WHAZZUP??

So I don't really get these John McCain supporters. I met another one, a man this time, and we discussed the candidates. He asked me what I thought of Sarah Palin and proceeded to tell me he thought she was WAY TOO RIGHT for the VP choice.
Silly me, I thought that meant we could have a serious discussion about the woman and her politics but no, when I said I was pro choice, he agreed but then defended her speaking "style."
When he brought up her lack of experience, I said I didn't care for her comparing her mayorship with Obama's community organizer experience in such a condescending tone, he defended the fact that she made a good appearance.
Lucky for me, our conversation was interrupted because I was just about to point out what if McC(and I surely hope not) died in office?? Then we have President Palin, self professed anti-abortionist, Creationist, and hunter for his replacement. No choice, it has to be her.
OHMYGOSH!!!!! She does not seem like the reasonable, rational kind of person I want as my President.
I don't know how many changes a President can really make and I am not sure how fast changes can be made but what if she overturns Roe v. Wade? What if there are no abortions under any circumstances? What if your daughter is raped?? Is she supposed to marry the rapist??????
What if your daughter or sister would die if she carries the pregnancy to term?? Is that just supposed to be okay by us?
And what if gun owning becomes even easier than it is now? Don't we have enough drive by shootings as it is? Haven't enough husbands killed their wives and young kids killed one another accidentally because they found their father or mother's gun in an unlocked drawer or cabinet?
What if we all have to turn our backs on scientific evidence and say that the world was created in seven days? Now I believe in God and creation but I think seven days for God might not be seven 24 hour periods. I think God had a miraculous sense of creation and tried many combinations and used the forces he had at hand to create this amazing universe and all other universes. I just don't have a problem justifying God's creation of the world and scientific facts.
If someone believes that seven days were seven days then that is their right. We can all get along.
I don't want a president who is rigid. I want a leader who understands that with many people come many different ideas and that (s)he respects those ideas while having his own personal code. His code doesn't have to match mine but it has to be acceptable to me.
I want a president who can make decisions for all of us without his personal code being the only factor (s)he considers. I don't want his or her religion, personal rights stand or his hobby to influence his or her decisions.
I don't think that is so much to ask. Even ol' Rodney King said it, "Why can't we just all get along?"

Tim and I

I love Project Runway. I have loved fashion since I was a young girl and started making my own paper dolls because the ones you bought didn't have enough clothes. I used to make tiny ones and kept their clothes in a heart shaped box I got from Valentine's day. It was just a little box--about 6". I loved thinking of ideas and mixing colors and inventing prints. In junior high and highschool I took some art classes and once in a while I would draw a fashion figure and dress it. Fashion figures are fun to draw--they are long and lean and completely unrealistic. You still see one once in awhile in the Plain Dealer in the fashion section. Check one out some time and you will see what I mean.
Loving fashion as I do gives me critic rights when it comes to public figures. You know what I thought of Hillary and her pantsuits(Needs help) and how I thought Cindy Lou looked like a paper doll. I drew this conclusion from many years experience with paper dolls, I'll have you know. And now, Tim Gunn, my favorite gay fashion critic and guru, said Cindy Lou looked like she was dressed in duct tape. I love it--Cindy Lou is stylin' but it is stiff and unapproachable. She needs to loosen more than the hairdo. Actually she looks better with the stiff French twist because her hair is so thin.
Now that Tim and I are of one mind, maybe I could get a job with him on Project Runway. I could be his assistant. I can come up with some other phrases for him besides.."make it work" or "you've still got a way to go." I could just whisper ideas into his ear. If you don't speak on television I don't think they have to pay you as much. Something to do with unions.
I could wear all black(maybe it would make me look a little less fat) or even better, the contestants could dress me. Now that would be a real challenge.
Think I'll start my letter to Tim today. He needs to know I'm here for him.

