Back and Bitching About It
Ok, I seem to be over my funk and now I'm just pissy and bitter and annoyed with the world. You may ask how this is different from before, and I will tell you: before I was miserable, now I'm going to make other people miserable.To begin:
Item 1
Just so all you people* on the weather channel know, "normalcy" is not a word. The phrase you are so desperately searching for is "normality".
"There is a sense of normality on the west coast of Florida as the hurricane shutters come off." Or "Now that the power is back across Port St. Lucie, you get a feeling of normality in this backwater shit hole."
Item 2
Picking a president should not be based on the concept of who looks like they might be fun to drink with. One of the commenters in my entry "The Devil Came Down to Florida" explained on her own web site that the reason she would support Dubya was because she thought John Kerry looked like Herman Munster and would probably bore her to death if they went out drinking, but that Dubya looked like he'd be fun.
Are you fucking kidding me with that shit? First of all, the POTUS is a tea-totaler and has been since he found Jesus. Secondly, unless you are a Jesus freak yourself, I can damn near guarantee that you won't be having any fun at all with one.
Secondly, if it comes down to that, I think that I would be more likely to be bored stiff by Dubya than Kerry, if only for the reason that I enjoy spirited debate and intellectual stimulation and I am pretty sure that the spoiled, intellectually deficit person known as Dubya would cause me to break down in frustrated tears after the first ten minutes.
Thirdly, shouldn't the President of the United States, the most powerful man in the free world be someone with an IQ higher than a fence post? Shouldn't your decision to elect someone to put their finger on the button be based on who has the wisdom not to push it in an attempt to bring on the second coming and the apocolypse and not necessarily in that order?
Item 3
What is with the bras that look like they are lined with Kevlar? If you are going to wear a padded bra, wear one, but at least pretend that they might be real. Those nippleless, stiff nose cones sticking out under the tight tee don't look even remotely like human female breasts and are even a little scarey.
I'm just saying.
* Are those people reallymeteorologists, or is that just a new term for TV weatherman?
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 09/14 at 10:55 AM in Yellow Dog Politics
Actually, ‘normalcy’ is a word. At least, according to Webster’s it’s a word.
On the other hand, ‘intellectually deficit’ isn’t right; I think you mean ‘intellectually deficient’.
While I’m here and intentionally trying to get under your skin, your remarks about whether GWB would be dreary at dinner are prejudicial, don’t you think? You’ve never met the man, and yet based on political differences you’re assuming he’s an idiot.
His depressing lack of oratory skills notwithstanding, a person can’t become President and not have the intellectual capacity to hold the office. It’s simply not possible, unless everyone voting for that person is a simpleton - and I think you and I can agree that’s not the case.
A belief in Jesus doesn’t preclude anyone from being ‘fun’. My friend, Carolyn, hits the pews twice a week but can party me under the table. She has a scar over her right eye from a mosh pit accident to prove it.
Kerry stands on both sides of every issue, and appears to lack conviction even when asked a direct question. I don’t know that ‘waffling’ is one of the better traits of a candiate for POTUS.
On the other hand, sounding like you’ve only just discovered speach isn’t a positive either.
Bush might not be the best communicator, but generally speaking you have no doubt what are his positions.
And so ends my lengthy contrarian comment.
Mike,
“normalcy” may be in the dictionary, but it was a word coined in the ‘30s, and I still take exception to it.
Point 2, about “intellectually deficient” I graciously concede to you.
On my opinions about Dubya, however, I will stand. I base my belief about his stupidity on his words and actions, back to and including his barely adequate grades in college. I disagreed with nearly everything Richard Nixon ever did or said, but I am willing to admit to his being a very smart man.
I would also say that a belief in Jesus and being a Born-again Jesus freak are two different things. I also know very spiritual church-going people who can party with the best of them. They are not Jesus freaks.
In my lexicon, to be clear, a Jesus freak is someone who has put aside one addiction for another. Someone who sees only the trees, and never the forest.
Finally, as for John Kerry being on both sides of every issues, I disagree. I think he stands clear on most things and an ability to reason, to listen to the other side and change one’s mind when appropriate, is exactly what I look for in an elected official.
I’d also like to add that Dubya surrounds himself with some of the MOST questionable people currently working in politics. By that I mean some of the most unethical and completely ruthless power grabbers in D.C. In my opinion they have co-opted the Republican platform and rhetoric, which they have no belief in whatsoever, and are simply using it and changing it to suit their needs.
Item 1: Whatever yeah uh huh.
Item 2: Whatever OK yeah hmmm.
Item 3: NOW you’re talkin’! I went into Victoria’s Secret (completing ignoring my own pleas not to, given past experiences there) this summer to find a strapless bra. A saleswoman glommed onto me and asked if I needed help. “Yes,” I said. “Do you have any that don’t stand up on their own?” I told her I did not want any padding. She assured me the one she was reaching for didn’t have padding, but I assured her it did as I flicked at the cups with my thumb and forefinger. I told her I would look around on my own. “Is it so hard to find a bra that doesn’t have tits already built in?!” I may have yelled on my way out of the store, vowing never to return (and I haven’t). “No one with natural tits looks like what those bras look like!”
And so ends my lengthy comment about the one item (the important one!) no one else touched.
P.S. Make that “completely” and not “completing”. Thanks. Really.