McCain’s Gimmick of Choice: Sarah Palin
By Chuck | August 29, 2008
In an attempt to pull fence sitting Clinton supporters, Christian extremists and the three electoral votes from Alaska to his side McCain has announced that Sarah Palin (Gov. Alaska) is his pick for VP. I wonder if she knows how many houses she owns?
Well, this should kill McCain’s experience based attacks on Obama. She has been Governor for less than two years and before that a stint as the part-time mayor of a village of 6,000. Her education consists of a bachelor’s degree in journalism with a minor in polisci. Oh, and former Ms. Alaska runner up! McCain is trying to tell me that she is ready to lead this county when he shuffles off to the underground old folks home but Obama isn’t?
From her extraordinarily short record all I can tell about her is that she is anti-choice (member of the anti-choice group called Feminists for Life.), anti-gay rights and all for drilling in ANWR.
Remember when McCain was shitting his bed over Obama only visiting Iraq once? Well, Palin has never been there. Not once. Good work on undermining your own attacks.
I really would like to see how this effects the polls in Alaska, a normally red state that is currently in the toss-up column with Obama leading by 3 points according to Pollster.com.
Did I mention she is currently under ethics investigation for abuse of power? Alaska seems to be a hotbed of this sort of shit.
With McCain answering every attack on him with his “Noun, verb, P.O.W.” bullshit I would like to see her follow suit and reply with “Noun, verb, beauty queen” because, lets be honest, they really both have the same weight when judging the ability to lead the country.
Stealth edit:
Larry Kudlow of CNBC’s “Kudlow & Co.” asked her about the possibility of becoming McCain ticket mate.
Palin replied: “[A]s for that V.P. talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the V.P. does every day? I’m used to being very productive and working real hard in an administration. We want to make sure that that V.P .slot would be a fruitful type of position, especially for Alaskans and for the things that we’re trying to accomplish up here for the rest of the U.S., before I can even start addressing that question.”
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David Davis: Massive Fuckstain.
By Chuck | August 21, 2008
I’m sure you have heard of this story by now but since new information has popped up I thought it would be good to go over it again for the class.
Davis Davis is the principle at a high school in Ponce De Leon, Florida. Heather Gillman was a student that went to him for help. Heather was being harassed by other students for being a lesbian and thought Davis could help her. Instead he went on what can only be described as a witch hunt, outing her to her parents, ordering her to stay away from children and suspending any of her friends that showed any support for her.
According to U.S. District Judge Richard Smoak “He went so far as to lift the shirts of female students to insure the letters ‘GP’ or the words ‘Gay Pride’ were not written on their bodies.”
What the fuck?
With the backing of the ACLU Gillman sued the school and won. Davis has since lost his gig as principle at the school but he remains a teacher there. What really caught my attention about this case was the response from the school board’s lawyer when asked if there was a policy against wearing clothing that supported gay rights in the school district.
As has clearly been shown at Ponce de Leon School in September of this year, the types of clothing and symbols your clients seek to wear to school will likely be disruptive and interfere with the educational process. Also, said symbols were used and can further be used by select students to show participation in an illegal organization as defined by the School Board
Again, what the fuck? An illegal organization?
During the trial Davis had to take the stand and some of his quotes will no doubt amuse you:
The principal went on to admit that while censoring rainbows and gay pride messages he allowed students to wear other symbols many find controversial, such as the Confederate flag.
Davis also testified that he believed rainbows were “sexually suggestive” and would make students unable to study because they’d be picturing gay sex acts in their mind.
Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with this guy?
Now that the quick review is over let us jump forward to the more recent news.
This is the headline on Yahoo: Fla. town backs ex-principal in gay student case.
“We are a small, rural district in the Bible Belt with strong Christian beliefs and feel like homosexuality is wrong,” said Steve Griffin, Holmes County’s school superintendent, who keeps a Bible on his desk and framed Scriptures on his office walls.
I have no idea how there are still parts of the world that act like this, let alone in my own country.
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$500 Million For You to Get Your Way
By Phil | August 11, 2008
You may not have known this, but the federal government really is concerned about you, your feelings, and wants you to know that you have a say in how things are done around here– and to prove it, they are going to continue to spend $500 Million dollars of taxpayers money each and every year to print $1.00 bills.
That’s right– because you, the American public would be outraged–nay, scandalized, if you woke up tomorrow to find out that the dollar bill was being phased out, our treasury will continue the wasteful practice of printing crisp new dollar bills every 16 months (the average life expectancy of that portrait of George) instead of doing what nearly every other industrialized nation in the world has done and switching to a dollar coin.
