The Death Penalty

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/states-and-without-death-penalty

So a few more states have the death penalty than don't.

Why don't some states have the death penalty?

My Take:

Recently a woman was sentenced to the death penalty because she used craigslist to lure another woman to her house, and then killed her and her unborn baby.

Was this justified? Hell yeah it was. In other countries if you steal they take off one of your fingers. If you rape a woman they cut off your dick. So if you kill someone you should also be killed right? Maybe.

I say maybe because I think in some cases getting the death penalty is actually the easy way out. I believe that in certain cases you should serve a life sentence in prison for what you did. Like men who rape and murder little girls. You should not be given the death penalty. You should be raped, beaten, serve 75 years in prison and then killed.

Obviously we cant do all that because we as a nation are pussy's, but to me at least 75 years in prison would be much worse than just dieing.

Theres one problem with this mentality also. If we send him to prison for that long that means that the taxpayers will be supporting that man for the rest of his life. Not to mention that prison nowadays is better than being on a submarine. (Trust me I would know) They have cable TV, full gyms, talk to their families. Doesn't sound so bad for what some people have done does it?

So why do some states have the death penalty and some don't? Well if you take a quick glance at that list again you will notice that most of the New England area states have abolished the death penalty. My personnel opinion is because there is a bunch of liberal democrat vagina's that live up there. I HATE the northeast. Anyways. Whats the real reason? I'm not sure, Google let me down this time.

So I am going to propose a bill as follows:

     To My Congressman,

  I am proposing a new bill involving the death penalty. I propose a nationwide law that will apply to ALL states without the ability of the state to change this law.

  I propose a standard set of guidelines that if a court deems the death penalty as a possibility, then this sequence of events will be followed in every case, for every state;

1. Submit a formal "death penalty" package for review to a select group of people. A "death penalty jury" if you will.
2. The DPJ (death penalty jury) will review the case and have one day to decide and vote on whether or not that person will receive the death penalty, a long prison term followed by the death sentence, or just a normal punishment.
3. Win.

Regards,
Kris Jensen

What would this do? Not only would it streamline the entire process while also saving alot of money, but it would make it so that people cant abuse certain states laws because this would be nationwide.

Along side of that, it would be publicly known that no matter where you are, you could get the death sentence. It may deter some people from doing dumb shit in the first place. Yes, I know that some people simply cannot be changed, but maybe if they knew that they would have to do a long prison term and then be killed they may reconsider.

So I ask, and I will make a poll for this week in the top right of my blog;

Would you sign this bill and make it a law?

Weekly video

 This weeks video is up. Fairly short but I read an email I received.

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Equality between men and women

This weeks subject was prompted from a Facebook post that had a comment that struck a nerve to me. I will sum it up:

Woman's wall post:
"Daughter was in store and kept asking for stuff. I told her she better marry a rich man so he can buy her all this stuff. Apparently the women standing next to us heard what I said and told me, "Or she could get an education and a good job and buy the stuff for herself!" So I told her apparently they don't teach people to mind their own business in college,"

I responded to her post like this:

"Well, she is right. Just because she has a vagina doesn't mean she should get a free ride on life. No pun intended."

So while I got my point across I also joked a bit because it wasn't that serious.

Now what happened next is what kind of pissed me off.

Different woman's response on her wall post copied EXACTLY from Facebook:

"sounds like that lady wasn't smart enough to go to college because then she would know that is so much easier to marry a rich man than try to get ahead in this society of men."

My exact response:

"WHOA. Wait a second. I thought that women were equal and just as good as men."

Her exact response:

"Not in the eyes of corporate America...women still get paid less for doing more."

So this is what spurred this weeks topic. Also, I asked my friend to write on this subject. I will post what he thought at the end of this.

So, My Take:

 For a long time there has been the argument that women are under appreciated, over worked, and under paid. Throughout history this has been true. It has been true until the last few years.

