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| Many Men |
| 07.30.04 (1:40 am) [edit] |
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| President gone loco? |
| 07.29.04 (3:36 pm) [edit] |
I've always thought the man was a sandwich or two shy of a picnic lunch, but now there are reports confirming the president is having some mental issues, which he's taking medicine to keep under control.
President George W. Bush is taking powerful anti-depressant drugs to control his erratic behavior, depression and paranoia, Capitol Hill Blue has learned.
The prescription drugs, administered by Col. Richard J. Tubb, the White House physician, can impair the President’s mental faculties and decrease both his physical capabilities and his ability to respond to a crisis, administration aides admit privately.
“It’s a double-edged sword,” says one aide. “We can’t have him flying off the handle at the slightest provocation but we also need a President who is alert mentally.”
Tubb prescribed the anti-depressants after a clearly-upset Bush stormed off stage on July 8, refusing to answer reporters' questions about his relationship with indicted Enron executive Kenneth J. Lay.
“Keep those motherfuckers away from me,” he screamed at an aide backstage. “If you can’t, I’ll find someone who can.”
Bush’s mental stability has become the topic of Washington whispers in recent months. Capitol Hill Blue first reported on June 4 about increasing concern among White House aides over the President’s wide mood swings and obscene outbursts.
Although GOP loyalists dismissed the reports an anti-Bush propaganda, the reports were later confirmed by prominent George Washington University psychiatrist Dr. Justin Frank in his book Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President. Dr. Frank diagnosed the President as a “paranoid meglomaniac” and “untreated alcoholic” whose “lifelong streak of sadism, ranging from childhood pranks (using firecrackers to explode frogs) to insulting journalists, gloating over state executions and pumping his hand gleefully before the bombing of Baghdad” showcase Bush’s instabilities.
…“President Bush is an untreated alcoholic with paranoid and megalomaniac tendencies,” Dr. Frank adds.
…“We have to face the very real possibility that the President of the United States is loony tunes,” he says sadly. “That’s not good for my candidates, it’s not good for the party and it’s certainly not good for the country.”
Before I go much further I should probably say that I myself am a member of the "better living through chemistry" club, but never have I taken anything that might impair my ability to function. Actually, if anything I'm a bit sharper and able to function a bit more effectively.
The president, whatever else he may be, is a human being and thereby subject to all the same frailties as anyone else, mental and physical. Perhaps he is depressed. (After all, shouldn't an incumbent wartime president be doing better in the polls this close to the election? And isn't Iraq looking like something other than a raging success? And haven't all of his reasons for invading and occupying Iraq, as well as his estimates of how much it would cost, been discredited?) Maybe he does have psychological issues that need tending too. (Using firecrackers to explode frogs points to some issues that should have been addressed a long time ago, if you ask me.)
Unfortunately, as often seems to be the case with people in positions of wealth and/or power (i.e. Whitney Houston), they seldom get the help they need because no one can make them, and often no one even tells them they need it. If everyone around you works for you or is on your payroll, who's going to risk a paycheck to tell you to get yourself to rehab or find a good shrink? Bottom line, if Bush is taking medication for psychological issues, that's only taking care of the symptoms, not the root of the problem (and I don't pretend to know what that is).
If there are real problems, the man needs therapy too. Sadly, he probably won't get it.
