Dear B.P.,
If I were your parent, you would be grounded for the rest of your life, and NO you would not be allowed to go to J.P.'s Party (AKA Yacht Races-http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/21/bp-chief-draws-outrage-for-attending-yacht-race/). Your allowance would be suspended (AKA your profits go to fixing your mistake), and you would be spending every single day down in the Gulf coming up with every possible solution to the problem.
(sarcasm)Mr. Howard wants his life back people, give him his poor rich-bastard life back. Who cares about the beaches of Louisiana, Mississippi, etc. and the people and animals who live there, and rely on the resources there that are being destroyed by oil.
Dear America,
If this isn't a big red flag that we need to develop better sources of renewable energy, I don't know what is. Here's the thing, though... it's not about "making a renewable source of energy" it's "making a renewable source of energy that I can still continuously profit from." and THAT is why America sucks, and humanity in general...sucks. Do people even realize how many problems would not exist if we no longer needed oil?
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Being for Universal Health Care and Pro-life go hand in hand
I hear the argument against Pro-life, I do, I ~really~ do. There are valid points there. I just don't agree with them. I will never, however, call Pro-choice, "Pro-abortion." I hate when people call it that. That's like saying people who are Pro-Capital punishment are really "Pro-chopping people's heads off." It's not the same thing. People who are pro-choice do not ~love~ abortion. They don't point and laugh at life-less fetuses. Please stop depicting them as these horrendous sociopathic monsters that kill babies for sport.
Also, please stop putting giant pictures of dead babies along the highway. You know those pictures on the billboards? Yeah, those aren't healthy pregnancy like they appear, they are DEAD. BABIES. It is impossible to take a picture like that without killing the fetus. So... apparently those organizations are against abortion, but they're ok with exploiting one for their benefit.
Now, on to the point of my rant:
I believe that everyone, under the human-code (as I'll call it), who is better off than someone else, owes it--to their conscience if nothing else--to help that person, and even the playing field. I believe that every person in the world should work just as hard to reach their dreams, and if some are luckier than others in doing so, they should help those that weren't. It's like... all of humanity is trapped in a hole. After years of everyone trying to climb the walls on their own, we realize we have to work together. So, we help each other, we lift the next man on our shoulders, hoping that when he gets out, he'll pull us up too. When you make it out of the hole, what do you do? Do you turn around and give the next guy a hand? or do you and the few other escapees decide that since it's impossible for the rest of humanity to get out with out you, you'll just "forget" to help the next guy, and enjoy your luxury. Because, after all, why would you want to share your freedom? You wouldn't want to share all this new land with the rest of your species... in fact, you'd rather spend your time building a tower to get even higher, who cares about the people in the hole. You have rivals now. And while the rest of us are cramped and starving, you and your co-escapees are competing to see who can get the furthest from the hole. Fuck you.
Every person should help every other person. National pride is selfishness in disguise, a really bad disguise. Like the kid you knew in grade school who wore a trash-bag for halloween and said he was a ghost because his parents couldn't afford a costume.
Ok, now... that being said.
Everyone who earns more, owes more. Little Suzie can't go to college because she can't afford it, so she gets a shitty job and has a kid who can't go to college. You went to college, worked hard and got a great job, where you work hard, and make a lot of money. Suzie's job isn't very hard. She didn't have to work hard to get there. But let me tell you something, you selfish capitalist jerk, Suzie works harder than you could POSSIBLY immagine. She has a beautiful little girl, and she doesn't see that girl as much as she'd like because she's at work trying to support--we'll call her Lily-- Lily. Suzie has a thousand dreams for Lily, and cries EVERY NIGHT because she knows she can't make them happen. She works 5 days a week, and Lily's dad gets her on the weekends. So Lily grows up and resents her mom. She resents her because she can't buy her the cool things her friends have. She resents her for being divorced, and always bringing boyfriends to the house. But most of all she resents her because she isn't there. She's at work... all the time. So Lily grows up, and makes bad choices, bad friends, and bad grades. Lily never sets any goals for herself because she believes she can't meet them. Then she has a daughter, and this little angel fills Lily's heart with hopes and dreams that this little girl's life will be different. And she cries EVERY NIGHT, because she knows it wont be. Cycles like this SHOULD NOT EXIST! The story should go more like this: Suzie can't go to college because she can't afford it, so she gets a shitty job and has a kid who can't afford to go to college. You went to college, worked hard and got a great job, where you work hard, and make a lot of money, some of which you give to Suzie's daughter so that she too can go to college, work hard and get a great job, and meet a great guy, who makes a great husband and a great father, and they have a loving daughter, who they can afford to put through college, and THEY TOO give money to less fortunate families so that EVERY ONE CAN GO TO COLLEGE.
