today's new york times

so i guess that yassir arafat died. i can't really say that i care. i can say that i wish it was ariel sharon instead, but you can't always get what you want. i suppose that the real concern over this is the question of whether or not the stability in the middle east will last now. but really, what fucking stability was there in the first place.

i would guess that the wall will be completed, lessening the frequency of "suicide bombings" in israel. i would also guess that the settlers will keep flowing into non-israeli palestine until there is someone that has the balls to stick up for them. and no, i don't really think that arafat did that. but as the settlers continue to flood in, there will be more violence.

so once again, i am left asking who the fuck had the bright idea to give israel nuclear weapons? that person needs to be taken out and shot. the last thing religious fanatics need are weapons of any kind, let alone the kind that can hurt me from far away.

speaking of which, it seems like there is a lot of talk of voter fraud. the times website sort of just discarded it, though i didn't read the article. but if i am wrong, it should teach those fuckers that a headline shouldn't be biased.

pieter has sent me a few articles about the "fraud." but i kind of thought this was going to come anyway, though i can't just dismiss it. i guess i think that bush is such a loser that not only would he have to do this, but he would. either way, this voting system is pretty flawed. i can't honestly say that i have ever felt like my vote counted. in fact, i am at a loss for an explaination of why i continue to vote. maybe it's just so i can continue to bitch and take my "high moral ground."

and more troops are headed into fallujah. yeah, i can't really say much about this. i guess it just pisses me off about the whole voter fraud thing. i just want to scream at people that their little flirtation with kerry led to a diversion from the fact that the greatest threat to our nation is this ongoing war -- currently centered in iraq.

i want people to finally see that "spreading democracy" is just a veil for trying to corner the world oil market. unfortunately, it will take years for that to materialize, and no one will really understand what happened when it does. fucking stupid people, got to love them.

sometimes i feel like i live in one giant mentos commercial.

but on a happy note, ashcroft has resigned as attorney general. but really, i still am counting on the rapture. i think i could take seeing the end of the world, as long as the christians are finally gone.