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Congress? You reading this? Yeah, I'm talking to you. I'm a citizen and you're kinda sorta supposed to listen to me. I may not have voted for you, but the least you could do is represent me. Anyone else reading this, tell me what you think. This blog isn't just a blog, its interactive so get involved and speak your mind! Literally of course.

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Today's Teens

This is a blog written by Za Ro, a good friend. He is not on my side in the political world, however some messages can be agreed upon. This is one of those messages:

In today’s society when you hear about teenagers most of the time you think of students and people striving to become our next leaders, doctors and other highly respected people of the world. But you’re not seeing the whole picture if you think that every teen is happy with their life. Tonight I am going to be talking about the teens that are forgotten in this fast pace life we live today. If you look anywhere today you will see that most teens are suffering from many things, problems with parents, bullies in school, and other big issues in their life. Most of those kids are usually labeled, in the high school world as “Emo”, A stereo type that has fought its way to the respected table of high school labels. But that stereo type, although it is recognized more often today, is a hard one to carry. You are under constant scrutiny of people calling you names and insulting you with bringing this image of pain in your life. My point here tonight is we need to look past the stereo types, the labels, and see the person who is underneath. Because when people are hurting they don’t want you to mock them, insult them, bash them and even injure them. The stereo type “Emo” in my personal opinion is a way for people to say “Hey I need help. Someone please notice me”. It is about the person who needs help in the struggles that he or she is going through. So the next time you start to hate or feel the need to harass someone for cutting themselves, or have attempted suicide, or might believe something you don’t. Or cry every night because they are alone in this world and their parents abuse them every day. Please stop yourself and think. What if I was in their shoes? I know today we can be over dramatic with problems and that in other places in the world people have it worse. But when someone is hurting no matter who it is we need to be there to help the best we can or we are just a bunch of selfish beings. I end this short story with a message tonight that might open people’s eyes to be more open minded, and to see what they can change inside of themselves. I hope this moves people because there are a lot of changes that need to be made to this world before we start getting better.
Also, and finally, in today’s world we don’t need to split everyone one apart we need to come together and help change the world, we need to make a difference. From people in all places around the globe we need to make a difference.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

The People Who Hate Gays

One problem, calling someone who says that stupid is not going to change their mind. It will make you more of a target if your gay, and incite their hatred even more. What needs to be said should be organized, coherent, well spoken (written, televised, broadcast, taught, enscribe.....) to change their minds instead of insult them. They are ignorant. They don't know the truth. The truth is that homosexuality is natural, it is normal, and it is common in all societies worldwide despite the denials of the Iranian government. I disagree on its cause in genetics due to the fact that gay kids are born from straight parents all of the time, it often is that way because a man and man and a woman and woman can not (together alone) have a child. Genetics means from the parent, and since straight people are the ones mostly giving birth by a far majority, the gay kids that come from them under the genetics theory would have to be straight as well. Instead they are gay and so tada, genetics is out. It is in brain development, a part of the design of the brain, and it is normal. It can't be changed, and personally I don't want it to. Gays pose no threat to society. AIDS covers more straight people than gay people. Gays have never hanged a straight person for being straight. Things like this are what need to be said. Not "Did you get dropped on your head when you were young?" That won't change minds. Talking about the reality will.

Another thing, since this is really two thoughts on the issue in one: It wasn't the religious who hated (a few years ago) me the most, it was the majority of the people I knew. Here in Maine everyone else with any reason simply hated gays. The hatred covers a far wider range of people than conservatives, here in Maine (up in the Northeast, yes, we are part of the United States) most of the people are democrats and non-religious. The hatred is still here. That said, the hatred does not affect my daily life. I'm fully open, I never get critisized by anyone. I did when I was younger, but the kids were also younger at that time too and enjoyed even more juvenile jokes involving farts and so on. I have a religious friend who could care less. It comes down to something more than religion. It comes down to ignorance to the truth. A lie about gays has been spread to deep into society scrubbing it out will take time. It is getting better though. Nobody can deny that. The hatred remains, but like racism against blacks, although some still remains it is much better as time goes on.

Thank you for reading, meow.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Budget Cuts in the Department of Defense

If you think I am opposed to budget cuts, your wrong. If you think I want higher taxes, your wrong. Alright, that said, lets get to today's topic. In today's local paper, which is the Bangor Daily News for me, there was an article on the cutting of the DoDs budget. It covers the items being cut. Here is why they are cutting the budget for the F-22 Raptor which is the best fighter jet in the world "The Raptor is ill-suited to deterring roadside bombs in Iraq or hunting insurgents who vanish into the Afghan mountains." Alright, makes sense. I support the cut based on that explanation. It makes sense. Why develop an expensive weapon for another war at another time when we have a different kind of war right now. It makes sense. Except the next part where "A $160 billion Army system of combat vehicles, flying sensors, and bomb-hunting robots would be reduced." So, flying sensors and bomb-hunting robots also do not help fight roadside bombs or hunt insurgents who vanish into the Afghan mountains.
This is where the reasoning for the F-22 goes out the window. This is where my appreciation of the responsibility of the budgets, even if I don't believe they have any sense of responsibility at all, goes down even more. Yes, it is possible to always go lower than you already are. (Hitler anyone?) So, the new low isn't really comparable to anything right now because this low is a different kind of low. The economy isn't at rock bottom, our wars are not a devastating defeat with us sacraficing territory in peace treaties and all that stuff, and our leader isn't a genocidal maniac. Well, I have to go, part two will be coming up later (maybe.)

Human Rights

If you scroll down a ways you will find a post called HUman Rights. Well, without even noticing I forgot to give credit to someone. Za Ro, a close friend, helped me create that list. We spent several weeks discussing applications and uses of rights and the boundaries of government in upholding it. I mention this now because firstly you should have some introduction to him, and secondly because I prefer to give credit where it is due. The reason you will have this introduction is because every so often he will contribute to this blog. Without even knowing it he already has through that, I simply forgot to mention it. Now tomorrow will be his breakout moment, his move to the spotlight (at least in terms of this blog) and I have no doubt that he will surprise you. Now, my focus has been, well, nowhere really. His focus overall will be on social issues. I do not mean politically social issues, I mean issues. Read personal deals within people's lives that we all face. It will be less humorous, maybe a little dark, and his writing style may need some touching up, but like I've said before the message matters more than the delivery. Unlike my writing it is his opinion all the way through, his observations, his life. This does not mean I am using it to shock anyone. I doubt anyone will find any fault in what he has to say. Maybe on a substantial level of agreement to the impact of the issue, that might come up but I'll take that torch. He is simply going to put the knowledge he knows of people's lives and suffering here and how you can help people who are struggling. He has no political affiliation and wishes to remain as such. Considering the forum he will be on, I urge you to turn off political hatred when reading a Za Ro post and absorb it as the wisdom of someone who has seen it all before being 16. That is what surprises me about him is his age, and how he is so far beyond it in every way. Tomorrow, his post will be here, it covers how you can help people. I hope you enjoy it, gain from it, or at least don't get hurt by it. Thank you for reading.

