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Big T's Analysis: bigt@mail.com
Issue 2:
My political beliefs are simple: don't waste tax dollars, do what the citizens demand, Bush won the 2000 election, Clinton and both Bushs are tied for the worst presidents, 9/11 is over with, the Bible did not fall out of the sky, the Bible is not His word but the word of dudes, Religion is evil: if you don't agree with me open your damn World History Book, Catholic priests who suck kid dicks are going to hell. Heaven and hell don't exist, evolution is real, Nostradamas is full of it, Bill Oreilly IS the best show that there ever was, CNN is full of Spin, Capital punishment is a waste of time, abortion depends on the moral beliefs of that person same thing with sex, One size does not fit all, and most of all the: Golden Rule.
Issue 4:
Religion Equals Speculation
The Church system could probably trace its roots for the past ten-thousand years. It might have begun in Middle East and the Balkan Peninsula in Eastern Europe. Over time many religions developed such as the Roman Catholics, Judaism, and Islam. All of these religions, despite their differences have a couple of things in common. The universe was made by a guy in the sky, the head of the Church had all authority and they demand ten percent or more of everybody's pay because this here Guy in the Sky needs you to pray in a beautiful dwelling. Over time many questioned the Church and instead of using a religious response, the ministers, they use! d force and any non believer shall die and go to Hell. Many people over the years were imprisoned, crucified, or burned at the stake in the name of being a heretic. These hypocritical clergy members call themselves peaceful? How dare they. Over time as we all realize the burning at the stake is less common thanks to the founding fathers' understanding the various religions. That became the more popular choice. The citizens of America realize how corrupt the Church is so the Church's attendance is declining year after year, but recently after September 11th, the church got a 4% increase in attendance. The main reason why I am anti-Church is because I totally, one-hundred percent disagree with their interpretation of God. They believe that God just came out of nowhere, created the entire planted in less than a week, we all know it took billions of years to create the earth of what is now. Finally this Guy created Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden out of mud. The Lord told them not to eat the fruit of the tree. They did anyway and therefore the Church's God damned all humans for eternity. By today's standards most people realize how stupid that sounds but people still have this fear of going to the Underground for not believing in the Church's interpretation . To sum up the first story in the Bible, the Lord messed up his creation of humans therefore its all our fault and we are sinners because of his mistake. An analogy of this situation is like lets say you buy a radio made by Sony. You buy the radio and its defective, so what do at least ninety percent of Americans do, we take it back for a refund. Sony gives you the lip that its your fault for buying the defective product and so from now on, we Sony, will make bad radios forever. (This is just an example, Sony is a reliable company). That would never happen because Sony would go out of business. My second analogy is the Garden of Eden. It is what we would call an attractive nuisance so therefore by today's standards the Guy who planted the tree would be at fault. Another reason why I am anti-church is because they, not even meeting me before, start accusing me a sinner. Now as most of you know, I am a nice guy, but these arrogant jerks use this accusation to fear you into going to Church. "You are born a sinner" is the stupidest nonsense I have ever heard. It is not my fault that I was born, I just happened to be the most agile of the sperm and eventually made it to the egg. I don't buy the fact that being born is a sin. Years of murder, drug dealing, and intentional harm to others to me are sins. So if any of you see those cards on a fast food restaurant! table or bus seat or in the mall, throw them in the trash, because it is flat out wrong. Anybody who subscribes to the BigT Newsletter is sin-free from now on unless you do the three things I had mentioned before. And if you see these arrogant jerks who tell you that you are a sinner, tell them that they will go to Hell for such a crude accusation. Stand up to these "religious" bastards who hurt so many for the past ten-thousand years. A third reason is because these clergy members use the Lord's name in order to do their dirty deeds. Catholic priests are taking advantage of little kids to give them sex acts. If these kids tell anybody they will be feared into believing that they will go to Hell. These hypocrites say that you are committing sins by smoking, drinking, gambling, or masturbating, which are all activities that doesn't harm others when they are done in private, so these jerks do little kids who don't know any better. These clergy members who do the dirty deeds should be kicked out of Church forever and the Pope should enforce it. The Vatican doesn't care, all they care about is money and a beautiful building to work in. To top it off I am fed up with the darn offering plate. All these greedy clergy members care about is your pay stub. My dad and I went to three churches in the year 1998. We briefly discussed with the ministers of all three churches that we are having family problems, and that we need to have some help with our Higher Power. The first thing the ministers said to us in all three churches, What's your occupation and how much money do you make a year. I always thought that church was supposed to help you when you are in need but no, these jerks didn't care, they were just in it for the money. There are a hundred plus reasons why I do not attend Church but I don't want to bore you guys. Therefore I became Agnostic, which means I don't care whether God is real or not. From now on I am going to sleep in every Sunday Morning and my Higher Power will love me for that, hopefully!
