Pledge of Allegiance

...


****Article deleted to a possible attempt to remove me from my current job status. It is in fact a sad society when I have to hide my freedom of speech in order to save my job. Fuck you.****

Obama vs. McCain......DANCE OFF!

I think all we need is a good dance off.

UPDATE: /GASP! The video is no more! It was fun while it lasted. (10/28/08)

UPDATE: Found it on youtube. (10/30/08)

boob

EXPLOSION 1. WE ALL FUCKING DIE.












0.... FUCK YOU, FUCK YOUR MOTHER, FUCK YOUR GRANDMOTHER, FUCK YOUR CHILDREN. WE

















ALL












FUCKING DIE






















































but we can't acce]t science. OH SHIT





















THERE ARE BOMBS, BUT LARGER








































BAM BAM BAM
BOOM






















































BOOOM1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111111!!!!!!


















WE DIE,






















NOTHING THAT CAN SAYVE US, BURT LIE FE TITSE4LF. LOVE IS AN ABANDONMENT, WE HATE LIFE............................




























































SHE HATES YOU, ............YOU HATE






























































































HER...............................................................REACH PERSPECTIVE FOLKS.















































































REACH FUCKING PERSPECTIVE

Sometimes I hate People

Wow. Sometimes I sit at the computer with this state of mind. I will not cut off or regulate the shit that i type.

I hate you all. By all, i mean people. I wish human kind contained more intelligent people. FUCK! Do you not ever feel you are walking about through regular day and realize that every single person OTHER THAN YOU are idiots? So.........................you really feel that? Well FUCK?!!? you are me man. You are the fucked up populace that people on their "OUTER CONSCIENCE" doesn't want to admit................ there are two sides folks. There are the rationalists, and the anti-rationalists. I promise you that you are not an agnostic. Many people will ask this. Don't worry about it. Don't even pretend the term exists. It is about rule, right? FUCK RULE! a god does not rule. we do not rule. we all rule our own body.....which means............many retards who share the same idea about rule will now destroy the earth............OH SHIT AM I TALKING ABOUT RELIGION???????????? FUCK FUCKING YES I AM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHETHER YOU ARE ISLAM, CHRISTIAN, MORMON, ETC, YOU...........................





ARE..........................




A.......................





TERRORIST..................................................




i honestly hope you realize the importance in what i say. please. be yourself. do not reference any religion. here we go....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Top 5 Movies Every Parent Should Show Their Teenagers

Top 5 Movies Every Parent Should Show Their Teenagers
By Aaron Schooler

Cinema, when done creatively, masterfully, and properly, can have a larger impact on one’s life than many other forms of inspiration. I have time and time again watched movies that consummately portray an important life lesson. From Disney flicks to documentaries, they are innumerable. There comes a time though where the sugar coated lessons taught from G-rated fairy tales just aren’t enough to reach the mindset of a maturing mind. So, without further ado, here are my top 5 picks for movies every parent should show their puberty-ridden teenage children in order to help keep them steered in the right direction of life. This isn’t going to be pretty.

1. Requiem for a Dream (2000)



This film should be shown to every young teenager just entering high school. Set aside the fact that it is riddled with strong language and disturbing images. One day you will have to admit to yourself that your kids watch films with cursing and violence, and that they use the same language themselves. Didn’t you?

Requiem for a Dream truly represents one of the major vices this country holds strong: addiction. Whether it is an American’s refusal to stop drinking caffeine saturated drinks or the idea that the use of hard drugs makes you cool, every one of us succumbs to an addiction throughout our lives. This movie shows the viewer in as ugly a way possible what detriment radiates from addiction. It touches on people’s obsession with their weight. It teaches that hard drugs are in fact addictive and can truly hurt you. It even touches on Americans’ obsession with Hollywood and the American Dream of becoming famous or ‘getting on television’. It will never happen, but from childhood we are taught that it probably maybe hopefully will happen to every one of us. These delusions are torn to shreds by the grotesque imagery used in this film. I would also like to see a teenager inject heroin into their vein after watching this movie. It’s not gonna happen.

