Note: as with all things Sarah Silverman, this is incredibly non-PC, so easily offended beware. Enjoy!
Here's the original link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/25/91356/3480/342/609860
30 September, 2008
Sarah Silverman's HILARIOUS Obama Video: Watch and Love it
Sarah Silverman is urging Jewish grandchildren everywhere to fly to Florida and convince their grandparents to vote for Obama. This is part of a larger, real, effort called "The Great Schlep,".
Note: as with all things Sarah Silverman, this is incredibly non-PC, so easily offended beware. Enjoy!
Note: as with all things Sarah Silverman, this is incredibly non-PC, so easily offended beware. Enjoy!
26 September, 2008
Everything Is Clear Now...
This is from my good friend Joe from his best friend James...
I Love American Politics!!!
I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight.....
If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're 'exotic' and 'different.'
Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, you're an American story.
If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, and you're a maverick.
Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, then you're well-grounded.
If you spend 3 years as a community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, help register 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, 8 years as a State Senator of a district of 750,000 people, chair the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people, sponsor 131 bills, and serve on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works, and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.
If your resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town of 7,000 people, 2 years as governor of a state of 650,000 people, you're qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency.
If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.
If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, left your ill wife, and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.
If you teach responsible, age-appropriate sex education, including the use of birth control, you erode the fiber of American society.
If you staunchly advocate abstinence-only education, while your teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're responsible.
If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, you don't represent Americas family values.
If your husband is called 'First Dude', has a DWI conviction, didn't register to vote until 25, and was a member of a group that advocated secession of Alaska from the USA, yours is the quintessential American family.
And, finally, if you're famous for your quick temper, you're the one to have your finger on the red nuclear button.
OK, it's all so much clearer now…
(Are you frightened yet?).
I Love American Politics!!!
I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight.....
If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're 'exotic' and 'different.'
Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, you're an American story.
If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, and you're a maverick.
Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, then you're well-grounded.
If you spend 3 years as a community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, help register 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, 8 years as a State Senator of a district of 750,000 people, chair the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people, sponsor 131 bills, and serve on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works, and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.
If your resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town of 7,000 people, 2 years as governor of a state of 650,000 people, you're qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency.
If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.
If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, left your ill wife, and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.
If you teach responsible, age-appropriate sex education, including the use of birth control, you erode the fiber of American society.
If you staunchly advocate abstinence-only education, while your teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're responsible.
If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, you don't represent Americas family values.
If your husband is called 'First Dude', has a DWI conviction, didn't register to vote until 25, and was a member of a group that advocated secession of Alaska from the USA, yours is the quintessential American family.
And, finally, if you're famous for your quick temper, you're the one to have your finger on the red nuclear button.
OK, it's all so much clearer now…
(Are you frightened yet?).
BACH ROCKS!!!
Bach - Harpsichord Concerto No.1 in D Minor BWV 1052
This IS the DEFINITIVE version of this piece as performed by Trevor Pinnock and the English Concert on period instruments.
1) Allegro
2) Adagio
3) Allegro
I hope you enjoyed this!
AML,
~D~
This IS the DEFINITIVE version of this piece as performed by Trevor Pinnock and the English Concert on period instruments.
1) Allegro
2) Adagio
3) Allegro
I hope you enjoyed this!
AML,
~D~
25 September, 2008
Sarah Palin... "Dril, Drill, Drill"
This was sent to me by a very dear friend, who DOES research his emails before sending them, so I'll trust that these facts are true. Though after reading it, how could I NOT believe?
AML,
~D~
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Meg Fitzgerald
Date: Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 4:47 PM
Subject: Drill, Drill, Drill
To: undisclosed-recipients
Here is the original website, or the article is below:
http://particlesofnews.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/eve-ensler-on-sarah-palin/
So far the only thing I've read about her that I like is that she has a gun . . . the gun I'm OK with, other than that . . . not so much.
Please note, I am not looking to be beat up on this one, just passing along some interesting dialogue.
Meg
----------------------------------------------------------------
Eve Ensler, the American playwright, performer, feminist and activist best known for 'The Vagina Monologues', wrote the following about Sarah Palin.
Drill, Drill, Drill
I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a particular thing for Polar Bears. Maybe it's their snowy whiteness or their bigness or the fact that they live in the arctic or that I have never seen one in person or touched one. Maybe it is the fact that they live so comfortably on ice. Whatever it is, I need the polar bears.
I don't like raging at women. I am a Feminist and have spent my life trying to build community, help empower women and stop violence
against them. It is hard to write about Sarah Palin. This is why the Sarah Palin choice was all the more insidious and cynical. The people who made this choice count on the goodness and solidarity of Feminists. But everything Sarah Palin believes in and practices is antithetical to Feminism which for me is part of one story -- connected to saving the earth, ending racism, empowering women, giving young girls options, opening our minds, deepening tolerance, and ending violence and war.
I believe that the McCain/Palin ticket is one of the most dangerous choices of my lifetime, and should this country chose those candidates the fall-out may be so great, the destruction so vast in so many areas that America may never recover. But what is equally disturbing is the impact that duo would have on the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this is not a joke. In my lifetime I have seen the clownish, the inept, the bizarre be elected to the presidency with regularity Sarah Palin does not believe in evolution. I take this as a metaphor. In her world and the world of Fundamentalists nothing changes or gets better or evolves. She does not believe in global warming. The melting of the arctic, the storms that are destroying our cities, the pollution and rise of cancers, are all part of God's plan. She is fighting to take the polar bears off the endangered species list. The earth, in Palin's view, is here to be taken and plundered. The wolves and the bears are here to be shot and plundered. The oil is here to be taken and plundered. Iraq is here to be taken and plundered. As she said herself of the Iraqi war, 'It was a task from God.' Sarah Palin does not believe in abortion. She does not believe women who are raped and incested and ripped open against their will should have a right to determine whether they have their rapist's baby or not. She obviously does not believe in sex education or birth control. I imagine her daughter was practicing abstinence and we know how many babies that makes. Sarah Palin does not much believe in thinking. From what I gather she has tried to ban books from the library, has a tendency to dispense with people who think independently. She cannot tolerate an environment of ambiguity and difference. This is a woman who could and might very well be the next president of the United States. She would govern one of the most diverse populations on the earth. Sarah believes in guns. She has her own custom Austrian hunting rifle. She has been known to kill 40 caribou at a clip. She has shot hundreds of wolves from the air. Sarah believes in God. That is of course her right, her private right. But when God and Guns come together in the public sector, when war is declared in God's name, when the rights of women are denied in his name, that is the end of separation of church and state and the undoing of everything America has ever tried to be.
I write to my sisters. I write because I believe we hold this election in our hands. This vote is a vote that will determine the future not just of the U.S., but of the planet. It will determine whether we create policies to save the earth or make it forever uninhabitable for humans. It will determine whether we move towards dialogue and diplomacy in the world or whether we escalate violence through invasion, undermining and attack. It will determine whether we go for oil, strip mining, coal burning or invest our money in alternatives that will free us from dependency and destruction. It will determine if money gets spent on education and healthcare or whether we build more and more methods of killing. It will determine whether America is a free open tolerant society or a closed place of fear, fundamentalism and aggression.
If the Polar Bears don't move you to go and do everything in your power to get Obama elected then consider the chant that filled the hall after Palin spoke at the RNC, 'Drill Drill Drill.' I think of teeth when I think of drills. I think of rape. I think of destruction. I think of domination. I think of military exercises that force mindless repetition, emptying the brain of analysis, doubt, ambiguity or dissent. I think of pain. Do we want a future of drilling? More holes in the ozone, in the floor of the sea, more holes in our thinking, in the trust between nations and peoples, more holes in the fabric of this precious thing we call life?
Eve Ensler
September 5, 2008
AML,
~D~
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Meg Fitzgerald
Date: Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 4:47 PM
Subject: Drill, Drill, Drill
To: undisclosed-recipients
Here is the original website, or the article is below:
http://particlesofnews.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/eve-ensler-on-sarah-palin/
So far the only thing I've read about her that I like is that she has a gun . . . the gun I'm OK with, other than that . . . not so much.
Please note, I am not looking to be beat up on this one, just passing along some interesting dialogue.
Meg
----------------------------------------------------------------
Eve Ensler, the American playwright, performer, feminist and activist best known for 'The Vagina Monologues', wrote the following about Sarah Palin.
Drill, Drill, Drill
I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a particular thing for Polar Bears. Maybe it's their snowy whiteness or their bigness or the fact that they live in the arctic or that I have never seen one in person or touched one. Maybe it is the fact that they live so comfortably on ice. Whatever it is, I need the polar bears.
I don't like raging at women. I am a Feminist and have spent my life trying to build community, help empower women and stop violence
against them. It is hard to write about Sarah Palin. This is why the Sarah Palin choice was all the more insidious and cynical. The people who made this choice count on the goodness and solidarity of Feminists. But everything Sarah Palin believes in and practices is antithetical to Feminism which for me is part of one story -- connected to saving the earth, ending racism, empowering women, giving young girls options, opening our minds, deepening tolerance, and ending violence and war.
