Tuesday, July 20, 2010
more politics.....
so, i just got done watching "fall from grace" a documentary about the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka Kansas. You might know them from their picket signs: GOD HATES FAGS, THANK GOD FOR IED's, etc. before i start, let me get one thing strait, I COMPLETELY DISAGREE WITH WHAT THESE PEOPLE ARE SAYING. IT'S STUBBORN, IGNORANT, CHILDISH, FOOLISH, AND GOES AGAINST EVERY FIBER OF MY BEING. However, what i do agree with is their act of picketing for a cause they believe. no one does that anymore. no one really stands up for what they believe. Obama sort of lucked into the presidency, because a huge percentage of the country was anti-republican at the time, and the country wasn't/isn't ready for a woman president, so he was basically a shoe in. in any case, Fred Phelps (i dont really care if i spelled it right or not, you know who i'm talking about), is screaming at the top of his lungs, something that he believes. its a very very (very very) small opinion, but he's voicing it so loudly, it sounds bigger than it is. what ever happened to that in america? what ever happened to standing up for what you believe. this is what this country was founded on! this is why this country was created! so anyone and everyone could have a place to come and voice their opinion, without being chastised, or thrown in jail, or killed for it. i mean, have you read the declaration of independence? that was the colonies standing up for what they believed in! they weren't gonna take the subjugation and the manipulation any longer! so they stood up, picketed, yelled at the top of their lungs for what they believed in, and founded a country, and defended that country, so they could have that right. i think we all need to start picketing for what we believe. we dont do that any more, we dont act! we blog! (ironic, i know). but i mean, cmon! the tea partiers are picketing for........what ever it is they believe, but Pastor (can you call him a pastor if the church is comprised solely of his own family?) Phelps is specific in his intent, though its widened in the few previous years, but he's still out there, old timer that he is, and i celebrate his right to protest. i hate what he's preaching, i think it goes against everything he claims to stand for, but the theological argument is what it is. but he's doing what he's doing because this is america! he's here, and he's not leaving. know why? b/c this shit would never fly in europe, or asia, or africa. France is trying to get rid of the burka for pete's sake, you think religious intolerance is gonna fly over there? theyre trying to do away with religion entirely! asia is all buddhists who wouldnt listen, and in africa, they'd probably just shoot them. (fingers crossed! jk, jk). that's why he hasn't gone to canada, or mexico, or Britain, or France, or germany. because in america, we give you the right to say what you want, no matter what. whether it's god hates fags, or god hates Phelps'. Thank the forefathers next time you see a picture of them, besides, they're the ones footing the bill.
lets talk politics.....
theres a few things that i've been wanting to say lately, and i finally have time to:
1. i really hate how messed up the world is. i hate how people lie, and cheat, and do all these horrible things, to get these ridiculous lifestyles, that they know deep down is all hollow. i dont want to name names, because i'm not that kinda of finger pointer, people know when what they did was wrong whether they want to admit or not. i'm just pissed how people can put up this facade of peaches and sunshine one minute, and then turn around and go and do something mean, horrible, or downright sinister. it just blows my mind, every time i hear about it.
