The World as I Know it

Is it strange that I want to be black-listed, like potential terrorists are? I have this strange urge to see how far I can go with the government. For example, would it only take one time of googling Al-Qaeda to have the FBI banging down my front door, or would it take repeated offenses in order to get that kind of recognition. It is not like I am favorable to Islamic extremists, or anything. I'm not; I just have a perverse desire to find out how long it would take. I did google Al-Qaeda a couple of minutes ago. So, if you hear of a young blogger who was taken to Guantanamo, it's me.

Beth and I always joke around, saying that Mr. CIA-man is listening into our conversations and, although I know that it is only joking, I always wonder if someone is listening. That's probably incredibly egotistical but come on. Everyone has to be wondering that at some point when they're saying something particularly bad on the phone. It's human nature to be paranoid.

Anyway, back to the black-listing urge. It's strange, I know. I think it can be compared to the people who rode the busses during freedom summer though. They wanted to know just how hard they could push too. It may turn out about the same as well (if I do get sent to Gitmo--which admitedly is unlikely). They were beaten and/or killed, tortured in effect; that sounds a lot like what is happening in the base in Cuba, doesn't it?

Onto a new subject. So, all that has been on the BBC world news is the G8 summit (that and China, but who cares about China?). It is amazing how the summit, which originally was meant to be like a post-Kyoto treaty or something that was supposed to help stop global warming, has become a stage for a new cold war. I guess we want to have anti-missile shields or something like that in Europe and Russia is mad about that. Can anyone say egotistical? Russia hasn't been very important since the fall of the USSR in the early 90s. Yes, Russia, you are so important that, although we are fighting TWO unpopular wars in the Middle East (if we don't count that whole war on terrorism thing), we are going to divert money from those wars to start yet another one. I'm sure.

Listen to me closely Russia. We have bigger fish to fry. Remember Iran? South Korea (or north, which ever one is communist)? There are people in the world who would kill themselves to get rid of a few Americans. I'm afraid that the only way you would hurt Americans would be if you drank one too many shots of Vodka and decided to poison one of our secret agents this time.

I think Russia is getting tired of being the country "that was." You know what I mean? They were so important a decade and a half ago. More than half a century was devoted to threats of wiping them off the face of the earth, squrmishes that didn't really do anything but kill people, and ignoring them like they were an annoying little brother. Now, all of a sudden, there's some other country who is full-filling those needs. Poor Russians; they must feel left out now. Get over it.

New Subject! This time it is the SUPER OBAMA! I have heard (mostly read) so much about Obama that it seems like he's everywhere. If I light a donkey sky light, will he come running and tell me the *gasp* truth? Why is this such a big deal for the media. Someone who tells the truth and doesn't switch views depending on the audience he's speaking to? Oh my gosh! It's a miracle, someone call the pope! They (Time Magazine & Newsweek) have stated that that might be a bad political plan. Well duh! But seriously, who's better for the Oval Office than a person who tells the truth? I think Obama's awesome and we need more politicians like him. Granted, he most likely will not win the primary elections or, if he does, the actual presidential election because 1) he's (half) black. There's still tons of racism in America, whether we want to admit it or not. 2) it's unlikely that he will get the support of the oil and car and what-not industries who only want money and not what is good for the people who buy their products. and 3) he's different. This may be a generalization, but older people feel comfortable voting for people who are like them and he's not. (And let's face it, there are a lot of old people in this country. I'm still going to vote for him if he gets as far as the presidential elections (I'm not a card-carrying member of the democratic party and therefore cannot cast a vote in the primary elections) because he's freakin' awesome, but, like I said, he probably won't win. DON'T QUOTE ME! NOTHING'S IMPOSSIBLE!

Anyway, there's my thoughts for a while. A little more political than normal but hey. I'm in that sort of mood... or maybe it's because I'm watching a lot of Anderson Cooper 360 (I think he's kind of cute).