2. Religulous (2008)



Speaking of fairy tales, we should all be aware it is not healthy to believe in them verbatim especially after one matures past childhood. This is the perfect film to make sure your kids do not surrender to their peers’ insistence that the Bible is, well, good. Bringing up a child can be a daunting task, and sometimes other people try to raise them for you, i.e. a church. This movie can help prevent or correct that.

For those of you who believe in a god, the film can still help allow children to form their own opinions. There is nothing wrong with doubt.

I do not believe in lying to a child about Santa Claus, but at least one day you tell them you lied to them. I cannot imagine trying to explain why you would give the credit of so much gift giving to a fictional fat-ass, but for the most part, it’s not as harmful as say telling your children that snakes can talk or that a carpenter was crucified, came back as a zombie, and somehow by doing so saves you from your sins. It’s as much of a fairy tale as Shrek, and it’s just wrong for people to keep lying to their children all the way through the teenage years.

Religulous informs us about how harmful to the past, present, and future of mankind religion is. It focuses on the fact that these religious stories are actually very crazy, but the majority of people are just used to hearing it. It’s embedded into their brains, so it must be true. Don’t let it happen to the teenagers. They are our future! Arguably, this movie could be the single most important film every human should see.

3. American History X (1998)



Every time I attempted to talk about this movie among acquaintances, I get the same reaction, “YOU’RE RACIST!” I do not understand why so many people declare this to be such a racist film. It is true that the movie shows the ugliest sides of prejudice, but it shows it for a reason. Anybody who isn’t a nut recognizes that this masterpiece preaches against racism using the harshest methods possible: by showing the viewer how heinous and extreme it can get. The moral remains that racism is bad. Innocent people get emotionally and physically abused. If the poignant moment where Danny is broken free of his white supremacist bonds by his older brother Derek doesn’t reach someone’s kids, then something’s wrong with those kids. Plus, the audience gets to witness a painful twist of fate at the end that will leave them with an open mind to form their own opinions.

4. Kids (1995)



I think it was inevitable that this movie would make this list. As poorly acted, written, and directed as this movie was, Kids remains a masterpiece because of its determination to freak you out. Dark, sadistic, comedic, and disturbing describe every frame of this movie. It is painful to watch, and even more painful to look away. In other words, it’s gold. When you really analyze this film, it may convince you to never fuck again! I would not recommend it, but at least it will help the teenagers refrain from promiscuous, dangerous sex. If I were the principal of a junior high school, I would make this film mandatory viewing. I would interrupt class to gather everyone into the auditorium and project Kids onto the largest screen imaginable. That also may be the reason I am NOT in fact a junior high school principal. Either way, if a school district wants to preach about how important safe sex is, all they have to do is have the students watch and analyze this flick. The girls will clamp their legs shut and make sure they NEVER pass out drunk at a party; the boys will be painting their dicks with rubber faster than a Jew collects interest! I mean…….what?

5. The Breakfast Club (1985)



Teenagers today were not even a twinkle in their dad’s eye when this movie was huge; however, it’s amazing how many of the same lessons still apply to every generation that’s followed its release. Do cliques still exist in school? Very much so. Do kids still get abused? Absolutely. Is every day in school a popularity contest? Damn straight. The Breakfast Club promotes unity in a way that every single one of us can relate to. The jock may learn not to be such an arrogant asshole. The geek will learn to accept who they are. The pretty girls might learn not to be so judgmental about a person’s outer appearance. The ruffian can find the soft spot in his heart. Just think of all the intelligible lessons this film exhorts towards the viewer that just might help direct him or her into a better, brighter direction for their life. Besides that, it is just an extremely entertaining movie.

So, what did you think? Did I make any sense? Well then, that’s what COMMENTS are for. I’d love to hear your suggestions. It only makes it more interesting. Have a nice day.

Wrong Glasses

Religulous - most expensive ticket ever

Okay, I'm exaggerating. The ticket itself was not expensive, but the sequence of events required to see this movie is what added up to becoming the most I've ever paid to see one movie. And yes...it was worth it.