Monday, April 6, 2009

A little math (already done don't worry)

The federal government began the 208 year with a record deficit of $237.2 billion, reflecting the billions of dollars the government has started to pay out to rescue the financial system.The next fiscal year is going to start out with a 3.6 trillion dollar defecit, a record in world history.
To allow a fair granting to the opponents, I'll round up for Bush, and claim all eight years had the previous record of 250 billion defecit, and I'll round down for Obama by 100 billion dollars. Thats one sixth of the Iraq war just so you all know. (Which means the Iraq war is paid for six times over in this new budget.)
250 billion, 1/4 of a trillion, eight years, two trillion dollars under eight years of George Bush, Obama, 3.6 trillion dollars in the first year, do de do de do de 14 trillion in four years, so do de do de do de we are getting not four more years, but 56 years of George Bush under Obama. This is presuming Barack Obama loses the 2012 election. If not, and I'll be generous to a national recovery if 2012 doesn't bring Mayan armaggedon, we will be getting a grand total of 100 years of Bush, financially speaking, in eight years of Obama. That is twenty Bush terms in only two Obama terms. Anyone else feel slightly concerned about this? Perhaps angry over the hypocracy?

Friday, April 3, 2009

Talent Show

Tonights talent show at Bangor High School was quite astounding. It was in the utmost effect what makes me proud to attend. There were excellent performances. From Tay's singing, piano playing, and overall genius abilities, to rapping, comedic failures, self insults, bulletproof glass not being stapler proof the entire event was great. During the Senior Band's performance of 99 Red Balloons, which sucked because the trumpets didn't come out too well and the drums were too loud, but eh, it was still awesome because the balloons came out of the ventilator system and of course they were red. Alas, the four years I've attended I have avoided social events. I avoided dances, I avoided participating in anything more intense than a good game of chess. Which brings me to the moral of the story (its a blog about silly stuff, but I always have a point [read my last posts.] Is this titled Episode of Distraction? No, so here comes the moral of the story.) The moral of this is that when you have the chance to enjoy your life in, as one observation of our school dances mocked, "clean, sexually safe, child friendly fun" you should take it. I limit it at don't do drugs or get yourself hurt. So, since I now fully regret placing one of my only talents on display, my ability to rap, I write the following as what I would have rapped without back music, just my voice (not singing, rapping, so unplug the ears k?) :

Some things in life hurt
Like someone giving me birth
From an illegitimate womb
That seemed to only be a deadly tomb
Luckily on that battlefield nothing went boom
Yet your going to notice in time
That I'm losing my mind
And I might not always be kind
Because you pissed me off and knocked me down into the dirt
All of you said that I had no more worth
So now I'm pushing back and it just might hurt

It just hurts because of all of these lies
It makes me almost want to cry
But I don't because you stopped asking why
We just agree that its time to say goodbye
I don't know which of us gave up first
I just know that it feels like we are both cursed
And all thats left is all of this hurt

The problem with the world today is that there isn't enough kindness in the hearts of many
Too many sit on the fence not making any sense
Just watching life go right on by
never bothering to ask themselves why
Peace and war serves anymore only to allow time for
The other to begin
We need to find a new way of thinking
because on this course the country is sinking
What other people think is bringing me to the brink
Some of my emotions make me want to burst
And some of us have had to survive the worse
Because on the inside we all do hurt

The pain of the birth that brought so much hurt
Can also bring joy to world like a kid getting a toy
Girl or boy the child is a gift
Special or not it still has innocence
Whether a president or a brick layer
We all have a choice of whether or not to tazer
Shoot with a bullet or a laser
Stop all the violence and be a joy maker

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

The "Protest" in Britain

Today the British were rioting. Many will say protesting, but a protest, at least here in America, is not supposed to be violent. When a large group of people shouting, breaking windows, defacing things, and screaming some more get in the news, they are often called rioting. Who do they legitimize the event that occured today by saying they were protesting? They threw eggs at the police, what message does that send? What cause does throwing eggs at police promote? It doesn't. This was not a protest. It was a riot. I'll also point out that I believe at least 20% of the crowd present were reporters, there were more cameras than people it seemed. Reporters, sadly, were pushing protesters aside trying to get to the center of the violence to get the hot shot of the event for their journalistic or hobby projects. They were protesting Obama's capitalism, which in and of itself is a mistake. Obama has not done anything so far that would in the long run preserve the capitalist system. While their message was wrong, and it has no value because of the presentation, the message matters to display the stupidity of these people. Emotion in a protest can lead to riot conditions, and it is these conditions that people lose control in and begin the riot. However, by preparing on a basis of a lie, Obama's capitalism, they were rioting before they arrived. They had allowed their emotion, their anger, not their discomfort, not their sadness about the situation they may be in, but their anger to get them to the protest. If you go to a 'protest' because of anger, you are not going to protest. If you go because you have a message, a story to tell someone, to let someone know then you are going to protest. These people had no message, some did, but the majority had emotion. Emotion, in the world of laws and diplomacy, has no value. Stop calling it a protest. It was not a protest. Thank you and let me know if you agree, meow, have a good day.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Chavez, airports and ports, Hitler, the Rhineland

From the BBC recently:

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Venezuela's military has taken control of key airports and sea ports under the terms of a move rubber-stamped by parliament a week ago.

The move centralises the running of the country's main transport hubs.

President Hugo Chavez has pushed for the move, describing it as "reunifying the motherland, which was in pieces".

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A quote from Hitler on the entry of the Rhineland from Source 1 at the bottom:

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Hitler announced that Germany was no longer bound by the Locarno Pact because of her "interests of the basic rights of its people to the security of their frontier"; the members of the Reichstag rejoiced in an ocean of "Heil! Heil! Heil!", believing that German honor, through the restoration of sovereignty, had been restored.

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I could present the case for why the ports were not already under national control already but you probably wouldn't believe me. So here is a continued snippit from the BBC:

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Soldiers were dispatched to ports in three states governed by Mr Chavez's opponents on Saturday - Zulia, Carabobo and Nueva Esparta. State governments in Venezuela have controlled the country's most important airports, sea ports and major highways since a move towards decentralisation began some 20 years ago, the AFP news agency says. Many of the facilities seized on Saturday have since then fallen under the jurisdiction of state governments often hostile to Mr Chavez. The latest change to the law came just weeks after Venezuelans voted for a constitutional amendment granting Mr Chavez and other elected officials the right to stand for election beyond the previous limit of two terms.

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So in effect, the occupation of the airports and ports in Venezuela can be seen as a historical parallel to the Rhineland Crisis. I believe, contrary to this parallel, that Venezuela would be more similar to Japan than Hitler. Iran is similar to Germany in plans for the Islamic Revolution to cover the world as Germany wanted Anschluss and then Lebenstraum for the 'Aryan' people. Iran's use of Hamas and Hezbollah could be akin to Japan's use of Menguko and Manchuko during WW2. We are in a global war. The armies are already on the move, as Hitler's were before we fought them. Similar to World War 2, Iran, Russia, Venezuela are all doing this just as Italy, Germany, and Japan did with only words for opposition. The sanctions on Italy did not work, the sanctions on Cuba have not worked, and the sanctions on Iran, considering Russia is violating them (and the five points treaty in Georgia, but that is for another blog), are also failing. In conclusion: WAKE UP AND OPEN YOUR EYES. Thank you for reading. Meow.



