Sunday, October 31, 2004

HAPPY SUNDAY !!!!!

Saturday, October 30, 2004

Edwards Rally, October 29, 2004, Raleigh NC

Here are some images of the rally.

The line to get into the Edwards Rally. Posted by Hello


The crowd inside the rally. Posted by Hello



Four More Days! Four More Days! Posted by Hello


The Rock Star. Posted by Hello


The other Rock Star. Posted by Hello


The next Vice President of the United States! Posted by Hello
HAPPY SATURDAY !!!!!

Friday, October 29, 2004

"Hope is on the way!!!

Just back from the rally! what fun! I was on the floor close to the stage again, but not in much of a position to get decent pictures. It was however, way kewl. Jon Bon Jovie rocks even close up. Dude, it was cool. Yay Us! the arena was packed to the rafters, great turn out. Tomorrow, hopefully I'll have pixs to post.
FYI Edwards Rally Info

John Edwards Rally

WHEN: Friday, October 29
Gates open at 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: J.S. Dorton Arena, North Carolina State Fairgrounds
Hillsborough Street at Blue Ridge Road
Raleigh, North Carolina
DETAILS: Due to security, please do not bring any umbrellas, bags, or signs. Please limit personal items as well. Parking will be limited so carpooling is suggested.


John Kerry and John Edwards will stand up for the values that have always made America great: faith and family; strength and service; responsibility and opportunity for all. Join us at the rally and show that you share the Kerry-Edwards vision for an America stronger at home and respected in the world.

http://www.johnkerry.com/tickets

See you at the rally



reposting this as I checked my search phrase dealy through my hit counter and the top 100 phrases were all about rally info! Dayum.
Try, Try, Again

I tried to go vote. I left with every intention of voting. I even thought I knew where I was supposed to go. It stands to reason that something called “Pullin Arts Center” would be in Pullin Park, where everything else called “Pullin” is located. So I went to Pullin Park. I wasn’t the only one either. It wasn’t there. I went into a building, the Pullin Aqua Center, and a woman gave me instructions. None of it made sense to me, but I figured if I could find Pullin Road, I should be okay. I couldn’t find Pullin Road.

Part of the instructions I kind of got included reference to the Bell Tower on campus. This should have alerted me gave up and just vote on Tuesday. But No, I kept on. I had left early for lunch and I was going to carry through on my mission. It’s a really good thing there was an Arbys along the way to the Mission or I wouldn’t haven eaten lunch either. Anyway. Stopped, had lunch, read my book. I took a deep breath and pulled the car out into traffic and went back towards campus.

It’s a freaking rabbit warren. Why do they suggest non-students even go there? No one can find there way around a foreign campus and the people on the campus can’t give directions because they know where everything is and can’t understand why you don’t. Students give lousy directions

Me – How do I get to X place?

Student – Um.

Me – X Place?

Student – Go through the Poli-Sci building –

Me – How do I get there in my car?

Student – Oh, wow. Um. Okay. You know where the Blah Hall is?

Me – No.

Student – Oh. I guess just go down there (pointing) and turn, probably.


Well. All about the helpful.

I finally find a sign, finally and it actually seems to be pointing in a direction I can get to in my car. I see a parking lot! Hurrah! I might get to vote today after all. I have heard that this polling place is slightly less busy then some of the others. Some one at work said she and her husband got out lucky where they went. She said they were back to their car after “only” two hours. Damn. But she had heard that Pullin was not as busy. Anyway. Yeah, it’s busy. I knew I found the right building when I saw the line.

Time passes. I left work at four so I could skip the rush at five. I thought an hour earlier then everyone else I would just walk in…

4:12 - Arrive at site.
Get in end of a very long line number 1.
Get back into the new end of the line number 1 after remembering that I left coke and cookies for long wait in car. (Helpful election worker cheerfully announces it’s a 2 hour wait from here)
Wait in line
Read book
Listen to cell phone calls around me
Wait in line
Read more of book
Wait in line
Finish book.
In building!
Read list of classes offered at “arts center”.
Wonder why this is called “arts center” when it is really a rec center
Wish had worn sneakers.
Arrive at front of line number 2.
Arrive at front of line number 3
I am voter number 4758!
5:45 – Back to car.

Did you know that there are other races being voted on this year? Like bond issues and Governors?



Thursday, October 28, 2004

Proof, Damn it

The 380 Tons of Explosives were still there

link via Atrios, from KSTP News.
What is pissing Diana off today?

