Cagey voters

The corporate media pundits told us that this was the year that incumbents were going down like a meth crazed evangelical minister at a gloryhole. Turns out they were wrong again. All incumbents who faced a primary challenge won, except for one, and he lost because he was a flat out idiot.

Voters in California nominated Carly Fiorina, seen here auditioning for a role in the female version of Bent,
to run against Barbra Boxer in the US Senate race. If Carly wins in November it would serve the voters of California right if she did to their state what she did to the last company she was in charge of. (She ran Hewlett Packard into the ground and it's stock dropped like a rock while she mismanaged it.

Also in California Meg Ebay won the Republican gubernatorial nomination. Of course she voted for herself, and this was the first ever ballot she ever cast. Previously, she maintained that only 'the little people' bothered to vote. If she doesn't squander the rest of her fortune in the upcoming election maybe she can use what's left to help balance her state's budget, you know like Arnold Schwarzenegger's doing.

And finally Blanche Lincoln, the US Senator from Wal-Mart/Tyson Foods, held off a stiff challenge in her primary in Arkansas. Rural voters preferred her rival so somehow she managed to get a bunch of polling places in the rural counties, which is pretty much the entire state of Arkansas, shut down. And being the gracious winner that she is, she immediately criticized the labor unions and outside interest groups that back her opponent. She did so while taking a bath in cash she got from oil companies, Wal-Mart, and other corporations. Blanche believes in taking cash only from corporations because it's easier for her to do their bidding. If she took money from labor unions, then she might have to actually do something for the working people of Arkansas and the USA.

Oh yeah Blanche, those working folks of Arkansas have a message for you, they want to show you how you are still number one in their hearts:
I share that sentiment too.

Things I learned from watching a Hammer horror movie

I picked this DVD up at Big Lots for $3 the other day:I finally finished watching it last night. I learned some very important lessons from it and they are:

• If someone has to ask if the thing they are doing is dangerous, it most likely is.
• If someone asks if something is dangerous and the person they ask assures them it's not dangerous, then the activity they are engaging in is highly dangerous and most likely will result in one or more deaths.
  
• Man made monsters always go after hot women.
• Never make friends with doctors named Frankenstein, Franck, or Stein.
• Never give a fancy dress party where women get all gussied up and wear gowns and jewels and classical musicians play because man made monsters love to crash parties where women get all gussied up and wear gowns and jewels and classical musicians play.
• Never trust the hired help to keep secrets, especially ones who refuse to bathe.
• If a mad scientist dies, make sure you destroy his brain.
  
• All man made monsters are cannibals and they have a problem with drooling.

If you learn from the mistakes people made in Hammer horror films and chances are you'll live a long and happy life.