For the Love of Humanity...

I hate politics, because it's human nature to defend your beliefs till you're blue in the face. And they are YOUR beliefs, so YOU have that right, correct? Correct. That said, I am absolutely dumbfounded and shocked at the violence and hatred that is just breeding in the middle east. Specifically the ISIS bastards. Yep, I said it, bastards. Because that is what they are. Anyone who can take another life so recklessly solely because they don't like your religion is a bastard.

Anyhoo, I am so upset by this that I felt the need to blog about it here and get it off my chest. Religion is a personal belief. As a HUMAN you have a right to choose what religion you identify with. Some choose no affiliation, which is cool, that's your choice. So why, WHY, does this "ISIS" and Muslim Brotherhood feel the need to force EVERYONE to have the same beliefs that they have?

I am a practicing Catholic and it irks me when the Church encourages its members to seek out lost souls and bring the to our religion, to find God. If they are lost, they will find their way, and I'm more than happy to share my experiences and love of my religion if they want to hear it, but I will not force it on someone. So yeah, Catholics can be a little pushy, but it typically ends with the old "Catholic Guilt". They talk your ear off about why you should become a Catholic, and if you still say no, you leave feeling a bit guilty.

Then there are baptist and Jehovah's Witnesses who like to go "knocking" door to door to share their knowledge with you and try to convince you to give their religion a shot. Again, if I want to seek you out, I will. Please do not invade my private property and my time. The worst that happens? Typically you'll lose 30 minutes of your day and feel as if your privacy has been invaded.

How do ISIS and the Muslim Brotherhood try to convert you? It won't be a simple knock on the door, you can count on that! How about an ambush, capture and execution? Or forcing you to declare that you believe in whatever they want you to with a gun pressed against your head. Or maybe raping your wife and kidnapping your child? Or how about just beheading your child right there. And putting his or her head on a stick to be made an example of?

It makes me SICK to even type these words, but a simple google search of "ISIS" will bring you all of the latest news stories and reports on what they're doing. It's awful, sickening and pathetic.

Will there ever be an answer? Probably not. When it comes to religion there never seems to be an answer. Why can't we all just believe in what we want to believe in and leave each other ALONE?! Because someone always ends up on a power trip and turns religion into an agenda. An agenda that includes genocide in this case.

I was curious about ISIS and the Muslim Brotherhood earlier so I did a little research, please take a look:

"Like al-Qaeda and many other modern-day jihadist groups, ISIS emerged from the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, the world’s first Islamist group dating back to the late 1920s in Egypt,^[92] which follows an extreme anti-Western interpretation of Islam, promotes religious violence and regards those who do not agree with its interpretations as infidels and apostates. "

Ok, so these cold-hearted killers have emerged from the ideas of the Muslim Brotherhood. And the Muslim Brotherhood follows an EXTREME ANTI-WESTERN (for those of you not paying attention, ANTI-AMERICAN) INTERPRETATION OF ISLAM. And they're violent with complete disregard. Yep, got it, they're evil bastards. 

Got it? Yep, got it. Evil. So, if that's the case...why, oh why, did this happen....

Source

Circa April 2012...

"The Obama administration announced Friday its plan to transfer $450 million in cash to help Egypt’s new Muslim Brotherhood-dominated government cover its massive budget deficit, which is estimated somewhere between $12 billion and $23 billion." SOURCE

Really makes you think, huh?!

Political Analogy

I know the election is over, but I had to share one of the best analogies I've seen during the 2012 campaign. A friend of mine posted this on Facebook, and it's too good not to post.

For anyone struggling (like me) to really grasp some of the financial issues and tax problems in this country, this puts it into pretty simple terms for you:

How our tax system works;

 

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100.

 

If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:

 

The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing. The fifth would pay $1. The sixth would pay $3. The seventh would pay $7. The eighth would pay $12. The ninth would pay $18.. The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.

 

So, that's what they decided to do. The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. 'Since you are all such good customers,' he said,'I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20. 'Drinks for the ten now cost just $80. The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men - the paying customers?

 

How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his fair share?' They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.

 

And so the fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings) The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings) The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings) The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings) The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 ( 22% savings) The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings)

 

Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.

 

I only got a dollar out of the $20, declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man, but he got $10! Yeah, that's right, exclaimed the fifth man. I only saved a dollar, too. It's unfair that he got ten times more Than I That's true! shouted the seventh man. Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks! Wait a minute,' yelled the first four men in unison. We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor! The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.

 

The next night the tenth man (the richest) didn't show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!

 

And that, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.

-David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D.Professor of Economics University of Georgia