I Blame Society (and human nature)

Please correct me if you think I am wrong.

Yep, just like almost everyone else in my demographic, I blame society. You ask yourself, Why would someone like that go as low as to blame everything on society? Well thats a damn good question, because I try not to be the type to just find a scapegoat for my own actions. But the way I see it, we are not all completely responsible for our own actions, considering we are all just human and we are very much shaped by the forces of society (also greed, power, evil, religion (which is part of society), politics (also society), etc. but I will save those for another day).

Have you ever noticed that if someone is just a little different, we automatically assume something is wrong? Consider this. A teen in school usually gets good grades. But then they start to get worse. He is easily distracted and is not longer interested by school. Something must be wrong with him. His parents are concerned and so they take him to a psychologist and he gets diagnosed with ADHD. He gets medication to make him "normal" again. This is seriously wrong! What happened to the days when 'boys were boys,' and we were not expected to be interested in school. It used to be that people had their own talents and were respected for it. Society just has no room for deviance anymore.

Almost anything can be traced back to society. Excuses make life easier!

OIL!!!!!

If you did not already know, the price of oil is now over $100 per barrel!!!

That is right, while you are sitting on your couch reading this because you are unemployed now, those rich people in the oil business are raking in three figures per hour! And all you have to say is that you are up to three beers per hour.

But please realize, how many of you out there drive/ own/ have ridden in/ somehow associated with a car? Exactly. You should all be raising your hand. If you are not then you are probably an environmental SOCIALIST. COMMIE! So it would be un-American to not use fossil fuels in some way. Whether you like it or not, we are dependent on oil, so maybe we are screwed, but suck it up and get a job making more oil!

Thank you, and good night

People are Dumb

I do not mean this in any offense to anyone in particular, but the mass majority of people are just dumb. Now I am not saying I am not dumb, because I probably am, but a large number of people really are just not very smart.

By dumb (stupid, unintelligent, ignorant, dull, mindless, you get the point), what do I mean? For clarification, I do not mean academically. There are plenty of people who get A's all through school yet never learn a thing, but there are also people who don't turn in a single assignment but have greater insight and knowledge than the valedictorian. What I mean by dumb is the inability to use logical reasoning and defend your well thought out ideas in an understandable manner, but also not being able to open up your mind to new ideas that differ from your own. Basically, I consider being dumb not being able to think well.

Over the years, many, if not most, of the people I have observed create an opinion, not based on any reasoning, and stick to it, despite all of the possible inaccuracies in it. Then, when someone contradicts it, or does not agree with it, and gives facts as to why their statement is false, the person often breaks down, gets angry, or just does not listen. No one's mind is changed, and nothing gets done (sounds like our government!). And so the process continues, the dumb people create fallacies, other dumb people go along with it, the smarter person proves them wrong, the dumb person does not listen, nothing gets done.

I try to live my life based on facts, and to be the smart person in this futile cycle, yet I may be wrong, so please, if you disagree, prove that I am wrong, and I will listen, but you better have proof. I encourage everyone to listen to each other better and evaluate better, Don't be Dumb.

Thank you, and good night.

Help Support a Good Cause

I happened to stumble upon this interesting website today, FreeRice.com, which helps fight world hunger, certainly a good cause. How the site works, is you play a fairly simple vocabulary game there, and for each question you get right, their sponsors send a certain amount of money towards feeding the needy. This site was just created last October so I figured giving it a little press would not hurt.

As always, I have to turn this into a political statement. On the site mentioned above, I found some very interesting statistics. Back in 2002, the US government signed a deal that they would send the requested (by the UN) 0.7% of their yearly income of the country to help end world hunger. What happened? Well, the US is only sending 0.17% (about a fourth) of what they promised. Out of the 22 nations that signed this deal, the US is second only to Greece for the least percent of money sent, and at least Greece has a plan to increase it.

