Think, criticize, respect.

I don’t even know why I’m writing about this. I don’t watch American idol and never will. I’m sure they are all talented. I just don’t find that type of show entertaining. So, I don’t really care. Although like usual there is something I found to bitch about. Adam Lambert, the runner up of last season, put an album out. No surprise there. They all do. They sold their souls to be on that show. Now they have to dance for the devil to make money, the devil being Simon and his recording company. That’s not my rant though. My rant comes in the form of hello, he’s gay. And he told you he’s gay. He’s doing what he wants the way he likes. And it just happens to be a little flamboyant. There is nothing wrong with that. And most people would not even notice it. There are clubs all around your neighborhoods filled with gay men and women dancing to music. Well now it’s a contestant from American idol. He is selling his music to your teens and pre teens. And therein lies the controversy. His album cover has him in 70’s roller disco drag. Not that there is anything wrong with that (why do I keep sounding like a Seinfeld episode). Now, normally, that would be passed up and forgotten, except your 14 year old who watched the show may want his cd. Now there is the problem. It’s ok when it’s not sold to my kid. Everyone takes the attitude it’s not a big deal until its marketed, sold or directed towards their children. So it’s a sort of don’t ask don’t tell policy. It’s fine if we don’t know. Funny, because I could throw a details magazine into the cast of any TV or movie and hit at least one gay guy. And that guy is probably on your young daughter’s wall or being fawned over by your wife. It’s ok if you don’t know or isn’t directed at your child. As soon as it is then it’s controversial? What is controversial about some kid in makeup, purple hair and roller skates? Other than the roller skates that sounds like my high school. And they all are probably lawyers, doctors or actors now. I think the controversy comes in the form of our double standard.

Assholes breed assholes. Remember this when your child grows up to beat his wife or your daughter is arrested. A group of parents including members on a little league board went ape shit at a little league all star game. Their team lost. They cursed, attempted to start a fight and threw things. That’s the way to teach your youngsters. Nothing says intelligent, loving parent better than acting like a childish idiot when you lose. I’m not sure what lesson you are trying to teach here. How to act like a two year old? How to raise children that cant control their anger? How to show the rest of the world that you deserve to be tazered and sterilized? I’m bias toward the last one.

Children die every year when left in hot cars. Their parents were either just running in or thought leaving the window open a little would be ok. They obviously get zapped with my “your and idiot” tazer. Apparently there are those parents who accidentally leave their kids in the car. They forget they left their child in the car and end up going to work or where ever they were headed (yes this really does happen). These people get tazered several times. How in the parental fuck do you forget a human being? And as if we don’t cater to stupid people enough, automotive groups are trying to get sensors put in cars to let you know when you are an ignorant piece of shit and left your flesh and blood in the back seat. If you can’t remember that your child is in the car then you shouldn’t be able to procreate. Hell, you shouldn’t be able to have a driver’s license. You’re and idiot. We don’t need to add sensors and cost to a car to allow you to continue to be an idiot. I vote for sterilization and taking the bus.

The stork dropped a little girl on the door step of an Arkansas couple. This doesn’t really sound too wacky does it? Well hold on to your vulva. This couple just had their 17^th child. Yes you heard me, 17. And they are thinking of having more. The kids range from 19 to the new born. Mom is 40. So that would mean the new born will be in high school when mom nears retirement (im sure she is not working). Oh and I love the fun fact that mom has been pregnant for over 10 years of her life. I don’t even know what to think about this one. They must just fall right out of this woman like wet soap in the hands of a prison convict. This is what happens when you mix your religion and vagina. Keep religion out of the bedroom! Oh the insanity.

True story, a priest went jogging before sunrise. This wouldn’t be a big deal except that he was in his godly birthday suit. Yes, that’s what I said. This priest was jogging naked. No he wasn’t drunk on the blood of Christ. He was arrested jogging on a high school track. He told police “I’m a heavy man and wearing clothes while running makes me sweat profusely”. Wow, I’m sorry that your priestly fat ass has to wear clothes. I feel really bad. Hey how about we compromise. Next time you want to go jogging just wear a diaper. Then you won’t sweat as much and we don’t have to see Jesus and his disciples dangling there for all to worship. We will even chip in and get you the holy huggies with the Stations of the Cross on them and everything. They can have extra padding for those unholy accidents. Naked jogging because his fat ass sweats a lot? Seriously folks, this is the person giving you spiritual guidance?   