All's Quiet

No more conventions. I am not planning on paying any attention to the presidential campaign until the first debate in three weeks. I could use the break, couldn't you? I will miss a few things though.
I will miss Cindy Lou and her paper doll wardrobe the most. Did I ever tell you I thought all her clothes were so stiff it reminded me of paper dolls? I am not saying she doesn't look nice. She does. After all she is a size 0 and has blond hair. She is our ideal Barbie, I mean woman, Right??
I did see her on the news last night and guess what?? Her cast is back on. Apparently she just had it off for her personal appearances at the convention. It looked bigger than ever and it was that lovely shade of pink that is so popular in casts these days( if you are in the fourth grade!!).
I will miss all the kooky hats that the conventioneers felt obliged to wear. I saw straw boaters, elephant hats, Uncle Sam hats, USA hats, headbands with elephant ears, and a host of others. Why do people wear hats at these things anyway? Maybe they just get caught up in it and buy them there and get home and go Why did I buy this?? I used to do that on vacation sometimes. You buy something that seems so cool in Hawaii or California or Sandusky, OH. and then get it home and kick yourself and it is in your next garage sale for a quarter.
I will miss the Daily Show coverage of the conventions. For the most part, it was hilarious. I get a little tired of them at times and sometimes I think they go too far and then it isn't funny. But the comparison of Fred Thompson to Foghorn Leghorn and Joe Lieberman to Droopy Dog was brilliant. I laughed my a** off! You know how much I love Foghorn anyway and how much I detest Joe Lieberman so it was really dear to my heart.
Now there is someone I won't miss. Good Ol' Joe. We sure dodged a bullet on that one. But don't kid yourself that he's out of the picture. I told you before that if John McC wins, Joe will be skulking somewhere just off camera if he doesn't get some post on the cabinet. Be afraid, America, be very afraid.
Anyway, I will have a little breather now and I can concentrate on other important things..like my soaps and I have the giant biography of Gandhi to read that his grandson wrote. SO maybe my path to enlightenment will pick up with the reading of that tome and maybe my brain won't turn to mush if I watch my soaps. It will be good to get back to basics!

Another Day in the Life of the Convention

I'm not saying I have changed my mind but I thought that John McCain's speech was very interesting. I never heard anything much about his time in Viet Nam and it was moving to hear him tell the story. He was good natured although the crowd seemed to get a little rowdy and there was the one woman who seemed to be a little riled up but he waited for her to be escorted out and just kept on going.
I still don't like how he embraces military answers to world problems and I still wouldn't vote for him on a bet but I feel more like I used to about him before I heard his Oklahoma speech. He sure seems happy that he chose Sarah Palin for a running mate but I think that is more about the enthusiastic response for her from the floor than about her as a person.
I have been wanting to make a crack about Cindy McCain tied to Cindy Lou Who but I never came up with anything good enough to write but now it is a moot point as Cindy McCain is CindyLOU McCain. That's her real name. Oh, well, that is funny enough for me. She made a pretty good speech--she coulda been an actress and she had the whole thing memorized(or it seemed so to me). She had on another one of those stiff outfits but I've decided she is wearing them to protect her little skinny body so nothing else gets broken. One arm per campaign has to be anyone's limit.
Speaking of clothes, I think she picked out Sarah's suit too. It was stiff and pewter gray and a little shiny. Business like but a little dressed up to....a little royal too but then that's just me. John McCain was wearing a wonderful suit that was tailored impeccably and made him look.... well, rich.(I'm just saying).
No Bushes or Cheneys in the house so McCain was able to freely say a few things. Like how the party needed to get back to their real values and focus on what is important. I hope he really really means that just in case he wins the election.
I met a McCain lover at the dentist yesterday and we kinda got into it over Sarah Palin and Cindy Lou(yes, I'm always going to call her that now). I told this schmuck that I didn't agree with Palin's philosophy of raising kids i.e. letting her 17 year old marry an 18 year old and letting her 19year old be sent off to war... my opponent totally agreed with me but she still liked her. OH no, McCain's campaign is right....some women will vote for him now just because Sarah is a girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I could barely hide my disgust for this woman so it is a good thing it was time for the dentist to stick his hand in my mouth!!

