Mockery and Derision

Interesting points.

Ironically, I do think this is a center-right nation. I don’t think 5 out of the last 7 Presidents being Republican is an accident, and not merely attributable to Democrats and their “Operation: Blow It Again” over the last few Presidential campaigns.

When Americans get scared, they seem to revert back to conservatism. Conservatism is easy. It doesn’t challenge the mind in a lot of ways. “Don’t change anything. Keep the status quo. And for christsake, don’t let queers marry.” (depending on your historical context, change that to don’t let blacks and whites marry).

It seems to take a mammoth effort to get a Democrat elected, and not so much of one for a Republican. This election is a perfect example. We had a vastly superior candidate, all the money in the world, and the best campaign in history. Yet we didn’t win by a 49 state landslide the way Republicans, at least used to be, capable of (1972).

Prop 8. Wow. If gay marriage can’t find a home in CA, it really can’t find a home anywhere.

I’m a HUGE believer in marriage. Gay, straight, or anything. Opponents of gay marriage love to trot out the “slippery slope” argument, that if we let gays get married, what’s next? Men marrying animals?

First of all, if a man really wants to marry an animal, why the hell should we discriminate against Texas?

But really, I don’t care who you marry, what you had for breakfast, or any other aspect of your personal life. If someone else excercises, I don’t get stronger. And if someone marries a fish, that doesn’t have any impact on my marriage.

Conservatives are right. We do need to support family values. And in this day in age, I don’t think we have any right denying marriage or parenthood to people in love, whatever they are. Show me the evidence that says gays can’t make great parents. In fact, show me the evidence that says gays don’t make BETTER parents than straight ones.

Look at every gay person you’ve EVER seen. I don’t know about you, but every gay dude I’ve ever met has been pretty well educated, with a stable career, and making a hell of a lot more money than I do.

Now contrast that to the guy in Appalachia wearing a “Who Farted?” hat, married to some toothless lagoon creature out on bail for a drug charge. ‘Cause I’ve met that guy. I work with him. And guess how many kids he has.

If you guessed FIVE, you’re right. Those kids are the future NASCAR fans of America, and we’re really comfortable denying the “sanctity” of marriage to gay people?

It looks pretty damn unsanctimonious to me already. Let everyone in who’s willing to do what it takes to make it work. Let everyone in who can provide a stable home and future for their children. And for christsake, let ‘em adopt so pregnant teens can go back to being irresponsible.

It’s a question of wrong versus right. And as California has yet again managed to prove, we’re on the wrong side of it.

The election is over. I have nothing to write about anymore. Nothing really “grinds my gears” so to speak.

I went to the gym today. Did some squats. Some benchpress. Then I came home and drank a big jar of creatine.

Does this seem interesting to you? Because it surely does not to me.

Let me then take this moment to say The Office is the greatest show ever produced in America.

Perhaps sometime, I’ll find something creative and political to write about. Until then…I big you Adou. (is that how you spell that?)

Republican Party, Working Joe bid each other Ado until 2012.

WASHINGTON—As the 2008 presidential campaign came to a close Tuesday, the Republican Party and the average American hard-working Joe bid each other a fond farewell at a small rally in Pennsylvania, vowing to meet once again, as scheduled, at the dawn of the next election season. “The Republican Party wishes to thank the Joe for his cooperation and faithful support, and we look forward to acknowledging his needs again in 2012,” said GOP representative Luke Hayes, moments before getting in a car and heading back to Washington. “Until then, old friend, we’d just like to say happy trails to you and best of luck.” Representatives for the average working Joe reported that the time spent together had been a pleasure, even though he did not actually get around to voting this year. -From The Onion.com

Oh yeah, and hey, we won an election.

For those of you not in MD, let me tell you the other big question facing voters on election day: whether to allow slots in the state of MD.

