Oh yeah…the malt beverage at the end really hammered it home.

Only in America would you have a food bank begging for donations at the same time that a pig like this asshole is seeing how much food he can put down in a certain amount of time–for entertainment purposes only.

Where is my voice?  Who is taking my concerns to the President of the United States and making it known that I’m 100% displeased with this decision?   No one.  The reason is because Congress doesn’t care what the people want.  Congress thinks that the average Joe is too stupid to know what is good for them, therefore, they vote legislation into law that we have no control or say over.  And we end up losing more and more of our tax dollars to stupid legislation.   Nevermind that members of Congress have the leisure of Air Force owned jets to fly all over the country at their own discretion, ie. Nancy Pelosi…all financed with our tax dollars.

I WANT MY TAX MONEY BACK!!!!

I want to be able to use my hard-earned money to use where I see fit.  I’m tired of financing major corporations that get bailouts because they can’t stay afloat!!!   Why should that be MY problem?   If I can’t pay my own mortgage, who’s going to bail me out?   And I already lost several thousands of dollars in my 401k this year, not to mention my company ISN’T matching our 401k this year because of the idiotic bailout plan that went into action.  The entire market is coming down because of this stupidity.   Or better yet, if I owned my own business and I wasn’t able to make a profit, would the government bail me out?  Nope.  And the reason is because my small business wouldn’t be lining Congressional pockets or doing them any favors.

For those of us who are hard-working tax payers who didn’t ask to bailout these corporations, we should have a voice.  We should have a say in where our money goes.  We shouldn’t have to put up with Congress (who’s not looking out for what’s best for the American People, but for a few corporations who may have scratched their  backs) making bad decisions that we will end up paying for.  Those elected officials have wronged us!

I am tired of sitting back and watching the IRS compound more and more taxes on the American people.  I get taxed on almost everything I do.  There’s tax for owning a home, owning a vehicle, taxes on food, gas, clothing, you get taxed on phone usage, flushing the toilet (which is a double tax because you’re taxed on what goes in your body, and then what comes out)!  I’m tired of taxes!!!    

But since we all have to pay taxes regardless of how I feel about it, here’s an idea…Why not be able to choose where my tax dollars go???    Much like the 401k plan works, you should be able to choose which programs you want to benefit from your tax dollars.  Give me the option of paying for state-funded prisoners to eat for free and use the internet and get law degrees while they’re serving their time.  Give me the option of spending my tax dollars helping out major corporations that would just get bought out by larger ones if they went down in flames.  Give me the option of funding highway cleanup crews.   Give me the option of funding other such nonsense which is running rampant in our country…and then I’ll be a much happier Citizen.

Until then, I WANT MY TAX DOLLARS BACK!!!

One of the flaws I had was being too passive, too willing to give everything for nothing. Too willing to go out of my way emotionally. I’d see things and want to fix them, which was one of the factors in drawing me into a few relationships. I know I’m not the only person who’s done this. You see someone that you know you can love, care for. You want to be the one that pulls that person out of the ditch they’re in. Any number of variables can account for the reasoning behind it. Maybe we feel that being the “savior” will open the other person’s eyes to reality. They will see you for what you are. They will see you are genuine. But the kicker is, when you help someone off the ground, you aren’t always helping them. There are people who will accept your leniency with gratitude. They will use that to help themselves. They will be productive, and they will return everything you have done ten-fold just to show you thanks. Then there are those that keep their eyes closed as if they have no idea it was you. They forget why you’re there. They use you to do anything and everything they want to do. In the end, you walk away burned out emotionally. This is where the majority of my experience lies.

At certain points, you will break down. You’ll have nothing but unanswered questions. Questions you should never have to ask yourself or anyone else for that matter. Some of the questions I asked myself have been answered. I stated my thoughts on some of them in the previous two blogs I posted on this subject. The usual question of course being “why?” Since everyone is different, it is sometimes difficult to answer that question. You either have to know what the other person is thinking, if they’re thinking at all, or you have to understand human nature in general.

I wrote another piece about the past, present and future, but have yet to post it. I’m going to have to reread it and make sure it makes sense before I do post it, IF I do, but writing that gave me some answers to more questions I had.

