If it wasn't for those darn homosexuals wanting special rights all the time, shit like this would never happen. First they wanted it to be a crime when someone beat them up or killed them. Then they wanted to be able to not be fired just for being gay. Then they wanted to take showers and sit in foxholes in the military. And now they want marriage equality.

Poor Senator Ensign. If only the gay marriage debate hadn't weakened the institution so much that he slept with someone who was not his wife. The value of marriage has been so tainted, that even "gods fearing" people who would never have done this type of thing are forced to have affairs. At least it was with his friend's wife though. A stranger would have been awkward.

Peace and Such!

Stupid Gay Marriage

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Are these deaths the results of terrorism?

To quality reporters like myself and those at Fox News, this is the only thing that makes sense. It all links together pretty simply. The robes were made in Pakistan, al Qaeda is in Pakistan, therefore, al Qaeda must have made the robes.

I am also pretty certain that President Obama and Senator Al Franken are responsible for appeasing terrorists and letting them make weapons of mass combustion.

Peace and Such!

Terrorism?

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I did not take the decision to leave Christianity lightly, but it is things like this shite that reminds me that I made the correct decision. What is wrong with people? When they ask themselves what would Jesus do, how do they come up with the answer that he would destroy property or hate others?

I must have read a different Bible then many out there who proclaim their Christian values the loudest. I am of the opinion that many organizations such as the Christian Coalition and Focus on the Family are little more then fascist hate groups akin to the Klan. They try to intimidate and belittle those they do not like and not to spread any message about Christ, but for their own power and profit.

In the case of the article above, the culprit is probably some douche bag kid with a mullet hopped up on wine coolers. I have been trying recently not to judge, but it is getting frustrating that people just can't let others be if they are different. When did hatred become a value? Maybe I will go meditate on that and see what answers I find inside me.

Peace and Such!

I am sure Jesus would be proud

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I am not sure which makes me more unhappy, the Cubs, the economy, or not being chosen again for the Supreme Court. There is not much I can say about the Cubs, but maybe I should be thanking them. AT least this year they are letting the fans down early and not getting hopes up. It only hurts more when they make you think it could happen and then crush your will to live. They could still turn it around, but I may have to lower my preseason win total for them this year from 84. I thought 84 was being too conservative, but maybe it was optimistic. Maybe the Cubs should get a federal bailout.

I did not get chosen as the nominee for Supreme Court, but with President Obama's track record of nominees, I probably still have a few more opportunities to get selected. What could be more diverse for a nominee then a 36 year old white man with no legal experience who made the decision to leave the Catholic church for Buddhism?

And the economy. What is left to say? When gas prices increase more then pay, what can you say that hasn't been said? I may request a bailout for myself.

Peace and Such!

Fuschnickens

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Sadly, my lack of blogging has gotten me dropped from Larry Schumacher's Saint Cloud Times blog I was going to write something last week about Michelle Bachmann and the Supreme Court, but I couldn't even remember my password. That is how long it has been.

It was time to make my first pitch to the Obama administration for an open spot and I want them to know that I am still available to serve on the Supreme Court. What the court needs is more diversity and where can you find more diversity then with a white male that used to be Catholic but is now Buddhist. When I am on the Court, there will no longer be arguments and there will instead be group meditations to find the answers.

I was also thinking about running for Congressperson Bachmann's seat net time, but an incident last night will hurt my chances. One of our wanker neighbors called the police because our dog was barking and the cops showed up at my house. I was going to tell them that due to swine flu pigs cannot come within 100 feet of me, but I decided not to. Anyway, even though there were several dogs barking, ours was singled out and now I am getting a letter from the city that they can impound the dogs next time like they are nothing more then property. My "unnamed neighbor" is going to test my belief in non-violence.

Apparently she doesn't even have to have proof, she just has to say they were bothering or harassing her and since we have the warning, it will be a petty misdemeanor with a fine up to $300 per animal and the city can impound them and charge us more to get them out. If they do get impounded, we may just see how quickly a small fire pit spark can light a house on fire. Maybe I will run for mayor or city council and make the laws make sense.

Anyway on Bachmann, she is not even worth talking about. She is a kook elected by kooks and idiots who are so filled with hate and spite that they would vote for Hitler if he talked about lower taxes and the evils of homosexuality. "Minnesota Nice" is a slogan that means about as much as the Cubs fans favorite mantra of "this is the year."

