I’m Not The Only One

First off, allow me to apologize for not blogging for the last two weeks. Looking for work and starting the final semester of my state-sponsored indoctrination has kept me busy these last two weeks. On to the blog…

Presidential elections are another thing the federal government wastes money on. I know this sounds unpatriotic, but as we saw in 2000, the massive expense of holding national elections meant nothing when the popular vote (won by Al Gore) was trumped by the electoral vote (won by George W. Bush).

It took me a few years to understand what exactly the electoral vote was, and I’m sure there are many Americans who still don’t understand the electoral college. Like most Americans, I was educated in a government school, so things like the electoral college (among many other subjects) were not adequately explained in the curriculum. All I was told in school was to register to vote when I turn 18, and to vote every year, because my vote counted.

Apparently in 2000, my vote and the votes of millions of other Americans didn’t mean a damn thing because they conflicted with the results of the electoral votes. It’s a very nice story, how Americans go to the polls and that the person elected to power reflects the interests of the majority. I wish that story was true. But seven years ago George Bush was ultimately selected by a handful of Americans, Supreme Court Justices, most of whom had been appointed to their positions by Bush’s father when he was President.

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Yep, that’s what his own colleagues in Al-Qaeda call Adam Yedihe Gadahn, the American-born Al-Qaeda operative who issued a video warning via the Internet for an attack if U.S. troops did not withdraw from Iraq.

Two things I must say in relation to this knucklehead:

1. He’s from Orange County, California. In one of his earlier Internet video messages, probably about a year or so ago, he showed his California upbringing by including, “Seriously, dude.” in one of his rants about the Great Satan. It makes me laugh to think that someone who angrily waves a finger and says “Seriously, dude.” is trying to convey a serious threat.

2. Gadahn is exactly why I do not support racial profiling as a counterterrorism measure. There are a lot of small-minded people in this country (not just white people) who think that racial profiling for people of Middle Eastern origin will work to prevent a terrorist hijacking or bombing. (more…)

All across the country, cities are considering making possession of a plastic grocery bag as illegal as a gram of marijuana or an unlicensed gun. Okay, maybe not that illegal, but local governments are itching to tell their residents in what they can and cannot carry their groceries.

Apparently a new craze that is sweeping the nation faster than the macarena, the plastic bag is being scapegoated by obviously bored politicians and stark-raving mad tree huggers for polluting our nation’s streets and rivers.

I Googled this anti-plastic bag fad and found a lot of support for this movement, especially from lefty environmentalist groups who scream that plastic bags are destroying the earth. I was disgusted by a lot of what I found. A July 21, 2004 article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer interviewed Earth Resource Foundation (ERF), a California-based environmentalist group that is pushing for a statewide 25 cent tax on plastic bags. (I know the article is old but it was quoted as of yesterday 8/07/07 on Common Dreams.org, a web site for “progressives”) This is the kind of fear-mongering talk used by this organization and no doubt other activists and organizations with similar or identical goals.

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