Source 1: http://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=156

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Madagascar and the State Department

I recently, before the abdication of power by Madagascar's president Ravalomanana, sent a series of questions to the state department about the crisis that this nation faced and what our position on it was. I asked if we supported the referendum proposed by Ravalomanana, if we supported the actions of the rebel who is now in power, Rajeolina, or if there were any other positions we provided support to. I also asked if we would consider the use of military force in the situation, or if our ambassador was proposing another solution to the crisis. I asked to what extent would we intervene, as our efforts in Isreal are considerable, and if we would push for such an effort here. The following is the actual response I got, to these questions:

Recently you requested personal assistance from our on-line support
center. Below is a summary of your request and our response.

Thank you for contacting the State Department.

Subject
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Madagascar's Crisis


Discussion Thread
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Response (Support Agent) - 03/19/2009 11:18 AM
Thank you for your message to Secretary Clinton sharing your thoughts and
concerns. We value your opinion and will take it -- and the views of all
Americans -- into consideration.

Secretary Clinton is committed to strengthening America’s national security,
advancing the interest of the United States, and restoring America’s leadership
position in the world.


Question Reference #090316-004746
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Category Level 1: U.S. Foreign Policy
Date Created: 03/16/2009 09:21 PM
Last Updated: 03/19/2009 11:18 AM
Status: Solved


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I recommend you decide for yourself what our state department's stance on this issue is. At no point did I suggest any of the possible solutions were in our interest, so I'm still as confused now as I was before. We have a travel warning and made a statement to support the constitution of Madagascar, however it mentioned no involvement of our ambassador, or other diplomats in trying to help resolve the issue. I feel tempted to write to them about their unsatisfactory response but my inner gut tells me I will get this automated response no matter what I write to them about. The Obama administration has officially disenfranchised me from the process of being involved in government for the time being. This is a real story, I am not making this up, I swear it. The Obama administration has failed me. I brought my concerns to them, I stated them clearly in an email to the State Department from their website, and this response has shown me they do not care about me, do not care about the issue enough to respond to it, and this lack of care to their job has left me without a desire to turn to them for an answer in the future. I've tested the administration myself. The administration has failed my test. It doesn't care about what we think. It doesn't care what we want to know about what they are doing. It doesn't care about transparency or doing their job. The administration is not concerned with my impact on society, or the election, or anything. I would go on to say what the administration cares about, but besides "american" interests, I am unsure, especially since the letter didn't tell me what those interests were. There is nothing else to say except thank you for reading and try to have a good day. I urge you to possibly try a similar test, see if you can get more than apples and oranges out of these people who are supposed to represent us.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

The Climb

The Climb is a song by Miley Cyrus. Like her music or not, the song has a good message. The best part of doing something is not the end result, not the effects after you've done it, but the process of doing it that makes it worth the time you take to do it. That is all for now. Have a good day.

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Race

When one thinks about racism, discrimination, elections, and your favorite tv shows, one thing is the same among them: they are all different, and require the seperating of different things. Your favorite tv shows are seperated from your not so favorites. Elections you seperate one from the other, yes from no. In discrimination and racism, your seperating two different things, usually people. Discrimination is against groups of people, inherent in either culture, history, or upbringing, maybe even political ideology. Racism is based on people's appearance. Lets put the appearance to rest right off. We are all human beings. Our blood is red, our hearts beat, our brains think. We all have a skin color, but we all have skin. We all communicate with each other in some way, languages are different but we all have a language. Even the blind and deaf have languages. All of humanity has language. As the blind and deaf cross all of humanity, so does the humanity itself. We are all human. At birth we all, no matter what our skin color or parent's skin color, have the same potential, intelligence, and innocence. We have the potential to live our lives to the fullest, or let it be happy but unaccomplishing, or ended at our own will, or lose it to someone elses, but our potential is the same the day we are born. We are all equally intelligent, our IQ leaves us unable to speak, only an evolved inner sense allows us to know who our mother is, and we communicate the same way: a cry. Our innocence, on the day we are born, is greater than it will ever be anytime in our lives. It is at its zenith because as we live our lives we erode our sanctity, the "curse of the original sin" does not exist, but we create sin simply by being human. It is part of the flawed creation that we are. However, the day we are born our innocence is the same as anyone else who is human. Race does not matter when we are born, race does not matter when we are alive. The government forms ask for race, and never do they ask for human. The government is in itself accepting, as I am sure many of you are as well, of the theory of race. It does not make anyone stronger than anyone else, it does not make anyone richer, or poorer in their lifetimes. The belief in it does. You believe you will fail, you will fail. You believe you can succeed, you will succeed. You need to believe you will succeed when you are doing something, otherwise it is only luck by which you win if in fact you do win. If you believe your richer because of your race, your a fool. Your rich because of your effort, or your dumb luck. However your stupidity in taking your wealth for granted means you will probably lose it, because your race did not give you your wealth and so relying on it to get you more will fail miserably. In conclusion: There is only one race: human. The human race is equal, the same, and gives all within it the ability to make themselves unique and capable of achieving anything. Thank you for reading. Meow.

How Its Done

Due to an illness that keeps me from speaking lately, I will rant literally. Literally instead of verbally. I'm proud of my pun. Today the ravings of a madman will be conducted on the topic of race. Now, this blog is meant to provoke a reaction, and often in media the most provoking things are divisive, shocking, blatantly designed to create ratings through conflict. Creating conflict intrigues our minds. I have a different approach. I provide a reasoned statement with an explanation, almost every time. This blog being a record, my opinion I keep until the last few lines, following a much extended explanation which "normally" will provide both sides. I quote normally because I do not want to commit to providing both sides, I simply wish to say what I want sometimes. In the news they rarely give their reasoning. They bring the analysts on and have them argue the same points every single time, but they never make progress or finalize the issue with a reasoned or balanced opinion because they get five minutes to toss the lines that make impact, like my final two lines, but can never provide the reasoned explanation as I do. I've noticed, and the people who don't read this won't notice, which right now is over six billion people easy, that few people are reading my blog. Sure, I don't advertise like others, sure I don't tell all my friends I have one, sure I have a following of no one, but I don't care. The point is that am giving my opinion. My free speech is sacred and I am displaying my free speech here every time I post. It even allows me to speak when I physically can't, such as right now. I know that unless I do something horrible like threaten someone's life or worse, I will not face anything more than other people's expressions of free speech in response (which I gladly accept as it allows, hopefully, for reasoned debates.) I know that years from now I can do something completely opposite to what I may advocate for here and I won't face anything threatening. I can make a statement that I oppose someone politically and not face house arrest. I know that I can be investigated, indicted, or have a social (sex, family or ect) scandal happen to me and I will still be able to run for and even hold public office. This same freedom I call for needs to be extended to all people in Pakistan excluding those who, as the restriction applies to me, threaten lives or worse (militant fighters of all opposition groups and even a few of loyal groups). I do this because if it is not, your nation may fall apart. You need to allow the judges to return to their posts. This message is not only to the people of Pakistan, but to its president. Musharaff is gone, remove one stigma of his leadership that brought his regime down and gave you your position. Grant amnesty to all involved, move forward from this dark day in your nation's history. I know this may not even reach you, or anyone in Pakistan, but let it be a statement that I will appreciate to be held to account should I ever do otherwise. I give permission to all to call me a liar if I ever do anything contrary to this statement: Release the judges and lawyers held during the Musharaff crackdown before he was elected from office. This has been the ravings of a mad man. Have a good day. Meow. (Post on Race with come following this one.)

