Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Elections

Well... there are some things to be said about the elections that occurred today.

1: There is a "fed-up" sense about things
2: It only became personal for the current President because he made it so
3: The Conservative Party member in New York is showing the country something... Reagan works!
4: Personal attacks by the blues were not answered in petty ways, rather weight and ideologies were owned up to right away
5: I dislike smear campaigns and the little negativity I found in the local election for mayor turned me off
6: I hope the newbies on the ticket for the local school boards members get it
7: New blood is always good
8: Might want to check out Umbrage in HP 5 again and see what government run school is like... (and yes... I know that is not the spelling of the name... but it is of the word)


~ The Short One

Been a while

Sorry bout that... sometimes life consumes you.

~ The Short One

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Another Comment!

Yay! Lauren asked a good question. Most history classes today gloss over the fact that Martin Luther Kind Jr. plagiarised a lot in his academic career.

Here is my comment to her comment (on the first of the two Nobel Prize posts):

Yes he did.

Martin Luther King plagiarized in college-Truth!
The staff at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project discovered a lot of plagiarism in Martin Luther King's writings and in a 1991 article in THE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY said that "plagiarism was a general pattern evident in nearly all of his academic writings" including his doctoral dissertation.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/m/mlk.htm

See also: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/mlking.asp (I could not copy the part that I wanted to over to here.)

Those were in the top five of searching "Martin Luther King Jr Plagiarism" in Google. The story broke when you were a baby. Also, history books tend to just gloss over it all. I admit he had a great cause that he championed, but there is NO excuse for plagiarism.

~The Short One

First Comment on "Girls Today"

Lauren Guerrero said... I totally agree that society is whack for telling girls that they need to sexualize themselves in order to please men. It's a backwards idea in regards to society, and an un-Biblical idea in that it flaunts the temple meant for the eyes of one person. And if not one person, at least save your goodies for the bedroom, and not for all of us to see (oftentimes, those goodies aren't all that good).

However, even though I am a Christian as you know, firm in my beliefs, I also put my faith in the system created by the forefathers of our great country. I think that God should not be in schools. For that matter, religion at all. Because, if we get the power of being in schools and government, we will become another copy of the Catholic church. Corrupt, dying with the disease of our own greed. Plus, you and I both know that God doesn't need school or government to do His awesome works. I also hate that people pass out condoms to junior highers. But I think that it is ok to give them to High Schoolers. Because I would rather preach to safe-sex teens than teens dying of AIDS. But, that one's just my opinion. Great post!

I see where you are coming from, and what you are getting at. However, not allowing god in schools is the problem. Not allowing ANY religion in schools in a problem. If it were fair, say ANYONE can pray to ANYTHING without being labeled intolerant, biased, rude, hating, or anything else (like many Christian students are in schools by teachers and fellow students) and not just the "Politically Correct" religions (i.e. Islam, Atheism, and Paganism), then we would be fine. Let me pray to God at lunch, before a test, and as the day goes by. Do not tell me, or my future children for that matter, that they cannot, but in the same breath tell the Muslim children that they have a special room for them to pray each time they need to. This has happened before. In the month that they celebrate Rammadan there were schools that were setting aside space for the children of the Muslim faith to pray. I am fine with that, but do not tell Christian, Catholic, or other students of a religious and faithful background that they cannot do what they want to concerning their religion (like keeping ash on their head from Ash Wednesday in the Catholic church... students were kicked out of school because it was a "health hazard" and "offensive" to other students).

Once again, I understand where you are coming from.

Thank you for you comment. As always, your eloquence makes reading a joy.

~ The Short One

DISCLAIMER: I know her... that is why I posted it in the regular blog. This is for on going discussion that I know is great to continue.

On Comments...

I will also respond to comments... and I just realized that I had two! Yay!

Ok... so first comment will be on the next post.

~ The Short One

Friday, October 9, 2009

Nobel Prize... Again...

