WARNING: This Post Will Offend You In Some Way

Now, I don't typically post strongly political or religious stuff on here due to my (for lack of a better term) "mixed" audience, but it's getting truly ridiculous. It was around this time last year that I watch a bunch of smart people lose their minds and make us out to be a band of complete idiots. I love being a Christian, I really do, but there's not a ton of things more un-Christ-like than rendering that which is Cesar's to be God's. There's no love in manufacturing yourself a martyr in the name of "free-speech" on the steps of Washington D.C. Stop confusing the message of an absolute need for a Savior with bigotry and hatred. I know a lot of these terms are thrown about aimlessly by both sides and not everyone who is/was pro Prop 8 is a hateful bigot, but look at what the people are seeing! What would you think if a group of people stood up and said, "we want to legislate against Christianity"? Would you not be appalled? Would you not picket? What would you do if a country founded on religious freedom and beliefs actually printed a ballot that outlawed a belief?

Stop giving people more reasons to hate us, they already have plenty, and do what we are compelled to do by the Bible which is to pray for EVERYONE and not ignore or hate people for having a different opinion. Who died and made us God? Why are we spending so much time arguing and fighting with each other? Pray, people, that's what we're supposed to do.

I realize I'm not the best example for any of this stuff and I've probably lost one or two (read: all) of my readers because of this post, but it's getting ridiculous. I know there are plenty of people who disagree with me too, but it's the internet and I can write what I want, therefore, my post...

[kyle]

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Report Something Worth Listening To: Educate Me

I realized again, this evening, that my faith in the American public (on the whole) is shattered on a [week]daily basis. This is one of those things that makes me wish we were less of a free nation. The network news organizations (if you can stretch that term enough) have finally done exactly the opposite of what they set out to do: they now fail to report the news to the public.

When I turn on one of the major networks (ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, etc), I expect to see local, national, and international happenings, but lately, I see news on what Perez Hilton is doing or what crap happened at the Teen Choice awards. I don't care about that stuff, it's better suited for TMZ.com (which also shouldn't be given a time-slot on television either, by the way). Those "news" organizations are for entertainment news, not for actual news. I want Fox to cancel their entire news for the day, and begin giving the government 30 minutes of un-interrupted (non-commercial) time for them to essentially read what pressing stuff that matters. You know, what the great Walter Cronkite did in the glory days of American news. Nowadays, the only "free" culture in the world that reports actual news and not 90% fluff pieces is the BBC...GOVERNMENT RUN NEWS.

If you know me at all, you know how opposed to government run anythings I normally am, so why the turn for the news? Because, we as a people have strayed so far from the path of actual news that I think the government's press offices would be better suited to give us a 30 minute broadcast of their making and the private news can stay on cable/satellite for the 24-hour-coverage of what new crazy person is MJ's children's parents. I don't care about that crap.

That's enough about all that, but what do you think (all three of you)?

[kyle]

Growing Up

There are those milestones in life that cause you to reflect. Who knew that 24 years and some change was what would cause a huge reflection. It may not be as much my age and time on this earth as much as it is a lot of major life events. I came to the conclusion recently that I may just be too old for some things now. It's getting to be about that time. I'm not going to go make any sort of Murtaugh list or anything as that has a tendency to limit my possibilities. But, I have evaluated that drama and personal issues that have arisen at work are not for work, they're not even for home. I'm almost 25, and being petty about "who's dating who" and "did you hear what happened to so-and-so?". These are not my issues to deal with. I don't care about your personal life while I'm at work. I mean, really do I? No, because it's none of my business and I don't want it to be.

Furthermore, Kimberly is my life, not yours. She belongs to her family and me and if you want to try to horn in on what's going on when it really is none of your business, I'm not going to be friendly to you. I'm not coddling her, I'm not being overly protective, I'm not controlling her. She is her own woman and I'm allowed to and want to be apart of it. Don't mess with it.

I'm also too old to be involved in whatever's going on in your life. Trust me, if I'm interested in what's going on with you, you'll know. I'd call, text, facebook, blog, comment or maybe just talk to you...point is, you'd know.

This is all really intense, I understand, but it's just getting old getting wrapped around someone's personal life that was not my business to begin with. The problem is that venting my frustrations about my previous choices (and their current consequences) here (to Brad, Kim, and whoever RSS'd this) isn't much at solving my issues with myself. I guess that I just needed a place to write down my resolve so that I can re-read it later and be reminded that getting too involved hurts you. Being involved itself isn't the harm, it's the trying to extend a helping hand to someone that shoves it hard enough to slap your own self in the face, that is the true danger. I'm over it.

[kyle]

In The Shadow Of The Moon

I've been a bit of a night owl the last few months. It definitely doesn't make for an easy life, I'll tell you that. I'm getting to that point where I hope that the end is near, where the 11:30 PM off time I used to have is "early", where I can get home and get to sleep all in the same day, where I can be with Kimberly...sigh...I love my job, but I also love my new home with Kimberly, cats, neighbors, et al. I do want to get on to enjoying it.

This being away all the time majorly sucks. I feel like a hidden community of some organism that moves only in the light of the risen moon and no one really knows it's there until they mis-function once and it disrupts the delicate balance of the "day people". Its not as if I feel under-appreciated, but I do feel disconnected. I feel like this isn't what I was supposed to be doing although it is what I'm supposed to be doing. The upside is that I've become the one that delivers and the downside is that my life is starting to show signs of severe suffering. I'm going to start getting that pasty-white skin that people who stay indoors too much get pretty soon, I can just feel it.

If anyone has advice on how to cope with these night shifts or if you happen to know that the end of these shifts is soon, please tell me...

[kyle]

HTML: The Language of Drama

I really want life to go back to a time before Facebook and Myspace. As good as they can be, they're not worthy of the trouble that we allow them to be. People get fired, pissed off, I hear that they're breaking up in that place...the interweb was meant to be a land of possibilities, not porn and drama! Share information, write to the world or just yourself! People have abused this! I was talking today with an associate about how the first internet crime in the "modern age of the internet" was probably committed mere minutes after AOL was released to the masses. What are we doing here? Just who do we think we are?

I'm so sick of this place...

[kyle]