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Thursday, May 17, 2007

Anachonistic Ravings

 "Anachronistic Ravings of a Modern Man."
I suppose the sub-title of my blog could use some explanation. 

Anachronistic - I admit it. I'm old fashioned.  I like opening doors for ladies. I like to be the one to pay for a meal (at least before I got married and lost all possessive rights to money).  I believe in Honor, Truth, Integrity, and Faith.  I like the Constitution and the founding principles of this country.

Ravings - Let's face it.  We all do it, and what better place than something like this. 

Modern - I'm a techie through and through.  I love gadgets, computers, and anything with buttons.  I like all the conveniences of the modern life.

Man - Well pretty much self-explanatory

So why the explanation?  So you the reader know where I'm coming from when I rant occassionally, which I'm about to do.

First let me preface this by saying that I love logic and reason, and thus I HATE politics. I have long been disgusted with our government and both parties in charge. I am however, hopeful that one day it will improve and common sense will one day return to the masses of people who have made it uncommon. My current opinions of the parties run (in short) that the Republicans have no backbone and secretly want to be liberal, and the Democrats are primarily hypocritical bigots who want to turn our country into what Russia was during the worst part of its Communist regime while living the high and mighty life themselves.

Obviously this is an overgeneralization, but I need to rant someplace where I won't be interrupted, so deal.  So where do we turn and what do we due to preserve what's good in this country?  I can't ascribe to the Anarchy of the Libertarian party, though I do like their hands-off opinion in regards to the government.  I don't know that we can trust any political party solely from the fact that the word politics is in it. 

Some days....okay a very many days, I just wish the apocalypse would come and we could get this world over with, start anew with Jesus in charge.  I'm tired of living in a world where everyone relishes in the bad news on TV.  In fact, I once thought of starting a news channel dedicated to delivering good and positive news, but my wife quickly pointed out that we'd have a hard time getting people to watch it.  I'm sure there's enough good going on in the world that we could fill the day in the telling of it.  There's really no need to tell us how bad the world is.  By the time your 5 you've already learned that life sucks.  So why not add more positives to life?  I'd watch the news, and probably have better days because of it.

<sighs>

Anyhow. I'm starting to babble, so I will sign off for now and hopefully be in a better mood next time.

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1.  I would be really curious where you would find enough good news to maintain a daily broadcast of interest. 

2.  To quote from my blog of March 11, "You'd think we didn't live in a democracy. Of course there's a lot we can do. First of all, in the upcoming electoral cycles, let's vote out of office every single incumbent from town council through the U.S. Senate. And let's not just replace them with their cookie cutter twins, but elect people who actually represent us. If, on any given issue you're not sure what that would be, feel free to consult me."  Everybody's afraid to "throw away" their vote, and so, by the sorites paradox, we keep winding up with more or less the same results.

3.  Don't give up too quickly on the Libertarians.  They wouldn't very likely be able to push their agenda, but they sure could create governmental gridlock, and wouldn't that be nice? 

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