Chubby Nickel Audio Vlog

Whenever the U.S. government saw something that people can’t live without get out of hand, people in the government stepped in on behalf of the people. Water, electricity and phones are all good examples… of course gas is a bad example. Our society cannot survive without the water that pumps into your houses and gets flushed away or the electricity that keeps your water heater, fridge, air conditioning and heat on… well some people can survive but the amount of people that this country supports could not be supplied with potable water without the government regulated system. Since people cannot live without water, it would be profitable to keep raising prices and without someone to speak out for the people, we all (well all us not wealthy people), would be suffering for people to just make a profit.

What does this have to do with health care? Well we have all been living much longer than we would have without our medical advances, many people that contribute to society would be dead by 30, and hardly any of them surviving to 60. With this increased age, we are all experiencing the side effects of living longer by showing many health problems that just wouldn’t there if you were dead by now. The short answer is that we need health care to live, just as we need potable water and electricity. Should we not as a people be demanding that like other basic needs, the need to live should have advocates and regulations to ensure that all of us can have it?
Social programs do not a socialist empire make. Just because a nation has social programs, it doesn’t mean that the country is socialist. Just like when a country has capitalistic programs it doesn’t make the country capitalistic. The problem is that we are all a part of this society, this society that makes us all interdependent on each other in so many complex ways. So let’s try to think of it in basic terms: we do not all hunt for food for ourselves, we do not all farm for ourselves, we do not all fetch water for ourselves and we do not all build our own houses. That means we are all dependent on other people to play their part in our society, that also means that other people are dependent on you. If you want to reap the rewards of our society, then you should be expected to reward others as well.  The everyone can help themselves attitude is not what built our society to this point, it only hurts society… and by proxy, you. Unless you’re very rich.

The truth is that we all need to help each other so that other people can help us. When a factory worker gets injured, we lose that piece of society until they come back to work. If that factory worker can’t afford to get better in order to get back to work, then we lose that piece of society permanently. We lose that person’s ability to spend money, the products that person was working on… pretty much everything that person was contributing to society. Let’s say the cost to get that person back is a $50,000 surgery… sounds like a lot, but this person was making $40,000 a year. Now the factory worker wouldn’t be able to pay the medical bill straight up, but his contributions to society are about the same as his wages, so he will pay society back in less than two years… if he/she can work. So I see a one time surgery of $50,000 a bargain in the long term.

I am unsure where I should begin, so I will start with this…  I am angry and frustrated. I am not a Democrat, I am not a Republican; however I sway more to the older Republican ways. I am sure those of you that are educated know that those Republican ways did not endorse greed or a negative cognition as it is nowadays.

1. My daily drive to and from school is diluted with reruns in the main stream music world and I curse my self every time. Why on earth do I always forget one of “my few expensive devices given to me?” So in my own self defeat of the rerun radio stations in this “Republic” I turn to the radio station to one that airs none other than Rush Limbaugh and other “dare I say” jack ass sheep. Mind you, it is entertaining and sometimes humorous, though in my case very frustrating. Here I am, yes I was hopeful and still are for Obama‘s goals. Does this mean I am a liberal retard? I hear these insults day after day and yes I can turn it off, and I do often; BUT first let me remind those of you who would advise this; I am curious about what is driving the ludicrous mindlessness and hatred in this country.
2. I will start off with Bush, and yes I know most my friends and trusted ones claim to be republican but, I am wary. When Bush was in office there were people I called Sheeple, (NO that is not a misspell). Lets get to the point, short and sweet. Had anyone no matter what “cutsie party” they claim to belong to, questioned the man or administration they would have been condemned as anti-American and disrespectful of the president. I am sure it has come up often, I am not the first to bring it up. But the truth is there and the facts of that are there.
3. Growing up my Grandfather was not an American citizen, he fought along side America though in the Canadian regiments. He was a Canadian Navy Soldier (he left his home at the age of 14), then a paratrooper and a Leader a of a platoon in the Korean war (I am not ashamed to not know the terms off hand, I know the value). The only time I have seen this man cry was when a member of his platoons family contacted him to thank him for carrying their Dad/Grandads lifeless body to their camp. Mind you he excused me from the room during this moment of emotion with a short proud manner.

