Angelina Jolie is.........
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I titled this Angelina Jolie is....... because I her more about her than I do about Katrina. Three years have gone by since then. Seems like only yesterday huh? With so many monumental failures of the Republicans and the Republican party I can't imagine why this story in particular would be ignored.

Oh wait.....yes I can. Election season and with McCain backing Chimpy 90% of the time I can figure out why the so called "liburl media" would not want to focus on failures of this administration.

Today marks the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina hitting the Gulf Coast . On August 29, 2005, Katrina cut "a 125-mile swath of destruction stretching from coastal Alabama across Mississippi to the French Quarter and the Superdome." Katrina was the costliest hurricane in American history and the third deadliest, killing 1,800 people. New Orleans was particularly hard-hit, which submerged 80 percent of the city. Sadly, as the anniversary of Katrina nears, New Orleans is bracing for another storm, Gustav, which is projected to hit the Gulf Coast early next week as a Category 3 hurricane. The development of Gustav prompted Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) to proclaim a state of emergency and prepare "hundreds of buses and emergency shelters to help residents flee should Gustav strike as expected." Gustav's approach also caused the cancellation of events commemorating the Katrina anniversary. The threat of another hurricane serves to highlight the progress that New Orleans has made in the last three years, and the work that still remains cleaning up and repairing the city. That's good news huh?

So, Chimpy appeared in New Orleans to say that "hope is coming back" to the city, due to $126 billion in disaster aid sent to the region in the last three years. "The good future is here," Bush said. "I predicted New Orleans would come back as a stronger and better city. We helped deliver $126 billion in taxpayer money." Three years ago, however, Bush was preoccupied as Katrina hit . While 75 percent of New Orleans residents do "feel hopeful about the future of the greater New Orleans area," Bush's visit was nothing more than a "reminder of broken promises" than the sign of hopeful future.

In 2005, Bush did not organize a federal response to Katrina for two days after the storm hit, despite repeated requests for assistance from former Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco, who happened to be a Democrat instead of an American, and he ignored reports that levees in New Orleans had been breached. He then spent the following days claiming -- falsely -- that no one anticipated the breach of the levees and that he was "satisfied with the [federal] response" to the storm. In 2006, the New York Times reported that to federal aid to the region hit by Katrina was plagued by "breathtaking waste and fraud." The New York Times called the waste of federal dollars "one of the the most extraordinary displays of scams, schemes and stupefying bureaucratic bungles in modern history, costing taxpayers up to $2 billion." Last week, the Bush administration announced that the funds sent to the Gulf Coast region for hurricane recovery were "sufficient" and that there are "enough funds in the pipeline, to get the mission done." Of course you all know this is not true at all. I know, it's hard to beleive that they lie but demons are wont to do such things.

Let's look at the statement that"hope is back". It'sa  cute soundbite but it's a outright bullshit lie.  There are still massive problems resulting from the hurricane remain, including "significant debris management issues," and "a cleanup fraught with environmental issues." While "97% of the population has returned to Hancock, Harrison, and Jackson counties, the three areas hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina," New Orleans still has a far greater proportion of vacant homes than any other city in the country," with "more than one in three residential addresses vacant or unoccupied." That's just stupid.

According to the research and advocacy institute PolicyLink, "thousands of residents who want to return home are facing a critical rental housing shortage, inadequate rebuilding grants and a recovery plagued by red tape and ever-changing rules." Part of the problem is the federal Road Home program, which is "the main conduit by which federal funds were to compensate homeowners for the damage wrought" by Katrina. "In New Orleans , 4 of every 5 Road Home recipients rebuilding their homes did not get enough money to cover their repairs," with an average shortfall of $54,586. As of March, "only 13% of the $1.6 billion in the state's emergency community development block grant funds had benefited lower-income victims." Further compounding New Orleans' troubles with Gustav approaching, the Associated Press conducted a yearlong review of levee work which revealed "a pattern of public misperception, political jockeying and legal fighting, along with economic and engineering miscalculations, that threaten to make New Orleans the scene of another devastating flood." With stats liek the one mentioned above it is vital that there be "political jockeying" don't you think? I can't believe these assholes continue to play with the lives of people just so they can jump ahead on the ladder of success. Wait a sec.......yes I can.

Earlier this week, the Independent's Richard Holledge published an article proclaiming that in the last three years the media "forgot the city of jazz and jambalaya." "Three years after Hurricane Katrina, the world's media has lost sight of the ongoing misery in New Orleans ," he wrote. "Coverage by the international and national news media in the run-up to the anniversary is negligible...One of the world's most cataclysmic natural disasters, one made worse by official incompetence and corruption, is almost forgotten."

Now of course, the conservobots ahve not weighed in yet, so here comes one of my favorite devils in the biz. Glenn Beck has made sure to deride the rebuilding of New Orleans as the anniversary nears, saying, "We shouldn't spend a single dime of taxpayers' money in a place where - I don't care where it is - where it is in a flood zone." Jon Amoss, editor of New Orleans ' Times-Picayune, echoed Holledge's sentiment, saying, "I don't think we are on people's minds. We have to contend with those voices, particularly on pop radio, which say 'New Orleanians with their eternal whining – why don't they pull themselves up by their boot straps?'" But highlighting the continuing role Katrina plays in the life of New Orleanians, Amoss added "I wondered a year-and-a-half ago whether there would ever come a time when the word hurricane or Katrina would not appear on, or near, page one [of the Times-Picayune]. There have been some days when there hasn't been a single story on page one, but that is still a rarity because it is the fabric of our life."

