Religious freedom...to be assholes

It's now been 'legally' determined that companies can deny certain Healthcare benefits based on the 'religious' beliefs of those in charge thanks to Hobby Lobby. And it's bs.

I'm going to put aside the fact that I don't believe companies should be forced to provide health insurance to begin with in what is supposed to be a country full of freedom and liberty. This isn't a free country with liberties, and they do coerce companies to follow their unjust laws. Companies being forced to provide health insurance should be the issue, not the issue of what parts of it are enforced.

If companies are forced to provide the service, it shouldn't also allow companies to impose their religious beliefs on others. And this one step will further that ability as companies demand more 'religious freedom' to deny more people things, such as what I've recently read how they want to be exempt from having to hire LGBT because of religion. At what point are they exempt from providing the insurance because they don't believe in it? I've heard of a religious person not go to the hospital and instead pray about their wound or illness. And I'm sure that would have been in the news... 'Man dies praying for healing from flesh wound rather than seeking medical assistance'.

To save money, it wouldn't be long before almost every company started denying whatever they could for 'religious beliefs' if it cut costs. What's worse is that these companies make so much money that it doesn't even make sense. It's not as if they can't afford it. These people are simply assholes. Self-centered, sociopathic assholes. 

Why don't we recycle EVERYTHING??

Trash is an issue. It fills up landfills with waste that isn't biodegradable, and sometimes even toxic. This doesn't make any sense to me. We acknowledge that it's an issue and something we need to do something about, and yet the easiest solutions are not being implemented. How hard would it really be to ensure that everything produced and consumed is either recyclable or biodegradable? 

(U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Municipal Solid Waste Generation, Recycling and Disposal in the United States: Facts and Figures 2007. Table 3: Materials Discarded in the Municipal Waste Stream 1960 to 2007.)

There are few things I would care for government to do, but if we have such an entity that could do so, why could they not simply regulate it so that everything is to be recyclable or biodegradable so that we would no longer be simply filling landfills with items that will essentially last forever within that landfill? Even better if everything could simply be recyclable, though I realize that isn't probably realistic. The government is all about regulating everything anyway...

I've found that recycling things is likely not happening as much as it should because it isn't convenient or easy. In attempting to find out how to recycle things such as metal hangers and old electronics, I've found that there are websites (such as http://search.earth911.com/) that will help you find locations that will take those items. Which is helpful, but then you have to have time to take it to those places yourself, and hopefully they are nearby and open during the hours you're not working.

In the end it's all about money. The environment takes a backseat to the all mighty dollar. It's not cost effective to make everything recyclable. It's probably not cost effective to recycle everything either. I sure do hope they make it cost effective to build and fly rockets off the planet before we can no longer live here at least. Just saying.

Soccer explodes in the US???

I'm seriously confused as to why soccer is so popular suddenly. In the states, soccer has never been the popular sport. But this year it's suddenly the biggest thing which just isn't a typical thing for the US. I can't recall seeing so much about it on news, tv, the internet, or even facebook before this year. What is going on? Did I miss something?

I can't say I'm much into sports to begin with, so I'm entirely up on anything sports. One thing I wonder is, are people just so bored that they decided to get excited over soccer? Or perhaps, being the conspiracy minded person I am, the government is using tv media to hype up the sport to get the American people distracted by it while they do devious things behind closed doors? I wouldn't put it past our supreme overlords to do such a thing.

Soccer has always been a thing for kids and soccer moms, not sports fans. I'm not a sports fan at all, so this is the time when I shouldn't have to deal with all the sports fanaticism. Stop it already.

The Rise of Tyranny

If you pay attention and watch what's happening in America, you get to see just how tyranny occurs. It's not something that happens overnight, and it doesn't just come out and say it's tyranny, but it shows up as good intentions.

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This was the reason we started as a republic. The constitution and bill of rights was created to limit the power, and by allowing or sitting idly by while the government ignores or is allowed to modify these documents, they are allowed to grow in power and corruption.

