Affairs of a Heathen

I just mailed out my updated voting registration card this weekend. It being the last government issued paperwork that had my old address on it. I’m excited to get my new voter’s card since this has become an interesting election and can’t wait to participate.

I’ve tried to pull myself away from a one issue voter by keeping up with the conventions for the Republican and Democratic parties and watching whatever speeches I can catch. There’s just something about McCain that bothers me. Aside from his pro anti-atheist agenda, he sports a stiff upper lip. It has come to the point now where its hypnotizing. What sort of emotion is he holding back? He certainly doesn’t hold back that awkward smile.

The one thing that McCain has for him that I like, and seems like an obvious idea, is his stance on cable companies T.V. packages. McCain is for an ‘a la carte’ subscription plan where you only pay for the channels you want instead of buying this absurd package for channels you’ll most likely never watch. Its sad, but that’s the only thing I have to latch on to in defense of McCain.

Though, as an Atheist and a conscientious objector of war, I find the other 99.9% of the McCain/Palin ticket offensive. I can’t stand hearing how, without a Judeo-Christian entity in power and the people of the same faith behind a God fearing leader, that our goals as a nation can NOT and will NOT be obtained. My humanities instructor says that to understand the progression of our civilization, we must make comparisons to how we do things today. How our daily lives, the things we stand for, apply to the movements and ideas of the past. Oh, believe me, I see the similarities.

To paraphrase parts of history, Islam believes that their holy land was given to them by Allah (God) and that they must spread the word of Allah. If you don’t believe then you are a kafir (infidel) and you will be taken to war for opposing Allah. Queue Al-Qaeda, a grouped oriented at removing all non-Muslim influence in the world, who also believe that they are being forced out of their holy land. Their attacks on Judeo-Christian groups world-wide have their roots set back around the time of the Crusades. These treks through Europe to the Middle-East were in hopes of Christian reclaiming their holy land and to reverse the spread of Islam and put Christianity on the map.

How I see it, while our country has developed into a nation with a government, that is supposed to have a complete separation of Church and state, is compelled to spread “democracy” into other nations, is just another modern day crusade. For McCain/Palin to single out theists, and more specifically, the Judeo-Christian group as the driving force of the U.S., enforces the idea that the utopian image of a religious-free democracy is just not possible. Putting John McCain into office only continues the stereotype of a “get’r'done” country that loves to go to war at the drop of a pin and has an ignorant understanding of Islamic attacks on our country.

After a few years I’ve finally decided to setup my own server again and register my domain. For now, it’ll be dedicated to creating a database of the computers problems I’ve had to help with over the years. Sure, someone could google their problem but most of the time the solution is embedded in some forum. Also, the solutions fix the problem without saying much about what happened and how the solution was able to fix it. My goal is to create articles on just about everything I know and stay within a format that is easy to read.

I went and purchased the domain after google deemed my old hosting site, mine.nu, a malicous site. Frustrated, I went to a site I heard through the CrankyGeeks podcast. I was surprised to see how cheap and easy the process was to obtaining my own domain.

I’m still in the process of ironing things out with the site. I haven’t put up anything yet, though, I imagine with my downtime at work I will contribute then. I’m wondering how well this server will do compared to my previous setups. Its an old HP with the only cable running from it being the power cord. Its an interesting setup with portability in mind. I’m not too concerned about it being wireless considering the bandwidth overall is much lower than the wi-fi card puts out.