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January 9, 2009 - Friday 10:00 AM

Current mood:  happy
Category: Life

My hubby came across the following article and I laughed my ass off.  Yeah, I admit it....and don't pretend after you look at the pictures that you aren't rolling on the floor laughing either!

I just had to share with my fellow Myspacers.  The poor man must have died of embarrassment afterward....I would have died!  

Skier Suffers Exposure

Man left dangling upside down, pants-less after Vail lift mishap

JANUARY 6--In a bizarre incident that will surely lead to litigation (or an out-of-court settlement), a skier at Colorado's ritzy Vail resort was left dangling upside down and pants-less from a chairlift last Thursday morning. The January 1 mishap apparently occurred after the male skier, 48, and a child boarded a high-speed lift in Vail's Blue Sky Basin. It appears that the chairlift's fold-down seat was somehow not in the lowered position, which caused the man to partially fall through the resulting gap. His right ski got jammed in the ascending chairlift, and that kept him upended since his boot never dislodged from its binding. As seen in the photos (which were snapped by fellow skiers), the Skyline Express lift was stopped shortly after the pair's botched boarding resulted in the man dangling from the lift. The exposed skier was stuck for about 15 minutes before Vail personnel backed the lift up and successfully dislodged the unidentified man from the four-seat chair. The images on page four and five were taken by a local photographer who happened upon the rescue scene. In a statement released this afternoon, Vail Resorts, which operates the ski area, reported that the skier was not injured after being "suspended for approximately seven minutes." The press release did not explain how the mishap occurred, only that "the man was caught on the chair."

Hope he had on clean undies....although I am sure this isn't the type of 'accident' that his mama meant 












Hope YOUR weekend was far better than this guy's was!!! 

 
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November 6, 2008 - Thursday 2:25 PM

Current mood:  ecstatic
Category: News and Politics







I couldn't be more proud to have been such a part of something so amazing!! Despite all the fear I felt at the turn our country would have taken under McCain, now I can only feel extreme HOPE and UNITY in this country that we all love.

 
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October 30, 2008 - Thursday 10:45 PM

Category: News and Politics
If you haven't seen this music video by Sally Anthony, then you HAVE to see it.  Then look into your heart and ask yourself the question at the end. 

*Warning, there are graphic scenes from both Iraq and New Orleans, so just a warning.


This video was done by NARAL for Pro-Choice America and it's fantastic!


How could anyone NOT want to vote for this man??  This is a man that truly loves America and what it stands for.   This is a man that wants this country to be the strong super-power in the world that we once were.  This is a man that wants to give this country BACK to the people that it belongs to; the American People......all of us.

I couldn't be more proud to vote for such a man to lead this country.  Not since John F Kennedy has a chance come along to elect such a great and inspirational leader like Obama ..... and it shouldn't be squandered.

 
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October 28, 2008 - Tuesday 9:56 AM

Current mood:  amused
Category: News and Politics
So today I read an article about Palin giving a speech and in it she.....well, read it for yourselves, but basically she once AGAIN makes her look even more stupid than before.

The depth of her stupidity truly IS deep.  I actually feel sorry for her now and definitely feel sorry for her kids. 

In Case You Weren't Scared Enough: Palin on "Fruit Fly Research"

By: Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle

Today, we are blogging from Durham, North Carolina, where we are trying to do our humble bit to help elect Barack Obama. On Friday, Sarah Palin gave us yet another reason to feel good about what we're doing here.

We are far from the first people to comment on this subject -- even within the Huffington Post -- so we'll keep it brief. But Palin's mockery of "fruit fly research" during her October 24th speech on special-needs children was so misconceived, so offensive, so aggressively stupid, and so dangerous that we felt we had to comment.

Here's the excerpt from the speech:

"Where does a lot of that earmark money end up, anyway? [...] You've heard about, um, these -- some of these pet projects they really don't make a whole lot of sense, and sometimes these dollars they go to projects having little or nothing to do with the public good. Things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not!"

It's hard to know where to begin deconstructing this statement. This was a speech on autism, and Palin's critics have pounced on the fact that a recent study of Drosophila fruit flies showed that a protein called neurexin is essential for proper neurological function -- a discovery with clear implications for autism research.

Awkward! But this critique merely scrapes icing off the cake.

Fruit flies are more than just the occasional vehicles for research relevant to human disabilities. They are literally the foundation of modern genetics, the original model organism that has enabled us to discover so much of what we know about heredity, genome structure, congenital disorders, and (yes) evolution. So for Palin to state that "fruit fly research" has "little or nothing to do with the public good" is not just wrong -- it's mind-boggling.

What else does this blunder say about Palin and her candidacy? Many people have used it as just another opportunity to call her a dummy, since anyone who has stayed awake through even a portion of a high-school-level biology class knows what fruit flies are good for. But leave that aside for a second. Watch the clip. Listen to the tone of her voice as she sneers the words "fruit fly research." Check out the disdain and incredulity on her face. How would science, basic or applied, fare under President Palin?

We have other questions. Who wrote this speech? Was he or she as ignorant as Palin about the central role that fruit flies have played in the last century of biomedical research? Or was this a calculated slight to science and scientists -- a coded way of saying, "We don't care what you know or what you think"? We find it odd that, of all the examples of dubious expenditures of public funds, the speechwriters alighted on this one.

Whatever the explanation, it scares us. Everyone who has suffered, either personally or indirectly, from an inherited illness, and anyone whose life has been lengthened or enriched by modern medicine, should channel Palin's flip comment when they stand in the voting booth on November 4th.

Ok, I am just shaking my head.....because what all of us should be very afraid of is this particular woman being so close to a real position of power! It scares the living shit out of me.....


 
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October 27, 2008 - Monday 5:31 AM

Current mood:  inspired
Category: News and Politics




Click on the picture to see all the others....there are quite a few!



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My hubby and I took the kids to see Obama today in Denver, however, 100,000+ people showed up so we never got close enough to be able to see him! It was so exciting though & a really positive rally. According to the campaign headquarters, it was the largest one held in the US!

Obama Rally Story

After he left Denver, he headed up to Fort Collins where he was met with another huge rally of 50,000 people!  I am so proud of Colorado!!

By comparison, when McCain was here in Denver this past week, his crowd was about 4,000 people.  Poor McCain.

Colorado loves Obama!!

Also, the two of them were each holding rallies in New Mexico and the same thing happened, did you see the numbers for turn-out on support there?  I think that's a good indicator of whether you are winning or not; how many people are willing to stand in line for hours just to see you.  :-)  From Politico's website:

Via Playbook, a brutal side-by-side yesterday in New Mexico:

Crowd for Senator Obama in Albuquerque, N.M., last night: 35,000 inside the venue and another 10,000-15,000 outside.

Crowd for Senator McCain in Albuquerque, N.M., yesterday: 1,400 according to the McCain campaign, 1,000 or less according to reporters.

This is a picture that ran in the Denver Post, whom has also endorsed Obama :-)



Here's the text of the speech he gave here.  This one is devoid of the comments he made specific to this area, but you get the idea.  :-)


[*] OBAMA: Colorado, in just 9 days, you'll have the chance to elect your next President. And you'll have the chance to bring the change we need to Washington. That's the good news. But we're going to have to work, and struggle, and fight for every single one of those 9 days to move our country in a new direction. We cannot let up. And we won't.

Because one thing we know is that change never comes without a fight. In the final days of campaigns, the say-anything, do-anything politics too often takes over. We've seen it before. And we're seeing it again today. The ugly phone calls. The misleading mail and TV ads. The careless, outrageous comments. All aimed at keeping us from working together, all aimed at stopping change.

Well, this isn't what we need right now. The American people don't want to hear politicians attack each other; you want to hear about how we're going to attack the challenges facing middle class families each and every day. So what we need now is honest leadership and real change, and that's why I'm running for President of the United States.

This is a moment of great uncertainty for America. The economic crisis we face is the worst since the Great Depression. Businesses large and small are finding it impossible to get loans, which means they can't buy new equipment, or hire new workers, or even make payroll for the workers they have.

