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November 4th, 2008
03:15 am - My prediction...
Obama 313
McMaverick 225
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October 27th, 2008
11:19 pm - For all you trick or treaters...
How to be Sarah Palin for Halloween
Want to portray the fresh new face of Republican politics - Sarah Palin - on Halloween? Here's how to fashion a Sarah Palin (the candidate) look that will make conservatives and the media alike swoon:
Start with the hair. Think beauty pageant big hair. The hair may be swept into an up-do. If that is beyond your hair styling skills, simply buy a big hair clippie, comb hair into a ponytail, twist, and clip hair with the end of the ponytail pointing upwards. Separate the loose hair into pieces and curl or pin in a pleasing design. Bangs should be straightened and combed over the forehead A half pony or ponytail is also appropriate but the hair at the crown of the head must first be backcombed or ratted before completing the style. Finish with enough hairspray to simulate the look of a helmet that will withstand all the hot air coming from the candidate's running mate.
Find large, rimless eye glasses. The glasses do not need to have prescription lenses in them. Glass lenses will work just fine as the whole point of the glasses is not to improve vision but to make the wearer appear smarter and more serious.
For make-up, once again think beauty pageant. Apply foundation (forgive me!) liberally. You've got a lot of covering up to do! And you may be inexperienced, but you're no spring chicken. (You only look young when standing next to McCain.) Don't skimp on the eyeliner, eye shadow, etc. Outline lips with a lip liner that is darker than the lipstick color so it stands out. (That's not a joke - just something I've observed.)
Your outfit should be a business suit but NOT, I repeat, NOT a pantsuit. You need to highlight the fact that you're a girl since that's the point of your candidacy. High heels are also a must, but the label "conservative" should not apply to your shoes.
Your lapel must feature a flag pin. After all, your party is so much more American than the other party, and that proves it.
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October 18th, 2008
12:17 am - I got an email from Karl Rove.
Karl Rove to Annie Dodd
Dear MoveOn member,
Time to relax!
Obama is way ahead in the polls. It's time for you to take victory for granted, and to stop paying attention.
And take it from me, Karl Rove: there's definitely no need to spend one more minute making calls to recruit Obama volunteers.
You're probably thinking, "But Karl, why would you—the mastermind behind the stealth get-out-the-vote program that powered George Bush's victories—be advising us not to make phone calls for Obama?"
That's a good question. (And by the way, I prefer "Evil Genius" to "Mastermind.") It's true that voter outreach can tip an election. But hey, Obama's ahead in the polls, and they never lie.
So relax! Do some yoga. Check out the new season of Project Runway. Sip white wine lattes, or whatever it is that you people like to drink.
Barack does not need folks in Chattanooga calling MoveOn members in battleground states to get them out for Obama. So there's finally time to tie-dye the seat covers for your Volvo. In fact, you probably shouldn't even bother to vote.
Please forward this to all of your Democrat friends. Don't send it to Republicans, though.
Thanks in advance for not doing all that you normally do,
–"Karl Rove"
P.S. Again—no volunteering! Don't click this link to make a few minutes of calls right now, from home, and give a big boost the Obama campaign!
http://pol.moveon.org/obama/teams/index.html?id=14461-8611179-JTR_xlx&t=4
"White wine lattes" OMG ROFLMAO!!!111 *snort* And btw, Project Runway just ended. Dammit.
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October 8th, 2008
October 7th, 2008
02:36 am - Dear shitbag motherfucker(s) that broke into my car on N. Bellaire Ave in Louisville this evening...
Ahem.
I wanted to thank you so much for breaking into my car and stealing the GPS system. I really couldn't stand it and that godawful british lady that kept giving me the wrong directions and telling me to get on the interstate when I didn't really want to. Now I have the motivation to go get my brother a new one with all this wad of money I have. Thanks!
Thanks for stealing my Tori Amos and my Molly Maguires cds (the only music I have that calms my baby down in the car). They were starting to skip really bad from overplay. So, thanks to you, I get to find something else for my baby to listen to. Awesome!
Thanks for breaking my window on the drivers side. I love fresh air and now I don't even have to bother putting my window down! Sweet, dude! And thanks for making sure the glass went all over my car so I have something to do with my time. As you could tell from the newborn car seat in the back I live a life of no responsibility and have nothing better to do with my time than spend hours picking glass out of my car. GOSH IT'S SO NICE HAVING SO MUCH FUCKING FREE TIME!
I hope you fucking die.
Love,
A Very Disgruntled Sleep Deprived Poor Single Mother Having a Nervous Breakdown at 2:00 in the Fucking Morning
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September 5th, 2008
12:56 am - I'm not religious but...
Jesus was a "Community Organizer".
Pilot was a "Governor".
Something to think about this week.
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September 2nd, 2008
10:53 pm - One month.
Molly is one month old today. It's hard to believe it's gone by so fast...
Didn't anyone make her cupcakes to celebrate this joyous occasion?
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August 23rd, 2008
July 30th, 2008
10:15 pm - I made it to my due date!
