Watching the State of the Union address got me thinking about a lot of things last night. We got some corrupted sons of bitches in office, don’t we? Damn. I couldn’t believe how many contradictions there were. One that sticks out in my head is the American Competitiveness Initiative, where Bush declares that we need to get our children more interested in math and science, to be more competitive in the engineering world… YET, student loans were cut $12 billion dollars last year. SO, basically, let’s get everybody super smart, but don’t expect us to help you get there. ::sigh::
Krissi sent me an article yesterday which lead me to this: Congressional Staffer Edits. That’s a list of Wikipedia entries that have been edited by people from White House IP addresses. Wikipedia - the FREE encyclopedia that’s supposed be be completely neutral, being edited by White House staffers. Edits include, but are not limited to, removal of Abramoff ties and pro-Bush point-of-views. That’s scary shit. If they’re giong through little old Wikipedia making changes, imagine the damage they’re doing with the media they actually have money invested into. ::sigh::
I’m also convinced that corporations will be running our world in the next 25 years. Soon, programs will be “brought to you by” Shell-AOL-Time-Warner-Disney-Pixar, a subsidiary of Viacom-Qualcomm-Exxon-General Electric.
Remember when stadiums and ballparks used to be named after REAL people? In San Diego, for instance, we used to have Jack Murphy Stadium, which is now Qualcomm Stadium. The new ballpark is “Petco Park”, they didn’t even bother looking for someone to name that after. The Sports Arena is now the “iPayOne Center”. Soon Lindburgh Field will be the Biogen Idec Airport, and the Gaslamp Quarter will be owned by San Diego Gas & Electric. ::sigh::
How do we fix this mess? We’re so deep in it now. Since we’re stuck with Dubya until 2008 (note the countdown on your right), we better fix Congress while we still have a shot. The Supreme Court looks a little far gone (Thank you for confirming Judge Alito ::throws up::), but we can still get some Dems in Congress! It is a voting year. California is lucky enough to be one of those blue states. ::sigh::
I’m ranting. I know you hate the serious blogs, I promise to blog about food or something tomorrow.
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I’ve been watching PBS lately. (…and feeling oh so intellectual doing so…) They had this special on Wal8mart taking over the world. It was quite interesting to watch. Although they import the heck out of everything from China, and help us further ourselves into a trade deficit, at least the company is headquartered in the US and we’re reaping the profits in the form of tax dollars on items sold at Wal*marts in other countries. You may want to tivo that program if it ever comes about.
Another interesting one was another PBS program that detailed advertising in today’s world. The documentary was centered around Delta’s new venture Song Airlines, and the weird marketing strategies that such startups use. They also talked about marketing in other industries, and how “in your face” it all is. You should give it a watch.
I remember seeing something like that about Wal-Mart. There was this study not too long ago that looked at how Wal-Mart has actually kept US inflation in check and “apperently” made us all approximately $895 richer… Take a look…