Via Hoyden About Town comes these graphic novel type drawings of the earthquake in China.

I was sobbing at my desk. Fair warning.

Ok, I am scared. I seriously am.
I knew for months now that the fix was in for Barack Obama to become the nominee . I articulated some of that here, but I guess I never really believe that it would actually happen in such a brazen way. What we witnessed last Saturday was the ugly truth setting aside its mask and revealing what it is.

I guess we all knew in 2000 that America was no longer a democracy, but preferred to think that it would go away. How naive we were to think that once the powers that be got their hands on something they would just let it go willingly. How stupid of us. We actually thought it would be over in 2004. Boy were we wrong.

After that night in 2004, I knew. I heard people say “it’s just 4 years” and realized they.didn’t.get.it.

Why would they?

Most Americans have lived all their lives under democracy. Some if not most believed it to be the natural state of things. I am pretty sure none thought that their democracy was in any way at stake.

“The sleep of reason breeds monsters”

The sleep of a nation breeds them too.

The lack of rioting in the streets in 2000 showed the powers that be that the Americans weren’t THAT worried about their democracy. 2004 was just the logical following. And people took it.

However, someone stood in the way. The DNC. The people who were regarded as having integrity and not stooping that low.

But they had their weaknesses. The DNC had stopped being a progressive and people party a long time ago.

Their urge to elect one of their own, which I would call an elitist jerk should that not be an insult to the rather useful elitistjerks.com has made them get exactly 2 presidents in the past 40 years. One of them is Jimmy Carter, who left America in a mess of Bushian proportions. The otehr one was a hick from Arlansas who won the presidency twice despite not being one of said elitist jerks ( the bad ones not the WoW ones).

The term “liberal” always evoked that to me, the attitude of a kind yet superior someone who deems to help those lower on the societary ladder (poor people) out of the goodness of his heart. It is the school of thought that says “If poor people knew what’s good for them, they’d do it”, where “good for them” = “what we think it’s good for them”.

Of course, that also implies that said poor people whould be fuckign grateful for being even considered worthy of interest and damned if they dare to have their own opinions about their own lives.

Me, I grew up under communism. I know what it’s like to be poor, and I know a bit what happens when you don’t have democracy.

People who lived their li9ves under dmeocracy have no idea what a frail thing it is, that it is not set in stone but has to be permanently protected. They also have no idea of the many pre requisites for a functional democracy… like economic stability amongst other things.

And thus we come to the matter at hand, namely what happened last Sunday and its context within the current situation of the American primaries.

I see a lot of people, Obama supporters, peole who think of themselves as progressive, who have no problem with the fact that their candidate stole the nomination.

They feel the”rules are rules” and that it is for the greater good of getting Barack elected.

This scares the shit out of me. If Democracy is not important enough for Barack Obama, what else isn’t important enough?

I’m very scared.

Insomnia is fun! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

So I’ve just been tortured by the worst movie in the world, maybe second worst. Hard to tell. They are both ridiculous “thrillers” set in Venice starring very distinguished actors. The plots blow, the direction sucks, the dialog is stifled and horrid, and there is always some stupid supernatural element and lots of soft focus love scenes.

So the movie tonight was Night Train To Venice with Hugh Grant and Malcolm fricken McDowell. Something about neonazis and dead wives and cross dressers singing Ma Vie En Rose.

I have no idea what the point of this movie was.

The previous most sucky movie in history is Don’t Look Now with Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie. We spent the whole movie going “Don’t look now- it really is that bad”. I’m pretty sure the entire movie was made so that Sutherland could get a free vacation to Venice and spend a few days rolling around naked with Julie Christie. In the end, a homicidal dwarf did it. No one knows why.

There ya go peeps. News you can use.

If you haven’t read Dr. Violet Socks over at Reclusive Leftist, you totally should.

If you’re not reading Reclusive Leftist now, it’s probably because she’s been torn from the intertubes by a satellite disaster.

She’s got a fabulous brain, dead or alive, and we really need to do what we can to get that brain back online.

So head on over, show her some love.

Looks like Hillary took Puerto Rico by about 70% to BO’s 30.We’re still waiting for final counts, but she kicked ass.

And in honor of her outstanding win, here’s Red State Updates’ Rat Boat!

Senator McCain shows how to be gracious and respectful to the opposition. And probably picks up more than a few disgruntled Hillary voters in the process.

Go Vote! This is your only chance to have a voice in the presidential elections. Use it.

So I am trying very hard not to be freaked out and paranoid.

But someone ripped the downspout off the front of my house.

Like they were trying to climb it.

I don’t know when. I do know it was in the last 2 days. My neighbor pointed it out to me when we were talking earlier.

And now every single noise is freaking me out.

And actually talks to black people.

Tonight’s conversation with my African American Neighbor:

Me: Hey Kare can I ask you something?

Karen: Sure Lizbeth

Me: What do you think about Hillary/Obama?

Karen: Well, we’re split. I like them both. But my problem with Obama is that he ain’t never lived in no ghetto. He don’t get how hard it is for people like me.

Me: True enough. But hey Karen, I keep hearing from white guys that if we don’t give Obama the nomination, black people are are gonna rise up and riot violently.

Karen: You know us. You live here. It ain’t gonna happen.

Me; That’s what I thought.

At least they hate you if you’re from one of those baddddd states like Florida and Michigan.

Outcome from the RBC:

Florida gets half votes. Florida Dems didn’t set their own primary date (Republicans did) but in the Democratic party’s quest to prove it is just as elitist as the Republican party, Florida got spanked.

Michigan also gets half votes. But………
Since Obama took himself off the ballot, he gets not only the 55 uncommitted delegates but he also gets 4 of Hillary’s delegates. Hillary has reserved her right to challenge the MI decision with the credentialing committee.

Who knew you could win presidential nominations by not putting yourself on the ballot?

Obama apparently. He’s gotten rid of his competition in similar ways before.