Fri 20 Mar 2009

Third Party Woes

Posted by Frank White under General Politics, People, Third Parties
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There’s a sort of hypocrisy when people choose a third party — if they choose one at all. On the one hand some people pick a party because of a singular issue, and on the other hand some pick one because it is exactly what they’re interested in. There seems to be almost no one in between.

I say hypocrisy because with the first group they would ally with the Libertarians, for example, because they want to legalize drugs, yet wouldn’t ally with Republicans, despite many parts of the platform being similar – usually if they even were aware of the far right, and very relaxed economic beliefs of the Libertarian Party, they would probably disagree with it all.  It seems to be a situation where people say, “well, I believe that people should be able to do what they want as long as they don’t hurt others.”

This concept in libertarianism comes with a price, that is the price of laissez-faire economics and absolutely no social welfare system to speak of, no public schools, no public roads, and so forth. Nothing else matters so long as their singular issue is supported.

As per the other group (or as I like to call the “never satisfied” group), they seem to be centered around the idea that if a third party is worth joining, then it must completely conform to their political beliefs. This is extremely hypocritical because many times they will support, and vote for, candidates and parties such as the Democrats and Republicans which they share even less in common with than a third party. For example, they would hold off joining the Green Party because they disagree with 20% of the platform, but instead would vote a Democrat into public office, even if they disagree with 80% of that party’s platform.

This kind of behavior doesn’t really surprise me. I get a lot of people telling me that I can’t change anything. As if some how I want to undertake some kind of world revolution. In the end, it doesn’t matter if I or anyone else can change anything, it matters that we’re doing something other than copping out for a Republicrat and claiming that we’re directing change.

 

Wed 18 Mar 2009

Sex, honestly

Posted by Frank White under People, School, Sex
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Most people in politics do not talk about sex honestly and openly - well, I do. There’s a series of big problems related to sex in America today, and nearly are all related to the absolute ignorance (and sometimes outright stupidity) related to sex education.

Sex education in the American school system is a joke at best - of course some say that we should leave it up to the parents to educate their kids, but in most cases it isn’t merely the blind leading the blind, but the blind, deaf, and dumb leading the same. Parents rarely know more than their children do when it comes to sex.

You can ask your average young person (and by that I mean most people under 25) how effective condoms are, most have some completely incorrect answer and very few have the correct answer: condoms should be used with vaginal, anal, and oral sex. I have met a lot of young people who sincerely believe you cannot get an STD from oral sex - you can, and most commonly it’s herpes (cold sores and fever blisters are herpes - and are highly contagious; however canker sores/ulcers inside the mouth are not a form of herpes and are not contagious).

In case you had not noticed, I’m including valid information with this post, just incase any young person (or adult) reads it, and they can get honest answers from me. There is far more misinformation out there than valid information, and parents don’t help because their answer is often “wait until marriage”, but that really isn’t advice or information - you don’t wait to learn about driving after you get your license, why wait to learn about sex on your wedding night?

If never talking about it, lying to students about it, and pretending everyone will wait until marriage actually worked, then teen pregnancies wouldn’t be on the rise again for the second year in a row. To put it in perspective, prior to the numbers going up, the lowest it’s been in several decades has been about 1 million teen pregnancies each year. Even so, they teach kids to not have sex, but they also believe teaching that masturbation is OK is bad - what?

We tried to wipe out syphilis, but all the bad information has made it come back with a boom - AIDS, herpes, gonorrhea, and others as well. Young people are the ones most commonly getting these viruses, yet we don’t want to tell them about condoms - instead we want to make ourselves feel noble that we have outright lied to them and that will protect them. What’s more, many people, adults included believe that the risk groups for AIDS and other very deadly diseases is only homosexuals and blacks - when that’s simply not the case anymore - any one, of any sexually active age, can have diseases - period.

I know this blog entry isn’t enough, that’s why we’re going to have a whole web site setup related to fully promoting proper information, with no religious agenda - our only agenda is for a healthy America, because if people are sick and dying from having sex, or are knocked off the straight and narrow by having a child very young, then America will suffer.

