Mare's Mess

I've had several ideas for things I wanted to blog about this week. Many of them would require more research than I'm able to put in to do them justice so I've scrapped the idea. But I've got to release my pent-up frustration so I'm giving some mini-rants here with little or nothing to back them up, but I'm still getting my shots in.


The following are things that make me crazy:


- Christians who support the death penalty. The gall to call yourselves pro-life, when you clearly are not, is hypocricy at it's worst. I can't stand ideology that makes Christians look like unthinking, cold-hearted and hateful people.


- Similarly, people who call themselves "pro-choice" when in most instances they don't want people to have the right to choose at all. They'd rather the government make many choices for you. As hypocrital as the "pro-life" title. Why is it "my body, my choice" when it comes to abortion, but the same doesn't hold true for wearing helmets and seat belts. How can you people possibly live with yourselves? Pick a principle and stick with it!


- People who are afraid of the government becoming Big Brother. They don't want the government invading our privacy, but then turn around and want this same government that they apparently distrust so much to be Big Daddy and to run (or heavily regulate) every major institution in our society. Let's keep the distrust alive! Keep Big Brother and Big Daddy at bay.


- People who complain that the Right is trying to push their moral agenda down our throats while trying to do the same with their agenda. I have a little more respect for conservatives on this issue because at least they'll admit they're trying to force their morals on us - where the Left would never in a million years admit that that's what they're doing.


Here's a quote from one of the most controversial and intelligent bloggers I know (and I know at least a half dozen of them), Vox Day:

It seems some people - most people - never learn. History teaches that the government you control today is the government that those you fear most will control tomorrow. Every muscle that you enjoy flexing today is one that will eventually be used to punch you in the face.

If we decide we want the government to carry out moral agendas, then we have no room to complain when the other party takes control and pursues their own.


- People who point to the Constitution when making their arguments, yet blatantly ignore half of it on any given day.


- This one goes along with my last gripe. I heard the KC Star TV reporter on a local radio show the other morning. He was complaining about the FCC's fight for decency on the airwaves and claimed it was really a 1st amendment/free speech issue. Then he turned around and said that if the FCC is really interested in doing something good for society it should do something about all the commercials we have to endure when listening to or watching what's on the air waves. At first I thought he was just making a joke, but then he went on to talk about how there used to be a law limiting the amount of commercial time a station could broadcast in an hour (16 min., I believe). He thought this was a good idea and should be reinstated. Wait a minute! Weren't you just singing the praises of free speech? When someone owns a station and they decide what they want to broadcast on that station, isn't that a free speech decision? Typical liberal response. Cloak yourself in the first amendment, unless it's speech that annoys you.


That's all I have time for today. But never fear. There's much more anger teeming under the surface of this sweet, innocent face that has yet to reveal itself. I'll unleash more wrath on another day, but now I have to go play with my children.