MObama?

First, congratulations to Barak Hussein Obama, the President elect of the United States of America! I really am speechless. That's not totally true, else I wouldn't be typing and eventually posting this online, but I digress. Obama, president. we're all doomed.

So I saw some stats from the exit polls...95% of blacks voted for Obama. That's a pretty significant statistic, in my opinion. One that won't be talked about, except for here, because it's bugging me, so I'm talking about it. 95%. Imagine if 95% of white people voted for McCain. I know I know, it's not the same thing. He wouldn't have been the first old white man to be President. I'm just saying it's interesting.

I can't believe that 95% of blacks liked Obama's positions on the major issues and it was just a bonus that he was black. That would be ignorant. So why am I still talking about this, angering a good percentage of the few that will read it? I just think the psychology behind all of this is interesting, is all. What about the blacks that support McCain? Or independents? Or Hillary? Do they forget their beliefs to help make history? If I were in that position, I would feel inclined to vote for Obama, however that would be a decision made with emotions rather than logic, which is probably not the best thing for this country. Obviously most chose the easy way, Obama. Nobody wants to be harassed for abandoning their heritage or not taking pride in where they came from. How symbolic would it be to see the first black President of the US elected? Just 50 years after horrible problems with racism? But are these good reasons to vote someone in to the most important office in the world? Uhh, no. In my own humble opinion, those are retarded reasons. Why not just vote Michael Jordan in? Or the guy who played Apollo Creed? They probably have just as much real experience as Obama but they're AWESOME! My point is, we need to vote someone in based on how well we think they'll perform the duties required of them, not based on race, or how hot their Vice President is, or how creepy McCains laugh is.

Quickly, I don't quite understand how the popular vote can be as close as 52/47 percent and the electoral vote is almost 3 to 1 for Obama. Something with the varying number of electoral votes in each state maybe? I mean, Obama got the majority and won, I'm not denying that or claiming that there was fraud involved (although inevitably there will be a small number of isolated incidents, nothing enough to affect 5 million votes or however many it will finally be once all numbers are official.), I obviously just don't fully understand the electoral system.

Next up, on the ballot in the land of the "Governator (who will now have to remove a large foot from his mouth sometime before meeting the new "skinny man" president), gay marriage. 53% of voters in California are for a statewide ban on gay marriage. Way to go California. You might not get annexed after all.

And in Minnesota the race is "too close to call" at this time, but Al Franken might win! Don't know which is worse, Obama, or Franken. Franken is open about being crazy, he doesn't hide it. Obama on the other hand...he hides his crazy side in the same place he stashed his real birth certificate.

Well, it's past 4am now, and I do have a job to go to, else I would've voted Obama! I'm sorry, I couldn't resist. Get your guns while you can folks. Blog it up. Listen to talk radio. Drive your car with 3 flat tires and no muffler. Take that paycheck and invest it, in your business, your savings, whatever it may be. This new administration is all about working for each other. If you make a lot, why not pay a significant increase in your taxes so your hard earned money can go to someone who has not earned it? It's all about "leveling the field" as our new President put it. Whatever money you have left over will be used to negotiate the myriad of government intervention soon to be in our lives (just wait, you'll be thinking "Didn't someone tell me this was going to happen? Oh yeah..."). Sooner rather than later, it will no longer be yours to do with as you please. You may think I'm freaking out, exaggerating, maybe I am. Probably, even. Some of it is I don't like change. Obviously. I sincerely hope that I am wrong about Obama and the Democrats. Maybe we'll just pay a little more taxes for Gore and his church of man-made Global Warming and let the world fight it's own battles, or maybe we're all doomed.

:o)

Text Messages from "The Man"?

Are you ready to start getting text messages from "The Man"? Well it's in the works, so you better be. The FCC has given it's approval to a new program which would task a yet to be appointed federal agency with creating the messages, which would be sent to the participating cellular carriers with information regarding "extreme terrorist attacks, weather disasters and Amber Alerts.

That's just what I need, the Department of Homeland Security sending me text messages that say "I just wanted to talk" or "what're you thinking about?".

But seriously, I wouldn't mind this assuming it was used for the purposes I mentioned earlier. I don't think we need a brand new government agency to do this, either. Beyond the initial setup and organizing the communication between the agencies providing the alerts, maintenance should be relatively simple and wouldn't require much manpower to administrate.

Apparently you can opt out of the messages just like any other premium text message, so I may take advantage of this option should I start getting text messages that start with FW:

Whats the Buzz about The Buzz?

To: 94.7 The Buzz
From: Rockin Republican

Well, guys, you’ve done it this time. You play non-stop Metallica for 2 days or so repeatedly referring to some announcement to take place that Monday morning at 10am, then play a series of retarded sound clips ending in you guys saying F#$% YOU to The KATT. You then launched into the next songs in the rotation, without an explanation.

I turned my radio off, and with great restraint, I was somehow able to stop myself from smashing my clock radio into bits too small to be identified by an electron microscope. Let me lay the groundwork for this fateful morning. I was listening to your station all weekend at work, at home, in my car. Sunday evening, I went bowling and drank…a lot. Sleep came to be at about 5 a.m., but I had set my alarm for 9:58 a.m. anyways JUST so I could wake up in time to hear your friggin announcement. Don’t get me wrong, every time I heard another Metallica song come on, even though I knew it was coming, I still felt like yelling out “HELL YEAH” (or some equally metal-sounding phrase).

As any rational person would infer, I was not looking forward to waking up so early after a studious night of tom foolery, but I was willing to make the sacrifice. You know why? Because I thought you were going to make an announcement that had something to do with METALLICA. Why would I think that? Because you played NOTHING BUT METALLICA FOR 2 F#$%ING DAYS and kept talking about an announcement Monday morning at 10. If you were just going to switch your format to include 80’s butt-rock, you could’ve played nothing but spandex-wearing, hairspray heavy, dude-looks-like-a-lady BUTT ROCK!

Sweet mother of GOD! You guys practically played the same thing as the KATT BEFORE you “switched formats”. Every damn time the KATT played some weak assed song from Nickelback, I’d switch it to The Buzz to see if you were playing something better only to find the EXACT same song on your station. Occasionally you would switch it up and just play another song from Nickelback. You practically mirrored the KATT 90% of the time.

And another thing, most of your DJ’s sound like you got them from Square Dancing FM in Canada. The KATT DJ’s have a voices that sound like they’ve been rocking the block since the dawn of time. Guys that know that Kill Em All was originally called Metal Up Your Ass, but the record companies wouldn’t put that on their label, so they named it Kill Em All. I don’t want to listen to some DJ that sounds like he wouldn’t know Dimebag Darrell, God bless his soul, from Donny Osmond.

I’ll be honest, I may still check out your station every once and a while if all of talk, sports, and music radio has nothing better to provide me, but that’s gonna be tough, guys. I’d go ahead and slap whoever decided to play nothing but Metallica for 2 days straight.

Furiously,
\m/ Rockin Republican \m/