I write to you right now due to boredom. Not incredible boredom, just boredom brought on via some minor annoyances and inconveniences.
I really have very little to talk about, except the fact that my first semester of Grade 10 is now out of the way and I have finished all my final exams for that particular semester.
I guess since I can think of nothing to directly write about, I will just let myself rant for as long as I feel to keep myself at least preoccupied and slightly entertained.
Well... hmm... where to start, and what to start on...
Well, I guess I'll tell you all whats on my mind, even though I'm not even completely sure what is.
Currently, I'm looking forward to the next time I can hang out with a group of my best friends, and due to some minor inconveniences and misunderstandings, I won't be hanging out with any today.
Last night I hung out with a bunch of friends, but I barely got to talk to my guy friends because my girlfriend was hogging me and we where just talking amongst ourselves, and pitching in every now and then with what my other two guy friends were doing.
I'm not sure if this slightly upset my two friends or not, or if they just didn't care at all.
Now, I believe, my girlfriend may be angry at me because I told her that today I just wished to spend some time with my two best friends that I didn't really pay much attention to yesterday, and it seemed like she understood, but she thought that another friend of ours, a girl, was going to be hanging out with us to, when in reality there had been no actual plan that was going to be for sure.
The other two friends of mine were going to go to a fitness place I would like to join, but don't have enough money that I can use to do so.
It makes me feel kind of left out, but I'm not angry, just bored and slightly upset.
They're going again tomorrow, so I'm assuming I won't get to hang out with them tomorrow. I'll probably end up hanging out with some other friends tomorrow, which I would like, but my other two best friends will probably be busy.
Well, that's what the norm of their actions have told me.
One of those friends, I've actually realized, is my best friend. I realized it before, and never would have denied it if asked, but never actually gave him that label in my head because I have so many best friends I don't usually like to label them by how good of friends I consider them to be.
Hopefully I'll have at least some fun this long weekend.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Racial tensions, who squeezed the trigger? PRESIDENT Barrack Obama!
Today- or, by now, yesterday- U.S. President-elect Barrack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America.
Soon after, I began researching threats that had been made on his life for various reasons, and the threats that he would most prominently have to deal with during his career and President, and one that I happened to stumble across gave me no surprise at all.
A very prominent member of the KKK (Klu Klutz Klan) made an indirect threat to Obama's life, stating that he wouldn't be the one to pull the trigger, but that someone would almost as soon as he was inaugurated.
He also went on to explain how he was a racist, and how he took alot of pride in his racism and race in general.
Honestly... these people must have no respect or common sense if they think like this.
For one, it would be more then extremley unfair to forcefully take Obama out of office despite the fact that the majority of Americans wanted someone like Obama to lead, African American or not.
For two, by doing so, they would throw the entire country into a violent political unrest where racists, non-racists, blacks, whites, and others would all be fighting in a sort of cold war against eachother. That's at the least.
At the most, the political unrest and anger towards skinheads, members of other hate groups and just racists in general would boil over and the entire country would go to hell.
Well, truthfully, most of the Americans would just be the bigger person and not use violence to solve the problem.
But what if these racists keep trying and keep failing to kill Obama, and so instead they set up full-fledged resistance movement throughout the United States, thus starting a second civil war?
Ok, truthfully, that's a bit farfetched, but obviously, as the one and only American Civil War did show us, it's definately possible for things like racial tensions to be blown completley out of proportion.
I, personally, wish all the best to Obama, and want him and others to know that, if given the chance, I would give my life to protect President Obama.
Soon after, I began researching threats that had been made on his life for various reasons, and the threats that he would most prominently have to deal with during his career and President, and one that I happened to stumble across gave me no surprise at all.
A very prominent member of the KKK (Klu Klutz Klan) made an indirect threat to Obama's life, stating that he wouldn't be the one to pull the trigger, but that someone would almost as soon as he was inaugurated.
He also went on to explain how he was a racist, and how he took alot of pride in his racism and race in general.
Honestly... these people must have no respect or common sense if they think like this.
For one, it would be more then extremley unfair to forcefully take Obama out of office despite the fact that the majority of Americans wanted someone like Obama to lead, African American or not.
