Politics

I'm now in the process of organizing a collaborative blog about video games. So far I think I'll have at least four people (so Ben, I need the email address of your gmail account), including me. It needs a name; does anyone have any suggestions?

If you hadn't heard, I purchased Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates not long ago. It's a really great game, and I'll probably be reviewing it for the aforementioned blog. My favorite race is the Lilty, like it was for the most part in the first game.... Now, though, they're not really the best Melee fighter; instead, they're more of a support class that can use alchemy to build more magicites, and they have a really cool charge attack where they roll around in an urn and can plow through multiple enemies. It's pretty snazzy.
I'll not say much more about it, and save it for the other blog, when it's up and running (hopefully soon).

I realize now that this may make my posts shorter, since most video-game-related stuff will be excluded. Still, I do really want to start posting every day after TFC is over.
This will probably mean more opportunities for pointless rants, too. Yay!

So on Wednesday and Thursday I was back home, which was cool. I got to see a lot of people on Wednesday night, and got to go see Jeremy more the next day, so that was really neat. I was going to get to see another friend again on Thursday, but it didn't work out, which was pretty disappointing. Oh well....


On to the actual content of the post.
I don't discuss political things here very often, but when I do, it's probably annoying rantage.
The following is rantage, and will probably annoy a lot of people. I encourage crazy liberals to read this anyway, because personally, I like reading things I disagree with. Maybe you do to?

So, anyhow. On the radio the other day, someone was saying how Barrack Obama will win the election. This has been pretty obvious. In fact, very early on, I just thought "Wow, he'll win" but the early primaries changed my opinion a bit, to thinking it was pretty open. Then after that I just went back to thinking he'd win.
Anyway, the reason I bring this up is because this person's reason was pretty funny. See, the word "Obamanomics" sounds better than a word derived from anyone else's name. Therefore, Obama will win the election.
Honestly, this logic isn't so bad. Think about the country we live in.

Now I'm going to say something extremely controversial, because I rather enjoy controversy.
Ready?
Democracy is a meaningless buzzword.
Seriously!
You hear people saying things like "...in the name of democracy..." and "...spread the message of democracy..." all the time. What does this mean, though? Nothing.
A huge reason for this is that, as I mention quite frequently, our country is not a democracy. It is a constitutional federated republic. There is quit a large difference, actually.
We keep throwing around words like this, and we really don't even agree with them. OK, some people might, but giving people the sort of authority you have in a democracy is a bad idea. There will always be crazy people, and our current system keeps them out of positions where they can do harm. Some would argue that it isn't working properly, but those people also say that our current president (That would be Bush, in case you're reading this in a year or two and are unable to do the math) is a crazy person.
That moves us on to our next subject.
I don't think George W. Bush is a bad president. I don't think he's an amazing president, but I'd say he's at least "pretty good." I feel the same way about Herbert Hoover, who got a ton of flak back in the day (not that I was there or anything). Just because someone is not an Abraham Lincoln during a time when the country is in need of an Abraham Lincoln (Or in Hoover's case, a Roosevelt), that does not mean they are a bad president, it just means they aren't quite good enough for the current situation.

Next subject: Why democrats are horribly wrong, and in some cases just downright sick (and I mean that in a bad way, but not that they are physically ill).
I don't know if I want to call myself a Republican, because there are certainly some bad examples of those, and I dunno if I agree with them entirely. Still, this doesn't stop me from being a Regular Baptist, but....
Anyhow. I just really hate the whole "less-government" idea all the democrats have, particularly on some issues. My example for now will be the one I have the biggest problem with: baby killing. A lot of pro-life people I know rarely even refer to it as abortion, and I'm the same. They're killing babies. I don't give it a stupid name that connotatively states they're not actually killing babies. Because... they are. It's ruthless murder of people, yes, PEOPLE, who are unable to defend themselves or their rights.
I don't want to get into an argument about whether unborn children are alive, because there actually is less of a point to that than you might think. The point is that there was going to be a child born, and it was killed. When you're talking about something like life, the removal of the potential for life isn't much different than the removal of an already-full life. Most people are more saddened by stories of people dying when they're young. For me, that makes abortion extremely nasty.
The idea that some people would want to make abortion legal makes me sick. While we're at it, why don't we make murder legal? How about lethal automatic weapons, nuclear bombs, and genocide?
Clearly, democrats are just one step closer to being anarchists.

I think I'll close there.
I also can't think of any good quotes, and since my quotes are usually humorous, and this was a rather serious post, I just won't put one.


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