In 2004 many Republicans came out to support Nader in an effort to split the Democratic party. Is it really that far of a stretch for liberals to stop hating Palin and start loving her for the possible gift she is? Why are we busy complaining about the obvious and not handing the conservatives a dose of their own medicine? We have two worlds coming together to form the kryptonite to the Republican party. Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement. Both worlds are easily seen for what they are, and they're merging before our eyes. I don't think there is any question to the fact that Palin will not survive a Republican primary as Republicans themselves will not allow that to happen. She was already kryptonite to McCain. So if she runs as a Republican, and then fails, we lose her never ending gift. But if we can promote legitimizing the Tea Party as an actual political party, don't we then shoe in Palin as possibly their fearless leader? Could this 3rd party candidacy split the Conservatives? How can it not...
I say we out-Rove the Rove's. Start loving Palin and the Tea Party movement. Promote their unity. My true belief is not only do we split conservatives, but we also form our own wedge issue to get liberals to the polls because NOBODY wants to see a Palin presidency. I call this Operation Baracuda.
Punch may have something to do with new Satellite defense system, back up taken down?
I received this message from Politico today. It was the first time I'd ever had a message banned by Politico and I couldn't figure out why. What rule did I break? "Inappropriate Content"? WTF? Because I called politicians "idiots"?
I had to re-read the message three times before it finally dawned on me! I'd been listening to Stephanie Miller too long!
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POST: Idiot politicians are afraid of being labeled "too liberal" while simultaneously wondering why the base isn't turning out? Liberals ARE the base of the Democratic Party. And maybe if the Democratic majority started ACTING like a majority their base might be more active too. I am disappointed in Pelosi, Reid and Obama because they have been WEAK. They have let 40 Republicans plus Joe Lieberman (Douche) outmaneuver 59 Democrats. They have nobody to blame but themselves. And they are not going to win ANY elections by trying to act even more like Republicans. Screw the Republicans! Pass Health Care now! Change the cloture rules! If the roles had been reversed do you think 59 Republicans would have let 40 Democrats plus Joe Lieberman (Douche) push THEM around? ...
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Taking the lead of conservative hate radio, Sarah Palin has, over the past year, berated President Obama's use of the teleprompter. She has constantly and consistently mocked the President's use of a teleprompter, conveniently ignoring the fact that almost all public officials use the teleprompter when making prepared public statements.
After criticizing President Obama as a "charismatic character with a teleprompter" at the Tea Party Nation Convention in Nashville, it became quickly clear who needs a teleprompter. And it is not President Obama, who demonstrated considerable non-teleprompter assisted skill in his recent meeting with Republicans and his subsequent town halls.
Mrs. Palin approached the lectern at the Tea Party convention with her script in hand. It looked to be about a half inch thick stack of a prepared statement. When she began speaking, it was clear that she was reading from her script. She was, almost sounding like a robot, reading the entire speech. She was looking down at the script during most of the speech in a obvious effort to not lose her place. She was reading, not from a side stage teleprompter, but instead from a script on the lectern.
Then she did it, she lost her place in the script. She blurted out: "The world looks to Alaska as that shining beacon of hope." She lost her place in the script more than once and Sarah's frustration and embarrassment showed when her face began turning red and her voice began to weaken. It was clear that she was unprepared and not very confident.
To her credit, Mrs. Palin did seem to recover as the speech went on. She became more competent after her early stumbles - especially with her favorite zinger against President Obama. But then the question and answer session began after her reading of the speech.
The questions for the question and answer session, according to the emcee, were submitted online by Tea Partiers at a social networking site - your favorite gathering place for adolescents.
After a couple of questions, Sarah Palin looked down at her hand where she had scribbled some notes. What? Was she coached by Willow and her teen age Facebook friends? Is Sarah Palin 14 years old - reading robotically with a cheat sheet on her hand?
I am sure that FOX News is putting a teleprompter in that studio they are building for Mrs. Palin in her Alaskan home. This way, they figure, she can look in the general direction of the cameras and not get caught reading her palm again. It should be clear to FOX that Sarah Palin needs a teleprompter as she has trouble reading a written script from a lectern.
