We all know Albus Dumbledore is believed to be gay. It’s all over the internet. While reading online earlier, I came across another video clip I hadn’t yet seen:

I immediately send the link to Autumn to get her opinion. I thought it would be interesting to post a raw conversation she and I had. Autumn gets a little heated — look:

ethan: ok, here’s what I was thinking when I thought about Dumbledore….
the conservatives freaked out at Harry Potter because it dealt with magic, witchcraft, blah blah blah….so, then when the gay thing came up, suddenly, it was ok to read/watch–when he is thought of as being straight.
so which is it?

autumn: lol, depends on which is worse at the time.
But, I always say magic is horrible and blasphemy until the Christians need, want or are entertained by it

ethan: it just pisses me off that suddenly it’s ok with them to accept Harry Potter now that there’s something “worse” than magic

autumn: I know. You know what my biggest problem with this is?

ethan: what?

autumn: Ok so Dumbledore is gay, but its not mentioned in any of the books… and
I can understand why some parents don’t want to explain it or condone it for their children. I don’t agree but I can see why in their shallow hate-filled mind that they don’t want to deal with it…So stop drawing motherfucking attention to it. It’s not in the god damned book.

ethan: right, i can see that too … why are they still making such a big deal of it?

autumn: Not to mention he’s a fictional character. I mean, when he swore off jelly beans because he ate a snot one did all the lil kids of the world quit eating jelly beans?

ethan: lol, true

autumn: and besides that… is it really kid kids that read it anymore or is it the teenager or 20s kids that followed it along since they were kids?

ethan: that’s a good point too, it is our generation that followed it. sure, kids are going to read it, but they’re not (usually, unless they’re like you) going to sit down and read all 7 books in a week. they’re going to be spaced out somewhat

autumn: Because if that’s the case the parents don’t need to worry, all teenagers will discuss ass-fucking whether or not the best wizard in the world took advantage of it

ethan: lol

autumn: But you know whats the worst of all. Rowling said that she thought Dumbledore loved Grindelwald (which if you ever read the 7th book you’ll know) but they don’t hook up they were to busy being asshole teenagers trying to take over the world. So Dumbledore never even got the dick

ethan: poor Dumbledore. that’s so sad

autumn: yep it is
hell even Hagrid got a piece of ass

ethan: i really didn’t want to have to think about that

So, there you have it folks. This has been an example of a typical conversation between us. I bring up a topic that plucks a nerve and off she goes. One never knows where she’ll land. Take this instance as an example — she left us with a mental picture of Rubeus Hagrid and Olympe Maxime gettin’ it on. Thanks autumn.

ethan

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::In the back ground Autumn begins to whisper::- Ok so I’m getting ready to do my first post in months, no one else has updated either.. So what do I say… I was abducted by aliens, The FBI was looking for me, oooo wait maybe I had amnesia. Fuck, these people all know that I’m just a huge slacker that ignores all self imposed deadlines. I guess I’ll just carry on like I haven’t missed any posts. Maybe they’ll think it was a site error. Sure a site error and I can blame that on Ethan. Yea, that works. Bwahahaha!

“When George Washington threw the dollar across the Rappahannock River, he didn’t realize he was establishing a precedent for government spending.”- Harold Coffin

I’m going to be right up front with you all, I am horrible with money. I suck at saving it, budgeting it, hell even keeping it in the same place all the time. I’m awesome at spending it though. But, no matter what I always know what I did with it even if I did come to regret the purchases. I can tell you how much the original purchase was, the descriptions of all the items, hell I can even tell you what the average retail value was and if I received a deal. At the worst I may temporarily misplace ten bucks.

Apparently the U.S. State Department has a different amount that they can temporarily misplace. I mean its nothing for them to raise an eyebrow at or anything. After all 1.22 Billion Dollars is just chump change. Yes boys and girls I did use the words misplace and billion dollars together. On Tuesday, We finally heard that the state department does not know what it exactly received for the billion dollar contract with security firm DynCorp International.

The Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction received a boot in it’s ass and was forced to suspend it’s audit of the contract after they were told by administrative officials that they had no confidence in their own accounting records.

So what were the problems with the accounting records? Oh, gee nothing much just a few duplicate payments, a purchase of a never used x-ray machine (1.8 million dollars on the x ray machine alone), a $387,000 bill in hotels to house the DynCorp officials rather than staying in ready accommodations, and the list just continues

So obviously the next step in my mind would be to sit down, organize records, and figure out where the money actually went, right? Well sure that’s a great idea. The only hitch there is the records and receipts are in such disarray that it could take three to five years to straighten out.

Hmmm, right of course. Fucking idiots. Here we are having a crisis in education funding. Schools are forced to cut programs every day. Be it the arts, sports or faculty. The contract I just mentioned was offered in 2004 and then in 2006 Bush proposed to cut education grants by 4.279 billion dollars. So much for no child left behind. And of course we all know of the growing problems of health care and social security.

Instead of focusing on growing problems here, we funneled money into a security corporation that was supposed to train police for Iraq so that the soldiers were free to focus on other things. We can’t even pick a security agency that will have reputable business acts and general abilities of bookkeeping.

I, seriously, become more disgusted ever day. Is it to much to ask for a government that is at the very least competent in what they set out to do? Never mind the fact that I might not agree with them, I just want them not to fuck up this badly every time I turn around.

Until next time… ::shakes head and wanders off::,

autumn

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