Thursday, March 29, 2012

News and entertainment that's been going on as of late

I know that I haven't written in a while and posted on my blog, however that was only in due to the fact that I was currently working on my transcibing the note book that I had written when it came to the book that I'm currently working on, and so it kinda left no room to be able to post to my blog that I should've been doing in the first place. I mean here I am, constantly watching the news and checking out the different things that are going on around me, and yet for the life of me I couldn't honestly think of anything to write for the blog that I know anyone would read and hopefully comment about in the first place.
 
However like I said, I have been keeping an eye on the news, and several things popped up, from the father shooting his daughters laptop, to the ex-teacher dating his former student (for which has gotten an update yesterday), to the local of the SPCA ending their contracts with Fresno County. On the entertainment side I've just been doing a lot of reading, and believe me the books that I've been reading have been well worth the read in the first place, from a Wheel of Time book to a Terry Goodkind book, and both have been great.
 
Now when it comes to the news, I know that the father shooting his daughters laptop is a bit of old news, but from what I had seen (namely since he had posted the video and it had been on the news, since I couldn't find it on YouTube at all which actually surprised the heck out of me when I couldn't find it.) I do honestly believe that the father did go a bit over board when it came to shooting the laptop in the first place, yes I understand that he had been driven to that extreme measure, but come on that right there might not have an impact now, but I know that later on in her life that will have an impact since her mind is shutting that off for what happened. I also know that she even weighed in on everything that happened between her and her father. Of course the videos were directed towards the daughter, but that's going to be a bit hard if the daughter doesn't have her laptop to view the videos that he happens to be making in the first place. Though if they happen to have a family computer, that might be a bit different right there.
 
Now as for the later one of the Ex-Teacher now dating a former student (who is actually still going to school), that is something that's not going to be going away any time soon. After all the girl (who is 18 right now) has now moved in with her teacher, and the mother is trying to make it into a felony for what's going on between the two of them. However here's the kicker that so far hasn't been said (and if it has been said, I missed it by mistake), and that's when it comes to the text messages that were sent from the girl to the teacher in the first place. So far that I know of, none of those texts that she sent that were love text were from before she had turned 18, and if that happens to be the case, then the mother's case will not hold up in court. After all the only way that the mother's case will hold at all is if any of those text were sent from before she turned 18, and so far that everyone knows, none of them were. No one really knows what's going on aside from the limited amount of information that's been coming out of the news on this, but it is something to wonder about when it comes to the mother, since she's the one that's trying to prevent them from having the relationship that they now have. Of course the one thing that hasn't been mentioned at all, is the impact from the Ex-Teachers family that is happening. After all it's not just the girl and her mother that's being effected by all of this, it's also his family, who have actually remained quite during all of this. I guess that we're just going to have to wait and fully see what happens.
 
The last bit of news comes today as the local Fresno SPCA ends it's contracts with Fresno on the animal control side of everything, and now people are wondering what's going to happen when they're needed. Now I'm not fully up to date on all of the information that was being talked about, but from what I understand the reason they ended the contracts in the first place was because of some of the complaints that had been lodged over different things, from the care of the animals to the way they were being put down in some cases. Like I said I don't have all of the information, but one has to honestly wonder what in the world is going to happen here in Fresno now that that has happened.
 
The entertainment side of everything deals actually with two books that I had/have been reading, one of them was from the Robert Jorden series, The Wheel of Time, and the other is by Terry Goodkind and is a slight sequel to the Sword of Truth series that he wrote. Now when it comes to the Wheel of Time series, that book series is actually going to be ending coming up this January 8, 2013, with the last book being called Memories of Twilight. I just got that date yesterday when I looked up the fan site dragonmount (http://www.dragonmount.com/) on Google. There is a huge following for the book series, but I'm thinking that the series should be turned into a movie or television series. After all the books would be good and due for it too.
 
