| Not that I'm thrilled about Obama, |
[Jan. 19th, 2009|03:17 pm] |
but let's take in the outgoing president's list of achievements one last time (from http://www.campaignforliberty.com/):
• Two undeclared, unwinnable imperial wars, with hundreds of thousands of dead, including thousands of Americans, and many tens of thousands of Americans wounded, with the violence and occupations continuing to this day;
• Detention without trial or habeas corpus;
• A torture scandal and the institutionalization, from the top down, of "enhanced interrogation techniques" that offend basic standards of human decency;
• New precedents on "extraordinary renditioning," whereby U.S. intelligence and military agencies hand off detainees to foreign countries where they are interrogated in ways that even the U.S. at Guantanamo will not use;
• Warrantless wiretapping of the citizenry conducted by the military wing of the government;
• Spying on peaceful political activists and putting many names on no-fly lists;
• The modification of Posse Comitatus and insurrection law to empower the president to order the military and national guard to impose order on the domestic population;
• More signing statements than any president before;
• Credit expansion that helped bring on the greatest financial crisis in many years;
• The largest expansion of welfare spending since the Great Society, specifically in the area of prescription drugs;
• The biggest bailout ever, so far, with frightening moves toward economic fascism in the financial sector;
• A doubling of the deficit and debt;
• The nationalization of airline security and the introduction of the color-coded terror system;
• The Department of Homeland Security;
• Sarbanes-Oxley and other posturing corporate regulation that hurts small firms while doing nothing to improve the economy;
• Signing McCain-Feingold into law, despite knowing it violating the First Amendment;
• The further nationalization of education;
• The 21st century version of the "unitary executive," which concentrates ever more power into the presidency;
• Massive protectionism, secrecy, duplicity, socialism, corporatism, and growing reliance on police-state tactics;
• Terrible diplomatic blunders with North Korea, the Midle East and elsewhere;
• The failure to catch Osama bin Laden. |
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| Mother 3 |
[Jan. 16th, 2009|12:05 am] |
Have any of you people played mother 3 yet?
I know that some of you like video games. I assume that all of you like a good story.
If you have it in you to enjoy stories and video games, every moment that you aren't playing mother 3 is, in a way, a loss. This game is Important, a modern masterpiece. The way it controls your emotions by the end is so deft that it knows the very moment at which you're crying.
I still get the feeling that daph may be the only one on my friends list to have beaten mother 3. Hopefully I'll be wrong. |
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| Seriously |
[Dec. 8th, 2008|12:37 pm] |
Seriously
Seriously
Masterpiece Grimlock
Two months before my birthday. I do not think I'll wait for birthday. |
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