If this annoys you, please write to the government and tell them what you think

www.poverty.com/internationalaid.html

thank you and good night

Global Warming

The below is a brief essay I wrote concerning this topic (please remember, plagiarism is illegal).

Imagine a world five degrees warmer year round. That means when it used to snow, it might rain, and when it used to be 95 degrees, it might be 100. And these scenarios may happen sooner than you think. Global warming is a serious concern facing us and future generations that we must make an effort against. By learning about the evidence of global warming, the greenhouse effect, and what causes greenhouse gasses, we may be able to slow the unwanted results of heat.

Some skeptics say that global warming is a natural phase; however, there is substantial evidence suggesting that worldwide temperatures have risen at alarming rates. First, over the past century, average temperatures have increased by about .7 to 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit. If this pattern continues, temperatures are expected to rise by about 6 degrees in the next century. Information from coral, trees and ice cores suggests that the 1990s was the hottest decade in a millennium. Also, in oceans, the average water temperature in the past fifty years has gone up by about half a degree. Because of these hotter temperatures, the average glacier has been shrinking by about a foot each year for the past fifty years.

Although many things are attributed to causing global warming, the most widely accepted cause is the greenhouse effect. In a greenhouse, light comes in through the glass to heat it, but less heat can escape because of the insulation of the glass. A similar situation occurs on earth as well. In our atmosphere, gasses such as carbon dioxide and oxides of nitrogen (known as greenhouse gasses) act as an insulator. They allow solar radiation to enter the atmosphere, but when the earth radiates infrared waves back out, come of the radiation is stopped by these gasses and converted to heat. When this happens, the earth keeps more heat than what is given off which causes the overall world temperature to rise.

In our society, there are several ways that unwanted greenhouse gasses are produced. Almost anything that uses fossil fuels gives off carbon dioxide. Most of our electricity comes from burning fossil fuels including coal and oil. When these are burned, many pollutants are given off; among those is carbon dioxide. Also, cars and other major forms of transportation burn petroleum products that give off greenhouse gasses. Another major greenhouse gas, methane, is produced from agriculture.

By knowing the evidence of global warming, how the greenhouse effect works, and what causes greenhouse gasses, you can better understand what action can be done against global warming. A hotter climate presents many ecological challenges that would eventually affect humans. It is therefore necessary to take action to slow down global warming and to limit the greenhouse effect. Some species of animals have already migrated north because of a changing climate. Do you want to have to join them?

http://www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/whatyoucando/index.html
http://go.grolier.com/gol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming
http://globalwarmingart.com/

Thank you and good night

Blogs

Blogs, blogs, and more blogs.  Why can't people just stop blogging?  Why do we need to know about all of these things that people just decided they need to post on the internet?

A lot of people use their blogs as an online journal where they put what they did that day, random personal thoughts, and other things that were never meant to be read by the whole world.   (Yes, I know I am being hypocritical.)  A blog is a good place to post information you want people to read, but still, sometimes I think there are many unnecessary posts.  That is great that you are really depressed that day or you just got some new thing that is really cool, but it used to be these things were kept in a personal journal, not viewable to the public.

Oh well, I guess it really does not matter anyway.  Writing is a type of speech and therefore is protected under the first amendment, so I should just stop complaining.

This post does not represent the personal opinions of INC, inc., part of Prose Interprises

Barack Obama

Is it Barack Obama or Obomba?

Recently, Democratic presidential candidate, Barack Obama, was said to not have much of a stance on foreign affairs.  In response to this he gave a speech on his foreign policy last Wednesday.  In this speech, Senator Obama stated that if he were elected to the white house, fighting terrorism would be a priority.  He said that if the Pakistani government did not get rid of terrorists in their country, he would take military action in Pakistan against the terrorists.  You heard me right, invade Pakistan.

Seems to me, this was not too smart of a move for a Democrat trying to be elected.  Considering we are in a war right now, I doubt that most of the public would support another one.

"Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."  In any case, I don't think I would vote for another president to get us stuck in a war.

Thank you and good night.