McCain lost... so now what?

McCain staffers are now going out and bashing and lying about Sarah Palin. Apparently their plan is to smash her down so McCain does not look bad for losing. They want the public to assume it was obviously that dumb mayor that brought him down.

This boils my blood...



And anyone who says she brought him down is lying or wildly uninformed. Polls show that McCain gained 13% of his votes exclusively from choosing her. And I am one of those votes.

Bright Spots

On a high note, the ballot measures defining marriage as between one man and one woman in Arizona, Florida and California have all won! That is a huge victory for families. And there was another victory in Arkansas where the ballot initiative to ban gay couples from adopting children also won! Those are definitely some bright spots in all that has happened. Also, the Democrats did not get their supermajority in the Senate, so the Republicans still have the filibuster option if they need it.

So It Happened...

We were up until midnight watching the election coverage... and Barack Obama has won the Presidency. It blows my mind that our country would elect an unapologetic marxist with strong fascist tendencies. Well, the sixties radicals have finally taken control of our country. They tried to take it through violence in the '60s, but now they have two of the branches of our federal government and are going to do everything in their power to seize the third. We will just have to wait and see what happens.

I Did the Deed

I got up this morning and voted before work. The line was pretty long, I had to wait about thirty minutes, not so long compared to some lines but still longer than I have ever waited at this polling place. I cast my ballot for McCain/Palin, Charlie Dent, Mike Welsh, and Tom Corbett among others. Though this has been a very disappointing election season (also terrifying!), I was at least excited about voting for Tom Corbett. He is running for State Attorney General and he has a hard core record of prosecution. He is willing and has a record of holding even Harrisburg politicians to account for their illegal activities. Also he is a hard-liner against child molestors. We will see what happens. I can not say I was excited to vote for John McCain, but I was thrilled to be able to vote for Sarah Palin. A vote for McCain is a vote to bring that incredible woman that much closer to the White House. Now I just need to get through the rest of the day so I can go home, relax, listen to the coverage and pray for the best outcome. This day is taking too long, I am definitely ready to be home.

My Critters

I love critters, whether bugs of small animals or whatever! I seem to find them everywhere I go, and whenever possible I like to snap a picture. Unfortunately I don't have pictures of the 20 live bees I once caught and put inside a jar or a few other fun moments, but these are still some fun ones.



I caughts this spider at work. I brought it home but Hannah was not as thrilled by it as me :-)



This lovely beast fell from the tree to his death. He looks pretty comfy here, though, almost like he was just sleeping... oddly enough, another squirrell dropped down dead a couple days later.



This was a neat grasshopper type bug I found on the hood of my car. It was far too cool to not get a picture of.

Here is another spider I caught at work.

I love walking sticks, and here is one I found at work.

Here are some walking stick I found that were mating. (The fat one on the bottom is the female)

I never quite figured out what this was. It was obviously alive but its face looked painted on rather than actually being a face. To be perfectly honest I do not even know if that was his face! But that goofy tongue looking thing made this bug too cool to pass up.

Hannah and I were driving in Florida when this little guy walked out from under our hood and onto our windshield. He was able to hold on until we reached 55 mph.

I still have not figured out what this thing is... :-)

I found this dead snake on the driveway at work.

This is a live snake I recently caught at work.

This wasp is an old friend of mine. I caught him across the street from the Warehouse in our barn location. Rather than kill him, I stuck him to a box with two nails squeezed against his waist to keep him in place. I visited him ever time I went to the barn, was able to pet him and watch his stinger pop out and go back in. Then after three weeks of being stuck there, he died. It was a sad day when I came in and realized he was gone. But he still sits there stuck to the box to this day. It has been over a year.

Here is a field mouse I caught today. I saw his scurrying across the driveway at work so I chased him down and stepped on him... which was enough to kill him. So I bagged my game and showed it off around the shop.

My Head Is Going To Explode!!!

That is my post.

The "Tragedy" of the Civil Rights Movement

Audio was just uncovered of Barack Hussein Obama in 2001 where he said the following:

"You know, if you look at the victories and failures of the civil-rights movement, and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to vest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples. So that I would now have the right to vote, I would now be able to sit at a lunch counter and order and as long as I could pay for it, I’d be okay, but the Supreme Court never entered into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society.

And uh, to that extent, as radical as I think people tried to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution — at least as it’s been interpreted, and Warren Court interpreted it in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties: [It] says what the states can’t do to you, says what the federal government can’t do to you, but it doesn’t say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf.

And that hasn’t shifted, and one of the, I think, the tragedies of the civil-rights movement was because the civil-rights movement became so court-focused, uh, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change. And in some ways we still suffer from that."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck