Endgame

Well, the presidential race is almost over, and it looks like McBush's last ditch effort in trying to pull some win out of his ass is to say that the country will fall apart if we have too many Democrats in office. Since the House of Representatives and the Senate will be under a Democratic majority, we shouldn't also have a Democrat in the White House. 'You can't give them that much control, they'll fuck it all up!' I guess it's an okay argument, and it might convince some people out there.

BUT

If you don't believe that McCain would be four more years of Bush, you are dead wrong. Even if McCain wouldn't try to pursue the Bush agenda (which he most certainly would, go ahead and compare their energy plans) nothing notable would change in Washington if he were elected. You have a strong majority of Democrats in Congress, and a stubborn old Republican president. That's four 'lame duck' years. Anything significant the Democrats would try to push forward, economically or otherwise, would probably be rejected and vetoed by conservative McCain. Every plan McCain would try to feed to Congress will never pass through. It will be total gridlock, nothing would get done. It would be four years of endless partisan bickering. And we are all stuck with the same Bush policies intact that no one will be able to change. We can't have shit like that in our government right now. We need a government that will work to get shit done. The simple fact that the Senate Democrats do not have a STRONG majority right now means that they will still have to be moderate enough to get things done; they still need to work with Republicans. But it is time our country moved a little center-left of the spectrum, just a little more liberal. Pass strong regulations on Wall Street. Change our spending habits in Washington. Get some social issues passed that have been on the back burner for too long (i.e. healthcare). And finally shed some of this conservative bullshit that Bush has left us with.

Now, one of the arguments against this that I have heard from Republicans is that if you have a runaway party majority in Washington, then you run into problems. They say to look at the first six years of Bush, when Republicans had the White House and majorities in congress before Democrats took over in 2006. Look at how out of control spending and all that shit was, and how fucked up things got. I love hearing that from Republicans. They don't admit how much of a failure George W. Bush was until these elections came around, and they finally listened to the people and saw Bush's 26% approval rating. It's like they just barely figured it out overnight. So, the argument is that since the Republicans totally fucked up everything when they had the majority, this automatically means that Democrats would do the same thing. Sorry, but there is a difference when your party isn't completely controlled by corporations, and there is actually an intelligent person in the White House.

Don't even get me started on what it would be like if you had a President Sarah Palin vs. Democratic Congress. Ugliness ensues.

In the end, we need change, drastic change that can only come from a mandate of the people that says we as a country are ready for a new direction. We cannot be held up by the normal hiccups of a broken government.


OBAMA/BIDEN 2008

W.

So, I saw this movie last week. The life and times of George W. Bush. I was going to write a review after I saw it, but then I really didn't see much of a reason. BORING. Politically, it really isn't much to write home about. It wasn't a scathing look into his life, and it wasn't a lighthearted romp through his many blunders. I really thought it would be, well, funny. But it wasn't funny or intriguing. It left out vast parts of his history that is important, while going over shit that just doesn't fit. There was nothing about him skipping out of the air national guard, getting rich off of bogus oil ventures that he purposely made fail so he could cash in, his cronies stealing Florida in the 2000 election, him eavesdropping on millions, him reading "My Pet Goat" while America was under attack on 9/11, his war in Afghanistan, Katrina, and so much more. I could go on forever on what they left out of this movie. It also had nothing on his reelection or his second term. Nothing about Powell or Rumsfeld's resignation. Cheney was evil in it, he was portrayed perfectly. But, in the end, the movie tried to make you feel for the president. That is just weird. It was his faith and his alcoholism. Him living in his fathers shadow. It was a heartfelt, compassionate look into a man who stole an election, sent thousands of Americans to their death, almost bankrupted us, violated the bill of rights and raped the constitution is every way imaginable.


good family fun

The MAAAAAD Universe

The world as you know it could all be lies.

The problem is... You never know which part of it is lies.
Is this a lie? Is that a lie? What is truly fake and what trulytrulytruly is real?

Let this swish around in your brain for a moment.

The universe as we know it. We seem to think on a singular plane. We can only dream in so many dimensions. What do we perceive? In our solar system there are nine known planets, Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune and Pluto. But that is only what we perceive.

This is what the solar system looks like in our science classes when we were in school:



All in a straight line, one after another. 1 plane 2 dimensional




Now. Think back to what an atom looks like:




Not just 1 plane. Protons and neutrons coming and going in all sorts of directions. All orbiting around the central location. Quite interesting to think of things on multiple orbital paths.

