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Congressional Anti-Piracy Caucus Formed
questionlp writes "News.com reports that three members from the House of Reps has formed a caucus that aims to stop piracy and make for stronger IP laws. One of the members of the caucus: helped author a note last fall to 74 fellow Democrats assailing the Linux open-source operating system's GNU General Public License as a threat to America's 'innovation and security.'"
Democrates, Republicans, it's all the same shit, they are all owned by corporations. There is no legitimacy left in this system.
You might as well have said "The sky is blue and grass is green" if you just wanted to burn mod points.
Bush as a president is no worse than somebody like Reagan, say, but I never trust people who really want the office. Gore wanted it too much too, but he had reasons. He was the VP, he had careers riding on him winning, he was coming in with everything pointing to an easy win, against a guy who'd scraped out of a primary that had reopened just about every old wound in the opposing party... There was really no excuse for him to lose. And then he did.
It's like the Flyers playing the Mighty Ducks or some shit. It's 40-0 or something, until the Ducks somehow tie it in the last period. You end up with a half-second left, the arena lights suddenly go out, they come back on and the puck's in the Flyers' goal. Tell me the Flyers aren't gonna be pissed if they don't get a do-over.
Bush was odd, though. It sure as hell looked like should've won, no matter how many recounts Gore did. However, he sued like an unfrozen caveman to stop everything, no matter how stupid it was. It's like Nixon and Watergate. If it had looked like Nixon was going to lose, that might've made sense, but when everything points to you winning, doing unnecessary sneaky shit to make sure you win is just creepy. And with Bush, he wasn't even defending anything. It was way too early for him to be playing paranoid king.
I've nothing against our fruity leadership pool. You have to be crazy to want a shit job like president anyway. You see smart people lining up to run? Hell no. You get the bottom of the barrel. Failed lawyers living of their wives' superior legal skills, failed businessmen living off their fathers' connections, and, I guess, former CIA directors that need street cred to make up for the way their fathers built concentration camp furnaces. However, they can cause damage if they try and do things. W. Bush just seems to be a vehicle Steve Forbes's prospective cabinet used to actually get elected, and that makes me think that they'll do things. The last time the executive branch tried to acomplish anything we ended up in Vietnam, so that's how that works.
I lost my fucking point way the fuck back there. Whatever. I personally hate Bush, just as a person. I know people like him. Silver-spoon babies, but with depression-era parents. You ever notice how the parents of baby boomers always end up with this total self-interest thing? I'm assuming it's a symptom of the depression, but it's like the story about the first Bush and Barbara, and the way they didn't visit one of their newborn grandkids, even when they were driving right by the hospital on their way to the airport to go on vacation. It's creepy, but almost everybody from the depression ends up with that sort of thing on some level. Anyway, I get the sense from W that he has this big "justified" resentment of his parents because of that attitude, despite the way he ends up being ridiculously spoiled by them overall. Unlike people I know that share some of his traits, though, he doesn't have this nagging guilt about that keeping him humble. It's like he's completely oblivious to the irony of his own life. It's like the man's never second-guessed himself in his life.
Fuck, that wasn't the point either.
Shit this thing's getting long.
Ok, here's the point. He's like Clinton. Everybody hated him from the beginning because he came out of nowhere and beat the incumbent in an embarassing way while taking his own party in a direction the party leadership really had no interest in. Unlike Clinton, however, he started giving us material right off the blocks. Plus, he's insulated by a friendly congress and a decades-beyond-Clinton-esque grasp of media manipulation, so we worry about the damage he can do enough to invest in this kind of ranting on a regular basis.
There you go.
Holy fuck, I think that was the most offtopic fucking turd I've ever excreted. This calls for a new bottle of vodka, kids!
I hope that the US set up a form of democracy in Iraq that is closely based on the US model. It's clear from reading these posts that it is the best and fairest democracy in the world. I hope that the rest of the world adopts it soon. What would the rest of the world be like without us helpful benevolent western nations? Surely they could not run themselves well without us telling them how to do it. In fact why don't we all join the USA? I guess the flag would have to be changed to fit all the extra stars on.
But no, this isn't any kind of Christianity and Bush is no Christian. He is just a belligerent hypocrital imbecile whose controllers have their own self-serving agenda, and the people of your country can only come to harm while they are running the show.
Because of this and other things I feel fortunate that I'm not American, but the continual stream of bad news I read here on this site makes me feel truly sorry for those of you who are. It wouldn't be so depressing if there was any sense that you knew where you wanted to go and how you were going to get there, but none of you seem to have realized yet that there can be no solution under your current political system - which is evidently no longer in the hands of the general citizenry.
Whatever else we do or don't find, Saddam is gone, and that is a good thing.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden