Go Ban Yourselves

Whatever happened to sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you?
My god America - grow up.
I could give a rats patoot if some team owner is a racist in private.
I could care less if a president lies about an affair.
My wife is Jewish - I don't care if some country bumpkin fool gets on national TV and pronounces his hatred of Jews.
Who cares?

Oh the outrage, the indignation, the fuss - for days and days.
Banned for life. Impeached. Shunned.
How dare they?

Here's what I say to you - blah, blah, blah.

There are a lot of people who aren't going to like you, treat you fairly, or act with the purity and to the standard you feel they should. As long as they are not acting on their words, or what they do causes real harm, who cares?

And what about you?

Millions starve in a world of plenty while you ignore them, too busy whining about the latest name caller. Hundreds of thousands are murdered in unnecessary wars you are hardly aware of - you too distracted by some player lying about oral sex.

Why don't you take a good look at yourselves

Is it possible to ban yourselves?

Wounded Elephants

I once had a boss who told me I wrote like a wounded elephant.
He should know - he was married to one.

Easy Prey and Cowards

Those who lobby against federal and state support of higher education by and large represent student loan lenders - predators all. 

Since by law you cant just walk away after defaulting a student loan or even dismiss the debt in bankruptcy I would then have to ask what reason the high interest rates? What reason the systematic defunding of our universities and colleges by government resulting in rising tuition that for many, is unreachable - except through student loans and strangling debt. 

Student loan predators and a corrupt government overly influenced by them and their lobbyists - that's what.

So hey, good idea. Prey on our future scientists, physicians, researchers, and engineers, poets, novelists for a quick buck today - never mind bankrupting our future.

People spend 20 years in prison for drug offenses. By those standards these predators should die by lethal injection. The harm they do - immeasurable.

Do me a favor

Most of the New Testament was written in the first and second centuries A.D., but not compiled into a single book probably until the fourth century AD. Both the authors and those that compiled it, were men who were at least partially influenced by the need to expand the church's base and power.
According to them Jesus was born during Hanukka, died and was resurrected during Passover, as example.

If I wanted to convert Jews or Pagans in order to expand my congregation, I would for sure offer rites, rituals, and holidays to compete with existing ones. So coincidence or competing for believers? Gods words or human invention?

Here's the thing. As a non-believer I recognize these questions are a matter of faith - not for me to question another's faith. If only believers could learn to return the favor.

Redneck Earthlings

Planet Earth - love it or leave it.

Media, Mayhem, and Money

America you have become fraidy cats.
You live in a state of constant fear of imagined threat - and it has consumed you.
Death panels, a terrorist behind every bush, mushroom clouds, a child molester on every street corner.

Where are your children who should be playing in your neighborhoods free to roam and explore as children should? Play date?

What purpose your airport surrender of civil liberties?

Tell me again why you must arm yourself to the teeth?

Because you live in constant fear of imagined threat and you haven't the guts to get on with living.
You have swallowed hook, line, and sinker the 24 hour news cycle and the state of constant hypervigilance, paranoia, and fear so necessary to sell you the news. Coming to get you.

Oh sorry - didn't mean to frighten you.

One World

Here's a question for you.
How many people died in Vietnam? 50 odd thousand??
Wrong.
4 million civilians died in vietnam - 4 million.
Hitler killed 6 million jews. We murdered 4 million vietnamese.
I'd like to see a memorial to them.
I'd like to see a memorial to all those that have ever died in war.
I'd like to see us all mourn human death and suffering wherever and to whomever it occurs.
I'd like to see the day when we learn to value human life - all of human life.
Not just the culturally familar. .