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.

It’s finally happened, I’m starting to give a damn about politics (guess it had to happen sometime). You might notice that I’ve added a few more blogs to my links on the left (that’s where I turn for my body politic and I will probably add more as I start reading them). I try to get a decent spattering of different political points of view so as to be able to make my own opinions.

In case anyone cares, here’s my take on various political issues right now: We’re wasting tons of money on a war that we shouldn’t be fighting. We’re bullying the rest of the world. We’re ignoring most of the problems that exist in our own country. We’re returning capitalism to the hell that it was more than a century ago. Our education system is going down the tubes. The average American cares more about pop culture than his or her own well being. (Needless to say, these are all bad things in my opinion).

That should serve as decent reference for anyone that wants to know my views. Oh, and I don’t like to associate myself with any party because I believe that giving a name to my belief system gives the name power at the expense of my actual beliefs (why can’t democrats and republicans do what they believe in and not simply follow the party line?).

This recently came in through AIM channels:

May 19th is national gas boycott day. With gas prices on the rise, something must be done to send a message to the gas companies. If no one in America buys gas on the 19th the gas companies will lose an estimated $45 MILLION dollars! If you’re not happy with paying over $2.00/gallon please do not buy gas on May 19th. Please re-post this so that it will be able to reach as many people across the country as possible.

I guess that means don’t buy gas tomorrow. A little late in tossing the post out what with the boycott tomorrow. Mind you, I haven’t verified the statistics so don’t yell at me if they’re wrong and if it matters to you, check them yourself. I don’t really know if it’ll do anything but we can all go one day without purchasing gas, so why not?