Date: 2009-02-05 13:12 Subject: Scalping a ticket for Ernie's first movie (yes, I know. I have no shame!) Security: Public

Does anyone have an extra ticket for the 6:45 showing of Fanboys that I could buy?  I bought two, but it turns out I need a third and it is sold out now.

Date: 2008-09-27 15:26 Subject: "Bad News": Damn the Obama campaign knows how to ruin your day! Security: Public

You will decide what happens on November 4th over the next few days. Voter registration deadlines are looming in most states, and the people you encourage to register could decide this election.

Take a moment to think about what bad news could look like:



Let's make sure Barack Obama wins on November 4th.

Get registered to vote and make sure your friends are registered:

http://www. voteforchange. com

Date: 2008-09-27 14:54 Subject: I absolutely agree with Gen's accessment of the debate Security: Public

The smartest political mind that I know, genvc , wrote this:

http://genvc.livejournal.com/193137.html

I could not agree more!  The debate performance that we saw from Obama was not intended for the liberal faithful.  Like many of you, I was screaming at my TV whenever it looked like Barack missed an opportunity to step on McCain's throat (and there were many of them!)  While I agree with Gen's assertion that the strategy of the Obama camp was to play to the voters in the center (to whom I hope McCain's grumpy grandpa routine was off putting,) I would like to add one more intended audience. 

Barack's performance was, at least in part, to create this:

 

McCain only leads Barack on who won the debate by 2 points in a Fox News poll?!!?!?

Obama had a checklist on the podium that looked like this:

[Check] Don't have five o'clock shadow
[Check] Don't look at watch
[Check] Don't compare yourself to Kennendy (oppontent might have met him)
[Check] Don't scare the white people!!!


The thing that most people forget is that Obama is black!  Now that is probably a good sign as to the color blindness of liberals, but the country as a whole hasn't gotten there, yet! I would love to see Obama go all Angela Davis Dolomie Shaftastic on McCain, but passion is often mistaken for anger and for black people it is more often than not.

On the first day of black man finishing school, they teach you the most important lesson, "Don't scare da' white folk!" As ridiculous as it is that a little skinny guy from Hawaii with a white mom and big ears could be categorized as just another angry black militian (by this measure, I'm screwed,) there are plenty of people who see him this way.  Obama doesn't need to court these people's vote because let's be honest, he isn't gonna get them! He just needs to make sure he doesn't scare them to the polls for McCain.

My advice to Obama would be this:

"Avoid tripping the American 'They're coming for our daughters' Mandingo trigger and you have a pretty good chance of getting a Presidential Library on the south side of Chicago someday!

Date: 2008-09-23 11:50 Subject: OH HELL NO HE DIDN'T!!! Security: Public

Cavuto suggests Congress should have warned that "[l]oaning to minorities and risky folks is a disaster"

Summary: On September 18, Fox News' Neil Cavuto conflated giving home mortgages to minorities with risky lending practices, suggesting that there should have been "a clarion call that said, 'Fannie and Freddie are a disaster. Loaning to minorities and risky folks is a disaster.' "

Date: 2008-09-14 23:54 Subject: Palinism for the day... Security: Public

When Charlie Gibson asked Gov. Palin if she believe that Global Warming is a result of man's actions, she said this:

"I don't know if it [Global Warming] is caused by man or whether it is the natural climate cycle of our planet, but either way, John McCain and I are committed to do something about it!"


HUH?

Ok, I know I am succumbing to that pesky habit that I have of....I don't know...thinking, but if you believe that it is a natural part of the planetary climate cycle, what do you plan to "do about it"?


I mean if this woman can change the orbital path of the planet, she had my vote!

If she can get the flying spaghetti monster to make the polar caps colder and hold back the water from the increased hurricane activity, then she has my vote (as well as locked up the electoral college votes of all the gulf coast states and lower eastern seaboard!)

If her and McCain have a Doctor Evil device that they can turn off and make the planet not so hot, then they have my vote!

Date: 2008-09-10 18:24 Subject: I came up with a new Slam term!!! Security: Public

You know when a poet changes a couple words or phrases in an old poem to update it and then reads it again?  We should say:
 
"You can put lipstick on an old poem, but it is still an old poem!"


Uh huh, uh huh, sounds stupid now, but you'll be using it!

Date: 2008-09-09 02:20 Subject: I will forgo any comment as to avoid any charges of sexism, but this is disappointing... Security: Public

The Washington Post/ABC NEWS Poll

August 19 - 22

WHITE WOMEN VOTERS

OBAMA    50%

MCCAIN  42%



The Washington Post/ABC NEWS Poll

September 5 - 7

WHITE WOMEN VOTERS 

McCAIN/PALIN    53%

OBAMA/BIDEN   41%

Date: 2008-09-08 12:09 Subject: Palin Realization Security: Public

It just occurred to me that the $27 million in congressional ear marks that the then mayor Pailin hired a lawyer to secure for Wasilla would work out  to almost $4000 per person.

4K PER PERSON?!?!??!

