The Weiner Recurrence

On May 27, 2011, Weiner sent a link to a sexually suggestive photograph of himself via his public Twitter account to an adult woman who was following him on Twitter. After several days of denying he had posted the image, Weiner held a press conference at which he admitted he had "exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years". He apologized for his earlier denials. After an explicit photo was leaked through the Twitter account of a listener of the The Opie & Anthony Show, Weiner announced on June 16, 2011, that he would resign from Congress, and he formally resigned on June 21.
Now I personally thought this would be the end of the Weiner scandals (pun intended) and that former Congressman Anthony David Weiner would just fade into the background, like many other people before him. But no...Anthony Weiner the peter tweeter is at is again.
The Weinergate scandal has renewed itself, a second scandal began on July 23, 2013, several months after Weiner returned to politics in the New York City mayoral race. Explicit photos were allegedly sent under the alias 'Carlos Danger' to a 22-year-old woman with whom Weiner had contact as late as April 2013, more than a year after Weiner had left Congress.
 "Nearly a week after acknowledging that he exchanged lewd messages with as many as three women since he resigned from Congress over similar behavior, the New York City mayoral candidate has been pilloried by rivals, abandoned by his campaign manager and pummeled in the polls, his front-runner status all but a distant memory." Damn isn't that a shame. Seriously though, my main question is why Huma, Anthony's wife, is still with him?

Tumblr Is Strange

http://nathanshaveninvasion.tumblr.com/

Come on over guys, teach me how to use this goofy site. Because currently Tumblr and I have a love hate relationship

"Trayvon Martin Could Have Been Me"

President Barack Obama made a surprise appearance at the White House Friday to discuss African-Americans' reaction to last weekend's verdict in the George Zimmerman case, saying that "Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago."

"You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot, I said that this could have been my son.  Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago. And when you think about why, in the African- American community at least, there's a lot of pain around what happened here, I think it's important to recognize that the African- American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that -- that doesn't go away," he said.

It's not just the African American community that is effected. The whole country is effected because we allowed a guilty man to walk free...again.

"The African American community is painted with a broad brush"

Yes...just like the rest of us. Everyone has misconceptions and misjudgments made about them. Everybody, from every race, religion, culture, from every walk of life.

Heroin=Bad Idea Kids

On July 13, 2013, at the age of 31, Cory Monteith was found dead in his room at the Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel in Vancouver. He had been scheduled to check out that day following a seven-night stay, but when he failed to do so, hotel staff entered his room and discovered his body around noon. The Vancouver Police Department stated that the cause of death was not immediately apparent, but foul play was ruled out. An autopsy released by the BC Coroners Service was completed on July 15, and stated that Cory died from "a mixed drug toxicity" consisting of heroin and alcohol, and that his death appeared to have been accidental.
Monteith's body was cremated in Vancouver on July 17, following a private viewing by his immediate family and girlfriend, Lea Michele. His father said he did not find out about the viewing or cremation actions until after the fact.

