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Just days away.

Days.

And, as an air of guarded hope begins to settle upon the heavy shoulders of so many of us here in America, my heart is stirred just a little, just enough. Enough to recapture that feeling shared by My Friend Todd and myself when we watched the election results unfold on our TV as we ate pizza, drank beer, and high-fived to the announcement of every state that aligned with Bill Clinton.

The closer we get to Tuesday, the more I hope, and the more I fear. There's still the chance of another "terrorist attack" that will change everything. I can't imagine that the Fascists would let the power they've usurped and built over the past eight years just slip through their fingers without a fight of some sort, or a ploy to rig the outcome of the People's Will.

I can't believe we're so close to finally getting rid of that cock-eyed tyrant who has held our country hostage for so long.

All I can do is hope that it comes to pass, that Barack Obama will bring some sanity and grace back to this depressed land and her people. I hope that his presidency will persuade the world that Americans aren't a pack of single-minded, Redneck knuckle-draggers and that we're deserving of forgiveness for the transgressions of our so-called leaders. Another hope of mine is that Mr. Obama doesn't follow too closely in the footsteps of JFK, and get himself killed by the Republicans. It's difficult for me to imagine the America we would be living in today, had JFK not been assassinated. I don't think the face of the country would be recognisable. I'm certain it'd have a much happier expression than it does right now. Hopefully, Barack Obama can do something to change it, if left alone by the Fascists to do the job the people want him to do.

Although I'm probably preaching to the choir, I feel it needs to be said. Come Tuesday, go vote. So what if there's a long line and an even longer wait. Can you wait four more years to try to change what will probably be irreversible by then? No. Put in your time and cast your ballot. Even if you're not wanting to vote for anyone, just consider it a vote against the least likely candidate. Just vote. Vote as if your life depends on it because, really, it may just, at least your way of life. Don't let the Fascists and their Dominionist cronies keep us all under their thumb any longer. Eight years is enough. Too much. If the voting isn't rigged, let your voice be heard.

I'm begging you.

Mood: cold
Where? home
Music: Clannad - Why Worry?

For Barack Obama, Joe Biden, all the local Democrats (all THREE of them!), as well as Ren Hoek, Caspar the Ghost, Space Ghost, Bugs Bunny (always a poll fave!), and myself, because I couldn't think of any other Toons at that particular moment and I just wanted to see "Tinhuviel" on the ballot. HA!

So let me explain. Aunt Tudi gets to vote absentee because she's disabled. We found out the last time I took her to vote that I can vote as well, because I bring Aunt Tudi to vote. Today was the day. We had to wait about two hours to vote because the lines were so long, but you could feel the energy of determination in the room. As much as I hate it, I also love an election year, especially when so much is at stake. So why did I end up voting for so many cartoon characters, including myself, when this is a Very Serious Election?

It's like this. This is a devastatingly RED state, which means that there were many offices where you had the choice of voting for the incumbent ~~Fascist~~ Republican, or write in your vote. I would rather lick a cheese grater than to vote for a Republican, even if he's running for the office of Yankee Stadium toilet cleaner, which is still too much of a responsibility for anyone Right-leaning. Not that I'm comfortable sitting on a public toilet, but I'd be a little more distrustful of a toilet that had been cleaned by a fucking Nazi, if it had been cleaned at all. So I wrote in my votes in the appropriate sections. That meant I had to call on some old pals like Space Ghost and Bugs. At least I can honestly say that I didn't vote for a single Republican, even by choosing not to vote because I had no choice.

It's moments like that that make me think I should run for some sort of office. At least, then, others like myself wouldn't be presented with the choice of "Stormtrooper" or "Write-In." It'd be worth a shot. So, what do you think?

[Poll #1284042]

Mood: okay
Where? home
Music: Frankie Valli - Grease

There's a reason why the movie W. is being released so close to Hallowe'en: it's a freakin' horror movie. And what makes it even scarier is that it's based on a true story. Dubya will end up in the ranks of horror movie monsters like Freddy Kreuger, Jason Vorhees, and Pinhead. I can see it happening. He's been scaring the hell out of me for the past eight years.

