Ryan Sweeney
mblalockFiled under: Wake Up! | Tags: Cancer, Climategate, fox news, Glenn Beck, global climate change, global warming, Ignorance, Nobama
I previously blogged about Climate Change: Who Care’s If It’s Real Or Not?
The blog post came from the inspiration of this editorial cartoon in USA Today:
Since that post, there has been a lot of “Climate Change Is a Hoax” “news” coverage on wonderful news outlets like FOX.
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A: “Why would you think I care about that?”
B: “Pull up a seat. We’ve got more than enough.”
Statement A is a statement of apathy toward some subject previously discussed. There’s a handsome actor in a full suit, his character just leaving the courtroom after an unsuccessful attempt at defending an innocent man. There’s the concerned prosecutor girlfriend opposite him, leaving her face in her hands to cover her disappointment. That character knows her apologies of defeating him before a jury of peers didn’t matter compared to the knowledge of innocent men dying in a broken system. Then the set is torn down for the next show.
Statement B is an archetype for the antiquated idea of Southern hospitality. Diabetic-level sugary tea in sweating mason jars, scents of fat and butter emerging from pie crust, and a checkered tablecloth laid over a handmade wood table all come into mind. A few exchanged smiles later, there are a few mouths full of chewed biscuit laughing over a hilarious anecdote.
Ironically, Statement A and Statement B have a lot more in common than you think.
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Recently, I joined a tea party forum to enter a reasonable discussion on their finer issues. They have a few valid points in their arguments. I definitely agree that there should be more regulations on government spending (though I’m not talking about bailout money, I’m talking about organizations that are out of the media spotlight wasting tax payer money).
Okay, that was the only valid point.
Anyways, I tried to have a reasonable discussion about how the word “socialism” is not bad and how we need to make sure more money goes to the education system.
I was banned.
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Let us all remember a few things about the holiday season: Christmas is not the day Jesus was born. Scholars say that the historical person of Jesus was born in April. So, Christmas is not a time to get on a religious high horse. Rather, Christmas is a time when we should treat everyone with respect, including those of different religions.
Don’t let this holiday season stress you out. Relax, Christmas dinner does not have to be perfect, but your love for others does.
Filed under: Wake Up! | Tags: abortion, billy bragg, democracy, FAA, gay marriage, poverty, protest, rights, taxes, the human race
If no one seems to understand
Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman
In a perfect world we’d all sing in tune
But this is reality so give me some room
So join the struggle while you may
The revolution is just a t-shirt away
Waiting for the great leap forwards
-Billy Bragg
This country has a multitude of problems. But that statement is true for all countries. However, the problems would be much less severe if we properly stood up for ourselves to preserve our human dignity. Saying “I don’t want any taxes!! Too many taxes!!” is probably one of the most ignorant things one can say when protesting the government. Taxes will always exist. A government cannot function without them. If your house catches on fire, do you want to have to rely on privatized fire departments and in turn pay a lot of money to save your burning place of residence, or is that socialism?
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“I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When I was a boy, and when Dwayne Hoover was a boy, all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind. Armistice Day has become Veterans’ Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans’ Day is not. So I will throw Veterans’ Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don’t want to throw away any sacred things. What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance. And all music is.“ -”Breakfast of Champions” by Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut was born on this day, November 11th. Also known as Veterans day or the day formerly known as Armistice day. Not only was Kurt brilliant an influential to literature and society, but he knew what he was talking about.
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Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — “God damn it, you’ve got to be kind” – Kurt Vonnegut from “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater”
Let me say that again. God damn it, you’ve got to be kind. Mankind has never been great at following rules and it seems that we enjoy breaking this simple rule.
You might be a conservative, republican, atheist, christian, prostitute, or an illegal alien. You might be none of the above, you might be all of the above.
There is one thing in this world that we know, can prove, and cannot argue against:
We are all human beings on this planet for a limited amount of decades that does not normally exceed a century.