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Abortion, Stem Cell Research

Do you support killing babies? Obviously (if your civilized) the answer is no. Now the question that is often spoken of, answered to an extent, but never asked comes into question. I'm going to ask it. Please don't pass out. Its really hardcore. When is a baby a baby? Two clear cut answers exist: at the moment of conception, and the moment the baby is out of the womb crying away. Those two answers are a minority of the opinion, the first having a majority of support especially based around religious conservatives, but among moderates as well. At this point it becomes complicated. As premature babies show that not going the whole nine months isn't a prerequisite to survival, should we allow aborting a child at eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, or less months? The issue is divisive at this point. As five month old babies have survived to live on to productive lives, and as medical practices get better, so will the survival rates of younger and younger babies. So at what point do we determine if we should abort a child? Right now it varies greatly as confusion of science and religion and theory and philosophy combine in a spectacular display of constant competing distractions. As medicine continues to advance, will conception eventually take place in a lab and be brought to full term in this manner? I personally hope not because that would be just creepy in my opinion. However, when is a baby a baby. When can the embryo be used in research, when can it not? When can we abort a child before its a child? When is a baby a baby? Find your own answer. Then, we need a national vote, once and for all, a national referendum of when is a baby a baby. Have it be a November ballot question, with twelve answers. 1: At the moment of conception. 2: 1 Month 3: 2 Months 4: 3 Months 5: 4 Months 6: 5 Months 7: 6 Months 8: 7 Months 9: 8 Months 9: At moment of birth. 10: Do not know 11: Do not care 12: It does not matter. We have much more important issues to deal with right now.

My vote goes for 12. Where does yours?

Friday, February 27, 2009

Tragedy of Newspaper Debt

Recently many newspapers in the United States have declared they are going to declare bankruptcy or stop printing. Should they completely go out of existence, this will be a major loss if not properly handled. I am speaking to their archives. The New York Times archives I study extensively for news of World War 1 that I can not get from history books or elsewhere online (although I study the archives online) and this reservoir now faces an uncertain fate as their maintainers go under. For the sake of historical value, these archives should be purchased and maintained by a historical society, or for those companies struggling without hope, generously donated to libraries or museum collectors in the United States to preserve the perspectives of old. I say this in all seriousness, please make a plea to preserve these archives of our past. These old newspaper clippings and articles contain our mistakes, our successes of the past, and maybe if we keep them around long enough we can take the time to learn from them.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Religion: Through The Ages

Alright, Rome, Greece, pre-Judaism faith from Norse mythology to Myan isolated beliefs in Central America, all had many numerous gods and tales of those gods to not only inspire, but give something to pray to. With temples to gods providing power to those who donated to that god, their system was one of, miracle or theft, but the theft had to be kept hidden in night so the gods took them, instead of a shaman or thief or whatever you wish to call it. The the myths of their heros gave power to people to know what to do in all situations. The power was controlled by the believer, as they recieved the inspiration. The gods called for heroics, and the people delivered. This changed in monotheism, in which god inspired good will to achieve for those who were powerful: whether it be the Crusaders or Muslim warriors, the power went from the people and the god, to the religious hierarchy in the middle. Now, the power of belief was wielded by a man, who controlled the belief of his flock. This is where we are today. Myths were the foundations of religious in the past, but today they are led by personal stories from the believers, or a book to which interpretation is left to man. Look who has the power. The power of faith is now told by enrollment to summer camps where the doctrine is studied, the donations to a 'charitable' organization on the day of worship in a building selected as being holy by, wait for it, the ones who own the building. Religious icons provided the proper place of prayer in old days, now they are in the hands of the organized religion, and held to secrecy unless a proper fee is made. A muslim will most likely not be given access to the Shroud of Tourin. Just saying. So, look to the modern religions and think about what the religion tells you in your heart, and what the people who claim to speak for god are telling you. Make up your own MIND. God in fact gave you one if you believe in him. So USE IT like he intended. Don't be a sheep. Be the shepherd of your life, and have no person tell you otherwise.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

My Observance in Poetry

They all called for change, and end to the same
Yet they now smile away even though its not different
They still have monthly payments
There still isn't legal detainment
Roads are crumbling from lack of pavement
And our children are still in reckless endagerment
By the government or the people?
Whose responsible?
All of these things go on and on
They are still treated like pawns
The water is gone away from their lawns
But everything is fine because color has changed
Who cares about ties or being deranged?
That guy is gone now we have more of the same....
Don't like what I say then look away
I'm here to stay not going away
I'll throw you into the fray
Let you know what I know every single day
That our healthcare and welfare and continued warfare
Aren't changing anytime soon
Because our economy was built like a balloon
Now its popped and falling fast
Nothing can inflate it
Only our media can seem to rate it
By number of viewers on their horror shows
They tell us of blow after blow
In this war against the middle class
Its happening fast
Yet this is going to last
We'll fall and fall without an end
But wait, we don't need a god send
We'll get through without some faith
We just need to shift who we hate
Those with such corporate greed
Hate those who took more than they need
Yet look away from the union bosses,
mandatory pay from your wages
give you some unwanted losses
but look away to give business your rages
Ignore the drug lords you fund too
They give "immigrants" a chance just like you
They deserve to work with you too
Thats right, we know your a fool
Which is why we still poison your food
I know you won't like it but it is true

