There are some songs that you just can’t NOT sing along to. This is one of them. Let’s celebrate the week being officially more than half-over. Here’s a little pick-me-up, courtesy of Salt-n-Pepa.
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American voters: Wanna know how you line up with the candidates and the parties?  Try isidewith.com. It doesn’t seem to have much bias in the questions.
I wasn’t surprised to find out I’m in line with 98% of the Democrat’s platform, but it was fun.
94% here. I was entirely unsurprised to see that I aligned with 3% of the Republican platform. Really, it was probably only that high because of the odd way they parsed some of my answers.
Such as, I responded that I support incentivizing the private sector to develop alternative forms of energy…and for some reason that put me in line with supporting more off-shore drilling. Which I am very much against.
I only aligned with 86% of Obama’s stuff (and some of that was off because of how they parsed things), but I’m not surprised. This country’s median is a lot more conservative than I am, so he can’t do *too* many super-liberal things…
Hmm, I got Jill Stein (92%). Have heard next-to-nothing about her as a non-US person. 87% for Obama.
I hadn’t heard about her, either, but if a candidate isn’t part of the Big Two, they rarely get any real attention here.
I actually got 93% Jill Stein, but only 87% Green Party. I think it was based on how important an issue was, and I only voted on a few of those, so it skewed the info a bit.
I actually didn’t vote on any of the importance scales… hmmm. I might get even more Green Party then:)
A guy who pronounces folklore as follekelore, I love it. Dialect and accents will never fail to fascinate and frustrate me.
I also love this: Daniel Radcliffe at a Dublin house party with the Dublin All-Ireland Gaelic football winners. Just because.
http://sideshowknob.tumblr.com/post/32290548606
So much excitement: The Casual Vacancy is out today!! HUZZAH!! SQUEE!! YIPPEE!!!
Also. Thought I’d share this: Britishisms and the Britishisation of American English Found it very interesting and tickling.
This is a good blog for that:Â http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.ie/
Oh, I can see myself losing hours to that site. Thanks for sharing the link.
I so would get lost wandering and reading though those sites. Fascinating!
I have tons of them on my GoogleReader… hmm, I feel a listicle post brewing…
My happy, yet raging inducing moment of the day.
Background: Â In Canada there are no abortion laws other than things that protect choice – The Supreme Court has ruled that “personhood” doesn’t begin until there is a baby who survives outside of the womb, a man will never be able to interfere with a woman’s choice, it’s hers alone, the national health system must pay for it, there is no time frame, etc. Â There is stupid stuff – a couple of the Atlantic provinces don’t provide it despite it being mandated, long travel times, stuff like that.
Anyway, there was a private members bill that came up to day by, naturally, a dodgy old white man Conservative MP who has claimed all along he wasn’t trying to re-open the abortion debate, he just wanted a new definition of when a fetus becomes a human being. Â Ahem. Â Yeah, no hidden agenda there.
So yay! Â 203 – 91 voted the motion down. Â Go Canada go! Â There was support from at all parties! Â It was soundly defeated! Â Even that dick, Prime Minister Stephen Harper voted against it! Â Go Canada! Â Exclamation marks for everyone!
And then… then I f-ing see that Rona G Damn Ambrose, the Minister for the Status of Women voted for the motion. Â WTF. Â That is correct, the cabinet minister responsible for ensuring the nation’s women are empowered and supported and equal just voted for this asinine motion. Â Stephen Freaking Harper voted against it (for purely political reasons I’m sure, I’d put my savings on him being anti-choice personally) and that Ambrose asshole voted for it.
Oh yikes! How horrifying! We had something rather similar happen here: Cabinet reshuffle: a good day for Maria Miller but a bad day for women
Not to defend Rona Ambrose (because really, she is a reprehensible person generally)…. but she is in a really conservative riding outside of Edmonton that contains multiple large (like 500-1000 member) baptist and pentecostal churches. So perhaps she is making  a political decision too? But yeah, I kind of think that Steve-O should think about replacing her, because clearly she does not care at all about protecting women.
I find myself more often than not singing along to classic rock. Currently, I have this stuck in my head:
http://youtu.be/OMAIsqvTh7g
I also like this one:
http://youtu.be/sjCw3-YTffo
I love singing along with all Salt-n-Pepa songs. Today I was vaguely annoyed that there were really long lines at Kohls, but it meant that I was still in the car when this came on. Damn right I cranked the volume and sang along really loudly, though I was a bit frightened by how well I remembered the words. I hate to imagine how many of my brain cells are devoted to song lyrics.
http://youtu.be/8OB28fTKSds
Hmm, it’s quite possible that I have about 80% brain devoted to song lyrics, and 20% for anything else. And yet I still get kind of sad whenever I’ve forgotten the words to something I used to know more than, say, if I forget my name or what day it is…
Very true. I hate forgetting lyrics!
This Motor City native is currently in a hotel room in Steel City. The bed in here is ginormous (I sleep on a twin at home and here I have a king). The drive in was awesome. Fall color in the mountains! Also this flatlander is a little freaked by all the ups and downs when driving around here.