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Life is beautiful #156.

44. 

The Republican Party.

The Grand Ol' Party. 
The Big Tent Party.  
The party of Big Ideas. 
The party of Compassionate Conservatism. 

The Republican Party. 
Stay classy, elephants. 

Maverick and Moose.

You know, if McCain and Palin are such mavericks, why are the only people telling me that are people in the party establishment? 

ESTABLISHMENT: "Oh yeah, you should totally vote for them because they're totally against the people in power like me." 

I don't know but somehow that rings false. 

Continuing the theme, if McCain is Maverick and Palin is GooseMoose, does that make Obama Iceman?

Here's what I think:

Maverick - McCain
Moose - Palin
Iceman - Obama
Slider - Biden
Viper - Bush
Jester - Cheney
Charlie - Cindy McCain
Cougar - Giuliani (lost his edge)
Merlin - Romney (cause he'll have to step in once Goose "dies") 
Hollywood and Wolfman - Moderates / Fiscal Conservatives (both of whom Maverick abandons)
Unnamed Enemy Pilot that Maverick flips off in the beginning of the movie - Fans/supporters of McCain from 2000

Just another tool.

  I wish I could get immunity for spying on people...

  Le sigh.  A politician is a politician is a politician.  No matter how much he says he's different. 

You're welcome for all the fish.

In today's "too little, too late" news comes this gem: 

Bush prepares global warming initiative

By Stephen Dinan
April 14, 2008

President Bush is poised to change course and announce as early as this week that he wants Congress to pass a bill to combat global warming, and will lay out principles for what that should include. (MORE)

Of course my response to this is:

Isn't this a little like closing the barn doors after the horses have already escaped, and all the world's major barn/horse scientists are in agreement that the horses have already escaped, and your buddy named Big Oil set the barn on fire with a molotov cocktail? Just asking. 

In any case, thanks for the warning, 43.  So glad you cared so much about the environment to try and do something now with all this time left in office.  If I didn't know better, I would think you were dolphin:

But I do know better and won't insult the dolphins like that. 

Yeah, I failed math.

But from what I gather:

Hillary + Obama = Obama Supporters Betrayed = Lost (Youth + Black Vote) = 1/American Public = McCain Victory 

More importantly:

Hillary + Obama =/= Obama + Hillary

Even more importantly:

Hillary (currently LOSING in the delegate count) offering Obama the VP spot on the ticket = Iceman from "Top Gun" offering Maverick his wing because:

1) "Bullshit HIllary, you can be his" and;

2) GAY! 

Of all the things to bring me back.

Genarlow Wilson:
17-year old kid gets consensual oral sex from a 15-year old, is charged with aggravated child molestation, sentenced to ten years in prison. 

Jamie-Lynn Spears:
16-year old kid gets pregnant by her legally-an-adult 19-year old boyfriend, gets the magazine front cover, no mention of statutory rape. 

Times like these I'm violently shaken from my fantasy that equality can exist. 

Moral support.

I have a minor affinity for buying DVDs. 

...That's an understatement.  Replace "minor affinity" with "major addiction" and you're closer to the ballpark. 

As of today though, my DVD habit goes on hiatus.  Reading the coverage of the writer's strike, I've come to the conclusion that I can't in good conscience purchase any more movies or TV shows until I know that their creators are getting paid a fair share. 

I'm not a member of the WGA, I'm just a fan of good TV.  And I can't really picket with a full time job, so I figure this is how I can contribute. 

I understand that the writers want residuals on new media.  I understand that the studios aren't sure how much, if any, money is to be made on new media.  What I don't understand is why the two sides can't agree on a formula that determines contingent compensation on a sliding scale?  Maybe the two sides want different formulas?  Maybe one side wants the remainder rounded up and the other side wants it rounded down. 

It's always about the remainders. 

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Speaking of protests, here are other ongoing embargoes in my life:

- I don't shop Circuit City because they once tried pushing divx (the bad kind) instead of DVD.

- I don't shop Gamestop/EB Games because they've become focused on selling used copies of games for greater profit margins at the expense of revenue for game developers. 

- I don't smile at the lady living in the upper unit of my apartment building because I once caught her taking my just inserted laundry out of the dryer and replacing it with her own clothes. 

She's dying inside from the lack of my smiles, I can tell. 

When that morning comes I'll make coffee and you'll read the paper

I believe it's flowers for the fourth year.

Happy anniversary, Mission Accomplished. 

Bloody Sunday.