Tuesday, November 02, 2004

The Bill of Non-Rights

The following has been attributed to State Representative
Mitchell Kaye from
GA. This guy should run for President one day...

"We the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help everyone get along, restore some semblance of justice, avoid more riots, keep our nation safe, promote positive behavior, and secure the blessings of debt free liberty to ourselves and our great-great-great-grandchildren, hereby try one more time to ordain and establish some common sense guidelines for the terminally whiny, guilt ridden, delusional, and other liberal bed-wetters.

We hold these truths to be self evident: that a whole lot of
people are confused by the Bill of Rights and are so dim they require a Bill of NON-Rights."

ARTICLE I: You do not have the right to a new car, big screen TV,
or any other form of wealth. More power to you if you can legally acquire them, but no one is guaranteeing anything.

ARTICLE II: You do not have the right to never be offended. This
country is based on freedom, and that means freedom for everyone -- not just you! You may leave the room, turn the channel, express a different opinion, etc.; but the world is full of idiots, and probably always will be.

ARTICLE III: You do not have the right to be free from harm. If
you stick a screwdriver in your eye, learn to be more careful, do not expect the tool manufacturer to make you and all your relatives independently wealthy.

ARTICLE IV: You do not have the right to free food and housing.
Americans are the most charitable people to be found, and will gladly help anyone in need, but we are quickly growing weary of subsidizing generation after generation of professional couch potatoes who achieve nothing more than the creation of another generation of professional couch potatoes.

ARTICLE V: You do not have the right to free health care. That
would be nice, but from the looks of public housing, we're just not
interested in public health care.

ARTICLE VI: You do not have the right to physically harm other
people. If you kidnap, rape, intentionally maim, or kill someone, don't be surprised if the rest of us want to see you fry in the electric chair.

ARTICLE VII: You do not have the right to the possessions of
others. If you rob, cheat, or coerce away the goods or services of other citizens, don't be surprised if the rest of us get together and lock you away in a place where you still won't have the right to a big screen color TV or a life of leisure.

ARTICLE VIII: You do not have the right to a job. All of us sure
want you to have a job, and will gladly help you along in hard times, but we expect you to take advantage of the opportunities of education and vocational training laid before you to make yourself useful.

ARTICLE IX: You do not have the right to happiness. Being an
American means that you have the right to PURSUE happiness, which by the way, is a lot easier if you are unencumbered by an over abundance of idiotic laws created by those of you who were confused by the Bill of Rights.

ARTICLE X: This is an English speaking country. We don't care
where you are from, English is our language. Learn it or go back to wherever you came from!

(lastly....)

ARTICLE XI: You do not have the right to change our country's
history or heritage. This country was founded on the belief in one true God. And yet, you are given the freedom to believe in any religion, any faith, or no faith at all; with no fear of persecution. The phrase IN GOD WE TRUST is part of our
heritage and history, and if you are uncomfortable with it,
TOUGH!!!!

If you agree, share this with a friend. No, you don't have to, and
nothing tragic will befall you if you don't. I just think it's about time common sense is allowed to flourish.

Sensible people of the United States speak out because if you do
not, who will?

Vote - it's American as American can be...!

Let me hear a HELL YEA!!! if yall agree with these articles!

