GlossyVeneer

Happy Halloween. Here’s a funny site to give you a laugh today.

I just want to publicly proclaim that the ‘twist’ on last night’s sucked. You can’t bring back people who have been voted off. They’re LOSERS! They didn’t ouwit, outplay or outlast the others. Plus it isn’t fair playing ground, I’m sure the voted off folks have been cleaned up, slept in beds and had more food than the others. (Although Jeff Probst tried to make it sound like they were living on very little.) I just didn’t like it and I’m going to bitch about it here because this is my forum.

I’m taking the afternoon off. Why? Because I can, that’s why. No, I don’t have big plans other than distributing candy to little critters that come to beg for it at my door. But I am going to carve another pumpkin this afternoon, bringing the grand total of pumpkins I carved to 3, total carved between my husband and me….6. Not quite reaching the overkill number, but we’re probably kissing it.

Song playing now: Stupid Girl by Cold

I saw Runaway Jury this weekend. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the book as well. The book was about taking on the tobacco industry and in the movie they changed it to guns. I guess watching somebody get shot in a movie is a little more exciting than watching them puffing on a cig and then dying while hooked up to a ventilator or something.

Anyway, while I enjoyed the movie, it made me think. By telling you this, it won’t ruin the movie so don’t worry, it’s not really a spoiler. A woman is suing a gun manufacturer because her husband was shot by a gun made by that company. I just don’t know how I feel about this. In all honesty, I feel that you can’t really hold the gun manufacturer responsible because the gun had to have actually been handled by a human in order to kill someone. If I kill somebody with a Bic pen, who’s responsible – me or the Bic corporation? Obviously I would be, so why are guns different? But then you look at the fact that there are gun manufacturers making guns that are obviously assault style weapons, not used for traditional hunting purposes or law enforcement. And if a weapon is made for law enforcement or military purposes, why aren’t those just an exclusive contract between the government and the manufacturer and not available for the general public. And when a manufacturer is making guns with features such as “print-resistant finish” and things like that, you kind of have to wonder, “Who is their target demographic?”

Yes, the constitution says we have the right to bear arms. But it doesn’t say we have the right to have fully automatic assault weapons and shoot anybody who looks at us wrong. I’m fine with people having weapons for reasons such as hunting. Hell, I’ve even shot guns for recreational purposes, but I still have to wonder about some of the models that are created. I don’t know….I have no concrete opinion on this. The movie just really made me ponder two sides of an argument and I can see valid reasons on both sides. Just another example of how nothing in this world is just black or white.

I guess I could also ramble about Big Tobacco, but I’m just out of steam at this point. But I will say this, if I am in a public place near a person who is smoking, they are hurting my lungs and theirs at the same time. That doesn’t seem right.