To the President:
Well done man, this came out a nowhere and its good so don’t fuck it up. First and foremost, I don’t need to tell you that choosing a Supreme Court Justice is probably one of the most important decisions you will make as president. Having said that, we all know that Souter is one of the more liberal justices and obviously anybody you pick will be about the same. The makeup of the court wont be affected at all when it comes to important rulings: You will be replacing a liberal judge with a liberal judge. This bad in the sense that it’s a shame one of the more conservative judges isn’t retiring because then you would be able to change the outcome of future rulings (I personally would like to see that fucktard, Scalia, go). This is good because you can make sure that Souter’s replacement is young and thereby making sure that he/she stays on the bench for a long time. It also gives you the opportunity to do something I would not normally be cool with, but in this situation its kind of ok, and that is playing politics with this nomination.
We all know Souter held this off until you were in office in order to avoid placing another nomination on Bush’s lap and I don’t think he’s the only one who held off. Now you want a justice with real “life” experience, that’s good but remember that it doesn’t matter who you pick if that person is not confirmable under the current situation in the Senate. Go left but not too crazy left. I know you also want to nominate a minority to the court and that you’re keeping in mind what Ginsberg said about how one woman on the bench is not enough, I agree.
To the Republicans:
Guys stop acting like idiots. The truth is that your are in a nasty situation. You have no leader, you have no platform, you have no message and you went so far right that your only remaining base is your hardcore conservatives. And guess what, you might come hurt either way. The way I see it Obama is going to nominate a Hispanic woman to the court, its just going to happen. If you don’t seat her, and I can already hear your stupid justifications for not confirming a female minority judge echoing in the halls, then that’s it. If you don’t seat her then the Hispanic vote is lost. You took it for granted in 2000 and 2004 and as a result of that and your stupid immigration and healthcare policies you lost a huge chunk of it in 2008. Denying the seat would be the last blow. If you do seat her then your base is going to rip you apart for doing so. Maybe you shouldn’t have put all of your eggs in one basket huh?! You need to become more moderate if you want your party to survive and judging by the verbatim I keep reading about and listening to coming from you guys, you still haven’t learned the lesson.
To Everybody:
Pay attention. Just because Obama nominated someone doesn’t mean you should just agree blindly. Do your own research. I personally would prefer it if the best of the best was considered, not just women minority judges. What if the best choice isn’t even looked at because he’s a man? I would like to see a female Hispanic on the court but not if that means that we didn’t in the end choose the best we had.
- Mood:calm
I just got back from Seattle not more than 2 hours ago, man I love that town.
I took some shots and I'll post those later.
In the mean time check out the shots i took on my trip to New Orleans last month.
HERE you go, that is all.
Anyways, if anybody still thinks LJ is worth something, let me know. For now I'll continue writing in this thing until I get disillusioned or something.
PS. I quit Officemax a couple of days ago. My hours were getting cut so I got a job in a familiar coffee setting. Me and Chris also separated. I don't know if we'll get back together after all of the stuff that happened between us. I'm not saying I wont try. But if he's going to be dating around I might as well too. I'm opening a match.com profile, so if anybody wants to hang out let me know.
That's it for tonight.
- Mood:awake
All I gotta say is WOW!
Really Kerry? Really? You have got to be shitting me. Where was this side of you four years ago? I supported your campaign financially, I bought merchandise (I still have my Kerry 2004 Ringer shirt that I never wore cuz I bought it one size too small or I just got too fat to wear… its hard to tell) and spent hours in phone banks for you. I studied your position on every issue so that I would be able to argue on your behalf all the while knowing that there was something about you that I couldn’t defend. If your speeches back then were anything close to the one you delivered ant the DNC then we would probably be in a different situation right now. I mean you blew me and my expectations away with that speech, and I know I’m not alone in that regard. I saw the anger, the frustration, and the sincerity, and I saw you fight back. I guess somewhere along the way it finally clicked in you, but its too late now man. Why didn’t you respond to those infamous swiftboat ads with the same passion you showed me last nigh? That really sucks, you could have saved us from four extra years of Bush, but the past is the past and there’s nothing you can do about it now. Great speech Kerry
Haven’t posted in a long time.
