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Sheez People! Get it Right

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , on July 30, 2008| Leave a Comment »

Update

I guess I’m popular, since I just got notice of a scrambled spam, generated by using this text, off my site. Thus the change in title. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Denver

O.K.- So city employees, have their own gas pumps. I get that, Chicago has a similar set up and when I was there, around 2000, let cabbies use it tax free. Course, that was about time the city raised the prices, so the cabbies got stuck.  Hmmm… wasn’t that about the time Obama was involved in his great learning experience about “Gas Tax Holidays”?

But wait, these aren’t City employees per see, they are the DNCC! Well, I guess the Mile High City had to have some enticements to the get the Convention there.

But wait, isn’t this the candidate who said gas tax holidays don’t work?  Way to match the message to the action people!! I know! This must be Hillary’s fault!! Check this out!

[DNCC vehicles have gotten to pull up to city pumps for the past few months, with a price as low as $2.62 per gallon, while a contract for the gasoline usage seems to have been an afterthought. Records reviewed by Rocky reporters show 61 DNCC vehicles (out of a fleet of 450, stressed the party) gassing up at city facilities, racking up a bill of $11,141.53 as of a week ago.]

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jul/30/convention-committee-makes-right-call-in-fuel/

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So Much to Read!

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 29, 2008| Leave a Comment »

Catch up on these blogs today:

 

Read all of Heidi’s blogs, but start with today’s on the latest DNC money grovel:

Her clear and concise arguments articulate the importance of  paying down Clinton’s debt, and supporting The Denver Group, PUMA PAC, and Just Say No Deal:

http://heidilipotpourri.blogspot.com/

 

Riverdaughter’s comments  about Obama’s band and bratwurst laden event at the Tiergarden:

http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2008/07/28/monday-the-big-o-and-the-obots/

 

Ooh, Nuance’s comment on narcissism (Obama’s):

Sunday, July 27, 2008

The Narcissist, Part Deux 

http://oohnuance.blogspot.com/2008/07/narcissist-part-deux.html

 

Gary’s comment’s on the media’s positonings:

When the Tingle becomes a Chill…

Posted on July 28, 2008 by garychapelhill

http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2008/07/28/when-the-tingle-becomes-a-chill/

 

Remember this?

Barack Obama and Me

It was the year 2000 and I was a young hungry reporter in Chicago covering a young hungry state legislator

By Todd Spivak

published: February 28, 2008

http://www.houstonpress.com/content/printVersion/730783

 

Recent reports of PUMA sightings:

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

Obama campaign strives to unify Texas Democrats

Many Clinton supporters waiting to see how party treats her, who will be V.P. pick.

By W. Gardner Selby

AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF

Saturday, July 26, 2008

http://www.statesman.com/search/content/region/legislature/stories/07/26/0726texdems.html

 

And last but not least, bostonboomer’s great synopsis of the 1968(Correction: Not 1972, What was I thinking?)DNC Convention:

Forty Years Ago in August

Posted on July 21, 2008 by bostonboomer

http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/forty-years-ago/

 

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Buzzz!! Part Two

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on July 26, 2008| 1 Comment »

PUMA, and Our Failure to Communicate. Continued…

As I spent the requisite time in the woodshed pondering my plight, it struck me that my ineptitude at PUMA swarming is a metaphor for a personal concern I’ve had since the beginning of February in this election season.

There is a disconnect in sending and receiving of political information. (more…)

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Buzzz!!

Posted in Politics, tagged , on July 25, 2008| Leave a Comment »

PUMA sent me a call to action today. I missed it. I was away from my computer. I don’t have them on instant messaging or texting. I missed it. The equivalent of a PUMA swarm happened and I missed it.  What to do with those slow on the uptake?

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If It Ain’t Right, Fix It!

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , on July 24, 2008| Leave a Comment »

Read this article and act NOWWW!!!

NO EXCUSES – Women Deserve Fair Pay

Senators Must Hear from Us NOW!

http://www.now.org/issues/economic/072308ledbetter.html 

Click the “Take Action” Icon at the bottom of the above page to start.

 Don’t know your Senator? Go here!

Remember each state has two at large senators. Write both! If you live in a protectorate, write to the ones in the article.

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Lose Some Gas, Gain a Cat.

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , on July 23, 2008| 1 Comment »

PUMA OR NOT?

Today a young friend came knocking on my door to tell me someone was stealing gas from my truck.  He had seen them while he was mowing a neighbors yard. I ran out in time to see the culprits take off in their car. I called the police – you know, they didn’t pull it off and would still be looking. Of course, in my neighborhood, for my friend to have my back, comes at a price. He’ll have to watch his own back for a while.

 Now, we don’t live in a bad neighborhood, but people are struggling.  It’s a suburb, where all the youngsters know each other, and memory is long and deep. Doing the right thing isn’t always the safest thing. It’s a sure bet that gas siphoning is on the rise. So, a mark on the police log won’t hurt.

Siphonous Interruptus

Siphonous Interruptus

Anyway, later in the evening I went over to spread word of the nefarious deed to another neighbor. That neighbor, in turn, had been watching over one of our resident 95 year old’s, who just went into assisted living, probably to stay.  Her son is down from Alaska, and it turns out he’s having to take his wife into a new round of Chemotherapy, so he is pretty busy.