I suppose the biggest event, and most recent would be the attempt to ban guns. Yes, it wasn't an actual attempt to outright ban guns, but to create new laws and ban certain guns. They do this under the guise of 'preventing gun violence'. The first problem is that, while no guns = no gun violence, it does not also mean no violence. When you realize that violence is not caused by owning a gun, you realize it doesn't prevent violence, only converts it from gun violence to physical violence.

I will also admit that, a lack of guns in the hands of criminals would reduce the potential for gun related death. That should be obvious. No guns to kill people = no gun deaths. Duh. But more importantly, guns can make it easier for those incapable of doing greater harm physically to do it with a gun. Even then, if nobody is willing or capable to stop someone wielding a knife, as has been demonstrate, a knife wielding psychopath can still inflict a lot of damage on people.

Last statement on guns, if they take them away from the citizens, the only people left with guns are the criminals (which include government of course).

I don't believe this is a direct result of government, but a natural order of tyranny, how our police forces have taken it upon themselves to police everything they possibly can, going as far as preventing kids from playing in the street (which could be understandable on very busy streets, but that would be very bad parenting). And yes, a mother was arrested for her kids playing in a cul-de-sac. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/20/tammy-cooper-texas-mom-arrested-kids-unsupervised-video_n_1900113.html

Social welfare. This is perhaps the core of what I think is the fall of America. This is what creates sheeple who vote for and allow the government to do whatever it wants. Those who can vote to be given things, WILL vote to be given things. It's not about who has the best interests for America. It's not about who will help create jobs or improve America. It's about who is going to give me things. That is how tyranny makes it into power. They promise to take away from those who have, to give to those who don't. If you're a parent or have a brain, you know that when you will just give a child what they want without needing to work for it, they won't work for it.

What's happening with welfare and during bad economic times, is a lot of people end up on one of the many government social welfare programs. Those who once were willing to work for what they have soon learn and become comfortable simply staying on the government teat. What's more unfortunate about this is, companies do not want to hire people who have been living on unemployment or have not been employed after a certain amount of time. While there are some reasons I can understand that, it also forces those people to stay on social welfare programs, not because they want to, but because they have no other choice.

What I don't think most people really consider or even think about when it comes to these social welfare programs or anything the government does is this: It does not use it's own money because it has none of it's own. All of the money government spends is first taken from YOU! Assuming you're working and paying taxes that is. Every last penny the government spends came from you. So when the government sends that welfare check to the bum that simply doesn't want to work, they are sending them you're money. When the government somehow spends $1000 on a toilet seat...that's you're money buying a toilet seat.

There is a total lack of personal responsibility. Nobody is allowed to be responsible for themselves. Slowly, this allows the government to take over responsibility, and power, over everyone. Hitler didn't rise to power saying he is going to be the best dictator and take over the world. He rose to power on good intentions and "helping" people.

When you can start comparing what America is doing to what other fascist, dictatorships, and tyrannical governments have done just maybe that's a sign of where we are headed. To deny that is to be a sheeple that simple follows and believes everything their government overlords tell them. The idea that just because one country or people did something and it turned out bad doesn't mean America doing it will turn out bad...is a very bad idea. Trial and error for tyranny to create utopia is just a bad idea.

There are two kinds of people in America...

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They'll warn that tyranny always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices. Because what they suggest is that our brave, and creative, and unique experiment in self-rule is somehow just a sham with which we can't be trusted.

We have never been a people who place all our faith in government to solve our problems. We shouldn't want to. But we don't think the government is the source of all our problems, either. Because we understand that this democracy is ours. And as citizens, we understand that it's not about what America can do for us, it's about what can be done by us, together, through the hard and frustrating but absolutely necessary work of self-government. And class of 2013, you have to be involved in that process.

Those who realize how bad and tyrannical that speech is, and those who believe every word. If you're the latter, I've got bad news for you.



Some fun reading... http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/pages/obama/obama-and-hitler-similarities.htm