What about this am I missing? The presidential election is a year away. The Republican candidates comprise a conservative version of John Kerry, a George Bush III, and my friends' longtime supportless champion, Ron Paul. If ever there was a longshot horse to bet on, well, it sits in front of you. So take issue with this if you want, but I'm assuming (there I go again) that Obama's got this one, most likely. And like an old high school teacher of mine, a great thinker (or at the very least, a thinker), said, "We will continue to elect cowardly fools who ignore the Constitution and spend money we don't have. " And I agree with his expecting outcome if that actual does happen, that our country's heading into the toilet. More seriously into the toilet than it has in the past. Somewhere between Romulus Augustulus' Rome, the Weimar Republic, and present day Greece, only with fat people.
So here's where I go with this, ITS TIME TO GET OUT. Ok, maybe not right now this moment, but seriously soon. If you want to play captain and go down with the ship, fine. But if I were you, I'd make like a rat and abandon ship. Find a country that pays its bills with its own money, and appreciates your skill set (assuming, again, that you have one).
Lastly, for clarification purposes, I need to point out the timeline that I would expect. My rough estimate, considering I'm an engineer that knows very little about economy and whatnot, is ten to fifty years. If you're surprised by the vagueness...I don't care.
Friday, September 30, 2011
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Brace Yourselves and Take Cover
I don't normally like attacking other people's works or educated views, mostly because they're much smarter than me. But that's what this blog is about, getting my arrogance subdued and corrected. So today I'm putting a friend of mine up in the spotlight, quasi-anonymous cause I don't say his name. He wrote a article (blog article) about the reaching cheering at the Republican candidates debate. I'm way too lazy to put the links here, but I can give you a link to the article he wrote, which has the links. *bing* >>> http://blogalution.com/thoughts-on-the-debate <<<
So to cut straight to my criticism, my thoughts exactly are: "Yes, yes, we all feel the same way you do. We all wish we could look those people who cheered right in the eye and tell them that they are disgusting. There is no need to convince us of that." Right there. We do not need to be convinced. My friend has written a win-win article, raging against something that everyone in the entire nation, Rick Perry not excluding, has deemed improper and barbaric. Even people who whole-heartedly support the death penalty were disgusted. Even Ron Paul, as the crowd cheered, tried to express how he himself would have helped the uninsured man, and tried to say that his point was merely that the government shouldn't hold that responsibility. I digress. My beef with my friend is simply.
Why do you rant against no one? What good does that do? What have you accomplished?
The end point of his article was that we, especially as Christians, should speak out against this behavior. I say, no need! Everyone who wasn't clapping in that audience is now currently speaking out against this! There was more conflict of opinions in the comments below about the semantics of trying to agree with the article than there was in the article. In the end, it felt like someone was trying to convince you the sky was blue, the pope was Catholic, or that bacon smells good.
Now I will try not to be too unfair. My friend did say at the top of the article that he was just trying to think through what he had seen, and I guess he meant that the article wasn't supposed have an actually point to which someone might be able to disagree.
But, in the end, my thought is that you should write to get something done. To make a difference. To educate the arrogant and the humble. I think you shouldn't rant against nobody.
- Achilles
So to cut straight to my criticism, my thoughts exactly are: "Yes, yes, we all feel the same way you do. We all wish we could look those people who cheered right in the eye and tell them that they are disgusting. There is no need to convince us of that." Right there. We do not need to be convinced. My friend has written a win-win article, raging against something that everyone in the entire nation, Rick Perry not excluding, has deemed improper and barbaric. Even people who whole-heartedly support the death penalty were disgusted. Even Ron Paul, as the crowd cheered, tried to express how he himself would have helped the uninsured man, and tried to say that his point was merely that the government shouldn't hold that responsibility. I digress. My beef with my friend is simply.
Why do you rant against no one? What good does that do? What have you accomplished?
The end point of his article was that we, especially as Christians, should speak out against this behavior. I say, no need! Everyone who wasn't clapping in that audience is now currently speaking out against this! There was more conflict of opinions in the comments below about the semantics of trying to agree with the article than there was in the article. In the end, it felt like someone was trying to convince you the sky was blue, the pope was Catholic, or that bacon smells good.
Now I will try not to be too unfair. My friend did say at the top of the article that he was just trying to think through what he had seen, and I guess he meant that the article wasn't supposed have an actually point to which someone might be able to disagree.
But, in the end, my thought is that you should write to get something done. To make a difference. To educate the arrogant and the humble. I think you shouldn't rant against nobody.
- Achilles
ready set, shut up.
so...new blog! It even has that new blog smell. I'm starting this one because I have some crazy views/opinions/topics that I want to throw out there and see if people can set me straight or at least get some good thinking done. We're going for brain use here. For clarity of mind, for bias and counterbias. No opinion will be left unheard (unless it's really really stupid). With the election coming up, I'm sure we won't run out of stuff to think about, not that there ever is any lack of that.
- Mikey
- Mikey
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