I, for the likes of me, cannot understand why the mainstream media is STILL beating the dead horse, that there were "NO WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION IN IRAQ". If that were true, what did Saddam use to kill all those in his OWN villages? I'm with the belief that if any type of weapon is able to kill a whole village at once, then it should be considered a "weapon of mass destruction". If anyone thinks he wouldn't use the same stuff on the U.S. or ANYONE else, they must be parking themselves on the business end of a crack pipe. Go ahead Saddam, er uh, Barack Hussein Yer-mama, take another hit.
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This is pretty powerful. Please just think about it.
I know everyone has a different opinion on the war and our current President, but this article makes a lot of sense. Take two minutes, read it, and give it some thought. Don't miss the last paragraph.
When electing the next President, the only decision you have to make is whom you want sitting in that seat in the White House when--not if--WHEN we get hit again, and millions of American lives are put at risk!
This is from: 'You ain't gonna like losing,' author unknown.
President Bush did make a bad mistake in the war on terrorism. But the
mistake was not his decision to go to war in Iraq. Bush's mistake came in
his belief that this country is the same one his father fought for in WWII.
It is not.
Back then, they had just come out of a vicious depression. The country was
steeled by the hardship of that depression; but they still believed
fervently in this country. They knew that the people had elected their
leaders, so it was the people's duty to back those leaders.
Therefore, when the war broke out, the people came together, rallied behind,
and stuck with their leaders, whether they had voted for them or not
and whether
the war was going badly or not.
And war was just as distasteful and the anguish just as great then as it is
today. Often, there were more casualties in one day during WWII than we
have had in the entire Iraq war. But that did not matter. The people stuck
with the President, because it was their patriotic duty. Americans put
aside their differences in WWII and worked together to win that war.
Everyone from every strata of society, from young to old pitched in. Small
children pulled little wagons around to gather scrap metal for the war
effort. Grade school students saved their pennies to buy stamps for war
bonds to help the effort.
Men who were too old or medically 4F lied about their age or condition,
trying their best to join the military. Women doubled their work to keep
things going at home. Harsh rationing of everything from gasoline to soap to
butter was imposed, yet there was very little complaining.
You never heard prominent people on the radio belittling the
President. Interestingly enough, in those days there were no fat cat
actors and entertainers who ran off to visit and fawn over dictators
of hostile countries and complain to them about our President.
Instead, they made upbeat films and entertained our troops to help the
troops' morale. And a bunch of them even enlisted.
And imagine this: Teachers in schools actually started the day off with the
Pledge of Allegiance and with prayers for our country and our troops! Back
then, no newspaper would have dared point out certain weak spots in our
cities where bombs could be set off to cause the maximum damage. No
newspaper would have dared complain about what we were doing to catch spies.
A newspaper would have been laughed out of existence if it had complained
that German or Japanese soldiers were being 'tortured' by being forced to
wear women's underwear, or subjected to interrogation by a woman, or being
scared by a dog or did not have air conditioning. There were a lot of
things different back then. We were not subjected to a constant bombardment
of pornography, perversion and promiscuity in movies or on radio. We did
not have legions of crack heads, dope pushers and armed gangs roaming our
streets.
No, President Bush did not make a mistake in his handling of terrorism. He
made the mistake of believing that we still had the courage and fortitude of
our fathers. He believed that this was still the country that our fathers
fought so dearly to preserve.
It is not the same country. It is now a cross between Sodom and Gomorra and
the Land of Oz. We did unite for a short while after 9/11; but our attitude
changed when we found out that defending our country would require some
sacrifices.
We are in great danger. The terrorists are fanatic Muslims. They believe
that it is okay, even their duty, to kill anyone who will not convert to
Islam. It has been estimated that about one-third or over three hundred
million Muslims are sympathetic to the terrorists' cause. Hitler and Tojo
combined did not have nearly that many potential recruits. So . . . We
either win it—or lose it—and you ain't gonna like losing.
America is not at war. The military is at war.
America is at the mall, or watching movies.
(Remember Obama said in his book *Audacity of Hope*, "I will stand with the
Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction." What better
place for the Muslims to control our country, than in the office of the
President of the United States of America! Friends, if we don't have a
president who will stand forever with Israel—God's chosen people—then we
don't want that president.) If ever an e-mail needed to be forwarded, now
is the time. Ask God to watch over us this election day. Please pray about
all of this.
Remember: Pray, Vote, Pray.
The Bible tells us any nation that turns their back on Israel will
fall. Those
that did, have fallen.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Saturday, October 4, 2008
OK, some Humor for the Right Wingers
>From the MANITOBA HERALD, Canada (a very underground paper):
The flood of American liberals sneaking across the border into Canada has intensified in the past week, sparking calls for increased patrols to stop the illegal immigration.
The possibility of a McCain/Palin election is prompting the exodus among left-leaning citizens who fear they'll soon be required to hunt, pray, and agree with Bill O'Reilly. Canadian border farmers say it's not uncommon to see dozens of sociology professors, animal rights activists and Unitarians crossing their fields at night.
