So if you haven't heard this one yet I highly recommend you check it out. Amanda Catherine Hein, 26, of Allentown Pa has been charged with killing her newborn son. Ms. Hein, pictured below auditioning to be the Batman, was watching the pay-per view Summer Slam when she excused herself from her friends. She gave birth in the ladies room and placed her new born baby in a toilet tank. Ms. Hein then proceeded to return to her friends and watch the rest of Summer Slam and before receiving a ride home. I wish I could say I am surprised by this type of behavior but as anyone who reads this blog knows this is the kind of behavior I expect from humans. I am sure she will give some sob story in an attempt to make herself seem like the victim but in the end all she has done is make Casey Anthony look like mother of the year.
I know that the knee jerk response to this information will be that we need to better fund education. While I would love to see better schools I really do not believe that this would fix the problem. This is a societal problem that begins at home. If a high school senior cannot score better than a 22 on the reading comprehension portion of the ACT no amount of schooling is going to help that student. An 18 year old should be able to read at that level merely by associating with his or her parents. The education system should turn that 22 into 32 not bring a 12 up to 22.
The fact is that if some level of education does not begin at home there is nothing the schools can do about it. Asking the schools to fix this problem will only drag the other students down as the teachers have to spend more time catching up the underachieving students. At some point the schools have to say enough is enough. The Schools must stop promoting kids to the next grade if they haven't developed the skills to move on and in some cases just tell the kids not to come anymore if they aren't learning.
While I am aware that it is not the kids fault that their parents are horrible people it is the responsibility of those parents to care for their kids. There are just too many kids who are not succeeding and whether or not anyone wants to admit it they are holding back those who might succeed. It's time to worry more about what is fair to those who have a chance to succeed rather than what is fair to those who do not.
Otherwise this will be the future of the medical profession.
This is Pensacola Florida's own Christina Andrews she has a problem that she is trying to solve. When I first saw this story I was worried that problems which had lead The United Kingdom to restrict internet pronography had reached our shores. Then I realized it was Pensacola and I got a better look at her and realized this was her best opportunity to get the money for her augmentation.
What I do like about this story though is how she makes the statement that a lot of people put up signs saying they are homeless at least she is being honest. The implication of course is that many if not most of the homeless panhandlers aren't really homeless. Any reasonable New Yorker knows this is true.
One recurring theme in the articles, essays and memes involving in which well meaning people talk about the horrors of "class warfare" is that they seem to believe that there is a certain nobility in the impoverished and that their predicament exists only due to the selfishness of the wealthy. I am not here to argue that the wealthy are not selfish, they are. The thing is that everyone is selfish. The poor and downtrodden would, if given the opportunity, take all they could regardless of the effects it would have on their fellow man. It is in humanity's nature to want to be on top. People are not good. They are not bad either they just are people.
And the fact is that people are doing rather well as a species right now. In the past 60 years the human population has grown by over 200 percent. Any time a species population grows at that rate there will be a strain on the resources that species needs to survive. Except humanity has found a way to keep feeding and sheltering itself despite the obscene population growth rate.
Poverty is a result of overpopulation. Now someone is going to say there was poverty 60 years ago. This is true but the fact is that if humanity has been able to see it's population grow by over 200 percent and at the same time develop technology which makes human workers irrelevant imagine how well the majority of the world would be living if the human population had only grown by 50 percent between 1953 and 2013. The same resources that are being used by 7 billion people would only be used by 4.5 billion people.
Yes the lives of the wealthy would remain the same. There will always be people who have more than others, a lot more than some people in many instances. However the basket of goods that is allocated to the poorest of humanity would be spread out amongst fewer people. If you want to talk about selfishness the most selfish thing a person can do is bringing new life into the world. I have no problem with selfish acts I just want people to admit that reproduction is selfish. It should be noted that birth rates are much smaller amongst those who can most afford their offspring. Now one could ask can they afford offspring because they don't have them. But is that a relevant question? The real question is why do people continue to claim that not having children is selfish when the opposite is true?
Now I am going to place a lot of the blame on population growth in the world at the feet of one organization in particular. That organization being the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church's, or any religion for that matter, stance on contraception and abortion has been a major contributing factor to the worlds overpopulation. Do these organizations really believe in the sanctity of human life or do they just want to boost their own numbers and therefore increase their power.
The moral of the story is that humans are inherently selfish, yes there are superficial exceptions however I would bet that if one digs deep enough into the reasons behind most apparently altruistic acts there is a selfish reason behind them. Whether it is to alleviate guilt for having a good life while others suffer or to give oneself a sense of superiority over the rest of humanity. The charitable acts performed by members of the Catholic Church could be seen as altruistic or is it more likely that they are done to increase the organizations influence?
There is no intrinsic value in any individual human life. Those among us who are well meaning seem to believe that there is in all life. The fact is that for all the poverty in the world the human species is still growing at record numbers even when there is no practical reason for the growth.
The point of this essay is that people need to just enjoy the lives they have and not worry about the plight of others. If you were hurting they wouldn't worry about you. You shouldn't feel bad because someone with four kids is working a job that pays them 8 dollars an hour, they should feel bad for bringing four lives into the world when the only means to support them is a job that pays 8 dollars an hour. You shouldn't feel bad because someone who has a low income job and is now losing the home they bought that was well out of their price range because mortgage rates were so low. It was the purchasers own selfishness that lead them to want something they couldn't afford.
Life is pretty damn good for most of us in the United States, if you don't believe that just take a look at what life was like for people 60 years ago. Long hours in manufacturing jobs, segregation, no consequence free sex, small black and white televisions, only three networks and no internet. What a horrible time to be alive. So look kick back put on a football game, open a beer (think of all the options you have compared to 1953) and say damn I have it pretty fucking good. Suck it rest of the world America Rocks!
So if you haven't heard this one yet I highly recommend you check it out. Amanda Catherine Hein, 26, of Allentown Pa has been charged with killing her newborn son. Ms. Hein, pictured below auditioning to be the Batman, was watching the pay-per view Summer Slam when she excused herself from her friends. She gave birth in the ladies room and placed her new born baby in a toilet tank. Ms. Hein then proceeded to return to her friends and watch the rest of Summer Slam and before receiving a ride home. 
