Hello...Again!

Salutations and greetings my proud and faithful, *schya*, audience of readers!

I have been gone for too long a time and now am back. I hope to post most faithfully from now on...So check back often...Like every other day...;-p Just a heads up.

And now for a subject that I have yet to touch upon...Politics! Yes, one of the 2 subjects that everyone is warned against talking about when meeting/talking to new people. But I must now break that rule...After all, I would like to become some sort of foreign diplomat...

But I digress. With the way that things are looking now, i.e. the failing economy. And let's call it like it is people. Our economy is failing. And there's no nice way to say it. If we don't do something, and I'm not referring to the "widely acclaimed" idea to shove helium into a sieve...The 700 billion dollar bailout...Yeah, let me now in full express my views on that!

Both candidates swear, whatever good that'll do, that the new plan will not in fact take what little money Americans have left. I now laugh in their preverbial faces!!! Senator Obama claims, and he's been quoted as saying this on numerous occasions, that the new bailout will only tax...Drum roll please...The corporations!!

Once again, *rolls eyes*, how stupid do these people think we are??...Wait, don't answer that. They obviously believe we're beyond stupid...Oh, my beautiful audience. Do you know what a corporation is?? In actuality? ... No? Yes?

I'll tell you anyway. A corporation is a piece of paper! A bloody, worthless piece of paper! And the government wants to TAX IT!!!

I will now show my overwhelming faith in our governmental leaders! HA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You make me laugh! Hard! REALLY hard!

How much money do ya think they're gonna be able to get out of those "magical" pieces of paper??... Cause I'm gonna take a wild shot in the dark and say...Umm.. Nothing!

Now that's not to say that I'm against something being done. It's painfully obvious that we need some kind of help. But I'm merely taking this opportunity to point out that America isn't the only country suffering. Just about every other state in the world is suffering some kind of economic hardship...

I'm going to tell you something. You don't have to keep reading. It would be nice if you would, of course (claro). But it's not necessary.

There are quite a few schools of political thought in the world right now. Constructivism, Postmodernism, Feminism, Liberalism (which doesn't mean democrat), Realism (which doesn't mean rebublican) just to name a few. And the main tenents of the "main" thoughts. I.e. Liberalism and Realism are the differing perspectives on foreign policy.

Now Liberalism, fundamentally believes that men are inherintly good and can govern themselves. And any of you out there who know anything about humanity in general know how laughable that is. But they believe that given enough time and government we'll just, and I'm going to add my own personal "touch" to this - in case you're wondering I'm not just making this up, yes, I'm cutting through the jargon but I'm still using their own words - I'm just paraphrasing, "magically" come to the solution of all the world's problems. Because deep down, we all just wanna get along...And bad people are few and far between and all they really need is "reeducation" or whatever and they'll be modle citizens like the rest of us...These are the people that believe giving up part(s) of our, or any states really (and a "state" is really just tech talk for "nation"), sovereignty to organizations like the U.N. is for our own good and they'll help do away with things like genocide! They'll make the world a happy place where kitties can cross the street without getting hit by nasty cars too!! (Like it's just the icing on the cake)

Now don't get me wrong. There's nothing wrong with you if you happen to ascribe to this particular philosophy. I'm happy for you. Really. And I'm not being sarcastic. It's nice to meet someone who's so stinkin optomistic about life...It's just..Could you turn the shine down one your aura?? You're blinding me with your karma. And it's calling into sharp focus the fact that karma is probably just lying in wait to bite me in the preverbial tucas.

Now then you have the Realism camp. What could realists possibly believe in? You may ask...Good question.. After all, compared to those tree huggin liberals who wanna make peace with the squirrels, they're probably the evil, pessimistic party poopers who suck the fun out of life and are single-handedly responsible for there being black in the world...Oh, and goths. Can't forget about goths.

Now, I will offically tell you, and you can quote me. The UN is drastically ineffective there are several reasons for this. One of which being that the powerful seat holders who have veto power, like oh say Russia, are only looking out for their own best interests. Thus completely shooting themselves in the face. Oh, yeah. Way to go guys. So when liberals tell me that we should move aside and let the UN make some important decisions for our country...I just wann smack 'em silly. The only thing the UN member states care about is the best interest of their own state. So when states like France, or Russia say stuff like "oh hey America, we're looking out for you!" I just wanna hide under a rock. After all as the old addage goes, "with friends like that who needs enemies??"

But on a larger scale. So the UN wants to stop the world from ever being exposed to Genocide. Hence the President of

Well, they're not. They believe in the absolute sovereingty of a state. So when, Bush informed the ICC (international criminal court) that they didn't need to stick their noses into the investigation of the whole Guantanamo Bay thing. He was being a realist. But hey, let's not give realists a bad rep or anything...;-p

In the short version, *wink*, realists don't want to turn over national sovereignty to anyone outside of their country. Which is an interesting point of view. But they tend to be, what liberals call "war mongers." In that they are interested in strengthening their boarders nationally and making themselves..Oh, "hey attacking them would be stupid. They'd kill us in like that *snap*."