Random acts of typing
Friday, July 12, 2002
Okay....so instead of being a shovy parent, he's just a selfish jerk, using his kid [who does not live with him] as a tool to enforce his beliefs on everyone else.
Michael Newdow, get a clue.
"'The main thrust of this case is not my daughter, it's me," he said.' "Courts can only hear cases in which there is an injured party, and if there is no injury there is no grounds for a case, ". Well, duh. This 'case' shouldn't have even gotten close to a courthouse. For every lawyer out here, and every 'Hey, it's not my fault, how was I to know coffee was hot/cigarettes are harmful/snakes can bite' fool out there, we need at least one judge to say 'You know what? You're an idiot, and get the hell out of my courtroom.'
Note: I also am an atheist; however, I grew up saying the pledge in this form, and never once did I think it was an effort on the part of the state to turn me into a religious nut. Especially when the Constitution doesn't actually 'separate' church and state; all it does [which certainly, is a lot] is says The state cannot prevent you from worshiping whatever religion you want, nor can it say 'This is our [the nation's] religion.' Nowhere is it stated the government, the 'state', can't use the word God. In God we trust, so help me God, it's everywhere--coins, bills, inaugurations, heck, you swear on a Bible on the witness stand.
But also it doesn't tell me that I have to say the pledge, or have to say the 'under God' part. As an American and a patriot, I do say the pledge at appropriate times, and I do sing the anthem at ball games. Also as an American, I revel in my right not to say it, and in Newdow's right not to say it, and for him to discuss it with his kid [who, although the alleged plaintiff in this case, apparently has absolutely nothing to do with it. Wonder if he actually spends any time with her at all, or if he's just a meddling nuisance lawyer.] If he had enough faith [pun intended] in his own ideas and beliefs, and if he discussed them with her, he shouldn't be quite as worried that his daughter is ""injured" by being forced to listen to others recite the pledge".
Another little minded person, with so little confidence in his own beliefs, he requires the Big Bad Government to attempt to force them on other people. Ironically and hypocritically] enough, helping to eradicate that freedom he allegedly supports as a 'patriot'.
Thursday, July 11, 2002
heh...can't trust anyone these days...
Wednesday, July 10, 2002
Ok..it's been a while...had a really good rant at Tom Cruise when he was quoted as saying he was going to yoink his kids over to Oz with Nicole, but Blogger went boom when I tried to post it...
Is anyone else out there totally sick of this "reality" show crap? Been sick of it ever since about season 2 of the unReal World on eMpTyV...[Kids! Guess what! Way back when, back in olden days, say, ten years ago, MTV used to play *gasp* music! And not just Eminem, Moby, Britney, or hip-hop! Then again, that's when there was more than Eminem, Moby, Britney, and hip-hop to be had...Sigh....you know it's bad when I long for the days of Riki Rachtman....and Martha Quinn , now, there's a v-j! And a talented actress to boot; check out the classic Chopper Chicks in Zombietown.
Anyway, reality shows--what the networks fall back on when their creativity [that is, their permutations on the cute guy/two cute girls living with gen-x angst] runs out. Stick a camera in a house, watch people argue. Hello--we already see that, it's called meetings at work. I get enough reality at work, on the net, and on TV news and radio--let me escape for a while, ok? No wonder I don't watch much TV. Thank Buu for the girls.
Anyway--reality shows: Here's one I'd like to see. Come on, make it real, show me some *real* danger, not this prepacked, helmeted, plotted and planned crap.
Does anyone else think that the total mass prevalence of these shows is getting us well on the way to accepting a camera in every household? Hello, Truman Show [and many more darker, probably more prophetic science fiction stories.] This is what 'they' want--who 'they' is, is left as an exercise for the reader.
And it's not like this is truly 'reality' or random; these people take tests and interviews for months before being rewarded and punishing us. They give the ten 'beautiful people' and one token older person--as far as I can tell, there hasn't even really been any 'people of substance' on these shows. With a national obesity rate of what, 40%, the closest they can come to 'reality' is 9 Baywatch dropouts and one 'father' or 'mother' figure? You want reality, grab the next ten people you see off the street and see what happens then.
Dreck.
