This is Your Republican Party

One of the reasons that I try to not watch the news too often is that when I do, after a while, I find myself talking to the television (the more I watch the more the talking becomes yelling, and I’d rather not end up getting evicted, especially as it is getting quite cold out) … it really isn’t the greatest routine for the maintenance of good mental hygiene, but when you are this close to something as important as midterm elections in the United States … well, what’s a little bit of psychosis among friends? Besides, in another two years there will be a new president … if only because of the twenty-second amendment to the constitution that prevents more than two terms of office for the president. Whether that new president will be worth celebrating is another story for another time … though I shall certainly have a great deal to say about the perspective candidates in due time.

The recent Republican bad press has been getting even worse, but this time it isn’t personality issues coming to the surface, it is the actions of the party itself that have been making headlines, and for all the wrong reasons. When I first heard of these antics it didn’t seem like something that sounded so bad, but then I heard another report that expanded on the first … that was when it occurred to me, with president Bush as the leader of the party, what do they expect? Throughout his presidency, and especially since 9/11 when he used the tragic deaths of nearly 3,000 Americans to orchestrate a fake war against a country that had nothing to do with the attack, Bush has demonstrated that he is a pathological liar without a semblance of a conscience.

The reason I say this is that someone with a conscience, having been shown the mistakes that they have made, would have apologized or demonstrated some form of contrition; Bush has not done any of this, ever. Over and over again it has been demonstrated that the cleverly constructed house of lies that he created to fabricate his war against terrorism was, in point of fact, an example of American state sponsored terrorism.

Is it any wonder then that the political party that Mr. Bush is at the helm of is playing with such nasty tactics at the final moments of the campaign running up to the November seventh midterm elections? After all, an organization is only as good as their leader, and when their leader aspires to mediocrity, how can they hope to achieve anything greater? The answer to both questions, sadly, is no.

So, what is it that the RNC has been doing? Well, nothing short of violating federal voting laws regarding interfering with a persons right to vote. In certain areas, where there is a large African-American population (a demographic that, traditionally, votes Democrat, even if Lincoln was a Republican … there’s just no sense of history there), the Republican National Congress has been sending out fliers and making phone calls telling people that they may be arrested if they vote because they have moved (which is untrue), or that their polling district has changed (again, untrue).

In other states, automatic callers are calling Democrat households with negative ads that start off mentioning the name of the Democrat candidate, making it sound like a call from that candidate’s office. The only problem being, it isn’t a call from their office. Hanging up results in more calls until these Democrats are calling the Democratic offices saying that if they receive one more call from “so and so” they won’t even vote for them! Only problem, it was the Republicans making the calls. Other calls are being made by the RNC, also using automatic callers, presenting distorted snippets of misinformation for the person on the receiving end.

There are already movements within the Democratic party to file several lawsuits after the election over these calls, and it isn’t going to be chump-change if it gets to court: there is the possibility of fines of up to $500 per call according to FCC regulations regarding the use of automatic calling and no-call violations. The possibility of bankrupting the Republican National Congress stands as a real possibility given the prolific number of calls they have been making.

Then there is the issue of electronica … again. Normally there is a changeover of about 5% of the apparatus that is used during the electoral process, but for this election there has been an unprecedented 15% changeover, involving woefully under-trained individuals working with technologies that have already been proven to be far from secure. On top of that, in early voting in – of all places, Florida (the Bush King-maker state) several people who voted for Democrat candidates found that the electronic ATM-like machine had changed – and confirmed – their vote as having been cast for the Republicans. I guess if they can’t win by having people vote for them on their own, they can just get the machine to do it for them; isn’t that what the technology was built for?

Well, as they say, morally bankrupt, financially bankrupt … what’s the difference? In the end, no matter who wins after the polls close tonight – it will take a long time before anyone fully trusts the results, and then it will be time to take a very close look at the system and make sure this never happens again. Again. Again.

That’s one of the things I love about Canada: we can still use paper ballots and know who our prime minister is at the end of the evening (if you stay up late enough). Granted, the United States has ten times our population, but it seems to me that once the fancy electronic voting systems show themselves to have serious flaws, it’s time to go back to the tried, tested method – a method that leaves a paper trail because it is paper.

