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| Tuesday, January 4th, 2005 | | 4:51 pm |
| | Friday, December 10th, 2004 | | 9:53 am |
California's at the forefront again...
California's Secession letter to Bush: Dear President Bush: Congratulations on your victory over all us non-evangelicals. Actually, we're a bit ticked off here in California, so we're leaving. California will now be its own country. And we're taking all the Blue States with us. In case you are not aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, and all of the North East. We spoke to God, and she agrees that this split will be beneficial to almost everybody, and especially to us in the new country of California. In fact, God is so excited about it, she's going to shift the whole country at 4:30 pm EST this Friday. Therefore, please let everyone know they need to be back in their states by then. So you get Texas and all the former slave states. We get the Governator, stem cell research and the best beaches. We get Elliot Spitzer. You get Ken Lay. (Okay, we have to keep Martha Stewart, we can live with that.) We get the Statue of Liberty. You get OpryLand. We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom. We get Harvard. You get Old Miss. We get 85% of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You get all the technological innovation in Alabama. We get about two-thirds of the tax revenue, and you get to make the red states pay their fair share. Since our divorce rate is 22% lower than the Christian coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch of single moms to support, and we know how much you like that. Did I mention we produce about 70% of the nation's veggies? But heck the only greens the Bible-thumpers eat are the pickles on their Big Macs. Oh yeah, another thing, don't plan on serving California wine at your state dinners. From now on it's imported French wine for you. Ouch, bet that hurts. Just so we're clear, the country of California will be pro-choice and anti-war. Speaking of war, we're going to want all Blue States citizens back from Iraq. If you need people to fight, just ask your evangelicals. They have tons of kids they're willing to send to their deaths for absolutely no purpose. And they don't care if you don't show pictures of their kids' caskets coming home. Any way, we wish you all the best in the next four years and we hope, really hope, you find those missing weapons of mass destruction. Seriously. Soon. Sincerely, California | | Tuesday, November 30th, 2004 | | 11:55 pm |
Color Quiz...
From
ColorQuiz, take
yours...
Your Existing Situation
Seeks a close and understanding bond in an atmosphere of shared intimacy,
as a protection against anxiety and conflict.
Your Stress Sources
Resists any form of pressure from others and insists on his independence
as an individual. Wants to make up his own mind without interference, to
draw his own conclusions and arrive at his own decisions. Detests uniformity
and mediocrity. As he wants to be regarded as one who gives authoritative
opinions, he find it difficult to admit to being wrong, while at times he is
reluctant to accept or understand another's point of view.
Your Restrained Characteristics
Feels he is receiving less than his share, but that he will have to
conform and make the best of his situation.
Unhappy at the resistance he feels whenever he tries to assert himself.
Indignant and resentful because of these setbacks, but gives way
apathetically and makes whatever adjustments are necessary so that he can
have peace and quiet.
Wants to broaden his fields of activity and insists that his hopes and
ideas are realistic. Distressed by the fear that he may be prevented from
doing what he wants; needs both peaceful conditions and quiet reassurance to
restore his confidence.
Insists that his goals and realistic and sticks obstinately to them, even
though circumstances are forcing him to compromise. Very exacting in the
standards he applies to his choice of a partner.
Your Desired Objective
Longs for tenderness and for a sensitivity of feeling into which he can
blend. Responsive to anything esthetic and tasteful.
Your Actual Problem
Wants to be valued and respected, and seeks this from a close and
peaceful association of mutual esteem.
Your Actual Problem #2
Does not wish to be involved in differences of opinion, contention or
argument, preferring to be left in peace.
I didn't know I had problems :o) Current Mood:  chipperCurrent Music: Christmas Music | | Friday, November 12th, 2004 | | 1:17 pm |
Thank You King James...
From my brother again... Recognizing that the Bible is replete with verses restricting marriage in many ways, not merely as relates to homosexual relationships, I submit the following confinements defining "the sanctity of marriage" be added to any amendment banning marriage between people of the same gender. No State shall sanction marriage between: 1) A man and a woman previously married but now divorced (Matthew 5:32). 2) People of different races ( Deuteronomy 7:3; Numbers 25:6 - 8, 36:3 - 9; 1 Kings 11:2; Ezra 9:2). 3) A Christian and a non-Christian ( 2 Johns 1:9 - 11; 2 Corinthians 6:14 - 17). 4) A man whose brother has died and any woman other than his brothers widow ( Deuteronomy 25:5 - 10). Women whose husbands had no brothers are to refrain from intimacy for the remainder of their lives ( 1 Timothy 5:5 - 15). 5) A rapist and any woman other than his victim unless his victim failed to cry out in which case the rapist is relieved of all obligation (Deuteronomy 22:23 - 24). 6) A man and an aggressive or contentious woman ( Proverbs 21:9, 25:24, 27:15). I feel much safer now. How about you? | | Wednesday, November 10th, 2004 | | 9:29 am |
F the south rant...
** Happy 229th Birthday to
the U.S. Marine Corps ***
My brother found this, I cleaned it up to be suitable for children of all
ages, you would not believe how many F-words and A-words you can put in a single
document...
We should have let them go when they wanted to leave. But no, we had to kill
half a million people so they'd stay part of our special Union. Fighting for the
right to keep slaves - yeah, those are states we want to keep. And now what do
we get? We're the Arrogant Northeast Liberal Elite? How about this for arrogant:
the South is the Real America? The Authentic America. Really? Cause we founded
this country. Those Founding Fathers you keep going on and on about? All that
about what you think they meant by the Second Amendment giving you the right to
keep your assault weapons in the glove compartment because you didn't bother to
read the first half of the sentence? Who do you think those wig-wearing
lacy-shirt sporting revolutionaries were? They were blue-staters. Boston?
Philadelphia? New York? Hello? Think there might be a reason all the monuments
are up here in our backyard? No, No. Get out. We're not letting you visit the
Liberty Bell and Plymouth Rock anymore until you get over your real American
selves and start respecting those other nine amendments. Who do you think those
stripes on the flag are for? Nine are for blue states. And it would be 10 if
those Vermonters had gotten their Subarus together and broken off from New York
a little earlier. Get it? We started this, so don't get all uppity about how
real you are you Johnny-come-lately "Oooooh I've been a state for almost a
hundred years"
Arrogant? You wanna talk about us Northeasterners being arrogant? What's more
American than arrogance? Hmmm? Maybe horsies? I don't think so. Arrogance is the
cornerstone of what it means to be American. And I wouldn't be so arrogant if I
wasn't paying for your bridges.
All those Federal taxes you love to hate? It all comes from us and goes to you,
so shut up and enjoy your Tennessee Valley Authority electricity and your fancy
highways that we paid for. And the next time Florida gets hit by a hurricane you
can come crying to us if you want to, but you're the ones who built on a swamp.
"Let the Spanish keep it, it's a shithole," we said, but you had to
have your orange juice.
