Now, to the good stuff. I read someone's journal recently, and they mention hating close minded people. I agree. But then they go on to say how they don't like how some people don't accept gays. OK, this is touchy. First of all I'm a Christian and I don't believe it's natural, and it's wrong, but they're still a person. So yeah they should be able to vote, and be able to go in the military and all that, but why should we make them be silent about themselves? Well, I take both sides here, because if I was in the army and this gay guy had the bunk above me and he had his rainbows, purple and his triangle flying everywhere then I'd be a little uncomfortable. So you know, I think a little censoring is appropriate, but I don't know if they should be able to come out of the closet completely in the military. And then gay day at Disney World... That's just wrong. I think we can all agree it's unnatural, and we can all agree most people going to Disney World have a family, usually with a small child in it. I don't know about you but I don't want my kid walking around seeing a bunch of gays displaying pride for their betrayal to nature. I mean, if you're gay, I don't care. I'll still talk to you as long as you're not a huge flamer. It doesn't affect you, but when you start shoving your ways out onto the world it's just like... wrong. Us heteros don't go around with some color that we've claimed, and some symbol, and some shape and all this. So basically if you're gay it's fine, and you should have rights, but don't force the way you are on the world; people will accept or reject you, period. No one else forces people to take notice of what they are, so I don't think gays should push it out like that either. I mean, if you want to tell friends, good, but don't go streaming everywhere with a damn rainbow and purple clothes. It's just wrong. Atleast to me it is.

Blacks. Why does the word "black" offend them? And "negro"? Negro comes from Spanish referring to their skin color, same with black only that's English. I mean, we call caucasians "whites." We're not "European-Americans" or some other crazy thing. We're just white. And if you want to call yourself an African-American around me you better make damn sure you know what part of Africa you're descended from because how dare you claim something you don't even know jack about. Atleast white people know their heritage, and if we don't it's no big deal because it's not part of our label. Our label is our color, not our family's origin. So if you want to label yourself with your origin, then atleast know your origin otherwise you're just an ignorant follower.

Abortion. There's no need for it. You made a mistake and you'll have to live with it, so bear your burden. You can always go with adoption. And if you're raped, well I'm sorry but it's kind of like when the whole class gets punished because one person was talking... you have to suffer too. You can give it up for adoption, no need to kill. You conceive a baby, and at the time of conception, a human life is started. You started the process and who the fuckare you to take the life away from the unborn child? A fetus is an unborn baby. You wouldn't kill a born baby, so why kill an unborn baby? There's no difference, except it's location. And it is killing. To kill is to take the life of someone or something. It's really murder in my opinion but that's more from my religious upbringing. And if you want proof that abortion isn't right, then look at the girls who get them. Most need counseling afterwards. The mother and child bond, and you can't just throw it out. And the way the kill the child is horrible. They will inject the amniotic sac with salt and dry the thing up to death, crush its skull and suck everything out of the woman, or other ways. You wouldn't do it to a born baby, so what's the difference? Answer me that.

And then, thanks to Nick who just reminded me, the Florida voting issue. Let me start off with there are and always will be problems. Human error. Why the idiots have to count for Florida, I don't know. But, here's the deal. Florida's voting machines used to be like this: Jam the jack through the hole and it punches out the matching circle on the ballot. Well, sometimes they don't punch the circle completely out (like a hole punch when the circle is still attached to one part of the paper) and that's called a hanging chad. Florida has this law where if the chad isn't punched through the whole way, then it doesn't count. Apparently, when the votes were coming back, the people who were working for it werel ooking at the ballots saying "Well, they wanted Gore, but it's just not all the way through, so I'll give it to him anyway," and so the chad counting problem began. Then there were rumors of confusion among the ballots. Lies. It's called a butterfly ballot. They used it in the Clinton elections, and no one claimed it was confusing then. Dismissed. Then, it doesn't help when we have a state full of hispanics who can't read and write English too well. Not being racist, but it's an unfortunate reality in Florida. Of course there are rumors that Bush put up blockades so blacks couldn't vote. You have to notify any residents at least 2 weeks prior to setting up a blockade. And even then, you can still drive in and out of your home. Dismissed. Florida got a bad reputation mostly because of Gore and his poor sportsmanship.

