Lanai Boat Trip Recap

           Over my Hawaiian vacation my family took a boat trip to Lanai. Here's a short video I took of the Spinner Dolphin pod we saw off the coast taken with a GoPro camera:

Spinner Dolphins are about 2/3 smaller than their more famous cousins Bottlenose Dolphins. The largest pod of Spinner Dolphins in Hawaii is off the coast of Lanai- about 300 dolphins. They are active at night and early in the morning and sleep most of the day. When marine creatures sleep they are half awake. The dolphins I saw were up playing when most of the rest were sleeping, so there were about 40 swimming around the boat. Spinner dolphins can't survive in captivity for more than 2 days- they die of depression when separated from their group.

We also saw lots of sea turtles- and I got to swim a lot when I was snorkeling.  They live for at least 100 years. 

here's a pic of one that I didn't take

he's eating a snack!

On the trip we also saw a Hawaiian Monk Seal. Most seals like frigid water but monk seals like warm water, they also like fried chicken. 1400 Hawaiian monk seals left on the planet and even less in the Mediterranean, they're one of the most endangered animals in the world (probably they are all dying of seal heart disease because of all those deep fried snacks they eat).

Easter

Easters a terrible holiday, need some fact to back up my opinions? well i don't have any. Just kidding i always have stuff to back up my ludicrous accusations, its the celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus. Fun fact Jesus never rose from the dead because he wasn't the son of God. so why do we celebrate a fake holiday by finding Easter eggs? because Christians wanted to convert pagans to Catholicism (those Christen dicks) so they moved the date of Jesus's Crucifixion so he would be resurrected on the pagans holiday. The Easter eggs were a thing because the Catholic church would ban eggs for lent so it was a snack that everyone wanted.

  

 but look how cute the bunny is

 and their in easter eggs

those eggs are crazy looking

is the US military vital for our country?

     In the last 20 years theirs been only 3 or 4 years in which we were not at war, but why are we always fighting? One reason is because we can, we have a devastatingly powerful military.  When you have a ludicrous amount of planes, smart bombs, and cruise missiles, the whole world looks like a target. Another reason is that we have an all-volunteer force, by making military service be only the people that volunteer to do it, people feel less strongly apposed to it. People would be far more against random wars if it was the draft instead, if wall street bankers kids were forced into service then the random war wouldn't be a thing. I'm not recommending that we bring the draft back, I'm just pointing out that we probably wouldn't be in as many wars if it was still a thing.

fun bonus fact: Teddy Roosevelt was the last president to be openly pro war, he was once quoted saying “A just war is in the long run far better for a man’s soul than the most prosperous peace”

the soldier and the dog are best f*ckng Friends

dirigibles are awesome

    dirigibles are just the f*cking best, they float all slow and sh*t. Here are some fun facts about them

• The first design was called the LZ-1 (Luftschiff Zeppelin 1)
• dirigibles consisted of a massive, long rigid metal frame containing individual gas cells and are sometimes covered by fabric
• The first airship was completed in the winter of 1899 and made its maiden flight in the summer on July 2, 1900
• The LZ-1 Zeppelin airship was first flown for a short distance of 3.5 miles over a lake
• It went 20 mph which is fast i guess

airship and dirigible are synonyms which i guess is a fun fact, i mean its definitely a fact i don't know how fun it is.

thats the hindenburg crashing

this is of the same dirigible crashing 

the death penalty

   I personally don't believe in the death penalty so this blog will have a bias, but I'll do my best to cover both sides. Some countries that still have the death penalty are China, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, North Korea. i don't know about you but i don't want to be on a list with any of those countries, I want to be on a list with Sweden Sweden's on all the best lists. 
     Some arguments for the death penalty are it provides closer for the victim or the victims family. I personally don't think that this is entirely true for some people it might be but not for everyone. another argument it acts as a deterrent. Their is no evidence to back this argument up. One more argument for capital punishment is that it costs less to just kill them. just like the previous argument this is inaccurate it actually costs less to keep them in prison then it does to kill them. Some arguments against the death penalty are that it the prisoners family have to suffer sing their loved one killed by the state. but the best argument against it is on ProCon.org where it says:

                     Ultimately, the moral question surrounding capital punishment in America has less to do with whether those convicted of violent crime deserve to die than with whether state and federal governments deserve to kill those whom it has imprisoned. The legacy of racial apartheid, racial bias, and ethnic discrimination is unavoidably evident in the administration of capital punishment in America

as you can see by the writing above i have bias against the death penalty because  i personally think that its barbaric and in humane. if we think we are the best species then why do we act so cruel to each other?

is the mass incarceration of Americans the new Jim crow laws?

  In our modern era discriminating against somebody because of their race is not at all an acceptable thing to do. But if they are a convicted felon then you can deprive them of some basic rights.  Like being denied the right to vote, education opportunities, attending jury duty (which they might not be that sad about), being denied food stamps and, other benefits. They are also discriminated against in social stuff like; housing, and jobs. which seams backward because that forces them back towards crime and that shouldn't be the point of the prison system (and the privatized prison system if far worse but that's a topic for another blog). 

                                     

• African Americans are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of whites
• if African American and Hispanics were incarcerated at the same rates of whites, today's prison and jail populations would decline by approximately 50%

• Together, African American and Hispanics comprised 58% of all prisoners in 2008, even though African Americans and Hispanics make up approximately one quarter of the US population
• 5 times as many Whites are using drugs as African Americans, yet African Americans are sent to prison for drug offenses at 10 times the rate of Whites

   Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against convicted criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Once you’re labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination are fair game.