The important thing is that you feel like you’re making a difference. Here we have democracy in action. Smell the freedom? I mean, if this were some big billion dollar corporate conglomerate, you’d never have this kind of control. Do you think General Electric or Nestle Foods would hesitate to save themselves $500 million a year simply because their employees might whine about having to change their behavior? Hell no!
Now, keep in mind, this is the same government that recently passed legislation making it legal to seize any electronic device you may be carrying with you over an international border– your cell phone, your iPod, your laptop computer– and keep it for as long as they damn well like, without reason, warrant, or explanation. Sorry. Hope you deleted those pictures, the ones you took on that “special weekend”. Of course, the government didn’t ask for your feelings about this. They simply did it, allegedly, in your best interest, and in the interest of “security”.
Wegmans, A large grocery chain here in Buffalo, traditionally put out bins for customers to shuck corn in the summer time. I loved it– why get all that corn silk all over your kitchen or front porch? Let me just shuck it here in the store, into this nice big trash can. If I get some on the floor, who cares? Right? This summer, no bins– just a sign saying they would no longer be available. Why? Because having a bunch of idiots standing in the middle of the produce aisle shucking corn all day jams up the flow of a busy grocery store. Mega Marts like Wegmans are designed to move people through in an organized and logical fashion– ever forget something and have to turn around and go against traffic in a grocery store? Ever notice the dirty looks you get? You’re breaking the flow.
Wegmans didn’t ask for anyone’s opinion, they just made a decision in the best interest of their business. Businesses do this all the time. And the corn does taste better if you wait to shuck it anyway.
So why does our government continue the wasteful practice of printing the dollar bill? Why don’t they just pull the trigger on the old boy and tell people to suck it up? It can’t simply be because people would be upset. Thomas M. Davis, a republican congressman from Virginia, supported the “Save the Greenback” Act, hoping to make it illegal to ever stop printing the dollar bill. Why? His main argument was that people’s pockets would be weighed down by all those dollar coins (of course, someone along the way must have pointed out that by carrying one dollar, you don’t have to carry four quarters or ten dimes. But I digress). Trent Lott and Ted Kennedy also took turns supporting the perpetuity of the dollar bill, but they were in the back pockets of the cotton and paper industries, who would stand to lose some profits if we switched to coins. But even that doesn’t explain it. Why does the federal government continue a practice that even the most incompetent CEO would cut in hearbeat?
Could it be just as simple as wanting people to feel like they have a voice, in a country where day by day their voice matters less and less? Is that it? I can’t think of any other reason. This government, especially this administration, makes decisions that affect your life and take away more of your freedoms every day–but they won’t save taxpayers $500 million a year simply because people “don’t like” the idea of a dollar coin?
People didn’t like taking their shoes off at airports, but they got used to it, didn’t they?
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Seven Years Ago Today.
By Chuck | August 6, 2008
It was seven years ago today that George W. Bush received a memo entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.”. This memo would be ignored. Bush was content to dick around his ranch and discuss golf. I don’t think there is one moment that highlights the gross incompetence of this administration better.
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Bush Vs. Children
By Chuck | July 29, 2008
On Monday Congress decided to ban phthalates from children’s toys and other products. Why? Well, phthalates have been linked to health issues including asthma, allergies, reduced sperm count and genital abnormalities in boys. This legislation would remove three types of phthalates from consumer products permanently and another three types pending further study. On top of that this legislation would ban lead from children’s toys and open up a consumer database of complaints or accident reports for goods.
Toys R Us/Babies R Us and Walmart have stated that they would stop selling toys containing phthalates starting January 2009. I want you to ask yourself something: How bad does a chemical have to be for Walmart to voluntarily ban them? This is Walmart for fucks sake.
As you may have guessed by the title of the post the Bush administration, voiced by spokesman Tony Fratto, responded by saying Bush opposes the ban.
Nice.
Exxon Mobil, who manufactures a large chuck of this shit, responded by claiming that this legislation would put children at even greater risk because manufacturers would have to replace the phthalates with something that could be worse.
Read that last bit again. That right there explains exactly what it wrong with our system. We don’t require chemical additives to be fully tested to see if there are any health concerns before releasing them into the wild. In Europe the safety of a chemical must be proven before it is allowed on the market, here it must be proven unsafe before it is removed.
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