California Special Election Results: We’re Not Stupid, We Just Demand Change
I hope everyone who is a resident of California remembered to get out there and vote yesterday. I sure as hell forgot until I went to the grocery store in the early evening to do some shopping and took a look at the ridiculous sales tax on my receipt.
Glad to see the state legislature has come up with some innovative ways to solve a budget crisis in a state that is simultaneously one of the wealthiest in the country and already has the highest sales tax in the nation.
Anyway, the increase in sales tax is old news. It happened over a month ago, I thought last evening, and there is nothing I can do about it. Then on my way out of the store I noticed the cover of the L.A. Times where, in a rare showing of vital information, it mentioned the 6 measures on the ballot for the election. … Continue Reading
Would We Have Elected a Brick?
Now that the post-inauguration fervor has died down, and Obama is starting to make some decisions, nominating some people to his cabinet, getting some blowback, and trying to pass a stimulus package, I wanted to step back and take a look at the day Barack Obama officially became the 44th President of The United States.
I might as well get this out of the way first: I did not vote for Barack Obama, and before you hit your “Back” button, I did not vote for John McCain either. I have my own reasons for why I voted for my candidate, but I’m not going to dig into a pile of political issues here
I will be blunt: George W. Bush has left this country in a shambles compared to what it was when he came into office in 2000. No president could ever do a perfect, much less a great job in office because it’s a literally impossible job to succeed at in any normal sense of the word. We all know that no other president in history, since approval ratings first came about, has had a lower rating than George W. Bush. This man had the country’s heart given to him on a silver platter, and he dropped the plate, propelling shards into every American home. 9-11 happened and America was ready to mobilize, to gather our collective spirit and patriotism in honor of what we believe to be the greatest country that has ever existed, and what did he do? He regressed back to the mentality of an angry college freshman, a maniacal evangelist, labeling countries as “Evil,” trying to impress people rather than do what was right.