I told myself I would not write about Paris Hilton. Shes done nothing worthy or really anything at all to write about. She’s rich. She’s attractive if your thing is anorexic looking women. Seriously folks without her makeup she looked like she walked out of her trailer on heroin. And she’s a seemingly crazy attention whore. And I mean attention whore with the most gaping attention whore vagina possible. At least some stars actually do things or perform public acts to get attention for their careers. This non star just shows up, acts stupid and demands attention. And we as a society give it too her. So now she’s broken the law. And like everyone else in this world if you break the law you need to pay for your unlawful deeds in the same manner as everyone else. I don’t care how rich you are, about your fear of closed spaces, fear of poisoned food, a rash or any other silly thing. You break the law, you go to jail. Now this is not even true topic of this rant. There were two things that really sparked my squirrelly wrath. First, she said publicly that she’s amazed at all the attention this incident as gathered. Now I know it’s hard to believe that anything amazes this Einstein of heiress’ but come now. She demands attention where ever she goes. She feeds off it. Her whole social persona is created from the attention she requires. Her whole pseudo career is based on this. And now that something negative happens that she cant control she’s amazed? The second and the real sickening point is that NBC is going to pay her one million dollars for her first after jail talk. Um, isn’t she worth a universe sized load of cash? Why do we (and I do mean we) need to pay her money for driving under the influence and going to jail for it? I say we because NBC wouldn’t be paying her if they didn’t think you would be watching. So in essence you are paying her. Do you feel good about that? Or do you feel dirty and used? We should all be allowed one fuck with Paris. She seems to be fucking us and getting paid very well for it.

Apparently my cat doesn’t understand physics. She doesn’t realize two things cannot occupy the same space simultaneously. Either that or she is still trying to learn to use some other kittie dimension that allows her to phase in and out. I would prefer to believe the kittie worm hole idea instead of realizing my kitten is retarded. Well, she’s like dad I guess.

Also there must be specific kittie etiquette I am not aware of. My cat seems to believe it’s ok to sun her crotch in front of the sliding door. I don’t know how it is in cat land but here in Mercury51’s house tanning your vagina is bad manners. That is unless you are a spunky, opinionated, raven haired woman who is attracted to clean cut, ranty, geeky guys. In that case sun your vag all you want. This sunning issue ranks up there with deeming it ok to lick your owners face immediately after tongue bathing previously said area.

I don’t claim a for or against view on the death penalty. I never really get to that point. The death penalty is the end and an easy out of a much larger problem. The problem that many rightie kill em all morons and the leftie tree huggin, hacky sack playing hippies forget is finding these people before they get to this point. However let me start at the end and show how stupid arguing about the end result of our ignorance is.

Before I start, I just want to point out that some of the so called botched executions have facts left out of the news articles or lefty arguments. They use the inability to find a vein even though some of these people were intravenous drug abusers. It makes it tough to find a vein when many of them are collapsed. Many talk about the horrible looks of pain or jerking movements in other executions. Hmm, interesting, talking with some veterinarians they warn that when euthanizing your pets there may be some jerking movements or grimacing of lips after the injection. Wow, that sounds interestingly similar, DUH. We put a human face on it and we can’t handle it.

The death penalty in all its forms is decades to hundreds of years old depending on which you are voting for or bitching about. The one that is in the news lately is lethal injection. So let’s use that one in this ridiculous argument. Lethal injection is 30 years old. Since then there have been dramatic gains in science. I’m sure there are other drug cocktails that could update this method. We as a society are lazy though. We don’t want to change it. I’m sure there are other forms of gas that would be even more politically correct and allow us to feel all good and squishy deep down in the hypocritical cockles of our hearts. Change may cost money or bring up things we don’t want to talk about…like WE KILL PEOPLE. It’s ok to say it. We do it. We kill people. And even those lefty tree huggers that say the death penalty is inhumane are killing people. If they don’t think so they should spend time in a maximum security prison. A convicted mobster in
Italy serving a life sentence sent a petition with 310 other names of fellow inmates to the Italian president. The petition was asking to bring back the death penalty so they could die. The mobster said he was tired of dieing a little every day. The point is that prison life is not humane. In many ways it’s less humane than all our types of capital punishment. So when you argue for or against either way you are killing the person inhumanely. Just ask the inmates. So on to the real problem.