We've lost more than 750,000 jobs this year. Wages are lower than they've been in a decade, at a time when the cost of health care and college have never been higher. It's getting harder and harder to make the mortgage, or fill up your gas tank, or even keep the electricity on at the end of the month. At this rate, the question isn't just, "Are you better off than you were four years ago?;" it's, "Are you better off than you were four weeks ago?"

So what we need right now is a real debate about how to fix our economy and help middle class families. But that's not what we're getting from the other side. A couple of weeks ago, my opponent's campaign said that, "If we keep talking about the economy, we're going to lose," so they said they'd be focusing on attacking me instead.

And that's one campaign promise they've actually kept. Senator McCain has been throwing everything he's got at us, hoping something will stick. He's even called me a socialist for suggesting that we focus on tax cuts, not for corporations and the wealthy, but for the middle class.

The other day, he took it to a whole new level. He said that I was like George W. Bush. You can't make this stuff up, folks. In what may be the strangest twist of all, Senator McCain said that I would somehow continue the Bush economic policies, and that he, John McCain, would change them.

But then, just this morning, Senator McCain said that he and President Bush "share a common philosophy.' That's right, Colorado. I guess that was John McCain finally giving us a little straight talk, and owning up to the fact that he and George Bush actually have a whole lot in common.

Well, we know what the Bush-McCain philosophy looks like. It's a philosophy that says we should give more and more to folks at the top and hope that it trickles down. It's a philosophy that gives tax breaks to wealthy CEOs and to corporations that ship jobs overseas while hundreds of thousands of jobs are disappearing here at home. It's a philosophy that justifies spending $10 billion a month in Iraq while the Iraqi government sits on a huge surplus and our economy is in crisis.

For eight years, we've seen the Bush-McCain philosophy put our country on the wrong track, and we cannot have another four years that look just like the last eight. It's time for change in Washington, and that's why I'm running for President of the United States.

We know that the economic crisis that hit Wall Street has been hurting middle class families on Main Street for years. But during the primaries, Senator McCain was saying that we've made "great progress economically" under George Bush, and just last month he was still arguing that the "fundamentals of our economy are strong." That's not change.

We know that we have to get spending under control in Washington so that we're not mortgaging our children's future under a mountain of debt. But for all of Senator McCain's tough talk on spending, he voted for four out of the five Bush budgets that let things get totally out of control. That's not change.

We know that it's time for new ideas and new leadership in the White House. But Senator McCain voted with President Bush 90 percent of the time over the last eight years. Just the other day, George Bush returned the favor and voted early for John McCain. Well, Colorado, you can vote early too. And you can finally put an end to the Bush-McCain philosophy. You can vote for change. You can vote for a new direction for our country.

We know what's coming from the McCain campaign over the next nine days, because it's the same kind of politics that we've seen over the last eight years. It's a politics that is more about tearing your opponent down then lifting this country up.

Well, I can take nine more days of John McCain's attacks, but the American people can't take four more years of the same failed policies and the same failed politics. We're not going to let George Bush pass the torch to John McCain. It's time for change. And that's why I'm running for President of the United States.

I know these are difficult times. I know folks are worried. But I believe that we can steer ourselves out of this crisis because I believe in this country. Because I believe in you. I believe in the American people.

We are the United States of America. We are a nation that's faced down war and depression; great challenges and great threats. And at each and every moment, we have risen to meet these challenges, not as Democrats, not as Republicans, but as Americans. With resolve. With confidence. With that fundamental belief that here in America, our destiny is not written for us, but by us. That's who we are, and that's the country we need to be right now.

But, Colorado, I know this. It will take a new direction. It will take new leadership in Washington.

It's time to turn the page on eight years of economic policies that put Wall Street before Main Street but ended up hurting both. We need policies that grow our economy from the bottom-up, so that every American, everywhere, has the chance to get ahead -- not just the person who owns the factory, but the men and women who work on its floor; not just the CEO, but the secretary and the janitor.

Because, if we've learned anything from this economic crisis, it's that we're all connected; we're all in this together; and we will rise or fall as one nation as one people.

The rescue plan that passed the Congress was a necessary first step to easing this credit crisis, but if we're going to rebuild this economy from the bottom up, we need an immediate rescue plan for the middle-class, and that's what I will do as President of the United States.

I've proposed a new American jobs tax credit for each new employee that companies hire here in the United States over the next two years. I'll stop giving tax breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas and invest in companies that create good jobs right here in Colorado. I'll help small businesses get back on their feet by eliminating capital gains taxes and giving them emergency loans to keep their doors open and hire workers. And I will create a Jobs and Growth fund to help states and local governments save one million jobs and pay for health care and education without having to raise your taxes.

I'll also act quickly to help people stay in their homes. I'll help responsible homeowners refinance their mortgages on affordable terms, and put in place a three-month moratorium on foreclosures to give folks the breathing room they need to get back on their feet. And I won't let banks and lenders off the hook when it was their greed and irresponsibility that got us into this mess. We should not be bailing out Wall Street; we should be restoring opportunity on Main Street.

These are the steps that we must take, right now, to start getting our economy back on track. But we also need a new set of priorities to grow our economy and create jobs over the long-term.

It starts with tax relief. There's been a lot of talk about taxes in this campaign. And the truth is, my opponent and I are both proposing tax cuts. The difference is, he wants to give a $700,000 tax cut to the average Fortune 500 CEO. I want to put a middle class tax cut in the pockets of 95% of workers and their families. My opponent doesn't want you to know this, but under my plan, tax rates will actually be less than they were under Ronald Reagan.

It's true that I want to roll back the Bush tax cuts on the wealthiest Americans and go back to the rate they paid under Bill Clinton. John McCain calls that socialism. What he forgets is that just a few years ago, he himself said those Bush tax cuts were irresponsible. He said he couldn't "in good conscience support a tax cut where the benefits went to the wealthy at the expense of middle- class Americans who most need tax relief."

Well, he was right then, and I am right now.

So let me be crystal clear: If you make less than a quarter of a million dollars a year, which includes 98% of small business owners, you won't see your taxes increase one single dime -- not your payroll taxes, not your income taxes, not your capital gains taxes -- nothing. That is my commitment to you.

For the last eight years, we have tried it John McCain's way. We have tried it George Bush's way. We've given more and more to those with the most and hoped that prosperity would trickle down to everyone else. And guess what? It didn't. So it's time to try something new. It's time to grow this economy by investing in the middle class again.

If I am President, I will invest $15 billion a year in renewable sources of energy to create five million new, green jobs over the next decade -- jobs that pay well and can't be outsourced; jobs building solar panels and wind turbines and fuel-efficient cars; jobs that will help us end our dependence on oil from Middle East dictators.

I'll also put two million more Americans to work rebuilding our crumbling roads, schools, and bridges -- because it is time to build an American infrastructure for the 21st century. And if people ask how we're going to pay for this, you tell them that if we can spend $10 billion a month in Iraq, we can spend some money to rebuild America.

If I am President, I will finally fix the problems in our health care system that we've been talking about for too long. This issue is personal for me. My mother died of ovarian cancer at the age of 53, and I'll never forget how she spent the final months of her life lying in a hospital bed, fighting with her insurance company because they claimed that her cancer was a pre-existing condition and didn't want to pay for treatment. If I am President, I will make sure those insurance companies can never do that again.

Like George Bush, John McCain wants to tax your health care benefits for the first time in history, and let insurance companies keep discriminating against people who need health care the most. It's the same, failed, insurance company first/your family last health care policy -- and we're going to change it.

My health care plan will make sure insurance companies can't discriminate against those who are sick and need care most. If you have health insurance, the only thing that will change under my plan is that we will lower premiums. If you don't have health insurance, you'll be able to get the same kind of health insurance that Members of Congress get for themselves. And we'll invest in preventative care and new technology to finally lower the cost of health care for families, businesses, and the entire economy. That's the change we need.

And if I'm president, we'll give every child, everywhere the skills and the knowledge they need to compete with any worker, anywhere in the world. I will not allow countries to out-teach us today so they can out-compete us tomorrow. It is time to provide every American with a world-class education. That means investing in early childhood education. That means recruiting an army of new teachers, and paying them better, and giving them more support in exchange for higher standards and more accountability.

