New Blog- Democracy Daily

This will most likely be my last post in Ramblings of a Liberal.  The new blog is all set up and ready to go!

You can now read my spiel at http://democracydaily.wordpress.com/

Thanks for putting up with me!

-Trevor

We're Moving to WordPress!!!

Good day, all.

This is just a short post to inform you that my blog will be moving from its home at Blogger and will be transplanted into Wordpress, with a new name to be decided.  This change will be effective quite soon.  I will post the link here as soon as I get the new page set up.

Thanks for your understanding.

I've Been Away....

Dear fellow liberals,

I've been away for quite some time for two main reasons.  First: for some reason, Blogspot/Blogger decided to hide the "New Post" button from me for a long time and second: I just moved.  I am now located in the wonderful town of York, where I will finish my high school career.

Just a couple of updates: in my absence, I was recently a part of the American Legion Cornhusker Boys' State, where I was one of about 20 liberals in a sea of 400+ conservatives.  It was a wild ride, to say the least.  During my time, I actually heard someone defend George W. Bush and his "decision" to illegally invade a foreign country on a smokescreen principle.  He said stuff like *quote*: "Well, what would you have done?"  My eyes began to twitch and I had to leave the conversation.  I was also a part of the Boys' State Legislature, where I heard a new kind of stupid.  For example, somebody proposed a bill that would eliminate the income tax BUT, to "make up for lost revenue", it would jack up the sales tax by about 3%.  I was outraged, and the bill was thankfully postponed indefinitely.  Another bill, this time a bill that passed, would move the use of a wireless communication device while driving up from a secondary offense to a primary offense, which I generally support.  However, it exempted the use of CB radios, saying that it was safe because it *quote* "used a wire and is vital to truckers".  Now, the stupid in that is subtle, but present nonetheless.

The bill that outraged me most, though, was a bill proposed by one of the nominees for Boys' Nation.  It was an energy independence bill that was really just another way of saying "how stupid can I be?".  The main problem with this bill was its advocation for the drilling and mining process for shale oil.  Now, there are three main problems with this. First: there is no shale oil in the state of Nebraska.  Second: the shale oil that is in the United States is mostly on federal land (national parks, things like that).  Third: shale oil, if I am correct, is actually more costly than crude oil and less dependable.  However, I'm not 100% sure about problem #3, as I haven't done extensive research...my areas of expertise (even somewhat) are education and healthcare.  This dreaded bill, after two days of heated debate, passed by a narrow margin.

In short, my experience at CBS was nothing short of fantastic.  Although I must admit, I am a little tired of playing politics.


I shall sign off now and continue watching my movie, which at the moment is nothing other than Grandma's Boy. If you haven't seen it, find it and watch it ASAP. It's awesome.

-Trevor

Sex in America

Can someone please explain to me why Americans are so afraid of sex?  It's all over the news, "Oh, somebody got caught screwing his wife so they're going to jail for six thousand years!"  *Obvious intentional hyperbole, but you get the idea*  Also, I don't really take too kindly to people who tell us we should in essence be afraid of our bodies.  For example, who first thought of clothes in the first place?  Well, Adam and Eve, ya know.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, keep your superstitions to yourself.  I'm talking about this sort of thing where we're not even allowed to walk around shirtless in some places.  Come one, people, what's so bad about the human body?  It's just a natural, biological thing, so why be scared?  Are we afraid of ridicule?  Well, my moral nihilistic point of view says "Shut the fuck up" when it comes to stuff like that.  If you wanna walk around naked, by all means, walk the hell around naked.  I honestly don't care.  Well it infringes on my rights.  What rights?  The right to not be blinded by the phosphorescent ass of your Santa-style neighbor?  Sorry, hun, but that right doesn't seem to exist.  In fact, I share George Carlin's view of rights:  Either we have unlimited rights or no rights at all.  Personally, I lean toward unlimited rights.  Because rights are an abstract thing anyway, why not muddle the waters a little further?