I went out to milk the cows the other day, and there was a Hollywood producer huddled in the barn," said Manitoba farmer Red Greenfield, whose acreage bor ders North Dakota. The producer was cold, exhausted and hungry. "He asked me if I could spare a latte and some free-range chicken. When I said I didn't have any, he left. Didn't even get a chance to show him my screenplay, eh?"
In an effort to stop the illegal aliens, Greenfield erected higher fences, but the liberals scaled them. So he tried installing speakers that blare Rush Limbaugh across the fields. "Not real effective," he said. "The liberals still got through, and Rush annoyed the cows so much they wouldn't give milk.
"Officials are particularly concerned about smugglers who meet liberals near the Canadian border, pack them into Volvo station wagons, drive them across the border and leave them to fend for themselves.
"A lot of these people are not prepared for rugged conditions," an Ontario border patrolman said. "I found one carload without a drop of drinking water. "They did have a nice little Napa Valley cabernet,though."
When liberals are caught, they're sent back across the border, often wailing loudly that they fear retribution from conservatives.Rumors have been circulating about the McCain administration establishing re-education camps in which liberals will be forced to shoot wolves from airplanes, deny evolution, and act out drills preparing them for the Rapture. In recent days, liberals have turned to sometimes-ingenious ways of crossing the border.
Some have taken to posing as senior citizens on bus trips to buy cheap Canadian prescription drugs. After catching a half-dozen young vegans disguised in powdered wigs, Canadian immigration authorities began stopping buses and quizzing the supposed senior-citizen p assengers on Perry Como and Rosemary Clooney hits to prove they were alive in the '50s.
"If they can't identify the accordion player on The Lawrence Welk Show, we get suspicious about their age," an official said. Canadian citizens have complained that the illegal immigrants are creating an organic-broccoli shortage and renting all the good Susan Sarandon movies.
"I feel sorry for American liberals, but the Canadian economy just can't support them," an Ottawa resident said."How many art-history and English majors does one country need?"
The flood of American liberals sneaking across the border into Canada has intensified in the past week, sparking calls for increased patrols to stop the illegal immigration.
The possibility of a McCain/Palin election is prompting the exodus among left-leaning citizens who fear they'll soon be required to hunt, pray, and agree with Bill O'Reilly. Canadian border farmers say it's not uncommon to see dozens of sociology professors, animal rights activists and Unitarians crossing their fields at night.
I went out to milk the cows the other day, and there was a Hollywood producer huddled in the barn," said Manitoba farmer Red Greenfield, whose acreage bor ders North Dakota. The producer was cold, exhausted and hungry. "He asked me if I could spare a latte and some free-range chicken. When I said I didn't have any, he left. Didn't even get a chance to show him my screenplay, eh?"
In an effort to stop the illegal aliens, Greenfield erected higher fences, but the liberals scaled them. So he tried installing speakers that blare Rush Limbaugh across the fields. "Not real effective," he said. "The liberals still got through, and Rush annoyed the cows so much they wouldn't give milk.
"Officials are particularly concerned about smugglers who meet liberals near the Canadian border, pack them into Volvo station wagons, drive them across the border and leave them to fend for themselves.
"A lot of these people are not prepared for rugged conditions," an Ontario border patrolman said. "I found one carload without a drop of drinking water. "They did have a nice little Napa Valley cabernet,though."
When liberals are caught, they're sent back across the border, often wailing loudly that they fear retribution from conservatives.Rumors have been circulating about the McCain administration establishing re-education camps in which liberals will be forced to shoot wolves from airplanes, deny evolution, and act out drills preparing them for the Rapture. In recent days, liberals have turned to sometimes-ingenious ways of crossing the border.
Some have taken to posing as senior citizens on bus trips to buy cheap Canadian prescription drugs. After catching a half-dozen young vegans disguised in powdered wigs, Canadian immigration authorities began stopping buses and quizzing the supposed senior-citizen p assengers on Perry Como and Rosemary Clooney hits to prove they were alive in the '50s.
"If they can't identify the accordion player on The Lawrence Welk Show, we get suspicious about their age," an official said. Canadian citizens have complained that the illegal immigrants are creating an organic-broccoli shortage and renting all the good Susan Sarandon movies.
"I feel sorry for American liberals, but the Canadian economy just can't support them," an Ottawa resident said."How many art-history and English majors does one country need?"
Who Are The Women - Please Stand Up
Response to Gloria Steinem By Roni Bell Sylvester 9/11/08
Yes Gloria, you are succinct and intelligent. Most ideologues are. What you say though, is so disconnected from ladies like Sarah Palin that I wonder out loud if we are indeed both of the female gender and live in the same America.
Women including you, Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein and Arianna Huffington, exclude ladies including Sarah Palin and those posting on www.GetterDoneGals.Blogspot.com from their defined world of women.
Because you don't know us?Some philosophers tend to ignore our female segment of society too. I've never figured out if their exclusion of us is born out of deliberation, arrogance or stupidity.To help better know the rest of us gals, please study my introduction of the Sarah Palin-getter- done-type-gals in America.
