I was planning on ranting about ethanol today, but something more important has come to my attention.
Apparently the internet's vital role; a the place where anything and everything can be aired freely and openly, without fear of censorship or corporate interests stepping in to influence content; has come under attack. The signs are beginning to show now that by 2012 corporate marketers will have packaged and parceled the internet into orderable groups, where you order web site service in groups, similar to basic and cable.
This has to be stopped. We have to stop this.
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Finally
What a great way to end my vacation! Obama has his delegates! And Clinton is slowly accepting it!
It was about 5 in the morning when I heard CNN reporting about how Obama had made the numbers; made my time at Detriot Metropolitan a hell of a lot nicer. The last segment of the flight still sucked (thank you so much, Northwest Airlines, for all of the arguably excellent service), but it's good to know that the Democrats can get their act together.
Finally! Finally, the body of Democrats can stop arguing between themselves about which one of them is best fit to fight the Great Conservative Zombie. Finally, McCain has to actually answer all those 'nonissue' questions about how he plans on fixing the economy, and how he's going to revamp health care so that the average working American doesn't have to flip coins to decide whether they should go to the doctor (assuming they haven't spent all their change on gas).
Finally, instead of having a cushy spectator seat on the sidelines, the Straight Talk Express(R) can actually explain what he means when he says the war was a 'good idea.' I'm not the type of person to hold something like the 100 years comment against him, I know what he's talking about. Creating a sustainable task-level presence in Iraq that can oversee certain secondary defense objectives in the nation, as well as serve as a field operations center for any things that might come up in that region, much like our forces in Japan, Korea, and Germany. I think 100 years is a long time to estimate, but it also seems like one of those 'off the top of your head' numbers.
That said, McCain can finally explain how he's going to sell the idea of a 100 year foreign presence to Iraqis; after all, I would like it if French, British, or Russian forces were based in my home, and the effects of even further degrading our relationship with Iraqi civilians might be even more disastrous. If you recall, there was some guy in Saudi Arabia who had a BIG problem with us having even a menial presence in his nation, and, despite our cocky assumptions of our own dominance, that lanky, cathedar-bound ass has turned into quite a thorn in our side... so how does Mr. McCain foresee the Iraqi people not having a problem with our troops essentially squatting in their cities.
While he's at it he can explain how, if we do go to war with Iran, we can avoid a draft, since it seems just a little impossible at this point. He could go into further detail and explain how going to war with ANOTHER member of OPEC is going to reduce our gas prices, and if he says the word ethanol, he can explain exactly how that's going to work. More on ethanol in my next post, but suffice to say it's not exactly the cure-all everyone (including me) would like it to be.
McCain has lots of questions to answer, and maybe now he'll finally have to.
It was about 5 in the morning when I heard CNN reporting about how Obama had made the numbers; made my time at Detriot Metropolitan a hell of a lot nicer. The last segment of the flight still sucked (thank you so much, Northwest Airlines, for all of the arguably excellent service), but it's good to know that the Democrats can get their act together.
Finally! Finally, the body of Democrats can stop arguing between themselves about which one of them is best fit to fight the Great Conservative Zombie. Finally, McCain has to actually answer all those 'nonissue' questions about how he plans on fixing the economy, and how he's going to revamp health care so that the average working American doesn't have to flip coins to decide whether they should go to the doctor (assuming they haven't spent all their change on gas).
Finally, instead of having a cushy spectator seat on the sidelines, the Straight Talk Express(R) can actually explain what he means when he says the war was a 'good idea.' I'm not the type of person to hold something like the 100 years comment against him, I know what he's talking about. Creating a sustainable task-level presence in Iraq that can oversee certain secondary defense objectives in the nation, as well as serve as a field operations center for any things that might come up in that region, much like our forces in Japan, Korea, and Germany. I think 100 years is a long time to estimate, but it also seems like one of those 'off the top of your head' numbers.
That said, McCain can finally explain how he's going to sell the idea of a 100 year foreign presence to Iraqis; after all, I would like it if French, British, or Russian forces were based in my home, and the effects of even further degrading our relationship with Iraqi civilians might be even more disastrous. If you recall, there was some guy in Saudi Arabia who had a BIG problem with us having even a menial presence in his nation, and, despite our cocky assumptions of our own dominance, that lanky, cathedar-bound ass has turned into quite a thorn in our side... so how does Mr. McCain foresee the Iraqi people not having a problem with our troops essentially squatting in their cities.
While he's at it he can explain how, if we do go to war with Iran, we can avoid a draft, since it seems just a little impossible at this point. He could go into further detail and explain how going to war with ANOTHER member of OPEC is going to reduce our gas prices, and if he says the word ethanol, he can explain exactly how that's going to work. More on ethanol in my next post, but suffice to say it's not exactly the cure-all everyone (including me) would like it to be.
McCain has lots of questions to answer, and maybe now he'll finally have to.
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