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Compassion and Caring Roadblock May 15, 2016

2016/05/15

I find myself having difficulty having compassion and caring for people who experience overdoses of illegal drugs. It troubles me that tax dollars go for treatments of these self-inflicted problems.

A recent case of a heroin overdose brought this to mind. A new drug is on the market which brings these people who have overdosed out of their drug induced death spiral. The story I read said that the police carry these medications for just such occasions. I asked “Who paid for that?”.

The low road of drug addiction is one that is freely chosen. Unless someone holds you down and administers the drugs, it is an affliction you yourself create. How it ends in overdose is something that I wonder about. Is heroin a drug that once you are in its grips takes more and more of to create the same high? Since this affliction is freely chosen why should I be required to care if you die? Why should I have my tax dollars spent to stock a medication to save you from your self-inflicted state?

Some suggest that drug addiction is a many headed hydra, meaning, resulting from many possible things. Depression, a loss, general misery, the list is long I am told, that could lead one to choose the escape. At this point I suggest that there are treatments available, even free of charge, for those suffering from mental disturbances of various sorts. I am told that many do not have access. I respond that they are there for the asking. I am told that some people are simply ignorant of the existence, or too far down the road of despair to care.

People use alcohol and sometimes descend into the bottle so deeply they cannot climb out. People walking in the streets see these “bums” lying about with their bottles shielded in paper bags and usually express contempt for them. Is this not the same? The only difference I see is the illegal state of one and the legal state of the other. There are alcohol clinics and drug clinics, no doubt funded by our tax dollars also. Society as a whole then cares. Both addictions are entered into by choice… or are they? There’s that many headed hydra of reasons why people descend into habits of such questionable nature.

Why should I care? Society may make some allowances for the addicted, but is it caring? If society cared would it have an economic system where people are suddenly without employment? People who are thrown out of work are among those who fall prey to the vices of addiction. Isn’t it true then, that one of the products of a capitalist system would be a group of unemployed people who inevitably must fall prey to addictions? There are many forms of stress that may lead to depression, though.

I guess the real question is why society does not care until some tragedy occurs… like addiction. Why isn’t there some effort to head off the causes of depression, or stress, before the fall? Is this another case of the old saying “Don’t fix it till it’s broke”?
Big Brother is Really Big Sister… May 8, 2016

2016/05/08

The Constitution says innocent until proven guilty. However, in the court of public opinion people are condemned daily, without due process… and for many that means ruined careers and lives. The stigma of such condemnation sticks like hot tar on the bottoms of your shoes. Your innocent outcome in court is rendered meaningless.

This is a story of what might become reality someday as a result of allowing the court of public opinion ruin lives.

I hope the battery holds, at least till I get to work. Without this record anything can happen. With a single word, a single accusation, my life can be ruined. I charged the thing all night. That battery though… it doesn’t quite hold the charge it did when it was new. I’ll get a new one… soon as I get paid… I’ll just have to skip the credit card payment and let them charge me more interest this month…

It wasn’t too many years ago that one could get by without being recorded. Then, the number of people being accused on the mere say so of someone went out of sight. A man isn’t safe in public any more. Any woman could claim assault, or rape, and without a trial a man’s life is ruined. The lucky ones are married… as long as they are always with their wives they could vouch for his innocence and it would end there. A man’s word means nothing today, but a woman’s word cancels out another woman’s word. A single man, unless he keeps himself constantly monitored, and a clear record is rendered, is like a moving target. He dare not find himself in close quarters with a strange woman… not without a clear recording.

Some of these treacherous women have become aware of the video monitoring. They have occasionally been found with devices to disrupt the video recorders. Unfortunately, like the video recorders, these devices are so discrete that unless they are pointed out you don’t see them. If she plans carefully, enters the man’s area and activates the unit… then disposes of it afterwards, before approaching the police… she can still thwart the recordings. The devices have been made illegal, but the law is rarely enforced, and only when the devices are inadvertently found is anything done. As a result the cases have seen a steady increase. Incarceration of men has increased. Whereas it was one in five imprisoned, now it is three in five and climbing.