Getter Done Gals come mostly from backgrounds closely connected to ranching, farming, fishing, logging and fuel production. In other words, they're the gals who provide the food we eat, fiber we use to clothe ourselves, and fuel that serves a myriad of purposes.
The two main elements most resource providers are forced to deal with on a minute by minute basis are: Mother Nature and their city, county, state, and federal governments, and foreign control agents including environmental, European Union and North America Union.One oft times hears non-resource providers describe these ladies in phrases including: "Walk like they're kicking s_ _ t off their shoes; hicks; clodhoppers; rednecks; hayseeds; unsophisticated; back-woods; cowboy; Walmart groupies; animal killing pistol packing mammas.
"In a single day it's common for us to: Cook for 50 wranglers, pull a calf, shoot a coyote, drive the not so glamourous farm truck miles into town to get parts-meet with the banker-get medicine for the horses and husband, teach a child another piano lesson and more manners, counsel a neighbor whose spouse got killed in a machinery accident, and rope and doctor a sick steer all while keeping coffee and prayers perking. We don't have the luxury of being rigidly stuck in some partisan feminist ideology.
Their livelihood and your food supply depends on an amazing flexibility - necessary to swiftly change course according to what Mother Nature or the many governments throw their way. Mother Nature and the charging bull care not about feelings, nor do they apologize for flooding out the corn field or snapping your leg in half.We love being parents.
We recognize it's an honorable undertaking and assume the responsibilities that go with it. We know the difference between "wanting" and "needing" something. And with our own hard-earned dollar, we pay for our wants and needs.For example, if we want a dog, we know full well what we're getting into before bringing one home. This is in stark contrast to the women who want such as prairie rats, feral horses and wolves, but expect...no demand...that we take full care of them.
Yes, far too often, the wants of other woman takes away from critical things we need to do. Gloria, you publically pound the hammer of reproductive freedom. Good God you make it sound as though any woman who gets pregnant is automatically a victim in need of government aid.
To affirmatively empower a woman, you teach your little girl the value of saying NO until she's first done these things and in this order: Get an education. Get a job. Get married to a gentleman who has an education and is employed. Then have a baby. A woman really does have the power. The power to say NO. Then they have the power to teach their little girl to respect herself and little boys, and teach her little boy how to respect himself and little girls.
We recognize life throws us extenuating circumstances. It's just that we'd rather the government not add to those extenuating circumstances with their choking controls, regs, restrictions and scoldings from socialists.We believe in order for this country to get healthy, we must educate every child on the importance of being engaged, active parents, and maintaining sturdy families.
You will find some of the last reservoirs of strong, healthy families in rural communities where we embrace matriarchies. Something that you could focus on is protecting these great families.We do our own homework, and find out the truth and facts on stuff like the global warming myth. We refuse to worship false religions like the Religion of Eco-fascism or false gods like Al Gore.
We've requested debate on matters like the global warming myth, but Mr. Gore informs us that his word is the last!From 1st grade on, schools should teach the honest economics of having a child. That would be a non-emotional, more effective way to deter unplanned pregnancies than sex education. I guarantee that!
Instead of providing condoms, schools should bring back the absolute of, "you break it, you pay for it!"It was appalling to read AP reports shouting, "Sarah Palin's 17 year old daughter has an unwanted pregnancy." Unwanted? No. Unplanned?
Yes.Surely you're smart enough not to believe anything AP reporters conjure these days. Like Move-on.org and Daily Kos they are rarely accurate and as useless as tits on a boar. The feminist movement in their zeal to banish her from the community is about as forward-thinking as my community was 47 years back, when they removed a local minister when his 17 year old daughter got pregnant out of wedlock.
Although there's far more to say on this subject, let me just stop here by saying - we forgive you and other women who can't relate to us; for we alone are guilty of being too occupied feeding, clothing and sheltering you all, to grandstand our deeds.Wouldn't you agree that what America deserves to see, is a good old-fashioned duel between your troupe and Getter Done Gals like Harriet Hageman, Kimmi Lewis, Sarah Palin, Cory Rutledge, Rita Meyer and so on? Ladies Senator Salazar has never heard of.
Roni Bell SylvesterP.O. Box La Salle, CO 80645
PS For your convenience - Steinem's column follows.
Palin: wrong woman, wrong message Sarah Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Hillary Clinton.
She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger. By Gloria Steinem> September 4, 2008: Here's the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that> even the anti-feminist right wing -- the folks with a headlock on the Republican Party -- are trying to appease the gender gap with a> first-ever female vice president.
We owe this to women -- and to many> men too -- who have picketed, gone on hunger strikes or confronted> violence at the polls so women can vote.
We owe it to Shirley Chisholm,> who first took the "white-male-only" sign off the White House, and to> Hillary Rodham Clinton, who hung in there through ridicule and misogyny> to win 18 million votes.> >
But here is even better news: It won't work. This isn't the first time a> boss has picked an unqualified woman just because she agrees with him> and opposes everything most other women want and need.
