the truth about gas and hogs ...

i like the more conservative george bush. i don't mean conservative the way he would mean it, of course.

for some reason conservative came to mean "moral" or something. and by moral, i mean in the graces of the "one god" -- whom i am convinced is just the god of war. yep, i have been doing a lot of thinking about it. and i know i have written about it before, though i am not sure where.

but there is part of me that wishes i were homer or something. i guess that's where the vergil comes from -- he always wished he could be like homer too. but i imagine there was a war, a great war between all of the gods and the god of war himself.

the god of war, of course, was stronger than the other gods as he had humans on his side. humans are just more given to war by nature. war is, after all, the grand sagacity of life. it is war that we find the greatest range of humanity and human emotions. it is no wonder we have become such cold voyeurs.

it was not hard for the god of war. it was a plan he had worked on for a long time. step one was to convince the humans that he was the only god. this would not be an easy task. the humans had seen what they had seen, and knew first hand of the existence of all gods.

but other gods were not able to strike fear into the human heart as the god of war was. he pointed his finger and told the men, "i am an angry and jealous god," adding "and you shall have no other gods before me." he codified his decree by designating the other gods as "false idols."

from there, it was pretty simple. the only prayers that were answered were answered with war. glory was promised for an afterlife, allowing the new plebs to step loyally into the dark future. ... or something. i don't know. i guess i am not homer.

i guess you can be conservative in a number of ways. three of them are as follows: this "morality" and adherence to the laws of the god of war; belief that government is a necessary evil and should be treated as such; and one who believes that conservation is a prudent course of action. george bush finally became one of these today.

the man can't be moral. he leads an immoral existence, with selfish physical gains and little spiritual responsibility. you couldn't convince me that he has a lack of trust in the government. he is the prince, and his government is his sword. does a prince not trust his sword?

but apparently the man has decided to take a turn at the third. faced with a war that he was unprepared for and a desire to save face before he runs from his responsibilities as he has done time and time again throughout his sad pathetic life, he figures that he can evoke some sort of loyalty to our grandfathers' generation when people were so convinced that war brought peace they took personal sacrifices to see it won.

we aren't our grandfathers, nor our grandmothers for that matter. we saw the peace they brought with their grand weapons fashioned from the nightmares of future generations. war heals. war provides for honor. war turns love into legend. but nothing brings peace other than death. and through death is the only way one finds peace in war.

it's too late for the president now. wars are won before they are begun. and the true mark of a great leader is to recognize when a war is lost, cut your losses and regroup for the future. one who hangs onto foolish ideals in the face of the hard truth is a daydreamer, not a visionary.

i like that george bush thinks that we should now save some gas. but i would have liked it better if he would have had the forethought not to get in a war over oil if you don't have enough to survive if severed from the source. i can't say it enough, the man should be removed from office and tried for the high crime of treason.

random heartless thoughts on natural disasters ...

it didn't take long for all of the lemings to jump right off that huricane cliff. i guess it doesn't suprise me. fuck, it would shock me if people thought for themselves, and a little bit less about themselves.

i don't really know where to start. so i guess that leads to bush -- as all good things do.

i am sure that i am not the only person that could give a fuck less about how many people are floating down the mississippi river into the gulf of mexico, poluting all the water for the backwoods crackers and the like. and i am just as certain that not too many people are going to openly agree with me.

no, right now, it seems to be a little bit more like a contest to see who can pretend like they really give a fuck about homeless people. homeless people who were told to get the fuck out of the area. homeless people that instead chose to take this superdome handout and then complain that not enough was done on their behalf. forgive me if i don't feel too compasionate about it.

in fact, all i can really think of is the way that people have always said that i was stupid for my fondness of earthquakes. guess what ... shit happens. and it happens where ever you go. and in most places, it is a lot worse.

i have seen stupid fuckers on the television saying that we are seeing third-world horrors in the united states. they are wrong, very wrong. if this was the third world, we would be talking about tens of thousands of dead fuckers floating around. this isn't even close to what the rest of the world has to deal with on a regular basis.

and here's some consistency for you: just like i didn't give a fuck about the tsunami, i don't give a fuck about katrina. and if an earthquake were to come and drop this half of the state into the ocean, i wouldn't really give a fuck about that, even as my ass was drowning in the placerville bay.

this shit has been happening for a long time. people have been dying on massive scales. and that really sucks for them. i certainly have some sort of empathy for the matter. but i have the respect for the earth to know that it knows better than i about how the world should work.

what does all of this have to do with bush? nope, it's not that i am going to go on about how he doesn't really care about black people -- though i am sure that mr. west was quite correct. but i don't think that was any suprise.

but i just don't like the way that all of these other people now care. they are now concerned with poor people and how many of them wash away. the fact is that the ones that complain about the slow response to katrina are just complaining about the war -- in a very pathetic passive-aggressive manner.

if you are suprised that george bush is not a very good president, then you really need to no longer vote. and fuck, if you don't understand that ... who fucking cares. the fact is the man is doing the best that he can, if you consider what he is made of. that's right, this is all that he can do.

it's funny to me that more people seem to respond to this than to the war. i would actually be more willing to support the war effort if bush would just come out and say that we are superior to the rest of the world and that it is their for our taking. but no, he just lies and says it is about some archaic notion of democracy and allowing people to think for themselves and forge a way through the world -- as long as they don't do drugs, have pre-marital sex, cuss, fuck someone of the same gender, get an abortion, and on and on.

i guess i am saying that i just see too much hypocracy in the whole thing. and i just don't have the emotional depth to really care about it anyway.

don't get me wrong, i am very glad that the whole world seems to be thinking that the problem was mismanagement and not global warming. i mean, fuck, if we ignore global warming, more shit like this can happen, and we can all find a little bit of roman-esque entertainment, watching the corpses float on down the line.

i do know that we can't afford to pay all of this money for rebuilding. we do need to pull out of iraq right now, or some of that oil money better get filtered right into the fema budget.