If Taco Bell buys McDonald's, run for your life.

Watching yesterday's Daily Show with Jon Stewart, a story was covered about a movement to amend the Constitution to allow naturalized citizens to run for president. The group putting this forward is doing so with the intention of allowing Arnold Schwarzenegger to run for president.

When Schwarzenegger was originally elected governor--what, last year?--I remarked to Nikki about how this was so Demolition Man where in the future it's revealed that Schwarzenegger was in fact elected president after just such an amendment was passed. Mind you, Demolition Man came out in 1993. How could anybody predicted this turn of events, short of Nostradamus' writings or a young Madam Cleo at the school talent show?

Fortunately, in a brave new world of scary, the thought of Arnold being president really isn't that intimidating, I must say.

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Bushgaea: Four Years of Darkness

Well, the results are in, John Kerry has apparently made a concession speech, and the people of America have spoken, and the content of their speech has been a resounding "We is dumb."

As a country, we decided we like how the war in Iraq is going, how the Patriot Act affects our lives, that we want the government to tell us what we can and can't do with our bodies, and that we want to have oil fields drilled in the Alaskan Wildlife Preserves.

As a state, Oregon (and ten others) decided that "Separate but Equal" isn't okay for differing races, but it's okay for differing lifestyles. We decided it's reasonable to sue someone for $5 million for "pain and suffering" if a doctor makes a mistake that lays you up for one day with no lasting affects. We decided that it's okay to have marijuana for medicinal purposes, but you can't buy it from any reputable licensed distributor and you can't grow it on your own (today's medicine brought to you by the letter "N" for "nickel bag.")

I almost didn't put this up because, what's the point? The choices we as a country have made are done, and by the time the next election cycle rolls around, no one will remember these mistakes, just as we forgot those of 2000...