People. Hypocrites, more specifically. And idiots. Well, for example, when someone bitches about how much the country sucks. 2 things come to mind. 1.) Did you fucking vote? If you don't vote then don't bitch, because you have no right. Who are you to complain when you don't even try? Shut up. Going off on a tangent real quick; I hate when people vote with their party just because it's their party. Stupid. Last time that happened we ended up with the adulterating, lying Clinton. Another tangent: When people say he did good for the economy. You know where he got the money? He sold U.S. secrets to China. Great job, Billy! Now that our national security has been compromised by the slaving communist giant of the world. Nice. Back to the voting. Don't pick a party simply because that's your parents/loved one's party. You're stupid. Have a mind for yourself. 2.) If this country sucks so much then move. We don't need pessimistic assholes to complain about the country. This country has more to offer you than anywhere else in the world. Go bitch about something really important like how Haiti doesn't have clean water, instead of how the economy sucks. Haiti doesn't even have a fucking economy. They have nothing. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

Depression. I have to admit, I don't have the worst life, but it's pretty fucked up, and I'm pretty OK. Either that, or I do a damn good job fooling myself. Either way if I can do it, so can you. Half the time people are depressed because they want attention. And they want to know someone cares. Everyone wants that but not everyone has to go and act depressed for it. And while we're here, cutting. It will never do anything good for the problem. Oh, it's so addictive... my ass. My mom's an alcoholic and I've met people at AA meetings who were alcoholics and addicted to narcotics. One man in particular has been heroine free for 40 years. If they can quit using the most addictive drug known, I think you can stop causing yourself a little pain. And suicide. If you're going to kill yourself, then do it. I don't agree with suicide and have tons to say on that, but skipping that, atleast think of others. Whether you believe it or not, people care about you and don't want to see you torture yourself and them while you teeter on the edge of life or death. It's bullshit. And you fucking retards who take aspirin to OD. It won't happen. Everytime someone OD's on advil, they do it because they want attention, they don't want to die. If they did, they'd use the knives they have in the kitchen. Oh yeah, if you are depressed then go get on some damn medicines, and atleast act happy because when you're sad and gloomy it rubs off on everyone. So do right by your friends and atleast act a little content.

Communism. Will never work. People have no incentive to work, they get paid the same no matter what. So if you do your work, you get paid $100, if you don't you still get $100. Would you work if you got paid regardless? I wouldn't. And we have an embargo on Cuba because they're communist, so we should have one on China but we bow to trade. Fuck that. We need to stick to one idea. Embargo communism, or accept different governments, don't be selective. That's hypocritical. We don't need the world thinking we're the hypocrats that we are.

Freedoms. No. Freedom of speech and all that crap might exist but I don't think you should be able to burn flags, and money, and be so disrespectful to the country. You can move if you have that much of a problem. And the government should get rid of these dissenters who have such a problem with the government. They can go live in Cuba where they're assigned a job, and a certain pay and have no mobility or right to criticize the government and see how they feel about America after that.

The environment. I have to say I love Bush. He's awesome, and handled everything good. Just cause he made a few grammatical errors doesn't make him a moron. He's a person, people make mistakes. But he is making a huge mistake drilling in Alaska's wildlife preserve. First of all, I'm a tree hugger and drilling in a wildlife reserve of all places is like, violating the holy of holies. I mean, he wants to bitch about our national dependency on oil, well if you're dependent on something that you don't want to be on, then you don't try and find more, you try and find other, better things to stop it. We have the technology to make electric cars, solar powered cars, or the newest technology available makes a car run off water, and the exhaust is pure water vapor. That wouldn't be bad for the environment and our air would be a lot cleaner. And speaking of clean air, he's lessening the laws about emission control. We need tighter policies on pollution, and environmental friendliness. We need to stop building. Anywhere not zoned already should not be open to building. Our population's getting out of control, and since we're a democracy we can't limit the birth rate like China does, so we need to find other ways, such as if we stop the building, people won't have places to go, and will have to stop pumping out the babies, or atleast slow down. I mean, not only will we slow our population growth, but we'll save the wildlife that we have left, and that isn't much. I don't know as much about New York, but Florida's wildlife is in critical danger. I mean, Bush is going to allow a 30 square mile hole i nthe middle of the everglades for drilling for limestone. Hell no. Alligators, panthers, herons, apple snails, cranes, and all the other endangered animals will lose so much. You can't just create little pockets of reserves for animals. The gene pool will end up mixing together so it ends up with inbreeding up the butthole. OK, so we stop the building. We also stop the focus on on area and that forces focus on other areas. Possibly education, where this country really needs it. I mean, we have the world's strongest military, so we don't really need to pour much more into that, but education could use a boost. Saving the environment would do so much for this country, and world, since we're such leaders, others will follow our lead.

