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Heckuva Job!! S.E.C. Chairman COX the economic equivlaent of Brownie... BRING OUT THE RAKES!
Bad day in the money world yesterday. Lots are wondering who to tar and feather.
There's some pretty good indications that SEC Chairman Chris Cox should be first in line.
Cox is the financial worlds top enforcer and investigator. He's in charge of a lot of the activities that could put a halt to the financial mess that's beginning to unfold before us.
So where is he? What is he doing? More importantly, what is he NOT doing that needs to be done RIGHT NOW?
NPRs Alex Bloomberg did a short profile him HERE.
After listening, I want to know a LOT more about him.
How about YOU?
Hey, please RECOMMEND this post and write your own so we can convince the Muckrakers to release the hounds on the SEC!
There's some pretty good indications that SEC Chairman Chris Cox should be first in line.
Cox is the financial worlds top enforcer and investigator. He's in charge of a lot of the activities that could put a halt to the financial mess that's beginning to unfold before us.
So where is he? What is he doing? More importantly, what is he NOT doing that needs to be done RIGHT NOW?
NPRs Alex Bloomberg did a short profile him HERE.
After listening, I want to know a LOT more about him.
How about YOU?
Hey, please RECOMMEND this post and write your own so we can convince the Muckrakers to release the hounds on the SEC!
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Stop this GOP fake punt (SHUT PALIN DOWN)
Lets re-focus on McCain.
No. Lets do MORE than that. Lets refocus our whole COUNTRY on McCain.
Lets remind our undecided friends and family why they couldn't stand him just a few short weeks ago.
We can do this by reminding the message mongers in the USA just how irrelevant Sarah Palin is to this election.
Media outlets respond quickly to audience feedback.
So, the next time you see a Palin story, instead of coming here and fighting the server to vent about how much you hate her, why not contact the a outlet and RAISE HELL.
Tell them you, as a faithful audience member are SICK TO DEATH of her.
Make sure you reference the particular story. Tell them what time you saw the story and what it was about. Get the reporter's name and reference them in your correspondance. Be as specific as you can so the outlet knows you're FUCKING FURIOUS about their specific product.
Then tell them what you want to see instead (I'd suggest more on Iraq and the Economy. I'd suggest NOT saying you want to hear more about Obama, because the outlet may assume you're an Obama operative and dismiss your feedback.)
Believe me folks, this can work. I work at a TV station, and when they see a significant jump in emails and calls about an issue, they pay attention and act accordingly.
Please consider recommending this post so others can use these tips.
No. Lets do MORE than that. Lets refocus our whole COUNTRY on McCain.
Lets remind our undecided friends and family why they couldn't stand him just a few short weeks ago.
We can do this by reminding the message mongers in the USA just how irrelevant Sarah Palin is to this election.
Media outlets respond quickly to audience feedback.
So, the next time you see a Palin story, instead of coming here and fighting the server to vent about how much you hate her, why not contact the a outlet and RAISE HELL.
Tell them you, as a faithful audience member are SICK TO DEATH of her.
Make sure you reference the particular story. Tell them what time you saw the story and what it was about. Get the reporter's name and reference them in your correspondance. Be as specific as you can so the outlet knows you're FUCKING FURIOUS about their specific product.
Then tell them what you want to see instead (I'd suggest more on Iraq and the Economy. I'd suggest NOT saying you want to hear more about Obama, because the outlet may assume you're an Obama operative and dismiss your feedback.)
Believe me folks, this can work. I work at a TV station, and when they see a significant jump in emails and calls about an issue, they pay attention and act accordingly.
Please consider recommending this post so others can use these tips.
Democrats are embarrasing
2 humiliating Presidential election cycles and 8 long years of political hell and the left has learned nothing.
November was all but in the freakin' bag. We have an insipring class act at the top of an historical ticket and a geriatric clown for an opponent.
But the netroots it seems annot wait to have their ASSES handed to them yet again by jumpi9ng into the gutter and getting dirty with the "culture warriors."
