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I was going to rant about the dismal state of affairs in this country, but... I just don't have a good rant in me. I'm just so disgusted with everything that is going on these days, and would love for the wingnut righters to take just one day off so I can ignore them for a little while.

Instead of depresso ranting, I give you a blog that just made me lose it with giggles Crappy Taxidermy (I have only looked at 1.5 pages, I make no sfw promises and if you're squeamish about taxidermized animals then this is not for you. That said, it's friggin' hilarious.

Finally, I am beyond excited for tonight's live performance of The Nightman Cometh. Supposedly there will also be a showing of a season 5 episode and some other stuff. I just hope it gets out at a reasonable hour (i.e. before the Red Sox game ends).

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One of Jeremy's teenage cousins posted about how he couldn't believe that there was so much on the news about Kanye West and barely anything about that Yale student. Then one of his friends made a comment about how the press didn't even cover the September 12th protests, which he coined as the largest DC protests in US history. The idiocy made my brain explode. It took all my self control not to go crazy and try to give this kid a history lesson. I knew it wouldn't do any good, but god I can't believe that anyone could even think that is true. Gah.
Also, I never found taxidermied animals appealing. I had trouble dealing with Jay and his squirrel. So I'll have to pass.
I hope your show goes well and you get out before the game!

Ahhh, the idiocy. Looking at Flickr streams of signs from the protest I cringe and fear for the illiteracy of America. Seriously, these people don't even have a basic grasp of history, grammar, and spelling (how can you spell Chief correctly but misspell Thief on the same sign???).

Heh. I had forgotten about the squirrel, that was an amazing time.

Thanks! I can't wait, I'm so excited for the show (and kinda hoping that I see the gang somewhere around the city as I make my way down to the Kenmore). I hear Ben Affleck is filming something in Harvard Sq. today, too.

it's a challenge when they keep coming up with gems like this:

"There's a SEKRIT PROVISION in Obama's healthcare bill that will require each and every American to share his/her toothbrush with a Mexican !"

It horrifies me that there is at least one person who actually believes that. Seriously, people???

There is no way to talk reason with these people when they aren't even living close to reality.

Seriously? What right-wing weirdo came up with that?! That's hilarious. I'm sorry, but I'd have to laugh uncontrollably at someone who said that to me. WTF? Man, if there are people who believe nonsense like that, then I don't know how anyone could think that the right-wing crazies have a leg to stand on. It's really time for the intelligent republicans to rein in their outliers.

Glenn Beck (and others ..) have richly imagined a FLAT EARTH and cheerfully taken .. those predisposed to believe anything over the edge.

Glenn Beck is a creepy crazy.

Re: the state of the nation...AGREED.

(Those taxidermy pics HORRIFY me. Along the same vein, have some Ugly Tattoos.

Hee! Some of those tattoos are hi-larious.

in some ways i kind of feel like we will be on the verge of dividing the USA into 2 halves....not sure if you saw the TV show 'Kings', but it would be just like that...The USA divided into 2 parts, East vs West basically....

although with our country now, it would be the East/West vs Middle/South.

I also believe that 99.9% of this hatred towards Obama is due to racism...the South cannot get over the fact he's African American, they never will..They look at him and they think he is not American...i mean, no matter how much proof they have he's born in Hawaii....And all i think of i wish his mom still was alive because maybe some of this racism would be destroyed actually seeing who his mom was and that she was a very strong woman........and you know reports from the CIA & FBI have come out with statements that Obama has like 700% more threats to him than any other president in history and he only been in office 9 months...

The right do this all the time though, but with 24/7 news media, its now 1000% worse.....the louder they scream these lies and nonsense, the more they will get in the news....

Jon Stewart last night had some footage from the Tea Party rally in DC last weekend and the things people are saying are just so Un-American...these people need to look themselves in the mirror and see who they really are...these Racist RIght Wing Nut jobs that to me are traitors to our country.

Too hope the President of our country fails is the most un-american thing you can probably do....If Obama fails, our country is done, done done.......how on earth can you want our president to fail, no matter who he is?

I mean we all hated Bush, but i hoped every day he would do some things right...i didnt want him to fail in Katrina or War against Terrorism...But these Right Fucking Wingers what Obama to fail....this boggles my mind. can you get any more un-american than that?

they are the party of Lincoln, i mean do they realize who Lincoln was? Then they talk about ronald reagan as their hero as well....Theres no way Reagan would stand for any of this madness....

These people have no idea about anything, they want to spread fear & hate, they have no intentions of solving any problems....if they hate Obama's plans so much, they could atleast bring something different to the table....BUT they dont, they just spread fear & hate, and they have no new ideas....they never will...

I take exception to the idea that "the South" is full of racists who will never change. I've heard some pretty crazy racist crap come from folks right here in Mass, so it's absolutely not limited to the South. In fact, having lived there for seven years and been raised around many Southerners, I'll tell you what I tell everyone: many people in the South would vote for a man, no matter what color he was, before they would ever vote for a woman.

