update

so - obviously blake has gone back to iraq to complete his deployment.

i had my appendix taken out this week and had more adhesions lasered out of my abdomen...damn scar tissue.

so i've been hopped up on drugs for a few days. woot!

senator mccain has picked a woman as his running mate. not a qualified woman - just a woman. a woman that he had previously met ONCE. that has less than two years experience as a governor and, before that, was a mayor of a small town. in ALASKA. had you ever heard of her? yeah...me, either. *sigh*. yes, she's a woman. yes, she has a family. yes, she has a son about to go off to war. yes, she's a christian. yes, there are all of these things that make her a wonderful person. but they don't make her qualified to lead this country. do you really want to vote for a party who's vp candidate was competing in beauty pageants while the other presidential candidate was studying international relations at columbia university?she sued the bush administration for listing polar bears as a threatened species - she was worried it would interfere with more oil drilling in alaska, and she also feels that humans AREN'T the cause of the climate change. {global warming}. (HUH?!?) she is STRONGLY anti-choice, even in cases of rape and incest. now i am not a big abortion fan, but i don't feel like anyone should be able to tell you what you can and can't do with your body. as a woman, i am insulted that john mccain would pick her instead of a better suited, more experienced woman. he just wanted a female puppett.

*addendum*

i hear all of these women - i.e. elisabeth hasselbeck - getting so excited about her when really they should be pissed off at john mccain for this assinine choice. they should be OFFENDED that john mccain has insulted their intelligence by trying to pass this woman off as a viable choice for that office. when you do the math, its highly unlikely that his age will carry him through the first term. do you really want her answering the red phone at 3am when vladimir putin calls? i sure as hell don't. i see these ads saying how she "took on the big ole boys in the republican party" blah blah blah. do they research. she didn't. what she did was throw some dude under the bus - and then LEAVE the party. and she didn't sell that damn jet on ebay - and she sure as hell didn't make a profit on it. she listed it on ebay, it didn't sell - then it was sold by a private jet agency, and they lost money.

the hype around her - i can't wait for the shine to tarnish. because its a lot of bs. and i'm angry. as a woman, you should be, too - no matter what party you belong to.