Holocaust-Shma'locoust

I read this article today by this guy who writes for the AP out of the Miami Herald. The entire article he's crying in his panties about how people are going to forget the horror of "the" holocaust. Which is a horrible farce in and of itself because there have been numerous holocausts and the Jewish one was by FAR not the most atrocious of them. It's just the most highly publicized.

The author, lets call him Leonard Pitts Jr (because that is his name), usually writes some pretty good articles. But when he drops a bomb they are made of hydrogen. The article goes on and on about how horrible it is that a few people are trivializing what happen in the Nazi Death camps and people need to get back in touch with the fact that these horrible things happened. You know what? Fuck 'em.

DO care about the people of Rwanda? I don't hear anybody offering to put up a museum about what happened in 1994 in DC? Why not? See the problem is that no one has any idea what the word holocaust means, or that the Jewish one was just one of many. In fact not long after WWII Stalin killed twice as many of his own people than Hitler ever did. So where is the memorial to the Russian holocaust? "One of the most horrific happenings of the century," BLAH BLAH BLAH. Get over it already. The only reason we keep being reminded of it is because there are a plethora of Jewish film makers out there, which is fine, get in touch with your roots and all that, but the rest of the country needs to learn not to rely on MOVIES for it's education. What about Western SUDAN?! READ A FRIGGIN BOOK!

The point is that millions more people die everyday in places all over the world from Man's Evil to Man, and no-one bats an eyelash just because there isn't some ass muncher writing an editorial about it in the local newspaper. You know what I want to see? A Jewish holocaust organization devoted to educating people about the other holocausts going on in the world RIGHT now and creating a way for people to involve themselves in finding peaceful solutions. Shalom my left butt cheek.

What did you expect? 

the saddest kind

I was talking to a friend of mine today about emotional poverty. What spurred this was her relating to me a story about when she used to teach second grade. She would ask the children to go home and have certain good papers that had high marks on them signed and brought back. There were constantly children who would come back crying and really upset because they could not get their parents to sign these. Keep in mind these are GOOD grades that the kids were PROUD to show to their parents. One little girl came back in tears because she said she waited up for her mother to come home as late as she could, and then when she went to her mother's room in the morning to wake her up and get her to sign it she refused to get up and ordered the kid out of the room.

What the Fuck.

I'm serious if you can't be bothered to take care of children then don't have them, or give them up to adoption or smother them in their sleep or something. And oh please do not feed me lines of single parent working blah blah blah. Yeah it's hard to make ends meet on one salary and be a parent but BOO HOO. No one ever held a gun to your head and forced you to have children so tough shit (see previous entry).

There are whole scads of kids in the states like this. This friend of mine had taught both abroad and in the states and said it was not nearly as big a problem elsewhere. I have no idea why that is, but it's weird.

Just yet another reason on my list of "Why we should sterilize people..."

From our nation to yours

Dear Mr Faure (current president of Togo)

Have you learned nothing from the American government? While it is noble of you to want to follow so closely in your fathers footsteps by taking up the role of leadership after him, serving without an election is sure to bring you world attention. Take instead a page from our own recent history. Take King George the I and King George the II. They at least kept the pretense of a democratic process alive and them beleaguered the process with laws no one had been familiar with in decades and polling and voting scandals and cover up. You see it's a complex system to make people THINK that you are in favor of democracy while in fact you are not.

Basically you need to do what every good dictator does which is fly under the radar of the US. If you don't then by it's own arrogance the US is going to have to be bound to do something about your rise to power—even if it is only lip service – this could cost you time and money down the road.

So take a lesson on politics from our own little dictator and do things right! Other wise that little demonstration your people staged on the White House lawn the other day will gain popularity, and if there is one thing that the world cannot fight it is a popular American cause.

Sincerely Yours,

thetweel

from the BBC...

Kyoto Protocol set to take effect

The Kyoto Protocol, which aims to slow down global warming, will come into effect on Wednesday.

Most of the industrialised world has ratified the treaty, promising to slash greenhouse gas emissions.

A total of 141 countries have signed up, but the US and Australia have abstained, for economic reasons.

The treaty comes into force 90 days after Russia's crucial decision to ratify it in November 2004.

Russia's entry was vital, because for the treaty to work, it has to be ratified by nations accounting for at least 55% of greenhouse gas emissions. This target was only met after Russia joined.

Individual targets

The protocol, which becomes a legally binding treaty at 0500 GMT on 16 February 2005, demands a 5.2% cut in greenhouse gas emissions from the industrialised world as a whole, by 2012. Each country has been set its own individual targets according to its pollution levels.

Growing developing countries China and India are outside the framework, a fact pointed out by US President George W. Bush when he abandoned Kyoto as one of his first acts when taking office in 2001.

"The countries outside the treaty say they will take measures on their own but I wonder if they can work," said Japan's Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura.

"We want to continue urging them to join the protocol."

Environmentalists plan to hold protests around the world, including Kyoto, to mark the treaty coming into force - with many targeting the United States.

The main ceremony to mark the entry of Kyoto will be held in the ancient Japanese capital where the treaty was reached in 1997. Speakers are to include Nobel Peace prize winner Wangari Maathai.