A quick search with my good friend Google shows that over the past five years that ON AVERAGE women make more money than men. There are more male millionaires and billionaires by a wide margin but ON AVERAGE women make more money. And its not a small amount either. In 2009 women made an average of 6.5% more yearly than men. That's a pretty good amount.

So now that I put that myth to rest lets tackle the "marry a rich man" topic.

Its been done for tons of years and still happens today. Men like vagina. Alot. So much in fact that it significantly sways our judgement when it is offered to us. This is not our fault. We are programmed to reproduce. Its our job. So when a woman offers us a chance to do what we are programmed to do, our minds take over and tell us GO GO GO. Even if we know damn well that we shouldn't our bodies still press on.

The issue is that women have figured this out and exploit it. To the FULLEST. Women know that we like vagina and they have figured out that if they offer it up then men will do alot of things (like pay for everything) against our better judgement. This type of woman is called a "Gold Digger".

Now, there are alot of women who solely rely on this tactic to make it through life. There are alot of women who don't use this tactic at all and are completely self reliant. I give respect to those women who have done it on their own and can buy everything for themselves. However, MOST women use this tactic in someway to gain an "edge". Cmon, women you know you do it. Don't pretend like you don't. I'm not saying you go up to your boss and offer to have sex for a promotion, but I am saying that if dressing a little sexier or doing some slight flirting will give you an edge up you will. How about if you get pulled over by a cop for speeding?

This is also programmed into women. Its their job to find a solid mate that can provide for their offspring. So women "put themselves out there". They then choose who they think will be the best provider and that's who they choose to reproduce with. Animals still do it today, just in much simpler ways.

So the one woman said that the only way to be successful in today's "society of men" is to marry someone rich. Well, I say you are uneducated and most likely had some bad experience in which you THOUGHT that because you are a woman that's the only reason it happened. Why? Because all the other unsuccessful women blame it on that statement so why shouldn't you?

Did he actually do it because you are a woman? Sure there is a SLIGHT chance, but more than likely it was because of your performance.

So that's my take on this subject, here is what my boy Nigel had to say:

My homeboy put me on to a little conversation that was had between a few people that got into an argument. Apparently little girl was in the store and was pointing out everything saying she wanted this, that, this, and that. So the mother told her daughter that she needs to marry a rich man so he can buy her everything. So this other lady interjected and said "why don't she go to college and get a good job and buy those things yourself." Apparently she replied with " Do they teach you to mind your business in college?" However (comma) that is not the question that is at hand but it is the argument I am about to present. My homeboy Kris told me about this (Shout Out goes to my homie Kris Jensen for this. Check out his blog page at www.kriscostake.blogspot.com). Anyway, one of his friends said "Sounds like that lady wasn't smart enough to go to college because then she would know that it is so much easier to  marry a rich man to get ahead in this society of men."  Really?!?

Now here is where I come in... I agree with Kris when he said to her that he thought that women were equal and just as good as men. So then she brought up the point of women still being paid less in corporate america for doing more. Hmmm........ But it is not true. Now most women in the work force make more than the man.

Seriously, do some of yall women really think that way and tell your daughters to not get an education and not learn to be independant and just marry a rich man so he can buy you everything? Women like that make me sick. Guys referr to those women as "Gold Digging Hoes"... Society has made it out to be that just because you are a woman you get away with a lot of stuff. Now I am not talking about the women who can hold it down on their own. I respect those women to the fullest. But I don't like those ones who all they want to do is go out all day and shop, look online and buy a new hand bag and matching shoes not even have the ambition to contribute to the cause. A relationship is about taking care of each other not about him taking care of her, or vice versa. What were to happen if he were to lose money and now he is stuck, can a woman like that help the family out? No because Mommy told her to marry a rich man so she wouldn't have to work and have him buy everything.