Now the last book that I'm actually currently reading right now is call "The Law of Nines" by Terry Goodkind and is actually a sequel slightly to the Sword of Truth series that he had written that was actually really good. "The Law of Nines" takes place in our world, saying that this world is the world that Richard created at the end of the book "Confessor", basically a world with out magic (which is what our world happens to be in the first place). However the two characters in the book of Alexander Rahl and Jax are trying to keep each other alive as they work to save Jax's world from the possible distruction that could possible happen if they can't stop it. Right now I'm a little over half way through the book and honestly I'm having a hard time putting this book down at times. Of course I still have yet to read the book that Terry Goodkind wrote after this one here called "The Omen Machine" which happens to be a Richard and Kahlen book for those that happen to have read the Sword of Turth series. Check them both out and see for your self how good each of them happens to be.

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Felix Sanchez
Sign Dancer, Liberty Tax Fresno, CA
Alhambra High School
Class of '97
Dream World Blog (fictional): http://dreamersworld2016.blogspot.com/
Ninja Chronicles Blog (fictional): http://ninjachroniclesstories.blogspot.com/
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Two hits in one on something very near and dear to me

Now I know that I haven't posted here in a long while, and that's only because I've been working on my book (for which I'm finished with chapter 8 and am currently working on Chapter 9 right now), and so I've been mostly devoted to that, however when you happen to be where I'm at right now (which is homeless) and am subject to nightly service shots (meaning that you're getting forced to listen to the Word even if you don't agree with what they happen to be saying in the first place. However this morning I was listening to my radio station here in Fresno of Alice 96.7 (http://www.myalice967.com/) and a song came up that I just had to talk about not just on my Facebook page, but also here, on my blog as well. Though on my Facebook page, I put a link up to the YouTube video for everyone to see, the song was P!nk's "Perfect".

 

Now the reason why I'm hitting two, and I slightly went in on this in a previous posting, I did talk about religion (which is something that I don't happen to like to much, actually not at all, and I'll be explaining as to why here), but mostly on the political side of the whole thing. Now with what I have to go through at the Fresno Rescue Mission (since that's where I'm currently living right now by choice at least for a little while right now), is a nightly religious service that talks about everyone needing to be saved by God, however with how they do it, they expect people to come up to receive Him. Only problem to that is that you have those that go up there each night that happen to be the same people like crazy, and the thing that they will not get is that (and it doesn't help that the message is the same each night too), is that once you're saved, you're saved period, there is no turning back at all period (unless you're apart of a religion that says that if you screw up you have to confess and then resave yourself).

 

That's one of the reasons why I happen to hate religion, I have a relationship with Jesus, and the end result of that relationship is a far, far better understanding of his Word, and everything that's happening in the world around me. Now I know that there are people out there that will hate what I'm going to be writing here, but I'm only putting out the truth here and not against the people, just the organization. The prime example of religion is the Catholic religion, that religion right there says that they have a rep on Earth for the people in the form of the Pope, and that you must confess to a human priest in order to have your sins cleared. Sorry but that's not how things work at all in the least, you confess with your mouth to the Lord and savor Jesus the son of God Himself, confessing to a person isn't going to do anything in the least when it comes to getting rid of your sin, after all the only one that can get rid of your sin is Jesus, the true son of God. That's why I happen to have a relationship and not a religion, and I do pick on the Catholics a lot, but that's only because the organization is completely screwed up and they refuse to fix it ever (so yeah I'm going to peg on them when ever I always get the chance, like I said the organization not the people, the people are just the innocents that have been duped over the centuries (and if any of the Catholic higher ups see this and say that I'm excommunicated from God, that's kinda hard when I have him in my heart and a relationship and not a religion, plus I'm Christian and not Catholic at all).

 

Now when it comes to the song that I heard P!nk's "Perfect", that song brought to mind everything that's been going wrong lately when it comes to teens (boy or girls doesn't matter which sides) thinking that they have to try and primp themselves up, actually they don't. They are perfect no matter what they do in life.

 

Back in school (elementary through to high school and beyond), I got picked on and teased a lot, all to the point that at times I was in tears. Mostly it was teasing, but that doesn't matter it was still bullying and that's why I happen to hate bullying today, not only because it's gotten worse these days, but because it's still around. Students are being made to think that they have to be something when in fact they can be anything that they want to be in life. My life is a perfect example of that behind the scenes that no one ever knew about at all.

