Chlorinating the Gene Pool

Charlie and I watched The Darwin Awards this evening. I learned that many accidental deaths are caused by:

1. Unregulated military surplus
2. Second children who do stupid things to get attention
3. Drug and alcohol use

After the movie, I viewed the Darwin Awards website and I can’t believe how stupid some people can be! And don’t forget to check out the Honorable Mentions: stories of stupid people who actually survived their own attempts to chlorinate the gene pool.

Someone in the chatroom last night claims Barack Obama said in a Barbara Walters special as saying he was going back to his Muslim roots. The entire special is on ABC website, but without captions, I can’t verify this. Almost everyone I know that didn’t want Obama as president is STILL playing into that fear game. The saddest thing is, most of these people claim to be “Christians”. Whatever happened to “there is no fear in love” and “perfect love casts out fear” ?

Why is it so difficult for people to believe that Obama and his familiy are Christians? I know plenty of people who claim to be Christians but don’t live a Christian life in any way, shape or form. I don’t think Jesus would get drunk, have sex outside of marriage, or think up new ways to bully people. And what’s wrong with our political leaders being Muslim anyway? America was founded on religious freedom and one of the greatest things about living here is the diversity of cultures, races and religions.

I haven’t done much today except CRAMP. So the better part of the day was spent in bed. Almost 2 years after my Novasure surgery was done, I still have problems but no where near as bad as they used to be.

Small Talk

What do I say? For someone with the handle “chattycathy” I haven’t been very talkative lately. I’m usually very quiet at work because I’m trying to stay out of everyone’s business…and to not get involved in any drama. I miss the chat room more than you’ll ever know because it was the one place I could have spontaneous conversations with a group. I snuck into Places – OKC the other day and 2 things stood out. They talk a lot about weird shit like having fingers up their assholes and a chat room regular is squatting in there as well as in her member-created room.

Geeze.

I know some of the people in the Places-OKC room talk nasty for the shock factor, trying to run off the “old people”. All I have to do is click ignore if it bugs me, so no biggie there.

But how pitiful is it when someone squats in two different chat rooms? Afraid you’re going to miss something?

Ok enough of the small mind bullshit.

Last night, Charlie and I watched Bill Maher on HBO. John Mellencamp was on as well as (former) Senator Mike Gravel and US Ambassador Barbara Bodine. I didn’t watch all of it but they talked about Iraq and how the Dubya administration totally fucked that country up. They all had different opinions and ideas about what happened and should happen. (I can’t remember it all now! But you can check out the Real Time with Bill Maher website if you’re interested.)

Senator Mike Gravel

Mike Gravel was awesome. He’s 77 years old and he’s “hip” to the reality of how life works, not some dreamer who has plans and ideas that can never be put into action. I liked him. (He’s running for President in 2008.)

There’s nothing to win in Iraq. They’re dying in vain. They died in vain in Vietnam and they’re dying in vain now!

– Mike Gravel

US Ambassador Barbara Bodine

Barbara Bodine was cool and calculated and she can get her point across without acting like an idiot. I can tell I’ve been on AOL too long for damn sure if I’m impressed with that. When asked by Maher why Iraq is still such a mess (Bodine was the Coordinator for Central Iraq in early 2003), she explained the Bush Administration removed anyone with experience in restructuring and replaced them with inexperienced 20-somethings. Basically, the Bush Administration wants to turn Iraq into a mini-USA. And to do that, Bush has to get rid of any opposition.

I know I’m not an expert at politics, just thought I’d share what I saw on the show last night. It’s worth watching and it’s entertaining at the same time!