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Friday, May 16, 2008
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I know how to solve every single world problem...
Category: Religion and Philosophy
Stop having babies. That's it. Just stop.
No more being stuck in traffic jams.
No more long lines at the airport.
Plenty of food and clean water to go around.
Land would be cheap, cheap CHEAP!
Gas prices would drop to extreme lows.
Overcrowded classrooms? Not anymore!
Waiting in line for anything will be history.
Reservations not necessary. Ever.
As I see it, people that have a lot of babies are greedy and selfish. There is no reason for it. So if we all just agreed right now, to never have another baby all the world's problems would be solved quite quickly.
Of course, there will be opposition from the likes of the fertility businesses, baby formula manufacturers, diaper companies (they could just move into the adult diaper sector, easily enough), corporate daycare centers and the other misc. businesses involved in making money off babies.
Deciding to not have anymore babies would free up a lot of income to spend on things like travel and cosmetic surgery and donations to charities that help feed the starving children that are already living here.
Do you want to help solve all the world's problems? It is so easy, who would have even thought how easy it could be to solve every single problem on this planet. Just stop having babies.
You might be thinking to yourselves, but I love babies! Well, why not adopt? There are millions of children that need loving and caring homes. If you love children so much, why not help one that is already here, instead of creating a new child to further use up the earth's resources?
I'm doing my part to solve the world's problems. Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
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Adam and Steve can say "I Do" in Cali!
Category: News and Politics
But I had to read about it on the BBC? weird.
Yay! Progress!
Link: California lifts ban on gay marriage
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
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Name that Wacky Religion! Mother’s day edition.
Category: Religion and Philosophy
Let's play "Name that Wacky Religion!"
The game that is guaranteed to piss someone off.
I figured that it is Sunday and so many people associate Sundays with religious practices, that I would develop a weekly quiz to test your religious knowledge. I'll try to come up with religious practices that aren't well known to westerners.
Here's how it works: This is a game that tests your knowledge of theology and religious practices. I'll describe the ritual or dogma and you have to guess what religion (or religions, sometimes several religions have similar practices) and you can leave your guess as a comment. I guess I can't stop you from scrolling down to see what other's have guessed, but try to take a guess at the answer before seeing what others have guessed.
On Mondays I'll reveal the answer right here as a blog edit.
Okay, let's "Name that Wacky Religion!"
Being as it is Mother's Day, I figured I pick a faith that has some, ahem, unique child rearing philosophies. One of the more wacky practices (in a sea of wacky for this religion) is its stance on feeding babies.
Apparently mother's milk is bad for infants, according to this religion. Mother's are exposed to environmental toxins and physical and emotional stresses and therefore the milk produced to feed infant humans is far inferior from a specialized formula recipe that the religion has developed.
The recipe is based on a formula that ancient warriors would feed newly orphaned male babies. After pillaging and murdering the baby's parents a male child had good potential to be raised to become a warrior as well. The baby was fed a mixture of barley flour, unpasteurized cow's milk, water and honey.
I guess barley and cows aren't exposed to environmental toxins or stress. But I digress…
The modern recipe calls for corn syrup instead of honey. Honey has been shown to be bad for babies. It contains the botulinum spore. Infant digestive acids cannot break down this toxin and the infant will not develop properly, be weak and sickly. So switch to corn syrup and presto! Perfect baby food, no mommy needed.
According to this religion, the formula should be fed exclusively for the first three years of life. Of course the formula is horrible. Babies suffer terribly when fed this way. The vast majority of mothers involved in this religion primarily breast feed and supplement their babies with the formula. There are a few strict adherents that cannot breast feed, and feed the formula exclusively. Those babies are not healthy (not surprisingly) and suffer from malnutrition. The blame of the baby's condition lay with the mother, not the formula. She must be doing something wrong, otherwise the formula would create a perfect warrior child.
Let's Name that Wacky Religion!