What if our local solar system works like that? Our planets orbit on a different plane from others. Our orbits could be something like this:





So, is there any significance to this?(aliens) I personally think so because if we are able to see 9 planets on our orbital plane(aliens), how many other planets could possibly be there, orbiting the sun(aliens), that we are completely unaware of because they only pass our field of view every 13,000 years or something. If there are planets out there(aliens) that are like that, maybe one orbits close enough to us(aliens) that it could throw off our gravity, fuck with our tides, cause massive death, an ice age. Maybe that is what killed the dinosaurs(aliens), maybe that is what will happen in 2012(aliens), maybe we have 9,000 planets orbiting the sun.

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Yeah, and maybe the dinosaurs died because Jesus drove a Hummer and used to shoot brontosauruses from helicopters. DAMN YOU GLOBAL WARMING!

Maybe the chicken crossed the road because it was scared of chemical weapons.

Chicken.

v e r y d i s t u r b i n g

Endorse This

My local paper, The Salt Lake Tribune endorsed Barack Obama. It's a pretty good article.

New York Times has given a GREAT article in their endorsement of Barack Obama. I'm not a fan of the Times, but this piece is wonderful, and so perfect. Please read it through. It gives such a great argument, and is SO damn right. It sums up where our country is, and where we can take it. Please read it.

Barack Obama for President

Hyperbole is the currency of presidential campaigns, but this year the nation’s future truly hangs in the balance.

The United States is battered and drifting after eight years of President Bush’s failed leadership. He is saddling his successor with two wars, a scarred global image and a government systematically stripped of its ability to protect and help its citizens — whether they are fleeing a hurricane’s floodwaters, searching for affordable health care or struggling to hold on to their homes, jobs, savings and pensions in the midst of a financial crisis that was foretold and preventable.

As tough as the times are, the selection of a new president is easy. After nearly two years of a grueling and ugly campaign, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois has proved that he is the right choice to be the 44th president of the United States.

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Mr. Obama has met challenge after challenge, growing as a leader and putting real flesh on his early promises of hope and change. He has shown a cool head and sound judgment. We believe he has the will and the ability to forge the broad political consensus that is essential to finding solutions to this nation’s problems.

In the same time, Senator John McCain of Arizona has retreated farther and farther to the fringe of American politics, running a campaign on partisan division, class warfare and even hints of racism. His policies and worldview are mired in the past. His choice of a running mate so evidently unfit for the office was a final act of opportunism and bad judgment that eclipsed the accomplishments of 26 years in Congress.

Given the particularly ugly nature of Mr. McCain’s campaign, the urge to choose on the basis of raw emotion is strong. But there is a greater value in looking closely at the facts of life in America today and at the prescriptions the candidates offer. The differences are profound.

Mr. McCain offers more of the Republican every-man-for-himself ideology, now lying in shards on Wall Street and in Americans’ bank accounts. Mr. Obama has another vision of government’s role and responsibilities.

In his convention speech in Denver, Mr. Obama said, “Government cannot solve all our problems, but what it should do is that which we cannot do for ourselves: protect us from harm and provide every child a decent education; keep our water clean and our toys safe; invest in new schools and new roads and new science and technology.”

Since the financial crisis, he has correctly identified the abject failure of government regulation that has brought the markets to the brink of collapse.

The Economy

The American financial system is the victim of decades of Republican deregulatory and anti-tax policies. Those ideas have been proved wrong at an unfathomable price, but Mr. McCain — a self-proclaimed “foot soldier in the Reagan revolution” — is still a believer.

Mr. Obama sees that far-reaching reforms will be needed to protect Americans and American business.

Mr. McCain talks about reform a lot, but his vision is pinched. His answer to any economic question is to eliminate pork-barrel spending — about $18 billion in a $3 trillion budget — cut taxes and wait for unfettered markets to solve the problem.

Mr. Obama is clear that the nation’s tax structure must be changed to make it fairer. That means the well-off Americans who have benefited disproportionately from Mr. Bush’s tax cuts will have to pay some more. Working Americans, who have seen their standard of living fall and their children’s options narrow, will benefit. Mr. Obama wants to raise the minimum wage and tie it to inflation, restore a climate in which workers are able to organize unions if they wish and expand educational opportunities.

Mr. McCain, who once opposed President Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthy as fiscally irresponsible, now wants to make them permanent. And while he talks about keeping taxes low for everyone, his proposed cuts would overwhelmingly benefit the top 1 percent of Americans while digging the country into a deeper fiscal hole.

