top ten reasons to vote democrat (in no order)

1.  bush lied, people died.  (even though it can't be proven that he knew anything at all, especially given the other great idea that he is a complete fool)

2.  oil company's make a lot of money, and we are paying a lot at the pump.  (even though they pay more taxes than anyone else, and obama wants to tax them even more.  guess which direction the prices will go after that!)

3.  we need to bring our boys home.  (even though obama has changed his war position to be exactly like mccain's)

4.  the rich are getting richer, while the poor are getting poorer.  (a good thing, followed by a lie.  it is awesome when people get rich, and the standard of living for our poorest is the best it's ever been.  does it really make sense that we should bring the rich down instead of bringing the poor up?  maybe the left really does believe in equality, just that we should all be equally poor and subservient to the government.)

5.  republicans don't care about the environment.  (the free market is producing more fuel efficient cars faster than the time-line given by obama for his plan to require more fuel efficient cars.  it's startling to see how little people understand when it comes to how the free market works.  more regulation in the car industry is just the thing that will drive up the price of cars, and drive down competition in the automobile market;  two things that we really do not need.)

6.  a black guy for president!  (way to move past race, democratic party!)

7.  eh, i give up.

8.  go have your hope orgy and feel good about yourselves.

dallas is dead

i want you to vent all of your political feelings.  i don't want you to hold anything back to be polite.

be completely honest, and hold no punches.

until you can learn to say completely what you really mean, then nothing should be said at all.

fish tacos are serious business

edit:  i'm reaching out.  feed my ego, and embrace me.

no, xanga, i am not chinese.  also, i do not wish to upgrade to premium.

BARACK 666 OBAMA 08!

because making it more profitable for businesses to operate overseas, will bring more jobs to the working-man!

why is this cd so hard to get in the states, or atleast my state?

 the band name (damn arms) isn't even on the amazon tag.

things noticed:  trip-recap to present (in no order at all)

1.  i rarely sweat when i forget to wear deodorant.  conspiracy?

2.  culver's makes the best onion rings known to man.  the ones at ritzy's are fairly legit, but it's all in the batter and the yankees clearly win this fight (may my ancestors forgive me).

3.  we cut through the heart of west texas by taking 84 from I-40 to I-20.  i was able to show jen the lubbock neighborhood and house in which i grew up.  we then stopped by the new jimmy john's that parked itself on the open field of my childhood.  this place was accompanied by a list of modern establishments that no upwardly-mobile area should be without.  my old neighborhood is not upwardly-mobile, but this sort of thing is what you come to expect from lubbock.  painting new lines on a road strewn with gravel, building new bridges over a loop lined with weeds, putting a facelift on a cracked and sagging bone structure.

we visited my grandparents' old house.  it hadn't changed a bit.  i wanted to walk through the front door, set my coloring books and toys down on the hallway table, and give my grandmother a hug like i haven't had for the past five years.  the guy operating the lawn service on the property noticed me slowing down in front of the house.  my grandfather is a stubborn man.  at that house, he was the only one allowed to cut the lawn.  it was what he held on to that kept his routine in line.  his alzheimer's kicked in just around the time my grandmother checked out.  no one was there to make the routine real anymore, and so he slipped into a forgetfulness that has landed him continually slipping in a home in houston.  the house might as well be one of bradbury's back-lot scene props.  it looked like it hadn't changed a bit, but i'm convinced that if i put my finger on the door bell the entire structure would fall back into a cloud of dust.

fields for miles and miles.

4.  flagstaff, arizona is freaking awesome.  we ate at the casa olé snuggled inside a structure making up part of the historic downtown area.  the weather made me want to halt the trip home completely.  maybe i remembered what i was coming home to.

5.  i desperately need my own car.

i'll be off to california on saturday

only to drive back a few days after

this will test me

i was in a car accident on monday.  i've never had an airbag go off on me before, much less both of them.  the only way you would ever know it happened is from the gunpowder burns on my arms, and even those are fading.

my van was a total loss

the kid's truck had a small dent

edit:

i'm fine, nothing life-changing