Protect our Environment
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The Earth has provided for and nourished us for millions of years. Yet, with the destruction of the environment from our consumption and industry, we are not only endangering ourselves, but the future of our posterity. The environment must be protected - for ourselves, for our children.
Years ago I could of answered that question, I could of even said I respected some of them, disagreed with them, but respected them. As is evident in the difference between the 2000 and 2008 McCain Campaign and the fact that some are calling Palin the future of that party, the republicans are in the middle of a schism. Once the cry of the party, small government and leave peoples freedoms alone. If it ain't broke do not fix it, seems to no longer apply. Government has gotten much larger over the last 8 years, peoples rights have been trampled and we have stuck our nose somewhere it did not belong and left it there. The republicans used to be known to favor the rich, but they were also competent, at least not completely stupid!!! They were also not as corrupt as they are now.
I no longer know what a conservative is: The rich board room type, very smart but want small government and low taxes. OR
People who celebrate being stupid, denounce science. Speak plainly(poorly) do not know much, but know how to fix a 1984 ford 150 on the weekend. Palin, who clearly knows very little is now there spokes person.
The party is clearly split and the candidates in that party have to appeal to both factions, as can be seen in the McCain campaign.
The next four years will see where the party goes, if it continues to celebrate stupid people and denounce science, it will have more in common with Bin Laden then with the party we once known.
This is a concern for all of us, having multiple political parties is essential to our country and if the republican parties go all Talaban on us it will hurt the country as a whole. The Christian right in this country is just as dangerous as the Muslim right in the middle east if it goes unchecked. Be warned it can happen here!!! It has before (KKK) but the world today lends itself to more dangerous events for those who practice in ignorance and hatred!!!
We will win on Tuesday, but we need to keep an eye on that party and the conservative movement. Sarah Palin will be a good benchmark to watch
I no longer know what a conservative is: The rich board room type, very smart but want small government and low taxes. OR
People who celebrate being stupid, denounce science. Speak plainly(poorly) do not know much, but know how to fix a 1984 ford 150 on the weekend. Palin, who clearly knows very little is now there spokes person.
The party is clearly split and the candidates in that party have to appeal to both factions, as can be seen in the McCain campaign.
The next four years will see where the party goes, if it continues to celebrate stupid people and denounce science, it will have more in common with Bin Laden then with the party we once known.
This is a concern for all of us, having multiple political parties is essential to our country and if the republican parties go all Talaban on us it will hurt the country as a whole. The Christian right in this country is just as dangerous as the Muslim right in the middle east if it goes unchecked. Be warned it can happen here!!! It has before (KKK) but the world today lends itself to more dangerous events for those who practice in ignorance and hatred!!!
We will win on Tuesday, but we need to keep an eye on that party and the conservative movement. Sarah Palin will be a good benchmark to watch
The campaign is being run so poorly I wonder if McCain's heart is really in it?
I know he would like to be president, he might even be a good president, but the timing is just not right, since a superstar OBAMA is on the scene. But I think the RNC is forcing him to run a campaign he hates, I think 2000 was more McCain's style. You have to think behind the scenes he really does not like the racists and religious radicals he has to pander to
I know he would like to be president, he might even be a good president, but the timing is just not right, since a superstar OBAMA is on the scene. But I think the RNC is forcing him to run a campaign he hates, I think 2000 was more McCain's style. You have to think behind the scenes he really does not like the racists and religious radicals he has to pander to
The Back Story:
It's not hard to argue that the last 8 years have been really bad. It is also not hard to argue that McCain's 2000 campaign and message is must better then his 2008. Those two facts along with some recent events beg the questions. Why did McCain not win in 2000, why did he have to change his message? Why Palin? How stupid can she really be now that she thinks she is the future of the party and McCain is a has been? What happened to the republican party, no matter how much of a democrat you are, you have to wonder what happened, it went to the small government not help the small guy as much party to some really scary right wing religious cult. They have gone well beyond Row vs Wade, they do not even believe in Science anymore.
Besides this campaign there has been a growing problem in our country, deliberate ignorance!!! People who are using religion as a venue to breed ignorance, denounce science and intelligence and celebrating ignorance as "American" This Evangelical movement is potentially as dangerous as the radical muslin movement in the middle east. We might be breeding our own Bin Laden. When movements that go unchecked denounce the logic and a major political party is willing to change is core base and platform to feed this ignorance, it will breed intolerance and hurt our country
So why is Obama good for the GOP:
Obama is killing this Campaign, and Palin who must be one of the most ignorant elected officials in recent times is the air apparent of the republican base. When they loose and they realize that the McCain campaign of 2000 would of competed better, and they realize that the party base favors a stupid person, the blood letting will begin. The religious or social conservatives start to be hold in check, and the republican party gets back to its strengths, we can have a good debate again and government can start working again. With the republicans so far to the right and so twisted that they call it main stream, where true main stream is call liberal, no good government can be done with them.