Issue 5:
Why I Stay Sober:
I am probably in the minority section in our school and our neighborhood when it comes to using substances. I have never puffed a cig, never drank a beer or alcohol of any type, never done any drugs of any kind, and weirdly of all, I have seen all of these all of these drugs in their "proper" use. I see smoking and drinking beer out of a paper bag on a daily basis. Everyday when use that filthy restroom at school, I see some stoner puffing on their joint that they had just bought. Back in 1997, I saw a guy shoot heroin in his vein in front of a grocery store at Seventh Avenue and Camelback Road. I have seen my own buddies trying th! eir hardest to get high off of those permanent markers. What is worse is these kids blame their problems on peer pressure. What a bunch of morons. Smoking, shooting up, drinking, are all choices. They are bad choices that humans make. I make mistakes on a daily basis when I am sober, imagine how many mistakes I would make if I was high. What is sick is these kids who brag about how many drugs they had ever tried, and now they are cool and matured after not taking them anymore. Well I am better than all of those scum buckets because I have never done it in the first place. I guess I and some of my contributors to this newsletter are the most mature of all but it i! s not seen that way by Hollywood Left, the media and by our peers. About nine times out of ten, from what I have observed, is kids do illegal or not-old-enough substances because they are trying to be cool for their peers. It's true that I hang out with kids who do drugs but they are okay with me because they do them in their backyard or in their house for the pleasure; they don't force others to experiment or call other losers for not doing it, they are doing it for themselves. The main reason why I don't do drugs is because of their consequences. They are illegal, dangerous, and beyond unhealthy. Most are grown in Central and/or South America and shipped in by illegal immigrants. They strap the stash to their bodies or they hide it in their asshole. T! hen it gets transported in ruined down cars, its put in baggies, or needles, depending on the type and its sold to the user. Just think when you use drugs, that stuff has been in a guy's ass, in a rust bucket car, and its mixed with other drugs that you don't even know about. Not only that you could run the risk of getting caught by the cops, you get sent to the slammer and you have a record that will haunt you for the rest of your life. You might as well say bye-bye to getting a new job, because not too many want to hire a drug addict. The main reason why I don't use tobacco is because of its high price, and its health problems later down the road. With alcohol, why would you want to drink rotten vegetables with thousands of grams of sugar? It alters your thinking and it could cause an accident on the road if you are not sober. 50% of road accidents are caused by drunks, according to the news report on MADD. So why run the risk. Everybody is thinking that with my last issue that me, being anti-religious, I would care about the moral value of using substances. The only reason why I have good morals is because it is for my own safety. So my whole point is to make the best choice possible and don't ruin your future to impress a few losers, who you may never see again.
Issue 6:
America is a Fat Farm
Some claim it is the worst epidemic of all kind and it is getting worse as the years go on. Besides tobacco, it causes more cardiovascular problems than any other disease, and to make it worse is that over sixty percent of Americans have it. It is obesity. I totally believe that just like smoking and dying of lung cancer, obesity is a choice. I see on the Fox News Channel everyday that people are suing McDonald's, Burger King, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Wendy's, and every fast food place imaginable because it is their fault for making Americans fat. That is total non-sense, these fast food places don't force you to go there, and it is not like fast food is the only choice of diet in America. Places like Subway and Blimpie's don't make you fat, unless you eat three, foot long meatball subs, seven days week. Same thing with McDonald's. Look at you editor for example, I only weigh 130 pounds and I am just over six feet tall. I am probably the thinnest person I know except for kamdailey1@cox.net, and I eat at McDonald's once to twice a week. The funny thing is, is that I order the highest calorie items on the menu. My favorites are the Big Mac Value Meal, which is about 1,300 calories, and the Double Quarter Pounder Value Meal, which is about 1,200 calories, and look, I am still thin. You are probably thinking why? It is because I don't eat there everyday, and it is my choice not to eat there everyday. Yes, when I do eat a lot, sometimes I skip eating snacks in between, especially during the summer. Three months ago Big Macs were only 99 cents. So I ordered three of them and ate them in one sitting. These things are 540 calories each, which adds up to be 1,620 calories. Afterwards, I was full, so instead of snacking throughout the day, I didn't eat anything until about six hours later. All I trying to say is that eating fast food is a choice, and if you eat too much, then skip a meal or work out, instead of watching celebrities on the TV. These clowns who sue the fast food places should just get their cases dismissed, it was the people who ate there's fault because it is not up to the fast food places to make your diet plan, it is up to you. The only things that the fast food places are responsible for are preparing the food, making sure they meet county health requirements, and employing their workers. Thanks to these jerks, the fries at Mickey D's taste like cardboard, movie theater popcorn tastes like Styrofoam, and I get sick whenever I go to Taco Bell because they use soy flakes instead of ground beef, that's why I don't eat there anymore.