Ok. Now, it's not so much to ask that someone give up some of their earnings to help someone else have a good life right?
So, why is it so much to ask that a woman give up 9 months of a flat stomach to give someone else a chance at life?
One is giving someone money so they can have a chance, the other is giving life. Honestly, I think the latter is even more...humane.
If the system worked the way I wish it did, money wouldn't be an issue with having a child. And if you couldn't raise the child, there would be a loving family just waiting to welcome them into their world.
If you are rich, and want to have a child. ADOPT ONE. Stop contributing to over-population. If you can afford to adopt, and meet their ridiculous requirements (which I think should be changed) DO IT.
I plan on adopting a child someday. I can't really have a child of my own though, so I guess that's why the choice is easy for me (because there isn't a choice). That's why I hate the idea of abortion. I would love your baby. So many women like me would love your baby. I think the standards for adopting should be lower. I'm not saying I want a baby right now, but... if my boyfriend and I would like a child, and we're both employed full-time (or at least one is full-time), who cares if we own a home, or are paying student loans off, or don't make a ton of money? Families work through it. Are you really saying that a life in a orphanage is better?
Also, please stop putting giant pictures of dead babies along the highway. You know those pictures on the billboards? Yeah, those aren't healthy pregnancy like they appear, they are DEAD. BABIES. It is impossible to take a picture like that without killing the fetus. So... apparently those organizations are against abortion, but they're ok with exploiting one for their benefit.
Now, on to the point of my rant:
I believe that everyone, under the human-code (as I'll call it), who is better off than someone else, owes it--to their conscience if nothing else--to help that person, and even the playing field. I believe that every person in the world should work just as hard to reach their dreams, and if some are luckier than others in doing so, they should help those that weren't. It's like... all of humanity is trapped in a hole. After years of everyone trying to climb the walls on their own, we realize we have to work together. So, we help each other, we lift the next man on our shoulders, hoping that when he gets out, he'll pull us up too. When you make it out of the hole, what do you do? Do you turn around and give the next guy a hand? or do you and the few other escapees decide that since it's impossible for the rest of humanity to get out with out you, you'll just "forget" to help the next guy, and enjoy your luxury. Because, after all, why would you want to share your freedom? You wouldn't want to share all this new land with the rest of your species... in fact, you'd rather spend your time building a tower to get even higher, who cares about the people in the hole. You have rivals now. And while the rest of us are cramped and starving, you and your co-escapees are competing to see who can get the furthest from the hole. Fuck you.
Every person should help every other person. National pride is selfishness in disguise, a really bad disguise. Like the kid you knew in grade school who wore a trash-bag for halloween and said he was a ghost because his parents couldn't afford a costume.
Ok, now... that being said.