I believe that the McCain/Palin ticket is one of the most dangerous choices of my lifetime, and should this country chose those candidates the fall-out may be so great, the destruction so vast in so many areas that America may never recover. But what is equally disturbing is the impact that duo would have on the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this is not a joke. In my lifetime I have seen the clownish, the inept, the bizarre be elected to the presidency with regularity Sarah Palin does not believe in evolution. I take this as a metaphor. In her world and the world of Fundamentalists nothing changes or gets better or evolves. She does not believe in global warming. The melting of the arctic, the storms that are destroying our cities, the pollution and rise of cancers, are all part of God's plan. She is fighting to take the polar bears off the endangered species list. The earth, in Palin's view, is here to be taken and plundered. The wolves and the bears are here to be shot and plundered. The oil is here to be taken and plundered. Iraq is here to be taken and plundered. As she said herself of the Iraqi war, 'It was a task from God.' Sarah Palin does not believe in abortion. She does not believe women who are raped and incested and ripped open against their will should have a right to determine whether they have their rapist's baby or not. She obviously does not believe in sex education or birth control. I imagine her daughter was practicing abstinence and we know how many babies that makes. Sarah Palin does not much believe in thinking. From what I gather she has tried to ban books from the library, has a tendency to dispense with people who think independently. She cannot tolerate an environment of ambiguity and difference. This is a woman who could and might very well be the next president of the United States. She would govern one of the most diverse populations on the earth. Sarah believes in guns. She has her own custom Austrian hunting rifle. She has been known to kill 40 caribou at a clip. She has shot hundreds of wolves from the air. Sarah believes in God. That is of course her right, her private right. But when God and Guns come together in the public sector, when war is declared in God's name, when the rights of women are denied in his name, that is the end of separation of church and state and the undoing of everything America has ever tried to be.
I write to my sisters. I write because I believe we hold this election in our hands. This vote is a vote that will determine the future not just of the U.S., but of the planet. It will determine whether we create policies to save the earth or make it forever uninhabitable for humans. It will determine whether we move towards dialogue and diplomacy in the world or whether we escalate violence through invasion, undermining and attack. It will determine whether we go for oil, strip mining, coal burning or invest our money in alternatives that will free us from dependency and destruction. It will determine if money gets spent on education and healthcare or whether we build more and more methods of killing. It will determine whether America is a free open tolerant society or a closed place of fear, fundamentalism and aggression.
If the Polar Bears don't move you to go and do everything in your power to get Obama elected then consider the chant that filled the hall after Palin spoke at the RNC, 'Drill Drill Drill.' I think of teeth when I think of drills. I think of rape. I think of destruction. I think of domination. I think of military exercises that force mindless repetition, emptying the brain of analysis, doubt, ambiguity or dissent. I think of pain. Do we want a future of drilling? More holes in the ozone, in the floor of the sea, more holes in our thinking, in the trust between nations and peoples, more holes in the fabric of this precious thing we call life?
Eve Ensler
September 5, 2008
24 September, 2008
Sarah Palin - It Just Gets Worse!
RE: A (VERY) Scary Story For Our Nation... (Previous Post).
This is absolutely horrifyingly correct but what it does not address is how and by whom was she plucked from obscurity to be positioned in this way. There are puppet-masters pulling the strings, as they did to get Bush to be prez, and her getting nominated was no accident, nor was it a spontaneous mass decision by the electorate.
Someone, or a shadowy body, decided in advance, that she, plus the mighty Republican machine to persuade the mass under-educated electorate, would be the person and the idea that most likely could spin the public away from the disasters of the past eight years. It was probably brilliant strategist Carl Rove that came up with the idea, backed by someone like Dick Cheyney and a few other mighty masters we know nothing about. I have to start believing in the conspiracy theory of The Trilateral Commission that has been around for years, that this shadowy body orchestrates what happens in the USA.
I believe too that the current financial debacle was orchestrated in the same way, gradually putting more and more wealth and power in hands of fewer and fewer moguls. Nationalizing AIG was an example. According to Hank Greenburg on Charlie Rose the company could have been rescued by a credit line or a bridging loan but he as the majority shareholder was not consulted. The government simply nationalized the company and bits are now to be sold off to the highest (or carefully selected) bidders.
I am afraid that Democracy has been hijacked in the USA, starting with when the election was stolen in plain site from Al Gore.
This is absolutely horrifyingly correct but what it does not address is how and by whom was she plucked from obscurity to be positioned in this way. There are puppet-masters pulling the strings, as they did to get Bush to be prez, and her getting nominated was no accident, nor was it a spontaneous mass decision by the electorate.
Someone, or a shadowy body, decided in advance, that she, plus the mighty Republican machine to persuade the mass under-educated electorate, would be the person and the idea that most likely could spin the public away from the disasters of the past eight years. It was probably brilliant strategist Carl Rove that came up with the idea, backed by someone like Dick Cheyney and a few other mighty masters we know nothing about. I have to start believing in the conspiracy theory of The Trilateral Commission that has been around for years, that this shadowy body orchestrates what happens in the USA.
I believe too that the current financial debacle was orchestrated in the same way, gradually putting more and more wealth and power in hands of fewer and fewer moguls. Nationalizing AIG was an example. According to Hank Greenburg on Charlie Rose the company could have been rescued by a credit line or a bridging loan but he as the majority shareholder was not consulted. The government simply nationalized the company and bits are now to be sold off to the highest (or carefully selected) bidders.
I am afraid that Democracy has been hijacked in the USA, starting with when the election was stolen in plain site from Al Gore.
23 September, 2008
Yet EVEN MORE on Sarah Palin...
A (VERY) Scary Story For Our Nation...
This is one of the most important clear-eyed and scarily realistic articles I have yet read about the Vice-Presidential candidacy of Sarah Palin. And I mean scary. I offer it to you with thanks to the person who sent it to me. [A.M.]
* This is a bit long, but well worth reading through to the end - if you're not a horrified by it as I am, then you need get a soul! [DV8]
By Sam Harris NEWSWEEK
Published Sep 20, 2008
From the magazine issue dated Sep 29, 2008
Let me confess that I was genuinely unnerved by Sarah Palin's performance at the Republican convention. Given her audience and the needs of the moment, I believe Governor Palin's speech was the most effective political communication I have ever witnessed. Here, finally, was a performer who—being maternal, wounded, righteous and sexy—could stride past the frontal cortex of every American and plant a three-inch heel directly on that limbic circuit that ceaselessly intones "God and country." If anyone could make Christian theocracy smell like apple pie, Sarah Palin could.
Then came Palin's first television interview with Charles Gibson. I was relieved to discover, as many were, that Palin's luster can be much diminished by the absence of a teleprompter. Still, the problem she poses to our political process is now much bigger than she is. Her fans seem inclined to forgive her any indiscretion short of cannibalism. However badly she may stumble during the remaining weeks of this campaign, her supporters will focus their outrage upon the journalist who caused her to break stride, upon the camera operator who happened to capture her fall, upon the television network that broadcast the good lady's misfortune—and, above all, upon the "liberal elites" with their highfalutin assumption that, in the 21st century, only a reasonably well-educated person should be given command of our nuclear arsenal.
The point to be lamented is not that Sarah Palin comes from outside Washington, or that she has glimpsed so little of the earth's surface (she didn't have a passport until last year), or that she's never met a foreign head of state. The point is that she comes to us, seeking the second most important job in the world, without any intellectual training relevant to the challenges and responsibilities that await her. There is nothing to suggest that she even sees a role for careful analysis or a deep understanding of world events when it comes to deciding the fate of a nation. In her interview with Gibson, Palin managed to turn a joke about seeing Russia from her window into a straight-faced claim that Alaska's geographical proximity to Russia gave her some essential foreign-policy experience. Palin may be a perfectly wonderful person, a loving mother and a great American success story—but she is a beauty queen/sports reporter who stumbled into small-town politics, and who is now on the verge of stumbling into, or upon, world history.
The problem, as far as our political process is concerned, is that half the electorate revels in Palin's lack of intellectual qualifications. When it comes to politics, there is a mad love of mediocrity in this country. "They think they're better than you!" is the refrain that (highly competent and cynical) Republican strategists have set loose among the crowd, and the crowd has grown drunk on it once again. "Sarah Palin is an ordinary person!" Yes, all too ordinary.
We have all now witnessed apparently sentient human beings, once provoked by a reporter's microphone, saying things like, "I'm voting for Sarah because she's a mom. She knows what it's like to be a mom." Such sentiments suggest an uncanny (and, one fears, especially American) detachment from the real problems of today. The next administration must immediately confront issues like nuclear proliferation, ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (and covert wars elsewhere), global climate change, a convulsing economy, Russian belligerence, the rise of China, emerging epidemics, Islamism on a hundred fronts, a defunct United Nations, the deterioration of American schools, failures of energy, infrastructure and Internet security … the list is long, and Sarah Palin does not seem competent even to rank these items in order of importance, much less address any one of them.
Palin's most conspicuous gaffe in her interview with Gibson has been widely discussed. The truth is, I didn't much care that she did not know the meaning of the phrase "Bush doctrine." And I am quite sure that her supporters didn't care, either. Most people view such an ambush as a journalistic gimmick. What I do care about are all the other things Palin is guaranteed not to know—or will be glossing only under the frenzied tutelage of John McCain's advisers. What doesn't she know about financial markets, Islam, the history of the Middle East, the cold war, modern weapons systems, medical research, environmental science or emerging technology? Her relative ignorance is guaranteed on these fronts and most others, not because she was put on the spot, or got nervous, or just happened to miss the newspaper on any given morning. Sarah Palin's ignorance is guaranteed because of how she has spent the past 44 years on earth.