2. the war is over. get over it. let me explain: a few months ago (see its been a LONG time since i've had time. its funny how working to get a job affords you less time than actually having one, see there i go again, down a side street!). anyways, a few months ago, i had the pleasure of my great uncle staying with us for a while. now he's.....75-80ish? "Greatest generation" age, anyways, and i know i've said this before in my posts, but they have no grasp on the world, which is highly unfortunate, b/c they run it. so we're sitting down to dinner, and he asks me, "what is facebook?" Child of the digital age that i am, i answered promptly and intelligently:
"Facebook is a social networking site to (re)connect with friends, relatives, classmates, etc. there's also many levels of depth to which one can create themselves, or can find out about other people, and you can play games, watch videos, etc." he says "huh." (like an agreeing sort of huh). and then he asks me: "Does facebook make t-shirts?" which not only caught me off guard, it caught me WAY off guard. i had no idea what he was trying to get at. so i tried to respond in a way that i thought i could explain it to him better i guess? i dont know, but i said "well, not technically, but you can advertise for them on Facebook", to which he replied "does facebook make t-shirts." "no" i replied, utterly defeated only because i had no idea what point he was trying to get at or make or w/e. and he said, "ok then.....he eats a bite and starts in again, "cause you know who is makin' t-shirts" (now i really had no idea where this was going) "China."......after picking up my jaw off the floor, i responded with the only idea i had: "China?!?!?" he responds: "China. and russia too, and you know what? i hope we have the biggest baddest army because they'll the ones who are running this country if we don't." (now up until then, i had a childlike respect and admiration for this man. he's raised 4(5? lots of family on that side) great kids, who have grown up and raised kids of their own. he's rich, he's faced adversity (he lost his wife to cancer), and he's come out on the other side well adjusted, intelligent, and up until he said that, level headed. At which point i responded with "war? you think war is the only answer?" "Absolutely" "the ONLY answer?" "Yup." at this point i realized he wasn't going to change his opinion, and trying to explain the future of our nation, our planet, and our race, was worse than shouting at the rain. so i simply kept my mouth shut, and agreed with everything he said, with the full knowledge that i could tell it to you folks, and you'd "listen". had he not been my uber superior, relative, and my great gma not been sitting there, my retort would have been: The war is over. ww2. the cold war. its all over. its time to embrace the "global village" view of the universe, or perish with the total destruction you will likely propigate through the world if you continue to follow this pathway. the human race no longer has the luxury to get mad. because if we get "mad" we get M.A.D. Mutually Assured Destruction. during the cold war we set up a system of dominoes that would literally end life on this planet as we know it. after ww2, America was the baddest band in the land. we had almost single handedly defeated the japanese in the pacific, and it was the American boost in Europe that finally turned the tide of the war. so for the second time in half a century, we were the winners of a "global war". and we had unleashed the greatest power known to human kind up to that point: Nuclear energy. there was no reason we shouldn't have felt that way. i mean, america had tried to stay out of the first world war, and only joined it because U-boats were sinking american ships in the atlantic, and the president was forced to respond with swift actions. we also tried to stay out of ww2 (though we were supplying europe with guns and ammo, etc. (but secretly of course)). with the communication between hitler and mexico, and then Pearl Harbor, we were absolutely forced to step in and intervene on behalf of good people everywhere. so after the war is over, we are the biggest kids on the block, with the most killer toys. and anyone who's ever owned the first of anything on the block knows, people gonna try and steal that shit. or try to build their own. enter 1949, and Stalin explodes his own nuclear weapon, and the flag drops for the arms race. we had just seen "evil" spread all across europe. and to most americans, "nazisim" and "communism" might as well be interchangeable for "evil" and "anti-american". there wasn't the internet back then, there wasnt cell phones. there was no way to get information in or out of "3rd world" countries. (it makes me sick that that term is still used by the way, there is no 1st or 2nd anymore, there shouldnt be a 3rd.) i'm starting to trail here, lets refocus. the war is over. total win isnt an option anymore. it hasnt been since ww2. because the "last verse" is the "a-bomb" and the fallout from that was soo mind meltingly horrific, that people dont want to do it anymore, for social, political, and basic instinctual reasons. (why isnt american running on nuclear power i wonder? 4 words: Chernobyl, and Three Mile Island). Total win wasnt an option in korea, not in vietnam, not in the persian gulf, and it isnt now. thats the problem no one realizes. you can't just bomb the shit out of a country any more, and expect to walk away unscathed, either emotionally, psychologically, or physically. people are still feeling the effects of the nuclear explosions over the last 65 years. there were millions of innocent lives lost to nuclear explosions (accidental or intentional), and the american conscience realizes that now. we bombed the japanese because we didnt care about them. they were different from us. either not as smart, or just "foreign." why didnt germany get the a-bomb? because they didnt "start a fight" with us. whats the other reason? "germany" was innocent, "hitler and the Nazi's" were guilty. their eradication gave the rest of germany amnesty in the global scene. the war is over. you can't just fight your way into another country (iraq and afganistan hasn't stuck well has it?). the american public doesnt like it, the global public doesnt like it, and its simply bad for business all around. china will not invade us. neither will russia. we are all in this together. the global economy needs trade, the global political status needs heroes and villians, and the world simply needs peace, at least a majority in the world anways.
