Your Opinion Is Wrong; Why Am I Co Certain? Because Thats My Opinion Of Course!

by: Chase Langdon

This is going to be short, but it doesn't need to be dragged into the ground. Opinions are not sacred. Everyone wants to think this, that their opinion is sacred from being torn down because we have to respect it just because its their opinion. The problem with this belief system is that most debates are "so and so is" vs. "so and so isn't" which means the person with the opinion of the latter, their opinion is that the other person's opinion is wrong. But opinions are neither wrong nor right.. yes until proven thats where the debate comes in or the scientific method, which ever comes first. Just know if I believe that your opinion is wrong don't tell me I can't say that because its disrespectful. You have to respect my opinion even if my opinion is that your opinion is complete dog shit.

An update of sorts

i haven't posdted here in a good long while maybe because I shunned myslef from the politics and religion argument for a good while and just play lots of video games and just lived life with my family and didn't really try to start any revolutions are what not...but this said. I guess I should write again and i'm going to call max and see if he'll put his good word in everynow and again too.

its just the fact that as atheists and as the liberal left( but not so much) we see to be in the minority....it may seem that way because most atheist don't care to get into the argument because its fucking stressful and seems to be not getting anywhere and there religious right are far more vocal and extrmeme. and of course there are extreme leftists out there and unless they are utterly insane i back them.

just a last note that opinions are not sacred and they can be disputed that's why they are opinions and not fact. deal with it. 

Assisted Suicide, what's the big deal?!

by Chase Langdon

When an animal gets sick and starts to die, it would be unethical to let it suffer understandably. So we euthanize them to put them out of much pain. We also kill them and pump them with harmful steroids and breed them for slaughter. It is considered unethical to to euthanize humans out of their pain instead we pay tax dollars to keep them alive as long as possible even in much pain! even if they want to die! It is also illegal and unethical to kill humans understandably.

I just don't understand what is the philosophy against put humans out of their misery, but we can for animals...but we can kill animals all we want but not humans. I think that assisted suicide is ethical because it is UNETHICAL to someone suffer if they do not wish to do so just the same as it is for animals. Killing Animals is a whole different story, I feel it is unethical but now isn't the time to get into animal rights. I'm mostly trying to enlighten people on true ethical thinking.

Welcome Barack

We officially have a new president. As a non believer, I am happy to be included in his speech.

Bill O'Reilly has no clue

NeueNihilism

by Chase Langdon

In a nutshell nihilism is the philosophy that existence is meaningless or nothing. I myself have always found this philosophy to be pretty bogus and irrational. It seems that it is not applicable to the real world, or is it?

I recently have been thinking a lot on this idea of nihilism. It may not be all that irrational. I have an (most likely not original) idea of Nihilism that makes a lot of sense to me, and guess what fellers... 'ol Chasey-poo is gonna share wicha!

My hypothesis is existence has no meaningless within itself. It has no pure meaning alone. Just being alive in in this world has no sanctity. There is no sanctity of life itself but its the goals, desires, and consciousness of a person that has meaning, not merely existing.

This comes a lot from the idea that a fetus is not a person and there for has no right to life. A person that desires not to live anymore has no right to life, unless those desires come back and give the being meaning again. My idea of nihilism is one that can be changed from situation to situation or person to person or being to being. If there is no meaning, existence doesn't give it any, its just there.

Existence has no meaningless within itself. Only the desires and self-consciousness of a person can give it such meaning but without that it would be nothing but dead air. In this sense, nihilism works and is applicable to real life. In this sense, nihilism makes a lot of sense... to me anyway.