Are we buying the citizens of Wasilla cars?


IF (and I do stress the "if") the McCain campaign ever let's her answer questions from the press, I hope the first question that a reporter asks her is WTF!?!?!?

Date: 2008-09-05 12:18 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

One thing I was looking forward to last night was Cindy McCain's speech.  The spouse typically talks about their relationship with the candidate and how they met and so on.  It is always a valuable and different insight into the candidate.  Michelle did this with Barack.  I think we all know that Barack kept asking her out and she kept turning him down, blah, blah, blah.

But, I was really interested in how Cindy would explain how she met John.  Well, she didn't talk about it, but they did mention it in the introduction video about her.  They talked about how they met at a USO dance in Hawaii in 1979.  He was 41, but told her he was 37.  She was 24, but told him he was 37 (wow, lying to get to a ten year age difference...I like my chance of bride hunting on Sixth Street this weekend!)  Anyway, the video mentioned that it was love at first sight when this handsome Navy captain walked over to meet her.  Despite the cradle robbing aspect of it, it sounds sweet and sorta Officer and a Gentlemen like (if Deborah Winger had not been a poor factory work and instead a rich beer heiress and Richard Gere had been, well, in his forties!)

Date: 2008-09-03 02:38 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

No politician disgusts me more than Joe Lieberman.

Date: 2008-09-02 19:31 Subject: Eventually, they are going to have to admit that they didn't vet this woman! Security: Public

Palin was member of party calling for vote on Alaskan secession from US

Revelations about McCain's running mate for vice-president raise questions about his selection

US Republican presidential candidate John McCain with his vice-presidential running mate, Alaska governor Sarah Palin, in Ohio. Photograph: Matt Sullivan/Reuters

New revelations about the Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin — including her membership of a party that wants Alaskans to vote on becoming a separate country — are raising questions about how thoroughly John McCain's campaign vetted her background before adding her to the ticket.

Palin was a member of the Alaskan Independence party (AIP) before becoming an elected Republican official, according to party members, and recorded a video message for the AIP convention this year. The AIP's chief goal is securing Alaska a vote on seceding from the US, a goal that party leaders believe the state was denied before it became part of the US almost 50 years ago.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/02/uselections2008.republicans20085

Other sources:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/1/4231/18477/878/581881

http://www.drudge.com/news/111799/palin-belonged-alaskan-secession-group

http://www.politicalbase.com/forums/topic/leaders-of-palin-s-secession-party-reject-america/9142/

Date: 2008-09-01 21:39 Subject: Too good not to repost... Security: Public

Thanksfengi !

Date: 2008-09-01 13:26 Subject: GOP Out of wedlock babies: I would like to note that we never had this problem with Mary Cheney... Security: Public

GOP VP candidate Palin's daughter is pregnant

17-year-old Bristol to keep the child and marry the father

Palin daughter, 17, pregnant Sept. 1: The 17-year-old daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is pregnant, according to a statement released by John McCain's campain.

ST. PAUL - The 17-year-old daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is pregnant, Palin said Monday in an announcement intended to knock down rumors by liberal bloggers that Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for her child.

Bristol Palin, one of Alaska Gov. Palin's five children with her husband, Todd, is about five months pregnant and is going to keep the child and marry the father, the Palins said in a statement released by the campaign of Republican presidential candidate John McCain.

Bristol Palin made the decision on her own to keep the baby, McCain aides said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26496189/


Wait, actually we did have this problem with Mary Cheney...

Dick Cheney's pregnant out of wedlock lesbian daughter is having a boy

Dick Cheney's pregnant out of wedlock lesbian daughter is having a boy ... It'll be a boy for Mary Cheney! Her dad revealed the gender of his future ...

http://www.americablog.com/2007/04/dick-cheneys-pregnant-out-of-wedlock.html 



NOTE:  The real problem here is conservatives will not see the first unwanted pregnancy by the teenage girl as a problem, but they will see a problem with the second intentional pregnancy of a adult lesbian woman.  This is because having 'Juno' in the VEEPS residence is a testiment to "Family Values" and "The Culture of Life,"  but adult gays, who want to be parents, should be burned at the stake!  I'm sure it's in Leviticus somewhere (along with all kinds of reasons that I can enjoy a pork chop!)

Please don't vote for these people!

Date: 2008-08-31 14:47 Subject: To all of you who thought you had a tought relationship with your in-laws Security: Public

Palin's mother-in-law, Faye Palin, told a New York Daily News reporter that she didn't agree with Sarah on everything and hadn't yet decided how she would vote. She added: "I'm not sure what she brings to the ticket other than she's a woman and a conservative. Well, she's a better speaker than McCain," Faye Palin said with a laugh.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003844490


Ok, I know I am obsessing on this and I promise I will drop this soon, but things like this keep coming up and my stomach turns even more:

The volatile issue of teaching creation science in public schools popped up in the Alaska governor's race this week when Republican Sarah Palin said she thinks creationism should be taught alongside evolution in the state's public classrooms.

http://dwb.adn.com/news/politics/elections/story/8347904p-8243554c.html

Date: 2008-08-31 07:43 Subject: I hope the universe doesn't feel like it owes her one Security: Public

Ok, I am not a superstitious man, but...