For all who said Scientology, Pat yourselves on the back! Here is what wikipedia says about the practice:
Hubbard also wrote that the mother should use "as little anesthetic as possible." In the 1960s Hubbard gave certain dietary recommendations, writing that breastfeeding should be avoided if the mother is smoking, drinking or is lacking good nutrition herself. Hubbard described common replacement formulas as "mixed milk powder, glucose and water, total carbohydrate" and offered as an alternative to commercial products what he called the "Barley Formula" made from barley water, homogenized milk and corn syrup. Hubbard said that he "picked it up in Roman days," referring to the use of barley. Hubbard crafted the barley formula to, in his words, provide "a heavy percentage of protein" and called it "the nearest approach to human milk that can be assembled easily." Although the formula is still popular with many Scientologists, health practitioners advise that it is an inappropriate replacement due to the absence of important nutrients like Vitamin C, the lack of which causes scurvy
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Saturday, May 10, 2008
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Pres. Hillary = Empty Victory for Feminism
Category: News and Politics
If Hillary Clinton became president, it would be an empty victory for Feminists.
Why do I say that? She got into the spotlight in the first place because she is married to President Clinton, not on the merit of her own career efforts. Don't get me wrong on this; I fully understand how a husband and wife, through support and effort uphold one another. I know this full well. I know that my career as a stripper would have been a huge struggle if I didn't have that support at home.
But Hillary is in the position she is now only because her husband was the president. Not to diminish her work that she did independently. I mean, she was trying to solve the health care crisis even before it hit crisis stage, but her voice on that topic was heard only because of her position as first lady.
I feel badly for the women who have been waiting all their lives to see a woman get elected to the highest office in the land, but that victory would be empty compared to other women who have made massive inroads into a male dominated world all on their own. Like Oprah Winfrey for example. Or Nancy Pelosi. Or Condoleezza Rice. Or Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I think you get my point.
Just like everyone knows that Bill Clinton wasn't really the "First Black President", if Hillary Clinton gets elected, she wouldn't really be the first woman president elected. History would remember her as the first "first lady" elected president, instead.
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008
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Why is Clinton still in?
Current mood:  adventurous
Category: News and Politics
I'll take a guess; so that Obama can get more press. Seriously. I think she is actively working toward getting him elected by keeping the race going. So long as the primary season continues, no one is paying attention to McCain. Obama is a national nobody by political standards when compared to both Clinton and McCain. He needs the airtime to finish this thing off in November.
Clinton is also trying very hard to get all of Obama's dirty laundry aired right now. This Rev. Wright thing will be such old news that come October, no one will even care, or dismiss any candidate that brings up such old and settled disputes. This also leaves McCain open for an "October Surprise" from Obama. Maybe not directly (I'd look in Hillary's direction for that kind of dirty politicking. She needs to show the country that she is 100% Dem so she can make a bid in 8 years) but some nasty things about McCain's past will surface, and if it happens later rather than sooner, all the better for Obama.
The Pundits like to say that the ongoing Primary is hurtful to the Democratic party. That may be true, but it is even worse for the Republicans.
Sayonara Suckers, Welcome President Obama to the White House.
*ETA: I'm not the only one who is for Obama and thinks its great that Clinton is still in. The press has really got people looking at the Democratic party. People are signing up as Dems at record numbers. This is GOOD! Finally, progressive radio is kicking Bill O'Really?'s ass.
This extended primary season has been very good for the progressive movement in America.
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Monday, May 05, 2008
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Name that Wacky Religion!
Category: Religion and Philosophy
Let's play "Name that Wacky Religion!" The game that is guaranteed to piss someone off.
I figured that it is Sunday and so many people associate Sundays with religious practices, that I would develop a weekly quiz to test your religious knowledge. I'll try to come up with religious practices that aren't well known to westerners.
Here's how it works: This is a game that tests your knowledge of theology and religious practices. I'll describe the ritual or dogma and you have to guess what religion (or religions, sometimes several religions have similar practices) and you can leave your guess as a comment. I guess I can't stop you from scrolling down to see what other's have guessed, but try to take a guess at the answer before seeing what others have guessed.