National Security

The American military — its people and equipment — is dangerously overstretched. Mr. Bush has neglected the necessary war in Afghanistan, which now threatens to spiral into defeat. The unnecessary and staggeringly costly war in Iraq must be ended as quickly and responsibly as possible.

While Iraq’s leaders insist on a swift drawdown of American troops and a deadline for the end of the occupation, Mr. McCain is still talking about some ill-defined “victory.” As a result, he has offered no real plan for extracting American troops and limiting any further damage to Iraq and its neighbors.

Mr. Obama was an early and thoughtful opponent of the war in Iraq, and he has presented a military and diplomatic plan for withdrawing American forces. Mr. Obama also has correctly warned that until the Pentagon starts pulling troops out of Iraq, there will not be enough troops to defeat the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

Mr. McCain, like Mr. Bush, has only belatedly focused on Afghanistan’s dangerous unraveling and the threat that neighboring Pakistan may quickly follow.

Mr. Obama would have a learning curve on foreign affairs, but he has already showed sounder judgment than his opponent on these critical issues. His choice of Senator Joseph Biden — who has deep foreign-policy expertise — as his running mate is another sign of that sound judgment. Mr. McCain’s long interest in foreign policy and the many dangers this country now faces make his choice of Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska more irresponsible.

Both presidential candidates talk about strengthening alliances in Europe and Asia, including NATO, and strongly support Israel. Both candidates talk about repairing America’s image in the world. But it seems clear to us that Mr. Obama is far more likely to do that — and not just because the first black president would present a new American face to the world.

Mr. Obama wants to reform the United Nations, while Mr. McCain wants to create a new entity, the League of Democracies — a move that would incite even fiercer anti-American furies around the world.

Unfortunately, Mr. McCain, like Mr. Bush, sees the world as divided into friends (like Georgia) and adversaries (like Russia). He proposed kicking Russia out of the Group of 8 industrialized nations even before the invasion of Georgia. We have no sympathy for Moscow’s bullying, but we also have no desire to replay the cold war. The United States must find a way to constrain the Russians’ worst impulses, while preserving the ability to work with them on arms control and other vital initiatives.

Both candidates talk tough on terrorism, and neither has ruled out military action to end Iran’s nuclear weapons program. But Mr. Obama has called for a serious effort to try to wean Tehran from its nuclear ambitions with more credible diplomatic overtures and tougher sanctions. Mr. McCain’s willingness to joke about bombing Iran was frightening.

The Constitution and the Rule of Law

Under Mr. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the justice system and the separation of powers have come under relentless attack. Mr. Bush chose to exploit the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001, the moment in which he looked like the president of a unified nation, to try to place himself above the law.

Mr. Bush has arrogated the power to imprison men without charges and browbeat Congress into granting an unfettered authority to spy on Americans. He has created untold numbers of “black” programs, including secret prisons and outsourced torture. The president has issued hundreds, if not thousands, of secret orders. We fear it will take years of forensic research to discover how many basic rights have been violated.

Both candidates have renounced torture and are committed to closing the prison camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

But Mr. Obama has gone beyond that, promising to identify and correct Mr. Bush’s attacks on the democratic system. Mr. McCain has been silent on the subject.

Mr. McCain improved protections for detainees. But then he helped the White House push through the appalling Military Commissions Act of 2006, which denied detainees the right to a hearing in a real court and put Washington in conflict with the Geneva Conventions, greatly increasing the risk to American troops.

The next president will have the chance to appoint one or more justices to a Supreme Court that is on the brink of being dominated by a radical right wing. Mr. Obama may appoint less liberal judges than some of his followers might like, but Mr. McCain is certain to pick rigid ideologues. He has said he would never appoint a judge who believes in women’s reproductive rights.

The Candidates

It will be an enormous challenge just to get the nation back to where it was before Mr. Bush, to begin to mend its image in the world and to restore its self-confidence and its self-respect. Doing all of that, and leading America forward, will require strength of will, character and intellect, sober judgment and a cool, steady hand.

Mr. Obama has those qualities in abundance. Watching him being tested in the campaign has long since erased the reservations that led us to endorse Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic primaries. He has drawn in legions of new voters with powerful messages of hope and possibility and calls for shared sacrifice and social responsibility.

Mr. McCain, whom we chose as the best Republican nominee in the primaries, has spent the last coins of his reputation for principle and sound judgment to placate the limitless demands and narrow vision of the far-right wing. His righteous fury at being driven out of the 2000 primaries on a racist tide aimed at his adopted daughter has been replaced by a zealous embrace of those same win-at-all-costs tactics and tacticians.

