Saturday, September 13, 2008

Just Another Beautiful Day

Barack Obama speaks for me as much as John McCain does. They are both on equal footing when trying to comprehend what the common person's life is like. What amazes me is that there are people who still believe the democrats aren't exactly like the republicans in basically looking after themselves and their buddies,
in staying entrenched in Washington and keeping that paycheck coming in, in mouthing empty promises about what they believe and what they will do.

These same people are intelligent enough to see through the republican's bullshit, and know that it's basically dumb people who buy into their bullshit (unless it's the rich who will actually be benefitted), and yet they fall under the same spell because it's clothed in the empty rhetoric of the left.

Is it because we as humans desperately want something to believe in larger than ourselves. Is it the same reason we believe in ridiculous religions no matter how much their tenets don't hold water, the same reason we believe in conspiracy theories no matter how ludicrous they are. Just as long as SOMEONE is in control, as long as there is SOMEONE at the helm guiding our future. And then people have the gall to be amazed that Hitler was voted into power.

Thursday, September 11, 2008

WHERE WERE YOU?

So today at work the country station was playing and they were having a memorial of sorts for 9/11...you know Never Forget, I'm Proud To Be An American by Lee Greenwood and that Alan Jackson song, but this one really just tore the heart out of me
TRIBUTE TO 9/11

which brings me back to where I actually was 7 years ago...sleeping. A phone call came in which my girlfriend at the time answered and sleepily handed the phone to me.

"yeah"
"Mark, turn it on channel 18...we're at war!"
"ummm what are you talking about Bob?"
"turn it on channel 18"

so I flipped the tv on and turned it to channel 18 (a little aside that's kind of important I DON'T HAVE cable tv just regular, Bob has cable) M*A*S*H is on

"HaHa Bob hilarious, I'm sleeping"
and I hung up