Random Thoughts

I just got a new cell phone and have spent the past two days trying (unsuccessfully) to figure out how to transfer music on to it. That's the reason why I got the phone. I've come to the conclusion that either I'm stupid or I need a memory stick to make it work. It's been driving me crazy all weekend.

Let me preface this next thought by saying I admit to being almost retarded when it comes to economics and how "wall street" works. This week our government bought 80% of A.I.G by loaning it like 85 billion dollars. The government "nationalized" a private company that was failing because of it's mismanagement and risk taking. I guess our Republican president is now a socialist. Where is the republican party's outrage? If it was a Dem that did this, they'd be calling for his head on a stake. I guess Republicans don't want government involved in the free-market until they want a bailout for not running a successful company. What a fucking mess we're in.

Yesterday Lily was in the backyard playing with two buckets of water. She had a doll outside and was putting it in the different buckets, playing nicely. The doll is not really a doll as much as it is a doll head with a stuffed lobster body. My mom gave it to her and I have no idea why someone made such a strange doll. Anyway, because most of it is stuffed animal, it became heavy from all the water and she started screaming because she couldn't lift it out of the water. So I go to pull it out and when I do, I look down into the water and there is a huge black widow spider just swimming in the water. I swear I had a heart attack. She was just playing right there with a poisonous spider. I killed it with a little tykes shovel. It was crazy.

There is a very good article about Sarah Palin in the new issue of Rollingstone. It's called "Mad Dog Palin" by Matt Taibbi. Every right-winger ought to read it. It makes me sick how this woman was just accepted with open-arms by the right, particularly white christian women. Our society is sick and I don't know if there is even a cure for it anymore. I'd also recommend watching Bill Moyer's Journal on PBS if you have the chance. He discusses what's happening with our economy with 3 experts. It didn't have a partisan feel to it. I really like Bill Moyers. I wish he was our president.