Elections

So, I'm finally going to take some time to talk about the elections. It's strange that so many people thought Kerry would win. The media is way more liberal than the rest of the country, it seems. The middle of the US is one big "red" blotch. People in the media try to make them sound stupid or simple, but I think that's a big mistake. Don't they know that it will just piss them off and make them want to vote Republican more than ever? Sometimes I think it's the media that are the idiots for not thinking before speaking. Insulting the very people you want to persuade is just stupid.

I actually don't think that either candidate would have made much of a difference. Kerry is so maleable, that he may have turned out to be even worse. I think perhaps that was one of the reasons that Bush won. People were afraid of what Kerry might do. In interview after interview, he had trouble really defining himself or giving a straight forward answer about anything. Nobody knew where he *really* stood on the issues. At least with Bush, there was the comfort of knowing where he stands and what to expect.

Fortunately, I live in a state where there was no question who was going to win: Kerry. For some reason, coastal states like California always vote for the Democrat. I guess it's because we are more of a melting pot than the middle states. Anyway, it gave me the chance to vote for the candidate I really wanted: Michael Badnarik. It's unfortunate when people live in a "close" state and are forced to vote for the "lesser of two evils." I don't think there were many people who really really wanted either Bush or Kerry. Most people want more choices. I hope we can fix this situation someday. There is an excellent article about The Commission on Presidential Debates, and how they have taken over the one main deciding factor for presidential elections by allowing only the two major parties to be involved.

I feel that the only way to stop the insanity is to stop the CPD from making our choices for us.

On to some more recent news...

Now some of the cabinet members are resigning. This is to be expected, as most of these people can only take one term anyway. These jobs can be very tough. Most noteable of course, is Powell's resignation. That one is really too bad, since he was really the only one that disagreed with most of what we have done overseas. Of course, he lost all of the major battles, so it's not like his disagreements really got anywhere.

Who knows? I think things happen for a reason, and I suppose it could be that things would have been much worse by now with Saddam in power. He's not even a real Muslim anyway. He did everything he could to benefit himself, even if it meant killing his own people if they didn't agree with him. The truth is, nobody really knows whether he had weapons of mass destruction or not, or if he was planning major attacks against whoever. We don't really know, and we can't change what's already happened over there, so there's no use in saying that we shouldn't have done it in the first place. It's already done. So, maybe it was for the best in the long run. Maybe not, but I prefer to be an optimist. :)

I just hope we can get out of there as soon as possible. Wishful thinking. Ah, can't we all just get along? It seems to me like many organized religions are the evil. When people do things on their own, they would never dream of doing some of the things they do in groups. Just look at fraternities, cults and gangs. People egg each other on to do things they would never do by themseleves. Sometimes this can be very positive, but when leaders (not just religious leaders) tell lies on top of lies on top of lies to benefit their own cause, you can wind up with some ridiculous ideas that sound like some sort of joke.

Every bible is open to interpretation, because it's just written text. Nobody knows the intent. Anyone can come up with their own ideas for what the intent of a particular passage was, and form a whole religion based on that. I doubt that suicide bombings, mass suicide, fighting over holy land, or world wars were ever the intent of any bible. It would be nice if people would throw a little logic into the mass insanity and ignorance.

Of course, some religions do a lot of good. However, some of them think that everyone should think like they do, or they'll go to hell. That's when you start to have problems. That's the kind of thinking that starts a war, and causes death and destruction. The weird thing is that some religions are so similar, and sometimes major wars can be caused by a minor disagreement. It would be silly if it wasn't so sad.