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| Shame on you! |
| 07.29.04 (10:11 am) [edit] |
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I normally keep to myself and I dont talk about my personal life on tblog for good reason, I have read some malicious shit in the last few days on 6 different blogs, some very personal issues that shouldnt be exploited in public *IMHO* its like a fuckin soap opera, although it is thier choice make personal affairs public, do we have to rub salt in the wounds? I feel sorry for these people that have to go through so much ridicule about thier personal affairs.... and so do we make it better HELL NO! We have to comment on shit we know nuthing about and fuel the fire...its not right. To take anyones "side" on an issue that we know nuthing about is ridiculous, no matter how much any one individual may blog about an event IRL there are gaps that were not filled and the only persons that can truly comment were the ones actually involved, "Moreover" why would anyone choose to make life changing decisions from some shit they read on the internet? Call me stupid, Call me Naive, but the one thing you cant call me is Insecure :!: for those of you that are going through it right now I apologize for gettin "in yo bitness" and passing judgement....Peace~
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| Its Official |
| 07.28.04 (7:36 pm) [edit] |
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Kerry is Officially Nominated! did you ever have a doubt?! :wink:
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| Sick and Tired of being sick and Tired! |
| 07.27.04 (2:01 am) [edit] |
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Have you ever just gotten tired of giving of yourself? Man that shit gets old! Im kinda sick of it ...Im gonna think about me for awhile ...its too much work trying to help everyone else, only to find out that it was never appreciated in the first place, Ya know? It seems to me the more you give the more they want and its a never ending Battle.....Is my name Sammy Sausage head? AS IF!! I wish for one day I could find a woman who thought about me as much as I think about them ...the day that happens is the day I get married.......I know give me a fuckin sign right? :roll:
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| Burned Out on Outrage? |
| 07.27.04 (1:36 am) [edit] |
Just a couple of days ago, while having coffee with a friend and discussing how the Republican agenda has played out in the last four years, I heard myself say "At some point, I have to stop thinking about it, otherwise I'll end up standing on a street corner, screaming and waving my arms around." It wasn't too far from the truth, and in some ways I think this bit of satire from the Onion isn't too far from the truth either.
According to a study released Monday by the Hammond Political Research Group, many of the nation's liberals are suffering from a vastly diminished sense of outrage.
"With so many right-wing shams to choose from, it's simply too daunting for the average, left-leaning citizen to maintain a sense of anger," said Rachel Neas, the study's director. "By our estimation, roughly 70 percent of liberals are experiencing some degree of lethargy resulting from a glut of civil-liberties abuses, education funding cuts, and exorbitant military expenditures."
Surely I can't be the only one. There are times when I feel a justifiable diatribe coming on, but I just can't muster the energy for another one. All I can manage is a sigh and "There they go again."
Part of me thinks it's part of the far right's strategy; commit enough outrages and they'll get tired of responding and switch to just not noticing/caring anymore. It reminds me of the old story of the frog and the boiling water; if you throw a frog into a pot of boiling water it will immediately jump out, but if you place it in room temperature water and gradually increase the temperature to boiling it will stay in the pot and die. Think about it.
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| I love my new iPod!! |
| 07.25.04 (1:37 pm) [edit] |
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Welcome to the light. After hearing so much about this popular gadget I broke down and picked one up today.I won't be so trite as to suggest that the iPod changes everything, but it does a huge job as a lifestyle enhancer. Truly spoiled as a 21st century American, carrying around tapes or CD's is SO much a burden...Im still fiddlin' wit this thang I'll get back to you and give you my full review later..... :D
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| Psychiatric Casualties? |
| 07.25.04 (5:22 am) [edit] |
This jumped out at me and I had to say suntin bout' it the story of a husband and wife who both served in Iraq, dead in a murder/suicideAuthorities found Sgt. Erin E. Edwards' body on the front porch of her home early Thursday. She had been shot in the head, Capt. Jackie Dunn said.
The body of Edwards' estranged husband, Sgt. William M. Edwards, was discovered in a parking lot across the street. Police said he suffered what appeared to be a self-inflicted wound.
The soldiers, both 24, had served with the 4th Infantry Division in Iraq (news - web sites) before returning to Fort Hood in recent months.
… Neighbors told the Killeen Daily Herald police were frequently at the couple's residence because of domestic problems.
Maybe it's me, and maybe I wouldn't have noticed were it not for so many similar stories, but it still seems to me that we're doing far too little to help soldiers with the mental anguish and problems that arise from their experiences at war.
