This is a forward someone sent to me. I have to repost it here. It gave me quite a few giggles. rofl
Question - where are all of those buses going to? Do all of these folks really BELIEVE they are actually gon get anywhere NEAR the ceremony? Brothers and Sistas, we can't all go to Washington for the ceremony. The city ain't but so big! "D.C." is smaller than Queens . You wasn't ALL INVITED! I heard of one church that has FIFTY buses going to Washington ! Have ya'll all lost yo minds?! FIFTY BUSES! Where they gonna go? AN' you know some our folks don't do well in the cold! What's Sista Jones and her bad hip gonna do standin on the lawn for three or four hours when it's 10 degrees out? First of all, you know she cant walk from where yall gon hafta leave the bus to where you gon hafta stan', which is gonna be 'bout five MILES from where the President’s gonna be! An' y'all know ya can't be draggin' all yo lawnchairs, beachchairs, piknikchairs an tables wid ya! You gonna hafta stand all through the ceremony. 'Sides, by the time all them bad hips an' bad knees gits down there to the lawn, the ceremony’ll be 'bout over!
That brings ta mind another thing! Y'all needs to leave on time! This ain't goan be like no church piknik or barbeque, an' it sho ain't gon start two or three hours late like some gospel show. Now B is a brotha, but he know how to handle his bizness! He don't run on CP Time! Them folks ain't gon stand out in that cold all mornin' waitin for the 10,000 buses and vans comin' from all over to get there. You church folks migh jes as well plan on leaving Sunday mornin' - do all yore singin' an' prayin' on the road! Psalm 95 on I-95! (Check it out - it fits!)
An' y'all best be plannin' on leavin right afta the ceremony. They ain't gon let y'all jes tie up Penns ylvania Avenue all daggone day! I can hear it now - "WOULD YOU PLEASE LEAVE THE LAWN – STEP BACK OFF THE LAWN!" They ain't gonna wait while 20 million black folks line up to have they picture taken standin' in front of the Capitol. AN' all your marchin' bands, steel pan ensembles, step teams, drill teams, Pee-Wee football, cheerleaders, church choirs, jump-rope teams, Elks, Masons, Bisons, Shriners, Miners, Whiners, Evening Stars, Morning Stars, Falling Stars, Alphas, Deltas, Sigmas, Kappas, Phi Beta Slammas, and fine Gamma Hammas cannotALL be in the pararde.
If you ain't got an invitation ALREADY, you ain't invited! So jes plan on goin' down, an' soon as you inside the city limits -get off the bus, take your pictures and LEAVE, cause with alla you peeples tryin to git there at the same time, the closest you likely to get to the capitol will probably be Baltimore in the north and Richmond to the South! Make sure that youSCHEDULE your time off, an' that includes Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Barack can't be callin' all your employers, an'being stuck in traffic on I-95 comin' from the Inauguration don’t get you no kinda administrative leave!
One other thing - remember back in the day when we was all still upset about racism in America, an' many of us wasconvinced that THE MAN was constantly plottin' our extermination?! Remember when everything was seen as an act of racial GENOCIDE - Welfare Reform; requirements that college athletes meet academic standards to be eligible to play; the DISPROPORTIONATE number of brothas in PRISON; drugs; raising academic standards; even birth control! Well, just suppose there was a way to get ALL of the black people together in one place at the same time. Then it would be relatively easy to get rid of them. Well, as it seems like just about every black person in America is plannin' on bein' at theInauguration, you don't suppose that all of this could be part of some sinister MASTER PLAN to get rid of black people, do you?
For myself, I plan on stayin' home that day an' watchin' everything on the tee-vee. l'll probably see mo of it than any of y'all. Besides, all that aroma of all that perfume, hair stylin' chemicals, curried goat, fish samiches, baked ham, tata salad and fried chicken on a bus for 16 hours would drive me plum crazy. On the other hand, I might jes go down to the church that mornin' an' make a few bucks sellin' some brown-paper-bag-gourmet-food. Besides, there's gotta be at least ONE person left to tell about all this.
Anyway, I hope you have a great time and keep Barack an' his family in your prayers! Oh yeah, remember - Jan 20, 2009 @ 7:30 p.m. sharp! No matter where you are, or what you doin' - it's time for the National Electric Slide!
Slide to the Left! Slide to the Right! Now everybody clap your hands!
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Thursday, December 4, 2008
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
I Voted Today
I rolled out of bed this morning with a mission. To Vote. I washed my face, brushed my teeth, had some juice, and got dressed. No time for eating or a shower. That will come later. I have to Vote.
My polling place is literally a block from my house, and I had checked the net twice to make sure it hadn't been changed. This is not my first time voting, but I was nervous. jitters. This is so important. I have to VOTE.
I bundled my passport, driver's license, credit cards, utility bills, and thought of taking my social security card (just in case). After reading blogs, watching Vlogs, and checking out books by Greg Palast and the website: stealbackyourvote.org; I felt like I was ready for any eventuality. I HAVE TO VOTE TODAY.
On my way into the building, someone stopped me and asked for an interview. He was from the New York Times. I was in earnest, but I thought it might be good to delay a second and have a chat. He asked me some questions, and we had a nice talk; I gave him my card, and he said he was off to write his article.
In the auditorium, I asked for my district and went to stand in line. Someone came up and asked my name and led me straight to the table to fill out my forms and usher me into a booth. The God's seemed to be smiling on me. Maybe they've seen my political Vlogs on youtube or blogspot? No, I doubt it.
I voted the straight Democratic ticket and emerged with a smile. I looked around the room and felt pride and joy that people were exercising their rights. On the way home, I called a few friends and left messages: "This is Robert Anton, recent voter, calling." I've voted many times before, but I have NEVER felt the angst and the freedom that I have felt in doing so before.
Today I voted for myself, for my country, for history, and for the World; and I voted for those who could not or would not Vote. I voted with a purpose and with foresight. I voted knowing the issues and what's at stake. I voted for the message and for the man.
Did you vote today? How did you feel? I felt like a giant.
My polling place is literally a block from my house, and I had checked the net twice to make sure it hadn't been changed. This is not my first time voting, but I was nervous. jitters. This is so important. I have to VOTE.
