How to say I love you.

The Good Club

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6350303.ece


This article is one of the most infuriating and frightening things I've read. Imagine, an elite few, made up of billionaires, are getting together to plan how to reduce populations and control the masses. My gosh, it's like something out of a science-fiction story.

"Gates, 53, who is giving away most of his fortune, argued that healthier families, freed from malaria and extreme poverty, would change their habits and have fewer children within half a generation." Good God, because less children means healthier families. Is he calling children a disease? So we people are nothing more than vermin that need to be controlled?

"“Official projections say the world’s population will peak at 9.3 billion [up from 6.6 billion today] but with charitable initiatives, such as better reproductive healthcare, we think we can cap that at 8.3 billion,” Gates said then." It's been proven that the whole of the world's population can fit inside Texas. And Gates wants to "cap that" through "reproductive healthcare". In English, "Let's neuter the masses like we would a stray dog so that they will not reproduce anymore and we can keep them under control." What are we, animals or people?

"The philanthropists who attended a summit convened on the initiative of Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, discussed joining forces to overcome political and religious obstacles to change. " Great Scott (to quote another eccentric old man), these "philanthropists" want to overcome our government and religion (which we are still free to practice last time I checked the Constitution) to change. Change what? Change our minds? Our society? Our lives?

Yes, I sound like a conspiracy theorist because I am.

One Classic Dame

Your result for The Classic Dames Test...

Myrna Loy

You scored 12% grit, 43% wit, 19% flair, and 33% class!

You are loaded with a quirky kind of class that people find irresistable. Men turn and look at you admiringly as you walk down the street, and even your rivals have a grudging respect for you. You usually know the right thing to say, do and, of course, wear. You can take charge of a situation when things get out of hand, and you do it with great poise and chic. Your wit and sense of fun endear you to your partner and every other man in the room. Your screen partners include William Powell and Cary Grant. You're quite a catch...if you want to be caught.

Find out what kind of classic leading man you'd make by taking the Classic Leading Man Test.

One of my favorite actresses. It's funny, though, how the results always contradict reality in these quizzes. lol

And by opposing, end them.

Current Mood: Ecstatic

Hey look! Shiny! Why yes, that is in fact a Doctor Who mood thingy. 8D It's like a mood ring for your blog.

So, why are the Doctor and I so happy? I got a good grade on my Algebra finals, which I was sure I was going to fail. 8] Happy, happy, happy. Deliriously happy.

Anyway, I've entered the homestretch. The rest of my finals are tomorrow and I guess if I can pass my Algebra 2, I can pass anything. Bring it on, world!

Going on to bigger things, this means that I have only two years now until I run off to college. My childhood is slipping away through fingers. Why yes, I do have a Peter Pan complex. I don't want to face the real world yet and I don't think I'm ready to. Of course, I still have two years to go, but I know they'll pass by too quickly. Life is like that I guess.

Yesterday, my lab partner and I finished dissecting a grasshopper. To be frank, its insides smelled like Taco Bell and looked like it too. I wonder if the grasshopper (the species is called "lubber grasshopper" which we found later that lubber means a big, clumsy, fellow. Needless to say, we had fun with that word all day) is looking down on us from heaven (or hell, who knows, he could've been part of a plague) and is wondering at the audacity of us tearing up his body. But we plunge forth, through grasshopper thoraxes and entrails, all in the name of science!

We arm wrestled with the grasshopper's feet after we cut them off.

Is this what life is? We struggle and fight for our way in the world and in the end we shuffle off this mortal coil, only to find ourselves on a cold slab, our insides bared and mocked by highschoolers.

My partner Bailey couldn't stand to cut open the grasshopper and gave me the proud honors of slicing open it's abdomen, saying that she felt sorry for the insect and felt like a murderer. What a metaphor. Stealing a phrase from the Prince of Denmark, does conscience, then, make cowards of us all? So cowardly, that we are afraid to dig beneath our exteriors and see the ugly mess that is inside?

Which reminds me, I recently watched the movie Everything Is Illuminated with Elijah Wood in his younger days. It's the only movie in which I think he's cute, but that's besides the point. Fantastic movie. I reccomend it.

Getting Holy With It

XD lol It's very hard to imagine the priests at my church dancing like this.



...Now you know, don't mess with nuns. D8

How To Tell If Your Cat Is Planning To Kill You

http://www.catswhothrowupgrass.com/kill.php


Bahaha, this is my cat, totally.