Saturday, October 30, 2004

OOOHH i love these great scientifical discusions

Ok so im on the bus for my science classes' field trip and im reading my book minding my own business. as the trip goes on i cant help but hear this discusion that is going on across the aisle.
Two of my class mates were in a deep disscussion about the relevance of genetic enhancement to the human race as a whole. for awhile i just listened but then as i heard him going around in circles i couldnt help but join in. now dont get me wrong, i dont see a problem with genetic enhancements that would enable us to be more resistant to viruses and diseases such as AIDs and cancer. But this guy was talking about a whole new "evolutionary step" for the human race. cause he hasnt seen any changes at all. i decided that use the theory of evolution as fact for this arugment so as not to de rail the discusion to something totally different. so i asked him how long it takes for a species to evolve. instead of answering my question he stated that he hasnt seen any changes at all in the human race since the egyptians. he said that we have evloved as far as we can in the physical aspect. but its our inteligence that has not made any progress. so he proposes to make our brain capacity larger than it already is. i then pointed out to him that we already dont use about 70 - 80 % of our brain capacity. which indicates to me that we are not lacking in the smarts. but the time to USE all the space, we dont live long enough. he said that if humans were smart that we would have already been in space and exploring. i asked him what he was comparing them to. givin that time period what other race has made it into space? he then dodged it and said that he wasnt just talking about making it into space.
the main point of his is that inteligence and the physical being were 2 totally differnent things. which from that statement it would make sense that one doesnt nessecarily rely on the other. well he thinks that by making our cranial capcity bigger we can become smarter. as if inteligence is passed on. you must learn stuff. but set that aside. i left that cause it wasnt part of what i was trying to argue. i was trying to make him understand that there are morals in all of this. but he only thought of it as a tool. but it was part of evolution. evolution happens naturaly not with tools. it also arises from the need to adapt to some situation or need to be more efficient with our current resources. i asked him a few times what our need to addapt was. if he had said build in inmunites to what i mentioned at the begining i wounldnt have minded to much. but his whole point was that he didnt like the fact that human race hasnt changed much made him mad. it came down to it that he is on the evyromental bandwagon about us ruining our atmosphere and that humans would have to adapt to the changes quickly. so he is totally into pop culture or would that be cult culture? i dont know, either way its total crap. as i listened to him talk after the discussion it became apparent to me that he never knew what he was talking about. at the point that i knew he was a tree hugging loser, i just sat and listend to him. he was proposing that we splice the genetic qualities from star fish that let them regenerate their legs into humans so that we can heal faster and grow extra organs. that idea sounds like something that would come out of a 10 yr olds mouth that is totally into the X-Men.
I win.