My family is full of Republicans. They're infuriated and embarrassed by Bush. They can't stand McCain. I consider every one of them a swing voter. I consider almost all of them votes for Obama.
Ast least I DID, until we decided to HELP the GOP fight this elction on their own turf by hyperventialting about everything Sarah Palin says and does (ahem, Josh Marshall, ahem...) and, by extension, injecting every cultural wedge issue that Republicanbs use to cover the fact that they're COWARDLY MURDEROUS TRAITORS.
For Chrissakes, friends, you don't build numbers by screaming about how you are different. You build numbers by talking about what you have in common.
LETS GET BACK ON MESSAGE.
1) REMIND PEOPLE WHAT THIS ELECTION IS TRULY ABOUT!
IRAQ, ECONOMY, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, CONSTITUTIONAL RAPE, GITMO, KATRINA...
These are all things that most Americans are FURIOUS about, no matter what they think of the NRA. HAMMER THEM.
Even my Evangelical parents and sisters think that Global Warming is a big deal.
If this election is about Irag, their jobs, and their retirement funds evaporating, they will vote with you. If this election is about God, guns, and abortion, they will vote against you.
Remember, swing votes are in the center.
2) STOP TALKING ABOUT SARAH PALIN!
She is a GOP wet dream.
If you are talking about her, you CANNOT talk about the issues that are most damaging to Republicans.
You CANNOT talk about Palin and Iraq. She has no relevant connection to it. And so it goes with the rest of the Republican baggage that has the country in ruins.
What she IS is GOP wedge issues personified.
Plus, many swing-types have something in common with her (they hunt, they go to church, etc.) so over the top Palin-o-phobia gives the right-wing MEDIA WHORES a ready made script: "These people don't respect your values!" This is the same line Republicans have been hiding their CHICKENSHIT MURDEROUS asses behind for as long as I can remember.
Don't give them that free advertising. Leave her where she belongs, in the margins of election obscurity. Make her WORK for exposure.
this is the second time I've posted this, so sorry if the firs shows up sometime.
November was all but in the freakin' bag. We have an insipring class act at the top of an historical ticket and a geriatric clown for an opponent.
But the netroots it seems annot wait to have their ASSES handed to them yet again by jumpi9ng into the gutter and getting dirty with the "culture warriors."
My family is full of Republicans. They're infuriated and embarrassed by Bush. They can't stand McCain. I consider every one of them a swing voter. I consider almost all of them votes for Obama.
Ast least I DID, until we decided to HELP the GOP fight this elction on their own turf by hyperventialting about everything Sarah Palin says and does (ahem, Josh Marshall, ahem...) and, by extension, injecting every cultural wedge issue that Republicanbs use to cover the fact that they're COWARDLY MURDEROUS TRAITORS.
For Chrissakes, friends, you don't build numbers by screaming about how you are different. You build numbers by talking about what you have in common.
LETS GET BACK ON MESSAGE.
1) REMIND PEOPLE WHAT THIS ELECTION IS TRULY ABOUT!
IRAQ, ECONOMY, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, CONSTITUTIONAL RAPE, GITMO, KATRINA...
These are all things that most Americans are FURIOUS about, no matter what they think of the NRA. HAMMER THEM.
Even my Evangelical parents and sisters think that Global Warming is a big deal.
If this election is about Irag, their jobs, and their retirement funds evaporating, they will vote with you. If this election is about God, guns, and abortion, they will vote against you.
Remember, swing votes are in the center.
2) STOP TALKING ABOUT SARAH PALIN!
She is a GOP wet dream.
If you are talking about her, you CANNOT talk about the issues that are most damaging to Republicans.
You CANNOT talk about Palin and Iraq. She has no relevant connection to it. And so it goes with the rest of the Republican baggage that has the country in ruins.
What she IS is GOP wedge issues personified.
Plus, many swing-types have something in common with her (they hunt, they go to church, etc.) so over the top Palin-o-phobia gives the right-wing MEDIA WHORES a ready made script: "These people don't respect your values!" This is the same line Republicans have been hiding their CHICKENSHIT MURDEROUS asses behind for as long as I can remember.
