See you on Thursday!

Posted on Wednesday, 18 January 2012 at 00:00 by Missy

Doing my little part to help stop SOPA

For the 24 hour time period beginning at midnight tonight, this blog will be joining other blogs and sites (like Wikipedia) in protest over pending legislation in Congress known as SOPA – the “Stop Online Piracy Act.”  To quote George Takei, “SOPA is aimed ostensibly at protecting copyrighted material, but as drafted threatens to choke off the Internet in much the way China does now -– by killing the source of oxygen.”

Takei continues:

In its worst proposed form, SOPA would require U.S. search engines, advertising networks and other providers to withhold their services to certain “flagged” sites, so that users couldn’t find them and payment processors couldn’t fund them.  That’s right:  Someone ELSE would get to decide what YOU can and cannot see.  This is a flagrant violation of free speech and free association rights, and it must not be allowed to move forward.

Pushback from companies such as Google and Facebook and ordinary citizens has stalled SOPA, with its backers promising to revise the bill’s more controversial aspects.  But you know how these things go.  With big industry behind the bill, it will take a massive public outcry to kill it.  I can tell you this:  If SOPA is passed in its original form, or even some of the suggested “compromises,” sites like YouTube would go dark immediately.

The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act lays out enforcement measures to deal with copyright infringement here in the US, but this doesn’t work with foreign sites.  The backers of SOPA would have us believe that censorship here in the US will solve that overseas problem.  It won’t.  If you’d like to send your senator a message letting him or her know that, be sure to sign the on-line petition through this link.

I’ll see you all Thursday at midnight.

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“Drugs”

Posted on Saturday, 7 January 2012 at 17:15 by Missy

Well….

I think if you want to do drugs, and potentially ruin your life, go ahead. It is not anyone’s business but yours. You shouldn’t go and get in people’s lives and try to stop them, if you want to help them then you need to make sure that they know the problems that can happen when they do drugs. After that, though, you’re done. You shouldn’t do anything else.

Most people will not even try drugs if they know from the beginning what the side effects are, and how it can mess up your life. But again, if they want to do that, LET THEM. As long as they aren’t bothering you, or trying to get you to do it, and won’t let up about it, who cares?

I know many people who smoke Marijuana, (Which I do not consider a “drug,” and I’ll explain why here in a minute…) and don’t push it on me, hell, I even own two different pipes, just because they look cool. They sit in my room on a shelf for the whole world to see, and one even has a pot leaf right on the front.

But guess what? They’ve never been used. (Okay, except for once, I smoked some frosted mini wheats because I wanted to see if I could v.v) I’ve never gotten myself in those people’s business, and they’ve never pushed it on me. So why should my panties get in a knot over them smoking Marijuana if they aren’t bothering me?

Although, I might be concerned if they were doing Cocaine or Heroin, or something that you can actually call a drug. Marijuana, for me, isn’t a drug. Sugar is more of a drug than Marijuana. Why do I not consider Marijuana a drug? Good question.

I don’t consider it a drug because the word “drug” indicates that you can become addicted to it (You *can* become addicted to sugar) You cannot become addicted to Marijuana. Period. There is NO ONE that has ever become addicted to Marijuana.

“Drug” also means that you become dependent on the drug, and you experience withdrawal when use is stopped. Marijuana has been used recreationally, medically, and ritualistically since it was discovered.

In America, “drug” possession is considered a victimless crime and it’s been made legal in a few places, already. Since its legalization in those places, drug usage rates have dropped, crime rates have dropped, and guess what? You don’t see tons of people going out getting stoned and causing trouble.

What I’m trying to say here is… SHUT UP. If they want to do drugs, let them! As long as they don’t push it on me, I’m cool with it. And you should be, too. Don’t get all bible-thumper-soapbox-preachy on them about drugs, if you don’t know what you’re talking about.

EDIT:

Also, there is no one who has ever overdosed on Marijuana.

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Biggest Loser

Posted on Wednesday, 4 January 2012 at 00:25 by Missy

“This is not what I signed up for” one man said…

When Alison said to them “You have no partners, because you may depend on the other person too much.”