Sarah could use a teleprompter to help prevent her looking as amateur as she did at the Tea Party Convention. But she will never be able to use one during public appearances. She has ruined it for herself. How could she ever face the public, using a teleprompter, when her entire political platform consists of criticizing President Obama for using one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dqTrUpmwPg
"A very smart man once said, ' Telling the American people what we think they want to hear instead of telling the American people what they need to hear just won't do.' That man was Barack Obama, and that attitude is one reason he got elected. He should stick to that position, and the Amerrican people should embrace it."
Anna Quindlen
Today, I saw what may be the worst bumper sticker I have ever seen in my life.
It was on a white pickup with a ton of other stickers that I couldn't read too clearly, because the truck was about to turn a corner. I was only able to make out the text on one sticker.
It said:
"Kill all Muslims. Let God sort them out."
Not kidding. That was the real text.
I so wish he had been parked somewhere, so I could have left him a note.
I don't think I know enough swear words to describe how that sticker made me feel.
Today, I signed up to become a volunteer at the local library. After that, I looked over the new books. One of them was Glenn Beck's "The Christmas Sweater." Yeah, I picked it up. No, I didn't get it checked out to read.
I kinda felt woozy after that. I've got to stay away from right-wing crapola. I know we've got to keep an eye on him because he's crazy, but I draw the line at Christmas books. No.
People are fired for non-performance every day. The Republicans collect a salary for doing nothing. The President and all Democrats should ask, to the Republicans: " What are you contributing for your pay?" It appears that the party of "no", if all they do is say "no" do not merit their compensation. Even a Republican would understand that everyone "earns" their pay. Even a Republican would understand that non-performance would earn a pink slip. Let's focus on that fact - they are doing nothing for their pay. At least the banks get paid for ripping us off.
A couple of scheduled guests, Rep. Michelle Bachmann and Rep. Marsha Blackburn, cancelled plans to appear at a Tea Party shindig in Nashville.
What do you want to bet it will still be all over the air on Fox and the bad talk show stations?
Here's the MSNBC story about it.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35126561/ns/politics-more_politics/
A college near where I live was going to show live coverage of that sh&tty Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck confabulation, and I was going to go see it just to be drunk and giggle, but I decided not to appear as well.
I think the confluence of those two cretins on one stage, wherever it is, might cause a hole in the space-time continuum.
The English
are feeling the pinch in relation to recent terrorist
threats and have raised
their security level from "Miffed" to
"Peeved." Soon, though, security levels
may be raised yet again to "Irritated" or even
"A Bit Cross." The English have
not been "A Bit Cross" since the blitz in 1940
when tea supplies all but ran
out. Terrorists have been re-categorized from
"Tiresome" to a "Bloody
Nuisance." The last time the British issued a
"Bloody Nuisance" warning level
was in 1588 when threatened by the Spanish Armada.
The
Scots raised their threat level from "Pissed
Off" to "Let's Get the Bastards".
They don't have any other levels. This is the reason
they have been used on
the front line of the British army for the last
300 years.
The French government announced yesterday that it has
raised its
terror alert level from "Run" to
"Hide". The only two higher levels in France
are "Collaborate" and "Surrender."
The rise was precipitated by a recent fire
that destroyed France 's white flag factory,
effectively paralyzing the
country's military capability.
It's not only the French who are
on a heightened level of alert. Italy has increased the
alert level from
"Shout Loudly and Excitedly" to "Elaborate
Military Posturing." Two more
levels remain: "Ineffective Combat Operations"
and "Change Sides."
The economy is so bad that:
I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail.
A truckload of Americans was caught sneaking into Mexico.
Parents in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their children's
names.
McDonald's is selling the 1/4 ouncer.
If the bank returns your check marked "Insufficient Funds," you call
them and ask if they meant you or them.
Dick Cheney took his stockbroker hunting.
Motel Six won't leave the light on anymore.
Exxon-Mobil laid off 250 Congressmen.
Congress says they are looking into this Bernard Madoff scandal.
(Oh Great!! The guy who made $50 Billion disappear is being investigated
the people who made $1.5 Trillion disappear!)
And, finally...
I was so depressed last night thinking about the economy, wars, jobs, my
savings, Social Security, retirement funds, etc., I called the Suicide
Lifeline. I got a call center in Pakistan, and when I told them I was
suicidal, they got all excited, and asked if I could drive a truck.
Every time I hear Hal's theme song - Humpty Dance I can't stop thinking that the singer of Digital Underground sounds just like Michael Steele. Take a listen.