Of Paupers and Rockefellers

""One more thing, gentlemen, before I quit. Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal, a phrase that the Yankees and the distaff side of the Executive branch in Washington are fond of hurling at us. There is a tendency in this year of grace, 1935, for certain people to use this phrase out of context, to satisfy all conditions. The most ridiculous example I can think of is that the people who run public education promote the stupid and idle along with the industrious- because all men are created equal, educators will gravely tell you, the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inferiority. We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe- some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they're born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cakes than others- some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men. "But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal- there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court. It can be the Supreme Court of the United States or the humblest J.P. court in the land, or this honorable court which you serve. Our courts have their faults, as does any human institution, but in this country our courts are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal."

A quote from "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee which I am reading for English class. The quote is from Atticus Finch's defense speech to the jury, urging them to acquit Tom Robinson.

Alert: New Goal In Life

I want. To dance. Like this.

The Devalued Prime Minister of a Devalued Government

Impressive. The video's somewhat old by now, but I'm impressed by his rhetorical skills and the fact that he's not afraid to say what the rest of the country is thinking.

To Bomb or Not To Bomb

(Homework for World History class)

The Paradox Society


On August 6, 1945, the nuclear bomb “Little Boy” was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, killing as many as 140,000 people and leaving many more affected by radiation and lead poisoning. On August 9, only three days later, “Fat Man” was dropped on Nagasaki, killing 80,000 people. In both cities, the majority of the dead were citizens. Japan announced its surrender to the Allies on August 15, officially ending World War II.

Months before, on May 7, Germany had signed the Instrument of Surrender, ending the war in Europe. The Allies had triumphed there, ending Hitler’s mad reign over the people. Everyone had been appalled by the barbarous treatment of the over 6 million Jews and other people who were murdered or tortured by Hitler, something the world had never seen before. Even today, one cringes at the thought of the Nazis tossing people into a furnace or mowing them down with machine guns.

However much we are disgusted by Hitler’s actions, when it comes the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we remain indifferent. It was a necessary evil, we say. But how necessary was it?

President Truman, who signed the executive orders for the attacks, insisted that the decision to deploy the bombs was his and so was, therefore, the responsibility of those deaths. To justify the atom bombs, Truman figuratively pointed a finger at Pearl Harbor and said “Nobody is more disturbed over the use of Atomic bombs than I am but I was greatly disturbed over the unwarranted attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor and their murder of our prisoners of war. The only language they seem to understand is the one we have been using to bombard them.” Despite the harsh brutality of the Japanese army, it’s hard to justify the deaths of thousands of men, women, and children.

The rationale of the bombings then came to rest on the idea that by bombing the Japanese in this way, we would save half a million American lives or more. These lives would have been lost, the government said, in the planned invasion of Kyushu and then in the invasion of Honshu the following year. However, it was calculated that the most lives lost in such a case would have been about 46 thousand Americans.

Truman’s own chief of staff Admiral Leahy said, “the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. . . . My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make wars in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.” High military officers such as Eisenhower and MacArthur condemned the bombing as barbaric.
Gertrude Ascombe, a prominent Roman Catholic and British analytic philosopher, frequently criticized Truman, condemning him as a mass murderer and a war criminal. In 1956, she protested against Oxford, where she had graduated, giving Truman an honorary degree, saying “for what is the difference between the U.S. government massacring civilians from the air, as at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the Nazis wiping out the inhabitants of some Czech or Polish village?”

Following her train of thought, what if our military and government leaders had approved dropping an atom bomb on a German city, believing that it would weaken the Nazis so much that they would be lead to surrender? It would have certainly ended the war, but would it have justified the killing of thousands of innocent women and children? Would we have looked at it differently than we did at the atomic bombings?

Truman did not exhaust the possibilities of ending the war in another way. Instead, he opted for the most powerful and jolting manner in which to stop the Japanese. However, as Major General Fuller, a military historian, said, “Though to save life is laudable, it in no way justifies the employment of means which run counter to every precept of humanity and the customs of war. Should it do so, then, on the pretext of shortening a war and of saving lives, every imaginable atrocity can be justified.” For what other reason then would laws and ethics of warfare have been created if not to stop heinous acts of barbarism such as the atomic bombs?

Leo Szilard, a world-renowned physicist, stated in 1960 that “If the Germans had dropped atomic bombs on cities instead of us, we would have defined the dropping of atomic bombs on cities as a war crime, and we would have sentenced the Germans who were guilty of this crime to death at Nuremberg and hanged them.” If we look at this event without attaching names or nationalities, it’s impossible to see the bombings as justifiable. A nation drops two atomic bombs on cities in another nation, killing thousands and thousands of innocent people, men, women, and children, for the purpose of ending a war. Who then is the greater criminal?