Thursday, July 19, 2012

Women's Sufferage was SOoo Ten Years Ago.

I think this War on Women stuff has to stop. I’m sorry I feel like women are not really being attacked anymore but we are still trying to make ourselves look like the victim. I really just don’t understand. Maybe that is really what my problem is, I don’t understand enough. HOWEVER.. when I do research I don’t get a clear answer. With my mighty search engine mutant power I google War On Women. First link sends you to, Stop the War On Women, okay so I thought it was going to tell me what this “War on Women” actually is. All it says is to tell congress to stop attacking planned parenthood. Twice. In BIG Bold letters. To your left you are blessed with a confusing as fuck video. To be honest it is a perfect example of Propaganda. Whoever made this video knows what they are doing. They used 5 key words quite loudly, and even though it didn’t quite fit together they emphasized these words so I was like OOOoooo YES! STOP CONGRESS… but then I realized I still don’t know what I want them to stop. The 5 Key words in this video:
1. Women
 2. Children
 3. Cancer
 4. America
 5. Issue

 Okay why did I choose Issue as one of the big words? because they mix it with all these other words and it gives us this: Right now there an issue that is effecting women and children throughout America and it is increasing the risk of cancer. 


 I really don’t think that is what the problem is. Now in the middle of the page is a petition to tell congress NO. Okay so you are signing up to get junk mail. Underneath this they have 4 bullet points that tell you what you are saying no to… I thought this has to tell me….. No to taking away the rights and freedoms of American women. No to threatening the health of millions of women and their families. No to sneak attacks on women’s right to choose Still not there. The best part is at the bottom of all this it says, “We’ve got to stop this witch hunt. “ WITCH HUNT……

 Are we REALLLLYYY trying to push us “women” back that far? Witch hunts really?

 Anyway, on your left side bar there is what actual women have to say about it.. kind of like a twitter widget. I was interested.

"We must not let them get away with chopping women’s rights… We are not giving back our freedom!”— Jamie M.
 Thank you women for speaking up! You have our hearts, we have your backs! — Michaelann D.

 We are moving right back to the dark ages under this congress. — Dorothea D.

 I was just speechless… either these are staged or they are brainwashed. Since when was Freedom on the line? then I realized underneath all of this was a small little box that says Whats at stake.. and it is not even the a full article.. its just the link to Top 10 shocking attacks from the GOP’s War on Women. I refused to even click on it.. I was done. Now call me ignorant because I refused to dive a little deeper. However why should I even have to.. if the people fighting against the GOP don’t even know what they are fighting against than why should I?

 Propaganda at it’s best. It’s sad because if something awful isn’t happening they have to make something eles up.. It’s like a drug addict, People don’t have anything to fight for so they have to dig up and manipulate all these stories to create a monster.

 I wonder whats next Congress is going to take away Women’s right to vote again?

This may sound a little ignorant but...

I would really prefer not to learn another language. I am not sure why I am forced to be put through the stress and possible failure in a class because I don't have the attention span, intrest and capability of learning another language. I'm not saying this I'm prejudice to people who can't speak english... or because I live in America. That shit pisses me off. People who live in american need to reevaluate their definition of what it means to be "American" I am just saying I should be given the choice if I want to expand my vocabulary. Some things are not right for people, some things are harder for people to understand. for me it is learning another language. I taken two classes of two different languages and in the beginning it seems fine but as soon as I get a little deeper it falls down hill. SO I guess for the next 3 weeks I will hold my head high and fail gracefully. =]

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Why Is It So Difficult To Be Happy?

I’m not talking about the 16 year old angst against your mother unhappy. I’m talking, every day happiness. It just seems so difficult to achieve. I work in retail as a cashier, I get every kind of customer, young and old and of all ethnicities. I have observed that majority of them are miserable. I just don’t understand. They are either in a hurry and something sets them off or they came into the store irate. I understand that times are hard, funds are low, and media can be some sort of contributor. However is it really still that hard to look past the materialistic side and put on a smile? The worst part is that anger has an avalanche effect on not only you but the people around you. It is as contagious as a simple yawn. This is where I struggle, because I try to start my day with some form of joyfulness, however as soon as something/someone upsets me I become annoyed or irritated and it eventually overcomes my whole day and puts me in this snappy mood. I question this because I have seen happy people, they are there and when they are it is a breath of fresh air. A rainbow. The light at the end of the tunnel. A glimmer of hope. It is truly mesmerizing to see a person that you know is happy, you know that they have experienced the roughness but are still living life to the fullest and always wearing a smile. Everyday I drive down my street and I pass this little old man probably 75-80 years. He rides this light blue moped. He has a license plate and everything, however he only goes about 10MPH, so I don’t think he’s going anywhere in particular. He is just going to go. He doesn’t let the cars going 50MPH, honking, and swearing bother him, he doesn’t speed up for them. He just keeps going. I love it,(not sure why it upsets people so much I guess impatience comes with anger) you can tell he enjoys it and that hes just happy to be doing it. I understand that we have bad days every once and a while, but I wish that we could turn them into a bad afternoon or maybe down to just a bad hour. Because I sadly see them turning into bad weeks and then bad lives. I guess the next time I wake up on the “wrong side of the bed” or the red light is taking just a little to long to turn green… I’m going to slow down and smile.