So... my friend on Facebook put up this link.

http://blog.sarcasmsociety.com/politics/first-gore-and-now-obama.html

Yeah... I have tried really hard not to kill my sister at times this year... and I have succeeded... oh wait... that right there... the "s" word... takes me out of the running... oops! Hmmm... it seems today that now no one really has to earn things! (oh my... that was the Capitalist Pigs "e" word... I must go was my mouth out with soap now...),.

Oh... and by the way, Ghandi was never actually awarded the Nobel Peace Prize... he was killed two days before the nominations were over... so they wanted to give it to him, but they did not because he was dead... so instead of giving the prize to him and the money to a cause that Ghandi supported they let the bastard who killed him win!

Yeah... look up Roselind Franklin and see if she got her award.

Nobel Prize of Stupidity Needs to be Created

Nobel Prize for "effort"? The heck! You know... I never truly paid attention to the Peace Prize or anything else that they deal with... they suck! Al Gore beat out a woman who REALLY deserved it in 2007! Carter got it in 2002 (and not REAGAN who REALLY deserved it!) as well as YASSER ARAFAT in 1994! grrrr... since then I have ignored them. (yes... I was 8 and I knew that was wrong!)

Now, they have given it to some good people... like Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr (even though he was a plagarist, therefore I will not call him "Doctor") and Elie Wiesel... but the fact that they give it to orginizations that are for "green" ness... those who are for no nuclear wars (okay, I will give, but if you hit us, we hit back harder with the SAME thing! And that means nuclear, too) and those who just make a movies with incorrect facts means that they are not doing what Alfred Nobel might have wanted.

They did not give it to Mahatma Ghandi at all! Not even posthumously. They just did not give the award that year (1948, the year he was assasinated).

They also forget people in the prize, giving it to two or three people in a group of collaborators. And they will not give one posthumous even if that person (like Rosalind Franklin who died of ovarian cancer before the award was given to her collaborators who, with her help, discovered and identified the DNA chain) is part of a group and the group is honored. They are re-writing history! These forgotten names get left out of the books because they must not have been important since they were not given the Nobel prize for that matter.

After 1994 they went wrong. They ignore the great workings of others who have done WAY more than the apologizing, placating, Olympics loosing, blaming, complaining, finger pointing, teleprompter, lying president that we have now.

That is all for now... I am too mad to get more words out that are coherent.

~The Short One

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

NCIS LA

So... I seem to be running in week long sequences... ah well...

Did you just see NCIS LA? Yeah... March Air Force Base. That rocks. Even though Riverside gets a bad rap, it is still cool. All the people at school complain about the weather and the smog, but really? Just go home if you hate it that much.

That is how I feel about America in general. Yeah, we run America not the way you want, and we try to follow the constitution. You don't like it THAT much that you complain, and whine, and try to change us to old Soviet Russia (which is not that far off from what it is today... just a little better than what it is now...) then you can go back there. You don't like our history (the EVIL white man is ALWAYS the bad guy) then you can either deal, or g-o a-w-a-y.

Just a little rant for myself... I am really burnt out right now... and my head spins with words and concepts and I cannot seem to put to paper.

So I will end this here.

~ The Short One

Monday, September 28, 2009

Girls Today

A rant on society:

Do not need push-up bras at the age of 10! Many will think that they might be developed enough, I was, but even then, just no. The problem with girls today is, in the words of the great Aretha Franklin, R-E-S-P-E-C-T. They do not have respect for themselves, never mind boys or other girls. All girls can think about is "does he like me?" "what do they think of me?" and stuff like that. Yes, girls will be girls, but now, they have to continue to one-up each other. Get a padded bra. Get a push-up bra. Wear a thong. Wear a bright colored thong with white pants or a very short skirt. Show cleavage you might not really have. Get a boob job. Get a nose job. Fake tan. Tattoos. Piercings. The list goes on and on.

Also on that list, sleep with a guy. Get pregnant. Have three babies by the age of 18. Yeah... and by the way, 60% or more of daughters born to teen or un-wedded mothers become one themselves. Great! God out of the schools and handing out condoms to junior highers totally works! Right.

But you know, this all comes from the fear of offending others. Really? You can't offend another person? Did you know, your fear of offending others and not speaking your mind actually offends me. What cha gonna do bout it?

