shut up already

i have this crazy idea.

let’s just have the federal government recognize “civil unions” between who-the-fuck-ever (for tax purposes mostly i presume). i mean, “marriage” in the eyes of the state is just a contract between a governing body and 2 separate entities anyway. that’s why the state owns your kids until their 18 and you parents have little real rights to them, but i digress.

so civil unions for all! then everybody can shut up about it. ’cause i for one am sick of hearing it….from both sides.

you could civilly unite with an elephant for all i care. just don’t shove it in my face. stop parading. stop protesting. save your activism for something more worthwhile than what you want to or don’t want others to fuck. please.

PROUD TO BE PART OF THE 1%

of the popular vote….you can guess who i wrote in!!!

the reason we have an electoral college, really, is so that NOT EVERYBODY chooses who will be president. the founders didn’t trust everyone. i don’t either. HOWEVER, i also don’t trust this 2-party system that is so horribly entrenched in the psyche of this country and it’s people.

we shouldn’t choose someone based on popularity….we should choose them on what they stand for, and i’m sorry, dems & reps are the same same thing (2 sides of the same coin)…it won’t really matter which one wins. unless it had been Ron Paul as he is truly Libertarian….if i hadn’t have written him in, i think i would have gone Constitutional party or Nader….the Libertarian candidate this time voted yes for the FASCIST ACT (RE: “PATRIOT act”)…

hey dems & reps…demons & reptiles…teehee

Bottled Water As Bad As Tap Water – well duh!

i already knew this….didn’t you? plus think about the leaching of the plastic from the bottle into the water (there was a bit of a snafu with nalgene bottles not too long ago…), and the price, and the extreme amount of waste from all those plastic bottles. Some people buy all their drinking water in these tiny little bottles, come on! a little ridiculous don’t you think?

i have some 1 gallon glass jars (i don’t like to keep things in plastic…) that i fill with (cheaply purchased) water processed through a whole slew of things but always with reverse osmosis in this mix. and then a lot of the time i send it through a carbon filter again at home…unless i can get my hands on some fresh spring/well water (that i KNOW is good). i have to have the fluoride (and chlorine for that matter) out, which is why reverse osmosis or distillation would be my only water purchasing choices. don’t need any illnesses or brain deterioration from those poisons. (and on a side note, who said that ANY amount of pollutants, poisons, chemicals can be considered safe? what if you (have to) drink more water than the average person? what if you’re an infant or an animal or an invalid or the elderly? why is somebody else deciding what i should be taking into my body….isn’t that my right, my choice? i am not an idiot…i know when something is bad. and poisonous waste chemicals/other people’s pharmaceuticals/etc are not healthy choices in any amount….)

there was a time i got all my water from a little tiny spring that came out of this wall of rocks a few miles from me. sometimes i’d filter that through one of those kanadyne portablbe/camping/survival filtration devices, and sometimes i didn’t. it was good tasting water.

i don’t mind a taste to water as long as it’s a good taste. tap water is gross. bottled water is gross. bleck. don’t offer me any, i’d rather be thirsty.

here’s some snippets from the AP article:

Bottled water has contaminants too, study finds

By JEFF DONN, AP National Writer

Wed Oct 15, 12:17 AM ET

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The study’s lab tests on 10 brands of bottled water detected 38 chemicals including bacteria, caffeine, the pain reliever acetaminophen, fertilizer, solvents, plastic-making chemicals and the radioactive element strontium. Though some probably came from tap water that some companies use for their bottled water, other contaminants probably leached from plastic bottles, the researchers said.

“In some cases, it appears bottled water is no less polluted than tap water and, at 1,900 times the cost, consumers should expect better,” said Jane Houlihan, an environmental engineer who co-authored the study. …

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In the Wal-Mart and Giant Food bottled water, the highest concentration of chlorine byproducts, known as trihalomethanes, was over 35 parts per billion. California’s limit is 10 parts per billion or less, and the industry’s International Bottled Water Association makes 10 its voluntary guideline. The federal limit is 80. …

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The researchers also said the Wal-Mart brand was five times California’s limit for one particular chlorine byproduct, bromodichloromethane. The environmental group wants Wal-Mart to label its bottles in California with a warning because the chlorine-based contaminants have been linked with cancer. It has filed a notice of intent to sue. …

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when immorality is congratulated

Thrasymachus’ description of a dictator (emphasis added):

This is the person you should consider, if you want to assess the extent to which immorality rather than morality is personally advantageous – and this is something you’ll appreciate most easily if you look at immorality in its most perfect form and see how it enhances a wrongdoer’s life beyond measure, but ruins the lives of his victims, who haven’t the stomach for crime, to the same degree.

It’s dictatorship I mean, because whether it takes stealth or overt violence, a dictator steals what doesn’t belong to him – consecrated and unconsecrated objects, private possessions, and public property – and does so not on a small scale, but comprehensively. Anyone who is caught committing the merest fraction of these crimes is not only punished, but thoroughly stigmatized as well: small-scale criminals who commit these kinds of crimes are called temple-robbers, kidnappers, burglars, thieves, and robbers.

