Graeme asked me today what my thoughts were on the Russian President Medvedev's statement ..ing a new "Cold War".

I am against any war, of course, as I am a pacifist, but I think the idea of a "cold war" is an idea of strategic pacifism, I suppose.  I mean, the last cold war ended with relatively little violence (though, technically, we lost). 

If you think there were no casualties, consider the Iran-Iraq War and the skirmishes where the US supplied enemies of Russian allies with weapons, and relatively small conflicts turned into rather large wars.

What do I think about these new conditions for the cold war?  I think that Russia, for the most part, is responding to the aggressive motions of the US in moving weapons closer and closer to our borders. 

Much like the Cuban missile crisis, places missiles within 100 miles of our borders is only going to end in some bloodied noses and civilian casualties. 

Furthermore, these actions invalid NATO, as they appear to be more like a pawn for the US rather than a legitimate "peace organization".  Not to diminish the good they've done, but often, one bad apple spoils the bunch.

Also, what is the deal with Poland?  Who came to their aid numerous times?  Way back in the Napoleonic Era, we were there for them.  Even as current as WWII, we cleaned the Germans out of there on our way to Berlin.  Yet, this is how they repay us? 

Furthermore, who is to say that if there was a massive scale missile attack in the future, that the first volley wouldn't reduce that airbase to atoms.

To sum it up, I'm against stockpiling weapons, but really, that is one of the things we Russians are great at.  We make the better guns, better missiles (India bought a whole slew of them), better warships, better missiles, and larger numbers of each of them!  We hold the largest natural gas reserves in the world while the US ecnomoy is getting dragged down by buying so much fuel from overseas.

I could go on with this forever; it is silly for the US to continue to be the agressors.  I just can't wait to see what happens in, what, 67 days in the US!

Someone invited me to a party a few nights ago.  I was obligated to go since I am dead and lonely anyways.

I met some interesting people, but I, really, just found out how old and antiquated I was in comparison.  I didn't know any of the modern slang.  I didn't have an iPhone or text messaging.  I didn't have a fauxhawk or fancy glasses or a miniature dog.  I didn't have a great, important job or a house in southern California (I don't even have a house in America, as I'm sleeping on my friends couch).  I don't have a 401(k) or trust fund...

I was a square peg trying to fit into a "Brooks Brother's"-shaped hole.  I really wanted to shrivel up and disappear.  So when the conversation came to me, to talk about myself (which I hate doing, of course), everyone else recognized me and all those successful people, for some reason or another, said that reading my, or some other classical novelists, works really inspired them and gave them the right mentality for their lives. 

They were, at some point or another, square pegs trying to fit into a morally-sound hole and some found their path through my works. 

I felt ashamed then, humbled even, that I had compared myself and felt insignificant in comparison to these people, and they felt the same towards me.  I was reminded of how my peasants seemed to fear me until I spent time among them and showed them that I was nothing more than someone trying to grow and fit in with them.

I would mention China but the effect of the earthquake seems to only unite the world and, in preparation for the Olympics, seems to be divine intervention, especially to cloud out the poor human rights in Tibet.  They are, however, winning the economic war with the U.S. right now.  I mean, if the US wasn't busy with the War on Drugs, the War on Terror, and the Border War, they may be more competant as a foe in everything.  Hell, the rising fuel prices are caused by two things:  China and India entering into the fuel market and sandbaggers in America buying "oil futures" which is jacking the price up.  Ask any energy economist and they will agree that this type of "investing" is almost tripling the price of oil, which is why record profits are being earned by oil companies.  I think a conservative estimate of the actual oil price puts it at about $60 per barrel.

Myanmar, the hidden thorn in the side of the world's superpowers.  Basically, everyone ignores the fact that a militaristic government who rules tyrannically over its people unless it has oil and/or babies for American celebrities to buy, I mean, adopt.  Throw them a bone, get rid of the military government.  Honestly, though, I wouldn't accept food aid from China or America either.  American food is chockful of pesticides, growth hormones, and spent rocket fuels, who, knowing the dangers, would really eat that crap?  Give them a planeload of Russian food and you will see them rebuild this country in days. 

Meiers, speaking on MySpace, is a crock of animal feces.  I mean, how lucid are your soccer moms in America that they exploit, harass, and generally play their children as fools?  It seems that all mothers wish to be 15 again and, really, achieve that as they dumb themselves down to childish levels just to seem cool to their kids.  Why?  Because television is so boring or they are overweight or their husbands are banging their 19 year old coworkers?  On that aspect, where the hell is Mr. Drew?  Though it is hearsay, the Meiers were doing everything they could to manage and oversee that their daughter wasn't doing anything bad on the internet, which Drew did everything to over see that she and her daughter were doing the most cruel thing.  Regardless of the outcome of the criminal trial, the American "Judicial" system, or child advocacy groups, should seek to remove Drew's daughter from her care, since it is blatantly obvious that she isn't going to win the Mother of the Year award.

I forgot where I was going to go with the money part.

Did you guys see that commercial where the two American guys were in a bar and one guy was wearing glasses and reading Anna Karenina trying to pick up chics?  It works.

If you didn't see it on television, he held his breath for over 17 minutes for a new world record.  I can hold my breath for years since I'm no longer living, but come on, when I was alive, 2 minutes tops.

I think this arrogant fellow is either amazing or some sort of cheat, but I'd love to know how to do that.  If you ever seen that fake David Blaine video on YouTube, just google it.  It was rather funny.

I really dislike watching television as it seems to sap my intelligence and makes me game for silly product purchasing and a lust for hot, drunken babes.  And I'm always hungry, it seems.

They say television, rather than religion, is the anesthesia of the masses, I think television has the earmarks for a new religious.  Though I don't consider televangelists anything more than high pressure salesmen.

What I do want to see on television is more football, it seems like the World Cup was 8 years ago.  Did I miss it?