Right to Arm Bears

The gun lobby, and the firearms rights organizations are primarily targeted towards right-wing Americans. And for the most part, it is these right wingers who are members of these organizations and are the ones who firmly believe in their 2nd Amendment rights. Why aren't there large concentrations of liberal, left wing Americans that are firearms owners?

It seems awfully irresponsbile for liberal America to just hang around, when there are people that are antithetical to their lifestyle arming themselves. Who is liberal America going to rely on, the military and police force to protect them? Well, those two groups tend to trend conservative anyway. As much as I know that many of those people very much hold dear and honor their duty to the Constitution and the citizenry, it doesn't hurt to be unprepared.

I beleive in liberal (as in left wing, not a damn aresenal) firearm ownership, simply because there are nutjobs on the right who beleive with their whole hearts that our Muslim non-American Socialist President represents a clear and present danger to the American way of life, and they are prepared with tactics and arms to either overthrow him, or fend off the destruction of the America. I'm assuming the liberals were planning to do this by making everyone marry gay people or have abortions based on what they fear.

So as the right wing suspiciously eyes brown people, or practices their marksmanship, the rest of liberal America chuckles over web clip of the Daily Show, writes ego-inflating reviews on Yelp, because they think they are foodies, or offers non-denominational prayers to no specific deity that the Obama Administration will pull it together. This seems like an extremely bad idea.

Dear libs, get some guns.

Bad Religion

"If you don't sin, then Jesus died for nothing."

This was something I posted a couple days ago as my Facebook status. Obviously, I meant it to be extremely tongue in cheek. But, in my fever crippled haze the last several days, I wondered about my relationship with God/Christ/The Church as a whole.



To be perfectly honest, my relationship with God/Christ/The Church has been going downhill that last several years. Maybe downhill isn't the best term, its more like I've been on a divergent path. I'm not switching religions or anything like that, nor am I going the absence of religion route. I just feel disconnected to God right now.

I know a lot of it started because of my last "home" church. Its not that it was a bad place, and I am eternally thankful that it is where I came to Christ. I came away from there with two of my dearest friends. However, I think it just wasn't the right place for me to grow as a Christian. And there are a lot of reasons for that. One, it was a Korean church, and that throws in a cultural/social aspect that I don't know that's necessarily good. Two, I was such the opposite of many people that went to church there.

The other major factor in my current issue with my faith is the continuing balkanization of Christians in the United States. I don't have a problem with any group asserting their political views in the system. Its what makes America great. However, it pains me to see it stray so far from what I have percieved Christianity to be when I first came to it. The most hateful, vitriolic, close-minded people I have encountered in the past 3 years, have all be Christians. How do I know this? They proclaim it loudly and vehemently. This sort of proclamation is normally a good thing, to be unashamed about one's faith. But their righteousness causes me to withdraw more from my own worship.

So where am I with the Big Guy? I dunno? Its not like we're at a detente or anything. I just feel kind of ambivalent towards the whole thing right now. I don't feel Him in my life. Maybe I'm not allowing myself to be filled, I dunno. I guess nothing to do but move on and keep the faith, I suppose.

I am who I am. Flawed. And a diva?

So, I was thinking about this blog on the way to work this morning. I had ignroed it for sometime, and I haven't been posting a regularily as I should or do. So I decided to blow it up and start over again. Yes, boom goes the dynamite.

So we'll start off with an introduction I suppose. I suppose it serves a couple purposes. One, that it kind of update people who did read this regularily what I am up to now, and lets any bored person who stumbles upon this later to learn who I am.

Name: Mike C.

Age: 34. I admit, its much harsher when you actually have to acknowledge it.

Gender: Male

Occupation: Consultant/Project Lead

Location: Chicago, IL

Favorite Food: Brisket, any sort of smoked, slow cooked meat actually.

Favorite Music: Too many to list. My iPod is Bad Religion, Susie Suh, Jay-Z, The Clash, The Beatles, The Roots, Ben Folds, Ben Harper, Bon Iver, Blondie, The Cure, New Order, Erasure. It goes on and on.

Favorite Movies: Same boat.

Tattoos: 6 and counting.

I'll admit, I'm sometimes hot headed. Sometimes emo. Almost always inappropriate. I may not say it, but I'm thinking it.

OK. Gonna stop, as this is sounding like a personal ad. Anyway, I'll close with my song of the day. I dunno why this song is it, but when I listened to it, I imagined my friends' wedding, when they danced with each other. I dunno it makes me happy.