Of course, that is probably far too simple a plan to be followed … it would allow for the dangerous situation of every person’s vote actually being counted for a change, and that can’t be allowed to happen, not in America, right?

Tags: Bush, Canada, Democracy, Democrats, Midterm Elections, Politics, Republicans, RNC, United States, Voting

What if ...?

With the midterm elections taking place in the United States tomorrow, I’ve been giving a great deal of thought to the question “what if”. Now, before anyone gets confused, or upset let me explain: yes, I am Canadian, born and raised, but I am also of the belief that we cannot, as citizens of the world, sit idly by and be unconcerned with what takes place in the nation that singularly controls the most Weapons of Mass Destruction on earth. As a citizen of a neighbouring nation to the United States I believe it is incumbent upon Canadians to be as knowledgeable as possible regarding the U.S. political system for the simple reason that it has a direct bearing on our lives here in Canada. Which brings me to the question of “what if”.

In recent days and weeks the ruling Republican Party has experienced some major political hits as the result of some scandalous revelations. As the political group that yearns to be the moral compass of the country the recent allegations that one of their brightest stars had been an active sexual predator on Capital Hill for the past decade would have been bad enough, considering the actions of their leader, the president. Then, only days ago, an evangelical leader of thirty million conservative Christians resigned his post after admitting that he had purchased crystal methamphetamine from a male prostitute and had engaged him for a massage … but he adamantly denied having had sexual encounters with him, and he said that he threw away the meth, which added to the sorrows of the RNC as they try to maintain their hold on the Senate and Congress.

This minister had regular calls to the White House where he spoke with the President, counselling him on issues and providing other advice. He was also one of the staunchest opponents to gay marriage and any advancement of gay rights. While this certainly isn’t the first time a prominent Christian minister has been publicly “outed” for acting along lines that aren’t exactly considered “clean living”, this is the first occasion that the individual in question had the direct line to the Commander in Chief of the most powerful nation on earth. Don’t get me wrong, I have no problem with the fact that this minister may be gay – 10% of the world is, I’m over it – what I can’t reconcile is the fact that someone that may have been using crystal meth, a drug that you do not use casually, was giving counsel to someone in control of the lives of thousands of soldiers fighting a war … many of whom have been returning home in caskets.

So, what if … What would happen if the “Christian Right” (a group that is not necessarily correct) decided to vote according to what was correct as opposed to one or two single issues that evoke “knee-jerk” responses, mostly because they do not understand the complete implications of those issues. There have been ministers preaching that Christians – true Christians cannot support the Democrats. True Christians cannot support social programs. True Christians must be opposed to all medical research that involves stem cells. True Christians must ….

Wait a second, when did this become an election about religion? Whatever happened to the separation of the Church and State? The reason the framers of the Constitution wanted that separation was quite brilliant: it was to prevent the persecution of people according to their beliefs, as the Pilgrims had been persecuted in their European homes. Instead, they came to the “new world” and began to themselves become the persecutors of the native inhabitants here, looting the properties of the Indians and then killing them when they had the audacity to defend their land. Such laudable Christian practices; it’s hardly believable that the Christian right wouldn’t have any issues with the policies of George Bush.

What drives me to distraction the most is the way there is a wholesale distortion of Christianity and how the United States political system seems to have taken upon itself this distorted view. It is a view that is, in many ways, similar to the way that Islam is blamed for all terrorist acts without looking at what the religion actually says. This incarnation of Christianity bears little resemblance to the teachings of its founder, L. Ron Hubbard … oh, that’s not right, is it? Oral Roberts? Billy Graham? Oh, I know … Pope John Paul II that must be it … no?

Well, I give up.

In all seriousness (I can be serious at times, it just takes more concentration than I prefer to exert), “true Christianity” bears precious little resemblance to what is being shoved down our throats by the “religious Right” (which isn’t necessarily). I have always marvelled at people calling themselves Christians who bless someone with one breath and then call for the death penalty. Some ministries have as their central focus the gaining of wealth: “God wants His people to prosper” they say, without taking into context exactly what wealth means in the Bible. My absolute favourite are the ministers that have the audacity to declare that God has rendered judgement against someone else, and that they are going to go to Hell because of the way they live their lives.

