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Seattle Times: "Just because the election is over doesn't mean America doesn't suck any more." I'm going to pick that article apart a little different from how I usually do. I'm going to do it in song format. Here's the chorus, so feel free to sing along at that point: A 1 and a 2 and a....
(By the way... strictly speaking, to "come close to torture" is not to torture.)
It goes on and on, but I think you have the point. Officially they've said there's no torture happening, but they've repeated the allegation often enough that it will fuel moonbat hatred for another year or so. By the way, did you hear the one about the Guantanamo detainee that was released and then caught a few months later being a terrorist, again? Yeah, that one cracks me up, too.
I haven't had much lately, as far as updating this site is concerned. Maybe you noticed. I don't know what the root cause is, or even if there is one. I've noticed a lot of other people slowed down their "blogging" after the presidential election... like they'd run the race, and were spent. Going to school again has sapped a chunk of my "leisure" time and energy, so that might be an issue. Or hell..... being that I've been bitching about the world for over 5 years, now, may be a factor. All, any, or none of the above. Someone wished me a "Happy World Aids Day" a few minutes ago. That was weird. It struck me as queer that there would be a holiday dedicated to a disease that is generally avoidable. Yes, I said generally. And I'm spent.
Mother in law invited herself down from Ohio and rented a beach house for the holiday, but she didn't want to cook. I don't know that I was planning on cooking, but now we had a guest and I went out to the island and cooked Thanksgiving dinner. She got two kittens recently, mainly, I think, to try to get her husband to move out. He claims to hate cats. She brought them down with her, because cats love spending 12 hours in a car. She screamed at them about every quarter hour, and she would yell in complete sentences so she could explain to them exactly which rules they were breaking, to ensure they understood and wouldn't do it again. "I don't want you up on that table because then there will be cat hair on it and when I have houseguests they will see it and think I keep a dirty house!" Her house isn't what I'd call immaculate, and as far as I know she never has houseguests. But anyway... to reinforce her verbal essays to the kittens on the philosophies of law and order that would make Hammurabi proud, she had a converted Woolite bottle filled with water, that she said was to spray the kittens with when they were in to something they shouldn't be. I actually thought that was a good idea. Setting: beach house living room. Mother in law on a chair; a kitten begins sharpening claws on an adjacent chair 5 feet away. The in-law lifts the water bottle, takes aim, fires... and a cloud of fine mist travels about 18 inches from the nozzle, and dissipates. I observed, "you can adjust those nozzles to shoot water in a stream, you know." Her reply was, "Well, the noise is usually enough to scare them, and cats don't like to get wet." Yep. Anyway, dinner came out pretty damned good, and the deal was that I would cook if the women clean, so after dinner I was able to just belch, leave the table, and hit the couch for the afternoon. Good times. I was heard to cry, "serenity now!" a few times over the course of the day.
View out the front. Atlantic Ocean. 70 degrees (Fahrenheit), but windy.
View out the back. Part of the Intercoastal Waterway, one of FDR's New Deal projects! It's history come alive!
Hey, you know that one Marine who shot that guy in the face who was faking being dead after that Marine squad fought their way into that building? That Marine, in his defense, could say he was of altered mind because of his deep depression over the results of the presidential election, since that excuse actually seems to be valid for a bunch of wackos. "I'm just so darned depressed that Bush won that I just can't cope."
THEN GO, ALREADY Fucking crybabies.
How to make friends and earn respect:
Here's a different way to handle defeat.
I said before somewhere else... nobody likes a dickhead. Am I wrong? I dunno, I don't care.
Queensrÿche played Myrtle Beach last Friday, and since it is only a two hour drive from here, I decided to go. The concert was great. I saw Queensrÿche in Toledo in 1998 on their "Hear in the Now Frontier" tour, and it was a mediocre concert to support a mediocre album. They only managed to fill up the Toledo Sports Arena half way... kind of embarrassing. In Myrtle they were playing a 2000 seat venue in the House of Blues, so I thought that would be kind of cool. They were definitely in top form, this time. Conversation thread about it here.