July 30th is my original due date. My midwife decided to go with August 5th since I dreamt last summer that would be my due date. I still think giving birth on Obama's birthday would be cooler than doing it on my birthday but that's all up to Junior.
Eight women in my August babies community have already had their babies and it's not even August yet. I'm getting a wee bit nervous.
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July 24th, 2008
07:38 am - Ohmygod.
X-Files marathon starts in 20 minutes on the Sci-Fi channel.
I guess this means I'm not going back to sleep. Shit.
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June 26th, 2008
01:43 pm - This letter just made my day.
Written to The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists...
Dear Sir:
I am a practicing OB/ GYN in southern California and Fellow of ACOG and recently was informed by midwife colleagues of your recommendation and encouragement for the AMA to lobby Congress for a law banning out of hospital birth. Funny that I had to hear of this decision from outside sources and was never approached by my college to see how I or my local colleagues felt about it. I have grave concerns regarding my organization taking such a stand. I think we are all agreed that ACOG has a statement regarding patients¢ rights to informed consent and informed refusal. Yet, it seems with every decision our organization moves further away from that basic tenet.
ACOG's little "guideline" paper on VBAC in 2004 where the word readily was changed to immediately has had the chilling effect of doing away with VBAC options at hundreds if not more hospitals. Not due to patient safety, or the ideal of giving true informed consent but really, let's be honest, to fear of litigation. I have seen how patients have become counseled by obstetricians at facilities where VBAC has been banned. They are clearly given a skewed view of the risks of VBAC but rarely told of the risks of multiple surgeries. If you think this is untrue you are, sadly, out of touch with real clinical medicine.
As to out of hospital birthing, please give me the courtesy of an explanation as to the data you used and the process by which an organization which is supposed to represent me came to this conclusion. Any statement saying that it is as simple as patient safety and that one-size fits all hospital birth under the "obstetric model" of practice should be applied to all patients is, putting it nicely, not really in line with what best serves all our patients. In many instances, hospitals are not safe, certainly not nurturing and have a far worse track record for disasters than home birth. Even when emergency help is nearby this is true. The focus of all of us in medicine should be on reigning in trial lawyers and tort reform and lobbying Congress for that. The best interest of the college members and the patients we serve would be for my organization to spend its time and energy on something that has true benefit.
Removing choices from well-informed patients and caring doctors and midwives is wholly un-American.
So please send me detailed information on how ACOG decided outlawing home birth was a wise thing to do. You must have scientific data to take such a drastic stand. Please make it available to me so that I may share it with like-minded colleagues. I would also like to know the process by which this came to pass. Who first raised this issue and why? What committee reviewed all the data and did its due diligence in interviewing those of us with long-standing experience in backing midwives who perform out of hospital births. There must be a fine, non-confidential paper trail you can share with your members. Specific names of committee member who voted for this would be enlightening and I am requesting this information. I would like to know the background and expertise regarding out of hospital birth for each member who had a hand in the decision to go to the AMA.
We live in an odd era where once something is said or recommended by a legitimate organization such as ACOG it has deep ramifications never intended, such as becoming fodder for trial lawyers trying to squeeze the lifeblood and dignity out of your members. Or forcing women to travel hundreds of miles in labor to find a supportive facility. Or even worse, to have them arrive in a VBAC banned hospital and refuse surgery. Can this be the best we can do for our patients? Remember, your VBAC statement was meant to be only a recommendation but quickly became the rule by which hospital administrators, risk managers and anesthesia departments of smaller hospital banned this option for thousands of women. An option, that in proper hands, was the safe and accepted standard of care for 30 years. In fact, you still have an ACOG VBAC brochure that recommends this option!
For those of us working at smaller hospitals where VBAC was banned due to lack of emergency help (anesthesia, OR crews, etc.) there is a big question that has perplexed us, that no administrator seems to be willing or able to answer. That question is: "If a hospital cannot handle an emergency c/section for VBACs, and most emergencies are for fetal bradycardia, hemorrhage (ie. abruption) or shoulder dystocia, not for ruptured uteri, then how can they do obstetrics at all?" For they seem to still be able to have a maternity ward without in house anesthesia. Will someday ACOG, in their great wisdom but seeming disconnect from reality, make a "recommendation" that little hospitals stop providing obstetric services? Will this better serve women and their communities throughout America?
I am frightened and angered by what you have done in my name. Now I ask you to defend your position in encouraging the AMA to lobby Congress for another restriction on the freedom of choice that belongs to women and their families. Those choices include midwifery and the right to have the most beautiful and life changing event occur wherever best fits their desire.
Midwives are well trained and required to have obstetrical backup. They have very special relationships with their patients and want the very best outcomes for them. They do not need me or you to police them. We have a habit in our country over the past 40 years of thinking we can legislate out stupidity. All that has done is erode the individual freedoms that belong, by birthright, to each of us. I would hope you trust your Fellows to know their specialty, their colleagues, and what is best for the patient as an individual.
