Wake Up America!

I have no more patience for it. I listened to a story on PBS about Colorado women who are still "undecided".
Seriously?
This is a tough decision?
After 2846 days of the Bush regime, how on god's green earth can anyone not have a clue as to needing to make a major change away from the direction of this regime?
Do they live in caves? Not have access to any information whatsoever? I will volunteer to help those undecided voters get informed. Let's begin with a speech from a Congressional insider.

This is such a fantastic speech, it deserves to be replayed, on the eve of this election.

Here is a quick summary:
The country is in ruins.
We have color coded terrorism fear charts. We have a patriot act that alleges we must give up rights in order to maintain our freedom We are out of sync with the rest of the world community on environmental responsibility, and one of the biggest consumers. We are headed into the 6th year of 2 wars, costing us $567 billion, and over a million lives lost. Our government spent time debating if torture of prisoners was acceptable, and to what degree. The right for those "detainees" in Guantanamo Bay prison to have a trial (Habeas Corpus) was denied. Prisoners being held for 5 or more years, without even knowing if they are guilty of any crime. That kind of activity is similar to Communist countries, where no promise of a fair, or speedy trial exists. There has been so much corruption, indictments and illegal activity in the republican party, most of us can't even keep track. As much as a lengthy diatribe about all of the atrocities of the Bush administration need to be documented, I want to look back enough to remember how much we have deteriorated. How this once great nation, which was respected,and an honored member of the global community, has fallen. The preemptive invasion & soon to be 6 year illegal occupation of a sovereign nation has been a disaster. The shockingly awful takeover or Iraq was not to liberate the people from a brutal dictator, and a looming threat of a mushroom cloud of weapons of mass destruction, so much as it was getting a foot in the door of the world's 2nd largest oil reserve & a place to operate in the middle east. Even though it is not much in the headlines during this election season, to this day we are still fully engaged in the blood for oil campaign.
I for one would really like to see a full disclosure of how the entire Bush family personally profited from this war. Not only are We engaged in a war based on lies, but there is another layer of lies- the manipulation of the information- having embedded press, their information must be cleared by the military/government before it is approved for release. We get sanitized, manipulated "reports" from Iraq. Those journalists who have tried to report independently, have been kidnapped, killed and injured. 135 journalists have been killed since the March 2003 US invasion of Iraq- more than any other war in history- 128 of them, non-embedded journalists. I think it is safe the notion of installing democracy at gunpoint is a grand failure.
Quagmire accomplished. Staying the course, now that we have all the facts, is absurd.

Our nation is in distress, and it has permeated all levels- social, moral, environmental, financial, we are in serious trouble. In fact, in this topsy-turvy administration, when just about everything that can go wrong has gone wrong, I find it strange that all it takes for some people to be confused, is some ad that says Obama is an "extreme liberal"- pardon me for stating the obvious here.... but is the extreme right wing program we have been stuck in for 8 long years working for us?
I would use the phrases "needing to bridge the gap", or " cross that bridge when you get to it", but under this administration, bridges are collapsing, and or headed to nowhere (Palin/Alaska reference).

Enough Already!

Wake up America!

Ultimate Deadbeat

I am NOT making this up. I heard this story on the local news tonight.
An economy in crisis is hitting one of the places you'd least expect -- the cemetery.

Twin Oaks Cemetery near Corvallis, Oregon, is under foreclosure.

The cemetery property owner had no comment.

I've never heard of such a thing--

Do they evict the "residents"???

McCain: DENIED

Big kudos to the three dozen call center employees in Indiana who walked off the job rather than read an incendiary McCain campaign script attacking Barack Obama.

TPM Reports:

"Nina Williams, a stay-at-home mom in Lake County, Indiana, tells us that her daughter recently called her from her job at the center, upset that she had been asked to read a script attacking Obama for being "dangerously weak on crime," "coddling criminals," and for voting against "protecting children from danger."

Williams' daughter told her that up to 40 of her co-workers had refused to read the script, and had left the call center after supervisors told them that they would have to either read the call or leave, Williams says. The call center is called Americall, and it's located in Hobart, IN.

"They walked out," Williams says of her daughter and her co-workers, adding that they weren't fired but willingly sacrificed pay rather than read the lines. "They were told by supervisors, `If you all leave, you're not gonna get paid for the rest of the day."

"People thought the script was nasty and they didn't want to read it."

