Category: politics

I know what you’re thinking to yourself, “What is this political garbage doing on rebelpeon.com?”  Well, I’m here to tell you that this will not become the normal.

On my way to Erin’s place tonight I was listening to This American Life and was disturbed with what I heard about Guantanamo Bay. Currently it looks like you can only purchase the program, but give it a week and you too can listen to it, or you can listen to it tomorrow at 1 on Chicago Public Radio (for those in the area).

After listening to the whole program, I’m starting to realize why foreigners hate us so much.  I’d hate to think what sorts of anti-American thoughts would be going through my head if I were held at Guantanamo Bay for, potentially, an indefinite amount of time, being interrogated in the most abusive ways. 

I honestly can’t believe how calm the “PoWs” (I leave it in quotes because these people were innocent, and the gov’t seemed to know it) were on the air.  I don’t think I’d be laughing like there were after spending as much time as they did there.

All I have to ask, is are the American people this dumb, that they can continually be lied to over and over?  How do they justify this in their minds?

**Update 3/19/2006**
You can listen to the broadcast now for free.  Plus there’s an extended version for the web only.  Unfortuantely, they are in real player format, but I think it’s worth downloading just to listen to this one.  You can get the Free version of realplayer here.  Personally, though, I’d recommend the Real Player Enterprise version, as it has a lot less “crap” installed on it.  Just put in some bogus information in the fields, and you’re on your way.

According to the Associated Press and MSNBC, Senator Kerry did the right thing and conceded to W.

This means it’s all over then, right?  There’s no point in any large fiasco, and we can all get on with our lives.  Kerry, you did the right thing, and I just want to say thank you.

This post/rant will be surrounding an interesting British Reuters article.

Can anybody else point out what’s wrong with what this article says, or is it just me?  Since when is television a right and not a privilege?  Why is the government spending money to give everyone, essentially, access to TV.  Granted, the article does explain why they are doing it, but I still fail to see why it’s the government’s problem to provide access to the latest and greatest technologies to those that can’t afford it.  Cut off the old airwaves, reap your bagillions in selling the spectrum to commercial wireless services and emergency uses, and be done with it.  I mean, don’t we have other things, more extreme social problems, than people not being able to watch TV?  Hell, if Senator McCain (R) can’t think of any, I’m sure I could come up with a few.

Note to McCain, the world will continue to function if people can’t watch TV.  Doesn’t it just rot your brain anyways?

So, we all know that elections are coming up, and if you haven’t registered to vote yet, get your ass in gear.  Hell, you don’t even have to leave your house to do it anymore.  You can register online here, here, or here.  Now, there is absolutely no reason you shouldn’t register.  Just make sure that you follow through and make your voice heard.  VOTE!