Stuff

In the past couple of weeks I’ve been contemplating moving to my own domain and webhosting – working on the site more and taking it to “the next level” – wherever that might be. In the past few months, I’ve been getting an average of fifty to sixty unique hits a day. I am ecstatic with this sort of traffic, especially since I have yet to sink any money into the venture – thanks go overwhelmingly to Michael Bakshi. A few days ago I began looking at hosting, specifically something that was cheap, reliable, fast, and included a free domain name. So far, PowWeb seems to be my best bet. Here is their site, and the review from which I arrived at this conclusion.

But I do not know when I will be making the final decision, on whether to move on or not. In the meanwhile, I will not be updating the site as often. This is a combination of the election results, of my conundrum on the site’s direction, classwork, and various other aspects of my life currently. But mostly, it is the election results. I feel total apathy, and a total disregard for my fellow man. It is my firm belief that the US cannot continue to cut its’ income, while spending money overseas. It is my firm belief that the US cannot continue the neoconservative foreign policy platform that this administration has followed thus far. The US cannot hold such blatant disregard for human rights and for the environment – both here and abroad.

This election has seen the Republicans consolidate their power in both the Senate and the House. This is unprecedented, and any such notions of ‘checks and balances’ has been rendered nil. Not only have the people embraced this administration, this party, but they have also affirmed its’ ideals, by illegalizing gay marriage in every state where it was brought to the voters.

There is a reason why states were not allowed to vote on whether to abolish slavery after the Revolutionary War. There was a reason it wasn’t up to the states to decide whether to let women vote in the early twentieth century, or to actually enfranchise blacks in the later twentieth century.

We cannot continue policies of preemptive war indefinitely. We cannot continue to base our economy on the military indefinitely.

We cannot continue to shift the tax burden to the middle and lower classes.

The American voters have given Bush a clear mandate, and as such they have acquiesced to every policy decision of the past four years. American has now moved from being the ‘sole remaining superpower,’ to becoming the dominant imperialist power worldwide. The Project for the New American Century has triumphed. Whether this election stemmed from ignorance, or fundamental agreeance with their ideology, we do not know. But it does not matter. I have said it several times in the last twelve hours, and I will say it again.

This is a turning point in America, and we have only ourselves to blame. History will be the judge.