Let me remind you of some of the horrid nightmarish things that REPUBLICANS said after Katrina:

"What I'm hearing which is sort of scary is that they all want to stay in Texas. Everybody is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (chuckle) – this is working very well for them." –Former First Lady Barbara Bush, on the hurricane evacuees at the Astrodome in Houston, Sept. 5, 2005 (Source) I think this is just one of the most telling/evil things this fat old mugly bitch could have ever said.

"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." –President Bush, to FEMA director Michael Brown, while touring hurricane-ravaged Mississippi, Sept. 2, 2005 (Source; audio clip) Chimpy can be such a blessing for the soundbite sometimes.

"Considering the dire circumstances that we have in New Orleans, virtually a city that has been destroyed, things are going relatively well." –FEMA Director Michael Brown, Sept. 1, 2005 (Source) This is the guy more concerened about how he looked on TV than the people in New Orleans. It is the Republican way afterall.

"Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?" –House Majority Leader Tom Delay (R-TX), to three young hurricane evacuees from New Orleans at the Astrodome in Houston, Sept. 9, 2005 (Source) Check the source, he really said that.

"You simply get chills every time you see these poor individuals...many of these people, almost all of them that we see are so poor and they are so black, and this is going to raise lots of questions for people who are watching this story unfold." –CNN's Wolf Blitzer, on New Orleans' hurricane evacuees, Sept. 1, 2005 (Source) Where I come from Wolf, you can never be "too Black" or "too Indian" or "Too latin". Fucking idiot.

"We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did." –Rep. Richard Baker (R-LA) to lobbyists, as quoted in the Wall Street Journal (Source) AH AH! Finally someone just comes out and says it.

"I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water." –Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, on NPR's "All Things Considered," Sept. 1, 2005 (Source) Ain't that comforting?

"I don't make judgments about why people chose not to leave but, you know, there was a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans." –FEMA Director Michael Brown, arguing that the victims bear some responsibility, CNN interview, Sept. 1, 2005 (Source) In other words, "It's your own damn fault".

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CONservatives are evil part 4,874

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I was thinking about this upcoming election and the hole that Repigs and Conservatives have gotten themselves into and how they must be scheming to get themselves out of it.

I'm somewhat trepadacious about what stunts they will pull because honestly they are beyond desperate at this point. They have Grandpa McCain as thier guy, some of thier senators are STILL getting themselves into the shit, they rate low as hell in their own districts, they shy away from Chimpy and they still get caught in scandal after scandal.

Desperation of that nature surely will make for desperate stunts.

Behold Friday. On Friday, the House was scheduled to close for its regular August recess. House conservatives, however, refused to leave the floor, demanding a vote on offshore drilling. With the C-SPAN cameras and the House floor lights turned off, a handful of conservatives stuck around for over five hours "to attack Democrats for leaving town without doing something to lower gas prices." "Eighteen times over the past 90 days, the minority tried, unsuccessfully, to force the House to adjourn. Now the House has finally adjourned -- for a five-week recess, no less -- and Demonic Republicans are demanding that the chamber be called back into session," the Washington Post's Dana Milbank observed. Believing "they have struck political gold with American voters," conservatives are lauding their stagecraft in the most grandiose terms. "Today is the 2008 version of the Boston Tea Party," exclaimed Rep John Shadegg (R-AZ). "[L]ike the founders of this country we're going directly to the American people," boasted Rep. Tim Price (R-GA). "This could be America's greatest hour," crowed Rep. Don Manzullo (R-IL). Can you believe these mutherfuckers?

Conservatives extended the theatrics Monday and have declared they will continue their floor protests for "as long as it takes." House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) called their tactics "stunts" that amount to little more than "transparent political effort to manufacture headlines." Even pResident Bush isn't falling for it. Although the House conservatives have asked him to call an emergency session of Congress, Chimpy refused.

House conservatives are not looking for any fix to gas prices: They are intent on drilling and drilling only -- and simultaneously filling Big Oil's coffers. Don't bew fooleds. Remember that these are the same conservatives who have voted to block legislation that would have released oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, block legislation banning price gouging, and block legislation requiring oil companies to first drill on the land already leaded to them.

Why doesn't anyone report that Conservative leaders have blocked or voted "no" on eight different energy bills aimed at:

1.) Addressing rising prices,

2.)  Bills that raised vehicle fuel efficiency,

3.) Provided tax incentives for renewable energy,

4.) Invested in energy efficiency,

And required a 15 percent renewable electricity standard, and expanded commuter rail and bus services while reducing transit fares. The fact is that opening new offshore sites to drilling is a boon only to Big Oil companies, and they have responded to conservatives' efforts by opening their wallets. Just in the last year, House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO), one of the leaders of the floor standoff, has received more than nearly $100,000 from the oil and gas industries, with $20,000 from Chevron alone.

