Yeah like anybody reads this damn thing. Well I have done the very thing that I find so annoying when others do it. I have failed to keep my blog up to date. Bad blogger, bad!
I guess the fact that everything is going according to the Bushies plans is just so fucking disheartening. If it wasn't for all of these prescription medications mixed with Zima I would be completely unable to function.
I did find a new website that really made my day.
Go here.http://toolz.blogs.com/toolz_of_the_new_school/2005/01/video_vandalism.html
Things I did not know the last time I wrote on this blog.
1) Barbara Boxer kicks ass! ( I am moving to California just to vote for her! She is the only one with the cajones to hold Condi's feet to the fire! Bravo, I say, Bravo!)
2) Sponge Bob is gay? What the hell! Come on, he wears a tie everyday and he is a square! He is so clearly a Republican. And he is just the dimwitted, easily influenced sort to vote for George Bush. I cannot believe how fast the conservatives turn on their own.
3) Teens are having sex! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6872269/. Oh wait. I did know that.
4) Republicans pay for good press. I understand that both Armstrong Williams and Maggie Galllagher were paid to promote conservative agendas in their columns. However the real story in my mind is the unfair pay scale. Armstrong Williams received $240,000 dollars while poor Maggie had to scrape by on a measly $40,000. How is that fair? There needs to be an investigation. If the conservatives are going to pay for somebody to sugercoat their plans for world domination then the least they could do is not descriminate. Is it really too much to ask?
Until next time, remember, freedom is on the march. Right over the lifless bodies of those that do not agree with our policies!
Thursday, January 27, 2005
Sunday, January 16, 2005
Look! A light shining through the dark clouds!
As I opened up my daily paper I was pleasently surprised to read this ;
MOST AMERICANS BELONG TO A CHURCH -- BUT MOST ALASKANS DON'T. That's just one of several observations in a new study of religious practices in the Pacific Northwest, where fewer people belong to a church than anywhere else in the nation.
(To read more follow this link. http://www.adn.com/life/story/6030002p-5919480c.html)
After the elections I found myself feeling terribly alone, or at the very least part of some tiny minority in the state of my birth. But lo and behold I am in the MAJORITY! Damn! Who-da-thunk-it?
This absolutely makes my damn day. Now I can look my fellow Alaskans in the eye and know that there is every chance that we will be sharing an eternity in the fiery pit of hell together! It just does my old liberal, intellectual, heart good to know that I share this state with so many pagans. Sooo, why did we vote for George Bush?
MOST AMERICANS BELONG TO A CHURCH -- BUT MOST ALASKANS DON'T. That's just one of several observations in a new study of religious practices in the Pacific Northwest, where fewer people belong to a church than anywhere else in the nation.
(To read more follow this link. http://www.adn.com/life/story/6030002p-5919480c.html)
After the elections I found myself feeling terribly alone, or at the very least part of some tiny minority in the state of my birth. But lo and behold I am in the MAJORITY! Damn! Who-da-thunk-it?
This absolutely makes my damn day. Now I can look my fellow Alaskans in the eye and know that there is every chance that we will be sharing an eternity in the fiery pit of hell together! It just does my old liberal, intellectual, heart good to know that I share this state with so many pagans. Sooo, why did we vote for George Bush?
Sunday, January 09, 2005
Is America's Christianity the right Christianity?
Like any good Atheist I find myself, more times then not, disagreeing with those of a religious persuasion. However, I occasionally find a religious person who I find myself agreeing with more often then not. Desmond Tutu is one such religious leader. Check this out.
You said George Bush should admit that he made a mistake. Were you surprised at his re-election?
[Laughs] I still can't believe that it really could have happened. Just look at the facts on the table: He’d gone into a war having misled people—whether deliberately or not—about why he went to war. You would think that would have knocked him out [of the race.] It didn’t. Look at the number of American soldiers who have died since he claimed that the war had ended. And yet it seems this doesn't make most Americans worry too much. I was teaching in Jacksonville, Fla., [during the election campaign] and I was shocked, because I had naively believed all these many years that Americans genuinely believed in freedom of speech. [But I] discovered there that when you made an utterance that was remotely contrary to what the White House was saying, then they attacked you. For a South African the déjà vu was frightening. They behaved exactly the same way that used to happen here [during apartheid]—vilifying those who are putting forward a slightly different view.
Talking about religion, much has been said about the role it played in the White House race. What do you say to those who believe that Bush was chosen by God?
