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I love how both ROUS and Voldemort made the list. Republicans for Voldemort!

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While I am excited that this election had a huge turnout, and kind of bummed that due to the large number of non-18-to-29-year-old voters the young voter percentages were screwed, I am STILL mad that young people refuse to take a stand. I am so sick of hearing the following excuses:

1.) “I wasn’t registered!”
You knew when the election was and you had plenty of time to get off your lazy ass and do something about it.

2.) “I didn’t know who to vote for!”
GOD! This is the worst one. In a day and age when information is available AT OUR FINGERTIPS, there is absolutely no excuse in the entire world that you couldn’t have perused the party platforms and made a decision for what you believe in.

3.) “My vote wouldn’t have counted anyway!”
My answer here is twofold:
a.) HAVE SOME PRIDE! This is your country, take ownership of it! If you are that unwilling to do your civic duty, then you lose your right to bitch if things don’t go the way you want them to.
b.) In some states, every VOTE counts. Look at Ohio–if things had gotten any closer, one vote could have tipped the scales. Look at the 2000 election. Look at the world outside when you remove head from ass, then vote.

At this point, it’s useless to argue about coulda, shoulda, and woulda…but if we’re going to live with Monkey McSneerFacePants for the next 4 years, I hope he uses this opportunity to really live up to what he said about uniting the country. The partisan lines are killing us. There are a lot of asshole dems and a lot of asshole republicans who are making it us a nation divided–there IS such a thing as too conservative and there IS such a thing as too liberal. If there is going to be less partisan power struggle, more giving a flying fuck about America, it has to start with the Big Cheese. I would hate to see the pretty speech from tonight be only so much lip service, as I fear it might be.

My mother was so concerned about my relationship with Michael Moore. She’ll be pleased to know that we’ve broken up and are currently seeing other people. GOD…I may be liberal, but he still makes my head want to explode. Anything that he has to say loses total credibility with the way he says it. He is every PR person’s worst nightmare. I did like his Open Letter to Voters that he had this week, but most of the time I wish he’d take it down a notch or five.

In other news, in Mississippi you can now only marry a sibling of the opposite sex, rather than the same sex. Sad news for inbreeders everywhere. But I’m pro-gay marriage and a Texas hippie democrat (when a customer today said that everyone in TX was thrilled over the results, and I said not everyone, he told me I didn’t SOUND like a hippie. Figure A on ignorance, step right up!!), so what do I know?

EDIT: My friend Matt says I’m a hipSTER and not a hippie. So there, scary East Texas guy!

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Nothing makes me more angry than people who are not tolerant of another person’s right to have an opinion, right to make a choice, right to keep their own beliefs close to them, right to not have to argue about it. Nobody pushes this envelope more than my mother.

Granted, everyone’s mother is like that to a certain degree with their kids, I am sure. Mothers are like that–they don’t want their kids to make bad choices and have bad lives. I can respect that. But I am a grown woman and I am perfectly well-informed enough to make my own decisions about a lot of things in my life, and that includes my choice of presidential candidates. And my mother is a grown woman who is completely and totally intolerant of the fact that I have any kind of opinion that differs from hers, because she is the dictator of Bizarroland and she is ALWAYS RIGHT. Even if I tried to explain my reasons for my beliefs, she wouldn’t hear a word I said because she’d be too busy telling me I was wrong.

Last night we were having a perfectly fine phone conversation about my cat (who had to go to the vet last night, but is fine) and then she segued into today’s election. She told me to make sure I went and voted for The Traitor today. I told her we weren’t going to talk about politics. She continued to push at me, and I continued to cut her off. I finally told her that I didn’t call to tell her that I thought she should make sure to vote for the War Mongering Moron today and that I don’t want to talk about politics with her EVER. I continually request that she does not discuss anything political, religious, or racial with me for a number of reasons. She continually pushes the envelope and cannot shut her mouth about it. I gave her a couple warnings and told her that every time she opened her mouth, I was putting my cell phone in my lap. She kept on going, so I just hung up. It infuriated me for the rest of the evening.

My sister and I have completely opposing party stances when it comes to politics. But she doesn’t preach at me. She doesn’t call me up and tell me I’m stupid. She doesn’t come post comments on my blog about who I should vote for. I should mention that this is largely in part to the fact that my sister is not evil and/or crazy, a fact for which I am eternally thankful.

Seriously, screw both candidates. I vote Jon Stewart for President!

Anyway, let’s wrap this up with yet another Public Service Announcement:

I learned it from watching you, all right? I learned it by watching you!
Parents who are intolerant and argumentative have children who think they’re crazy.

No, really…go vote today, people. Make your voice heard. EVERY VOTE COUNTS! Don’t give me that bullshit about your vote being cancelled out by somebody else’s vote, or any crap about how the election’s already sewn up one way or another and it won’t matter anyway. If you never speak up then you’ll never get your chance to be heard! Whoever you vote for, JUST VOTE!!!

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Yeah, I was on a brief hiatus. I’m back now. Let there be much rejoicing.

Today marks the start of early voting in Texas. You don’t need special circumstances to vote early, all you need is your voter registration card. Get your vote out of the way before November! I can’t stress enough how important it is for the younger generations to vote. If you don’t vote, your voice doesn’t count. This is the only way to make yourself heard!

If you don’t do your part to help change the country, nobody else is going to do it for you.

Click here for early voting dates and times for Dallas County. For other Texas counties/locations, click here.

(links yoinked from my own research, www.sheeshoo.com, and the many emails from my friend who can register people to vote)

Coming up next: My take on Team America: World Police, what’s new in my gadget bag, the joys of having money, and I’m going to see The Pixies tonight and you’re not.

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If my parents ever read this, they would be horrified by my political stance, considering how incredibly conservative they are. We can’t talk about any important issues because it always ends up in a fight. My views are so radically different than theirs. I actually had to walk out the door and not come back due to a conversation about gay marriage and Democrats. My mother honestly believes that everyone of a Middle Eastern descent hates America and is only living in America to kill natural-born Americans. She is racist and stereotypes left and right and it drives me crazy. Thank goodness for free will and free thought. And thank goodness that kind of outlook on life is not genetic.

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