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Sep. 6th, 2008 | 12:45 am
location: Fort Wainwright, Alaska
mood: awake awake
music: whatever Chris is watching downstairs

( source: NPR )

++ If you're a minority and you're selected for a job over more qualified candidates you're a "token hire."
++ If you're a conservative and you're selected for a job over more qualified candidates you're a "game changer."

++ If you live in an urban area and you get a girl pregnant you're a "baby daddy."
++ If you're the same in Alaska you're a "teen father." (Actually, according to your own MySpace page you're an F'n redneck that don't want any kids, but that's too long a phrase for the evil liberal media to take out of context and flog morning, noon and night.)

++ Black teen pregnancies? A "crisis" in black America.
++ White teen pregnancies? A "blessed event."

++ If you grow up in Hawaii you're "exotic."
++ Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, you're the quintessential "American story."

++ Similarly, if you name your kid Barack, you're "unpatriotic."
++ Name your kid Track, you're "colorful."

++ If you're a Democrat and you make a VP pick without fully vetting the individual, you're "reckless."
++ A Republican who doesn't fully vet is a "maverick."

++ If you say that for the "first time in my adult lifetime I'm really proud of my country," it makes you "unfit" to be first lady.
++ If you are a registered member of a fringe political group that advocates secession, that makes you the governor's "first dude."

++ A DUI from 20 years ago is "old news."
++ A speech given without proper citation from 20 years ago is "relevant information."
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Comments {23}

Dr. Magdolene Lives esq, Jazzing June since 1903™

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from: [info]alivemagdolene
date: Sep. 6th, 2008 09:33 am (UTC)
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I was just telling someone how watching the Democratic speeches and their hopeful messages and general lack of snark gave me such pride in being an American and such hope for our proud country, and for us to come together as one and be truly great. Obama's acceptance speech in particular,

"I love this country and you love this country and so does John McCain. The men and women who serve in our battlefields may be Democrats and Republicans and Independents but they have fought together and bled together and some died together under the same proud flag. They have not served a red America or a blue America, they have served the United States of America."

And then this week.... ugh. I went back to my same deeply cynical "Ew, gross" mode, but worse. :^( I love the emphasis on service to your community as irrelevant, unimportant, and downright frivolous.

I can be the only one that wants to try and erase Sarah Palin's face into a concrete wall whenever she speaks.

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The Patriotic Earthling

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from: [info]orbitaldiamonds
date: Sep. 6th, 2008 09:42 am (UTC)
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I'd like to smack her a few times too: as a woman, as a veteran, as a bisexual, as an atheist, as a military spouse, as a muthafuckin' AMERICAN...

But at the same time she's the gift that keeps on giving for the Obama campaign. So the Republicans have made $1M since Palin was announced as the GOP VP candidate. The Obama campaign's made $8M since then.

It's going to be more of the same with the GOP attack ads this fall, and Obama's going out of his way to take the high road and only present facts, and I hope that it serves him better than it did Gore and Kerry.

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Abigail "Hussein" Adams

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from: [info]thecuriomuseum
date: Sep. 6th, 2008 03:49 pm (UTC)
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Obama was amazing last week. And the RNC got me down, too - until I saw Omaba's replies. This picture made me feel better! :)

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The Patriotic Earthling

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from: [info]orbitaldiamonds
date: Sep. 6th, 2008 03:53 pm (UTC)
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Yeah, Obama's really been rocking out the responses, and so has Joe Biden. It's been awesome!

And so is this macro. I just saw it on PunditKitchen but I haven't saved it yet because I'm downloading multiple Randi Rhodes Show .mp3's to listen to while Rachel Maddow Show .mp3's pile up (so I always have something to listen to, i.e., once I got to the most recent Questionable Content comic, I re-read Wapsi Square, and by the time I was done there were plenty of new QC strips to read.)

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Dr. Magdolene Lives esq, Jazzing June since 1903™

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from: [info]alivemagdolene
date: Sep. 6th, 2008 08:13 pm (UTC)
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I LOVE IT!!!

My favorite Obama macro is still this one, though:

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Abigail "Hussein" Adams

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from: [info]thecuriomuseum
date: Sep. 6th, 2008 09:08 pm (UTC)
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That's awesome.

I'l taking it for later!

