ERRant on the side of Incaution

My Great Compromise

It’s campaign season. Both sides are ready to go to war over who can better run this country. The problem is we’re taxing this bracket and not that. The problem is abortion. The problem is gun control. The problem is our president isn’t a citizen. The problem is Mitt Romney is a polygamist.

In reality, and this is based off my less than four years and elementary political knowledge, the problem is Polarity. When did compromise make someone look weak? Republican or Democrat or Libertarian or Green party, they’re all just trying to do the same thing. Make our country better. And none of the leaders of these parties are all together stupid..it’s basically a requirement to have some kind of Ivy degree. But really, preach to me with your undergrad knowledge about how this side is stupid or that side is dumb. They’re not dumb they’re polarized.

I liked Mitt Romney for a grand total of 2 seconds because he was toeing the double yellow line between both ways of the road. But to win he had to be ultra conservative. WHY. Ultra anything isn’t working right now. Our founding fathers spent 4 months trying to create this country. And if they were ANYTHING like who we are now..we’d still be writing the first line of the constitution. No one 300 years ago got everything they wanted…why should we think that it’s ok now? Let’s repaint this double yellow we’ve painted in our road toward national success. Let’s bring back the dotted lines that allow some flexibility and let’s us drive on the other side for awhile.

In the end it will get us where we’re going quicker.

A wrong Left doesn’t make a Right right

I’m pretty open minded. I respect the fact that people have different political and ideological views. And I try really hard (with the occasional slip up) to not be pious or condescending when listening to the 180 of what I believe…why can’t people follow my beautiful (and humble) lead?

Fact of the matter is there people on both sides that are so ignorant they know exactly what’s eating Gilbert Grape.

Being a Democrat or a Liberal doesn’t make a person stupid, just like being a Republican or a conservative does not make you smart. In fact if anything it probably makes you a little close minded. (I say that as open-mindedly as possible)**

I see all of these people posting things about drug tests for welfare, ef Obama, socialism is taking my money, repeal Obamacare, etc.

Back Up. I’m 22. Most of my friends are around that age. They’re talking as if they’re in the minority 1%. NONE OF US ARE IN THAT 1%. In fact we’re all 22..so last Saturday night when you got your stomach pumped and only had to pay your $10 copay bc daddy’s health insurance covered you, that was thanks to your socialist president who extended the age of coverage from 21 to 26…fucking Marxists right?

In my life it seems that the people bitching about current public policy are the people who it is helping the most at the moment. The government isn’t taking all of your money because you don’t have any. You want to complain about the government encroaching on your freedoms..except when it comes to being pro choice..There a fallacies on both sides of the spectrum people, nobody’s perfect.

Point of this rant is-you want to bitch and complain make sure you’re looking to the left and not just the right because traffics coming from both ways. And don’t bite the hand that feeds you.

Sincerely, Moderate

**open-mindly is not a real word

But in all honesty..neither is Obamacare

Bring Back John Galt

“If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders—what would you tell him to do?”
 ”I … don’t know. What … could he do? What would you tell him?”
 ”To shrug.”

Atlas Shrugged is a beautiful book about what happens when the world tries to regulate brilliance. The great minds say ef you to the regulations and take their ideas somewhere else. They blacked out the world. And here it is, in real life. For everyone who said Ayn Rand was way too extreme..look around you. Internet moguls such as Google, Wikipedia, Tumblr they’re protesting. They’re leaving. THEY’RE SHRUGGING.

So what happens to the World when our Atlas goes away? We’re going to crumble. SOPA is the first of many straws the will undoubtedly break the brilliant camel’s back. Atlas’s knees are buckling and he’s saying screw it. Let’s bring our Atlas’, our John Galts, back.

That being said peace out tumblr. I’m shrugging.

Harry Potter meets Sisterly Love

When I was 12 my grandfather died..it really didn’t phase me. We had no emotional attachment and he didn’t like me very much. I think it was because I stole one of his favorite chocolates once and he caught me red handed. It also might have been because I was black. Point is at 12 I didn’t really understand death/how to act/how to act around other people who were actually upset.. My older sister on the other hand did not take it at all.

One day a few months after he passed, my sister and I got into a really big argument. (Keep in mind the fact that I was 12 and she was 19). She was screaming at me, I said a smart ass comment that had something to do with our recently deceased grandfather. It apparently struck a nerve because her retort was “what you you know, you didn’t even cry at his FUCKING funeral”…Without missing a beat I replied without any trace of validity that; “My grief was beyond tears”…She gave me a puzzled ‘Who the hell are you’ stare and just walked away.

I got that line from the 4th Harry Potter book that I had read more than a few times..When Cedric Diggory’s body was brought back to Hogwarts his father’s sadness was described as “grief beyond tears” (Rowling, JK HP.4).

Now as I think back to that day and that line, I’ve come to the conclusion that there’s probably something wrong with me…but my reading comprehension scores must have been off the charts in elementary school.

You can’t have your cake and abort it too.

I was driving behind a car yesterday and it had two bumper stickers on it that made me laugh..in a dark, sinister, what the hell is this country coming to, kind of way. One of the stickers was a blatant anti-abortion, pro choice piece of right wing propaganda (I’m not bias at all). The other sticker had the ‘word’ “ObamaCare” on it in the middle of a no smoking sign- excuse my utter lack of imagery, I hope you still get the picture. Point is..I wanted to ram my car into the back of this car, then I wanted to get out, apologize insincerely and ask for a pen and paper to jot down my information. Under my information I just wanted to write one word, then hop back into my car and keep ramming the car in front of me until my car stopped working. And the word I wanted to write was/is CONTRADICTION.

You cannot take away a woman’s right to abortion then ALSO turn around and say fuck you, you’re having this baby, and absolutely no one is going to help you get medical care to do it. And what about the child/infant/fetus? Hey yea we brought you into this world with out anti abortion beliefs, but after that you’re on your on your mother’s dime..or lack thereof.

Point is America- you want to be anti-abortion then you’ve got to be pro healthcare. They’re not mutually exclusive. And to you religious extremists who are also republicans..I don’t think the man up top would commend you on a job half assed done. You can’t have your pro life views and abort free health care. Jesus Christ. Even Jesus Christ was offered the ancient version of free health care.

-Amen

Ps. Its my body and imma do what i want.