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Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Another day - another debate
It's debate time (again) and this is one the John McCain intends to win. It's in the Town Hall style - which means that you can take questions from the floor and address people directly. McCain's good at these. he wanted more of them. Obama said no. That's the way with these shifty black folks - they just won't take on the straight talk express.
Meanwhile Palin has been out and about, stringing together words into what resemble sentences and banging on about how she likes neither Osama, ooops I mean Obama', terrorist pals or his vicar. It's gotten that low. The black guy is a secrey Muslim who has terrorist friends who are waiting to jack off on the Whitehouse lawn.
Not that Sarah is racist. No she had a witch doctor perform an exorcism on her in her own church. And he was African and everything. (WINK)
Obama is trying to shrug off the whole "He's black. He has black friends. He's going to blow you up" thing with the occasional one liner.... "We're looking at the economy and looking to change America, John's looking to change the subject." we'll see.
A lot of people only pay attention in the last 4 weeks. So expect it to get uglier than an orgy at the Hefty Hideaway.
Politics, huh?
Monday, October 06, 2008
Run, Obama, Run!
Run, Obama, Run!
Originally uploaded by Winkingskunk
But it's 'soon to die' Steve Jobs that he should be worried abt
Hope this video works
Sunday, October 05, 2008
Buzzzzz required
I'm feeling dull
And flabby
And as though I've settled
Life in A2 is pleasant
It's nice
There are things to do
And people I like
But I miss the electric buzz of the New York City
The pent up sexuality of Singapore
The endless alleys to explore in Thailand
I'm feeling as though experience is being sucked out of me
And that there's very little being soaked up
And being dry is my biggest fear
I want to do 'new'
Try 'new'
To be afraid
To be nervous
To be energized
I want to feel naive
Unworldly
I want to not understand
I want unease
And uncertainty
And experimentation
In a controlled way
I want it as a possibility
Not as a certainty
As an option
Which makes me greedy
But also means I have a criteria for what's next.
I'm excited for the next move.
Impatient for it.
But I'm hanging in.
And I'm doing okay.
Which is why I came here
And why, for now, A2 is enough.
But I can hear the clock ticking
And my 'feed me' drive spooling up.
And flabby
And as though I've settled
Life in A2 is pleasant
It's nice
There are things to do
And people I like
But I miss the electric buzz of the New York City
The pent up sexuality of Singapore
The endless alleys to explore in Thailand
I'm feeling as though experience is being sucked out of me
And that there's very little being soaked up
And being dry is my biggest fear
I want to do 'new'
Try 'new'
To be afraid
To be nervous
To be energized
I want to feel naive
Unworldly
I want to not understand
I want unease
And uncertainty
And experimentation
In a controlled way
I want it as a possibility
Not as a certainty
As an option
Which makes me greedy
But also means I have a criteria for what's next.
I'm excited for the next move.
Impatient for it.
But I'm hanging in.
And I'm doing okay.
Which is why I came here
And why, for now, A2 is enough.
But I can hear the clock ticking
And my 'feed me' drive spooling up.
Friday, October 03, 2008
A triumph of lowering expectations
So Palin loses the debate but wins the battle it seems. By failing to be the disaster she's been in recent weeks Sarah Palin managed to clear the bar of expectation that she's so lowered and ease the pressure from the Republican base
It was Biden's debate but Palin's triumph
26 percent of those surveyed said that Palin was more intelligent in the debate (57 percent who chose Biden).
51 percent of the debate watchers said that Biden did the best job in the debate, while 36 percent gave the nod to Palin.
However 84 percent of the debate watchers said she did better than expected.
Which is the way of things... they're going to win
It was Biden's debate but Palin's triumph
26 percent of those surveyed said that Palin was more intelligent in the debate (57 percent who chose Biden).
51 percent of the debate watchers said that Biden did the best job in the debate, while 36 percent gave the nod to Palin.
However 84 percent of the debate watchers said she did better than expected.
Which is the way of things... they're going to win
Thursday, October 02, 2008
A little bit of politics
I'm sorry to do this (again) when I know that what you're all really waiting for is the inevitable Sarah Palin Sex Tape but I thought that I'd allow myself to be sucked into the pre-VP Debate fenzy and have my say on what's going on.