Thus far? Blogspot is pissing me off. I can’t post, the page won’t load and it’s doing something weird to my hit counter. Pissing me off. The rest of you don’t obsessively watch the hits, because you have lives, but I do obsessively watch the hits and I have no life so it’s important to me. It’s over 10,000 now and I am very excited. Blogspot however does not care about my self esteem issues and is trying very hard to make sure that no on can read the site and then hit counter is doing its damndist to not keep track of the few people who can get through.

I go to the Blogger help site on yahoo and its post after post of “Blogger is fucked up, is it just me?” posts, obviously it is not just me, or them, but still. One poster was wringing her hands because she couldn’t read Atrios. I feel her pain, but I’m more concerned with not being able to read me. It’s causing me stress. I had six hits all morning and I think that three of those were me and the hit counter is supposed to ignore me. Arrrgghhh.

What else is pissing me off? My new ergonomic keyboard is pissing me off. I can’t find anything and it makes typing slower – and I don’t really type. It’s a fast version of hunt and peck. The only thing I can type with out looking is my name and the sites addy. I am so next wave. I mistype something and go back to try to fix it but the right letter isn’t where its supposed to be and I end up trying three or four times to correct it and by that time I’ve lost my train of thought. Arrrrgggggg.

I also hate the printer. It won’t talk to the computer and won’t print anything I’ve asked it to. It remembers whatever it is, in the Job List regardless of how not work related the print orders may be, so they hang out there being all obviously not work related. Hateful. Arrrggggg.

My favorite used DVD store still does not have F911 in stock. Those discount liars. It was supposed to be in by the end of the first week it hit the shelves, but it is still not there. I don’t think Michael Moore wants me to buy his movie from Blockbuster. Moore wants me to buy it from some whole grain free range, free trade, union positive, lesbian bookstore - video co-op, but since they charge too much – Why I always wonder. They certainly don’t put money into keeping those places clean and everyone is volunteer labor, why do they feel comfortable charging so damn much for so damn little? That bugs. I’ll shop more frequently at those places when they stop being so damn precious about themselves and get over the whole “Shopping Here is a Political Statement” nonsense,. Okay, if its statement and my purchases are essentially donations, I want a tax break for spending money there. Shave your pits, ladies and while you’re at it, buy a new Indigo Girls cd. Arrrgggghhhh.

I go to Lunch Buddy’s office to vent at her about my huge, deeply important, emotionally draining computer issues and she tells me that our friend across the hall had to leave suddenly because her doctor called and wants her to have a biopsy, like now. Yeah. Arrrrgghhhh.

Wednesday, October 27, 2004

They said if I wanted to contact them...


Dear Pro-life Voters Guide,

Thank you for making it so easy for me to know who NOT to vote for."Pro-Life, Pro-Life,Pro-Life". Pro War!, Pro death to Iraqi babies!, Pro-Death to Iraqi children! Pro-Death to Our Troops!, some of them but children.

The slate you promote is Pro-War, Pro-Poverty!, Pro-injustice!, Pro-Death Penality Pro-Bigotry!, and Pro-Ignorance! . This Administrations' war is the ultimate affront to our Catholic faith and Christian teaching in general and I am horrified that you would in any way support it, and would go on to suggest others do as well! Knowing that this corrupt administration and its followers in Washington are the greatest threat to life as we know it.

I am shocked that you would give your support to these monsters and their rein of terror and violence. They are criminals and they don't support the Church they don't even really like Catholics. All they support is their own power and greed and all they are interested in is keeping it and getting more.

How dare you suggest that these "people" and I use that term with difficulty should be our voices. You disgust me. The bishops have made it clear that we are to vote for justice and equality and peace and the "suggested" candidates do not support any of these ideals or anything else that Jesus taught us. Pull your head out of the sand and vote like you respect life, cherish freedom and love our country. I pray for you. Never, and I mean NEVER send me filth like this again. God gave you a mind, use it! I pray for you.

Diana - I vote Pro-Life Too.


So, ya think they're going to pray for me too?
I can't turn down a quiz





You Are a Pundit Blogger!



Your blog is smart, insightful, and always a quality read.
Truly appreciated by many, surpassed by only a few.




except for the whole not I'm not a male or pundit - y in nature and I think that just about everyone surpasses me and while I appreciate the hell out of myself, I don't think the "many" part is right either. Oh well, I love a good quiz.

stolen from Blown Fuse
Call Designer's Challange stat!

