Many wars are being waged right now. The war on terror, the war on drugs, and the war on so on and so forth. If you ask almost anyone if war is good or bad they will say it is bad. War is not a good thing, people die and its horrible. I think that sometimes republicans have a crazy notion in their mind that if they hear another republican talking and he doesn't come off like the guy on that history channel show "Mail Call" they are not a real republican. That way of thinking is not smart. I should stipulate that hating war in general should be universal. I don't think that it is good if anyone likes war, actually that is a sick and twisted thing if you actually like war. But hating this war, hating this president, and hating the administration is not a productive road to head down and it only leads to what we have witnessed since the 2000 election, political divide.
You can disagree with the President and not like his policy, but downright hatred of him is idiotic. Personally I don't like war I hate anything where good men and women have to die. But I do think that we are justified in waging war on Iraq/Saddam and Afghanistan. Saddam broke the laws that he agreed to follow far to many times and Afghanistan was the home to the people that attacked us on 9/11. In Iraq things have gone wrong, I realize that. We had bad intelligence. We haven't utilized everything that we have militarily and we put to many restrictions on our troops. If you sent Rocky Marciano into the ring with one hand tied behind his back he wouldn't have a good fight. But after all of this I still think that our mission is good and of worth to achieve. Why? you ask.
I pulled into a parking lot today and I saw a car that had some bumper stickers that were anti-President Bush and anti republican. I to have some bumper stickers (far less idiotic than this persons) on my car, none the less mine don't share the same point of view. I would love it if the people in Iraq could have this. It brought me joy to see that this person has the right to say what she wants to say.
There is a war of irrational ideas going on in America right now and that war needs to stop. I have no problem with a rational pool of ideas that are thought upon and debated by the people and our government. But irrational thought and spontaneous emotional actions will only lead you into a dead end. It desperately needs to stop in Iraq as well as here at home. Granted the degree that we make our emotional decisions on is not as harsh as the people in Iraq, none the less emotion plays a huge part in what the terrorists in Iraq do and I don't want it to get that far in America. I am not saying that emotion should not be present in the decision making process I am just simply saying that people need to think before they spew their ideas.
Freedom is a great and significant cause in the world and worth fighting for. Just like we did in the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and in WW2. In all of those wars freedom of some kind was at stake or in jeopardy. And in Iraq freedom was not only at stake it was abolished. Anyone that says that Iraq was better under the rule of the killer and dictator Saddam needs to really re-think their position and fill up their empty head with common sense. Freedom is universal and should be able to be felt by everyone on this earth. Fighting for it is not wrong. Whether we went into Iraq for weapons of mass destruction or not we went in on the basis that someones freedom was in jeopardy.
Everyone needs to know this , most of the time you will not change a persons opinion about any political issue, especially if you are trying to ram it down their throat like so many wacko activists do in this country. Be smart, thoughtful and remember to share a viable opinion with someone rather than fighting with a knife of activism.
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Top 10 Puppets
It is time for everyone to cut the strings that bind them to their pride in their ideals and admit when you are wrong or have said something false. If you make the list it is not a good thing. It means that you are a cheerleader for a certain idea rather than an intellectual thought that is clear. I will admit that sometimes I might fall under that category of cheerleader or person for a certain ideal, but the very fact that I have come to terms with this and I can admit that it happens leads me to believe that I am exempt. The people that I am talking about are people that make a living or get unwarranted recognition from their stupidity and/or their ignorance.
10. Drivers
Everyone that drives in this country at one time or another will make a mistake whether they know it or not. The funny thing about people that drive is that they are some how attached to the idea that everything that they do good or bad is justifiable, but if someone does it to them they are the worst driver in the world. I fall under this category sometimes. How many times have you heard people say “nobody knows how to drive”. So in this case people are puppets to some strange thought process that they are the best drivers, when the truth is they are not.
9. Talk Radio Hosts
Talk radio is a great thing and it is a good place for the right to counter punch the left leaning media. But there is a problem in talk radio that needs to be explored. It is important that this is mentioned. Talk radio is entertainment, in other words it is news related items that entertain a certain position on any one subject, it is in no way shape or form journalism, it is one huge editorial. The problem starts when you get to people that tied down to their political party. Most of the time these people cater to republican ideals only. So in other words if a republican said that jumping off a bridge was the right thing to do they would support that opinion. I think that that is a very bad and dangerous road to go down, because you are only digging yourself a hole that you will eventually fall in. It is crucial to point out that there are Democrats (notice I am not using the term left or liberal because this specially refers to people agreeing with a party’s side) that do this too but there are more republicans.