He surrendered his standing as an independent thinker in his rush to embrace Mr. Bush’s misbegotten tax policies and to abandon his leadership position on climate change and immigration reform.

Mr. McCain could have seized the high ground on energy and the environment. Earlier in his career, he offered the first plausible bill to control America’s emissions of greenhouse gases. Now his positions are a caricature of that record: think Ms. Palin leading chants of “drill, baby, drill.”

Mr. Obama has endorsed some offshore drilling, but as part of a comprehensive strategy including big investments in new, clean technologies.

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Mr. Obama has withstood some of the toughest campaign attacks ever mounted against a candidate. He’s been called un-American and accused of hiding a secret Islamic faith. The Republicans have linked him to domestic terrorists and questioned his wife’s love of her country. Ms. Palin has also questioned millions of Americans’ patriotism, calling Republican-leaning states “pro-America.”

This politics of fear, division and character assassination helped Mr. Bush drive Mr. McCain from the 2000 Republican primaries and defeat Senator John Kerry in 2004. It has been the dominant theme of his failed presidency.

The nation’s problems are simply too grave to be reduced to slashing “robo-calls” and negative ads. This country needs sensible leadership, compassionate leadership, honest leadership and strong leadership. Barack Obama has shown that he has all of those qualities.

DOES ANYONE WANT TO SEE WHAT A REAL JOURNALIST LOOKS LIKE

TIM RUSSERT 1950-2008





I done a small post about this when he passed, as the election cycle goes on, I remember why I loved this man. I was just cruising youtube and came across this.

Trickle down on me, wontcha!

It's a maaaaad maaad world. Let's have a laugh.

No taxation without some fucking representation.

McCain isn't for small business, he is for BIG business, corporate bigwigs, and the hundreds of lobbyists who are running his campaign that will definitely be getting special favors once he's in office. Total pandering, wealthy buying up "votes" with their buckets of cash. "Votes" as in Diebold run electronic voting machines that just "may" have an error in the programming that could possibly switch votes.

Oh, but Obama is stealing the election because of ACORN? Sure, asshole. Sorry but the poor aren't very good at corrupting the government. But the rich, the wealthy Bush/Rove sons who are running McCain's campaign, they have had quite a few years worth of voter and government fraud.
McCain's campaign operative, Steve Schmidt, is a veteran from the Bush presidential campaigns. Karl Rove's protege, go ahead and google that.

If you don't think the rich will get richer and the poor get poorer under McCain, please crawl out of the rock you are under, stop drinking the koolaid, and do the country a favor and go to Iraq and become some fucking terrorist over there, we don't need you terrorizing our economy anymore.

Fuck you and your fucking tax cuts. Obama wants tax cuts for the middle class, McCain wants tax cuts for the rich(Bush didn't give them enough) Just because his tax cuts will favor the rich, and make them richer, does that mean that they will pay their people more? NO! They will keep hoarding the money for themselves. Hey, need another private jet? How about a new fucking swimming pool in your fucking mansion? It's a mad grab for power. They economy looks a little shaky, might as well lay off a few more tens of thousands employees. Ain't that right GM? You should have failed a long time ago, but CEO Richard Wagoner you were able to afford a few more houses by laying off a more and more workers. Good for you, let's give you another tax cut, maybe you'll create jobs with this one.

It's time to stop pandering to these "job making" companies. They are only creating shit jobs they can't outsource. "But, if you tax them more, jobs won't be created." - FUCK YOU!
I'm fucking tired of being held hostage by the corporate bigwigs who say if they don't get their tax cuts, no more jobs!
We can't be rewarding this behavior. They know they are making enough money. They can take a small cut from their multi-million dollar bonuses. If not, we'll just have to cut their heads off and bury them in their piles of gold. Ship their guts to wall street and let those bigwig pigs have a fucking feast.
If they don't create jobs, they can't run\grow their business, they FAIL! Fine with me. Find some less greedy businessman who is willing to pay his employees a decent wage.

That is the biggest change we need this election. We need to put greed in check. It's time the workers go back to UNIONIZING on a major level. I won't be held hostage by these fuckers who try to run America by stringing us along with their low paying jobs.

Okay, let us cool the anger down a bit

I'll try to get back to a cohesive argument for responsible policies.

Obama will add extra taxes to companies who ship their jobs overseas. John McBush holds no position on the matter, which probably means he agrees with Bush and is against taxing them.

If John McCain doesn't hold a position on an issue, it's safe to just assume he agrees with Bush




The whole trickle down theory is a joke because us on the bottom are working our asses off to give all our money to the top and hope they will trickle down on us jobs and services and such. That's what makes us rich, the fact that we are SOOOOOOO much poorer than the elite in this country. The people on the top are too greedy. We can't hold out hope that THEY will lend us a hand, or give us a good raise, access to decent healthcare. Then, modern-day Obama Robin Hood comes along, and the rich are seething. They will call him any name under the books, TERRORIST NIGGER APEMAN MUSLIM SOCIALIST! NOT MY WORDS

Here is a problem with the trickle down theory, I have thousands of problems with it, but a good one I like to use is: All men are created equal, blah blah blah. If we are supposed equals in this fucked up wealthocracy, do you believe that one hundred people with $10,000 equal one person with $1,000,000? It's the same amount of money, what do you think? No! That one person with a million holds so much more power than those others. American greed. Wonderful.

Racist, Socialists, and Communists

It's getting pretty ugly on the campaign trail. On the right, they are yelling that if you don't vote for McCain you are "anti-american". On the left, if you don't vote for Obama you are are "racist"

The thought that small towns are more american than big cities is kind of a joke. Sex drugs and rock and roll are prevalent in small towns just as much as cities. It's just a little more hidden in small towns which makes it all the more dangerous. Shit, I'm from the religious state of Utah, I lived in a city and a small town. Either way, I'm about as anti-american as you can get without being a total anarchist(those anarchy days are behind me now). I guess I'm just some crazy socialist now. I support Obama's tax cuts so, I'm a socialist. Not like Bush, who has put American taxpayer money into the banking system. No way is that socialism, just a different type capitalism, right? The markets will fix themselves, except when they can't, in which case, pour everyone's money into it, right? Sure! Thanks for the vote for that bailout McCain/Obama/Biden, very socialistic of ya!

N-E-Ways

THE WAR ON TERROR

Here are my reasons for supporting Barack Obama as related to foreign policy and war. Obama is very diplomatic in his approach. Unlike warmongering McCain, who I can see repeating Bush's quote to the terrorists to "Bring 'em On!"

Obama is for cooperating with other nations when dealing with a crisis. He wants to put more into U.S. intelligence gathering. He does have a very diplomatic touch.

He wants to end the Iraq war, which he rightly describes as "the main propaganda tool for Al Qaida", responsibly. Move troops to focus on the Afganistan-Pakistan border, where a lot of Al Qaida's main planning is coming from. Now, if you watched the debates, you will remember when McCain called Obama "naive" for speaking out loud about doing air strikes on suspected targets in Pakistan, he said you're not supposed to talk about that when Pakistani leaders could hear you. That is totally bogus, look at the news that has been coming out of Pakistan. Bush has been doing what McCain agrees with, doing air strikes in Pakistani territory without anyone's knowledge. What has came of it? The people of that country are MAD AS HELL about us just moving right into their territory. They are wondering where we get the nerve to just bomb at will. I don't think there would be as much of an outrage (organized outrage) if there was some knowledge beforehand that we might move in on such targets, instead of outright denying it.

Obama is also planning foreign aid for spending money in Islamic countries to build schools and other training programs as alternatives to the radical Muslim training grounds that exist now to train extremists and terrorists. Obama is also promising to close Gitmo and actually give those detainees a trial. (though, if they didn't hate America before, I'm sure they do by now)

Now, Barack Obama is naive in some aspects of foreign affairs I believe. Most importantly about Iran. He seems to think that we can work through the problems and find a common ground there. Sorry, there is no common ground, except that their democracy is as much a farce as ours. We NEED to deal with Iranian threats to Israel and Iraq. McCain is wrong in saying the central front of the War on Terror is Iraq, and Obama is wrong in saying the central front is in Afganistan and Pakistan. IRAN is the central front of the War on Terror.


We need a strong arm when dealing with them. In the second presidential debate, a question was asked: If Iran attacked Israel, would you come to Israel's aid and attack Iran?

Obama's response:
We cannot allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon. It would be a game-changer in the region. Not only would it threaten Israel, our strongest ally in the region and one of our strongest allies in the world, but it would also create a possibility of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorists.

And so it's unacceptable. And I will do everything that's required to prevent it.

And we will never take military options off the table. And it is important that we don't provide veto power to the United Nations or anyone else in acting in our interests.

