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Victory in Iraq Day

As zombietime has put it:

Victory in Iraq

On this November 22, 2008, join us in observing Victory in Iraq Day.

Let us honor the sacrifice, dedication and sheer determination of American, coalition and Iraqi troops who have brought freedom to the nation and people of Iraq.

Although our governments have chosen to not name any official day marking the end of this war, we the people have taken it upon ourselves to commemorate November 22, 2008 as the day of victory over the forces of tyranny, oppression and terror in Iraq.

Join fellow bloggers and other members of the public in this virtual ticker-tape parade for our brave troops, to celebrate their success, to remember the fallen, and to declare, in the words of President John F. Kennedy (RIP):

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."

And as John Galt put it:

"Blogger Zombie has taken upon itself to do what our current President should have done.

Declare Victory.

We have enforced the UN mandate. We have deposed, tried, and executed Saddam Hussein and brought justice to his henchman. We ended Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons programs. We have exposed the mass graves. We have made it possible for a representative government to form. We have made possible free and fair elections. We have trained new Iraqi security forces. We have sent untold terrorists to their virgins. Stores are open, girls are learning, there is a future.

War’s over. We, the supporters of liberty, won, and so did the Iraqi people. Our troops have done the impossible.

Does that mean Iraq is a perfect example of parliamentary democracy? Of course not. Name a war that we won where the immediate postwar situation was all smiles and sunshine. Iraq has a long way to go, but it now has a fighting chance to get there.

In a sane world, President Bush would be organizing tickertape parades, days of thanksgiving, etc. He won’t. Mr. Obama certainly won’t.

We need to do it for them."

consequences

So this morning I woke up thinking about the two biggest RINOs I can think of: W, and McCain. Those guys are so lame. But anyway.

And I was thinking about how both of them entered into their presidential careers (or lack of careers) thinking that all their friendships with liberals would hold up. Both of them had spent so much time catering to the Left, they figured that the news media would celebrate them, and that their good Dem friends would still like them.

And to be fair, the news media did like them. The New York Times endorsed John McCain officially before he became the GOP candidate. And why? Because McCain is a leftist RINO.

But the fact is, the NYT, news media, and leftist friends all turned against McCain and W as soon as they became candidates. And obviously, no true conservative would ever support the two of them, on account of that neither of them are in any way right-wing. Well, W became that way--but McCain has always been that way. And the second he stepped into potential power, the Left reacted. And he had to kiss his friendships goodbye.

Of course, he was retarded, and tried to be the nice guy to his friends. And what did they do? Tear him apart until it was too late. I wish he hadn't spoken out against that GOP attack ad in Carolina. McCain is such a dolt.

But what led me to all that was thinking about my friends. I have so many friends with whom I disagree on almost everything--but I still love them. Most of my friends back home are lesbian atheists at this point, and you know I would die for them. I love them. But if I speak out for Prop 8, or whatever conservative thing I'm doing, they go crazy. And it kills me because, you know, I think they're all insane too, but I don't get in their faces about it. We're friends, you know?

And then it gets really ridiculous. Like my friends thinking I'm racist for having a reference to Jonestown. (Trivia: yesterday was the 30th anniversary of Jonestown). I mean, seriously? Just because they're too lame and uncultured to understand that reference. That reference is part of our culture! Jonestown changed so much in America, how can they justify not knowing about it! And then for them to feel justified in accusing me wrongfully... I hate stupidity. Wow. People need to read more.

Or, just recently on Facebook I posted my blogpost on "informed" Obama voters. One of my beloved friends got all wack about that too. She went on about how all voters are uninformed and it wasn't fair of me, etc. But the fact is: it's true we were all uninformed. But if everyone had known that Obama is friends with terrorists, that his runningmate was a plagiarist, that Democrats have been running Congress during the economy tank, don't you think things would be different?

Or what about how, in that interview, they asked the "informed" Obama voters about the 57-state thing? Or getting all their opponents disqualified? And all the voters assumed it was Sarah Palin because they'd only heard stupid things about Palin and had never heard the truth about Obama? That, to me, screams media bias.

And my friend got mad at me for pointing it out.

