October 3 at 4:42PM
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Voting is finally getting your nemesis blog-commenter by the scruff of the neck and saying fuck you really loud in their ear.
Voting is saying "f*** you cranky old man", my vote is equal to yours.
Voting is like candy, like a deliciously subtle chocolate trifle (you made), like a bread you hand make and share with your loved ones, a big ceramic bowl of mashed rutabega you add a little butter to, a big, hefty salad so abundant chunks of fresh vitamin filled leaves are falling aside as you fork it over the rim onto your plate, like rosemary and olive oil over roasted potatoes and everyone a little rosey and close over the steaming bowls, talking and pigging out just enough for tonight; like porridge, oat or rice, simmering on the stove just waiting for breakfast time when everyone comes down hungry and you ladle it out.
Voting is like passing the bread and tearing off a chunk and passing it on. Voting is like slamming the door and leaning on it hard till you get the lock in the handle turned and the deadbolt turned. Voting is like riding your bike fast over the heaves in the asphalt on the path past the cemetary where you have to keep your eyes open but you can't see much anyway because they are full of tears and the thought of four to eight more years of this and who know what more cavalier tossing of life into the abyss of destruction and hatred and fight baiting language. Voting is like saying NO.
Pass the election location map!
VOTING? AMERICANS DON'T SEE THIS ONE COMING! WHY NO ONE IS TELLING US WHAT THE PROMISED PLAN IS:
H.RES.194
Title: Apologizing for the enslavement and racial segregation of
African-Americans.
Sponsor: Rep Cohen, Steve [TN-9] (introduced 2/27/2007) Cosponsors
(120)
Latest Major Action: 7/29/2008 Passed/agreed to in House. Status: On
motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution, as amended
Agreed to by voice vote.
————————————————– ——————————
SUMMARY AS OF:
2/27/2007–Introduced.
Acknowledges the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and
inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow. Apologizes to African-Americans
on
behalf of the U.S. people for the wrongs committed against them and
their ancestors. Commits to rectifying the lingering consequences of
slavery and Jim Crow and to stopping future human rights violations.
Here's something that really touched me when I saw it. The teamsters looked after me and my children after my husband died, and worth a look see:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/04/union-president-defends-o_n_131954.html
Today is my departed husband's birthday. He passed away in 1992. He was a sanitation worker, and his spirit lives on in the working people of America.
Must not sleep. Must process what I saw. Must go on.
People, those who know much more than I about history, say this is the most important time in the history of time. Seriously. They even have a chart.
Link you will have to cut, paste & piece together:
http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=most+important+time+in&scoring=t&hl=en&um=1&sa=N&lnav=dt
…or you could just trust me. It starts at 4000 BC, goes until 2008 AD, and it shows this is actually the most important time, when they take all factors into account, since humans have started keeping track of history, and in fact, since long before then.
Must drink more coffee, must shake off the fog. You can sleep in November. Open a window, let in some cold air, wake up, get your eagle on.
Issues they did not bring up in the debate:
Abortion
Morning After Pill
Violence Against Women Act
Rick Davis
McCain's record with vets
Polar Bears
Troopergate
The incredible
economic collapse happening worldwide
Our other notes from the debate…
She was lovely and all, yeah, but I have to say, "Thanks, but no thanks for the MILF from nowhere." We are still talking Sarah Palin here who got a "D" in macroeconomics from one of the 7 colleges she attended before she managed to get a degree. God Bless her though, she's not a quiter.
The BBC reported she lost. Israeli News says Biden won. French AP says Biden won. So I'm going with, Biden won. For more details, sources and links, go to our cousin website.
Don't worry folks. We are fighting the good fight here. She might be able to bob and weave, but if you watched CSPAN afterwards, she wasn't all that sure how well she did. You could see it on her face as she chatted with relatives and stood at the feet of Joe Biden while he engaged her in talking about their sons.