In my first blog about relationship etiquette, I made mention of the past. People drag along baggage for years. Namely, the dreaded “ex.” Such items of interest as “My ex and I used to have sex in my car and I used to sit in this position…” Something that happened in the past, something I never wanted to hear about, know about, and certainly did not want a visual of. It’s a useless continuation of something that should have been left far behind, but is incessantly made mention of, and always at the worst possible moments. In my past, I have been in relationships with people who for whatever reason stayed in touch with their ex, or exes. My question is, “If you are here with ME now, then why do you NEED to sit here on the phone with your ex? Furthermore, why must you do it in MY home?”

The writing I did about the past, present and future gave me some thoughts on this.

Naturally, the past, present, and future are closely intertwined. As I stated earlier in this post, a lot of people do not want to see inside of themselves. They don’t want to see the flaws, and they certainly do not want to change. They want to maintain a steady routine of daily habits. This leads me to believe that things that have happened in the past, in some way regardless of how good or bad they are, maintain some sort of comforting effect in the present. For example: Although Air Force basic training was not a pleasant experience, by the end of it, I was used to the routine. I could have stayed in that environment for years comfortably. Moving on was difficult, new routine, new everything. But I survived, just as millions of people in the military have, through far worse times than I could possibly imagine.

That explanation would be the easy road to take. Knowing how people think, I know that’s not the ultimate answer. I know that people don’t hold onto certain things because they just need a “woobie.” As with anything else, there’s more than one reason.

One of them is insecurity. I was once called insecure by someone because this individual wanted to see other people while we were together. That was a total mind screw. For some time, I thought there was something wrong with me, and there was. The thing that was wrong with me was that I was codependent. I did everything I could to keep things together. It took me a long time to come to terms what the reality was. Being told by someone they want to stay with you, but they want to see other people would make anyone feel insecure about themselves. Cause and effect. But the truth was that she was insecure to begin with. At the point where you do not feel that the person you are with, no matter how much love they show you, is not providing you with enough reassurance about yourself and you feel the need to seek outside sources, then you are the one that is insecure. After much thought, I came to the realization that someone who has sex with every person that looks them in the eye is more than likely lacking something. And that something is self confidence.

How in God’s name is self-confidence lacking in someone that has sex with everyone in their city you ask? Simple: If you don’t feel you are attractive, but someone will have sex with you, then obviously that person is attracted to you, right? So if you have sex with 10 people, that’s 10 people that are attracted to you, and have shown you their “approval” of who you are. But what you do not realize my friend, is that you have only been used. It doesn’t matter how attractive or unattractive you are. There are plenty of people out there who will have sex with anyone and everything. Everyone has an equal chance. If you try to tell me I’m wrong, you’re only fooling yourself. The truth is, if you are the type of person that wants to go home with every guy at the bar every weekend, you might as well be accepting money for it. In the end, it’s just like being a prostitute. The only difference is that a prostitute is actually trying to expand their savings account by being used.

Going back to the past, you can now see why people will drag their exes with them to each and every relationship. It is a reassurance. That person still feels the same way about them. Or they still want to be friends. “If he wants to be my friend still, then obviously there’s something good about me and that makes me feel good!” But by doing that, you make the next poor bastard that comes along feel like crap because your old boyfriend is still in the pictures. As the saying goes, “Bros before hos,” so the ex is obviously always going to be the person at the top of your priority list should anything arise.

That’s another thing. NEVER put your friends before your significant other. My best friend’s name is Jack. His wife and kids are first in his life. Any time I’ve been in a relationship. My significant other was first in my life. That meant pushing my friends aside. And at times I haven’t been able to hang out with my friends because they were with their significant others and families. That is the way it is supposed to be. It’s a matter of respect. It’s a matter of showing that person that you are focused on them. And no matter how long you’ve been with someone, you can never know everything about them. You’ll never know every conversation they’ve had on the phone. Every word they’ve written or spoken. And those are small examples.