 

Back when I was in school, no one knew how bad things were at home, then again I never talked about it that much either. I was constantly shifting between what I wanted to do when I grew up (though it wasn't till I was nearly out of school that I realized what I would end up being, of course no one really saw it coming in the least), and the one person that was constantly putting me down on that was in fact my own mother who was always saying that I would never actually get anywhere in life with what I wanted to do at all. Believe me, getting told that you're not going to go anywhere in life is not only crushing, it tends to make a kid think that they're worthless, and about 90% of the time, that's in fact what I was thinking. Hell I couldn't get to either go to or get to do most of what the other students at the time were doing, where I lived at I couldn't go anywhere on Sunday's at all because I had to travel by the bus system only and they never ran on Sunday's, and then most of the time when I went any place with my mother even she was putting me down, though never in front of others ever.

 

Then what ended up hurting the most was the nick name that I had gotten back in school, which I will not write here, but those reading this will know that nick name, it was very scaring, and when mom tried talking to the teachers about what was going on, we'd end up in a loop since the teachers actually wouldn't do anything saying that kids would be kids. I hurt a lot those days and I still bear the emotional scars from those times to, and with a partial photographic memory, I can never be rid of them either.

 

Teens these days don't need anything like that, they should be encouraged towards everything that they do no matter what it might happen to be, so that they can find something that they're good at and go for it with all of their heart and all of their mind and devotion. Personally I would love the chance to be able to go back to my high school and talk to the students about what they're going through since I'm often reminded of it my self, and they shouldn't feel like they need to compete in any way shape or form. They are perfect just the way they are, period.

 

'Nuff said!


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Felix Sanchez
Sign Dancer, Liberty Tax Fresno, CA
Alhambra High School
Class of '97
Dream World Blog (fictional): http://dreamersworld2016.blogspot.com/
Ninja Chronicles Blog (fictional): http://ninjachroniclesstories.blogspot.com/
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Thursday, March 8, 2012

A subject that I've been trying to stay away from...

Now I know that with a subject title like that, one would think that I don't really have an idea on the subject that I'm about to talk about, or that I really just don't want to mention it because I might end up ticking people off. Well I don't mind talking about it since out side of this Blog I actually talk about it quite a bit, but I also don't like to impose my views on someone else, however I think that talking about it also does that so I'm at a bit of a loss when it comes right down to it, so I figured that I would just talk about it anyway.
 
It's actually two kinds of topics here, one is dealing with religion, while the other is dealing with gay rights and how religion tramples on those rights, and to let people know right off the bat I'm not gay personally but I do know people that are, and when I look at it from their point of view, I can actually understand what they're going through.
 
Now when it comes to organized religion, it's gotten completely out of hand on so many fronts, from trying to "save" souls, to getting into an area that has brought more governments down than any war ever could have (in fact governments have survived wars compared to this), and that's politics.
 
Religion needs to keep out of government and that's why we happen to have the separation of church and state within the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." So even though it doesn't come right out and actually say it, it's there and I know that at the current time that the Christen right wing nut cases that are out there are trying to say that since it doesn't actually say that it's in there that it doesn't exsist, guess what it was a subtle thing that they're now trying to get rid of completely. This is what is written on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia web site: "Establishment of religion
Main article: Establishment Clause

The establishment clause is "[t]he First Amendment provision that prohibits the federal and state governments from establishing an official religion, or from favoring or disfavoring one view of religion over another."[1]

Originally, the First Amendment applied only to the federal government. A number of the states effectively had established churches when the First Amendment was ratified, with some remaining into the early nineteenth century.