Look. I'm not a meanie. I'm vocal about my opinions and beliefs, but my opinions are always, always, always, always researched and if I'm willing to talk about something it's because I know I'm qualified to, having read about it from numerous sources. And yet my stupid friends are here trying to tear me apart, when they haven't even done any research. Can you say lame?

I guess the point of this post is, when you're a nice person and you have conservative opinions, perhaps it really is too much to hope for that your uninformed friends will still tolerate you, even if you love them. And what can you really do, but sulk about it and move on.

I guess when you have opinions, some people will ostracize you no matter what, even if you care about them despite their opinions. But what can you do?

OMGZ

This video made my soul cringe. Please watch it to the end. It's amazing. Wow.



There's a documentary with this in it coming out sometime soon. I so need to see it. This is so screwed up.

Op, and update:

Zogby Poll

512 Obama Voters 11/13/08-11/15/08 MOE +/- 4.4 points

97.1% High School Graduate or higher, 55% College Graduates

Results to 12 simple Multiple Choice Questions

57.4% could NOT correctly say which party controls congress (50/50 shot just by guessing)

81.8% could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing)

82.6% could NOT correctly say that Barack Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off the ballot (25% chance by guessing)

88.4% could NOT correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry and make energy rates skyrocket (25% chance by guessing)

56.1% could NOT correctly say Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground (25% chance by guessing).

And yet.....

Only 13.7% failed to identify Sarah Palin as the person on which their party spent $150,000 in clothes

Only 6.2% failed to identify Palin as the one with a pregnant teenage daughter

And 86.9 % thought that Palin said that she could see Russia from her "house," even though that was Tina Fey who said that!!

Only 2.4% got at least 11 correct.

Only .5% got all of them correct. (And we "gave" one answer that was technically not Palin, but actually Tina Fey)

high school

Stolen from Alishka!!


1. DID YOU DATE SOMEONE FROM YOUR SCHOOL? nope.

2. WHAT KIND OF CAR DID YOU DRIVE? I had no car! sad day :^(

3. DID YOU PASS YOUR DRIVER'S LICENSE TEST YOUR FIRST TRY? yep, thank goodness--my parallel parking left much to be desired

4. WHERE YOU A PARTY ANIMAL? obviously :^P ... just kidding. I think I went to one party during my entire high school career

5. WERE YOU CONSIDERED A FLIRT? nope, I was pretty reserved

6. WERE YOU IN BAND, ORCHESTRA, OR CHOIR? Choir--I was sort of the unofficial section leader of the Chambers altos, all four of us

7. WERE YOU A NERD? absolutely

8. WERE YOU ON ANY VARSITY TEAMS? does Chambers count?

9. DID YOU EVER GET SUSPENDED/EXPELLED? nope, i was too good :o)

10. CAN YOU STILL SING THE FIGHT SONG? never learned it

11. WHO WERE YOUR FAVORITE TEACHERS? Mrs. Salatto, Mrs. Itkin, Mr. Rattan, Mr. Safford

12. WHERE DID YOU SIT FOR LUNCH? the band or choir room

13. WHAT IS YOUR SCHOOL'S FULL NAME? Watkins Mill High School... aka The Mill

14. WHAT IS YOUR SCHOOL'S MASCOT AND COLORS? we were the Watkins Mill Wolverines. The colors were orange and blue

15. DID YOU GO TO HOMECOMING AND WITH WHO? Nope. I went to prom with a good friend.

16. IF YOU COULD GO BACK AND DO IT AGAIN WOULD YOU? Oh heavens. I hated high school.

17. WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER MOST ABOUT GRADUATION? I was the 560th person of 588 and it was so lame. We had it in the Daughters of the American Revolution Hall, right by the White House, and there were a zillion people in there. My high school vice principal cried when I graduated--like, she hunted me down afterwards and as she was congratulating me she cried and thanked me for being the only student that ever said hi or smiled at her in the mornings. It was sad. Hmm. And I think I sang something, like A Moment Like This or... the famous one from Wicked. It was the Wicked song, actually. My robe was white, which was a little lame because you could see the clothes underneath it. Even though people were supposed to not clap until the end, a bunch of really obnoxious families from East Village brought horns and clapper things and would scream when their homies crossed the stage. Ghetto? Uh, yah.

