Republicans.
The problem with Sanford is NOT that he had an affair. Its YOU people that freak out about that, not the Democrats, unless its one of your own, of course. And then anything a Republican does is just fine by your book so long as they claim it was done with your gods blessing.
No, the problem with Sanford is that he went AWOL on his destitute states funds while claiming moral Christian superiority to everyone else.
I'm am so so tired of Republican corruption.
Its time you people realized that every time a Republican is in office, things get worse. Every time a Democrat is in office, things get better.
Its time to stop voting based on ideals, and start voting based on need. And Republicans, we don't need you anymore. You are a curse upon this country. Your mindset is a curse upon this world.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
Unbelievable
How can Obama address any of real concerns when Congress will effectively hamstring anything the President tries to pass because they are more concerned with money than anything else?
I have never seen a more harshly treated President. Ever. And I have been alive to see Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr, Clinton, The Shrub, and now Obama.
Yes, Bush got called traitor and slimeball and all the rest. In his SECOND TERM. And he's proven he was exactly that. Obama has been in five months and all we've seen is whining from everyone on all sides who aren't happy with anything.
Its a no-win situtation and Obama is in the middle of a war zone. I’m sure he’d love to be harsher on climate change, but this country is so resistant to anything resembling real useful change that he has NO CHOICE but to bend further than he’d like.
The way the people in this country behave is completely and utterly incomprehensible. They want change, but they don’t want to pay for any of it. They know that the country is failing as it is, but they’re so scared of the possible future that they aren’t willing to consider anything else. And that is AFTER hiring a President that stands on change.
He’s trying. But if he goes very far left at all, he can’t get anything done and Congress will put a stop to it because the people of the country won’t actually fight for anything Obama stands for.
And THEN they blame him for it when its THEM thats stopping HIM from accomplishing whats needed. Unbelievable.
I have never seen a more harshly treated President. Ever. And I have been alive to see Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr, Clinton, The Shrub, and now Obama.
Yes, Bush got called traitor and slimeball and all the rest. In his SECOND TERM. And he's proven he was exactly that. Obama has been in five months and all we've seen is whining from everyone on all sides who aren't happy with anything.
Its a no-win situtation and Obama is in the middle of a war zone. I’m sure he’d love to be harsher on climate change, but this country is so resistant to anything resembling real useful change that he has NO CHOICE but to bend further than he’d like.
The way the people in this country behave is completely and utterly incomprehensible. They want change, but they don’t want to pay for any of it. They know that the country is failing as it is, but they’re so scared of the possible future that they aren’t willing to consider anything else. And that is AFTER hiring a President that stands on change.
He’s trying. But if he goes very far left at all, he can’t get anything done and Congress will put a stop to it because the people of the country won’t actually fight for anything Obama stands for.
And THEN they blame him for it when its THEM thats stopping HIM from accomplishing whats needed. Unbelievable.
Michael may you rest in the peace you never found in life.
I remember the first time I saw him. It was shortly before the release of his Thriller album in 1982, I was only 5 years old, and our local newspaper had an article about him that included a color picture of him in a yellow and white outfit (I later would have that picture as a glossy poster on the wall of my childhood room for nearly 10 years). I asked my mom who he was because he had my immediate trust and fascination.That fascination never went away and I guess you could say it evolved to nearly a full blown obsession. Until I was an adult, at least.
Throughout my childhood, every video, every news conference, every song he ever did was recorded, or bought, and watched over and over again. I remember being so incredibly mad at my mother because she wouldn't let me stay up after 8 pm so I could watch his Motown 25 performance. To this day, I know every word and every movement of every song he ever recorded. Except for the last album which I never bought because it didn't really seem to offer anything new.
I owned everything from magnets for the fridge to a Barbie Doll of him that served as our Ken Doll, my walls were covered in posters of him and I wore his perfume (which is still a beautiful scent, even if the jar long ago dried up).
I even belonged to his fan club.
I grew out of it, of course, when real boys started to catch my eye. And I eventually began to take down his posters, put away his CD's, and stopped taping everything he did.
