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The Redskins beat the Cowboys yesterday–their final game at that stupid stadium down in Dallas too!  Hail to the Skins!

I will say that there are a strange amount of Cowboy fans in and around the DC area.  You are probably thinking that they are just people originally from Texas or Dallas.  But strangely they aren’t, plus the numbers are just huge that it would mean a lot of them are Dallas ex-pats (although I can sympathize with their wanting to get out of Texas).  It’s very strange, but I leave you an excellent quote from DCist from today’s Morning Roundup.

Good morning, Washington. So the Redskins managed to beat the Dallas Cowboys yesterday, which when all is said and done, basically means ‘Skins fans get to walk around with a sort of boosted self-esteem for the next week, which lets them trash talk, gloat and generally be obnoxious. That kind of fandom is not something I’ll likely ever understand, but if it also means fewer people walking around who are from the D.C. area but for some totally incomprehensible reason are Cowboys fans and wear Cowboys gear out to bars, then I say ‘F Romo,’ too. Who are these people, and why weren’t they raised right? If we can get even a small break from having to deal with these clowns, then I welcome post-beating-Dallas-week with open arms.

So last night was the first Presidential debate and it was a… uh… well, it wasn’t very eventful.  Both candidates skirted around most questions, none really were assertive about why their policy was the best, rather they criticized the other.  I will say that McCain came off as more of an asshole and looked very angry in comparison to Obama.  I have no real passion about either candidate, and I think that’s mostly due to the fact that I am extremely jaded and no one in politics has really made me passionate again.

As I have been saying the last week, these Presidential debates will mean nothing and they are boring.  What we really should be excited about is the October 2nd shitfest that is the Vice Presidential Debate.  Judging from Sarah Palin’s couple of interviews, it’ll be very interesting to see her either succeed or just horribly flail.  I would like to see her succeed–shows that she’s a quick learner, or that monkey’s take well to instruction.  I don’t think I want to see her flail cause it’ll be horribly awkward as I see Biden eating her alive.

But as American citizens, if we want to make an informed decision, we should really be paying close attention to the Vice Presidential candidates.  Here’s why:

1. McCain is very old, and the likely hold of him surviving a full four year term is quite meek.  Therefore, Palin would be next in command and so we really need to figure out where she really stands (or her cronies really stand).
2. Obama is a black man with a Muslim name.  And unfortunately there are Americans out there who believe he is in cahoots with terrorists due to the fact that his middle name is “Hussein” like Sadam.  It would not surprise me one bit if Obama get assassinated because there are crazy, uneducated people out there.

I believe you should really vote for the strongest VP.  Both Obama and McCain come off as even in my book, so really look to your VP for leadership qualities cause they could very well be next in command.  And I mean look at the last administration.  I would venture to say that Cheney was a damn influential VP.  So pay close attention to the VP debates, not the presidential.

I guess you could also go back and just vote purely based on your social philosophies (e.g., abortion, gay rights).  But honestly people, you did that the last 8 years and look where we are now.  We have to address and tackle critical issues of foreign policy and our domestic economy.  Nothing will ever
get passed in the next year.  And if you are a Republican, you believe in small government, therefore the feds should not be intervening.

Anyways, I leave you with two very good links, here and here.

That’s a phrase that was reiterated in my US Comparative Government class when I was 17 years old.  Ms. Chorpenning told us the meaning during one lecture, but then later used it throughout the year in a very effervescent manner to make sure we were awake (and sometimes it would be related to the current lecture, though not really).  And I guess at that time the economy wasn’t something that I was really interested in, nor did I think it was all that important—Clinton some how managed to create a surplus, jobs were on the rise, and Wall Street was experiencing some super highs.  Now it is playing such a prominent roll that no one is safe—from investment bankers to your local farmer.

I wouldn’t know where to place the blame for a system vested in risk and general chaos.  And my naïveté still can’t comprehend how much our banking system is intertwined with the rest of the world.  It is just an awful situation that has many awful consequences for everyone if it is not handled appropriately.  What are we to do?  Will the bail out work?  Should I begin hiding the little savings I have under my mattress?

I listened to Bush’s speech on Wednesday night on NPR driving home from eating out with my parents.  Bush was well spoken and explained our financial crisis very concisely and simplistically—mostly to set those non-investment bankers’ minds at ease.  Well done Bush!

But then it dawned on me—Bush hasn’t done a damn thing in the last term of his presidency.  He is the least accomplished lame duck President—nothing passed and just another 4 years of crap.  Usually this is a term where the President would push for their own personal agenda; when history books are published, they’ll look to this part of their term for something positive in helping the US.  For Clinton, it was trying to mend the tension between Israel and Palestine (though a failure, he did bring the two countries together to talk which is a far cry to where they are at now).  And as I sat there listening to NPR’s array of analysts systematically picking through Bush’s speech, I honestly could not think of anything President Bush has done the last 4 years to bring something positive to his Presidential resumé.  There is only less than 4 months left of Bush, and he will be forever remembered as the President who couldn’t catch Bin Laden, created a very unpopular war, alienated the world, and now causing the collapse of the biggest free market in the world.

There is a positive to this—the US can only go up from here.  Right?

So I haven’t been updating as consistently as I would like.  Nor does my “blog” have much direction in it other than to update people about my life; and thank you, all two of you, for reading it.  It’s also amazing that I don’t really read many other blogs anymore, nor do I have them linked on here–it’s more of a “I hope they are still on my browser’s history” type of thing.

I have been really pent up inside about a lot of things going on.  And rather than overwhelming you with a truly long, single entry, I’ll try to break it up and make it coherent.

There’s a lot of things going on in the world, and I just gotta talk about it!