Many people would have you believe that you can be healthy without the consumption of animal products. I disagree. The facts just do not add up. First and foremost, Vitamin D is found almost exclusively in animals. People often try to say that the human body produces enough vitamin D without the need for any external sources. This is true for many but not all. Dark skinned people would need to be outdoors for several hours every day which would increase the risk for melanoma. People who live in areas that have significant cloud cover, pollution, or other adverse affects cannot get adequate sunlight. Also, for those who work, being outdoors for several hours during daylight hours (say 9 to 5) is not an option and we therefore cannot produce enough Vitamin D on our own. Vitamin D2 can be found in mushrooms, but no in high quantities, and only in certain types of mushroom (UV irradiated). Otherwise Vitamin D is present exclusively in animals and dairy.

Vitamin K is fat soluble. Digestion of Vitamin K is improved quite a bit by the presence of dairy. It is made nigh impossible by high levels of sugar (such as those most vegans have by the need for more fruits and processed foods).

Vitamin B12 is found exclusively in meats and dairy. It is essential for the proper function of the nervous system, and production of red blood cells. A lack of B12 leads to anemia. B3 is found in meats and dairy as well as other forms, however, a high intake of legumes or brewers yeast can have an adverse affect on B9 and render your body inable to synthesize DNA, leading to advanced aging, and anemia, rickets, and other maladies.

Many Vegans also have calcium and iron deficiencies as you would need to eat a very large amount of fibrous foods to meat your needs. Without dairy in your diet, this can lead to uncomfortable defication. Many vegans use soy as a replacement for meats, this would be fine if high soy consumption didn't lead to breast cancer and a decrease in testosterone. Attention, memory, and spatial ability are key cognitive functions affected by testosterone in humans. Low testosterone levels may be a risk factor for cognitive decline and possibly for dementia of the Alzheimer’s type (testosterone production decreases in the elderly --hence the common loss of memory, and rise in dementia as we age).  Testosterone also plays a key part in muscular development and hair growth.

The short of it is, I will always eat animal products. Plus, I really like leather, and jello.

Many of you may be wondering why I would use a "green" theme, considering that I am insanely conservative. As strange as it sounds, I love the idea of being good stewards of our environment, and all that happy horseshit. I simply do not believe that global warming is caused by man, and I do not think that government should have anything to do with our environmental concerns. The people set the policies by the flow of their dollars. If Americans at large think that we need to use "green" products, they will buy those products and more companies will go that direction. It is a very simple aspect of capitalism. Businesses want to make the products that people want to buy. I really do not give a flying fuck about carbon dioxide emissions. I exhale carbon dioxide, and if I believed that CO2 was killing the Earth, and I would probably aim for genocide to reduce carbon output. I care about reducing energy consumption and using renewable stuff for national security reasons (we need to be independent of other nations). In my personal life, "green" electronics save me money by using less water, power, and gas.

The facts are the facts, we are entering a period of global cooling now. The Earth goes in cycles, as does the Sun. These affect the climate of the Earth more than anything else, and there is nothing we can do about it. If CO2 were the problem, why would Mars be having the same problem as the Earth? I really don't think that there are cars and factories there. Although, Al Gore blowing hot air might have warmed the entire universe. The hottest gasses in our atmosphere, rise to the top and start to cool and drop back down, that warming and cooling of air causes wind. Wind and atmospheric pressure cause several tons of gas to be ejected into space every hour. Global warming just really isn't plausible. We do not have the large an effect on the Earth. What we do have an effect on is other life. Species diversification is a necessity.

I am all for saving every species we can. When a global disaster occurs, we have no idea how each species will fare, and we need a food source. If all the cows and chickens die off, we may need bison and deer. Who knows? No one can say what species will survive and which won't. I think we need all of the rain forests, and all of the other natural environments simply for that same species diversification. Plants are important too, and not only as a food source. Businesses can handle all of these things.

If a business were cutting down all of the trees and killing all of the animals, people would stop buying from that company, and it would either change or fail. The same goes for all other issues. People going green will have more effect on our businesses and therefore the Earth, than any government could ever force upon business.

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Happy Birthday America

It passed the House, it will likely pass the Senate... this is along with so many other things most people have no clue about. Your rights are being trampled. This bill will lay a burden on you that is roughly $1500 a year in electricity costs alone. Effectively, this bill taxes CO2. I guess every human on Earth ought to be taxed then... since we exhale the shit.