… in the first sweeping rethink of the Lincoln Bedroom in at least three decades, the timid lemon walls, celery-green curtains and pale floral carpet are being banished in favor of a blast of Victorian bliss.
Heady hues of emerald green, golden yellow and deep purple will carpet the floor, drape the windows and envelop the massive, six-foot-tall carved headboard. Walls will be papered in a restrained palette of cream tones -- a nod to contemporary tastes -- but the pattern has been derived from the Victorian Age. Two elaborate cornices such as might have topped windows in Lincoln's day have been carved and sent to the gilders. An opulent white marble mantel was commissioned to better complement a rococo-style mirror installed last summer. The pièce de résistance, both decoratively and symbolically, will be a carved bed canopy in the shape of a crown. It too has been sent for gilding. When affixed to the ceiling, the crown will support yards of regal purple satin over white lace, both trailing to the floor


Gilding?! Laura Bush, no soul or taste.

From The Washington Post

I have but one vote to give for my country

U.S Gave U.K invasion dates 5 months prior to start of war diplomacy was never an option.

from The Raw Story
Deep Breaths

It’s getting very close now. I think I’m going to go vote today. I have my voter’s registration and I’m good to go. Am I the only one who carries their voter’s reg with them all the time? It’s always in my wallet. I was talking to Lunch Buddy today about going and early voting while we still can and she said she doesn’t even know where her registration is. I was open mouthed at this. “What do you mean you don’t know where it is? how do you vote?” She answered that they never ask for it. Where has she been voting? I’m always asked for it when I vote.

Lunch Buddy also said that long lines at the poll would deter her from voting. A she votes for the wrong team, I didn’t work too hard to talk her out of that idea. She also reads Drudge, so she isn’t really a part of the Reality Based Community. I was going to say nasty things about Drudge but she may only read there for his occasional entertainment news. I read Drudge for that, years ago, before he drank the Kool Aid and lost his mind. Whatever. She probably reads it for his political content. Deep Breaths.

Another one of the people I work with came out of the Dem closet to me. She saw the magnet on my car and pulled me aside to whisper her encouragement. The other Dem here found me in the hall on Monday and reported he had voted on Friday and it “Felt Sooooo Goood!” this is a guy who ordered the neato keen KE04 magnets for his whole family and then had to order a few more when those got either stolen or defaced by Rove-ing GOP brownshirts. Little by little we won’t have to talk in whispers about who we back.

Have you noticed that the 380 tons of missing ammo has been spun out to the outer reaches in just one day? “It was gone when we got here”. Okay. No It wasn’t, that’s not true, but the “liberal media” only speaks to conservatives so they can you know, appear more “neutral”. Damage is all ready done though, the original story made such a huge splash that even the admins whirling dervishes can’t spin it away entirely. Last night on my dog walk with three or four of my neighbors called me over – they wanted to see who this white girl was and look at the Dogger up close. They were really, really nice. Great guys. We talked about the missing explosives – hugely outraged on that, they also had all seen F911 and could quote from it. The news of the 47 dead soldiers made them mad too, but I can’t say for sure they knew they were Iraqi and not U.S troops. Regardless, they are angry black men and they are tired of Bush and his war and the shitty economy and they are taking their anger to the polls.

We also talked about the neighborhood clean up, the problem with asshats using our neighborhood streets for drag strips and whether or not The Drug Dealer “respects” me or not. They were glad he did respect me, they know The Drug Dealer and they wish he lived in another neighborhood. I said something about not paying a lot of attention to him and his business, a way to maintain my plausible deniability if the cops ever come to my door. They told me not to deny anything to the cops, if I see something or know something, to tell the cops! ASAP. They want Drug Dealer out of their airspace, they don’t want to live in “da hood”, they want their neighborhood back. I told them I would be the first to call if I saw anything really objectionable. The first gun I see over there is the last gun I see over there. I have Tom Ridge on speed dial and I know Liddy Doles phone number. I take no prisoners.

We all agreed, Kerry is the Man, Bush Sucks and this is a nice place to live and we don’t care who lives here – as long as they mow their damn yard, don’t deal drugs and don’t drive like a crazy person.

Tuesday, October 26, 2004

I'm There!

John Edwards Rally

WHEN: Friday, October 29
Gates open at 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: J.S. Dorton Arena, North Carolina State Fairgrounds
Hillsborough Street at Blue Ridge Road
Raleigh, North Carolina
DETAILS: Due to security, please do not bring any umbrellas, bags, or signs. Please limit personal items as well. Parking will be limited so carpooling is suggested.


John Kerry and John Edwards will stand up for the values that have always made America great: faith and family; strength and service; responsibility and opportunity for all. Join us at the rally and show that you share the Kerry-Edwards vision for an America stronger at home and respected in the world.

http://www.johnkerry.com/tickets

See you at the rally,