Why time and time again do I have to bring this up? Our society does this every time. We let people slip through the cracks without help. Then we bitch like ignorant babies over whether they are evil and should die, how they should be treated, or how they avoided detection…blah blah blah. These are stupid questions from moron’s going about their daily lives ignoring their fellow man. Many in our prisons are mentally ill. Many felt they had no way out but crime. These people slipped through the cracks. We don’t care. We don’t set up programs to help or allow them to seek help. And the programs that are setup are not doing what they were set up to do. Our health care system doesn’t allow people to get and afford the help they need and we really don’t care. All we care about is why my gas is so expensive for my huge truck or SUV. Fuck your whining about gas. Fuck your SUV. That mentally ill inmate could be your son or daughter. They are our sons and daughters. We need to realize that they need our help before they reach that point. Stop caring at the end when it gets you publicity. Start caring at the beginning when it really matters and shows you care.

I have to respond to this one. You know even the people without guns are nutty. Some girl or woman sent an email to CNN in response to that Jack Cafferty question spot. The question was “Are gun control laws likely to change in the wake of the Virginia Tech shooting?” This woman wrote how what needs to change is the male’s inability to express any other emotion other than anger. Oh how I wish this woman was in front of me to debate. This chick, ill call her a chick because I know it would drive her fucking insane missed the banana boat. She lumped all her scorn and detest from her past onto “the male complex”. Gee, do we forget that women snap too? The only difference is women snap and harm themselves. Women tend to internalize and men tend to lash out. This is because chemically, electrically (emotionally) we are totally different. Now, getting to my true point, this obviously emotionally well grounded woman missed the point. We all missed the point. We all failed here. We as a society fail every time something like this happens. This boy was very troubled, chemically imbalanced and had very obvious severe problems. Everyone he came in contact with stated something very dark about him. If you put all that together then why didn’t anyone do anything? Be annoying here people. If you think he’s a nut and needs help, give his writings to the school, campus officials, have his parents called, whatever you have to do. If you care then do something. That’s the problem; I don’t really think we care about our society. We go just far enough or shrug it off and go to the mall. If he was on medication then what did the doctor that prescribed it do? Not a damn thing obviously. Drug him and he will be fine. Let’s not ask questions.  He was known by the police because he stalked someone. That sounds like a huge red flag even if he was Ronald McDonald. If you tack that onto someone who everyone saw as a loner, dark, twisted and troubled that’s a huge red flag that we did nothing about. Everyone can complain about everything under the sun, stronger gun laws, let everyone carry guns, the campus didn’t do things fast enough. These are all empty automatic reflexes after the response from the real problem. None of those things will solve anything if we don’t focus on the people with the problems. We go about our lives not realizing that there are very troubled people all around us. Keeping guns out of their hands or having the ability to shoot then doesn’t make them less troubled, us safer or solve the problem. We need to get them help, have programs set up to realize the people that need help. And we need to actually do something about it either with medication or verbal and emotional outreach. We as a society bitch and moan about guns and cars and every other inanimate object. Let’s help us first. Let’s focus on family, the people around us, ourselves as a society. The rest will fall into place. If you start actually fucking caring about the person next to you instead of wanting to carry a gun to protect yourself from the person next to you this would not be so prevalent. Oh and to the woman that started this rant. Stop shouting with your vagina. Start thinking with your head and speaking with your heart.

Ok I need to go shower. I need to scrub the dirty hippy off me. I sound like such a tree hugger. Ugh, I hate patchouli

Holy PC ignorance batman! How many times must I go through this. So, now some silly ignorant woman was driving by a theaters marquee. It had several plays listed. One happened to be the VAGINA monologues. Apparently her niece was in the car, read it and like any good, intelligent child asked what a VAGINA was. The aunt called the theater saying she was offended that her niece read it and had to explain what it was. Wow, how terrible that you have to explain to a child what a part of their body is. What if it was the optical nerve monologues or the spleen gab fest. You wouldn’t get your ignorant panties in a bunch then would you? No, but because it was a body part with a partial sexual role you were offended. How terrible that you had to actually explain things to a child. I would take this as a great opportunity to act like a fucking adult. Talk to your children like they are real people. Hoohas, doodies, poopers, thingies are all speech that keeps our children as stupid as their parents. It’s a PENIS and a VAGINA people. These are not offensive words. Children should know about themselves and the world around them. What is offensive is the woman’s embarrassment and so called offence that she had to act like an adult. We can try to keep them from growing up too fast. Let’s just not make them stupid at the same time.

