Thursday, September 18, 2008
MSNBC Rocks this Hizzle!
Big congrats to Rachel Maddow!! she beat Larry King and many others with her new TV show! i loved her back in her Air America days, and now as an out lesbian (and a hot one at that!) smarty with her own tv show. Keith Olberman + Rachel Maddow = tv goodness
who knew republicans were socialists?
i find it highly ironic that republicans have, for decades, accused dems of being closet socialists, yet thanks to republicans, we are now becoming a socialist nation. the nationalizion of these massive, failing private firms...these are the biggest socialist steps a country has taken since China.
Now, the fault of this economy, the new great depression as economists are calling it - is it not the fault of these free market, hands off my guns and my business republicans? i mean, i'm a capatilist, but i believe in regulation. antiregulators - mostly repubs - said wall street was smarter than washington and they could regulate their own affairs. Bush and McCain both agreed.
so now we're paying for the mistakes of the incredibly greedy people who made horrible decisions - yet, like in the case of Lehman Bros, the CEO will walk away with $30+ million - while the working people can't pay their bills.
Ford and GM have asked - and the government will prob give - $50 billion to stay afloat through the economy. Let em go! the american carmakers - and republicans - kept CAFE standards low for decades, resisted efforts by democrats to impose higher MPG in their cars (again, government intrusion!) and kept making hummers and excursions while Toyota and Honda outperformed and outsold them. Well goodbye american carmakers, you have made horrendous, short sighted decisions based on short term profit, and now you have to deal with it. i hope Honda buys you out cause i certainly don't want to.
i never understood what corporate welfare meant til recently...well for me, i'd rather help people, not greedy CEOs.
these are very interesting times...down is up and left is right...
Now, the fault of this economy, the new great depression as economists are calling it - is it not the fault of these free market, hands off my guns and my business republicans? i mean, i'm a capatilist, but i believe in regulation. antiregulators - mostly repubs - said wall street was smarter than washington and they could regulate their own affairs. Bush and McCain both agreed.
so now we're paying for the mistakes of the incredibly greedy people who made horrible decisions - yet, like in the case of Lehman Bros, the CEO will walk away with $30+ million - while the working people can't pay their bills.
Ford and GM have asked - and the government will prob give - $50 billion to stay afloat through the economy. Let em go! the american carmakers - and republicans - kept CAFE standards low for decades, resisted efforts by democrats to impose higher MPG in their cars (again, government intrusion!) and kept making hummers and excursions while Toyota and Honda outperformed and outsold them. Well goodbye american carmakers, you have made horrendous, short sighted decisions based on short term profit, and now you have to deal with it. i hope Honda buys you out cause i certainly don't want to.
i never understood what corporate welfare meant til recently...well for me, i'd rather help people, not greedy CEOs.
these are very interesting times...down is up and left is right...
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
A Grand Idea
so, i have an idea, and oprah says it's crap, but what does she know.
for reasons unbeknownst to me, barack did not choose to pick hillary for his VP, which of course ushered us into the unfortunate palin era. BUT...what if barack had a larger scope in mind...
WHAT IF he wants to nominate her to one of two Supreme Court positions that will surely be available to the next president? I mean, she could do more good as a Justice than a president! She's a lawyer, she's brilliant, she's a total policy wonk...all which would suit the job. HIllary for Supreme Court!!!!
for reasons unbeknownst to me, barack did not choose to pick hillary for his VP, which of course ushered us into the unfortunate palin era. BUT...what if barack had a larger scope in mind...
WHAT IF he wants to nominate her to one of two Supreme Court positions that will surely be available to the next president? I mean, she could do more good as a Justice than a president! She's a lawyer, she's brilliant, she's a total policy wonk...all which would suit the job. HIllary for Supreme Court!!!!
