The Zombieslayer

I do this post almost every year.  Just word it differently.

Merry Christmas! To those who get offended by that, tough.  Look, Christmas isn’t even a Christian holiday.  It’s Pagan.  There’s a 1/365.25 chance that Jesus was born on Christmas day.  The only thing Christian about Christmas is the name.  The rest, Christians stole from various Pagan traditions, if I’m not mistaken, mostly Yuletide.

I went Christmas caroling Saturday night.  Had a blast.  I LOVE Christmas parties.  Tons of food.  Egg nog.  Adult apple cider.  How can you not love it?

Now, the folks who want to ban Christmas are often atheists, and a minority at that.  If I’m not mistaken, the majority of atheists in this country celebrate Christmas as well because it’s fun.  It’s a fun tradition, and a tradition that should continue for at least another one hundred years.

If you get offended, then start your own freaking holiday.  Geez, Louise.  Get a life.  If you manage to start your own holiday and have fun parties, then by all means, invite me over.

The problem is some folks just like to ruin fun for everyone else.  Screw them.  Enjoy this holiday, no matter what religion or lack of religion you have.  And if you throw a fun party, I don’t care what it’s about.  Invite me over.

You may have heard last month what Kate Moss said.  She said something along the lines of “skinny is best” was her motto.  I don’t know the exact quote.  Frankly, I don’t care.

Well, Britain has become butt hurt.  Politicians have been insulting her left and right.  There have even been groups calling for her censure and boycott.

Doesn’t she know how harmful she is to women, especially young girls with eating disorders? Cry me a river.

Look up the deaths each year due to anorexia nervosa.  Look up the deaths each year due to bulimia.  Then, add those two together and compare them to the deaths from obesity.  You will see that being too skinny produces barely a fraction of the deaths to being obese.  Barely noticeable.  In fact, you can’t even compare them.

Political correctness aside, I like facts.  Do I feel bad for people with eating disorders? Sure.  But let’s be real.  Eating disorders are so First World.

In the First World, it’s not being too thin that will kill you.  It’s being too fat.  So maybe instead of hating Kate Moss, the First World should lose some weight?

Just a thought.

By the way, Kate Moss has had enough.  She’s leaving Britain.  Good for her.  It rains too much there anyways.

Now, I hope nobody read that last post and misunderstood what I meant and think I’m an insensitive a-hole, because I’m not.  I’m just putting things in perspective.  All diseases suck.  If you die from malaria, cancer, AIDS, or whatever, you have my condolences.

The thing is in Africa, the number of AIDS deaths are misreported.  A lot of villages are reporting everything as AIDS.  Are there AIDS outbreaks that kill half the village? Yes, it happens.  But dysentery kills five times more children than AIDS and no stupid celebrity is bugging the US government for money to fight dystentery.

I’m also not saying to not give to AIDS causes.  It’s a good cause.  But don’t forget, there are other diseases out there too.  If we really wanted to save lives, we’d use the dollar more effectively.  Right now, more money is being spent on AIDS in Africa than diseases that kill more people than AIDS.  But you’ll never hear that from an overrated rock star.

If you’re from another country, you’d think that every women in America dies from breast cancer.  There are breast cancer things everywhere.  Every one out of three people seems to have a breast cancer pin, shirt, button, or bumper sticker.  AIDS and breast cancer have become the ultimate politically correct bandwagon fights.

Not at all diminishing breast cancer.  It sucks.  But guess what? So does ALL cancer.  If you die from breast cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer, liver cancer, stomach cancer, or whatever, you have my condolenses.  It’s not a fun way to die.  It sucks.  But right now, breast cancer gets all the celebrities.

The sick thing about breast cancer is how it’s been politicized.  Let me say it again.  Breast cancer sucks.  My deepest condolences go out to anyone who’s had it, whether they survived or died.  That sucks.  I wouldn’t wish it on anyone, not even Tipper Gore.

We’ve had celebrities say “if men got breast cancer, it would have been cured by now.”  Um, men do get breast cancer, stupid.  And men do die from it too.

We’ve also had celebrities say “the only reason mastectomy was invented is for men to mutilate women.”  I’m not joking.  Yes, this crap has been said by famous idiot celebrities at breast cancer rallies.  Both men and women get parts cut off when they get cancer.  That’s the reality of it, and that’s yet another reason why cancer, any form of cancer, sucks and why I feel for anyone who has any form of cancer.

