speaking of drums

our friends at Pearl have set up a groovy little ditty in flash where you can make (and of course buy) your own custom drum dream kit...here's mine:



(click for bigger)

why the US rejects the International Criminal Court

because if the administration hacks did want to be part of it, then they might have to face the music of their crimes against humanity...meanwhile the war in Iraq has been dubbed to be a public health disaster...thankfully some people still care about democracy in the US...though our own media went to great ends to try to "disprove" anything that seemed to be of the scratching-the-head variety...and fortunately for all of us, Wired assembled a great little article about those looking to protect the little man from the BIG MAN as in our shitty government goons that look to cloud reason and fairness with blantant obtuse warnings of terror...those same goons that want to make sure critiques like this don't hit the headlines...and unfortunately they're quite successful...oh and I'm totally psyched to rip open the box holding my x-mas present, a wonderful new assembly of a drum rack...ROCK!

all's quiet on this front

haven't really been writing much lately because well I was off on holiday at home and didn't feel like it...and of course I don't have much to say...plus I've been wicked busy at work lately too, which obviously bites the big one...today we go bowling to build team building skills or whatever...wheee! that should be fun...though, I have class tonight so I can't enjoy the finest of the fine at the bowling alley anyways...this time of year is so hated by me...I mean I'm not a hot weather fool but I really don't like coming into work thinking my hands are going to fall off they're so cold...me and the wife are looking to go visit the West Coast and survey Wine Country as something fun to do on our 2nd (HOLY SHIT!) anniversary next February...and by the way one of the better CDs to come along on my desk this past weekend was Michal Cohen's Henna...what a great album...merging Yemen traditional music with more electronic-based pop stuff...nifty...good stuff NOW BACK TO WORK!

perhaps an explanation is overdue

for one, I don't hate Christians. or Muslims. or Jews. or Hinduis. or even Wiccans (though they're outfits are funny and remind me of myself in high school--"such conformists"). BUT. I do not like hypocrisy. nor do I enjoy people pushing THEIR values onto ME or OTHERS. Nicholas Kristof today pretty much summed up what I think about the whole "Left Behind" nonsense as well as what I think about a lot of folks strung up in the religious funk...I get just as irked about Muslim fanaticism as I do about Christian freakjobs too...of course some may take it a tad far with their remarks but whatever...all I guess I'm trying to get across (no pun intended) is that I don't think it's right for ANYONE to push their religion unless invited to sit down for discussions...things that have irked me that directly involve religion:

1. finding a note or encouraging me to go to a Bible study or any sort of church on my car, in my mailbox, or on my door


2. seeing legislations being pushed for by various groups or lawmakers in which they cite religious artifacts or bible stories as some sort of basis or evidence in which said law should be passed


3. hearing whining from adults regarding videogames, movies, television, music or any other form of entertainment that contains material that they feel is inappropriate for their poor little weak-minded children


4. people asking for donations, votes, or servitude in the name of whatever god they follow (this includes suicide bombing, Catholic voter guides, requests for tithes, and all missionary work)


5. deliberate destruction of some ancient historical artifacts by saying that it is blasphemy (Taliban comes to mind, yes pre-9/11)


6. hate-filled actions or speech directed at or towards groups that have been identified with a moronic intepretation of archaic writing that is supposed to be originated from some invisible divine entity

ok so maybe I'm not totally tolerant but fuck 'em...they've had centuries to be douches...call me a leftist elitist asshole all you want, but I'm not going to fall over backwards for any book (Koran, Bible, Torah, et al) that was written by man for man to control man unless it's a Creed song...

another crude moron in a crude suit of man-made stupid

*sigh*

isn't it hilarious how someone can be a Christian (and a venomous one!) yet at the same time believe that he is indeed a trans-species psychological lycanthrope...

and I bet he voted for Bush!

travelzoo and aim equals annoying

apparantly the dumbies at travelzoo have decided to inject aim with a dose of annoyance (as if there couldn't be more) and I'm not the only one that's pissed off...argh but I really don't like trillian that much (the stupid going idle thing is rather dumb)...blah...but it's not enough to make me a crazy nutjob in texas...I have class tonight and a quiz and I totally didn't study...boo. and to top it off I brought the wrong dinner to work and I had to eat just doritos instead...but hey I'm taking tomorrow off and enjoying a FOUR day weekend...whoohoo...and MX records can taste it. stupid nonsense...

