Useless deaths

In the past week, five, count it, five underage homosexuals have killed themselves. It's sad, is it ever so sad, that these people are killing themselves. And when we hear it people are shocked, they can't believe it. They don't understand why these people are killing themselves, but it's so obvious.

We have policies, set mainly by republicans that are politically pushing around homosexuals. I laugh when I see these republicans saying they are worried, worried that these young people are dying and they want to stop bullying.

They want to tell these kids that the bullying will stop after they leave high school, but will it?

According to the Republicans openly gay people cannot serve in the military. Not only that, but they can't have the basic right to get married. How is that for bullying? It's funny that they don't see it. They don't get that they are the bullies.

Republicans always talk about the trickle down effect. They give the tax break to the big company, the company gives more jobs out. Well, here is the other trickle down. You treat a particular group of people like shit, so does everyone else.

Of course there is going to be bad treatment of homosexuals at the smaller level, why wouldn't there be.
They see the law makers, the senators, people like Newt Gingrich say that these people shouldn't have basic rights and then they follow along. It's despicable.

There are not enough words to describe how bad this is. But recently gay celebrities have taken to the internet to talk about how it gets better, they say that after high school the teasing stops. The hatred stops. But it doesn't.

America, if nothing else, is consistent. The country is filled with hatred, and white males who bully others. It started early, with the Native Americans. The Indians were killed, almost a complete genocide. Equivalent if not worse than what the Nazi's did to the Jews.

They then turned to the Blacks, enslaving them and lynching them.

Treating them as something less than human, blacks weren't allowed at the school, to vote, to live a decent life. They were never given a shot. After decades of trying to fix that, and we really still aren't there. America moved to it's next pick. Women.

Women were never treated well but as men tried to block their basic rights of voting and abortion it was the general public's next victim.

But now that women, and blacks are starting to get better treatment… the latest victim has come out.
Homosexuals and Hispanics have become the new target. The saying goes that we must learn from history or we are doomed to repeat it. Seems like we need tutorials.

ATTN: Dr. Laura, you are a moron.

For the life of me I do not get why these shock jocks keep making racist jokes, and then can't figure out why people get mad at them. You are picking on people who have taken the majority of our countries worst times and shoving it in their face again. Good job.

So if you haven't heard Dr. Laura -- who is a doctor of I don't know what -- had a African American woman call in to her show for some advice. Dr. Laura, and I use Dr. loosely here, managed to not give her advice but just go on a huge N word rant.

She now says she is quitting her show so she can, "regain her first amendment right." Did you catch that?

The First Amendment protects the government from censoring you, it doesn't prevent you from being a dumb ass and being criticized. According to Dr. Laura the First Amendment Right means that not only can you say whatever you want, but no one can say otherwise. That you are able to say whatever you want and people have to agree.

So maybe we shouldn't criticize Westboro Baptist. I mean they have  the right, and we should just agree.

Westboro Baptist thinks you are going to hell.

My stance is normally to not give any attention to attention whores, having said that Westboro Baptist is in my view right now, and I figured what the hell, I will give them a shout.

If you don't know about Westboro Baptist Church they are a fire and brimstone church based out of Topeka Kansas. Their website can tell you more, but you probably have seen them on CNN for protesting dead soldier's funerals.

Well, last week, while protesting a funeral, they were pepper sprayed. GOTCHA BITCH!

But the reason for this post is not about them getting what they deserve, but about what can be taken from them. In a law suit that has gone all the way to the Supreme Court is a case involving the freedom of speech and to peaceably assemble.

For what will be the only time in my life I am going to side with the WBC. I hate that they have made a mockery of our Bill of Rights. I hate that they abuse this right. And I really hate that they protest funerals of soldiers who gave them the right to protest. But I don't want the ruling to go against them. Why would I? I love the first amendment.

Where do we go if this law starts getting limited? How much do we limit it? I don't think this will accomplish anything good minimizing our rights, after all what else do we have?

And here come the Catholics. Today, the Catholic church is in the news for only allowing men to be a priest. Great. Now, churches are not only anti-gay, but they are anti-women.

If you havent heard about the story, Father Stephen Wang came out and said that the women could not be Catholic preachers because they could not take the place of Jesus. Really, Father? Are these the same men who rape alter boys? These are the men who are taking the place of Jesus?  I think I will pass on that idea.