And it means making a deal with every American who has the drive and the will but not the money to go to college. My opponent's top economic adviser actually said that they have no plan to invest in college affordability because we can't have a giveaway to every special interest.

Well, I don't think the young people of America are a special interest -- they are the future of this country. That's why I'll make this deal with you: if you commit to serving your community or your country, we will make sure you can afford your tuition. No ifs, ands or buts. You invest in America, America will invest in you, and together, we will move this country forward.

Now, make no mistake: the change we need won't come easy or without cost. We will all need to tighten our belts, we will all need to sacrifice and we will all need to pull our weight because now more than ever, we are all in this together.

At a defining moment like this, we don't have the luxury of relying on the same political games and the same political tactics that are used every election to divide us from one another and make us afraid of one another. With the challenges and crises we face right now, we cannot afford to divide this country by class or region; by who we are or what policies we support.

There are no real or fake parts of this country. We are not separated by the pro-America and anti-America parts of this nation -- we all love this country, no matter where we live or where we come from. There are patriots who supported this war in Iraq and patriots who opposed it; patriots who believe in Democratic policies and those who believe in Republican policies.

The men and women from Colorado and all across America who serve on our battlefields may be Democrats and Republicans and Independents, but they have fought together and bled together and some died together under the same proud flag. They have not served a Red America or a Blue America; they have served the United States of America.

We have always been at our best when we've had leadership that called us to look past our differences and come together as one nation, as one people; leadership that rallied this entire country to a common purpose, to a higher purpose. And I am running for President of the United States of America because that is the country we need to be right now.

This country and the dream it represents are being tested in a way that we haven't seen in nearly a century. And future generations will judge ours by how we respond to this test. Will they say that this was a time when America lost its way and its purpose? When we allowed the same divisions and fear tactics and our own petty differences to plunge this country into a dark and painful recession? Or will they say that this was another one of those moments when America overcame? When we battled back from adversity by recognizing that common stake that we have in each other's success?

This is one of those moments. I realize you're cynical and fed up with politics. I understand that you're disappointed and even angry with your leaders. You have every right to be. But despite all of this, I ask of you what's been asked of the American people in times of trial and turmoil throughout our history. I ask you to believe, to believe in yourselves, in each other, and in the future we can build together.

Together, we cannot fail. Not now. Not when we have a crisis to solve and an economy to save. Not when there are so many Americans without jobs and without homes. Not when there are families who can't afford to see a doctor, or send their child to college, or pay their bills at the end of the month. Not when there is a generation that is counting on us to give them the same opportunities and the same chances that we had for ourselves.

We can do this. Americans have done this before. Some of us had grandparents or parents who said maybe I can't go to college but my child can; maybe I can't have my own business but my child can. I may have to rent, but maybe my children will have a home they can call their own. I may not have a lot of money but maybe my child will run for Senate. I might live in a small village but maybe someday my son can be president of the United States of America.

Now it falls to us. Together, we cannot fail. And I need you to make it happen. If you want the next four years looking like the last eight, then I am not your candidate. But if you want real change; if you want an economy that rewards work, and that works for Main Street and Wall Street; if you want tax relief for the middle class and millions of new jobs; if you want health care you can afford and education that helps your kids compete; then I ask you to knock on some doors, make some calls, talk to your neighbors, and give me your vote.

In Colorado, you can vote early right here, and right now. To find out how, just go to voteforchange.com. And if you stand with me in nine days, I promise you we will win Colorado, we will win this election, and then you and I -- together -- will change this country and change this world.

Thank you, God bless you, and may God bless America.

END

 
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October 26, 2008 - Sunday 9:46 AM

Current mood:  happy
Category: News and Politics


http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog....

Yes, that's Al Bundy, from Married with Children in that video....:-) 

Hell, if McCain can use some tax-evading liar like Joe the Plumber (whose not really a plumber & isn't even financially close to buying any type of business), then what's wrong with using another fictional character like Al the Shoesalesman Bundy?   LOL   It's the total type of smart-ass thing I can get behind!  :-)

Seriously, for all those Obama doubters that are believing the shit being spewed out by Palin about Obama's tax plan being "communist"....check out this handy little tax calculator that shows you exactly what you will save under BOTH men's plans. It's pretty eye-opening and easy to use. Just answer a few questions about your income & deductions.

TAX CALCULATOR 

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Here's Palin telling Iowans that Obama's tax plan will not let 'them be free', that it's "communist".  Yeah, she is reading this from another written speech for her.  I truly believe that the Republicans are now using her as their 'attack dog' and she is so stupid, she believes they really believe she's competent!




Sad, truly sad, that there is such ignorance in the world.  We definitely need to step up our educational institutions in this country.  Palin and these supporters are proof positive that our schools are not working.  Anyone with half a brain can see there isn't even a hint of Communism about Obama.  Some of the greatest thinking minds in our country's upper echelon are backing Obama and that's not an accident!


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On top of that ignorance, here's more proof that there is awful bigotry and racism alive and well in this country.  I found this on a site dedicated to afro-americans on the internet



Yes, that T-shirt says "_igger Please!!  It's a WHITE House"and right under his tail light....a McCain/Palin bumper sticker. 

THAT'S FUCKED UP AND RIDICULOUS!!!

I can't wait for election day to knock these bigot fuckers back on their heels and blow their small, racist minds!!   It's ridiculous that there is still this type of hate in an advanced country like ours.

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Also did you see the story on all the news channels about McCain's little brother having a meltdown while sitting in traffic and calling 911 to report it and then telling the operator to FUCK OFF when she questioned why he called 911 to complain??  OMG I was laughing hysterically!  Apparently hot tempers run in the family.....CLASSY!!



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Also, $150,000 fucking tax-payer dollars to clothe Palin and her redneck family??  WTF?  Nice Move Self-proclaimed, government cutting Mavericks!


McCain's Fashion Frustrations

"The cash expenditures immediately raised questions among campaign finance experts about their legality under the Federal Election Commission's long-standing advisory opinions on using campaign cash to purchase items for personal use."

Well duh!!  It's against the law and it's unethical!  Luckily there are people out there that watch these things and keep accountability alive and well:
 
"The watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission against Palin and the Republican National Committee alleging that the spending spree for Palin and her family violated Federal Election Campaign Act. CREW notes hat FEC rule that prohibits candidates for federal office from converting campaign funds to personal use includes a specific prohibition that applies to clothing."

So now Palin has been unethical in her Governor's position in Alaska and found guilty of it.  Now it's the spending of enough money to buy a damned house on designer clothing for herself and her family.  Tax-payer money no less!   Unethical!!  Regardless if it's being donated, which I highly doubt....it shouldn't have been bought in the first place.  Not in an economy like this and not when people all over the country are seeing their retirement plans be flushed down the fucking toilet!  Then McCain's campaign spokesperson has the gall to say, "With all of the important issues facing the country right now, it's remarkable that we're spending time talking about pantsuits and blouses," said spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt. "

Yeah Bitch we want to talk about it because it's utterly ridiculous!!  McCain and his campaign just doesn't GET IT and NEVER WILL!!  Before, it was McCain raking on John Edwards for getting a $400 haircut, yet he had no issue spending over $5,000.00 on getting Palin's hair and make-up done while on the campaign trail....$5k IN ONE MONTH!  He is a complete and total hypocrite.

What was wrong with Palin wearing clothing out of her own closet??  Well, one could argue that the Governor didn't exactly know how to dress, as evidenced by this picture taken a couple of months before she was tapped for the McCain ticket....while talking to a woman in a grocery store....




WTF is she wearing??  Whatever it is...it's certainly NOT what we are seeing on her now.  So maybe she did need a shopping spree...... 

This is by FAR my favorite piece of clothing I have seen Palin wearing....and I could forgive the money spent on this item....but only this item.  Behold Palin wearing a scarf bearing the Democrat Donkey and the words VOTE all over it.   CLASSIC!!!



She doesn't know what the VP does, nor does she know the Elephant is the symbol of her party.   LOL 

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Lastly, if you haven't heard already, there is quite a lot of press about this crazy bitch from Texas that claimed to have been attacked by a "big, black man" that robbed, sexually assaulted and carved a 'B' for Barack in her cheek.  She claims that he saw a McCain/Palin sticker on her car and attacked her.....yes, the girl is white.  How did you know!?  Well, of course it's the stereotypical shit that used to get black men lynched and killed in the old days....it's just really sick race-baiting and it's unacceptable. 

