Saturday, August 27, 2005

Lyricz

Let's take a census, since the 1st chapter of genesis......
that's when God decided veloci-raptors were menaces.......
so he intro'd killa microbes,
killin' souls til invention of penicillin medicines........
from alexander flemin', ta benjamin and edison......
layin' down the sediments......
wit da infrastructure of their settlements.....
deconstructin' the elements......
but some gentlemen shoulda neva eva metalled in it......
that's settlin' it......
I'm developin' a cure for da speech impediments......
cause what they speak is irrelevance......
and i even got ears that are each about as big as an elephant's.....
each taking trigonometric measurements.....
now peep my elegance......
as i calculate which chicks be on the premesis.....


This next excerpt needs an expert to interpret…….
But it affects the intricacies of cerebral circuits……
Believe me it’s worth it……..
So check it…….
That mad hatter uncle sam is in league with the serpent…..
So this matter’s quite urgent…..
Soul for purchase and he the merchant……..
The church nutures and you return to spiritual searches…….
It immerses ya surface,
Splits what’s little left of the riddle of service ……
And then spreads to the middle of two curvatures….
And now there’s two new worshipers……
Impervious to nervousness…..
Cause they know that they goin ta see the firmaments…….
No indeterminates…..
And it goes so slow that it’s for permanence…….
Now back to rap tournaments…….
The current theory is stated simply by nick-o-liss capernicus……
surely is a helio-centric universe…..


Slipped the disk in……
Impossible to break encrypx-tion……
But ya loved how I flipped my dix-tion…..
reading the dictionary cause it’s not fix-tion…..
That’s how I learned about the principle of frix-tion…..
Lyrics and physics are my convictions…..


He also slew the moose and Mongoose……
And chopped down a spruce…..
No respect for life got our necks in a noose…….
Dissectin’ frogs for ya daughters education ain’t no excuse…..
Why can’t you learn in the abstract like you was obtuse…..
it all starts with Dr. seuss……
then their brain parts to solve two rubix cubes……
it assumes that one edge is fused to the other two by usin’ a relative of music…….
Mathematix……
They thought it was magic…..
And accused me of witch-like tactics……..
And they sick of my antics…….
Explanatory logic just semantics…….
For religious fana-tics……
they wipe with prestigious scholarships to oxford,
but when I dismantled they mausberg……
they went into a panic.....


Why?
Did America lie?
Cause they ain’t got an alibi…….
Make ya swear on the pages of malachi…….
Then judged by an average of 6 average guys…….
Imagine two twins like a Gemini……..
One decides he lives, one decides he dies……….
Sittin’ on the brim between life and the grim…….
His hands is trembi-lin like the vibrato of the vio-lin……..
The crowd goes si-lent as the trial winds down the time…….
And then sim-sa-la-bim……
New evidence lends the defendant a limb……..
A second chance to spare him the injection of potassium medicine……..
Protect ya citizens, don’t ask of them to risk they necks to kill a member of the homo-sapien brethren………


I know you meant well, but the well went dry……….
So ya wished on a star in the sky………
Farther than the reaches of my eye……….
The light just arrived even though it left 9 billion years before I died………
It’s enough to make me cry…….
First einstein finds out crazy theories with his mind……..
Then Heisenberg say there’s three ways to land a dime……..
America perverted it by convertin’ it to a murderous crime………


Since the sixth grade……
I been mixin’ lemonade……
Every year I’d watch the labor day parade…….
Forget gettin' paid……
Let ‘em know that my middle name is wade…….
Yeah that’s he, sittin’ in the shade……..
So his shirt wouldn’t never ever fade…….
playin’ space invaders in the ar-cade……..


Now I’m seein trauma in Rue-wanda…….
Look my friend, ya betta look yonda……
To the daili-lama……..
Or Barrack obama…….
Or at least ta yo mama…….
Replace that question mark? With a comma,
Put my flow in quotes,
Sell it fo the victims in Sri-lanka……
Doctors checkin’ c-anca……
In a little girl named bianca…….
Rhoncherous sounds in her bronch-i,
Turnin’ purple like that chick in willy wonka……..
The bacilli conquered…..
Their agility rests in our futulity to try to erase their species…….
Maybe they alien like e.-t. eatin’ reeses piece-cees……
Biological weapon in the volume of 80 c-c’s…..
Contained within’ the pe-trees…….


never seen a Hippa-pot-a-miss hop
until he hiccup a lotta pop……
just call me pa-pa doc……
twin metropolis is my next stop and I fin to pop off it’s block……
drop a complicated track off the top……
and I’m back with a brand new stock……


eventually they’ll package this…..
cd’s sittin’ on the brackets in the back of gap kids……
sellin’ more units than a super-hero arachnid……
invadin’ ya livin’ room like Iraq did…..
I never stay stagnant……
like metals accellin’ towards a bipolar magnet……
too bad ya fly slower than a guy going backwahd………
try flowin’ that good…….
Why stand where another man stood?


