With love and peace from ocean to ocean
Somebody please second my emotion.
All men we're born to be free, yeah.
What about you?
What about me?
31 October 2008
Lyric of the Day
If all men were truly brothers, why then can't we love another?
With love and peace from ocean to ocean
Somebody please second my emotion.
All men we're born to be free, yeah.
What about you?
What about me?
With love and peace from ocean to ocean
Somebody please second my emotion.
All men we're born to be free, yeah.
What about you?
What about me?
Quote of the Day (or a couple days ago)
Nate:
It's not a Cubs' World Championship, but most Illinoisans will take it; what kind of odds could you have gotten in 1908 that a black dude would get elected president before the Cubs won the Series again?
27 October 2008
Truth
Judging by who he wrote for, I doubt I would have agreed with anything Dean Barnett said, but this tribute is well worth the read, especially in this heated political climate. (Be sure to Spencer Ackerman's post as well.)
But that is neither here nor there. What matters is that he is dead, and life is too short. Not a day passes when I do not ponder my own mortality, and not a day passes without me wondering how I will continue without my parents and the people who mean everything to me. A very selfish part of me hopes that I die before them.
Life is too damned short, and right now Dean Barnett’s family and friends are going through hell. I hope they are able to cope, and I am going to call my parents and tell them I love them and then hug my cat. I suggest you do the same thing with the ones you love. This whole racket is just way too short, and at times is a cruel hoax. Forty-one is just way too damned young.
Dear Fox News/Drudge/McCain-Palin
Supporting a progressive income tax is not socialism.
If you think so, then we've been a socialist country since the institution of the income tax, and Presidents Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower were raging socialists.
We're not all morons.
Love,
steve
If you think so, then we've been a socialist country since the institution of the income tax, and Presidents Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower were raging socialists.
We're not all morons.
Love,
steve
Conservatives For Obama
They exist.
Share it with anyone you think might be voting for McCain-Palin. This election is too important.
Share it with anyone you think might be voting for McCain-Palin. This election is too important.
Is This A Joke?
As Socialist As America Gets
Sarah Palin's Alaska
But the truth is, Sarah Palin's Alaska is about as close to socialism as America gets. As Yglesias recently noted, "You have collective ownership of valuable natural resources that generates lots of revenue for the state, and then the government makes 'spreading the wealth around' through the Permanent Fund, etc. its main priority."Learn what they're talking about? That's for anti-American elitists!
The point isn't that there's anything especially wrong with Palin-style socialism; there isn't. The point is, if McCain and Palin want to whine incessantly about socialism, redistribution of wealth, and "welfare," they ought to a) learn what they're talking about; and b) take a good look in the mirror.
26 October 2008
Words Have Meaning
New concept to Republicans.
Look: socialism is a word that has a meaning. It means public control of the means of production. It does not mean taxing the top bracket at 39%. Likewise, "collective ownership" has a meaning, and it does not mean the situation that obtains when the government can repeal tax cuts for the top 5% of the population.Teach them, my friends.
24 October 2008
Apple
Especially proud to be an iMac/iPod/iPhone owner and Apple fan today.
Most corporations wouldn't have the guts.
Most corporations wouldn't have the guts.
17 October 2008
14 October 2008
All You Need to Know About ACORN
1. The Republicans know John McCain is going to lose.
2. They know the media isn't smart enough to distinguish between voter REGISTRATION fraud and voter fraud. People who register as Mickey Mouse are not showing up at the polls.
3. They know they must delegitimize Obama's victory, so they blame ACORN, who is actually flagging the fraudulent registrations before turning them in, and who, by law can't destroy any that they know to be fraudulent, lest they destroy some poor young Republican's legitimate voter registration form.
Key links for you:
Josh.
More Josh.
Fun Q&A with Gawker.
Please use this information when your crazy relatives, friends, or co-workers start talking about how they were robbed by ACORN (even before we've actually voted).
Gawker sums it up well.
If that doesn't shut the crazies up, show them this.
2. They know the media isn't smart enough to distinguish between voter REGISTRATION fraud and voter fraud. People who register as Mickey Mouse are not showing up at the polls.
3. They know they must delegitimize Obama's victory, so they blame ACORN, who is actually flagging the fraudulent registrations before turning them in, and who, by law can't destroy any that they know to be fraudulent, lest they destroy some poor young Republican's legitimate voter registration form.
Key links for you:
Josh.
More Josh.
Fun Q&A with Gawker.
Please use this information when your crazy relatives, friends, or co-workers start talking about how they were robbed by ACORN (even before we've actually voted).
Gawker sums it up well.
What we're dealing with so far is minor voter registration fraud. The questionable registrations number in the double digits in most states, and most of them have been flagged and caught by either ACORN themselves or election officials. Furthermore in many places the false registrations are required by law to be submitted anyway, so that ACORN isn't guilty of, say, tossing out the forms of Republicans they sign up. They do try to flag the fake ones as fake, but regardless, the fake ones are still being caught. Also: voter registration fraud does not coherently lead to voter fraud, because if you register one man 75 times, how will he vote 75 times, exactly?Let me repeat. The questionable registration numbers in the DOUBLE DIGITS in most states. Desperation anyone?
More importantly, the election can't be stolen if it hasn't happened yet, and voter registration fraud does not explain in any way a double digit lead for a candidate in national tracking polls. Like, wtf, how are you making this argument, are you slow? ACORN registering Mickey Mouse is why Barack Obama is up 12 in Pennsylvania? Ok, sure, whatever you say.
If that doesn't shut the crazies up, show them this.
09 October 2008
Got Something to Say, John?
Say it to my face.
Biden agrees.
Biden agrees.
"In my neighborhood, when you've got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him."
08 October 2008
John McCain Has A Table
That's it.
Look, I know it's nice to think well-intentioned people can sit down in a room and resolve complex problems through discussion and negotiation. But this is just an intellectually lazy way of approaching policy challenges.
Iraq? McCain wants to sit Sunnis and Shiites down at a table. Social Security? McCain wants to sit Democrats and Republicans down at a table. The moral of the story is, if you've got a problem, John McCain has a table.
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