Not only that, but the McCain campaign PUSHED the story on the Press nationally, even though the local police didn't believe the story that the woman was selling them.  Her story had more holes in it than swiss cheese!  However, the McCain campaign is so eager to tie Obama to ANYTHING....that they didn't care about facts, they just cared that it would potentially make Obama look badly.  In actuality, it just made McCain look WORSE and there have been many that have backlashed against the Conservative-sided media that pushed the story.

The bitch is in jail and the biggest evidence that she was lying??  The 'B' for barack that was carved into her cheek.....was BACKWARDS!!  She carved it herself in a mirror and the cops knew it right when they saw it....that's why they took her in for more questioning & a polygraph before releasing the story in a press release.  But no!  The McCain campaign jumped right on it and released it.  McCain even called the girls' parents and talked to them, telling them how sorry he was and shit.  Geezus....this Straight Talk Express gets more retarded every day!

LOL  This Rick Sanchez had no issues calling out the media that didn't vet the story to be sure it was true before broadcasting it nationally.  Now they all have egg on their faces!!  HAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!

Rick Sanchez Calls out the Media


The best part of all of this?  Even Fox News, that biased-toward-Republican, gossip news station.....said the following and finally I can agree with them!

"If the incident turns out to be a hoax, Senator McCain's quest for the presidency is over, forever linked to race-baiting."-John Moody, executive vice president at Fox News

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Ok, so I will end this long blog with something hilarious that I found today....hope you enjoy it!!

"The "Wasssssup" Budweiser spots were -- for avid television watchers -- one of those memorable ad moments that had pop culture significance. Now, the very same characters are reprising almost identical roles in a short clip on behalf of the Obama campaign.

And... it actually works."

Here is the original, for those interested in making a trip down memory lane to the days when things were simpler and the beer a bit smoother.




Eight Years Later after Bush has ruined everything this country stands for:




Everyone have a fantastic Sunday!! 

 
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October 19, 2008 - Sunday 9:01 AM

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If they believe Sarah, why do McCain and her lawyers call the report a smear??

Last August 1st a state legislative panel consisting of 10 Republicans and 4 Democrats unanimously hired an independent investigator, Stephen Branchflower. On October 10, they unanimously released the report.

Branchflower Report to the Legislative Council, October 10, 2008
Page 8 of 263.  (PDF of page 8)   (full report)
Finding Number One

For the reasons explained in section IV of this report, I find that Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.11O(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act. Alaska Statute 39.52.11O(a) provides

"The legislature reaffirms that each public officer holds office as a public trust, and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust."
 
"Well, I'm very very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing, any hint of any kind of unethical activity there. Very pleased to be cleared of any of that." transcript
   --Sarah Palin, phone interview with Alaska reporters, October 11, 2008.


Wash Post Factcheck
Palin's Troopergate (YouTube)
Alaskan Palin Stories

Yes, that's right.....Sarah is LYING through her fucking teeth!!  She is in another universe called DENIAL!  :-)

PolitiFact Palin Lying Again

I read the entire report....and the most scary thing of all??  Todd Palin is really the person that runs the Governor's office.  Yes, according to this report and the people employed by Sarah Palin; Todd Palin was in her office working with her everyday, sat in on private meetings with her, was CC'd on official State email correspondence, attended most of the cabinet meetings reserved for only those elected to office and was the point of contact for the Governor.  In fact, even her HEAD OF SECURITY never talked to the person he was hired to protect, he only spoke with Todd, "he was my point of contact".   Even Todd himself admits that he and Sarah are VERY close and discuss their jobs and give each other consult about them. 

WOW.....now if anyone thinks that Sarah is the one running for VP, you are sorely mistaken!!  I have been happy to hear that they talked about this fact on The View and on CNN today.  However, enough attention is not being paid to this very worrisome fact. 

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Now how stupid IS Sarah??  Well, today at a rally in Richmond,VA ....she actually scolded her own SUPPORTERS, calling them PROTESTORS!!!   People were chanting what sounded like "Sarah, Sarah", although these news sites keep saying they were chanting "Louder, Louder", so I guess you have to listen to the video.

"Palin responded, "I hope those protesters have the courage and honor to give veterans thanks for their right to protest."

THEN...  (Lieberman whispers something in her ear, which is written on the video.) Then Palin says: "Oh, they're republicans? Never mind, then. God bless you!"

There is GREAT video in which one of the women watching behind Palin actually says and you can read her lips: "they aren't protestors!!".  When CNN posts it tomorrow, I will add it....it's hilarious!!!

PATHETIC!!!!  It made me laugh so damned hard that I had tears in my eyes.....oh, I am going to miss the humor this woman provides the world :-)




 
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October 16, 2008 - Thursday 7:02 AM

Current mood:  fabulous
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In Politics, How to Tell Fact from Fiction?

If a Democrat says Obama is honest it means little. If a Republican says McCain is honest it means no more. But if a staunch Republican says Obama is honest, this shows courage. They are giving an honest opinion. If this person is smart and in-the-know, we can learn a great deal.

For example, novelist and leading conservative thinker, Christopher Buckley, son of William F. Buckley (the father of modern conservatism), would never vote for a terrorist for president. Or for someone who likes terrorists, or defrauds voters or hates America.

Buckley's smart and has every connection to find these things out. So when he switches from McCain to Obama we know one thing for sure:  We can depend on him.

We can also thank him for being so honest.



"Sorry, Dad, I'm Voting for Obama"

by Christopher Buckley of the National Review (source)
[Buckley writes the back-page column for the 1 conservative magazine.]

The son of William F. Buckley has decided—shock!—to vote for a Democrat.

Let me be the latest conservative/libertarian/whatever to leap onto the Barack Obama bandwagon. It's a good thing my dear old mum and pup are no longer alive. They'd cut off my allowance.

Or would they? But let's get that part out of the way. The only reason my vote would be of any interest to anyone is that my last name happens to be Buckley...

My colleague, the superb and very dishy Kathleen Parker, recently wrote in National Review Online a column stating ... that Sarah Palin is an embarrassment, and a dangerous one at that. She's not exactly alone. [Conservative] New York Times columnist David Brooks just called Governor Palin "a cancer on the Republican Party."

As for Kathleen, she has to date received 12,000 (quite literally) foam-at-the-mouth hate-emails. One correspondent, if that's quite the right word, suggested that Kathleen's mother should have aborted her and tossed the fetus into a Dumpster. ...

I have known John McCain personally since 1982. I wrote a well-received speech for him. Earlier this year, I wrote in The New York Times ... a highly favorable Op-Ed about McCain...

McCain rose to power on his personality and biography. He was authentic. He spoke truth to power. ... He was real. He was unconventional. He embraced former anti-war leaders. He brought resolution to the awful missing-POW business. He brought about normalization with Vietnam—his former torturers! Yes, he erred in accepting plane rides and vacations from Charles Keating, ... He told me across a lunch table, "The Keating business was much worse than my five and a half years in Hanoi, because I at least walked away from that with my honor." Your heart went out to the guy...

But that was—sigh—then. John McCain has changed. He said, famously, apropos the Republican debacle post-1994, "We came to Washington to change it, and Washington changed us." This campaign has changed John McCain. It has made him inauthentic. ... irascible and snarly; ... he makes unrealistic promises... His ninth-inning attack ads are mean-spirited and pointless.  And finally, not to belabor it, there was the Palin nomination. What on earth can he have been thinking?

If he goes out losing ugly, it will be beyond tragic, graffiti on a marble bust.

As for Senator Obama: He has exhibited throughout a "first-class temperament"... As for his intellect, well, he's a Harvard man. I've read Obama's books, and they are first-rate. He is that rara avis, the politician who writes his own books. Imagine.

He is also a lefty. I am not. I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets. ..ion, gay marriage, et al, I'm libertarian. ...

Obama has in him—I think, despite his sometimes airy-fairy 'We are the people we have been waiting for' silly rhetoric—the potential to be a good, perhaps even great leader. He is, it seems clear enough, what the historical moment seems to be calling for.