Ms Maathai, an ecologist and Kenya's deputy environment minister, said the Kyoto Protocol would require not just efforts from governments and businesses, but also a change in the way people live.

"One of the reasons why some of the countries don't want to support the Kyoto Protocol is exactly because they don't want to reduce their over-consumptive life pattern," Ms Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, said.

"One way of reducing that over-consumption is by learning to reuse a lot of the resources that we use and just throw away."

Tough goals

But even for countries that have signed up to Kyoto, meeting the goals could be difficult.

Canada, one of the treaty's first signatories, has no clear plan for reaching its target emission cuts.

Far from cutting back, Canada's emissions have continued to grow, increasing by 20% since 1990.

And Japan is also unsure it will be able to meet its legal requirement to slash emissions by 6% from 1990 levels by 2012.

"Japan will make all efforts to respect the rules of the Protocol," said Takashi Omura, an official at the Japanese environment ministry. "It will neither be easy nor insurmountable."

eat it and die

There is a new style of life that i would like to propose for (generally) the American population, but it could easily be spread to the whole world. It goes something like this: Tough Shit.

Oh is your child depressed? Do they need more toys and therapy etc? Tough shit. Boo hoo is your child in high school and can't read. Tough Shit. I say leave the children behind. You can't hack it too bad. You lose. Go find someone else to cry to. The whole country has become this giant nation of crybabies. Oh boo hoo, I have lung trouble for asbestoses. My work conditions aren't safe. And all it does is make the middle class pay the price for programs and higher insurance rates. Do the people in charge give a rats ass? Of course not! What insane idea made you think they did? They just pay out lip service and pass on the costs of these beneficial programs to the merchant class.

No child left behind is the biggest crock of my ass biscuits I've ever heard of. Ask any teacher and they will agree. Some kids get left behind. Why? Is it be cause of unfair social statutes that keep minorities down? Not having enough head start programs?! WHY OH WHY? I'll tell you. Some kids are just dumb as rocks. That's it. There are just stupid people out there. Tough shit. Deal with it.

Man. That would be great. All these parents that are out there who are looking for help with their kids upbringing? Too bad. Here's the name of a good work house. Some times hard work is the only thing a kid understands. Bring back the workhouses i say, put those ADHD finger to work making something useful and contributing to the country!

That and forced sterility would end a lot of problems. Sterilize EVERYONE. Every last man and woman in the whole freaking country. You want a kid? Come and apply to the government and we'll see. Maybe yes, maybe no. Something like ¾ of all children born in this country are “unplanned” pregnancies. That sounds like a lot to me. So make people work for their kids. Yeah maybe there will be like black market reversals but who cares! Then at least you have to want a kid bad enough to go seek out someone to do it and pay for it. What else is the point? Are children punishment for promiscuity? Cause that's a great mentality, and seems to be the only reason we can't do it already. So many of us out there insist that at “some point” in the future we will be responsible and ready to have children, but apparently in the majority of the time we end up with surprises. Me? I don't like surprises so much. If insist on being a culture of promiscuity then why should we inflict our inane decisions on the mongrel children that society produces?

So put something in the water already! where the hell is the secret controling government i'm always hearing so much about? Add a little semi harmless isotope in there along side the chlorine an d fluoride.

We forfeit the right to breed.

"Even the mona lisa is falling apart"

My dear and lovely wife had a most intriguing thought the other day it all had
to do with why we seems so infatuated by the "pretty" people in our world.
That is take the icons of Hollywood--which is a great name for them (icons) honestly
because what else are they really, not honestly true people by any means but
mere representations of what ever the public whim is told to perceive them. But
take a look at them and see the fantasy that we have created in perfected beauty
but why?! Why is the question, for certain the plain folk of the rest of the
world can only be made to feel inferior by comparison. We have no hope of
attaining what they have in physical prowess most because the majority of it is
created and implanted and injected. So why then are we obsessed by it?

Why too do we all, at least on some level, possess ourselves with the idea of
personal beauty? Not just for women, not just for the young, we all at some
level or another are concerned with our own body image, the clothes we wear,
how we wear our hair. If we truly lived in a society devoid of these concerns
then only the most utilitarian means of cleanliness. Short hair, comfortable,
clean clothing that bore no witness to personal aesthetics. So again--why? To
what end are we striving?

My wife's idea was that we are in fact chasing a dream. If we, as humans, are
in fact created in the image of the creator. That creation took place in the
eternal garden in which we were meant to dwell forever in the midst of his
perfection. Yet when the sin, or the division, between us and the almighty
occurred it severed that perfection and cast us into the world of the material.
In which things and life must decay in order to continue.

So, we here in this world of constant decay and charge are in fact in the never
ending pursuit of what we intrinsically feel that we have lost perfection.

We can still feel the longing for the thing we have lost (like an echo in an
endless cavern), aside from the communication with the creator we desire more
than anything else to be returned to that perfection. In the lapse of any kind
of spiritual direction on how to attain that perfection in the world that
matters we seek futile means to hold on to that perfection in the world that is
constantly decaying. Like a man trying to build an igloo in the dessert.