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Next week, the happy hours move to Neighbours Bar and Grill. Onwards and upwards! A special shoutout to Cary Toland who is the co-host with the most- -his graphics for the LGBT Obama outreach efforts are awesome. And if Sally Clark ever runs for higher office--I'll be right there to support her the way she has supported my community.
He thinks that if he borrows some of Obama's rhetoric and make it look like the Republican Party has truly been the oppressed party of the past 8 years and that George W. Bush, a self-defined Republican, doesn't have a negative legacy, even though Bush has a negative legacy and the Republican Party has been the OPPRESSOR party.
But, honestly, "partisan rancor?" It's like insulting somebody and saying that they were insulting you. At least Barack Obama stated our country's problem at little nicer, and a little less fear-mondering.
Honestly, his speech is as cheap as a McDonald's Happy Meal.
It does seem appropriate for what I am here to show you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM3oww9Vk-c
Seems the "party of change" is only the party that recycles already rotten tactics.
PALIN: "I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending ... and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress 'thanks but no thanks' for that Bridge to Nowhere."
THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a "bridge to nowhere."
PALIN: "There is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform â€" not even in the state senate."
THE FACTS: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.
PALIN: "The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars."
THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama's plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain's plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.
Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.
He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.
MCCAIN: "She's been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America's energy supply ... She's responsible for 20 percent of the nation's energy supply. I'm entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that running a political campaign is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America," he said in an interview with ABC News' Charles Gibson.
THE FACTS: McCain's phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she's no more "responsible" for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state â€" by population.
MCCAIN: "She's the commander of the Alaska National Guard. ... She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities," he said on ABC.
THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their state guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, for example, they assume those duties under "federal status," which means they report to the Defense Department, not their governors. Alaska's national guard units have a total of about 4,200 personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations.
FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin "got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States."
THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor's election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.
FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MITT ROMNEY: "We need change, all right â€" change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington â€" throw out the big-government liberals, and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin."
THE FACTS: A Back-to-the-Future moment. George W. Bush, a conservative Republican, has been president for nearly eight years. And until last year, Republicans controlled Congress. Only since January 2007 have Democrats have been in charge of the House and Senate.
Please Note: The facts aren't "borrowed" from the AP, although they did come in the form of an article within the AP
On behalf of the media, I would like to say we are sorry.
On behalf of the elite media, I would like to say we are very sorry.
We have asked questions this week that we should never have asked.
We have asked pathetic questions like: Who is Sarah Palin? What is her record? Where does she stand on the issues? And is she is qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency?
We have asked mean questions like: How well did John McCain know her before he selected her? How well did his campaign vet her? And was she his first choice?
Bad questions. Bad media. Bad. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13143.html
I don't care about her pregnant daughter-- What I care about is where she stands on the issues that may affect me and my family--
So, If the press can't ask questions about Palin, her experience, where she stands on the issues.... PLEASE tell me what questions you think McCain would be happy to answer??? What is the presses role during the election process??? Is it they haven't had time to educate her on what her stand is??? PLEASE... does anyone know???
Thanks, g
I received the following email from aBarbara Davis this morning. She is apparently also a member of the 2008 Presidential Blog group. Barbara wrote:
"The fact that the taxes are too high on American Companies is why they are leaving the US. The US will become a service nation soon if we raise their taxes more. This will cause even more crime and poverty. We have to lower their taxes in order to bring the companies back to the US and put people back to work.
You need to get your facts right before you place the blame."
Someone please explain to me how an "American Company" can relocate to a communist nation - like China - and make a profit? The tax rate there is suppose to be 100%.
If a democrat can believe the real problem is that companies are taxed too much then we certainly should not take victory in November for granted. No matter how silly the republican policies may seem to us.
What does the elite look like to you Sarah?
I had no idea that people who lost their homes to foreclosure; workers who lost their jobs to outsourcing; families who lost their families to the war in Iraq AND returning veterans who go homeless AND wounded veterans with poor health care to handle the readjustment; people who get arrested without a warrant and call for habeas corpus for politics and just to get inhumanely tortured; women who want the right to make reproductive choices without resorting to a back alley abortion or a wire hanger; GLBT Americans who want hate crime legislation enacted; people who want civil rights and liberties preserved and maintained rather than disregarded for the sake of "protection"; and the list gets longer. I had no idea Palin considers a majority of Americans and the people who honestly stand up and DO THEIR JOBS and represent their constituents are the "elite."
