Hands off the Kiddies, Please

In case you've been under a rock, Missouri has passed a "right to pray" bill. It passed by an overhwhelming majority. The details are here, but basically it restates that school children can pray and acknowledge god. This event is just one of many regarding schools and religion. You may have heard of Jessica Alquist, a student in Texas who petitioned a pray banner to be removed from her high school. Or of the bill that bassed that allows public dollars in Louisiana to send children to evolution rejecting, creationists schools.

In a nutshell, it's been a crazy run with schools and religion, primarily Christianity. 

Now, you can believe whatever the hell you want. But there are rules:

• Don't shove it down my throat
• Don't Fuck with other people's freedoms
• Don't force other's children to it

And shockingly, the freedom might be freedom from hearing fundamentalist religion. Sadly, these assholes are forgetting something, like the first amendment. It's not like you have to search hard to find this one. It's the first one. It reads, exactly:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. 

So it does protect religions from being discriminated against. However it also protects people from religion as well. This isn't some obscure text analysis. It's pretty plain black and white. You can have a religion, but it should not be made into law in a school. We also have a little thing called, I don't know, separation of church and state. So technically, the bullshit with Louisiana school vouchers is utterly unconstitutional. Yeah, public money is going into christianity? What if you're jewish, muslim, or something else?

Some people didn't realize that the vouchers could go for other religions. Like the people who voted for it to pass. Rep. Valerie Hodges, was shocked to find out the the vouchers she voted for were also going to fun muslim schools. And what did she have to say?

I actually support funding for teaching the fundamentals of America's Founding Father's religion, which is christianity, in public schools, or private schools.

There's lost of, well, bullshit in that sentence. In fact, it should get a reward for most bullshit/fewest words category. You know, since the founding fathers strived for separation of church and state and the fact many of them were not christian in the way many think it. There's a lot of propaganda on that one. But the truth lies in actual writings of many of the Fathers. And there's also The Faiths of the Founding Fathers which treats the subject very well, in my opinion.

Either way, this is insane. And when parents and law makers aren't illegally putting religion in school, they're homeschooling religion. Again, it's your right to teach religion. But there's a difference between teaching religion and outright disregard for well tested information in science. Like this. Blatant disregard for science and critical thinking like this is why the dark ages happened.

Again. You can believe what you want. However, you need to accept science. If you want to think a creator mad the Big Bang, or somehow jumpstarted the history of the world, that's cool, because we don't know what happened that long ago. If you believe people cozied with dinosaurs, bones are here to test us, and evolution is bullshit, well, that's fine too.

But don't dare teach that lack of critical thinking and reasoning to a child, cause then you're an asshole.

Fuck You 5 Hour Energy

Next on my shit list: false advertisement.

Yeah I know, it's everywhere. But there's a difference between a dick head car salesman trying to sell you a lemon and an ad sponsored by Big Corporate that is complete and utter bullshit. I know some people have differing opinions, but I'm going to use a little something called science. Yes, science is going to be used to show the complete bullshit and potential danger of these ads. Today we'll start with one that has gotten quite a rise out of me

5 Hour Energy - Doctor Approval Ad

5 Hour energy is attempting to (and is) taking a big share in the energy drink market. With consumers looking to avoid things like sugar, calories, taurine, and guarana, 5 Hour energy looks almost like a godsend. It's 4 calories. True. And it's not high in sugar. Also true. And that's where the realisms ends in these ads. Here's on that drives me up the fucking wall.

I left the link for the ad on the picture to your right. Now, I could go on ad on about this insanity. So I'll try to be brief, yet brutal. Note: when you go the 5 hour Energy's youtube page and this video, you'll see a majority of dislikes.

You'll also see that comments are disabled. Hmm... I wonder why (so intelligent people can't tell others about the bullshit). Basically, this ad says that 73 percent of doctors recommend this drink to their healthy patients if they are consuming energy drinks.

It also praises the continual, habitual use (once a day) of the product. There are a lot of ways to break this crap down. To add to it, this company claims that doctors recommend this stuff. I wonder if they were doctors on their payroll. Or I wonder what questions they asked these doctors exactly. See what this doctor has to say about the drink. 

Again, no energy drinks are good for you. Once in a while won't kill you, but your body can do without it. My problem comes from 5 Hour Energy hiding the potential illness and issues that can come from their product. To start, 5 Hour Energy has 2000 percent of vitamin B6 and over 8000 percent of B12! You don't EVER need that much of a vitamin. Just to show you, here's what vitamin B6 overdose can do. Here's what B12 can do in a high amount (not as severe, according to studies, but still worth noting). In short, B6 overdose can cause nerve damage and conditions, among other things. Having high amounts of unneeded vitamins in your body also can cause strain on the liver and liver issues, especially concerning Niacin, another product that is overused in this product.

There's no magic potion to stay up. There's a price, but you should NOT be throwing these things back every day. I would venture to say that 5 Hour Energy is one of the WORST drinks biologically. A low sugar alternate energy drink may have calories, Taurine, and/or Guarana, but not in obscene amounts. It also won't shoot out your liver, or even worse, your eyes. 

Essentially, 5 hour Energy is encouraging potentially dangerous vitamin overdose. They are using a plea to authority to "prove" their product is superior. Oh, and then they say 6 million or however the fuck many people use it. Yeah, and just because a lot of people use it doesn't mean it's good. More than that many people smoke, but I'm not lighting up a cigarette over here.

Regardless, be aware of the bullshit of advertising. 5 Hour Energy wins as No. 1 on my shit list.