Ethics

So, I came in at 7:45 today to videotape a nursing conference. A FOUR HOUR nursing conference. The first hour was interesting as it was about ethics in the nursing and medical profession. It also got into the legal ramifications, and how it always helps to have conditions written down in the case of non-capacity. Like, if you become unable to make your own decisions, you want person A to be the one to make decisions. In Michigan, the law has no set line command for who makes decisions for you medically, except in the case of organ donation (in which case its the spouse, kids, etc). Thus, in Michigan, the kids can challenge the opinions of the spouse, and they have to come to a family consensus, UNLESS you have pre-incapacity written legal forms of the conditions you have to be in for said person to become your advocarte. Also, you should have written forms for treatment if you become chronically ill and decrepit.

So, that all was very intriguing, but the second hour was on acupuncture, which did not hold my attention at all.

Speaking of ethics, as I am "testing" this computer, there is a page here that has the six priciples of non-violence, and I think these are amusing enough to put them down:

1. Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people.
2. Nonviolence seeks to win friendship and understanding.
3. Nonviolence seeks to defeat injustice, not people.
4. Nonviolence holds that suffering can educate and transform.
5. Nonviolence chooses love instead of hate.
6. Nonviolence believes that the universe is on the side of justice.
- From Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Non-Violent Social Change, Atlanta, Georgia

Under each of these principles is what they do as nonviolent protestors in honor of these principles. It is very amusing and intriguing, and if there were more copies, I'd steal one for later use. Yet it is still somewhat liberal propaganda.

Sex Ed Benefits

You know, I was thinking. The best thing about Bush supporting the crazy idea of abstinance education, especially in the methods described in the Salon article (see below), is the renewed production of awesome sex ed crazy movies. They have the DVD releases of "Educational Archives" which features all of the hilarious anti-sex and anti-drug movies of the 40s through the 60s. You know, like Pot makes you kill people and stuff like that. So, now pre-marital sex makes you insane. Pre-marital sex leads to murder!!! I can't wait.

But, I dunno, do I want my money going for the production of this type of crap?

Fucked Up Republicans

Bush denies human nature. And, I just read an article saying that liberals always takes human nature into account while liberals depend on learning and human training. Bush is doubling the budget of abstinance education for teens. As if teens will actually not have sex because of the mysterious psychological implications of this. Completely disgusting.

From the horse's mouth. Actual wording of the constitutional amendment that Bush is trying to pass through banning gay marriage (Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution or the constitution of any State, nor state or federal law, shall be construed to require that marital status or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon unmarried couples or groups.). It isn't that he is trying to put power back into the state. Quite the opposite, he is using the NATIONAL constitution to ban gay marriage at the NATIONAL level, reducing the power the state has.

Oh, I'm being too liberal.

Liberal News Sampling

From Nader to the Nation. For those of you who don't know, The Nation wrote an open letter to Nader telling him not to run. His response is inflammatory though well-worded. I agree with him, and I'd still vote for him. The issue is partly the press. The press has to rally up the lefts to get them behind a true left rather than Kerry, namely by tearing the Democratic party to shreds with their moderatism and stagnancy. Though, poor Nader, if Bush wins again, and by the Florida margin in some other state...he'll be hurting in the history books.

A report on my opportunism from the Nation. First paragraph, third sentence: "The nation's "Big Three" weapons makers--Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Northrop Grumman--are cashing in on the Bush policies of regime change abroad and surveillance at home." Now, I'm against the war, but I applied to all three of these companies. So...GO WAR!!! GIVE ME A JOB!!!

I'm also running banned software, legally bought. Salon reports that 321 Studios, who makes DVD X, has been halted with its making and distribution of the software which I use.

But, my favorite, more from salon, everybody's favorite robot, The Guvernator, has said about gay marriage: "In San Francisco it is license for marriage of same sex. Maybe the next thing is another city that hands out licenses for assault weapons and someone else hands out licenses for selling drugs, I mean you can't do that." So...

Gay love = violence = drug use. Well, it is Gay Hell, according to Rufus Wainwright. :-P

Independent's Day

Taken from Salon

Ralph Nader is running again, or at least has hinted that he will announce the bid this weekend, much to the chagrin of the left. The general idea of the country is that Nader was the main reason that Bush took office. It seems especially true in Florida. (ed's note: What really strikes me as humorous is that I voted for Nader last time, and will probably do so again. But, upon telling people this, they say thank you, even though Gore won Michigan last election, and I believe we were one of the strongest Nader states in the country)

However, with the current Democratic nominees, as well as the irritating fact that Bush will be up for re-election, I am pretty leary of this as well, though I think that this would be the ripe time for the leftists to get somebody else in power. There is so much anti-Bush among the left (to the point that ABB is a pretty standard idea) that I think this year, we need a third-party candidate. Especially for the suckage that the democratic party has presented fus for candidates.

So, here's my vote for Nader...again. Get Bush out of there.

(ed's note: Why can't there be a candidate who wants to shrink government? I mean, seriously, I hate government. But, then, we need government to keep the major corporations in check, unless they have government in their pocketbook *ahem*Bush*ahem*.)

Freedom of Speech

The Michigan Daily reports that the Ku Klux Klan is backing the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative. The MCRI is the group in Michigan who is petitioning to get a ban on racial bias in admissions and hiring policies (aka Affirmative Action). Fortunately, the MCRI does not see this as a blessing, and has denounced the KKK as being a racially discriminatory group as well. They equate the KKK with BAMN, and while they can't stop the KKK from supporting them, they don't agree with everything they do. This still provides much fodder for the liberals (i.e. BAMN) who are regularly bent over tables and fucked by the racial minorities for benefits. An editorial in the Daily, while being a general reaction of revenge for not getting in the championship, shows another example of this fucking, only on a not-so political agenda.

On another freedom of speech note, Salon.com reported last week on government profiling of anti-war protesters. While some of you conservatives may not agree with the protesters, you probably agree that they shouldn't be stopped. Freedom of speech and the right to assemble is at stake here when if you try to do so, you get profiled by the government and searched as a terrorist. The government has given responses to the effect of "well, we've been doing this on a low-key note since 1980, after Cointelpro was discovered." But, police infiltration of the groups and other such investigations and subpoenas have been dealt out for this. However, due to outrage, an internal investigation will happen, but only by members of the the groups participating in the profiling. Government needs to back the fuck off.

Anyways, I'll leave you all with this tidbit about how cool Latinos are. Especially with respect to our anti-affirmative-action antics, and creating white-only scholarships.
http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2004/02/15/college/index.html

Fraternizing with the Enemy

Today, D and L were going to a Bush/Cheney rally kick-off, and took me along. It was a rally for volunteers, so Bush and Cheney were not there. Candice Miller is a bitch. The only good speaker was the last (probably key) speaker of the rally, who was a retired black republican senator from OK. He was somewhat rallying up the troops and spoke in more even and rational tones than the rest. There were a few points I eve agreed with him on. HOWEVER, the rally was psychotic, reminding me of a Southern Babtist mass, especially since there was this blond girl who kept muttering/calling out "Yup" "That's right" "MM-Hmm" and other such stupid sheep agreements. The other thing that pissed me off was the tones of religion that happened, with a preacher leading the group in Christian prayer before the rally and a few mentions of it, especially in regard to marriage (or anti-gay marriage). But, I can imagine this was exactly what the democrats do as well. Where's my atheist third-party candidate?

I was bad this weekend, so I got whipped with a flogger of roses (blogger flogger) at Diamond Jim's, and will be heading to Hellbound for some kinky abuse tonight. ;-) Play fun kiddies.