My New Ferret Faces Discrimination for the First Time

Last week I celebrated the Obama victory by buying a ferret. I named him Lexington Cabot III but he might be a she or something else. I think it is a he but I don't know what a ferret penis looks like so my new pet BFF might be a transgendered animal.

No matter, I will love my new transgender pet as if he or she were male or female. The problem is not EVERYONE ELSE treats Lex the same.

I brought Lex with me to Starbucks for my daily adventures in blogging only to have the manager told me he was not "welcome".

Now at this time the five meds I take so I don't flip out and kill short-sighted, bigoted neo-cons had yet to kick in and my blood pressure was boiling.

"What do you mean he is not (fingers making the quotation marks in the air) "welcome" I asked him to which he replied: "Because animals in the store are a violation of the Board of Health regulations."

Please! Lex isn't allowed in the store because of his being a transgender pet, not because of some rules written by right-wing politicians. I made sure to bring this to his attention and let him know in no uncertain terms how in a country where we just elected an African-American as President we are still racist if a transgender ferret can not be allowed to sit at the lunch counter of a Starbucks.

It is pet suffrage plain and simple.

My outrage turned to a shouting match and then Lex bit the manager. He deserved it!

Now I am banned from the Starbucks. Fine! They will miss out on my consumption of their tap water every day while I blogged.

In a way I am glad this happened. All the employees used to give me dirty looks every time I ordered the free water. I think they were all republicans jealous of us liberals in power now.

So here I am back at the smelly McDonald's with the free wifi. At least Lex is by my side. :)

Idiot of The Week: Ryan Garns

This week's Super Liberal Idiot of the Week Award goes to Ryan Garns and his very unfunny bashing of Barack Obama. This idiot blogger had the audacity to make fun of slavery in a parody post of Obama's sure-to-be-awesome Inauguration speech .

This line really got me:

"The music swells and at its crescendo, Barack Obama rips through the American flag to thunderous applause."

LOL! If McCain won this is what he would be doing, following in the footsteps of Bush and continuing the status quo of the trampling of our laws. Unlike the Republicans Obama respects the Constitution and understands it is a list of what government can't do, not how much it can do for us.

I believe a man everyone considers to be one of the greatest Presidents ever said something along those same lines. Yeah, I mean JFK and he was a Democrat.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it Ryan Garns.

Our Democratic Government Gets Stronger

Ted Stevens lost his re-election bid giving our team 58 votes. Fellow liberals we are now two votes away from being able to pass ANY LEGISLATION we want!

Then we kept Leiberman in the fold. I think that gives us a 59th vote. Woot!

It is like an early Hanukkah. The Democratic Party keeps getting gifts every day for like a whole week!

I know there is a bit of a dispute over whether Hillary actually accepted the Secretary of State position but we all know the vetting process is a formality.

Oh geez I didn't realize the time. Starbucks is about to close. I hope that the bike ride home will work off the excitement I have wondering what gift us liberals will have waiting under our menorah in the morning.

Al Gore for Secretary of Energy?

Yeah, I'm not sleeping tonight.

Hillary Clinton Named Secretary of State

Hillary Clinton has accepted the position of Secretary of State, according to the Guardian. Love that paper by the way. They really have a progressive viewpoint on where America needs to change. We should listen to them.

So now we have Obama as President, Joe Biden as VP, and Hillary as Sec of State. I think there needs to be a place for Al Gore to combat Global Warming.

The naysayers still try and hold us back from the obvious: humans are killing this planet with their use of fossil fuels. October 2008 was the hottest year on record because the GISS said so. No right-wing blogger is going to try and change the truth with twisted facts and figures.

Make Gore the Secretary of Energy so we can get rid of the stupid coal plants and dino-fuel autos so animals and trees won't die anymore and my future children won't have to live underground.

The best part is this makes it so Hillary wins in 2016. Twelve years of Democrat rule. Won't that be awesome!? Life is going to be so much better for people like me, the downtrodden. We will no longer feel guilty for killing the planet.

Go Obama! Go Hillary! Bring Back Gore!

This is truly a magical time. Wow the U2 song "Beautiful Day" is now playing at the new Starbucks I am blogging from. See? The universe is already correcting itself from the last eight years of this...

I'm guest posting on Radioactive Liberty

After I won over the conservative fans as a guest commentator of Radioactive Liberty on their Election Day coverage I got asked by one of the wing-nut writers, Chris Cameron to do a post with him.

The topic was whether Obama will fix everything and of course I was all like hells yes! Being the hardcore neocon that he is, Chris tried to paint me into a corner claiming I was living in the past.

I thought the past was where Republican victories were?

Super Liberal's Idiot of the Week Award

This one goes out to the conservative blog You Should Be Tasered. Not only are tasers a horrific way to hurt people that could be innocent (until proven guilty right? right? right?) and a form of human rights violations but the blog is as well. The topper is that he has a blog post about racist terms.

Typical redneck Republican. We elect a black man for President which allows all of us to shed our guilt and heal and You Should Be Tasered wants to go back to hosing down African-Americans because they ate at some counter in a diner in the 70's.

The Obama Win Has Purged My Guilt

I am very glad that an African-American is President because shamefully I carried white guilt.

Did you know half of Americans have ancestors that owned slaves? HALF of us are indirectly responsible, and I know I was one of them because of how guilty I felt all these 23 years of my life.

I tried to be fair and treat everyone equal no matter who they were but I couldn't help feeling like I haven't done enough because of the travesties of my great-great-grandfathers and mothers. How could I ever make up for their idiocy, especially since I was not around to help fight slavery?

Now I can hold my head up high, knowing that my vote for Barack Obama helped deal with that issue while also touching a feeling of how proud I finally am of America.

Even the world likes us now. My french neighbor told me that the election showed America learned it's lesson from the Bush oppression. We don't have to hide anymore or pretend we aren't Americans when we are overseas.

We also don't have to feel guilty anymore.

Thanks To Obama I Dont Have To Work Anymore

Like many of you I am very excited that Barack Obama is our President because it means so much to the people like myself being kept down by the man, ie: the right wing of our government.

To release myself from my bondage, I have gotten fired from my part-time job at the Dollar Store-a-Rama today. I could have quit but then I won't collect unemployment. Obama will surely extend the unemployment benefits so in the long run I will get out a lot more then I put in and the best part is no work.

Then once all the rich people get taxed and it trickles down to people like me I will be able to lead a productive life and have a house, money, and health care without having to be a sheep in the evil capitalist system in order to scrape a meager existence from the billions of dollars all those companies take in.

The American Dream has finally arrived everyone. If you don't embrace it you will be left behind while the rest of us succeed.

I also celebrated by trading some of my food stamps for the money to buy a ferret.

I will name him Lexington Windsor Cabot the Third.