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| Bush gets the sign! |
| 07.25.04 (5:03 am) [edit] |
Light blogging today, folks. Busy with Chillaxin, but I wanted to share an item I came across ; president Bush came out a big winner in this year's Stupidity Awards. and for those of you who read my blog you know I give out signs to stupid folks ...Sooo guess who just got a brand new shiny one.......
Bush was a dominating presence at the second edition of the awards presented at the Just for Laughs comedy festival. Host Lewis Black, whose biting satire is a highlight of TV's The Daily Show, took pride in the recognition the United States received at the awards, saying: "we are the gold standard."
Black said the awards "celebrate the pros" and "perfection in idiocy" because real stupidity is hard work.
"It's easy to fall down a manhole, it's easy to put the candles too close to the drapes, it's easy to launch a military invasion of another country based on a few blurry satellite photos," he observed.
"This year my people, we scaled the Everest of stupidity and we stand upon its peak."
Bush took the Stupidest Man of the Year Award and for the second time in the history of the two-year-old awards won the Stupidity Award for Reckless Endangerment of the Planet.
But Bush wasn't alone in his victory.
Bush didn't take the category alone, however, and tied with British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
And on another, purely gratuitous note:
That award was presented by Justin Trudeau, son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau. He got the biggest reaction of the night from females in the packed house, who hooted, whistled and yelled "yum" at him while he was on stage.
Well Mr. Bush heres your fuckin sign!
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| 'Suppress the Vote' |
| 07.24.04 (12:13 am) [edit] |
Well, somebody finally said it out loud; it's better for the GOP if fewer blacks vote. In this case, it was a Michigan GOP Lawmakerwho spoke aloud what some of us already knew was the 'pubs unspoken sentiment.
Democrats on Wednesday denounced a Republican lawmaker quoted in a newspaper as saying the GOP would fare poorly in this year's elections if it failed to "suppress the Detroit vote."
State Rep. John Pappageorge, R-Troy, acknowledged using "a bad choice of words" but said his remark shouldn't be construed as racist.
Pappageorge, 73, was quoted in July 16 editions of the Detroit Free Press as saying, "If we do not suppress the Detroit vote, we're going to have a tough time in this election."
"I'm extremely disappointed in my colleague," state Sen. Buzz Thomas, D-Detroit, told reporters Wednesday during a conference call. "That's quite clearly code that they don't want black people to vote in this election."
Blacks comprise 83 percent of Detroit's population, and the city routinely gives Democratic candidates a substantial majority of its votes.
How many different ways are there to interpret the representative's comments other than racist?
In an attempt to explain, the representative only seemed to dig himself in deeper.
"In the context that we were talking about, I said we've got to get the vote up in Oakland (County) and the vote down in Detroit. You get it down with a good message. I don't know how we got them from there to "racist,"' Pappageorge said. "If I have given offense in any way to my colleagues in Detroit or anywhere, I apologize."
Only a Republican would defend the notion of "getting the vote down," and the idea that America is better off if fewer people vote.
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| 900 and Rising |
| 07.23.04 (1:58 am) [edit] |
Major conflict in Iraq is over, control over the Iraq has been handed off to the new Iraqi governmnet, and U.S. troop casualties in Iraq have reached 900
A roadside bomb exploded north of Baghdad early Wednesday, killing one U.S. 1st Infantry Division soldier and bringing to 900 the number of U.S. military forces killed since the beginning of military operations in March 2003.
…On Tuesday, two U.S. Marines and two U.S. soldiers were killed in action in Anbar Province, a Sunni-dominated area west of Baghdad.
At least 895 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to a count of names of the dead released by the Pentagon. The latest deaths would raise the toll to 900.
One wonders how much this number will have increased by, say, November.
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| Pants On Fire |
| 07.23.04 (1:47 am) [edit] |
I couldn't help but get a chuckle out of this. I've always been a fan of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, but now I think I'm a fan of co-founder Ben Cohen as well, thanks to his latest stunt
Call it the burning Bush. The co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream is on the road, towing a 12-foot-tall effigy of President Bush (news - web sites) with fake flames shooting out of the pants.
