Saturday, September 27, 2008 - Debate Recap

Obama looked Presidential.

McCain looked like a grumpy old tool.

There are so many things that I wish Obama had said during the course of the debate, but for one reason or another, he didn’t.  So, for your enlightenment, and my own need for self-aggrandization, please allow me to introduce: “OBAMA THEATER OF THE MIND” in which I present dialogue from the Presidential Debate that occurred in my mind.

McCain:  “Well…I’d like to hear what Sen. Obama considers ‘Rich’.”  (<—actual McCain quote)
Obama:  “You know John, that’s an interesting question and I’m sure that every person you ask would have a different opinion of what constitutes being ‘Rich’ in our society.  However, *I* believe that anyone with 16 cars, 8 homes, and a private jet would pretty much fit that definition.  Wouldn’t you agree?”

pwned.

Unfortunately, there were no memorable quips or sound bites to rehash after the debate, but one thing is clear.  John McCain has a wealth of experience in his years serviing this country.  But at the end of the day, he comes across as a grumpy arrogant ass who has a tenuous grasp on facts and reality.  Obama demonstrated that he can keep his cool, display his agenda with passion, and acquiesce when it’s appropriate.  It takes a big, mature man (or woman) to admit when the other person is right about something.  It demonstrates a certain character that one is willing to look inside themselves and realize they may not have the answer to every single situation.  NO ONE does.  However, some right-wing conservatives and their low-IQ followers see that as some sort of flaw.  As if there is something wrong with someone else being right.  And this, for my money, this inability to admit one’s own error is what has gotten us right where we are right now.  We don’t need 4 or 8 more years of McBush’s inability to admit when he’s wrong and be flexible and mature enough to lead us on another course.

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Friday, September 26th, 2008

Sarah Palin

TeenUSA-SC

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Friday, September 26, 2008 - Funny Money

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Friday, September 26, 2008 - Lying, Double-Dealing, Torturing Scumbags of the Week

Bush Directed Gonzales to Ashcroft’s Hospital Bed
McCain AIDES’ husband on trade board lobbying for the bailout
Condi admits to White House talks regarding detainee torture.  War Crimes, anyone?

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Friday, September 26, 2008 - I Know I Suck At Math…But Something’s Wrong Here…

“…Wall Street paid out $120 Billion in bonuses alone between 2005 and 2006.  If they’ve got that kind of mad money, why do they need us to step in now?”

There is a serious shell game being played right now and we are the suckers.  The BushCo crime family and their cohorts on Wall Street are salivating at the chance to steal the very last crumb off the middle class table.  Will this bailout signal the end of FDR’s New Deal prosperity for average Americans and usher in a new golden age for the Robber Baron class?

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Thursday, September 25, 2008 - I Can’t Wait For “Let’s Burn All The Witches” Week

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Thursday, September 25, 2008 - POW POTUS AWOL

John McCain may have committed the biggest blunder of his political career yesterday when he called for a suspension of his campaign due to the burgeoning financial crisis on Wall St.  McCain rejected Sen. Barack Obama’s suggestion that the two men sit down and issue a joint statement and instead decided to show his “Maverick” side by going public with the announcement that he was going to stop campaigning until the crisis was resolved.  An AIDE for McCain said that the campaign was also going to stop fund raising.  On the surface, this seems like an admirable thing to do - he’s showing his concern for the state of the union, no?  However, given the fact that he went AWOL on the first night of his coming out party, The Republican National Convention, one has to wonder whether or not this man can handle two important agenda items at one time.  Men are said to be “Hunters” (i.e. - they focus on one thing until it is accomplished), but this is ridiculous.  Can’t the man multitask?  Is he going to hunker down in the bunker every time he has two competing objectives on his To Do list?

The blogosphere has been absolutely buzzing today (mostly negatively) about McCain’s bizarre and questionable move.  However, the REAL mistake may have been NOT SHOWING UP FOR THE DAVID LETTERMAN SHOW.

Many times Dave gets a bee in his bonnet and will obsess about a topic throughout the entire show.  Last night, Sen. McCain was scheduled to appear on Dave’s show, but cancelled because of the Wall St. bailout problem.  Dave was apoplectic.  It was a real sight to behold - 60 minutes of David Letterman simply ravaging John McCain for not appearing on his show.

Read more about it HERE.

Many polls today show Obama leading McCain by 6 and in some cases, 9 points.  Is it possible that this could be McCain’s undoing?  Is he now seen as too weak to handle more than one problem at a time.  Since it’s obvious that he can’t fall back on his VP in moments like these, McCain suddenly looks a lot like Sarah Palin - a moose caught in the headlights.

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Thursday, September 25, 2008 - DUST BOWL DAYS - Part II

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Thursday, September 25, 2008 - THURSDAY MUSIC CLUB

I am very saddened by the death of Richard Wright, founding member and keyboardist for the band Pink Floyd.  Along with drummer Nick Mason, Wright was only one of two people to play in every single Pink Floyd concert ever held.

From http://www.pinkfloyd.com:
“Richard William Wright was born on July 28, 1943 in Hatch End, London. By his teens he had learned trombone, saxophone, guitar and piano, inspired by an early love of jazz. He wanted to follow in the footsteps of John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Eric Dolphy, but was persuaded to study architecture at Regent Street Polytechnic.

There, he met band members Roger Waters and Nick Mason and joined their fledgling band.  The 5-piece played intermittently in early 1965 as both The Tea Set and The Pink Floyd.

In the early days of Pink Floyd, Richard added his distinctive melodic style and he wrote and sang several songs of his own. As the sound and the goals of the band evolved, he became more focused on adding sound textures to extended instrumental compositions such as Interstellar Overdrive, A Saucerful Of Secrets, Careful With That Axe, Eugene, One Of These Days, and to creating musical themes for film scores – More, Zabriskie Point, and Obscured By Clouds.

He also made essential contributions to Pink Floyd’s long, epic compositions, though his most identifiable compositions are probably The Great Gig In The Sky and Us And Them from 1973’s The Dark Side Of The Moon. His ever-tasteful contributions were an essential part of the unique Pink Floyd sound, whether on acoustic piano, Farfisa organ, synthesiser or Hammond, at which he was particularly skilled.”

It’s amazing how many songs written during the ’60’s and ’70’s seem to resonate with us still.  With that in mind, please join us for this THURSDAY MUSIC CLUB rememberance: “Us and Them” by Pink Floyd.