What? You signed up to CHANGE YOUR LIFE. You signed up to LOSE WEIGHT. YOU ARE DOING THAT. MILLIONS of people would kill to be in your shoes, hell, I’d kill to be in your shoes, and so would my mom.

Don’t you DARE say that. You signed up to change your life and become a better, healthier person, and you are doing just that. If I were a trainer, I’d kill those people, I would kill them in that damn gym and ruin them, I’d make them throw up and pass out.

I would make them regret walking into my gym and ever saying that.

You are changing your life, be happy with that. Millions of people want to be in your shoes, and don’t even care about the TV part, stop being so ungrateful.

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Trees

Posted on Sunday, 27 November 2011 at 04:16 by Missy

Trees, you say?

Yes.
Trees.
Just wait.
I’ll get to it.

So today we’re talking about the Christmas tree, and the influence the Christmas tree has had on society.
Nah.
Well, kind of, I guess.

I went to a website to look up something COMPLETELY unrelated, I saw at the bottom of the page “20 Holiday Trees”. “Oh, cool!” I said to myself. I look through all twenty trees, most are Christmas, but some aren’t. I’d actually like to put up a tree for each different holiday, I think that’d be cool.

So I scroll down to see the comments on it, without any idea what I was about to see…

“IT’S A CHRISTMAS TREE, CHRIST, CHRIST, CHRIST, NOT HOLIDAY, YOU’RE THROWING OUT GOD AND JESUS, YOU SINNERS, YOU!”

SHUT THE HELL UP.

It’s a TREE FOR GOD’S SAKE! Who the HELL cares what you call it?

So I posted a comment.

“Maybe the reason they’re calling it a “Holiday tree” is not because they’re trying to be PC and not offend anyone who doesn’t celebrate Christmas (or put up a Christmas tree), maybe it’s because the trees are not just for Christmas. I know several people who put up Halloween, Valentine’s day, St. Patrick’s day, Easter, and 4th of July trees.

You’re not turning your back on God OR Jesus just because you change the name of a tree.”

And then posted a comment off of that…

“And before this comes up (I know it probably will because of some of the comments below), I am *not* some teenage, Pagan sinner. I am in my teen years, however, I believe in God, and Jesus.”

I have nothing else to say. I’m so irritated right now. >.<

It’s a damn tree.

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It shouldn’t matter

Posted on Friday, 25 November 2011 at 04:08 by Missy

I’ll explain…

I was having a conversation with someone when they said, “When I was little, I was raised to be straight, only date other whites, and ONLY within a one to three year age difference. But they had to be older, cause I’m a girl.”

What the hell? I remember sitting in a Chinese restaurant and everyone staring at this couple sitting there having dinner, the girl was white, and the guy was black, and I remember asking “Why is everyone staring at them?” and getting told “Because the girl is white, and the boy is black.” and sitting there wondering “Why does it matter?”

Why DOES it matter? I still don’t get it, but I’ll explain how I grew up:

  • I grew up not caring what someone’s color was, if you’re nice to me, then cool.
  • I grew up not caring what someone’s age was, if I love you, age shouldn’t matter.
  • I grew up not having a sexual preference, if I love you, I love you, male or female.

Why is it to hard to think like that? I still think like that, although I now prefer to think of myself as heterosexual, I don’t know. I’ve never been attracted to a female as of yet, but who knows? Maybe I’m destined to be with someone of the same gender.

For the longest time I didn’t even know what all the sexual types were, and the first time I got that question, “What are you?” and they then list a million different types, I didn’t know what to say. I actually said “What are those?” and I then had to have someone explain it to me.

It confused me. How can you make a decision like that? What if your one true love is someone of the same gender? Are you just going to let that pass by? Are you just going to ignore it and be with someone you hate just because they are of the opposite gender?

What if someone is say, twenty years older than you, you love this person, they love you, and you’re both adults? What’s wrong with that?

And what does the color of one’s skin matter? Love shouldn’t be based on age, color, or gender. Sure, in this world your first instinct as say, a white male in his mid twenties is going to be, “Younger than me (Or of equal age), female, and white” but completely ignoring anyone who isn’t what you want?

That’s stupid.

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