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The 's' stands for skinny.

In all the glory of this current presidential election, it is important that people do not forget the deliciousness of hometown politics. I am talking of course about the election for the third congressional district election betwixt incumbent Phil English and political rookie and mother of 5 Kathy Dahlkemper. I have had the privilege of meeting both candidates on more than one occasion due to my classes spring term '08 and my extremely interesting internship with WJET (Action News 24 this is Tim how can I help you?)

Now I will say this and y'all can be thankful or upset that I am not eligible to vote for this election, Phil English is a terrible person. I would not trust him with my garbage, let alone my congressional voice and yet this 3rd district that I am currently a prisoner of has kept him in office for 14 years. I feel as though Erie was on a downhill slope when I came here as a freshman and has really just continued on that same path for four years. I feel as though someone should have said 'WTF has Phil English done for us lately?' yet no one has.

Kathy Dahlkemper is a swift kick in the nuts to politics as it has been generally excepted I feel. For one she's not a huge fat old white guy, just in case you hadn't noticed, which i believe is a huge and rampant problem in today's political scene. Also she has done a lot of good for Erie and surrounding areas just because (http://www.leaferie.org/). I wish more people like her would stand up to incumbent, incredibly fat, cats (the placement of commas is meant to be that way I assure you) and take care of things that matter to the entire locale like cleaning up the lake and fighting against tire plants and such.

I believe, after watching the debate between the two at WQLN last thursday, that English is desparate and knows his time in office is growing short, which is why his advertisements have grown more ridiculous by the day.




That one is hilarious in my opinion.

In any event I have faith that the people of Northwestern PA will make the right choice come Nov. 4th, at least on the local level.

(PA doesn't need PE, lets get some KD up in this shit)

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All is quiet on the North Eastern Front

Love Erie or hate it, everyone who has spent a month or more in this city can easily agree on one thing. ERIE RADIO SUCKS!!!

I dare you to disagree with me on this one, but in my opinion (and this is a bulleted list so I won't ramble)

-Country music is shit
-Christian radio should be abolished
-a city with more than 3 classic rock stations should never exist
-'Oldies' stations are past their primes (Lolz)
-Stations like Bob FM blow
-College radio is too unreliable

The only decent radio stations that Erie gets are the highly scrambled deligts that flow down from our hockey playing, beer swilling neighbors to the north, and even then the christian contemporary stations interfere with those signals.

I tell my friends who come to visit every once in awhile just to bring an iPod or good selection of cd's, because short of sunday mornings when 90.5 has the acoustic brunch, there is nothing worth listening to.

Some might say that I am just intolerant of other people's musical likings and to them I say 'No shit.' In fact to describe the type of music I actually do enjoy isn't too difficult. I believe that the 1990's was the epitome of what humans are just about capable of with modern bands consisting of guitars, drums, a bass or two and some vocals. I enjoy indy rap and the classics from the late 80's and early 90's. Pop music died with Jacko's Neverland ordeal and country music is just too painful on the eardrums to be heard. If I wanted to be preached to and told I'm going to hell, i would go to church, but seeing as how I don't the question comes up as to why I or anyone else would want to listen to that crap while they are driving to or from work, the grocery store, etc.

Here is a list of all the blunders that Citadel and others have allowed to disfigure this once fair musical city. Enjoy, and count how many things you utterly despise that you see.

http://www.ontheradio.net/metro/erie_pa.aspx

I'll w00t! this when someone concurs, or tells me that I'm a blabbering idiot

Good golly Miss Molly

For as long as I can remember I have loathed politics. The tedious upkeep on what public figure said what about who, or what old ass white guy was caught with drugs or in some form of a sex scandal was enough to keep me convinced to stay away from the stress and headaches that paying attention to such nonsense would surely bring. However after the last 8 years of unrelenting governmental pooch screwing (awesome visual, I know) it dawned on me that there was an acceptable level of being informed. Watch a debate here and there, pick up tidbits on NPR and other mostly unbiased news sources and I was good. I still feel as though I could never trust anyone who was paid solely to make false promises and lie in public. It makes me think of Sprint's newest ad campaigns, I believe most people are familiar with them.





In any event the real reason I write this entry is in response to the Palin Biden debate that happened a few weeks ago. I am willing to bet the majority of my tuition bills that one of these two people will some day be president of this great nation, not because I want them to be, but because I don't believe either of the actual presidential candidates are going to live for more than two years in office (unless Obama really does start turning things around (fingers crossed)).

After watching the debate though I would definitely have to cast my vote for Biden, who clearly looked to have won the debate, but also doing it with an air of confidence and ease. If he were on an independent ballot i would probably vote for him outright, but alas, we should not be so lucky.



uber republican pwnage (I'm an indy, don't be hatin')

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What do I care?

I can imagine with most people that getting into the habit of writing a blog isn't such a hard task, but for me it is. It is harder for me to continuously update this blog on a regular, schedueled basis than it is to get into the habit of flossing after every meal (yeah, I just whipped out that analogy). It makes no sense to me at all considering how long I spend in front of a computer each day (1-3 hours depending on the mood I'm in) that I can't spend 20 minutes to write a new entry. Oh well, its the exact same as when I attepmted to keep a journal, only now I'm being graded on it and not just feeling guilty for not doing it.

That being said, please don't judge me if I write over a dozen articles in the timeline of three or four days (those grades don't earn themselves).

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The joys of precipitation

No matter what it is, I find that I sleep the best when there is some kind of crap falling out of the sky. It might be odd, but the last few days that we have had rain here in Erie, I have slept through the whole night and woken up feeling great. When I dwell on the subject I think of all the times I've gotten a good night''s sleep its usually because it is either raining or snowing. Maybe there is some kind of pressure thing that rain brings, or maybe it's just the sound of rain on the roof, but whatever it is, I wouldn't mind rain at least once a week now that i have it figured out. It also made me think of this song/video by Garbage, enjoy.



Although I will say rain ruins any of my outdoor plans, so I'm only happy when it rains when I'm about to hit the sack.