Just ensuring I remember to quote my good friend Neff! He alerted me that a man had his genitalia chewed off by a chimp.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/04/national/main678061.shtml
I found the link. So I'm saving it here.
I'm seriously unable to type rationally so I will blog in a few hours about it!
Sorry if I got your name wrong haha! I tried! Flyfishing is my new life goal.
Showing posts with label government. Show all posts
Showing posts with label government. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Friday, February 20, 2009
Our Government
Sorry it's been a while since a post, but I've been working on a lot of different things.
But I'm taking the time to voice my total lack of understanding surrounding our government.
It seems this week has been the week in politics for which all of us American's should really hang our heads. Let's start with the recap.
First our newly appointed Attorney General, calls every American a coward, and tries to tell us we HAVE to start discussing sensitive issues at work... And by sensitive we're not talking about unfair treatment... We're not discussing abuse or even sexual misconduct... No his "sensitive issues" are that we... As American's need to discuss race.
Now am I the only person who wants to say WTF? I mean come on seriously here. We just voted in the first Black president in our History, who has just so happened to give this man the privilege of being the first Black Attorney General in our history... But we're cowards. And beyond that, we're cowards who need to discuss race...
Get the fuck over yourself. I swear you instantly justify all the awful things people thought with crap like this. This was the reason so many people were "afraid" of the new administrations "change". But thanks for proving them right, and making all of us Democrat's look bad. Appreciated.
So that was the first order of absolute bullshit.
Now we have the media and Amnesty International's "Outrage" over Hilary Clinton's lack of willingness to pressure China on human rights... Once more the bleeding heart liberals condemn us.
She's so wrong for wanting to discuss the economy. For wanting to work first towards getting the world-wide crisis under control... And what do these bogus donation and charity groups do? They claim she's murdering the cause. Fuck off. You people have no fucking idea what it would take to save the world. In fact, I would be the first person to claim that Charity's and these organizations that facilitate *peace* are the problem.
You want us to give money to everyone and their mother. And for what? To fix problems that don't pertain to us. For problems that we can't fix. And you know these problems are all just to save face.
Fuck the Palestinian's right? Fuck Darfur. No we'll be the first to rush to Africa and try to help poverty there a country where all they do is kill each other and have more children. We'll claim injustice for anything related to China... But call into play anything these organizations might benefit from and it's an instant No-no.
Stop sending Africa money and supplies. Send them condems and let teach them about curbing their population. How the hell can you expect to help people when they're suffering and still having children!? Force Israel to make peace. Stop letting them do whatever the fuck they want. Why can we police everyone but claim favorites? Who are we to do that to any country?
And for God's sake. Stop helping other countries until ours is fixed first.
Help the people without jobs. Help people in our country get off welfare, get running water to the poor people in the appalachians. I mean Christ, how can we claim we just want peace and equality, yet be the biggest hypocrites in the world? No wonder other countries don't respect us.
America needs to worry about America. Not about Africa, not about anything else. And my God if Obama once more claims to, "Be willing to talk to" someone else, then later add in requirements that are ridiculous then he needs to be impeached.
North Korea isn't going to just abandon Nuclear weapons to "talk" with us. Hamas shouldn't be completely ignored til they meet a list of requirements first. Talk to them, see what agreements can be reached, because clearly other countries aren't capable of fixing things amongst themselves. So if you want to interfere with EVERY LITTLE external affair in the world. Then do it with the standard approach of diplomacy. Not with ultimatums that NO ONE will ever cave into.
But I'm taking the time to voice my total lack of understanding surrounding our government.
It seems this week has been the week in politics for which all of us American's should really hang our heads. Let's start with the recap.
First our newly appointed Attorney General, calls every American a coward, and tries to tell us we HAVE to start discussing sensitive issues at work... And by sensitive we're not talking about unfair treatment... We're not discussing abuse or even sexual misconduct... No his "sensitive issues" are that we... As American's need to discuss race.
Now am I the only person who wants to say WTF? I mean come on seriously here. We just voted in the first Black president in our History, who has just so happened to give this man the privilege of being the first Black Attorney General in our history... But we're cowards. And beyond that, we're cowards who need to discuss race...
Get the fuck over yourself. I swear you instantly justify all the awful things people thought with crap like this. This was the reason so many people were "afraid" of the new administrations "change". But thanks for proving them right, and making all of us Democrat's look bad. Appreciated.
