Liberal Commie Rant

I hear all this talk from the right (and some from the left too) about big government and how we should reign in big government spending. If any of those sitting congressman voted for earmarks or "junk" amendments in bills, they should shut the fuck up, no matter how much it cost. They attribute this to Obama, like before him, the government was very meager and small, and that each state was its own colony or something. It's really pathetic, considering the expansion of the government by Bush, in the name of "defending freedoms".  I always wonder what Gore would have done if he was president instead. Would we have invaded Afghanistan? It's probable. Would we have invaded Iraq? Hell no. Haha, expanding the government..... who blew up the budget for TWO conflicts? It seems that the people who are screaming "STOP BIG GOVERNMENT" think that the world would be something like the world of Equilibrium. The government can be the regulators, the refs to make sure the corporations aren't cutting corners for bigger profits. Fucking hell, that's why we have checks and balances and freedom of speech.

Also, I want to ask these people who say Obama is taking away their freedoms (not like Bush who took away your Fourth Amendment rights, or what the conservatives are now saying we should abolish the 14th Amendment), which freedoms is he taking away? It's not a trick gotcha question, I am genuinely curious which rights and freedoms he's taking away. If anything, he's giving MORE freedoms. Although, on healthcare, he basically let the insurance companies get between you and your doctor. OMG, I said it! Really, people get denied coverage for the dumbest shit and you say Obama would decide who gets healthcare or not? If you are angry with Obama on that he *might* have done, you had better be pissed as hell that the insurance companies are *actually* doing it. And on government spending, what is he supposed to do? If he had a sack on him and really cared about spending, he would cut the defense budget in half, at least. I never understood the concept "fight them over there so they don't come over here". What, like a presence in those countries won't drive them to OTHER countries and even here. How do you tell a Taliban from a normal citizen? You have to work at the root problem, which is recruitment, not an entire people.

Back to spending, this stupid free market "the markets will regulate themselves" is BULLSHIT. Imagine a football game without refs. You would have linebackers taking off the quarterback's head and it's the same in the financial market. Straight socialism doesn't work, straight capitalism doesn't work, so you have to find a balance between the two. And also, capitalism and socialism aren't mutually exclusive. You can have a government with deep social programs and still have the private sector, coinciding. It's the fringe people who have a vested interest in keeping the people ignorant, angry, and fearful of complex ideas they can't understand, that is keeping this country polarized. Oh, and by the way, I am glad Prop 8 was overturned because the people are WRONG. Popular opinion doesn't always mean it's right. A straight majority rules system would be disastrous and dangerous for everyone.

Destroying Complacency

While I was in Comic Con, I seen a lot of people. A lot of different varieties of this human brand. As I walked onto the floor (the exhibition floor), as it was cluttered with bodies, I thought.... how easy would it be to walk in with a briefcase bomb, set it, slide it under a table and walk out? Before you think I'm an evil bastard, just set aside your morality. Everyone likes to shake things up, everyone likes drama. Everyone likes variety. The September attacks on the WTC in 2001, I really enjoyed that. Look at the backlash of what a handful of regular people did. It sent the world into a panic. It did sooo much. Even now, it's so grand, people think it's a government conspiracy. As much as I abhor their motives, I like their actions. You can't talk and make things different, you have to do things. Blowing up the SDCC would rattle a lot of cages. I'm sure I would be caught, they would investigate the attendees who survived and I'd probably leave the smallest of trails but enough to be picked up. But I would change something.

Imagine politicians, fuck, imagine Mr. Change Obama. What has he done? Nothing, or.. rather, I should say, very little. But what could a vigilante do? What could a handful of Arabs do? More than the fucking president of the most powerful nation. THAT'S the power of action. Bureaucracy be damned.

American, British, and Ukranian Politics and Ethics

Congressional sessions in America follow a relatively boring path of voting, speeches, occasional bouts of dispute, and usually a Republican saying something completely ridiculous. But it's nice, oh it's so very nice and pleasant and polite. Parliamentary sessions in the UK are a bit.... rowdy, with more direct words and much more of an emphasis on embarrassing or tarnishing the opposition's name. But they even have been topped.

A recent parliamentary session in the Ukraine over the extension of a Russian base in one of their cities was up and apparently stirred up a lot of emotions. As you see in the article, they are committing pretty violent acts, at least, those of a professional legislative branch of a country. While I think that's going a bit too far, I do think American politics can take a bit from this.

First off, this polite nonsense, at least from the Democrats, is just too detached from the real issues. And the one time you use a bit of actual rules to enforce and play the political game, they reel back like they've been shot in the gut. British politics has it right, too, but we need to fix OUR system. There's too many polite gestures and too "favors" being put into play here.

I believe in just saying what you need to say. I think, as a whole, Americans are getting soft. We've been at the top so long, we are used to comforts. We are used to other nations bending to our will, dominating the world in armed services, at least, not to mention the Hollywood and internet cultures. And we can no longer take proper criticism. If our senators, those in charge of legislating and making the rules, can't handle a bit of criticism, and I would go about ten times farther, then they are either too weak or are exploiting the "politeness" to stray the conversation away.

Conservatism in America

I am led to believe that anyone who calls themselves a "conservative" without adding "but not with those nutjobs who say Obama is a racist Nazi" should just shut the hell up and not vote. These conservatives are now becoming my favorite people to hate, passing theists. How can you honestly sit there and say things like "Obama's a Nazi, an enemy within, he's out to take our freedoms and expand the government" when the two last motherfuckers DID that? Bush and Cheney pushed executive power passed the constitutional limit. Executive orders are a natural part of that branch, but when Dumb and Dumber used it to wiretap and imprison people without a trial, how can the conservatives claim that more government was started by Obama? It's hypocrisy on the highest level.

My next point, remember when they said stand by your president, because he's your leader? Yep, thrown that right out the window. Now it's "challenge your president and question his every move, even when it's not an important one" (when Obama went to lay down his case for Chicago for the Olympics). These same people, when liberals and rational people challenged the Bush administration, called them unpatriotic and siding with the terrorists. And now with McCarthyism becoming a cool thing again, a war of the nation is going to happen. Some dumbass, uninformed, uneducated (because he thinks Glenn Beck is a goddamn prophet) is going to make a move and we would have to act.

Reason and logic are the mortal enemies of stupidity.

Politics: Health Care Reform

Now, it seems that if you are not living under a rock, you have to have some kind of stance on the White House's Health Care Reform bill. The way I see it, you have two types of people. You have the freaking insane right-wing saying that the president is a Nazi, that the Speaker of the House is a Nazi, and that this is the first step to the government's long term plan to control your brain, with microwaves feeding information into your head. The one thing they DON'T know: they are fighting the government, to pay MORE for health insurance, or for some, to get any at all! I think that amount of ignorance is just astounding. I mean, simply mindblowing. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UASS1qFAIQ8&feature=autofb
(Funny how that claim that Obama is going to take all our rights away and throw the old people in death panels, but what did our last president do? There was no speculation, a "what if", he DID take our freedoms..... in the name of freedom! Where were all these people, then?)

And of course, you have the second type. The ones who don't lift a finger and want the government to do everything for them. I'm all for some government intervention, but complete reliance on incompetent, and corrupt, upper class white old guys is not my idea of a way to live. Power does corrupt. We need a more balanced system and not one completely controlled by easily swayed humans. I would say machines, but Judgment Day... I don't think so.

Overall, I support the bill, under the condition it CAN pay for itself and not add to the deficit. Anything to force competition on those dirty health insurance companies. They are straight thieves, no doubt about it.