Friday, September 12, 2008
feet shufflin'
weeeeeeeeeel. i have a) crossed the bridge to intolerance or b) have decided that i really, truly cannot be friends with republicans.
i just got in an argument - a big one - with a close friend of mine. she said gay rights are state rights (though she can cheat on her husband, jesus forgives that) and that rach and i should move to boston if we don't want our wedding to be a logistical nightmare or want to be treated equally.
then she repeated the lies that barack wants to teach 6 year olds sex ed, which is patently untrue. after i told her what he was trying to do (stop sexual predators) she then told me that becuase i don't have kids, i can't tell her or anyone how to educate them.
i told her in response that knowledge saves kids lives, not fairy tales, and if someone came to get her daughter in the split second those things happen, some age appropriate training (like screaming NO or whatever) would help her a lot more than my little pony. she got, ahem, a little angry with me over that, and asked me to take it back, but i didn't cause i believe it.
then she said mccain was different than bush, that mccain/palin would NEVER overturn abortion, that we need to drill now and forever, that the iraq war turned out just fine, that she likes her money and barack will take it.
i was shocked, still reeling over the "gay rights are state rights" thing, and just stopped the conversation and walked away.
so i'm not sure what this means.
it worries me. i don't want to be intolerant. but i don't think i can be friends with people who i think are ignorant, either. i loved the ron paul republicans! it's the bush ilk that i cannot seem to stomach anymore. oh please don't let me start turning intolerant. but why do i see it as an intelligence thing? shit.
maybe i need therapy.
i just got in an argument - a big one - with a close friend of mine. she said gay rights are state rights (though she can cheat on her husband, jesus forgives that) and that rach and i should move to boston if we don't want our wedding to be a logistical nightmare or want to be treated equally.
then she repeated the lies that barack wants to teach 6 year olds sex ed, which is patently untrue. after i told her what he was trying to do (stop sexual predators) she then told me that becuase i don't have kids, i can't tell her or anyone how to educate them.
i told her in response that knowledge saves kids lives, not fairy tales, and if someone came to get her daughter in the split second those things happen, some age appropriate training (like screaming NO or whatever) would help her a lot more than my little pony. she got, ahem, a little angry with me over that, and asked me to take it back, but i didn't cause i believe it.
then she said mccain was different than bush, that mccain/palin would NEVER overturn abortion, that we need to drill now and forever, that the iraq war turned out just fine, that she likes her money and barack will take it.
i was shocked, still reeling over the "gay rights are state rights" thing, and just stopped the conversation and walked away.
so i'm not sure what this means.
it worries me. i don't want to be intolerant. but i don't think i can be friends with people who i think are ignorant, either. i loved the ron paul republicans! it's the bush ilk that i cannot seem to stomach anymore. oh please don't let me start turning intolerant. but why do i see it as an intelligence thing? shit.
maybe i need therapy.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
librarians
she tried to FIRE the librarian of Wasilla, Alasaka, because the librarian wouldn't ban the books she wanted her to! GROSS PEOPLE!
i mean, are the republicans for real? the fact that she has 5 kids (who she talks about an awful lot and proudly displays on TV, but we can't talk about them?) and can skin a moose is interesting, but not VP fiber. i just want to vomit.
and rudy guiliani: F*ck you. i used to respect you but you're just like the rest of em.
i mean, are the republicans for real? the fact that she has 5 kids (who she talks about an awful lot and proudly displays on TV, but we can't talk about them?) and can skin a moose is interesting, but not VP fiber. i just want to vomit.
and rudy guiliani: F*ck you. i used to respect you but you're just like the rest of em.
Pat Robertson in Pearls
So I was in knots after listening to the speech last night delivered by one extraordinary lady, Sarah Palin.
My feelings on palin: 1) admiration 2) pleased that this race is historic on many levels 3) amused at the Repubs’ desperate pick 4) ready for Biden to knock her out during the debates. I mean, with a woman who just traveled internationally for the first time TWO years ago, does she have a snowball’s chance in hell of knowing the names of the world leaders? I don’t think so.
I’m conflicted, because despite disagreeing with pretty much everything she believes in, I want to like her. She’s no hypocrite, she’s a DIY’er, and she’s reform minded. There is a lot to admire in her.