Issue 7-8 Smallpox
Bush wants all Americans to get the smallpox vaccine by the year 2004. I disagree with the vaccination because it has severe side-effects. 1/100 get fever and 3/1000000 die. If everybody in America got the shot, we would have over 1000 dead. To me there is no point getting the vaccination because there hasn't been a case of smallpox worldwide since 1978 when a British reporter died after coming in contact with a controlled sample. As for Saddam, he is full of shit. It would be easier for him to use explosives then a strand of smallpox. The only way I will get the vaccine is when everybody around me catches it.
Issue 9:It's getting hot
Global warming is not the fault of humans, it is something that we can not possibly control. Enviros blame it on pollution, but there is no way for pollution to cause the warming of the planet. I believe it is natural because planet Earth has just came from an ice age. 40000 years ago, Asians, the ancestors of First Americans, crossed the Bering Strait. For this to be possible, the extremely cold temperatures of the time, froze the ocean's waters and made the sea level. Over time as the ice melted from exposure to the sun causing the levels of the water to get higher. Forty Thousand years ago there was no sulfur dioxide emitted so the raising of the sea level could no way be the fault of man. The Earth is just getting back to its warm climate. In the future it will be hotter outside, but no species that is relativity human will experience it. Recorded global temperatures stated that the year 1998 had an average temperature of fifty-nine degrees. In most years global average temperature is 57 degrees. What difference does two degrees make?
Issue 10:
Desert Sprawl
The Sierra Club and other left-winged hippycrites need to start with themselves first. They always make up unreal statistics such as the acre an hour garbage. Back in the day around the time Gore lost the election, and Bush totally whooped his ass in Florida, Proposition 202 was wiped of the voting poll 80% to 20%. If you don't remember the Sierra Club and other hippies wanted to draw a line around the city and stop all growth. As most of us logical types looked at the situation, we had realized that Maricopa County's economy would just collapse because construction is the main industry here. My plan is if all of these hippies moved to San Fran and Seattle and Tucson or even South of the Salt, Phoenix wouldn't have such a problem. What the most logical plan is to grow smartly. They should build roads in a grid system instead of all over the place to save space, they should increase density slightly, plan more bus routes instead of immovable track routes, conserve land with environmental significance, and finally revising laws to allow First Americans to develop their barren lands. The reason why my plan would never work is because beaurcrats are spending more time wasting as much tax money as possible. They don't care about the environment, and/or development, they just want their fifteen minute coffee break every hour!
Issue 11:
A bus on tracks
The light rail system in Phoenix going from Mesa to Spectrum Mall is the dumbest project that has ever been passed. As you see in the artist's rendering above, it is basically a bus on tracks. I cannot figure out why politicians want to spend about $1 billion on this goofy system. There is already a half a dozen bus routes along the line where the track is being set. This project is not the fault of the voters but of the greedy politicians who enjoy wasteful spending. The proposition past several years ago was more bus service AND the train. Obviously we need more buses but the train was just thrown in there for the sake of wasteful spending. My plan in the future is to ride the other bus routes to downtown or get a car if I can afford the damn thing and avoid a costly slow moving bus on tracks
Issue 12
The Innocent Penalty:
In the final hours of being in office, Governor Ryan of Illinois pardoned four men on death row and swept out every inmate on death row so they would serve life sentences. Many were angry on his decision but I feel as though Gov. Ryan made the best decision possible. The error rate for Illinois's execution is 60%! That means three out of every five executed are innocent. Illinois's biggest problem is that their justice system is corrupt just like it is in many states; citizens are tortured into confessing by the police because those incompetent fat pigs can't do their damn job to protect the public. I believe that capital punishment is the biggest waste of money, time and innocent lives in our system. The American justice system maybe the best but it still sucks if 3/5 are dying. It costs $1,250,000 on average to issue the death penalty, and more than half who get it die behind bars instead of in the chair because of its lengthy process. I totally agree with Bill O'Reilly on this one that the convicted should be banished from society but not executed because half the time the jury is mislead.
