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Thursday, August 20, 2009, 12 PM
Monterey Highlands Elementary School
400 Casuda Canyon Dr
Monterey Park, CA 91754-2204
The List:
Chris - Hamburgers, iced tea
Aimee - Non-cola beverages
Jenny - Fruit salad and hopefully condiments
Cristina - Chips (maybe, she's got an injured knee)
Matt - Water/a case of adult beverages
Ryan - paper goods
Nansi - a dessert
Ruben - some cola-type beverages
Alfonso and Cindy - Chips
Last updated: 8/20, 10 AM
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Housing Woes -- Foreals?!
Am I the only one who has perpetual, domestic issues with housemates? Why does everything turn sour over night? It's so frustrating. I don't know where to begin anymore. Am I destined to be eternally afflicted by housemate drama?
There's no better time to leave Ithaca than now, and the fact that I won't be coming back until my senior year makes it even more fantastic!
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Bush Urged To Issue ‘Pre-Emptive Pardons’ for Illegal Programs Officials
July 22, 2008
The New York Times reported this weekend that “[f]elons are asking President Bush for pardons and commutations at historic levels as he nears his final months in office, a time when many other presidents have granted a flurry of clemency requests.” However the Times noted that despite commuting Scooter Libby’s prison sentence, applicants “should expect to be disappointed” because Bush “has made little use of his clemency power” compared to past presidents.
Except perhaps if you participated in any illegal activity involving the Bush administration’s controversial counterterrorism programs. According to the Times, “several members of the conservative legal community” in Washington D.C. are urging Bush to issue “pre-emptive pardons” to those involved so as to “not be exposed even to the risk of an investigation and expensive legal bills”:
Such a pardon would reduce the risk that a future administration might undertake a criminal investigation of operatives or policy makers involved in programs that administration lawyers have said were legal but that critics say violated laws regarding torture and surveillance.
Some legal analysts said Mr. Bush might be reluctant to issue such pardons because they could be construed as an implicit admission of guilt. […]
“The president should pre-empt any long-term investigations,” said Victoria Toensing, who was a Justice Department counterterrorism official in the Reagan administration. “If we don’t protect these people who are proceeding in good faith, no one will ever take chances.”
Stuart Taylor, Jr., a constitutional law fellow at Brookings, agrees, saying in a recent Newsweek column that investigations into the Bush administration’s “high level ‘war crimes’” are a “bad idea” and instead called for a “truth commission“:
A criminal investigation would only hinder efforts to determine the truth, and preclude any apologies. It would spur those who know the most to take the Fifth. Any prosecutions would also touch off years of partisan warfare. […]
Absent pardons, pressure to go after GOP “war criminals” would make it very hard to unite Americans of all stripes behind solutions to the many economic and social challenges facing the country.
In fact, the conservative D.C. lawyer circuit may just get its wish. The White House “would not say whether the administration was considering pre-emptive pardons, nor whether it would rule them out.” (HT: Dan Froomkin)
The New York Times reported this weekend that “[f]elons are asking President Bush for pardons and commutations at historic levels as he nears his final months in office, a time when many other presidents have granted a flurry of clemency requests.” However the Times noted that despite commuting Scooter Libby’s prison sentence, applicants “should expect to be disappointed” because Bush “has made little use of his clemency power” compared to past presidents.
Except perhaps if you participated in any illegal activity involving the Bush administration’s controversial counterterrorism programs. According to the Times, “several members of the conservative legal community” in Washington D.C. are urging Bush to issue “pre-emptive pardons” to those involved so as to “not be exposed even to the risk of an investigation and expensive legal bills”:
Such a pardon would reduce the risk that a future administration might undertake a criminal investigation of operatives or policy makers involved in programs that administration lawyers have said were legal but that critics say violated laws regarding torture and surveillance.
Some legal analysts said Mr. Bush might be reluctant to issue such pardons because they could be construed as an implicit admission of guilt. […]
“The president should pre-empt any long-term investigations,” said Victoria Toensing, who was a Justice Department counterterrorism official in the Reagan administration. “If we don’t protect these people who are proceeding in good faith, no one will ever take chances.”