My State of the Union

President Obama was just give a normal speech to Congress last night. It was in no way a State of the Union. Ahem, if it was a state of the union, it might have talked about healthcare, and education, and energy, and our wars (he mentioned them twice I think). Oh, well then its just a new standard I suppose. Yup, he gave a State of the Union almost a year early. Woo. Oh, and he said that he was glad "That Congress passed the stimulus bill without earmarks". Lets start this off with my State of the Union message which also won't be the real State of the Union. There were over nine thousand earmarks in the stimulus bill. Weed is going to be legalized not to end a failing policy, but raise tax revenues. Abortion is all but being banned without a Constitutional amendment. Washington D.C. is going to gain Senate and House of Representatives seats with a promise that Idaho gets one more House of Representative Seat if they support their gain, all without a Constitutional amendment. Gun rights are being banned, against the Constitution. Marriage between two people is selective in who can marry who, some of this selective treatment is part of several state Constitutions. We have a president elected on premise of affirmative action. Our nation is in a depression. Deflation is the only way to get out of this. We will face 20% unemployment until 2012 when it will begin to recover (apocalypse theorists, shut up already and try to help out instead of being gloom and doom, 2000 came a went, 2012 will come and go as well, we might not be better off than before, but we will still exist) and the global downturn is making one superpower a regular contender with Europe, Russia, China, India all rising to a five tier power struggle for global supremacy as globalization is seen as a failure. Many smaller nations will resist flooding influence of these nations, with their own personal stockpiles of nuclear weapons. A nuclear war has not happened. To clarify, nuclear weapons have been used, only twice, it was not a nuclear war. A nuclear war is a war in which nuclear weapons become the primary weapon of choice in defeating your enemy, or, vaporizing your enemy. Our education, healthcare, social security, welfare, college funding, medical research funding, overall technology advancement funding across all fields, and inrfastructure, and alternative energies funding is going to increase. Meanwhile, somehow, our taxes and deficit will decrease. The only place left to cut would be the military budget, which funds the military, which has won the United States all but three wars in which one was a retreat, one was a stalemate, and the War of 1812 which was an outright defeat and foolish war to begin with. However, the military has won every war, yes, I include Iraq, we won, Iraqis haven't taken over this country is the sign that we won. Had we lost, Saddam might be a superpower of the middle east, or later by a month Al Qaeda might be taking over the world by now had we lost. We need the military. End of story. My real State of the Union will be tomorrow's blog, and my previous blog was a challenge by a friend to write a blog without using the letter e, so I did. Now that you know what annoys me, I will provide my State of the Union tomorrow, and then my solutions to these problems one by one every day. If there is a particular complaint, whether it is DHS, taxes, bailouts, immigration, or anything that annoys you, please write a response to this and tell me what it is. If the nation isn't going to advocate for itself, I might as well do it for you, for free. That is right, I will be a lobbyist, for the people, like it is supposed to be. Thank you for reading, hope you respond, meow.
As I am writing this without a particular non-consonant that follows D, I find that I am in fun fun land of confusion as I try to fill in lost days for this blog. I would say sorry in a formal way, but without this non-consonant I am at a loss for that ability. I will do this without my bff non-consonant that follows D. So, onward this train will go! As for clock hand motion lost in this tragic loss of non-consonant that follows D, I will go on without saying sorry. You do not know how hard it is to do this without non-consonant that follows D, as many of our politicians contain non-consonant that follows D in that birth-right of an actual NAM with non-consonant that follows D at its final jot down. So, all things looking as if I actually thought about it, this blog will find many shorts in its painful path as I try to foward this gravy train of thought. So, this was hard to say as is, and tomorrow I will talk of much improvision in this not with a dictation of how I can't do this without that non-consonant that follows D. Thank you for showing up. Wuff.

Monday, February 23, 2009

Guns, Courts, And An 11 Year Old

I've seen a news story throughout the day about an 11 year old boy shooting his pregnant step mother with a shotgun he got for Christmas because he did not like his father's new girlfriend (the step mother.) This 11 year old is going to be charged as an adult in the court system. First of all the crime is severe. However the criminal is not over 16 and thus should automatically not be charged as an adult. Make whatever security arangements necessary. They say they need to charge him as an adult because he would need to be seperated from the general population of a juvenile facility. I will simply point out that you will need to isolate him in a prison facility as well, considering that some of the inmates are pedophiles and shower time would probably not be a good experience for this boy. I understand his crime is severe. However, this could have been prevented with a bit of common sense by the father. A message to everyone who reads this and the nation that I love as a whole: don't buy your kids guns. If you do, please lock them away until you are there to supervise their use of them, especially if they are under the age of 16. That is just a given. Some common sense is required. The reason this is common sense is because his anger and frustration is nothing new. These shootings that we complain about in this 'new era' come not from new anger or hatred, but new access. Guns are no more commonplace, in fact they are harder to get through the legal process. However, it is the lack of proper storage and common sense when it comes to children and the mentally unstable that are creating this new era of gun violence that is shown in the media. The gang violence is still much subdued for some reason, maybe a fear of being called racists. Anyhow, these shootings come from people who have the same repressed feelings as anyone else. A kid who loses his mother or father to any issue, most painful being death and divorce, will hold resentment and anger either towards whoever fulfils the role if unwanted, or towards the one who caused him to be removed from the family situation they hold, commonly the father, sometimes the mother too in a divorce. These feelings are nothing new. It isn't the games, it isn't the music, its the lack of selling boxes with padlocks with every gun. Remove the extra taxes, take away the "ban gun" initiatives, sell secure cases for guns with the gun. Make the secure box mandatory with every sale. Maybe in extreme places, such as Illinois and California, allow random checks on those boxes by a once a year task force to check up on those. If they are not being maintained, remove the weapon from the household and revoke the lisence. Now, the kid should be punished, as a kid. The guns should be secured in households across the country from those who are not capable of handling them properly. This has been another episode of the ravings of a madman. Thank you for reading. Meow.

Friday, February 20, 2009

I Stand Alone Until Proven Otherwise

I'm not a saint. Don't claim to be. I do however, have my own crusade in which I oppose drugs and reckless sex. Now, reckless sex is unsafe and while having more than one partner at the same time. Majority will agree that is bad and should be avoided. Drugs, majority will agree its bad and should be avoided. However, the number drops when it comes to two things which I include in drugs. Tobacco, which a slim majority would oppose, and then alcohol. Alcohol, I lose a person's agreement every time when it comes to alcohol. I understand its a major part of not just American, but world history, but I also understand its harmful effects, as well as the harm the other things cause as well. I see the harm they cause. The suffering, pain, anger, remorse caused by them onto not only the person who takes the drug, but the people around them who are devastated by witnessing an addict, or an alcoholic, or have to choke on someone's cigarette. I can get people to agree on one or two, but alcohol and marijuana, (cannabis for you Europeans and technical kind) always end up as the sticking point in getting support for something I wish would happen. I would appreciate to see them banned. Outlawed. Illegal. Out of society completely, not by government mandate, but by society placing a limit. It rarely happens these days but we need it or this world will continue to spin out of control. Thank you for reading.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Afghanistan Comparisons

