house & senate, the republicans are done!
i didn’t really know who nancy pelosi was before going to chicago, and even then the only thing i really knew is some IL person was using her as a way to insult another candidate. whatthefuckever. now she’s the first woman speaker of the house…and also, this picture is hilarious.
source: boingboing
she wants revenge makes me so happiful, so so happiful. and they totally freaking rocked it out uber-hardcore last night. and i like going to the roxy for concerts, it’s fun.
of course, both justin & adam were both thisclose to be able to go talk to after the show and i froze up hardcore. and the boy laughed at me. buuuuut…what would i say?
it’s not the same as drunkenly running up to the roadsteamer…yet…chicken! so chicken.
either way i totally had a blast, she wants revenge was awesome. and placebo was ok, but the crowd for that half of the show was a bunch of douchebags.
concerts make me happy.
Please pick the correct answer…
hanging is a really out-dated, and gross method of execution:
a.) unless you’re foreign
b.) unless you’re a former dictator
c. ) unless you’re a bush administration trump card
d.) unless you’re in washington/new hampshire
e.) all of the above
i’m still a bit conflicted on the whole saddam hussein sentencing. and not just because he bears a slight resemblance to my daddy.
baghdad burning explains everything far more eloquently than i ever could imagine to try, for one thing. and if you actually think about the whole hanging procedure it really is archaic and ghastly. even more so when you consider who’s responsible for more iraqi (and american) deaths: bush or saddam?
i would feel a bit better about the whole saddam trial proceedings if perhaps he were being tried by the UN rather than one specific government with an exceptional bias. or if they hadn’t have kept chucking out judges for being “too fair”. or if bush were subject to the same trial (pipe dream!) for his crimes against humanity (only on a wider scale than just iraq).
i do think it was very contrived to announce the execution days before a major election, but i also think it totally backfired on the GOP. bush pulled the ‘i win! saddam dies!’ card and did not get a republican-run congress in return. i think that’s only fair. or, as fair as possible.
i only hope that the democrats do take over the senate — no, i do NOT like democrats! — just to keep cheney from having voting power over a 50/50 split senate.
that probably won’t be cleared up till end of november, though.
and so election day has passed and the house has gone to the dems. the senate is still up for grabs, but it does tend to lean slightly towards democrats. who knows, though, it could go either way at this point. i mean, the focal points right now are: montana & virginia…so…yeah.
more importantly, rumsfeld is resigning. which is to say, he’s running off with his tail between his legs lest the house begin investigating him. i don’t necessarily know that they’re going to replace him with anyone better per se, but it is definitely something that needed to be done like…two years ago. for sure. and luckily, there isn’t another rumsfeld readily lurking in the shadows. at least, i don’t believe so at this point.
massachusetts is all in an uproar over our “historic” election. who knows, maybe deval won’t suck…? i’ve heard conflicting things about him this whole time and the only concrete opinion i have is that his posters/signs/campaigners are god damned annoying bastards. so it’s the state’s first african-american governor in the history of statehood. so the fuck what? massachusetts has been a state for how long now? since fucking 1788…and it’s taken till motherfucking 2006 for a non-white to take the office? poor, poor show for a so-called liberal state. but whatever, that’s all moot now.
what is far more interesting, i think, is the election of a muslim in minnesota. generally speaking, very generally, rural areas and such tend to be a bit more conservative. a bit more leaning to the right. and as such, rural americans also tend to be very vehemently against anything “different”. which is just sad and wrong, and which is not to say “liberals” don’t do the same thing as well. but since the stupid bombing in new york & the even stupider war, there has been a frighteningly violent and upsetting backlash against muslims in this country. and that’s sad.
because it shouldn’t matter. at the end of the day, they’re still just people. deval patrick is not black, and keith ellison is not muslim…they are people. and we need more good people in office and such. i think a variety of different faiths & ethnicities in congress can only bring good, as we’ve suffered far too long under the yoke of a single demographic of old, conservative, christian-based, white men. and any change in that composition is going to be a change for the better in the end.
race, sex, ethnicity, etc. …none of this should matter when electing government officials. but the fact of the matter is: in this government, in this country, in this world…i think that’s all that matters.
anyway, gonna keep an eye on the senate a bit longer, i think.
and yet i feel helpless.
i’m not entirely certain anymore. after the whole primary debacle, i’ve decided that the government can lick my balls and then fuck directly off. not only does my vote not count but i get insulted and harassed whenever i attempt to do my civic duty (though not this badly). and i realize i also forfeit some of my right to bitch about said government by not participating, but fuck that shit.
i am concerned about the issues, but i really just don’t give a shit right now. and it’s even more disheartening when there’s a fucking election goign on and the “breaking news” on cnn is about britney fucking spears. dumb-ocracy indeed.
this year is a fairly big year, and i do hope that congress gets an extreme makover but i’m not entirely certain that more democrats are the answer. both parties disgust me in very separate, but very big ways.
although, i’m far more disgusted by certain sectors of the republican party than i am democrats.
it’s no lie that i’ve fantasized about taking a spiffy real vacation to some exotic locale for a while now, but this…this is just plain horrifying and wrong. so very wrong. why would someone ruin the pleasant sanctity of vacations with spawning?!?!!
motherfucking “birds & bees” package? oh ew. double-ew! i mean, i’ve seen lots of super-gay vacation packages on travel websites — even some vacation packages exclusively for teh gheys — but nothing as ludicrously ridiculously gay as thise.
For about $1,800, couples can book a conception cruise on the “Love Boat.” They are taken to a romantic island on the luxury liner of Singapore sex guru Dr. Wei Siang Yu.
At the Miraval Resort in Tucson, Arizona, sex experts Dr. Lana Holstein and her husband, Dr. David Taylor, help couples with such things as ovulation schedules and achieving intimacy.
i can’t read the words “conception cruise” without shuddering all over, so we’re just gonna gloss over that and the parts about obvulation schedules because it also makes me kind of oogy inside.
and barfy.
and how fucking creepy would it be to be on vacation where you know that everyone else there is trying to screw their way into spawning territory. ew ew ew ew.
ok, i might be a bit biased, but everything and anything having to do with *trying* to get knocked up is just really sickening to me. so much so, that i’m almost tempted to go home and down each & every birth control pill i have at once just to make sure it doesn’t happen. and maybe stand by with a spork.
no babies in 2006, yo.
or ever.
i am so fucking sleepy. and i think i actually sleptish. but whatevs, it doesn’t count when i’m this tired. bleh.
also, i’ve totally been waking up early and just not getting ready for-freaking-ever. why? because i can. oh such dangerous power. but hopefully it will lose its novelty and i will stop doing it soon. (read: as soon as it’s cold and snowy and i don’t want to come home late anymore).
anyway, on with teh filler, courtesy of my faithykins.
