Is It Just Me?

...Or Does This Make You Scream With Outrage?

2008-04-27T09:18:00.000-07:00

Thanks to Daily Kos for spreading the word... now it's our turn!

...Is This Our Quote of the Day?

2008-04-27T07:11:00.000-07:00

"A presidential candidate who lightly commits to obliterating Iran - and, presumably, all the children, parents, and grandparents in Iran - should not be answering the White House phone at any time of day or night."

Those are the closing lines of a Boston Globe editorial entitled Hillary Strangelove.

...Should We Be Paying More Attention To This?

2008-04-24T15:15:00.000-07:00

...Or Is This Refreshing??

2008-04-21T10:54:00.000-07:00

...Or Is Hillary in My GPS?

2008-04-11T19:55:00.000-07:00

We got a new portable Garmin GPS for our trip to Maui. After only three days we christened it "Hillary."

Why?
Three reasons:
1. She thinks she knows it all but she hasn't a clue about obstacles outside her script.
2. She just loves giving orders and she doesn't much care if they're the right ones.
3. Her favorite word is "Recalculating."

...Or Should We Send This Woman Money?

2008-03-27T07:39:00.000-07:00

This is somebody we need in Congress! Donate by clicking on the header.

...Ou Est-ce que c'est tres tres drole?

2008-03-22T13:50:00.000-07:00

Mon Dieu! C'est tres drole et tres vrais!

...Or Should They Call Themselves "The McPain Girls"?

2008-03-22T11:56:00.000-07:00

AAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!

...Is This the Answer to the Essence of Evil?

2008-03-12T20:27:00.000-07:00

I found this on OMG.com, a gay website that really enjoy. It's reportedly a letter from a high school kid responding to the statements of Sally Kern, whose ugly visage and recorded remarks you'll find under the "Essence of Evil" header farther down this page. (I say reportedly because while I have no reason to doubt its authenticity, neither do I have sufficient proof of its authenticity to say that I know it to be authentic.)

"Real" or not, it's worth reading:

Rep Kern:

On April 19, 1995, in Oklahoma City a terrorist detonated a bomb that killed my mother and 167 others. 19 children died that day. Had I not had the chicken pox that day, the body count would've likely have included one more. Over 800 other Oklahomans were injured that day and many of those still suffer through their permanent wounds.

That terrorist was neither a homosexual or was he involved in Islam. He was an extremist Christian forcing his views through a body count. He held his beliefs and made those who didn't live up to them pay with their lives.

As you were not a resident of Oklahoma on that day, it could be explained why you so carelessly chose words saying that the homosexual agenda is worst than terrorism. I can most certainly tell you through my own experience that is not true. I am sure there are many people in your voting district that laid a loved one to death after the terrorist attack on Oklahoma City. I kind of doubt you'll find one of them that will agree with you.

I was five years old when my mother died. I remember what a beautiful, wise, and remarkable woman she was. I miss her. Your harsh words and misguided beliefs brought me to tears, because you told me that my mother's killer was a better person than a group of people that are seeking safety and tolerance for themselves.

As someone left motherless and victimized by terrorists, I say to you very clearly you are absolutely wrong.

You represent a district in Oklahoma City and you very coldly express a lack of love, sympathy or understanding for what they've been through. Can I ask if you might have chosen wiser words were you a real Oklahoman that was here to share the suffering with Oklahoma City? Might your heart be a bit less cold had you been around to see the small bodies of children being pulled out of rubble and carried away by weeping firemen?

I've spent 12 years in Oklahoma public schools and never once have I had anyone try to force a gay agenda on me. I have seen, however, many gay students beat up and there's never a day in school that has went by when I haven't heard the word **** slung at someone. I've been called gay slurs many times and they hurt and I am not even gay so I can just imagine how a real gay person feels. You were a school teacher and you have seen those things too. How could you care so little about the suffering of some of your students?

Let me tell you the result of your words in my school. Every openly gay and suspected gay in the school were having to walk together Monday for protection. They looked scared. They've already experienced enough hate and now your words gave other students even more motivation to sneer at them and call them names. Afterall, you are a teacher and a lawmaker, many young people have taken your words to heart. That happens when you assume a role of responsibility in your community. I seriously think before this week ends that some kids here will be going home bruised and bloody because of what you said.