In recent years, I even threw most of it out, though I'm kind of regretting that action since he's now gone. I wish I had kept the newspaper clippings I had and a few of the other items I had collected over the years. All I have left now are the CD's, his Thriller vinyl (which my husband bought for me as a gift last month), and the Doll.
Unfortunately, even I had to admit that he seemed to have lost his mind in recent years. He just went really weird, even for a Hollywood star and we all know most of them are nuts.
But no matter how messed up his life was, you had to admit, he was a truly brilliant and magnetic performer, even if he was at his best between Off The Wall and Bad.
Then came the announcement that he was gone, and I suddenly found myself crying. Something that I honestly didn't expect since I felt I had grown out of it. Michael was such a large part of my childhood that was suddenly ripped away at a still young age. I think its not so much Michael himself, but the fact that he had such a large presence in my childhood, and that now that part of my life is truly gone with only the vague memories he left behind.
You had a truly great impact on this world for very many people, Michael. I will miss you.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Senator Dipstick (also called McCain) and his fellow stooges want us to go to war.
The Republicans freak out about how they're morally superior to everyone all the time, and how they have Christian values, and then about how much money is being spent on actually HELPING the American people to survive, while the country is nearly bankrupt from their spending, and now they want us to go to war against another country - AGAIN?
What the hell is wrong with you people?
NO NO NO NO more war. Stop the warmongering.
What the hell is wrong with you people?
NO NO NO NO more war. Stop the warmongering.
Sanford is a PIG!
His state is destitute with one of the highest unemployment rates in the country, he refuses stimulus money and then goes on a state funded trip to Argentina so he can sleep with his mistress.
Disgusting, despicable. The Republicans need to stop throwing stones at glass houses and they need to get off their bloody high horses. Their crooked thievery never stops.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/24/south.carolina.sanford.argentina/index.html
Disgusting, despicable. The Republicans need to stop throwing stones at glass houses and they need to get off their bloody high horses. Their crooked thievery never stops.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/24/south.carolina.sanford.argentina/index.html
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Riots in Iran heading toward Civil War?
In April 1989, something completely unexpected happened. The Tiananmen Square protests were sparked by the death of a pro-freedom man by the name of Hu Yaobang. The people simply wanted a chance to mourn his passing. For seven weeks, the Chinese government tried to put down the protests.
I never thought I'd see it again.
But now, for the last four days, the danger of communism has reared its ugly face yet again. But this time it was caused by what is likely an illegal win by the Iranian leader Ahmadinejad in the Iran election.
The difference is that the violence from the government of Iran started within hours of the declaration of the win whereas, in China, it took several days before people were being shot in the street. And then there was the fact that the Chinese government didn't try to block all communication from the country, as the Iranians are doing.
Ladies and gentlemen, I think we are watching a Civil War in the making.
Frightening.
There are those in the United States who seem to think that we should join the protesters fight.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, Obama is doing the right thing whether you want to think so or not.
The United States has been at war for nearly a decade, spending over $10 billion a month in recent years. This has resulted in exhausted troops, many of whom are committing suicide rather than be forced to endure another day of it, and a nearly bankrupted nation accompanied by the worst depression since the Dirty 30's.
The United States cannot fight this war for the Iranians. Let the Iranians fight for their own country. All we can do is watch from the sidelines, just as has been done so often throughout history in other countries. This is Irans problem, not ours.
History in the making. Never forget.
I never thought I'd see it again.
But now, for the last four days, the danger of communism has reared its ugly face yet again. But this time it was caused by what is likely an illegal win by the Iranian leader Ahmadinejad in the Iran election.
The difference is that the violence from the government of Iran started within hours of the declaration of the win whereas, in China, it took several days before people were being shot in the street. And then there was the fact that the Chinese government didn't try to block all communication from the country, as the Iranians are doing.
Ladies and gentlemen, I think we are watching a Civil War in the making.
Frightening.
There are those in the United States who seem to think that we should join the protesters fight.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, Obama is doing the right thing whether you want to think so or not.
The United States has been at war for nearly a decade, spending over $10 billion a month in recent years. This has resulted in exhausted troops, many of whom are committing suicide rather than be forced to endure another day of it, and a nearly bankrupted nation accompanied by the worst depression since the Dirty 30's.
