I consider myself a very opinionated person and so for my last blog I felt that it is only right to throw down my opinion on several major issues that I feel passionate about.
My political beliefs.
In past blogs I have spoke about specific issues, and on what sides of the issues I stand on but I don’t ever think I have an overview of how I really feel about the government. To sum up my beliefs I consider myself libertarian leaning conservative. Do not be confused by the term conservative, because the Republicans have stolen it and twisted the meaning. Republicans and Democrats are both socialist and fascist just in different aspects. For fascism the Republicans have anti abortion, which I do not believe in abortion, but I will speak more about that later, they also try to force religion down the throats of every American which I don’t agree with it. The Democrats fascism is affirmative action which tells companies that they have to hire so many people of different ethnicities as opposed to hireling the most qualified which is utterly fascist, also they are pro abortion (I’m sorry pro life), which is fascist, also their views on gun control laws are fascist (keep in mind I am generalizing the common beliefs of both parties, and also they both have more fascist ideas I am just using these few to get my point across.). So what is the solution to this travesty, an answer that would please everyone (or almost everyone), extreme states rights. I don’t believe this would eliminated the fascism from the parties I believe however that the fascism would not be able to hurt anyone this way. When the federal government, tells America that people are allowed to have unprotected sex with an unlimited number of partners without the possibility of having raise any children some people sit over well with this idea, but for others it’s like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole, you know it’s going to be hard to get it in there but you’re going to try like hell to make it fit. Keep in mind this is just an example if there were no federal laws about abortion for it or against it the states would be allowed to make the laws that they feel there people want, if you don’t like how the states handle the decision you could move to a different state that does support your beliefs, bingo bang boom everybody’s happy. The only thing the federal government should do is have a military, a federal reserve, and a few other things but certainly they should not have as much power as they do. On of the main problem with big government is when a major event happens (our current economic crisis) and the public wants answers the answers we get are pretty much two little kids pointing the finger at one another. If the government was smaller it would be a lot easier to find the culprit of major event, instead of playing the blame game.
Illegal immigration.
Everyone has heard the stories of people jumping over the boarder so they can live a better life in America than they were living in their country, and these people should be forced to stay persecuted in their own country as opposed to stealing our job’s, just kidding. Honestly how effective are the people who lost their jobs, at their jobs. The answer to this is if people really care that much about their job gets a job with better job security, duh. There are lots of people though that do happen to come into the county not to pursue a better life but to peddle drugs, and I shall address this topic later. The answer to the illegal immigration debate I believe is periodical open boards, and amnesty. Give all immigrants the right to be citizens so they can pay their taxes and contribute to the progression of society. If every immigrant paid taxes we would certainly have enough revenue to build better borders. Which by the way I believe the borders should only be closed in war time, and times of economic hardships, everyone should have the right to the American dream. If this were to happen we could easily have the true illegal immigrants that only want to pedal drugs easily escorted out of the country, fairly easy with the newly acquired revenue. We need to stop telling other counties to keep their tired, their poor and their huddled masses, we need to tell the countries we will take their tired, their poor and their huddled masses like our ancestors did a hundred years ago when the statue of liberty was brought over.
And on God.
My vision of god I believe differs greatly than what most people are used to hearing. My belief in god came to me after reading several works of Plato, and Tomas Aquinas’s treaties on god. It summed up is merely god is not really a being, or a person; god is merely a characteristic something can have. Essentially that characteristic can only be given to something inconceivable; the inconceivable thing is given the characteristic of good. By that I mean god is merely everything that is inconceivable, and good. To give an example of this the big bang theory, the big bang brought everything into existence, since the big bang is still surrounded by many questions it is still inconceivable of how it happen and I am sure many would agree with me that whatever really created life is good, there for the big bang if it is true, which is impossible to know, has the characteristic of being god. I will now put my theory into a biblical story that is renowned to be true. Moses leading the Jews across a split red sea. There are many documents that state that the red sea actually did split, in the manner depicted in the bible. What made the red sea split however is inconceivable, and it is renowned to be good because it allowed many people to escape slavery.
This are just a few of my beliefs question them If you must I will do my best to defend my positions. I am for sure I did not layout all my idea’s, and for that I am sorry, also sorry if I left anything out of these, ideas of mine.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
(PC) What do you mean i'm moraly gifted.
