Weak Sauce About Nothing

So i got into an interesting discussion at work today with someone i would consider to be a sepratist. He very calmly informed me that essentially all republicans are thrid rate socialists and all democrats are second rate communists. He spouted rhetoric from his severly strict constructionist reading of the constitution and i suppose i didn’t mind this. It’s not that i agreed with everything he said but i tolerated the stump speech because i love hearing other people’s points of view. However, an interesting point was brought up in our discussion. He feels that the United States of America has gone through a dramatic digression since its inception as a nation. He feels that as uppposed to standing up for our principles as a nation, Americans have consistantly (and i mean consistantly, he gave me reasons for every decade since Andrew Jackson on until now) chosen the easy path instead of sticking to the vision of the founding fathers. Among other things he noted the end of foreign tarrifs on imported goods, the creation of the IRS and Federal Reserve, the creation of numerous government offices, the decision to no longer have a gold standard economy, the obvious over reaching of the united states military (i know, weird huh, a constitutionist that opposes the war!), the limitations of states rights, and the continued subjugation of our own rights as citizens.

When i brought up advances we have made as a nation, the end of slavery, women’s suffrage, and involved foreign aid he did not refute me at all but he was clear that he felt that on principles alone we have surrendered more ground then we have gained (metaphorically of course) over the past 230 years.

 So hear’s the question : What do you think? Have we progressed as a nation or have we digressed? To be honest, i feel we have done a little of both. All i have to do is read a few pages of the Patriot Act to know we have digressed in some areas. On the other hand, Many of our successes are easy to recognize, for example our involvement in world war 2 effectively kept Western Europe from being entirely third Reich land. I want to know what you think…so rock it out. Paz

I didn’t say William Shatner, I said Captain James T. Kirk of the USS Enterprise. Seriously how cool would that be? The ship is cool, you’ve got a samurai at the helm, that alone should garner some kind of respect.

To boldy get the hell out!

You know what else is cool about Kirk? He gets to meet a ton of alien races and woo their women. Granted he got kind of soggy around the midsection lately, but back in the day of the original series he was the shit and according to aliens that would capture the crew, he was THE specimen for human men in the galaxy. Seriously if you’ve ever seen “The Gamesters of Triskellion” he kisses the green haired lady and says it was “helping.”
Her response? “Help me again!”

“Helping” thousands around the galaxy

I’ve been watching the original series lately and there’s this look he had that I forgot about and apparently so did William Shatner. Either that or the old version of him can’t do it anymore.  He would get this look on his face like “oh is that so?” not quite furrowed, and maybe not pissed off, but not happy at all. He would then proceed to tell you what your problem is. There are times in the show where there isn’t anything going on and he has that look on his face. I would kill to be able to have that look!

Here’s how it’s going to be. . .

Again, I say, I would like to be Kirk, not Shatner. Kirk is unaware how cheesey and over dramatic he can be but if he has the above look on his face, he doesn’t give a shit either. He’s got a support staff that with advisement from Spock and McCoy will literally do anything he tells them to. (even if Uhura says “I’m frightened”) Seriously, it’s the look and the air of sheer confidence oozing out of his pores. Check out this site that a woman did, insisting that Kirk isn’t a womanizer.