Ah, it’s nice to see that the high and mighty British are no better than we stupid hillbilly Americans. Now I wrote about part of this a few weeks back. The subject of that post leads into this next one. A British Muslim teacher is appealing her suspension. What pray tell was she suspended for, a horrible work ethic, theft, inappropriate actions with a student? No, once again a Brit has a problem with a veil. The teacher, who wears a full veil when teaching, was asked not to wear it when speaking. She refused and the school suspended her. She of course sued. She received a few thousand dollars because the school didn’t follow proper grievance procedures but the suspension was upheld. She obviously plans to appeal the ridiculous ruling. I’ve had teachers that could barely speak English. In fact their lack of ability to speak English or speak it clearly hindered the class learning from them. They were never suspended or fired. In fact more and more teachers are hired with that problem. So why is a woman whose face I can’t see an issue? When being taught, I really don’t care about your religious beliefs or politics. I’m there to learn. Like I said before I don’t hear about Jewish teachers being asked to remove their yamaka’s. I’m sure Muslims will love me comparing their veil to a yamaka. We wouldn’t think about asking someone to take off their cross or Star of David. And no one would think of asking a black teacher to remove any African dress they wore to class. So why is an issue? Does a white male fear a woman he can’t see? Does it make him uncomfortable that she becomes just a person and not a woman that he can feel superior to? This has nothing to do with the politics or religious ideals of either side. Neither side should be pushing their views on the other. The many British have bitched and moaned about US politics and how backwards we are. They seem to do very close minded things themselves.

Through grape vine I hear they are planning to make a Fraggle rock movie. As much as I love the Muppets and the hippie laden Fraggles why do we need this? Well, I guess it is better to feed our kids this than Barbies new adventure. It may not be new but at least it’s not another land before time video or power rangers. We can only find so many things to wrap a love everybody hippie message into. I personally love the pcp acid trip thick Dr. Seuss cartoons. Now those were entertaining and taught you the all important albeit highly unlikely love everybody and care about things values. Flower power isn’t dead. We just wrap it up in different packaging. I think it makes us feel like we will get to heaven.

No matter what your IQ you can still be retarded. Scientists have created a new element. Don’t get too excited. I know how something like this can wet your panties. It won’t be named for a few years. It has to be duplicated by scientists. Are you ready for the punch line? I know you are on the edge of your seat with anticipation. The new element was created by smooshing (yes that’s a technical term) Calcium with Californium. Californium? Yes for those of you who are not up on the new man made elements Californium is another one of them. Apparently we pay D&D geeks to bombard elements together and come up with new elements. That’s fine with me. Maybe they can come up with a cure for cancer, end world hunger or discover a perpetual energy source. Let’s see here what is Californium good for? Hmm, 

-neutron startup source for some nuclear reactors, calibrating instrumentation

-treatment of certain cervical and brain cancers where other radiation therapy is ineffective

-radiography of aircraft to detect metal fatigue -airport neutron-activation detectors of explosives

So I’m reading an article, yes I can read things without pictures, and it struck me ironically funny. The article was about a long term study done on preschoolers who were given Ritalin. Yes that’s right, they are giving kids under the age of 6 prescription speed. Sounds like a fucking dandy idea to me. It will compliment the shitty food we feed them and the hours of TV and video games we let them have. Why don’t we just give them crack now and get it over with. Now in the studies defense they didn’t just pump any group of hyper kids with pills. These were what they called extreme cases. I love the way they describe the extreme cases. And I quote “The research involved children with severe attention deficit hyperactivity disorder with behaviors that included hanging from ceiling fans, jumping off slides or playing with fire. “ If your Johnny bastard is hanging from ceiling fans or playing with fire, being hyper is not his problem, having an idiot for a parent is. Hopefully this doesn’t open the door for any child that young who is hyper to be given the rx crack. I say hopefully but I know it will. That’s not the funny part for me although it was quite humorous. The funny part was some of the side effects. The kids were irritable, lost weight and grew less. That’s perfect. All we really want are kids that are short, skinny and pissed off. Yes I know, sounds familiar, fuck you. Now let’s take this one thing at a time. Our parents are feeding Ritalin to the underage kiddies but telling them to not do drugs while they drink their glass of wine and chug their beer. They will grow up a little thinner and shorter than average. This is awesome. This gives women even more to complain about when looking for a man to date. Now women will have even fewer tall guys (whatever it is they consider tall) to date. At least they can focus though. So this just adds another level onto my theory of our moms raising sons their daughters wouldn’t date.

