It's Been Awhile

Tomorrow I will, barring some strange supernatural event, I will be voted in as the president of Coalition for Diversity. In December I will be moving into the presidential position for Baylor Democrats. With literally little effort, I have taken control of the activist portion of Equality Alliance. If luck looks favorably on me, I'll be picked as a member of Texas Freedom Network's Youth Leadership Council.

Next semester I'll be taking 18 hours. Hopefully I'll also be working 20 hours a week. I should also be volunteering at Planned Parenthood each week.

All this is to explain why I will be having a mental breakdown next year. I am now accepting bets on when my mental health will collapse.

A Quick Word

on the Teabagging Parties


So, I don't know if you know this or not, but there have been demonstrations across the US protesting taxes and even more specifically Taxation Without Representation.

Apparently, some people don't understand the United States Constitution. Our system of government is a representative republic. Now, in this form of government, we elect our leaders by a majority vote. Just because you were beaten in the election doesn't mean you have no representation. It just means you are not the majority.

So, all those who support the Teabagging Parties, you have representation. You're just a sore loser. It's similar to when Al Gore lost the election to George W. Bush, and all the democrats were complaining that Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the election. It's not as if Democrats had suddenly lost representation, they just didn't win the election. Oh wait, there is a difference, in that Florida was Al Gore's...

But onto simply the taxation issue. For all those who love their 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th amendment rights, among others (ladies can I interest you in the 19th amendment?) you have to acknowledge the other amendments and articles of the Constitution. Now, since the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land, the entire body of articles and amendments are required to be observed. That means a little amendment called the 16th amendment. And I quote "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."

So, all those who are against taxes but love your guns, free speech, right not to quarter soldiers, requirement of the police for a search warrant before they search your house, etc., please get over it. It's in the dang Constitution. That's what right the government has to take your money.


Also, Obama passed a bill that cut taxes on 95% of America. Seriously. You didn't care when Bush was spending us into oblivion and putting the burden on the middle-class, but now that Obama is in office, it's fascism! Quit being stupid.

Bullying

This young boy killed himself the other day. Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover. He was 11. Only 11.

He was bullied so much, called gay too many times, that he ended his own life because of it. At 11, this boy killed himself because of the verbal abuse he endured. He didn't even identify as actually gay.

This is just sick. Conservatives and Christians breed this type of hate for people that makes children go out and harass their fellow children, to the point where they take their own lives.

He was in middle school. He shouldn't even have been old enough to consider suicide.

All the people who think that being gay is a sin are the reason for this. All those who tell their children, their friends, their family, etc. that those who are gay are perverts and wrong are responsible for this. This is why I so strongly believe in gay rights, in fucking human rights. People, children, shouldn't have to endure this. Nobody should have to feel like taking their own lives because of who they are, or how other people look at them.

So anyone, and I do mean anyone, who believes that s that being gay is a sin, a perversion, or just simply wrong, fuck you. Seriously, and from the bottom of my heart, FUCK YOU.

Redefining Marriage

There has been quite the talk about gay marriage in the news. Currently, the liberals have strongholds in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Iowa, and Vermont. They're looking to take New Hampshire, Maine, New York, and New Jersey. But what about the people looking out for the family. The family will be torn apart because gays are allowed to be married. Never mind that Massachusetts, the first state to allow gay marriage, has the lowest divorce rates....


Anyways, really, we all know that the only opposition for gay marriage is religious. That's all that can be used to condemn it. The statistics are in the liberals' favor. Children are not worse off if they are raised by gay parents , homosexuality is not a mental illness, etc. That leaves just the idea of sin, which is cleverly worded into the idea that allowing gay marriage is redefining marriage. I will, for this post, ignore that marriage has consistently been redefined in American history, or that traditions besides marriage have not only been redefined but also completely removed from our lives. Instead, I will concentrate on the redefinition of marriage right in the Good Book itself: the holy bible.

If you will look way way back, into Genesis, you'll notice that Jacob had two wives, Leah and Rachel. This was fairly acceptable, God didn't seems to mind much. But skip ahead to the New Testament, and Paul talks about the relationship between man and woman, singular. Within the two testaments, there is a gradual decline in multiple wives and a broad condoning and even preference for single man, single woman marriages.

Now, how can we accept the idea that there should be no redefining of marriage when the place from which this definition is being taken redefined marriage itself?

Just a Few Things

First, here's a post on another blog about HPV. Get your vaccination!
http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments/how_anti_vaccination_hysteria_is_about_sex_
accidentally_helping_big_pharma_/

Secondly, I'm not so sure about Teach for America anymore. It's not that I don't want to do it, because I really do. The problem is that it's a 2 year commitment. I'm not sure whether or not I can defer enrollment for that long. I would definitely do it if I can, but we will see.

Thirdly, I am considering (which basically means I'm going to) starting a new blog called "BaylorWatch." Basically, it would be Baylor's policies, student body, events, etc. from the perspective of a liberal. If I do this, I will still be posting on this blog and I will try not to put more priority on one or the other (though it'll probably happen).

Fourthly, I'm going to try and keep up the output that I achieved this weekend. Maybe a post a day, a couple a day on the weekend. It'll be tough, but I'll try.

Six Gay Men Shot to Death in Iraq (CNN)

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Six gay men were shot dead by members of their tribe in two separate incidents in the past 10 days, an official with Iraq's Interior ministry said.

In the most recent attack, two men were killed Thursday in Sadr City area of Baghdad after they were disowned by relatives, the official said.

The shootings came after a tribal meeting was held and the members decided to go after the victims.

On March 26, four additional men were fatally shot in the same city, the official said, adding that the victims had also been disowned by their relatives.

The official declined to be identified because he is not authorized to speak to the media.

Witnesses told CNN that a Sadr City cafe, which was a popular gathering spot for gays, was also set on fire.

Things in the News

First! I can't believe that Iowa's big news flew so far under the radar. It's absurd. California's courts overturned their ban on gay marriage and it's everywhere, Iowa's courts do the same thing, and it doesn't even get a front page mention. I saw it on Feministing! Not CNN, not Huffington Post, freaking Feministing.

Not that Feministing is a bad site, I like it a lot. I'm just saying it's a blog, not a news site.

Also in the news, after months of international pressure to do just the opposite, North Korea launched a long-range ballistics missile. The US was attempting to keep NK from doing this, and NK basically backed itself into a corner where the only thing they could do was launch their missile. Remember, NK is nuclear-armed.

South Korea is obviously on guard. Interesting tidbit, my grandmother was a North Korean refugee into South Korea. She and her family ran away from NK and were homeless and starving for months.

Apparently, NK's missile fell into the Pacific Ocean. Huffington Post had aptly put title of "FAIL"

This is scary for a couple reasons. Since Iran is acting the same way, we have to make an example of NK so that Iran doesn't think it can also get away with this thing. That might mean we have to go into a "conflict" with NK. This will might result in a draft. I can only dodge a draft for so long. Once I graduate college, which I'll probably be doing in 3 semesters, I want to go to law school, but I'm pretty sure that grad school attendees are not protected from a draft. So there I go. And women don't have to worry for at least 6 months. They will be taken into the draft, but it will take 6 months for legislation to include them.

So, war with NK and a draft? Scary to moi. Hopefully we can settle these things without military intervention.