The Nation Will Move On

Effective on June 14th, 2008 same-sex marriage will be recognized in California.

And Americans will get used to it.

People are naturally afraid of change, and I do believe that is one of the biggest reasons same-sex marriage isn’t popular… well, besides religion too.

But ultimately, people will get over it and I do believe same-sex marriage will be allowed all around the country and conservatives will stop using it as a talking point in their politics.

Why do I say this?

Because in reality, there is no true debate against same-sex marriage.

Look at Massachussetts. Nothing bad has happened there. There have been no reports or anything of anything bad. In California, nothing will happen. People will get on with their lives.

As for the sanctity of marriage, current divorce rates in the US are at about 50%. That’s not very sanctimonious.

Spain, South Africa, the Netherlands, and Canada have all legalized same-sex marriage. And ALL of them have lower divorce rates than the United States.

This nation will move on from same-sex marriage as a political talking point and be a world leader in it as well. As soon as the majority of states allow same-sex marriage, the more other countries will begin to allow it.

Support the war, not the troops?

That’s exactly the message presumptive Republican Presidential Nominee John McCain sent when he did not vote or support the new GI Bill.

The new and improved GI Bill would essentially allow the troops to get enough money through an additional Patriot Tax that would allow them to go to a four year college.

This is vitally important for the troops because a lot of them come back home and become homeless and suffer from mental illnesses.

Can you guess another person who doesn’t support the bill?

George W. Bush.

Guess he truly is supporting the Bushian policies of the past.

The Bane of the Democrats

Is Hillary Rodham Clinton.

She is pushing, and pushing, and pushing that Michigan and Florida be counted. There is one problem, and I find this upsetting: Obama and Clinton AGREED, yes AGREED not to campaign in Florida and Michigan because they broke party rules.

Clinton AGREED to this, but now for her own personal gain and to no benefit of the party she is absolutely hurting the party in every conceivable way. She agreed not to campaign in those two states, but now that she “won” the states she wants them to be counted. And by “win” I mean being the only big name on the ballot in Florida with an upstart no one knew in Obama as the opponent and her being the ONLY person on the ballot in Michigan.

The more Clinton talks the more she stirs the emotions of the voters in Florida and Michigan and the worse Obama looks even though it’s not his fault. He simply complied with the request of the party, as did Hillary.

But Hillary is a victim of double talk on this. She’s changing her tune and it makes her sound good. But it hurts the party in the long run.

Note to Mrs. Clinton: do the Dems’ a favor and stop. Double talk again and downplay the votes of Michigan and Florida. Howard Dean’s plan has always been to seat the delegates after a candidate has been selected, but guess what? He can’t do that with you in the race.

This hurts the Democrats chances in November as Obama is in Florida trying to appease voters. He’s going to need that state in November against McCain, but the Republicans will have a field day there if this doesn’t get resolved soon.

Hillary, please think of your party and concede defeat.

Superdelegates, please end this.

It’s only going to get worse.

This is why you need to be educated.

Or you will look like a complete and utter fool and become a YouTube sensation.

For some background, President Bush was in Israel and in a speech to the Knesset he essentially took a shot at Obama and comparing him to Hitler appeasers. McCain then took it a step further and compared him to Neville Chamberlain.

Obama has said that he would be fine with talking with Iran and negotiate with them, and basically using diplomacy to get Iran to end it’s nuclear weapons program. That is what McCain and Bush were referring to when calling Obama an appeaser.

Here’s the vid I’m talking about:

Disaster Report

China was recently hit by a massive 7.9 magnitude earthquake and a city was leveled. The deathtoll is around 20,000 people, and it’s a horror to watch the coverage.

Myanmar was hit by a cyclone. Their deathtoll is around 78,000 people.

To put this into perspective, Hurricane Katrina claimed a little under 2,000 people.

Within weeks of each other we’ve had two massive natural disasters that together claim the lives of around 100,000 people.

People have busy lives, especially in America. No one really takes the time to relax and look around a little. Now should be the time.

It’s time to pay attention.

Conan O’Brien’s replacement named.

And it’s Jimmy Fallon.

Well, he was good on Weekend Update in his time on SNL so I’m sure he’ll get the hang of Late Night after a while. I do not think he’ll top Conan at all, but he’ll get there… at least I hope so.

Conan, however, will be great on the Tonight Show. He’ll have to tone it down a bit, but I’m confident in his ability to make people laugh that he’ll do amazing.