Attention all you crazy Russian serial frienders: I don't mind you're friending me. Hell, I'd friend you back if you'd just pop onto the ole blog and tell me you've friended me and introduce yourself! But I don't like being part of some bizarre online competition. So, if that's why you friended me, please defriend me and move along. No harm, no foul. If that's not what you're doing, just let me know and I'll friend you back because I dig people on a certain level despite my rabid misanthropy. I especially like Europeans and I've always been quite fond of Russians, Czechs, and Poles. Slavs in general are of particular interest to me and I've actually tried to teach myself Russian and Czech. That was about twenty years ago, which means I remember none of what I taught myself. That said, I can't understand a word you write in your journal, but that's okay. If you're a legitimate friender, I'll friend you back and enjoy the Cyrillic appearing on my Friends Page. It may prompt me to try to learn Russian again!

I've decided to not return to the bakery. I'm thinking that Teresa is trying to "punish" me by not giving me any hours this week. Actually, even though I needed those hours, I've had a wonderful weekend, thanks to Teresa's so-called punishment. And her actions stirred within me the last vestige of pride that I possess and that the Man has yet to successfully beat down. I'm no longer a bakery slave! When/If Teresa calls to let me know she finally "needs" me to come back to work, I'm going to inform her that I'm no longer available to work in the bakery and that I'm going to do to her what she did to me. And I'm going to hang up on her. I've already told Tami that I'll be available to work more hours at the Dollar General. When I go in to work on Tuesday, I'm supposed to write down what days and times I'll be available for work. It's gonna be difficult not having that third job, but we'll make it somehow and I'll be saving what little pride I have left so that I can continue to partially hold my head up in this Corporate/Fascist state that's keen on eradicating any capacity for thought and self-preservation its consumers may possess. By the grace of the Goddess and God, I will persevere!
clumsycake is having a hell of a time trying to find a surgeon who will help her with her bladder problem. Since she has no insurance, she's trying to go through some charity organisations to try to get her surgery. The problem she's having is that tacking up a woman's bladder is considered an "elective" surgery, which means anyone who needs the surgery has to grovel in the gravel to maybe get it down the road. clumsycake is in pain and can't function because of her dropped bladder, yet the powers that be have decreed that her condition isn't that serious and should therefore be treated as an elective situation, if it's treated at all. She has an appointment with a doctor on Tuesday, after speaking with an Ask-a-Nurse nurse, who directed her to Regenesis. Maybe she'll be able to get the help she desperately needs. This is America's health care in action! Stay tuned here for more riveting updates on clumsycake's fearless sojourn into the dreadful quagmire of the US health care system.

There's something coming on the History Channel at 10PM which is what I'd called Must See TV. It's called Last Days on Earth. If you're even remotely sympathetic to my Alpaca Liptic message here on The Cliffs of Insanity, then you need to get thee hence and enjoy this Feel-Good Television.

I've decided that, the next time one of my animal companions finds themselves needing a "lamp shade" around their heads, I'm going to request the largest lamp shade available. Then I'm going to cut it into a daisy shape and paint it purple. Then I'd place this godawful thing on my unfortunate animal friend and promptly take pictures. I'm hoping that my animal friend would look like this:
I think Riley would be the perfect candidate for this dandy pictorial project.

Smidgen is exhibiting something I like to call the Feline Autumn Heebie-Jeebies. When she takes herself outside for any length of time, after she comes in, she has huge pupils and she runs about like a crack whore who's on a particularly festive high. Riley and Motley get the brunt of her FAHJ. Smidgen stalks both of them and just gets the greatest pleasure when she manages a smack on the sly. I'm hoping I can get her on film, walking on her hind legs, her arms in the air, and her eyes black as night. I've noticed that many cats succumb to the Feline Autumn Heebie-Jeebies. The change in the air seems to affect most cats, making them celebrate life to the fullest of their feline abilities. This means that someone is going to suffer and someone else will be amused by their moments of suffering. And the wheel keeps turning....

Mood: irritated
Where? home
Music: Patrick Hernandez - Born to Be Alive

We can't let them get away with one of their clichéd manœvres this time. Don't let one little dinky ploy get past our necessarily constant and sharp vigil Go do this or I'll kick you in the virtual privates.

