Rock the Vote!!

I have never voted. I have never been registered to vote. I really don’t have any right to complain about the current presidential administration. However, I always invoke my first amendment rights and speak my mind (bitch and complain) anyway. America, please check out all candidates. We have the right and freedom to vote…use it. Check out http://www.rockthevote.com/ and register. I did.

Kid Rock, Waffle House, and Proof that God has a Sense of Humor

According to news reports, Kid Rock was arrested for brawling outside a Waffle House.

The article dealing with this subject can be found here.

This story is soooo white trash that I believe it might just bring back the mullet hairstyle -and not just for lesbians either. The imagery portrayed in this story is causing irreparable harm to our cultural DNA.

All levity aside, our news has become a factory producing the propaganda of fear. We have to be afraid of everything so that we can be easily manipulated. According to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, if we are constantly focused on our own safety, we will have difficulty in respecting others, developing morality, overcoming prejudice, and even accepting facts.



So we trade the rest of the pyramid for safety –and we feel bad about it. Soon, we cannot face ourselves or the news. So, we search for entertainment. Stories about Kid Rock or Britney Spears become newsworthy as our sense of priority becomes diluted with a need for comic relief.

But it is the people in power that get the last laugh as we become giggling accomplices to their atrocities.

Random Thoughts

The United States Air Force has recently punished several of its members in response to an incident that occured in August when six thermonuclear warheads were misplaced for several hours.

I've misplaced keys, books, and on one occassion even lost track of time, but I have never misplaced a thermonuclear weapon.

How exactly does one misplace six thermonuclear weapons?

Copperfield's Gambit

According to the BBC, a Las Vegas warehouse belonging to magician David Copperfield was raided by FBI Agents.

An article dealing with this subject can be found here.

FBI Agents were shocked to find evidence that Copperfield had performed in Iraq shortly before the Second Gulf War in 2003 and that Copperfield was personally responsible for causing the disappearance of Saddam's Weapons of Mass Destruction. A White House press statement quoted President Bush as saying, "Heh, heh! I told ya there was WMD's over there and finding them nukes in Copperfield's warehouse proves it!"

Pictures proving the President’s statements were released to the press earlier today in which six warheads that could be attached to cruise missiles were brought out of Copperfield's warehouse. Clearly marked as "This is a Nuklear WMD", the weapons were placed in crate labeled Minot, North Dakota and hauled on military trucks to Barksdale AFB in Louisiana.

Any Hydrant in a Storm

I am having difficulty in dealing with the whole issue concerning Ellen Degeneres and the pet adoption company. An article dealing with this issue can be found here.

For background, Ellen adopted a dog (not a baby, a dog) and it didn't get along with her other pets, so she gave it to her hairstylist's family. Well, the pet adoption agency found out and removed the dog from the hairstylist's house –stating that they (the pet adoption agency) didn't think the hairstylist's family was the type of family that should have the dog.

This is a statement on poverty. The pet adoption agency is basically saying the home is okay for people, but it isn't okay for their dog. What audacity! The pet adoption agency made a judgment concerning the fiscal abilities of the family and then acted on it. What's next? Will regular (human) adoption agencies in tandem with social services make judgments concerning the fiscal capability of new parents and decide to remove children from homes?

What the hell is wrong with America?

Bush: The Path to Enlightenment

Next Tuesday, George Bush has agreed to meet with the Dalai Lama. He does this a day before the Dalai Lama is scheduled to receive the Congressional Gold Medal and despite the fact that China has issued a formal complaint. You can view the entire article concerning this event here.

So why does a President who has enjoyed the support of the extreme religious right and has been called the Crusader in Chief, meet with the spiritual, and arguably, political leader of Buddhism? To get the answer, let's take a quick look at Buddhism.

Buddhism teaches that all phenomena is empty. This concept, known as Sunyata or 'emptiness', is a key feature of Mahayana Buddhism. When one has mastered the realization of emptiness, it equates to the experience of Nirvana.

I think perhaps this is the reason that the Dalai Lama agrees to meet with George W. Bush. Let's face it, if the ultimate goal of Buddhism is the realization of emptiness, then every time the Dalai Lama looks at Dubbya, he realizes that true emptiness is a mere few inches behind those vacuous eyes.

Come to think of it. George Bush’s brain, or lack thereof, is the epitome of emptiness. He is the living embodiment of Sunyata and the path to Nirvana!

Holy Pimpin'

Holy Pimpin'

For 43 years, nuns have lived and often worked out of a small convent on Los Angeles' east side, helping the area's poor and undocumented residents with translation, counseling, and other needs. In late August 2007, the nuns received notice by mail that they needed to vacate their convent by December 31. The L.A. Archdiocese plans to sell the nun's property to help pay for a legal settlement in its priest sexual abuse case.

The article dealing with this subject can be found here.

Wow. Let me get this straight. Women who have devoted themselves to helping the needy have to stop their good works, sell their homes, and hit the streets in order to pay for a bunch of priests that got caught playing with little boys.

Good going, Jesus. Way to keep the pimp hand strong.

As a society we have gone wrong. Very wrong. We need to make a change. I'm not talking about returning to the family values of some bygone era. I'm just talking about using a little common sense. Punishing good people for another person's bad behavior is just not right.