More on FMA

Bush 'disappointed by gay marriage ban's defeat. Yuh-huh. Pardon me while I wipe away the tears with my plastic hand. Though it is worth nothing that they're gearing up to take this to the House, so it looks like we're going to have to keep on our toes.

I must confess I'm particularly amused by the Bush campaign aide who is quoted as responding to Kerry and Edwards by saying "It takes a special kind of senator to attack others over a vote that they don't show up for." because you just know said person immediately thought of themselves as ten pounds of cleverness in a five pound bag. In fact, I can picture it now:

Jim: Oh my God, Bill, what did you say?
Bill: I said "It takes a special kind of senator to attack others over a vote that they don't show up for."
Jim: That is genious. Did you make that up yourself?
Bill: Yeah, it came to me just this second.
Jim: Shut up. That is brilliant. That is going on CNN, my friend.
Bill: [bashful] Sometimes I just get these inspirations.
Jim: Mary! Come here! Listen to what Bill just came up with!
Mary: What?
Bill: "It takes a special kind of senator to attack others over a vote that they don't show up for."
Mary: And that's in response to what?
Bill: Kerry and Edwards attacking the FMA
Mary: Kerry attacked the FMA?
Bill: Yeah, he said he's not for it.
Mary: Kerry expressed an opinion?
Jim: As far as we can tell, yeah.
Mary: Are you sure it wasn't "I'm pretty certain human beings require oxygen to live?"
Jim: No.
Mary: Because that sounds more like him.
Jim: No, he was against the FMA. He's been quoted about it and everything.
Mary: Okay. And we're commenting on...?
Jim: He didn't vote.
Mary: On what?
Jim: The FMA. He and Edwards didn't have the guts to show their faces in the Senate yesterday to actually cast a vote.
Mary: Aren't they out on the campaign trail?
Jim: Yes.
Mary: Don't politicians out on the campaign trail normally not show up to vote?
Jim: Well... yes.
Bill: But this was the FMA!
Jim: Yeah! The FMA!
Mary: Which we lost by twelve votes.
Jim: Well... yes.
Mary: And we all knew that.
Jim: Yes.
Mary: And this wasn't a vote on the amendment so much as a procedural vote, right?
Jim: Yes.
Mary: Which means there was even less reason for them to be there and more reason for them to stay on the campaign trail and thus save their contributors money right?
Bill: But he didn't show up!
Jim: Yeah! He's a coward! Him and Edwards both!
Bill: Little pussies who didn't take a stand.
Mary: Except for the quotes on CNN.
Jim: Well -
Mary: Which, as we know, is a very obscure and little known news organization
Bill: Yeah, but -
Jim: Maybe you need to hear the quote again? Because it's really funny.
Mary: Yuh-huh. Tell you what, I'm going to be over here now and continue to tell myself that if I help out this campaign it'll give me an in when McCain runs in 2008. You guys stay here and keep up with the comedy fest. All right?
Bill: Damn, what's her problem?
Jim: Who knows? She's probably gay.

Tattoo pic

A while back I promised dakinigrl a picture of the tattoo I have on my right thigh. Several attempts later, I have now learned the valuable lesson that it's really quite hard to take a picture of your own tattoo, particularly one which is right in the path of the shadow that forms when you bend over to take a picture of it.

Ahem.

That being said, I did the best I could. Little dark, little blurry, little out of shape due to that bending over part, but there we are.

( TBQ's tat )