~ The Short One

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Quote for now...

Since I suck at doing one each day... thought I could... I obviously failed...

If we're free to dare - and we are - if we're free to give - and we are - then we're free to shape the future and have withing our grasp all that we dream the future will be. ~ Ronald Reagan

Well... I just like it. It is so simple and understandable. That is why Reagan is a hero... even among politicians.

~ The Short One

California, the drought, and the stupidity of those who will not give water to the farmers...

In response to those wondering why Californians keep voting for people like Villagarosa and when they (Californians) will get it. Originally posted on iowntheworld.com by yours truly!

Hey, I never voted for Villagarosa... I live in a totally different part of Cali than he... Amazingly, our local newspaper is pretty conservative and so are those in this city. Now... take one of those fancy maps that became all the rage after the 2000 Presidential Election with the reds and blues, and you will see that all of California is red, except for the major cities like LA, Sac, Fresno, San Fran-freako, and San D. Those are the places where voter fraud happens more often with illegals voting as well as where all the stupid college students reside.

Yeah, I travel up the state every once in a while, and it is so sad to see the crops and farms just dieing or not there at all. It used to be great to go from smoggy Riverside (which is situated in a desert-like area) to the clear aired green areas all up Central California. Now it is sad.

~ The Short One

Friday, September 25, 2009

Heros

No, not the TV show... but those who do the impossible.

They are those who run into buildings when everyone else runs out.

They are those who walk up to a man with a gun to stop him.

They are those who put themselves between the innocent (and sometimes not so innocent) and danger and death.

They are those who fight against all opposing forces, even when those at home degrade what they are doing and call the battle they are fighting an un-winnable war.

They are not politicians who strut around like peacocks, who are too big for their britches, who complain and whine, who play childish games, who make faces, who cheer and jeer at others and their failures and wins, who talk down to the people who have hired them!

Washington, you are not heroes to me!

And to a certain 5 year-old, you do not have capes, so you cannot be heroes.

Until you suck it up, be adults, and begin working for those who give you paychecks, you are at the bottom of the list.

To the brave in Washington, amen. Fight the fight and keep pulling yourself up on my list of good guys.

~ The Short One

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

About the gap...

Sorry about the gap... around September 11 each year I tend to get a little out of it and I just get angry with people. With that, I have learned to not post anything until I am good and ready to be calm and kind about it. (did I just say kind?)

Now I am better and my emotions will not overflow and cause me to cry (like I did almost all day September 11).

Now... for a topic...

~ The Short One

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Resolution Against Joe Wilson

This is so wrong! Boehner was right! It was an absolute sham and show and witch hunt.

and I totally forgot to hit the publish button when I wrote this a while ago...

~ The Short One

Friday, September 11, 2009

There She Stands...

These are the lyrics to the Michael W. Smith song "There She Stands"

When the night
Seems to say
All hope is lost
Gone away
But I know
I'm not alone
By the light
She stands

There she waves
Faithful friend
Shimmering stars
Westward wind
Show the way
Carry me
To the place
She stands

Just when you think it might be over
Just when you think the fight is gone
Someone will risk his life to raise her
There she stands

There she flies
Clear blue skies
Reminds us with red
Of those that died
Washed in white
By the grave
In their strength
She stands

When evil calls itself a martyr
When all your hopes come crashing down
Someone will pull her from the rubble
There she stands

We've seen her flying torn and tattered
We've seen her stand the test of time
And through it all the fools have fallen
There she stands

By the dawn's
Early light
And through the fight
She stands

~ Never Forgetting... Never Forsaking... Always... Always... There...



This was our Iwojima... these our heros... Do not forget... and do not let THEM forget!

~ The Short One

Today in History...

You should know what happened this day in history... eight years ago... not volunteers... but Americans helping others... Americans being what they really are... Americans fighting for each other, life, freedom, country, and God... Americans being, well, American.

Do not let the government cheapen what happened. We became a country of one again. E pluribus unum. Do not let them make this a day about volunteers. Make this a day of remembrance, mourning, and rebirth. They cannot cheapen the day we were attack in Pearl Harbor, do not let them cheapen and diminish when we were attacked in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.

