"Just Get Over It" and other breaking news

So...I've decided that Nike had a pretty good idea in their famous marketing slogan "Just Do It." My modified version, "Just Get Over It" is going to become my new mantra, which I will subtly say to people I feel need to just get over it.

In other news, politics in Italy is WAY more exciting than politics in the USA. Our politicians embezzle money and, occasionally, there are senators who paid for sex and what not. In Italy, the prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, paid for sex which he received in his state-owned apartments! Additionally, his wife filed for divorce after 19 years of marriage citing "consorting with minors" as one of the reasons for the failed marriage. As if that wasn't enough, pictures were published showing topless women and a naked man at his private villa! Woo! Orgies! Seriously, why can't our public figures do something so scandalous? It's like a soap opera, except that it's a real guy doing it! On the up side to all of this, Italians apparently don't really care if you're a man-whore. As long as you get the job done, and do it well, you can do what ever you like. Seriously, who wouldn't want to surround themselves with beautiful young women (and maybe the occasional naked man) as a way to de-stress from the pressures of running Italy? Way to go Italy, a man's private life shouldn't intrude on his public life so long as that private life isn't illegal (ok, so sleeping with an underage "aspiring actress" is illegal...but, nothing else was!) Oh, he was also put on trial for fraud and is one the riches people on the planet worth $6.5 billion!

In entertainment news, have you heard about the new Alice in Wonderland film coming out? It's a Tim Burton film and has Jonny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, and Anne Hathaway in it. I'm so excited! Although I'm going to have to wait 'til next year for it, the gestation period isn't up until next spring... It's supposedly based more on Through the Looking Glass than Adventures in Wonderland, which is pretty exciting since I think that book is WAY more exciting and bizarre. I'm very excited!

In a very unrealted topic, if anyone feels the urgent need to buy me anything, I highly recommend these items. If you don't feel like spending that much money on me, spend it on yourself and let me borrow it.

How to be a Super Villain

There's a strong possibility that you've figured out by now that I find most politics quite funny. My major question of the day is this: if you're going to steal money from the government, why make it a paltry $90,000? Why not a million? Or several million? But, on the other hand, at least he did better than these two. So, Former Representative Jefferson, I have one question: if you're going to go about the business of being a super villain, why not steal more money? There's no reason to put your career in jeopardy over such a small amount of cash. And, by the way, what kind of crack pot steals $90,000 and keeps it in his FREEZER? Mr. Jefferson, I think you should take the following quiz to learn which natural talents you have that lend themselves to the furthering of your super villain career (Apparently, I'm a scary environmentalist):

Your results:
You are Poison Ivy

Poison Ivy 67% The Joker 62% Mr. Freeze 57% Dr. Doom 53% Mystique 52% Lex Luthor 50% Magneto 45% Catwoman 43% Riddler 43% Green Goblin 40% Apocalypse 39% Venom 33% Dark Phoenix 29% Two-Face 24% Kingpin 23% Juggernaut 20%	You would go to almost any length for the protection of the environment including manipulation and elimination.

Click here to take the "Which Super Villain are you?" quiz...

Anyway, on a side note, next time you feel like protesting something, I highly recommend that you do it in the nude. You'll get WAY more attention that way.

Also, everyone hates Nancy Pelosi apparently, well 56% of us do at any rate.

Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters
June 9-10, 2009

Congressional Favorability Ratings
Member of Congress	Favorable	Unfavorable
Nancy Pelosi	34%	56%
Harry Reid	27%	45%
Mitch McConnell	29%	28%
John Boehner	26%	32%

Also, in reference to posts over the last couple of days, I thought you would find these funny. If you're too lazy to open the links, or your computer is sexually preferenced towards anyone who's not you, they are political cartoons about Ahmadinejad.

