Random Thoughts on Various Subjects

1. QADDAFI

The worst aspect of Qaddafi's death is that it gives impetus for more foreign intervention tomfuckery. Should the USA go around the world deposing or helping depose dictators that the government finds a bit fucked up? The fact is this is the flip side of the card considering all the dictators that the US government has gone around propping up and imposing.

Egypt is a classic case in point. The US and Israel supported Mubarak. Then, Egyptians turned against him, and his dictatorship ended. We can feel all warm and fuzzy over this fact until it becomes apparent that the population and the revolution is rabidly anti-Israeli, and it is looking more and more likely that the new Egyptian government will be a military dictatorship. I am willing to bet that Israel and the US are making moves now to ingratiate themselves with the new tyrants. What will be the cost of this tomfuckery? More blowback.

The same thing is happening now in Libya, but from all that I have read, the Libyan revolutionaries are as repulsive as Qaddafi. We like to think of these people like Washington and Jefferson, but this is a farce. These are not Enlightenment people. These are Islamists and petty tyrants wanting to take a crack at being big tyrants. The belief is that when government is toppled a better government will take its place. But history shows this to be error. The French Revolution deposed a king and resulted in a dictator--Napoleon. The Russian Revolution deposed a czar and gave the world communism. Even the American Revolution merely overthrew a foreign meddler in exchange for a domestic meddler we now know as the federal government. It seems that the more things change the more they stay the same.

2. GREECE

Greece needs another bailout. Big surprise! I can say that this latest life preserver will do no good. Greece is going down, and the EU is going down with it. Zero Hedge has been reporting that Germany is bringing back their currency and expunging the euro. I think the world is fixing to witness the utter and total collapse of the EU. This will almost certainly have effects on the US side of the pond. I suspect that the entire world is fixing to fall to pieces.

3. PATENT LAWSUITS

I am sick and tired of reading about the patent lawsuits and other shenanigans in the tech sector as different parties fight and joust over who developed what and who should get the monopoly protection that patent brings. The irony is that once that protection is established those same parties will then lobby and sue over antitrust violations. What a colossal waste of time and money.

Patents need to be abolished along with antitrust regulations. Critics of my anti-IP position will howl, but IP is essentially a state sanction for monopoly. The way the system works now is that you get to win the protection while not being able to use that protection since it violates other laws against monopoly. The result is that everybody loses, and the government is in a shizophrenic position of outlawing competition on all counts. This shit has to stop.

4. HERMAN CAIN

Right now, Herman Cain seems like the latest GOP darling as voters have moved from Bachmann to Perry to some sleazy bisexual hooker. Well, I made that last bit up because it shows the absurdity of GOP voters as they try on candidates like drunken middle age swingers at a key party. Will Cain have staying power? Probably not.

I have made a lot of predictions on this race, and every damn one of them has turned out wrong. So, I need to stop making predictions. I don't know who will win this thing. I just know I want Ron Paul to win.

Posted in: