Malarkey Purge

Several extreme republican media persons have been criticizing President Obama’s Supreme Court pick Sonia Sotomayor. They seem to think that Sotomayor was picked solely because she is a Latina woman. There have also been accusations that she is not qualified, even though she has the appropriate experience and education.
I’d rather not beat a dead horse here, but I think it’s important to acknowledge a major contradiction that these media persons have made between last Fall and this Spring. I distinctly recall these same critics referring to McCain’s running mate pick of Sarah Palin as “smart.” This of course referenced that McCain’s pick was tactful, because Sarah Palin was not another white man. Now they are criticizing Obama for picking a person who is not a white man as if it’s too much of a coincidence that she’s also qualified. And as we all recall: many people criticized Governor Palin’s qualifications for Vice-President, but these same extreme republican media personalities seemed to look for any reason to justify her as qualified. Now they are looking for any excuse to find Sotomayor unqualified. Obviously they just want something to go after Obama about, and make money doing it.
In regards to accusations of her being racist, which is such hypocritical malarkey it makes my frontal lobe throb, I think these guys should clean up their own record before they point fingers. I am a white guy, but I want nothing to do with these two-faced mudslingers. The last thing I need is rich selfish loud mouths defending me from Latina women. Thanks but no thanks Limbaugh. If you’d like to do people of European decent a favor: retire and take a vow of silence.

Back in October I discouraged people in Michigan from voting for Carl Levin, because he had just voted for the Wall Street bailout.  This was the bailout voted down by the House of Representatives, then pushed through the Senate, and then pushed through the House again.  I also discouraged everyone from voting for McCain and Obama for the same reason.  I still firmly believe that this bailout was a rash and problematic reaction to our economic issues and that no responsible elected official should have assisted in getting it forced into affect.  That bailout and the more recent bailout were not about partisan politics, because as I noted with the McCain and Obama example, both republicans and democrats supported these bailouts.  This point is strengthened by the fact that the initial bailout was under the W. Bush administration and the recent bailout was under the Obama administration.
Now back to Carl Levin, who has recently began to redeem himself by my fiercely judgmental standards.  Former Vice President Cheney and his daughter continually claimed that there are classified CIA documents that prove water-boarding prisoners saved lives.  Carl Levin is the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, which means he sees these classified documents.  Senator Levin at the Foreign Policy Association annual dinner said, “Mr. Cheney … claimed that the release of classified documents would prove his view that the techniques worked, but those classified documents say nothing about numbers of lives saved nor do the documents connect acquisition of valuable intelligence to the use of abusive techniques.”  I’m glad Senator Levin realized that it is his obligation to state this information under these circumstances.  He doesn’t strike me as the kind of guy who publicly volunteers useful information on a regular basis, but at least this one time when he was one of the few people who could call someone on such heinous malarkey he did it.
So I must thank Senator Levin for doing his job.  If he keeps it up, I might support him / vote for him if I’m a Michigan resident during his next election.
Lastly to fully purge this malarkey I must make a final point regarding this water-boarding situation.  Even if there were documents that proved everything Cheney claims is great about torture, that doesn’t justify breaking the Geneva Convention.  The US has agreed to certain international treaties, such as the ones of the Geneva Convention. These help prevent a third world war. John McCain, Mahatma Gandhi, and Jesus Christ understand that torture is unethical and the United States constitution protects people from cruel and unusual punishment: so the effectiveness of water-boarding is not an issue.  Apparently former Vice President Cheney is trying to talk his way out of getting prosecuted.