Stuart Taylor, Jr., a constitutional law fellow at Brookings, agrees, saying in a recent Newsweek column that investigations into the Bush administration’s “high level ‘war crimes’” are a “bad idea” and instead called for a “truth commission“:
A criminal investigation would only hinder efforts to determine the truth, and preclude any apologies. It would spur those who know the most to take the Fifth. Any prosecutions would also touch off years of partisan warfare. […]
Absent pardons, pressure to go after GOP “war criminals” would make it very hard to unite Americans of all stripes behind solutions to the many economic and social challenges facing the country.
In fact, the conservative D.C. lawyer circuit may just get its wish. The White House “would not say whether the administration was considering pre-emptive pardons, nor whether it would rule them out.” (HT: Dan Froomkin)
Monday, June 16, 2008
The State of Modern Cell Phone Culture: Not Good
This is going to be the first of two entries stemming from the same outing. My family and I went to see "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" yesterday (the first time the entire family went to see a movie together in years), and we were all pretty happy about this. We get there just in time for the previews (which all looked quite good, as previews these days tend to), my dad got popcorn, and things were looking up. Then, the movie started, and as if on cue, this stupid woman in front of us pulls out not one but two cell phones to fiddle around with. It's safe to say she was texting on her Sidekick or whatever annoying text machine she had, but on some flip phone (presumably her boyfriend's) it looked like she was changing the settings or something. For an hour. The sad thing is that I could actually tell what she was doing since the theater was, as theaters tend to be, dark. She didn't stop until I got tired of having faith in human beings and started kicking her chair. Needless to say, she got the message and put that shit away.
This leads into the point that I really wanted to make: people have actually become over-reliant on their cell phones. It isn't enough to be capable of contacting people at any point in time; people actually feel like it's necessary to stay in constant contact with others regardless of other preoccupations that would otherwise merit full attention. I mean, there's no way that you can't set aside two hours of your life to enjoy a movie, and if you can't, don't go. Rent a movie--stay at home where you can do whatever you want without bothering people trying to share the same experience. Of course this goes beyond the movies, but that's just one pertinent example. Wherever you go, you can see someone answer their phone or return a text without a second thought as to how it will affect others, and though that effect can vary in terms of negativity, it's still not good. There used to be something sacred about eating a meal at a restaurant, rooting for your team at a sporting event, or driving from one place to another, yet now anywhere is fair territory for hollering at yo boy or hitting up shorty with a text.
This leads into the point that I really wanted to make: people have actually become over-reliant on their cell phones. It isn't enough to be capable of contacting people at any point in time; people actually feel like it's necessary to stay in constant contact with others regardless of other preoccupations that would otherwise merit full attention. I mean, there's no way that you can't set aside two hours of your life to enjoy a movie, and if you can't, don't go. Rent a movie--stay at home where you can do whatever you want without bothering people trying to share the same experience. Of course this goes beyond the movies, but that's just one pertinent example. Wherever you go, you can see someone answer their phone or return a text without a second thought as to how it will affect others, and though that effect can vary in terms of negativity, it's still not good. There used to be something sacred about eating a meal at a restaurant, rooting for your team at a sporting event, or driving from one place to another, yet now anywhere is fair territory for hollering at yo boy or hitting up shorty with a text.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Police State: Cops Attack, Threaten to Taser Prayer Walkers
Brenda NorrellCensored NewsJune 13, 2008
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Unprovoked Columbus, Ohio police attacked Long Walkers, by first pointing a taser at the head of Michael Lane and then forcing Luv the Mezenger to the ground and handcuffing him.
The Longest Walk Northern Route was walking this prayer through Columbus on Monday, June 2, when police squad cars and arrest wagons arrived. Without discussion of the purpose of the prayer walk, or verifying that the Ohio Department of Transportation had been notified of the prayer walk, police attacked the walkers.