Apparently everyone is a little crazy. This comes of no shock to me.  Experts out there have decided that the term schizophrenia should be dumped. The so called experts feel that too many symptoms are lumped into the diagnosis for schizophrenia and because of this many patients are over medicated or misdiagnosed. I agree that most people are over medicated. I don’t think it should start at this level. It should start at the my butt hurts pop a few 500mg pain killers level. It’s the everyday quick fix household that needs to be weaned off medication. All these I feel a little bummed because it’s raining or there is a spot on my carpet give me some prozac RX junkies need to just deal with life. If you don’t get off your lazy ass and deal with life sucking now and then you will never learn how to deal with the ups and downs. Now I understand and realize that some people need medication and that is fine. Do you really think this many teens or younger need anti depressants? Do you really think medicating our children during a period of such major development is good for their emotional, physical, psychological and social maturity? Every teen out there is confused, depressed or emotional. Its part of the shitty period called puberty. If any of you have forgotten what this is ill refresh your memory. This is the time when you body starts to change at the same time life is telling you get your fucking act together or you will be the guy living on the street talking to the garbage. While this is happening your hormones decided they want to go for several year marathon. Like many other sexual hormone experiences this one has its checks and balances. You are now walking around a crazed hardon worrying about school, friends, family and the future. And to add to this puberty assures that you will be one ugly, awkward, uncoordinated geek playing dungeons and dragons in your parent’s basement not getting laid. All this makes for a pleasant teen experience. Now I may or may not be drawing on be drawing on some personal experience. Although, isn’t every guy on the internet 6-2, 200lbs of muscle with a full head of fuck me hair and a huge penis? I know I am (combs thick black hair, flexes my muscles and adjusts seating position to make room for my huge member). And every woman on the internet is not fat. Come on ladies. When it says a little extra baggage it doesn’t mean a 4 month trip to Europe . Now don’t send me hate mail or more hate mail for that matter. There is nothing wrong with being a big girl or having curves. Lets just all be honest shall we. You know how you get pissed when the guy says he’s about 5-10 and his about 5-10 is more like 5-7? Well men get a little miffed when you say your curvy and are curvier than San Francisco ’s Lombard street. Ok, getting back to the subject, the big needle in my ass funny part of the article is and I quote  

“It is estimated that one in 100 people will develop schizophrenia at some point in their lifetime.”

 Um, one in one hundred will become schizophrenic? Great Caesar’s nut sack that’s a lot of people! That means that there are about 3 million people walking around talking through their index finger. That explains a lot. I’m probably one of those touched in the head. Although my voices tell me to tazer people for cutting me off, not using their turn signal and wearing brown shoes with a black belt. Hey at least I don’t think the neighbors dog or my lamp is plotting against me. I don’t need medication (no matter what my friends say). And there are many people out there that should not be walking around in a happy haze either. Medicate the people that really need it. Prescribe a bottle full of pills to the John Lennon killers not the teen who thinks his life is over because he has a pimple and kids at school call him a homo. The first one we should help stop talking to him self the other we should talk to.

The following was taken from a cnn article.

Former British  foreign secretary Straw wrote in his local newspaper that a veil was “a visible statement of separation and difference” and that he was more comfortable dealing with female visitors to his local political office with their faces uncovered.

 Ok now for my rant. This is truly funny and ignorant shit. Can I ask a black man or woman to shave or cover their afro around me? Can I ask a Jew not to wear their yamaka around me? What if your fucked up British teeth make me feel uncomfortable talking to you? Can I ask you write and not talk? This is just ignorant and intolerant. I feel uncomfortable talking to a man or woman for that matter with a mullet and wearing a lynard skynard t shirt. That doesn’t me I can tell them to change. Other polar opposite cultures are mixing more and more in everyday life. Just because you don’t agree with it at your work place doesn’t mean you can tell that person to go against their beliefs to make you feel comfortable. The point that the veil is a visible statement of separation and difference is funny. It shows the secretaries intolerance.  That is just the point of the veil in that culture. Whether western society likes it or not its how many cultures are. We don’t have the right to tell them to go against their beliefs or to change. If they want to change or it happens on their own then fine. I guess, and I’m about to sound extremely geeky here, I believe in the star trek prime directive when it comes to this. We should not meddle in other societies to make us more comfortable around them. We are all different. There will be many things that we don’t understand, agree with or feel uncomfortable about each other. Maybe we should all shave our heads, wear off white jump suits, be given numbers and have scheduled interaction in a single society. Would that make everyone feel more comfortable? Hopefully as the youth grows they will understand each others differences and be able to tolerate and work with one and other. Yes I know it sounds very hippyish. Well fuck off. I still shave and shower, hate dave mathews band and burning man and don’t recycle. So it all balances out.  This is just an ignorant an old world statement. The world is changing. And either you change with it and tolerate other people or you shut your British snaggle toothed fucking pie hole. Hey, if your ignorant close minded views make me feel uncomfortable can I tell you to shut up and stop thinking?

