So....Obama

So there's been a bit of chatter on the net about Obama's success in the primaries. Mathemtically speaking, if it took 43(or is it 44?) presidents to get a black man in office, then if we line that up with the civil rights timeline, it means we've probly got another 30 years to go before we get a woman.

You know, there's a saying that goes: "Never elect anyone who wants to be president." And ya know, sometimes I agree.

Now, I don't like Obama for a number of reasons. And none of them are the general media hype.

First and foremost, he doe not strike me as charismatic as all his followers seem to be. I find Hillary to have more spunk than Obama, and that's saying something. Edwards, now HE was charismatic, but oh no, we have a woman and a black man running, so the media pushes Obama off to the sides. I bet, that if either Hillary or Obama was just another white male running for office, Edwards would be the lead or the runner up right now.

I REALLY liked Edwards, and I absolutly hate the fact that he got pushed out of the race for bullshit reasons like race and gender. That's seriously screwed up.

Second: half the black population doesn't even seem to regard Obama as black. Yeah, he's got the right skintone, but culturally he's really white. So I hate people going "OMG, AMerica might elect a black man!" And the same goes for Hillary.

I seriously want the best candidate. I'm damn tempted to vote for Huckabee at this rate. mcCain has capitulated on his nice moderate ideas to tote party line. I mean, here I am, the atheist, saying I'd rather elect Huckabee, the bible-thumping fundie, over Hillary or Obama.

Man, this election sucks.

Now this is news!

Well no, not really it's not. lets get something straight here people: you're not going to find the story of the century here, if you want news you can go to CNN.com, MSNBC.com or even Yahoo, or, you could just turn on the TV. no...here you're going to find a blog. A blog about stuff I want to talk about. And when you're taking 4 politics/history related classes, you really don't care about reporting MORE news.

So, what am I going to talk about today you might ask? Well, the only thing that comes to mind is procrastination. because it's all I've really been doing today. Okay, technically...damn, I just realized that by doing this I'm not procrastinating anymore.

Hmmm, guess we need a new subject.

Well, I'm not really sure what to talk about honestly, nothing has really peeved me today, nothing real exciting has happened. So um, I dunno want to tell you folks. I've just been playing around on websites that let me design my own computers, and when they fail, I go to sites where I can buy the parts for said computers.

Not that I have the money for it, and on a certain level, there's the memory of the class I took last semester and some of the books I read, namely "Silicon Valley of Dreams" which I recommend as a great book for worker testimony to the terrible conditions and terrible practices used by the people who run the corporations in the Silicon Valley area. It doesn't paint a pretty picture by any means. Still, I feel the book does lack in examples, it provides one or two examples and much worker testimony from that company, and extrapolates it into the entirety of Silicon Valley.

I tend to dislike books that use examples like this. mainly because well, I like examples, I like excessive examples. I like so many examples that there's really very little need to even discuss your point as two or three lines about each example will clearly illustrate that what you are talking about is in fact well, a fact.

So anyway, if you're interested in never buying a computer again, I suggest you read Silicon Valley of Dreams, you'll be enlightened, disheathened, and your pocketbook will feel it next time you want to buy anything electronic. From a cheap Tomagatchi toy to a home computer.

The Baby Syndrome

Ever heard of the China Syndrome?

Well this has nothing to do with that.


This is the "Baby Syndrome" another product of my mind. It deals with: babies.

So what is this "Baby Syndrome" you ask? Well, I'm glad you asked, because I'm going to tell you whether you wanted me to or not.

The Baby Syndrome is, in short, the effect that pregnancy, generally unplanned pregnancy, or newborns, have on other women, in this case, generally those under the age of 18.

When a woman is pregnant, everybody says she had a glow, everybody says she's extra beautiful, and all her female friends are going: "oooo, how lucky for you!" and then, slowly, many of them come to the perspective that they want babies too. Now, when you are a mature adult in a stable relationship(I don't really care if you're married), that's great!

However, I tend to see this most in young girls, whose female friends generally are having an unplanned pregnancy, or just had a baby from a good old one-night-stand. All of a sudden, perfectly abstinant, or girls who always use protection, or girls with no desire to have children before, suddenly want kids. These are generally girls who are not ready for kids, who are not prepared to deal with them both mentally and financially. And who, until their friend's pregnancy, would likly have said they don't want kids for a LONG time.

This may be biologically programmed into women as a sort of passive-aggressive form of reproductive competition, ie: their friends are having kids, which means their genes are being passed on, while the non-mother female are not, and somewhere in their subconscious, their old animal instincts realize this, and trigger the "Baby Effect".

The effect that suspends rational thinking and causes girls and some women, who seem to be less susceptible to it, to suddenly desire children. Regardless of financial burden or what have you. Their reasons are generally "well she was so happy while she was pregnant" or "her baby was so cute!" Reasons that are very short term and give no concern to the pains of child-birth, the menagerie of mood-swings during pregnancy, and oh yeah, the years of little sleep, potty training, and having to care for a young child.

Like I said, "suspends rational thought." Guys, on the other hand, are generally unaffected, rarely does a guy get excited over another girl's baby, or another girl's pregnancy. Some who do are often gay, some may have a pregnancy fetish. But your average guy just doesn't get it.

Young girls, from ages very young to about 12, are raised to believe motherhood is the best thing since sliced bread. Don't believe me? watch one of the cartoon channels. For 13 and up, you've got Bratz(girls who would, ironically, lose all their prized social status if they became pregnant), and for 12 and down, you have an endless assortment of "baby" dolls. Ones that pee, ones that fake-poop, ones that make that class experiment with an egg look like an exercise in cooking.

So, that, in short, is the "Baby Syndrome" the strange effect that pregnancy and newborns seem to have on other, non-pregnant/non-mothers, generally under the age of 18, that causes them to suspend the rational thought of waiting till they are mature and financially setup enough, in exchange for the desire to get pregnant and have a baby.

You want a baby so bad? Go care for your friend's baby for a few months. I'm sure your friend would love it, and you might learn some REAL info about having a kid. Not all the hype of how cute babies and how wonderful pregnancy is made out to be.

So girls are arm rests now?

I didn't realize men's arms stopped working.

So, I was walking back from lunch and here's this group of guys and one of 'ems got a girlfriend and they're just walking all around, he's about a foot taller than her and leaning on her with his arm around her shoulders like she's some kind of wooden post.

Hey, dumbass, you can walk on your own two feet, you're not handicapped. And if you're too hammered this early in the morning to walk straight, you've got problems.

Seriously, I don't even weigh much but I'm not going to walk around with my girlfriend all day treating her like a lean-to.

Where do we turn?

CUT!

Okay, Blog 2, scene 1, take 2.

Yeah, I ranted a bit back there, but oooo, that always feels good. And it keeps me from doing it in person. Hey we all need to blow off steam sometime dont we? I really was going to post something with more thought in it than just some half-assed rant about the government.

anyway, my train of thought is still boarding at the station, I'll get back to this later.