Michael Lane, who arrived on the walk with his wife, Sharon Heta, Maori, and their children from New Zealand, was targeted by police with a taser.
As dozens of police came at the walkers, a police officer held a taser three feet away from Lane’s head.
Luv the Mezenger from Los Angeles went to the aid of Lane. At that point, police officers threw Luv on the ground and handcuffed him. Luv has been on the walk since it left California in February, walking on snowshoes over a stretch of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Lane, who has a law degree from the Arizona State University, said the worst part of being targeted by a police officer with a taser was that it terrified his daughters who only knew that a gun was being pointed at their father’s head.
Across the continent, police-induced deaths from tasers have increased.
Luv suffered minor injuries from the police attack. Police made no arrests.
Govinda Dalton, broadcasting on the live Longest Walk Talk radio on Earthcycles web radio, said, “They came to arrest the walkers with paddy wagons without even having a discussion as to what the walk is about, or the fact that the Ohio Department of Transportation has already been contacted.”
The harassment by Ohio police continued, Tuesday, June 3, when police ordered Longest Walk drummers off an area at the Ohio State Capitol. However, the Long Walkers continued with their press conference and aired statements on their loud speaker at the capitol.
It has been almost four months since the prayer walk began on Alcatraz, on Feb. 11. Up until June 2, there had been no attacks on the walkers. In fact, the majority of the governors in the states that the northern route has walked through have issued proclamations of support for the Longest Walk 2.
The Longest Walk 2 for Mother Earth and protection of sacred places is being walked thirty years after the original 1978 Longest Walk, a prayer walk for Indian rights and the recognition of the inherent sovereignty of Indian people and Indian Nations.
Earthcycles’ Longest Walk Talk Radio has archived 400 interviews with walkers and people along the route since the walk left Alcatraz, on issues all across America.
The radio topics, voiced by people across America, have included the rise of the police state in the United States, the targeting of American Indians by city, state and federal police, the rise of xenophobia and the television-fueled, fear-mongering by the Bush administration. As a result of the fear-mongering, the Bush administration has found it easy to void federal laws, including waivers of more than 30 federal laws to build the US/Mexico border wall and seize private lands by way of eminent domain for the border wall. Across America, people are alarmed that the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, including free speech, have been violated.
On the Yankton Indian Nation, about 50 South Dakota police units recently swarmed a group of Yankton peacefully standing in defense of their sovereign land from a corporate hog farm under construction near the Head Start. About 40 Dakota from Yankton were arrested in two waves of arrests. The arrests and construction are now being challenged in court, but the construction of the disease-producing hog farm has accelerated.The radio topics include global climate change, nuclear testing and gold mining on Western Shoshone lands and violations of treaty rights. Another issue is the loss of Paiute traditional hunting and gathering rights. Scientists are battling Paiutes for 10,000 year old Spirit Cave Man. Paiutes have gone to federal court in an effort to rebury the remains with respect. In Kansas, the Kickapoo are a nation without water and having to haul all their water.Other interviews focus on the proliferation of censored news concerning Navajo coal mining and relocation, Nazi-type forces at the US/Mexico border and the destruction of Tohono O’odham ancestors’ remains for the border wall. The news has also been censored on ceremonial and religious rights denied to Native inmates in U.S. prisons.
Those interviewed include Mohawks at the northern border, Navajo from Big Mountain, Arizona, Apache and Tohono O’odham from the southern border and Maori from New Zealand. Indigenous Peoples also discuss the continual oppression of Indigenous Peoples, particularly from the four countries who refused to vote for adoption of the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
The United States, Canada, New Zealand and Australia did not vote for the Declaration, which was adopted by the U.N. in 2007 and recognizes Indigenous Peoples’ rights to their traditional territories. Following the U.N. vote, New Zealand police raided and arrested Maori in the sovereignty movement there and new mining and disease-producing energy developments proliferated in Indigenous territories around the globe.
