The highs, the lows, and the gloating….

So I’m just gonna get this outta the way right off the bat, and then we’ll move onto other things…

WE WON!!!  MCCAIN’S A DOUCHEBAG AND HE LOST!!!  PALIN CAN STOP HER RETARDED BABBLING AND GO THE FUCK BACK WHERE SHE CAME FROM!!!!!  OOOOOOOOOBBBBBBBBAAAAMMMMMMAAAAAAA I LLLLLLLOOOOOOOVVVVEEEEE YYYYYOOOOUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok…. I’m done gloating.  I can honestly say that this is the first time in my adult life that I’ve experienced this kind of American Pride.  When Clinton was in office, I was too young to have really cared about the “pre-Clinton” years, so I didn’t appreciate how good we had it with him.  And then almost 8 years of Bush retardation left a bad taste in my mouth and constant gas pains towards our country that I never thought would go away.   But then minty-fresh and soothing Obama stepped up to the plate… and for the first time I have hope.  I have hope that the rest of the planet will slowly begin to be friends with us again, and that I won’t have to immediately apologize whenever I’m traveling overseas and tell someone I’m from the U.S.  I have hope that there is FINALLY going to be someone in the White House looking out for those of us who don’t own multi-billion dollar companies.  I have hope that someday my husband will be able to have health care.  I have hope that this moronic war will soon come to an end, and that the troop’s families will finally have them back home safely.  The list goes on and on.  His election shows a massive change in our country… it’s proven that the majority of the country is completely sick of the “Old Rich Guy” way of doing things, and we’ve spoken.  This is also a MASSIVE step towards people being hired for a job based on merit- and not hired or discriminated against because of color.

I actually cried last night during his acceptance speech.  Brad was driving home from class listening to it, and he called me and told me he was crying too.  For those of you who don’t know me personally… I’m not a teary person.  I usually only cry by reflex if I get socked in the nose.  And I’m not easily moved in a positive way… especially if politicians are involved.  But Obama made me cry.  For that, he should get a bonus award.  I’ve been on cloud 9 all day long.

But now the lows….. there were oodles of propositions on the table for California in this election.  One of them, Proposition 8,  was to ban homosexual marriages.  This was passed.  It is now no longer legal for homosexual couples to get married in the state of California.  And this breaks my heart.  Below is a video that I think sums up the just how ridiculous and unjust it is to deny these loving couples the right to a sacred union.   Warning …. there are violent and graphic scenes in there, so if you’ve got a weak stomach or freak out easily, don’t watch it.  Seriously… and if you do watch it and freak out, it’s not my fault.

If you didn’t want to watch it, I’ll sum it up.  This video lists serial killers, violent offenders, serial rapists and pedophiles (basically people who are so horrible that our society has locked them in a cage to keep them away from us) who all got married AFTER they went to prison.  Some were married while on death row.  Some even fathered children while in prison.  Ted Bundy. Members of the Manson Family.  John Wayne Gacy.  The Hillside Stranglers.  And on and on.  These people have the constitutional right to get married… but law abiding, tax paying, loving couples don’t.  Does that make sense? Does that seem fair?   So I can rape people, kill people, dismember them, eat them, mutilate them, rape and kill children, kidnap people, etc… then after being caught and sentenced to a life time in prison (or even be sentenced to death), I can get myself a pen pal, decide to marry this pen pal even though we will never be able to share a home, a life, or even a bed every night… and that marriage is viewed as sacred.  BUT if I’m a good person, follow all of society’s rules, living a happy and productive life, and I fall in love and want to share my life with this wonderful love- I’m not allowed to if my love has the same reproductive organs that I do?

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE!!!!! There is no excuse for this.  It is so horribly fucking wrong that it makes my stomach hurt.  Does this make sense to ANYONE out there?… because if it does please stand the fuck up and explain it to me.  Seriously.  I want to understand this.  I want to know why 18,000 couples who were FINALLY able to get married in California now have the heartbreak of their wedding no longer being recognized as valid.  I want to know why anyone feels they have the fucking right to do this to other people… to perfect strangers.  Shame on you, right-wing conservatives.  What would Jesus do?…. certainly not what you Christians did to the homosexual population…. that’s for fucking sure.  But seriously… if the facts above make any sense to anyone out there reading this, PLEASE explain.  I promise I won’t go off on you, or call you names, or be disrespectful in any way.  I just really want to know why love isn’t celebrated…. no matter who the couple is who shares that love.

