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This will most likely be my only post for the day (as I have a big project to work on), so I'm making it a doozy. *g*
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NASCAR & America's Next Top Model
Tonight. Stanton Barrett is on America's Next Top Model. Dude has the best manager, because he got Tyra Banks to go to a race in Vegas, which sold her on the awesomeness of NASCAR, which is how they got Stanton on the show. Also? He's on the judging panel. Awesome!
(For the ANTM folks, Stanton drives every once in a while in NASCAR. His "real" job is as a Hollywood stuntman. He does the stuntman stuff because he loves it and is good at it, but also because it gives him money to race. His newest hobby, through NASCAR affiliation, is bobsledding. Plus he's Paul Newman's godson and he's hot and he's got shaggy hair. YOU WILL LOVE HIM.)
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NASCAR
Dale Jr. is ditching Gillette Young Guns next year. I'd say woe, only because it means no more shaving his number into Ryan Newman's hair. But the funny part? Is that they're considering Kasey Kahne as a replacement.
Dudes.
If you have to get a beard double (and that sounds so dirty) for Carl Edwards and Jamie McMurray, do you really think we're going to believe that Kasey can grow facial hair?
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Voting
This year I did something that, looking back, everyone should be required to do. I researched before voting. Believe me, the things I learned were awesome, and in the end I actually came away with a more positive view of politics than usual.
1. Vernon Robinson lost! Yay! *dances* The fact that there was even a candidate that wacked out (he made Jesse Helms look tame - I'm from NC, so I know how that sounds) was worrisome. The man keeps running for offices and losing. Maybe this time he'll take the hint. Government of any sort can do without his sorry, racist ass.
2. Happy Spivey lost as well! See, he snowed a lot of folks by actually appearing to be concerned about issues and open to change. Uh huh. He was the town drunk where I grew up (I played at his house once or twice - a friend lived on the same street and we went over to see his daughter - and let me tell you, when oblivious me at age 6 knows he's the town drunk, that's saying something) and he hated my great-uncle (who's no saint) to the point that he threatened him when he thought Ray would run against him for mayor (it's never a good idea to "relocate" someone's Boston Terrier when they're the only people in town with a Boston Terrier).
3. Good candidates rule. I am in love with judges who are qualified for the job, who papers say are all great, and who openly declare that politics have no place in the judicial realm and they are there to interpret the law and rule fairly on a case by case basis. What's sad is when those candidates are running against one another.
4. When a qualified judge wins his seat and his opponent, who has no qualifications for the job, loses. The only contest where both political parties endorsed Martin (who, if the race had been partisan, would have been Republican - his opponent would have been Democrat). The only contest where the unqualified candidate compared the Democratic chairman for NC to Hitler and called a black congressional candidate a "good slave". Maybe she and Vernon Robinson should hang out.
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NASCAR & America's Next Top Model
Tonight. Stanton Barrett is on America's Next Top Model. Dude has the best manager, because he got Tyra Banks to go to a race in Vegas, which sold her on the awesomeness of NASCAR, which is how they got Stanton on the show. Also? He's on the judging panel. Awesome!
(For the ANTM folks, Stanton drives every once in a while in NASCAR. His "real" job is as a Hollywood stuntman. He does the stuntman stuff because he loves it and is good at it, but also because it gives him money to race. His newest hobby, through NASCAR affiliation, is bobsledding. Plus he's Paul Newman's godson and he's hot and he's got shaggy hair. YOU WILL LOVE HIM.)
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NASCAR
Dale Jr. is ditching Gillette Young Guns next year. I'd say woe, only because it means no more shaving his number into Ryan Newman's hair. But the funny part? Is that they're considering Kasey Kahne as a replacement.
Dudes.
If you have to get a beard double (and that sounds so dirty) for Carl Edwards and Jamie McMurray, do you really think we're going to believe that Kasey can grow facial hair?
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Voting
This year I did something that, looking back, everyone should be required to do. I researched before voting. Believe me, the things I learned were awesome, and in the end I actually came away with a more positive view of politics than usual.
1. Vernon Robinson lost! Yay! *dances* The fact that there was even a candidate that wacked out (he made Jesse Helms look tame - I'm from NC, so I know how that sounds) was worrisome. The man keeps running for offices and losing. Maybe this time he'll take the hint. Government of any sort can do without his sorry, racist ass.
2. Happy Spivey lost as well! See, he snowed a lot of folks by actually appearing to be concerned about issues and open to change. Uh huh. He was the town drunk where I grew up (I played at his house once or twice - a friend lived on the same street and we went over to see his daughter - and let me tell you, when oblivious me at age 6 knows he's the town drunk, that's saying something) and he hated my great-uncle (who's no saint) to the point that he threatened him when he thought Ray would run against him for mayor (it's never a good idea to "relocate" someone's Boston Terrier when they're the only people in town with a Boston Terrier).
3. Good candidates rule. I am in love with judges who are qualified for the job, who papers say are all great, and who openly declare that politics have no place in the judicial realm and they are there to interpret the law and rule fairly on a case by case basis. What's sad is when those candidates are running against one another.
4. When a qualified judge wins his seat and his opponent, who has no qualifications for the job, loses. The only contest where both political parties endorsed Martin (who, if the race had been partisan, would have been Republican - his opponent would have been Democrat). The only contest where the unqualified candidate compared the Democratic chairman for NC to Hitler and called a black congressional candidate a "good slave". Maybe she and Vernon Robinson should hang out.