The newest threat to Indigenous Peoples survival is carbon credits, a fictional concept which allows polluters to continue polluting. The carbon market is a scheme creating millionaires which has increased the attacks and displacement of Indigenous Peoples. The World Bank and corporations are seizing Indigenous’ lands for new projects, particularly in South America. Indigenous Peoples were assassinated in Colombia as land was cleared for a wind project.
On the Longest Walk Talk Radio, there are also interviews on the economic collapse and war profiteering in the United States, the proliferation of power plants to enrich Bush’s corporate donors, profiteering by private security contractors such as Blackwater and the rapid expansion and construction of private prisons to imprison migrants for profit. At the Hutto migrant prison in Taylor, Texas, women, children and babies are imprisoned. Women have been sexually assaulted and children are deprived and abused. The United States denied entry to the prison by a United Nations Rapporteur documenting abuses of migrants.
Another reality voiced on the radio talk show is the cost of the bogus war in Iraq. American Indians and people of color, along with poor whites, are considered expendables to die in Iraq.
Meanwhile, on the Longest Walk northern route, on Wednesday, June 4, the walkers were all safe and well, but with a great deal of wet camping gear, after another night of lightning and rain in an eastern Ohio campground. During the past four months, walkers have camped in below freezing temperatures in the west and then camped in weeks of rain and winds from tornados in the Midwest.
Walkers on the northern route converge with walkers on the southern route, now in Alabama, to march into Washington on July 11. A four day Cultural Survival Summit is planned for July 8 – 11 and rallies and events for July 12 – 13.
Listen to the latest interviews about the prayer walkers attacked by Ohio police:http://www.earthcycles.net/
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Unprovoked Columbus, Ohio police attacked Long Walkers, by first pointing a taser at the head of Michael Lane and then forcing Luv the Mezenger to the ground and handcuffing him.
The Longest Walk Northern Route was walking this prayer through Columbus on Monday, June 2, when police squad cars and arrest wagons arrived. Without discussion of the purpose of the prayer walk, or verifying that the Ohio Department of Transportation had been notified of the prayer walk, police attacked the walkers.
Michael Lane, who arrived on the walk with his wife, Sharon Heta, Maori, and their children from New Zealand, was targeted by police with a taser.
As dozens of police came at the walkers, a police officer held a taser three feet away from Lane’s head.
Luv the Mezenger from Los Angeles went to the aid of Lane. At that point, police officers threw Luv on the ground and handcuffed him. Luv has been on the walk since it left California in February, walking on snowshoes over a stretch of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Lane, who has a law degree from the Arizona State University, said the worst part of being targeted by a police officer with a taser was that it terrified his daughters who only knew that a gun was being pointed at their father’s head.
Across the continent, police-induced deaths from tasers have increased.
Luv suffered minor injuries from the police attack. Police made no arrests.
Govinda Dalton, broadcasting on the live Longest Walk Talk radio on Earthcycles web radio, said, “They came to arrest the walkers with paddy wagons without even having a discussion as to what the walk is about, or the fact that the Ohio Department of Transportation has already been contacted.”
The harassment by Ohio police continued, Tuesday, June 3, when police ordered Longest Walk drummers off an area at the Ohio State Capitol. However, the Long Walkers continued with their press conference and aired statements on their loud speaker at the capitol.
It has been almost four months since the prayer walk began on Alcatraz, on Feb. 11. Up until June 2, there had been no attacks on the walkers. In fact, the majority of the governors in the states that the northern route has walked through have issued proclamations of support for the Longest Walk 2.
The Longest Walk 2 for Mother Earth and protection of sacred places is being walked thirty years after the original 1978 Longest Walk, a prayer walk for Indian rights and the recognition of the inherent sovereignty of Indian people and Indian Nations.
Earthcycles’ Longest Walk Talk Radio has archived 400 interviews with walkers and people along the route since the walk left Alcatraz, on issues all across America.