3. gosh that was alot, still with me, just a few more things i wanna say, then you can go to sleep:
daft punk is awesome, why have i not heard them more? dont know, dont care, they're in my itunes now, and thats all that matters
4. theres no such thing as good and evil anymore, people need to wake up and realize this. god isnt some anthropomorphic prick up in "heaven" making the rains and deciding who lives and dies on a whim. "god's plan" is such a crock of shit i get physically disturbed when i hear people say it. i get even more disturbed when those people are on tv (Joel Osteen!). i am not saying the universe is completely random and its basic chance that i'm even typing this right now, we can sit down and discuss intelligent design and all that theological "garbage" later if you want, but what i'm saying is, good and evil are relative concepts, and they dont mean anything without something else to compare them with. snow white isnt a princess without the evil queen. hitler isnt such a dick with out churchill, Roosevelt and stalin to compare to, (another history lesson we can discuss later, personal lives of those 4 men are very interesting, lying, cheating drinking smoking, and std's!) why did the joker in the Dark Knight seam so real life, and engaging? because a good actor knows that any believable villain thinks what they are doing is "the right thing". we as 3rd party observers see something like the Dark Knight and say, Batman is good, because he is standing up for justice, and he is saving people's lives. where as the Joker is bad, because is creating injustice, stealing, and killing people. (we say this (usually) without the full knowledge that "justice", "stealing", "lying", and "killing people" are not only relative, but have been considered "the right thing to do" multiple times in history, even by the great civilizations). so stop using good and evil as political terms. technically the best they can be is adjectives, in the world of english lit. practical quantifiers they are not.
5...almost forgot what number i was on. J.J. abrams has mastered the art of the teaser trailer. you could almost teach a class in film, sociology, and pop culture from his work. it goes back to Cloverfield. anyone who saw the first Transformers in theatres that summer, remembers sitting in the theatres, jaws agape from seeing the head of the statue of liberty crashing through the street on a handy-cam. after going online after the movie (or during, which was just starting out at the time), all we had was the date, and this mind blowing trailer. when the movie finally did come out, Mr. Abrams slapped our geek heads around again by releasing a teaser for his star trek reboot, before the movie he promoted with a teaser. well, the Lost creator (and general american geek brain melter), has done it again, with Super 8. (http://super-8.movie-trailer.com/). this looks insane! but alas, its just a teaser, so of course, no one has idea what its really about. will there be another loop into a teaser in front of super 8? who knows we gotta wait til it comes out!!!
6. Sarah Palin. i respect sarah palin, b/c she is one thing that washington (or america at large for that matter), doesnt have enough of. She's an honest politician. i respect her for being honest. shes also about as intelligent as a wet 2by4. she is dumb as a bag of hammers. the words coming from her mouth barely belong to the same sentence, let alone idea. but she's honest.
7. Danika Patrick. if i hear one more person complain about "a girl" in Nascar, i'm gonna bash someones head in with a brick. I'm serious. Stop complaining!!!! barring all the socio-political crap about equality for women, and greater acceptance and stuff (which i totally agree with b.t.w.), shes HOT! have you seen a picture of a redneck and a hot girl, no you have not! if the athletes of that sport reflected the fans of that sport. Danika Patrick would be a 250lb balding woman, with more children than fingers, and more fingers than teeth. so leave the woman alone, let her do what she wants to do, and go to godaddy.com. (sorta worth it).
8................ok. cant think of anything else now. but i feel really good. even if no one reads this, i dont care, bc now its not rolling around in my head anymore, and i can fill it with more crap for next time! alas, good night!
1. i really hate how messed up the world is. i hate how people lie, and cheat, and do all these horrible things, to get these ridiculous lifestyles, that they know deep down is all hollow. i dont want to name names, because i'm not that kinda of finger pointer, people know when what they did was wrong whether they want to admit or not. i'm just pissed how people can put up this facade of peaches and sunshine one minute, and then turn around and go and do something mean, horrible, or downright sinister. it just blows my mind, every time i hear about it.
