Thursday, November 26, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving!

The Official Pardoning of the Turkey





From all the bloggers here at MOA, we would like to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving.

This holiday, more than any other, is about family and friends- spending time with them, appreciating the blessings that you have.

Hope you eat good food, and have good times.




Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Sarah Palin Supporters At Book Signing

Another video with the Teabaggers. Thanks to Oliver Willis.

This is why I tweeted a few days ago that The United States was finito (long-term) and that I might consider Canada.



Is the public school system to blame for this? There is more to it than a lack of education...has to be more to it than that. I think it also has to do with cultural isolation (esp. in White rural U.S. in Rustbelt and the South), geographical or national isolation (not having a basic understanding of the World outside of the lower 48 State box or even outside of your region within that box), a certain level of prejudice, and being in a Conservative echo chamber all your life. It takes a perfect storm of a lot of things to create this IMO. Pretty scary stuff... knowing that these are the folks who are going to the ballot box with the power to make decisions that impact the lives of the rest of us.

This only backs up my long held belief that voters in this Country respond more to the superficial, such as who they would like to have a beer with or have dinner with, who they identify with racially and culturally, who they identify with in terms of religious and moral views, as opposed to basing their voting decisions on actual policies and facts. They are not the most engaged and informed voters...yet they are some of the most emotionally driven and most loyal. This is especially true for Conservatives/Republicans. And the Right Wing media (Limbaugh & Co.) has taken full advantage of these people for their own gain IMO. (whipping them up into a frenzy with propaganda...so that they not only slam and literally threaten the President...but buy their books as well). The manipulation of these folks is epic.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

The State Dinner for the Prime Minister of India -Manmohan Singh




The President's Toast Tonight at the State Dinner



















State Visit of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh




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WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 24: (AFP OUT) Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (L), joined by U.S. President Barack Obama (R), walk down the Crosshall to the East Room of the White House November 24, 2009 in Washington, DC. President Obama hosted Prime Minister Singh in the administration?s first state visit with an Oval Office meeting, a joint news conference and a state dinner. ------Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty Images

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WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 24: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh speaks during a joint news conference with U.S. President Barack Obama in the East Room of the White House November 24, 2009 in Washington, DC. President Obama hosted Prime Minister Singh in the administration's first state visit with an Oval Office meeting, a joint news conference and a state dinner.
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A young guest takes a picture as other guests hold the flags of the United States and India while U.S. President Barack Obama welcomes Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at an official arrival ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington November 24, 2009.
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Guests hold the flags of the United States and India as U.S. President Barack Obama welcomes Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at an official arrival ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington November 24, 2009.
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WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 24: U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama waves to members of the Indian delegation while standing with Mrs. Gursharan Kaur during a state arrival ceremony for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama in the East Room of the White House November 24, 2009 in Washington, DC. President Obama hosted Prime Minister Singh in the administration?s first state visit with an Oval Office meeting, a joint news conference and a state dinner.
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WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 24: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) bows to members of the Indian delegation while waiting with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (R) and his wife Jill before a state arrival ceremony for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama in the East Room of the White House November 24, 2009 in Washington, DC. President Obama hosted Prime Minister Singh in the administration?s first state visit with an Oval Office meeting, a joint news conference and a state dinner.
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WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 24: Omar Carrington (R) waves Indian and American flags while waiting for the start of a state arrival ceremony for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama, in the East Room of the White House November 24, 2009 in Washington, DC. President Obama will host Prime Minister Singh in the administration's first state visit with an Oval Office meeting, a joint news conference and a state dinner. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)


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Students from Walker-Jones Elementary School stand with members of the Indian community as they wait for President Barack Obama to welcome India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during a State Arrival in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009.
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First Lady Michelle Obama meets with Mrs. Gursharan Kaur in the Yellow Oval Room of the White House, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 in Washington.
-----AP Photo/Press Trust of India, Subhash Chander Malhotra

Thankful for health care access, not for reform opponents

America is a bountiful country, and I am so thankful to live here. We have the best of so much and much to be proud of. We have a fantastic fighting force of volunteers who put their lives on the line to defend us from enemies.

