http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/12/george-zimmerman-trayvon-martin-trial-jury-defense/2511479/
Jurors have begun deliberating whether former neighborhood watch
volunteer George Zimmerman is responsible for the killing of Trayvon
Martin, the unarmed 17-year-old shot to death in February 2012.
And it should be the jurors who decide this man's fate based on reviewing all the evidence presented to them during the trial, NOT based on what the media, politicians or political activist fed us throughout all this sand process.
Friday, July 12, 2013
Snowden to seek asylum in Russia
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/07/12/edward-snowden-moscow-airport/2511207/
As expected Edward Snowden will seek political asylum in Russia while he can find a way out to sunny South America. Snowden said Friday that he has no regrets over leaking details about U.S. electronic spying networks and is seeking temporary asylum in Russia until he can reach one of the Latin American countries that has offered to take him in.
"That moral decision to tell the public about spying that affects all of us has been costly, but it was the right thing to do and I have no regrets," he told a group of human rights activists and other public officials at a meeting at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, where he has taken refuge since June 23.
Some of us are just wondering if he also calculated the risk of collateral damage by the means of endangering U.S. military personnel and civilians when he reached his "moral decision" I guess it is perfectly moral to endanger your own fellow citizens at the expense of becoming a "defender and hero of freedom" and " U.S. "oppression".
As expected Edward Snowden will seek political asylum in Russia while he can find a way out to sunny South America. Snowden said Friday that he has no regrets over leaking details about U.S. electronic spying networks and is seeking temporary asylum in Russia until he can reach one of the Latin American countries that has offered to take him in.
"That moral decision to tell the public about spying that affects all of us has been costly, but it was the right thing to do and I have no regrets," he told a group of human rights activists and other public officials at a meeting at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, where he has taken refuge since June 23.
Some of us are just wondering if he also calculated the risk of collateral damage by the means of endangering U.S. military personnel and civilians when he reached his "moral decision" I guess it is perfectly moral to endanger your own fellow citizens at the expense of becoming a "defender and hero of freedom" and " U.S. "oppression".
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Relevant facts or factoids?
Greetings to all, I have not touched the blog since March. I have been thinking how to re-tool it. After much thought, I arrived to the conclusion of just make comments on relevant news and events, and people, of course. So I changed the name of the blog...again.
What has happened since March? Pretty much a little bit about everything. Two maniacs planted some deadly bombs during the last mile of the Boston Marathon, totally despicable and sick. One got killed, the other one almost, and I expect him to rot in jail for the rest of his life. That was easy, unbiased reporting, right? No it was not, but I am sure it reflects the thoughts of many many people. Besides, I am not a reporter, I am a law student on his last year of school. Did I mentioned I also have a medical degree?
The IRS was caught in a major scandal for targeting Tea Party organizations. Nice move, whoever orchestrated that move should get the award for DUMBEST IDEA of the century. Granted Tea Party members are perceived as fanatics, ultra-conservative fanatics that are one notch below Charedi communities. But as in the case of my adorable Charedi counterparts, an eccentric belief does not warrant government persecution. We leave that to other governments, not ours.
Last but not least, there was a huge Tornado that ripped through Oklahoma. Unbelievable? Not at all, that area is prone to that, so in reality it was a matter of time before something of that magnitude could happen. Lots of lives lost, but we can't really blame anything or anybody. If there is a lesson learned from this is that we are mere mortals that somehow and sometimes refuse to deal with our mortality, especially when we are at the mercy of mother nature, whom we have developed an uncanny ability to underestimate. Time to rebuild, time to help, time to heal. Time to acknowledge our humanity.
Good night to all!!
What has happened since March? Pretty much a little bit about everything. Two maniacs planted some deadly bombs during the last mile of the Boston Marathon, totally despicable and sick. One got killed, the other one almost, and I expect him to rot in jail for the rest of his life. That was easy, unbiased reporting, right? No it was not, but I am sure it reflects the thoughts of many many people. Besides, I am not a reporter, I am a law student on his last year of school. Did I mentioned I also have a medical degree?
