couple several things

[viedma]

I changed my journal around. I <3 it nao. It's purple and silly, much like myself.

Watching The Caves of Androzani mostly because it had Five in a most excellent blackout blindfold, but am giggling lots at the OMG THIS R SRS TV SHOWE vibe that the fanboys seem to enjoy. The guy in the leather harlequin mask who likes to backhand Five isn't helping. This certainly puts RTD's crush on Ten in perspective. I'm guessing Peter Davidson made a bet where he would do any kind of kinky bondage that JNT could come up with, provided that this was his PINKY SWEAR last episode.

I let my Air America subscription expire as the only person I liked to listen to on the network started to develop a serious Ron Paul fixation in the absence of any sensible evidence. I'm finding I don't miss it at all.

Also, I got tired of my LJ being a place where I felt I had to react to The Latest Important News of the Day, so I'm kind of stopping that now. I know how I feel about stuff, and the tree that fell in the forest that no one heard did made a sound. So there.

Having said that, I hope John Edwards does well in the Iowa Caucuses tomorrow.

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[cryptile.livejournal.com]

Is there as much heavy breathing from the Gimp Dude as I remember there being?

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

He was just crawling all over Peri, ewwwwwww. I can see why it gives the fanboy types a collective boner, but we didn't like it.

[viedma.livejournal.com]

It were gross. I was hoping for more blindfold scenes, frankly.

[traveller.livejournal.com]

hear hear!

[viedma.livejournal.com]

:D

[traveller.livejournal.com]

the reason i was up until quarter to four was i was in a google chatroom with two canadians (one of whom is a polysci doctoral candidate) and one other american whose father is a dead marine. guess what we were talking about?

well. after we got done talking about incest and hentai.

[rachel-wilder.livejournal.com]

Edwards? Seriously?

[viedma.livejournal.com]

Yep. This is how it breaks down for me-

1. I hope Edwards wins the nomination, but I will vote for whoever the Democratic nominee is because what they have on the Republican side is just omg.

2. Vote for Chris Dodd in my primary, because I think he was awesome in sticking up for us on personal liberties. And he has FABULOUS hair. :D

[rachel-wilder.livejournal.com]

I will also vote for the Democratic nominee whoever it is, but I'm just not getting the support for Edwards...he is talking a good talk this time, but there's nothing in his record to back up any of the stuff he's promising to do (voted for the war, NAFTA, etc.), his environmental record is pretty crap (59 points with the League of Conservation Voters) and I had him tell me to my face last week that I needed to be patriotic about making sacrifices for the environment, but he lives in a 28,000 square foot house? I'm just more comfortable with someone who is actually living the middle class lifestyle and has a record of taking hard stands, working with the Republicans and Democrats and getting things done.

Ack! Caucus brain...

[traveller.livejournal.com]

I'm just more comfortable with someone who is actually living the middle class lifestyle

who would that be? I sincerely don't know, I'm not being sarcastic.

[rachel-wilder.livejournal.com]

who would that be? I sincerely don't know, I'm not being sarcastic.

I really think that is Barack and Michelle Obama. And that's not probably going to be forever because he's written two best sellers and she's a VP for a hospital in Chicago now, but less than five years ago they were still paying off their student loans, had credit card debt, lived in a condo that was too small for their family, she worked for a non-profit and he was a state senator. I just feel like they have a better understanding of the real things that I face in my life every day, why even though I have health insurance the cost is going up and the deductible is going up and I'm spending way more on medical things that I did five years ago--I think they legitimately get that.

(Thanks for the question!)

[traveller.livejournal.com]

and thanks for the answer! those were some things I didn't know.

however -- and this goes for the ones I like as well as the ones I dont! -- if the senators-who-are-also-candidates had spent as much time working hard at their elected positions as they have in trying to get elected to other positions? perhaps things would be a little less dire in these parts.

[roxann-ireland.livejournal.com]

I have an LJ-friend who used to walk past Obama's house on her way to and from work. It's in a historically upper-class black neighborhood in Chicago, so it appears that even though he has moved up in the world, he hasn't taken his success and run off to some ex-urban McMansion with it.

I imagine it as being something like Huxtable's house in The Cosby Show - you have to have serious money to live there, but it's still In The Community.

[rachel-wilder.livejournal.com]

I think you're probably right about the house and neighborhood. I met the guy who bought their old condo. It was funny, I was at a reception (he's a jazz singer) and we started talking about Obama and he says "yeah, he's a really good guy--I even bought his apartment!"

Here's an interesting article about the potential first homes: http://www.newsweek.com/id/77081

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

The wicked side of me is hoping for a Paul win to see how Republicans spend at least four years dealing with a Republican president who is anti-Iraq War, anti-warrantless searches, anti-torture, etc. I might even start listening to Rush Limbaugh again.

[viedma.livejournal.com]

I think they'd have a bigger stroke over Mike Huckabee, but I'm in favor of whatever gives the Republicans the most consternation.

Orcinus has been looking into Ron Paul's record (http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/search?q=ron+paul). Makes for interesting reading.

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

I like Orcinus' blog, but he's also the same guy who left out a lot of stuff from Paul's voting record. For instance, Paul is anti-abortion and most of those anti-abortion votes were there, but if I remember right he left out other legislation Paul voted against, such as a bill that would've made it illegal for a minor to cross state lines for an abortion. He also omitted the last ten years' worth of Paul's voting record on the flag burning amendment; Paul voted in favor of it prior to 1997, then had a change of heart and voted against it several times afterward.

Vote Smart is a great site for analyzing voting records; they have a more complete look at Paul's record here (http://www.vote-smart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=BC031929). Overall it may not make him look any better, but at least it's more thorough.

[cageyklio.livejournal.com]

I haven't watched CofA since it first aired on my local PBS station way back when. I do remember being pleased that they finally came up with a use for that fucking celery.

[viedma.livejournal.com]

Icon love. :)

I can see him standing next to you...I'm getting a name...It starts with M or B? It has vowels?

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Awwwwwww, ickle reaper!

Every time I see the name "John Edwards," I think, Why the fuck would anybody vote for that fucking cold-reading con artist? Then I realize it's not the medium.

Re: I can see him standing next to you...I'm getting a name...It starts with M or B? It has vowels?

[viedma.livejournal.com]

SO THEY SAY.

O_O

[shamroq.livejournal.com]

I'm not the most dialed in to the current dem candidates, but as far as I remember John Edwards was the only one that came out and flatly stated he didn't support gay marriage. If my recollection is correct, I'm surprised that didn't resonate with you more.

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

This assumes either of us have any interest in getting married. But either way, haven't they all danced around the subject? I don't think Clinton or Obama did anything but make vague noises in the direction of civil unions either.

[shamroq.livejournal.com]

I guess I was just more surprised at him being emphatic about it, which to me (a heterosexual male looking in some gay window or something) is really more of a slap in the face. I know they're all sackless in that regard, but politicians are pretty sackless across the board so it doesn't surprise me.

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Maybe he's trying to pander to the "Southern wing," or some such thing? Damned if I know--I'm just cynical enough about how all of them treat the issue that his posturing doesn't surprise me.

Did you see this?

[roxann-ireland.livejournal.com]

From flemco's post here (http://flemco.livejournal.com/2071174.html), regarding Hilary's non-performance in Iowa:

Hillary: "Those grapes are probably sour (http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/01/04/iowa-isnt-that-important-clinton-staffers-say/?mod=blogs)."
Obama: "No they're not! They're delicious! OM NOM NOM NOM!"
Hillary: "I SAID--"
Obama: "OM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM U CANNOT HAS."