I am so thankful for the fantastic collection of colleges and universities that are without a doubt the best in the entire world. I am lucky enough to have attended a few and taught at a few more, and I know firsthand the value of an affordable public education.

Read the rest at The Loop.

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Selling t-shirt and coffee mugs calling for the ASSASSINATION OF THE PRESIDENT

From The NYTimes
November 19, 2009, 10:30 am
Psalm 109:8 ‘Let His Days Be Few’

An anti-Obama bumper-sticker slogan which seems to urge people to pray for an end to the President’s days (in office?).

“There’s a hilarious new meme in the wingnut sectors of the internet,” Gawker announced:


Posters to various message boards tell stories of seeing bumper stickers with the message “Pray for Obama – Psalm 109:8” on the highway, only to look up the verse and find, “Let his days be few; and let another take his office.” …

Anyway, now it’s a real thing: CafePress is selling T-shirts and bumper stickers, the Christian Science Monitor is wondering whether it’s “funny or sinister” to pray for Obama’s death, and Rachel Maddow referenced it last night on her show.


However, as a number of commentators have noted, the wording that follows this bumper-sticker appeal is somewhat more disturbing:

Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labor.
Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children.
Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

These people 'claim' to be Christians. They claim to be American citizens. Yet, someone created this stuff to SELL, and people are BUYING IT, and they see absolutely nothing wrong with it. They are NOT Christians. They are NOT REAL AMERICANS. They are phony treasonous traitors and should be dealt with as such. Their racist asses have become unhinged at the election of a Black Man as President of the United States.

FYI,CafePress has STOPPED selling the items in question, once they were called out about it.

They NEVER are subtle..watch out...the Black President is gonna.....



Yes, the Black President is gonna RAPE you.

As old as Birth of a Nation, these mofos don't quit.

And, what should be done to rapists?

Yes, you get the point.

This is not about free speech. These folks are dangerous, and attempting to incite violence, and should be dealt with as such.

President Obama's Weekly Address

Two for One - John Gary Williams and The Intruders



Intruders doing Gil Scott-Heron's "Save The Children". Gamble and Huff's trademark production & Philly sound was probably the best of the 70's era.

Murder Charges Filed In Shaniya Davis Case

More charges have been filed in the case.

What a horror show.

Mario McNeill has been charged with murder. Both McNeill and Antoinette Davis (the egg donor) should face the death penalty...although Davis will likely get off easy.

What's almost just as shocking as the case itself is the fact that both suspects are getting support from....guess who? Women of course. Black women. I know... I know, I shouldn't be surprised. They support child raping R&B performers too (not all of course). I was thumbing through the radio stations while driving to work last week...and heard a concert ticket promotion on one of the degenerate "Chocolate City" radio stations in St. Louis and the woman who called in and won tickets to see R. Kelly (NAACP award recipient and admired beacon of "the Black Community") was so excited that she damn near started to cry on the air. Insanity!!

One of the ex-girlfriends of the thug McNeill thought he was a wonderful man, and doubted the charges against him (why are these women so f------ crazy and such bad judges of character..and of men in particular? I am always hearing this about these murderous, thug, deadbeat boyfriends). And then there was a Davis family member who claims that the egg donor was innocent and was a wonderful mother.

I don't understand these women. I don't understand their culture.

Always seeing them at work drives me mad too.... everyday I see several of them. Saw one in particular...appeared to be a halfway decent Black chick... presentable at least. On her right arm was a chump with his pants down below his ass....showing his underwear in public. If this is acceptable to them (and yes, it's not only accepted now...but it has become a cultural norm)...then I guess it's not really a big leap for these women to support this kind of culture (The modern Black culture), lifestyle, and the crimes that their boyfriends commit. It's all tied together.

I only believe in limited use of the death penalty.... that it should be reserved for special circumstances. This case would be an example.
I would love to be on a State sanctioned firing squad for this f----- "Lil Wayne" clone (and Hell... you could throw in the actual rapper/thug ......well, no, I won't go there. But let's just say... I wouldn't mind).

