Last post before the election, or last day before the manmade end of time

Now how's this for insanity? Click on the link and see why the Palins of the world should never be in public office.

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Once again I'll say that religion has no place in politics. They are at odds with each other in a republic. In the totalitarian society it may work, but we're in The United States of America, not Saudi Arabia.

Those that follow the "God of Abraham" want the destruction of the world. For those that believe the Saudis are our allies should make themselves aware of this as Islam, like Christianity and Judaism, are all religions tied to Abraham. They're all in it together. Unfortunately, so is the rest of the world, whether we want to be or not. Your church, temple and mosque wants to bring destruction to this world. It's not the work of God. It's the work of evil men and women. Evil men and women from all around the world.

The paradox that is religion is the cancer that will kill us all. The cure for this ill is to end all the myopic decision to further the violence committed in the name of God.

For those that believe in the 10 commandments you should already know that the 5th commandment is "Thou shalt not kill". How many are killed every day in the name of God? President Bush and Governor Palin believe the daily killings in Iraq and Afghanistan are "missions from God". God, contradicting his own commandment to kill followers of a religion with the same roots, His roots.

In the Koran there is Adam and Eve. In the Koran there is Noah and his Ark. Just like the Torah and just like the Bible. It all branches off at Abraham. Three religions with the same foundation and the same desire to kill the world. Three religions who stole all their "sacred rites" from Paganism.

Paganism, like the religions we know today, are just unscientific explainations for the things humans didn't understand, like dinosaurs and the Aztecs. Wait... those are in any of those books. They must fall into the mythology category, like evolution, global warming, and the holocaust.

Here's a quote from the Bible, Book of John, Chapter 12, Verse 25 and 26:

25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
26 If any man serve me, let him follow me: and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me; him will my Father honour.

• So, if you love life you'll die... You're gonna die anyway.
• If you hate life you gain eternal life... sounds suspicious, like you're gonna ask me to do shit I won't like, furthering my hate of life, and the world for that matter.
• Serve Jesus and be his servant... okay... He seems like a good guy, right?
• Ah, serve him and receive his father's blessing... like entrance into heaven? So how does killing people in the Middle East factor into this?

These verses are often read at funerals. Death, the final frontier, maybe. A beautiful thing about religion is that it often times frees a person from worry about their end. A horrible thing about religion is that it often times frees a person from worry about their end. If you're not worried about death you are liberated in a sense. You are free to live and love and run and skip and kill and maim and steal without worry, for you have insurance for the afterlife. Don't think so? You can kill. Just ask for forgiveness and a God who doesn't actually speak to you forgives you. You might get a different reaction though if you ask relatives and friends of the ones you kill.

You can't create peace by killing, unless you kill everybody, yourself included. odd as it may seem, that is what the followers of the "God of Abraham" want to do. The most notably one currently is Sarah Palin. If it's okay to kill people to further the will of God (as you perceive the will of God to be that is) why wouldn't Sarah kill John McCain (if they win) to bring about the destruction she and her life long pastor Ed Kahlnins desire so badly.

When only three Republican candidates for the nomination said they believe in evolution I knew the Republicans no longer had a grasp on reality. If you do, you know how you should vote tomorrow.

Have a real day, and we'll have many more.

The Vet Who Did Not Vet.

Bailouts and ducks, part 2

With roughly $2 trillion in bailouts (and counting) it's really time to consider if another US auto industry bailout is really a prudent course of action. $25-50 billion is a lot to give to corporations that spend so much time trying to screw the public over. I can't think of very many experiences at a car dealership that makes people say, "Wow, I had such a great time there. The service was excellent, they processed everything quickly, and I got my car a a steal! I thought they were going to pay me to take it away! Plus, this new model gets 1,000,000 miles per gallon and will never break down!"

Nowadays though, they may want you to take it away so they can make an insurance claim.

