So let’s recap.  Change must mean Biden as VP (35 year Senator), Clinton as Sec of State (huuuuge political insider and cold bitch), Geithner as Sec of Treasury (20 years in Treasury or Fed… yikes!), Gates to remain as Sec of Defense (HOLY FUCKING SHIT!), Emanuel as Chief of Staff (long time democrat with Chicago ties), and now Volcker to head Economic Recovery Panel (former chairman of the Federal Reserve, aren’t they part of the problem?).

Way to go rockstar, that looks like some positive change…. fucking politicians.

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Great commentary from Ron Paul today on CNN.com.  Everybody, that means you home-slice, should read it.  Here’s a preview.

Now, in light of the election, many are asking: What is the future of the Republican Party?

But that is the wrong question. The proper question should be: Where is our country heading? There’s no doubt that a large majority of Americans believe we’re on the wrong track. That’s why the candidate demanding “change” won the election. It mattered not that the change offered was no change at all, only a change in the engineer of a runaway train.

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Did you get the feeling during his acceptance speech on Tuesday night that he had a “holy shit, now I have to do this thing” moment minutes before stepping out on the stage?  He may have even yakked.

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Let me paint you  a picture.   It is November 7th, 2000.  I am in Switzerland in my apartment watching one of the only two English TV channels available, International CNN, the other was BBC News.  Technically it was November 8th as it was around 2 AM, but who’s splitting pubic hairs?  Switzerland (or at least the area I was in) is 6 hours ahead of the US Eastern time-zone so it was around 10PM Eastern in the US.  Some frilly music and a full screen graphic fade onto the screen after a commercial of a naked broad enticing young German’s to call their “party line” completes.  The graphic says something like “Gore will be the 43rd US President”.   Sigh.  Ok, I can go to sleep now, at least we didn’t elect that ass-bag Bush Jr.   I wake up in the morning, scratch my balls a little, flip on the TV and another graphic is fading up with even worse music.  This one says “Bush will be the 43rd US President”.  WTF?  I get to work and the Swiss-German guys are all shaking their heads and taking turns walking into the American shared office, laughing, and saying “you Americans are so fucking stupid to elect that idiot”.  So today is bittersweet.  Finally an end to the epically worst Presidential run our nation will ever see, and a beginning of what?  Dunno, neither of the guys that will probably win will be able to do anything but clean up shit for the next 4 years.  We should change the title from President to Janitor or Jis-mopper.  Anyway, I’ll be watching the tube again tonight, this time in Georgia, just waiting for the MSM to fuck it up again.

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Or GIMP in my case.  Hat tip to Newscoma who tweeted on this today.  Evidently there was a photoshop contest for altering a McCain tongue out pic from one of the debates here.  I missed the contest, but I’m posting what would have been my entries.   Check out the full contest, there are some hilarious ones there.  Feel free to Crank the pics with Photocrank…

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Ok, get ready for diarrhea of the keyboard.

So I got back from the geek conference on Friday (not to worry, I didn’t wear my full length Chewbacca costume this time) and went right to a Halloween party this weekend… for the kids.  Let’s just say the highlight of the party for me was when I was getting my daughter out of her car seat when we arrived, my left calf started to really itch.  I pull her out of her car seat and am holding her in my arms when I look down at my now burning leg to see that I’m standing on a fucking Georgia fire-ant metropolis, and they are throwing a “fuck-you” party on my leg.  After dancing around and yelling like an asshole for a few minutes we went to the party.   I also got to miss Penn State beating the shit out of Michigan in the second half…. shit.  Later that night the girl has a fever and ends up with strep throat.  Awesome.

Sunday was a lazy day, we did jack shit in the morning, which was spectacular and then shopped for the week and carved the biggest fucking pumpkin ever that night.  This pumpkin is so big, I could shove both of my kids in there and light the candles…. not that I would ever do that, again.  Monday was back to the grind, dealing with hundreds of unread emails and voicemails, and general work shit.

Which leads to today.  Today is two weeks away from election day.  I’m struggling with the fact that I am going to make a protest vote (most likely a write-in for Ron Paul) that nobody will notice or care about.  But after much reflection, it is the only vote that I can make with a clear conscious, so what if it is “throwing away my vote”, I’m not going to vote for somebody who I think will do a bad job just because he is the lesser of two evils.  If enough people say enough is enough, maybe they can make a difference.  Doubtful, but one can always hope on a Tuesday morning.

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I’m actually referring to the Republicans not the economy in this instance, although it appears that desperate times for many of us on on the horizon.  The Republicans are indeed desperate.  In the past couple of weeks they have abandoned any quiet dirty campaigning (at least they pretended they were being quiet) and have resorted to Rove-like FUD attacks (FUD=Fear Uncertainty and Doubt).  They are starting to throw the kitchen sink at em.  Let’s recap:

• Barrack “Hussein”  Obama, lame attempt to make people think he is an Arab, terrorist, or Muslim by referring to him this way.  Campbell Brown calls this race-baiting.
• He’s a “pal” of the terrorists, more FUD trying to make a closer connection with Bill Ayers
• Drugs.  all of sudden past drug use becomes an issue (even though Obama openly wrote about it).  I love this one, fucking Republicans didn’t seem to mind Bush snorting some lines.
• Obama too risky.  This I also believe, but no more risky than McCain, that guy seems a) unstable as hell, and b) one extra long night of sleep away from being dead.

So why do the Republicans resort to these negative lowest common denominator attacks?  Because it works.  How else do you think that Bush was elected not once but twice?  It is all about the FUD.

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I ran into a Scott Adams piece on CNN.com (click here) and he had a nearly perfect quote about the 2008 elections.  For those of you who don’t know Scott Adams, he is the Dilbert guy, and you may not be a big enough geek to like his shit.  The good news is, I am a most certainly a big enough geek to make up for the rest of you unwashed “cool” people.  Anyway, here is the quote:

Moneywise, I can’t support a candidate who promises to tax the bejeezus out of my bracket, give the windfall to a bunch of clowns with a 14 percent approval rating (Congress), and hope they spend it wisely.

Unfortunately, the alternative to the guy who promises to pillage my wallet is a lukewarm cadaver. I’m in trouble either way.

I would only add that that lukewarm cadaver is also going to increase spending on his little “wars”, but he won’t tax you, he will just increase deficit spending.

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Ron Paul was quoted today on CNN.com:

Republican Rep. Ron Paul of Texas called on voters to back a third-party candidate for president Wednesday, rejecting his party’s nominee and offering equally harsh words for the Democratic candidate.

I get NOT voting for a the two status-quo partys, but I’m not going to vote for a third-party candidate “just cuz”.  They have to earn my vote just as much as the assholes from the Dems and Pubs.  I’ll probably end up just writing in a vote for RP.

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