Quote Originally Posted by Rusty Trichome
Tiz my game, I'll play it how I want.
Even if it runs the country into the ground? Not that I care if it does, really. I'm no patriot.

While I'm thinking about it, credit McCain and his buddy Kerry for ridding me of my automatic level of respect for Vietnam vets, originally gained as the son of one who wasn't a great person to begin with. I shouldn't have been giving them a free ride, anyway.. they're just as capable of being awful people as the rest of us.

Would love to read-up on this. Please provide your source. Sounds like someone's hanging chad woke-up on the wrong side of the ballot, lol.
I really doubt you'd like to do anything more than look where it came from and try to mock it. Go looking for it. I can't be bothered to go chasing down a link that you'll probably just find someone else's talking point over, so you can sit there all smug and self-righteous. What, can't you believe that your (s)elected officials would sell you down the river without so much as a kiss first? I could. Hell, I'm cheering them on. I'm done being frustrated by the struggle of the haves and have-nots, even if I am still on the "have-not" side. If ol' Swingin' Dick Cheney has the smarts to see something like total economic collapse coming (and he IS in a good position to see it, if not help it along) and invest to protect himself from or even profit from it, then more power to him. Bravo. Well played, sir. Sincerely.

Curious...if some of these statememnts are only sort-of your views...exactly which are yours, and which are the parroted rhetoric?
Rhetoric parroted from whom, exactly? I'm not a Democrap or a Repugnant. I'm not a member of any political organization aside from being registered Ind. I'm just a guy who has lost all faith in the human race. My main goal in life has been to raise just enough money to be able to buy some land way out of town in some out of the way place like New Zealand, and just live out my days growing my own food and other such needs. Unfortunately, I'm not very likely to do that since I'm less than 10 years from the maximum age allowed to emigrate to New Zealand.. still way too close to broke for my own good.. and I'm an only child who will probably end up having to look after a disabled parent who would not be able to move to NZ with me if I could go. So I'm stuck in this insane asylum you all call a country, with nothing more than about a hundred rounds of ammo between me and being one of the first likely victims once this place goes tits-up and mob rule kicks in.

Frankly, if I hadn't switched from alcohol to weed and reversed years of self-destruction, I'd have probably ended up eating a bullet by 40 since I'm so completely frustrated with dealing with the religious loonies and the political hooliganism and the utter lack of personal responsibility in this get-5-million-for-a-spilled-cup-of-coffee "civilization". So again, I ask you, what rhetoric, exactly? I don't care if the status quo is maintained like a thousand year Reich, and I don't care if it's all overturned tomorrow and we're ruled by sentient flounder from here on out. I care about myself, and those I choose to look after. At least I'm man enough to admit my only interest is self-interest.

You want my "real" view? My real view is that I'd like to see an asteroid or GRB cull most of the population. That GRB that could come from the constellation Sagittarius at any time would, for example, wipe out somewhere around 50-60% of life on Earth. I mean, really.. what are any of us doing with our space and time on the planet, aside from suing each other and just generally advancing a diseased and corrupt (but still brilliant) status quo? Or arguing about which traitorous hack is going to screw up the Oval Office the least? Anyway, a fast strike from an asteroid would be painless to all those in the blast radius.. and for those not in the blast radius? I thought suffering was generally considered character-building..

I don't personally hold a grudge against any of you in the human race. I just don't have faith in you anymore, so I work on improving myself while deriving amusement from you all running yourselves into the ground. I suppose that makes me a bad person, but hey.. you're voting for bad people, so what's wrong with being a bad person?

Am I insane? Probably. Am I a monster? Possibly. But I'm reasonably happy for the first time in a long time.. and it's not because I cooked this bud before smoking it.

Postcount = postcount + 1.. soon I'll WIN A BRAND NEW.. I mean, err, be able to give an up-arrow to SnSstealth's grow log.