Ben Cohen says it's an acceptable way to point out what he calls the president's lies.
"In a polite society, you don't go up to a person and look at them in the face and say, 'You're a liar,'" Cohen said in a telephone interview before arriving in Spokane, the next stop on the Pants on Fire Tour.
"We think it's a lot more dignified and there's a lot more decorum to say, 'Excuse me sir, your pants are getting a little warm, don't you think?'" Cohen said.
The "PantsOnFire-Mobile" is a trailer pulled behind a car. The Bush character wears a flight suit with the words "Mission Accomplished" emblazoned on the back, a reference to the president's declaration aboard the deck of an aircraft carrier that major hostilities had ended in Iraq (news - web sites). An electronic ticker on the front displays what Cohen says are Bush's lies.
The head is a rotating cylinder with various Bush facial expressions.
… Reaction to the effigy across the country has been overwhelmingly positive, Cohen said, so much so that he has commissioned a second one to tour.
Portraying flames shooting out of the pants of the president isn't disrespectful, Cohen argued.
"I believe that it's disrespectful of the president to essentially lead the country based on lies," he said. "If that happens, then I believe it's actually our patriotic duty to make people aware of it."
The PantsOnFire-Mobile will spend two weeks in Spokane before rolling off to Seattle. The tour began last November on Long Island, N.Y., and will continue until the Nov. 2 elections. It has been to Florida, Texas, Arizona and Colorado.
C'mon, Ben. Bring it to Cancun!
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| Something to Talk About |
| 07.22.04 (1:24 am) [edit] |
Looks like Bonnie Raittis next on the right wing hit parade.
Winding up her summer tour across Europe, Bonnie Raitt drew thunderous applause at the Stockholm Jazz Festival for dedicating a classic to President George Bush.
"We're gonna sing this for George Bush because he's out of here, people!" Raitt crowed Tuesday night before she launched into the opening licks of "Your Good Thing (Is About to End)," a cover that was featured on her 1979 album, "The Glow."
…Raitt's comments resulted in a round of applause and even whistles from among the estimated 3,000 concertgoers at the Swedish capital's annual jazz event held on the banks of the downtown Skeppsholmen island.
Let's sit back and wait for the boycott. If Raitt wants to try that tune stateside, I think a wink and a nod will have to suffice. Just ask Linda Rondstat.
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| Are You Gonna Eat That? |
| 07.22.04 (1:16 am) [edit] |
I couldn't turn in for the evening without passing this on, after seeing it for myself. I don't agree with everything PETA does. In fact, I think some of their campaigns and tactics actually achieve the exact opposite of what they intend (or say they intend), but whatever issues I might have with them, I can't ignore the video PETA recently released, documenting the treatment of chickens destined for KFC's fry vats.
The video is bad enough, but then there's the stuff that you don't see in the video, but which still happens.
PETA said its investigator at the West Virginia plant also obtained eyewitness testimony about employees "ripping birds' beaks off, spray-painting their faces, twisting their heads off, spitting tobacco into their mouths and eyes, and breaking them in half -- all while the birds are still alive."
It's this kind of thing that makes me think I don't want to be a party to unecessary suffering by my choice of diet.
I stopped eating meat this month just for a test run and its been rough, but watching this video has made it easier for me...
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| Missed or missing |
| 07.22.04 (1:01 am) [edit] |
hope I never go missing, because I seriously doubt that—with the exception of Nameless *and thats questionable*, and perhaps some of the readers of this blog—that many people are going to get seriously worked up about finding me. Why? Because I'm the wrong color and gender. People like me dont' get much press when we disappear.
Two bright, ambitious students at the main state university disappear in the same town, under similar circumstances. One of them becomes inescapable name and face, in the words of The Greenville News. The other is largely forgotten. No one can say why with absolute certainty.
But there is one unavoidable difference between the two cases:
Dail Dinwiddie is a white woman. Shelton Sanders is a black man.
