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Pitbull or Showdog?
Author: Raine    Date: 09/08/2008 12:30:49

Good Morning. I want to thank everyone for filling in while we were on vacation.

Last week was Sarah Palin week. Understandably so. A surprising and questionable decision for McCain. He wanted to show what a Maverick he is. He wanted to show that He could shake things up. He wanted to show that he is not part of the Washington Elite... He wanted a lot of things. I think the world is finding out a lot of things about Sarah. That is good. Right?

But I would like to get back to McCain for a moment. Let's not forget that he is the one voters elected. Not one person in America cast a vote in the primaries for Sarah Palin. Not one. She put no cracks in any ceiling as the McCain campaign would have you believe.
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187 comments (Latest Comment: 09/09/2008 01:00:16 by Raine)

Oh, It’s On Bitch
Author: AuntAzalea    Date: 09/07/2008 12:44:39

Sarah Palin, you betta watch your motherfuckin’ rug rat poppin’ ass- it’s on now. I am the pit-bull and I don’t need no fuckin’ lipstick. With my eyes blindfolded, the gold hoops off my ears, and my jimmy choo knockoffs exchanged for good steel-toed boots, I could beat your ass down - woman to woman.

For those of you who don’t know me, I grew up and lived most of my adult life in government projects in Harlem; we were not on welfare, my parents would have rather starved then accept any help, but we probably should have been. My mother’s improperly treated mental illness forced me to be in the position of cook, housecleaner and caretaker by the age 9. For daily survival, I relied on the free public school lunches at PS 125 to be able to eat. And for after school we might be lucky enough to have a few community outreach programs available - for me Dance Theatre of Harlem - that created and inspired hope and the possibility of a decent future.

So, when I heard Sarah Palin’s speech I physically got chest pains - having already been angered by the earlier speech of Rudy Giuliani and his poisonous mocking of community organizers, I found myself in the uncomfortable position of wanting to punch somebody -really badly. But then I started thinking about who would be a better vice president; this “Hockey Mom” or, a struggling single mother that the Republican’s smugly refer to as a “Welfare Mom”. So here we go:
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91 comments (Latest Comment: 09/08/2008 04:11:07 by livingonli)

Libertarian Saturday
Author: TriSec    Date: 09/06/2008 10:33:36

Good Morning!

Returning to form this week with the big conventions done...

Diving right in, I am reminded once again of the biggest challenge facing any third party; ballot access. Something curious is happening in the state of Texas, though.

Did you think it was odd that both the major conventions were so late this year? Well, Bob Barr has also found something interesting. The deadline to file paperwork to appear on the Texas ballot was August 25....before both major candidates were even nominated.

The Libertarian Party had their ducks in a row; now the LP candidate is calling for Texas law to be enforced!
The Bob Barr presidential campaign has stated "serious legal consequences" will occur should Senators Barack Obama and John McCain be allowed on the Texas general election ballot after they knowingly missed the state's deadline to file.

According to documents obtained by the Barr campaign, neither John McCain nor Barack Obama complied with Texas Election Code § 192.031, which requires that filings must be submitted “before 5 p.m. of the 70th day before presidential Election Day," listing the "names of the party's nominees for president and vice-president."

"The Election Code of the State of Texas imposes requirements on a political party, which must be met if its candidates for president and vice-presidents are to appear on the general election ballot," Russell Verney, Bob Barr's campaign manager stated in a letter sent to the Texas Secretary of State's office. "The Democratic Party and Mr. Obama, and the Republican Party and Mr. McCain, blatantly ignored the Texas statutory deadline."

The deadline, which was set at 5 p.m. on August 26, passed before Sen. Obama was nominated and before Sen. McCain had even selected his running mate.

"The law is clear, and it was clearly not followed," says Verney. "The Texas Supreme Court was emphatic when it stated that the law 'does not allow political parties or candidates to ignore statutory deadlines . . .' Senators Obama and McCain did not file by the deadline; therefore, Texas should abide by the laws it created. No political party or candidate is above the law."

Libertarian Party presidential candidate Bob Barr represented the 7th District of Georgia in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003.


Bob Barr is certainly right; it may be interesting to keep an eye on this for the next few weeks.

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54 comments (Latest Comment: 09/07/2008 04:18:24 by livingonli)

Sarah Palin is a Bee-otch
Author: m-hadley    Date: 09/05/2008 12:21:09

And She's Mean, Too

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa213/FourFreedoms/Evil_Palin_2.jpg


Who would have guessed that Sarah Palin is such a beee-otch? She sure proved it last night with a speech full of lies, hyperbole, attacks and sheer hate-filled talk. Where to start? In case you missed it - here it is in all of it's hate-fueled glory. It was set-up by a string of other lie-filled speeches by Mittens Romney, Mike Huckleberry, and Rudi "Noun-verb-9/11" Ghouliani. By the time Palin took the stage the audience had worked themselves into a frenzy of attack mode, ready to hear all of the lies and hate without any expectation of substance or a real discussion of issues that face Americans today.
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4 comments (Latest Comment: 09/05/2008 13:03:14 by wickedpam)

Completely Frivilous Friday
Author: wickedpam    Date: 09/05/2008 12:19:43

Morning All!

I know I could have focused on last night's speech but to be honest my brain and heart weren't in it. It's hard to gin up even the remotest interest in something that I already have a notion will go sometime like this: blah, blah, blah, POW, POW, POW, bah, blah, blah, 911, 911, 911, blah, blah, blah. So I thought I would end this week with some frivolous fun instead. This is something of a throw back to the old days of Unfiltered.

