The Sunshine Empire

I’ve been stuck with a dearth of things to discuss today. It has been a cloudy, rainy blah sort of day that I’ve spent mostly chatting about a myriad of topics. Lets just randomly run them down.

So today is Alisa Zinov’yevna Rosenbaum’s 105th birthday. If you don’t know who that is then you are living in reality and have a life. She was the author known popularly as Ayn Rand (and why is it pronounced eye-in instead of ann?) Years before I turned away from the dark side and renounced my Republican party membership I dated an Ayn Rand enthusiast. I’ve always held a bias against the woman and her acolytes since that time. Most Ayn Rand followers mock liberals for their supposed utopias all the while believing in a day that will one day bring Rand’s utopia. I don’t so much loath Rand’s actual work as much as her self-righteous moralizing followers who treat her works literal words from God, when it’s nothing but long winded fiction from a woman who was born into crushing poverty and dictatorship.

On the home front the move to overturn the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy is gaining momentum after Joint Chiefs Of Staff Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen declared the time had come to end the policy of making men and women lie about who they are to defend the homeland. Those who still are against gays in the military have always insisted that the military itself was against it. In fact, the joint chiefs sitting stoned faced after President Obama called for the end of the ban was looked at as a message that they were not in favor of the change. As Jake Tapper pointed out earlier today on Twitter, Senator John McCain said in 2006 that he would be alright with the change if the military came to him and said it should be changed. Today in testimony he was a different person angrily suggesting that the military was usurping Congress’s lawmaking abilities. Which one is it Senator? The simple fact is the GOP has used the issue of gays and gays in the military as an electoral issue to drive turnout in the South. The changing attitudes of the country as a whole are passing the GOP by and they are doing nothing but lamenting the loss of a wedge issue.

I have no idea of who will win the Super Bowl and do not care. In all reality after visiting New Orleans this New Years I have to say I’ll be rooting for the Saints. I also hate Peyton Manning and Indianapolis is a division rival.

Yeah that’s all I got for now. Sorry I wasn’t more witty.