Obama The Secularist

Is God really all that moral?

by Chase Langdon

The first thing I find confusing is when I see fundamentalist Christians say that they live their life directly to the bible and announce that the entire bible is truth to the last letter, I don't think they read at all much less the bible! There are things that are preached in the bible mostly in the old testament that are upright disgusting, the the kind of things I would not find as moral teachings. Then on the other hand I see liberal Christians and educated theologians that know the bible and discard what they feel is immoral and embrace what is moral to them. If our morality really came from that religion then why would you have to discard what you feel is immoral from the book that you base your religion on? Why not just discard the bible completely for ethical teaching if you already know that rape, murder and genocide are bad and keeping promises, giving blood, not raping, and caring for ones elderly mom is good. Why not just accept that humanity is naturally good?

Why? I feel that our morality is a product of natural selection. A society that ran rampant killing, raping, stealing, and engaging in cannibalism most likely didn't last very long and if they embrace those ideals now most likely will not stand the test of time. Killing doesn't do wonders for procreation either. Plus isn't it an insult on humanity to say that the only reason we are good is because of fear of god? That insults me! I feel that our species is rather advanced and is capable of thinking and having educated thought processes. I am here to say that you are not born unto 'sin' and you are born unto innocence. You are capable of making critical decisions about morality and you are part of an ethically advanced species that thrives on those standards. Thats the positive thinking of a humanist atheist. Not the negative thinking thats in root for a totalitarian slave driver known as Yahweh.

Ethics are not a set of rules. The 10 commandments are immoral in their selves. No one needs to make decisions based on a set of ancient rules that if broken will end in certain death. Decisions should be made after much thought and critical thinking. Think of a decision that will create the most happiness and the least amount of suffering, plus take into the account the desires and potential happiness of others. Of course in a regular days time you will not want to or have the time think about every possible outcome of every decision that can be made in a given situation. Thats why you should keep in mind a standard moral principle that can be applied to most situations in your daily life. Listen to your intuitive thinking, i.e. killing is wrong most of the time, lying is wrong most of the time. If you find a situation that tests these principles then apply your critical thinking skills and act accordingly. There is no room for religious influence.

Therefor religion is not needed in moral thinking nor is it recommended. Use your human intuitive thinking for your daily moral principle and your critical thinking for every thing else. Faith leaves no room for critical thinking and therefore not be practiced.

The Out Campaign

by: Chase Langdon

Richard Dawkins is a widely known Scientist and self proclaimed Atheist. The OUT campaign is a campaign on his site about the words atheists "coming out." I find this to be a wonderful thing to do but easier said than done. This is for one reason in one word: family. Growing up in the bible belt of North Carolina its hard to let people know I'm an atheist, because I just want to live my life with as little drama as possible. I'm not going to pressure anyone in Atheism if that's not what they want. I'm let them know why I'm an atheist and hope they will accept that as my opion and well I will accept their religious views as theirs. That's not the case, Christians set out in life hoping to make everyone Christians, I know this first hand because I grew in a Christian household. This process is called witnessing. My family would disown me if they knew I do not believe in the idea of a personal God. Its something I will have to face on my own I guess and when I'm ready, I know that sparks will fly and they may stop sending me money every now and then too :-p Who knows, it may go over well. I will do it when I'm ready.

The God Delusion

I have not had the the time nor energy to actually think and write a personally written essay about anything I feel should be on this site. But I do feel fit to use this site to relay information and sites I find while researching for my own personal knowledge. I can't actually copy and paste anything without written consent from the authors or creators of bodies of work, but I can give you links to sites and essays I find are great reads. Here is one right now. This is the first chapter of Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion." I am going to buy this wonderful once I get the money and I think after reading this wonderful first chapter you will too. Enjoy!

First Chapter of Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion"

Zeitgeist

Everyone should at least watch this once. I really liked the beginning about religion but it kidna loses me with the conspiracy therories near the end. but anyhow what it anyway! Just do your own research okay?

www.zeitgeistmovie.com

PS Its our editor Max's birthday today!

Equal Opportunity Oppressor

A Short "NO!"

By: Chase Langdon

SAY NO! To Oppression
SAY NO! To Censorship
SAY NO! Banning Books
SAY NO! Totalitarianism
SAY NO! Total Control
SAY NO! To Sarah Palin

I have a gut feeling that having McCain and Palin in office would result in a one party fascist regime. Her views just reek of bigotry.

