Random Thoughts on Various Subjects

1. GOP PRIMARIES

I don't really have much to add on this topic. The dream candidate for the GOP would be someone who is a Tea Party conservative, a born again Christian, and a hawk on national defense. Unfortunately for them, the two people who met all those qualifications--Perry and Bachmann--dropped out. This leaves the Mormon, the lunatic, the libertarian, and the closet homosexual. So, they are going to try and draft Mitch Daniels to jump. Daniels doesn't want to run because his wife left him for another man, and he took her back. Yeah, I don't understand that shit either.

I'm not making predictions anymore. The real question I am facing is why I bother voting anymore. My anarchist friends are winning that debate.

2. RAND VS. THE TSA

This story made a lot of headlines this week as Senator Rand Paul was detained in the airport by the TSA thugs. Naturally, I am on the side of Rand Paul and anyone else who dares to defy these unconstitutional searches. Apologists for the TSA will defend the agency by pointing out that the searches keep us safe. I don't think they do. If people in prison can fashion weapons inside or get them smuggled to them, it takes no stretch of the imagination to see that a terrorist would have little problem getting a weapon on board of an airplane. Search for "zip guns" on YouTube and be amazed at the inventiveness of people. One of these weapons disassembled would pass very easily through inspection inside someone's carry on luggage. All the searches do is close a few doors and windows into a house with an infinite number of doors and windows.

The government already knows this information. Government types are pretty stupid, but they aren't that stupid. When it comes to terrorism aboard an airline, it is merely a matter of when it will occur not if it will occur. The reason the TSA and Homeland Security go to such extreme measures is twofold. The first is to make themselves blameless when the next incident occurs, and it will occur. They simply have to point to the pornoscanner and hernia exam at the airport to show they have done all they can short of a strip search and body cavity invasion to keep you safe.

The second reason is more sinister. The government clearly wants to remind you that they run this motherfucker. That is the part I despise. Those searches at the airport are merely the first phase in searches nationwide in other venues from sporting events to bus terminals. Those searches will test your submission to the state apparatus. This is what they really want. Doubt this? Look at how Rand Paul was treated. The guy is a UNITED STATES SENATOR. Do you really think Rand Paul is a terrorist? The only thing Rand Paul did was show some spine. That will get you detained. In time, it will also get you locked up and detained indefinitely without trial. Your crime will not be terrorism or possessing a weapon but having the delusion of being a free person.

3. DEMI MOORE MELTDOWN

Watching Demi Moore self-destruct is sad. It is clear she is taking her break up with Ashton Kutcher pretty damn hard. I've said many times in the past that love is bullshit. I don't think I have pointed out how destructive love is. Love is like a nasty drug with severe withdrawal pains. Clearly, Demi still loves Kutcher very much, and he basically tore her heart out and took a massive shit in the bloody hole he left. As someone who has gone through the same pain a few times myself, I can tell you that it isn't worth it especially if the odds indicate you are very likely to be a loser in this sick game.

There comes a point in time when people stop looking for love and simply aim not to feel it anymore. I call this autoremission. Abusers of alcohol, drugs, gambling, or what have you will reach a point where the pain and consequences are worse than any pleasure they receive from the drug or behavior. Without treatment, AA, or anything else, they stop. They clean up their lives and move on. It is often a miraculous transformation.

Love is a drug just like any other. It lies because it tells us that this person in our lives is worth a damn when they really aren't. At some point, people realize that love is bullshit. The only rational response isn't to try and make it work. This is like someone saying they can make cocaine work. No, they can't. You flush that shit down the toilet and move on with life. Love is no different than cocaine. People burned in love learn this, and a few like myself make the decision to not fall for it ever again. This is autoremission. You go from wanting to find love to not wanting to feel that hurt ever again.

Demi Moore wants to stop hurting. In time, she will. She has my sympathy in this regard, and her life shows that love has no mercy on the rich and beautiful either. There is no happiness in love. There is only delusion.

4. STATE OF THE UNION

What can I say? Obama is a clueless fucking idiot. The saddest part was his prescription for dealing with the higher ed bubble. What a fucking joke. I am realizing that politics isn't about telling the truth and changing hearts and minds. Politicians merely assume that people already have made up their minds, so they cater to their mass ignorance and attempt to pull off some sort of progress through triangulation and spin. The answer to the higher ed bubble is to end federal student loans. This is politically unpalatable, so other solutions which aren't solutions at all are proffered.

Leftards and Obamabots make the claim that Obama does the best he can, but "they" won't let him do anything else. I always ask for the identity of "they." But "they" is us. It reminds me of that classic line from Pogo. "We have met the enemy, and he is us."

I am going to agree with the leftards on this. The truth is that an honest politician doesn't stand a chance. Look at what is happening to Ron Paul. Against popular will, the President has very little power whatsoever. A person like a pundit or a journalist who can sway public opinion exerts as much or more power and influence than any elected representative. The illusion is that government is our master when it is really our servant.

I am coming to grips with this problem like never before. The issue of voting and the rest is also reflected in this. It has to do with the consent of the governed. I will have to work up a blog post on the topic to explore it further.

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