I keep hearing comparisons of the miserable failure that was the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to our current occupation of Afghanistan. They say the Russian's couldn't do it with 160,000 troops, we can't do it with roughly 60,000. They say we don't have the support of the people and neither did they. There is one similarity which I will discuss near the end though, and I'll keep it a secret for now. First lets talk about the troop numbers. We have fewer men there. Can't deny that. They are however, the best trained, equiped, mobile, and skillful soldiers in the world. The Soviet army was of regular soldiers, ill equiped, had a faltering air support, and also had major political pressure back home. The skill was not as great as that of our current forces. Our air force has uncontested supremacy. The Soviets had to face weapons we gave the Mujahideen to fight the Soviet airforce but I'll get to that later. Our forces have the full backing of the military and government of the United States. The home support might be faltering, but not that much to be noticable in public policy. Our troops have the best, and if any army can do it in Afghanistan, ours can and WILL. As for the support of the people, the Soviets had no support. They didn't even get help by many on their way in. We toppled the Taliban with 300 troops in coordination with the Northern Alliance. Only 300 and we toppled the entire regime of the Taliban making them run into Pakistan where they now have refuge. The Soviets did not have the support of the people. In response, they destroyed entire villages in retribution for their lack of victory against the Mujahideen. Our air strikes are limited, and most of them are successful. However, in many cases civilians are claimed among the dead instead of militant fighters. I believe there is distortion of the facts in many cases. I believe we do kill the militants in these airstrikes, the problem is the militants are attacking us from their homes or in the middle of civilian areas making airstrikes a difficulty in avoiding civilian casualties. The solution is not to kill fifteen civilians and one militant in the airstrike. The solution is to stop the airstrikes with 100% certainty and allow those fifteen civilians to join the police force and operate on the ground so our troops don't have to, and we won't have to rely on air strikes anymore. Now, there is a similarity between the two wars. The Mujahideen was supported by the United States with weapons. The Taliban is supported by Russia and Iran with weapons. Kalishnakov rifles and Dragon Mines are among the weaponry used by the insurgents we face. The military victory is indeed possible, however we can achieve this as soon as we get Iran and Russia to stop their support of the fighters we face. The weapons the enemy uses are given to them. We stop their supply, they stop fighting. Its that easy. This similarity stands out as almost forgotten by the public eye. Maybe they've never learned this reality. The news doesn't want to admit it because we would have a diplomatic souring with our "Democratic Russian" allies. However, its true, and the sooner people learn this the sooner our policy makers can address this. Hillary Clinton can tell Obama all about the KGB in Putin's eyes when they talk about the weapons the Taliban are using. Maybe then he'll believe it. Until we make these changes, we are stuck there until we figure out what to do with our current tactics.

Venezuela and World War 3

In the past year this South American belligerent against the United States has expelled United States ambassadors, encouraged other nations to do so as well, almost gone to war with Columbia with Ecuador, and signed nuclear deals with Iran and Russia, and allowed Russia's military to conduct operations in their waters in coordination with their own armed forces in a scenario which pitted Red forces against Blue forces in a mock invasion of Venezuela. Now recently the latest to expel our ambassadors has been Ecuador, kicked two out within a week. Now the second one didn't even have time to start his job, nevermind interfere in the affairs of Ecuador's government as they claim he did. I know Obama wants to try to give diplomacy a chance, however if they don't want diplomacy, why do we keep sending diplomats just to have them kicked out? Why waste the money to buy the plane ticket? Another item on the chain, why do we keep spending money for them to stop drug production when they keep producing drugs despite funding military forces to shut down such production? I believe one could say the better placement of our funds would be on our borders to prevent the drugs from getting into this country. The countries supportive of the United States efforts against drugs like Columbia, Brazil, and Mexico should continue to get our support (Mexico is a special case in which I would negotiate a military intervention in their civil war considering the paramilitary drug cartels are killing Americans as deep in our territory as Pheonix). However, if they don't want our support and call us imperialists and our presidents the devil, you know I'm talking about you Hugo, maybe we should stop funding their police divisions which protect their nation's facilities against drug gangs and allow their military units to be able to have the weapons necessary to fight them when the drug cartels do come out of hiding. Hugo Chavez wants a South America without the United States involved, lets give him what he wants. Lets stop buying his oil. Lets sanction his nuclear program like we do his close buddy Iran, who he says if we attack will mean a war with Venezuela. Thats right. They have a pact. If the United States goes to war with Iran, Venezuela will declare war on the United States. Now, you may say whats wrong with an alliance? Well, the last three times a major worldwide system of alliances formed, we had three world wars. World War 1, World War 2, and Cold War. In the first two Germany was the enemy. In the third Russia was the enemy. In the first World War we made Germany face punishment which drove the hatred that caused the second world war. Now that the third world war is over, and Russia was punished with a lack of involvement by the Western nations, was allowed to disentigrate as a people who, although different, were Russian. The independance of nations following their collapse is not wrong to have happened, the lack of interest in Russia's stability immediately following the collapse was a mistake. Now, we face another world war. Iran is leading the call for war, but Russia is the only power in this alliance that would make the war a possibility. Its the wildcard as its nuclear arsenal would not be used in conventional conflict, but if it can have Iran and Venezuela (who is also helping Bolivia and Ecuador develop nuclear technology) be reckless in using them against the United States and our allies directly in limited amounts, our standard MAD would be restricted, because their nuclear arsenal would be limited to the damage already done, and using further nuclear weapons would face reprisal from Russia, thus resulting in MAD, but they could make the bet that we would not put such an even into action unless the stockpile of Russian nukes were to be used, in which case MAD would still apply. The strategy of the third world war will be grand. It will be the first World War in which at least two of the major fronts will be conducted with guerilla warfare as the primary tactic of Iran and Venezuela. Russia may go more conventional, feeling its role as leader of the alliance will give it the better position to use tactics above those of its lesser allies, making them subservient after the conflict to Russia's leadership in the new world. However the war turns out, that will be part of the strategy employed. This has been another episode of the Ravings of a Madman. Thank you. Meow.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Stone in my Hand re-written

Side with Micheal Moore, lie about the war
I got no job, ain't got no money
I got no militia, ain't got no land,
Ain't got nothing but the words in my head

You say you want a revolution, well get on board
We'll start a new crusade; we'll start a holy war
Don't need no orders, don't need no plan
I don't need nothing but the Constution in my heart

You legalize your weed, you pay your union bosses
You kill our economy, you merge our nations
You ignore our laws, and our freedoms and our religion
Still I'm fighting with the freedoms I still have

Words in my head, Constitution in my heart
Still I'm fighting with freedoms I still have
Taxes that I pay only work against me
All the love that's in my heart keeps me fighting for what I had

Illegals jump the borders, gunbattles fill the streets of LA
Every son that suffers, every mother cries
So if you've had enough and you're ready for your stand
I'll be waiting with the thoughts that will change and defy

