There you have it. As I hit the sack, the projections are Huckabee and Obama in Iowa.
Begging the question: What the hell do they put in the water in Iowa?
And it’s just starting. Perhaps I’ll just support a media blackout.
Perhaps I’ll blow up the TV.
I had a disturbing conversation with an old friend of mine tonight. I can’t say who it is, but…well, my blog is my little space to vent…and I have to vent. Not anger, not frustration, but worry.
My friend is having severe problems. Okay, even though it’s grammatically incorrect, I will refer to my friend as “they” so I can remain neutral about gender. They cannot have their privacy compromised.
They have an addiction problem they can’t face. They have a recent incident in their lives that is (severely) adding more stress which is in turn fueling the addiction. They have a history of some mental illness, a topic which I am altogether too familiar with. I am worried the stress may be bringing some of it back for them.
Do me a favor. Just, for a second, wish my friend some luck. Some willpower. Wish them some goodwill. They need it right now. I was able to talk to them for a little while and get their minds off their problem, but…it was like putting a finger-sized band-aid over a buckshot wound.
Just…wish the dharma swings their way, wish the yin and yang are restored, wish my friend luck. Say a prayer. Call on St. Jude. Just think something positive. That’s all I ask. My friend doesn’t deserve this.
On the bright side, all of my other friends (including all those you see linked to here, which eliminates any of them, just to make those guys feel a little better) are doing great. As am I. I just hope maybe some of the good vibes spill over to my friend in need.
Sometimes life sucks, and sometimes life sucks for someone else, and sometimes that’s worse.
Vent closed.
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Have fun.
While we’re on the subject of Chuck Norris…
Okay, I want to make this clear: in no way do I endorse Mike Huckabee.
But this is one hell of an ad he ran. 🙂
For those of you who haven’t seen this yet…
Once again, click on the picture for the full-sized photo…
Alright, the NFL playoff schedule is set…or as set as it can be right now. Check it out here.
As for the Patriots, they play the lowest seeded winner of the AFC Wild Card games.
Which means:
Saturday, January 12 4:30 p.m.: Seattle, Tampa Bay, or New York at Green Bay 8:00 p.m.: Pittsburgh, Jacksonville, Cleveland*, or Tennessee at New England.
*Note — I’m pretty sure Cleveland is out of it now because of what happened in the Cowboys game…
Every four years, we have to go through this crap. Iowa and New Hampshire, oh my God, who’s going to win the nominations there?
Who cares?
Giuliani, by all accounts still the front-runner by a slim-margin to win the nomination, has given up entirely on Iowa and pretty much on New Hampshire. He’s banking on Super Tuesday and Florida.
Obama seems to have a slight leg up on Hillary, and Huckabee — freakin’ Huckabee — is leading the Iowa caucus straw polls.
Oh yeah, that’s a great idea. Let’s nominate Huckabee. A candidate who doesn’t believe in evolution is going to go real far in the general.
And Obama beating Hillary? I don’t think so, not without some kind of serious gaffe on Hillary’s part (she does keep screwing up with him a little, but not too seriously, yet).
The caucuses are a tale full of sound and fury, signifying…nothing.
Please God, let them end, and let all this horserace crap stop. Yes, the Republican primary is a little locked up, but basically you’re looking at Rudy, McCain, or (pardon me while I swallow a little vomit that just came up) — Romney.
I’m predicting that Rudy will win the nomination, with McCain a very close second. I’m going to stick to that. McCain could conceivably win, and I wouldn’t mind at all — McCain’s a straight-shooter with a tendency to very unwillingly bend to campaign consultants spin control efforts. Witness his tongue-in-cheek backpedal from the Confederate flag issue (he went out of his way to let everybody know that while he was reading comments that said the Confederate flag was a symbol of “heritage”, he really was sticking by his first statement, that it’s a symbol of heritage, sure — racist, whacko, rotten-fish heritage). He even went on to write later than he was ashamed of himself for even bowing that far.
McCain’s honesty is refreshing, but Rudy is also pretty up-front, and the key difference is that Rudy is a hell of a lot more electable than McCain. Part of that, yes, is age. McCain would, at 76, be the oldest president we’ve ever elected.
But…oh God, please let it end.
I wished everybody Happy New Year twice. But the second one was only for people I don’t think suck.
Sue me. 😛
Hey, Happy New Year to y’all. Except the small cadre of people I hate (you know who you are, you bastards).
May we Fear & Loathe prosperously in 2008.
…because I just wrote poetry for the first time in…seven years?
Everyone watch out! It might richochet and hit you! That would suck.
Oh, and it was one Italian sonnet and then one just freewheelin’ poem. Felt good to shake off a little rust, though.