The radio topics, voiced by people across America, have included the rise of the police state in the United States, the targeting of American Indians by city, state and federal police, the rise of xenophobia and the television-fueled, fear-mongering by the Bush administration. As a result of the fear-mongering, the Bush administration has found it easy to void federal laws, including waivers of more than 30 federal laws to build the US/Mexico border wall and seize private lands by way of eminent domain for the border wall. Across America, people are alarmed that the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, including free speech, have been violated.
On the Yankton Indian Nation, about 50 South Dakota police units recently swarmed a group of Yankton peacefully standing in defense of their sovereign land from a corporate hog farm under construction near the Head Start. About 40 Dakota from Yankton were arrested in two waves of arrests. The arrests and construction are now being challenged in court, but the construction of the disease-producing hog farm has accelerated.The radio topics include global climate change, nuclear testing and gold mining on Western Shoshone lands and violations of treaty rights. Another issue is the loss of Paiute traditional hunting and gathering rights. Scientists are battling Paiutes for 10,000 year old Spirit Cave Man. Paiutes have gone to federal court in an effort to rebury the remains with respect. In Kansas, the Kickapoo are a nation without water and having to haul all their water.Other interviews focus on the proliferation of censored news concerning Navajo coal mining and relocation, Nazi-type forces at the US/Mexico border and the destruction of Tohono O’odham ancestors’ remains for the border wall. The news has also been censored on ceremonial and religious rights denied to Native inmates in U.S. prisons.
Those interviewed include Mohawks at the northern border, Navajo from Big Mountain, Arizona, Apache and Tohono O’odham from the southern border and Maori from New Zealand. Indigenous Peoples also discuss the continual oppression of Indigenous Peoples, particularly from the four countries who refused to vote for adoption of the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
The United States, Canada, New Zealand and Australia did not vote for the Declaration, which was adopted by the U.N. in 2007 and recognizes Indigenous Peoples’ rights to their traditional territories. Following the U.N. vote, New Zealand police raided and arrested Maori in the sovereignty movement there and new mining and disease-producing energy developments proliferated in Indigenous territories around the globe.
The newest threat to Indigenous Peoples survival is carbon credits, a fictional concept which allows polluters to continue polluting. The carbon market is a scheme creating millionaires which has increased the attacks and displacement of Indigenous Peoples. The World Bank and corporations are seizing Indigenous’ lands for new projects, particularly in South America. Indigenous Peoples were assassinated in Colombia as land was cleared for a wind project.
On the Longest Walk Talk Radio, there are also interviews on the economic collapse and war profiteering in the United States, the proliferation of power plants to enrich Bush’s corporate donors, profiteering by private security contractors such as Blackwater and the rapid expansion and construction of private prisons to imprison migrants for profit. At the Hutto migrant prison in Taylor, Texas, women, children and babies are imprisoned. Women have been sexually assaulted and children are deprived and abused. The United States denied entry to the prison by a United Nations Rapporteur documenting abuses of migrants.
Another reality voiced on the radio talk show is the cost of the bogus war in Iraq. American Indians and people of color, along with poor whites, are considered expendables to die in Iraq.
Meanwhile, on the Longest Walk northern route, on Wednesday, June 4, the walkers were all safe and well, but with a great deal of wet camping gear, after another night of lightning and rain in an eastern Ohio campground. During the past four months, walkers have camped in below freezing temperatures in the west and then camped in weeks of rain and winds from tornados in the Midwest.
Walkers on the northern route converge with walkers on the southern route, now in Alabama, to march into Washington on July 11. A four day Cultural Survival Summit is planned for July 8 – 11 and rallies and events for July 12 – 13.
Listen to the latest interviews about the prayer walkers attacked by Ohio police:http://www.earthcycles.net/
Friday, June 13, 2008
Monday, June 9, 2008
The Electric Car will Rise Again!!!
Many Californians are feeling the economic burden brought upon them by incredibly high gas prices. With gas prices reaching record highs, it is common for a regular commute to work and to school to reach 50 to even 100 dollars a week. Current alternatives that are regularly advertised as "solutions" only extend the problems of American oil dependence, perpetuating the continual need to spend more money at the gas pump. If gas prices reach a new feat of 7 or even 10 dollars per gallon with the average American driving Hybrid cars, Ethanol Gasoline Bio-Fuel vehicles, or "Fuel Efficient" vehicles, they too will also pay the same absurd prices all Americans pay today with vehicles made in the 90's.
