Let’s talk about the concept of restricting children from being children. Teachers want little boys to act like little girls and little girls to act like little boys. No wonder we have so much gender confusion. Boys must “understand what it must be like to suffer as a woman”… and little girls must take up arms against boys to prove their masculinity. It’s up to the parents to teach their boys to be respectful of girls… and to teach their girls to be strong without feeling animosity towards boys. It’s a bizarre line we tend to step over and it makes no sense to me why we can’t teach both men and women to be independent and not let anyone else break them down into piles of waste. You don’t have to experience tremendous neglect to be a bigger person. You don’t have to HATE in order to be better than you are now. You don’t have to turn your back on others just to prove a point.
In all aspects, our education system tries to tear the family unit apart by either making children disrespect their parents or making boys and girls hate each other based on their natural and inevitable development. In the mean time, it back fires. I’ve seen and heard the garbage coming from teen aged boy’s mouths… absolute disrespect for women and all they want to do is subject them to the humiliations they feel will make them into men. I’ve also seen and heard the garbage coming from teen aged girl’s mouths… the desire to make every boy want them so bad that the male brain explodes. It’s a continual circle of disrespect and shoulders shrug to say “that’s the way it has always been and that’s the way it will always be… eventually they will grow up to LEARN respect for each other”. No… not always.
Its’ a constant battle between male and female and the family unit is to blame often for not teaching their kids how to respect other people. But ultimately, even when parents do teach their children how to behave and how to care for others, the education system tears it down by finding suggestive ways to encourage the ongoing struggle between the sexes, the races, the religions, the family members, the classes… it is an unbelievable undercutting of humanity.
All of this can only lead to not only the family unit falling apart, but our country falling into socialism by causing individuals to be nothing more than one voice against a mass of voices owned and controlled by the government. The more time goes by, the more the true intentions of liberals and democrats come to light. At one point I would not have made such a wide general statement and perhaps I shouldn’t do so now. But just like the fall of journalist and the revelation across the country that they are owned by liberals and democrats, so shall these same liberals and democrats show their true faces. Eventually those who were once proud to say they fell into that category will turn their backs on the extremists and either form their own group or cross the isle to become republicans and/or conservatives.
It isn’t a matter of being liberal or democrat or conservative or republican… it’s a matter of being an American with values that reach to the sky not fester in the gutter.
Be Heard: An MTV Global Discussion With Colin Powell
Secretary Colin L. Powell
Washington, DC
February 14, 2002
QUESTION: I’m wondering, when I talk to my friends about the U.S., we think about how do you feel about representing a country commonly perceived as the Satan of contemporary politics?
SECRETARY POWELL: Seen as what?
QUESTION: As the Satan of contemporary politics.
SECRETARY
POWELL: Satan? Oh. Well, I reject the characterization. Quite the contrary. I think the American people, the United States of America, presents a value system to the rest of the world that is based on democracy, based on economic freedom, based on the individual rights of men and women. That is what has fueled this country of ours for the last 225 years.I think that’s what makes us such as draw for nations around the world. People come to the United States. They come to be educated. They come to become Americans. We are a country of countries, and we touch every country, and every country in the world touches us.
So, far from being the Great Satan, I would say that we are the Great Protector. We have sent men and women from the armed forces of the United States to other parts of the world throughout the past century to put down oppression. We defeated Fascism. We defeated Communism. We saved Europe in World War I and World War II. We were willing to do it, glad to do it. We went to Korea. We went to Vietnam. All in the interest of preserving the rights of people.
And when all those conflicts were over, what did we do? Did we stay and conquer? Did we say” “Okay, we defeated Germany. Now Germany belongs to us? We defeated Japan, so Japan belongs to us”? No. What did we do? We built them up. We gave them democratic systems which they have embraced totally to their soul. And did we ask for any land? No, the only land we ever asked for was enough land to bury our dead. And that is the kind of nation we are. So, far from being the Satan, I think we are the protector of a universal value system that more and more people are recognizing as the correct value system: democracy, economic freedom, the individual rights of men and women to pursue their own destiny. That’s what we stand for, and that’s what we try to help other countries achieve as well.
More found here. (broken link)
This is a great response to an insane accusation. How can we be considered the Satan of contemporary politics… and what the hell are contemporary politics anyway? If anyone is in league with Satan, the terrorist organizations trying to kill innocent people across the world are the ones to wear this label.
In one of his last sermons before his death, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini warned of “three threats” to his vision of Islam: the US, the Jews and women.
Two decades later, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad thinks he has the United States and the Jews in hand – and is moving on the third “enemy.”
Women were the first to demonstrate against Khomeini’s regime with a mass rally in Tehran on March 8, 1979 – less than a month after the mullahs had seized power. Over the next decade, the authorities imprisoned hundreds of thousands of women for varying lengths of time, and executed thousands.