It is important, though, for us to use all the tools at our disposal to prevent the scenario where we've got to make those kinds of choices. And that's why I have consistently said that, if we can work more effectively with other countries diplomatically to tighten sanctions on Iran, if we can reduce our energy consumption through alternative energy, so that Iran has less money.......... BLAH BLAH BLAH

Get fucking serious man! Just say, "We need to beat the living shit out of them." You can't talk your way through this bullshit while Israel burns. That is the only real ally we have in the region, even if they provoked some attack, we need to retaliate against Iranian forces. Simply put, Israel is a US state as far as those in the middle east(and the world) are concerned. An attack on Israel is an attack on the USA. That will be their way to test us. It's bullshit to say "Blah blah, diplomatic solutions blah blah sanctions" We need to smack them down!

We need to act on threats that Iran poses to both Israel and Iraq. We need to look into possible Iranian influences in Afghanistan. We need some troops to stay in Iraq for border security at the Iraq/Iran border. Al Qaida may not be prevalent in Iran, but it is still an extremist muslim state. No matter what president they have, they are really a religious state, ruled by religious leaders we don't really know anything about. Terrorism is just boiling there.

Obama is wise in listening to reason, and using his brain. But he needs to grow his nuts a little more.

Do you agree? Leave me a comment.




One more point. When former secretary of state Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama, McCain came back saying he was endorsed by 5 other former secretaries of state (Kissinger, Baker, Haig, Eagleburger, Shultz). The problem with that, ALL THOSE SECRETARIES OF STATE WERE IN OFFICE DURING THE COLD WAR! McCain's whole world philosophy revolves around the Cold War. Probably burned in his brain from Vietnam. He is so stuck in the fucking past, and the old ass secretaries of state are also still stuck in the Cold War state of mind. Endless, mindless war, we need McCain!

Why I support Barack Obama

What are the most pressing issues facing America and the American people today?

High Gas Prices
Terrorism
Loss of Jobs
Global Warming

Do you agree? If so, think about this: One of Barack Obama's main proposals is to invest in research for new energy technologies. Fossil fuels are killing us. New energy technologies and policies would:

- Create new, renewable fuel sources that can be harvested here at home, lowering gas prices and eventually eliminating the gas guzzling combustible engine.
- With new fuel sources, we can end our addiction to oil, we will no longer need foreign oil. Therefore, we will stop sending millions over to the middle east to purchase oil, this will ultimately stop funding radical Islamic terrorist.
- The new industry that these new energy sources will create will give us millions of new "green" jobs. They will pay well and cannot be outsourced to India or China.
- These new energies will help us cut back on our CO2 emissions and greenhouse gasses. Once we get up and rolling on this, we will effectively slow global warming, and cut back on our damage to the environment.

Well, there you go. With just one smart investment, we can address some of our most pressing issues in the 21st century. Now, we can follow John McCain and Sarah Palin and the rest of the republicans and "Drill Baby Drill!" That may cut our dependence on foreign oil by 2 to 5 percent over the next decade. Not to mention damage to the environment beyond any kind of repair. Doesn't that sound great!

Bush said a few years ago, "We are addicted to oil." Very true coming from an oilman. Now, if you have dealt with addicts before, you know this type of behavior is self-defeating. Drilling and the likes are just ways to postpone the inevitable, we are going to have a crash. We will have our withdrawls from oil, it will be tough, but we need to try to cut our addiction. Of course it's almost impossible to quit cold turkey, but we need to try something along those lines. We need an alternative!

I'll expand more in the coming weeks about healthcare, the economy, war on terror, etc. and why I support Obama on those issues. Also, I will go into his policies that I disagree with.

Did America have a heart attack?

Is this whole financial crisis just a warning? Is it like a heart attack? we've survived this long, the stock market is starting to go up again, credit is loosening a little, the world markets are circulating. It looks like the blood is starting to flow again. You have a heart attack, but you survive. Now, you wake up in recovery. It's reality check time. If you continue to live the same way, you are headed for another heart attack. If our economy goes right back to how it was two years ago(or even two months ago), we will be headed for more serious problems. A massive heart attack! Or is this it? we've kinda glanced over our last few major recessions, the 70's and the late 80's-early 90's. Oh we survived just fine then, we would be alright. Now, we don't know if we will ever be as strong as we were, too much fat in the land. But, we need to figure out how to control spending on a national level. From the government, to the investors, to the corporations, to the businesses, to You. Every single person has to acknowledge that they can't look at credit as they looked at it in the past. You can't borrow so much that the arteries get clogged, we need a continuous flow throughout our financial/cardiovascular system.

