The Power of Buzzwords

Per my usual routine, I found myself absentmindedly clicking on all even partially interesting article titles on CNN.com and came across one article in particular that got me thinking. The link brought me to Time.com and an article entitled "Legal Euthanasia: No Spur to Suicide."

Not much noteworthy material in the article itself - I think anyone who shows up here would agree that euthanasia is a necessary evil. If, for some reason I was ever in a position where I would become nothing more than a burden to my loved ones as I wasted away into a pain ridden vegetable, pumped full of pain killers and losing what little was left of my delicate sanity I'd hope that I would be allowed to take the only thing that is truly my own in this world: My life.

This is by no means saying I am at all suicidal. But if I were in the same position as the former Mrs. Terri Schiavo, I would hope that someone close to me would realize that while I might be able to cope with the lose of limbs, senses or the ability to communicate - I could never, nor ever want to try and live when I had no mental capacity to even remain conscious.

Anyway - while I'm sure you find this diatribe fascinating, the honest intent of this posting is to point out my own weakness to certain buzzwords. If you've seen the Time article, than you probably paused when you read this sentence:

"A patient does not have to be terminally ill to be treated in the Netherlands, but does have to be facing "unbearable suffering," and children as young as 12 can be considered for treatment, with both parents' consent."

But why? Why would that ring any bells in my brain? One word: Children. The thought of killing children is, at first thought, absolutely repulsive to me and I paused. I paused so hard that I needed to write this article to work out why. If in my own moral code I can let the brainless, the old and the horribly infirmed ADULTS - than why did take more than just a minute for me to extend this right, (granted... this is just the right in the lawful and moral world of my head), to suffering children.

And after hefty consideration it is because I didn't think of the child suffering from who knows what horrible ailment, who can't think for themselves and who, ultimately, won't make it into adulthood or even have the fun and carefree childhood that one imagines. In their place I had imagined a frolicking, doe eyes little child - innocent and healthy. But it isn't these healthy, playful and innocent youths being "put under"... and if we as humans can see the pain in an animal enough to put it down, than why not extend the same to our youth? Just because they might have a slim chance of living to an age where they can make that choice for themselves? This seems cruel and unusual - even for a species as insanely selfish as our own that use religion and fictional codes of conduct to cover for their own fear of death and loss.

Rice, Romney and Basement Lipo?

Hmm -

The news today really doesn't seem to give me much hope. But then again, does it really ever?

Anyway... so Rice is trying to figure out a way to clean up the huge mess in Israel and Lebanon. Hmph. Good luck! Especially if you're the one hired for the job... you are going to need it.

And Romney said 'tar baby' in his most recent speach in Iowa did he? God damnit people who gives a flying fucking shit what the man said! Ooohhh... poor baby!! He said something that could possibly be considered a racial slur. He didn't mean it that way! What, are we going to have to stop eating Aunt Jemima Pancake Syrup, fried chicken and pork rind too??!! (not that'd mind about the syrup or rinds mind you - I don't eat them anyway... but fried chicken is damned good!)

Get over yourselves!!! Stop being so damned segragatory in your thought process and so ultra sensitive to anything anyone says and we might actually get somewhere. You know what, I'd rather have someone like Andrew Dice Clay run the country if he were fair to constitution and to the people - who cares if he isn't all warm, gushy and a fucking pushover. Find your priorities!!

Speaking of priorites, my last poke of the day goes to the retard who died on the lipo table in some guys basement. Personally, I feel as though this guy and his wife should get off scott free. He was doing us all a service. I mean who else but a mentally defieciant full fledged RETARD is going to say "I want lipo! But I don't want to go to a real doctor! This guys basement looks hella-nice so let's get it here! Medical liscence? You need one of them?"

I'm glad she's dead people.

Wow...!

;;Meekly scuttles out from under the rock she's been buried under;;

Hi!

;;waves;;

So - how's the place been without me?

;;kicks at the dust bunnies on the floor... rips down the last 4 months off the calander;;

-cough-

Hmmm.... well I'm glad to see that people have still been trafficing the site,

;;wonders if it's just accidental search hits but after looking over statistics its a 50/50 mix of new and old visitors;;

So, welcome back, (to me at least). Sorry its been so long, but I took a few months off to get back into school. Yep - I'm finally trying for the degree in English education that I probably should have just gotten to start with. I also took a nifty little vacation to visit a friend out on the absolutely stunning island of O'ahu.

Anyway - enough about that for now, I'm sure it'll come out in one way or another later on. In the meantime I'm back for now at least so expect something to be posted in the next few days!

New RSS Feed to my Friendster Profile?

Just when I thought I couldn't possibly get any dorkier I'm going ahead and doing this! Welcome to all of my new Friendster Friends! And I hope you don't take anything I say here to seriously. If you have an issue let me know - if not, well that's kewl too.

And I thought my Family was Messed Up

Recently, I've only been posting to the site once every week or so, but I came across a story that can't wait until next week. It's a familiar one. Asshole in Islamic nationstate murders woman who is "dishonering" the family. But this one makes me so ill I'm actually dizzy at the moment.

The man got so pissed off that his property went off and left her abusive husband and came back to live with mom that he slite her throat and the throats belonging to each of her step-sisters. Now, the kicker is all of the three step sisters are under the age of 15, and are the legitimate children of this lunatic.

All of this happened while the madmans wife stood there pleading for the life of her daughters and clutching her baby son in her arms.

