I imagine after ten hours in a sauna, this guy was done. Kind of reminds me of the McCain campaign. Hey, you thought I was done picking on the angry dwarf, weren’t you? Well, I am not. Although I have to admit, between Palin continuing to give interviews, spending more on clothes (paid for by the taxpayer, thank you very much) than her hero “Joe the Plumber” spent on his house and McCain continuing to prove that he has abandoned all pretense of integrity, it’s kind of hard to keep up. I’m guessing the angry right are going to be downright furious come November 5.

As a moderate, which makes me a far-left liberal anti-American communist marxist socialist terrorist per the Michele Bachmanns of the world, I am glad to see a shift away from the right. Counting from the Newt Gingrich Bullshit Revolution days, or whatever he called it, we’ve had fourteen years of festering hate and hypocrisy as the Republican party sold itself out to the most extreme members of its base. Hopefully after the election they will consider focusing on their supposed conservative past rather than on divisiveness and hate. Hopefully, but I doubt it is going to happen anytime soon.

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So the good news is that McCain’s been caught doing stupid things once again, as shown here and here. Hopefully this story will gain some traction here in the U.S.. Um, yeah, sure it’s a software glitch . . .

The bad news is we’re still using the same electronic voting machines that were (in)famously guaranteed to provide President Dubya with a win in Ohio. And right now, they seem to be doing a pretty good job of stealing votes in West Virginia.

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I like to think that he really gets it, but I know that (for now, at least) he’s just parroting what he has heard around the house. Anyway, here is my son’s take on the elections, as told us by his teacher:

I wanted to relay a quick story about Aaron:

Yesterday we were discussing the upcoming election and how voting was important etc….Aaron raised his hand, and said very seriously, “We can not afford four more years of this, and that is what John McCain is offering!” It cracked me up! He sounded so knowledgeable and well informed, like a little grown up!

Thanks for everything!

/quote

After having met my daughter’s teachers, I was surprised and delighted that my son’s teacher actually enjoyed his input. The boy-child attends a regular public school, whereas the girl-child attends a charter school. In the charter school parking lot, the sea of teacher and staff SUVs are encrusted with shiny new McCain/Palin bumper stickers, and peeling Bush/Cheney ’00 and ’04 bumper stickers. The boy-child’s school?- not so much.

Sure, the boy-child’s school has its share of anti-progress, pro-destruction constituents on staff, but it also has a few brave voters who consider the future to be important. While my vote is a waste here in Idaho, it is at least somewhat heartening to know there are others who are willing to waste their votes with me.

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How cute, she’s learned all of her mother’s diplomacy skills already.

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Just when I thought John McCain couldn’t get any more pathetic . . .

Too bad Sarah didn’t tell him this earlier, seeing as she should know everything after having read all newspapers and magazines. Maybe she was too busy preparing for her next role after this whole election thing fails.

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Today I watched mortal combat outside my office window. The pumpkin spider who lives on my screen was attacked by a large black wasp. I thought at first that the spider had been hunting the wasp, but after several flyoffs and subsequent attacks, it was clear the wasp was the aggressor. I’ve known this spider since the spring, so I am somewhat attached. Unfortunately, by the time I realized what was going on, it was too late.

After ten minutes or so of ambush attacks by the wasp, the spider finally chased off the wasp, then slowly hauled himself off to hide, dazed with venom. Only to be attacked again. The spider fell, wasp following closely behind. After a few buzzing minutes below my windowsill, the wasp rose again, battered itself against my screen a few times, and flew off.

I assume the spider was used as a host for a wasp egg. Or maybe the wasp was pissed and needed someone to take out her aggression on.

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Finally, an explanation of Sarah. I say we let Alaska secede.

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Please, if there is a god, keep Sarah Palin talking! Hell, I don’t care, even if there is no god, keep her talking. This woman is a special kind of dumb. And to think, this is the second-best person the Republicans could find to represent their party. At this point, I assume the plan is to lose the election so that the next four years of Great Depression II can be blamed on the Democrats. No matter that our current problems can be laid solely at the feet of the Republicans. Thanks, you evil fuckers. Now, could someone explain how Bush came up with $700 billion as the cost for the bailout? I thought a Paraguay retirement would be a hell of a lot cheaper than that.

Oh right, here’s how they came up with $700 billion — they pulled it out of their collective ass.

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Assuming the worst, that America decides it’s best to heap four more years of piss-poor leadership onto the last eight and we get stuck with McCain/Palin for at least four years, I’m thinking Peru might not be so bad. They’ve got a much better exchange rate than Canada, and I’m sure I could figure out how to teach English. Assuming, that is, those fun-loving Shining Path fellas are no longer such a pain.

Oh, and apparently I was being unfair to Bill Clinton earlier. When he screwed us all over by signing the financial deregulation stuff that he did, it was apparently because the Republican-controlled Congress had enough votes to override his veto. Rather than doing the right thing in the face of overwhelming odds, he chose the Pelosi/Reid appeasement option. Wouldn’t it be nice if we had more Kuciniches in Congress?

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Once again, we need to look to the East for our solutions.  First it was for outsourcing.  Now, it is for effectively dealing with poor upper and middle management.  Not only is this an elegant solution for business, but it applies to the management of our country as well.  It may not help in the long run, but I’m sure we’d all feel better.  And it doesn’t come with a no oversight $700,000,000,000.00 price tag.

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