You probably don't hear about that though do you?

In a press conference yesterday, Rep. Wally Herger (R-CA) demanded that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) "allow us to come back from our vacation, and work here." Rep. Adam Putnam (R-FL) said Friday, "This band of brothers here is staying late to make a point to the American people: We want to work." Band of Brothers? Seriously? He's referring to himself and those fellow devils as a "band of brothers" like this is some type of warzone they are in? These assholes know no shame. When Wally was done his "band of brothers" began chanting  "Work, work, work."

Honestly here really. House conservatives have hardly been known for their work ethic. In 2007, when Pelosi shook up the "Do-Nothing Congress" of 2005 and 2006 by implementing a five-day work week, conservatives were furious. "Democrats could care less about families -- that's what this says," Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) complained. He defended the three-day week used under the conservative majority, declaring they could keep in touch with Washington "with BlackBerrys" and cell phones. In fact, the 109th Congress -- the last under conservative leadership -- was in session for a grand total of 103 days in 2006, and "failed to enact a host of once top-priority legislation" on issues such as Social Security, immigration, and ethics reform. As Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN) said of the 109th's pathetic work schedule, ""[I]t's really bad news for America because we're simply not doing our jobs. They're paying us full salaries, but we're not working full time."

Not only are conservatives engaging in a meaningless political stunt, but their policy prescriptive -- offshore drilling -- is also nothing but a gimmick.  Opening more offshore areas to drilling "would not have a significant impact on domestic crude oil and natural gas production or prices before 2030," according to the Energy Information Administration. Earlier this summer, the government's "top energy forecaster" said of offshore drilling: "It doesn't affect prices that much." Meanwhile, Republicans are mocking common-sense solutions like inflating your tires and tuning your engine, which "could save more barrels of oil in one year than new offshore drilling could produce in four." In the long term, Americans need an energy solution that prioritizes independence from fossil fuels altogether to help with the rising costs of gas -- not political stunts and empty gimmicks.

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Drill NOW! (?)
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Yesterday, citing the "squeeze of rising prices at the pump," Chimperor Bush actually rescinded the presidential moratorium on offshore drilling. The moratorium on lease sales in the Outer Continental Shelf was established in 1990 by his father, George H.W. Bush, in response to the devastating Exxon Valdez oil spill and extended by the last truly elected President Bill Clinton. Bush's action pressures Congress to follow him in "capitulation to the oil companies" by lifting their moratorium, which must be renewed annually. In response, Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) said at a press conference that Bush "is invoking the specter of another WMD: wells of mass deception." At the Huffington Post, activist Martin Bosworth wrote, "Americans are smarter than we are often given credit for, and many of us do realize that destroying precious environmental resources and wildlife reserves to allow more domestic drilling is a psychological panacea -- a placebo to make us feel like 'something is being done.'" However, polls show increasing support for expanded offshore drilling. Conservatives, like the sick and twisted demons that they are, are preying on Americans' concern over skyrocketing gas prices by propagating false myths that drilling for oil off our coasts will allow us to "pay less" at the pump, that it's "environmentally safe," and that drilling is already underway by communist China. Because "only real beneficiaries will be the oil companies that are trying to lock up every last acre of public land," their political allies like the rest of those devils have to lie.

Let's bust some myths while I am here:
MYTH 1 -- 'DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW, PAY LESS': Newt Gingrich's 527 organization, American Solutions, is promoting a "Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less" campaign, collecting over one million signatures on its petition to Congress to "act immediately to lower gasoline prices" by "authorizing the exploration of proven energy reserves" off our coasts. American Solutions is funded by right-wing Las Vegas billionaire Sheldon Adelson, who wants Americans to place another bad bet on oil drilling. As the Energy Information Administration (EIA) has explained, "access to the Pacific, Atlantic, and eastern Gulf regions would not have a significant impact on domestic crude oil and natural gas production or prices before 2030." But because United States demand for oil far outstrips production -- we consume 25 percent of the world's supply but have two percent of the proven reserves -- further exploitation of domestic resources will not have a long-term impact either.  After 2030, the EIA found, "any impact on average wellhead prices is expected to be insignificant."  There are numerous ways to immediately affect prices, from use of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to improved oversight of the oil markets. Over the long term, we must fight global warming and break our addiction to oil through modern technology like plug-in hybrids and smart growth planning.

MYTH 2 -- CHINA ON OUR COASTS: Conservatives from Rudy Giuliani to Dick Cheney have repeatedly claimed that the United States needs to start drilling for off-shore oil because China is taking "American oil" off the coast of Cuba, just "60 miles off the coast of Florida." Cheney exhorted, "Even the communists have figured out that a good answer to high prices is more supply." That same day, Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO) wrote that Castro was allowing drilling "45 miles from the Florida keys." Rep. George Radanovich (R-CA) and House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) have also raised the specter of Chinese drilling just off U.S. shores. However, this modern invocation of the Red Scare the claim is completely false. As Cheney was forced to acknowledge, "no Chinese firm is drilling" off Cuba's coast. Talking Points Memo has recorded the large number of conservatives hyping the false story.  The Washington Post's Ben Pershing said the China/Cuba oil drilling claim is the "myth that keeps on giving," calling it "just too juicy not to repeat."