Issue 13:
The dot cum era:
I think pornography online is good! I do not buy the fact that pornography is degrading because what porn does is it acts like a vacuum cleaner that sucks up all of the ignorant, disgusting filth in our society and put it in a group that all of us sophisticated people can laugh at. Prostitutes and women in the porn industry believe that they will be movie stars by their work. Ha, yeah right! What is cool about porn is that it entertains losers who could not get any otherwise and it puts dumb bitches in a spot where they look stupid. Porn online is not attractive, it is disgusting and ironically funny, so support online porn with your left hand and not by your damn annoying pop-ups and Spam. Anyway about porn I do think filters are stupid because they freeze your computers, but I do believe that X-rated sites should have a suffix, for example: .cum or .xxx and any image or word within a .cum or .xxx or the website should not show up on the filters but offensive words with .net .org .tv .com .info .biz should be by-passed by the filters.
Issue 14:
Push the Button!
I cannot wait until February 14th when the UN gives their evidence of Saddam hiding weapons of mass detruction. Saddam is dangerous and needs to be executed before he kills anymore innocent lives. He has in the past, gassed, tortured, raped, and murdered his own peoples, that is why U.S. and Britian have set up the No-Fly Zones so that way he can no longer gas the bedouin tribes. I cannot figure out why liberals who are for human rights want this bastard running a country when he tortures and kills his own people! Saddam also has anthrax, smallpox, and is even in the process of building a nuclear weapon pointed at the civilized world. He is dangerous. For all of the Hollywood Left, if you like Saddam so much why dont ya move your anorexic asses over to Iraq and you will see how far you will get!
Issue 15:
Soda Wars
I am getting so sick and fucking tired about the war in Iraq. I cannot wait until Bush bombs the fuck out of Iraq and make it a big hole in the ground because Saddam is so fucking dangerous. Anyway enough of that; I want to try something new or old that is. We are gonna go over an issue that is pre-Iraq, pre-9/11, pre-Gore/Bush election, even pre-Y2k. It is the soda wars between Coke and Pepsi because it is the only domestic issue that I can think of that has nothing to do with our stupid fucking government. So which do soda do you like better? Well we can find out by taking my poll below Gerson's View. Preferably I like Coke way better than Pepsi anyday! Pepsi has no taste, no tang to it, and their advertising icons ALWAYS offend people. Coke is cool because they stick with average people of polar bears or Santa Claus. Ludacris, Spears, and Osbourne are bad news for our conservative country. Pepsi and its loser banwagon should move to Liberal France or Netherlands if they want any business. Changing the formulas on ALL of their products with the exception of Mug Root Beer would help Pepsi. Just about everybody I know likes Coke better anyway because of its good ol' classic flavor and their good morals.
Issue 16:
I hate leftists
Anybody who defaces, burns or destroys a flag and is a citizen of our great land should be kicked outta here and get sent to Iraq if these extreme leftists think that Saddam is such a great guy. Bush is a damn good president because he is helping our country through a hard time. I am gald when ever the cops tear gas these rioters who are anti-war. These hypocrites are violent and need to realize how fortunate they are. If you hate the flag and the pledge and this country get the fuck outta here and see how long your leftism will last in other places. They should make it a felony to deface the flag because it is the symbol of our great country that millions have died for.
Issue 17:
A tribute to Fred Rogers
We are all going to miss our good ol' neighbor who wore the sweater and old sneakers. We'll miss his gentle tone and good old values in such a troubling world today. Even watching re-runs of his show on PBS make you forget about terrorism on MSNBC and Hollywood Left featured on CNN. His make believe neighborhood made you feel like you were home. What was best about "Mr Rogers Neighborhood" was unlike other kids shows, Fred spoke in a normal voice instead of talking down to you in a high-pitched squeaky voice.
You can still watch re-runs on PBS, at 11:30am on Channel 8 in the Phoenix area.
issue 18
Gas is full of hot air.