(click on the photo below to open the player in a new window)

lyrics:
Us and Them
And after all we’re only ordinary men
Me, and you
God only knows it’s not what we would choose to do

Forward he cried from the rear
and the front rank died
And the General sat, as the lines on the map
moved from side to side

Black and Blue
And who knows which is which and who is who
Up and Down
And in the end it’s only round and round and round

Haven’t you heard it’s a battle of words
the poster bearer cried
Listen son, said the man with the gun
There’s room for you inside

Down and Out
It can’t be helped but there’s a lot of it about
With, without
And who’ll deny that’s what the fightings all about

Get out of the way, it’s a busy day
And I’ve got things on my mind
For want of the price of tea and a slice
The old man died

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Thursday, September 25, 2008 - As Seen On The Blogses…

“If McCain would commit to suspending the Iraq War until the economy is fixed, I think I might vote for him.”

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Thursday, September 25, 2008 -StealBackYourVote.org

I want to remind everyone that THIS is the major issue of the upcoming election.  The Republicans are stealing votes again (just like in 2000 and 2004) and it’s up to us to stop them.  Fortunately, we have some “super” heroes on our side.  Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have founded StealBackYourVote.org - a project of the Palast Investigative Fund (a 501c3 non-profit educational foundation).  With generous support of voting rights and other organizations and concerned individuals (like me!) they are aggressively investigating the hanky-panky Republicans have already road-tested in the primaries, and are prepared to use this November to steal YOUR vote.

The good news is that you CAN steal your vote back.  Kennedy and Palast are publishing a major expose in a mass-circulation national magazine.  The Palast Investigative Team finished a documentary film at the Democratic National Convention.  Three major cartoonists have teamed up to illustrate the “Steal Back Your Vote” graphic guide that you can download, print and distribute now.

Please visit the StealBackYourVote.org website, read the material there, and make a tax-deductible contribution to the Palast Investigative Fund.  When I recently received a fund-raising call from the DNC, I told the young man on the other end of the line that my money was going to investigate vote caging instead.  He was very interested and I told him all about the StealBackYourVote.org website.  Please - download the voter guide and share this information with everyone you know - Democrats, Republicans, Independents - everyone.  This is too important of a topic to keep quiet about.

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Thursday, September 25, 2008 - “Moose-In-The-Headlights” Moment #36

How many more times will the McCain campaign allow this empty suit to embarrass herself on national television?  Give it up, sweetie.  You are nothing but window dressing to those bastards.  You’re way over your little well-coiffed, bespectacled head.  Go back to your precious Alaska.  Go back to your hunky husband.  Go back to your pregnant 17-year-old daughter and down syndrome infant.  Go back to your Trig, your Track, your trailer, and your (white) trash.  You are not fit to direct national and foreign policy.  You are not even fit to direct traffic.

GIVE. IT. UP.

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Thursday, September 25, 2008 - YEEEEE-HAWWW!

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Thursday, September 25, 2008 - Deja Vu All Over Again

How many times do we have to sit through this movie?  Actually, after eight years of BushCo., this is starting to feel more like a recurring nightmare.  The financial bailout plan of Wall St. proposed by Secretary of Treasury Henry Paulson includes some very familiar, yet very frightening language:

Haven’t we heard this somewhere before?  Just how many times are these criminals going to pull the “cloak of invisibility” over themselves?  How stupid are we that we allow this to happen?  One has to wonder at the chutzpah of the BushCo crime family that they pull this stunt over and over and over again.  And just what is it that they are trying to hide?  Could it possibly be the fact that ONCE AGAIN, the Republicans are stealing this country blind and we are getting totally screwed in the process?

I’m just sick to death of this.  Really.

How can any person with a functioning brain and an IQ above 45 continue to support this corrupt administration, its cronies, and co-conspirators is beyond my comprehension.

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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - “Joke” of the Day

Q: How can you tell when a Republican is uttering racist comments?
A: His lips are moving.

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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - Cheap Shot

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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - The Twelve Lies of Sarah Palin - by Andrew Sullivan

Just for the record, I asked an intern to go back and double fact-check the twelve documented lies that Sarah Palin has told on the public record. These are not hyperbolic claims or rhetorical excess. They are assertions of fact that are demonstrably untrue and remain uncorrected. Every single one of the lies I documented holds up after several news cycles have had a chance to vet them even further.

I know the MSM demands that we move on from the fact that someone who could be president next January has a list of public lies so extensive and indisputable that the McCain campaign has still not been able to rebut or even address any one of them, while fencing her off from the press and refusing to hold a press conference to clear the air on so many murky questions of fact that get to the core of whether this person is fit to be vice-president or president.

So for the record, let it be known that the candidate for vice-president for the GOP is a compulsive, repetitive, demonstrable liar.

If you follow the links, here is the proof. I repeat: PROOF

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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - A Thousand Words

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Tuesday, September 23, 2008 - McCain Has Bad AIDES

UPDATE:  It looks as if McCain’s case of bad AIDES is getting worse every day.

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Tuesday, September 23, 2008 - A Message From MoveOn.org

Turn on the TV and you’ll be told that we’re on the brink of imminent crisis and the only solution is for Congress to turn over vast power to the Bush Administration and trust they’ll use it wisely. Sound familiar?

This time, it’s not to authorize war in Iraq. Bush wants taxpayers to give his administration a $700 billion check with no strings attached, which they’ll hand over to the Wall Street firms that got us into this mess.1

It’s clear something needs to be done to deal with the disastrous Bush economy, but Bush’s blank check proposal is not the answer. Yesterday, Barack Obama laid out key principles for dealing with this situation. Obama’s main point: Main Street must be put ahead of Wall Street, and no blank check for the Bush administration.

Members of Congress are in meetings right now trying to figure out what to do, and they need to hear from you. Can you call your Senator today? Tell him or her to support the Obama principles—put Main Street ahead of Wall Street, and no blank check for Bush.

Here’s where to call:

Then, please report your call by clicking HERE:

President Bush actually wants Congress to give his Treasury Secretary (Henry Paulson, a former Wall Street executive) $700 billion with no congressional or court oversight. That amounts to $2,000 for every single American.2

Would it help families struggling to keep their homes? NO. Do taxpayers get any share of the firms we’re bailing out, so we can benefit from any eventual profit? NO. Would the firms we’re bailing out be required to stop paying their executives multimillion-dollar salaries? NO.3 This is a pure giveaway of epic proportions.

Even some Republicans are admitting this is crazy. Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) asked, “Just how long can the poor beleaguered taxpayer be expected to bear all the losses and bear all the risk?”4 Rep. Steve LaTourette (R-Ohio) said, “I’m getting a lot of calls from my district, with people saying, why are you bailing out the big guys and not us?”5

Here are the principles Obama laid out over the weekend:

* No blank check. We must insist on independent accountability and oversight.

* Main Street, not just Wall Street. We need an emergency economic plan to help working families—a plan that would help folks cope with rising gas and food prices, create infrastructure jobs, etc.

