Hey, Barbie!

Obviously this is a little different then my other posts.

Pretty much everyone knows who Megan Fox is, right. The "hot smokin'" girl from Transformers.

Well, let us examine her more closely.

Fake tan, butt fat injected into her lips, perfectly manicured fingers, precisely waxed eyebrows, zero cellulite.

..A Barbie.

Come on, really? I mean, it's obvious.

I am so completely sick of the media, movies, television, and society's image of "beauty."

Sick.

of.

it.

Magazines constantly cramming "look like _insert celebrity teen sensation here_ with just these simple steps," "get rid of cellulite now," "how to keep your man,"

Crap.

All of it.

Magazing covers don't even show the real person! They show the airbrushed, photoshopped person that does not and will never exist.

I am not an ugly fat person sitting on their computer raving jealously about skinny people.

I am a normal teenager ranting about how skinny people are the only things acceptable in modern culture.

The Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD) reports 33% of respondents reported the onset of Anorexia between the ages of 11-15 and 43% reported the onset between the ages of 16-20.

"You can't blame society for that!"

Uh, yeah, I can.

Why do people feel the need to starve themselves and make themselves sick?To look like that skinny girl who always gets all the attention and guys.Why does the attention go to her?Because, the people giving the attention think that "skinny" is pretty and that it should be awed.

Yeah, I blame society.

Site models. Go ahead, search it. Do you see a variation of body types?

Noooooooo.

You see skinny adolescent teenagers wearing Abercrombie crap.

*Preparing to get beaten for saying Abercrombie is crap*

Look at paintings from a couple hundred years back.

The women there are not skeletal and thin.

They are curvy, volumptious(sp), healthy women.

Why have we changed that?

What is so wrong with being curvy and normal?

I applaud Dove for using real people to advertise their products. They have taken the first step in trying to fix this whole mess.

I think that it is our turn to step up and do something.

Here, right now (let it be known that I literally just thought of this as I wrote the words "the first step") I propose a new movement.

I'm not sure what to call it yet considering the fact that I just thought of this less than a minute ago.

But, I do know the goal. We need to empower girls, teenagers, and women everywhere.

We need to let them know that they ARE beautiful just the way they are and nothing anyone else says can change that.

Despite the media, everyone is beautiful whether they are a size 2 or a size 18.

Let's do it.

Sarah Palin Resigns.

Sarah Palin announced her resignation as Governor of Alaska this past Friday.

I don't understand why she resigned, but I respect her decision and I wish her the best in whatever she decides to do next.

Good Day, Everyone.

I haven't posted anything in a while, sorry.

The news has been making me mad so I've been mainly playing a lot of Mario Kart Wii lately.
It's awesome :)

Since I haven't watched the news in so long, I don't really know what's happening in the country. I have no idea what the politicians are doing, what has been passed, who has been elected, what Obama has said or really anything that I should care about.

But that's alright. Do you know why?

Because politicians always have our best interests in mind and will never forsake us in exchange for money and power.
Because they know that they were elected for the people and by the people, so they will surely listen to us and do their darn best to fix the ills of this grand country.

Right?

If you were reading the above and nodding your head in agreement, go watch the news- now.
If you were reading the above and thinking what an ignorant idiot I was, good job - you've watched the news and have read my previous posts.

I am sick of people being so ignorant and blind to so many things. I am sick of stupid (if I offended you, too bad) people shoving unbelievable, ridiculous crap down my throat.

I'm sick of those same stupid people voting in our elections.
I'm sick of some of those people advancing in the world, becoming politicians, and making laws and decisions for us.

We need to sift through all the crap.
We need to sift through all the stupid.

We Will Never Forget.

On September 11th, nineteen hijackers took control of four commercial airliners en route to San Fransisco and Los Angeles from Boston, Newark, and Washington, D.C.

8:46 a.m.:American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the World Trade Center's North Tower
9:03 a.m.: United Airlines Flight 175 which crashed into the South Tower.
9:37 a.m.: Another group of hijackers flew American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon.
10:03 a.m.: A fourth flight, United Airlines Flight 93, whose ultimate target was thought to be either the United States Capitol or the White House, crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Thousands of Americans watched the terror unfold on their television screens.
Thousands of Americans were helpless.

Imagine the fear all those people went through.

I bet you can't even fathom it.

Imagine the courage it took for those people on Flight 93 to even try to take back control of their plane.

I bet you don't even know what that feels like.

Terrorists were able to get into our country, infiltrate our air ports, get on our planes, and kill our people.

2,728 innocent Americans were killed that day.
2,728 parents never saw their children again.
2,728 children never got to say, "I love you," one last time.

