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...when you die--long before he dies, more probably and so hopefully--the world will be one less of a jerkoff.
You see, I know I can be a raging cunt--to those who deserve it. You? You're just a terribly-demeanored hot-tempered cunt who could never truly laugh at himself (and the jokes you make towards others around you aren't witty nor clever, but are spiteful and mean [and that's the truly sad part--you would be a nice guy if you weren't such a spitefully mean, envious and selfish* douchebag]). You thought we were making fun of you. You always think the world is out to get you (whether you consciously think so or not), so instead of reacting like a normal human being, you react explosively. You do this offline, but the online community's also had a taste of what you're like. Woohoo, you're kind and bending over backwards to old people through your job. It wouldn't be the first time that an utter waste of flesh held a steady people-related job well on the outside and had a whole other side to them otherwise (wasn't John Wayne Gacy a children's party clown?).
Man, I'm sorry that your former psychotic hubby abused you like he did. I really am. But that's still no excuse to be a raging bitch whenever the mood strikes (that being, whenever things don't go your way). And if that's the way you were before you even married that psycho (as implied by you yourself), then your personality probably didn't help his psychotic issues...and that's sad, because one should never feel like it's okay to blame the victim, even if the victim had a part in facilitating abuse.
I wrote what I wrote because otherwise it would've gone unrealized because you've got him so wrapped up in this relationship of yours that he's lost all sight of what he used to be before your stinking ass was shoved into his face and vice versa (again, that's my one true regret in my entire life, and that's saying something). I wish I had never been a meddling asshole and I wish I had never pushed you two together, because it changed him from a lively, free-thinking, do-what-he-could-who-gives-a-fuck-I'm-fat-and-I'm-proud-gimme-that-pudding-non-corporate-artist to a mindless corporate drone of an abused housewife (mentally speaking). He does what you want to lessen the amount of explosive tantrums--anyone would, in that situation. You have him happily trapped, because he's too nice, too blind and too insecure of a guy to leave you. "Marrying" him helped you put a lock on that.
And I wrote what I wrote when I wrote it because I sure as Hell didn't want to expose Chelle to anymore of your bullshit. I didn't want to endanger her life or mine each time we got into your car with you and you got pissed off at something random and started driving like everyone on the road was in YOUR way. Thank you, asshole, for putting everyone in the car at risk because you were pissed off. I can only hope and pray that your Outer Asshole doesn't some day get him killed. Chelle doesn't like the shit that she's seen you pull either, so I speak for her when I write all of this.
I wish I could blame you wholly for the destruction of mine and his best friendship, but we all had a role in it. Mine was perhaps the biggest, seeing that I'm the one who got you two together. But yours was the second biggest role in it, seeing that you couldn't stand to see us keep the relationship that we had whenever you were around (or even not around). Thank you, BTW, for making his life a living Hell during that time when you were deep-down satisfied that you'd caused a schism between us with that lying/manipulation that near-year that we weren't talking. Don't think that I don't know what you did when that was happening. It "surprised" you when I found the bullshit you wrote in your alternate diary, so you're really not as smart and secretive as you think you are (pathetic). His role is...well, he knows what his role is and doesn't want to do anything about it/doesn't want to grow up, be a man and put his foot down on your shitty behavior. You've succeeded in convincing him that putting up with your shit is worth more to him than proactively being the best friend that he was to me before (funny how "bros before hos" only applies when you're not the ho), so congrats on that.
So you won. You won, after all of your little pissy tantrums, your bitchy comments, your manipulation--you won! Doesn't it feel great to win? Sure would make a mother proud to see the kind of big man her little girl's become.
One day he just might grow up as well. You best watch out for that, because grown ups don't put up with the kind of bullshit you dole out. They grow up out of innocent blind eyes and start to see things for what they really are, not for how you've painted over them to be. G-d help you when that happens.
*Selfish as in you sure didn't want to share his brotherly love with anyone but yourself, though if it was just a problem with me, then you're just a fucking asshole who didn't and refused to comprehend the kind of relationship we did have.