* Help homeowners stay in their homes. We cannot have a plan for Wall Street banks that does not help homeowners stay in their homes and help distressed communities.

* Taxpayers should be protected. This should not be a handout to Wall Street.

* Rescue requires mutual responsibility. Institutions that benefit from taxpayer help must help protect American homeowners and the American economy. We cannot underwrite continued irresponsibility.

* Build a regulatory structure for the 21st Century. We should commit ourselves to new rules of the road for the 21st Century economy.

* A global response. The United States must lead, but we must also insist that other nations, who have a huge stake in the outcome, join us in helping to secure the financial markets.6

There are many in Congress who want to do the right thing, but they need to know the public has their back.

Can you call your Senator today? Tell him or her to support the Obama principles—put Main Street ahead of Wall Street, and no blank checks for Bush.

Thanks for all you do.

–Adam G., Noah, Andrea, Wes and the rest of the team

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Tuesday, September 23, 2008 (F-1)

Here’s a great image that all by itself tells the story of this election.
Who can relate to the Average Joe & Jane American?
Who knows how to be careful with their money?

The choice is pretty clear at the RepublicanMotto.


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Monday, September 22, 2008 - Power-drunk Chimpanzees*

“…Which makes the fact that America’s system of voting is now even more suspect, more complicated, and more open to abuse than ever before so utterly shocking. Across the country a bewildering series of scandals or dubious practises are proliferating beyond control. The prospect of a ’second Florida’ is now more likely not less. There are many - and not all of them are conspiracy theorists - who believed it may have happened in Ohio in 2004.”

Read the rest of this frightening article HERE.

* Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922 – 2007)

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Monday, September 22, 2008 -

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Monday, September, 22, 2008 - Free Radicals
(reposted “without permission” from www.updateamerica.com)

‘The foundations of US capitalism have shattered’
by abi

Ok, so Der Spiegel overstated things a bit with that statement. But what this economic crisis does prove is that the Republicans’ dreamy-eyed fantasy of free markets uninhibited by government regulation is pure nonsense — and dangerous nonsense at that.

It’s a simple formula: Self Interest + Deregulation = Disaster. But since the feel-good days of the Reagan presidency, millions of well-intentioned but easily-fooled Republicans have been snookered into believing that the free market is some sort of force for all that is good in the American economy — the freer, the better.

It’s a pipedream, folks. And if we haven’t learned that lesson from the current economic meltdown, it may well happen that, as one Wall Street stock broker put it, “The world as we know it is going down.”

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Monday, September 22, 2008 - OOPS!

Too Late…

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Monday, September 22, 2008 - Torch n’ Pitchfork Time

How is the current banking crisis going to play out?  No one is certain at this point as Congress rushes to pass over $700 BILLION dollars in aid for the financial industry - the largest single bailout in history.  What remains to be seen is how this will affect not only Wall Street, but Main Street.  Whenever we’re talking about Big Money, Banks, and Congress, you can rest assured that your interest and mine are not on the agenda.  Call me cynical, but I just can’t imagine that this “bailout” is going to result in anything other than MORE MONEY in the pockets of the people who created this mess.

Fannie Mae CEO Daniel Mudd and AIG CEO Robert Willumstad reportedly have their “golden parachutes” at the ready - ready to bail out of the plane and leave the rest of us to ride this sucker all the way down.  Mudd and Willumstad have exit packages worth over $25 million in severance, retirement, and deferred compensation.  That’s a far sight from the 12 weeks pay I got when I was laid off from my last job…and then my unemployment ran out after the standard 16 weeks.  Sheesh!

The fat cats just keep getting fatter, don’t they?

So, I can’t see how this will play out any differently than what they’re used to.  The guilty party walks away richer and the burden is shifted to us: the poor, the weak, and the downtrodden.

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Open Left
Obama Calls It Quits
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Posted under Campaign '08, Christians, Corporate Welfare, Election '08, General, Humor, Hypocrites, Lies, McCain, Palin, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Spending, Thursday Music Club

Friday, September 19, 2008:

Whose side are you on?

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Thursday, September 18, 2008: I’ll take two, please.

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Thursday, September 18, 2008: THURSDAY MUSIC CLUB

Hey, we can’t let this website get too stuffy, can we?  Let’s rock out!

Every Thursday we’ll present a song (or two) to get yer mojo working.

This week’s selection comes from Todd Rundgren’s album “tr-i: No World Order”
(click the picture below to open the You Tube video in a new window)

lyrics:
Founding fathers and mothers left us a mandate
We’ve got to separate the church and the state
So get your head straight before it’s too late
And you drop it in the plate, you must appreciate
Jesus and money make a man speak in tongues
Scream out his lungs, roll in the dung
And when the song is sung, he moves up another rung
And the deaf and the dumb are the ones who get stung
Here comes the sex police, they’re at your bedroom door
Movin’ in next door, searchin’ from floor to floor
You know what they’re lookin’ for
Someone’s always keepin’ score every time you dip the oar
Love isn’t fun no more

Fascist christ (come to the rescue) x3
Gimme that old time religion, here it comes

Let’s get fundamental about this strange philosophy
In which god and man are enemies
In which there is no serenity unless you happen to believe
Precisely what they want you to believe, and no diversity
Come join the army and learn the noises
That drown out the others’ voices and please the devil
Who rejoices when mankind has no choices
And power exploits us, and peace avoids us
Guess who to the rescue on a holy mission
To uphold the tradition of the Spanish Inquisition
And preempt your decision by forcing your confession
Now let that be a lesson
Who do you think you’re messin’ with?

Fascist christ (come to the rescue) x3
Gimme that old time religion, here it comes

Somebody took our god away (fade)

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Thursday, September 18, 2008: Faint Praise

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Thursdasy, September 18, 2008: Maverick? Reformer? Change Agent?  …BULLSHITTER.

(from Mother Jones online)
HEADLINE: McCain Attacks Greed While 83 Wall Street Lobbyists Work For His Campaign

click here for the story…
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Thursday, September 18, 2008: HERE IT IS, FOLKS, IN BLACK N’ WHITE (and RED).

Sometimes, taking a simpler approach makes the message so much clearer.  For Republicans, they have a difficult time with the “gray areas” of life and prefer everything distilled down to black and white.  Good vs. Evil, Liberal vs. Conservative, Tastes Great vs. Less Filling…you get the picture.

And speaking of pitcure, if your conservative friends and family members can’t get it through their heads that their voodoo “Reganomics” has been the biggest disaster in this country’s history after looking at these pictures, then there is no hope for them.

Reposted from HERE.

…but there’s no inflation and the economy is “sound”, right?