 So as I said, I went over to talk to the neighbor (more…)

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Serve’s Up!

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , on July 21, 2008| Leave a Comment »

Right on time, the FEC has published John McCain’s campaign finances through 6/30/08.  If you want to see the number of individual contributions from donors who have met the $200 itemization threshold, click their page link on “Individual Contributions”. Neither Clinton, nor Obama’s reports have been published yet for the same period.

Page five of this report gives the schedule and even points out the weekend date of the 20th is still the due date. McCain and Obama recently promised openness and transparency in campaign financing. Democrats – where is that darn ball?

UPDATE…..

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My Kind of Guy.

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , on July 21, 2008| Leave a Comment »

See:

Of Vocabulary and the Fourth

Filed under: Diversity, Politics, Sense of place — Ed Quillen at 11:34 am on Saturday, July 5, 2008

[Thus it seems odd that we often read of patriots and patriotism, but seldom see mat riots and matriotism — they ought to be pretty much the same thing. On the other hand, if we’re trying to avoid sexism, matriot is no improvement on patriot.] 

UPDATED LINK: http://www.hcn.org/blogs/goat/of-vocabulary-and-the-fourth?

 

When I see these ruminations, plucked from the GOAT’S hinterlands, I am immediately plunged back into some of the philosophical swing stage discussions in which I, and my coworkers engaged. Life isn’t always fair; versus, if it’s not right, fix it.

What then, to make of the fact that the 160th anniversary of the Seneca Falls convention passed with relatively little fanfare? (If you need a refresher check this, and this out.)

In a web search yesterday of “seneca falls” 160 anniversary, I found just 4,130 results. This is a sad commentary when, “hillary sleaze” will get you 3,650, and “hillary liar”, will get you another 3,690 hits.

10 years ago Hillary Clinton, as First Lady, gave a speech commemorating the 150th anniversary. So you see, the gravitas of Senator Clinton is now synonymous with the date. 

Remarks by the First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton

150th Anniversary of the First Women’s Rights Convention 

Seneca Falls, New York

July 16, 1998

http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/EOP/First_Lady/html/generalspeeches/1998/19980804-3206.html

It makes perfect sense that Senator Obama chose this week to fly away on his much anticipated but delayed international trip. How lovely it would have been to overwrite history at the Brandenburg Gate. Alas, the Germans wouldn’t allow it.

Frederick Douglass would not be amused. He would have an idea on how to fix it.

 

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Wire and Skin

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , on July 20, 2008| Leave a Comment »

Understand this about lemmings: a few always refuse to go over the cliff and survive to perpetuate the species. Citizen protest is the refusal to go along with group mentality. However, that doesn’t mean protesters are mindlessly unaware of the risks of being overrun or trapped. Part of protest is legal action. The ACLU is on it, but will it be enough? Emily over at the GOAT has this to say about it:

Democratic? National Convention comes to Denver

Filed under: Bad Judgment, Politics — Emily Steinmetz at 8:44 am on Thursday, July 3, 2008

Emily Steinmetz

The 2008 Democratic National Convention is looming – and the recurring questions about free speech, public spaces and national security are on the minds of freedom-loving people everywhere.

Read more about it here:

UPDATE: THE GOAT CHANGED THE LINK FOR EMILY’S ARTICLE. THE NEW ONE IS:

http://www.hcn.org/blogs/goat/democratic-national-convention-comes-to-denver

The Rocky Mountain News doesn’t sound any more encouraging. It’s going to take some fortitude, but PUMAs are strong and know the country.

Final night move from Pepsi Center to Invesco Field has DNC under time crunch

By Sara Burnett, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)

Originally published 04:03 p.m., July 14, 2008

Updated 08:14 p.m., July 14, 2008

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jul/14/dnc-protest-zone-will-be-surrounded-two-fences/

Citizen protest is always a difficult, and sometimes painful process because it is naked and individual, even within a group. In today’s society the teeth of the human lemmings determined to fall over the cliff can be very frightening. The wise survivors of the last stampede will rightly stress the need for strategy.  Modern tools and methods appear to be part of the strategic answer in the quest for voice. A cage may become another thing.

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A Refresher:

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , on July 19, 2008| Leave a Comment »

 

Published: April 16, 2008 12:14 pm     

Column: If you have the stomach, follow the money

By Rod Rose

THE LEBANON REPORTER (LEBANON, Ind.)

According to http://www.capitaleye.org, Obama and Clinton have made nearly $1 million in campaign contributions to “superdelegates” — the unelected delegates who represent about 20 percent of the 4,000 delegates to the Democratic National Convention.

As of Feb. 25, Capital Eye reported, Clinton has been endorsed by 75 percent of the superdelegates to whom her campaign donated money, when Obama did not make a donation. Obama was endorsed by 85 percent of the superdelegates who received money from his campaign and not from Clinton’s.

Is this legal? Yes.

http://www.tribstar.com/statenews/cnhinsall_story_107121456.html

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