September 12, 2008 by roofingbird
The Houston Press just posted this:
Up with the Boards, Down with the Banners
Thu Sep 11, 2008 at 11:24:56 AM
Olivia Flores Alvarez
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2008/09/up_with_the_boards_down_with_t.php
Last month I posted a blog on the Texas Two Step DNC review with meeting dates. As it turns out one of the meetings was scheduled for tomorrow in Houston. This meeting has been canceled until further notice due to Ike.
However, for those of us who want to end the caucus mess, I’m asking you Texans to make sure all those documents, concerns, and you, are battened down. Good luck. We will be thinking of you this week.
I Own My Vote, Just Say No Deal, Puma Pac, the Denver Group
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September 11, 2008 by roofingbird
You may remember that Barack Obama had opted out of the public finance system in July-August. Pundits speculated at the time he would need around 55 million a month to complete the race. Then he made some nicey nice about asking donors to 527’s to contribute to his campaign instead. Hah! Lately MoveOn has spent it’s time OPPOSING McCain, rather than supporting Obama. The SEIU just reported on Sept 10th, they spent around $255,000, in Missouri and Kansas canvassing for Obama. They reported another $365,000 canvassing in Iowa. (Local 199.) Continue Reading »
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September 11, 2008 by roofingbird
I was settling down a little, then I found annebellep’s article. Read the first three articles. Then read hers. Can’t forget the the whack attacks about pigs and fish? Palin IS NOT the latest bimbo. However, someone IS hoping you will go there. Palin appeals to us western types in a grown up, real person way. She also has the skills to do the job and that is scaring the bejeezus out of all the minions of the Boys Only Club.
Eastern Washington, Eastern Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, Colorado, Missouri, Michigan, Wyoming, parts of California, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, maybe even Kansas, and Iowa.
Take a look at some of the serious ruminations going on below, and think about the states I just listed:
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September 10, 2008 by roofingbird
Selected Speeches from the 2008 Convention
How did the Republicans do in their convention speeches? As you are probably aware, they were distinctly different and rousing in a whole other way. Be sure and contrast them with the DNC speeches HERE:
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September 10, 2008 by roofingbird
What QuakerDave said:
Count me out.
Posted on September 10, 2008 by QuakerDave
[Tomorrow is the seventh anniversary of the attacks by al-Qaida against the United States. There will no doubt be many commemorations of that tragic event across the country. Some places are referring to this date now as “Patriots’ Day,” even though that name in many places traditionally refers to April 19, the anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775. The Philadelphia Phillies, for example, are calling it that, and they’re offering discounted tickets to members of the military, along with police officers, firefighters, EMTs, and others in similar professions. (Not teachers, by the way.) Which is fine. Folks in the military need all the financial breaks they can get these days, as has been documented here.
It also turns out that many schools across the country are going to sponsor various and sundry events and activities to honor the day. That includes our school. Because of an initiative that came from someone on the faculty, we will, in addition to flying the flag at half-staff, be asking all staff and students to wear red, white, and blue clothing; to stand for a moment of silence after the daily recitation of the Pledge; and a listen to Ray Charles’ recording of “America the Beautiful,” along with a reading of a poem written by a former student. We got a memo explaining all of this today.
Well, count me out….]
http://quakeragitator.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/count-me-out/
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September 10, 2008 by roofingbird
Selected Speeches from 2008, and Obama’s 2004 Convention Speech
I always like to read the texts of speeches. For one thing, they load well on dial-up. For another, new meanings and better understandings arise. I like to compare them. Just for fun, when you read these, search the texts to see how often they use buzz words. Try union, labor, worker, education, teacher, family, etc. See if the presidential nominee actually addressed your interest, or let someone else say the words. So, for your use, here are several of the DNC convention speeches: Continue Reading »
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September 9, 2008 by roofingbird
Settle onto that blanket for the evening’s display. Each one is a beauty! If you, like Michelle Cottle, thought feminists were silent on the subject of “Sarah Barracuda”, you just weren’t reading the right ones!
Move On’s (And Others) Rumor Mongering – Updated
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on September 9, 2008 at 7:50 AM
[A few days ago, I printed an email that Move On sent out with a number of “dangerous” positions that Gov. Palin allegedly holds or actions in which she engaged. A number of them were flat out wrong. It is exactly this kind of “Swiftboating” we all decried when it happened to Kerry. Continue Reading »
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September 9, 2008 by roofingbird
Stuff of Genius
Well gee, Michelle is lost and confused about what happened to feminists. That’s what happens when you start with a faulty premise, like assuming there was a choice after 2004, and start blaming the victim. Hey, at least she knows our name, and she’s discombobulated enough she forgot to ignore us:
THE NEW REPUBLIC
Shattered
By Michelle Cottle
Post Date Wednesday, September 24, 2008 | Issue Date Wednesday, September 24, 2008
[Can someone please tell me what the hell happened? This presidential election was supposed to be a high-water mark for feminism. Hillary Clinton entered the primaries as the first female front-runner in our nation’s history. Better still, she wasn’t running as a Woman Candidate. ….]
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=c1fd53cd-51a8-4078-9269-674b24fdabea
Of course, THIS kind of information below is the real source of Michelle’s concern:
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September 9, 2008 by roofingbird
Why is “Affirmative Action” one of the touchstones of this election? This counter discriminatory tool is but one of many federal programs enacted in the middle of the last century. Wikipedia offers the following definition of the program:
[The term affirmative action describes policies aimed at a historically socio-politically non-dominant group (typically, minority men or women of all racial groups) intended to promote its access to education or employment. Motivation for affirmative action is a desire to redress effects of actual or perceived, past or current discrimination that is regarded as unfair. [Who?] It also serves to encourage public institutions such as universities, hospitals and police forces to be more representative of the population].
Perhaps it seems out of date to talk about affirmative action. Further, to discuss affirmative active in the context of it’s gender benefit to Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, ageism benefit to John McCain, or it’s race benefit to Barack Obama seems at odds with what we know of their upbringing. Continue Reading »
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September 7, 2008 by roofingbird
The Equal Opportunity Equation
It’s been hot for days. Sans the air conditioner in 102 degrees weather, the idea of typing lyricism into a sticky keyboard, while worrying about whether my dripping sweat is going to short it out, has provided an easy prohibition to the effort. Really though, the last two weeks have been too overwhelming. The effort to record and distill the events has been too hard a task. Finally, Gloria Steinhem helped with her recent article.
Clearly some voted for Barack Obama simply because he was biracial. The pull to do so is understandable. No matter what, his accomplishment is now a signpost of the future. So in that sense, something has already been accomplished. The final test will be, if he is elected, whether we have moved past the other affirmative action hurdle; an unfair requirement for a higher standard of competency. Let us remind ourselves that a true test of equal rights is that, after we are hired, we have an equal opportunity to have a different viewpoint, and an equal right to fail with equal consequences, in our efforts. We don’t like to think this way in relation to a Presidential pick, but there it is. Continue Reading »
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