Newton Was Full Of Crap

Happy Turkey Day! I know it's not until tomorrow, but some of you might not read this until Thursday so I was just thinking ahead.

Lets get to the point, shall we. I know you are all familiar with Newton's third law of motion, the law of reciprocal actions. I know this because you are all very intelligent people, otherwise you wouldn't be reading my rants. But just as a reminder, here is the gist. ''To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction''. Well, I'm here to say that Newton is wrong!

Ok, not really. At least not when it comes to the laws of physics and masses in motion. However, this law has been misinterpreted to give people an excuse to not take responsibility for their own behavior. This comes in handy because some people sure love to play the victim.

Action or reaction. Why is it that so many people refuse to take action? Is their life already too easy that they need the complications and drama involved with being reactive instead of proactive? Or maybe these people have just resigned their happiness to "fate" and have given up any pursuit of said happiness.

I'm sure most of you know what I am talking about. We all know someone that is "reactive". Or you may even be one of these types of people. It's never too late to change. But for those lucky souls that have never heard of a person that is reactive let me elaborate.

Allowing the actions of others to affect your mood, blaming the world for your circumstances, and never taking responsibility for your own happiness are all traits of a reactive person. A reactive person is someone that wants something, but refuses to do anything to get it. They expect that they are owed that thing, that thing must come to them, and everyone else is to blame when that thing is never obtained.

And on the other side of the coin is the proactive person. When you're proactive you decide how you want to feel. Aside from any rare major catastrophes that may take the lives of loved ones, a proactive person doesn't allow the "little things" to get them down. So what if some blind blue-hair takes your parking spot at the grocery store, there are always others. Who cares if some jerk didn't hold the elevator for you, he's probably going to fart in there anyways. A proactive person works towards the things they want, or they accept the things that they can't have. And when things happen to a proactive person, it's not because the world is out to get them. If a proactive person gets pulled over for speeding, it's their own fault for breaking the law. It's not the officers fault he didn't pull over the other people that were also speeding, it's not the fault of their children for taking too long to get dressed causing them to be late, nor is it the city's fault for imposing such a slow speed limit.

So, back to Newton. To every action (I get slapped in the face) there is always an equal and opposite reaction (I slap the person back). I don't have to return the slap. Chances are very good that I deserved to get slapped. Therefore I shouldn't be reactive, I should accept my slap with a smile and go about my day. The world is not a fair place. Nobody ever said it was, so we have no right to expect it to be. You'll never see Newtons law working in the world. To every action (homicidal maniac kills 7 people) there is always an equal and opposite reaction (7 homicidal maniac's given lethal injections). To every action (CEO of a major corporation embezzles $10 million) there is always an equal and opposite reaction ($10 million returned to employee's retirement fund). To every action (Man sues fast food chain because they never told him that 'eating fast food would make him fat', and wins) there is always an equal and opposite reaction (fast food chain files counter suit because the man is a moron, and wins).

We have no control over "The World". But we are the masters of our domain. We control "our world". It is up to you and I to make our life the way we want it, and that requires action on our part. If we resign to always be reactive, then we resign to allow "The World" to control "our world" and we shouldn't expect them to be much different.

Now, lets here from my wonderful reactive friends about how I made them mad. =)

Cya in 7

Guest Rant: Opinions Are Like Anuses...

Here we are again. It seems like Wednesdays just keep coming.

Today's guest rant is written by the very funny, often witty, and only semi intellectual Richard Malm. So without further doo-doo....

"Everyone is entitled to his or her opinions, unless you disagree with me.

I believe that we should have honest and reasoned discussions about what should and should not be acceptable social norms. It really bothers me when one side of any debate equates being against their opinion to being a horrible something. Against the war in Iraq, you are not a patriot. Don’t believe in Gay marriage, you are a hatemonger. While you might be either or both of those things, you are not automatically them because of your opinion.

I have a rule; you can do whatever you want as long as it does not adversely affect my family or me. Screw a goat I don’t care. However, please don’t ask me to accept your lifestyle, or teach my children that is a valid alternative. I believe all goats deserve to go unmolested by humans. I will not be there to comfort you when you get some goat disease that rots your Twinkie off. Sit on your ever expanding ass, play playstation, and eat hot pockets all day, I don’t care. However, please don’t ask me to pay for your triple bypass, find you a woman that will accept your “special” lifestyle, or fund your SSI because you have posttraumatic stress disorder from playing the first Halo for a year and a half straight.

I do not have to accept your beliefs or pay your consequences, just as I know you have the God given right to not accept or pay for mine. Just because I don’t support your thoughts on a particular subject does not mean I am intolerant, ignorant, or Hitler. Just as I know you are not a leftist, socialist, nut job (some of you anyway). Make your choices; do not force them on me. I will love you for the person you are, but I may not love or support your decisions. Love me for the person I am, I will not ask you to love or support all of my decisions. You are entitled to your moronic opinions; please allow me the right to mine."