I remember going into a dealership and looking at a Jeep. I had a young salesman who kept saying, "all you have to do is put gas and oil into her and she'll keep running forever!" OK, I get the gas part, after all, it is a Jeep and they drink gas like Rush Limbaugh pops pills, but what's with the oil? Do Jeeps inherently just eat oil? Doesn't that mean something is wrong with the car? Worn out pistons, rings, seals, or maybe a leak? Maybe it's just the old timers who gave him a load of bullshit that "works like a charm" on all the "suckers" who walk into the dealership.

I've also looked at Mustangs. The Ford dealership said all the GTs were sold so there were none to test drive. That part is okay, I mean, I wouldn't want some jerk driving my new car. The problem was the next bit of info the salesman told me: "We'll be getting next year's model in in a few months. You can have one of those. It's $35,000 ($5,000 over sticker) if you decide to take one today. If you wait you can't have one, 'cause it'll be gone." So I said, "you want me to buy a car without even test driving it?" At this point another guy, who I'm guessing was the manager, said, "Nobody gets a test drive. Either you buy the car or you don't"

I bought a Lexus a week later. They were shitty too, just not as...

There's a reason that the Big Three in Detroit are suffering: the make lousy cars. It's like the Apple commercial where PC is divvying up money into two piles, a gigantic one for marketing, and tiny one for development. The Big Three spend enormous amounts on advertising but put out cars with horse and buggy style leaf spring suspensions. Instead of modern overhead cams they use archaic pushrods that wheeze asthmatically. Fuel efficiency? Forget it! you'll get mileage worse than a 100 year old Model T and you'll like it, and that's on they're so called "green" cars!

The US automakers don't need a bailout, they need to get their act together, and another "loan" that they won't payback, again, won't fix the real problems. If the majority of the leaders, including CEOs, CFOs, Chairmen, Presidents, Senior VPs, Junior VPs, Directors, Controllers, and various other upper management were replaced by guys like Elon Musk or Nikola Tesla we wouldn't have issues with the auto makers. We'd have cars that work properly, last forever, don't pollute, and don't smell bad. Besides,

WOULDN'T A GOVERNMENT BACKED BAILOUT OF GM USED TO MERGE GM AND CHRYSLER VIOLATE FEDERAL ANTITRUST LAWS???!!!

Now maybe I'm wrong about this, but, with all the talk about these companies being "too big to fail", doesn't that put them in a position of power that the antitrust laws were written to prevent? Antitrust laws, aside from preventing things like price fixing, price discrimination, monopolization, and the like are there to protect the public from very wealthy people from having too much control over a commodity or service and thereby having widespread power to do all manner of egregious harm to the public, financially or otherwise. That is the key spirit in which antitrust laws were put into place way back in 1890.

The current state of affairs on Wall Street, by federal mandate, has burst the dam that held back the wash of greed waiting behind protective concrete. To bring this to the auto industry is madness. It means that one of the world's greatest legal achievements is being torn to shreds by the government that was once threatened with a coup by the institutions it now intends to turn into monopolies. Rockefeller's descendants are surely popping open the bubbly! Maybe Standard Oil will make it's return!

It would appear the Business Plot of 1933 has found a more insidious way of seeing it's plans to fruition over the years. Fascism can't be too far behind. Well, if McCain wins anyway.

It is duck season by the way. Go exercise you Second Amendment rights. If enough people do, maybe the only quacking we'll ever have to hear is from real ducks. The government should respect and work for the people, and we should never have to fear the government. Ever.

Joe the, um, "Plumber"

Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, a.k.a. "Joe the Plumber" is not actually a plumber, just like Sarah Palin is not actually a good, honest Christian. He works for a plumbing company in Toledo, Ohio, a city in a state that holds a great deal of interest to both Democrats and Republicans.

I wonder if the "J" in his middle name actually stands for Joseph. It's probably James, or maybe Jacob. Jason perhaps?