Feminism has> never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life> more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing> pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.> >
Selecting Sarah Palin, who was touted all summer by Rush Limbaugh, is no> way to attract most women, including die-hard Clinton supporters. Palin> shares nothing but a chromosome with Clinton.
Her down-home, divisive> and deceptive speech did nothing to cosmeticize a Republican convention> that has more than twice as many male delegates as female, a> presidential candidate who is owned and operated by the right wing and a> platform that opposes pretty much everything Clinton's candidacy stood for -- and that Barack Obama's still does.
To vote in protest for> McCain/Palin would be like saying, "Somebody stole my shoes, so I'll> amputate my legs."> > This is not to beat up on Palin. I defend her right to be wrong, even on> issues that matter most to me. I regret that people say she can't do the> job because she has children in need of care, especially if they> wouldn't say the same about a father.
I get no pleasure from imagining> her in the spotlight on national and foreign policy issues about which> she has zero background, with one month to learn to compete with Sen.> Joe Biden's 37 years' experience.> > Palin has been honest about what she doesn't know.
When asked last month> about the vice presidency, she said, "I still can't answer that question> until someone answers for me: What is it exactly that the VP does every> day?" When asked about Iraq, she said, "I haven't really focused much on> the war in Iraq." She was elected governor largely because the incumbent was unpopular, and she's won over Alaskans mostly by using unprecedented oil wealth to> give a $1,200 reba te to every resident.
Now she is being praised by McCain's campaign as a tax cutter, despite the fact that Alaska has no> state income or sales tax. Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet> standards, not lowering them. Or perhaps McCain is following the Bush administration habit, as in the Justice Department, of putting a job candidate's views on "God, guns and gays" ahead of competence.
The difference is that McCain is filling a job one 72-year-old heartbeat away from the presidency. So let's be clear: The culprit is John McCain. He may have chosen Palin out of change-envy, or a belief that women can't tell the difference between form and content, but the main motive was to please right-wing ideologues; the same ones who nixed anyone who is now or ever has been a supporter of reproductive freedom.
If that were not the case, McCain could have chosen a woman who knows what a vice president does and who> has thought about Iraq; someone like Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison or Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine. McCain could have taken a baby step away> from right-wing patriarchs who determine his actions, right down to> opposing the Violence Against Women Act.
Palin's value to those patriarchs is clear: She opposes just about every issue that women support by a majority or plurality. She believes that creationism should be taught in public schools but disbelieves global warming; she opposes gun control but supports government control of women's wombs; she opposes stem cell research but approves "abstinence-only" programs, which increase unwanted births, sexually transmitted diseases and abortions; she tried to use taxpayers' millions for a state program to shoot wolves from the air but didn't spend enough money to fix a state school system with the lowest high-school graduation rate in the nation; she runs with a candidate who oppos es the Fair Pay Act but supports $500 million in subsidies for a natural gas pipeline across Alaska; she supports drilling in the Arctic National> Wildlife Reserve, though even McCain has opted for the lesser evil of offshore drilling. She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.
I don't doubt her sincerity. As a lifetime member of the National Rifle Assn., she doesn't just support killing animals from helicopters, she> does it herself. She doesn't just talk about increasing the use of fossil fuels but puts a coal-burning power plant in her own small town. She doesn't just echo McCain's pledge to criminalize abortion by overturning Roe vs. Wade, she says that if one of her daughters were impregnated by rape or incest, she should bear the child.
She not only opposes reproductive freedom as a human right but implies that it dictates abortion, without saying that it also protects the right to have a child. So far, the major new Mc Cain supporter that Palin has attracted is James Dobson of Focus on the Family.
Of course, for Dobson, "women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership," so he may be voting for Palin's husband. Being a hope-a-holic, however, I can see two long-term bipartisan gains from this contest.
Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time. A loss in November could cause the centrist majority of Republicans to take back their party, which was the first to support the Equal Rights Amendment and should be the last to want to invite government into the wombs of women. And American women, who suffer more because of having two full-time jobs than from any other single injustice, finally have support on a national stage from male leaders who know that women can't be equal outside the home until men are equal in it .
Barack Obama and Joe Biden are campaigning on their belief that men should be, can be and want to be at home for their children. This could be huge Gloria Steinem is an author, feminist organizer and co-founder of the Women's Media Center. She supported Hillary Clinton and is now supporting Barack Obama.
Yes Gloria, you are succinct and intelligent. Most ideologues are. What you say though, is so disconnected from ladies like Sarah Palin that I wonder out loud if we are indeed both of the female gender and live in the same America.
Women including you, Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein and Arianna Huffington, exclude ladies including Sarah Palin and those posting on www.GetterDoneGals.Blogspot.com from their defined world of women.
Because you don't know us?Some philosophers tend to ignore our female segment of society too. I've never figured out if their exclusion of us is born out of deliberation, arrogance or stupidity.To help better know the rest of us gals, please study my introduction of the Sarah Palin-getter- done-type-gals in America.
