8 year old girl getting Botox injections.
Eight year olds are supposed to be outside playing, or indoors doing dolls, or something that eight year olds are supposed to be doing. Not getting injections of nasty toxins.
I has a sad :(.
- Badtux the Sad Penguin
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Who coulda guessed that the Governator had a love child?!
So let's see. In this week's scandals we have a bankster raping the staff, and a rich politician fucking the help. Talk about a metaphor for the state of things in America...
-- Badtux the Snarky Penguin
Y'know, I'm just not turned on by this next photo. But a friend of mine from India was, like, "hubba hubba!". Because apparently for Indians, this gal is really sexy looking. Though he wondered about the gun. But then I explained to him that American vice presidents had to have a gun in case there is a random lawyer around who needs shooting in the face, and he seemed to get it. Needless to say I am completely corrupting him about what American politics is like, though he does say that my descriptions of things sound almost... Indian... in their gleeful corruption.
Still, while apparently that is a beauty by Indian (and apparently Alaskan) standards, it doesn't do anything for me. I prefer more athletic gals, like those beach volleyball gals that Preznit Bush patted on the ass when he was in Beijing. Hubba hubba!
Still, I must admit that she is more pleasant to look at in a bathing suit than this person:
Yeah, Dick Cheney ain't exactly a fashion plate, man tits and all. If you are going to choose vice presidents based on looks, gotta admit she's the most pleasant looking of the lot, thunder thighs or no.
-- Badtux the Sexist Penguin
To quote a commenter on another blog who makes a very salient point:
Just because a woman thinks something is sexist doesn't mean it is. Just because a woman is treated unfairly, doesn't mean that unfair treatment is sexist. Hillary Clinton got treated poorly at times in this campaign, just like John Kerry was treated poorly in 2004 or Al Gore in 2000 or Bob Dole in 1996 or George H. W. Bush in 1992.
Hillary Clinton was a 30 points ahead front runner who got beat, and because she refused to drop out, her defeat was stretched out over several months. Anyone in that situation is going to get a lot of crap dumped on them. Did sexism play some role in that crap? Sure. But knee jerk victimization that exaggerates the role sexism played isn't really going to benefit feminists, women or men.
We are running against the media this November. The media is owned by Republicans, and will dump a ton of crap on Obama before it's all said and done just like they dumped a ton of crap on Hillary Now, granted, Hillary also got some crap from Democrats. Given that much of Hillary's support in late primaries was Republicans crossing over and voting for her because "I don't want a nigger running for President" and she pandered to those people shamelessly, she did get dumped on by Democrats too -- but that's what happens when you run as a Republican in a Democratic race, regardless of your sex, just look at how Democrats dump on Joe Lieberman if you don't believe me. Democrats don't dump on Joe Lieberman because of anti-semitism, they dump on him because he sucks up to Republicans.
But anyhow, back to the point: As the front-runner, Hillary got dumped on because the media would have dumped on any Democratic front-runner. Unfortunately she and her supporters didn't handle it in some way that would diffuse all the crap that was being dumped on her, all they did was whine and whine about how it was "sexist", all of which whining made her look weak, which made her look like a victim rather than a winner. That's not helpful in winning elections. But now all that crap is going to be laser-focused on Obama. Whining about it being "racist" is not going to do Obama any good either. All it'll do is make Obama look like a victim, which isn't the Democratic message. Remember, while the content of some of the crap is going to be blatantly racist, that's not why he's going to be getting the crap. He's going to be getting the crap because he is a Democrat running against the candidate preferred by our ruling elite. We better remember that and re-focus on the Democratic message every time the media tries their crap (which for better or for worse is "change" this election), or we can say hello to President McCain and probably the end of the Republic. Who, then, shall be our Julius Caesar? I think I'd prefer to wait for the next generation to find out, rather than find out first-hand in the fallout from electing a President who will continue leading the nation into utter economic disaster...
-- Badtux the Practical Penguin