Subsequently, Everson v. Board of Education (1947) incorporated the Establishment Clause (i.e., made it apply against the states). However, it was not until the middle to late twentieth century that the Supreme Court began to interpret the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses in such a manner as to restrict the promotion of religion by the states. In the Board of Education of Kiryas Joel Village School District v. Grumet, 512 U.S. 687 (1994), Justice David Souter, writing for the majority, concluded that "government should not prefer one religion to another, or religion to irreligion."[2]

Separationists

Everson used the metaphor of a wall of separation between church and state, derived from the correspondence of President Thomas Jefferson. It had been long established in the decisions of the Supreme Court, beginning with Reynolds v. United States from 1879, when the Court reviewed the history of the early Republic in deciding the extent of the liberties of Mormons. Chief Justice Morrison Waite, who consulted the historian George Bancroft, also discussed at some length the Memorial against Religious Assessments by James Madison, who drafted the First Amendment; Madison used the metaphor of a "great barrier."[3]

Justice Hugo Black adopted Jefferson's words in the voice of the Court, and concluded that "government must be neutral among religions and nonreligion: it cannot promote, endorse, or fund religion or religious institutions."[4] The Court has affirmed it often, with majority, but not unanimous, support. Warren Nord, in Does God Make a Difference?, characterized the general tendency of the dissents as a weaker reading of the First Amendment; the dissents tend to be "less concerned about the dangers of establishment and less concerned to protect free exercise rights, particularly of religious minorities."[5]

Beginning with the Everson decision itself, which permitted New Jersey school boards to pay for transportation to parochial schools, the Court has used various tests to determine when the wall of separation has been breached. The Everson decision laid down the test that establishment existed when aid was given to religion, but that the transportation was justifiable because the benefit to the children was more important. In the school prayer cases of the early 1960s, (Engel v. Vitale and School District of Abington Township v. Schempp), aid seemed irrelevant; the Court ruled on the basis that a legitimate action both served a secular purpose and did not primarily assist religion. In Walz v. Tax Commission, the Court ruled that a legitimate action could not entangle government with religion; in Lemon v. Kurtzman, these points were combined, declaring that an action was not establishment if

  1. the statute (or practice) has a secular purpose;
  2. its principal or primary effect neither advances nor inhibits religion; and
  3. it does not foster an excessive government entanglement with religion.

This Lemon test has been criticized by Justices and legal scholars, but it remains the predominant means by which the Court enforces the Establishment Clause.[6] In Agostini v. Felton, the entanglement prong of the Lemon test was demoted to simply being a factor in determining the effect of the challenged statute or practice.[7] In Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, the opinion of the Court considered secular purpose and the absence of primary effect; a concurring opinion saw both cases as having treated entanglement as part of the primary purpose test.[6]

Accommodationists

Accommodationists, on the other hand, read the Establishment Clause as prohibiting the Congress or any state from declaring an official religion or preferring one to another, but hold that laws do not have to be shorn of morality and history to be declared constitutional.[8] As a result, they apply the Lemon Test only selectively, holding Justice Douglas' statement in Zorach v. Clauson, "[w]e are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being" 343 U.S. 306 (1952).[8][9]

As such, for many conservatives, the Establishment Clause solely prevents the establishing of a state church, not from publicly acknowledging God and "developing policies that encourage general religious beliefs that do not favor a particular sect and are consistent with the secular government's goals."[10][11]"

Now I know that there's a lot to read there, but it's actually well worth it considering all of the stupidity that is trying to be forced onto us these days. However with religion right now trying to get into just about everything, it reminds me of just about everything that the Catholic Church had done back in the day when it came to what was going on around the world. They wanted to control everything, and it ended up hurting most of the world when they did that, the thing was that they didn't mind being in control of a world that really didn't mind being simple minded robots. These days however, that time is long gone and there's people that are actually thinking for themselves these days. (Yes I've got a major thing against the Catholic organization considering all of the hypocritical things that they've talked about and done.)

Now on the side of gay rights, that's been something that religion has been trying to get killed for ages, but just like they want to say and think that evolution doesn't exsist, I hate to say it but to learn and expand is evolution. So to say that gays shouldn't have any rights, try putting them in your shoes and see how they happen to live. Plus they say that being gay is an option and that people don't have to be gay, that's another lie. Being gay is hard wired into those that are gay, and they are that way from birth and nothing can change that ever, no matter what people say.

Now I know that I've gone more on anti religion (that's because I have a relationship and not religion, I hate religion period and always will) than I did on gay rights, but that's mostly because of my lack of time currently. However I will eventually get back to this topic and more later, but this is at least a start here.

