Terran Franklin

You know, with all that Health Care crap flinging about, it became a hard time for me to find things the President does right.  I figured he was due for some brownie points anyway.

Here’s the particular brownie point:  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/31/obama-unveil-offshore-oil-drilling-plans/?test=latestnews

This show his plan on new offshore oil drilling.  You read that right.  Offshore Oil Drilling.  From a Democratic (some might say Socialist) President?

Stay with me here.

Most people here with half a brain would say that we need to improve our domestic supply of oil, global climate change or not.  The first reason is mentioned in the slowly editing Book 2 of BAM; the National Security issue.  It’s ethically wonky to have people who hate your guts be your main supplier of the fuel you need to function.  The other reason is just as great:  The need to have an oil supply even though you plan to wean your energy policy off oil.  As much as the environmentalists wish this to happen, it’s flat out suicide to do a clean shift from oil to clean energy.  It’s just asking for disaster if stuff like Cap and Trade is passed.  (And God help us if the same Dick Moves used for Health Care is used here.)

We need to have our oil supply be all domestic before we can work on reducing our need for oil.  And we won’t be able to completely eliminate our need for oil, but we can replace it with other sources to the point where we won’t need so much.  And in this recent plan for offshore oil drilling, Ba Rock shows that he feels the same way.

Now then, if we could get him to tone down of the financial reform.  Most of us don’t need Government to be that fricking big.

…the Westboro Baptist Church, yes, the “God Hates Fags  [Warning: Link NSFW]” assholes and bitches, makes the people they protest PAY FOR THEIR FUCKING WAYS!  Link:  http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/30/westboro.baptist.snyder/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29

And I’ve never thought I’d actually make a link to Encyclopedia Dramatica ever from this blog.  I’ve been doing a lot of shit I’ve never thought I’ve ever do lately.

Previously, I’ve made something I won’t ever scan, let alone post:  I made an sketch where I walk out the door after I pounded CWC into a bloody mess.  Consider it venting my utter disgust and shame over the whole circus surrounding this poor soul.  I won’t post it for two reasons.  The first and foremost is that I demand myself to be above such behavior, by any parties involved in this circus.  The second is a trick question:  Who did I draw that sketch for:  Christian himself, or the assholes who troll him.  Some of these trolls actually spend perfectly good and honestly earned money, time, and energy to actually do it In Real Life, face to face, in manners that could have made any other person hang him or her self.  (I doubt Chris-chan has the mental capacity to do that.  That should be a clue over how bad this guy is.)  We’re talking girls who would go out with him just to rip into him on camera, and then there’s someone who opened up and pretended to be him.

I don’t know who is worse, Chris-chan, or the Trolls tormenting him?  I would have just have Chris committed and be done with him.

I will take people who drive kids to suicide and try them for Murder One.  As Adults.  With the Death Penalty as an option, and Life without Parole the mandatory minimum.

In contrast.  I would say a silent prayer of thanksgiving if everyone—and I mean every single one—in that church shot.  It takes me a lot to say that with any honesty.  It wasn’t enough to that they have to put out their hatred act all over creation, but now they force their victims to pay for their court fees?  Real Life Moral Event Horizon here.

Fred Phelps is now a complete monster, and I wouldn’t care less if someone bumps him off, the luzier the better.

While most of the bloggers around here are making their dramas over Health Care, I found this:

Most college students will remember this experiment in the 60s where the subject kept giving FAKE electric shocks to some actor off stage and kept getting prodded to up the voltage until it ‘kills’ him..and some even kept doing it over and over until the body’s a charred husk?  It was a stark explanation as to how normal everyday people can be provoked to do very nasty things.  Like Genocide or Trolling.

Well, some French dude made this experiment into a reality television show to prove that same point!  Had a stylish set and everything, but the premise is the same.  How many people will give in to orders to go all the way in spite of their misgivings?  How about eighty fucking percent of everybody!

It’s a true sign as to how regressed we are as a species, and it’s not the only one out there.  It’s this kind or crap (The tendency for four out of five people alive today would put a bullet in my head by someone else’s say so) that makes me a hikikomori.  Imagine what would happen if the blowhards on Conservative media are proven right in their nightmare scenarios:  You shouldn’t worry about America surviving to see the next election.  You should be worried about humanity surviving to see any other election.

