Election Day Blues

Last night I was contemplating that I had not had much to rant about of late. Well all it takes is a little right wing radio and a presidental race to wipe out that notion, because I have plenty to rant about now.

So as I try and follow the early returns on the election, lines, problems, voting machine problems, I am scouring my mobile devices for some news. The TV application on my personal phone is not behaving, the news feed on my business phone is down, FM radio on my digital media player, let's give it try.

It pops right over to the low end of the dial and finds the NPR station, sounds good right. Not so much. I have been hearing how NPR has gone increasingly right wing, driven there by it's board of directors, and I would have to agree. Because I was assaulted with 15 minutes of horrifingly ignorant hatred filled garbage spewn by the morons on this show.

But let me digress for one moment to make the following points:

Barrack Obama does NOT support Gay Marriages, only civil unions. Neither he or Hillary Clinton would go so far as to proclaim their support of marriages, they only said they would support civil unions and equal benefits to those of married couples. Yes I am Gay, but have no interest in getting married.

The media had done a good job of trying to get out information about the voter myths, to try and curb the voter fraud that has occured in this country the past two presidential elections. The myths such as you will be arrested if you have unpaid parking tickets, you cannot vote if you go to college in a different state, and the biggest myth, it is illegal to wear support items at the polls. Stickers, buttons, tshirts etc, while they are discouraged in some places, they are NOT illegal.

11 million people play World of Warcraft, and they are not all sloths that live in their parents basements, never see the sunlight and have no lives. Yes I play World of Warcraft and I have a life.

So I flip on this station and what is the first thing I hear, "...Barrack Obama is going to subsidize the wedding cakes for gay marriages." Huh??? What??? See above note, Obama does not support them, there is no gay agenda, in fact I was pretty pissed at the lack of gay support from any Democractic hopefulls prior to Obama becoming the nominee. Oh and on an unrelated (to politics at least) side note, DIAF ABC for firing Brooke Smith.

So, this show was asking listeners to call in and let them know about their election day plans. A woman called in and wanted to ask an etiquette question, she relayed her story from today. She was at her polling place with an Obama sticker on the back of her jacket, another woman in line behind her ripped it off and told her it was illegal. Again IT'S NOT ILLEGAL.

The whack job hosts then railed her about it is illegal, that the other woman should have set it on fire and that she must be calling from jail. Are you kidding ME? This poor woman thought at first they were joking and totally bought into that she had done something illegal, sick, just sick.

The next poor fellow to call in explained how his World of Warcraft guild would be doing an event this evening to celebrate the election. That they did not discuss too much about politics to avoid trouble from differentining opinions, but it was nice to have an event to encourage people to get out and vote. He was then mocked, after he hung up as the woman on this chuckle fest proclaims, well that from what she knows about WOW, "those people never leave their homes, so it was great people were getting out." One of the chuckleheads also chimed in, that they normally only "vote for their avatars in Second Life."

I knew it was going to be a long day today.