huh?

So we imprisoned some people for 7 years and tortured them at GITMO. We just recently decided that they are aren't a threat to this country but that they might be a threat to China. China says they think they are terrorists and wants them since we are done with them. We told China that we don't want to hand them over because we think that China might imprison them and torture them.

::blink blink::

I really don't care if you kill off my government right now. They deserve to fend for themselves.

Riding the catastrophe coaster!

I have my lawn chair and some beer; I'm ready for this country to lose its freakin' mind. The US is going to catch fire; first economically, then politically, then paramilitarily and finally physically. I don't know when and I don't know how much fire. I'm not looking forward to it but at the same time I'm excited to see what happens. Some part of me is concerned that if I express these sentiments too loudly or often people will get mad at me and/or try to hurt me.

It's going to be a strange time to be a discordian. Half the time I'm going to have to laugh at the folly of Grey Face. The other half I'm going to be crying because of the pain. The third half I will spend making macaroni portraits of people.

I see this as a truly amazing thing that is going to be full of wondifurious opportunities and horrible choices. It going to suck. It is going to be hard. It is going to be great. It is going to be rewarding.

Thank you for boarding the catastrophe coaster! Please keep your arms and legs inside the ride at all times or you may lose them! Please hold on tight, grit your teeth, button up your assholes and get ready for a hell of a ride!

Yes I'm going to talk about it again.

So exactly when did I sign anything that said I consented to be governed by anyone.  It couldn't have been during the first 17 years of my life as this government would not accept my word as legal until I was 18.  It must have been then; when I turned 18, that the government failed to inform me that they inferred my not leaving this country as a legally binding contract that I would follow all their bullshit rules.  I won't waist time saying they can't do that. Of course they can do that.  They have a lot of guns and are willing to assault, kidnap and extort money out of me for as long as they like if I don't do as they say and the only thing I can do about it given the overwhelming odds is shut up or get beaten, kidnapped,  and thieved from.

I have never been the only authority that governed over me.  When I was small I governed over by my parents, teachers, and city, state and federal governments (yes I'm amused that there were 5 authorities). When I went to college I was governed by the University and by local, state and federal governments.  Now I am governed by my company, local, state, and federal governments.

I have never been the only authority to govern myself. How different am I then when I was a small child?  How has the source of the authority I'm governed by changed since I became an adult?

Is there no option but to take on the authorities while chanting Non Servium? Would leaving this country really help?

London bridge isn't the only thing falling down

The housing market was in a slump until recently when the biggest mortgage financiers reported recorded losses and the market when from a slump to a flaming shit spiral. Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae; yes that is the name of the two largest governmentally backed mortgage companies, are actually worth negative money.  That means that if you sold everything they own off and fired everyone you'd still owe their creditors 5.8 billion dollars.

This along with the energy fucking nightmare ( crisis not being sufficient) suggests that the US is facing not just troubled times but a depression so massive that the the Great One we had 80 years ago will seem reasonable.

Greed and corruption plus short sighted good intentions and incompetent fumble fingered leadership is going to jettison our grand country into 3rd world status ripe for take over. Buy guns, ammo, and food folks.  We are in for a heck of a ride. Especially if a majority of Americans don't have skills that are independent on technology.

I'm glad I know how to raise and butcher animals.  I need to learn some basic farming.

This would be the entropy side of being a discordian.  The part that involves laughing as the system breaks down. Giggling as the law and order freaks watch the tatters of their civilization shred themselves because of mismanagement and abuse. Playing while everyone who can't change and adapt cries "why me" and doesn't do anything. Smiling a mirthless self-satisfied smile as balance reassert itself.  We are coming to a time when we have to change, adapt and overcome our ignorances and pride.

Hail Eris!

What do you do?

So how do you vote when to don't like any of the candidates? Do you vote for the one that is closest to your views when you know that they are going to do a lot of things that you are going to disagree with? Do you write in your candidate knowing that they have no chance of winning? I can't feel good about blindly voting for the party I'm attached to and voting for who I think will win just to be part of the winning team is ... something bad. Do I have the right to bitch if I did the research, took part of the process, got defeated, and decided not to vote

Screw it.  I'm going to concentrate on them all leaving office as fast as possible by whatever means that is most readily accomplishable.

If more than 60% of the people don't even bother to vote then there is no mandate from the people. How much must happen before the apathetic majority stand up and what will happen if they do?

