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My stomach contracts, my lungs drain of air; the puke factor comes up.

A mug of caffeinated beverage early in the morning and without the gentling of food definitely makes me feel as if I'm in the midst of a hundred buzzing bees. My intestines are knotting up and I feel literally sick and nauseous. Who ever knew my beloved coffee would betray me so? *weeps*

I love, love, love, love anime. I cannot stop. I must have more. The Big O really has gotten under my skin, along with scores of others, including Wolf's Rain and Witch Hunter Robin. I'm waiting for Last Exile... *holds mouth* Urgh. Going to hurl.

Only the second week of school, and already I'm tired of school and more than ready for vacation to return to my loving and tender hands. Why must our lives be composed of starting always at the lowest rung, moving up, and then repeating the process for the first twenty to thirty years of our lives? Kindegarten to Jr. High, to high school to college and then to graduate school and to the workplace... well, unless you have a wonderful, indiscriminate daddy like Bush Sr who gives everything one may want on a silver platter to his darling little boy, Bush Jr.

Oh, I'm so cranky right now. Well, I'm consoled, because we're reading "Mansfield Park" next week for my 1800-English Lit class. I've read most of Austen's works, except that one, and I'm looking rather forward to it. Due to the influx of papers that will undoubtedly kill me (if none of you hear from me again, it's because I've died by drowning in a massive mountain of books and paper), I plan to write a couple of them earlier so that perhaps I can survive the end of the quarter.

For some reason, my sarcastic wit, once so highly-heralded *laughter amounds* has diminished.

I know. I've gone crazy.

Off to class.

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-_-

For those of us who have railed against Bush Jr ever since he stole (literally, he stole) the election... well, our vindication grows daily. If that's a poor thought for comfort. I have rarely been so completely astonished by Bush's utter stupidity. Human rights aside (which I'll get to eventually, since I actually intended to complete a minor in this for a while), he just completely alienated the middle voting base that possibly might have voted for him in the coming election. But this won't sit well with a majority of the so-called "soccer mom liberal" group, which happens to actually include a lot more than just soccer moms, incidentally enough. They aren't entirely comfortable with homosexuality, but nay, they're not going to vote for someone who blatantly discriminates against them. They have liberal rhetoric on their lips, if not completely rooted in their mind. And as long as they don't vote for Bush and scum-like fellow members, I'm happy to let them stay in their own world.

Bush has managed to stay ahead with a slight (very, very slight) majority approval rating for some of the atrocities he's committed, entirely due to the fact that he's carefully skirted sensitive issues such as the rights of homosexuals in the US, the place of abortion, and so on and so forth. This skirting apparently has caused a backlash, because in signing his name to an official proclamation that next week will be Marriage Week between only men and woman, he has moved himself further to the right. Friends of mine, such as Shirley, who were pretty much ambivalent about the who's the president, will only take a small nudge by friends (or their own moral conscience) to vote for the opposite of Maggot!Bush.

I have a feeling that within a few weeks or months, Bush may try to backtrack slightly and attempt to gang some feelings of kindness from the gay groups with various moves such as providing benefits for live-in couples who aren't legally married (which, coincidentally, also involves heterosexuals). He'll hastily add on that no, he's not really bigoted; he just acts that way. Of course, then the fundamentalist right will howl and accuse him of pandering to the 'liberal and socialist forces at work in our glorious nation', and he may lose votes there too, where tolerance for difference is far lower than one may think.

My father, who does not view homosexuals with much kindness (but as long as they keep out of his way... -_-), will undoubtedly vote not for Bush, simply because he's suffered discrimination, and for discrimination to be heaped on another group will be intolerable to him. The same with my brothers, who could care less about politics and more about girls.

The minority in this nation is white people. I don't think Bush realizes that. Minorities, if singular, yes are less than caucasian as a whole, but when minorities band together, they far outnumber the caucasian group. Indicating that he's also lost a good deal of votes from groups that might otherwise choose him because of his middle ground standing (most of the time). The UN may undoubtedly howl (quietly), and Bush has furnished further proof of our disgusting intolerance and bigotry to the other nations in a stupid move that happened to be near the Matthew Shepard murder. I'm actually pretty sure Bush had no idea that he did that, since the murder was a good deal back and probably is faint in the memories of those who cared little (unlike us).

Interestingly enough: Karl Rove, Condeleeza Rice, and Colin Powell have lost their marbles to allow Bush to make such a statement. It's idiocy as a political move and idiocy as a moral choice.

Whoo.

I'll undoubtedly have more to speak of this, but other LJ entries have more links that will make sense of this senseless political manouever.

All I have to say is a repeat of what I said a couple months earlier.

We all knew this, but let's say it one more time. Bush Sucks like Maggot-Infested-Ground-Meat. Worse. He demeans maggots.

And even worse, he demeans those who demeans maggots. The only difference now is that his entire advisory staff may have the honour of joining him in MaggotEatingMaggot!Kingdom.

I think I *will* order one of the t-shirts that say Republican For Voldemort.

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After a bus-ride home and listening incessantly to Mai Kuraki's "Secret of my Heart", I have discovered nirvana.

No, not really. -_-;;

Now thinking about it; what is it? Bush cannot be simply that stupid to pull something like this less than a year from the new elections, right? Alright, even if he was that stupid, wouldn't his advisors say 'let's wait until you're re-elected to do this'? It would be entirely plausible (if intensely, horrendously painful) that he would be re-elected, and then he could cheerfully throw the constitution out the window along with his basic humanity. The Supreme Court would most likely throw it out on it's ass, but hey, he only has four years left anyways. He's made his mark on history.

So why this particular week, when it's so sensitive to the gay community (hint, Bush, Matthew Shepard die this week five years back. Under very brutal circumstances, if you need a stronger reminder)? Why this week, when it's closer to election time then, say, a year later when all hell breaks lose and Bush Jr happens to 'win' again? What could possibly be his reason other than to please the conservative right? And why now?

It's safe to say that I'm somewhat mystified that he would do this. I mean, he's stupid, but... so are a lot of leaders of both nations and businesses (rather scary actually, but also funny in a morbid-everybody-may-die-from-nuclear-bombs way).

I'm going to convince those of my friends who usually vote Republican to vote Democrat this time around. Unfortunately, I'm West Coast, and West Coast usually votes Democrat anyways (except, occasionally, for Oregon)... so it's you Midwest, Mideast and Southern people who *have* to get the ball rolling. Join (if only temporarily) your local Democrat 'club'. Make up your own information fliers to hand out to passerbys in front of ___________. Make poster; hang them around your high school for the seniors who can vote to vote. Hang them up at the Jr High's so they can possible influence their parents. Complain, complain, complain to your local congresspeople. There are already a number of internet sign-ups that give you detailed information on what to do... I refer to vanityfair who's entry far outstrips mine in usefulness. Things to Do

I sent an email off to Bush. Vitriolic, repugnant... and it may possibly be viewed as a threat, so if I disappear you know what happened. Though I claim that no actual physical violence was written. For I am a pacifist after all.