As I have mentioned before, it is important to give and take. It shouldn’t be give, or take alone. Remember what I said about being drained emotionally? This is one example of how one person can give everything they can emotionally while the other person takes but never contributes his or herself to the relationship. One person leaves feeling fine, and the other person can barely stand on their own two feet. I’ve been there, and know what to watch out for. Everyone does. It’s a matter of being able to see the indications and getting the hell out of there as soon as possible. Remember, you can’t change people, and you shouldn’t want to.

It is better to leave with a broken heart than with everything broken.

If you suddenly feel that the person you are with needs to change, then you need to walk away. As hard as it may be, you have to make the logical choice. These choices can be some of the most difficult choices you can imagine. But sometimes it just has to be done. Short of killing someone, you feel like you’re killing yourself inside. I’ve been in relationships where I felt that things would work better if the other person would simply wake up and do things the way they should be done. Maybe if I acted a certain way, or if I sat down and talked with them, I’d be able to get them to see the light. Whether I sat down and spoke intellectually, or if I spoke like they were 2 years old so they’d be able to grasp the simplicity of it all, none of it worked. People are generally set in their ways. And it takes a lot to get someone to walk a different path. That has to be up to them. Again, you should not have to work toward getting a relationship to work. Arguments happen, but it shouldn’t get past that point.

A few brief points of interest:

One of the things that I think is very important, is to never go to bed angry. One natural downside is loss of sleep. And of course, when you lose a lot of sleep, you get up in the morning for work angry as hell. So you’re in a bad mood all day at work, you’re dead tired, and nothing is resolved. More than likely, you’re fighting over something stupid. Knock it off.

If you’re living with someone, it’s not ok to spend all night “out” somewhere. Hey, if you want to go out with your friends, that’s fine. But there comes a time when it becomes unacceptable. You have plenty of time in life to go out and play. Once you accept the responsibility of being in a relationship, there comes the responsibility of adulthood. This is especially important if you have children involved. Simple common knowledge; people typically do most of their drinking at night. Your chances of not making it home because of a drunk driver or an accident significantly increases during this time.

Never take the relationship lightly. In a worst case scenario, one of you could die. I have also experienced this. No matter what, make sure the person you are with knows how you feel at all times. Any second could be your last. If you go to bed angry, you might wake up in the morning and find that your significant other has died in their sleep. If you think this is funny, or if it’s a joke, I can only hope you don’t experience this kind of pain. There is nothing like it.

Here’s a biggie. Don’t cheat. I’m not exactly sure what possesses people other than insecurity in themselves to go out and cheat on someone they have allegedly made a commitment to. If you fall into this category, you obviously have not experienced the pain of being cheated on, or if you have, you’ve completely blocked off all emotion and are merely doing it to get back at the opposite sex for slighting you. This is one of the most vile things you can do to someone. Dragging your ex into a new relationship is about equal to this in my eyes.

Stay sober. There seems to be a fine line between social drinking and alcoholism. There’s a big difference between coming home from work once in a while, or going out from time to time on the weekends to go out and have a few drinks. If you’d rather spend more time choking down a bottle of vodka, rather than spending time with your significant other, then you have a problem. It can drive a wedge into any relationship. And the important thing to remember is that anything you do can become a wedge. You just have to know what the limits are and where the lines need to be drawn.

Get to know who you’re with. Find out as much as you can before you make the possible mistake of getting married. Weigh the pros and the cons. There is nothing wrong with overanalyzing, because it is generally caused by your gut instinct. If your gut tells you that something is wrong, more than likely, there IS something wrong, and you need to listen to that.

Don’t sleep around with every person you meet. Do you honestly think that you can just pick someone to settle with that will be “ok” with knowing you’ve slept with 30 or 40 people? It’s disgusting. Whether you realize it or not, no one wants a whore, and that is directed toward both men and women. Would you like to settle down with, and marry someone you know has had sex with a few dozen other people? It’s NOT ok, and I will NOT “get over it.” I don’t want to be with someone who’s shared themself with everyone and their brother. Quite frankly it makes me sick to my stomach. Believe it or not, sex does mean something. If you think it doesn’t, please get off my planet. That goes out to every shallow person out there that says “The amount of people you sleep with is just a number.”

Don’t use people for money. Eventually, money runs out and you’re screwed. Eventually, you will be figured out. Can you honestly go on with a clear conscience?