8. The Music Industry
This industry is one that consists of many left leaning people even communists at some points in history. The sad thing is coming from a person like me who loves music from all people, the left puts out some of the best music. CCR, Springsteen, Young and many more. I am hesitant to put Bob Dylan in that list (see next item). The music industry like the news industry caters to the far left for a reason that is unknown. Probably because music is artistic and a lot of artistic thinkers tend to sway left but that is slightly erroneous and a blanket answer that generalizes to much. In the case of the music industry the artists are puppets to their own ideology that in a lot of cases most people do not want to hear anyway. Given the exact perfect timing and the exact perfect wording sometimes it may work, but not very often. For the very reason that I am against my blanket statement, it is the same reason that I am against what comes out of musicians, which is usually one-dimensional thoughts about war and peace that have no artistic value and are nothing more than people trying to force an idea down your throat.
7. Bob Dylan
This is the one time that I was talking about in the last item, he wrote and made his music at the exact perfect time. Bob Dylan is used and abused by so many people that it is ridiculous. In fact I am probably doing it here. There are websites out there that are only about Dylan stuff and for some odd reason they feel the need to post topics on these sites and in articles about artists that come from the left. It is not uncommon to see the Dixie Chicks and Bob Dylan in the same article or website. Just because the Dixie Chicks don’t like the President they are suddenly right up there with Dylan. For anyone that likes him that is Dylan blasphemy. Through out his career people have been trying to push him into corners claiming that he is something that he is not and time and time again he refutes them but they keep on coming like hungry rats. It really makes me sick and that is why I try not to make him out to be anything other than himself. When you go to read articles about the man the writers for some odd reason think they need to place words in some poetic or artistic form like they are trying to emulate his writing. This is sad because people have chained him down and tied the strings on to his arms and legs and he keeps cutting them off but he is not fast enough. He is a huge puppet that people use. They use him to talk about things pertaining to the right and the left. And that it is quite sad. Quoting him and using him as an example for something is fine but when you start grouping him with people that he doesn’t group himself with leave it alone.
6. Americas “World News”
World news in and of itself is a strange dichotomy because in news media there is a target audience and usually that target market is the country that you are broadcasting from, but for some reason it doesn’t work that way in America. For some odd reason in an attempt to get attention or ratings (which has proven itself useless) the news networks in America consistently provide news that denigrates the country. I have said it before and I will say it again, it comes from the Cronkite syndrome, a strange way of trying to appeal to people the same way Cronkite did during the Vietnam War. In this case the news companies are puppets to a strange marketing technique that try’s to appeal to the left and provides shock value, which doesn‘t surprise me because a liberal thought process (liberal is used literally) will almost all of the time give you some added shock value.
5. Movie and Television Industry
The emergence of a strange new movie and television industry that caters to the left, feminization and societal degradation is fairly sad. It constantly denigrates men, the family, decent human values and heroics. It is not even that they are pushing anti-hero’s it is down right dummying down of all of the aforementioned. Saying feminization is not a hit on women either, it is a hit on the writers that make men have no place in a family setting other than occupying a place on a script as a comedic whipping post. There are no more Cliff Huxtable’s, Alan Seaver’s, Rocky Balboa’s or John Wayne’s there are men that are clueless and sometimes even women that have no idea what is going on in their own lives and families. And people wonder why the role model is dead. There are some movies and shows out there that are good like “24” and the new “Rocky Balboa” but overwhelmingly they are not good and nothing new ever comes out of these people. They are puppets to societal pressure.
4. Religious Groups
I am referring to strange groups that claim to be Christian groups when they are nothing of the sort, they are “religious” and they do certain customs that are not lined out in the Bible at all. These are religions that are on the verge of being cults. I need not mention them we all know who they are. What I will do is coming from a Christian perspective I will tell you what they are not. They do not kill people they don’t agree with. They do not believe in any certain dress codes or weird things that you have to DO in order to get to heaven. They will not force you to DO anything and they will not insert their own worldly ideals into their teachings. These people are puppets to ideas that come out of thin air. There is a big difference between religion and faith in God. Religion seeks out to force you to do things to get somewhere, but faith says that (if you have any) doing what needs to be done will come naturally.
3. Educators
Educators are some of the worst people to talk to about governmental affairs. They will always say that education is the only way a person can get anywhere in life and that is totally and unequivocally false. In this day and age college is nothing more than a hot bed for sex and drunkenness and a place where teachers use their classrooms as pulpits instilling people with ideals and that is not conducive to a healthy learning experience. They are puppets to the idea that knowledge is the same as wisdom, and that with education you are unstoppable when that is totally false.