On Mondays I'll reveal the answer right here as a blog edit.
Okay, let's "Name that Wacky Religion!"
60 million people around the globe practice this week's religion. This weeks religion has it's rituals jut like any religion does. There is one ritual that is defining for this faith, and many outsiders find the practice terrifying.
A devout practitioner will participate in this ritual many times over his or her lifetime. It is the method of communing with the spirit. It is occasionally used to eject evil spirits from the individual.
The ceremony begins with the gathering of the religious followers and leaders. There is the usual incantation to beginning the ceremony (as is common in all religious practices). The faithful dress in all white for the ceremony. There is incense and candles burning, making a nice fragrance in the air. The drummers beat a rhythm and the faithful begin dancing and chanting prayers to the spirit.
It is well known that dancing and chanting can induce a trance like state. This is the goal of the ceremony. The drumming and chanting and dancing continues on a floor that has been decorated with ornate pictures of religious symbolism. The decorations are done in chalk or flour or corn meal. The dancers dance over the symbols. As the dancers are overtaken by the trance, some begin speaking in tongues. They have been fully overcome by the trance and are now ready to receive the spirit into themselves. It is thought that their own souls are in danger of being stolen at this time, so the religious leaders say a protective prayer over the dancers. At some point after the protective prayer, the dancers fall to the ground, completely still. This means that their own soul has left their bodies and spirit has now entered.
The religious leader then brings in an animal to sacrifice. This animal has been treated very well and prayed over and prepared for this ceremony. It is usually a typical farm animal (goat, chicken, pig, sheep). If the animal is not sacrificed for the ceremony, the trance dancers are at danger of losing their souls and of being possessed by demons or earth bound trapped spirits, and thereby being lost to god forever.
The animal's throat is slit, and bled out into a bowl or bucket. The trance dancers, to return their souls to their bodies, then drink the blood. The soul is thought to be in communion with god, the angels and the spirits (like saints). The trance dancer once returning to his/her body may bring messages of prophecy or messages from god back to the religious followers. Usually this ceremony is to cleanse the evil or sins of the dancer and return him/her to a state of grace.
Let's "Name that Wacky Religion!"
This weeks answer is...Voodoo, Vodou, Vodun, Haitian Voudon are all correct.
It is a blend of traditional African religious practices and Christianity brought to the Caribbean by the slaves and slave trade. Vodun is currently practiced all over the world, but predominantly in the Caribbean as well as the Southern US.
As a side note, Voo Doo dolls aren't actually a part of the Voodoo religion. The dolls were used by European pagans and later attributed to Voodoo by pop culture and literature. Today Voodoo dolls are sold as part of a tourist attraction.
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Friday, May 02, 2008
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Endangered whales or oil profit President Bush?
Category: News and Politics
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What is the problem?
• Fewer than 350 North Atlantic right whales remain and the population is declining.
• Right Whale coastal habitat along the eastern U.S. and Canada is heavily industrialized and under increasing negative pressures from human activities.
• Mortality from ship-strikes and fishing-gear entanglements is driving the species toward extinction.
• On average only 11 calves are born per year, this is only 1/3 of the expected birth rate and less than the present annual death rate.
What actions must be taken to effect the solutions?
1. Eliminate human-caused mortality to right whales in critical habitats and migration corridors
Reduce and eliminate mortality and injury from ship-strikes via:
• Ship rerouting around critical areas
• Ship speed reduction to "whale safe" speeds
• Advanced technology to help ships avoid right whales
Reduce and eliminate mortality and injury from fishing-gear
entanglements via:
• Universal fishing-gear modifications
• Seasonal time and area fishing-gear closures
• Modify fishing practices
2. Protect right whale habitats
• Assess patterns of known critical habitat use by right whales and humans and eliminate conflict
• Locate the other critical habitats not yet identified but known to exist
• Protect critical habitats using a range of tools (including some of the means identified above)
• Advance effective protection of known habitats and protect other habitats as they become known.
