Sunday: Working away -- or trying to . . .

[liamstliam]

1. Even before I got to start the 14-item to-do list, I had to add a 15th. Now that the buckwheat, blueberry-chocolate chip pancakes are made and eate, and alethea_eastrid is happier, I will start on the kitchen.

2. Later, still not much done. For specific reasons, I would like to be listening to the Yankees-Orioles game right now. Instead, I am listrening to the play-by-play of the Pope holding Mass in Yankee Stadium. "The Pope just said 'Boston' very quietly here in Yankees' Stadium." [Pettite's perfect game ended with two out in the fifth anyway.]

3. I am fascinated by the Wii Fit, but they are doing it wrong. You need a "Bad Dreams" game, where you are running away from wolves while wearing socks on a freshly waxed floor (luposlipophobia) or a jumping game where you have to get away from snakes or something else like that.

4. The dishes don't seem to be doing themselves.

5. It completely boggles my mind that according to a recent poll, 10 percent of Americans think Barack Obama is Muslim. I don't want Hillary Clinton to win, and I especially do not want her to win because people are stupid.

6. OK. So one of the comparisons between the two candidates in Pennsylvania was: How were they doing among beer drinkers? It was even, by the way.

Comments

[anastasiav.livejournal.com]

It completely boggles my mind that according to a recent poll, 10 percent of Americans think Barack Obama is Muslim.

He was raised in a Muslim household (his stepfather was Muslim). But who, exactly, has escaped the news about his Pastor recently? Do they think Pastor is a title used by Muslim clergy?

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

I bet if you asked people if his "pastor" was Muslim, a lot more than 10 percent of the folks would think he was.

It's a soap-box issue, but it is *so* hard to properly teach religion in the public schools, and many teachers are scored to try it.

[nicolaa5.livejournal.com]

The worst thing about the Obama-Muslim scarelore is that the implication is that it's un-American to be Muslim (with the assumption that there are really only two kinds of Muslims: the terrorist kind and the oil-sheik kind), and the corollary implication that the only religion it's OK to espouse if you're a politician is Christianity, preferably a fairly expressive evangelical brand.

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

And to those folks, Mormons are certainly not Christians.

But..

[sarahshevett.livejournal.com]

No matter who gets elected, people are stupid.

Re: But..

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

You win all of the Internets.

[paquerette.livejournal.com]

There seem to be more Obama signs in my county than Hillary signs. I think Ron Paul signs are more than half of all political signs, followed by Obama, followed by Hillary. Something like that. We're one of the few very Republican counties in PA, I think.

I have never actually combined blueberry and chocolate chip in the same pancake. How was it? It sounds like a really good idea.

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

We usually uses raspberries.

[albreda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have to say that I actually sort of LIKE the idea of having to pass a test to be able to vote. Bias is equally stupid though, so I guess I'd rather be stuck with stupid.

(BTW - I teach BIOLOGY and wind up explaining religion (the whole creationism thing, and other world cosmologies). I can't see that it is really all that hard...)

[laurensa.livejournal.com]

Dishes are annoyingly stubborn about doing themselves. I always surrender and do them myself, but someday I shall outlast them! Mwa hahaha!

10% of people also think Rush Limbaugh is a wise, educated, learned person and therefore we should all follow his lead and vote for the person he says we should. Cause otherwise they might have to THINK and we all know how hard that is.

There is a local radio talk show host whose idea of show prep is to listen to Limbaugh and Hannity and then spew it forth on his show, almost verbatim. When he isn't doing that, he is reading the paper. On the air. To the audience.

[murasakinoyoroi.livejournal.com]

I especially like his "bra size inversely related to IQ" theory.

I am not remotely well endowed, and I think he is full of it, therefore according to his theory...

[jtdiii.livejournal.com]

Liam, that same 10% also thinks they found weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq...

[gwenlianna.livejournal.com]

They were there... really... But the nasty nasty evildoers... they are sneaky, and hid them so well that the security forces couldn't find them. We were too smart for them though, and just KNEW they had to be there... And if you don't believe that you're un-American, and might be a terrorist yourself.

;-)

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

I am glad there is a voice of reason here.

Sometimes I find that quite hard to explain to people.

;)

**poke poke** (OT)

[ladymorgaine.livejournal.com]

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