shut the fuck up it's only august

So basically anytime a television show goes to commercial anymore there is a fucking presidential campaign ad sure to follow. My favorite one so far is the one that displays Britney Spears, fades to Paris Hilton, and then shows a smiling Barak Obama. It then goes into some bullshit about how he is, "one of the most popular stars in the world." The first time I saw this, the thoughts that ran through my mind were,

1. "It's August..."
2. "What the fuck?"
3. "Why is this commercial being aired on E?"

It's a really good thing that John McCain has such a good team handling his campaign. I can see where they were going with creating such a commercial displaying two people that just about everyone (besides me on Britney's behalf) is fed up with. However, they might want to check their information before airing such a ridiculous commercial. There is no way that Barack is of their star status; he hasn't even gotten a DUI yet. But seriously, the Hilton's just endorsed his campaign with $4,600 (roughly), so it may have been a good idea to not include their daughter in that particular commercial.

Yet another reason John McCain is such an excellent candidate for presidency: he doesn't think before he acts, and we all know how that's worked out for the past eight years.

Update: "I've been asked again and again for my response to the now infamous McCain celebrity ad. I actually have three responses. It is a complete waste of the money John McCain's contributors have donated to his campaign. It is a complete waste of the country's time and attention at the very moment when millions of people are losing their homes and their jobs. And it is a completely frivolous way to choose the next President of the United States." - Kathy Hilton, Huffington Post

Well, looks like someone isn't voting for McCain.

top five worst songs of all time (in no particular order)

1. "Somebody Told Me" - The Killers
2. "Jack and Diane" - John Cougar Mellancamp
3. ""My Humps" - Black Eyed Peas
4. "Achy, Breaky Heart" - Billy Ray Cyrus
5. "The Good Fight" - Dashboard Confessional


With honorable mentions to: anything by Miley Cyrus, the "Macarena", "We Built This City" by Jefferson Starship, and "Invisible" by Clay Aiken.

obama: bitter elitist

Months and months ago, Obama made a comment about people of rural Pennsylvania clinging to their guns, religion and fear of foreigners. He was then labeled as an elitist. First of all, I assume the targeted area's citizens wouldn't have voted for him anyway. Besides, he had a point.

Religion, guns, and hating gays and immigrants are crutches that people lean on. But then again, so is fast food, crystal meth and child beauty pageants, but we don’t have time to tackle all of America’s addictions all in one night. So let’s focus on the big thing: that the people who claim to be the non-elitists are the ones who constantly shift tax burdens from the ones who fire you, to you. John McCain voted to repeal estate tax, voted against minimum wage, has no healthcare plan, and is fine with keeping the working class in Iraq for 100 years but hes a real man of the people.

The president went to Harvard, Yale, and inherited your country from his dad but he’s not an elitist because he can neither read nor write. What does it take to label someone elitist these days anyways? They wear shoes? They don’t buy their groceries at the gas station? Their dog has a name but their truck doesn’t? You know who’s bitter in America? I am. Beucase shit kickers voted twice for a retarded guy they wanted to have a beer with and everyone else had to suffer the consequences.

I honestly don't think that Barak Obama is this tyrannical monster that some people depict him to be. He agrees with some standpoints that could be seen as socialist, but I'm not sure he would become this extreme empire. We are already under the reign of an evil empire as we speak.

"The issue of economics is not something that I understand as well as I should"
"We need to protect the Iraq and Pakistan borders"
- John McCain

We are going to need someone who's going to get out of this horrible mess of a country to win this election. When "experience" has become such a key ingredient to this recipe for success, I'm not sure why intelligence hasn't been equally as important. There's never a way to completely tell at this point if Obama is a sheep in wolves clothing with potential of continental domination. There is also no way to tell if McCain is just another incompetent man with the brain capacity of a three year old who makes idiotic comments as we all shudder with annoyance while plummeting to destruction for the next four years. That was a run-on sentence, but oh well. I guess the only way to settle it would be to VOTE who you feel is the best candidate. That way, if you are unhappy about the country's situation post-election, you can have room to legitimately complain. Anyways, this is a fun little quiz: http://www.bush-mccainchallenge.com/?rc=fb

I love Bill Maher.

and the morning dove gets caught in a telephone wire

i used to listen to such shitty music. i will always remember how i was convinced that the guy from dashboard confessional knew exactly how i was thinking and feeling. i saw him a few years ago in new york. he was sitting by the christmas tree at rockefeller center, and it just so happened that i got to witness some guy proposing to his girlfriend who was completely taken aback by the entire situation. i spotted whatshisname across the crowd texting on his razor phone (this is when they were a hot commodity). i kept watching him as he began to cry. i wish i was making that up. i thought that he was just going along with the whole oh woe is me emotional thing, but he cried? maybe he knew the people. i'm not sure if i would cry if i witnessed a friends proposal.

i wonder if myspace.com had existed back in the day what would have come of it. because it seems to me that the "emo kid" trend just sort of merged with the "scenester" thing which has become pretty hip. their hair still points either east or west, and they do that spastic move to get the hair out of their eyes, the tight t-shirts and girl pants remained, but nowadays it just seems as if everyone in that scene of obscure music is identified by their myspace "names." what the fuck?

politically correct

I went to get some fake flowers with Jackie last night and in the store I noticed that they only had barbie-like dolls of the white characters in High School Musical on sale. I then got to thinking about board games and shit like that. When I was in New Orleans, I spent some time at a children's day care. I played some games with the kids, but a few minutes into the one game, I think it was "Clue Jr.", I started getting this really trippy feeling. I was pretty much the only white person in the room and here we are playing a board game that consisted of all white characters. I can't imagine being surrounded by things like that. If the games featured characters of different origins, it probably wouldn't just be called a board game. They would call it a "learning tool for children" or "diversity game" or some weird shit like that. Why is it that it's the year 2008 and we still can't get past that barrier?

Disney is especially super weird with their shit. All the princesses up until 1992 (Aladdin) were white. They even added a ginger kid to the mix which was The Little Mermaid. Aladdin, set in the middle east, featured Jasmine who is personally my favorite. They followed up with Pochahontas, which although is historically a true story, they definitely tweaked it quite a bit, and last but not least, China's Mulan.

While representing multiple cultures, Disney failed to do that in a tasteful way when representing Africa. The Lion King, set in Africa, displays a movie of all animals. The movie is epic no doubt, but why not humans like the rest of the movies? Disney has failed to display any black characters in their films unless it was given an animalistic role. Aside from the lions, warthogs, and monkeys--there was Sebastian, the Jamaican crab in The Little Mermaid.

Disney also made a proposal a few years back to build an area representing Africa in the company's renown Epcot, but failed to follow through with the plans.

HOWEVER, in 2009 they will be having their first black princess. All I know about the movie is that she is given the title "The Frog Princess" (what the fuck?) and that it will be based in New Orleans. Hmmm... prior to or after Katrina I wonder? At least the music will be dope.