The Zombieslayer

If you’re not pissed off about the spill in the Gulf, something is wrong with you.  You should be.  You should be pissed off about the people and animals who lost their lives, the environmental damage, and the long-term damage to economic livelihoods of the people that depend on that area.

The fines levied against British Petroleum aren’t enough.  Joe and Jane Taxpayer will have to cover the rest, and yes, that means if you live in the United States of America, that means YOU.

I joked about drilling our oil right off the coast of England so if we spill, we ruin THEIR beaches.  Well, I was only half-joking.  Maybe we should.  Let them pay the bill for the next spill, not us.

Two things from this which I think are very obvious:

1) We need to do something serious about our energy policy.  If this isn’t a wake up call, I don’t know what is,

2) Limit campaign contributions to $100.  Any person or corporation can donate to a campaign, but $100 tops.  That immediately limits corporate power and puts the power back in the hands of the PEOPLE, where it needs to be.

#2 fixes a heck of a lot more problems than we realize.  The people have been losing power to corporations for decades now and it’s time we got it back.

I’d love to run for Congress on that platform alone.  I’d never win, but someone needs to do it.

Do you believe in the Right to free speech, even for those who offend you or piss you off?

Do you believe that people have the Right to bear arms, even those of that scary race or that religion you don’t like?

Do you think people should be allowed to protest, even if what they believe is stupid?

Do you believe everyone should have the Right to a fair trial, even if the person is most likely a rapist or a murderer?

Do you believe that even who you think are perverts should be allowed to be safe in their homes?

Do you think people who you find strange should be exposed and ridiculed, and watched carefully?

Alright, so I actually watched part of the opening ceremonies to the Olympics. Nicely done Canada. And Canadians, you’re beautiful. No wonder you’re so much happier than us Americans (who are stressed out like you cannot believe).

Now, this isn’t a knock on you, but a knock on the Olympic Committee. Dear Olympic Committee, you all are a bunch of wussies. Yes, you heard it right.

WTF is up with calling Taiwan “Chinese Taipei?” Afraid to offend the Chinese? Well, screw the Chinese. Taiwan = Taiwan. In Taiwan, there were a people called the Taiwanese who were there before you had that civil war between the Nationalists and the Communists. Yes, most people don’t know that, but it’s true. I love how China conveniently likes to forget the existence of peoples. Kind of like Tibetians.

So if someone calls a Taiwanese person Chinese and gets slapped upside the head, don’t be surprised. They hate being called that. As they should.

If someone comes up to you and tells you they watch the Super Bowl only for the commercials, feel free to smack them upside the head. Then tell them to get a fucking life. Seriously. How pathetic is someone to watch anything for commercials?

I wish I had a few million bucks to sponsor a study to show you that it’s not necessarily television that is evil. It’s commercials.

Commercials play to your insecurities. You’re too fat. You’re too thin. You’re not rich enough. You’re not pretty enough. You’re balding. Nobody likes you. Now, if you buy our product, you’ll be prettier. You’ll have better self-esteem. People will like you. You’ll lose weight. You’ll gain weight. Et cetera.

Over time, hearing all this bullshit over and over and you will become more insecure.

My study will show that the more commercials someone watches, the more insecure they will become.

So if someone really wants to watch commercials, instead just tell them they stink, they’re too fat, they’re too thin, nobody likes them, everyone else thinks they’re poor, they’re bald, and their feet are ugly. Oh, and buy your product or else people won’t like them.

Speaking of the Super Bowl, Drew Brees is better than Peyton Manning. There. I said it. Five years from now, people will agree with me. Right now, people won’t. Time will prove me right. Back to the Olympics, the Ukrainian team came up and my real estate agent, who’s traveled a heck of a lot more than I have, turns to me and tells me he thinks Ukrainian women are the best looking in the world. Before I say if I agree or disagree, I’d have to give that some thought. I don’t really have a favorite but if I made a test tube woman, I’d probably take the butt of a Brazilian, the smile of a Thai, the kindness of a Canadian, the brains of a Dutch or German, the energy of a Samoan, the ingenuity of a Japanese person, and the hair of an Irish red-head. And she’d be able to dance like Paula Abdul. Alright, this post is becoming silly. I’ll leave you with this Founding Father quote:”If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”

-Sam Adams

If you don’t know who Lemmy Kilmister is, he’s the lead singer and bass player for a band called Motorhead.  I happen to like their music as they were a precursor to Speed Metal, a genre of music that I greatly enjoyed in the 80s.

He’s also a very intelligent man.  At 64 years of age, they’re still touring the world and still making music.  Their latest album was dang good and Lemmy seems to have the same views of war that I do.  I do not believe in glorifying war.  War is horrible.  It is hell.  There is nothing sexy about seeing your best friend’s brains spilling out on a battlefield.  Literally spilling out.

Now you know I support the troops and whenever they go off to war, I wish them a quick victory and a quick trip home.  When you got friends and family in the military serving your country, it kind of makes war a little bit more personal.

Dang.  I went off on a tangent again.  I’m not supposed to be talking war.  I’m supposed to be talking about heroin.

OK, back to topic.  I hate heroin.  I’ve never tried it.  I’ve seen it in real life plenty of times.  I’d never try that stuff.  Ever.  No desire to.

However, I think Lemmy hit the nail on the head:

“I have never had heroin but since I moved to London from north Wales in ‘67 I have mixed with junkies on a casual and almost daily basis,” he said.

“I also lived with a young woman who tried heroin just to see what it was like. It killed her three years later. I hate the idea even as I say it, but I do believe the only way to treat heroin is to legalise it.” He stated that legalisation would eradicate the drug dealer from society.

Exactly my belief.  I hate the stuff.  It destroys families, not just users.  For the record, if a heroin junkie breaks into my house, I’m shooting him dead and will have no remorse about it.  It’s for defense of my family, as a heroin junkie will do anything to get his fix, including killing your entire family to get your valuables.

But there’s simply too much demand for it.  The way to treat it is to legalize it.  I know that sounds absurd to some folks but it’s true.  Countries that have set up systems to do this have taken out the drug dealer from the equation.  And as bad as a junkie is, drug dealers are their puppet masters.  They need to be taken out.  Legalizing it takes them out.  It’s as simple as that.

Agree? Disagree? Either way, I’d love to hear what you say.

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Source for Lemmy quote - Lemmy talks about drugs.

You shouldn’t be paying more than 10% income tax.  Period.

If the government can’t manage its budget with its citizens paying more than 10% of their hard-earned money to taxes, then that should be their problem.  Not yours.

Government needs to learn to balance its budget.  No more bailouts.  No more lending money to countries that can’t manage their money.  No more wars we don’t belong in.

No military-industrial complex.  No corporate welfare.  Limit welfare to two years except for Veterans and true handicapped people.  Establish English as a national language.  Sorry everyone else.  Learn it.  As far as I’m concerned, the only people who shouldn’t be forced to learn it are Native Americans.

All that should save money.  Also, like it or not, we’re going to have to raise tariffs on China.  This one way trade is killing this country’s economy.

So, I’d be fine with a progressive tax.  I have no beef with that.  If you’re poor, you pay under 10%, maybe as low as 2%.  Or 1%.  Whatever.  10% is for higher incomes.  Middle class should be somewhere in the middle.

This 30-40% tax is bullshit and it’s strangling the Middle Class.