Simple review:
  • Condoms do prevent STDs and pregnancy when used properly and all the time (latex prvent more, lamb skin does not protect against HIV/AIDS)
  • Condoms should be used during oral sex and anal sex
  • Herpes (cold sores and fever blisters) can be transferred from mouth to gentiles and visa-versa.
  • Other than herpes, other diseases such as gonorrhea and syphilis can be transferred during oral sex
  • Masturbation is harmless and normal
  • Young people are going to have sex no matter what, so we should be honest and give them correct information.
  • Remember, no method is 100% effective, but condoms are almost always effective, but the only 100% effective way to not get an STD or get pregnant is by not having sex at all.
This all doesn’t mean young people shouldn’t wait - I believe they should wait until they’re ready. Ready doesn’t mean pressured into it by a peer. I feel that one shouldn’t get involved in an intimate relationship, until one is emotionally mature enough to handle it. That means being able to cope with one’s feelings and sexuality - without guilt, inhibition, or phoniness; but rather with love, tenderness, and honesty.
 

Tue 17 Mar 2009

Obama thinks vets should pay for war injuries

Posted by Frank White under Obama, War
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I’m not creating this article simply to go against the current Administration. Barack Obama has nothing but my unwavering respect - seeing how he is our nation’s president. The issue here is that he has a plan to require private insurance companies (the ones currently screwing many Americans over) pay back the Department of Veterans Affairs for any injuries that troops get on the battlefield.

What this means is that troops, who sacrifice their time, lives, and freedom to protect our country and interests, will now have to pay for any injuries they incur by taking enemy fire.

The great irony here is that Obama has been promising Universal Healthcare (so did Clinton) to regular individuals such as you and I - but now slaps veterans in the face for sacrificing their lives.

This kind of action is like when a parent punishes you for doing something they asked you to do - except this time the parent is the Commander in Chief and the action is fighting for their position as world’s most powerful leader. I’m so sorry Obama, I guess vets just aren’t good enough for you.

I spent time trying to find this from other news sources, but you really can’t. It is mentioned, but only in passing. Instead the most popular news site on the Internet, MSNBC is reporting the “Tough times hit entertainment industry” and ABC News is reporting “‘Top Model’ Hopefuls Feel Short-Shrifted”. At least the actors and models didn’t get injured in battle.

As long as we’re privatizing things, maybe we should call the Libertarian Party to come spit on the vets too?

More information: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/17/vets-group-blasts-obama-plan-private-insurance-pay-service-related-health-care/

 

Sat 6 Dec 2008

Europe once again shows incompetence and hypocrisy

Posted by Frank White under Europe
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About as often as it rains in the English country side, you can find a claim about how the United States has “big brother” and is trying to rule its people with an iron fist. Ironically, just as often you can find an instance where a European government, especially England has attempted to go beyond anything the US has done it her own citizens. A primary example was released in a news story today:

UK ISPs switch on mass Wikipedia censorship
Posted by Rupert Goodwins

The following notice has appeared on Wikipedia today when many UK users attempt to edit content:

“Wikipedia has been added to a Internet Watch Foundation UK website blacklist, and your Internet service provider has decided to block part of your access. Unfortunately, this also makes it impossible for us to differentiate between different users, and block those abusing the site without blocking other innocent people as well.”

According to discussions on the Wikipedia administrators noticeboard, this is because a transparent proxy has been enabled for customers of Virgin Media, Be/O2/Telefonica, EasyNet/UK Online, PlusNet, Demon and Opal. This has two effects: users cannot see content filtered by the proxies, and all user traffic passing through the proxies is given a single IP address per proxy. As Wikipedia’s anti-vandalism system blocks users by IP address, one single case of vandalism by a single UK user prevents all users on that user’s ISP from editing. The effect is to block all editing from anonymous UK users on that list of ISPs. Registered users can continue to edit. 

The content being filtered is apparently that deemed to meet the Internet Watch Foundation’s critera for child pornography – in one case, this involves a 1970s LP cover art which, although controversial, is still widely available. 

Reports on the admin noticeboard say that this filtering is easy to circumvent, either by using Wikipedia’s secure server or by sending a request to find the page via parameters in the URL. However, no fix has been found – nor is one expected – for the proxy address problem.

“This is the first I’ve come across UK wide internet censorship, and I’m shocked. I had no idea until now that like China, we too have built a great firewall - only we keep quiet about ours.”, user Hahnchen said, on the noticeboard. 

http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009938o-2000331777b,00.htm

The world may not be black and white, but blatant hypocrisy sure is. While we do need to create a child-porn free Internet (and world for that matter), it is unlikely that is the true purpose of the action stated in the article. Granted, it is conspiratorial to talk about “what’s really happening”, but the UK government has a history of things like this, not to mention sister nation Australia has already blocked large parts of the Internet.

