Gay Marrige and The Iraq War

These subjects are very much part of my political soul. I can rant on and on about gay marriage and I am connected to the war personally. I am going to start with Gay Marriage.



Gay marriage is ridiculously over looked just because people have a closed mind and take it way to far to the extreme. Gay people are just like me and you. They have feelings, they have a beating heart and a pulse. They are not monsters that roaming the Earth choosing to make people mad by being gay, it's just ridiculous. They have the right to pursue happiness, the right to freedom and everything else everyone does. What makes them so different from you and me? The right to get married is just another thing that should be given to them. It is just these people that don't have an open mind that are keeping them from this right. What ever happened to minority rights? These people, these very real people, are being suppressed by closed mind people and no one seems to give a crap. How can we do this to people? Why doesn't anyone do anything about this? This subject makes me so mad that I want to explode sometimes. Can someone please explain to me why they don't have the same rights we do just because their different? I had this boy in my 8th grade class that LOVED to argue about gay marriage. I didn't really understand why he did, but it was very amusing to watch. His argument was if God created all the people on this Earth he created gay people and they should have this right. I can't really remember the other things he said, but that really stuck out. This proves that even if the reason they shouldn't have this right is religious it is wrong and should be corrected. This is ridiculous, I really don't get it. What is the big deal about people of the same sex getting married?

The next thing is the Iraq war. What are we really doing there? The reason that was said why we were going there was because they had possession of weapons of mass destruction. Did we find any? Any at all? NO, of course not. I believe the real reason we went over there was either Oil or that Bush wanted to finished off what his father had started. There are people, people that are brave and strong, that are risking there lives for Bush's phony reasoning. My Step-brother, Joe., is in a fort somewhere in Kansas getting ready to be deported to go fight into this war. I really don't know the guy all that much, but all I know is my Step-father, Jim, would be very upset if he was killed. I don't want to see him like that. He should have to experience that for Bush's war for oil or to finish things off in the Middle East. What are we doing over there right this second? Were trying to play peace keeper and we pretty much didn't sign up for that. We need to get out of there. We gave them a government and now we need to let the baby bird fly away from the nest by itself. We can't really do anything else for these people. If we stay there that much longer we will probably end up hurting rather than helping. But, we can't just out of the blue leave and let them deal with their crumbling society, we need to pull out responsibly. My question is, why did congress let Bush do this? Going through around 500 people didn't any of them think, this is stupid, we shouldn't be doing this? We have been wasting 3 trillion dollars a year (or month, i am not sure) on this war that we could have used other places that really need it. Like, here at home.

The 2008 election. What happened in my home.

When Obama was announced the winner at 9:04 pm I didn't feel any different. I know I should have felt something, disapointment, proud, anguish, something. But, no. Nothing. My Mom had the same reaction that I did. Nothing. She told me she usually felt this way after and election. Not excited, just happy that it was over with, like a thorn in your side that you finally pulled out. She never was so excited that she was jumping up and down saying "Oh, boy my candidate won!!!" I felt the same way. I didn't really like either of the candidate. But, my Step Dad was disappointed. He is a" flaming" conservative and voted for McCain. He didn't really like him, he was just the "lesser of two evils" as he put it. I would have to agree. If he didn't have Palin as a running mate I probably would have voted for him if I could have voted.

My fear for the future under Obama as a president would him going back on his word, like most politicians do. How do we know that he won't be like every other politician? The rest of the world is pretty happy that he became our president. I wonder if any country was upset. If so which countries?

I have heard a lot of people aying that Obama will get assasinated. I am kind of scared that that might come true. Even if I didn't support him he is still going to to be my president, I am afriad. People are crazy things, we can take someone's life with out any remorse. People like that make me angry. How can we be so heartless?

Liberal or Conservative minds in the Supreme Court, does it matter?

It really does matter if a Supreme Court Justice is conservative or liberal. The Supreme Court justices aren't suppose to be influenced by their own views. They are supposed to strictly interpret the constitution. However, they are human, and their own values tend to influence their decisions. This is why it matters so much if they are conservative or liberal. What if Congress and the President pass a law that gay people could marry? If someone challenged this law all the way to the Supreme Court, they would have to decide if it was constitutional or not. If the Supreme Court justices are mostly conservative they could vote that it was unconstitutional. Their job is to give a voice to the Constitution, not use their own to make decisions that they want to see happen. What if one of the laws said that people who were taller than 6 feet got a tax cut and all of the Justices were taller than that. They could use their power to say it was constitutional because it benefits them. How can we make sure their making their decision based on the constitutions and not their own views? How can we make sure that the Supreme Court justices don't use THEIR views to make their decisions just the constitution's? How is that fair for the people? Do they have too much power?

The Six Princibles of Government

There are 6 key principles of the government.
1. Popular Sovereignty
2. Limited Government
3. Separation of Powers
4. Checks and Balances
5. Judicial Review
6. Federalism
We read an article to try and find information about these principles and how they work in out government. The first principle, popular sovereignty, basically means that by popular vote the government can do things, like make a law or have a presidential candidate. The second, Limited government, means that the government wants to make sure we have the most liberty that we can with out them interfering with our freedoms while still maintaining order. The third, separation of powers, and fourth, checks and balances, really go hand and hand. The government is divided into branches, with an amount of power and responsibility. The usual divisions are into executive, a legislator and a judiciary. This makes sure that neither of the sections has more power than the others and they keep each other in check and in balance. This also falls into the fourth principle, judicial review, is basically the supreme court in our government. If the people pass a law, for example, that gay people couldn't get a job it would be sent to the supreme court to be reviewed and they would say no because it violates the Constitution. They have to make sure that each law that the people pass make sure that it doesn't violate any one's right under the Constitution. Which kinda flows into the last principle, federalism. Federalism is basically a Constitution and the president. To have federalism you have to have laws or rules to abide by and a leader, that doesn't really make the rules but just runs things. So, that's what makes out government run and work. I was reading some of the amendments that people are going to vote on and one caught my eye. It was about abortion, so if that is a really touchy subject with you, don't go any farther. It said that abortion should be illegal because it was violating the right of the under developed-human to live. My question was, is it really human yet? What qualifies as human? Should that really something people can argue over, weather this fetus is a human yet or not. It was just really odd how the government can use that to make abortion illegal, should they be able to do that?

What is Democracy?

Today in our Humanities class we were discussing what we think a democracy was and we used quotes to gather ideas. We also read an article about democracy and what other people think it is. A quote that caught my attention was by Abraham Lincoln " Democracy is a government of the people, by the people, for the people." I thought that was a pretty good way to put it. It also said that it was majority rules and minority rights. Which means that Majority rules, but it can't be anything that violates Minority rights. Which made me come to a question What about Gay people? They want to get married and their right are being violated to not be able to get married, what makes that different? Why doesn't that law cover them?