You know what would be fun? To run into a store screaming, "Hey everyone, guess what? I got me some swine flu! Who wants some?" You'd probably get some great reactions. Or maybe even just walking casually to the cashier after making a purchase and silently telling them you have the swine flu, just to see what their reaction would be. Maybe you can scare the crap out of the entire town. Maybe cause a little chaos here and there, just to see what will happen. Chaos is fun.

Has anyone else noticed how overhyped this whole swine flu thing has been? What amuses me is th fact that while the news neworks discuss how many people die from the swine flu, many people die each year from the regular flu. It's mostly the old, young, and the sickly who are really at risk of getting the disease. People who are of good health are not likely to get infected. But hey, I guess the government needs something to protect the people from. It causes people to turn to the government for protection. Maybe that's why it, and the news networks overhyped the swine flu to such an extent.

And I have to be honest, this government has overhyped a lot of stuff lately, such as the economic crisis. That's why it was in such a hurry to pass this economic stimulus package that in my opinion, the United States does not need. I think the economy would recover just fine without it. The economy is already showing signs of improvement. Once 2010 gets going, I'm sure unemployment will begin to decline.

The flaw with this stimulus package is that it's overly broad. You can shove anything into a bill that's titled 'Economic Stimulus Package.' This is why all this pork spending in in there. Rather than proposing a bill aimed to fix the economic crises, Obama should have made an energy bill, healthcare bill, ect. In other word, specific stuff in the stimulus package that needs to be done in seperate bills. Becoming energy indipendent will really help the U.S. Economy.

In addition, Obama should pull out a checklist of policies created by the Bush Administration and its preceeding administrations and determine which ones got the U.S. into this economic crises. Then, he should hack away at them. He should start to put in regulations to help the economy but at the same time, not infringe on the rights of businesses. I'm all for a free market system, but it needs to have protections. In other words, they can't just let anyone get a loan to buy a giant, three story house, especially with a bad credit history. It's no wonder why the U.S. got into such a bad housing crisis.

Finally, I really want to say this. I'm no supporter of Bush and his policies, nor do I support the economic policies of his predicessors that helped get the U.S., and the world, get into this crisis. But to be honest, the root cause of this economic problem is simply people buying more than they can afford. And they are buying all this stuff with credit, not actual money, especially with regards to credit cards. The problem is that people are taking out loans that they can't pay back. This is what caused the housing crisis. It's simply a matter of fiscal irresponsibility by the government, wall street, and main street. If people would simply realize that they can't just buy anything they want with credit, then maybe this crisis would have been avoided.

Damn, that was a hell of a rant. But hey, I like ranting, especially about politics.

Bill Maher - America Isn't Number 1

Bill Maher on France

Bill Maher is an awesome comedian and political commentator. What I find depressing is how accurate he is in these two videos. Unfortunately, the United States has a lot of challenges to face in the coming decades.

Bill Maher discusses intelligent design

I cracked up watching this one.

Anyways, wow, it's been almost three months since my last blog post. It's about damn time I made a new one. Hopefully it won't be another three months before my next blog post.

Quote of the Day: "If you want to be the man, you have to beat the man, and I am the man!"

-Ric Flair-

Question of the day: Which show is the title of my blog post a reference to and which character from that show said this reference?

Hope you liked this blog post. Yeah, it's a lot of talk about politics, but I've been getting into politics a lot lately. Maybe I should be president. Then, what I can do from there is declare myself emperor and take over the world. I'll show Napolean how it's done. I'll be a dark and terrible king who will rule with a steel sword. All shall bow down to me and only me! *laughs evily*

Something I have been wondering a lot over the past year is why Marijuana is still illegal in the United Stataes. A few days ago, 14 time oylimpic champion Michael Phelps was photographed using a bong, which is used to smoke marijuana. My question is this. What's the big deal?