But women continued to fight a regime that deemed them subhuman. Their resistance prevented the mullahs from abrogating pre-revolutionary laws limiting gender discrimination. Thus, women succeeded in keeping their right to vote and win public office.
That sounds like something Satan would want. Satan would be the one to approve of this type of behavior. Khomeini is the one who states it is “his vision” and Ahmadinejad believes in this vision and has moved on to “dealing” with women. Women, as the article states, are deemed subhuman. Anyone or any group who feels it is their right to treat another person as subhuman is not them self human.
In this country, every legal American citizen has the same rights as every other. No where in our laws does it state that we can treat one person from another in a different light. And, as a matter of fact, this slides over into how we treat people who are not American citizens. If that were not true, we would not come to the aide of so many who ask for it.
The fact many people from other countries (lets look towards Europe) feel some sort of evil intention towards America only shows how self righteous they are… why… because many of them would not defend their country and do anything they could to keep it the way it is. They are self serving, self righteous, jealous individuals who point their fingers outwards to avoid eye contact that will reveal them for what they are.
I’m truly sorry if there are people from these same countries who do not fall into this category because they are put there just out of association. But as is true here in America… often the loudest most obnoxious people are the ones that DO NOT speak for all of us and therefore we are all lumped into some horrible ball of garbage. I’ve noticed lately that those who are the loudest in other countries feel the same as the loudest from America… thus it looks like the WHOLE WORLD feels one way. Really? I don’t think so.
What we have happening is a group of loud mouths who think they speak for everyone when in reality they don’t speak for anyone but their own self interests. If they had their way, everyone would live exactly the way they felt was right and, in my book, that’s a dictatorship. Communism is not my way of life.
Example of a landslide election… and it wasn’t in 2008.
President Ronald Reagan gives a thumbs-up to supporters at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles as he celebrates his re-election, Nov. 6, 1984, with first lady Nancy Reagan at his side. Reagan’s win over Walter Mondale, 525 to 13 in the electoral vote and 59 percent to 41 percent in popular votes, was unquestionably a landslide election.
I encourage everyone to watch the videos produced by Zo… he’s very knowledgeable as well as imaginative.
How many people think America is a Democracy? It’s amazing to me but not surprising. I didn’t graduate from High School knowing much of anything about how our government and how our country works. I just sighed and rolled my eyes when we had to discuss things like that. I don’t even know if the teacher was telling me what I needed to know or filling my head with mush. I just didn’t pay that much attention.
America is not a Democracy… we are a Republic.
There are few people who really care about what’s going on with our government, especially those coming out of High School. Oh, there are those graduating who know far more than I do, but the majority of them just want to graduate so they can get on with their lives. So many Americans don’t understand why they SHOULD care about how our government is changing.
As Zo says here… freedom of speech is more about being able to speak out against our government if they become or may become oppressive without the fear of being put in jail or silenced to death. So many Americans think freedom of speech is the ability to just say whatever you want, no matter how shocking (and the more shocking the better) to anyone who will listen. That isn’t what it’s all about.
The subject of gun control is a sensitive subject indeed. Democrats want to ban them… take them out of the hands of American citizens because guns are dangerous. Guns can and sometimes do have a part in criminal activities… but taking them away from citizens will not make that fact any less than it is now.
If they make owning a handgun or any other gun illegal, it will inevitably make it EASIER for criminals to get their hands on guns. It makes no difference if you can buy them at the local gun store or in a back alley. Making a person register their gun has no affect on criminals. When was the last time a criminal went in to a store, registered for a gun, sat back during the waiting process to actually buy the gun and then went out to rob a bank?
They don’t go to the store… they go to the alley.
Making guns illegal will change nothing for criminals… instead there will be more guns made available to them illegally because those selling them will have a lot more on hand.
Banning guns causes law abiding citizens to become criminals merely because they want to protect themselves against the “real” bad guys. Not criminals in that they commit horrible crimes, but instead criminals in the eyes of those who ban guns and cause people to use the same sources criminals use to purchase them.
I agree with Zo in that a person should get the proper training when it comes to shooting a gun and thus, owning one. I also agree that the government has no business knowing whether I own one gun or twenty. So long as I am knowledgeable in the use of them, then how many I have is my business and no one else’s.
I love the mention of trees in this video… liberals continue to tell us that America is a horrible country because we harm the environment. They forget to mention that we are the leading country when it comes to taking care of the environment. We don’t chop down trees and build without consideration of the environment and future generations of Americans. We replant trees in areas where they are cut down… we harvest what is needed and we continue this process generation after generation.
Link to video was removed by the video creator.
Terrorism takes an ugly face and makes it uglier. Masks can’t hide the hideous nature of any man, woman or group of people who find sick pleasure in terrorising others for their own gain.
