Kick the Anthill

Surely you caught clips of Obama’s big press conference last Friday.  I was so miffed, I needed to give myself some space before addressing the issue.  But after much deliberation, and several nights of tossing and turning, I have decided, if you can’t beat him, join him.  “If Obama can do it, I can, too,” right?  Here I come, world:

Of course, these are just rough drafts.  The last one is my seal, which will be used in some form with each sign.  I’ll be sure to have jedijson jazz ‘em up real good so they look official when I’m in public.

Memo to B.O.: We already have a President.  Your services are not required to save us until January 20, 2009.

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President-elect Obama’s first order of business.  January is going to be a rough month for us all.

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Renaissance =

–noun
1. the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.
2. the forms and treatments in art used during this period.
3. (sometimes lowercase) any similar revival in the world of art and learning.
4. (lowercase) a renewal of life, vigor, interest, etc.; rebirth; revival: a moral renaissance. 
–adjective
5. of, pertaining to, or suggestive of the European Renaissance of the 14th through the 17th centuries: Renaissance attitudes…etc.

I think ”Dark Age” might have been more appropriate.

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A little perspective.

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Universal voter registration?  Now that can’t be good.  A highlight:

“This means the registration process would no longer serve as a barrier to the right to vote,” said Wendy R. Weiser, a lawyer for the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University. “It would also eliminate the ACORN issue and all the gaming of the system.”

In the United States, unlike other major democracies, citizens, not the government, are responsible for seeing to it that they are registered to vote. And when people move, even if across town, they must update their registration, usually with a local office.

When you move, you change your phone, your electric, your gas, your water, etc.  Is there some reason why updating your registration as well is “a barrier to the right to vote?”  Not to mention the fact that while you can lead a horse to register, you can’t make him vote.  Here’s my suggestion, cutting to the heart of the matter here: Why don’t they just go ahead and vote for us and be done with it?  Problem solved.