Before I get to the political stuff...a quick music update.

I wrote a song! Not a great work of art just yet, but it is workable and the first I've been able to write in a long, long time. When I get it polished up, I may post some lyrics. I would love to say it has released the creative floodgates...not yet.

I guess I needed a bit of drama in my life to get that stuff going.

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Let's talk Iran, shall we? They're screwing around with nuclear stuff and the "western" nations are bugging. Now I have my philiosophical perspective on this, then I have my realpolitik perspective.

First of all, you can't prop up nuclear power, maintain the biggest nuclear arsenal (by far), and support other countries' nuclear programs and then freak about Iran. I don't want Iran to have any nuclear capabilities, but we have to check ourselves first. You can't say, do as I say not as I do, here. So-called progressives say that only lately has the US acted like bullies and have not had humanitarian goals for our actions. That's crap. History has shown that we have continually backed messed-up people for our own "interests"...and our "interests" have been non-humanitarian. This is no different.

Now let's take this to the actual situation...our dumbass, war criminal of a fake president has been trying to get research going on "smaller" nuclear weapons that wouldn't take out a whole county. Oh...that's much better. We have no standing in which to judge this on...nor does any other nuclear power. Is Iran a Theocracy? Yep. But it's like restricting free speech, who decides where that line is?

Here's a question out of the blue...are you afraid to die? Seriously. Are you? I'm not, really. I don't want to die and I sure don't want a lingering, painful death, but the way I look at it, billions of people have died over time...over some dumb shit, too. My untimely death, while it may suck for me and the 3 people who may care, isn't going to affect humanity one way or another. And I say this feeling totaly ambivalent about the possiblity of an afterlife. I don't have this inner need to put my stamp on this world - any stamp. If I do, that's great...bully for me. But if I do, I'm going to do it on my terms, uncompromised. I'm not saying that I never compromise, but when certain principles that I hold dear are involved, I will not go againt them. What's the use?

I will not knowingly screw with other people for selfish reasons...thus my political & social views. So if I'm going to have nuclear capabilties, I'm not going to tell someone else they can't. Does this put me (and others) in danger? I guess. But no more than Pakistan or Israel having nuclear bombs. Am I willing to tell them to scrap theirs? And scrap mine? No. Then I sit the f-down and shut the f-up.

A couple of other little "interesting" tidbits on this situation. Here are a couple of quotes from our so-called leaders.

The Lizzie Rice:

We also agree that the removal of seals by the Iranian Government, in defiance of numerous IAEA Board resolutions, demonstrates that it has chosen confrontation with the international community over cooperation and negotiation...We join the European Union and many other members of the international community in condemning the Iranian Government's deliberate escalation of this issue. There is simply no peaceful rationale for the Iranian regime to resume uranium enrichment.

Uh...hello? We can have a peaceful rationale, but they can't? And who has chosen confrontation over negotiation? Uh, didn't Saddam approach us before we attacked Iraq and offer to step down and go into exile? Yep. And didn't we lie to the UN? Yep.

Then...it's the return of the Douchebag!

Ultimately if we are not able to find any diplomatic resolution in the next weeks I don't think we have any choice but to take it to the international community. I think Iran has made a very dangerous and a very silly decision and it is inviting confrontation not with the United States but with the global community that cares enormously about the control of nuclear weapons.

John Kerry sucks ass. Plain and simple. We would still be in Iraq if he hadn't been a freakin quitter. Same Yale, skull & crossbones asshole...I don't care what his party is.

[Tangent Alert]

Which brings me to something else I've been thinking about lately. The War Criminal stealing his second election - in the long run - may turn out to be an OK thing. I know, I know, but hear me out here.

The chutzpah and ignorance of these neocons have caused such blatant behavior that's either going to tear apart this country, or get it to where it should be. Now, I have absolutely no faith that the Dems can do this on their own. It's going to take a lot of independent lefties to get electoral reform, universal health care and improvements in labor. But I said this a while back...things are going to have to get to rock-freaking-bottom for real, systemic change to occur. And we're pretty darn close to it now.

We could be coming to a fork in the road. We can become the next Rome or Ottoman Empire and fizzle out or we can consciously decided to do things that have never been done before. Supposedly, this "experiment in democracy" is supposed to be in the latter category already - though I've always taken that as self-centered, jingoistic hype. But I'd sure like to see us do it for real.

Brain empty. Good night.