Lunatic Shooter Yes…Environment Ripe for Violence? You bet your Red, White and Blue Ass!

Fact: Type A Personalities die faster than any other personality types.

AM radio I love you. Glenn Beck, Limbaugh, Jon and Ken, Bill Handle, Bill Carroll, Anderson Cooper you’re not so bad. The first amendment pretty much protects you from whatever verbal vomit you choose to spew on your listeners. What is astoundingly retarded, media, political figures and radio hosts is your inability to realize that your voice matters. If you constantly spew information, opinions and rhetoric of a divisive, demoralizing and hateful nature, you paint a picture of a society where the negativity is normal. For example, most are not aware of the close ties to Fox News and the Republican cause, so the news and images they bombard us with on its networks and stations is horrendously biased and most viewers assume the information they receive to be true. “Let’s take our Country back!” “Our President is a Socialist.” Really? Visual depictions of people in crosshairs? Arm yourself for your country? You idiots, we are all aware that there are more than a few people within this great country of ours are walking around with a couple screws loose. More importantly there are significantly more who are truly uninformed regarding the complexities of government, fiscal spending and politics and purposely riling people up to join a cause using hateful and divisive rhetoric is ridiculous and fragmenting this country. Does that mean we need to restrain ourselves from voicing an opinion? No, but we should always be cautious of the ability to rah-rah ourselves and others into a hostile force spewing nothing but negativity and derogatory commentary which permeates our world. If you wish to discuss the facts of a political cause, statement or position can you attack the argument on an intellectual basis? Can we pretend just for a second that when a radio host or news reporter begins their show, they keep in mind that their argument should be steeped in civility and respectable conduct? Is it any surprise that a so-called “upstanding” member of Congress called our president a liar in front of the world? In a supposedly first class society this is what is hurled at each other concerning supposedly intellectual and complex issues? Can someone tell me how many college graduates are in Congress? Were you allowed to verbally, metaphorically or allegorically violently attack your professor’s argument because you didn’t agree with their opinions? Really? What part of civilized discourse are we participating in? Grow up pundits, you’re not Lindsay Lohen or Courtney Cox, your job is to act intelligent, responsible and at the very least engage in civilized discourse, exhibiting anything less than is beneath you.

Nina Davis

Thanks for Reading the Constitution!

So.. after all the posturing, promising, and threats to "Take their Country Back" now the Republicans are now meeting to discuss their agenda for the year. Umm, where have you been for the past two years? Was too much time spent posing for the cameras, slamming the president and spreading rumor? In the two years the GOP has been the minority, they were unable to come up with a plan? Really? If you are so sure that the country is headed in the wrong direction Republicans, why is it taking you so long to clearly and specifically state what needs to be done? My four year old knows he doesn't like peas, but I wouldn't count on him for the family meal plan.  Thanks for reading the constitution today, some of us were really concerned that you all couldn't read. Something tells me that the GOP has been throwing a tantrum for so long they have forgotten what they were mad about. Most importantly they have forgotten that the policies and practices of their fellow party members are exactly what caused the economy's plunge in the first place.

Nina Davis

Children Hungry in 2011?

My son asked me this morning after a lengthy debate on finishing his breakfast why kids are starving in the world. Usually one with a quick response I found myself staring at the innocence of my four year old to such a sensible question. With all the advancements man has made, all the discoveries, scientific breakthroughs and space exploration you would think that children in 2011 would not die of starvation. Yet they do. By the hundreds of thousands children in our world suffer from hunger and starvation. I can honestly say I am not wealthy and I do not have the ability to adopt nations of babies. I find myself questioning a world that has such wealth and resources hoarded by very few, yet distributed with a high cost. I find myself disappointed and discouraged in a world fixated on opulence and luxury while a child dies. I do not need a commercial, or telethon to remind me that this world's children needs help. I have children of my own, and could not imagine not being able to feed them. If I resolve to do anything this year, it will be to help one starving child make it and encourage others to do the same. 


Nina Davis

Please get the f*ck Out Schwarzenegger. Thank You, California

After the most horrendous leadership California has experienced, most Californians should be exhaling a sigh of relief as The Terminator takes his final bow. As far as his accomplishments go I believe his most noteworthy achievement is getting reelected in the first place. Virtually ostracized by both parties by the end of his first term, and eventually ignored for his second go round, his presence has been the mole on the backside of California politics. How Californians were stupid enough to vote for the actor defies reason but now the same people cheering him in are ushering him quickly out. Such as shame. The fickleness of the voting majority in California continues to elect pretty boy idiots to virtually every major government office in the state and yet complains about the high taxes, cost of living and unbelievable unemployment rates. As millions of illegal immigrants have two stepped across the border into a paid by taxpayer living, our government has stood silently besides bickering with each other over how much money the other party has. Lets face it, the problems Californians have due to ineffective government will not be solved any time soon, nor does it look as if our politicians are going to grow up. Though Jerry Brown is more of the same, at least the mumble mouthed terminator is done diddling in politics here. Oh and thanks Arnold for the beautiful pardon you gave your friends murdering son. You have allowed Noble Peace Prize winners to die, people you have actually known. In fact rather than pardon him, you dismissed a winner of an award you could never achieve and he did it behind bars. Perhaps Tookie Williams and other eligible inmates should have been Mexican and a member of your party. Good Bye and Good Riddance to the Austrian joke.

Nina Davis

Poli-Chatter: The Church says no, but I’m a Christian by my own ...

Poli-Chatter: The Church says no, but I’m a Christian by my own ...: "I am a Christian. By my own definition my “Christianity” extends only to the beliefs in the Almighty power, his son Jesus and those that cam..."

Poli-Chatter: Ask your pastor this

Poli-Chatter: Ask your pastor this: "There was a time where questioning the authority of the Church or any other religious hierarchy meant death but with increased literacy, dec..."

Ask your pastor this

There was a time where questioning the authority of the Church or any other religious hierarchy meant death but with increased literacy, declining mortality, advances in science and technology the masses have been given a certain degree of control concerning their right to speak up. In addition for the first time since the inception of the Church, church doctrine, literature, and dogma can be researched within seconds. The actual structure and function of the church can be viewed easily yet most religious people don’t take the time. They take the word of their religious leader of their elders and promote their views as law. A carefully costumed religious figure, with a passionate voice and experience studying the religion does not equal greatness or superiority. If we expect others to be judged by their acts why do we continue to abide by the institutions that commit such horrible ones? If you believe in Christianity and swear by the Bible as the ultimate authority why wouldn't you study the history of its compilation? How many “true believers” really know the history behind the religion they adhere to outside of what is being taught by their particular spiritual leader? If you attend college, one professor does not teach all of your courses. Regardless of your degree you are required to fulfill a combination of course requirements taught by various teachers of different philosophies in part to encourage independent thinking and reasoning. The quickest way to fail a course is to write a paper regurgitating what the professor said. If we believe that in higher education, independent sources, thoughts, and interpretations are encouraged and required to succeed why are they suppressed within our religious institutions? Why are the obvious contradictions in the Bible, Torah, and Koran not questioned openly and explored within the institutions that claim them as fact? If we live in a world ruled by science, technology, logic and reason, why are they ignored within the institutions claiming to hold the answers to life?

Nina Davis