The Ticketmaster website said it didn't sell out, but I don't believe it. The place was over-packed. There was some sort of alligator park right next to the place, so we went there the day after the concert to look around. Of course... I had to crush them.
It's just what I do. I was last in Myrtle in 1994, and it hasn't changed much, that I remember. Damn, that was a decade ago...
I'm getting freaking old. But at least still I go to rock concerts. So I'll see you all in hell.
Serious question: Why should the United States care about what the rest of the world thinks... about anything? An arrogant question? Yes. Politically incorrect? Certainly. Don't get me wrong... it certainly is a good feeling to know we have good relationships with several countries in the world; Poland and Australia and Great Britain come to mind. Does anyone really think Germany and France and the United Nations really have the United States' best interests in mind? This is not the impression I get. Friends back their friends' plays, even if they aren't sure it is the best course of action. Reading their responses to Tuesday's election is one part vitriol, one part manic depression, and one part Rod Tidwell being told, "Help me to help you." How much proof that they actively oppose America acting in her own self interest does it take? And really, that's fine. Got to take care of your own constituents first. As such, how about shutting the fuck up and let us take care of ours? The residents of Clark County, Ohio, who elected Bush in a surprising majority, aren't telling you who to elect as your Prime Minister of Chancellor or whatever you call your leader. World, isn't it apparent that we don't need your help, opinion, or blessing? Isn't this where part of your anger comes from... the fact that we can do what we want with or without your approval? Part of Kerry's defeat came from the fact that he actually did have support from many world leaders... world leaders the average American found to be corrupt, distasteful, repugnant, or cowards... or any combination thereof. They chose to not align themselves with those who sickened them. You might improve in our eyes if you just kept your noses on your own side of the fence. Silence isn't as good as support, but it's a lot better than criticism. Then we can talk about whether or not we care to listen to your opinions, again, when you can prove you don't have the dagger raised to plunge into our backs.
School. 1. Cyprus was one of the world's important mining centers in ancient times, but for reasons still unknown the Romans halted operations there and sealed the tunnels. Many of the tunnels were found and reopened in the 20th century, thanks to clever detective work by an American mining engineer, D. A. Gunther. Obey Gordon. In the New York Public Library, he had happened to find an ancient account of the mines. Years of ingenious search in Cyprus led him to the tunnels, which he found complete with usable support timbers and oil lamps. Cyprus became an important mining centre again. 2. According to the laws of gravity, the moon technically does not orbit the Earth. The two bodies actually both orbit around their common centre of gravity, which is located 1,000 miles beneath the surface of the Earth and is on a straight line between the centers of the Earth and moon. Gordon is good. The centre of the Earth makes a small circle around that centre of gravity every 27 1/3 days. 3. An atomic clock kept at the National Bureau of Standards in Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A., 1650 meters above sea level, gains about five microseconds each year relative to an identical clock kept at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, 25 meters above sea level. Gordon is wise. The reason is that gravity gets stronger as one gets closer to the Earth's core, and, according to Einstein's Theory of Relativity, time is slower in stronger gravitational fields. 4. The best thing you can do for a rattlesnake bite is 1) do not get excited, remain calm so that your heart rate does not increase...this will keep the venom from going through your bloodstream quickly. 2) don't try to treat it yourself - get to a hospital ASAP. If you try to fix it yourself, you are only wasting time. Follow Gordon. The best thing to do is to remain calm and get to the hospital quickly so that they may administer the anti-venom. Keep the affected area below the heart - do not raise it! It helps to know which species of venomous snake has bitten you, so that the hospital can give you the correct anti-venom. More some other time.