MYTH 3 -- 'NOT A DROP WAS SPILLED': Offshore drilling advocates know that the specter of oil-slicked beaches would doom their campaign, so they are desperate to wish its environmental impact away. Yesterday, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) claimed "not a drop of oil was spilled during Katrina or Rita." This myth has been told again and again by the likes of Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA), Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, Mike Huckabee, George Will, and Bill O'Reilly. There were, in fact, major onshore and offshore spills due to the hurricanes. According to the official Minerals Management Service report, the hurricanes caused 124 offshore spills for a total of 743,700 gallons, six spilling 42,000 gallons or more. The largest of these spills dropped 152,250 gallons, well over the 100,000 gallon threshhold considered a "major spill." In addition, the hurricanes caused disastrous spills onshore throughout southeast Louisiana and the rest of the Gulf Coast as tanks, pipelines, refineries and other industrial facilities were destroyed, for a total of 595 different oil spills. The nine million gallons reported spilled were comparable with the Exxon Valdez's 10.8 million gallons, but unlike the Exxon Valdez, they were distributed throughout Louisiana, Mississippi, and other Gulf Coast states, many in residential areas.

Couple of last things: Mike O'Hanlon should make up his fucking mind

"To say you're going to get out [of Iraq] on a certain schedule...is the height of absurdity."
-- Brookings Institution's Michael O'Hanlon, 7/15/08

VERSUS

"Set a date to pull out."
-- O'Hanlon, 5/18/04
Like his dad should have.

And finally: In an NBC interview on Friday, basketball star Charles Barkley curiously told NBC, "My game is like a blog." The blog Deadspin, which interviewed Barkley the day earlier, caught up with him and asked him what he meant by the phrase. Barkley replied, "When I talked with you on Thursday, and you said your were blogging my rounds, I didn't know what that was. What's a 'blog?' ... So when they asked me on television how to describe my golf game, I told them 'My game is like a blog.' Because I don't know what a blog is, but it don't sound good."
Barkley is a Republican and a fucking idiot. I know, that's redundant isn't it?

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Pow Wow
Category: News and Politics

This past weekend, the 21st and 22nd I was in charge of a gathering at the Camp O' The Hills in Brooklyn MI.
It's a beautiful spot and the Girl Scouts Irish Hills let me put up a permanent arbor right in the middle of the place. It is beyond beautiful. I keep using that word because I wish you could see this place. It is serene and quiet and lush and inviting.
I sound like some type of hippie......

Anyways, this one drum Group named Sons of the Three Fires came and co-hosted. Frank Sprague and Junson Bush and the elder uncle came and ripped thru the songs like they own them! Sons is a sober drum and those brothers mean it! Frank is a genius with some of the programs he runs and his mind is always on the people. If you ever get a chance to talk to him just do yourself a big favor and shut up and listen. He is such a big hearted man and he is so grateful for God and everything that he has. Junson is one cool cool dude. I was blessed to meet him this time. I never met Junson before but his grandfather Frank Bush was a monumental inspiration to me. Sons of the Three Fires is a real live Anishnabe drum who holds the traditions close and it is palatable when they sing. What a real blessing they were to have there let alone bless us with song.
Junson was open and honest about where he comes from and what he has done and was just so willing to share that with me. What a guy. I missed the sister who sang with them name but she was like WOO HOO! Strong with that voice. They brought along little Mary Bush who is a champion hoop dancer and I really wish you could have seen this little sister. The pride that I felt swelling up in me was immense and she was just so damned beautiful and graceful as she danced. She held hersefl with a dignity that many of us could learn to emmulate.
Eagle Boy was the next drum. I don't know what to say about Brian Higgins. This guy is one of the most radically humble men I have ever met. He has a way about him that makes you think you may have known him for years. Brian sat up and talked with me Thursday, Friday and Saturday night and was teaching me about the Lakota language and it's etymology - which is a passion of mine and yes I know learning about a language's orgin is geeky but I am the sexiest geek you will meet. Brian holds a special place in my heart. I tell you if you ever hear these brothers sing it will stay with you. When he did his first push up I just stepped back in amazement. A man who sings like that and knows what it means to carry that drum and is so humble is truly a gift.
Brian bought along his beautful wife Paulette and daughter, Isabella. This child is headed for greatness. SHe speaks Lakota, Spanish and English. She made herself right at home enjoying all the activities of the campers, she made friends everywhere she went and danced like a real angel. Brain bought his cousin Son with them. This brother is a straight up clown! He is a riot. 10 minutes with him, get past his shyness and he will leave you in stitches. He danced and sang and on the real tip, he honestly takes this tuff seriously. He goes into the circle to only give back - AS IT SHOULD BE.
Eagle Boy has a white guy named Joe that sings with them. There was this old timer in A.A. that told me once that I have to learn to listen with my spiritual ear. Listen to what God is telling me. Listen with my heart and not my mind. I can hear Joe's spirit when he sings. He is singing right from the heart. What a beautiful voice. I sat next to him at the drum when we sang the AIM song and that was damn near the highlight of my weekend.
The true highlight was having my brothers Tony Goulet, Joe Braveheart and George Romero come and hang and sing. Tony is my Kola. I love that brother so much I can't explain it. There was a long time where we didn't speak due to my own follishness. Same with Joe. Joe was my friend who became my mentor and is now my brother. How blessed am I to point to those three guys and tell people, "Those are a few of the people I love"?
George and I had a chance to talk and it was so asweome. I hadn't spoke like that with George ever. EVER. He is such a fun loving guy and so sweet. I have known him since he was 17 and he is just turned into a precious man.
I finally met Christina and Juan! Juan can sing. Let me rephrase that Juan can SANG! And Christina is as beautiful as I thought she would be. I'm so grateful to both of them for coming out.
McKell and Jonathan and Rose and Ken Johnson and I bonded even tougher as if that was possible. It is so good to have laid back non-political Indian people in my life. Regular people just trying to survive and make it as they can. Jonathan made his first fire that weekend and I was there to see it.
If I spend the rest of my life in quiet prayer and meditation of thanks to the Creator for all I have been blessed with it will never be enough to truly thank him for all that came.

