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Monday, January 21, 2013

Episode 55: Damien's Political Stances

To all my political friends,

I understood there were a flurry of facebook postings around the election. It went on for months. There were reasons I should vote Romney and reasons I should be part of keeping Obama in office. I was hounded daily with it until finally I just decided to leave facebook alone and barely post there. I just didn't want anymore of the brainwashing I was getting. Post-Election I expected some political posting but never has it gotten more childish than what I've seen so far.

My friends, frankly I've grown tired of it and I'll give all of you the introduction to me that you all need. This is me, politically and I don't need your approval on it. I approve and that's all that matters.

We all have three basic inalienable RIGHTS according to our Declaration of Independence and they are as follows:

1. Life

2. Liberty

3. Pursuit of Happiness

Got that? Okay good.

The first ten amendments to our Constitution solidify and guarantee those three basic and inalienable rights. I have the right to petition my Government for a redress of grievances...even if that means I do it from a local coffee shop. I have the right to peaceably assemble and associate with anyone I desire and do it that way. If I choose God, Christ, Cthulhu, Satan, Gaia, Pan, Baphomet, Pyriel, Gabriel, Michael, The Great Bugblatter Beast of Kaldar Fucking Nine, then that is my deity to worship. If I choose none of the above, I am permitted to do that as well. If I choose to share it, I will. If I choose to keep it to myself I'll do that as well. I can say what I want, when I want, write it down, take a picture, it doesn't make a damn and guess what....that's all covered in Amendment Numero Uno.

That Second Amendment tells me that if you come to rob me of any of those three RIGHTS unjustly. I am guaranteed the ability ...the RIGHT AND CHOICE of weaponry necessary to keep those rights firmly in place. Take my gun I'll get a sword, take that I'll get a knife, take that and I'll find a means of improvising your fucking demise. That's right...if I choose to deatomize your ass for bursting into my home....that's a RIGHT that I enjoy in this country. It's not up for debate. I can get all my neighbors together and they can get armed or I can arm them...whatever...there's your well-regulated militia...a whole bunch of them.

The rest #3 - #10 Guarantee that I won't be held without trial or charge and that I won't have to testify or provide evidence against myself. In fact it makes the state solely liable for proving that I did anything wrong. It's called Due Process of Law and guess what? It's a wonderful set of protections.

I'm aware of what happened with the Sandy Hook School Shootings, The Theatre Shootings, The Restaurant Shootings, etc. Without Apology I Will Not Give Up My Weapons. I hope that I am clear on this.

Think of The Children!!!

That's a statement I get hit with as though I coldly just said something like maybe the kids should have been packing a heater or two. I AM thinking of the children. When I was a child, my dad took all three of us out to the woods and we learned how to use a gun, how to clear it, how to hand it off, how to unload with everyone else, and the most important thing THE MINUTE YOU DON'T RESPECT THAT GUN IT WILL KILL YOU!!!!!

 Senator Diane Feinstien showing her complete ineptitude...take your finger off the trigger unless you intend to fire, maybe?

A few things you should probably know about guns. Let's start with a comparison and test your own aptitude stacks up. Let's see if perhaps you would be a more than suitable replacement for Senator Feinstein. 


This looks pretty innocent. It's a Ruger Mini 14. It fires a .223 varmint round and is ideal for hunting. You really only need maybe a few rounds at the most if this is your deer rifle and if you don't know how small a .223 varmint round is, go and find a gun shop and ask to see what one of these rounds looks like. The lead projectile is very small and doesn't travel very far as far as rifle bullets are concerned now I have to wonder...is the next photo the Assault Rifle or is the one above?




 
The answer to your question is simple....they're the same exact rifle. They fire the exact same round. Do you know that politicians like Senator Feinstein want this rifle banned based on looks alone? Yes, I'm not kidding you in the least she wants it banned because it "looks scary." Both of these rifles fire one shot each time you squeeze the trigger. You can hold the trigger down and nothing will happen. 

Let me explain how this works. One round from the magazine gets loaded into the chamber as the bolt closes. Squeeze the trigger and the firing pin strikes the primer. The primer causes the gunpowder inside the shell casing to ignite all at once. The pressure builds and there is an explosion...a very small one. Just enough force to toss that little lead projectile out. The little lead projectile leaves the barrel twisting like a drillbit as it travels  until it hits it's target thus ending it's journey. Just because you add a pistol grip, recoil pad and mounting rails for a type of scope doesn't mean it functions any differently. 

If you thought that these two were different weapons then perhaps a hunter's safety course or even a gun safety course is in order for you. If you knew they were the same weapon, run for your State Senate. Replace your inept Senators now. 