Like this really even matters but sometimes I just don’t understand who makes decisions. Have you seen the new Microsoft mp3 player? It should be coming out in the next few months. First it’s been named Zune. Yeah, ok so what brilliant marketing idiot came up with that? I think its Swahili for I got drunk while at work. The logo looks just as stupid. It looks like a logo for network software. Ok, on to the next mistake. The lovely new worthless tech toy comes in three wonderful colors, black, white and yes, brown. We all know the mass of sheep out there are just clamoring to get a brown mp3 player. I know when I’m coming up with a new product and want to wrap it in hip new colors I think of a big steaming pile of shit. Again, whoever came up with that idea should be fired. Now I know all the tech geeks sitting in their underwear in between episodes of anime or babalon 5 will ramble on about the wi fi or DRM bullshit. Now yes the wi fi some average sheep will look at as a reason to purchase it. The DRM issue the average consumer doesn’t care about or even understand. Do we really think the 16 year old that begged his parents for the newest Ipod version cared about software or file issues? Do you think really think the Ipod sold because of those things? The ipod sold because it looked cool with your purse, new shoes, watch or what ever trinket is hip. The design of the packaging is what made the Ipod explode like it did. There are tons of other mp3 players out there, some of which are designed well. They can’t break the ipod. They are not as “cool” as the Ipod. It’s what Bobby and Betty cumstain have so I must have it too. The consumer for this puts looks on top right next to price. So the Ipods name is cool (to most people), the packaging looks cool even the box it comes in and the commercials are cool. What color is the box that the Zune comes in?…Hip red? Cool sleek blue? Icy diamond white? No, its fucking shit brown. Brilliant! I say if you can’t beat them you should go the complete opposite way and make an ugly horribly marketed product. Hey look how well it worked for General Motors.

I was reading this article about how impersonal employers have become when laying off employees. It mentioned how people felt it was wrong that employers have used email or other impersonal ways. I don’t claim to be a ethics expert so I’m not sure if laying people off via email is an ethics violation or not. However I do think that this will become common place. Large companies and corporations are in business to make money. We are just numbers on a bottom line expense chart. If expenses need to be cut and a mass of people need to be informed then email seems to make sense to me. If you don’t like it then change careers. We created this. We use so many impersonal mediums to converse with people on a daily basis. We text, email and use online dating sites or meeting sites. By the way when did text become a verb? I won’t mention any names. Some sites have had way too much air time on the news already. These are all impersonal ways of meeting or keeping in touch with people. There is nothing wrong with them. Our world has become intertwined with these tech based was of keeping in touch with people. I just find it funny that it’s ok when we do it but when it’s used to lay us off we bitch.

Oh and speaking of using technology in impersonal ways…Apparently some churches have started using kiosks to allow you to donate. That’s more than a bit ridiculous. Think about it logically. These supposed churches of god are paying lots of money to make it easier for you to fork over cash in the name of Jesus. If you think its so much easier then its probably too easy. They really don’t care about you. They only care about your pocket book. If they really cared they would solicit you for your time not your money. Time is what really matters. Unless you are elderly, handicapped or have some other problem then when you donate money to cash you should have to accompany it with some physical donation of your time. You shouldn’t be allowed to just buy your religious peace of mind. And churches shouldn’t be allowed to ask for more money than time. You should have to help in the community or with the church in some way. If you want to get into heaven then you should have to work for it. We are religiously lazy. Just because you drag your whiney brats to church and fork over cash now with the easy money grabbing kiosk to Jesus doesn’t mean you are getting into heaven. Churches are just a large corporation. You are just a dollar sign to them too.