I bundled my passport, driver's license, credit cards, utility bills, and thought of taking my social security card (just in case). After reading blogs, watching Vlogs, and checking out books by Greg Palast and the website: stealbackyourvote.org; I felt like I was ready for any eventuality. I HAVE TO VOTE TODAY.
On my way into the building, someone stopped me and asked for an interview. He was from the New York Times. I was in earnest, but I thought it might be good to delay a second and have a chat. He asked me some questions, and we had a nice talk; I gave him my card, and he said he was off to write his article.
In the auditorium, I asked for my district and went to stand in line. Someone came up and asked my name and led me straight to the table to fill out my forms and usher me into a booth. The God's seemed to be smiling on me. Maybe they've seen my political Vlogs on youtube or blogspot? No, I doubt it.
I voted the straight Democratic ticket and emerged with a smile. I looked around the room and felt pride and joy that people were exercising their rights. On the way home, I called a few friends and left messages: "This is Robert Anton, recent voter, calling." I've voted many times before, but I have NEVER felt the angst and the freedom that I have felt in doing so before.
Today I voted for myself, for my country, for history, and for the World; and I voted for those who could not or would not Vote. I voted with a purpose and with foresight. I voted knowing the issues and what's at stake. I voted for the message and for the man.
Did you vote today? How did you feel? I felt like a giant.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Why the economy fares much better under Democrats
By Larry M. Bartels – Tue Oct 21, 4:00 am
from Christian Science Monitor:
Thanks to Angelina Jolie, having lots of kids is hip Build steam for nuclear power Lettters to the Editor US national security's challenge: communication Read all the columns »
Princeton, N.J. – John McCain is a maverick and Barack Obama is a postpartisan problem-solver. But you wouldn't know it by looking at their economic plans. Both candidates' proposals faithfully reflect the traditional economic priorities of their respective parties. That makes the track records of past Democratic and Republican administrations a very useful benchmark for assessing how the economy might perform under a President McCain or a President Obama. The bottom line: During the past 60 years, Democrats have presided over much less unemployment and much more robust income growth.
The $52.5 billion plan Senator McCain announced last week includes $36 billion in tax breaks for senior citizens withdrawing funds from retirement accounts and $10 billion for a reduction in the capital gains tax. Those are perks for investors, most of whom are relatively affluent. (McCain is also proposing a two-year suspension of taxes on unemployment benefits, but that's a fraction of the plan's cost.) He also favors broader tax cuts for businesses and wants to extend President Bush's massive tax cuts indefinitely, even for people earning more than $250,000 per year.
McCain's proposals reflect the traditional Republican emphasis on cutting taxes for businesses and wealthy people in hopes of stimulating investment – "trickle down" economics, as it came to be called during Ronald Reagan's administration. But will proposals of this sort really "stop and reverse the rise of unemployment" and "create millions of new jobs" as McCain has claimed? The historical record suggests not.
President Bush's multitrillion-dollar tax cuts, which were strongly tilted toward the rich, could not prevent (and may even have contributed to) significant job losses. On the other hand, when Bill Clinton raised taxes on affluent people to balance the federal budget (while significantly expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit for working poor people), unemployment declined substantially. Under Clinton's watch, 22 million jobs were created.
Prefer a broader historical comparison? In the past three decades, since the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries oil price shocks of the mid-1970s and the Republican turn toward "supply side" economics, the average unemployment rate under Republican presidents has been 6.7 percent – substantially higher than the 5.5 percent average under Democratic presidents. (The official unemployment rate takes no account of people who have given up looking for work or taken substantial pay cuts to stay in the labor force.) Over an even broader time period, since the late 1940s, unemployment has averaged 4.8 percent under Democratic presidents but 6.3 percent – almost one-third higher – under Republican presidents.
Lower unemployment under Democratic presidents has contributed substantially to the real incomes of middle-class and working poor families. Job losses hurt everyone – not just those without work. In fact, every percentage point of unemployment has the effect of reducing middle-class income growth by about $300 per family per year. And the effects are long term, unlike the temporary boost in income from a stimulus check. Compounded over an eight-year period, a persistent one-point difference in unemployment is worth about $10,000 to a middle-class family. The dollar values are smaller for working poor families, but in relative terms their incomes are even more sensitive to unemployment. In contrast, income growth for affluent people is much more sensitive to inflation, which has been a perennial target of Republican economic policies.
Although McCain portrays Senator Obama as a "job killing" tax-and-spend liberal, the new $60 billion plan Obama unveiled last week also has a tax break as its centerpiece – a tax break specifically tailored to create jobs by offering employers a $3,000 tax credit for each new hire over the next two years. Obama's proposal would also extend unemployment benefits by 13 weeks for those who remain jobless, as well as match McCain's in suspending taxes on unemployment benefits.
Obama's new proposal complements $115 billion in economic stimulus measures he had already announced, including $65 billion in direct rebates to taxpayers and $50 billion to help states jump-start spending on infrastructure projects. All of this is squarely in the tradition of Democratic presidents since John F. Kennedy, who have relied on public spending and tax breaks for working people to stimulate consumption and employment during economic downturns.
These and other policies have produced not only lower unemployment under Democratic presidents but also more economic output and income growth. In fact, over the past 60 years, the real incomes of middle-income families have grown about twice as fast under Democratic presidents as they have under Republican presidents. The partisan difference is even greater for working poor families, whose real incomes have grown six times as fast under Democratic presidents as they have under Republican presidents.
Of course, past performance is no guarantee of what will happen when the next president takes office. However, given the striking fidelity of both presidential candidates to their parties' traditional economic priorities, the profound impact of partisan politics on the economic fortunes of American families over more than half a century ought to weigh heavily in the minds of voters.
• Larry M. Bartels directs the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics in Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is the author of "Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age."
from Christian Science Monitor:
Thanks to Angelina Jolie, having lots of kids is hip Build steam for nuclear power Lettters to the Editor US national security's challenge: communication Read all the columns »
Princeton, N.J. – John McCain is a maverick and Barack Obama is a postpartisan problem-solver. But you wouldn't know it by looking at their economic plans. Both candidates' proposals faithfully reflect the traditional economic priorities of their respective parties. That makes the track records of past Democratic and Republican administrations a very useful benchmark for assessing how the economy might perform under a President McCain or a President Obama. The bottom line: During the past 60 years, Democrats have presided over much less unemployment and much more robust income growth.