If we had armed guards inside the schools, if we had armed citizens in the theaters, if we had armed citizens in the restaurants, perhaps things would have been a bit different. I can't guarantee that the outcome WOULD have been different but given that if you have the opportunity to change the course of history one thing is certain; leaving it as is will yield the same results. 

Now keep in mind, yes there are some real whackadoodles out there and yeah there are criminals. I have not been adjudicated mentally defective and I've held down a law enforcement job where you kinda have to undergo a background check in order to work there. All of my weapons were purchased legally and are properly maintained. They are secure and they have never been used in the commission of a crime. So how is disarming ME going to solve the problem? The Answer...it won't. 

Just tonight, Misty and I were enjoying dinner as a television near us announced that a local woman had been killed. She lived in a pretty affluent neighborhood with cameras all over the place. She was followed, robbed, possibly strangled and then burned. 

What did I get from that story? Well she was followed which means someone selected her as a target. She was robbed which means someone wanted what he or she knew she had. She was strangled and then burned which means she wasn't shot...the perpetrator did not have a gun. By logic that should have stopped him, right? I mean he was completely unarmed...how could this have happened?

I think you see where this is going. By letting you have the choice to arm up or not, I'm letting you defend your children. Now don't get me wrong, you don't want guns around and I understand. In displaying my understanding for your choice, I swear you will never have to worry about me using any of my weapons to defend YOU or yours. 

Abortion & Other Moral Issues:
 
I don't agree with having an abortion except when the mother's life is in jeopardy. If there is a way to save both, fine but it is definitely a judgment call and not one to be made lightly. Guess what? Not my body. Not my business. Having an abortion because you were irresponsible ...that's wrong. I cannot, however, back legislation of any type of morality issue. I would have to be morally squeaky clean and last I checked I still go to confession each week I'm able so kinda kills that doesn't it?
 
I think the state should allow homosexuals to marry. Why? Well how fair is it that I'm able to marry, divorce and then part with so much of my shit? Homosexuals can partner up, shack up and split up with impunity. Doesn't seem fair to me. You want marriage? I'm happy to give it to you with aaaaaaaaall the wonderful things that go with it. 
 
I think you should make your own choices. Remember something these are called RIGHTS and that means you don't need my permission nor do you need permission of the State to do those things. Not at all. Things you need permits and licenses for, those are called privileges. I suggest you educate yourselves on the differences between the two. 
 
On Freedom: 
 
Freedom means you make your own choices. I'm not saying everyone should own a gun. Good Grief, I work in electronics and I have met people that shouldn't own anything involving electrical current or batteries. I'm saying everyone should have a choice and those that will make well-informed choices can help those that make terrible choices. 
 
Vice President Biden, that means that if you're telling me that you don't have the money or manpower to enforce the current laws then obviously making more laws won't help. Come on, you can't think I'm that stupid. I am free and I will do what I wish. Try and stop me if you like you won't like the results. That goes for anyone that represents me in office. If you fail in those duties, clear out your desks and make way we're going to hire your replacements. 
 
Final Note: 
 
Now that I have clearly illustrated where I stand politically, you should know I'll NEVER vote Democrat and no I don't have to like how the election turned out. I"ll NEVER vote Republican and no I wouldn't have been happy with Romney in office either. 
 
Democrats, Republicans, So-Called Liberals, So-Called Conservatives GROW THE HELL UP!
 
Seriously you're acting like children and the thing NONE of you have realized yet is that no matter what, both sides are just arguing how best to strip you of your rights, ruin your economy and bring you to your knees so that you're begging them for a fucking solution. 
 
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. 
 
YOU be happy with that. 





 
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Episode 54: Digital Blood And Gor

To All My Gorean Friends,

I have one simple request and I'm addressing all of you. Back off. I know that seems harsh but I want to take you all through the history of that which happened to me. I had hoped not to bore anyone with the details of this but unfortunately, No one seems to understand that NO I'm not joining your Gorean Chat. NO I'm not joining your Gorean Sim. NO I'm not getting into it.

Well, let's see if this helps you understand where I'm coming from.

See it was back in 1998 or 1999 when me, my girlfriend at the time and a friend of mine were all sitting down having coffee just chatting. The discussion was over books and music. Now I'm not sure how it got brought up but I'll guarantee you with my reading material at the time (Much of it Anne Rice) somehow the erotica I was reading was discussed and my girlfriend (Possibly out of boredom) decided to out my porn interests across the table in order to embarrass me. Well that got turned on it's head when I did what I do best. If you're going to embarrass me because you're hate some aspect of me. I'm gonna blow it waaaaaay out of propotion and make it cartoonish. When you see that embarrassing me backfires all you can do is stew over it.