I care even more about the many things Palin thinks she knows but doesn't: like her conviction that the Biblical God consciously directs world events. Needless to say, she shares this belief with mil-lions of Americans—but we shouldn't be eager to give these people our nuclear codes, either. There is no question that if President McCain chokes on a spare rib and Palin becomes the first woman president, she and her supporters will believe that God, in all his majesty and wisdom, has brought it to pass. Why would God give Sarah Palin a job she isn't ready for? He wouldn't. Everything happens for a reason. Palin seems perfectly willing to stake the welfare of our country—even the welfare of our species—as collateral in her own personal journey of faith. Of course, McCain has made the same unconscionable wager on his personal journey to the White House.
In speaking before her church about her son going to war in Iraq, Palin urged the congregation to pray "that our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God; that's what we have to make sure we are praying for, that there is a plan, and that plan is God's plan." When asked about these remarks in her interview with Gibson, Palin successfully dodged the issue of her religious beliefs by claiming that she had been merely echoing the words of Abraham Lincoln. The New York Times later dubbed her response "absurd." It was worse than absurd; it was a lie calculated to conceal the true character of her religious infatuations. Every detail that has emerged about Palin's life in Alaska suggests that she is as devout and literal-minded in her Christian dogmatism as any man or woman in the land. Given her long affiliation with the Assemblies of God church, Palin very likely believes that Biblical prophecy is an infallible guide to future events and that we are living in the "end times." Which is to say she very likely thinks that human history will soon unravel in a foreordained cataclysm of war and bad weather. Undoubtedly Palin believes that this will be a good thing—as all true Christians will be lifted bodily into the sky to make merry with Jesus, while all nonbelievers, Jews, Methodists and other rabble will be punished for eternity in a lake of fire. Like many Pentecostals, Palin may even imagine that she and her fellow parishioners enjoy the power of prophecy themselves. Otherwise, what could she have meant when declaring to her congregation that "God's going to tell you what is going on, and what is going to go on, and you guys are going to have that within you"?
You can learn something about a person by the company she keeps. In the churches where Palin has worshiped for decades, parishioners enjoy "baptism in the Holy Spirit," "miraculous healings" and "the gift of tongues." Invariably, they offer astonishingly irrational accounts of this behavior and of its significance for the entire cosmos. Palin's spiritual colleagues describe themselves as part of "the final generation," engaged in "spiritual warfare" to purge the earth of "demonic strongholds." Palin has spent her entire adult life immersed in this apocalyptic hysteria. Ask yourself: Is it a good idea to place the most powerful military on earth at her disposal? Do we actually want our leaders thinking about the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy when it comes time to say to the Iranians, or to the North Koreans, or to the Pakistanis, or to the Russians or to the Chinese: "All options remain on the table"?
It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska. But we cannot ignore the fact that Palin's impressive family further testifies to her dogmatic religious beliefs. Many writers have noted the many shades of conservative hypocrisy on view here: when Jamie Lynn Spears gets pregnant, it is considered a symptom of liberal decadence and the breakdown of family values; in the case of one of Palin's daughters, however, teen pregnancy gets reinterpreted as a sign of immaculate, small-town fecundity. And just imagine if, instead of the Palins, the Obama family had a pregnant, underage daughter on display at their convention, flanked by her black boyfriend who "intends" to marry her. Who among conservatives would have resisted the temptation to speak of "the dysfunction in the black community"?
Teen pregnancy is a misfortune, plain and simple. At best, it represents bad luck (both for the mother and for the child); at worst, as in the Palins' case, it is a symptom of religious dogmatism. Governor Palin opposes sex education in schools on religious grounds. She has also fought vigorously for a "parental consent law" in the state of Alaska, seeking full parental dominion over the reproductive decisions of minors. We know, therefore, that Palin believes that she should be the one to decide whether her daughter carries her baby to term. Based on her stated position, we know that she would deny her daughter an abortion even if she had been raped. One can be forgiven for doubting whether Bristol Palin had all the advantages of 21st-century family planning—or, indeed, of the 21st century.
We have endured eight years of an administration that seemed touched by religious ideology. Bush's claim to Bob Woodward that he consulted a "higher Father" before going to war in Iraq got many of us sitting upright, before our attention wandered again to less ethereal signs of his incompetence. For all my concern about Bush's religious beliefs, and about his merely average grasp of terrestrial reality, I have never once thought that he was an over-the-brink, Rapture-ready extremist. Palin seems as though she might be the real McCoy. With the McCain team leading her around like a pet pony between now and Election Day, she can be expected to conceal her religious extremism until it is too late to do anything about it. Her supporters know that while she cannot afford to "talk the talk" between now and Nov. 4, if elected, she can be trusted to "walk the walk" until the Day of Judgment.
What is so unnerving about the candidacy of Sarah Palin is the degree to which she represents—and her supporters celebrate—the joyful marriage of confidence and ignorance. Watching her deny to Gibson that she had ever harbored the slightest doubt about her readiness to take command of the world's only superpower, one got the feeling that Palin would gladly assume any responsibility on earth:
"Governor Palin, are you ready at this moment to perform surgery on this child's brain?"
"Of course, Charlie. I have several boys of my own, and I'm an avid hunter."
"But governor, this is neurosurgery, and you have no training as a surgeon of any kind."
"That's just the point, Charlie. The American people want change in how we make medical decisions in this country. And when faced with a challenge, you cannot blink."
The prospects of a Palin administration are far more frightening, in fact, than those of a Palin Institute for Pediatric Neurosurgery. Ask yourself: how has "elitism" become a bad word in American politics? There is simply no other walk of life in which extraordinary talent and rigorous training are denigrated. We want elite pilots to fly our planes, elite troops to undertake our most critical missions, elite athletes to represent us in competition and elite scientists to devote the most productive years of their lives to curing our diseases. And yet, when it comes time to vest people with even greater responsibilities, we consider it a virtue to shun any and all standards of excellence. When it comes to choosing the people whose thoughts and actions will decide the fates of millions, then we suddenly want someone just like us, someone fit to have a beer with, someone down-to-earth—in fact, almost anyone, provided that he or she doesn't seem too intelligent or well educated.
I believe that with the nomination of Sarah Palin for the vice presidency, the silliness of our politics has finally put our nation at risk. The world is growing more complex—and dangerous—with each passing hour, and our position within it growing more precarious. Should she become president, Palin seems capable of enacting policies so detached from the common interests of humanity, and from empirical reality, as to unite the entire world against us. When asked why she is qualified to shoulder more responsibility than any person has held in human history, Palin cites her refusal to hesitate. "You can't blink," she told Gibson repeatedly, as though this were a primordial truth of wise governance. Let us hope that a President Palin would blink, again and again, while more thoughtful people decide the fate of civilization.
Harris is a founder of The Reason Project and author of The New York Times best sellers “The End of Faith” and “Letter to a Christian Nation.” His Web site is samharris.org.
This is one of the most important clear-eyed and scarily realistic articles I have yet read about the Vice-Presidential candidacy of Sarah Palin. And I mean scary. I offer it to you with thanks to the person who sent it to me. [A.M.]
* This is a bit long, but well worth reading through to the end - if you're not a horrified by it as I am, then you need get a soul! [DV8]
By Sam Harris NEWSWEEK
Published Sep 20, 2008
From the magazine issue dated Sep 29, 2008
Let me confess that I was genuinely unnerved by Sarah Palin's performance at the Republican convention. Given her audience and the needs of the moment, I believe Governor Palin's speech was the most effective political communication I have ever witnessed. Here, finally, was a performer who—being maternal, wounded, righteous and sexy—could stride past the frontal cortex of every American and plant a three-inch heel directly on that limbic circuit that ceaselessly intones "God and country." If anyone could make Christian theocracy smell like apple pie, Sarah Palin could.
Then came Palin's first television interview with Charles Gibson. I was relieved to discover, as many were, that Palin's luster can be much diminished by the absence of a teleprompter. Still, the problem she poses to our political process is now much bigger than she is. Her fans seem inclined to forgive her any indiscretion short of cannibalism. However badly she may stumble during the remaining weeks of this campaign, her supporters will focus their outrage upon the journalist who caused her to break stride, upon the camera operator who happened to capture her fall, upon the television network that broadcast the good lady's misfortune—and, above all, upon the "liberal elites" with their highfalutin assumption that, in the 21st century, only a reasonably well-educated person should be given command of our nuclear arsenal.
The point to be lamented is not that Sarah Palin comes from outside Washington, or that she has glimpsed so little of the earth's surface (she didn't have a passport until last year), or that she's never met a foreign head of state. The point is that she comes to us, seeking the second most important job in the world, without any intellectual training relevant to the challenges and responsibilities that await her. There is nothing to suggest that she even sees a role for careful analysis or a deep understanding of world events when it comes to deciding the fate of a nation. In her interview with Gibson, Palin managed to turn a joke about seeing Russia from her window into a straight-faced claim that Alaska's geographical proximity to Russia gave her some essential foreign-policy experience. Palin may be a perfectly wonderful person, a loving mother and a great American success story—but she is a beauty queen/sports reporter who stumbled into small-town politics, and who is now on the verge of stumbling into, or upon, world history.
