To Trisha Paytas, Why You Are Wrong, Wrong, Wrong

Sorry such a late response, but this recently came to my attention after this was a related video to A.P.T’s The Malarkey song.

You said you were voting for Romney/Ryan 2012. I have no problem with that. You have your opinion, do what you want. You are given the right to vote for a reason. Democracy. But your reasons for voting for him were very ignorant and very wrong. Stop watching Fox News.

You wanted to vote for him because he was hot and your cat’s name was Mitts. Not only is that sad, but also a waste of a vote since it went to someone who was not fully educated on the issues. You said you were right, right, and right. No, you were wrong, wrong and wrong.

Obama simply cannot take away your right to be catholic and is not against Christians. Obama is a Christian himself. (No, he is not a Muslim, and even if he was, why would it matter? It is a peaceful religion!)  The constitution is a beautiful document that I love. Our first amendment right gives us freedom to religion along with speech, assembly, petition and press. Even if somehow Obama wanted to take away your right to being catholic, he couldn't. The president can’t pass everything without it going through the congress and senate. Since there are a majority of republican’s in there, obviously they would be against, along with democrats. You simply cannot take a way a right we have according to the constitution. Obama would get impeached before he could do any of that. Also, he is not forcing you to commit sin! (Also, only media brainwashing is Fox) you talked about Democrats supporting medications that lead to suicide. That is not correct, all medications have side effects, and some are suicidal thoughts and tendencies. They are rare and also depend on the dosage. I am on three antidepressants. One for my anxiety, one for my severe depression and the other balances them out. If I wasn’t on the anti-depressant Trisha, I would be dead right now and I am pretty sure you can guess why. I had a too high of dosage last year that lead to thoughts and the doctor quickly fixed that. So, please educate yourself on the side effects of medications.

You're father and preachers don’t count as information sources, they are all biased and unreliable sources. MSNBC and Fox are also very biased. Try going to multiple online resources and watch the debates (even though Romney lied his ass off) and keep staying tuned to as much media that is mostly unbiased. Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are working with Fox and Fox is banned in Canada because it is all lies. Don’t believe me? Google it! Seriously. Just do it like you told me to Google stuff that turned out to be complete lies (shocker!).

Obama did promise change. He brought it. He was left a mess by the stupid Bush government and looks how much he has done since he inherited that mess. The unemployment rate is down, he has created jobs and he is doing the best anyone can do when it comes to the economy considering how much republicans are letting him do.

You said you weren’t comparing Obama to Hitler, you did. Until Obama murders over a million people because of their religion, don’t compare them. So do not use them in the same sentence. Seriously. Obama is not a dictator.

Also, you need to research what “Satire” means. Satire is using sarcasm, irony and ridicule to denounce something. It is taking a view of one side and making fun of it by exposing how stupid it is. Below, I am going to include the satire I wrote for my Writing for Publication class last year on gay marriage.

Gay Marriage should be illegal for so many reasons. Stupid Barack Obama is just going around allowing it! We must fight for it to stay between a man and a woman! Here are some reasons why it must remain illegal.

1. We have to protect marriage. It is a holy thing that binds two people together. Gays will just ruin that! We need to protect marriage so Britney Spears can get married for 55 hours and Kim Kardashian can for 72 days.

2. What's next? Goats? Cars? My imaginary llama Lorenzo? Yes because a goat, car and imaginary llamas have the same legal standing as a US citizen and can sign a marriage certificate.

3. If gays can marry, they could have their ceremony in a church! Letting them get married in a church will be expanding the tolerance and force us to teach our children more tolerance! We all know children are meant to be full of hate and intolerance.

4. Everyone knows that marriage is only between a man and a woman. Not love and love. That is why we still have arranged marriages all the time! Just to make sure everyone gets married to the opposite sex and no one is "in love"

5. Marriage is a religious right! That is why we don't let atheists and Satanists get married. The laws of the religion ALWAYS come before the laws of the land. That is why we still burn people at stake for prostitution

6. If you want to get married then just be straight! Being gay is a choice, just like being black, Mexican, of Asian. All those scientist who have proved the gay brain is different than the straight brain are all just liars trying to ruin everything by present gays and lesbians with equality.

7. Everyone knows that forever this country has been all about no equality whatsoever! That is why blacks, Asians, and Mexicans do not have the same drinking fountains as the beautiful white race and women still are unemployed and only work at home.