Don't give them that free advertising. Leave her where she belongs, in the margins of election obscurity. Make her WORK for exposure.
this is the second time I've posted this, so sorry if the firs shows up sometime.
Democrats are embarrasing
2 humiliating Presidential election cycles and 8 long years of political hell and the left has learned nothing.
November was all but in the freakin' bag. We have an insipring class act at the top of an historical ticket and a geriatric clown for an opponent.
But the netroots it seems annot wait to have their ASSES handed to them yet again by jumpi9ng into the gutter and getting dirty with the "culture warriors."
My family is full of Republicans. They're infuriated and embarrassed by Bush. They can't stand McCain. I consider every one of them a swing voter. I consider almost all of them votes for Obama.
Ast least I DID, until we decided to HELP the GOP fight this elction on their own turf by hyperventialting about everything Sarah Palin says and does (ahem, Josh Marshall, ahem...) and, by extension, injecting every cultural wedge issue that Republicanbs use to cover the fact that they're COWARDLY MURDEROUS TRAITORS.
For Chrissakes, friends, you don't build numbers by screaming about how you are different. You build numbers by talking about what you have in common.
LETS GET BACK ON MESSAGE.
1) REMIND PEOPLE WHAT THIS ELECTION IS TRULY ABOUT!
IRAQ, ECONOMY, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, CONSTITUTIONAL RAPE, GITMO, KATRINA...
These are all things that most Americans are FURIOUS about, no matter what they think of the NRA. HAMMER THEM.
Even my Evangelical parents and sisters think that Global Warming is a big deal.
If this election is about Irag, their jobs, and their retirement funds evaporating, they will vote with you. If this election is about God, guns, and abortion, they will vote against you.
Remember, swing votes are in the center.
2) STOP TALKING ABOUT SARAH PALIN!
She is a GOP wet dream.
If you are talking about her, you CANNOT talk about the issues that are most damaging to Republicans.
You CANNOT talk about Palin and Iraq. She has no relevant connection to it. And so it goes with the rest of the Republican baggage that has the country in ruins.
What she IS is GOP wedge issues personified.
Plus, many swing-types have something in common with her (they hunt, they go to church, etc.) so over the top Palin-o-phobia gives the right-wing MEDIA WHORES a ready made script: "These people don't respect your values!" This is the same line Republicans have been hiding their CHICKENSHIT MURDEROUS asses behind for as long as I can remember.
Don't give them that free advertising. Leave her where she belongs, in the margins of election obscurity. Make her WORK for exposure.
this is the second time I've posted this, so sorry if the firs shows up sometime.
November was all but in the freakin' bag. We have an insipring class act at the top of an historical ticket and a geriatric clown for an opponent.
But the netroots it seems annot wait to have their ASSES handed to them yet again by jumpi9ng into the gutter and getting dirty with the "culture warriors."
My family is full of Republicans. They're infuriated and embarrassed by Bush. They can't stand McCain. I consider every one of them a swing voter. I consider almost all of them votes for Obama.
Ast least I DID, until we decided to HELP the GOP fight this elction on their own turf by hyperventialting about everything Sarah Palin says and does (ahem, Josh Marshall, ahem...) and, by extension, injecting every cultural wedge issue that Republicanbs use to cover the fact that they're COWARDLY MURDEROUS TRAITORS.
For Chrissakes, friends, you don't build numbers by screaming about how you are different. You build numbers by talking about what you have in common.
LETS GET BACK ON MESSAGE.
1) REMIND PEOPLE WHAT THIS ELECTION IS TRULY ABOUT!
IRAQ, ECONOMY, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, CONSTITUTIONAL RAPE, GITMO, KATRINA...
These are all things that most Americans are FURIOUS about, no matter what they think of the NRA. HAMMER THEM.
Even my Evangelical parents and sisters think that Global Warming is a big deal.
If this election is about Irag, their jobs, and their retirement funds evaporating, they will vote with you. If this election is about God, guns, and abortion, they will vote against you.