Where did my country go?

There is so much wrong with this country

A Congressional committee has asked federal law enforcement authorities to investigate whether Roger Clemens made false statements under oath about his use of performance-enhancing drugs. So if I understand this right congress is asking the justice department to investigate an alleged perjurer and steroids user; a fucking baseball player, and we still can't get anyone credible to investigate George W Bush to see if he broke the law.

This country is fucked up.

May the shapeless chaos from beyond the void eat you from the inside out and wear you like a suit

Can you have a fascist nation with an armed public?  If not then so long as we keep our guns and use them (let me be clear, I mean kill, literally, people with gun) should the government ever try to take them away, then we are good. I wonder how bad it can get without losing our guns.

They started reporting the winners of the NH primary at 14%

I feel sick. I don't know what to do. I don't know why this is. I don't know how to help fix it. I don't know what is true, false, or my own hope biased opinions. Worse I can't see into the future and see what the results of this are going to be though my cynicism leads me to many horrible potential outcomes.

We have mass media setting inscrutable arbitrary standards to exclude candidates from important debates. From what I've heard the people who make the voting machines refuse to reveal the programming behind them. We have news sources reporting projections as facts.

Some part of me just wants the drink the kool-aide and go back to sleep so I can dream the American dream. Another part of me is disgusted that I could think about giving up and ashamed of such cowardly thoughts. And most of the rest of me is scared for what is going to happen in the future.

Good night.

Balance

If someone kills a bunch of people with an assault rifle it makes it more likely that laws will be passed to ban assault rifles. A better example is if a bunch of people fly some airplanes into a couple buildings then laws to restrict that from happening will be passed quickly to assuage the publics fear. That seems to me to indicate that Chaos promotes the creation of more laws. What if the opposite is true; that the sudden imposition of overly restrictive laws might create a resistance to them.  If the creation of law promotes chaos and the creation of chaos promotes law and I believe there is too much law then should I join some of the more fanatic law inducing organizations?

I think it is an interesting thought that the people who run ultra-evangelical organizations are trying to create chaos by imposing law.

Campaign to become the person in charge of car registration. Refuse to register cars for anyone who has any moving violations or some other wildly outrageous restriction.  Get thrown out of office and law put in place to prevent such restrictions again.

Become President of the USA. Pull all troops around the world back to the US. Declare Marshal Law citing the laws and acts that allow it. Declare that the Congress, Senate, and Judiciary branches of the FED are abolished. List off a bunch of people who are now declared Enemies of the State and have them executed without trial for passing the laws that allow this to be legal.  Remove the laws that imped social uprisings. Watch as the revolution rises and over throws you and makes laws so that this can never happen again. And just before you are executed declare yourself Ceaser and laugh at how they will remember you always as the cause of their renewed independence.

Zen Anarchist.  Zenarchist.

Who are Ron Paul Supporters?

I'm a 29 year old Systems Administrator from Kentucky with a Computer Science degree from UK. I'm single and not any particular religion. I was a registered Democrat but switched to Republican so I could vote in the primaries for Ron Paul.

I'm concerned that well financed special interests will lobby for more laws eroding freedom, that we will lose our sovereignty to foreign governments like the UN, that socialization of necessary services will bankrupt the lower and middle classes, and that our fiat money system is headed toward collapse making this country weak.

I've donated $400 to Ron Paul in the hopes that he will remove the laws that are preventing people from governing themselves. I want to make the choice as to how my money is spent and who gets it. I'm tired of lying politicians scaring people into giving away my freedom for the illusion of their safety. I want what everyone of us wanted when we were teenagers; to be responsible for myself and free to make my own decisions. I want to live my life the way I want to not how people who don't know me want me to.

A civilized city once again.

You can now buy booze on Sunday in Lexington.  The law has taken effect, and strangely enough I haven't molested anyone, gotten in a fight, or run anyone over as is mostly likely expected by the Pro-Christians and MADD people.

Ron Paul!

Well Ron Paul made it.  He was driving to get 12$ for the 4th quarter.  He is at 15.3 mill as of now. Ron has more 100,000 individual donors; thats more than the other Republicans individually. I think this gives us the lead in money on hand, including those self financed rich guys.  That really gives me hope.

No matter what happens I'm going to vote for Ron, but news like this actually makes me think we might do it.

