bitter-girl :: musings

Acapella Rammstein.

I’ve been busy.

(2nd book ever published by my publishing company, with more on the way…)

(via Metafilter)

This is so awesome. I think I need to go buy some Bob’s Red Mill bread machine mix to acknowledge just how awesome it is. Talk about the right way to exit a business you’ve built gracefully with the help of your workers and to reward them accordingly.

I’m on a horse!

My new favorite commercial:

As the daughter of a musician who always feared this would happen at her wedding, I about fell over watching this:

What I just wrote in an email to the Democratic party:

Not one more penny. I am not giving ONE MORE PENNY to any Democratic candidate until you stop being such a bunch of capitulating babies. You have the majority, start ACTING LIKE IT. Stop selling my email address to candidates, stop asking me for money, stop it. I am a lifelong Democrat and committed liberal but I cannot possibly abide giving any more money to a party that refuses to actually use its majority and instead rolls over like a cowed dog any time anyone stands in its way. Ben Nelson? Come on, REALLY? And I used to live in Massachusetts, how the heck did you screw that one up? Forget it. No more money from me, my (male) domestic partner, my family. My 2500ish Twitter followers heard the same thing from me just now. I WILL NOT.

Grow a spine, Democrats. Grow a spine.

Tired of watching the party I’ve supported all my life implode. It reminds me of the 1995 Contract On America. (Yes, I know it’s ‘For’ but I’ve always thought ‘On’ was more accurate…) I remember living in Munich and watching my foreign service friends forgo a paycheck for weeks stretching into months while Gingrich and his allies shut down the damn Congress.

Ben Nelson? REALLY? What an ass. What a complete ass. And when he got caught out being an ass, look what he did.

Start penalizing people who won’t play ball. Strip Lieberman of his effing committee chair positions. Act like you HAVE A PAIR. What happened to Rahm Emanuel being a hardass (well, supposedly, anyway)? And the (apocryphal?) story of him stabbing the table with a steak knife?

Dead to me. DEAD!

Decidedly unsafe for work viewing, and yet another reason I am SO glad to be an only child: brother posts his sister’s “hook up list” to Facebook as revenge for her getting him grounded.

See here.

Or here.

Or here.

The best part is, depending on which one you view, is more and more comments — like the sister frantically trying to get her friends tagged in the note to “de-tag” themselves, and comments from (presumably) the names on the list (#1 on the hook up list, Adrian, posts: “note to self: do not hook up with [her].”)

Oh, and “what are you gonna do, tell mom and dad I uploaded…”! Classic.

Yes, I am happy I don’t have siblings, that’s for sure.

Poor neglected bitter-girl.com, I haven’t done much with you lately. I’ll have to change that. It’s just been a whirl of busy elsewhere is all…

I love you, Al Franken, and I am proud to have given money to your campaign. Lieberman needs to be told to STFU often, loudly and preferably with some degree of urgency.

I also stand by the comment I made on MetaFilter just now, namely:

[quoting another commenter]: It’s time to cut our losses. It’s time for Harry Reid and Barack Obama to demonstrate that they won’t negotiate with blackmailers.

Joe Lieberman is a terrorist.

That is all there is to it. He is holding our fear over our heads in a way that would make Al-fucking-Qaeda proud, and here’s why: Al Qaeda can’t blow up every city and monument in this country, but every single one of us is going to end up needing a doctor, or hospital, or other healthcare provider at some point in our lives. And by holding his vote over our heads, Lieberman (not to mention every single other senator who sides with his turncoat ass) is acting just like a terrorist. We’re afraid he won’t play ball, so we settle for something that goes against many deeply-held liberal beliefs. We compromise, we change what we do and how we respond to him to placate THE ALMIGHTY JOE LIEBERMAN.

Screw that. If we don’t negotiate with foreign terrorists, we shouldn’t negotiate with domestic ones either.

Seriously. When are the Democrats going to learn?