Monday, the girlfriend and I decided we were going to drive to Dallas and see this movie. So we fucking did it! We also wanted to just hang out in the city so we woke up before 7 am and left by 7:30. Upon finding the theater we were going to watch the movie in, I discovered that not only am I going to watch an amazing movie, but I am going to watch an amazing movie with cold beer in my hands. That's right. The theater was a combination bar/theater. So at around 4:30pm, we settled into our seats with cold Rolling Rocks in my hand. Gas+ticket+cold beer+food= most expensive ticket ever.

Then it started.

Religulous conveys what is the singular most important message in the history of mankind: We will not and cannot survive as a country, as a human race, as a PLANET with religion around. It shouts to us nonbelievers to do SOMETHING to fight against this attack on our planet by religions. Not just christianity, but islam, judaism, and mormonism...no religion is innocent. He points out and makes clearly apparent what most of us rationalists (atheists, agnostics, etc.) already knew: the fact that millions upon millions of people can believe in something as insanely absurd as the Bible, the Koran, or the Book of Mormon is unbelievable, depressing, and flat out dangerous. Religion has caused more deaths than anything else during man's time on earth. Bill Maher makes all of these points throughout this masterpiece.

I laughed so hard during this movie. I cannot remember a movie that was so comedic and poignant at the same time. Bill Maher and Larry Charles show how ridiculous all of these religions are, but while doing so do not point fingers or talk down to their 'victims'. I use that term very loosely. These people being interviewed provide answers that just make us laugh because Bill Maher shapes each following question perfectly. He leaves some of the christians, muslims, etc. in utter shock, confusion, and doubt. He knows that there is no way these people are going to change their beliefs. It's too embedded into their heads; they're too far brainwashed; they're too afraid of death. He knows this. Maher directs this film to those of us who are enlightened to religion's ridiculousness already. He has inspired me moreso than I already was. If you want to be inspired, go see this film. If you want to laugh, go see this film. If you want to see the truth, go see this film.

After all of the humor, Maher and Charles decide to brilliantly drive us straight into a brick wall. By this I mean the comedy reaches a dead end, and Maher gets dead serious. The final monologue by Bill Maher and the pictures that accompany it are the most powerful 10-15 minutes I have EVER witnessed in a film. I almost wanted to cry. It kind of takes your breath away when he illustrates so vividly what our lives, what the planet's life, is headed for because of religion. It's so sad, depressing, and makes those of us who already know feel overwhelmingly helpless. This goes on my list of movies that EVERY parent should show their young teen/preteen child.

All in all, completely phenomenal folks. Everyone deserves to see this movie. Thanks for your time.

Religulous Is Here

UPDATE - In a not so surprising move, Religulous will not be released in my area of the country. I would have to travel to a major city to watch this, but in Texas, that might not even be possible. The religions of our country have sunk their teeth far too deeply into the Texan mindset so it's very believable that theaters would purposely avoid purchasing this film for their lineup. It's ok though. I will find the movie online and send an envelope straight to fucking Bill Maher and Larry Charles themselves containing ten bucks for my movie ticket.





Also, I found this clip from the movie. Obviously, he is talking to a member of the cannabis church. Hilarious.
======================
With the release of Religulous today, here's an interview with Bill Maher. Despite the guy conducting the interview leaning towards being another religious lunatic, I'd say Maher handled himself very intelligently. (scroll to end for source link)
-----------------------------
Bill, you're a busy guy right now. You've got a movie and an HBO talk show to promote, and an election and a financial crisis to make fun of. But I wonder whether the current economic situation really lends itself to comedy.

Well, it is funny, if you can laugh through your tears. You've got to make fun of everything, and this is certainly something people are aware of and talking about. I try to talk about it in a kitchen-table way, but one of the difficult things about it is that nobody really understands it.

You know, we've been asked to trust Secretary Paulson. Now I don't know this man, and maybe he's brilliant. What I know about him is that he's a Bush appointee, like Rumsfeld, Gonzales, Miers and Cheney. What I know about him is that he worked for Goldman Sachs, who are part of the problem. And I know that he was on his knees in the Oval Office recently. Maybe he was looking for change under the couch, but I don't think so.

