It’s Time

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The photo above is from this week’s Economist, a reputable U.K. news periodical.  Even they’ve endorsed Obama.  The whole world is holding its collective breath over this election. 

My apologies to Republicans (like my entire family) but you’ve had the White House for eight years and well, ya just gotta give it up.  Game over.  Like the cover says “It’s time.”  Just accept the fact that George and his cronies basically fucked everything up over the last eight years and it’s going to take a lot of time and effort (as well as your children’s–and their children’s–tax dollars) to fix things up.  It’s time to let someone else give it a try, even if–in your opinion–he doesn’t have the experience. (Like George did right?  Or wait, no, like Sarah does.  She’s so mavericky.)  My suggestion; go back, regroup and by all means abort Sarah Palin from your party and flush what’s left of her down the toilet.  How can anyone with a brain like her?  (you may also want to rethink that whole extreme hardcore Christian lets-turn-the-clock-back-to-the-1950’s-right-wing thing while you’re at it.  It’s never going to happen and I believe that mindset is turning your own people away.  Way to fracture the Republican Party even more Sarah!)

*I Predict: Obama will become our next president.  California’s Prop 8 will fail miserably as well as 102 here in Arizona.  On the local government front, our county treasurer and superintendent of schools (I worked for both of them) will be removed and replaced by their opponents with fresh new ideas and a willingness to actually work.  The day after Obama wins, the global economy will bounce back. (Ray tells me that this will probably happen no matter who wins because the overall uncertainty will be eliminated).

There have been great leaders throughout America’s history.  People who got things done and restored America’s sense of well being.  Maybe, just maybe, Obama is one of those great leaders.  He’s a very bright fellow and represents the real American.  Divorced parents, mixed race, owns only one house and he admits that he inhaled!  The one thing Obama doesn’t represent is Joe Sixpack.  Thank God!  That whole thing with the Republicans pandering to the “everyday American” or the “real America” made me want to barf.  Fuck, fuck, fuck you for that.  Obama/Biden speaks of unity and everyone being involved in repairing our great country while McCain/Palin speaks of “us and them”.  I am an everyday American living in real America!  I’m also a homosexual who thinks women should be able to choose what they do with their body.  I think we should be teaching children that a penis going in and out of a vagina at a high rate of speed (or any rate of speed for that matter) is more than likely going to result in pregnancy and in order to keep a young gal from being a mom at 16, you need to be taught how to use birth control because abstinence only doesn’t work!  Just ask Ms. Palin’s daughter–oh but we’re supposed to respect her family and leave that issue alone.

The whole Republican campaign made me feel left out (and kinda hated) and that’s probably why they’re going down the tubes because they’ve successfully alienated most of the country as well as their own party.  Great work Sarah!  It’s almost like you’re the Democratic Trojan Horse.  You got right in there and messed everything up which worked miracles for us Democrats.  Wink, wink, you betcha!  He he he heee…..

Please dear God, or Gods, or Heads of Lettuce, or whatever you believe in – make Obama our next president and send Ms. Palin back to Alaska forever.

*If this doesn’t happen, Ray and I are going to take our little chunk of land and decree it Cobbanstan – a clothing optional country. 

Halloween in Bisbee

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Well, Ray and I went out for some fun this Halloween.  I would have blogged about it yesterday but due to the amount of “fun” from the night before, I had to stay in a horizontal position for most of the day. 

I just can’t do “fun” the way I used to.

Ray was a sexy referee (dressed entirely in a tight spandex outfit–woof) and I was a Spartan.  Surprisingly, it was not all that cold in Bisbee.  (I had a vodka fueled buzz going on so how could I be cold?)

I think I had a really good time.  To tell the truth…I can’t really remember.  There were lots of people out and the music was good.  Lots of dancing going on. 

Check out some of the photos from my Flickr account.

OK Now I’m Scared

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It’s Halloween and I’m scared. I’m scared about the upcoming election. I’m scared about budget cuts here at work and I’m a little freaked out about something else.

A few months ago during a routine skin cancer screening provided by my work, the doctor asked about the little blemish on the side of my nose. It had been there for about a year and I just assumed it was a little wart because it was a small flaky white bump. He thought it may be Actinic Keratoses, the earliest stage in the development of skin cancer. He suggested that I see a dermatologist and have it frozen off. *There are only two dermatologist in town and neither of them ware taking new patients. Fortunately, I remembered seeing one of them about three years ago so I was indeed an existing patient. They were able to examine me but I would have to wait two months. I finally got in last week. The doctor decided not to freeze it. Instead, he sliced the side of my nose off and sent it in for testing. Yesterday, the tests came back positive for Basal Cell Carcinoma. Even though they sliced a tiny sliver off my nose, I have to go in and have MOHS surgery. They basically use a microscope to detect the cancer cells and remove them.

Last night, I was laying in bed thinking. . .

How much cancer must one person have to have cancer? Does a few mutated cells count? What about the few times I picked at what I thought was a wart and it bled? Could I have dislodged a cancer cell? Is it floating around looking to latch on to a vital organ? What if the cancer bore deep into the side of my nose? Will they remove the side of my nose and disfigure my face? Why does this have to be on my face? Wasn’t years of teenage acne enough torture?

Chances are slim that anything is really wrong in a life threatening sort of way but after all the cancer I have dealt with over the past few years, I’m a little bit tense.

Outpatient surgery is scheduled for mid December up in Tucson. Let’s hear it for early detection.

*This is an open call to dermatologists. The Sierra Vista, AZ area needs another dermatology practice. It’s scarier than shit being told that you may have a precancerous thing on your face and have to wait four months to have it removed.

Sarah’s Definition Of A Terrorist

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OK, I know I’m harping on and on about Sarah Palin but she somehow keeps managing to get hold of live microphones and video cameras.  I just don’t understand how any upright ambulatory free-thinking person be held captive by her psychotic rhetoric.  Sure, the Obama/Biden ticket isn’t for everyone and honestly, I can almost live with McCain (I am in Arizona ya know) but…Palin is a first class joke.  She keeps going after Obama and how anti American she thinks is yet her husband was a known member of the Alaskan Independence party which has pushed for years to secede Alaska from the US!  WTF Sarah? 

When asked if abortion clinic bombers are terrorists or not, Ms Palin,  A: launches into yet another tired rant about Ayers (That wasn’t the question Sarah!) and B: says “I don’t know if you’re gonna use the word “terrorist” there.”

Watch for yourself:

Um, yeah, Sarah…people who blow up abortion clinics are terrorists.  There’s no room to negotiate this fact.  Another fact: You’re a fucking idiot.