Getter Done Gals come mostly from backgrounds closely connected to ranching, farming, fishing, logging and fuel production. In other words, they're the gals who provide the food we eat, fiber we use to clothe ourselves, and fuel that serves a myriad of purposes.
The two main elements most resource providers are forced to deal with on a minute by minute basis are: Mother Nature and their city, county, state, and federal governments, and foreign control agents including environmental, European Union and North America Union.One oft times hears non-resource providers describe these ladies in phrases including: "Walk like they're kicking s_ _ t off their shoes; hicks; clodhoppers; rednecks; hayseeds; unsophisticated; back-woods; cowboy; Walmart groupies; animal killing pistol packing mammas.
"In a single day it's common for us to: Cook for 50 wranglers, pull a calf, shoot a coyote, drive the not so glamourous farm truck miles into town to get parts-meet with the banker-get medicine for the horses and husband, teach a child another piano lesson and more manners, counsel a neighbor whose spouse got killed in a machinery accident, and rope and doctor a sick steer all while keeping coffee and prayers perking. We don't have the luxury of being rigidly stuck in some partisan feminist ideology.
Their livelihood and your food supply depends on an amazing flexibility - necessary to swiftly change course according to what Mother Nature or the many governments throw their way. Mother Nature and the charging bull care not about feelings, nor do they apologize for flooding out the corn field or snapping your leg in half.We love being parents.
We recognize it's an honorable undertaking and assume the responsibilities that go with it. We know the difference between "wanting" and "needing" something. And with our own hard-earned dollar, we pay for our wants and needs.For example, if we want a dog, we know full well what we're getting into before bringing one home. This is in stark contrast to the women who want such as prairie rats, feral horses and wolves, but expect...no demand...that we take full care of them.
Yes, far too often, the wants of other woman takes away from critical things we need to do. Gloria, you publically pound the hammer of reproductive freedom. Good God you make it sound as though any woman who gets pregnant is automatically a victim in need of government aid.
To affirmatively empower a woman, you teach your little girl the value of saying NO until she's first done these things and in this order: Get an education. Get a job. Get married to a gentleman who has an education and is employed. Then have a baby. A woman really does have the power. The power to say NO. Then they have the power to teach their little girl to respect herself and little boys, and teach her little boy how to respect himself and little girls.
We recognize life throws us extenuating circumstances. It's just that we'd rather the government not add to those extenuating circumstances with their choking controls, regs, restrictions and scoldings from socialists.We believe in order for this country to get healthy, we must educate every child on the importance of being engaged, active parents, and maintaining sturdy families.
You will find some of the last reservoirs of strong, healthy families in rural communities where we embrace matriarchies. Something that you could focus on is protecting these great families.We do our own homework, and find out the truth and facts on stuff like the global warming myth. We refuse to worship false religions like the Religion of Eco-fascism or false gods like Al Gore.
We've requested debate on matters like the global warming myth, but Mr. Gore informs us that his word is the last!From 1st grade on, schools should teach the honest economics of having a child. That would be a non-emotional, more effective way to deter unplanned pregnancies than sex education. I guarantee that!
Instead of providing condoms, schools should bring back the absolute of, "you break it, you pay for it!"It was appalling to read AP reports shouting, "Sarah Palin's 17 year old daughter has an unwanted pregnancy." Unwanted? No. Unplanned?
Yes.Surely you're smart enough not to believe anything AP reporters conjure these days. Like Move-on.org and Daily Kos they are rarely accurate and as useless as tits on a boar. The feminist movement in their zeal to banish her from the community is about as forward-thinking as my community was 47 years back, when they removed a local minister when his 17 year old daughter got pregnant out of wedlock.
Although there's far more to say on this subject, let me just stop here by saying - we forgive you and other women who can't relate to us; for we alone are guilty of being too occupied feeding, clothing and sheltering you all, to grandstand our deeds.Wouldn't you agree that what America deserves to see, is a good old-fashioned duel between your troupe and Getter Done Gals like Harriet Hageman, Kimmi Lewis, Sarah Palin, Cory Rutledge, Rita Meyer and so on? Ladies Senator Salazar has never heard of.
Roni Bell SylvesterP.O. Box La Salle, CO 80645
PS For your convenience - Steinem's column follows.
Palin: wrong woman, wrong message Sarah Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Hillary Clinton.
She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger. By Gloria Steinem> September 4, 2008: Here's the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that> even the anti-feminist right wing -- the folks with a headlock on the Republican Party -- are trying to appease the gender gap with a> first-ever female vice president.
We owe this to women -- and to many> men too -- who have picketed, gone on hunger strikes or confronted> violence at the polls so women can vote.
We owe it to Shirley Chisholm,> who first took the "white-male-only" sign off the White House, and to> Hillary Rodham Clinton, who hung in there through ridicule and misogyny> to win 18 million votes.> >
But here is even better news: It won't work. This isn't the first time a> boss has picked an unqualified woman just because she agrees with him> and opposes everything most other women want and need.