Everyone who earns more, owes more. Little Suzie can't go to college because she can't afford it, so she gets a shitty job and has a kid who can't go to college. You went to college, worked hard and got a great job, where you work hard, and make a lot of money. Suzie's job isn't very hard. She didn't have to work hard to get there. But let me tell you something, you selfish capitalist jerk, Suzie works harder than you could POSSIBLY immagine. She has a beautiful little girl, and she doesn't see that girl as much as she'd like because she's at work trying to support--we'll call her Lily-- Lily. Suzie has a thousand dreams for Lily, and cries EVERY NIGHT because she knows she can't make them happen. She works 5 days a week, and Lily's dad gets her on the weekends. So Lily grows up and resents her mom. She resents her because she can't buy her the cool things her friends have. She resents her for being divorced, and always bringing boyfriends to the house. But most of all she resents her because she isn't there. She's at work... all the time. So Lily grows up, and makes bad choices, bad friends, and bad grades. Lily never sets any goals for herself because she believes she can't meet them. Then she has a daughter, and this little angel fills Lily's heart with hopes and dreams that this little girl's life will be different. And she cries EVERY NIGHT, because she knows it wont be. Cycles like this SHOULD NOT EXIST! The story should go more like this: Suzie can't go to college because she can't afford it, so she gets a shitty job and has a kid who can't afford to go to college. You went to college, worked hard and got a great job, where you work hard, and make a lot of money, some of which you give to Suzie's daughter so that she too can go to college, work hard and get a great job, and meet a great guy, who makes a great husband and a great father, and they have a loving daughter, who they can afford to put through college, and THEY TOO give money to less fortunate families so that EVERY ONE CAN GO TO COLLEGE.
Ok. Now, it's not so much to ask that someone give up some of their earnings to help someone else have a good life right?
So, why is it so much to ask that a woman give up 9 months of a flat stomach to give someone else a chance at life?
One is giving someone money so they can have a chance, the other is giving life. Honestly, I think the latter is even more...humane.
If the system worked the way I wish it did, money wouldn't be an issue with having a child. And if you couldn't raise the child, there would be a loving family just waiting to welcome them into their world.
If you are rich, and want to have a child. ADOPT ONE. Stop contributing to over-population. If you can afford to adopt, and meet their ridiculous requirements (which I think should be changed) DO IT.
I plan on adopting a child someday. I can't really have a child of my own though, so I guess that's why the choice is easy for me (because there isn't a choice). That's why I hate the idea of abortion. I would love your baby. So many women like me would love your baby. I think the standards for adopting should be lower. I'm not saying I want a baby right now, but... if my boyfriend and I would like a child, and we're both employed full-time (or at least one is full-time), who cares if we own a home, or are paying student loans off, or don't make a ton of money? Families work through it. Are you really saying that a life in a orphanage is better?
Walmart should be in the Guinness Book of World Records
for being the World's Largest Weed.
Walmart is a weed. It's spreads quickly. It's hard, if not impossible, to get rid of. It chokes out other plants (businesses). No one likes it. It's ugly. It's bad for your garden (the environment/planet).
It. is. a. weed.
Speeeeeaking of weed...
Why is it illegal? Tax that shit! Helloooooo... It's less harmful than tabacco OR alcohol. No one gets high and feels like punching someone else (in contrast to getting drunk). YOU. COULD. PUT. A. TAX. ON. IT. lotsa money for U.S. not so much money for drug lords. Win-win.
I don't even know why it's still an issue being debated. Though, I also don't know why a LOT of things are being debated.
Walmart is a weed. It's spreads quickly. It's hard, if not impossible, to get rid of. It chokes out other plants (businesses). No one likes it. It's ugly. It's bad for your garden (the environment/planet).
It. is. a. weed.
Speeeeeaking of weed...
Why is it illegal? Tax that shit! Helloooooo... It's less harmful than tabacco OR alcohol. No one gets high and feels like punching someone else (in contrast to getting drunk). YOU. COULD. PUT. A. TAX. ON. IT. lotsa money for U.S. not so much money for drug lords. Win-win.
I don't even know why it's still an issue being debated. Though, I also don't know why a LOT of things are being debated.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Right-Wing Christian should be an oxymoron
I thought long and hard about what my first rant should be about, and I landed on this.
I get vary angry at "Christians" who spout hate and selfishness, and it is NOT uncommon for one to do so.
In fact, those Holier-than-thou folk are usually the ones putting quotations around liberal-minded "Christians."
