Tomorrow starts today...or something sort of cheesy like that

Tomorrow, Barack Obama is expected to announce his candidacy for President of the United States. Today, I got an e-mail from him (I'm sure it was actually him and not some mass e-mail sent through a listserve by one of his staffers) with this video preview of tomorrow:



There are a lot of people that are swooning over Barack Obama. I'm one of them. It has been a long time since I was this excited about a candidate for any office (maybe Gary Coleman for governor was the last time). I know that he is inexperienced in politics. I know that he's inexperienced in dealing with international issues. However, we have had 6+ years of complete crap and at least 12+ years of government based on partisanship, exclusion, and flat-out corruption. In Obama I see a candidate that understands when we need compromise and when we need to make tough sacrifices. I see a guy that is open with his own weaknesses and does not prey on those of his opponents. In short, I see this as an opportunity for this country to get back some of the integrity that we have slowly given up since World War II.

If you really want to see why Barack Obama gives me such a strong feeling of hope, please read his book Audacity of Hope. His views are so common sense that they defy the current political environment that calls for blindly voting with/for your party.

In any case, tomorrow I look forward to the beginning of some positive change for our country.

Y'all like my body?

I've been looking around the internet and it seems like the only thing people care about is the death of Anna Nicole Smith. There are articles on thousands of web sites talking about possible causes of death, the identity of the father of her baby, where her money is going, etc. To make all of your lives easier, I have pulled together all of the information about Anna Nicole's death that is relevant to our lives and put in in one spot:


She died.


That's all. Thanks.

Attack of the lesbians

If you were not aware, there was a story a while back about the military firing some of their Arabic and Farsi translators because they were gay. I think the best piece about this was on either the Daily Show or Colbert Report. In any case, New York Democrat Congressman Ackerman was grilling Condi Rice today about the fact that the Department of Defense was short on translators, but were not hiring the ones fired by the military because they were gay. In what I would consider the greatest comment ever made, Ackerman said:

"For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but they're very brave with the terrorists...If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information, they'd get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad."

Pure genius.