America, you have one month to prepare for your elections to be postponed. You have not met my demands and as such you will rue. My elite force of nerds and librarians (and nerd-librarians) are at this very moment staging an offensive against your dayplanners.
Brown Squadron, you have just been re-activated.
Update: Check the factcheck.org or Yahoo article to sift through some of the spin. Also, if you’re tired of politics, check out a video from Peter and a video from Danjo. Slade, you need both. “It’s the final countdown!”
Debates and state ads interrupting my dinner (yay, 3rd grade extra credit for watching the debate):
The new catchphrase with candidates is campaign reform, but I’m not seeing it, especially at the state level. The VPs were relatively polite, surprisingly, during the debate tonight. Why can’t the locals learn from that? But then there’s all that other junk. I wouldn’t lend money to a friend who kept wasting my money on junk. These guys keep using my money for stuff that could have fed homeless people, saved librarians in Mesa…even just to buy everyone in the Valley a hackey-sack I would deem more useful. “John Shadegg voted against soldiers and kids and will take away your MediCare fund”. (Think I’m joking? Click away.) I see no improvement in the mud-slinging department. I wonder how my dad tolerates it – I’m burned out by it all at 29.
I was whatever about Arpaio until two events: one, when I saw him saying one thing about looking for one thing in his sweeps of Guadalupe and that he had no idea he would find illegal immigrants. The way his eyes resembled a student lying to me bugged me. The other was when he said he was pulling all police coverage from Guadalupe. Criminals, move here. A “No Comment” response to an ad that plays during primetime like this? I don’t want my kids watching and repeating this.
The whole vote for a lesser evil-thing has not set well with me this election. It’s not a policy I would take in selecting a teacher, a babysitter, or a doctor. (Although when I have to choose between McDonald’s/Arby’s or Wal-Mart/Target, I do feel like I’m choosing one of two evils.) I don’t think it lines up with the vision statement of a “more perfect Union”.
Are there going to be other candidates at the next debate?
Semi-related posts:
Next debate at Belmont?
The Shadegg stuff is just wrong. I can’t believe how that ad portrayed him.
Brown Squadron, reporting for duty. Operation Rue-age Treatment is underway.
I’d be in favor of buying everyone in the valley a hackey-sack. I used to have one with my gaming stuff. They were nice to fidget with, and didn’t invoke as much GM wrath as other, noisier options.
Also: people, the word nuclear is pronounced just like it is spelled.
Check it out at your liberry.
I’ll go look at the book store- I want to grab an expresso while I’m out.
I finally got my voter ID card in the mail today.