Thursday, October 28, 2004

FDA Approves Use of Chip in Patients

FDA Approves Use of Chip in Patients

Email this StoryOct 13, 4:44 PM (ET)
By DIEDTRA HENDERSON

WASHINGTON (AP) - Medical milestone or privacy invasion? A tiny computer chip approved Wednesday for implantation in a patient's arm can speed vital information about a patient's medical history to doctors and hospitals. But critics warn that it could open new ways to imperil the confidentiality of medical records.
The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday that Applied Digital Solutions of Delray Beach, Fla., could market the VeriChip, an implantable computer chip about the size of a grain of rice, for medical purposes.
The news pleased investors. On Wednesday, Applied Digital shares were up $1.45, or 68.4 percent, at $3.57 on the Nasdaq Stock Market - near the middle of their 52-week range of $1.94 to $5.
With the pinch of a syringe, the microchip is inserted under the skin in a procedure that takes less than 20 minutes and leaves no stitches. Silently and invisibly, the dormant chip stores a code that releases patient-specific information when a scanner passes over it.
Think UPC code. The identifier, emblazoned on a food item, brings up its name and price on the cashier's screen. At the doctor's office the codes stamped onto chips, once scanned, would reveal such information as a patient's allergies and prior treatments, speeding care.
The microchips have already been implanted in 1 million pets. But the chip's possible dual use for tracking people's movements - as well as speeding delivery of their medical information to emergency rooms - has raised alarm.
"If privacy protections aren't built in at the outset, there could be harmful consequences for patients," said Emily Stewart, a policy analyst at the Health Privacy Project.
To protect patient privacy, the devices should reveal only vital medical information, like blood type and allergic reactions, needed for health care workers to do their jobs, Stewart said.
An information technology guru at Detroit Medical Center, however, sees the benefits of the devices and will lobby for his center's inclusion in a VeriChip pilot program.
"One of the big problems in health care has been the medical records situation. So much of it is still on paper," said David Ellis, the center's chief futurist and co-founder of the Michigan Electronic Medical Records Initiative.
As "medically mobile" patients visit specialists for care, their records fragment on computer systems that don't talk to each other.
"It's part of the future of medicine to have these kinds of technologies that make life simpler for the patient," Ellis said. Pushing for the strongest encryption algorithms to ensure hackers can't nab medical data as information transfers from chip to reader to secure database, will help address privacy concerns, he said.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday announced $139 million in grants to help make real President Bush's push for electronic health records for most Americans within a decade.
William A. Pierce, an HHS spokesman, could not say whether VeriChip and its accompanying secure database of medical records fit within that initiative.
"Exactly what those technologies are is still to be sorted out," Pierce said. "It all has to respect and comport with the privacy rules."
Applied Digital gave away scanners to a few hundred animal shelters and veterinary clinics when it first entered the pet market 15 years ago. Now, 50,000 such scanners have been sold.
To kickstart the chip's use among humans, Applied Digital will provide $650 scanners for free at 200 of the nation's trauma centers.
In pets, installing the chip runs about $50. For humans, the chip implantation cost would be $150 to $200, said Angela Fulcher, an Applied Digital spokeswoman.
Fulcher could not say whether the cost of data storage and encrypted transmission of medical information would be passed to providers.
Ultimately, the company hopes patients who suffer from such ailments as diabetes and Alzheimer's or who undergo complex treatments, like chemotherapy, would have chips implanted. If the procedure proves as popular for use in humans as in pets, that could mean up to 1 million chips implanted in people.
The company's chief executive officer, Scott R. Silverman, is one of a half dozen executives who had chips implanted. Silverman said chips implanted for medical uses could also be used for security purposes, like tracking employee movement through nuclear power plants.
Such security uses are rare in the United States.
Meanwhile, the chip has been used for pure whimsy: Club hoppers in Barcelona, Spain, now use the microchip to enter a VIP area and, through links to a different database, speed payment much like a smartcard.
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is it just me or is this like totally freaky? the last thing i need is a little chip with wireless capabilitys that has very little security. if its gonna have all my info like accounts, SSN, medical info, background info. thats just a little to risy for me. i can see maybe having like alergies and stuff like that on there. but why not jus put sumtin like that in yer wallet? or somtin that we can wear? the posibilties that i might be tracked are totally unaccept able. its no ones business but my own where i go on a daily basis. just have a little devise that senses' when it is on a human body and will sound an alert if it is taken off, for the work site tracking. like nuclear sites mentioned in the article, or maybe even military bases. but those should only be monitored from a closed system so that no one could hack it and then see the units positions and therefore make it easyer for an attack plan to be executed. i can understand animals. cause they dont have any privacy rights. we do however and someone tracking me with a satalite doesnt exactly appeal to me. sure i know they have satalights that can zoom in to the Nth degree and see me walkin but thats different then tracking my movements with a system implanted in my body.
if they start making ppl do that im gonna dig the thing out and watch them try and make me do it.

Monday, August 30, 2004

Fahrenheit 9/11

These are from the Tri-City Hearald Editorials section. I am posting them because I totally agree with what they have to say and wanted to give them a wider audience. Again these are not my work .

Don't call it a documentary

If Fahrenheit 9/11 is a documentary about the war in Iraq, then Star Wars is a documentary about space travel.

John Connet, Pasco

Emotional Hogwash

It is amazing to me the attention garnered by Michael Moore's "documentary," Fahrenheit 9/11. Simply put, this movie is hogwash! Michael Moore calls it "his version of the truth." What exactly does that mean? It means that Moore dislikes the administration and made a movie full of lies in an effort to get other people to dislike it as well.
This man has imposed his extreme left-wing thinking on the general public with little regard as to it being truthful or not. Moore has craftily created a film that appeals to your emotions, not your logical thinking.
"Don't send the children," he quips. Does he relize that the entire force in Iraq and Afghanistan is volunteer? Does anyone else find his remarks calling our troops "children" more than a little disrespectful?
Some people are even basing their vote one this garbage. I find that comparable to basing my vote on a Satuerday Night Live skit. Please, do yourself a favor. Don't allow your logical thinking to be clouded by the emotional strings Moore pulls in his "documentary." Base your vore on what you think, not what Moore thinks. He calls President Bush a liar; perhaps he should take another look at his "documentary" before he opens his mouth again.

J.J. Williams, Benton City

Thursday, June 03, 2004

The Rules

The Guys' Rules

Finally, the guys' side of the story.
We always hear "the rules" from the female side. Now here are the rules from the male side. These are our rules!

Please note... these are all numbered "1" ON PURPOSE!