Everything I’ve said has been said out of observations made over a long period of time. Now that I think about it, it’s roughly 20 years of observation. I’ve seen a lot of things happen in life since childhood, and I’ve kept a lot of mental notes. Men say they don’t know how women think, and women say that think a guy only thinks about sex. I’ve just told you different. If you want to know how a male thinks, a male with any decency left in him, and you’ve read this, then now you understand. I’m standing for what I believe. I do understand that nothing in life works exactly the way you want it to, based on the lack of control we have over any and every little action, reaction, and hope we have in life. However, it’s important to keep things in mind when you’re involving someone else in your life.

Everything I’ve said over the past couple days is a summary of many thoughts I’ve had. I know it didn’t all come out perfect, and some of it veered off bit from the main objective. But what it all boils down to is having consideration for other people. Keep some common sense in mind, and stop being naïve. Pretending to be innocent about your actions, pretending as though you don’t realize your actions have equal reactions isn’t going to change the fact that they do. Society as a whole needs to grow up. People need to learn decency, respect, and common sense. It seems as though it’s been lost through the years. Most of all, embrace morals. We’re given these things for a very good, specific reason. Don’t throw that aside because you feel like you’ve either been sheltered, or because you weren’t brought up with them in the first place.

If at any time I seemed aggressive or angry in any of this, I assure you, I was angry typing ALL of it. I have every right to be. I will no longer put up with inconsideration and stupidity. If that bothers you, it is not my problem.

I hope you enjoyed the read.

Yesterday I posted a blog that may have burned some bridges. Some bridges should never be crossed in the first place. Sometimes you just have to weed out those things and cut the numbers down so you have a clear path to walk. Honestly, I do not care if I hurt any feelings, anger anyone, or make you feel like you’re wrong. You can send me hate mail later, but it isn’t going to make a difference. How I feel about myself, my surroundings, everything in life, is 100% up to me. Some people may feel that I’m irrational, some may think I am insane. Some might think that I’m just hard-headed and that I should just accept certain things in life and just move on. To anyone that says any of these things, I want you to take a good long hard look inside yourself and ask yourself why you would just lie down and accept what everyone tells you to.

I’ve sat by for years, just watching. I’ve seen a lot of what used to be considered wrong, be pushed into society and much of it has become the acceptable norm. Things that I don’t believe in, but have been told I should accept because everyone else does. I have been told I am ignorant for having beliefs. I’m here to tell you something else.

IGNORANCE is the acceptance of anything and everything with blind eyes. In other words, you might not believe drug use is ok, but you’ll turn your head when someone you know does it. You’ll just accept it and pretend that it doesn’t exist. You won’t say anything about it. THAT my friends, is ignorance. THAT is narrow-minded. Not standing up for yourself and keeping that tunnel vision on nothing but your own little world, pretending like there’s nothing outside of it, because you don’t want to offend anyone. That is fear.

We have become a politically correct society. We’ve had all kinds of wonderful things crammed down our throats. And people just keep accepting it. Why? Do you not have anything inside of you that tells you something isn’t right? Do you not have your own beliefs? Your own convictions? Do you just want to accept what is thrown at you and then pretend as though you have a right to go after someone that doesn’t accept it? That’s what I’ve been seeing.

The reason I posted that blog yesterday, was so everyone that reads about me, knows that too many lines have been crossed. It’s been a long walk through life so far, and I’m 28 years old. I don’t want to spend the rest of my life being forced to take a step back from everything I believe in myself so that others can take advantage. After so much experience, one can either continue on the same path, or one can stand firm in his or her beliefs. I have sacrificed my own happiness for other people in the past, and as selfish as it sounds, it got me nothing. I have crossed the lines I had drawn, I compromised what I believed in. I have made some very bad choices in my life. At some point, after the dust had settled, I made a choice that I would no longer be that person.

The point came where I decided that I would never back down from what I believed. I stand firm in my belief in God most of all. People may sit there and tell me the Bible is just a fairy tale. Even if it was, I ask you, tell me what harm can come of those who would use it’s lessons? You can’t. So that argument is completely thrown out the window and you have no more to say to me.