Diacetylmorphine, almost always still called by its original trade name of heroin in non-medical settings, is used as a recreational drug for the transcendent relaxation and intense euphoria it induces. Anthropologist Michael Agar once described heroin as "the perfect whatever drug." Tolerance develops quickly, and users need more of the drug to achieve the same effects. Its popularity with recreational drug users, compared to morphine, reportedly stems from its perceived different effects. In particular, users report an intense rush, an acute transcendent state of euphoria, which occurs while diacetylmorphine is being metabolized into 6-monoacetylmorphine (6-MAM) and morphine in the brain. Some believe that heroin produces more euphoria than other opioids upon injection; one possible explanation is the presence of 6-monoacetylmorphine, a metabolite unique to heroin - although a more likely explanation is the rapidity of onset. While other opioids of recreational use produce only morphine, heroin also leaves 6-MAM, also a psycho-active metabolite. However, this perception is not supported by the results of clinical studies comparing the physiological and subjective effects of injected heroin and morphine in individuals formerly addicted to opioids; these subjects showed no preference for one drug over the other. Equipotent injected doses had comparable action courses, with no difference in subjects' self-rated feelings of euphoria, ambition, nervousness, relaxation, drowsiness, or sleepiness.  Like most opioids, unadulterated heroin does not cause many long-term complications other than dependence and constipation. Due to increased vulnerability to infectious agents, particularly viruses and intracellular bacteria resulting from the suppression of various cell-mediated immune pathways, the use of heroin and other opioids, even at normal therapeutic levels, may lead to opportunistic infections, which carry their own lasting effects.The average purity of street heroin in the UK varies between 30% and 50% and heroin that has been seized at the border has purity levels between 40% and 60%; this variation has led to people suffering from overdoses as a result of the heroin missing a stage on its journey from port to end user, as each set of hands that the drug passes through adds further adulterants, the strength of the drug reduces, with the effect that if steps are missed, the purity of the drug reaching the end user is higher than they are used to and because they are unable to tolerate the increase, an overdose ensues.

That being said, Montieth had just recently completed rehab for substance abuse,  he used the same amount of heroin that he used before he went to rehab to get high, his body couldn't tolerate the mix of alcohol and heroin, and he died. (my own conclusion)

Now Cory was an idol of mine, and his death really really sucks. But I think that there is a positive to his death, and that would be a Cory Montieth's story is a cautionary tale, maybe kids will be less likely to do smack.

Let's Make Dzhokhar Tsarnaev An Idol, So He Can Have Fangirls

Our hearts go out to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing, and our thoughts are always with them and their families. The cover story we are publishing this week falls within the traditions of journalism and Rolling Stone’s long-standing commitment to serious and thoughtful coverage of the most important political and cultural issues of our day. The fact that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is young, and in the same age group as many of our readers, makes it all the more important for us to examine the complexities of this issue and gain a more complete understanding of how a tragedy like this happens. –THE EDITORS

Well okay, so then why didn't you put James Holmes on the cover, he is around the same age as your target age readers.
And the fact that the Rolling Stones cover featuring Tsarnaev is deemed to be "sexy" is even worse. You see there is something in the psychology of some females (not all, but some) that makes them become hoplessly infatuated with people who have done truly terrible things, so long as those monsters don't look half bad. Dzhokhar looks like he could be part of a boy band. Some think he is innocent, some don't care either way. All of them are bat shit crazy and are in need of some intense therapy.
Like this girl, named Alisha, she's a waitress, and she's getting a Tsarnaev quote tattooed on her forearm. How dumb can you get? I hope all these people are just trolling. But probably they aren't

Mental Disorders In Winnie the Pooh

Eating disorders are conditions defined by abnormal eating habits that may involve either insufficient or excessive food intake to the detriment of an individual's physical and mental health. Pooh is constantly looking for honey, and he goes completely out of his way to get it. Pooh could also be characterized as a substance abuser.

Piglet could be characterized as having general anxiety disorder. Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is an anxiety disorder that is characterized by excessive, uncontrollable and often irrational worry about everyday things that is disproportionate to the actual source of worry.   Individuals often exhibit a variety of physical symptoms, including fatigue, fidgeting,  muscle tension, muscle aches, difficulty concentrating, trembling, twitching, irritability, agitation, sweating, restlessness,and inability to fully control the anxiety. Piglet is consistently terrified of everything.


Tigger could be characterized as having ADHD. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder  is a psychiatric disorder or neurobehavioral disorder characterized by significant difficulties either of inattention and/or hyperactivity and impulsiveness. There are three subtypes of the disorder which consist of it being predominantly inattentive (ADHD-PI or ADHD-I), predominantly hyperactive-impulsive (ADHD-HI or ADHD-H), or the two combined (ADHD-C), which shows all three difficulties. Tigger has an inability to sit still, and is constantly bouncing around.

Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder characterized by intrusive thoughts that produce uneasiness, apprehension, fear, or worry; by repetitive behaviors aimed at reducing the associated anxiety; or by a combination of such obsessions and compulsions. Symptoms of the disorder include excessive washing or cleaning; repeated checking; and nervous rituals, such as opening and closing a door a certain number of times before entering or leaving a room. Rabbit is a complete and total neat freak. If things are done differently than he would have done them, its wrong.

Depression is a state of low mood and aversion to activity that can affect a person's thoughts, behavior, feelings and sense of well-being.  Depressed people may feel sad, anxious, empty, hopeless, worried, helpless, worthless, guilty, irritable, hurt, or restless. Eeyore is the poster-child (poster-animal?) for depression. You cannot tell me that you didn't make that connection when you were little. That Eeyore was always sad or miserable.

Narcissism is a term that originated with Narcissus in Greek mythology who fell in love with his own image reflected in a pool of water. Currently it is used to describe a person characterized by egotism, vanity, pride, or selfishness. Whenever Owl is asked a question he goes of on a tangent about himself or his relatives.

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by a breakdown of thought processes and by a deficit of typical emotional responses. Common symptoms include auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking, and it is accompanied by significant social or occupational dysfunction.
Christopher Robin, believes that all the previously stated animals can talk, and that they interact with their environment, with him, and with each other

The Vomit Artist: Probably The Worst Idea I've Ever Seen

So Millie Brown is known as the vomit artist. She drinks colored milk and then jams two fingers down her throat, to regurgitate the colored milk on a canvas. Brown's work is called "Nexus Vomitus," About her art, Brown says: "I drink colored milk — the process is not painful but after several hours of vomiting it can take its toll, which is why I limit the number of colors I use. … The use of canvas is a natural progression from my early performances. I started puking down myself in various outfits, but wanted more longevity from the end result."

Does nobody get that, by shoving two fingers down her throat and calling it art, she is encouraging people to be bulimic. Basically she is saying "Here Kids! Jam two fingers down your throat and you can create art and be skinny all at the same time!"

Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by binge eating and purging, or consuming a large amount of food in a short amount of time followed by an attempt to rid oneself of the food consumed (purging), typically by vomiting, taking a laxative, diuretic, or stimulant, and/or excessive exercise, because of an extensive concern for body weight.

Imagine if someone cut themselves and it was recognized as art. We'd have a bunch of people creating permanent scars on their body for the sake of art...oh wait we already have that. It's called scarification modification.

Does anybody get what I'm trying to say here??

Beautiful isn't it?

You Aren't Stuck Unless You Choose To Be

What did you want to be when you were young? A Ballerina? An Astronaut? The President of The United States? A Nobel Peace Prize Winner?
Let me guess, now that you're older, you have "realized" that those dreams are "hopeless." That you're just stuck. Stuck in a monotonous job, in a shitty home life, car is wrecked, spouse decided that they were sick of your sorry ass, bills are late, and money can only stretch so far.
Or you're fresh out of highschool, and you were the popular guy, got all the girls, had the muscles, but didn't have the brains to pass the 8th grade, but the teachers keep barely passing you, just so they didn't have to see your face anymore. Senior year came and went, and *gasp* guess what buddy? Nobody gives a shit that you were top dog in your school, because now you're just another face in the crowd.
But either way you aren't stuck.
In what grade do we stop believing in ourselves. In what grade do we stop believing period. I mean someone has to be a Nobel Peace Prize Winner, someone has to be a Ballerina, so why not us?

