Feelings

I saw an allstate commercial this morning.  It really pissed me off.  The announcer said something like, it sure feels like a recession.  My first thought was, uh I call bullshit.  You can’t feel a recession.  A recession is an economic state, it isn’t something that you can feel.  I suppose, that a person can feel a storm coming because of sensitivy to humidity and barometric pressure, but when it comes to economics, there are no subjective feelings to be had about it’s condition.  There are only facts and uncertaintly.

Btw, according to wikipedia, a recessions, “occurs when real growth is negative for two or more successive quarters of a year.”  That is an objective fact, not a subjective feeling.  I wish that these wishy-washy feeling-obsessed bitches would get over themselves.

If you don’t agree with me…

“One of the things that we’re seeing today in North Carolina is a lot of politicians running on an anti-Latino campaign, knowing that these folks can’t vote anyway, so you can go ahead and bash them to your heart’s content,” (Full Article, NPR.com)

I saw this quote on a Libertarian mailing list, and it pisses me off that folks who supposedly stand for freedom will have nothing negative to say when someone gratuitously uses the race card.  Dammit, they easily confuse protecting national sovereignty with anti-Latino racism.  There is never any room for debate.  If you don’t agree, then you’re a racist.  This is the bullshit that makes me furious at liberals.

Eye for an Eye Politics

We’ve been told for years that two wrongs don’t make a right, yet in a way we have seen an eye for an eye philosophy in politics. Most specifically in the areas of race and sexism.

For years women were not allowed to vote and were seen to be on a different social level as men. It is also reported that they were not welcome into the technical or scientific realms

Most of us know that’s wrong now. Yet, there isn’t just a movement for equality. Now it’s retribution. You must have diversity. The problem is that ability is overshadowed by gender. You can’t hire the best person for a job, you must hire the person who meets your diversity quota. The same can be said about African Americans (God, I hate that term). We know that racism and slavery is bad. We know that those are satanic institutions, but to say that there must be retribution in the form of affirmative action and other programs is like trying to make two wrongs make a right. The right thing to do is to hire the best person, or admit the best students, or contract the best companies, not based on race, gender, or sexual orientation, but because they are the best. Forced and enforced diversity doesn’t work.

Chubby Chicks

I can’t stand it when a woman is so obsessed with her looks that she thinks that nobody will love her if she isn’t a perfect size 6.  Phooey!

Now, don’t get me wrong, there’s a difference between morbid obesity and some chub.  People with serious health concerns caused by obesity should be treated differently.  They should be encouraged to be involved in programs to help save their lives.  However, most chubby women are not, but they think that they have to have supermodel abs to really attract a man.  I wish more women knew how to enjoy a juicy cheeseburger and not obsess over the size of their swimwear.

If there’s one thing that I really like, it’s chicks with more on top than on bottom, and I don’t mean boobs. I mean brains.  As I’ve said before, there’s just something damn irresistible about an intelligent women, especially geeky ones who don’t hide behind a rediculous block like, “I’m not good with computers.” or “books with long words bore me”.  Yes, I’m being facetious, but not by much.  If I had to do it allover again, I’d date the mousy chick who hangs out in the scifi section and who has cottage cheese thighs and some extra padding around her gut.

Death-less Abortion

I’ve heard for the past few years that we are only a few years away from the artificial womb, and I was thinking about that last night. What if a process were available to remove a fetus from a womans body and implant it into another woman’s body or temporarily into an artificial womb so that the baby can have a chance to be born and live a full life? I think I would give money to such an organization and even volunteer my time and effort to seeing.

There are two main objections I can see to this. First, you have the woman who wants to kill her baby. That’s blunt, but I’m being honest some women don’t want to think that there could be a person out there somewhere that has her DNA that she might feel an attachment to, and it would be better to just avoid any kind of messy issues like that. There is also the issue of cost. The cost of temporarily housing a fetus would be immense. Who would pay for something like that? I believe that religious organizations could pay for it, though the sheer magnitude of abortion on demand would make it difficult, but any advancement would be welcome.

Finally, I can’t speak for all Christians, nor would I want to, but many of us really don’t care what a woman does with a body. The line that is often told by women that Christians in general want to take away their freedom to own their own bodies is a lie. It’s just pro-abortion propaganda. The truth is that we care about the lives of the unborn more than we care about the person’s sex life. Sure there are some nut cases that go outside of the norm, but they are the deviants, not the rule.

A Common Hypochondria

Okay, what I write here is of my own mind and may just be me talking out of my arse, so if you want to gripe or flame me, go ahead.

It bothers me that pharmaceutical companies currently advertise drugs on TV and in other media that are only available by prescription. These ads are misleading, and in my opinion, they are nothing more than a dangerous bait and hook. The absolute worst of the bunch are the drugs for depression and social anxiety.

It’s not just that drug companies want to sell you Viagra and Paxil. It’s that the descriptions of so many “diseases” are vague. And the diagnoses are so common. It seems too dang easy to me to look at the number of people with many of these afflications and develop some sort of hypochondria which a doctor will gladly prescribe a drug form.

