Living Reflections from a Dream

I can hardly wait for my boy, Tim, and his electoral whiteboard...-----
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FYI - apparently Saturday night is National Drunk Writing Night.-----
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Remember to make your voting plans today, so you're prepared for tomorrow. Look up where your local voting booth is. Plan you day so you have time to make it there. Investigate all the items on your local ballot.. there is undoubtably more than just the presidential election. Don't forget.. because this year, your vote does count! Well, at least there is a better chance.

and here are 100 reasons why... though there are many more. Here is another.

I guess we will see if the predictive power of sports holds true as the Redskins lost yesterday.-----
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Ok, it's 9 days and a rolling rally later and I have the urge to watch some baseball. I'm tired of the off season already. Bring Manny and David back from Japan. No more contract negotiations.. back to baseball! Last night I went so far as to turn on NESN to see if by magic, there would be baseball. Sadly, no. Classic hockey was on (the only interesting thing to me there was the signage: wow, that bank was around 3 mergers ago, that phone company is two takeovers ago). I stared at the screen for a few momments and pouted.

I miss my boys.-----
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actually it was for the very first time.

I had decided that I shouldn't write after a highly disappointing or flat out disgusting event. It never turns out well (exhibit A) and as Red Sox fans usually must, I eventually bounce back and the writing just irks me.

I try to understand how conservatives think (even though it makes no sense to me). If you believe in smaller government, less regulation, fiscal discipline. Ok.. But that isn't what Bush represents. The government is larger today than when he got here (hint: 800,000 of the jobs he claims to have created are federal government jobs). Fiscal discipline? The guy has never seen a spending bill he wouldn't sign. I don't know what Bush learned at Harvard, but when I got my MBA, we learned that decreased revenue and increased expenses creating losses isn't going to take you where you want to go. Take away all that and you're left with Bush's real platform: pro-business and bigotry. And if you disagree with that, well you're just wrong. If you get in the way - he'll just kick your ass. yeeeehaaaw! Bush says "America has spoken".. I say: only half of them said Bush! But I'm sure that won't matter to him. He probably wasn't informed the race was close.

I have to give Karl Rove credit.. he knew his base better than Democrats knew theirs. The religious nutjobs care more about social issues like banning gay marriage and Janet Jacksons boob than highly educated, well informed people did about the economy and health care. I'm absolutely terrified of and more than a little embarrassed by the direction this country is going in.

That all 11 states with a gay marriage ban on the ballot passed them.. I'm speechless. That Jim DeMint could be elected.. a man that said gays and single mothers shouldn't be allowed to teach in public schools. That someone this ignorant could be elected blows my mind. That a station in Dallas (WFAA-TV - Channel 8) can decide that a show (life as we know it*) has "crossed the line of appropriateness" due to sexual content (which wasn't even shown, merely alluded to) and just not show it. These things more than blows my mind... it scares the shit out of me. This is the direction we are going in, people. Religious fanatics seem to be taking control of the country. Wasn't Rick Santorum more than enough? The founding fathers (you know, the guys who created a whole governmental system based on separation of church and state. Something they in response to the religious persecution that went on in Europe) must be spinning in their graves. We are going backwards. Or as Brian Kane said:

I have a friend who from time to time says: I wish the south would try and succeed again. No one would stop them this time. My usual response is ha, ha, ha. Both Leslie's Latest News and Antisocial Bitch mention similar things today about succession or a civil war (some have even drawn the new maps)while Tiny Voices says she would like to not visit any red states while Bush is prez (as someone who hasn't been in a red state since 1996, I can get behind that). It's a bit scary, but the divide is so deep and so geographical.... who knows. I was daydreaming about a country with just the blue states. Wouldn't it be nice to live in a tolerant society with actual civil liberties, health care, a good educational system? But then I started thinking about the red states, off on their own. What if they got a nuke? Saddam back in power is less scary to me.

The only thing that is making me happy is Bush can't pass on that disaster he created in Iraq and he can't blame anyone but himself for it. There is no way he's coming out of that looking good.

