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vicarzI blame naiade for my new olympic volleyball fetish. My god - they're more naked than naked in those suits, and the sweaty hugs when they score? I am so melted. On the positive side, I rocked through my cardio work last night, thanx to the divers, gymnastic exhibition, and volleyball pr0n. Good golly.
Cheney says something not awful about gay marriage, cool! I was hearing that people who are exposed to a friend that needed or considered abortion are far less likely to be pro-life. I wonder if that's all this country needs - a token black friend, a token female friend, a token gay friend, just some sort of contact to make the aliens seem less scary.
Couldn't sleep last night, and decided to watch Kerry on the Daily show. I love the Daily show. I'm voting for Kerry. BUT my god, Dear Jon - please get out of the man's ass. Dear John, stop pretending this is a debate where you just jam in your speech wherever you can force an opportunity. Stop just trashing Bush - it's too easy to do, and your positive comments are few and disingenuous. Mr. Kerry, you're not going to bring the jobs back from overseas. You're not going to quickly fix Iraq. The economy will suck for years to come thanks to the debt. I don't need to be reminded that you're not Bush, I don't need a meaningless cheer.
naiade for my new olympic volleyball fetish. My god - they're more naked than naked in those suits, and the sweaty hugs when they score? I am so melted. On the positive side, I rocked through my cardio work last night, thanx to the divers, gymnastic exhibition, and volleyball pr0n. Good golly. Cheney says something not awful about gay marriage, cool! I was hearing that people who are exposed to a friend that needed or considered abortion are far less likely to be pro-life. I wonder if that's all this country needs - a token black friend, a token female friend, a token gay friend, just some sort of contact to make the aliens seem less scary.
Couldn't sleep last night, and decided to watch Kerry on the Daily show. I love the Daily show. I'm voting for Kerry. BUT my god, Dear Jon - please get out of the man's ass. Dear John, stop pretending this is a debate where you just jam in your speech wherever you can force an opportunity. Stop just trashing Bush - it's too easy to do, and your positive comments are few and disingenuous. Mr. Kerry, you're not going to bring the jobs back from overseas. You're not going to quickly fix Iraq. The economy will suck for years to come thanks to the debt. I don't need to be reminded that you're not Bush, I don't need a meaningless cheer.
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Date: 2004-08-25 06:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-25 06:15 am (UTC)I loved Kerry on the Daily Show and I think the biggest problem was not Jon being overly obsequious to Kerry but that the show is just too short to have any sort of indepth interview. The format of the show is not set up for that sort of thing. Its best political commentary comes from their Headlines bits and conversations with the Senior Correspondents. Because there they can show things like the Swiftboat Veteran for Truth praising Kerry four years ago. They can riff on the idiocy of the loyalty oaths, the fact that the Bush administration is trying to come up with plans in case election day "has" to be moved, the evilness that is the oil industry...etc. And Kerry at least mentioned the issues and brought up domestic problems and actually referenced the statistics that show exactly how badly Bush has fucked up.
And Kerry wasn't saying he was going to fix everything - but he does have plans to improve the state of our country. The problem of the debt will be at least somewhat ameliorated by rolling back the tax cuts for the rich. If we can actually bring in internation support to Iraq we can bring some of our troops home and rely on financial help from other nations. If we really do invest in technology and research to make us less oil dependant we'll be helping the economy and the environment at the same time. And if we get rid of Cheney maybe we can stop hemmoraging money to Halliburton.
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Date: 2004-08-25 06:35 am (UTC)I wasn't impressed by his statistical rants. They're not wrong, but I don't feel that presenting the numbers over and over again in verbal form helps teach anything about the issue - rather it's a FOX news technique.
I liked the idea of Steward going over the list of things the right-wing accuses Kerry of doing, but they didn't really stick with that.
I'm not arguing for Bush, I'm just saying I was disappointed in the showing.
In all seriousness
Date: 2004-08-25 06:42 am (UTC)Re: In all seriousness
Date: 2004-08-25 06:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-25 06:47 am (UTC)" I wonder if that's all this country needs - a token black friend, a token female friend, a token gay friend, just some sort of contact to make the aliens seem less scary."
That's food for thought. But I think how much impact this token friend would have on the subject hinges on how the subject views the token friend. (i.e. focus on "token" or focus on "friend"). I think that having a friend (who turns out to be gay) would impact someone much more than reaching out to have a black friend for the sake of having a black friend.
It all comes down to whether you perceive people as individuals first, or members of a group first.
(In a related vein, this is why I consider parts of the north-east to be much more racist than the south -- I've heard older people in parts of Virginia make absolutely horrendous comments about blacks as a group, but then maintain close individual friendships with blacks -- to me that's less offensive than the northerner that mouths the party line about racial equality, but then is incapable of seeing a black person as anything other than a member of his race)
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Date: 2004-08-25 07:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-25 07:21 am (UTC)He needs to come out and say "those so-called Swiftboat veterans for truth are full of shit, I am personally very offended by their underhanded and utterly baseless accusations and I hold President Bush personally responsible for their unwarranted and dishonest accusations. I served my country at the risk of my own life and wellbeing and anyone who disputes that with baseless accusations should be seen for the cowardly dispicable people they are."
Now I don't expect that to happen but it ought to. I think Kerry needs to be shown the ending of American President - and Clinton needs to remind him that responding to attacks (especially ones riddled with falsehoods) does not translate into running a negative campaign - just one with a chance at winning.
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Date: 2004-08-25 07:22 am (UTC)These feelings do not mix well with the flaming disco I'm playing right now, but I'll have to reconcile the two somehow.
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Date: 2004-08-25 07:30 am (UTC)Re: In all seriousness
Date: 2004-08-25 07:35 am (UTC)http://rds.yahoo.com/S=96062883/K=olympic+volleyball/v=2/SID=e/l=IVI/*-http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20040820/i/r4282228572.jpg
But that doesn't show I'm not a pig - it just shows I'm an Equal Opportunity Objectifier!
Re: In all seriousness
Date: 2004-08-25 10:45 am (UTC)Yeah, I'm feeling you on the vollyprOn thing...
Date: 2004-08-25 01:00 pm (UTC)<img src="http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20040822/capt.olyvbb13508221802.greece_olympics_beach_volleyball_olyvbb135.jpg" That Brazillian one is still the best.
Re: Yeah, I'm feeling you on the vollyprOn thing...
Date: 2004-08-25 01:14 pm (UTC)Anyway, as soon as I get an Albino friend, I have Bingo!
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Date: 2004-08-25 08:35 pm (UTC)Did you see Clinton on The Daily Show a couple weeks ago? HE was good...seemed a helluva lot more laid back than even when he was in office. He may be Slick Willy, and he may be sneaking all sorts of shit past America, but at least he is likeable! Not like that blathering moron of a squirrel monkey who is in office now!
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Date: 2004-08-26 03:58 am (UTC)Slick Willy had nothing on this crook.