I was having trouble coming up with a rant late last night that I could post today so for once I decided to actually go to bed before 4:00 in the morning (no I don't have a job good work figuring that out. My employer screwed me over royally and I wasn't able to get another job for the summer). So I woke up at 8:00 in order to not only get the most out of the day for once and but also so I could listen to Glenn Beck. While I was listening to this mornings show, I was reminded me about the recent story involving Pat Robertson. For those of you who don't know or don't care who Pat Robertson is he is the head of The 700 Club. I don't exactly know why it's called The 700 Club since I fail to make the connection between the number 700 and the content of the show but I digress. The 700 Club is Robertson's show and is one of the more well known religious shows on the air. I understand that Robertson (as well as the people on his show) are known to be "fundamentalist" Christians which, when I hear that, I usually cringe because after hearing half of the nut-jobs that are on TBN, I worry about what people think the "fundamentals" are. This is the same view that people have about Islam and that the Koran is mis-interpreted by "extremist muslims" (except that, in that case it's the "extremists" that are actually following what the Koran actually teaches. If you disagree with me you're wrong). I myself believe strongly in the fundamentals of Christianity and a lot of times these people are so.....psycho (as most charismatics are) that I just feel like screaming that these people are not "fundamentalists". As for Pat Robertson, I don't have any idea where he stands so I'll have to give him the benefit of the doubt but let me just say that he doesn't speak for all "fundamentalist" Christians. All of that really has nothing to do with what this rant is about but as long as you're trying to figure out where I'm going with this, I've got you right where I want you. For example, yesterday I did practically nothing except play through and beat Metroid: Zero Mission. Let me just say this about Zero Mission: If you played through the original and remember just how frackin' hard it was, you'll love Zero Mission. As an added bonus they add a mission to the end, a new suit, and more weapons. On top of that, once you beat it you can play through the original Metroid. How sweet is that? The answer of course is very sweet. Anyways I should get back to my rant on Assassination. Pat Robertson made a statement on his show earlier this week that it might not be a bad idea to assassinate the President of Venezuela since Mr. Chavez thinks we're out to assassinate him anyways. The reason it wouldn't be a bad idea is that said president is big buddies with Fidel Castro and more than likely has many of the same communist policies. For some reason people didn't like that suggestion. While I have already said that Robertson more than likely doesn't speak for me on a lot of issues (I don't know if he does or not but most people that have their own religious shows don't because their charismatic nut-jobs) I kind of think that wiping this president out might not be a bad idea. Unfortunately we can't do that because it is illegal for the government to do so and has been since the 80's (not that I think the government would really care if they were really going to do it). I'm sure somebody is out there thinking "how can you advocate something like that, especially after calling yourself a fundamentalist Christian?" Very simple. Communists rape the countries they are in charge of and once they run out of resources because they've squandered them all, they steal from other, smaller countries and rob them of their resources in order to give the idea that communism works (a prime example of this is what the Russians did to the Ukraine). That's basically why I don't have a problem with assassinating communist leaders. Does anybody remember the policy of containment that America used to have? Basically back when communism first reared its ugly, Mick Jagger-like face, America's policy basically said that instead of driving communism out of the countries it was infesting (which we should have done) we decided to just let communism stay where it was and prevent it from spreading elsewhere. Well we pretty much whizzed that down our proverbial leg. Okay, to be fair we prevented South Korea from being taken over so it's not like we sat on our hands entirely. We could have won Vietnam if the frickin' beuracracy hadn't gotten involved and screwed us over and if the American people would have supported their troops instead of turning their back on the soldiers and becoming sandal wearing, pot smoking, free-loving, bell-bottom wearing, draft-dodging, peacenik, tree-hugging hippies (today we call them peace protestors instead of gutless, draft-dodging, cowards). Here is another tangent: why did anybody care what people that dodged the draft and smoked pot like they were breathing air thought? Their brains were fried and so they didn't know what they were talking about so why did