AND apparently Prop 8 in Cali was voted down. Yay!

BUT Prop 2 in Austin was voted down too. Boo.

I'm breathing a sigh of relief.

My heart is so happy and at peace.

And I must say John McCain is delivering a beautiful and eloquent speech right now.

If McCain wants to win so bad maybe he should get Bush to endorse Obama.

With 881 dancers Austin broke the world record for number of people dancing to Thriller.



I was in the back center. I practiced 6 times before the official dance. I don't ever want to dance to Thriller again. But I probably will.

McCain is a dick.

That is all.

From here

"A study coming out Tuesday from scholars at Columbia, Harvard, Purdue and Michigan projects that 20 million Americans who have employment-based health insurance would lose it under the McCain plan.

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For starters, the McCain health plan would treat employer-paid health benefits as income that employees would have to pay taxes on.
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According to the study: “The McCain plan will force millions of Americans into the weakest segment of the private insurance system — the nongroup market — where cost-sharing is high, covered services are limited and people will lose access to benefits they have now.”
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The whole idea of the McCain plan is to get families out of employer-paid health coverage and into the health insurance marketplace, where naked competition is supposed to take care of all ills. (We’re seeing in the Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch fiascos just how well the unfettered marketplace has been working.)
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When younger, healthier workers start seeing additional taxes taken out of their paychecks, some (perhaps many) will opt out of the employer-based plans — either to buy cheaper insurance on their own or to go without coverage.

That will leave employers with a pool of older, less healthy workers to cover. That coverage will necessarily be more expensive, which will encourage more and more employers to give up on the idea of providing coverage at all.
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This entire McCain health insurance transformation is right out of the right-wing Republicans’ ideological playbook: fewer regulations; let the market decide; and send unsophisticated consumers into the crucible alone.

You would think that with some of the most venerable houses on Wall Street crumbling like sand castles right before our eyes, we’d be a little wary about spreading this toxic formula even further into the health care system."


OMG.
 

 

It's Sunday morning and I got some sunny blueberry muffins in the oven (vegan/from scratch no doubt).  Tonights "new" episode of I Love Money is on the TV.  Coffee in my cup.  It's a good morning.

NE Ways...

Sometimes when I hear a song I really really like I listen to it over and over and over again.  Somewhere in my mind I try to get the beautifulness of said song into my blood, as if listening multiple times will physically push it into my blood.  It's weird but it's what I visualize when my ipod is constantly on repeat.

What's new in the iv of awesome songmanship?

You by Atmosphere.  The chorus alone understands my heart.

Today CNN is a goldmine of the ridiculous headline variety.  My favorite is Monkeys control robots with their minds.

Life is funny in that u never know.
Ever.
Bitches be glad fo rwht you got.
Cause you never know when a block of cement or a brain tumor will take it away.
Or whatever else Grey's Anatomy says.
Bitche slisten.
Means it.
Bitches.

But why is Governor Perry speaking at E3 this year???

Crazy bout the rice, man, the rice.

Anyways: Update of a sorts:

Life is going pretty darn good.
Being an economist for the state is interesting.  I know way more about labor statistics then I ever cared to know.
I still luvs the live music.  Bands I think you should check out: The Lemurs (from ATX) Ghost Hustler (From Denton).
Being in Austin makes me appreciate UNT more.  Not to the point of moving back but just happy with what my experiences there were.
I'm 90% vegetarian.  Not making a commitment to it yet, but it's falling into natural eating habits.
I've made fabulous friends, some of which have gotten awesomely close in a short amount of time, but I still miss my old fabulous friends and am disappointed I haven't been better at keeping in touch.
I have protested puppy mills with animal activists and it was good.
Today I went to the capital building for the first time and was amazed at the seemingly lack of security.  Don't get any ideas, bears!
Julius is still cute, that hasn't changed.
My kids from the church children's ministry I serve with now think of me when they see chicks with the same haircut on tv.  My heart is warmed.
I like beer alot more now.

Anyways, I am happy.  Life isn't perfect (it won't ever be) but it's pretty darn good.

xoxo to you an you and you,
M

Akustin has been good  to be.

Perfect or not.

Lets see whatelse happens, bitches.

xoxo M

Bands I liked:
White Denim
The L.K.
Slyvie
Walter Meego
Cloud Cult (!!!!!!!!!)
Black Ghost
The Thirst
Fucked Up
Die! Die! Die!
Dan Le Sac vs Scroobis Pip
Scouting for Girls (kinda)
The Lonely H's

And a bajillion others I don't know the name of.

Fun things:

Chatting with dudes I went to high school with.
Seeing Elijah Woods' eyes glow from across the room.  (And may I add Elijah Woods is a wee little man and a wee little man is he)
Talking politics with Austrians and Canadians and Brits
Going to a Canadian music label backyard party and getting free Shiner there.

More but I'm tired and can't remember.

Loves you!

Today is pretty much the only day I can think of when Texas actually matters in an election beyond more electoral votes for the Republicans.