I realize it may seem odd that I haven’t identified specific ministries or individuals when it would be easy to do so; that is not the purpose of this article, nor does it serve any particular purpose to “name names”. I am merely bringing up examples that are well known within the ecclesiastical community and that have been discussed, ad nausea, under different circumstances. Having said that, I do want to expound a bit on some of the electoral issues and how they actually do fit within the Christian paradigm.

It is a fallacy to believe that the Christian faith is one of judgement and condemnation: the truth of Christianity is that it is the liberation from judgement and condemnation. There is one judge, and we are told that to judge others is to call upon ourselves the manner of judgement that we have used against those we have judged. Quite simply, the principal of “judgement” is something that is encountered under the Old Covenant. Jesus, or Yeshua HaMoshiach (Jesus, the Anointed One) promised a New Covenant that fulfilled the old laws, which not only allows us to wear cotton and polyester at the same time (or cotton and silk …), but it means that we do not have to be observant of the 613 laws that are a part of the lives of Jews who practice Judaism.

One of the examples I love to use (and one that tends to annoy people the most) goes like this: which sin is worse … homosexuality or adultery? Well, in the Old Testament it says: “you shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.” (Lev. 18:22, NKJV) This is repeated, slightly elaborated, in verse 13 of the twentieth chapter of Leviticus, the book in which the law was given. Adultery, on the other hand, made the “Top Ten” list of sin, coming in at number 7, just after the one about not murdering and before not bearing false witness against someone … and coveting your neighbour's wife (or their house, field, and etc.).

In other words, adultery seemed to be a fairly prominent issue when it came to laws being “written in stone”. Now, before any Christians start having seizures about the Pauline interdiction on homosexuality, relax, I haven’t forgotten about the ONE verse that Paul dedicates to the issue in his Epistle to the church in Rome. In fact, this is an extremely significant scripture for the singular reason that it is not actually what the contemporary church has made it out to be. Having been taken grossly out of context (as is so often the case), the meaning of the scripture has been warped to mean something that has absolutely nothing to do with what the man was saying when he wrote the epistle (just a word for letter).

The verse, as quoted by the Christian Wrong, is this:

“Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men, committing what is shameful and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.” (Rom. 2:27, NKJV)

Now, the problem arises when you take a single verse out of the entire chapter without even making an attempt to give it any semblance of context, and context is critical to this verse. One of the important things to remember about the Bible, both Old and New Testaments, is that it wasn’t written with chapters, verses, and all of the punctuation that we are accustomed to in the editions we presently possess. The second “chapter” of the epistle to the Romans is in a place that makes understanding verse 27 more difficult, unless you aren’t hung up over such things as large numbers at the beginning of a sentence. The first verse of the second chapter begins with the word “therefore”, which obviously refers to the previous text.

The previous text, having come after Paul wrote the infamous portion of scripture about “The just shall live by faith” (v. 17) comes before the text in which the issue of men lying with men is contained. If you read carefully, something that is, alas, rarely done when it comes to scripture, it can be seen that Paul is actually writing about the time before the Exodus, before the time of the Law.

Paul wrote:

“Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man – and made birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things. Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.” (Rom. 1:22-25, NKJV)

It is important to note that there is an ending here; Paul uses “Amen” at the end of this portion. Amen literally means, “so be it”, or “let it be” and is generally used at the end of a prayer. That Paul has presented this portion of his epistle and then ended it with “Amen” would seem to indicate that he has heard reports of similar behaviours taking place within the community in which the Roman church existed at the time. There is a great deal of historical evidence demonstrating the prevalence of homosexual activities amongst the Roman militia, while they were within the military. Once they returned to civilian life their sexual behaviour was, mostly, heterosexual.

For this reason, Paul reminded the Romans of the times before the great Old Testament judgements:

“For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men, committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness, they are whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; who, knowing the righteous judgement of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them. Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge, for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.” (Rom. 1:26-32 & 2:1, NKJV)

It is the final verse, the first verse of the next chapter, that is the part missed most often. This is the second time in the scriptures that the Christian is told that judgement, particularly the judgement of others, is not within their list of things that they are supposed to be doing. To judge one sin is to assume that we have never done anything wrong, ever. It is a difficult situation to imagine, but that is also one of the things making this so simple in “true Christianity”: as Paul wrote, justification is by faith, not by works. It isn’t about how much money you give, or how many hours you spend in church; it isn’t about how much you own when the game is over. Faith is the foundation of Christianity.