2. Government
The government is something that has to be restricted by its people. The government in America is slowly gaining power that it should not have. For example judges are making decisions for the people and that is not the foundation of freedom that America was based upon. The people know what is best for the people. The only thing the government should be a puppet to is the people, but they are puppets to power.
1. You and Me
We are all puppets to our own thoughts and ideas. I am a puppet to me and you are a puppet to you and that is the irony of it all, no one person can ever come from a totally unbiased position. They will always be dangling their ideas and conclusions in front of your face like a puppet. We are all puppeteers.
10. Drivers
Everyone that drives in this country at one time or another will make a mistake whether they know it or not. The funny thing about people that drive is that they are some how attached to the idea that everything that they do good or bad is justifiable, but if someone does it to them they are the worst driver in the world. I fall under this category sometimes. How many times have you heard people say “nobody knows how to drive”. So in this case people are puppets to some strange thought process that they are the best drivers, when the truth is they are not.
9. Talk Radio Hosts
Talk radio is a great thing and it is a good place for the right to counter punch the left leaning media. But there is a problem in talk radio that needs to be explored. It is important that this is mentioned. Talk radio is entertainment, in other words it is news related items that entertain a certain position on any one subject, it is in no way shape or form journalism, it is one huge editorial. The problem starts when you get to people that tied down to their political party. Most of the time these people cater to republican ideals only. So in other words if a republican said that jumping off a bridge was the right thing to do they would support that opinion. I think that that is a very bad and dangerous road to go down, because you are only digging yourself a hole that you will eventually fall in. It is crucial to point out that there are Democrats (notice I am not using the term left or liberal because this specially refers to people agreeing with a party’s side) that do this too but there are more republicans.
8. The Music Industry
This industry is one that consists of many left leaning people even communists at some points in history. The sad thing is coming from a person like me who loves music from all people, the left puts out some of the best music. CCR, Springsteen, Young and many more. I am hesitant to put Bob Dylan in that list (see next item). The music industry like the news industry caters to the far left for a reason that is unknown. Probably because music is artistic and a lot of artistic thinkers tend to sway left but that is slightly erroneous and a blanket answer that generalizes to much. In the case of the music industry the artists are puppets to their own ideology that in a lot of cases most people do not want to hear anyway. Given the exact perfect timing and the exact perfect wording sometimes it may work, but not very often. For the very reason that I am against my blanket statement, it is the same reason that I am against what comes out of musicians, which is usually one-dimensional thoughts about war and peace that have no artistic value and are nothing more than people trying to force an idea down your throat.
7. Bob Dylan
This is the one time that I was talking about in the last item, he wrote and made his music at the exact perfect time. Bob Dylan is used and abused by so many people that it is ridiculous. In fact I am probably doing it here. There are websites out there that are only about Dylan stuff and for some odd reason they feel the need to post topics on these sites and in articles about artists that come from the left. It is not uncommon to see the Dixie Chicks and Bob Dylan in the same article or website. Just because the Dixie Chicks don’t like the President they are suddenly right up there with Dylan. For anyone that likes him that is Dylan blasphemy. Through out his career people have been trying to push him into corners claiming that he is something that he is not and time and time again he refutes them but they keep on coming like hungry rats. It really makes me sick and that is why I try not to make him out to be anything other than himself. When you go to read articles about the man the writers for some odd reason think they need to place words in some poetic or artistic form like they are trying to emulate his writing. This is sad because people have chained him down and tied the strings on to his arms and legs and he keeps cutting them off but he is not fast enough. He is a huge puppet that people use. They use him to talk about things pertaining to the right and the left. And that it is quite sad. Quoting him and using him as an example for something is fine but when you start grouping him with people that he doesn’t group himself with leave it alone.
6. Americas “World News”
World news in and of itself is a strange dichotomy because in news media there is a target audience and usually that target market is the country that you are broadcasting from, but for some reason it doesn’t work that way in America. For some odd reason in an attempt to get attention or ratings (which has proven itself useless) the news networks in America consistently provide news that denigrates the country. I have said it before and I will say it again, it comes from the Cronkite syndrome, a strange way of trying to appeal to people the same way Cronkite did during the Vietnam War. In this case the news companies are puppets to a strange marketing technique that try’s to appeal to the left and provides shock value, which doesn‘t surprise me because a liberal thought process (liberal is used literally) will almost all of the time give you some added shock value.
