The economy is exploding (or, I suppose, imploding).
Presidential candidates: Stop arguing over whose fault it is and give us a good plan to fix it.
Congress: Plz to not be spending $700 billion of our tax dollars propping up failing businesses. You passed laws that made this mess in the first place… can’t you find ways to fix it without spending quite so much?
Also, unrelated, hear hear.
Sarah Palin, huh?
…
Well crap.
I remember back when Greg and I were talking about potential Republican VP picks, and I came across her name as one of the potential picks.
I remember actually liking her, and wishing she was running for president instead of McCain.
Now that she’s the VP… I’m really not sure how I feel about this… and that scares me, since I most definitely don’t want McCain to win, but I generally consider myself a Republican-hater (I’m all for fiscal conservativism and social moderateness, but modern Republicans are neither) and I don’t hate her.
Meh.
Obama/Biden vs. McCain/Palin
This’ll be interesting.
There was a David this past week (last Wednesday until today). There was lots of awesome.
Thursday we went to Colma for tasty soup and salad buffet. There was a Joann’s nearby so I also bought some fabric, thread, and needles. I’ve been sewing since then. Sewing is awesome.
Friday we went and explored Chinatown and saw some amazing embroidered images that looked like photographs.
On Saturday there were a lot of people over for games. David and I made ginormous double-decker hamburgers that were teh tastys.
Sunday we went to the beach, but it was too cold and we left pretty quickly. We had hot tub goodness instead and then went to Ghirardelli square for banana splits and walked around Pier 39.
Yesterday after work we tried the beach again but, by the time we got there, the sun was setting and it was once again cold. Failure.
I got to take tons of portraits this past week and it made me really happy.
Photos will eventually be posted to photos 2 and portraits.
You remember the Obama speech video I posted a few days ago, right?
This is absolutely ludicrous.
“Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal rather than religion-specific values,” Obama said. “It requires their proposals be subject to argument and amenable to reason.”
Dobson said the suggestion is an attempt to lead by the “lowest common denominator of morality.”
“Am I required in a democracy to conform my efforts in the political arena to his bloody notion of what is right with regard to the lives of tiny babies?” he said. “What he’s trying to say here is unless everybody agrees, we have no right to fight for what we believe.”
No, no that’s absolutely not at all what he’s saying. Read his quote again.
Obama is simply saying that you have to support your positions with non-religious arguments, not that you have to convince everybody that you’re right (and certainly not that you have no right to fight for your beliefs).
Ugh I hate evangelicals.
I reiterate that people who misuse religion (or use it to justify their actions) are destroying this nation (and, to a certain extent, the world).
On the flip side, why is this even an issue?
Bhutto’s killing was an “unfortunate event,” he said, but McCain’s “knowledge and ability to talk about it reemphasized that this is the guy who’s ready to be commander-in-chief. And it helped us.”
Asked if McCain would stand to benefit from a terrorist attack on U.S. soil, Black answered, “Certainly it would be a big advantage to him.”
I read absolutely nothing malicious in that. He was trying to emphasize that, in such an event, he believes McCain would be better suited to handle the situation. Perhaps he could have phrased it better (something like, “He would handle the situation better and, as such, would have an advantage over his opponent Barack Obama.”) but I don’t believe the meaning is lost.
Don’t even get me started about how people overanalyzed Mrs. Obama’s comments on being proud of her country (you know what she meant, seriously) and their “terrorist fist jab.”
What is wrong with politics these days?
Work today was meh and I really, really, really miss someone… but the weekend was awesome (thanks Boriss!), meals have been filling and tasty (chicken, sausages, corn-on-the-cob…), and relaxation has been entertaining (for once).
I’ve had a really good day :)