The Zombieslayer

While anarchy looks good on paper, the world is simply too overpopulated to have anarchy. Under anarchy, a lot of us, possibly myself included, would want to go back to hunter/gathering. The world just has too many people and not enough resources to do that.

So, we need government, whether you like it or not. However, we currently have too much government.

I want the government off our asses and to respect the Constitution. One thing I can’t stand about the Left is it keeps bitching on and on about separation of church and state in the Constitution, but has no respect for the 2nd Amendment. I’m also tired of hearing people saying certain Rights should be privileges.

One thing I can’t stand about the Right is their War on Drugs, which is a gross violation of the 4th Amendment. If someone wants to do drugs and is in their own home and not operating a motor vehicle, by all means, let them. It’s nobody’s business but theirs. I’d legalize them, and TAX them. It’s just disgusting how much tax revenue is lost by having drugs like marijuana and cocaine illegal.

Also, I’m for legalizing prostitution. Of course, I wouldn’t want someone running a brothel next to a school. Prostitution is a victimless crime. If your neighbor goes and has a prostitute, it doesn’t affect you. As far as I’m concerned, I could care less. I do care that that’s tax money wasted, and by having prostitution illegal, you have a higher risk of both violent crime and disease. Where prostitution is legal in Nevada and certain parts of Europe, they regularly check prostitutes for disease.

I like our government. This may surprise you, but we’ve benefited from the government. I would have never gone to college if it wasn’t for our government. That’s another reason I pay my taxes with pride and NEVER cheat my taxes. I’m thankful we have a government.

Government gives us good roads. I’ve been to enough countries to know we have pretty good roads. We also have a good sewage system, good water, good food, and good postal delivery.

I’m glad government weeds out bad immigrants too. I don’t want an open door policy. I don’t want illegal immigrants, America-haters, nor terrorists. We do a good job at weeding out bad immigrants, but frankly, that aspect of the government is grossly underfunded and we get too many criminals that are illegals that are clogging up our jail system. This is something I’m willing to spend more on.

I’m glad we have a military. I’d love to have Osama bin Laden’s head on a pike. However, he’s not in Iraq. I’m glad we’re in Afghanistan, but every time you ask our President why we’re in Iraq too, you get a different answer. If that’s the case, let’s pull out of Iraq so we could focus on what we need to do - which is to catch and/or kill all of bin Laden’s people.

So I’m not an anarchist. I believe in government, only less than we have now.

“No problem” is not the correct response to “thank you.” The correct response to thank you is “you’re welcome” or “sure.” “No problem” is the response to an apology. If I say “thank you,” I am not apologizing to you.

This is something that the younger generation is doing and frankly, it’s wrong. It’s probably because today’s teachers are too afraid to correct their English because they’re afraid of hurting their fragile self-esteem.

For my second English lesson of the day, “it’s” is a contraction. It is short for “it is.” It is not a possessive. “Its” is a possessive. Observe:

The dog waves its tail.

It’s a cute dog.

It’s a shame I have to waste a blog post on this crap, but our public education system has deteriorated to the point that it has to be done so America doesn’t become the laughingstock of the English speaking world. And for all you teachers out there, please do your job and correct your students’ English before we sound like a nation of morons. If the parents complain about their children’s self-esteem, smack them upside the head. You can tell them that that’s from The Zombieslayer.

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Someone, I forgot who, specifically requested this joke.  Here it is.  I’ve heard this version with four or five ethnicities and I only remember the three ethnicity version:

Heaven and Hell 

Heaven is where the Administration is German, the police are English, and the food is Italian

Hell is where the police are German, the Administration is Italian, and the food is English

This morning, Benazar Bhutto from Pakistan was assassinated.  She had been in exile and recently returned to Pakistan to run against President Musharraf.

I’m deeply saddened to hear about her death.  The 54-year-old former Prime Minister had twice the brains and ten times the charisma of Musharraf and I was really hoping she’d win in the elections.

This sets Pakistan back.  The Pakistani people are an intelligent lot of people, and this is a country I’ve been following for years now.

For those of you who don’t know who she was, Benazar Bhutto was the former Prime Minister of Pakistan.  Her father was Prime Minister but he was assassinated.  Educated in Harvard and Oxford, Bhutto was a good friend of America and the West.  She was Prime Minister of Pakistan twice between 1988 and 1996.