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Davi visits RUNAMUCK RANCH!
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Anyone who ever reads my blogs know I post aboput the truth as I see it. I attempt to provide as much hard evidence to back up what I say. If there is a source for my ramblings I post it. If there is a link I post it. I take pretty unpopular stances and I stand by them.

I play dirty. I don't mince words. I don't beat around the bush (BUSH?) and I don't pretend to be something that I am not. I'm liberal, I don't suffer fools and I don't have time to educate the overtly stupid. If you can't keep up that is your issue. Keep all of that in mind as you read this:

Today I recieved the following letter from Beth aka RUNAMUK RANCH. She wrote me a e-mail because she didn't like that I posted a writing from Tim Wise titled: AN OPEN LETTER TO WHITE WOMEN.

I am not Tim Wise. I dig his stuff and really liked that particular piece so I posted it and even stated it was his writing.

I tried to write her back BUT, like a coward she does not accept e-mail from others. She can write one and express her opinion. That's freedom of speech BUT to not hear the opposite and cower behind not accepting a response? That's low. SO since I can't write to her I will devote the following as a response to her UNEDITED letter: I am Indian, and I am on my own land. Thanks

The title of her missive is a response to my avatar of YOU ARE ON INDIAN LAND.

hey buddy boy,
You don't think that the black vote, 95% of blacks are voting for OBAMA because he is black? OF COURSE THEY ARE! He has the black vote because he's black. That's not racist? dumbass.
I am white, (and Indian, Scottish, English and german) So what does that make me? I am American. I may be staying home in November, which is my right. I may go and vote the party, especially if Hillary is Barak Hussein Obamas running mate. Otherwise I will probably stay home. Do you think I give a shit what you think? You really need to put a gag in it, I don't trust Barak Hussein Obama. Period and I don't trust McCain. Period. It is my right to vote or not to vote. If Mr. Barak Hussein Obama choses Hillary, I'll vote. If not, I won't, PERIOD. That is my right. So shut up. and another thing, it is not a racial issue with "WHITE WOMEN" unless you take into account Mr. Obama's Muslim connections which no one whants to address at the risk of sounding not politically correct, and you elitists refuse to look at the man's background. There are two types of people voting for Obama, Blacks who never voted before and Trust fund brats. Both of whom don't work and don't have to work, one has welfare, the other a trust fund. Working people who actually break a sweat every day were for Hillary, and white men have more problems with Obama than anyone. Oprah Winfrey was behind the Hillary media smear, you can bet your ass on that. So just shut the fuck up about white women.

Sweet huh? Thoughtful too. I'll respond piece by piece in bold. This is gonna be FUN!

hey buddy boy,
You don't think that the black vote, 95% of blacks are voting for OBAMA because he is black? OF COURSE THEY ARE! He has the black vote because he's black. That's not racist? dumbass.

Firstly, whatever gave you the idea that I am your 'buddy boy'? If you met me you would kow there is not one thing on me that even resembles a 'boy'. I'm a real natural 100% original man. Unlike your husband.

Where is the source of 95% of the Black vote going to Obama? Wait, you don't have one. You pulled that from your fat ass like you did the rest of your letter. To say he has the Black vote only because he is Black is discounting the Whites and Latinos who are voting for him and doesn't explain why he beat Hillary in predominately White states. You're really not very smart are you?

 I am white, (and Indian, Scottish, English and german) So what does that make me? I am American.

Which is it? Are you Indian, Scottish, English or German? Wait. You're American. Wait. Better than that you're WHITE. You look White, write like a uneducated White and think White. You're WHITE.
The response you titled this garbage in states that you are Indian then you contradict yourself by stating that you're "American" whatever the fuck that is supposed to mean.

By the way. You're squatting on stolen property. Those is the facts stupid.

I may be staying home in November, which is my right. I may go and vote the party, especially if Hillary is Barak Hussein Obamas running mate. Otherwise I will probably stay home.

