As not what your country can do for you...

...because it looks grim. Perhaps it is a little too late, despite our new President working as soon as he can.

I mean there have been so many layoffs, bailouts (which is the worst "solution" a  government has ever thought of [I guess capitalism is a dying concept, huh?]), and other things hitting our failing economy, it seems the financial world is on it's last leg.

They say power in numbers, right? What exactly did they mean when they said that though? I mean did they mean power in numbers of money, numbers in weapons, or did they actually think we would buy into the fact that power in numbers means power in the number of people that support you?

Maybe they had something there. Maybe it is us that lost the meaning behind the saying. I mean if so many of us are in poverty, then why hasn't the economy become any better? I think I saw this in a class before, yeah it was a history class. They called them the "royalty" and the larger folks were called serfs, peasants, fiefs, etc.

You know they revolted against those people, and eventually they got what they rightfully should have. Of course, they're were inalienable rights no one could take away. Or at least that's how it was supposed to be *cough*prop eight*cough*

Rather than using our powerful numbers for what we need, we have used it on ignorant desires. I say unto thee, we need to come together and rise to the occasion and grasp what we need, yet we also must know what every man, woman, and child has rights that cannot be taken away.

The right to freely worship what you will, the right to freely speak, the right to defend themselves, the right to peacefully gather (assemble), the right to deny host to any guest, the right to one's own privacy and to keep one's privacy, the right to be tried by a group of one's own peers, the right to remain silent, and the right to a speedy trial.

Hmm, I guess I can see how people get confused with these rights since they have been under so many different names, Magna Carta, Bill of Rights, inalienable rights, yea I can see why you'd be confused.

Whatever, if so many people rather get up and give in to the ignorance of the few, than so be it. But if you wish to come together for something that makes a positive difference give me a call.

Smile for the camera ;)

Your going to be a father...

...now what are you going to do? What your going to lock her up for 24 years, rape her, have children with her and lock them up with her?

I mean there is no one that would ever do that, right? Wait your just going to send them on a 10 mile trek in freezing weather by themselves while you go back to town when you get the car working again? Oh, that's what I thought you said. Nothing wrong with that, and if anyone says otherwise I'll let them know the other side of the story and they will completely understand that you're not a murder, just an opportunist.

To be a father, apparently has begun to slowly take a different meaning to others in society. Granted it is mostly to those that are most demented, but still, fatherhood for those is different.

I suppose it shocks me more because so many villains in fairy tales, Disney or otherwise, are of the maternal persuasion. When really look no further than the paternal flame and you'll much more horror than any mother can bring upon a child.

I mean these two stories of Josef Fritzl and Robert Aragon sound disgusting, but at the same time they don't shock me as much as I expected. Ladies and gentleman, meet our new inspiration for fairy tale villains.

But in all honesty, though these are most egregious acts, these aren't quite exactly as rare as one would think. We'll in their severity, yes, but the principle behind it, not so much.

For instance, 7% of rape, well that is reported mind you, which means it could be more, is done by a relative. Now even though it isn't stated who the relative is, 7% of 272, 350 is roughly 20,000. That's how many are raped by relatives, so even if only a small portion is by fathers, that is still the most disturbing and unnerving thing to know. Oh and that number doesn't even include those under 12.

Now though I don't have the exact numbers on whether or not the 500 parental homicides reported between 1976 and 2005 were more paternal rather than maternal, I do know this, some fathers are much more aggressive than mothers.

Point is this, when your offspring is born, and your declared a father, certain bonds are created. You become the guiding star and the lion of that child, the one they will wish to become and hope will keep them safe and warm in spite of all the hostilities of the world. Instead some decide to take that unique trust, compassion, unconditional love, and ravage this frail being for their own desires.

How in their right minds can they do such a thing? Is this convoluted way of thinking somehow etched in our psyche somewhere deep in the darkest reaches of the human heart? Is it only revealed in those tainted and corrupted, those who act on these primal urges even if the victim is they're own flesh and blood?

Hopefully through the captivity of those who have been committed for such crimes will help us discover these secrets so that no other man can be like this and hopefully the bond will once more be sacred.


Smile for the camera.

It's been a while...

...says the father to his boy as he turns off the T.V. He tells the boy that he isn't proud of him and that he needs to strive to do better, and hopes that when he gets back from his business trip that he does. Then turns the T.V. back on.

Something wrong with that scenario? If you said no, there's two reasons for that, one being that you either were raised this way and know nothing different or because you are allowing your children, the future of the world, to grow up under these circumstances.

Oh and did I mention, this is what that parent would consider a heart to heart talk. Some quality time spent there, huh?

Fading are the days where parents would burst into burst into their child's room and scream, "get dressed were going to the movies!" And gone are the days where families would sit down at dinner together and discuss their troubles in life.

I don't blame this entirely on the participants of this scenario, but they are a large factor. For ultimately it is there decision to hand over parenting to the entertainment industry. Of course we know all the excuses, I don't know what else to do, I don't have the time to spend, or simply I don't care.

All, wait, no they aren't valid reasons, but they are reasons I suppose. Like I said before, though, one cannot place blame solely on these parents. No, it is also the entertainment, oh wait, no they don't play a part in this, as some people believe. No, it is the marketing and advertising industries that are promoting the wrong things in the wrong way.

They are the ones that peak children's interests, the way they promote the "evils" of the world causing children to lean twoards the forbidden things that they should not know of until they are older. In the end, I guess it leads back to one thing, temptation. 

I know what you're thinking, let's not get biblical now. No, that's not my point and that is not how I am going to convey my message, for you see it's plain enough to see without it. Parents are tempted by the fact that it's easy to just let toys and electronics do the raising, because what do you do to a crying baby? You give it what it wants instead of what it needs, so naturally why fix something that's not broken; because it's broken in the first place. And to the children, rebellion is within their genes, natarually if it is forbidden they are going to want it, and doubly if it is enjoyable. Like too many sweets, they know not the ramifications of their desire.

So I guess I leave this final note, we should be more careful to how we raise children, we shouldn't just base our method on what we do with them when they are infants just because it's easy. And the media shouldn't advertise forbidden concepts and items, because though they might not be doing any harm, this is certainly not helping the situation. 

But of course, what do I know, right? I don't have even have a girlfriend, let alone children.

Smile for the camera