This year’s election has brought to light what so many of us have known for a long time. Journalism is dead.
TRUE journalism is dead.
The exact hour when the cancer took hold and began it’s twisted erosion of our media is unclear but it wasn’t too long ago that it began to fester.
I remember singing along to Dirty Laundry several years ago and the lyrics were more true than I imagined at that time. Today, the lyrics tell a haunting story of “told ya so”.
“Dirty little secrets Dirty little lies We got our dirty little fingers in everybody’s pie We love to cut you down to size”
When journalists and those who pay them to come up with wonderfully outlandish articles go out of their way to get as much dirt as they can from those individuals who really aren’t bad people, it shows their lack of integrity. When they go out of their way to paint pretty little flowers around the feet of terrorists, it shows their lack of intelligence.
If those in charge of what journalists can and can not report dictate to them that if they do not bring them dirt on those who are not dirty and clean up those who are filthy, they are themselves guilty of creating monsters in the real world.
Journalists have sadly sunken to the level of lawyers… we all know the jokes about lawyers and how underhanded they are. And we all know it isn’t true of all lawyers… somewhere along the line they got a reputation and all were placed in a stereo-type they may never outlive. Thing is… this year’s election has placed the lawyer above the journalist.
Congratulations to those journalists who sunk so low that other “good” journalists must hang their heads in shame and feel embarrassed to speak their own profession.
They hung themselves by their own hypocritical words.
Do you remember the saying “live and let live”? It was a great motto of the 70’s and for everyone who embraced their right to just float around, doing or not doing anything they wanted with anyone they wanted… all the while wanting everyone to be accepted for being them self and still (somehow) taking care of their own basic needs and not relying on society to take care of them (they relied on each other).
Remember that?
I always thought free-thinkers like that were liberals. I didn’t necessarily think that was a bad thing but never really thought much about it either. Although I never spent much time thinking about it, I felt it was their right to feel whatever they wanted. Now many of those same individuals have spent a great deal of their lives making their children feel the same way… “live and let live”.
Sounds wonderful to me. As a matter of fact, I have taught my son that he can be anything he wants and that so long as he gets there honestly, I will always be proud of his achievements. He also knows how to be tolerant of others… but not because I forced it down his throat (not like so many liberals do today). The tolerance he learned was a simple lesson in how to win and lose without making everyone around you feel horrible. You don’t spend your time whining and crying when you lose… you don’t accuse others of cheating or playing an unfair game just because you lost. You don’t spend your time rubbing someone else’s face in the dirt if you win… you don’t destroy their self worth by pointing at them and laughing.
That’s it… to me that lesson teaches all the tolerance a person really needs. If you know how to win and how to lose, you will have accomplished something so many others have not. You will feel joy for those who have done something great even if you have not and you will still feel pride in yourself when you accomplish something and not make everyone around you feel miserable.
… but back to the “live and let live” individuals. It has taken me a long time to realize that many of them have hidden motives behind this freedom of thought ideal. I always thought they included everyone in that motto. Unfortunately, many of them have now moved on into political footholds in our society… politicians, journalists, educators… so many of them have slipped into these once inspiring and proud rolls of our society.
And some of them are frauds… they either didn’t participate in the “live and let live” movement or they just went along for the ride seeing a much bigger way of using the motto for a different agenda.
Now we have the “live and let live so long as it’s the right way” groups and individuals. They want freedoms but primarily for those people who, in their eyes, deserve certain freedoms. They want these freedoms GRANTED to those who follow the special rules they have created. They want freedoms withheld from anyone who disagrees with them and has the audacity to speak up and say something about it. They want all of us to do exactly what they want us to do so they can claim victory over an invisible foe that only they can see.
All the while, they forget that other countries and groups with their own hidden agenda are watching them and amusing themselves of the ignorance that they are enforcing. Not only do they hope everyone will run around with these ideals, they want to then take them and crush them into non-existence. Do you think Islam really loves the fact Obama is in power? Do you think they agree with any of his personal or political points of view? No… what they believe in is the fact that if they can get a very liberal president into power, then they can eventually control him or control the society he creates while in office. It could be they take full advantage next year or they could be patient and wait to see if he gets elected to a second term.
RADARSITE’s: That Other War: Revisited (broken link)
What have we learned about ourselves from this recent fateful presidential election? We learned that a majority of Americans have bought into the concept that America is the problem with the world. We have learned that if we attempt to protect ourselves or fight back against our enemies we will be condemned by the world as aggressors. We have learned that it is our inherent bigotry and racism that is the fundamental cause of the dangerous instability in this world. We have learned that the only way to combat this growing menace to world peace is to ’embrace the other’ and elect a man of color — regardless of his qualifications or character — in order to make a statement to the world that we recognize our national historical guilt and that we are willing, no, determined, to change. To accomodate the world, we will change what it means to be an American. We will be less concerned with our American exceptionalism and more concerned with the needs of the world we live in. We have been guilty of gross arrogance and monumental hubris, and we are willing to make amends.
