Islam may be what's wrong with the Middle East

Sometimes I beg the world to prove me wrong, but this time it refused.  I said before that without American support, without our troops and our money, without our interest, the Middle East would fall apart.  We are not even fully out and that prediction has come true.

And it was inevitable.  Let's be honest, Islam has been taken over by jihadists and war mongerers.  Whatever it started out as, it is now the religion of war.  They don't need the West to be their enemy.  They crave war so much that they are perfectly content to kill each other.  ISIS is the perfect example of this.

They are also the perfect example of why forcing a theocracy on people is a BAD idea, but that's only part of what's wrong with Islam.  Muslims don't need Christians or Jews to destroy them.  Muslims destroy THEMSELVES.  Sectarian violence is the biggest killer in the Middle East.  Jihadists kill more Muslims than Jews or Christians and Islamists are too blinded by hate to acknowledge it.  They refuse to blame themselves for their crappy situation instead using the west as a scapegoat.

Islam is the religion of war.  Until that changes, they will get what they give.

The Black Stereotype

How am I supposed to take someone seriously who lacks the ability to use proper grammar or even to wear their pants correctly?  How am I supposed to take someone seriously who devalues human life by advocating drug use, promiscuity and violence in almost every aspect of their created culture?  How I am supposed to take seriously anyone who is so inconsiderate that they blast rap music filled with hate and swear words as loud as possible and do it at three in the morning when they know there are families trying to sleep?  How can I take someone seriously who continuously says the white man owes them as they also continuously drop out of school and choose welfare over work?  And why should I care about these people who have the stupidity and audacity to claim that all of the above is part of being black?

Black youth neither knows what their heritage is nor do they seem to care.  The hip hop, gangbanging, thug mentality of black youth is an affront to their heritage.  It's a bitch slap to every one of their ancestors who fought to win them the rights they now take for granted.  Everyone who sags, every pregnant teen, everyone who wants a grill in their mouth is bitch slapping their ancestors. They are insulting the freedom that their predecessors sacrificed so much to gain.  And they are clueless.

Blacks have a proud heritage.  They have a heritage of perseverance through adversity and of overcoming.  They fought for their freedom and to change hearts and minds and they were winning, but now their gains appear all to be for nought.  Their children don't appreciate it.

The thug, the baller, the rapper, this is not black culture.  They are stereotypes forced on black people by the media of which the black people fell for.  It is a cruel joke and one that has played itself out with disastrous consequences.  The white man has no need to destroy the black because, based on the black man's actions, he is destroying himself.  This must stop.

Black youth must know their true heritage.  They must respect it and they must become the proud and noble people they were meant to be.  It's time for the thug, the black stereotype, to die out.

Men Don't Need Sex

It drives me almost to the point of Lorena Bobbit crazy when I hear a man excuse sexual misconduct by saying "men have needs."  That's the equivalent of saying the penis controls the male brain, that males are incapable of intelligent thought because their penis prevents it.  And they have the audacity to treat women as inferior to them?  My vagina doesn't override my better judgement.

Humans need a lot of things. We need air to breathe, food to eat, water to drink, cloths to keep us warm and shelter. We even need to be loved.  We don't need to have sex with everything and everyone in sight.

The truth is that intelligent human beings do not need sex as frequently as our male/penis dominated society leads us to believe. Sex, by it's nature, is a biological necessity for procreation, but our enjoyment of casual sex can, thanks to our intellect, be something we can control.  In other words, if you're promiscuous, it isn't that you're fulfilling a biological need.  It's that you're a slut with no self control and should be ashamed of yourself.

I want to have more faith in humanity than humanity seems willing to give itself.  An act as intimate as sex should have a deeper meaning to the participants other than they were just in the mood.  Sex should be an act performed in love by two people who are committed to each other and in a committed relationship even if that commitment doesn't have a state issued marriage license.  It should not be performed with anyone who happens to be around at the time you want it and it should NEVER be taken by force.

The idea that promiscuity is human nature is laughable and disgusting.  We're smarter than that.  We have the ability to retrain ourselves from doing a lot of things.  Raping someone or cheating on your partner are two of those things. We don't have to do them.  You don't have the need to do them.

We need to understand the difference between a need and a want and stop letting our desires control our lives.  Promiscuity and it's acceptance is why we have an epidemic of STDs.  It's the main reason why we have abortions.  Promiscuity is telling the world that you have ne respect for yourself or your body, that you must be trash because you treat your body like trash.  If you don't want to be trash, have enough respect for yourself to not be a slut.