This man, who adopted me as his own daughter, swore America was great, left a country he fought for only to be scrutinized and made fun of as if Canadians don’t fight, aren’t strong, don’t have a military, but there have been many times where Canada fought along with America. My entire family takes this and laughs with it, but to the point: he struggled to become a citizen in this country, and finally happened when I was 16 years old… lets put that into perspective. I am 3^rd generation on American soil, he is now 82 years of age and so proud but still working 12 hour days, my grandmother (who is blind), can no longer work to help their business and my grandfather must drive her around and take care of her needs. I’m not attempting an appeal to emotion, I’m just trying to define the amount of responsibility this man takes on himself and takes care of. Their business houses and assists with Mentally developed disabled individuals. This includes mental retardation through injury at an early age, down-syndrome (boy do I have stories for Sarah Palin and TriG), hearing/visual impairment… and anything you can think of to hinder ones capability to function with the rest of us “normal people”.

He runs it alone, and I feel guilty because they hoped I could help and I intend to after I finish the money sucking machine called college. I am sure any student calls it that. It is true though, I would have been finished with college four years ago if I didn’t have to worry about making it on my own. And even now I have to work full time with 1-2 classes per semester, and when I started with the opportunity to actually obtain a degree I was as excited as a kid is in a candy store as to what I wanted to be. So be it, it took me time to decide. My grandparents did not want me to or think I should go to school for a higher education. Now that is beyond the point I am trying to get across but much of that is the driving point for my thoughts of what is occurring now in society and the hatred and division in this country. That division and hatred did not exist as much as is does now prior to my grandfathers incessant need and want to be a part of it.

It’s amazing a man who is from Canada knows so much more about the laws and constitution and pays attention to politics and the finances than the average hoser that calls these radio shows and bitches about things they have yet to suffer or never had. Yes my grandfather or as I refer to the man “my dad,” lived the fable tale of the “American dream” but now he is also suffering it. Funding cut to help mentally developed disabled homes, and him paying 60 grand out of his pocket alone in 2009 to maintain the business and still paying 40 grand in taxes to a government that doesn’t know whether its coming and going. Social Security are my parents source of funds and the retirement that dwindles away paying for helping their kids in hard times and the business they want to maintain because they’re GENUINELY dedicated and care for these people. I know a few and I’m sure there are a few more families suffering like this.

My point is, he knew enough and paid attention enough prior to obtaining his official citizenship that he was well aware to answer my curiosity when I asked, “why hasn’t the new president fixed the crap people wanted him to, two weeks, months or even 6 months into the new term of the new pres.?” His answer was plain and clear… It takes time, most often two years to pass any new bills, law or even small changes to appear.

Here comes my beef with society now, and further more I would like to state I did vote for Obama, so yes that makes me a weenie. I was scared of all the antics of him being an anti-Christ and I really had to think, “how logical is this.” The birth certificate BS, the Muslim crap and associating him with his crazy pastor. How many people know what their pastors, priests or clergymen harbor in their privacy waiting for the moment of publicity, of course in reverend Wrights case it worked. Say the most outlandish BS at the appropriate time and you’ve got $$. Whatever the case I am NOT a pure Democrat, I am for the people and I am for responsibility, but you can’t be responsible if the benefit of expressing that attribute is held in front of you like a carrot on front of the tortoise

I am tired of hearing that this is the melting pot of cultures and beliefs when so many people spend so much energy to silence and control other cultures to such a crazy level. There is so much negativity it’s disgusting. During the Olympics I was so excited for Lysacek to win the Gold however while on the Olympic stat site, face book ran amok with negative remarks and insults toward others (mostly U.S citizens insulting other countries). We’ve become the playground bully. I wish I was going back to Canada, and I am sure by my saying that, most people would say “please go.” Point being, U.S citizens don’t only divide themselves within their own country with outlandish crazy almost laughable accusations and politics, but they do it on the citizen level with other countries when the Olympics are supposed to be a time of coming together. It’s disgusting, and insulting that I am in this mesh. As a Canadian/American I know that Canadians only wish well and congratulate. As it was said in the Olympic opening Canadians are defined by, “Please and Thank you”.