"We were asked to read something saying [Obama and Democrats] were against protecting children from danger," this worker said. "I wouldn't do it. A lot of people left. They thought it was disgusting."

The script coincided with this robo-slime call running in other states, but because robocalling is illegal in Indiana it was being read by call center workers."


Having worked in call centers myself, I know the pay scale is low. So that makes the action of these "employees with ethics" all the more admirable. They had a line they would not cross & the McCaine campaign was willing to pay them to cross it. I hope this story gets the press coverage it deserves. Indiana voters can vote early this year, I hope the workers decided to use the time to go cast their votes. In any case they walked off the job with their dignity and integrity intact ~ thank you Americall workers, for disconnecting the lies.

remembering

Last year, around this time, my Aunt Gloria Passed away. Our families had been very close, and I flew back to be with family, and pay my respects to her. This photo was in one of the last e mails she sent me, so it is special to me. Aunt Gloria had a great sense of humor, and I miss her. She lived to the ripe old age of 85.
She played the piano~ this music tribute is for her....

The Vet who did not Vet

I love the ending!

If I only had a brain, election edition

Says it all.....

Voting Tips & Project Video your Vote

PBS & You Tube have launched project VIDEO YOUR VOTE

They are asking people to video document your voting experience.

Hold your democracy accountable!

They also had this clip about Voting do's & don'ts

* Do NOT take a provisional ballot if the electronic machines are down for a while because your vote may or may not be counted.

• If you have been purged off the voter registration, insist on filling out a provisional ballot.



“But wait - are you really allowed to take video at the polls???”

Most states do allow you to film at your polling place. However, there are some states that expressly prohibit videotaping and others that have strict rules about how close you can tape near a polling place. For the most up-to-date information on your area, visit http://www.citmedialaw.org/…
In any location, basic rules of decency apply (don’t film others without their consent, and don’t campaign for any particular candidate), but documenting your experience at the polling place in most places is as much a right as voting itself.
We encourage participants to think creatively - the videos don’t necessarily have to be taken at the polling place, they just need to be related to the topic of voting.

Real Americans

            Meet Joe-the-Plumber & Jane-six-pack ~ Supporting Obama!

Hat tip to Enigma for posting the "Yes We Carve" website. 

Palin, piling on the blunders..... (again)

        Palin sporting a Democratic Donkey Vote Scarf!

Palin stumped when asked to explain her preconditions for meeting foreign leaders - interview on NBC

Gov. Sarah Palin has attacked Sen. Barack Obama for being “so off base in his proclamation that he would meet with some of these leaders around our world who would seek to destroy America and that, and without preconditions being met.” When asked by NBC’s Brian Williams what are some of those preconditions she envisions, Palin was stumped:

WILLIAMS: Governor Palin, yesterday you tied this notion of an early test to the new president. Would this notion of precondition –

PALIN: Right.

WILLIAMS: — that you both have been hammering the Obama campaign on. What — first of all, what in your mind is a precondition?

PALIN: You have to have some diplomatic strategy going into a meeting with someone like Ahmadinejad or Kim Jong-il, one of these dictators that would seek to destroy America or her allies. It is so naive and so dangerous for a presidential candidate to just proclaim that they would be willing to sit down with a– a leader like Ahmadinejad and just talk about the problems, the issues that are facing them. So that — that’s — that’s some ill-preparedness right there.

It is painfully obvious Palin has been instructed to stick to the talking points, and do not deviate. Why bother doing interviews, if she is just going to parrot the talking points, even if the talking point does not actually answer the question? But it's good for all the country to see that while the McCain Palin team has embraced the negative, and chides Obama for saying he would meet with world leaders, they come up blank when asked what their plan is.  Their plan is to slam Obama for his plan. It seems clear to me as well, that Palin is so unstable, she is not allowed to campaign on her own, or even do solo interviews anymore.  John McCain babysits Palin ~ that's got to instill confidence in the republican party & our nation. 

The sad underbelly of this election

Well said Michael Moore & I second the motion. I'm ready for all that garbage to be hauled off to where it belongs-- in the dump.
Let us cut the crap, and look at who is doing the pork barrel spending before she even sets foot in to be Queen of the Senate.
I am going to post Powell's interview here as well, because he said what needed to be said & coming from him, made it even more powerful. I've listened to it a few times now & it is historic, and relevant. Give it another listening to.
Thanks to Enigma for posting the photo Powell referred to . The picture speaks 1000 words.