Sunsets, Politics, Saudade
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mallorys_cameraWork blitzkrieg continuing. Faster, pussycat. Kill! Kill!
Yesterday's high point was definitely the sunset, strangely beautiful with magenta and apple green streaks that this photograph doesn't begin to capture:
No volcanoes or pollution-belching furnaces in the area, so I don't know what to attribute the purity and brilliance of those colors to.
Spent a lot of time sloshing through the unshoveled streets yesterday, kicking slush from the toes of my boots, marching, marching, marching. I'm not thinking clearly. I haven't been thinking clearly since the hurricane knocked the electric grid out and I realized just how quickly the world can fall apart. Parts of Queens are still being described as Mad Max land. The cyberpunks nailed it.
Facebook – the virtual Village Commons – is still filled with people ranting about how much they hate Republicans, a good three days after the election:
… Every show I turn to features a perky blond GOP woman in a red power dress spinning her heart out -- but cracks are starting to show. I could just see some guy offstage, her handler, talking on his cell phone, telling someone they were going to have to get her back into the factory because she was in need of re-wiring. I assume there's a factory -- otherwise there wouldn't be so many nearly identical models. And I expect there's a massive room inside the factory with soothing piped-in music...
In a country that's obsessed with individualism, zombies and Stepford Wives definitely are the Bogie Man, anything that makes people think they're being programmed to think thoughts that didn't originate in their own heads. But nobody thinks thoughts that originate in their own heads unless they're sitting on those lunar plains, baying at a satellite in the sky. The mere act of turning on a television programs you, no matter what you watch.
I'm just really, really tired of the hagiography on either side.
Personally, I think Romney's big mistake was picking Paul Ryan as a running mate. I realize this was a sop to the Tea Party faithful, but anyone could have told him the Tea Party faithful had, in fact, become irrelevant the moment Romney, a centrist, won the nomination. Paul Ryan couldn't even deliver Wisconsin. Marco Rubio would have delivered Florida and the Hispanic vote.
Hokay. Back to the grind.
I am having one of those This is not your beautiful wife days. I miss you, honey. I miss you so damn much. And you don't even exist anymore.
Yesterday's high point was definitely the sunset, strangely beautiful with magenta and apple green streaks that this photograph doesn't begin to capture:
No volcanoes or pollution-belching furnaces in the area, so I don't know what to attribute the purity and brilliance of those colors to.
Spent a lot of time sloshing through the unshoveled streets yesterday, kicking slush from the toes of my boots, marching, marching, marching. I'm not thinking clearly. I haven't been thinking clearly since the hurricane knocked the electric grid out and I realized just how quickly the world can fall apart. Parts of Queens are still being described as Mad Max land. The cyberpunks nailed it.
Facebook – the virtual Village Commons – is still filled with people ranting about how much they hate Republicans, a good three days after the election:
… Every show I turn to features a perky blond GOP woman in a red power dress spinning her heart out -- but cracks are starting to show. I could just see some guy offstage, her handler, talking on his cell phone, telling someone they were going to have to get her back into the factory because she was in need of re-wiring. I assume there's a factory -- otherwise there wouldn't be so many nearly identical models. And I expect there's a massive room inside the factory with soothing piped-in music...
In a country that's obsessed with individualism, zombies and Stepford Wives definitely are the Bogie Man, anything that makes people think they're being programmed to think thoughts that didn't originate in their own heads. But nobody thinks thoughts that originate in their own heads unless they're sitting on those lunar plains, baying at a satellite in the sky. The mere act of turning on a television programs you, no matter what you watch.
I'm just really, really tired of the hagiography on either side.
Personally, I think Romney's big mistake was picking Paul Ryan as a running mate. I realize this was a sop to the Tea Party faithful, but anyone could have told him the Tea Party faithful had, in fact, become irrelevant the moment Romney, a centrist, won the nomination. Paul Ryan couldn't even deliver Wisconsin. Marco Rubio would have delivered Florida and the Hispanic vote.
Hokay. Back to the grind.
I am having one of those This is not your beautiful wife days. I miss you, honey. I miss you so damn much. And you don't even exist anymore.
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Date: 2012-11-09 06:17 pm (UTC)Mark my words, three years from now Marco Rubio will be on the cover of Time with the caption "The Republican's Great Brown Hope?".
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Date: 2012-11-10 04:30 pm (UTC)Always with the Honey Boo Boo disclaimer, of course.
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Date: 2012-11-09 06:28 pm (UTC)The format on many Fox news talks shows...... men plus a hot woman that could easily be mistaken for a pornstar. The men are generally behind a desk, the woman is at the end of the desk, allowing clear views of her long legs/short skirt.
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Date: 2012-11-10 04:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-09 06:30 pm (UTC)It makes me nauseous how quickly the focus shifted to 2016...... we have 'more than enough' 2012 election coverage, and yet.....we are already hearing about Rubio's policies, and his chances of beating 'Clinton'.
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Date: 2012-11-10 04:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-09 09:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-10 04:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-10 05:04 pm (UTC)I was drunk and trying to make a joke.
Emphasis on the trying part.
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Date: 2012-11-10 05:12 pm (UTC)By the way -- DO NOT SEND THOSE TEXT MESSAGES TO YR EX! If you can't control yrself, pretend I'm yr Ex and send them to me! I'll channel yr EX when I respond and we can have a Big Fight followed by makeup Text Sex, which is what you really want, right? :-)
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Date: 2012-11-10 03:54 am (UTC)Just because they're all "Hispanics," doesn't make them a solid voter bloc.
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Date: 2012-11-10 04:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-10 04:46 pm (UTC)The last two elections, the black vote split 95-5 for Obama. It had almost nothing to do with race, because the black vote is always at least 90% democratic.
It was a big deal in 2004 when W got 11% of the black vote.
Anyway, it remains an open question about Rubio's ability to garner votes in the northeastern and southwestern Hispanic communities.
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Date: 2012-11-10 04:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-10 05:00 pm (UTC)In my experience, the reason women didn't vote for Palin was that she was a Republican; she certainly had more experience and was better qualified than Obama.
Which, I guess, speaks more about Obama's complete lack of qualifications and experience than about Palin.
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Date: 2012-11-10 05:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-10 05:10 pm (UTC)Between the defeat of moderate GOP candidates in the primaries and the defeat of moderate democrats in GOP-leaning districts, Congress is even more polarized than before.
The GOP caucus gets more and more conservative while the democratic caucus gets more and more liberal. It's getting much harder to work out deals (which is how our government runs) because there's now so little common ground.