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Happy Halloween to one and all, and Happy Birthday to one Frank Iero :D I know I won't be the only one eagerly awaiting the return of the normal blue header tomorrow morning.

(btw, idc if anyone reads the rest of this post, but, please comment so I can see if I've succeeded in fixing my formatting? i.e., it shows up in your flist?)

School and work are still eating me alive D: I felt like a zombie today (fitting, considering the holiday) and I was pretty much ready to take a faceplant once I got home (which I did. conked out for two hours, just enough for me to wake up and get my daily dose of Keith ^__^) But it was pretty much worth it to because I got to see Jon being a gigantic Obama fanboy, and that makes me happeh <3 AND, AND, there were tiny children in the store today, all dressed up ♥ Little Tiggers and Buzz Lightyears and Alices omgggggg

I'm really, really looking forward to this election season wrapping up. I...can't really express exactly how tired I am of the whining and the GOP's perpetual state of delusion (and I find myself wishing Obama would be a teeeeeeny bit more aggressive so we can have some more snarky pwnage, but I suppose it's best left to Stewart & Colbert) and I just want it to be over. In essence, it is already, since, I believe, the only reason McCain could POSSIBLY pull this out of his ass is if there's some Election 2000-esque shenanigans. Democrats have already got a jump on that, with Obama mobilizing lawyers in key swing states to investigate matters of voter fraud, disenfranchisement, and voter suppression, but it's still happening and we still need to fight it. Get out there and vote, people.

Heard the Doctor Who news a couple days ago, and yes, I'm really depressed about it D: Peter may be my favorite Doctor, but Tennant is truly in a league of his own, and he launched the role into a fresh, wonderful area that I fear might not be reached again. I have every confidence that the next one will be a fantastic Doctor, but he won't be David.

( And now, picspammage! in the TARDIS )

And on a final, random note, Coldplay. Yeah, I know, but even if you don't like Coldplay AT ALL, watch this plz.

Chris Martin does his best to be Geeway, fails, but is still damn entertaining:

Srsly, wtf is up with the Black Parade-esque jackets? Why is there a tv by his piano? And, me being only a recent convert, there is WAY more onstage energy coming out of Chris than I thought there'd be O__O

Have I mentioned that I fucking love Coldplay? Because I do.

Nighty night.

lol, my lappy won't load the

mccainpalin_08 comm. My hatred of their campaign has rubbed off onto TECHNOLOGY ITSELF. Where am I to get my lulz now?

"Too often, journalists concerned about being labeled biased work to create balance where there is none."
-Kai Wright

Anderson Cooper, I'm looking at you :|

-Tweety was a lot fluffier about McCain's "I know how to catch Osama bin Laden" schtick than Keith was. Keith was not. amused. by McCain's tactics.

-Joey Scars is filling in for David Gregory today; despite his Republicanness and the narcissistic douche factor, I like him O__o It helps that he is the biggest J. Stew/Colbert fanboy ever.

-I think this may be the first time I've actually liked Sarah Silverman, and it's not just Keith's awesomeness rubbing off on her O__o

-"Not a liberal!" gosh, Rachel's the cutest ever ^__^

-aaaaand I have a reason to watch Leno tonight

omg why is Keith reprising his performance of that creepy Republican dude who probably masturbated watching Palin at the debate? Stop it, Olby. Stop.

Seriously, just. What?

In an upcoming interview with Katie Couric to be aired this week, Sarah Palin is unable to name any Supreme Court Case other than Roe v. Wade.

The Rules: Post info about ONE Supreme Court decision, modern or historic, to your lj. (Any decision, as long as it's not Roe v. Wade.) Flisters, please take the meme to your ElJay to spread the fun.

Going for a srs bsns case, and two years out of the last American Government class I've taken, I'm going with Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which dissolved the "separate but equal" rule, overturning the ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson.

