Sunday, November 09, 2008

Birthday Laughs

My mom called me today to wish me a Happy Birthday. Later, Andy and I are talking after dinner:

Andy: "Did you tell your mom 'thanks for popping me out'?
Becca: "Yep, in other terms of course."
Andy: "They should have a birthday person's mom's card."
Becca: "Mom used drugs to have me."
Andy: "She used fertilizer?"

I was referring to the epideral mom had. Andy was meaning to say fertility drugs.

Saturday, November 08, 2008

GOP vs Democratic

The election season has brought about the term "GOP" as a replacement of "Republican Party".

GOP stands for Grand Old Party - founded in Jackson, Michigan in 1854 as an anti-slavery expansion for activists and mondernizers. This was the party that Abraham Lincoln won the Presidential election i n and ended the American Civil War.

Now, over 100 years later, the Republican party is still referred to as the GOP, yet the democratic party is the one that brought a black president into the white house. 16 years ago, Bill Clinton also won over 92% of the black voters and held office within the Democratic party.

The Republican/Democratic parties are certainly not what they used to be. They don't stand stand for what they used to. At All. They evolve - just as our tastes should.

So I encourage everyone to refrain from relating themselves to a particular party. You don't know what this may bring to mind in a conversation with someone else -if you refer yourself to being one or the other. They may have been brought up in an age where it meant something completely different than what it does today- in this very moment - with the people in power within these two parties.