Worn and Torn.
Oct. 25th, 2008 01:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogI've been awfully neglectful of late. No posts worth shite, I've been missing all opportunities to send birthday wishes to (and this is far from a complete list) ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
luckycee, la_rainette, baseballchica03, angledge, and, faux-passiest of them all, katana1 since she was also kind enough to Friend me a coupla ago, thereby causing me to be neglectful about doing both welcoming and birthday posts here.
Welcome, Elaine. And happy birthday. Your sights and words are happy additions to this nonsensical place:)
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Some of this has been work. Muchly intense over the past couple of weeks. Yesterday was one of the few days to go by this month without me being required to be someplace (more often than not downtown or worse), and that just meant I got to clear eight tons of backlogged paperwork off my desk. Plus Eleanor is now into her first full week of working two jobs, and that's causing a bit of separation anxiety in all sorts of directions- not so much between her and me, but between her and the kid and (in their own way as poignantly) between her and the aminals. The oldest cat and dog, especially, seem a bit forlorn when they're Home Alone far more often than they had been, and we worry about those two even more than the youngeruns when we seem to be away from them for more and longer days.
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Most of all, though, I think I'm just sick to my stomach about this idiot political campaign and I can't wait for it to be over. With Eleanor at work last night (her first at the new gig on a Friday evening) and no baseball or hockey on, I grasped at the straw that is MSNBC and watched about half an hour of Olbermann ranting about the Idiot Opposition. I couldn't take much more than that. This constant Republican horseshit- campaign workers filing false reports about Big Black Obama Campaigner attacking a white female McCain staffer; McCain's brother going apeshit on a 911 operator over a traffic jam; and Miss Congeniality herself mocking autism research at a uni in North Carolina (which she apparently thinks is in France) because, hey, yaknow, how could research on insects help sick kids when God made them on two separate days now, youbetcha?
My blood pressure was up to about 680 over 400 by the time I got through THAT one.
I know, it's all looking like these imbeciles will be retreating to obscurity in about a week, but what can I say? I follow Buffalo sports teams. If any city's people can predict an unexpected way of losing something, it's us.
Therefore, if only to keep tabs on who might even be reading these ephemeral posts anymore, I invite your input into the likeliest of ways the Dems will fuck this up. What last-minute snafu, or subterfuge, will cause those 1-to-15 point leads to evaporate between now and next week?
[Poll #1285075]
luckycee, la_rainette, baseballchica03, angledge, and, faux-passiest of them all, katana1 since she was also kind enough to Friend me a coupla ago, thereby causing me to be neglectful about doing both welcoming and birthday posts here.Welcome, Elaine. And happy birthday. Your sights and words are happy additions to this nonsensical place:)
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Some of this has been work. Muchly intense over the past couple of weeks. Yesterday was one of the few days to go by this month without me being required to be someplace (more often than not downtown or worse), and that just meant I got to clear eight tons of backlogged paperwork off my desk. Plus Eleanor is now into her first full week of working two jobs, and that's causing a bit of separation anxiety in all sorts of directions- not so much between her and me, but between her and the kid and (in their own way as poignantly) between her and the aminals. The oldest cat and dog, especially, seem a bit forlorn when they're Home Alone far more often than they had been, and we worry about those two even more than the youngeruns when we seem to be away from them for more and longer days.
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Most of all, though, I think I'm just sick to my stomach about this idiot political campaign and I can't wait for it to be over. With Eleanor at work last night (her first at the new gig on a Friday evening) and no baseball or hockey on, I grasped at the straw that is MSNBC and watched about half an hour of Olbermann ranting about the Idiot Opposition. I couldn't take much more than that. This constant Republican horseshit- campaign workers filing false reports about Big Black Obama Campaigner attacking a white female McCain staffer; McCain's brother going apeshit on a 911 operator over a traffic jam; and Miss Congeniality herself mocking autism research at a uni in North Carolina (which she apparently thinks is in France) because, hey, yaknow, how could research on insects help sick kids when God made them on two separate days now, youbetcha?
My blood pressure was up to about 680 over 400 by the time I got through THAT one.
I know, it's all looking like these imbeciles will be retreating to obscurity in about a week, but what can I say? I follow Buffalo sports teams. If any city's people can predict an unexpected way of losing something, it's us.
Therefore, if only to keep tabs on who might even be reading these ephemeral posts anymore, I invite your input into the likeliest of ways the Dems will fuck this up. What last-minute snafu, or subterfuge, will cause those 1-to-15 point leads to evaporate between now and next week?
[Poll #1285075]
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Date: 2008-10-25 05:53 pm (UTC)Glad to have you on my FL.
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Date: 2008-10-25 09:38 pm (UTC)Add to poll: [] Courts discount all votes from PA and FA.
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Date: 2008-10-25 10:39 pm (UTC)After re-reading Karl Marx, everyone will figure out that Obama is a socialist?
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Date: 2008-10-25 10:50 pm (UTC)And after reading the Book of Acts in the Bible (which I doubt that wacky atheist Marx did all that much), I find this:
"And all those who had believed were together, and had all things in common; and they began selling their property and possessions, and were sharing them with all, as anyone might have need."
Somehow that verse never makes it into the red-state rants much.
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Date: 2008-10-25 11:42 pm (UTC)That's not socialism, certainly not in the Marxism style, because it's NOT a government or revolution. It's a bunch of believers, old and new, hanging out together in Jerusalem after the Day of Pentecost. Now, multiply that number into 300 million, add in different religions, nonbelievers, different races, different creeds, and the greed for the almighty dollar, turn the group into a nation, and then make that work. And oh, by the way, the Christians there were being charitable not FORCED into sharing by the government.
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Date: 2008-10-27 04:40 pm (UTC)