- Get in an SUV or old truck.
- Add bumper stickers like: PETA: People for Eating Tasty Animals.
- Go to Oregon.
- Find an environmentalist rally.
- Put dry ice in exhaust pipe.
- Proceed to drive through rally.
- Use broom to bat off angered environmentalists.
- Repeat at as many rallies until content and/or after environmentalists dismantle your vehicle.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Plan for Earth Day
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Socialists
Digression of society is rampant. Society is decaying, especially with the help of the media. Here is a quote from a CNN article that took up the greater part of the website's headlines.
"Not all socialists, though, want to confiscate personal property. Democratic Socialists are more interested in protecting ordinary people from unregulated capitalism through regulation and progressive taxation."
It would be fine if they were simply representing the views of socialists (freedom of speech- even if their ideas don't deserve it), but the language does not indicate that. It states it like it's a fact. It should be phrased more like this:
Democratic Socialists believe that the government should protect ordinary people from what they call unrestrained capitalism through progressive taxation and regulation.
They do it with religion (which is far more accurate) but not a political view. Quite hypocritical.
"protecting ordinary people from unregulated capitalism." Capitalism is unregulated by nature. It's called free market for a reason.
Since when was taking money and prohibiting non-dangerous acts protection? Let alone from a mythical threat like unregulated capitalism (meaning it is not a threat), how does this protect in any way?
And so, society crumbles.
Link:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/14/Obama.socialist/index.html?hpt=C1
"Not all socialists, though, want to confiscate personal property. Democratic Socialists are more interested in protecting ordinary people from unregulated capitalism through regulation and progressive taxation."
It would be fine if they were simply representing the views of socialists (freedom of speech- even if their ideas don't deserve it), but the language does not indicate that. It states it like it's a fact. It should be phrased more like this:
Democratic Socialists believe that the government should protect ordinary people from what they call unrestrained capitalism through progressive taxation and regulation.
They do it with religion (which is far more accurate) but not a political view. Quite hypocritical.
"protecting ordinary people from unregulated capitalism." Capitalism is unregulated by nature. It's called free market for a reason.
Since when was taking money and prohibiting non-dangerous acts protection? Let alone from a mythical threat like unregulated capitalism (meaning it is not a threat), how does this protect in any way?
And so, society crumbles.
Link:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/14/Obama.socialist/index.html?hpt=C1
Sunday, April 04, 2010
Recap Again
A bit has happened I haven't mentioned.
A few days ago, my family went to my dad's 30 or so mission reunion. His mission was to Veracruz, Mexico, and he served in places like Oaxaca (pronounced Wahaka) and Salina Cruz. Given most of the missionaries on his mission were from Mexico and there were few Americans, it wasn't the biggest reunion.
General Conference is today as well as yesterday. There was also the General Priesthood Meeting last night. Always interesting.
Remember when I mentioned I was first alternate for state debate forever ago? Not a single LDer dropped. Every Policy alternate was used, but none from LD. Oh well.
Matrix Science Fair came and passed. My group took second (honestly, the first place was NOT worth it, though). One of the judges was a novice debater, and he heavily petitioned for our victory, but he said we lost because solar storms aren't that big an issue. Excuse me when our ozone is incinerated and your cellphone breaks in 2012 (the next high in the solar cycle, convenient isn't it?).
I made a video synopsis of Great Expectations. (I won't post given it has credits with people's names plus live acting, and I am not selling their anymosity). Because of technical reasons, it is the project I spent the most on, spending 2 days filming, I stayed up till four in the morning animating, editing, etc., spent $40 on a program that didn't work which I didn't find out 6 hours later, downloaded a codec to convert some files so that I could use it in my favorite movie editor, Windows Movie Maker, and spent another 3 or so hours editing it. I also lost insane amounts of grief as everything before the codec bit occured before it was due, and everything else after. We ran out of time to present, so we were saved at the last minute, so I had endured a day of suffering for naught.
I can't honestly think of anything else major, though I will come out with a video soon for the Seminary Film Festival that the Seminary Teachers are holding.