8. it’s unconstitutional! There is no way gay marriage is constitutional! It is as bad as killing somebody! The preamble is only gives us the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness! There is no way gay marriage is the pursuit happiness (even though gay means "happy")

That might be a little too straight forward, but when I came across both your videos, I honestly thought it was full on satire because of how stupid your reasons are but you said you were totally serious. And then said satire was used and how if that video was totally serious, what part was satire?

You then said Obama won the first time because of how he looked, and how he presented himself, and how he spoke and engaged people. I will be the first to admit I thought it would be awesome to have a black president. So, back then I researched the issues for the paper I had to write that year for Health class and decided Obama was the best choice for the issues and his views on them and how they matched mine. (Not to mention, Sarah Palin just scared the hell out of me) Obama won because he was the obvious choice in 2008 and was the obvious choice in 2012. I am sorry to inform you, but your hot Mitt Romney doesn’t care about you. You are a woman. He only cares about old rich white men. Not to mention he flip flops on everything. He is pro-choice one minute, then pro-life and then pro-choice and then pro-life. He can’t make up his mind!

I would like to inform you, I am a Christian who believes in God and Jesus and the bible. After doing research, I would have voted for Obama. He supports women, minorities, gays and the less fortunate. He doesn’t want to go to war when not needed and he understands human rights. I believe in God and Jesus but also believe that gay people are human beings and deserve to be treated as them. I also am pro-choice. I do not want an old white man tell me how my body works and what I can and can’t do with it. I don’t believe abortion should be used as a form of birth control, but I honestly believe it is better than having a child living on the streets starving because republicans don’t give a fuck and won’t help them out because they don’t believe in “handouts” because it will cause “dependency.”

So please Trisha, do not vote ever again when you are being this ignorant on the subjects. GO TO UNBIASED SOURCES! Stop going to Fox News and before you preach about the “evil” of Obama, realize that he is not evil and not a dictator and certainly CANNOT take away your freedom of religion.

 

Here is Trisha's original videos:

 

 

A.P.T's Malarkey Song!

Vote Obama Style!

I'm Never Ever Gonna Vote For Romney

 

Directioner's Need To Stop Social Networking and Now!

                Today, I decided to Google quotes from one of my favorite singers (the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of All Time Low, Alex Gaskarth) on the subject of suicide because I wanted to verify I quote I found by him on tumblr. Expecting to see random things about the bands song “Lullabies,” (which is about his older brother, Tom, who did commit suicide) I did not. I saw tumblr posts on rants about Directioners. Considering I am not a fan of One Direction at all, I decided why not find another reason to hate them. And boy, do I hate them now!

                I knew that Alex tweeted something bad about a One Direction song, and I agree with it completely and so do many online websites. But like always, super fans of teen sensations take things TOO far just like they did with the Drake Bell and Justin Bieber thing. Something was tweeted that definitely shouldn’t have been. People started sending Alex death threats just like Beliebers with Drake, but they stepped over the line.

                They told Alex to kill himself.

                Being a Hustler (All Time Low fan) and someone who has had a dark time in their life where they saw that as an option, I found that not only offensive but one of the meanest things someone can say to someone. But what made my blood boil was people bringing his brother into this. One tweet stated “NO WONDER HE KILLED HIMSELF, HE HATED ALEX TOO.” Pardon my French but that just person needs to shut the hell up! Alex’s brother did not kill himself because he hated Alex and saying that is not only mean and cruel and only shows your character as an ignorant idiot. I get it; you don’t like how he dissed your precious One Direction. Just wishing death upon him is crossing the line, but telling him to kill himself like his brother and telling him his brother did it because he hated Alex, that crosses the line so much it’s just a dot in the distance that can barely be seen. Seriously? Saying something like that. Not only is suicide something you don’t even joke about, but telling someone who had nothing to do with it they caused it, that is unacceptable.

                So hopefully people can report or just tell this person how stupid and insensitive they are. Here are some screen shots of the mean and ignorant tweets on Alex about killing himself and his brother who did.