Most important thing I can focus on, as my sight has gotten rather blurry with these marathon computer sessions, is that 71% of the uncommitted voters out there were reported as still uncommitted after this debate. That's the only Poll numbers I'm paying attention to, and that's the only job I'm gonna focus on. Although, you should know, that the BBC Poll shows that Democrats are registering voters at a rate of 50 to 1 compared to Republicans. 50 TO 1. Now, the question is, will these first time younger voters show up to the polls. The only polls that really matter.
To that end, we have put together a web page to do just that job
http://www.palincomparisonblog.com/OBiden.html
at If The Buck Stops Here, Shoot It.com. We have incredible, breathtaking
pictures there, a few new articles worth noting, and tons more, so please take advantage of it. It is our sincere hope that our O'Biden page will be helpful in properly introducing The Fellas to any uncommitted soul that stumbles in.
Let's get 'em registered, and on that gorgeous day in November, crisp as it will be, let's wake 'em up, pick 'em up, and wheel them in. We are gonna take our country back folks! Yes, we are!
Ok, now I'm awake.
Who do you want to run your country? You want a statesmen running things, that's who. Everytime a Republican uses the word elite like its a bad word, I cringe. Why do they do that?
Elite (also spelled Élite) is taken originally from the Latin, eligere, "to elect". The position of an elite at the top of the social strata almost invariably puts it in a position of leadership. So you want the elite to run our country. By definition!!! Who else?
There are farmers. Sure, we need farmers. We need men that understand how things grow, the best pesticides to use, how genetically enhanced food will eventually start to effect our physical evolution, how to clean water, how to irrigate, how to make dry areas green, how to effectively fertilize without having any ill affects on local water systems. How to thoughtfully bring the grow areas closer to market so that we save on energy and travel costs. We need farmers. We need smart farmers. But we don't need them to run the country.
We need dentists and doctors . We need people who have spent their years learning to keep our bodies healthy and save lives. Dentists and doctors are essential to prevent the spread of massive disease and thereby head off all sorts of economic and environmental disasters. But we don't need one to run our country.
We need teachers. Someone must gather the mistakes of the past, and teach those lessons to us as children, so we can build on that information and offer a better life to our kids. We need teachers to give us basic skills like reading and math and language in order to function effectively in society. We need teachers to introduce us to imagination, art, and music. And at the very least, we need teachers to watch the kids for a few hours so as parents, you can have some sanity. But we don't need a teacher to run the country.
We need builders. Someone has to know how to make brick and mortar, how to create a home, how to make it safe, bring in plumbing and electricity, and construct a family's home base to return to generation after generation. But we don't need a builder to run our country.
We need sheriffs. Someone has to stop those with mad cow disease from killing, raping, stealing, and swindling the rest of us. But we don't need that sheriff to run the country. We need him to run the legal enforcement system.
We need generals. We need those who clearly see chess-like decisions 30 moves ahead and can instill bravery and duty in their men. But we don't need those generals, skilled in the art of war and destruction, to run our country.
We need soldiers. In a time of crisis, we need them to save and rescue. In a time of fear and intrusion and attack, we need those who will rise and defend us. We need those who will follow orders and trust in their commanders to see the bigger picture. But we don't need them to put down their weapons and lead the country.
Leaders should be leaders. Those who listen and engage those around them. Those who amalgamate and gather information. Those who surround themselves with uninterested parties. And if there are special interest people in our leader's inner circle, let them be the type of people who work for the greater good. A leader should be someone who can compromise and negotiate. Those who understand job creation. Someone who is compassionate. We need a leader who can analyze data. Someone who makes friends and allies. A leader should be able to keep the cost of living down. Our leaders should be those who choose peace and can and will build a framework to keep it. Although I am more spiritual than religious, I feel that those who are pious and moral would make the best leaders. Answering to a higher power is always a good motivation for making the best decisions. Leaders should be hopeful and undamaged. We need someone who is as whole emotionally as possible, not someone who could easily have been deeply affected by being kept in a hole.
