Currents

Awesome.  How in the hell can anyone say anything about Obama when this frickin’ woman believes that war is God’s plan and Alaska isn’t even truly America.

WTF!!!!

If McCain wins…and then he dies…which is a 50% chance given his age (actuarily)…then SHE BECOMES PRESIDENT.  Imagine that.

Wow. I’m not sure that I want religious beliefs dictating our country’s foreign policy. Sounds a little like the Christian version of Islamic extremism to me. What’s the difference? We’re on this side of the fence?

NOT good enough.

Wow.  Leroi Moore, the sax/flute/pennywhistle/etc. player of the Dave Matthews Band, has died at the age of 47.  That sucks.  My thoughts are with his friends and family.  A tremendous loss.  He was a true talent and a hell of a guy.

(Photo ripped from dmband.com)

CNN reports that

only about 5 percent of the nation’s churches are racially integrated, and half of them are in the process of becoming all-black or all-white.

Kind of funny.  Isn’t religion supposed to be about being the same in the eyes of God?  These are the kinds of anecdotes that remind me why I have turned my back to “organized religion”.  The hypocracy is absolutely mindblowing.

This Umberto Eco quote was on my iGoogle today. It’s really a pretty profound insight…especially given the current state of affairs in our world.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

I was just reading an article about Michelle Obama on IHT.com.

As I began to read through, I saw something that struck me as blatant and unadulterated racism.

Fox News called her “Obama’s baby mama,” a derogatory term for an unwed mother.

Now, granted…this isn’t the primary resource…and I don’t know what the context was…BUT…how in the hell is this not considered a racist comment. I mean, frreal!? This is supposed to be a news organization calling a married Harvard-educated attorney a “baby mama”. One can only assume that this is because she’s black. I feel pretty confident that they wouldn’t make that statement if it were Michelle Bush or Michelle Clinton.

I’m sorry…but that is FUCKED UP.

Why doesn’t Fox News stop being part of the fucking problem and start becoming part of the solution.

What a bunch of pricks. Fuck them.

Follow Up: I found the actual video on YouTube.

There is an inherent duality in our universe.  Fundamentally.  Or at least current data suggests this.  I don’t completely understand the science…but it seems more logical that other models that I’ve heard ).

Either way, this fundamental characteristic of our reality, makes me kinda think that our relationship to God could work that way.

NO time to elaboate, I have a 1-year old pulling at me.  Duty calls.

I’ll definitely be thinking about this…so more at 11.

AP News reports that the Belgian makers of Becks and Stella Artois are offering a shitload of cash to buy Anheuser Busch.

Yesterday I wondered, since overseas investors were going to buy the Chrysler Building, if the Statue of Liberty or Yankee Stadium would be next. Not yet, apparently…but it looks like Budweiser (which to me is THE single most American brand in the world) is.

Redneck everywhere (myself included) are up in arms.

Again, I’m not xenophobe…but equity is power. And it seems that all I see lately is how much debt our country is in…and how overseas investors are buying everything out from under us.

Kinda scary actually.

Chrysler Building to be sold to Abu Dhabi (NY Post)

It’s oil-rich foreign governments who are using the money that we give them to buy our country out from under us. Essentially, the balance of power is shifting because these “third world” countries now hold the most valuable resources.

What are we going to sell next to feed our insatiable appetite for convenience? The Statue of Liberty? Yankee Stadium?

We need to put our frickin’ noses to the grindstone and get the fuck off of foreign oil. Actually, any oil. If we can get to the moon using Tandy computers from the 1960s, we can figure out how to harness the power of the frickin’ sun and desalinate water.

It’s about time we started getting our asses in gear. I’m encouraged by the direction that we seem to be leaning…but for Christ’s sake, I hope that we figure it out before the whole thing goes to shit.

P.S. The Italians just bought the Flatiron Building.  The end of American dominance is ending.  We’d better learn how to play well in the sandbox with the other kids.

I just read this on The Telegraph (via Drudge).

Lord Stern, the World Bank’s former chief economist, said governments had been slow to accept the awful truth that usable water is running out. Fresh rainfall is not enough to refill the underground water tables.

“Water is not a renewable resource. People have been mining it without restraint because it has not been priced properly,” he said.”

Really?  Isn’t the world 97% water?  Isn’t the issue more of desalination than renewability?  I’m confused here.  Does water somehow break down spontaneously into hydrogen and oxygen atoms and then diffuse out to the atmosphere?

WTF is this dood talking about?