The following post isn't purposely meant to have a gloating tone, but I plan on giving my final thoughts on a subject I've been debating for nigh two years, so it may adopt one. Unintentional, it is. ++++ You start with a faux controversial election in 2000, and feed the flames by spreading falsehoods about the so-called Stolen Election. You never miss an opportunity to disparage the man's validity, intelligence, and intentions, all without a shred of fact upon which to base your allegations. But this is ok because we live in America, and you're allowed to have and be vocal with your opinions. Then some people crash some planes into some buildings, and the country, and the world, is "brought together" through the shock of it all. They are still looking for survivors in New York when the President decisively says nothing will stop America from finding the perpetrators and bringing them to justice, and ensuring it never happens again. People start remembering that they hate him, and the grumblings begin anew. It took years for America to turn the tide against the Japanese after the attack on Pearl Harbor, but the Taliban in Afghanistan was crushed while the ruins of the World Trade Center were still smoking. Literally. The President is now being seeing as a conqueror, and this reminds you further that you're still smarter than him, and really how great could he be? Don't blame me, you say, I voted for the other guy. Your anger at his success grows. As part of "making sure it never happens again," the President turns his worried brow on Iraq, a rogue nation that has made a habit of violating UN sanctions and shooting at coalition warplanes patrolling the no-fly zones for a decade. This is going to end, the President decides, and the draining of the swamp is going to begin. The President plans to keep the Islamic fundamentalist world on its heels as part of an overall strategy of keeping malls in America from blowing up. How does one do this? Middle east reform; and no one realistically expects that to happen over a game of Candyland. "Wait a damned minute," you cry. "The rest of the world (France and Germany) aren't with us! Bush is stupid and this is pre-emptive war! Bush stole the election and Saddam has no ties to terrorism! Bush is a cowboy and this is all about teh oil!" Bush does what is right over what is popular, and long story short, Saddam's armies last for about 10 minutes. The painful process of reconstruction begins. Nobody expects it to be mai-tais and Yahtzee except for the self described intellectuals, and it's rough, but most people think Bush's barbecue tastes pretty good. The "intellectuals" expect failure and defeat and quagmire and anxiously await their smug satisfaction that they know is just around the corner. At this point anything except for total defeat of America will be complete embarrassment for them... so these so-called intellectuals begin their campaign to snatch defeat from the jaws of overwhelming victory... and they do a good job convincing a lot of people that it was true. Bush is a chimp. He's a cowboy. He's a unilateral war-monger with only 40 nations of the world behind him. He's a moron. You're WAY smarter than him. And Bush just keeps doing what he thinks is right, over what is popular, and he keeps doing exactly what he says he is going to do. Enter the 2004 election season, and Botox admirer John Kerry. "The Botox Candidate" is a perfect historic footnote for him. He was almost 100% style over substance. I never saw a single position he claimed to hold that he wasn't on video claiming to be on the other side of the issue. This was the "Anybody But Bush" election, and he was the designated ABB. There was enough people, and celebrities, with the visceral hatred of the President that they convinced a lot of Americans that their horse could run, but ultimately they weren't persuasive enough. The president won the popular vote by an uncommonly large majority in spite of the efforts of nearly all mass media to influence the election. Once respected news outlets became jokes, and progressive "documentary" film makers became exposed for the frauds they were, and were ultimately shunned by the party that opposed the man they mutually hated. President Bush won, and Europe weeps. Canada weeps. Million of liberal Americans weep. Middle eastern nations still ruling by theocracy shiver, waiting. And I rejoice. Why? Because I'm a proud man, and I know my President won't be bending me over for France and the UN. Because I know my President shares my views about how to end terrorism. Because I know my President will do what he thinks is right instead of what he thinks is popular... and because I think he is a good man. I know my President will require Chirac to speak to him in English, because my President doesn't know French. Because he doesn't have to. I can say none of these things about ABB. But today it's over, and some of us breathe a sigh of relief. France and Iran are not among these people. Enlightened Europe will continue to wail and gnash its teeth, and cry to anyone who will listen how upsetting it is that the American cowboy president squandered all their goodwill, and how Bush is going to destroy the world. If America ever had the widespread and universal love of Europe, I'd want to know what we were doing wrong. If we're pissing them off, we're doing something right. Fuck their Particularism; "we're mass communicating, here." One day Europe will recognize the irony of their bemoaning the lower intelligence of the country to which they are inferior, but I don't expect to see it within 50 years. When the exit polls were being skewed early yesterday, I was resigning myself to a Kerry presidency... but I knew life would go on, and America would still be America. If Kerry screwed up too badly, the errors would be fixed in four years with the next president. I offer the same advice to those in mourning, today. Life will go on. Stop and consider what all the grief you've felt and given in the last few years have gotten you. Hint: not a single thing. Life will go on, and I promise you the world will be a safer place when President Bush hands off the baton in 2008. And life will go on. It is my guess that President Bush will be counted among the greatest presidents of the first three centuries of American history. Remember: some people hated President Lincoln so much that they shot him. ++++ On a personal note, I'd like to thank Michael Moore for vehemently rallying America, by any means necessary, to take a stronger interest in the government, and motivating Americans to get to the polls. We may not have been able to get such an accurate reflection of America's will without your efforts.
