The Bushes! The Bushes! GOoooooOOOooo Bushes!



... actually I am fairly certain he's not Satan but nothing else really seemed appropriate.

Currently listening : All That You Can't Leave Behind By U2

Labels: joke, politics, random, rant

First, I've been spending a lot of time at work. 10 hours today, for example. This has been for a variety of reasons. First, I've been doing graphic designs for Maloney's. They are very difficult to work with, because of short notices, long feedback lead time, and other demands. Second, I've been transferring music archives and making new daytime music lists. I'm also training new DJs because I'm hoping to become a barback, because I desperately need the money.

Second, money as mentioned - my current budget has me making $10 less than I need per day, every day.

Third, I've spent a lot of time up in Phoenix with my grandparent-in-law trying to get Rachel's truck working. This is so that I don't have to come home at 3am, only to take her to work 4 hours later, and then our friend AZ a few hours after that, and then take Rachel home again. It's between 1 and 3 hours of driving every day, and that is insane. Especially the amount of gas we use doing it. Despite her having a vehicle with much worse gas mileage (17 compared to 25 mpg), it's only one trip. Not to mention the gratification of independence. Even with the extra insurance every month we'll still save money on gas.

Also a few random life events; Our friend Jessy had her second baby. I've been trying to get serious about my 4th album. I've been updating my resume and sending out for a 'real' full time graphic design job.

In so many words: I've been fucking busy.

Labels: cars, gas, money, work

Labels: design, music, quiz, TV

Labels: Impulse Nine, music

I GOT A BIG TV NOW COS I RULE RAWR!

Actually Rachel got it from work on our trade credit so we got a 27" TV in exchange for a bunch of crap we didn't want anyway and that rules so once again RAWR I/WE RULE.

Especially because this is in the middle of a massive financial crisis. I love the idea/irony of getting the biggest TV of my life a few hours after telling a credit agency to go #%*!! themselves because I (honest to God) didn't have the money.

Currently listening : In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 By Coheed & Cambria

Labels: credit, money, TV

Labels: anecdote, demo, Ignition, Impulse Nine, mp3, music

I want to say first that, cynical as I've become, you've always surprised me with your candid, sensible approach to governing. I understand your decisions - even when I dont agree with them. You have a supporter if youd like to become President.

I have three things I'd like to point out to you: taxes, energy, and Jon Stewart.

I believe IRS Commissioner Mark W. Everson has done well and deserves the money to continue properly taxing. In particular, I would love to see the evasion of taxes involving mutual funds, off-shore accounts, etc, come to an end. People like me, who can't afford anything we havent fought bitterly for, feel cheated when shown things like this:

"On March 30, 2004, Congress was told that 78 percent of known tax cheats in investment partnerships are not even asked to pay because there are not enough tax collectors to go after them. While letting rich tax cheats run wild, Congress did finance a crackdown on the poor. The working poor, most of whom make less than $16,000, are eight times more likely to be audited than millionaire investors in partnerships." (source)

Let him do his job well, and the deficit will be cleared just that much faster.

Energy. I have never been so sad and yet grinned so wide when I read your statements (1, 2)about the Energy Bill. In all seriousness - THANK YOU for recognizing it for what it is. More importantly, thank you for recognizing that what weve done so far is inadequate, in particular with fuels and ethanol (gasohol). Most of the current solutions involve one of two things: New forms of transportation (electric, hybrids) or radically modifying our current cars (bio-diesel). I applaud your work with Senator Lieberman on encouraging new technologies. However, while new technologies should be employed in new vehicles, consider the ratio of new vehicles to old. It will be a long time before the new-technology vehicles are enough in number compared to old-technology for them to do significant good.

What we need is something that will run relatively clean on current and older cars. Weve spent $200 Billion on Iraq why dont we give $20 Billion to scientists from DuPont, Harvard, and the military and say make a substance that burns at a spark smoothly at 92 octane, does not freeze above -20 degrees F, nor evaporate below 140, and runs my 62 VW as well as a new Corvette, at a total cost of less than $1 per gallon to the consumer. I just refuse to believe that its impossible.

Energy independence is something that is well worth the cost of research. Imagine if tomorrow, we sent a diplomat to all of the nations in the squabbling Middle East and say, "we dont need your oil and were selling our new substitute to Europe for a buck a gallon." Instant reform. They would have to their whole economies are based on oil. Thats how they can have ridiculous poverty and no women working.

I understand that this is armchair politics, easy from where I am sitting and much more difficult to actually do. Please, help take the momentum of the unanimous public assertion that the Energy bill was terrible and help propose putting money where America can use it best - a product we can sell to improve our economy that also severs our umbilical cord to the Middle East.

Finally, look for the clip from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in which your conversation with General Richard Myers. You received resounding applause.

[signed]

Currently listening : Rattle and Hum By U2

Labels: environment, gas, government, irs, money, oil, politics, rant

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Do I really care about this person at all?

Would this person still be interesting if not for that picture?

Am I intrigued?

Currently listening : Young Team By Mogwai

Labels: MySpace, random