It was a good run. If you've read all posts on this blog to this point you've endured 500 chapters of my insanity. I held off writing this post for want of a miracle to give new life within me to continue with the direction this blog was heading. However, lacking such an epiphany post 500 is the end. Time to go down memory lane on this one.
I started the blog to vent my insane observations of the world and educate others. Somewhere along the way I became standard bearer for the Republican Party and a humanitarian defender of human rights pleading for all to stand up for the people of Iran, Honduras, Western Sahara, Pakistan, so on and so forth. Then I mixed in local Maine politics and had opportunities presented to me that I never thought possible. Politics in Maine became more exciting than I thought it could be. Politics in Maine, despite the heightened excitement I had for a time, had little true impact.
That is the key to why I am ending my efforts on this blog. The people of Iran are still brutally oppressed, we have problems here in Maine and platitudes instead of solutions from our self-described leaders. An organization of political thought has betrayed its own values locally and nationally to such an extent that I'm alienated from the entire process. Therefore this blog's topics are stale in my heart when simply reporting the proceedings.
What is not stale for my interests right now? I'm writing a book guest starring three archeologists, two terrorists, a Russian, and a pissed off 8 year old. I'm placing much effort to my college and finding a new career calling considering my major was cut in the budget this year. What was once the love of my life is no more yet my heart has found better.
At the beginning this blog was my life and since my life has grown exponentially beyond the boundaries these posts could ever reveal. I studied the world and went to events not as myself but as a worker for my blog. My efforts were not my own, but the blogger within me. Yet, I've moved past realizing I don't need to use a status anymore (I know "blogger" is a low and unofficial title, but the mind plays tricks sometimes).
I bid you farewell at 500. Thank you for reading. Meow.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
I have no political party.
Due to finals in college and lack of transportation I could not be at the 2010 Maine Republican State Convention. I'm not sure if my being there would have made a difference but the platform laid out would certainly have been opposed by me. The document is five pages long so it isn't a tough read. The portions I disagree with are as follows:
"Restrict any attempt to give foreign citizens the right to vote in the U.S. in any situation or capacity."
"Marriage between a man and woman."
"Audit the Fed"
"End the Fed['s existence]"
"Investigate collusion between government and industry in the global warming myth."
"Eliminate the Department of Education."
"Repeal and prohibit any participation in efforts to create a one world government."
Excerpts of insanity over. So if a person becomes a naturalized citizen because they were a foreign citizen or may have their original citizenship recognized by their home country they would not be allowed to vote? The answer obviously is "no, that isn't what we meant." However, the short-sighted nature of how this was written shows the long-term thinking shown by Republican economic ideas was not at play when this was written.
The marriage between a man and woman doesn't need to be part of the policy...you already got your way (if that is what you support) last November. Your crusade in that arena is over.
Auditing, never mind ending, the Federal Reserve has two issues: 1. That isn't a state issue. 2. That has no chance in Hell of happening.
"Investigate collusion between government and industry in the global warming myth."
If you still think there is nothing wrong with that statement you are either very sheltered or lack common sense. What would an investigation like that look like? It presumes global warming isn't happening (when it is). The cause of global warming is debatable, but warming is happening.
If you get rid of the State of Maine Department of Education...you'll basically be shutting down all schools in Maine. If you mean the Federal department, again that isn't a Maine issue and (at both the state and federal level) has absolutely zero chance of actually happening.
"Repeal and prohibit any participation in efforts to create a one world government."
Repeal? I must have missed the "Sign Up For One World Government" bill passed by the Augusta state legislature. Prohibit? Are you going to pass a "Ban on One World Government Formation"?
Any candidate of the Republican Party in Maine has to make a specific effort to denounce or point out the ridiculous nature of at least the following to get me to consider voting for their other policies:
"Investigate collusion between government and industry in the global warming myth."
"Eliminate the Department of Education."
"Repeal and prohibit any participation in efforts to create a one world government."
"Restrict any attempt to give foreign citizens the right to vote in the U.S. in any situation or capacity."
"Marriage between a man and woman."
"Audit the Fed"
"End the Fed['s existence]"
"Investigate collusion between government and industry in the global warming myth."
"Eliminate the Department of Education."
"Repeal and prohibit any participation in efforts to create a one world government."
Excerpts of insanity over. So if a person becomes a naturalized citizen because they were a foreign citizen or may have their original citizenship recognized by their home country they would not be allowed to vote? The answer obviously is "no, that isn't what we meant." However, the short-sighted nature of how this was written shows the long-term thinking shown by Republican economic ideas was not at play when this was written.
The marriage between a man and woman doesn't need to be part of the policy...you already got your way (if that is what you support) last November. Your crusade in that arena is over.
Auditing, never mind ending, the Federal Reserve has two issues: 1. That isn't a state issue. 2. That has no chance in Hell of happening.
"Investigate collusion between government and industry in the global warming myth."
If you still think there is nothing wrong with that statement you are either very sheltered or lack common sense. What would an investigation like that look like? It presumes global warming isn't happening (when it is). The cause of global warming is debatable, but warming is happening.
If you get rid of the State of Maine Department of Education...you'll basically be shutting down all schools in Maine. If you mean the Federal department, again that isn't a Maine issue and (at both the state and federal level) has absolutely zero chance of actually happening.
"Repeal and prohibit any participation in efforts to create a one world government."
Repeal? I must have missed the "Sign Up For One World Government" bill passed by the Augusta state legislature. Prohibit? Are you going to pass a "Ban on One World Government Formation"?
Any candidate of the Republican Party in Maine has to make a specific effort to denounce or point out the ridiculous nature of at least the following to get me to consider voting for their other policies:
"Investigate collusion between government and industry in the global warming myth."
"Eliminate the Department of Education."
"Repeal and prohibit any participation in efforts to create a one world government."
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