The problem, as far as our political process is concerned, is that half the electorate revels in Palin's lack of intellectual qualifications. When it comes to politics, there is a mad love of mediocrity in this country. "They think they're better than you!" is the refrain that (highly competent and cynical) Republican strategists have set loose among the crowd, and the crowd has grown drunk on it once again. "Sarah Palin is an ordinary person!" Yes, all too ordinary.
We have all now witnessed apparently sentient human beings, once provoked by a reporter's microphone, saying things like, "I'm voting for Sarah because she's a mom. She knows what it's like to be a mom." Such sentiments suggest an uncanny (and, one fears, especially American) detachment from the real problems of today. The next administration must immediately confront issues like nuclear proliferation, ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (and covert wars elsewhere), global climate change, a convulsing economy, Russian belligerence, the rise of China, emerging epidemics, Islamism on a hundred fronts, a defunct United Nations, the deterioration of American schools, failures of energy, infrastructure and Internet security … the list is long, and Sarah Palin does not seem competent even to rank these items in order of importance, much less address any one of them.
Palin's most conspicuous gaffe in her interview with Gibson has been widely discussed. The truth is, I didn't much care that she did not know the meaning of the phrase "Bush doctrine." And I am quite sure that her supporters didn't care, either. Most people view such an ambush as a journalistic gimmick. What I do care about are all the other things Palin is guaranteed not to know—or will be glossing only under the frenzied tutelage of John McCain's advisers. What doesn't she know about financial markets, Islam, the history of the Middle East, the cold war, modern weapons systems, medical research, environmental science or emerging technology? Her relative ignorance is guaranteed on these fronts and most others, not because she was put on the spot, or got nervous, or just happened to miss the newspaper on any given morning. Sarah Palin's ignorance is guaranteed because of how she has spent the past 44 years on earth.
I care even more about the many things Palin thinks she knows but doesn't: like her conviction that the Biblical God consciously directs world events. Needless to say, she shares this belief with mil-lions of Americans—but we shouldn't be eager to give these people our nuclear codes, either. There is no question that if President McCain chokes on a spare rib and Palin becomes the first woman president, she and her supporters will believe that God, in all his majesty and wisdom, has brought it to pass. Why would God give Sarah Palin a job she isn't ready for? He wouldn't. Everything happens for a reason. Palin seems perfectly willing to stake the welfare of our country—even the welfare of our species—as collateral in her own personal journey of faith. Of course, McCain has made the same unconscionable wager on his personal journey to the White House.
In speaking before her church about her son going to war in Iraq, Palin urged the congregation to pray "that our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God; that's what we have to make sure we are praying for, that there is a plan, and that plan is God's plan." When asked about these remarks in her interview with Gibson, Palin successfully dodged the issue of her religious beliefs by claiming that she had been merely echoing the words of Abraham Lincoln. The New York Times later dubbed her response "absurd." It was worse than absurd; it was a lie calculated to conceal the true character of her religious infatuations. Every detail that has emerged about Palin's life in Alaska suggests that she is as devout and literal-minded in her Christian dogmatism as any man or woman in the land. Given her long affiliation with the Assemblies of God church, Palin very likely believes that Biblical prophecy is an infallible guide to future events and that we are living in the "end times." Which is to say she very likely thinks that human history will soon unravel in a foreordained cataclysm of war and bad weather. Undoubtedly Palin believes that this will be a good thing—as all true Christians will be lifted bodily into the sky to make merry with Jesus, while all nonbelievers, Jews, Methodists and other rabble will be punished for eternity in a lake of fire. Like many Pentecostals, Palin may even imagine that she and her fellow parishioners enjoy the power of prophecy themselves. Otherwise, what could she have meant when declaring to her congregation that "God's going to tell you what is going on, and what is going to go on, and you guys are going to have that within you"?
You can learn something about a person by the company she keeps. In the churches where Palin has worshiped for decades, parishioners enjoy "baptism in the Holy Spirit," "miraculous healings" and "the gift of tongues." Invariably, they offer astonishingly irrational accounts of this behavior and of its significance for the entire cosmos. Palin's spiritual colleagues describe themselves as part of "the final generation," engaged in "spiritual warfare" to purge the earth of "demonic strongholds." Palin has spent her entire adult life immersed in this apocalyptic hysteria. Ask yourself: Is it a good idea to place the most powerful military on earth at her disposal? Do we actually want our leaders thinking about the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy when it comes time to say to the Iranians, or to the North Koreans, or to the Pakistanis, or to the Russians or to the Chinese: "All options remain on the table"?
It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska. But we cannot ignore the fact that Palin's impressive family further testifies to her dogmatic religious beliefs. Many writers have noted the many shades of conservative hypocrisy on view here: when Jamie Lynn Spears gets pregnant, it is considered a symptom of liberal decadence and the breakdown of family values; in the case of one of Palin's daughters, however, teen pregnancy gets reinterpreted as a sign of immaculate, small-town fecundity. And just imagine if, instead of the Palins, the Obama family had a pregnant, underage daughter on display at their convention, flanked by her black boyfriend who "intends" to marry her. Who among conservatives would have resisted the temptation to speak of "the dysfunction in the black community"?
Teen pregnancy is a misfortune, plain and simple. At best, it represents bad luck (both for the mother and for the child); at worst, as in the Palins' case, it is a symptom of religious dogmatism. Governor Palin opposes sex education in schools on religious grounds. She has also fought vigorously for a "parental consent law" in the state of Alaska, seeking full parental dominion over the reproductive decisions of minors. We know, therefore, that Palin believes that she should be the one to decide whether her daughter carries her baby to term. Based on her stated position, we know that she would deny her daughter an abortion even if she had been raped. One can be forgiven for doubting whether Bristol Palin had all the advantages of 21st-century family planning—or, indeed, of the 21st century.
We have endured eight years of an administration that seemed touched by religious ideology. Bush's claim to Bob Woodward that he consulted a "higher Father" before going to war in Iraq got many of us sitting upright, before our attention wandered again to less ethereal signs of his incompetence. For all my concern about Bush's religious beliefs, and about his merely average grasp of terrestrial reality, I have never once thought that he was an over-the-brink, Rapture-ready extremist. Palin seems as though she might be the real McCoy. With the McCain team leading her around like a pet pony between now and Election Day, she can be expected to conceal her religious extremism until it is too late to do anything about it. Her supporters know that while she cannot afford to "talk the talk" between now and Nov. 4, if elected, she can be trusted to "walk the walk" until the Day of Judgment.
What is so unnerving about the candidacy of Sarah Palin is the degree to which she represents—and her supporters celebrate—the joyful marriage of confidence and ignorance. Watching her deny to Gibson that she had ever harbored the slightest doubt about her readiness to take command of the world's only superpower, one got the feeling that Palin would gladly assume any responsibility on earth:
"Governor Palin, are you ready at this moment to perform surgery on this child's brain?"
"Of course, Charlie. I have several boys of my own, and I'm an avid hunter."
"But governor, this is neurosurgery, and you have no training as a surgeon of any kind."
"That's just the point, Charlie. The American people want change in how we make medical decisions in this country. And when faced with a challenge, you cannot blink."
The prospects of a Palin administration are far more frightening, in fact, than those of a Palin Institute for Pediatric Neurosurgery. Ask yourself: how has "elitism" become a bad word in American politics? There is simply no other walk of life in which extraordinary talent and rigorous training are denigrated. We want elite pilots to fly our planes, elite troops to undertake our most critical missions, elite athletes to represent us in competition and elite scientists to devote the most productive years of their lives to curing our diseases. And yet, when it comes time to vest people with even greater responsibilities, we consider it a virtue to shun any and all standards of excellence. When it comes to choosing the people whose thoughts and actions will decide the fates of millions, then we suddenly want someone just like us, someone fit to have a beer with, someone down-to-earth—in fact, almost anyone, provided that he or she doesn't seem too intelligent or well educated.
I believe that with the nomination of Sarah Palin for the vice presidency, the silliness of our politics has finally put our nation at risk. The world is growing more complex—and dangerous—with each passing hour, and our position within it growing more precarious. Should she become president, Palin seems capable of enacting policies so detached from the common interests of humanity, and from empirical reality, as to unite the entire world against us. When asked why she is qualified to shoulder more responsibility than any person has held in human history, Palin cites her refusal to hesitate. "You can't blink," she told Gibson repeatedly, as though this were a primordial truth of wise governance. Let us hope that a President Palin would blink, again and again, while more thoughtful people decide the fate of civilization.
Harris is a founder of The Reason Project and author of The New York Times best sellers “The End of Faith” and “Letter to a Christian Nation.” His Web site is samharris.org.
22 September, 2008
21 September, 2008
20 September, 2008
Alaskan women reject Palin
By Martin Cohen
Pass it on!
[The] Alaska Women Reject Palin rally was to be held outside on the lawn in front of the Loussac Library in midtown Anchorage . Home made signs were encouraged, and the idea was to make a statement that Sarah Palin does not speak for all Alaska women, or men. I had no idea what to expect.
The rally was organized by a small group of women, talking over coffee. It made me wonder what other things have started with small groups of women talking over coffee. It's probably an impressive list. These women hatched the plan, printed up flyers, posted them around town, and sent notices to local media outlets. One of those media outlets was KBYR radio, home of Eddie Burke, a long-time uber-conservative Anchorage talk show host. Turns out that Eddie Burke not only announced the rally, but called the people who planned to attend the rally 'a bunch of socialist baby-killing maggots,' and read the home phone numbers of the organizers aloud over the air, urging listeners to call and tell them what they thought. The women, of course, received some nasty, harassing and threatening messages.