Friday, February 13, 2009

Free the Sahrawi Democratic Republic

This is an odd moment in my life. I have often looked to rebellions in negative ways. Seen them as breaking the order. I of course have a modern viewpoint. Colonialism is one in which I believe uprising and rebellion was necessary, that's how the United States came into being. I've looked to the Tamil Tigers, Laurent Nkunda, the ICU followed by Al Shabaab and observed the destruction in their purpose. They fight for their people, but are just as quick to kill their own as the opposing forces. However, in practice the Polisario Front fought a war in standard warfare. It had to fight underground against two nations, however civilians for the large part were spared. Their constitution lays the groundwork for a nation with a multi-party democracy and a free market economy. This is why it is an odd moment in my life. Few rebel movements that I have seen have looked at the situation they have, and stated that when their fight is over they will drop power and become a political party or disband once their freedom is achieved. I've rarely seen an open commitment to such a nation during the rebellion. They have the groundwork for a peaceful, democratic, free nation and the world is allowing Morocco, a considerably neutral nation towards us, to prevent this free nation from forming in the middle of a desert. My problem with the issue is why would Morocco, with the primary civilized and wealthy areas in the North, fight so much for a barely sustainable southern region? Polisario condemns terrorism and sent condolences to the families victim to the 2003 Casablanca terrorist attacks. They want independance, not bloodshed or revenge. Just their freedom. Meanwhile they face the Moroccan army. Morocco put the effort and the skills of an army nearly the size of the entire Sahrawi population at work preventing them from crossing a wall that stretches from North to South in the Western Sahara. Walls that divide people must be brought down. Reagan told us this. Germany was a clear example of why walls that seperate people must be torn down. (North Korea, shut up the wall is in your own territory unmanned by anyone and you can tear the fifty year old relic don if it makes you happy. Just stop lying about us using it to seperate the Korean people, you shut down the railroad and limit the number of visitors into your country every year. Anyway.) Yes, allow the Sahrawi Republic to be formed. Buy off Morocco if you have to. Two free, cooperating nations are better than two bitterly entrenched warring neighbors. I plead for the world to recognize this and act upon it.

List of WW3 Allies

In the coming world war 4, (3, 5, can anyone keep track yet?) I see the United States as having some allies in the fight. Here is a list of them.
1. Great Britain
2. France
3. Germany
4. Poland
5. Italy
6. Spain
7. Portugal
8. Netherlands
9. Luxembourg
10. Belgium
11. Denmark
12. Norway
13. Sweden
14. Switzerland
15. Kosovo
16. Greece
17. Columbia
18. Mexico
19. Canada
20. Japan
21. South Korea
22. Australia
23. New Zealand
24. Singapore
25. India
26. Isreal
27. Columbia
28. Panama
29. Brazil
30. Argentina
31. Iraq
32. Kuwait
33. Saudi Arabia
34. Egypt
35. South Africa
36. Liberia
37. Morocco
38. Croatia
39. Macedonia
40. Albania
41. Czech Republic
42. Slovakia
There are many other nations, but they might have little impact or are in the middle ground.

Episode of Distraction 1

Now already I've broken the promise to write a blog every single day. This is because for two days I had no ideas of what to write. Well, for days that I have nothing to write, I will detail, piece by piece, a game. A new game. A board game. Yes a board game. A new board game. Since I refuse to post pictures on this blog, I will have to explain it with words. This means I will make this a simple, yet exceedingly complex game as I run out of ideas. If I finish figuring out what the game rules are, I will then detail strategy. So lets begin the game with two squares. Simple, four sided, connecting at one of the sides. They are right next to each other. One is standard blue, the other is standard red. The standard blue represents a single soldier for side A. The standard red represents one soldier of side B. You roll two dice. Standard 1-6 sided dice. Whoever has the higher number goes first. The objective is to take over the board. The person who goes first can either stay, or move forward. If they chose to move forward, they roll the dice. If they tie or get above the other person's dice, they move forward. Thus, they win. If not, they stay put. Then the opponent chooses. Same rules apply until there is a victor. This has been an Episode of Distraction. Thank you for coming. Meow.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

List of WW3 Enemies

I see a series of alliances forming in the world against the United States. In these alliances of the world I see four nations leading the pack.
1. Russia
2. Iran
3. Venezuela
4. China
I see the following nations being part of the alliance by affiliation to one or more of these nations.
V- Venezuela C-China I-Iran R-Russia, simple enough so lets go.
1. Syria I R C
2. Lebanon I
3. Ecuador V I R
4. Peru V
5. Bolivia V
6. Honduras V R
7. Nicaragua V R
8. Cuba V R I C
9. North Korea C
10. Serbia R
11. Somalia I
12. Pakistan C I R
13. Belarus R
14. Abkhazia R
15. South Ossetia R
Then you have other nations unaffiliated but they hate the United States anyway.
1. Zimbabwe (Power sharing must work for me to revise this.)
2. Somalia (Instability causes breeding ground for radical Islamists.)
3. Mexico (If government loses civil war.)
4. Vietnam (If not taken over by China.)
5. Chile (If ties with Cuba and Venezuela continue to strengthen.)
6. Myanmar (Monks. Enough said.)
7. Libya (Minor player at the moment, but one of the most powerful African states led by Pan-Am bomber Gadaffi. Gadaffi holds African Union presidency this rotation. The agenda of removing opposition is in direct conflict to our promotion of democracy.)
8. Kazakstan, other Central Asian countries (More trade, money, and promises from Russia, their former rulers during the Soviet era, than anyone else.)
The way to deal with this system I am not an expert on. I however do have the eyeballs to see this alliance forming. I urge you all to look at the connections of nuclear programs and scientists in the world. Then look at all weapon sales of basic rifles such as AK-47, Kalishnakov (?) Rifles, and other assault weaponry. This alliance is forming, and it doesn't like us.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