The next person who says, "It's your money, not the government's
money" is gonna get their ass kicked. Nine of the ten states that get the
most federal dollars and pay the least... can you guess? Go on, guess. That's
right, they're red states. And eight of the ten states that receive the least
and pay the most? It's too easy, they're blue states. It's not your money, it's
our money. What was that Real American Value you were spouting a minute ago?
Self reliance? Try this for self reliance: buy your own stop signs.
Let's talk about those values for a minute. You and your Southern values can
bite me because the blue states got the values over you Real Americans every day
of the week. Which state do you think has the lowest divorce rate? Well? Can you
guess? It's Massachusetts, the center of the gay marriage universe. Yes, that's
right, the state you love to tie around the neck of anyone to the left of Strom
Thurmond has the lowest divorce rate in the nation. Think that's just some
aberration? How about this: 9 of the 10 lowest divorce rates are blue states,
and most are in the Northeast, where our values suck so bad. And where are the
highest divorce rates? Care to guess? 10 of the top 10 are red we're-so-moral
states. And while Nevada is the worst, the Bible Belt is doing its part.
But two guys making out is going to ruin marriage for you? Yeah? Seems like
you're ruining it pretty well on your own. Oh, but that's ok because you go to
church, right? I mean you do, right? Cause we get to hear about it every year at
election time. Yes, we're fascinated by how you get up every Sunday morning and
sing, and then you're towers of moral superiority. Yeah, that's a workable
formula. Maybe us Northerners don't talk about religion as much as you because
we're not so busy sinning, hmmm? Ever think of that? No, you're too busy
erecting giant stone tablets of the Ten Commandments in buildings paid for by
the Northeast Liberal Elite. And who has the highest murder rates in the nation?
It ain't us up here in the North.
Well this gravy train is over. Take your liberal-bashing, federal-tax-leaching,
confederate-flag-waving, holier-than-thou, hypocritical selves and shove it. And
no, you can't have your convention in New York next time. | | Thursday, November 4th, 2004 | | 12:45 pm |
Cross the lines...
| Candidate |
Popular vote |
% of votes |
Electoral votes |
| George W. Bush (REP)* |
59,246,968 |
51% |
274 |
| John F. Kerry (DEM) |
55,710,667 |
48% |
238 |
| Ralph Nader (IND) |
397,244 |
0% |
0 |
If this president received the most tangible votes of ANY president before,
he must have also received the most number of votes against him, or at least
very very close. Of 115,354,879 votes, 1% more than half voted him
in. Surely enough to be president. But you need to look at what the
other 49% of the people in this country are wanting. At what point do you
ask your challenger, who is still a US Senator, what were your plans. What
kinds of initiatives did you have in mind if you were voted in as the next
president. Or, do you think that 90% to 10% or 51% to 49% really doesn't
matter. If 90% of the country agreed with your policies, your standards of
governing this nation, it would be pretty easy to turn away from only 10%, but
when that opposition makes up 49% of the country, I think a good hard look would
be necessary to sustain a successful presidency. Find out why 55 Million+
citizens don't want you in office anymore. You already know why the 59
Million+ do, but go find out why the rest don't. Maybe look back at the
policies that you are introducing. Government is for the people, not 51%
of them, but for all of them. If setting a policy helps 95% of the people,
doesn't affect 4%, but hurts 1%, maybe that is an acceptable policy. But
if setting a policy helps 10% of the people, doesn't affect 80%, but hurts 10%,
why do you NEED to introduce that policy. This is the presidents last term
and MOST likely last government office as a whole. He needs not bow down to
money donators anymore, as he has achieved the ultimate political success as a 2
term president. Now it is time to no longer cater to the 10% that donated
heavily to the campaign, but to look at the 90% of American's that need help or
certainly no additional stress that policies for that 10% are causing. Now
is the time to fix American systems. Fix Education, fix health care, fix
social security. These can be done now without the bother of upsetting big
money donators, and more with compassion for the recipients of these
services. It is time for the president to walk over to
the 49% of the people that don't agree with him and say, "what can we do to
unite us back as one."
One additional topic. There is little doubt of the reasons people voted
for one candidate or the other. For George W. Bush, it was for his hard
stance on terrorism, for John Kerry, it was for "someone other than
Bush." The irony to this, is that states that voted for Bush are the
rural states that have VERY little concern of terrorism. The terrorists
are not going to "nuke" a swamp in Mississippi, or blow up a corn
field in Kansas. NO, they are going to disrupt commerce in major
metropolitan areas, such as New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA and Chicago, IL.
All three of which states gave a LARGE voting percentage to John Kerry.
Since we, the urban populace, are the targets of such attacks, don't you think
we should be the most concerned about how to prevent them, not the rural farmer
from Kentucky. What the rural farmer loses, is his son or daughter in Iraq
or Afghanistan. Current Mood:  blah | | Tuesday, October 19th, 2004 | | 11:33 am |
Advice for Recent Arrivals...
Dos & Don'ts & More Don'ts for Gay Boy Refugees
So you made it out of that backwater town in one piece. Now comes the hard
part--acclimating to a new place and living an openly gay life. Soon enough you
will discover which bars cater to your distorted physical ideals, that meth is
very bad, and that a deep tan is ugly and pre-cancerous--but what about the
other stuff? Here's a cheat sheet to save you some time and trouble.
1. You are not a strong black woman. You never will be.
2. I know it was terrible being the fag in your school/small town/own
mind, but don't introduce yourself to people with this information. Being gay
is, and should be, the least interesting thing about you.
3. If your mother is the greatest woman who ever lived, keep it to
yourself. The holiday orphans don't want to hear it. On the flip side, your
family will always be a part of you even if you never speak to them again, but
try not to spend your life in reaction to them.
4. Rainbow flags, bumper stickers, and wind socks are no different
than Green Bay Packers fans painting their faces green and gold: a complete
embarrassment. Pride can be as ugly and warping as shame.
5. Gay life can be empty and depressing, but bitching about it outside
the confines of a few close friends will get you tagged as bitter. Yes, the gay
mainstream is alienating with its cookie-cutter bars, bad dance music, and Queer
as Folk. It's enough to make you turn straight. But electroshock doesn't
work and Jesus is a sci-fi character.
6. Don't fraternize with people who haven't come out.
7. Your masculinity has most likely been called into question.
Anything you do in reaction to it will be a failure. Don't try to prove or
disprove anything.
8. There is a difference between being effeminate and being a queen.
Being effeminate is just that--being. Being a queen is an affectation. I can't
throw a ball, but I don't call anyone "girl," even female children.
9. Avoid she-bonics: referring to each other as Girl, She, and Her.
"What's her problem?" That you are an idiot. This includes: Bitchslap,
Girlfriend, Shit pussy, Mangina.
10. Don't be a misogynist asshole. Leave the tuna jokes back in your
small town with your usage of Jew as a verb. If it weren't for lesbians and
feminism, we'd still be sucking cock in truck-stop restrooms. I mean
exclusively.