18. WHERE DID YOU GO SENIOR SKIP DAY? My senior semester, every other week had a senior skip day :o) Not officially of course, just in my head :o) You know, the nice thing about being the nice girl is that people just trust you. Everytime I got sick of class, I would just walk out of school and say hi to all the security guards. They would just let me go. And weird: when I went back to visit the Mill in April, one of the security guards called me by name and asked me how I was. I had no idea the security guards knew me that well.

Apparently we were like bffs or something.

19. WERE YOU IN ANY CLUBS? nope, but I did do Chambers and Drama

20. HAVE YOU GAINED SOME WEIGHT SINCE THEN? no!! yay!! I am now skinner than I was in high school!

21. WHO WAS YOUR PROM DATE? Josh D. He was a cutie and we're still friends. :o)

22. ARE YOU PLANNING ON GOING TO YOUR 10 YEAR REUNION? I think it would be super fun, but hard because I took half my classes and graduated with the year ahead of me--I was supposed to be class of '06, but I am class of '05, so that makes it harder. Maybe I'll go to two 10-year reunions! Mostly I would just want to go if I were famous by then

23. DID YOU HAVE A JOB IN HIGH SCHOOL? babysat handicapped kids for free

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Can't find my laptop charger. So you might not hear from me for a while.

Suck that they cost like $100.

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because David tagged me

David tagged me, and I love him, so here goes.


1. I am merely inches away from having Marilyn Monroe's dimensions. Woot. Currently at 37-27-37. She was at 36-24-34. Kind of, I am curvier than her. I am probably inordinately happy about that.

2. I really enjoy soil science. I'm writing this entry from the soils lab. To my left is a text on the interpretation of soil color, and to my right is an industrial laboratory ehrlenmeyer flask set and a syringe machine hooked up to some H2SO4 and some HCL. Yes, that makes me feel cool, LoL.

3. I like writing music. I started writing a new song just the other day, about rain.

4. My new boots only come up to my mid-calf (they're supposed to only be that high), and I'm getting giant blisters on my calves from it. Who knew you could get giant blisters on your calves??

5. The seventh letter of my middle name is E.

6. I'm getting married in 48 days!

7. Sometimes I really just want to drop out of school and get a real job.

TAG:
Carl
Chilly
Kismet Keeper
Alishka

And anyone else who wants to. :o)

i already blogged today, but....

SO CUTE!!! I'm a leader in Nursery, and oh my goodness, I have the cutest little kids ever!! I made friends with a whole bunch today. I've been in there for a month, and they've finally started really getting attached. It's totally cute.

C was running his trucks into little L's face, since L was asleep on the floor. So I had to reprimand C (who's never been very nice anyway), and then L wanted to go to sleep on my lap. During singing time, I had L and G and T on my lap, and then C was running around trying to get on my lap too (sorry, my lap isn't that big), and it was so cute.

But here is the best part: when I left the room to get their snack, they all wanted to know where the Curly Hair Girl went.

Aw!! Yay! They don't know my name, but they know my hair and they care where I go. I have the best calling ever.

my favorite song

Here is an old favorite song from high school, performed by one of my fave all-female a cappella groups, the Loreleis:

family!

Yay family! My mom and nana and brother came out to visit me! They're all still here, too. Sammy has been having a rocking time, coming with me to all my classes. He concluded that classes taught by women are more interesting than classes taught by men. I was sad that he liked Grammar more than he liked Soils. Obviously soils is totally fun.

And with so many family members out and about this week, Carl and I have gotten to eat at Red Lobster twice! Yay! I have so many leftovers in my fridge. It is amazingly fantastic.

Well, the day count is down to sixty--only one month and thirty days until Carl and I are married faces (weird! weird!!). And I got permission to take 19 credits next semester, so I'll be graduating after all, no matter what Daddy thinks. Hooray. I'll be taking:

Persuasive Writing (3)
World Humanities from the beginning of time to the 1500's (it has a different name, actually) (3)
Intro to Organic Chemistry (2)
Doctrine and Covenants second half (2)
Soils and Water Conservation (3)
Logic and Deductive Reasoning (3)
Pesticides and Plants (3)

Is this not a quite exciting schedule? 19 credits, but the D&C course will be online, so I can finish that up during the first week of classes. Yay.

Anyway. Life is good. Stressful. Trying to make everything work. Oh boy.

LOVE!