Finally Obama has come to his senses. Ever since Clinton dropped out of the race (and probably before) I have been making the case that Biden would be the perfect V.P. While the media was running with the idea that Clinton supporters would sit this election out or vote for McCain rather than Obama, I knew and said that it was just a matter of giving the Clinton backers some time to come to their senses..I was right. I knew Biden was perfect.Think about it, He brings to the table the areas where Obama is lacking, and it took a lot for Obama to admit he wasn’t strong on Foreign Policy by selecting Biden (something he wouldn’t even admit when McCain was heckling him over it.) But in the end I’m glad it turned out the way it did, with an Obama/Biden ticket I’m even more pumped. You know what would be even better that this? If McCain selected Lieberman as his V.P. because then we could use the “Republicans have this country so deep in it that even McCain decided to run with a Democrat.” And you know that would stick.
In other news, since I last wrote I have been working at Office Max. It’s nothing great but money is money. I let registration slip my mind so as a result I will not be attending any classes this fall. But that’s ok because I plan to keep myself busy with a trip to New Mexico, the inevitable task of getting my license, and starting my own business…a business that isn’t really a business because its going to end up costing me money instead of earning me money, but more about that later.
I gotta go to sleep, Peace!
- Mood:jubilant
Dishwasher at a Mexican Food restaurant. All of the pots had 1 inch thick grease on them. At the end of the night I dumped all of that grease into a stinky barrel...I broke out like crazy.
So I’m sitting in the airport waiting for my flight just minding my own business. There’s this guy in front of me talking on the phone really loudly. Then I hear him say (to his son on the phone, I assume) “By the way Neiomi is thrilled to bits that you accepted her Facebook invitation, I have no idea what that means, but if it means incest with your sister you know thats not allowed!” I just smirked a little. The best part is that he looks and sounds like Wilford Brimley from the Liberty Medical commercial.
- Mood:tired
I feel kind of bad about my Psychology class. I took my final online last night and I got a final class grade of a B. Yeah and I only read 4 chapters out of a 20 chapter book. In fact, I didn’t even fully read the chapters, only partially. That’s the downside to an “on-line” class for me, It’s so easy for me to just cheat my way through it. At this moment as I’m typing this, I can honestly tell you that I learned absolutely nothing. But what’s done is done so stick it up your ass Freud…I need a nap.
- Mood:tired
My power-chord has been falling apart for a while now and I’m afraid that one of these days its gonna shock my ass to hell. It seems to get really hot when I’m using it to charge my laptop, I don’t think it did that before. I don’t even wanna leave it near anything flammable like on top of the couch, for instance.
I need a new one but they retail for $79 on Apple. I looked around and I can get it for $40 on ebay. I don’t have that kind of money but I might just have to bite the bullet….I think I’ll just wait until it kills my cheap ass. Look for me in the obituaries a week from now, I’ll be the one under the caption “Freak laptop accident”.
Dammit!
In other news, Look at me holding Soren with approval.
 | VoicePost  151K 0:47 | “Hey guys I just did something really bad. My class just finished and I’m inside of the building waiting for my ride because it’s too cold outside. I was walking past the staff lobby or the teacher lobby. I saw a table that had cookies on it. Right across the way was the office of the dean of mathematics, and he was in there ( I could see him through his wondow..and he could see me). So I just ran in, I took the cookie and ran for it. I don’t know if he saw me or not but It’s a very delicious cookie. Alright, bye.” Transcribed by: ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} experimenttruth |
Ok I need some help.
I was thinking of getting another tattoo but I’m not too sure. I already have this one on my arm and I was thinking of getting this one semi-big on my back…..but is that too many peace doves? Let me know. I wonder how much that would cost.
In other news, if Cal Worthington doesn’t either die or stop making commercials like this….I’m just going to kill him (don’t sue me Cal, I’m just kidding). The fucker has been making these since the this one on my arm and I was thinking of getting 80's…and they’re just as annoying now as they were then.
