Should John McCain be allowed in he ring?

Three young Wisconsin men attempt
to dig up a corpse for sex. Judge says
“no,” as corpses cannot consent.

You know there are State Boxing Commissions that determine whether or not a fighter will be allowed to fight. They determine the health and fitness of boxers, based upon their physical condition, injuries, age, skills, and etc. The aim of this is to protect fighters from being hurt or embarrassed if they are for some reason regarded as unfit. Watching John McCain and his campaign so far, I cannot help but think perhaps we should have a National Commission for Presidential Candidates. McCain’s campaign so far seems to me to be unusually disastrous. Many of the lobbyists he surrounded himself with have had to resign. His major economic advisor, Phil Gramm, is known to be a scumbag who was largely responsible for Enron’s ripping off California and now the great mortgage meltdown. Gramm and McCain seem to believe all our problems are merely psychological. Now he has apparently fired his entire crew, saying he wants to speak for himself. He has recently made one gaffe after another. He gets confused over who is a Sunni and who is a Shiite. He keeps referring to Czeckoslovakia, a country that ceased to exist some fifteen years ago. He always has his minders with him, Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham, as well as his wife. He constantly shifts positions, embracing those he formerly treated with contempt. He is known to be short-tempered and his emphasis, no matter what the problem, seems to be violence. He insists he is not a 3rd term for George W. Bush, but he has voted with him 95% of the time and has repeatedly said he supports his Iraq policy. He is a known adulterer and is rumored to be a high stakes gambler. He is a terrible public speaker and lacks charisma. Supposedly a sophisticated world traveler with foreign policy experience, he comes across more as a Missouri farmer who hasn’t kept up with the modern world. He also shows what I believe are signs of senility. He bad-mouths Obama but then turns around and follows his lead. The best case in point at the moment: he said a while back that Iraq was not affecting the situation in Afghanistan, as Obama has claimed all along. Now Obama wants to withdraw troops from Iraq to go to Afghanistan, and McCain has called his two brigades and upped it one more. McCain insists he knows how to win wars. In this case I guess it is by following Obama’s lead. And what wars has McCain won? He is also a sexist, having publicly addressed his wife with a particulary derogative term and is known to have told a scurrilous joke about how women enjoy being raped. His positions on abortion and the Supreme Court are out of touch with the majority of American voters. He doesn’t seem to know the difference between Viagra and birth control, and is only just now trying to cope with the internet. He is, in my opinion, “over the hill,” and if not “punch drunk,” is acting like it. I cannot believe the Brafia is allowing him to be a candidate. He should heed the hint from General Douglas McCarthur, “Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.” I fear he is grossly overmatched and each day seems to bring a new gaffe or embarrassment.

Dream or epiphany? I don’t know if it was the result of a dream or if I somehow had an epiphany, but suddenly I cannot rid myself of the idea that, in the cosmic scheme of things, humans are nothing but minor but troublesome parasites. I know the idea of humans being merely parasites is not a pleasant one. But what else am I to think when I suddenly realize that is most probably all we are. Here we are, inhabiting our host, planet earth, sucking everything out of the ground we possibly can, while at the same times using up whatever other resources the earth has provided us for all these years. Ingrates that we are, we have given nothing back to our host. Nothing. Now that it appears our host may not be able to supply us much longer with the sustenance we require, we are already making plans to move on to another host, if possible. Is this not a classic case of mindless, even perhaps instinctive parasitic behavior?

LKBIQ:
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Terry Pratchett