Election Results, Other Stuff

Everybody seems to be talking about the election, and even if people aren’t talking about the election, I think they’re thinking about it. Or at least I’m thinking about it obsessively, and it's been such a big deal, it seems like. But I think sometimes it’s not really a big deal. I feel like the media has just bombarded me with it for so long and made the election seem like a really big deal. The election has shown how unified Americans are sometimes, but I guess that it's also shown how we’re divided, too. I guess it's a good thing that McCain said lots of nice stuff about Obama in McCain's speech on Tuesday night. And Obama said nice things about McCain in Obama's victory speech.

Indeed, it sounds like they’re friends and everything is hunky-dory. I bet right now McCain and Obama are skipping through a park together, or maybe they’re playing with action figures, or trading baseball cards.

Of course on Telemoonfa Time I’ve mostly talked about prop 102, and in my posts and comments on my blog I didn’t mean to offend anybody, but if offense occurs, so be it.

I’m happy that prop 102 passed. I think it’s good for society. Same-sex couples still have a lot of rights, they just don’t get to have their relationship called a marriage by the state.

It’s just crazy how this election has brought out inward feelings about homosexuality.

Oh, and about my personal involvement in prop 102, all I did was spend a few hours on the phone, calling people on my ward list and telling them about prop 102. My wife and I also posted a “Yes on 102” sign in our window, too. I never sat behind a booth in the mall; I never went door-to-door talking about prop 102 or donated money or anything like that. I didn’t bully anybody; I really didn’t really even talk about prop 102 with too many people. I never even got into an argument about it, unless you count the quasi-argument that went on in the comment section of my post “The Emotional Byproducts of a Yes Vote on 102.”

I don’t encourage intolerance or discrimination or violence or anything like that.

So… I just want to say that I’m happy that prop 102 passed. And I’m happy about the similar results in California and Florida. I’m happy that the people voted on this issue, and it wasn’t decided by judges. I like it when the people can decide on issues rather than a few politicians deciding on big issues.

(One big thing that I wish the people of the USA could have voted on was the bailout plan that went through recently. Maybe you’ve heard about it. I bet if the people got to vote on the bailout plan, then the bailout plan would not have passed. Watch this You Tube video to seen what I mean: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZFwRAfkV1g)

But maybe the whole election is rigged anyway. I like to hear about conspiracy theories, like there's a secret group controlling the government and we're being watched by Big Brother all the time and space aliens are real and Sarah Palin shot Big Foot on an Alaskan hunting trip.

Here's a conspiracy theory I heard from this one guy who said he saw it in Adbusters magazine a while back: the people who own the drug Ritalin are secretly the same people who own Gerber baby food. The Ritalin/Gerber people want to sell lots of Ritalin and make lots of money, so they put this secret ingredient into Gerber baby food that makes babies develop ADD when they're in puberty or something.

Isn’t that messed up? Yes, that is messed up!

Yeah, the Internet is good for spreading conspiracy theories.

Another thing the Internet is good for is spreading urban legends.

Here's an urban legend I really like. Be warned, though, it's really sick. If you get grossed out easily, maybe it’d be best if you stopped reading now.

Imagine that you and I and a couple of our mutual friends are having a sleepover, and my parents are gone for the weekend, and it’s dark, and I’m telling you this story…

OK, so this old lady's tongue started swelling. This is absolutely true, I promise. There was like a lump in it, and her tongue started hurting really bad. So the old lady went to a doctor and the doctor ran some tests, and decided that he was going to have to slice open her tongue a little bit. When the doctor made the incision into the lady's tongue, a cockroach crawled out! Ewww!!!

See, what happened is that a few weeks before the old lady’s tongue started swelling, the old lady was licking a bunch of old envelopes and I guess there had been a tiny cockroach egg embedded in the yellow gluey - part of the envelope that you lick. I guess the lady cut her tongue a little bit when she licked the envelope, and the egg got inside her tongue somehow, and the baby larva-fetus-cockroach thing hatched and started feeding off the woman's tongue. Ewww!!!