A current web-pole conducted by WSBRadio.com shows that 81% of the people believe we should be able to buy beer/wine on Sundays from grocery and convience stores. This has been a big issue of debate here lately in Metro Atlanta and especially Gwinnett County. This is a fairly simple issue. Here in Georgia, we are in the "bible belt". There are alot of people who live in a shell and think alcohol is not ever ingested or believe it should not be period. This touches two different principles.
First, I do not believe the government should be able to tell me that I can buy beer 6 days of the week but on Sunday I am not allowed to. Why should they be able to regulate that??? What good has that done for society??? Just one more thing they need to pull their retarded little fingers out of.
Second, I cannot purchase beer in a grocery store before the 1:00 kickoff but I can drive to any restaurant and drink myself into oblivion, especially if you are watching the Falcons receivers, and then drive home if I so desired??? (***Disclaimer*** I am not recommending this at all...just making a point...Megan) What sense does that make? None...nadda...zero.
Let the individual decide whether or not they want to purchase alcohol on Sundays. This does not stop people from drinking. It only adds one more thing they dislike about our governements' control over us. Now, if you are against drinking and for this legislation...why do you get to decide if I can drink or not on Sundays. Mind your own business. Remember...we are not supposed to judge...right???
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Voting...a Right or Privilege???
Well, my witty little sister has brought up an interesting point on voting and whether its a right or privilege. She stumbled upon an article, while doing a silly school project, about a women who is stating that many people write to her and oppose her view that voting is a right. First, lets look at the difinitions of "right" and "privilege". This is complicated so hold on.
Right, in the sense of a noun, is defined as "a just claim or title, whether legal, prescriptive, or moral" or "that which is due to anyone by just claim, legal guarantees, moral principles, etc.: women's rights; Freedom of speech is a right of all Americans."
Privilege, in the sense of a noun, is defined as "a right, immunity, or benefit enjoyed only by a person beyond the advantages of most", "a grant to an individual, etc., of a special right or immunity, under certain conditions", as well as "any of the rights common to all citizens under a modern constitutional government".
So as you can see, "right" and "privilege" can be used interchangably in most cases. However, in the situation of a "right to vote" I would say it IS a privilege when you look at the circumstances given. The fact that their are "circumstances" to being able to vote purely means (in my opinion) that voting is a privilege.
Secondly, you need to understand the legislation behind the "right to vote". Bear with me, this will be slightly painful but think...you are learning something you probably did not know by reading this. And actually, the States are given the authority to control voting. They are the ones who have made it illegal to vote if you have committed a felony.
The following are pieces from the U.S. Constitution.
14th Amendment: This basically states that the right to vote is given to any white male who is at least 21 years of age and who has NOT committed "rebellion" or "other crimes".
15th Amendment: This removes the restriction placed on race and makes it possible for any male to vote regardless of race.
19th Amendment: Otherwise known as "Women's Suffrage". This removed the bar of women voting.
24th Amendment: This is the legislation that states nobody will be refused the right to vote because they have not paid taxes. This does not make sense to me. Let me put it in a different perspective. I am a shareholder of many companies including Google. Public companies such as Google, have annual shareholders voting for various items. Now granted, I do not hold enough stock in Google to make a peep in what goes on but thats not the point. The reason the shareholders are given the privilege to vote is because they are providing the capital to Google to run the business for the shareholders. Now, translate shareholders into citizens and Google into the U.S. of America Government. Do you see why this doesnt make sense to me now??? Moving on...
26th Amendment: Finally, last one. This is the legislation that gave the privilege to vote to those who are 18 years of age and older.
Ok. Now we understand the legislation behind voting. Going back to the definitions, it seems that "privilege" is a better word because of this statement..."a grant to an individual, etc., of a special right or immunity, under certain conditions". These amendments give certain conditions or circumstances that enable a person to vote in this country. Each individual state actually has the power to restrict voting as well. The decision to not let felons vote is on the state level. Actually, there have been and currently are "movements" to push towards allowing felons to vote. They say that they have done their time and should be restored to normal civil rights. Whatever.