Brad said that at least gay marriage is still legal in Massachusetts.  And if you’re married in one state, then that marriage is recognized legally in all states (Article 4, Section 1 of the Constitution states “Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State”).  So if you break a law in one state, your still a criminal in every other state… AND if you get married in one state, you’re still married in every other state.  But that doesn’t make it better in my eyes.  Brad also said, “Well, we can’t win everything”.  Oh yeah?  Why the fuck not?

The Republicans, the rich, and the Christian Evangelicals have been running the show for close to a decade.  We were inches away from having Roe v Wade back on the table; from having a Vice President who thinks that our environmental tragedy had nothing to do with pollution and doesn’t believe that horny teenagers should be taught how to use a condom (ie: her own knocked up teenager who is being forced into marriage); from having another president who only looks out for fellow members of his rich, white “Boy’s Club”, and leaves the rest of the nation to fall to pieces… etc.  The other guys have had it all for fall too long.  I think it’s time WE had it all.  And not even ALL of it… just a little justice, common sense, and equal treatment.  Why is that so much to ask for?

So shame on you, California, for letting Prop. 8 get passed.  One step forward, two steps back.  That is the American Waltz.

I apologize for not being able to rant to you all until this late in the evening today.  I am part of a group gallery show in Cleveland at a magical little place called “Shoparooni“, and I had to finish my piece and overnight ship it to them so they would have it tomorrow.  The opening is Friday night, and it’s a “plushform” show… which means it’s all hand painted little dolls!!!  So if you’re in the area, you really should go out to it.

So let’s all end this day with swelling happiness for the Obama victory, but keep the couples who have been hit hard by Prop 8 in your thoughts.  And let’s hope that now since we’ve got some good in the White House, we won’t have as many Prop 8 tragedies in our future.

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last night’s debate (sorry… no witty title)…

I’m having a helluvatime waking up this morning, so I’m not sure how eloquent I can be right now.  But I’m gonna give it the old “college try”.

I watched the debates last night with Sully, and if my 10 year old can see through McCain’s bullshit (without any coaching from me), I don’t understand why the rest of the country can’t.  It’s interesting to hear a child’s commentary with something like this.  He has enough basic understanding of the issues to get a general idea of what the candidates were arguing about (though I had to explain a few of the details and politician-speak phrases to him).  But Sully’s main observation was that McCain not only didn’t answer any of the questions with direct on concise responses; but even when Obama thwarted accusations thrown at him, McCain still clung to the original accusations as if no explanation from Obama was ever given.  I can’t even count how many times McCain would accuse Obama of something or mangle Obama’s stance on an issue, then Obama would explain (in simple enough terms for my kid to understand) what the facts actually were, THEN McCain would jump right back in with the original mangle…. and then Sully would say “Wasn’t McCain listening?  Obama JUST EXPLAINED THAT?  GEEEEEZZZZ!!!!  What’s wrong with that guy?”.

Out of the mouths of babes.

But apparently a good percentage of our country’s population doesn’t have the intelligence of a 10 year old, because the polls and pundits are saying that anywhere between 31%- 46% of our country think McCain did a good job last night.

But something that Sully and I also noticed was that NOTHING frazzled Obama.  McCain had to resort to snide remarks and witty little comments (or at least HE thought they were witty… there was much eye-rolling from me and Sully in response to McCain’s “wit”), having to always have the “last word”- no matter how petty and vindictive it made him look.  And it did make him come across as petty, and desperate, and pathetic.  Where Obama calmly and precisely outlined his plans for helping the economy and the middle class, and our broken health care system.  Obama came across as graceful and level-headed under pressure.  Exactly what we need.

