QUEEN’S COMMENTS

I was going to put the tawdry history of McCain and Palin in a kitchen sink, but the kitchen sink was too clean for their stuff.

Starting at 7:00 and moving clockwise . . .

RAPE KIT INSTRUCTIONS - for rape kits that victims use to identify their attackers–kits that Sarah Palain, who pretends to support women, said that the victims must pay for out of their own pockets.
The other day in an attempt to quote Madeleine Albright, Sarah Palin said, “There’s a place in Hell reserved for woman who don’t support other women.”  I couldn’t help but wonder where Miss Sarah thinks that not paying for rape kits for women fits into “supporting” or “helping” other women?  Perhaps if we were able to ask some of the women and young girls whose attackers went free because the women could not afford to pay the fee for the rape test kit.

QUEEN'S COMMENTS ON THE DEBATE TOMORROW

I just about flipped out when I read that Gallup was going to be in charge of choosing the audience for the debate tomorrow.  Gallup  has a well-documented history for its GOP bias--in prior election years as well as this year too.  One of the most egregious and partisan acts this year was that the Gallup did not take polls for three or four days following the Democratic Convention.  [All candidates get a large bump immediately following the official nomination.]   Gallup did track the days immediately following the Republican Convention and advertised their huge bump. But it is not just this year that Gallup has that reputation for a GOP bias--they have always demonstrated that bias.  Another thing they do is to take larger GOP sample sizes, thus skewing the results. 

Does anyone know what their criteria is for the selection of the audience in tomorrow's debate?  More than likely, since Gallup is in charge, 2/3's of the town hall will be Republicans and the other 1/3 will be conservative Democrats.

A few months ago when McCain was trying to set up town hall meetings, he and his Republican pals had one all set up in New York City, in the financial district as I recall.  McCain was tellling everyone that it would be a "randomly" selected audience, but it was rumored that he had already passed out tickets to the event to his Republican friends.  Many of us wrote to and called the Obama campaign telling him to not participate in these Republican set-ups--just as many of us wrote to the DNC in the fall of 2007 and circulated petitions saying that if any debate was held on Fox news that we would not watch it.

QUEEN’S COMMENTS:  A lot of people should be going to jail, but instead they are spending more of the taxpayer’s dollars.  What I am wondering is:  When do we get out the pitchforks and head for Washington DC?

A lot of smaller banks are going to fail within the coming months and this is in part due to raising the FDIC insurance from $100,000 to $250,000.  We were told that this was done to “protect us”. (So does your$250,000 that you have in one bank need protecting?)

The BS arugument that the American people were given for this is that it would help “stabilize” banks because people would not be taking money out of one bank and spreading it around to other banks so that they would be covered under FDIC.

This is in fact a very good thing to do–not a good thing for large investment banks like Goldman Sachs but for the smaller banks, it would have helped to stablize them.

Instead the taxpayers get to pay the insurance for the rich people’s convenience of leaving their $250,000 in one bank (or five or six banks instead of 10 or 12 banks).  In the end, we the people will pay even more dearly for this.  In a year or 18 months, providing we don’t slip into a Depression, we will be left with a choice of only 4 or 5 banks.  Think of it as the Wal-Mart principle of the financial industry.

QUEEN’S COMMENTS:  Time to Bring out the Big Guns

I just read a piece in Huffington Post today  that announced that Palin played the Wright Card.  I guess the prospects of having to explain McCain’s character because of his involvement in the Keating Five was not enough for her.  I say it is time to get out the chains for the pitbull.

Sarah Palin Approves of Ministers who Harm Children
http://iflizwerequeen.com/?p=531

Yes, Sarah Palin, your religion is an issue and so is your witch hunting pastor
http://iflizwerequeen.com/?p=530

Palin has her African Connection–a Witch Defeater from Africa
Go here to view a video of Sarah Palin being blessed in her Wasilla Pentecostal church.
Forward the video to 6:45 if you don’t want to watch all the claptrap prior to her appearance.

http://iflizwerequeen.com/?p=508

QUEEN’S COMMENTS

There are two cynical and “more of the same” points to John McCain’s Republican heathcare plan.

