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North Korea Threatens Nuclear Strike
[ rakaur on Mon Mar 31 at 04:54 PM // category: life, politics // comments: 1 ]
I thought it had been a while since North Korea had thrown a tantrum.
An escalating war of words across the world’s last Cold War, nuclear-armed border spiraled dramatically yesterday when North Korea threatened to wreak total destruction on its neighbour to the south.
“Our military will not sit idle until warmongers launch a pre-emptive strike,” the official news agency in Pyongyang reported a senior military commander as saing, “everything will be in ashes, not just a sea of fire, if our advanced pre-emptive strike once begins.”
-- rakaur // 2008.03.31 @ 04:54 PM
The Nation, Indebted to Republicans
[ rakaur on Wed Mar 26 at 10:11 PM // category: life, politics ]
I thought this graph was pretty telling, if not humorous.
Found via digg.
-- rakaur // 2008.03.26 @ 10:11 PM
Bush Party Discrimination
[ rakaur on Fri Apr 08 at 05:19 PM // category: life, politics ]
I hate to do it, but it’s already time for another politcal post.
There’s a story about a man that was denied entrance to a Bush speech because he was wearing a pro-democratic t-shirt.
And here’s another story about three people removed from a Bush speech because of a “No Blood For Oil” bumpersticker.
President Bush is slowly turning America into a dictatorship, I swear to god. If they haven’t somehow found a way to repeal the “only two terms” amendment by the time the next election rolls around, Jeb Bush will be the next President. You have to know when our votes are going into Diebold blackboxes, we’re not even voting.
It’s depressing.
-- rakaur // 2005.04.08 @ 05:19 PM
The State of the <Censored>
[ rakaur on Sun Mar 27 at 09:34 PM // category: life, politics ]
I’m going to take a page out of the Steve book, and talk about politics. Or rather, something that deals directly with it.
I’m not particularly interested in politics. In fact, I’m about as far from interested as you can be in America. However, I do care very deeply about my rights. And by my rights, I generally find that my rights as outlined by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights is generally acceptable. Unfortunately, the government under the Bush administration seems to think otherwise.
Today I came across a post on Slashdot referring to some freedom of speech limitation bill that has the possibility of actually being passed. There have been a few of them recently, but this one caught my eye, because it hits home.
Let’s put aside that not only are all of these bills quite unconstitutional, but the PATRIOT Act is also quite so, and it still passed and is actually in effect without (much) complaint.
This particular one caught my eye for another reason: the comments on Slashdot are actually constructive.
It just seems sometimes that the goverment no longer works for the people, instead it just works for the goverment.
Any problem that comes along can only be solved by creating another branch of the goverment to deal with it.
It raises taxes to pay for the subsidies on the incomes of the people who can’t afford to live on their income because their taxes are too high. It robs the rich to give to the poor and defines the rich as 90% of the population.
Being rather poor myself, I have to agree with this. I don’t know that I have much to say about it, other than to agree with it.
Some other nice threads are here, here, here, and my personal favorite here.
I encourage you to look around.
-- rakaur // 2005.03.27 @ 09:34 PM
My Town
[ rakaur on Tue Mar 15 at 06:42 AM // category: life, politics ]
East Alton fucking blows. This is like the third week in a row they haven’t picked up our garbage. The first time we figured they made a mistake. The second time was on a state holiday, and even though they picked up everyone else’s, we gave them the benefit of the doubt. But today, I was sitting out there watching them, and they just drove right the fuck past our now-overflowing garbage cans.
What the fuck’s the matter with these people? I’m starting to think I did something to offend someone at the city. There’s an asshole that works for the city a few houses down. I know he doesn’t like us, because he’s given us the asshole treatment a few times in regards to raking leaves. He gave us some papers that say we “must” rake our leaves. So when I did, he gave us another set of papers that says we can’t rake them into the street (even though there’s a street sweeper that gets them). Well you know what, kiss my god damn ass.
One of my friends recently put a “vote for whomever” sign in our front yard, and I’m starting to wonder if someone nearby with connections to the city doesn’t much care for that particular candidate. You know, we live in a city of like seven thousand. You just don’t do stupid politcal things like having the garbage men skip houses with that sign.
East Alton is by far the shittiest town I’ve ever lived in. I lived in a 1,700 population town for a solid seven years, and the people there were the most retarded and politcal mind-game people you’ll find on the planet, and that place was much better than East Alton.
