Two things that you won't hear today... The big day! Election Day! One is the fact that Democrats, not Republicans, are using intimidation tactics to scare people... Nobody really knows why or what their intentions are, but they were there and the police had to be called in to break them up. But they were Black Panthers and obviously supporting Obama, so you won't hear that. Of course, the only network that bothered to cover this was the "conservative" FOX News (that people were laughing at for "supporting" Obama). Someone even called CNN to ask why they didn't cover it. But if you don't want to watch it, fine, but this is verifiable... If you want to ignore it, well, fine. You're just part of the problem!

The next article you will not hear about is the fact that Sarah Palin was exonerated in that fabled "Troopergate" that all the major networks blew out of proportion and got legal action involved. Turns out that she did absolutely nothing wrong, but... You know, nobody's going to cover that, either, even though they're the ones who started the entire fiasco! That was their last scrap of smear against Palin's character and it also turned out to be a complete and total lie. You know all the reporters knew it was pointless because they didn't cover it day in and day out... And now that it's over, well. No need to release the findings, right? Yeah.

So these are some things you won't hear today. One makes Democrats look bad... One makes Republicans look good. Like... The two things the MSM won't ever report on. They'll just keep reporting over and over and over again how much Obama's grandmother impacted his life in some attempt to use her death as a political platform. Ugh... Way to honor her memory. I totally understand what it feels like and I give my sympathies to Obama because I've lost my own grandmother, but when I see the mainstream media pushing these stories at every turn (and Obama letting them), it gets a little annoying. You KNOW they're trying to raise a sympathy vote.

Anyway... There ya' go. Two things you won't hear today. But, hey! It doesn't matter does it? Everyone already voted early because NOTHING could have changed between then and now, eh? Yeah. That argument worked out really well!

So I read a post (by a liberal) that pretty much going on a huge spill about how evil Republicans are for telling people to vote on November 5th instead of November 4th and how this is why Obama's been pushing for early voting so nobody gets stuck with all the Republicans undermining the election process as if they're the ones trying to ruin the country?

Okay, yeah... read a few CNN ticker tape articles and think you have the whole picture of the election and jump to the foolish conclusion that the Republicans are running all over the place, screwing up the elections for everyone, assuming that the only reason we'll win is if we take advantage of the fabled Bradley Effect. (Talk about buying the Democrat slander pieces hook, line and sinker.) But, you know, feel free to completely ignore the whole ACORN voter fraud thing that's happening in ALL the key states out there in an active attempt to steal the election in a far more insidious way. Of course, THAT doesn't get on your precious CNN ticker tapes because, well... CNN is probably ranked 2nd as the most biased media source, right under NBC. You think they're going to talk about something illegal the Democrats are doing? Hah!

It's funny to read the bit about how everyone should be able to vote unhindered and yadda yadda yadda... Yeah, whatever. If you really thought that, you would be more upset about the fake voters in the system, thanks to ACORN (which Obama is affiliated with), than a few Republicans that are trying to tell people to vote on November 5th. I guess technically, ACORN really isn't "hindering" votes, really, more like drowning out the real people with thousands of fake people who all somehow manage to vote for Obama. I'm not trying to defend the Republicans in the least bit, but I think it's incredibly hilarious that someone who's so dedicated to "fair and open elections" and prides themselves on the fact that they "encouraged even McCain supporters to vote" is flipping their lid over a Republican robot caller and completely ignores ACORN and the consistent cheating that's happening in their own party. Amazing.

I mean, come on... I've been talking about Democrat election insanity since Obama got the nomination. All you have to do is browse the Politics category to see everything that's been going on, and they're all complete with sources, so you don't have to take my word for it. It's utterly amazing how people who can't be bothered with politics at any other time are suddenly the resident experts on Election Day and are convinced of things that really aren't so. I'm not saying I'm an expert, but I HAVE been religiously involved in politics since January, so that definately gives me a little more knowledge than someone who woke up, saw Obama wasn't quite in as much of a lead as they thought, and went into Daily Kos-esque damage control mode, looking for all kinds of things to rip Republicans over. So yeah, I'll probably stop reading Myst Blogs after today. A few more sites got syndicated that I really don't want to sift through, so I'll just add the ones I want to see to my feed reader and ignore it from now on. I mean, it's not even really filled with useful information... A bunch of people crying about how Uru's died (yeah, they're still doing that) and when they try to get serious about something like politics, it turns out to be more like something you'd hear from Chris Matthews instead. It's sometimes humorous to see how much of a zombie follower everyone's become, but... Yeah. Not anymore. If I want to see a bunch of liberals suck up to their party, I'll go read CNN for myself.

For the record, I probably won't read this... Not because I don't want to, but because I just woke up and I don't/can't talk this early. I may later on today, because it could be funny listening to me talk about a crazy liberal, just not yet, at least!

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So I got a comment just tonight on how fun my audio posts are, so here's another one! Actually, she told me over IMs how great they were, but she left a comment, too, because she's awesome like that... So here I am, fresh out of the shower with more Showertime Speculation comin' at ya! (Also, I'm still experimenting with volume, so... Kind of keep me informed as to what sounds best. I'm setting it so it's similar to some radio clips I've downloaded and they seem to work okay, so I don't know... Volume is kind of an art, I've noticed.)