                To twitter user @onelove1dc, I would like to correct a tweet; you state that Alex is “mad” because he doesn’t have a world tour. As I recall, All Time Low has toured all over the world, and I am quoting Alex when I saw “we have been too all the continents except for Africa and Antarctica.” All Time Low has been all over, they have five albums, The Party Scene, So Wrong, Its Right, Nothing Personal (My personal favorite), Dirty Work, and Don’t Panic. All great albums, (although Dirty Work wasn’t the best music wise, but was excellent lyric wise, oh, and I Feel Like Dancin’ was a Satire song, not them conforming to society’s norm of tasteless music about nothing). All Time Low has accomplished a lot in their near ten years as a band. They may not have had any number one hits on the radio but there music is amazing and I would much rather them be where they are then as big as One Direction. Most number one hit makers who are adored by billions get two full of themselves and are brats not to mention let the fame go to their head! After touring the world last year, the day after they got back, drummer Rian Dawson helped his parents remodel their kitchen. Instead of sleeping all day and being a lazy bum like me when there is no school, he helped his parents remodel their kitchen. How I know this, he tweeted about it. Why did he do it? Because he is well grounded. (Not grounded in trouble, but he knows that he isn’t larger than life, he is a well-rounded person who doesn’t let the hundreds of bras being thrown on stage get to his head). All Time low is amazing and the fact that someone would say something like that to Alex is just so wrong and bringing his brother into it is just cruel. Never speak ill of the dead and don’t tell someone that a loved one killing themselves is their fault.

Proof All Time Low is Awesome:

                Guess what I found out after learning Directioners wish that to Alex Gaskarth, but they wish it to Kenadee Lucker to kill herself also. Kenadee Lucker? She is the daughter metal band Suicide Silence’s lead singer, Mitch Lucker’s daughter. She is only five years old. Yes, Directioner’s are wishing for a five year old girl to kill herself. Don’t believe me? Here are a few screen shots of them wishing death upon Kenadee and saying mean things about Mitch and the band.

Yeah, people said those things. So go find them on twitter and report them, or harass them, I know it’s not being the bigger person in the situation, but hey, I will do that when someone wishes death on a five year old because she is sad her dad died.

Also, I would like to touch the subject on how metal music is “stupid.” If you think that is, then good for you, now please run along and find something productive to do! Now here is a little shout out to user @IDslayz, grow the hell up and get a life. Stop saying “emo people” should learn from Mitch Lucker and go kill ourselves. I am going to quote Andy Biersack of Black Veil Brides when I say that, “don't allow them to call you emo or whatever else, those things don't exist, that’s the term of a guy who trolls message boards." Yes, Emo is the term of a guy who not only trolls message boards, but apparently twitter too. Suicide Silence was and is an amazing band and Mitch was a very amazing vocalist. Now onto your next tweets, “if people cared about suicidal silence, I would of heard of him.” Obviously people care about him and their music and think their awesome or else they wouldn’t be famous and touring a lot. “how was Mitch Lucker an inspiration, he cut himself, plus he was ugly.” He was an inspiration because he has inspired people in the music industry, every artist has an inspiration. He was one to many bands and people wanting to be like them and have a similar sound and success. As for cutting, I would love it if you would educate yourself on the subject before making a comment; I am not going to respond to someone so ignorant on the subject. As for ugly, he wasn’t. he was good looking. You just obviously are attracted to scrawny British boys who can’t sing that well and only have somewhat of a decent song. Next tweet, no they did not win 4 VMA’s. Awards don’t mean you are the best band out there, some of the best bands don’t have many awards, but just great music, take Rise Against for example, they haven’t won many, but Tim McIlarth has an amazing voice and is backed up with the rest of Rise Against, they have won two awards but have been nominated for six. They are still successful and have obviously made a lot of money since they are still around. next tweet, “It’s not my fault Mitch Lucker died, he should have made better music, he was obviously jealous of One Direction success.” Suicide Silence has over two million Facebook fans and have been around for ten years, One Direction has been around for like two. I highly doubt they even have heard of One Direction and if so, it was because Mitch’s daughter. Next tweet by you. “did mitch lucker cut his emo wrist? Is that how he died? Lol”   I stated earlier I am not going to waste my time telling an ignorant person the reason for cutting, so Google it and listen to someone who has been there and done that when they explain it. and suicide is nothing to joke about and be happy for. Next tweet. “people need to open their eyes and realize that One Direction are the best, even better then suicidal silence.” First off, its SUICIDE Silence, not Suicidal Silence. Second, there are many, many other bands and singers that are better than them; here I will name a few