1. Learn to work the toilet seat. You're a big girl. If it's up, put it down. We need it up, you need it down. You don't hear us complaining about you leaving it down.

1. Sunday sports. It's like the full moon or the changing of the tides. Let it be.

1. Shopping is NOT a sport. And no, we are never going to think of it that way.

1. Crying is blackmail.

1. Ask for what you want. Let us be clear on this one: Subtle hints do not work! Strong hints do not work! Obvious hints do not work! Just say it!

1. Yes, and No are perfectly acceptable answers to almost every question.

1. Come to us with a problem only if you want help solving it. That's what we do. Sympathy is what your girlfriends are for.

1. A headache that lasts for 17 months is a problem. See a doctor.

1. Anything we said 6 months ago is inadmissible in an argument. In fact, all comments become null and void after 7 days.

1. If you won't dress like the Victoria's Secret girls, don't expect us to act like soap opera guys.

1. If you think you're fat, you probably are. Don't ask us.

1. If something we said can be interpreted two ways and one of the ways makes you sad or angry, we meant the other one.

1. You can either ask us to do something or tell us how you want it done. Not both. If you already know best how to do it, just do it yourself.

1. Whenever possible, please say whatever you have to say during commercials.

1. Christopher Columbus did not need directions and neither do we.

1. ALL men see in only 16 colors, like Windows default settings. Peach, for example, is a fruit, not a color. Pumpkin is also a fruit. We have no idea what mauve is.

1. If it itches, it will be scratched. We do that.

1. If we ask what is wrong and you say "nothing," we will act like nothing's wrong. We know you are lying, but it is just not worth the hassle.

1. If you ask a question you don't want an answer to, expect an answer you don't want to hear.

1. When we have to go somewhere, absolutely anything you wear is fine...Really.

1. Don't ask us what we're thinking about unless you are prepared to discuss such topics as baseball, the shotgun formation, or monster trucks.

1. You have enough clothes.

1. You have too many shoes.

1. I am in shape. Round is a shape.

1. Thank you for reading this. Yes, I know, I have to sleep on the couch tonight; but did you know men really don't mind that? It's like camping.

Thursday, April 01, 2004

YOU can be a Democrat!!!!!!!!

Virtually anyone can be a Democrat; just simply quit thinking and vote that
way. But if you want to be a GOOD Democrat, there are some necessary
prerequisites. Compare the list below and see how you rate.

1. You have to believe the AIDS virus is spread by a lack
of federal funding.

2. You have to believe that the same teacher who can't teach 4th graders how to read is somehow qualified to teach those same kids about sex.

3. You have to believe that guns, in the hands of law-abiding
Americans, are more of a threat than U. S. nuclear weapons
technology in the hands of Chinese communists.

4. You have to believe that there was no art before Federal funding.

5. You have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by
cyclical, documented changes in the earth's climate, and more affected by yuppies driving SUVs.

6. You have to believe that gender roles are artificial but being homosexual
is natural.

7. You have to be against capital punishment but support abortion on demand.

8. You have to believe that businesses create oppression and
governments create prosperity.

9. You have to believe that hunters don't care about nature, but loony
activists from Seattle do.

10. You have to believe that self-esteem is more important than actually
doing something to earn it.

11. You have to believe the military, not corrupt politicians, start wars.

12. You have to believe the NRA is bad, because it supports
certain parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good, because it
supports certain parts of the Constitution.

13. You have to believe that taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too high.

14. You have to believe that Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinem are more
important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, George Washington or Thomas Edison.

15. You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial
quotas and set-asides aren't.

16. You have to believe that Hillary Clinton is really a lady.

17. You have to believe that the only reason socialism hasn't
worked anywhere it's been tried, is because the right people
haven't been in charge.

18. You have to believe conservatives telling the truth belong in jail, but a
liar and sex offender belongs in the White House.

19. You have to believe that homosexual parades displaying drag, transvestites
and bestiality should be constitutionally protected and manger scenes at
Christmas should be illegal.

20. You have to believe that illegal Democratic Party funding by the Chinese
is somehow in the best interest of the United States.

So, VOTE DEMOCRATIC... It's easier than getting a job!