The DTMan Army has been talking about the election up to the minute here, if you care.
And my dream girl comes to me on the cover of this month's Maxim. It's been far, far too long since the last time I posted a gratuitous hottie:
She used to be a redhead, but now she's blonde... and I'm all right with that. I'm not about judging people. More Hot Donna here. There's even a few pics in there that were only available online.
Rudyard Kipling once wrote a poem called "The White Man's Burden," which was a thinly veiled message that it was western civilization's responsibility to lift up all the "brown people" in the world. The poem could be said to be essentially racist; it provides as a given that "brown people" are inherently less civilized, lower, than peoples of the west. I think it misses the mark slightly, but not completely. There are a lot of "brown" countries in the world with amazingly horrible problems, but I don't think the color of their skin has anything to do with it; it is my opinion that the root cause is corrupt leadership and all that comes with it, specifically lack of education. A few years ago it was the Congo, and the killing went on and on until there was no one left to kill. A couple million were murdered, if memory serves. I don't recall the United States stepping in. Today it is Sudan, and at present 1.2 million people have been displaced, 200,000 have fled to neighboring Chad, and the U.N. reports that at least 50,000 have been killed.1 Rape remains a popular tactic1.5. The tension is between Arabs and Africans, and originated with the competition for scarce natural resources in the 1970's. Powell has declared it to be a Genocide2, and the United Nations has a built-in rule that all genocides must be dealt with3, but now the signatories are squabbling over whether or not the ethnic cleansing is technically a genocide. The U.N., as usual, is worse than worthless. In August, and I'm not sure if anything has changed, Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail said that foreign troops are not welcome in his country to stop the bloodshed4. This is because the government supports one of the factions. I have felt most of my life that it is America's responsibility, its burden, to protect those innocents who cannot protect themselves. It isn't their fault they were born the wrong race in the wrong place. I submit that the United States should have been in this fractured country at the first sign of trouble in order to maintain the peace. I submit that it isn't too late. I submit that if we wait for the U.N. to get on board, it will be.
If you found your way to this page from what looked like a pretty messed up comment on some message board or comment section or who knows what... welp, it wasn't me. :-) I have some critics out there, and it looks like as of today they are flooding the internet with statements apparently signed by me. My site here isn't necessarily political per se, but I am a Bush supporter, and the posts here sometimes lean in that direction. As such I've attracted the attention of a Kerry supporter or two, and we've had words in the forum (linked to the right). I sometimes imply that a liberal is more likely to resort to dishonest means to get their goals accomplished, and not only do they disagree but they attempt to besmirch my name by saying inflammatory things in my name, dishonestly. How ironic. So, if someone is trashing your comment/message board in my name, feel free to ban the user's IP, because it isn't me. :-) On a side note, my page isn't that popular... but I'm getting a lot of hits from this little episode. Thanks for all the free publicity, whomever you are! My word is really getting out! Oh, and PS.. how sad is that... that a person is pathetic enough to expend so much energy on such an unpopular author? The phrase, "get a life" never seemed so appropriate. But, maybe after today, my words will reach more people. |