guns don't kill people, crazy ass hunters do

furthering the case for the renewal of the assault weapon ban...?

new hosting fun

this weekend I moved Smother.Net's hosting from Burlee aka Interland to 1 and 1 Hosting...so far everything is chill and worked well though it's annoying to wait for DNS and MX Records to propagate...in fact if I send myself an email from my work account I get bounce backs...pretty damn annoying...some goes to my old one still while most goes to the new mail server...ARGH!...other than that this weekend was filled with me being a butthead and watching too much football...also watched the Stepford Wives and saw Alli G in Da House...good stuff!...today we go bowling with our new employee on our team...double good...I'm glad we have a short week though I wish the wife also had a short week too...BODY MASSAGE.

the talk about town

after my review of the new self-titled American Eyes album it made waves enough to land on their official site...whoohoo-ie!

those crazy liberal comics

as we all waited for the boondocks to come out swinging post-election, we fell asleep as both the Washington Post and New York Times dumped Ted Rall's comics and I don't understand why, cuz he tells the truth damn it about the hypocrisy on the right are we on the left and liberal side of the equation to continue to face the hate-squads of the right-wing fascist regime of evil oppression and political correctness meanwhile RushCo. is allowed to call Mexicans' the w-name (and I don't mean 'dubya') and make other outrageous claims their own twisted savoir-faire?! well whatever, I found all the gang tags in Grand Theft Auto...

so the democrats "heard" us?

if so why are they completely avoiding the whole issue of uncounted and manipulated votes? Answer: They're still afraid of the Republican juggernaut that controls the media. My answer: They're a bunch of pussies.

will friday ever get here

I feel as if I'm in the midst of the longest week on record...I can long for a nice beautiful drum rack but that does me no good as I shake my fist in anger at the betrayal of the Democrat Party...damn them...they're such wusses...hey I mean we just slaughtered 800 civilians in Fallujah...though some would blinding disagree but hey who cares about fighting for your own democracy when you have others to stand up!!...the american leftist gives us a good summary of what the so-called foreign fighters in Iraq add up to be...regardless I chowed into some television that was sitting on my tivo last night...popped off two episodes of The Wire so I'm all caught up but org charts still help a lot...

vancouver or bust?

Reasons to move to Canada, as cited by www.canadianalternative.com:

1. Canada has universal public health care.

2. Canada has no troops in Iraq.

3. Canada signed the Kyoto Protocol environmental treaty.

4. More than half of Canada's provinces allow same-sex marriage.

5. The Canadian Senate recommends legalizing marijuana.

6. Canada has no law restricting abortion.

7. Canada has strict gun laws and relatively little violence.

8. The United Nations has ranked Canada the best country to live in for eight consecutive years.

9. Canada abolished the death penalty in 1976.

10. Canada has not run a federal deficit since 1996-97.

get your hunt on but not for hunt ketchup

if you're too lazy to actually don the camo gear and pull the trigger yourself, you can always hunt online, it doesn't surprise me that this comes from Texas...meanwhile the hunt is on for tomatoes...meanwhile a bunch of weenies barf about the intro to Monday Night Football but ignore the fact that this is a brutal sport in which I've personally seen plenty of broken bones, close calls to paralysis, etc...but a girl in a towel!? oh my god we can't handle that...what a bunch of bullshit. this country is so far up its own collective moral ass that it can't sniff the hypocrisy of highly rated shows about having surgery to change your physical appearance because your self-esteem is that low or switching wives and trading 'em but when you've got your sugar-coated cheap-ass cereal on is it any wonder that the world isn't as round as everyone knows it is? well all I know is I'm glad I don't have a fucking x-box but I really wish I still had an old walkman

worst joke ever.

sit down and be prepared for one of my patented knee-slappers:

What do you call a Panda who loves rock-n-roll?

Sing Sing

oh dude it doesn't get better than that does it?...I should take my act on the road!

and the children die

some new pictures from Fallujah have come out and showcase why our nation is so fucked...just read some of the comments people have anonymously left...trying to prevent another 9/11...bah! what a joke...I especially liked the money quote left by one:

"The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and cooperation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life."