Cya in 7

Facebook Faux Pas

Welcome to Wednesday! Today is actually my Monday, I have to start work for this week tonight. Yay for having a job!

Today's topic comes from our very own Queen of Facebook. So if any of you blog stalkers don't use Facebook, this rant may not be for you. Thank you for playing, have a safe trip home.

Facebook addictions are so prevalent that the developers of FB have so graciously created a myriad of features you can use to stay informed. The more common; emails and texts about comments and status updates. Now you no longer have to be on a computer to get your fix. I've never been one for the clutter of thousands of emails from Facebook each time a "friend" wants to complain about whatever day of the week it may be. However, I will admit that I have elected to receive texts when comments are made on my page only or when one of a few choice friends update their status.

You're probably asking yourself ".. and the point of this rant is....?". Well that is a great question. Let me answer that with another question. What's the most annoying thing people do on Facebook? Oh, you were so close! Thanks for playing, have a safe trip home. Actually, it's a trick question. There are many many many things people do on Facebook that I find annoying. But today we are going to focus on people that delete their comments.

If you wanted to say something bad enough that you took the time to type it out and click the submit button, then just leave it there and own the consequences. I understand making spelling or grammatical errors and wanting to delete and retype the comment with corrections. But to make a statement then change your mind is silly. Either think before you type, or grow a pair and own your thoughts.

The dual purpose of this rant is to serve as a Public Service Announcement. Just because you hit delete doesn't mean nobody saw what you wrote. Those lovely emails and texts get sent out the moment you hit submit, so you just look foolish to the people that get these notifications when you try to take back your words. You know the saying, " Better to be thought a fool and remain silent than to speak and remove all doubt."

A little side note, sub-topic, tangent I want to throw in. When you are having a "wall to wall" conversation that spans a couple days or more, don't delete the other persons comments! I don't know how many times I'm having a conversation with someone, they respond to something I said a few days prior, and to jog my memory of the conversation I click the lovely "wall to wall" link to get caught up. What do I find? My portion of the conversation has been deleted! Now I have no idea what the crap I was saying to this person ( I have to keep my lies written down or I get confused).

Anyways, that's my dos pesos. Thanks for all your ideas on future rants. I'll try to get to most of them eventually, except yours Becky. I seriously have no clue what I would say about men with hairy backs. ;)


Cya in 7

Talk Radio Killed My Faith In Humanity

Happy days. Hope you're all recovering nicely from the Halloween sugar coma.

Today's topic isn't really "current events", but it's irksome none the less. I was driving home from work yesterday morning and started flipping through the radio. I do not care for radio morning shows. I listen to the radio for music, not to hear blowhards yammering about this, that, or the other. But for some reason I stopped on one station where a discussion was going on about whether or not smoking in front of children should be considered child abuse. After wrapping up the call that was in a progress some gal calls in and starts to say that she is about to be a mother and she thinks smoking in front of kids should not be considered child abuse. One of the DJ's asks this pregnant gal, in jest, if she smokes now. She replied " Yeah! And my baby is growing big and healthy. They used to do it in the old days all the time!" I almost drove my car off the side of the road when I heard that. The DJ obviously had the same reaction because he stammered and then just hung up on her saying he couldn't talk to her.

I am fully aware of the ever growing population of stupid people in this world. But for some reason I had built up a false hope in my mind that at least all knowingly pregnant adult females would do their best to not smoke during their baby's gestation. So to hear someone proudly proclaim that they are smoking while pregnant threw me off. Not only that, but her iron clad argument that "They used to do it in the old days..." just made me want to find this moron and bitch slap her just like "They used to do in the old days".

I've made a list of things that "they used to do in the old days". Feel free to add any that I may have overlooked.

~ My favorite, having unprotected sex with a plethora of partners. You weren't cool unless you had a couple STD's.

~ Drunk driving. This is one of those old habits that apparently die hard, but at least now it's publicly frowned upon.

~ Driving without seat belts. I remember the days of crawling around the back of the station wagon while on long trips.

~ Drinking while pregnant. It was all fun and games until some "invented" Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.

~ Leaving school to go work on the farm.

~ Marrying first cousins

~ Dieing by age 50

~ Believing the world is flat.

Ok, so some of those go a little further back than the 'good old days', but you get my point. Just because something was once a common practice doesn't make it right. There is a reason it is no longer a common practice.

Anyways, if any of you find this chick here in Boise that is smoking while pregnant give her a swift poke in the eye for me please.

Cya in 7