I will try to write more, but the Red Cross job keeps me pretty busy. It turns out that there are not less disasters or a slow down period in the disaster and military businesses.

Peace and Such!

My dogs and I are criminals

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I was reading this CNN article about the Office of Faith Based Initiatives and the controversy around it. I am not a religious person and think that a lot of so called religious people are frauds and crooks, but religious people and ideas have done good things.

I have to look more into it, but I wonder if there are any Buddhist groups involved in the faith based initiatives. I have read of mindfulness meditation practices being taught in prisons, schools, and other places and there being some success doing it. The programs don't try to convert people to Buddhism, just teach them some things about mindfulness and meditation practices.

I believe you can belong to any organized religion you want or even none at all and still benefit from some Buddhist practices. I consider myself a Buddhist and did leave Catholicism, but it was not because Buddhist teachings say I had to, it was because I think many Christians wouldn't know the meaning of teachings of Jesus if he were standing in front of them telling them.

Office of Faith Based Initiatives

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I have thought a little about politics and the country lately, but my main focus has been on our military program here since we have several units deploying in the next couple of months. I got a small grant for some things and turning the ideas into actions takes a lot of time since it not only has to work for our schedule, but also service members and their families.

I have decided that I can no longer stand Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow. They seem almost as bad as the conservatives commentators I don't like. Plus, they didn't wait a day before they started having guests on talking about how President-Elect Obama is screwing liberals. I am probably as liberal as anyone on many issues, but I think a good leaders should surround themselves with people who are as smart and have different ideas. I just hope that after debate, the good leader does what he thinks is best regardless of who else is in the room. I don't care if he appoints VP Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld to every position as long as he uses their advice as just that and not law.

I also think the Senate should just seat Roland Burris. Sure the governor of Illinois is a crook, but if they threw out everyone with ethical issues, we would have no Congress at all. And until impeached or convicted, the governor is still the governor.

I am a blogging slacker

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I had been waiting to post again until I made the big announcement that President-Elect Barack Obama had appointed me to his cabinet, but it seems that he is waiting until later in his term to bring me on. Other then that, I haven't had a lot to say.

I have been busy at work with natural disasters, people burning their homes down, and improving our military outreach. That pretty much keeps me from wanting to see a computer or think too hard after I leave for the day. Maybe I will find things to start writing about again after the presidency officially changes hands and the real work has to start.

Wow, It has been a while

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Arizona Senator and presidential candidate told a crowd of twos of supporters today in Asshole Township, Real Virginia, "my friends, you are in fact not my friends." He went on to say that he would never talk to any of them after the election and that he did not even like to touch or be near any of them because he did not want their poverty to rub off on him. McCain was heard saying that he did not like anyone that had to wipe their own ass because they are dirty and too lazy to find someone to do it for them.

At another rally in "I can't be racist because I have had a black friend", Pennsylvania, McCain explained his stances on issues like the bailout, stimulus packages, and use of the military. He said, "I have been for some things before I was against them and against some things before I was for them, but I have never been for or against anything I should have been against or for."

McCain Shocker

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The one thing I learned from the debate last night was that I am in the wrong business. If Joe the Plumber has to worry about higher taxes and redistribution of wealth because he makes more then $250K, then I want to also have to worry about paying higher taxes and the government redistributing my wealth.

I will go one better, if I went from what I make now to over $250K a year, I will give extra money to the country. That is country first.

Of course the odds of me making that much in my line of work is not good. I didn't know it was that good for plumbers and the only wealthy plumber I have known is Roto Rooter.

I imagine that Joe does not make that much though and would not really have to worry about a tax increase if Senator Obama sticks to his plan and what he states he wants to do. It is probably just more of a situation that happens a lot where Americans vote against their best interests because we all think we will be rich soon and don't want to pay higher taxes or "death taxes" or taxes on capital gains. Is anyone even making any gains right now to cut the taxes on?

Plumber Envy

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I started off the day like I do every day, praying to Hindu, Buddha, and Lilly that they beat up the god of Senator McCain's followers, but then I learned out that they were on to us. The pastor that gave the invocation at one of McCain's rallies outed us to everyone. I obviously underestimated the theological intelligence of the evangelical wanker crowd.

