28 year old
Pagan female who lives in Florida with her guy and two cats,
loves Disney, reads fanatically, tinkers in photography and
believes growing up is overrated.
There are people on the net that have nothing better to do
with their time
then be nasty to other people online. They post rude comments, spend hours
a day talking about sites they hate so much, that they well, spend hours a
day talking about them. (lame) They mock the owners and posters for their
opinions and their right to free speech. They expect everyone to fit into
their narrow-minded little world view or else they throw a temper tantrum.
To these people I say grow up.
Here's a bit of info people...the web is
a HUGE place. If you don't like what I say here, or who I am, or what I
do, or talk about, or what I look like, or the color of my hair, or
whatever asinine thing you dwell on, go somewhere else. It's
really, really easy. Honest. You just click the little "x" in
the corner of your browser and *poof* the offending, big, mean and nasty
site has disappeared.
I pay for this site. It's mine. That
means I can use it for whatever the hell I want to. Don't like it if I'm
bitching about something in my life? Oh fucking well. Go somewhere else.
Think I'm stupid for expressing my thoughts? Too fucking bad, don't read
them. Somewhere along the line, someone forgot this simple fact: Live
and let live Don't like me, cool, fine, whatever, I don't care.
This journal is NOT for you. It's for me. I'm not in it for popularity or
fame or anything stupid like that. I write it because I need to write and
express myself and get things out of my head sometimes. So read or don't,
it doesn't matter, but don't waste my time (or yours) bitching about it.
*gets off soapbox*
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Random This and That Stuff that's not enough to warrent a real entry of it's own, but things that are going on nonetheless that I wanted to comment on.
Mission Space Death Ok, if you haven't heard by now a four year-old boy died after riding Mission: Space in Epcot (story here). Several things come to mind when I read these stories.
First off, the media keeps making a huge thing about the fact there are motion sickness bags on the ride. So? There are motion sickness bags on planes too but that doesn't make headlines. Can you spew from the ride? Sure, but some people can't do the Tea Cups either.
Secondly, they also play up the fact that several people had chest pains from the ride but they fail to mention each one of the people were over the age of 55 and failed to adhere to the warnings. They have actually significantly increased the number of warnings to about a hundred times so if you still go on it, clearly it's your own fault. Over 8.6 million people have ridden it and only six have had chest pains and/or nausea intense enough to warrent paramedics.
That all said, third, what the hell were these parents thinking? Four years old is FAR too young to ride a thrill ride of that nature. I don't care if he was tall enough (which he was), it's still neglegent on the part of the parents to take him on a ride that's very well known for it's intensity. The ride is intense, yes. I've been on it myself. It made Love sicker then I've seen him in a long time (and he rides every coaster there is.) We rode it in the pre-opening days when there weren't a hundred warnings and we didn't know what the ride mechanism actually was. (A very lage, specially designed centrifuge basically.) I think it's a unique and original ride that people should give it a try once but I personally don't think I'll ride it anytime soon because it made me dizy. But I'm not four freakin' years old. I don't care if the kid likes thrill rides or whines for days about wanting to ride it, be a parent and tell the kid no. I don't think they set out to hurt or kill their child but I do think it was a damned stupid lack of parenting that put the kid in danger in the first place.
Oh and fourth: The ride is not dangerous. It's not deadly. It shouldn't be shut down and it shouldn't be lessened. People should just pay attention to the risks and ride - like any thrill ride or coaster - if they know they don't have any health concerns. The ride didn't malfuntion and it's not any more dangerous then any other thrill ride, you just have to rub two brain cells together and actually heed the warnings. If it were so dangerous, all 8.6 million of us would be a lot worse off.
Won't let it die Ok, so even though she finally died in March, the parents of Terri Schiavo refuse to believe the autopsy results:
Regardless of the autopsy findings, the Schindlers continue to believe their daughter was not in a persistent vegetative state, their lawyer, David Gibbs III, said after Thogmartin's report. He said they plan to discuss the autopsy with other medical experts and may take some unspecified legal action.
The autopsy reveled what we knew all along. There was no hope. She was so brain damaged that most of her brain had died. There was never even a smidge of hope of recovery. And that it was selfish and cruel of her parents to keep her like that.
A report from a neuropathologist who served as a consultant to the autopsy said Schiavo's brain was "grossly abnormal and weighed only 615 grams (1.35 pounds)." That weight is less than half of that expected for a woman of her age, said the report written by Dr. Stephen J. Nelson. "By way of comparison, the brain of Karen Ann Quinlan weighed 835 grams at the time of her death, after 10 years in a similar persistent vegetative state."
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Schiavo's brain damage "was irreversible, and no amount of therapy or treatment would have regenerated the massive loss of neurons," Thogmartin said.
He said, the vision centers of her brain were dead, meaning she was blind. And his examination showed she would have been unable to take nourishment by mouth because of the danger she might aspirate the food.
Let it go already. Stop this insanity. While the nation only got to "enjoy" the sideshow circus of this case towards the end, those of us here in Florida have heard it for the entire length of the case. Really, to be blunt: move the fuck on. She's dead, she's not coming back and there's nothing left to sue over.
X thing causes cancer Yes, yes, we know. The fact is, breathing causes cancer. Being alive significantly increases your risk of cancer. Look, you can't live your life in a box. ("News at 11pm: boxes shown to cause cancer!") You just have to do it in moderation. Not too much of any one thing and you'll get by. You can't avoid every thing in the world that may increase your risk of cancer. You just can't. So you do what you can do. Don't overdo it on anything, avoid the obvious like smoking and get on with your life. Honestly, it's the best you can do. Worrying about cutting out red meat or butter or eggs or cheese or milk or coffee or whatever "it" is of the week is going to do a lot worse for your health then simply enjoying life in moderation. Because didn't you see the report? Stress causes cancer.
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Ok, I'm done. I'm sure there was more I was going to mention but since it turned into a ranty kind of post I think it's long enough.
