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		<title>This &#8220;Caylee&#8217;s law&#8221; is a bunch of Jive!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 03:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor Karras</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, those of you who read about the Casey Anthony trial will already know about the story behind it. She loses her kid, reports it late, discovers to have been buried in a swamp&#8230; I get the kind of media attention this is getting as it has taken over 75% of the news you watch, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay, those of you who read about the Casey Anthony trial will already know about the story behind it. She loses her kid, reports it late, discovers to have been buried in a swamp&#8230; I get the kind of media attention this is getting as it has taken over 75% of the news you watch, see or read. And I&#8217;m going to guess that the thousands of people reading this are thinking &#8220;<em>This is news?</em>&#8220;. But it seems like these types of trials will continue to be popular news pieces for decades to come. Anyway, so they had a trial and guess what. Turns our Casey Anthony is not guilty on all charges except lying to a cop&#8230; Now, predictably the people got mad over this due to the fact they didn&#8217;t charge her over the crimes that they know she&#8217;s guilty of; but she&#8217;s at least going to jail for lying to the cops&#8230; See, if this was her world she would be not guilty for all 5 charges, but alas, this is the real world and are various judgement systems are still doing a good job when it comes to high-profile cases like this; I mean just look at the MJ case.</p>
<p>Now, it turns out that people are spreading a petition via Facebook (also known as the place where people are unaware of what information to keep to themselves.) to institute a law titled <em>Caylee Anythony&#8217;s law</em>; which would make it a felony to not report your child within an <span style="text-decoration: underline;">hour</span>. Now I&#8217;m all for having more less-responsible parents off the street. There is just so many things wrongs with the law. Yes the fact that one hour is not enough time. I mean what if you&#8217;re totally responsible and you somehow manage to let your kids fall into the wrongs hands; would you realize it at the right time or would you wait until the second day to report him missing? If you report him missing on the second day then you have committed a felony by <span style="text-decoration: underline;">default</span>, that means you&#8217;re going to jail. Seriously, it&#8217;s that strict.</p>
<p>It seems like people don&#8217;t think about the flaws of this law or chime in on what they can do to make it better. They just look at the image of Caylee Anthony and they say &#8220;<em>this kid had her life ended, therefore we must mourn her and do anything in our power to stop this from ever happening.</em>&#8221; I&#8217;m not part of the same genepool as them. I mean sure, I feel sad when kids like this die or when a person has a fatal disease but I don&#8217;t feel the same way when they start using a dead kid and a convicted cop-liar for their own agendas, and I certainly don&#8217;t like it when diseased kids wait until the last minute to announce that they will not make it. I mean seriously, if you&#8217;d post when your disease was manageable then I might feel charitable but once you announce you won&#8217;t make it at the last minute and announce a bucket list <em>(more like a list of demands)</em> when you know you&#8217;re not going to make it well&#8230; That&#8217;s just downright low right there and will only last for a very short time before people&#8217;s sympathy run out.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Va2o3K2GKjA/ThSzx9QkHkI/AAAAAAAAAek/5H4L_a4g6eE/s1600/caylee+anthony.jpg" alt="" width="517" height="388" /></p>
<h5 style="text-align: center;">One look, and you&#8217;ll be filled with guilt in an instant.</h5>
<p>Anyways, while I do think a law like this is a good idea; the fact that you&#8217;re given an hour is unfair to many people. I mean not every person is perfect, not every person has something wrong with them <em>(and really, are we assuming that people with these conditions are not allowed to take care of children. If you are then I think a big &#8220;screw you&#8221;)</em> and we sometimes manage to lose our kids or have our kids run away from us&#8230; and sometimes we aren&#8217;t even aware of it. And you&#8217;re saying that we&#8217;re bad people who endanger our children just because we didn&#8217;t report them in an hour? <em>Baulderdash!</em> Of course, a felony like this means that poor parents are treated like the worst criminals in history, therefore we should lock them up and place them in cells with actual murders, psychopaths and 10-time violators&#8230; That&#8217;ll teach them to take care of the kids the way we want them to.</p>
<p>And all the while people are focusing on this, there are even worse people out there that deserve more of your attention; well more dangerous then bad moms really&#8230; I may be for the law if they were given a 7-day window to report their child missing <em>(I mean really, she reported her child in 19-days&#8230; That is just too long; an hour is just too strict.)</em> but as it is it&#8217;s strict, it&#8217;s unfair and it paints mothers in a bad light if they lose their child and don&#8217;t report it in an hour. I&#8217;m sure that Casey Anthony has a lot of problems on her own and maybe she didn&#8217;t care for her child as much as she did<em> (not enough to make her wanna kill it.)</em> but not every person is Casey Anthony and to base this law on this is just horrible. I&#8217;m sure the 500,000 people who signed that damn thing may have done it because they were pissed off about the verdict and sad about the death but even those 500,000 will realize the error of their ways when the current version of the law gets signed. Again, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">too strict!</span></p>
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		<title>Society is dying, we can&#8217;t help it</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 06:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor Karras</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Borders, many people knew it as a book company but many people today know it as a company that is going under. That is evident by the fact that a long time ago, the store here in Mira Loma closed down. Bare empty areas, furniture everywhere, shells filled with nothing is what I saw when [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Borders, many people knew it as a book company but many people today know it as a company that is going under. That is evident by the fact that a long time ago, the store here in Mira Loma closed down. Bare empty areas, furniture everywhere, shells filled with nothing is what I saw when I stepped in the place a while ago to pick up a book. It was like seeing the inside of a derelict mansion in the year 2025, a year where I&#8217;m guessing everything has gone to shit. That&#8217;s not the worst part, that book store was the only book store (<em>Target doesn&#8217;t count.</em>) in a shopping center filled to the brim with clothing stores and other crap. I don&#8217;t know what people&#8217;s obsession is with fashion and making a statement; I mean I don&#8217;t care about the latest trends or fitting in, I&#8217;ve tried to fit in and it&#8217;s basically impossible to do for me. Seriously, I can&#8217;t fit in with with the other people who in my opinion seem to care more about how they look rather then what&#8217;s going on into the world today, I mean shouldn&#8217;t your personality matter more then the stuff you wear? That doesn&#8217;t mean that there are a number of people that are but these are the worst contributers to society, and the ones that made society/culture the way it is.</p>
