Podcast bitches

13 minutes about the Iran thing and 2 minutes about Bush's budget. Hopefully, we spark some thought on the subject. Due to technical retardation, we have to give it to you in two pieces (don't let yourself use that as an excuse to become disgusted with the first half and not listen to anymore...)

Half 1

Half 2

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Probably podcast soon

I have nothing to say except for in words. I think I am going to try and get a podcast going.

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No more elections

Let's not have elections anymore. No one takes the results seriously, and if you lose, then it must have been rigged! I wrote about this before, this phenomenon that when ten million votes are cast and .1 percent of people has a problem, it gives the opposition ten thousand instances of "voter fraud" to blather on and on about. This story about the UN confirming the legitimacy of elections is appalling because the Sunni's are protesting. They're protesting because they're backwards idiots. The UN clearly knows that the election was fair, but it doesn't matter. The anti-americans just will not give credibility to any election that they don't win. When President Bush won the second time, people like Susan Sarandon, Barack Obama, and Jesse Jackson clung to claims of the sweeping voter fraud and disenfranchisement of their side. Keep crying bitches, do you know the story, the Little Boy Who Cried Wolf?

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US gets fucked by FIFA

Ok so there is eight groups. You would think the top 8 teams get their own group right? NOPE. The US is the 8th ranked team and is in the same group as the number 2 ranked team in the world, the Czech Republic, the 12th ranked team, Italy, and Ghana which is 50th, but received this year's award for "biggest mover in the rankings". So even the low man on the totem pole is a spoiler candidate.

Host Germany got the 21st, 22nd, and 37th ranked teams in their bracket. They host the tournament by the way. And they accuse the US of conspiracies... Matter of fact, all the european teams seemed to get lucky, except for the sacrificial lambs in the US bracket. England got coupled up with the 14th, 30th, and 50th ranked teams (tied for 50th with Ghana.) Spain got the 28th, 33rd, and 40th ranked teams in their bracket. France got the 28th, 29th, and 35th ranked teams in their bracket. So that's awesome. The US has to beat out a 12 and a 2 to make it out of round robin play, while these douche bag European teams have to beat out teams ranked like 30th in the world.

My favorite bracket is the Netherlands and Argentina, ranked 3rd and 4th in the world, who play with a 42 and a 47.

Basically putting 3 out of the top 12 teams in the same bracket would be like statistically having half of the brackets. Awesome. Well, good luck anyway good ol' USA.

Oh and for the Canadian readers, you're in bracket "staying at home" and you rank 84th in the world right between the Narnians and the Special Olympics All-Stars.

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Apparently, the constitution is worthless

Secret searches without warrants? How could the President come out and unapologetically defend this stupid shit. Why don't we just use the constitution for toilet paper? Seriously, because this is INDEFENSIBLE!!! The constitution is about as specific as possible that this is wrong as hell. I think it is an impeachable offense if you ask me. YOU'RE BREAKING THE FUCKING LAW AND YOU ARE THE LAW !!!!!

Holy shit I can't believe it. Can someone explain to me how you could defend this practice? To get terrorists? Well why don't we set-up surveillance cameras in all of our homes and force everyone to wear a tracking chip? I guarantee we can cut crime/terrorism to almost nil if we take some very simple steps. The thing is though, that is not a free society.

I can't ever vote for someone who condones this practice. It is fucking shameful. I want to thank the press in this country for letting us know despite the President saying it harmed efforts to fight terrorism. That may be, but it also harmed his efforts to fight the freedom of Americans so he can kiss my fucking ass. Long live the free press...

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5-5-90

May 5th, 1990? Why is that day so significant? It's not. The title is the 5-5-90 rule that I learned about from my mother, who had learned from her DI.

5% of you are good, 5% of you are bad, and 90% of you are sheep. This is the rule and I think I might be inclined to agree with the rule. Reading about the Age of Enlightenment always brings up Hobbes and Locke and their arguments about the nature of society and our natural state. Well our natural state is that there will be few genuinely good people, few genuinely bad people, and whoever can convince the other 90% better determines how the society goes. As time has passed, good has won over evil, and IMHO, it will continue to do so. Good just works better. Compassion, cooperation, chocolate milk, and peace will always thrive because good works better.

And because of this, I believe that we don't need to constrict ourselves as a society. Freedom is the best choice because good will win over bad. Of course, absolute freedom is a contradiction because one's freedoms will always intrude upon others, but we must try and allow all the maximum amount of freedoms we can.

I think visually so I imagine freedom as spaces on a chess board. There is a finite amount of spaces before it becomes other pieces' spaces. I'm just saying let's not control and constrict squares on the chess board for the sake of equality -- just let the pieces work it all out themselves. Will people take advantage of each other? Yeah. Will the people who took advantage eventually lose their advantage? Yes. Good will win over bad. Naturally. I'm sure of it.

You could be thinking that I believe in a pinata mentality. Let the kid who collects the most candy keep the most. Well for the most part, that is capitalism. Another analogy would that capitalism is a horse. I am just talking about a bridle here people, NOT a carriage strapped to its back.

None of this is coherent probably. Oh well.

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Laws and Tyranny

One way of being tyrannical is to create laws that you know everyone breaks, that way you could pick them up at any time if you needed to.

In the U.S., we have so many god damn laws, it pisses me off. I will be turning 21 in 3 months and I will be "able" to drink. I was reading some statistics and 80% of all high school seniors have consumed alcohol and 64% have become drunk. That is high school seniors! I bet it is 95% by the time they are actually 21. What a good law that is then! Let's have a law that nobody obeys, but still could be punished for.

Over 60% of people have smoked marijuana in this country. How many people have driven drunk? 66% of youths 18-20 admitted to driving drunk. I am sure the number is as high for people who can legally drink.

How many people illegally gamble in their house via poker games, betting pools, and other such nonsense? How many people don't report their taxes to the letter? The average reported internet sales tax in Michigan was like $40 or so. How many people buy things off the internet and don't pay those sales taxes on their state income tax return? How many people make sexually suggestive jokes or comments at work? Have you ever sat inside your car when you pumped gas, ripped the tag off your mattress, burned free music off the internet, or used software from a friend or work? If the government wanted to get someone, they would only have to pry in to 90% of people's lives in this country to find them guilty of some offense that included jailtime.

Laws that everyone breaks are tyranny. Cops don't ever want to solve speeding, then they couldn't catch people and get the fines. Letting people speed is like planting crops. When they need the crop, they will cut the largest ones and let all the littler ones go. This is how all of these other things are.

I am actually rooting for the democrats to filibuster the Patriot Act. We don't need to give the assholes in congress any more power to rape the citizenry at will. Congress people are easily the most hypocritical assholes in the world and it thrills me to death when they are caught being corrupt because every single one of them is. They sit high on their pedastals in judgment of everyone, making dumbass laws for dumbass reasons.

I realize that the opposite of what I say would be to legalize certain things or that I am insinuating that there should be no crime and punishment at all. This is not my position. The problems I have spoken about are a direct result of someone far away trying to rigidly control a large population as best they can. My solution is that people far away should not determine the justice in your own town. Government was meant for a society of 300, not 300 million. My goal in life is to reduce government as much as possible, that's all. It's inefficient and that inefficiency becomes tyranny.

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