my 401K grow. I expect to have swings. I don’t mind the swings, in fact I kind of like them. Don’t get me wrong, it sucks to have your money go up or down 5% in any given week, but I like the fact that when it goes down, I get to put my money in when stocks are a discount. I made some mistakes investing in the stock market, but I’ve also learned from them. I’m down about 7% right now and I’m okay with that
I think the government has a duty to protect people against fraud, but here’s the thing about fraud you usually don’t see it until it’s too late. Let’s face it, Greenspan and Bernanke made a lot of mistakes in this area. A lot of Objectivists, like me even vilify Greenspan. He’s the ultimate example of what happens if you compromise on your principles. Regulation of a free market is no longer a free market. That being said, there seems to be something immoral about telling people the can afford a house when they can’t. It seems to me, that the problems of this economy were not the problems of Wall Street—a lot of people lost their shirts in the stock market. The problem seems to be with the deceptive evaluations of risk, predatory lending, and sub-prime mortgages. If someone has bad credit-they probably should not get a mortgage. If someone makes $30,000 a year, they can’t afford a $400,000 house. I wish I could tell you what the hell a derivative is, but I can’t.
I think one of the problems is that if you ask the average Joe on the street what is the Dow Jones Industrial Average? They don’t have a clue. S&P 500? It’s one of those things on the news that terrify them when it goes down. If you ask 10 people which president is on the dime, you might get one person to give you the correct answer, if you’re lucky (without checking their smart phone—made by some “diabolical corporation”) I can tell you Rosevelt’s on the dime, but I only have a vague idea of what derivatives are and have an even vaguer idea of why critics say it lead the economic collapse.
I’m not a fan of government spending, but I think I could live with it a little better if they start using some of that money to teach kids about money. Learn about the stock market. How is money made in this economy?
When I was in high school, I had one semester of economics. That’s not enough. I was lucky enough to have a teacher that actually started a bank with seven of his friends. They only needed a million dollars, but were able to lend out more than that( I want to say 3 million, but it was about 16 years ago so I’m not sure) He taught us about thinking at the margin by bringing in a couple dozen doughnuts and having a couple students eat as many as they could. I learned that the world has never had a 100% capitalist economy, nor a 100% socialist economy.
I learned that greed is good, contrary to popular belief.
Money is not backed by gold (at least not anymore) It’s only an idea, a representation of value.
I watched a video showing some of these Occupy Wall Street people. Here’s my question. What is the goal of these protestors? One man said there are no jobs for teenagers. Will protesting “Wall Street” create more jobs for teenagers than lowering (or eliminating) the minimum wage? I don’t smoke marijuana, but legalizing it would do way more to create jobs in in this country than protesting Wall Street. We might even get some of these hippie pot heads to work, since they wouldn’t have to pass piss tests anymore.
Another protester says if you paid more in taxes then General Electric, you should be here. WTF? Corporations don’t pay taxes—people do. If you decided to put $15 bucks in a GE rather than blow it on a pitcher of beer(B.T.W. I’m not against beer by any means)—you would have earned $1.30, not counting fees of course. How much of that should be taxes? Let’s say you also bought Rite Aid and lost .50 cents on that share. Should you not be able to deduct that to pay for GE’s taxes? What if you lose money one year and gain the next? You can’t subtract the previous year’s losses on the current year’s tax liability. Hey. . . what if you get taxed 30 cents on that GE share, but the company decided to raise it’s products prices to make your EPS $1.60?--Who’s paying the tax now?
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Pro-Vaccine
For the record, I am not a fan of Rick Perry. Before the debate at the Regan Library, all I heard about him was he likes to pray for jobs, and pray for rain. I prefer problems be solved thorough rationality. In my opinion, reason and logic are much better tools for solving problems than asking the Flying Spaghetti Monster(assuming that’s the god you believe in, although it may not be) to solve them for you.
So I started watching the debate with a preconceived notion of Rick Perry. I still disagree with his fundamental mystic philosophy and I think he could have answered some of his attacks better if he started out with a better premise. What really upset me however were not so much Rick Perry’s comments, but Ron Paul’s attack on Rick Perry’s vaccination mandate. Ron, along with basically every other Republican (with the exception of Romney’s half ass objection) said that parents should have the choice. It is wrong for the government to impose what they think they should do to inoculate their children.
I can not believe the anti-vaccination movement in this country. It is dangerous that someone can lie about a study and the idea still takes off, poisoning the intellectual wealth of a nation. I also can’t believe “pro-lifers” can be against vaccination. These people are against the parents right to choose abortion, but they are for parents choosing to increase cancer risk for their children. This is not the same thing as mandating helmets for motorcyclists. If someone choses to ride a Harley without a helmet, they do so at their own risk. If a parent decides they don’t want the government telling them they need a car seat, only the child is at risk. If a parent says they don’t want their kid to have the HPV vaccine—they are endangering the lives of everyone by propagating the virus and weakening the immunity of society..
