Attention Abortion issue voters: you’re not having an Impact

Attention Abortion issue voters: you’re not having an Impact

It is first important to state that I am pro life; I believe that the government can intervene and make a thoughtful judgment as to when life begins (obviously with accountability to their constituents in mind). However, I have also developed a level of political practicality, which is why abortions has slipped from my sole political issue when I was a teenage, to one so far down the spectrum that at most it could have a subconscious affect on who I vote for (for instance: if both candidate our in all ways terrible). So, a logical next question would be: if you believe abortion is murder, how can it slip so far?

First, I would argue that it is not obviously murder. I have made a judgment that it’s at best morally dubious and in particular, late trimester abortions our pretty scummy. This however is not the same thing as shooting piercing hot led in a fully developed and fully alive human being. If the paramount goal in stopping abortion is stopping murder then giving aid to those who suffer from dire starvation, spurring global development or preventing genocide should be political issues that should be given far higher precedent to while contemplating ones political ideology. Though, pro-lifers often neglect these issues while on the candidates’ issues page and instead opt to do a Ctrl F for the word abortion and have their mind made up.

Second, even if you do believe that abortion is tantamount to murder; can it be stopped politically. Four almost eight years we have had the most anti-abortion candidate to hold the presidency since Roe V Wade, yet abortion is hardly any closer to getting overturned then it was at the beginning of the millennium. This is because the majority of the country is NOT against banning all practices of abortion. Those who consider themselves pro-choice has only grown since the 1970’s, so unless you can come up with unique/ingenious argument as to why the majority of Americans our wrong on in being pro-choice and get them to listen to it, then its not changing. Therefore, at this point totally eliminating the practice is simply not going to happen so why not just demote the issue in favor of more pressing concerns.

Therefore, it must be encouraged for those who our pro life to speak out against it. If you truly care deeply then study all angles and try to come up with that renowned thesis lessening the practice, yet do this in conjunction with other policies that save lives. So, if the true goal of being pro-life is because you want to save human lives, then examine the cost benefit analysis of assorted policies that save human life and diversify your political currency on more practical policies, at least until more then half the country suddenly decides to see it your way.

my letter to the McCain campaign

Dear Mr. Conway,

There is more then simple liberal bias as to why the media has neglected (or least in comparisons with his opponent) Mr. McCain. It is because Mr. McCain has lost his charm. It as if the McCain campaign had not learned it's lessons from last summers meltdown in a attempt to court the always wary Republican base. In attempting to make Mr. McCain look presidential you have vanquished so much of his off colored humor that made him so beloved by iconoclast everywhere. The perception of Mr. McCain I see radiating from the campaign team is of a stuffed shirt. Instead, you should have Mr. McCain make frequent off color yet funny jokes. Presidential elections our as much a personality contest as anything else, so why not make a better attempt at highlight Mr. McCain's likable personality. Other wise he looks an awful lot like another humorous GOP candidate who ditched his humor in 1996 and lost by a heft margin.


Thank You

Brian Adams

religion and brian

I have had a radical shift on religion in the past few years, going from a former alter boy to an agnostic theist. When my parents go away to their bay-house, they ask me to take my brother to Catholic mass, which often leaves me disenchanted. The top qualm I leave with is that Judeo-Christian religion offers an "indisputable" meaning to life, if you only have faith. My disillusionment is with the intellectual stagnation and scared behavior if one "diverts off path". I do not necessarily discredit or disagree with prominent religion diverse philosophies and some of the guidelines toward striving for this meaning or the collective spirituality and believe all offer clear truths. However, life's meaning is to complex and unknowable to settle on a definite answer or meaning in once life span.
Therefore, if you do find a path that you believe suits you, you should still continue to be an independent-thinker and allow yourself to give thoughts to diverging perspectives toward life's meaning and not close yourself off to the narrow truth you have found, in say, Evangelical Christianity.

hillary ridiculous sexism claim on obama in laymen speak

Hillary: Your a fucken asshole.
Barack: Well your kind of a giant bitch
Hillary: this blackasshole is a sexist pig.
Barack: what...sexism-- bitch is just the feminine equation for asshole...it merely proper form............and blackasshole--COME ON?

After Further Review

Often your first instinct is clearly the correct one; after quickly examining the scale the clearest and largest weight is routinely the heaviest. However, with merely a quick glance you may omit the other minute objects left on the table, which could inexplicably weigh more. Therefore, I must persist that time permissible all scenarios are weighted in order to prove your initial thesis.

For example, on further review is watching said television program earnestly the heaviest weighted thing on the table right now?

This I would imagine is obvious to all, yet it is done by so few in daily existence.

My Advice to Nerds (a nerd manefesto if you will)

I often give my brother a tongue-and-cheek hard time about being a "big nerd"; he has a good since of humor about it (though he was born a huge nerd, which is why my parents named him spencer). This had me thinking on why so many students at my brothers gifted high school were so socially annoying and or retarded. Why do nerds struggle so much socially and why do "jocks" hate them so much(rightfully so...damn nerds)?
My first advice to nerds would be to not worry about being the most socially gifted or popular, it is ultimately not that important. You were dealt a bad hand on that round, so don't worry if you don't clean up on it.
This is not to discount social skills; you ultimately don't want to be horrid with them. Therefore, the first thing the nerd should do is alter his paradigm; in doing this he should rightfully be confident in his mental prowess and should transfer that confidence so that it manifests that into social confidence. With that said, attempting to impress based entirely on your mental strengths is a strategy that has proven time-and-time again that it will get you-- beaten up. Therefore, nerds should put his or her perceptive study skills toward studying the funny kids and affable kids, who did not obtain their lofty status because of looks or athletic ability but because of hummor or philsophy. If you are simply not funny then at least be interesting in a currency with social value. If ultimately you enjoy talking about heisenberg microscope --awesome-- however, it couldn' hurt to first talking about sports or music. It is like that episode of the simpsons were Lisa tries to be cool, she pivots from youthful dialog to interesting nerdy talk about seashells.
In the long run nerds, you are far more valuable to society if you focus on your nerdy endevours. I am simply advocating this brief advice to encourage in your social time to flurish a tad. If you have the confidence your nerdy ways has bestowed on you and are at the very least affable then you should at least be able to occasionaly make small talk with the popular kids.

Demian by Hesse; insightful blurbs

This paragraph on page 29 of Herman Hesse Demian really struck me and caused me to ruminate over it.
Explaining the validity to his moral dilemma:

"I realize that some people will not believe that a child a little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. MY story is not intended for them. I am telling it to those who have a better knowledge of man. The adult who has learned to translate a part of his feelings into thoughts notices the absence of these thoughts in a child, and therefore comes to believe that the child lacks these experiences, too Yet rarely in my life have I felt and suffered as deeply as at that time. "

Emil Sinclair

Demian view on religious laws: (pg 54)

"...That is why each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden--forbidden for him. It's possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. And vice versa. Actually it's only a question of convenience. Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them; things are forbidden to them that every honorable man will do any day in the year and other things are allowed to them that are generally despised. Each person must stand on his own feet."

Demian