Get ready for the full monty

So it’s been a month since the last update. I’m lazy, what a surprise. I’ve been back in the U.S. for over 3 weeks now and it has actually gone pretty fast for me even for the slowness of an unemployed summer. I have to admit, Spain was fun and nice but it’s good to be back to all of my favorite places to eat, golf, and hang out. It’s nice to be back to knowing 100% of what’s said and 15 minute, hot showers, back to the American Dollar, which is worth nothing anywhere else.

My journey back to the U.S. was not as simple as my departure. My original flight plan was a mess, Sevilla to Madrid to London to Chicago to Pittsburgh, a 20 hour ordeal. The first flight went without a hitch, I didn’t even get knived waiting for a taxi in Sevilla at dawn like I expected. The flight from Madrid to London was a frantic moment as I realized I had 25 minutes before my plan took off and I was in the wrong building and needed to bus across the huge airport. After getting completely lost for a few minutes I made it to the plan in time. Now the flight was running late and it landed at 3:35, 70 minutes before my next flight. After a few mishaps at the cluster fuck that is Heathrow I made it to the check-in desk 15 minutes before my flight left only to be denied. The reason for not letting me on the plane was that they needed 30 minutes to process my information because the flight was in-bound to the United States. Yes, make sure you be weary of all those American citizens wanting to come back into their own country. I mean really, if I wanted to attack the United States, don’t you think I would pack a truck full of explosives I made in the comfort of my own home within the U.S. and drive it into a government building rather than try to avoid multiple layers of intense security to attack it via an airplane? I mean really America, fucking think, you damn retard. Uh oh, I might have just upped the terrorist watch level to orange.

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Well, it’s a lazy Sunday here in Spain and I figured I would talk a little bit about my experiences here coupled with things I have noticed. As a disclaimer, yes I know there is no right or wrong as far as culture goes. Every country has a different way of doing things and blah blah blah, but I still can’t help but compare it to the United States and think some of what they do is odd.

1. I think what I picked up on quickly is clothing. Spanish people dress nicer than a lot of Americans. During the day, when it is 90 degrees out, Spaniards don’t wear shorts or flip flops. They are always wearing dress pants and dress shoes with nice shirts, everyone, it’s crazy. When I walk around with my 6 or 7 year old pair of blue jean shorts and my flip flops, I stick out.

2. I’m sure it’s not shocking nor very surprising to anyone, but things in Spain come in much smaller sizes than in the U.S. The food comes in smaller portions, the drinks are smaller. Everything here is Coke, I have yet to see Pepsi floating around in restaurants although some convenience stores carry it. The apartment I live in is sort of small, the elevators are small, the streets are small, the cars, everything.

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This wasn’t even a prepared entry, I just honestly couldn’t help myself with this one. This is a direct quote off of the issues section of John McCain’s presidential website.

Talking about “Human Dignity and the Sanctity of Life,”
“…However, the reversal of Roe v. Wade represents only one step in the long path toward ending abortion. Once the question is returned to the states, the fight for life will be one of courage and compassion - the courage of a pregnant mother to bring her child into the world and the compassion of civil society to meet her needs and those of her newborn baby.”

The compassion of who, John McCain? You are a fucking republican and you are going to cut any government program that would aid pregnant mothers. I mean really, leave it to republicans to want to end abortion, so we can have even more poor people and you know republicans…they hate poor people. I mean really, that makes no sense whatsoever. Let’s have less government and create more poor families with kids they can’t afford but we’re not going to help them out because we believe in less government interference. Oh yeah, and if those kids make it to schooling age, let’s make sure they fall behind in the system because they didn’t have all the advantages being raised as the other upper middle class students who are going to pass that high stakes standardized test because they had all the proper encouragement, family environment, right down to just better nutrition that helped their cognitive development.

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Seeing as it has been exactly 2 months since my last update, with a dash of having else to do at 1 in the morning except be bitter and cynical, I have decided to talk about something that has been on my mind recently. Go figure, a 21 year old who thinks about peak oil, no wonder I’m single and forlorn.

But how to suck you, the reader, into this article with a clever hook. Dare I say we are on the brink of the collapse of global industrial civilization as we know it? I guess you’ll now have to read on…

First of all, allow me to say…shut up, just shut up and stop talking. From the guy who cuts my hair, to the anchors on CNBC, to family and friends, to the politians, none of these people have it right. None of these people really understand what is going on with oil. The most commonly used explanation for these higher fuel prices is that Exxon Mobil and Shell are evil greedy corporations that jack up the price of gasoline to increase their profits while simultaneously burning down forests on a whim and killing bunny rabbits. The second most commonly used explanation would be that OPEC, or rather, those dirty Arabs, purposely keeps oil production low to inflate prices. These are both wrong. OPEC is also not just made up of only Middle Eastern countries.

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So, we’ve had some primaries and caucuses since my last update on the 2008 election. John McCain finally clinched the nomination for the Republican Party which affords him the luxury of traveling the country uncontested to raise money and continue to be incredibly old.

The real spicy part comes with the Democratic Party. On March 4 there were 444 tasty delegates up for grabs in the contests of Vermont, Rhode Island, Texas, and Ohio. Hillary had a reenergizing night winning 3 out of the 4 contests. Yesterday we had the Mississippi primary and it is no surprise that Obama crushed Hillary decisively in that state with a democratic electorate made up of 70% African Americans. I won’t even go into how Hillary got screwed out of delegates in Texas through the caucus process that the Texas democratic party should be ashamed of itself for, but basically there are various estimates for where the delegate count rests for Obama and Clinton. I’m going to cite cnn.com for my delegate count and say that Obama stands at 1,611 to Clinton’s 1,480, a difference of 131 delegates including the dreaded superdelegates.

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