Saturday Musings - Social Change Edition

Let’s just jump right into it shall we…

Governor Palin did not run off the stage crying, therefore, she won the debate. Case closed. She is ready to be President.

Senator McCain is nuts and should not be President. I wasn’t a psychology major and I don’t know if a cigar is really a cigar, but John McCain has some sick-fuck Daddy/Grand Daddy issues that he has never worked out.

Senator Biden seems smart, a nice guy. Maybe he could be President, but he shops at Target and wears Payless shoes. Most Americans don’t even know what State he’s from.

Senator Obama isn’t even from here. He was born in like the Panama Canal Zone or some-such place owned by the Democratic Party.

So it seems logical Governor Sarah Palin (R-Close to Russia) should be President. If I only have these four politicians to choose from in 2008, it’s the hockey mom.

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What are the rules if John McCain wins on election day and Sarah Palin resigns to be a hockey mom to her family, including her new special needs baby as well as grandmother to teenage Bristol’s new baby with the hockey player? Does he just get to pick someone we didn’t vote for? Like Rudy Giulani or Joe Lieberman?

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Bush Doctrine – the trickle-down details, year 8: In an apparent violation of federal regulations, the State Department has outsourced to private contractors the responsibility to investigate possible crimes committed by security contractors in Iraq.

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-- The Senate, then the Congress voted for the $700 billion dollar taxpayer bailout of banks, and 'other financial institutions'. Happy days are here again. How is this going to help, again?

I took my millions checking and savings account out of JPMorgan/Chase. Fuck them.

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On the TV front. If you thought Gossip Girl was the end of Western Civilization, tune in to the BBC America show Skins. Their teens are worse than our teens and there ain’t anyone left worth leaving our future to. If I were the Martians that the rovers found? I would nuke us from space before we send these kids up there.

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Oliver Stone’s "W” is set for release on October 17th. In the trailer, Jr. face-plants on the floor and a pretzel pops out of his mouth. The American Presidency in a nutshell…so to speak.

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To commemorate the passing of David Foster Wallace, I am reading Edwin O’Connor’s The Edge of Sadness. You want a big book, packed with absurd situations and human characters stumbling through life together; spend some time with the Carmody family. 

One of my favorite John Ford films and favorite Spencer Tracey films is The Last Hurrah, based on O’Connor’s novel of the same name. A pre-Kennedy-era political novel that reverberates strongly today.

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I mentioned a few posts back that I was listening to Meet Glenn Campbell. The new release from the 72 year old country singer. This led me to his collection Reunion: The songs of Jimmy Webb. We’re talking Galveston, Wichita Lineman, By The Time I Get To Phoenix, I Keep It Hid, The Moon’s A Harsh Mistress. Good stuff.

Comments

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Actually, it was McCain that was born in the Panama Canal zone. Obama was born in Hawaii and after getting a degree he could take anywhere, chose to live in the South Side of Chicago. And he wants to chose him based on his judgment?