Now, I wonder what people will do when they hear how close we are to socialized medicine... or that guns are being taken from people in Houston by the government. Under FDR it was illegal for the public to have gold. By executive order... yet they say this cannot happen in America. People say that so many thing cannot happen here, but they have in the past, and they will again. Nothing is too extreme for this country. Think about the Alien and Sedition Acts. This is something you need to realize people. We have had internment camps, censorship and everything else! This country is not immune to outrageous acts against the people. We need to become more vocal, we need to take steps to defend ourselves against our government. WE NEED TO TELL EVERYONE WE KNOW THAT GOVERNMENT IS NOT OUR FRIEND, AND THAT THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO BE RESTRAINED.

I am not going to say that I really dislike Michael Jackson or his music, and I try not to speak ill of the dead. Michael Jackson's music was good, and he was a fantastic entertainer. That I will not deny. I will, however, wonder how he became such a disgusting looking freak. I mean, getting cartilage taken from you ear to fill your nose that is almost falling off of your face? How did we come so far!? A black man can grow up to become an effeminate white man? He didn't even look real in most of the photos I have seen, just a plastic shell around a skeleton...  This man is accused of child molestation, and we cannot really dismiss the charge. Whether or not he was a pedophile is debatable, but no matter that he wasn't normal at all. He constructed a giant place called Neverland, where he acted like a child with other children. It was a giant private play land for himself and five year old kids. In what world would it be normal for a 40 to 50 year old man to play with little kids in a giant fantasy land constructed to take the man back to a childhood he never had?

This is just one more sign in an ongoing demoralization of America, and the growing problem of liberalization. We start by saying that homosexuality is ok, and what is going to be next? Pedophilia? Beastiality? Necrophilia? We allow homosexual marriage, and what's next you can marry a five year old kid? You can marry a dog? You can marry a corpse?

We get to this point where it is ok to have fake body parts, body modifications, and tattoos... it is now ok to change your skin color, get so much plastic surgery that your nose starts falling off. What's next? Are we going to allow people to modify themselves so much that they are no longer recognizably human? When does it all stop?

Some people think that I am extreme in my views, but it has happened before. Abortion was illegal for quite some time. Then we said ok, in the first trimester we will allow it. We got comfortable there and next it was in the second trimester. Now we are saying late third term. Partial birth abortions are being performed every day, and Obama is pushing to make it completely legal and universally available. For those who are unaware, a partial birth abortion means that as the child's head is exposed during birth a spike is shoved in the brain stem, and the brain is scrambled "aborting the child." THIS IS THE SHIT THAT HAPPENS WHEN WE ALLOW MORALLY QUESTIONABLE THINGS TO HAPPEN. I will admit that I have no problem with gay marriage, I have no problem with first term abortion, I have no problem with piercing, tattoos, or hair dye. I am afraid at where we will take it all... as we have with abortion.

Are we all really that complacent that we just allow things to go to the next level without thinking, without fighting? We cannot allow our nightmares to take place! Do you want to live in Blade Runner? Or how about Brave New World? Do you want your children living in a giant cesspool?

I just have to tell you all that every time someone mentions how Bush messed things up, I get so angry that I really do want to puke. George W. Bush did more for the people of this country than most of our recent presidents managed. Namely, he lowered tax rates, protected us from foreigners, protected our trade interests around the world, and still many more things (such as ensuring our right to own firearms). People like to say that our current economic crisis is due to George Bush, but unfortunately, the debt went up through 8 years by about the same amount that it has gone up in the 6 months since Obama has been in office. More over the insolvency of Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac is due to policies made during the Clinton administration (a law that required 42% of all loans made to be to people who make less than the medium income in their area). So, keep that in mind.

Though there is one thing I really do need to ask, why does everyone hate the operations in the Near East so darned much? I never really had any problem with it, and I WAS FUCKING THERE! I LOST FRIENDS IN IT! AND I STILL SUPPORT OUR ACTIONS! This liberal bullshit has to go. There is right and wrong, and so often the left just loves to be in the middle of all that is wrong. Instead of freedom of religion the left wants freedom from religion. The left wants the family destroyed, they want morality taken out of public sight, moral degeneration and overall over-indulgence is all that people on the left really want. Why? I HAVE NO FUCKING CLUE!! Then, when the facts are staring you in the face, the left just cannot comprehend that their thoughts and beliefs are not only what got us there, but they will make it all worse too. Next, when confronted, they cannot even keep a good argument. Instead of the logical idea of trying to stick to a topic and argue it successfully, liberals just love to jump all over the fucking place and bring up a whole bunch of unrelated things that are not facts in any way. Ok. It's off my chest now.