EDIT, JUNE, 2008: P.P.S. If you really think that your celebration matters in the grand scope of things, your ego (and guilt that seems to make you think about us in the first place) is much more bloated than originally thought. But hey, whatever makes you feel good, right? Felt sooooooo good to finally be rid of two of those pesky "friends" of Dean's that he would've--G-d forbid--had to take time out of your precious totalitarian rule over his life. But hey, thanks for scaring the Hell of out Chelle during the times when we did hang out, too. Really appreciate that. Big man you are.
Oh irony towards the people who come commenting here randomly and off-topically. I probably should've turned off comments, LOL.
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| Posting teh dragons (for views, maybe some clicks). |
[23 Jul 2008|08:20am] |
GROW, boy, GROW!
 
HATCH, guys, HATCH!!!
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[19 Jul 2008|11:32pm] |
Two of my hatchlings DIED and the cool one is close to dying!!! PLEASE CLICK HIM!!! NOW!!! ;____; He's the paper one and I don't want him to die! Meh, he died. I need to pay more attention to these guys, but like Amber said, it'd help if the website weren't always going out on us. Click my live ones below (except for the dragon, she needs no clicks, LOL).
I have one adult dragon and one hatchling (that green one, above...it's not close to dying, but the paper one is)...and eggs. >___>
I feel bad about the two green ones... T___T
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| One last bit of spam before I go to bed. |
[16 Jul 2008|11:42pm] |
This:
IS MINE, COME OCTOBER 1st!!!
MINE. YOU HEAR? MINE.
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| Artists & actors unite! MY obligatory post on Dr. Venture's obligatory post. (Political.) |
[14 Jul 2008|10:04pm] |
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James Urbaniak, the actor made of awesome who voices Dr. Venture on The Venture Brothers, posted what I think about that New Yorker cover better than I could have, probably because I'm too full of rage and disbelief over the idiocy of the effete Obama people/Obama Party Loyalists.
http://urbaniak.livejournal.com/161176.html
And I do agree with ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) excusemesenator from his comment, too.
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| More political stuff. Now it's just making me angrier. (Political.) |
[14 Jul 2008|02:19pm] |
I promise to post pictures of Henry in his brithday hat (and some from yesterday out in the sun) later.
This is from one of the PUMA sites, but the email itself is being passed around. Emphasis is mine. What did I say elsewhere about Obama wanting nothing more than to pull an Alice Palmer on Hillary at the convention?
Excerpt:
Sue Castner of Portland is a longtime Clintonite who was a big fund-raiser for Hillary Clinton and will be one of her delegates at the Democratic National Convention. Nobody was more loyal. Days before Clinton dropped out of the race, Castner told me: “If it comes down to a [convention] floor fight, I grew up in New Jersey. I’ve got brass knuckles. I am not remotely afraid of a floor fight.”
Castner is still coming to terms with the reality of Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee, judging by an e-mail of hers that is making the rounds. Castner was in a group of Clinton supporters who met with Obama and Clinton on June 26 in D.C. - and she wasn’t too happy with how it went.
Ms. Castner’s email:
First, let me apologize for not getting back to many of you sooner. I’ve been traveling off and on since being elected as a Clinton delegate at the 1st CD on June 7th. I wish I could answer every question individually. Please understand that the situation has been a dynamic, fluid one making it virtually impossible to keep everyone in a specific loop. That said…
Two Thursday’s ago, June 26th, I attended a meeting in Washington, D.C. with Senators Clinton and Obama. Incorrectly labeled a “fundraiser” by the press, it was supposed to be a small gathering of Hillary’s national finance committee and while there were a few in attendance to write checks to the Obama campaign that night, many did not.