I heard a great quote from Barney Frank, Democratic representative from Massachusettes, and chairman of the financial service committee. He is probably the top guy involved in the bailout, and the whole housing crisis, he has a big hand in all the bullshit going on. Anyways, I heard him say today(I'm paraphrasing)

"If you don't want to inject politics into this financial crisis, don't ask 535 elected officials to deal with it."

Isn't that just perfect.



To Barack Obama: Your spending plans are the reason you are called the most liberal senator. You are being very liberal with the taxpayer's money. Your stimulus plan is just more and more reason to call you a tax-and-spend-liberal. Pelosi, Reid, Obama, McCain, and Bush are all just willing to keep throwing more and more money at the problem. Sorry, but, ~ NEWS FLASH ~wild, problematic spending IS the problem.

See, McCain could use that line in the debate Wednesday, it would rile up the whole republican race, and a lot of fiscal conservatives from all parties. "You are being very liberal with the taxpayer's money, that must be why you are called the most liberal senator." Ooohhhh, what a zinger! That would get people talking, and make the debates a little more lively. But, McCain couldn't pull that off. Unfortunate. He is just not economically adept enough to be able to hit the democrats with something like that. Just like his final mistake which I think finished digging his hole, and finally just gave Obama this election: Voting for the bailout. McCain voted for the bailout, just like Obama and Biden. After House Republicans went so strongly against it, McCain should have looked it over and seen what was fucked up about the original bill that failed, and the revised bill which did pass.

To John McCain: Dumbfuck! That bailout was LOADED with the pork and "earmarks" your whole campaign was supposedly fighting against. Where is the "REFORMAVERICK"? I know you said, "It had to be done," but goddamn, it had to be right! It had to be right. It could have been right, maybe you should have suspended your campaign until the bill was worked out... Oh, wait you tried that, asshole.
You let that pass in order to not take a political chance. Now you are taking all sorts of bullshit chances that Don't Make Any Sense. Coming out with some new economic plan every day. A new way to attack Obama every day. Sorry, you missed your chance. You could be attacking him right now ON the economy by saying "that democrat is all porked up." You lost fucker, go take your racist crowds with you.

There are more and more people in McCain's crowds who are calling Obama a 'terrorist' or 'traitor' or 'arab'. You may say that those are just a few whackos, but damn, it's getting frequent. My theory is that the only people McCain has left on his side who are willing to come to his rallys are the ignorant, racist, white, fat rednecks. Have you seen these videos? It's fucking funny! Though, this mob mentality is the type that may incite violent acts against a certain presidential candidate, but hey, whatever. Obama is breaking new ground that a lot of dumb fuckers don't want him to. He's got to know this when he is giving his speeches in public. It has got to be going through his mind
"I could die at any second, all it takes is one racist nazi sniper"

Back to my original topic. So, Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac become nationalized, taxpayer is on the hook for their loans, Bear Stearns gets bailed out. Lehman, Washington Mutual fall. AIG bailed out. $700 billion bailout. Now, Bush is spending $250 billion of it to put taxpayer money into banks (i.e. socialism). The democrats are asking for another stimulus package for something between $60 billion and $115 billion for middle class relief. McCain has a million and one dumb ideas on how to spend taxpayer money. He wants $300 billion to buy troubled loans, about $52 billion for senior citizens tax breaks, something like $16 billion in tax breaks for all. Lets keep throwing money into the wind baby!

Fiscal Responsibility has been replaced with greed and indifference. Well, the national debt has consequences. The U$ dollar is deflated because other countries don't feel safe investing in a sinking dollar and Bush prints more worthless dollars to cover the debt, which deflates the dollar even more.

At least the democrats have an idea out there that will appeal to "main street"(I am so tired of hearing that expression) Their stimulus package will mean I get a check from the government for, as the plan goes, $500. Shit, that is giving something back to the people. Sure it's a dumb idea, but I'm not going to turn down money from the government. Shit, they are spending soooooo much money keeping the banks alive, why not give the regular people a little bit o cash. Who cares where the money is coming from.

So in the end, you can call Obama a spend happy liberal, but you also have to say that about Bush, McCain, Pelosi, Palin, Reid, Frank; Hell pretty much everyone in both houses of congress. Either fight it, or embrace it. Don't act like it's not true, don't sweep it under the rug. It's not good for the body.