I wish you could've met my mom. Maybe she could've guided you in how a real Christian should be acting and speaking.

I have not had a mother for nearly 13 years now and wonder if there were fewer people like you around, people with more love and tolerance in their hearts instead of strife, if my mom would be here to watch me graduate from high school this spring. Now she won't be there. So I'll be packing my things and leaving Oklahoma to go to college elsewhere and one day be a writer and I have no intentions to ever return here. I have no doubt that people like you will incite crazy people to build more bombs and kill more people again. I don't want to be here for that. I just can't go through that again.

You may just see me as a kid, but let me try to teach you something. The old saying is sticks and stones will break your bones, but words will never hurt you. Well, your words hurt me. Your words disrespected the memory of my mom. Your words can cause others to pick up sticks and stones and hurt others.

Sincerely

Tucker

...Or Is This the Face of Stupid Angry?

2008-03-12T15:18:00.000-07:00

"If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.”

"Any time anybody does anything that in any way pulls this campaign down and says let's address reality and the problems we're facing in this world, you're accused of being racist, so you have to shut up," Ferraro said. "Racism works in two different directions. I really think they're attacking me because I'm white. How's that?"

Since, given her biography, one would be hard-pressed to accuse Ms. Ferraro of ignorance, we have to assume that the woman is stupid.

Let's look at some facts:

As of Monday morning there will have been three black Governors of States in this country since Reconstruction, only two of whom have been elected to the office. On the other hand, there have been 29 women governors, eight of whom currently serve.

In the U.S. House of Representatives, there are 41 members of the Congressional Black Caucus, 13 of whom are women and one of whom is Senator Obama. There are 73 women in the House, including those 13 African-American and including the woman who is Speaker of the House.

There have, since Reconstruction, been three black members of the Senate, one of whom was a woman and one of whom is Senator Obama who is the only one currently serving. There have, since 1922, been 35 women in the Senate (including one who served only one day), 16 of whom currently serve.

Gloria Steinem, Geraldine Ferraro, and the rest of Hillary's hitwomen need to put away their bubbling cauldrons of bitterness and anger and look to the future of their party and their movement. Young women are already reluctant to call themselves feminists... this kind of behavior is going to make that reluctance even more understandable.

...Or Is This Face the Essence of Evil?

2008-03-10T21:09:00.000-07:00

A couple of entries down you'll find a recording of Oklahoma lawmaker Sally Kern's comments on gays. The great political philosopher Hanna Arendt described it as "the banality of evil." This deeply hateful woman could be the president of your local PTA... unless you live in the Bible Belt, in which case she's probably passing laws and passing out tax money....

...Or Does This Like Someone We Know Too Well?

2008-03-10T09:52:00.000-07:00

From Adam Nagourney, Patrick Healy, and Kate Zernike in today's New York Times...

"[X] showed a tendency toward an insular management style, relying on a coterie of aides who have worked for [X] for years, [X]'s aides and associates said. [X]'s choice of lieutenants, and... insistence on staying with them even when friends urged [X] to shake things up, was blamed by some associates for the campaign’s woes. Again and again, [X] was portrayed as a manager who valued loyalty and familiarity over experience and expertise."

The emphases are mine and the article isn't- though you might think it should be- George W. Bush.

...Does This Level of Hate Make You Cringe?

2008-03-09T19:59:00.000-07:00

...Or Does This Man Just Make Sense?

2008-03-03T15:43:00.000-08:00

Steve Novick just got the endorsement of former Governor John Kitzhaber, in part, because of common sense approaches like this one. I encourage you to click on The Hook over on the left and see more of these monologues on topics important to all Oregonians.

...Does This Say It Very Well?

2008-02-25T11:12:00.000-08:00

As you may know, I’m running for the United States Senate in Oregon because I’m really worried about the direction of the country. We face an awe-inspiring quintuple challenge of ending the war, stopping global warming, combating runaway economic inequality, reforming the health care system, and preventing the national debt from soaring out of control. We need to get moving on all of those issues – and we needed to do so yesterday. To meet those challenges, we need political leaders who will be willing to take risks, willing to call for sacrifice, and be able to persuade the American people that their sacrifices will not be in vain.