<p>I mean I get that society is constantly changing but in this day in age; we&#8217;ve got the internet, we&#8217;ve got 14 year old kids on the internet posting stupid crap that people seem to eat up and then we&#8217;ve got people who just try so hard to matter, try so hard to be cool and just fail at it. And these people are the ones forming the internet culture, also known as the realm of weird, stupid, and blatant. I mean we&#8217;ve got pictures of &#8220;lolcats&#8221;, shitty rage comics that I always somehow see on reddit (<em>owned by Conde Nast Digital.</em>) caption pictures, &#8220;verticals&#8221;, and signs of win, fail and epic. I mean seriously, there is alot of crap out there like this produced by people who try way to hard and they just eat it up. Hey, I&#8217;m not the kind of person to include &#8220;<em>LOL</em>&#8221; or &#8220;<em>oh hai&#8221;</em> into my posts, nor am I the one to monetize crap that 4chan has created <em>(or say that everything is &#8220;awesome&#8221; and &#8220;epic&#8221;, man do I hate those terms and the way people are using it; it just makes everything look whorish.),</em> nor do I fall to those memes that the media perpretraited.</p>
<p>Like with Rebecca Black, maker of the hit viral song &#8220;Friday&#8221; (which other people have produced and written) and the latest popular thing on the internet, which is thanks to Michael J. Nelson and that Tosh.0 guy on Comedy Central&#8230; Who I assume posted this because they thought she creating &#8220;the worst song in history&#8221; or so we thought. Yes they&#8217;re criticizing the video, the lyrics, basically anything due to the fact that well&#8230; Her video is both good and horrible at the same time (if that was just possible.) and I don&#8217;t see what the big deal is about her (and thousands of internet memes out there, not to say a few make sense.) If these two guys hadn&#8217;t posted it in their blog then we would of never heard of her and her video would just lay dormently with only a couple hundred or thousands of views. Which brings me to my point, most of these internet memes are only famous because the most famous blogs bring it to the uneducated masses, I can assure you that if something ended up on <em>TMZ</em> or one of the blogs on that vile &#8220;<em>Cheezeburger Network</em>&#8221; which just happens to be the producer of all the &#8220;memes&#8221; you see on the internet; then you&#8217;ll be hearing about it within seconds.</p>
<p>Both of the sites I listed are only part of a ring that contribute the worst in culture, that ring also includes most of <em>AOL</em> and <em>Grawker </em>and the entirety of<em> NBC Universal (there may be more but I can&#8217;t think of any at the moment); </em>sure, I may watch some of their TV channels and look at some of their sites but I&#8217;m focusing on the stuff that contributes to culture, so that doesn&#8217;t matter much to me. Most of these companies use their sources of media to influence the very fabric of culture, those in the ring are the worst offenders. I mean really; <strong>whoever thought of allowing Comcast to own NBC Universal is out of their freaking minds</strong>, I mean they already own some of the worst channels which put out trash that people manage to like, and they have the mindset of a 1930&#8242;s millionare who&#8217;s mean and snobby all because he has money <em>(this shows in their piss poor customer service and almost monopolistic like behavior.) </em>Buying NBC Universal and then removing the space from it just makes them the worst offender; they now have a massive media and news empire <em>(and a couple of theme parks)</em> they can use to influence everybody and anybody, and I just don&#8217;t trust Comcast with influencing society/the news, I mean you see what they did to geek/entertainment/style culture didn&#8217;t you? <em>(There are FCC roadblocks but I think they&#8217;re very inefficient, rediciolously even. It&#8217;s only a matter of time before Comcast finds a way to use NBC Universal to it&#8217;s advantage while getting around the roadblocks.)</em></p>
<p>There is also News Corp which is also a horrible offender but much has been said about them on the internet so I&#8217;ll let it be.</p>
<p>Anyways, these corporations choose which stuff is hot and which stuff ultimately gets left in the dust bin. They can choose what goes on the front page, who becomes famous, who gets to make a million dollars (because the world revolves money, which is the main problem which can never be fixed.) The fact that we rely so much on these sources is a part of society&#8217;s downfall because we have to rely on notable websites in order to find out what&#8217;s hot, like a baby with his pacifier. And the content creators suffer because they have to worry about creating something that&#8217;ll get a lot of views, that&#8217;ll take advantage of current events and that&#8217;ll get a lot of money. Most of which is appearing on <em>YouTube </em>(with shit like <em>TheFineBros.</em> that guy who rants with stupid transitions and stuff, and those doing stupid stuff that&#8217;ll get a lot of views.). I appreciate those who take the time to put up a quality product (like that Left 4 Dead painting I saw where the children are fighting child zombies) but mainly most of YouTube and the internet contains of crap that stupid people and people trying to look cool will obviously like, which is the problem when you let the mainstream dictate what you like, I don&#8217;t let the world tell me what to like and I certainly don&#8217;t let the stuff influence the stuff I say or create.</p>
<p>I also don&#8217;t want to worry about creating stuff that the people should like; which brings me to why I don&#8217;t listen to mainstream radio anymore; the reason being that most of the stations are controlled by companies that have strict standards (companies such as <em>Clear Channel</em> and <em>Cumulus</em>.) You want to know the reason why radio is dead, it&#8217;s because they&#8217;re playing that stupid electro-pop stuff that is easily producible, sounds mostly the same and is easily disposable. Compared to those indie bands, I&#8217;m thinking they&#8217;ve thrown musical integrity out of the window in an attempt to make a popular song that will get stuck in peoples heads and onto their playlists as their favorite songs (easily the most shallowest songs ever.); and due to the power of payola (thanks to the major music companies <em>UMG</em>, <em>EMI</em>, <em>Sony</em> and <em>WMG</em>, who are also at fault because they&#8217;re the ones who can ensure that your shit gets radio play, and all for the signing away of a few rights and a guarantee that your albums will move units,  least you want to be kicked out into the cold.), they can ensure that that song will be played over and over and over again. (see the problem with money? Once you get a lot of it, it changes you, makes you really immoral.) <em>Clear Channel </em>stands out in the fact that you can upload your music to them and they&#8217;ll possibly play it on the radio station (or an New Music channel that can only be received by buying a useless HD Radio receiver.) if it&#8217;s good (read: shitty.) enough. The fact that I have to sit there and wonder (will Clear Channel play it? does it have a political message? does it speak out against democrats or republicans? does it have offensive subject matter?) about those questions just pisses me the fuck off, I have artistic integrity and I am not about to compromise that for a radio company that controls <strong>the rocker and black demographics, strip the soul out of an oldies station and lean heavily towards republican with their affiliation with Fox News.</strong> (Yes, I know it&#8217;s <em>News Corp.</em> but I watch some of their stuff; I will never watch <em>Fox News </em>or any of those news channels though.)</p>
