What a difference an election makes

This is my score on a "How Progressive Are You?" quiz from the Center for American Progress. Thankfully, the answer is not very. Alaskan compound, here I come (and yes, I will be dragging Discipulus Legis with me)!

Empty lives, indeed

Yes on Prop 8 in photos

A few editorial comments about people who support Proposition 8.

1.) The lady (yes, apparently it is a lady) below is named Ginger Reese. You'd think that she would support marriage for everyone given the fact that someone as ugly as she is would need to consider all possible suitors--male, female, and trans--to have even the slightest chance of finding someone who would want to marry her.



2.) The gentleman on the far left of the photo below (the one with the cane) is anti-gay marriage, but that's kind of understandable. When he was serving in the Civil War under Lee, buggery was a scourge amongst the fighting men and he has been against it ever since.



3.) The woman below is Mary Strauss from Oakland. Someone should tell her to take off her Obama/Biden pin, since neither Democratic candidate supports her son's right to marry.



4.) The bebeh in the stroller pictured below is named Crysta Rice. Hopefully Crysta will grow up to be the biggest k.d. lang-listening, "L Word"-watching, cous cous-eating, crew cut-having, flannel shirt-wearing, Harley-riding, labrys tattoo on her bicep-displaying butch bull dagger dyke to walk the planet, ever.

Fuck you, Barack Obama

Also, fuck you Democratic National Committee.

Fuck you, Nancy Pelosi

Fuck you, factory farmers*

*This is Proposition 2, by the way.

Fuck you, Yes on 8

This is why I f-ing love Sarah

Go Sarah! Go Sarah! I say Obama and you say Ayers!

When they're right, they're right

Discipulus Legis says that I shouldn't give the Republicans credit for anything, but you gotta admit, when they're right, they're right. But that's not the real reason I'm posting this. I admire the Phillip Glass-type music they use in the background. Very arty! More like this! I am available at any time to help any political ad team choose the best classical music suited to a particular political attack.

A special message from Artur Axmann

"Hello, children! Artur Axmann here, sending you a message from beyond the grave to compliment all of you on your 'Obama Youth' movement. As a member of the master race, I am obligated to hate all of you because you are not Aryan, but I have to give you mad props for your recent efforts to glorify your leader, Barack Obama. Seeing this takes me back to the good ol' days when I trained children to unquestioningly worship, glorify, and defend der Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler. Of course, I hope you all fail and that the Forth Reich will soon rise, but indoctrinating these youth to put all doubts and criticisms aside will surely make it easier for future leaders to control the people. Heil Hitler!"

Priorities

So how's that whole worst-economic-disaster-since-the-Great-Depression-bailout- negotiations thingy going, Obama?



Ah, swimmingly I see!

Change I can believe in

Solidarity

Today, as Discipulus Legis and I were getting off the bus in front of our apartment, a woman stopped me and asked "Where did you get that pin?". She was referring, of course, to the "Hillary for President" button that I still wear on my bag, but with the addition of "Write in" above her name. I explained that I bought it from her campaign site, but that I added the "write in" part. She told me, "Good for you. I'm still so pissed about that. She was robbed." I nodded and agreed. Then, as I walked off the bus, I raised my fist (all Angela Davis-style) and told her to write her in, too. It's nice to meet people who see things the way you do.

Two of my passions in one picture

PUMA and kittehs, together at last:

Oh, come on

So now experience matters to the Dems? Give me a freaking break. They should thought about the importance of experience before they put Obama on the ticket. At least Palin has executive experience--something none of the guys have.

Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia

I have been on a bit of a hiatus from blogging, and during that time I've had the pleasure of reading George Orwell's 1984, a book I somehow missed reading in high school, college, and grad school (and I was an English major, to boot). I think it's especially fitting that I'm reading it during this election cycle, particularly during the Democratic National Convention.

All of the Newspeak words have taken on a richer meaning set against the backdrop of the DNC. For example, Obama and his most ardent supporters engage in "doublethink" all the time ("Supporting FISA is good. It has always been good"), and they frequently try to shove things--like Bill Clinton's entire presidency--down the memoryhole. And then there's "thoughtcrime," such as when a Hillary supporter points out one of Obama's many flaws, and a "Party member" (i.e. flaming Obamabot) responds that any sentiment against The One ("Big Brother") cannot be tolerated and will only help John McCain get elected.

So, when the "Democratic party" ("SLAVERY IS FREEDOM," WAR IS PEACE," etc., etc.) went through the motions of a sham roll call "vote" today, it hardened my feelings against Obama and the DNC even more. It actually inspired me to make an addition to the Hillary pin I've been sporting on my bag the past few months:



It's blurry, but you get the point. Winston ends up loving Big Brother. I will not.

O wise kitteh

Neither does the presumed Democratic nominee for president.

Change we can believe in

So the great Progressive Hope, Barack Obama, offered several interesting policy explications in the past few days. To review, he supports:

• More spying on U.S. citizens
• More guns
• More usage of the death penalty

Now there's some change we can believe in. I know that many of his supporters are beyond being able to see how flawed their Dear Leader is, but I can only hope that this news has at least some in the Obama Fan Club taking the Obama campaign signs out of their windows and using the cardboard to absorb the bitter tears falling from their newly opened eyes.

If Obama agrees with McCain on everything, I'd rather just vote for the real Republican, not the fake one.

Catharsis

Today Discipulus Legis and I unregistered from the Democratic Party. I can't speak for her, but for me, it felt darn good.

Seis de Mayo

Hoy is Cinco de Mayo. Bien, pero manana es Seis de Mayo, el dia de la victoria del Hillary Clinton in Indiana y Carolina Norte! Buena suerte Hillary!



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