The $52.5 billion plan Senator McCain announced last week includes $36 billion in tax breaks for senior citizens withdrawing funds from retirement accounts and $10 billion for a reduction in the capital gains tax. Those are perks for investors, most of whom are relatively affluent. (McCain is also proposing a two-year suspension of taxes on unemployment benefits, but that's a fraction of the plan's cost.) He also favors broader tax cuts for businesses and wants to extend President Bush's massive tax cuts indefinitely, even for people earning more than $250,000 per year.
McCain's proposals reflect the traditional Republican emphasis on cutting taxes for businesses and wealthy people in hopes of stimulating investment – "trickle down" economics, as it came to be called during Ronald Reagan's administration. But will proposals of this sort really "stop and reverse the rise of unemployment" and "create millions of new jobs" as McCain has claimed? The historical record suggests not.
President Bush's multitrillion-dollar tax cuts, which were strongly tilted toward the rich, could not prevent (and may even have contributed to) significant job losses. On the other hand, when Bill Clinton raised taxes on affluent people to balance the federal budget (while significantly expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit for working poor people), unemployment declined substantially. Under Clinton's watch, 22 million jobs were created.
Prefer a broader historical comparison? In the past three decades, since the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries oil price shocks of the mid-1970s and the Republican turn toward "supply side" economics, the average unemployment rate under Republican presidents has been 6.7 percent – substantially higher than the 5.5 percent average under Democratic presidents. (The official unemployment rate takes no account of people who have given up looking for work or taken substantial pay cuts to stay in the labor force.) Over an even broader time period, since the late 1940s, unemployment has averaged 4.8 percent under Democratic presidents but 6.3 percent – almost one-third higher – under Republican presidents.
Lower unemployment under Democratic presidents has contributed substantially to the real incomes of middle-class and working poor families. Job losses hurt everyone – not just those without work. In fact, every percentage point of unemployment has the effect of reducing middle-class income growth by about $300 per family per year. And the effects are long term, unlike the temporary boost in income from a stimulus check. Compounded over an eight-year period, a persistent one-point difference in unemployment is worth about $10,000 to a middle-class family. The dollar values are smaller for working poor families, but in relative terms their incomes are even more sensitive to unemployment. In contrast, income growth for affluent people is much more sensitive to inflation, which has been a perennial target of Republican economic policies.
Although McCain portrays Senator Obama as a "job killing" tax-and-spend liberal, the new $60 billion plan Obama unveiled last week also has a tax break as its centerpiece – a tax break specifically tailored to create jobs by offering employers a $3,000 tax credit for each new hire over the next two years. Obama's proposal would also extend unemployment benefits by 13 weeks for those who remain jobless, as well as match McCain's in suspending taxes on unemployment benefits.
Obama's new proposal complements $115 billion in economic stimulus measures he had already announced, including $65 billion in direct rebates to taxpayers and $50 billion to help states jump-start spending on infrastructure projects. All of this is squarely in the tradition of Democratic presidents since John F. Kennedy, who have relied on public spending and tax breaks for working people to stimulate consumption and employment during economic downturns.
These and other policies have produced not only lower unemployment under Democratic presidents but also more economic output and income growth. In fact, over the past 60 years, the real incomes of middle-income families have grown about twice as fast under Democratic presidents as they have under Republican presidents. The partisan difference is even greater for working poor families, whose real incomes have grown six times as fast under Democratic presidents as they have under Republican presidents.
Of course, past performance is no guarantee of what will happen when the next president takes office. However, given the striking fidelity of both presidential candidates to their parties' traditional economic priorities, the profound impact of partisan politics on the economic fortunes of American families over more than half a century ought to weigh heavily in the minds of voters.
• Larry M. Bartels directs the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics in Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is the author of "Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age."
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
"How Can We Trust Either of You..."
I went to watch the debate with a group called, The Stonewall Democrats, with a friend I made at Outmusic Open mike. It was at a bar and wasn't the best place because of the noise. People probably talked more during McCain's talking and paid better attention while Barack was talking.
What got me about that, and I mentioned it to my friend, is that McCain is still in this race; he may be our next President. If we don't know what he is planning to do, then we can't make an informed decision on our vote and subsequent votes that are coming up that have to do with our local government.
McCain talks so much of a spending freeze BUT he continues to talk about "buying up these bad loans". He continually talks about "reaching across the aisle" BUT he's reached across to vote on some of the worst bills to come up that are AGAINST early child education, AGAINST tax cuts for the poor, AGAINST oversight on Medicaid spending, AGAINST a woman's right to change, AGAINST civil liberties for gays in America, AGAINST new energy alternatives.
McCain continually says that he knows how to fix our problems; he knows how to win wars; he knows how to keep people in their homes. Do you believe him? He's been in the Senate for over 20 years and we've seen him vote AGAINST these things again and again.
What's the real deal?
What got me about that, and I mentioned it to my friend, is that McCain is still in this race; he may be our next President. If we don't know what he is planning to do, then we can't make an informed decision on our vote and subsequent votes that are coming up that have to do with our local government.
McCain talks so much of a spending freeze BUT he continues to talk about "buying up these bad loans". He continually talks about "reaching across the aisle" BUT he's reached across to vote on some of the worst bills to come up that are AGAINST early child education, AGAINST tax cuts for the poor, AGAINST oversight on Medicaid spending, AGAINST a woman's right to change, AGAINST civil liberties for gays in America, AGAINST new energy alternatives.
McCain continually says that he knows how to fix our problems; he knows how to win wars; he knows how to keep people in their homes. Do you believe him? He's been in the Senate for over 20 years and we've seen him vote AGAINST these things again and again.
What's the real deal?
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
McCain has too many skeletons to throw stones
Smoke and Mirrors: The Sequel - 2 Peas in a Pod...
So, in an act of FINAL DESPERATION, the McCain Campaign, with no plan and no solutions, unleashes a swift-boat-like smear campaign. The thing is they have miscalculated this time. By trying to scare people about Barak Obama by LYING about his association with Bill Ayers, they have opened up their own can of worms. This is just one.
Take a good look at this man with John McCain:
Ladies and Gentlemen, meet Phil Gramm.
