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Sep. 8th, 2003
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Sep. 8th, 2003 02:20 pmwhat the heck? There was ONE update this morning! And it's not even from somebody I know! You people are worthless... WORTHLESS, I tell you!
Hoorah, for ... you guessed it, a new icon set! Any bets on how long this one will last? I'll actually keep track and anything! If you win you'll get a ... uh... prize. Sure, that's it. And I won't rig it or anything. When I get tired of it it'll just change. Yay.
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Sep. 8th, 2003 11:26 pmpsh... just watching leno and oscar de la hoya (or however it's spelled) is on and he's talking about how he has to abstain from sex like... 3 months before a fight or something and then jay and the other guest start laughing at him... All the while I'm over here saying "Cha! I can totally see how it would weaken the legs! My legs are ALWAYS sore afterwards!" and it's just... blah, stupid Leno.
Make it all stop
Sep. 8th, 2003 11:47 pmyes ladies and gentleman, it's that time again. Time again for one of Nathan's rants. What exactly is twisting my tit today, you ask? Well, it's quite simple. Election. The presidental election, to be more acurate. Every year just before and election near the end of the year the commercials start popping up. Every 5 minutes I see governer what's-his-face telling me how Bush is such a bad man and how he opposes the war and how we should all vote for him because he's not a stupid republican. Just give some time and you'll start seeing Bush's adds. His adds will say that he believes in America and he wants our country to thrive and a war was the only way to do that and blah blah blah. Nobody cares, I'm really sure. The more you show the negative adds, the less and less people are going to want to vote. Now me, I'm going to vote. I'm going to register to vote because it's my constitutional right. How am I going to vote? Well, frankly, the two party system pisses me off beyond ANYTHING you could immagine. The goal of the bill of rights was to eliminate the monarchy. Remember how we fought for our freedom from the opression of England? Well, a two party system isn't a whole lot better. We get the schmucks who want to just let everybody run free and bend over and take up the tail pipe, and then the dorks up on capital hill right now who think that fighting and blowing crap up is the only solution. And don't even get me started on the third party candidates. They're all there so they can fight for one particular issue. All they do is throw off the balance of the two parties. If it weren't for them, every single election would be an exact 50-50 split. I'm convinced of it. I have no hard evidence, but that's what I truly and firmly believe.
Back to where this started. The adds. Pretty soon you'll start getting into the REAL mudslinging. Gov. What's-his-name will pop up telling me how Bush's war was simply a war for oil. And he'll call it that, too. "Bush's war." Not "America's War" or "The War Against Iraq" or "The War Against Terrorism," he will call it "Bush's War." As a rebutle to said add about "Bush's war," Bush will pop up and tell me how Gov. What's-his-name was caught smuggling drugs, or making child porn, or God only knows what, and it will just get worse and worse and worse. Bush will try to be all "oh, love me! I'm not a bad guy!" and tell us that the war on Iraq wasn't about oil (which it wasn't, for those of you wondering what my opinion is), it was simply about fighting for the freedom of America. That I believe. I like Bush for saying that. Those dick heads came and bombed our country, so what'd they expect us to do? Sit back and watch? Hell no. We were one of the first countries who had nuclear capability and we were and still are the most powerful country in the world. Don't try and tell me we aren't, because we are, and Russia is rideing our tailcoats to the top. If we wanted to - us or Russia - we could simply push a button and blow the whole world to hell. Just watch us. The ONLY reason we didn't bomb the crap out of Iraq is because it would've been a total waste of a bomb. And yes, it would've wasted all that oil, because I'm sure Bush would've like to have it, but just as a spoil of war.
Anyhow, back to the ads, they just really turn my crank in the wrong direction. It's all mudslinging. Mudsling, mudslinging, mudslinging. The candidates will dig up dirt about eachother that happened so long ago that not even the candidate remembers it. I'm sure that our Democratic candidate is going to bring up the fact that George's daughters got arrested for underage drinking and "if he can't keep control of his daughters, how can we expect him to keep control of an entire country?" If I could, I would make them go away. I would make the candidates leave all their adds to magazines and internet ads. That wouldn't bother me as much. Or better yet, just put them on the Republican and Democratic websites! That way I don't have to deal with them unless I want to have a few dirty little facts about the candidate I don't want to vote for! Or... here's a wacky idea, just tell me what your issues are. That's all that needs to be done. Just say "here's where I stand on this issue" and then after that you could have a commercial from the other candidate stating HIS stances on the issues. It'd be like a debate only I wouldn't have to sit there and watch hours upon hours of... blah. It's just very frustrating and I should really just complain to the FCC or something.
Back to where this started. The adds. Pretty soon you'll start getting into the REAL mudslinging. Gov. What's-his-name will pop up telling me how Bush's war was simply a war for oil. And he'll call it that, too. "Bush's war." Not "America's War" or "The War Against Iraq" or "The War Against Terrorism," he will call it "Bush's War." As a rebutle to said add about "Bush's war," Bush will pop up and tell me how Gov. What's-his-name was caught smuggling drugs, or making child porn, or God only knows what, and it will just get worse and worse and worse. Bush will try to be all "oh, love me! I'm not a bad guy!" and tell us that the war on Iraq wasn't about oil (which it wasn't, for those of you wondering what my opinion is), it was simply about fighting for the freedom of America. That I believe. I like Bush for saying that. Those dick heads came and bombed our country, so what'd they expect us to do? Sit back and watch? Hell no. We were one of the first countries who had nuclear capability and we were and still are the most powerful country in the world. Don't try and tell me we aren't, because we are, and Russia is rideing our tailcoats to the top. If we wanted to - us or Russia - we could simply push a button and blow the whole world to hell. Just watch us. The ONLY reason we didn't bomb the crap out of Iraq is because it would've been a total waste of a bomb. And yes, it would've wasted all that oil, because I'm sure Bush would've like to have it, but just as a spoil of war.
Anyhow, back to the ads, they just really turn my crank in the wrong direction. It's all mudslinging. Mudsling, mudslinging, mudslinging. The candidates will dig up dirt about eachother that happened so long ago that not even the candidate remembers it. I'm sure that our Democratic candidate is going to bring up the fact that George's daughters got arrested for underage drinking and "if he can't keep control of his daughters, how can we expect him to keep control of an entire country?" If I could, I would make them go away. I would make the candidates leave all their adds to magazines and internet ads. That wouldn't bother me as much. Or better yet, just put them on the Republican and Democratic websites! That way I don't have to deal with them unless I want to have a few dirty little facts about the candidate I don't want to vote for! Or... here's a wacky idea, just tell me what your issues are. That's all that needs to be done. Just say "here's where I stand on this issue" and then after that you could have a commercial from the other candidate stating HIS stances on the issues. It'd be like a debate only I wouldn't have to sit there and watch hours upon hours of... blah. It's just very frustrating and I should really just complain to the FCC or something.
