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There was a lot of news about the security leak by the British on a commuter train.  There is a lot of talk about the lax security by the British with sensitive documentation, but somehow I don't quite buy that this is a situation of negligence and incomptence.  But anyone who has any inkling of British history should have snickered and said to themselves...ah, those crafty Brits...always up to something. 

Obama for all his ranting about fighting against "buisness as usual in Washington" faced a huge slap in the face when the person he tabbed to help find a VP for his ticket had to resign because of his ties with Countrywide.  I'm not going to make a huge deal about Obama being a hypocrite; instead its the fact that rhetoric is great, but is there anything really tangible behind that rhetoric?  I wonder if he really does intend on imposing a windfall tax on "evil oil companies."  Imposing a windfall tax on a corporation is only going to make that company 1) cut jobs to make up for the losses, 2) do a better job of hiding those profits, which any good billion dollar company is more than capable of doing and 3) just pass that tax to the consumers by jacking up the prices of their product.  I'm not an economics major of have an MBA, but it's common sense that if your taxes are getting jacked up for your company, it would stand to reason that you would raise prices to cover your overhead. 

I don't know, but I'm unimpressed by both candidates.  Maybe its because I'm a bit of a cynic.  I see my vote going to Godzilla.  He would have the best foreign policy--fuck with Godzilla and he's razing your nation.  I don't think Al Qaeda would want to piss off Godzilla since he doesn't care what he destroys.  Note the sarcasm...

I really enjoy the doom and gloom in the news about the floods in the midwest.  Already they are stirring up fear in the minds of people about the loss of crops, which will end up leading to higher food prices--although farmers are paid  to destroy crops in order to maintain the market value of food.  I guess that's lost on many people.  It's probably lost on many people that the United States in the past has provided food stuffs to the world in great quantities.  Only in the United States, the land of plenty can people freak out about possible food shortages.  If it was not so pathetic, it would be comical.

Life expectancy is rising in the US, but they rail about the increase of Alzheimer's as a major cause of death.  If I make it to 80, I figure that would be a good run since that would be longer than my grandfather Chancellor and my grandma Azcona.  How long do you really need to live?  Eventually, we all must die.  It's just a fact of life.  As Murakami wrote in a short story that death is not the end of life but a continuation of life. 

People rant about destroying nature, but in the methods as to how humans deifiy the dead with elaborate preservation techniques and enclosing the bodies in hermetic cases, we are denying ourselves to return to the carbon cycle.  I remember my old crazy Bio teacher in High School, Mr. Joll stated that he wanted to be thrown in a hole in the woods so he can return to the carbon cycle.  But I'm sure enivornmentalists and the EPA and state that it would really contaminate the water table or water sources.  Yet, for thousands of years, people would just bury thier dead in the ground in wooden boxes that would decompose, allowing the body to return to nature and the carbon cycle.  Maybe that's the true immortality for humanitiy in the end, by returning to nature and becoming a part of something else later on.

I'm not going to blog about "where is God."  I'm pretty sure God does not reside in the multi-million dollar cathedrals of the world.

If I have to hear about how the United States needs to close borders that have been open for over 200 years with bigger threats than we have today, I'm going to lose my mind.  Border towns have been the same for thousands and thousands of years.  Not much is going to change.