On one side we have the Divine Ms Sarah Palin. She may not know much but she's a woman, she's standing by a somewhat troubled family, she's closer to trailer trash than any Veep in history and she does a lot for McCain when it comes to a Conservative base suspicious that he's worked too closely with 'those' Democrats in the past. In favor of forcing women to give birth even if conception was the result of rape by a syphilitic near relative she's Goldly enough for most on the right (that IS what Jesus would do - right?)
Okay so she's seen her numbers drop every time she's been on TV (down 15 points on 'is qualified to run the country) but she might be just stupid enough for Americans who feel that intelligence is elitism and that winning an argument is the same as belittling the dim-witted.
In the opposition corner Joe Biden (Obama : Joe Biden - I know) known for waffling on, occasionally being very funny and his tendancy to be condesending in the face of stupidity. He needs to not do that tonight. This is a popularity contest and you don't make yourself popula by talking down to the woman with the handicapped kiddy. Not in America.
The thing in his favor is that his ability to get things wrong, make the wrong joke, get the wrong name and generally fuck things up comes across as endearing. It shows that he's not a 'cue cards' and 'talking points' kind of guy and makes him more human. Plus he has the safety net of being widely known as somebody who, underneath the gaffes, knows his shit.
So she can be aggressive. But he has to tread carefully. Don't mock her, be worried about her ignorance. Don't attack her, attack the fact that she's just not ready (yet). He can make a mistake or two and laugh them off, but she can't.
It's gonna be a good one
On one side we have the Divine Ms Sarah Palin. She may not know much but she's a woman, she's standing by a somewhat troubled family, she's closer to trailer trash than any Veep in history and she does a lot for McCain when it comes to a Conservative base suspicious that he's worked too closely with 'those' Democrats in the past. In favor of forcing women to give birth even if conception was the result of rape by a syphilitic near relative she's Goldly enough for most on the right (that IS what Jesus would do - right?)
Okay so she's seen her numbers drop every time she's been on TV (down 15 points on 'is qualified to run the country) but she might be just stupid enough for Americans who feel that intelligence is elitism and that winning an argument is the same as belittling the dim-witted.
In the opposition corner Joe Biden (Obama : Joe Biden - I know) known for waffling on, occasionally being very funny and his tendancy to be condesending in the face of stupidity. He needs to not do that tonight. This is a popularity contest and you don't make yourself popula by talking down to the woman with the handicapped kiddy. Not in America.
The thing in his favor is that his ability to get things wrong, make the wrong joke, get the wrong name and generally fuck things up comes across as endearing. It shows that he's not a 'cue cards' and 'talking points' kind of guy and makes him more human. Plus he has the safety net of being widely known as somebody who, underneath the gaffes, knows his shit.
So she can be aggressive. But he has to tread carefully. Don't mock her, be worried about her ignorance. Don't attack her, attack the fact that she's just not ready (yet). He can make a mistake or two and laugh them off, but she can't.
It's gonna be a good one
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
What is it that people don't understand?
I'm not entirely sure when America grew envious of its rich, but it seems that's what happened recently. The rich have gone from being icons of the America dream to 'fat cats' creaming off wealth and then expecting special treatment when things go wrong.
I think that it's just bad PR. The rich have always creamed off the top and then expected special treatment when things have gone wrong. It's just that they never did it publically.
So the nation these days is desperate to put a fence between the corporate greed of "Wall St" and the humble goodness of "Main Street". Wall Street made enormous profits, took big bonuses and then went bang. Good - fuck 'em. Bastards.
What we forget is that Main St. demanded that their pensions, their investments and the equity in their houses went up and up. They wanted more than they could afford and took shortcuts to get it. They wanted their chunk of Wall St.
So we blame the dealer and forget the addict. And now we're looking to jail the dealer and leave the addict to go cold turkey. Which will be ugly. Sure there's a thirst for revenge, a determination to punish somebody here. But unless America takes its share of responsibility we're doomed to another cycle of greed and entitlement inflated boom followed by bile spewing bust.
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