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felis_ultharusSo today's the eve of the American election. I guess that means that obsession will be over for me, but Quebec's government is expected to call a general election tomorrow.
After that, there won't be an election for me to obsess over until the Montreal elections in late 2009, unless one level of government falls in the meantime.
Obama's grandmother died yesterday. The fact that creepy Republicans conspiracy theorists are coming out of the wordwork and screaming that Obama killed her to cover up something related to his birth certificate just makes me like them even less -- and I didn't think that was possible.
John McCain, meanwhile, was born in a place that isn't even American territory anymore (Panama Canal Zone) and you don't see anyone trying to get him disqualified.
Meanwhile, many blogs and newspapers are carrying a story in their man-bites-dog sections about a witch doctor neighbour of Obama's other grandmother who cast the bones to predict and Obama victory.
Kenya and witches have been coming up a lot this election -- even more than lipstick on pitbulls and pigs. First it was Sarah Palin belonging to a witch-hunting church, and crediting her Alaska gubernatorial victory to a prayer from Kenyan witch hunter Thomas Muthee. Their church claims to fight witchcraft with miraculous effects brought about by prayer.
I wonder if Muthee and Radima have ever met? Probably not, but it would be interesting. Maybe the American election should be determined by an anime-style, apocalyptic battle of magic between the two.
Hell, it makes about as much sense as the electoral college system.
After that, there won't be an election for me to obsess over until the Montreal elections in late 2009, unless one level of government falls in the meantime.
Obama's grandmother died yesterday. The fact that creepy Republicans conspiracy theorists are coming out of the wordwork and screaming that Obama killed her to cover up something related to his birth certificate just makes me like them even less -- and I didn't think that was possible.
John McCain, meanwhile, was born in a place that isn't even American territory anymore (Panama Canal Zone) and you don't see anyone trying to get him disqualified.
Meanwhile, many blogs and newspapers are carrying a story in their man-bites-dog sections about a witch doctor neighbour of Obama's other grandmother who cast the bones to predict and Obama victory.
Kenya and witches have been coming up a lot this election -- even more than lipstick on pitbulls and pigs. First it was Sarah Palin belonging to a witch-hunting church, and crediting her Alaska gubernatorial victory to a prayer from Kenyan witch hunter Thomas Muthee. Their church claims to fight witchcraft with miraculous effects brought about by prayer.
I wonder if Muthee and Radima have ever met? Probably not, but it would be interesting. Maybe the American election should be determined by an anime-style, apocalyptic battle of magic between the two.
Hell, it makes about as much sense as the electoral college system.
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Date: 2008-11-04 08:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-11-04 08:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-11-07 06:48 pm (UTC)But reading that stuff by those McCainites was like peeking into the mind of an unmedicated psychotic.