Musharraf warned her about returning to Pakistan for he said he was worried for her safety.  He said he couldn’t guarantee her security.  I’m not at all implying Musharraf had a hand in the attack.  I don’t know if he was genuinely concerned or not, but for right now, I’m mourning her death.  I think it’s more likely that he had no hand in her attack and actually was worried because the country’s stability had been deteriorating in recent months.

She was a good woman and could have taken Pakistan far into the future.

Merry Christmas! Damn right I celebrate Christmas. I have no apologies for it, and encourage everyone to if they want. I have become very anti-political correctness, and any attempt to silence me from saying Merry Christmas makes me say it louder and prouder.

But it’s offensive to non-Christians

Hate to break it to you, Christmas isn’t even a Christian holiday. It was stolen from the Pagans in order to win them over to Christianity. There’s a one in 365 chance Jesus was born on Christmas. I’m no Bible expert, but I’m pretty certain there’s no passage in the New Testament that says the date of His birth.

Christianity stole various aspects of Christmas from a multitude of Pagans. One was Saturnalia, a Roman winter festival that was known for relaxation, eating tons of food, gambling, drinking, giving small presents to kids and candles to adults, and public nudity. Sound familiar? Well, besides the public nudity part.

Christians also stole from the Scandinavians. They had Yule which was celebrated on mid-winter night, and followed by 12 wild nights. Hmm…I wonder where that 12 days of Christmas song got its idea from.

Santa Claus, Christmas trees, and Father Christmas

All three of these things were stolen from various Pagan religions. Santa Claus and Father Christmas in some cultures are synonymous. You also have Saint Nicholas and Kris Kringle to add to the confusion. But don’t forget Sinterklaas, Saint Basil, and Father Frost now. Can any of you Bible experts find any references to any of those names in the Bible? I bet you can’t, because they’re even more traditions stolen from the Pagans.

So I have to ask, do you still think Christmas is an exclusively Christian holiday? I say no. It’s cultural, and open to anyone who wants to celebrate it.

So Merry Christmas everyone! If you celebrate another holiday besides Christmas, more power to you. Heck, invite me over. I’ll celebrate with you. I’m all about the holidays, baby!, especially when food, wine, and hot chicks are involved. (Well, the hot chicks part is something I added).

Luck. Luck determines a lot in life. With any plague, there will be those who will have immunity to it, and those who don’t. The Native Americans who perished from smallpox were in better physical shape and had better diets than the Europeans who carried it over from the Old World. It’s just luck.

Wannabe pretentious critics can dismiss Will Smith’s Robert Neville character as the last survivor of an apocalyptic disease, who just happens to be a genius, a top scientist, and a military tough guy, but let’s just say it was luck and watch the movie. Or at least the movie hints that it was luck. I don’t see it as an implausible plot hole. There were other people immune to the virus. They just got eaten.

Francis Lawrence directs the 1954 novel I Am Legend, with a few modern day plot changes.  This time around, a scientist “cures” cancer by using a genetically mutated virus. Good intentions. Bad results.

So Robert Neville and his dog Sam are the last survivors on Earth. By day, Neville and Sam are safe. By night, the monsters, half-zombie, half-vampire, come out with a super human fury, looking to feast on everything living.

Lawrence does a great job in portraying Neville’s loneliness. He talks to mannequins. He talks to Sam like Sam’s a human. And he watches a lot of t.v.

Neville’s also a classic “good guy.” Despite everything that has gone wrong, he still has hope that he can find a cure.  One dimensional? Not at all.  Smith does a fine job in fleshing out his Neville character.

Lawrence throws in his scares. I saw several people in the theater jump when Sam ran into a dark subway tunnel and Neville had to retrieve his only friend, knowing that they were there.

A great film? No. It doesn’t do enough to differentiate between the scores of other apocalyptic, other than knowing the virus was caused with good intentions. It did have an underlying point that we were too quick to play God. Or maybe I read that into it.

Smith does a fine job as Neville. Smith has matured into a decent actor, and once again, his son was casted as his son. But I think there was a slip in the film when they showed Neville had a daughter instead of a son. If anyone else caught that, by all means, let me know.

Is it worth seeing? Sure. But don’t expect to see something great because it’s just another Hollywood blockbuster that will generate big money, let you talk about it for a week, then forget it by the end of the year. 6 dead zombies for entertaining me for two hours.