Time passages

There's nothing like progress.

Dolls and bread we can believe in

The other day on one of my many trips to Lowe's I found this under the windshield wiper of our car when I came back out after buying supplies:
I'm guessing someone saw our Obama '08 bumper sticker and that's why they gave us these cheesy cheap Obama dolls. Here's a close up of them, I love Michelle's blue eye shadow:
Sparky had a snow day today, her office was closed due to the snow and cold so she decided to bake some bread. She made the dough and it rose as we watched Barack Obama become our 44th President. After the dough was risen and Obama was sworn in and gave his speech, she made this in honor of this historic day:
Mmmmmm, fresh baked bread we can believe in. Oh happy day!

Don't let the door hit your lying, theiving, greedy, mudering ass on the way out you scum bag

Idiot W. Bush is no longer the President of this country.
And Darth Cheney is gone from the White House as well.

Hallelujah!

Let the historical judgement of the most hated President and Vice President ever begin.

My snow prayers were finally answered

The bitter cold left the area over the past few days and snow has moved in. That's right kids, we finally had a measurable snow fall here in my fair city. This was the view out our front door this morning:

The Sparkymobile was covered as well:

But thankfully even though we had about two inches of snow the roads were only a bit slushy and I got out to the pharmacy and to the grocery store where I procured not only milk but also a 12 pack of Beck's and some other things.

With the snow came strange visitors. Here's a couple pictures of them:

I made neither of those because I was far too busy with more important endeavors such as reading your blogs, playing spades on Yahoo, and shoveling the driveway and sidewalk. Sparky, who had the day off in observance of the MLK holiday, hates the cold, she complains when the temperature outside drops below 70, and she hates the snow but I managed to get her out for an invigorating walk in the weather earlier this afternoon. Some of the sights we saw were these:

A lion in winter:

A victim of cabin fever or changing taste:
Stately homes:And snow covered trees:

The snow continues to fall and we may get another inch out of it which will mean that all the schools around here will be closed tomorrow and that means that the school children can watch the Bush era end with a whimper and the Obama era begin with a huge sigh of relief. I know I'll break my rule against watching day time TV through the week and I'll keep my TV tuned to Obama's historic inauguration. Hopefully the snow will continue to fall as a competent adult finally takes the reins of power.

Starting the new year out right

An old girlfriend who I had a bad break up with contacted me via Facebook yesterday. We were total opposites and it showed through out our brief relationship. We parted on bad terms and I was perfectly willing to go the rest of my life with out hearing from the cheatin' lyin' bitch ever again, but there she was contacting me via Facebook. She sent me a message that said something to the effect of, "Oh golly, it's been a long time since we talked so everything between us must be cool. So will you please be my friend on Facebook?"

I sent her back the following message, "Oh hey, how about that. You finally got the internet in the trailer park where you live. Good for you."


Now she doesn't want to be my Facebook friend anymore.

Let's give credit where credit is due

I've noticed on some of the more angrier right wing blogs, and I'm sad to say on a few progressive blogs as well, that people are claiming that if the economy wasn't tanking that McCain and Obama would be in a dead heat or that McCain would be winning.
To steal a phrase from a grumpy old fart, my friends, that theory is bullshit. If the economy wasn't tanking the hatred of the endless war in Iraq would be more of an issue, the lack of health care for all Americans would be a bigger issue, the reckless frat boy foreign policy of Bush Jr. would be a bigger issue, the ever widening gap between the haves and the have nots would be a bigger issue, as would the privatization of essential governmental services and the insidious and ever growing influence of corporations in our lives. People have finally learned that you can't let men and women who say they hate government run government.

People have had it with conservatives, the Bush crime family, and with the sanctimonious morally bankrupt religious prigs that the Republican party has become. American politics runs in cycles, take an objective look at the history of our political system and you'll see it, and the cycle of deregulation at all costs, and of conservative Republican rule has come to an end.

And because these two greedy bloodthirsty war criminals are in charge of the Republican party, their reign ends with a whimper, not with a bang.

Goodbye and good riddance

Hey you Hillary supporters who refuse to get behind Sen. Obama and who are threatening to leave the Democratic party now, please allow me to show you the door. And when you go through it, don't let it hit your ass on the way out.

A bigger bunch of whiny selfish ingrates have never ever walked the earth. After it became clear the Sen. Obama had wrapped up the nomination, after Sen. Clinton told her supporters that she is behind Obama and they should be too, and after one of Clinton's biggest supporters in the blogosphere, Taylor Marsh, said she was going to back Obama in order to show her support for Hillary and the Democratic party, a tiny vocal minority still refuses to get in the big tent and get behind Obama. Here's the facts for you delusional whiners:

• Obama is going to be the nominee.
• Hillary has made her peace with it.
  
• The Obama campaign has the backing of millions of diverse people across this country and he's gaining more ever day.

But you know what? This country still has a modicum of freedom and you can vote for who you like, or you can choose not to vote. It's up to you. You can vote for McCain and get what you've gotten the past 7 years and possibly worse. Or you can vote for Ralph Nader, and if we're being honest here Ralph has done more to make our lives safer and better than any major party politician ever did, including Obama and Clinton. Or you can vote for Cynthia McKinney, who by the way I really admire for her willingness to speak truth to power. Or you can vote for Bob Barr, the flip flopping Libertarian candidate who wants to take us back to the '70's, the 1770's. Or you can vote for anyone else on the ballot in your state. But if McCain somehow wins and his anti female and anti middle and working class tendencies take over and we all get shafted yet again, don't you dare bitch and moan.

The fact is now that the only candidate in the race with any realistic chance of getting elected who will do the most good for the biggest amount of people in this country is Barack Obama. Was the primary fight long and bloody? Yes. Were things said that hurt your feelings? Yes. Were some in the media sexist? Yes. Is it time to get over the loss of your candidate and come together to work for the person who is going to do the most good for the biggest amount of people? Hell yes.

So to the whiners like the person who had the gall to blog under the name "The Divine Democrat" (from her comments that I've seen on other blogs, she's neither of those things) and the people who claim that Obama's position on gay marriage (which by the way is identical to Hillary Clinton's) should somehow knock him out of getting the nomination and the delusional people who claim that Obama is just like George Bush, you all need to know that when this manbecomes our next President, he'll be the President of all the citizens of the United States of America, and not just the President of the rich white people like George Bush is. You may not ever vote for him but he'll work for you just the same.

And here's one final thing you bitter political naifs need to know, your votes won't be missed if you don't vote for Obama because his team is out building a country wide organization and they are organizing block by block and they are registering thousands upon thousands of new voters who will more than make up for you. So you people can stay pissed off and you can keep writing delusional blog posts and you can leave the Democratic party en masse for all I care, because the plain and simple truth is you are going to be left behind when the Obama tsunami hits this country come November.