Prior to this gathering, I had had several discussions and meetings with many staunch Obama supporters. These friends have all been exceptionally gracious in reaching out and have been willing to listen to the concerns brought forth. Many have eagerly awaited welcoming HRC supporters on board. So I was genuinely looking forward to the evening in Washington with an open mind, if not an open checkbook. Having already met Senator Obama in Scottsdale several years ago, I was truly hoping to see what my friends had related to me in oh-so many ways. I was hoping to be wowed, not wooed. I wanted to hear something that would bring me totally on board with the many friends and fellow Oregon delegates who support Senator Obama.
The first question during the very brief Q&A period dealt with a persistent rumor about Hillary’s name NOT being on the first ballot in Denver. As a Clinton delegate, I am looking forward to representing the people who voted for me at the 1st CD convention and the 259,000 Oregonians who voted for Hillary in May. I also feel a level of responsibility to the 18 million voters who must be respected, heard, and no longer invisible. Hillary has expressed this sentiment so much more eloquently than I ever could. So I, along with others on Hillary’s finance committee who are elected delegates, wanted to hear that there would be an open convention in which Hillary Clinton’s name is placed into nomination and delegate votes are registered by roll call — as has been the procedure at Democratic conventions throughout modern history.
The people I have been in the trenches with for the last 18 months all feel that Hillary’s achievements as the first woman to present a serious challenge must be recorded for history - especially since convention week includes the 88th anniversary of women’s suffrage. Imagine attending THE convention that celebrates the phenomenal achievements of generations of women in politics! What would be a better way to join splintered Democratic constituencies into a winning alliance? After all, if the sensible shoe were on the other foot, would anyone in his or her right mind even think of suggesting that Senator Obama’s name not be placed in nomination? Gary Hart, Ted Kennedy, Jesse Jackson, Joe Biden, Jerry Brown, Paul Tsongas (among others) have ALL had their names placed in nomination with far fewer than 1,896 delegates.
My friend who begged the question in DC explained that if we, on the finance committee, were expected to put our time, energy, effort, and rolodexes into getting Senator Obama elected, we wanted some assurance that we would be able to vote for Hillary in Denver.
We all thought it was a reasonably benign question with a relatively simple answer. I was absolutely stunned when Senator Obama replied that that there were many issues that needed to be “negotiated” and we would not have a “negotiating session” that night. He did attempt to placate us by saying that Hillary would be “front and center” at the convention. He also told the woman who asked the question that he DID want her rolodex. Answers to other questions about the blatant misogyny and reducing Hillary’s campaign debt were no more satisfying.
My deep disappointment in the entire process and the outcome is not likely to dissipate yet I remain hopeful. Everyone needs to do what he or she is comfortable doing between now and November. And EVERY decision deserves respect. I have yet to decide whether I will write a check to Senator Obama’s campaign. And I am not asking you to contribute at this time - I cannot in good conscience make this request of anyone until Senator Obama commits to allowing a first ballot roll call vote. So for right now, I am focused on making sure that elected Hillary delegates and super-delegates CAN vote for her in Denver.
Another important endeavor for which I will ask assistance is reducing Hillary’s campaign debt to vendors. She is not asking anyone to help pay back the money that she personally loaned to the campaign, which she regards as her own investment. If you haven’t already maxed out to Hillary, please contribute whatever you can (all amounts large and small are welcome):
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/contribute/jsc44
I look forward to hearing your thoughts on all of this. To that end, I will be having a gathering at my house this Saturday, July 12 starting at 2 PM. I simply ask that this NOT be a “bitch” session. I am hoping that any Obama supporters and/or campaign staff and/or other members of the DPO feel free to attend as well. I know that there is a SCC meeting in Tualatin ending at 2 PM next Saturday and attendees are welcome to join us. As with all of the gatherings at my place, I’m sure it’ll go late into the evening. Please RSVP if you can.
I thank you for your continued support.
As always
- Sue Castner
..."Negotiated"? A vote at the convention needs to be negotiated (wow, just like voting at the convention had to be negotiated in previous years, only...NOT)? How much more insulting and effing warped can all of this GET, people? When the HELL are the people sleeping on this/pretending like this is no big deal going to wake the fuck up?