While I was standing in line at the tag office in Buford, GA, I had a wonderful conversation with a middle-aged African American woman. It started with the weather, and she asked if I was new to the area. I told her that I had been here for about 3 years (I moved to GA in '01 but was away in the USMC). I commented that I was originally from Ohio, and what a shock it was to come here and have people from all over the Earth in the community. She worked with a company that did a lot of work in Ohio and the started a whole discussion about the American Mid-West. It was a rather enlightening and refreshing conversation, and I am thoroughly glad that I had it.

I cannot understand what Barack Obama could possibly be thinking. Is the guy just plain retarded? Let's get rid of our nuclear armaments, he says. He says this as missiles are being launched from North Korea into the Atlantic ocean (that's over South Korea and Japan). He says this as Iran is saying that they are going to blow Isreal (our ally) off the map. He says this as the Taliban is moving from Northern Pakistan to Southern Pakistan in route to the Pakistani nuclear cache. WHY IS HE PLEDGING THAT WE WILL DISARM WHEN OUR ENEMIES ARE ARMING THEMSELVES WITH THOSE VERY WEAPONS? I am beginning to think that the man may not even be an evil and corrupt Hitler-esque autocrat, so much as he is a friggin' dumb ass. Really, how dumb do you have to get?

Good job America! You elected a dumb ass for President. Your Commander in Chief not only does not understand the nature of our enemies, but he now has shown he has no sense of tactical strategy.

So, President Obama is going to enact a new carbon emissions tax that may raise the price of gas by 1.20 to 1.30 per gallon. Every news agency that I have looked into reports that he also wants to impose a large fee on wireless spectrum licenses ($550 million per carrier, per year), which would be grossly expensive for even the largest of corporations. This cost would have to be pushed on to consumers. How else do you pay for a 550 million dollar operating cost increase, that had nothing to do with materials, pay roll, or anything else? Why would Mr. Obama do all this? Well, he's increasing taxes on the wealthy, and he already promised to lower everyone else's taxes... he has to pay for his trillion dollar spending bill some how. We will try this little experiment in socialism. When it fails, we can go back to good ol' capitalism.

So there was another story saying the global warming is going to kill us all...

Obama Left with Little Time to Curb Global Warming, AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D952LKOO1&show_article=1

Ok that would alarm me except for a few facts. I read science journals and magazines rather often and a few things stand out. The mean global temperature, at least as measured by satellite, is now the same as it was in the year 1980. In the last couple of years sea level has stopped rising. Hurricane and cyclone activity in the northern hemisphere is at a 24-year low and sea ice globally is also the same as it was in 1980. El Nino in '98 caused a huge temp spike that had nothing to do with global warming. Other factors, including sun spots, solar winds, variations in the solar magnetic field and solar irradiation, could all be affecting temperature changes. If people want to believe in global warming, then admit that the temperature fluctuates all the time, and our general upturn in temperature over the past few hundred/thousand years is mainly due to us leaving the ice age.

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So, here we are with a socialist president who in many ways reminds me of Adolf Hitler. I cannot begin to explain how much this small fact upsets me, but be assured that it does. I wonder how bad things are going to have to get in this country before people realize that both Republicans and Democrats are bad news. I wonder how bad things are going to have to get before people realize that the government is not your friend. It does not exist to help you in any way. I wonder how bad things are going to have to get before people realize that an unregulated, open market, completely capitalistic economy is that only economy that works. I wonder how long it will take people to realize that the only useful law that could ever be enacted is this: "Each man's rights stop where the next man's rights begin." Will the People's Republic of the United States of America survive this rule of socialism? Naturally. Will it be comfortable? Certainly not. Rest assured that this is not the end of the USA.

Ok, it seems like things are getting a bit outrageous in the processor market. It seems as if everyday Intel or AMD is making a new processor or processor technology that is going to be faster and smaller and more energy efficient. Wonderful. I love the innovation, and all of the improvements that they are making. However, so far everyone is looking to AMD and Intel for solutions. What happens to the other players? IBM has been making Power architecture for a long time. It's faster, more energy efficient, and more powerful than any of the x86 class processors. Sun Microsystems has new SPARC architecture processors that are octocore processors at 128bit. WTF? Yet we are freaking out over quadcore systems that are 64bit? People need to wake up. If you need a lot of power, and you want it to last you a long while... look into something that may be a little off of the beaten  path, but may suit your needs more.