So what does this have to do with relationship etiquette?

Simple; When you get involved with someone, they need to have the same ideas. The same beliefs. The same principles. Opposites may attract, but they never line up correctly. Not saying a relationship of opposites can’t work, but how often does it mesh?

Yesterday’s blog was written after years of observation. Years of dealing with the same thing over and over again. I will NOT compromise what is right. And what I said yesterday is the truth. It is fact. It is not some random act out of irritiability. If you sit down and think about it, I mean REALLY think, instead of rejecting it because it’s not something society says is the right way to think, then it just might get through to you. You’ll see that in all of it, the entire thing boils down to respecting your partner.

Love is pain, and sometimes love is sacrifice. The things that you may have to sacrifice in a relationship aren’t meant to harm you. They are things you generally do not need. That is unless you’re struggling financially and instead of buying food for yourself, you buy food for the person you love. There are some differences. However, you do not need to continue on a relationship with someone if you allegedly love the person you are with in the present.

You cannot live in the present if you keep your past with you. The only part of the past you need are the memories. Those memories can guide you in your decisions for the future. Again, I’m talking about relationships here. If you were with someone and broke up for whatever reason, it is completely unreasonable to allow that person to be present in a current relationship. It’s disrespectful, and 100% wrong to put someone you love through that. You can’t tell me otherwise. It IS wrong.

It is wrong to expect someone to change who they are. I have done this in the past. And I will not do it again. If I’m in a relationship and I see this point, I will walk away. No questions asked, no need to explain. There are 6 Billion people in this world and I can’t please them all. Nor can any of you.

When you’re in a relationship there are a number of things you have to keep in mind. Some things come naturally to people, some people have to work really hard at it. In truth, you shouldn’t have to work at it. It should be natural if it is right. But again, it all comes down to respect. If you love someone, you will respect them. You will do things the right way the first time because you know what is right and wrong. Throw away the ideas that everyone else has planted in your heads about what the norm should be.

For once, do what is right. Make your own decisions. And do it because you believe in it.

To be continued….

I’ve thought about writing this for months. Well, much longer than that. Sometimes I’ll let something bother me for long enough and then I’ll sit down and do something about it, or I will remove that aspect from my life. Either way, things happen, and I move on. Some things are more painful than others, some things leave scars, some are forgettable. But the truth is, learn from your mistakes, and keep those things in the forefront so you have something to help guide your decision making in the future.

However, there is one thing that I have difficulty moving on with, and that’s “ex chat.”

This is something I honestly didn’t really have to deal with during my younger dating years. Sometimes I think I had a little more sense. Sense in who I chose to get close to that is.

Now, some of you may think to yourselves that I’m about to contradict myself here. In some very minor way, MAYBE I will. But I assure you, it is for the purpose of example only, so that you may better understand my reasoning.

It seems to me there should be some boundaries in relationships. Not only when it comes to the relationship itself, but the content of each and every conversation should be monitored carefully for the dreaded and blatant use of an ex’s name, and/or happenings with that ex. Now, there are circumstances when an ex can be brought up… if you were married to that ex, or if you had a child or children with that ex. Or both, which would generally be the case.

If I bring up an ex in conversation, it is usually a means by which I explain my reasoning for the future. I do not however, continue explaining who that person was, or many of the unecessary details pertainig to the lives we briefly shared.

For example, there are a number of things you should not bring into a relationship when it comes to an ex, or exes:

1. I do not want to hear about you losing your virginity. I don’t want to hear the name of the guy you lost it to, I certainly don’t want to see a picture, and PLEASE spare me the explicit details of the act.

2. I do not want to hear about how many people you have slept with. If you’ve spent some time on the street corner, we have a problem. And if you in short tell me you’ve been around the block way too many times, then you may want to search elsewhere. Yes, that bothers me. So don’t tell me about all the people you’ve had sex with, and for the love of God, don’t sit there and list off names, and again, no pictures.