[Laughs] I keep having to remind people that religion in and of itself is morally neutral. Religion is like a knife. When you use a knife for cutting up bread to prepare sandwiches, a knife is good. If you use the same knife to stick into somebody’s guts, a knife is bad. Religion in and of itself is not good or bad—it is what it makes you do… Frequently, fundamentalists will say this person is the anointed of God if the particular person is supporting their own positions on for instance, homosexuality, or abortion. [I] feel so deeply saddened [about it]. Do you really believe that the Jesus who was depicted in the Scriptures as being on the side of those who were vilified, those who were marginalized, that this Jesus would actually be supporting groups that clobber a group that is already persecuted? That’s a Christ I would not worship. I'm glad that I believe very fervently that Jesus would not be on the side of gay bashers. To think that people say, as they used to say, that AIDS was God’s punishment for homosexuality. Abominable. Abominable.
Damn! Where are our intellectual religious leaders? Where are those forward thinking preachers who know that the Bible is metaphoric rather then factual but believe the message is an important one to spread to the masses. I have nothing against religion as long as it is kept out of our classrooms and not used as a bludgeon on those of us who have a different belief system.
You said George Bush should admit that he made a mistake. Were you surprised at his re-election?
[Laughs] I still can't believe that it really could have happened. Just look at the facts on the table: He’d gone into a war having misled people—whether deliberately or not—about why he went to war. You would think that would have knocked him out [of the race.] It didn’t. Look at the number of American soldiers who have died since he claimed that the war had ended. And yet it seems this doesn't make most Americans worry too much. I was teaching in Jacksonville, Fla., [during the election campaign] and I was shocked, because I had naively believed all these many years that Americans genuinely believed in freedom of speech. [But I] discovered there that when you made an utterance that was remotely contrary to what the White House was saying, then they attacked you. For a South African the déjà vu was frightening. They behaved exactly the same way that used to happen here [during apartheid]—vilifying those who are putting forward a slightly different view.
Talking about religion, much has been said about the role it played in the White House race. What do you say to those who believe that Bush was chosen by God?
[Laughs] I keep having to remind people that religion in and of itself is morally neutral. Religion is like a knife. When you use a knife for cutting up bread to prepare sandwiches, a knife is good. If you use the same knife to stick into somebody’s guts, a knife is bad. Religion in and of itself is not good or bad—it is what it makes you do… Frequently, fundamentalists will say this person is the anointed of God if the particular person is supporting their own positions on for instance, homosexuality, or abortion. [I] feel so deeply saddened [about it]. Do you really believe that the Jesus who was depicted in the Scriptures as being on the side of those who were vilified, those who were marginalized, that this Jesus would actually be supporting groups that clobber a group that is already persecuted? That’s a Christ I would not worship. I'm glad that I believe very fervently that Jesus would not be on the side of gay bashers. To think that people say, as they used to say, that AIDS was God’s punishment for homosexuality. Abominable. Abominable.
Damn! Where are our intellectual religious leaders? Where are those forward thinking preachers who know that the Bible is metaphoric rather then factual but believe the message is an important one to spread to the masses. I have nothing against religion as long as it is kept out of our classrooms and not used as a bludgeon on those of us who have a different belief system.
Saturday, January 01, 2005
My year in review
All in all I cannot say that 2004 did me any favors.
On the plus side we had the best summer , weatherwise, that I can remember. My wife changed jobs, made less money, but was happier. My daughter came to live with me after spending too many years living with her mother in God forsaken Georgia. We added on that deck in the back that we were saving up for. My stepson is attending college full time after some false starts. My daughter got her GED and therefore is no longer being homescholed in incomplete science by my ex-wife and her church cronies. And that about sums up the positive.
Now for the bad. Beyond all comprehension George Bush has been elected to a second term. My daughter made it obvious that she is a lesbian (just like Dick Cheney's daughter). My other stepson wrecked his car and let that derail all of his progress this year at school and work. My wife's parents, my stepson from college, and my daughters "special" friend were all visiting for the holidays making our large house feel like an overcrowded dormitory. My father died on the 22nd of December, six days before his 63rd birthday. Then the largest human disaster that I have ever witnessed took place in Indonesia.
All I have to add is that 2005 better be one hell of a good year!
On the plus side we had the best summer , weatherwise, that I can remember. My wife changed jobs, made less money, but was happier. My daughter came to live with me after spending too many years living with her mother in God forsaken Georgia. We added on that deck in the back that we were saving up for. My stepson is attending college full time after some false starts. My daughter got her GED and therefore is no longer being homescholed in incomplete science by my ex-wife and her church cronies. And that about sums up the positive.
Now for the bad. Beyond all comprehension George Bush has been elected to a second term. My daughter made it obvious that she is a lesbian (just like Dick Cheney's daughter). My other stepson wrecked his car and let that derail all of his progress this year at school and work. My wife's parents, my stepson from college, and my daughters "special" friend were all visiting for the holidays making our large house feel like an overcrowded dormitory. My father died on the 22nd of December, six days before his 63rd birthday. Then the largest human disaster that I have ever witnessed took place in Indonesia.
All I have to add is that 2005 better be one hell of a good year!
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