So why didn't he kill the son if his four year old daughter could be murdered? Well the daughter could dishonor him.. but the son... his son should be honored.

The kicker to this entire situation is that while the woman stood and watched the whole thing, and the man was arrested, he could walk away having to just pay a fine. Can you imagine? Even better, the wife wouldn't even get the settlement - it would most likely go to her next male of kin... aka her INFANT SON most likely. Great - can you imagine, "Gee, I'm sorry I killed all your daughters... but here's $20 and a goat - for our son." The even more grotesque part is that the asshole wouldn't even say sorry. Actually it would more likely be - "Son, here's $20 and a goat for not being able to cash in on selling your sisters into slavery. Better luck with you own property."

Now, why with all the special forces and military personal we have stationed in and around Pakistan why don't we just shoot the man as an example. Women are not property. Women are not disposable and should be treated with some semblance of repect. I understand that this is a small part of the reason we are over there trying to beat these muchismo morons into oblivion - but come on! How many years into this and we can't stop them from commiting murder on their own daughters?! It's not like he's sorry - he's glad that he rid the world of some dishonorable disease. He says it himself!

Oh whatever - it's not like me bitching about it will solve anything. But if I ever have a chance to sit eye to eye with one of this bigoted, sexist retards I can guarentee I'll be the only one walking away from that meeting in tact.

News is vomit inducing

Is it only me or does anyone else want to puke after reading the news today? Well, I guess it would all depend on what news that you read wouldn't it? So for those of you who may have missed these headlines take a peak:

Shwartzenagger's name taken off stadium in Austria!

I'm impressed with this one actually. Austria cares enough about its own non-execution style of justice that when the former body builder dumps his upbringing for the much easier and instantly gratifying "American Justice" - (ie. kill the offender its easier then putting them up in the Ritz), they pull his name off of their stadium. While this is impressive one thing that Austria has to remember is that the reason we kill these people instead of putting them up for years in our grande hotel style prisons is that to do the later is quite expensive.

If it were up to me I'd cut off everything but the bare necessities to these people. You know - no AC to cool their bored overheated selfs, no "play time" - instead put them to work cleaning out the filth that other people like them created, no gourmet meals... only bread, water and the parts of the animal that no one else wants to eat. Screw the idea that just because their still alive they need to eat well. Hell these people probably eat better and get better medical care and education then most of our law abiders. So if this is the way it has to be fine... shoot every last one of them in the head because for them to get special treatment is absurd! Go Arnold!!

Police Fatally Shoot Man in New Orleans

As if these people didn't have it bad enough! Two excellent points were brought up regarding this one though:

1. Why wasn't the man shot in the leg to try and deter not kill him? Have we gotten that gun happy that even our cops can't tell restrain themselves anymore? Yeah, it happened fast. Sure it did.

2. The man was known as a town whacko. Wouldn't any of the cops or residence have been able to pick up on this and maybe - of I don't know - SAY SOMETHING! It doesn't surprise me that the man was crazy at all. In order to pull a knife in a public area you have to be. But it does get me a little angry when in an area with so many people everyone was so worried about themselves they couldn't even tell an officer, (officers that took more then just a moment or two to congregate mind you,) that the man is insane and needs to be handeled a bit more gently. Idiots.

However, and this is going to sound really mean - kudos to the police department for chloronating the gene pool a little for the rest of us, you get a gold star! (Or do you get it taken away for killing an innocent man I haven't quiet made that call yet - get back to you next week!)

And last but not least:

Bush Hopes for a Better year in 2006

Yeah, like how about someone assassinating the fucker. You read right. If you can kill a black man in New Orleans for being crazy and take Arnolds name off a stadium for killing a man then why can't we drag this country bumpkin moron behind a barn somewhere and put a bullet in his brain, (right after we drown old man Cheney in a bucket of his own feces).

The man can't run a counrty, he can't stay on topic. He's already given up on Social Security and tax reform. All he cares about is another country. Hey - monkey ball, you run the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA... not oil land! Please try and act like it eh? Because as far as I'm concerned every year this guy is in office we're worse off for it.

Bush Decides to Come Clean

After years of lying to the American people, Bush has finally decided to fess up to something that any smart person realized when this war started: The decision to move into this war was based on faulty intelligence.

However, while he admits this lapse in judgement he really does nothing in the form of an apology. Although he does make some grand statement about how we as American should not forget our own wars and what the cost vs. benifit to these engagments was. This is all well and good Mr. President - but when we got help from other countries, (which for those of you who don't know was very little), they didn't show up with a handful of false promises and a truck load of demands.

Aside from this fine piece of news, did you know that his approval rating actually went up 4 points?? This can only mean one thing - it went down because people felt that their president was lying to them about what was really happening, (pretty reasonable), but now that he's willing to show err it goes back up again, (not reasonable at all!). For all we know the entire statement of false pretense is a lie. Heck - if we asked dear little old monkey man what the pretenses WERE and still ARE do you think that anything would change?

Probably not. Why? Well - seeing as this fight isn't about freedom at all but money, wealth and world domination then why would it change? It's like a little kid on the beach. He built the biggest sandcastle - then some other kid comes around and kicks it over and builds himself a little sandcastle. Well, instead of just bowing out Bushy poo wants to take all the sand from every beach in the world, destroy any other castles and not build another one for fear of it getting toppled over.

Play nice - share the sand.