Her speech last night was incredible….as incredible as Hillary’s a week ago.
Which is why I’m worried for the first time.
She’s a heartbeat away from a would be president who is 72 and has had recurring cancer…she has ZERO foreign policy experience, she has zero respect for science, she doesn’t believe in gay marriage or civil unions, she hates all abortion, including rape and incest, AND she believes in abstinence! I mean, I personally don’t know anyone this extremely right in my personal life, and I am friends with some republicans! Didn’t the right learn its lessons from Bush, that going so far right isn’t good? She makes Bush look like Ted Kennedy!
But she’s so appealing, and most Americans are stupid enough to vote on “who I’d like to have a beer with” rather than “who is smarter than me and can lead this country.”
(and by the way, why do the republicans hate intellectualism so much? When did it become a bad thing to be smart, and aren’t these republicans the same ones who send their kids to Harvard and yale, and hold Wharton School MBA’s themselves? Is this 1984 and I just didn’t get the memo? Truly perplexing.)
The Dems were so gracious to McCain, which I applaud them for, during their convention, but the first mention I heard of Obama in a positive light from the Repubs was from Mike Huckabee, of all people. Barack stood up for Palin and told the media to back off her children, which I applaud him for. and what does she do? She makes fun of him being a community organizer? Of writing two best selling books that got his family out of debt? She mocks him for his supporters idolizing him? Below the belt, Palin, and unbecoming.
So dems. Please, I know this will be hard. But get your balls out and fight like men. This is going to be a nasty campaign – your convention vs. the repubs prove that – and you can’t play nice anymore. MAN UP. Don’t’ be afraid of that pit bull in a skirt, she’s just pat Robertson with pearls on. If you lose this, it’s your own damn fault.
My feelings on palin: 1) admiration 2) pleased that this race is historic on many levels 3) amused at the Repubs’ desperate pick 4) ready for Biden to knock her out during the debates. I mean, with a woman who just traveled internationally for the first time TWO years ago, does she have a snowball’s chance in hell of knowing the names of the world leaders? I don’t think so.
I’m conflicted, because despite disagreeing with pretty much everything she believes in, I want to like her. She’s no hypocrite, she’s a DIY’er, and she’s reform minded. There is a lot to admire in her.
Her speech last night was incredible….as incredible as Hillary’s a week ago.
Which is why I’m worried for the first time.
She’s a heartbeat away from a would be president who is 72 and has had recurring cancer…she has ZERO foreign policy experience, she has zero respect for science, she doesn’t believe in gay marriage or civil unions, she hates all abortion, including rape and incest, AND she believes in abstinence! I mean, I personally don’t know anyone this extremely right in my personal life, and I am friends with some republicans! Didn’t the right learn its lessons from Bush, that going so far right isn’t good? She makes Bush look like Ted Kennedy!
But she’s so appealing, and most Americans are stupid enough to vote on “who I’d like to have a beer with” rather than “who is smarter than me and can lead this country.”
(and by the way, why do the republicans hate intellectualism so much? When did it become a bad thing to be smart, and aren’t these republicans the same ones who send their kids to Harvard and yale, and hold Wharton School MBA’s themselves? Is this 1984 and I just didn’t get the memo? Truly perplexing.)
The Dems were so gracious to McCain, which I applaud them for, during their convention, but the first mention I heard of Obama in a positive light from the Repubs was from Mike Huckabee, of all people. Barack stood up for Palin and told the media to back off her children, which I applaud him for. and what does she do? She makes fun of him being a community organizer? Of writing two best selling books that got his family out of debt? She mocks him for his supporters idolizing him? Below the belt, Palin, and unbecoming.
So dems. Please, I know this will be hard. But get your balls out and fight like men. This is going to be a nasty campaign – your convention vs. the repubs prove that – and you can’t play nice anymore. MAN UP. Don’t’ be afraid of that pit bull in a skirt, she’s just pat Robertson with pearls on. If you lose this, it’s your own damn fault.
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