We have also learned that, for the majority of Americans, the fact that our enemies have not broken down our doors and attacked us in our homes for seven years now proves that they are no longer there. Or if they are there, that they no longer pose the threat to our existence that we once thought they did. 49% of Americans polled during this past election thought that the most serious issue facing this nation was the economy. The next most pertinent issue was terrorism, which was ranked at an inconsequential 9%. Now, the question is this. Does the existential threat to our nation diminish in direct relation to our acknowledgement of it? Have our sworn enemies become less dangerous to us because we refuse to look at them?
They know that a liberal society is much easier to defeat than a conservative society… conservatives will stand up for the rights of liberals while liberals will simply let conservatives drown.
But the terrorists WILL attack. It could be they attack us the same way they did on September 11, 2001 (there have been no successful attacks since then) or they could just continue to attack us through our youth by spending years indoctrinating our children while they are in grade school all the way up to our young adults in American colleges who show intolerance and hatred for others who do not agree with them. (broken link)
“Why do you call me a racist when you don’t even know me?” she screamed. Made no difference. Grossmann was felled by the largest of the four. She hit her head on the brick wall, and staggered back to her dorm. The other three black women at the beating chucked at this dark manifestation of partisan evil. They walked away laughing, offering no help to their victim. The banality of evil had asserted itself. And at four-to-one, it was also a cowardly act of mindless violence which, presumably, the four thought “normal.”
Although I have taught my son tolerance indirectly through how to win and how to lose… I feel that tolerance as our society teaches us is a joke. So many liberals preach tolerance of others who are different and yet they do nothing when students in our colleges are singled out and beaten for being conservative. It’s a joke! It has nothing to do with tolerance and “live and let live”. It has everything to do with dictatorship.
I was playing Monopoly with the family the other night and noticed a parallel to the real world. Not the usual “buy property, get rich” parallel… that ideal doesn’t seem to be as prominent from what the media is telling us. No… this was a parallel of how those who are not as successful as others treat those who are very successful.
Players tend to gang up on the one who is making the most money and has the most properties, etc. It seems a natural instinct to go after the person who is doing well when others are not. Perhaps this is why so many people in the real world feel that the rich should pay a much higher amount than those who don’t make as much. It makes sense from a percentage standpoint but the difference between monopoly and the real world is that there is not a limit to how many people can be successful. In monopoly there are only so many players who can gain so many properties… in America… the possibilities are endless.
Please note… post full of sarcasm… just a little fun.
I did not roll the highest number and was forced to go last out of the starting gate. I rolled a 5 and Arc rolled a 6… but he was sitting to my left and even though I had the 2nd highest roll, I had to go last. This is the first “unfair” part of the game.
Due to the fact Arc rolled the highest number, he was able to accumulate properties right off the bat and was getting the upper hand. I was “unlucky” in my rolls as I did not land on any properties to purchase until my second time around the board… this also was “unfair”.
Our son J began making some shady deals with Arc, thus giving him an early Monopoly with the two properties with the highest rent… again… unfair. I finally got a Monopoly after a little wheeling and dealing with J but ended up with the LOWEST rented properties on the board… again… unfair. What was even more unfair was that only twice did anyone land on those squares and at one point, I was in jail so could not collect. Sigh…
Eventually, our son T lost almost all of his money and was homeless with several mortgaged properties. At one point he started making a come-back and even unmortgaged his properties. This did not last long as Arc had accumulated enough money to put cities on his properties. Unfortunately, T landed on one of those and went completely bankrupt, forcing him out of the game. I too had cities on my properties, but since no one was landing there, it really didn’t matter… plus, my poor business practices of accumulating these stupid properties really wasn’t a consideration… right?
No amount of convincing would get Arc to trade with me so that I could obtain another Monopoly even though he clearly had the best on the board and could afford to give up just “one” card. This was highly unfair… how on earth was I to be able to compete if all options were blocked?
Eventually, J landed on Arc’s properties (about 3 times) and ended up going bankrupt. He did come back from the brink a couple of times and even got his properties back… but alas “the man” stuck it to him and he had to leave the game.
I landed on his properties a couple of times myself but had accumulated quite a bit of money even though the game was so clearly unfair and stacked against me. All during the game we were hoping he would go to jail or have to pay higher taxes or have some other catastrophe happen… but alas his luck did not run out.
Mine, on the other hand, did… although I had accumulated quite a bit by then, I knew that landing on one of his several properties would do me in. Still, he would not trade with me or make any kind of deal… he merely waited for me to fail and hope he could benefit from my crisis. Alas, I landed and went into a great tailspin to my end.