Right about then, my friend, Christina, recommended the Gor novels to me. She gave me a basic premise and right there in my notebook, I wrote it all down. I jotted down John Norman's name and decided at some point I'd go on a search.

Search I did and got nowhere. Not one library knew at all who the hell this guy was and not one bookstore I visited could pull up anything by the guy. I had resigned myself to simply doing without. I told Christina it's the strangest thing, I couldn't find his books and I had no idea where to turn. The internet wasn't the ubermall then that it is now. I had no means of buying anything online. I was out of luck for sure. I didn't bother to look for the books on the web because, as I mentioned....no way of buying online. Back then, didn't even have a bank account. No bullshit I was livin' Amish.

Fast forward a few years, different girlfriend, different living situation. I finally decided to have a peek and see if, indeed, the books were listed online. They were all used books and the lowest priced book went for $400 and the book was so tattered it was unreal. I had almost resigned myself to knowing nothing other than what Christina told me until a stroke of genius hit me. There was a resource page and chatroom for just about everything. I created an honest profile and went in...and got treated in a manner most hostile. I can honestly say I've never encountered this much hostility before and I have only ever seen this type of hostility in real life amongst Call of Duty fans during a midnight release for Black Ops. I didn't do anything disruptive. I simply observed. I contacted people in IMs. I was in a world where I didn't know the terminology and I wasn't about to learn it by just sitting there. My ejection messages consisted of "Read the Books N00b!" and that was probably one of the most polite messages I got. Room after room after room consisted of more of the same treatment. One became so enraged that I would be so arrogant as to challenge an Ubar that he literally continuously typed in all caps. I didn't know what the hell this guy was talking about.

Finally I had simply resigned myself to knowing nothing other than the facts that I faced. Gor fans were a hostile bunch and possibly found solace within it's literary walls for compensation. Perception is everything. I gave up. If I saw someone had a Gorean interest in their profile I would violently avoid digital eye contact. Few would ever give me the slight education I had. For all intents and purposes, I walked away from it and largely mocked the Goreans though my girlfriend at the time was one. Let me revise that. I mocked the Gorean dominants as it was very BDSM related.

Many years came and went without me giving it a second thought. My policy of just avoiding it like the plague was still in place. I was a guy from a small town. Things like that just aren't afforded to people who want a simple life and that means if they don't want you learning certain things...you won't. If you just happen to be resourceful enough to find the material by which to learn those things...be ready because you just made yourself a huge target.

There was this laundromat I'd go to every two or three days. Backpack full of laundry and I could poke around on my laptop while having lunch or dinner...whatever time it was. There was also a video store nearby and they were closing. I found Gor and Outlaw of Gor on VHS. They only wanted $1 for both and I decided to pay it. Worst case scenario, I was only out a buck and it's not like the movies would do anything like boot me from my TV right? I watched them both and immediately wanted my dollar and three hours of my life back. I'm a hhuge fan of really bad movies but these were deplorable. I'll admit that I'm ready to add them to my collection on DVD just so I can riff on them. Then again I may just save the money and pirate them. I don't think the MPAA could fault me for those two.

I had bought a few of the books and took the time to trudge through part of the first one. Finally, just recently, I read through the first one and started on the second one. I'm not going to give a blow by blow review. I'll just say one down and 31 to go. Yeah it's a long damn series but look, because I read ONE book doesn't make me ready for your lifestyle or your subculture. I gave them all the opportunity to have me and was more than fair. They saw fit to keep bouncing me like Roger Clinton tryin to get backstage at a Marilyn Manson concert. Not my fault and remember I don't care if they were the short dicked assholes or not, I had nothing upon which to operate so what I should have done is irrelevant. I know that you side with outcasts. I know that you know people but I don't care. I'm not going into the rooms and I'm not joining the sims. Elists, chat messengers, etc, etc, etc, are not going to get me. Not right now and not for the foreseeable future. IF I do decide to join up it will be on MY terms MY time MY rules. If you think I'm being unreasonable obviously you skipped a huge section of this narrative.

So there you have it. I will say it one more time. Don't take it personally. Calm down...it's not that serious.

Sincerely,
Damien V. Cross S.D.M.F.
Tarnsman of New Frickin' Jersey

Revision: Okay to silence the constant requests I have checked out SIX of these damn Gorean sims. So far they're so restrictive that I can't make sense of them and every one of them wants me to use a meter which I'm not willing to do. If they want a roleplayer fine but if they're worried I'm going to turn out to be the next Big Douchebag that much then perhaps they should find someone else to play in there. I gave them another shot everyone...can I close down shop and finally just get on with my life now?