Legalization and Immigration

    I would like to begin this post, and many more, with a quote from one of my favorite televisions programs, Real Time with Bill Maher.
    “New Rule: California, the state with the most debt and the most marijuana dispensaries must be allowed to avoid bankruptcy by selling weed to neighboring states. That's how we will get out of this budget crisis - by holding a "baked sale." It's the perfect solution. We needs the cash and Arizona needs to chill the fuck out.”
- Bill Maher, in his “New Rules” segment
    I bring up the issue of legalization of marijuana because it has been a hot button issue for a long time and ever since Mr. Maher has joked about, it ever so subtly (not), I have formed a stance that seems backed and reasonable by logic and information.
    Marijuana is a drug that does mess with your mind, not like LSD or acid. It gives you feelings of euphoria, like alcohol, and is less dangerous than alcohol. Some studies have shown, by studies I’m not going to list them, look them up yourself, that the Indicia strains act more like a depressant than a stimulant and are extremely less dangerous than alcohol. Also, the long term effects of marijuana are few and far between compared to the long term effects of alcohol. That being said, marijuana, for medicinal or recreational purposes should be legalized. The latter of the two should be taxed more than tobacco because of its qualities, the more hallucinogenic the heavier the tax, and I mean heavier. Also, the growth of medicinal marijuana should be regulated more thoroughly and efficiently, not just going to a pot loving quack doctor who will write you a prescription, like in an episode of Entourage, but a doctor who is certified by the government and knows what to use it for.
    Also, I wanted to talk about Arizona’s immigration reform act and capital punishment, but I will start with good ol’ immigration. As of right now, Arizona has passed a bill that states that illegal aliens must carry papers and register with the US government, this seems very fair. The unfair part is that the police force has been customized to seek out people who aren’t carrying their papers or who do not have any, and throw them out of the country. This part of the bill so far has been blocked. It would make sense in order to find out who is here legally and illegally but to go around racially profiling people is unconstitutional and biased. They are unfair and should not be allowed in our political system at all.
  “We need to stop, we need to evolve, we need to break the oppression and move on.”

Athiest Views Vol 1

    Atheist. When many people hear that word leave somebody’s lips they get a picture in their head that this person is a bad person, a person with no conscience or moral standing; a person who walks through life and could not care about others or the world. Just because people do not praise a mystical space god and his practices does not make a person a bad human being. It makes them sensible and has a more open outlook on life.
    The Earth is populated by approximately 2.1 billion Christians (33% of pop.), 1.5 billion Muslims (21% of pop.), 1.1 billion Secular/ Theists/ Agnostics/ Atheists (16% of pop.), and the list goes on from there. Approximately 11% of the population is Atheist and that number is on the rise. That’s about 121 million people which is about half of the population of Buddhists. That is a fair amount of people, but they are shunned from society, especially politics.
    There has been a big uproar, and there still is, about President Obama’s religion. Many people believe him when he says he is a Christian, but others doubt him and think he is a Muslim, which is not a bad thing at all (they are both equally bad). There are pictures of him in traditional Islamic garb and what looks like to be practicing Islam. The people who care about what religion he practices are very prejudice and full of hate. Mostly they are conservatives and are part of the “Birthers” (people who believe Obama was not born in the US and cannot be a president). But I digress, and move back to my point that most religions, the “big three” (Christianity, which includes Roman Catholicism and many other branches of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism) are so completely fucked that they have tried to destroy the fiber of originality and freedom, so now they need to turn in to “super religions” to survive. They try to gather as many adherents as they can, go to other countries, and sometimes forcibly convert people to their religion. Christians build these “stadiums” that house hundreds, even thousands of people to hold their services.
    “We need to stop, we need to evolve, we need to break the oppression and move on.”

"Killing" Time

  
     As Juan Bernal and I were wrecking kids on Killzone two, getting frustrated with the internet lag and foreigners, I started to think to dispute the ideology that “violent video games make violent children.”
    I have read a couple articles (obviously biased) where kids have been playing video games and resulted in their acts of violence. One article was about two kids who had been playing Grand Theft Auto and after they had finished, they looked for their father’s gun, took it out to the woods, which was located next to a highway, and started talking pot shots at the passing cars.
    Ever since I was a child I have been exposed to this video game violence and in no way, shape, or form do I want to do this. I do not think that “oh shit I was just playing a war game, war is awesome.” This leads me to another point but right now I digress. Violent video games do not make a child violent. They desensitize them to violence, which then can result in an act of violence. It is the way that the child perceives and processes the game, as a work of fiction, or pure reality, which then causes them to take one of two paths. One path, the one of accepting the game as a work of fiction, leads the person to understand what is being told through the story, as in Killzone 2, the main character, after killing the man that he has been searching for, is so distraught because of the violence of war. He sits down on the steps of the palace and gazes out on to the horizon while the hustle and bustle of the war machine keeps going all around him. The person who sees this as a work of fiction can receive the message that war is not always the answer and can have some terrible effects on the people involved.
    The person who sees this game as a work of reality would take this game literally, almost like that of a sociopath, and relate violence with getting things done your way. This thought could lead to acts of violence and outbursts which would not be suitable in public.
    I do not know if my views are true or not, but I hope that people could step back, or out of the game, and realize that it’s just a game. Not a guide on what to do with your life, but just a game.