Now me being in the military, I see all the time women saying that they can do the job as good as any man. Which is true, I have seen women who can get down and dirty with the guys. Although, I have seen women who the only thing they do is just flirt with the supervisor just to get out of doing work. Wearing the uniform just a bit too small so it can show off what the working with, bending over and stuff trying to entice the supervisor so they will get out of doing jobs. I have seen it happen, and it still happens. Women intentionally get pregnant to get out of going on a ship's deployment. It happens all the time. Don't believe me, ask somebody on a ship that has females on it. A couple of months right before deployment, it becomes a sexfest with some these females, and will sleep with random guys to get prego. Why do you think the divorce rate is so high for some of the navy families?  Why do you think that a lot of the guys in the military are on their 2nd and sometimes 3rd marriage? Some of yall want to be treated equal, and when you are treated equally as "one of the guys" you complain. You might think I am wrong, but I am just sayin...

Weekly Video

 I decided not to do the video this week because my external microphone and lighting hasn't shown up yet plus I feel that I pretty much covered what I needed to in my write up.

Stay tuned for my weekly write up :)

Smoking

 So the time has come to talk about this subject. It is one of those subjects that hits home with me and affects alot of peoples lives. Also this week I am having one of my good friends write on this subject as well to give a different perspective. So without further ado.

My Take:

 So lets start out with some facts about me. I never smoked a cigarette in my life until I joined the Navy. Am I saying that the Navy drove me to smoking? Maybe. Regardless, I smoked for four years before I quit. Not as long as alot of people have smoked but I still have had to deal with attempting to quit and failing along with having a wife who was strongly opposed to me smoking. When I say strongly opposed that is probably an understatement.

So why did I start smoking? Mainly as an excuse to take a break at work. If I told my chief (boss for you civilian people) that I am going to go outside and just hang out for out for fifteen minutes I would get told, "Ya right, get back to work." However if I tell my chief that I am going to go take a smoke break it isn't even questioned. So that was a big motivator for me to start smoking. Past that and after I considered myself a "smoker", I then continued smoking for two reasons. The social aspect of it which I will elaborate on and because I actually enjoyed it.

The social aspect of smoking. Some of my greatest memories came from being underway and sitting in the smoke pit with my friends. If I hadn't started smoking I wouldn't have these memories. Why do I bring this up? Because it applies to the social aspect that I am talking about. For those who smoke or have smoked you understand what I am talking about but for those who didn't I will try to explain.

Lets take drinking for example. Smoking and drinking is one of those things that goes hand in hand. I have seen so many people that I never thought would smoke light up after they have a few drinks in them. Why? I think it once again leads back to the social aspect of it. Everyone else is smoking, its available from everyone else there, plus you have some drinks in you so judgement isn't what its supposed to be. So you try it out and find that while drinking if you smoke you feel more relaxed and interact better with people. Now you are hooked.

But Kris, that's while drinking. You cant compare that to every day life.

Ok. So now that you are hooked you attempt the same thing during the day completely sober. You head outside with your friends for a smoke break and while the social interaction is there, the same draw and allure that you had when you were drinking is gone. So why keep smoking? Well depending on how long you have been smoking you might be able to say the nicotine keeps you addicted. (I will also elaborate on this because I think that being addicted to nicotine is bullshit)

Let me tell you why it was hard for me to quit and also how I finally did quit. I got into a routine. Everyday I would show up to work and go right to the smoke pit. When we had morning quarters we would do it in the smoke pit. Every day after I ate lunch I would smoke and hang out socialize. Etc. So for years I had a routine that I followed. This was one of the hardest things to break. Trying to find something else to do during the time I would usually be smoking. Plus when I was drinking with friends it was much harder to not smoke with my friends for obvious reasons.

Now let me elaborate on the nicotine thing. I thought that maybe I was special but I have verified this with a few other people. I AGREE that the nicotine brings you back to smoking daily, but I DO NOT agree that you can be ADDICTED to nicotine. I might be wrong but I think someone who says they are addicted to nicotine are using it as an excuse to keep smoking. I never felt that I NEEDED to smoke because I NEEDED nicotine. I had some other people say they feel the same way so this apparently isn't just me.

