I will be wearing green this Friday, June 26, to show my support for the People of Iran.
Will you join me?
I've stopped by my old haunt today in order to just ask your support in passing on this effort. Our government is conflicted about Iran, as am I quite frankly. But by wearing Green we'll let the people of Iran know that we stand with them.
Wear a ribbon, wear a scarf, wear a green ball cap. Wear green to show the freedom loving people of Iran that We The People of The United States stand in freedom loving support of their struggle against evil.
Personally, I think these insane incidents involving guns are completely avoidable.
I also know that we have a mixed crowd here and I'm pissing off some friends. Too bad because I want you to for once, just to humor old Hampster I'd like you to ask yourself this question.
Would he have been able to go from house to house killing all those people with a Knife?
Or maybe if he used a machete or a high powered hunting bow. How about that ancient weapon sometimes called the partizane? I know. If he had no access to guns he would have used his fancy bullwhip he picked up in Mexico.
By the time McLendon ended his rampage, he had fatally shot his mother and set fire to her house, and killed his grandparents, his aunt and uncle, the wife and child of a sheriff's deputy, and three other people, according to King and the coroners of the two counties where the shootings occurred.
"He was shooting at just ordinary people going about their business," said Alabama state Sen. Harri Anne Smith.
December 29, 1890 is the date when the U.S, Cavalry killed between 150 and 200 men women and children of the Lakota Tribe. Killed at close range in a frenzy of white hate.
Buffy Sainte-Marie - My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying
Listen to Buffy then tell me how downtrodden you are in comparison.
Yes, I am thankful. Not personally to any higher power but rather to America, my Friends in the loyal opposition and of course my family.
Even my dear wife who gets all giggly at the mention of Obama. It is mostly due to her hard work that we'll be able to enjoy a turkey dinner at a Vermont Inn with our son and his girl friend. Yeah, I'll get stuck with the bill but she paid for the propane to heat our house.
I remember when this country wanted it's President to be great not just good enough.
I remember when Presidential candidates like Bobby, Gene or Dennis stood for things and staked their lives on those beliefs.
Tonight, though my rose colored glasses thought McCain won hands down, the MSM are happy, even giddy that Obama did "good enough". He didn't mess up, he didn't make any big blunders. He was good enough.
John McCain led every single discussion including those Obama had first. McCain drove the discussion and as usual Obama said Me Too. Not in those words but we Clintonistas remember how bambi always agreed with Hillary. Never offered anything new. He takes the safe road of agreement and the MSM let him.
Do you remember when the press wanted our leaders to be better than good enough?
Remember Dan Rather refusing to back down in the face of the most powerful man on Earth?
What happened to the 4th estate? Where did the journalists all go?
We are seeing a great man, an incredible mind, crippled by war and cancer stand up beside a magnificent specimen of the human form and be compared to the other's oratory prowess rather than his own extraordinary life. What happened to this country?
Yes my friends we missed our frigging anniversary a week ago. My last post on cheetoland was March 14. Here's a reminder of that last post I had so much fun with.
Please come to the flip side for some more memories.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain announced today he is suspending his campaign to return to Washington and focus on the crisis facing the U.S. economy. He challenged Democratic rival Barack Obama to do the same. McCain also requested that Friday's presidential debate be postponed. developing story
By Jonathan Alter | NEWSWEEK Published Sep 20, 2008 From the magazine issue dated Sep 29, 2008
Who wants more poor children around the world to go to school? Raise your hand. Yep, everyone's hand is up. Education is the ultimate mom-and-apple-pie (or rice-and-beans) issue. Everyone's for it. But our best efforts to get more impoverished kids into schools aren't always effective. Despite some recent progress in China and India, 73 million children worldwide don't go to primary school. Three times as many never go to secondary school. Though they can sometimes be trained later in life, their shortened time in school is often a major impediment to advancement. These kids are mostly doomed to a life of poverty, and so are their families.
Truly I expect it. My wife has called me a racist twice over the past few months, many a cheeto has called me a racist and now a Yahoo study confirms that many of us who do not support The One™, are indeed "prejudiced".
In a report sure to spark a national conversation on race, an AP-Yahoo News study reported Saturday that white prejudice could be a significant enough factor to undermine Barack Obama’s bid to be the first black president of the United States.
Here we have an article from 2004 detailing Howard Dean's opposition to the Iowa caucus in 2000. You may remember him trying to back pedal his way out of it in 2004 just before he left screaming to go home to Vermont.
By JI WILGOREN AND RACHEL L. SWARNS; JODI WILGOREN REPORTED FROM BURLINGTON, VT., FOR THIS ARTICLE, AND RACHEL L. SWARNS FROM DES MOINES. Published: January 9, 2004
Four years ago, Howard Dean denounced the Iowa caucuses as ''dominated by special interests,'' saying on a Canadian television show that they ''don't represent the centrist tendencies of the American people, they represent the extremes.''
Videotapes of the show were broadcast on the NBC Nightly News on Thursday, less than two weeks before the Jan. 19 caucuses, the first contest of the Democratic nominating race. The tapes show Dr. Dean arguing that the lengthy caucus process in which neighbors gather to debate their preferences is inconvenient for ordinary people.
''Say I'm a guy who's got to work for a living, and I've got kids,'' he said on the show on Jan. 15, 2000. ''On a Saturday, is it easy for me to go cast a ballot and spend 15 minutes doing it, or do I have to sit in a caucus for eight hours?''
A moment later, he added, ''I can't stand there and listen to everyone else's opinion for eight hours about how to fix the world.'''
The excerpts shown on NBC also show Dr. Dean saying in December, 2000, ''George Bush is, I believe, in his soul a moderate,'' and adding about those thinking that Mr. Bush's presidency would be a one-term one, ''that is going to be a mistake.''
