Any day can bring sorrow and pain, but every day is a chance to be happy and to bring the light into the world that shines upon others.  It make sound hokey to some of you out there, but even those of you who smirk or scoff can likely understand what I am talking about, making it hard to disagree.

Obligations and chaos can bring misery and distress at anytime, but kindness can brighten up even the darkest of days.  This holiday season won’t you shine some light upon those around you.  I know I’m certainly gonna try.

A holiday season of hope I wish upon those who need it.

Along with connecting with people from the past and present, Facebook has become one of the most profitable ways to advertise products and content on the internet.  It seems Twitter has reached its capacity for spammers and microbloggers alike and Facebook will be taking the role of the newest way to spam the internet with useless garbage such as affiliate marketing, news programs, and other worthless content.  There is certainly money to be made with the right approach to the use of facebook as a platform for marketing and advertisement.  With a good product and a lot of “friends”one could potentially make millions just from setting up at this one free website.  Even the television companies have gotten in on the game.  As I stated above you can even befriend your favorite news programs on the site now.  This is all about ratings and money, of course.

Why in the world would one go to such a site to check up on the news in the first place?  That is what your homepage is for, oh, and television, and radio, and so on.  Facebook was designed for people to interact with each other, not for logging in to see what is going on with world and local news shows, right?  Besides news shows, one can find the latest fad for internet marketing being spammed as “friendships.”

How long will it take for this site to become old hat?  I am guessing once it reaches the point where hackers and spammers find it so attractive that they overrun the site as they have begun to do with Twitter and MySpace.  I guess we will see in a year or two when the “new car smell” wears off and people are looking for something different.  Facebook is certainly going to stick around for a while, but soon it will be overcrowded and irritating like Black Friday at the mall and people will be looking for the exits.  I wonder which site will become the next big thing…

The Center For Disease Control estimates that more than 36,000 people die in the United States each year(on average) from Seasonal Influenza.  The current number of deaths due to H1N1 this year in the U.S. is 593 as of September 3.  This is less than one percent of the number of estimated deaths due to our conventional influenza symptoms.    The link to this information is http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/updates/us/.

Any number of deaths due to any kind of virus isn’t something that I am fond of, but I wonder if there is a gigantic hype going on in order to sell a vaccine that hasn’t been properly tested and is being rushed into circulation.  How long has the vaccine been tested?  Has it truly passed the guidelines for a vaccine or is it being rammed down our throats and injected into our blood prematurely?  Just some concerns…If you have additional information or comments, this is not something to be shy about!

The thing that gets me is when somebody shoots their self.  Not like a suicide…just a dumb or freak accident.  It is hard to fathom that someone could disrespect such a thing as a loaded gun enough to unload it upon them self.  I mean…what about this ?  How does that happen?  I don’t know for sure what that guy was thinking.  There was even little children in the room!

Now, this next one could happen to anyone.  Glad this has never happened to me!  Anyone ever had any thing like that happen?  I hope not.

What about this …Is it really that funny?  I would want to learn gun safety or etiquette from this group.

This is just a small portion of the ridiculous video footage of people who shoot guns that obviously need a refresher course in safety with weapons.  It is not recommended that anyone follow by these examples.  However, I believe that everyone is entitled to own a weapon and without the terrible restrictions that our government is attempting to place upon one of our most important freedoms.

There is legislation soon to be acted upon namely HR1388 and HR 45 that will limit our rights as citizens of the U.S. to bear arms.  There is too much information to simply scan through to understand it all, but I do believe that this legislation is detrimental to our way of living and our freedom.  You may want to check into this and send a message to all representatives that you can contact to voice your opinion.

I know the answer should be obvious, but there are many different belief systems in this world and I for one want to know the priority of family versus soul/spirit of each.  Of course I can not perform this investigation properly without seeing what the viewers here have to say, so please comment.

The real deal is that things are not as bad as they could be.  What will it take for American’s to realize that drastic changes have to be made around here.  For our childrens’ America to be the glorious nation that we have claimed to be for so long, we need to prove once again to the world that we are supreme in our essence, the key to the future of the world, and the strongest/smartest nation on earth.  I watch everyday as people whine and cry, “Don’t spend up all the money!,  Don’t take money from me!, Don’t let them do that, it will cost me too much.”  Don’t, don’t, don’t!  This nation was founded by people who gave up everything for the dream.  How many of them said, “Don’t do that!”?