I’ve heard all sides to the argument. That slots would bring in more money to the state that we’re already spending on out of state slots for education and other services. That it would be the most regressive form of taxes on those that can least afford it. That it would be immoral. After all, if everyone else is a whore, does that mean you should be one to?

Let’s set aside for the moment that yes, I would gladly allow legal prostitution in my state. I’ve made up my mind, and absolutely, I’m voting yes on question 2 for slots in MD.

Children are innocent. Adults aren’t. To be honest, I really don’t care what other adults do. I don’t believe the government or other people should be allowed to make moral decisions for others, under the premise that we can make better decisions for them than they can.

Let people live their own lives. Even if slots didn’t bring one single dime of money into the state coffers, I’d still support it on general principles.

And where did this stone age idea come about that it’s “immoral”? It’s gambling. Is poker immoral also? What about dancing or loud music? When people want to outlaw abortion, I disagree but at least I see where they’re coming from from a morality standpoint. But what basis do we have to say putting a quarter into a machine violates any code of morality since the 19th century?

Prohibiton worked. And all across America, teenagers are smoking weed for the last time, knowing the government is hot on the trail in the War on Drugs. Or is that not the case?

People are going to do what they’re going to do, and when it doesn’t harm those around them, let’s not make their decisions for them.

We don’t know what’s best. We can’t make better decisions on their behalf. Let’s strike a blow for freedom, and vote yes on question 2.

After almost two years, it’ll finally be over tommorow. Obama will win. By a landslide. Which makes it wierd that he’s doing so well among Latinos, since you think they’d be ideologically opposed to landlsides.

On this wonderful election eve, I’d like to finally take the time to put the proverbial cart before the horse, and say some things from the heart.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! AHHHH!!! HOW DOES THAT FEEL REPUBLICANS?!?!?! THAT’S FOR TALKING TRASH EVERY DAY FOR THE PAST YEAR AND A HALF!!!!

Every day I deal with right wingers in their natural habitat of smugness. At work, at home, everywhere I go I seem to be surrounded by right wingers, with the exception being college. And of course school is almost worse, being solely populated by the thoughtless youth with their Morgan Freeman and their Music Television.

And every one of them loves to make me a target.

Listen: I hate talking politics. I really do. I don’t mind writing about it, but the reality is I’m a lot more informed than the average, and have spent a lot of time I should’ve been meeting girls thinking about these things. I’m smarter than you. I promise. So no, I don’t want to take your bait and talk politics with people too dumb to understand what I’m talking about.

So I hem and haw. I seem much less thought out, much less informed than I am, because I hate talking about it. And you all feel superior.

But guess what? Out of the 9 Republicans you ran for President, all of them sucked! You people are going to get monkeystomped, and all you can do is whine and complain and call Obama “the messiah”.

Please, keep going with that nickname. Because all that does is point out how our guy has…what do those pundits call it…SUPPORT? Is that it?

And like it or not, he’s going to be the 44th President of the United States. So just sit back and whine for the next four years while our foriegn policy gets smarter, our economy gets stronger, and our President doesn’t choke on snack food.

It’s going to be pretty fun. Just watch.

This was so well done, I have to repost it. From Joe Trippi.com:

“Note to GOP – ACORN Was Defrauded and You Know It.
A short history of how voter registration drives got to where they are today.

1. The GOP during the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s employed a number of methods to register voters to insure the people they were registering were indeed Republican.

One method was to go through a neighborhood and register everyone who wasn’t registered. Then they would throw out all the voter registration cards of those who had registered as “Democrats” – thereby building up Republican registration.

I am not saying that Democrats were saints. But Democrats did not have to employ this method. Democrats tended to go deep into poor and minority areas such as Watts, or Harlem and could register thousands, even millions, of new voters and only rarely find someone who registered as a Republican. So few that it wasn’t worth disenfranchising them by throwing their registration cards in the trash.