On the other hand, when someone appropriates the assets of the citizen body and then goes on to rob them of their very freedom and enslave them, then denigration gives way to congratulation, and it isn’t only his fellow citizens who call him happy, but anyone else who hears about his consummate wrongdoing does so as well.

Source: Republic by Plato
Translation by Robin Wakefield, 1993
Oxford World’s Classics

doesn’t it remind you just a wee bit of something called the united states government? but, we also have overwhelming similarities to a fascist state as well.

the part of this quote that particularly stands out to me is that were one or a few of the masses to commit similar crimes, there would be severe consequences. however, if you have enough money or political power, the worst you might get is a wagging finger or a slap on the wrist. think, for example, how much companies like DuPont or Merck pollute the land, air, and water bodies in the areas around their manufacturing plants. i read about these in local papers quite often…DuPont has polluted again. so there is a tiny tiny fine they pay. does that cause them to change their ways? why, never! BECAUSE IT IS RIDICULOUSLY CHEAPER FOR THESE COMPANIES TO POLLUTE AND DESTROY LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS AND PAY A MINUSCULE FINE IF CAUGHT THEN TO PROPERLY DISPOSE OF THEIR WASTE. thanks to our government for making that possible! i could also discuss the sanctioned thieving of land and property known as imminent domain–where it is easy for whoever wants it to say that their purpose is an “improvement.” how can shopping malls and any other CRAP they give as a reason be BENEFICIAL? to the people that own those shopping malls, maybe. how does another shitty store improve my life? personally, i avoid them like the plague. too bad everybody doesn’t have the will to stay away. we might be able to hit them where it hurts–their wallets!!!

Scrap the Tax Code! (and the IRS)

all right then. basically the monster known as our tax code is just that and nothing more. if not unlawful, it certainly is inhumane…….as it’s purposefully designed to be COMPLICATED, CONFUSING, COSTLY, AND TIME-CONSUMING. furthermore, it does not favor NORMAL WORKING-CLASS PEOPLE….in fact, it would rather bleed them dry. and it particularly PENALIZES THE SELF-EMPLOYED. listen to them talk through their teeth about supporting small business or the self-employed, but the truth of the matter is that OUR GOVERNMENT and/or THE POWERS THAT BE (operating our country/the world) DO NOT WANT ANYONE TO BE SELF-SUFFICIENT. so if you are trying to do that, well it’s going to cost you! a lot!

the tax code is kind of like the bible in many ways. contradictory, nonsensical, illogical, and unnecessary. who said everything had to be so ridiculously complicated? simplicity is less costly and, well, reasonable. remember too that the irs is sort of like a mafia in a way. (the dmv is another mafia). you pay them to keep them from coming to get you.

WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN IS THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE JOINING TOGETHER. THE ONE THING WE HAVE GOING FOR US IS OUR NUMBERS. JUST THINK OF WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO GAS PRICES (which are intentionally and not needfully changed) IF TRUCK DRIVERS WENT ON STRIKE FOR A DAY? OR IF ANY LARGE NUMBER OF US JUST REFUSED TO GO TO WORK? THE ONLY WAY TO INSTIGATE CHANGE IS TO STOP GOING ALONG WITH THE WAY THINGS ARE….JUST BECAUSE WE’VE DONE THEM FOR A FEW YEARS OR DECADES DOESN’T MEAN THEY’RE THE BEST WAY. I KNOW OF NO WORKING PERSON THAT WOULD SAY “Oh this tax system works so well and is the most efficient system we could have in this country”….BECAUSE IT’S A FALSE STATEMENT AND NEXT TO NO ONE BELIEVES IN IT.

SO WHY DON’T WE GATHER TOGETHER FOR SOMETHING WE WANT? HOW ELSE ARE WE GOING TO IMPROVE OUR SITUATIONS?

Here are a few places to check out, just to get you started:

• Americans for Fair Taxation
• FREEDOMWORKS – Scrap the Code
• Scrap the Tax Code (goodlatte petition)
• Give Me Liberty (we the people foundation/congress)
• Pay No Income Tax (The Federal Mafia; The Great Income Tax Hoax)
• Why An Income Tax Is Not Necessary to Fund the US Government (devvy kidd)
• Be Wary of Alternative Tax Schemes (devvy kidd)
• Tax Cuts/Schemes Keep People Herded in the Wrong Direction (devvy kidd)
• Ron Paul on Debt & Taxes and More Links at the Ron Paul Library
• Lawyer Beat IRS – Part 1 and Part 2 (from world net daily)
• Are Federal Income Taxes Legal? (from world net daily)
• Nullifying the Income Tax (from world net daily)
• Also a book entitled, Beat the IRS?? I Did!! by Floyd Wright (published 1983)