Oh fucking hell

Leaving destruction in their wake

Powell: US will pull troops out this year

Thank you America. Thank you for getting the War on Terror all wrong. Thank you for making the rest of the world despise you. Thank you for ruining lives of National Guard soldiers whose only wish was to help at home and get some education at the same time. Thank you for stuffing the portfolio of Dick Cheney with non-bid contracts for Haliburton. Thank you for the latest "Soldier of Fortune" delights. Thank you for defiling the name of Christianity in the worst way since the Crusades. Thank you for using the TWAT (Total War on Terror) in a purely partisan way - but hell what would we expect...I mean the lack of those evil commies is crimping your defense budget justifications. Thank you for the plundering of thousands of years of history. Thank you for being as transparent about your true motives as a brick wall. Thank you for spitting on the hard working soldiers who are only doing their jobs - supporting the troops my ass. Thank you Mr. Bush for not reading history - maybe you'd have understood that the Brits, Ottomans, Mongols and others didn't defeat the cultures at the confluence of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers - take a number and wait in the queue. Thank you American liberal hawks - boy I bet you feel a right bunch of charlies. Thank you American opposition for not sticking it to the Bush cabal every single moment of every single day. Thank you American media (I'm lookin' at you CNN - trusted voice in journalism? More like stenography) for losing your teeth and interest in covering political scandal and fellating the Whitehouse like it's an episode of Sesame Street for Grownups. Thank you America for your kangaroo court capture and trial of Saddam Hussein. Thank you America for your reduction of women's rights in Iraq. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

Now for you who have gotten this far go back and replace "thank" with "fuck"

Plaxo - anyone else having problems?

I'm trying to get it to load up on either FireFox or on Opera - it stalls as it loads up my contact database.

I'm getting my CRM up and running to handle this - at least it's running local.

[Update] Spoke to Vincent with their Tech Support - seems a couple servers were being services. Back to normal now.

Presidential Speakers - Al Gore vs George W. Bush

Hot damn!

I'm listening to Al Gore's Speech yesterday (text here)

I listen to him as he speaks with such passion and without teleprompters for more than one hour which shows the sheer disparate abilities between him and George W. Bush.

His passion for the return to American democracy and the law being above man is the America that I respected. Not the imperially dillusional situation as it is now - which is dripping a toxic ooze of hate around the planet.

America, please recapture the goodness of your country - the world awaits.

Restart again - with a couple thoughts

After much goading from friends of mine from other terra firma locations, I am really going to get back into posting - really!

A couple thoughts have been entering into my head the last couple days. The first, is that the Canadian election is now less than 1 week away. I believe that the Conservative (read right of Euro conservatives, but usually left of American Republicans and sometimes even some Democrats) will take power. The pounding of the drums from Western Canada that there should be a Conservative majority, I think is increadibly unfounded, and frankly dangerous at this time.

The massive Liberal majorities caused an atmosphere of corruption opportunity and to say that the Tories would be any different, needs to take a swim in the Rideau Canal in the middle of January (like today!). I seriously hope that there will be a minority government, with the left-sided parties (NDP & Bloc on social issues-not separation issues) holding the balance of power. I think we need to have the balance to keep the "tough conservatives" - who often like their American counterparts still poop their pants at the prospect of the latest boogeyman under their beds (Cold War Communists = Phoney War on Terror Terrorists) - from engaging Canadians in a unneeded dose of silliness. Nevertheless we shall see. And I need to figure out where to vote today since I can't get to the polls next Monday.


The other issue I've been pondering is if the "light on the hill" of America has dimmed itself to a point where it can't return? Right now we're in an emperical denoument, similar to inter World War Britain, as China is taking up the torch of leading global empire (with India catching up, but not there yet). I think that Americans as a whole haven't grasped the fact that their power has waned, that they're tremendously leveraged financially to pay for the Whitehouse's real life game of Risk and that they'll never get it back.
The funny thing when the Soviet Union fell, ueber Patriots in the US called themselves the 'winner'. Sure, of a multi-trillion dollar phoney war of realpolitik, markets, hegemony and military "big stickism". But at the same time, America as she wanted to be known also died. The economic battles that the US could have against China are hardly able to happen now with the death of many Rustbelt towns, the retiring of the Baby Boomers, and the unwillingness or inability (despite all the Viagra and Cialis commercials) to copulate a new generation.

Pax Americana is fading like a star after a violent supernova. Sinopax is what my generation and at least the next couple will have as the global superpower.

Though the economic power of the US is fading (albeit slowly), it could remain a moral power (especially in the light of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in the US). However, that's been lost currently as well - with the current Whitehouse occupants striving toward the very Stalinist ideals that many thought America abhorred. Strange times my friends. Strange times...