So how did I finally quit? I broke it down to myself and looked at it this way:

• Its fucking expensive. Between a pack a day to myself, bumming out to friends, and the extra smoking I do when drinking, I realized that I was on average spending around $225 a month on cigarettes. That's ALOT.
• My daughter was getting older and had a better grasp on things going on. While I never smoked around my daughter I got the feeling that she was getting curious.
• My wife HATED me smoking. It was taking a toll on our relationship.
• Its REALLY BAD FOR YOU. We all know this and I knew this but it really hit me when I was 25 and couldn't run for more than 30 minutes without my lungs hurting.

So if you take a look at everything I listed there it should be blatantly obvious that I shouldn't have been smoking. Problem is that I ENJOYED smoking and I didn't "want" to quit. That's right. I never actually felt like I was addicted to smoking, I just enjoyed doing it.

'"So Kris, WHY did you quit then if you enjoyed doing it?"

The best way for me to explain this is that I grew up. Seriously. I realized the reasons that I was smoking and looked at the list that I made up there and realized that I was just being ridiculous. I was being immature. Plus I am a big fan of money so the extra cash was helpful.

Take a look at it though. If you are smoking ask yourself why. If you say that you smoke because you need to then you are probably compensating for a different underlying problem "Man my kids are driving me crazy, I need a cigarette." "I don't know if we can cover our bills this month, I need a cigarette." "My boss is such an asshole, I need a cigarette."

Look at those statements. Pretty common things that are said. The way I see those statements is:

"Man my kids are driving me crazy, I need a cigarette to compensate for my lack of disciplining my kids."
"I don't know if we can cover our bills this month, I need a cigarette to take my mind off the fact that I cant manage my money." (QUIT SMOKING AND YOU WILL HAVE MORE MONEY)
"My boss is such an asshole, I need a cigarette to ignore the fact that I should get a different job or possibly figure out why this guy is being an asshole."

So in conclusion this is how I sum up smoking:

"A reason to ignore or cover up for the real problems in our lives, to compensate for a lack of motivation to succeed in life, or a way to socialize with people because you otherwise cant."

A little blunt? Sure. Am I right? You tell me.

Smoking

 This week I am going to talk about something that effects everyones lives in one way or another. Since I personally smoked for 4 years until I quit, I can talk a good amount about this one.

Additionally I will be taking a different approach to this one. While I will be posting this on Friday, I am also having one of my friends write on the same exact subject and I will be posting his along with mine.

Me:
White dude
In the Navy
Living in Japan
Raised Air Force

Him:
Black dude
In school
Living in Wyoming
Raised himself and siblings

So two pretty different demographics.

I will be posting both of these on Friday, and then my usual weekly video on Saturday.

Weekly Video #3

Weekly video is up. This week I talked about obesity and some solutions. It ended up being 2 parts.

Video # 1 Click Here

Video #2 Click Here

Also dont forget to watch it in HD :)

Obesity.

Aww man I'm curious the responses I'm going to get on this one. I actually just got a new HD video camera so I am going to only briefly talk about this and then do a full video on Friday.

Obesity.

My Take:

 Quick google search reveals:

"Currently, about 31%, or about 59 million people, are obese, which is defined as roughly 30 or more pounds over a healthy weight. Almost 65% are either obese or overweight, 10 to 30 pounds over a healthy weight, which increases their chances of developing diabetes, heart disease, some types of cancer and a host of other health problems."

HOLY SHIT. Seriously 31%? That is unbelievable. How did this happen? I can tell you how. We are freaking lazy. In everything we do. Not just lack of working out but we are slow and lazy about every day life. Need to get to the 4th floor? Take the stairs? No way, elevator. Need to go to the corner store 2 blocks away? Walk? Nope, jump in the car. These are just a couple examples of every day life. This doesn't even touch on the lack of dedicated exercise.

So I will be making a full video on Friday about this subject. Cya then :)

Weekly Blogcast #2

 Alright guys here is #2. I apologize for it being late but I explain in the video.

This one is in HD too so click on the bottom right to view higher quality :)