The United States cannot fight this war for the Iranians. Let the Iranians fight for their own country. All we can do is watch from the sidelines, just as has been done so often throughout history in other countries. This is Irans problem, not ours.
History in the making. Never forget.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness
For those that don't know, the United States Declaration of Independence states "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. "
Truer, more profound, and emotional words have never been spoken. They are a great source of pride for American citizens. The problem is that they have forgotten their meaning and seem to completely ignore the "life" part while glorifying the "liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" part.
I wish I could say what happened to the mindset that the founders had supported because the American people have forgotten it.
Nowhere is it more evident than it is in their attitude about health care. In order to live, one must have their health cared for. Yet the American people, in their greed and glorification of "liberty and happiness" have totally ignored it.
Health, and life, are not optional. It isn't like buying a new car, a television, or a house. It isn't "just an article" to have fun with. Its inherent to humanity, much the same as gender, and skin color.
While a person should be paid for their work, they should not be able to determine whether a person lives or dies just because they have a pre-existing condition like heart problems. They should not be able to deny them the right to life which is what they are doing when they refuse coverage for insurance when health care could be in the many thousands of dollars.
Since Americans seem to be litteralists, its time to add the right to health into the Constitution. For the good of the American people. Its time to live up to the promise that was made, instead of ignore one part to glorify the rest.
Truer, more profound, and emotional words have never been spoken. They are a great source of pride for American citizens. The problem is that they have forgotten their meaning and seem to completely ignore the "life" part while glorifying the "liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" part.
I wish I could say what happened to the mindset that the founders had supported because the American people have forgotten it.
Nowhere is it more evident than it is in their attitude about health care. In order to live, one must have their health cared for. Yet the American people, in their greed and glorification of "liberty and happiness" have totally ignored it.
Health, and life, are not optional. It isn't like buying a new car, a television, or a house. It isn't "just an article" to have fun with. Its inherent to humanity, much the same as gender, and skin color.
While a person should be paid for their work, they should not be able to determine whether a person lives or dies just because they have a pre-existing condition like heart problems. They should not be able to deny them the right to life which is what they are doing when they refuse coverage for insurance when health care could be in the many thousands of dollars.
Since Americans seem to be litteralists, its time to add the right to health into the Constitution. For the good of the American people. Its time to live up to the promise that was made, instead of ignore one part to glorify the rest.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Obama urges pay as you go spending and the Republicans still don't get it.
Republicans seem to be of the opinion that if you ignore something, or you give the rich breaks, it will get you out of any jam so long as you keep everything else exactly the same as you did before. They don't learn.
Apparently they are of the opinion that, if you ignore the water break in the sewer or give the richest people in the penthouse a break in the rent while everyone elses still stays the same and you don't actually fix the problem, it will just go away. Sorry it doesn't work that way. In order to fix the problem, you have to fix the leak in the water main first, and THEN give everyone a break in their rent for whatever damage the water main did to their homes.
Thats life.
Obama was trying to fix the leak, you children. NOW is the time for being more careful with the spending because the leak is slowly pittering down to a trickle.
But the Republicans don't want to learn that, because then they couldn't bash Obama.
So tired of Republicans.
Apparently they are of the opinion that, if you ignore the water break in the sewer or give the richest people in the penthouse a break in the rent while everyone elses still stays the same and you don't actually fix the problem, it will just go away. Sorry it doesn't work that way. In order to fix the problem, you have to fix the leak in the water main first, and THEN give everyone a break in their rent for whatever damage the water main did to their homes.
Thats life.
Obama was trying to fix the leak, you children. NOW is the time for being more careful with the spending because the leak is slowly pittering down to a trickle.
But the Republicans don't want to learn that, because then they couldn't bash Obama.
So tired of Republicans.
Friday, June 5, 2009
Obama and Cairo
This man truly has a way with words that somehow just makes you feel more hopeful and optimistic. Which is exactly what we need right now.