NEVER FORGET!

Need a reminder?


These are the faces of those lost. The faces of humans that were killed by terrorists. The faces of those that the Obama administration wish to cover by changing what is significant about this day.

The flag flies at half mast today, and forever on this day.

~ The Short One

Adding to it...

So, in my previous post, I mentioned the British Parliament, and well... I have found out, through listening and research, that calling the speaker on the floor a lier or making a statement that makes them out to be one is against the rules.

Joe Wilson apologized for saying that in the moment. He was right, just not right then. Get what I am trying to say? Good.

At least the Obamaites are being adults about it... for once...

That is today's rant on politics. Next post will be a dedication.

~ The Short One

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

You Lie...

Even though he was greatly criticized for it, and there are many requests for him to apologize, South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson is awesome! Not only is he honest (even after an apology) he is very popular. He won over 70% in both the special election the first time he ran for his office, but also for his full term election!

I understand that some out there would say he was being very disrespectful, but how many libreals would have done the same thing to Bush? And how many would have been called out for it by the drive-by media? Ummm... quite a few... and none...

I'm sorry, but a man who does not hold his own position in high enough regard to at least wear a button-up shirt with his jeans does not really deserve too much more respect. He shows up in a tee shirt as he gets off Air Force One... yeah... that shows real class... and a man who tells the truth (maybe in the wrong place, but at least it was the truth!) is chastised.

This is my take on it... it took guts, and real emotion, to shout out during a speech "You lie!" to the POTUS. This guy is on my "cool' list.

Also, I think that the Senate and the House really do need a little bit of the happenings of the English Parliament of old... where they would continue on and on and argue the point more... a little less "sociable" but with politeness at the same time.

~ The Short One

Monday, September 7, 2009

Just Imagine...

Today's quotes are about the imagination and imagining.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
~ Albert Einstein

This quote tells a simple truth... without the imagination, knowledge is nothing. Let's face it, the only way we learn and earn more knowledge is by imagining what can be, and then try to prove it! How else is a scientist supposed to make new waves and discoveries? They imagine something and then they prove it! That is just the way life is...

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
~ William Sahakespeare

This quote really is an echo... or the beginning rather since it was made earlier... of the previous quote. The lover is an every-day man. The poet is slightly less ordinary and every-day, though to many anyone can be a poet. The lunatic is someone out of touch with reality. In truth... don't we all, the lover, the lunatic, the poet, the king, and the peasant all have those moments of being out of touch with reality? We each have an imagination, it is just a matter of how much and when we use it... the lover only a little more... the poet even more... and the lunatic lives in the imagination...

~ The Short One

Saturday, September 5, 2009

Today's Quotes

It may be a little late... but here are today's quotes to ponder. The theme is Fairy Tales.

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
~ Hans Christian Anderson

I like this quote. You know that song, "Some day my prince will come..." from Disney's Snow White? Yeah... that is one of my favorites. Life really can be a fairy tale. All we have to do is look for the magical and miraculous all around us. Just think... we breathe! How amazing is that?!?! That may seem unremarkable, but think... the muscles that help in breathing. The cells that take the oxygen from each breath to other cells. The cells that transport breath waste out of the body with each exhale. We can sing and run and walk and skip and dance and still live afterwards. The fact that we can do all that, and that God made us is amazing!

Now, think about love. The fact that we CAN love! Why, because God does and we were created in His image. In that, we are little creators and lovers. You think God has not had a hand in your life? Look at it closely... there may be something so small you never realized, it was God's Hand and Love in your life. It can be a person, a place, or an event.

We can see the fairy tale God has written for us, if only we would try.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
~ C.S. Lewis

This quote was said by Lewis concerning what people were saying academically about fairy tales. Look at what he wrote! Narnia, his greatest selling and most popular book in a children's tale! Or for lack of better words, a fairy tale... Lewis firmly believed that fairy tales were for adults as well as children. What we tend to forget is that we were once children, and we tend to forget the messages that the fairy tales conveyed. We can learn so much from the stories that we read as children.

