The Adventure begins...

Well, I wrote what I considered a solid first post, but because this was my first time using this system I lost it. So let's try this again...

I've mulled the idea of having a blog over for a couple of months now. I never quite got around to it before. What motivated me was the result of the US election this past Tuesday. Mind you, I have no intention of this little corner of cyberspace being a strictly political journal, but for now it's as good a place to start a blog as any.

BUSHWHACKED
Politically, I lean just left of middle, so I was understandably put off by the re-election of President George "Dubya" Bush. And I admit that on Tuesday I was casting a vote moreso against Bush than for John Kerry. I truly believe that anyone who takes the time to look beyond the standard corporate owned media outlets would have a hard time voting for Bush. If there's one thing that this past Tuesday did for me, it confirmed a suspicion that I've had for some time now: A lot of Americans are stupid, plain and simple. I could go into how it galls me how the country is so divided right now, or about how angry it makes me to hear daily reports of American soldiers and other human beings being killed in Iraq, months after our arrogant Commander-in-Chief announced "Mission Accomplished". -Or how I find it curious--very curious--how Iraq, which just happens to sit on the second largest oil supply in the world, is a legitimate target, while North Korea is not invaded, despite flagrantly balking at nuclear treaties, to say nothing of Iran. If we really cared about liberating people, why aren't we sending trrops into Sudan? Tibet? What about bringing freedom to those folks? Oh, that's right, they have no resources that would be of use to the US, so screw 'em! A good military leader unites his allies and divides his enemies. Our president has done the opposite. And now he's been given another four years! It boggles my mind. It truly does.

I mean, I had one friend who said she was voting Bush because he looked better than Kerry. Well, that's a good criteria...if you're voting for class president in 7th grade. It's fear. Without 9-11 I think Bush would have been run out of office in a landslide. Hell, if Bush and his cronies had listened to Clinton's cronies as they prepared to take over, maybe there wouldn't have been a 9-11.

So what have we learned here? Well, first of all, we've learned that fear can motivate Americans to compromise their freedoms and good sense. Secondly, we've learned that people really do get the government they deserve.

You know those bumperstickers that read, "I love my country, but I fear my government"? Yeah, put me down for one of those...