Desertnomad’s Blog

Regarding my 3/12 entry – I don’t actually want anyone, neoconservative or not, to die in that manner. I was really angry that evening.

I wanted to mention President Obama’s remarks yesterday.  I can’t find the text at the moment but what he essentially said is that his administation intends to fix a banking system that operates so badly that a bank, like AIG, can get “too big to fail” in the first place.  What an amazing time to be alive – someone wants to fix the actual problem – the way the financial system works.  I’ve been concerned by all of the fuss over the bonuses, not because that isn’t deserving of some fuss.  Rather, because I was afraid it was distracting the public from the need to keep the government focused on fixing the cause of the current troubles, which is the utter lack of ethics and regulation in the industry.  Now that is all far beyond me, and I’m not entirely sure that it isn’t a bit beyond Geitner, but I’m willing to wait and see.  I just want to express how in awe I am that there are people in charge who KNOW that bandaids(such as bailouts and admonishments and the taxing of ridiculous bonuses for ridiculous executives) are not going to fix what is wrong with America, that it’s going to take so very much more than that, and who are willing to act thus.  We now have to fix both the little problems and work on the larger ones.

Something more reasoned.  This one is pretty much just for me, and a few people I trust who know me well know the address of it but really, no one else knows it’s mine.  That way potential employers never need run across it.  This is a good place to vent about things, and let passion rule, and justifiably compare neo-cons to piles of shit.  But I enjoy writing, and at some point I might want to write something relatively safe that I don’t mind having connected to me in the real world, and I’d need somewhere to put that.  Maybe over on blogspot.   We’ll see.  You gotta love the internet, there is somewhere for everything.

is that I love Project Upstream.

I don’t have much to say tonight other than Jon Stewart ROCKS, but that’s like saying, water is wet.  He and Colbert are the two most perfect men ever.

There are none.  There are no words sufficient to express how happy I am that I was wrong.  It’s a pure happiness that one rarely feels.

Well, here we are.  The night before.  I wanted, mostly, to have something to look back upon, after the big event.  Either Obama will win tomorrow and I and many others can once again believe in the promise of this nation, or…

Honestly, I believe that McCain will win. That is, that the Republicans will steal the election.  And I know that all signs point to the opposite, but I am certain that, in this world, the bad guy will always win.  Okay, we defeated Hitler, that was triumph over evil.  But that was a really long time ago.  And it’s only been four years since we re-elected real evil in the form of Dick Cheney.   For eight years we have seen the pillaging of the middle class and the poor, the theft of our futures in the name of corporate welfare.   We’ve started an inexplicable war because a President wanted to please his parents and a Vice President wants to control all of the oil in the world.  We’ve seen the privatization of the military in the form of contractors who have no accountability and no military conscience.  Profits rule.  Profits will always rule.  I could go on but why?  It will accomplish nothing – this degradation of the world economy will continue, a McCain victory tomorrow will ensure that.  And it is small comfort that we will have a Democratic Congress.  I think we’ve seen what that accomplishes these days.  Nothing.

I don’t have to look very far into the future.  I can see more war in the future as my duly elected (that’s a joke, get it?) government greedily attempts to gain ultimate control of the planet’s remaining oil sources.  I can see the middle class eroding further, until it becomes the minority, guaranteeing a vast supply of cheap, willing labor to the rich upper class.  I can see a world where small businesses disappear at an ever-faster rate, and the majority of Americans are employed by large corporations and workers’ rights are a thing of the past. I feel very little but despair right now.  I wouldn’t know optimism if it bit me.   If something bad can happen – guess what?  It will.  If the Republicans can steal this election and point the finger at the Bradley effect, they most certainly will.  I believe the voters will do the right thing, but I also believe that it won’t matter in the end.

  We lost our baby on Sunday.  I had boarded her with the vet, the vet said that she wasn’t doing well and so took her home with her.  She died Sunday afternoon while I was on my way to Pittsburgh.  It really hurt, so much, when I found out.  I miss her.  She was a little ray of sunshine throughout her entire life, up to the very last week.  What a sweetie.  Goodbye, Princess, my love.