3. Assess factors that reduce reproductive success of right whales
•Identify and assess actual and potential threats in right whale habitats that reduce reproductive success
•Reduce and eliminate threats as they become identified
Now who on earth would be against protecting endangered whales? Bush and Cheney, that's who.
NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has been working on the rule since 1999, and in 2006 proposed limiting the speeds of large ships in the Atlantic during seasons when the right whale is most active. Ship strikes are a major cause of death for right whales. "Ship strikes are responsible for 37% of whale deaths in just the last twenty two years," according to the office of Sen. John Kerry (D-MA).
An investigation by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee shows the White House is not merely stalling, but also actively working to thwart the efforts of NMFS's staff and undermine the marine science serving as the basis for the rule. "According to documents obtained by the Committee, the rule's delay appears to be due to baseless objections raised by White House officials, including officials in the Office of the Vice President."
Thanks, President Bush for choosing profits from oil over the loss of a noble and beautiful species for all future generations. Way to go, dude!
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Sunday, April 27, 2008
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Name that Wacky Religion!
Current mood: chipper
Category: Religion and Philosophy
Let's play "Name that Wacky Religion!" The game that is guaranteed to piss someone off.
I figured that it is Sunday and so many people associate Sundays with religious practices, that I would develop a weekly quiz to test your religious knowledge. I'll try to come up with religious practices that aren't well known to westerners.
Here's how it works: This is a game that tests your knowledge of theology and religious practices. I'll describe the ritual or dogma and you have to guess what religion (or religions, sometimes several religions have similar practices) and you can leave your guess as a comment. I guess I can't stop you from scrolling down to see what other's have guessed, but try to take a guess at the answer before seeing what others have guessed.
On Mondays I'll reveal the answer right here as a blog edit.
Okay, let's "Name that Wacky Religion!"
This religion allows for a dogmatic loophole to get out of hell after death. A person can have lived a completely evil life and is facing an eternity as Satan's' slave and suddenly gets a "get out of Hell free card". The soul is wisked off to heaven by the direct actions of those now living.
I can see it now, sort of like playing the lottery in Hell:
All the damned souls gather in giant antechamber watching as the ceiling opens. A blindingly bright light bathes the damned in glory of heaven while a beautiful angel enters. The angel, with a voice so melodious and pleasing to the ear, declares "Adolf Hitler. You have been chosen for salvation!"
The sea of damned souls starts screaming and rending their garments and tearing at the soul known as Adolf Hitler. The injustice that he, of all souls, gets to spend eternity in heaven! When their sins appear so minor in comparison. A riot ensues as Adolf Hitler becomes light and floats above the fray, grasping the hand of the angel. The din is deafening, the shouts of the damned at the injustice of the afterlife.
Together with the beautiful angel Hitler floats up to the beautiful light. The damned watch until the light fades completely, like taillights trailing off into the distance, until Hell is once again engulfed in utters darkness. The remaining damned are in utter despair at the complete injustice of divine law. But they also harbor a bit of hope that one-day the angel will come for them, too.
The religion that offers this kind of dogmatic loophole calls the practice Baptism for the Dead. It comes from the idea that not everyone had the opportunity to hear the words of the true god and therefore cannot be held accountable for their actions in life. A family member's permission is required for the baptism, but since this religion believes in the Adam and Eve story, essentially the whole planet is "family".
Hitler has been baptized three times using the dogma of this religion. But, apparently Ghandi is still waiting.
Now it's time to play: "Name that Wacky Religion!"
The Answer is The Mormon Church or The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints!
Sorry about the late reveal. I got sooooooo busy yestarday, I didn't even have time to eat! Thanks for your patience.
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Saturday, April 26, 2008
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You know your a redneck if...
Current mood:  silly
Category: Friends
You're An EXTREME Redneck When.....
