AROUND THE WORLD: Voting And Such Other Trivialities

Normally, if I were a real blogger, I would apologize for not updating any posts recently so that  my dear readers would not abandon me. But, because I am neither a real blogger nor a blog with actual readers, I'll just say hello to myself.  Hi, me.  Hey.  How are you? Meh, I'm ok.  K.  Great.  Anything in the news?  Oh yes, indeed:

AT HOME:

People are actively soliciting voter registrations from "disillusioned" groups... which in this case happens to mean dogs.  This dog, who has been dead for more than two (2) years, received a voter registration form, a legit one, in the mail.  Because voting is no big deal and the security of your civil rights is irrelevant.

Speculators are speculating about the United States' continued prominence (existence actually).  Predict possible Armageddon, moral decay, financial collapse, continued poor leadership, lack of responsibility... the usual.

Sensitive progressives really aren't very sensitive.  Mock Anne Romney's multiple sclerosis.

NASA-1977 is accomplishing a lot more than NASA-2012.  Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, after 35-ish years, are about to break out of our solar system (currently, they are 11.1 and 9.1 Billion miles from home, respectively, and still functioning).  NASA-2012 replied to NASA-1977, "Huh? What are these things you call 'science' and 'outer space'?  Teach us your ways of the flying object... and can we borrow some money.  We have no money."

ABROAD:

Crazy Ivan/Vlad the Putin has returned to prominence.  Is acting very scary as of late. 

Vlad, plus Iran, plus Syria, plus CHINA is a whole lot of crazy and even scarier.  Currently, planning war games.  Gee, I wonder who this is supposed to be a message to...

Egypt is destabilizing, threatening Israel (following its stabilization by ousting foreign interests i.e. American NGO's encouraging civil rights in the country... applied here to mean discouraging the murder of women for learning to read and going outside of the house).

CURRENT WORLD STATUS:  Ignorantly Chipper.

Here's the Awesome Scale as I imagine it.

(UTTERLY AWESOME) ------ (IGNORANTLY CHIPPER) ------ (IGNORANT IN GENERAL) ------ (FINANCIAL BAILOUT / T.A.R.P.) ----- (QUANTITATIVE EASING; QE2; QE3) ------ (EURO BAILOUT) ------ (PROGRESSIVE AGENDA SUCCESS) ------ (LOAD THE CAR & RUN)

Now, you might think that Utterly Awesome would be the "good" side of the scale but unfortunately you're wrong because this scale monitors world mood, not the actual state of existence.  So the closer we are to the Utterly Awesome side of things, the closer we are to impending destruction.  I like to think that this very-backward approach is a good representation of how quixotic things are.

Big Sis Wants Omnipotence

DHS is reading blogs, the New York Times, the DrudgeReport, Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and so on. Evidently, this is someone's job. Sounds a lot like us paying for someone to surf the net and waste time. Either that, or it is a major, black-ops, conspiracy theory, plot against US ALL! Ok, no it's not but it's annoying. The real question is how much money is being wasted?

Did you know it takes roughly 272 individual handlers to monitor and analyze the data from one reconnaissance drone? I wonder how many it'll take to monitor ALL of the internet. Sounds like a cost effective approach to defending our country... against ourselves...because the real threats are in the U.S. not Iran or Russia or China or Pakistan or Venezuela or even Cuba. Nope, you'll be surprised to find it's actually over at the Drudge Report.

Christian Bale Is Legit. Iran is Crazy.

Christian Bale went to see a free man in China. Naturally, he did not succeed because there is no such thing. Even being a star in a new movie (funded and propagandized by the Chinese government), wasn't enough to break through the dictatorial proclamations of the powers that be. Instead of meeting with the "free man," he was attacked by government minions and chased for more than forty (40) minutes. It's interesting to observe how freedom operates in the people's "Republic." Communism seems like such a good idea doesn't it?

In other news, Iran sucks, is insane, will destroy the middle East one day, and now has fairly decent hackers. I know it's old news but I felt obliged to post it here. I'm hoping the CIA has intentionally allowed Iran to take this drone so it can use it as a weapon against the country. Knowing POTUS's foreign policy, something makes me think that might not be the case.

The entire situation makes me feel like our State Department is being run by Vizzini from The Princess Bride (nationally renowned for his impressive logical approach to solving problems):

But it’s so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you... Are you the sort of man who would put the poison into his own goblet or his enemy’s? Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I’m not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me...