PBS is doing one of those instant online polls to ask America" if they think Sarah Palin is fit to be Vice President.

The GOP has launched a successful all out blitz to get Republicans to go on the site and click "Yes". As a result right now it looks like 62% of "America" thinks Palin is qualified. The Republicans are going to be milking this for all its worth in their press efforts.

We need to drive more Democrats and those opposed to Palin to the site to click "NO". Let's not give the GOP another easy weapon to put in their PR arsenal!

Here's the link:

http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html

You don't have to enter your email address or anything, just click "NO" and forward to family and friends!

NO Way, NO How, NO McCain, NO Palin!

This was forwarded to me by My Friend Todd. Please pass it on to your friends, family, and loved ones.

Mood: determined
Where? home
Music: Shriekback - Sexthinkone

Is it wrong of me to wish that the Earth would open up right under the site of the Republican National Convention and swallow several hundred of the most evil fucking monsters ever to be born on this planet? 'Cos that's what I've been wishing for, for the past 48 hours actually.

Mood: contemptuous
Where? home
Music: The KLF - Last Train To Trancentral (LP Mix)

So Hillary didn't get the nomination. So what? I've always liked Hillary Clinton. I admire her smarts and, yes, her cunning. She's a Liberal Sith. But Barack Obama was chosen by the party to run against the Crypt Keeper and his animal-killing beauty queen, and I'm fine with that. I like Barack too. He's not as Sithly, but that's okay. I'm fine with that too. I will support anyone running against the Conservatives, whether it's Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, or Smidgen. And, trust me, Smidgen would run against the Conservatives, and probably win, because Smidgen is Smidgen and she rocks like no other Earthling.

But back to serious, if not superficial, politics. I know a lot of people are unhappy about Hillary not even getting the VP nomination and are thinking about jumping ship because of it, but that's absolutely crazy and stupid, in my opinion. What are you saying, that you'd rather have yet another Republican controlling things for four more years than have a Democrat other than Hillary Clinton? If people aren't willing to compromise, then we deserve whatever horrors are in store for us if the worst happens and Dubya passes his iron hammer onto another right wing asshole.

I know there's the argument that Barack Obama doesn't have much experience, but maybe that's exactly what we need, someone who hasn't been in Washington DC for so long that the job would be business as usual and nothing would get done. We might do tons better with a president who is not yet jaded by our corrupt political system. My only concern is that Mr. Obama will be blown away before he can do some of the things he wants to do. He sounds and acts an awful lot like John and Robert Kennedy, and we all know what happened to them. If the Neocons can't cheat their way into power, they aren't above killing to usurp the positions they want. Don't think it can't happen again. If they can pull off 9/11, they can do anything. My only hope is that Barack is protected enough.

The last time I voted for a president was in 1996, when I voted for Bill Clinton the second time around. I was never so passionate about Al Gore or, especially, John Kerry. I cast my ballot in 2000 and 2004, but I was voting against Dubya more than I was voting for the Democratic candidate. This time around, though, I will be voting for someone again. Even though I was a Hillary supporter, I'm quite happy to vote for Barack Obama. I'm excited about the prospect of the nation in which I live being redeemed from the sins committed by our present Führer. I may even go so far as to say I harbour a wee bit of hope that things may be turned around, at least a little, in the capable hands of Mr. Obama. If he's smart, he'll tap Hillary for a cabinet position. If he doesn't, though, I'm not going to grouse over it.

I'll just be happy to see that bastard Dubya and his evil henchmen gone from DC and the collective backs of the world.

Mood: contemplative
Where? home
Music: Dave Matthews Band - Old Dirt Hill (Bring That Beat Back)

If there is an attack, the country will be battened down tight by the administration. It will become a dictatorship, and will remain so until the terrorists are defeated.

But they will never be defeated.

Mood: cynical
Music: "Doomsday: Book of Revelation" on NGEO

I got in the mail yesterday the miniseries V and V: The Final Battle. At the beginning of each installment of the first miniseries is this dedication:

To the heroism of the
Resistance Fighters
--past, present, and future--
this work is respectfully
dedicated

These movies would never be made in today's political climate, especially carrying such a dedication. It's like sending out a salute to the Iraqi insurgents. The message of V is a bit heavy-handed at times, but I think a big slap in the face is exactly what we all need right about now.