They equate quakes as the real disastas……
Glaciers move at the speed of molasses…….
But when they melt,
the west and the east coast belongs to kansas…….
It’s a darwinian evolution bonanza……
Armageddon puttin’ selective pressure for beneficial cancers…..
we're making amazin' technological advances.....


so what if Biggie had a big waist-line.......
he still one a the illest,
brooklyn's finest, a victim of a hate-crime......
he'd still be in the middle of his late prime.......
i hear you sayin' names, betta state mine.......
ya ain't takin' a dime of my shine........
I'm the dopest cat, that neva got signed........
didn't understand the ramifications of a beautiful mind........
so def, it happens sooner than ya blind,
nah kid, i know none of ya kind.......
look what adam and eve find........
the serpent tryin' ta climb......
lost his limbs now he's back ta the grind.......


Takin’ flak from the stars and stripes……
Even though God gave ‘em sight……..
They blind as a strap that goes off in the night……
They stackin’ our paper, and am I right?
They use it to blast lands that they don’t happen ta like……..
They invade and force their people ta fight……
For something called democracy…..
Such hipocrasy……
Don’t ya see? Now we both thee-ocracies…….
But I foll-ow the philosophy of Aris-totle, play-toe and Sock-rah-tees…….
And Einstein’s vision of atomic energies…….
Who is we to impose these beliefs on Islamic embassies……..
Ya see civilization messed up the entropy…..
Complex and organized thoughts and memories,
Which increase exponentially,
each and every century,
and did I mention we can now record history?
never bored,
cause tech progressin’ and spreadin’ faster than leprosy……
wit members of the underground judges begrudgin’ clemency……


now isn't that irony?
tryin' to unite whole societies........
but i'm just out on an odyssey......
to see what the sea otter see........
he taught me how the creatures of the sea deem us as an oddity........
they treat the phenomenon of property completely opposite of we......
but the aquatic ape theory say we came outta the sea.......


I know we ain't got rabies......
we got feelings and we like little babies.....
but underneath we got demons,
for some it takes the form of fine ladies and mercedes.......
money, it's grown from a root that tracks straight back to hades.......
for example,
the introduction of crack in the 80's......
attacked the black and you know it spread faster than scabies.......
faster than my sounds pound the ossicles of incus, malleolus, and stapes.......


J's stuck in minnesota,
while he rippin' up da syllables......
even wit the minimal i say,
it still comes down to the rhythms and the chemicals.......
see i got piezoelectric metals in my brain,
for processin decibles......
guess i'm destined to be unique and incredible,
an animal that eat's up anything edible.....
so i'm breakin' down infinite decimals,
now i'm invited to no-bell festivals.......


cause i'm a cay-9 like a red fox......
liftin' curses like some red sox......
plus i got it poppin' like some chickenpox.......
limited time got ya watchin' all the tickin' clocks.......
like ya watchin' all the ticka stocks.......
my opponent can't cope when i'm floatin' in the o-zone......
so cold, eatin' snowcones.......
bump up the low-tones........
I'm dependin' on my flow, now i'm livin' off a fo loans.......
good thing i gotta a love jones for this,
like ornithologists analyzin' dove bones.......
man i'm above phones.........
jacked in ta each, and every one a ya homes.......
travels smack dab ta the middle of a ya domes.......
then splits ya wig in half like only some a ya combs........
hafta distribute the other half amungst the gnomes......
see these little runts wit the dunce caps pen the poems......


i'm just a kid who live in minnesota......
in mo predicaments every hour i get olda.........
wish i could be da capo, that's d.c. coda.....
now repeat back to 3 quarter time.......
3 beats a bar "wit this rhyme"........
each leaves a sign,
sticks in ya brain, like tar on ya mind.....
lyrics so far from the stars on a dark planet, but they still shine.....
see the light go blind and then look what ya find.......


I'm never gonna leave, gonna take it to the roots,
and bear fruits.......
and how do i get there? forsake all the loot.......
toss it in the lake like a boot........
or maybe you can drop it like it's hot like ya snoop.......
see most of us here don't own a lexus coupe.......
so we're not in the loop......
like Moo-hammed who's about to hear troops in beirut swoop down on his roof then poof......
doesn't take an investigator or a sleuth......
ta see we don't need an idol, we need a voice for the youth........

