Campaign Brings Out
The Ugliness In People

Sadly, most presidential campaigns strongly bring out the ugly bias in voters and supporters of the candidates, but this election year, it just seems more so.

A John McCain supporter actually hung a ghost from his tree with “Obama” written on it.

And a Barack Obama supporter actually made a display with mannequin dressed as John McCain in KKK garb, chasing an Obama mannequin. And sadly, these are just two cases out of many.

And then we have vile, unsupported claims by “supporters” that Obama is not an American and he’s a Muslim or that McCain is so old, he’ll die in office.

This type of behavior is not only beyond childish, but it’s disrespectful to both candidates.

And worst of all, it’s a huge distraction from the real issues. Political bias is a very powerful and deadly tool when it’s wielded in a loyal, delusional supporter’s hand. They create unneeded controversy and fiery among other political supporters.

It’s bad enough that the candidates use the old magician’s trick of misdirection, by not talking about the issues in detailed but attacking their opponent instead.

But to actually depict both Obama and McCain in KKK stylings or to disgrace them in any other manner is repugnant. And these party-blinded fools do not even realize that they are hurting their own candidate’s reputation and good standing with the public.

Neither candidate in his right mind wants to be associated with a prejudice mental idiot who thinks it’s a good idea to use racism to get their point across.

Sadly, every year during election time, either from local campaigns or major ones, it just seems that some supporters actually sink lower and lower in to the political quagmire. And sometimes, it seems as if they have sunk even lower than the candidates themselves.

It’s only strong people who can look beyond these disgusting misdeeds and only judge the candidates based on their character and not on the political assassination attempts by some of the few moronic supporters of the candidates.

China’s First Spacewalk,
Who Cares?

This is getting some play in the media and I think the Associated Press quote down below gives it best in a nutshell:

“A Chinese astronaut on Saturday performed the nation’s first-ever spacewalk, the latest milestone in an ambitious program that is increasingly rivaling the United States and Russia in its rapid expansion,” the Associated Press reported.

Excuse me a second when I laugh. “… increasingly rivaling the United States and Russia in its rapid expansion.”

Really? Is China’s space program really going to rival that of the U.S. and Russia because it finally had its first spacewalk? But more importantly, it shouldn’t be getting this much play.

After all, both Russia and the U.S. had their first spacewalk in 1965. But considering China’s love affair with restricting basic human rights and what not, I guess waiting 43 years to catch up to two other world superpowers would be consider “rapid expansion.”

Congratulating China on achieving its first spacewalk nearly half a century behind the rest of the world is like congratulating modern day extreme Muslim clerics for admitting that raped women are victims and shouldn’t be stoned to death.

Sure, maybe I’m being a bit too harsh. For a country that has swamped America and the world with cheap and poorly made products by workers with little to no basic rights and tainted baby milk, China may start to flood the stratosphere with space bicycles and floating sweatshops.

While it’s commendable that China is reaching for the stars, for that is where humans are destine to go, it’s a little late in the day to congratulate it for doing something that has been done repeatedly for more than 40 years now.

The only way China could impress me is if they could get the first man on the moon. Oh, wait …

Watching Sports
With McCain, Obama?

This burns my bacon. A poll found that people would rather watch a football game with Barack Obama than John McCain.

Who cares? And more importantly, it makes my skin crawl to know there are some people who believe this really matters.

Because do you know there are some people out there who actually will vote for a candidate because he seems like a good guy to watch a game with? Or there are some people who will vote for McCain or Obama because they live in the same state as the candidates, or the same age, or even have the same skin color?

It’s times like this that those radical right-wing militia groups actually make a lot sense by hiding out in the woods and wait for the American government to collapse on itself.

You know what? I could care less if Obama enjoys kicking little old ladies down some stairs or that McCain likes to watch naked farm animals in his underwear. I don’t care if they both have secret sleepovers with each other and watch the Philadelphia Eagles get creamed as they polish their toenails.

Because it doesn’t matter what these people’s personalities are. I don’t want these people to be my friends. I want them fixing the economy and blowing away terrorists before they attack Americans or other innocents first.

But no, nothing is practical anymore. We have to have candidates that appear to be our friends to make us interested in them. Sure, it would be great if a candidate is naturally polite and nice, but that doesn’t mean he can get the job done.

There are so truly mean S.O.B.s out there who know what they’re doing and they’re good at it. They don’t get all touchy, feely and ask how your weekend was, but they make damn sure the company doesn’t go under.

Folks, can we just stick with picking the guy who knows what he’s doing, or at least appears to be, instead of choosing a guy who might make a good drinking buddy? We’re only talking about electing the leader of the free world, after all.

Busy, Busy, Busy

I'm sorry that I haven't posted anything lately, but things have been so busy. It's not easy updating a blog or even finding something witty to talk about.

Although, there was one thing I wanted to discuss, but I'll save it for later.

Thanks for stopping by and hopefully I'll have time to update this over the weekend.