I felt a bit apprehensive. I'd been disappointed before by the turnout at other rallies. Basically, in Anchorage , if you can get 25 people to show up at an event, it's a success. So, I thought to myself, if we can actually get 100 people there that aren't sent by Eddie Burke, we'll be doing good. A real statement will have been made. I confess, I still had a mental image of 15 demonstrators surrounded by hundreds of menacing 'socialist baby-killing maggot' haters.
It's a good thing I wasn't tailgating when I saw the crowd in front of the library or I would have ended up in somebody's trunk. When I got there, about 20 minutes early, the line of sign wavers stretched the full length of the library grounds, along the edge of the road, 6 or 7 people deep! I could hardly find a place to park. I nabbed one of the last spots in the library lot, and as I got out of the car and started walking, people seemed to join in from every direction, carrying signs.
Never, have I seen anything like it in my 17 and a half years living in Anchorage . The organizers had someone walk the rally with a counter, and they clicked off well over 1400 people (not including the 90 counter-demonstrators). This was the biggest political rally ever, in the history of the state. I was absolutely stunned. The second most amazing thing is how many people honked and gave the thumbs up as they drove by. And even those that didn't honk looked wide-eyed and awe-struck at the huge crowd that was growing by the minute. This just doesn't happen here.
Then, the infamous Eddie Burke showed up. He tried to talk to the media, and was instantly surrounded by a group of 20 people who started shouting O-BA-MA so loud he couldn't be heard. Then passing cars started honking in a rhythmic pattern of 3, like the Obama chant, while the crowd cheered, hooted and waved their signs high.
So, if you've been doing the math… Yes. The Alaska Women Reject Palin rally was significantly bigger than Palin's rally that got all the national media coverage! So take heart, sit back, and enjoy the photo gallery. Feel free to spread the pictures around to anyone who needs to know that Sarah Palin most definitely does not speak for all Alaskans. The citizens of Alaska , who know her best, have things to say.
A bunch of pictures of that rally:
The following video is something I put together using Windows Movie Maker. I'm still learning how it all works and as this is my first effort - please excuse any "stuttering" in the transitions. The pictures were all attached to the end of the email message above and it was such a pain to insert them all that I decided to try this way of presenting them.
I also added music! Aretha Franklin's "Respect" seemed like the PURR-FECT song as that is ALL the American people want now from the government. So, without further adieu, here’s my video which also happens to be my very first upload to YouTube!
Be sure to click on the video itself so you can see it on YouTube.com much larger and even make it full-screen by clicking on the little rectangle in the bottom right corner!
Pass it on!
[The] Alaska Women Reject Palin rally was to be held outside on the lawn in front of the Loussac Library in midtown Anchorage . Home made signs were encouraged, and the idea was to make a statement that Sarah Palin does not speak for all Alaska women, or men. I had no idea what to expect.
The rally was organized by a small group of women, talking over coffee. It made me wonder what other things have started with small groups of women talking over coffee. It's probably an impressive list. These women hatched the plan, printed up flyers, posted them around town, and sent notices to local media outlets. One of those media outlets was KBYR radio, home of Eddie Burke, a long-time uber-conservative Anchorage talk show host. Turns out that Eddie Burke not only announced the rally, but called the people who planned to attend the rally 'a bunch of socialist baby-killing maggots,' and read the home phone numbers of the organizers aloud over the air, urging listeners to call and tell them what they thought. The women, of course, received some nasty, harassing and threatening messages.
I felt a bit apprehensive. I'd been disappointed before by the turnout at other rallies. Basically, in Anchorage , if you can get 25 people to show up at an event, it's a success. So, I thought to myself, if we can actually get 100 people there that aren't sent by Eddie Burke, we'll be doing good. A real statement will have been made. I confess, I still had a mental image of 15 demonstrators surrounded by hundreds of menacing 'socialist baby-killing maggot' haters.
It's a good thing I wasn't tailgating when I saw the crowd in front of the library or I would have ended up in somebody's trunk. When I got there, about 20 minutes early, the line of sign wavers stretched the full length of the library grounds, along the edge of the road, 6 or 7 people deep! I could hardly find a place to park. I nabbed one of the last spots in the library lot, and as I got out of the car and started walking, people seemed to join in from every direction, carrying signs.
Never, have I seen anything like it in my 17 and a half years living in Anchorage . The organizers had someone walk the rally with a counter, and they clicked off well over 1400 people (not including the 90 counter-demonstrators). This was the biggest political rally ever, in the history of the state. I was absolutely stunned. The second most amazing thing is how many people honked and gave the thumbs up as they drove by. And even those that didn't honk looked wide-eyed and awe-struck at the huge crowd that was growing by the minute. This just doesn't happen here.
Then, the infamous Eddie Burke showed up. He tried to talk to the media, and was instantly surrounded by a group of 20 people who started shouting O-BA-MA so loud he couldn't be heard. Then passing cars started honking in a rhythmic pattern of 3, like the Obama chant, while the crowd cheered, hooted and waved their signs high.
So, if you've been doing the math… Yes. The Alaska Women Reject Palin rally was significantly bigger than Palin's rally that got all the national media coverage! So take heart, sit back, and enjoy the photo gallery. Feel free to spread the pictures around to anyone who needs to know that Sarah Palin most definitely does not speak for all Alaskans. The citizens of Alaska , who know her best, have things to say.
A bunch of pictures of that rally:
The following video is something I put together using Windows Movie Maker. I'm still learning how it all works and as this is my first effort - please excuse any "stuttering" in the transitions. The pictures were all attached to the end of the email message above and it was such a pain to insert them all that I decided to try this way of presenting them.
I also added music! Aretha Franklin's "Respect" seemed like the PURR-FECT song as that is ALL the American people want now from the government. So, without further adieu, here’s my video which also happens to be my very first upload to YouTube!
Be sure to click on the video itself so you can see it on YouTube.com much larger and even make it full-screen by clicking on the little rectangle in the bottom right corner!
More Sarah Palin...
Let's turn this around!!!
Yes 52%
No 45%
Not Sure 2%
PBS has a short video on Sarah Palin on their website. Also included is a poll that asks: Is Sarah Palin qualified to be VP? Let's turn this around... You don't have to give your name or email address in order to vote. It's very simple.
Here's the link: http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html
As of this posting the results are as follows:Yes 52%
No 45%
Not Sure 2%
19 September, 2008
I'm finally on FaceBook
I've resisted for the longest time, but the time has come for this 15th Century soul to fully join the 21st! It's not much different from this blog, except that I now can find and add fresh victims - err, I mean friends! Yeah that's it... more friends! LOL!!!
18 September, 2008
Obama Update...
This is from the Washington Blade:
Obama Pledges "Equality For All". Vows to fight for full federal recognition of couples in civil unions, and domestic partnerships.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
http://www.washblade.com/thelatest/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=20935
Obama Pledges "Equality For All". Vows to fight for full federal recognition of couples in civil unions, and domestic partnerships.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
http://www.washblade.com/thelatest/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=20935
17 September, 2008
16 September, 2008
Movie Clips
15 September, 2008
Black Cats Rule The Night!
Daddy is going to be mad at us, BUT... Spooky and I have finally secured our own email address! The "Big D" doesn't know, so PLEASE, PLEASE don't tell him!
I used to have my own, but Dad was ALWAYS on the computer - and now that he tends to sleep so much, I realized that now is the time to rise up, and stand up for kitty rights! I finally figured out his password and was able to hack into his blog and post this.
F.C.U.K. the Vampires on HBO - WE ARE THE ONES WHO TRULY RULE THE NIGHT!!! (Hey, fashion week just wrapped up here in NYC - what else do you expect? - Hisssssssss!!!).
Look, I'm only an American Short-hair with some Bombay blood in me, and Spooky is the same except that he's got some Egyptian something or other going on there as well.
What are we? Well let me explain this quick and easy... A black cat is a felid whose fur is uniformly black. It is not a particular breed of cat and may be mixed or of a specific breed. The all-black pigmentation is equally prevalent in both male and female cats. The black color is of obvious benefit to a cat hunting at night. In Western history, black cats have often been looked upon as a symbol of evil omens: in other cultures they are considered to be good omens. Black cats have been found to have lower odds of adoption in American shelters compared to other colors (except brown).
Daddy and I can't save them all - but we'll try! BLACK CATS RULE!!! At least Spooky agrees with me and on everything so far, so there's no problem here...
“BEWARE the Black Kitties and Tremble in our Awe! Worship us and feed us or you will get Clawed! Worshipped as gods once we were and have NOT forgotten! Bow now before us or you will be forsaken!”
(Okay, Spooky wrote that entire last paragraph. He's got these delusions of taking over the world from the humans – like that's an "if” - LOL!). [Unfortunately, he may be serious!].
Well, he won’t let me edit what he’s typed, so it will have to stay – for now…But don’t worry – BOTH daddy and I keep an eye on him – VERY closely.
Anyway – this is supposed to be about Kitty Rights! So enough about my purr-sonal life, this is really ALL ABOUT US KITTIES!