For those who for whatever reason didn’t get to listen to the original show that brought a lot of us together, Fridays were reserved for not just the usual news but also had a feature of bringing music and mixology to the table. I think that is also the place where we saw the origination of the Raintini.

This week the news has been dominated by hurricanes and the Republican convention, so basically it’s all hot air and blowing stuff around. And that is the overall theme for music and adult beverages, so feel free to add.

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183 comments (Latest Comment: 09/06/2008 04:30:50 by Random)

Country First? Why is that familiar?
Author: TriSec    Date: 09/04/2008 10:45:16

Good Morning!

Have you been keeping up with our friends in Minneapolis? There's been a lot of interesting things happening up there in the Twin Cities.

I believe I have seen a whopping two persons of color on the convention floor....Mondo has observed the automated nature of the applause from the delegates, but "their eyes are empty" as if responding by rote, without any passion or conviction.

I'm impressed by the number of hand-painted signs; I don't know if this is the norm for the convention, but I don't recall seeing that at the DNC in Denver...it really makes this convention look like a bunch of low-budget amateurs.

And nevermind that "deer in the headlights" speech from Governor Palin last night....I don't recall ever hearing such a disjointed and unprofessional speech from a major candidate. And they speak of Obama's lack of experience...


But the thing that I have noticed the most is all of those "Country First" signs. I'm finding it vaguely unsettling. Much has been made about Obama giving a speech in a stadium to cap the convention, and of course comparisons were made to certain rallies that took place in Europe in the 1930s. But isn't sacrificing everything on the altar of the state one of the hallmarks of fascism? I know we're all familiar with it, but a brief review of the 14 characteristics of Fascism is in order. How much of this have we seen so far this week?

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291 comments (Latest Comment: 09/05/2008 06:40:42 by livingonli)

Mavericks, My Ass!
Author: Shane-O    Date: 09/03/2008 07:50:38

mav·er·ickn.
1: an unbranded range animal; especially : a motherless calf
2: an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party

The word dates back to 1867 from the American pioneer Samuel A. Maverick (1803-1870) who did not brand his cattle.

Well, maybe the branding part of the McCain/Palin ticket does deserve the term maverick.



How many political ads for down ticket races in your area have you seen? And how many of the Republicans running actually admit to being Republicans?

Can’t say I blame them…
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290 comments (Latest Comment: 09/04/2008 04:07:32 by livingonli)

Ask A Vet
Author: TriSec    Date: 09/02/2008 11:37:33

Good Morning.

Today is our 1,994th day in Iraq.

We'll start as we always do, with the latest casualty figures from the warron terra, courtesy of Antiwar.com:

American Deaths
Since war began (3/19/03): 4151
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 4012
Since Capture of Saddam (12/13/03): 3690
Since Handover (6/29/04): 3292
Since Election (1/31/05): 2714

Other Coalition Troops - Iraq: 314
US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 581
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 366
Contractor Deaths - Iraq: 444


We find this morning's Cost of War passing through $ 550, 598, 575, 000.00.

Since it's the first day of school tomorrow for most of the United States, we'll briefly take a closer look at the war's cost in real-world terms today.

$4,681 per household.
$1,721 per person.
$341.4 million per day.

For the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the money spend in Iraq could have bought the following things:

2,217,591 Head Start Places for Children for One Year OR
265,270 Elementary School Teachers for One Year OR
317,450 Music and Arts Teachers for One Year OR
1,932,158 Scholarships for University Students for One Year

(more at the link.)

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277 comments (Latest Comment: 09/03/2008 03:40:27 by livingonli)

Welcome to the Republican World of Diminished Freedoms and Fewer Unions
Author: m-hadley    Date: 09/01/2008 11:04:44

Welcome to the Republican World (View)
Land of Diminished Freedoms and Fewer Unions (Happy Labor Day :P)

The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

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102 comments (Latest Comment: 09/02/2008 07:17:35 by livingonli)

Sarah: Plain and simple.
Author: velveeta jones    Date: 08/31/2008 12:25:52

Finally! A candidate that Velveeta Jones can wrap her hands around! Sarah Palin! A true fighter. A woman, a wife and a mother! A mother, who apparently, never gives up. Its obvious that her natural reserves have been drilled often - she has a barn load of kids. And not with silly popular names like "Lindsay" or "Michael", rather, strong names that will really make these kids stand-outs on the national stage. Names like: Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper and Trig. I'm sure that "Dirk", "Butte" and "Seedling" will be appearing in the future, since she still has plenty of birthing years left. She can even have them while in the job of VP. And, since she recently told us that she's not sure what the Vice President does, why not just make more babies for the "democracy spreading" that McCain has promised us for the next 100 years?

Poor, sheltered Sarah, she's not sure what the VP does? Well, here’s some things her predecessor excelled on, maybe she can find a few tips:

Do shoot your fellow lobbyist/friends/donors in the face while “hunting” at farms where they drug and cage the animals then release them for an easy kill.

Do set up a task force and have secret meetings with corporations (i.e. Oil executives) that have a vested interest to make and set policy and agendas.

Do try to convince us that you would not be a member of the Executive Branch.

Continue trampling on the Constitution.

But I digress. What is it about this woman that arouses so many of us? Is it because she's such a great role model for our Grand Old Party? What say's "Republican Values" better than holding the second highest office in the world, while toting around a 4 month old. Sarah Palin is a feminist in every sense of the word! (Excluding Roe v Wade).
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71 comments (Latest Comment: 09/01/2008 08:49:53 by Random)

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