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Today I had a good day. I got to visit with some friends, and I learned a lot in my class.
Of course, then I go read the news and get pissed off.
PETA is at it again. They will take any popular news story and try to bend it to fit their agenda. On the 10th they decided to contact the Milwaukee Brewers to try to get them to include a "soysauge" in the popular "sausage racers" at the ballpark. They saluted Randall Simon's stupidity in hitting a defenseless woman in a costume who was trying to earn a living by running around the stadium dressed as a sausage. The sausage girl, who is obviously not famously rich from running around dressed as a sausage, has shown remarkable class for not making a big deal about the incident. Of course, Simon was a complete skid-mark for hitting her in the head with a baseball bat, even if he didn't hit her hard. She fell down. Simon got a 3-game suspension, a fitting punishment for acting the fool in front of 30,000+ fans. But PETA had to try to turn it into a trial on meat product consumption. Those ass-darts said that all of the "vegans and vegetarians" were appalled by the spectacle of the sausage races. Well, they'd be pretty stupid to go to the stadium, then, because the sausage races have been run in every game that I've ever seen televised there. If someone is so fragile that they can't enjoy a baseball game if they see a sausage, they need to lock themselves in their house and eat a salad. Using the same logic, I shouldn't be subjected to rap music in a stadium. And if we're going to that level of containment, I shouldn't have to see overweight women in hip-hugger jeans with tattoos in the small of their backs, or mid-riff shirts. PETA members are intolerant, and deserve only my ridicule.
What else is bugging me? Howard Dean can't keep his pie-hole shut. Now he's referring to the 16 words in the President's State of the Union Address by comparing it to Watergate. Aside from the sheer stupidity of this, let's look at the facts. Bush used the SAME arguments that Clinton used for action in Iraq. No one questioned his wording then or now. Let's be consistent with our criticism. Also, Watergate was about a coverup for an illegal break-in. All Bush did was get approval from the CIA to use intelligence information gathered from our allies as a part of making a case in support of action backing 17 UN resolutions. Let's not forget that Congress voted to support military action in Iraq MONTHS before that speech. If the argument was persuasive before the speech, then what's all the fuss about? The fact is that this is just more bullshit designed to raise hell and does nothing to move our country forward. While Dean is hanging his hat on this non-issue, no one is questioning why he doesn't have knowledge of current events, heads of state, military movements, budgetary items, etc. Dean is causing more damage to his party than if he was caught in bed with a live boy or a dead girl. He's appealling to the far-left radicals who don't use thought or logic in their arguments. He doesn't have solutions, only questions. He also has a reputation as a "hot-head" and a bad governor. He will be amusing to watch. Bob Graham shows his ignorance in his latest brainless rant on our generation paying for our wars. And with all of this rhetoric, people like Kerry, Gephart, and Lieberman are caught in the cross-fire.
I have no problem with Democrats. If you believe in the principles of the party, that's fine. But if you regurgitate the words and just pick any position that is anti-Bush, you're an idiot. Even I don't follow every party principle without question. The Libertarians didn't want us to liberate Iraq, but I thought that wasn't in our best interest. Sometimes you have to think for yourself. And if you believe any of the lies that Hillary Clinton is spreading, you're sniffing glue. From what I've heard about her book, everyone I've heard as being quoted in her book directly refutes what she says as outright lies. She is lying in an effort to put her lying, cheating, scheming past behind her, in preparation for her run on the Presidency in 2008. But she will do more damage to this country if elected President than a nuclear arsenal. She will cripple or destroy entire industries, and drive this country into relative dark ages. And I am thinking selfishly now - my future is riding on the potential increases to industry for the next 20 years. If she wrecks it, what will happen to your 401K accounts? I am scared of the thought of what any of the latest crop of Democratic candidates can do to our futures. Likewise, I'm scared by what Republicans running rampant through our civil rights can do to our lives. At some point, Libertarians will take control of a state, and the world will see what they can do. Maybe then the ruling factions will realize that they can be held accountable, and then the world will change.
To the people who are trying to sue everyone and their brother in these lawsuits over 9/11, just get on with your lives. You're not going to get a dime. You have no case. You're only going to make some undeserving lawyers rich. You can't sue the entire airline industry - they weren't all involved, so there's no case there. You can't sue the government. Just get over it. There was no negligence. No one expected this. We deal with it by finding the terrorists and killing them, not by suing airlines. They are as much victims as the people who died in the towers and the planes.
And on a completely unrelated note - Mrs. Spoogeworld did something so nice today, it almost brought tears to my eyes. In light of my recent lay-off, she put a note in my dinner (as I had class tonight) that said that she believed in me. Now, I know that in my heart already. But seeing that note made me smile. And it made me feel just a small bright spot in a dark day.
And always remember that the optimist says the glass is half full, the pessimist says the glass is half empty, and the realist says that the water tastes like tap water. Draw your own conclusions.
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