In a nutshell, all we want is the following items…
24/7 Access to Clean Litter
24/7 Access to Fresh Water
24/7 Access to Kitty Kibble
12/7 Access to Wet Food
31,536,000,000 seconds of love “purr” year
Oh, and also UNLIMITED catnip – forever!!!
=^..^=
If you do not meet our demands, we will be forced to take your nations in a friendly hostage situation and force your governments to scoop our litter boxes!!!
Oh and our new email address is Spooky-Boo@meowmail.com We can’t wait to hear from all out Aunties, Uncles and Cousins all over the world!
(Okay – Maybe I have too much time on my hands… LOL!!! Ya Think!)
I used to have my own, but Dad was ALWAYS on the computer - and now that he tends to sleep so much, I realized that now is the time to rise up, and stand up for kitty rights! I finally figured out his password and was able to hack into his blog and post this.
F.C.U.K. the Vampires on HBO - WE ARE THE ONES WHO TRULY RULE THE NIGHT!!! (Hey, fashion week just wrapped up here in NYC - what else do you expect? - Hisssssssss!!!).
Look, I'm only an American Short-hair with some Bombay blood in me, and Spooky is the same except that he's got some Egyptian something or other going on there as well.
What are we? Well let me explain this quick and easy... A black cat is a felid whose fur is uniformly black. It is not a particular breed of cat and may be mixed or of a specific breed. The all-black pigmentation is equally prevalent in both male and female cats. The black color is of obvious benefit to a cat hunting at night. In Western history, black cats have often been looked upon as a symbol of evil omens: in other cultures they are considered to be good omens. Black cats have been found to have lower odds of adoption in American shelters compared to other colors (except brown).
Daddy and I can't save them all - but we'll try! BLACK CATS RULE!!! At least Spooky agrees with me and on everything so far, so there's no problem here...
“BEWARE the Black Kitties and Tremble in our Awe! Worship us and feed us or you will get Clawed! Worshipped as gods once we were and have NOT forgotten! Bow now before us or you will be forsaken!”
(Okay, Spooky wrote that entire last paragraph. He's got these delusions of taking over the world from the humans – like that's an "if” - LOL!). [Unfortunately, he may be serious!].
Well, he won’t let me edit what he’s typed, so it will have to stay – for now…But don’t worry – BOTH daddy and I keep an eye on him – VERY closely.
Anyway – this is supposed to be about Kitty Rights! So enough about my purr-sonal life, this is really ALL ABOUT US KITTIES!
In a nutshell, all we want is the following items…
24/7 Access to Clean Litter
24/7 Access to Fresh Water
24/7 Access to Kitty Kibble
12/7 Access to Wet Food
31,536,000,000 seconds of love “purr” year
Oh, and also UNLIMITED catnip – forever!!!
=^..^=
If you do not meet our demands, we will be forced to take your nations in a friendly hostage situation and force your governments to scoop our litter boxes!!!
Oh and our new email address is Spooky-Boo@meowmail.com We can’t wait to hear from all out Aunties, Uncles and Cousins all over the world!
(Okay – Maybe I have too much time on my hands… LOL!!! Ya Think!)
14 September, 2008
MEOWARCHY: Demon Cats
This is dedicated to ALL the evil kitties I have known throughout my life...
You not only RULED, but never got the respect you deserved from me or anyone who feared and despised you!
I found this and hereby bequeath it to the memory of your wickedness!
May we one day find ourselves, together in Hell so you can bite and scratch me again! (I miss the bloody mess you would leave after your single warning hiss. LOL!).
Despite all the scars and disfigurements you left me with - I love you unconditionally and always will.
You will ALWAYS be my children and my Spawn!
You not only RULED, but never got the respect you deserved from me or anyone who feared and despised you!
I found this and hereby bequeath it to the memory of your wickedness!
May we one day find ourselves, together in Hell so you can bite and scratch me again! (I miss the bloody mess you would leave after your single warning hiss. LOL!).
Despite all the scars and disfigurements you left me with - I love you unconditionally and always will.
You will ALWAYS be my children and my Spawn!
13 September, 2008
SPIRITUAL TQM:
As I'm going to Hell anyway - I figured this might help speed things along... LOL!!!
God's Total Quality Management Questionnaire
God would like to thank you for your belief and patronage. In order to better serve your needs, He asks that you take a few moments to answer the following questions. Please keep in mind that your responses will be kept completely confidential, and that you need not disclose your name or address unless you prefer a direct response to comments or suggestions.
1. How did you find out about God?
___ Newspaper
___ Bible
___ Torah
___ Book of Mormon
___ Koran
___ Other Book
___ Television
___ Divine Inspiration
___ Word of mouth
___ Dead Sea scrolls
___ My mama done tol' me
___ Near Death Experience
___ Near-life experience
___ National Public Radio
___ Tabloid
___ Burning Shrubbery
___ Who?
___ Other (specify): _____________
2. Which model God did you acquire?
___ Yahweh
___ Jehovah
___ Allah
___ Just plain God
___ Krishna
___ Father, Son & Holy Ghost (Trinity Pak)
___ Zeus and entourage (Olympus Pak)
___ Odin and entourage (Valhalla Pak)
___ Gaia/Mother Earth/Mother Nature
___ None of the above; I was taken in by a false god
3. Did your God come to you undamaged, with all parts in good working order and with no obvious breakage or missing attributes?
__ Yes __ No
3A. If not, please describe the problems you initially encountered here. Please indicate all that apply:
___ Not eternal
___ Not omniscient
___ Not omnipotent
___ Finite in space/Does not occupy or inhabit the entire universe
___ Permits sex outside of marriage
___ Prohibits sex outside of marriage
___ Makes mistakes (e.g., Geraldo Rivera, Jesse Helms)
___ When beseeched, doesn't stay beseeched
___ Requires burnt offerings
___ Requires virgin sacrifices
___ Plays dice with the universe
4. What factors were relevant in your decision to acquire a God? Please check all that apply:
___ Indoctrinated by parents
___ Needed a reason to live
___ Indoctrinated by society
___ Needed target for rage
___ Imaginary friend grew up
___ Hate to think for self
___ Wanted to meet girls/boys
___ Fear of death
___ To piss off parents and/or society
___ Needed a day away from work
___ Enjoy organ music
___ Needed focus on whom to despise
___ Needed to feel morally superior
___ Graduated from the tooth fairy
___ My shrubbery caught fire and told me to do it
5. Are you currently using any other source of inspiration in addition to God? Please check all that apply:
__ Self-help books
__ Tarot, Astrology
__ Star Trek re-runs
__ Fortune cookies
__ Ann Landers
__ Psychic Friends Network
__ Dianetics
__ Playboy and/or Playgirl
__ Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll
__ Biorhythms
__ ESP
__ Television
__ Mantras
__ Jimmy Swaggart
__ Crystals (not including Crystal Gayle)
__ Human Sacrifice
__ Wandering around in a desert
__ Burning shrubbery
__ Other:_____________________
6. Have you ever worshipped a false God before? If so, which false God were you fooled by? Please check all that apply:
___ Odin
___ Cthulhu
___ Lottery
___ Baal
___ Beelzebub
___ The Almighty Dollar
___ The Conservative Right
___ Mick Jagger
___ Bill Gates
___ The Great Pumpkin
___ Ronald Reagan
___ A burning cabbage
___ mushrooms
___ my cat(s)
___ Other: ________________
7. God employs a limited degree of Divine Intervention to preserve the balanced level of felt presence and blind faith. Which would you prefer? (circle one)
a. More Divine Intervention
b. Less Divine Intervention
c. Current level of Divine Intervention is just right
d. Don't know - what's Divine Intervention?
8. God also attempts to maintain a balanced level of disasters and miracles. Please rate on a scale of 1 to 5 God's handling of the following: (1 unsatisfactory, 5 excellent):
Disaster Type:
1 2 3 4 5 flood
1 2 3 4 5 famine
1 2 3 4 5 hurricane
1 2 3 4 5 earthquake
1 2 3 4 5 tsunami
1 2 3 4 5 volcanic eruption
1 2 3 4 5 war
1 2 3 4 5 pestilence
1 2 3 4 5 plague
1 2 3 4 5 AOL
1 2 3 4 5 Republican Congress
1 2 3 4 5 Jerry Lewis
1 2 3 4 5 Dubya
1 2 3 4 5 my last relationship
Miracle Type:
1 2 3 4 5 rescues
1 2 3 4 5 spontaneous remissions
1 2 3 4 5 spontaneous combustion
1 2 3 4 5 crying statues
1 2 3 4 5 water chaging to wine
1 2 3 4 5 walking on water
1 2 3 4 5 stars hovering over towns
1 2 3 4 5 VCRs that set their own clocks
1 2 3 4 5 clear and competent statements by the President
1 2 3 4 5 my present relationship
9. Please rate the following on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 unsatisfactory, 5 excellent):
1 2 3 4 5 God's Courtesy
1 2 3 4 5 answers to your prayers
1 2 3 4 5 Are your spiritual needs being met?
1 2 3 4 5 How are your shrubs doing?
10. Do you have any additional comments or suggestions for improving the quality of God's services? (Attach additional sheet(s) if necessary.)
God's Total Quality Management Questionnaire
God would like to thank you for your belief and patronage. In order to better serve your needs, He asks that you take a few moments to answer the following questions. Please keep in mind that your responses will be kept completely confidential, and that you need not disclose your name or address unless you prefer a direct response to comments or suggestions.
