It's not even about the health care bill for most of these people.

Like myself, I could really care less if this bill gets passed or not, because I'm enrolled in the VA health system for life. And, I'm also an insensitive prick who only cares about himself.

Just like all these people who bring loud signs to these town halls that say something vague and over-interpretable like "Uphold our Freedoms!" or "Stop Socialism Now!".

Side note: do people in 'socialist' countries carry around signs reading "Stop Democracy Now!"?

When are citizens going to realize that socialist or democratic, the make up of your government does not matter, only the currency rules supreme.

The currency that was given to people to sit in some of those first town hall meetings across the country and do nothing but yell and scream.

And now ordinary idiots who have a completely disorganized value set see that kind of stuff on TV and figure they can get just as much attention if they show up to their local town hall meeting and do the same thing, but even louder and with even less intelligence. Fuck yeah, I'm on CNN!

The person who amused me the most at the health care forum I went to yesterday, was the woman with her sign that read: "Kill the bill, my NOT mother!" Too bad for her, Obama's 'death panel' has decided that people with dyslexia are going to be gassed and shot and then buried underneath Guantanamo Bay. And the suspected 'terrorists' that live there will still get their free health care.

Then some bonehead rushed up to this woman before she made an epic fool of herself and told her to rearrange the words. Which she did. And then she ended up on the front page of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

What was I writing about earlier with the whole 'currency rules all' thing? Because it seems to me of all the people at this town hall I went to who had signs that made sense the first time, this idiot woman gets on the front page because it's going to sell subscriptions.

And that's news you can rely on.

John McCain loves to wear his Navy hat whenever he can. He loves to let everyone know that he is a veteran and that, being a veteran, he is one of us and he supports us unequivocally. He stands up on all those stages during his speeches with this pretentious idea that he deserves to be commander in chief because he was a prisoner of war. I feel differently. If he was such a champion for veteran's issues, then why does his voting record and his rhetoric about the Iraq war scream that he doesn't care at all?

Like I have said many times before, I am in no way taking away anything that says John McCain is not a strong person for surviving five years as a prisoner of war. But, the decisions he has made since those fateful times, chips away the angelic view of him as a war hero. Let me break it down for you: if someone saved a bus full of children one day, cannot turn around and molest a bus full of kids the next day and expect everyone to still see that person as a hero.

John McCain wants us to stay in Iraq for "as long as it takes" or the classic statement of "100 years". That same old stubborn Bush injected ignorance of pounding the square peg into the round hole coming out of his mouth on every sound bite. How can anyone say they care about veteran's issues and care about the actual veteran's if they want to continue an illegal and unnecessary war? A war that was only waged to fill corporation's pockets with a ton of money they don't need. Apparently John McCain is part of a very small percentage of POW survivors who feel that putting other young and innocent people through horrible life altering experiences and injuries is the only way to allow our race, world and country to move forward.   Read More »

Today I spoke at the Bush Legacy bus event in Madison. I didn't say much, I didn't feel that I had to. If you spent any longer than five minutes on the bus, you were surely to be reminded of the horrors of this presidency, and of the enormous hardships we face in our very near future.
We met a Bush supporter as soon as we arrived at the bus. This man told us that the group sponsoring the bus, Americans United for Change, should have took the money they "wasted" for the bus and put it to something more useful like Habitat for Humanity.
Now, I am all for helping Habitat, but it seemed a little ridiculous for a Bush supporter to be criticizing anyone for their use of money, doesn't it? I mean it's entirely comical. It's like a raging alcoholic screaming at you for being a smoker. Isn't it the Bush presidency that's blowing trillions of dollars on an unnecessary and senseless war? Maybe I am out of place.
This guy also went on to tell us that we went to war because congress approved it so it had to be the right thing to do, you know, the president wasn't wrong "Hey, everyone approved his invasion, so how can you blame him" bla bla bla bla bla. Same old "taking years of my life cause of this ignorance" stuff, right?
You can't argue with these people, it's impossible. Your best bet is to do what they do for all the stuff that's wrong with this presidency and our way of life today: just keep on ignoring it.
I've got to give it to him though, he's a very resilient fellow. He'd probably be able to survive through a category 5 hurricane, you know, if said hurricane was raining intense amounts of bullshit. I'm sure he'd be just fine.
I mean what can I say? Do I need to stand up with a microphone and tell you you're being screwed? I don't think I do. If you can't see it with your own eyes, than I am terribly sorry for you, it's pretty sad if you don't know when you are being screwed. And if you don't see the disaster now, you'll come face to face with it soon enough.

Better start stocking up on canned goods.

"I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes."
-Gen. Douglas MacArthur (if you don't know who he was shame on you)

Every time I see McCain on TV, spitting his hatred while he drools for Bush's table scraps, I am completely confused.

So of course, he is a great hero, he survived an amazing ordeal in his life and I applaud him for his tenacity and his will to live. It is a story that is hard to read.

But I am still completely confused. Why does he advocate war so much? Why does he want to send young, innocent American men and women over to a country that WAS PROVEN to never be a threat to our security, just to go through the same sort of mind numbing destruction of the human psyche that is war.   Read More »