I think we have this huge problem with change.  Such a huge problem that it has become more an issue than many of the problems we deal with nowadays.  Noone wants to give up anything for their “beloved” country.  They want to keep everything the way it is unless they are of the minority-the unemployed, those with no healthcare coverage, those impoverished by lack of education and lack of resources with which to fix said problems.  So keep on keeping all that you have.  While you have it.  When you no longer have a job, or a car, or a family doctor, or a roof over your head, and noone cares, maybe you will understand what it is to give up something for the greater good.  Until then good luck for your bad Karma;)

Keep buying cheap foreign-made things, keep hoarding anything we can, keep on bitchin’ about anything rather than taking action, keep making more rules to protect the feeble-minded, keep doing things the way we have always done them.  Keep doing things this way and we will no longer be able to say we are Americans who are Free.

What will it take to again make America the nation that all others aspire to become?  Remember the fact that your neighbor may not be as well off as you.  Just because your pockets are lined, doesn’t mean that the person living next to you even has money with which to eat.  Quit being so greedy.  Oh, and calling the President a socialist because he wants your neighbor to have the things that you have is not the way to go about affecting change.  I am not saying that the things he is doing are all right, but he has a mountain of trash to dig through in order to find any solutions at all.  I can not believe that we are so set in the old ways of processions that new, life altering, society changing, social bar bending ideas can be so quickly dismissed.  Personally, I feel the “cash for clunkers” deal is raw.  That money should ahve to be spent on American made products and only American made products.  Why give other countries the opportunity to profit from us while we are in a down economy?  However, there is a method to the madness and pure math is the root of the deal.  Fixing the math in the equation of the moment may help to clear out paths for solutions to other problems we face.  The only thing it will take to truly fix our current economic rut is to buy American, be American, love your fellow Americans! But, hey, what the hell do I know anyway?

Do we REALLY want that to happen?  I say hell no!  It is bad enough that many of our children are taught by the television and video games.  What the heck are people thinking…having Robots teach kids! This can only lead to job loss and dehumanization.  If someone were to tell me that my son were going to be taught by a robot…Oooh…I’d have to let them in on a little secret-No robot is going to teach my kid how to do anything, except maybe how to destroy robots that are trying to take over human jobs and tell humans how to think!

Okay enough of all that.  Now I would like you to see this .  Is it really important that we all have a personal robot assistant in the future?  I don’t think I would ever enjoy the “Jetson’s” lifestyle even if I were able to afford it.

Next thing would be this.  You need to read the article below the huge-breasted robot chick with no hair!  Sega is about to release the first plastic girl that can pucker up for the creepy ol’ perverts!  I was sickened by the whole thing, although you may get a girl to have some sort of sex encounter with jealousy from only one of the two “women”?  Not my kind of thing, but to each their own, I guess.

So there are many ways that robots are preparing to take over humans’ positions in society.  That just means more rich people will get to keep their money and more poor people will have less due to the lack of medial positions open to humans.  Robots don’t sue for worker’s comp, they can’t bitch about company policy if they aren’t programmed to, and if they give you too much trouble, you can melt them down-if they don’t get you first!

Here’s a list of robot-type stuff just for fun..(Click on them)

N.A.I.R.

EATR

ASIMO

A New York teen is facing arson and reckless endangerment charges after he set fire to his BMW. Long Island police have quoted the boy as saying his motive was “he hated the car”. Now typically I would say “Who cares”, its his property,  however surveillance vidoe showed the vehicle was parked directly next his aprtment building at the time he set fire to it, like less than five feet.

The sad thing is, half the country is offering “Cash for Clunkers” the thing would have likely brought him in two or three thousand in trade somewhere! Now thats burning hatred here on The Burning Questions.

That is a pretty powerful position.  The original interest rate on an account may be 10 percent, but the limit is something over 30 percent!  For a person with a 5000 dollar balance, this is a huge increase in the monthly payment.  The individual may have been paying somewhere between fifty  and one hundred dollars a month, but is then side-swiped by a two-hundred or three-hundred dollar minimum per month.  This simple detail sends many into a financial downward spiral that they can not recover from.

