poly- ticks

Poly- many

Ticks- bloodsucking creatures.

I have a lot of thoughts in my head about all the news coverage of vp hopeful Sarah Palin. This country is sooo fucking backwards sometimes.

First lets address the issue of Palin's 17 year old unwed daughter being pregnant. The religious right wants to capitolize on this as an anti-abortion issue saying "they could have easily snuck off and gotten an abortion in private. So what. They could jusr as easily decide not to. This decision does not a great leader make. The left is pointing out the hypocrasy of an unwed teenage mother in a republucan upbringing. I've got two things to say to this... first, how many parents *mothers or fathers republican or democrat* really have full control over their childrens doings? REALLY?! Second, abstinence only sex ed really works doesn it? Maybe iif the poor girl knew about condoms she wouldn't be the focus of her mothers campaign detractors.

Next...

Sarah Palin is the mother of 5 Cildren. The youngest having down syndrome. People on both sides of the isle want to say she should not be looking to take a position as busy as vp because of this. What the fuck century are we in people? She is not the only parent to these children. Her husband has lef his job so that she might pursue this tremendous opportunity. Yay for stay at home dad! That's what I say. No matter what raising a family isn't easy. Like Hillary said "it takes a village" every family faces its own challenges so why should Palin be disqualified because of this?

If you want a reason not to like her pick a real reason. Like the fact that she is an oil industry insider who's idea of taking on big oil is tearing the a new one for not drilling FAST enough in Alaska. Or maybe that as Mayor of an alaskan city she hired a lobbying firm to get millions of dollars in earmarks and then as a governor under scrutiny for vp decided earmarks and porkbarrel spending is wrong.

I have to say that this is the first time I've been really really disappointed with NPR. I don't think this is religious right had in mind with their "focus on the family" but then, maybe its a cause. Welcome to the new old world.

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idiot patrol

Thurs and friday I had a ride along at work. We have this guy whose sole job is to figure out ways to help people get their routes done faster. Find all the things they are doing wrong out there, so to speak. Since the route change my time has gone up inextricably. And the past month even more because of more circumstances out of my control thus the phone call the friday before stating that he was going to ride with me to see what is going on. I told him over the phone what was wrong with my route and I was told "I bet I can find ways to help you improve." I laughed because, well, I'm one of the people who trained him a few years ago... ha!

So thurs comes and he's there waiting on me. He asks why I start later than most and I tell him most of my customers are mom and pop shops who only staff one person so I try to miss the 5 am- 8 am coffee rush. Makes sense...?

First few stops I just try to forget he's there because he is just standing there watching my every move. Occassionally he asks questions. After a few stores he starts helping me put stuff on the shelves *I guess he wants to get done before midnight.. * he points out a few things I do that he is always having to tell people and I laugh and ask him who trained him. I'm not a smart ass at all..

Day two the start of the day he says a few things about how I do a lot of the things he suggests to people to do to save time already so lets just make it through the day. At the end of the day he says he didn't see any real room for improvement and isn't sure where the extra time is coming from. I tell him I'm overloaded... sigh.

Yesterday morning my boss pulls me aside and hands me a paper. It is the report on the ride with basically saying that I do everything right but could save some time if my truck had more room for aditional shelves. Yeah that'll do it!

So basically, nothing will come of it.

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no thanks

I returned to the world of my NPR addiction this morning to find that John McCain had announced his running mate. Sarah Palin governor of Alaska. After hearing the story I've done a little looking on line and while I think you should all do your own homework I will say that she makes me think "Dick Cheney in a Dress!"

Yeah. NO!

I realize McCain picked a woman to capitalize on the Hillary Clinton supporters who don't want to vote for Barack Obama but most of those women want someone who looks after the things they feel are important to them. Sarah Palin doesn't come off a that person to me at all.


I still am weighing the options but honestly, this is a big blow against McCain in my eyes. Which is kinda sad because when he was running against Bush 8 years ago I really liked a lot of what he had to say. Now he really is seeming more and more like Bush Jr. Goodbye Mavrick. Hello Party line.

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there’s something wrong with the world today

A persn can't do a good deed for someone else without the other feeling as if they owe them something.

