Soapbox

Welcome to Soapbox, where I proclaim to the common people my veiws about stuff. Come on in, it's lots of fun!

Space Shuttle Columbia
Toady the space shuttle Columbia died. This is one of the worst things that has ever happened in my life. Now the space program will be set back untold years and people will begin to lose faith in NASA. Establishing a colony off of Earth doubles our chances of survival. With this setback very bad things are coming. America is the only country with the means or the urge to complete the ISS. With the recent sucess of the Deep Space One, we could be on Mars within a few years, and to Alpha Centuari within the fifty years. Now this. The worst that could happen is a complete halt of the space program. The best situation would be for us to create a replacement shuttle and continue on as though nothing had happened. Unfortunately, NASA has already placed orders to various plants to stop consturction of shuttle related things. I wish I were dead.

The Evils of Marketing
A tongue depresser, craft stick and popsicle stick are all the same thing. A clean, flat stick. Why don't we just call them multi-purpose sticks? Becasue the people that market them would make less money that way. God forbid that I use my popsicle sticks to build a miniture house! Some asshole out there came up with the saying "A place for everything, and everything in it's place." I hate him.

English
No, not those funny toothed, queer accent cousins across the sea. That's a different rant. I'm talking about the class. I think that it's one of the stupidest classes in school. Forcing us to read the same boring books is just an attempt to further homogenize society, thus making it easier to market products to us. I think English class was dreamed up by the Pepsi Corp. in order to control the world. Why else would I be reading the Great Gatsby? Maybe F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of their employees.

English
Yes, those funny toothed, queer accent cousins across the sea. Why do they think themselves superior to us? Do they not know that we could nuke them? First they try to opress us. We kicked their ass! Then we had to go and bail their sorry asses out of World War One and Two. And what do we get in return? They paint us out to be war loving rambos, which is only mostly true! I think that they had better watch all of their 65 million backs when I'm president/dictator. I plan to annex them as the 89th state, right after I'm done conquering Mexico, Canada, and whatever Russia is calling itself now. Remember, vote Friesen in 2024!

Passwords
I hate passwords. They have always caused me trouble. I remember the first time that I filled out a form (Yahoo, I think) and was later sent my nonsensical password at my Hotmail account. This is too much trouble. What could someone really do to my account that I would care about? Then I got my nonsensical S.A.S.S.E. login password and forgot it, so then I had to spend 15 minutes getting a new one. I think that we should abolish passwords, instead opting for a policy that would give us total freedom. Whatever happened to the retina scan? Did the lazy bastards just give up after the whole debacle with the laser pointers? Damn laser pointers.

Teenage Drivers
It's not that I don't trust my freinds. I do. Sometimes though, they can get reckless. I have not so fond memories of riding in trunks and flying off of the hoods of cars. This last one takes the cake though. I was getting a ride home from a freind (no names will be mentioned) and we actually hit a telephone pole, due to an incredible combination of poor judgement and horrible foresight. If you want to impress me, be in total control. I may be sounding like a hypocrite to some of you. No, I don't have my liscense or my permit. But there are certain things that I feel free to expect as a passenger. Keep me safe. Otherwise, I won't ride with you. Unless I'd have to walk. In that case, I'll ride hood.

Idle conversation
This is when people talk to me, and I can tell that they are just filling up the silence. It really annoys me. They talk about the weather, television, but in the end it dosen't matter. I won't remember our conversation an hour from when we had it. Most of such conversations are very one-sided.

Animal Rights
Is it wrong to think that I am better than an animal, just because I am? We dominate this planet and thus deserve to kill rainforests and defenseless creatures unless the environmentalists can prove them useful. This is a preverted form of Social Darwinism that I shall coin Xeno Darwinism. I don't think that we should keep around species that are going to die because of their inability to cope with us and their environment. I say, let the rainforests die!

Failiures
I don't like people who lose. They tend to complain, too. Take the Germans after the planet's second unsuccessful attempt at suicide (World War Two). They say to us, "Ach, it is not fair! We attempted to murder the rest of the world and failed! But this is no reason for us to pay you!" Remember what the Boy Scouts say, "Be prepared." Any country not sufficiently prepared for invasion is at risk until they change. Yeah, it would be nice for everyone to get along, but that just isn't going to happen. It is human nature to be greedy. That is why people try to get other people's land by force. If you aren't prepared for that, then you will almost surely die. I predict that the next great wars will occur on the moon, since no one has laid claim to it. That or the South China Sea. The area is in dispute because of it's use in shipping cargo and the fact that territory overlaps.

Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires!
The main problem with environmentalists is that they worry too much. Our planet has harbored life for a pretty long time, and the ecosystem has settled into patterns that we don't understand. Take forest fires. They aren't the desturctive force that most people think they are. A forest fire is a way to get rid of dead timber and allow new plants to grow. If we fight them, it creates a larger fuel supply for next year. I think we need to just let the forests burn out this year. I'll bring the marshmallows. If you've built your house in a forest, however . . . tough noogies.

China's Woman Shortage
How many of you knew that China was short 50 million women? The reason for this is that men are valued more in rural areas because they can do work better. Since China has a one child per couple law, farmers have been killing and aborting their precious little girls so that they could have a more valuable commodity. What this led to is a two to one ratio of men to women in rural China, not to mention rampant incest. That's one screwed over country.

Death and Life
On a short enough time line the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. The young, the old, the weak, the strong, the rich, the poor, everyone eventually dies. I view life as a game of trying to stay alive longer than everyone else while staying happy. Someting I like to call a happiness average factor. How it's measured is this: take the total amount of happiness, measured in seretonin, dopemine, and other brain chemicals, and divide it by the total amount of time a person has been alive. The goal of life is to end with the highest happiness average. If that isn't the goal of life, what is?

Truth
That which is true is that whcih can be quantified. Good and Evil cannot be quantified, so there is no truth to them. Who can quantify whether animals should have rights? No one. The closest we can come is popular opinion, and I don't think that that's a good way to determine anything but beauty pagents. So if you read this, then you know why I can win arguements. It's because there is no truth but that which can be sensed. So ha.

someonelikesyou.com
This has to be one of the worst websites I have ever visited. Whatever you do, don't visit it. It's supposed to be a website where you can find out if some one likes you with no risk. Works in theory. The main problem is that they can't just come right out and tell you after you've guessed who likes you. They send you e-mails and other bull shit so that you think you're guess was wrong. Well, after you get the e-mail, you have to sign up for stuff so that you can find out who it is. They make you use real information or you won't get it. And then they tell you to wait for another e-mail. I'm still waiting for mine. The worst part of it is that I know that there's someone out there who likes me, and I have no idea who. The Internet sucks. I wasted over two hours on that site.

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