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Thursday, September 18, 2008: AN OPEN LETTER TO ALL CONSERVATIVES -

If a black Democratic presidential candidate graduated 894 out of 899 at the Naval Academy, Fox News and the conservative right would push this story as the basis for his disqualification for the nation’s highest office. The rest of the media would then be forced to report on it, giving the story wide exposure.

If a white Republican presidential candidate graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, he would be celebrated as an intellectual giant ready to lead the country in bold new directions.

If you’re a Harvard and Princeton-educated black woman married for years before having your first child, Fox labels you a “Baby Mama.”

If you are a white woman who eloped and had a baby eight months later, you are every-woman and a hero for “doing the right thing” and getting married at all.

If you have studied international affairs for several decades, you’re “inexperienced at foreign affairs.”

If you live in a state that is geographically near a foreign country, you have “foreign policy expertise.”

If you both write and present your own words, you just “give good speeches.” (But after all, it’s only words, right?) If you read someone else’s words from the teleprompter -— a “superstar is born.”

If you attend two of the top Ivy League schools in the country, you are surprisingly “articulate.”

If you graduate from the 5th or 6th college you attend and you deliver a speech with the phonetic “new-clear” on the teleprompter, you’re a poised and eloquent speaker.

If your staff is so dumb they mix up Walter Reed Middle School for Walter Reed Medical Center in your convention’s big night, it’s because you wanted to focus on education & it would have been political to use the soldiers in that format.

If your staff coordinates a disciplined convention where attention is paid to every detail and all the trains run on time, you are dinged as “presumptuous” for using Greek columns in your backdrop.

A white woman talking tough is an advocate of women’s rights; a black woman is angry and bitter.

A white man talking tough is a straight shooter and a conservative; a black man is an angry gangsta rapper.

If you’re a Republican and you talk to America’s enemies, it’s diplomacy.

If you’re a Democrat and you talk to America’s enemies, it’s appeasement.

If you’re a Republican and you wind up on the cover of People magazine, it’s because you’re a “regular American.”

If you’re a Democrat and you wind up on the cover of People magazine, it’s because you’re a “celebrity.”

If you’re white, win a beauty contest, attend 5-6 colleges before finally graduating, join the PTA, are voted to be mayor by 1000 people, govern a sparsely populated state for less than two years, and get chosen at the last minute to be VP… you’ve lived the American dream.

But if you’re black, raised by a single mother, live on food stamps, help the community, graduate from Columbia and Harvard Law School, become the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review, serve in both a state senate and the U.S. Senate, build a great campaign organization from scratch, and are voted to be the presidential nominee by millions of people, you are uppity.

If you’re a GOP’er you naturally wouldn’t see what the problem with any of this was, even if you slept for 20 years on a dictionary opened to the word ‘hypocrisy’.

author unknown.  Posted here:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/12/144123/747/563/596410
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008: Former GOP operative explains why Republicans will use foreclosure lists to block voters

From: The Michigan Messenger:

Last week we reported about Republican plans to use home foreclosure lists to block voters from the polls after James Carabelli, chair of the Macomb County Republican Party, told Michigan Messenger that on election day Republican volunteers will “have a list of foreclosed homes and make sure people aren’t voting from those addresses.”

Republican leaders have since disavowed plans to use foreclosure lists as part of their plan to challenge the eligibility of some voters, but an attorney for the party, Eric Doster, did confirm that the party would use returned mail to challenge voters based on residency. As veteran Republican activist Allen Raymond told Michigan Messenger in a recent interview, holding down Democratic turnout is a key part of Republican strategy for victory in November.

Raymond knows about Republican campaign tactics. For almost a decade he managed campaigns for Republicans running for state and national office. In the 2002 New Hampshire elections, he ran a phone-jamming operation aimed at blocking elderly people from arranging rides to the polls, an illegal action that he says was approved by the highest levels of the party. He spent three months in federal prison. Earlier this year Raymond published a book about his life and work as a Republican operative, titled “Confessions of a Republican Operative: How to Rig an Election.”

As for our report that the Michigan GOP planned to use foreclosure lists to block likely Democratic voters, Raymond said: “It’s a very good tactic. It works.”

“It is actually a very smart thing to do,” he went on, “particularly in this climate with so many foreclosures.”

For Republicans, he said, targeting the foreclosures would be a cost-effective and “probably” legal method of reducing Democratic votes.

If he were still in the election business, he said, “I’d be doing that all day long.”

Raymond explained how he would use foreclosure lists.

“You would go into certain geo-political areas and make a selection based on voter history and performance, and then what you would do is look for foreclosures within those geopolitical areas, and you would mail letters, and then those letters would come back and say that that person’s not there any more because their house has been foreclosed on, and they get challenged,” he said.

He explained why it makes sense for Republicans to seek to disqualify people who have lost their homes.

“If you look at who is being foreclosed upon, it is going to be sub-prime [borrowers]. Sub-prime [borrowers] are generally going to be low-income people, and low-income people are generally going to be Democratic voters.”

“You got to remember this is a cost-per-contact business,” he explained. By targeting households in foreclosure, for the price of a letter and first-class postage, Republicans get a high rate of return, because people in foreclosure are very likely to move and to have their mail returned.

It’s time to start getting pissed, people (and I don’t mean that in the British sense) - I mean it’s time to get ANGRY!  The MSM (main stream media) is NOT going to tell you this information on the 6 o’clock news.  It’s up to all of us to educate everyone we know about the slimy, dirty tactics used by the Republican party.  They prey on the weak, the downtrodden, and the helpless.  That’s how they come out on top.  That’s not the way compassion works, folks.

UPDATE on this travesty of justice: 9/18/08

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Tuesday, September 16, 2008: Palin Bingo

This: Palin Bingo
via: Crooks and Liars
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008: THIS SAYS IT ALL, DON’TCHA THINK?
(aka: “It’s STILL the Economy, Stupid!”)

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Tuesday, September 16, 2008: No Comment

You know you want to see the rest of this t-shirt, you sick little puppy.

WARNING: Not for the faint-of-heart.  Seriously.  Those voting Republican may experience itching, redness, swelling of the uvula, distemper, consumption, boo-bah, yellow fever, and an erection lasting more than 4 hours.  Bloody discharge and a darkened stool may occur.  In all cases, the only cure is to vote Democratic.

Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

See it, buy it, wear it: threadpit.com
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008: How Hate Radio Infects our Country

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/09122008/watch.html

This Bill Moyers/PBS program is a frightening look at the venom spewed on a daily basis by right-wing radio hosts.  It’is a 10-minute piece examining how these people affect and “infect” the minds of their listeners.  If this doesn’t put the lie to the “liberal media” meme, I don’t know what will.

