To all of the Obama supporters out there,

We worked hard, we worked our asses off…

And we did it.

Yes, we can.

Yes, we WILL.

My love, my hope, my belief,

Sabre

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 zdnet comes an interesting conundrum.

A man takes his computer to Circuit City to have them install a DVD burner. While the techs are testing it, they find what appears to be child pornography on his hard drive and turn him in. The cops come, seize the computer as evidence, and when the customer returns, they arrest him.

Okay, what complete tool needs Circuit City to install new hardware? That’s just sad. But, whatever, that’s not really the issue.

Naturally, child pornography makes me want to burn holes in somebody’s face. But did said tool have an expectation of privacy? Did the techs at Circuit City have the right to pilfer through his files?

Because of the nature of the files, of course I want to see this tool be prosecuted. But I’m struggling with the privacy issue. Do we have an expectation of privacy when we bring our computers in to be repaired?

I guess the bigger question for me is would I be less conflicted and leaning more towards the expectation of privacy if the videos found were considered “unpatriotic” instead of child porn.

Discuss.

Is it wrong that this article made me laugh so hard I snorted water out of my nose?

A Cincinnati-area family got a smelly surprise when they opened a punching bag they purchased earlier this year.

Joe Heckel said he and his son were moving a TKO brand heavy punching bag from their garage to the basement when they decided to see what was inside in case the bag later leaked. But Heckel said that instead of sand or plastic pellets, he found the bag full of men’s and women’s underwear, some of it used.

*sigh*

I’m going to straight to hell, I just know it.

From CNN.com:

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — Former Vice President Al Gore’s upscale neighborhood granted the environmental activist approval Tuesday to install 33 solar panels on the roof of his mansion.

The city of Belle Meade, Tennessee, had blocked his application until new rules were approved unanimously late Tuesday, said Gore spokesman Chris Song. The city, located within metropolitan Nashville, said the panels must be placed in areas where they can’t be seen by neighbors.

Gore, who starred in the documentary film “An Inconvenient Truth” about global warming, already buys enough energy from renewable energy sources such as solar, wind and methane gas to balance 100 percent of his electricity costs.

He is also upgrading the furnace, windows, and light switches, as well as installing new floor radiant heat and solar vents, to improve the home’s energy standards, said Kalee Kreider, a Gore spokeswoman.

The home, bought by Gore in 2002, is more than 70 years old and illustrates the challenges of renovating an older home to conserve more energy, Kreider said.

“It’s obviously easier to build a green home from the get-go,” she said. “When you purchase an older home, these retrofits take a lot longer.”

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.

Last night breast cancer scored another victory.  Molly Ivins, one of my favorite political columnists, lost the battle.

There have been many wonderful things said about her today, so I’m not going to make you sit here and read anything terribly sentimental.  She was smart, funny, and most importantly, she got it.

She will be missed.

Unless, of course, it’s Christmas weekend, the expected dollar amount is more than $400k, and the bomb threat isn’t specific.

The store received a call at 2:10 p.m. from a male who said a bomb was there. Lyndon Overweg, Mitchell public safety chief, said the caller did not go into specific details.

The SWAT team was dispatched, along with many officers to help clear out the store.

Overweg said police recommended the store be evacuated to allow SWAT team and other officers to search the building. But Wal-Mart opted not to, he said.

“We look at it from a public safety standpoint,” Overweg said. “How they approach their issue, you’ll have to talk to them.”

Wal-Mart District Manager Steve Hanselman in Sioux Falls said Wednesday night that Wal-Mart would never put its customers or employees’ safety at risk. He said the decision to keep the store open was not based on Saturday’s six-figure sales number.
“What is most important to our associates is their safety,” he said. “Myself, Wal-Mart and city officials came to the decision that it was a hoax.”

Nice to know that Wal-Mart and “city officials” have better insight to these here bomb threat thingies than the po-po. Thank gawd for their wisdom! Someone might have missed out on the low low low price of stocking stuffers!

Fuckers.