I've Got Competition

http://voices.kansascity.com/node/6544?q=taxonomy/term/49

This guy seems to be about as opinionated as I, and as stupid. Check the post about water on the moon.

Gay Marriage Rant

In many of the United States, a bill promoting homosexual "civil unions" has made its way onto local ballots. The idea of this is that if a gay couple wishes to get married, then they can get a civil union which gives them all of the rights married people have without the marriage status. Everyone I have conversed with about this has said that it is a good step towards gay marriage. I HATE STEPS. We should not be taking steps towards gay marriage. We should be allowing it. It upsets me that the bill-writing-people would permit civil unions and all the rights that entails without actually allowing marriage - probably a move to earn the support of Christians and/or those who think being gay is unjust. I think that a bill such as this is a step in the wrong direction - instead of welcoming homosexuals into our culture, we single them out with a special status called "civil union," promising full marital status in the future. Not only could this turn out to be an empty promise, it's one we can fulfill. The bill that should be on millions of Americans' ballots is one permitting marriage. If nobody votes for it because they don't want to equate homo- and heterosexuals, then it proves that we're not ready - at least it was an honest vote. Basic point: Don't change your writing just so that people will vote for the bill. Get an honest opinion and grant full marital status, both in life and on paper. My rating of the gay rights bill is 5/620973 stars. It takes a seriously shitty idea to get a denominator like that.

One more anniversary

In my excitement over the amazing Berlin wall destruction 20th anniversary, I forgot to mention that today is the continuation of the Sesame Street 40th anniversary. Most everyone has figured this out by now, however, due to the Google doodles that have been running all week. Anyways, Sesame Street has officially been corrupting kids' minds for 40 years and counting. Yay?

Germany: 1989 > 2009

Man, Germany has come a long way. 1989 was the year they finally took down the Berlin wall. Today, the 20th anniversary of that historic event. Not one to blog endlessly about what this memorable happening means, I will provide this link: New York Times, "A Division Through Time"

Check that out. Pretty sweet photography, and a great way to remember that day.

I'll Tell You Why

There's a reason for everything. My not having posted in a while: I'll tell you why. Windows. These problems have yet to go away. Not that I'm surprised, or anything. And, the Dow is at it's lowest since '03. Right now, it looks like it's at 7552.29. And guess what: I'll tell you why. Windows. You see, Microsoft is in the NASDAQ, with pretty good stocks along with Apple. So what does the Dow have? Dowels. Bad pun. But still. And we all know that most car crashes are caused by younger people. I'll tell you why: (surprise!) Mac. You see, it works like this. College kids tend to get Macs more that old people, because they are smart. Sort of. They have awesome Macs, so they make some awesome home videos and show them to their friends. Their friends like them, so they decide to submit it to the movies. But, since they use Macs, they are obviously more educated, so they search for a way to stream their video to a bigger audience. And, with a Mac, they can get around the internet faster, so they do not grow impatient in their search and find instructions and software to help them hack into NASA's satellites. They then find directions on how to construct an ultra-powerful projector. Once they are done, they wait for a cloudy night. They set up their projector, followed by a pair of speakers directed creatively at an angled Mac Cinema Display, which directs the sound to the world. They start playing the video, both on the sky projector and the Cinema Display, then head to their computer. They tap the satellite, and stream the video to every internet-conncted 'puter in the nation, plus every TV. Meanwhile, John Smith, a really old dude, is driving 30 miles an hour on the freeway, thus slowing down the 927 cars behind him. His vision is distracted for a second, as he sees lights flashing in the sky and monitors lighting up in houses. Faintly, and then louder he begins to hear...the Pokemon theme song! Mr. Smith chuckles to himself, remembering that old show, before he realizes that he's stopped moving. The other cars pile up behind him. One of the radios in another car flies through his back windshield and he hears: On interstate 492 tonight, we have a 928 car collision. Officials are directing traffic onto the other side of the freeway. They have requested us to announce that kids using Macintosh computers for devious purposes are to be shunned.

Let's Talk Politics

So, as we all know, Obama won. That's fabulous. But what, now is his job? It's been said that the president (Bush) is now called a "lame duck," although that seems more like Obama's role currently. And there's that other guy... what's his name? Joe Biden, that's it. What happened to him? It seemed almost, almost, like he was just there to help Obama win. Consider this: what tangible things does the vice president do (besides shoot people, we all know that)? I know, some political fanatic will run off a list of hundreds of thousands of duties, but maybe he is just the backup president. Not that there's anything wrong with that. So, right now, who, in the upper governmental group, is really doing something? Nancy Pawlowski?

Questions, questions.

The Election is Just Around the Corner...Two Blocks Back

Gotta admit, I didn't manage to post on Election night. But I't glad and All the Barack won. True, I was a Nader fan, but I didn't wholeheartedly expect him to win. Either way, I'm going to make a cheesy statement about the significance of it all just like every other person in the world. So brace yourself.

Two days ago, an amazing happening occured to mark a major milestone in the history of our country. We elected our first African American as president.

Alright, cheesy statement done. Besides that important event, everything's normal. Life is good, Windows is bad. In the past 2 days, I've had one Blue Screen of Death, and an internet hardware failure (managed to catch while I was running ping, so that was sweet).  My brain reaches for every Mac I see, but my train of thought always falls off the Bridge of Expense (that's a metaphor, by the way).

Nader, I Choose You!

Had to do the Pokemon thing, sorry. Anyways, I've been perusing the web a bit and have made the decision to support Nader. I know, I'm always changing, but two issues put me over the edge: Obama (and Mccain) do not support gay marriage, and Nader is against genetic engineering. Both (especially the first) are hot topics this election, but I know where I stand on them. Nader is also an Independent, like me, so that's helpful. I realize that he doesn't have a fighting chance against Obama, but if it's such a sure thing that Obama will win, why should we worry about a few Nader votes? Who knows, maybe he will win if people keep my mindset. There is no candidate the I have agreed with as much as Ralph Nader. Gonzalez is pretty cool, too, but that is a topic for another post.

11 Days from the Election

Somehow this doesn't seem right. Having just watched two (not one, but two) shows on MSNBC ranting about incredibly similar issues with the McCain campaign, I can't see why anyone would vote for him. Not to be another one of those exubrant Obama supporters with no basis for reasoning, but seriously! It's almost as if McCain's campaign only behaves when Obama is around. Barack leaves to visit his dying granny, while Sarah Palin's stylist is getting paid $22,000 per two weeks. Meanwhile, Joe McCain (John's brother) calls 911 to complain about traffic twice. Granted, McCain himself didn't do much, but the fact that he can sit around normally through all of this astounds me. With my luck, some astounding new revelation is coming about as I write. The only living people on the planet who make sense anymore are Steven Colbert and John Stewart. And it is safe to expect that my blog will contain many of these political rants.