Not only that, when someone finds out their workmate has lung cancer, the very first question is “how long did they smoke?” WTF! Talk about being insensitive.  Who’s the insensitive a-hole now?

I had a co-worker at another company who lost a testicle to testicular cancer.  Two female employees found out and they laughed.   Is that really funny? I didn’t laugh when another woman I knew had a hysterectomy.  That must have sucked.

All I’m saying is ALL diseases suck.  I don’t want to die of any disease.  I want to die in my sleep like my Grandpa, but not like the three screaming kids in the backseat.

One of my History Professors in the 90s was talking about the AIDS crisis in Africa, how it was overblown. Now, keep in mind, this isn’t just some Joe Schmoe but a guy who has been called in to advise Congress on African issues. He told us that African villagers knew that if you wanted to get money, you call everything AIDS. Your kid has dysentery, it’s gotta be AIDS. You have a staph infection - AIDS. Your Mom has malaria - AIDS. You stubbed your toe - AIDS. So the numbers of people who really had AIDS were grossly exaggerated. And this was over a decade ago.

You can’t blame the villagers though. They know how to use the system. If you want money, call everything AIDS.

System works great. You got overrated celebrities with egos ten times the size of their brain who haven’t put out a decent album in over a decade crying for more and more money and the politically correct sheep on the other end giving all they got. Then on top of that, you got a stupid President who bought the lie and pledged $15 billion of YOUR taxpayer money to solve this crisis.

Well, not only is this bad for your pocketbook, let’s put things in perspective. Diseases suck. Whether you die from AIDS, malaria, or pneumonia, you have my condolences. But pneumonia kills more children in Africa than AIDS and malaria combined, but it’s just not a sexy nor politically correct topic like AIDS is. So if you really wanted to save lives…

Get this, in Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Uganda, AIDS donations outstrip their entire national health budget. If you think AIDS is more important than the rest of their health issues put together, I have a bridge to sell you.

But then again, who needs reason when you can have emotion? People are sheep, we all know that. It’s the same thing with gun control. It’s the same thing with pretty much any of these politically correct issues. If you really wanted to save lives…

But who needs reason when you can let emotion rule you?

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Source for facts: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081130/ap_on_he_me/eu_med_challenging_aids

You have Freedom of Speech. So by all means, voice your opinions and be heard. Stand and be counted. If you take it for granted, you will lose it.

One thing that bothers me about folks in Western nations is they take their Freedoms for granted. Freedoms are God-given Rights, things that come from birth. You heard the old saying that says “man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.” It’s because people took those God-given Rights for granted and allowed themselves to be enslaved.

In America, we have Ten (not nine) Rights in the Bill of Rights. All ten of them are Sacred and there should be no compromises. Political correctness is bad. It is a restriction on Free Speech. You can be ostracized for saying something that is “offensive.” Well, by all means, fuck them! Say it. If someone gets butt hurt because of something you said, it’s their problem.

People need to grow a spine. If words hurt you, you’re too soft.

With Freedom of Speech, there are very few limits. We have things that are agreed upon, like for instance, you do not broadcast your friend’s credit card info and Social Security number. You cannot violate Copyright laws, nor scream “fire!” in a crowded theater (unless there really is a fire). You also cannot make direct physical threats. If you do, the person you are threatening has Right to defend himself or herself.

Why do I keep doing different versions of this same post over and over? Because it needs to be said over and over. With political correctness, folks are afraid to say what’s on their minds even though it’s their God-given Right to say it.

So say it. Express yourself. Don’t be afraid to offend. If you offend me, that doesn’t mean I don’t still love you. I can agree with you sometimes and disagree with you other times. It’s all good. I’d rather you be honest to me and especially honest to yourself.

Political correctness is forced politeness. I said this a million times but I’ll say it again, if you force anything, there will be those who fight it. People don’t like things shoved down their throats and frankly, I’m sick of it.

I will be heard, whether it’s popular or not. I’ll tell you what I believe whether it’s in vogue or not. I’ll express my politics whether the polls say it’s what the majority wants or not.

In fact, the reason for us being a Constitutional Republic in the first place is to protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority. Everyone has Rights, even criminals. You have the Right to remain silent. You also have the Right to voice yourself. You have the Right to have ideas and voice them even though they are not popular.

Use it or lose it. Do not take your Freedoms for granted.

That reminds me, I need to take a few more liberals shooting. You’d be surprised just how fast yuppies change their views on guns once they’ve handled one and realized just how fun they are.