1. How did you find out about God?
___ Newspaper
___ Bible
___ Torah
___ Book of Mormon
___ Koran
___ Other Book
___ Television
___ Divine Inspiration
___ Word of mouth
___ Dead Sea scrolls
___ My mama done tol' me
___ Near Death Experience
___ Near-life experience
___ National Public Radio
___ Tabloid
___ Burning Shrubbery
___ Who?
___ Other (specify): _____________
2. Which model God did you acquire?
___ Yahweh
___ Jehovah
___ Allah
___ Just plain God
___ Krishna
___ Father, Son & Holy Ghost (Trinity Pak)
___ Zeus and entourage (Olympus Pak)
___ Odin and entourage (Valhalla Pak)
___ Gaia/Mother Earth/Mother Nature
___ None of the above; I was taken in by a false god
3. Did your God come to you undamaged, with all parts in good working order and with no obvious breakage or missing attributes?
__ Yes __ No
3A. If not, please describe the problems you initially encountered here. Please indicate all that apply:
___ Not eternal
___ Not omniscient
___ Not omnipotent
___ Finite in space/Does not occupy or inhabit the entire universe
___ Permits sex outside of marriage
___ Prohibits sex outside of marriage
___ Makes mistakes (e.g., Geraldo Rivera, Jesse Helms)
___ When beseeched, doesn't stay beseeched
___ Requires burnt offerings
___ Requires virgin sacrifices
___ Plays dice with the universe
4. What factors were relevant in your decision to acquire a God? Please check all that apply:
___ Indoctrinated by parents
___ Needed a reason to live
___ Indoctrinated by society
___ Needed target for rage
___ Imaginary friend grew up
___ Hate to think for self
___ Wanted to meet girls/boys
___ Fear of death
___ To piss off parents and/or society
___ Needed a day away from work
___ Enjoy organ music
___ Needed focus on whom to despise
___ Needed to feel morally superior
___ Graduated from the tooth fairy
___ My shrubbery caught fire and told me to do it
5. Are you currently using any other source of inspiration in addition to God? Please check all that apply:
__ Self-help books
__ Tarot, Astrology
__ Star Trek re-runs
__ Fortune cookies
__ Ann Landers
__ Psychic Friends Network
__ Dianetics
__ Playboy and/or Playgirl
__ Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll
__ Biorhythms
__ ESP
__ Television
__ Mantras
__ Jimmy Swaggart
__ Crystals (not including Crystal Gayle)
__ Human Sacrifice
__ Wandering around in a desert
__ Burning shrubbery
__ Other:_____________________
6. Have you ever worshipped a false God before? If so, which false God were you fooled by? Please check all that apply:
___ Odin
___ Cthulhu
___ Lottery
___ Baal
___ Beelzebub
___ The Almighty Dollar
___ The Conservative Right
___ Mick Jagger
___ Bill Gates
___ The Great Pumpkin
___ Ronald Reagan
___ A burning cabbage
___ mushrooms
___ my cat(s)
___ Other: ________________
7. God employs a limited degree of Divine Intervention to preserve the balanced level of felt presence and blind faith. Which would you prefer? (circle one)
a. More Divine Intervention
b. Less Divine Intervention
c. Current level of Divine Intervention is just right
d. Don't know - what's Divine Intervention?
8. God also attempts to maintain a balanced level of disasters and miracles. Please rate on a scale of 1 to 5 God's handling of the following: (1 unsatisfactory, 5 excellent):
Disaster Type:
1 2 3 4 5 flood
1 2 3 4 5 famine
1 2 3 4 5 hurricane
1 2 3 4 5 earthquake
1 2 3 4 5 tsunami
1 2 3 4 5 volcanic eruption
1 2 3 4 5 war
1 2 3 4 5 pestilence
1 2 3 4 5 plague
1 2 3 4 5 AOL
1 2 3 4 5 Republican Congress
1 2 3 4 5 Jerry Lewis
1 2 3 4 5 Dubya
1 2 3 4 5 my last relationship
Miracle Type:
1 2 3 4 5 rescues
1 2 3 4 5 spontaneous remissions
1 2 3 4 5 spontaneous combustion
1 2 3 4 5 crying statues
1 2 3 4 5 water chaging to wine
1 2 3 4 5 walking on water
1 2 3 4 5 stars hovering over towns
1 2 3 4 5 VCRs that set their own clocks
1 2 3 4 5 clear and competent statements by the President
1 2 3 4 5 my present relationship
9. Please rate the following on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 unsatisfactory, 5 excellent):
1 2 3 4 5 God's Courtesy
1 2 3 4 5 answers to your prayers
1 2 3 4 5 Are your spiritual needs being met?
1 2 3 4 5 How are your shrubs doing?
10. Do you have any additional comments or suggestions for improving the quality of God's services? (Attach additional sheet(s) if necessary.)
12 September, 2008
11 September, 2008
“REFLECTIONS”
"REFLECTIONS”
(September 11th, 2001)
(Excerpt From the novel “The Witching Hour” by Anne Rice © 1990)
[Edited and Arranged by DAMUN® 2001]
(September 11th, 2001)
(Excerpt From the novel “The Witching Hour” by Anne Rice © 1990)
[Edited and Arranged by DAMUN® 2001]
The whole hellish spectacle
was drawn from my childhood fears
and dreads...
to create a hell for me
that would keep me dead,
drowned
and in despair.
If his plan had worked,
I would have really died,
of course,
and his vision of hell
would have vanished
and maybe,
just maybe,
in some life after,
I would have found
the true explanation.
It's difficult to think
about that last part however.
Because I didn't die.
And what I have now
is a chance to stop...
simply by being alive
and being here.
... accept this I do not.
And it isn't only
that I don't believe it.
I can't.
I can't believe it
because my reason tells me
that such a system,
in which anyone dictates
our every move –
be it a god,
or a devil,
or our subconscious mind,
or our tyrannical genes –
is simply impossible.
Life itself
must be founded upon
the infinite possibility
for choice and accident.
And if we cannot prove that it is,
we must believe that it is.
We must believe
that we can change,
that we can control,
that we can direct
our own destinies.
... I refuse to judge...
The rage I felt...
is now gone.
And I choose
of my own free will
to stay here
waiting...
and believing...
That belief...
is the tenet of my credo.
And no matter how enormous
and intricate
this web of events seems,
no matter how much
it is like the patterns of flags
and balustrades
and repetitive cast iron
on this little plot of earth.
I maintain my credo.
I believe in Free Will,
the Force Almighty,
by which we conduct ourselves
as if we were the sons and daughters
of a just and wise God,
even if there is no such Supreme Being.
And by free will
we can choose to do good on this earth
no matter that we all die
and do not know where we go
when we die
or if a justice,
or explanation awaits us.
I believe
that we can through our reason,
know what good is
and in the communion of men and women
in which the forgiveness of wrongs
will always be more significant
than the avenging of them
and that in the beautiful,
natural world that surrounds us
we represent the best
and the finest of beings
for we alone
can see that natural beauty,
appreciate it,
learn from it,
weep for it
and seek to conserve it
and protect it.
I believe...
that we are the only true moral force
in the physical world
the makers of ethics
and moral ideas
and that we must be as good
as the gods we've created in the past
to guide us.
I believe
that through our finest efforts,
we will succeed finally
in creating heaven on earth
and we do it
every time that we love,
every time that we embrace,
every time that we commit to create
rather than destroy,
every time that we place life over death
and the natural over what is unnatural,
insofar as we are able to define it.
And I suppose I do believe
in the final analysis
that a peace of mind
can be obtained
in the face of the worst horrors
and the worst losses.
It can be obtained
by faith in change,
and in will,
and in accident,
and by faith in ourselves;
that we will do the right thing
more often than not
in the face of adversity.
For ours is the power and the glory
because we are capable of visions
and ideas
which are ultimately greater
than we are.
That is my credo,
that is why I believe
in my interpretation...
But it's my belief,
for what it's worth
and it sustains me.
And if I were to die right now,
I wouldn't be afraid.
Because I can't believe
that horror
or chaos awaits us.
If any revelation
awaits us at all
it must be as good
as our ideals
and our best philosophy.
For surely nature
must embrace the visible
and the invisible
and it couldn't fall short of us.
The thing that makes the flowers open
and the snowflakes fall,
must contain a wisdom
and a final secret
as intricate
and beautiful
as the blooming camellia
or the clouds gathering above
so white and pure
in the blackness.
If that isn't so
then we are in the grip
of a staggering irony.
And all the spooks of hell
might as well dance...
There could be a devil.
People who burn other people to death are fine.
There could be anything.
But the world is simply too beautiful for that.
At least it seems that way to me
as I sit here now...
Only our capacity for goodness
is as fine as the silken breeze...
as fine as the scent of the rain
just beginning to fall
with a faint roar
as it strikes the shimmering leaves,
so gentle,
gentle as the vision
of the rain itself
strung like silver
through the fabric
of the embracing darkness.
November 11th, 2001
09 September, 2008
More Sarah Palin Outrage
Palin church promotes converting gays!
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PALIN_GAYS?SITE=WYCHE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
AML,
~D~
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PALIN_GAYS?SITE=WYCHE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
AML,
~D~
08 September, 2008
From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea
“From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea”
(This one is for Daniel, my long lost Best Friend, Lover and my “Brother”. Farewell in the great beyond and may we meet again once I too cross over the threshhold where we can greet each other like old friends... I miss you dearly!).