This is a joke. Come on, this the same church who has been conning people for hundreds of years. If you have taken any college history courses you know about Indulgences. These were the pieces of paper you could buy for full or partial remission of temporal punishment.

These were the same papers that Martin Luther spoke out about in his 95-thesis he nailed to the wall.

They speak like they are hollier than thou, but when you look at their history this is a religion that has had "Holy Wars" and the IRA in Ireland.

I suppose I bring up the IRA because right now religion is a big deal with Al-Queda and Muslim religion, but it's a great example of how someone can speak out about an issue when they have their own dirty secrets.

How they can come out and say these things that are stuck in the 18th century? This is the same religion who came out and said that condoms are a bad thing. Yeah, tell that to people who don't have aids.

I say screw it,  let women be preachers and if Westboro Baptist Church can be led by a woman, so can the Catholics.

RIAA hates you!

I am not going to spend much time explaining today's story, I am just going to point it out and then make fun of it. That seems so much easier.

So the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is pissed. They want you to stop taking their music. You might remember this was the group who tried to sue Youtube and the judge said, "Get that shit out of here."

However, now they have a new idea. Make a law against Google! That's right! Now they are saying Search Engines should be responsible about their content.

Does this seem weird to you? Is Bank of American going to sue Nike if bank robbers are wearing Jordan's at the time of the robbery? Are People going to sue McDonald's when their kids get fat? Oh wait...

Besides the obvious of what is wrong with this, the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act (try saying that three times fast) should stop this.

What pisses me off the most is the fact that the whole piracy music problem started because industries were screwing the consumer. I remember paying 25 dollars for a CD which had one good song on it. Then some people got smart, they said screw this let's just have one person buy it and the rest of us can burn it. Thank god.

Do I feel bad for this industry? No. Just like I don't feel bad that Blockbuster is filing for bankruptcy. Here is the beauty of capitalism. Blockbuster screwed all of us when we were younger. Charging 7 dollars to borrow a movie. Then Red Box came around and made it a dollar a night. BAM! Blockbuster is done. Point of this whole post, don't fuck over your consumers. They will take it for a while and then go find something better.

But it gets even better. Cary Sherman, the RIAA President has said that he hopes this bill doesn't pass with out the corporation of the search engines, of course we know how that goes.

If you want to check out some stories about the subject. Try this story.

Thank god for religion.

I had not intended to post today, but something has been bugging me, so I figured I would fire up the blog for a quick post.

St. Vincent’s school in Bedford, Texas has come up lately in the news because of their problem with lesbians.

Olivia Harrison is a 4-year-old girl in Bedford. She was suppose to attend St. Vincent. Then right before school started Chaplin Randy Foster gave her the boot citing, "The canons of our church take a traditional stand on Christian marriage."

Really Chaplin? So do you mean to tell me that if a child, boy or girl, parents were to cheat on one another, you would kick them out of school too?

Here we have a great example of the pure hatred a church can harbor. Listen, religion can be a great thing, it can guid people in times of need, and put them in a great place. But tell me this isn't discrimination.

This is a church and school who receives a massive tax break thanks to our government, and they are going to reject this girl because she has two moms? I think not.

People who ignore gay rights should be appalled by this. Now kids are being affected because Church’s won't recognize rights of homosexuals.

What really pisses me off is the message this sends to the child, little Olivia is now going to have to live with the fact that because her mothers were born different, she is now the odd one, she is the different one, all because of a church’s decision.

For the Church’s sake I just hope that if some kids dad cheats on his mom with a stripper they give him the boot too. After all, they believe in a traditional stand on Christian marriage.

Read more here

Food for thought

Today will be short and sweet. Knocking out the first post seems like a lot of work, pressure I don't want. So to start it off, I am going to throw this out today.

When ever you walk into Krogers, Maynards, or Piggly Wiggly do you think about what you are getting? I mean do you pick up grapes and think, "Geez, I don't mind that this traveled here from South America or Africa?"

Take a little bit of time and read this. It's amazing how little people think about this subject.

Japan has an interesting solution. They are telling their consumers the amount of miles traveled with food as well as a POCO number that shows the carbon footprint. You can read about that here.

Enjoy your next meal.