That is all.  I may post something more on rights later, but not now.

American Exceptionalism

Americans have been full of it since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and it seems to have elevated since the rise of the GOP from the fiery bowels of hell, but folks, we got a bigger fish on our hands here.  Ladies and gentlefrogs, boys and girls, and all other various clichés, I give you...*drumroll*.....*CYMBAL!*  AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM!!!!

Any sentient being with even half a brain knows that the idea of American Exceptionalism is just another bunch of self-righteous bullshit that we try to jam down people's throats like a big red-white-and-blue dick.  The fact of the matter is we simply can't go about our business without thinking we're better than somebody else because we have a thirty-million dollar mansion or a twenty-thousand-dollar microwave or a three-hundred-thousand-dollar solid gold vibrator.  Americans have this obsession with being better than everyone else, but why?  What automatically elevates Americans above the average person of this Earth? I can tell you right now, it certainly ISN'T intelligence.  For every one engineer we graduate, I believe China graduates eleven, but I could be wrong.  So don't quote me on that.

Back to the ridiculous notion that we are somehow better than everyone else, I pose another problem to our delusion. How can we expect to be better than everyone when we can't even outrun most of the population?  Have you taken a look at the average American at Wal-Mart? They're huuuuuge!!! Of course, this is coming from a one-hundred-forty-five pound teenager, but still!  Americans (per capita) have an incurable case of fatasfuckolitis, so I think that pretty much disqualifies us from the race to the top.  Especially the race to the top of the food chain, otherwise where'd the hell did these vegetarian assholes come from?  "Killing animals is wrong!! But I still eat chicken sometimes!!" Yeah, yeah, yeah, fuck off already.  

I just can't get over the amount of stupid bullshit that Americans say and do, like banning abortion and going to war at the drop of a hat.  That's another thing: abortion.  "A FETUS IS A HUMAN BEING AND SHOULD BE SAVED!!! UNTIL IT GROWS UP AND WE NEED IT FOR WAR, THEN IT NEEDS TO DIE SO WE CAN KEEP STEALING MONEY!!!"  Backwards logic is backwards and unjustifiable when viewed through the eyes of reason.  "LIFE IS SACRED!!!"  Ted Kennedy called.  Oh wait, no he didn't, because he's fucking dead.  Nothing sacred about that, thank you very much.  Religious bullshit is religious bullshit; doesn't matter how you slice it.  People are stupid, I know, I know, but that doesn't mean their idiocy can't be called out and laughed at by the sane.

I'm tired now.  Good night.  I've been pissed off enough.

The Trevor Project

As evidence that the world has not totally gone down the toilet, I give you the Trevor Project.  Folks, the Trevor Project is simply awesome.  Finally, we have a national organization that actually accepts and supports members of the teen (and older) LGBTQ community!  Huzzah!  Finally, we have an organization that cares, an organization that will listen instead of telling you that you're going to hell because you wanna make out with that cute boy in Biology! People, I love it!  This is what America needs: acceptance.  The Civil Rights Movement was a milestone, and peeps, we can do it again!  There will hopefully be a day in the very near future when we don't refer to gay marriage as gay marriage, but as marriage.  There will hopefully be a day when gay/bi teens won't have to worry about being beaten up constantly because of their orientation.  There will hopefully be a day when the world finally sees itself through the eyes of equality.

I can dream, can't I?

The Pledge of Allegiance....Rewritten

Hello, all!  This is just gonna be a short post that shows just how smart and clever I can be *note the sarcasm*.  I've taken the liberty of rewriting the pledge of allegiance to fit what America will become should the GOP recapture the White House.

*hem, hem*

I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag of the United Corporations of Consumerstan, and to the Plutocracy, for which it stands, one demagoguery, under Wall Street, infinitely divisible, with poverty and injustice for all.

There.  Am I not brilliant? =D