For two, by doing so, they would throw the entire country into a violent political unrest where racists, non-racists, blacks, whites, and others would all be fighting in a sort of cold war against eachother. That's at the least.
At the most, the political unrest and anger towards skinheads, members of other hate groups and just racists in general would boil over and the entire country would go to hell.
Well, truthfully, most of the Americans would just be the bigger person and not use violence to solve the problem.
But what if these racists keep trying and keep failing to kill Obama, and so instead they set up full-fledged resistance movement throughout the United States, thus starting a second civil war?
Ok, truthfully, that's a bit farfetched, but obviously, as the one and only American Civil War did show us, it's definately possible for things like racial tensions to be blown completley out of proportion.
I, personally, wish all the best to Obama, and want him and others to know that, if given the chance, I would give my life to protect President Obama.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Inauguration Day
Finally, it's only a day away.
Both the United States of America and the entire world are on the brink of history, with President-elect Barrack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden talking office tomorrow morning.
Obama has done an incredible job in convincing the country that he's the right man to be America's Commander-in-Chief, and lets hope he truly is. Signs, so far, point to a very likely and trustworthy 'yes.'
With the biggest inauguration ceremony in American history to boot, along with the mutual cooperation of Republicans and Democrats alike due to Obama's efforts to erase racial, political, religous, and ethnic boundaries, there is no possible way tomorrow won't be one of the most historical moments in modern history, if not history in its entirety.
Honestly, I believe Obama will be the greatest president America has ever had, providing he's not assasinated by Californian skinheads or members of the Klu Klutz Klan.
He has an aura of honesty, trust, and understanding that absolutley no other American president has ever had before him, along with an interesting background including the fact that he is directly half-Kenyan, and that he was born and raised in Hawaii as opposed to the American mainland until they moved to Thailand for a chunk of his childhood.
Obama travelled alot as a child, and due to this he gained a natural sense and understanding of international affairs, which will certainly help him with his job as commander-in-chief, most notably with countries such as Russia and China which both show very slight political hostilities towards the United States, and historically always have (mainly, we're looking at you, Mister Former-Soviet-Union and president who is an ex-KGB agent.)
I hope that someday, I to may be able to dabble in politics myself. I have a feeling I woulden't be half bad at it.
Both the United States of America and the entire world are on the brink of history, with President-elect Barrack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden talking office tomorrow morning.
Obama has done an incredible job in convincing the country that he's the right man to be America's Commander-in-Chief, and lets hope he truly is. Signs, so far, point to a very likely and trustworthy 'yes.'
With the biggest inauguration ceremony in American history to boot, along with the mutual cooperation of Republicans and Democrats alike due to Obama's efforts to erase racial, political, religous, and ethnic boundaries, there is no possible way tomorrow won't be one of the most historical moments in modern history, if not history in its entirety.
Honestly, I believe Obama will be the greatest president America has ever had, providing he's not assasinated by Californian skinheads or members of the Klu Klutz Klan.
He has an aura of honesty, trust, and understanding that absolutley no other American president has ever had before him, along with an interesting background including the fact that he is directly half-Kenyan, and that he was born and raised in Hawaii as opposed to the American mainland until they moved to Thailand for a chunk of his childhood.
Obama travelled alot as a child, and due to this he gained a natural sense and understanding of international affairs, which will certainly help him with his job as commander-in-chief, most notably with countries such as Russia and China which both show very slight political hostilities towards the United States, and historically always have (mainly, we're looking at you, Mister Former-Soviet-Union and president who is an ex-KGB agent.)
I hope that someday, I to may be able to dabble in politics myself. I have a feeling I woulden't be half bad at it.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Religious Fundamentalism
Religious fundamentalism. One of the worlds worst epidemics.
Islamic extremism. It plagues the Middle East and parts of Africa, and occasionally even places as unrelated as the United Kingdom and the United States.
Christian fundamentalism. It plagues parts of Europe and North America, the majority being concentrated in the United States.
Jewish fundamentalism. It plagues the state of Israel, and parts of North America and Europe, strictly enforcing the will of the Torah, just as Bible thumpers attempt to enforce the will of Christianity.