I remember the exact place I was when I heard about the attacks.
I was walking in my fourth grade class, I was the first one there, and my teacher was crying. She had her head in her hands and I remember seeing tears falling from her cheecks to her desk. I remember walking slowly to my desk and just sitting there, staring.
I had never seen her cry before.
She didn't even know I walked into the room until she looked up and caught my eye. She wiped her eyes and forced a smile.
The rest of the class began walking in and our teacher had at that time composed herself. I went through school the rest of the day as normal. The only different was that it seemed like no adult was smiling or talking much.
I got off the bus and was walking to my house and it started to rain. I ran inside and my mom was there in the kitchen, leaning over the table, with a glass of wine in her hand.
I remember turning to my right and watching the plane crash into the building. I remember the flames and the smoke and the camera shaking.
I turned to my mom and said, "What just happened?"
She walked over to me, put her hands on my shoulders, and said, "Dannie, someone took control of our planes and flew them into the World Trade Centers. Dannie, we've been attacked."
I turned to the television screen again, and saw the building slowly start to crumble and the flames engulf everything. In a sleep walk state, I walked over closer to the television. I didn't even know I was crying until I felt a tear drop fall on my feet.
I remember saying, "Why would anyone do this? Why?"

I cried myself to sleep in my mother's arms.

We went to war because of September 11th.
Thousands of men have died to protect our country and our lives.

I watched the Memorial Day special on PBS the other day and I started sobbing.
These stories about war veterans moved me so much.
Men have lost their limbs, their families, and their memories in order to protect us.


I write this post on May 27, 2009...no where near the anniversary.
Some of you may be wondering why?

I write this now because I truly believe we have a president who does not remember.
I believe we have a president who has forgotten.

President Obama wants to release terrorists from Guantanamo Bay.
President Obama and his team have released information to the public that the terrorists can use against us.
Vice President Biden let it slip the "secret" bunker location.

There have been so many mistakes already.
I don't like thinking about what the next four years will be like.

Our entire government needs to realize that our security needs to be tightened. It isn't just democrats in the wrong, it's republicans too.
America as a whole needs to realize this...
Otherwise whose to say that another September 11th won't happen?

I pray it doesn't.

Water Boarding.

Terrorists are bad people.
They want to kill us.
They want to destroy America and everything we stand for.

Yet, some people are concerned about protecting terrorists' rights.
Hmm.

I say we do everything within our power to make these insert innapropriate word here talk! Are we seriously going to risk another attack like September 11th because we don't want to hurt these poor harmless terrorists?

These people would do the same to us in a heartbeat.
Actually, these people would like to kill us all in a heartbeat.

People loose some of their rights once they decide to endanger someone else's. It isn't like these people who are being waterboarded are innocent little boys in sneakers.
No. These are big, hairy, smelly, evil, corrupt, insane, muscular, evil dudes.
Evil dudes that want to kill you.

"But they're people too! They don't deserve to be tortured!"If sticking a potential terrorist's head underwater for sustained periods of time will let me keep my life and keep thousands of other people safe, I'll grab their neck and shove them into the water myself.

Seriously, people! I mean, it isn't like we're chopping off fingers and ripping out eyeballs (which they would do to us). We are submerging them underwater and causing them to "drown" and then wake them up just before they reach the light at the end of the tunnel.

In case you haven't noticed yet, I'm for waterboarding.
Guess that makes me a hatemonger. Oh well!

Remember Monica-gate?

"I wanna say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me; I'm gonna say this again. I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody-it's a lie-not a single time, never. These allegations are false and I need to go back to work for the American people."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiIP_KDQmXs

That was Bill Clinton denying his affair with his secretary, Monica Lewinsky in 1998.
Turns out that he was indeed having sexual relations with that woman.
Oops.

"...At that or any other briefing and that was the-the-the very briefing that I-that I uh uh that I was briefed on in that regard. We were not, I repeat, we *stutter* we were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation methods were used. What they did tell us was that they had some um um uh legislative council- the Office of Legislative Council uh opinions that they could be used-but not that they would. And they further - further the point was that if and when they would be used, they would brief Congress at that time."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeyWkdFLc04

This was just a few weeks ago.

Let us take time to really appreciate the similarities of the two bold face lies :)Notice the over the top hand gestures? Stuttering? The repeated word "not"?

Seriously, Pelosi? I mean, we already know you're completely insane for calling the Tea Party participants all rich and upperclass, but did you really need to add to your faltering reputation with your pathetica attempt to discredit the CIA?

Just stop.

Sorry!

Sorry about not posting in a while. I've just been so busy this past week! But do not fret, there will soon be plenty to read...so much has happened!