Don't put us trough hell, no matter if you are right or left wing. We are lucky to have two wings because a one party only has one wing, and everyone knows that a one winged plane will crash, and hard.

I know this was short but it had to be said.

Long live free-thinkers!

Hardcore: The Unseen Safe House

By: Chase Langdon

A bare room with nothing in it but space in the morning. This room would most likely smell of old people or whoever used it last, maybe a birthday party of some sort. The room later that night after all the ruckus would smell of body sweat. The air would feel dense and humid and lonely once again, after all the ruckus. The everyday passerby sees the show as noise pollution. Some see it as a place where their kids would learn about fucking and drugs. This is the people that we consider to be the bad crowd. We want to keep our kids in school and church. If they aren't accepted it is their own fault for being so non-social. They use sarcasm and cynical remarks and it drives the normal kids away, this is why they are not accepted. These hardcore punk shows are just their path to self destruction, prison and suicide. That's what its told in the above ground anyway.

The hardcore scene has been alive, dead, and fighting for surviving in the minds of the American youth since the late seventies. It has always been what most people see as the junkies. Music that the criminals listen to and make. Tattooed low-lives that do nothing but scream angry songs about murder. This is so far from the truth its insane. Hardcore and punk shows have been the true safe haven of the non-socially accepted for years. The sad thing is that most teens are socially unaccepted. The even sadder thing is that allot of these kids never even hear of hardcore and think hardcore is just another word for metal and the only metal bands they have heard of is the bigger bands such as Slipknot and Disturbed which is told to them as the devil's music and such which is only a selling point for bands and most of the "nu" metal bands are just as corporate as the groups they claim to be against, but that's another story.

I'm not going to get into the history of hardcore and all that jazz. Its not the time for that. I really want this post to be more on a personally level, my own experience in the hardcore scene of the early 2000's. For me I found this music scene all own my own, with the help of some gracious friends and mostly self experience. My parents were and still are avid free will baptists and do not really listen to any music at all. I was picked on from kindergarten through eighth grade and didn't fit in at all. I didn't relate to my parents either (even though I was afraid of what hell was told to me to be and I went to church on a regular basis). I went to my first show with my friend Adrian in early 2002. The show was Zao, Unearth, and Stretch Armstrong. I saw a sort of unity in the crowd. This laid back yet energetic crowd that seemed to know each other. The bands were fine with just hanging out and drinking beers with the fans, but not as rock stars but as nearly best buds. I've never seen anything like it.

At hardcore shows it differs from rock shows and metal shows like a Pantera concert because even though some people drink, its not like everyone just go for getting plastered and acting a complete asshole and fucking some under aged slut and all her friends. You don't have to worry about some long haired drunk fuckhead trying to mosh. Rock shows seem to be these dingy nasty "sex, drugs, and rock n roll." Hardcore is "high fives, stage dives and hardcore." I have been to a few other genre shows but hardcore is where music seems to matter the most. Where music is the key ingredient, rather than just background noise to getting drunk and hitting on chicks.

Not until hardcore really did mix with metal and some of the more metal heads came out thinking it was just the same thing. The ideas clash and down hardcore went to just violent slug fests between the rival moshers. Boyfriends kick the asses of drunk old men. Straight Edgers take offence to some guy spilling been in their faces. See even the more anger fulled tough guy hardcore did seem to have this positive underline to their shows and show respect at the shows even though it was allot different from the more punk influenced "posi" hardcore of the mid to late eighties. Don't get me wrong I fucking love a great metal band as long as they are extremely talented and take the time to really think out songs. I'm really picky with metal. Bands like Between the Buried and Me who originated around the hardcore scenes of Raleigh now have tons of disrespectful drunks going to the shows and their shows get very violent and allot of fights break because of the clashing.

