Interesting W Endorsements

The first comes from Reason Online.com (which is a pretty liberal publication). The writer is cringing at himself as her writes it but makes the clear choice of reason in the end.

Read the Endorsement -
With the Cretin, Not the Shyster
An endorsement from overseas
By Michael Young

Excerpt:

Here it is: Speaking only for myself, I endorse George W. Bush, and just as soon as I can get out from under this rising mound of banana peels and rancid egg shells I'll explain why.

The reason can be distilled into three words: Middle Eastern democracy. Endorsing Bush is not an easy thing to do when the American president has overseen the steady corrosion in Iraq of the very qualities for which he is being promoted here. Alas, any defiant defense, in order to be credible, must lead in with an inventory of administration failures, gaffes, setbacks, howlers and contradictions.

But in the end one thing stands out: John Kerry is simply not interested in seriously advancing democracy in the region, and will enter the Iraqi fray looking, primarily, for the exits; Bush, in turn, for all his administration's backtracking on democracy, is more likely to keep fighting on for success in Iraq, if only to burnish his legacy. That means he will remain more focused on what Iraq can become if a pluralistic system is set up there: a liberal example for the Arab world and Iran.

Simplistic, you say? Perhaps. But it's Kerry's myriad subtleties on the Middle East that have convinced this single-issue endorser, who believes that a liberal future for the Middle East should be of overriding concern come Nov. 2—it's Kerry's subtleties that have convinced me that the man of countless plans is an unreconstructed shyster on the issue of democracy.

Another huge endorsement comes by way of the 9/11
Families for Stronger and Safer America please click here to click here to read it and make sure to tell someone else about it.

Also, for a dose of much needed optimism for the future of the world, check out the Article Nanotechnology: Hell or Heaven also from Reason Online.com

As I write this, a brand new tape from Osama Bin Laden is about to be aired with new threats of Jihad against our homeland. Could we be about to get yet another Kerry endorsement?

Cracking the "Lost" Code

I've been pretty intriqued by the new abc series "Lost" lately and I think I may have finally nailed down the mystery of the plot. Here goes...

The survivors have all been chosen as the last people on earth. The island (or a few selected islands) is shielded from some global disaster (fate)...it's an experiment..and the higher power conducting it has been trying to make it work but the experiment keeps failing (the French message) because the survivors are unable to cope with their fate.
This would explain the racial diversity..black, white, Arab, Korean, etc.. because you would want a good sample of the human tribes for such an experiment. The higher power involved here may not be represented as obviously alien but in a more angelic/gaurdian-like form..most likely in our own image.
Jack may be the gay representative of humanity (he's not taking Kate’s ques at all and she aint chopped liver)
A force field might also explain the weird weather and the fact that time seems frozen on the island.

The significance of the black and white stones and the backgammon pieces represents the split between the hunker downer camp and the stay on the beach camp..it's a choice.. a reoccurring pattern in past attempts at the experiment...the beachers will die or kill each other. The hunker down camp all made the choice to get on the plane very deliberately while the beach people were on the plane reluctantly or by force. The stay on the beach camp cannot accept the fate that they are stranded and thusly would not accept the fate of being the last people on earth.

When Jack found the remains of the previous hunker down camp he hid the stones he found..so he is aware of all this symblism on some level. An interesting thing I noticed is that the people that couldn’t let go/remained on the beach are all the criminal types of the survivors: Kate, Sawyer (who knows Kate from before the wreck & may be an accomplice in her crimes), Sayid (the Iraq republican guardsman), Walt (probably been in prison and never got to know his own son), etc..

Hurley (who always seems to have batteries for his walkman) is an alien observer monitoring the experiment..we never saw him on the plane..he's non-threatening..and was clearly observing everyone all through the last show.

This is a very fruitful hypothesis..it's giving me a lot of ideas. Here is another - The dolls in the spring belonged to the children of "adam & eve". Where are the children now? They've been on the island a while...likely without other human contact and have probably become proficient at tapping into the power of the island (which may be a technology that amplifies the power of the human mind). Perhaps the children created the "monster" or robot thing to keep them company.

Time will tell if I'm on the mark or not.