Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Proud to be a U.S. citizen

So the new torture legislation makes all the torture we’ve been doing legal. Sure, we don’t kill, rape or mangle our prisoners, but anything short of that is A-OK. The Republicans had a meeting with the Republicans and decided torturing people is an effective element of national security. Of course, it’s not, but oh well. I’m sure it’s not a big deal.

Oh, and Democrats? Way to contribute to the debate there fellas. We all appreciate the effort it took to wrinkle your brow in consternation during the debate that the Republicans were having.

In other news, the White house asserted recently (via official mouthpiece Tony Snow) that the Supreme Court actually can’t decide the constitutionality of something, that’s the president’s job. No one’s really called them on it yet, but I’m sure someone will get around to it.

Our government is horribly broken. What I tend to wonder is, at what point does my government killing and torturing of innocent people tar my own soul? Does voting for the other guy get me off the hook? I hope so, because that’s what I’m doing this term. And I’m thrilled that I get to vote for the spineless mute party as opposed to the pro-torture, pro-war, all incompetence party. It’s a smorgasbord of options that overwhelms me with delight.

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Quote and Code of the day

“Yeah, how I miss those days,
more than a little
growing young in the dumbo sun.” -- Tracy bonham (Dumbo Sun)

* hbot3000 primary algorithm

age = 0

do while(age.le.ageofdeath)

maturity = age
if(numactionfigures.gt.50.or.numlegos.gt.50) maturity = maturity - 12
if(age=30) then
call commencerandomnostalgia()
end if
if(maturity=30) then
call commencemidlifecrisis()
end if

age = age + 1
end do