Let's annex it. I mean, look at those Canadians. They're mini-Americans. We might as well offer them statehoodship. You know they'd jump at the chance to be part of the U.S. Well, not that I support imperialism or anything but really, look at them. We might as well add them in. And Puerto Rico. That's the biggest crock of shit I've ever heard. You don't protect someone, and not collect taxes. If they are our territory, then they should pay just like us. Oh let me backtrack a second, we were supposed to have Canada anyway. When we negotiated the treaty with Britain we were supposed to have up to 54� 40' but we settled for 48�. So in reality, Canada should've been ours. And Cuba should've been ours, and Mexico. I want Mexico a little, but Cuba I don't know. I just know we got gipped back in the 1800's quite a few times. Stupid Americans. Oh yeah, people get mad when we say we're "Americans," because America is a continent, not a country. Piss off. We should've had Mexico and Canada, so once again we're properly entitled to the name, since in reality we should've had all of North America. What now, bitch?

Women's rights. Oh yeah. I support women's suffrage and all that, but when you guys want equality, then expect to do the same thing as us, at the same time, the same way, all that good stuff. Girl push-ups is such bull. And then how chicks get near minority status. Bull. You want us to pay for the date, and open car doors for you, but don't want to have the feminine label. Pick. Because the whole chivalry thing of opening doors, and paying for dates stems from the idea that women are weaker, so obviously if you want equality you give that up. You don't get the special treatment, and the equality. The special treatment is based on inequality. And I'm not all pro-male dominance but read the Bible. It states how a woman and how a wife should be. Now, guys, you need to read the Bible too, because it doesn't just talk about women. It also says how a guy should act. So before you get high and mighty think about the way you're supposed to act, because you have a proper role to fill as well.

Relationships. When people get a warning from a friend about someone else and they blow it off, "you're just jealous," "you don't know them," "you don't know whats good for me," etc. Friends aren't blind to things, like the one in the relationship. We can see things that you can't. So, whenever a friend gives you a warning, take consideration because they're saying it for a reason, not just because they don't like someone.

Cloning. Who the hell would clone someone? I mean, are you stupid? Here's a good scientific idea. "You'll always have a spare organ." No you won't. You're clone will. I'd like to point out the fact that your clone will be human as well, and to take something you need, such as a new heart, from your clone would rightfully be called murder. This isn't some hog that we can slaughter and make bacon from. This is another human person who's been artificially created. Do you want to kill your twin so you don't die? Stupid.

Something important to me. My great-grandfather was the first man in Florida to operate the electric chair. I grew up knowing that bad people died because of how bad they were. Now, I hear people not so sure about the death penalty. After thinking about it, the constitution does say people are entitled to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Well, looking at that I was like "OH SHIT! That means the death penalty is unconstitutional since it takes away your right to life." Then I looked at the right to the pursuit of happiness. You can't pursue happiness in jail. So I thought to myself, "...so, is jail unconstitutional?" No. The right of liberty... let's come back in a second. My aunt's husband is a convicted felon, and he can't vote. Well, what about the right to liberty? Doesn't that violate his rights? No. Once you're convicted of such heavy crimes, you have no rights anymore. Your rights are stripped; you forfeit them because of your actions. Well, the death penalty... I'm generally against it right now. I lie, not against it, but I support taking it out of action. It's mainly implemented to scare people away from committing crimes, but it's not working anymore. Plus, I put myself in the position of the person who has to give the lethal dose of poison. I couldn't do that to someone. That's killing them. I'm too... human-rights for that. Well, we'd be getting rid of it because it's ineffective. I think if we get rid of one ineffective thing, why not another to balance it out? Get rid of parole. It does no good. Half the repeat-offenders' crimes are committed while they are on parole. And good behaviour should go. I mean, you have people thinking "If I get caught, I'll get out in 2-3 with good behaviour." Hell no. No more good behaviour. You commit a crime, and you pay for it. I don't care if you're an angel, you're serving your time. It's time people take responsibility, and this government needs to start enforcing that. And let me talk about homeless people. You know something's wrong with the country when convicted thieves, rapists, child molesters, and murderers are getting better treatment that the homeless of the country. Criminals in this country get free meals, a roof over their heads, books, weights, t.v., and other forms of entertainment. They have some choices, even though they don't deserve it. Homeless people have nothing. I'll admit, half the homeless are addicts to something, and put themselves in that position, but what about all the good people who've lost everything because of layoffs or some unfortunate accident that cost them everything? I mean, we need to change that, and I think it's time someone did something for it.