Well Another Year

No I Don't Want To And You're Not Going To Make Me

Rainbird came home and asked what was for dinner tonight, I told him maybe chicken wings. He said no, he wanted to eat something more than that, "Something meaty". I told him everything was frozen so he screamed that I should "Take Something Out!" I screamed back that I hadn't thought about it and he said that I should "make a fucking menu for the week."

I screamed back at him, "I don't want to." He retorted, "Why, afraid of being organized?" I looked at him, blinked several times and screamed even louder, "You don't live in a FUCKING HOTEL," then I continued, "your clothes are washed, meals prepared, house cleaned, sheets changed but it's still NOT A FUCKING HOTEL!"

I think I won this round.

Brief News

Today is my birthday

Does one fucking person in this house remember? Tonight I have to go to a fucking cocktail party and I'd just as soon claw my eyes out than go to this.

The two idiots are tying the knot in Rome this weekend…at least that's what every NEWS station is reporting…as if I really give a shit, nor do I care about what they get as wedding gifts, or how difficult they are to buy for. At least we didn't have to wait until his next movie comes out but we did have to wait until it came out on video.

OJ has penned a book. No, it's not a bunch of Neanderthal scribbles and pictures; I'm told it has words and sentences. Its all about "if" he did kill his ex-wife, Nicole and Ron Goldman how he would have done it. This idea is disturbing on many levels, one being what the fuck is this "if" shit. Everyone except for 12 idiots in LA (which explains why) pretty much knew he did it. He's always been a jackass to the Goldman family…but to do this? For personal gain? This was a woman he was married to, and thought enough at one time to share his life with, and have babies with. This is what you do to someone that at one time you cared about? You write a book about "if" you had committed their murder, this is how you would have done it? This is a man with no honor or sense of reality, and that somehow people are still drawn to him for some reason, is a mystery and not understood by me. So, not only is he not convicted of a crime, but also he never has to pay the families he's hurt because he hides his money behind his children, and he gets to write a book, rubbing their faces into it! On what planet is this right? What kind of sociopath publisher would encourage such a thing?

This man is clearly a coward and the book needs to go away, along with him.

I'll be back next week to report on Thanksgiving preparations and general hell.

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Shifting Sands

United We Stand?

Two years ago George W Bush stood before the American people and acknowledged that our country was divided and he would do his best to unite us. Ironically, it was basically the same thing he said 4 years earlier at his State of the Union address--before 9-11. The obvious painful truth is that he wasn't interested in uniting or healing our country as long as his side was running it.

Now in what I find to be a complete shift in irony the Republicans are saying that our country is divided. As though before it wasn't really that divided because they were in control? The previous question is completely rhetorical and you're free not to answer it. Donald Rumsfeld resigned immediately after learning the Democrats had taken the House of Representatives. I'm not sure how I feel about it either, I mean it just seems a little chicken shit to me. I loved the half assed answers the man would provide to direct not so complex questions, it provided much comic relief for me and I didn't have to watch the Daily Show. All I had to do was watch C-Span.

Of course Republicans are talking about a divided America when they aren't talking about how our country isn't as safe as it was last week. I'm sorry but if a group of people decides they must win by making the rest of us feel unsafe, I'm not too sure I want them around much.

When I heard the news that the Democrats had taken the House I wasn't entirely surprised, the Bushwhackers had been saying there would be no changes. We all know from watching Survivor or Big Brother that one with the biggest mouth, at the end of day is the one caught in a shake up or sent home. I understand that the lead isn't so great that I have to really worry about Barbara Streisand setting policy anytime soon. That said, when I heard the Democrats had taken control of the Senate, I was taken slightly aback. I knew it would be close but found myself gobsmacked at how thoroughly pissed off people obviously are with Iraq. Regardless of what Republicans are saying I can assure you it wasn't the recent scandals that turned off voters. After the Catholic Priests, Boy Scouts, Enron, Tyco, Any Oil Company and Martha Stewart, we're all a little numb to scandal and have come to expect some form of scandal from our leaders. Be it in the form of running past security, or getting involved in a DWI. I think most issues will be nonissues, with the huge exception of Illegal Immigration and that does have me a little worried, but I'm trying not to let it dampen my obtimism, because I am hopeful.

When Clinton was impeached, I didn't care much for the reason, after all Ken Starr was supposed to be investigating White Water, not Monica Lewinsky. It doesn't take much to figure out what goes around comes around. I said it again when the Dems made a fucking fuss over Al Gore in 2000 and walked around for months afterward saying they were robbed. Get over it.

I'll admit I like an evenly matched Senate because it forces them to come together, a close house would likely do the same. I also like having one party in the Presidency and the other not so strongly controlling congress because it makes everyone carefully choose their battles. I think it makes for better laws, and reminds all in government that ultimately they really do work for all of us.

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