What this quote means to me is that we go through a time (Jr. High and High School and Late Elementary and College... for most of us...) where fairy tales are so... below us. Some of us just like them and read them all through life (like me... the nerd...). What we need to use is our child-like imagination and love and perception of things. We need to be Lucy.

I try to be Lucy.

~ The Short One

About the Advertisements...

I do not support you getting papers from a site... You need to write the paper yourself...

Just saying... There is no easy way out of school, and if you do not do it yourself, you will never learn and you will never get better at it. Even if you hate the subject, you will still fail and try to take the easy ways out of things in life, and then you will try it at your job and then you try it in relationships...

Do it yourself and then you will succeed.

~ The Short One

Friday, September 4, 2009

First Official Post With Meaning!

So... for the first post each day I actually decide to log in, I will place a quote first and then comment on it. Later posts, well... those are going to be random and just whatever happens to catch my mind that day will hit the page.

So... first quote for the time being...

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
~ C.S. Lewis

What I get from this is that truth is just there. You can deny that the sky is blue or even red at sunset. Trees are sometimes green. This page is a dark blue. You can deny all that. You can deny the fact that all humans have blood in their veins. You can deny that matter cannot be created, nor destroyed but must be converted into energy or from energy to change form. (by the way, that's one Law of Thermodynamics...)

That can be denied, but that does not change the truth of it. You can say I have blue hair, when really, right now my hair is brown and has hints of blonde and auburn highlights in it. Truth is just that, truth. It can be denied, but that does not change it. the belief of the truth, or the non belier of it does not mean that is does or does not exist. In this same vein of thought, God, and there-by His Glory, cannot be diminished or changed by one man, or a few more, believe He is not. We have a sun. That sun was created by God. He exists and He created us. therefore we exist, even if we fail to see Him, Him Glory, or His Works in this world.

Truth is always. God is truth. He even said so.

I have actually decided to do two for right now.

I am sure that some are born to write as trees are born to bear leaves.
~ C.S. Lewis

I just like this one. I cannot seem to be able to stop writing. I used to hate it. Teachers were always so... discouraging. I wanted to write on this, or that... but no. I had to do it the way they wanted. I had to write on the subject they wanted.

One day, my teacher said, "Here, take this tory. Now, write five paragraphs in the essay form we just discussed. Find your own topic and thesis and write on it." the essay format was the typical college one: Intro, Body Paragraph 1, Body Paragraph 2, Body Paragraph 3, Conclusion. Easy enough to follow, right? So I chose a topic, I thought it rocked, and the rest of the class did not... but I wrote the paper. And then the teacher read the paper out to the class. They thought it was written by a pro (right...). She told me it was very good. I was so happy. I was proud of my own writing! This was a first!

Now, I am completing my English degree with a concentration in Creative Writing!

I think this quote can also be changed...

"I am sure that some are born to teach as trees are born to bear leaves."

This was a teacher who helped me realize a passion I kept suppressing. She is a teacher born to teach.

~ The Short One

One Little Thing About me...



I have decided... I am not short... I am Funsize!

I love singing, music, literature, Anglo-Saxon, Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, quotes, theatre, family, friends, cooking, baking, and just life in general.

Yes, I am a Christian as well as a Conservative, but by no means am I "closed-minded" nor "set in my ways" as what you might think. Almost all topics are open for discussion... some I will say that it is too close to home to discuss at the time... but later might be an option.

~ The Short One

Moved from former location...

As I could not access my old blog account, I created another one...

I have moved form almightyshortone.blogspot.com to here! Yay me!

So anyways... Instead of just everyday monotonous life, I will speak about politics, and literature, and religion, and school, and family... more the things I love, rather than just what happened to me in code... yup... That was boring, and no wonder I had my cousin as a follower and that was it... besides, that was four months ago and I cannot update it since I lost the file that I had been keeping my "journal" in. So there goes that!

Ah, well...

That is it for this post... just had to give a little update... not that there is anybody out there to read it as of yet...

~ The Short One