But now we go back, posi is seeming to be the new cool. I'm fine with that. When I think of a hardcore show I think of the good times, the sing-alongs. I think of my friends, the smell of sweat and salt. I think of how the outsiders don't get it. I think of how we are looked on as the junkies. I think of how I am not that junky. I think of how non of us are. I think of morality and respect, and how these virtues are avid at our shows. I think of how open minded everyone is, how no matter who you are, you are one of us as long as you have fun and show respect. I think of how I see people for the first time in their short lives, being themselves.

Thank you for listening.

The Long Run

By Chase Langdon

This post may seem a bit different than other posts I have posted. It is about relationships and love. It is not negative nor am I complaining about some system. I am simply talking from the depths of my thought process about how I feel about our significant others.

I feel long distance relationships work better than close ones, at least for the first stages of the relationship. This kind of relationship is only for those who are truly in touch with themselves, fully aware of who they are as a person. This said, long distance is not for everyone. But for those that this applies to, can flourish with a ride of a relationship that will surpass any connection with any other human being you ever meet.

The basic reason this kind of relationship flourishes, in my opinion, is the fact that most of your relationship relies on conversation. I don’t believe in love at first site. But I do believe, if one has had many engaging conversations, and have connected in a way that makes them feel comfortable before actually meeting in person, then I guess it would be love at first site even though they have already been talking for months. This is how it was for Amber and I.

We talked for hours about whatever. Our conversations ranged from music to movies to farting. We didn’t even have to talk much sometimes; sometimes we didn’t really have much to talk about but just knowing the one person that makes you feel one is only a “you there?” away made us feel safe. We first talked for the first time online around June of 2004. We first talked on the phone around September 2004. We first met in person in October 2004. We stated our 4 year (in October of this year) long relationship in October 2004.

You can really tell when you have found the person you really connect with, when you can go through really tough times and still be able to find things to talk about, laugh, and be happy about. “Through think and thin,” I’ve heard that so many times in hardcore songs and in marriage vows but its so true. Only when you truly connect will you stay together forever. Sex is not everything; looks aren’t everything. Sex and looks are always a plus, but will they get you happiness forever and a healthy long term relationship? No is the answer. I am lucky to say that I have a beautiful girlfriend that I’m happy to have a family with, I wouldn’t trade it for the world. This is the part of the post we all say: “awww!”

Why Don’t I Have A “H.U.D.” In My Eyesight?

By Chase Langdon

People sure do rely on the statistics too much. I myself was once guilty of this. The Statistics are not an accurate measurement of human nature. Actually no measurement is accurate. We are not computers. We do not speak in binary. We cannot be measured in numbers as a robot can be configured.

This brings me to my meat. My big daddy. My mother of pearl. My real sausage ball. I was told that statistics say that media violence affects people as a whole and not all people but as a whole. They said this is a fact because we can see it in numbers its something we can measure. I’m sorry but the human mind and actions cannot be measured. We are such a diverse culture on earth that nothing is constant. Everyone knows to have a successful science experiment you have to have a constant!

The even more specific of topics here is video games. I play “first-person shooters” or FPS video games. These games are very violent even with out blood (which usually gets a teen rating rather than mature). They help me with aggression and work stress and stress in the world at all! I have a lot of friends that enjoy the FPS. If this statistical accusation was true then myself among many other of my friends would be trained cold blooded killers that killed without mercy or remorse. This is not true. We are not cold blooded killers and I know of millions upon billions of earthlings FPS players who are not cold blooded killers but love to play these wonderfully violent video games.

Somebody once told me that what we did in videos games is what we would do if there were no consequence. Of fucking course it would be! Now let me explain what “no consequence” really means. No consequence doesn’t mean just no rules of government. I would still have a conscience, and a gut for morality without government and a respect for mankind. How do you think government got started. Human kind figured out really quick that killing everyone just for the sake of killings didn’t do very much for pro-creation. No consequence goes deeper than that. Without consequence means we have a world where people didn’t really die. It means when we die we get to start over and over and a recent checkpoint or manual save. It means that if we get hurt it only takes a bit from our health meter and we can replenish it by eating first-aid kits.

