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I’m sitting here watching TV, monitoring the Internet here and I just can’t believe what is going on with this freaking election. I’m trying to understand why so many people are still supporting Bush, globally seen as being an incumbent fool. I was talking to some Americans today who I thought were quite well versed with what was going on in the world, and they’re voting Bush. I’m like (swear word warning) “what the hell are you doing that for? You’re being fucken lied to! Where the fuck do you get your information from???” Ok, I didn’t say that but I put it through a nice language filter so they didn’t get too offended. And yes, politicians lie - but can you really top the Bush administration? Lying to go to war? Nobody could answer my question by the way. I got these paltry answers of “going by gut feeling”, “choosing the lesser of two evils” (WTF?). I just don’t understand. ...

I just watched Senator John Kerry give his concession speech, and I thought it was just amazing. I nearly caught myself saying “Go America!”, and temporarily forgot that he wasn’t going to be President. He sure spoke and acted like one. Damn.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! from Kristian.

Was pretty darn full-on. Like I said, I went to Swap Shop on the Friday night. I wouldn’t say that the place was Florida’s 2nd largest tourist attraction because of the drive in theatre part though. They’re crap. We were watching “Team America” on some shoddy screen with a shoddy projector and shoddy sound. Oh hold on, people don’t go to a drive-in to watch the movie anyway. Anyone who has watched “Grease” would know that. Doh! Ok, next time I go to a drive-in theatre you won’t be hearing about it. Mwa haha. Unfortunately this time I was there with fellow nerds. You can find the best bits of “Team America” on the ads, I swear. I did laugh a couple of times but only at the fact the movie has freaking marionettes walking about, I didn’t laugh at any of the actual dialogue much. Hearing South Park voices everywhere is sorta off-putting since I’m pretty much over South Park. ...

During the time Florida was getting bombarded with hurricanes, there was one guy we all watched to give us the low down on what the hurricanes’ plans were: Bill Kamal. Bill was the man! We watched him for hours on end coz basically that’s all that was on TV at the time. He always wore a pin-stripe suit and was so precise in what he said I was thinking “now there is a guy who knows his hurricanes!” He was a fountain of hurricane knowledge. ...

(I’ve got the theme song to that ABC show from yonks back in my head now). No, that’s where I’ve planned to go tonight, the world’s largest drive-in complex to watch Team America. Of course, I’ll be visiting Hooters in Fort Lauderdale first coz a man’s gotta eat. I have to get a sorta early night tonight (anything before 1am) because I’m leaving at 5:30am tomorrow morning to go on a full day kayaking trip in the Florida Keys. Woo hoo! I plan on going to an Apple store after work tonight to get an iTrip so I can annoy the heck out of the people I’ll be travelling with. What, you want more Roxette? No problemo! How about we follow that up with some 2 Unlimited and then to cap it off, the KLF. Hehe.

This post is for my little brother: CONGRATULATIONS for blitzing the technical test, the passing of which is one of the requirements for entrance into the Airforce. I knew you could do it! Good luck for the remaining tests that you will have to do. From a very proud brother.

to add this picture to the St Petersburg album. Oops.

To send my bankcard to the right address? Thankyou BankSA for sending my bankcard to my address back in Australia. This is after I called your hotline for people currently *overseas* who had their cards lost/stolen. I then explicitly gave details on where I was living in Florida so you could send it to *that* address. How the heck did you stuff that up, after I even had you repeat the address details to me? And where the heck would my PIN have gotten to? Somewhere in Mozambique perhaps? ...