I’m also REALLY tired of people having a problem with allowing the government to provide health care for people who can’t afford it.  I’m sick of people saying that “socialized health care” is a scary thing.  Socialism DOES NOT equal communism.  Come on you ignorant fuckers- wake up!!!  We already have socialized systems in practice in our country!!!  Our police force is socialized!  Our military is socialized!!  Would you like to do away with our police and make that a private practice?  Then each neighborhood will pay a private group of roaming thugs with little training or legal guidelines to protect your area?  How well would that go over?  You may have the argument that our police force is already like that- but at least when you call in for emergency help, they have to come, AND there are strict guidelines on how they handle emergency situations.  And at least that assistance is provided to the entire country instead of just “those who can afford it”.  “Socialized” health care would mean that no one would have to go without medical care.  Children, the elderly, the poor, etc, would all be able to get medical treatment, which would mean less expenses for the hospitals, insurance companies, and the tax payers for having to pay for medical treatment of people who have received aid without insurance.  COMMON SENSE, DIPSHITS!!!

And did anyone else catch McCain’s response to the Roe v Wade topic?  When he was asked whether or not he would ever nominate someone to the Supreme Court that disagreed with his strict pro-life stance (which the next president WILL be electing new members of the Supreme Court), McCain fumbled around and gave a bunch of political babble about only electing qualified people…. THEN he slipped in the end really quickly:  “I don’t believe that someone who has supported Roe v Wade would have those qualifications”.

Did you catch that?  It was pretty tricky (though Sully picked up on it).  McCain DOES NOT believe that anyone who supported Roe v Wade is qualified to be on the Supreme Court.  Which means that, Yes, he will keep people out of the Supreme Court who would fight him in overturning Roe v. Wade… because he DOES want it overturned.  He wants the laws to be put into the hands of the state.  INSANE!!  So if you live in a state where abortion is illegal, and you’re a minor who was raped by your father and get pregnant, you have to travel to the closest state where abortion is legal in order to get one.  Or lets say that  I get pregnant despite all my birth control efforts, and as a grown woman who already has a child and knowing full well that my family doesn’t have the resources or ability to care for another child, I have to actually take time off work and a family road trip to a different part of the country to get an abortion if it’s illegal in my state?  Are you fucking kidding me??  I hate you, John McCain.  You’re a rich old white male who will NEVER EVER have to make that decision, so keep your fucking ignorant one-sided opinions out of my uterus.  I want to bitch-slap that dick until his eyes bleed.

But Obama made my heart warm when he strongly stated that he is in full support of Roe v Wade, and that these hard decisions should be left in the hands of the people who are affected by it.  I love you, Barack Obama.  There’s nothing lovlier than a male feminist.

Overall, I have no idea how some news reports can state that McCain won the debate (well, only 1 did… but even Fox News is saying that their advisors stated that Obama won).  And I have no idea how after these debates people are still clinging to Relic McCain.

But now that the debates are over, the time to vote is coming up fast.  For all of you who are registered, and would like affordable health care, and would like clean energy, and would like to decide what happens to your own body, and would like to be able to go to college without INSANE student loans, and would like to see an end to this stupid war so that money can go back into things like public schools and programs to help people in need, etc etc etc…. vote Obama.  PLEASE keep McCain from getting his old and gnarled clutches on our country.

And if you didn’t register to vote, you’re a douchebag.

Off to work I go.

HHHEEEEYYY!!! Yeah, you!!! Pay attention!!!….

If you don’t watch this video, and then follow the links on it, and then participate in the most important election we’ve had in DECADES, I will hate you.  I will really really really hate you.  I will think you’re a scumbag who is far too lazy and selfish to be allowed to breathe, and I’ll find the most vengeful religion out there and become one of their members just so I can say prayers every night for my new vengeful God-buddy to give you gout and genital warts and pink-eye and degenerative gum disease and split ends.

Don’t make me have to have a God-buddy.  Just find it in yourself to give a shit about the rest of the world’s population, and allow yourself to have a voice.  Because it’s the only time the government is listening.

And if you DON’T vote, then you can never ever ever voice your opinion about anything that the President fucks up, because you didn’t do a single thing to make it better.  So if you’d like the option of having an opinion, go register to vote (which you can do online… right now… time’s running out), and then go vote on election day. If you don’t vote, I’ll even make my son hate you.  Why?  Because I’m his mom, and he does what I tell him too.  You’ll be hated by children… that’s how horrible of a person you’ll become.

Don’t make us hate you.

That is all.