Feminism has> never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life> more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing> pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.> >
Selecting Sarah Palin, who was touted all summer by Rush Limbaugh, is no> way to attract most women, including die-hard Clinton supporters. Palin> shares nothing but a chromosome with Clinton.
Her down-home, divisive> and deceptive speech did nothing to cosmeticize a Republican convention> that has more than twice as many male delegates as female, a> presidential candidate who is owned and operated by the right wing and a> platform that opposes pretty much everything Clinton's candidacy stood for -- and that Barack Obama's still does.
To vote in protest for> McCain/Palin would be like saying, "Somebody stole my shoes, so I'll> amputate my legs."> > This is not to beat up on Palin. I defend her right to be wrong, even on> issues that matter most to me. I regret that people say she can't do the> job because she has children in need of care, especially if they> wouldn't say the same about a father.
I get no pleasure from imagining> her in the spotlight on national and foreign policy issues about which> she has zero background, with one month to learn to compete with Sen.> Joe Biden's 37 years' experience.> > Palin has been honest about what she doesn't know.
When asked last month> about the vice presidency, she said, "I still can't answer that question> until someone answers for me: What is it exactly that the VP does every> day?" When asked about Iraq, she said, "I haven't really focused much on> the war in Iraq." She was elected governor largely because the incumbent was unpopular, and she's won over Alaskans mostly by using unprecedented oil wealth to> give a $1,200 reba te to every resident.
Now she is being praised by McCain's campaign as a tax cutter, despite the fact that Alaska has no> state income or sales tax. Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet> standards, not lowering them. Or perhaps McCain is following the Bush administration habit, as in the Justice Department, of putting a job candidate's views on "God, guns and gays" ahead of competence.
The difference is that McCain is filling a job one 72-year-old heartbeat away from the presidency. So let's be clear: The culprit is John McCain. He may have chosen Palin out of change-envy, or a belief that women can't tell the difference between form and content, but the main motive was to please right-wing ideologues; the same ones who nixed anyone who is now or ever has been a supporter of reproductive freedom.
If that were not the case, McCain could have chosen a woman who knows what a vice president does and who> has thought about Iraq; someone like Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison or Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine. McCain could have taken a baby step away> from right-wing patriarchs who determine his actions, right down to> opposing the Violence Against Women Act.
Palin's value to those patriarchs is clear: She opposes just about every issue that women support by a majority or plurality. She believes that creationism should be taught in public schools but disbelieves global warming; she opposes gun control but supports government control of women's wombs; she opposes stem cell research but approves "abstinence-only" programs, which increase unwanted births, sexually transmitted diseases and abortions; she tried to use taxpayers' millions for a state program to shoot wolves from the air but didn't spend enough money to fix a state school system with the lowest high-school graduation rate in the nation; she runs with a candidate who oppos es the Fair Pay Act but supports $500 million in subsidies for a natural gas pipeline across Alaska; she supports drilling in the Arctic National> Wildlife Reserve, though even McCain has opted for the lesser evil of offshore drilling. She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.
I don't doubt her sincerity. As a lifetime member of the National Rifle Assn., she doesn't just support killing animals from helicopters, she> does it herself. She doesn't just talk about increasing the use of fossil fuels but puts a coal-burning power plant in her own small town. She doesn't just echo McCain's pledge to criminalize abortion by overturning Roe vs. Wade, she says that if one of her daughters were impregnated by rape or incest, she should bear the child.
She not only opposes reproductive freedom as a human right but implies that it dictates abortion, without saying that it also protects the right to have a child. So far, the major new Mc Cain supporter that Palin has attracted is James Dobson of Focus on the Family.
Of course, for Dobson, "women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership," so he may be voting for Palin's husband. Being a hope-a-holic, however, I can see two long-term bipartisan gains from this contest.
Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time. A loss in November could cause the centrist majority of Republicans to take back their party, which was the first to support the Equal Rights Amendment and should be the last to want to invite government into the wombs of women. And American women, who suffer more because of having two full-time jobs than from any other single injustice, finally have support on a national stage from male leaders who know that women can't be equal outside the home until men are equal in it .
Barack Obama and Joe Biden are campaigning on their belief that men should be, can be and want to be at home for their children. This could be huge Gloria Steinem is an author, feminist organizer and co-founder of the Women's Media Center. She supported Hillary Clinton and is now supporting Barack Obama.
Friday, October 3, 2008
Why I Do Not Watch ABC
I try not to watch any of the major networks anymore and this is one of the reason. This is old news but a couple folks sent it to me as if it was new info. This dates back to 9-11 days
Do not be shocked it is what our Media is all about... Do not want to offend anyone, well they offened me...
> ABC News Bans Flag Lapel Pins
> The brass at ABC News issued orders forbidding reporters to
> wear lapel pin American flags or other patriotic insignia.
Their reasoning was that ABC should remain neutral about 'causes'.
> Since when is support for preventing our death & destruction some sort
> of a cause?
