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Now on with the rant!

I spent about an hour on the phone the other evening with a well known and very nice lady in my comunity. She is one of the nicest people I have ever had the pleasure to meet. Unfortunately she and I were discusing an issue that I have a hard time with and she was pushing. To give a bit of backgruoud, she is the leader of the "Christian Coalition" in our little community. By the way, this is not a problem to me because of my religous belief but rather because it is another instance of people trying to govern morality, which in my opinion is between whoever and God. In fact I did attend the same church as she at one time. By the way, the Christian Coalition is the folks that go to the City Council meetings when issues like outlawing the sails of Pornographic movies and mags, and selling alcohol on Sunday are on the table, and of course they oppose these things.

Any way, the new agenda is video games. We have a small business in our town that is not only an ISP but they also have a lan center. They have about 12 computers on line that whoever in the area can go in and for $4.00 an hour play games, stay off the streets, not drink beer, and not smoke dope. They also have PS2 and X-Box. Anyway, I am sure you have all seen the issue with the game Grand theft Auto on the news. This is what spawned their problem with this lan center because if you are at least 18 years old, you can rent this game there and play it on the PS2. The games that are mostly played are Battlefield 1942, Counterstrike, Half Life, Battlefield 2, and other war simulation games.

THis bunch is now starting a thing trying to get the City to outlaw this game center. FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS FUN!!!!!!!!!!!! What in the world is this. She told me during her quest to make me think this place was evil and needed to be abolished, that "Ted Bundy was a nice man untill he saw a Playboy magazine" and that is what made him kill all thoes people. She also told me that she read that a young boy was adicted to video games and this made him go out and kill 8 cops... And on and on and on and on!

What is this world comming to. Is there a direct link between killers and things like porn and video games. Maby, but not only thoes things, and thoes things coupled with other indicators are only personality charicteristics of thoes who are killers. Acording to her, these kids playing these games are going to start killing people all over the world. I tried to explain to her that any one of them things are not the cause of the bad behavor, but say someone who wets the bed, burns things, torchers animals, and plays violent video games or watches porn is probably someone who will do very bad things. She couldn't grasp the concept that they are BAD, and thier being bad brings them to embrace the above listed things, and not only one of them things, but multiple, and usually all of them.

Why in the world in today's society, do we insist on taking personal responcibility out of every bad thing that someone does, and finding blame somewhere else. Why is it that it is always someone elses fault that a dirt bag kills someone rather than just because he was an evil sadistic person, and will always be that person. This is no diferent that the lady that sued McDonalds because she spilled hot coffie on her lap and they had the odasity to not have a warning on the cup that the contents were hot. ARGGGGGGGGG! What did she think the coffee was cold. Was it usually cold. I always thaught coffie was served hot. How in the world did she win that. Or like the guy that sued an elderly couple because there dog bit him on the leg. He won millions for pain and suffering. (Stop before you side with that man for a moment) In this case this man sued from inside the walls of a prison, and was bit by the dog while he was breaking into their house!! HE WON!

It wasn't the lady's fault she was a bit clumbsy that day and burnt herself with coffee, it was McDonalds because they didn't label the cup.

It wasn't the fault of the dirt bag who broke into a house and got bit,,,NOOOOOO it was the fault of the elderly man and woman, they shouldn't have had the odasity to own a dog and keep it loose INSIDE THEIR HOME, heaven forbid someone break in, they might get bit, and we can't have that.

This kind of links back to that Cop thing I posted before, and sorry about this but I am getting tired of people trying to have government legislate morality. I can't help but feel it is the personal responsibility of parents to raise their kids, and of one's self to do what is right.

Like the saying, "It takes a neighborhood to raise a child." HA, that is milarkey, My mom and dad raised me, with a soft hug or kiss and a iron hand, which ever was needed at the time. Personal Responcibility, what ever happened to it? Argggg, Raaaaaaa, ERRRRRRRR!

And that concludes todays episode of Pumba's corner. May you all have a plesant evening, and come back next week when we will discuse whatever comes up. Or even hav a guest speeker........

Cheers
Ray