I guarantee you won’t see many of the same people ranting and raving about the US speaking bad about this - even if they did, they’d be caught on one of the many billions of cameras in the UK - but wait, even the UK has laws against protesting, apparently you aren’t allowed to say anything negative during a protest there… So much for big brother here in the US.

 

Sat 22 Nov 2008

Announcing Victory in Iraq day

Posted by Frank White under War
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Zombie is doing what many others are afraid to do, he is calling November 22nd “Victory in Iraq” day:

By every measure, The United States and coalition forces have conclusively defeated all enemies in Iraq, pacified the country, deposed the previous regime, successfully helped to establish a new functioning democratic government, and suppressed any lingering insurgencies. The war has come to an end. And we won.

What more indication do you need? An announcement from the outgoing Bush administration? It’s not gonna happen. An announcement from the incoming Obama administration? That’s really not gonna happen. A declaration of victory by the media? Please. Don’t make me laugh. A concession of surrender by what few remaining insurgents remain in hiding? Forget about it.

He also cites interesting facts such as:

CHICAGO (CBS) — An estimated 125 people were shot and killed over the summer. That’s nearly double the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq over the same time period.

But for a lot of people it comes down to “Why are we still there?”, well that’s easy:

Hell, the United States still has several military bases and many troops “occupying” Japan and Germany who have been there continuously since the end of World War II in 1945. We have two major Air Bases in Korea leftover from the Korean War. The Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba is a remnant of the Spanish-American War and has been there for over a century; the U.S. military also “occupied” the Philippines at Subic Bay for nearly a hundred years as a result of the Spanish-American War. More recently we continue to have a presence in Bosnia at Tuzla Air Base as a consequence of our role in the Bosnian War of the 1990s.

Spread the news, the war is over!

http://www.zombietime.com/vi_day/

 

Sat 15 Nov 2008

A simple analysis of the auto-industry bailout

Posted by Frank White under Industry
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There are a lot of people who are against the auto-industry bailout, especially people in the conservative sector of politics. It comes down to a philosophy of “just let them fail, they’ll come back”. It’s not at simple as they make it seem. Libertarians often try to dumb things down so much, not so other people will believe them, but so they themselves can swallow how utterly moronic their ideas are.

When it comes to bailouts, I always think they are a bit spurious, but in this case if the auto-industry does fall apart in this country, it will never come back. From that point forward, there will not be an American made car one can buy, only Japanese, German, Swedish, Korean, and so forth. This doesn’t bother some people, but this also means that a local industry for mechanized weaponry will almost completely disappear. So, if there is a need to create a lot of jeeps, tanks, and so forth, we won’t be able to make them in-house like we previously did, instead we’ll have to have them made in other countries.

Most of us know what happened to Flint, Michigan, and I hate to think what would happen to many other American towns that are based on the success of the auto-industry. If we can bail out the banks for screw ups for almost $1 trillion dollars, we can spend $25 billion on the auto-industry to help save what little industry we do have left.

I will talk more about American industry in the future, but because it is almost completely gone, we need to save what vestiges we do have left, before we end up a country of burger joints and call centers.

 

Fri 14 Nov 2008

Interesting things about Obama

Posted by Frank White under Uncategorized
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The election is over, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still talk about Obama. Before the election zombietime posted a few different articles pertaining to Obama and his history (as well as former associate Bill Ayers), and I want to talk about them here.

Barack Obama’s review of William Ayers’ book

http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=64

First I want to talk about people who say that the William Ayers issue was not important (i.e. most Obama supporters). Well, it is. That is because Bill Ayers is an admitted terrorist, who admits to attempting to blow up things such as the Pentagon. Obama tries to claim that “this happened when I was 8 years old”, but does that really matter? Consider that Bill Ayers not only admits to his acts of terrorism against the United States, but also “wish[es he] could have done more” and is proud of what he did. Regardless of what age Obama was when it happened, does not change the fact he was friends with Ayers after the fact, when Ayers was proud of it and wishes he could have blown up more.

In zombietime’s review he discusses Obama’s links to Ayers around 1997 when the Chicago Tribune posted Obama’s review of Ayers’ book. It basically puts to rest that Obama was not very familiar with Ayers, which Obama has claimed in the past, and that they actually knew each other very well.  Zombietime also goes a long way to show that the evidence he puts forth is real, which is good because even today most supporters still deny it.