So, I wish him all the best. We are all in this together. Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship. And so, for the first time in my life, I'll be pulling the Democratic lever in November. As the saying goes, God save the United States of America.

THAT is great!!!

There are more articles by Conservative Republicans that may be of interest as well......



by By Wick Allison, Editor In Chief, Dallas Magazine  (Picked by William F. Buckley in 1985, and Publisher of National Review from 1990-94.)


By Kathleen Parker,  Op-Ed in the top conservative magazine, National Review.

"Susan Eisenhower Discusses Obama and America"

By Susan Eisenhower, granddaughter of Republican President Dwight Eisenhower

" Why I Support Obama"

by Joel Haugen, August 20, 2008
(Joel won the Republican primary for Oregon's 1st Congressional district with 70% of the vote and Obama's endorsement.)

THIS ARTICLE IS AWESOME !!

These articles written by completely Conservative Republican people are the most amazing indicator of how this election is really going and how the "smears" initiated by the McCain campaign are NOT WORKING!!  These are highly intelligent, highly respected figures and if they were voting McCain, he would be throwing their stories on the front of his webpage and in his commercials.  :-)

Whoo hoo!!


UPDATE:  Turns out that Mr. Buckley here resigned from the National Review yesterday.  This is completely sad because his late father, William F. Buckley, Jr. founded that magazine!  Apparently the young Buckley received over 700 HATE emails from National Review readers calling him unsavory things and accusing him of being a "Benedict Arnold".  Again, this is ridiculous!! 

How LOW do the McCain supporters have to go???  Apparently not low enough.  What's next?  An assassination??  Seriously...I think they are getting downright crazy and I fear for what they will do when they don't win this election.

Buckley resigns from National Review

"Buckley's defection comes as an increasing number of moderate conservative pundits come out against the McCain-Palin ticket. Only three weeks ago, National Review columnist Kathleen Parker sparked a storm of controversy by calling for Republican vice-presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin's resignation."

I did a blog about Kathleen Parker's column as well and you can read that HERE entitled "Palin Problem".

Christopher Buckley Resigns From National Review After Obama Endorsement - from the Huffington Post with video of Kathleen Parker talking about the psycho stuff she has endured since she called for Palin to resign.  :-(

Christopher Buckley Resigns from National Review Over Obama Endorsement

"Since my Obama endorsement, Kathleen [Parker] and I have become BFFs and now trade incoming hate-mails. No one has yet suggested my dear old Mum should have aborted me, but it's pretty darned angry out there in Right Wing Land. One editor at National Review — a friend of 30 years — emailed me that he thought my opinions "cretinous." One thoughtful correspondent, who feels that I have "betrayed" — the b-word has been much used in all this — my father and the conservative movement generally, said he plans to devote the rest of his life to getting people to cancel their subscriptions to National Review. But there was one bright spot: To those who wrote me to demand, "Cancel my subscription," I was able to quote the title of my father's last book, a delicious compendium of his NR "Notes and Asides": Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription.

Within hours of my endorsement appearing in The Daily Beast it became clear that National Review had a serious problem on its hands. So the next morning, I thought the only decent thing to do would be to offer to resign my column there. This offer was accepted — rather briskly! — by Rich Lowry, NR's editor, and its publisher, the superb and able and fine Jack Fowler. I retain the fondest feelings for the magazine that my father founded, but I will admit to a certain sadness that an act of publishing a reasoned argument for the opposition should result in acrimony and disavowal."

Yes, Kathleen Parker actually received email from staunch Conservatives that she should have been ABORTED BY HER MOTHER!!!  Wow...what good Christian people!  The same people that fight AGAINST abortion!!  Fucking hypocrites!  How contemptible....it's disgusts me.  You can read that hatred with the links below. 

The Omen In My Mail  from the Washington Post

"Allow me to introduce myself. I am a traitor and an idiot. Also, my mother should have aborted me and left me in a dumpster, but since she didn't, I should "off" myself."

Columnist Threatened Over Calls for Palin to Quit

"Syndicated columnnist Kathleen Parker said the angry emails and letters she is receiving is of a "different order" altogether — "not just angry, but vicious and threatening."

"On Wednesday, Parker said she was being accused of betraying the Republican Party by abandoning her support of Palin.

"Palin's fans say they like her specifically because she's an outsider, not part of the Washington club," Parker wrote. "When she flubs during interviews, they identify with that too. 'You see the lack of polish, we applaud it,' one reader wrote.

"Of course, there's a difference between a lack of polish and a lack of coherence."

"Some of Palin's interview responses can't even be critiqued on their merits because they're so nonsensical. But even that is someone else's fault, say Palin supporters. The media make her uncomfortable."

" The fierce reaction to my column has been both bracing and enlightening. After 20 years of column writing, I'm familiar with angry mail. But the past few days have produced responses of a different order. Not just angry, but vicious and threatening."

"Some of my usual readers feel betrayed because I previously have written favorably of Palin. By changing my mind and saying so, I am viewed as a traitor to the Republican Party -- not a "true" conservative.
 
Obviously, I'm not employed by the GOP. If I were, the party is seriously in arrears. But what is a true conservative? One who doesn't think or question and who marches in lock step with The Party?"

GREAT question Kathleen!  I have been asking myself that same question and discussing it with my friends a lot lately.  Why do people feel the need to stick to any ONE party?  Why not look at all the issues and decide who it is that has the better plan over the others running?  When I was choosing, I don't care about 'party' lines...I care about what matters most to me, what's going to help my family the most. 

Why does it have to be so emotionally charged?  Why do people take it personally when your views differ from their own?  We are all individuals, with individual views of our own and can think for ourselves.  Why can't that just be respected??
 
Even my own sister, when I try to discuss any of these politics with her (or like this week, I was trying to refute smears that she is posting), flies into a completely different person that is emotionally charged and begins irrationally thinking.  Lashing out just to hurt me personally, in public no less, instead of debating the subject. 

I am pretty strong, really intelligent and I can take whatever negative anyone says about me and it won't ruin my day, but from my sister?  It's pretty fucking hurtful and surprising.  People are entitled to their opinions though, so I can't say she's not.  I am disappointed in her apparent low opinion of me.   

As for anything said about the candidate I support, well hopefully, I will be able to provide proof to the contrary.   Which is what I have been doing because there is so much misinformation out there!  Anyone that has been reading my blog long enough knows that I LOVE to hear others' views, discuss things (even if they are controversial) and I love to debate my ideas/beliefs against others'.  Although, I love to do it INTELLIGENTLY.  I can't stand when someone just leaves comments that are negative, hateful, demeaning or just plain mean to me or anyone else.  Please just be a grown up and discuss something rationally, or go away.  :-) 

However, I have learned to just not bother discussing politics any further with those that are not ready to have intelligent conversations without letting their emotions take over and rear their 'ugly' heads.  Otherwise you get the most negative things said to you, about you or sent to you.

BUT how do you figure out whom those people are that you can't rationally discuss politics with??  By starting a conversation and when you hit a sensitive spot, then unfortunately, you find out the hard way! 

The debates are starting!  I am SO excited!!  Ciao everyone!!
 



 
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October 12, 2008 - Sunday 9:25 AM

Current mood:  ashamed
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdYJbFPYArM

OMG the look on the reporters face and then the look on Lindsey Graham's face says it all. McCain didn't say the words "Fuck you" but when you blatantly ignore someone after looking them straight in the face, isn't that the same thing??  He clearly and purposely ignored the Wall Street Journal's reporter.  She must have written something that he didn't like before, hence he has decided to ignore her.  But what will he do if he's president and criticized??  Ignore everyone that he 'doesn't like'??   I don't understand why people are voting for this man. The only thing he's consistent at is being a condescending ass!!


I also was forwarded something that is extremely true and if Obama had the background that McCain has, no one would be giving him the time of day, let alone putting him ahead in the polls. McCain has a shady, shady background and his wife used to be an addict. Not the best scenario for a First Family......

To show how racism works, we have reversed their prospective backgrounds:

1.  What if John McCain were a former president of the Harvard Law Review?

2.  What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?

3. What if McCain were still married to the first woman he said "I do" to? 

4. What if Obama were the candidate who left his first wife after she no longer measured up to his standards? And cheated on her no less?