These days, the separate transportation systems, one for men, one for women, do more to protect the men from the women, rather than the reverse, as when it began under the auspices of feminism. When it began women had the option of traveling with the men. Then men complained, as a result of the continued false accusations. Women then, were relegated to travel with women only. The law even separated a man and his wife, where travel was concerned.

Elevators? Same gender separation.

Transgenders? Well, finally they were relegated to the sanitariums. How the sanitariums dealt with the gender problem… I do not know, I am happy not to know.

Marriage is nearly finished, despite the advantages of having a woman around to counter another woman. I mean, how can you develop a relationship when you are trying to avoid the other sex? The feminists seem to have won… though I must say humanity is the loser.

Finally the bus pulls up at the office building. As the men depart small bug-like mechanisms flit around them, recording their every moment. The insect-like machines follow them like obedient puppies as they enter their respective places of employment. Since there is only one elevator, men have been restricted from using it, and so each man begins to climb the stairwells. Ever watchful, the miniature drones follow their masters.

As the man, Fred we shall call him, enters the office he quickly plugs the drone into the charger on his desk, one calculated to allow the drone face him to keep recording every moment while charging. It must record. Even a visit to the restroom is a dangerous trip in an office containing the opposite sex. All of them know how to move up the ladder. All they have to do is knock a few men off it. Just this past Tuesday saw Jerald take a fall from the ladder. He’s now serving time. Up the ladder she went. An easy and work free way to advance. Qualified? What does that matter in today’s world. Just try to stop her.

The boss? Well, he’s one of the few remaining men in charge of a large corporation. Drones fly around him like he is a piece of rotting meat. Nothing is missed. If one craps out, the rest take up the work. The neutralizing devices? Well, it was expensive, but he has a neutralizer neutralizer. Nothing stops the recording… nothing…

Such is life… if you can call it life. You can talk to people of your own gender, but even with recording drones it is a risk to speak to the other gender. Our language is not precise enough and can be misinterpreted. You might say something in a totally innocent fashion and have it tragically twisted into a verbal sexual assault. The drones? They can only record it. In such cases they become the star witness… against you.

Suicide rates, once four times more often for men than women, now fifty times more often for men. People walking on the sidewalks of New York look up when they walk. Cars are no longer parked on the streets, as too many have been damaged by hurtling bodies… many do not own them any way, with the taxes levied on them these days. Fred thinks about it often. Owning a singular drone, on its last battery legs, he has thought of it often. It costs nearly a weeks wages just to outfit one drone with a battery. Disposal costs, exacerbated by environmentalists concerns, have made a battery nearly obsolete for any other use than drones. Only men need them. Since a man cannot make any accusations that will stick in a court of law unless they are recorded.

Fred jumps.
List of the Untrustworthy … May 7, 2016

2016/05/07
A list of groups of individuals who I have found Untrustworthy.
1. Conservative far right
2. Progressive left
3. Libertarians
4. Green Party
5. Politicians
6. Feminists
7. Humanists
Part thereof, but not listed: criminals, dictators, Big business, the rich, and more.

Members of those listed may not be all untrustworthy, but many have been found to be so and all should be scrutinized carefully before lending support.

More as time progresses.
The Lone Ranter Rides Again … May 1, 2016

2016/05/01

Well, it’s time again. My hackles have once again been raised by that which defies the bounds of logic, that evil that permeates our time, the betrayers of half the human species… stinkin’ feminists.

There once was an old woman, her name was Shulamith Firestone. She hated and spoke publicly of this hate, a hate that was without foundation. She hated men… because they were men. She stared out the window, I am sure, at the passing of life. Alone, unloved, old and friendless, except of course by the very infrequent people who stopped by that shared in her paranoia. She died. She was so alone, and so friendless due to her hate, that she sat, decomposed slowly, and was found three years later. A death, I am sure, she deserved.

Patriarchy never existed. Yes, there were men leading in many things, but… they were expected to. They did what was expected of them. They worked tirelessly to provide for families. They provided protection. They went to war and died when they were told they must. The rich were in charge.

At first, no one had the vote. Then, as a reward for military service, those men who served received the vote.

Immature and whiny women decided that they should have the vote without regard to the nature of why men had gained it. Through bombings, protests, and riots the public was convinced to provide the vote for women… with no strings such as military service attached. Yes, it is true… the suffragettes were not heroines, not satisfactory role models… they were only terrorists.

