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How accurate is the 7-Eleven Presidential Coffee Cup Poll?

Eliza! I thought that you might enjoy this. I thought this was pretty cool. I love watching both The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report, simply because they both point out the obvious in politics and other current events. They boil down the absurdities of mainstream bullshit and make it so ridiculous that most people can “get” how ludicrous some people really are. This was a recent show with Sherman Alexie, a Native American (Spokane Tribe) author from Seattle. I love his work and have read just about everything he’s published. I haven’t heard too much about the Native American vote (aside from what I’ve read in your wonderful posts in here), and have been wondering. I’m happy to say that I wonder no more, according to this interview. His is a way of thinking that I myself have used, even though I’m as white as they come. I thought it was hilarious and very thought provoking. http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/189691/october-28…

How much do YOU spend on your wardrobe each year?

My daughter says that I’m in dire need of a makeover. I’d have to agree. But not until I lose about 50 pounds. It’s been sooo long since I’ve really cared what I look like. I’ve never been one to dress for others, anyways. I am a stay-at-home person about 90% of the time. By choice, and not from an awful case of agoraphobia or something along those lines. I’m rather hermit-ish. Clothes? I’m wearing the same ones I’ve worn for at least ten years… Now, what I really spend money on is skincare. It’s a comfort thing. I have really sensitive, uber-dry skin. If I had a nickle for every dollar I’ve spent on skincare products over the last 35 years or so, I’d be very, very rich.

Have you ever played an office prank on a coworker?

LOL I love the X-Lax choco icing trick. I did a similar thing to one of the day workers who was notorious for food thievery. He always picked on the graveyard shift’s goodies in the fridge. In addition to the icing, I stuffed the hottest peppers I could find into the middle of the cupcakes. The cupcakes were clearly marked, “Graveyard Shift Only!!!”. We had spies on dayshift, so they reported back to us the “flaming a**hole” that Wade had truly become. Strangely, no food disappeared after that…

Have you ever played an office prank on a coworker?

I used to work in a male-dominated industry: an electrical utility. The jokes they played were hardcore. I had to get really nasty to get even and gain respect in that arena. Soooo uncharacteristic of me. We had utility vans…bread trucks, if you will. There were lots of storage bins, shelves, cubby holes and drawers. It was summertime. At the end of the day, on a Friday, right before a long holiday weekend, I hid in one of the trucks…a large piece of Limberger cheese in a sock. I stuck it in the toe of some hip waders that belonged to one of the cable splicers. By Tuesday, it was beyond rank. They looked for 2 days for the origin of the stank. They really wanted to beat me, but the 2 cable splicers I worked with were my loyal protectors. It was grand. Many more pranks followed, and some really dirty tricks, but that was the first…I was so proud.

Do you know your credit score?

All I know about my credit score is that it’s bad and probably damned scary. Perfect for Hallowe’en…

Thomas Edison invented a workable electric light in his Edison, NJ, lab on this date in 1879. What is your brightest invention?

Hmmm…I’ve invented, for lack of a better word, many things. But my all-time best one? I guess my shining moment would have to be the Spitwad Catapult I made for the Invention & Science Fair, when in the sixth grade. It was the sixties, man. Most grade school kids really didn’t have to worry about the gloom and doom they do today! It was made from old-style bamboo chopsticks, rubber bands, tape, paper clips and a plastic thimble I sawed in half and fastened to a piece of leather with well-chewed bubble gum. It had deadly accuracy and could really splat the windows from clear across the other side of the room. I had a male teacher for the very first time in my life. Mr. Wills was really intimidating to me, mainly because he had a jet-black crew cut, black horn-rimmed glasses, and was about six-five. I was really shy, back then, and tended to be a bookish, artsy, quiet loner. It sorta shocked me that he liked my idea. He was very impressed with the whole thing…especially coming from the mind of a girl! SCORE!! My classmates loved it, and they begged me to make them ones, as well. I did, but could never quite duplicate the same success that I had with the original. Perhaps my quiet yet devious, little mind sabotaged the entire operation…heh heh heh…

What inspires your wardrobe choices in the morning?

Ummm…whatever happens to be clean…or the least dirty. LOL

What factor, honestly, decides your vote on election day?