The IRS was caught in a major scandal for targeting Tea Party organizations. Nice move, whoever orchestrated that move should get the award for DUMBEST IDEA of the century. Granted Tea Party members are perceived as fanatics, ultra-conservative fanatics that are one notch below Charedi communities. But as in the case of my adorable Charedi counterparts, an eccentric belief does not warrant government persecution. We leave that to other governments, not ours.
Last but not least, there was a huge Tornado that ripped through Oklahoma. Unbelievable? Not at all, that area is prone to that, so in reality it was a matter of time before something of that magnitude could happen. Lots of lives lost, but we can't really blame anything or anybody. If there is a lesson learned from this is that we are mere mortals that somehow and sometimes refuse to deal with our mortality, especially when we are at the mercy of mother nature, whom we have developed an uncanny ability to underestimate. Time to rebuild, time to help, time to heal. Time to acknowledge our humanity.
Good night to all!!
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
I have not touched this site in months. Why? I don't have anything relevant to say. If I had short punch lines to say, there is twitter for that. What is relevant? Depends who you ask. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, it is having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand. In other words, no bull crap. Since I did not had any significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand for pretty much anything, I decided not to post. Now, I still do not have any significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand to say, yet I decided to post all this shit on the word relevant. If you ask a lawyer what is relevancy, he or she will tell you affording evidence tending to prove or disprove the matter at issue or under discussion. In our case, absolutely nothing. I do not have anything to prove or disprove the matter at issue other than the word relevant. That said, I cannot prove or disprove the matter at issue or under discussion: relevancy.
However, it can be said that this entire short piece of editorial or shit, is a good example that the word relevant and the concept of relevancy is in fact relevant, because all I am saying is not relevant to anything other than talking about relevancy.
You know what? Never mind, all what I just said, is irrelevant.
However, it can be said that this entire short piece of editorial or shit, is a good example that the word relevant and the concept of relevancy is in fact relevant, because all I am saying is not relevant to anything other than talking about relevancy.
You know what? Never mind, all what I just said, is irrelevant.
Monday, January 21, 2013
God is It
Monday, January 14, 2013
Today I took the plunge and signed off Facebook. Why did I commit such an act of sacrilege? Simple, Facebook sucks, its overrated and is full of gas, or full of people full with a lot of gas. The same kind of gas we find in a methane plant.
Main reasons why I quit Facebook?
1-It is overrated, like a belly button, every one's got one.
2- My friend's constant rants about the economy and how this country is going straight to hell due to lack of conservative values. This is a guy who thinks to have all the economic solutions of the Nation. If that was the case what is he doing still selling tickets for an airline as a ticket agent at a major airport during the last 24 years? The same guy, just because he visited NASA a couple of times with his kid, pretends to be an aerospace engineer or an astrophysicist. No wonder he has been dumped, I mean, divorced twice.
3- My wife's niece who thinks she has Jesus Christ grabbed by his balls. Grow up!! The universe does not spin around you! She sees herself as the next Selena Gomez.
4- My daughter's constant broadcasting of every single detail of her life, including when she has arguments with us (her parents) for any little stupid thing that crosses her mind. Grow up dear, I love you, but there is something called privacy that you should begin treasuring dear. I do, reason why I signed off. This is a child who has over 1,000 Facebook friends. Really? Friends?
I guess the word friend is also overrated, thank you Facebook.
5- I got tired of family members and friends showing off their so called perfect lives so everyone who knows them, and those who don't, get to know how good they are having it. Nice show, but for those of us with a little bit of modesty, we know it is just an elaborated act to keep up with social appearances and a bottomless thirst of competing against each other.
6- Social media sucks, yes, I said it, Facebook, twitter, instagram etc, they all suck. They have made our lives become cheap versions of the Truman Sow.
7- I got better things to do with my spare time, like venting out on this blog. And anyone who has ever seen this blog knows I don't tend to post much stuff after all. Why? Precisely because I got better things to do with my life and time.