One item that I feel Moyers missed in this excellent report is the book “Talked to Death: the Life and Murder of Alan Berg”.  In 1984, radio talk show host Alan Berg was murdered outside his Denver studio by a crazed member of the neo-Nazi group “The Order.”  The “crimes” that drove the listener to murder the radio host?  Berg was a liberal and a Jew.  That’s all.  The book spawned the outstanding film “Talk Radio” starring Eric Bogosian in a remarkable performance (that should’ve won an Oscar, if you ask me).

This report may be the most upsetting and informative 10 minutes you’ll spend today.
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Monday, September 15, 2008: Where’s the Media Coverage of THIS?

More people show up to protest Sarah Palin’s return to Alaska than to her “support” rally.  (click on the photo to go to website)

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Friday, September 12, 2008

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Friday, September 12, 2008: From John McCain’s own mouth - UNBELIEVABLE!

From the FOX NEWZ Republican Debates (October 2007):

“The fact is, I’m running on my record as a reliable conservative of 24 years. And the indicators of that, obviously, is that I’ve fought wasteful spending, I have had a strong and a long relationship on national security, I’ve been involved in every national crisis that this nation has faced since Beirut, I understand the issues, I understand and appreciate the enormity of the challenge we face from radical Islamic extremism.

I am prepared. I am prepared.I need no on-the-job training.”

“I wasn’t a mayor for a short period of time. I wasn’t a governor for a short period of time. For 20-some years, including leading the largest squadron in the United States Navy, I led. I didn’t manage for profit, I led for patriotism.”

He’s dissing somebody here and it isn’t Sarah Palin.  It’s wonderful how video tape (or transcript in this case) can haunt a candidate in these wonderful time. This needs to be thrown back into McCain’s face quick and hard.  What a hypocrite !

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Friday, September 12, 2008

Sources Say John McCain has a case of bad AIDES…

After much internal deliberation and angst over revealing this issue, we feel it important to disclose this latest news revelation.  Contrary to popular belief touting John McCain as a Maverick and straight shooter (we’d need a blacklight to know this for sure) it has been confirmed today that 
John McCain does in fact have AIDES.
We suggest John McCain get treatment right away and rid himself of these political cretins (also known as Lobbyists) as soon as possible.  We wish him the best but know his prognosis and future success is now highly unlikely.
(with apologies to Trey P. and Matt S.)

Kinda scary isn’t he?

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Wednesday, September 11, 2008:

Here’s a great new site from the DNC.

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Wednesday, September 11, 2008:

Here’s a great link to see what’s being done across the country to screw the American People out of their votes.

Great Video From Site

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Whose side are you on?

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008: THE 2008 ELECTION IS OVER

Notice: If you are a black or hispanic American, don’t bother voting.  You’ve already lost.

If you don’t care - DON’T CLICK HERE!

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008: The REAL Tax Cut

How much is your Obama Tax Cut?  (yes, Virginia, there *IS* a tax cut!)

FIND OUT HERE!

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 (F-1)

Ok, Matt Damon is now my newest and bestest hero for calling a shovel a shovel.  He’s asking the kind of probing & in-depth questions that need to be asked by our impotent media.

Go Matt ! Go Matt !

p.s. - Good luck with Bill-o the Clown @ Faux News (NOT).  I’m sure O’Reilly will get his entire viewing audience to boycott any new movie of yours…

(F-1 out)

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 (F-1)

Well, it appears the Democrats have a great team in Barack Obama & Joe Biden.  Unfortunately they’ve been unable to get their message out in the Corporate Media.  We at the Republican Motto want to help the Dems fight the Rovian Smear Campaign with a little reality.  Here’s what the election looks like to us and should to all who have vision.

Obama-Biden team: feel free to use this ad…

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In these dangerous times, we need to seriously think about our future and who is best able to lead our Country down the long road ahead.

2008

Which vehicle can make it where we need to go?

Which leader has the endurance and temperament for the journey?

The answer is clear -

“We approve this message”

Monday, September 8, 2008:  “Keep Your Eyes On My Lovely Assistant Here…”

Have you ever watched a magic show? If you know anything at all about magic, it’s mostly about misdirection. The magician tries to get you to focus all of your attention on his right hand while his left hand is sneaking into his pocket. The “Lovely Assistant” is provided as a distraction while the magician goes to work behind the curtain.

The media firestorm surrounding Sarah Palin is providing the exact same distraction from the Republican Party while Rove and his operatives work their “magic” on the voting lists of several states. The results? Hundreds of thousands, if not millions of votes will “disappear” during this next election, ensuring that John McCain and Sarah Palin will win in November.

GregPalast.com is on the forefront of this issue. His excellent book, Armed Madhouse detailed how the 2000 and 2004 elections were stolen from us and how the fascist bastards are doing it again RIGHT NOW:

• In swing-state Colorado, the Republican Secretary of State conducted the biggest purge of voters in history, dumping a fifth of all registrations. Guess their color. (ummm…that answer would be “black”? – ed.)
• In swing-state Florida, the state is refusing to accept about 85,000 new registrations from voter drives – overwhelmingly Black voters.
• In swing state New Mexico, HALF of the Democrats of Mora, a dirt-poor and overwhelmingly Hispanic county, found their registrations disappeared this year, courtesy of a Republican voting contractor.
• In swing states Ohio and Nevada, new federal law is knocking out tens of thousands of voters who lost their homes to foreclosure.

We have to stop focusing our attention on Palin and start looking behind the curtain. We need to educate everyone we know about this situation, because the mainstream media ain’t gonna do it for us.

Please go to Greg’s site at: http://www.gregpalast.com for more information and to help educate the American people on this travesty. We need to get the word out as soon as possible.

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Monday, September 8, 2008: from bartcop.com

Palin is reaping tons of political “points” because she made the CHOICE to have her last baby but she wants to DENY that choice for everyone else.

Why do they always say they want less government and then try their best to to pass laws that intrude on a pregnant woman’s most personal decision?

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The Republican party wants us to believe they represent “Real Joe America”.  You know, the apple pie, soda pop, Brady Bunch eating dinner every night in the kitchen, working dad & stay-at-home mom, family values, church-going, lilly-white All-American “Republican” Family.  Sad thing is, they actually believe this!  Even though very few ever practice what they preach and live closeted hypocritical lives, they try every day to sell us their 1950’s Hallmark version of Americana.

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Here’s a link to the 2nd note by Anne Kilkenny

Note-2

The real Sarah Palin

Under the Hood

Posted under Sarah Palin

Recently,

There’s been a great deal of buzz about an Alaskan note written by Anne Kilkenny.  Apparently the note is legitimate and it took me a while to find it.  Here it is.

KilkennyNote

If this note is true, (which it appears to be) this alone is enough for me to vote for Obama.

It should be for everyone else too.

F-1

Posted under Sarah Palin

Friday, September 5, 2008:  But…but…who’s gonna look out for Exxon??