I choose the presidential candidate and running mate with whose politcal ideals and plans, for America and America’s place in the world, most closely resemble my own. Simple as that. For this election? It’s Obama/Biden. While there are things that I disagree upon with both of them, for the most part, I think that they are the ones that’ll work to make things better for the most citizens. I think that we also need to try to correct the ugly, rude and arrogant face that’s been shoved at the rest of the planet. I think this change of direction could accomplish that. The Bush administration has really gotten us into a big, fat clusterf**k, for ourselves and for the rest of the world. We have to play nicely with the other residents as, like it or not, we are a global community. I firmly believe this. It’s a whole new ballgame in the 21st century and beyond. One only has to look at what the financial mess here has done to other countries. I mean, Iceland went bankrupt, fer goodness sake! How does a whole, damned COUNTRY declare bankruptcy?? It’s a direct result of our own greed and mistakes and general stupidity. The biggest thing about Obama’s camp? It offers real hope for us. All of us, whether one realises it now or later. Even the voters who hate Obama will benefit from him being elected into the Oval Office. I haven’t experienced true hope since Al Gore ran in 2000. Really. Two terms under Dubya has left me tired, frightened for the future, and really disgusted. I am an ultra left-winger. I truthfully belong to no party. There just isn’t one out there that offers the exact, same points that I hold dear. Until one comes along, I will continue to vote Democrat, because most of the time, on most issues, they are the ones that most closely mirror my own views. They are one of two major parties in America that can get most things done the way that I think they should be done. Geeze! I really dislike answering thought-provoking questions such as this. I get so wound up and passionate about…whatever, and deep down, I know that I am only one person…a speck. What does it really matter what I think or believe, in the grand scheme of things? It’s a majority rules arena, and sometimes the majority running things really chaps my ass. One just has to grin and bear it until something better comes along. Hope fer the best, but expect the worst, and you’ll neeever be disappointed…

Will you watch the final presidential debate tonight?

To Georgia ~ Nice work!! You totally figured out my name! Is it a genetic trait to be able to read backwards? Or is it a learned skill? My kids can do this easliy, as well. Really…nicely done. Someone once asked me if I were foreign born, from where, and if my name meant anything. They were disappointed that I was plain ol’ Renee from Seattle, Washington. To EKA ~ You hit the nail squarely on the head with yer definition of lamosity. Couldn’t have said it better, myself…and didn’t!

Will you watch the final presidential debate tonight?

Okay, I don’t know if anyone else can see this, but I just posted a perfect example of lamosity. Are the rest of the comments on the page underlined?? My fault! I apparently didn’t close my html underline tag, and now everything under it is underlined…on my computer it shows this, anyway. There’s no way to edit this, after the fact, and am sorry! LOL What a maroon…

Will you watch the final presidential debate tonight?

LOL I tend to make up words, at times. Perhaps I should enter some of them in the UrbanDictionary.com. I know it when I see it, but explaining it is difficult. Please bear with me while I attempt this. The root word is lame adj 1: pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness; “a feeble excuse”; ” a lame argument” [syn: feeble]. It’s the act of being lame to the point it snowballs into something bigger. Amplified lameness. A general atmosphere of offering lame ideas and/or solutions. Is this helping at all? Do you have a better understanding? I figure if Stephen Colbert can do it, well then so can I. We all can!

Monica Crowley: There's a Fine Line Between 'Maverick' and 'Ass'

Oh, snap! Thanks, Countrywoman! I ‘m so totally bookmaking this site, right now. Some people really make me wanna pull every last hair outta my head. I try to be courteous back to them, funny, reason with them, every approach I can think of, to get them to stop being jerks and try to be more reasonable with their comments. In reality, I’d love to throttle them. Maybe worse. I need to go to bed. I’m getting cranky. :/

Fey: 'I'm Done' if McCain-Palin Wins the White House

Vaughn Meader…what a flash! I think I was in the second grade, or so, when that LP came out. My Mom was a huuuuge fan of Jack and Jackie. I remember getting that album for Christmas from Santa that year. Ha ha ha…Interesting choice for a 7-year-old, St. Nick. I think I asked for Tinker Toys and a Tiny Tears doll, but I get a comedy album. o.O Actually, it was a pretty funny thing for its time. I remember listening to it over and over. I really liked Caroline and her pony, so it appealed to me, as a kid, even though other references were kinda over my head a little bit. Earlier this year, my grown kids and I packed up my dad to move him in with me. When we were going through stuff around the house, for garages sales, et cetera, I ran across The First Family in the old stereo console. I played it for them, and we all had a great laugh. They thought it was really good, even though I had to explain some of the references to them. LOL

Will you watch the final presidential debate tonight?

