Wildilocks Can Has Journal?

Warning: have a box of tissues handy, and don’t watch this anywhere you wouldn’t be comfortable with tears streaming down your face.

Watched Idiocracy tonight with teh boy, and was discomfited at times by a chilling sense of foreboding, and I couldn’t help thinking of something I’d seen/listened to earlier that day - the Sarah Palin prank call. Embarrassing really has reached a new level, and it’s frankly terrifying that someone THAT stupid is a VPC…

of course, something that is utterly missing from our potential stupid future seems to be videos of cats doing stupid things, so I’m going to hope there’s nothing fundamentally worrying about my gales of laughter at these two gems:

… in other news, myself and da boy have both been a bit poorly. I got [I think] food poisoning a couple weeks back and my body hasn’t been quite right since it seems, and have tried to do stuff and keep up with busy schedule, then fallen over useless the next day, repeatedly during this time. Apologies for having been occasionally flaky as a result… want to be back to my usual self shortly as there is much to be done over the next week and a half before heading to Perth for 2 1/2 weeks!

REQUEST FOR URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

This was forwarded to me by a friend. It’s important to laugh, when the only other option is to cry.

From: Minister of the Treasury Paulson

Subject: REQUEST FOR URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

Dear American:

I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship
with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.

I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country
has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of
800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it
would be most profitable to you.

I am working with Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my
replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a Senator, you
may know him as the leader of the American banking deregulation
movement in the 1990s. This transactin is 100% safe.

This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank check. We need
the funds as quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these
funds in the names of our close friends because we are constantly
under surveillance. My family lawyer advised me that I should look for
a reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the
funds can be transferred.

Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund
account numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to
wallstreetbailout@treasury.gov so that we may transfer your commission
for this transaction. After I receive that information, I will
respond with detailed information about safeguards that will be used
to protect the funds.

Yours Faithfully
Minister of Treasury Paulson

Here are some political commentary links.

Palin vs Clinton skit which is highly amusing, if you haven’t seen it yet, do!

Matt Damon has some good points about Palin, but I guess he’s mostly preaching to the converted…

but this veteran’s blog is probably one of the more interesting comments, and more useful to try and seed doubt amongst those who are less likely to be swayed.

My honest opinion? Palin was chosen for the abortion issue, and the Republicans are betting on there being a ton of rabid right-to-lifers planning on voting. They are, unfortunately, probably right, as we all know there are more religious nutters in the US than aaaanywhere else, they are loud and they are militant and they almost all think it’s a sin to kill your unborn childs. So yeah - even as the Democrats are having a field day taking the piss out of Palin [and it really is funny, how could it not be with such great material], my stomach sinks :(.

In completely non-political news, I state this is the best job ad EVAR, and ask my NZ pals if they’ve been to this place.