Politics, Murder & Mayhem

There's nights I lie awake thinking about the possibilities and the dreams of those around us. There's other nights I lie awake and simply think of some really stupid shit. Things that literally make you go "hmmm...!" My problem is simple...my brain really starts working when I'm trying to fall asleep and when my brain starts working, my mouth starts working. My lovely partner in crime really hates when this happens because I can talk for hours about absolutely nothing. While I see no problem with this, she feels that I shouldn't be keeping her awake all hours of the night when she has to be up before 5am for work. Just can't help it.

Just the other night we were discussing politics, murder and mayhem. I know what you're thinking "are those really different topics?" My Partner is very patriotic. she likes to follow the rules and obey the laws and will take any order our government (even dumbass Bush) gives. Me? Heh, well I'm quite the opposite. Rules bore me after awhile and when I get bored I need to stir up the pot a bit...but that's a different topic altogether. Like I was stating, we were discussing these topics when I realized how different our views are.

Let's start with politics, shall we? Just for the helluvit *grin*. I think all politicians should speak what's on their mind rather than hide behind speech-writers and such. I think if we had a presidential candidate stand up during a debate and state something like "Why the hell are we sticking our noses in another country's business when we can't even keep our own country clean" they would be elected on the spot and given a tidal wave of applause. All hail the honest politician. She felt, of course, that if we had a candidate who spoke off the cuff they would be politically incorrect and such. Yawn. Tell it like it is and then you have nobody who wants to shoot you in the ass the moment you pull your pants down to piss.

Now on to our topic of murder. Alright y'all, I'm not sadistic and in any way a promoter for criminal acts...especially not murder so don't go getting yourself all wadded up. This discussion came up because I was reading a book about a female hit man. The character had reached a crossroads in her career and was trying to analyze whether she was still looking at a mark as a job instead of a person. I, without thinking, said aloud..."If I was a hit-woman, I could totally keep my personal opinions and my job separate." Naturally, this made my partner look at me oddly so I felt I had to explain why i had stated as much. After my explanation, she said she agreed that i could totally pull it off and that she couldn't ever commit murder. I said "Babe, if the military called you tomorrow and told you to take someone out, you would not do it?" She said "of course I would, that's different. That's legal orders from our President." Ha Ha HA. Forgive me for laughing but HA! I believe murder is murder. If our military needs to do a job and take someone out than do it, but its' still murder. This does NOT give our troops permission to go in and take innocents out like they so often are given orders to do. ***Note: I am NOT against the military, I am simply against our government using them to do BS dirty work that doesn't need to be done. Endnote*** That's what started the 2-hour long debate that started well after midnight on a work night. My opinion is simple: no matter the method, no matter the reason, no matter where the orders come from, whether justified or not, taking a life is still murder. She chose to disagree, which is okay...it's not the first time nor will it be the last.

Naturally, this all lead to a discussion on mayhem...she swears I need to create drama in my mind, if not in life, in order to recover from boredom I get when I stay stagnate too long. I'll give her that...I do believe she's right. *grin*.

Until next time, Scribelets.

Real Diversity

Diversity...a word that stands for such a wide chasm of difference. We are all so different, yet so much the same. Lambs following each other to the wolfs' den. We do what Society tells us to do without question and without demands. We live according to rules that have been passed down from a generation that we have no proof even existed. Family lines and governmental trees, they all blur in the face of individuality. We work to live so we can live to work. Hypocrisy runs so deep through the veins of humanity.

It never ceases to amaze me how we are all run by a government that prides itself on freedom, yet the moment you make a decision for yourself...be it a lover, a friend, a religion...you are doomed to fall into the cracks that we all walk over. Mind you, I don't think for a moment it's set up that way, but I do believe it could be changed if we put our minds to it and if we put our faith in each other rather than some invisible force that claims to know what's best for us. How do they know? How can they choose who is accepted and who's not? How do they know that what's right for me is what's right for you? If that were true, poverty would be at a stand still and there would be no justice for hate crime criminals. Murderers would be shot, rapists would be maimed and those who sell drugs to children would be lost.

Diversity: a five-dollar word for an endless amount of possibilities. We have freedom of religion...as long we don't stray too far outside of some "church" or other. We have freedom to love, as long we don't walk far from the line of heterosexuality the way the Bible describes it. We have the right to bear arms, as long as we give the government life-long access into our lives. For those of us who stray too far, we have to deal face-to-face with the prejudices that come so quickly from most people. Societal norms? Says who? We act the way we do because we are told we need to do so...but where did the original rules come from? Can we prove it?

A world of diversity should mean a world ready to accept difference, a world ready to live in tolerance, a world ready to open its' arms wide and embrace us all.

Until next time,
Chaos