Premeditated Misconduct

I might do this more seriously if I know that anyone's reading it. The news is freaking wacky shit, kids.

Let's start with this dude-- Allen Quist, a Republican who is seeking to defeat Rep. Tim Walz in southern Minnesota’s First Congressional District, who claims that liberals-- NAY! RADICALS!-- are a bigger threat to this country than terrorists.
...god damn it. Stop trying to out-crazy Michele Bachmann, people. This is not a contest where anyone wins.

Then there's Sarah Palin, who is still talking for some reason. She thinks that having an expert in Constitutional law as commander-in-chief is dumb. Also, apparently she "forgot" that the Shoe Bomber was tried in federal courts during the Bush years.

Republicans don't think Obama says the word "terror"...which is just false. And meanwhile, this jerkass is trying to raise campaign money by using the fear of terrorism renewed by the would-be Underpants Bomber.

This is also pretty ridonkulous: sending female soldiers lipstick and Cosmo-- really? That seems a little, uh, generic. And insulting.


Probable triggers in these*:
The battle for reproductive rights is ON in Wisconsin.
That article brought my attention to this little gem of WTFry from the Human Life Alliance: “I am familiar with no case of incest-related abortion that did not make matters worse for the victim.”
Really? No case? None? Ever? REALLY?


And a just and righteous skewering:
Brit Hume claims that the only way Tiger Woods can make any (emotional/professional/etc.) comeback is to drop Buddhism and convert to Christianity. Jon Stewart and Aasif Mandvi take this on brilliantly.


EDIT: This snarky ridicule bothers me. Maybe it's because I'm a great, big, fat, raging GEEK with pre-existing clinical depression, but I admit that I often feel upset/sad/depressed to realize that the fictional worlds I love don't exist and never will.


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* I'm guessing; I admit that I actually have no idea what triggers other's traumas. But it's better to be safe and label it, right?

I rewatched The Dark Knight yesterday. High. First, I have to admit that while I wasn't as amazed as everyone else was over this summer, being stoned changed my opinion: it is a freaking AWESOME movie to watch whilst baked.
Second, yes, I'd HIT THAT. And by THAT I mean, of course, the Joker. Fuck all the "It's just that it's Heath!" disclaimers; I've never found him hot, so it's not that it's Ledger that does it for me...except in the fact that he acts so well that he embodies the character in a deep, creepy, beautiful way. Whooo~... Yes. Good morning.


I'm torturing myself. By "torturing", I mean that I am watching the VP debate. Palin makes me want to stab myself in the fucking head. With something blunt. It would hurt less than listening to this dumb cunt. (Also, why the FUCK does she sound so godforsaken MINNESOTAN?!)

Shiiiit, I should just watch the Democracy Now sum-up tomorrow.



[Edit: she's not going to answer the questions the way they're presented or the way the moderator wants? She's going to "speak to the American people"? ANSWER THE FUCKING QUESTIONS, YOU NUMB TWAT. What, are you too stupid to actually stay on-topic?]

[Edit 2: Biden grew up in Scranton? Hah! He's right though: taking money from corporations and giving it to people who actually need it IS fair.]

[Edit 3: Dude, is Palin like, a one-woman McCain worship service or what? She seems to endlessly spew variations of how grateful we should be to McCain. Is he GOD?]

[Edit 4: Rofflcopter. They asked Palin about global warming, and what ran through my head was that SNL skit: "God's just huggin' us a little bit closer!" *snrksnrk*
Oh, and she didn't want to talk about the causes of climate change. PAINT ME SURPRISED.

...shit, Biden's stomping her ass on this question. Sweet.]

[Edi 5: Neither of them are for legal gay marriage? Pffft. I didn't expect anything better from Palin, but Biden and Obama are fucking pansies. Grow a set! It's not about tolerance or saying that it's up to the churches; saying that it is misses the point, boys.]

[Edit 6: When Biden gets indignant/feels comfortable with his facts, he's a powerful speaker. He doesn't hold back, and it's gorgeous.

...Palin. Palin said, "Nuke-ular." Not "nu-clear". "Nuke-ular". Like Bush. Wow.]

[Edit 7: Palin talking about America's tolerance and freedom is almost ironic, considering how redneck she is.]

[Edit 8: I never want to hear the word "maverick" misused ever again. Nor do I long to hear more "heck" or "goshdarn it!". Also, Palin just used the vice presidential debate to give a fucking shout-out. W. T. F!

...oh. She was kidding about not knowing what the vp does. Right. Nice cover there, sweetie.]

[Edit 9: HOLY SHIT. BIDEN SAID IT. He finally called bullshit on all this "maverick" talk. Thank you, sweet lord Jesus.]

Something's rotten in the state of Minnesota. The Republican National Convention's in town, and it's been fucking bedlam, apparently.

People are getting arrested, unlawfully detained, maced, violently manhandled, and houses are being raided.

Freedom...?
Of speech? No.
To free assembly? No.
From unreasonable search and seizure? No.


No.