Stay home anyways. Dumb as you are you can't be safe in public. You seem like a liablility.

Do you think I give a shit what you think?

Certainly do think you 'give a shit' what I think and the evidence is you took time from wiping the sheep shit from your shoes to write me a letter.

You really need to put a gag in it, I don't trust Barak Hussein Obama.

Sorry. I get to say what I want, when I want, and how I want. The Republican Patriot Act has not come to curtail those things just yet. You can't stop me. Many others that are FAR FAR better than you have tried. Obviously they have failed. Just like you.

Interesting thing to point out Barak's middle name. Right wingnuts do that too. See the thing here is that you are attempting somehow to equate him with Saddam Hussein. Just like a reichwinger. This is supposed to strike fear in a person about the big scary Black man that has a "muslim' sounding name. Obama is a Christian and I don't live a life based in fear so you lose once more. I bet you're used to losing.

Period and I don't trust McCain. Period. It is my right to vote or not to vote.

It's shit like this that makes me see what some reichwingnuts mean when they talk about testing peoples IQ's as to wether or not they should vote. No one, in the article I posted from TIM WISE or me has said you should or shouldn't vote. We know it's your right to vote. That's patehtic that you even write it.

If Mr. Barak Hussein Obama choses Hillary, I'll vote. If not, I won't, PERIOD. That is my right.

You can write his middle name all night long. Still not afraid of him. You repeat your right to vote here once more. I think you may suffer from a oppressive complex disorder of some kind. Seek further psychological attention. (I said further becuase from the twangy ass music that plays on your page I can tell you obviously are doped up right now!)

So shut up. and another thing, it is not a racial issue with "WHITE WOMEN" unless you take into account Mr. Obama's Muslim connections which no one whants to address at the risk of sounding not politically correct, and you elitists refuse to look at the man's background.

Again with the "shut up". I don;t recall anyone being forced to read the blog from TIM WISE. Can you prove Mr. Obama's "Muslim connections"? You call me an 'elitist' did you hear that word somewhere and decide that it is some type of slam? Do you know the meaning of 'elitist'? I don't think you do because if you did you would see how completly insipid you sound by even writing that.

There are two types of people voting for Obama, Blacks who never voted before and Trust fund brats.

One thing I found most charming about your letter is that just when I thought you couldn't get more stupid you proved me wrong. What evidence do you have for that statement? Trust Fund Brats? Really? Do they make up the 95% of Blacks voting for Barack? Or is that 95% first time Black voters?

You make it really easy.

Both of whom don't work and don't have to work, one has welfare, the other a trust fund.

SO that means that Blacks are on welfare and Trust Funders are Whites? WOW. That was just really fucking racist. You're form South Florida so I can see where you get this thinking. (Not really, I just was trying to help)

Working people who actually break a sweat every day were for Hillary, and white men have more problems with Obama than anyone.

I work everyday. I work hard actually and I was undecided until Obama won. How did Obama collect more delegate votes? Did he get them from lazy ass Whites who didn't want to vote Hillary? I expect white men to have a problem with Obama. That's not a suprise to anyone except the Whtie men who don't have a problem with him.

Oprah Winfrey was behind the Hillary media smear, you can bet your ass on that. So just shut the fuck up about white women.

Now that is just borderline schizophrenic. Oprah is behind the attacks on Hillary? Conspiracy theory nutcase! As far as shutting up about White women let me say this clearly:

Bitch I will talk about WHO and WHAT I want at MY whim WHEN I want. You don't like and I hope you never will.

Rules on the streets are simple: Don't start nothing won't be nothing.

Currently reading : Independent Black Leadership in America: Minister Louis Farrakhan, Dr. Lenora B. Fulani, Reverend Al Sharpton

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Open letter to white women

Tim Wise is perhaps one of the most articulite anti-racists I have ever had the pleasure of hearing and reading. The guy understands the deepness of the ingrained prejudices of this society like few others. Let alone few other whites.
The follwoing is from his website:

Your Whiteness is Showing:
An Open Letter to Certain White Women who are Threatening to Withhold Support From Barack Obama in November

By Tim Wise

June 6, 2008

This is an open letter to those white women who, despite their proclamations of progressivism, and supposedly because of their commitment to feminism, are threatening to withhold support from Barack Obama in November. You know who you are.

I know that it's probably a bad time for this. Your disappointment at the electoral defeat of Senator Hillary Clinton is fresh, the sting is new, and the anger that animates many of you--who rightly point out that the media was often sexist in its treatment of the Senator--is raw, pure and justified.

That said, and despite the awkward timing, I need to ask you a few questions, and I hope you will take them in the spirit of solidarity with which they are genuinely intended. But before the questions, a statement if you don't mind, or indeed, even if (as I suspect), you will mind it quite a bit.

First, for those of you threatening to actually vote for John McCain and to oppose Senator Obama, or to stay home in November and thereby increase the likelihood of McCain winning and Obama losing (despite the fact that the latter's policy platform is virtually identical to Clinton's while the former's clearly is not), all the while claiming to be standing up for women...

