Peeking Across the Political Divide
By chance I found myself wandering around in a sea of war blogs, gun blogs, political blogs and some hate blogs. All with the opposing opinions that I hold. Its strange to read the opposite of what you believe and then hard to not p'shaw it and laugh at its bad humor and deeply rooted disalignment with anything even vaguely democratic.

I don't disagree with them on everything and actually many of them were hoping for a change in leadership or an accounting by ShrubCo just like the rest of us. Even they are pissed off at the really pretty alarming rate that Bush is spending money.

I don't disagree with them on gun control. I like guns, sorry. I do. I like shooting, target shooting, skeet shooting, action shooting, slingshots, paintballs, darts, you name it, I like to target shoot with it. I don't like the thought of nobody anywhere but the police, military and government having firearms. Not necessarily for governmental overthrow, though that is one of the framers original intentions but also for home protection and entertainment. I don't go hunting, but if I did, it would be real and not some caged bloodlust massacre thing like Cheney did last week. Why didn't you use laser guided missiles, Dick? I mean, come on, if you're gonna waste money AND birds, why not do it with some style.

But my over riding sense is one of anger and smug confidence in reading the other blogs. The kick in the teeth and they spit on you too attitude. I know why they are like this, in part. Its the comfort of being armed, its stupid when you see it written there, but it is. Being armed means that you are capable of protecting your shit against most possible attacks. There is a smug confidence in thinking that the burglar who breaks into their house is going to get a very carefully selected 12 gauge load pointed at them and hopefully fired. There's a Vengeance-is-Mine-!-!-! feeling about the sites in their rabid fervor. I bet, if you polled them, more than 60% have bunkers of some sort in or near their houses. Comforting thought, eh?

They are also enjoying the holy hell out of the democratic nomination race and deride every candidate save Edwards. They laugh at Dean, they call Clark a gay fired general, Kerry an Atkins version of JFK and Lieberman an idiot Jew. Its angry stuff. Impotent male ready to kill because his dick's broke angry stuff. I don't know, its sometimes just too hard to not be as viciously nasty as they are. For some reason they are somewhat worried about Edwards and call him the only even potential threat to a Republican victory.

I do think Lieberman should just fade into the wallpaper, he's done and is nothing but dressing. I don't know enough about Clark or Kerry, although his membership in the Skull and Bones really does cast him in a very different and suspect light. Dean I know and still like, regardless of his growl or whatever it was. I guess this has been the best time to not have a television, I haven't seen it and don't care about it anyway. He's human, cut him some freaking slack, come on George senior puked on national and international television, PUKED! Want to see the pictures, I'm sure I can dig them up.

But it was educational reading and I did learn alot of things. One is that I've gotta case my houses alot more carefully so I don't get shot. Two, there is a left and right and I'm on one and they're on the other and its still not quite that simple. They are uniting against Bush as well as we are but they want to, obviously, replace him with another GOP lackey. Please, please, please, please God, if you do exist, do not let them, don't let them figure out some way to make it legal for Arnold to run for president. Ahhhh, I said it out loud. I thought it. Ahhhhh, I've gotta go get drunk and pass out and hope that, when I wake up, I won't remember any of this.