For Once, A Different Approach

Heh, my last rant has a single view on it. I'm guessing this means that my page is becoming a ghost town. My nonexistant updating schedule might have something to do with it. Oh well, if your reading this, then please leave a comment. All of the comments I recieve are very special to me.

Anyways, I don't have a rant for today, more of a lesson I wish to share. In a ways, that is what a rant is, but I'm not pissed off.

At this moment, it's around 3:37 in the morning, about 2-3 weeks into my summer vacation. I've done nothing of any significant importance, and I've been feeling pretty down for a while. It's probably me not taking my medication and slipping into depression, but I can't really tell.

I was just listening to a song. Rise Against - Hero of War. Check it out if you haven't heard it before.

The song got me thinking about my dad, and how he feels about when he was in the Navy.worse I often wonder if he had done anything that kept him awake at night. I know my grandpa did. He served in Vietnam, and no matter how many times I asked him to tell me a story, he never did. Not even on his deathbed.

The song makes me realize just what war does to people. It changes them. They are forced into split-second decisions that either end bad or worse. They come home, and we pat them on the backs and praise them for serving our country as he should, which only deepens their inner turmoil. I think soldiers need TLC, not praise.

Regardless of what my dad or my grandfather did when they were in war, I love them both. If either one of them reads this... be it my dad checkin' out my stuff, or my grandfather watching me from heaven, both of you were a priviledge to have in my life, and the lessons you taught me will remain a guiding beacon in my life.

For any soldier out there reading this, be safe.

Bring our flag home.

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The Aisles Run Red With Blood...

*~*WARNING! The following rant contains content and language not suited for the younger audiences. DO NOT CONTINUE READING IF YOU ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 16!!! You have been warned.*~*

Today is Black Friday, where everything you can imagine is being sold at a reduced price in stores everywhere. This gets shoppers excited. A little too excited.

In Long Island, a Wal-mart was gearing up for it's 5 A.M opening for Black Friday. 2,000 sale-hungry customers waited outside. These customers began pushing against the glass doors as one man came up to open the doors to allow the first customers to enter, just a normal day of business, or so he thought. These... animals broke down the damn doors and trampled this man, and killing him because the EMTs themselves hd to fight through the crowd. He, though, wasn't the only one trampled. Six others, including a woman 8 months pregnant, were trampled, but were treated and saved, the woman in the hospital at this very moment.

Lemme ask y'all something... Is there... ANYTHING in Walmart remotely worth killing for? Not a damn thing! I'm wondering if these people felt this guys busted up body under their feet as they surged in. How many of them stepped over this dying man just so they could go get a fuckin' good price on something? It is people that sick, that tainted with greed that make me want to claw my eyes out.

Oh, but killing the man wasn't the part that pissed me off the most, oh no. It was the fact that when authorities told customers to leave the store because a man was KILLED, they complained about how long they waited to get in the store, and continued to shop!

Listen, I don't care how long you had to wait in line to get something in fucking Walmart. I bet you looked at this man, busted up and broken, laying on the floor, and just kept walking so you could get that new couch you have always wanted. You make me sick.

Tis a sad day for humanity when a common man will kill simply to get a better deal on material goods that will do you no good when Judgement day arrives.

Thats all for now, Google the Long Island Walmart Stampede for a more detailed account of what occured.

Bagels

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The High School Trend: Comin' Back, Kid.

Howdy everyone, I apologize for my absence. I have simply not had anything to really talk about, except that my summer vacation was extremely short and boring, except when my family actually went on a week's vacation, and my trip to Camp Crossroads.

Anyways, my faithful viewers, or at least the very few who still bother to check my page on occaison, I finally have something to talk about.

I don't know what exactly it is about high school, but it seems to me that every single year that passes by, each Class of Year Whatever gets more and more freakin' immature and obnoxious.

Last year, the Seniors were great, Juniors good, Sophomore's okay, and the Freshman just plain horrible. They made bomb threats, started fights all the freakin' time, tried to start a brawl at the Pep Rally cause, well, apparently they are a pack of dogs trying to assert dominance over one another.

I believe it is the generation of younger kids that is to blame. Political correctness is poisoning with all of these little "tricks" and "tips" to nurture your child without the use of violence.

Listen, it isn't working. When a kid gets older, putting them in the timeout chair doesn't work anymore, and when you "ground" them, so what if they can't go out on Saturday night? They still get to play their video games, fool around on the computer with friend, talk on their cells, and blah blah blah. Granted, that is not always the case.