This of course is not reality nor is it even possible. It is only possible in the virtual safe haven of video game violence. Remember the gun was invented before the television, VCR, DVD player, and the X-box.

The Low-Pay, Shit-Covered, "take-it-in-the-ass" Bitches We Happen To Be

By Chase Langdon

The Job system in North Carolina is so fucked to be point blank. I have to live in government housing and use other government resources for income because I only make enough money to pay the bills and not even that since we get help from HUD for rental assistance. All this is great when you need it, but why do we need it?

Why do able bodies like myself have to go to extreme measures to live? It’s because of the economic travesty in America. North Carolina is a right to work state, which means an employer doesn't have to have a reason to fire you. They could just feel that having an even number of employees and that would be easier to count. I don't know but they don't have to have a reason.
I was fired from a company out of Waynesville called Haywood Vocational Opportunities. This company makes medical drapes for hospitals all over the world. They also own a small sign shop that also does metal engravings such as plaques. The sign shop is called HVO Signs and Engraving. I worked there from October to December of 2007. It was an okay job, I got good pay. I did have to deal with some bullshit from other employees though, which worsened the longer I worked there. I was required to have at least and Associates Degree in Graphic Design, but I was offered the job anyway. The funny part about this is I was the only one there with any education in graphic design at all. Every time I’d correct someone’s design flaws I would be ridiculed. I was told to forget everything I learned in design school because the real design world is not like that. Everything I learned was turned upside down by these no-designing sons-a-bitches. I know that the design world is exactly as brutal and thought provoking as design school makes it out to be and more. These people at HVO lived by the rules of symmetry and filling every space on the page with swoops and stars. Bigger is better in their book. I live by the rules of asymmetry and simply: less is more. Aside from our different views on design I was fired for another reason, so they say.

I used the Internet that they provided us to make a blog and portfolio called Chasography for my design work. I made my first post circa the 13th of December and was fired on the 19th. They found this site out to be a "personal business." They made it out like I actually made money from this and on their time. I was fired immediately and without any warning. After my firing I was denied unemployment benefits. I was offered to rebuke this but the hearing was called while I was working at my new job, which I didn't get until the end of February. Since I was fired in December and didn't get another job until February, we were kicked out of our apartment and lived with my fiancée’s parents until May. Is this justice?

Can this happen? Yes it can and there is nothing I could do about this; North Carolina is a right to work state. Plus how fucking hard it is to find a job that will pay the bills doesn‘t help. I do not have that job; I make around 300 dollars a month. I think it’s really shitty for the fact that the hardest most grueling and despicable jobs pay little and the more air conditioned desk based jobs like designing pays more. Further more you have to have money to go back to college which I don't have. You have to move to a bigger city for to-do design jobs which is out of the question right now. The common blue collar working-class boy is shit on day after day. I clean up after people who can't even shit in the toilet and make it in without getting it all over the walls. This is the employment system of North Carolina, and most likely the whole Goddamn country.

The Contradictions of a Generation or: Why I Now Consider Kurt Cobain to be the best Anti-Hero of the 90's.