5. What if Michelle Obama were a wife who not only became addicted to pain killers, but acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?

6. What if Cindy McCain had graduated from Harvard?

7.  What if Obama were a member of the "Keating 5" which caused our last major financial bank collapse?

8.  What if McCain were a charismatic, eloquent speaker?


If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are??  This is what racism does.  It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference.

Obama is clearly the more educated, more eloquent, more even-tempered and more stable of the two men, yet people are still going to vote for McCain.  Neither has Presidential experience (well, Obama does have President of Harvard Law Review experience), so it can't be about experience.  We have to elect a candidate based on their IDEAS for how to better our nation, how they carry themselves, how they react in a time of crisis and how comfortable they make us feel in general.  McCain makes me uncomfortable just to see him talk, in fact he's downright creepy to me. 

So, I have tried to figure out why people are voting for him, but the way McCain/Palin has run their campaign of late, it's become clearly obvious.  It's something most people won't admit, won't talk about and certainly won't own up to.  It's because Obama is half black and half white.  It's not enough for some close-minded people that he's just the RIGHT person for the most important job in this nation during the most important election of this decade.  They just can't see past their own stupid prejudice and do what is right.....because of the color of his skin.   

How do I know there is such prejudice?  Well, believe it or not, some of my own family has dropped the nasty "N" bomb on me since they have found out I am voting for Barack Obama.  I am not only shocked, but disgusted that my own flesh and blood can be so ignorant and short-sighted.  If their choice were simply for one person or another and there were rational reasons behind that decision, then that would be a whole different scenario, but it's not.  I didn't ask whom they were voting for because religion and politics are things you can't discuss with family, and I don't agree with most people on either anyway.  Instead they volunteered whom they WEREN'T voting for in the form of extreme racial hate that I thought was gone (for the most part) in this country.  I have received the most racist text messages I have ever seen, emails and a very racist phone call that turned my stomach.   Both people wondering how I could vote for that 'tigger' that starts with a big, ugly "N".  I can't even type the word......it makes me sick.  From my own family!  I just can't believe it and it's hard for me to even admit.

On top of that, I have been hearing the most vile comments in the crowds while McCain and Palin are speaking to crowds as well.  Phrases about Obama like "Terrorist" and "Kill Him!!".  Usually after Palin has asked the question, "Who IS Barack Obama?".  Well, I have news for you Sarah Palin....he's been in the Senate and in the public eye far longer than you have.  He's also been campaigning for President for the last 2 years, but I guess if she picked up a newspaper or watched any sort of news program, then she would have known that!  The fucking woman can't even name ONE news publication that she reads when asked by a reporter?  She's so stupid, it's sad.....  WTF!?  We can't give an absolute moron like Palin any sort of power over our entire country.

Who the fuck IS Palin?!  The world just heard about her for the first time 5 weeks ago and from what he have learned so far about her, she is not the honorable "Maverick" she has portrayed herself to be.   This is the woman that abused her power as Governor to get her Ex-Brother-in-law fired and broke the ethics law governing her position. 

(You can read about it here on CNN and read the actual report HERE...the report is long, but worth it)  

The same woman that recanted a bunch of memorized material during what was supposed to be a DEBATE and not a SPEECH, and blatantly told America that she would not answer questions when the moderator asked them.  Instead sticking to her memorized talking points and repeating herself over and over to the point of annoying.  The same woman that when asked about the limitations of the Vice President as clearly laid out in the Constitution of our Nation, said that she would basically rewrite the position to how she saw fit and do whatever was needed.  Uhhh what!?!   NO, that's not the way it works.  There is a very specific job description with very specific duties laid out in the Constitution.   If she were to get the VP power, she would do exactly what she did in Alaska.....abuse it!   Luckily, it doesn't matter, she won't even get to see the carpet in that VP office, let alone be able to 'make her own rules' regarding it.

I am pretty sure that she will not have her Governor's position when she returns to Alaska and even if they allow her to finish out her current term, she will NOT gain re-election.  She fucked herself in her own state by repeatedly lying to the same people that voted her into office in the first place.

Information on a rally against Palin on the steps of her own capital.  The Alaskan people are embarrassed by her, that's for sure.

Anyway, Palin isn't worth anybody's time and I won't waste anymore time on her.  She is a passing fancy whose 15 minutes of fame are just about over.  I would say that I hope she has socked enough money away in her retirement plan before now so she has something when this whole debacle is over, but hey, everyone of late is pretty fucked there!!  

McCain should save what shred of dignity he has left and slink away from running for President like he did before.

That's my opinion for the day!
 
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October 11, 2008 - Saturday 5:32 AM

Current mood:  excited
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I love this video and it was filmed here in Denver during the Democratic National Convention.  Barack and Michelle are genuinely great people and a great couple.  I particularly loved the segment of Michelle at an organized volunteer effort to assemble and ship care boxes to our troops.  :-)   Just watch it, get to know who this great man is and form your own opinion. 

BARACK OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT!  :-)
 
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October 10, 2008 - Friday 10:52 AM

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c


The "Straight Talk Express" has derailed so why isn't the national media calling McCain out on this?? The Media (except for maybe Fox News) are trying to be bi-partisan, but to what detriment might it cause this nation?

 
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October 2, 2008 - Thursday 5:42 AM

Current mood:  irritated
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WOW!  Alaskan Representative Les Gara delivered his latest opinion piece on the Palin debacle.  It's extremely interesting.......

 

Over the past few weeks we Alaskans have been scratching our heads over the interesting claims the McCain campaign has made about our Governor.  A lot of them have been news to us.  Governor Palin's nomination to the McCain ticket has created unusual common ground for Alaskans.  Whether we support her or not, we've been furrowing our eyebrows a lot lately as we watch the McCain campaign re-write Alaska history.   

 

            As a legislator who's both agreed and disagreed with Governor Palin, I know some of her positions are difficult to sell.  Some are not.  But to avoid that whole messy thing of explaining controversial positions, the spin doctors running the McCain campaign are doing what got George Bush elected.  Many campaigns spin in the gray areas, where the truth isn't clear.  But the McCain campaign's taken a page from Karl Rove, and decided to spin past the margins.  They're pitching the verifiably false as true.

 

            During the August Republican National Convention, Alaskans heard for the first time that our Governor opposed a national symbol of federal pork, what folks in the Lower 48 call the "Bridges to Nowhere."   We didn't know that.  In her 2006 Governor's campaign, when her opponents took the risk of telling boomers these two bridges might be too expensive – candidate Palin said she supported them – and said she'd work to get more Congressional money for them.

 

            Now the campaign has a new line, that Governor Palin "told Congress thanks, but no thanks" for this money.  That's a problem.  See, she never could have said that.  Congress debated our Alaska's request for $400 million in bridge money in 2004 and 2005, before Palin was elected Governor.   A national outcry against these projects, at a time when a Republican Congress was pushing pork over effective relief for Hurricane Katrina's victims, forced Congress to re-write this earmark.  Alaska ultimately got the money in 2005, but the Congressional language requiring that we spend it on these bridges was deleted.  We said thank you.  Governor Palin never opposed this funding.  She never offered to return it when she took office in 2007. 

 

            Then there's the claim by Senator McCain that our Governor has been a "maverick" fighting federal earmarks.  We didn't know that either.  Alaska takes more federal earmarks per capita than any state in the country.  Governor Palin asks for them.  She, like her predecessors, happily accepts them.  Alaska's budget contains hundreds of millions in earmark dollars.  Alaska politicians love earmarks, and campaign on their ability to get them.

 

            We also heard at the Convention that Governor Palin's been a budget cutter.  But in Governor Palin's two years as Governor state spending has gone up by 20%.  She did veto projects, and I supported those vetoes.  But after vetoes, there's still been a 20% budget hike.   Depending on your views, a 20% spending increase might be defensible.  It's not defensible to make people believe you cut the budget when you didn't. 