I hear Glenn Beck from time to time say he is a Constitutionalist and moans about changes or anything acting outside of his own beliefs or his self interests, but does he realize the Constitution is a living, evolving and growing document as proclaimed by our founding fathers? There is so much nonsense I cannot comprehend how anyone could spend the next three years of Obama’s first term listening to the news as the fish wife bickering continues.

This is my conclusion, the Rush Limbaugh people, the Bush people and super semantic individuals who refuse to reason need to remember this is a democratic republic. The parties were built as a means for various ideas to create the best of solutions, to create opposing scenarios and realistic objectives to each others ideas, to obtain the best of the best plans for our future. Obama is trying and we won’t know how well he can do unless the negative Nancys stop their bickering and work it out… without the crazy slander, high school BS. Until a true effort is given from both sides of the fence, NO ONE can place blame. Things take time, he is not a miracle worker but he is a positive person, that is it. I am NOT saying he is the means to an end or all that, but he has a better outlook than most of the American people listening to Fox or calling Rush to bitch about the working poor (look up working poor before bitching me out). Those who backed Bush should not be hypocrites and respect it and of course question authority but not with insults. If you have no constructive value to bring to the table than don’t vote, and don’t complain. Show intelligence and integrity; acting ignorant is embarrassing to the thinking population.

It is a sad situation now, were not doomed, but our attitudes are doomed. Money can drive a country to its knees but all in all how do the people act? Religions and mainstream thought and the over exaggeration of freedoms that people express in carrying fire arms, protesting being taxed with representation, letting children die because medical help is against their religion and many other ridiculous concepts. These are scary thoughts, I thought America as a whole lost one reason to hate and filled that gap by finding some other ridiculous thing to hate (Obama). Yeah I may hear others say “Think about how awful it would be to live in those other countries”, older ones… “the old country”… my answer is this. They have had hard times, tribulations, wars, famine, political turmoil but they are still here, and they look out for each other and they are friendly and welcoming. If everyone wants to just sit there and bitch, argue and bicker instead of doing what is needed to fix this country then I want no part in it.

If this seems emotionally charged, I apologize. I am trying so hard not to be affected but its hard not to since my family fought to be in this country and this is the landscape. This is four years of pent up BS that I sat back, soaked in, observed and now I am sort of not happy. Don’t hide behind insults, bring something positive to the damn table or shut the hell up.

–Anonymous

Hate, ignorance and hypocrisy… I’ll just label this as stupidity.  So how does one fight such a powerful foe? How does one defeat such a resilient enemy? If you don’t think stupidity is a prevalent and dire disaster in a bottle, just try to talk to some people, watch TV and/or listen to the radio. There are people that listen and believe these public personalities just because they’ve been brought up to never question certain things. People will fight you hand, tooth and nail defending the most ridiculous ideas spawned from mere speculation and confirmation bias just because it’s said with confidence.

How does anyone fight confidence? The biggest problem is that these radio personalities are bluffing… bluffing that they know what their talking about, bluffing that the majority of people will call it out and bluffing with a big bank against small fries. Of course they can fail many hands while the greater public goes all in and loses. You want change? You want things to stay the same? You want us all to jump into a time machine to find a long lost past that only truly existed in your diluted memories from infancy? Well it takes more than “I want the country the way it was when I was growing up” and other appeals to emotion. It takes reason well founded on the best evidence available, obtained without a course of action derived before researching.

Of course I’ve said nothing to help this problem. Seeing the world for what it is, throughout all known history… we as a human race have come far, so I have no doubt that we won’t reach the lofty goal of enlightenment, reason and peace one day… I just think we all can speed it up a little. Question authority. That is all it really takes… well that and listening.