11. I've never been to a bathhouse. No, really. So I can't advise you
on it but I do know they are basically a petri dish of STDs. If you are okay
with HIV, herpes, gonorrhea, syphilis, and other STDs, by all means fuck your
brains out.
12. Do not have black-and-white photos ? la Bruce Weber taken of you
and your beloved. And if you must, then don't hang them up as "art" in
your home.
13. Don't kiss and tell. Or fuck, suck, rim, or fist and tell. Think of
your bedroom like Vegas: What happens there stays there. It will keep you from
gossiping, which is the true heart of darkness, and will create a sense of
mystery. Besides the cruelty of nicknaming someone Princess Tiny Meat (it would
make a wonderful DJ name though), it isn't good karma. And what modestly endowed
dude who sucks a mean cock is going to want to go home with you after that?
14. Bros before hos. I learned this the hard way: Do not sleep with a
friend's ex-boyfriend. Ever. Even if they say they don't care, they do.
15. You are 200 times more likely to be an alcoholic than your
straight counterparts.
16. Beauty fades. Develop some inner resources, otherwise when it
goes, those of us with less far to fall will laugh at you. To your aging face.
17. Men, like lotto tickets, should not be had every day. The odds are
the same.
18. Romantic friendships will end up being neither.
19. Cultivate friendships with straight men. "But we have nothing
in common," you say? Bullshit. You are men. Many straight men are in fact
softer and sweeter than their faggoty brothers.
20. Make friends with at least one dyke, you silly faggot. When the
shit goes down--for instance your mother dies--fags will drop you in an instant
if you aren't fun. Dykes will come to your house with food.
21. Don't make friendships based solely around how outrageous you are.
It's a shitty kind of attention.
22. Don't refer to anyone as a fag hag. It's rude. Also don't hang out
with fag hags.
23. Don't date people who have scars that are older than you.
24. After all of that, you are still not a strong black woman.
Current Mood:  silly | | Friday, September 10th, 2004 | | 2:16 pm |
| | Monday, August 16th, 2004 | | 9:30 am |
Little Things
After Sept. 11th, one company invited the remaining members of other companies
who had been decimated by the attack on the Twin Towers to share their
available office space. At a morning meeting, the head of security
told stories of why these people were alive..... and all the stories
were just: LITTLE THINGS As you might know,
- The head of the company got in late that day because his
son started kindergarten.
- Another fellow was alive because it was his turn to bring
donuts.
- One woman was late because her alarm clock didn't go off in
time.
- One was late because of being stuck on the NJ Turnpike
because of an auto accident.
- One of them missed his bus.
- One spilled food on her clothes and had to take time to
change.
- One's car wouldn't start.
- One went back to answer the telephone.
- One had a child that dawdled and didn't get ready as soon as
he should have.
- One couldn't get a taxi.
- The one that struck me was the man who put on a new pair of
shoes that morning, took the various means to get to
work but before he got there, he developed a blister on
his foot. He stopped at a drugstore to buy a Band-Aid.
That is why he is alive today.
Now when I am stuck in traffic, miss an elevator, turn back to
answer a ringing telephone . all the little things that
annoy me. I think to myself, this is exactly where I am to
be at this very moment. Next time your morning seems to be going wrong,
the children are slow getting dressed, you can't seem to
find the car keys, you hit every traffic light, don't get
mad or frustrated. | | Friday, August 13th, 2004 | | 11:27 am |
One sided point of view, offered the other side...
http://www.preservemarriage.org/
Homosexual "Marriage"
We support marriage as the exclusive union of one man and one
woman. We do this for a number of reasons, including massive evidence from
social science research demonstrating the unique benefits both to individuals
and to society as a whole from that institution. Legalizing same-sex marriage
means both the definition of marriage and the institution of marriage will be
destructively eroded, with enormous negative implications for society and the
common good.
As if Jennifer Lopez, Elizabeth
Taylor or my parents did the institution of marriage any justice. What
breaks down marriage is not those that WANT in, but the ones that ARE in and
abuse it!!
Civil Unions
We oppose the creation of civil unions or domestic
partnerships. However, the issue currently before the Commonwealth is the
definition of civil marriage. Any debate concerning civil unions should be
deferred until after the Legislature and the people have the opportunity to
define civil marriage in the Massachusetts Constitution as the exclusive union
of one man and one woman.
Can we not accept any sort of
common bond between two people of the same sex that might alleviate the need to
hire a lawyer to take care of the nine items listed below that signing a single
Marriage or even Union document would allow?
Special Rights & Protections for
Homosexuals
We oppose including "sexual orientation" as a
special category of protection under the law because we do not believe that a
person's sexual behavior is comparable to other protected categories such as
race or sex -- characteristics that are inborn, involuntary, immutable,
innocuous, and/or in the Constitution.
However, the question of whether homosexual individuals need
or deserve special protections under the law is separate from the
question of whether the affirmative benefits of marriage should be
granted to homosexual relationships .
Innocent until proven
guilty? You say there is no proof that homosexuality is inborn,
involuntary, immutable, or innocuous, yet is there proof that it is not?
How do people that live "straight" lives for 15 years suddenly succumb
to the desires of the "glorious" homosexual lifestyle? Take the
New Jersey Governor James McGreevey for example.
Special Relationships & Benefits
Advocates of same-sex "marriage" often make appeals
for special privileges based on the alleged hardships that homosexual partners
face in protecting their financial and legal interests. What is often overlooked
is that homosexual couples (like any other individuals, with or without a sexual
or familial relationship) can already protect most of those interests through
private contractual relationships, without marriage. For example:
Again, one single paper that
acknowledges all the below or a million dollars to hire lawyers to work up
contracts for the below. I agree we do not need to beat down RELIGION in
order to get "MARRIAGE", but we cannot even accept a civil union??
. Hospital visitation and medical decision-making. Any
adult patient has the right to specify who may visit him or her, unless visitors
are barred for medical reasons. This principle of patient choice applies
regardless of marital status. Any adult also can designate another individual to
make medical decisions in case the patient is unable to do so through by signing
a "health care proxy." This is not dependent on marital status.
But when I arrive at the hospital unconscious due
to the alcoholic hitting me with his car, does my partner get automatic
visitation, or do they keep him out until I awaken 20 days later and then he
gets to see me? What happens if we have not signed this agreement, we were
on our way to the lawyers office and I am brutally injured, does my partner get
to make the choice of pulling the plug based on my wishes that he was aware of,
or are they going to call my father that I have not talked to in 10 years??
. Power of attorney. Any adult can designate any
other adult, independently of marital status, to make legal and financial
decisions on the first person's behalf, in the event that he or she is unable to
do so, by granting the other person power of attorney.
But when I arrive at the hospital
again, does my partner get control of my bank account to continue to pay my
bills? Or my mail to ensure that I am still getting the bills that need to
be paid??
. Joint ownership of property. Any two adults have
the legal right to be co-owners of property such as a house or a car. This does
not depend on marital status.
