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Bush's priority over the next couple days? Push people onto the Supreme Court!

Just watch. He'll care more about empty seats than he will about poor people dying in New Orleans. I guarantee he'll be making an announcement about it first thing Monday, making some bullshit excuse about "the business of government must go on despite disaster". Politics, not lives.

Meanwhile, as people starve in their attics, Pat Robertson is doing a little dance.

This just takes the cake. I am really in a fuck everything mood tonight. I just saw The Constant Gardener, and realized, again, that everyone reading this paragraph is better off than billions of people all over the world. We don't have to eat sacks of grain that get dumped from airplanes once a month. We don't have the straw shacks of our villages burned by raiders with guns. We don't die from diarrhea, we just drink Pepto Bismol.

I also saw a Nova special on China and how they're going to vastly overtake the U.S. in pollution in a few years. Even if the U.S. completely stopped all pollution instantly, China could end up producing four times more than our country ever did all by itself. Their middle class will be bigger than our entire population.

The world keeps on looking bleaker and bleaker. Tonight, I am a pessimist.

Watch Out For Pointing Fingers

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Controversy_over_whether_New_Orleans_Mayor_failed_to_follow_hurricane_plan

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7000018155

Woke Up, Still Pissed

The other thing I forgot to mention before I went to sleep was my reaction to something someone said at the movie last night. I was waiting to get in to a late showing of The Constant Gardener, and the previous showing's crowd came out. People were buying tickets for the next show, and someone asked the manager about the movie. The manager said: "it's good, it's a little intense, but you should see it." She then asked a older man who eas leaving the show what he thought about it, and he said: "Oh, it was okay you know, but it leaned VERY heavily to one side politically."

This bewildered me as I sat through the whole movie, because all I could wonder is - what the fuck was that jerk talking about? What's political about people starving, being plagued by three terrible diseases, and being burned out of their homes? Was this guy a "conservative Republican" and did he think that it was "radically liberal" to want to fight people who profit from suffering?

I really wanted to throttle that fat middle aged white man last night. I wanted to make him choke on all the fast food he eats and run him over with his SUV. Ideally, it would have been great to air-drop his wide ass onto the middle of the Sudan and see how long he lasts.

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Since it seems to be the fashion these days, I'm going to pray for the death of Reverend Bill Shanks.

Thank You For The Onion

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40091

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I was eating my dinner in a Subway, and I happened to catch a few minutes of the reality show Laguna Beach while I was there. It prompted me to think of the following question:

How can you call it a reality show when all the people on it are so entirely fake?

I've never seen anything that vapid on television. The few minutes I caught of that Tara Reid show came close though.

Pushing Too Hard!

I've been training Gau on the toilet, and he's been making great progess, but we took a step backward tonight. He's apparently been holding it in since I made the first hole in the toilet trainer on Saturday. I think it worried him that litter was spilling down the hole into the water.

I think this is a major drawback of the CitiKitty system. The holes are perforated, and you can't just replace a ring and cover up the hole again to help Gau move at his own pace (unlike the Litter-Kwitter). CitiKitty cost $30 and Litter-Kwitter is about 90 plus international shipping, so it's a significant difference... but I think we would have been better off with the litter.

I feel badly. I thought he could handle the next step, he was doing really well. :(

Word Lesson Of The Day

This mostly goes out to journalists and copy writers who don't have a clue: there is no such thing as a "radical Christian conservative". Radicalism technically denotes far left, ultra-progressive (to the point of revolutionary) ideology. Reactionism is far right, ultra-regressive ideology. Christian evangelicals are reactionary, never radical. They want us to live in the past, just like the Taliban.

It's confusing because fringe Islamic political ideologies have been termed "radical Islam" for a long time, but it's really not so much a description of the ideology (which is Luddite and medieval), but of their revolutionary/guerilla/terrorist tactics. I suppose we'll have radical Christian evangelicals the moment they take up arms and start domestic suicide bombings (mark my words, it will happen, it already has on a small scale with clinic bombings and doctor murders).