Of course merely questioning authority isn’t enough just as that, there are some guidelines. Question all authority, it’s not enough to question the authorities you don’t agree with, the most dangerous authority is the authority you don’t question. Remember authorities should be authorities because they know what they’re talking about. Questioning someone who knows what they’re talking about should never be a problem (unless they have clearly answered the question several times), they should be able to explain it… if they can’t, then they’re not an authority worth shit. Not only should any trustworthy authority be able to explain their reasoning, they should be able to provide examples and in most cases cite research and/or facts that support their conclusions. I’ve seen too many times where some jackass will say they’ve “done the research” but fail to provide any kind of reasonable source for that “research” and more pathetically: fail to provide the points of data that lead them to that conclusion.

You don’t have to be rude, you don’t have to be nice, you don’t have to be neutral… you just have to be there. Don’t try to fight stupidity with fire, fight it with questions. There isn’t a liar around that can clearly explain their reasoning through many questions and there isn’t a question that an authority shouldn’t be able to clearly explain.

Now the recent Subprime Court Decision may have made more than a few people angry and/or worried. I’m saying don’t worry about it, if you are worried, then you’re not thinking of things the right way. Since corporations will be seen as people they will have certain rights that human people won’t, but instead of taking those rights away from the corporations, I say give those rights to the people.

Corporations can dissolve then incorporate with the exact same people under a different name absolving them of all responsibilities and duties of the previous name. How sweet would that be for a human person? Just change your name and all previous debts, marriages, child support payments, contracts and credit are wiped clean. Think about how well big businesses will do when the people that owe them money suddenly don’t owe them that money anymore… the economy will be awesome!

Polygamy is something that is currently illegal, however instead of preventing corporations from merging with more than one other corporation, how about we just allow people to “merge” (in a legally binding way) with other people.

Slavery was abolished because of stupid human rights idiots, but now that corporations are people too, instead of giving corporations freedom from other corporations, let’s just bring back slavery where all the money one corporation makes must be given to the corporation that owns it… or “people” if you will.

Let’s say you want what some other person has, when big businesses want what another corporation has, they can buy them out and just take it. So you can buy out your neighbor, then you get his wife, kids, dogs, cats, cars, house, debt, boat and well all his stuff. Yeah! I’m going to buy out my neighbors because I want all their stuff!

And the coolest thing that you could do if we’re given the same rights of corporations: We can be part of other people. Think about owning stock in several other people thereby giving you the right to control what another person does, now think about getting the stock of thousands of people… you could have your own army of money makers that will have to pay you part of what they’re making and you can even give yourself bonuses for the hard work of owning stock in the people that are working!

A simple question that can have a very complicated answer depending on the depth and philosophical route you wish to take. This is not some kind of mid-life crisis or existential crisis video, its an explanation of how you cannot fully answer who you are no matter how deep your answers may be, how you cannot fully know another and my advice for dealing with it.

It’s not news. Seriously it’s not news. It also shouldn’t be news that fox news has the most incorrect reports known to media… while they spew out things like “liberal media bias.” Don’t believe me? You probably watch fax news. I have stated before I and I will state it again: the authority you don’t question is the most dangerous authority.

Fox News: The Grand Speculators

This story is very interesting… not because Fox News tried to bribe the reporters to keep quiet, but because Fox News won a landmark case that had shown that lying to the public under the guise of unbiased news, is not against the law and that any news organization can lie, distort and just make shit up, all under the guise of honestly informing the public.

That is not the only case of Fox News blatantly deceiving the public, that is just the case that had shown that lying is allowed by the FCC… but saying a few words that some people don’t like is not allowed. Seriously, how fucked up is that?

Now most of Fox News is not news anymore, it’s TV show hosts speculating. Just bare assertions, spewing fallacies as if they are truth. Recently Glenn Beck had shown a video of a kid getting beat to death with a railroad tie, then said that it was the result of money no longer being printed with “In God We Trust” on it, and those damn atheists. Pure speculation, that belongs more to a B horror movie than to a channel that claims to be fair and balanced.

