Its Business Time

the cats from the best show on TV, that I can't watch (no cable)
Flight of the Concords ...

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Just a couple things in the news this morning...
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Where's My Money!
Gulp!
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... I need to go outside.

I Like Fake Mustaches

But I didn't do it. (click the "it")
Kinda wish I had though. I love that it was repeated.

The removal of historical photos is both troubling and telling. Very telling. Why would a regime plaster pictures of itself all over the halls of its own buildings. These are glossy colorful "moments" of the great Age of Bush. Or so they'd like you to think. Or so they'd like their own staff to think. I find it very strange. Self aggrandizing. Something that despots and dictators do to brainwash the people, as in say, North Korea or Iraq under Saddam. Can they believe posters on their own halls would rally the troops? Don't they realize that for all non-zombies, (that would be all of us not from Pat Robertson's Regent University - see below) we know when things are good. And when the jefe is ... not quite ... doing the right thing.

Here's a fun fact for ya. Regent University is a Tier 4 university - lowest tier in the ranking. Regent University is the most conservative college in the nation. Until George W went to the white house it was pretty rare for someone from this school to get a slot in an administration. Now over 150 alumni have been hired by the federal government. Hmmm. They don't want smart people, they want loyal people. Loyal zombies willing to do anything for the great leader whose picture is everywhere.

I'm All Ears Baby, All Ears

Vote for this man! Think about it. Is there really a choice? Smart. Vibrant. Good. A man who has a smile in his eyes. He knows that we know it could be better. And he can speak in clear and concise phrases, not the fragmented speak of the last 7 years.

McCain is more of the same. McCain would have been a great president 7 years ago. He probably would have dealt with the post 911 world with more rational sensitivity and not so much reckless bravado. But he was stabbed in the back by the neocons, those he now coddles. Its almost hard to watch. He'd probably do good things in office, no, I take that back - he would have been better than Bush. But so would anyone else. I'm afraid he's tainted, and badly so. Too old. Too similar. Sorry Johnny my vote will be elsewhere.

Hillary, poor Hillary. Last night on NPR I heard someone say, "A woman president is long overdue in this country, but she's a Clinton." And he's right. Bill was much better than W. He had life in him. These bores today are way too clubby. I'd much rather have my president getting a blowjob while talking to some diplomat, than a president who thinks its OK to collateral damage thousands, yes thousands, of children. Are you OK with that? W gave up golf to be in solidarity with the dying and wounded troops. Wow. Bill was a goofball, but smart. A policy wonk. And he liked to engage people in discussion. He could speak clearly. But Hilary, smart as she is, is not Bill. She'd get my vote if she gets the nod, but... Counting Bush One's vice presidency and a four year term should Hillary take office, Bushes and Clintons would be in the executive office for 32 years. I'm sorry Hillary but this is not a monarchy. Too much baggage in the name. We need change. Another woman will get there soon. After Barack. Maybe even you.

Light a fire under yer ass people! We need a spark in our leadership. A dynamic thinker, not someone stuck in his Boss Tweed ways. Why does there have to be so much vitriol in today's politics. Now W has broken the boundary in political ethos of leaving partisan politics at the shore. He compared current politicians to Nazi appeasers, in Israel of all places, on their 60th Anniversary. I guess his committee (Cheney) really thought that one through. I'm so tired of shaking my head when I see W speak. I'm embarrassed. My father is a lifelong republican. We don't talk a lot about politics, but I think I stumped him during the 2004 election. I said, "Dad, all I want is a president who's smarter than me. You have seen George speak over the last four years, have you not?" And he looked down at the table in a way that you do when your kid stumps you. He knows.

Barack has charisma. I actually like to see him speak. And ... now get this ... he actually writes much of his own stuff. Its almost unthinkable. He has ...(in your very best Captain Kirk-speak)... his own ... thoughts ... Oh my.

In the larger picture of history this has to happen for the good of the planet. Now is that time. Go!