From the NY Times:

"Thomas Joseph, the business manager of Local 50 of the United Association of Plumbers, Steamfitters and Service Mechanics, based in Toledo, said Thursday that Mr. Wurzelbacher had never held a plumber’s license, which is required in Toledo and several surrounding municipalities. He also never completed an apprenticeship and does not belong to the plumber’s union, which has endorsed Mr. Obama. On Thursday, he acknowledged that he does plumbing work even though he does not have a license."

It's interesting how MaoCain keeps picking these people that are wholly unfit for anything to be his most important supporters, and the ones that are supposed to win your heart over. Okay, who doesn't feel for the "little guy" that is just trying to live the American Dream? Of course if the little guy hasn't even taken the time to do what is necessary to live the dream, like undergoing proper training, an apprenticeship, and status as a journeyman working towards being a master plumber, why should he just expect to be a business owner?

It's not Obama who's holding Joe the Six-Pack Plumber back, it's himself.

If McCain wants to celebrate that type of mediocrity he should do so somewhere else. In the current world, where kids in China are better at math than most college students here, we need to kick the mental pansies in the gonads and then make fun of them when they cry. The mediocre people McCain celebrates hold America back.

It should be no surprise to anyone that the US is no longer the industrial powerhouse it once was. Go around your house and try to find something that was made here. If you have any expensive furniture there's a possibility. For everything else the chances of finding a "Made in U.S.A." mark on would be up there with finding Dick Cheney's soul, or Jiffy Hoffa's body.

At the very least there are scores of decent, hard working, honest folk here in America that should be held to the highest esteem. It's the people that McPain and Painlin try to appeal to, but have no respect for. Why doesn't McCain truly acknowledge them, instead of phonies like Sarah Palin and Samuel J. Wurzelbacher?

Sarah so crudely defines real Americans as "Hockey Moms" and "Joe Six-Pack". She can pander to the proletariat with phony praise in perpetuity, but proper political performance has the prerequisite of psychological parity. McCain and Palin do not have that capacity.

If every mom and average Joe out there cares about seeing things get better for everyone, the choice is clear: Ron Paul, but since he's in the running like a horse in the stable it seems Obama is the clear choice. Hey, Gore lost because 97,000 some-odd people in Florida were fed up with our governmental system and they voted for Nader. We saw how that turned out. Let's not make the same mistake again.

Once this is all over maybe Sarah will give Trig back to his mother, Bristol.

Bailouts and ducks, Part 1

The bailouts that have been given out during the Bush administration seem puzzling to me. The airlines, the Big Three, Fannie and Freddie, AIG, Wall Street, and now there seems to be more on the way.

Let's look at the airlines. $15 billion for an industry that is basically a high speed bus system. With all the surcharges, fees, taxes, and miscellaneous other charges it's a nightmare in cost to travelers. Of course those fees go towards things like quasi-governmental authorities (who steal your belongings), Big Oil (who steals tax dollars and public lands), politicians (who steal anything), and a wide variety of other people, like CEO's (who just love to steal, steal, steal).

With their bailout there was a promise of things becoming normal again and the American Consumer returning to a life filled with cheap conveniences. What seems to have happened is a travel world in a disconcerting quagmire of haphazardly enforced rules, laws and regulations that confuse both the travelers and the rent-a-cops that are supposed to enforce the oft-times forgotten or misinterpreted book of rules.

The bailout was also a loan. Now, some interest has been paid, but the outstanding balance? Ha-ha! No money honey! It's funny Sunny! It's... wait a minute... wasn't that our tax dollars? Even if it was money that was printed up on the Fed's magic ATM machine at some point somebody has got to pay. I'm guessing it's not gonna be the CEO of United Airlines.

Hey, I haven't seen any normalcy, courtesy, efficiency or economy in air travel from the bailout. Granted, there is some amount of blame that needs be placed on the events of 9/11. It just seems to me that nothing has truly been handled in any way to make it better, just more convoluted than it already was.

That one was a bust. We all know it was. Listen to the quacking noise.

Well, she didn't say New-Cue-Lurh!

