Archive for November 4th, 2008

Another win from America’s Wang.

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

Ah Florida… will anyone unseat you as the WTF capital of the United States?

I try to be understanding.  I try to say “hey, they can’t help it, they’re educational system blows since most people in the state are seniors who couldn’t give a fuck about it.”

But really now, you’ve raised the bar for idiocy and ignorance.

Naming a high school after the founder of the Klan?  Classy!  Deciding to KEEP THE NAME IN 2008?  Moronic doesn’t even begin to describe it.

Now, there’s a lot of people in the article talking about history, and why the name isn’t actually offensive.  Here’s a little hint from this latte-sipping liberal.  When your school earns an F GRADE on FLORIDA assessments you are not allowed to discuss history.  or math.  or science.  or literature.  You are allowed to ask me if I want fries with that. 

Oh, and if you get bored…

5530 Firestone Rd., Jacksonville, Fl. 32244

Oh, and they’ve been kind enough to list a whole ton of phone numbers here… and I’m not saying you should call them or anything, but I am saying the area code for Jacksonville, FL is 904.

Decision ‘08: America Wipes Her Ass.

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

We are finally here. It was a long and amusing process. There have been a lot of exciting moments and probably an equal amount of screaming-at-the-TV moments. All of those moments are inconsequential compared to the small moment you will have when you step inside that voting booth.
Now go. Vote. This post will still be here when you come back from doing your duty as a citizen of this great nation.

Back? Voted? Got your sticker and your free coffee from Starbucks?
Good.

Before I start spitting my anger and sarcasm I would like to take a moment out to thank Madelyn Payne Dunham, the grandmother of Barack Obama. Thank you for helping to shape Senator Obama into the man that will hopefully be our next president. She got the chance to vote for her grandson in the presidential election but she sadly will not have the chance to see him lead. My heart and wll wishes go out to her entire family. Madelyn Payne Dunham was 86.

I’m going to be kind of sad once this is all over. I’ve never yelled at my television this much when I wasn’t watching hockey. This has been an exciting time for me. Nerve wracking, but exciting. I really enjoyed watching the McCain campaign venture into the inane with their bullshit attacks and fear mongering. For all the shit they threw at Obama, after all the times they tried to link him to terrorists, extremists, socialism, after all that the make an ad that ended with saying Obama wasn’t ready to be president… yet.
Yet.
The yet implies he will be ready eventually. But at the same time they want you to believe he is evil. How the hell are we supposed to take these fucksticks seriously if they refute themselves?
All the slander, all the lies, the fear mongering, the bullshit, the general douchebaggery coming out of the Republican mouthpieces to me feels frantic. And judging by the current numbers over at Pollster the American populace is ignoring it. Pollster has Obama at 291 electoral votes (273 strong, 18 lean), McCain at 142 (129 strong, 13 lean). 105 in the tossup. With that math McCain could take all of his strong states, all of his lean states, all of the toss up and, get this, all of the Obama lean states and would still lose. It would be close but he would still lose.
All that and I am still nervous. I think after the last two elections no democratic voter should feel comfortable.

One thing that does make me smile is the final Senate Score Card from fivethirtyeight.com:

That looks like good news doesn’t it?

I hope when this is over we can finally tell the Republican party what they deserve to hear:

Get the fuck out.