Von Ralls

Wow! No posts since December. Thanks for checking on me Joshua! I don’t really have much to write, but here are a couple of things that have been on my mind lately:

1. Is it just me, or is there a negative tide turning toward religion lately? I haven’t been a particularly religious person for quite some time (I think I’m hindu now), but I’m starting to worry about how hard the Atheist community is starting to come down on anyone that is even remotely religious.

2. Why are so many people dogging Israel lately? I think if you shoot a rocket at me, and I drop a giant bomb on you instead of shooting back a “proportionate” rocket then that will be motivation for you to not mess with me any longer… Or to put it simpler, if you break into my house, and I blow your head off, then it’s on the news the next day….That should keep people from wanting to break into my house…

Oh, yeah, and I’m on Facebook actin’ all afool…

Indian Woman in my Tree...

Somewhere in the world there is a woman who once taught elementary school, and at one point thought it would be a great idea to have her students string up an indian woman by the neck and make a Christmas ornament out of her. Now, some 30 years later, I just can’t seem to not put her in my tree…

Did you know both candidates for President are left handed?  Wow, this changes everything…

My good friend bpopp and I were talking on google talk today about the Presidential election.  He asked me a pretty interesting question:  What are your top three issues that are most important to you when deciding on who your pick for President will be?

I decided that I would lay these out here on the blog once I really nail them down.  Right off the bat, here are some of the issues that I think are important:  Foreign Policy, War/Defense, Economy, Right to Keep and Bear Arms.  These are just a couple that pop into my mind first.  I don’t know if these will end up being my three most important issues or not, but I wonder, what are your top three most important issues that you look at when deciding on your candidate?

The Creation of the Second Great Depression

Whenever a Great Bipartisan Consensus is announced, and a compliant media assures everyone that the wondrous actions of our wise leaders are being taken for our own good, you can know with absolute certainty that disaster is about to strike.

I love this semi-sarcastic, I’m surrounded by idiots attitude he has when he gets on these rants.  Anyway, the following paragraph sums up my attitude toward this Presidential election completely:

Our one-party system is complicit in yet another crime against the American people. The two major party candidates for president themselves initially indicated their strong support for bailouts of this kind – another example of the big choice we’re supposedly presented with this November: yes or yes. Now, with a backlash brewing, they’re not quite sure what their views are. A sad display, really.

Yes or Yes…Very sad indeed.

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When we drove into Chicago, traffic was horrible.  We were listening to some local rock station when someone called in to ask to play something for the Cubs who had just won a game the night before with Milwaukee.  It was the first time I had heard this song, and we just sat in the dead still traffic listening to it.