There are still cars on the road with gas prices as high as they are? Let's boycott gas stations by riding our bikes, walking or riding the bus fueled by natural gas. Gas is a scam because other petroleum products are the same price they have always been. Plastic, pills, post-its, tape, and vaseline aren't per unit like gas is. My prediction is that cars will be obsolete by 2030 because of their expense. We average folks won't be able to afford cars, we'll end up riding the bus, riding our bikes, boards, skates, walking and by living closer to our works. Mass transit, like trains, subways, boats and planes, despite airports as crappy as that are will render cars useless. Only company vehicles will take over the roads.
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Kick Some Ass:
FUCK these damned protesters, if they love Saddam so damn much why don't they pack their bags and get the fuck outta here and go live in Iraq. Micheal Moore is a "stupid white man" hypocrite who needs to shut the fuck up. Go to BillOreilly.com and take the web poll regarding Moore. When I took the poll, 97% of the 100,000 plus voters disagree.
Boycott the French, support our troops, and tell protesters to get a life and do something useful with their freedoms besides blocking traffic.
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Gerson's View: gersochild@aol.com
NO More War!
Hello brothers and sisters. Today I am talking about the possibility of war in Iraq and about the future of our great nation. To start off, take a look at our nation's economy. Millions laid off, social programs failing, and the strain of the rich upon the shoulders of the poor and middle classes. The nation is in a recession, and the Bush administration chooses not to put much effort into helping the people. No, instead, they squander the nation's surplus on tax cuts, weapons, and now for "National Security". Now, things are about to become even worse for our country, because Congress is ruled by the Nazis,(Republicans). Hitler(George W. Bush) now has absolute authority to do whatever he pleases, since all Republicans will approve his bills, and likewise he will approve theirs. He and his administration are homophobic, racist f! ascists who will stop at nothing to get control. Control over the economy for their benefit and most importantly, control over Middle Eastern Oil. Bush has been threatening the tiny nation of Iraq now with the might of the US Armed Forces, so that Saddam may give up his power and give the country to the US. Bush is a fascist because he is using violence as a way to get his ideas across. Iraq is a tiny country, and while they were dangerous, we created them and should at least let the people know that our nation once supported them. War is never the solution to anything. The people of the US who support the war should think about it. What if them or a loved on was in the service? And let us not forget about the experiments our Army did on the troops in the Gulf War. Remember "Gulf War Syndrome"? A chemical agent our troops were exposed to in Iraq. There are so many reasons that I can think of as to why we shoul! d not go to war with Iraq. But no one will listen, no one will care. DO NOT LET THE GOVERNMENT PUSH YOU AND YOUR MIND AROUND! Our leaders are now more than ever closer to being like Hitler and his Nazis, because they want control, they advocate only their sick twisted beliefs are right, and they want money and power! For now the word PATRIOT means SLAVE. And that is what you are if you cannot open your eyes and realize that the government has changed for the worse. War will come. Bush will succeed because he controls the Congress. But let us not let him believe that there is no opposition. The people must protest Bush and make him afraid. We must stand up as a nation and say," We do NOT support YOU or your WAR." I have much more to write, but I will stop now. If anyone out their has any questions, PLEASE DO NOT hesitate to write to me or speak to me face to face. I want our ideas of peace to be spr! ead, and if you doubt my words, come to me and I will make a believer out of you.
On Peace and Unity part 2
Well friends, today I talk more of unity amongst our ranks. The following applies to both the males and females who are with us, just so you know. I will start by first stressing that we must all have respect and love for each other. And don't worry guys, by love I don't mean anything homosexual. I mean brotherly love. We must stand up and support each other. I say this because I see far too many situations in which something may occur between two friends and neither has anyone to talk to. We are a community, and if anyone has any problems PLEASE don't hesistate to talk to me, or anyone. Let us unite and support each other. Next, we must have self control in what we do. We must control our words, and we must never gossip or talk badly, because that hurts. Right now let us make a vow to never speak badly about each other. If we have ! a problem with someone, let us confront them and tell them face to face, so we could help solve the problem, not make it worse. Also, as friends, let us agree that we should never pressure anyone into doing something that is uncomfortable to them, like smoking or drinking. If someone wants to smoke, I don't have a problem. Cancer is their problem, but let them not try to pressure anyone into starting. Next, we must encourage each other to continue to do what is RIGHT, and that is to treat everyone with RESPECT and TOLERANCE, not with fear and anger. Lastly, we must always be willing to accept everyone who wishes to side with us, the alternative thinkers. We are not the jocks, the punks, the skaters, the preps, or anything like that. We are all of that combined! We must represent everyone, and we must accept everyone, and if someone should stand in our way and try to cause fights among us, let us stand tall and ecourage them to ! STOP. And remeber to FORGIVE each other for any wrongs. United together, we will always prevail.