5. Movie and Television Industry
The emergence of a strange new movie and television industry that caters to the left, feminization and societal degradation is fairly sad. It constantly denigrates men, the family, decent human values and heroics. It is not even that they are pushing anti-hero’s it is down right dummying down of all of the aforementioned. Saying feminization is not a hit on women either, it is a hit on the writers that make men have no place in a family setting other than occupying a place on a script as a comedic whipping post. There are no more Cliff Huxtable’s, Alan Seaver’s, Rocky Balboa’s or John Wayne’s there are men that are clueless and sometimes even women that have no idea what is going on in their own lives and families. And people wonder why the role model is dead. There are some movies and shows out there that are good like “24” and the new “Rocky Balboa” but overwhelmingly they are not good and nothing new ever comes out of these people. They are puppets to societal pressure.
4. Religious Groups
I am referring to strange groups that claim to be Christian groups when they are nothing of the sort, they are “religious” and they do certain customs that are not lined out in the Bible at all. These are religions that are on the verge of being cults. I need not mention them we all know who they are. What I will do is coming from a Christian perspective I will tell you what they are not. They do not kill people they don’t agree with. They do not believe in any certain dress codes or weird things that you have to DO in order to get to heaven. They will not force you to DO anything and they will not insert their own worldly ideals into their teachings. These people are puppets to ideas that come out of thin air. There is a big difference between religion and faith in God. Religion seeks out to force you to do things to get somewhere, but faith says that (if you have any) doing what needs to be done will come naturally.
3. Educators
Educators are some of the worst people to talk to about governmental affairs. They will always say that education is the only way a person can get anywhere in life and that is totally and unequivocally false. In this day and age college is nothing more than a hot bed for sex and drunkenness and a place where teachers use their classrooms as pulpits instilling people with ideals and that is not conducive to a healthy learning experience. They are puppets to the idea that knowledge is the same as wisdom, and that with education you are unstoppable when that is totally false.
2. Government
The government is something that has to be restricted by its people. The government in America is slowly gaining power that it should not have. For example judges are making decisions for the people and that is not the foundation of freedom that America was based upon. The people know what is best for the people. The only thing the government should be a puppet to is the people, but they are puppets to power.
1. You and Me
We are all puppets to our own thoughts and ideas. I am a puppet to me and you are a puppet to you and that is the irony of it all, no one person can ever come from a totally unbiased position. They will always be dangling their ideas and conclusions in front of your face like a puppet. We are all puppeteers.
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Take Your Headphones Out!
Why should people not be able to wear their iPod's. Democratic Senator Carl Kruger wants to stop people from wearing their iPod's while they are crossing the street. I don't understand who Kruger is protecting. The death of a woman who was wearing the headphones was cited in the senators defense. The problem with this is that if a woman or man wants to wear headphones and put their lives at risk than let them do it! The purpose of the government is not to create laws that protect people from themselves. If this is the norm than why not keep people from using matches you might get burned, keep people from walking with scissors you might get cut, and take all knives out of houses you might get stabbed, somebody might get hurt.
"If you're so involved in your electronic device that you can't see or hear a car coming, this is indicative of a larger problem that requires some sort of enforcement beyond the application of common sense" Said Kruger. People are not paying attention to what they are doing because they cannot hear? We have people that cannot see or hear walking around all of the time, just the other day I saw a visually impaired man walking down the street, his excuse for this law is not viable, common sense is something that people need to acquire and nothing more and nothing needs to be enforced by the government.
No iPod's, hand held video games or anything that can cause a distraction while crossing the street. Again if people want to risk their lives to listen to thirty seconds more of music than let them. I have an iPod and I listen while I ride my bike and I wouldn't want to take my headphones out every time I have to cross the street, I will just look around to see if there are any cars coming.
Our senators and members of our government have to be responsible for keeping us safe and preserving our freedom, not for taking it away.
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Thursday, November 23, 2006
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is maybe one of the more underrated holidays but it still is great. There are a few reasons why it is good.
In no particular order:
1. Thanksgiving is a very American holiday. It is in a way more American than the forth of July. It is almost like Americas birth day.
2. You are not required to give anything other than thanks and yourself. No crazy shopping for things that people may or may not even use. Not to put Christmas shopping down because it is great fun, it just makes thanksgiving a lot less stressful.
3. You get to eat really good food and not feel bad that you are eating alot.
4. It is on a Thursday every year and thats great because you will always have a short week at work.
5. Football.
6. Spending good quality time with your family.
7. A really good time to just thank God for what you have with out putting in a word on what you would llike to have.
8. You feel like you are a part of something. With all of the hussle and bussle of things, traveling and making plans this time of year seems like it can't slow down.
9. Black friday. Even if you don't participate it is fun to hear the stories from the people that do.
10. Christmas is next. That is it, the next holiday is Christmas the best one of them all. The grand finalie and I intend to start the Christmas season tomorrow and live every minute of it to the fullest.