For those threatening to vote for John McCain or to stay home and increase the odds of his winning (despite the fact that he once called his wife the c-word in public and is a staunch opponent of reproductive freedom and gender equity initiatives, such as comparable worth legislation), all the while claiming to be standing up for women...

For those threatening to vote for John McCain or to stay home and help ensure Barack Obama's defeat, as a way to protest what you call Obama's sexism (examples of which you seem to have difficulty coming up with), all the while claiming to be standing up for women...

Your whiteness is showing.

When I say your whiteness is showing this is what I mean: You claim that your opposition to Obama is an act of gender solidarity, in that women (and their male allies) need to stand up for women in the face of the sexist mistreatment of Clinton by the press. On this latter point--the one about the importance of standing up to the media for its often venal misogyny--you couldn't be more correct. As the father of two young girls who will have to contend with the poison of patriarchy all their lives, or at least until such time as that system of oppression is eradicated, I will be the first to join the boycott of, or demonstration on, whatever media outlet you choose to make that point. But on the first part of the above equation--the part where you insist voting against Obama is about gender solidarity--you are, for lack of a better way to put it, completely full of crap. And what's worse is that at some level I suspect you know it. Voting against Senator Obama is not about gender solidarity. It is an act of white racial bonding, and it is grotesque.

If it were gender solidarity you sought, you would by definition join with your black and brown sisters come November, and do what you know good and well they are going to do, in overwhelming numbers, which is vote for Barack Obama. But no. You are threatening to vote not like other women--you know, the ones who aren't white like you and most of your friends--but rather, like white men! Needless to say it is high irony, bordering on the outright farcical, to believe that electorally bonding with white men, so as to elect McCain, is a rational strategy for promoting feminism and challenging patriarchy. You are not thinking and acting as women, but as white people.

So here's the first question: What the hell is that about?

And you wonder why women of color have, for so long, thought (by and large) that white so-called feminists were phony as hell? Sister please...

Your threats are not about standing up for women. They are only about standing up for the feelings of white women, and more to the point, the aspirations of one white woman. So don't kid yourself. If you wanted to make a statement about the importance of supporting a woman, you wouldn't need to vote for John McCain, or stay home, thereby producing the same likely result--a defeat for Obama. You could always have said you were going to go out and vote for Cynthia McKinney. After all, she is a woman, running with the Green Party, and she's progressive, and she's a feminist. But that isn't your threat is it? No. You're not threatening to vote for the woman, or even the feminist woman. Rather, you are threatening to vote for the white man, and to reject not only the black man who you feel stole Clinton's birthright, but even the black woman in the race. And I wonder why? Could it be...?

See, I told you your whiteness was showing.

And now for a third question, and this is the biggie, so please take your time with it: How is it that you have managed to hold your nose all these years, just like a lot of us on the left, and vote for Democrats who we knew were horribly inadequate--Kerry, Gore, Clinton, Dukakis, right on down the uninspiring line--and yet, apparently can't bring yourself to vote for Barack Obama? A man who, for all of his shortcomings (and there are several, as with all candidates put up by either of the two major corporate parties) is surely more progressive than any of those just mentioned. And how are we to understand that refusal--this sudden line in the proverbial sand--other than as a racist slap at a black man? You will vote for white men year after year after year--and are threatening to vote for another one just to make a point--but can't bring yourself to vote for a black man, whose political views come much closer to your own, in all likelihood, than do the views of any of the white men you've supported before.

How, other than as an act of racism, or perhaps as evidence of political insanity, is one to interpret such a thing?

See, black folks would have sucked it up, like they've had to do forever, and voted for Clinton had it come down to that. Indeed, they were on board the Hillary train early on, convinced that Obama had no chance to win and hoping for change, any change, from the reactionary agenda that has been so prevalent for so long in this culture. They would have supported the white woman--hell, for many black folks, before Obama showed his mettle they were downright excited to do so--but you won't support the black man.

And yet you have the audacity to insist that it is you who are the most loyal constituency of the Democratic Party, and the one before whom Party leaders should bow down, and whose feet must be kissed?

Your whiteness is showing.

Look, I couldn't care less about the Party personally. I left the Democrats twenty years ago when they told me that my activism in the Central America solidarity and South African anti-apartheid movements made me a security risk, and that I wouldn't be able to get clearance to be in some parade with Governor Dukakis. Yeah, seriously. But for you to act as though you are the indispensible voters, the most important, the ones whose views should be pandered to, whose every whim should be the basis for Party policy, is not only absurd, it is also racist in that it, a) ignores and treats as irrelevant the much more loyal constituency of black folks, without whom no Democrat would have won anything in the past twenty years (and indeed the racial gap favoring the Democrats among blacks is about six times larger than the gender gap favoring them among white women, relative to white men); and b) demonstrates the mentality of entitlement and superiority that has been long ingrained in us as white folks--so that we believe we have the right to dictate the terms of political engagement, and to determine the outcome, and to get our way, simply because for so long we have done just that.

But that day is done, whether you like it or not, and you are now left with two, and only two choices, so consider them carefully: the first is to stand now in solidarity with your black brothers and sisters and welcome the new day, and help to push it in a truly progressive and feminist and antiracist direction, while the second is to team up with white men to try and block the new day from dawning. Feel free to choose the latter. But if you do, please don't insult your own intelligence, or ours, by insisting that you've done so as a radical political act.