1.  McCain would tax health benefits for the first time in the history of our nation.  Right now, if you get health benefits from your company, those benefits are not taxed.  With McCain’s plan, those benefits would be taxed.  In other words, whatever value the corporation you work for wants to attach to your health benefits, it can and will.  So, if you make $60,000 and your company says that your health benefits for you and your family are worth $12,000 (family of four), then voila!  The income that you are taxed on becomes not $60,000 but rather $72,000!

2. McCain’s plan would dismantle state-based regulations and tie the hands of people who are involved in consumer protection.

More of the same looking the other way while corporate America robs Americans blind.  If you think that the gymnastics performed by healthcare insurance companies to deny claims now are bad, then you better hang onto your St. Christopher medal if McCain is elected.  The only “rights” that consumers will have under McCain’s Republican leadership will be the right to make insurance companies richer than they already are.

Go now to

http://iflizwerequeen.com/?p=620

to view the "sock it to you" video  preview of Keating Economic.com

And while you are there, be sure to read "Make Believe Maverick.

 In the 2000 and 2004 elections the Democrats were nice and look where that got us.  Well, guess what?  Not this time!  Not this year!

Barack Obama’s campaign is reminding voters of John McCain’s connections to the so-called Keating Five savings and loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s, including the release of a 13-minute documentary called “Keating Economics: John McCain and the Making of a Financial Crisis.” See the full-length video at http://KeatingEconomics.com starting @ noon Eastern on 10/6. KEATING ECONOMICS: The story of John McCain and the making of a financial crisis.

Two days after GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin accused Obama of “palling around with terrorists” because of the Democrat’s past dealings with 1960s radical William Ayers, Obama’s campaign is emailing its supporters a link to a website.

.  .  .  As spoken by the Chickens to the Foxes in the Washington DC Goverment Henhouses–and furthermore, fork over the full 35% of your income tax that you are owing retroactive to 2001.  When you’ve paid up, then get your ugly, bushy red keisters out of my sight!

And no, the answer that some multinational corporation won’t be able to make money off the backs of ordinary Americans is no longer an acceptable answer. 

As Paul Krugman pointed out in an article titled “The Health Care Racket” that he wrote in 2007:  “.  .   .  But it’s a fact that insurers spend a lot of money looking for ways to reject insurance claims. And health care providers, in turn, spend billions on “denial management,” employing specialist firms — including Ingenix, a subsidiary of, yes, UnitedHealth — to fight the insurers. . . The best way for an insurer to avoid paying medical bills is to avoid selling insurance to people who really need it. An insurance company can accomplish this in two ways, through marketing that targets the healthy, and through underwriting: rejecting the sick or charging them higher premiums.

La Carpio in San Jose, Costa Rica: House in the La Carpio urban marginalized community (slum) which has an estimated population of between 20 000 - 35 000. The sign says “Me salvé” (”I have saved myself”) – photograph by Eliana Carvalho from University of Peace

Jakarta Post – Oct 1, 2008 – Homeland - Residents of Pedongkelan, a slum area in East Jakarta, search for belongings in what remains of their shanty houses that were torn down by law enforcement officers on Saturday. The property will be relinquished to its rightful owner, PT Pulomas Jaya, which offered each of the 400 families Rp 1 million in compensation and to relocate them to a low-cost flat in Marunda, North Jakarta. [Note from the Queen: The rp is currently 9,485 to one dollar. Thus, each of these 400 families were given about $100 for their homes. Since they were searching for their belongings, I take it that they were not warned of the demolition. I regret that I did not capture the photograph as I returned to the Post to get it and it is not there any more—too controversial perhaps.]

Destroying the homes of the poor is such an outrage that it can’t happen in the USA?”—Wanta bet? It already has and more than once. And what’s more, the victims, more often than not aren’t offered a penny of financial compensation.

REPUBLICANS ARE GOING TO GET OUT THE PRAYER RUGS?  PRAYER RUGS?