Jay Leno may decide to not retire after all, which would take him to another network probably. Hmm, does Fox have any kind of late night talk show? Although Leno was never as good as Letterman in my opinion, so I’m sure O’Brien will fill his shoes nicely.

Let the games begin

Well, the much rumored 3G iPhone seems to be coming sometime this summer and surely after the immense success of the first iPhone the 3G version will most likely follow suit. Also, the iPhone is getting it’s firmware upgraded to version 2.0 sometime in mid June, which will probably make Apple’s phone a little more corporate friendly.

But everyone knows that already.

There are now two brand new heavyweights though.

iPhone, say hello to the brand new BlackBerry Bold (aka BlackBerry 9000) as well as the HTC Touch Diamond. First, let’s take a look at the iPhone’s new competitors, along with a picture of the iPhone we all know and love.

The BlackBerry Bold features a full QWERTY keyboard along with the revamped and absolutely beautiful Blackberry OS and feature 3G for the first time on a BlackBerry device.

The HTC Touch Diamond is a full touch screen phone like Apple’s device running on Windows Mobile OS with a sleek and sexy presentation.

All three phone look great, and all three look to go to war by the end of the year.

The Bold will be out sometime this summer from AT&T with other versions coming to other carriers as time goes on, and the HTC Touch Diamond has been submitted to the FCC but doesn’t have a carrier in the US yet.

Obama captures 9 more superdelegates

And he brings the Democratic primaries an inch closer to ending.

One of the ’supers’ was a former Clinton supporter as well. If the majority of the ’supers’ support Obama this primary season could end as soon as two weeks from now.

In the meantime, Obama and McCain have essentially begun the general election swapping blows on whether Obama is endorsed by Hamas and if Obama is age-ist or if McCain is losing his bearings.

Oh, boy… there will be some fun come November.

Even more fun considering McCain’s pastor supporters may be more controversial than Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Rev. John Hagee, a McCain endorser, has claimed Hurricane Katrina was created by God to punish New Orleans for its homosexual sins.

On the other side, Rev, Rod Parsley has called Islam a “false religion” and has essentially called on Christians to wage war on the religion.

Right, now it’s time to sit back and wait for the backlash… I mean, there has to be backlash. Right? …right? Media? Hello?

Limbaugh should be ashamed.

Radio host Rush Limbaugh’s “Operation Chaos” was aimed to cause some mischief during the Democratic Primaries last night. The goal of this “operation” was to disrupt the primaries and help Clinton, who he used to think was the weaker opponent for Senator John McCain to face in the general election, win the two states.

Well, it doesn’t look like that worked out today.

So now, he changes his tune a bit.

According to Politico.com, which happens to be a great political website, Limbaugh now believes Obama is the weaker opponent. He also took a shot at former Senator George McGovern, who today switched his endorsement from Clinton to Obama and called for Clinton to drop out, saying that “McGovern in his lifetime wants to see someone lose worse than he did,” referring to when McGovern was the Presidential nominee for the Democrats.

Absurd.

This guy is absolutely absurd.

He probably has an audience because he is absurd. Now, why is he absurd? It’s very simple.

He called to cause disruption in the Democratic Primaries. He wanted to cause some unrest. He wanted to play with people’s right to vote. That is what is absurd.

Our troops die to protect our democratic rights, which includes the right to vote. World wars have been fought to protect the right to vote. The right to vote is a fundamental part of this country and democratic philosphy and he wants to play with it like some play thing. He wants to see how far his influence goes for ego reasons and decides to play a very shameful game with the democratic system.

It goes against the very core of America. I understand not voting for either candidate to get your message out. I understand voting for the other party because you’re not happy with yours. But, for the life of me, I will never understand voting to cause “chaos.”

It’s absolutely absurd.

Update: Zimbabwe

Remember Burma? Or Myanmar? Different names, same country. Well, when the monks were protesting late last year the government essentially shut down Burma and it got the world’s attention.

Well, it appears the same thing is happening in Zimbabwe.

According to The Jakarta Post, Robert Mugabe’s regime has “shut down independent media, attacked independent civil society organizations, denied visas to foreign journalists, and has arrested and beaten journalists who nevertheless enter the country.”

I think it’s obvious that there’s a much larger issue here.

Within a year we have two countries shutting down what is essential to a democracy: an independent media.

We have human rights violations all over the world, yet it doesn’t always get the attention of the people of the world. Burma got the attention, but then lost it. Things still are bad in Burma, with the recent cyclones there the government isn’t allowing aid into the country.

It’s issues and times like these that absolutely depress me with the horrible and evil capabilities of the human race.