The True meaning of Christmas

I'm sorry, I am a bit of a realist, but I must say my piece on Christmas. Christmas is a word derived from the words of Christ and Mass, from the gathering of masses on dec. 25th to celebrate the birth of the Christ Jesus, Christmas. Dec. 25th is really not the birth day of Jesus it was actually the day of celeberating the pagan sun god, which was adopted by the early church because they had no idea when Jesus was realy born, so the sun god's day became the day for the sun of god, funny old world we live in, I wonder what else the early church improvised on. I have heard Jesus was most likely born during the spring about 3 bce because of certain passages desseminated in the bible. Christmas has gone through many ups and downs in the past 2 thousand years, but today we have realy smeared the true meaning of christmas, we turned it into a commercial holiday because of the consumer society we live in. Celebrating Jesus's birth sounds like a great thing to do, but today it is desguised in order to circulte money for good economic health. But I guess its not necessarily a bad thing, today good economic health means happy, prosperous, people; so why be a Grinch and ruin the fun. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.

George Lucas is to Bill Shakespeare as KFC is to Chicken

I am fully convinced that George Lucas, the maker of Star Wars, is the modern day Shakespeare. Or even Homer, you get the point, I think George Lucas will be hailed in the next 1000 years as one of the imaginaries of our time. The Star Wars Saga, which does not only include the movie and tv series he has put into film, but it includes years and years of story line that branches into the furthest detail of what ideas and morals we have in our own society. When you think of Star wars don't just think of Luke Skywalker fighting the rancor, that would be like just thinking of Odysseus tricking the Cyclops in the Odyssy. There is a much larger significance to the literature George Lucas brings in the entire Star Wars story, much like the greater significance Shakespeare or Homer brings in their epics. Star Wars is our modern myth, our modern epic which incompasses the world's ideas about religion, politics, government, morals, philosophy, love, and more into an aray of individual characters. Not to mention the lightsaber duels are bad ass. Remeber I said it here, when Bill Shakespeare or Homer were never recognized in their own times as they should have been, and it took the test of time for people to recognize their brilliance, I say now George Lucas is the man of the hour....Sith Out-

What Can I say, boys will be boys

Bush is secretly a Ninja

The shoe seen around the world. I don't know about anybody else, but I've never been more proud of George Bush than when he dodged that shoe thrown at him in the Iraqi press conference. Then when the secret service agent came to assist George, he just waved him down, like, don't worry man I got this, I'm down to fight, I'm George Bush motha fucka. I thought it was pretty bad ass because 1: It showed Bush isn't a pussy, because for all he knew it could have been a weapon, and he stayed pretty cool through the hole thing. 2: Even though I'm a bit of a Bush basher, it showed our el presidente is DTF anytime and anywhere.

World of Warcraft is a Killer

World of Warcraft is the largest online role playing game available. It has over 10 million players across te globe with about 40% officially addicted (I'm going to throw out stats and information that I have previously researched if you give a shit about it, then research it yourself, ass). Along with internet addiction, the FCC says WoW is the number one reason for college drop out. I might add, and one of the highest reason low performance with highschool students.
WoW is a plague, it is the new drug of choice for young people. It is a growing problem because it inhabits addictive triggers in the human brain, much like any addictive drug or any addicive behavior.
Analysis: So what, why is this bad, much like my social darwinism plea, the ones who are stupid enough to get addicted to a game and stop the progress and success in their life, should be left to do it, rght? Social darwinism says the ones who are in the gutter deserve it and the ones who are successful or what have you, deserve it, because they made the necessary consious decisons to do so. Who is better, someone who live on the streets addicte to herion, or the guy who makes a buisness, or becomes a teacher, or writes a book, etc. The universe and nature have a way of balance and hormony. The people who get it, get it, the people who don't simply don't.

I hate CNN sometimes

I'm wathing CNN which is my favorite news station, and I'm not sure if there is nothing else in the news to cover or what is going on with the world today...but one of their headlines stories is if Barrack Hussien Obama will use his middle name in his inaugeration acceptance. Why is that a big deal? CNN even being a little liberal sometimes is bringing a discriminitory subject around Obama's name, wtf! I can't stand this shit anymore. Its like when McCain said to that lady, "no ma'am hes not a Muslim, he's a good man". Oh and if he were muslim that makes him a bad person, like if you were a German immigrant in WWI you were a monarchists, or Japanease American in WWII your a kamakasi, sorry I'm just a little sick of ignorance blinding the masses. Islam has like 1.5 billion fallowers and many of them US citizens, lets show some fucking respect already. So what if Obama has a Muslim name. Why not just say all Muslims are terrorists and declare war on all things not christian.

