Schweppes, Seinfeld and Inconvenience

Oh hey.

Yesterday was cool, I did some stuff and went to classes and did some other stuff and after that yet more stuff. I also got sung to by my old folks music group and had Birthday cake with the family.

This morning, I got up and helped my dad plough and flatten our front lawn until 11:30. It was hard work, and the only sort I did all day. I had no classes and so around noon, I went to Borders to spend the gift card I got for my birthday. I ended up buying An Inconvenient Book by Glenn Beck which is awesome. It is basically has everything I complain about in these posts, only for the price of $27. I also bought a Dubliners CD which is also awesome, and a guitar magazine. The guitar magazine was not so awesome, as it seems to be solely devoted to Xtreme metal and Xtreme everything.... I happen to prefer a little moderation in my guitar magazines.

Something I have been reading about recently, mostly online is Barry Goldwater and the origins of American conservatism. I have always understood conservatism to mean evil Margaret Thatcher destroying the North of England by denationalizing everything, and putting half of Great Britain on well fare........ And foxhunting.. However, I now think that is probably not completely fair.

Right now I am not going to make some unfounded statement about who is right and who is wrong/ left, but I am going to ask a question, mostly to myself, and partially to you: What is Right wing and what is Left wing? The definition I got in my early high school career was that Hitler was right wing and Stalin was left wing, But really weren't they very similar? I think that It would make more sense to say that anarchy is right wing, and any movement which places the state or group above the individual is left wing.. I guess the Army would be pretty Marxist by that logic....But that is just me, and I am confused...

I am a conservative.. To me, that means that I do not like governments that are large, because any large group of undisciplined and filthy rich people is by definition unwieldy, and their ideas almost always awful. I will use an analogy from my newly acquired book, which questions why you would want the same people who did such a great job with hurricane Katrina handling a cap and trade system for an invisible gas, or for that matter your kidney transplant. I do not like extensive taxes to pay for said large governments.. I think that your inalienable rights and mine are far more important than whatever someone decides will keep us safe from each other or from ourselves.. I will vote for people who claim to practice this philosophy and think angry thoughts about those who don't as I am driving to the store to buy melon in the car that I so often ask for money to fill up... I would have set up a really nice paradox outlining my own hypocrisy, but my eyes hurt from looking at this tiny text which Blogger wont let me make bigger. Perhaps not. I find it hard to believe that in the 60's and 70's, those were the principles of the Republican party, which with the help of my coreligionists has been made into almost a mockery of itself...

Wow, another political segment.. I hate them, I honestly do.. I start out writing thinking that it will be a good creative idea, and it always turns into something I do not remotely want to continue or even post, but then I am a lazy type who does not really like using his backspace key.