United States

I’m not sure who wins on this but as far as I’m concerned we’re dealing with the least experienced candidate, versus the least fit. The Republicans who are on a continued assault on the American middle class, health insurance, education and other social services will happily take you for everything your worth as long as your stupid enough to vote for them.

Although I somehow feel old already, historically speaking I’m of course nothing more than a moment in time. I wasn’t around in the 50’s when Americans were subjected to the Duck and Cover and thank for online video because now we can make sure everyone sees what kind idiotic propaganda. What’s at the heart of that is feeding lies to the people that somehow seem credible. I don’t even blame the people back then because after all nuclear force was a rather new item, and probably very few people knew that laying underneath your school desk would hardly shield you from several thousand degrees generated by a nuclear blast.

California has always been on the forefront of certain issues it seems. Whenever I think a certain law would never exist here in Florida, I see California passing it. Whether it’s gay marriage in San Francisco, banning of plastic bags, recycling, the list of positive laws that were passed is long and quite frankly I’m jealous. I’m jealous that people care there and that they are willing to go with something that seemingly has little public support.

Only America could a sex affair have more value in the media than war in Georgia. Men cheat, they cover it up and I think most people agree that it happens. I’m not defending John Edwards, I think he’s quite the scumbag for having dragged his wife through all this, but let me remind you of a few things that are currently going on which I think are slightly more important than who John Edwards is screwing:

It’s amazing really. The country that’s leading the world when it comes to waging warfare, the country that has the most ignorant president in US history is struggling decyphering what the news headlines mean. Russia attacks Georgia! Does that mean Atlanta is under fire? No that’s not what it means. It means you have to go back to school if you thought that. While Americans can’t tell the difference between Eurasia and North America the American President has the audacity of critizing Russia for their act of aggression towards a foreign country.

I honestly don’t even know how a lot of these conservative “pundits” can still have the nerve to get on TV and deliver the kind of lies that we’re seeing. In the 1950’s we overthrew Iran. Why did we overthrow them? Because they wanted to Nationalize their own oil resources. They had become frustrated with the fact that BP was in their country and making all the money. They proceeded to do what any free thinking capitalist would have done which is to aim for their own fair share of the profits. The result of that was that BP “called” up the US and complained how they were losing control. Being the innovators that we Americans are, we went into Iran and said NO PROBLEM - we’ll take care of that for you, because ultimately the UK and US have the same stance on many territorial questions, after all the UK of all countries, has some of the best historical examples to fall back on to that show how qualified they are in making countries slaves of the ‘mothership’.

It’s 2008 and we’re being told Iran is a threat again. How did they become that threat? BECAUSE WE RUINED THEIR REVOLUTION! Instead of making them true allies, we let the Corporations do the thinking on this and we took away their democracy thereby making them enemies of the United States. Iran actually used to be pro Western and as I’ve said in other posts on my blog here, here, we are not only ruining relationships with other countries, we are making them enemies. For me the security question alone flies in the face of everything Conservatives say these days.

Of course we’re playing a game here, which is to pretend that all the BS we’re being fed somehow has validity. We’re actually supposed to believe that the Western Oil companies they are now letting into Iraq are going to simply help their production. Of course they’re going to get a huge shim in the door so when things are running well again, they are right there to take over the next contracts. Remember this -the main reason why we wanted Saddam out of office has nothing to do with human rights abuses. I mean let’s get serious here for one second - we commit human rights abuses right in front of our door step, in Guantanamo Bay so I believe that we could care less about human rights. If we’re so worried about human beings being abused, why didn’t and aren’t we acting in Darfur? In case you really don’t know the answer to that question, it’s again very simple: they don’t have any resources we need. If Darfur had oil you would be reading about it in the news daily.

So after over 50 years of constantly poking into the bees nest I call the Middle East, once again they are feeding us propaganda about Oil companies in Iraq. Condie says that the US government has no involvement in this whatsoever - and Bob Marley never bought a sack of weed, give me a break. Further more she also said that our government also had nothing to do with the whole “no bidding” part. So let me get this straight: Iraq is demolished, their national treasures have been looted, they have over 165,000 occupiers in their country, they can’t guarantee for power but now because of their good business sense they decided to bring in Western Oil companies, without any bids? I don’t know about you, but nothing says “sponsored by the corporate United States” any more clear than a no-bid contract.