The moral… never play against greedy players.
{dramatic pause}
All kidding aside… we had a great deal of fun playing. This was a lesson in economics and personal beliefs for me. Truly, those of us not doing so well felt that the rich player “had it coming to him” when something bad happened, while those not so rich were ignored and it was okay when they succeeded… but just a little bit. If they began to gain too much, suddenly they were a threat.
Both Arc and J had an interest in gaining great wealth and destroying their opponents. Because of this, it seemed only fair when bad things happened to them. In reality, they were the better negotiators and did a better job of utilizing their wealth to create more wealth. They landed on the same tax squares and pulled the same cards that caused them to put more money into the kitty. But when you’re a player who is drowning, you want all the bad stuff to happen to the player who is not.
So… is this what liberals feel? Do they feel that since a person is wealthy and accumulating money that they must have bad things happen to them in order to make it fair for those who are not doing so well? I’ve read things and heard things and have seen how they delight in the failure of anyone who is just “too wealthy” and “too successful” compared to the guy sitting on his couch watching Jay Leno and reruns of the Flintstones. Clearly sitting on your butt qualifies as trying your best… right?
What rich liberals want is for “other” rich people to give a majority of their fortune to those who are not rich… but specifically anyone who is poor and agrees with liberals. No… I really DO mean that. It doesn’t benefit liberals to give handouts to those who don’t agree with them. You can almost visualize them trying to convince these desperate individuals with a little cash, a wink and a nod.
Another question… how many very rich liberals give significant amounts of money to charities? I’m sure there are some… just as there are rich conservatives who give. But I can tell you one liberal who does not… our new vice president.
… and what was the price of gas where I live today? This is an ongoing research project that I will add to as I find more information.
This chart represents the average retail price of gas where I live during the last 6 months (today is 11/20/08). As you can see, the prices began to fall slowly around August 5th (give or take) and then took a sharp decline around October 7th.
This chart represents the average retail price of gas where I live during the last 36 months (or 3 years). As you can see there was a bit of rollercoaster riding going on with a steady and significant increase February 07 to June 07 and then a dramatic increase February 08 to July 08. Gas around here is usually higher in the spring/summer months but the increase during 2008 was significant as we went from about $2.89 to $4.13 in five months.
Something I found by accident while visiting the Al Gore’s Internet. Basically I was searching for “what caused 911” and came up with several articles blaming George Bush… and even one blaming Ronald Reagan. Seems people want to internalize the blame rather than say “it was the terrorists” or maybe “it was Islam”. For shame!!
I have not researched the accuracy of this article, but found it quite interesting. At a later date, I will do a little research to see if I can find the entire transcript of Mr. Clinton’s speach on 11/12/01. If anyone else finds it, please let me know in the comments. ~thanks~
Clinton: America’s Sins Caused 9/11 (broken link)
By Sam FrancisThere are many good consequences of Bill Clinton no longer being president, but not the least is that at last we can find out what he really thinks. As long as Mr. Clinton was in the White House, getting the truth out of him was like looking for intelligent life on Mars. But last week, after a year of rest and relaxation, the ex-president revealed to a breathless world exactly why America was attacked by terrorists on Sept. 11.
The reason is that it’s all our fault. For hundreds of years we mistreated the Indians, owned slaves and even committed crusading, with the result that the Sept. 11 attacks are the butcher’s bill for our long record of crime and terrorism.
Speaking before an audience of about 1,000 students at Georgetown University, the former president unbosomed an astonishing range of ignorance about various historical events and even more flawed thinking about what the events mean and what they have to do with the Sept. 11 attacks.
“Here in the United States,” he disclosed, “we were founded as a nation that practiced slavery, and slaves quite frequently were killed even though they were innocent.” “This country once looked the other way when a significant number of native Americans were dispossessed and killed to get their land or their mineral rights or because they were thought of as less than fully human…. And we are still paying a price today” for those sins.
Such scholarship already. Mr. Clinton is indeed right that the United States practiced slavery from its beginnings and that some slaves were killed. So did most other societies, European and not, for a lot longer than the United States. We also nabbed Indian land. So did the British, the French, and the Spanish, not to speak of Indians themselves. All that’s true, and you can learn about it, not by attending universities, but simply by watching TV reruns and old movies. Why Arab terrorists should attack us for those deeds today is another question, of course.
As for the morality of it, that’s another story, but if indeed these events were things we should not only be ashamed of but even punished for, as Mr. Clinton implied, then the entire American national experience is illegitimate. Without slavery and the expropriation of the Indians, there would be no America at all, and if you can’t live with the one, you’re not going to be comfortable with the other.