Alderaan’s destruction is a Moral Event Horizon for the man who pulled the trigger, too. In Death Star, we have Tenn Graneet, head gunner on the titular superweapon, who for most of the novel has his character built up. He always thought the Death Star would never really be used on a living planet, just on really big ships and bases and the like. When it comes to it, he follows orders. He realizes that as word gets around, even people serving with him on the Death Star treat him strangely, and knows that someday everyone will know, and everyone will loathe him as both the biggest mass murderer of his or possibly any time, and as someone who always, always followed orders. Unusually, and unlike Tarkin, who gave the order, he sees his action as a Moral Event Horizon, thinking that they would be right to hate him and one day kill him. The guilt doesn’t let him sleep, and he knows he will be commanded to do worse — if he doesn’t he’ll just be killed for disobedience and they will get another gunner and he will do it — and, when they are in range of Yavin and his hand is at the final button, he desperately stalls while telling everyone to "Stand By," hoping that something would happen to stop him. And it did. Poor bastard. –TV Tropes

As some of you may notice, I don’t write too much political items in this blog, even though the book it’s inspired does have a pro-American angle.  I don’t do it because most of the stuff I’d probably be writing would be echoed by several other like-minded web sites and blogs all over the Internet.  I also have stances and areas of interest that are outside of a usual Teabagger web site.  You can’t swing a lolcat in the online world without hitting a blog bitching at Pilosi for demanding a vote for a bill that she refuses to read until after it passes or a wacko czar who’d probably join in on a crew calling some unpopular child gay (Think of the slur) and make him believe that he is in fact gay before he would protect him.  I don’t feel that I should just add my voice to the mass din.  I do have my own areas I bitch about, such as how schools treat their students, bullying that goes too far, or even giving props to the President whenever he does something good.

But every now and then I have something to say that I need to get off my chest, and this time it has to be about this “Living Document” philosophy I hear from every other lawyer or lawmaker.  You especially hear them from Progressives who want to do something the Constitution can’t address and just goes on record and wishes that the Constitution—which isn’t really that old in comparison to every other country—should adapt to what they think is reality.

They might not want to hear it, they would pine and whine about how it should be, it should be, it just CAN’T do that.  If you studied Objectivism, you’ll hear this Law of Identity: A=A.  It applies with the Constitution.

That’s the first part of a five part series.  You’ll find the whole series here: http://www.the912project.us/forum/topics/judge-andrew-napolitano-the

I’ve studied the document, both in college and recently with the Tea Party movement, and while I’d love to see the document given a 2.0 treatment with the amendments written into the main document and with today’s language just out of curiosity, it has no place for it for anything about judicial activists, social justice, health care, or anything else, nor should there be.  What the Constitution does—and does it very well today—is provide guide rules on how the three branches of government work, what it can and cannot do, and assign what rights and areas that the government is not allowed to infringe upon.  That’s all it addresses.  It can not become anything else just like Up can’t be Down or Red can’t be Blue.  Bitch all you want, but A can’t be anything other than A and you just come off as some basement living kid being told they play too much World of Warcrack.

If you want to understand where I’m coming from, think of the many parts of a car.  Or a computer.  The constitution is the government’s engine, or processor, and it’s been working just fine for over 200 years—like I said, it’s not that old.  Think of England, France, Italy, and all the other countries and how long they’ve been around.  America’s still a young country, in it’s late teens in comparison—and the first rule of thumb in maintaining cars, computers, or anything else will be “If it ain’t broke, don’t fuck with it.”  The engine can’t be the transmission, the headlights, the bucket seats, or the radio.  The processor can’t be the memory, the harddrive, the viewscreen, or the USB drive used to Readyboost the computer.  They can’t be changed to address other parts and endanger its ability to fill the role that it is designed to.  Such as it is with government.  When Obama complained that the Constitution “does not mandate or allow for redistribution of wealth.” it’s because it wasn’t designed to be, not because of any flaws in the document.  If you want a government-supported organization that does allow aid to the unfortunate, you need to do it with a separate document, passed and implemented in accordance to the guidelines of the still relatively new Constitution.  Or if you absolutely need to change the Constitution you go through the Amendment process.  Doing any other way, such as the Living Document belief or the need to look into foreign laws that shouldn’t have any hold here, is just doing a dick move and upending your own credibility.

Because if you don’t respect a document that shows the supreme law of the land and still works perfectly well, what makes me think you’ll respect laws that you’ll pass yourself?

Until next time, I wonder why BAM should be more popular than unwatched movies that get awards on prime time television award shows?  The Oscar was fought between an Anti-US/Human movie and an Anti-US/Military movie.

Also:

You want to see why World of Warcrack turns so many lives into basement dwellers?  http://www.cracked.com/article_18461_5-creepy-ways-video-games-are-trying-to-get-you-addicted.html

Holy Crap!  Never mind the Chicago way—Vince McMahon is going into politics (finally!) Try to deny it, Linda:  http://www.linda2010.com/ Vote for her, Connecticut, or a WWE Superstar’ll turn you into grease.

Chaves is a dictator and Penn is an idiot: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/03/08/sean-penn-wants-reporters-jailed-calling-chavez-dictator/