Meanwhile, the father of this child has time to contribute to Oprah (baby hasn't even had a funeral yet).

Shaniya had a circus around her....few responsible adults it appears.

There is a Progressive Infrastructure (We Just Don’t Know About It)

Most people are not aware that the powerful infrastructure of conservative media, think tanks and advocacy organizations, which dominate the American political and policy-making landscape in 2009, did not always exist. In the 1960s, for example, it was the Left in its varying shades in the political spectrum that had the upper hand in capturing the imagination of the public at large. Enter the Powell Memo in 1971.
In 1971, Lewis F. Powell, then a corporate lawyer and member of the boards of 11 corporations, wrote a memo to his friend Eugene Sydnor, Jr., the Director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The memorandum was dated August 23, 1971, two months prior to Powell's nomination by President Nixon to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Powell Memo did not become available to the public until long after his confirmation to the Court. It was leaked to Jack Anderson, a liberal syndicated columnist, who stirred interest in the document when he cited it as reason to doubt Powell's legal objectivity. Anderson cautioned that Powell "might use his position on the Supreme Court to put his ideas into practice...in behalf of business interests."

Though Powell's memo was not the sole influence, the Chamber and corporate activists took his advice to heart and began building a powerful array of institutions designed to shift public attitudes and beliefs over the course of years and decades. The memo influenced or inspired the creation of the Heritage Foundation, the Manhattan Institute, the Cato Institute, Citizens for a Sound Economy, Accuracy in Academe, and other powerful organizations. Their long-term focus began paying off handsomely in the 1980s, in coordination with the Reagan Administration's "hands-off business" philosophy.

Most notable about these institutions was their focus on education, shifting values, and movement-building.

Most people who are aware of the Powell Memo, however, may not know that there is a Progressive counterpart – Democratic operative Rob Stein’s Powerpoint Presentation (from the New York Times) (from Alternet) called the “Conservative Message Machine Money Matrix” which lays out the inter-connections between this network of right wing institutions and calls for the creation of a Progressive counterpart.

All good right? One thing that baffles me about Rob Stein’s Powerpoint is that I’ve never seen it. It exists and has an almost mythical quality about it in Democratic circles. But the last time I heard Stein was only showing it around the country in 2004 to a select circle of liberal venture philanthropists like George Soros. Apparently this effort has led to the creation of the Democracy Alliance and New Progressive Coalition organizations which fund various Progressive organizations such as Progressive Majority, Center for American Progress, the Air America Radio Network among others.

But the Democracy Alliance tries to keep a low profile and its wealthy donors prefer anonymity. According to published reports, organizations funded by Democracy Alliance are asked not to reveal the funding (this is from SourceWatch). So as much as I’d like to comment on the creation of a Progressive Infrastructure, the only existing attempt to make it happen seems to be a secretive one where you have to be a member of a select inner circle of people to view the Powerpoint.

I’m a Progressive and I am all for the creation of something on our end that will serve as an effective counterpoint to the massive and highly effective conservative infrastructure. But all this secrecy isn’t really helping to rally people like me to the cause. I mean, how on earth am I going to support something that I’ve never even seen?

C’mon Rob Stein, make the infamous Powerpoint available in the Internet and let us—the Progressive rank and file—see it and chew on it. Perhaps, even get our feedback on making it better and adapting it to our day-to-day work as activists, bloggers and engaged citizens. We’re supposed to be a network of people who share common political goals, right?

Friday, November 20, 2009

Oprah Announces End of Talk Show

New Racist Obama Billboard References Ft. Hood


This billboard just went up in Wheatridge Colorado.

See brief backstory

More Teabagger Videos

Attention LAD in particular.... to support my point.



See additional video posted via Oliver Willis

If you use the search feature above, you can find other videos of Teabaggers at rallies being quizzed, but not knowing much about what the Hell is going on in terms of facts and policy...and not really understanding why they were really there.

(I can repost those later... I don't have time to search the archives... but if you search "Glenn Beck", "Right Wing Media", etc.. the videos should come up in a search).