The fact is the HPV vaccine only works in about 95% of the women who are inoculated with it. Let’s say a man with HPV has sex with someone with the HPV vaccine that did work. Now she has sex with another man—a man without HPV. Now, that same man has sex with a woman who does not build anti-bodies against HPV even though she had the vaccination. She still doesn’t get the disease because the guy banged a gal who did have the antibodies against HPV.
This is called herd immunity. A country has the right to defend itself against biological warfare. We have the right to create laws telling people they can’t send anthrax in the mail. By that same right, we have the right to protect ourselves from HPV by requiring vaccinations for everyone. We have the right to quarantine people with the Ebola virus. To me there is not difference between the person with the Antrax in the envelope and the person that wishes to spread cancer causing viruses because they chose not to get vaccinated. To say this is an attack on freedom is like saying the second amendment protects your right to manufacture biological weapons.
I actually like that Rick Perry created an executive order to have 12 year old girls vaccinated for HPV. I would have preferred he did not leave an opt-out option for parents. I wish he would have defended this position better.
This makes me question the anti-abortion movement. I’m sure there are some people that oppose abortion because it ends a “human life.” You know what else ends a human life—Fucking cancer. IF you are so against terminating cells the size of a hang nail then you better be for preventing cancer terminating the life of a grown woman. I can respect the argument against the pro-choice movement, but not if those who argue against are okay with parents choosing CANCER over vaccination. It almost seems that they’re not so much against offspring dying as a result of their parent’s actions—they’re just more concerned with people staying abstinent. Let’s face it if you had to have a kid every time you had sex—you might think twice about it.
Michelle Bachman has no problem screening immigrants for diseases, Why is this any different? Are diseases spread by citizens better than disease spread by immigrants? In my opinion viruses don’t discriminate. Would it be better to screen potential sex partners before they are allowed to have sex than to require a vaccination? Should we issue sex licenses? This is why I refuse to join the Republican party—they are so inconsistent. Consequently, I also refuse to join the Democrats for the same reason.
So I started watching the debate with a preconceived notion of Rick Perry. I still disagree with his fundamental mystic philosophy and I think he could have answered some of his attacks better if he started out with a better premise. What really upset me however were not so much Rick Perry’s comments, but Ron Paul’s attack on Rick Perry’s vaccination mandate. Ron, along with basically every other Republican (with the exception of Romney’s half ass objection) said that parents should have the choice. It is wrong for the government to impose what they think they should do to inoculate their children.
I can not believe the anti-vaccination movement in this country. It is dangerous that someone can lie about a study and the idea still takes off, poisoning the intellectual wealth of a nation. I also can’t believe “pro-lifers” can be against vaccination. These people are against the parents right to choose abortion, but they are for parents choosing to increase cancer risk for their children. This is not the same thing as mandating helmets for motorcyclists. If someone choses to ride a Harley without a helmet, they do so at their own risk. If a parent decides they don’t want the government telling them they need a car seat, only the child is at risk. If a parent says they don’t want their kid to have the HPV vaccine—they are endangering the lives of everyone by propagating the virus and weakening the immunity of society..
The fact is the HPV vaccine only works in about 95% of the women who are inoculated with it. Let’s say a man with HPV has sex with someone with the HPV vaccine that did work. Now she has sex with another man—a man without HPV. Now, that same man has sex with a woman who does not build anti-bodies against HPV even though she had the vaccination. She still doesn’t get the disease because the guy banged a gal who did have the antibodies against HPV.
This is called herd immunity. A country has the right to defend itself against biological warfare. We have the right to create laws telling people they can’t send anthrax in the mail. By that same right, we have the right to protect ourselves from HPV by requiring vaccinations for everyone. We have the right to quarantine people with the Ebola virus. To me there is not difference between the person with the Antrax in the envelope and the person that wishes to spread cancer causing viruses because they chose not to get vaccinated. To say this is an attack on freedom is like saying the second amendment protects your right to manufacture biological weapons.
I actually like that Rick Perry created an executive order to have 12 year old girls vaccinated for HPV. I would have preferred he did not leave an opt-out option for parents. I wish he would have defended this position better.
This makes me question the anti-abortion movement. I’m sure there are some people that oppose abortion because it ends a “human life.” You know what else ends a human life—Fucking cancer. IF you are so against terminating cells the size of a hang nail then you better be for preventing cancer terminating the life of a grown woman. I can respect the argument against the pro-choice movement, but not if those who argue against are okay with parents choosing CANCER over vaccination. It almost seems that they’re not so much against offspring dying as a result of their parent’s actions—they’re just more concerned with people staying abstinent. Let’s face it if you had to have a kid every time you had sex—you might think twice about it.
