weeeeeeeeeel. i have a) crossed the bridge to intolerance or b) have decided that i really, truly cannot be friends with republicans.
i just got in an argument - a big one - with a close friend of mine. she said gay rights are state rights (though she can cheat on her husband, jesus forgives that) and that rach and i should move to boston if we don't want our wedding to be a logistical nightmare or want to be treated equally.
then she repeated the lies that barack wants to teach 6 year olds sex ed, which is patently untrue. after i told her what he was trying to do (stop sexual predators) she then told me that becuase i don't have kids, i can't tell her or anyone how to educate them.
i told her in response that knowledge saves kids lives, not fairy tales, and if someone came to get her daughter in the split second those things happen, some age appropriate training (like screaming NO or whatever) would help her a lot more than my little pony. she got, ahem, a little angry with me over that, and asked me to take it back, but i didn't cause i believe it.
then she said mccain was different than bush, that mccain/palin would NEVER overturn abortion, that we need to drill now and forever, that the iraq war turned out just fine, that she likes her money and barack will take it.
i was shocked, still reeling over the "gay rights are state rights" thing, and just stopped the conversation and walked away.
so i'm not sure what this means.
it worries me. i don't want to be intolerant. but i don't think i can be friends with people who i think are ignorant, either. i loved the ron paul republicans! it's the bush ilk that i cannot seem to stomach anymore. oh please don't let me start turning intolerant. but why do i see it as an intelligence thing? shit.
maybe i need therapy.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Thursday, September 4, 2008
librarians
she tried to FIRE the librarian of Wasilla, Alasaka, because the librarian wouldn't ban the books she wanted her to! GROSS PEOPLE!
i mean, are the republicans for real? the fact that she has 5 kids (who she talks about an awful lot and proudly displays on TV, but we can't talk about them?) and can skin a moose is interesting, but not VP fiber. i just want to vomit.
and rudy guiliani: F*ck you. i used to respect you but you're just like the rest of em.
i mean, are the republicans for real? the fact that she has 5 kids (who she talks about an awful lot and proudly displays on TV, but we can't talk about them?) and can skin a moose is interesting, but not VP fiber. i just want to vomit.
and rudy guiliani: F*ck you. i used to respect you but you're just like the rest of em.
Pat Robertson in Pearls
So I was in knots after listening to the speech last night delivered by one extraordinary lady, Sarah Palin.
My feelings on palin: 1) admiration 2) pleased that this race is historic on many levels 3) amused at the Repubs’ desperate pick 4) ready for Biden to knock her out during the debates. I mean, with a woman who just traveled internationally for the first time TWO years ago, does she have a snowball’s chance in hell of knowing the names of the world leaders? I don’t think so.
I’m conflicted, because despite disagreeing with pretty much everything she believes in, I want to like her. She’s no hypocrite, she’s a DIY’er, and she’s reform minded. There is a lot to admire in her.
Her speech last night was incredible….as incredible as Hillary’s a week ago.
Which is why I’m worried for the first time.
She’s a heartbeat away from a would be president who is 72 and has had recurring cancer…she has ZERO foreign policy experience, she has zero respect for science, she doesn’t believe in gay marriage or civil unions, she hates all abortion, including rape and incest, AND she believes in abstinence! I mean, I personally don’t know anyone this extremely right in my personal life, and I am friends with some republicans! Didn’t the right learn its lessons from Bush, that going so far right isn’t good? She makes Bush look like Ted Kennedy!
But she’s so appealing, and most Americans are stupid enough to vote on “who I’d like to have a beer with” rather than “who is smarter than me and can lead this country.”
(and by the way, why do the republicans hate intellectualism so much? When did it become a bad thing to be smart, and aren’t these republicans the same ones who send their kids to Harvard and yale, and hold Wharton School MBA’s themselves? Is this 1984 and I just didn’t get the memo? Truly perplexing.)
The Dems were so gracious to McCain, which I applaud them for, during their convention, but the first mention I heard of Obama in a positive light from the Repubs was from Mike Huckabee, of all people. Barack stood up for Palin and told the media to back off her children, which I applaud him for. and what does she do? She makes fun of him being a community organizer? Of writing two best selling books that got his family out of debt? She mocks him for his supporters idolizing him? Below the belt, Palin, and unbecoming.
