Now I have my opinions of Colorado Amendment 36, but it seems to me that instead of it being about the voters its being used as a political tool when it should be about votes. If it passes, which is to say if a majority vote for it, it will likely cause havoc on the presidential outcome as well later be deemed unconstitutional since only our lovely state legislatures are the ones who can decide how our electors are chosen. Not that it bloody matters because anything less then pure popular vote is fair. I am for this amendment for a few reasons. First to get the idea out to our legislatures (as if they would listen but we can try) that we want change, second because frankly I could give a damn if our election goes 'smoothly', third anything that breaks or encourages the end of the electoral college I'm all for, and finally because I like to see republicans and democrats squirm. Update 10-27: Here's a link that best explains why I think the Electorial College needs to go.

I thought this recent study about what people really understand about their presidential candidates was interesting. Regardless who wins I can't wait for this election to get over. I'm bloody tired of the incessant commercials, phone calls, fliers, and knowing that not a damn single one of those bloody candidates represents me correctly.

In case you hadn't noticed already I'm voting for Kerry this election, but regardless of who I may want to win, if you aren't voting at all this year you suck. Who's up for some old school MLP? I knew you were.

It seems AMD has been doing very well this year, seemingly beating Intel to the punch with their latest Athlon 64 4000+. One wonders what AMD will use to base their model numbers with as Intel starts focusing more on general preformance rather than GHZ. Apple also has been doing good lately. They released new iBooks and re-added their single G5 desktop today. One of these days, maybe when their next generation comes out, I need to get me an iPod. My favorate maven of the late night comedy fake news The Daily Show, John Stewart has been having an interesting month showing up at CNN's Crossfire calling one of the hosts a dick, talking to Bill O'Reilly on his show, and releasing a book which has now been banned at Walmart. If anyone doesn't know anything about Google these days they need to go Google it. Anyway they released a new Desktop Search program that can combine web searching with searching files on your hard drive. However some people have voiced concerns about it. I myself am not sure I want anything on my system that can search through some of my encrypted files as if they werent. One of my newest favorate authors Neal Stephenson was interviewed at Slashdot.

Wasn't that fun? I'm going to sleep.

I'm not normally one to be a doom sayer but the United States is headed down the road for a disaster. Can we endure another 4 years of Bush and his administration in The White House? If one follows the polls Kerry and Bush are sea-sawing from minor margins to dead heats and I ask the question, how can they still be tied? Who can honestly think that Bush has been doing a good job? I see people claiming that he's making America safer when its clear he isn't, that only he can win the war on terror when its also clear he's making a mess of a minor thing like the war on Iraq, that tax cuts are what we need and needed to help us out of the recession when it really wasn't a recession but more like a market correction after the entire countries pyramid scheme collapsed.

Let me expand on this economy business. I got something like a whopping 400 dollars, which meant jack shit, it was entirely meaningless. Another tax cut for me will also be meaningless. It won't but barely dent my expenses, anymore then it helps the millions of other middle class people in this country. And the idea that tax cuts for businesses and the rich helps make jobs is utterly insane. If the government wants to help with the unemployed it should do something equally insane like, employ them. Civil works and government projects would have helped heaps better than a tax cut. CEOs and Corporations are walking away with even more money yet workers are getting payed less and they are still laying people off. WTF? The worst may be over but the economy is by no means strong, and certainly not as strong as it could have been if someone with any amount of competence was in the Office.

If one knows anything about what the national debt really is its relatively meaningless unless it gets way out of hand. Yet we all know something about symbolism and the symbolism behind the strongest nation in the world having such an enormous burden of debt isn't good. It effects many things, and one of those is the value of the dollar which has been been at a steady decline for years now.

Speaking about symbols, how about the image that our current president presents to people in the international community. Sure the world doesn't dictate our lives, but who are we then to dictate their lives. We are also not alone in the world. Do we really want the entire world to hate our president? They may not all hate us yet, but if you think the hatred that half of Americas divided population has for the president is anything to hold against how the rest of the world feels about him take a look again.

This idea now that he's doing good in the war on terror when he had literally nothing more to do with the Afghanistan and Iraqi wars than pointing to a map and saying blow them up. He still doesn't even have an exit strategy for either of those wars. As president these are the things he's suppose to do, we have generals and officers for strategies in battle and a president for strategies in wars. What are the main goals, what are the timetables, how to enable the generals to get the jobs done?

Putting aside the dubious No Child Left Behind debate, his disregard for stem cell research, the environment, sucking up to big business, doing nothing about health care, screwing up the war on terror, and plunging us into a huge national debt, he has the nerve to try to pass an amendment against gay marriage. That is as direct a violation of church and state if there ever was one. The idea that the government enforces even a few religions ideas of what marriage is, is fascist crap. What he really should do is remove all words of marriage from our constitution and only recognize Civil Unions as a law binding way to join people. By the way, the bill even tries to ban gays from having civil unions. Religions should be able to have marriages or whatever the heck they want to call it but the only time the government should step in is to formalize a Union between two people giving those two people the rights and benefits they deserve equally without discrimination.

I ask again, can we endure another 4 years of this?

As I do nearly every weekend I went and saw a movie, this weekend I saw "What the bleep do we know?", which was an interesting documentary about quantum physics. There were two main parts to it, the story and the documentary, both revolving around the central theme of quantum physics and how we are effected at the very small quanta levels. One of the more interesting things I brought out of the movie was the idea that we can tell ourselves to have positive thoughts but instead what we get is a very thin line or layer of positive thought surrounded with our normal negative thoughts or feelings. Leading us to think we've pushed the negative away when really we have not. Another interesting idea, which Japanese scientist Masaru Emoto experimented with, that water can be affected by human thought, vibration, words, and music by different crystals forming such as with thoughts like love and hate. I leave you to follow the links to research on your own for now.