Michelle Bachman has no problem screening immigrants for diseases, Why is this any different? Are diseases spread by citizens better than disease spread by immigrants? In my opinion viruses don’t discriminate. Would it be better to screen potential sex partners before they are allowed to have sex than to require a vaccination? Should we issue sex licenses? This is why I refuse to join the Republican party—they are so inconsistent. Consequently, I also refuse to join the Democrats for the same reason.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Exercising my first amendment right
Today is a great win for freedom of speech. When Fred Phelps dies we can all go to his funeral and shout FRED WAS A FAG! FRED WAS A FAG! We have to be very careful with our definitions though. In this context I'm using the word "Fag," as someone or something god hates--like people in the UK call cigarettes fags--god obviously hates cigarettes like he hates shellfish, yeast, foreskins, goats cooked in it's own mothers milk, and animals with bruised testicles. So I may use the term fag differently than others may use it. For example, when I go to a seafood restaurant I like to order fag scampi. You have to be very clear about this--you don't want to cross the line and commit libel or slander a dead man at his funeral.
Why is it that we see more Christians protesting gay marriage than we see protesting the Westboro Baptist Church? Because, ironically, they can back up their protests biblically. Why do you not see moderate Muslims being more proactive in stopping the radical islamo-fascists ? (I'll give you a hint--it has to do with their holy books) There's no sense pretending--religion is bad for you and it’s bad for society. Luckily, we live in a secular nation and have the freedom of speech to say so.
Here it is in case you haven't read it in a while:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Since I’m on my soapbox I may as well say it. I’m tired of people assuming that everyone believes in the bible. Sometimes you just don’t want to hear what the bible has to say. Here’s an example (I apologize in advance for posting something so disgusting)
Psalms 137:9 (New International Version)
“Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks”
Why is it that we see more Christians protesting gay marriage than we see protesting the Westboro Baptist Church? Because, ironically, they can back up their protests biblically. Why do you not see moderate Muslims being more proactive in stopping the radical islamo-fascists ? (I'll give you a hint--it has to do with their holy books) There's no sense pretending--religion is bad for you and it’s bad for society. Luckily, we live in a secular nation and have the freedom of speech to say so.
Here it is in case you haven't read it in a while:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Since I’m on my soapbox I may as well say it. I’m tired of people assuming that everyone believes in the bible. Sometimes you just don’t want to hear what the bible has to say. Here’s an example (I apologize in advance for posting something so disgusting)
Psalms 137:9 (New International Version)
“Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks”
Thursday, September 23, 2010
God Hates Fags, but Loves Lipstick Lesbians
You cant drive to the grocery store without seeing a magnetic ribbon that states support our troops. You never see an explanation tagged onto one of these yellow ribbons. So I’m going to ask the question. If anyone reading this has ever stuck a magnetic ribbon on there cars that says support our troops, maybe you can give me an answer: What does support our troops mean?
There’s a t-shirt sold on the website T-Shirt Hell.com that says. “God Bless America, except Iowa--Fuck Iowa.” It’s ironic, it’s funny, but it would be hard for me to believe that any reasonable citizen of the United States would actually feel this way. No one really questions these three word phrases that have become so ingrained in our society. There are 257 countries in the world, last I checked. If you think God should bless America does that mean that god should not bless all other 256 countries? God bless America, but curse Estonia.
You probably don’t think of Estonia or Iowa very often. If I told you Support Iowa. Then I ask you do you support Iowa or do you not. You would probably say. Well I i guess I support Iowa. . . don’t grow corn or something? Yes I support them. The same works with Support our troops. You don’t want to not support the troops. so yes you support them. They are fighting for our freedom. They are the reason I can say FUCK on a blog or burn the flag--because we have the right to freedom of speech, the right to public demonstration, freedom of the press. Freedom from an of Religion. Do you know what happens if you burn the flag in China? They fucking kill you. You want to protest in Tiananmen square, build a mosque anywhere--good luck.
Freedom of speech is why I can say Support our troops is only propaganda. What you are really saying is. . ."support our wars.” I got this idea from Noam Chomsky, I didn’t come up with it on my own accord, but I thought about it the other day when i saw that God Bless America except Iowa shirt.
Just the other day congress voted to uphold the don’t ask don’t tell policy of the U.S. military. I’m not surprised. In our democracy our votes tend to be cast by dead presidents and the Christian Coalition lists keeping the don’t ask don’t tell policy along with prayer in school and upholding the ban on gay marriage. The obvious question is What would Jesus do for a Klondike bar?