Now legislators are giving billions to corporations in order to keep them (hopefully) from going under and are taking that money from the individuals who are looking at bankruptcy themselves.  This has to stop.  The companies are reaping the rewards of faceless immunity of the law and something has to be done about it. What happens when the corporations that sent these individuals into bankruptcy, give out the big bonuses and file themselves?  I think they should suffer as we do.  They should be held responsible for their actions.  Yes, the government has thrown money at the problem to stall the situation, Now they need to begin holding these individuals responsible rather than let them hide behind the title of the corporate entities they create to avoid such responsibility.  Credit card companies are at the top of this list with others such as insurance, banking(which are often the keystones of the credit card companies), and industrial corporations.

1:  If something changes about the way your vehicle runs all of a sudden…There could be something going wrong even if it seems only a minor difference.  There could also be gremlins living in your breather box.  Who knows?

2:  Check your fluids regularly.  That means every week.  Every fill up.  Something more than waiting for the check engine light to finally come on…OKAY?

3:  If a fluid is low, it could mean something is wrong.  Now, if you have ran your vehicle three thousand miles past the oil change deadline and you are a couple of quarts low on oil, well… GO GET IT CHANGED!

4:  If your car changes color on its own…Sorry ’bout your luck…you have probably just been punked!

5:  Have you checked your muffler bearings?  Just thought I ‘d ask.

6:  If your car makes a terrible squeal when you push on the brakes…Well, you probably need new brake pads…or tires!  You should probably buy quality in either or both of these categories.  They are technically the two most important parts of going and stopping on your four wheels.

7:  That grinding noise that you hear… the one that goes away when you turn up the radio… probably IS something to look into!

8:  When you look under your car or where you generally park your vehicle, is there are large dark spot of nasty yuck pooling up?  That would lead me to believe something is leaking out of my vehicle.  Might even get out of the car and look for a wet spot somewhere on the undercarriage.  Might even think about getting that leak taken care of.  But that’s just me…you do what you want.

Intelligence officials state that Iran has possibly a few years to go before being able to overcome technical issues having to do with the assembly of an atomic bomb.  It does not seem that the U.N. is very concerned with North Korea’s latest attempts at disturbing the world with their antics.  Many believe that they are really just trying to extort money from the world’s leading nations.  Syria has had two instances in the past couple of years (including the most recent) where minute amounts of nuclear material have been discovered, but no real evidence of anything more than traces of undeclared material.  Does this mean there is no real threat?

There are many countries with nuclear capabilities other than these three examples.  Fact is: we really don’t know how many.  After the Soviet Union fell, there were many sites with nuclear devices that were unknown, possibly even unmanned.  How are we to tell who has what any more?  It is possible that many countries have “nukes” that we have no idea about…Even the ones that we think we know about may have far more or less capabilities than we believe.  Is this cause for concern?  Absolutely.  Is there much we can do about it?  Not without having the entire U.N. at our disposal.  There is no way we as a nation will get much support for searching out nuclear issues any time soon.

So what do we do?  Sit on our heels and wait to see what happens?  At this time, I would say yes.  It is impossible for us to do much more than wait and see.  If we spent as much time and money on developing our own new technologies, though, as we do waiting to see what the other guys does next, we may not need to worry as much about the other guy.  This is one instance where I would have to say that Ronald Reagan was on the right track back in the 80’s.  SDI was a great idea and we could use that kind of thinking in today’s world once again.

The news has taken to the rumor mill that General Motors will sell their gas guzzling Hummer brand to a Chinese company and I am wondering if this is a national security issue? Hasn’t our military has become accustomed to driving the rough terrain in a Hummer?  These radical automobiles have been outfitted with armor and weapons in order to protect and defend our troops.  What vehicle will take this “tough trucks” place?

I never even liked the gargantuan gas guzzling machine, but with the way vehicles are made nowadays, the monster of the auto industry, HUMMER, will be sorely missed.  Saturn is on the chopping block as well, but I don’t think that the plastic car will be as much of a loss to the American way as the Hummer.  The only way that this could be a good thing for America is if some homegrown company begins to make some sort of vehicle to replace this unique staple.  Leave a comment tell us what you think.

In an update I received, I found out that Hummer is merely a name bought by GM.  AM General is the actual producer of the military version of the Hummer.  Still, I like to think of the machine as an American machine and it is a thorn in my side that the Chinese could take yet another pride from us.  Thanks to HatedNation for lookin’ out!