So, to answer your question Megan...I believe voting is a "privilege" not a right. It is a "right" until it was decided that restrictions, or conditions, must be placed on voting. This is due to several different reasons. Since those conditions are in place, voting is a "privilege". I hope that was not too confusing. :)
Right, in the sense of a noun, is defined as "a just claim or title, whether legal, prescriptive, or moral" or "that which is due to anyone by just claim, legal guarantees, moral principles, etc.: women's rights; Freedom of speech is a right of all Americans."
Privilege, in the sense of a noun, is defined as "a right, immunity, or benefit enjoyed only by a person beyond the advantages of most", "a grant to an individual, etc., of a special right or immunity, under certain conditions", as well as "any of the rights common to all citizens under a modern constitutional government".
So as you can see, "right" and "privilege" can be used interchangably in most cases. However, in the situation of a "right to vote" I would say it IS a privilege when you look at the circumstances given. The fact that their are "circumstances" to being able to vote purely means (in my opinion) that voting is a privilege.
Secondly, you need to understand the legislation behind the "right to vote". Bear with me, this will be slightly painful but think...you are learning something you probably did not know by reading this. And actually, the States are given the authority to control voting. They are the ones who have made it illegal to vote if you have committed a felony.
The following are pieces from the U.S. Constitution.
14th Amendment: This basically states that the right to vote is given to any white male who is at least 21 years of age and who has NOT committed "rebellion" or "other crimes".
15th Amendment: This removes the restriction placed on race and makes it possible for any male to vote regardless of race.
19th Amendment: Otherwise known as "Women's Suffrage". This removed the bar of women voting.
24th Amendment: This is the legislation that states nobody will be refused the right to vote because they have not paid taxes. This does not make sense to me. Let me put it in a different perspective. I am a shareholder of many companies including Google. Public companies such as Google, have annual shareholders voting for various items. Now granted, I do not hold enough stock in Google to make a peep in what goes on but thats not the point. The reason the shareholders are given the privilege to vote is because they are providing the capital to Google to run the business for the shareholders. Now, translate shareholders into citizens and Google into the U.S. of America Government. Do you see why this doesnt make sense to me now??? Moving on...
26th Amendment: Finally, last one. This is the legislation that gave the privilege to vote to those who are 18 years of age and older.
Ok. Now we understand the legislation behind voting. Going back to the definitions, it seems that "privilege" is a better word because of this statement..."a grant to an individual, etc., of a special right or immunity, under certain conditions". These amendments give certain conditions or circumstances that enable a person to vote in this country. Each individual state actually has the power to restrict voting as well. The decision to not let felons vote is on the state level. Actually, there have been and currently are "movements" to push towards allowing felons to vote. They say that they have done their time and should be restored to normal civil rights. Whatever.
So, to answer your question Megan...I believe voting is a "privilege" not a right. It is a "right" until it was decided that restrictions, or conditions, must be placed on voting. This is due to several different reasons. Since those conditions are in place, voting is a "privilege". I hope that was not too confusing. :)
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Gwinnett Bans "Panhandling"
http://www.640wgst.com/cc-common/mainheadlines3.html?feed=122602&article=1530161
Shucks...no more setting up "residences" on public land anymore...what will we do with our free time now. Well, apparently homeless bums have become enough of a problem in Gwinnett County now to force the local government to actually place a ban and restrictions on the homeless bums asking for money so they can buy some Jack Daniels. The best part of this is the last paragraph. If you are "panhandling" and caught for the act, you face a $500 fine. LOL...how are they going to get $500 from someone who is panhandling??? Somebody answer that one for me. I think they just need to make it legal to have "accidents" where you car swerves uncontrollably off the road and you plink the panhandler "on accident".
Shucks...no more setting up "residences" on public land anymore...what will we do with our free time now. Well, apparently homeless bums have become enough of a problem in Gwinnett County now to force the local government to actually place a ban and restrictions on the homeless bums asking for money so they can buy some Jack Daniels. The best part of this is the last paragraph. If you are "panhandling" and caught for the act, you face a $500 fine. LOL...how are they going to get $500 from someone who is panhandling??? Somebody answer that one for me. I think they just need to make it legal to have "accidents" where you car swerves uncontrollably off the road and you plink the panhandler "on accident".
