Conflicts of Opinion or Facials for Everyone!

So today I had a facial at the incessant prompting of my mom. In truth I've had one once before, but it was a long time ago (about 2 years) and I had pretty much forgotten about it. You see, my mom goes to this place run by one of my former co-workers mom. Although I am pretty sure that she had been going there before I knew the guy but oh well... Anyway, the owner is away, so the other employee did my facial. I am so glad too, cause she was a really hot 21 year old girl. I was fairly caught off guard as my mom only said that she was around my age, not that she was smokin'. I don't know if I really impressed her with my rapier wit and goofy charm or not... it's hard to tell when someone is popping zits and rubbing cream cleansers all over your face. She DID do a really great massage thingy at the end which I assume is the common practice... but oh to believe that it isn't! Damn, I'm a loser....
While watching the Daily Show last night I got to thinking. You see, the guest was a guy who wrote a book called "Bush Country: How George W. made America a better place" or something like that. Anyway, the crowd was really against the guy and Jon Stewart kinda got pissed off at them. He said that they should respect and listen to his opinion instead of dismissing it so readily. It got me to thinking about how ideologies totally blind some people to even thinking to listen to the other side. I don't think that this guy was right (and neither did Jon Stewart) but he had some valid opinions. To not even allow those thoughts to be heard is wrong. One thing that did piss me off about the whole thing though was how the guy tried to say that he was above all of the dismissing of other people's opinions thing. Right off the bat, when asked about how his book differed from all the liberal books on George W. he said "I'm right and they're wrong." Ummmm Hello? The rest of the interview (which was really well done by the way) he presented himself off as above that sort of talk. I'm not sure that Jon Stewart really heard that comment, because if he did, I'm sure he might have made more of a deal out of it. Where was I again... oh yeah, the guys book was taking the common thoughts about George W. and proving them (I'd have to read it to believe it) wrong. The author believed that George W. is the greatest post WW2 president the U.S. has had and has made the country a better place. I would really have to read the book to see if he is able to back up his claims, as the evidence seems to dictate otherwise. Let's just run down a quick laundry list of what Bush has done: put the U.S. in its biggest deficit EVER, which this generations grandkids won't be able to pay off the interest on, alienated the rest of the world (that coalition of the willing thing is full of shit, as something like 30 of those countries on the list don't even HAVE a military let alone any money to donate to the rebuilding of Iraq), given huge tax breaks to the rich of the nation at the expense of the poor, gutted environmental regulations and begun the biggest attack on the environment EVER in U.S. history, created the single biggest attack on civil liberties EVER with the patriot act, and lined his buddies pockets with favorable ventures and breaks. I am not presuming to say that he has done NOTHING right, because I'm sure there are valid arguments for things that he has handled well, but lets not jump the gun and proclaim him some sort of great guy or anything... But then again, I am not a U.S. citizen, so my opinion on their politics is of little consequence. The one thing that was really weird on the show was how the author accused liberals of attacking George W. Bush with unfair statements, like he is Hitler. Jon Stewart pointed out how Clinton had gone through MUCH worse for 8 years by the republicans (including being accused of murder and drug dealing). The author then passed that off as being only radicals from his party, not the majority. Ummm... hello? It was the freakin campaign of the opposition and the head campaign planner that was doing most of the slandering! Wake up buddy! It's all well and good to be in denial, but don't cover shit in sugar and say it's candy. Not that I am saying Clinton was all that great or anything, cause he certainly did some shitty things too... Maybe I should leave this topic for right now... I'll come back to it again though, I promise... Damn the facial lady was hot!