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Posted on Monday, November 1st, 2010

Dave!I've been making twice-weekly trips over to Seattle for entirely too long and it's starting to wear on me. Especially now that the weather is getting all nasty and the deer are running. Today's trip found me with such poor visibility that I wasn't able to see the road much of the time. This was made worse when I very nearly plowed into some deer that ran onto the highway in front of me. The drive would have made for some cool photos, but the window-mount I constructed so I can shoot hands-free iPhone photos didn't seem to want to stick to the window, so I didn't get many shots at all. This one was taken at 1:30 in the afternoon before things got really bad...

Rainy Foggy Mountain Passes

Seattle was equally miserable, with rain pouring down on me as I attempted to run errands downtown. At one point I was forced to navigate a lake which had formed in the crosswalk, and ended up with soaking wet feet on top of everything else. Fortunately, I had a warm and comfy hotel room waiting for me...

The Edgewater Hotel Bed

Complete with my new Black Bear Sleepytime Pal...

Stuffed Black Bear Teddy

And a nice view as well. Look at those awesome trees...

The Edgewater Hotel Room View

I have everything except a glass. Or a cup. Or a mug. Or anything that lets me get a drink of water without sticking my head under the faucet. At least without having to buy a bottle of water for $5.50. Kind of douchey for a hotel that I enjoy quite a lot otherwise.

Now my challenge will be trying to get a few hours of work done before that big comfy bed makes me fall asleep. I fully expect to fail.

But I think I can live with that.

Washington State votes by mail, so I've already taken care of business. But since most everybody else votes tomorrow, I thought I would post this amusing cartoon that's been working its way through the interwebs over the past week. Much of it is rather obtuse in the way it presents Tea Party positions on the issues... but I do like the way it hammers home how most Tea Partiers seem to have no fucking clue what they're talking about. Every single interview I've ever seen with a Tea Partier has been chocked full of such blinding ignorance that I'm left speechless. All these people know how to do is parrot the crap they've been conditioned to believe, and not bother actually thinking or researching anything for themselves. It's all at once mind-bogglingly sad and so fucking typical...

Interestingly enough, some of the Tea Party's core beliefs for accountability in government spending and limitations of government intrusion into our lives actually sound like a good thing to me. The problem is that Tea-Partiers seem to pick-and-choose how these concepts are applied. On one hand they don't want the government telling us how to live our lives, but then turn around and say that the government should pass laws preventing two people of the same sex from getting married. On one hand they don't want the government to be in the health-care business, but then turn around and say that the government should be forbidden from making any changes to Medicare. These seemingly endless contradictions make little or no sense. And when you add in the many lies and distortions that Tea-Partiers seem so fond of propagating, I am left scared as hell as to what might happen if these people actually start getting into office.

Sadly, it looks as though we might be finding out very soon.

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Comments

  1. Sybil Law says:

    Oh holy shit that bed looks so comfy!! And the view!
    Tea Partiers pretty much blow my mind, and not in a good way. Fuckfaces.

  2. RW says:

    Some things to keep in mind;

    1.President Bush and President Clinton each lost the House in their mid-terms. It’s pretty common for the party occupying the White House to have that happen.

    2. The Tea Party folks will all be junior reps ans senators with little or no committee power, and will find almost at once that they will either have to play with the established Republican leadership or risk tearing the GOP apart.

    3. The GOP may soon be torn apart.

    4. The conservative purity test a candidate has to pass to stay in the good graces of the Tea Party is impossible to maintain. The TP rank and file is setting themselves up for disappointment and their “rage” will soon be directed at their backed candidates who ‘compromise” in any way.

    5. Creative people make better art when not part of the establishment. Just think of all the great books about to be written if the Democrats lose it all!

  3. the muskrat says:

    I like tea AND parties, though!

  4. sizzle says:

    I’ve often wondered why you don’t move here to Seattle though that’s probably none of my business. 🙂

  5. martymankins says:

    I saw that video last night and it seemed to equate quite well the positions of most Tea Party backers. The echoed statements about “i’m not a bigot” yet denying same-sex people the same rights straight people has always boggled my mind. If you really don’t want to be a bigot, then stop fighting to restrict rights for people your religious beliefs tell you to be against.

  6. Finn says:

    That kind of weather can be so beautiful if you don’t have to navigate roads in it.

    What hotel is that? I want to go there. Like now.

    I’m not thinking about the election. I’m not. I won’t. And you can’t make me. (I voted via mail weeks ago.)

  7. that bed does look crazy comfy

  8. What an amazing view from your hotel room. Wow.

  9. You can call me, 'Sir' says:

    That hotel….I want to be there right now.

  10. Lovely hotel! Pretty bear! 🙂

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