Jesus is My Friend?

I know it's been a while since I've posted anything.  Another couple of crazy weeks.

I will post something something about the election two weeks ago - and yes, I'm pretty darn happy with the outcome.  I'm disappointed in California but we'll see what happens there.  More later.

Until then, amuse yourselves with the following video.  The words to the song are really enough to make this worth watching, but these people are total givers and have provided SO much more.  I love the guy on the middle on the guitar (or bass?  whatever...) - he's totally into it!  I love the back-up singers - especially the woman on the left and the man in the right.  The poor male back-up singer on the right clearly does not want to be there!   Check out 1:08 of the video for a fabulous view of the female back-up singer on the left.  It's like one of those viral videos people send around where you have to look very closely for something and then a scary picture flashes up on the screen with a loud noise that makes you crap your pants.  1:08 of the video might have the same effect on you.

The hands down best part of the video without a doubt is 1:49 through 1:56.  You will see why I love it.   Here's a hint: Zap!

More thoughts on the election

Undecided voters?  Undecided?  How could anyone still be undecided?

David Sedaris, writing in the New Yorker, nailed this topic perfectly - much better than I could have, so I will just quote him directly.

To put them [undecided voters] in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest you in the chicken?” she asks. “Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?”

To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.

Maybe you've already heard that little snippet, but I recommend that you read the whole piece.  He's hilarious and it's worth the read.  (I loved his latest book as well.)

He makes a very interesting point at the end of the article.  He says, "calling yourself a maverick is a sure sign that you’re not one" which I couldn't agree with more.  It's like calling yourself "cool".  If you need to remind people that you're cool, you're probably not.

A Presidential Memorial in San Francisco

Not surprisingly, I love this.  Voters in San Francisco have a measure on their ballot called Proposition R to name a San Francisco landmark after George W. Bush.  You might be surprised by this considering how liberal San Francisco is, until I tell you that the "landmark" they want to name after George W. is a sewage treatment plant.

The other reason that this is appropriate is that from ground level the plant looks like a bunch of big boobs.  

Big boobs for the biggest boob in the nation.

Yes on Prop R!!!

Vote NO on Question 1 in CT

http://www.ctvoteno.org/home 

This election is freaking me out.  I realize that you might never know that considering that there's been next to no discussion about it here.  It's not that I have nothing to say about the election.  Oh, have I got stuff to say!

It's just that in the rare and brief opportunities that I've actually had to blog over the last little while, there’s been so much I want to let loose on that it overwhelms me and I don’t know where to start.  I also expect that once I start I won't know where to stop the rant.

There is one issue in CT that needs to be addressed before the election Tuesday.  Tuesday?!  It’s going to be a tense few days.

There is a question on the ballots in CT to open up the State Constitution to changes.

"Shall there be a Constitutional Convention to amend or revise the Constitution of the state?"

Sounds innocent enough, right?  Unfortunately, it’s not nearly as innocent as it sounds.  While I agree that any state or country constitution could occasionally stand to be reviewed and revised, this initiative is being sponsored by groups that eventually want to have state referendums to prohibit abortion and to block our newly won access to gay marriage.

One of the groups supporting the Constitutional Convention is the catholic church.  There have been some TV ads that they sponsored and I noticed that at the end of the ads where they are required by law to identify who is paying for the ad, the writing was so small that you couldn’t make out what it said.  It was almost like the catholic church was trying to sneak the ads out there without appearing to be responsible for them.  Hmmm. 

I have noticed that more recent airings of the ads have included the statement that the ads are sponsored by Connecticut catholic conference.  Apparently, someone called them on it and made them change the font so people could actually read it!

What I really want to know is how the church’s involvement in a political issue affects their status with the I.R.S. which prohibits organizations that accept tax deductible donations from having getting involved in political campaigns.

If the Constitutional Convention passes and they start having referendums, maybe the first referendum to push for is a vote to make churches pay taxes.

Anyway, vote NO on Question 1 on Tuesday!