Chandra Levy. Elizabeth Smart. Lacie Peterson. You know their names. You know their faces. You know, because when they disappeared, the world stopped, and the eyes of all media turned to the search for them.
I remember the furor in D.C. over the disappearance of Chandra Levy. It was inescapable. It was a daily item on the local news and national news. I remember remarking at the time that if Ms. Levy had been a young black woman, her disappearance wouldn't receive nearly as much attention as it did. After countless local news stories about Levy's disappearance and the finding of her remains, the local news in D.C. finally did a story on the countless number of people who had also disappeared from the D.C. area, but who didn't make the evening news. It was no surprise that the majority of the families who attended an event to draw attention to the disappearance of their loved ones were of color. (Most also appeared to be of limited economic means, but gender and race still seem to be the trump cards when it comes to a disappearance getting lots of media attention.)
But "when was the last time you heard something about a 23-year-old black female who was missing on NBC or 'World News Tonight'?" asked David Hazinski, a former NBC News correspondent who teaches broadcast journalism at the University of Georgia.
"I think in general we just really don't hear about Latin or black or Asian people who are missing,"he said. I'm not sure why."
…"It's all about sex," said Clark, vice president of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Fla. Young white women give editors and television producers what they want.
"There are several common threads," Clark said. "The victims that get the most coverage are female rather than male. They are white, in general, rather than young people of color. They are at least middle class, if not upper middle class."
…When it comes to police stories, Clark said, there is "this perverted, racist view of the world. White is good; black is bad. Blonde is good; dark is bad. Young is good; old is bad. And I think we can find versions of this story going back to the tabloid wars of more than a hundred years ago."
It's tempting to label this a failure of the media and leave it at that, but I think it goes somewhat deeper. On one hand, it may be said that the media shapes public concerns. But on the other, it can also be said that the media reflects the public concern. They report on particular stories because of the way the public responds, and when a young, attractive, white, middle class woman goes missing, for some reason the public response is many times greater than it is if just one of those qualifiers is different: and that qualifier is race—the darker you are, the less a chance your case has of getting the spotlight if you go missing. If you ask me, I think it's because on some level we still value or de-value people based on their skin color, and the darker you are, the less you are valued.
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| Me, Myself and I |
| 07.17.04 (11:49 pm) [edit] |
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Me my puter and a bottle of Merlot what more could I ask for on a Saturdat night......
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| Five Months for Martha |
| 07.17.04 (1:06 am) [edit] |
So....Martha Stewart got sentenced to five months in prison
Martha Stewart, who built a multimillion-dollar empire around her own cooking, decorating and entertaining visions, was sentenced today to five months in prison for lying to investigators about a stock sale that brought her relatively little financial gain but has cost her heavily in terms of her reputation.
…"Today is a shameful day," she said. "It's shameful for me and for my family and for my beloved company and for all of its employees and partners." Ms. Stewart was not convicted on any charges of insider trading, only for lying about the trade to investigators.
I find it difficult to feel all that sorry for Martha Stewart, and I admit it's largely due to her reputation for (as some folks have sarcastically put it) "screaming at the help," that is treating people badly whom she doesn't deem to be on her socio-economic (or whatever) level. (I recall a Biography Channel program on Stewart in which one wealthy man claimed he's never seen the much-discussed, meaner side of Martha. I couldn't help thinking that of course he wouldn't see it, because he's the kind of person Martha wouldn't deem to be beneath her on the socio-economic ladder, etc.) I don't deny that she's accomplished a lot; that she came from humble beginnings and managed to build a media empire. On that, I say bully for her. It's the "bully" side of Martha, however, that makes me feel perhaps less sympathy for her than I might otherwise. Oh, and I understand that a man who'd accomplished what Martha has in business, and who'd behaved in the manner she's said to have behaved towards various people, would probably not end up getting the drubbing that Martha endures. Still, I think it adds up to something more than "screaming at the help," though I think that's bad enough, because I've been "the help" sometimes.