Que Sera, Sarah

Well, I have heard enough about hats from the Republicans. They were all exchanging their Republican hats for their American hats(?) to support the victims of Gustav. Cindy McScarecrow and Laura Bush were their cheerleaders. I can't say I blame them. Did you see those Republican hats?? Elephant heads on your head is not the most serious look. Unfortunately, the American hat is a soft version of Uncle Sam's chapeau and looks pretty silly too. They keep falling over and look a little defeated. I think they need to stop thinking about hats and go bare headed.
Anyway, yesterday was Sarah Palin's speech. It was our first look at the "real" her. I only have one thing to say...........''MY EYES!!!!!!!!!!" This is a woman who is sending her 19 year old off to war(no t that I don't respect a young man who has decided to serve but he is so young), her 17 year old off to a marriage to a kid who doesn't want kids and whose husband had their 8 or 9 year old hold the new baby so he could bow....a lot. Then he left the baby with the kid!! The camera caught her smoothing her baby brother's hair down by spitting on her hand and smashing it down--the kid's a natural. She best be in training now as she'll be married before she knows it. The camera also caught her picking the baby's nose. Now that is above and beyond the call of duty.
I didn't care for the mocking tone of Ms. Palin's speech and her insinuations about her opponents. What are the issues and what are your plans?? Beside the war and wedding stuff.
And what was Cindy Mc wearing??? The clothes she had on last night looked like a tent tied with a big bow--that is a bright green tent. It looked stiff and uncomfortable--come to think of it , a lot like her
Mrs. Palin has a lovely family and they appear to be happy and "just like" the rest of us. But appearances can be deceiving.
My advice to Ms. Palin is don't try to wear too many hats--one might just slip off and reveal the truth.

An Inconvenient Convention

The Republicans are trying to have their convention and there have been a couple of problems. First, there was Hurricane Gustav. McCain said he didn't wan to be celebrating when people were suffering. Now, I never thought of a convention as a celebration. I thought it was about the business of agreeing on a platform and affirming your party's candidate. I know some of it is fun for them but really? cancel for a storm? I was a little surprised. Whatever. They did have a shortened version of the convention on the first day and Cindy McScarecrow and Mrs. Bush made an appearance together to ask the convention to support the victims of the hurricane. However it might have been more effective if Cindy didn't have on a dress that looked like a queen's gown(someone near and dear to me noticed the similarity) and Laura didn't look like the queen of England next to her but again I say whatever.
Second, President Bush wants to make an appearance and the party is hesitant so they finally gave him 8 minutes of a remote from the White House. Pretty funny that even his own party doesn't want him anymore. They prefer his wife....don't we all? However I did hear that 70% of Republicans still think Bush is doing a good job. THEY DO??????????????
Third, protesters are everywhere and they are so wild and crazy that the police have had to use tear gas and make arrests. These insane protesters are against, are you ready for this?...... POVERTY! How dare they?? Poverty is a necessary evil and if you are poor you should just pull yourself up by your bootstraps(as Obama says, even if you don't have any boots..he was being sarcastic).
Tonight Sarah Palin makes her speech. Yikes, she's got a lot of 'splainin' to do!!! I can hardly wait!!

Three Sheets to the Wind

Remember my satin sheets? Well, now I have tie-dyed sheets. Not on purpose though. I stripped the bed today and decided to wash and bleach the mattress pad and then I thought what the heck I'll put a little bleach in the water when I wash the sheets.
My once blue sheets are now pink, blue and lavender with a dash of white! Sure glad it wasn't my good clothing. SO now the fun is to see if my husband even notices the difference. I'm betting he doesn't notice unless he reads this blog entry.
Sometimes he reads me religiously and other times he gets to wrapped up at work and doesn't have time. Wonder what it will be this week?? It was a holiday today so maybe he will have a little spare time tomorrow at work. We shall see.
Anyway, I remember when we used to tie dye shirts for Bible School and some of the teachers at our school did it for field day too. What a mess, but what fun. I never tie dyed anything for myself though. I wasn't much of a crafty person back when tie dye first came into popularity.
Anyway, I quickly made the bed today, turning down my husband's offer of help just for the fun of seeing if he notices. Don't you sometimes think you could put on those plastic glasses,nose and mustache things and your loved ones wouldn't even notice?? I think that about my husband sometimes since he hardly ever notices any changes in my appearance. Not that I have changed that much recently but you know what I mean.
He and I did notice the change in Cindy McScarecrow though. The cast is off!!! Just in time for the convention. Nobody better touch her or try to shake her hand again. She can't afford to break it so soon. SO hands off, you Republicans. Just nod and say hello,Cindy and keep your hands to yourself!!!!!!!