The following punk-ass so-called “Democrats” are on my list:
Carper (D-DE)
Johnson (D-SD)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Thanks assholes. Thanks for passing this most recent un-American piece of crap legislation. I don’t know how you sleep at night.
1) People who want to blame Clinton for 9/11 when he wasn’t in office at the time. IF he had gotten a memo that said Al Qaeda planned to attack inside the US and IGNORED IT (the way President Bush actually did) then we could blame him.
2) People who want to blame video games for their children’s bad behavior. I can get behind being angry at the industry for advertising violent games directly to minors, but I absolutely cannot blame the industry as though it pulled the trigger. At some point the parents in this country need to take fucking responsibility for their kids.
3) People who say they would rather fight the war on terrorism not on our soil. That they don’t want their children to have to live in fear.
Well. Isn’t it all well and good that American children can feel safe, but Iraqi children are being blown apart left and right. Don’t you think those children’s mothers would rather see “terrorism” being fought not on their soil? How do you think THEY feel now that we’ve completely botched the “liberation” of Iraq and Iraqi citizens live in as much if not more fear than they did under Sadaam?
The sheer selfishness floors me. Of course it’s not the American people’s fault per-se that we’re fighting this war in Iraq. But to say you support the war that is FAILING to get rid of terrorists because it means your children can sleep soundly at night with NO THOUGHT for the people who are being blown up and the innocent lives that are being destroyed every day in the name OUR freedom is short-sighted, selfish and frankly un-Christian. You should be ashamed.
So here I am, in Louisville, Kentucky.
What most of my friends probably don’t know is that the last time I was in Kentucky (as in, actually in the state not just driving through it), I was 10 years old and in fifth grade. I was in Lexington as part of a team from my school competing in some academic competition. I can’t even remember what the subject was anymore – something social studies related, I think. I remember it was hot, we al had a blast staying in a nice hotel and my team did terribly. Not because we’re not smart, I think we were just cautious, not as quick as the other teams, and one of our teammates had a bad habit of buzzing in when he didn’t actually know the answer (or maybe he buzzed in too late every time because he couldn’t remember how to use the buzzer…something like that.) We were 10, what do you want?
Anyway, now I’m in Louisville. It’s a very cute city. I’ve seen very little of the downtown so far, but it looks like it has (and I’m told that it has) gone through a recent revitalization. Lots of new construction. The Kentucky Center that we’ll be rehearsing and performing in looks neat from the outside. I’ll see the inside on Thursday.
So, I really wanted to blog because I just watched the end of season one of Lost and holy crap. Anyone who has already seen it knows what I’m talking about. I want to cry about Charlie, but the minute they found that plane I knew what was coming – I just hoped it wouldn’t. So yeah, this has TOTALLY screwed my netflix queue because now I have to put season two of lost at the top. There are other things that have been patiently waiting that I really want to see that will have to wait a little longer now.
Not much else going on. The stage manager and everyone at the company seem very nice and competent. Apparently the staff at KY Opera has just gone through a huge upheaval and there are rumblings of discontent among the ones that have been around a while, but nothing out in the open. Not sure how that will affect things but probably won’t have much to do with my world. I haven’t worked with any of the singers or artistic staff before. The hotel they put me up in is very nice, I have almost like a studio apartment. When you first walk in there’s a small living room with a desk, TV, armchair and couch. Past that is a small kitchenette and the bathroom, and in the back is my bedroom which is basically a bed, two side tables, a small dresser with a TV and a closet. It’s more or less the same amount of space as a regular hotel room with two queen beds, but the space is used a little differently (and I have a king size bed – geez!) There’s a wellness center right across from the hotel where I have an appointment for a massage Thursday night. REALLY looking forward to that, especially after last week.
