the outcome of the election

[Occhidiangela]

I voted for Kerry.

I'm tired of the global community hating America.

I'm tired of the obvious connections between oil, our government, and the Iraq War, and any other Al Queda/Saud/Middle Eastern connections you care to make.

I want the next two Supreme Court justices to be fair and levelheaded people, not some anti-gay and anti-abortion cronies Bush might stick in there.

I'm tired of tax breaks for the stupefyingly wealthy.

And, quite frankly, I want a guy in charge who doesn't have Karl Rove's or Dick Cheney's hand up his ass making the puppet move and talk.

Of course, being pro-gay, pro-adoption, and pro-UN may have something to do with it.
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I am also pro UN, in that I like that the UN exists and can function across a wide spectrum of communal endeavour. What I am opposed to is its status as a haven for bureaucrats who practice hypocrisy as a matter of course, see the un accountable money in the 2.5% oil for food override and the further "not so clean" money from Saddam, as well as the problem that too many of the member nations do not have a functioning representative government . . . to include any number of the US's Arab "allies." Unless we all enter from a the same enlightenment basis, which strand of philosophy the UN grew from, the UN acts as a cover of alleged legitimacy for tyrants . . . to include any number of South American dictators that the US supported during the Cold War.

The UN can be improved upon, it can be a more effective organization. No need to write it off . . . RW Hawks please take note . . . but changing any bureaucracy is hard, takes constancy of purpose, and a critical mass of folks who want to change. The critical mass, riding the gravy train, as yet resists effective change.

A work in progress, and worth working at, in my view.

Occhi