So that was the first order of absolute bullshit.
Now we have the media and Amnesty International's "Outrage" over Hilary Clinton's lack of willingness to pressure China on human rights... Once more the bleeding heart liberals condemn us.
She's so wrong for wanting to discuss the economy. For wanting to work first towards getting the world-wide crisis under control... And what do these bogus donation and charity groups do? They claim she's murdering the cause. Fuck off. You people have no fucking idea what it would take to save the world. In fact, I would be the first person to claim that Charity's and these organizations that facilitate *peace* are the problem.
You want us to give money to everyone and their mother. And for what? To fix problems that don't pertain to us. For problems that we can't fix. And you know these problems are all just to save face.
Fuck the Palestinian's right? Fuck Darfur. No we'll be the first to rush to Africa and try to help poverty there a country where all they do is kill each other and have more children. We'll claim injustice for anything related to China... But call into play anything these organizations might benefit from and it's an instant No-no.
Stop sending Africa money and supplies. Send them condems and let teach them about curbing their population. How the hell can you expect to help people when they're suffering and still having children!? Force Israel to make peace. Stop letting them do whatever the fuck they want. Why can we police everyone but claim favorites? Who are we to do that to any country?
And for God's sake. Stop helping other countries until ours is fixed first.
Help the people without jobs. Help people in our country get off welfare, get running water to the poor people in the appalachians. I mean Christ, how can we claim we just want peace and equality, yet be the biggest hypocrites in the world? No wonder other countries don't respect us.
America needs to worry about America. Not about Africa, not about anything else. And my God if Obama once more claims to, "Be willing to talk to" someone else, then later add in requirements that are ridiculous then he needs to be impeached.
North Korea isn't going to just abandon Nuclear weapons to "talk" with us. Hamas shouldn't be completely ignored til they meet a list of requirements first. Talk to them, see what agreements can be reached, because clearly other countries aren't capable of fixing things amongst themselves. So if you want to interfere with EVERY LITTLE external affair in the world. Then do it with the standard approach of diplomacy. Not with ultimatums that NO ONE will ever cave into.
Monday, January 12, 2009
US Legal Drinking Age
So I've been intrigued by something rather recently. Actually I've been wondering about it for years now. It's the United States legal drinking age. While most countries say children become adults at 18, and have the right to do pretty much anything while still being held accountable for their actions...
In the US it seems that at 18 you become an adult... But you are NOT allowed to gamble, or to drink. Basically you're able to be thrown in jail, held accountable for anything and everything you do, be drafted, be sent to war, join the army, and are required to pay taxes (For those of us working.)
So we're adults, but... We're not. No. In fact, we're anything but. What our government is saying, is you owe us 3 years of service. Before you are given all the freedoms and rights which our constitution dares to promise us.
While I already have a lack of faith in government in general, this bit strikes me rather hard. And I have looked at all the arguments for the 21 age guideline for drinking and gambling versus the 18 year old age limit.
It's funny though, a majority of the arguments for the age limit staying the same are related to accidents.
They group underage drinking in with car accidents, but we still give 16 year old's licenses. We still allow them to get into a car, before they're even legally ready to handle responsibility. Before the government will step in to pick them up for a draft. Yet at 18 we require that all adult males sign up for the draft. We expect them to obediently run into a war that they wouldn't have chosen, and to die in said war... Yet we wont even treat them as adults?
I'm sorry but I don't see how it's fair to tell an 18 year old man,
"Congratulations. You're an adult."
You now,
-Go to jail for committing a crime.
-Pay taxes.
-Are required by law to sign up for the draft.
-Can join the army.
-Can smoke cigarettes.
-Buy a house.
-Buy a car.
So now, if I get caught drinking. This isn't just some small thing. There's no taking me home and telling my parents. Now I can get fined and can be put in jail. Yet, the funny thing is... I still can't gamble. I can't use the money that I've paid taxes for, and worked for, in a manner that is fitting of my wishes.
How is that right? How is it fair? All I hear across the board, is irresponsibility this, and driving that. But the sad fact is, by making Alcohol this pleasure that is banned until one turns 21. You turn these potentially law abiding 18 year olds into criminals. You make it taboo, and you create a stronger want for them to indulge in it.