A Little Opinion on Social Darwinism

In the Sacramento region there is a popular morning talk show called The Rob, Arnie, and horse's ass show. I often enjoy reading Rob's intellegent soapbox posts on the show's webpage. But today I read Rob's recent soapbox post http://robarnieanddawn.com/newsite/robsoapbox.html and was a little disappointed in Rob. His post basically asks the question to people, why tax the success of rich people? I am under the impression from reading Rob's soapbox posts, that he is a staunch believer in Capitalism and the presence of social darwinism. He often complains of taxing the rich as wrong because they are essentially better than the rest of everyone else because they obviously achieved more and have more. I completly agree with the true presence of social darwinism in human society, that those who are rich desrve it and those who lay in the gutter desrve it, I am not as much of a capitialist as Rob, I am on the lefter side of social capitalism scale that we have in the US, but I am far from being a socialist.
Rob asks in his soapbox post, how does the suffering of others improve your life? Or essentialy paraphrasing his entire post, how does taxing rich people's success make you feel better? And Rob sums up the post by saying he is confused when people do this and that it doesn't make you feel better.
But I have a question for Rob and everyone to think about. In terms of social darwinism, who is better, the apparently "smarter" rich person who goes to school, works, hard, and gets rich, or the poor lazy guy who gets the guys tax money from medicare, welfare, etc? Wealth is determined by how much you have been able to transfer in your favor, and if we judge people on the social darwin scale of intellgence by how much money they have....so who is smarter? The Robin Hood who manages to steal from the rich and give to the needy or the rich guy who lets it happen? I would say if your rich and your getting taxed, your not that smart than are you? Thats why we had revolutions, it was social darwinism, you do what is neccessary to get what you want.
And a little look at history for you staunch capitalists, the US was 100% capitalist in the 19th century, and we had pretty much a 90% of the population in poverty, and 90% of the wealth in the hands of 10% of the population. So through social darwinism, the poor people got smarter and asked the government to force a more equal distribution of wealth. So essentially, the poor people got smarter and developed a middle class, taking from the rich, doesn't social darwinism merrit that people got smarter. Not to mention, rich people had their speal going pretty well during the middle ages, with the hole church thing, with nobles, indulgences, etc. But when one of those rich people wasn't so smart and let Columbus land in America, and the middle class was born from the reinassance, protestant rev., enlightenment, industrial revolution, etc, social darwinsm says it is just. So I say this, if rich people are getting taxed, or poor people are getting poorer, or the middle class is growing, I don't care what is happening, social darwinism says everything happens justly.

The Voter Manifesto is just a little something I've been working on because I'm sick of how politics has worked for the past 10,000 years. People need to get their heads out of their asses and stop putting up with the crap we are fed by those in power.

The Voter Manifesto

James Ihnat 12-5-08 *Copywrite

We all know manipulative language and propaganda in the political arena is not unheard of; historically it is one of the key components to gain the support for a politician. Manipulative language and propaganda do not just include untruthful words, but more importantly, they are words slanting the truth, specifically designed in way to achieve a hidden agenda. Manipulative language and propaganda can bamboozle people into an almost unconscious submission of acceptance and or confuse people into a vulnerable state of mind without them knowing it. This is important to recognize because in a country that makes decisions in a democratic fashion, it should not have its voters in a vulnerable state of mind. In a democracy, as Abe Lincoln said it best “ruled of the people, by the people, and for the people,” we must use our granted power with integrity and responsibility. In a democracy, it is the voter’s duty to be informed on the issues and make educated decisions. Politicians mutually use propaganda and manipulative language as a tool against people, and it is the responsibility of the audience to recognize such language in action and find the truth of the matter at hand, or consequently become puppets of our leaders.
In George Bush’s 2002 State of the Union Address, he stated the countries Iraq, Iran, and North Korea constitute an axis of evil. That phrase has particular significance because he is obviously comparing Iraq, Iran, and North Korea to Germany, Italy, and Japan of World War II. Besides Bush’s arrogance in comparing our modern conflict to the scale of terror that the World War II generation experienced, this is prime political propaganda. If you went to American public school, you know the amount of evil associated with Fascist Germany. By labeling Iraq, Iran, and North Korea an axis of evil, George Bush has made them into a trio of evil in the minds of many Americans without any actual evidence. If George Bush had not used that phrase, it would not be as effective in manipulating the minds of the American people. George Bush knows this; language like this is why every nation is biased. In a sense, we see it the way we are told to see it, and perhaps not the true reality of the situation.
The president elect Barack Obama also knows the advantages of propaganda. His campaign race for president used slogan words like hope and change. This is a good strategy because apparently the majority of Americans lost all hope and wanted drastic change from the Bush administration. Realistically, what are we to expect in January 2009 when Barack Obama is inaugurated? To his credit, Obama has made his political and social stances clear on the internet and written sources. However, most of his rallies and media appearances just give a display of his charisma and not the specifics of his presidential plan. Do all the people at Obama rallies know his stances? Politicians should not run campaigns off slogans or great charisma; we need to mandate they run off ideas, facts, and information.
The people have the power in a democracy and we should take advantage of that fact and demand more from our appointed leaders. Instead of supporting the politician who you would like to have a beer with, get informed, and make educated voting decisions. Beware of catchy names or phrases to gain support of propositions, such as The Patriot Act. We, the people, need to demand more from our politicians rather than scare tactics or the candy coating we receive. Tell politicians to take off their makeup and show us what is underneath the mask. We need to recognize propaganda in use and demand the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth from our elected leaders. If nothing is done about it than nothing will change. This is the lesson of history. As the targets of manipulative language, it is the responsibility of us, the people, to recognize it and critically think about the hidden objectives of politicians for a better future of the United States and the world. Let the politicians tremble at a voter revolution. The voters have nothing to lose but their own ignorance. Voters of America Unite! = )
“Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.” –Adolf Hitler