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Public Schools...ugggh
Here is the problem. Well, a start anyways. This topic will be touched on MANY more times as the school systems continue to flop like they have led us to expect now.
First off.
Liberalism = emotionalism + resentment/jealousy
Conservatism = logic + rationality
What do public schools teach now:
-have "tolerance" for other people that are different even if you dont agree with their beliefs. EMOTIONALISM
-dont play dodgeball in gym because it might hurt the "overweight" or "physically disadvantaged" (another word for un-atheletic) kids feelings. EMOTIONALISM
-beginning to disallow the old school game of Tag because boys are chasing girls...uh oh...do they want the boys chasing boys now??? ...and because the kids might fall and get a little scratch on their elbows or knees. Great, so we are now raising PANSIES! More EMOTIONALISM and the lack of LOGIC and RATIONALITY.
-Its late October, an early cold spell comes through, its cold, below 30 degrees, early in the morning when the kids get to school and there is NO HEAT IN THE SCHOOL. Why? No, its not because something is broken, well, kind of. The person who decided that there would be a strict school-wide policy about turning on the heat before a certain date no matter what the outside temp is, definitely has a broken brain. This has happened alot this year. Major lack of LOGIC and RATIONALITY
----P.S.-I guess "global warming" is making us have early cold spells to huh???
-The schools have a long list of rules that disallow certain objects because they may be considered a weapon or they may "offend" somebody or whatever other reasons they disallow things at school. Lets look at some examples:
-a baseball bat in a BASEBALL PLAYERS car in the parking lot. Now thats just bizarre, I mean, what would a baseball player be doing with baseball bat in his car??? "Well", says the Principal, "since I have been trained not to use my brain but to go immediately to the rule book, he will be expelled because a baseball bat can be considered a weapon". Again, another lack of LOGIC and RATIONALITY.
-a student took a "career test" at school and was told he should be a Special Agent (FBI, CIA, DEA, etc...) and for the career fair, like all other students, designed a 3-fold display board. On the display board was a paper cut-out of a gun, as we all know, thats a tool that Special Agents in law enforcement use. I dont need to explain the rest but he was forced to remove the paper gun cut-out from his board and faced disciplinary action. Was that really a threat to anybody??? Lack of LOGIC and RATIONALITY.
By now, you can probably see a pattern here right. But just in case, heres some more.
-No longer can students bring in their own markers and colored pencils. Now, on the first day of school, all students compile their utensils into one so everybody has the good ones to use. Some students can afford more expensive, higher quality school utensils. Well, apparently that is not allowed because not all students can have the nicer stuff. Not only is this communist, this is EMOTIONALISM, JEALOUSY, and a lack of RATIONALITY all in one!
-Another situation where they are teaching the kids NOT to think for themselves. Schools are no longer allowing Coke in the vending machines. Everything has to be diet. So now, they cant exercise their decisions on how they want to treat their own health. Like removing non-diet coke from the vending machine is going to really affect their life. When they leave school to go to the gas station to get their cigarettes, they just get regular Coke there. How about we let them make the decision whether or not they drink regular Coke or diet Coke. Does that decision really have an effect on the school day??? This is an example of taking away the kids sense of LOGIC to make their own decisions.
-To make a long story short: a girl was placed in a study group (which I am completly against forced group work) with a other students who happened to be of a Middle Eastern nationality, she couldnt understand them, she politely asked the teacher if she could be placed in another group because she couldnt understand hers, she was suspended and eventually ARRESTED. All because it is offensive to the middle eastern students and she committed a racial violation. EMOTIONALISM and not to mention many others things. I cant get started on this because the Yahoo Mail server isnt big enough to hold the size of the file that it would take to cover that disaster.
