The lottery

  The reduction in a government that has a life of its own is my primary goal.  Either the government is FOR the people, or it is AGAINST the people.  And "the people" does not only consist of rich people who show up at the voting booths.  The people have been led to believe that they shouldn't bother with the voting booth, AND they have been baited with promises of lucrative lifestyles if they should win the lottery.  Meanwhile the lottery takes money from the people who need it most, and spends it on social issues such as street repair.  The rich people do not play the lottery, because they don't desire the chance to be rich.  They are already rich.  So this is a good way to rob the poor to pay to rebuild roads.  What really happens is that some of the hard earned dollars that poor people have gets re-directed between each other.  Some times one person gets some of the money that 3,000 other people wasted on lottery tickets.  But not ever will it all work out in the end.  If we need better roads, let the rich pay for it.  They would not be so rich if the blue collar worker didn't drive to work everyday to pay for his/her family.  In America we teach "equality" in our schools while the majority of Americans make pennies to provide the rich minority with luxury.

     You might be doing well, but you are still being robbed of what you really deserve.  There are some people that are using a lot of you to make money for them while their "job" consists of calling their "managers" and "bank officers" to make sure you made them some money today.

Downs, Depravity and Death

The latest before-birth technology boasts the ability to detect Downs Syndrome nine weeks into pregnancy. As with all major scientific breakthroughs, there are ethical questions involved. What is the motivation of parents to learn their child-to-be will be retarded? It would be nice for them to know all they can before they actually have to care for the baby. There is another side that I am promising you will become an issue within a few years.

Abortion is a legal practice when the fetus involved is nine weeks old. Conservatively, even if it takes 12 weeks to detect Downs Syndrome, it can still legally be aborted. Is it wrong to abort a baby that will obviously receive the short end of the stick? Can we save the pain and suffering of a child who will never be accepted by the overwhelming majority of other children? Keep this child from being laughed at, called names...keep the child from facing an uphill battle that will never ultimately make him/her strong enough to bring a fair share of contribution to society?

How about the parents? After all, it is not only their decision to make, it is their interests most involved in the matter. If you or your wife is pregnant and you find out the amount of work involved to raise the baby will exceed the normal tradition, would you be able to save you and the child all the grief related to being affected by Downs Syndrome?

Religion would never allow that to be an acceptable practice. They would scream, "God has a plan! Downs or not, it's a human being!" On the other hand, these are the same people that will talk about how a "bad seed" that has murdered human beings need to be exterminated. Because obviously God did not plan for that.

When we let religious whims shape our character we are giving up the very soul religion claims to be saving. They say that God gave human beings free will. And I say that if a human being has the free will to kill, then that was God's plan. Since we don't want to have murderers running around, some of our free will may be to exterminate that murderer. If there is a God, he gave us free will for a reason.

I can tell you one thing. He did not give us free will so that he could banish the bad people to Hell. He did not fragment us and divide our faith so that one group of people could make the "right choice." In my estimation, if a human being is so depraved as to want to murder another human being...that is a sign from God that we are fucking up royally and we better fix it fast. Otherwise you may be the next one on the chopping block.

Complainers

     I know I've been away for a while.  I can't promise the next time I will write.  I have a million things to write about, but no desire to sit and write them.  Mostly because of the apathetic nature of most human beings to improve conditions.  A lot of times I get the message that my knowledge on the operation of the planet Earth is just not that important to people.  They would rather dangle themselves as sheets in the wind, rather than assert their rights as a human being.  In general, rights are given and rights are taken away.  In today's world, certain rights have been taken for granted, and because of that...many of them are being taken away.

     Suprisingly or not, an article about retail stores has prompted me to start writing again.  It reminded me of a time I was in Best Buy (an electronics mega-store) and was asked for my phone number at the register.  They will lead you to believe that they are attempting to serve you better.  In some cases, their actions WILL serve you better.  But in most actions, they are only looking out for their own interests. 

      Corporations are trying to focus on the people that WILL spend their money to increase the corporation's bottom line, and stop wasting their time on those who do not intend on feeding the profits so stealthfully seeked out by these vultures.  After all, who cares about anybody who has no money?  I do.

    I am constantly degraded for wasting everybody's time with my words.  Most people don't want to hear about how much they are getting screwed.  The rest don't understand or can't pay attention long enough to come to these conclusions.  I have two instances to share regarding this attitude, although their are plenty more that I won't "waste your time" with.

     The first is a girl that I hold high regard for.  She is lost in her own little world, constantly worried about what people think of her.  She spends most of her time with her companions talking about their day to day lives.  Who did what with whom, and why doesn't he/she like me...and so on.  She tells me that I'm smart, but when I put my intelligence on display she says, "I DON'T CARE!!  I just don't care."  I don't need her to care.  Let metell you of the second instance before I make my final point.

     My aunt was having a hard time with the christmas lights she put up outside of her house.  This same aunt really insulted me on numerous occasions when asked to read the thoughts that I put onto paper.  She "didn't have time for (my) rhetoric"  and she doesn't need to read my "editorials" for she has "real connections with real people."  So I went to fix her problem.  First I replaced her faulty electrical outlet and installed special covers that allowed for things to be plugged in without exposing the outlet to the weather.  I went home, and she had a new problem.  Her girlfriend convinced her to call me up and offer to pay me to fix her new problem.  The problem was that only one of her light strings was working.  The other two wouldn't shine.  So I stopped by again, found that the tiny fuse had blown in one of the light strings, and wouldn't allow that string, or the following string to light.  I replaced the fuse and went on my way.

     She left me a message on my cell phone about how I should invent christmas lights that didn't have a fuse and were supposed to last "two years and that's it."  She thought it would take the frustration out of putting up the lights.  My answer to that is, "If you didn't think my writing's were a waste of your time, you would know why you are barking up the wrong tree."  #1  The lights have fuses because too many stupid people string too many lights end to end.  The more lights that are strung together, the more electricity has to travel through the wires.  If too much electricity travels through those wires, they will heat up, melt and cause a fire.  #2  This world is already FULL of piece of shit products that don't last very long. 

     If she would "waste her time" and learn a few things about the world, she might realize that she would probably burn her house down by stringing too many lights together.  Why do you think she blew out her fuse?

     Meanwhile the former girl I mentioned also complains about things in this world that again, I can explain.  She complains about the way people are, and what seems to be important to them.  At one point I had to tell her that I didn't care about her gossip.  I didn't care what her friend said to her other friend, or why this person wasn't calling this other person.  She now tells me that she knows how I must have felt when she said that she didn't care about the things that dominate my mind. 

     I guess I'm tired of people complaining to me about their problems, and then when presented with the answer or solution, they then complain that I am wasting their time.  Whose time is really wasted here?