Pearl Harbor and more!

Today is December 7, 2011.  How many of you even know what happened on this day 70 years ago?  Probably only about 75% of you...which is really sad!  The asshole Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and killed countless American soldiers and destroyed part of our Pacific fleet on a beautiful and peaceful Sunday morning!  Why?  Because they didn't realize they would get America's foot right up their asses!  However, if they fought today's military, with the leadership (not the troops) they have and Barack Obama running things...instead of McDonalds we would probably all be eating rice with chopsticks and flinging ninja stars at people!  It baffles me that when it popped up on Facebook about people that had mentioned Pearl Harbor only three people other than myself mentioned it in their statuses today.  Three people...pathetic!  Not that any WW2 vets are reading my blog but hats off to all of you!  Any of the Pacific or European soldiers deserve any kind of respect we can give them.  Next time you see an old man with a "WW2 Vet" hat on, I implore all of ALL of you to just say "thank you"!  All soldiers deserve that, but I just feel like some of our older vets don't get hardly any recognition these days and they had it much worse than any of our more recent wars other than Vietnam.  So God bless all of them and all of our current soldiers!

Stealing music...this is another thing I've gotten away from that I used to do ALL the time.  I mean, who hasn't right?  Well...the "biz" was doing just fine until Napster, Limewire, Frostwire, and whatever else came along.  Now people barely even buy CDs anymore!  Guess who that hurts...THE ARTIST!  You know...the person that you are such a big fan of!  Why is this person making music?  To give away?  NOPE!  They're making a career out of it...how would you feel if you ran a gas station for a living and people stole your gas?  Hmm?  Guess who else it will be effecting in the long run..ME!  Being in school for audio engineering has opened my eyes to how things really work and how important album sales are to the entire business.  I'd prefer that there be a music industry for me to work in by the time I get really good at my job!  The only time I've gotten music "illegally" lately is for pure convenience.  Something I already own but don't have access to or something I've owned in the past and lost.  I've already paid for it once therefore to me its fair game...unless its Metallica which I've probably bought every one of their CDs at least twice!  Point is...stop stealing music!  You're just shitting on the economy even more!  If you can't afford it...tough shit...keep listening to what you have!

A dear friend of mine recently opened my eyes to this "We are anonymous" group.  Now while some of their stuff is pretty cool, the more I dig the more I find NOT to like.  To be honest I don't really know my entire opinion on them yet.  Like I said...some of it I like, some I do not!  When I know more...you'll have my full opinion!  I would like to say another word about our lovely government though!  This protect IP act (or whatever its called) they've dreamed up is a complete crock of horse shit!  Just something else to line all those greedy bastard lawyer's pockets with more money.  Giving anyone the opportunity to sue even for just about anything entertainment related.  Those assholes will sue anyone for anything these days and they make a mockery of our judicial system (as if it needed any help looking inept).  How about someone sue them for being assholes and assisting our crack pot government in running our poor (as in pitiful and flat broke) country in the ground!  Now this may sound a little hypocritical considering what I just wrote about stealing music but there is more to it than just illegally downloading the latest teeny bopper hit from Justin Bieber or some new thug rapper you can't wait to listen to.  It digs into our privacy and our rights...and since the United States Constitution doesn't matter anymore I guess thats not a big deal to Washington!  George Washington and the rest of our founding fathers would turn over in their graves if they knew what kind of bullshit was going on in our nation's capital these days!  We colonized this country to get away from bullshit and a controlling government and look what eventually followed us...scary huh?