Electric vehicles have and will be the most effective means of solving the current oil crisis, and will continue to be a more effective solution as time goes by. Although electric vehicles that performs as well or better than normal gas vehicles cost more that 40,000 dollars, the fact that it can out perform normal gas vehicles today says something positive about the emerging greatness of electric vehicles. The Tesla with specs of 130 mph, 0-60 in 4 secs, 220 miles per charge, and a recharge time of 3.5 hours, provides Americans a glimpse of what the future holds for electric transportation. No longer do the excuses of charge time and performance hinder the sale value of these vehicles. Two new vehicle's being created in Ontario California enables both trucks and SUV's with sustainable performance and reliability. The Phoenixmotors SUT and SUV has a charge time of 10 minutes (0 to full) and has a drive time of more than 100 miles per charge. The likely hood of these vehicles turning their eyes towards the regular US consumer base is highly probable. Green Vehicles has already done so by creating one of the cheapest and the most available cars to the American population, retailing at about 10,000 dollars. he trend toward electric cars had and is scaring the large car cooperation's into electric submission, forcing them to create electric vehicles of their own. Nissan and its fully electric Maxima and the new Chevy Volt are two cars being pushed to be sold in 2010.
This is the Triac from Green Vehicles.
Fuel-Cell hybrid vehicles does create a new solution to this ever growing crisis; however, this technology will likely never see the light of day until 2040. Fuel-Cell vehicles still cannot perform to the lowest standards of old 90's electric vehicles, unable to drive in cold weather, wet weather, or extremely hot weather. Until these problems are fixed and once the prices of these fuel-cell vehicles are brought down to a reasonable for most consumers, they will not be a likely solution to the gas problem.
Electric vehicles have and will be the most effective means of solving the current oil crisis, and will continue to be a more effective solution as time goes by. Although electric vehicles that performs as well or better than normal gas vehicles cost more that 40,000 dollars, the fact that it can out perform normal gas vehicles today says something positive about the emerging greatness of electric vehicles. The Tesla with specs of 130 mph, 0-60 in 4 secs, 220 miles per charge, and a recharge time of 3.5 hours, provides Americans a glimpse of what the future holds for electric transportation. No longer do the excuses of charge time and performance hinder the sale value of these vehicles. Two new vehicle's being created in Ontario California enables both trucks and SUV's with sustainable performance and reliability. The Phoenixmotors SUT and SUV has a charge time of 10 minutes (0 to full) and has a drive time of more than 100 miles per charge. The likely hood of these vehicles turning their eyes towards the regular US consumer base is highly probable. Green Vehicles has already done so by creating one of the cheapest and the most available cars to the American population, retailing at about 10,000 dollars. he trend toward electric cars had and is scaring the large car cooperation's into electric submission, forcing them to create electric vehicles of their own. Nissan and its fully electric Maxima and the new Chevy Volt are two cars being pushed to be sold in 2010.Consumers are screaming for gas relief and third party companies are trying to fill their needs; unfortunately for those who are currently getting trampled on by the gas companies, they have to wait a couple of years before the consumer versions of these cars become available. The solution, however, is not getting persuaded by current advertisements to go ahead by buy a Hybrid or a Fuel "Efficient Vehicle" but to wait til the market bears its fruits and purchase a car that uses zero gasoline, and requires less than 1 cent to drive to work and school.