Anti-Porn
I am now going to attack pornography with such a blitz that no one has ever read in a long time. To beging with, let me start by saying, pornography is addictive, destructive, and extremely degrading to women. Such material is, in my opinion, more suitable for immature men who cannot control themselves. Pornography is controlling, enslaving material. It is material that is sinful to look at, because it causes so mouch lust in one's heart. Renounce such a wickedness! Banish this garbage from your eyes! Do not talk about how much you detest corrupt government and such when you yourself are a slave to magazines and videos! In the Bible 1 Peter 4:7-8 says," The end of all things is near. Therefore be clearminded and SELF-
CONTROLLED so that you can pray." I Corinthians 5:18-20 says," Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your bidy is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have recieved from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body." Stand up against this destructive industry, and unite for true peace that comes from freedom and self control. We all know what "happens" when someone looks at magazines and such, and there is no freedom or happiness in fondling yourself. In addition, to all the readers who don't like to talk about religion because they are too cool, don't waste my time by arguing. Chances are your so pathetic you would do a child because of your pathetic addiction. So there is my stance. Unite against porn, be a free thinker non conformist,! and open your eyes to the dark truth of our society.
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Crap On My Mind: masenko_ha@excite.com
Issue 7: Opposites
Women are only complicated because they want to be. Like when magazines put out those articles that are intended for the male audience, i.e.how to get her to notice you or 10 ways to win her over. When women read these articles they don't think much of them but then they do at the same time. Their subconscious reads it and creates slightly different actions or mental processes. Then another girl reads it and does the very same thing. After the change is complete these two girls talk and then their subconsciouses tell each other to make another change through bodily actions or the way they speak all together. That is why no two girls are the same. Now for guys, we are almost all the same with small differences in characteristics, facial features and our interests in our porn. Like some guys like to watch a chick getting analed and another guy likes to watch a 3-some lesbian scene. You see we are different but we have a common bond. We like women (with exception of the gay minority) money, and power. If you ask any guy on the street what he wants right now he would probably answer with something having to do with sex money or power. If you ask what is better than one woman he would say 2 women, and if you ask what is better than 2 women he would say five women. Easy as that. That is why men have such a hard time getting a woman to be with him. If women would stop these mental shenanigans and just say to a guy that she likes hey you wanna have sex? Then we would all be happy. I understand that women probably won't be doing that anytime soon because the women have just as hard a time with the peer pressure to look cool as guys do, i.e. the fact that if a girl said that she would be labeled a whore or a slut for the ret of her high school life, but if they all did that then we would not have any kind of a problem with it. Certainly not guys. Furthermore, I know I will hear a lot from some guys I know but I have to say that women are superior to males in the game of love being tat they pretty much control what goes on until they reach the bed, which is where the man takes over and does what he wish with her. But women don't want to go that far because they will loose that control and they want as much as they can get because they don't have that much control in a male dominated world as it is. So ladies maybe if you just gave then you may receive.