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The Patriotic Earthling

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from: [info]orbitaldiamonds
date: Sep. 7th, 2008 06:39 am (UTC)
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That's gotta be one of the BEST MACROS EVAR!

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Parisology: the language of politics.

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from: [info]celli_puzzle
date: Sep. 6th, 2008 11:13 am (UTC)
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YES! YES! Perfect-o.

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The Patriotic Earthling

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from: [info]orbitaldiamonds
date: Sep. 6th, 2008 11:20 am (UTC)
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I like all of them except for that second-to-last one. The Alaska Independence Party isn't necessarily secessionist, they're just pissed that Alaskans never got the opportunity to vote on statehood.

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Parisology: the language of politics.

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from: [info]celli_puzzle
date: Sep. 6th, 2008 11:51 am (UTC)
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Yeah...I agree with the idea that there are different wordings for Dems vs Reps, haha. Not necessarily about the ideas themselves...this thing is quite clever.

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The Patriotic Earthling

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from: [info]orbitaldiamonds
date: Sep. 6th, 2008 11:53 am (UTC)
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I agree. There are some really good ones on the comments on the source page too.

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Parisology: the language of politics.

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from: [info]celli_puzzle
date: Sep. 6th, 2008 11:54 am (UTC)
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Ooh, yay. I love these things, haha, and that's why I do a lot of it myself...the political process whilst vital to the survival of our country has developed into a truly ridiculous beast.

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The Patriotic Earthling

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from: [info]orbitaldiamonds
date: Sep. 6th, 2008 11:56 am (UTC)
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Yeah, it has. The world sucks, and the amount of different things going wrong all at once (and so much of it having gone on since before I was born) makes me feel so helpless and insignificant sometimes.

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Parisology: the language of politics.

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from: [info]celli_puzzle
date: Sep. 6th, 2008 12:06 pm (UTC)
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Everything is incomprehensibly messed up. I worry about the world I am on the brink of inheriting. Can we fix it? Can anyone fix it? Is it too late? I get a little contemplative and angsty, haha. I seem so much more concerned than my classmates, and that gets me further depressed....it's a vicious cycle. A very vicious cycle.

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litterthisheart

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from: [info]litterthisheart
date: Sep. 6th, 2008 02:38 pm (UTC)
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THIS. Just, THIS.

You know, I was so excited, so happy after the DNC. Barack and Hillary and Bill and Biden- they all gave such wonderful speeches about coming together, about putting aside partisan differences and I believed in it all. For the first time in my adult life, I was proud of my country. And I was inspired by the message of hope and change, as corny as it sounds.

But after the RNC? There was so much hatred and sarcasm and general vitriol that I am beginning to once again despair for the state of the country. Are people really this closed-minded and petty and mean? Does America really like when you put people down and give a speech fully of snarky half-truths and lies? Because if they are and if they do, I'm out of here. I was always told never to waste my time on people who made me feel like shit and I won't stick around for a McCain/Palin administration.

And the thing that annoyed me even more than Palin/Guliani/Romney's speech was the self-righteousness of the GOP and the conservative media always accusing me of being sexist and an anti-feminist because I don't like Sarah Palin. I don't like her goddamn politics- sure, I dislike her a little bit more for those policies and beliefs because she's a woman but I am not fucking sexist. Nor am I fucking unpatriotic just because I'm a liberal.

Sorry for the rant- I am just so pissed about the RNC.

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The Patriotic Earthling

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from: [info]orbitaldiamonds
date: Sep. 6th, 2008 02:42 pm (UTC)
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And I was inspired by the message of hope and change, as corny as it sounds.

So was I, my friend, so was I.

Sorry for the rant- I am just so pissed about the RNC.

Don't apologize--I like your ranting! We can rant together?

And there was one thing--ONE THING--about the RNC that gave me hope for this country, and that was The Daily Show and the Colbert Report and MSNBC and to some extent CNN and also on LJ and Twitter and elsewhere on the interwebs, their response.

They might be able to fool a handful of stupid rednecks, but they're not fooling us.

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litterthisheart

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from: [info]litterthisheart
date: Sep. 6th, 2008 02:52 pm (UTC)
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Yes, let's rant together! That is what the internet is for, after all.

