gwax's rumblings

I’ve been irked at President-elect Obama since he voted in favor of FISA but now I hear that he might kill day­light sav­ings time. Now, you may recall that I pas­sion­ately loath day­light sav­ings time and abol­ish­ing it would shift Mr. Obama closer to my good side. Mind you, not screw­ing with my time twice a year does not quite make up for giv­ing away my rights but it is a small step in the right direction.

I caught a bit of the cov­er­age of Saddam Hussein’s trial this morn­ing on NPR on my way to work and it led me to for­mu­late a pre­dic­tion for Iraq’s future. The most inter­est­ing part of what I caugt was that, today, Hussein asked that he alone be held account­able for the actions of his regime and that the other defen­dants be acquited. To some Hussein’s request might seem like a noble effort but I’m inclined to sus­pect that Hussein is a fairly clever guy with ulte­rior motives. My pre­dic­tion is this, Saddam Hussein will try to get his accom­plices off and be impris­oned in Iraq – it is where he is a crim­i­nal, after all. Once the US has extri­cated itself from Iraq, allies of Hussein will retake con­trol of the Iraqi gov­ern­ment and free Hussein (not nec­es­sar­ily in that order). Saddam Hussein will then rule Iraq once more and the US will look like the bunch of idiots that we prob­a­bly are.

In short, I pre­dict that Saddam Hussein will rule Iraq again within 10 years, prob­a­bly sooner.

Seems like it’s prob­a­bly not real, but if it is I’d totally vote for him for president.

Because I see so many other peo­ple com­ment­ing on this elec­tion pol­i­tics things I want to weigh in with my view on the mat­ter. This “great divide” in our coun­try is between a whole bunch of peo­ple that are all exactly alike; the so-called-liberals are act­ing out in exactly the man­ner that they always crit­i­cize the so-called-conservatives for. Both par­ties are fight­ing for the same socio-economic sys­tem and they only dif­fer on the spe­cific moral issues that they would like to fight over. It’s a one party sys­tem and one of your can­di­dates won; quit your bitch­ing about pathetic lit­tle “issues” and start pay­ing atten­tion to what’s actu­ally wrong with our culture.

Well, the elec­tion was yes­ter­day and I voted; it was kind of cool I guess. Last night I went over to Burton-Connor to hang out with Nick and watch the results come in; the hang­ing out was more inter­est­ing than the results, which is kind of sad. It’s been pretty much dead­locked and it still is, with nei­ther can­di­date claim­ing vic­tory, though it looks like Bush has won. In the end, I only care a lit­tle bit because I see it as a one party elec­tion where we are vot­ing between Rich Capitalist A and Rich Capitalist B. I am just so dis­il­lu­sioned that I don’t really care. Maybe if Bush wins he’ll drive this coun­try into the ground so fast that no one will be able to hide that rich peo­ple own our gov­ern­ment. Ok, I’m done being cyn­i­cal and sar­cas­tic; back to apa­thy. George out.

I con­tinue to notice that every time any indi­vid­ual is accused of ter­ror­ist like actions, they are said to have Al-Qaeda con­nec­tions. This makes me won­der, which of the fol­low­ing con­clu­sions is cor­rect: in order to be a ter­ror­ist one must obtain their Al-Qaeda mem­ber­ship card, we only care about Al-Qaeda ter­ror­ists or we want to blame all ter­ror­ism on Al-Qaeda to give it a face. Al-Qaeda, the real world equiv­a­lent to Command & Conquer: General’s GLA.

While we’re on the topic of Al-Qaeda, I know the guy that runs the al-qaeda.net web domain. He’s a nice guy actu­ally, half Egyptian, but no ter­ror­ist, mainly runs the domain as a lark so that he can send and receive email by it. I’ve been try­ing to con­vince him to turn the domain into a group blog so that we can all have fun with the thing.

I guess the point is that not every­thing Al-Qaeda is evil (at least the larks aren’t) and I don’t buy that every­thing ter­ror­ist is Al-Qaeda.

In case you haven’t heard, ex-president Ronald Reagan died yesterday.