That is all of them.
Happy Thanksgiving and Merry (Early) Christmas!
In no particular order:
1. Thanksgiving is a very American holiday. It is in a way more American than the forth of July. It is almost like Americas birth day.
2. You are not required to give anything other than thanks and yourself. No crazy shopping for things that people may or may not even use. Not to put Christmas shopping down because it is great fun, it just makes thanksgiving a lot less stressful.
3. You get to eat really good food and not feel bad that you are eating alot.
4. It is on a Thursday every year and thats great because you will always have a short week at work.
5. Football.
6. Spending good quality time with your family.
7. A really good time to just thank God for what you have with out putting in a word on what you would llike to have.
8. You feel like you are a part of something. With all of the hussle and bussle of things, traveling and making plans this time of year seems like it can't slow down.
9. Black friday. Even if you don't participate it is fun to hear the stories from the people that do.
10. Christmas is next. That is it, the next holiday is Christmas the best one of them all. The grand finalie and I intend to start the Christmas season tomorrow and live every minute of it to the fullest.
That is all of them.
Happy Thanksgiving and Merry (Early) Christmas!
Monday, November 13, 2006
Freedom Has Gone Up In Smoke
It is back to smoking again. Talking to people on the streets I can see how easily they were misled and fooled by dollar driven facts and IDEAS. Smoking is horrible, it causes cancer, it is the worst thing out there. So ban it, everyone knows that it is bad so get rid of it. And if you are a person that doesn't like big government they got you on this one. In other words if you voted yes on 201 (or what ever number it was in the many states other than Arizona that had similar ballot propositions) and you don't like big government you are walking hypocrisy.
I remember fighting with my sister for many years when I was a kid. We would play a game where you push and pull on a door from either side of it until one or the other broke in to it. When ever you were on the out side and pulling, it was best for you because you could just put your shoe in between the door and the wall and closing it was nearly impossible.
That is what this smoking ban was. It was a foot in the door. Now closing that door again is going to be nearly impossible. They will just push and keep pushing and taxing and tearing away our freedoms one by one until we have none.
You might be thinking that I to am a hypocrite because I say that I want tax cuts, government out of smoking, I'm anti-abortion, and I want to stop letting the government take away our freedom. But on the other hand I don't want our society to be "pro-choice" in other words pro-abortion(refer to previous post you'll get all you need to know). And I am not opposed to taking away the NSA wire taps. First off I have not yet seen or heard of anything other than conspiracies about the wire taps. Second it doesn't prevent you from doing anything it just makes sure that you don't want to kill your neighbor or anybody else in this country. If I ever actually see something significant I will stand humbly corrected, but until that day I still have all of my freedom's. But I can't smoke if I want to where I want to and I am not even a smoker.
With that said, I will say this. If I can get cancer from second had smoke then so be it because I don't care as long as you are free. Freedom in this modern world is hard to come by. You might think that I am weird for saying that but it is true. This country is slowly becoming a country not based on for the people, by the people, but for the people, by the government. Sure we vote and we have a choice, but voting for things that actually restrict freedom is like cutting of both of your hands. If they're gone then what will you vote with?
I remember fighting with my sister for many years when I was a kid. We would play a game where you push and pull on a door from either side of it until one or the other broke in to it. When ever you were on the out side and pulling, it was best for you because you could just put your shoe in between the door and the wall and closing it was nearly impossible.
That is what this smoking ban was. It was a foot in the door. Now closing that door again is going to be nearly impossible. They will just push and keep pushing and taxing and tearing away our freedoms one by one until we have none.
You might be thinking that I to am a hypocrite because I say that I want tax cuts, government out of smoking, I'm anti-abortion, and I want to stop letting the government take away our freedom. But on the other hand I don't want our society to be "pro-choice" in other words pro-abortion(refer to previous post you'll get all you need to know). And I am not opposed to taking away the NSA wire taps. First off I have not yet seen or heard of anything other than conspiracies about the wire taps. Second it doesn't prevent you from doing anything it just makes sure that you don't want to kill your neighbor or anybody else in this country. If I ever actually see something significant I will stand humbly corrected, but until that day I still have all of my freedom's. But I can't smoke if I want to where I want to and I am not even a smoker.
With that said, I will say this. If I can get cancer from second had smoke then so be it because I don't care as long as you are free. Freedom in this modern world is hard to come by. You might think that I am weird for saying that but it is true. This country is slowly becoming a country not based on for the people, by the people, but for the people, by the government. Sure we vote and we have a choice, but voting for things that actually restrict freedom is like cutting of both of your hands. If they're gone then what will you vote with?
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