Like everybody else, I guess, I don't quite know what to think. On one level, I understand that Congress was being irresponsible in shooting down the bailout the other day. On the other hand, doesn't everybody want to see those rich bastards get what's coming to them?

I guess the problem is, it's cutting off your nose to spite your face. You get the rich bastards, but our 401K plans are on Wall Street, that's our retirement money. It's all mixed together, and that's the problem.

The root problem, I think, is that Americans stopped making stuff. We used to make cars, houses, furniture. We were a manufacturing country. Now we just push numbers around on a computer screen. It's all about debt and margins and short-selling. Eventually that house of cards is going to come down. You find third-world countries and other nations doing better than us. The Chinese actually make things. OK, they make DVD players full of poisonous materials, lead and mercury, but at least they're making something. We've become a small-print economy. Not even a service economy, a small-print economy.

And, you know, we're such a religious country, at least supposedly. But charging interest is specifically forbidden by the Old Testament.

Right. Don't banks in Islamic countries actually obey that prohibition? Or at least find imaginative ways around it?

That's true. As usual with the Muslims compared to us, we pretend to be religious and don't really follow it. They actually walk the walk and talk the talk. Which of course is not a good thing when it leads to beheading homosexuals. We don't do that, we just dis them with Pat Robertson. But yes -- Muslim banks do not charge interest. They find other ways of making money; it's more about sharing with the customer.

I guess that brings us to the topic of "Religulous," which I read as this effort to get agnostics and atheists out of the closet in American society.

That's certainly one of the goals. I don't use the word "atheist" about myself, because I think it mirrors the certitude I'm so opposed to in religion. What I say in the film is that I don't know. I don't know what happens when you die, and all the religious people who claim they do know are being ridiculous. I know that they don't know any more than I do. They do not have special powers that I don't possess. When they speak about the afterlife with such certainty and so many specifics, it just makes me laugh.

People can tell you, "Oh yes, when you get to Paradise there are 72 virgins, not 70, not 75." Or they say, "Jesus will be there sitting at the right hand of the Father, wearing a white robe with red piping. There will be three angels playing trumpets." Well, how do you know this? It's just so preposterous. So, yes, I would like to say to the atheists and agnostics, the people who I call rationalists, let's stop ceding the moral high ground to the people who believe in the talking snake. Let's have our voices heard and be in the debate. Let's stand up and say we're not ready to let the country be given over to the Sarah Palins of the world.

It seems like your major target in this movie are the religious extremists, those who belong to the fundamentalist camps of various different religions.

That's not really true, that's not really true. I mean, take Sen. Pryor -- I don't think he'd consider himself a fundamentalist. I think he's like a majority of Americans. I mean, 60 percent of Americans believe the Noah's ark story to be literally true. To me, that's mainstream. When people say, "You're going after extremists," I say, well, to be religious at all is to be an extremist. It's to be extremely irrational. Not that everybody believes in Noah's ark, or the guy who lived to be 900 years old. But even to believe the central story of Christianity -- a lot of people would say, "I'm not like those kooks out in Kansas who believe the Earth is 5,000 years old. But I do believe God has a son, who he sent down to earth on a suicide mission, and he said, 'Hey, Jesus, I'm sending you on this suicide mission, but don't worry, they can't kill you because you're really me.' I, God the father -- wink, wink -- let's split up the work! OK? Because there's two of us, but not really! I'll go down to Earth first and I'll see if I can't impregnate a Palestinian woman so she can give birth to you." It's just as silly a story. We're just used to it.

Right, well, it's pretty funny when you argue that that story is every bit as ridiculous as the space-alien gods and billion-year-old beings and volcanoes of Scientology. But you could find liberal theologians, sophisticated intellectuals, who are not fundamentalists and who could argue their way out of any corner you try to paint them into.