Perez Hilton and Iranian Blogs

The other day I was consumed with this desire to ruin an otherwise perfectly good day. So, I decided to check out what Perez Hilton had to say about stuff and things. If you're not familiar with this website, allow me to enlighten you. Mostly, it's fully of celebrity gossip. Please see the following examples of trashy celebrity gossip. I don't want to make it sound like there's nothing good on the site. There are some pretty entertaining pages. Par exemple, the following page is pretty entertaining. As is this one. And he does put up many GLBT advocacy news clips, which I like (w00t! civil rights!). Altogether though, reading trashy celebrity gossip makes me really depressed for reasons I don't really understand. Although, it might have something to do with the graphic sexual content (do not click on this unless you're prepared, although I don't know if they're still up, when I first came across this on Sunday, there were very graphic photos on this page) I accidentally ran across while trying to ruin my day. Sadly, it worked. I almost threw up when I saw it. If there's one surprise I really don't like, it's getting surprised by sex. Scary! Moving on from total digression, the fact is that I really don't think we should be following the lives of celebrities so much. The reality is that most of them have absolutly no effect on our lives whatsoever. Plus, I really don't think we should be contributing to the fact that many of them are famous more because of the fact that they are famous than anything else. They're severely overpaid and do little to actually deserve that kind of paycheck. I think that if they had any sort of moral center at all, they'd realize that and give most of it to people who actually need it, like teachers, volunteers, and aide workers. I know that many of them do give a lot of money to charity. But, honesly, it should be more. They have enough money to feed the world and solve a lot of problems, but many of them are just too wrapped up in themselves to notice that other people can't eat. (This statment excludes people like Brangelina, the Governator, and the ever amazing Operah. A short list of people who donate can be found here.)
Interestingly, on that note, I'm seriously considering becoming a Passions consultant. Details to follow. If you don't know, Passions consultants are like Avon or Mary Kay consultants, except that their products are not meant to be used outside the bedroom.
In other news, I'm glad to see that the Iranian people are standing up for their own rights. See rather arrogant world leaders who mistakenly believe you can influence the political events in other countries? If an election is really rigged, the people of that country will (at least attempt to) fight for their right to be legitimately heard and will demand new leadership. Whether this will actually lead to a change in leadership remains to be seen. Although, we should by now means expect any president of Iran to kowtow to whatever the US says is right (including, but certainly not limited to the issue of nuclear armament). I have a whole lot more I could say on that subject, but I think I'll save it for another day. In leiu of commenting, I think you should read these aritlces on the situation in Iran, and these. These people are bloggers who live in Iran, so you can get the scoop directly from the source. There are lots of photos and videos from people who live there. I found some others I just thought were interesting, too. These people support the former monarchy in Iran. These two offer social commentary on Iran, although they haven't been updated in a long while. History and cultural things in Iran. This guy might be a pyromaniac, but he's got a point.
One last comment, Perez Hilton posted a link to this even and I decided to look at it. The National March for Equality is taking place on this October the 11th. If you happen to not have anything really important, like say school, to do on that day or if you happen to be on the East coast already, you should go to that. If you can get out of work for this, you totaly should.

Iranian Elections

As many people, I'm sure, are aware, elections have been taking place in Iran recently. This has pissed many people off since the more "pro-western" candidate did not win, despite the efforts of international news agencies like the BBC and CNN to tirelessly report Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's unpopularity in that country.
Many, including, not very surprisingly, the leading opposition leader, one Mir Hossein Mousavi, have disputed the election results there. "I'm warning I will not surrender to this dangerous charade. The result... will jeopardize the pillars of the Islamic Republic and will establish tyranny," proclaims Mousavi, boldly defending his right to relentlessly oppose any election in which he is not the winner. Following suit, the reformist candidate Mehdi Karroubi, with an impressive 0.9% of the vote, criticized the result saying, "Evidently the results and the institution coming out of such a vote count is illegitimate and unacceptable." I wonder if he would have said the same thing if Mousavi had won the election.
Fortunately for Ahmadinejad, some people do support him. The conservative candidate Mohsen Rezai proclaimed, "It is obvious that the person who has been declared president following the legal procedures is the president of all Iranian people. I will support him in a bid to prevent any delays in the provision of services to the people." Well, it's better than nothing. Shockingly, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei backed up the results as well. "The chosen and respected president is the president of all the Iranian nation and everyone, including yesterday's competitors, must unanimously support and help him." Wow. I'm really surprised by his response.
Perhaps even less shocking was the response of the international community. Hillary Clinton responded thusly, "We are monitoring the situation as it unfolds in Iran. But we, like the rest of the world, are waiting and watching to see what the Iranian people decide. We obviously hope that the outcome reflects the genuine will and desire of the Iranian people." Way to be diplomatic Mrs. Clinton. Could you possibly make it a little bit more obvious that you don't believe the election results? In case you people in Washington hadn't noticed, someone has already decided the will of the Iranian people. If that reflects the actual will of the people or not, we may never know for certain; but it's not like there's anything you can do about it, short of invading and "liberating" them, and we all saw how well that went down last time you tried that. I think my favorite remark, though, was the one made by the EU presidency. "The presidency is concerned about alleged irregularities during the election process and post-election violence that broke out immediately after the release of the official election results on 13 June 2009. The presidency hopes that the outcome of the presidential elections will bring the opportunity to resume dialogue on the nuclear issue and clear up the Iranian position in this regard." Well, at least you made your sentiments known, even if your position of power is really nothing more than a daydream someone had in 1958. You put your two cents in eu2009.cz. Congratulations. Next month, you wont be in power anymore and your opinions will no longer count. (In case you're interested, the current leader of The Presidency is the Czech Republic and the responsible ministers are Karel Schwarzenberg and Jan Kohout, like it matters. The website is www.eu2009.cz. Starting next month, the leader will be Sweden and the website for that is www.se2009.eu)
Ah, political drama. It makes me glad I spend so much of my life living under a rock. It's funny, you know, this is not really the reason I put up this post in the first place. I was actually going to make the following comment, but I got sidetracked: look up the election turn out in Iran and the election turn out in the US for last November. The official turnout for the recent Iranian elections was 85%, and they don't even have an actual say in the outcomes of their elections! Compare that to the paltry 61.7% voter turn out in the US. Pathetic. We actually have the chance to determine the course of events in our country and 40% of the citizens couldn't be bothered to get their fat, lazy asses of their couch long enough to incorrectly punch holes in an unintelligibly-marked card. There is no hope for us.
Source for quotes: BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8098761.stm
Source for Iranian election turn out: BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8099501.stm
Source for American election turn out: United States Election Project http://elections.gmu.edu/Turnout_2008G.html