Starship Troopers and How I Learned to Appreciate the 2008 Election.

First off, with all of my anime reviews I'm trying to save before Geocities gets shut down, I've come across a lot of MIDI files used for background music. Since every time I start up Firefox with one of my sites loaded, there is a constant reminder that I better get this midi up before Jarvic Cocker haunts me. He's a weird British Indy guy, so I don't think he knows the difference between live and dead.

So here's a link to Pulp's Disco 2000 in all it's keyboard glory.

Now on to more pressing manners. Fascism, is it as glamorous as Paul Verhoeven's "Starship Troopers", or is Obama right in vetoing the F-22 budget? Or could it be the charismatic president's elaborate scheme to lead us into a Federal world?

As for the F-22, no matter my love for dog fighting movies (reminds me that I have to truly compose my "Iron Eagle IV" review) and the inevitable "Rise of Cobra", there is no reason to believe our fighters need to be updated. The Thunderbirds are still F-16s, the Blue Angels are F-18s, and B-52s have successfully maintained a fear of nuclear holocaust since 1964.

Also, the most effective tanks have been the same since the 70's. Thank you Military Channel's "Top 10 Infantry Vehicle" show. You prevented me from settling on watching horrid Michael Jackson covers.

The point is, the weapons we have are superior to all of our threats, so why try and further brutalize them. They actually may make war less brutal, but you can't say it is okay to not give the guys in the caves a chance to face Mecca and offer one last prayer for 71 virgins and a slut they can study from.

If you want to use new weapons, find a tougher opponent. For someone who loves the science of noble destruction, I am pissed that we haven't encountered "The Rise of the Machines", and the bugs aren't sending asteroids to reinvigorate the human and more importantly the patriotic spirits.

Patriotism, the concept to encourage people to act like Casper Van Dien to sign up for duties against the bugs. I haven't seen STIII, but I hope for Casper's sake, it was filmed instead of taped. The guy has done enough SyFy originals. Give him the glory of digital celluloid, please.

Or a reality show. Denise Richards can be considered less talented than her ST costar (CVD at least got to be in a Tim Burton flick), but because she's an air head, E! is taping. All I want is that we offer a struggling performer the same chance to avoid crappy made for DVD (that do not feature Bruce Campbell) movies without fucking Charlie Sheen.

Let me get back on the topic. Patriotism is not what made Starship Troopers, so cool. It was fascism, and Troopers found all the points to sell testosterone filled teenagers in what was the beginning of "South Park" Republican movement.

There are some elements I thought were kind of cool. You serve, you vote. I use to thing that it sounded fair. Those who risk their neck, deserve more than I do. The problem is, the servicemen all seem to develop biases that favor the concept of protecting Dick Cheney from Google Earth.

A society based around the concept that force is the most effective way to control. Thus, we would be led to believe that the stronger culture is the better one. Tolerance would be down, along with the number of Asians of any kind.

Just an observation, but I cannot remember seeing any Arabs, Indians, or East Asians in Troopers.When I take the time to look at the cast, I do not see many Jewish-sounding names listed. And then your lead's last name sounds very Reichish "Van Dien".

The director of the film loves to hide satire into every project, but he always seems to push that envelope too far. I guess the problem is that he tends to make his films so enjoyable, that you forget that, we cannot condone this.

This is where I thought of how great it is to have Barrack Obama in office. It presents a world of kill crazy right wingers, and a New World Order that did not feature Muslims. If that wasn't 1998 to 2005's general attitude in a nut shell, I don't know what is.

Obama, a well-educated man who thinks the government should serve it's people, like most of our Ivy League scholars and artists. A man who realizes some changes that lead towards socialism are needed to make our country stronger. Of course, socialism tends to be a policy that walks beside fascism (i.e. The National Socialist party of Germany of 1933-1945).

Could Obama be leaning towards a government that will pick and choose what the country needs? If that is possible, we better hope the bugs wait till 2016 just in case.

Or we get organized to encourage anarchy. Sadly, most of us are smart enough to realize that hypocrisy. That's why we need the machines to destroy us.

So this turns out to be a blog about buying Cyberdine stock. It is an investment for our future.

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