Feb. 24th: A year ago today... Election 2008mania commences!

Ralph Nader announced his umpteenth attempt at running for the presidency.
Sometimes I really want him to win, just to screw everything up.
This time, I'm glad he didn't.

It was just in time for the crazy case of Electionmania to sweep the nation, 10 months before November. Long time, when you think about it! Yet looking back, its as if we all just made a wish, blew out the candles, held onto our dandilions, and blinked.

I've been looking back at old clips of my favorite moments of 2008's election which I was so wrapped up in. My news habits still have not declined, but they have stopped escalating. Before the election, I had every news station (except FOX. I'd only watch that for a laugh) send me text messages to update me on the democratic primaries! People thought I was being some rude popular jerk on my phone all the time - and while I was being rude on my phone so much, it definitely wasn't popular.

From day one, My hopes were behind Hillary. Such is the way of the glass ceiling that she's now sitting in a Secretary job. Perfect, right?
I wonder if she feeds Obama's fish... Nah.

Anyway, This video is great. If you haven't already seen John McCain on the Ellen show, you need to see it now.
Greatest Awkward Moment on Day Time EVER:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7addd1-SY8&feature=related
I love Ellen so much.

"Our love is the same. To me, what it feels like, I will speak for myself, when you say 'well you can have a contract'... It sounds to me like you're saying you can sit there but you you can't sit there. You know?" -Ellen.

I love how John McCain needs to keep using the phrase "respectable disagreements" - its just SO CLOSE to an oxymoron and a lie. Ultimately its just a really good excuse to speak without saying anything, a talent politicians are known for.

Did you notice his laugh at the very end, when he says "Touche, Ellen!"? How creepy does he look there?

Be honest. He's scary!
He looks like/sounds like the guy on the front porch of his grey house in a creaky chair who you don't want to ask candy from on Halloween and your parents nudge you along saying "Ol' Johnny is a war hero!" but this is somewhat irrelavant and you don't really care because you think he hates you for being on his front lawn and for being a person in general so you'd rather pass his house and try to stare without him notice until you're at a safe distance but instead your parents make you go so you walk halfway up until you start to cry and it ruins your clown makeup which makes you even more upset and its a ridiculous time to cry in the eyes of any adult so this man taunts you from his chair and lets out this kind of laugh!
...
Well... I'm sure he's not that horrible. I bet John is normally a very nice, admirable man. But you can't see it when he laughs like that. This is just my opinion at this place in time.


Um...
Anyway! I'm so glad this creepy creepy guy and the ideas he represents isn't in My White House. How about you?

Oh, and I'm glad this crazy crazy lady is as far from the White House as she could possibly be while still on American soil. Although Alaska is still kinda close. Can't she just move to the moon?

Here's a little reminder that its good to be alive in this economy disaster with good old Joe Biden presiding over the senate as VP - and not this nut!!

Dumber then a third grader? Why am I not surprised...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWegdnKWp4M&feature=related

She probably doesn't miss the lost job opportunity -- she doesn't know what it is that shes missing!!!

SPEAK OUT ACT NOW! Vote NO on 1!

"1" is the new "8",
but will "WON" be the new "H8"?
It's up to us!
http://equalitygainesville.com/

Here's a SPEAK OUT ACT NOW related email straight from my buddy Anthony Haynes, HRC organizer. He said it best so I'm just going to copy and paste his call to action!


“Now that we are on the other side of the election and each one of you have been trained on campaign work we have some work to do. There are many opportunities to get involved and many of you are already doing great things, but there is one item that I need to rally as many people around as possible. It is short term work because there is a Charter Amendment up for vote on March 24, 2009. This work can be done from your home. All you need is a computer with internet access and a cell phone. We are working to help HRC's very own Regional Field Director, Sultan Shakir, who has been sent to Gainsville FL to help defeat Charter Amendment 1.

Here is a brief breakdown:
* Charter Amendment 1 eliminates protections against discrimination and makes it legal to fire someone from their job or kick them out of their home because they are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.


* Charter Amendment 1 takes away the City’s power to protect its citizens from discrimination! It prohibits the City Commission from prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, economic status, or political affiliation and gives Tallahassee politicians the sole power to dictate what is best for the citizens of Gainesville.



http://equalitygainesville.com/



In the short term we need as many people working the phones as possible to help fight this awful Charter Amendment. Why help with this Amendment in Gainesville when you live in NY? Simple: what happens in FL effects all of us no matter where we live, and we have HRC members calling from across the country to help defeat this Charter Amendment. All of this work can be done from your home and we will be organizing call centers once a week to work together as a group. If you are interested in helping with this and other efforts here in NY please email me today!

Anthony Hayes
Anthony.Hayes@hrc.org
Human Rights Campaign
Regional Field Organizer"





So ...What are you still doing on this blog? GO TO THE SITE!
http://equalitygainesville.com/




Don't wake up on March 5th feeling like its November 5th all over again!
This world has a funny way of mixing great achievements (President Obama) with devastating loses (Prop. 8) and hey, SEAN PENN WON AN OSCAR!!!
-- We can't risk this one! It has all the tell tale signs!!!



Really, if I didn't think it were big, I wouldn't be saying this:
THEO CAN WAIT, EQUALITY CAN'T! GO HELP OUT NOW!
http://equalitygainesville.com/




My blog will still be here when you're done, k? Promise.
Now, really, time for this: http://equalitygainesville.com/

Thank you all!
Theo.

DAILY DOSE OF 'PHOBE: Spotlight on O'Reilly

Oh really, O'Reilly?

So, to celebrate St. Pat's day a whole month early (why not?) I decided I'd post a video of my least favorite Irish person saying the dumbest, most angering things he could ever say, in my point of view.

