My First REAL Post

My thoughts are jumbled today, Mercury in retrograde for the last day (thank god), so bear with me.

1) Hats off to Paul Hackett, the Marine who ran for office in Ohio on the Democratic ticket in a 70% Republican district and took 49% of the vote. He has the conservatives in the RNC and the pundits on the radio and newspapers all in a tither. Rush Limbaugh tried to be his usual arrogant self-aggrandizing self by calling Hackett a "staff puke" on his show...Hackett responded by stating that Limbaugh is a "fatass drug addict" who basically wouldn't know patriotism if it bit him in his forementioned fat ass. Just what the Dems need...a representative of the party (in addition to Howard Dean, who everyone thinks is crazy but is really crazy like a fox) who is willing to say exactly what he thinks and is willing to fight back when the nutwings on the right try to slime him!

Interesting how the right-wing pundits are all about "supporting the troops" and the veterans of the Iraq war unless the said person happens to be a Democrat running for office, eh?

2) My thoughts and support to Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a fallen soldier who is keeping vigil outside of "not my president's" Crawford, Texas ranch until he will speak to her or until his extremely long vacation is over, whichever comes first (we all know hell will freeze over before he will talk to her again). Again, the right wingnuts are trying to slander this poor woman in her grief...of course she could never possibly have been in shock when she met with the president right after her son was killed in the war, thus precipitating her saying that she didn't harbor any ill feelings toward the war or the president at that time. Of course, we as humans are not allowed to change our minds as time progresses and further information comes to light either - then we are "flip-floppers" according to our president and his cadre of slimy slanderers.

3) Some of my friends are obsessed with the baby panda at the National Zoo. They spend I don't know how much time each day watching the "Panda Vision" camera monitors online to look at the little bugger. It's much better now that it actually looks like something other than a blob - at least now you can tell it is a panda. Before, I couldn't really get into the excitement of it all...the muddy images of a blob of something that might be the little critter (wait, is that it? No, that's just the mom's butt!) (Sue, I told you I just had to mention this!).

4) Finally, my friend Ryan has an audition for a movie in Atlanta tomorrow; break a leg, babe!