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Why the Angry Right Can’t Be Dismissed So Easily

Check out this insightful blog post by Jeff Blodgett from the Wellstone Action website which details the rise of the conservative, populist Right. He makes several points which I will quote here:
The resurgence of organized conservative activity was written about in a recent New York Times piece about Dick Armey and his influential movement organization, FreedomWorks. There are three points that strike me about about the conservative movement now:

ECONOMIC CONSERVATIVES ARE IN ASCENDANCE -- growing in influence and setting strategy for the right. The social religious wing, dominant in the Bush administration, has become less effective and relevant. Their message is angry, populist, and economic: FreedomWorks' slogan is: Lower Taxes, Less Government, More Freedom. Government takeover is their bogeyman. In 2010, they will focus on exploiting the economic pain in the country, railing against spending and taxes, and blaming all government and certain incumbents.

CONSERVATIVES ARE BORROWING FROM THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT -- The NYT article quotes FreedomWorks staff saying that they are making close study of Saul Alinsky and other community organizers. Like progressives, the other side is increasing conservative candidate development (NY-23 and in GOP primaries all over the country), and improving their grassroots advocacy skills (like the impression made at August town halls).

THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT CONTINUES TO BE BETTER FUNDED -- FreedomWorks, just one of many groups, easily raised $7 million from donors in 2008, including single gifts of $1 million and $750,000. The Leadership Institute, the premier training center for the right, sustains an $8 million dollar annual budget--at least twice the budget of any of comparable groups (like Wellstone Action) on the progressive side. Americans for Prosperity, another key conservative economic group has 73 staff people nationally and in 20 states.

These People Are Not Joking

One thing in which conservatives have been successful -- and which I am still in a bit of a disbelief —- is to take on the mantle of economic populism and use that as a rallying cry against the Democratic administration. Who would have thought a few short years ago that the economic populists who would have the most political impact in hard economic times in the U.S. would be conservatives railing against Democrats?

I have always thought that in tough economic times, old-school Marxists, Socialists and Progressive populists would find a ready audience for their message and we’d have a working and middle class radicalized and mobilized en masse to fight for working peoples’ interests like in the 1930s. I have always thought that the Progressive Left had superior arguments in advocating for working peoples’ interests against free-market conservatives and that Progressive Populism will explode in popularity in times of economic crisis. After all, didn’t the economic policies which have caused this mess we are in based on radical, free-market ideology as espoused by economists like Milton Friedman and implemented as policy by his followers in government? And in finding someone to blame, that most people would naturally gravitate to its opposing viewpoint?

Boy was I wrong! Instead of resulting in an army of modern-day Eugene Debses, exploding into popular culture are the current heroes of conservative populism like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck who have massive followings among ordinary, working people. Sarah Palin’s book just came out today and is a huge bestseller drawing crowds of hundreds of people at her book signings.

Something is going on in American culture in this time of economic crisis and for some reason, the Right is tapping into the psyche of ordinary working Americans in a big way that I have never seen Progressives do in recent memory. Those who oppose these conservative populists and who laugh at, ridicule and dismiss them as irrelevant do so at their own peril. It is very easy to dismiss Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin and laugh them off as bad jokes. But these people and the movement they represent is no joke. They are organized, well-funded and, whether we like it or not, wildly popular and with a large constituency.

A New Approach for Progressives?

I have yet to see from Progressives wide discussion of innovative approaches in engaging this conservative populist movement. Jeff Blodgett frames the fight to be had along the lines of the 2010 Congressional Elections and that engagement would be defined as stopping the election of Republicans into Congressional seats—with the implication being electing Democrats into these seats or preventing Republican takeover of these Democratic seats will be the definition of victory.

For me that is not good enough. We’ve all seen this year how getting both a Democratic majority in Congress and a Democratic President in the White House doesn’t necessarily translate into getting Progressive agenda enacted into public policy. Helping make Congress a solidly Democratic turf in 2010, therefore, doesn’t necessarily translate into a victory for Progressives.

The discussion among Progressives should be centered on how to harness this society-wide anger and frustration with the tough economic times and channel them towards ends that are unmistakably Progressive—but without resorting to electing Democrats as the default position. Can it be done? I don’t know. But I can’t see any other way.