-- Adolph Hitler, My New World Order, Proclamation to the German
Nation at Berlin,
February 1, 1933"

again, I'm reminded that religion is a brainwashing tool that is unfortunately hijacked by the wicked and aborted by hypocrites...I have no doubt that some of our soldiers have "Born to Kill" written on their helmets, what a shame that they did not see the original irony in Full Metal Jacket...or perhaps they adopted the slogan of "Kill 'em all." from of course Starship Troopers...oh blah blah, I know, now I'm anti-troops...whatever.

hanks da vinci

my beautiful wife sent me along this info on Tom Hanks playing in the Da Vinci Code...apparantly Ron Howard will be directing...can't wait!

out sick today

well now I'm starting to finally feel better, several hours of sleep will do that for you...especially when you sleep like shit the night before...so I learned what "yagai" as well as other variations of bizarre japanese porn slang, but yagai is when they hold a contest in public (and of course on film) where women try to hold their urine for as long as they can ending in the inevitable peeing-of-the-pants and while one would think you'd blush at either the sight of that happening or being one that participates, I'd scoff and shout "NOT!" and other various playa slang because if you'd be in either one of those silos of human depravity than how could your cheeks turn a slight rouge or other make-up induced oddities?...and in following Neil Gaiman's advice post-Election craze, I think I will embark on just making good art...and after arming myself with boundless new music reviews including a review of the most magnificient new Slayer DVD! so after much chagrin this weekend, I decided to scrap the last track off my CD in place of one I just finished...oh and since my boss talked about Guy Fawkes day while he was over in London I decided to look up some stuff on him...odd running into from Neil Gaiman's site eh?...oh the beauty of linkdom. it brings us stuff like an ASCII rendition of The Matrix which is just damn nifty and there's more!...and Don Knotts is Dubya! though he doesn't quite revise his role from Three's Company as Ralph Furley...and if you've been paying attention to this blog (and really, who doesn't?!) you'll remember my discussion on dancing transformers and now it's broken out into the mainstream, heck it makes ME want to buy that car...rad. also this weekend I got a personally autographed poster from Griz, nifty.

see just when you think they're all wack jobs

some dildo at imao (wow is that aol-ese or what!?! wtf mate) tries to be funny and sometimes is but mostly he's just plain and out lame but you gotta wonder motives when you link to ridiculous shit like this...though, one can always find ann coulter comical as well...

manassas cultural center to be built right around the corner

Well, I'm sure I'll hate the added traffic but this new concert hall would be literally like 2 miles from my house...

Stop the Rollback of National Forest Protection

Stop the Rollback of National Forest Protection

and the beatdown continues

I feel the brow-beating on the Washington Post forums, I mean really are conservatives THAT dumb?! wow. the fact that Bushie gets to take a mulligan for 9/11 and yet get credit for "taking the fight to Iraq!" is so obscene. than I remember that we're a country who excels in the quick explanation so that we can get on with our life filled with blubber, bullets, and booze. after all, it's not like there's credible evidence something fishy is going on especially when there's lock-down of voting but hey at least there's a request in to the GAO

jesus wasn't white

today's Boondocks was pretty on target:

"Storks don't deliver babies, the invasion of Iraq was illegal, and Jesus wasn't white."

couldn't have said it better myself.

the press trips over itself

since the press once again dropped the ball on another Bush election, they're trying to cover their tracks attempting to explain away mounting evidence (and credible, given the circumstances) that bloggers and Internet political junkies have been saying since before the election--that this election was wrought with fraud, deception, intimidation, and vote wrangling....they attempt to strip away credibility with labels like "conspiracy theory" despite the fact that they are just trying to magically whisk the ideas and evidence into some sort of neo-Magic Bullet Theory...but hey, maybe there is some hope that someone will find something out...and it's sad that we must rely on a Kucinch to do so.

but hey maybe we all could just get whisked away to the Dick Gephardt Tribute Dinner and plop hundreds of dollars per plate to give to a party that doesn't even want to investigate the rampant allegations made on the web and in independent media. sure why wouldn't we want to drop:

$1,000 Per Person
$10,000 Patron Table
$25,000 Sponsor Table
$50,000 Host Table

??? I mean come on! Dick was a leader! but really it's sad, when your hopes lay on Republicans flopping over to the Independent or Democratic sides isn't it? and for those that proclaim that we liberals just bust down on the Red States for their religion, are sadly mistaken if the Red States demographics are diverse and challenging and somehow need to be respected, than shouldn't liberals be taken seriously without having their very name spat out like some tired rotten olive?

tracklisting

So here's the tracklisting for my new CD entitled "Found Sounds: Volume 1" :

1. The Evil Empire Marches Onward 2:16
2. Factory Leg 5:13
3. Morality's Mortality 6:43
4. Burnt 5:02
5. The Hiroshima Choir 3:24
6. Position Faded 2:40
7. Survival of the Obedient 2:33
8. Splunking In the Dead Heat of the Chilly Nightlife 2:12
9. Impugn Your Principles ("Of course we all do!") 12:55
10. Who Has That Static Cling? 4:31

wicked. artwork to follow.

there's mounting evidence of a stolen '04 election

While I know we're supposed to get our "heal-on" and keep on truckin', there's still the idea that Kerry conceded too early and there's even more mounting evidence of rampant voter fraud in Ohio and elsewhere and elsewhere with extra votes and more glitches and more nastiness while the early votes went bye bye with long lines in predominantly poor precincts while the media tries to cover its collective ass meanwhile, The Big We makes sure that those crafty Arabs living in America are censused and catalogued and rubberstamped for internment at Gitmo...but when the news is talking more about Andrew Sullivan's butt scratch and I do mean talking a LOT you can resolve yourself to the stupid truth of dumb 'mericans (FUCK YEAH!) or resign yourself to what is good and interesting and fun in 'merica (FUCK YEAH!) but hey at least he has a fucking answer and he's not Mr. Sleepy Japanese Business Guy...am I right or am I write? or is Canada right?!?

fuck the south

A fun little tirade surrounding the south and their hypocrisy...got to love it...though we're not the only country that shouts these cusses towards their southern brethren...but there are things to smile about aren't there?

anyone use/write a good RSS feed/reader in PHP?

I'm looking for a good RSS feeder and reader that's written in PHP. I found something, but would love recommendations/URLs...wizzle.

snap your fingers, snap your neck

seriously, far too many people snap their fingers at work. it's utterly annoying.

anti-republican spam!

I know the world is going in the right direction (maybe?) when I get a spam mail whose subject line reads: "Bush is re-elected..pro-zac anyone?" Too funny.

Yesterday I spent all day at an offsite meeting in Reston (that little town is filled to the brim with yuppies, ewww) to discuss new product ideas for 2005 and the next couple of years. We actually brainstormed up a flurry of really good and interesting ideas.

Also this weekend found me taking the wife to the foot doctor (she can walk now!) and going to a little party/get-together with some friends. I also uploaded all the reviews I did a week ago but because of network latency issues at home I wasn't able to upload them until recently. I've gotten quite farther in Grand Theft Auto but I'm a good century or so away from beating it! I need to figure out how the hell to get "oysters" because I was at a spot that was supposed to have one but only saw jellyfish and sharks. Craziness...by the way, I'm sick of the press trying to push this notion that the youth vote didn't show up because it did! you bunch of white corporate bastards just don't want to listen to us you fucks. but the youth moves on...so taste it. biatch.

last year's pigasus awards

perhaps a bit late, but nonetheless just as rationally important are the award winners of the semi-annual pseudo-Darwinian awards.

the bush mosaic

in case you were wondering, here's where it originated from

watch what you say

it could come back and bite you back in the form of the secret service. now how lame is that? free speech

Hey Cheney here's your mandate

looking at Michael Moore's website one will stumble upon this as the splash graphic:



so there's your mandate Dick. Bush's image. made of over a thousand dead US soldiers. chew on that.

got hair?

for your Yeti puzzle box? like beef? don't forget about DONKEY KONG! or the annoying mullet britannica kid from the commercial...or wacky wall walkers.

want more things to be pissed about?

the Ohio election was NOT fair--it's kind of hard to do that when the Secretary of State, again, was a co-chair of the Bush/Cheney campaign in Ohio...while people complained of a riff-raff of problems even voting on this infernal machines while others discuss the thievery and yes Kerry won and the AP jiggled the exit polls up and down...but hey we got our War More Years of divisive nonsensical policies...though it appears we won't be seeing much more of Ashcroft, Powell, and Ridge. Oh yeah, and Arafat is dead and they're making another Bill & Ted's

Oh my! What should we all do!?

this is the thought of Democrats and liberal activists everywhere, along with despair, depression, and other "d" words that don't begin with "delight"...

