I'm bored.

Really. Seriously.
So much so that I'm spamming my own blog.

I need help.

*yawn*

Graaaaaah!

I think I'm going insane.
My dad is pushing me over the edge. It's my 8th year of school and already I'm failing. My sidetracked tendencies coupled with his "plan for physical fitness" are detrimental to myself, and his screaming at me as "encouragement" isn't helping. My bathroom door handle came out today, probably because I pulled too hard, probably because he was giving me another one of his damned lectures about how I ought not to be watching a good movie, with great plot, good storyline, because it has too much "violence". So what? That doesn't prove anything. A movie can be awesome despite an "R" rating. Many are, even if some aren't. Like V for Vendetta, or Serenity.
He tries to make out that he does what he does for my own good. IMO, I'm not convinced driving me insane is any good for either of us, me or my senile old man. It definitely isn't making anyone any happier, and quite frankly I've been dreaming of rising up against this totalitarian bastard's reign of fear over this house.
I dunno. For the time being, anyway, I can control myself. But I just want to get out of this damn house.

No, no, no, no.

The MoS? Others? Yes, nice CJ names. Nice locations. Not exactly the most desirable storylines.
I mean, hey, I could use some of those titles. Rhineland, UCLE, Pakkusena, if they weren't all taken (BTW Pepsi, TLR is copyrighted already - it belongs to the good folks at The Lancers Reactor, :O :P). Little Egg sounds kinda cool too. If only it weren't taken already. Graaah! Krug angry! Smash ownership rights! Smash smash smash!



OK that was totally off topic. But while we're at it, Jack Thompson looks like Fred Phelps.



Well, he does have more hair. But still.
Some of the MoS storylines or the characters themselves seem to be plagued by war or conflict... the Rhineland (war with the UN - ???), UCLE (war with the USSR - not unrealistic, but not exactly something you'd expect to be an entry token into the SCJU, which it wasn't), Pakkusena/Kumba (always wonder what's happenin' in that dude's head...).
Meh. Maybe I'm just being paranoid.
Or not. No offense, of course, Pepsi.

Satan Loves Fred Phelps

Found this site recently.

If there is a Satan, he would most definitely love Fred Phelps.
Don't know who that is? Go to Kansas sometime, and ask anyone about Westboro Baptist. They're a hate group construed of Phelps and his family and friends, who preach God's supposed "message of hate" to "the eternally damned", that is, most everyone, with the exclusion of himself (of course). He and his following go around picketing the funerals of the soldiers of Iraq and Afghanistan shouting at their families that "their sons/fathers are going to hell" (for being "fags", "fag enablers", pedophiles, etc, basically false claims) and post counters on their websites counting the days these people have "been in hell". Westboro is, IMO, a collection of fringe lunatics comparable to Hitler. They hate Muslims, Jews, homosexuals, and even Catholics, whom they classify as "pedophiles who suck the semen out of small children's genitals like vampires". They are totally messed up.
Which leads me to believe that MeansToAnEnd is a follower of Westboro Baptist. OK, not really being serious. Still, he sounds so much like Fred Phelps I can't help laughing. He generalises Muslims as being "terrorists" and is so conservative he isn't even a conservative or a neocon.
Anyway, that was a long rant. Soo...

Be Social!

I am. A democratic socialist.







Now that we're over that, I'm going to draft a short essay about that particular system of political belief.

Don't worry folks. I'm always that bored.

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Socialists and communists seem to be necessarily thought of among the general American population as being oppressive, authoritarian, and/or generally bad along with their ideaologies. That is not true. Not all social-/communists follow Stalin, Mao, or Jong-Il. These people were not even communists, only assholes who used communism to seize power for their own ends.
In an topic on the Dream of a Ridiculous Dictator forums, ATLANTIS stated that "socialists/communists are fascists". Of course I realise that he was mostly discussing economic policy, but by stating that he attatches more than that to his generalisation. I am not vehemently nationalistic and I do not believe in nationalism nor its enforcement. In fact, if there could be one thing for me that would be patriotic, it would be, for lack of a better term, dissent. I do not believe in shutting people up and in fact I do believe that everyone has the right to voice their opinion. I do not think I am evil, though you may prove me otherwise; as well, I would like to point out that your comparison of fascist and socialist economics is faulty, as there is no complete definition of a "fascist economy"; it is true Mussolini, the original fascist, vied for a controlled economy, but Hitler, who was also recognised as "fascist", did not delve much into economic policy and mostly left enterprise to fend for itself.
But I digress. I am talking about democratic socialism, not fascism.
Generally, socialist economics involves the regulation of private enterprise. This does not, indeed, mean "squash them", but rather requires that they stay up to standard, at least in more mild forms of socialism. Small businesses are fine - ever been to a small-business store or restaurant in San Francisco? They do things the way they were meant to be done. (They sell great food too.) :) Big-ass conglomerates like McDonald's and Wal-Mart sell you cheap shit not because they enjoy doing it, but because they want your money. They dump millions of tons of pollution into the air and water to prove it every day, that they don't care, they just want to make big bucks.
I don't believe that business should be wiped from existence, but I do think that it ought to be kept small and ought to "follow the rules", such as health codes, safety regulations, etc, and that no company or corporation is above the law.
Most socialists/communists generally uphold civil and political rights and toleration; systems such as democratic socialism must uphold the simple right to freedom of speech because any democracy, following a socialist doctrine or not, thrives on the voicing of opinions. If the people cannot do that, then the state ceases to be a democracy and becomes a directorship. Toleration derives from this principle, as if every person's opinion is of equal value then the same must be said for their civil rights, or otherwise the society is not truly free.
And that is what constitutes my political belief: democratic socialism. I hope that I have been clear in my explanation of it, or at least my form of it.

