Monday the 29

Well the trip to Penn State was full of awe and awesomeness, undoubtedly partially due to my presence. And yes, PSU is currently ranked as 6, but we all know that is crap, and they should be number 1. Oh well, BCS sucks anyway. Regardless, alot has happened since my departure and subsequent return.


--Phillies made the playoffs. Hells yeah. The Brewers have exactly one arm pitching for them, and he is on approximately negative pi days rest. I like those odds. As Kalas would sing, we got high hopes.


--Nancy Pelosi and John McCain are on a mission to ruin this country.

McCain touted his restless work on "fixing" the economy with the bill, before the bill could even pass. Needless to say, the bill did not pass. The economy is still in shambles. It likely would still have been, but the sooner any solution is used, the better. Why don't we just try Hoover's idea of volunteerism? God knows it worked for him. Word has it Hoover was a disciple of Senator John McCain.

Pelosi was key in getting the proper amount of democratic support (from within her own party, as she is majority leader) and also in negotiating to get the proper amounts of Republican votes. Sadly, she is an idiot, and did not get a very large part of her own party to vote for the bill. More importantly, in a speech she gave just moments prior to the vote for the bill, she blamed the Republican party for all the wrongs that created this current economic crisis. I think she may have even said they crucified Jesus and had tea with Hitler. Nevermind the specifics, whatever she did effectively pushed away a significant amount of Republican votes. So for the sake of her own personal vanity, and party vanity, she did not get the bill passed. Nevermind the fact that the law passed which created most of this mess was passed under Bill Clinton in 1999. Yeah, whoever was in charge then must have really screwed up (don't even pull the Republican Congress card, Dodd and Schumer, two VERY prominent Dems were VERY in favor of this bill). Let me just put it this way. For God's sake, be professional Nancy Pelosi. Now is the time to sit down and figure out a plan, not blame everyone but yourself.

Right now the country needs someone to man up and fix this. God knows it can't be McCain. Please, he's mister deregulation. His economic ideology is the one that got us into this position. It also can't be Obama. The man rose to power as a cog in the Cook County Democratic Party, and with his silky rhetoric and baritone voice, took it to the rest of the state. Taking on Wall Street may prove to be too large a task for him. The most viable third party candidate, Barr, would also prove to be disastrous, as he has even more deregulatory and hands off ideas about economics than McCain.

The worst part -- it's going overseas. If anyone paid attention in history, they would remember that the Great Depression in America ran concurrent with economic depressions across Europe. The only country that was salvaged was the newly founded USSR, forcing itself into the industrial age. Only later did it find out it had no place in the modern one.

We're screwed. Divine intervention is what everyone needs right now. The rise of globalization can only speed the effect to which this can affect the rest of the world. Logically speaking, not all of us will be screwed. That's practically impossible. But it's gonna be awfully hard to escape this wherever you are, regardless of your life choices or given position.

--Knuttel