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Rough and Tough

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If you looked askance at JD’s head in his birthday salute, don’t. He can’t help it, it’s genetic.

My big boy is 2 today!

Happy Birthday, little man.

I have decided that I am going to support Barack Obama in his campaign for POTUS. I like his outlook, I like his ideas, and I think he will choose good people to work with. The third part is the most important to me. Having smart, well-trained people in the right spots makes all the difference in the world. FEMA, anyone? It would be the polar opposite of the barrel of monkeys that GWB has running the circus.

There are a couple of memes being spread about Mr. Obama by the right-wing noise machine.

The first is that he is “too inexperienced“. Malarkey. Everyone, right and left, says that “politics as usual” would (and is) a bad thing in Washington. So how do you expect an insider to change it? Politicians don’t get to know the ropes and then change them, they become assimilated, entrenched, and dependent on the current system. Let some new eyes look at the problems. As Obama says “I’ve been there long enough to know it needs to change”.

The second is (and there will be more variations than the current ones) that he is just flash and no substance. Expect tired variations on old stereotypes like he is just a smooth talking huckster and probably a few veiled versions of him being “uppity”. I can feel it coming the same way I can when the rednecks I work with lower their voices and glance over their shoulders. It’s not really prognostication on my part, it’s just Republicans being themselves. How else does one preserve the rich, white, christian male power structure?

Maybe I could make an offer contingent on the sale of my home.

I’ve mentioned before that I’m hard at it right now.  I’m trying to move in with my in-laws, put my old household into storage, stage the old house for selling, finish up my multitude of other projects before I lose my shed workspace and work a full time job.

So what I really, really don’t need right now is to visit a website like www.puzzlegrid.com.   And I really, really, really don’t need to play Mahjong.  Or Bubbles.

Oh hell, maybe just one game…

I recently read some stuff written by Michelle Malkin.  Nasty stuff.  Hateful stuff.  I won’t even link to it because the only reason she isn’t denounced as a hateful racist is that she is, you know, like not white.

Which brings me to a different point altogether.  Am I the only person who thinks it odd that the de facto spokesman for white supremacists in America is a Filipino woman? The daughter of immigrants no less.

Wow.  Maybe women, minorities and immigrants really are taking ALL the jobs.

I don’t know which I’m doing right now.  This whole moving thing has me upside down and backwards. My blogging has been non-existent, I know.  Partly because all my passwords are stored on my laptop and I don’t actually know some of the passwords to different stuff.  My Wordpress password is one of them.

When I’m at my in-laws, which is most evenings, I can’t log-in. When I’m at the old house, I’m busy getting things ready for selling and don’t have time.  So for the time being, posts may be a bit sporadic.

The house does look great, though.  A little bit of irony is that I have spent 8 years working on this house to make it look it’s best and the absolute highest point will be just prior to selling it.

One of my favorite groups, Gym Class Heroes, won a VMA for Best New Artist (scroll down). It seems a little odd for them to be getting an award that has the word new in it since I first talked about them 3 1/2 years ago and they weren’t new then.

Congratulations! Now that they are certified Rock Stars, I have to vote for Travis for First To Collapse On Stage.