2. the war is over. get over it. let me explain: a few months ago (see its been a LONG time since i've had time. its funny how working to get a job affords you less time than actually having one, see there i go again, down a side street!). anyways, a few months ago, i had the pleasure of my great uncle staying with us for a while. now he's.....75-80ish? "Greatest generation" age, anyways, and i know i've said this before in my posts, but they have no grasp on the world, which is highly unfortunate, b/c they run it. so we're sitting down to dinner, and he asks me, "what is facebook?" Child of the digital age that i am, i answered promptly and intelligently:
"Facebook is a social networking site to (re)connect with friends, relatives, classmates, etc. there's also many levels of depth to which one can create themselves, or can find out about other people, and you can play games, watch videos, etc." he says "huh." (like an agreeing sort of huh). and then he asks me: "Does facebook make t-shirts?" which not only caught me off guard, it caught me WAY off guard. i had no idea what he was trying to get at. so i tried to respond in a way that i thought i could explain it to him better i guess? i dont know, but i said "well, not technically, but you can advertise for them on Facebook", to which he replied "does facebook make t-shirts." "no" i replied, utterly defeated only because i had no idea what point he was trying to get at or make or w/e. and he said, "ok then.....he eats a bite and starts in again, "cause you know who is makin' t-shirts" (now i really had no idea where this was going) "China."......after picking up my jaw off the floor, i responded with the only idea i had: "China?!?!?" he responds: "China. and russia too, and you know what? i hope we have the biggest baddest army because they'll the ones who are running this country if we don't." (now up until then, i had a childlike respect and admiration for this man. he's raised 4(5? lots of family on that side) great kids, who have grown up and raised kids of their own. he's rich, he's faced adversity (he lost his wife to cancer), and he's come out on the other side well adjusted, intelligent, and up until he said that, level headed. At which point i responded with "war? you think war is the only answer?" "Absolutely" "the ONLY answer?" "Yup." at this point i realized he wasn't going to change his opinion, and trying to explain the future of our nation, our planet, and our race, was worse than shouting at the rain. so i simply kept my mouth shut, and agreed with everything he said, with the full knowledge that i could tell it to you folks, and you'd "listen". had he not been my uber superior, relative, and my great gma not been sitting there, my retort would have been: The war is over. ww2. the cold war. its all over. its time to embrace the "global village" view of the universe, or perish with the total destruction you will likely propigate through the world if you continue to follow this pathway. the human race no longer has the luxury to get mad. because if we get "mad" we get M.A.D. Mutually Assured Destruction. during the cold war we set up a system of dominoes that would literally end life on this planet as we know it. after ww2, America was the baddest band in the land. we had almost single handedly defeated the japanese in the pacific, and it was the American boost in Europe that finally turned the tide of the war. so for the second time in half a century, we were the winners of a "global war". and we had unleashed the greatest power known to human kind up to that point: Nuclear energy. there was no reason we shouldn't have felt that way. i mean, america had tried to stay out of the first world war, and only joined it because U-boats were sinking american ships in the atlantic, and the president was forced to respond with swift actions. we also tried to stay out of ww2 (though we were supplying europe with guns and ammo, etc. (but secretly of course)). with the communication between hitler and mexico, and then Pearl Harbor, we were absolutely forced to step in and intervene on behalf of good people everywhere. so after the war is over, we are the biggest kids on the block, with the most killer toys. and anyone who's ever owned the first of anything on the block knows, people gonna try and steal that shit. or try to build their own. enter 1949, and Stalin explodes his own nuclear weapon, and the flag drops for the arms race. we had just seen "evil" spread all across europe. and to most americans, "nazisim" and "communism" might as well be interchangeable for "evil" and "anti-american". there wasn't the internet back then, there wasnt cell phones. there was no way to get information in or out of "3rd world" countries. (it makes me sick that that term is still used by the way, there is no 1st or 2nd anymore, there shouldnt be a 3rd.) i'm starting to trail here, lets refocus. the war is over. total win isnt an option anymore. it hasnt been since ww2. because the "last verse" is the "a-bomb" and the fallout from that was soo mind meltingly horrific, that people dont want to do it anymore, for social, political, and basic instinctual reasons. (why isnt american running on nuclear power i wonder? 4 words: Chernobyl, and Three Mile Island). Total win wasnt an option in korea, not in vietnam, not in the persian gulf, and it isnt now. thats the problem no one realizes. you can't just bomb the shit out of a country any more, and expect to walk away unscathed, either emotionally, psychologically, or physically. people are still feeling the effects of the nuclear explosions over the last 65 years. there were millions of innocent lives lost to nuclear explosions (accidental or intentional), and the american conscience realizes that now. we bombed the japanese because we didnt care about them. they were different from us. either not as smart, or just "foreign." why didnt germany get the a-bomb? because they didnt "start a fight" with us. whats the other reason? "germany" was innocent, "hitler and the Nazi's" were guilty. their eradication gave the rest of germany amnesty in the global scene. the war is over. you can't just fight your way into another country (iraq and afganistan hasn't stuck well has it?). the american public doesnt like it, the global public doesnt like it, and its simply bad for business all around. china will not invade us. neither will russia. we are all in this together. the global economy needs trade, the global political status needs heroes and villians, and the world simply needs peace, at least a majority in the world anways.