Well, here's my suggestions for what the Democrats and liberals should concentrate on for the future.

• Get back the media. Ever since the whole nonsense of "liberal bias in the media" has been perpetuated by the conservatives and the rightwingers, the mainstream media has been falling all over itself to make sure it's "fair and balanced". Of course this actually results in them placating the right to a point where it becomes completely skewed to the right, leaving behind criticism of the vast rightwing conspirators to concentrate on something else that affects negatively the lefties. Air America ain't gonna cut it on satellite radio. We need the majors OR our own crazy cable network.
  



• Fight back dirty. While I fully understand the consequences of dirty politics and am against it wholeheartedly and it pains me to even suggest something that goes against my entire philosophy of what politics and government is all about, it's essential to the survival of the Democrats and liberal agenda. We need a Rove on OUR side--someone who has no veins that pump blood but just pure unadulterated venom. I want to see drug abuse problems like Rush Limbaugh's brought into the spotlight and banded about more and more. I want to see mean leaks of sex scandals. I want to see every conservative's dirty laundry hanging about flapping in the wind for us all to see. Everything should be exposed. I'm not advocating cheating like what Rove did in Ohio and other states with paperless vote trails, but things like this need to be exposed.



• Blame everything on the right. Any problem that results in the next four years can truly and adequately be blamed on the Republicans. They own everything and have steel-fisted control of the House, the court system to a degree, voting control of the Senate (though they can't stop all the filibusters that you should be doing each and every opportunity you get), the White House, and all the media. But with all that control comes the blame. And what was never adequately done in the 2004 campaign was spotlighting that blame. You need to roll up your sleeves and get dirty with the sweat of retorting every bad thing with "well you've had eight years to do something and you've failed".



• Push for real campaign finance reform. Disguise your desire to level the playing field by saying that you want to rid the world of 527s. It's not to the advantage of the Democrats by keeping 527s around. In the legislation remove the tax-free status of any church that engages in any sort of political campaigning. In 2004, the Catholic Church came out with "voting guides". These were an attempt to politicize religion and by the law they should have their tax-free status ripped from their limbs. When a church buses in voters to the polls, do you honestly think that there was no discussion of what candidate the church wanted you to vote for? Discuss how every campaign should be publicly financed. You can even bait the Republicans by suggesting that George Soros shouldn't be allowed to finance millions to a Presidential campaign. Get Russ Feingold and McCain on it and have your new leader proclaim how it will be the good of America to rid any sort of special interest money from any campaign--Americans on both sides of the fence really do want this, hell that's what pisses off most American voters in the first place and makes them so uninterested.
  
  
• Get better candidates. Enough with the boring candidates. Enough with trying to beat the Republicans at their own game. You'll never get the hard Christian vote as long as you support abortion (as you should!), so don't try. Kerry was a bore and while he has had moments of greatness (who could forget his trouncing of Bush during the first debate? or his acceptance speech at the DNC?) overall Americans felt like he was a boring person who was "stony faced". Get young vibrant candidates with real fresh ideas, not some jackass that proclaims to inject new ideas into the fold. You guys have the Tiger Woods of the Senate on your side now with Barack Obama, get more of that type of caliber. The strength of the Democratic party is that they're supported by the minorities in our country. You better act on this quickly because there's a whole conservative youth movement that gained a huge heaving of momentum with this Tuesday's thievery. And for fuck's sake make sure you run a candidate in every district and have them talk about how the crusty guy that's been in office for twenty years hasn't done anything for them. The high incumbent rate is in part because you guy's allow people to run unopposed. Sure the Republicans do it too on occasion but not nearly as often.