I'm not saying don't have sex or no sex until marriage or that promise rings are a good idea.  I'm not saying all men are dogs and promiscuity is a crime committed by both sexes.  I am saying that if you're going to have sex, you should have sex RESPONSIBLY.  Sleeping around because of some misguided belief that you can't go a week without sex is not responsible behavior.

Be a better person than that.

Christianity & Islam: Pretty Much The Same

After a close comparison of Christianity and Islam, weighing the differences against the similarities, I have come to the conclusion that Christianity and Islam are basically the same religion.

They both have similar themes, similar ideology such as women's roles in society and there is no God save the one promoted by their particular religion.  They both steadfastly maintain that they and they alone are God's chosen people.  They both rely heavily on really old holy books that often share the same stories.  They both exalt a prophet as a representative of God.

The just call these things different names.  God vs Allah, but Allah is simply the Arabic word for God.  Muhammad vs Jesus, but both were men in flesh who lived in the same historical era.  Though Christianity, perhaps as a one up on Islam, believes Jesus was the physical son of God where as Islam believes Mohammad was a prophet/spokesperson for God, but acknowledges he was human.

In truth, the only REAL difference between the two religions is that Christianity has evolved and changed as humanity has evolved and changed while Islam as remained stagnant.  Christianity has grown as our understanding of the world has grown while Islam refuses to grow period.

If we look closely at early Christianity, we see a world that is EXACTLY like the one we now so readily criticize in modern Islam.  Every time a Christian condemns something done in Islam today whether it's jihad or the idea that women are property without rights, they are actually condemning something they themselves used to do.  The crusades were a Christian jihad.  Women in the Christian world were only allowed to own property or vote as little as a century ago.

So knowing that the two came from the same place, why hate eachother so much?  Are Christians really so disgusted by their own pasts they can't bare to recognize it?  Are they so loathe to acknowledge their own shortcomings?  Are Muslims jealous that Christianity's malleable nature has given it more commercial and financial success? Christian nations are more successful, more likely to be first world nations as compared to Islamic ones.  Christian nations tend to be more stable while Islamic ones exist in a state of perpetual war (often with itself).  Maybe Islamists feel left out of the good life?

The point is, we are of the same stuff.  We are not strangers. We are cousins of the same family.  And we shouldn't kill our own families.  So I would like to take this opportunity to ask members of each side to reach out to your cousins and TALK.  Get to know them.  Understand them.  Make friends.

I don't think God/Allah will hold being nice to someone against you.

The Man, The Boy and The Donkey

Let me tell you a story I heard as a child.

An old man, his young grandson and their donkey set off on a long journey.  The old man was riding the donkey while the boy walked beside them. As they passed through a town, the townspeople took notice of them and many were offended.  They demanded to know why a grown man would force such a small child to walk while he rode.  The man and the boy thought about it, realized they were right and so switched places.

Soon they reached another town and again people took notice and were angry.  They demanded to know why a healthy young boy would ride a donkey and force an old man to walk.  The man and his grandson thought about what they said, realized they were right and decided to both walk.

Again they came to another town and again the people took notice and now scoffed at them.  They demanded to know why the man and the boy were walking when they had a perfectly good donkey to ride.  The man and the boy realized they were right and decided to both ride the donkey.

Again they reached another town and again the townspeople were unhappy with them.  They demanded to know how the man and the boy could be so cruel as to overburden such a poor donkey.  The man and the boy felt horrible for what they had done and decided to make up for it by carrying the donkey.

While crossing a bridge, the two lost their grip on the donkey.  The donkey fell into the river and drowned.

Moral of the story:  If you try to please everyone, you'll eventually lose your ass.

Big Oil Continues To Screw Us

Major traffic jam on North Texas freeway....  Wouldn't have happened if they had a light rail system.  But no.  Big Oil has bought all of our politicians and Big Oil wants us to guzzle as much gas as we can.  This corporate greed is why public transit in the US sucks outside of New York.  It's why car manufacturers aren't allowed to improve gas mileage beyond a measly 20 mpg at best.  It's why the electric car is so expensive-  so people can't afford to buy them and have no choice but to use Big Oil's gas. 