1. You let your 14-year-old daughter smoke at the dinner table in front of her kids.
2. The Blue Book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas is in it.
3. You've been married three times and still have the same in-laws.
4. You think a woman who is'out of your league' bowls on a different night.
5. You wonder how service stations keep their rest-rooms so clean.
6. Someone in your family died right after saying, 'Hey, guys, watch this.'
7. You think Dom Perignon is a Mafia leader.
8. Your wife's hairdo was once ruined by a ceiling fan.
9. Your junior prom offered day care.
10. You think the last words of the 'Star-Spangled Banner' are 'Gentlemen, start your engines.'
11. You lit a match in the bathroom and your house exploded right off its wheels.
12. The Halloween Pumpkin on your porch has more teeth than your spouse.
13. You have to go outside to get something from the fridge.
14. One of your kids was born on a pool table.
15. You need one more hole punched in your card to get a freebie at the House of Tattoos.
16. You can't get married to your sweetheart because there's a law against it.
17. You think loading the dishwasher means getting your wife drunk.
And Finally: An Arkansas couple, both real-live rednecks, had 9 children. They went to the doctor to
see about getting the husband 'fixed'. The doctor asked them why, after nine children would they choose to do this.
The husband replied that they had read in a recent article that one out of every ten children being born in North
America was Mexican and they didn't want a Mexican baby because neither of them could speak Spanish.
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Friday, April 25, 2008
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Chritina Ricci, STFU Already!
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
Okay, I saw this article about how this Hollywood actress is upset that "Stripper Culture" is about the objectification of women. Um, really? How do you figure (cough, cough, hypocrite! Cough, cough)? As if the film business isn't about objectification of women? Whatever…
So I ask this question, Christina, what is the one industry that women's wages consistently are higher then men's? I'll give you a hint: it starts with an "S" and ends with "tripper".
That's right, male strippers don't earn nearly as much as females. Usually the difference is by as much as half. Seriously. Can you name a single famous male stripper? Just one is fine. I can't either, but history is full of famous female strippers, such as Lili St Cyr, Gypsy Rose Lee and Betty Paige. We've got famous modern strippers, too. Anna Nichole Smith, Jenna Jameson and Dita Von Teese. I can't, for the life of me come up with a single male counterpart to any of these ladies.
So, let me get this straight, Christina, the one career in the US that women out earn men and are superior in every way, that of the Strip Tease Artist, is somehow in your little prude brain more objectifying than any other legal career?
"I think people are learning to actually aspire to be objectified," Christina said. "It's like the highest form of flattery for teenage girls. The culture we live in right now seems to reward behavior that we used to frown upon. We used to teach our daughters not to be like this. I think in the '80s, there would certainly have been a little bit of snobbery expressed if somebody admitted to getting a full Brazilian bikini wax. A circle of friends would be like, 'What are you, a porn star?'"
I got news for you, Christina, women in our culture are objectified. Thanks in large part to Hollywood and modern media images of women, wage disparities between men and women and the attitude of women such as yourself that seem to think that embracing female sexuality is some how degrading.
Now that you understand a little better that being an ecdysiast is not about objectification of women, but the celebration of the female at her artistic best, maybe try working toward gaining female equality in other areas of our culture where it is lacking.
For instance, the equal pay for equal work (Lilly Ledbetter act) bill that recently failed the senate. This was a sad day for women (and male ecdysiasts) all over America. There is a gigantic loophole that millions of American women fall through, and the bill would have closed that loop hole. But the bill failed by 4 votes.
Not surprisingly, Senator McCain didn't vote that day, but said he was against it. Because, ya know, it might cause a bunch of lawsuits and stuff.
Well, golly Senator, you might be on to something. Maybe we should just make sexual discrimination legal, too, to prevent all those lawsuits. How about religious discrimination too, while we're at it. Hell, we could just throw in racial discrimination while we're at it and free up the courts for all that really important stuff, like removing bankruptcy protections for individuals.
Ahhh, but I digress. In closing, I'd like to say to Miss Ricci, please stop calling the profession of strip tease "objectification" when you, yourself are in the industry that is the biggest promoter of objectifying women.
P.S. Hollywood males earn considerably more than females. And as we all know the females in film have shorter careers, less opportunity, likely have to work harder, longer hours and are held to higher standards than their male counterparts. FYI.
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