Dear President Obama,
I am a progressive Democrat. Not a left winger, not a fringe element. Just a Democrat who has progressive thoughts and ideas - mostly about how we can make things better for people who are struggling without destroying all the benefits so many people already enjoy living in this country. I wish to see our society move forward into the uncertain future with good tools for survival - like sustainable energy production and sustainable farming. I want to see Americans properly educated so we don't decline into an idiocracy. I liked the middle class I grew up in and I don't want to see it destroyed further. People should have secure homes and good jobs.
I worked hard to get you elected. My husband and I gave more money than ever before, not only to your campaign but to those campaigns of Congresspeople who would benefit your presidency. I followed the numbers. I got on the phones repeatedly, something I have never done before. I attended conference parties, and formed alliances with other Democrats, and did all the things you said we had to do to create a grass roots movement. I cried when you were elected. I flew to Washington to celebrate at your Inauguration.
So when I tell you where I stand on the events of the day, I'm asking you to understand that I am not the enemy.
1. Ed Schultz is right. Please let Mr. Gibbs know - you are losing your base as well as independents. You should assign someone in your administration to listen to progressive radio (which by the way is not at all dead, as Fox would have you believe). Your base has its panties in a twist. And oddly, I find myself among them. It's no longer good enough for you to NOT be George Bush. And the way it's going is not good.
2. If what you really meant by "changing the way things are done in Washington" is 'bipartisanship above all else,' you had us all fooled. No one I know, or have heard on the radio, thinks that bipartisanship at the expense of progress is the direction we were going to or should go. I don't know one single Democrat who really understands why you still keep focusing, after a year of failed attempts, on bipartisanship with the Republican leadership who have made it clear that their only goal is to destroy you. Note the subtext that if they destroy you, they destroy progressive politics and demoralize all progressives for decades to come. Nobody thought your agenda was going to be primarily comprised of throwing concessions to Republicans (and their Democratic sympathizers) who give absolutely no ground, and who demonstrate week after week that they disdain the American people and want to destroy the Obama presidency. Yet you keep on using bipartisanship as your measure of success. Why?
3. We want a proper health reform bill. I personally would prefer to see Congress perform the nuclear option on filibustering - or at least threaten with intent to execute. Then put a public option back in and tell Nelson, Lieberman and Lincoln to go hang. I believe that Republicans will be no more willing to lose their only leverage than cut off their noses. If they really don't care about the filibuster, the filibuster is gone and we win health care reform. If they do care, they back off and we get health care reform. We win either way: the American people get decent health reform and your base has pride. If we lose the filibuster, it doesn't matter, because the next time Republicans are in power they will be happy to use the nuclear option on the Democrats when it means forwarding their agenda. In other words, because the Republicans said so in 2005, the filibuster has already died. The problem is Democrats are unwilling to bury the damn thing, and it sits around stinking to high heaven.
4. No one out here who got you elected thinks you should start cutting entitlements in the middle of a recession. Paul Krugman is very accessible. I understand that FDR made that mistake. Are you going to repeat it? We don't want to see another recession start up now. We would prefer you tax the richest 1% of Americans, since they took an eight- year free ride under George Bush at the expense of the middle class. That would be nice when last week Kennedy's seat got usurped, and SCROTUS hands us our hats.
5. Carbon cap and trade is important. The minute that goes through, capital investment increases exponentially in the green industries. You want jobs? Get carbon cap and trade. But you have to get it. You can't dicker with obstructionist Republicans over it until it's so watered down it has no impact. Sorry for being so brash, but there again we could do without the filibuster.
In the end, Mr. President, what I wish you would do, speaking as part of your base, is to put Republicans on the other side of a large wall. And move forward rapidly. When you actually accomplish things, you will be reelected, and you'll have the Congress you want. But if you let Republicans win, you will fail. There is no in between, no bipartisanship. So far the Republicans are winning. I hope this is what David Plough will tell you. I adore you and really wish to see you succeed wildly. I think it's possible. Yes we can!
Thank you.
Very very sincerely,
Ellie Wilder
Sausalto, California
www.elliewilder.com
I was driving home from an interview today, and I flipped to one of the local AM stations, which carries mostly bad talk shows. True to form, the Glenn Beck show was on. This is what he said today-- I'm not kidding, he really said it.