This is the Triac from Green Vehicles.Price: 10,000
Specs: 60 miles per charge
6 hour charge time
80 MPh
Made out of Nascar grade Steel
1 Driver Carpool Access
Avaliable NOW
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Sunday, June 8, 2008
Strangers with candy . . . and knives
Okay, so I'm writing this blog later than I told Bernadette that I would (though at this time of night, who really keeps track?). For those of you who aren't accustomed to the same internet slang as I am, the initial p in the picture stands for 'pretty', not anything else you might be reading into it. It's safe to say that we saw "The Strangers" tonight; however, I still can't pinpoint what exactly we saw. Generally, I try to stay away from horror movies that claim to be based on a true story if only for the fact that they're usually just about some sort of deranged serial killer(s) killing some regular people in gruesome fashion, but this one looked like it had something supernatural about it. Turns out, I was wrong. Parts of this movie make you want to believe it's got something supernatural behind it, but all it really amounted to was eighty five minutes of build up (involving classic horror elements like chase scenes, the atmosphere, and ambient sounds to scare you) and five minutes of snuff. Then it ends in a somewhat matter of fact manner, letting you know flat out that you saw 95% of a decent horror movie and 5% of a documentary about the murders (yes, people die, that shouldn't spoil anything for you if you're masochistic enough to still want to see this movie) that occurred one night at an out-of-the-way cabin. Does this movie have scares? Yes. Does this movie have blood and guts? Yes. Does this movie leave you feeling like you watched a complete movie? No, and I think that's the worst thing you can do to a moviegoer.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Oh Grandpa.....
We all know that this is an important year in choosing our next president. The G.O.P. already has grandpa McCain (who sucks) and it’s only a matter of time until Obama wins the democratic nomination. But something that has been bugging me to the point where the little voice in my head with the straightjacket had to be let loose onto the public. What is driving me crazy is hearing about Clinton supporters voting for McCain rather than Obama if she is not selected. And this is even more prevalent in women that support her. So this goes out to the people out there that think it’s better to vote for McCain or not voting at all: Do you realize what will happen if we have McCain in charge? He wants to bomb Iran, keep us in Iraq for 100 years, appoint Supreme Court judges that will over turn Roe V. Wade, AND not to mention his short temper. Does this sound like a person that should have his hands on the big red button?
As it comes to Iraq, a reporter asked him how long it would take to get out of there and his reply was, “Maybe 100 years”. 100 FREAKING YEARS!!!!! And he also said that there will be more wars. Do you think that we should even be there now? This is a man that doesn’t know which side to support in Iraq. First he said that Iraq was training terrorists and had nukes. When we found out that they had no nukes and things in Iraq started to go bad, he, just like Bush started to blame things on Iran. The things that he said about Iraq were used again to describe Iran. Here’s the twist: When we were in Afghanistan (which is the right place to be), Iran helped us to get Osama. So an ally went from being just that, an ally, to an enemy in just a few years. I think he’s starting to suffer from Alzheimer’s. To top that off he made a bad joke about bombing Iran by making a parity of “Barbara Ann” singing “bomb bomb bomb Iran”. Hey grandpa you’re running for president not trying to win American Idol as Weird Al.
My next point is to some of the women out there who would rather not vote and/or support McCain. The people that sit on the Supreme Court are really getting old and will likely step down in the next few years. Who ever is president picks a person to replace them and McCain has mentioned that he would pick judges who favor the ending of a women’s right to choose. Wouldn’t you rather have a choice then have a small group of men tell you that you can’t?
Then, there is his short temper. Oh man, this guy is a loose cannon. There is a report that he went across some seats to hit another senator from his own party just because he got into an argument with him. There are also reports that he called his own wife (who is the heir to the Anheuser-Busch fortune) a “C. U. Next Tuesday”. He has gotten into shouting matches with his campain staffers for wearing “fruity” sweaters. Even when he was younger he stated in his autobiography that he would hold his breath until he passed out if he didn’t get what he wanted.
Is John McCain a war hero? Yes he is but that doesn’t qualify him to be our next president. What Clinton is doing right now by staying in the race is only hurting the party. Her actions make it look like she is running not because she has a chance, but because she feels like shes intitled to it. We need the time now untill the election to beat McGrandpa and to bring the Democratic Party together. So vote for whom ever the nominee is because if we don’t then we the people lose and not just Clinton.
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