Hi Kids!

Do you like violence? (Yeah! Yeah!)... Anyway, it is time for me to end this ridiculous 2 week plus hiatus. I bet all of you thought I had quit or something. Uh uh. There is no quit in this guy. I've been a busy little bee. Don't look for any rants about the election - it's over and done with, and I've moved on. I will discuss politics here, but I won't be whining about the election. I'm over it. I was pissed that night, I did not rejoice in Obama's victory as I was told to do by the media, I expressed that in my last blog post, and that's all there is to it. Although I have my concerns, and have no great like for the man, I will try my best to get behind him. After all, if he messes up, we're all fucked. All. I refuse to become like the Bush Derangement Syndrome folks who could not get over their hatred for Bush and would oppose him no matter what he did. He has swung sharply to the left over the past year or so and the public still hates him.

I will get to Bush in another post. All I will say for now is this: he is hardly the conservative demon he is made out to be. Even if he were a demon, he wouldn't be a conservative one. He would be a sort of hard to categorize, but undoubtedly evil, Mammon-Moloch hybrid. Big government, bailouts, No Child Left Behind, immigration amnesty? Not conservative. At all. The word conservative does not mean evil. It is a governing philosophy. Bush has been painted as some right-wing uberconservative when that isn't even remotely the case. He is hated for being a "warmonger" which is bullshit, but even if he were, that is no conservative trait. We were led into both world wars, Korea, and Vietnam by Democrats - Wilson, Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson. Under conservatives - the end of 'Nam, Grenada, Gulf War, and Iraq War (Oh what am I saying? This is the bloodiest war in history, George Bush and Dick Cheney are the equivalent of Adolf Hitler and Martin Bormann, if not worse, Halliburton is an evil Nazi corporation that manufactured and dispensed Zyklon-B during World War II, etc.) What I am trying to say here is that war is not necessarily brought upon by any rational governing philosophy, liberal or conservative. It is brought upon by circumstances. The political movements in the U.S. are largely rational. We don't see fascism or communism here. Now those two movements begat some violence, and by necessity. Fascism needs to conquer to sustain itself and in order to achieve communism one must forcefully and violently remove people from their homes. And send them to Kolyma if they cry about it.

Random tidbits:

The "Big Three", a phrase that until recently I thought referred to Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill, need to get off their knees, get back to Detroit in their jets, and accept bankruptcy. If the government continues to subsidize and bail out everything, there will be no end to it. And that isn't good for anyone. Not good for business, not good for the economy. If you're a company, and you suck, why should taxpayer money be given to you? Bankruptcy would provide Chrysler, GM, and Ford with the opportunity to revamp their companies and hopefully become more competitive. Throwing money at things doesn't make them work: look at the public school system in this country. Either change or die. Why prolong their agony? Why prop up a corpse? If your business model sucks, do something about it.

Hillary Clinton: the next Secretary of State? Eh. Not pissed, not delighted. Just eh. Seriously: who is this woman? Last year she was the bane of every conservative's existence. She was forced to move rightward in her campaign against Obama and she somehow managed to pull it off and not look idiotic. Now several conservatives seem pretty content with the fact that she may be the next Secretary of State. The transformation is truly remarkable. I admit to thinking up to earlier this year that if Hillary Clinton were elected, I would be devastated. But during her run against Obama, I was rooting for her because compared to him, she was one tough cookie. I don't really think she has the proper credentials for SecState, but if the alternative is either John "Reporting for Duty" Kerry or Bill Richardson, she's got my approval. Hillary has not been my favorite woman in the past. In 1999 she was present for a speech made by the late Yasser Arafat's wife, in which she (Arafat's wife) claimed that Israel poisons Palestinian wells (an atrocious falsehood). Hillary seemed to eat it all up and afterwards gave her a big hug. She supported the war in Iraq until it became politically harmful to do so and then flip flopped like every Dem except Lieberman. But she is fairly hawkish compared with her competition. Kerry and Richardson would be jokes. Can you imagine John Kerry squaring off against Vladimir Putin or one of his top dogs? Think about it. And then weep. Or clap, if you're Russian.

Speaking of Putin: this guy has got to be the most balls out and absurdly macho world leader since Benito Mussolini. Mussolini would wrestle lion cubs (or was it bear cubs? Whatever). He would rip his shirt off and harvest wheat alongside Italian peasants. Or at least he would for the cameras. Putin has, in the past few months, assembled a judo video of himself kicking the shit out of guys, tranquilized a tiger and subsequently pet it like a kitten, and received a tiger cub for his birthday. And this is not to mention his shirtless fishing, which supposedly made him some sort of sex symbol. Ridiculous. I guess he's pretty awesome - or at least he would be if he wasn't such a dick. I read recently that he wanted to string up Georgian President Mikhail Sakaashvili "by the balls." Direct quote. In sum, I would not mess around with this dude. There aren't any specific implications I wanted to make in this paragraph, I just wanted to randomly talk about this guy. I sincerely feel like I haven't seen anything like it. Not outside of a history book, anyway.

I said I wouldn't speak about the election, but to be fair I have to ask one question: Why, two plus weeks after the election, does Sarah Palin, the vice presidential candidate for the losing ticket, continue to get hammered by the media? Is the left that pathetic that, even with victory, it must continue to belittle and besmirch this woman? It is truly sickening. The only reason I can think of is that the left is afraid that somewhere down the road, she is going to be a problem. They are trying to nip that in the bud. Or at least that is my not-really-thought-out theory. Look, people, you got what you want, the embodiment of all your hopes and dreams was elected, fair and square (well, there was voter intimidation but the gap between his votes and McCain 's render this irrelevant). GET OVER IT. Move on. Every time I turn on Olbermann, he's STILL talking about Palin. He's obsessed with her. They all are. And I don't really understand why. If she had been on the victorious ticket, it would be much more sensible.

It's 1:15 in the morning and I got to get up for work. More posts to come.

For the First Time Ever...

...I am disgusted with my country, to paraphrase Michelle Obama. I want to throw up. It appears that if one can merely speak well without saying anything, then one can become President of the U.S. Obama makes Clinton appear to be a political amateur. Congratulations for pulling the wool over the eyes of the electorate...Canada even has more sense than us, Harper is still in office. I am actually so annoyed right now that I have nothing more to say. We've elected a socialistic empty suit who has literally brought nothing to the table. This is a man who physically makes me gag every time I see him on television or any time he opens up his mouth so that I can hear silver tongue wag. Ayers and Farrakhan and Ahmadinejad and Hamas and Putin are delighted, all for different reasons. What a fucking joke.