Now my beef is that I feel strongly that feminists have infiltrated atheist groups, including humanist groups, and diverted the activities and financial resources of said groups to the goals of feminism. My goal in such groups has always been to further the acceptance of atheism among the general public. I am frustrated that I cannot engage in such groups without inadvertently aiding feminism. I assert it is an ideology based on hate, much like that of hate of which the Nazis were charged. This time not just for Jews, but for all men.

There is not one right you can name that women do not have that I have. There are some I could name that I do not have that women do. Do a little research, I did.

Meanwhile, it is my hope that feminists everywhere share the same fate as Shulamith Firestone. Keep looking out that window at normal people living their lives. You are so frustrated, I know, that you cannot control everyone with your twisted ideology. Grit your teeth, demon feminist, and grow old as you hate. Grow feeble as you continue to shake your withering fist at men doing manly things. Then die… die and waste away in your rocking chair, your gaze still upon the life outside which you could have lived instead. Maybe in due time your body will be found putrefied. Your epitaph will be one or two lines in the news expressing regret that yet another old spinster was so forgotten that no one knew she was gone.
Popular Mascots Must Die for Political Correctness Sake…. April 24, 2016

2016/04/24

Chief Wahoo, the mascot of the Cleveland Indians, like, forever, is going to be slowly, increment, by increment, retired.

A case, I think, of a people that take themselves way too seriously.

Meanwhile, another business, and yes the Cleveland Indians is just a business, Manner’s BigBoy continues to use a big fat white kid for a mascot as they always have and no one has ever complained. I mean, what kid has ever had those proportions? Then too, not very flattering to their menu if you end up as fat as this kid.

Nope, I do not see it as a matter of pride. I do not see it as a denigration of a people to have a mascot, either red or white, that is an intentional caricature. I see this as a surrender to a group of individuals who simply want to make a statement and have everyone sit up at attention… a stunt. It has nothing to do with pride. It has everything to do with posing as a victim. I do not consider the mascot, Chief Wahoo, as racist… I see the efforts to erase him as racist.

Let’s talk Popeye… Anyone ever seen anyone that looked like that? See anyone complaining that it is insulting to Caucasians? Big useless forearms at the end of spindly biceps… he’s handicapped… he’s a freak… he’s one of my favorite cartoon characters. Let’s translate him into reality and imagine what he would look like…

Seen anyone that looks like that? What if this is an insult to all whites… hear anyone complaining? NO. And you won’t, ever… because it takes immaturity to complain about what is obviously an imaginary character made for amusement… just like good old Chief Wahoo.
Pacifist Illusion … April 17, 2016

2016/04/17

Is it possible to be a pacifist? It would seem nearly impossible to be a total pacifist.

How can a pacifist be safe? In some way a pacifist would not be so, as they would have to rely on a non-pacifist to protect their safety. Could it be that pacifism cannot exist?

How would a pacifist country defend itself in this turbulent world? Even hiring someone to guard you is non-pacifist.

Have there ever been any pacifists? Even those that have been labeled so used means by which to cause others to act violently for them. Whether participating in the violence or not, using methods to agitate others into violence renders your claim of pacifism, a lie.

Name the pacifists… like Martin Luther King, Gandhi, or others that were mistakenly labeled so. They were very skillful in planting seeds that caused others to engage in violence as a result. Civil disobedience, it is said, can be considered a form of violence.

What would a pacifist be in this world? If not dead, they would be the most bendable, malleable, gullible people of this world. If told to sit, they sit. If told to stand up, they stand up. Anything to avoid violent enforcement of orders.

In truth, the only way a pacifist could exist is if the whole of the world were the same.

In our world, the real one we have, the only label we would apply to a true pacifist is “patsy”.
Truth Endures… April 11, 2016

2016/04/11

Turn your head… ignore its vocalization… shun the messenger… regardless of what you may do, the truth prevails.

My WordPress site has always displayed the truth. One thing that is prominent about the truth is that many times people do not want to admit it is the truth. People that present it are often hated, reviled, and shunned. Nevertheless, the truth continues to be the truth.