If you are against immigration in any way, you are not very Christian. You are selfish. Unless you are full blooded Native American, you are here as a RESULT of immigration. I'm sorry, but why is it ok for Europeans to be in this country, but not Hispanics? And if you DARE say, (and I've heard this argument) "Well, I mostly just have a problem with people who come here, who don't speak English." How many languages do you speak fluently? I'll bet the answer is one. English is NOT the national language of the United States. WE DO NOT HAVE AN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE... English is simply the most common, followed by Spanish: Learn it! It is no more their fault that they can't speak English and communicate with you than it is your fault that you can't speak Spanish to communicate with them, and you know what, they probably wouldn't want to talk to you anyway. I really hate people who make jokes about how they shouldn't have to "press 1 for English" --I believe a country song makes that comment as well. You should. If a company wants to have options in every fucking language in existence, GOOD. FOR. THEM. I think that all public, and government buildings should have at least a Spanish speaking employee.
(Side rant: I really get annoyed with people who assume that because you LOOK Hispanic, you must speak Spanish. I worked with a woman in the Deli who was from the Philippines, and on MORE THAN ONE occasion a manager came back to ask if she could help a Spanish-speaking customer, even after she had told them SEVERAL TIMES that she did not speak Spanish. I speak more Spanish than she does. Did I get asked? No, because I'm white.)
Secondly, Marriage is a religious bond between two people. THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD NOT RECOGNIZE ~ANY~ MARRIAGES. If you want the government to recognize you as a couple, get a Civil Union. We don't care about your marriage, or whatever rules you had to obey to get it. That's like asking the government to recognize your baptism, or circumcision.
Thirdly, according to the bible, it is not your place to judge others. You don't get to say who goes to hell. Stop telling people that they are damned. You want to preach, preach what Jesus told you to preach: L-O-V-E. If all anyone did in this world was love, all of our problems would be solved. There would be no war, everyone would get the same amount of food and benefits. If everyone loved everyone, everyone would be happy. Sure people would still get sick, but there would be an entire world full of people doing what they could to make you better.
Love is not Capitalism. Capitalism is not Love. Capitalism is NOT Christian.
If you are Christian, and you are against the Health Care bill.... die. How can anyone who is not an evil scrooge be against universal health care??? I just don't understand it. I really don't.
I recently got into a bit of a tiff with someone over the Go Green movement being a "false idol." If you don't "believe" in Global Warming, you're basically a child with his fingers in his ears going "lalalalala!" It's a fact. Global temperature: Going up. Everytime I hear someone, on a cold day, make the comment "so much for that 'Global Warming' eh?" I want to smack them. God gave you this Earth... don't you think he'd want you to take care of it? If you had a child, whom you had unconditional love for, and you built them this beautiful house, and they destroyed it...wouldn't you be a bit upset?
Jesus was Jewish, so stop hating on them.
Everyone has a right to whatever religion they choose, if any, to belong to. I honestly think that public high schools should have a "religious studies" class, where students are forced to learn about different beliefs, so they can make more decisions for them selves, and less just following what's been shoved down their throats all their lives. AND Creationism should be kept in said class, and out of the laboratory.
To those against fictional entertainment about witchcraft and what-not... (like HP and DnD) Really? Reeeeeally? Are you that insecure about your beliefs that you think a children's book, or a bored game could pull people away from it? Or do you think that witchcraft is like...real? Because (took a break to laugh for a moment) you. are. ridiculous.
Jesus was a Socialist, or would have been, if there was such a movement at the time.
The way our country is developing...and this might be my segue into my next rant... one day, corporations WILL run the country. I mean, they are already "people" with "rights" so why couldn't...say... Walmart, run for President? It's not that far off people, and I am being totally serious.
Shadowrun. look. it. up.
I get vary angry at "Christians" who spout hate and selfishness, and it is NOT uncommon for one to do so.
In fact, those Holier-than-thou folk are usually the ones putting quotations around liberal-minded "Christians."
If you are against immigration in any way, you are not very Christian. You are selfish. Unless you are full blooded Native American, you are here as a RESULT of immigration. I'm sorry, but why is it ok for Europeans to be in this country, but not Hispanics? And if you DARE say, (and I've heard this argument) "Well, I mostly just have a problem with people who come here, who don't speak English." How many languages do you speak fluently? I'll bet the answer is one. English is NOT the national language of the United States. WE DO NOT HAVE AN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE... English is simply the most common, followed by Spanish: Learn it! It is no more their fault that they can't speak English and communicate with you than it is your fault that you can't speak Spanish to communicate with them, and you know what, they probably wouldn't want to talk to you anyway. I really hate people who make jokes about how they shouldn't have to "press 1 for English" --I believe a country song makes that comment as well. You should. If a company wants to have options in every fucking language in existence, GOOD. FOR. THEM. I think that all public, and government buildings should have at least a Spanish speaking employee.