So in the end, it turns out that when Jesus was out walking one day he came across someone who had been tried for a sin against the Lord God Almighty. Those who had judged this individual were well within their rights, under the Law, to carry out the sentence decreed by the Law: death by stoning. But Jesus confronted them and asked them a question that chilled them to their bones, making them abandon their righteous mission. All he said was, “he who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.” Not a word was spoken by the men who had been doing the work of God, taking an adulterous women and preparing her for judgement, but when faced with the mirror of their own lives, judgement didn’t look like such a great thing.

Several years ago the evangelical movement introduced t-shirts, bracelets, bumper stickers and other ephemera with “WWJD” printed on them. This was meant to say, “What Would Jesus Do”, and serve as a reminder for young Christians in their daily lives. The only problem with this is that it neglects two important elements, which I believe is why the Republican party has been able to brainwash so many Christians with their lies for so many years.

Instead of just “WWJD”, there should also be “WWJT” and “WWJS”, for what would Jesus think and say respectively. It isn’t enough to do certain things that only serve to put on, in effect, a masque for the public. That is the sort of trap that the evangelical leader who resigned over his meth-buying and alleged gay relationship fell into. Wearing masques comes with the danger of the masque falling off. This is why we must always be aware of our thought lives. It isn’t a question of “practicing what I preach”, it’s a question of “practicing what I think”. The same thing goes with what a person says. This is also taught in the New Testament, where it is said that we aren’t defiled by what we put into our bodies (referring to the dietary laws) but by what comes out of our mouths (Paraphrase of Matthew 15:11).

If the Republicans, before going to the polls, spent some time really studying the New Testament and seeking the truth about what it means to be charitable, loving and forgiving, it seems to me that it would be difficult to vote for people who supported a war that was founded on well constructed lies and deception. Could they vote for people who supported the cutting of social programs, causing hardships for the poor, when Jesus himself told his followers to take care of the poor, to feed the hungry?

Why is it that the richest nation in the world, a nation that proclaims itself to be “one nation, under God” and Christian, has so many children going to bed with empty stomachs?

Is this the Republican dream for America?

Tags: Bible, Bush, Canada, Christianity, Christians, Church, Elections, Homosexuality, New Testament, Old Testament, Politics, Religion, Republicans, United States

Reconnecting to the World

For better or worse, my life is now fully reintegrated into the world of electronica. I realize that there is no such word, at least until now … but it seems rather appropriate in an age where my cell phone is used as my alarm clock, my Palm Pilot “talks” to my computer, ensuring that I never miss an appointment, coordinating alarms and reminders so that my life is a perfectly orchestrated ballet that runs perfectly smooth … so long as I turn on the dreaded devices.

Of course, the entire house of cards disintegrates if, God forbid, I don’t turn my computer on as soon as I get out of my bed in the morning – or check my Palm to see what my schedule has on it for the day. It hasn’t happened often, but when I have been that rebellious (in that I’ve shunned the electronica in my life) I actually have missed something that was important. I decided that it was an object lesson: that great Universal Power that we are all subject too (regardless of our beliefs) was exerting its influence on my life by giving me a little nudge, just to remind me that, having created all of these gadgets and devices, it had declared that “it was good”.

I am now consigned to the belief that there truly is no escape. Just this afternoon I met an old friend while I was downtown. Instead of exchanging phone numbers, as was the natural course of things several years ago, we exchanged email addresses. Instead of looking forward to hearing someone’s voice on the other end of the phone all I can look forward to is the cold, toneless collection of words that falls into my inbox with countless other pieces of “mail”. These pieces of “mail” including ads for various versions of penile erection agents, the latest hot tips for the stock market, dozens of pleas to help billionaires in numerous African countries save their fortunes by giving them my banking information (yeah, right!), and so many other pieces of crud that I almost don’t even want to check my mail.

When I was “disconnected” from this wonderful world of electronica I discovered something truly important: the amount of time away from email did not have any bearing on the number of important messages in my inbox. The first time I checked my messages, after over two weeks, I had over seventy messages, out of which there were about five that were of any real significance … notwithstanding the several from my father who was convinced that I had died as a result of my silence (I have since established a way to prevent such a silence from occurring again).