There are only a couple of religions that extremism and fundamentalism are not rampant with those who carry the faith. These rare and widely unknown religions in Western culture exist majorly in Asia, most notably India.
Hinduism and Buddhism are the least outspoken religions in the entire world, and the only religions that have never resorted to violence to enforce their will.
There are plenty of other religions that try to force there beliefs on others, but very rarely use violence, such as Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormonism, and Scientology, but these have large downsides such as the fact that they're the most ridiculous religions in existence (well, possibly not Jehovah's Witnesses, due to the fact that I am in no position to make a judgement on them because I know very little of the Jehovah beliefs.
Mormonism, on the other hand, is based off the beliefs of a man who did all he could to hide what he had found by using ridiculously obvious excuses.
Scientology, is just plain ridiculous. It was created by a science fiction writer who claims aliens came from space in ships that look almost completely like Boeing 747's.
He then goes on to claim that the aliens souls where dropped into the volcanoes of Hawaii, where they rose from the lava to create humanity.
I mean, how absolutely far fetched and ridiculously stupid can you get?
Religion in general is a completely ridiculous human ideology, but a religion based off the beliefs of a renowned science fiction writer, that's one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard of.
Islamic extremism. It plagues the Middle East and parts of Africa, and occasionally even places as unrelated as the United Kingdom and the United States.
Christian fundamentalism. It plagues parts of Europe and North America, the majority being concentrated in the United States.
Jewish fundamentalism. It plagues the state of Israel, and parts of North America and Europe, strictly enforcing the will of the Torah, just as Bible thumpers attempt to enforce the will of Christianity.
There are only a couple of religions that extremism and fundamentalism are not rampant with those who carry the faith. These rare and widely unknown religions in Western culture exist majorly in Asia, most notably India.
Hinduism and Buddhism are the least outspoken religions in the entire world, and the only religions that have never resorted to violence to enforce their will.
There are plenty of other religions that try to force there beliefs on others, but very rarely use violence, such as Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormonism, and Scientology, but these have large downsides such as the fact that they're the most ridiculous religions in existence (well, possibly not Jehovah's Witnesses, due to the fact that I am in no position to make a judgement on them because I know very little of the Jehovah beliefs.
Mormonism, on the other hand, is based off the beliefs of a man who did all he could to hide what he had found by using ridiculously obvious excuses.
Scientology, is just plain ridiculous. It was created by a science fiction writer who claims aliens came from space in ships that look almost completely like Boeing 747's.
He then goes on to claim that the aliens souls where dropped into the volcanoes of Hawaii, where they rose from the lava to create humanity.
I mean, how absolutely far fetched and ridiculously stupid can you get?
Religion in general is a completely ridiculous human ideology, but a religion based off the beliefs of a renowned science fiction writer, that's one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard of.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
My Christmas Break, Israel, and the Gaza Strip
I am, again, as I've said so many times before in past articles, aware of what the local time is, and that I do have school tomorrow morning and am required to be up at 7:30 AM sharp as so I have time to prepare and leave at around 8:15 to be at school by 8:30, but I decided that I would write an article right now due to the fact that I haven't actually written an entire article in quite a while, and that I probably won't get much sleep tonight anyways, as it always tends to be following weekends of staying up late or, in this case, a two-week break of staying up from 1 AM to 5 AM in the morning, whether with friends or alone.
Sadly, three days ago, I pulled a New Years allnighter with a friend of mine, hoping I'd be tired enough to go to sleep at 10 or 11 PM the following night, effectively mending my broken sleeping pattern. I did succeed in fixing it, but me being me, I couldn't spend the last days of Christmas break going to bed at 11 PM, so I stayed up late for the next two days prior to tonight.
Anyways, I decided I'd do an article on the subject of Israel and the Gaza Strip, which those of you who are politically attuned with know is now a major point of conflict between the Palestinian militant group 'Hamas' and Israeli forces.
Now, I am definitely in no way an anti-Semite (actually, I'm dating a girl of Jewish ethnicity, but of course I am in no way entitled to give out any more information) but personally, I disagree entirely with Israel, and the idea of an entirely Jewish nation.
First of all, to begin with, the national government is built on religion, which history knows is always a terrible combination.