That’s why I’m voting for Barack Obama.

The opening paragraphs of Steve Novick's Feb. 25 statement endorsing the Politics of Hope.

...Or Is Colene of NYC Our Kinda Girl?

2008-02-20T12:44:00.000-08:00

Over on MSNBC they're running a story on this new Hill-Billy ad being run in the Austin/Akron/Altoona Axis states by a 527 that's gaming the election laws by raising $10M in $100,000 donations to fund the run. Colene from New York New York had this totally insightful comment: Tonya Harding didn't win the Olympics. Hillary Clinton won't win the White House.

...Or Is This The Essence of Miss McConnell?

2008-02-12T18:14:00.000-08:00

This was produced by the crew at Roadblock Republicans who deserve your attention and support. They be very funny.

...Or Does This Make You Wanna Say "Yeeewww, We Can't"?

2008-02-11T11:44:00.000-08:00

...Or Does This Make You Wanna Scream "Eeeeeewwww"?

2008-02-08T09:23:00.000-08:00

Immediately after this picture was taken, Chimpy thumped St. John on the forehead and yelled "HEAL." When St. John fell writhing to the floor, Chimpy shrugged and walked away muttering "I don't git it. It always works for Oral."

I want to see this image on billboards all over the country this fall...

... Or Does This Make You Think WE CAN!

2008-02-03T12:35:00.000-08:00

...Or Is It Time to Sing Dylan Again??

2008-01-28T11:31:00.000-08:00

I'm so glad that I'm old enough to remember John and Bobby Kennedy and remember when this song - recorded before John's murder and released a couple of months after- was an anthem. Maybe it can and should be again... at least for us old farts who can help rather than hinder the changes that desperately need to be made in this country, changes we won't get by returning to the 90s.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

...Or Does This Promise Real Change?

2008-01-28T08:12:00.000-08:00

We Believe in Steve!

...Or Is This What We're Committing To?

2008-01-26T19:44:00.000-08:00

When people at Barack Obama rallies raise those signs saying Change We Can Believe In shouldn't the reverse side say Change We Will Work For? Just a thought....

...Or Is This Really a Restore America Government?

2008-01-26T13:15:00.000-08:00

This is my Dream Team but I'm open to changes and suggestions....

CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICES:
President Barack Obama
Vice President Russell Feingold
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
Senate Majority Leader Thomas Dodd

CABINET / CABINET LEVEL OFFICES:
Secretary of State Joseph Biden
Secretary of the Treasury Barney Frank
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel
Attorney General Johnny Edwards
Secretary of the Interior Mary Aitcheson Gore
Secretary of Agriculture Kathleen Sibelius
Secretary of Commerce Jennifer Granholm
Secretary of Labor David Bonior
Secretary of Health & Human Services Loretta Sanchez
Secretary of Housing & Urban Development Gary Locke
Secretary of Transportation Peter DeFazio
Secretary of Energy Federico Peña
Secretary of Education Eleanor Holmes Norton
Secretary of Veterans' Affairs Max Cleland
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano
Environmental Protection Agency Marcia Arnoff (EDF)

...Or Is This Something We Can Look Forward To?

2008-01-26T10:05:00.000-08:00

President-Elect Clinton Announces New Intern Policy at White House
January 15, 2009. The White House.

President-elect Hillary Clinton announced new guidelines for placing interns in the White House today. Called the Unacknowledged Minorities Affirmative Hiring Policy, Ms. Clinton said the new policies will give priority in intern placement to persons who, in past administrations, would not have been give "such a grand opportunity."

"In the past," Ms. Clinton stated, "these positions were held to be specifically for young people who in reality should have been busy with their classes and their books. We have distracted them from their very real career goals while ignoring the rich contributions that could be brought to the Executive Offices by persons with more life and work experience."

"For that reason," the president-elect said, " and that reason alone I assure you, for the next four years we will draw interns from a special pool of unacknowledged minorities which will include the grotesquely overweight, individuals with chronic and incurable halitosis and/or body odor, members of religious communities that require silence and chastity, Islamic fundamentalists, widows in their late 70s and early 80s, and ex-gay men. As the administration progresses we will expand these programs as other appropriate categories are called to our attention by the volunteer who will be heading up our outreach efforts... my husband, the former president."