The most interesting aspect of this was how it relates to something else that is totally unrelated, and yet related. For the month of October I was house sitting while my mother and stepfather went on an extended vacation. While I was there they received over thirty-eight telephone calls that left messages, but of the messages left only about four were actually important. This confirms something of great importance that I have suspected for some time: it doesn’t matter the means by which a message is transmitted, humanity is losing the ability to communicate effectively.

This is especially fascinating to me as I am currently reading “Synchronicity” by Jung as part of my study for the chapter that I’m currently working on; it serves as an example of what Jung describes in his essay (but that is another story for another time).

The more we rely on the electronica that has insinuated itself in our lives, the more we find that it is difficult to clearly develop a well-articulated thought that expresses everything we need to say. As an example of this, all that needs to be done is point out the electoral system of the United States of America. Here we have a political system in which an elected member of Congress has been an active sexual predator for years, using the Congressional Page’s as his hunting ground. While Mr. Foley may have resigned, his legacy remains, if the people are able to see through the smokescreens that are being thrown up by the political machines running desperately towards the finish line (election day).

Political attack ads, the “highest form” of that greatest achievement of human culture, advertising (something that, in and of itself, is enough to condemn our species on the grounds that it represents us as being wholly without merit), are doing everything they can to mitigate the damage caused by “penisgate” (not to mention Iraq, the ever-increasing body count of U.S. soldiers coming home from an unpopular war, the President’s below 40% approval rating, and a myriad of other issues) without, of course, resorting to saying anything that resembles the truth.

Things have gotten so crazy with the Republicans and their desperation to retain their position of power after these mid-term elections that some candidates have taken to aligning themselves with popular Democrats! Even the Governator, Ahnold – the Governor of the State of California, which is a state that has an economy that is the 13th largest in the WORLD admitted in an interview with Tom Brokow that there were issues with which he didn’t agree with President Bush … this is something that he would have never said two years ago when he was one of the most conservative Republicans in the book. Now, after two years in office (and, who knows, some time away from Mrs. S?) his opinions seem to have moderated – quite severely.

But in the end it all comes down to being able to express our ideas. This is a problem that one person in the world in particular struggles with; I speak, of course, of the president of the United States of America, George W. Bush. In a time when clear communication is needed the most, when the world could benefit from a world leader who could have an air of confidence and assurance as he addressed the nation (and the rest of the world) we are instead left with a blathering idiot who isn’t able to even recall the invention of video which is used to recall the things he denies having said (which are then replayed immediately after his denial).

It would be terribly funny if so many people weren’t dying, and if he didn’t have another two years to terrorize the world with his ineptitude.

This is the problem with the world of electronica. We are victimized by the slickest campaigns, by those who spend the most on the marketing specialists and who plug into the collective psyche of the public – as interpreted by the “experts” in the field. Of course, this reminds me of the saying, “one billion Chinese can’t be wrong” in relation to an old advertising campaign. Yes they can. It is a fallacy in logic to believe that just because “x” number of people believe something it must be true. The fact of the matter is that the truth has absolutely nothing to do with the number of people that believe it is the truth.

Consider the situation of Galileo. When he made his discovery that the Earth was not the centre of the Universe but rather just another part that circled a star that moved through a great expanse of stars he was arrested and charged with a crime. The Church of Rome wanted to suppress what Galileo was saying, not because it wasn’t untrue, but because it went against what they were teaching. If one man was right, millions (or however many there were) Roman Catholics were wrong. How could this be? How could such a large group of people be duped so completely, so entirely that they would reject the truth when it is presented to them? The answer is quite simple, and it is paralleled by the political situation in the United States (and in other “democratic” countries today): those in power controlled the dissemination of the “truth”.

We have to bear in mind that when Galileo made his discovery he didn’t go online and create a blog entitled “Earth Circles Sun”, nor did he call up the Astronomic Society of Italy to have them issue an immediate dispatch to every astronomy club around the world. There was no such thing as “mass communication” in his day. There was no air-mail, nor was there anything like radio or telephone: this was the age that was truly unencumbered by the electronic tentacles have worked their way into virtually every part of our lives.