It was a very good speech acknowledging both sides of the issue, and pledging to work together to solve problem, rather than vowing to fight.
It was a good first step and its about time someone was willing to try diplomacy instead of war.
Obama's way is the future but I think he is ahead of his time. Humanity must embrace it if we wish to survive. Its a global world and we can't continue to think of everything as "regional".
Oddly enough, it almost feels like Star Trek. Remember, in that tv show, the world has come together to solve its problems and poverty, war, and disease have almost been eliminated.
Thats Obama's promise. If people are only willing to listen. Yes we can do it. But we have to stop fighting among ourselves, and work together to solve our differences. To do anything less is childish.
Unfortunately, there will always be a few charismatic individuals who would rather fight with each other to give themselves power, and there will always be sheep who are willing to follow.
It was a very good speech acknowledging both sides of the issue, and pledging to work together to solve problem, rather than vowing to fight.
It was a good first step and its about time someone was willing to try diplomacy instead of war.
Obama's way is the future but I think he is ahead of his time. Humanity must embrace it if we wish to survive. Its a global world and we can't continue to think of everything as "regional".
Oddly enough, it almost feels like Star Trek. Remember, in that tv show, the world has come together to solve its problems and poverty, war, and disease have almost been eliminated.
Thats Obama's promise. If people are only willing to listen. Yes we can do it. But we have to stop fighting among ourselves, and work together to solve our differences. To do anything less is childish.
Unfortunately, there will always be a few charismatic individuals who would rather fight with each other to give themselves power, and there will always be sheep who are willing to follow.
This is better but not great.
CNN is reporting that only roughly 300,000 jobs were lost in May even though the unemployment rate is the highest in 26 years at 94%.
While not great, this is much better than the over 500,000 jobs that were lost in April.
More signs that the economy is finally bottoming out.
Like it or not, what Obama has done is working.
http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/05/news/economy/jobs_may/index.htm?cnn=yes
Truly amazing. Things are getting better and the childish Republican leaders are STILL bitching because things didn't turn around overnight and because job losses haven't stopped completely.
What is wrong with you that you just have to be horrifically negative all the time?
While not great, this is much better than the over 500,000 jobs that were lost in April.
More signs that the economy is finally bottoming out.
Like it or not, what Obama has done is working.
http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/05/news/economy/jobs_may/index.htm?cnn=yes
Truly amazing. Things are getting better and the childish Republican leaders are STILL bitching because things didn't turn around overnight and because job losses haven't stopped completely.
What is wrong with you that you just have to be horrifically negative all the time?
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Maybe Republicans are capable of learning after all.
But only after they've been thoroughly spanked by their bosses (aka the American public) for behaving badly.
Gingrich is now sorry that he called Sotomayer racist. Sotomayer is Obama's pick for the Supreme Court.
Maybe the children are learning that they need to watch their mouths when they open them.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/03/gingrich-i-shouldnt-have-called-sotomayor-racist/#comment-2743110
Gingrich is now sorry that he called Sotomayer racist. Sotomayer is Obama's pick for the Supreme Court.
Maybe the children are learning that they need to watch their mouths when they open them.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/03/gingrich-i-shouldnt-have-called-sotomayor-racist/#comment-2743110
Monday, June 1, 2009
On the topic of abortion.
I have tried to stay away from the topic of abortion until now. Few things have divided people the way the topic of abortion has in recent years. Admittedly, the conflict generally comes as a fight between religious views and non-religious views.
What happened today has managed to push to the forefront the argument between the two mindsets once again. An abortion doctor was murdered in church. He performed late term abortions and had received many death threats through the years.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/01/kansas.doctor.killed.charges/index.html
As you can imagine, being that I have made it very obvious that I'm a Liberal, I support abortion.
Before anyone flips out, let me explain please.
I support abortion only during the first trimester or in cases of severe deformity or if the mothers life is dependant upon it. I fully believe that a fetus is not a child until it can survive without being attached to the woman's body.
For those bible thumpers out there, Leviticus 17:11 states that Life is in the Blood. According to biology, a fetus does not have a functioning circulatory system until the second trimester.
