Yes, I’m still alive. I’ve been simply beyond busy lately with work and various other elements in my life, its been hard to afford time to tend to this place. As a policy, expect at least one large update like this one every week, likely during the weekend.

Moving on, there wasn’t too many great developments this week, except for Curious George’s passing of the Secure Fence Act, which green lights the long-debated Mexican border fence.

Now, the consensus from the media has been generally the same, gleeful support from both ends of the spectrum; whether you’re listening to the ghastly bile spewed out of the liberal demagogue monkey Lou Dobbs, or his conservative equivalent Bill O’Reilly. The innuendo is largely the same, musclehead tripe about “defending America from dangerous aliens”, “supporting the grassroots American worker”, and the like.

Whatever form this logic-defying dogma takes, its bewildering how anyone could possibly suscribe to it, the treatise presented performs the unparalelled feat of being even more absurd than the Iraq war. I mean, come on, take a look at the obvious.

Even if it was a good idea to blcok immigration at the border, what the hell would a fence accomoplish? These people have been doing this for ages, if they want to get a cross, they’ll get across. All building a fence does is waste a tremendous amount of taxpayer money (a gross contradiction of a central tenet of fiscal conservatism, and yet the Bush gang still supports it?) for an endeavor with less than dubious prospects of success.

Furthermore, its not just that the fence wouldn’t work, it shouldn’t be constructed period. Open immigration is a good thing, its like free, perpetual economic steroids. They don’t take our jobs, they take the jobs no one else wants. 1989, the U.S. Department of Labor reviewed nearly 100 studies on the relationship between immigration and unemployment and concluded that “neither U.S. workers nor most minority workers appear adversely affected by immigration.”

They contribute substantially to the economy, all one needs to do is look at the nubers. For example, economists Richard Vedder and Lowell Galloway of Ohio University and Stephen Moore of the Cato Institute found that states with the highest rates of immigration during the 1980s also had the highest rates of economic growth and lowest rates of unemployment.

and ultimately are damn hardworking people who deserve a shot, who are we to take it away from them? They’re not causing problems, they’re doing us a favor, and in return we punish them? We have realized the Aristocracy of Pull it would seem.

Note that I am not necessarily advocating absolutely open borders, I prefer McCain’s guest-worker program in actuality. However, the idea of some lunatic’s pipedream fence on the border is nothing short of hideous. Its not going to work, its going to be yet another trivial burden on the taxpayers, and its detrimental to the economy. Recipe for fiasco.

Its real easy for these “patriotic” misfits advocating a border fence to say this crap and have people believe it, no one actually bothers to look at any situation with depth anymore; the population at large has denigrated itself into nothing more than subservient pieces of meat when it comes to politics, drinking the Kool-Aid and not divulging into any story beyond the soundbyte.

Oh, look at that, some Arabs attacked us, lets blow up the whole Middle-East!

Some Mexicans are crossing the border! They’re going to take my job! Build a fence!

Jews are the root of all evil! Zieg Heil!

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God help us all.

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For the last couple days, ever since I learned that modern-day hippie chieftain, Jane Fonda reincarnate Cindy Sheehan, by some unfathomable turn of events, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Luckily, humanity still has some moral and intellectual fortitude against this cult of social-regression, the prize was awarded to people who actually deserved it.

Now, some of you may inquire, why azandi? Aren’t you fervently opposed to the war? Shouldn’t you be embracing Sheehan as a messianic crusader against Bush and his entourage?

Not at all, Cindy Sheehan is a despicable, sensationalist broad, the perfect leftist equivalent of Ann Coulter. I don’t care if she lost her son, so did over 2000 other families, that doesn’t magically generate an unpenetrable shield of dissent-defiance. Any brain-dead monkey with a basic understanding of the current Middle-Eastern crisis could easily repudiate Sheehan’s facetious assertions. Of course, her fans don’t generally posess such high standards of mental prowess, so its understandable that she has a decent following.

In short, Cindy Sheehan is to be detest for the sheer fact that she has no shame in lying, over and over and over. Some of her most popular outlandish sound-bytes we’ve heard include:

-US forces are responsible for all the deaths in Iraq since the war began.

-The insurgency are really just benevolent defenders of their ancestral land and should be commended.

-We should employ isolationist policies and completely abstain from intervention in the Middle-East.

…among others.

In making these tactless conclusions bases off of nothing, Sheehan has rendered down the complex geopolitical situation of the Middle-East into something completely rudimentary and unfactual, presumably to make it easy for her pothead listeners can better understand. Read my lips Ms. Sheehan, the world isn’t as black and white as you paint it to be.

For one thing, this isn’t the US simply going into Iraq and killing everyone, this is the US going to Iraq, dismantling the previous infrastructure, and naively presuming democracy would flourish from the ashes. Instead what you have is a massive power vacuum, one of the most strategic points in the Middle-East is up for grams. As a result, legions of insurgents are storming the country, not to defend against the US, as you assert, but to get a piece of the action, an attempt to get the upper-hand in this lucrative situation, an “Iraqi Black Gold Rush”, if you will. This isn’t the US murdering Arabs, this is Arabs killing Arabs. Your son died because of this barbaricism, and you are defiling his name by repeatedly lying.