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Thank you Republicans!
Category: News and Politics

This weekend. Walk up to any republican you know, or better yet, e-mail them a thank you for the $4.00 gas, the mortage crisis, the job loss and the situation in Iraq that has cost over 4,000 American lives and untold thousands of Iraqi civilians.

Keep in mind, these asshols may not now support Chimpy but they did and there is not enough pentience to relieve them of that sin. Until his self-made disaster if fixed. Blame a republican.

Keep in mind, Chimpy is a republican and that he is directly responsible as the president:

• Presided over the loss of approximately three million American jobs in his first two-and-a-half years in office, the worst record since Herbert Hoover.

• Overseen an economy in which the stock market suffered its worst decline in the first two years of any administration since Hoover's.
  
• Taken, in the wake of the terrorist attacks two years ago, the greatest worldwide outpouring of goodwill the United States has enjoyed at least since World War II and squandered it by insisting on pursuing a foolish go-it-almost-alone invasion of Iraq, thereby transforming almost universal support for the United States into worldwide condemnation. (One historian made this point particularly well: "After inadvertently gaining the sympathies of the world 's citizens when terrorists attacked New York and Washington, Bush has deliberately turned the country into the most hated in the world by a policy of breaking all major international agreements, declaring it our right to invade any country that we wish, proving that he'll manipulate facts to justify anything he wishes to do, and bull-headedly charging into a quagmire.")
• Misled (to use the most charitable word and interpretation) the American public about weapons of mass destruction and supposed ties to Al Qaeda in Iraq and so into a war that has plainly (and entirely predictably) made us less secure, caused a boom in the recruitment of terrorists, is killing American military personnel needlessly, and is threatening to suck up all our available military forces and be a bottomless pit for the money of American taxpayers for years to come.

• Failed to follow through in Afghanistan, where the Taliban and Al Qaeda are regrouping, once more increasing the threat to our people.

• Insulted and ridiculed other nations and international organizations and now has to go, hat in hand, to those nations and organizations begging for their assistance.

• Completely miscalculated or failed to plan for the personnel and monetary needs in Iraq after the war, so that he sought and obtained an $87 billion appropriation for Iraq, a sizable chunk of which is going, without competitive bidding to Haliburton, the company formerly headed by his vice president.

• Inherited an annual federal budget surplus of $230 billion and transformed it into a $500+ billion deficit in less than three years. This negative turnaround of three-quarters of a trillion dollars is totally without precedent in our history. The ballooning deficit for fiscal 2004 is rapidly approaching twice the dollar size of the previous record deficit, $290 billion, set in 1992, the last year of the administration of President Bush's father and, at almost 5 percent of GDP, is closing in on the percentage record set by Ronald Reagan in 1986.

• Cut taxes three times, sharply reducing the burden on the rich, reclassified money obtained through stock ownership as more deserving than money earned through work. The idea that dividend income should not be taxed—what might accurately be termed the unearned income tax credit—can be stated succinctly: "If you had to work for your money, we'll tax it; if you didn't have to work for it, you can keep it all."

• Severely curtailed the very American freedoms that our military people are supposed to be fighting to defend. ("The Patriot Act," one of the historians noted, "is the worst since the Alien and Sedition Acts under John Adams.")

• Called upon American armed service people, including Reserve forces, to sacrifice for ever-lengthening tours of duty in a hostile and dangerous environment while he rewards the rich at home with lower taxes and legislative giveaways and gives lucrative no-bid contracts to American corporations linked with the administration.

• Given an opportunity to begin to change the consumption-oriented values of the nation after September 11, 2001, when people were prepared to make a sacrifice for the common good, called instead of Americans to 'sacrifice' by going out and buying things.

• Proclaimed himself to be a conservative while maintaining that big government should be able to run roughshod over the Bill of Rights, and that the government must have all sorts of secrets from the people, but the people can be allowed no privacy from the government. (As one of the historians said, "this is not a conservative administration; it is a reckless and arrogant one, beholden to a mix of right-wing ideologues, neo-con fanatics, and social Darwinian elitists.")

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"Judas on Steroids"
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if you happened to be watching Fox and Friends this morning you maybe saw the little part where they were discussing Scott McClellan's book about his experiences as the White House Press Secretary entitled "Lack of Credibility."

Co-host and uber cave bitch Gretchen Carlson warned that McClellan's "skeletons" would be exposed now that he has "betrayed" the president:

CARLSON: Scott McClellan better not have any skeletons in his closet. I hope he didn't do anything that he doesn't want the world to know about because we all have, and all of his secrets are going to be coming out.

Uh-oh! Demonic repugs are MAD! We all know what happens when the demons get pissed. Someone gets smeared.

On  Fox's Hannity and Colmes last night, conservative strategist Mary Matalin said, "To quote my husband recently, this is Judas on steroids."

James Carville is her husband. He's a Clinton strategist. Later for him.

In the book Scott McClellan accuses his former colleagues in the Bush administration of not being "open and forthright on Iraq," arguing that they engaged in a "