What is Happening?

A major competitor for the first democratic elections since a military coup in the country of a prominent American "ally" was assassinated on Thursday night.

On Friday, it as announced that a major player (as far as fund raising and support of growth go) among the Repulican candidates for President will be excluded from the next round table discussion involving his parties candidates.

A prominent Democratic leader vying for the Presidency has stopped answering questions from the audience after speaking.

A guy wrote an article using the phrase "What's the Ding-Dang-Deelio?" and it made a lot of sense.

In what is being sold to us as a time of extreme danger to "the homeland," prominent police departments run sting operations to entrap innocent civillians for petty crimes.


And all this begs the questions. Just what the hell is going on around here these days? Bhutto's assassination presents questions that we know will likely never be fully answered, because all that ever happens in cases like this is that al-Qaeda is blamed initially and then everybody just forgets about it. Who knows what will happen there now? The general election will likely be canceled ("postponed") and Musharraf will continue to hold power. What a volatile country Pakistan is right now. Remember, Musharraf took over in a coup. The general public there is not exactly enamored with him. Now, someone who had a great chance to unseat him has just been killed a week before the election and it will likely go unsolved. Not only that, but the fact that it didn't go down like a "normal" suicide bombing (Bhutto was shot twice before the bomb exploded) just raises more questions. I have read about many, many suicide bombings but I don't remember ever reading one in which the attacker shot a specific victim and then detonated a bomb. I'm not saying it means anything specific or that it is completely unprecedented, just that it's weird and will raise questions. And what about theories that Bhutto was assassinated partly because of her chance of becoming a prominent world leader who holds the view that Osama bin Laden is dead? Read more about theories regarding the death of bin Laden here. I mean, it makes sense, doesn't it? It seems mighty unlikely that he's hauling that dialysis machine back and forth around caves in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and has been for 5 years. And you know, many world powers can hold the specter of bin Laden over their people to exert further control over them, giving those countries a lot to gain by perpetuating his legend. You know, what gets the media and the threat levels more riled up than a "new" bin Laden tape?

The major media has tried extra hard to ignore Ron Paul lately, but with his unprecedented fundraising success for a candidate of his stature (far behind the elite mass-media "frontrunners"), his one-day record for online contributions, (though notice they throw in a Howard Dean "Yeeeeeaawwww!" just so Paul doesn't get too full of himself) and the fact that his message reaches across the political spectrum, it is getting harder and harder to sweep him under the rug. Compounding what Paul is doing right, the Republicans are stuck with a bevy of lackluster candidates this year, none who have proven to be particularly strong at anything. They bicker, spew one-liners and talk about how great they did during 9/11 but none of them can handle a direct question, and come on...Look at Romney, Giuliani and Huckabee (the "frontrunners"). Those are 3 terrible options and I think Republicans are starting to recognize that. Not only that, but could either of those 3 beat Hilary Clinton in a general election? Take that in to account, Republicans out there. Romney....No (he's a mormon and he flip-flops more than Kerry was accused of doing in '04). Huckabee...No (religious conservatives won't out-vote women). Giuliani...No (he's gay and abortion friendly, plus all Democrats absolutely despise him). Hell,if Hilary were the Democratic nominee and one of those 3 were on the other side, even I would have to vote for Hilary. However, even as a democrat, I would vote for Paul over Hilary in an instant. Oh, and for you "Support our troops!"ers out there, Paul has gotten more contributions from military members than any other Republican candidate.

We have been taught that there are only 2 ways of thinking and we have to pick 1 of them. That is not true! There are infinite ways of thinking, and if we want to see change in our society we need to accept that and commit to it.