It has recently been brought to my attention, the stupidity of political correctness. I understand the purpose of political correctness is to try to sugar coat everything, so certain things don't sound as bad as they really are, but enough is enough. I have tried to think of this subject not only as a white man, (yes white not colorly challenged, yes man not y chromosomally gifted) but no circumstance have I ever felt offended by the words of another, not when I was called a white boy, or honkey or white bread in the Peoria schools, or when I was called a fundy for my Christian beliefs and you mean to tell me people are getting upset of these moronic things., I have read accounts of stores being ridiculed for selling 'Christmas trees' apparently there supposed to be holiday trees what garbage is that, who gets hurt in calling a Christmas tree a Christmas tree, or black board a blackboard as opposed to chalkboards, or man holes being called man holes as opposed to personal assess units(supposedly offensive to women?). These things are just words why get offended by them, why do people try to derail the entire societies way of thinking because a very few people (which I don't even believe) get their feelings hurt. The only instance I can think of that I would ever use PC would being referring to someone as mentally challenged as opposed to retarded, even though I don’t understand why this is offensive completely because the definition of retarded is "characterized by retardation: a retarded child" thank you diconary.com these words are not meant to hurt anyone, they are meant to be used as all other words are simplify how we communicate, does anyone call a fat person horizontally gifted, an anorexic person horizontally challenged, a criminal morally challenged, no I don't think so. The English language is already considered one of the hardest language to us effectively let’s keep it as simple as possible. A fat person is fat, a criminal is a criminal, a Christmas tree is a Christmas tree, a whore is a whore, and they are not sexually gifted. We live in an extremely culturally varied world, this is non deniable, but honestly who gets hurt from these words, they are not slurs, and they should not be sugar coated.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
cultural analysis
Cultural analysis 1.
I took a trip up the road to a little restaurant by the name of Aachis. Aachis serves north and south Indian cuisine with an extreme variety of vegetarian and non vegetarian food. Its location is 917 north Western Avenue about where Western turns into main.
Upon my arrival to this small restaurant, I find parking to be a non issue. There are no real blinds in the window so the entire restaurant is visible through the parking lot. It is very bright, and lots of bright plain colors on the walls, which hold a variety of Indian artwork. The Tables though few are covered with flowers, in vases, which lay upon a burgundy table mats. I expect I shall soon be entering a heavenly place.
As I open the glass door I find myself waiting to be seated. I assume even though there was only one other couple there besides me and my acquaintance for some odd reason we were waiting to be seated for around 5 minutes. Finally as were seated we find ourselves yet again waiting, this time on our minuses. It is while this time is elapsing we discover many things. The first thing that is discovered is at the slightest touch of our table it creates a pendulum effect. The second is there are strange spotty stains on the plainly painted walls. Thirdly while poking fun at the spots our eyes comes in contact with the thermostat which was set to 85 degrees this is when we realize we are burning up. Lastly our ears are engulfed by what I assume to be the Indian equivalency of MTV.
I tried not to let this things spoil my time so I allowed our evening to unfold a little further. Our food arrived in a fair amount of time, and I won’t say at their prices it was easy on the wallet but it was surely not highway robbery. The meal I ordered was a goat stew sort of thing with tomatoes in it and I piece of what I call pancake bread, and rice. I took my first bite of this stew to find the spicy taste mixed with the rice and the bread happened to be quite delicious. So with my next bite I expected the same, but the next bite my mouth was unpleasantly introduced to pretty rough and tough bones. I informed the waiter, who then looked at me as though I was foolish and said there supposed to be there. I said ok and bided my time once again. Then a strange noise, came from the back room it was loud, repetitive and it seemed as though the intervals of time it for the noise to repeat itself was at a steady pace. I yet again dismissed this noise which was louder than the half naked Indian on TV was singing. A little bit more time elapsed before nature called where I was encouraged to go to where the noise was coming from. On the trip to the restroom I found the noise culprit an unbalanced washing machine, and was given an awkward smile by one of their employees.
After my visit to the powder room I sat back down and completed the rest of my meal. The check was given I paid my part and asked for a menu to take home, which it was provide after roughly around 15 minutes after I asked for it.
I took a trip up the road to a little restaurant by the name of Aachis. Aachis serves north and south Indian cuisine with an extreme variety of vegetarian and non vegetarian food. Its location is 917 north Western Avenue about where Western turns into main.
Upon my arrival to this small restaurant, I find parking to be a non issue. There are no real blinds in the window so the entire restaurant is visible through the parking lot. It is very bright, and lots of bright plain colors on the walls, which hold a variety of Indian artwork. The Tables though few are covered with flowers, in vases, which lay upon a burgundy table mats. I expect I shall soon be entering a heavenly place.
As I open the glass door I find myself waiting to be seated. I assume even though there was only one other couple there besides me and my acquaintance for some odd reason we were waiting to be seated for around 5 minutes. Finally as were seated we find ourselves yet again waiting, this time on our minuses. It is while this time is elapsing we discover many things. The first thing that is discovered is at the slightest touch of our table it creates a pendulum effect. The second is there are strange spotty stains on the plainly painted walls. Thirdly while poking fun at the spots our eyes comes in contact with the thermostat which was set to 85 degrees this is when we realize we are burning up. Lastly our ears are engulfed by what I assume to be the Indian equivalency of MTV.