If you don't already know who he is, Phil Gramm is the Texas Senator who is likely more responsible for this present financial crisis than any other single politician. And, he is co-chair of McCain's Campaign. You may recall that in response to the mortgage crisis, Gramm referred US as a "nation of whiners", but this is really not his biggest problem...
You see, in 2000 senator Gramm started the foundation for our present economic crisis when he slipped a provision into a spending bill called the "Commodity Futures Modernization Act". This was the beginning of the very deregulation that allowed credit default swaps. This provision also deregulated the energy trading market. These acts of deregulation are what allowed this crisis to start in the first place. They were put in so corporations could make more money at the expense of the public and resulted in irresponsible loans and futures trading on oil. The trading on the basis of speculation rather than on profit has artificially raised the price of oil well beyond the effects of supply and demand.
As the markets continue to fall after an irresponsible bail out package was approved, you can thank Phil Gramm. And remember, he is one of John McCain's friends, adviser and confident. This is not a loose association; This is a long and intimate relationship that continues to this very day..
So, if McCain wants to to pronounce guilt by association, he really needs to look in the mirror first, if he can possibly see through all the smoke his campaign is blowing as it goes up in flames.....
Andrew
P.S. If you want some more info about this, read this recent FORBES. COM ARTICLE.
So, in an act of FINAL DESPERATION, the McCain Campaign, with no plan and no solutions, unleashes a swift-boat-like smear campaign. The thing is they have miscalculated this time. By trying to scare people about Barak Obama by LYING about his association with Bill Ayers, they have opened up their own can of worms. This is just one.
Take a good look at this man with John McCain:
Ladies and Gentlemen, meet Phil Gramm.
If you don't already know who he is, Phil Gramm is the Texas Senator who is likely more responsible for this present financial crisis than any other single politician. And, he is co-chair of McCain's Campaign. You may recall that in response to the mortgage crisis, Gramm referred US as a "nation of whiners", but this is really not his biggest problem...
You see, in 2000 senator Gramm started the foundation for our present economic crisis when he slipped a provision into a spending bill called the "Commodity Futures Modernization Act". This was the beginning of the very deregulation that allowed credit default swaps. This provision also deregulated the energy trading market. These acts of deregulation are what allowed this crisis to start in the first place. They were put in so corporations could make more money at the expense of the public and resulted in irresponsible loans and futures trading on oil. The trading on the basis of speculation rather than on profit has artificially raised the price of oil well beyond the effects of supply and demand.
As the markets continue to fall after an irresponsible bail out package was approved, you can thank Phil Gramm. And remember, he is one of John McCain's friends, adviser and confident. This is not a loose association; This is a long and intimate relationship that continues to this very day..
So, if McCain wants to to pronounce guilt by association, he really needs to look in the mirror first, if he can possibly see through all the smoke his campaign is blowing as it goes up in flames.....
Andrew
P.S. If you want some more info about this, read this recent FORBES. COM ARTICLE.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Christian Attack Dog?
I am increasingly upset at the tactics used in a Presidential contest. Aren't you? I mean, people who are tearing each other down, lying on each other, making up facts, stretching the truth, and consistently leaving out little details that are very important to someone's statement. All of this, in order to sway the thinking and the support of the voting public.
What ever happened to a fair fight? What ever happened to honesty, valour, and respect? How can the American people decide to put ANYONE into office who has assassinated another American's character all in the name of a good fight?
The more I get involved, read, look at sites like www.factcheck.org, and listen to the candidates; the more sick to my stomach I become. No wonder people tune out politics and the 'system'. No wonder people think, "my vote doesn't count" and "they'll do what they want to do anyway". It's easier to turn a deaf ear than to put up with all the hate-mongering, scare tactics, and false information being spewed by our major political parties.
Listen, I respect Barack Obama for trying to run a campaign based on the issues, but he is not blameless in all of this either. He has shaded the truth about people's record just as much as the next guy. But I have noticed that he has not tried to assassinate the character of his rivals or to question their patriotism or even to paint them as crazy ideological nutcases. I still respect him for that. I respect him for trying to bring some sense of honor to the position of President in this country. We've lost that somewhere.
How can a child look up to someone who has done everything 'negative' in their power to attain the highest office in America...and succeeded? What kind of message is that sending out to our young people? Win by any means necessary? Is that really what we want to be teaching the future teachers, organizers, business leaders, and even religious leaders of our country?
NO!!! I say NO!!!
What ever happened to a fair fight? What ever happened to honesty, valour, and respect? How can the American people decide to put ANYONE into office who has assassinated another American's character all in the name of a good fight?
The more I get involved, read, look at sites like www.factcheck.org, and listen to the candidates; the more sick to my stomach I become. No wonder people tune out politics and the 'system'. No wonder people think, "my vote doesn't count" and "they'll do what they want to do anyway". It's easier to turn a deaf ear than to put up with all the hate-mongering, scare tactics, and false information being spewed by our major political parties.
Listen, I respect Barack Obama for trying to run a campaign based on the issues, but he is not blameless in all of this either. He has shaded the truth about people's record just as much as the next guy. But I have noticed that he has not tried to assassinate the character of his rivals or to question their patriotism or even to paint them as crazy ideological nutcases. I still respect him for that. I respect him for trying to bring some sense of honor to the position of President in this country. We've lost that somewhere.
How can a child look up to someone who has done everything 'negative' in their power to attain the highest office in America...and succeeded? What kind of message is that sending out to our young people? Win by any means necessary? Is that really what we want to be teaching the future teachers, organizers, business leaders, and even religious leaders of our country?
NO!!! I say NO!!!
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Top 5 Reasons You Won't Be Able To Vote
Top 5 Reasons You Won't Be Able To Vote
By Allison Fine, 10/03/2008 - 11:28am
Related links:
Voter Registration is Already Closed?
CountMore - Strategic Battleground Voting for Students
I've Got the New York State Voter Registration Blues
Top 5 Reasons You Won't Be Allowed to Vote
Enormous efforts have been made by campaigns and public interest groups to register people to vote on November 4th. According to the Election Assistance Commission more than 2 million poll workers will be working at over 200,000 polling places this election. Unfortunately, what these new voters don’t know is that just registering to vote may not ensure that they are able to vote on Election Day or that their vote will be counted. Here are the top 5 ways that voters will be disenfranchised before and on Election Day.