 

            Here's what else I know about my state.  We have the third worst children's health insurance program in the nation.  The Governor wouldn't support cost-effective measures to extend insurance to the 10,000 children of Alaskan working parents who cannot afford coverage.  She campaigned against a recent proposal to prevent large strip mines from spilling toxic chemicals into Alaska's salmon waters – something that's raised the ire of fishermen and Alaska Natives in remote Southwest Alaska communities.  Thirty-five to forty percent of our kids don't graduate from high school, and we can't convince Governor Palin to join the 41 other states that have accepted the science showing statewide pre-k education helps kids succeed when they don't have other good options at home. 

 

            There are a lot of important issues to discuss this campaign.  They should be debated honestly.  So far, as Senator McCain's joined Barack Obama's call for change, he's only succeeded at changing the truth.

I completely agree Mr. Gara.  Somehow I doubt that Ms. Palin is going to be hanging onto that high approval rating when this is all said and done.  I think she will be LUCKY if the Alaskans don't ask her to resign as their governor.

Even more damning for Ms Palin; this whole Troopergate investigation and her apparent abuse of power.  This one is longer but definitely worth reading.  This woman should never be a heartbeat away from the Presidency.

Palin's Flip-flopping on Troopergate

 
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October 2, 2008 - Thursday 5:14 AM

Current mood:  bitchy
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Taken from the Alaskan blogsite of:  The Mudflats

www.themudflats.net  and   http://mudflats.wordpress.com/

I am addicted to reading the TRUTH about Palin on that site from people that actually live in Alaska and know what's truly going on.  Check it out, you won't be disappointed!  :-)  I copied her blog verbatim, except for correcting grammar and punctuation problems.  My own comments are in RED

Dad Tries to Get Mrs. Couric to Change Sarah's Grade.

It happened again. This time Katie Couric managed not only to make Sarah Palin look bad, but John McCain look worse!  What was her diabolical secret?  She used that secret weapon - asking questions. In this one-on-two interview, John McCain showed up to sit with Sarah to make sure she didn't screw up too badly, and tried to keep that big bad journalist on a short leash. Saturday night in Philadelphia, Palin was questioned by a Temple graduate student about whether the U.S. military should cross the border from Afghanistan into Pakistan. She answered, "If that's what we have to do stop the terrorists from coming any further in, absolutely, we should," Palin said.

That was the subject of Katie Couric's first question. Palin basically repeated what Barack Obama had said during the Presidential debate, when John McCain scoffed at him and patronizingly admonished him by saying, "You don't say that out loud."  (subtext: you naive little idiot!)

McCain, in this joint interview, is obviously under stress. He squirms and blinks. You look at him and listen to the tone of his voice, and you know he's a man on edge. He's a pressure cooker who's keeping the lid on with all his might. Palin, comes across as cool and confident (except for that nervous lip lick she does, and the occasional clenched jaw), but with Palin, it's the transcript that is fascinating. You really have to read the "blizzard of words" to fully appreciate the extent to which she isn't saying anything.

KC: Over the weekend, Governor Palin, you said the US should "absolutely" launch cross-border attacks from Afghanistan to Pakistan to "stop the terrorists from coming any further in" , now that's almost the exact position that Barack Obama has taken and you, Senator McCain, have criticized as something you do not say out loud. So, Governor Palin, are you two on the same page on this?

SP: We had a great discussion with President Zardari as we talked about what it is that America can and should be doing together, to make sure that the terrorists do not cross borders, and do not ultimately put themselves in the position of attacking America again, or her allies. And we will do what we have to do to secure the United States of America and her allies.

KC: Is that something you shouldn't say out loud Senator McCain?

JM: Of course not. But look, I understand this day and age "gotcha journalism". Was that a pizza place? In a conversation with someone who…you didn't hear the question very well…you don't know the context of the conversation…grab a phrase. Uh, Governor Palin and I agree you don't announce that you're going to attack another country.

KC: Are you sorry you said it, Governor?

JM: Now wait a minute! Before you say is she sorry she said it, this was a gotcha sound bite.

KC: It wasn't a gotcha. She was talking to a voter.

JM: She was in a conversation. She was in a conversation with a group of people, and talking back and forth…and I…I don't…I'll let Governor Palin speak for herself.

SP: In fact you're absolutely right on. In the context, this was a voter…a constituents hollerin' out a question from across an area asking, "What are you gonna do about Pakistan? You better have an answer to Pakistan." I said, "We're going to do what we have to do to protect the United States of America."

(So which was it??  Was it a circle of people in a conversation as McCain states or a student that shouted the question across a restaurant as Palin says??  They are both so contradictory that it's hilarious!  Did Palin NOT just hear what her boss was trying to sell the media while sitting right beside her....yes, she is THAT clueless!!  She would be fired if this were a normal job...going on TV, making the boss look badly!  LOL)

KC: You were pretty specific about what you wanted to do - cross border…

SP: (interrupting) As Senator McCain is suggesting here also, never would our administration get out there and show our cards to, uh, terrorists, in this case to enemies, and let them know what the game plan was, not when that could ultimately adversely affect a plan to keep America secure.

KC: What did you learn from that experience?

SP: That this IS all about gotcha journalism. A lot of it is! But that's OK too.

KC: Governor Palin, since our last interview, you've gotten a lot of flack. Some Republicans have said you're not prepared, you're not ready for prime time. People have questioned your readiness since that interview, and I'm curious to hear your reaction.

SP: Well, not only am I ready, but willing and able to serve as Vice President with Senator McCain if Americans so bless us and privilege us with the opportunity of serving them. Ready with my executive experience as a city mayor and manager, as a governor, as a commissioner, a regulator of oil and gas.

JM: This is not the first time I've seen a governor questioned by some…quote "expert." I remember that Ronald Reagan was a cowboy. President Clinton was the governor of a very small state that had no experience either. I remember how easy it was going to be for Bush 1 to defeat him. I still recall…whoops…that one. But the point is uh, I've seen uh, underestimation before. I'm very proud of the excitement that Gov. Palin has ignited with our party around this country. It is a level of excitement and enthusiasm frankly that I' haven't seen before and I'd like to attribute it to me, but the fact is that she has done an incredible job and I'm so proud of the work that she's doing.


Now, I'm not the one who brought up Bill Clinton, and I wouldn't have if I were John McCain. BUT….since he did, I thought it would be fun to look at this other governor of a "very small state that had no experience either." First of all, notice that McCain said "either," so he is pretty much admitting that Palin has no experience. But lets compare "very small states."

Alaska: population 626,932. 1.1 people per square mile. Borders a whole lot of empty space in Canada.

Arkansas: population 2,673,400. 51.1 people per square mile. Borders six states.

So John McCain is comparing these two states to justify Palin's abilities. Arkansas has almost 5 times the population, and 50 times the population density than Alaska. And it has neighbors.

But we won't quibble. This isn't a "who's the smallest" contest. Let's get to the real meat of McCain's argument. Let's compare Bill Clinton's no experience, with Palin's "no experience either."

Clinton: After attending Georgetown on scholarships, he received a B.S. in Foreign Service. After graduation he received a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford where he studied government. He attended and graduated Yale Law School. He was a professor at the University of Arkansas. He was the Attorney General of the State of Arkansas. He was the governor of Arkansas for 10 years. He was the Chair of the National Governor's Association. He also worked on state and national campaigns.

Palin: One semester at Hawaii Pacific University, two semesters at North Idaho College as a general studies major, two semesters at the University of Idaho, one semester at the Matanuska-Susitna College in Alaska, and three semesters at the University of Idaho, graduating with a B.S. in communications-journalism. She worked briefly as a sportscaster for an Alaskan TV station and as a sportswriter for the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman newspaper. She spent several years as a homemaker, and four years on the Wasilla city council. She served two terms as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska (pop. 7000), and twenty months as Governor of the aforementioned state with a little over half a million people in it.

So McCain's argument is that if Bill Clinton could be a successful president, than surely Sarah Palin could be as well.  At least that's what he's trying to convince the teacher in this weirdly awkward parent-teacher conference. We all know that Sarah's been trying really hard, but somehow I don't think Mrs. Couric is going to change her grade.

To watch the clip from the interview, click HERE.

 
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September 30, 2008 - Tuesday 8:26 AM

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Normally I wouldn't agree with such a Republican Conservative writer, however in this case, she is correct....or not. If Palin stays in the race, she helps ensure that McCain won't get into office. So on second thought....

