Ok I went further than I expected...

Believe it or not I had hoped when I wrote about politics that I would take a more intellectual approach. I have heard people talk about the politics of politics without exposing much of their own political alignment. My reasoning was that there are imperative rights and wrongs that transcend partisanship.

However the annoyance of the Partisan Warriors derailed me almost straight out of the gate. So since I have started down the road I might as well expose my positions on the politics of the day.

First there are emotional, hot button issues that aren't real issues. Those are not politics or really issues. At least not ones that politics or political operatives have any right exploiting. If it has something to do with legislating what consenting adults do in the bedroom or some issue that inflames the passions but an elected official have little or no authority to effect... then it is simply a hot button issue. Hot button issues addle the brain and distract from looking at the content of ones character. I don't fight over them. I don't bash my head into a wall just to watch the wall bleed either. So don't expect me to bite of popular hot button issues. They aren't what the real world is about.

Second the Wars. Do them right and completely or don't them at all. The currents wars we (the United States of America) are being done wrong. People say that wars in tribal nations are impossible to win. That isn't true and as Americans should know that. However this isn't the way you win a war against tribal peoples. The way you do it is in our own history. You kill and relocate all the tribal peoples while you colonize the lands. Anything short of that in Afghanistan is a waste of time and resources. Iraq is lost. Not because of our armed forces but because of bad policies that saw the oil wells working in under a year and (last I checked)five or more years to turn the lights and water back on. Lots of people have a lots to answer for.

US Armed Services. We are treating them horribly and in that sense I am ashamed of our country. We are destroying our nations security by long engagements, stop lose policies, underfunding them while paying mercenaries top dollar to undermining our troops efforts. It is disgraceful that we are faking a withdrawl from Iraq while paying more to move more Blackwater Soldiers of Fortune at better wages and no clear rules of engagement to give our great nation more than just a black eye. Most empires fall when they resort to hiring Mercenaries to fight their wars... especially when they have the best troops in the world at their disposal and are simply stretching them to far.

Bailout. Like I said I am an economical conservative. Bailing out the banks and not investing anything that will bring a tangible asset to the nation because they are Too Big To Fail is complete and utter tripe. If there are abuses in a company or industry that is that big to threaten our very existence we need to do what we would to any threat to our nation. Take it over and restrict it to the point where it is impossible to hurt us again. In terms most people can understand, if it were an aggressive nation that even in some remote way threatening our national security, we would have special and secret operations crawling all over their country to figure out what they were about and their weaknesses. We would then mobilize our troops, bomb them into near submission until they were softened and disorganized enough land the ground troops to swiftly neutralize the threat.

It is the same with the too big to fail banks along with everything else that adversely effects us. We need to carpet bomb the banks, there are not innocents so we won't worry about the inhabitants. We need to nationalize or simply audit the fed (same as making it disappear with a magic wand), break up the 2 failing car companies, get rid of Nafta and apply tariffs that are at least on the same order as those countries that enjoy putting massive tariffs on our goods while they import with impunity to our nation. Let us make China and Japan at least work to permanently topple us as the world's premiere economy. If we are the greatest nation in the world let's get it all back and start being that great nation.

Healthcare. Which is not the same as health insurance, though the insurance companies would have you believe that. There is no reason that health insurance should be 16% of our GDP. Prohibitive cost for health insurance make us an unhealthy nation and an unhealthy nation is not a productive one. This is another thing that ends empires.

This is all I have stomach for at the moment. More later.

'Tis the Season to be FRANTIC!!!!!!

As I rest between shopping ventures with my "Chasing" play list (complete play list on the bottom of the page) pumping from my computer to my home speakers and enveloping the room and washing clean of the hustle and bustle of my shopping day. Strangely Queensryche seems to wash me clean and reinvigorate me as I write this.

But has it always been this way? You know in the annuals of fanatic American Christmas. Please remember that it is more the Germany Immigrant influence on our society that makes Christmas a bigger deal than it was at our founding. Remember one of the most decisive victors that the Colonist had over the British was on Christmas because they didn't really celebrate Christmas in the grand fashion that the German Mercenaries did.

Quick note to the Pentagon and involved U.S. politicians; those that do not heed the lessons of history are deemed to repeat it. No major Empire or Empirical Power (though I am loath to the idea that is exactly what we have become) has ever been able to maintain an Empire or win a war through the use of mercenaries. Rome came the closest with forced inscription and moving the unit too far way from home. That however would never work in today's world. No one is fooled when there is a 15% draw down in Iraq of U.S. armed forced to be replaced with a 30% build up of "contractors" which is merely a gentle euphemism for mercenaries or "Soldiers of Fortune". The United States of America is better than that and has to be better than that. If those in office don't realize this soon you will all be replaced. Rant done for now.

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Ok my friend came over as I was writing. I had to wrap it up and go out shopping again. I didn't get back until after midnight and I still have shopping to do. I almost want to cry. Honestly I hurt all over. The muscles I use when raising kids are not the same ones I use for marathon shopping apparently. Or maybe more to the point, I'm way out of shape. Sadly I admit that I have not used my Wii Fit, nor have I done any workout for a few weeks. I have plenty of excuses... all of them bad and none of them really hold water. I know what I need to do and I allow myself make excuses why I am not going to do it. It effects my overall health and well being. I know and I need to get on what I need to do.

However back on subject it is the next morning and I am hurting mentally and physically and I am not yet done. You know one of these days when I know I have marathon shopping to do I think I might just do it en femme. Just get a nice outfit together, put on some heels, makeup, and stockings, then go to it. Maybe even manage some time at a salon for a break. Mentally it might be a boon to be out of the closet. Physically I think my back would hurt less (because heels force me to stand straighter) though my butt might hurt more, I think my calves my be in the same shape they are now (I think most stockings and hose actually aides in circulation).

However there is always the bigot, danger, and gawk factors. Which is why I am still mostly closeted. But one day I have to be brave right? A big Charlie Brown...

*SIGH*

At any rate back on subject. It seems that the Holidays are too much anymore. It used to be more fun to holiday shop (I am being inclusive with Halloween, Thanksgiving, birthdays, Easter, and Christmas), and now it is seriously like work. Maybe that is because I am concerned about more than just the two of us and there is five of us. It is likely at least part of it... but still... how do you carry forward when it gets to be so hard?

Sorry that I rambled, ranted, carried on, carried over, and likely made you want to hari kari. I am scatterbrained, so it seems the posting will be.

Thoughts, opinions, generalized take on any and/or all subjects contained within?