Jesus Weeps, and I understand why.

 
I saw this story while seated in the waiting room of the service department at my local car dealership. I kid you not I spoke outloud to the television. I was so upset I didn’t know whether to cry or vomit.
Who do these people think they are? How dare they presume to speak for God, or [...]

Multi-tasking 101

When I first heard of McCain’s call to postpone the debates and campaigning all I could think was “he’s running scared”. He is on the record stating that he knows very little about, and doesn’t understand, the economy. Quite naturally he doesn’t want to head into a debate about the economy at this point in [...]

Change of Address

John McCain in 60 Minutes interview last night (9/21)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/21/60minutes/main44463340_pages6.shtml 
Pelley: Longest you’ve lived any one place?
McCain: Hanoi. Hanoi was the longest- I lived any place, five and a half years.
Pelley: When you were in prison?
McCain: Yup, yeah, I certainly don’t wanna call that my hometown.

Nice answer, but not true anymore.
Check how long you’ve lived in Arizona [...]

Bank tellers…doctors…stock brockers…pretty much the same

Given the current state of the banking and financial markets perhaps he’d like to rethink that mantra of deregulate, deregulate, deregulate.
John McCain:
Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses [...]

Can old dog (without lipstick) learn new tricks

When Sarah Palin came in lacking on the facts in her interview with Charles Gibson, the McCain camp cried foul. After all, they said, she’s not the top of the ticket-she’ll learn.
Okay, McCain is the top o’the tic and he seems a little off  the mark here.
If you don’t even know what YOU do yourself, [...]

1+1=(it depends are you a donkey or an elephant?)

Never that great at math, it pleases me to have someone else crunch the numbers.
It just goes to show you that in this world of political he said/she said back and forth mud tossing there’s usually more to things than meets the eye.
But, it requires that we think.
McCain is banking that  we won’t.
http://lycanthropia.whistleandfish.com/2008/09/16/do-the-math/

Brother can you spare a dime to buy him a clue?

From Salon:
John McCain at a town hall meeting in Florida on Monday morning: “The fundamentals of our economy are strong.”
If John McCain thinks that “the fundamentals of our economy are strong,” then that phrase is effectively meaningless. Unemployment is at a five-year high, consumer spending is predicted to decline this fiscal quarter for the [...]

From his lips to my wallet

Gas hit over $4.00 here in my part of the world.
Milk, groceries, mortgages, everything going up up up.
Wages are dropping, prices are rising.
Health care costs are soaring, health coverage disappearing.
That sort of stuff, the economics of everyday living is easy for most of us to understand.
But then today’s headlines:
Merrill Lynch forced to sell to Bank [...]

Doctors orders

Again, (yawn) what’cha hiding Senator McCain?
And yes, I think all four of the contenders should release their records,
but given his selection for Veep-McCain really really really needs to.

Ro Ro Rove the (swift)boat

Not that I believe for a moment that Rove isn’t backing all the mudthrowing 100%…
it doesn’t speak well of McCain when the king of sleaze, distortions, and ugly politics comes down against you.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/14/karl-rove-mccains-ads-hav_n_126280.html

Thou Shalt not lie-unless it’s to win.

 
Watch the video in its entirety. (Thanks Harry)
Think about this whenever you hear the words I approved this message.
Don’t believe what you hear-read, research, check and recheck.
Find out the truth-and the lies.
Then decide.
Do we need another four years of being lied to?
http://lycanthropia.whistleandfish.com/2008/09/14/exodus-2016-pt-2/

Forget Palin

and the glass ceiling, and pigs with lipstick, and cries of SEXISM.
It is all really rather stupid when you stop and think about the lives of girls all over the world.
 

http://www.girleffect.org

Unconscionable

http://icouldbetheveep.wordpress.com/2008/09/13/unconscionable/

Pretend I didn’t say that.

The what I said about him doesn’t apply to her routine is getting old old old.
Make up your mind John.
Which is it?
John McCain:
 ”I am prepared. I am prepared. I need no on-the-job training. I wasn’t a mayor for a short period of time. I wasn’t a governor for a short period of time.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/12/mccain-last-year-mayors-a_n_125944.html

Change in wolf’s clothing.

