This man is suffering a delayed quarter-life crisis generated by his inability to keep his dick in his pants and by a severe lack of maturity in dealing with being a father with a family to look after and a spouse with whom he needs to just patch it up with.  Find your ballsack, man.

Watching their “announcement” episode and I am floored by his reasons which run the gamut from “I’m 32 and I have my whole life ahead of me” to “I have feelings, too.”  Seriously, now?  He is acting like he is still in college fucking around with people way younger than he is and acting like a senile lothario with erectile dysfunction that has spread to his brain.

This is not to say that Kate is a saint because she can be a harping shrew every once in a while, but this is clearly a case of a strong vs weak personality.  When those kids grow up they are gonna be so pissed at Daddy for being a raging moron.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/06/obama.turkey/index.html

I sincerely hope that Obama has a grander scheme for this major misstep in political announcing.  If he is not, he is going to have a world of problems when the Armenian community, which is largest in the U.S., starts marching the streets.  You can’t call a country a model one for the world to follow when they don’t even admit to singularly slaughtering 1.5 Armenians in the last century’s first genocide (contrary to popular belief the Jewish community does not hold that morbid honor).  They deny it, refuse its existence, and claim it never happened.  And we’re supposed to FOLLOW them???  I take issue with some of what he says:

“I’m trying to make a statement about the importance of Turkey, not just to the United States but to the world…”

It’s only importance is as a political ally and crossroad for East and West.

“It’s a country that possesses an extraordinarily rich heritage but also represents a blend of those ancient traditions with a modern nation state that respects democracy, respects rule of law and is striving toward a modern economy.”

The hell it is…talk to any free-thinking and unbrainwashed Turk and you will quickly find out how oppressive the government is.  Journalists still get thrown in jail for saying the wrong thing, you can’t practice your own religion, there is still severe sexism and homophobia (FYI, if you’re gay the only way to escape persecution is to get a sex change and become a woman…no…lie).

The one thing that makes me think that he has an ace up his sleeve is this:

“Turkey is the most important majority-Muslim state when it comes to the United States’ interest in the region,” he said.

Obviously, his recent plans have included mending the shitty broken relations and opinions of Americans worldwide, largely in thanks to Bush, so I can understand his political gameplay and see his strategy.  The rest of the article pretty much covers that angle.  But if he does not use this new partnership to his benefit to finally get them to admit to their crimes against humanity that happened now almost 100 years ago then I am pretty much off the Obama bandwagon and won’t really offer my support for much.  This is a huge issue for many Armenians not only in this country, but also worldwide.  Every administration, not including the one in office at the time, has refused to take any steps because of some supposed strategic location of Turkey to the rest of the East.  Have they never heard of DETOURS.

Ugh…today…I am disgusted.

Ok, so the new-new blog design is pretty much done and with so much less headache than the last few iterations.  I like it and should make it easy from now on when I want to switch to other things.  Just a few tweaks and additions.

The best, and worst, part is having to go back through all 800+ of my posts from the past 9 years to fix and title the posts transferred from Blogger so that they show up in my WP archive.

The goal…to ACTUALLY write and update and do…blogging…thingie…stuffs.

Sean Kennedy - the editor of The Advocate - is a blazing moron. More on this later when I am not so damned tired.

As I suspected, the time I spent designing my last template has been binned in favor of pre-desgined temps from the ‘net. I am done trying to design something fun and tailor-made when I can just enjoy the many good, and working, ones that already exist and change from one to the other when I feel like it without having to screw around with the coding. You win WP….I give in. YOU HEAR ME?? I GIVE IN!!!

Ima be ok…

The goal for this weekend:  Finish cleaning the html messes on this site and update my archives and write my about entry.

And today the country can be reborn into something bigger, brighter and better.

And one totally devoid of good ol’ boy-isms, lack of intelligence, pithy, degradation.

And for those who think Obama was the weaker choice and will not end up fixing this country at all, I challenge you to pause and consider the damage of 8 long and exhausting years then do the math for how long it would feasibly take to renew the country and put out all international fires that have burned our national public image to cinders.

I am proud to have voted for Obama and am grateful that he won by a ridiculous landslide. I think our country is in better hands that those of octogenarians or gun-toting right-wingers with lower IQ points than tree sap.

I am so glad I got to be a small part of history.

And God bless Hilary as Secretary of State….Condaskeeza Rice was a waste of space.

And I can’t wait for presidential speeches that are literate…

And for my contribution to personal change…trying to write an blog post more than once every three months.

Ok, re-design has been completed.  I have to stop myself before I get too insane. The site should remain like this for a while (in theory) so enjoy what I hope is the final version.

Well, wait, a few more tweaks and I will REALLY be done, but they are mostly content adding things.

Oy…

Why even have bothered with the second to previous post when this man just does it SO friggin’ well.