It is unfortunate that Pastor Arnold Conrad knows so much about other religions. He knows things that even followers of those religions don't know. In my studies of Buddhism, I believe I have learned that the Buddha did not consider himself a god and even encouraged his followers to find their own path to enlightenment. Buddha provided a guide and showed it can be done, but he was not a god.

I also did not know that Hindu was a god. I knew it was a religion, but not a god. All those damn books I have read must have been written by liberal, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindus who hate America and freedom.

Luckily Pastor Conrad has corrected my ignorance and in the process set me free. Now, I can worship in the open and let everyone know that I think my gods can take your god.

But then I got to thinking, are there also different gods among the Christian branches. I grew up Catholic and have attended many Christian churches and they all seem to pray to a little bit different god. Some are more open and friendly. Others seem to believe in a god that fights in the MMA and likes to kill and punish. I am not sure that any of their gods actually follow the teachings of Jesus Christ that their beliefs are supposed to be based on.

I know, I have committed blasphemy and am going to hell. The thing is, I don't care. If heaven includes people like Pastor Conrad, I don't want to go there. Plus, I stopped believing in the Christian gods I grew up with a long time ago. The more I learned that many Christians are not anywhere near Christ-like as far as actions, the more I came to doubt that there was a god as described in churches and the Bible. I also figured that if there was a god, that entity knew that I was faking belief when I went to church or called myself Catholic and that would make god more angry then if I just said that I don't know if there is a god.

I do believe in some higher power, but I do not know what form it is in. It could be the human mind or spirit, a tree that provides oxygen and other resources, a rock, or a dog. Our dog Franki is very Zen and seems to have a lot figured out that I still do not know.

My dog is bigger then your god

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I am not going to accuse Governor Sarah Palin or Senator John McCain of being Nazis, I am just going to say that their recent actions have been Nazi-ish. If someone else can come up with a better description, please share.

I wasn't around during the time of the Nazis, but I have read a little about the period and I think that the current McCain/ Palin campaign is trying to use similar tactics of fear and innuendo. The Nazis blamed the Jews for their economy and said they would destroy Germany. McCain/ Palin has been trying to insinuate that Senator Obama is a terrorist and therefore also out to destroy America.

The rhetoric isn't that bad, it is what it can inspire followers to do. Would the Holocaust have been possible if the Nazis hadn't sufficiently scared and incited the populace to action? I think that attempting to link Obama to domestic terrorists, accusing him of treason, and then using his middle name to attempt to link him to Islamic radicals is along the lines of Nazi propaganda to get the German citizenry to act against what the Nazis claimed were their enemies and were unpatriotic. Would it be any surprise if someone were to attempt violence against Obama and then claim that it was because he was a Muslim, America hating, terrorist?

I am not even sure if McCain/ Palin care if their words can be seen that way. It is obviously more important to win an election then to be moral.

Due to this, I am announcing my candidacy for president of the United States. I feel that I am qualified because I served a year as vice president of my high school band. I also have a map where I can see Russia, China, Iran, and all other countries formed before 2003. And one time while I was in the Army and at NTC, there were Chinese officers there to watch the exercises as part of am exchange program.

Good night and we're fucked.

Nazi-ish

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I am not sure, but I am pretty sure that one of the Republicans I watched in a press conference last Friday said that he wasn't going to negotiate the bill at the press conference because "you don't have a vote." Was he talking about the press or the people because last time I checked, we have all the votes and their dumbasses are supposed to listen to us. Probably just a slip where he said what he really thought of the voters and American public.

I also find it curious that the Congressional Republicans are claiming to stand firm to their values and principles. Where were their values when spending was out of control the past 7 years and government has entered into more parts of our private lives like none of us have rights. Oh, I forgot, it is an election year and they are trying to act like they never liked President Bush. Are they really principles if you only follow them when you are losing elections? The democrats do it too, but it is more funny to watch the "morally superior" conservatives do it.

Is John McCain a Muslim terrorist that hates America and an angry black woman? I did not see a flag pin on his lapel at the debates. Maybe I missed it or maybe he was wearing it in place of the stud on his penis piercing.