This is hilarious. Apparently a group of young women in
Columbia have gone on a sex strike till their gangster boyfriends give up their life of crime. This just shows the gap in the way men and women think. Do these women actually think men will bend and suddenly become more docile because they want sex? I’m sure after a few weeks of forced abstinence there will be many frustration gang wars. And i love the comment from one of the gangsters and I quote “what good is having a woman around if you cant have sex”. Yes, I’m sure this like all the other social movements will last. Remember prohibition?

I haven’t posted in several months. With everything going on I may end up posting several today. Im also writing quite a bit today so i may meander a bit and get off topic. So i will try to focus my points. This post may anger lots of people, as if I ever cared before. If anyone becomes angry, stop, take a breath and really think about what I’m saying. Don’t just read one or two words and blow up or call me stupid. That shows me nothing. I’m completely open to other people’s opinion and I’m open to dialogue. Ok, now onto my post…

I think this Congressman Mark Foley incident is very interesting. Its disturbing and very socially interesting. Mark Foley, a roman catholic who started his career as a democrat, is pro-choice and is not married gets caught talking (so far just talking) inappropriately to an underage boy. First, the man is as gay as Kevin Spacey. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Let’s first take the scandal aspect of this. Why was the incident regarding
New Jerseys’ governor coming out gay such a scandal? All politicians have done favors, probably cheated lied or slept with someone they work with. The only difference with this was he came out that he was gay. I just think many of these scandals would not happen if people could do their jobs and not have to worry about what others think of their personal lives. A gay person in a very public career ends up spending so much time and effort hiding it and worrying if they will be found out. And this is all because they may lose favor or their job because of it. This is just a type of continued repression from childhood. I’m not saying what Mark Foley did was ok in anyway. And I’m sure when its all over we will find out other horrible things. He’s probably a very emotionally confused sick man. Many men and women grow up hiding and repressing many things. Without support and the ability to be who they are they end up becoming confused and do not mature emotionally or get the help they need. Now I’m not saying that gays will are or will end up molesters. I’m saying that children who don’t have the support when young, when they don’t have a voice or are allowed to be themselves without that support don’t grow emotionally or socially. They may do well on the outside in order to hide it. Internally they are still at that stunted stage. Hence, Mark Foleys odd text messages that sounded like a kid talking about “pics” and using the word “cool”. Maybe if we start thinking as the proverb states “it takes a village to raise a child” our children won’t grow up to shoot up schools, stealing, beating their wives and kids or end up in scandal. We allow this and many times perpetuate it. We don’t stop kids being picked on or allow them to be who they are. We don’t teach our children how things feel and why it’s wrong. We don’t listen to our children about how they feel. You had 30 seconds of enjoyment to produce that child. The least you can do is really be a parent. Ok, I’m getting off topic here. This scandal really is just the end result of deeper personal and social issues of the man and our own society. Our society will never ask why he did what he did, what caused his actions or how we can stop our children from growing up to act this way. And again I mean growing up as molesters not gay. We as a society don’t seem to care about why. He, like children who shoot up schools could be any of our children. And this leads into the other headline, the latest school shooting in
Wisconsin. There are many things we won’t hear about or spend time reading because we as a society don’t care. The young boy who killed his principal told police he just wanted to make his principal and the children bullying him listen. He wanted them to listen. I’ve said it many times. We don’t listen to out children. We don’t talk with them as real equals. I emphasize with not at. Open discussion and dialogue with them is what is needed. This young boy who happened to be in special education classes felt he didn’t have a voice. He may have felt like no one listened, took his feeling or thoughts seriously or understood his frustrations. This could be any child. Don’t ever think it cant you yours. This child just came to a disturbed point and chose a path that he didn’t understand. Maybe if he had someone that he could talk to about what he was thinking or feeling he wouldn’t have chosen this path. The thing that keeps coming back to my thoughts that disturbs me is not what he did. The thing that disturbs me the most is why he did it. He just wanted to make them listen. We should all feel guilty for his actions. Instead what do we do? We shout lock him up. This is the most ignorant answer to our social problems. We should stop patching or trying to stuff in the closet our societies problems. Let’s start looking at the root cause of them and fix them there. I’m saddened and mildly insulted when focus is given to the heroic principal and no one asks why the child picked this path. I’m sure the principal was a wonderful man and his death is tragic. I keep reading at the same time dismissive statements calling the boy disturbed or troubled. Then we go back to grieving over the principal or lost love ones. This child was our problem. We as a society are one of the many causes of this. We are not heroes when we ignore our children.