The bare bones history of this is that in Plessy, the Supreme Court ruled that the quality of the facilities allotted for use by black Americans were equal to those in use by white Americans (definitely not true), thus not violating their Fourteenth Amendment right, though it did perpetuate deep-seated racism. The facility in question in the case were railroad cars, separated into black and white cars. In Brown, a suit was filed against the Topeka Board of Education asking for the abolition of racial segregation. While Plessy hadn't required segregation, it did permit it. Brown overturned the ruling, which helped kick of the Civil Rights movement <3

John McCain: the Make-Believe Maverick

Few politicians have so actively, or successfully, crafted their own myth of greatness. In Mc- Cain's version of his life, he is a prodigal son who, steeled by his brutal internment in Vietnam, learned to put "country first." Remade by the Keating Five scandal that nearly wrecked his career, the story goes, McCain re-emerged as a "reformer" and a "maverick," righteously eschewing anything that "might even tangentially be construed as a less than proper use of my office."

It's a myth McCain has cultivated throughout his decades in Washington. But during the course of this year's campaign, the mask has slipped. "Let's face it," says Larry Wilkerson, a retired Army colonel who served as chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell. "John McCain made his reputation on the fact that he doesn't bend his principles for politics. That's just not true."

We have now watched McCain run twice for president. The first time he positioned himself as a principled centrist and decried the politics of Karl Rove and the influence of the religious right, imploring voters to judge candidates "by the example we set, by the way we conduct our campaigns, by the way we personally practice politics." After he lost in 2000, he jagged hard to the left — breaking with the president over taxes, drilling, judicial appointments, even flirting with joining the Democratic Party.

In his current campaign, however, McCain has become the kind of politician he ran against in 2000. He has embraced those he once denounced as "agents of intolerance," promised more drilling and deeper tax cuts, even compromised his vaunted opposition to torture. Intent on winning the presidency at all costs, he has reassembled the very team that so viciously smeared him and his family eight years ago, selecting as his running mate a born-again moose hunter whose only qualification for office is her ability to electrify Rove's base. And he has engaged in a "practice of politics" so deceptive that even Rove himself has denounced it, saying that the outright lies in McCain's campaign ads go "too far" and fail the "truth test."

The missing piece of this puzzle, says a former McCain confidant who has fallen out with the senator over his neoconservatism, is a third, never realized, campaign that McCain intended to run against Bush in 2004. "McCain wanted a rematch, based on ethics, campaign finance and Enron — the corrupt relationship between Bush's team and the corporate sector," says the former friend, a prominent conservative thinker with whom McCain shared his plans over the course of several dinners in 2001. "But when 9/11 happened, McCain saw his chance to challenge Bush again was robbed. He saw 9/11 gave Bush and his failed presidency a second life. He saw Bush and Cheney's ability to draw stark contrasts between black and white, villains and good guys. And that's why McCain changed." (The McCain campaign did not respond to numerous requests for comment from Rolling Stone.)

Indeed, many leading Republicans who once admired McCain see his recent contortions to appease the GOP base as the undoing of a maverick. "John McCain's ambition overrode his basic character," says Rita Hauser, who served on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from 2001 to 2004. But the truth of the matter is that ambition is John McCain's basic character. Seen in the sweep of his seven-decade personal history, his pandering to the right is consistent with the only constant in his life: doing what's best for himself. To put the matter squarely: John McCain is his own special interest.

"John has made a pact with the devil," says Lincoln Chafee, the former GOP senator, who has been appalled at his one-time colleague's readiness to sacrifice principle for power. Chafee and McCain were the only Republicans to vote against the Bush tax cuts. They locked arms in opposition to drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. And they worked together in the "Gang of 14," which blocked some of Bush's worst judges from the federal bench.

"On all three — sadly, sadly, sadly — McCain has flip-flopped," Chafee says. And forget all the "Country First" sloganeering, he adds. "McCain is putting himself first. He's putting himself first in blinking neon lights."

That's only a part of the ten page overview of John McCain's life, following him through his time in the Navy, as a POW, and as a politician, up to the present. Seriously, if I had any shred of respect left for him, it's utterly gone. Going by personality traits, policy, and what kind of people he's surrounded himself with, I say it is completely unacceptable to have someone like this as our commander-in-chief.

If there is anyone on my flist who is not registered or not planning on voting, please, please change your mind. We don't need another master of the art of doublespeak in the Oval Office.

(from here)

Fall Out Boy gives $50,000 to fight California's Prop 8

You heard it here first.

