October 25, 2004

• Hi kiddies. Believe me, I am not geting any skinnier.

  This morning we got our first dusting of snow. It was barely there when I woke up. Not worthy of a picture.

  It’s that time again, from the makers of EPFW and The Body Acoustic (coming soon), it’s:

  Matt’s Semi-Diurnal Rant!

  This weeks rant is brought to you by Gorman’s Ear Guards. GUARD YOUR EARS!!! with Gormans.

  #1

  Some people need to understand what the difference between “best” and “important”. There is a big difference. Best means you were the pinicale of acheivement in a specific field or subfield. Important usually refers to innovation or subsiquent influence. These two things are not the same. Let’s look at baseball for an example. If I ask you for the “best” player, you might say Ted Williams, Willie Mays, Barry Bonds, etc. Plenty of debate there. Now, if I ask you for the most “important” player, you might think of Jackie Robinson, Curt Flood, Bruce Sutter. Sometimes these terms apply to the same player, like Babe Ruth or Hank Aaron. But not always. The point of this is, don’t confuse the two. For example, are Bob Dylan and the Velvet Underground two of the more important artists in rock history? Sure. Are they two of the better artists? No way. Maybe Bob is one of the better librettists, but musically, they were below average at best.

  #2

  There are a lot of things that bug me about the President. So, what outranks them all by a mile? Is it the horrid environmental policy? Is it taking away rights from homosexuals? Is it the threat of Row vs. Wade being overturned? Is it the 1000 people that died in war for one reason at first and another now? Is it the lack of compassion for world affairs? Is it the $7+ Billion that Haliburton got without a bidding process and has since done a bad job? Is it the lack of due process in Guantanamo Bay? Is it the reduction of the Bill of Rights through the Patriot Act (among other similar things)? Is it the across the board lowering of air/water standards? Is it the logging in national forests? Is it the drilling proposals in ANWAR and the Rocky Mountain Front (Sun River Canyon area)? It’s none of those things (I could go on). It is the use of 9/11 for political gain.

  9/11 was a mistake on our part. It should have never happened. We knew Bin Laden was ready to attack, we knew two top terrorists were in the country (they were 2 of the 4 flyers), we knew people were taking flight school, we knew they wanted to fly planes into buildings. I realize that threats come in all the time, and you can’t act on everything. But still, 9/11 was a failure. How can the American public let Bush use this failure as a main (positive) campain point? Why is the person who allowed this to happen better prepared to defend our country? Bush always polls better on security issues, but why? 9/11 should be a dark cloud over the campain, not a silver lining. Bush should take resonsablity for 9/11, and heads should have rolled, not just Tenent’s head, either. Basically, my point is: Bush failed, why is he better than someone who hasen’t tried yet?

  #3

  After all that, sometimes I feel that we deserve Bush as president because the American people are stupid and getting stupider. Why did Bush lose the first debate? Because he scowled? Give me a fucking break. How about the issues? Do they matter? It’s hard for me to believe that people actually listen to the debate. And when both sides lied in the debate, it was hardly an issue. How could Bush get away with saying, “I never said I was not concerned about Osama Bin Laden” when that is EXACTLLY what he said earlier this year. If Bush wins, and the country goes to hell, I just hope major reforms can be done at that future time of crisis.

  OK. Thanks for reading. Feel free to rant back.

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