1.       Suicide Silence!

2.       Asking Alexandria

3.       Three Days Grace

4.       Shinedown

5.       Simple Plan

6.       Hey Monday

7.       All Time Low

8.       Skillet

9.       Rise Against

10.   The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

11.   Pierce The Veil

12.   The Pretty Reckless

13.   Paramore

14.   Papa Roach

15.   Mayday Parade

16.   Maroon 5

17.   Linkin Park

18.   Artist Vs. Poet

19.   Green Day

20.   Falling In Reverse

21.   Escape The Fate

22.   Evanescence

23.   Fall Out Boy

24.   Automatic Loveletter

25.   A Day To Remember

26.   Bullet For My Valentine

27.   Fallen Horizon (Not famous, but really great, plus, lead singer, Christian Johansen is pretty hot)

And those are just off the top of my head. Here are singers that sing better than all the guys in One Direction.

1.       Cassadee Pope (she WILL win The Voice, VOTE FOR HER!)

2.       Michael Jackson (DUH!)

3.       Katy Perry

4.       Jessie J

5.       Ke$ha (YES! Even Ke$ha!)

6.       Demi Lovato (DUH!)

7.       Christina Grimmie

8.       Avril Lavigne

9.       Liz Davis from The Voice

10.   De’Borah from The Voice

11.   Sylvia Yacoub from The Voice

12.   Kelly Clarkson

13.   P!nk

And again, those are just off the top of my head.

Next tweet, “I've never hear suicidal silence with a hit song, they never make any because they suck!” here is a list of their hits, “Unanswered,” “Bludgeoned to Death,” “The Price of Beauty,” “Green Monster,” “Wake Up,” “Disengage,” “Time To Bleed,” “Human Violence,” “You Only Live Once” (The better YOLO) and “Slaves To Substance.”

Now, I am going to respond to tweets about his adorable, now fatherless, daughter Kenadee. “Kenadee should been aborted.” Nice grammer. The smart-ass me would respond “you should have been aborted” but I am not going to stoop to someone’s level like that. wishing someone dead, again only people with no morals do that. “Mitch Lucker, please come back to us.,..SO YOU CAN DIE AGAIN” again, very classy. “Kenadee, please do me a favor and DIE” being happy with someone’s death is one thing, but wishing death upon their five year old daughter? That again, crosses the line so far that it again is just a dot in the distance. You don’t wish death upon five year old girls! So please, go spam up @claraxOlivia. Let them know how you feel when death threats are being sent to fie year old girls.

This next person is apparently a “selenationer” (Selena Homez fan) and she goes by the user @iZarryBrat. Yes, you are brat for tweeting “if kenadee lucker misses mitch so much, cant she just kill herself and stop whining?” how classy. Yes, of course a five year old girl is going to miss her dad when he dies unexpectedly in a motercyle accident. Telling her to kill herself is yet again, crossing the line so far that it’s a dot in the distance. No, it’s not even a dot in the distance, its miles and miles away. What kind of sick person wishes for a five year old to kill herself? So please, go find her and spam her. it would bring me great pleasure. Seriously.

Why is it that Dircetioner’s are doing this to people? Wishing death and suicide on people who don’t deserve it, one being a suicide victim’s brother and the other being a five year old girl. Why is it that our generation is even stooping so low. First Belieber’s go after Drake Bell, now Directioner’s  after Alex Gaskarth and a five year old girl.

People claim that listening to metal music is “dangerous” and “evil” yet I don’t send artist’s death threats for not agreeing with my opinion, neither do my other friends who listen to that genre. Why do the Beliebers and Directioners take this too far and not get in trouble? There are twelve year olds out there telling people to commit suicide all to defend their “precious” British boy band.

Grow up. Seriously, grow the hell up and learn to respect people and don’t send death threats and death upon people and telling them to kill themselves.

Alex Gaskarth is an amazing singer and guitarist. He didn’t deserve any of that for an opinion and his dead brother didn’t need to be brought into it. Alex is amazing and inspiration to many and so is his music which has saved countless lives including mine. The bands sarcastic attitudes and love for their fans and love for fun is amazing and what makes them special.