By Max Kath

I have been spending the past few weeks doing a few different things: reading a lot, going through an existential crisis of identity, going to my Grandfathers funeral, and trying my damnedest to figure out something of any value to write here in this blog that Chase has so graciously set up for me to be an editor of. And while I don't know if this can really be considered a post of any value I think I may have finally had a breakthrough in most unlikely of forms: Kurt Cobain. But before I get to that let me backtrack a little bit: most of the reading I've been doing is the book "Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth" by David Browne (which I recommend to anyone who has ever been interested in the old New York underground art movement of the late 70's through the 1980's) which has started to make me feel nostalgic for a version of the 80's and 90's that I never experienced. I grew up in the 90's and I got to hear a lot of the bands that were performing on the top 40 radio stations but I never got to experience the wonders of the grunge movement, or the excitement of going to the first Lolapalooza tour, or to listen in amazement to the sounds that Sonic Youth and Nirvana were making with their most popular albums that were coming out at that point. I'm old enough to remember all of those things, but not old enough to say "I was there when Nirvana broke big" or "My friend brought over this really good album called 'Gish' by some band called Smashing Pumpkins" but I can revel in the fact that there was this show on MTV called Total Request Live (or TRL for you purists) that boosted the sales of *NSYNC and had the number three spot reserved for the band Korn when they released their "Freak on a Leash" video.

But I digress. The other book I've been reading off and on for the past few days is a collection of dramatic work from the author Samuel Beckett. Beckett was a published poet, author, and playwright who would often write in the style of existentialism (which for those who don't know states that all things in life lead to one inevitable conclusion: death). His work has been some of the most challenging and well written things I have ever had the pleasure of reading and his philosophy is one that greatly influenced me in writing this entry (for no other reason than because I needed to find someone who could kick my lazy ass out of bed and make me leave my mark on the world). While at Target the other day I happened upon the movie "Kurt Cobain: About a Son" and decided to buy it along with the documentary "Grizzly Man" (which I also highly recommend) because I had heard good things about the movie and wanted to see what all the fuss was about. Throughout the film we see numerous locations throughout Washington state and hear an audiotape of an interview done with Cobain before he died. Throughout the narration he shares many stories about his childhood and his family life and how he came to meet a bunch of people who would inspire him to form a band etc. The movie was pretty good with some moments of great insight to the man that most people have elevated to the realm of martyrdom. For the record I am not one of those people, but I can't deny that because of the Sonic Youth book my fascination with the myth that surrounded not only Cobain but all of Generation X has once again been rekindled; the idea that there was a large group of 18- 20 somethings that were so pissed off at the establishment set up by Ronald Regan and George Bush Senior (and to a certain degree Bill Clinton) that they had too find creative ways of expressing themselves to protest the bullshit that the establishment was piling on top of them (the 1960's anyone?). The reason I call this a myth is that the movement only last for about six or seven years before it imploded on itself, giving way to the whinny bitch movement of Nu-Metal and subsequent rise in pop radio hits that were so upbeat and friendly that they brainwashed a whole new of generation of kids. The people who were prevalent in the movement promised to be our undying symbols of protest and change through out the country, giving hope to all the disenfranchised youth who had lost their place in the world. This brings me to the one and only Mr. Cobain and his glorious contribution to the world.

Cobain represented, for most of the Gen-X crowd at least, someone who had grown tired of the corporate lifestyle that was taking over America's youth (and still is); the lifestyle that tells the kids how to dress, what music to listen too, where to go to get your morning cup of coffee etc. and Cobain hated all of it... especially when he became part of it. There is a classic Rolling Stone cover that has Cobain wearing a shirt that says "Corporate Magazines Still Suck," his attempt to justify being on the cover of a magazine that represented everything that he hated at that moment in time. The only problem was he probably didn't hate it that much at all, sure he was pissed that he had sunk to the low of dumbing the world down even more but at least he was getting paid to do so. In the film we hear a snippet of an interview where Cobain talks about the pressures of putting out a new record and then goes on to say that he would gladly take a check written to him by the head of the label. Granted he said that because he was wanting to put some money away for his daughters' future, but the scene acts as a glimpse into the true meaning behind Kurt Cobain: he was a human being who was no better or worse than anyone else and had been just as brainwashed as the kids who were going to see him in concert. Cobain came to represent everything he was railing against when he first got into making music, that part everyone knows, but what no one really thinks about is the fact that it happened to him in a very Orwellian way. He was systematically broken down by the very system he hated. He came to love corporate America just as much as Winston came to love Big Brother at the end of "1984." I may be exaggerating a little, but not by much, Cobain was very much the prototypical anti-hero because of what he came to represent in later years. Gen-X imploded on itself by 1998: most of the people in Gen-X were starting to go to collage or graduating from it and going out into the real world, they would trade in their flannel shirt, ripped up jeans, and Doc Martin boots for a three piece suit. They would move out of that dingy, dank apartment and move into a two story house in the suburbs with their girlfriend or fiance and have a few kids. They would go on to become successful business men or women and forget about all the idealism that they had growing up in the time of Nirvana, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, and Pearl Jam. They would all go on to become yuppies and their kids would grow up listening to music like Korn and Marilyn Manson who will someday become the music that they look back on and wonder where all the good music went. And their martyr, their man upon the cross, the man who was the voice of a generation shot himself in the head to die for all the sins they were about to create.