I tried not to let this things spoil my time so I allowed our evening to unfold a little further. Our food arrived in a fair amount of time, and I won’t say at their prices it was easy on the wallet but it was surely not highway robbery. The meal I ordered was a goat stew sort of thing with tomatoes in it and I piece of what I call pancake bread, and rice. I took my first bite of this stew to find the spicy taste mixed with the rice and the bread happened to be quite delicious. So with my next bite I expected the same, but the next bite my mouth was unpleasantly introduced to pretty rough and tough bones. I informed the waiter, who then looked at me as though I was foolish and said there supposed to be there. I said ok and bided my time once again. Then a strange noise, came from the back room it was loud, repetitive and it seemed as though the intervals of time it for the noise to repeat itself was at a steady pace. I yet again dismissed this noise which was louder than the half naked Indian on TV was singing. A little bit more time elapsed before nature called where I was encouraged to go to where the noise was coming from. On the trip to the restroom I found the noise culprit an unbalanced washing machine, and was given an awkward smile by one of their employees.
After my visit to the powder room I sat back down and completed the rest of my meal. The check was given I paid my part and asked for a menu to take home, which it was provide after roughly around 15 minutes after I asked for it.
Monday, November 9, 2009
ad analysis 10
In my ad analysis I had an ad of Brett Favre sponsoring Wrangler Jeans. I found this assignment to be fairly easy for the most part that is. The easiest part of the assignment was just examining the ad and breaking down each individual thing about the ad and describing it. After describing parts of the ad I then finished most of the paragraphs with the message I got from the different parts of the ad. The most enjoy however that I got from the ad was researching this football legend and finding out more about him. Such as he was an MVP a few times and he started up a charity for mentally handicapped kids.The hardest part of the assignment for me was the thesis I have not written many so this was not a treat for me. On the other hand after so many of Stephanie’s wonderful thesis activities I think it is safe to say I found a great one I put in my paper. On top of everything I feel that this assignment advanced me as a writer.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
This Will keep the king of england out of my face(1)
The second amendment (the right to bare arms) is by far my favorite amendment about baring arms. I decided to write a piece about gun rights after reading yet another blog about gun rights (that one being about guns in console, mine about concealed carry gun control). I will start off reinforcing the stereotypical right wing approach if you illegalize it the people who want guns bad enough will get them. This belief stands on a horrible foundation though. To say that just because people will do it no matter what the law says is quite moronic, if this were the case then why not legalize rape, murder, and theft (do you hear that pro choice’s )they will be done by a good deal of the population why not make them all legal. Of course you or I would never say these things, the point of this article it to persuade all who reads it that gun ownership (in my case concealed carry ) different from though monstrous deeds. (I’m sure my readers have all heard about 1, 2, or several people who abused the privilege of concealed carry, my answer to that is we've all also heard the story of the criminal who abused the privilege of not having constant government watch).This is not an easy topic to discuss there are so many factors that go into leading me into my conclusion. A blanket approach to my conclusion is concealed carry is self-evident (does a bear not use every weapon he can to defend himself when its life or the life of its cub is in danger there’s not some leader bear saying clip your claws you might hurt someone) if everyone had a concealed weapon everyone would be able to defend them self to the fullest extent right (What happened at Columbine again? v.a tech?). The main support for my belief is that the good strongly outweighs the bad, not that everyone is good (commie's)or everyone is bad.(I have heard that only police officers should be able to conceal carry a weapon, Right police officers have never abused this privilege). As long as that is so anything but concealed carry makes no sense, there will all ways be a few bad people, and there will always be a lot more good people to crush the bad.I have also heard that well there could be lots of accidents with the guns. It is a good concern I must say but from my research the gun accident rate is so mathematically insignificant it should not be a main argument in the outlaw of conceal carry. There are already a lot of government safety regulations i.e. the safety button (you know the thing that the gov't ordered to put on guns, anything the fat cats can do to get in the way of the gun owner and him killing something tsk tsk).It is like saying we must outlaw knifes because a few people cut themselves while cooking, or making a sandwich or what have you.Probably the main point I should bring up is no state to the best of my knowledge gives conceal carry rights easily, they have to be earned, though many classes, and background checks and mental evaluations(and the prices are astronomical in most cases). With all this in mind if your qualified to have a conceal carry license your qualified to be a polices officer, and just because the stars don't point you in the direction of becoming a police officer doesn’t mean you should not be able to have a concealed carry license. As long as all these requirements are meet who should stop someone from carrying a gun.I like to end this piece with a quote from the "Motor City Madman". "Only a coward would want less good guys on the streets with guns.", and "Cat Scratch Fever"
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