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It's not hard to argue that the last 8 years have been really bad. It is also not hard to argue that McCain's 2000 campaign and message is must better then his 2008. Those two facts along with some recent events beg the questions. Why did McCain not win in 2000, why did he have to change his message? Why Palin? How stupid can she really be now that she thinks she is the future of the party and McCain is a has been? What happened to the republican party, no matter how much of a democrat you are, you have to wonder what happened, it went to the small government not help the small guy as much party to some really scary right wing religious cult. They have gone well beyond Row vs Wade, they do not even believe in Science anymore.
Besides this campaign there has been a growing problem in our country, deliberate ignorance!!! People who are using religion as a venue to breed ignorance, denounce science and intelligence and celebrating ignorance as "American" This Evangelical movement is potentially as dangerous as the radical muslin movement in the middle east. We might be breeding our own Bin Laden. When movements that go unchecked denounce the logic and a major political party is willing to change is core base and platform to feed this ignorance, it will breed intolerance and hurt our country
So why is Obama good for the GOP:
Obama is killing this Campaign, and Palin who must be one of the most ignorant elected officials in recent times is the air apparent of the republican base. When they loose and they realize that the McCain campaign of 2000 would of competed better, and they realize that the party base favors a stupid person, the blood letting will begin. The religious or social conservatives start to be hold in check, and the republican party gets back to its strengths, we can have a good debate again and government can start working again. With the republicans so far to the right and so twisted that they call it main stream, where true main stream is call liberal, no good government can be done with them.
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Okay, so I am a genius. This is what we do:
So everyone is naturally full of shit right? A week before election day we get every single person who ever voted for Bush to take a very potent laxative which would result in an environmental disaster. Obama being more talented at environmental issues, then sweeps in and saves the nation from the mudslide and gains a landslide victory. The plan is flawless and symbolic on so many levels.
So everyone is naturally full of shit right? A week before election day we get every single person who ever voted for Bush to take a very potent laxative which would result in an environmental disaster. Obama being more talented at environmental issues, then sweeps in and saves the nation from the mudslide and gains a landslide victory. The plan is flawless and symbolic on so many levels.
Why is the South East with no gas when other parts of the country are seeing the prices go to their lowest levels in months? If there is a gas shortage it would be felt country wide, and there is ton of gas here!!!
Then again NJ and Maryland have lots of refineries
Then again NJ and Maryland have lots of refineries
So McCain and Obama are only Senators so they do not have real executive experience, they do not have the responsibility and pressure of running a huge state like hmmmm Alaska. Never mind that there are more people in NYC then the entire state. This lack of responsibility is what allows them to campaign while still holding office. So answer me this, if being governor of Alaska is so much work that being it for only two years, not in National politics at all, then who is holding down the fort while Palin campaigns?
Could it be that the oil companies?
Could it be that the oil companies?
So the latest news is they are hoping to have a vote tomorrow or Tuesday. Earlier this weekend the talk was to have it before the foreign markets open tonight. There was some talk of having this down last weekend. When I first heard of the bailout, seeing all the issues on wall street and in the market it made lots of sense to me. But now I have heard it must be done by . . . several times, the time and date came and went and yet the DOW has not been crushed yet. I still guess we need to do something, but is it really as bad as we were led to believe?
How much of this is politics? There is little doubt that we are in a slow down and the next Congress and President will take office in the middle of a recession, but do you think by making such a big deal of it now they are able to say it happened on the other guys watch, being able to deflect blame?
How much of this is politics? There is little doubt that we are in a slow down and the next Congress and President will take office in the middle of a recession, but do you think by making such a big deal of it now they are able to say it happened on the other guys watch, being able to deflect blame?
The South East is still in a significant drought, Atlanta especially. China besides investing heavily in our economy is emerging as a serious threat to our country. Spying on us close to cold war levels. Let's talk about industrializing our nation again, NAFTA takes a lot of the blame for jobs moving over sees, but I see the phrase "made in China" over and over these days. Many of our tech jobs are moving to India. We have become a Nation of buyers, with lots of service industries helping us buy things. We are living on our accumulated wealth hoping it never runs out. We are now the Nation of Paris Hilton, living on the wealth and efforts of those who came before us. The election will not solve most of this. One person can not solve this no matter who he is. We need to get involved and stop the bleeding.
One plan I like is the Pickens plan, we are sending way to much money on foreign oil. We also need to think about putting some tariffs on goods coming from China, maybe remove some of that favorite nation status we have been giving them.
Of course this will take many years but we need to start now
One plan I like is the Pickens plan, we are sending way to much money on foreign oil. We also need to think about putting some tariffs on goods coming from China, maybe remove some of that favorite nation status we have been giving them.
Of course this will take many years but we need to start now
I missed like a month on Party Builder, what happened to the Crazy Hillary Supporters Like Femdemo, Paul Hammond and True Blue?
Today we were handed a gift by John McCain. that is that he choose to be his VP: Sara Palin. I was so amazed that he would do something that stupid that I had to turn on three different channels and the read it on the Internet this morning to believe it. MSNBC has been nice to her while CNN has Passively ripped her. I thought he would make a dumb choice by picking Pawlenty, but this by far exceeds any expectations I had about the stupidity someone can have in this big of a decision in politics. I predict that she could be the worst choice for VP ever.