While Dr. Dean now describes Mr. Bush as ''the most radical right-wing president in my lifetime,'' he also frequently acknowledges that, until after Mr. Bush was elected, he believed his promise of moderation.
The broadcasting of the tape comes as Dr. Dean is in a fierce fight in Iowa with Representative Richard A. Gephardt, and his comments were a sharp contrast to those he makes daily on the campaign trail in both Iowa and New Hampshire. Now Dr. Dean regularly tells audiences that the Iowa caucuses represent the essence of American democracy.
''Without Iowa and New Hampshire, people like me would never have a chance,'' he said on Nov. 13 upon signing the papers to qualify for the New Hampshire primary. ''It's the only way that candidates with no money but with strong backing, who are willing to put backbone and spine back in the Democratic Party, have any chance at all.''
From Jonathan Martin at Politico comes this little tidbit about bambi once again being present or not. Being for it before he was not against it. Wait. I'm confused.
Obama outraged at being accused of not supporting something he doesn't support
Obama, on the trail in New Mexico, had this to say of McCain: "And today he accused me of not supporting what the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Bank did with AIG despite no evidence whatsoever that that’s what I had said."
To recap, when I wrote earlier today that Obama supported the bailout, I quickly was instructed by his staff that this was not the case. He just didn't oppose it, I was told.
Now he's so adamant about not opposing the Fed's move that he's complaining about McCain's portrayal.
Where, I wonder, is the line between not opposing and, ya know, supporting.
Ok, you don't have to watch the whole thing. I think one line at the beginning sums it up. As the One™ acknowledges those present he says "other entertainers" in way that made me think he meant himself.
This is Barack off the cuff and serious. Seriously Jimmy Carter sounding and approaching Mike Dukakis.
He made his remarks from a stage in the corner, bathed in lights, holding a microphone in his hand as he looked out into the crowd, according to Jeff Zeleny's pool report. He said the campaign provided a sobering look at the country’s economic condition.
“It's reminded people that this is not a game. This is not a reality show, no offense to any of you,” Mr. Obama said to laughter. “This is not a sitcom.”
Among the celebrities who could be seen by your pool, which was stationed at the rear of the courtyard: Will Farrell, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Lee Curtis and Jodi Foster. And Dennis Haysbert, who played the president on the TV series “24.”
There were at least 300 people, seated at 30 tables resting on cobblestone. White and red wine glasses were on the tables. Waiters, dressed in black, listened to the speech.
Then why Senator, why did you, the American Idol Candidate, steal the primary?
The candidate who's great claim to fame is a speech we all saw and another speech that was a re-enactment?
For you Californians. Rain is water that gets squeezed out of the clouds and falls to Earth as droplets. Clouds are white puffballs in the sky. You can think of them as cotton balls in heaven.
But after seeing Texas on the tube, I don't mind our steady rain. In fact I'll take Northern New England weather over just about anywhere. Mud season sucks and summer is a weekend in July but what we don't have are extremes of weather. South coastal NE gets hurricanes, we get the rain and some wind. This year NH had the first bad tornado in maybe 100 years and one person died.
Y'all think about our horrible northeasters with 30 inches of snow but those are fun times. Nobody's house crashes down. We all have blizzard parties, build igloos and make snow angels. Our one extreme, about every 20 years, is an ice storm. Damned pretty sight, but we lose power in those. The real purpose is to clear dead trees in the forest.
The rain is supposed to clear out before the Ben and Jerry, Stonyfield Obama Love-in so I may go after all. It's a fried turkey fest and neighbors plus Ben and Jerry telling us "undeclared" why Obama is for us. It's less than 3 miles from home at 4PM and I'm going for the turkey and the three rock bands. Come to think of it, turkey makes sense.
Does anyone have an elixir I can take first? Never know what could be spiked.
I realized three things tonight. For one, if you are a
McCain/Palin/Bush voter, you and I do not have a difference of opinion.
We have a difference in brain power. Two, she really is as ignorant as
I feared. And, three, she really is kinda hot. Basically, I want to
have sex with her on my Barack Obama sheets while my wife reads aloud
from the Constitution. (My wife is cool with this if I promise to
"first wipe off Palin's tranny makeup." I married well.)
Now, I want to be clear and speak directly to those of you who LOVED
that Palin interview. You're an idiot. I mean that. This is not one of
those cases where we're going to agree to disagree. This isn't one of
those situations where we debate it passionately and then walk away
thinking that the other guy is wrong but argued well. I'm not going to
think of you as a thoughtful but misguided person with different ideas
who still really cares about the country and the world. No, sorry, not
this time. This time, if you watched those interview excerpts and
weren't scared out of your freakin' mind, then you're mentally ill,
mentally disabled, or mentally disturbed. What you are NOT is
responsible, informed, curious, thoughtful, mature, educated,
empathetic, or remotely serious. I mean it.
This was a close vote but Gary really did an awesome job of showing his true Misogynistic inner child. I applaud you Gary Kamiya and we will be sending you a finely detailed certificate of achievement to put in a place of honor on your office wall. Below the fold is the winning entry for the enlightenment of our readers.
"Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in. When you stumble, keep faith. When you?re knocked down, get right back up. And NEVER listen to anyone who says you can't or shouldn't go on."
Hillary Clinton - June 7, 2008
Yes, I am thankful. Not personally to any higher power but rather to America, my Friends in the loyal opposition and of course my family.
This was a close vote but Gary really did an awesome job of showing his true Misogynistic inner child. I applaud you Gary Kamiya and we will be sending you a finely detailed certificate of achievement to put in a place of honor on your office wall. Below the fold is the winning entry for the enlightenment of our readers.