Wasn't questioning this aspect
. Joint bank accounts. Any two adults have the legal
right to open joint bank accounts. This does not depend on marital status.
Wasn't questioning this aspect
. Inheritance. Any adult can leave his or her estate
to any individual he or she chooses by designating that individual as the
beneficiary of the person's will.
However, if I leave all of my
items to my partner, can my brother contest the will though he CANNOT contest it
if I leave it to my wife or at least there is a less likely chance he will win,
as the law recognizes my spouse as FIRST next of kin.
. Life insurance. Any adult can designate any other
individual he or she chooses to be the beneficiary of his or her life insurance
policy. This does not depend on marital status.
When I was in the military we had
to council MANY MANY young Marines about leaving their Serviceman's Group Life
Insurance to their girlfriends. On two occasions we had Marines die and
when the money was to be sent to the girlfriend (in one case ex-girlfriend as he
never took her name off), the parents, who got nothing, were left with all of
the burial bills. They then took the "girlfriend" to court and
had it ruled that the money was to be split among them. Was that in
compliant with the Marine's wishes?? However if left to his spouse, LAW
states they are first inline and there is not contesting.
. Private benefits. There is nothing in current law
to prevent private employers from offering such benefits if they wish.
Legalization of same-sex "marriage," though, could well mean that all
private employers would be forced to offer such benefits, even if
it violated their deeply held convictions. This also would lead to an increase
in costs or a reduction in benefits for all.
Increase in cost? Well with
married families, the employer must also pay for each child as it is born, with
same-sex families, no children or certainly not as many as the heterosexual
families are producing. As for deeply held convictions, if the employer is
a deep deep racist, does that give him the right to not hire those of a
different race? But then we get back to the question of
"immutable"?
. Parental rights. Most "homosexual
parents" actually have biological children from previous heterosexual marriages
or relationships. Homosexuals already have the same legal rights with respect to
their natural children as any other parent. Adoption by homosexual couples is
already legal in Massachusetts.
As with straight adoptions, this
is not automatic by marriage, this is equal in that it would take a lawyer to
prepare paperwork for the adoption of the second parent.
. Tax Benefits. We frequently hear complaints of the
inability of homosexuals to take advantage of the same tax breaks as married
couples. The reality is that for many or most same-sex couples, marriage would
result in a tax penalty rather than a tax break, just as it often does for
married couples when both work outside the home.
This is simply greed on anyone's
part. First there should be no such thing as filing "married" or
"single" anywhere in our tax code. Taxes should be based purely
on income, how much you make over how much you should give back to keep your
roads up to date, universal health care, etc. Flat tax is a good
thing...regardless of if you have 120 children or not. If you decide to
have 1 child then be able to afford 1 child, if you want 10, be able to afford
10, do not expect to be "rewarded" by your ability to reproduce.
Further, we note that where civil unions and same-sex
marriages are allowed (e.g., Vermont, California, Netherlands, Belgium),
relatively few homosexuals take advantage of them, leading us to believe that
"benefits" have not been nearly as big an issue in practice as they
are in the rhetoric of homosexual activists.
These are merely the
"have-nots". I want them because you do, and I don't. That
is looking for equality, and as easy as it is claimed to be rhetoric, is as easy
as this whole discussion could be. There is a house at 305 Monterrey
Drive, Bolingbrook IL. There are people that live there. Does it
affect ANY of you whether they are straight, gay, married, single, kids or
not?? ABSOLUTELY NOT, and that is the point. Of the 260 Million
people in this country, only about 150 have any significant meaning to me, I
don't care about the others at least what they are doing that is not affecting
my life. Allowing gays and lesbians to form unions in one way or another
does NOTHING to diminish the institution of marriage as no one really
cares. If marriage is so important than create a website against the
Jennifer Lopez's, the Liz Taylor's and even my parents who through the great
"right of marriage", married, had 2 kids, abused each other, divorced
and left 2 kids to grow up in poverty. THAT is the real breakdown of
marriage, BUT at least they had that option!!!
P.S. I do not know the
people that live in 305 Monterey Drive, just that they have a nice in-ground
pool. I don't know if they are white or black, gay or straight, married or
single, just an address that I know does exist in this world!! | | 10:10 am |
Help Todd if you can...
Man uses billboards, Web to search for liver
32-year-old cancer patient launches multimedia plea for donor
http://www.toddneedsaliver.com/
"Todd is a very successful digital photographer. He opened up his own
company in 2002. Both he and Julie are on private insurance, therefore their
health plan is not the best."
Maybe our next president will worry about Todd before we worry about
citizen's of another country getting health care!! | | Wednesday, August 11th, 2004 | | 2:30 pm |
The Case Against George W. Bush
Exerpts from Ron Reagan's Esquire Article... The Bush administration no doubt had its real reasons for invading and occupying Iraq. They've simply chosen not to share them with the American public. They sought justification for ignoring the Geneva Convention and other statutes prohibiting torture and inhumane treatment of prisoners but were loath to acknowledge as much. They may have ideas worth discussing, but they don't welcome the rest of us in the conversation. They don't trust us because they don't dare expose their true agendas to the light of day. There is a surreal quality to all this: Occupation is liberation; Iraq is sovereign, but we're in control; Saddam is in Iraqi custody, but we've got him; we'll get out as soon as an elected Iraqi government asks us, but we'll be there for years to come. Which is what we counted on in the first place, only with rose petals and easy coochie. And chances are your America and George W. Bush's America are not the same place. If you are dead center on the earning scale in real-world twenty-first-century America, you make a bit less than $32,000 a year, and $32,000 is not a sum that Mr. Bush has ever associated with getting by in his world. Bush, who has always managed to fail upwards in his various careers, has never had a job the way you have a job?where not showing up one morning gets you fired, costing you your health benefits. He may find it difficult to relate personally to any of the nearly two million citizens who've lost their jobs under his administration, the first administration since Herbert Hoover's to post a net loss of jobs. Mr. Bush has never had to worry that he couldn't afford the best available health care for his children. For him, forty-three million people without health insurance may be no more than a politically inconvenient abstraction. When Mr. Bush talks about the economy, he is not talking about your economy. His economy is filled with pals called Kenny-boy who fly around in their own airplanes. In Bush's economy, his world, friends relocate offshore to avoid paying taxes. Taxes are for chumps like you. You are not a friend. You're the help. When the party Mr. Bush is hosting in his world ends, you'll be left picking shrimp toast out of the carpet. Scenario typical of the 2000 campaign: While debating Al Gore, Bush tells two obvious?if not exactly earth-shattering?lies and is not challenged. First, he claims to have supported a patient's bill of rights while governor of Texas. This is untrue. He, in fact, vigorously resisted such a measure, only reluctantly bowing to political reality and allowing it to become law without his signature. Second, he announces that Gore has outspent him during the campaign. The opposite is true: Bush has outspent Gore. IN THE IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH and confusion of 9/11, Bush, who on that day was in Sarasota, Florida, conducting an emergency reading of "The Pet Goat," was whisked off to Nebraska aboard Air Force One. While this may have been entirely sensible under the chaotic circumstances?for all anyone knew at the time, Washington might still have been under attack?the appearance was, shall we say, less than gallant. So a story was