I disagree again. This is the idea that people have in their heads, that somehow you can have a person who sounds very rational and can hold his own in a conversation about whether religion is silly or not. And I just disagree with that premise. If you're defending the story I just described, you are going to come out sounding ridiculous no matter who you are and no matter how intelligent you are. We interviewed Francis Collins in the film. He's the man who mapped the human genome, he's a brilliant scientist. But he says some pretty cuckoo things, some things that are just factually wrong and make him look foolish.

I said, "We don't even know for sure whether Jesus lived," and he said, "We have eyewitness accounts." I said, "No, every scholar agrees that the gospels were written from 40 to 70 years after Jesus died." And he said, "Well, that's close." That's close to an eyewitness account? Forty years after somebody dies, 2,000 years ago? This idea that there's somebody out there who can make a case for this and make it sound reasonable, that just doesn't exist.

Well, you've got these two Vatican priests in the film, and one of them, Reginald Foster, is this very funny guy who is totally not defending the most ridiculous aspects of Christianity.

He's actually debunking them! Here's a guy who lives down the hall from the pope. We saw where the pope lives. And he's just saying, "Ah, they're all just stories." It gave us a real insight that perhaps some of these people who are in the hierarchies of the religions -- they don't really believe it. But they understand that you can't tear it all down for the common man, that people need their stories. It's just amazing that he would say it to me publicly, and on camera.

Well, that raises a philosophical question, which maybe a 100-minute comedy film can't deal with. Do these stories serve a purpose in human life that isn't entirely negative, even if it's foolish to take them at face value? It seems to me you're arguing that they don't.

That's a good question, and of course no one can argue that religion hasn't done some good. Even in the world today, the Catholic Church certainly organizes a lot of antipoverty programs. It feeds the poor, runs soup kitchens, and so forth. I would argue that all that can be accomplished without the bells and whistles of religion. People behave ethically all the time without relying on myths. And I would argue that when you bring religion into it, yes, the comfort that religion brings comes at a terrible price. Probably the majority of wars in our history have been fought over religion.

Of course we're now involved in Iraq, and the main reason that conflict has been so difficult to solve is that there are two sects of Islam who have a disagreement about who succeeded the prophet Mohammed in the seventh century. This is the reason they're ethnically cleansing each other! Not to mention the Crusades and, you know, keeping women in their place and the repression of minorities and exorcism and burning witches and honor killings and suicide bombings and having sex with children. I mean, I could go on. Does religion have a place? Yeah, you kind of have to balance that against all the bad it does.

You deal with Christianity and Judaism, and toward the end of the film you wrestle with Islam a little bit. But there's no mention of Hinduism or Buddhism -- a religion that allows for considerable doubt and isn't so sure about the existence of God, for example.

We made the decision early on that in a 90-minute movie we weren't going to be able to delve into the Eastern religions. First of all, Americans -- and I'm one of them -- don't know that much about them. We don't have that intimate lifelong relationship with them, the way we do with Judaism and Christianity and, in recent years, with Islam. We go into Mormonism and Scientology, but people know a little about them because this is America. If we were going to go into Shintoism and Buddhism and Hinduism, that's another movie, and one I'm not going to make.

You've been pretty consistent on TV and in your stand-up routines in criticizing Islam, in arguing that the religion and its followers really have a problem they don't seem to be dealing with. You go after Islam again in this film, and you aren't especially delicate about it.

No, you can't be. You can't pull your punches, and you wouldn't be respected if you did. We show a little of the Theo van Gogh film ["Submission," which apparently led to the Dutch filmmaker's murder by an Islamic radical], which is pretty rough stuff. You see that woman with her face all beat up, saying, "This is what my husband does to me in the name of his religion." And we talk to a number of Muslim people and you hear me saying that I think when they talk amongst each other they're more honest about the predicament of their religion, but they won't say it to a stranger. I'm sure some of this is going to ruffle feathers, but you know what? The Christians don't love what we say about them either.

You've been called anti-Muslim from time to time. How careful are you, do you think, about raising criticisms that don't cross the line into prejudice and stereotype?

I don't think I'm involved with prejudice. Prejudice comes from the words "pre" and "judge," and I don't think I'm prejudging. I'm judging. I reserve the right to make judgments. We all have to make judgments.

SOURCE