Terror in India...Attack Westerners...Black Friday Is Death

So about 130 people died in an attack at the Taj Mahal Hotel in India. A really horrible event that the Hartford Courant did-up with the above headline. Was the JCPenny sticker strategically placed to blot out the word "Kills?" Maybe there really is a liberal media conspiracy. Whatever the case, the Black Friday ad stamped some unintended (or intended, who knows) irony on the front page.

Here's a nice round-up of stories the Advocate has covered on the issue of gay marriage in Connecticut, if you're into that sort of thing. I filed a couple of them, one from the press conference announcing the ruling and another filling in the blanks about what legal benefits couples stand to reap, or not reap.

And the Clintonian Stacking Begins...

The Huffington Post is reporting that Obama is offering Secretary of State to Hillary Clinton, a post that is known to install infamous suck-up bitches like Condoleeza Rice. Don't know how I feel about this, since Hillary basically played Republican and warmed up the attacks against Obama for McCain during the primaries. She got the ball rolling on Bill Ayers, his whole inexperience thing and circulated that photo of him wearing a turban to try and push that he is a terrorist-Muslim. And Obama basically said Clinton over-hyped her foreign policy experience, something that is key for the job of Secretary of State. But that's politics for you. You can fuck somebody over and expect a handshake and a prize somewhere down the road for being a complete scumbag.

I really hope Obama doesn't stack his administration with too many Clinton people, especially this Larry Summers asshole. Let's keep it fresh now.

From Russia, With Malice

Great interview with Mark Ames on Antiwar radio -- who just had his newspaper, the eXile, shut down in Russia -- about why America thinks the former Soviet country is still the boogeyman. Here is part one:

There's a galaxy of memories that don't want to leave the vacuum of the mind
but repeat now as the present
over and over
like watching movies in those $3 cinemas that make them seem old when they're not
open anywhere anymore
which is fun until they are out
on dvd.

Can't smoke in her car, but you can in her room and
her eyes are naked and she is a child
warning you everyday to look up
while her head lays on your chest as she listens to your heartbeat to keep the time
of the moment when you ignored her and discovery channel is on the nighttime television keeping company the corner of the room where
there are no covers just
the mute television flashing a warm blanket of light on both of you, gently saying to wake up

or

finally write her something.

Hi.

Dirty, wet leaves
they're folded up and scattered
hiding the naked earth
to get ready for winter and I'm fucking haunted
like a ghost with no memory
waiting for the feeling.

Connecticut Write-In Ballots Neglected By Mainstream Media; Disney Icon Begins Campaign for 2012 Presidency

(Hartford) -- Nov. 5, 2008. The towns of West Hartford, New Haven and Waterbury have confirmed write-in votes in the 2008 presidential election for Mickey Mouse, the anthropomorphic Disney star who has had a meteoric rise to fame since first being animated in 1928. Mr. Mouse has reportedly cultivated a viral marketing campaign to get his name out on the national ballot for the 2012 presidential election, starting here in Connecticut.

"Oh, you know, we got the usual Mickey Mouse, " said West Hartford Registrar of Voters Marcia L. Woolsey, in a telephone interview Friday about write-in ballots. Media coverage of the write-ins has been under reported, and the deep cover campaign of Mr. Mouse has broad sided officials in the registrar offices of Waterbury and New Haven, who have also confirmed ballots cast for the Disney star.

Speculation quickly grew on a potential running mate, as Nancy Vitarelli from the Waterbury Registrar's office confirmed that Minnie Mouse was the go-ahead choice for vice president on one ballot. This brings wide debate about the public affair and conflicting interest of the two mouses, as seen in movies such as Mickey Plays Papa.

But talking heads have also questioned the age of Mr. Mouse, who turned 80 this year, and Ms. Mouse, 66, as too old to successfully compete for the White House. Mr. Mouse, in a press release sent out yesterday, stated that experience is a vital part to his edge in 2012 against recent president-elect Barack Obama, who he claims is way too human and has no experience compared to Mr. Mouse's deep military service, noted in 1929's The Barnyard Battle.

Cartoon characters across the country were soon to dismiss Mr. Mouse, among them Bart Simpson, who put a black bra around his head and said, "I'm the mascot of an evil corporation," mocking Mr. Mouse in a swift boat-style smear campaign.

Though Mr. Mouse has blitzed the state with write-in ballots, he has not been officially recorded due to his unregistered status.

"For candidates to be officially recorded they must be registered," said the Town Clerk's office of Hartford. Mr. Mouse was unavailable for comment if he was going to petition the state, as he is currently being re-animated for a future show.

Many officials are attributing the act of write-in balloting as a big middle finger in the face of the ancient electorate college.

Meanwhile, West Hartford has confirmed the write-in vote of Donald Duck, who may bring a rift within the cartoon demographic. Darth Nadar was recorded in Naugatuak, and a person just named Chris in New Haven. But voting officials also note a ballot cast for one Jesus H. Christ, who will hopefully come down on a cloud and end all this silliness.