Take the Quiz

Question 1: Which of the following oil companies would reap hundreds of millions in new tax breaks under John McCain?
1. ExxonMobil
2. Chevron
3. ConocoPhillips
4. Valero Energy
5. Marathon
6. All of the Above

Question 2: Which of the following ideas to promote alternative and renewable energy sources has John McCain opposed?
1. Ethanol production
2. Tax incentives for renewable energy
3. Renewable fuel mandates
4. All of the above

Question 3: Which of the following strategies to expand domestic oil supply does John McCain oppose?
1. Force oil companies to explore and develop land already under lease
2. Bipartisan compromise to expand production, invest in alternative energy
3. All of the above

Question 4: Which of the following strategies to expand domestic oil supply do the oil companies oppose?
1. Force oil companies to explore and develop land already under lease
2. Bipartisan compromise to expand production, invest in alternative energy
3. All of the above

Do we really need to tell you the answers?

Just More of McSame

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Friday, September 5, 2008 (F-1)

Thank you God!!  You couldn’t have given the Obama team a better video clip from the RNC convention.

p.s. - Thanks again God!

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Thursday, September 4, 2008

I have an idea for a simple, new McCain campaign that is sure to play to his base:

[VO - sotto voce]: “Come November, vote for John McCain.  John McCain was a POW.  John McCain wants to ‘Bomb-bomb-bomb, Bomb-bomb Iran.’  John McCain is not black.”

[John McCain VO]: “I’m John McCain and I approve this message…because I’m delusional.“

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Thursday, September 04, 2008

(C/O - DailyKos Blog)

Amazes me that the party of “Christians” feel it is okay to lie about and smear other people.

“The McCain Team needs to be reminded that Jesus Christ was a community organizer and Pontius Pilate was a governor.”

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Thursday, September 4, 2008 - The “Speech to Nowhere”

I really, really wanted to write my own post today and I promised F-1 that I would do it.  However, after reading the excellent Will Bunch over at philly.com, I have to decline the job.

Just read Will’s blog.

Here’s an excerpt:
…”But more than anything else, it was a Speech to Nowhere because for all the acclaim, the great bulk of it was devoted to one thing, and that is the one thing that millions of Americans are talking about in 2008 when we talk about “change” — to the ugliest kind of “pit bull” politics, to use Palin’s words, that tear down the other side with cheap ad hominem attacks, surrounded by a cloud of half-truths (uh, those “Greek columns”…did you actually even watch Obama’s speech? Because there weren’t any) and ridiculous innuendo about “parting the waters” which means nothing but fires up a big hockey rink full of Dittoheads. These kind of vicious attacks — without having the grace to acknowledge that, despite some real differences on issues with Obama, that he has already accomplished something impressive that says something positive about America and the progress we’ve made — were utterly lacking in class. And this is what Tom Brokaw considers “winning” — have we really sunk that low as a nation?. The people of America want and deserve a real debate, not trash talk from the basketball point guard who was once called ‘Sarah Barracuda.’”

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Thursday, September 4, 2008 - The Lady doth protest too much, methinks

“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”

“Come, you spirits…
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty!”

“What need we fear…when none can call our power to account?”

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Well, Here’s Sarah Palin’s speech from last night.  (Ok, I’ve cropped only the good stuff).  Click on her image below to listen to her eloquence.  What a compelling case she’s made for deserving the VP nod and behaving admirably. <Not> Clearly the politics of division and hate.

She’s got all the qualifications of Cheney without the Dick.

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In what better way can we explain our purpose than to let you hear it from the man himself?

< Click on Obama >

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Wednesday, September 3, 2008: For those of you who’ve slept through the last 96 hours…

Josh Marshall at talkingpointsmemo.com has an excellent recap of the
Sarah Palin tragio-comedy:

…So let’s put this all together.

We rely on elected officials not to use the power of their office to pursue personal agendas or vendettas. It’s called an abuse of power. There is ample evidence that Palin used her power as governor to get her ex-brother-in-law fired. When his boss refused to fire him, she fired his boss. She first denied Monegan’s claims of pressure to fire Wooten and then had to amend her story when evidence proved otherwise. The available evidence now suggests that she 1) tried to have an ex-relative fired from his job for personal reasons, something that was clearly inappropriate, and perhaps illegal, though possibly understandable in human terms, 2) fired a state official for not himself acting inappropriately by firing the relative, 3) lied to the public about what happened and 4) continues to lie about what happened.

These are, to put it mildly, not the traits or temperament you want in someone who could hold the executive power of the federal government.

…but they describe typical Bush Administration cronies to a “T”, don’t they?

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Wednesday, September 3, 2008: Lies, Lies, Lies
(cross-posted from: http://www.democrats.com/lieberman-lies-about-obama)

Joe Lieberman only mentioned Barack Obama twice in his speech to the Republican convention and the world, and the second time he flat-out lied:

“when Barack Obama was voting to cut off funding for our troops on the ground”

The Senate never held a vote to abandon our troops in Iraq without funds, because that would get them killed. Instead Russ Feingold and Harry Reid proposed carefully-written amendments to set deadlines for Bush to remove troops safely, with a funding cutoff for combat troops only after those troops were removed to enforced the deadlines that George Bush (and John McCain) adamantly opposed.

* “To provide for a transition of the Iraq mission” (5/16/07)
* “To safely redeploy United States troops from Iraq” (9/20/07)
* “To safely redeploy United States troops from Iraq.” (10/3/07)
* 12/18/07

At a time when 2/3 of Americans wanted to bring our troops safely home, the Feingold-Reid amendments were the only serious attempts by the Senate to do so.

Will the Corporate Media call Lieberman out for being the liar that he is?

Update 1: Jane Hamsher reminds us that Lieberman also lied about lying about Obama:

“In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” earlier this month, Mr. Lieberman indicated that he would attend the Republican Convention, but that he was not going there to ’spend my time attacking Barack Obama.’”

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September 2, 2008

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September 2, 2008 - (F-1)

Did you see Karl Rove this weekend describe his “UNITary Executive” vision ?

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September 2, 2008 - (F-1)

Well it’s official, Karl Rove is the Hypocrite of the week…Rove on

Mon Aug 11, 2008 at 10:03:29 AM EDT

Karl Rove on CBS’ Face the Nation yesterday:

“With all due respect, again, to Governor Kaine, he’s been a governor for three years. He’s been able, but undistinguished. I don’t think people could really name a big, important thing that he’s done. He was mayor of the 105th-largest city in America. And, again, with all due respect to Richmond, Virginia, it’s smaller than Chula Vista, California, Aurora, Colorado, Mesa or Gilbert, Arizona, North Las Vegas, or Henderson, Nevada. It’s not a big town. If he were to pick Governor Kaine, it would be an intensely political choice, where he’s said, ‘You know what? I’m really not first and foremost concerned with, is this person capable of being president of the United States? What I’m concerned about is, can he bring me the electoral votes of the state of Virginia, the 13 electoral votes in Virginia?’”