Kenadee Lucker is an innocent bystander in this and the fact that someone told her to kill herself is unacceptable. She is five years old and just lost her dad. The fact that someone would do that just boggles my mind. People need to have souls and realize when they are being cruel and you really should go learn how to be a decent human being and until then, refrain from using social networking and maybe tape your mouth shut.

I really hope this generation can get its crap together and stop being cruel to people and doing that. One can only hope that Directioner’s and Belieber’s can grow the hell up and become decent human beings.

Why I Would Vote For Obama

The 2012 election is coming up fast and the race is super close. For once in my life, I actually fear learning the outcome. I can’t imagine a country ran by republican Mitt Romney. Not only is he a flip-flopping hypocritical jackwagon, he just is too rich to know lower class and middle class problem. Sadly, I am only fifteen and I cannot vote in this election, but if I could, I would vote for Democrat Barack Obama.

                I would vote for Obama for many reasons. One being his support for LGBT rights and getting rid of DOMA and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Because of that, one of my closest friends, Maia is now able to get married and join the military if she wants to. Mitt Romney plans on amending the constitution banning same sex marriage and getting rid of her right to marry or even be in a civil union or domestic partnership and I am not sure if he has stated he wants to bring back Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, but I according to his beliefs on what he has said so far, I am pretty sure he would bring it back, which a lot of republican’s tried to block it when Obama wanted to get rid of it.

                President Obama is ok with abortion. I am not a huge fan of abortion when it comes to someone who uses that as their birth control and continues to get them more than once. If there is a way the baby can have a good life, I think you should try to carry the baby to term but it’s not up to me to enforce that or advocate for that when it is truly a woman’s choice. I also think that if it was rape or incest (which pregnancy can happen as a result of that unlike what Republican douche Todd Akin says about that “legitimate rape” crap and this is what Romney keeps flipping on) I support the woman’s right to choose even more because of that and I also really support it if the woman’s life is in danger. Unlike a lot of Republican/conservatives, I don’t see rape and “another form of conception.” And I don’t think the government should tell you what to do with your body. Vice President Joe Biden doesn’t really believe in abortion due to his religion, but he doesn’t think that gives him the right to force his beliefs on others while douche bag Paul Ryan does and has stated he is prolife because of a personal and religious view and is the one that stated “rape is just another form of conception,” he supports legitimate rape, and thinks that a rapist has the right to visit and see the child he fathered while violating an innocent woman.

                Romney has practically already declared war on Iran when we don’t even have substantial proof they have nuclear weapons. Experts even say that they don’t and are not “four years closer” to getting a nuclear weapon. I agree with Obama when he states that war should be a last resort while Romney is all fine and dandy with starting another war and sending out more soldiers just to die on the front line for a war that we shouldn’t even be fighting. I hate war with a burning passion but understand that we do have to go to war to help keep our country safe and help others, but if it is pointless and just making us even more enemies with a country who we have no proof is even doing the things we are accusing them of, then I am against it. I am actually watching to movie Saving Private Ryan (good movie, I recommend it because it has Matt Damon in it and I love Matt Damon, but it isn’t for people who can’t watch bloody shootouts and many deaths in a scene that lasts over ten minutes long) as I write this and it just makes me angrier that he is ok with war and even supported the Iraq one and just seems all fine and dandy with it.

                Romney is not even ok with women making the same salary as men even if we are working the same job. Hello? Just because I have boobs and don’t have a dick, doesn’t mean that I shouldn’t make as much money as a man if we have the exact same job position for the same company. I am an equal and deserve to be treated as one. I deserve the same salary and same benefits. Luckily, in Washington State, it is illegal for a man to make more money than a women when they have the exact same job position, but I am planning on going to Montana later in life and I don’t know if it is illegal there for a man to make more than a woman but with Montana being a mostly conservative republican state, one would think it is likely that law isn’t there and it is legal for men to make more than women. Honestly, if feels like it’s the women’s rights movement again back in the nineteen twenties and that time. Yes, we can vote and have rights, but I think that I should have the right to make the same amount of money as a man while Romney doesn’t think that and even some hard core republicans and conservatives believe that women aren’t “smart enough” to vote. And guess who said that. A woman! Yes, a woman said that some women weren’t smart enough to vote.

