Election Day Hell

I now know why the Founding Father's didn't trust the common American Citizen. The Common Man will always be ignorant and dangerous in masses as witnessed last night. They will agree to bills that take away people's rights like Prop. 8, or throw out the Judge's that allow gays to marry in Iowa. They will not see what is best for the country, only what is good for themselves. To the Republican Party, you are not the party of the Founding Father's, do not sully the reputation of Washington, Jefferson and Hamilton. Do not pretend you know what they would believe because clearly you don't. Things like Gay Marriage, Drug Laws, Immigration etc. should be decided by experts, not the brainwashed masses.

Repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell

A recent attempt to repeal the authoratorian law, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” has failed. Well, actually it wouldn’t have, there was a majority, infact there was a complete 13 vote majority (56-43), The Republicans used a filibuster to ensure that it didn’t even go to debate. What has this country come to, when debate can not even occur, mind you this is debate, not a decision, yet the Republicans seem too concerened with election fever that they are not willing to do the right thing. Both Senators from Maine, though they support the repealing of the act, failed to step over the line to aid the destruction of bigotry itself. Think of it this way Senators, while you are sitting on your chairs voting for Bigotry, Homophobia, and unethical acts that shed negative light on the United States, these people want only to serve in the united states armed forces, to make a difference in the world. These men and women want to put their lives on the line and you won’t let them. 13,389 people have been discharged from the military due to this unconstitutional act that you so defend. Pardon my asking, but isn’t it a little oxymoronic, discharging you cannon fodder that you so need for your unethical wars? America contiues to thrive in an air of discrimination, but, that’s nothing new. Blacks, Hispanics, Women, Japanese, you name it the discrimination has been there, and what a surprise who are the majority of the opposition in this act? Old White Men. Grow up Republicans, and stop shoving in the sandbox.

Gay Marriage won't destroy marriage, Love will.

Marriage itself is an archaic custom dating from a different age. Long gone is the idea that marriage is the perfect union in the eyes of god, not that it ever existed that way to begin with. Marriage has always been a social contract, a business venture, a merger of two families, in fact the majority of marriages in time have been prearranged. From the Middle-East to Europe, The parents of men and women have been selling them off to the highest bidder, just like a company, there was no such thing as love, people were just expected to deal with whoever their parents thought appropriate to marry. Opponents of Same-Sex Marriage claim that allowing it would be to degrade the human race, to destroy everything that marriage has stood for, but the truth is Traditional Marriage has already been destroyed. Traditional Marriage was destroyed when people began following their hearts, and find love, thus destroying the very economic principals marriage was created to solve. The proof is in the numbers, in this day and age 50 percent of marriages end in divorce. Clearly allowing people to follow their heart and allow them to marry on a whim is what will ultimately result in the destruction of all marriage. Opponents of Same-Sex Marriage say that it harms children and destroys family values. What is more destructive to children? A family with two dads who love them, or a family wrought with physical violence and anger, the ability to only see one of your parents at a time, and the depression that follows a divorce? Clearly if anything at all is to blame for the destruction of Traditional Marriage, its the heterosexual relationships of our time, the accessibility of divorce and lack of interest in the well being of our children as a result of such divorces. So why not give them a chance, clearly the more dangerous marriage any one that fails. Not that all homosexual marriages will work, in fact many will not, that is assured in our time where getting a divorce is easier then getting a job, but if half the marriages right now are doomed to fail, why not increase the number of marriages and push that percentage down. If it doesn't work, and society really does disintegrate due to two men holding hands, society can reevaluate it, but for now give it a try, you never know if something works or not until you try it.

An Interesting View on Anarchy

http://www.lucyparsonsproject.org/anarchism/berkman_abc_of_anarchism.html

Some Quotes

"A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth."-Jacques Barzun

"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.” Edward Abbey


"A Liberal is a man afraid of losing his privileges. A Conservative is a man afraid OF his privileges."

"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country." - Thomas Jefferson

"All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind." - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations

"No society can surely be flourishing and happy when part of the members are poor and miserable." - Adam Smith, Wealth Of Nations

“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy” - James Madison

"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear." - W.E. Gladstone

The Conservative Man

"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward." --- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Another ingenious quote from another great politician, Franklin Delano arguably the greatest president to live at the White House. He states that the conservative man has no ability to adapt to the changing times. He is rigid in his stance, and wants to go back to an earlier point in history. It is somewhat understandable, sometimes people just want to stay in the prime of their life and never age. They don't want the nation to change without them either. The problem is, time only flows one way. Like it or not you can not halt the progress of a nation without its destruction. That's what conservatives fail to see, there is no going back to the good old days when they were allowed to own slaves and beat women, because progress will always win. With this sense in mind, why do people still try? Time stops for no one, why do they think it will for them?

Liberty for Safety

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety, and will lose both." --- Benjamin Franklin

A completely accurate point, said by one of the Founding Fathers. He tells us that we cannot sacrifice our own personal liberties for the sake of a little temporary safety. Nothing is more accurate in this day and age with the US P.A.T.R.I.O.T act looming over our shoulders. A fine example of how right the Founding Fathers could be on some things. How can a person give up liberty to insure safety, when safety can never possibly be assured. Any number of things could still happen regardless of you throwing away your personal liberties. If one keeps throwing away liberties to try to get a little more security eventually we will wind up with nothing. The government will control every aspect of our lives. At that point will it really matter if we are safe, we will not be truly alive.