concocted: There had been a threat to Air Force One that necessitated the evasive maneuver. Bush's chief political advisor, Karl Rove, cited "specific" and "credible" evidence to that effect. The story quickly unraveled. In truth, there was no such threat. Then there was Bush's now infamous photo-op landing aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln and his subsequent speech in front of a large banner emblazoned MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. The banner, which loomed in the background as Bush addressed the crew, became problematic as it grew clear that the mission in Iraq?whatever that may have been?was far from accomplished. "Major combat operations," as Bush put it, may have technically ended, but young Americans were still dying almost daily. So the White House dealt with the questionable banner in a manner befitting a president pledged to "responsibility and accountability": It blamed the sailors. No surprise, a bit of digging by journalists revealed the banner and its premature triumphalism to be the work of the White House communications office. More serious by an order of magnitude was the administration's dishonesty concerning pre-9/11 terror warnings. As questions first arose about the country's lack of preparedness in the face of terrorist assault, Condoleezza Rice was dispatched to the pundit arenas to assure the nation that "no one could have imagined terrorists using aircraft as weapons." In fact, terrorism experts had warned repeatedly of just such a calamity. In June 2001, CIA director George Tenet sent Rice an intelligence report warning that "it is highly likely that a significant Al Qaeda attack is in the near future, within several weeks." Two intelligence briefings given to Bush in the summer of 2001 specifically connected Al Qaeda to the imminent danger of hijacked planes being used as weapons. According to The New York Times, after the second of these briefings, titled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside United States," was delivered to the president at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, in August, Bush "broke off from work early and spent most of the day fishing." This was the briefing Dr. Rice dismissed as "historical" in her testimony before the 9/11 Commission. What's odd is that none of these lies were worth the breath expended in the telling. If only for self-serving political reasons, honesty was the way to go. The flight of Air Force One could easily have been explained in terms of security precautions taken in the confusion of momentous events. As for the carrier landing, someone should have fallen on his or her sword at the first hint of trouble: We told the president he needed to do it; he likes that stuff and was gung-ho; we figured, What the hell?; it was a mistake. The banner? We thought the sailors would appreciate it. In retrospect, also a mistake. Yup, we sure feel dumb now. Owning up to the 9/11 warnings would have entailed more than simple embarrassment. But done forthrightly and immediately, an honest reckoning would have earned the Bush team some respect once the dust settled. Instead, by needlessly tap-dancing, Bush's White House squandered vital credibility, turning even relatively minor gaffes into telling examples of its tendency to distort and evade the truth. If ever there was a time for uniting and not dividing, this is it. Instead, Mr. Bush governs as if by divine right, seeming to actually believe that a wise God wants him in the White House and that by constantly evoking the horrible memory of September 11, 2001, he can keep public anxiety stirred up enough to carry him to another term. Fortunately, we still live in a democratic republic. The Bush team cannot expect a cabal of right-wing justices to once again deliver the White House. Come November 2, we will have a choice: We can embrace a lie, or we can restore a measure of integrity to our government. We can choose, as a bumper sticker I spotted in Seattle put it, SOMEONE ELSE FOR PRESIDENT. | | Monday, August 9th, 2004 | | 9:34 am |
| | Thursday, August 5th, 2004 | | 12:47 pm |
How True...how sooo very true...
There is a quote by Hitler - he says that all you have to do to control the people is give them an enemy.. make them think they are being attacked and they'll give up all of their rights and you can do whatever you want. | | Thursday, July 29th, 2004 | | 9:39 am |
| | Tuesday, July 27th, 2004 | | 11:03 am |
Democratic Convention - 2004
Vice-President Al Gore
Friends, fellow Democrats, fellow Americans: I'll be candid with you. I had
hoped to be back here this week under different circumstances, running for
re-election.
But you know the old saying: you win some, you lose some. And then there's
that little-known third category. I didn't come here tonight to talk about the
past. After all, I don't want you to think I lie awake at night counting and
recounting sheep. I prefer to focus on the future because I know from my own
experience that America is a land of opportunity, where every little boy and
girl has a chance to grow up and win the popular vote.
In all seriousness, I am deeply grateful for the opportunity you have given
me to serve America. I want to thank you as Democrats for the honor of being
your nominee for president four years ago. And I want to thank the American
people for the privilege of serving as vice-president.
And most of all, I want to thank my family with all my heart-my children and
grandchildren, and especially my beloved partner in life, Tipper.
I love this country deeply, and even though I always look to the future with
optimism and hope-I do think it is worth pausing for just a moment as we begin
this year's convention, to take note of two very important lessons from four
years ago.
The first lesson is this: take it from me-every vote counts. In our
Democracy, every vote has power. And never forget: that power is yours.
Don't let anyone take it away or talk you into throwing it away. And let's make
sure that this time every vote is counted.
Let's make sure not only that the Supreme Court does not pick the next
President, but also that this President is not the one who picks the next
Supreme Court.
The second lesson from 2000 is this: what happens in a presidential
election matters. A lot. The outcome profoundly affects the lives of all 293
million Americans-and people in the rest of the world too. The choice of who is
president affects your life and your family's future.
And never has this been more true than in 2004, because-let's face it-our
country faces deep challenges. These challenges we now confront are not
Democratic or Republican challenges; they are American challenges-that we all
must overcome together.
It is in that spirit, that I sincerely ask those watching at home who
supported President Bush four years ago: did you really get what you
expected from the candidate you voted for?
Is our country more united today? Or more divided?
Has the promise of compassionate conservatism been fulfilled? Or do those
words now ring hollow?
For that matter, are the economic policies really conservative at all? Did
you expect, for example, the largest deficits in history? One after another? And
the loss of more than a million jobs?
By the way, I know about the bad economy. I was the first one laid off. And
while it's true that new jobs are being created, they're just not as good as the
jobs people have lost. And incidentally, that's been true for me too.
Unfortunately, this is no joke for millions of Americans. And the real solutions
require us to transcend partisanship.
So that's one reason why, even though we meet here as Democrats, we believe
this is a time to reach beyond our party lines to Republicans as well.
I also ask tonight for the help of those who supported a third party
candidate in 2000. I urge you to ask yourselves this question: do
you still believe that there was no difference between the candidates? Are you
troubled by the erosion of some of America's most basic civil liberties? Are you
worried that our environmental laws are being weakened and dismantled to allow
vast increases in pollution that are contributing to a global climate crisis? No
matter how you voted in the last election, these are profound problems that all
voters must take into account this November 2d.
And of course, no challenge is more critical than the situation we confront
in Iraq. Regardless of your opinion at the beginning of this war, isn't it now
obvious that the way the war has been managed by the Administration has gotten
us into very serious trouble? Wouldn't we be better off with a new President who
hasn't burned his bridges to our allies, and who could rebuild respect for
America in the world? Isn't cooperation with other nations crucial to solving
our dilemma in Iraq? Isn't it also critical to defeating the terrorists?