Sean Hannity, Bill O’ Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and many talk radio personalities continue to state that the health care bill has death panels and coverage for illegal immigrants in it, when it has been proven to be factually wrong. No death panels of any conceivable incarnation exists in the health care bill (I have read the whole thing over several times). And if anyone says that an illegal immigrant can be a qualified eligible citizen for the public option, then they are just fucking retarded or deliberately misleading.

No matter how you look at Fox News, they are not news, they are bare assertion fallacies.

Health Care Bill

If you paid someone to mow your lawn, and they decided that they didn’t want to but kept the money, would you agree that it is fair or lawful?

If you paid a grocery store for groceries, but instead of giving you the groceries they decided to keep them and the money, is that fair or lawful?

If you paid a company to cover your expenses in case of injury or to provide medication at a reduced cost but they instead decided not to pay your medical bills or help with medication, is that fair or lawful?

We all know it is illegal for someone to be paid to provide a product or service but decided not to and kept the money anyway. So why do so many people think it is perfectly ok for health insurance companies to do this?

Here is my scenario: I am a software developer, I have had 5 different jobs in the last 7 years. Every time I get a new job there is a 60 day waiting period for the companies insurance to kick in. I can’t afford health insurance for my wife and I on my own. So I use the companies discount. Because of the 60 day waiting period at each company, my health insurance is not considered “continuous coverage” so all my pre-existing conditions are not covered. I have been paying for insurance for most of the 7 years, but only got to use it for about 7 months. So I am paying for a service that is not being provided. This is wrong and needs to change.

I should have been smart and just saved up the money I wasted on health insurance to pay for what I was also paying for out of my own pocket. $300 a paycheck for, let’s say 6 years = $300*26*6 = $46,800. I paid the same amount one would for a decent car, but got almost nothing for it. In fact I only saved about $1,500 from using my health insurance. The reason I kept paying for it was because I don’t want to get injured and have to pay for that out of my pocket, but what my health insurance companies promised to provide was a lot more than just injuries.

So if you tell me that the U.S. has the best health care, I’ll beat you to a bloody pulp… rhetorically.

There is no “death panel,”  “illegal immigrant coverage” or “total government control” in the bill. While if it had these in the bill, it would be something every American should be against. I was going to do a satire piece to show how ridiculous some people are when arguing the bill, but I think I will refrain from most sarcasm and humor in order to just explain the basics of the bill.

The so called “death panel” is nothing more than people trained to explain end of life care to people so that they know what their options are. Say for instance you are 80 years old and have terminal cancer that will kill you in about 2 months. These people may explain that if you go for treatment you will likely only get a few weeks more life but that each day of the end of your life will be spent being sick with little energy and throwing up often. They will also explain that there is a tiny chance that you may get cured from the treatment. They will also explain that without treatment you will feel much healthier for the first month. Informing people of their choices is in no way telling the people that they should die. Knowing your options and the consequences of those options is more about giving you choices rather than taking them away. This is of course an extreme example. Most of the time, the trained people will just be informing people of their options and will not be as death oriented.

No illegal immigrants will be covered under the health care bill, there is an entire section devoted to preventing illegal immigrants from receiving health insurance. However, without a drastic change in the system, no one can prevent any one from receiving emergency medical treatment. This had been put in to protect people from being left to die in the hospital waiting room. So even without the health care bill, illegal immigrants can receive emergency medical treatment because hospitals are forced to not discriminate.  I will rant later about the misuse of the term “health care” when people are referring to either health insurance or medical care.

The government will never be able to tell you which doctor you can or can’t see as your private practitioner. Nothing in the bill says anything about some group of people gaining the power to refuse certain treatments to people that need that treatment. This is something that has been blown way out of proportion. The bill covers watching and collecting data about treatments to remove the ones that are less effective. So if you are taking a pill that is doing nothing for you while there is a pill that is helping people with the same condition as you, the government will eventually weed out the pill that is less effective for the pill that is more effective. However if the pill you are taking is helping you, then you get to keep taking that pill.