What I've noticed is that some of those successful people seem to take their success as a license to behave pretty badly towards people who, for whatever reasons, haven't achieved that level of success. Some behave as if the rules of treating people decently (let alone the stock market), barely apply to them at all. I remember an episode of the sit-com Just Shoot Me in which the assistants of various "movers and shakers" in New York business and soceity meet at a bar to commiserate about their bosses, and their various experiences of working under such materially succesful people. I remember it rang pretty true to me. (One actress portrayed Martha Stewart's assistant. When asked about her boss, she was seen weeping, with a cigarette in one hand and a cocktail in the other.) It rang true because I've worked with people like that. If the old adage "shit flows downhill," is true, these people have cases of perpetual diarrhea. In Martha's case, it flows downhill to those 200 people who lost their jobs because of the consequences of her actions.
For her part, Martha seems to think it was nothing and that if it's anybody's fault it's the feds. The truth is, there's nobody to blame for where Martha's going, other than Martha herself. Just like there's no one to blame for what her company—and those who work for it, or used to—except the woman whose name it bears.
I recall when Stewart's conviction was first reported, there's was a lot of chatter (and some clucking of tongues) about the one juror who claimed it was a "victory for the little guy." One commentator (I don't remember who) said that the irony was that "Martha Stewart is the little guy." I think the correct statement was that Martha Stewart was the little guy, once upon a time. But the problem isn't her material success. The problem with Martha, and with a lot of other people who acheive her level of material success, is that she forgot that she ever was the little guy and what it's like to be the little guy. She's too busy biting chunks out of the little guys that get drawn into her orbit. I think that's what rubs so many people the wrong way about Martha.
In the end, I seriously doubt that beingin prison for five months, then shut up in one of her sumptuous homes, and paying $30,000 in fines, will have much of an effect on Stewart. Today she declared "I'll be back." I'm sure "the help" is looking forward to her return.
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| Big Losers |
| 07.17.04 (12:52 am) [edit] |
OK. I'm Pissed about this one. It's time to boycott Slimfast. Why? They fired Whoopi Goldberg for criticizing president Bush.
Comedian Whoopi Goldberg will no longer appear in ads for diet aid maker Slim-Fast following her lewd wisecracks about President George W Bush's name at a fundraiser last week, the company said today.
Bash Bush, lose your job. McCarthyism, anyone?
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| Is this What Bush calls a Democracy? |
| 07.15.04 (1:13 pm) [edit] |
I got this from funnydiscovery's Blog its an absolute outrage and lets me know that my decision to leave the United States was a good one!
::Link::
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| Bush and Black folks |
| 07.15.04 (9:34 am) [edit] |
It doesn't surprise me that Bush has turned down an invitation to speak at the NAACP's annual convention.
President Bush declined an invitation to speak at the NAACP's annual convention, the group said.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People expects more than 8,000 people to attend the convention, which opens on Saturday.
Democratic challenger John Kerry accepted an invitation to speak next Thursday on the final day of the convention, the NAACP said.
Bush spoke at the 2000 NAACP convention in Baltimore when he was running for president.
…White House spokesman Jim Morrell said Wednesday that the president has spoken about "equal opportunity and equal rights for all Americans" in many public places.
At the NAACP convention in 2000, when candidate Bush and candidate Gore each came to speak before those gathered. They spoke on different days, and the difference was like night and day. On the day Bush spoke, he entered from off stage to polite applause, shook hands with those seated on dias onstage, and gave a speech that was only occasionally interrupted with applause. After his speech, more polite applause, and Bush was gone.
On the day Al Gore spoke, the scene resembled something like a revival meeting. Gore entered from the back of the house, coming down the aisle shaking hands with those in the audience. The crowd was cheering; theme music blaring. People were reaching over one another, getting out of their seats, running into the aisle and down to the foot of the stage to shake hands with Gore before (and after) his speech. And while Gore is not necessarily a consistently good public speaker, on this occasion he gave a rousing speech, tinged the the cadence of a southern preacher, engaged the audience in a little "call and response" and easily got the audience cheering and even brought many to their feet at certain points. He left with the same fanfare he came in with.