anybody listen? Stupid, stupid people. Anyways after Vietnam, America decided to sit on their hands and let communism spread like herpes. Now we have a problem with communism possibly taking over Venezuela. I say we should renew our policy of containment by making sure that never happens and one way to do that is to get rid of Venezuela's president. I don't reccommend a "War on Communism" because that war really would never end and now is not the time for that (although if it worked that would be awesome). All of this got me thinking: who else would we be better off never hearing from ever again? Then I heard all of the crap that Cindy Sheehan is spouting off. Can somebody please shut this woman up? Please? Pretty please with sugar on top? I can't stand this woman. At the risk of bringing up pointless topics again here are some of the tired reasons this woman is using to attack President Bush: "you lied about Weapons of Mass Destruction", "you lied about the connection between Iraq and Al-Quaeda", "I'm a whiny media-whore", etc., etc.. First of all the fact that WMD's were in Iraq is documented from as far back as the Clinton administration but because we were stupid and decided to care what the U.N thought which delayed us for a very long time during which the WMD's easily could have been hidden and/or transported out of the country (which reminds me, the U.N sucks). If it weren't for the U.N. holding us back we could have found them but since when does the U.N. do anything to help anybody when it isn't convenient (Rwanda anybody)? There was a link between Iraq and Al-Quaeda but not in the way you liberals think Bush implied. He never implied that Iraq was responsible for 9/11, only that Al-Quaeda received some finances from certain Islamic groups in Iraq. Okay, to be fair she didn't really attack Bush by claiming that she's a media whore (or tragedy slut) but so much of what she's doing is staged (I swear I didn't know about the oil painting. Nope. Didn't know about it at all :wink wink:). Just recently, tree-hugging flower child Joan Biaz(exual) had a concert with Cindy playing the only song she ever wrote, Where have all the flowers gone, much to the delight of the only two people in the world that actually still care about Joan Biaz(exual) which consists of herself and Cindy Sheehan. On top of all this Al Sharpton is going to join her little pity-party next week I believe. This should prove once and for all that this is all about publicity or else why in the name of all creation would Al Sharpton get involved. Maybe I just hate Al Sharpton for being a liberal crack-pot whose hair is almost as bad as Don King's. Somebody needs to just shut these people up once and for all because I think America is pretty sick of them by now. Do I need to say again that this woman is only using her tragedy for publicity and that she doesn't speak for 99.9% of military families? No, I don't but since I just did I guess it's a little late for that. Here's a list of people I wouldn't mind seeing the government "silence": I'm sure you're wondering why Green Day and 50 Cent are on the list. 50 Cent just sucks. I don't know if you've ever really listened to him but he always sounds like he's drunk or stoned or both while rapping. I didn't realize it was possible to rap with slurred speech but apparently he's making a living off of it by selling to mostly stupid, suburbanite, wiggers who have never been to the ghetto but think they are "true thugs" because they wear pastel blue jerzees, backwards hats, and fake gold chains and walk around saying "yo, yo, yo, what's the dilly-yo" all the time. Also, Green Day used to be cool before they got all war protesty and political. Especially in the song Holiday when the "representative from California" starts saying stupid stuff like "Sig Heil to the president's staff man" and goes on about America getting mad about France criticizing our government. SHUT UP! Bush is nowhere close to being a fraction of what Hitler was. Liberating a country of Saddam's tyranny and trying to help eliminate terrorism is not genocide. And who cares what France thinks anyways? That reminds me, there was a recent court decision that was made by citing rulings from other countries. Why do we care what other countries think? We're America, we're better than everybody else, we don't need to use their laws because they don't live here so why should we care what Sweden thinks about a certain problem? SCREW YOU! Anyways I'm going to end this now before I start getting even further off the topic than I probably already am. Assassination is great and we should use it. It would save us the trouble of having to deal with evil leaders down the road and would be better in the long run. That and the fact that if people knew that their leaders could be assassinated at anytime if they tick us off, they would stay in line more then we wouldn't have to worry about having bad relations with other countries because they would do everything in their power to keep us happy. How could that not work? That's an awesome idea. I should be President.