<p>Another thing; the internet has grown to the point where it kills all kinds of culture that previously had a uniqueness. Take for instance the geek culture, I used to be a geek but I revoked the title myself due to the fact that being a geek or nerd is nothing special ever since other people have flooded the internet with their &#8220;<em>prowess</em>&#8221; and &#8220;<em>geek wisdom</em>&#8220;. Please, any person can take a camera and take an image; any person can take a microphone and talk about technology; any person can even review technology gadgets; any person can create tweets that they think is clever but it takes a <em>master</em> to make a great photo or a great podcast; and the quote that I said doesn&#8217;t even matter now that everybody is dumbing themselves down for this audience of self-proclaimed geeks who talk in lowercase and seem to have come out of the wrong side of the womb in terms of intellectual conversation. (not to say that many geeks aren&#8217;t intelligent, most of the new ones aren&#8217;t though.) I swear everything has to rely so much on flashy graphics and imaging to lure the general public into listening to people who barely know anything about what they&#8217;re talking about and have a ridiculously huge ego (which ends up making them look like hacks.) and there are more of these people then there are actual geeks who know about this stuff; which there were many of a long time ago. Back then it used to be about technology now it&#8217;s mostly about the coverage of cellphones, gadgets, social media sites, web apps and the occasional big event to break up the monotony. You barely get to see actual technology anymore.</p>
<p>Point I&#8217;m making is that society as we know it has been dumbed down with all of this technology and shit is that it&#8217;s killing it; I blame it on the fault of these parents who don&#8217;t raise their kids right and teach them about how hard the real world can be, which is the downside to everything as they choose to ignore reality and focus on themselves rather then face reality. I swear the internet is bringing out the worst egos in people and I have trouble seeing past the egos, makes me respect the person even less; not that there are many people out there worth giving my respects to, the only people I&#8217;m going to respect are those who can produce top-quality shit and those who mean something in this world instead of just dodeling off trying to become an <em>&#8220;internet superstar&#8221;</em>, which is pointless in my opinion. What&#8217;s worse is that society is starting to rely more on this technology to the point where we can watch the newest movies at our own home for highly inflated prices, that all of our books will be uploaded to digital and the resulting pages will be burned away (if they were ever foolish enough to think that digital technology would be reliable; what happens when an EMP bomb drops all over the US, all of the data would be lost!), that all of the old ways are obsolete and we should the newer ways are better. (this is true for Hulu, Netflix, Gamefly, travel sites, not so much for the other stuff.) Hey, I&#8217;m a big user of technology as the other man but I fear that are usage will turn into our biggest flaw that will bring upon our downfall; and with the way society is killing itself, <em>I predict it&#8217;ll be very soon.</em></p>
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		<title>Why Sarah Palin should never become the President of the United States</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is 2-3 years late but, here it goes. Sarah Palin, you know her. Republican, Former Governor of Alaska; potential vice-president; Uh, Maverick&#8230; But one thing you also know her for being is a potential president candidate. Now as some of you may already know, President Barack Obama hasn&#8217;t really lived up to his promises [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is 2-3 years late but, here it goes. Sarah Palin, you know her. Republican, Former Governor of Alaska; potential vice-president; Uh, Maverick&#8230; But one thing you also know her for being is a potential president candidate. Now as some of you may already know, President Barack Obama hasn&#8217;t really lived up to his promises according to people in the news. Now I don&#8217;t think of him as a bad president, takes time for a president to change stuff but we&#8217;ll get back to that at a later time. The focus here is on Sarah Palin, potential President of the United States. The fact that she&#8217;s even considering to be president just makes me shudder with fear, terror even. If you thought McCain would make a bad president then McPalin would be even worse. Here&#8217;s a few reasons why.</p>
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<div style="font-size:22px; color:white;"><strong>1. She&#8217;s not fit to run the country.</strong></div>
<p>You can see just from a picture of Sarah Palin that she&#8217;s not fit the country.</p>
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<div align="center"><img class="aligncenter" title="Sarah Palin" src="http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/wp-content/gallery/conservatives/sarah-palin.jpg" alt="" width="355" height="443" /></div>
<h5 style="text-align: center;">This is your future president, a skimpy chick.</h5>
<p>In my opinion, she&#8217;s underskilled, a convulsive liar and one that&#8217;ll use this position for personal gain. In her ongoing days as a Fox News correspondent (which I don&#8217;t watch fortunately), she has lied about basically anything in order to support her agenda. While it&#8217;s a known fact that everybody has an hidden agenda, she just says anything that she wants and nobody questions it; possibly because now that she has a reality show, she is automatically famous (the Kardashian effect, which has made E! unwatchable white trash.) Not only that but when it comes time for her to sit in that presidents chair and make important choices that&#8217;ll change America forever, she&#8217;ll just break down and order that we invade some random country that has some high-paying resource that&#8217;ll make the rich richer, but not before blowing up the new World Trade Center to make the war justifiable. (No offense to the 9/11 victims, that was a deadly tragedy that no one will ever forget.)</p>
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<div style="font-size:22px; color:white;"><strong>2. Only popular due to media exposure.</strong></div>
<p>I admit, I&#8217;ve never even heard of Sarah Palin until she became a running-mate with John McCain, that&#8217;s how obscure she was. Ever since she&#8217;s been McCain&#8217;s running mate, her popularity has exploded to the point where she resigned as Alaska govenor, written a book and starred in her own reality series on TLC. &#8220;Sarah Palin&#8217;s Alaska&#8221;.</p>
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<div align="center"><img class="aligncenter" title="Sarah Palin's Alaska" src="http://wilmothighschool.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/sarah_palin_alaska.jpg" alt="" width="633" height="432" /></div>
<h5 style="text-align: center;">Yup, Sarah Palin&#8217;s Alaska consists of 2 hot men, 2 hot chicks and one little girl. Her Alaska has never been more defined then this.</h5>
<p>People say this is her political relaunch. I say that it is their attempt to capitalize on Sarah Palin after she became a media darling. I mean why else would you watch this show, to get to know Sarah Palin and her political views? Hell no! You watch it because you like to see people&#8217;s weird lives and conflicts (like the Kardashians, who&#8217;s fame is unjustified.). I mean if all you get to watch is her cutting down trees and hunting bears and intimate romance then what difference is there at all? We don&#8217;t even get to see the kids ambitions and goals and dreams, only their lovelife and their love for their mother. Even Snoop Dogg&#8217;s Fatherhood had shown Snoop&#8217;s son working for K-EARTH 101, why couldn&#8217;t Sarah Palin do the same.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s also the possibility that the media could therefore work in her favor and therefore garner her the winning votes. I mean she&#8217;s been gaining traction due to a &#8220;<em>social media campaign</em>&#8221; (reason it&#8217;s in quotes because I doubt that it&#8217;s a social media campaign at all.) and potentially the media could overlook all of her flaws and just focus on the things that make her so great. I mean <em>forget</em> her policies, focus on Sarah Palin! Who gives a shit about politics when all we&#8217;re going to be caring about in 2012 is how good the candidates look. I mean she is going to be running America after all. I swear people should stop listening to the media and just use <em>common sense</em>.</p>