Issue 7
Terrorists and thugocracies have one primary source of power - they can live with many awful consequences of their actions and we by definition cannot. A successful war on terrorism would ramp up the cost in their cost/benefit analysis to the point where at least those with some semblance of rationality would choose to pursue their objectives in some other way. We need to experiment and innovate to neutralize the terrorists' advantage. There are many levers to push in an attempt to increase the perceived costs of aggression against us and our allies, such as sanctions, financial isolation and international pressure. But one cannot deny that the perception that we are willing to use force quickly, and suffer significant costs to ourselves in doing so is one of those levers. We must both threaten and use force with discretion. A threat that one does not have to make good on is called a "deterrent". I hope we will find deterrents that are both successful and moral in the coming months and years. This is a risky business, fraught with worry - and it was so long before the State of the Union. One thing about deterrents - if they are successful it's not obvious. I happen to believe the horrible prospect of mutual assured destruction was a net contributor to stability in the latter half of the twentieth century. Since it can only be compared to a hypothetical alternative, and since it is a behavioral theory (like game theory)we cannot prove that. We will never construct a society or set of rules such that it is no longer necessary to consider how to advance our interests. There is no final state, only progress. However, a dynamic system of free, wealth-generating democracies advancing their interests, can improve everyone's lot. Also - one quick word defending libertarianism from the antiwar interpretation: Libertarianism allows for limited government. One of government's legitimate roles is to defend our citizens and advance our sovereign interests. I don't see an inconsistency in a libertarian examining and possibly supporting this legitimate role of government.<
Issue 8
It is ultimately respect for the law, firmly and fairly applied, that keeps anarchy at bay. If the law will not protect my property by taking those who steal it off the streets then why should I continue to respect it? If it becomes a means of enforcing one, limited, set of acceptable opinions then how can I be certain that mine are among those that are worthy of respect? What sort of law is it that cannot defend my free enjoyment of either private property or public discourse? The sort of law an anarchist might design. The belief that mankind's progress, by any conceivable standard of measurement recognized by Karl Marx, could be achieved through the destruction or even decline of American power is a dangerous delusion. Respect for the deep structural laws that govern the historical process - whatever these laws may be - must dictate a proportionate respect for any social order that has achieved the degree of stability and prosperity the United States has achieved and has been signally decisive in permitting other nations around the wor! ld to achieve as well. To ignore these facts in favor of surreal ideals and utterly utopian fantasies is a sign not merely of intellectual bankruptcy, but of a disturbing moral immaturity. Redistributionists should be appalled by the regressive impact of Sarbanes-Oxley. It puts a disproportionate burden on small businesses. Large firms can exploit scale economies, spreading rising compliance costs over billions in revenue. Yet small firms have the same obligations and face the same penalties as multinational behemoths.
Issue 10:
I have AOL Instant Messenger and I have on my profile things that tick people off like the fact that I am opposed to the US government. People often ask me why and so I tell them or they ask me questions like they know they have got me in a slump and I can't reply with a good answer like for example: a guy ask me what country's government is better than yours? At first I was wondering why the hell he cared. I told him that no country is better. exactly he replied I then rebuttled by saying that all countries are bad and all a country is, is a size of area or in metaphor a house in a neighborhood that gives a man his power if the man's country is bigger then he is more powerful. And if that man runs that ! country he is powerful. Same as with homes. The man sets his rules and his people (family) abide by them. Well because all men desire a state of power they don't want to unify us. I am especially speaking of the US government because of the way they treat their citizens and soldiers of war. Like for instance have you ever heard of the Gulf War Syndrome? A lot of people would say no but that is exactly my point. During the gulf war the military was given orders to implant a virus into a given number of troops. They did as they were told by giving the recruits shoots that were required to be in the army. Now just a few years after the war has ended the veterans are dying due to a virus that only those who went over seas to fight received. The reason you don't know too much about the virus is because the government has been hiding it for all these years. They hide it because they know they have done something wrong! and if the truth got out then that would be the downfall of the government and then in comes the Iraqis with nukes demanding more power and the lives of important officials. So in a sense the US has screwed itself over. This is now a good reason to implement a new government that can take over the US with peace and not a blood bath. We need a new leader. Bush is not a model civic leader. Like the beginning of the GWS song states "He was appointed not elected by the people of these state". He was appointed by men with power that was given to them by Bush himself. In the beginning Bush had power so it did't matter if the votes were in Gore's favor because the men he had connections with would have still appointed him to lead them to a successful future. But they were wrong, all he wants is war. He wants tho! se who oppose him to die and those who were connected to them to be watched at all times. As I sit here writing this I am reminded of how much Hitler and Bush are connected in a political sense. In the beginning they both held political office. When they went for the big time leadership they were shut down. In Hitler's case he was placed in prison with a 6 and a half year sentence but yet with his political connections didn't serve more than 10 months in the prison. In Bush's case he was scrutinized by the people for having the connections with his brother in Florida who is also a governor of some kind and at one point was under trial to be removed from candidacy in the running of president but was pulled out of it because of his friends that helped him out. Then with Hitler he tried to build an army of men that would take over the world but yet had some setbacks that could have ended his leadership but came through strong and mo! re powerful because the people who supported him gave him even more power that he didn't even deserve. With Bush came 9/11. That was a major setback that could make or break Bush. Bush handle the situation in a way most Americans agreed with but that doesn't mean it was right. The job of the president is to make decisions that are in the best cause and interest of the country. Well he got it half right. Hitler ended up creating a war that destroyed him and his plan to rule thus killing himself. As you can all sense, there may be war afoot that will be catastrophic. I just hope we all live through it. Let us all hope we dont see another world war. As I said before we must find a new government to replace the one that we have now that is overrun with bastardizing republicans. If anyone would like to converse on this subject i would be glad to do so just contact me through AIM my name is: amaiagi. Drinking! People are always trying to do it here because they are under aged well in Germany the drinking age it 14 and they dont have as many problems but yet if they law was reduced here then the prices for auto insurance would be going up. Gun controls! All states that have implemented gun controls have seen crime go from low to high never high to low then when they reduce the controls the crime goes back.
