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List five political reasons you have to be thankful for this season.
1) Barack Obama is the President Elect. Like him or not, which I do, I am thankful America has grown to a point where someone other than a good ol’ white boy can become president. yes there are those who are still racists and there always will be, but this does show a change in America’s attitude towards race just since I became a voting adult back in 1992.
2) We are at the end of era for Republicans. Republicans, or as they are more properly rethuglicans, are no longer going to be able to push America around like mob bosses preying on the weak using fear and intimidation to push through their own machinations.
3) The economy is finally showing its true self now that the Bush lie machine is breaking down.
4) Our local School Levy passed. No matter comes down from on high in regards to education local school levies are the most important indicator of how much support a district has from its community. When the people no longer see any value in the local schools it is time to start looking elsewhere for your family.
5) There is an end to all the damned political commercials.
The Digg Story you are most thankful to see this morning:
Random act of SEO kindness: Link to 4 blog posts of people you don’t know.
- The Mormon Cult
- The 6 Things Meme
- Bush Filling Science Slots With Unqualified People
- A Science Fiction Thanksgiving
This Meme was submitted to Memes For Blogs and was published on 11-27-08
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Sarah Palin, who has struck many as a refreshing break from politicians-as-usual, seemed to do Thursday what politicians usually do as their horizons expand — moderate a previous position on a controversial subject.
WTF? I will get around to discussing this new position of hers later. Right now I have to ask what they are smoking at the LA Times and can I have some? Sarah Palin is anything but a break from politics as normal, which is why she is the darling of so many doe eyed republicans with hearts of stone and brains of mush. She is incapable of compromise, reckless, abusive of power, and a bold faced liar. This is not “a refreshing break from politicians-as-usual” this is hard core GOP Guerrilla tactics. Sarah Palin may even one day out do the GOP’s beloved Dick on that ground. Wow, i still can’t believe a newspaper like the LA times would string together the thought that Sarah Palin was any different than any other GOP nut job. WTF?
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No big surprises from washington over the Scott McClellan book. People in power think he is horrible man for turning on his former boss. Nothing screams we are a fraternal order of bullies and you shouldn’t mess with us, than a democrat coming out and saying poor president Bush, his former lackeys don’t like him.
Terry McAuliffe, the former head of the Democratic National Committee who now is chairman of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign committee, said Mr. McClellan was “wrong” to write the book.
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George is very disappointed in this surprise. W was hoping we were going to let him call a mulligan on the golf game that has been his presidency. Sorry George there are no do-overs or take backs you have had your two terms even if you wasted them along with trillions of dollars and countless American lives.
The big surprise around the White House is Scott McClellan doesn’t have nice things to say about big lovable George.
From USA Today:
President Bush “veered terribly off course,” was not “open and forthright on Iraq,” and took a “permanent campaign approach” to governing at the expense of candor and competence.
To be fair Scott also doesn’t have nice things to say about The Liberal Media Machine.
“If anything, the national press corps was probably too deferential to the White House and to the administration in regard to the most important decision facing the nation during my years in Washington, the choice over whether to go to war in Iraq. The collapse of the administration’s rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise. … In this case, the ‘liberal media’ didn’t live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served.”
Well I think it is safe to say Scott won’t be invited to the W Presidential library or receive a complimentary coloring book either.
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The proposed Gas Tax Holiday smells like it has been stuck up the ass of a politician for years and is only now being pulled out at election time. No matter how you try and sell the plan, the results still stink.
First there is nothing to prevent stations from simply offsetting the 18.4 cent discount by raising their prices. In fact most economists believe this will happen unless the holiday comes with a price freeze. I like that second part a lot better as a driver, than I do the Tax Holiday.
Secondly, if you figure out how much gas you use in a week the saving just don’t amount to squat. My wife and I burn about 20 gallons a week in the summer between the two of us, which is better than the average single driver who burns roughly 14 gallons. If you multiply the tax savings out over the twelve weeks we save as a family $44.16 while the average single driver will save $30.91. I know you are excited about that! Face it what can a single person or a family get for between $30 and $45. Amortized over 12 weeks you will hardly notice the difference.
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Dick Cheney is neither stupid nor naive. I can say a lot of things about the man, but neither of those really apply. However the rhetoric he is spouting about freedom while perusing the Middle East might lead one to that conclusion.
“You and I know what it means to be free…”
That is one of the most laughable things I think I have ever heard the man say. Americans have no idea what freedom is. If you think it is having an alternative between Coke and Pepsi or McDonalds and Burger King, you would be wrong. Freedom was having the choice of dozens of smaller locally owned businesses to choose from that Coke, Pepsi, McDonalds, and Burger King forced out of business in a war of corporate consumerism. America rolled over, because giving up freedom to choose was supposed to be the cool thing to do. Too much individualism would lead us down the dark and murky path to anarchy. Bullshit! Too many choices meant we were free to choose something other than the establishment.
We keep telling the troops that we are fighting to give the Iraqi and Afghan peoples freedom, but that is the last thing we want them to have. Do you know what happens when they have true freedom? They inevitably make choices that are not in our best interests. The Palestinians had the freedom to vote and what did they do? They chose Hamas. What is needed right now in Iraq and Afghanistan is not freedom, it is security.
“We’re helping them fight back because it’s the right thing to do and because it’s important to our own long-term security,” Cheney said. “As President Bush has said, the war on terror is an ideological struggle and as long as this part of the world remains a place where freedom does not flourish, it will remain a place of stagnation, resentment and violence ready for export.”
If these people wanted freedom, they would need us to fight back for them. When The World Trade Center was attack, we were told this was a financial attack on America. Oh how right they were. What has been the cost of it so far? I am not talking just about the deficit spending by the government either. How has the rise of prices and down turn in other areas affected your ability to function? How will the war affect your children’s economic well being? We were told this war would pay for itself? Will it fix the economy of the dead and dismembered?
Dick tells the troops we are doing this because it is the right thing to do. I scratch my head at this notion. These were people who didn’t yet want freedom, they weren’t willing to give up everything in the name of it. Janice Joplin got it right when she sang “Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose…” When the pain of change is less than the pain of death for you and your family, then you are ready for freedom. Neither the Iraqi nor the the Afghani people were ready for that yet. What we did was give them anarchy in the name of our own national vanity.
Dick wants you to believe that their lack of freedom was a threat to our nation’s interest, he also thought that helping corporate giants squash middle class mom and pop businesses was good for your freedom. It is time to think for yourself and not be a Dick!
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Should she have been pardoned? The answer is a clear and decisive, No! Being pardoned presupposes the notion that under the presented evidence you should have been convicted. That is what my heart tells me. On the other hand though she knowingly and willingly for what ever reason violated her country’s laws. Are those laws right or wrong, that isn’t for anyone to say except the people who live under them. The moment we presume to tell other countries they are barbaric disappointments, like the leaders of most free western countries did,
then we give them the same right. The moment we take action to change those laws and customs as we have done in Iraq and Afghanistan, we give other that same right to change not only our laws but our functioning government. Pandora’s box, I fear, is already open.
If direct intervention is bad, then what do we do? We open our borders and lead by example and fostering within our borders. Open immigration is what we need but that is another argument.