| VoicePost 416K 2:10 | “So I was at Wal-Mart today after the gym (because they’re not that far apart). I was buying a pack of tank tops and looking at mother’s day cards when I noticed something on the wall. It seems that Oxnard PD has taken on a new strategy in order to combat speeding or other traffic violations. There is a big flat-screen TV right in the middle of the store and it plays what seems to be “COPS” on it. But if you look closer you can see that its not COPS it’s the Oxnard Police’s version of it. It looks just like it too. I stood there watching it for about five minutes. The DVD starts with a message from the Chief of Police explaining how he hopes the embarrassment of being aired on TV locally will lead to a drop in offenses. BRILLIANT! Then it showed a real estate agent speeding and running a red, it was funny because the camera was right in her face and I recognized her from her stupid billboard and mail ads. I really hope they catch more idiots around town. Of course this new thing they have going could backfire. I mean think about it, what if people go out and speed just for a chance to be on TV? Oh well. Transcribed by: experimenttruth |
| VoicePost 410K 2:08 | “Hey guys, its Carlos. Um...this is probably my first voice post on this journal. I had a couple on my last journal but it was my high school journal. I emberrase myself just looking at it- I deleted it a long time ago, well I didn’t delete it. Anyways, I just got back from Chicago…it’s one something in the afternoon. Its hard to believe that at five in the morning I was in Chicago. Anyways, (yawn) I’m really really tired and parked in front of the doctors office right now because my boyfriend (Chris) has to go in and get some antibiotics because he feels a little sick and he wants to get over it before his cruise next week. Like I said, I’m really tired…I have to go home and finish a report and then I have to go clean up tons of dog poop because I just let it accumulate in the side yard for at least two weeks before I ….feel like it. Um…oh yea one good piece of news, I found an iPod video 30 GB in the hotel shuttle to the airport this morning while I was leaving. I found and iPod video…and it’s pretty brand new. And I really don’t feel bad about taking it because you know…nobody came and knocked on m door and asked me “Hey Carlos, do you mind if I break into your car and steal your GPS system twice? And steal your macbook, and steal your camcorder? Do you mind? No one asked me. So you know what, karma is a bitch and now its my turn. So um…Darren, wherever you are…I have your iPod video and you cant have it back. Bye.” Transcribed by: experimenttruth |
I’m sitting here in my hotel room in Chicago trying to study but I can’t! You wanna know why? Because my hotel is right by the airport and every 5 minutes one of the big fuckers takes off! I have a term paper due today damn it!
In other news, look at THIS. I found it while I was walking through the halls of the local grocery store (I do that sometimes when I’m bored, don't you?).
Planes from Carlos on Vimeo.
- Location:Chicago, IL
- Mood:hungry
Sean and Keaela had their baby a week ago. Kaela went into labor April 4th at night-time but didn’t have the baby until the morning of April 5th. That same day we went to visit them. here is the video.
Chris and I spent the last week in Vegas. You know that time-share crap that you get in the mail telling you that they’ll give you free shit no strings attached as long as you listen to an hour long presentation, well that’s what we did. They gave us two nights at a hotel on the strip for free. Chris had a meeting in Vegas anyways so his work paid for two more nights at the MGM Grand. It was an almost free trip! Unless you count the fact that we actually did buy a time-share, in which case this was the most expensive trip I’ve ever been on. Ann even flew in to stay with us for a while and practically gambled all of her money. I took some pictures too.
I was sitting on the toilet this morning enjoying my “thinking time” when it came time to end the session, that’s when I realized there was no more t.p. “no biggie” I thought, I had done this before and there’s always more under the sink…..but there wasn’t any. I started freaking out because the only person home was my roommate and I wasn’t going to call him to bring me paper. I also wasn’t gonna walk upstairs with shit on my ass to get the extra roll! I started thinking about how long I was going to have to sit there…I started eyeing the hand towels, the reading material, my boxers even. I was beginning to feel a little MacGyver-ish. Then I turned around for some reason and saw it there. It was right behind me the whole time on top of the toilet water tank. Somebody got a new roll and didn’t bother to put it on its little spinning holder thing. Wiping my ass never felt so good. The lesson boys and girls: Make sure there’s toilet paper before you sit down to poop.
P.S. Just curious, what do you guys read while you’re in there? You should try reading this book, I read it every time I’m in there.
While Sean and I were sitting in my living room today he discovered something cool about Chuck Norris on Wikipedia. It turns out that his real first name is the same as mine, Carlos. That’s right, Chuck Norris and I have the same first name. And while I think his political views are shit it’s still kinda cool. So in honor of this recent revelation I gathered some of my favorite Chuck Norris jokes/facts. Chris told me not to post these jokes because he doesn’t think they’re funny, but I think they’re hilarious.
( Enjoy. )
- Mood:amused
I’ve always been a sucker for good commercials and the power or advertisements work a little too well on me for my own good. If I see a really funny commercial I go out and buy the product, well as long as it’s something I would use (I’m not gonna go out and buy tampons just because of a funny tampon commercial.) So when I saw this Old Spice Hair & Body Wash commercial I just had to buy it.
- Location:Oxnard, CA
- Mood:full
- Music:Arctic Monkeys- "Brainstorm"
I’m not really all that mad because that means I can concentrate on school, but first I’ll apply a one or two places just to see if I can score a job.
Oh look what I just found. Flashback!
- Location:San Diego, CA
- Mood:full
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