Everyone today wants to blame oil companies and George Bush for the reason gasoline is now over $4.00 per gallon in the United States of America. This is non-sense. It is not George Bush's fault. It is not the oil companies' fault. You want to blame them, but they are not to blame. What can a president do to lessen the cost of oil? He can urge congress to change their policies (which George Bush has tried), or he can go to the foreign nations that supply us with oil and ask them to increase production (which he has tried). The Saudis told us no, they will not increase production to the United States of America. Why will they not do so? The dollar is weak. Once again, the dollar being weak has little to do with the president of the USA, and little to do with the businesses of the USA. It has everything to do with congress. Congress sets tax rates, congress passes laws that restrict business, congress does it all. The problem right now is not that oil companies have changed their prices. Oil companies have the same profit margin that they have always had. They may be making record profits, but their costs went up to. This means that those profits are not really profits. Those profits have to be spent on yet more oil to meet demand. Congress wants to raise the taxes on oil companies. This is not going to help anything. It will only make everything worse.

You see, share holders of corporations do not pay corporate taxes. Neither do the employees of the corporation. They are not legally responsible for the corporation. The 15-35% tax rate on corporations in the USA is directly applied to product price, because NO ONE else in the corporation pays the taxes. The employees pay FICA, social security, income, and medicare taxes. The shareholders pay capital gains tax. Do any of those taxes sound like Corporate Income Tax? Nope. Who pays? You pay it every time you buy something in the United States of America that was in any way provided by a corporation.

So, it can be safely assumed that should taxes on energy/oil companies rise the price per unit will also rise. Why then would people like Obama and Hillary want to raise the taxes on oil companies? It fits a certain agenda. The worse life gets the more people will need to turn to the government for help. The family structure of our society has already been eroded by leftist policies, as has the religious sector of our society. If you can turn to neither family nor God, where are you going to go for help? The government. You will give them more power in the interest of security and to make your life easier to live. As you do, you will give up your rights. In this way, the power hungry win, and those who are less powerful lose.

Hitting the oil companies is just one more step.

There is this thing called the Irish Miracle. For the past eight years, Ireland's two main exports were Guiness and Viagra. This is still quite true but slowly changing. Staring out a window in a hotel in Dublin, there are at least fifty buildings being built. Things are changing, and we need to ask why? What changed? Very simply, their corporate tax rate dropped, and is now one of the lowest in the world. Many American corporations are leaving the United States of America. Our pharmaceuticals have already left (note that we are importing vast amounts of Viagra). What's next? Most likely automobile and software firms.

The American tax code is one of the most complex in the world, and has more individual items on it than there are people in Ireland. The more you make, the more they take from you, this is interesting because it essentially boils down to wealth redistribution (communism), because the more you make the more you are taxed, and the larger the desparity between rich and poor the more Social Security, FICA, and Medicare taxes go up (note that these are wealth redistribution programs).

Also make note that in America YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO VOTE! You may have the responsibility and/or privelage of voting, but it is not a right. No where in the United States' Constitution does it say that you have the right to vote. The only mention in the amendments (which is where rights and such are enumerated) is that you cannot descriminate upon voting priveleges in relation to race, creed, and/or sex. This, in effect, brought about universal suffrage. The only reason this brought about universal suffrage is because no one required you to be literate to vote, no required proof of citizenship, no one required proof of having paid taxes, no one required you to even be knowledgeable of the candidates and their positions. So yes, you have universal suffrage, and you just ruined your nation. Congratulations. Now, because so many illiterate people can vote and do so, we are losing our freedom to the sound of clamorous applause.

What a strange night I had. I met up with someone I had not seen in a long while, and talked for a few hours while she was waiting for her friend to get out of jail. Interesting evening. This was after having talked to a few friends in Ohio over the tele. Then, in a closing to night and hello to the morning, I took some Starbucks to Christie before she left to start her day. Now, I need to catch a few hours of sleep before I am off to class. Hope everyone is well.

For some reason people really do not see the reason things are the way they are. So many people get wrapped up in the things that make absolutely no difference, and they fail to see the things that matter. A while back, I remember dating a girl (whom I will not name). She told me that she does not care about politics because political matters do not affect her daily life. This sounded to me to be the most ignorant statement I had ever heard. Subsequently, I left. Yet, I find this sentiment to be widespread. Further in this train of thought, people care little for economics. People think they care about the environment, but concerning the environment they only think on a micro level. Micro issues fix themselves. Macro issues are the ones that need addressing. Global warming? Sorry folks. Nothing we can do to change that one. However, there are things we could be doing to minimize the effects. People think that war is totally evil. There is always a war somewhere in the world. There are always going to be people killing one another. At least the current operations in Iraq are justified (if you disagree... ok let's debate). No one wants to pay attention to the things that matter. Or maybe people are too ignorant to realize what matters. Oh well.