1. Twenty-seven states close their voter registration the first week of October; another 12 will follow shortly thereafter. Too many states continue to cut off registration just as most people are beginning to tune into the election. Election Day Registration (EDR) in nine states (Maine, Wisconsin, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Iowa, North Carolina) has demonstrated that it is an efficient and problem-free way for 10-12% more citizens to participate on Election Day.
2. The Social Security Administration is shutting down its database, the one needed to verify registrations for people without state-issued IDS for three days in mid-October. This “routine maintenance” putting in jeopardy the ability of forty-one, slow moving states to verify millions of new registrants in time for Election Day for voters without state-issued IDs. (Here is a letter sent by the National Association of Secretaries of State asking the SSAS to move the maintenance until after November.) Millions of people may have properly filled out their registration forms but not make it onto the roles if this maintenance continues as scheduled.
3. Voter Purge, a report released from the Brennan Center for Justice this week reveals that, “election officials across the country are routinely striking millions of voters from the rolls through a process that is shrouded in secrecy, prone to error, and vulnerable to manipulation.” Millions of names will be struck from voter registration roles in advance of the November 4th election – and your name is struck in error you won’t know until you show up at the polls – and it’s too late to change it.
4. As I have written before, the new machines are no better than the old machines which were much worse than hand ballots. During the primary season, municipalities were testing optical scan machines, and many failed. Others have been furiously buying new machines that won't be tested before November 4th. The new machines are no better than the old machines which were much worse than hand ballots. How many times will we hear on election night that votes have been cast and lost or just plain lost? Moreover, how many elections are we going to keep hearing this?
5. You remember those pictures form 2004 and 2006 of voters waiting for hours to cast their ballots – up to 12 hours in some cases in the rain and cold. Our voting system is a mechanical engineer's nightmare. The biggest bottleneck in the process of voting is checking in to ensure that voters are registered to vote – this is a human interaction that is slow and tedious. It’s the same reason that the lines at Starbucks are so long. I spoke to a person in the registrar’s office in Fairfax County, VA who told me that they had increased the number of recruited poll workers from 2,600 in 2004 to 3,100 this year, with more to come by the deadline on Monday. Monday coincides with the voter registration deadline in Virginia which has already seen an almost 6% increase in voter registration statement from January –September 15th. But here’s the real problem: There is no way to know until Election Day if they will a) show up, b) been adequately trained for the job and c) are enough of them to account for the expected surge in voting in critical voting areas like Cuyahoga County, OH, Palm Beach County, FL.
So register to vote -- and then cross your fingers that you your vote will be cast and counted on Election Day - in some states your chances aren't so good.
By Allison Fine, 10/03/2008 - 11:28am
Related links:
Voter Registration is Already Closed?
CountMore - Strategic Battleground Voting for Students
I've Got the New York State Voter Registration Blues
Top 5 Reasons You Won't Be Allowed to Vote
Enormous efforts have been made by campaigns and public interest groups to register people to vote on November 4th. According to the Election Assistance Commission more than 2 million poll workers will be working at over 200,000 polling places this election. Unfortunately, what these new voters don’t know is that just registering to vote may not ensure that they are able to vote on Election Day or that their vote will be counted. Here are the top 5 ways that voters will be disenfranchised before and on Election Day.
1. Twenty-seven states close their voter registration the first week of October; another 12 will follow shortly thereafter. Too many states continue to cut off registration just as most people are beginning to tune into the election. Election Day Registration (EDR) in nine states (Maine, Wisconsin, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Iowa, North Carolina) has demonstrated that it is an efficient and problem-free way for 10-12% more citizens to participate on Election Day.
2. The Social Security Administration is shutting down its database, the one needed to verify registrations for people without state-issued IDS for three days in mid-October. This “routine maintenance” putting in jeopardy the ability of forty-one, slow moving states to verify millions of new registrants in time for Election Day for voters without state-issued IDs. (Here is a letter sent by the National Association of Secretaries of State asking the SSAS to move the maintenance until after November.) Millions of people may have properly filled out their registration forms but not make it onto the roles if this maintenance continues as scheduled.
3. Voter Purge, a report released from the Brennan Center for Justice this week reveals that, “election officials across the country are routinely striking millions of voters from the rolls through a process that is shrouded in secrecy, prone to error, and vulnerable to manipulation.” Millions of names will be struck from voter registration roles in advance of the November 4th election – and your name is struck in error you won’t know until you show up at the polls – and it’s too late to change it.
4. As I have written before, the new machines are no better than the old machines which were much worse than hand ballots. During the primary season, municipalities were testing optical scan machines, and many failed. Others have been furiously buying new machines that won't be tested before November 4th. The new machines are no better than the old machines which were much worse than hand ballots. How many times will we hear on election night that votes have been cast and lost or just plain lost? Moreover, how many elections are we going to keep hearing this?
5. You remember those pictures form 2004 and 2006 of voters waiting for hours to cast their ballots – up to 12 hours in some cases in the rain and cold. Our voting system is a mechanical engineer's nightmare. The biggest bottleneck in the process of voting is checking in to ensure that voters are registered to vote – this is a human interaction that is slow and tedious. It’s the same reason that the lines at Starbucks are so long. I spoke to a person in the registrar’s office in Fairfax County, VA who told me that they had increased the number of recruited poll workers from 2,600 in 2004 to 3,100 this year, with more to come by the deadline on Monday. Monday coincides with the voter registration deadline in Virginia which has already seen an almost 6% increase in voter registration statement from January –September 15th. But here’s the real problem: There is no way to know until Election Day if they will a) show up, b) been adequately trained for the job and c) are enough of them to account for the expected surge in voting in critical voting areas like Cuyahoga County, OH, Palm Beach County, FL.
So register to vote -- and then cross your fingers that you your vote will be cast and counted on Election Day - in some states your chances aren't so good.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
I called my House Representatives
Wow, I was nervous for some reason, but I just called his office in DC and actually voiced my opinion to a 'person'. LOL. I don't know what I thought; maybe I was going to be on an answering service or something?
I simply said that I'd like to voice my opinion and urged him to vote against this bailout package until they had researched other options. "I don't believe that we would push through a 700 billion dollar package without reviewing all the options."