Second of all, to create the nation, they essentially stole an entire chunk out of Palestine. Palestine was asked politley for the land, and of course where not initially willing to give up any of their land for anyone, but the United Nations and other western powers pushed them into a corner, something like peer pressure from friends to do something you don't wish to.
Third of all, they call the militant groups that attack them (wanting the land back for Palestine) terrorists. They in no way have the right to label them as terrorists, I in no way support what the militant groups do to try and seize back the territory, but I in no way support the nation of Israel.
After years of fighting, 98% of the former Palestinian occupants of the area now known as Israel migrated east into the heart of Palestine, except in one generally small area known as the Gaza Strip, where over a million Palestinian civilians reside, and very little Israelites.
The 'terrorist' group known as Hamas has been demanding that the Gaza Strip be given back to Palestine for years, with Israel always denying their demands, and not until very very recently did it erupt into all-out ground war.
The Gaza Strip is located in the lower south-eastern corner of Israel, and is home to roughly 1.7 million Palestinians and immigrants of other nationalities.
Now, what I find ridiculous about this is the fact that virtually every occupant of the Gaza Strip is Palestinian, and the people of Palestine want it back for good reason. Israel, which essentially stole the land from Palestine in the first place, refuses to give it back, and are effectively directly at fault for the conflict and casualties that have occurred in the area during this official conflict and prior.
Something I've always wondered is: what happens if the Jewish peoples become a minority in their own nation? What happens then?
Obviously they can't just kick registered and unregistered immigrants out of the country without international backlash, so tell me, what do they do?
Well, that's my article for today, and hopefully I won't be to busy and will be motivated enough to post another article tomorrow, but either way, peace out.
Sadly, three days ago, I pulled a New Years allnighter with a friend of mine, hoping I'd be tired enough to go to sleep at 10 or 11 PM the following night, effectively mending my broken sleeping pattern. I did succeed in fixing it, but me being me, I couldn't spend the last days of Christmas break going to bed at 11 PM, so I stayed up late for the next two days prior to tonight.
Anyways, I decided I'd do an article on the subject of Israel and the Gaza Strip, which those of you who are politically attuned with know is now a major point of conflict between the Palestinian militant group 'Hamas' and Israeli forces.
Now, I am definitely in no way an anti-Semite (actually, I'm dating a girl of Jewish ethnicity, but of course I am in no way entitled to give out any more information) but personally, I disagree entirely with Israel, and the idea of an entirely Jewish nation.
First of all, to begin with, the national government is built on religion, which history knows is always a terrible combination.
Second of all, to create the nation, they essentially stole an entire chunk out of Palestine. Palestine was asked politley for the land, and of course where not initially willing to give up any of their land for anyone, but the United Nations and other western powers pushed them into a corner, something like peer pressure from friends to do something you don't wish to.
Third of all, they call the militant groups that attack them (wanting the land back for Palestine) terrorists. They in no way have the right to label them as terrorists, I in no way support what the militant groups do to try and seize back the territory, but I in no way support the nation of Israel.
After years of fighting, 98% of the former Palestinian occupants of the area now known as Israel migrated east into the heart of Palestine, except in one generally small area known as the Gaza Strip, where over a million Palestinian civilians reside, and very little Israelites.
The 'terrorist' group known as Hamas has been demanding that the Gaza Strip be given back to Palestine for years, with Israel always denying their demands, and not until very very recently did it erupt into all-out ground war.
The Gaza Strip is located in the lower south-eastern corner of Israel, and is home to roughly 1.7 million Palestinians and immigrants of other nationalities.
Now, what I find ridiculous about this is the fact that virtually every occupant of the Gaza Strip is Palestinian, and the people of Palestine want it back for good reason. Israel, which essentially stole the land from Palestine in the first place, refuses to give it back, and are effectively directly at fault for the conflict and casualties that have occurred in the area during this official conflict and prior.
Something I've always wondered is: what happens if the Jewish peoples become a minority in their own nation? What happens then?
Obviously they can't just kick registered and unregistered immigrants out of the country without international backlash, so tell me, what do they do?
Well, that's my article for today, and hopefully I won't be to busy and will be motivated enough to post another article tomorrow, but either way, peace out.
Thursday, January 1, 2009
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