There are many many many more examples I could write down but I think I have proven my point. Now that you can see where the agenda of "Public Education" lies (**cough** liberalism **cough**), do you really want your children/grandchildren/anybody you care about being forced into this? More importantly, do you want this kind of leadership in our countries government and our companies??? Just shedding some light here.
First off.
Liberalism = emotionalism + resentment/jealousy
Conservatism = logic + rationality
What do public schools teach now:
-have "tolerance" for other people that are different even if you dont agree with their beliefs. EMOTIONALISM
-dont play dodgeball in gym because it might hurt the "overweight" or "physically disadvantaged" (another word for un-atheletic) kids feelings. EMOTIONALISM
-beginning to disallow the old school game of Tag because boys are chasing girls...uh oh...do they want the boys chasing boys now??? ...and because the kids might fall and get a little scratch on their elbows or knees. Great, so we are now raising PANSIES! More EMOTIONALISM and the lack of LOGIC and RATIONALITY.
-Its late October, an early cold spell comes through, its cold, below 30 degrees, early in the morning when the kids get to school and there is NO HEAT IN THE SCHOOL. Why? No, its not because something is broken, well, kind of. The person who decided that there would be a strict school-wide policy about turning on the heat before a certain date no matter what the outside temp is, definitely has a broken brain. This has happened alot this year. Major lack of LOGIC and RATIONALITY
----P.S.-I guess "global warming" is making us have early cold spells to huh???
-The schools have a long list of rules that disallow certain objects because they may be considered a weapon or they may "offend" somebody or whatever other reasons they disallow things at school. Lets look at some examples:
-a baseball bat in a BASEBALL PLAYERS car in the parking lot. Now thats just bizarre, I mean, what would a baseball player be doing with baseball bat in his car??? "Well", says the Principal, "since I have been trained not to use my brain but to go immediately to the rule book, he will be expelled because a baseball bat can be considered a weapon". Again, another lack of LOGIC and RATIONALITY.
-a student took a "career test" at school and was told he should be a Special Agent (FBI, CIA, DEA, etc...) and for the career fair, like all other students, designed a 3-fold display board. On the display board was a paper cut-out of a gun, as we all know, thats a tool that Special Agents in law enforcement use. I dont need to explain the rest but he was forced to remove the paper gun cut-out from his board and faced disciplinary action. Was that really a threat to anybody??? Lack of LOGIC and RATIONALITY.
By now, you can probably see a pattern here right. But just in case, heres some more.
-No longer can students bring in their own markers and colored pencils. Now, on the first day of school, all students compile their utensils into one so everybody has the good ones to use. Some students can afford more expensive, higher quality school utensils. Well, apparently that is not allowed because not all students can have the nicer stuff. Not only is this communist, this is EMOTIONALISM, JEALOUSY, and a lack of RATIONALITY all in one!
-Another situation where they are teaching the kids NOT to think for themselves. Schools are no longer allowing Coke in the vending machines. Everything has to be diet. So now, they cant exercise their decisions on how they want to treat their own health. Like removing non-diet coke from the vending machine is going to really affect their life. When they leave school to go to the gas station to get their cigarettes, they just get regular Coke there. How about we let them make the decision whether or not they drink regular Coke or diet Coke. Does that decision really have an effect on the school day??? This is an example of taking away the kids sense of LOGIC to make their own decisions.
-To make a long story short: a girl was placed in a study group (which I am completly against forced group work) with a other students who happened to be of a Middle Eastern nationality, she couldnt understand them, she politely asked the teacher if she could be placed in another group because she couldnt understand hers, she was suspended and eventually ARRESTED. All because it is offensive to the middle eastern students and she committed a racial violation. EMOTIONALISM and not to mention many others things. I cant get started on this because the Yahoo Mail server isnt big enough to hold the size of the file that it would take to cover that disaster.
There are many many many more examples I could write down but I think I have proven my point. Now that you can see where the agenda of "Public Education" lies (**cough** liberalism **cough**), do you really want your children/grandchildren/anybody you care about being forced into this? More importantly, do you want this kind of leadership in our countries government and our companies??? Just shedding some light here.