A Controversial Topic: Abortion is Rampant in the U.S.A., and Many Pro-lifers are Also to Blame

What I'm about to describe to you is a very controversial topic, that of abortion in this country. I guess I'll give my view straight-up in the beginning: I have no clue what is right or wrong, and have gone between both pro-life and pro-choice since I was a teenager. The more I read and think, the more confused this issue becomes. No matter what your beliefs are, take heed here, read what I have to say, and put your pre-conceived notions aside. Only thinkers are allowed here.
First of all, the conclusion I have come to in my research and thoughts is thus: I am both pro-life and pro-choice. Let me explain this apparent paradox:
From a religious and moral "standpoint," I am thouroughly against abortion, and personally believe that it is wrong. I do believe it is the taking of a life, although, to be honest, I'm still not quite sure when you can safely say that life begins. I'm not going to be like a million other pro-life people, and say that it absolutely begins at conception. I simply do not know, so I will tend to ere on the cautionary side. Thus, believing that, if you are morally against abortion, you might as well start at the beginning and say that since we can not know when life begins, we should morally be opposed to abortions from the time of conception.
On the other hand, from a governmental and legislative "standpoint," I believe that women should have the right to choose in this country. Why? Because I believe that I and the U.S.A. cannot and should not force specific religious and moral beliefs concerning abortion upon other people who may not share those beliefs. That is a very dangerous thing, especially nowadays where the meaning of "freedom" seems to be one of the hottest and most explosive topics in this country. Certain administrations and factions within this country's government would have their own personal beliefs forced upon women's wombs everywhere, and that is clearly, in my opinion, unconstitutional. Thus, whereas I disagree with almost everything these right-wing people say, I do share their personal beliefs on abortion, but not their methods to force these beliefs down other people's throats with specific legislation outlawing the practice of abortion. It is a personal choice in this manner (although, I do agree with legislation outlawing late-term abortion, because it is clear to me that life is present in this case and the only difference is the location of the baby between inside and outside of the womb).
However, this is only a prelude for what is to come, for what I am about to say is truly "controversial". It involves a theory that I first thought about in medical school, which I now believe to be happening everyday and everywhere. This theory supports the fact, that with the exception of many devout Catholics, thousands and thousands of pro-life "Christians" out there (the ones who believe that life begins at conception), are aborting their embryos (i.e. babies) left and right.
Hormonal contraceptives (i.e. "the pill", and implantable forms such as Depo-provera) are used commonly by Christians everywhere, even by thousands of Christians that are solid and unwavering in their pro-life beliefs.
Let me explain how these hormonal contraceptive methods work. They are all based upon the natural hormones estrogen and progesterone, or a combination of both. These hormones, naturally produced by the woman's body, are usually cycled in various concentrations every 28 days, and the various mixture of their concentrations send specific signals about when to ovulate along with preparation of the uterus for implantation of an embryo. Pharmaceutical formulations of these hormones "interfere" with this natural cycle by changing the various concentrations within the bloodstream which subsequently interfere with the natural signals.
The basic mechanism in preventing pregnancy is by inhibiting ovulation, and thus conception should never occur in the first place. However, there are two little known facts about these contraceptive measures which make my theory possible, and thus supporting the fact that hormone-based contraceptives can cause abortion. First, while they are highly effective, these hormones do not have 100% efficacy in preventing ovulation. That part is known by a lot of people. Second, preventing ovulation is not the only effect that these hormones have on a woman's body. In concentrations such as promoted by these contraceptives, these hormones also prevent implantation of a fertilized embryo. As well, withdrawal of these hormones occurring naturally in a woman's cycle is the cause of menstruation, and when a woman takes the "placebo" pills at the end of a birth control cycle, this withdrawal of hormones causes shedding of the uterine lining.
Can you see where this is leading? There is no doubt that breakthrough ovulation occurs on these contraceptives given their prevalent use in this country and their lack of 100% efficacy in preventing ovulation. When this occurs, in a number of cases, the ovulated egg is fertilized (and thus conception has occurred). However, due to the continued effects of the contraceptives on the uterus, this embryo may not be implanted, and thus it is aborted unknowingly. And even if the embryo by some chance acheives implantation, there is also a chance that many of these embryos are secondarily aborted as the uterine lining is sloughed off with the withdrawal of hormones (when the woman takes her "placebo" pills at the end of the contraceptive cycle). The cause of all of this? Hormonally-based contraceptives.
It is very hard to prove this scientifically, and thus it is conceivable that it has happened at least once, if not thousands and maybe millions of times. But many people have gotten pregnant on hormone contraceptives, so we know that breakthrough ovulation occurs. As well, those people who get pregnant on these contraceptives seemingly have also been unlucky (in their view), in that they still got pregnant despite the hormones' effects upon discouraging implantation of the embryo in the uterus, and uterine wall sloughing if the embryo is by chance implanted. Given these facts, it would support that the number of aborted embryos should be at least higher than the number of pregancies which have resulted despite appropriate use of these contraceptives.
Whereas the phenomenon may be rare, there is no doubt in my mind that it has and will continue to occur as long as women are using hormonally-based contraceptives. Tons of these women are pro-life, and yet they are taking a chance at aborting their own embryos artificially by taking these hormones. Current statistics show that the prevalence of oral contraceptive use in this country is around 15%. Assuming, based on U.S. census results in 2000, that there are 106 million women over 18 years old in the United States, there are around 15 million women using oral contraceptives in the U.S. alone. Also assuming a 99.7% efficacy rate in preventing ovulation, every 28 days 45,000 breakthrough ovulations occur on oral contraceptives alone (do the math yourself). Given that, there is no doubt that abortions of fertilized embryos are occurring all of the time every single month.
I feel these numbers speak for themselves. Whereas individually, the chance is slim of aborting an embryo at any given time, with all of the women using hormonal contraceptives in the U.S., and over many months and years of their use, thousands upon millions of unknown abortions are occurring, in both pro-lifers and pro-choicers alike.
But I don't see any pro-lifers out there calling for hormonal contraceptives to be outlawed in this country (thousands undoubtedly rely upon these hormones themselves), and perhaps more abortions are caused by these drugs than are the abortions caused by the measures that they are so radically opposed to. Afterall, they are now calling for the abolition of the "morning-after pill," yet regular oral contraceptives in many cases work exactly like the "morning-after pill," and in fact both are made of the same exact hormones, just in different concentrations. And for another debate, these same people, who are aborting their own embryos with these pills unknowingly, are also calling upon the government to save frozen embryos from being used to further medicine through stem cell research.
Is it morally wrong if you don't knowingly abort your baby? Well, to quote the late Notorious B.I.G., "If you don't know, now ya know."