Parents, with all of this technology we have before us, the stuff we use now is completely ineffective! I am so freakin' sick and tired of schools distributing condoms to promote "safe sex". You know what I think? School's shouldn't be promoting ANY form of sex! Don't give them condoms, cause all you are doing is giving them an excuse to do it in the first place. I hate that people dressing like prostitutes is "okay" now. Look, if you are going to dress like your on sale for $5 an hour, don't expect me to show you any shred of respect.

My point is this. Parents, you seriously need a reality check in your parenting skills. I don't care how Super-Nanny disciplines her children, or what the news tells you is the right thing to do. Politically correct parenting is removing you, the parent, from the child. My reason? Because all of the politically correct ways of parenting have nothing to do with being involved with your kid, it always talks about your kid "knowing your there". Leaving them to fend and learn for themselves while you just play the fallback man. when they do something bad you just basically expect them to learn from their experiences.

Listen, when I become a parent, I will discipline my children in the way I see fit. Safe, and sane. None of this "Don't do this son, but if you do, it will be alright" style of parenting. The news may tell you that you are "intruding" upon their life, but the news is the one who aired the video of dead soldiers being loaded onto trucks, showing their faces on live televisions to the families of those soldiers before they even recieved the telegram.

Live, Love, and Learn.

Daniel

Fatty Done Failed

Y'know, I noticed something when I opened up IE today. I saw another one of those "Weight Loss Success Stories"

This makes me curious... If weight loss is such a commonly shared desire, how come it is that people need to hear these stories where someone lost their weight? It seems to me that, possibly, they are there because diet pills are the worst possible method I know of to lose weight.

Go ahead. Anyone. Look in the fine text at the bottom of the T.V. when another diet pill commercial comes on. Don't worry, they come on all the freakin' time.

Anyways, in that fine text, you will see that the pill isn't some miracle cure for weight loss as it is made out to be. The AVERAGE weight loss is less than 8 pounds every week/month, I forget.

Your spending all that money on pills that will take forever to make a significant effect. Yet you all keep buying.

Is it really coming to the point where people can't squeeze in a little jog between things they have to do? Doing a form of physical workout during free time is just too much to ask? I jog two times a day, each time a mile round trip. Yes, I am a teenager, but I do have a job, and it is a job I work rather often.

Pills and surgery make you sick and leave you worse off than you started. Exercise more.

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High School Romance and You.

I'm back! I know I have been on hiatus quite often and for long periods of time, considering whenever I come to this computer, I lose my ability to turn my anger into logical and stinging rants.

Anyways, over the course of the last couple weeks, I have been bombarded with girls weeping their eyes out for days, friends calling me at all hours of the night, and senseless fights and arguements because he or she broke up/cheated/dated him or her.

First, to the tearful, shut up. I dunno where and why you get the idea that high school is a land of kittens and rainbows where love is so thick in the air I have to buy windshield wiper glasses to open my locker, but you seriously need to get over it.

Imagine your high school life like a World War II minefield. Sure, things start out all nice and dandy, but don't be surprised when you trip over yourself and get blown back to "start".

Get this straight, high school isn't a place for love. If you get a high school sweetheart and marry, then go right ahead! But ever since this whole political correctness thing, kids are much more inclined to do stupid things because our political leaders like to skip around issues like a bunch of three year olds playing hopscotch!

Dr. Phil says we should pass out condoms in public areas. I say otherwise.

I don't know why, all of a sudden, teenagers are put through the ringer for being "sexual deviants", but we spent so much time talking about sex and why its bad that kids get curious! You ever wonder why your kid touches the stove burner even after you told him it would hurt and he shouldn't do that? Because he wants to know WHY you said so!

Passing out condoms to people is pratically ordering the kid to try sex. "Don't worry about it kid, with this, it is completely safe! Try it and see!"

Ladies, high school relationships revolve around that. At this age, with hormones and curiosity, we just want in your pants! It's not love! Once that guy gets what he wants, then don't be surprised if he leaves you because he is satisfied.

All too often I hear tales of high school pregnancies and high school marriages ending. You know why? Because we are stupid.

You people in power need to learn that talking about teen pregnancy and not doing each other is going to make us curious! It is because we are flawed!

Pay attention to something that matters, like finally making America energy-independant and fixing the political system than violence in video games, teen sex, and gangs.