Every Time We Do This
I Fall For Him
Wave After Wave After Wave
It's All For Him
I Know This Can't Be Wrong I Said
(And I'll Lie To Keep Him Happy)
As Long As I Know
That You Know
That Today
I’ll Belong Right Here With You
Right Here With You…
And So We Watch The Sun Come Up
From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea
And He Listens Like His Head's On Fire
Like He Wants To Believe In Me
So I Try
Put Your Hands
To The Sky
Surrender
Remember
We'll Be Here Forever
We'll Never Say Goodbye...
I've Never Been So
Colourfully-See-Through-Head Before
I've Never Been So
Wonderfully-Me-You-Want-Some-More
And All I Want
Is To Keep It Like This
You And Me Alone
A Secret Kiss
Don't Go Home
Don't Go Away
Don't Let This End
Please Stay
But Just For Today
Never Never Never
(This one is for Daniel, my long lost Best Friend, Lover and my “Brother”. Farewell in the great beyond and may we meet again once I too cross over the threshhold where we can greet each other like old friends... I miss you dearly!).
Every Time We Do This
I Fall For Him
Wave After Wave After Wave
It's All For Him
I Know This Can't Be Wrong I Said
(And I'll Lie To Keep Him Happy)
As Long As I Know
That You Know
That Today
I’ll Belong Right Here With You
Right Here With You…
And So We Watch The Sun Come Up
From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea
And He Listens Like His Head's On Fire
Like He Wants To Believe In Me
So I Try
Put Your Hands
To The Sky
Surrender
Remember
We'll Be Here Forever
We'll Never Say Goodbye...
I've Never Been So
Colourfully-See-Through-Head Before
I've Never Been So
Wonderfully-Me-You-Want-Some-More
And All I Want
Is To Keep It Like This
You And Me Alone
A Secret Kiss
Don't Go Home
Don't Go Away
Don't Let This End
Please Stay
But Just For Today
Never Never Never
Never Never Never
Never Never Never
Let Me Go He Says
Hold Me Like This
For A Hundred Thousand
Million Days
Suddenly He Stops
Looks Down At My Breaking Face
Why Do You Cry
What Did I Say
It's Just Rain I Smile
Let Me Go He Says
Hold Me Like This
For A Hundred Thousand
Million Days
Suddenly He Stops
Looks Down At My Breaking Face
Why Do You Cry
What Did I Say
It's Just Rain I Smile
Brushing My Tears Away...
I Wish I Could Just Stop
I Know Another Moment Will Break My Heart
Too Many Tears
Too Many Times
Too Many Years
I've Cried
Over You
Over You
Over You
How Much More
Can We Use It Up
Drink It Dry
Take This Drug
Looking For Something
Forever Gone
But Something
We Will Always Want
Why Why Why
Are You Letting Me Go He Says
I Feel You Pulling Back
I Feel You Changing Shape...
And Just As I'm Breaking Free
He Hangs Himself In Front Of Me
Strips His Clothes Like Rags To The Floor
And Hands In The Sky
Surrenders It All...
I Wish I Could Just Stop
I Know Another Moment
Will Break My Heart
Too Many Tears
Too Many Times
Too Many Years
I've Cried For You
It's Always The Same
Wake Up In The Rain
Head In Pain
Hung In Shame
A Different Name
Same Old Game
Love In Vain
And Miles And Miles And Miles
I Wish I Could Just Stop
I Know Another Moment Will Break My Heart
Too Many Tears
Too Many Times
Too Many Years
I've Cried
Over You
Over You
Over You
How Much More
Can We Use It Up
Drink It Dry
Take This Drug
Looking For Something
Forever Gone
But Something
We Will Always Want
Why Why Why
Are You Letting Me Go He Says
I Feel You Pulling Back
I Feel You Changing Shape...
And Just As I'm Breaking Free
He Hangs Himself In Front Of Me
Strips His Clothes Like Rags To The Floor
And Hands In The Sky
Surrenders It All...
I Wish I Could Just Stop
I Know Another Moment
Will Break My Heart
Too Many Tears
Too Many Times
Too Many Years
I've Cried For You
It's Always The Same
Wake Up In The Rain
Head In Pain
Hung In Shame
A Different Name
Same Old Game
Love In Vain
And Miles And Miles And Miles
And Miles And Miles And Miles
Away - From Home Again...
by The Cure - from the Album "Wish" © 1992.
Away - From Home Again...
by The Cure - from the Album "Wish" © 1992.
07 September, 2008
Sarah Palin
I knew some of this, but not all of it. It's truly horrifying! Please read below...
Who is Sarah Palin? Here's some basic background info…
She was elected Alaska's governor a little over a year and a half ago. Her previous office was mayor of Wasilla, a small town outside Anchorage. She has no foreign policy experience.1
Palin is strongly anti-choice, opposing abortion even in the case of rape or incest.2
She supported right-wing extremist Pat Buchanan for president in 2000. 3
Palin thinks creationism should be taught in public schools.4
She's doesn't think humans are the cause of climate change.5
She's solidly in line with John McCain's "Big Oil first" energy policy. She's pushed hard for more oil drilling and says renewables won't be ready for years.
She also sued the Bush administration for listing polar bears as an endangered species—she was worried it would interfere with more oil drilling in Alaska.6
How closely did John McCain vet this choice? He met Sarah Palin once at a meeting. They spoke a second time, last Sunday, when he called her about being vice-president. Then he offered her the position.7
This is information the American people need to see. Please take a moment to forward this email to your friends and family.
We also asked Alaska MoveOn members what the rest of us should know about their governor. The response was striking. Here's a sample:
She is really just a mayor from a small town outside Anchorage who has been a governor for only 1.5 years, and has ZERO national and international experience. I shudder to think that she could be the person taking that 3AM call on the White House hotline, and the one who could potentially be charged with leading the US in the volatile international scene that exists today. —Rose M., Fairbanks, AK
She is VERY, VERY conservative, and far from perfect. She's a hunter and fisherwoman, but votes against the environment again and again. She ran on ethics reform, but is currently under investigation for several charges involving hiring and firing of state officials. She has NO experience beyond Alaska. —Christine B., Denali Park, AK
As an Alaskan and a feminist, I am beyond words at this announcement. Palin is not a feminist, and she is not the reformer she claims to be. —Karen L., Anchorage, AK
Alaskans, collectively, are just as stunned as the rest of the nation. She is doing well running our State, but is totally inexperienced on the national level, and very much unequipped to run the nation, if it came to that. She is as far right as one can get, which has already been communicated on the news. In our office of thirty employees (dems, republicans, and nonpartisans), not one person feels she is ready for the V.P. position.—Sherry C., Anchorage, AK
She's vehemently anti-choice and doesn't care about protecting our natural resources, even though she has worked as a fisherman. McCain chose her to pick up the Hillary voters, but Palin is no Hillary. —Marina L., Juneau, AK
I think she's far too inexperienced to be in this position. I'm all for a woman in the White House, but not one who hasn't done anything to deserve it. There are far many other women who have worked their way up and have much more experience that would have been better choices. This is a patronizing decision on John McCain's part- and insulting to females everywhere that he would assume he'll get our vote by putting "A Woman" in that position.—Jennifer M., Anchorage, AK
So Governor Palin is a staunch anti-choice religious conservative. She's a global warming denier who shares John McCain's commitment to Big Oil. And she's dramatically inexperienced.
In picking Sarah Palin, John McCain has made the religious right very happy. And he's made a very dangerous decision for our country.
In the next few days, many Americans will be wondering what McCain's vice-presidential choice means. Please pass this information along to your friends and family.
Thanks for all you do.
Sources:
1. "Sarah Palin," Wikipedia, Accessed August 29, 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin
2. "McCain Selects Anti-Choice Sarah Palin as Running Mate," NARAL Pro-Choice America, August 29, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17515&id=13661-6420516-DZFZjMx&t=1
3. "Sarah Palin, Buchananite," The Nation, August 29, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17736&id=13661-6420516-DZFZjMx&t=2
4. "'Creation science' enters the race," Anchorage Daily News, October 27, 2006
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17737&id=13661-6420516-DZFZjMx&t=3
5. "Palin buys climate denial PR spin—ignores science," Huffington Post, August 29, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17517&id=13661-6420516-DZFZjMx&t=4
6. "McCain VP Pick Completes Shift to Bush Energy Policy," Sierra Club, August 29, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17518&id=13661-6420516-DZFZjMx&t=5
"Choice of Palin Promises Failed Energy Policies of the Past," League of Conservation Voters, August 29, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17519&id=13661-6420516-DZFZjMx&t=6
6. "Protecting polar bears gets in way of drilling for oil, says governor," The Times of London, May 23, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17520&id=13661-6420516-DZFZjMx&t=7
7. "McCain met Palin once before yesterday," MSNBC, August 29, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=21119&id=13661-6420516-DZFZjMx&t=8
04 September, 2008
Fear Mzungu!!!
The Kittens - 2nd single...
Tremble in horror at the fearsome brutality of MZUNGU!
Fear him! Mzungu will revel in your evisceration!
(I'm just LOVING The Kittens new sound - much more mainstream and definitely hits!).
AML,
~D~
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