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDZiMDhjYTU1NmI5Y2MwZjg2MWNiMWMyYTUxZDkwNTE=


Palin Problem
She's out of her league.

By Kathleen Parker

If at one time women were considered heretical for swimming upstream against feminist orthodoxy, they now face condemnation for swimming downstream — away from Sarah Palin.

To express reservations about her qualifications to be vice president — and possibly president — is to risk being labeled anti-woman.

Or, as I am guilty of charging her early critics, supporting only a certain kind of woman.

Some of the passionately feminist critics of Palin who attacked her personally deserved some of the backlash they received. But circumstances have changed since Palin was introduced as just a hockey mom with lipstick — what a difference a financial crisis makes — and a more complicated picture has emerged.

As we've seen and heard more from John McCain's running mate, it is increasingly clear that Palin is a problem. Quick study or not, she doesn't know enough about economics and foreign policy to make Americans comfortable with a President Palin should conditions warrant her promotion.

Yes, she recently met and turned several heads of state as the United Nations General Assembly convened in New York. She was gracious, charming and disarming. Men swooned. Pakistan's president wanted to hug her. (Perhaps Osama bin Laden is dying to meet her?)

And, yes, she has common sense, something we value. And she's had executive experience as a mayor and a governor, though of relatively small constituencies (about 6,000 and 680,000, respectively).

Finally, Palin's narrative is fun, inspiring and all-American in that frontier way we seem to admire. When Palin first emerged as John McCain's running mate, I confess I was delighted. She was the antithesis and nemesis of the hirsute, Birkenstock-wearing sisterhood — a refreshing feminist of a different order who personified the modern successful working mother.

Palin didn't make a mess cracking the glass ceiling. She simply glided through it.

It was fun while it lasted.

Palin's recent interviews with Charles Gibson, Sean Hannity, and now Katie Couric have all revealed an attractive, earnest, confident candidate. Who Is Clearly Out Of Her League.

No one hates saying that more than I do. Like so many women, I've been pulling for Palin, wishing her the best, hoping she will perform brilliantly. I've also noticed that I watch her interviews with the held breath of an anxious parent, my finger poised over the mute button in case it gets too painful. Unfortunately, it often does. My cringe reflex is exhausted.

Palin filibusters. She repeats words, filling space with deadwood. Cut the verbiage and there's not much content there. Here's but one example of many from her interview with Hannity: "Well, there is a danger in allowing some obsessive partisanship to get into the issue that we're talking about today. And that's something that John McCain, too, his track record, proving that he can work both sides of the aisle, he can surpass the partisanship that must be surpassed to deal with an issue like this."

When Couric pointed to polls showing that the financial crisis had boosted Obama's numbers, Palin blustered wordily: "I'm not looking at poll numbers. What I think Americans at the end of the day are going to be able to go back and look at track records and see who's more apt to be talking about solutions and wishing for and hoping for solutions for some opportunity to change, and who's actually done it?"

If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself.

If Palin were a man, we'd all be guffawing, just as we do every time Joe Biden tickles the back of his throat with his toes. But because she's a woman — and the first ever on a Republican presidential ticket — we are reluctant to say what is painfully true.

What to do?

McCain can't repudiate his choice for running mate. He not only risks the wrath of the GOP's unforgiving base, but he invites others to second-guess his executive decision-making ability. Barack Obama faces the same problem with Biden.

Only Palin can save McCain, her party, and the country she loves. She can bow out for personal reasons, perhaps because she wants to spend more time with her newborn. No one would criticize a mother who puts her family first.

Do it for your country.

— Kathleen Parker is a nationally syndicated columnist.


 
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September 27, 2008 - Saturday 12:03 PM

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Obama absolutely did a great job tonight!   Instead of being aloof, cerebral and distant, as he sometimes was against Hillary, he was focused, proactive and authoritative.

McCain had a habit of being very condescending toward Obama, continually suggesting "he doesn't get it" and "he doesn't understand."  This really annoyed the crap out of me and truly showed McCain's true character.  McCain's remarks were frequently diffused and meandering.  He truly showed his age and drifted a lot.  He also continually brought up allegations against Obama that he couldn't substantiate, were completely misleading or were outright lies. 
Such as this quote from ABC News:

ABC News:

That's pretty close to an outright lie by Sen. McCain -- saying he (Obama) wants to hand over healthcare to the federal government.


Obama didn't let him get away with it. He answered virtually every charge, and especially the many baseless charges.  I personally wished he would have addressed the comment that McCain made when he said "you ought to hear Mr. Obama's definition of rich".  Obama started to address it, but then stuck to the issue of how he proposes tax cuts for 95% of Americans, mainly in the Middle and Low income tax brackets.  He didn't take McCain's attempt at baiting him into a worthless 'pissing' contest.  However, asking about Obama's definition of 'rich' is funny coming from McCain!  My definition of rich is most certainly a man like McCain whom owns 9 houses and 13 cars (most are SUV's) spread out all over the nation.  Obama by comparison owns ONE house and ONE car, which is a hybrid and earth friendly.  I am sorry....who is the 'rich' one in this scenario??

Obama looked right into the camera to address the television audience. McCain didn't do it even once.  That alone is very telling of how little McCain really thinks of Americans.  If he were to be elected President, is that what we can expect with every Presidential address?  Someone whom can't even look into the eyes of the American People when he is addressing them? 

Obama addressed his remarks directly to McCain again and again.  Obama truly tried to debate McCain directly and confidently.  In contrast, McCain couldn't even make eye contact.  In fact, he didn't look at Obama even once.  Why not?  Was McCain afraid that he would blow his top and lose his cool?     He certainly looked close to it at one point and it would have ensured his demise in this election. 

McCain's camp is already putting out ads using the fact that Obama did agree with him and stated as such.  McCain seems to think that is a negative and that it means Obama is acknowledging that he is inferior to McCain's age and wisdom.  That's ludicrous, seriously.  Anyone that has ever been a manager or a leader in any capacity, knows that you can not be successful without some agreement with the ideas and input of colleagues.  I know I WANT a leader that doesn't have such a high opinion of himself that he CANNOT take advice or ideas from those around him!  One of the things that people from Obama's past, especially those from Harvard, have stated that Obama is excellent at listening to and implementing ideas from all sides of any issue.  It's not a negative that Obama can agree with McCain and find common ground ... it's a positive quality.  I do not want someone in office that thinks they are never wrong and that only their views are the right ones.  Sorry, but that's short-sighted Mr. McCain.

On the other hand, Obama was VERY clear about the fundamental ways and very important ways that he and McCain were VERY different and disagree.  We need a leader like Obama that can see BOTH sides of any issue or argument and is not afraid to agree with the other side.  McCain is certainly set in his ways and not willing to change for anything...that's not what America needs.  We are looking for definite change and a definite plan for that change.  I feel that Obama gave that to us tonight.  Obama looked to the future and McCain kept focusing on the past. 

Another thing I loved about the debate and a place that I thought Obama nailed McCain was when he said, "The problem is you're using a hatchet where you need a scalpel."  That quote is a perfect description on how McCain intends to handle things if he makes it to the White House.  It's been proven and is a fact that he is hot-headed and knee-jerk in how he makes decisions, which is not the quality we need in a leader.  We have had enough of bad decisions and back-pedaling in the last 8 years.

I can't wait until the VP debate on October 2nd and I certainly can't wait  to see Palin stumble and trip all over herself in front of the world.  It's going to be more hilarious than her interview with Katie Couric!

Who do I think won tonight?  Definitely Obama.  He was well-prepared, knowledgeable, self-assured without being arrogant, and suitably assertive.  A fine performance all the way around. 

Say hello to your next President, America!



Debate schedule:

Each debate starts at 9PM Eastern time!

September 26, 2008: Video: Presidential debate with foreign policy focus, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS

October 2, 2008: (Tickets) Vice Presidential debate, Washington University, St. Louis, MO

October 7, 2008: (Tickets) Presidential debate in a town hall format, Belmont University, Nashville, TN

October 15, 2008: (Tickets) Presidential debate with domestic policy focus, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY



 
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