Support our troops doesn’t seem to mean much. Our troops have some of the most dangerous jobs in America but they get paid like we all have bumper stickers that say: support our troops, barely. Health care reforms that extend coverage dependents do not include members of military families. But the thing about supporting our troops is you either support all of them or you don’t. Are you really supporting our troops if you force some them into secrecy, not of classified information, but of their own personal lives? What if someone wants to join the Military and happens to be married to a man in a state in which it is legal? There is no laws telling everyone else to keep quiet about their wives.
If you are going to say you support our troops, but believe in don’t ask don’t tell why don’t you get a ribbon that says: Support our troops, except Fags--Fuck Faggot soldiers. Or ask yourself, If someone is willing to die for the country that has defied the odds(256-to-1 against) to become the greatest country in the world they should be allowed to fuck whomever they want as long as it’s legal and consensual. If they are willing to do this, die for their government--they should not have their first amendment rights limited because this is not fucking China.
This is the United States of America . In this Country you have to wait till you are 21 to drink, but can sign up for the military at 18. That is bullshit. I’ve never had anyone argue with me over that. If you are gay and have to adhere to the don’t ask don’t tell rule, you can not pull that same card when having to sign up for selective service. The same people that say don’t ask don’t tell never say don’t make the gay men over the age of 18 sign up for selective service.
I say if you can make the decision to fight for your country you should be able to buy a beer. If your country can make the decision for you to fight for them--you shouldn’t be forced to do so in shame.
There’s a t-shirt sold on the website T-Shirt Hell.com that says. “God Bless America, except Iowa--Fuck Iowa.” It’s ironic, it’s funny, but it would be hard for me to believe that any reasonable citizen of the United States would actually feel this way. No one really questions these three word phrases that have become so ingrained in our society. There are 257 countries in the world, last I checked. If you think God should bless America does that mean that god should not bless all other 256 countries? God bless America, but curse Estonia.
You probably don’t think of Estonia or Iowa very often. If I told you Support Iowa. Then I ask you do you support Iowa or do you not. You would probably say. Well I i guess I support Iowa. . . don’t grow corn or something? Yes I support them. The same works with Support our troops. You don’t want to not support the troops. so yes you support them. They are fighting for our freedom. They are the reason I can say FUCK on a blog or burn the flag--because we have the right to freedom of speech, the right to public demonstration, freedom of the press. Freedom from an of Religion. Do you know what happens if you burn the flag in China? They fucking kill you. You want to protest in Tiananmen square, build a mosque anywhere--good luck.
Freedom of speech is why I can say Support our troops is only propaganda. What you are really saying is. . ."support our wars.” I got this idea from Noam Chomsky, I didn’t come up with it on my own accord, but I thought about it the other day when i saw that God Bless America except Iowa shirt.
Just the other day congress voted to uphold the don’t ask don’t tell policy of the U.S. military. I’m not surprised. In our democracy our votes tend to be cast by dead presidents and the Christian Coalition lists keeping the don’t ask don’t tell policy along with prayer in school and upholding the ban on gay marriage. The obvious question is What would Jesus do for a Klondike bar?
Support our troops doesn’t seem to mean much. Our troops have some of the most dangerous jobs in America but they get paid like we all have bumper stickers that say: support our troops, barely. Health care reforms that extend coverage dependents do not include members of military families. But the thing about supporting our troops is you either support all of them or you don’t. Are you really supporting our troops if you force some them into secrecy, not of classified information, but of their own personal lives? What if someone wants to join the Military and happens to be married to a man in a state in which it is legal? There is no laws telling everyone else to keep quiet about their wives.
If you are going to say you support our troops, but believe in don’t ask don’t tell why don’t you get a ribbon that says: Support our troops, except Fags--Fuck Faggot soldiers. Or ask yourself, If someone is willing to die for the country that has defied the odds(256-to-1 against) to become the greatest country in the world they should be allowed to fuck whomever they want as long as it’s legal and consensual. If they are willing to do this, die for their government--they should not have their first amendment rights limited because this is not fucking China.
This is the United States of America . In this Country you have to wait till you are 21 to drink, but can sign up for the military at 18. That is bullshit. I’ve never had anyone argue with me over that. If you are gay and have to adhere to the don’t ask don’t tell rule, you can not pull that same card when having to sign up for selective service. The same people that say don’t ask don’t tell never say don’t make the gay men over the age of 18 sign up for selective service.
I say if you can make the decision to fight for your country you should be able to buy a beer. If your country can make the decision for you to fight for them--you shouldn’t be forced to do so in shame.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
work
i finally figured out why i had so much trouble using the keyboard on my phone. it was the case getting in my way.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
phone blog
if icould use this keyboard bettef i would write /ore blogs. this is a sam/ple of the blogs i wold write if i used /y phone all the gtime. the cool thing ksthat it gives me practice with /my new keyhboard on the droid. i really don't limke it as much as tghe envy bec@ause its easier to hit the wrong key.
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