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Felix Sanchez
Sign Dancer, Liberty Tax Fresno, CA
Alhambra High School
Class of '97
Dream World Blog (fictional): http://dreamersworld2016.blogspot.com/
Ninja Chronicles Blog (fictional): http://ninjachroniclesstories.blogspot.com/
Twitter: @timetracker2643

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Monday, March 5, 2012

The stupidity of certain fathers out there

Now I know that this is going to be one topic that's going to either hit a lot of people the wrong way, or it's going to do what it needs to do in the first place, now I'm not talking about father's that will actually stick around when the mothers are pregnant, but the ones that wont stick around. Those are the ones that I'm thinking of as complete idiots, namely for getting the girl pregnant and then taking off never to be heard from again.
 
Now this weekend, my wife came down to visit me, and this was the one topic that I kept thinking about off and on when it came to what's happened to her over the years, and the fact of the matter is that I've been with her through all of the 13 years that her and I have been married, and even though we weren't together for part of those 13 years, I was still with her in some way, always helping her out no matter what it took. Now all of the guys that she's been with, for the ones that have gotten her pregnant and then taken off, those are the jackasses that I'm talking about. I love my wife and will till my dying day and far beyond that as well. However you don't go and leave a girl all because she's fulfilled something that you wanted, and that's namely just the screwing that you wanted in the first place, sorry but not only is that not right, you have an obligation to not only be there for the child, but to also help support that child in the first place once that child is born.
 
Now despite the fact that I personally can't have children, I do feel very strongly about this and always will, and nothing is ever going to change that. I've seen mothers that have had to support their children all on their own because not only could the father never been found, but the deadbeat contested the child in the first place (that's one of the main reasons that DNA tests were created in the first place these days, besides finding the right criminal that did the deed in the first place), and in the end created a very longed out court battle that always ends with the father having to pay support that he should have been paying right at the start to begin with.
 
Now I don't know what my wife is going to think of this posting, but for all the jackasses that had been with her and then left, they should be found and made to pay child support period, or failing that get their asses locked up and then forced to pay the support in the end after all. Yes I'm very passionate about this topic, and there needs to be more awareness when it comes to this, however I don't know if there is any out there right now (either a web site or Facebook page) that one could be able to go to in support of this topic.
 
Beyond that this weekend was something that I will always love, remember and cherish forever and honestly wish that it had never ended at all, however it did and I figured that I would blog about this topic that I feel very passionate about. If anyone has anything to say about it, please post a comment to the blog, after all this is one topic that will never go away no matter how much we want it to end.

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Felix Sanchez
Sign Dancer, Liberty Tax Fresno, CA
Alhambra High School
Class of '97
Dream World Blog (fictional): http://dreamersworld2016.blogspot.com/
Ninja Chronicles Blog (fictional): http://ninjachroniclesstories.blogspot.com/
Twitter: @timetracker2643

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Friday, March 2, 2012

A movie that's going to be hot!!!

Well even though it doesn't come out till the tail end of next month, and this is one movie that looks like it could give a lesson to Warner Bros. and DC comics, don't think that just because you have a group movie that the other characters can't be in their own movies. The only reason why the DC movies have been doing badly is because of two main factors, 1) They pit it up against other major hitters and tell everyone that it's going to be better then the other films playing and in the end get spanked for it, and 2) They often change the look of the costumes from what it's been like in the comics for years. Which in all honesty they shouldn't be doing at all.
 
When it comes to Marvel movies, they tend to go more off of what the costumes in the comics look like, and that's for both the regular series and the Ulitmate versions of the costumes. Plus for every Marvel movie that's come out in the past decade, DC has put a grand total of two characters out and that's it (namely that of Superman and Batman). I'm not counting Green Lantern and Jonah Hex, not only were the both of them one film only, but Warner Bros. decided to kill any second film because their lack of ticket sales. So in the end the only ones that Warner want to put out are just Superman and Batman and no Justice League, now is that Justice?

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Felix Sanchez
Sign Dancer, Liberty Tax Fresno, CA
Alhambra High School
Class of '97
Dream World Blog (fictional): http://dreamersworld2016.blogspot.com/
Ninja Chronicles Blog (fictional): http://ninjachroniclesstories.blogspot.com/
Twitter: @timetracker2643

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