Obviously marijuana is not healthy. But it's not as unhealthy as tobacco or alcohol. In fact, cigarrettes and beer are worse for you body than marijuana is. It's also less addicting than tobacco and alcohal. Researches have yet to link it to lung cancer.

In this chart, marijuana is listed by it's genus, which is Cannabis. As shown here, it and many other illegal drugs, such as LSD and ecstasy, are less harmful than both alcohal and tobacco. So is there really any reason why they should be illegal? I don't see why not.

By legalizing some of these drugs, especially marijuana, it would have economic benefits. If the government makes them legal, it can tax the crap out of them. This would produce a large profit for the government. In addition, people wouldn't be tried in the court system and sent to jail for using these drugs. It costs a lot of money to prosecute people and to keep them alive in prison. Prisons all over the U.S. are overcrowding. This would lift a large burden off the justice system and would save a lot of money.

Obviously there are other issues to legalizing certain drugs. Some drugs, even ones that are less unhealthy than tobacco and alcohal, have temperary psychological effects and as such, can cause some public safety problems, like with driving. This is something to consider. But alcohal can also present public safety issues. As such, if certain drugs are to become legalized, the possible public safety concerns any individual drug may cause should be carefully assessed.

It should be noted that I don't think every drug should be legalized. Drugs like heroin should remain controlled. While pot may not be that bad, others are bad enough to the point where the government does need to step in to protect its citizens.

Jeff Dunham - Achmed the Dead Terrorist

Jeff Dunham on the Jay Leno Show

Jeff Dunham - Walter part 1

Jeff Dunham - Walter part 2

Jeff Dunham - Walter part 3

Jeff Dunham is awesome. Ever since I watched his Very Special Christmas Special, I've developed an appreciation for ventriloquism.

Got milk, anyone?

Anyways, here's some songs from one of my new bands, The Bones. These guys rock.

The Bones - King Kerosin

The Bones - Home Sweet Hell

The Bones - Flatline Fever

The Bones - Do You Wanna

The Bones - Unpredictable

The Bones - Screwed, Blued, and Tattooed

Aww, isn't love precious? BTW, that's what I did over Valentines Day.

That's it for this blog. I don't know why you are still reading. And btw, if you hear a loud howl outside your house, it's not a warewolf coming rip you apart. It's me and my army of demon pig-dog, um, demons, coming to devour your flesh.

Up until a few months ago, I believed in the existence of the Judeo-Christian God. I thought it was a perfectly good being. However, when I started to think about it, I noticed that there are a lot of flaws with the Christian religion. Though it may seem like a good thing, there is little redeeming value in religion.

It is essentially a control on free thought. This applies to religion in general, especially the Abrahamic faiths, which are the main religions in my critique as those are what I'm most familiar with. But I will address other religions as well, although briefly. This critique also focuses mainly on the moral implications and faults of religion since that is the aspect of it that I'm most interested in.

In the Abrahamic faiths, either you think the same way as God and have the same opinions, or you have sinned against God (in Islam, God is called Allah). All of your deep, personal thoughts and feelings are under God's scrutiny and if you have a thought or feeling that God dislikes, you have sinned against him. If there is a personal god who takes an interest in your life, you would have a permanent, inescapable, totalitarian rule that has total surveillance over your life, including your thoughts and feelings, and all your thoughts and feeling must conform with this god's wishes. It is the most complete form of totalitarianism possible. But this goes on into the next life. If you decide to accept God and to be what he wants you to be, you go to Heaven, eternally and blissfully praising god, which sounds like a horrible fate to me, where all individuality is stripped away. Or if you choose to be yourself, you go to Hell, where you suffer for all eternity. There's a reason why pride is one of the seven deadly sins. One who likes who they are is unlikely to submit their will to God.

Obedience is the primary moral value in the Abrahamic faiths. The reason you love your neighbor is because God has commanded you to love. The fact that being a kind and loving person is actually the right thing to do has no bearing on why you do it, as far as God is concerned. The only thing that matters to God is whether or not you obey this command. If God commands you to love, then you must love. Feel this emotion on command.

