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Oh Isiah Carey

So here is a funny tidbit for my fellow Houstonians:



Look familiar? I thought so too, but I had to be sure so I did a little digging around to make sure that the man in that video is Fox 26's own Isiah Carey.

I first noticed the big four on his mike, so I did a Google search for "Isiah Carey channel 4" and I found this station: KARK-TV Channel 4 Little Rock which at the bottom lists these people as former talent (Isiah Carey is forth from the top in the first row.)

Now just to be sure that this was most likely him I did another search for "Augusta High School Arkansas" and low and behold I found that there is an Augusta High School two counties over in a "fuckin country ass fucked up town (where) shit flew in (Isiah Carey's) mouth." Well I am glad that he got "the fuck out that country mother fucker" to bring us Houstonians pressing stories like this one.

So, wait, who is stupid?

So I recently got into a lively debate... well screaming match with my doppelgänger over the merits of Barack Obama and John McCain. First we talked about should we have invaded Iraq in the first place. I, being a Democrat, said no and he, being a self described "Vaderist", said yes. Then we got into petty name calling and so forth and we got to the topic of our various candidates intelligence. Now I said that Sen. Obama was very intelegent and my opponent said that he was the Democrat's version of Bush. I replied "nu-uh" and said that Sen. Obama was the first black head of the Harvard Law review (he was interviewed by the New York Times for it) and graduated magna cum laude from one of the most prestigious law schools in the country. Curious as to the academic acheivements of John McCain I decided to look him up on that all too trusty site Wikipedia and found by looking at other sources that he graduated fifth from the bottom from the Annapolis Naval Academy class of 1954 (there were almost 900 people in his graduating class.) But in the end all was forgotten as we played Marvel: Ultimate Alliance and totally kicked ass!

Video selection for today:

We won

So it's finally over, the Democratic Party has finally selected its nominee, and it feels good that the candidate I supported won. Many people looked at me like I was crazy for supporting Obama or that I was just another college student who was lit on fire with rhetoric. (By the way three of his policies: 1) Ending the war in Iraq he has been against since the beginning , 2) Extending health care to all American children, and 3) Reducing carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050.) But I wasn't and now my guy won. So let me just say what Barack Obama couldn't to Mrs.Clinton:
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IN YO' FACE, OH IN YO' FACE!!!!!!! WE DID IT!!!!! I would repeat the same to one Ms. Hurwitt.

Maybe she could have won if she wasn't a cyborg and could walk up stairs...

Off to Austin

So a while back, I was really into actively participating in the national election in my home state of Texas and looking forward to attending the state convention. Now after a disastrous experience with the national Obama and Clinton campaigns' stop-over in Texas and the awful, torturous experience that was the state senate district 17 convention followed by a month of too much school work and papers I was definitely no longer anxiously waiting until early June. My apathy towards local politics has been pushed over the edge by the flood of emails I have received from people announcing their candidacy for various worthless positions for the state convention and their pipe dream of being elected to the national convention as a delegate. It is surreal what people are saying in these emails in order to be elected as a national delegate. They mention such achievements as "earning an MBA and becoming a naturalized citizen after escaping from Vietnam" or "being a councilor at HCC" or "being a member of the Southwest U.S. board of directors for UNICEF." I am amazed at the qualifications required of people to simply stand around for a few days in Denver and blindly scream "OBAMA! OBAMA! OBAMA!" It seems a shame that I will miss the Esther Follies in the Austin convention but I know that this video will get me through...

I will probably tell the story of that State Senate District 17 Convention soon, maybe after my E-Gov class is over because large sections of my story are from a paper from another class and that may be seen as plagiarism since this blog is also for a grade.

Historical Comedy and Speculative Fiction

So a quick second post to entertain you dear reader two things I have found on the internet that I find hilarious.

A lesson that 69 or so years of Communism makes you think that this is cool when American's totally know that grunge is where it's at.




Also a webcomic that I just started reading that seems pretty good.

http://shootingwar.com/chapters/chapter-1/

Well Hello There

So it has finally come to this, a blog. I always thought that I would never begin a semi-regular writing adventure on this easily clogged series of tubes, but it seems as if my E-Government class has required it of me. Now for those of you who have read my previous blog DON'T PANIC Mr. X is dead and gone, this blog will focus on serious political issues.

Now for today's topics: 1. What will happen in the next few months of the primary and national elections; and 2. ¡Puerto Rico!

Now according to vigorous You Tube research aided by my good friend NewComposition the following things will happen:

1. Hilary Clinton after realizing that she actually lost the primary election (a strange notion, I'm sure) will morph into an aging senile old man who goes on a very, very, very, very NSFW rant:

(Seriously, Do not watch this if you are capable of being offended)


2. Now not underestimating the stupidity of the Democratic Party (I mean, we did invade the United States once, oops!) this will run as an ad 24/7 until the election in order to bridge the gap with the Reagan Democrats:



3. After loosing the election again due to apathy, pursuing non-partisan get-out-the-vote efforts, the Democralypse (thank you Daily Show), and so on, John McCain will give us this:



4. Now "More wars and less jobs" seems bleak but we won't notice thanks to the large amount of anti-depressants that we will all be on as was hinted to in the new Republican Party slogan:



So all in all, in the end The Daily Show will still be really funny.

The second topic I wish to go over is a little more serious, possible voter fraud in Puerto Rico.
First to get you up to speed on this commonwealth's voting methods read this, specifically the parts in the gray boxes: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/6/1/121833/8610/90/526726 .

So it seems that even though Puerto Rico is a big win for Hilary it really won't make any difference in the long run. If she uses this as an argument to the super delegates that she has an even larger lead in the popular vote now over Obama he has a pretty good argument against her, even with ignoring her strange math regarding calculating popular vote totals. 1. Puerto Rico doesn't count in the national election, 2. the boost popular vote numbers she received should be completely ignored because they are perhaps largely fraudulent because of the low voter turnout in Puerto Rico, and 3. Puerto Rico doesn't count in the national election.

So it seems that this is the end of my first blog post and you my loyal reader can expect at least four more with my fulfillment of my research paper/blog requirement for my E-Government class! Like Dan Rather said: Courage