So, as you know I’m serving our country in the Army.  And as a general rule, I try to avoid commenting on the social and political climate of our country, because I represent the Army when I do so, and that’s pretty much impossible for one man to do. But this… this has just driven me nuts. I don’t have cable in my room to watch the news, so I first heard about the “Tea Party” tax protests here.  Honestly? Speaking for myself only, I’m glad to see that people are actually exercising their voices in public for a change and letting the government know that they arn’t happy.  After how eerie it was not having any rallies or protests (for the most part) against Bush while he was in office, I was kind of worried that America had lost part of it’s roots and was just gonna let anything happen. But then I got to the following paragraph near the end of that article:

‘My piggy bank’
Other protesters also took direct aim at Obama. One sign in the crowd in Madison, Wis., compared him to the anti-Christ. At a rally in Montgomery, Ala., where Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It” blared from loudspeakers, Jim Adams of Selma carried a sign that showed the president with Hitler-style hair and mustache and said, “Sieg Heil Herr Obama.”

Now that right there… again, speaking only for myself, I fought for people who are villinizing the president? Seriously? There MUST be a more constructive thought in the head of Mr. Adams of Selma than that.  I honestly feel bad for our president.  I mean, if you step back and look at the situation he stepped into, he’s got an uphill battle all the way around.  The world doesn’t like us, we’re in an economy slump, and we’ve got the biggest defecit in the history of our country.  I’m not even going to touch the battles we’re facing in the middle east right now, partly because I really can’t and partly because it’s all already been said.  And to top all that off, he’s the first non-Caucasian to hold the presidency, promising change.

Now, that’s not to say that I don’t have issues with the way things are currently.  I’m not really impressed with the bank bailout plan, but that’s got nothing to do with my feelings twords our president.  He’s just one man, trying to keep america the leader of the free world.  He’s just trying to pick the best options that are placed before him by the people who work for him.  I’m kind of scared that people are going to blame how well the country did on his skin color (which is racist as all hell) and we’ll be stuck with old white guys in the Oval Office forever.

So do the country, hell, the world a favor: Please, stick to constructive criticism when complaining to your government representatives.  I promise you, it’s gonna get more things changed than calling him or her a nazi.

So I haven’t really jumped the religion bandwagon yet, and a lot of people around me are pissy about it….ok mainly my mother.

According to her, I’m not going in the rapture. So, I present you with a few outlooks on the religion.

Christianity-

The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree… yeah, makes perfect sense.

And, the /b/ible.

In all reality, I’m not going to KNOCK the religion, but I’m not going to LIVE by it either. I’m just living my life to the fullest, I’ll deal with this crap later.