Why does John McCain think that invading a sovereign nation like Iraq is alright even though they did nothing to us but Russia is evil for its actions in Georgia? I am not saying Russia was correct, but I am at least consistent and think that a sovereign nation is a sovereign nation and you can't pick and choose which ones are OK to invade and which ones aren't based on who is doing the invading. And none of us really know what happened because both sides of the Russia/ Georgia conflict are full of shit.

Enough of that. I was in Texas for Hurricane Ike and was able to drive around Galveston after it hit looking for people that hadn't contacted family to say they were alright. I also got just passed High Island on the Bolivar Peninsula before turning around because our little SUV might not make it through the sand and debris. If only I still had my license for military vehicles. We wouldn't have found who we were looking for in Port Bolivar anyway, but at least we could have told the families we tried.

Back from Ike

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I did think of one thing. Although I do not have any plans to watch any of the Republican National Convention, I can imagine some things that will come up. One of them is 9/11.

A couple of things on this. First someone will say that world changed on 9/11. The world was no different on 9/12/01 then it was on 9/10/01. It just happened to be the first time that many Americans realized that we were a part of the world. And those people turned to leaders who were just as oblivious as they were about reality.

It will also be said that someone remembers the lessons of 9/11. The true lesson of 9/11 seems to be that if you use fear and attacks on patriotism to gain power, you can get away with a lot. You can misuse our troops and do little to capture those that actually attacked us and still be considered by many to be protecting us. What made this possible was the lesson that when Americans get scared they will do whatever you say makes them safe. They apparently don't even need results or justification, just hearing it is so is good enough.

Someone will also talk about the right to life and not get that there is more to life then just being born. While there are children and adults in poverty or homeless, what value is being put on life? When so many are left behind and attempts are made to trivialize their existence or blame them, what does that really say about what is important? Is it life, or is it you being able to push your morality on others? I am not pro-abortion, I just think that it is a decision best made by the individual and it is between them and their god or whatever matters to them.

I am also not sure there can be a fair decision on when life begins. I actually believe that there is no set point that life begins because life has no start or end point. It is a continual process of birth, death, and rebirth of spirit. The value of life is not just being alive, but also living. And many of the people alive today are not living, they are just existing waiting for the next bad thing to happen.

To me, you can't care about a human life if you also don't treat everything with that same respect. Whether it is an animal, a plant, a tree, or the sky, there is no human life without everything that surrounds us and so many who claim to respect life do not respect our environment. If you don't respect what makes it possible for us to live, how much respect do you really have for life?

Just one thought

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I have been a blog slacker. It has been partly because work has been pretty busy and I have been watching low pressure areas, turn into tropical storms, and then into possibly hurricanes. We did deploy one of our volunteers to help at a shelter in Texas, but the rest of us are assigned to the RNC and can't deploy until we are released from it.

I also really haven't had a lot to say. I was happy with the pick of Joe Biden and still confused by the pick of Palin, but other then that, I still haven't gotten into the election yet. I don't want Senator McCain to win and would love it if Senator Obama became the type of leader we have been lacking, but the Bush administration and both parties have crushed my political spirit.

I am hoping that I will be able to deploy myself to a disaster so that I can get some experience. I do not hope for a disaster though.

Slacker

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How could the man I love do this to me? I know some of you told me he would only break my heart and I probably knew it somewhere inside me, but the heart loves who the heart loves. Now my friends can't look at me without that look of pity and "I told you so."

I think that like President Bush started to believe he was the Messiah and here to lead the US to the "Promised Land," John Edwards began to believe that he was to lead us all to "One America." I guess he didn't also learn that uniting the "2 Americas" has nothing to do with sex. The one America has spent all of its time getting fucked anyway.

John, how could you do this to me?

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There are a lot of things that I do not know, but I thought everyone knew that if you keep your tires properly inflated and get your car maintenance done regularly, you should use less gas. I guess though that I also drive and do not have a driver so I may know some things that others do not. Although it is a good laugh line to mock Senator Obama's comments on tires and tune-ups, it also shows a basic lack of respect for fact and the intelligence of the American electorate.

Although I cannot be sure and there is no way to prove it (unless we look at the economy and deficit), I am pretty sure that Al Gore was correct when he questioned President Bush's budget during the 2000 debates and Bush responded that Gore used "fuzzy math." Those two words somehow took the focus off the fact that Bush's budget was flawed all the way through and somehow put it on Gore and his math skills. For the average American, would you rather have Al Gore or George W Bush as a Mathlete on your kid's team?