I mowed my lawn yesterday and saw that my next door neighbors grass was Knee High *no kidding* and because they are older and their son has been the one taking care of it for them I figured I'd just go ahead because he hasn't been by at all this summer as far as I know *this is the second time I've done this* their son owns a landscaping company and I'm sure this has been a busy summer for him. We've had just enough rain to keep it growing constantly this year.

So later when they saw me taking the dog out and that their lawn and mine was done they'd asked if I'd mowed and offered me money and I told them I didn't want any money and they were starting to get a little insistant and I told them that sometimes people do things for no other reason than to be a good neighbor and help someone when it seems needed.

I've noticed this world is crazy messed up in that the people who are in the worst way rarely will ask for help. Things have to get really bad. And a lot of times people who constantly ask for help are fully able they just don't want to do for themselves. I value random acts of kindness. You might not need the actions that I take ... *there was an instance of that yesterday as well* but I think spreading smiles is important too. I wasn't going to even let this person know but they came home. Oops.

My point today....

Maybe if there were more random acts of kindness there might just be less random acts of violence.

But maybe I'm wrong.

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hmmm

if you weren't who you are

who would you be?

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I found the meaning of life

It is music! It's in everything. How many creatures sing!? Tempos are everywhere. In footsteps. In your breath. The rhythmic clicking... tick tick tocking

The boom boom boom as your heart races!
Its called a beat!

It infects
As it disinfects
It helps to clear a mind
Or sometimes simply remind

It can be a soft embrace
Or a fatal kiss
A twist
In my sobriety

Its a universal guide to pain and suffering
It can't save the world
But it can be a key
But it can also be misused
Abused
Or used to amuse

Mostly, it makes me smile
And, really,
Couldn't life use more of that?

(New demo is done! It shall be released soon... )

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y= youth

Your honor... these two Utes..

These two what?

Utes.. You know..

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Classic. And shock! I referenced a movie! Instead of music! OMG the world is coming to an end.

That just happened to be what came to my mind. I don't have a whole lot to say on the subject of youth. Its subjective as is most everything else in this life. The words that keep folding through my head as I think youth are "You'll never be as young again as you are right now. Enjoy it while you're here"

I'm trying by golly gee whiz..

I'm trying.

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x= xm radio

Are you Sirius?

Soon the answer will be yes. They're merging. I wonder what effect this will have on the programing?

Don't touch my bpm. That's all I'm saying...

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turn down these voices inside my head

Life is funny in how aggrivating and obsurd it can be. Endless cycles of thought crash around in my head searching for a door to emancipation. They are illusions of allusions to a bright life. A life which can't be mine. I know this because the patterns keep repeating in such a way as to be the universe telling me, "ow! That hurts! Stop doing that!" Much swifter are they repeating too. There are other cycles repeating too. Ones that are positive. I'm standing here staring at the fork but there is no spoon, Neo. The forks are plentiful, leaving many tines to trip upon. I wonder if I travel forward with no maps or directions or even a destination unknown, can I ever be lost? Or am I always lost? If I don't know what I have or what I've lost will I always still deserve better? Those words are the crux of pain because the choice is never mine. it speaks louder each time. No more yelling. You're making my head hurt. I follow the 5's. They are more than the tines. And the tides of life that say, if there is no spoon can I have a spork?

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johnny 5 is alive

I'm so thankful I have my Candisepants. *you should go wish her a speedy recovery.. Nothing serious just a minor surgery*

This week didn't take long to make the weekend fade away. My work truck decided it was exhausted and needed a break on monday. Excuse me. Right words. Wrong places. My truck exhaust decided to break monday. Tuesday was a migraine. I left work early that day and took a long nap before spinnin and I felt better when I started but it was back with a vengence by quitting time. Today was catching up from what I missed monday. Tomorrow will be catching up from what I missed tuesday. Friday will be whatever is left that hasn't been caught up on and hopefully saturday will be rest. Wait, no. I promised Joan I'd come see her. I've been neglectful. Life hasn't left me much time to see her. She's out of her cast and metal I think and I believe out of the wheelchair now as well and when I talked to her last she was approved for soonercare so she is getting physical therapy now too. I'll hopefully see saturday.

Anyways, the point of this was, I was feeling beat up from the job and candypants made me feel better. Like she most always does. She was dopey and kinda outta it after her surgery today and that made me laugh and smile because its not out of character at all. Just more funny when she is drugged. Besides that, she's the best kind of bff a girl could ask for.

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