Recent thoughts on the world and people on it.

So I have been trying to battle my current sleep problem. I've tried a number of things. Pills, food, porn, drugs, milk, exercise, sex, heat, cold...Nothing seems to work all that great, and pretty much all of those things leave me feeling dehydrated. So I went back to my friend two best friends who are always awake: television and the Internet.

When you can't sleep and you've seen everything new things are usually shows or events you'd never watch. Such as, I never really had interest in how to build a chair, or put a new exhaust on my truck, but here I am watching it for an hour. Well today I sat down and watched one full John McCain rally. It was a treat. He had all his talking points, and made sure to pause at appropriate moments to let his crowd soak in the goodness. Here's the question that confuses me about his campaign and politics in general: How can I know something is completely twisted around, but there is still a good % of people who don't have a clue.

I of course have many examples of this. The campaign has been pushing this oil drilling in the ocean thing. And have even gone with the phrase "Drill Baby Drill!" as a campaign slogan. Here is where the funny begins. Let's pretend you were to go out to the coast and decide to drill. Let's see how long would that take. A year? Maybe two? No no, try 10 years, and that's if you are lucky. What's more the oil that's out there won't even make a difference. If we took all 16 billion tons of oil that is laying around there, that would supply our country with energy for 2 1/2 years. That really really doesn't seem worth it to me.

What is EVEN EVEN GREATER to me personally is who wants it to happen. Let's just pretend for one second that I copied myself and then one of me's IQ dropped 40 points and I live where I do now, Ohio, or Iowa, any state that is not touching the ocean. The dumb part of me would say, "Let's offshore drill right now! We need energy for America" the smart me would answer "Well okay you're right, but why didn't they offshore drill now? Why is this even an issue?" dumb me would say,"The dems made it so that John McCain couldn't drill out there" smart me would say,"Hmm, no I think that those kinds of things are decided by the ENTIRE state."

Does anyone ever think that maybe those states don't want to offshore drill? That maybe just maybe they might worry about the environmental impact on their state, especially if so many marine jobs depend on clean and clear waters? Do they ever consider that a sunset off the coast may not be quite as magical if you see a giant oil rig 50 miles out? No. They don't. There is significant scientific evidence that clearing marshlands for pipeline in Louisiana helped magnify Katrina's effects. I just don't understand how anyone could sit down, read a paper, and still chant "Drill baby Drill" at a fucking rally!

Then we have nuclear power that McCain says Obama is against. Well personally, I'd prefer CO2 over waste that will be around for 10,000 years. A while ago I had a debate with a friend of mine on nuclear power. I was against it because of past meltdowns and the causes and effects of those meltdowns. I also briefly understood the storing process. I would have to say that she had won that argument. However, soon after I watched a full show on the building of the bunker where they store that waste. They have to build this place for people who may not even understand our language. 10,000 years. Let that process in your mind. If you were a evangelical Christian you'd realize that is longer then the 6,000 years man's been in existence. But let's talk about the present as well. It will take 7-10 years to build one power plant, and even after it's built it will take three years to have the plant working at total capacity. And let's pretend that there is a meltdown within the United States. Can anyone imagine what the people in that area will be like. We'd lose a part of our country for at least 100 years until radiation lowered, and ground water would be poisoned for 1,000s of years.

I could write forever about misleading all his statements are, but I don't think I could muster the strength. It seems clear to me at this point, that Obama will win. I guess we'll have to see what he can do as well.

So my second source was the Internet. I went to craig's list and entertained myself with the usually postings. I got really excited whens someone had posted a "missed connection" for the place that I work. Unfortunately it was customer talking to customer. Maybe next time. I also read some of the posting by the guys and the gals. Nothing could be sadder or more uplifting at the same time. I realized tonight that the idea of "bi" confuses and upsets me. I am totally alright with straight people, and gay people as well. However, bi people always confuse the hell out of me. I never know what they are interested in or how I should act towards someone like that. It is almost like the new gay. If in the 9os you would say "I'm gay" people would be like omg I can't believe it can you? Today it's like "I knew it all along". It is just so accepted now. Every single person I've met who was bi always had smugness about themselves. Not a negative smugness, just a sort of "Check out how interesting this is" type of thing. Like some that you know reads alot. They just have an edge over your own knowledge so you somehow feel stupid.

Either way, I think bisexuals offend me, if for no other reasons then if I dated one I would never trust them around any of their friends. It is almost like I like the girls I date because they can never state dating their girl friends. That sounds incredibly insensitive and offensive, but I'm sure in 10 years or so there will be some new thing that'll offend and confuse me even more.