The "aw shucks, I am just an average person" routine is a lie. Both President Bush and Senator McCain are elitists. You have to be to want to be president. What makes them worse then your average elitist though is that they think we are stupid enough to believe that they are regular guys. John McCain was not just any soldier, he came from a family of admirals and military academies. If you do not think that students at military academies are elitist, visit USAFA in Colorado Springs or serve with some West Pointers. They are not all arses, but they are almost all elitist.

And whether or not we admit it, we want someone who thinks they can do better then we can in charge. They need to be confident and self-assured. Where we have problems is when people are cocky or lack the basic leadership skills that I believe you either are or are not born with. I believe you can build and shape someone into a great leader, I do not believe you can create one from a person who does not have that natural ability anyway.

Just look at President Bush. If you can say he is a good leader, I would suggest you look beyond your partisan biases. His solution to get us going again after 9/11 was to shop and see plays. He publicly mocked not being able to find WMD while Americans were dying in a war that he sent them to based on Iraq have WMD. That is a wanker and not a leader.

I do not consider President Bill Clinton a good leader either. He is a good politician and he let politics shape many of his policies. I do not believe it was about conviction for him on many issues, just about playing the game to always look like he was on the side of whatever was popular. One thing I can say for President G Dub is that he does not care about popularity or right and wrong. For him, it is all about "I am more better then you and don't give a rat's ass what you thinks."

I think I started writing about tire pressure and wankers. To sum up, the more conviction a politician or radio/TV pundit says something with, the more you should question it. Plus, if McCain can spend money on tire gauges, maybe they should also try using them to see how they work and what effect low or high tire pressure may have on driving efficiency.

Wanker Politics

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I criticize and make fun of the local newspaper, but I think I should also give credit when they run something I find interesting and is well written. Although it was not written by a local reporter, and that is probably why it is good, it is a local story. I also think it is worth reading for anyone interested in deployments of our military personnel.

This is the first part from yesterday. It is a week-long series and you can read other installments on the Times site.

Fair Play

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I have not talked about Brett Favre yet, but I have been busy being upset that the Cubs seem to want to find a way not to win. If I were Rich Harden, I would ask if I could be traded to a team that could score like the Kansas City Royals so at least he could win a game when he pitches as well as he has.

Today though, this is not about the Cubs. At least not until after they play the Brewers tonight. Today is about how I have solved Brett Favre's and the Green Bay Packer's Problems. I think Brett Favre should start an Arena Football team in St Cloud, MN.

It is perfect. He gets to play football. He gets to make all the managerial calls. And I get to watch Arena Football live again like in Des Moines before the Barnstormers left. Plus, Arena Football is the perfect place for Favre's gunslinger mentality. His talents are wasted in the NFL where teams want to run the ball occasionally and scores often don't get into the 50s.

I Finally Talk About Favre

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I keep seeing Senator John McCain saying that Senator Barack Obama was wrong about the surge then and is still wrong now. I agree that the surge has had a positive effect in some areas. When called upon and given a chance, our troops can do amazing things and have been doing so even with faulty leadership from their civilian leaders.

The trust is Senator McCain that you were wrong about invading Iraq and no matter what the surge does, you are still wrong. Our justifications for invading were faulty and sloppy at best, and dishonest and criminal at worst. No matter what the outcome, there is no justification for the invasion. No intelligent or compassionate person can justify the sloppy way we got into the war, the incompetent way the war was managed for so long, the arrogance that kept the strategy flawed, or the loss of life that cannot be ignored by saying, "well everyone else thought Saddam had WMD too."

We cannot say that it was a humanitarian mission of liberation because if you look around the world, there are millions who suffer daily worse then the Iraqis do that we do nothing about. Well, nothing except talk about how much we "feel" for those suffering and "wish" it would stop. To be fair, sometimes we do put someone on a plane to go wag their fingers at murderers and thieves.

I do hope the mission in Iraq eventually succeeds, but that will never make it a success. In the logic of Senator McCain and many others, success would also be someone's family being murdered but they inherited a lot of money so it all ended up working out.

Wrong Then, Wrong Now, How Now Brown Cow

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