Why I Hate the "War on Terror"

Because it's bullshit. First we jumped into Afghanistan acting on impulse. I understand that the Taliban was assisting Al-Qaeda, which blew up the Twin Towers killing 3000 people, but bringing down the whole country just for two buildings? That's overkill if I ever saw it.
We say every life counts. Must count a lot if every American life is worth 20 Muslim lives, which is what the death toll seems to show.
I don't despise the Americans fighting overseas or Americans in general. They are my fellow countrymen. What's wrong with America is its government, which has led the US and its allies into, for completely ridiculous purposes, a war that has not only bought us the title of "world class laughingstock" but also the deaths of tens of thousands of Muslims who now lay smeared on the streets or tenderized in US concentration camps. And don't get me started on Iraq. It's fucked, and what's worse, we'll never win, either. Terrorism is violence fueled by hate, in this case fundie hate. Terrorists aren't backed by money, not by weapons or regional power, they're backed by viewpoint, and perspective can't be shattered with cluster bombs. Unless we nuke the place, the fundies will still be there.
Besides, we're living in America, land of the free, home of the brave (so the advert says). We ain't living free if we're trying to stamp out other peoples' views, so shut up neocons.

BTW, VG Cats is awesome. I just read the Halloween comic. Totally lovin' it, Scott.

Climate change: We've talked about it, wrote about it - and yet, for us (the US), nothing has been done about it.
Well, that's not entirely true. We did a lot during the Clinton years. (And screw those people who keep talking about that "Clinton-Lewinsky" garbage. He was a better leader, which is more than the current prez can say.) So far, with the Bush administration, we've successfully managed to roll back environmental measures such that companies can dump their waste into our air freely and with no hassle from the government, let alone the EPA - our car companies, for one, have been producing models that waste more gas than the Model T (an old car that didn't get mileage at all compared to ours today. Still, it was an achievement at the time).
The worst part of this is that most people don't believe that this is an issue, let along a political one - or are completely unaware of it. Which is insane, considering that already the ice across the planet - glaciers, snow, the polar caps - is melting, seas are rising worldwide, and a considerable increase recently in the number of hurricanes during hurricane season (there were so many in 2005 that scientists ran out of names for them). That is, until one considers that Bush has been trying as hard as possible to create the illusion that there is no issue.
It is obvious that W. cares little or nothing of humanity, as he has completely dismissed the issue of Katrina - thousands of people dead, and many tens of thousands more homeless. And of course he is ignoring the fact that a disaster looms in the not-too-far future, the flooding of the coastal plains of America. Florida, underwater. Louisiana would be completely irreclaimable. As for the Central US, the Mississippi would overflow, wiping out croplands. The rest of the Heartland, meanwhile, would dry up. Does that sound like an issue to you? It does to me. We must realize that this is an issue, a serious one, one which we will have to tackle in the near future if we are to avoid serious consequences down the road, and for that matter, why shouldn't we start thinking of a solution now? But now comes the big question: How would we go about doing that?
For the near future, the best option we could take would be to start buying into fuel-efficient technology. So far, our country has ranked as one of the most wasteful on the planet, and thusly as the largest polluter. Perhaps if we decided to invest in more hybrids, the skies of LA might turn blue again. Well, perhaps not.
We also need to invest into clean energy - and I mean invest in it, not just slap together a few concept cars and then just drop the whole thing. Serious dollars, serious effort, to help pay for research and development of new power sources and power plants to fuel our unending hunger for energy. Solar power, wind turbines, even nuclear fusion. The results won't come immediately, but with a little cash and perseverance, we might just save our own necks.

Damn, that was a long rant. :P

Startoons

Found these last night while Googling images of Carter (SG-1) (=D). "Startoons" apparently is a Stargate parody. Really... funny. =D Problem is that my school's f'in webfilter screens out "bad words" (i.e. damn, shit, hell, sex - basically anything that would give send those G-rated nutties into shock), so I can't view the page. Idiots. At least it doesn't stop me from direct-linking to the pictures. Enjoy. =D

Our P.E. coach is making us do an essay... just when I have to write 6 poems and finish my geometry homework. Dammit. This sucks.... And we have to do Cornell notes on this stupid thing about "medical preparation". For god's sake, you don' tneed to study a damned book to learn how to excercise! If you have a problem, get a first aid kit or dial 9-1-1, or go to the school nurse! You don't need to read a fekkin' 231-page book to learn how to do push-ups! We take notes and read things when we're studying the liberal arts; you don't read books to learn how to excercise and to learn how to keep people out of trouble. Just tell them: Be strong and be careful! Gad.