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| Nelson says "Ha ha!" (Political.) |
[13 Jul 2008|03:44pm] |
From the New York Post.
Perhaps he's an adulation junkie. Maybe the diminishing "nourishment" Sen. Obama receives from "popularity" is actually causing him to ratchet up his pursuit of more and more praise just to get the minimal fix he needs.
That would account for why a man who thinks striving for popularity is a character flaw has nonetheless decided to give his nomination acceptance speech in a 76,000-seat football stadium.
Or it might tell us why a candidate who hasn't even been nominated yet wants to re-enact some of the most famous scenes from both Reagan and JFK's highlight reels by holding a rally at Germany's Brandenburg Gate, even though he's not a head of state yet. (German authorities, aware of Obama's rock-star status with the German public, diplomatically suggested that it was up to Obama to decide what is in "good taste.")
Perhaps Dominic Lawson, writing in the British newspaper The Independent had it right when he recently wrote that Obama is "a man of stunning articulacy, but also stunning self-regard."
Last July, Obama explained to reporters that he would eventually overtake Hillary Rodham Clinton in the polls because "to know me is to love me." Some months later, according to The Associated Press' Ron Fournier, he proclaimed, "Every place is Barack Obama country once Barack Obama's been there."
Of course, Obama and his surrogates would say he's just being lighthearted, he doesn't really take himself all that seriously.
One problem with that interpretation is that there's little evidence that he's interested in dispelling or rebutting the cult of personality he's developed. Obama himself talks of reversing the ocean's tides. [read the rest at the linkage above]
Yeeeeeeeeeouchies!
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| My eggs hatched! Except for my cool one! ;___; Click it! |
[12 Jul 2008|08:57pm] |
BABIES!
  
Please click my egg! I don't want the cool one to die! ;_______; !!! And click the babies themselves, too, they'll die if they don't grow up.
(EDIT) Eeeee, thanks! And um...wouldn't a dragon born of paper set itself on fire? >___>?
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| Angry again. (Very political.) |
[08 Jul 2008|02:36am] |
LiveJournal Obamatrons are some really stupid people. And if this person's mindwaves is any indication of the typical Obamatron, then this country is in really, really big trouble.
I've read so much crap in the past ten months and have so much to write about re: politics, but I'm far too angry and tired and sick to get off my ass to do so. Thus, I found a blog entry that I thought surpassed whatever I was thinking. BytheFault.com wrote what I just couldn't bring my harried mind to hash out. I thank G-d that he's got ShareThis on this article, otherwise I would've had to link it. It does have its typos and I believe one factual misstep, otherwise, it's got the gist of what I've been thinking (save for the very end of the blog entry, where he says Obama is a danger to civil liberties; the way that's framed (har har, you need to read the article to "get" that) makes it sound a bit drastic, but when you consider his FISA debacle, then it makes sense). I left out the cartoon he references in the beginning of paragraph two, but it's on the original page.
The Plight of the Obama Crowd
July 6th, 2008 12:48 am
I have zero compassion for them. Anyone who supported Obama after March 2008 is clearly either a delusional Obama cultist or a head in the sand idiot. This one is on you. You had better more experienced choices say Senator Joe Biden. You had better more principled candidates who live their convictions say Representative Dennis Kucinich. You had a reform minded committed populist say former Senator John Edwards. And then you had Hillary Clinton who despite some flaws encompassed all the best qualities of the aforementioned. You dug the Democratic Party’s grave, now wallow in it for all I care.