                As a human being, I believe everyone has the right to be healthy, even if they are born with a pre-existing medical condition. Romney will deny them healthcare, not only does that go against my morals and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but it honestly makes him the main character in the six Saw movie. Yes people, I am comparing Mitt Romney to a character in a Saw movie. The six one is my favorite because I believe the guy who went through the trap sort of deserved it because of how many people he let die. To catch you all up, a man who runs an insurance agency goes out of his way to make sure people are not covered so he makes more money. He denied Jigsaw money and treatment for his cancer so Jigsaw hated him and it is also shown a man who was denied health insurance for heart disease because when he was very young, probably my age actually when he had oral surgery which he neglected to tell him so he wouldn’t cover him because oral surgery can somehow lead to heart disease. So yes, I am comparing Romney to that man because of his beliefs on health insurance and how not everyone has the right to have it affordable and be healthy. Oh no! You say I am wrong and Romney wants that and his plan does have it affordable? Well, no sir or ignorant child that lives down the street from me whose family’s political signs just got stolen and is part of the stupid tea party which is one of the many things that is wrong with this country, are wrong considering Romney’s plan doesn’t. He doesn’t give a damn about people who are low income; he even refers to them as the poor. If I was a poor person, I would prefer to be called low income instead of poor during presidential debates, it would make me feel better about myself. Oh and by the way ignorant little boy, Fox “News” isn’t real news. It is actually banned in Canada for that very reason. Go Canadians!

                Last but not least, the economy. That is a tricky subject for me since I am just fifteen and don’t quite understand everything about the economy and the deficit and stuff like that, but dude, you ant just expect Obama to fix everything in four years after George W. Bush took eight years to kill it. And your precious little “Mittens” claims he can fix it in 8-10 years. So don’t have a bitch attack on Obama because he didn’t fix it in four ignorant boy down the street. Also, Romney doesn’t give any detail on how he will fix. And don’t give me the “what the hell are you talking about crazy Obama lover, he has this five point plan.” He won’t freaking elaborate on it! So please understand that Mittens doesn’t want to help us. If he did, he wouldn’t lie all the time, and wouldn’t be shipping American jobs overseas to China so he can be richer.

                So to end a very angry blog entry on why I would vote for Obama, I will recap the reasons, he is for LGBT Rights, Woman’s Rights to fair pair and to choose, doesn’t want to go to war with Iran, and believes that everyone has the right to be healthy. Not to mention the things he has done in the past three, almost four years he has been in office, such as ending the war in Iraq, bailed out Detroit, lowered job loss, fought for clean air and not to mention, OSAMA BIN LADIN IS DEAD! (YAY FOR JUSTICE AGAINST TERRORISTS) This is all thanks to Obama who definitely deserves a second term and should beat Mittens in the election on Tuesday.

Skillet Copies Three Days Grace?

I am a pretty hardcore fan of Three Days Grace. I heard of them through a friend and fell in love with their music; Never Too Late helped me through one of the hardest times in my life. I plan on getting “it’s not too late, it’s never too late” tattooed on my ribcage, but besides that, I love them and their music. It would be amazing to see them live.

One X is my favorite album, a lot of the stuff on that album Adam wrote while he was in rehab for his drug addiction. I used to have an addiction. Slicing my skin open with a blade for an emotional release. My favorite songs off that album are “Pain,” “Riot,” “One X,” “Time of Dying,” “Never Too Late” and “Animal I Have Become.”

Not too long ago, I discovered the band Skillet while listening to the Black Veil Brides Pandora radio station. I really like them and their sound, so when I was at Target looking through the CD’s and saw their album Awake; I just had to buy it. The song Monster is the second track. Upon hearing it, I couldn't help think of Animal I Have Become. The lyrics were very similar.

Animal I Have Become starts out as “I can’t escape this hell/ so many times I tried/but it’s still caged inside/somebody get me through this nightmare/I can’t control myself”

Monster starts out with “the secret side of me/I’d never let you see/I keep it caged I but can’t control it/so stay away from me/the beast is ugly/I feel the rage/and I can’t control it/it’s written on the walls/in the closet/in the halls/it comes awake and I can’t control it/hiding under the bed/in my body/in my head/why won’t somebody come and save me from this/make it end”

It may not be too similar but I still can see connections. Adam talks about going through Hell and he can’t escape while Skillet singer, John Cooper talks about not being able to control himself and it’s his dark side. There are similar lines. “I keep it caged by I can’t control it,” “it comes awake and I can’t control it” and “I can’t control myself,” then “why won’t somebody come and save me from this” and “somebody get me through this nightmare”