Leaders should be leaders. Those who have peaceful homes and respect the constitution of family and marriage. Those who are engaging and endearing. Those without bloodlust. Those who do not wish to instigate (audio of McCain on wanting to be where the guns were firing to be inserted here), We need those who deliberate. Those who know its easier to say no, than to say yes, but still chose to say yes. We need problem solvers, peacekeepers, those who can hire well (Rick Davis et al data here). Those who are well informed and instill loyalty. That is to say, if they don't know something, those closest to our leader make sure they find it out, and quickly, almost before anyone else.
Leaders should be leaders. Those who value education above all. Not someone who puts down anyone with an education. A leader of this country should remember the tired, the helpless, the poor. Our leader should understand the incredibly valuable commodity that our country has to offer, opportunity. Our leaders should hold that opportunity dear and do all they can to keep it accessible, abundant, and contemporary. Our leaders should understand that upholding the availability of opportunity is the best export we have and that channeling that opportunity into the green job market would be for the good of our planet. Our leader should be someone who can get the world to join us in our efforts and maybe even recruit those allies to help us fund worldwide green research and implementation. Our leaders should walk the walk and drive a green car to be a good example for the nation. And when our economy is in trouble, we need someone who will sound the alarm, early on (see footage of Obama) and not try to lull the masses (see video of McCain).
Leaders should be leaders. Those who are willing to admit and point out when others are right. Those who can look you in the eye. We need someone you can innately trust. Those who get involved the minute there is a problem, and start working toward a solution (Bush continued to read to the kindergartners on 9/11, McCain stayed in NY two extra days when the economy crashed and did not participate in negotiations). Our leader should know basic geography. For instance, Spain is in Europe, not in Latin America, not in Mexico, and not in our hemisphere. Iraq doesn't border Pakistan.
Leaders should be born leaders. Those who can unite minorities and raise them up to the level of everyone else. The history of the United States is fraught with mistakes, massive slavery of a people, annihilations of the native Americans, persecution of the native Hawaiians, disregard for the native American Eskimos. This legacy must no longer be passed on.
If you look at all the living ex-Presidents, you will see that the 4 or 8 years really age them. They almost seem to age quicker than the rest of us. Maybe its the stress, the lack of sleep, or the critics, but each time the office seems to take its toll. We need someone who can take the ageing element out of being President, by starting out younger.
We need heroes. We do. We treasure them. We look up to them. We respect them. But in a leader, we need someone who will use their reach to gather solutions, not reach out to their minions and encourage them to "kill the other guy." (See different messages that went out from both campaigns. Barack asking for suggestions, McCain asking his camp to continue to slander and defame the other guy.)
Can you honestly say that McCain is this leader?
ConcernedMilf who can't sleep now….
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@UsedtoBeBetterOff… : you said, "Today is my departed husband's birthday. He passed away in 1992. He was a sanitation worker, and his spirit lives on in the working people of America."
That kind of comment could get lost on this kind of forum, and I'd like to respond with condolences. I worked on a garbage truck one summer to earn my way through college, and did other factory jobs in other college summers. We forget about the dignity of working, these days.
Dave W. Your comment made me recall why whenever I tune into Glenn Beck, it's usually a long time before I do it again. I identify with Glenn because I am an alcoholic and he speaks freely about his own history in that regard, but he says things that are so ignorant, they drive me up a wall.
Like recently he made a comment on his show about "being tired of carrying people like the ones who screw up his order at McDonalds." Can you believe that? Exactly how can a comment like that be justified? Here's this poor person, trying to scrape together some kind of life with no money, no health insurance, etc. Who exactly does Mr. Beck think should be preparing and serving him fast food? I could go on, but I'm sure you can fill in the blanks on how astoundingly ignorant such blame the victim remarks really are.