• Stop being so centrist. Every pundit in the world stated how the two presidential candidates didn't differ that much on some pretty polarizing issues. That sounded like a rehashing of the 2000 election where Gore said he agreed with his rival on far too many issues. You guys have the environment, so start talking about it. Stop the nonsense about not supporting gay marriage--guess what there's GOING to be gays and lesbians out there who want equal rights and there's going to be another civil rights movement but this time it's going to be a gay one. By pitter pattering around the issue by barfing up nonsense like "civil unions" you've discredited yourself and made yourself not very firm. That's what the conservatives have--SPINE--and a stubborn attitude of "I'm right and you're fucking wrong". We liberals need that too. We should say "marriage is defined by the states as an institution of rights" and that it has no basis in religion. Shake your fist and say get your damn Bible outta my face you zombie, this is the really real world bitch! Look down at the ground, draw the line, and say "hey I'm on this side" and famously boast "you're either with us or against us"! You should promote stem cell research as an agenda of the Democratic Party. Why? Because most Americans once they're informed will support it. Don't let the dickheads on the pulpits define it as some nonsensical death-to-God's-lifegift--it's fucking little cells that can save life. If the wackjobs come and whack you with their nonsense, hit back with talk of Reagan's disease or Arnold's support. Moderate Republicans support this initiative too as does anyone with half a brain. Don't worry about courting the religious nutjobs, they're not going to support you anyways.
  



• Be anti-war. While this goes along with the above, it's important enough to be its only bullet/talking point. Most of your followers were against the war in Iraq but did Kerry ever really come out and say "this war is wrong." and stick with it? No. Every time you idiots come out supporting a war that has nothing to do with humanitarian causes it comes back to haunt you. Just embrace the fact that you're peaceniks.
  



• Remind people who was in office during 9/11. I can't believe how fundamentally flawed this election was. You should have hit hard with "it's Bush's fault". That's exactly what the Republicans would have done with Gore in office. They would have filed the impeachment papers on 9/12. They were incredibly smart to embrace 9/11 as their own and you sat by and let them do it. The very next day you should have pushed for a commission to investigate and not let Bush lowball you by delaying it for so long. People love to point fingers and you should have been all index fingering the entire administration for its failure to protect America. Why did you have to rely on a Michael Moore to do that for you? The Democrats need to stop the backpedaling and come out hard with fists flying on each and every mistake. Every time Bin Laden makes a new video, hit Bush with "where the hell is he?", "why isn't he dead or in jail yet?", etc. Grow some balls, don't let them hijack it and say it was Clinton's fault for not killing Bin Laden. Why didn't Bush kill him?



• Stop the numbers games. We already know that for the most part Americans are dumb. How did Clinton win? He appealed to their emotions and seemed like a nice dude. Throwing numbers and statistics around isn't going to win over the undecided retards out there. You're already going to get the mentally elite people. Let Chomsky and other elite thinkers of our time crunch the hard stuff out. Placate the dumbies out there with pandering bullshit about the moral compass. Instead of talking about 1% of the most wealthy, talk about how immoral it is to give a tax cut to the rich while cutting troops pay.

Well that's the first stepping stones that I think liberal and Democrats need to chew on before they can really move on. Focus on the importance of crushing the GOP in 2006 and gaining back the House. Start having groups sue the bejesus out of GOPers and make sure you're crushing DeLay with ethics violations--even if there's no merits to them, keep about a vision in the media that something is decidedly wrong with way DeLay and others govern our nation. Sure it sucks that the election was stolen but prove that it was and you'll get 60% of the vote next time. And for fuck's sake, stop whining! Move on indeed!

new fun art stuff

Bali and Java ring in with some new decorations for your home or you could go the moon pi route or the even more bizarre route with freak-job taxidermy...which makes me excited to freakin' paint our downstairs reckroom area (I need to paint the music room too damn it!)...and yeah, some things like picasa are neat to help you organize but then too much organization can sometimes be a bad thing...but the keyhole technology could probably show you but at a very substantial cost...though technology is starting to get even more crazy but still can be decidedly retro can't it?

more proof of the resident thief

just as I suspected, exit polling WAS right. it's just that those states with e-voting don't seem to be matching up...virginia had a massive turnout and wasn't called immediately. but we have e-voting. so of course the GOP won. and while Virginia might not be the best litmus test its certainly an interesting case as well...regardless of the lame outcome of the 2nd-in-a-row stolen election, I blame the media who has failed to do their jobs. oh wait, who are they owned by again? I don't belong in this country.

okay so maybe

the only empire we Americans could muster to bring down was, the next-to-most evil empire who have now lost their pitching coach...and we can look to new hope in the region of the jets though the rams are shaky and the redskins suck...ack, all in all this was a disappointing year for me all around. I'm depressed.

and furthermore

fuck america and it's war corporatism.