Governor Palin, just look in the audience you are speaking too. Look at those rich, white faces. Have you ever noticed that the audience at the Republican National Convention looks like they are at a business convention? I guess there is a reason why they call it the RNC.
Gov. Palin,
Look at yourself. You are an eltist because you cater to a party that only cares about 1% of America, and tries to keep the rest of us in line by scaring ourselves out of our freedoms and rights.
Sarah,
You are a member of the Washington Elite. Stop peddling that reality into a party that has nothing to do with your group!
Among the controversial issues which the council agreed to was permitting Christians to charge interest on loans. They agreed to this although the Bible expressly forbids it?
Why??? To gain worldly power.
An objective they continue in this day by hiding behind their 501-3-C tax exmpt - wealth enhancing -status which also permits them the luxury of not having to speak out against evil.
rjsnj wrote:
In my experience, many if not most mainstream Jews are deeply suspicious of Jews for Jesus - indeed, the group has been denounced by all four branches of Judaism - and it's easy to see why.
That link to wikipedia says:
On several occasions leaders of the four major Jewish movements have signed on to joint statements opposing Hebrew-Christian theology and tactics. In part they said: "Though Hebrew Christianity claims to be a form of Judaism, it is not ... It deceptively uses the sacred symbols of Jewish observance ... as a cover to convert Jews to Christianity, a belief system antithetical to Judaism ... Hebrew Christians are in radical conflict with the communal interests and the destiny of the Jewish people. They have crossed an unbridgeable chasm by accepting another religion. Despite this separation, they continue to attempt to convert their former co-religionists
To which I can only reply - none of that means that Mr Brickner is incorrect in his faith.
1. stripped of whatever "seniority" he has in the senate.
2. Removed from all committee chairmanship positions he holds.
3. Removed from all committees in which he is a member.
4. Barred from speaking in the senate.
5. Allowed to represent his state as long as they care to elect him.
6. Encouraged to join the republican party.
And, even though we all know McCain's POW story inside and out, it is kind of well....interesting that a former POW that McCain knew in Vietnam states this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KjsEs46C70
Makes you question his leadership abilities, doesn't it?
For far too long right wing politicians and advocacy groups have been virtually unopposed while spewing their distorted form of Christianity across our nation. The recent flap over comments concerning rain on the night of Senator Obama's acceptance speech is only one example of their misguided theology.
The obvious assumption behind the words which sparked the flap is that God is on their side. Much of the theology that the right wing bases this assumption upon is derived from what has come to be know as, "The Prosperity Gospel."
This false theology is basically a Twenty-first Century version of the Dark Ages practice of "trial by combat." The idea being that if you win then God is on your side and if you lose then obviously God is not on your side. This is the false theology which is behind much of the right wing economic policies which have destroyed 80% of the value of the U.S. dollar. Link
One of the Biblical problems with this philosophy is that even if God does permit you to "win" that doesn't mean that they are actually favored by Him. One example of this can be found in the Book of Exodus, Chapter 9, verses 15 - 16. The LORD has Moses to tell Pharaoh, "For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth. And in every deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth."
It is obvious to anyone who reads this passage that the LORD permitted Egypt to prosper and to become great so that when He punished them people would know that only the LORD could have done these things to them. Being prosperous is, therefore, not and never has been an indication of the LORD's favor.
We must cintinually challenge the false theology of the right wing. They are wrong.
For far too long right wing politicians and advocacy groups have been virtually unopposed while spewing their distorted form of Christianity across our nation. The recent flap over comments concerning rain on the night of Senator Obama's acceptance speech is only one example of their misguided theology.
The obvious assumption behind the words which sparked the flap is that God is on their side. Much of the theology that the right wing bases this assumption upon is derived from what has come to be know as, "The Prosperity Gospel."