Barack Obama’s Close Encounter with the Weather Underground

http://www.zombietime.com/obama_and_the_weather_underground/

This is a very in depth essay about Obama’s connections with the Weather Underground (the organization Bill Ayers was a member of) and debunks a lot of the myths started by Obama himself to push Ayers away and pretend as if there was no connection. The essay starts by saying “Did the presidential candidate and the revolutionary terror group cross paths at a violent 1981 anti-Apartheid protest?”, and as you guessed it, the answer is “yes”. It is very in depth, so I suggest you read it on zombie’s site, because there’s too much to cover here.

William Ayers’ forgotten communist manifesto: Prairie Fire

http://www.zombietime.com/prairie_fire/

In this essay zombietime discusses a manifesto written by noted former associate of Obama entitled “Prairie Fire”, where Ayers not only admits to being a communist “We are communist women and men…”, but also admits to be willing to use violence to overthrow the US government “We need a revolutionary communist party [...] to [...] seize power and build a new society.” Interesting.

As with the essay about Obama’s links to the Weather Underground, zombie has gone to great lengths in his analysis of Prairie Fire. Essentially the purpose of the essay by zombie is to make clear Ayers beliefs and that he was a die hard communist and that he was very much willing to use violence to overthrow the government — something he admits to doing today.

It also goes into the various claims made by the media about Ayers and his beliefs, and outlines his true beliefs as written by Ayers himself. It’s something I also suggest reading on his page because of how in depth it really is.

What does this all mean?

The election is over, obviously, and Obama is our new president so the only thing this can really mean is that we might be in for even more extreme changes than he has let on. In the end he is still a politician, and for the most part, they are all liars - he could very well just coast through the next few years, hoping that nothing will go wrong while he is in office so he can claim success.

What we need to do is stop pretending like Obama is some kind of Messiah, as if he was sent by God to save us. I just have a feeling God doesn’t like terrorists or their friends. Regardless, it would not surprise me if Obama breaks every promise he made during his campaign.

One thing remains clear, conservatives cannot stoop to the same level that liberals did during Bush’s presidency - so let’s avoid Obama Derangement Syndrome and just do our best to take back congress during the next closest election.

 

Thu 13 Nov 2008

Reforming a Party and Starting a blog

Posted by Frank White under Announcements
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The National Federalist Party was falling apart and it seemed like nobody was going to step up and get it going. Granted, there are countless third parties in the United States, but I wanted an organization more tailored to actually helping people, rather than just talking politics. Sure, politics are important, especially to a political organization, but when one obsesses over it people become alienated and get bored really easily.

So, after becoming party leader, my first act was to declare a clear path and direction for this political organization. Most importantly I do not want this to be an “activist organization”. Nothing is more asinine than a group of individuals who set their goals and terms so high that the only thing they would be willing to accept is full on world revolution — and this goes for both Leftists and Libertarians.

Secondly, I wanted to rework how members interacted and how the whole party fit together. We will be creating a new party site over the next few months that will be more like a social network, but for those who are similarly principled to us. That seems to be something most organizations lack, a great way for people to communicate and organize.

Thirdly, no druggies, no BEE-ESS social activism about how legalization of drugs will cure everything from poverty, to violence, to cancer, to hunger, to Christ coming back. This was not a problem before, but some people were on the fence, and I just want to take a stand on this issue right here and now. Alcoholism is another issue that should be dealt with and will not be tolerated in this organization. Several people have brought up the issue of “freedom of choice”, but this is a private organization, and they have the choice to join, leave, or quit.

In forth place I want to announce a largely socially conservative stance, but a mildly conservative economic stance, with room for movement. I do not want to say we are either on the left or right, because both sides have good ideas and both sides have bad ideas, but I honestly would say we are more towards the middle-right.

While there are more changes and stands being taken, I do not want to put them all in one single post. The point of this blog is to outline, with member help, what this party’s principles will be, where we will stand, our direction, and our stance on various issues.

What it all comes down to is that this will be a charity and community organization as well as a political party. A lot of planning must be done first, and I want to be sure we have everything planned out and in order before we start spreading the word about what we are trying to do.

It’s time to create change, not by spreading the wealth, but by taking back control of our communities from criminals and the socially amoral.