Now onto my rant about the misuse of the term “health care.” People from countries with socialized medicine do come to the U.S. and other countries for heath care. Now be careful about what I am saying about this. They are not going to the U.S. for our medical insurance, they are coming to the U.S. for our medical treatments. Two things that are very different but still fall under the term “health care.” So when the argument is about health insurance and some one says that countries like Canada send people to the U.S. for health care, understand that they are two different things. The problem with the U.S. health care system is not the treatment, it’s the insurance. Every one agrees that medical treatments in the U.S. are very good, but the discussion is about the cost of treatment and the cost of insurance.

Example of a flawed system: I have had to get a new job about every year, each new company waits for 60 days of the date of hire to start their insurance coverage. Even if I get a new job instantly after losing one, the time between coverage is too long to be considered continuous coverage. So every new job I have to wait eleven months until I can use the service I am paying for. Sure if I found some new medical problem it would be covered, but all my pre-existing conditions are not covered for eleven months. So after six years of paying for health insurance I got to use the service about 8 months. It is unlawful for a service provider to take payment from a customer and then not provide the service, and this is exactly what insurance companies do.

So yeah, we need health care reform in the U.S. and we need it soon.

Health Care Bill

Think for Yourself

Why is it important to think for yourself? Why is it important to question authority? It’s important to think for yourself because you are the only person you can trust will be honest with you. You question authority because their authority is only an illusion and they need to be watched no matter how much you trust them.

Think for yourself

If you don’t think for yourself, who will? Who will be your voice? Who will make sure that you are getting what you need and want? No matter what any one else says, no matter how many times they have been honest with you, no matter how much they have to lose with being dishonest with you… they cannot be trusted as much as you can trust yourself. You will know when you are lying (at least I hope so), and you will know when you are telling the truth (I also hope so). Thinking for yourself doesn’t mean that you should never listen to anyone else, it just means that you just don’t take what someone merely asserts is true as the truth. Does this mean that you don’t respect their opinion? Not in itself. Maybe you do, maybe you don’t. But you don’t have to do or just believe in what ever other people tell you in order to respect their opinion.

To respect someones opinion do this: listen to what they say, use knowledge to determine how true the statement might be then make a decision about how you will react to the statement. If you do these three things then you are respecting what they have to say while still respecting yourself. There is no one else in the world more qualified to make judgments for yourself than you.

Question authority

Now I know it seems like it’s some kind of wish for anarchy to want people to question authority. That’s what people who are trying to gain authority want you to think. Merely questioning someone is not asking for anarchy, it’s making sure they are doing what their position requires of them and no more or less. It should never be considered a bad thing to question authority, it should always be perceived as a good thing. Well you can go too far and actually make questioning authority a bad thing. Like with the mentally deficient town hall meeting crashers. They loudly ask to be heard and ask questions laced with the venom of ignorance a thousand times more potent than a Bill O’ Reilly or Sean Hannity statement… then not even listen to the answer. What the fuck?

Retard: Listen to me!

Speaker: Ok, what is your question?

Retard: Why are you trying to destroy America by trying to force all men to have pineapples for penises?

Speaker: That is insane…

Retard: Oh BS! And what about the growing Astronaut infestation?!?!

Speaker: What are you ta…

Retard: Oh more lies! What about the poison contrails, watermelon patch migration, twin tower zeppelin conspiracy, lunar landing…

Questioning authority and not listening to their answer does no one any good and makes you look like an idiot. “Der, emma ask a queue stun, an not list in to teh ants sir! ’cause it merks may lookr smert n patrick attic!”

When you question authority, listen to the answer. Then you can determine whether their response is worth anything. But questioning authority while already deciding that no matter what they say is going to be bullshit usually means that you are taking someone elses authority without questioning it. There is a huge difference between questioning authority and ignoring authority. They are the opposite and you should stay away from anyone that attempts to explain that questioning and ignoring authority are similar or even worse: the same. Questioning leads to order while ignoring leads to chaos.

One of the worst things you can do, is to question one authority but not another. Taking sides if you will. This will always lead to you becoming an automotron, sheep, drone follower. Why? Lets take a look see: You will just take whatever your favourite authority has to say while constantly questioning the their opponents. This leads to you just believing in what your side says while disbelieving in what ever the other side says. So you absolutely need to question all authority, not just the ones that you think you can’t trust. The authority you think you can trust is the authority that is the biggest threat, because fewer people will question that authority.