1. A lobbyist.
2 .Been in working for Republicans in Washington since god.
Yeah, that sounds like change.

A prominent Washington lobbyist who has worked for every Republican president since Richard Nixon has been tapped by the McCain campaign to conduct a study in preparation for the presidential transition, should John McCain win the election, according to sources familiar [...]

Reading between the lines

As I tell my daughters often-just because it’s on tv doesn’t make it true.
That is especially the case with political advertising. We all know it, there’s no secret. It’s spin spin spin. What’s interesting is just how elaborate the spin can be.
In the rather disgusting ad that McCain ran recently on Obama, education, and specifically [...]

Megan your freudian slip is showing.

I’m sure it was an innocent mis-speak.
Surely she didn’t mean it?
Only her family knows about war- “Period“
No, just a slip of the tongue-right?
But note to daddy: You might want to have Megan stick to her “blog-ette”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMxp5UkeGCc

Small town values?

News outlets are emphasizing the fact that Palin apparently quoted a known anti-semite in her speech at the RNC. But I liked this article for the points it makes about the economics of small town America. Palin makes a good speech, but the Republican party can’t back it up.
http://www.wsj.com/article/SB122100226859616967.html?mod=hpp_us_inside_today

Sticks and stones

Here’s my take on all the stupid clamour about lipstick comments, sexism, and dirty politics.
http://icouldbetheveep.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/sticks-and-stones/

This little piggie had O-R-E-Os

 
Finally, economics that I understand. And my favorite cookies too!
http://lycanthropia.whistleandfish.com/2008/09/10/of-cookies-pigs-and-lipstick/

Cut from the same cloth.

Very interesting reading, though I am sure the concept will be dismissed out of hand.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/09/09/palin_fundamentalist/
Salon…
Palin has a right to her religious beliefs, as do fundamentalist Muslims who agree with her on so many issues of social policy. None of them has a right, however, to impose their beliefs on others by capturing and deploying the [...]

So what can we talk about?

From CNN
Joe Biden:
“I hear all this talk about how the Republicans are going to work in dealing with parents who have both the joy…and the difficulty of raising a child who has a developmental disability, who were born with a birth defect,” he said. “Well, guess what folks? If you care about it, why don’t [...]

Both sides of her mouth-ette

The perhaps you should take little seven year old Piper Palin off your “blogette”
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20224394,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines

And not a drop to drink.

Maybe while we’re over there “surging” do you think we could do something about the water?
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/11/29/iraq.main/index.html
 
And yes, I read the email, and yes it’s a hassle, but Palin is being quarantined over there. Only 57 more days (hopefully).  www.icouldbetheveep.wordpress.com

Not on the potty

I love Opus.
And profound.
Where do I want to be in the end?
 
 
http://www.salon.com/comics/opus/2008/09/07/opus/

A not so funny about money.

It may be funny to Mr. Thompson and the delegates of the RNC, and maybe even McCain/Palin, but to the millions of Americans struggling in this economy I doubt it’s funny at all.
From Fred Thompson’s speech to the RNC:
We do so while taking a different view of our country than that of the other party. [...]

Mums the word from the hockey mom

 
From MSNBC. Italics added are mine for emphasis.
*** Waiting for the interview: There are now about 60 days until Election Day and just three weeks until the debates. And who knows whether we’ll get the first Sarah Palin serious issue interview before then. This morning on JOE, McCain manager Rick Davis wouldn’t commit to putting [...]

Her name is CINDY sir.

Last night Cindy McCain said in her speech that  husband John is a man who always tells the truth.
In The Real McCain Cliff Schecter recounts the day when in 1992 Senator McCain (in the presence of reporters) called his wife the most vile word in the world-a c**t and a trollop. He has repeatedly been [...]

Georgia on everyone’s mind.