A few days ago, my family went to my dad's 30 or so mission reunion. His mission was to Veracruz, Mexico, and he served in places like Oaxaca (pronounced Wahaka) and Salina Cruz. Given most of the missionaries on his mission were from Mexico and there were few Americans, it wasn't the biggest reunion.
General Conference is today as well as yesterday. There was also the General Priesthood Meeting last night. Always interesting.
Remember when I mentioned I was first alternate for state debate forever ago? Not a single LDer dropped. Every Policy alternate was used, but none from LD. Oh well.
Matrix Science Fair came and passed. My group took second (honestly, the first place was NOT worth it, though). One of the judges was a novice debater, and he heavily petitioned for our victory, but he said we lost because solar storms aren't that big an issue. Excuse me when our ozone is incinerated and your cellphone breaks in 2012 (the next high in the solar cycle, convenient isn't it?).
I made a video synopsis of Great Expectations. (I won't post given it has credits with people's names plus live acting, and I am not selling their anymosity). Because of technical reasons, it is the project I spent the most on, spending 2 days filming, I stayed up till four in the morning animating, editing, etc., spent $40 on a program that didn't work which I didn't find out 6 hours later, downloaded a codec to convert some files so that I could use it in my favorite movie editor, Windows Movie Maker, and spent another 3 or so hours editing it. I also lost insane amounts of grief as everything before the codec bit occured before it was due, and everything else after. We ran out of time to present, so we were saved at the last minute, so I had endured a day of suffering for naught.
I can't honestly think of anything else major, though I will come out with a video soon for the Seminary Film Festival that the Seminary Teachers are holding.
Happy Easter!
Todays Easter, Hooray!
Don't get too caught up in the Pagan traditions. Eating the bunny is still fun, but don't forget to reflect on the real purpose, origin, etc. etc. of Easter.
Don't get too caught up in the Pagan traditions. Eating the bunny is still fun, but don't forget to reflect on the real purpose, origin, etc. etc. of Easter.
Quote 1
"For everything simple, there's a perfectly complicated and time consuming way to do it."
Given my My Quotes app has 6 quotes and is getting really long, I am posting this to shorten this. From this time forward, I will have exactly five quotes on the app and remove the oldest one and put it in a post. Click on quote in the Categories section to see a full list of posts.
An example is math. For one, anyone who has done proofs knows that the person next to you will finish the problem in 5 steps while you take 12. Then there is trigonometry, where you use complex formulas to find the measure of sides or angles. What happened to rulers and protractors?
Then there are things like bills. For example, the health care bill is 3,000 pages long when I am quite sure the actual layout of the reform would not take even 1,000 pages. That is very over complex and complicated.
Getting from Point A to Point B includes what your dad always likes to call the "scenic route," which basically means they're either lost or taking the least effective way possible that takes a lot longer than it needs to be (though sometimes the scenic-ness is worth it, and sometimes there is NO scenic-ness).
So, everything can be a lot more annoying, complex, and time-consuming than it is, no matter how inconvenient it already is. Try to do things the simple way.
Given my My Quotes app has 6 quotes and is getting really long, I am posting this to shorten this. From this time forward, I will have exactly five quotes on the app and remove the oldest one and put it in a post. Click on quote in the Categories section to see a full list of posts.
An example is math. For one, anyone who has done proofs knows that the person next to you will finish the problem in 5 steps while you take 12. Then there is trigonometry, where you use complex formulas to find the measure of sides or angles. What happened to rulers and protractors?
Then there are things like bills. For example, the health care bill is 3,000 pages long when I am quite sure the actual layout of the reform would not take even 1,000 pages. That is very over complex and complicated.
Getting from Point A to Point B includes what your dad always likes to call the "scenic route," which basically means they're either lost or taking the least effective way possible that takes a lot longer than it needs to be (though sometimes the scenic-ness is worth it, and sometimes there is NO scenic-ness).
So, everything can be a lot more annoying, complex, and time-consuming than it is, no matter how inconvenient it already is. Try to do things the simple way.
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