Tuesday Musings

I purposely avoided the Dem's debate last night, and will probably also avoid the Republican CNN/YouTube debate. While Dem's still like to think that there is no such thing as a stupid question, people with at least half a brain realize that this trite inanity was clearly devised by someone who clearly asked too many stupid questions. Now remember, there are no stupid questions, only stupid people.
For the 3 minutes I watched, I was rewarded with hearing one idiot who worked at Planned Parenthood asking whether the candidates instructed their children properly in sex education, and whether they used anatomically accurate terminology. What? I'm sorry, but this has all the relevance in a political debate as "Do you wear boxers or briefs?" You see now why I feel justified in my belief that this was a moronic idea for a debate format? There was a reason the founding fathers decided upon a representative form of government, rather than a true democracy, and why they also had the wisdom of slipping in that safeguard of an electoral college, in case some of the stupids got through. It is also why they decided on a winner take all strategy in elections, rather than apportioning the seats in government based on the percentage of the vote that each party gets, like you see in places like Germany, where periodically some fringe party gets a say in things.
What really got me to change the channel was the people sitting at their computers, making their videos, asking what they were supposed to do, being so poor, and unable to afford health care, or the woman who asked what her poor mother was supposed to do about health care. Here are a few thoughts for you. Number one, if your parents are sick, and can't make ends meet, why don't you help them out? They raised you, supported you. Is it too much to ask to lend a helping hand when you can? This is what got me about Obama's answer, where he talked about his poor mother suffering through a critical illness, without the financial means. His mother died in 1995, by which point he was a lawyer and lecturer of constitutional law. He couldn't spare a few dollars? Secondly, for you people who supposedly can't afford health insurance, how is it you can afford the computer and the high-speed internet access to record your videos and post them on YouTube? I realize that some people have legitimate reasons for not being able to afford an insurance plan, but how many are simply waiting for someone to come pick up the tab for them?
Finally, it seems that Dems in Congress are being pressured to remove a part of a piece of legislation for homeland security that would protect people from prosecution who come forward with information about suspicious activities that they believe may pose a risk to national security (e.g. the "flying imams"). It seems that we need protection for whistleblowers in the CIA and FBI who expose top secret, sensitive information that is critical to national security, especially if it besmirches the Bush administration, and we won't prosecute a lying stripper who maliciously destroys the names of white, privileged Lacrosse players, but if someone comes forward to report activities that they believe, in all good faith, might pose a risk to others, well, they are all on their own.
That guy that blew open the plot against Fort Dix had better watch out. A lawsuit might be coming his way, and he won't be able to count on the Dems looking out for him. They're too busy fumigating the cots for their next slumber party.