Craig Ferguson recently said “I’ve always had this thought that fish eat fish therefore it’s okay to eat them, because they do it to themselves.” (LLS Ep808).  I think there’s a lot of wisdom to that observation.  I will admit I’m bias though, because I’ve always subscribed to an idea that fish would be the meat of the perfect world.
Now do some lateral thinking as you consider the idea of a Marxist world. Not communism or any kind of actual government, but everyone is on the same page on everything.  I know this is impossible, because anyone who reads this can find a perfectly good example of something they couldn’t do or give up for their individuality and or pride.  I certainly couldn’t be perfect enough for a perfect world.  But at least consider a world where everyone is on the same page enough to work together for mutual sustenance, productivity, and reward.  For some unbelievable reason, everyone miraculously cares about each and every fellow human being, as if they were kin.
The surface of Earth is 70% water.  Untainted fish is lean protein, and contains an intense assortment of healthy nutrients.  Now if everyone in this crazy world all worked together to build filtering systems to purify sections of water large enough to live off the fish, it would be incredibly easy for them to sustain large healthy populations.  Of course they’ll need potatoes too, but those are easy enough to grow.
So even if it seems impossible for us all to live off fish, doesn’t it just make sense to embrace fish as food?  The human race should work to make our fish resource healthier and more abundant.  Because we’d all be better for it.
I personally haven’t done anything about it yet.

A flame eats, breathes, and reproduces then it dies.  In consideration of all that is, was, and will be as a whole, our lives are the same as the flame’s.  We don’t have to constantly consume to reproduce, and we don’t die as quickly as we are born.  We have a unique ability to exploit our little habitat very effectively.  This is through a form of perception that has developed over a very long time span.  You and I did not earn this perspective, we were blessed and cursed with it at the time our lives began.  Existence is the easiest and most rewarding thing any human, at this time, has accomplished.  We are more comfortable, capable, and deluded than anything I am aware of.  We forget we are life, not superior forms of life, but just life.  If we were superior forms of life we wouldn’t live and die like the flame to the perspective of the Grand Schema.  If we were concerned with ensuring the human race survives as long as possible, maybe we could become an important part of life.  People now only concern themselves with the comforts their environment supplies.  We don’t realize now more than ever we can choose to fight for survival as a life form, as a race.  Look at what our obsession with these petty desires and comforts has done to our World in the last century.  We have enslaved entire countries, destroyed cultures, doomed countless habitats, released atomic pollution, spread and raised countless new diseases, and actually put a hole in our sky.  We have destroyed the vast majority of the richest most irreplaceable life-sustaining component of our Global Environment: the rain forests.  How is it more important for us to live lives with television and ready in a minute ninety-nine cent cheeseburgers, than it is for the human race to live on and ensure the life of the planet which sustains us.  Scientists know that the global environment has been greatly damaged many times, and from that damage came chaotic times of constant vicious fighting for survival by most forms of life; especially the dominant animals.  We have already hurt so much so quickly.  We keep reproducing and consuming with no regard for the consequences.  We care only for our own lives and the lives of the group that sustains us, because our destructive culture has convinced us that we all can’t agree on a universal desire.  We are life, the a priori meaning of life is: life.  Life has given us these precious gifts of awareness, emotion, power, and expression.  These things could develop and our potential could be endless.  The first step is to live for life, to know that we want our form of life to go on and develop in conjunction with our life-sustaining planet.  I know, even if no one admits it, that we all want the human race to live on forever, we all want this planet to grow forever.  We are life; we want to live.  Our maximum potential to live forever is our current potential.  With this perception constantly manifesting in everything I think: I see others who are not convinced or even aware of these ideas, and to me they are lying down and dieing.  I can’t care about forms of destruction that horrify most people, because I see us slowly destroying something that is more important to us than anything.  I can’t delude myself and try to be happy with our short walk on the Green Mile.  So what if you or I die, and who cares if you produce another generation of offspring.  Eventually all your descendants will die.  Some of them might be caught in the vicious fight for the survival of life on this planet.  I can’t lay down and die, because I am life.  The meaning of life is: life, not comfort, happiness, specific people, ninety-nine cent cheeseburgers, and it sure as hell isn’t death.  Life forms don’t want to die, I am part of a greater life form, and I don’t want it to die.  I refuse to live to die, and I refuse to lay down and die, because I am a life form, that which is a part of life.  I want to be life; I want to devote this existence to that which sustains it.