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<div style="font-size:22px; color:white;"><strong>3. Very awkward misinformative WTF positions.</strong></div>
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<div align="center"><iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/9Ldp2PyXgGo?hd=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<p>The video above states some of the points that I&#8217;m making. She has done some weird shit in the past and she&#8217;ll continue to do and say weird shit like this. She&#8217;s armed with Facebook and Twitter so she can make all of the comments she wants and no one will question her. Apparently her opinions consist of the regular Republican tirade amplified by 100%. ObamaCare sucks, we need more weapons, we need less taxes, more money for us, more power, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Her opinions are in full effect with the rejection of START is based on the common republican fact that America must be all rich and all powerful (that means having powerful military with the ability to destroy any country that she wants.). Apparently I didn&#8217;t know we were at war with other countries except Iran. Again, Obama isn&#8217;t living up to the standards that other people put on him but it&#8217;s only a matter of time before she runs out of ammunition, and what can she run to for her political ambitions. Why Fox News, the Tea Party and FreedomWorks. Which brings me to number four.</p>
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<div style="font-size:22px; color:white;"><strong>4. Borderline deception.</strong></div>
<p>Since she has the Tea Party and FreedomWorks to fall back on, it&#8217;s only a matter of time before she is inducted president. I mean the whole Tea Party thing is due to Americans (mainly rich people and some middle class who earn more then other middle class siblings) wanting lower taxes. Lower taxes meaning that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. I apologize if I&#8217;m sounding like a broken record but that&#8217;s the way Republicans (and now some Democrats unfortunately since they basically made them right.) think. I mean the entire purpose to them is to get power and to decide what is <em>best </em>for America. Apparently they&#8217;ve taken the whole American spirit thing way too far now.</p>
<p>The people who are in the Tea Party are basically very uneducated masses who willingly believe the lies propagated by them. I mean we live in America but I don&#8217;t care whether they&#8217;re demanding too much or my healthcare is apparently going in the shitter. I&#8217;m not looking forward to amassing huge amounts of money, therefore the taxes don&#8217;t bother me at the least bit. However, these people have been tricked to believe that their America is screwing them and it&#8217;s all Obama&#8217;s fault. How can everything be Obama&#8217;s fault? I swear if a tree goes down, it&#8217;s Obama&#8217;s fault; violence in Egypt, it&#8217;s Obama&#8217;s fault. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">How the fuck can violence in Egypt be the fault of Obama when it is the fault of a Muslim dictator?</span> Obama&#8217;s just trying to help.</p>
<p>Anyway, enough about the Tea Party, let&#8217;s move on to FreedomWorks which I have to remind everyone isn&#8217;t really Free. Same issues here, Less Taxes, Spending is out of control&#8230; This is where things get different here, they claim that taxes are at fault for hindering technological progress and the energy prices are going up because of the government. As if the government is behind every price increase and fault there is. We live in a country where every state is separate, the President just dictates global laws and looks out for the best interest of Americans. Every state has it&#8217;s own laws, it&#8217;s own taxes and it&#8217;s own government, they decide how education should matter, they decide how power should be priced. I mean Texas has very few gun laws, California has a strict gun law. See the difference? If the government were really in control then we would have guns in every home or the guns would be banned altogether.</p>
<p>The fact that these people mainly care about power and keeping illegals out of our American country proves they&#8217;re not out for the best interest of us living in the country. Don&#8217;t be fooled by the red &amp; blue star logo. The site tilts primarily to the red, and so does Sarah Palin.</p>
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<div style="font-size:22px; color:white;"><strong>5. America will go to the shitter once she&#8217;s president.</strong></div>
<p>In my opinion, she&#8217;ll be a worst president then Barack Obama is. Even George W. Bush has said she isn&#8217;t presidential material, I&#8217;m going to keep this short and just say that she&#8217;ll bring us further into the recession, spend all of our money on the military, tighten up the boarder so that no &#8220;<em>illegals</em>&#8221; can get through and ruin international relations with countries outside of the US.</p>
<p>So there you go, 5 reasons why Sarah Palin should never become president of the United States. I get that some of you might have a different opinion and I understand that but this is how I feel and these are my opinions. They may not be 100% accurate but most of them is the truth. I swear if Sarah Palin becomes president, I may have to think about moving to a different country.</p>
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		<title>If we&#8217;re voting in 2013 then the future canidates better be transparent.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 07:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor Karras</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meet YJ Drainman, future candidate for LA Mayor in 2013 (that&#8217;s like 2 years away.) He&#8217;s a dedicated family man with an extensive business background including but not limited to mechanical engineer, healthcare administrator, real estate developer of neighborhood gentrification, project manager of a major 5 star hotel construction, operator of a chain of retail [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Meet YJ Drainman, future candidate for LA Mayor in 2013 (that&#8217;s like 2 years away.) He&#8217;s a dedicated family man with an extensive business background including but not limited to mechanical engineer, healthcare administrator, real estate developer of neighborhood gentrification, project manager of a major 5 star hotel construction, operator of a chain of retail electronic stores, reseller of deregulated energy sources, energy efficiency implementation, utility audits and consulting services. (copied belatedly from the website so you probably know what kind of man he is.) But more importantly, he&#8217;s the independent candidate for LA Mayor in 2013, where if elected, he promises to eliminate waste, build an honest government and fix the economy. While he may seem like a nice man (he&#8217;s a family man for gods sake.) He is basically just like every politician out there.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t believe me, check his <a href="http://www.yjdraimanformayor.org/">website</a>. It is filled to the brim with generic politician mumbo jumbo about how democracy has failed us, how government is the problem, and how we should rebuild. Unless I somehow find some articles about how LA is in chaos due to the current mayor running things then I don&#8217;t think LA&#8217;s democracy has failed us, and if you look thoroughly through the website, you will find no plans and barely any description of what he&#8217;ll do (except get rid of the waste cause that is a massively big issue and strengthen lobbying laws and criminal punishment (which If you complain to the mayor long enough about, may cave in and strengthen it himself.) I didn&#8217;t mention point 3 because I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s such a big issue really.) but what you will find is a lot of listed locations for important places in LA. For a guy to claim transparency and not provide any plan on how they will do it (just what he would do if he was the mayor) is just outright ironic and deceitful. I mean if a LA Mayor promised transparency then he better provide it (same for the governor of California, which I think is a much more important position as many of the civil, financial and educational problems lie there.). I don&#8217;t care about their political alignment, if he can&#8217;t be any different then the politicians out there now and if he doesn&#8217;t seem right for California then he doesn&#8217;t get my vote.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not going to post an image because you already figured out what the site looks like in your mind.</p>