Since when is patriotism to be discouraged. I urge you to boycott ABC and its sponsors and affiliates.
> We are slowly losing everything our country stands for, and everything our men and women fought and died to preserve.
> Please forward this to as many as you can. You can verify it by going to:
> http://www.snopes.com/rumors/noflags.asp
Do not be shocked it is what our Media is all about... Do not want to offend anyone, well they offened me...
> ABC News Bans Flag Lapel Pins
> The brass at ABC News issued orders forbidding reporters to
> wear lapel pin American flags or other patriotic insignia.
Their reasoning was that ABC should remain neutral about 'causes'.
> Since when is support for preventing our death & destruction some sort
> of a cause?
Since when is patriotism to be discouraged. I urge you to boycott ABC and its sponsors and affiliates.
> We are slowly losing everything our country stands for, and everything our men and women fought and died to preserve.
> Please forward this to as many as you can. You can verify it by going to:
> http://www.snopes.com/rumors/noflags.asp
A Step By Step View of The Credit Issue
The thing that chaps me most is the the facts in all this just can't seem to get to the surface.. Many of us saw the problem building. There was a time with the media would have very much enjoyed digging such issues out and report them first, but not any more. Journalism is just about dead now it is all politics. How can we write articles that promotes the left over the right. Even a few that go right to left but very few
Well if you would take a few minutes and watch the video on this link.
http://www.jimdemint.com/blog/2008/09/what-caused-the-economic-crisis-watch-this/
Fact are Facts
Middle Class you are going to pay your share of this debt... Income redistribution ...
$ 700,000,000,000, so that people who can not afford a home can buy one. Now you and I pay the tab... If that does not upset you then we derserve what we are getting. I am however upset that the Republicans controlled both the houses and the White House and did not take this issue to task and fix it. They knew it was coming heck a few even tried to bring it to light. They waited until the Demo's got control of the congress then several tried to do something but it was too late. (The power of controling congress is they decide what get to the floor) Yes, it would have been unpopular but being the head of the greatest nation on earth requires some effort.
I say fire the whole DC gang and put in some new blood. We do need change and now. It you have not listened to Congress talk about this issue do not. It will make you very ill. One after another of the Democratic as late as last year were saying there is not problem, it is just those right wing Republicans who want to keep the poor poor. B S is was about saving our finance system.. Shame on the whole lot in DC
Vote them Out...
Please share this site if you agree.
Well if you would take a few minutes and watch the video on this link.
http://www.jimdemint.com/blog/2008/09/what-caused-the-economic-crisis-watch-this/
Fact are Facts
Middle Class you are going to pay your share of this debt... Income redistribution ...
$ 700,000,000,000, so that people who can not afford a home can buy one. Now you and I pay the tab... If that does not upset you then we derserve what we are getting. I am however upset that the Republicans controlled both the houses and the White House and did not take this issue to task and fix it. They knew it was coming heck a few even tried to bring it to light. They waited until the Demo's got control of the congress then several tried to do something but it was too late. (The power of controling congress is they decide what get to the floor) Yes, it would have been unpopular but being the head of the greatest nation on earth requires some effort.
I say fire the whole DC gang and put in some new blood. We do need change and now. It you have not listened to Congress talk about this issue do not. It will make you very ill. One after another of the Democratic as late as last year were saying there is not problem, it is just those right wing Republicans who want to keep the poor poor. B S is was about saving our finance system.. Shame on the whole lot in DC
Vote them Out...
Please share this site if you agree.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
I Could Not Believe What I Saw
Yesterday October 1 ... Raleigh NC State Fair Grounds
I went out to the Fair Grounds to check on the Lions Club Booth at about 10 AM... Traffic was not moving... Police were directing traffic ... Cars were everywhere..,
I was trying to figure out what was going on. Thee was nothing on the bill board about any event, I had not read anything, it was not on TV or the radio. What is the world could it be.
Buses full of people several hundred cars parked everywhere????
Well when I finally got inside the grounds I had another surprize. Was I in America or had somehow I been picked up and dropped in a Muslim country. To my surprize and amazement I was now among several thousand Muslim dressed people from kids to seniors. What could be going on. Whites, Blacks, and literaly thousands of people dressed in every Islamic costume you can imagine.
Was it a political event, was OH Bama here? Surely they had not invited Mc Cain or Palin to come and speak to them. What in the world... How could so many people assemble and not one word of this be on the media I kept asking myself. I mean let 20 people go to central prison to burn a candle to protest the execution of a murderer and every network is there, and why not here. This is right down the networks key issues to blast into our homes.
I tried to ask some of the people there what was going on and most just walked by and would not talk to me. Guess without a beard, robe or a turbin they assumed I could not understand them.
I can tell for sure, if you had want a taxie you had a problem... all the drivers and cars were at this event. I waited to hear on TV something about it still nothing.
Folks let me tell you. This will cause you to take a step back and ask yourself. Am I still in the US.
