I’m not even going to start pretending like I know what I’m talking about, because honestly I could care less about what happens in DC. I hate politics, they’re a waste of time and they’re doing it wrong. It’s a bunch of idiots doing what a bigger bunch of idiots elected them to do, screw us all over.
If you couldn’t tell, I’m a pretty conservative individual; I think we need to spend more time on laws that can actually help, rather than tell me what I need in a health care system. I would much rather have large markets of jobs to pick from than a health care system that is aimed to hurt the people supplying those jobs the most. It’s not just the health care bill I disagree with; what ever happened to Obama’s terrifying Stimulus Package? Has anybody seen any new jobs popping up that weren’t there before? Because I sure as heck haven’t.
I believe in Capitalism. It was once brought to my attention that as a Christian I should embrace Communism, for it is very much like the lifestyle that was campaigned by the early church, donate everything you have to the church, that they can give it to those who need it more, and in turn help you as well. That is all very nice, but it says to do that of your own free will, and to the church, which is less likely to be corrupted than a corrupted government. And so I stand by my country, and the government that represents it so long as they don’t forget their place.
Communism or Socialism might look good on paper, but they can’t seriously be pulled off as a working form of government in this imperfect world, or at least in America, I know France has something like that going on, but really, they’re France, we’re better than them.
. I believe abortion is murder, (what else could it possibly be you are ending a human life???) I believe that things were indeed better in “the good old days,” the ones from before I was born even. What ever happened to the Cold War? Remember? When we spent billions of dollars purging the communists and radicals from our country, defending ourselves against foreign communists. Remember the decades spent fighting the Vietnamese in a war that really could have been avoided (If only we’d known that at the time, but it was ‘60’s nobody really knew anything). Securing freedom in South Korea, and in a less glorious moment abandoning our allies in the Bay of Pigs? Communism was the bad guy, one of the best characteristics of communism is its in-your-face big brother all-up-in-your-business feel. And I’m starting to feel it.
We’ve spent most of our countries time on earth standing for everything against communism, socialism, fascism, every ism. And yet here we are looking more Socialist than France. And it’s all thanks to President Obama and his democratic majority.
I believe that we should have a zero tolerance on illegal immigration before it ruins us completely. I believe that there is WAY too much garbage on the internet and it is WAY to easy to get to it. I believe that the private sector should be allowed to run its course without government intervention, (and I even understand a few of the government bail-outs we’ve had to deal with. If the government had let those automakers and insurance companies fall we would have lost even more jobs, but so far they have done nothing as far as replacing that which has already been lost. If feels like they’re trying to keep us dependant on them.. I wonder why?)
Awhile back, while listening to *GASP* conservative talk radio, I heard a perfectly logical explanation for this. It may not be the right reason, but it fits so well. The democratic majority in congress is saving the majority of that big scary stimulus package for election time, to save themselves at the last second rather than using it now when we need it most. I heard this back sometime last fall, and it’s still true. I think that that is enough reason to clean out the entire Senate and House of Representatives. Not just the democrats, but anybody that hasn’t put the stimulus package to good use yet. If it is already out of the government’s pocket, no matter how much I disagree with it, it should still be used towards the betterment of our country. And yet it is just sits there.
If I was given even just a million or billion of that stimulus package to stimulate the economy, it feels, at this point, that I could do more than the entire government has done so far, and that’s what is awesome about Capitalism. The government can’t, no matter how much it would like to think it can, do everything. They can pass all the laws they want and throw all the money they can at a problem, but in the end private businesses are the best way to maintain our economy. What do you think has made America so great throughout the years? Our fast food?
And most of all, I feel that Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi should never have been allowed to run for a government office. Not that I don’t dislike republicans, I’m not very fond of Sarah Palin either, but Sarah Palin hasn’t tried to tell me exactly what kind of health care is best for me through legislation I adamantly disagree with.
Can anybody tell me what was so bad with the health care we had before? I don't remember having any problems with it..
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
In God we trust. (Or at least we used to)
I know I lose track of my blog very easily, but I’m fairly certain that this week is a blog about my opinion on a topic I’ve read about..? Maybe???
Well anyway a topic that brought itself to my attention recently was an argument about not teaching evolution in high school, at least not in a required class. Naturally this person felt that they would rather learn about creationism, or not spend their time in a class discussing any of this altogether. So, as I was pondering what on Earth I would write about tonight, the first topic that caught my eye on the ICC digital library, was Creationism in big bold letters. It seemed almost magical.