So wake up you mentally shackled ass hats, because you aren’t just hurting yourselves, you are hurting all of us. Question what anyone tells you not just who you perceive to be the other side.

   American Pledge or Mien Fuhrer?

We have all heard that the U.S. was founded on religion. The question is: what is wrong with the people that keep saying it? Well, I can’t answer that, but I will show why each of the major reasons they give for this ignorant belief are very wrong. A belief by the way, that could be corrected by them spending as little as five minutes researching each subject.

Swearing on the Bible

If the country isn’t based on religion, why do people have to swear on the bible for public office or in court? The short answer is: they don’t. It’s not anywhere in the U.S. Constitution or any kind of law. In fact the wording in the U.S. Constitution suggests that religious crap had been intentionally left out. Like the part about no kind of religious test for any kind of public office. So what started the whole swearing on the bible? I don’t know and I don’t give a shit. The point is, people make it seem like it’s required merely by acting like you need to do it. Also by being offended that you don’t want to do it. Like me choosing not swear on some silly, childrens, fairy tale book some how hurts them.

The founding fathers were religious

Wow. Really? You think that religious people can only make religiously oriented things? So if a Christian makes a cheeseburger with bacon, then that is not just a bacon-cheeseburger, but a religious bacon-cheeseburger. Because if the person making the cheeseburger is a Christian, then it must be a Christian cheeseburger. Here’s one for ya, what if an atheist made a Bible? Would the Bible not be religious because an atheist made it? It has the same words as Bibles made by Christians. How could you tell if your Bible wasn’t made by an atheist?

But seriously, the founding fathers knew what they were doing, when they made the country a secular country. You see, the founding fathers came from a magical country where religion had control over the government and the people. So because the founding fathers saw first hand how bad a nation is when religion is in control, they decided to not let religion get in the way of a free nation.

“Under God” is in the pledge of allegiance

For some reason people have the incorrect idea that the pledge of allegiance not only was created when the country was formed, but also that it included “under God” when it was written. Well since the pledge of allegiance was written in 1892 and the “under God” part was added in 1954… I guess that means that the country was founded on religion.

Hey, wake up you retards. Jesus fucking Christ on a stick (new wrapped in bacon flavour now available). Seriously, it would take you 20 minutes to drive to a library, look a book up on their computers, find it, and read about the history of the pledge of allegiance. Or you could sit here and look it up on teh enter tubes.

“Under God” in the pledge is not proof that the country was founded on religion, it’s proof that a huge bag of religious douches, want to drive our country into the ground and create a biased, religious, hate filled, fearful, ignorant and obedient country. Well, fuck obedience. Always think for yourself and question authority.

“In God We Trust” is printed on our money

The words “In God We Trust” was not originally on our money. It started after the American Civil war on a 2 penny piece. Because some asshole thought that if we had a constant reminder on our money that we should trust in God, that things like the American Civil War won’t happen again. Yes, that makes sense. Because we didn’t have something about God on our money, it resulted in a civil war.

It is stupid to think that there were no religious people on one side of the civil war. Come on, they were all Americans. The south wanted to be free of the United States oppressive slavery abolishing ways and even went as far as having their own president. The South was upset because the federal government was trying to take away their right to take away other peoples rights. God fearing jerks were on both sides of the battle, so I don’t see how printing some inane God message on our money would have prevented the war.

What Does it Matter?

So in closing, the United States of America was not founded on religion, but arrogant, selfish, scared religious nutters are turning it into a religious nation. Why does this matter? It doesn’t. Even if the country was founded on a religion, it doesn’t mean that that is the way it should be. If the U.S. Government weren’t secular, I would be fighting to make it that way, just as I fight to prevent it from becoming religious and to remove the religious bullshit that ignorant religious ass hats snaked in.

How can a country proclaim “freedom for all” while trying to create a religiously biased government? So do you like freedom? I hope you do, because no matter if you believe in God or not, the Government needs to remain secular to protect us all.