For months, countless voices of reason have pointed out time and again, Obama is an empty suit (the above cartoon is from March 2007 so don’t act surprise that Obama is devoid of substance). Obama is a fraud. He lacks experience. He has no relevant qualifications. He has no conviction other than his own political welfare. His past behaviour is troublesome. He threw Alice Palmer and four others off the ballot in his first run for office by engaging lawyers to challenge their petition signatures on the last day of review. His rise through the labyrinth of Chicago politics took him down some worrisome alleys and he of his own volition forged alliances with a cast of characters include Louis Farahkan, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the Reverend James Meeks, Antonin Rezko, Rashid Khalidi, William Ayers, and Bernadette Dohrn. Now he pals around with Donnie McClurkin, Father Michael Pfleger, and Jodie Evans. For months, committed liberals like Paul Krugman in column after column demonstrated how his proposals weren’t that progressive or even centrist. I’ve grown hoarse pointing out Obama’s lobbyist connections and his ties to the oil, gas, coal and nuclear industries. At every opportunity I get I bring up the fact Senator Obama voted for the Bush-Cheney Energy Policy. The Washington Post called it “a piñata of perks for energy industries.” John McCain did not vote with his party. Hillary Clinton did not cross the aisle. But you would not listen. You were mired in a speech that he gave in 2002. I hope that speech keeps you warm the next four years because that’s is the extent of his progressive record, a speech. His real record is more well centrist (that reach out across the aisle and ream someone kind of record) or perhaps corporatist is a better choice of words. Six billion dollars in subsidies to the oil & gas industry and $12 billion in subsidies to nuclear power industry. One has to wonder if he photocopied his energy plan from Dick Cheney and Charles Grassley. His health care plan is a misnomer, it’s an insurance plan. The beneficiary is the insurance industry. His votes in the Senate were more pro-Bush than Hillary’s, than Biden’s, than Dodd’s, than Edwards’. Progressive Punch ranked Obama the 42nd most progressive member of the Senate. There are 49 Democrats and one Socialist and one “Independent” in the Democratic Caucus. Forty-second out of 51. Funny how that is. Laughing yet?
Now, you are upset that he is backtracking. News flash: he says what he thinks will please his audience at the moment and then he does whatever he thinks will advance his career the most. And what a career it is. Zero legislative accomplishments. Zip. Name one. He has missed 42% of the votes in the Senate this year. Over the comparable period, Hillary missed 30%. That’s over a quarter more votes missed. Not trivial and by design. He and his handlers don’t want him to have a record to run on.
You think his vote on FISA was shocking. Really? He is the candidate of corporate interests, the candidate of the anti-Clinton Democratic establishment. You’re voting for Obama but getting Tom Dashcle. There’s a winner for you. You’re voting for Obama and getting Jesse Jackson, Jr. Another soulless Chicago politician and as a bonus tack on Dick Durbin. But wait there’s more. Act now and we’ll throw in out of touch effete liberals– John Kerry and a gasbag to boot — Bill Richardson. But wait, there’s more you also get master advertising guru David Alexrod. Think of it as the DNC’s special gift to to you.
Obama is the designated one, the anointed one but you satisfied yourselves with silly speeches and satiated yourselves with empty platitudes galore. You went for the hip and the flash, a no-hit wonder without a batting average who hasn’t even come up to bat yet. He has yet to even hold a leadership position. He runs the Subcommittee for European Affairs of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee and despite having oversight for NATO’s mission in Afghanistan, he has yet to hold a single hearing. News flash: there more US deaths in Afghanistan last month than in Iraq. Obama’s career has been moving from one on-deck circle to another never fully entering the game. Instead you left the ace of the Democratic Party in the dugout as if she were some minor leaguer. You fools. Stop your crying and either attempt to salvage the situation or prepare yourselves for a McCain Presidency which from my point of view is preferable to an Obama one. Better the devil that I know than the devil that I don’t. I know what to expect from McCain. But how can I trust than that shiftless soulless hypocrite who with each passing day changes yet another of his positions? It’s backtracking with Barack. So far he’s trampled on the Fourth Amendment, a women’s right to choose, the health care of all Americans and now the cornerstone of what brung him to the dance in the first place, that magical speech in 2002 that had to be re-recorded so it could be replayed again and again and use your opposition to a fruitless war as his springboard to power.
