John McCain's wife must need new batteries.

According to CNN, John McCain wants to offer a "prize" for anyone who can invent a new battery which will "leapfrog" current hybrid technology. Apparently he's getting of buying Duracells for his fembot wife.

This proposal is perplexing, and ridiculous. First, as a capitalist, wouldn't McCain believe that the market held a sufficient incentive for development of such a product? Isn't the market the cure for everything?? Honestly though, whoever invents such a product will easily make that much money in the market by selling it to Toyota, or some other manufacture of hybrid technology. There have to be thousands of R&D folks currently working on a way to make hybrids work more efficiently.

At the same time, what's he doing to reduce our reliance on oil? Besides supporting the war, that is? Is he mandating conservation, or requiring greater efficiency? Limiting oil company profits? Reducing taxes? Nope, nope, nope and nope.

But he does want to encourage offshore drilling. Because we know how reliable that is in bad weather (think of the post-Katrina increases), and how safe that is for the environment (because they never leak).

So who does he really want to help with this whole thing? Not me. Or you, that's for sure.

I think its time that he put the ol' thinking cap back on that butternut squash head of his, and came up with some policy proposals that will actually work.

Until then, I'll be in the scary room in my basement working on my battery prototype.

Just another reason I hate John McCain.

The internet (and many of the blogs I enjoy) is abuzz with the story of John McCain's first wife. Find coverage at:
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/06/10/2008-06-10_why_mccain_didnt_reup_with_first_wife.html (You'll have to cut and paste into your browser because I'm too dumb to make the hyperlink option work. Or just google John McCain first wife.)

Like there aren't already enough reasons for me to hate John McCain. His head is the shape of a butternut squash for pete's sake.

Really though, he has a ZERO (0) lifetime rating from NARAL on women's reproductive issues, now supports Bush's disasterous tax cuts, now says he doesn't support his OWN immigration bill, and is pro-war. He sucks in every way policy-wise; the sad thing is that I didn't always think he was so bad, back when he supported immigration reform, opposed the tax cuts, etc., but now that he has become a conservative-pandering whore, I absolutely detest him, and his stupid butternut squash shaped head.

Now, the story about Mrs. McCain number 1. Yes, there are two sides to every story, blah, blah, blah. Mrs. M #1 waits for McCain who is being held captive, for MORE THAN THREE YEARS, waits, worries, etc. She gets in a horrible car accident while he's overseas, is really hurt and disfigured. Then, "In 1979 – while still married to Carol [Mrs. McCain #1] – he met Cindy at a cocktail party in Hawaii. Over the next six months he pursued her, flying around the country to see her. Then he began to push to end his marriage."

He married the fat-cash-laden-fembot-arm-candy one month after leaving #1.

I don't care how bad your shit gets. Don't cheat on your crippled wife. Don't cheat on any wife, or husband. Have the respect for your spouse and the common decency to separate, divorce, whatever before you start sticking your dick into other people. Is that so hard???

OH, and he's opposed to gay marriage. But apparently he has no problem with adultery. So, if it's not the marriage vows that are sacred to ol' Johnnie boy, what is it? Oh, two penises bad. One penis, many vaginas A-okay. Sure, I get it.