Thank god for The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and MSNBC (you saw Keith call them on that 9/11 "tribute" video right? Because that was a thing of beauty and I was so, so proud to see that). And for the rest of us awesome, thinking people on teh internets. We ROCK. *high five*

They might be able to fool a handful of stupid rednecks, but they're not fooling us.
That's because we're awesomely elitist.

I love how they're redefining Obama's story- a story which is clearly the epitome of the American dream- as elitist. WTF? How on earth do they get away with that?

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The Patriotic Earthling

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from: [info]orbitaldiamonds
date: Sep. 6th, 2008 02:59 pm (UTC)
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I did see Keith's call-out, and I heard the tears in his voice, and I wanted to give him a hug (and comfort sex; I've got permission from the husband)

That's because we're awesomely elitist.

Not elitist, elite. Big difference. Also, my mom's from Alabama, my dad's from Indiana, my stepdad's from Massachusetts, and my stepmom's from Illinois. I was raised in central Florida which makes me a fairly even mix of Yankee and Redneck, so I feel (elitistly?) entitled to wax bitchily verbose on either.

How on earth do they get away with that?

Because Republicans fall in line? Because enough people were fooled by an "authoritative" voice telling them lies. Because they're willfully ignorant, like the people who refuse to see the proof that Obama's not a Muslim. It's frustrating that people are that obstinate.

What I'd like to know is why Bristol Palin deserved the opportunity to choose whether or not to keep her baby in Sarah Palin's eyes, but she doesn't think any other woman in America (in the world) should be allowed to make the same choice? (And that's another thing that Sam Bee nailed.)

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litterthisheart

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from: [info]litterthisheart
date: Sep. 6th, 2008 07:32 pm (UTC)
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The elite vs elitist thing- I totally get it. My elitist comment was just me being sarcastic and making a bad joke. Sorry about that. I'm from a middle-middle class upbringing and I am just really fucking sick of being called an elitist.

I wish people would just wake up and see the lies the Republican party is telling. Or, at the very least, realize how mean the Republicans are.

But, of course, that won't happen.

IKR? They made such a point of saying that Bristol made the choice to keep her baby but both Palin and McCain are in favor overturning Roe v Wade. It's ridiculous. And, yeah, Sam fucking nailed that one.

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The Patriotic Earthling

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from: [info]orbitaldiamonds
date: Sep. 7th, 2008 05:57 am (UTC)
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My elitist comment was just me being sarcastic and making a bad joke.

It was actually a good joke. I got the sarcasm. And I was raised lower-middle/middle-middle class myself. I'm a currently unemployed college graduate married to a junior enlisted man, so I'm not sure where I am on that scale now though.

I wish people would just wake up and see the lies the Republican party is telling. Or, at the very least, realize how mean the Republicans are.

Unlikely, seein's how this is what we're up against.

IKR? They made such a point of saying that Bristol made the choice to keep her baby but both Palin and McCain are in favor overturning Roe v Wade. It's ridiculous. And, yeah, Sam fucking nailed that one.

We can only hope. And vote. And I need to get a normal sleep cycle again so I can go out and volunteer. There was a Fairbanks Campaign for Change event today at noon but I went to bed around nine but I'm definitely going to the weekly meeting this Wednesday.

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The Patriotic Earthling

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from: [info]orbitaldiamonds
date: Sep. 7th, 2008 06:00 am (UTC)
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Also, I've decided on the wording on my question if I ever get to address McCain at a town hall: "Senator, why do you believe I don't deserve the same rights as straight people? I was born in Mississippi, raised in Florida. I'm an American too!"

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Abigail "Hussein" Adams

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from: [info]thecuriomuseum
date: Sep. 6th, 2008 03:46 pm (UTC)
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This is great stuff.

Although, I rather like the idea of seceding.... I often wish New England would secede. If Vermont ever goes, I'm going with them! ~__^

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The Patriotic Earthling

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from: [info]orbitaldiamonds
date: Sep. 6th, 2008 03:50 pm (UTC)
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It's a nice thought, but I doubt it'd ever happen... And from what I've seen on commercials here, all the services and political ads and stuff are all about Alaskans. It seems like a lot of people who either were born and raised here or who moved here by choice and love it here see themselves as Alaskans first... If either Massachusetts or California seceded, I'd move to either.

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