If you think that homosexuality is not necessarily bad, then you're a sinner. If you enjoy sexual pleasure, then you're a sinner. Sexual pleasure is part of being human. If humans did not ever feel lust, then there would be no sex at all, which would mean no procreation, which would result in the extinction of the human race. Lust is a necessary human feeling that is vital for procreation of the species. It's for this reason that it's hardwired into our brains. If it's so bad, then why would God hardwire it into the human brain in the first place?

So many major religions, past and present, have advocated violence in the name of God. In Christianity, God commanded the that the people in Jericho be killed after the walls fell, and that's what happened. If you read many of the laws in the Bible, such as those in Deuteronomy, it advocates stoning to death gays, those who commit adultery, and advocates female submission to men. The original sin story in Genesis explicitly advocates male dominion over women, in Genesis 3:16. The terrorist attacks from groups like the Taliban and Al Qaeda are religiously motivated. They think they are doing God's will. Forget the actual consequences of their actions. As long as God told them to do it, then it's right. Over the course of human history, countless people were sacrificed to the gods for religious purposes. And because these religions claim these killings are right, people did them without question.

But thankfully, there is no evidence to support religion. We don't need a creator to explain how the Universe works. The order in the Universe is a result of various, mindless forces, like gravity, that work independently of a creator. Evolution, as far as I can see, explains brilliantly how complex life came to be. It sure explains human psychology very well, such as the feeling of lust as described above. In a prehistoric world, where most of human history took place, lust would have been a beneficial behavior for the survival of humanity. I, for one, am glad that religion holds no truth. To wish it does means wishing for eternal servitude. It would be of benefit to humanity to dispose of religious beliefs.

Other religions in the world are not without moral flaws. The Kamikazes in World War II were the result of a sect of Buddhism. Once again, violence in the name of religion. However, many people even question whether or not Buddhism is a religion. I'll leave that question up to you. And then there's Hinduism, which has the rigid cast system (which thankfully India banned). And there are a lot of other religions around too, that exist now or have existed. A great many of the historic religions required barbaric human sacrifices, as mentioned above. But hey, they were obeying the gods, so it must be right.

It's just as likely for God (or the gods) to exist as it is for the Flying Spaghetti Monster to exist. There's no evidence for either.

Richard Dawkins - What if you're wrong

That short video puts forward a great argument about how arbitrary a belief in a certain religion often is. It came from the event in he next two videos.

Richard Dawkins in Lynchburg part 1

Richard Dawkins in Lynchburg part 2

IMPORTANT NOTE: I'm not trying to attack believers of religion. I'm not trying to personally insult any individual. I'm just attacking the ideas of religion itself. I'm also not trying to convert anyone to atheism. This is just my point of view on religion.

AND PROBABLY EVEN MORE IMPORTANT: Please, please make sure you do extensive research before you decide to turn away from a religion or join one. Deciding your religious beliefs must be done with great care.

That's a funny pic. But at the same time, I think it outlines a serious problem about smoking at a very early age. So I just want take a moment to address all the children out there. Kids, please don't smoke or do drugs unless you're under adult supervision. Yes, I know it's cool to smoke with your friends away from adults, but for your safety and the safety of others, it's better to have adult supervision. After all, those cigarettes can get pretty damn hot and can burn you.

NOTICE: This public service announcement has been brought to you by Zea's Foundation for a Better Morality. This message may or may not actually promote a better morality to children.

This picture makes me hungry. I haven't had human flesh tacos in a while... I wonder what Naruto tacos would taste like.

Tristania - World of Glass

Tristania - Cease to Exist

Those songs are great, just like the band that performs them.

Anyways, that's it for this blog.I hope you all have a wonderful night. And if you feel a cold wind at night, don't worry, it's not the Grim Reaper coming for you. It's me, coming to devour your flesh.