It was only about 2 minutes but I'm glad I did it. Will it do anything? Who knows... but I thank Barack Obama for inspiring me to get involved and thus feel empowered. Robert Anton
I simply said that I'd like to voice my opinion and urged him to vote against this bailout package until they had researched other options. "I don't believe that we would push through a 700 billion dollar package without reviewing all the options."
It was only about 2 minutes but I'm glad I did it. Will it do anything? Who knows... but I thank Barack Obama for inspiring me to get involved and thus feel empowered. Robert Anton
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Bailout Schmailout !!!
What do you think? Would you actually vote for this farce that seems to me a little too much money for a little too many people that are all a little too rich?
I read an article lately about Washington Mutual's buyout by JP Morgan Chase. With gov't brokering, this company was saved from totally going under and it's depositors didn't have to worry about their money. The big thing for me is that we didn't have to use government money.
What struck me as abusive and one of the roots of the problem was that the current CEO (who's only been on the job 3 weeks) will walk away with a minimum of 11.1 million dollars. How does a struggling company hire someone with a multi-million dollar signing bonus? I sure wish when I started a job that they'd pay me even 10,000 dollars up front. "Nice work if you can get it", BUT if we bail out these companies; who is going to be paying those signing bonuses and severance packages? The American taxpayer. It's just NOT what I would call fair.
The everyday worker will lose their job or be laid off, the prices and bank fees will stay the same or be raised, credit card debt will continue to rise and people's bad debt will be sold to loan sharks for collection, and all the time we're paying to be treated badly. Does this sound fair?
Write your Congressmen and Representatives and let them know that you won't take it; you can't stand it; it STINKS! Let them know that elections are coming up and they will be held accountable for thier votes.
I read an article lately about Washington Mutual's buyout by JP Morgan Chase. With gov't brokering, this company was saved from totally going under and it's depositors didn't have to worry about their money. The big thing for me is that we didn't have to use government money.
What struck me as abusive and one of the roots of the problem was that the current CEO (who's only been on the job 3 weeks) will walk away with a minimum of 11.1 million dollars. How does a struggling company hire someone with a multi-million dollar signing bonus? I sure wish when I started a job that they'd pay me even 10,000 dollars up front. "Nice work if you can get it", BUT if we bail out these companies; who is going to be paying those signing bonuses and severance packages? The American taxpayer. It's just NOT what I would call fair.
The everyday worker will lose their job or be laid off, the prices and bank fees will stay the same or be raised, credit card debt will continue to rise and people's bad debt will be sold to loan sharks for collection, and all the time we're paying to be treated badly. Does this sound fair?
Write your Congressmen and Representatives and let them know that you won't take it; you can't stand it; it STINKS! Let them know that elections are coming up and they will be held accountable for thier votes.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
'A Woman's Worth' by Goldie Taylor
A Woman's Worth
We've come a long way baby
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
by Goldie Taylor
I have been a mother all of my adult life. A single working mother. I put off dating, took menial jobs far beneath my qualifications and baked my share of ginger bread cookies for PTA Night, all so that three incredible children could have better. I chose their lives over mine. I don't have to tell you that it wasn't easy. Unfortunately, my story, our story, is not
unique.
We slept in cars, bought groceries with food stamps and prayed for a better day. When that wasn't enough, I put myself through school at Emory University and took a part-time job as a staff writer at the Atlanta Journal Constitution. That was over a decade ago.
Along the way, things got better. I've been an executive at two Fortune 500 companies and a practice director at two multinational public relations firms. Today, I own an advertising agency and I've authored two novels. A third and fourth are on the way, God willing. All of this was possible because somebody laid a brick or two on the road for me.
A few weeks ago, I woke in tears. It was my 40th birthday and certainly not a time for sadness. Rather, I cried in joy because for the first time I realized and could embrace the value of the struggle. The bright little girl, who once cried in my arms because we didn't know where we were going to live, was headed off to Brown University . The small boy who had been the "man of the house" far too soon was now truly a man. And the tiny, angelic baby who had come to this world precious and innocent just 15 months after him was now a 16 year old girl headed out to her first job interview.
For all of this, maybe I should be proud of a woman like Sarah Palin. Maybe, just maybe, I should be rejoicing in John McCain's selected running mate.
But I'm not.
I'm not "bed wetting liberal" nor am I a "right-wing zealot." What I am is a working mother. And I cry foul.
I won't, for a moment, denigrate her experience or lob spit balls at her family. I will, though, take issue with what she knows. Or more succinctly, what she does not know. Living in Alaska , I'm not sure how much she knows about the people living in inner city Baltimore . I don't know how much she cares about the 125 murders this summer in Chicago . I have no idea what she believes about HIV/ AIDS and the havoc it wrecks on Black women or the cancer rates in East St. Louis . She hasn't said nary a word about Hurricane Katrina or the infant mortality rates in Appalachia
I do know that she's a life-time member of the NRA, a proponent of individuals who wielded the very weapons that killed my father and brother. I do know that she “lives really close to Russia ,” but I'm not so certain she is ready for Putin. I know she wanted to ban books for public libraries and sex education in schools, but that her 17 year old is pregnant and preparing for a shotgun wedding. I know that she loves her husband enough to allow him (and probably did herself) use her office to settle a personal score--one that the McCain campaign would now like to cover in under a blanket of Juneau snow. I know that the Alaska Independent Party, and its secessionist platform, was enticing enough for her to attend its conference (and for her husband to become a card carrying member). Does she love her country? I'm sure. Enough to support those who want to leave it.
But I have no earthly idea what she knows (or could possibly know) about national domestic policy or foreign diplomacy. For all of her working class values, she never once mentioned the Middle Class in her diatribe that mocked her opponent's experience. Having been the mayor of Wasilla (pop. 6,000 at the time) and governor of Alaska (a state a smaller than the county I live in) for a little over a year, she felt she was qualified to do that. And obviously, so did John McCain.
If she's qualified, then so am I.
But in this country I love, she has been afforded the ability to run. The very constitution she says doesn't apply to the men at Guantanamo says she can. But this is about more than that.
As Gloria Steinem said in a recent Los Angeles Times editorial, "Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie."
The good news is thanks to Shirley Chisholm, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Angela Davis, Condoleeza Rice, Anita Hill, Madeline Albright, Maxine Waters, Kathleen Sebelius, Hilary Rodham Clinton and a slew of others, there are 18 million proverbial cracks in the ceiling. Our collective political and economic power is due to the strides (and leaps) they, and others, took on my behalf.
