LIVID.

Have you ever noticed that only really queeny, really worked-up gay men use the word “livid”?

Example: “They pre-empted Project Runway for the President’s speech? I am LIVID.”

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I got news for you people… I’m livid. And not in a limp-wristed, gonna-scratch-your-eyes-out way. No, I’m livid in a I’m-gonna-grab-a-protest-sign-and-beat-someone-over-the-head-with-it way.

There’s two reasons for this lividness, both items in the news today. (Yes, “lividness” is a word… spell-check didn’t try to correct it.)


Reason for Lividness #1: Bush regrets “talking tough” before we went into Iraq.

LONDON - President Bush admitted Wednesday that his tough rhetoric had given the world the impression he was a "guy really anxious for war".

Wait… you mean he wasn’t a guy really anxious for war??? Yeh, right. And I’m not a big Miss Thing who uses words like “livid”.

Newsflash: The man wanted this war. He lied and misrepresented the facts to get it. He wanted it in the worst way so that he could one-up his father and show HW how he could do it and do it better. Of course, his father – the colossal bore that he is – was right all along, and Junior only managed to show the world (and his dad) how much of a tyrannical retard he is. The nerve of this guy to now try to play it off like he ever had other options in mind for Iraq.

(He) said he now wished he had used a different tone on the global stage.

Yes, and many Americans now wish they had voted for John Kerry (which irritates the snots out of those us who did).

Hey, George, you f*@%!#g idiot… good of you to discover in the seventh year of your Presidency that hindsight is 20/20. I guess you still haven’t learned that, as President of one of the most important countries on the planet, that all of your actions have repercussions and consequences.

Why does January 20, 2009 still seem too far off?


Reason for Lividness #2: Senate Republicans block taxes on oil profits.

Are these people out of their tiny, f*@%!#g minds???

Okay, let me see if I can get the logic straight here… the Republicans are saying that if we tax Big Oil, then Big Oil is gonna turn around “punish” us.

I have two questions in return:

1. Aren’t we being “punished” by them already?

2. For the LOVE OF GOD, you’re the US Government… if they retaliate on consumers then what’s to keep you from retaliating back and protecting us? Oh, wait… that would involve actually doing work, wouldn’t it? Sorry to suggest such ludicrousness.

Seems to me that this is proof of just how crooked the whole oil situation is and that pockets are being lined. I just can’t believe that a group of people (Republicans) can be so insanely brazen about it.

All this begs a question to Middle America and the people who support this party: what’s affecting you more? That to fuel your F-150 now costs $400 or more a month, or that me and my same-sex partner want to get married? Seriously. What is making a bigger impact on your life?

If you answered the latter, you’re full of s#!t. If you answered the latter, you’re subjugating yourself to be just another sheep for the next eight years by listening to people who are creating a mountain out of a molehill for their own benefit. And if you answered the latter, you really, really need to get your head out of you’re a$$.

Big Oil is gutting this country from the inside out and it needs to stop. The do-nothing approach isn’t working… not for Iraq, not for the economy and certainly not where oil and gas prices are concerned.

One of the questions raised by a windfall profits tax is where the money should/would/could go… how about pouring it all into our jammed mass transit systems that are running on fumes? As someone who is now parking the car at home and riding the train to work, I can say that it would only encourage more people to use less gas.

Of course, that isn’t the idea. Apparently, the Republicans want all of us to go broke supporting Big Oil and foreign interests who delight in flying planes into US office buildings (do I need to remind everyone that 15 of the 19 terrorists involved in 9/11 were from Saudi Arabia?) And apparently the Republican leader is more concerned with looking good on his way out the door than actually addressing any of the real issues that face us as a nation. If he and his party were interested in tackling the “terrorist threat” then they’d go after the companies responsible for terrorizing our wallets and our livelihood.

Sorry this isn’t a happier post today folks, but the title of this blog is GAP’s Rant after all. And I’m just too ticked off to not belch. That being said, have a great day, stay proud… and TSCHUSS!