Meandering Maunderings

Well, since beldar started it, and the_dark_snack continued it, I may as well keep it going too:

Post this in your journal* if there are elections in your country and the following statement applies:

I WILL VOTE IN THE UPCOMING ELECTIONS


(*If yours is friends-only, consider posting this public with the comments turned off.)



I highly encourage all my friends to make sure they're registered to vote, and to do so on election day! As Craig Ferguson says- it's not hip, it's not cool, it's your DUTY! And as my government teacher in high school said- if you don't vote, you can't bitch.

(first seen on tinhuviel's journal.)

Hi,

There's an effort to elect an unknown random person as President... and it's someone we know! Watch this online video about the surprising new nominee:

The Next President?

Jot back a note to let me know what you think!

Make the bad ladies go away!!!



see Sarah Palin pictures

Special Comment on the RNC showing graphic images of the WTC on 9-11, and comparing 9-11-01 to the Iran Hostage Crisis.

That's it, can't vote for McCain/Palin- she's afraid/dislikes of CATS!?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbxClZXzvDo

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/09/abc-interviews-palins-clo_n_125062.html

"GOP Congressman Calls Obama "Uppity""

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/westmoreland-calls-obama-uppity-2008-09-04.html

before I forget again...

Ever since I was a little girl... I have had this aversion to bumper stickers. Now, I do like to see them on other people's cars, and I see many I wouldn't mind displaying... but actually sticking on on my car?! Noooo...

Except, I have one now. The first bumper sticker I have EVER put on my car. Hopefully my dad won't freak. ;) Are you curious? I'm sure you are. The bumper sticker has a word and a number. Obama 08 (moveon.org sent it to me for free!)

Last night, I went to Quiznos to pick up dinner for me (after running errands, and hubby was at work). The on-duty manager saw the bumper sticker. When ringing up my salad he let me know I was getting 10% off for having a cool bumper sticker. :) I am amused. And hey- 10% off!


In other New Kid on the Block News... I was 13 when they were hugely popular, and such a fan. I look back now and just shake my head with a smile. So young, such bad taste. (though some may argue this still hasn't improved). Now I find, per Perez Hilton, that my teen fantasies are dashed! Why did the one I was soooo in "love" with have to be the gay one!? *laughs*

Although this: "x has a [non-famous] boyfriend and they're very happy," a source reveals. "They're not trying to hide it." is neat.




Dragons, just 'cause.

John McCain continues to astound me... and not in that good way. ;) The emphases in bold/italics are my additions.

McCain’s Michigan Melt-Down Madness
by Harvey Wasserman

Leave it to John McCain to pick the site of a horrific atomic meltdown to symbolize his push for nuke power.

McCain says he wants at least 45 more US reactors as part of his “do everything” campaign for American energy independence. Apparently that strategy does not include inflating car tires, long known as one of the easiest, cheapest and most reliable ways to significantly improve auto gas mileage. McCain had only ridicule for Barack Obama’s ideas to fight waste in our energy economy.

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Thus it was fitting he chose Monroe, Michigan for a nuke-powered energy push. The town’s central square hosts a statue honoring General George Armstrong Custer, wiped out by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse at the Little Big Horn in the summer of 1876.

More important was the melt-down at Monroe’s Fermi Unit I on October 5, ninety years later.

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In 1966 a blockage occurred in the $100 million plant’s cooling system. Because it carried highly volatile liquid sodium, which can explode when exposed to air, all of southeastern Michigan stood at the brink of an unthinkable catastrophe. Police officials seriously debated evacuating Detroit, just forty miles north.

But an explosion at Fermi would have permanently irradiated the Great Lakes and a gigantic area of land stretching hundreds of miles in all directions. Countless thousands of people would have died from both short-term and long-term radiation sickness. One actual victim from the releases that did occur may have been then-Vice President Hubert Humphrey, who spoke in Monroe the day after the accident, and later died of cancer.

The public was kept totally in the dark. That day I served as Editorial Director of the University of Michigan Daily, where we were tapped in to the core of the nation’s major news sources. Though I was the Time Magazine and United Press International correspondent for Ann Arbor, just forty miles west, I never heard a word about this accident until I stumbled upon John G. Fuller’s legendary WE ALMOST LOST DETROIT in 1974. Writing for the Readers Digest Press, Fuller’s astonishing tale still sends chills down the spines of a whole generation that lived in the neighborhood and never suspected the danger we were in."


The full article is from Common Dreams and can be found here.

Oh wow... McCain Suggests Wife Participate In Topless Contest....


I suppose I really shouldn't be surprised. I don't think he was serious, just trying to pander to the crowd... but still!


Also from HuffPo, and about McCain's South Dakota trip:
"Elmo, a biker whose black leather vest is sewn with Harley patches, grabbed my hand. "You're press, right? " He leaned in close to confide. "I'm not crazy about this guy [McCain] -- but that Obama! A Communist! We gotta save the country, you know?""

Full article here