3. gosh that was alot, still with me, just a few more things i wanna say, then you can go to sleep:
daft punk is awesome, why have i not heard them more? dont know, dont care, they're in my itunes now, and thats all that matters
4. theres no such thing as good and evil anymore, people need to wake up and realize this. god isnt some anthropomorphic prick up in "heaven" making the rains and deciding who lives and dies on a whim. "god's plan" is such a crock of shit i get physically disturbed when i hear people say it. i get even more disturbed when those people are on tv (Joel Osteen!). i am not saying the universe is completely random and its basic chance that i'm even typing this right now, we can sit down and discuss intelligent design and all that theological "garbage" later if you want, but what i'm saying is, good and evil are relative concepts, and they dont mean anything without something else to compare them with. snow white isnt a princess without the evil queen. hitler isnt such a dick with out churchill, Roosevelt and stalin to compare to, (another history lesson we can discuss later, personal lives of those 4 men are very interesting, lying, cheating drinking smoking, and std's!) why did the joker in the Dark Knight seam so real life, and engaging? because a good actor knows that any believable villain thinks what they are doing is "the right thing". we as 3rd party observers see something like the Dark Knight and say, Batman is good, because he is standing up for justice, and he is saving people's lives. where as the Joker is bad, because is creating injustice, stealing, and killing people. (we say this (usually) without the full knowledge that "justice", "stealing", "lying", and "killing people" are not only relative, but have been considered "the right thing to do" multiple times in history, even by the great civilizations). so stop using good and evil as political terms. technically the best they can be is adjectives, in the world of english lit. practical quantifiers they are not.
5...almost forgot what number i was on. J.J. abrams has mastered the art of the teaser trailer. you could almost teach a class in film, sociology, and pop culture from his work. it goes back to Cloverfield. anyone who saw the first Transformers in theatres that summer, remembers sitting in the theatres, jaws agape from seeing the head of the statue of liberty crashing through the street on a handy-cam. after going online after the movie (or during, which was just starting out at the time), all we had was the date, and this mind blowing trailer. when the movie finally did come out, Mr. Abrams slapped our geek heads around again by releasing a teaser for his star trek reboot, before the movie he promoted with a teaser. well, the Lost creator (and general american geek brain melter), has done it again, with Super 8. (http://super-8.movie-trailer.com/). this looks insane! but alas, its just a teaser, so of course, no one has idea what its really about. will there be another loop into a teaser in front of super 8? who knows we gotta wait til it comes out!!!
6. Sarah Palin. i respect sarah palin, b/c she is one thing that washington (or america at large for that matter), doesnt have enough of. She's an honest politician. i respect her for being honest. shes also about as intelligent as a wet 2by4. she is dumb as a bag of hammers. the words coming from her mouth barely belong to the same sentence, let alone idea. but she's honest.
7. Danika Patrick. if i hear one more person complain about "a girl" in Nascar, i'm gonna bash someones head in with a brick. I'm serious. Stop complaining!!!! barring all the socio-political crap about equality for women, and greater acceptance and stuff (which i totally agree with b.t.w.), shes HOT! have you seen a picture of a redneck and a hot girl, no you have not! if the athletes of that sport reflected the fans of that sport. Danika Patrick would be a 250lb balding woman, with more children than fingers, and more fingers than teeth. so leave the woman alone, let her do what she wants to do, and go to godaddy.com. (sorta worth it).
8................ok. cant think of anything else now. but i feel really good. even if no one reads this, i dont care, bc now its not rolling around in my head anymore, and i can fill it with more crap for next time! alas, good night!
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