With apologies to the world. I live in this state, but I PROMISE some of us have brains and use them.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/04/georgia_gop_congressman_calls.html

Sad but funny

What’s sad is it is not only hysterical, but it’s true.
If I had the least bit of tech savvy I’d post the video here. But…
So go visit it here on Harry’s page   http://lycanthropia.whistleandfish.com/2008/09/04/top-40-radio/
or over at Comedy Central.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184086&title=sarah-palin-gender-card
In the midst of it all it really does help to laugh.

Apply lipstick then kiss my bumper sticker.

Over the course of my life I have volunteered for campaigns at the  local, state, and federal level. I have dialed the phone, stuffed envelopes, put up signs, and written letters. I have cared passionately about who won what races, and back in my younger days when I believed in a micro-managing god I even [...]

Meet the Press

According to the McCain camp “the media ” needs to lay-of the “smear” campaign and the “attacks” on VP Candidate Governor Sarah Palin. What?  So they can dish it out but can’t take it?
Here’s what I think-finally BRAVO to “the media”. That’s their/its job. After years of tippy-toe dancing around the Bush Administration they are finally getting [...]

Shhhh be quiet no more!

Forget putting these links on my other voices page. This is important, front and center.
Here are just a few voices on the subject, mostly from librarians. I love librarians, people who dedicate themselves to introducing children (and all of us to books and information-how great is that?)  Most of them start their writings by saying [...]

The Censor -in- Chief

I’ve written on this subject before( http://tammyr2.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/164/ )and my love of books and reading, and intellectual freedom is no secret. And libraries! I can still close my eyes and smell the library of my youth. One of life’s true joys is finding the next great read sitting on the shelf just waiting for me me me to [...]

Courting the under seven vote.

So the McCain camp and the RNC delegates continue to shout LEAVE THE KIDS OUT OF IT. And Obama says LEAVE THE KIDS OUT OF IT.
I think someone forgot to tell the McCains.
Last nights RNC video “about dad” could have been titled “All about the adoption of our daughter”. It had a very eeeeww exploitative feel [...]

OH! It’s not about national security, its about congeniality.

Oh this bothers me on sooooo many levels.
Not about the issues?
Then god help us all and this country too if we aren’t electing our next President on the issues. This is not a popularity contest to see who gets to run the Student Body. It’s the PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES.
And and and exactly what [...]

43 going on 17

All this talk of seventeen year old Bristol Palin is getting old. Well , actually, I am getting old. Oh to be seventeen again…
So leaving the Palins, the McCains, the RNC, and all that behind for a moment let’s return to Jim’s (www.ofkingsandcarnies.com) meme started over at the Pub (http://lycanthropia.whistleandfish.com/).
You recall ( http://tammyr2.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/here-we-go-again/ )question number two:
Remember the first [...]

Because I said so, that’s why. A mother’s mantra.

STOP SAYING THAT!
The talking point now out of the RNC, James Dobson, et al is how proud they are of young Ms. Palin’s “choice”. That she “chose life”. Chose it? Rather than what?
Her mother is on the record as being anti-abortion NO MATTER WHAT. The only exception – if the life of the mother is in [...]

The fifth runner-up.

Again-pandering to a one-issue voting block?
Or, maybe he  agrees with Sarah Palin and the Alaskan Independence Party (Palin was a member)-Alaska should secede from the US and become an independent nation (or at least allow them to vote on it they say!)
http://www.akip.org
(Country first, no wait, Alaska first, no Sarah first. Oh hell, I can’t keep up.)
 
If [...]

I know but do you know and does he know?

Well we  must give Governor Palin credit for this much: She knows where she stands.
Senator McCain however–not so much so.
First he was opposed to overturning Roe v. Wade, then he was for it.
Asked whether he supported President Bush’s abstinence only policies he said he didn’t know;  and when asked if he believed that the use of [...]

It’s time to stop Just saying No.

I have written here at length on how I feel about abstinence only sex education. I believe deeply and passionately in the importance of educating young men and women about birth control and the absolute need to insure that  we do everything we can to reduce the number of unplanned/unwanted pregnancies in this country.  Objective studies have over and over [...]