I have had, as you can undoubtedly guess, many conversations with friends regarding the things that are important to me during this election cycle. One of the things that I keep hearing from my friends who support McCain/Palin is there is seriously no way that Roe v. Wade will ever be overturned. That they cannot believe such a thing would ever happen. They seem shocked.

When I state that Palin opposes abortion in the cases of rape and incest, I’m told that I shouldn’t believe everything I read in blogs. People, start researching your candidates! I am not making this stuff up, bloggers aren’t making this stuff up.

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An old friend of mine sent me this gem this morning (I’ve been so wrapped up in crazyland I haven’t read the news in a few days):

“The Iraqi government is now calling for a timetable for the withdrawal of American troops, but the Bush administration is trying to downplay those calls despite a re-ignited debate on the presidential campaign trail.”

Can we just be decent world citizens and work with the Iraqi government on their terms? Better yet, someone give every single bastard in the current administration a blow job so we can fucking impeach them. Because, clearly, crimes against humanity don’t matter.

I would have loved to comment on this earlier, but I’ve been insanely busy. Not to mention, quite honestly, I wasn’t ready to comment on this. I couldn’t discuss it without getting emotional about it. I seriously think the only person who I have been able to talk to about this is the lovely GoddessDawn, because she felt as passionate, more passionate, about Hillary than I did.

At any rate, her speech was beautiful, and she remains to me an icon representing the potential of all women. 18 million cracks isn’t enough, but it’s a start.

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The AP is reporting record foreclosures for the first quarter of 2008. Ouch.

The President, who is so smart and stuff, declared June to be National Homeownership Month.

Srsly, I can’t even begin to comment on the monumental stupid.

From CNN:

Clinton, Obama put politics aside to discuss faith

*sigh*

Nope, I’m not disillusioned at all.

I get that people have various beliefs. I understand that faith is important to them. But I’m becoming ever so disenchanted with the notion that a person’s faith is more important in today’s political climate than a person’s track record, intelligence, and reasoning ability.

I can has non-denominational politics?

The most basic explanation ever of why Huckabee cannot be allowed to be the next Preznit Numbnuts:

Forget the pandering to the Religious Right. Forget the ignorant comments about Mormons (oh you fucking idiot, you really said that didn’t you?) Forget everything and go with common sense, of which he clearly has none.

And people seriously wonder why I hate his guts?

Representative Steve King (Repug-IA) is sponsoring this insanity:

H. Res. 847: Recognizing the importance of Christmas and the Christian faith

First Amendment, motherfucker!

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

Treaty of Tripoli, bitch!

Article 11: “As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.”

Who elects these assholes? Seriously, own up to it, because I’m coming to your house and kicking your fucking ass.

So I’m sitting here pulling my hair out, staring at the clock, wondering if it’s time to go yet.

Alas, and woe is me, not yet.

*drama*

PS:  Unrelated - Get educated on the articles of impeachment introduced by Kucinich here and here.  Hey, it made me giggle

Suffering from extreme foot-in-mouth disease, Joe Biden (Deleware) attempts to survive his own idiocy and make a bid for the Democratic nomination.  In an attempt to prove that extreme conservatives aren’t the only racist assholes, Joe described Barack Obama as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”

Wow.  You go, Joe.  Stupid fuck.

It’s that time of year kids!  Time for the annual SOTU Drinking Game!  Festivities will begin at 9:00 pm EST.

You can find rules for the game at http://www.drinkinggame.us/.  If you have any suggestions for tonight’s game that aren’t listed in the online rules, drop them in the comments, along with what you plan on playing with (oh gawd, keep it clean you perverts, I meant what you plan on drinking… sheesh.)