The Opinionated Bastard

Camille Pagila summarizes all my frustrations with Iraq, Bush, and the Democratic Party.

She’s clearly on the opposite site of me politically (she voted for Nader?) yet, as she points out, the Republican party has become the party of liberty…she says every feminist in America should support the career of Condi…

Read it Here

So yesterday I filled out my sample ballot.

The Democrats obviously want to make this about Iraq, but there’s a saying “all politics is local”. Is your state senator going to be doing a lot of foreign policy? I doubt it. So I voted for the candidate with the best answers for whatever issues really affected me, regardless of party.

Filling out my sample ballot turned out to be pretty easy. What I found is that when I went to each candidate’s website, where they were prepared to say positive things about themselves it was really obvious to vote for. I didn’t always vote Republican nor did I always Democrat, but I always voted for competent vs. incompetent.

In Flagstaff, the gal running against Rick Renzi blamed EVERYTHING on Iraq, including potholes. “If only we hadn’t invaded Iraq, we could fix the potholes…” I didn’t vote for her, because while she was passionate about Iraq, she didn’t know anything about the real issues that would be affecting me. In short, she’d be completely useless as a congressman.

So this election, ignore the crap. Instead, Google every single candidate on your Sample ballot and read their website. Don’t vote for anyone who can’t give you a better reason to vote for them then “I’m not the other guy”.

You’ll find that when you look at the positives, its not really that hard to figure out who the best candidates are. More often then not, when there is a strong candidate, the other party will run a lame duck against them.

Sometimes, it amazes me how everyone in this country and the rest of the world mesh together to form a whole, a living machine we call by many names: Civilization, the economy, life...

There's this picture in my head of a giant glowing web of people interacting.

Today I found a concrete example of that picture. Impossible to describe, just go see.

Sometimes, it amazes me how everyone in this country and the rest of the world mesh together to form a whole, a living machine we call by many names: Civilization, the economy, life…

There’s this picture in my head of a giant glowing web of people interacting.

Today I found a concrete example of that picture. Impossible to describe, just go see.