Sunday, August 21, 2005

Hunting Is NOT A Sport

I don't hunt. But I have major problems with those who do. Tell me again why using a weapon to harm a defenseless animal makes you a man. I find it amazing that there exists this whole industry that revolves around killing.
Most of the sports I know of consist of playing games. Hunting is considered a "sport" by a whole lot of people, particularly where I live now. The sad part of this "sport" is that the people who love hunting actually enjoy killing things. They enjoy wielding a gun or crossbow, and firing it upon another living creature. Maybe that was acceptable in 50,000 B.C., but currently it just happens to be 2005.
Just about the dumbest argument I hear from proponents of hunting is that they hunt for food. Agriculture was invented more than 10,000 years ago people. I at least have respect for the hunters who actually admit that they love hunting because they love to kill. If hunting humans were legal, they probably would hunt them too (this may be controversial, but I think a lot of cops and even some !gasp! military troops fall into this category, and maybe I'll even write a blog about this one in the future).
Surprise hunters! The animals don't know that they're playing, and if they did I'm sure they wouldn't want to play anyways. Afterall, is this game even fair? Maybe I'd have a little more respect for your stupid "sport" if you actually put aside your weapons and hunt the animals with your intelligence and agility alone. Then we'll see who wins.
Another stupid argument I hear from hunters is that hunting deer helps to control overpopulation, and thus they're "saving" the deer from starvation as their competitors exhaust the food supply. Yeah right. I'm sure that is why you hunt, because you feel it is your civic duty to keep the deer population down so soccer moms don't hit them with their cars. And who says that the deer are overpopulated? They're too overpopulated for your liking. Seems like they're following natural law to me. Afterall, we're the ones who tear down their forests and invade their natural space.
Now we will get to the honest hunters, the ones who admit that they have a God fetish for the power of taking life. They love to feel that rifle in their hands because it gives them a rush. When they see that particular herbivore eating a plant in their sights, and pull the trigger. Have you seen these people? Dressed up in their camouflauge outfits and hiding in a tree for hours on end, waiting for anything that moves to walk by. If animals didn't move and weren't able to run away, I guess that would make hunting boring, wouldn't it? I haven't seen one person out there hunting plants.
Most of these hunters are also gun proponents, and vice versa. A lot of these people are members of the NRA, saying it is their "constitutional right" to kill deer and squirrels with their Tech-Nine or AK-47 assault rifles. How much firepower can you possibly require to hunt? Is it even a "sport" anymore if you only need to pull and hold a trigger, firing off 30 rounds per second spraying bullets anywhere in the animal's general direction? Can you even miss your target? Afterall, people who use steroids to knock baseballs out of the park are cheating, right?
I'm not saying that we should outlaw hunting. I'm simply saying that the people who do it get off on killing. There's no other explanation for why they would do such a thing. These people truly sadden me. It saddens me even more that innocent animals are dying just so these people can get their jollies and have fun. Hunting is a tradition that modern man should have abandoned years and years ago.

Saturday, August 06, 2005

60 Years...

Hiroshima Ceremony Honors Thousands Killed