I am grateful. I am deeply humbled to stand on the bricks they'd laid before me.
But, whatever our struggle was (and is) that last thing I want is to be patronized. Just as I cannot support just any African American who decides to offer themselves up for public service, I will not toss my vote to someone just because we share the same chromosome mix. To do so would dishonor the vow I made to my children, to myself. I did not vote for Al Sharpton, wasn't old enough (nor would I have) voted for Jesse Jackson and I certainly will not support Sarah Palin. Identity politics, especially in this case, are a sham of the worst order.
When I cast my vote, it will be for people who will lay more bricks for people like me. It will be for people who will put diplomacy before war, challenge us all to provide healthcare for the sick, help another child go to college, and check the special interests in Washington . This fall, I'm not looking for a woman.
I'm looking for a brick layer.
I could care less if that person hasn't spent "enough" time in Washington or can "properly field dress a moose". I could care less if that person likes hockey, soccer, football or table tennis. I could care less if they graduated from Harvard or the University of Iowa . I'm a Christian, but I could care less if they are down with Deuteronomy, Leviticus or Numbers. I want them to uphold the Constitution.
So no, I will not sit idly by as they attempt to suspend habeas corpus at Guantanamo Bay, engage wiretaps on American citizens without a warrant, and hide behind executive privilege when they are caught firing attorney generals based on how well they tow the Republican line. I won't let them cost us $12 billion a month fighting a war that should have never been authorized and never been waged. Not while working people lose their homes to predatory lenders and watch as we bail out the financial institutions that created the housing crisis.
I will not, in the name of history, vote for a woman like Sarah Palin who does not share my values.
But here’s what I will do.
I will continue raising money for Barack Obama. I will get on the phone again and call people in distant states I've never met. I will e-mail, call, and knock on doors until the final vote is cast. I do this, not because he shares my skin, but because I admire his principals and he shares my values. I do this because Barack Obama is more than a community organizer, he is a bricklayer. And he sees -- just as he sees the light in Michelle's eyes -- my struggle, my worth as a woman.
We've come a long way baby
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
by Goldie Taylor
I have been a mother all of my adult life. A single working mother. I put off dating, took menial jobs far beneath my qualifications and baked my share of ginger bread cookies for PTA Night, all so that three incredible children could have better. I chose their lives over mine. I don't have to tell you that it wasn't easy. Unfortunately, my story, our story, is not
unique.
We slept in cars, bought groceries with food stamps and prayed for a better day. When that wasn't enough, I put myself through school at Emory University and took a part-time job as a staff writer at the Atlanta Journal Constitution. That was over a decade ago.
Along the way, things got better. I've been an executive at two Fortune 500 companies and a practice director at two multinational public relations firms. Today, I own an advertising agency and I've authored two novels. A third and fourth are on the way, God willing. All of this was possible because somebody laid a brick or two on the road for me.
A few weeks ago, I woke in tears. It was my 40th birthday and certainly not a time for sadness. Rather, I cried in joy because for the first time I realized and could embrace the value of the struggle. The bright little girl, who once cried in my arms because we didn't know where we were going to live, was headed off to Brown University . The small boy who had been the "man of the house" far too soon was now truly a man. And the tiny, angelic baby who had come to this world precious and innocent just 15 months after him was now a 16 year old girl headed out to her first job interview.
For all of this, maybe I should be proud of a woman like Sarah Palin. Maybe, just maybe, I should be rejoicing in John McCain's selected running mate.
But I'm not.
I'm not "bed wetting liberal" nor am I a "right-wing zealot." What I am is a working mother. And I cry foul.
I won't, for a moment, denigrate her experience or lob spit balls at her family. I will, though, take issue with what she knows. Or more succinctly, what she does not know. Living in Alaska , I'm not sure how much she knows about the people living in inner city Baltimore . I don't know how much she cares about the 125 murders this summer in Chicago . I have no idea what she believes about HIV/ AIDS and the havoc it wrecks on Black women or the cancer rates in East St. Louis . She hasn't said nary a word about Hurricane Katrina or the infant mortality rates in Appalachia
I do know that she's a life-time member of the NRA, a proponent of individuals who wielded the very weapons that killed my father and brother. I do know that she “lives really close to Russia ,” but I'm not so certain she is ready for Putin. I know she wanted to ban books for public libraries and sex education in schools, but that her 17 year old is pregnant and preparing for a shotgun wedding. I know that she loves her husband enough to allow him (and probably did herself) use her office to settle a personal score--one that the McCain campaign would now like to cover in under a blanket of Juneau snow. I know that the Alaska Independent Party, and its secessionist platform, was enticing enough for her to attend its conference (and for her husband to become a card carrying member). Does she love her country? I'm sure. Enough to support those who want to leave it.
But I have no earthly idea what she knows (or could possibly know) about national domestic policy or foreign diplomacy. For all of her working class values, she never once mentioned the Middle Class in her diatribe that mocked her opponent's experience. Having been the mayor of Wasilla (pop. 6,000 at the time) and governor of Alaska (a state a smaller than the county I live in) for a little over a year, she felt she was qualified to do that. And obviously, so did John McCain.
If she's qualified, then so am I.
But in this country I love, she has been afforded the ability to run. The very constitution she says doesn't apply to the men at Guantanamo says she can. But this is about more than that.
As Gloria Steinem said in a recent Los Angeles Times editorial, "Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie."
The good news is thanks to Shirley Chisholm, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Angela Davis, Condoleeza Rice, Anita Hill, Madeline Albright, Maxine Waters, Kathleen Sebelius, Hilary Rodham Clinton and a slew of others, there are 18 million proverbial cracks in the ceiling. Our collective political and economic power is due to the strides (and leaps) they, and others, took on my behalf.
I am grateful. I am deeply humbled to stand on the bricks they'd laid before me.
But, whatever our struggle was (and is) that last thing I want is to be patronized. Just as I cannot support just any African American who decides to offer themselves up for public service, I will not toss my vote to someone just because we share the same chromosome mix. To do so would dishonor the vow I made to my children, to myself. I did not vote for Al Sharpton, wasn't old enough (nor would I have) voted for Jesse Jackson and I certainly will not support Sarah Palin. Identity politics, especially in this case, are a sham of the worst order.