It's no secret that Bush received a small percentage of the African American vote in 2000. It's no secret that the wrongful disenfranchisement of many African Americans in Florida helped create the electoral mess that ended up with the Supreme Court appointing Bush to the presidency. And if you ask me, it's no secret that Bush and his party have decided that they don't need African American voters, at least not in large numbers. Add to that the reality that Bush's conservative base is predominantly white, and will alienate many African American voters on a number of issuess, and it's understandable that the administration and the Republican party won't go much beyond symbolic measures when it comes to African American voters.
Of course, that's assuming that they even want to appeal to African Americans. I know I've been involved with various organizations in which people have wondered why more African Americans don't join them. What these organizations usually fail to ask themselves is what they themselves are not doing on issues that are serious concerns for a great many people in African American communities. (I say "communities" because I'm aware there is no monolithic, nationwide African American communities, and that needs and concerns differ from one area to another.)
Basically, if you build it, they will come. If you don't have a representative number of African Americans in your movement, then chances areyou aren't addressing their issues and concerns in a way that is reaching them. From what I can see, the Republican party and the Bush administration isn't serious about reaching large numbers of African American voters. The evidence is all in their approach. After all, the first step is to just show up.
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| Why Taxes? |
| 07.15.04 (12:12 am) [edit] |
USA Taxes.....
Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
Capital Gains Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Court Fines (indirect taxes)
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel permit tax
Gasoline Tax (42 cents per gallon)
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax Interest expense (tax on the money)
Inventory tax IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Local Income Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
Road Toll Booth Taxes
Road Usage Taxes (Truckers)
Sales Taxes
Septic Permit Tax
Service Charge Taxes
Social Security Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone federal excise tax
Telephone federal universal service fee tax
Telephone federal, state and local surcharge taxes
Telephone minimum usage surcharge tax
Telephone recurring and non-recurring charges tax
Telephone State and local tax
Telephone usage charge tax
Toll Bridge Taxes
Toll Tunnel Taxes
Traffic Fines (indirect taxation)
Trailer registration tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
COMMENTS: Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago and the USA was the most prosperous in the world, had absolutely no national debt, had
the largest middle class in the world.
WTF happened?
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| ID10T |
| 07.15.04 (12:08 am) [edit] |
I work on Computers on the side for some extra cash, A friend was having trouble with his computer. So he called me, to come over. I clicked a couple of buttons and solved the problem. I gave Him a bill for a minimum service call.
As I was walking away, He called after Me, "So, what was wrong?"
I replied, "It was an ID ten T error."
I can tell he didn't want to appear stupid, but nonetheless inquired:
"An ID ten T error? What's that ... in case I need to fix it again?"
I grinned.... "Haven't you ever heard of an ID ten T error before?"
"Na," He replied.
"Write it down," I said, "and I think you'll figure it out."
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Maybe in my pessimistic outlook on life i think i've acomplished nothing but in reality i've done as much as I can do and no more, but i expect more...
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| Psychiatric Hotline (For my gurl) thought you would like this |
| 07.13.04 (12:29 pm) [edit] |
We've all had the annoying experience of calling up a hotline and waiting on the phone for eons to hear all the choices the lucky touch-tone dialers receive. Well, think how frustrating that would be if you were calling the.... PSYCHIATRIC HOTLINE
The telephone rings and an answering machine answers...
"Welcome to the psychiatric hotline."
If you are obsessive compulsive, please press one repeatedly.
If you are codependent, please ask someone to press 2.
If you have multiple personalities, please press 3, 4, 5, and 6.
If you are paranoid/delusional, we know who you are, what you want, just stay on the line so that we can trace your call.
If you are a schizophrenic, listen carefully, and a little voice will tell you which number to press. If your are manic depressive, it doesn't matter which number you press....no one will answer any way.
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