<p>Also, additionally this applies to every government position out there. For years, government has revolved around one thing. Power. The types of politicians who don&#8217;t think power and money are important parts of politics are rare and few in between and this is what we need more of (Barack Obama may be one of them, I like what he is doing but I just wish that he would do more.). We don&#8217;t need speeches about how democracy failed us and if you elect them then democracy and trust will be restored, we need action. (I admit that things take time to do but they should find ways to do it quicker, if not effectively.) Sure, I may be sounding like one of those politicians right now but it&#8217;s the truth. For years, every person in government has not taken action because they&#8217;re afraid they&#8217;re going to break the status quo and if that&#8217;s broken then how are they going to get the delicious money that fuels the highest status quo. Seriously, rich people are treated like the top prime above anybody else (including middle-class people who don&#8217;t seem to be given poor-people like treatment.), mostly everything that the government does is made to make the rich richer and the poor poorer, (barely anything important is done to help the general American people, aside from a few bills signed into congress.)</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not going to say anything about the war or global conflicts because everybody knows that wars are started because of disagreements or because they need to control a source which gives them much more money then possible and because I don&#8217;t feel like it&#8217;s necessary to comment on how the Egyptian government is doing nothing to quell the rioters and producing smoke screens and how the things they&#8217;re doing now is smoke screens. (I admit the situation has gotten worse since this started but I feel like other people have said it best, something need to be done.) But I do feel like there should be fewer wars and I do feel like we should be living in a world that isn&#8217;t a police state. Anybody can basically list themselves to become a candidate for Governor/mayor/president but we need people who will take action immediately and we need people who are transparent. 2013 is two years away and I want to be living in a future of transparency.</p>
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		<title>Neal Campbell: A year too late.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I realize the irony by posting this months after his apology but I have something to say. Words cannot explain how I feel about Neal Campbell's late, rushed, and barely emotional apology. I have many reasons for saying those things because it comes a year after he allegedly logged on to Cali's Twitter account and "impersonating" her, posting the update which caused Leo to ban her from TWiT.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay, I realize the irony by posting this months after his apology but I have something to say. Words cannot explain how I feel about <a title="A Public Apology to My Wife- Neal Campbell | This is my blog." href="http://www.nealcampbell.com/2010/02/01/a-public-apology-to-my-wife/">Neal Campbell&#8217;s late, rushed, and barely emotional apology</a>. I have many reasons for saying those things because it comes a <em><strong>year</strong></em> after he allegedly logged on to Cali&#8217;s Twitter account and <em>&#8220;impersonated&#8221;</em> her, posting the update which caused Leo to ban her from TWiT. This is just like the mystery about &#8220;Who Shot J.R.?&#8221; on that show Dallas, except we had to wait an entire year and the guy who fessed up; he&#8217;s not the one who J.R. <em><strong>would not </strong></em>send to jail. Now since I&#8217;m hosted by a hosting company which does not explicitly allow swear words of any kind, I will have to try to let out my anger about this while avoiding anything that might cause my hosting company to kick me out the door. Now without further to do. Here are the words he says in his post and my replies to his words.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;Since we started GeekBrief.TV, I’ve studied media successes to learn techniques for growing an audience and keeping them interested. Publicly writing something controversial is usually a very good thing to do. You don’t loose as many people as seems logical because people want to stick around to see what you’ll do or say next.&#8221; -Neal Campbell</em></p>
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<p>Really&#8230; controversy&#8230; I guess it works for the people who actually know what they are talking about, people who usually have a good theory that will cause controversy because it clashes with the common watered-down stuff that the people have heard. Also people don&#8217;t stick around due to the controversy, they stick around because they light what the guy is saying and they want to hear more. I suspect this is the guy who used to watch &#8220;Rikki Lake&#8221; and &#8220;Jerry Springer&#8221; because they&#8217;re<em> &#8220;controversial.&#8221;</em>; I suspect he stopped this because he wanted to look more &#8220;smart&#8221; than he really is.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;When Cali found out what I did, it obviously it made her angry.  To her, politics is private and divisive. She doesn’t enjoy it in the least. I apologized, but also argued my case about the benefits of the controversy. We had recently had dinner with John C. Dvorak and he explained how he has used controversy in his long career as a tech writer to keep people paying attention. I thought Cali bought-in to the idea of creating controversy, but I was wrong.&#8221; -Neal Campbell</em></p>
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<p>Well you&#8217;ve been married to her for like, I don&#8217;t know, <em><strong>11 YEARS!!!</strong></em> You should know Cali at the time you impersonated her and posted that tweet about global warming. Not only does it show that you do not respect your wife&#8217;s wishes, it also shows that you&#8217;re 100% intent on controlling her career. Here&#8217;s what I think Neal Campbell was thinking in his head.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;Hmmm&#8230; If I impersonate Cali Lewis and if I post a controversial tweet then it will make my wife more famous! And it will also make me &#8220;Neal Campbell&#8221;, recognizable as the husband of a famous celebrity!&#8221; -The Thoughts of Neal Campbell</em></p>
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<p>You seriously couldn&#8217;t consult Cali before you did this? Maybe she would do it, maybe she would say not; the point is, you impersonated her without consent for personal gain. And when you realized that Leo banned her from TWiT, then you realized you were wrong; because with that, your business opportunities started to go down the drain.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;She was deeply hurt by what I did. She is the kindest person in the world and she didn’t want to embarrass me. She’s lived with letting everyone believe it came from her because of our relationship.&#8221;-Neal Campbell</em></p></blockquote>