Now, going into the chorus, Animal I Have Become goes “so what if you can see/the darker side of me/no one will ever change this animal I have become/help me believe/it’s not the real me/somebody help me tame this animal/this animal/this animal,”

Monster goes “I feel it deep within/it’s just beneath the skin/I must confess that I feel like a monster/I hate what I become/the nightmares just begun/I must confess that I feel like a monster/I, I, I feel like a monster/I, I, I feel like a monster

This isn’t as similar as the first verse, but I still see connections. “This animal, this animal” and “I, I, I feel like a monster/I, I, I feel like a monster” “I hate what I become” and “no one will ever change this animal I have become”

Next verse

“I can’t escape myself/so many times I tried/but there’s still rage inside/somebody get me through this nightmare/I can’t control myself”

And “my secret side of me/I keep it under lock and key/I keep it caged/but I can’t control it/cause if I let it out/it’ll tear me up/break me down/why won’t somebody save me from it/make it end”

More similar lines, they both start out nearly like the first verse, Adam is trying to hide being an animal while John does mention it being “secret side of me” and that “it’ll tear me up/break me down” but both want “somebody to get me through this nightmare” or “somebody save me from it”.

Now, going into the third verse, Three Days Grace doesn’t really have one, “somebody help me though this nightmare/I can’t control myself/somebody wake me from  this nightmare/this animal/this animal, this animal/ this animal”

And Monster goes “its hiding in the dark/its teeth are razor sharp/there is no escape from me/it wants my soul/it wants my heart/ no one can hear me scream/maybe it’s just a dream/or maybe its inside of me/ stop this monster”

Not that similar, but Monster talks about it being a dream while Animal I Have Become talks about it being a nightmare but both are asking for help.

Now when it comes to the music, there are also similarities.

Animal I Have Become starts out with one instrument, then adds a guitar and then another. Monster starts out with one guitar, and then adds the drums and when John starts to sing, another guitar is added. I don’t know much about music. I can only play Mockingbird by Eminem on the piano and Remembering Sunday by All Time Low of the guitar and got a C+ in Music Lab at my school but I think the music parts are pretty similar. I think the progression of the sound is similar though.

The last thing I am going to look at is the music videos. Animal I Have Become starts out with the band playing and flashes to Adam in his room lying in his bed before getting up and looking in the mirror and getting dressed and going onto the streets of Toronto. His reflection in the windows is a monster with piercing red eyes. He continues to walk and bumps into people but keeps going. And doesn’t look back. His next reflection looks like a demon version of him. Next he is in a bar and bumps into more people before reaching a table and putting his head down and attractive women comes over and puts her hand on his back to see if he is ok, he looks up at her and she then has a demonic face. Adam then flips out and wakes up in his room which is trashed. When not following Adam’s story, you see the band performing in a room with red walls.

Monster starts with John strapped to a gurney with a bandage wrapped around his head but one eye is not covered. Doctors are around him watching and trying to sedate him and keep him down, but John is able to break free and rip the bandages off his face. Then you see John’s wife and bands rhythm guitarist, Korey being pronounced dead and a sheet being put over her face. Her eyes then open and she shoves the sheet off of her and jumps up. The doctor calls for assistance and you next see her and John running through the halls of the hospital being chased by SWAT.

Although the videos don’t match, a lot of the lyrics do. So is it safe to ask, did Skillet copy Three Days Grace, or is it a coincidence that the songs are very alike?

Mitt Romney Against Human Rights?

                Everyone knows who Mitt Romney is, the Republican candidate for President of the United States. Romney is one of those people either you hate (like me) or love (like that douche who lives down the street from me). Recently Romney is known for not understanding why you can’t open the windows on an airplane. (At a young age, even though I didn’t know why, I still understood that you can’t open the windows or bad things would happen). Romney is also known for his comment about 47% of Americans who think they are entitled to healthcare and food and shelter.

                Well, Mr. Romney, you are obviously want to be president so you are familiar with the United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, where it says that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed with certain unalienable rights, and among these rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” (I will get to that later), but is Romney aware of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? Obviously not because he seems to be ignoring three of the thirty rights we are given just by being born and a member of the human race.

                Since he knows nothing about this document and it is very rare that a lot of people do, why don’t I give a little history lesson.