(Side rant: I really get annoyed with people who assume that because you LOOK Hispanic, you must speak Spanish. I worked with a woman in the Deli who was from the Philippines, and on MORE THAN ONE occasion a manager came back to ask if she could help a Spanish-speaking customer, even after she had told them SEVERAL TIMES that she did not speak Spanish. I speak more Spanish than she does. Did I get asked? No, because I'm white.)
Secondly, Marriage is a religious bond between two people. THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD NOT RECOGNIZE ~ANY~ MARRIAGES. If you want the government to recognize you as a couple, get a Civil Union. We don't care about your marriage, or whatever rules you had to obey to get it. That's like asking the government to recognize your baptism, or circumcision.
Thirdly, according to the bible, it is not your place to judge others. You don't get to say who goes to hell. Stop telling people that they are damned. You want to preach, preach what Jesus told you to preach: L-O-V-E. If all anyone did in this world was love, all of our problems would be solved. There would be no war, everyone would get the same amount of food and benefits. If everyone loved everyone, everyone would be happy. Sure people would still get sick, but there would be an entire world full of people doing what they could to make you better.
Love is not Capitalism. Capitalism is not Love. Capitalism is NOT Christian.
If you are Christian, and you are against the Health Care bill.... die. How can anyone who is not an evil scrooge be against universal health care??? I just don't understand it. I really don't.
I recently got into a bit of a tiff with someone over the Go Green movement being a "false idol." If you don't "believe" in Global Warming, you're basically a child with his fingers in his ears going "lalalalala!" It's a fact. Global temperature: Going up. Everytime I hear someone, on a cold day, make the comment "so much for that 'Global Warming' eh?" I want to smack them. God gave you this Earth... don't you think he'd want you to take care of it? If you had a child, whom you had unconditional love for, and you built them this beautiful house, and they destroyed it...wouldn't you be a bit upset?
Jesus was Jewish, so stop hating on them.
Everyone has a right to whatever religion they choose, if any, to belong to. I honestly think that public high schools should have a "religious studies" class, where students are forced to learn about different beliefs, so they can make more decisions for them selves, and less just following what's been shoved down their throats all their lives. AND Creationism should be kept in said class, and out of the laboratory.
To those against fictional entertainment about witchcraft and what-not... (like HP and DnD) Really? Reeeeeally? Are you that insecure about your beliefs that you think a children's book, or a bored game could pull people away from it? Or do you think that witchcraft is like...real? Because (took a break to laugh for a moment) you. are. ridiculous.
Jesus was a Socialist, or would have been, if there was such a movement at the time.
The way our country is developing...and this might be my segue into my next rant... one day, corporations WILL run the country. I mean, they are already "people" with "rights" so why couldn't...say... Walmart, run for President? It's not that far off people, and I am being totally serious.
Shadowrun. look. it. up.
Sometimes I'm too shy
I don't state my opinions, or what I'm thinking nearly enough.
Why? Because I'm afraid I'll offend someone, or make them hate me.
Well...fuck them. If I offend someone with my opinions, then they deserve to be offended.
I've been reading a friend's blog, and it's made me want to get so many things off my chest that I had to create a blog just to contain all my opinions.
So... Here it is. I'll try to keep my rants organized, so it's not just like reading one big word-vomit of information.
Why? Because I'm afraid I'll offend someone, or make them hate me.
Well...fuck them. If I offend someone with my opinions, then they deserve to be offended.
I've been reading a friend's blog, and it's made me want to get so many things off my chest that I had to create a blog just to contain all my opinions.
So... Here it is. I'll try to keep my rants organized, so it's not just like reading one big word-vomit of information.
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