EDIT: This was going to be an on-going post, but most likely will not be. If any post is related to this one, the tag will be "everything" --



( One thing most certainly is true )

I scroll through the news looking at what others deam important. Interesting. A guy mowed a purple heart into a field. Some kid fell off a building and walked away. An Aztec tomb was found that is believed to be from around the time that Columbus came to the Americas. Other than that it is all just the same old story. People killing other people. People raping, molesting, lying, embezzling. Nothing new really. It's od that people killing others is usual. It takes the front page, everyone thinks it's a big deal, and they all feel a tad unsafe. The only time it isn't all over the front page is if it does not fit a media corporation's agenda.

For example the murder of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom. These murders are not well known outside of Tennessee. Why? The assailants are black, and the victims were white. No one wants to report something of this nature. It is not politically correct. Even though Channon and Christopher were carjakked, kidknapped, beaten, and raped ... it didn't make the front page. If this had been the other way around, it would have made the front page. A group of four white people beat and rape a black couple? Shit. That would be every where, and you would probably have riots all over the country.

This has happened in one case of which I can think. Cincinnati 2001. Race riots. In April of 2001 a young black man, Timothy Thomas, already wanted by Cincinnati police for 14 charges, was running from police. He had already successfully dodged arrest twice. He ran into a near pitch-black alley way, and had his hands down to hold up his trousers. An already winded officer was there and in such lighting conditions, with Timothy's history in mind, the officer opened fire. This is not an illogical decision on the officer's part considering that Timothy did not cooperate to begin with, and did not put his hands up as requested. You do not take chances with your life in a dangerous situation do you? This spawned a strong reaction from the local black population.
The New Black Panthers, the Black United Front, and the NOI (nation of islam) were present in the riots. Some white leftists were also present (most notably local socialist and communist activists). Tensions in Cincinnati were high. People were beaten and murdered all over the city. The police force used both lethal and non-lethal weaponry to try and subdue the populace. However, they never once used either of the Cincinnati police force's two armored cars. The most amazing thing is, this riot just kept going and got worse. White people were dragged from their cars and beaten. Their homes were attacked. Yet, how many people outside of Cincinnati know what went on? They may have heard tell of it, but do they know the intensity? Did they know that an 8 o'clock curfew was put into effect? Did they know that helos were constantly flying over head? Did they know that Black Panther officers (including generals) were present? Probably not. Media does not like to talk about that because wouldn't fit into their agenda.

But these are not just racial issues. If you are a democrat you can get away with perjury, sedition and all sorts of other things. However, if you are a republican you're going to jail for the same crime... mainly because the media will spin things out of control.

The rain was falling heavily, a thunderous clamor on the roof. I tossed and turned restlessly. Those thoughts kept racing in my mind as I tried to figure it all out. Where was this leading me? What had I done? Was everything just one big mistake? Should I have just carried on as before? Or was this all right? Had I done what I should? Sweat was pouring off my body and pooling on the sheets around me. The fan kept spinning and moving the stiflingly damp, hot air around. Tossing and turning and getting caught in wet sheets, I laid there awake and thought. Nothing seemed to fit. Nothing seemed to make sense. Was I losing my mind? One thought invariably leads to another, and you realize it only after you've thought it, yet the chain reaction has already started. The self-doubt and self-loathing. The loss of reason. You no longer see the point to anything. How did you get back to this? How did you let yourself slip into that kind of despair? How do you get back out of it after you're in it? The red lights of the clock on the bed-side table were blaring at me: 4 hours until work. I had four hours until I had to start the mind numbing process of daily life. I hadn't slept at all. I worked myself out of the tangle of bed sheets. I walked down the stairs, swaying with every step. I walked into the kitchen. Shadows danced on everything. Wood gleamed in the tiny electronic lighting of modern kitchen appliances. Reaching down and opening the cupboard, I pulled out a bottle. No real care as to what it was. I opened the bottle and laid myself down on the cold hard word floor. Ah, cold kitchen floor. So much better than a hot bed. I drank and drank. I drank until the thoughts stopped. I drank until the pain faded in my mind. I drank until I passed out. I drank myself into the welcoming arms of oblivion, that oblivion that utterly demolishes the every last remnant of whatever. I could finally sleep. I could finally rest. Until that fucking alarm went off...

Dad : "That Coca Cola shit is bad for you. I have to dilute it with alcohol."
Mom : "Coca Cola is not a beverage; it's a mixer."