Sarah Palin came in second in the Miss Alaska competition to the state's first black Miss Alaska.


And I know you're thinking the same thing I was when I first heard this...


....there are black people in Alaska?!?!?!?



Only black kid in Juneau, Alaska my ass, Mike Whalen!  I feel so emotional used.  Do you actually research this shit or do you just the write poems?  I bet Eugene Garkosky wasn't even on the bowling team.  If Eugene really was his name!

Date: 2008-08-29 12:15 Subject: John McCain to the Women of America: "I think you're stupid...now go vote for me!" Security: Public

I have been thinking this since reading about McCain's VP, but I didn't want to say anything because I didn't want to take the chance of offending any of the women I know and love (and in some cases, fear.)

BUT, then I got a call from my mother, who began the conversation with, "Does he think we're stupid?" She then went on to cap it off with this statement that should tell my mother's level of interest in politics, "He interrupted my soaps [operas] to tell me that he picked a lady, who two years ago was the mayor of a small town in Alaska?"

I love my mom!

Date: 2008-08-27 15:33 Subject: Open letter to Hillary supporters still not ready to support the Democratic ticket Security: Public

Dear Hillary Supporter,

Let's be honest, if your candidate had won, I'd be pissed! I would be digging my heels in and refusing to vote for her (as a matter of fact, I asserted this hypothetical position for a brief moment in the Spring.) I would be railing about how much I don't like your candidate because to be honest, as a politician, I still don't like her. I would tell you how much I loathe her brand of politics and I would assert the biased of the super delegates, who would be about to hand her the nomination. I would hate the woman (and her husband,) who had robbed me of the only chance of seeing a black President in my lifetime. I would site what I saw as the racist efforts of the Clinton campaign to marginalize and "put the black candidate in his place". I would point to the Bradley Effect and the predominance of latent racism in this country. I would claim that your candidate, her husband, and their staff was being insulting and disrespectful to all of us who supported my candidate.

And, no matter how artful a speech my candidate gave in support of yours, I would simply dismiss it as him doing what he had to do to prepare for the election in four years. I would assume that your candidate would put my candidate in the VP slot and whenever she didn't (because no matter how many votes my candidate got, the first serious woman candidate for President would be dangerously tempting the tolerance for chance of this country by adding a black man to her ticket,) I would be livid! It would really piss me off when your candidate picked the most qualified old white man, Joe Biden, to be on her ticket.

Now, I might claim, at first, that I might vote for the McCain in protest, but I am sure that in the end, I would absolutely refuse to vote for the Republicans. However, it is possible that I would end up deciding to stay home or convince myself that I was making a statement by voting for a third party candidate. In summary, I would let my anger lead me away from the party and the better interest of the country.


What would you tell me?


You would remind me that my mother is a breast cancer survivor without health insurance and that she prays every night to avoid remission and definitely to avoid it before she is old enough for Medicare.

You would remind me that my father died of cancer, while we fought with his insurance company (A COMPANY THAT HE WORKED FOR) about which treatments they would approve.

You would remind me that your candidate also supports Universal Health Care and that there are millions of people going through what my parents went through (and one is still going through) and that there will be millions more in the next 4-8 years and that my not voting for your candidate would place their fate squarely on my shoulders.

You would remind me that your candidate also supports ending the Iraq war, while the other candidate supports attacking everyone one from Iran to Russia and that every life lost after I didn't vote for your candidate would be partially my fault.

You would remind me that I was raised by a single mother, who supported me one a fraction of what men make and that the other candidate voted against equal pay legislation.

You would remind me that although I am in an income bracket that benefits a shit load from the tax policies of the Republican party, one day I might not be and that even if I always am, in my heart, I know that it is wrong.


You would remind me that I don't have to like your candidate and you don't have to like mine, but that our common interests are far more important than our pride.

Essentially, you would remind me that in my anger, pride and disappointment, I had lost sight of everything that was important and the reason I am a Democrat.

And you know what, you'd be right!


I am no better than you. I am just lucky that my candidate won. I don't blame you for how you feel, I just hope you remember what important before we lost this opportunity. Anyway, I hope this helps. It's essentially what Hillary told all of us last night. It was a good speech and a hard one to give. She deserves a lot of credit for delivering it so well.

Date: 2008-08-23 21:58 Subject: Yup, I am a genius...yupsireee, I am a genius...a Nostrafuckindamus!!! Security: Public

I would just like to repost my LJ entry from January 3rd of this years:


Subject:  I'm gonna throw it out there...

...because yes, I read that damn "The Secret" book (oh, shut up, you did too!) Just in case it actually works, here is my Democratic Dream Ticket:

Obama/Biden '08 

(just typing that gave me political wood!)


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Don't believe me, here is the link.  Good read the original!
http://tonyjackson.livejournal.com/109752.html