This is one small US City. I had to sit down and open my mind, yes I know it is a bit closed,
to imagine if this went on in every city in the US on Oct 1 and without any communication from the normal channels... Well for sure they are more committed to thier cause than the average American is that is for sure.
I did finally get one young lady to take to me.... She by the way was a white girl who had converted to the Islamic life. I asked her why she choose this religion and she said, is was a religion that believed in peace and love... My mouth dropped and I asked her about the suicide bombers that we see on TV who go into market areas and kill innocent people in the name of ALLAH... she said oh these are radicals who really do not understand the true meaning of Islam.
I asked her why so many had turned out today and she smiled and told me it was a special prayer day. I asked her did they pray for peace and talk about these radicals... she said no it was more about specials prays for Allah.
Honest this yound lady was so full of Allah that she could have easly been convienced to do anything they wanted in the name of Allah
Me, I am just in shock... God help us when the radicals decide to call these folks to task and they will, it is how they work. Read my earlier posted back several months ago which shows how things change as the % of Muslims grows... It is how it worked in Europe and other countries and it is headed to our America...
God, Please Wake Us UP Before It Is Too Late
I went out to the Fair Grounds to check on the Lions Club Booth at about 10 AM... Traffic was not moving... Police were directing traffic ... Cars were everywhere..,
I was trying to figure out what was going on. Thee was nothing on the bill board about any event, I had not read anything, it was not on TV or the radio. What is the world could it be.
Buses full of people several hundred cars parked everywhere????
Well when I finally got inside the grounds I had another surprize. Was I in America or had somehow I been picked up and dropped in a Muslim country. To my surprize and amazement I was now among several thousand Muslim dressed people from kids to seniors. What could be going on. Whites, Blacks, and literaly thousands of people dressed in every Islamic costume you can imagine.
Was it a political event, was OH Bama here? Surely they had not invited Mc Cain or Palin to come and speak to them. What in the world... How could so many people assemble and not one word of this be on the media I kept asking myself. I mean let 20 people go to central prison to burn a candle to protest the execution of a murderer and every network is there, and why not here. This is right down the networks key issues to blast into our homes.
I tried to ask some of the people there what was going on and most just walked by and would not talk to me. Guess without a beard, robe or a turbin they assumed I could not understand them.
I can tell for sure, if you had want a taxie you had a problem... all the drivers and cars were at this event. I waited to hear on TV something about it still nothing.
Folks let me tell you. This will cause you to take a step back and ask yourself. Am I still in the US.
This is one small US City. I had to sit down and open my mind, yes I know it is a bit closed,
to imagine if this went on in every city in the US on Oct 1 and without any communication from the normal channels... Well for sure they are more committed to thier cause than the average American is that is for sure.
I did finally get one young lady to take to me.... She by the way was a white girl who had converted to the Islamic life. I asked her why she choose this religion and she said, is was a religion that believed in peace and love... My mouth dropped and I asked her about the suicide bombers that we see on TV who go into market areas and kill innocent people in the name of ALLAH... she said oh these are radicals who really do not understand the true meaning of Islam.
I asked her why so many had turned out today and she smiled and told me it was a special prayer day. I asked her did they pray for peace and talk about these radicals... she said no it was more about specials prays for Allah.
Honest this yound lady was so full of Allah that she could have easly been convienced to do anything they wanted in the name of Allah
Me, I am just in shock... God help us when the radicals decide to call these folks to task and they will, it is how they work. Read my earlier posted back several months ago which shows how things change as the % of Muslims grows... It is how it worked in Europe and other countries and it is headed to our America...
God, Please Wake Us UP Before It Is Too Late
Old Bill Gates Quotes Still Valid
Love him or not, Bill Gates hit the nail on the head with this speech he gave at a high school recently. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality, and how it set them up for failure in the real world.
RULE 1: Life is not fair. Get used to it!
RULE 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
RULE 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice president with a car phone until you earn both.
RULE 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
RULE 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.
RULE 6: If you mess up, it's not your parent's fault, so don't whine about your mistakes. Learn from them.
RULE 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So, before you save the rainforest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
RULE 8: Your school has done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear any resemblance to anything in real life.
RULE 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.
RULE 10: TV is NOT real life. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
RULE 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
IF YOU AGREE, PASS IT ON.
IF YOU CAN READ THIS, THANK A TEACHER!
IF YOU CAN READ THIS IN ENGLISH, THANK A SOLDIER!
RULE 1: Life is not fair. Get used to it!
RULE 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
RULE 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice president with a car phone until you earn both.
RULE 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
RULE 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.
RULE 6: If you mess up, it's not your parent's fault, so don't whine about your mistakes. Learn from them.
RULE 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So, before you save the rainforest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
RULE 8: Your school has done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear any resemblance to anything in real life.
RULE 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.
RULE 10: TV is NOT real life. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
RULE 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
IF YOU AGREE, PASS IT ON.
IF YOU CAN READ THIS, THANK A TEACHER!
IF YOU CAN READ THIS IN ENGLISH, THANK A SOLDIER!
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