So it is with incredulity that I read this silliest of wanking posts by Ian Welsh on Firedoglake entitled “Turning Obama Into A Punchline: How Democrats Can Lose.” He was mockable from the start and his supporters perhaps even more. I still can’t forget that kid in Ohio who thinks Obama infallible. Papa Obama the First. News flash — Obama is a joke. He isn’t just a punchline, he is one of those clown punch bags. He may come back up but he just gets walloped down again. The funnier part is that it is largely self-inflicted so far. The GOP has yet to get its licks in.
His post and selected comments below the cut.
( Turning Obama Into A Punchline: How Democrats Can Lose + comments + further comments from BytheFault.com. )
Your framing is blind acceptance of utter folly. You want to see things that are not there and fail to see what is there. Anyone who supports him now is blind to the dangers that Obama poses to civil liberties and to human progress. And to quote Elias Canetti, blind men are at their blindest when they suddenly think that they can see.
See you in 2012, if we get there.
Pretty long, but some good stuff in there.
I'm too tired for this crap. Glad others are out there to write what I'm thinking.
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| I gots a few eggs! |
[07 Jul 2008|02:47pm] |
CLICK THEM. Please? >_>?
(I didn't meant to grab the lighter green one, but ah well.)
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| Mad at people. (Political, I guess.) |
[01 Jul 2008|04:33pm] |
I'm just...G-d damn. So when did Alicia Keys go fucking batshit insane (was she always like this, and was I just not aware at how fucked up she is...I know the article's from April, but still)? Is this what drinking the Kool-Aid has done to people (she yelled "Obama y'all!" at the BET Awards...not that being an Obamatron automatically makes you batshit insane, but when you start spouting conspiracy theories about the government's "agenda against black people", you really reflect that fucked up mentality...first we saw it with Wright/Obama there with "AIDS was created by our government to kill black people" and now we have this "the government created gangsta rap & helped kill Tupac & Biggie!" from this dumbass)? I think so, because I'm seeing some decent people going off the deep end.
Good fuck I'm sick of reading about the batshit coming from all political sides, particularly people like Keys! D:
Check out #13...Mr. Hopey Changey sure didn't, since one of his stumping points when he does talk about race is that "there are more black men in prison than in college". Random-ish link re: the rest of this post, but not...it came up after I searched for something more recent on Keys' batshit crazies.
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[01 Jul 2008|04:21pm] |
This was on Comedy Central last night. It's my new favorite cartoon.
XD!!!
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| Why Bill Clinton ROCKS the PUMAs and TRUE Democrats. (Political.) |
[28 Jun 2008|09:37am] |
Bill Clinton says Barack Obama must 'kiss my ass' for his support
I think I just weed myself.
KISS HIS ASS, OBAMA, YOU FUCK. I.e. OBAMA the ASS who LET his campaign paint the Clintons as racist and twisted every single word out of Bill Clinton's mouth and denigrated the legacy of his presidency. Holy shit. Yes, this is the reason why I'm the "Clinton Lovin' Communist"!
P.S. Knowing what Bill's said throughout the primaries and in books and whatnot, I think the sub-heading is false: "Bill Clinton is so bitter about Barack Obama's victory over his wife Hillary that he has told friends the Democratic nominee will have to beg for his wholehearted support." I don't believe it's the "victory over his wife" that he's bitter about.
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| For those skeptics who STILL think that... |
[27 Jun 2008|09:58pm] |
...animals have no sense of self-awareness or no thought processes equivalent to that of a human's, I give you this to shove up your bungholes:
P.S. Don't really care if it's "taught", the elephants can still draw better than my mother. Snopes contradicts its own article line ("with the caveats that "painting" in this sense means the animals outline and color specific drawings they've been taught to replicate (rather than abstractly making free-form portraits of whatever tickles their pachydermic fancies at the moment") with the reproduction of the line "they drop the brush when they want a new colour" and a link to the gallery where there are clearly pieces of abstract "whatever tickles their pachydermic fancies at the moment" art (holy crap, Jackson Pollock elephant >____> ).