But it’s not just America and its past with which Mr. Clinton is itchy, but the entire record of Western civilization, reaching as far back as the Crusades. “In the first Crusade, when the Christian soldiers took Jerusalem, they first burned a synagogue with 300 Jews in it and proceeded to kill every woman and child who was a Muslim on the Temple Mount. I can tell you that story is still being told today in the Middle East and we are still paying for it.”
Various questions immediately arise. What exactly are “we”—presumably modern Americans—supposed to do about it, since the Crusaders have been dead for about a thousand years? And what could it possibly have to do with contemporary terrorism? Why don’t Jews commit terrorism against us if they’re still talking about it in the Middle East? Why do Middle Easterners commit terrorism against Americans, who weren’t even around during the First Crusade, which took place in 1096?
Ever since Sept. 11 there have been various reasons offered as to why the terrorists attacked us, many of them simply cant constructed to make us look good (they attacked us because we’re a “democracy” or because we practice tolerance and let women go to school) or to avoid blaming U.S. support for Israel lest some people think we should stop doing so. But even these phony rationales attributed to the terrorists argue that we were attacked because of our virtues, and some critics of U.S. foreign policy (such as your servant) believe we were attacked because of our foreign policy in the Middle East generally. But as far as I know, no one has suggested that we had it coming all along—until now.
What Mr. Clinton is telling us is that the West itself, as well as the United States, are so wrapped up in terror themselves that they not only deserve to be attacked by terrorism but also that they are simply not legitimate political and cultural orders—that the West and the United States are inherently criminal and terrorist systems. That, of course, is a profoundly anti-American and anti-Western view, as well as being without historical or ethical merit. But what’s good about Mr. Clinton’s speech is that, after lying to us consistently as president for eight years, he has at last told us what he really thinks.
COPYRIGHT 2001 CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.
Written Novebmer 12, 2001
Take a minute to view the photo in the link below and tell me how much it makes you laugh. Go ahead… check it out.
Tasteless Halloween Costumes of 2008 (broken link)
You laughed, didn’t you… and I do mean you must have laughed really, really hard cause death is just so funny…
Granted, this is not headline news and it’s just a way for this couple to get attention and get their “one day of fame” in the blog world.
“This guy and girl dressed up as one of the twin towers and a plane for Halloween, when the girl was asked if she thought she would offend anyone she replied, “No, it’s cool, my aunt died on the 64th floor, and it was a conspiracy anyway.” Are you kidding me? I’m all for grossly offensive jokes but not when it’s taken THAT far.”
The comments under this picture on the site called The Dirty were angry about this costume… not so much offended for themselves but angry for those who died during the terrorist attack. This site has some, shall we say, questionable photos and people are not offended by much… but this was different.
Question: How is it that since this woman knows someone who died and she thinks it was a conspiracy it’s okay to joke about those who died?
Another Question: Would she dress up to look like her aunt’s killer if she were killed during a home invasion? What if her aunt was run over by a train… would she dress up like a train?
This isn’t a way of honoring someone you love… it’s a way of mocking their death and saying you don’t really give a damn.
Seems to me (and several others) she’s just another inconsiderate person who hasn’t dealt with the truth of the matter… terrorists killed her aunt and if she cared for the woman at all, she would not have dressed up in such a manner.
There are a lot of things people joke about that are really inappropriate but we pooh-pooh them and shrug our shoulders and sometimes even giggle a little. But I don’t see anything humorous about death… I’m not going to laugh at jokes about 911. I’m not going to laugh about the things Hitler did. I’m not going to laugh about thousands of people dying in an earthquake. Death is not funny and if you think it is… truly, get yourself to the hospital and get a lobotomy.
No matter who you happen to think is to blame for the Twin Towers coming down… do you think it’s funny that all those people died?
NOTE: When I first viewed this photo, I was just looking primarily at “her”. Stop and look at “him” and tell me what you see. I’ll tell you what I see… I see that they’ve pasted bodies falling off his costume to imitate the actual victims who jumped out of the building. WOW… somehow that makes this thing just that much FUNNIER, doesn’t it?
~gas where I live @ $1.99 today~
So much is going on… and so much of it just makes the stress on my neck visible from miles away. So… I’m going to have a little “Quick Items of Interest” section for those times when I just can’t say enough but hope others can figure it out on their own.
Item #1
Michigan liberals attack Lansing congregation in the middle of Sunday worship (broken link) – briefly… about 30 “individuals” overran a church in order to shout that “Jesus was gay,” (and other things) as they rushed the stage. Some tried to hang a profane banner while others tossed fliers into the air. Two women began kissing at the pulpit. For props, they used “a video camera, a megaphone, noise makers, condoms, glitter by the bucket load, confetti, pink fabric.” This went on apparently while a “journalist” from the Lansing City Pulse came along as a witness (not bothering to prevent the vandalism or violence).”