                In the year of 1948, the United Nations adopted the document after the experience of the Second World War when it came to Nazi Germany. After that awful war, the UN vowed to never let anything that awful happen again. The first draft of the document was made in 1947 and the work was later taken over by a formal drafting committee consisting of members of the commission from 8 states, selected by geographical location. The Commission of Human Rights was made up of 18 Members all from various political, cultural and religious backgrounds

                Later, the beautiful document was born and the human race was given thirty rights that we were born with. The rights we all are entitled to are

1.       Everyone is free and should be treated in the same way.

2.       Everyone is equal despite differences in skin color, sex, religion, and language for example.

3.       Everyone has the right to life and to live in freedom and safety

4.       No one has the right to treat you as a slave nor should you make anyone a slave

5.       No one has the right to hurt you or torture you

6.       Everyone has the right to be treated equally by the law

7.       The law is the same for everyone, it should be applied in the same way to all

8.       Everyone has the right to ask for legal help when their rights are not respected

9.       No one has the right to imprison you unjustly or expel you from your own country

10.   Everyone has the right to a fair and public trial

11.   Everyone should be considered innocent until proven guilty

12.   Everyone has the right to ask for help if someone tries to harm you, but no one can enter your home, open your letters, or bother you or your family without good reason

13.   Everyone has the right to travel as they wish

14.   Everyone has the right to go to another country and ask for protection if they are being persecuted or are endangered of being persecuted.

15.   Everyone has the right to belong to a country. No one has the right to prevent you from belonging to another country if you wish to.

16.   Everyone has the right to marry and have family

17.   Everyone has the right to property or possession

18.   Everyone has the right to practice and observe all aspects of their own religion and change their religion if they want to

19.   Everyone has the right to say what they think and to give and receive information

20.   Everyone has the right to take part in meetings and to join associations in a peaceful way

21.   Everyone has the right to help take part in the government of their country

22.   Everyone has the right to social security and opportunities to develop their skills

23.   Everyone has the right to work for fair wage in a safe environment and to join a trade union

24.   Everyone has the right to rest and leisure

25.   Everyone has the right to adequate standard of living and medical help if they are ill.

26.   Everyone has the right to go to school

27.   Everyone has the right to share in their community’s cultural life

28.   Everyone must respect the social order that is necessary for all of these rights

29.   Everyone must respect the rights of others, the community and public property

30.   No one has the right to take away any of the rights on this declaration.

 

                During a speech at a private dinner, Romney said that 47% of us “think” we are entitled to food, shelter and adequate healthcare. That is true. Because we are entitled to them

                According to right number twenty five, we ARE entitled to the adequate standard of living which does include food and shelter and adequate healthcare which we ARE entitled to when we are sick. Romney doesn’t think we are, he even thinks “adequate” healthcare is calling 9-1-1 when someone’s heart decided to give out and try to kill them.

                Romney, why is it that you don’t believe in human rights, you want to deny people of their right to food, shelter and health.

                Not only is Romney against those rights, he is against same sex marriage and wants to add an amendment to the United States constitution banning it. Not only is that just plain wrong, it is also against human rights. Right number sixteen is that we are all given the right to marry and have a family.

                If Romney is against these simple human rights, what else is there? We already know he is going against right number 2. Everyone is equal despite differences in skin color, SEX, gender, religion, language. ECT. Romney and his douchebag vice president nominee are trying to take away women’s right to choose along with her healthcare.

                What other rights does Romney want to take away from us American citizens? Make him and his rich buddies above the law? Our freedom of religion which is already being taken away by not separating church and state? Even as a Christian, I believe in the separation of church and state. Religion should stay in church or in private schools where everyone is there to learn that along with the academics required by the state. What about number thirty on the list? No one can take away these rights. This whole thing literally sickens to me! Not only that, but how ignorant he and a lot of conservatives are. They keep putting the law of the religion before the law of the land. As a Christian, I know the bible is a book of contradictions because it is written by several people. It says homosexuals prostitutes are to be put to death, yet it says Thou Shall Not Kill. So if you base all your beliefs on religion alone and only that and nothing else, nothing is going to make sense. You have to add facts and know that not everything in the bible needs to be taken so literal.

                Either way, Mitt Romney cannot become president. Don’t let him take our rights away from us. Don’t elect him into office. Vote for Barack Obama.