And stupid people not only accept this, they encourage it.  Every time they buy an SUV they encourage Big Oil to keep financially raping the world.  Every time someone thumbs their nose at public transit or doesn't want to invest in clean energy, they are giving a big fuck you to their fellow humans.  And things like this aptly named Trafficopolypse will just keep happening. Wake up and smell the fumes.

For an example of what I mean, please see the link below.

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/03/18/driver-mayhem-on-interstate-635lbj-in-dallas/

Putin's the "Dick" in Dictator

Make no mistake, Vladimir Putin was neither legally elected nor has he ever truly spoken for the Russian people. We just don't get to hear any of his detractors speak because they're all in prison. Putin is a dictator and we can't pretend otherwise just because he isn't Middle Eastern or South American like all the other dictators we know.  This guy not only trumps them all, he is far more dangerous.

Putin has almost single handedly destroyed all the advancements Russia made after the Soviet Union went bankrupt and collapsed in the 90s.  Russians finally had freedom to speak their mind, to go to church, to no longer have to stand in bread lines.  The people finally had a little money to make a decent living on.  They didn't have to worry about the secret police executing them if they weren't perfect little obedient communists.  And they LIKED it.  So why would they agree to go back to the hell hole that was communism?

THEY DIDN'T.  The Russian people don't want to go back to communism, but their government - many of whom were left overs of the communist regime (like Putin) - want to return to the level of power THEY, this small handful of people, had under communist rule.  So they rig elections to put communist sympathizers in power.  They pass laws to take away the people's new found freedom.  Suddenly it's a crime to be gay. Suddenly it's a crime to hold a protest against the government. Russian leaders put on a good show for the rest of the world.  They hid their evil designs in the beginning, but now they have reached a level of control similar to what they once had in the old Soviet Union and no longer feel it's neccessary to hide their agenda.

Russia's descent back into communism was the greatest con job of all time.  We just weren't paying attention. Did we learn anything from Sochi and the way they proudly sugar coated their Soviet past?

Now communist Russia has invaded Ukraine, their former territory who broke away from Russian communism to form their own sovereign nation.  It's obvious that Putin holds a grudge against anyone who dares to want out of his regime.  The Ukrainian people are fighting against the dictator Putin hand picked to rule his former property.  They want justice, freedom.  They know they can't get that from Russia so they turned to the west.  Another affront to Putin.  Make no mistake, Putin did NOT invade Ukraine to defend native Russians and help stop a civil war.  HE HAS NO INTENTION OF LEAVING.  He just took back the land he lost to those pesky freedom lovers who took it away from him before.  It was revenge.

And it's a dangerous kind of revenge that the rest of the world can't ignore.  Putin is actively seeking to expand his empire and he won't stop at Ukraine if he isn't checked. There are a lot of former Soviet states. A man trying to rebuild the Soviet empire is going to want them all.  This is how world wars start.

I've used the analogy of the Nazi invasion of Poland to show the similarities between that dark page of history and the one Putin is currently writing.  It's scarily accurate so far.  No one told Hitler, "Hey, dude. You can't just invade Poland because you don't like Jews."  If they had, he couldn't have so easily taken over all the other countries he did.  The world kept saying it wasn't their problem until it was almost too late.  If we had spoken up earlier, World War ll could have been a lot shorter and cost a lot less.

We have that opportunity now. We have to stand up and tell Putin he can't keep Ukraine.  Ukraine is Putin's Poland. Don't wait until he's already built the death camps to say genocide is wrong. Stop it before it gets that far.

Because you'll regret it if you don't.  Russia is a nuclear power, my friend, and the Cold War never ended for people like Putin.

We're tired of war and yes, we have our own problems.  It's tempting to say we aren't the world police and let someone else handle it. The problem with being a world power is, you don't really get that option. You have treaties to uphold, trade partners to appease.  The world is a small one and what affects one country can have an impact on us all.  The US can't turn it's back on Ukraine just because they don't give us oil.  Oppression is supposed to be our enemy, remember?  When Ukraine erupts into a civil war (and it will), they will ask for help in fighting the invaders. If we say no, not only are we allowing Putin to commit a crime, but we're losing our credibility as the defenders of freedom we made ourselves become from the moment our nation was born.  We should have helped the Syrian people sooner.  Now it's too late.  Don't let Ukraine be the next Syria.

If there is no other option but to fight, then let it be for freedom. Not just for our own but for anyone who wants it.