travis' brain dump

So… There is one thing that I have noticed over the last few days with these protesters. 90% of them are IDIOTS. Yes kids, you are. While the ideals of what you may be protesting may in theory be good ones, your execution shows just how uneducated and immature you really are.

http://www.webcastr.com/videos/news/anti-war-protesters-meance-intrepid-fox-news-reporter.html

There’s a great video of a march by “re-create 68” where, when approached by a fox news correspondent they didn’t have anything to say the camera except “F*** Fox News” and flip off the camera.  When asked what their message was, only one of them seemed to have an answer. Go Figure.

You see, this as well as other things I’ve observed over the last couple of days just goes to show that most people who are protesters or activists have no lives and feel they need to belong to something so badly they will embarrass themselves with uneducated chanting and the passing of inaccurate propaganda just to get their face out there and feel like their doing something. We even saw someone out protesting BIRD PORN! (Birdwatching).

One of the groups we saw yesterday screamed and yelled about how 9-11 needed to be investigated and it was a conspiracy by our own government, yet when asked, none of them had a single shred of evidence outside of quotes out of context from different sources, much of them not even pertaining to even the era in which this occurred. *rolls eyes*

I honestly don’t get it. Two of my biggest pet peeves out there this week:

Global Warming: You say the Earth is undergoing global warming … well NO KIDDING! It’s been doing that since the end of the ice age. It’s not something new that we’re doing. The planet has been warming up all along. We are *not* impacting the world as much as you would like us to think. A natural disaster such as a volcano blowing up does more damage than we’ve done in 100 years in under a day.

Ending Wars: You say stop wars and promote peace. As long as people (on both sides) cannot get past their human flaws and continue to be greedy, power hungry and/or secretive about things, it will NEVER end. I tell you what. When you’re done taking your 1st Amendment rights for granted and complaining on behalf of the individuals we’re at war with rattling off to our government like a bunch of wimpy kids screaming from behind the big kid “you better be glad he’s holding me back”… take your concerns about war and oppression over and march down the streets of Tehran or sit down and have a mocha frappuccino with Osama Bin Laden. Talk to them about terrorism and oppression and how they need to chill out. Oh wait, that would require you have a pair and some courage so I guess we won’t see that happening any time soon.

My point here is. While our country does some pretty dumb things, there are people in power who are much dumber in other places. While greed and power trips still drive many of the individuals here in our country just as it does elsewhere we still are better off than most of the world. Yes, there is definitely some room for change so stop whining about it and do something about it. Stop expecting someone else to fix a problem you see  and fix it yourself. A police record for jumping around naked in front of an oil and gas building because you think drilling for resources is bad is not going to help your future or anyone elses. But taking that step forward and doing something with your life, while it may not help you right now, just might help someone elses in the future. If you’re sick of our foreign policy or how things in this country are being conducted, fine, do something about it directly. Get off your lazy butt and get involved in politics. If the existing politicians don’t want to hear what you have to say you have to find a way to make them listen. Make your voice heard loud and clear from inside the walls of congress and the senate or even the oval office instead of being another crazy screaming out on in front of The White House about how life is unfair for you. No one of consequence pays attention to you when you’re with the circus, you’re just another clown for them to laugh at.

You probably won’t though because once you became educated and leveled your mind a little you might just find that things aren’t all that bad and you can make a difference if not just for a handful of people. Instead of waging a little war of your own in protests so your voice could be heard and people would walk with you shouting your chants, you might just see how much good you could do if you were a little more humble and politely asked for support nicely or just did it yourself. Then instead of being on TV and shouting about how the police are oppressing your freedom of speech or on the front page of the Denver post with your riot handcuffs on that you can show off to your cronies 10 years later, you might just disappear into the history books of America with a little one liner that said you helped some kids in a third world country and be remembered by those close to you as someone who cared enough to do things directly for others instead of for yourself.

Which would you rather die with? The knowledge you helped someone live another day with a smile on their face or that knowledge you squandered the opportunity just so you could yell at some people about how they’re doing it all wrong when they don’t care what you have to say anyway?