All people are suffering from the recession, with 162,000 job layoffs in January alone. All people that is except for the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints. Somehow the Mormon church has been able to spend Millions of dollars on prop. 8, not to mention the gargantuan temple they just built. How can an organization that is based in Utah pay 17.67 million dollars for a proposition that only effects California, not to mention while the entire nation is in a economic crisis. Not only are they able to donate 77% of donations to pass a proposition, they were able to build a temple that is so large and ornate it is almost ungodly. The site is 12 acres, and the building itself is 58,300 square feet. In the online magazine "the mormon times" the church empathizes with its followers, writing about how it is so incredibly hard to handle the recession, especially not being able to buy the children backpacks or new clothes. This church feels that it is not unethical to make their followers feel like they are having problems too, while they are doing fantastic. Although you do have to look at the fact that the temple was probably built nearly free for them. Here is a description of the first room of the temple done by an NPR correspondant "The lobby is ornate, like the rest of the building, which has exterior walls made with white Chinese granite, floors paved with limestone mined in France, windows filled with pastel stained glass, ceilings hung with crystal chandeliers, and doors, paneling, cabinets and trim carved from Makore wood from the west coast of central Africa." It seems that everyone is suffering from this recession except Jesus's fan club.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Mormons the recession and a succesful prop. 8.
All people are suffering from the recession, with 162,000 job layoffs in January alone. All people that is except for the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints. Somehow the Mormon church has been able to spend Millions of dollars on prop. 8, not to mention the gargantuan temple they just built. How can an organization that is based in Utah pay 17.67 million dollars for a proposition that only effects California, not to mention while the entire nation is in a economic crisis. Not only are they able to donate 77% of donations to pass a proposition, they were able to build a temple that is so large and ornate it is almost ungodly. The site is 12 acres, and the building itself is 58,300 square feet. In the online magazine "the mormon times" the church empathizes with its followers, writing about how it is so incredibly hard to handle the recession, especially not being able to buy the children backpacks or new clothes. This church feels that it is not unethical to make their followers feel like they are having problems too, while they are doing fantastic. Although you do have to look at the fact that the temple was probably built nearly free for them. Here is a description of the first room of the temple done by an NPR correspondant "The lobby is ornate, like the rest of the building, which has exterior walls made with white Chinese granite, floors paved with limestone mined in France, windows filled with pastel stained glass, ceilings hung with crystal chandeliers, and doors, paneling, cabinets and trim carved from Makore wood from the west coast of central Africa." It seems that everyone is suffering from this recession except Jesus's fan club.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Histories and Futures
Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, George Harisson, George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Grover Cleveland, Harry S Truman, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Gore Vidal, and Marilyn Monroe. Any of those names sound familiar? They all have somthing in common too: they didn't go to college. I'm not saying that if you do go to college you won't be successful I just think that people should stop directly relating college and happiness/money/successfulness. I'm tired of hearing that if I don't go to college I will make 50% less or whatever. I would also love it if people would stop thinking that just because I don't care about my letter grades that I don't care about learning or an education: stop assuming I am refusing to go to college just because I don't think it is absolutely necessary. Grades are important if you aspire to be somthing that requires a college degree, like being a medical examiner or a teacher. However, if you aspire to be somthing like a florist, or an artist, or a musician, or a photographer, or a novelist you do not need good grades or a college degree. I would be interested in going to an art college, or go study philosophy but it's not the highest priority on my list right now.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
gObama!
Obama has been president for about two days. Obama has already signed orders to shut down Gitmo within a year! He not only ordered the shut down of Gitmo he also ordered to shut down any secred CIA prisons over seas and he has banned harsh interigation. Obama said "First, I can say without exception or equivocation that the United States will not torture. Second, we will close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and determine how to deal with those who have been held there." Obama has only been president for two days and he is already cleaning up the ungodly, unamerican, unethical mess that X-president bush left behind for us, I think I believe in America again.Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Bush is....
In case you were wondering the first ten things that pop up when you type in "bush is" in the google search box are:
1. Bush is an idiot.
2. Bush is a good president (Don't know what they were smoking).
3. Bush is the antichrist.
4. Bush is a moron.
5. Bushisms
6. Bush is the worst president ever.
7. Bush is a terrorist.
8. Bush is antichrist.
9. Bush is a criminal.
10. Bush is a nazi.
I think that pretty much sums up his eight years as president (except for number two).