Oprah Winfrey To End Talk Show

hat tip: W.E.E. See You

xcxcxc


From WMBF.com

Oprah to pull the plug on syndicated show in 2011
Posted: Nov 19, 2009 5:25 PM CST
Updated: Nov 19, 2009 5:25 PM CST


CHICAGO, IL (WMBF) - The president of Harpo, Inc., has announced Oprah Winfrey will be calling it quits on her syndicated show in 2011.

Tim Bennett made Oprah's decision public in a press release to television partners on Thursday evening. Bennett says Oprah will make the announcement live on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" on Friday.

"If you think the last quarter century has been something, then don't touch that dial, as together ,we plan to make history in the next 20 months," Bennett said.

Oprah's show will close as its 25th season comes to an end on Sept. 9, 2011.


Never really thought I'd see the day.

WWII in HD Documentary Series


I have been catching bits and pieces of the new documentary series WWII in HD from the History Channel. So far I have seen 4 of the 10 episodes.

This is one of the best quality documentaries that I have seen. It's balanced to include the contributions of a cross-section of American cultures...not perfect...but they made a pretty good effort here (something not always seen in this genre of documentaries and movies). Just good stuff...and the video quality itself is amazing. I wish I could afford to buy the whole DVD series.

If you like documentaries as much as I do, especially programs on war history, then this is something to look out for.

(I guess i'm a little bit of a nerd..unfortunately)

Fox 'Apologizes' Again for getting busted about false stories



This apology is for putting up footage of a Sarah Palin 2008 Political Rally and pretending that this was a book tour crowd.





So, they took footage from a 2008 political rally[ which means it happened between August & November 2008] for a story in November 2009. Now, I've never been in the media business, but I will just 'assume' that a tv studio doesn't keep footage from over a YEAR just lying around. Maybe I believe that a supposed news outlet that puts out footage on a 24 hour/day, 365 days/year basis would need to um, STORE their old footage somewhere. Meaning that this just didn't ' happen'. You don't 'happen' upon old footage from a YEAR AGO. You LOOK for footage from a year ago, because you want to CREATE the story that this woman's book, and her are more popular than they actually are, because you are devoting time and money to having anchors follow this woman around and are interviewing her on basically every program you have.

Now, why does Fox and OUTRIGHT FRAUD in stories sound so familiar?

Oh yes...because a MONTH has NOT passed from when Jon Stewart busted Sean Hannity for pulling THE EXACT SAME FRAUD.

and yet, there was no ' review' at Fox News to put into place guidelines ensuring that this NEVER HAPPENED AGAIN?

I said, at the time, that Hannity only half-assed apologized immediately because he didn't want anyone looking too deep into his past stories to see what other FRAUD he had committed.




Hannity's half-assed apology.

The First Lady Honors Women in the Military

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Harry Reid Presents the Senate Healthcare Bill

Harry Reid explains the Senate bill.



From TPM
Reid: 'We're Proud Of These Figures'
Rachel Slajda | November 18, 2009, 6:50PM

After meeting with the Democratic caucus to unveil the details of his merged Senate health care reform bill, Senate Majority Harry Reid held a press conference to announce the bill.

The bill "saves lives, saves money and protects Medicare, makes Medicare stronger," Reid said, flanked by several Democratic senators, including Chris Dodd, Debbie Stabenow, Al Franken and Chuck Schumer.

"Ninety-eight percent of the American people, those that have Medicare will be included in that number, will have health insurance," he said,

Earlier today, Reid's office briefed reporters on the Congressional Budget Office's analysis of the bill, which will require $849 billion over 10 years in new spending and will reduce the deficit by $127 billion. The CBO had a slightly different percentage of Americans who will be insured, saying the number would come in at 94 percent.

"We're proud of these figures," Reid said.


Now, we have 3 pivotal votes before it actually gets out of the Senate. Keep the eyes on Lincoln, Landrieu, and Nelson. See if they truly are big and bad enough to stand up on the floor and vote against bringing this to the floor for a vote. And, forced to do it, they should. Don't let them hide in the shadows.



