When and if I make it to my golden years, I hope I can still do fun stuff like this. Of course, on a holographic screen with invisible mini nanobots as controllers, eh... PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN.
Man can you believe it? The local taco restraunt was replaced by some tofu bar. I swear it's like they are pushing it on you. Some people actually want their arteries swimming in grease. -My friend Keith
Random, I know.
I swear it seems like you can't even contact youtube anymore about harassment or complaints without waiting over 9000 hours just to get a darn response. And somehow they think "talking" to the user does something. In school did "talking" to a bully solve anything? Jeez, ever since Google bought Youtube it's gone to hell in a handbasket.
Hmm. I've noticed this since yesterday it seems like where as you used to be able to roll over a picture/link and see a snapshot of it's page, it won't work now. Maybe it's just an error... I did recieve an email about some sort of mess up in communications.
Life: We allow life to be bad, it doesn't have to be.
Cyber-Bullying: We allow people to speak their mind online but sometimes I feel we could reconsider that for the millions being bullied online.
War: War is only necessary when it's the last possibly option, and yet we go to it in not necessarily proper conditions. We allow it to happen.
Poverty: Even though people can choose to be poor, or choose not to work and be lazy and ask for things rather than work for them, there are genuine reports of people who need work who WANT it. We allow it to happen, too.
Crime: Just like it is online, it can be worse in real life, and it to can be prevented better than it currently is. We allow it to happen.
What we allow to happen is much much more than I have listed, but if our own emotions, our abilities to be human vanish, what does that say for humanity? In a world where we allow things to happen, one has to wonder, what if it was different?
I can't stand this. Every day it seems like these days, someones injured or killed in a school shooting, today 5 people were killed, and if VT is any example of what we face in the future of our public schools, then it will get very much worse before it, if it does, get better.
A former student dressed in black opened fire with a shotgun and two handguns from the stage of a Northern Illinois University lecture hall Thursday, killing five students and wounding more than a dozen others before taking his own life.
University President John Peters said there were a total of 22 casualties in what he described as a "rapid fire" attack that sent terrified students running for cover.
The gunman shot himself on the stage after a rampage that lasted no more than a few minutes.
The slain included four females and two males, including the killer, Peters said.
Four, including the gunman, died at the scene, and two died at the hospital, Peters said.
As of Thursday night, six patients in ctirical condition at Kishwaukee Community Hospital were transferred to other area hospitals, three were admitted and eight were discharged, according to the hospital's Web site.
Peters said the gunman was a Spring 2007 graduate student in sociology at NIU, but was not currently enrolled.
Israel ordered its military and embassies overseas to go on alert earlier in the day and recommended Jewish institutions around the world do the same, fearing revenge attacks for the car bomb that killed Mughniyeh Tuesday night in Damascus. The former Hezbollah security chief was one of world's most wanted fugitives, accused of masterminding attacks that killed hundreds of Americans and French in Lebanon in the 1980s.
The fiery speech by Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah at Mughniyeh's funeral signaled that the Iranian-backed Shiite guerrilla group was ending a policy it has proclaimed for years of battling Israel only on Israeli or Lebanese territory, raising the specter of attacks in Western or other countries.
The day's events in Beirut also raised fears that Lebanon's internal turmoil could worsen. Earlier in the day, before Hezbollah supporters bid farewell to Mughniyeh, tens of thousands of their pro-Western political opponents filled a downtown Beirut square to mark former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's 2005 assassination.
Fearing clashes, authorities deployed thousands of troops. The two mass gatherings ended without violence, but the two camps appeared even more deeply entrenched in their divisions, which have left the country without a president since November and the parliament paralyzed.
Hezbollah and its Iranian backers blamed Israel for killing Mughniyeh, but Israel denied involvement. In a videotaped eulogy broadcast on a giant screen to thousands attending the south Beirut funeral, Nasrallah said Israel had taken the fight outside the "natural battlefield" of Israel and Lebanon.
"You have crossed the borders," said Nasrallah, himself in hiding because of fears of assassination since the summer 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah. "With this murder, its timing, location and method — Zionists, if you want this kind of open war, let the whole world listen: Let this war be open."
The thousands of black-clad mourners in the ceremony hall raised their fists in the air, chanting, "At your orders, Nasrallah."
In Washington, the State Department said it was not aware of a specific threat made to Israel by the Hezbollah leader but condemned anything of the sort as "alarming."
Source: Fox News
My thoughts:
Israel has always been the target of the evils that reside in the middle eastern region, their people, their culture, their religion, and their own lives are in REAL danger, and yet, so many people are so quick to say "pull out, pull away, let them handle it themselves" of course referring to the Iraqi's, but Israeli's also have to deal with added pressure under this same stance, because we then couldn't be on moments notice to help and support one of our most boxed in allies.
A few nights ago me and some friends traveled downtown to go to a Japanese grill and sushi bar restruant that I have to say was one of the coolest experiences ever. Seeing the precision of the chef's knives as he cut into an egg - something you wouldn't think would be that exciting, very much was! Lighting the metal sunken in tray in between our tables, which I presume was the grill obviously the heat nearly melted one of the ladies sitting next to me's make up off. They chopped the food at such a high rate of speed, and did things so professionally. I have to say it was worth the pretty large price tag. If you want to share your opinions on places like these, please do so below, I'd love to hear them.
(This image isn't of me or my friends it's just an example if you didn't know what the insides of these places typically look like.)
I can't tell you how distraught I am about this. I browse a website like YouTube and see a video I like by one of my favorite videobloggers, riddled in his comments are hateful messages and cruel words, some of them like the following:
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"Lulz you suck"
"FAIL"
"Your a dumb fag"
"you suck hater go to hell"
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What bothers me more is that these same people critisizing the vlogger of racism or hate speech do it themselves, but often justify it by saying it's "funny". Well it's not "funny" It's hurtful. And I'm tired of people acting like just because it's online it's not any less mean. These are REAL people online, not robots. It's not like everybody is just like "Oh well, lol". Some people take it seriously and it just doesn't make any sense that this can happen so much with so much support guided in it's direction.
Why does anyone support hate speech and cruelty online?
If you've been watching the tube lately you see that Barack has won a lot of delegates so far and is only 20+ less than Hillary's total delegate count, as for who I'd prefer, Hillary. Because as left as McCain may be, I'm sure alot of moderates would rather a McCain unlike some people saying they would like a Hillary. But as always, time will tell, it's getting exciting.