First Iowa:

“You guys don’t understand. You’ve already lost. My generation doesn’t care.”
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“No, Senator McKinley, I will not co-sponsor a leadership bill with you.”

Gronstal blocks amendment to reverse Iowa marriage equality
Great theater, if you haven’t seen it, which is highly unlikely I know, check it out.

HT Jacob, and a thousand others.

Then Vermont:
Vermont legalizes gay marriage with veto override

Now, for certain, The American Idol:

I do whatever I can to stay away from Idol or anything like it, but I have two roommates living with me until the end of May, and as soon as I heard this blasting out of the living room I had to go in and listen. I’ve always loved this song, always preferring the Gary Jules Donnie Darko version. This worked for me.

So yeah, a day of the standing O.

I get so choked up and teary eyed over this stuff, I was born in Vermont, I eat corn from Iowa, and I live in America.

peace

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The pundit women, more relaxed, all chilled out, stating the facts and using their reasoning skills to make their points. There wasn’t one heavy breathing fast talker among them, and not one looked like a dog trying to get untangled from her chain.

You go girls.

Contrite, I sadly recall making fun of the Iowa Cock Us. Iowans obviously know what they are doing, and can’t be bought, unless you’re selling ideas, and change.

Remember, it’s the transference of ideas to function that matters – a whole other ballgame. After all we are speaking of cock uses and politics here, it’s only fitting to mention ball games, with baseball players second only to politicians when it comes to telling lies with poker straight faces.

OK, so that was a stretch.

Snake oil salesmen, John Edwards and Mitt Romney placed second. The transcendent candidate, for the Democrats, triumphed

Blah, blah, something, something, Evangelical Republicans…

Obama gives great word though, doesn’t he?

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Young
educated
and smart
we believe
a physical
and ideological
evacuation
of “Washington”
is long overdue.

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Oh the games people play now
Every night and every day now
Never meaning what they say now
Never saying what they mean

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The Iowa cock us takes place in less than twenty-four hours. You know the event, the one where the reasonable, educated, informed, rural, white, Iowans take the helm at representing a country full of reasonably educated, informed, rural, white Americans. Iowans place their stamp of approval on a candidate by voting, in a very specific early evening time frame. If you are working, an invalid, unable to make it in that very specific early evening time frame, or serving in Iraq you are not part of this privileged crowd. In the aforementioned cases you will be unable to take part in the first a major electoral event of the season, one which might serve as an early indication of which candidates for President might win the nomination of their political party at that party’s national convention.

Speaking of butt crawling, I have had friends or family crawling up mine for over a week. This trend continues for a few more days. I love it because my mother has all of a sudden learned to cook excellent vegetarian meals, like the one prepared and waiting for me when I returned home this evening after I, the lowest of the low on the totem pole of life, schlepped home from work in sub zero wind chill conditions. My mother was always a vegan, but she never really cooked much, when she did it was not pretty. I have been fed and impressed this week with a variety of what she calls “stews”.

I’m not thrilled that there always seems to be someone behind me when I am on the computer, very disconcerting, and the reason this post was not posted six hours ago. I’m enjoying the time spent with family and friends though, so much that I am sure I will be able to tolerate it a few more days.

Peace

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