And all the while I'm here feeling nostalgic for the version of the 90's that I never had, never will have, and will never exist again. Next time I think I'll talk about the nostalgia that I have for the 90's I do remember.

What A Let Down

By Jason Sundin

Obama has been running a Really dumb campaign lately. It is a let down to all the people that thought that his false hopes where true. Since my last post he has gone back on taking big money for his campaign. He states that he will not be able to compete with McCain but as of any one who cares and would vote for him another tv add is not going to sway us and make us change our mind. People that are going to vote for McCain are not going to vote for Obama. This is a though shared by many liberals, and to me to shoot for swing voters is dumb. We need a truly liberal president. One that would never bring Hillary Clinton along. We voted him in over her for a reason and its upsetting to me to see that as soon as he has the nomination he turns his back on any promises that he has made. The Fact is we need to take big money out of the election nothing will change until this is done. As Americans we have a responsibility for our government, and to let it get out of hands like this says nothing more then our forefathers have let us down and we have to make this right. The fact is i am still going to vote for him like many other and i ask you to as well because if we give the presidency to McCain is to nuke to world our self's. If you vote for a man well knowing of what he has done like bush, you have that blood on your hands. We all do if we voted or not for letting that go on in the white house for so long. Not standing up and taking America back. Its almost like to claim yourself patriotic now is to align yourself with a bunch of right wing bible thumping fanatics. But no where not like this, but when you get in that little booth you voted that way. Let a mad man control our country for 8 years and start wars, make bad judgments, say outlandish things in public with out any repercussions towards him. I don't know, but i do know Obama is the lesser of two evils. I just don't know how much less. That bothers me. It bothers me that we have taken our freedoms and flushed them down the toilet and let big business control our government. In my last post i stated that i hope he is honest about his words. I like many people was in the haze of hope that he gave us. Now i just feel dumb for ever putting faith in anyone that could win the democratic nominee.

Stunt the Growth for Ignorant Superstitions

By Chase Langdon

Recently in Haywood County the bill was passed for liquor by the drink. This is a great thing for drinkers and non-drinkers alike. For one, I can get a whiskey with my meal if Amber and I go out for a change. For another, we will get better restaurants that have bars and couldn't come to Haywood county because we couldn't sell liquor by the drink. It always seemed like we had to drive 40 mins just to get to the closest non-censoring record store(via not walmart). Now we will be getting a best buy and more restaurants to make Haywood county grow and the economy with it.

What was stunting this growth? Nothing more than a Christian foundation that alcohol was evil and no one ever should drink it and If anyone does they were going to hell. They also thought that no restaurant could come if there were to sell it. What is this prohibition? Not quite actually...I think Its all about face. Its all about the goody fronts that these hypocritical bible thumpers put on. They put those "vote no" signs in their yards just for show. Just so their church cousins don't think bad of them, but they just like everyone else want to go out and have a drink, but don't tell preacher brown! I bet, they are out fucking their sisters and their kids right now. You know the bible thumpers are really the scum of the earth, and the preachers kids and the bullies and sluts in the schools.

Fuck That! Give me a Maker's Mark on the rocks please!

Cheers!