Just a couple of notes on the coverage. Did anyone else see the following:
- Dan Rather saying "this election is hotter than the devil's ankle's"
- Dan Rather saying "if you believe that, you'll believe rocks will grow"
- Brian Williams and Don Imus referring to Democracy Plaza as "Dental Floss Plaza", "Oligarchy Square" or "Hypocrisy Plaza"?? hee hee hee. Granted this was between 6:30 and 7am today and they had both most likely been up all night..
- Tim was quite cool with his electric whiteboard this year, yes?

Ok, here comes the bounce back part: Hillary/Russ Feingold 2008 !!!

* Yes, this is the one with Kelly Osbourne. And she is pretty good actually. I really like this show and I never watch silly teen dramas. But it's one of the only ones I've seen that approaches reality, except when they talk into the camera. That needs to stop. Of course the show is doomed because it's on against The Apprentice and one of those cop shows I never watch.-----
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courtesy of the Syracuse Orangemen and Diamond Ferri, a Boston area native, in particular (vote Diamond for All-America player of the week!). Syracuse kicked some booty against Boston College, a school which is neither in Boston (it's in Chestnut Hill) or a college (it's a university), to amazingly propel themselves into a 4 way tie for the Big East title (without Reyes or Rhodes for most of the game, no less) and a potential BCS bowl bid.

Thats right.. you want to leave the Big East, fine. Go get your BCS bid from your new conference, the ACC (blech). Only real Big East teams can represent. Though, much as I love the Orangemen, it's almost disgraceful to think of them in a BCS bowl after the way they played this season, but if that's how it has to be, that is how it will have to be. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know Pitt could still beat South Florida and go..-----
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At least I think it was a romantic gesture.. The other day I pulled into a parking lot and as I got out of the car, a young punk rock type dude came running up to me and asked:

"um, would you, um, take my picture? It's for um, school, um, yeah.. a school project".

So he gives me a camera and proceeds to sit on the ground in an empty parking space with a cardboard sign that says: "will work for Cory".

I take a couple of shots and I'm thinking: oh.. that is so cute! He jumps up and takes the camera and says "thanks, Ma'am". Ma'am? I wanted to bitchslap that little hipster dufus. Go back to Cory and make up whatever you did.-----
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Faithful : Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season

wo-ho!-----
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VOTE

then check the electoral college counts-----
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Ok, I gave myself a week and a day to be mad about the election. Well, to be mad at the bible thumping, gun toting, 40 oz. swilling, ignorant, Wal-Mart shopping, put a "evolution is a theory, not a fact" sticker on text books (!?!?!?), nut jobs, people from red states who disagree with me. I'm over being angry at them... right NOW. But I just have to link to this as my parting shot:

fuckthesouth.com

Yeah, this is an ugly tone to take, but everything in there is factually accurate. AND there are more porn theatres in the bible belt than anywhere else. Even on my worst day, I wouldn't take this angry a tone with these folks, but there is a part of me that read it and thought: YEAH!

Now I'm just preparing myself for whatever inconceivable move Bush will make next (nominate Ashcroft to the Supreme Court??). Just when you think he couldn't be more devisive or assinine, he stoops new level.-----
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I dreamt that I was dating both Bill Janovitz and Mark Bellhorn and they were fighting over me. I couldn't decide which one I liked better. It was such a great dream. Of course, in the light of day, I'm leaning towards Bill. I've been crushing on him and buying his albums for longer than Mark has been in the major leagues. Plus I just think we'd have in common. And yes, I know I'm sort of nuts to spend time in the real world contemplating this dilemna.-----
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It's pretty tough to take, I tell ya..

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Hakim Warrick is ready to squish opponents like a bug! Yup, it's college basketball time! Syracuse will be playing a ranked team (Mississippi St.) before Jan. 1. Wo! You, too, can watch (the 2005 Men's Basketball National Champions to be*) Syracuse Orangemen tonight on ESPN2 at 9pm EST! The time to get on the bandwagon is now.. right at the beginning of the season.

Lets Go Orange!!

* unlike the World Series Champion Boston Red Sox, there are no jinxing issues with SU hoops. Ok, I just wanted another chance to say World Series Champion Boston Red Sox. I've never gotten to before and I don't think I'll get tired of it anytime soon.-----
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10x10

that the spam filters at work block items from the New York Times, but "hot animal farm orgies" gets right on through.-----
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