P.S. credit to Allie Ogilvie.
1. Bush is an idiot.
2. Bush is a good president (Don't know what they were smoking).
3. Bush is the antichrist.
4. Bush is a moron.
5. Bushisms
6. Bush is the worst president ever.
7. Bush is a terrorist.
8. Bush is antichrist.
9. Bush is a criminal.
10. Bush is a nazi.
I think that pretty much sums up his eight years as president (except for number two).
P.S. credit to Allie Ogilvie.
Jim Sturgess
Jim Sturgess (AKA sexy man beast who lives behind Stephanies couch) is maybe, probably going to be in another movie. Yay! The movie is called "The Way Back" and it's about Soviet Russia, not my fave but Jim Sturgess plays a sexy polish inmate. Who I am sure will do sexy things in a sexy way well acting sexy. Jim Sturgess has not been in a movie since 21 and that was a long time, and a girl can only watch a movie repeatedly so many times...
American Idol
American Idol is redundant, idiotic, and flatout old.
I'm pretty sure that 8 years of the same shit is enough of the same shit. Every year they do the same thing with every single episode, during the auditions they show a few contestants (mostly just the ridiculous ones who they then humiliate infront of the entire audience), they show a few people bitching and moaning A.K.A. flipping the camera off, calling Simon an ass-hole, they do two life stories and then it's over... just kidding add in about 15 minutes of comercials to that. Now it's over. They do this every year, every episode. But at least those ones are better than the hour long ones which go somthing like this: 3 minute song-4 minute commercial-3minute song-4 minute commercial- etc. etc. And then there's the worst dun dun dun the results show. Do those people seriously need to take half an hour to tell us who did the best and who sucked??? There's no substance all it is, is dramatic music, crying, and (you guessed it) commercials. Therefore--
American Idol is redundant, idiotic, and flatout old.
I'm pretty sure that 8 years of the same shit is enough of the same shit. Every year they do the same thing with every single episode, during the auditions they show a few contestants (mostly just the ridiculous ones who they then humiliate infront of the entire audience), they show a few people bitching and moaning A.K.A. flipping the camera off, calling Simon an ass-hole, they do two life stories and then it's over... just kidding add in about 15 minutes of comercials to that. Now it's over. They do this every year, every episode. But at least those ones are better than the hour long ones which go somthing like this: 3 minute song-4 minute commercial-3minute song-4 minute commercial- etc. etc. And then there's the worst dun dun dun the results show. Do those people seriously need to take half an hour to tell us who did the best and who sucked??? There's no substance all it is, is dramatic music, crying, and (you guessed it) commercials. Therefore--
American Idol is redundant, idiotic, and flatout old.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Comercialization of Classics
Today I was listening to the radio on my way home from a friend's house and what do I hear but Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire being totally obliterated. A company would have to sink pretty low to play a classic song on an insurance commercial. Johnny Cash sings with soul and passion, and this one commercial turned that soul and passion into a way to boost sales. They literally changed the lyrics to be singing about insurance. Good-bye respect for the classics-Hello cheap affordable insurance.
The White Stripes
I was so disapointed, I was looking at things online about the White Stripes and I saw that they were coming to the E-center in September. I was really excited because that's way close to my b-day and I could get tickets. But being stupid me I didn't realize that, that was in 2007... So I got all excited over nothing. :(
Inauguration
In two days history will be made.
Barrack Obama will be the first African-American president in the United States.
I think people need to be making more of a big deal about this. This day is going to go down in textbooks all over the world. It is a huge day. People should skip work, skip school, skip any prior engagements they have to watch the inauguration. What do you want to say in twenty years when people ask "Do you remember Obama's inauguration?"? Do you really want to say "No, I was at home sleeping." or "I was in English class learning how to use commas correctly."
Get out there and experience monumental history in the making!
Barrack Obama will be the first African-American president in the United States.
I think people need to be making more of a big deal about this. This day is going to go down in textbooks all over the world. It is a huge day. People should skip work, skip school, skip any prior engagements they have to watch the inauguration. What do you want to say in twenty years when people ask "Do you remember Obama's inauguration?"? Do you really want to say "No, I was at home sleeping." or "I was in English class learning how to use commas correctly."
Get out there and experience monumental history in the making!
Thursday, January 15, 2009
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