For Galileo, communication with “authority” meant going to the Church. This also meant that his discovery was to be his undoing. Unfortunately for Galileo, the Roman Church seemed to have forgotten the scripture about “the truth setting you free”, for that was all he was doing; for telling the Church what he had discovered he was persecuted and oppressed, just as those who have stood up against the unethical actions of the Bush administration.

For as long as the war in Iraq has been going on there have been people who have questioned its moral and ethical foundations. Now, years later, with all the information garnered from the 9/11 Commission and other sources we know that there is, in fact, no moral or ethical foundation for the war. It is a war that never should have been started, but does that truth have any effect on the fact that the president of the last superpower is intent on winning this escalating civil war? Of course it doesn’t.

At a time when the president could be taking the opportunity to be planning and executing an exit strategy that could save the lives of countless American servicemen and women the president has instead chosen to change the language with which he refers to the situation. Instead of saying that we’re going to “stay the course”, a term that has been flogged more a boatload of slaves crossing the Atlantic, they are trying to “soften” the language being used in reference to the war. On the surface there isn’t anything wrong with that, save for the fact that the hapless Press Secretary for the president decided that it was best to try and be dismissive of the entire issue and say that the phrase “stay the course” hadn’t even been said more than a handful of times … about eight, or so.

Well, it didn’t take too long (remember the invention of video tape mentioned earlier … now a new, improved electronica version called DVD) for the press to start looking and they were quickly showing streams of President Bush saying the words “stay the course” on at least forty occasions. It wasn’t as though he was saying it in anything important, like the State of the Union address (oops), or other (numerous) televised addresses (oh, they were all recorded, weren’t they … that’s the point of this, isn’t it?), it’s that someone in the inner sanctum of the president, someone close enough to have their ideas turned into actions, is actually stupid enough to suggest that it is possible to deny that something you’ve been saying for the past five years can be just forgotten by the collective population, and nobody will notice.

The media is currently involved in a feeding frenzy of advertisements as the election draws closer. News reports constantly bombard us with the latest on how bad the Republicans have really been while in power, and how wrong the war really is (not that war is good in other circumstances). This is an unjust government fighting an unjust war with an unjust president who cannot tell the truth to save his life.

This is all made even more possible by the fact that we are all so much more connected to sources of information than we have ever been at any other time in history. Unfortunately, as has been seen, being connected to information doesn’t necessarily mean that we will access something that provides us with the truth. You can have your computer on twenty-four hours a day, as well as your television and radio, but if your website of choice displays only one side of the story and you only watch Fox News, how can you be sure you are getting valid information?

The plethora of information that we have at our fingertips is only worth as much as we ascribe to it when it is used properly. Our economy is being transformed into an information-based economy, but everything that is being passed along through email and on the Internet does not necessarily have any value. For the most part it is material that has absolutely no value, just as the words of a man with no integrity have no bearing on the way you live your life, unless he happens to be the leader of the most powerful nation in the world.

In the end, and it always seems to come down to this, having been re-connected I am left wondering about the “miracle” of modern technology and my place amongst the ever expanding plethora of electronica that seek to become a part of everyday life. After the computer, cell phone, Palm Pilot, electronic piano and electric guitar (Not MIDI!) … well, I don’t know … what more can there be?

On second thought, don’t answer that.

As for the upcoming elections in America, suffice it to say, we are at a watershed moment in history: is it conceivable that the voting public in the United States could actually continue to support the party that has, without any shadow of a doubt, been demonstrated to have deceived, lied, obfuscated and fabricated the circumstances necessary for a bloody personal war that was always a part of the president’s personal agenda. The deaths of thousand’s of Americans – more than were killed in the 9/11 attacks – are on the hands of this incompetent murderer.

The crossroad will come if this rhetoric is accepted: accepting that voting for the Democrats is voting for the terrorists. If this psychotic delusion is shared by enough Americans, and the Republicans hold the Congress, and the Senate, all I have to say is this: you don’t necessarily get what you want, but you often get what you deserve.

On that note, I must go … my cell phone needs to be recharged and my Palm Pilot has to be synched with the computer … oh, to be in the past, unencumbered by technology!

Tags: Blogging, Bush, Democrats, Elections, Electronica, Galileo, Internet, Politics, Republicans, Roman Church, Technology