With Democrats registering new voters by the millions in inner cities – Republicans had to keep up by mounting some kind of registration drive - they had to go into suburbs and places where voters were split and they had to find a way to come out of their drives with far more Republicans than Democrats to make it worth the effort. Throwing out registration cards of those who registered as Democrats became on way to do this.

BUT LAWS BEGAN TO BE PASSED TO PROHIBIT THIS PRACTICE – INCREASINGLY THESE LAWS REQUIRED THAT ALL REGISTRATION CARDS HAD TO BE TURNED IN. You could not simply turn in the registration cards that you wanted to turn in – you had to turn them all in.

This is exactly why ACORN had to turn in the “fraudulent” voter registrations cards for Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.

2. In order to raise millions of dollars for these registration drives it became important for them to be non-partisan so that contributors would receive the appropriate tax deduction for their contribution to the effort. This meant that once such a drive went into a neighborhood it was required to register both Democrats and Republicans to maintain its charitable or non-profit tax status. Progressives again did not have to worry about this – they could mount non-partisan voter registration drives inner cities – register millions of new voters and vast majorities of them would be progressive.

Republicans had to go to the suburbs and other areas of America that were split in their political allegiances. So they developed a method called “bird-dogging” where a party volunteer would go door to door in a suburb and ask the unregistered if they sided with the GOP or the Democrats. In the early days of these efforts they would literally leave a “tale” such as a popsicle in the yard for a volunteer of the non-profit to find and they would register people in that household. This is how the GOP stayed within the law of registering everyone in an area – turning in all the cards – and still registered more new Republicans. These methods became more modern and targeted with the advent of computers and databases that allow for better targeting than the old “bird-dog” method.

3. How it was ACORN that was defrauded and not the American people (despite the GOP’s cries to the contrary). Progressive organizations began to pay volunteers $1 per new voter registered. This was supposed to encourage these volunteers to stay in the field longer – register more voters and provide a small reward for their effort.
So here is what happened and the GOP knows it. Most of the ACORN workers did their jobs and went out and registered new voters. But some workers defrauded ACORN – simply sitting down at home or somewhere else and filling out cards to make $1 per card – someone could make $100 or $200 per day doing this. ACORN is absolutely correct that it has to turn every one of these cards in – why? Return to #1 above.

Mickey Mouse will not be showing up to vote on election day. A voter registration worker defrauded ACORN by turning in the phony card to make a buck.
All ACORN did was turn Mickey’s card in as required by law.

The GOP is going to question the legitimacy of this election based on this garbage?

I have a prediction Barack Obama is going to win by more votes than ACORN registered.

You can problems with the way ACORN does things, or with the way both sides register voters. Or with how we got to where we are.

But get over it – watch the flood on election day – as the “Obama effect” takes hold and millions of Americans vote for change as looks likely from this vantage point.”

Hey. It’s nice to see you here. No, don’t worry. There’s plenty of space for you here on the bandwagon. You’re not too late.

Oh that? That’s just Ben Affleck. Hey Ben, move over will ya? Give Colin a seat.

Can I get you anything? You must be pretty tired. It’s been a long journey, from the Bush Administration all the way over here. I thought you were gone forever when I saw you at the UN. Guess that turned out to be pretty emberassing huh?

But no matter, you’re here now. You’re safe. We won’t use you as our “token black guy” to show there’s at least one minority in our camp. We won’t dupe you with false intelligence and make you look like an idiot, dragging your name through the mud.

Go on, put your feet up. I think you’ll find the chairs suprisingly comfortable. We raised 150 million in September alone. We can afford a pretty nice bandwagon. So go ahead.

Do you want to be Secretary of State again? Oh, I get it. Too soon. Well we’ll talk about that later. Until then, just hang out and enjoy the ride Mr. Powell. It’s good to have you here.

Is anyone else watching this right now? GOOD GORD! It’s almost painful to watch McCain get shellacked like this.

Just like it’s almost painful to watch McCain get outspent 8 to 1 in North Carolina. Almost.

Currently listening to: MONEY by Pink Floyd