November 17, 2008
November 13, 2008
Six degrees of separation from EVIL!
I happened upon this article stating that a South Carolina Catholic priest told his parishioners that they shouldn't receive Communion if they voted for Obama, because the president-elect supports abortion, and supporting him "constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil." He even went so far as to say that their "souls" were in jeopardy. Woooooooo. Haloween has passed us by, but this guy is really laying on the spooks! Let me get this straight.. by supporting the church and Catholic charities, of whom many priests have been found to moleste kids, for example, I'm not supporting "intrinsic evil"? What about supporting that other candidate, you know, the one who so happened to support an evil president who so happens to also support an illegal war, where thousands of people were KILLED, innocent as well as combatants.. and others may be TORTURED.. you know, dark ages holy crusades type shit. Not to mention that he failed upon his holy wedding vows to his first wife, because she was too crippled and repulsive to look at anymore (I guess what's on the inside, doesn't count for everyone... besides, it's not like HIS body was in Mr. America shape upon his return from 'nam). Although after reading what torturous EVILS were done to him in 'nam, I honestly think he deserves a beautiful non-crippled wife who's filthy rich, don't you? Oh, and will the Catholic church please stop pushing their political agenda or pay some fucking taxes, will ya? Non-profit, my ass. I see the acres of land and gargantuan church-palaces some of you guys can afford... must be nice.
November 12, 2008
I was recently sent this link of a film to view: THIS FILM!
Whew.. that was a lengthy piece! There are many good points made during the film. The administration and even McCain himself tried using fear to achieve his own agenda of getting elected. Plainly saying, without much reason behind it, that we should be afraid of an Obama presidency. Fear drives many people to sacrifice certain freedoms for the ILLUSION of enhanced security. I view the war on terror just like I view the war on drugs... unwinnable, no matter how much money and resources you throw at it. It's an ideal.. a philosophy.. a belief... those things can't be eliminated. Only education can help deflate ignorance, and those who aren't educated in our school systems are completely out of our control. The Iraq war was simply invalid. I'd like to believe that Bush really thought he was doing the country good and was just misguided and unaware of the horrifying attrocities in his actions. I don't want to beleive that the fear employed was a means to an illegal war, but it just may very well be that simple. Maybe 9/11 was a gift that made Iraq an easier sell... I bet that the Iraq war would have occurred either way. United States citizens losing rights where anyone can be ousted as an enemy without probable cause or meritable evidence is spooky, creepy, and everything in between. What happened to that James Yi guy or the journalist in California for just reporting the truth are things I can hardly comment upon, except to say that it envokes immence feelings of injustice. I can only hope that the overwhelming support of the American people for a pro-constitutional, pro-peace democratic president can help reverse the negative direction away from freedom in which our country has been heading for about 7 years.
I just got back from Boston on Sunday. Saturday night, I changed my flight from an evening one, to a morning one. Being that it now showed up as a one-way ticket to New Orleans, I was flagged with the SSSS on my boarding pass. I mean, obviously, if a us citizen passenger is flying one-way to his own hometown (with a layover in Atlanta, of course), he's apparently planning on taking the plane into a building or something. They singled me out, and sent me to the bomb-sniffing machine. After it blew air at me several times... I went on to another guy, who decided to swab all of my stuff... wallet, shoes, cellphone, and run the swabbed whatever into a machine to detect explosives. Luckily, I checked all of my luggage in, or i would have been there a while. I mean, they alreayd x-rayed my shit before that. What if I had packed a bunch of dildos in my suitcase? It could easily be an embarrasing situation for some... as for me, I wasn't too thrilled just being singled out and taken aside. I honeslty felt how uncomfortable it would make some people for various reasons... especially if they thought they were being profiled. I'm not sure what the right way to maximize safety is, but I strongly believe they are going about it the wrong way. One way I know this, is because the week before that, I had to go to Portland, Maine for work... I brought my big jacket, that my brother gave me... he left a lighter in the jacket pocket, and I didn't notice it was there until halfway through my trip. That means that they x-rayed the jacket and then I flew all the way to DC and then Portland, all with the ability to set fire to anything I wished in mid-air. If someone is THAT determined to cause trouble on a flight, it will happen, and nothing in place is going to fully prevent it.
The Germany connection is eerie... check out this piece from 1946: THIS CLIP!
On a side note, notice how in the pledge of allegiance, the phrase "under god" isn't there.. that's becasue it was added in 1951 by a resolution brought on by the Knights of Columbus. I dislike it when ignorant people try to tell me that Religion and Government have always been together, when they apparently used to be much more seperate. (Heck the motto "In God We Trust" didn't appear on currency until 1864) Below is the Fugio Cent designed by Benjamin Franklin himself in 1787... now that's a coin motto I can get behind!
October 22, 2008
Reasonable People for McCain
Powell must have woken some people up. The Bush wars haven't been all bad for Muslims, despite the vernacular supporter's desire for them to be. It is more complicated than 'gratefulness' but I would hate to have my sister executed as half-time entertainment and at least that hasn't happened as often over there since 9/11. On the home front, you could see how the frugal hard working entrepreneurs many Americans of Muslim faith are, would be attracted to the Republicans.
It would be easy to see what's going on on YouTube and just think it would be safer not to participate at all. I admire the people in this video for standing up to bullies.
Although my cynical side feels that in the absence of a cute Kurdish girl, it would not have gone down in such a Frank Capra way.
October 21, 2008
Some Ideas
Palin's Cat (lolz)
Also: Palin's Cat for League Champion
Domestic Terriers
Warped Frustrated Old Men