3. This is a huge point of contention for me. Why do you HAVE to be friends with your ex(es)? WHY? I stay in contact with a couple of the people I’ve dated. An occasional email, or MAYBE a phone call once every 4 or 6 months, etc… just to say hi, see if they’re ok. We know the boundaries… have some respect. Anything beyond that, ESPECIALLY when you’re in a relationship, is just plain rude!! The last thing I really want to do is stand there and shake hands with some random person you’ve had sex with and laugh and sing and enjoy thoughts of memories past. Maybe it means nothing to you, but if you had any morals, maybe it would.

4. This pretty much goes off the last one. If you want to remain friends with your ex, then that’s wonderful. But don’t plan on me sticking around to watch you to play in the dirt. I’m not 12 years old anymore and it certainly isn’t cute. It also isn’t cute when your ex pretends I do not exist and plans your days for your without acknowledging that you are in fact involved in a relationship. Bestest buddies with ex = Me leaving you.

5. An ex is an ex for a reason. Hey, if your ex hurt you in some way, it understandable that you will talk about it. In fact I do want to know what that person did so that I can avoid making the same mistakes. However, I have noticed that there have been remarkable comparisons between certain people and their exes, such as a similarity in breakups, etc… In other words, if you had 5 boyfriends, and they all ended the same way, there may be a common denominator: You. If that’s the case and you sit there and try to talk bad about them, then I’ll know something is up. Seen it before. I’m also a bit tired of the cliche: “We’re better off as friends.” MOVE ON ALREADY. I assure you, in 10 years when you’re still wondering why you can’t find a decent human being to share your life with, it’s because you won’t move on. The only people you will attract are those that just want to get in your shorts, and then they will leave you, because they don’t want to deal with the person from your past who keeps showing up at the door.

Now, I’ve made some mistakes in the past, and I’ve learned quite a bit from them. Most of you know my background. I don’t like to hide anything. You also know that my level of contact with certain people has been completely cutt off, or if not, has been kept open for very minimum, specific reason, and it certainly isn’t for the purpose of giggling like school girls over the phone.

There are more items I’d like to add to this list, and I will continue to do so as I remember. If this offends you in some way, then so be it. I’ve settled for less in the past, I’m not going to do it ever again. I stand by what I believe, and quite frankly, I don’t care if I’m standing alone when all is said and done. I’d rather be standing alone, than with you, and your ex boyfriend.

Thanks : D

So if you’re easily offended, this is probably not going to be for you. If you are catholic, you may end up wanting to murder me if you read this. But I will say this: I can stand my ground on everything I’m about to say because I am 100% correct in the following. All it took was a little research, and a whole lot of common sense.

Many of you who have taken the time to read my blogs, etc… understand that I have roots in the penticostal church. While I have strayed very far from those roots, mainly the fundamentalist belief system set forth by the people who ran these organizations, I still have beliefs in the premise of the Bible, basic Christianity in general. However, I will NEVER call myself a Christian simply because I am not what a Christian represents, and that is Christ. No one can rightfully call themselves “Christian” if they understand the actually meaning behind the word.

So in this discussion, I figured something else out. I mean, I already knew it, but not in the same context. And it has to do with catholicism. I know what you’re thinking… “ZOMG!! Is he going to bash catholicism?”

And I answer:  Yes. I am.

While I don’t think my approach at some things are exactly tactful, I’m not the most politically correct person in the world. I don’t like to candy coat garbage, which is what I see a lot of every day every time I open up cnn.com or foxnews.com. People’s priorities in life are SCREWED UP. Things have gone backwards, and I disagree with a massive chunk of the crap that’s swirling around the toilet this country is turning into.

For example, people will immediately jump down my throat and up my ass and call me a homophobe if I say I disagree with gay rights. They say “You are intolerant, you HAVE to agree to gay rights.” Oh, do I?

Does anyone not see the irony in this? Intolerant people preaching tolerance and trying to force it down my throat, in essence, trying to force me to conform to their beliefs. Calling me narrowminded for MAKING UP MY OWN MIND AND NOT FOLLOWING THE HERD. Someone who is “open minded” is someone who is able to form their own opinions, beliefs, etc… based on observation. This is what I do. And I’m wrong for this? Why? Because MTV showcases this shit on the real world?

Yes, I am angry.