I’m going with a firm maybe. Part of me wants to watch. Not because I’m undecided; I’m definitely voting for Obama/Biden. I just want to see if this one will somehow transcend the lamosity that was the main content of the previous ones. I’d like to see more firm plans, real ideas and real issues, rather than the bickering about who’s more patriotic, or who’s got shady ties to whomever, et cetera. I’m tired of each side pointing fingers. I’m tired of the posturing about who’s most qualified. I’m just tired. As far as who’s most qualified? Neither of them are. Why? I liken it to giving birth, for the first time. You can read all the books, take all the classes, hear all the other mothers’ stories and have a good idea of what to expect…but you don’t really know what’s going to happen until your water breaks, you go into labour, and that baby comes kicking and screaming from your birth canal! Part of me just doesn’t wanna watch. Not because I don’t care…I do! I just don’t wanna be disappointed by more of the same ol’ same ol’. I don’t want my time to be wasted. Not that my time is so important, but it’s a series of minutes I’ll never be able to get back again. Taking that time to catch up on what I’ve recorded on my DVR might be a better idea. Perhaps I should flip a coin, to let The Fates decide. Three outta five, wins. Whether I watch or don’t watch makes no difference to what I’m ultimately going to do with my mail-in ballot. It would be nice to see McCain redeem himself a little bit. I like the guy. He seems like a nice person. A decent fellow. I won’t vote for him because there are certain, core issues that we vehemently disagree upon. It’d just be nice to see him go out of this thing with a little dignity and grace. He’s offered his life to serve this country in many ways, and ya gotta respect that, if nothing else. I also have mixed feelings about the actual election outcome. While I’ll be so happy that it’s all going to be over and done with on November 4th, I’m almost fearful of what election night is going to be like. I have a feeling that, no matter who wins, it’s going to get ugly. I had the same feeling when the cops who beat up Rodney King, were on trial. Most people thought there was no way they were ever going to be found anything but guilty, myself included. But, I had this nagging, underlying sense of dread just before the verdict was handed down…and look what happened. Rioting everywhere…with good reason, as far as I’m concerned. But…I digress…

Whoopi Goldberg Is Keeping Mum

Dear JB ~ You are so very welcome! Thank you for the kind words. I’m glad that I could help to spark something in you to get this off your chest. Speak up in a constructive way, like you have! The more people who do, the more others might mind their Ps and Qs a bit more. Or not. Sometimes you have to keep at them. I do it in a kind way, and hope they’ll respond like-mindedly Sadly, some people are just a lost cause. It’s difficult for me to tell when someone is such a thing, and I should ignore them and not respond, or if I can somehow sway them if I only tried harder…maddening! The negativity, bad manners, insinuations and rudeness that seem to have a habit of permeating the serious and/or frivilous conversations, on The Interweb, makes me angry, sad, and quite crazy. It makes me want to respond in kind, and that’s just not the person I wanna be. It’s one of the reasons I have to back away, at times, from some of the forums and blogs that I enjoy so much. Civilities: I really feel badly for some people who consistantly attack others’ points of view, grammatical errors and whatnot. It makes me wonder what their day-to-day life must be. What was their upbringing like? Did they have a hyper-critical parent who constantly berated and bullied them? Is this all they know about dealing with others? How are their real-world relationships with the people in their lives? Do they act this way with them? Are they so miserable with their own place in the universe that they feel the need to make others miserable, as well? Is it a self-esteem issue? Is it a complete power trip to intimidate and belittle others to make themselves look better? What makes these people tick? I always try to be polite and courteous. I try to be genuinely interested in the people behind the comments. This mode of communication is a marvellous thing! It’s amazing, to me, that I can have a nice conversation with someone in, say, Australia…from all the waaaay up here in little, ole Washington State! How great is that? Unfortunately, it’s also sooo anonymous and detached. A person can say anything to anyone and not really suffer any concrete consequences. The worst that can happen, that I can see, is that you get permanently banned from the site. A way around that is to go to another computer, to have a different IP address, and make yourself another identity. It’s not the same as standing next to someone, saying something totally rude and getting a punch in the face. Some humans really seem to get-off on spreading hate and discontent. I don’t understand this at all. What’s the point? It’s just plain useless, mean and wrong. Vulgarities: In real-life, I have a real potty mouth. LOL I grew up with my potty-mouthed Dad and my potty-mouthed Ma. I raised potty-mouthed children. But we all know that there is a time and place for that sort of thing. Not in front of strangers, lest they get the wrong idea as to who were really are as individuals. Not in front of certain persons (like my dear Aunt Dorothy) who have delicate sensibilities. Not in church or school. Not in public for the sheer shock-value factor or showing off. Not in the library or the librarian will shush you. (heehee) Some sites are more particular about swearing than others, and I do my best to observe that. Other places, I can swear like a drunken sailor on shore leave. I know that, generally speaking, vulgarities make a person appear in a bad light. Like they have no other way of communicating or know no better. Sometimes a person knows better, but it’s just a really bad habit. I tend to reserve that sort of thing for more private, informal and relaxed settings, around people who know me, and like me in spite of it. This goes for the real world and the online world, as well. So….go forth and enjoy this place, and others! Don’t let the ignoramuses get you down! Use your wonderful eloquence and intelligence for good…and not eeeevil! :D For the time being, I’m bracing myself for election night. It might get real ugly in here…