The popular band had this to say about the marriage ban:

"We believe government shouldn't legislate love. Vote no on proposition 8."

Singer (um, wtf?) Pete Wentz once colorfully referred to Prop 8 as [expletive] lame.

Agreed.

BOYS ♥

Congratulations, House Republicans.

You've rejected the economic bailout plan your own party initially presented and your president and lead officials supported, and one that, bafflingly enough, your presidential candidate (falsely) claims he shaped. Well more than fifty percent of the necessary votes from the democratic house representatives were in the bag, well more than enough to pass the bill if you kept up your end of the bargain, and you didn't. The stock market is in freefall, the economic crisis will go on for the foreseeable future, and we could go into the worst economic lull since the Great Depression. And you're blaming it on democrats, you whining, buck-passing, irresponsible twats.

You've sealed your defeat.

Basically, it goes like this.

YOU GO BB

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert: Mock the Vote
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I love this article a whole lot. Jon, in particular, is always very insightful while maintaining a balance of humor and seriousness, while Stephen's the counterpoint, offering little zingers and views into the political process that Jon has never got to see from the inside, like when Stephen ran for president. The vernacular is extremely easy to understand (refreshing considering this is the time of political campaigns, the biggest producers of BS other than Bill O'Reilly) and points are right on the spot. The article isn't for the tl;dr crowd, but it breaks down some of the political processes into nice digestible bits ;-) So I highly recommend the read!

omg, Stephen Colbert, how could I love you more?

Colbert got a little more pointed backstage in the media tent. Asked which actor he would cast as Republican presidential candidate John McCain, Colbert said, "[Don] Rickles, obviously, would be good. And maybe me for Sarah Palin, because I also have absolutely no business being vice president."

This will be a bit scattered, as I've been intently following the presidential race since roughly the beginning of the year (after the primaries were done, basically), but haven't really posted about politics in a while.

The Daily Show and The Colbert Report honestly save me from insanity, not even kidding. In the midst of all the rhetoric and media coverage and attack ads, it's really refreshing to have a group at the back of the class launching spitballs at the whole process. It's rather odd that a pair of comedy shows are really the only ones doing their homework and cutting through all the bullshit and hype and talking points. And a little sad, too.

( Vids under the cut--they're worth it. )

And now, the rules of the VP debates have been changed for Sarah Palin.

*sigh*

And on a lighter note, Stephen Colbert: Dance Machine.

Homeboy is fierce as HALE.

On a similar note, anyone here actually interested in talking politics? I'm afraid I'm obsessed at the mo', and it won't be going away any time soon, especially if when Obama is elected, so it'd be cool to chat with some peeps ^__^ Or alternately, make a politics filter so I'm not bugging the shit out of people when I post my millionth Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert clip ;-)

Okay, going back to watch moar MSNBC.

Hello, everyone in internetland :) We've been staying in San Clemente for a few days, but this is really the first time I've brought myself to blog a little. On the morning of the second departure, lol. I've still got a lot of repacking and whatnot to do, but since I've got a bit of time...

Arizona was beautiful in the way only blurred desert landscapes can be--not something I'm exactly unfamiliar with, but I saw a lot of things that really fascinated me (namely, y'know, the effing Grand Canyon, holy bajeezus). Pictures to come once I return. All in all my head's in a good place--doing this roadtrip has shifted my perspective of people and myself in ways I'm not quite sure of yet, but I know they're good changes. I've never really been able to stay sane in the presence of other people for such a sustained period of time--I'm always withdrawing back into my room or going on the internet to escape. But Jen and Ellie are making it easy for me to deal and I hope it's something I can take back with me.

As for politics, there's not enough WTF in the world right now to describe how much confusion and anger I have for the Republican party and this circus the Palin nomination has become. Hey guys, remember when McCain was a pretty cool guy? Me too. Wave bye-bye to those forsaken days -__- Even if the media isn't covering all the shit things Palin has done and her skewed ideals (ones that she will push on the American people if, Heathus forbid, McCain is elected then decides to kick the bucket), my faith is always restored by Jon Stewart ♥

can't think of much else to say, so I'm going to get more coffee. Stay safe and I'll see you guys in a while.

xo

( things that are making me happy: a picspam. )

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