So how does this all tie in with catholicism you ask? Simple. It is a fake religion that plays on what people are willing to get themselves into for some feeling of comfort. It’s the EASY way out. It is a pagan religion that is the polar opposite of anything Christian.

“But catholics believe in Jesus!”

So do muslims, jehovah’s witnesses, mormons, and all of the christian denominations.

Does it make them right? No.

So let’s just get down to it. I’d like you all find a few things in your Bibles, look  it up online if you don’t have one. Please, PLEASE show me where the Bible states the following:

1. Confession (to a priest)
2. Baptizing infants
3. Praying to the saints
4. Praying to Mary
5. ANYTHING about a pope
6. Nuns
7. Priests can’t marry

The list goes on and on and on….

These are just a few examples of things that are not Biblical. Do you remember where I said it was a pagan religion? See numbers 3 and 4? What are you doing when you pray to or worship something other than God according to the Bible? That’s right kids… idols!

I’m as much as a saint as St. Patrick and Mother Theresa. Just another human that will in my own time die and rot, just like every single one of us eventually does. As it stands, they’re working to get the last pope canonized, (made into a saint so people can worship and pray to him, just as the Bible says NOT to do).

The catholic church is nothing more than a corporation, people. The pope is it’s CEO. And guess what? As gas prices rise so high we’re drowning to keep afloat, at least the big oil companies provide products such as gasoline. The catholic church just rakes in money, does not pay taxes, and gives you nothing in return but a false sense of salvation. It goes against the very basis of it’s foundation, yet people flock to it.

Furthermore, what “religion” has a right to kick you out of the church? Excommunication. PLEASE. No one has power over God.

If you care to do your own research, by all means, please do.

Here’s a start:

http://www.lavistachurchofchrist.org/LVanswers/2004-04-01.htm

While I do not affiliate myself with the church of Christ, the power of Google has compelled me. There are a ton of sites out there that actually point out scripture versus catholic teachings.

All in all, I’ve been doing a lot of questioning lately. Externally, internally…. everything. I’d rather get rid of the garbage so it’s not in my way when it comes to making choices. If you can logically discount something, especially when you find enough contradictory information about it, then GET RID OF IT. I could unfortunately go on about this for a very long time because you simply cannot ignore things right in front of your face. It amazes me that this fake religion has taken in so many people and hardly anyone asks any questions.

I’m sure I’ll end up writing about this again, along with mormons and jehovah’s witnesses. But I’m tired. If I’ve pissed you off, oh well.

Enjoy.

Instead of the company holding itself accountable for it’s financial problems, the are instead putting the burden on us employees.  They gave us a 3 day notice stating that we won’t be getting paid on Friday this week.  Just like every American, I have bills to pay and mouths to feed.  My creditors provide services to me with the agreement that I will pay them in return.  If I don’t pay them on time, they will be holding me accountable with late fees, phone calls, notices, etc.  I agree to provide services to my employer in exchange for timely compensation.  The part that bothers me is if my employer doesn’t pay me on time, there is no retribution whatsoever.  I can’t send them late fees or put a ding on their credit.  I cannot do anything.  I just sit here knowing that I gave them a bunch of time and in my position time equals money.  The kicker is that my employer is a subcontractor to another company, so my employer is getting paid for the work I have performed–but they are not passing that pay on to me.

Once again, it seems that the only people being held accountable for anything are the honest, hard-working, middle-class people who live within their means.  I would love to boycott my company, but I am stuck in a hard place because I am the breadwinner for my family.  If I walk off the job in protest, there are a hundred people waiting to take my job.  I have to eat their financial problems because the executives won’t hold themselves accountable.  I have to somehow continue to be motivated to work for this company despite the fact that I just gave them 80 hours of work for free.  And I also have to try and convince myself that my company isn’t on the verge of collapse–because e-mails like these almost always come before the real bad news.

Something smells fishy here.