We have to be crystal clear about the threat we face from terrorism. It is
deadly. It is real. It is imminent. But in order to protect our people,
shouldn't we focus on the real source of this threat: the group that attacked us
and is trying to attack us again-al Qaeda, headed by Osama Bin Laden?
Wouldn't we be safer with a President who didn't insist on confusing al Qaeda
with Iraq? Doesn't that divert too much of our attention away from the principal
danger?
I want to say to all Americans this evening that whether it is the threat to
the global environment or the erosion of America's leadership in the world,
whether it is the challenge to our economy from new competitors or the challenge
to our security from new enemies, I believe that we need new leadership that is
both strong and wise.
And we can have new leadership, because one of our greatest strengths as a
democracy is that when we are headed in the wrong direction, we can correct our
course. When policies are clearly not working, we can change them. If our
leaders make mistakes, we can hold them accountable-even if they never admit
their mistakes. I firmly believe America needs new leadership that will make us
stronger at home and respected in the world.
We are here this week to present to the nation the man who should be our new
president: John Kerry.
John and I were elected to the US Senate on the same day 20 years ago and I
have worked closely with him for all that time. So I want to say a personal word
about John Kerry the man.
He is a friend who will stand by you. His word is his bond. He has a deep
patriotism that goes far beyond words. He has devoted his life to making America
a better place for all of us. He showed uncommon heroism on the battlefield in
Vietnam. I watched him show that same courage on the Senate floor. He had the
best record of protecting the environment against polluters of any of my
colleagues-bar none.
He never shied away from a fight, no matter how powerful the foe. He was
never afraid to take on difficult and thankless issues that few others wanted to
touch-like exposing the threat of narcoterrorism and tracing the sources of
terrorist financing. He was one of the very first in our party to take on the
issue of drastic deficit reduction. He has developed a tough and thoughtful plan
to restore our economic strength and fiscal discipline.
To put it simply, those of us who have worked with John know that he has the
courage, integrity and leadership to be a truly great President of the United
States.
And he showed wisdom in his very first decision as the leader of our
party-when he picked as his running mate an inspiring fighter for middle class
families and families struggling to reach the middle class: John Edwards.
John Kerry and John Edwards are fighting for us and for all Americans, so
after we nominate them here in Boston and return to our home states across this
land, we have to fight for them. Talk to your friends and neighbors, go to
"JohnKerry.com," raise money, register voters and get them to the
polls, volunteer your time, and above all: make your vote count.
To those of you who felt disappointed or angry with the outcome in 2000, I
want you to remember all of those feelings. But then I want you to do with them
what I have done: focus them fully and completely on putting John Kerry
and John Edwards in the White House.
Fellow Democrats, when I look out and see so many friends who have meant so
much to me in my own public service, my heart is full tonight. I thank you for
all the love you've shown Tipper and me. You will forever be in our hearts.
There's someone else I'd like to thank, and that's the man who asked me to
join him on the ticket at our convention 12 years ago, my friend-and my partner
for eight years-President Bill Clinton. I'll never forget that convention or
that campaign-the way we barnstormed the country, carrying a message of hope and
change, believing with our whole hearts that America could be made new again.
And so it was. And with your help, and with the leadership of John Kerry and
John Edwards, so it shall be again.
Thank you-God bless you and your families-and may God bless the United States
of America.
Pres. Bill Clinton
Thank you. I am honored to share the podium with my Senator, though I think I
should be introducing her. I?m proud of her and so grateful to the people of
New York that the best public servant in our family is still on the job and
grateful to all of you, especially my friends from Arkansas, for the chance you
gave us to serve our country in the White House.
I am also honored to share this night with President Carter, who has inspired
the world with his work for peace, democracy, and human rights. And with Al
Gore, my friend and partner for eight years, who played such a large role in
building the prosperity and progress that brought America into the 21st century,
who showed incredible grace and patriotism under pressure, and who is the living
embodiment that every vote counts?and must be counted in every state in
America.
Tonight I speak as a citizen, returning to the role I have played for most of
my life as a foot soldier in the fight for our future, as we nominate a true New
England patriot for president. The state that gave us John Adams and John
Kennedy has now given us John Kerry, a good man, a great senator, a visionary
leader. We are constantly told America is deeply divided. But all Americans
value freedom, faith, and family. We all honor the service and sacrifice of our
men and women in uniform in Iraq, Afghanistan and around the world.
We all want good jobs, good schools, health care, safe streets, a clean
environment. We all want our children to grow up in a secure America leading the
world toward a peaceful future. Our differences are in how we can best achieve
these things, in a time of unprecedented change. Therefore, we Democrats will
bring the American people a positive campaign, arguing not who?s good and
who?s bad, but what is the best way to build the safe, prosperous world our
children deserve.
The 21st century is marked by serious security threats, serious economic
challenges, and serious problems like global warming and the AIDS epidemic. But
it is also full of enormous opportunities?to create millions of high paying
jobs in clean energy, and biotechnology; to restore the manufacturing base and
reap the benefits of the global economy through our diversity and our commitment
to decent labor and environmental standards everywhere; and to create a world
where we can celebrate our religious and racial differences, because our common
humanity matters more.
To build that kind of world we must make the right choices; and we must have
a president who will lead the way. Democrats and Republicans have very different
and honestly held ideas on that choices we should make, rooted in fundamentally
different views of how we should meet our common challenges at home and how we
should play our role in the world. Democrats want to build an America of shared
responsibilities and shared opportunities and more global cooperation, acting
alone only when we must.
We think the role of government is to give people the tools and conditions to
make the most of their lives. Republicans believe in an America run by the right
people, their people, in a world in which we act unilaterally when we can, and
cooperate when we have to.
They think the role of government is to concentrate wealth and power in the
hands of those who embrace their political, economic, and social views, leaving
ordinary citizens to fend for themselves on matters like health care and
retirement security. Since most Americans are not that far to the right, they
have to portray us Democrats as unacceptable, lacking in strength and values. In
other words, they need a divided America. But Americans long to be united. After
9/11, we all wanted to be one nation, strong in the fight against terror. The
president had a great opportunity to bring us together under his slogan of
compassionate conservatism and to unite the world in common cause against
terror.
Instead, he and his congressional allies made a very different choice: to use
the moment of unity to push America too far to the right and to walk away from
our allies, not only in attacking Iraq before the weapons inspectors finished
their jobs, but in withdrawing American support for the Climate Change Treaty,
the International Court for war criminals, the ABM treaty, and even the
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
Now they are working to develop two new nuclear weapons which they say we
might use first. At home, the President and the Republican Congress have made
equally fateful choices indeed. For the first time ever when America was on a
war footing, there were two huge tax cuts, nearly half of which went to the top
one percent. I?m in that group now for the first time in my life.
