21 September 2008

Camp Ramadi, Ar Ramadi, Al Anbar, Iraq

Just thinking... and this is fairly stream of consciousness, so no grand conclusion or pithy wisdom.

It is 2008.  Eight or nine years into the 21st Century (depending on how you count it).  I can go to www.instapundit.com and read articles on nanotechnology, the striving to get too many megapixels into a camera, articles about the Super Collider that didn't destroy the Earth.  But then I can read articles in the same roll of a mouse wheel about idiots that don't understand supply-demand curves, and frothing about one person's views on creation while refusing to acknowledge that we're at war with folks that truly believe in Jolly Green Giants riding white horses out of the clouds to win battles.

I despair that our decisions on who will lead our nation turn on the most idiotic things and, even more disturbingly, DON'T seem to turn on some really important things (I'll leave the specifics off for now... but it won't take too much research here to guess where I come down on stuff).

As I said, no real conclusions... it's just bizarre and sad to me how much trivial crap stands in the way of amazing things.  NASA has to prostitute itself into supporting [explitive self-edited] like Hanson and climate study instead of, oh, I don't know... exploring space.  Why is that?  Not really sure, but I think it has to do with remarkably short-sighted people that don't realize that a dollar spent on [pick a social program that cannot demonstrate ANY tangible results worthy of its cost] is essentially wasted, while money 'wasted' on space exploration brings us amazing returns.  Awesome things are being done anyway... but our culture of entitlement is such a far, far cry from what I imagine we could be.

Enough of my whining.

Oh, Iraq?  It's doing great, thanks!  Absolutely not a shred of thanks to Pelosi, Dean, Obama, Kerry or any of the other chattering morons that have tried their damndest to ensure that Iraq returns to being a festering boil on the ass of the world.  FOOLS!  How anybody that voted on those retarded (and by 'retarded' I mean 'resembling something that would be generated by a developmentally challenged person that could not be expected to grasp concepts like cause and effect') Non-Binding Resolutions can look at themselves in the mirror and call themselves an American is just amazing (and additionally depressing) to me.  Bad judgement is one thing... Traitorous behavior that a howler monkey could anticipate would be bad for American interests is another.  Speaking of traitors, did you read that the Rosenberg kids have accepted that their father (if not their mother) really WAS a traitor selling secrets to the Soviets?  How about that?!  It's a shame we haven't hung the last few bastards that thought they could bring utopia to the world for the low, low cost of selling secrets to an enemy.  Morons.  Fools.  Children... simplistic children that shouldn't be entrusted with the franchise, let alone state secrets or positions in congress.

Okay, this qualifies as my 'and another thing' rant that proves I've become a curmudgeon.

Cheers, all.