Often the politically correct view is more desirable. Even though it may be a total lie, socially, people want to believe the lie rather than the truth. Those that shout the truth are often trampled down, many times killed, more often shunned. That does not change the truth. The truth continues.

There are not two versions of the truth. There is the truth and nothing else comparable. I present the truth and many label it opinion. It is not opinion. Whether you label it something else or not, it remains the truth.

Like the proverbial ostrich many stick their heads in the ground, or assume the posture of the simians that cannot see, hear, or speak. It changes nothing… the facts remain, the truth is enduring.

Those that dare to speak the undesired truths are ignored, friendless… so be it. I will still speak the truth… humanity be damned. If you don’t like it, tough.
Feminism is Poison

2016/04/10

This is really good stuff.

Web of Deceit

Feminism is built upon the principle of patriarchy theory – the idea that women have been oppressed by men throughout our history and that men have always been “privileged” relative to women. Almost all other feminist doctrine is built upon this foundation. Patriarchy theory itself, is not only a giant historical lie, but it is a lie that has been deliberately concocted and perpetuated by feminists to encourage women to see men as the enemy.

The demonization of men is vitally important to feminism and it is a constant theme that underscores all feminist discourse and literature. Feminism could not survive without it because most modern feminist activism is based on advocating for special status for women, using the justification that women have traditionally been oppressed and that men are basically brutish oppressors by default.

I have debunked patriarchy theory on many occasions in debating with feminists. It’s not difficult…

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Carrion Feeders … April 10, 2016

2016/04/10

As many who know me are aware, my opinion of human beings in general is not very high. Like many open-minded people, however, there is a scale upon which I place people, according to the depths of their depravity and not just a high and a low. A spectrum of moral highs and lows, if you will.

Among those at the bottom, along with the murderers, the manipulators, the thieves, I also place the evangelicals, the fundamentalists, the mega church pastors, preachers, priests. These low-lifers that feed upon the miseries, the illnesses, those wretched poor, the most vulnerable and gullible. Bottom feeders like the Reverend Peter Popoff, Mark Driscoll, and others. There have been numerous con-men and women over the millennia that, having little other talent, used subterfuge, lies, deceit, to control others and extract great amounts of money. The people attending and contributing to these large churches have allowed themselves to be used to enrich a pastor, preacher, or reverend while the original message of the church is lost, unless that message was always a lie. There are some, myself included, that believe the sole reason for the existence of religion, if not from the beginning, soon after its incarnation, is for the control and manipulation of people.

The people being fed upon are desperate, usually sick, many terminal and grasping at any straw to extend their lives. These rotten pseudo-religious swindlers tell these desperate people whatever lies necessary in order to separate them from their money. This is not something that just emerged. This greed and theft and deceit has been part of religion since near the beginning. By using the words of religion, including Biblical passages, or from whatever tome, snake oil salesmen have been able to live lavishly upon the misery and suffering of society for nearly two millennia. Such a horrible lot even make murderers and thieves look tame.
Toleration Is Not Acceptance… April 4, 2016

2016/04/04

A landlord evicts a interracial couple because his church is against the mixing of races. The laws say no. The believer says that god’s law is over man’s law. The law says no. The religious cry religious oppression.

When the religious cry “religious oppression” in the face of the law, mandated by our secular government, what they are really crying about is that they are being denied the ability to tell people what to believe and what to do.

Instead, they could have done better. They might have tolerated.

→ The religious business person cannot deny someone business on religious grounds. So I suggest they render business. You do not have to accept them as friends… outside of the business you do not have to acknowledge they exist. Just tolerate… allow them to live their lives, allow them to exist… hold no grudge against them, just ignore them outside of business. Toleration does not mean acceptance. The law has mandated that you serve them as you would anyone else. It has not mandated that you be their friends, that you accept them.

There are many groups of people who make my skin crawl, my gut turn, yet… I am not out and about hunting them down. I pass them in the street. I go about my business. When I served in the public realm I served them like everyone else. I went home, they went home. Outside of the business where I worked there was no interaction between us.

If your church has a bigoted slant, or you were raised from a little squirt by a racist or bigot, though it would nice if you could change… if you can’t you can still get along… obey the law… live. Tolerate. Toleration does not mean acceptance.