When I was in office, the Republicans were pretty mean to me. When I left and
made money, I became part of the most important group in the world to them. At
first I thought I should send them a thank you note?until I realized they were
sending you the bill.
They protected my tax cuts while:
? Withholding promised
funding for the Leave No Child Behind Act, leaving over 2 million children
behind
? Cutting 140,000 unemployed
workers out of job training
? 100,000 working families out
of child care assistance
? 300,000 poor children out of
after school programs
? Raising out of pocket
healthcare costs to veterans
? Weakening or reversing
important environmental advances for clean air and the preservation of our
forests.
Everyone had to sacrifice except the wealthiest Americans, who wanted to do
their part but were asked only to expend the energy necessary to open the
envelopes containing our tax cuts. If you agree with these choices, you should
vote to return them to the White House and Congress. If not, take a look at John
Kerry, John Edwards and the Democrats.
In this year?s budget, the White House wants to cut off federal funding for
88,000 uniformed police, including more than 700 on the New York City police
force who put their lives on the line on 9/11. As gang violence is rising and we
look for terrorists in our midst, Congress and the President are also about to
allow the ten-year-old ban on assault weapons to expire. Our crime policy was to
put more police on the streets and take assault weapons off the streets. It
brought eight years of declining crime and violence. Their policy is the
reverse, they?re taking police off the streets and putting assault weapons
back on the streets. If you agree with their choices, vote to continue them. If
not, join John Kerry, John Edwards and the Democrats in making America safer,
smarter, and stronger.
On Homeland Security, Democrats tried to double the number of containers at
ports and airports checked for Weapons of Mass Destruction. The one
billion dollar cost would have been paid for by reducing the tax cut of 200,000
millionaires by five thousand dollars each. Almost all 200,000 of us would have
been glad to pay 5,000 dollars to make the nearly 300 million Americans
safer?but the measure failed because the White House and the Republican
leadership in the House decided my tax cut was more important- If you agree with
that choice, re-elect them. If not, give John Kerry and John Edwards a
chance.
These policies have turned the projected 5.8 trillion dollar surplus we
left?enough to pay for the baby boomers retirement?into a projected debt of
nearly 5 trillion dollars, with a 400 plus billion dollar deficit this year and
for years to come. How do they pay for it? First by taking the monthly
surplus in Social Security payments and endorsing the checks of working people
over to me to cover my tax cut. But it?s not enough. They are borrowing the
rest from foreign governments, mostly Japan and China. Sure, they?re competing
with us for good jobs but how can we enforce our trade laws against our bankers?
If you think it?s good policy to pay for my tax cut with the Social Security
checks of working men and women, and borrowed money from China, vote for them.
If not, John Kerry?s your man.
We Americans must choose for President one of two strong men who both love
our country, but who have very different worldviews: Democrats favor shared
responsibility, shared opportunity, and more global cooperation. Republicans
favor concentrated wealth and power, leaving people to fend for themselves and
more unilateral action. I think we?re right for two reasons: First, America
works better when all people have a chance to live their dreams. Second,
we live in an interdependent world in which we can?t kill, jail, or occupy all
our potential adversaries, so we have to both fight terror and build a world
with more partners and fewer terrorists. We tried it their way for twelve
years, our way for eight, and then their way for four more.
By the only test that matters, whether people were better off when we
finished than when we started, our way works better?it produced over 22
million good jobs, rising incomes, and 100 times as many people moving out of
poverty into the middle class. It produced more health care, the largest
increase in college aid in 50 years, record home ownership, a cleaner
environment, three surpluses in a row, a modernized defense force, strong
efforts against terror, and an America respected as a world leader for peace,
security and prosperity.
More importantly, we have great new champions in John Kerry and John Edwards.
Two good men with wonderful wives?Teresa a generous and wise woman who
understands the world we are trying to shape. And Elizabeth, a lawyer and mother
who understands the lives we are all trying to lift. Here is what I know about
John Kerry. During the Vietnam War, many young men?including the current
president, the vice president and me?could have gone to Vietnam but didn?t.
John Kerry came from a privileged background and could have avoided it too.
Instead he said, send me.
When they sent those swift-boats up the river in Vietnam, and told them their
job was to draw hostile fire?to show the American flag and bait the enemy to
come out and fight?John Kerry said, send me. When it was time to heal
the wounds of war and normalize relations with Vietnam?and to demand an
accounting of the POWs and MIAs we lost there?John Kerry said, send me.
When we needed someone to push the cause of inner-city kids struggling to
avoid a life of crime, or to bring the benefits of high technology to ordinary
Americans, or to clean the environment in a way that creates jobs, or to give
small businesses a better chance to make it, John Kerry said send me.
Tonight my friends, I ask you to join me for the next 100 days in telling
John Kerry?s story and promoting his plans. Let every person in this
hall and all across America say to him what he has always said to America: Send
Me. The bravery that the men who fought by his side saw in battle I?ve seen in
the political arena. When I was President, John Kerry showed courage and
conviction on crime, on welfare reform, on balancing the budget at a time when
those priorities were not exactly a way to win a popularity contest in our
party.
He took tough positions on tough problems. John Kerry knows who he is and
where he?s going. He has the experience, the character, the ideas and the
values to be a great President. In a time of change he has two other
important qualities: his insatiable curiosity to understand the forces
shaping our lives, and a willingness to hear the views even of those who
disagree with him. Therefore his choices will be full of both conviction and
common sense.
He proved that when he picked a tremendous partner in John Edwards. Everybody
talks about John Edwards? energy, intellect, and charisma. The important thing
is how he has used his talents to improve the lives of people who?like John
himself?had to work hard for all they?ve got. He has always championed the
cause of people too often left out or left behind. And that?s what he?ll do
as our Vice President.
Their opponents will tell you to be afraid of John Kerry and John Edwards,
because they won?t stand up to the terrorists?don?t you believe it.
Strength and wisdom are not conflicting values?they go hand in hand. John
Kerry has both. His first priority will be keeping America safe. Remember
the scripture: Be Not Afraid.
John Kerry and John Edwards, have good ideas:
? To make this economy work
again for middle-class Americans;
? To restore fiscal
responsibility;
? To save Social Security; to
make healthcare more affordable and college more available;
? To free us from dependence on
foreign oil and create new jobs in clean energy;
? To rally the world to win the
war on terror and to make more friends and fewer terrorists.
At every turning point in our history we the people have chosen unity over
division, heeding our founders? call to America?s eternal mission: to form a
more perfect union, to widen the circle of opportunity, deepen the reach of
freedom, and strengthen the bonds of community.
It happened because we made the right choices. In the early days of the
republic, America was at a crossroads much like it is today, deeply divided over
whether or not to build a real nation with a national economy, and a national
legal system. We chose a more perfect union.
In the Civil War, America was at a crossroads, divided over whether to save
the union and end slavery?we chose a more perfect union. In the 1960s,
America was at a crossroads, divided again over civil rights and women?s
rights. Again, we chose a more perfect union. As I said in 1992, we?re
all in this together; we have an obligation both to work hard and to help our
fellow citizens, both to fight terror and to build a world with more cooperation
and less terror. Now again, it is time to choose.