A Complaint About The School Education System

What grinds me the most about the school system is that we’re sending kids out into the world who don’t know how to balance a checkbook, don’t know how to apply for a loan, don’t even know how to properly fill out a job application, but because they know the quadratic formula we consider them prepared for the world? With that said, I'll admit even I can see how looking at the equation x -3 = 19 and knowing x =22 can be useful. I'll even say knowing x =7 and y= 8 in a problem like 9x - 6y= 15 can be helpful. But seriously, do we all need to know how to simplify (x-3)(x-3i)??
And the joke is, no one can continue their education unless they do. A student living in California cannot get into a four-year college unless they pass Algebra 2 in high school. A future psychologist can't become a psychologist, a future lawyer can't become a lawyer, and I couldn’t become anything more than a Wal-Mart employee (which I will be damned if I let that become my future place of work, since I know I could win the Nobel Peace Prize if I tried hard enough) unless each of us has a basic understanding of engineering.
Of course, engineers and scientists use this shit all the time, and I applaud them! But they don't take years of theater arts appreciation courses, because a scientist or an engineer doesn't need to know that 'The Phantom of the Opera' was the longest-running Broadway musical of all time.
Get my point?

LGBT T-Shirt Company??

So guys and gals, I'm thinking of starting an LGBT T-Shirt Company I don't have too much more to say about it yet, but I can say it will be sort of like http://point5cctshirtcompany.webs.com/ and I do have a couple of shirt examples. Obviously they wouldn't look so edited.

Fear in Batman Begins

One of the main themes in Batman Begins that I never really thought of  is fear.  Much of the plot is driven by fear, and the movie explores fear in order to show how it affects people’s lives and their motivations.  It also discusses just how, when fear takes hold of a human being, it deconstructs who that person is and swallows them entire.  The mastery of the control of fear is what truly liberates a human being because without fear people can truly do anything they desire.
Two polar opposite effects of fear that eerily mirror each other are that of Batman and Ra’s al Ghul.  Both of them experience great fear during their lives, that fear imposed by similar sources.  That fear comes from the criminal underground.  Batman lost his parents to a criminal and it is heavily implied that Ra’s did as well.  The key is in the difference between their targets.  While Batman utilizes his fear to save the innocent from those criminals, Ra’s utilizes his to attempt to destroy those criminals and the ability to produce more criminals.  This difference says something about the level of control that each has over their fear.  Batman has enough control over his fear to retain a sense of rationality, distinguishing who is the enemy and who is the innocent.  He even has a code that dictates that he cannot murder anybody, something to set him apart from that criminal underworld and ensure that he truly is making a difference.  Ra’s, on the other hand, cannot distinguish the good from the bad.  His fear drives him to attempt destroying the entirety of Gotham City, a completely irrational judgment call fueled by an extreme desire to ensure justice.  Where does any extreme behavior come from?  Extreme Christians fear God and damnation in hell.  Some people starve themselves because they fear gaining weight.  Extremism is born from fear, and Ra’s is different than Batman in that he doesn’t control his fear.  His fear controls him, creating the extremism that births his villainous behavior.
Another way fear is examined in this movie is through the drug that Scarecrow administers to bring out peoples’ deepest fears.  Not even Batman is immune to this fear, despite his control over it.  Even though people control their fears, all to some degree, everybody still fears something.  It may be tucked back in the depths of the mind, but it’s still there.  Nobody is fearless.  Fear would indeed deconstruct a society as the fear drug would have done to Gotham.  Fear breeds violence, and violence is what destroys societies.  Revolution or anarchy, both tear apart the political structure because violence threatens the safety of the populace and the political structure is supposed to ensure that safety.  The fear drug is a way to examine what would happen if fear and panic completely overtook a populace, and the movie argues that it would completely destabilize and destroy a society.
So Batman Begins takes the notion of fear and does a fantastic job showing how it would affect people on a small and large scale.  On a small scale, it can take a person and completely twist their motivation.  On a larger scale, it’s far more effective, taking entire societies and civilizations and reducing them to nothing.  Ra’s is fueled by fear, but we’ll soon see that not all villains share the same motivation.  Some men are far less sympathetic than Ra’s.  Some men just want to watch the world burn.