Trying to limit the bigotry and hatred we're currently seeing in this country to specific regions is folly. It just helps the right-wingers cause of "us vs. them." Part of getting through this wave of hate is to try to be above that. It's hard; it's hard for me, too. But I can tell you for a fact that there are lots of sane, non-crazy good people living in the South and the Midwest.

oh i totally agree with you, I don't mean to say at all that everyone from the South is a right wing racist, not at all....but if you look at the 2008 election map, it shows how divided we are, its basically right down the middle....you have the East/West for Dems, and the Midwest & South for Repubs..its been like that for a long time..

One of my best friends lives in Mobile, Alabama, and he is a die-hard liberal, but he tells me all the time theres no way he would wear an Obama T-shirt or put an Obama sticker on his car..But then there are some inspiring stories that a small town in Alabama just elected its first ever black Mayor...but those stories are never discussed that much, the news media focuses on the bad stuff usually.

then theres the Texas Governor a few weeks ago was talking about succession...Thats the Governor of Texas...i mean, imagine like Duvall Patrick saying Mass is going to vote for succession from the Union if McCain/Palin won the election...his political career would be over...

I dated this girl from Texas many years ago, and she was a die-hard republican....it was weird because her mom worked for Hallaburton and was far more liberal than her, and did not agree with her daughter at all about Bush or anything, she hated Bush.... but her dad was definitely a right wing die-hard republican....lets just say my relationship with her only lasted a few months...we got into too many heated arguments stemming a lot from racist comments she would make towards Blacks and even us from New England...she loved Bush, thought he was the best president ever and used to yell at me that if i didn't support Bush, i was not supporting the Troops or our Country and crap like that....now of course i could of easily met someone like this from Mass, but the anger she and her Dad towards the Left was really different than anything i had ever seen up here in New England before....I remember we got in a huge argument because she hated Bill Clinton, and i said to her well if you hate Bill Clinton, then its ok, but if i hate Bush, then im un-American in her eyes...this just made no sense to me...

I get a lot of it up here in Maine too...Catherine and I put up about 50 Obama signs in about a 20 mile radius in our surrounding towns during the election...Not one of the signs survived, someone ripped them all down, every single one down, but yet the McCain signs were all in tact...no one dared to touch those...i mean so i can't even put up a sign fearing someone might rip it down?

I just feel like that the Republicans lost, so their only goal is to make sure the Democrats suffer, instead of trying to come up with solutions to problems we have...Im talking about the Politicians here, not the people....

Believe me, i dont want this Us vs Them thing at all, i just wish there was a way to bring people together civilly and stop all this hate talk and figure out how to actually make our country better...

Hey Brian, no worries about having offended me! I've never been offended by anything you've written and find your passion for the country's state of affairs to be inspiring. My main concern here is vilifying an entire region of people who we need to bring on board to see lasting, viable change.

However, I do agree with you that the facts indicate this country still has a significant problem when it comes to racism, and that there's no way that fact isn't an important player in the strife we're experiencing now. Just recently in fact, Jimmy Carter said that he believes racism is a big player in the opposition to President Obama. (Source: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/15/carter.obama/index.html)

yah, it was kind of ironic that Carter came out yesterday on MSNBC interview and talked about racism is a big problem with the opposition to Obama.

I personally think it is, its not 100% of the problem, but its definitely a problem.

This morning MSNBC interview an African-American woman who attended the Tea Party in DC, who was there to say she opposed Obama for policy only, and didnt think race mattered since he WAS elected President....But MSNBC anchor came back and said, so what is it exactly you oppose about Obama's policy?

She said, the bailouts, and the war......Well, the MSNBC anchor came back and said you do realize the bailouts & War was started by the Bush Admin, so why werent you fighting against Bush back when they were in charge?

She had no answer for him except for saying she's against the policies of the government.

See this is my biggest issue with the American People, is that it seems a large portion of the American people dont know what they are fighting for or fighting about? They are blaming Obama for stuff that was happening before he was elected...They blame him for a lot of the Bush policies, its just insane!

I feel like they are being lied to, and they are just following the leader. Whether Palin mouths off about Death Panels, or Joe Blow mouths off "you lie", that millions of people believe what they say and dont actually check what the actual policies are.

And its also from the left to because back in the day, a lot of people blamed Bush for the 9/11 attacks. Michael Moore made a movie about it....so its from the Left to...

I just feel like this country has become so Right vs. Left that i just dont see how we can all come together....

its like instead of trying to make our country better, we fight about who is most popular, we try and destroy the opposition, and we never resolve anything anymore.

This new "Gang of 6" health care policy that came out today is a joke, it resolves nothing, and the crazy thing is that the 3 Republicans on this "gang of 6 panel" aren't even going to vote for their own bill....they are against their own bill they just wrote....so how is this possible? its just really frustrating listening to all this back n forth that resolves nothing and creates just more divide.

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