This false theology is basically a Twenty-first Century version of the Dark Ages practice of "trial by combat." The idea being that if you win then God is on your side and if you lose then obviously God is not on your side. This is the false theology which is behind much of the right wing economic policies which have destroyed 80% of the value of the U.S. dollar. Link
One of the Biblical problems with this philosophy is that even if God does permit you to "win" that doesn't mean that they are actually favored by Him. One example of this can be found in the Book of Exodus, Chapter 9, verses 15 - 16. The LORD has Moses to tell Pharaoh, "For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth. And in every deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth."
It is obvious to anyone who reads this passage that the LORD permitted Egypt to prosper and to become great so that when He punished them people would know that only the LORD could have done these things to them. Being prosperous is, therefore, not and never has been an indication of the LORD's favor.
We must cintinually challenge the false theology of the right wing. They are wrong.
Federal Reserve Bank records reveal that the U.S. dollar has lost 80% of it's value since 1967.
The federal government gives the corporations the mineral rights.
The federal reserve lends money it doesn't own to the corporations at interest.
The tax payers guarrantee the corporate loans so that if anything does go wrong the federal reserve and the corporations won't lose any of the money that isn't theirs'.
The corporations make the interest payments with profits from the oil they sell which isn't their's.
The federal reserve pays profits to their investors for lending money that isn't their's.
The tax payers pay higher prices at the pump, and absorb the resulting inflation.
No wonder Kucinich was telling us to wake up.
My goal when talking with them is to just not bring up politics with them. It's been a hard goal to accomplish, because, in this day and age, how can you not? But, with my politics, I get so passionate, so assertive, and so competitive I lose sight and fear that I lose friendship, this is why I don't know what to do with a friend of mine who is shoving Palin info down my throat and expects me to not say anything about kicking his party's inflated gray butt cheeks this coming November. Just the other day I was talking to a classmate of mine and I said : "Sorry, I hate it when I get all preachy to people who may or may not share my political views." Luckily, my classmate wasn't offended. But still.
Can't America just agree to disagree and do so respectfully? I can disagree with someone respectfully, but I am sick and tired of giving respect towards someone only to have it thrown back in my face by the other who acts like an ungrateful child( or Elisabeth Hasselbeck take your pick).
Seriously, if there is one thing we can learn with this campaign and this election, is that it is okay to agree to disagree and that respect needs to be a socially reciprocal activity on both ends of the spectrum.
By Hollywood Today at 9:30 am EDT (Updated Today at 9:30 am EDT) Also will mention again - this person wants to drill our way out of the energy crisis. Not because she actually believes we can, but because her fellow Alaskans will get a $1200 check every year if we try. If that's not corrupt, I don't know what is
My reply is:
Its not corrupt - corrupt is letting the corporations keep all of the money. Something the people of Alaska were smart enough to prevent. They are a shining example for the rest of the nation on that one
Hollywood's reply:
By Hollywood 36 minutes ago (Updated 36 minutes ago) the money.Only Alaska residents. And it's federal land. The state doesn't own it. Of course, the state should get revenues. But there are 700,000 people in Alaska. Meanwhile, the other 230 million Americans continue paying high prices at the pump
My reply:
Hollywood, I really have to disagree. The people had the oil industry over their own barrel and made them cut a deal. The other 300 million of us should make them cut the same deal.
Federal land??? You mean citizen owned land.
The federal government gives the corporations the mineral rights. The tax payers fund and/or guarrantee their loans - and since the money ultimately comes from the federal reserve we pay for it all and the bankers get the interest that we should be getting.Basically, doesn't cost the corporations one cent and they get all of the profits while we pay higher taxes and absorb the resulting inflation.
The other 300 million of us really do have to wake up..
There were no speeches that lacked anything that didn't build momentum, no tributes left ineffective, no nothing.
Well, that isn't entirely true, I wish that we did a video tribute to the late Stephanie Tubbs Jones and having Barbra Streisand perform. I did enjoy Sheryl Crow, John Legend, and Stevie Wonder.
Well, the party is over, now it is time to pull up our sleeves and get working!
This storm should hit right in the middle of the Republican Convention-- I think the message is clear!!! The Republicans needed a strong reminder of Katrina and their FAILURES!!!
My prayers and thoughts are with those preparing for this big storm--
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