Some long-suppressed rants

On Curt Schilling:
If Curt Schilling replaces Ted Kennedy is Congress I am out of this country so fucking fast your heads will spin. He supported the Bush administration and the Iraq War from the start - those facts in and of themselves are proof that either he is not playing with a full deck or that he suffers from terribly poor judgment. The problem is that a disturbing number - indeed perhaps a majority - of Americans are so stupid that they would vote for someone simply based on name recognition and fame rather than qualifications. Here's the thing: being a big mouth does NOT qualify you to hold public office. Here's a lesson in civics: the Senate is perhaps the most important entity in our government. The President cannot do ANYTHING without Congressional approval and the Senate is the major veto power. In fact, the Senate was deliberately designed by the founding fathers to reign supreme in Congress because the House is more directly responsive to the whims of the public - the same public who elected an unqualified actor to the presidency in the 60s. Case and point. So before you think of the bloody sock and start drooling and subsequently relinquish your civil liberties and any hope of policies that benefit the majority of Americans rather than the wealthy few, please consider the consequences of your check mark in that voting booth.

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On the Cord Blood Registry:
Oh look, another indicator that the wealthy are valued over the average American: it is so expensive to preserve your baby's cord blood that only the wealthy can afford to do so; THEREFORE, only the children of wealthy people deserve to be cured of otherwise untreatable conditions and illnesses. And that brings us back to the healthcare debate: if you don't have the moeny to pay for your treatment, oh well. Good luck with that cancer! Why should someone who was not born in to wealth have to suffer while someone who just fell into the lap of luxury gets world class treatment? Why should someone who works themselves to the bone at a job that doesn't provide ample benefits have to die? Why should the poor be denied treatment they need to survive? Isn't the right to life one of the long-revered "inalienable" rights that Americans like to brag about so much? The US is the ONLY Democratic country in the world that doesn't care if its citizens live or die. How can we possibly brag about being the land of the free, the greatest country in the world, the country that guarantees you life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness when we can't even provide our citizens with the basics needed to acheive those things? It's all a lie if we don't take care of each other.

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On the elderly:
Turn in your driver's license NOW. What is up with this summer? They're picking people off left and right! It's like an epidemic! I just don't understand it. And those of you who think that mandatory driver's tests for the elderly is age-based discrimination and a violation of civil rights: fuck you. The right to run innocent people over is not a civil right. If it's a matter of public safety and well-being it is permissible for the government to enact such "discriminatory" statutes.