"...the female giraffe urinates and the male drinks a small portion of her urine... The male can tell whether she is in season based on the taste and smell of her urine...
Once it has been determined by the male that the female giraffe is indeed in season and fertile, he begins a courtship. There is nothing special or fancy about the way he courts her. In fact, he just follows her around for several hours or several days. Every once in a while he gets up on her hind quarters to see if she will accept his penis. The female typically plays hard to get for a while, walking away when he jumps up on her. In fact, she plays hard to get mainly to see if a larger, more dominant male will come around to mate her instead."
From: eHow.com - How do Giraffes Have Sex? My first blog post for quite a while. HT JG. I love the internet.
Conservapedia, the world centre for conservative stupidity, tells us:
"President-elect Obama will likely become the first Muslim President, and may use the Koran to be sworn into office at his inauguration on January 20, 2009."
Here's a list of other books that President Obama "may" use to swear-in:
Today, today, the Muslims are getting backward in science. You know why? The Europeans are being advanced. You know why? The Muslims are becoming backwards because the are going away from the Holy Qur'an. They are going away from their religion.
[applause]
And do you know why the Europeans are getting advanced? They too are going away from their religion. The Europeans [applause] are also getting advanced [inaudible] they are going away from their religion. The Muslims, they are going backwards because they are going away from religion.
I would request, the Muslims [inaudible], as were non-Muslims. They are people in the Qur'an. Why don't we read the Qur'an, with understanding? Why don't we point out the verses? We have only kept the Qur'an kissing and keeping on top that's all. The Qur'an was not meant to just be kissed and kept on top. It should be implemented in your daily life.
[applause]
If you implement the Qur'an in your daily life, read it with understanding, insha'allah again we shall be on top of the world. I hope that answers your question.
The only thing more painful than waiting to see if the polls were right, was the BBC's sometimes pythonesquely bad election coverage. "North Hampshire"? Lord help us.
Here's one must-see moment, tho... Gore Vidal. Mad for Obama. Seriously.
And so, after twenty-one months of smears, bickering, and beamed-in-your-dreams media coverage, it's all over. Comrade Mullah Che Generalissimo Herr OberNAMBLAenfuhrer Barack "Hussein" Obama Bin Laden has been elected as the 44th president-designate of the United Socialist States of America.
Not everyone has been as gracious in defeat as John McCain.
NewsBusters got all grumpy when an African-American reporter on ABC teared up over there being a black President in the White House in his lifetime. How fucking dare he.
Newsbuster commenter attorneygirl just ain't quite feeling the love:
It's about race.
It's always been about race.
Now we'll all be in slavery--to a dictatorship.
I cannot now say God Bless America. Not with a Marxist as President. Not with idiots, morons, and sycophants praying to their savior Obama. He is a racist. He has pitted classes against each other.
I will now raise my rates, stop giving to charity, and will not tip any longer. I will fire employees, stop paying benefits, and stop giving my household help Christmas bonuses.
Let the government do it for me.
Bah Humbug.
I'm pulling in and becoming scrooge because the government will be taking my money. Assholes. Now everyone will see what Obama-economics really is.
And I worked my ass off to start my own business. I ate tuna (still do) and still drive an old car so that I can save money for my old age.
Screw that, right?
I will never, ever support a Democrat, a liberal, or this pseudo-president Marxist Obama.
Never.
We have experienced a coup today. And Communism won.
I will now become more self-centered than ever before.
Good on you, attorneygirl, you are a tribute to everything which lost the election for the Republicans.
I salute you. Enjoy your time at the Socialist Re-education Camp. Palin-Oh-Twelve!
Travel & dodgy internet connections have kept me from blogging... But they haven't kept me from the election and, unfortunately, from right-wingers furiously spinning an alternate reality where McCain is on course for victory.
To add to the madness, I wanted to bring you this poll from Michelle Malin's Hot Air, showing how its readers think the election is going to break:-
79% think McCain will be the next POTUS. We'll find out for sure soon enough - although I'm not sure many will share this level of Hot Air optimism:-
The GOP will gain the lead in house. I told you so. I’m betting they will on Intrade.com I will make money. Period. Mcguyver on October 30, 2008 at 2:19 PM
Or this:
The deal is that republicans are voting down the line republican. We are coming out in large droves to prevent an Obama presidency. That means republicans can gain in the House, Senate, and win the White House. jencab on October 30, 2008 at 2:21 PM
McCain may really be up by 20% or more... The “hang-up” percentage, or people who refuse to be polled, is over 85%, which is historically high. This means there is no way to assume the sample is statistically valid. It all depends on the make-up of the 85%. So we have to figure out the motives for the hang-ups. Now we’re not talking probability and statistics, by forensic psychology... Why would anyone not want to participate in a telephone poll?
In case you are wondering, it's because people might feel guilty saying "McCain" for various reasons (*cough* race), or - always my favorite - real working people (Republicans!) are too busy for polls...
That probably accounts for the vast majority of those hang-ups. How do those poll results look to you now? Instead of Obama ahead by 1 to 3%, he might really be behind by 20-30%!
Riiight.
And so to Tuesday. Are the polls accurate? Are there really more Democrats than Republicans? Is America really ready for a black president, or will millions of Americans get into those booths and say "not quite yet"? Who would blame them if they did just that, and voted for McCain instead of Obama? After all, Obama just might be an arab muslim socialist terrorist. We can't be entirely sure he isn't, right?
I mean, at least with McCain/Palin, you know exactly what you're gonna get, right? I mean, we've had people like them in charge for the past eight years. So what could possibly go wrong!?
"It's a remarkable coincidence that the Obamunism logo closely resembles that of the Weather Underground Organization terrorist cult, when you consider that the Weather Underground was led by Bill Ayers, who developed Obama as a protégé, blah blah blah blah blah blah..."
Closely resembles? WTF? Memo to Moonbattery: The logos look nothing like each other.
Cringe with Cindy as her husband is publicly humiliated by Joe The Plumber, who fails to turn up on cue at a rally:
Palin is busy prepping for 2012. Joe, presumably, was on the phone to his agent about a possible run for congress in 2010. John tries to recover by pretending his date wasn't with Joe, it was with everyone else in the crowd... Who all happen to be called "Joe". Cindy... I feel for poor Cindy...
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, and fuck them." - Statue of Liberty
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and fucking the poor." - Deceleration of Independence
"I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for fucking the poor" - George Washington
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to fuck the poor" - Abraham Lincoln
And yeah, I "get it". "Welfare" breeds dependence. Which is why we're all having the bail out the millionaire bankers, right?
My Czech adventure is over, for now. The Festival was great; Jihlava was amusingly sleepy; the filmmakers friendly; the audiences receptive; and the weather beautifully cold, crisp and clear. Pics and more blogging to follow, once I've caught up on my election news (;>).
For now, an extract of the worthy winner of the Opus Bonum section, Mauro Andrizzi's Iraqi Short Films...
Apparently the most important issue facing America today is not the economy, foreign policy, the "war on terror" or any of that crap - it is the desperate and overwhelming need to impose a Christian Theocracy ASAP. Who knew?
First up, "Crazy Tracy" on PBS, who I presume is some sort of performance artist out to make Bible-believing Christians look more gut-wrenchingly vapid, vacuous and witless than we'd ever thought possible:
"...the female giraffe urinates and the male drinks a small portion of her urine... The male can tell whether she is in season based on the taste and smell of her urine...
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