"because of an inept black man!" oh that's right, she went there

in case you have been living under a rock, a rock without access to youtube, then you may not be familiar with the name Harriette Christian. no doubt if you have heard about her, it was probably on some station blasting her and her rant.

now i am the first to say i enjoy a good rant. hell, rants are what make up most of my daily internet musings. i will say this, what she did was not a rant. if anything, it was a very passionate speech. i realize they are trying to make her look like a crazy person, and quite possibly like racist by focussing on a particular quote. the one where she is saying Barak Obama is not qualified to be president. now maybe the words she used could be found offensive, i did not feel so after seeing the entire length of footage. maybe the way she pesented seemed overly agressive, but again she was voicing herself, and she wanted to be heard. she definitely has been.

i do not know how accepting the rest of the world is with what she had to say. all i ask is that you take the time to listen to her all the way through. hear what she is saying, and notice the conviction in her voice. check out the interview she did afterwards. she is there becuase she genuinely belives that we are all be ing jaded. you may just end up thinking, "you know, maybe she has a point." that, in itself, is why it needs to stop being called a rant. all i am asking that you give her chance to be known as an intellectual person who stood up for something she honestly believes in. as opposed to a crazy lady on a racist rant. i would also point out, that if she were racist, i mean truly, truly racist, i do not think she would have any qualms with just calling Barak a stupid n!gg3r. afterall, look at Michael Richards.

did you get them from a pet store?

so i have officially moved in to my new place. my new roommate is cool. of course i knew that before i moved in. i work with him after all. i am working little by little to straighten out my room, and empty the boxes that stiill have things packed in them. for now, all my bus blogs will be moved to when i take my bus trips. i more than likely will not be taking the morning busses from now on because i will be carpooling with my roommate. so in order to keep them going, i plan to just blog whenever i have to take the buss anywhere. this too is only a temporary solution because will probably have a car by the end of summer. and by probably, i mean hopefully.

my main goal today was to get a pass for the coming week. however, since it was my day off and i had nothing better to do, i also wanted to go to toys'r'us and pick up a free rare Pok�mon. this is all fine and dandy, but technically by being readily available at a common store located nationwide kind of moots the point. there was no challenge, you did not need a password. i mean really, they could have made it a little challenging.

on the way home, a fat lady on the bus complained that the air conditioner needed to be turned up. i hope everybody finds the humour in this. if you're fat, then you should be sweating. hell, if you are skinny and it is hot, you should be sweating. it is one of the natural cooling mechanisms of the body. mind you, it is only 65 degrees outside, and there is a nice breeze blowing. she should not have been that hot to begin with. on top of that, every bus that i have been on today has been chilly, almost to the point that is was uncomfortable. so there is something seriously wrong with this woman who is not sweating, and she cannot feel the a/c. she is probably suffering froma mild form of dehydration, and i find that funny. simply because i think it is tragic that she was pissed at the driver for her uncomfort.