On September 1, 2008 Karl Rove said the following: (Makes you ill what a boob he is)

When the topic of running mates came up, he referred to U.S. Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) as a “big, blowhard doofus.”

Here’s a link to Karl’s interview the Billo the clown > ROVE on Palin < (So to speak)

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September 1, 2008

Over at DKos, they’re talking about Sarah Palin, the Phantom Menace.  This is a wake-up call to all you fair-weather Hillary fanatics who insist on fucking up the future of this planet by throwing your votes to Grandpa McCranky and Sarah  “She Who Can’t Control Her Own Daughter Can’t Run A Country” Palin.  You empty-headed dumbasses will get the country you deserve.  The problem is, I have to live in it.

As is always our policy at EndTheAddictionNow.com, we provide the links,
you just have to READ ‘Em!

Palin:
1. Anti-choice
2. Anti-environment
3. Anti-gay
4. Pro-big oil
5. Pro-gun
6. Pro-pregnant 17-year-old daughter  (Obama doesn’t have the balls to say it, but I will:  IF YOU CAN’T LEAD A FAMILY OF FIVE, YOU CAN’T LEAD AN ENTIRE NATION.)
7. Pro-war
8. Pro-christofascism

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September 1, 2008

Solar-powered rock featuring Cake

Facts:
* Utilities across the USA are raising power prices up to 29%, mostly to pay for soaring fuel costs, but also to build new plants and refurbish an aging power grid.
* Rising fuel prices have driven up utility bills nearly 30% in the past five years, the sharpest jump since the 1970s energy crisis.
* The cost to build a power plant has also gone up, more than doubling since 2000.
* 96% of the world’s transportation energy currently supplied by oil.
* $75 - Cost of barrel of oil on July 18th, 2007.
* $131 - Cost of barrel of oil on July 18th, 2008.
* 2030 = the year by which lifting the ban on offshore drilling in 2008 will impact the price of gas.

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September 1, 2008 - Hypocrite, Thy Name is Republican

In another blatant hypocritical move, the Republican Party is “scaling back” first night convention activities while they pretend to care about poor black people in the path of another gulf coast hurricane. Said a Republican Party Chairman, “We got crucified for the way we handled the Katrina situation. You can be damn sure we ain’t gonna get caught with our thumbs up our asses this time.”

2005: “President Bush hates black people.”
You said it, Kanye.  I don’t suppose much has changed, do you?

To the Republican fascists, this is just one less Democratic voter.

This is what your President was doing during the last hurricane to hit the gulf coast.  He doesn’t look very worried about all the poor, black Democrats living there, does he?  However, the guitar’s owner seems very worried that the Giggling Murderer can’t make a proper G Major chord.

“For your birthday, John, I’m letting 50,000 black Democratic voters drown.”

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September 1, 2008 - OH MY GOD!  THEY’RE HAVING SEX!!!

The sick thing is, this is gonna play right to the base with their stupid, “I’m sevunteen and I’s gonna git hitched” mentality.  God, like we need ANOTHER freaking pregnant 17 year old in this world.  I’m sure the baby daddy got him a real good job at the Walmarts.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/01/palin.daughter/index.html

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September 1, 2008 - HAPPY LABOR DAY (suckers!)

Here’s the Labor Day your Republican party has wrought:
• When adjusted for inflation, the current federal minimum wage of $6.55 is FORTY CENTS LOWER than it was only a decade ago.
• The median weekly earnings for American workers have not grown in real terms over the past eight years.
• About 530,000 were subject to mass layoffs in the last year, growth of nearly 5 percent but a lower rate than five and 10 years ago.
• The number of people signing up for jobless benefits declined for the third straight period but remained above 400,000, an indicator of a slowing economy.
• More than 10 percent of Americans are unemployed, discouraged from seeking work or underemployed. That is a nearly 25 percent increase from one year earlier.

Isn’t it time for a change? Isn’t it time for real wages? For good jobs? For the ability to put food on your family?

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August 30, 2008 - A Three letter response to Four letters:

WTF?!?

I mean, seriously.

WTF?!?

If this doesn’t prove once and for all how sick, twisted, and completely devoid of ethics the fascist bastards in the Republican party are, then you have no hope of redemption.

Really.  WTF?
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Posted under Biden, Campaign '08, Christians, Hypocrites, Lies, McCain, Media, Obama, Palin, Republicans

Week of August 25-31

August 29, 2008 - I’d settle for Michael Palin

“She (Palin) has less experience than the dog catcher in Fargo.” - Ed Schultz

“When you’re 72 and have had four bouts of cancer, you ought
to choose a qualified VP.” - Paul Begala

“I think (her selection) would be something similar to Dan Quayle — Dan Quayle proved to be sort of an embarrassment” -Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC)

“Is this really who the Republican Party wants to be one heartbeat away from the Presidency? Given Sarah Palin’s lack of experience on every front and on nearly every issue, this Vice Presidential pick doesn’t show judgment: it shows political panic.” - Rep Rahm Emanuel (D-IL)

Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK).  A heartbeat away from the Presidency?

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August 29, 2008 - The Day After

“A Nation Of Whiners?
…tell that to the proud autoworkers in a Michigan plant who, after they found out it was closing kept showing up every day and working as hard as ever because they knew there were people who counted on the brakes that they made.

Tell that to the military families who shoulder their burden silently as they watch their loved ones leave for their 3rd, or 4th, or 5th tour of duty.

These are not whiners. They work hard, and they give back, and they keep going without complaint. These are the Americans I know.

Now, I don’t’ believe that Sen. McCain doesn’t care what’s going on In the lives of Americans, I just think he doesn’t know. Why else would he define middle class as someone making under 5 million dollars a year? How else could he propose hundreds of billions in tax breaks for big corporations and oil companies but not one penny of tax relief to more than 100 million Americans? How else could he offer a health care plan that actually taxes people’s benefits? Or an education plan that would do nothing to help families pay for college or a plan that would privatize social security and gamble your retirement?

It’s not because he doesn’t care, it’s because he doesn’t get it.

For over two decades he’s subscribed to that old discredited republican philosophy ‘give more and more to those with the most and hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else’. In Washington they call this the Ownership Society. But what it really means is…
YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN. (In other words: We’ve Got Ours, Screw You – Ed.)

Out of work? Tough luck – you’re on your own. (”Screw You”)
No Health care? The market will fix it – you’re on your own (”Screw You”)
Born into poverty? Pull yourself up by your bootstraps (even if you don’t have boots), you’re on your own. (”Screw You”)

It’s time for us to change America.”