<p>This is what also angers me. You hurt her, you posted that tweet and after all of that, she defended you&#8230; Woman should not have to defend Men from their mistakes; if Men never experiences the consequences brought on by their mistakes then they should not deserve to be called Men, just cowards. Worst of all; instead of apologizing for what you have done, you have instead let Cali take the blame. Not once did she feel obligated to say that it was you who did it; she let many business opportunities slip and it&#8217;s all because of you.</p>
<blockquote style="text-align: center;"><p><em>&#8220;The only way I can make it right is to publicly apologize.  A private apology is utterly insufficient because what I did pushed her into a public, political battle she didn’t want to fight. She lost friends and business opportunities because of what I did. I hope this blog post will mend some of those relationships. I also want to apologize to friends of GeekBrief.TV and followers of Cali’s tweets. The controversy experiment just wasn’t worth it, especially without her participation. I’m sorry.&#8221; -Neal Campbell</em></p></blockquote>
<p>You know what&#8217;s even more insufficient, not apologizing at all&#8230; and now you apologize for placing her in a battle she didn&#8217;t want to fight in the first place. You know what, you&#8217;re not sorry; you did this <em>&#8220;experiment&#8221;</em> without consulting her, you did this because you thought this would help her career, but mainly you did this entirely for yourself. What surprised me is that Leo Laporte posted the first comment, and after reading that comment I found some words of text which really proves that you&#8217;re a shallow person. Note the highlighted words around a big red circle.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.taylorkarras.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/threewords.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-65 aligncenter" title="threewords" src="http://www.taylorkarras.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/threewords.jpg" alt="" width="555" height="161" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">According to the highlighted text, he apologized <em><strong>way back then. </strong></em>Which means that Leo had at least enough emotion to contact Cali and apologize to her. You, you waited a year after the incident you caused and then you posted your &#8220;public apology&#8221;. While some people may hate Leo for his views on Global Warming and his views on the then 2008 presidential campaign. He is at least more human and less shallow then you will ever be in your lifetime. The conclusion, well it&#8217;s obvious. <a title="Cali Lewis  &amp;raquo; Blog Archive   &amp;raquo; An Important Change in My Life" href="http://calilewis.me/change">Cali divorces you</a>; seriously. In my personal opinion, she does not deserve scum like you. While you guys used to love each other back then, I think it&#8217;s different now. When Cali became a micro-celebrity, it made you think <em>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to make her into a celebrity, and then I shall bask in the fame and move to Hollywood as the husband of a celebrity.&#8221;</em> If you were truly in love with her then you should not let the ideas of fame and success affect your head. Continuing on, it&#8217;s a &#8220;well known fact&#8221; that he produces the show&#8230; I&#8217;m wondering, isn&#8217;t this the reason why the show looks unprofessional.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I remember a time when I found a music video for Geoff Smith&#8217;s &#8220;Hello, Hello&#8221; and it was just, horrible. During the duration of the song, he focused on Cali buying the iPhone. While I do admit that the song was good, he could of done a few things; adjust the contrast of the video, shot it at a slower framerate and at least took the effort to make it a proper music video. This is the same for the video podcast itself; I read around the web that &#8220;GeekBrief.TV&#8221; has a certain &#8220;professional&#8221; element to it, I found myself to be more wrong. No offense to Cali Lewis on the more recent episodes but the ones she did with her husband in 2009 are in my opinion campy, unprofessional, cheap-looking and horrible. Not once did the guys even consider getting the lighting right, the obvious production errors fixed up or even the presentation right. Now while I&#8217;m mainly interested in the news when I&#8217;m looking at a podcast, I consider the presentation to be the most important thing I look for. Whether the host is likable, relatable or knowledgeable, and whether it will make me want to come back for more. I should not have to be focusing on obvious errors such as the ones found in your special you produced on &#8220;Leo Laporte&#8221;.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">I just loved how you overlayed a title over another title, and I absolutely loved how you did not take more then <strong>1</strong> camera into the cottage. I swear that as I watched the videos you produced, I saw Leo suddenly get less clear and muddy throughout the video. I don&#8217;t know, you did not have the skill to have a camera directly facing Leo? Superproducer my bottom, you are the tech version of Solar, a guy who claims to care about her only to use and abuse Guru for his own personal gain; and Guru was lead to believe that there was nothing he could do to stop him, he was even forced to perform on stage despite Guru&#8217;s health, all for his own benefit. And the quality of the product, there was no effort put into the product; it was all rushed just to cash in. Sure the music&#8217;s good but the product feels like there hasn&#8217;t been any care put into it.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Also, his political views aren&#8217;t really the ones anybody political would recommend. Sure he&#8217;s against Obama but for one reason, what he&#8217;s going to do to his wallet. Not universal healthcare, not the fact that he isn&#8217;t really all that different from George W. Bush, but money. In this world, the rich control everything while the poor have to survive off of scraps. The world loves people who can make money in an economy like this and continue to make money, they are the ones who will survive into the future because they can afford all of the life extension technology. If his political views consist of only what he&#8217;s trying to do to his wallet then that&#8217;s pretty shallow in my book. I mean just because banks aren&#8217;t accepting mortgage offers like they used to after George W. Bush ruined the economy, that is no reason why you should start going all political. I mean just because they denied you for the mortgage (which could be for many reasons; bad credit score, history of underpayments, the fact that they think you will not pay it back in full) does not mean that the world is going to end, in fact it should of made you do things like get more sponsors for your tour or at least rent the damn bus; not go all political just because someone denied your mortgage application.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">And closing out my argument is how he tried to save his marriage. Apparently <a title="Divorce, Healing and Feeling Alone- Neal Campbell | This is my blog." href="http://www.nealcampbell.com/2010/05/06/divorce-healing-alone/">he has gone to 2 support groups</a> because Christians don&#8217;t believe in psychology. My advice; they should of just saw a psychologist to at least try to resolve their issues instead of a support group. Which leads me to my next issue; he should of just admitted her love for her instead of trying to find out what&#8217;s wrong and fixing it. You couldn&#8217;t of just walked up to Cali Lewis and say <em>&#8220;I love you with all my heart, I know that I shouldn&#8217;t of placed you into a battle based on a hunch, but everybody learns from mistakes and we, we could overcome any mistakes if we stick together.