I normally wouldn’t have a problem yielding to an emergency vehicle, but today I did.  You see, this unmarked law enforcement SUV turned off his lights after he passed the majority of the traffic.  The congested spot was going the speed limit and not slowing down traffic, but apparently this was too slow for the unmarked cop car.  The unmarked vehicle passed me and the others at a speed that was well over the speed limit.  A few miles later, the SUV was back in traffic and doing the speed limit–but with no flashing lights.  This left me even more confused until I realized what had happened over these short few miles–we crossed county lines and he is probably now in jurisdiction where he has to behave.  The bottom line is the cop used his flashing lights to get around traffic even though he had no legitimate need to do so.  This person is someone who feels they are above the law and are entitled to not only use emergency lights in an unofficial manner, but also to drive at speeds above the speed limit.  And because they are in a semi-unmarked cop car outside of their jurisdiction, they know there is pretty much a guarantee they will get away with it.  I am going to call this person, Officer Unaccountable.

What happened to folks being accountable for their actions?  Slowly over time, this cop morphed into the pile of garbage he is because folks didn’t hold him accountable for minute and trivial things.  It probably started with him speeding in his cop car, then morphed into him driving his cop car to his house 25 miles away (even though he is only supposed to drive it a maximum of 5 miles), then he was promoted and talked his way into an unmarked car, and soon realized that cars will yield to his emergency lights even if he just uses them for fun.  Today, it would take me hours to trace down what agency this vehicle belongs to and who I would need to contact to file a complaint.

This story has bearing on things locally and nationally.  Everyone is pissed off about big executives getting huge bonuses and making millions of dollars.  Being upset at them is ridiculous–you need to be upset at all the people that enabled them to get to this point.  An assembly line worker didn’t just walk into a CEO position one day and have money thrown at them.  These CEOs worked their way up the corporate ladder, and eventually were making ridiculous amounts of money.  Who enabled them?  The shareholders did.  In a normal corporation, there is a board of directors.  This board of directors is elected by the shareholders.  Shareholders who are pissed off about the executives should stop whining and begging for government intervention–and instead should use their shareholder voting rights to elect different leadership.  But oh no…Why would the shareholders ever hold themselves accountable for the idiots they have allowed to be in power?  I am going to call these folks Mr. and Mrs. Unaccountable Shareholder.

What about all the people and businesses asking for a bailout?  This is just getting ridiculous.  In a normal world, people are held accountable for their financial decisions.  When you sign the dotted line on a new mortgage, you agree to make payments as agreed upon in the loan contract.  You should have done your homework prior to signing this line and determined how much you could afford to borrow.  Instead, you have more idiots who went out and got a $250K adjustable rate mortgage on a house with an artificially inflated value. And when the interest rates went up, these folks came crying to the government for help.  The flood of homes in this situation caused housing values to drop back to where they should be and this made a perfect storm.  The folks, like me, who bought a reasonably priced home with a FIXED-RATE mortgage, have no worries–except about how they are going to be paying for the STUPIDITY of others.  Instead of holding the “stupids” accountable, the government is instead helping them pay for their mortgage and rewriting the contract loans for them.  Mr. and Mrs. Live Above Our Means are crying out claiming that the banks are to blame, yada yada yada bullshit.  I would love to hear them out, but the last time I checked–the banks were not holding guns to their heads, forcing them to sign the papers for the adjustable rate mortgage for their overpriced stupid house.

Now…what about the banks?  Have the banks done wrong?  Nope.  The banks have merely done what people have allowed them to do.  The entire banking mess stems from the passage of the Federal Reserve Act in 1913.  This act created a PRIVATE centralized banking system, with very little accountability and oversight.  Over a period of several decades, this private banking system has devalued the US dollar by creating massive amounts of money out of thin air.  They have done this through fractional lending and this practice ultimately ends with a collapse of the dollar.  Citizens of the USA need not cry about how the banks have ruined everything, but instead should cry out to the government to END the Federal Reserve banking system.  The US Government, not the banks, needs to be held accountable for the current fiasco.

Some things will never change though.  Things will remain the same as long as folks keep watching American Idol and believing that creating trillions of dollars of new currency to bail out our economy.  Officer Unaccountable, Mr. & Mrs. Unaccountable Shareholders, and Mr. & Mrs. Live Above Our Means will remain unaccountable and will continue to see themselves in the wrong light–instead of doing what is right and admitting they have done some wrong.