Moreover, your views on isolationism are completely void in this world that we’re living in. People hate us, Ms. Sheehan, and they’re not going to just stop hating us if we withdraw from the world. Certainly invading nation after nation isn’t the answer, but non-interventionalism is completely absurd as well. I don’t hate the Bush administration because I hate the philosophy of neoconservatism, I hate the Bush administraiton because I, like most other real neocons such as Dr. Francis Fukuyama believe he has betrayed neoconservatism. Iraq was a staggering foreign policy mistake executed by ideological morons, that I will agree with you on. But your pacifist views are infantile and have no place in any real debate.

Pray tell, what would you have done after 9/11? Send presents to al-Qaida? Cause you certainly wouldn’t have advocated strikes against Afghanistan, being a pacifist and all.

How about North Korea eh? Hold a banquet in Kim Jong-Il’s honor and hope he changes his mind?

Fortunately for you even imbeciles are entitled to their opinion in America, the land which you so gleefully condemn; but just like all the rest of them don’t expected to be taken seriously.

Oh Kim Jong-Il, are you purposefully attempting to recapture the image Trey Parker painted of you in Team America? Is the potential nuclear-powered xenocide of mankind, the kindling of a nuclear-tension capable of escalating into a global holocaust really your intention you maniacal creature you? Your country is in turmoil, the entire world despises you, you perfectly personify the archetypal little evil genius, and then you go ahead and get nukes do you?

Not that no one saw this coming, it wouldn’t take astringent scrutiny to prove that our esteemed war president’s repeated refusal to join North Korea in negotiations, when they were practically begging for it, had a direct impact on the onset of yesterday’s revelation of Kim Jong-Il’s newfound nuclear power.

Not to mention Rumsfeld’s arguably treasonous sale of nuclear reactors to North Korea for $200 million, talk about a state sponsor of terror eh?

But whats done is done, unfortunately we are under the tyranny of the ever-omnipotent truth that the past cannot be changed, we are forced to live with Bush’s colassal mistakes and respond to them as they so emerge, and today we are faced with a staggering conundrum: How do we face North Korea?

The liberal isolationist/pacifist approach is now completely void, Jong-Il really has weapons of mass destruction, and this is not something to be taken lightly or shrugged off. The threat of these weapons being used directly by the North Koreans against its neighbors or the United States is quite slim, as the retalliation would undoubtedly lead to the total annihilation of Jong-Il’s regime, which is not most definitely not on his agenda. What we do need to be concerned with, of course, is the sale of these weapons to the highest bidder, a wholly plausible threat. So, naturally something must be done.

A blockade would likely prove ineffective, if North Korea wants those weapons exported out of the country, they’ll get em’ out of the country.

In my view, the only plausible chance we have of countering the looming shadow of Jong-Il’s nuclear dominance would be to (finally) end China’s policy of North Korean appeasement. This in itself is no easy task, as China’s support of North Korea has always been for its best interest, but hopefully they will have a change of heart for the sake of humanity as a whole in light of recent events. Not to mention we’d have to impose burdens on China if they refused, and offer more enticing rewards if they cooperated.

Simultaneously, (and as a contingency plan) however, it would be well-advised that we supply allies in the region such as Japan with air-defense missles, and anything else deemed necessary. No matter what happens, it is undoubtable that this is going to be a very trying conflict indeed.

And thus another problem is added to America’s long and growing list of self-induced woes…

I wonder how George is going to fuck it up this time?

“Screw multilateral talks, covert-operations, strains of coherent thought, we’ve got muscle baby! Who needs “diplomacy”, a fool’s myth, if Kim wants more nukes, we’ll give it to him! Would probably speed up the whole Armageddon thing too, been waiting too damn long, we God fearing Republicans are Rapture ready, bring on the nuclear winter baby! “

…yeah….probably something along those lines. God bless America, and may God help us all.

Yes, you’re going to have to pardon the bad pun, but its been stuck in my head, sorry.

Good god, people dying all over the Middle-East everyday, crumbling Social Security, North Korea’s clear pronunciation of its nuclear ambition, Clinton’s Unproductive Global Initiative (no matter how much money funnel into Africa, it ain’t going to help anyone Billy) and a vast multitutde of other pertinent issues going on in the world as we speak, and all the media can talk about is the child rapists in Congress. Who’d a thunk it eh?

I’m not going to be pointing fingers here and labelling the whole Foley scandal as another reason not to re-elect a Republican Congress (although it is deliciously ironic since the Republicans declare themselves the party of values).

Its no mystery that our current Congressional “representatives” (more like pork-barrel slaves and lobbyists) are generally lower than protoplasmic slime, regardless of party affiliation. For every Republican that got caught today, thats another Democrat that didn’t get caught, whatever, its another day in Washington.

So my question doesn’t concern how best to execute a Congressional pedophile witch-hunt, I couldn’t care less to be quite frank. My question is, what the hell is the media doing focusing so much time and energy on this “issue” less important than cow excrement, while the world is slowly but surely esclating toward socio-economic and geopolitical turmoil? Is this really just some sort of absurd new reality TV show?

“Next up on Fox: American Asshole: The Search for Your Next Congressional Pervert”

Don’t tell me it couldn’t happen.