First off... Audio blogging. I guess it's officially called "podcasting", and that's what I've been searching for to learn how to provide a handy list of downloads for iTunes, but I simply refuse to acknowledge Apple in this endeavor because my stuck-up Republican pig-headedness spills over into the whole Microsoft vs Apple thing. But... Yeah. If I do start doing this regularly, it'd be nice to have some sort of dedicated RSS feed for just the MP3s so people can load it up easily on their Zunes and iPods. Just imagine how many more listeners/readers I'd get if I let them do that! ...Probably no more than I have right now, BUT! Not the point. I've read up on the whole "you can make RSS feed files all by yourself" (which is a major pain where the sun don't shine) and I've found countless services that offer storage and bandwidth for podcasts, but I have my own storage and bandwidth so I don't WANT that. I've found a few manual applications to automatically make RSS files, but they don't work out really well, so I've experimented with FeedBurner podcast, but that only works if there's only one MP3 file per post... Which is okay, but I sometimes have more than one MP3 link, especially when I'm showing off music or something. So yeah! I need something to interface with WordPress to provide an easy way of podcasting... Maybe even a way to tag the actual voice MP3 as a podcast so the thing doesn't try to send you the Obama National Anthem or something.

But speaking of having my own storage and bandwidth, there's something I need to tell you two listeners (which would be me and Capella)... The server I host this stuff on is broken at times. In simple terms, there's a certain piece that puts a computer online and that sometimes goes off for a split second, but it's long enough to break whatever you're downloading at the time it breaks. This translates into listening to a file that only plays for 30 seconds when it is clearly longer than that... The only thing to do is reload the page and try again. (For those geeks out there: The network interface card in TW's server is broken and the dumbface is too lazy and cheap to replace it with another 10 dollar chunk of silicon so everyone using his server experiences (with alarming frequency) transfer interruptions.) So that's something to watch out for when you try to listen to me and find out that you can't... It's TW's fault. Not mine!

What I also wanted to say was that I'm completely prepared for tomorrow! I actually wrote twice my alotted NaNoWriMo words today... Around 4,000 words instead of 2,000 words... So I don't actually have to take time to get something done to stay on schedule. I usually write at night (because of that whole neuron thing I've talked about before) and tomorrow night is going to consist of me being plastered to my TV, watching FOX News election coverage (because even though they aren't anywhere near conservative, they are the least left-leaning of them all) and yelling at my family to shut the heck up so I can hear what the states are doing. I may even retire to my room and watch CSPAN online, but I imagine that a whole lot of people have the same idea and it's going to be choked... And CSPAN really isn't known for having the most stable streaming system in the first place, so I shudder to think what it'll do tomorrow. I imagine it'll come down "well, we just got word from Ohio that - FREEZE" and then when it comes back on you'll hear "so that's the end of election 2008, folks!" And I'll have to turn in my chair and use Google News to find out who won. The nerve... Making me type when I could have just heard it if their stream didn't die on me.

But I'm really going strong on NaNoWriMo... I've decided to pace myself as much as I can. 2,000 words is my daily goal, but also my daily limit, even if I have more to write. I remember last year when I wrote very nearly 10,000 words in a single day because I was on that much of a roll and then I hit the end of what I already had planned out and it was NASTY until I got my second wind. They say that's really how it's supposed to be done: Fly by the seat of your pants. But I really don't like doing that, so I'll plan and plot and stay up all night churning events and outcomes in my mind until I figure out where I want to go with the next 2,000 words and then I'll run with it. It seems to be working really well... Even with the planning I've done, this is probably the least planned story I've had. It's actually based on a nightmare I had several months ago (so yes, it is science fiction horror, and no, it's not the dream where Obama was chasing me through Voyager with a miniature photon cannon). I only decided on October 28th what story I was going with and at that time, the plot was, more or less, "that dream I had". (I remember it being the 28th, because that was the day that Fallout 3 came out, and was the day I was supposed to have my new computer if I hadn't pretty much lost my job!) But that's what I'm going to keep doing and hopefully I won't experience a huge burn out like I did last year... It was so bad last year that I was actually tossing around the idea of quitting. I hadn't felt that feeling the first year I did it, so it was quite depressing, but I made it through and lived to see another exciting November!

So there you go... Another night of Showertime Speculation: Audio Edition. I'm going to go to bed early because we're going to get up early and beat the lines at the polls. We figure 10 or 11 is a good time, seeing as how that's right before lunch break and there might be a small influx of people rushing to get in, but our district is pretty small as far as population goes, so I really don't see a bunch of lines. Then again, everyone keeps saying that voter registration is going through the roof and to expect a huge turn-out... But, even then, that high voter registration is probably a bunch of illegal voters. It even happened in Indianapolis... For shame. It's amazing how they'll try to pull this off, get caught, and then come up with a ton of excuses as to why they can't fix the problem... Just throw out all the bad registrations and be done with it. Come on. The people who processed the illegal registrations might be stupid, but their fatal flaw is that they think we're stupid, too. But... I abstain. Unlike the liberal whinybutts who think we stole the election, I really don't beat myself up too much about illegal voters, although I do admit that it'll be interesting if Obama happens to win by a very narrow margin. That would have ACORN written all over it.

So I'm signing off now before I go on with another paragraph... Bye!