For the rest of us, the already living must take precedence over the potential life. We willingly kill parasites like tape worms because we consider ourselves of more importance than the parasite. It is no different except that the fetus has human DNA.
Most people who have abortions don't do so "just because they don't want it". And its never an easy thing, no matter who the person is. For most women, it scars them for life for ever having had to make the choice in the first place.
Killing him was just as wrong as killing anyone else. And oddly enough, most pro-lifers only seem to be pro-life when it comes to a fetus but are gung-ho about sending grown men and women to die in foreign wars trying to push their lifestyle on others.
But I can hear the cries now. The screams of how unfair I'm being to the fetus and that the fetus would choose life. How can you be sure of that, exactly? You can't and thats the problem.
But listen, I implore you.
I know that, for me, I'd rather die than live mentally or physically retarded for the rest of my life.
On CNN today there was another article posted in the blog section of Anderson Cooper 360 that you should really read about a woman who had a late term abortion 13 years ago and why she did it. I decided to look up the word "Anencephaly" that she talked about and I think I've come away scarred. This is going to give me nightmares for days. Its like some horrifying movie and something more terrifying has the feeling of being dreamed up by Hollywood in an effort to sell their product.
http://iowaindependent.com/2565/open-letter-to-obama-a-personal-perspective-on-late-term-abortion
And yet its real. Horrifyingly real. The stuff of terrifying dreams the likes of which you cannot even imagine.
This is the link...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anencephaly
And you people would rather that a person give birth to this than to abort it? Whats wrong with you that you would ever ever do such a thing?
This is why I support abortion. I don't think it should be used as birth control, but I also don't think that anyone should ever be forced to give birth to this.
Read it. I guarantee it will change your life forever.
I think I'm going to be sick.
What happened today has managed to push to the forefront the argument between the two mindsets once again. An abortion doctor was murdered in church. He performed late term abortions and had received many death threats through the years.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/01/kansas.doctor.killed.charges/index.html
As you can imagine, being that I have made it very obvious that I'm a Liberal, I support abortion.
Before anyone flips out, let me explain please.
I support abortion only during the first trimester or in cases of severe deformity or if the mothers life is dependant upon it. I fully believe that a fetus is not a child until it can survive without being attached to the woman's body.
For those bible thumpers out there, Leviticus 17:11 states that Life is in the Blood. According to biology, a fetus does not have a functioning circulatory system until the second trimester.
For the rest of us, the already living must take precedence over the potential life. We willingly kill parasites like tape worms because we consider ourselves of more importance than the parasite. It is no different except that the fetus has human DNA.
Most people who have abortions don't do so "just because they don't want it". And its never an easy thing, no matter who the person is. For most women, it scars them for life for ever having had to make the choice in the first place.
Killing him was just as wrong as killing anyone else. And oddly enough, most pro-lifers only seem to be pro-life when it comes to a fetus but are gung-ho about sending grown men and women to die in foreign wars trying to push their lifestyle on others.
But I can hear the cries now. The screams of how unfair I'm being to the fetus and that the fetus would choose life. How can you be sure of that, exactly? You can't and thats the problem.
But listen, I implore you.
I know that, for me, I'd rather die than live mentally or physically retarded for the rest of my life.
On CNN today there was another article posted in the blog section of Anderson Cooper 360 that you should really read about a woman who had a late term abortion 13 years ago and why she did it. I decided to look up the word "Anencephaly" that she talked about and I think I've come away scarred. This is going to give me nightmares for days. Its like some horrifying movie and something more terrifying has the feeling of being dreamed up by Hollywood in an effort to sell their product.
http://iowaindependent.com/2565/open-letter-to-obama-a-personal-perspective-on-late-term-abortion
And yet its real. Horrifyingly real. The stuff of terrifying dreams the likes of which you cannot even imagine.
This is the link...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anencephaly
And you people would rather that a person give birth to this than to abort it? Whats wrong with you that you would ever ever do such a thing?
This is why I support abortion. I don't think it should be used as birth control, but I also don't think that anyone should ever be forced to give birth to this.
Read it. I guarantee it will change your life forever.
I think I'm going to be sick.
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