Chuck Schumer discusses the bill.

The Shaniya Davis Horror Case - A National Failure




Man's Inhumanity... Where is the Limit?

The story of Shaniya Davis is on my mind this morning. Can't shake it. It makes me want to go Rambo. Probably because her childhood reminds me of my early childhood. I too had a sick mother (the biological one) who should have never had custody of children.

This case is another example of "the system" failing children (ie. Social Services, Police, extended family or whatever safety net you can think of...but especially State services). I'll take that further...it's an example of a nation failing its children. The U.S. is a strange Country when it comes to the welfare of children...and the welfare of its people in a more general sense. I was just reading a report via Reuters that highlighted how far behind this Country is in terms of basic labor rights and privileges (what is now considered to be the standard around the world). The U.S. lags behind other nations when it comes to the number of workers who are allowed paid sick leave, and other time off that ends up being good for families. This is just a microcosm that reflects the wider lack of priority that this Country puts on children and families. This is on top of the fact that there is a general disdain in the U.S. for social safety net/social welfare programs like those that Europeans hold dear.

Why didn't the extended family take action when they noticed problems? Why didn't State officials take action? Why weren't parental rights revoked from the mother when the home (an alleged drug house) was raided a few months ago? I can't help but wonder how State cutbacks may have contributed to Shaniya falling through the cracks.... or not even being on the States radar in the first place. Social services, even protective services, are always the first to go in any kind of major economic slump. But there should be Federal laws which should mandate that child protective services receive the same status as Police, Ambulance and Fire service - deemed essential and the last thing to be cut (rather than the first as it is today in many States). Not only that, but the Feds should also mandate a certain number of protective service agents based on State/County population and caseload.... so that more tragedies are prevented. The current situation is ridiculous. Social services are often cut before garbage collection during a recession. That speaks volumes about American priorities.

It just drives me crazy the way this Country would spend money building a bomb before building a school or investing in the protection and care of its children. Where are we headed with this kind of social order? There is something fundamentally wrong with the United States in this regard. There is something wrong with a nation with priorities that are so out of wack; and there is something wrong with a culture (The American culture) that allows it. Show me a nation that fails or refuses to invest in its own people, particularly its children, and I will show you a nation that can't survive....at least not in the long run.

Beyond the social policy problems... and the sick American culture that helped to allow this to happen, this case makes me question a whole list of other things. It makes me wonder just how evil people can be. It makes me doubt the spirit of human beings. In fact, it reinforces the skepticism and cynicism that I already have for humans.

This also makes me question God...even the existence of God. I'm already fairly secular...but these stories only reinforce my secularism. I mean... if God exists, and if he's omnipresent, how was this atrocity allowed to take place? When everyone and everything failed Shaniya, where was God? I'm not in Bill Maher territory yet, but I have to admit that i'm at least facing in that direction.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Please Make Her the Republican Nominee for 2012

Well, Not Exactly...

I am secretly hoping that Sarah Palin becomes the Republican Presidential nominee in 2012. And as dense and gullible as Republican voters are (not all...but many) they just might make it happen. But then i'm reminded of how boneheaded Americans are as a whole, and how they may be crazy enough to actually put her in the White House in the General election, especially with the potential backlash of having a Black incumbent. The American voter is capable of doing a lot of crazy things, many of which have little to do with reality or common sense. They elected George W. Bush twice for goodness sake (really once...but you get the point). So i'm not so sure that it's actually safe for this Palin fantasy to come true.... because it might go too far. The idea of Palin getting anywhere near the White House is horrifying.

But if this CBS poll is correct.... we probably won't have to worry about this kind of worst case scenario.

I'm a little perplexed as to why the media is giving her so much play. I'm amused by their incessant interest in knowing whether she will run for President (legitimizing her as if she is anywhere close to being qualified). It's as if the media folks have been in a bubble over the past 2 years. It's as if they forgot what happened during the campaign. Hello!!! It was pretty much established that she wasn't qualified to be VP... so why in the Hell would she be qualified to run for President? Did something change since last years campaign that I don't know about?