Issue 13:
i agree with you that the bus on tracks is gay. i also agree that the buses need to be improved but not so dramatically that they need to build a whole new system. they can stick to the one they have now and maybe get new busses that run better and run faster. i mean it takes me at least 20 minutes to get from PV mall to Cave Creek and then i have like 10 minutes to get to the bank and pull out money which we all know can take for ever cuz of the sloppy system the banks have and then another 20 minutes just to get home.its bull shit i tell you.
I am often inspired to write about stuff i see on tv or in movies. i give the topic thought and if i ended up debating in my mind about things it is linked t! o then i would write about it if it makes sense. thus the title Crap On My Mind. i just watched the movie Contact for the 10th time and started thinking about the end when the mean Senator guy is saying she has no proof of her journey. when yet she didstinctly remembers everything as she is traveling at least 100X the speed of light. in the second to last segment when the black chick is talking to the senator guy the woman states that the video recording unit only had static on it but yet it had about 18 hours of it. this is a questionable area in the whole did it happen or not thing.this is where i thought that as Einstein theorized there is a fourth dimension, which is time. Maybe because those people from another planet found out how to separate the 4th dimension from the others then time might possibly stop for everyone except for the targeted one or ones. then that one person is able to be cut away from everything else and perform tasks that would take much time and yet! only be done in a matter of triliseconds. think of it as us humans being 2 dimensional figures on a piece of paper call us "Flatties". then all of a sudden we find a 3d guy "Cudies" and then he can pull us off the paper and show us things that we never knew existed. then that person, who had the rare opportunity to experience something so awsome, comes back and tries to tell every one about what he saw they probobly wouldnt understand and accused him of conspiracy.
Issue 16:I am often lead to think of my status in how i feel about the gov't. what i feel is best would be anarchy with a a sence of minimal democracy, only because it helps the citizens slightly, and a low force of political empowerment to limit or reduce corruption or individual authority. Everybody has the right to know things yet with mature descretion and privacy. If issues were to arise then the community would vote as a whole to pass a law or statute. one man or representative cannot decide for anyone other than himself, much less than thousands of men and women. thus propositions would be voted upon to pass the laws. no uni- or bi-cameral legislative policies because they all lead to corruption and private civil wars between 2 or more of the houses and end up effecting mainly the people whether it be with tax hikes or job ressetions. the only politi! cal allowances should be between businesses. also, everybody has the right to choose. whether it be to go smoke cigarettes, or go ride the fastest roller coaster at the park after eating 3 chillydogs. and for the most inportant of all every body is to be unified either by race color or the fact that we are all human beings. Violence should also be intensely controled. more that it is already mind you.
Issue 18
i agreee with tom on the whole gas thing being way too expensive. i
mean i
dont drive yet cuz i dont have a car but if i did i would be hurting
real bad
because of the price. i understand that the gas stations want to make
money
so they are "preparing" for the war and an increase in prices but let me tell you that it hasnt happened yet so there is absolutely no reason for them to raise the price. i have to correct tom on the fact that the price perunit in fact has gone up but only slightly for the past year and a half it was about .50 for a barrel of petrolium which averaged out to be $1.05 a gallon butof course to make money you have to charge more and so they mark up the cost. but now the price for a barrel has only gone up maybe 5 dollars and if you do the math then you would find that an average gallon should only be 5 cents more. that is why those people at the gas station could charge so little for the gas. as i remeber when i went there it was like $1.29 for regular unleaded. so maybe tom is right and we should boycott the entire gas staion thing cuz its just getting out of hand.
Screw bin Laden and Saddam
Gulf War Syndrome forever
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