World of Shit Rant . . .

I can't believe how eager our government is for war. For over 10 years, we've been pounding those poor Iraqi bastards with weekly bombings and killing tens of thousands through sanctions on food and medicine. Now we want to usurp their trillion dollar oil reserves and hide behind this "weapons of mass destruction" bullshit. There are plenty of rogue nations out there armed to the teeth with nukes already. We KNOW they have them (we don't have to send in a team) and they are willing to use them, but we don't seem concerned. Why? They have nothing that we want. What does India or Pakistan have outside of billions of people, dust and poverty? No oil there. It's "more OK" for India to have them, so we rag on Pakistan - because they're Muslims. We recently pretended to care about North Korea - let's start Korea and Vietnam up again. Oh, but the Prez sez this ain't 'bout religion. This ain't 'bout A-rabs and Mooslims - it's about terrorism and a "mad man" and "weapons of mass destruction". Now they claim Iraq was behind 911 and everything else - we don't have the proof, but we're working on creating it. Seems Hussein is envious of our massive selctions of soft drinks and the number of blonde pop tarts that show off their belly buttons on MTV, so now he wants to destroy us. Give me a f**king break. I've actually heard "journalists" use those examples.This is about oil, money, religious hatred, ignorance and our government's arrogance in thinking the rest of the world wants to be just like us and therefore hates us. Well, I've got news for America - this country hasn't been the "promised land" for many years. It's a welfare state that works for you if you have money and power or if you're a criminal. Most Americans with money and power are criminals.Sure, we're the wealthiest nation on earth. We consume more than our share of everything. Hooray! We drove the Russians into the Third World by outspending them on "weapons of mass destruction" and our reward for winning is nation of overweight idiots who know more about Ozzy Osbourne's personal life than they do about politics, history and world events combined. They could more easily name the casts of all of the past Survivor programs, than the 50 States. We're are in deep shit and there isn't a bottom in sight.On the other hand, I went shopping today and bought some nice floor pillows. Slowly transforming my living room into a mini do jo. Have put together my Christmas list for friends and family and can't wait to spend some time this week getting ready for the holidays. To me, Christmas is about family, friends, food and parties. I like to give gifts, but I give gifts throughout the year, so I never stress about that crap.As long as I have beautiful music to listen to, family, good friends, rum and cokes, yummy snacks and everything they don't advertise as on sale for 2 days only at Target, I'll feel the true meaning of Christmas - which transcends religions, races and cultures and that meaning is -- elf bowling . . . oh, and love. By love, I mean the lofty kind - not the pervy stuff - well, that counts, too.