~ This type of behavior only enforces how little respect they have for others and how bad it looks for gays everywhere. This is the type of garbage that makes every-day citizens NOT want to speak to gays let alone give them their own special rights… and based on this bit of action, they WANT special rights. Being disrespectful just for the sake of getting attention is childish. By the way… this group of gays does not represent those I have met personally; those I have met would be embarrassed to be associated with this group.~
Item #2
“It’s important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one. ”
~I see… so Obama is now the ruler of the free world, not just the leader. Is anyone else’s blood pressure rising?~
Item #3
And as David Drake mentions here about possible future gas price increases –
“Environmentalists on Monday applauded an announcement that U.S. President-Elect Barack Obama would consider curtailing oil and gas drilling in some areas, and expressed hope future energy policy decisions would contain more environmental protections.”
~I love how people at work keep saying “did you see how low gas was this weekend… it cost me less than $40 to fill my tank!!!”
Not for long ladies, not for long. ~
Item #4
And this one really makes me impressed at how the Democrats or the Liberals or the Left (whatever you want to call them and whomever wants to take credit) respect our CURRENT president.
Proposal Would Rename SF Sewage Plant After Bush (broken link) – “Some residents were only too happy to sign the petition. “It seems like a good way to commemorate one of the people who is the most full of what’s in the sewage plant,” suggested James Chiancini.”
~Luckily there are some who are also appalled. This isn’t humor and it isn’t respectful. I don’t care how much I dislike Bill Clinton… I still don’t feel naming a sewage plant after him is appropriate. Or is it?? ~
Item #5
For those of you who actually made it to the bottom of this post, I would like to share with you something I overheard at work today from the same ladies who are extremely happy about Obama being president. These are not exact quotes because, unlike others, I was actually trying to work [while eavesdropping… :o)… but I couldn’t help it since she was just 5 feet from me].
Today, Lady A said to Lady B that she feels that the extreme wealthy don’t need such an enormous amount of money because they don’t need it to live and having huge homes is really not necessary. She announced in a “quiet whispering like voice” that she’s very close to being socialist and feels that socialism works (using Norway as an example). She thinks that when everyone is in the middle class, then there are no poor people and lots of happy people.
Literally two minutes later, Lady A came back to Lady B to tell a story about a man she knows. This man has to go to court for fighting wherein he was the one who was attacked. He apparently said the wrong things about unions while surrounded by union mambers. The point of her story was to show that it was unfair that he was being charged with “anything” because he wasn’t the one who did the attacking; just the provoking.
Her final words were that it was this man’s right to say these things because of freedom of speech.
{dramatic pause}
So she feels socialism will help everyone live in the middle class, which will make them happy, but also feels freedom of speech is important. Since socialism does not promote the idea of freedom of speech anywhere close to America’s laws, I’m left wondering how she knows that the people living in a socialist society are happy if they can’t speak out against their government (or more than likely, feel helpless to do so).
I’m just say’n…
“The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even one term, but … I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you — we as a people will get there.”
Recovery ‘is not going to be quick’ Obama says (broken link)
He said also that he had consulted with all living former presidents, who were gracious, and joked that “I didn’t want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about, you know, doing any séances.” Nancy Reagan consulted an astrologer while her husband was in the White House. A spokeswoman said Mr. Obama later called Mrs. Reagan to apologize for the joke and that they had a warm conversation.
Mr. Obama left the door open to the possibility that economic conditions might prompt him to change his tax plan that would give a break to most families but raise taxes on those making more than $250,000 annually.
“I think that the plan that we’ve put forward is the right one, but obviously over the next several weeks and months, we’re going to be continuing to take a look at the data and see what’s taking place in the economy as a whole,” he said.
I love this… I love how he can make fun of past presidents or their wives and then rush off to make nice and all is forgiven. Not only was the comment not appropriate, not significant or even necessary… it was false. Nancy Reagan didn’t hold seances, Mr. “I want to be a gaffe-head like Biden” Obama. Perhaps you should check your fact sheet before you open your mouth.
No… it’s nothing worth kicking the man out of office over but you would think he could learn how to be considerate of others and not always try to get in the last laugh. He’s like a comedian struggling during the last 15 minutes of his stand-up show with no material left in his bag.
Please note that what we all know to be true, will indeed be true. IF people making under $250k get this tax break he’s promising, it won’t last long. And we all know that the $250k figure will gradually (or hell, maybe even instantaneously) be lowered. Eventually taxes will increase and everyone will stand with their mouths wide open wondering what just hit them over the head.
To those people living in New York… sorry guys… you just got taken advantage of and what’s really amazing is the fact so many of you voted for him. Don’t come crying to those of us who didn’t vote to have your taxes increased… I stood up for you… you merely rolled over.
Obama team crafting early game plan:
… His team is tamping down expectations of instant action by discouraging talk of a 100-day program.
