Showing posts with label america. Show all posts
Showing posts with label america. Show all posts
Feeling Patriotic
Invisibility
At some point in just about everyone's lives there is the need to be invisible. Mine was when I was in grade school. My family was poor and I was picked on a lot because of it. There were days I wish I could just turn invisible. Now that I'm older I realize what an odd thought that is. To want to be invisible for the actions of others. As if I'm ashamed of who I am, and don't want to offend others. Instead it should be the offenders who are invisible to the rest of us so they can't spread their disease.
I never understood as a child what people meant when they said that children were innocent. I wasn't innocent. I made my choices knowing what they were. Most children do. Now I realize it is just a case of the wrong choice of words. They don't mean children are innocent. They mean children are metaphorically blind. Now my eyes are open and I see why people guard their children so much.
The world in particular America has become a place where bad choices are rewarded, and those that try to do the right thing are outcasts. The worst part is these offenders have a voice. The media. When I was a kid if I were going to make someone invisible it would be the snobs and the bullies. Today it would be the media. There are no invisibility cloaks, but there is a way. If the people tune out. Stop buying what they're selling. Use common sense. Don't let Hollywood tell you how to live your life. Time to grow up. Time to put your clothes back on.
Serial America
Henry Lee Lucas: Convicted of 11 murders, confessed to over 600, estimated actual total around 213. He died of heart failure March 13, 2001 while serving a life sentence.
America has the largest known number of serial killers in the world with nearly 200 convicted serial killers having murdered thousands of people in cold blood. California holds the state record.
I'm Afraid of Americans
The land of the free and home of the... Friggin Insane? (David Bowie shutters) America is home to some of the world's brightest minds, thus its status as "World Leader". It's position sets it up for criticism from more infamous governments with a bit of a jealousy issue. They have nick named the U.S. as the "World Police". Saying that they put their noses in others business, and act as if they control everyone. I say it is the responsibility of the most powerful nation to keep the peace, and everyone else should do their part or shutup.
But it seems that while we've been patrolling the mean streets of Earth, we have barely noticed our own back yards. We build up ourselves as a mecca for tourism. One of the safest countries (if not the safest country), which couldn't be more further from the truth. If you look at the facts the U.S. is the most dangerous country. Being an American myself I wish we were doing more to keep ourselves in check.
Cookoo For Liberty
The fight for freedom ended decades ago, but the war for anarchy still rages on. As the spread of drugs in America has polluted the minds of young and old, so have its side effects. I can't blame this alone for the decline in civility, but you can't deny it is the main factor. Freedom use to be about being able to stand up for yourself and to be safe to have your own beliefs. Keeping in mind that your freedoms must not harm others. But for the growing majority it is not enough.
We have shown what we do when we are given extra liberties, and it's not pretty. It's shameful. Will our most coveted treasure be our downfall? Are we Babylon on the verge of self-destruction? Stay tuned.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_serial_killers_by_country
Sputnik I
Sputnik I "Cпутник-1" First satellite to orbit the Earth on October 4th, 1957 by Soviet Union
Let's Get It On
The Cold War had already begun and American fat cats angrily shook their fists at the robots of the Soviet Union. The fight to be numero uno, number one, king of the hill. Marching soldiers angrily kicking their feet up, while swinging their rifles were just a few news commentator's observations ahead of lines of truck beds hauling missiles and rockets the size of buses. It was getting out of hand. There had to be some other way to make your place in the world.
On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced that Americans would put a man on the moon. A move that would surely cement their place in the history books as the Roman Empire of the new age. It was an announcement that sent rocket scientists running in every direction, as suits argued over the cost and ability to do so. But it must be done, so that the rest of the world would know who was in charge, and they could surely say, "They were the first." But they weren't. For just a few short years ago the Soviet Union had taken their dog Sputnik out for a walk around the Earth, and it took a poop in America's yard.
A Closer Look
The satellite had sensors used to detect the different layers of the upper atmosphere, pressurized nitrogen in the body, which helped detect meteoroids, and a transmitter to send radio waves back to Earth for deciphering of the collected information by scientists. It traveled at 18,000 mph to make a complete orbit in just 96.2 minutes. After 3 months in orbit Sputnik I burned up as it fell to the Earth on October 26, 1957. A sad end to such a good pet, but he made M.S. Khomyakov and the rest of his team proud.
Americans Should Fart More
This post is about relaxing. Sometimes people just need to relax. Who needs to relax? Everyone, but mainly Americans need to relax. Americans never relax. Even when they're partying they're not relaxed. How can you not be relaxed when you're partying? Well if you're not American you could easily spot it, but if you are then you probably won't, because well... you're American.
Let me tell you a story. A couple of years ago I was in the Philippines sitting outside talking with my wife and some friends of ours. Actually they were talking, and I was sitting uncomfortably just grinning and nodding my head. Then they got up and said goodbye, and they left. I was relieved. Not that they had left. I had nothing against them. It's just that I had been holding a fart in for that whole time.
Finally I was alone with my wife, who I know doesn't mind if you fart. So I let it go. "Ahhhhhhhh....finally." I exclaimed, satisfied from my release. Now I could relax. My wife asked me if I had been holding it in that whole time. I told her that yes, I was. I didn't want to be rude. And she looked at me like I was crazy. One of the first of many looks like that I would get. She told me that it isn't rude to fart. "No one cares if you fart." she said. "Everyone does it."
I considered what she said, but I still held my farts in when anyone was around for awhile. You see I just wasn't use to that. In America you don't fart. People will say you're rude and disgusting. Rich, poor, female, male. Americans don't fart in public. They claim they do, but try it sometime. Fart in public in America and look around. People will look at you like you're scum. They don't even look at theives and murderers that way the way they look at farters.
But why is this? It's much more than just farting. Americans are uptight about everything. What are you wearing? What school did you go to? What do you drive? Where do you work? American media advertises America as the best place to be on Earth, and Americans feel they need to live up to that reputation. So they're very stressed. And any little thing to make someone else seem like a bad person they think will raise their status level, somehow making them the ultimate American. Of course if you're American you don't know that this is how you are. I didn't know it until I finally got out of America, and took a look back at it.
Americans, my crazy stressed out, working 3 jobs so that you can afford to eat and barely pay off your credit cards, so that you can pretend that you have a better life than you really do, pill popping, energy drink guzzling, Americans this message is for you. You are not the best country. You could be, but your attitudes have ruined it for you. What's better than America? A lot of places. You should travel more. So stopped being stressed trying to live up to the pressure of being the cool kid in school. Relax. Stop the rushing around, doing things just because everyone else is doing it or someone says its normal. Its not normal it's insane. Stop trying to be on top all the time. Relax. And for the love of Papa Johns Pizza, when you have to fart. Fart. Wherever you're at. Peace out.
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