August 24, 2006

Secret Republican Plan to Impeach Bush?

Letter to the Editor

Have you heard that there is a secret Republican plan to impeach Bush? If the Democrats win both houses it just might happen. Here's the reason. If the Dems win then they might impeach Bush and Cheney making Nancy Pelosi president as she would be Speaking of the House and next in line. However, if the Republicans impeach Bush before the Dems take power in January then Dennis Hassert becomes president instead of Pelosi. But they would have just over 60 days to do it so they have to have it all planned out in advance.

It does seem extreme for Republicans to impeach Bush, but as we know if Nancy Pelosi is president she will probably pick Hillary Clinton as VP and the Republicans can't let that happen. So the rumor might just be true. When you think about it it all starts to make sense.

Posted by marc at 08:25 PM | Comments (1)

August 22, 2006

The Jewish State Experiment is a Failure

What to do about the future of Israel is anyone's guess but the establishment of the Jewish state was a mistake. However, I'm not advocating the overthrow of Israel because the Islamic states around it are even worse, but barely worse. The problem is that in any nation when you create a system where members of one religion has superior rights over those of other religions it is a situation that leads to war.

Case in point - Israel. Even with one of the most advanced cultures on the planet, and having been persecuted and slaughtered themselves, in less that 60 years it is clear that the Jewish state has learned nothing and Israel has more of a desire for war than it has for peace.

Israel treats all non Jews like they are vermin. The rest of us are subhuman and our lives don't count. When you look at the way Israel treats it's neighbors and the non Jews within it's borders it is clear to me that they have formed a mentality that they thing they really are God's chosen people. Since God is fictional they are at best the chosen people of their own fictional deity. As the founder of the Church of Reality I can claim that we are the chosen people of the Flying Spaghetti Monster but that claim is as fictional as Israel's claim.

Jews in other countries are more humble and socially adjusted and they are normal productive members of society. They respect other people and they don't take themselves seriously the way Israeli's take themselves.

When I listen to what the country of Israel is saying they have no regrets about the number of Lebanese they kill and these other people are in the way of Israel's goals. Israel complains about kidnapping of it's people but when they kidnap 1/3 of the Palestinian Parlament they call them "detainees". Like Islamic terrorists Israel has its own death squads that hunts down and kills people who don't support their agenda, including their own leaders like Yitzhak Rabin.

The problem isn't with Judaism itself as much as it is with the idea of having a society with a superior class and an inferior class. It creates the illusion that they are actually better people and it create an imbalance that tends to lead to war as the oppressed rise up against the oppressors.

For a culture that is over 5000 years old you would think that after being both oppressed and oppressor that the Jews would get it. However - they don't.

What is the solution? I don't know. But the solution has to be a government in the region where all people have an equal standing. The state of Israel as a Jewish homeland where Jews hold superior status must end. This is true of Islamic states and Christian states as well.

Now I have to figure out who's going to kill me first for this opinion. Will it be Jewish, Islamic, or Christian death squads?

Posted by marc at 05:04 PM | Comments (4)

August 21, 2006

What the 2006 Election is Really About

Letter to the Editor

This election in 2006 is about denial. Are we as a nation going to face the reality that America is heading in the wrong direction or are we going to lie to ourselves for 2 more years and pretend that everything is just fine? If we are going to survive we are going to have to stop the breeding and accept that America needs a new direction. However - I still waiting to for the Democrats to state what they have to offer. I want to hear a message of change. I just can't stand the lying anymore.

We are in really bad shape and we can't pretend that it's all going to just go away. I'm looking for real courage and I'm not seeing it. If America turns it's back on reality then reality might turn it's back on America. And that's a scary thought.

Posted by marc at 08:18 PM | Comments (0)

Stay in Iraq Till the Job is Done?

Letter to the Editor

Bush said that we aren't going to leave Iraq until the "job is done". I suppose we should have got out of Iraq 4 years ago when Bush declared "Mission Accomplished" because we were closer to having the job done then that we are now. Now Iraq is a lost cause, fighting a civil war, and our troops are there to try to hide the civil war till after the elections. We are left with a choice of accepting failure now or waiting till things get worse. I fail to see the logic in staying the wrong course.

Posted by marc at 05:42 PM | Comments (0)

August 20, 2006

War is a problem that can be solved

Letter to the Editor

Even though cultures and religions have been at war for thousands of years the problem of war can be solved. In order to have a war there has to be an agreement to go to war. This agreement comes from a Vocabulary of War.

In the Middle East Muslims and Jews kill each other, but in San Francisco Muslims and Jews march together to protest for peace. The reason San Francisco is different than the Middle East is that San Francisco uses the Vocabulary of Peace and the Middle East uses the Vocabulary of War. We respect each other here. In San Francisco "we" are all "us", fellow members of the human community. Over there "they" are "terrorists" or "Infidels" and "they" deserve to die.

The Vocabulary of Peace humanizes people. The Vocabulary of War dehumanizes them. The difference is in the vocabulary and I think that if we change the vocabulary we can change the world. It's harder to kill people when you see them as individuals. And they have a harder time hating you when you are being respectful and considerate.

Posted by marc at 11:15 PM | Comments (1)

John Mark Karr - He didn't do it - and he's boring

I can't believe that this guy is still in the news. The guy is a weirdo, but he didn't do it. I think he wanted a free ride back to the USA because he's probably in trouble in Bancock and this gets him out. Or - he's just delusional.

Even if he did it - it's not the most important thing in the news. It's bigger that 2 wars and everything else in the world? It's infotainment - not news.

Posted by marc at 10:04 PM | Comments (1)

Asus M2NPV-VM Motherboard - Seriously Broken

I'm usually an Asus fan and I've bought several of their mother boards so when they came out with the M2NPV-VM for the new AM2 socket AMD processors I thought it would be a great board. Boy was I wrong. I think it's a bios problem but this is at least the third bios and the current version 0303 is very broken. It won't run the current 2.6.18rc4 Linux kernel and it is very picky about memory.

I bought the OCZ Gold Edition high performance ram and it's clear that this memory is incompatible. It's supposed to run at DDR2 800 speeds but even at DDR2 400 it still has memory errors. I'm hoping a future bios will fix this. Asus - you disappoint me. Fix your product!

Posted by marc at 09:45 AM | Comments (1)