Good luck with that. As Stephen Hess, the Brookings Institution expert on the presidency says in his new book on presidential transitions “What Do We Do Now?” that’s been tried by other presidents, like Richard Nixon.
“But on every Day One Hundred of every new presidency, every presidential scholar in the country will be called by a reporter for his or her assessment of the president’s failures.”
So new presidents are expected to hit the ground running and that’s even more true for Obama since he’s dealing with not just the economic and financial crisis but all the promises he made during his campaign, from rapidly unwinding the U.S. position in Iraq to expanding health-care to cutting taxes for those making less than $250,000.
From the sound of it, it appears that Obama’s advisers are wisely going try and limit what they try to accomplish legislatively in their first one hundred days since a president and Congress can only handle so much at one time.
Of course they are… of course his advisers are going to try to give Obama more time and more excuses for not getting done what he promised to get done. Too bad for that “100-day expectation” that every other president has had to deal with… but Obama is not a special case. If anything, he has made it perfectly clear that he’s PERFECT and unstoppable in his plans for making the greatest country into a pile of “past greatness”.
Due to the over confidence Obama let fall from his lips every time he turned around, you would think everything would be fixed on January 21st, 2008.
Then again… based on the latest gaffe regarding Nancy Reagan and the fact he didn’t even get THAT right, I wonder how many other things he’ll have to apologize to the American Citizens for; like every promise he made just to get people to vote for him.
This election was indeed an historic event and all Americans should feel proud of how far our country has come in just a few hundred years. We elect individuals into office with no prejudice to gender, color, religion, sexual preference, etc. We even elect people without regard to past movie ratings, gaffes or wrestling failures. All kidding aside… our country gives every American the same chances as every other American. People may stand and deny this fact but, in reality, they really can’t.
That being said, anyone who voted for Barack Obama ONLY because he is a black man really needs to look at themselves and what they stand for in our country. Voting for a person because you believe in their policies is the right reason to vote. Voting for someone just because they are black or white, or a man or a woman, or Mormon or Catholic or because the person is gay or straight… is flat out the wrong reason to vote. None of these are good reasons… I would vote for a man or woman who was green with purple polka dots if that person was the right person for the job.
Intimidation for any reason should not be allowed at the polling locations. It doesn’t matter if these men were there to stop Obama supporters or McCain supporters… this isn’t a police state and citizens don’t get to stand in front of doors with night sticks or any other weapons in the guise of “securing the premises”.
That being said… imagine if someone from a white supremacists group was standing outside a polling station doing this same thing? Seems to many in the real world that the black panthers represent black supremacists.
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Concerned Citizen:
“I think you might be a little bit intimidating that you have a stick in your hand… I mean that’s a weapon and that’s why I’m worried. […] You have a night stick in your hand.”
Man with night stick:
“You have a camera phone.”
Concerned Citizen:
“I have a camera phone… which is not a weapon.”
Oh, I can see the headlines now…
MAN WITH CAMERA PHONE HARRASSES DIGNIFIED INDIVIDUAL PROTECTING VOTER RIGHTS AT POLLING STATION
David Drake’s comments on Black Panther Voter Intimidation
PA: Black Panther Intimidation At The Polls
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This brings up an important question… with men running around like this who think they can take the law into their own hands, how long before we are under the thumb of a police state? Skipping along into socialism only leads to sliding into the home base of communism. I know it seems a little on the side of paranoia, but lately we’ve been given cause.
Leaky faucet analogy:
When a faucet slowly drips, the leak doesn’t seem like much until you suddenly realize you’re drowning in a pool of drips…
… I’m sure there’s significant meaning in regards to this year’s election.
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To the Left:
Stop giving my freedoms away just to give your lowly life more meaning!
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To family members who vote for Obama:
Our dreams include being business owners and hiring people to work with us. If Obama has his way with taxes, we may not be able to give others a job or we may end up letting them go. And if Obama takes our money away to spread the wealth around, then we will not have the ability to help our friends and family. We aren’t planning our future out just to collect money and hoard it all away… we want to help those in our family who are in need and we won’t be able to do it under Obama’s plan. Obama won’t take up the slack either… he won’t give you as much as we would; and he certainly won’t give you any of his millions.
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Why do people hate Sarah Palin?
People hate Sarah Palin because they are jealous of some aspect of her life that represents what they do not have or have not done. Hell, there are a lot of things I should have done by now and there are a lot of things I still have not finished… but that is my fault. People don’t like to look inward because it’s too painful… regret hurts and if you never deal with it, it just gets bigger. So “why not” point a finger at this woman who has done more than many others with most “everything” in her life. It’s not that she’s just a great Governor… it’s that her life behind the scenes is good too. People delight in movie stars who appear happy and yet their personal life sucks… it makes the little people feel good about not even trying to succeed.
