I knew this was going to happen...

Not the fact that Bin Laden would pop up again, we all pretty much knew that this was going to happen, but the thing that I knew that was going to happen would be the conservative radio talk show, TV show, and blog writers and what their response to this "revelation" by Bin Laden was and will be. They are already selling democrats down the river saying that this is what they've been crying for all of the time. A truce with Bin Laden. Which in the real world of things, the thing that we democrats have been asking for, and or looking for solutions for is a war in Iraq. You are crazy if you think that there is one democrat in the federal government today that would say, "Yeah, we should sit down and work out a truce with Bin Laden." Please. Are these conservative guys serious about this? When the release of the Bin Laden tape became public information and everyone started to hear about it, I heard immediately the conservative blow hards talking about how the democrats and the liberals, this is what they've wanted all along. Rush was of course the first one that I hear extolling this. Change of station, Boortz doing the same thing. Driving over to the SO's house this evening, of course Savage was all over it like it had happened already, that the radical left, as he calls them, supposedly lead by Hillary Clinton (who is very moderate if he had ever bothered to look), and of course, Ted Kennedy were already making flight arrangements to go and visit Osama and sign off on a peace truce or something like that. I will say right now that if a democrat does come out and say that maybe we should sit down and talk about a truce, well, someone is going to get punched in the throat, or at least receive a strongly worded letter (probably the latter) from me about that whole idea. I've been saying this for awhile now. There aren't any democrats who are against the war on terror as we have defined, but there are plenty of people who think that our resources and military assets could be better used in the war on terror than how they are being used now, meaning placing most of our eggs into Iraq. There aren't any liberals out there who would even suggest talking to a terrorist, let alone sitting down and making a truce with them. First, that would be pure political suicide, as I believe an overwhelming majority in this country believes that our fight against terrorists is just, and right, and I think that this majority is correct in that yes, we do need to find, fight, and kill terrorists. Iraq, if we all remember correctly, was not about terrorism, it was about dis-arming Saddam and separating him from his weapons of mass destruction that in the end of things, didn't exist. Not about terrorism. You'll be hard pressed to find any democrat that is against killing of terrorists. Of course there are going to be some on the far far left extreme edge of the party, who are complete pacifists, and who would argue against killing any living thing, but this viewpoint, as far as I know, is not widely held. If I'm wrong, please let me know. In the political boards that I frequent, almost as soon as Rush was spouting this new line of rhetoric from the right, which in my opinion is being used to make the left look like they are weak on terrorists, the right wing wackos that love to cut and paste and have a direct line to the republican daily talking points were saying the same thing, with the same phrasing, and passing it off as their own "wild" idea. Freakin' joke if you ask me, a big ass joke. Now they are attacking people and the party before we even do something. New tactic I guess.

And now for your pleasure, more government intrusion into your daily activities. Are you getting even a little bit concerned even now? Now the DOJ wants the search records from Google for 2 months so that they can do a little fishing expedition to see if porn sites are enforcing the rules of what they're supposed to be enforcing. How about this. I'm sure that there are a lot of computers hooked up to the internet at the DOJ. For them, all they have to do for research is go to www.google.com, and enter the word porn into the search engine. I'm sure they wouldn't be surprised to see what they see, and then they can go and look for themselves at what porn sites registered in the US are doing, and whether or not they're following the rules that were established to keep kids from accessing adult stuff on the internet. I've got a better idea. If they're so concerned about kids seeing this stuff (and they shouldn't be, kids are going to see it regardless), then maybe they just step up their parenting skills a little bit. Once again, here you have a federal government being run by people who claim to be conservatives, claim to be all about some personal responsibility and not letting the government take care of them, and here they are trying to play nanny again. It's all about the children right? So that makes it OK. Indeed it does not. Look, what is the internet for if not for porn. It's the biggest use of the internet, and porn has made the internet essentially what it is. Like I said, go to Google, and check out the word porn, millions of hits I'm sure. In the name of writing about facts here. I just Googled just the word "porn" and indeed came up with 41,200,000 hits on Google. Why does the government want all of the searches from those 2 months? Is that when porn searching is at an all time high or something? And why do they need to look at everything? They shouldn't be looking at any of it, and why doesn't Google go the route that libraries have been going, in other words, destroying the records of the searches, or in the case of libraries, destroying the records of who takes out what book or books. That would make this whole issue moot don't you think. It could go something like this, "Hey, we're the Department of Justice, we need all of your search records for these 2 months." Google says, "Oh sorry neo fascists, we destroy that stuff on an hourly basis. Here's a nice Google mug for your troubles." If they don't have the records, they can't subpoena them right? I'm sure that they keep the records at Google for a business purpose, but maybe they shouldn't? 1984 was only 21 years ago, I guess Orwell might have been off schedule just a touch, but not that far off. Add this into the wiretapping debacle, and any other number of things that have been done since 9/11 to ensure our safety and all. Damn. If you voted for Bush in 2004 let me ask this; why in the world would you do such a thing? I'm starting to really dislike a lot of republicans these days. I think that the best thing that could happen would be for Hillary to win the Presidency in 2008, just for the simple fact that I would love to see them flipping out for at least 4 years while she's in office. God, it would be a joy and a wonder to watch them be way more exasperated than we are about Bush. Most conservatives, you mention the name Hillary, and they go into convulsions at the mere mention of her name. It's actually very fun to watch. I also think that people are wrong when they say that she can't get elected, as being too divisive, that's a straw man's argument. The people that hate her, are not going to vote for her anyway, but she's so moderate, she can pull votes from the middle, and possibly take the election. Like I said, convulsions.

Anyway, it's time to hit the rack. Couldn't sleep again tonight, so here I am writing at late hours, or early hours of the morning if you will. I hate it when this happens. Several times a week, and the last 2 weeks seem to have been the worst lately of the insomnia mess that I'm wrapped up in. I get good sleep for a night or 2, and then nothing, like now, 1:25AM on a Friday morning, and I'm sitting in my kitchen composing this little entry. I don't know if you've ever had insomnia, but it's infuriating, because we all know how good sleep is, but this is getting ridiculous. I need to get a refill on my sleep medicine, and tried to do it today, but the office never called me back. Must call them again tomorrow, or just drop in there and get them to write me another prescription, I can't possibly keep doing this, it's putting me out of sorts as it is. Well, feeling sleepy now so off to bed I go.