John McCain and Sarah Palin's interview with Brian Williams was as ridiculous as could be. It's clear that the two were prepped and told the questions that would be asked of them prior to taping the show. For some reason they both still stumbled from time to time with the answers. Not enough prep? Here's what I think: they know they're lying to themselves. Now there are times when you just can't answer a question, like when you're drunk, don't really know the answer, or are lying through your teeth (and know it!).

I'm trying to figure out how McCain, as he said, Has been "tested". Was it the time in the POW camp? He wasn't the leader of the POWs. If the sandbox of childhood has taught anyone anything it's that people can, and will be cruel for no apparent reason. I'd wager a guess that there were many POWs that suffered more due to his very presence in the camp. The called McCain "The Prince" because the knew his father was an admiral. If they feel they have such a valuable commodity in the war market what would lead you to believe that would make the captors more congenial? Deciding to stay, if the offered release from POW camp was real, could only lead to the captors testing the spirit of the other, non-prince, prisoners. Don't think so? Now why would you give POW camp guard the benefit of the doubt? Because they're sure nice guys performing a necessary service to the world?

Was he tested in how to rip of tax payers during the Saving & Loan scandal of the 80's? Maybe it was a test to see how little a man can love his crippled wife. How to run a campaign based on hate and trying to find faults in your opponent instead of talking about the issues? How about a test to see if Americans really are stupid enough to believe Sarah Palin is fit to tie her own shoes, much less be Vice President. Hey, she can't even shop for herself if she wants dignified, un-six-pack clothing. (BTW, I did pick up a six pack today, and I don't support McCain)

In regard to Biden's statement about the upcoming "test" on Obama, well, here's the quote:

“The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America.” He added: “Watch, we’re going to have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”

I don't doubt that there will be a great many challenges that an Obama administration would have to face. There will surely be tests of his mettle. I disagree with Biden in that I feel the enemies of America don't need a reason to check our temperature. They'll do it regardless of who occupies the White House.

Now, for the comment from Sarah about naiveté. It seems a bit naive of her to think that leaders of other countries, be they dictatorships or not, would be led by people that lack to capacity for intelligent discourse. Of course that is "foreign" to her, but it is the norm for most of the world. There is a reason the more hostile nations of the world are the way they are. A lot of it likely has to do with the leaders and people of those nations feel that their interests are being threatened. I don't blame them for wanting to protect their interests. Do they really infringe on mine?

I don't believe in autocracies, monarchies, totalitarianism, or any other coalition government system based on martial law, like the Bush Regime is. I believe in democracy. I believe in a free world. I also believe that a leader of a free country should want to spread the idea of a free world to other world leaders. Would every world leader subscribe to the ideas in the Federalist Papers? Not likely, but it would plant seeds in the people that live under authoritarian rule if they knew there was hope and options for them. It is possible too that our options are not the best options for them.

Maybe we shouldn't tell them we're right by bombing the shit out of them.

Sarah spoke of wars tonight. She's thinking of how to wage war. She wants to win wars, just like Nixon wanted to win... Well, we know how that ended.

For all the nations that are not allies of the U.S., those that hate us, we should open up lines of communication. One thing I've learned in life is that "little people" want and need respect as much as "big people" do. If we really are the bigger people doesn't that, by default, mean that we should be more understanding and tolerant of what we see as the mistakes of these smaller nations? Maybe if they felt understood they would see us as an ally rather than the Death Star.

Sarah, you are wrong to think that any leader would go into a negotiation with the same lack of planning, openness, and understanding as you. Of course, I understand where you come from, even though I'm not from there. I'm just paying attention. Now there comes a time, when after making careful consideration, to make decisions about situations. In regards to you I'd say it's safe to say you belong on Jerry Springer and not in Washington.

Lastly, after hearing Sarah's comments about possibly releasing her medical records, if you think Trig is Sarah's baby, I want you over with your life savings to play some poker. Bring your mom too.

Dance Baby, Dance!

Here's some of the Sarah Palin show.


Here are a few fans.


Good song, bad fans.