It's like I always said, whether or not you're dubbed a terrorist depends on which side you're on. Americans who don't see this now are either blind, stupid, or have a vested interest in the current administration's totalitarian policies.

Mood: cynical
Music: V: The Final Battle

Before I journal about the activities and special moments of yesterday's trip to Asheville, I have to rant. What I have to say my offend some people, especially some women, so I'll put a cut here to spare folks who care not to go any further.

Also, to rape victims, this may be triggery, so please go no further.....unless you are a Right Wing idiot who is anti-choice.

( women's rights and which women deserve them )

Mood: enraged
Music: Oingo Boingo "Only a Lad'

Our Esteemed Fuhrer is making his speech tonight, attempting to convince those of us with brains that all is well while, at the same time, doing the Arsenio Hall "hoo hoo hoo!" to his Right Wing Dominionist cronies over the complete takeover of what was once a relatively decent nation. Sure, America has always had its problems (that's why I've identified as an expatriate since the early 80s), but what country doesn't? But now......now it's like a bad joke using all the longtime threats of Fascism known to anyone who has ever read 1984. Yeah, I'm a little disillusioned, bitter, and generally surly about the whole situation and am praying ever more fervently for the Alpaca Lips to come and reset the Order of Things.

So. The State of the Bunion that was once a Union, but is now a mere achy callous on the tender toes of Mother Earth....

We are continuing to assert our status of Collective Ugly American around the world by enforcing torture, illegal imprisonment, and warcraft without good reason.

Our Blue Hairs (Senior Citizens) are being driven slowly mad from trying to figure out their new Doublespeak Prescription Plan. Many are going without medicines that help save their lives. Now I'm all for keeping these menaces off the roads, but going about it like this is just cruel and unusual.

The Supreme Court has been tipped in favour of the likes of Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. I've heard that Sam Alito is rereading The Handmaid's Tale to jazz up his spirit for his new position while all women of childbearing age should be practicing their new position in our happy little Right Wing Dictatorship.

Civil Rights takes another blow by losing Coretta Scott King as the young people of today are oblivious to the social ramifications presented by the Sixties. Young people are unaware that the Right Wing sabotaged what should have been the dawning of the Age of Aquarius by filtering addictive substances into pods of the Resistance, turning these hopeful revolutionaries into wraiths and turning the movement into a joke. Not to mention their killing Kennedy and Mrs. King's husband, Martin Luther. See where it's all gotten us?

Factory farming is still a fact.

The devastation of logging is still a fact.

Factories continue to belch filth into the air while individual smokers get blamed for causing cancer. Brilliant!

Women continue to die from ovarian cancer while scientists work tirelessly to create a new anti-impotence drug or figure out some way to stop and/or reverse male pattern baldness.

Our schools are being hijacked into teaching Creationism under the guise of Intelligent Design. Doesn't anyone find it funny that we were supposedly created via Intelligent Design, but we're being led by a barely evolved primate possessed by Legion? And we thought Legion only picked on swine. Silly us.

Reality TV is still holding the majority of the televiewing American public hostage while it perpetually sucks out our brains like the lifeforce being pulled out of Podlings by hungry Skeksis. I've come to believe that this is the main purpose of Reality TV, to do just that so we won't have the ability to fight back in any real capacity, just like the Podling zombies. Am I comparing the current administration to a pack of husk-dry Skeksis? Why, yes, I think I am.

Unemployment has reached ridiculous levels while we're being told on the news that the economy is going great and jobs are being created every day.

More people are losing health insurance every day while healthcare prices continue to rise at an exponential rate.

More people are dependent on drugs, particularly anti-anxiety and depression drugs, but we're being assured that life is great.

It's rumoured that America won't see it's Tricentennial, but would that really be a big loss now?

Okay, that's my State of the Bunion. More honest and, hopefully, more entertaining that Dubya's upcoming expulsion of vomit-inspiring lies. May he, his puppet-masters, and all of his cronies rot in the most stinking bowel of hell there is. Amen and Hallelujah.

Mood: predatory
Music: King of Queens