Manifesto

[uberreiniger]

They were showing the seas of protestors outside the democratic national convention on the news a little while ago. Just oceans and oceans of angry people screaming at the top of their lungs about how much they hate our president.

I am sick to death of politics and of the blind dogma that binds people to one side of it or the other. Words do not describe how sick of it I am or how angry it's making me. I don't like George Bush and John Kerry just comes across as weak and snivelling. But as much as I don't like George Bush, I like all this mindless rage and chest-thumping from liberals a whole lot less.

It's nothing personal. I disliked all the mindless rage and chest-thumping from conservatives during the Clinton years just as much.

Why can't people grow up and get lives? If all those protestors camped outside the Democratic Convention would use that time to make their worlds better places instead of screaming for someone else to do it for them, then maybe none of the stupid crap they're so bent out of shape over would matter.

On the homefront, house sitting ended today. Sounds like I had a better time in their nice cozy house than Dean and Lesley had campig in the rain and hail with Dean's self-pitying pyramid-scheme-investing brother. So I moved out and... promptly managed to leave all my work clothes at their house necessitating an emergency trip by there on the way to work tonight. I also managed to leave my jug of V-8 splash sitting in the backseat of my car after I unloaded everything at the house so it had to be thrown out. Yeah, I'm smart, really!

Dean & Lesley are filming a movie about local haunted houses. This psychic they're working with knew (without being told,) that Lesley keeps having dreams about a little girl. Apparently this is the daughter Lesley's supposed to have and she's got two more years to have her before the little girl goes back to wherever she comes from forever. Lesley doesn't want to have kids and the lady apparently stated that she had a choice in the matter, but man, that would be weird if it did happen. For a zillion and one reasons that probably aren't that difficult to figure out, it will be very hard for me if she ever has a child. Hearing it quasi-prophesized that she's going to doesn't make it any easier.

Wow, look at me. I sound so totally over her, don't I? Yeah... I am, but there's just something weird about watching someone you worshipped have kids with someone else. Oh well, hasn't happened yet and batty old psychics who dress like Anne Rice aren't the best yardsticks for measuring fertility. Guess the fact that the mere mention of it and under such absurd circumstances can have such an effect on me indicates it's an area of "getting over it" that still needs some work, huh?

Comments

[cygny.livejournal.com]

Well, you know, about politics, it's not easy when a country starts having dozens of different parties who all stand for their own things and in the end all start looking the same either. And as you say, no matter who is in charge, there are always people who are not happy in the end. Trying to make their life better themselves is a good proposition though.

You are about as air-headed as I am, which I never thought was possible :P

As for not being over Lesley, it's normal. You see her a lot, and I bet that in the back of your head hope still lingers, even if you don't consciously realize it. The fact of her having a child would probably make you loose hope but on the other hand might give you real closure as well. *hugs* Either way, it's not easy.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

You're probably right. At the very least it would be one more reminder of what my life might have been. If they'd just get married that would be closure and a far easier sort. In some ways, I really wish they just would.

[elvinborn.livejournal.com]

personally I think the 2-party system thing kinda sucks. Bad enough that people just blindly say "I vote republican/democrat", but there are other candidates out there who would do much much better, and they haven't got a chance. And then you look at local elections like we had last week? and they call them primaries, even though they aren't. So there are a couple of races we don't get to vote in because you have to declare Republican or Democrat for your balot. What a load of crap.

It's perfectly normal to have weirdness when a former love starts talking about kids and family with somebody else. It's just one of those things where you are forced to see what might've been.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Exactly. It's just the "might have been" thing that gets me. I have never been good at dealing with those.

And you're right. A huge part of my frustration comes from the fact I do not fully agree with either party enough to want to vote for either of them, yet so many people think their party can do no wrong and the other party is the root of all evil. It just gives me a headache.

[stitchedsutures.livejournal.com]

and in the end, doesnt the electoral college really get the final say in the election anyway?

To Tyree: That is weird about the psychic lady. I met one once working for a haunted house around where i live, and she told me lots of crazy stuff that sounded dead on for me having been sitting there silently like a cynic for pretty much the whole thing. Not that i really hold much stock in what psychics say though. Not really my council of choice.
I agree... someone having kids with someone else pretty much shatters any future hope of me being with them though... even if i was into them before, i just dont want to be with someone who has some surviving "other parent ex" around. Having kids kills someone's avalability like getting hitched. Also, having kids would make it harder for you to even just get to see her, hang out and have a good time like you've always been able to.

Damn.. i miss my IM. maybe this week the computer will be fixed.

[elvinborn.livejournal.com]

and in the end, doesnt the electoral college really get the final say in the election anyway?
eh. sort of. The electoral college has it's good points. Equality of the smaller states and all that jazz. It needs to be re-thought though.

electoral college

[catlin.livejournal.com]

I would really argue the equality of the smaller states. People know that Kansas has no real impact on any election, enough so that few presidential hopefuls bother to come here. If the electoral college truely did that, than it would not be just a handful of states that are concidered important enough to campain in.

And really, I am a registered democrat only because I am slightly more inclined towards the over all democratic views than the republican, and all of those are in women's rights issues.

Re: electoral college

[elvinborn.livejournal.com]

I didn't say it works. I said it has it's purposes. It does give smaller states more impact than they would have otherwise. The idea is to protect the interests of the smaller populations, and make it so that California isn't the only state with a voice. And it's not.

I am a registered voter, but I'm not registered as Democrat or Republican. Why bother? Neither party holds with my views. Neither party can decide on a view and stay there, so that at any given time one may agree with me more than the other (who agreed last week). It all pisses me off.

Re: electoral college

[catlin.livejournal.com]

*nods* Andover though I can change my registration at the electoral point if I want, so I don't mind.

Re: electoral college

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Wow. We're on the same boat here in a lot of ways. We should form our own party so we can lose in style :)

Re: electoral college

[elvinborn.livejournal.com]

yes, but then we'd have to find a candidate who was not too old, but not too young, well-spoken, somewhat good looking, male, with reasonable beliefs, and a firm (and correct) stand on all the key issues. I wonder where that guy is? At least we could go down fighting.

Re: electoral college

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

You're right, that guy is hard to find. I nominate myself.

Re: electoral college

[elvinborn.livejournal.com]

we shall need campaign buttons and stickers! and those obnoxious signs that you see all over the road sides.

Re: electoral college

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

And my collection of photographs of midgets in bondage gear. Gotta make sure the media doesn't get ahold of that...

Re: electoral college

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's exactly what always frustrated me living in Kansas. You could vote Democrat all day long and the state would still automatically swing Republican. The electoral college was a brilliant idea... two hundred years ago. It's unbelievable that such an important institution has gone so long without an update of any kind... but if we did that we might have to allow more than just two parties a shot at winning. And God forbid that happen! (sarcasm)

Re: electoral college

[catlin.livejournal.com]

heh with this day and age of computers, letting it be popular vote does kinda make sense though.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Well, I just can't worry about it. The lady did say after all that it wasn't set in stone she was going to have the kid after all. Take my mind off it by getting your computer fixed! ;)