According to The Free Dictionary, Hypochondria is defined as, “The persistent conviction that one is or is likely to become ill, often involving symptoms when illness is neither present nor likely, and persisting despite reassurance and medical evidence to the contrary”

The latest of these “diseases” that I heard about is restless leg syndrome. RLS is defined as “An uncomfortable creeping, crawling, tingling, pulling, twitching, tearing, aching, throbbing, prickling or grabbing sensation in the calves that occurs while sitting or while lying down. Whatever the nature of the sensation, the result is an uncontrollable urge to relieve it by moving the legs.” Quite frankly, if your leg cramps are common or you are just a figity person, how can you differentiate that from RLS? A reasonable response would be to see a medical doctor. The problem is that too many doctors are happy to prescribe a drug for a disease that you think you are having. This doesn’t treat a disease. It validates a person’s feelings that they have a disease, and although a neurological disease like RLS may certainly not be contagious, fear is. Fear that a person may have some disease moves quickly from one person to another.

I think that this “common hypochondria” is a symptom of a greater problem. When someone relies on their own experience without objective verification, lunacy will ensue. What I’m trying to say is that I do believe that there are some real conditions that exist and many people suffer from them. I also believe that the majority of people who are treated for such conditions either do no have them or they only have them because they believe that they do (i.e. hypochondria). To repeat what I said earlier, the only reason that so many people think they have these diseases is because they are so prominent in the media and because of word of mouth. This brings us back to objective verification. Where is it? I’m afraid that it’s hard to find and I’m afraid it isn’t going to get any better. It’s too easy to simply prescribe a drug than to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on MRI’s or other tests.

Finally, I have to be extremely vague. There is nothing more personal than disease. You can question a person’s believe in God, but don’t dare question their belief in their disease. That’s a shame.

Rant of the Day: Logic

Aristotle, the great logician of ancient Greece, wrote a book on rhetoric, which to him meant the art of persuasion. He realized the distinction between two kinds of appeal to people’s assent: the logical and the emotive. How often do people today listen to political speeches without an awareness of this distinction? Are you sure that is is the logic, and not the appeal to the emotions, which wins your consent to political arguments? We must be ever cautious not to be moved by persuasion with is eloquent but illogical. The study of logic will make is keenly aware of this. (An Introduction to Modern Logic, William Halberstadt, 1960)

This lack of distinction between the emotive and the logical is the main reason that Americans wanted to go to war in the middle east. Not that conservatives are necessarily more gullible or illogical, but that very few Americans are trained to think clearly and logically. The whole ridiculous “follow your heart” mentality is not the product of just conservativism or liberalism. It is the result of decades of religious and political indoctrination from both sides of the aisle. I would like to see a change in how people think. I’m tired of seeing people with their collective heads stuck up their rears because they feel in our hearts that it’s the right thing to do.

Phooey to emotionalism!
Phooey to self esteem!
Phooey to government emotional control!

Nihilism

This comic always bothered me:

Post-modernists would say that we create our own realities and truths. That’s true if there is no God. The problem is that our constructed realities are really lies that we tell ourselves. “The future is an adventure” is one such lie that does not really deal with reality, it just ignores it. When we deal with reality as it is, and would don’t believe that there is a God, then we get to something much darker and much more anti-human.

James Watson won the Nobel Prize in 1953 for discovering the structure of DNA, a feat he popularized in his book “The Double Helix.” Lately, he has been spouting off about how black people are genetically inferior. Michael Gerson gives more details and raises the spector that looms behind such comments, the new biology’s penchant for eugenics. Gerson goes on to show that science alone can recognize NO BASIS for equality, human rights, or protecting the weak. For that you need to believe in something “transcendent” :

In 2003, Watson spoke in favor of genetic selection to eliminate ugly women: “People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.” In 2000, he suggested that people with darker skin have stronger libidos. In 1997, Watson contended that parents should be allowed to abort fetuses they found to be gay: “If you could find the gene which determines sexuality and a woman decides she doesn’t want a homosexual child, well, let her.” In the same interview, he said, “We already accept that most couples don’t want a Down child. You would have to be crazy to say you wanted one, because that child has no future.” (HT to Gene Vieth)

Stories like this don’t surprise me. Watson isn’t just some lunatic. He’s facing a world without God the only way that he can. That is, through the intentional improvement of the Human Species by eliminating individuals who would hold it back. In other words, eugenics.

Ron Paul 2008

This Blog supports Ron Paul, suckah!

And the writer of this blog farts in the general direction of every socialist and socialist-wannabe in both the Democratic and Republican parties.

I’m Back

I’m back and this blog is now active once again. My alter ego has finally kicked the blogging bucket, so this is where I will be blogging from now on.

What’s great is that nobody reads this blog, so I will write about anything I damn well feel like writing.

Put on your sarcasm filters and your galoshes, because the shits about to get deep.