When I cast my vote, it will be for people who will lay more bricks for people like me. It will be for people who will put diplomacy before war, challenge us all to provide healthcare for the sick, help another child go to college, and check the special interests in Washington . This fall, I'm not looking for a woman.
I'm looking for a brick layer.
I could care less if that person hasn't spent "enough" time in Washington or can "properly field dress a moose". I could care less if that person likes hockey, soccer, football or table tennis. I could care less if they graduated from Harvard or the University of Iowa . I'm a Christian, but I could care less if they are down with Deuteronomy, Leviticus or Numbers. I want them to uphold the Constitution.
So no, I will not sit idly by as they attempt to suspend habeas corpus at Guantanamo Bay, engage wiretaps on American citizens without a warrant, and hide behind executive privilege when they are caught firing attorney generals based on how well they tow the Republican line. I won't let them cost us $12 billion a month fighting a war that should have never been authorized and never been waged. Not while working people lose their homes to predatory lenders and watch as we bail out the financial institutions that created the housing crisis.
I will not, in the name of history, vote for a woman like Sarah Palin who does not share my values.
But here’s what I will do.
I will continue raising money for Barack Obama. I will get on the phone again and call people in distant states I've never met. I will e-mail, call, and knock on doors until the final vote is cast. I do this, not because he shares my skin, but because I admire his principals and he shares my values. I do this because Barack Obama is more than a community organizer, he is a bricklayer. And he sees -- just as he sees the light in Michelle's eyes -- my struggle, my worth as a woman.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
It's the Economy, Stupid!!!
I am so exhausted with the impending DOOM of the collapsing economy and 700 billion dollars in bail-outs that would seemingly go to the richest companies, and CEOs, in America so that they can continue to 'play the markets'.
I've read so many articles and columns, and it scares me to think that this is just another scare tactic. They say Democrats are for BIG GOVT! They say Democrats are TAX AND SPEND!!
Over 550 billion dollars already for the Iraq War (which is not OUR war: we should not have gone over there In the first place) and now THIS...
Has anyone heard of 'GOOD MONEY AFTER BAD'? Will we really go into a MAJOR DEPRESSION if we don't QUICKLY push through a FLAWED bailout package that DOES NOT PROTECT the majority of working Americans?
Wow!!!
It's time for a CHANGE.
I've read so many articles and columns, and it scares me to think that this is just another scare tactic. They say Democrats are for BIG GOVT! They say Democrats are TAX AND SPEND!!
Over 550 billion dollars already for the Iraq War (which is not OUR war: we should not have gone over there In the first place) and now THIS...
Has anyone heard of 'GOOD MONEY AFTER BAD'? Will we really go into a MAJOR DEPRESSION if we don't QUICKLY push through a FLAWED bailout package that DOES NOT PROTECT the majority of working Americans?
Wow!!!
It's time for a CHANGE.
McCain Aide's Firm Was Paid by Freddie Mac
by: Jackie Calmes and David D. Kirkpatrick, The New York Times
Rick Davis, manager of the McCain campaign, has deep, ongoing ties to the mortgage firm Freddie Mac, which was recently bailed out by the taxpayers - a fact that McCain himself has previously denied. (Photo: Charles Dharapak / AP)
Washington - One of the giant mortgage companies at the heart of the credit crisis paid $15,000 a month from the end of 2005 through last month to a firm owned by Senator John McCain's campaign manager, according to two people with direct knowledge of the arrangement. The disclosure undercuts a statement by Mr. McCain on Sunday night that the campaign manager, Rick Davis, had had no involvement with the company for the last several years.
Rick Davis, manager of the McCain campaign, has deep, ongoing ties to the mortgage firm Freddie Mac, which was recently bailed out by the taxpayers - a fact that McCain himself has previously denied. (Photo: Charles Dharapak / AP)
Washington - One of the giant mortgage companies at the heart of the credit crisis paid $15,000 a month from the end of 2005 through last month to a firm owned by Senator John McCain's campaign manager, according to two people with direct knowledge of the arrangement. The disclosure undercuts a statement by Mr. McCain on Sunday night that the campaign manager, Rick Davis, had had no involvement with the company for the last several years.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
How Do the Candidates educational background compare???
Obama:
Occidental College - Two years.
Columbia University - B.A. political science with a specialization in international relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude
Biden:
University of Delaware - B.A. in history and B.A. in
political science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)
vs.
McCain:
United States Naval Academy - Class rank 894 out of
899(meaning that, like George Bush, McCain was at the bottom
of his class)
Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study
University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester
University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in journalism
Now I don't know about you, but I tend to think education is a good thing along with experience. Who will, more likely, be able to assess any situation and make a decision based on the facts 'as they are' instead of 'as someone is telling them they are'? GWB seems to have made the costly mistake of starting the Iraq War because of 'misinformation'.
Incidentally, Barack Obama called for MORE information before we committed our resources to the invasion in Iraq.
Occidental College - Two years.
Columbia University - B.A. political science with a specialization in international relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude
Biden:
University of Delaware - B.A. in history and B.A. in
political science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)
vs.
McCain:
United States Naval Academy - Class rank 894 out of
899(meaning that, like George Bush, McCain was at the bottom
of his class)
Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study
University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester
University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in journalism
Now I don't know about you, but I tend to think education is a good thing along with experience. Who will, more likely, be able to assess any situation and make a decision based on the facts 'as they are' instead of 'as someone is telling them they are'? GWB seems to have made the costly mistake of starting the Iraq War because of 'misinformation'.
Incidentally, Barack Obama called for MORE information before we committed our resources to the invasion in Iraq.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Are You Ready to Vote? Republican Democrat Independent
Ok, so I'll be posting a few videos up on the political process and maybe even talking a little about my journey into the whole political stream.
I've never been so involved, like so many others, in politics until now. I've been reading up on things, finding out how and why, and trying to make sense of it all.
One of the first things you need to know is how, where, when to register and to Vote. Check out the video at www.youtube.com/obamamaniacs for more info.
I've never been so involved, like so many others, in politics until now. I've been reading up on things, finding out how and why, and trying to make sense of it all.
One of the first things you need to know is how, where, when to register and to Vote. Check out the video at www.youtube.com/obamamaniacs for more info.
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