This video is a few years old, but it still is one of the few videos on YouTube/moments on TV that leave me truly speechless, because I know once I start screaming about it, I won't stop. So, I'll leave the arguing and screaming and ranting all up to you guys!

DISCLAIMER: Billy-boy here in no way shape or form represents the view of all/any people of Irish ethnicity. I know this because I've dated a few (and yeah, it was an 'inapprorpiate' same-sex relationship:)

Enjoy the fuel for your fires:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj8g031VKj0

WARNING: Keep Weapons And Heliocoptors Away From This Lipsticked Pit Bull

"I shoot a motha' f'ckin moose eight days of the week!"

-Amy Pohler in Sarah Palin's SNL Rap Skit

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/02/ashley-judd-slams-sarah-p_n_163312.html

Dear Actress Ashley Judd,

I commend you, sincerely. You took a stand, you stood out, and you're probably going to get into ridiculous amounts of trouble for it. But you said it anyway! That's whats so great about it.

An example to everyone: It doesn't take a lot to speak your mind. There might be reprocussions, but you can bet you will make an affect. Carry Judd's movement for the rights of animals on!

Eternally grateful,
Theo, and the Wolves of Alaska

NEW YORK: What drugs are the MTA suits on?

"New Yorker Wants Boycott Of MTA After Fare Hike
One New Yorker has a plan to protest fare increases for buses and subways that are expected to wallop commuters next year: He's calling for a one-day boycott.

Louis Kenny has been passing out fliers calling for a boycott on the day fares are expected to go up June 9, 2009. He says people should walk, take a bike or call in sick to work that day instead of relying on public transportation.

The Metropolitan Transportation Agency says it needs to raise fare revenue by 23 percent because of a massive budget shortfall.

In calling a boycott, Kenny says, ''It's time to show the MTA who really runs New York City's public transportation.'' Kenny says the agency should reinstate the 50-cent fare on the Staten Island ferry and charge more for advertising.

If the proposed budget is approved and the state Legislature doesn't come up with more money for the MTA, the service cuts could go into effect as early as June. In addition to fare hikes, the MTA is expected to slash service, which includes subway lines and bus routes. "

[read the full story here: http://wcbstv.com/topstories/subway.fare.hike.2.871128.html]

Break down of fare hikes:
Pay per ride -> $3 (Originally 2$!)
30 day unlimited -> $105 (Originally 70$)
14 day -> $60
7 day -> $32
Express bus -> $6.25*
Access-a-ride -> $6 (300% increase)
*Students will no longer get half fare on Express buses.

--> Theo: Are you kidding me, economy?! You give 50 gajillion dollars to AIG and they go to the Bahama's the next day, but you can't give 2 billion for New Yorker's everywhere to hate the world a little less? Really?
Well, even so. There are other ways the MTA can get their cash back.

THEO's THEORYS (aka Unused Solutions)

• Number 1: SHUT UP. How much money do they spend on telling us a thousand times to watch the f'n gap? There are signs, announcements, advertisements, commercials, videos, and more! How about this: Stop all of that, and just paint on all the doors and floors and walls "CHECK YA SELF BEFORE YOU WRECK YA' SELF: If You Hurt Yourself Out Of Your Stupidity, Don't Sue Us Because You're Stupid."
  How about that? Bet ya' people will be looking at their feet a lot more when they know they can't make a pretty penny out of being a clumsy doofus head.*
  
• Number 2: BE GREEN. Come now, capital of the world! Big apple of the Atlantic, fashion center of the universe, second only to Paris: Since when have you been so behind on the times??? This is beyond fashionably late. Green is the new black. The new everything! There is so much money to be made! And all the hipsters and hippies from Williamsburg to Chelsea are just dying for the day you get a hip pulse and throw out your diesel trains for some solar powered ones!
  Because, that is something we do have over Paris, sunlight. That could be what puts us in a fashionable first place!
  
• Number 3. KNOW FAIRNESS: TRANSPARENCY IS IN, just ask Britney! Take the money you get and show us where it goes. It's easy. Just be more New Yorker like and whine about all the bills you have to pay. I'm sure its tremendous, for all the fuel to transport 8 million people by bus, taxi, and train. And I haven't even started on all the money it kills every time someone holds open a door. I know!
  We're here for you if you need to talk. We're sure its stressful and costly. Tell us all about it, MTA. We'd love to know where your money goes.
  

In the mean time, let's protest this nonsense here, fbookers:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=49896765890&ref=nf

Peace and Protest, mo' fo's!
Theo.

PS: It's noted. I need a Thesaurus. Don't even start on that comment, I'm aware :)

SPEAK OUT, ACT NOW:: Police Brutality in Mass. = HATE CRIME

[I don't suspend disbelief when reading articles and news reports, so read this with a grain of salt, as the source isn't exactly an official news source or anything. BUT then again, with police brutality as bad as this, and as covered up as this - who would want to cover it and face all the legal pressure? The establishment has a lot of money and they can do a lot of damage. Keep that in mind when you decide for yourself what the facts are, and if you think they are face, HELP OUT and SPEAK OUT - Theo]


http://mysite.verizon.net/freebarryscott/provincetown.html


**"To show your disgust for this corruption and disregard for the Constitution, ask Attorney General Martha Coakley to investigate this crime perpetrated by the Provincetown Police. She needs to be held accountable for police and hate crimes!
She can be reached at (617) 727-2200 or via e-mail: Martha Coakley"

[Can we get a phonebank on that number ASAP? If you too, join me in my grievance, then have a pizza party with a few friends who would relate, bring your cells, and make some phone calls. Don't let them get away with this. Once again, HELP OUT and SPEAK OUT - Theo]