&#8221;</em> He couldn&#8217;t even do that? I thought you were a Christian&#8230; Which Christian represses their feelings of love for trying to find out what&#8217;s wrong with the marriage. Additionally, he even claims that he realizes that he has been reborn and now realizes that the marriage he had was magical&#8230; During the 11 years he was married to her, did you ever think that you think the marriage was magical? I guess he doesn&#8217;t know what he got until it got up and walked away from her, now he&#8217;s talking about how he&#8217;s reborn, how he wants his wife back and spiritual BS which I just plain don&#8217;t believe in (sorry believers of religion.). Neal, the day you started becoming a bad husband was when in my opinion, you started to use her for your own personal gain and when you started to subconsciously think you were bigger than god. Neal Campbell you are a shallow, ignorant, pathetic piece of human flesh and you should of never gone onto her Twitter in the first place and posted that message in the first place, and that is why you fail.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor Karras</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I mostly use Google Maps all the time, to find directions to restaurants, places I need to get to, hotels. So I’m listing examples of what I might use Google Maps for, I don’t travel out often but mostly I like to look around at major cities and use street view to see the sights. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I mostly use Google Maps all the time, to find directions to restaurants, places I need to get to, hotels. So I’m listing examples of what I might use Google Maps for, I don’t travel out often but mostly I like to look around at major cities and use street view to see the sights. I haven’t used Google Maps as of late but there is a new bill that is forcing companies based in California to blur out any seemingly potential Terrorist targets such as Schools, Government and Medical buildings, anything that looks secretive and anything that might be considered a terrorist “threat” which includes almost anything. I don’t know what the governor who is issuing this bill is thinking, that this will prevent terrorism… Google Maps can only see the tops of buildings and only the view of the street, not the inside of the buildings. How can this thing plan terrorism other then the fact that it could be used to find locations if anyone were to use the map casually to find locations nobody has ever found before.</p>
<p>Mostly he is insane, the reason being is that it’s censorship, meaning that anything objectable, or anything that could be harmful, dangerous to children or might promote terrorism is immediately blurred out or removed as soon as possible. I understand that there are many guides on the internet that show people how to do these things and mostly 30% or more of the internet is potentially offensive, but the fact that anything could be considered a threat to terrorism is partially stupid. The reason why I use partially stupid is because there are mostly some things that could be used for terrorism that we don’t know about yet but come on, we’re mostly prepared for a terrorist attack that hasn’t happened yet or possibly will not happen. I understand the safety of everyone and the thought of preventing terrorism once and for all and this might have a very, very small chance of working but I think the bill is stupid and the guy doesn’t have an idea how it works, though I do applaud his bravery.</p>
<p>Think about it, if a normal people were to be looking for a hospital of some sort, let’s say that they’re sick or that they need urgent attention. They would find that the hospital is blurred out for some reason, prompting some confusion as to why an average hospital would be blurred out. Or if they needed directions of a school of some sort, they would find it blurred and would also prompt confusion as to why the school is blurred out. I don’t know why a hospital or a school would need to be blurred out considering that as said above, it’s a top down map only and Street View does not allow you to view the campus or the back of a hospital. Furthermore if there were an impeding Terrorist attack, they would most likely be able to evacuate everyone safely and be able to defuse the bomb or shoot down the missile or whatever the terrorists might be doing. Also they would need blueprints of some sort because they would not know the interior or the structure of the building as Google Maps and mostly other map programs only show the roof.</p>
<p>Also, because the governor issuing the bill might not know that the bill applies to the US only, which means that the aformented things listed above will only be blurred in the United States and any other potential terrorist targets outside of the US will not be blurred. If the governor realizes that Google Maps may be used to plan Terrorist attacks in the US may be used to plan attacks in other countries such as Asia, Africa, South America, Russia, and other foreign countries. I’m not saying that I support the attacks on other countries but I’m pointing out a minor flaw in his bill. It would be that America is potentially safer and the other countries are even more vulnerable and valuable since it would be easier to plan out using Google Maps or any other mapping program that he might mention. Additionally, this would lead to some invasion of some other country or a crippling of another country of which a terrorist group could do for some reason or another.</p>
<p>More importantly, the plan of blurring out parts of a map is considered censorship to some. Let’s say that you liked something, something that was enjoyable, influential and risky, something that was released long ago. Let’s say that you saw the same thing a few years later, your favorite parts of the book are either changed, toned down or removed entirely. That’s what censorship is like, forcing people to remove or change the things they say in order to appeal to people who are either overreacting, are offended or believe that what they’re saying aren’t right at all. Mostly this feels wrong because people are going to be in a uproar because the government or a bill forced Google or Yahoo to blur out or remove any offensive, inappropriate or classified content, people feel that the way the internet delivers content is screwed up because companies and groups are confused by how they should deliver it and how it might cause an uproar or something.</p>
<p>I appreciate what he’s trying to do but I don’t think this bill is ever going to work. For one, it’s forcing companies to censor their content which people will complain over because the internet is supposed to be a free way to express opinions, two is that how is this going to help prevent terrorism since mostly Google doesn’t have any serious terrorism planning abilities, the blurred out areas are going to be obvious to terrorists, and it’s limited to companies located in California, which means that a company like Microsoft will have clear shots of those areas and it may be used as a terrorist tool itself, and it only covers the US which means other countries are not covered as described above, also the terrorists could use paper maps and phone books to find out places to strike. Three is that it’s poorly planned out, I mean if he truly wanted to prevent terrorism, he would want to take the issue to the United Nations and let them make a decision of whether to blur their terrorist targets or not.</p>
<p>I’m not saying that I support the bill, but with the emphasis on censorship and the fact that it’s poorly planned, I don’t think that it will ever work out. I personally think that there is no probable way to stop terrorism without causing a panic or some controversy but I think that some places are properly prepared after 9/11 to be ready to face this threat should it ever become a reality again, though I do hate the censorship that did come after 9/11 what with shows cutting scenes that involve buildings crashing and all that and that was a major blow for TV shows and media altogether. But I don’t think that maps should ever have to blur out anything just because it might cause some potential harm, mostly all censorship has done was sprout up paranoia and other kinds of fear because what they’re hiding or what they’re doing to free speech or it could be inappropriate for children or whatever insane reason there is and it’s brought no good for everyone except the people who think that it’s right.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 04:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor Karras</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Politics&#8230; Such a complex thing. With the recent inauguration of our first president Barack Obama, you think that things would be fine and dandy, especially with a mention of “non-believers” in his inauguration-speech and all of the things he’s doing right. People are still complaining, trying to spread the real truth, the “truth” the government [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Politics&#8230; Such a complex thing. With the recent inauguration of our first president Barack Obama, you think that things would be fine and dandy, especially with a mention of “non-believers” in his inauguration-speech and all of the things he’s doing right. People are still complaining, trying to spread the real truth, the “truth” the government does not want you to know, the “truth” they’re so-called keeping from you. Now I’m not a strong supporter of the government and I especially hate what George W. Bush did to this nation but this conspiracy theory thing has gone unnoticed long enough, even the government should have executed some sort of death policy for fake slanders and their fake ass truth websites.</p>
<p>Now before I go on I must say that I do not watch FOX News, I am not a regular government believer, in fact my father is an activist and has really thoughtful words to say about politics, the government and anything altogether, nor do I believe in the propaganda. Mostly these truth sites force you in by saying “The government may seem nice on the outside but there is loads of corruption and things the government does not want you to see in the inside. Stop believing the government’s lies and let us show you the truth that they do not want you to see.” Now that’s how they grab you but what you see inside is more lies, lies even much more deceptful then the government.</p>
<p>What you see is a lot of christan propaganda, you know with every truth-seeker being a christan and all, they’d probably connect with god not approving with the government doing the things that they want you to believe that they’re doing. But what they’re doing is not what they’re even doing at all. They claim that they’re poising you with common household materials to make you dumber and make you believe everything the government is doing is a good thing, they claim that AIDS and HIV are curable and a scare tactic that is used to convince people to get the shots which somehow introduces a chemical that changes your body to make you much more closed-minded, also debatable is the claim that you can cure AIDS and HIV naturally and that you get sick because of all of the medicine they give you. Please, if AIDS and HIV is so “curable” then Eazy-E would be alive by now and cranking out hit rap records.</p>
<p>First of all, how can the government include chemicals that taste exactly like the food it taste likes? It would take a lot of money to engineer the chemical to have the exact same taste as the billion types of food out on the market today. And why would they waste millions of dollars trying to get the people to dumb down and believe in the propaganda? I mean aren’t people already stupid enough to believe in anything, as evidence by the millions of idiots flooding the idiot today believing in anything told to them, mostly they’d be the target demographic they’d want to spread the “truth” to. Besides, with everybody under their control, how will they create the illusion of the “American Life”, spending most of their money trying to control them and all? It’s just blatantly stupid.</p>
<p>Also, answer me this question. How in the world could your body get sick from medicine? They act as if the medicine taken doesn’t allow people to procrastinate, reduces their brain function and makes your white blood cells weaker. And they blame it as the basis for the common cold, flu, basically every disease there is. I’ve taken lot of medicine and I have not gotten sick, once. This reveals another thing with “truth-believers”, they’ll do anything to get you to believe in the truth, even if it is deceiving you. If you look at most of the “proof” they have, you’ll see that it’s very, very fake. Here’s how they make you “believe”.</p>
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<li>Create a claim so over-the-top that it’s got to be real. </li>
<li>Subject won’t believe so it’s forced on him over and over again </li>
<li>Proof created using Photoshop or staged as a video “documentary” </li>
<li>Subject begins to worry, brain starts to think that it’s real </li>
<li>Subject actually believes that the claim is real </li>
<li>Profit! </li>
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<p>Simple right, simple forcing fake proof like Barack’s voting record which was obviously created in Photoshop to suggest that he’s the same like George W. Bush, at least McCain was actually twisted and involved in a Ponzi scheme where he stole from the banks a lot of money. This is just suggesting that every president is the same corrupt, world ruining guy just wanting the seat of power, wanting to get rid of freedom, wanting it all for the money, that’s just crazy stupid. Also to make you believe that they don’t even care about the first amendment, they put themselves of situations of controversy… By stepping up to the office, saying that they’re protesting, then change the story that they’re not protesting and that they’re just at a disagreement, and get this, they actually jump cut it to make it appear that they’ve been arrested for violating the 1st Amendment. Wow, it’s almost like the government is behind these videos.</p>
<p>Also, subliminal advertising. Really, really, really stupid. To think that companies, actual companies, could insert subliminal advertising in their advertisement. First of all, the human eye is able to detect every frame of video or what they’re seeing, so I’m sure they’ll be able to detect the “subliminal advertising” on the “18th frame”. I have nothing against advertising, but these people make a big deal of it. I’d admit that the commercials are too long, take up too much time and also take up too much space, but they’re not forcing you to buy the products, it’s not like the advertising is telling you to actually buy the product. Besides, without advertisements, companies wouldn’t be able to make much money, websites wouldn’t be able to support itself and local places would likely close up without anyone knowing it exists, how much they cost and the wonderful experience you could have there.</p>
<p>Now imagine a world as these people who believe in the “truth” imagine it to be. Imagine if albums like Nine Inch Nail’s <em>“Year Zero”</em> Nas’ “Untitled”, Young Jeezy’s <em>“The Recession”</em>, Metallica’s <em>“…And Justice for All”</em> and Megadeth’s <em>“The System has Failed”</em> never existed. There would be no expression, no freedom of speech, because that would be restricted in a perfect world. People aren’t being allowed to do what they do, people following a forced regimen, people being controlled and forced with much more propaganda then there is. All other religions not existing, no chaos, no balance, everything would just be love, happiness, and perfect. Everything would be same on the radio and the news and people would probably go insane from all of the peace and order.</p>
<p>That’s the kind of world that could theoretically exist but considering that every person is genetically different and probably has different needs, then the world would not probably work out for everyone. It may not matter for everyone but I am tired of these “truth groups” going out and spreading lies about everything just so they can destroy the government and have her very own way. I know that the government lies about some things and try to cover it up, but under the Obama administration, I think that’ll stop. Goodbye people trying to launder money and goodbye USA trying to get Oil so they can get a financial benefit.” I feel that the War on Iraq was mostly for Oil because mostly they want to control all of the Oil and get all of the profit. Anyways, that’s it for me…</p>
<p>Karras out!</p>
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