If you want to keep the age of legal drinking at 21, why not raise the legal age for driving to that age? Why not bring the age of consent to 21?
Drinking isn't the bane on society that people love to think it is. A single beer wont turn someone into a vicious monster. Much like a single cigarette wont cause your lungs to burn. How can we be limited in one area but not in another?
There is no statistical figure stating that raising the legal drinking age has prevented drunk driving. There isn't a single person who can say with full honest that all 21 year olds are responsible. So what is that three year wait for? No one waits til they're 21. Some don't even wait til they're 18, and so in keeping that age guideline all that is done is you turn law abiding citizens into criminals.
You'd put a gun in a child's hands, but you would not allow them a beer. Pretty hypocritical if you ask me.
Funny how the people who support the drinking age are generally not drinkers, and can't seriously contest that. We'd love to believe we're an advanced country, yet what's the legal age to drink in most of Europe? 18. And they still manage to have less occurrences of drunk driving.
In my opinion. They need to raise the legal age to drive to 18. Then they'd actually see a result in terms of less accidents. Teach kids earlier how to drink responsibly. And how to act responsibly...
Don't call someone an adult, if you're not willing to let them do the things adults in the country are allowed to do.
In the US it seems that at 18 you become an adult... But you are NOT allowed to gamble, or to drink. Basically you're able to be thrown in jail, held accountable for anything and everything you do, be drafted, be sent to war, join the army, and are required to pay taxes (For those of us working.)
So we're adults, but... We're not. No. In fact, we're anything but. What our government is saying, is you owe us 3 years of service. Before you are given all the freedoms and rights which our constitution dares to promise us.
While I already have a lack of faith in government in general, this bit strikes me rather hard. And I have looked at all the arguments for the 21 age guideline for drinking and gambling versus the 18 year old age limit.
It's funny though, a majority of the arguments for the age limit staying the same are related to accidents.
They group underage drinking in with car accidents, but we still give 16 year old's licenses. We still allow them to get into a car, before they're even legally ready to handle responsibility. Before the government will step in to pick them up for a draft. Yet at 18 we require that all adult males sign up for the draft. We expect them to obediently run into a war that they wouldn't have chosen, and to die in said war... Yet we wont even treat them as adults?
I'm sorry but I don't see how it's fair to tell an 18 year old man,
"Congratulations. You're an adult."
You now,
-Go to jail for committing a crime.
-Pay taxes.
-Are required by law to sign up for the draft.
-Can join the army.
-Can smoke cigarettes.
-Buy a house.
-Buy a car.
So now, if I get caught drinking. This isn't just some small thing. There's no taking me home and telling my parents. Now I can get fined and can be put in jail. Yet, the funny thing is... I still can't gamble. I can't use the money that I've paid taxes for, and worked for, in a manner that is fitting of my wishes.
How is that right? How is it fair? All I hear across the board, is irresponsibility this, and driving that. But the sad fact is, by making Alcohol this pleasure that is banned until one turns 21. You turn these potentially law abiding 18 year olds into criminals. You make it taboo, and you create a stronger want for them to indulge in it.
If you want to keep the age of legal drinking at 21, why not raise the legal age for driving to that age? Why not bring the age of consent to 21?
Drinking isn't the bane on society that people love to think it is. A single beer wont turn someone into a vicious monster. Much like a single cigarette wont cause your lungs to burn. How can we be limited in one area but not in another?
There is no statistical figure stating that raising the legal drinking age has prevented drunk driving. There isn't a single person who can say with full honest that all 21 year olds are responsible. So what is that three year wait for? No one waits til they're 21. Some don't even wait til they're 18, and so in keeping that age guideline all that is done is you turn law abiding citizens into criminals.
You'd put a gun in a child's hands, but you would not allow them a beer. Pretty hypocritical if you ask me.
Funny how the people who support the drinking age are generally not drinkers, and can't seriously contest that. We'd love to believe we're an advanced country, yet what's the legal age to drink in most of Europe? 18. And they still manage to have less occurrences of drunk driving.
In my opinion. They need to raise the legal age to drive to 18. Then they'd actually see a result in terms of less accidents. Teach kids earlier how to drink responsibly. And how to act responsibly...
Don't call someone an adult, if you're not willing to let them do the things adults in the country are allowed to do.
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