These decisions do not belong to politicians or faceless committees. You should have more faith in your members to give balanced informed consent. Again, my recommendation to you is to put all your considerable energy into changing our legal malpractice system. Those of us actually practicing medicine and caring for patients know this to be the greatest threat to the mission and responsibility we have chosen to undertake.
I look forward to your response and possibly the beginning of a meaningful dialogue.
Sincerely,
Stuart J. Fischbein, MD FACOG
Medical Advisor, Birth Action Coalition
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June 24th, 2008
08:18 pm - Fuck you, T-Mobile.
I have no signal.
Shelly and Daniel have no signal.
I IZ SO BORED.
*sob*
I'm getting Skype for realz.
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June 8th, 2008
05:31 am - copied from a friend on myspace...
Al Franken wins Democratic nomination for US Senate
Yes, the man who wrote "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot," "Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them," and "The Truth, with Jokes" has won the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Minnesota.
Hot damn.
If you aren't familiar with the books listed above the titles may strike you as crass and you may question the value of what lies between the covers. Allow me to offer an opinion.
Although Franken is indeed a satirist and his humor ranges from the very subtle to the (admittedly) crass and over-the-top, his political writing and analysis are pure genius and whereas an Ann Coulter may publish a book of creepy, hate-filled ideology supported by "facts" pulled from her ass (resulting in very, very poor quality works of bigoted fiction) Franken goes to great lengths to document his sources with extensive footnotes and bibliographies. In other words, if you doubt the veracity of his claims (i.e. the neo-con myth that taxes were consistently lowered for the poorer working-class and consistently raised for the top 5% of wealthy families and individuals during the Reagan era is an unmitigated lie) you can check his numbers easily enough. You don't have to take Al's word for it and that counts for a great deal to me.
I *never* take anyone's "facts" for granted even if I consider their views in line with my own. Truth is truth and when it doesn't coincide with what "my guy" says I don't abandon the truth like some thick-headed demagogue, I re-assess my faith in and opinion of "my guy."
Yes, there are thick-headed demagogues on both sides of the political fence and I can't accept propaganda from my people and my party any more than I can accept propaganda from the "other" people and the "other" party. In fact I genuinely have far less tolerance for propaganda that supports the issues I believe in because a) Propaganda negates credibility and b) The truth always comes out eventually. How unfortunate though that people in general seem to have a very short memory where the truth is concerned. I lived through the Reagan era and am dumbfounded and astounded by the reverence visited upon that particular ex-president. I was there, I remember, and the heroics and brilliant politics attributed to the B-grade actor are fiction.
But I didn't sit down to compose a rant praising neo-cons for their brazen and temararious re-writing of recent history. I was merely making a point about truth in politics and further suggesting that *any* political pundit worth a damn will take the pains that Franken has to cite their sources. Any political pundit failing to do so is either hideously lazy or talking out of their ass.
So whether you care for Franken the humorist or not, whether you think he's funny or not, you ought to respect Franken the politico who doesn't leave you with an insulting, "It's true 'cause I said it" but rather goes to the time and trouble to follow genuine journalistic procedure, giving you the reputable and impartial sources for his facts (i.e. the U.S. Census bureau, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Bureau of Labor, etc.) and doesn't merely cite sources, but specifically says where and when the information cited can be found (if he has said it, you can fact check it...)
So, an honest and credible politician? Absolutely.
Perhaps the tide is genuinely turning in U.S. politics, perhaps change IS in the air.
It's about time.
I only wish I were a citizen of Minnesota so that I could proudly cast a vote for Al Franken.
...and to the imminent schism within the Democratic party (disappointed Clinton supporters, ecstatic Obama supporters) I will offer up that tired old maxim of unity espoused by a fledgling nation so long ago, "United we stand, divided we fall."
Political grudges MUST be set aside and the party MUST unify for it's own sake and for the sake of the country and if we cannot achieve cooperation and unification in our party then we do not deserve to win in the fall.
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June 6th, 2008
10:30 pm - heyheyhey
Donate to Barack Obama today and a previous donor will match your donation.
I would, but I'm broke. And my fucking belly button hurts.
Can my belly button fall off?
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June 4th, 2008
04:09 am - Celebratory striptease.
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!1111111
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May 28th, 2008
10:43 pm - ohmygod.
no.
just, no.
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May 10th, 2008
April 22nd, 2008
07:37 pm - Obama in Evansville, IN tonight.
Go. Do it now. I wish I could but I'm driving to Massachusetts in the morning. I'll be watching it on CNN instead. Speaking of which, I could really care less who white people vote for. Why does CNN always show polls for that? I guess I know why, it just annoys the shit out of me.
I can't find a sitter for Frida...been trying like hell to find someone for 2 weeks and no takers. I don't get it. People used to beg to watch her...maybe a week is too long. I just hope I can find a motel up there that allows pets. Sigh.
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April 18th, 2008
02:42 pm - Sigh.
Bowling Green did not cave in.
But a girl can dream can't she?
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04:47 am - What the effing F?
Did anyone else feel that earthquake just now? The whole fucking house was shaking.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK
Bowling Green is finally going to cave in.
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