“And for the sake of our economy, our security, and the future of our planet, I will set a clear goal as President, in 10 years we will end our dependence on oil from the Middle East. We will do this! Washington has been talking about our oil addiction for the past 30 years - and by the way John McCain has been there for 26 of them. And in that time, he has said “No” to higher fuel efficiency standards for cars, “No” to investment in renewable energy, “No” to renewable fuels and today we import triple the amount of oil than we had when Senator McCain took office.
It is time to END THE ADDICTION NOW.” (I couldn’t have said it better myself – Ed.)

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August 28, 2008

Democratic Speech “report cards”:
CNN - Bill Clinton
CNN - Joe Biden
TIME - Kathleen Sebelius
TIME - Hillary Clinton
TIME - Ted Kennedy

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August 28, 2008

Facts have a well-known “liberal bias”.  That’s why Republicans hate them so much.

This is all you need to know, folks.

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August 28, 2008

One day left to the convention - was Obama’s “surprise” unique? Has any other nominee shown up the night before the way Obama did?  I think that really pumped up the crowd and took the convention to another level.

I was so thrilled to hear Bill Clinton, Joe Biden and others FINALLY hit those fascist bastards right in the old solar plexus.  It’s about damn time the Dems start speaking out about what’s wrong with this country (combined with a big, fat heaping helping of what Barry and Joe are gonna do for us and HOW they’re gonna do it).

When it comes right down to it, the Dems are the party of the people - they really do care about everyone.  Not to say that there isn’t a fair share of liars, cheats, and hypocrites on the Dems’ side (”…The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our female party guests - we did.”), but for the most part, the Dem philosophy seems to be “Two for me, one for you” which by my count leaves me with one more that what I would’ve gotten from those rotten fascist Republican bastards.

Remember the Republican Motto: “We’ve Got Ours - Screw You”

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August 27, 2008

We’re Here, We’re…uh….oh, never mind.

The site is taking shape and starting to look like something.  We have tons and tons of info, commentary, lists, criticisms, humor, and jolly good times yet to upload - so check back often.

When yer done here, please make sure to check out some other really cool sites - like this one:

Bartcop is one of the funniest, most insightful political sites around!  Send Bart some love from us at TheRepublicanMotto.com
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August 27, 2008

So, we’ve heard Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton speak at the DNC Convention.  Wow.  Have there EVER been two more articulate, passionate, poised women to take a political stage?

Even though we have a lot to be happy about, we can’t let our guard down.  Rovian operatives are already finding ways to eliminate our votes.  We CANNOT suffer a repeat of 2000 or 2004.  These fascist bastards in the Republican party will stop at nothing to retain power.  Don’t believe me?  Read Greg Palast’s excellent book: Armed Madhouse.

I can only read a couple of pages at a time.  I get so mad that I have to put the book down.

Speaking of reading, if you haven’t read anything by this guy, you need to get your head out of your Tom Clancy books and start reading one of the preeminent progressive authors of our day: Thom Hartmann Listen to Thom on Air America radio daily from Noon - 3pm on Air America Radio.
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August 26, 2008

Here are a few nuggets for you to chew on.

John McCain picks up where Bush left off.

Real Joe Americans don’t have 8 houses, do they?

Real Joe Americans don’t abandon their wives, do they?

Real Joe Americans don’t switch positions on most every issue, do they?

Real Joe Americans don’t spread lies to get their way, do they?

Here at “EndTheAddictionNow” and “RepublicanMotto” we present the “truth”.

The media should start reporting and stop the propoganda.

The Republicans have theirs - they want to screw you and make you believe that screwing you is in your best interest.  Let’s face it, they’re darn good at.

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Posted under Uncategorized

We had dinner with some old friends tonight who, in the past, have always been a little put off by my ummm…shall we say “Passion”… for politics.   OK, I’ll be honest, it wasn’t passion - it was total bat-shit craziness.  And not of the good sort.  I mean, I would get red in the face and start yelling about everything from 9/11 conspiracies to the illuminati controlling the currency to Voodoo Reaganomics to the PNAC.  Most of the time, our friends would sit there a little bit startled and fearing for my health; they often told me to calm down for my “own good”.   You know, it’s just hard to watch our country being dismantled piece by piece while we all stand around fat and stupid watching American Idol and eating more Big Macs.  One time my friend looked me in the eye and said (in all sincerity), “I just can’t believe that the President of the United States would do ANYTHING to intentionally harm our citizens.”

I think I hit him upside the head.  Hard.  It wasn’t enough to jump-start his brain, but it was hard enough to make me realize I had crossed the line.  Maybe I was just a bit too aggressive in my views.

I laid off of the political stuff for a while whenever we were in each other’s company for the sake of our friendship, but inside I was boiling.

Tonight, however, when the subject of the Democratic National Convention came up, I realized that maybe the tide had turned and that all of my anger was not misplaced.  “You know what I wish?” my friend said.  “I wish Obama and Biden had been more aggressive in their attacks on McCain and Bush.”  Oh really?  “If we’re going to win this election, they have to get fired up and start calling out those Republicans for all of their crimes.”  And how would that look?  “Well, they’ve got to get mad!  They have to tell it like it is!  They have to let all of the people know that these Republicans have sold us down the river for a buck and we need to run them out of town!  Being passive and ‘playing nice’ is not going to win in November!”

I looked my friend in the eye and nodded my head in agreement.  Silently, I thougtht “I couldn’t have said it better myself.”

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Hello world !!

This is Founder-1 (F-1) with my first Blog entry.  My lifelong buddy and big toe Founder-2 (F-2 or eastcoast) is on equal par with me in this effort.  You’ll be seeing posts from him and me quite often.  Several people have expressed interest in being guest contributors to this blog and I’ve gladly agreed as I know they have alot to say and are good at it.

Please check out the diatribes, (F-2) has a lot to say and is damn funny when saying it.  Thanks for visiting endtheaddictionnow.com and republicanmotto.com  We expose the hypocricy of the Bush administration and all those who support their type.  Check back often and share your thoughts, insights, information & feedback so we can make things better.

The hypocrite tab is one of my favorite sections and we’ve made it easy for anyone to add and review their favorite hypocrite.  Use it often, reference it often, and share it with others you know.

Note: On the home tab, F-2 nailed it today with regard to Obama’s speech in Denver.  Could Obama possibly provide any better tie to our site and cause than he did explicitly yesterday?  We’ll be posting excerpts shortly on the site from this historic speech.  I think we’ll look back on this DNC convention (& Barack’s speech) as one of the all-time best.

Thanks for finding us on the Internet.

F-1 out

The GUYS

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