"Thoughts and Prayers"

Once again we have had a mass shooting and it has riled the nation. And of course our reaction is to send "Thoughts and Prayers."

Every time a tragedy happens in this country, we think that 'thoughts and prayers' are the answer. Now I am not going to go into the gun control debate and how it does or does not infringe on the 2nd Amendment (gun control doesn't btw).

So lets talk about 'thoughts and prayers'....

Prayers are not be heard by the entity they are being sent to, if they are, that deity does not give a shit. If it did, things would change and it hasn't. May be because a god, any god, does not exist. I know everyone will counter with 'godless people are carrying out these act,' blah, blah, blah....as they shake and rattle their 'good book.' But didn't a god cleanse and absolve everyone of sin on this orb once with a great flood, and if there is so much 'evil' today, why hasn't that happened again? So bring on the floods and ark builders and lets start anew.

That brings us to thoughts. Thought, the action or process of thinking. Yes, we will send thoughts, but we actually will not do any thinking. No thought will be put into actually solving the situation. Outside of thinking that we must do something, nothing will be done. Not a thing. And in a few days those thoughts will go away until the next time (it used to take weeks for those thoughts to go away, but I believe we have become desensitized and now only takes a few days). So we talk about thoughts, but none of us really want to think. That is too much effort.

So keep sending the 'prayers,' maybe next time they will start to take affect. Maybe next time a god will be listening, take notice and take action. As to the 'thoughts...' We will see, but I am not betting on it.

5th Grade Libertarians

A writing assignment in 5th grade is to write a poem or essay with the following prompt...

"If I was in charge of the world..."

Reading through the works I have concluded most 5th graders are Libertarians (which is not surprising as most Libertarians have a thought process that is on the 5th grade level).

Here are the most common things ( and they seem to fit the Libertarian platform) that the 5th graders would do if they were in charge;

• No Homework
• No Medical Shots
• No Vegetables
• No Taxes

I know...you are trying to make the inference to Libertarianism, so let me help.

Homework is just the government led schools forcing regulation and squashing freedoms on the everyday person. Also Libertarians like low educated people and homework just advances critical thinking and gains of knowledge.

Medical shots once again forcing regulation on the populace.

Vegetables are just taking away their freedom or individual rights violations.

Taxes, well not sure what 5th graders know about taxes, pretty sure this is over heard conversations from their parental units, but we will go with that the government is stealing their parents money and if their parents had more money, they would be allowed to buy more things and everyone knows this is good for the free market.

The other thing I noticed was that none of them would do anything for the less fortunate. Not one said anything about helping society. I think this was the most telling thing that made 5th graders Libertarians. Libertarians are a me first oriented bunch, that as long as they get theirs, no body else matters.

Lets hope some get into those liberal slanted academia institutes and become woke...