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The Capitol Hills: Featuring Barack Obama, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Michelle Obama, Cindy McCain and guest starring George W. Bush as Elroy

No matter who wins, we lose.

How can anyone in the civilized world still think that we really have any say in the power structure. You really think that those in control of society would leave us to decide independently who will become their boss? I highly doubt it.

Instead we get the charade, performed by a colorful cast of polarizing figures meant to move us into one camp or the other. The false drama of these campaigns has never shown through more clearly than this time around. Players agenda’s are thinly veiled attempts to rile up the masses and draw adoration and support. Oh and most importantly cash. These players put on one hell of a show, but the boom stick is showing on the top of the screen this year. We can see the strings that run from puppet to marketing team. We are being sold leaders the same way we are sold happy meals.

When you really break down these candidates and their plans, what are the differences? Aside from “personal agendas” they are cut from the same cloth. They are people who enjoy the thrill of a cheering crowd, the limelight, the attention. They are rockstars with a talent for speech…well some of them. So do you really think that these folks hate each other as much as they let on? Or do they kick back with a beer and cigar every night and text each other back and forth about how much fun they are having?

Jesse Ventura, an ex Governor himself made the comparison, politics are like pro-wrestling; enemies in the ring, best friends in the locker room.

It’s all drama, scripted and intriguing, only they don’t admit it’s fake. Just like your girlfriend won’t admit to herself that Lauren and Heidi have coffee and cigarettes in between takes.

Enjoy the next episode of The Capitol Hills.

The Sarah Palin Craze. When will it die down? Who knows. All we know is that she won’t go away and the media loves her. A+ for the McCain marketing team. I can just imagine how the pitch went…

“So we need a candidate, Romney is a tool and no one outside of the Later Day Saints can stand the guy, we need someone who will shake things up…how about we grab this obscure little hotty from Alaska?

Who is she?

Well she has nice legs, there is a laundry list of reasons why we shouldn’t nominate her, and she has a pregnant teenage daughter.

That sounds terrible.

At first yes, but picture this; we nominate her, she gets up on stage and men around the country are like, shit I’d hit that, then women will be like, well no Hillary – fuck it she’s got my vote. Then the media will spend the next 2 months scrambling around trying to figure out who the hell she is. Upon doing so they will find out that: She is on video admitting she has not clue what a VP does, she hunts A LOT, her daughter still has the baby fat from the retarded baby she gave birth to a couple months ago…and get this Sarah took the rap for the daughter and said it was hers!!! What a saint! She also has a controversy over trying to fire a State Trooper who divorced her sister. THEN she is in trouble for trying to force the local librarian to ban a bunch of books. Plus whenever she knows she is wrong in an interview she will stare the interview-er in the eyes and call them by name before lying. So not only will she have her name all over the mainstream media her under the table awfulness will be devoured by the more intellectual conspiracy crowd on the internet.

Do you really think all of this will fly?

Who cares what happens to her image? Honestly she is a total unknown and there is very little proof one way or the other on her. This is no different than brand recognition, everyone knows McDonalds is terrible for you but people are drawn to it because they know it. The controversy will make Palin’s rimmed glasses into the Golden Arches of Politics. Young boys will put posters of her on their walls, girls will idolize her, and every country in the world will fear us.

Why would they fear us?

Because she will be able to talk down any super power by batting her eye lashes, then slit their throats in the night. No one fucks with her, ever.

I’m really not sure about this.

It’s a risk yes, but what’s the worst thing that could happen? The wrinkly old fuck doesn’t get in and the world is a better place, we’re just hired to play Devil’s Advocate. Someone’s gotta give McCain a fighting chance, and I think this little pitbull bitch can do it.

Pitbull….pitbull I like that. Can we use it?

Hmmm, well my Mom used to have this saying about her friends when they brought us to hockey practice, What’s the difference between a pitbull and a hockey mom? Lipstick.

Brilliant! I’m sold! Wow the Democrats are so fucked.

Yes sir, I know sir.”

We are infatuated with her, so charismatic, so controversial, such a media whore. Well done McCain campaign using the same tactics normally reserved for Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood you have convinced the general public to vote for the VPILF next door.

Have anything to add? We would love to see this conversation taken to the message boards. Rock out with this, no holds barred!!!

Since I started designing I have been leaning more towards illustrating the images used.  However, today, I decided that I would use an actual photo and see what I could come up with.  I’ve been stuck trying to figure out what the look and feel of SnapMyLife should be for months now.  Ideas have come and gone.  It is tricky designing much of anything when the product revolves around UGC, so I finally bit the bullet and just went for something fun.

This girl is just having fun, no more no less.  Ideally these would be the types of things people would send into the site, we encourage people to go out and try to capture the most interesting part of their day. It’s all about expressing yourself through your camera phone and having a good time while doing so.

The effects I used in Photoshop are nothing new to the avid users but I like to think that they have blended together fairly seemlessly.  Also the creation of custom brushes is one of the most important skills to learn as a photoshop user…and I just started doing it.  A lifesaver.

I’d love to hear some feedback on this one.