Why do I feel this way ? She's like Ann Culter, Dan Quayle and Ted Stevens rolled into one. first off she will get owned by Joe Biden in a debate, It could be worse than Quayle-Benson, next she is an EXTREME right whinger, then there is the fact that she could be Indicted for her ties to the corrupt Ted Stevens and/ or the Illigit firing of her ex-brother-in-law (which I don't blame her for, but none the less is a possible count for indictment). She brings nothing as far as geography goes (3 Electoral Votes that were Leaning McCain anyway) and she forces him to give up his biggest argument (experience). She has been governor of the most corrupt political state in the nation for only one and a half years. and as if that was not enough there is something much bigger, about McCain. He is wiling to sacrifice his first (and hopefully last) executive decision in a hollow attempt to "Out Minority" Obama. I think it is more sick than anything we have seen through this entire campaign, and we have seen some pretty sick things.
and I am not sexist when it comes to politics (or anything else for that matter), Part of me was rooting for Obama to pick a dark horse in Barbra Boxer (but she would have problems appealing to Independents). I have a list of five people I want to see as Majority leader in 2009 two of whom are women, and if you attack Sara Palin because of her sex I will fight you with the same passion I did when I saw people play the Race card in the primaries.
so in short she was an incredibly stupid choice, but when you attack her, attack her on substance and not on sex or because of her last son.
Why do I feel this way ? She's like Ann Culter, Dan Quayle and Ted Stevens rolled into one. first off she will get owned by Joe Biden in a debate, It could be worse than Quayle-Benson, next she is an EXTREME right whinger, then there is the fact that she could be Indicted for her ties to the corrupt Ted Stevens and/ or the Illigit firing of her ex-brother-in-law (which I don't blame her for, but none the less is a possible count for indictment). She brings nothing as far as geography goes (3 Electoral Votes that were Leaning McCain anyway) and she forces him to give up his biggest argument (experience). She has been governor of the most corrupt political state in the nation for only one and a half years. and as if that was not enough there is something much bigger, about McCain. He is wiling to sacrifice his first (and hopefully last) executive decision in a hollow attempt to "Out Minority" Obama. I think it is more sick than anything we have seen through this entire campaign, and we have seen some pretty sick things.
and I am not sexist when it comes to politics (or anything else for that matter), Part of me was rooting for Obama to pick a dark horse in Barbra Boxer (but she would have problems appealing to Independents). I have a list of five people I want to see as Majority leader in 2009 two of whom are women, and if you attack Sara Palin because of her sex I will fight you with the same passion I did when I saw people play the Race card in the primaries.
so in short she was an incredibly stupid choice, but when you attack her, attack her on substance and not on sex or because of her last son.
We all saw Ted Kennedy Speak last night and there is one particular quote that I found Inspirational. it was a reference to his convention speech in 1980 when he gave the famous line "The work goes on, the cause endures, the Hope still lives, and the dream will never die" when Kennedy said this in 1980 he was giving up his life long dream of becoming president, it had become clear that it would never happen, but it was the end of something more than that. It was the end of the chances that there would ever be a full Kennedy presidency. the dream composed by Jack, Robert and Ted had perished in America.
To me it was something greater than even that. To me it is all the same dream: the same dream that inspired this country to be created in the first place, the same dream that inspired Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin to fight for equality, The same dream that inspired Wilson to stay out of WWI as long as he could because he did not want a single drop of American blood (or any blood for that matter) to be spilled, the same dream that inspired Muhandus Ghandi to fight his repression with every ounce of his strength but to never raise a fist, the same dream that 20 years later inspired Sadat to offer Peace to Israel, the same dream that Mandela went to jail for 20 years to protect, The Dream that we can better our selves and, though it may take centuries,we can reach perfection.
What did ted Kennedy say that inspired me last night? "the dream lives on". this coming from Ted Kennedy after he has been diagnosed with Brain Cancer. He has never said such words for any other candidate. he is placing amazing stock and Hope in to Barack Obama. coming from the most recent American Dreamer of our times I feel obligated to act.as Kennedy him self said: "the Work Goes on, the cause endures, the Hope still lives and the dream will never die"
To me it was something greater than even that. To me it is all the same dream: the same dream that inspired this country to be created in the first place, the same dream that inspired Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin to fight for equality, The same dream that inspired Wilson to stay out of WWI as long as he could because he did not want a single drop of American blood (or any blood for that matter) to be spilled, the same dream that inspired Muhandus Ghandi to fight his repression with every ounce of his strength but to never raise a fist, the same dream that 20 years later inspired Sadat to offer Peace to Israel, the same dream that Mandela went to jail for 20 years to protect, The Dream that we can better our selves and, though it may take centuries,we can reach perfection.
What did ted Kennedy say that inspired me last night? "the dream lives on". this coming from Ted Kennedy after he has been diagnosed with Brain Cancer. He has never said such words for any other candidate. he is placing amazing stock and Hope in to Barack Obama. coming from the most recent American Dreamer of our times I feel obligated to act.as Kennedy him self said: "the Work Goes on, the cause endures, the Hope still lives and the dream will never die"
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