So dems. Please, I know this will be hard. But get your balls out and fight like men. This is going to be a nasty campaign – your convention vs. the repubs prove that – and you can’t play nice anymore. MAN UP. Don’t’ be afraid of that pit bull in a skirt, she’s just pat Robertson with pearls on. If you lose this, it’s your own damn fault.
My feelings on palin: 1) admiration 2) pleased that this race is historic on many levels 3) amused at the Repubs’ desperate pick 4) ready for Biden to knock her out during the debates. I mean, with a woman who just traveled internationally for the first time TWO years ago, does she have a snowball’s chance in hell of knowing the names of the world leaders? I don’t think so.
I’m conflicted, because despite disagreeing with pretty much everything she believes in, I want to like her. She’s no hypocrite, she’s a DIY’er, and she’s reform minded. There is a lot to admire in her.
Her speech last night was incredible….as incredible as Hillary’s a week ago.
Which is why I’m worried for the first time.
She’s a heartbeat away from a would be president who is 72 and has had recurring cancer…she has ZERO foreign policy experience, she has zero respect for science, she doesn’t believe in gay marriage or civil unions, she hates all abortion, including rape and incest, AND she believes in abstinence! I mean, I personally don’t know anyone this extremely right in my personal life, and I am friends with some republicans! Didn’t the right learn its lessons from Bush, that going so far right isn’t good? She makes Bush look like Ted Kennedy!
But she’s so appealing, and most Americans are stupid enough to vote on “who I’d like to have a beer with” rather than “who is smarter than me and can lead this country.”
(and by the way, why do the republicans hate intellectualism so much? When did it become a bad thing to be smart, and aren’t these republicans the same ones who send their kids to Harvard and yale, and hold Wharton School MBA’s themselves? Is this 1984 and I just didn’t get the memo? Truly perplexing.)
The Dems were so gracious to McCain, which I applaud them for, during their convention, but the first mention I heard of Obama in a positive light from the Repubs was from Mike Huckabee, of all people. Barack stood up for Palin and told the media to back off her children, which I applaud him for. and what does she do? She makes fun of him being a community organizer? Of writing two best selling books that got his family out of debt? She mocks him for his supporters idolizing him? Below the belt, Palin, and unbecoming.
So dems. Please, I know this will be hard. But get your balls out and fight like men. This is going to be a nasty campaign – your convention vs. the repubs prove that – and you can’t play nice anymore. MAN UP. Don’t’ be afraid of that pit bull in a skirt, she’s just pat Robertson with pearls on. If you lose this, it’s your own damn fault.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Oprah's Quote of the Day
"I love, fucking love living, but I also hate it more than I could ever imagine, which is to say that my hatred for life is ever expanding, ever finding new corners in which to foster itself and develop into a cancer of epic proportion."
i'm just going to start posting things as Oprah till she gets off her laz ass and does some mfing writing.
i'm just going to start posting things as Oprah till she gets off her laz ass and does some mfing writing.
Superpumped
Rach and i have been glued to the TV all week soaking up the speeches...and last night, my excitement meter tipped over to the raging, obsessive fan category. i am SO proud of the democrats - John Kerry, who knew you had a speech like that in you? The Clintons? i'm sorry i ever doubted your allegiance, i ain't got nothing but mad love for you. Biden? what a great story, and my heart melts at the way he looks at his wife. That, my friends, is all i need to know about his character. good choice barack.
so i'm waiting for Barack's big speech tonight; him giving the speech a fulfillment of Dr. King's "i have a dream" speech 40+ years ago...and i am proud, proud, proud to be here, right now, in this moment of american history. go dems!
so i'm waiting for Barack's big speech tonight; him giving the speech a fulfillment of Dr. King's "i have a dream" speech 40+ years ago...and i am proud, proud, proud to be here, right now, in this moment of american history. go dems!
Tom Brokaw is a douchebag
Tommy - what whe fuck, mate? did you really just say on national TV that the democrats cannot criticize mccain because "he was sitting imprisioned for 5 years in a vietnamese war camp while bill clinton dodged the draft??" DUDE! you have just lost any shread of credibility that you had.
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