I'm Just Sayin'

If you have seven houses and 13 cars, you would probably think that the fundamentals of the economy are strong, too. Click here to read more about John McCain's vehicle collection. I don't really care if the cars were made in America or overseas, just the fact that he needs 13 is disturbing. Clearly, the guy is completely out of touch with reality.

Me, Circa 1990

In 1990 I was in the 6th grade. Too bad I wasn't a senior cause I would have looked like this! Go to www.yearbookyourself.com - it's lots of fun!

If I Had A Nickel.......

For every time I've heard, "thanks, but no thanks" over the past two weeks, I could retire tomorrow. Just to clarify, in case you don't watch the news, she did take that money. She didn't build the bridge to nowhere. Instead, she took the money and built a road to the beach where the bridge to nowhere was supposed to start. So, yes Sarah, you took the money. It was a special interest earmark brought to you by your wackadoodle Senator, Mr. Ted Stevens, who incidentally is known in Congress to ask for more earmarks than anyone else in on Capitol Hill. How much of Mr. Stevens's money have you turned down? The answer, Sarah, is NONE.

Someone Please Explain.......

Why do the republicans find it necessary to make light of the fact that Barack Obama worked as a community organizer in inner city Chicago after college? What is so funny about it? First Rudy Giuliani gets a laugh from the all white, all wealthy, all priveldged audience at the RNC and then Sarah Palin basically said that he did no "actual work" in that position. Then some jerk of a congressman from Georgia has the audacity to call the Obamas "uppidity". Seriously?????? After two major republican figures make fun of his work in which he helped to better the rough communities of his city......A job in which he helped people find hope in the face a desparity.....A job where he helped a struggling community find purpose to encourage their youth to get an education and better themselves and the place where they came from....You call that uppidity? Just saying that you think his work helping others was pointless makes you an uppidity elitist idoit nincompoop pinhead. But Obama is the elitist for helping the less fortunate? Hypocracy at it's finest. I take serious issue with Rudy and Sarah poking fun at his career path. It just goes to show how out of touch they are with what millions of Americans face each day - poverty, no representation, and no hope that it will ever change. I do not understand how on earth Guiliani, the former mayor of the biggest city in the nation, could make light of someone who worked to better a community. So he is telling all of the community organizers in New York that are trying in vain to keep families together, trying to keep kids off of the streets and in school, trying to help struggling citizens find decent jobs, trying to help people find a BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE, that their job is hilariously unimportant. Words cannot express my utter disbelief with these people right now.

Here are some facts:
1. While working in Chicago, Barack Obama lead the biggest movement that city had ever seen to get citizens registered to vote and involved in the democratic process - so that they could have a voice in the path of their future.
2. Barack Obama could have worked ANYWHERE he wanted for ANY amount of money after he graduated from Havard Law School. He was the first African American President of the Harvard Law Review and was wanted by people everywhere. He instead choose to move back to Chicago to continue to work for the people that he knew needed him to be their voice. He made several million dollars less taking this noble path. (Real uppidity, don't you think?)
3. He is only the 3rd African American senator to serve in Congress.

I have other very strong views about education and poverty that I will save for another blog later this week. My point today is: GET REAL, RUDY!!!!!! THANKS FOR COMPLETELY CHEAPENING THE PASSIONATE WORK OF PEOPLE EVERYWHERE THAT ARE TRYING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. PEOPLE LIKE BARACK OBAMA ARE THE REASON THAT PEOPLE LIKE BARACK OBAMA HAVE A CHANCE AT GREATNESS IN THIS NATION!!!!

CNN Convention Coverage Comments

I should totally be finishing my homework, but I have to take a minute to comment on the the CNN coverage of the Democratic Convention.....

I mean seriously? Who thought that the stupid Brittany Spears, Burger King drive-thru head microphones were a good idea? They really make all of the reporters and pundits look pretty gay. A small lapel mic wouldn't do? How about some boom mics? Anyone??? And all of those big touch screen monitors with maps of America are wearing me out. I can't take any more speculation that sounds like, "well John, if Obama can win Nevada and Colorado then he puts himself in a theoretic dead heat with McCain, who will most likely be able to pull out a win in Michigan, but lets not discount all of those blue collar workers in that state, John, because they can help to put that state in blue for Obama. And by the way John, this head mike makes me look like a complete tool. Back to you."

And all of these Hillary Clinton supporters that can't face the fact that she is no longer running for president need to calm down. Tonight I heard one of the reporters say, "some of the Clinton supports still want to cast their vote for her so they can feel validated". Validated? Quit your stupid whining. I wish that they would realize that the real difference between Obama and Clinton is nothing more than a penis and a bra. They basically share the same (or very close to the same) views on every topic. If you would have stopped your freaking whining three months ago and payed attention to the news, then maybe you would have figured that out already. I'd like to remind them that all of the Ralph Nader supporters who wanted to be validated eight years ago are the reason that Al Gore isn't president today.

...........stepping off of the soap box now..............

Long Time, No Blog

I really haven't blogged much this summer. Don't really know why - just haven't. My computer has had a virus for about a week, but today I think I might've got things working again.

School starts tomorrow, and I can't say I'm super excited. I think I just need to get back in the routine of the school year and then maybe I'll feel differently. It seems like simply over night I went from having nothing to do, to having WAY too many things happening at once. It's always a hard adjustment, and setting the clock for 5am tonight isn't helping!! I'm not a morning person. I hate getting up in the morning. I love staying up late. Well, those nights are over and going to bed before it's dark out will be the new norm.

I really wanted to write this blog to express how ready I am for fall!!! I can't wait for it too cool off. I can't wait to burn my pumpkin spice candles. I always get the urge to bake more in the fall and I can't wait for some pumpkin and pecan pie! I guess I could make those now, but it doesn't seem right. It's gotta be cold outside for that. I can't wait, though!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, I'm off to bed. It's after eight ya know.

Vintage Alanis

I don't want to be the bandage if the wound is not mine....
....I don't want to be your babysitter
You're a very big boy now
I don't want to be your mother
I didn't carry you in my womb for nine months.....
....I don't want to be the glue that holds your pieces together.....

Do I wear you out
You must wonder why I'm relentless and all strung out
I'm consumed by the chill of solitary
I'm like Estella
I like to reel it in and then spit it out
I'm frustrated by your apathy

No sentimental value to the rose tat fell on your floor
No fundamental excuse for the granted I'm taken for......
There's an obvious attraction
To the path of least resistance in your life
There's an obvious aversion no amount of my insistance
could make you try tonight.....
And what goes around never comes around to you

I feel drunk but I'm sober
I'm young and I'm underpaid
I'm tired but I'm working, yeah
I care but I'm restless
I'm hear but I'm really gone
I'm wrong and I'm sorry, baby

She will always be able to say it better than me.