Friday, March 19, 2010
Yay communism
This article made me chuckle. I would love to hear some "conservative" or "liberal" viewpoints on it.
Wow, a country with its head on straight.
In S. Africa, when a top music star kills 4 students he gets his house threatened to be burned down. While I don't agree with facing violence with violence, it's nice that he isn't getting a record deal out of the ordeal.
Censorship in the US.
Yup, yup. Happens everyday by those you'd LEAST expect--CONSERVATIVE VETERANS. Okay, I exaggerate (but only in terms of the group doing the censoring)--I'm sure they don't censor everything, but I sure do know that they censor enough.
Case in point--the Smithsonian Museum, 1995. The Enola Gay incident. Shame, shame, shame.
In 1945, the Enola Gay was the plane that dropped the 1st Atomic Bombs ever, the first on Hiroshima and resulted in the death of approxiamtely 200,000 people (mostly civilians). It also dropped the 2nd bomb, landing on Nagasaki, of which several more hundred thousand civilians died. You see, the Veterans (who I love dearly, most of the time) don't want you to know that. When the Smithsonian tried to show these numbers and what it's REALLY like to have a 8,900lb dropped on your city where 69% of buildings were completely destroyed and only 7% were severely damaged (with those numbers, it means, "if it was hit, it was totalled"). Yeah, hiding under your desk isn't gonna save you--you'd better hope for a direct hit because if it's just close enough to not kill you, you're going to wish that you were dead. The Japanese deserve to have their pain shared with the world--especially when it's the truth. What would we say if the Afghans deleted 9-11 from their history?
Case in point--the Smithsonian Museum, 1995. The Enola Gay incident. Shame, shame, shame.
In 1945, the Enola Gay was the plane that dropped the 1st Atomic Bombs ever, the first on Hiroshima and resulted in the death of approxiamtely 200,000 people (mostly civilians). It also dropped the 2nd bomb, landing on Nagasaki, of which several more hundred thousand civilians died. You see, the Veterans (who I love dearly, most of the time) don't want you to know that. When the Smithsonian tried to show these numbers and what it's REALLY like to have a 8,900lb dropped on your city where 69% of buildings were completely destroyed and only 7% were severely damaged (with those numbers, it means, "if it was hit, it was totalled"). Yeah, hiding under your desk isn't gonna save you--you'd better hope for a direct hit because if it's just close enough to not kill you, you're going to wish that you were dead. The Japanese deserve to have their pain shared with the world--especially when it's the truth. What would we say if the Afghans deleted 9-11 from their history?
Jefferson also agrees with the arbitraryness of the term bible.
I jokingly call one on my Envi Sci textbooks "the bible" because it is a compilation of 3 other books with no index.
"Jefferson was a self-taught architect who learned the art by studying books on the subject. He particularly admired the work of the Renaissance Italian Andrea Palladio, whose Four Books of Architecture Jefferson reportedly referred to as "the Bible."" Found this on the Monticello website here.
"Jefferson was a self-taught architect who learned the art by studying books on the subject. He particularly admired the work of the Renaissance Italian Andrea Palladio, whose Four Books of Architecture Jefferson reportedly referred to as "the Bible."" Found this on the Monticello website here.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Interesting...
So. The great debate between conservatives and liberals over education continues. Actually, I myself find this article to be quite revealing. I never realized that conservatives don't particularly like TJ, but I guess that's only a certain subset. Also, I'm thinking of trying to win that $1000 for charity (maybe for planned parenthood?) because if I remember correctly, the 1st amendment says that there will be no establishment of a religion, which also means that there can be no one religion over any other. SO, if this is a "country under god" that also includes Allah and Zeus. And Christianity isn't a religion, so we can't just say that we're a christian country--sorry peeps, but you can't choose an arbitrary subset as a religion--religions have doctrines and as Westboro Baptist Church illustrates, not even the Baptists can agree on what their religion is supposed to be.
But I'm tired...I'm not even sure how much sense this blurb of mine makes. In any case, it sure doesn't make sense to me that when one party/group makes a decision on content that the story becomes "more balanced"--I don't like being told what I believe--they always screw it up.
But I'm tired...I'm not even sure how much sense this blurb of mine makes. In any case, it sure doesn't make sense to me that when one party/group makes a decision on content that the story becomes "more balanced"--I don't like being told what I believe--they always screw it up.
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