Iowa's primary is 18 days away.  New Hampshire's is 23. I encourage everyone who reads this to register republican as soon as you can so that if you have a closed primary you can actually Vote for Ron Paul in the Primary.

Woo Hoo!

Please donate money to Ron Paul

December 16th, an anniversary of the Boston Tea Party,  there is going to be a mass donation; a Money Bomb, donated to Ron Pauls organization. http://www.teaparty07.com/ At the time of this post there are more than 27 thousand other people who are pledging to donate 100$ to Ron Pauls campaign to become President.  2.7 million dollars in one day.  This will also be enough to push us over Ron Pauls request for 12 million dollars in 3 months.

This is similar to the push that was organized on November 5th that raised 4.3 million dollars for Ron Paul

There are people out there that don't believe that Ron Paul is going to make it but I would ask them how many of the other candidates have followers that are this devoted to what they believe in?

I really want Ron Paul to win because I really believe in his platform.  I don't understand how people can't.  He wants to follow the document that every American should hold dear; The Constitution.  He wants to make sure that the American dollar grows in strength. He wants us to quit funding a war that was never approved by congress and isn't what the American people want. How can people not be behind that. It is these kinds of Grassroots organizations that make me feel that the concepts that this country was founded on are still alive.

Furthermore I lack faith in the other candidates to do what I want, not do what I don't want, or to keep to the things that they say that I like.

I'm scared.  I'm scared about the way that this country is going. I'm really worried about my future; not about my own actions but the actions of others that will effect me. I think this country is going down a very bad road.  I'm worried that the actions of our politicians are going to really hurt us.  I'm also worried about the political awareness of the average person.  I think things like this are very important and I don't feel that people really care enough about them.

I wish I wasn't afraid.

I think Ron Paul will fix a number of things that I'm scared of. I'm voting for Ron Paul.  I hope that you will join the Republican party to vote for him in the primary and then again in the election if he wins the Primary.

I Can't Fucking Beleive It!

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/16/illegal-ron-paul-currency-seized/

What the fuck! We can't trade gold and silver now! We aren't allowed to barter commodities! I am speechless! What the Hell!?

Boycott

It is impossible in my opinion that the authorities can make an airport or airplanes safe so all the security is pointless.  I am unwilling to deal with the invasion of my privacy and the animosity of airport security any longer.

Well I've decided.  Until this whole airport security retardism is over I'm not flying anymore.  I'm going to boycott all airlines.

This is going to put a crimp in my plans for Hawaii but you gotta make sacrifices sometimes.

Still don't know how to feel

Ed Brown and his wife, the Tax evaders from the Northeast, have been arrested. The cops who  subdued Andrew "Don't Tase me, Bro!" Meyer's have been cleared of any charges. I really don't know how to feel. Where is that imaginary line between oppression and reasonable law enforcement? At what point will we remember that this country was founded by rebels? When is it right? When is it wrong?

...

Am I a bad American for being happy that an Organization in Turkey is protesting the US's decision that they committed genocide back during WWI? Am I no longer a patriot for want more people in more countries to Unify against America? Am I bad person for believing that we need to be smacked down for the shit that we've been doing?

Why can't we leave everyone alone?

I want the responsibility and I want the awareness, but I guess I miss the blissful ignorance of my childhood

A scream of rage

You live in a free country.  You can do anything you want.  You're free.  Now if you'll excuse us we are going to go make a lot of rules that prevent you from expressing that freedom.

If you wish to vote for Ron Paul (or in fact any candidate of your choice) you best make sure you are registered as their party if you live in a closed state. Please make sure of the rules your state has about how to vote so that you know that you will be able to vote for who you like.  I can only imagine how viciously angry I would be if I got to the booth and couldn't vote for who I wanted to.

But that's not why I'm writing this.  I get very down-trodden about this countries political system and how things are done.  I feel helpless and alone and unable to control my own destiny. I lament the way things are and wish that they were different.

By that I mean I want things my own way. Yes I realize that is horribly selfish but I can't imagine that you don't want it your way. I feel the only fair way is to break up into small communities so that like minded people can have the laws they want but I can't imagine how much bureaucracy that would require.

So bitter.  So angry.

We made it.

Ron Paul asked for $500,000. Last I checked they were at 1.1 mil. We made our mark and passed it. I hope that we win.