One More Thing

I just watched an interview from the Colbert Report on the 18th. Meghan McCain was on and I really like her, despite being extremely liberal.

Here's a CNN article about it and you can watch the interview below.

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Rock the Vote!

Vote. Do it. Everyone who's anyone is doing it. *peer pressure*



NOTE: If the video isn't done loading onto youtube, I am sorry. I have to run, so check back in a bit to see if it works then.

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One Day More

In high school, awebunch of my friends (and my sister!) and I were in Les Miserables. While everyone ended up getting bronchitis and, in fact, being miserable, it was one of the funnest experiences of my life. SO, imagine my happiness while surfing Funnyordie.com (run by Will Ferrell and his friends - think YouTube but all comedy) today and finding this lovely video.

See more funny videos at Funny or Die

I'm spreading it around like wildfire. Palin as Madame Thenardier is amazingly awesome. Honestly, I think this is the best video since... umm... the press conference over Yost getting fired yesterday?

Politico!

Okay, so I had a million pages to read over the weekend in between working and all that fun stuff. Funny enough, part of my homework was to look up things about women in the news. I decided to look around the election areas to find some issues that obviously exist and are being pushed in everyone's face.

I think it's interesting to note that, in just about every teen pregnancy, we always get mad at the girls - like they could've done something to fix it... I really hate this double standard crap.

We were comparing issues that Palin and Clinton have been faced with in this campaign in my American women history class today, and comparing those to any issues that Obama and McCain have faced so far. Obama was criticized for the church that he attends and Rev. Wright's views. Palin's (former, but only because of her move to Juneau) church has some issues too. Sure, some people might see Obama's church as racist. I see Palin's former church as sexist and ignorant. Oh, and ignore the errors in the article... :)

If you don't like McCain, you can look up some of his short-comings here. However, if you have issues with Obama, click here.

EDIT: If you want information on the misconceptions surrounding Palin, here's yet another page from factcheck.org that Theron found.

You can expect to see more frequent blog postings as I nail down a real schedule here... Ohhh bad pun wording by the religious studies major...

Don't Get Stationed At Ft. Bragg

There's a female soldier missing from the North Carolina military base. Authorities found her home burned, with the fire out, but no trace of Second Lieutenant Holley Wilmunc. She was assigned to the base hospital in the mother and baby ward. The only real lead that police have is that a neighbor saw a man running from the area Wednesday night before the fire started. Well, that and she's going through a divorce from her husband, whom she's filed domestic abuse charges against, stationed at Camp Lejeune. One of my uncles was stationed at Fort Bragg once upon a time. He's a crazy a**hole - coincidence?

Fritzl's daughter/dungeon lover is being questioned about her 24 years in their basement. She and the kids are all doing quite well, especially in therapy.

Teen pregnancies have gone up for the first time since 1991. Again, I need to emphasize the need for comprehensive sexual education. Sure, almost everybody knows about condoms, but many teen boys will refuse to wear them, which cause problems for those girls. They don't really know about other contraceptives or birth control methods other than the pill. If they knew about female condoms or other products/techniques, I'm sure that the rates wouldn't be going up quite as bad. Then again, I'm no longer a teenager. I did stupid things for past boyfriends, things that I knew could possibly hurt me - and did - but any girls will do anything to feel loved, especially with low self-esteem.

And in creepy news, McCain is in Wisconsin today, holding a women-only public forum. I wonder why he's there then...

Politics Anyone?

I'm sorry, but Jesse Jackson should learn to keep his mouth shut. Honestly, if you're a self-proclaimed spokesperson for a whole race, you'd think that you'd watch your mouth a little better. I definitely would. He made a very rude comment about Barack Obama during an interview the other day after the camera had cut away and he "didn't know the mic was still on." He whispered to the person sitting next to him that Barack has been talkin' down to the black people and that he wants to just "cut his nuts off."

I'm sorry, but um, is that diplomatic? Is that going to help you out in any way possible, even if it's not aired? Is it going to win you the respect of the person sitting next to you? I think not. Moreover, even if the mic wasn't still on, there's still the camera mic which would've picked up that comment I'm sure.

Now he's apologized for his comment, citing that he is not jealous of Obama as some analysts would claim. However, he has also said that it's a part of his anger over Obama's comments that black men need to step up and be there for their children. I agree that Obama's comment there wasn't really one that I would've made on my run to the White House, but maybe if we took the race part out of it? I think fathers of all colors, nationalities, and socioeconomic backgrounds need to be there for their kids, need to man up and assume the responsibilities of being a father instead of just enjoying the niceties of making the babies.

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Ah, and on the other side of the fence, we have McCain dodging a question asked by one of his own campaign members:

"Let me give you a real, live example, which I've been hearing a lot about from women. There are many health insurance plans that will cover Viagra but won't cover birth control medication. Those women would like a choice," she said Monday.

"I certainly do not want to discuss that issue," the Arizona senator said aboard his "Straight Talk Express" bus in Ohio, according to the Associated Press.

After praising President Bush’s efforts to expand faith-based programs, McCain pivoted: “I also think that we should do everything that we can, and one of those in my view is respect for human life both born and the unborn.”

So women aren't allowed to take birth control but men can get hard even when they're 85 and their heart is in no condition for sexual activities? That just simply makes no sense. I can understand not wanting to lose the conservative vote, but you gotta try to get the feminist vote a bit if you expect to 'reach across the aisle.'

In essence, I will always make less than my husband, my insurance will be less (thank goodness), I will be expected to work hard on my education and career AND do house chores and raise the children seemingly single-handedly, but I might not be able to get birth control on my insurance because the conservative party thinks I'll be killing babies?! Maybe the human life quote was a bad move. If the egg doesn't get fertilized or doesn't attach to the wall, I'm not killing babies by taking birth control because then I'll just have a normal period.

If someone is making a choice that does not affect you but only themselves, then why protest that choice? So if I'm in an abusive relationship and I don't feel like I can get out, but I then get pregnant, I can't get an abortion and protect my unborn baby from the hellish life they'd live getting abused? Or if I'm raped and get pregnant, I can't get an abortion? Or if the baby is a product of incest? That's always a stickler in the states that require parental consent for children under 18 to get an abortion.

And homosexual people can't marry the ones they love in most every state because it bugs other people? I love how people cite the Bible for that, when it also says that slavery is good, as are polygamy and other cruel and gross things. I don't get why it really bugs anyone. It's not like people are forcing each other to be gay and get married, and it's not like it's bugging anyone at all. Britney Spears can get married in Vegas for mere hours or people can get married minutes after meeting, but people who actually love each other and want to be together for the rest of their lives can't get married because it gives other people the creeps. I'm sorry, but that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

I really hope that soon people can open their eyes and think about the harm that they're doing to other people by being so prejudiced. Maybe then the world can be a better place.