Re-Instating the Draft??? Proposed by Dem's???
So democrat Charles Rangel from New York wanted to re-instate the draft??? Lol...silly dems...did he not realize what that would eventually do to his party??? Guess not since even Nancy Pelosi rejected the idea. So what did Rangel not realize. Lets take a little looksie at that.
Historically, the United States Military is known as a conservative organization. Why? Well its pretty simple, basically it promotes discipline, self-respect, respect for others, responsibility, a desire to better yourself and those around you, etc. None of those words are found in the dems dictionary. Some are close, but not enough. The desire to better yourself and those around you to the dems means the desire to better yourself at the EXPENSE of those around you. Responsibility...democratic philosophy....ha ha ha...yeah right. See what I mean. Pilosi realized that it would mean more of the young people who are stuck in hippie-tree-hugging days would NOT be going through college and become liberalized through their wacko professors but instead would be enrolled in the U.S. School of A$$ Kicking and Self-Betterment and actually become something of worth to society. This is kind of scary though, Pilosi is smart. She could see what would happen if the draft was re-instated. Her extreme left party would deteriorate and become more moderate because the fuel that feeds it would eventually be gone. Well, at least she was looking out for her successors.
Historically, the United States Military is known as a conservative organization. Why? Well its pretty simple, basically it promotes discipline, self-respect, respect for others, responsibility, a desire to better yourself and those around you, etc. None of those words are found in the dems dictionary. Some are close, but not enough. The desire to better yourself and those around you to the dems means the desire to better yourself at the EXPENSE of those around you. Responsibility...democratic philosophy....ha ha ha...yeah right. See what I mean. Pilosi realized that it would mean more of the young people who are stuck in hippie-tree-hugging days would NOT be going through college and become liberalized through their wacko professors but instead would be enrolled in the U.S. School of A$$ Kicking and Self-Betterment and actually become something of worth to society. This is kind of scary though, Pilosi is smart. She could see what would happen if the draft was re-instated. Her extreme left party would deteriorate and become more moderate because the fuel that feeds it would eventually be gone. Well, at least she was looking out for her successors.
So, I dont care what she said her reasons were...thats my interpretation!
Oh yeah...we (the U.S.) do not need any more troops to win any war. We have FAR superior military technology, we just need these "peace at any cost" people to shut up and let us use it when the need may arise. A powerful bomb can do more damage than a ton of ground troops (Hiroshima, Nagasaki) .
Friday, November 17, 2006
Playstation 3
Well, today is the U.S. release of the much anticipated Playstation 3 from Sony. There are alot of things about this that is really sad for this country. Now I am all about having fun but this is kind of rediculous. First of all, I am pretty sure that the effort people put forth in trying to get ahold of one of these gaming consoles is more than they put forth to vote or ever would to vote. People have actually been camping in tents outside of stores since Tuesday and Wednesday to get in line so they could get one of the extremely limited (which is a whole different topic about why Sony would only release so little in respect to demand) PS3 consoles. I would be willing to bet that 75% of the people in those lines did not even go vote two weeks ago...I could be wrong, but sadly probably not.
Another thing about this is all of the crime that it has spawned. People actually are stabbing and robbing and even shooting at each other to get one of these. LOL...silly slimebuckets. I mean come one, what kind of person is going to rob someone, in public for that matter, for a gaming system!?! I'll tell you what, I have scraped stuff off of the bottom of my shoe worth more than these type of thugish people. To be continued...
Another thing about this is all of the crime that it has spawned. People actually are stabbing and robbing and even shooting at each other to get one of these. LOL...silly slimebuckets. I mean come one, what kind of person is going to rob someone, in public for that matter, for a gaming system!?! I'll tell you what, I have scraped stuff off of the bottom of my shoe worth more than these type of thugish people. To be continued...
Hello!
First off, I am a borderline Libertarian/Republican. I just believe people should take responsibility for their own life and the government should be there to protect us, and have a minimal role in our economy and society. Pretty simple, yet people make it SO hard.
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