8- Coworkers who not only after spending 8 stinking hours of their lives in our hell hole office together, want to tag each other and post likes and poke each other online. Sickening.
9- Did I mention my own vain attempts to post positive philosophical and spiritual messages to try to influence the aforementioned pack of social-media butterflies into remembering that life is short, and we should strive and do our best to be better human beings and care more for each other, because in the end, G-d does not give a damn about where you spent your vacations, how cool your newest car is, or how cool you think you are for being cool, or how many posts, tweets, likes, followers and crap like that you get. Yes, that too. I got tired of my own futility.
Any typographical errors are meant to show you how human I am. :)
Main reasons why I quit Facebook?
1-It is overrated, like a belly button, every one's got one.
2- My friend's constant rants about the economy and how this country is going straight to hell due to lack of conservative values. This is a guy who thinks to have all the economic solutions of the Nation. If that was the case what is he doing still selling tickets for an airline as a ticket agent at a major airport during the last 24 years? The same guy, just because he visited NASA a couple of times with his kid, pretends to be an aerospace engineer or an astrophysicist. No wonder he has been dumped, I mean, divorced twice.
3- My wife's niece who thinks she has Jesus Christ grabbed by his balls. Grow up!! The universe does not spin around you! She sees herself as the next Selena Gomez.
4- My daughter's constant broadcasting of every single detail of her life, including when she has arguments with us (her parents) for any little stupid thing that crosses her mind. Grow up dear, I love you, but there is something called privacy that you should begin treasuring dear. I do, reason why I signed off. This is a child who has over 1,000 Facebook friends. Really? Friends?
I guess the word friend is also overrated, thank you Facebook.
5- I got tired of family members and friends showing off their so called perfect lives so everyone who knows them, and those who don't, get to know how good they are having it. Nice show, but for those of us with a little bit of modesty, we know it is just an elaborated act to keep up with social appearances and a bottomless thirst of competing against each other.
6- Social media sucks, yes, I said it, Facebook, twitter, instagram etc, they all suck. They have made our lives become cheap versions of the Truman Sow.
7- I got better things to do with my spare time, like venting out on this blog. And anyone who has ever seen this blog knows I don't tend to post much stuff after all. Why? Precisely because I got better things to do with my life and time.
8- Coworkers who not only after spending 8 stinking hours of their lives in our hell hole office together, want to tag each other and post likes and poke each other online. Sickening.
9- Did I mention my own vain attempts to post positive philosophical and spiritual messages to try to influence the aforementioned pack of social-media butterflies into remembering that life is short, and we should strive and do our best to be better human beings and care more for each other, because in the end, G-d does not give a damn about where you spent your vacations, how cool your newest car is, or how cool you think you are for being cool, or how many posts, tweets, likes, followers and crap like that you get. Yes, that too. I got tired of my own futility.
Any typographical errors are meant to show you how human I am. :)
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
ORIGINS OF RELIGION...MAN MADE!!!
OK, so here is my first post of the year.
Religions are man made, G-d did not invented religions, men, just like you and me did. Mankind is the most intellectually curious creature on the phase of earth. If you don't believe me, just take a peek at the advances of modern medicine, nuclear energy, physics, computer sciences and aerospace engineering.
Religions were made out of our own curiosity when we could not explain natural phenomena. Of course, I will see the occasional argument about G-d revealing himself to Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad and the classic argument from my fellow Jews that Judaism is the only religion revealed to an entire nation. Of course, none of my fellow Jews has been able to logically explain me how come if G-d revealed Itself (I wrote Itself, because G-d has no form, not human form, although the Torah is filled with a god with too many human traits like anger) why, if G-d indeed revealed Itself to at least 600,000 people and as many as 3 million as my fellow Jews claim, there are no more accounts of such grandiose events other than those from Moses and his clan? I see no difference between this account and the other alleged revelations as long as there are no other sources to corroborate it. What was the problem? A literacy problem? Moses was the only one who could read and write? Really? Out of at least 600 thousand and as much as 3 million people? Are you serious? Lets face it, Moses wrote the Torah and all the 613 commandments to give a set of laws of morality, economic, social and ethic behavior to a nation that had the notoriety of having a short fuse and lack of patience. LAWS of conduct for the sake of argument.