I hate Americans

Yes it seems as if Bush won again...but he didn't.

want to know why?

when you can't have a decent normal vote without problems, you can't claim victory....when you have to rely on Fox News calling the election for Bush before EVERYONE else AGAIN you can't call it a victory...when you have to rely on hacking the electronic voting machines to steal votes you can't call it a victory.

but what if you could call it a victory? what does that mean for this great nation?

It means that we're a nation filled with ignorant racists and bigots and dumb people who believe in the Invisible Man...but does that mean, oh well? does it mean off to France or Canada or Britain or hell any of those Blue States? does it mean our next Great Hope is in the form of the Tiger Woods of the Senate? No I think it means, fuck them. let them have their Emperor of Big Ignorance. let them run our country into the ground. he will lose all their money (and mine) and kill their children (and there will be more now that abortion is on the fast track to banning)...you got your mandate fuckheads, go ahead and take it. but then guess what? you've got the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House, the Presidency BUT NO ONE TO BLAME. and if that's not the least bit of gratifying nuance that you can pull out of the puckered rectum of sewage politics that the Rovian maestro has bestowed upon us than it's true, we Americans only do understand violence and we're lame. totally lame. fuckall kind of lame. hey, maybe something nice will happen and on a sunny day in Texas with an open casket of a motorcade around a tight corner and near an overpass and fences, another of the nation's leaders will be...and well I'll stop there because those folks are the ones now controlling the puppet strings. America, you have lost my faith, my respect, and above all, all credibility but you have no one to blame but yourself. for everyone that didn't go out and vote and be heard, well your part in the holocaust of democracy and legitimacy will be felt when in the next two years BushCo. launches the first pre-emptive nuclear strike and whether that's metaphorical (see social security "reform", tort "reform", health "care", the next military draft, roe v. wade, redistricting, and term limits) or on-the-word will remain to be seen through the mirror-tinged laser-effected squinty eyes of the Fat America.

PC Load Letter?

apparantly Santa Clara is having issues with their Bushian e-voting equipment...imagine my surprise but at least some people are doing something about it and the media is suing Ohio elections chief since the douche will not allow exit polling within 100 feet of the polls...of course in an attempt to hijack more votes in this battleground state no doubt...maybe they're mad that the AP is providing all the vote counting...

some already have called the election

well now, colorado is already decided according to a newspaper who endorsed Bush...isn't that peachy?

get out and vote

so this morning after a sleepless night and a bad headache (my accusations turn to Rove) I got up at 6am and went to vote shortly thereafter...we arrived at our polling place ~6:30am or so and boy was it packed!...fortunately we're in the P-Z line and that one was smaller for whatever reason so we got to "fly" on through and use our electronic vote-eating machines...after I got in here at work I checked my Smother.Net personal email account and found a ton of messages from a variety of organizations urging me to vote...they ranged from The Beastie Boys to MTV to MoveOn.Org to Atlantic Records to Tribunal Records to Human Rights Campaign to a variety of promotional organizations that I work with and candidates that I've supported...pretty nifty huh?...looks like voter turnout is going to be pretty good. whoohoo!

a dead heat?

I really hope that the latest Gallup Poll is completely wrong...Zogby on the other hand finds a considerable advantage for Kerry via their cell phone users poll...I do find it quite interesting that all the anti-gay marriage retards can't seem to stay married themselves...though it doesn't seem like it rallied the crazies too much...well, I just hope that the suit with Richard Perle named as a defendent goes well

even the Republicans are shying away from Bush

as the number of conservatives who defect from the Bush regime grows we bear witness to some increased nastiness...yesterday I saw a commercial with Kerry praising Reagan and then bashing everything that Kerry has done that's not in line with Reagan...who fucking cares about Reagan? He's dead!