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one thing that did happen recently was Bush’s State of the Union address. Paresh did a pretty nice job taking down some of its points in his blog, which you can read here.

Man, Bush has really got to go. [wince]

oh yeah, so jer and i went to Comics for Clark, a Wes Clark fundraising event, the other night. The comedians they got were really quite good: Andy Kindler, John Fugelsang, Paul F. Tompkins, among others. All in all, a darned good time.

I’m eager to do more stuff with the Clark campaign. I really like Clark as a candidate, and the events his people put on aren’t bad either. Shoot, Grant Lee Phillips and Jill Sobule at the Knitting Factory this week? I’m so there! =P

The ultra-conservative American Family Association plans to present their same-sex marriage poll results to Congress to show that Americans support a federal law against gay marriage. Take their poll to make sure they’re getting an accurate read of American public opinion.

Right on, Dean!

Dean says America not safer with Saddam captured as Democrats outline foreign policies

all the headlines and pictures i’ve come across so far are big shows of jubilation and glee; everyone interviewed by the news sources seems happy and thrilled that the dictator has been captured. he was hiding in a hole in the ground outside his hometown. literally. and all the American news sources celebrate this extraction from the earth.

(pretty long entry ahead…)
Continue reading “saddam’s captured.. so now what?”

last week, jer’s video card seemed like it went out on him, and, thinking it was a hardware conflict of some sort, he swapped out his Hercules card for my ATI, and swapped his sony flat panel for my hitachi, since the hitachi has dv out and his sony one doesn’t. anyway, the monitor-card switch seemed to work for a couple of days. then the hercules/sony combo went out on my machine, and we thought we were S.O.L.

we tried it again tonight, and thankfully, it looks like it might be a cable issue rather than a card issue. the hercules-sony combo is working all right for now; we’ll look for a new cable tomorrow to replace this possibly faulty one.

so anyway, i had some stuff i wanted to record from this weekend:

– bumper sticker spotted on a ford explorer: “AMERICAN: NON-HYPHENATED!” complete with an American flag in one corner and a bald eagle in the other. now, there’s nothing inherently wrong with the statement, because you could also use it to mean “We’re all American, regardless of what color we are.” But in this instance, paired with Harley Davidson and NRA stickers, it’s clearly intended to reserve non-hyphenated Americanism for the rednecks of this country. I mean.. what’s that supposed to mean? as if you’re not white, then you’ll never be American? There are some fourth generation Japanese people living in this state, longer than some European immigrants who consider themselves “white” and “American.” Will these 4th generation immigrants ever not be looked at by skin color and be considered “American” because they look Asian? And who says these European immigrants should lose their ethnic identities and be automatically assumed to be American? It’s just not that simple.

– spotted while driving along the 110 freeway: bulletholes in a ford windstar minivan. we’re pretty sure they were real. they didn’t look like the applique ones you can buy in a store.

… and that’s all i can think of for now.

I’ve gotten so tired and distasteful of all the politicking i do on my site. i apologize, and promise to keep it down to a minimum. i’m so utterly and completely disgusted with the current state of affairs!! *sob!!* My unhappiness over these issues is seriously leaving an awful taste in my mouth, and it’s making the balance between a personal blog and a political blog too blurry. cuz dammit, I think i’m a reasonably fun person who thinks about depressing stuff every once in a while, not someone who’s so stuck on negative shit happening she can’t see the light of day. GRR!!

so okay. i’ll try to keep the venting to a minimum. =P

Nukes part of Terror Policy

this is a speech clinton gave at NYU analyzing the recent Democratic losses in the midterm elections and the future of the Democratic party.
now you tell me if GW could write a speech like for himself on a plane the night before!!

continuing on theme of civic-mindedness, here’s a very eloquent explanation why we should exercise our right to vote. sorry it’s a little late, but I still thought it was cool. :)
This country, this system, this election: all fixable, and it’s up to you – by Molly Ivins

it’s so depressing to read the news nowadays. I feel soooo glum after just a glance at the headlines.

I was watching C-Span2 yesterday when President Bush gave his speech on the importance of containing Saddam Hussein. More and more, my views about the war have become ambivalent… it just feels inevitable. It really makes me mad because it seems like a situation we could have easily avoided for the time being. Did the “scary Saddam” issue need to come up now? in an election year? when presidential approval ratings are sinking because the bush administration is doing nothing about the economy? I mean honestly. and now that we have brought up the issue of Iraq, if we don’t back up our words with action, then we’re basically asking for it.

President Bush has done nothing except create a culture of fear in hopes of distracting from more pressing domestic issues. Yes, the crisis in Iraq IS important, and yes, Saddam is “homicidal dictator” as Bush said in his speech yesterday. But he’s been a dumbass in handling the entire situation. It’s so crassly American to play cowboy-shoot-em-up in handling everything, crying that the UN is a poor sheriff and claiming to take over the ten-gallon hat from them. Honestly, the UN is a WORLD organization. there is no LEADER. Kofi Annan (spelling?) is just the lead compromiser in the organization, not any sort of dictator. He can’t tell individual countries what to do. And when the US threatens an unprovoked attack at another country, what does it mean for the world organization at large? what does it mean for global security and stability when one of the world powers (arguably, THE world power) suddenly decides that the world doesn’t look right by them and will wage war to correct things to suit themselves? That’s what the US appears to be doing. for all Bush’s talk on doing this for the world, if the world isn’t on our side, we’re not doing this for anyone but ourselves. What will happen to Iraq if there really is a “regime change”? Bush said that the government in Afghanistan now is better than it was when the Taliban was in power. But we haven’t replaced it with anything. Things honestly arent much better… in fact, they might be worse. We took out the Taliban in Afghanistan and didn’t do anything there once we got rid of our enemy. Is that what’s supposed to happen in Iraq too? what’s to say that the new government won’t be dangerous too?

The US does NOT have as much power as George W. Bush wants to think we do, and it’s time he and his administration got their heads out of their asses and realize what’s going on. There is no Cold War Russia anymore, Condi Rice, there is no need for war mongering, Donald Rumsfeld. Remember, it’s that stuff from the Reagan presidency that got us into trouble economically speaking during George H.W. Bush’s term.

I miss Bill Clinton. :( Al Gore made a speech about a week back expressing what a lot of people were thinking but couldn’t say about the war. For a moment, the former senator from Tennessee looked like he might be onto something and finally becoming the party leader the Democrats have needed for quite some time. But ohh… I miss Bill Clinton…