G-d never had the need for us to sacrifice animals for his appeasement or as offerings. G-d is BIGGER than that, pretending to accept by blind faith that G-d asked from men sacrifices is attributing G-d with human traits of demand and satisfaction. G-d does not need sacrifices, and never needed them. Moses made that up, maybe he thought he was being inspired by G-d, but that is not the same as being inspired by a faith in a god. By making those sacrifices and following the new set of 613 rules or laws, the people would be able to show obedience, respect, deference an some sort of civility.
The moment we divorce our minds from the man made concept of G-d and sacrifices, let it be human (the death of Jesus washing mankind's sins) or animal (the ritualistic sacrifices at the Temple) and the blind belief that G-d had to confide his secrets to a select few (Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism etc) or to an entire nation (Judaism, that no one else can account for other than the writer of the Torah), then at that moment we separate ourselves from such man made beliefs, we will understand the ultimate true concept of G-d and the laws of the universe that we live in.
I am sorry I have to part ways with my religion this way, but I have no other choice but to follow my conscience, which is based on reasoning and logic, not blind faith on man made sociocultural clubs.
I am a Jew of logic and reasoning, based on science and facts, not blind superstitious faith on man made rituals. G-d is ABOVE and BEYOND such things.
Religions are man made, G-d did not invented religions, men, just like you and me did. Mankind is the most intellectually curious creature on the phase of earth. If you don't believe me, just take a peek at the advances of modern medicine, nuclear energy, physics, computer sciences and aerospace engineering.
Religions were made out of our own curiosity when we could not explain natural phenomena. Of course, I will see the occasional argument about G-d revealing himself to Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad and the classic argument from my fellow Jews that Judaism is the only religion revealed to an entire nation. Of course, none of my fellow Jews has been able to logically explain me how come if G-d revealed Itself (I wrote Itself, because G-d has no form, not human form, although the Torah is filled with a god with too many human traits like anger) why, if G-d indeed revealed Itself to at least 600,000 people and as many as 3 million as my fellow Jews claim, there are no more accounts of such grandiose events other than those from Moses and his clan? I see no difference between this account and the other alleged revelations as long as there are no other sources to corroborate it. What was the problem? A literacy problem? Moses was the only one who could read and write? Really? Out of at least 600 thousand and as much as 3 million people? Are you serious? Lets face it, Moses wrote the Torah and all the 613 commandments to give a set of laws of morality, economic, social and ethic behavior to a nation that had the notoriety of having a short fuse and lack of patience. LAWS of conduct for the sake of argument.
G-d never had the need for us to sacrifice animals for his appeasement or as offerings. G-d is BIGGER than that, pretending to accept by blind faith that G-d asked from men sacrifices is attributing G-d with human traits of demand and satisfaction. G-d does not need sacrifices, and never needed them. Moses made that up, maybe he thought he was being inspired by G-d, but that is not the same as being inspired by a faith in a god. By making those sacrifices and following the new set of 613 rules or laws, the people would be able to show obedience, respect, deference an some sort of civility.
The moment we divorce our minds from the man made concept of G-d and sacrifices, let it be human (the death of Jesus washing mankind's sins) or animal (the ritualistic sacrifices at the Temple) and the blind belief that G-d had to confide his secrets to a select few (Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism etc) or to an entire nation (Judaism, that no one else can account for other than the writer of the Torah), then at that moment we separate ourselves from such man made beliefs, we will understand the ultimate true concept of G-d and the laws of the universe that we live in.
I am sorry I have to part ways with my religion this way, but I have no other choice but to follow my conscience, which is based on reasoning and logic, not blind faith on man made sociocultural clubs.
I am a Jew of logic and reasoning, based on science and facts, not blind superstitious faith on man made rituals. G-d is ABOVE and BEYOND such things.
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