I myself went through the same thought process in high school, especially in biology. I remember doing really well the first semester of biology, learning about all the animal kingdoms and bacteria and heredity and stuff, I really enjoyed that class (and I think Tyler and I know Steven were there with me). But then in second semester, not only did I get stuck with a teacher who “doesn’t know how to teach” as any high school student would say, but also got stuck learning the theory of evolution from this woman. That was far from enjoyable, and probably one of the reasons I felt that learning about evolution was such a waste. But nevertheless, I would still align myself with those of the opinion that evolution should not be taught in school. Not that I believe it shouldn’t be taught entirely, its probably right about most of what its saying, but I find it hard to believe I’m related to a monkey. I just don’t see the resemblance. It’s like comparing Macs to PC’s. Yeah they kinda look alike, but really????
Inversely, the argument to this that pro-evolution advocates have brought up is that creationism should be taught in a religion class, not a science class. But what high school you know of has a religion class? The closest thing I have ever gotten to taking a religion class in high school was the week of discussing ancient religions in world history, and that was far from enlightening. (Eric was there he can vouch for me)
This also reminds me of another discussion I had once, in a Sunday school class I believe, and the speaker that week brought up a very thought provoking point. We were discussing the old monasteries and the origins of the Christian church, and how most universities were founded by the church, most philosophers were Christians, and it was they who advanced science. Why then has science turned its back on that which propelled it further? Science and religion were two peas of the same pod, the why, and the how. Or rather the how and the other how. “Whatever it is, however it works, God ordained it to be this way.” “I’m alive because my heart is pumping blood through a very intricate series of veins throughout my body in conjunction with my lungs and signals from my brain, and you’re telling me this was all by chance?” “
We have a separation of church and state, but not of science and state. If you aren’t allowed to teach Creationism, you should not be allowed to teach the theory of evolution. And I agree that Creationism does not fit in a science class, it should be a class all on its own. So maybe we should reach halfway, and allow public schools to have an alternative religion class which could discuss this? I know that this will never happen because there are so many different religions in America, but it just doesn’t feel right that a country founded on the Christian ideals should turn so far from them without even the option of studying this through our schools.
PS this is a lot longer than my average blog, yet it took half as long to write
Well anyway a topic that brought itself to my attention recently was an argument about not teaching evolution in high school, at least not in a required class. Naturally this person felt that they would rather learn about creationism, or not spend their time in a class discussing any of this altogether. So, as I was pondering what on Earth I would write about tonight, the first topic that caught my eye on the ICC digital library, was Creationism in big bold letters. It seemed almost magical.
I myself went through the same thought process in high school, especially in biology. I remember doing really well the first semester of biology, learning about all the animal kingdoms and bacteria and heredity and stuff, I really enjoyed that class (and I think Tyler and I know Steven were there with me). But then in second semester, not only did I get stuck with a teacher who “doesn’t know how to teach” as any high school student would say, but also got stuck learning the theory of evolution from this woman. That was far from enjoyable, and probably one of the reasons I felt that learning about evolution was such a waste. But nevertheless, I would still align myself with those of the opinion that evolution should not be taught in school. Not that I believe it shouldn’t be taught entirely, its probably right about most of what its saying, but I find it hard to believe I’m related to a monkey. I just don’t see the resemblance. It’s like comparing Macs to PC’s. Yeah they kinda look alike, but really????
Inversely, the argument to this that pro-evolution advocates have brought up is that creationism should be taught in a religion class, not a science class. But what high school you know of has a religion class? The closest thing I have ever gotten to taking a religion class in high school was the week of discussing ancient religions in world history, and that was far from enlightening. (Eric was there he can vouch for me)
This also reminds me of another discussion I had once, in a Sunday school class I believe, and the speaker that week brought up a very thought provoking point. We were discussing the old monasteries and the origins of the Christian church, and how most universities were founded by the church, most philosophers were Christians, and it was they who advanced science. Why then has science turned its back on that which propelled it further? Science and religion were two peas of the same pod, the why, and the how. Or rather the how and the other how. “Whatever it is, however it works, God ordained it to be this way.” “I’m alive because my heart is pumping blood through a very intricate series of veins throughout my body in conjunction with my lungs and signals from my brain, and you’re telling me this was all by chance?” “
We have a separation of church and state, but not of science and state. If you aren’t allowed to teach Creationism, you should not be allowed to teach the theory of evolution. And I agree that Creationism does not fit in a science class, it should be a class all on its own. So maybe we should reach halfway, and allow public schools to have an alternative religion class which could discuss this? I know that this will never happen because there are so many different religions in America, but it just doesn’t feel right that a country founded on the Christian ideals should turn so far from them without even the option of studying this through our schools.
PS this is a lot longer than my average blog, yet it took half as long to write
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