So, now I get to figure out where the public works office is and go down there and bitch. Somehow, I think that’ll only make things worse, but you know, I’m good at bitching. I’m not one to tolerate stupid ass politcal garbage (haha, pun) like this. This is completely inappropriate for any city.
Ratassed pigfuckers.
-- rakaur // 2005.03.15 @ 06:42 AM
Spoon!
[ rakaur on Tue Feb 15 at 10:32 PM // category: life, politics ]
A friend of mine recently mentioned some things about gun control. Of course, he included the most annoying defense ever: “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people!”
I’d just like to take this moment to say: guns kill people like spoons make Rosie O’Donnel fat.
-- rakaur // 2005.02.15 @ 10:32 PM
Physical My Ass
[ rakaur on Tue Nov 16 at 04:41 PM // category: life, politics, running ]
That was the briefest physical ever. They didn’t even do any of the usual… things.
I have absolutely no idea why I feel the need to tell this to you people.
Oh, yeah, I wore this (I’d take a real picture but my camera is apparently no longer functional, which sucks beyond comprehension) to school today. That was interesting. No one said anything bad, but I’m guessing the Bush lovers just didn’t say anything period. The ladies seemed to like it, though! Woo!
I hate my life.
-- rakaur // 2004.11.16 @ 04:41 PM
Blog Update 2004
[ rakaur on Sat Nov 06 at 04:11 PM // category: life, politics, relationships, running ]
Yeah so, I just bought this. I only realized afterwards that it comes off as “republicans suck, democrats rule.” I’m not a democrat. I’m not a republican either. I saw this shirt as “people who voted for Bush are complete morons” not “republicans are complete morons.” So, now that that’s cleared up.
Thursday… I think… a friend asked me to help her with a docudrama. Sure, what the hell. As it turns out, it was on the Spanish Inqusition for the European Studies class. I was Heretic #2! Anyway, it was the girl I want’s sister’s project. She was Heretic #3. So, I got to spend some time around her, which was cool.
Harrison and Tim (Tim hates me because he’s republican, Harrison hates me on principle) were gaurds. They got to hit me a lot. First to beat the confession out of me, second to flog me as was my punishment. Heretic #1 had to wear a cross or some lame crap. Heretic #3 (the girl I want) wouldn’t confess and was burned at the stake. We had marshmallows. Right before they started shooting she turns to her side and goes “so… does anyone else think this is funny?” and pointed to the giant mirror labeled “FIRE EXTINGUISHER” next to her. I started laughing so hard I had to leave so the camera wouldn’t pick it up. No one else thought it was funny.
In other news, I started running in preparation for Track. We (Harrison and I) only ran like a mile and a half, but it was pretty harsh on me as I’ve never run more than required before. It wasn’t that I got tired, it was the throbbing in my side. That went away after a while, and I had to stop less often. We ended up going up a giant hill “not a through” street, and that owned my legs. From then on, they were burning like mad (which is awesome). This morning when I got up it hurt to move (which is equally awesome). My back’s stopped hurting now, and it’s just my thighs that are sore. I haven’t seen Harrison around today so no idea if we’re running again today. We’re going hiking tomorrow though.
Fun.
Check out SorryEverybody. It’s a plea to the rest of the world on behalf of 49% of Americans who aren’t stupid.
These are also good… I’m not sure what each is so I’ll just paste:
-- rakaur // 2004.11.06 @ 04:11 PM
Bush Needs to Fry
[ rakaur on Thu Nov 04 at 06:09 PM // category: life, politics ]
-- rakaur // 2004.11.04 @ 06:09 PM
Nader Blows
[ rakaur on Wed Nov 03 at 07:33 AM // category: life, politics ]
See, if only Nader could have pulled the tree out of his ass and realized that no one gives a shit about his worthless policies and stayed the hell out of the race Bush wouldn’t be a problem right now. Or, you know, if states would have realized that he’s a babbling idiot that used to be worth some good but had a stroke and can’t remember his first name or why the hell his nose is so huge and kept him off the ballot, we wouldn’t be having this 50%-49%-1% bullshit.
I’m not willing to sit around for another four years and wait for Bush’s five good neurons to crank out the next malformed sentence.
This is our fucking country. It’s terrible. If Nader really wanted to “open the American’s eyes [to ground-breaking policies that no one other than a billion other people have thought up before]” and “make America a better place” he would have kept his oh-dear-ugly face out of the god-forsaken race.
But no.
-- rakaur // 2004.11.03 @ 07:33 AM