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| For those who don't watch trash TV... |
[23 Jun 2008|05:46am] |
I do have to say that I agree with Sharon Osbourne: Derrick's amazing. He could use a better wig, though. But otherwise? Holy crap, he looks just like her. D:
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| LOL HE CAN HAS POWERZ? (Very political.) |
[21 Jun 2008|10:36am] |
I see that the earth finally shook under the Obamatrons re: their "Constitutional Law Professor".
In the past 24 hours, specifically beginning with the moment Barack Obama announced that he now supports the Cheney/Rockefeller/Hoyer House bill, there have magically arisen -- in places where one would never have expected to find them -- all sorts of claims about why this FISA "compromise" isn't really so bad after all. People who spent the week railing against Steny Hoyer as an evil, craven enabler of the Bush administration -- or who spent the last several months identically railing against Jay Rockefeller -- suddenly changed their minds completely when Barack Obama announced that he would do the same thing as they did. What had been a vicious assault on our Constitution, and corrupt complicity to conceal Bush lawbreaking, magically and instantaneously transformed into a perfectly understandable position, even a shrewd and commendable decision, that we should not only accept, but be grateful for as undertaken by Obama for our Own Good.
Accompanying those claims are a whole array of factually false statements about the bill, deployed in service of defending Obama's indefensible -- and deeply unprincipled -- support for this "compromise." Numerous individuals stepped forward to assure us that there was only one small bad part of this bill -- the part which immunizes lawbreaking telecoms -- and since Obama says that he opposes that part, there is no basis for criticizing him for what he did. Besides, even if Obama decided to support an imperfect bill, it's our duty to refrain from voicing any criticism of him, because the Only Thing That Matters is that Barack Obama be put in the Oval Office, and we must do anything and everything -- including remain silent when he embraces a full-scale assault on the Fourth Amendment and the rule of law -- because every goal is now subordinate to electing Barack Obama our new Leader.
Read the rest here. It's refreshing to see the Obama "progressives" sobbing on the inside after they so fervently claimed that Obama wouldn't support FISA. But FTR, I like this gem, too:
What Barack Obama did here was wrong and destructive. He's supporting a bill that is a full-scale assault on our Constitution and an endorsement of the premise that our laws can be broken by the political and corporate elite whenever the scary specter of The Terrorists can be invoked to justify it. What's more, as a Constitutional Law Professor, he knows full well what a radical perversion of our Constitution this bill is, and yet he's supporting it anyway. Anyone who sugarcoats or justifies that is doing a real disservice to their claimed political values and to the truth.
(EDIT) Damn, I posted the wrong paragraph there after the FTR. Fixed it.
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| Writer's Block: How I got on LJ |
[17 Jun 2008|11:19pm] |
Complete honesty always gets me in trouble.
So I'll be completely honest.
lost_cowboy, my ex-best friend, got his friend fagtastic to give me an LJ code in late May 2002 because I was always on the internets and at the time I had only dial-up, so it was keeping my phone line busy 24/7. LJ was our means of communication and keeping up with each other, but eventually Fagtastic got pissed off with me because I commented towards an argument that Fagtastic had pointed out as racism when in fact it was a simple (albeit simplistic) question regarding cultural differences (I believe the question was "Why do the black kids in my high school all smell like baby powder and coconuts?" or something, and me, being a frequent flier in the "ethnic haircare products section" (since the only stuff that works on my stiff, creepy part-Asian hair and doesn't leave plastic residue or dry it out is the "ethnic" haircare products like "Let's Jam!" and all the stuff that DOES smell like baby powder and coconuts*) horned in on all of the flaming of this poor kid who asked a simple question (I for one saw absolutely no evidence in her journal of being racist) and thus was labelled a racist or some shit and dropped from Fagtastic's journal. Which is fine, because I don't give a shit about Fat Activists of her brand--the type who cry and bemoan about the INJUSTICES OF THE WORLD when a fat, FAT (we're talking of culturalbaggage proportions here) person is made to purchase two airline seats because they take up two airline seats.