They did a mock interview in which someone else pretended to be President Obama and Glenn was Glenn.
Beck compared President Obama to Stalin.
Beck: "...because you want to purge or purify... right?"
***
Okay, what the hell is this @%$#? He's comparing Obama to the dictator who 'purged' the state of millions of people by killing them? WTF?!?!?!?!
Seriously, if they gave out an idiot prize, Glenn Beck would win it.
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Hal Sparks videoed himself eating breakfast in his hotel room in Dubai while he chats at you. Adorable! Check out the hotel room! And the view! http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/3966653
There's never any justification for attempting to make hay from a tragedy. But let's look at El Rushbo, with a brain pickled in hillbilly heroine, never one to let tragedy stand in the way of his ignorance or self-righteousness...
<blockquote>LIMBAUGH: Yes, I think in the Haiti earthquake, ladies and gentlemen -- in the words of Rahm Emanuel, we have another crisis simply too good to waste. This will play right into Obama's hands -- humanitarian, compassionate. They'll use this to burnish their -- shall we say -- credibility with the black community, in the both light-skinned and dark-skinned black community, in this country. It's made-to-order for 'em. That's why he couldn't wait to get out there. Could not wait to get out there.</blockquote>
This isn't about politics...it's about a response to human tragedy on a scale that will dwarf anything we have seen in this hemisphere in decades.
And then there's this gem...
<blockquote>LIMBAUGH: I want you to remember it took [Obama] three days -- three days -- to respond to the Christmas Day Fruit of Kaboom bomber. Three days. And when he came out after those three days, he was clearly irritated that he had to do it. He didn't want to do it. He comes out here in less than 24 hours to speak about Haiti.</blockquote>
As if there is any equivalence between the crotch bomber, where the greatest danger was being hit my fried scrotal shrapnel and the human tragedy of Haiti...A tragedy which will likely result in the death of hundreds of thousands of people. One can only wonder where the sanctimonious bitching of the right regarding the sanctity of human life in about abortion goes in cases such as this. Especially when the victims are less than lily white.
But let's not forget Pat Robertson, whose senile babbling on a deal with Satan for the independence of Haiti has led to this tragedy was nothing more than another exercise in blaming the victim. An exercise which is so very popular on the right.
<blockquote>ROBERTSON: And, you know, Kristi, something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon III and whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, "We will serve you if you will get us free from the French." True story. And so, the devil said, "OK, it's a deal."
And they kicked the French out. You know, the Haitians revolted and got themselves free. But ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after the other.</blockquote>
This was when "Kristi" should have simply guided "Reverend" Robertson off camera, removed his mike, and sent him to the nursing home where he could get his daily aricept, zyprexa and depakote and listen to "God" speak to him to his hearts content.
I got fired. Dang. :(
I have applied for unemployment. Hopefully the first payment will be here in a few days. Also, I am waiting for my last check from my former company. I do have a place to stay, thank goodness. And I have my dog. :)
On the positive side, I do get to watch TV. :)
(I have begun looking for work, though. I'm not just waiting.)
In weirdness news, I play lots of games on Facebook-- no, that did not lead to me getting fired, because we didn't have Internet access at work. I just play compooter stuff at home. Anyway, the weird thing is that in the game Restaurant City, customers come into your restaurant, and if you have a commode, they will sit on it and use it. Not kidding. They actually go to the restroom. They also rate you thumbs up or thumbs down depending on whether or not the facilities are clean.
Wow. Just wow.
cheers and hello
Im 52,a single mom with 3 great kids and have listened to you guys for yrs.I wonder what world we'll give my grandkids with all the political crap going on year after year...seems we wouldve evolved or gotten along better. SAD.
.AND TO BOOT -- here in the Binghamton NY radio market;we lost our progressive radio a few yrs ago.(To a sports channel.Yet weve had jerk Limbaugh on for decades with no progressive choice)UG! THEREFORE, we listen to your wonderful show on 1470 am in Ithaca NY. The sound is often fuzzy as it is many miles northeast.BUT most of the time we can get you in our cars on 1470 am,but cant bring it in- in the house,grrrrrr.
Keep up the good work, and good fight.
Love and protection to all the doggies,kitties,guinea pigs and rabbits of world..
Steph youre lovely inside and out,Mooks youre a delight.Adios!