My Bailout Proposal

Its back. Thats right. We are having another global depression. Some are saying it is already worse than in the 1930s. With the George Bush stimulus checks, the numerous bailouts, and the current Congressional bill along with the Treasury Secretary's proposal, we are looking at, in the course of less than a year, an increase of the federal deficit of around 4 trillion dollars. I'd give you an exact figure, but they don't have one.
So, lets look at what caused the financial collapse. A person observing the daily monitored news reports covering the housing market would be a big clue as to what caused it. The default of millions of sub-prime loans by people unable to pay for the loan, and the credit default swaps (when insurance companies were insuring the loans to the banks, to more than just the bank that owned it. That is right, you can't take out life insurance on your neighbor, but some companies were letting your neighbor take out insurance on your home loan. This was done in the hundreds of billions of dollars range for insurance. Insurance companies wanted more sub-prime mortgage loans because they wanted to sell more insurance. Banks wanted to give out more loans to get more payments on the interest. Then the third group, the ones who bought the insurance on the loan that wasn't theirs, wanted more because they got to collect if any of them failed (by collect, I mean not just $150,000 on a home loan, a bundle of failed loans worth 10 or 20 billion dollars.) Now, how did the insurance companies profit from this, all you had to do to get the loan insurance (credit default swaps just to clarify) was make a 10 percent down payment. Then it was yours. The bank had a billion dollars on a ten billion dollar insurance, which had never failed in history as a major investment on the whole. It was almost the safest possible investment one could make. At that point it is in your best interest as a third party owner of the loan insurance, to make the home loan fail. So you encourage, through corporate lobbying, not in Congress, but in CEO board rooms at the central bank, the 1 percent sub-prime rate to change after a while not from 1 to 5, or 6 as originally, it goes up to 16, 20, or 25 percent. So a monthly payment goes from 300 or 400 dollars to 1000 overnight. In observance, the inflated middle class becomes lower class yet again, thus sparking a nice class warfare, which I'll talk about again in another blog.
So, person goes bankrupt or their house forecloses, and they are out of a home. The bank loses the loan but the insurance is going to replace the losses. Now, a bank taking out the insurance isn't an issue. Ten people claiming the ten billion dollar insurance on a package of defaulted home loans, the insurance company doesn't have that much money. This is why AIG collapsed. AIG insured these loans, and when the groups they insured came to them, there were too many claims and not enough money. So when that happens, the bank is out, the insurer is out, the others who paid for the insurance are out, and the homeowner is out of a home. Gloriously out of this immense stupidity, very few are going IN to a court room. The groups who write our laws have hopefully, but I've yet to see it, outlawed such a practice.
Now, the fallout goes all the way around and the homeowners, numbering in the tens of millions, are out of homes and bankrupt. The banks are out of money. So when the former homeowner, now in small apartment hopefully, if not they are buying their home in the car lot, goes to buy a car, they have a horrible credit rating, and the bank has nothing to led, so the car can not be purchased. This reigns true for all major purchases. Thus the car industry is also failing. Now we get to the government remedies. The government gives people a stimulus check in the mail. They are hoping the people will buy the big purchases with their stimulus check. Instead, the government forget that everyone still had their massive debt and those that didn't were afraid to let go of their cash. So, most people paid their bills or put it in the bank. Now, you would think this might help the banks, but it wasn't enough. However, the housing market is still crashing. It didn't work. The banks are still losing money and people are still losing homes. Companies are starting to make lay offs because of the lost buyers. Thats when an idea to save the banks comes into view about six months later, passed two months after that.
So lets save the banks. Banks get help they can loan more to people so cars, refridgerators, wedding rings, platypuses (platypi? Plat PLUS?) and other great stuff keeping those industries alive. So they put 400 billion into the banking system. I'd tell you how, where, or when but in all honesty, nobody knows. The government didn't keep track. The oversight groups were too busy raising fists over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The banks were too busy losing more money than they were getting because, yet again the failure of this attempt, the homes were still foreclosing. So the banks are still in rough shape. The companies are announcing even greater layoffs than before. So, now we come to the current and proposes stimuli.
So lets save the companies. Construction is shutting down because people can't afford new homes considering their losing their jobs. Their losing their jobs because the company they work for isn't finding enough customers. So the proposed bill here is to provide a customer (the United States of America government) for the construction companies and any company really. They are buying a new fleet of cars for their staff, not senators, but the senators STAFF. Hey its ok, they are flex fuel vehicles after all which will be in another blog down the road. So the bill goes on and on through a month of painful deliberation, partisanship, campaign hard feelings by the Democrats (they claim Republican's hate it because they lost the election, we hate it for the reason's I'm outlining here) and at the end of the day when this goes through it will not help the mortgage industry. However, four jobs for a month building a tennis court is going to save the nation right? For a recovery bill, it isn't going to help people RECOVER their homes. Then ontop of it we get an announcement for 1.5 trillion dollars (potential for 2 trillion) to be the NEXT stimulus bill.
This new bill is supposed to be a "comprehensive bank bail-out". Basically we are bailing the bank out yet again, but this time we are going to know where the money goes. I'd tell you more about its effects, but we've seen its effects in the past bank bail out. We might not know where it went, but we know it went to the banks one way or the other. This will be the same way, but we'll know which banks get it and which don't. Won't that be lovely. Also, this one is bigger than that one was. Why? The banks need more. They've been neglected by the debate over the current stimulus. The homes are still going under and their bank rolls are running out. People are still losing their homes. Which is why I will now outline my proposal.
Pay off all the home loans in the country. People keep their homes, and get more money every month to flush into the economy as always without worrying about losing their home, banks get their money and can loan for cars and colleges again, then the ripple goes through the rest of the economy. Now was that so difficult to figure out? Congress? You reading this? Yeah, I'm talking to you. I'm a citizen and you're kinda sorta supposed to listen to me. I may not have voted for you, but the least you could do is represent me. Anyone else reading this, tell me what you think. This blog isn't just a blog, its interactive.

Monday, February 9, 2009

Human Rights

In order to give you all the opportunity to respond to my blog, I'll keep presenting things for a short while here at the start of this project to compel a written reaction to the post. This is as much about you as it is about the blog. So today I'll list what could be a list of human rights for which all laws, in a utopia of sorts, would protect. After all, isn't declaring that people have rights just a signal for your judicial system to create laws to protect those rights? Well here is my list:
1. Every person has the right to not be owned by anyone else.
2. Every person has the right to freedom of speech.
3. Every person has the right to punish as person for harming them.
4. Every person has the right to the opportunity to private property.
5. Every person has the right to not have their life taken without necessity.
6A. Every person has the right to choose how their life will be lived.
6B. Every person does not have the right to choose how their life will end.
7. Every person has the right to presumed innocence in the court of law.
8A. Every living thing has the right to not be harmed unless a necessity of survival.
8B. Every person has the right to harm a species that is not as evolved as him if it is a threat to his survival or that of family, friends, property, ect...
8C. Every person has the right to kill any species not as evolved as him for game after approval from government.
9. Every person has the right to privacy on their own property unless privacy is used in violation of other people's rights.
10. Every person has the right to be active in their government.

Sunday, February 8, 2009

God

Nobody believes in a god the day they are born. God is a fact, or a lie, that we teach our kids. A=B=C and A+B=C is a lie. 1+1=2 is a fact. Algebra is a lie. Religion is a lie. Math is a fact. Language is a reality. Governments are as we see them; not as we want them; not as they are. God has been taught only by others. God has never been found by someone alone. Communism is not a type of government. It is a political thought. It is a wish. It is impossible or a lie as the final stage. Humans will be humans. Communism will become anarchy. Then tribalism will start again. The cycle is unstoppable. Globalization will need Mars to prevent Socialism. God is not a reality. God is a lie. God is a thought. A thought by one person accepted by many. A thought never forgotten since its beginning. A thought that represents hope. It holds hope to its existence. It holds people hostage to lies. God does not speak. God has never spoken. God has been lied about. If we need God back in this country, have God tell us so. Have God speak to us all. Not one person. Not one man. Have God send himself. Show himself. Prove himself real. End the hatred over his existance. End the violence over his words. End the differences to his name. God is a lie until God exists.

Big Announcement

Now would be a great time to make some grand comparison of how life is like apples and oranges, but alas, too bad for you. I could discuss how life in all its infinite splendor is pointless and repetitive from every second of our lives to that of those after us, but I'm too tired. Instead I've got a small little idea wandering around the abyss that is, right no grand comparisons. Ahem. I've got an idea. I'll be writing, every single day of my life from now on until I decide not to, a blog posting on this very little space of mine. I'll cover very important topics like current issues, world war 4 (3, 5, who's able to keep track anymore?), world religions, and my own little life. I know, not very important, but if I get bored of the usual tandem I'll write, write, write to my very dead end. Which leads me to this moment where I tell you that you now know what my big announcement is. I've tossed back and forth the idea for a while, and thought of making my own little unknown blog on some website like google. So, now you know, enjoy. The first post of the rest of my blog will follow this, in which I destroy the existance of God. Enjoy.