Tangent: You know, Fat Activists like that actually piss me off. I'm fat/overweight, yes, but I still take up only one seat on an airplane, and I understand the reasons WHY airlines charge for two seats. In 2002, Virgin Atlantic was forced to pay more than $20 grand to a woman who suffered blood clots, torn leg muscles and long-term physical pain after being squashed next to a really big fatass. During the 90s, the average gained by Americans was ten pounds and airlines spent $275 million to pay for 350 million extra gallons of fuel needed to keep planes in the sky--you know, because the heavier your fat ass is, the more gas is needed to keep your fat ass in the sky. FAT causes airline tickets to rise, too. (Both of those facts are quoted & paraphrased directly from the book I'm reading, The Race Card: How Bluffing about Bias Makes Race Relations Worse by Richard Thompson Ford...the FAT = MORE GAS statistic comes from "Economic and Environmental Costs of Obesity: The Impact on Airlines", American Journal of Preventative Medicine, 27, no.3).
But I digress. So LJ was a means for lost_cowboy and me to keep up with each other. Until I set him up with a paranoid pathological narcissist who couldn't help thinking that everything was about him, every time we had any fun without him it was a slight upon his precious existence and if we excluded him--however practically/logistically--that it meant that *I* didn't like him. Or if I ever showed any type of concern for anything in their lives, it was all about my supposed superiority over him. He threw tantrums--i.e., stomping around the apartment, slamming doors, exasperated sighs, pounding on doors, and just general douchebaggery--and there was always a reason, a "good reason" (in his mind, though he never really told us of such) for this shit behavior. Well, instead of showing spine and putting a foot down on this shit behavior, my best friend married the fucker. I don't give a crap what the reason(s) were or are for that, but the fact that this asshole's behavior never improved (or if it did, it was short-lived...the guy has a fuse the length of an ant's penis) was reason enough for me to say enough/the Hell with it and just...not want to deal with it anymore. This past year I spent too much time mourning real crises that to see some fucking douchebag treat my (then) best friend like utter shit (and to watch him take it) was just too much on top of everything else. I bade him well and basically told him that I--we, since it included Chelle--just wasn't comfortable watching this asshole treat him like shit all the time whenever we all were around each other. We get enough of that abused-housewife-I-can't-leave-him-because-I-love-him! crap from the movies we watch.
Still, even with everything I've been through, I can say that I have but one regret in my life, and that involves them. But I don't dwell on it, because there's nothing that can be done about it. Like the Energizer Bunny with health issues, I just keep going (so long as I've got my pain medication).
I remain here on LJ because during that entire time since 2002 I've made other friends, a couple of whom I've met offline. I seem to continue to make friends and contacts as well, which Chelle tells me is a good thing.
*For the record the "Let's Jam!" that I use smells like those yummy candy heart lollipops I used to get for Valentine's Day when I was a kid...the translucent red, pure corn syrup-type large heart-shaped ones. I truly miss the "Let's Jam!" hair pudding which was basically a purple pudding-like concoction that smelled the same (it came in a white container) as the stuff I use now, but was REALLY awesome when it came to actually styling my hair and keeping it sticking straight up (if I wanted it that way). I haven't been able to find it since I left Massachusetts. ):
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| Ah ha! I answered honestly, too. |
[09 Jun 2008|06:04pm] |
I keep telling everyone that I was born in the wrong decade.
Chelle said she scored a -3 on the housewife version. Lovely.
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| A cat that says "Good boy!" o_O |
[06 Jun 2008|05:40am] |
And a dog who says "I love you". I know it's common, but this one is a cutie and it's pretty clear/eloquent. XD!
I think I can teach Chester how to talk. He already talks back to me often.
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