Sarah Palin pals around with secessionists

Her husband was part of the Alaska Independence Party, they wanted to cut all ties to America and claim Alaska as it's own separate country.

ANYWAYS

chew on these crumbs.
(all taken from dailykos.com)

When did when exist?

Agatha... AGATHA!!!!


Would you believe? Did the cows come home to roost in the chickens den? Did grave power of the agenda eat agatha alive? Die? My? Mine.

Retch a wretched. Snivel and wriggle. Bahbahaah

Waking a wake. Cold, like Cindy McCain. I can't wait for Palin to go away. She will go back to being a small town folk and abusing her power up there in the tundra. Watch out Russia! The bitch is coming home November 5th.
"At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt."

Time. Time is always moving, but never going anywhere. Where does time go when we use it all up? Does time really cure all? Ain't no thang if ur nuts don't hang, it just means you ain't got that swang.
Swing baby swing.
Zing Zing Zing.

Dually authorized and notarized. Pages torn like an index card, stolen from the library. Getting left behind with Israel bombing the world. The thing that bothers me most about this world: Israel and Pakistan both have nuclear weapons(or "NUCULAR weapons" as George W. Bush and Sarah Palin call it) The fact that Iran might get them soon. America has lots of nukes. The middle east and north america having nukes is frightening.

9/11 truthers? Get a life. Go learn how to fly planes. Learn where the weakest parts of buildings are. it's all there on the interwebs... idiots.


Agatha?

Well then...

OK. Sarah Palin is a fucking idiot. I saw the VP debate last night. She is pretty good at reading her talking points cards she had in front of her, just like how she is good reading off a teleprompter. ENYWAYZ.

She did scare the shit out of me
Moderator: "Do you believe as Vice President Cheney does, that the Executive Branch does not hold complete sway over the office of the vice presidency, that it it is also a member of the Legislative Branch?"

Palin: "Well, our founding fathers were very wise there in allowing through the Constitution much flexibility there in the office of the vice president. And we will do what is best for the American people in tapping into that position and ushering in an agenda that is supportive and cooperative with the president's agenda in that position. Yeah, so I do agree with him that we have a lot of flexibility in there, and we'll do what we have to do to administer very appropriately the plans that are needed for this nation. And it is my executive experience that is partly to be attributed to my pick as V.P. with McCain, not only as a governor, but earlier on as a mayor, as an oil and gas regulator, as a business owner. It is those years of experience on an executive level that will be put to good use in the White House also."

That is some scary shit. She believes as Cheney does that the VP's power is uncheckable. She wants to keep all the crazy power Dick Cheney has amassed in the past 8 years.

This is my first time really seeing Biden in action. He is quite an eloquent speaker

Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we've had probably in American history. The idea he doesn't realize that Article I of the Constitution defines the role of the vice president of the United States, that's the Executive Branch. He works in the Executive Branch. He should understand that. Everyone should understand that.

He is damn sharp. I knew he was by reading about shit, but seeing him in a real debate, he wowed me.



Barack is pulling ahead on all fronts(besides Utah). McCain pulled out of Michigan, he knows he's lost there so they are pulling their troops out of there and moving them to.... Maine, the 4 electoral votes there are gonna decide the election I guess they think. That and New Hampshire. Sure...

Check out livingroomcandidate.org It's fascinating, showing commercial ads for presidential candidates all the way from 1952 to today. It also shows what happened in each election cycle. Ronald Reagan got more than 450 electoral votes(out of 538) in both of his campaigns. He won every state except Minnesota in '84. That's crazy.

Polls show that Utah is the least likely of all states to go for Obama. What a shitty state. Even in Arizona, McCain's home turf, Barack Obama is looking better. Oh well, whatever. Obama is ahead in Virginia, Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. Fuck Utah.

OK. JUMPING SHIP

fuckit. I'm done trying to stop posting about politics. McCain/Palin, you are soooo fucking dead. Just wait. I'll post more on that in a bit. Right now, I need to tell you. I posted the next chapter in the Chemical and Analog series. You get to meet Analog.
But. I started thinking, that was getting in the way of my other inane posts. I also needed to give it a better organization, and I needed it to be like a book, the oldest posts up top, newest chapters at the bottom. So Chemical and Analog are now their own blog, here

So, they won't be getting in the way here anymore. I will post updates on new chapters here, but you will have to go there to read it. Please keep reading it.


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I am gray now. Dark lips, no hair, bruised eye sockets, but piercing blue eyes with the smallest dot of red in the middle. My false eyes...