Since we?re all in the same boat, let us chose as the captain of our ship a
brave good man who knows how to steer a vessel though troubled waters to the
calm seas and clear skies of our more perfect union. We know our mission.
Let us join as one and say in a loud, clear voice: Send John Kerry. Current Mood:  energetic | | Friday, July 16th, 2004 | | 11:55 am |
A NEW POST!!
I love her.
from MSN.com:
Janet Jackson gave a surprise performance at a gay-pride concert this weekend,
and although the exhibitionist singer didn?t bare a breast, she did reveal a
little more about her sex life than people needed to know.
The diva wore a white outfit and looked fabulous, according to attendees at
Dance 18, a concert that was part of Pride Week in New York City.
"At one point, she said something like, 'Who out there is a bottom? Raise
your hand,' says a source. 'And then after some people in the audience raised
their hands, she raised hers too, and started giggling. The crowd went
absolutely wild.'"
Things More Important than Worrying About the Fact That I Want to Marry A
Man:
*A certain war-like occurrence in what used to be Iraq.
*A generation of Americans more interested in reality television than actual
reality.
*The constant threat of Janet Jackson's titola ruining American society.
*The dismal failure that is The War on Drugs. (Snorts.)
*The dismal failure that is The War of Terror. (Plots.)
*The dismal failure that is The War on Plaid. (Pukes.)
*People who were born in 1992 are having unprotected sex. (I graduated High
School in 1992)
*40,000,000 infected with AIDS worldwide...and climbing.
*Martha Stewart is going to jail, where she will inevitably craft a shiv that
she "really treasures".
So, think about it. Me, spending the rest of my life with one person probably
isn't going to fuck up the program as much as the above.
What Color is Your Brain?
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GREEN:
At work or in school: I work best by myself. I like to focus on my
ideas until my desire for understanding is satisfied. I am easily bored if the
subject holds no interest to me. Sometimes, it is hard for me to set priorities
because so many things are of interest.
With friends: I may seem reserved. Although my thoughts and feelings run
deep, I am uneasy with frequent displays of emotion. I enjoy people who are
interesting and of high integrity.
With family: I am probably seen as a loner because I like a lot of
private time to think. Sometimes, I find family activities boring and have
difficulty following family rules that don't make sense to me. I show love by
spending time with my family and sharing ideas and interests.
Current Mood:  tiredCurrent Music: (Jason Mraz) - Curbside Prophet | | Wednesday, March 31st, 2004 | | 10:27 am |
more madness....
If you thought I was just picking on Dr. Rice, here are a few more!!
(MAD MAD MAD MAD MAD) Current Mood: silly | | Tuesday, March 30th, 2004 | | 10:45 am |
That mean woman...
Above are just two samples, but have you ever noticed that EVERY picture of
Condoleezza Rice (National Security Advisor to President Bush) has her with a
PISSED off look on her face? Could you imagine working with or for this
woman every day?? eeep!!! Current Mood: amused | | Tuesday, March 23rd, 2004 | | 12:56 pm |
Should I do it??
Add comments, let me know if I should invest some time into this... Thank you for your interest in American Candidate, an exciting, unprecedented new television show in which the American public will identify a "people's candidate" who will then have the chance to run for president of the United States this coming November. We are thrilled that you are applying to be on the show, and look forward to reading your application. There is no one type of American Candidate. We are looking for a diverse group of potential leaders, each championing a different set of ideals and issues. Please use this application to show us who you are and what you stand for. Here is everything that you will need to do to submit an application to American Candidate: 1. FILL OUT THE QUESTIONNAIRE It is important that you answer each and every question so that we can accurately assess you and your platform. We will not consider your application complete if you leave any question unanswered. 2. MAKE A VIDEOTAPE We'd like you to make a video about yourself that tells us about you and why you would make a great American Candidate. The tape should not run longer than 15 minutes total. PART A: 10 Minutes. Please use the first 10 minutes to show us your life. Introduce us to any family or friends who are an important part of your life. Tell us some more about what issues will make up the platform of your bid to be an American Candidate, and show us why these issues are important to you. IMPORTANT: someone else should be holding the camera and videotaping you as you give us a tour of your life. PART B: 3-5 Minutes. Please take the second 3-5 minutes to make a speech, directly to the American people, telling them why you want to be president, and why you would make a great president. ? The videotape must be VHS, mini-DV, DVD or CD format (no 8mm or VHS C.) ? It should be shot so we can clearly see your face (good lighting is a must.) ? Make sure you label the tape with your name, address and phone number. ? Please note that we do not return videotapes. ? Applications will not be accepted without a videotape. ? *** IF YOU DON'T HAVE A VIDEO CAMERA PLEASE CHECK WITH YOUR FRIENDS! ? HOW TO MAKE YOUR TAPE STAND OUT FROM THE REST: Please be yourself. No need to put on your "Presidential face." First be relaxed and roll tape on your personal life at home, at leisure or in the office. Give us a clue as to who you REALLY are! We are looking for the passion and the drive that you feel inside. Expressive people tend to stand out. Next part of the tape should feature you for just a couple of minutes telling us why you would make a great president. Again, show us your most outgoing, charismatic, captivating side. Wow us with your enthusiasm! 3. ATTACH TWO PHOTOGRAPHS You must submit two recent photographs of yourself. One photograph should be of your face; one photograph should show you from head-to-toe. Write your first and last name on the back of each photograph. You will staple these to the FRONT of the completed questionnaire. Please note that we do not return photographs. 4. ATTACH A PHOTOCOPY OF YOUR DRIVER'S LICENSE, PASSPORT, OR OTHER GOVERNMENT-ISSUED PHOTO ID You will staple this photocopy to the BACK of the completed questionnaire. 5. READ AND SIGN ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS AND RELEASE DOCUMENT. All applicants must sign statements acknowledging that they have read, understand and will comply with all of the eligibility requirements of American Candidate in order to proceed with the application process. CHECKLIST There is a checklist on the next page that indicates all of the things that you must send to us in order to apply to be on the show. As you complete each item, put a check in the corresponding box. QUESTIONS? If you have any questions or concerns, please e-mail help@americancandidate.com or call 1-877-RUN-2004 (1-877-786-2004). We will return your call or e-mail as soon as possible. Thank you for your time and effort in completing this application. We look forward to hearing from you and learning more about you. DEADLINE THE APPLICATION DEADLINE IS APRIL 9, 2004. ALL APPLICATION MATERIALS MUST BE POSTMARKED BY THAT DATE AND TIME. Please plan accordingly. Applications will be considered on a first-come, first-served basis, so please get your application to us as soon as possible! If all required application materials are received by the producers and if, in the producers' discretion you are selected for further consideration for this project, your photograph(s), political platform and summary of positions on the issues may be posted online on the American Candidate website. |
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