Remember, swing votes are in the center.
2) STOP TALKING ABOUT SARAH PALIN!
She is a GOP wet dream.
If you are talking about her, you CANNOT talk about the issues that are most damaging to Republicans.
You CANNOT talk about Palin and Iraq. She has no relevant connection to it. And so it goes with the rest of the Republican baggage that has the country in ruins.
What she IS is GOP wedge issues personified.
Plus, many swing-types have something in common with her (they hunt, they go to church, etc.) so over the top Palin-o-phobia gives the right-wing MEDIA WHORES a ready made script: "These people don't respect your values!" This is the same line Republicans have been hiding their CHICKENSHIT MURDEROUS asses behind for as long as I can remember.
Don't give them that free advertising. Leave her where she belongs, in the margins of election obscurity. Make her WORK for exposure.
this is the second time I've posted this, so sorry if the firs shows up sometime.
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Liberals are embarassing...
2 absolutely humiliating election cycles to and 8 long years of political hell and the left has still learned nothing.
November was all but in the freakin' bag. A CLASS ACT at the top of an historic ticket, a geriatric CLOWN for an opponent...yet somehow the net roots CANNOT WAIT to dive into that gutter and get their asses handed to them by the "culture warriors."
My family is full of Republicans. They're all infuriated and embarassed by Bush. They can't stand John McCain. They are likely votes in Obama's column.
That is, they WERE, until we decided to HELP the GOP fight this battle on their home turf by hyperventilating about anything and everything Palin says and does (and injecting all of the wedge issues Republican COWARDS and TRAITORS hide behind right back into this cycle.)
For Chrissakes friends, you don't build your numbers by screaming about how you're different. You build numbers by talking about things you have in common.
LETS GET BACK ON-MESSAGE!
1) REMIND PEOPLE WHAT THIS ELECTION IS REALLY ABOUT:
IRAQ, KATRINA, GITMO, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, CONSTITUTIONAL RAPE, ECONOMIC CRISIS. These are things that almost EVERYONE is pissed about, no matter what they think about the NRA.
Even my Evangelical parents and sisters think Global Warming is real.
If this election is about Iraq, their jobs and retirement funds, they will vote WITH you. If this election is about abortion and guns, they will vote against you.
2) STOP TALKING ABOUT SARAH PALIN! The only reason anyones still talking about her is because WE keep bringing her up! (ahem, Josh Marshal, ahem...) She also happens to be every cultural wedge issue Republicans count on personified.
On top of that, any criticism of her (regardless of how true it is) gives GOP Media WHORES a ready-made emotional wedge with the center crowd : "These people don't respect YOUR values!" is the line they hide their COWARDLY MURDEROUS asses behind..
Don't give them that ground!
November was all but in the freakin' bag. A CLASS ACT at the top of an historic ticket, a geriatric CLOWN for an opponent...yet somehow the net roots CANNOT WAIT to dive into that gutter and get their asses handed to them by the "culture warriors."
My family is full of Republicans. They're all infuriated and embarassed by Bush. They can't stand John McCain. They are likely votes in Obama's column.
That is, they WERE, until we decided to HELP the GOP fight this battle on their home turf by hyperventilating about anything and everything Palin says and does (and injecting all of the wedge issues Republican COWARDS and TRAITORS hide behind right back into this cycle.)
For Chrissakes friends, you don't build your numbers by screaming about how you're different. You build numbers by talking about things you have in common.
LETS GET BACK ON-MESSAGE!
1) REMIND PEOPLE WHAT THIS ELECTION IS REALLY ABOUT:
IRAQ, KATRINA, GITMO, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, CONSTITUTIONAL RAPE, ECONOMIC CRISIS. These are things that almost EVERYONE is pissed about, no matter what they think about the NRA.
Even my Evangelical parents and sisters think Global Warming is real.
If this election is about Iraq, their jobs and retirement funds, they will vote WITH you. If this election is about abortion and guns, they will vote against you.
2) STOP TALKING ABOUT SARAH PALIN! The only reason anyones still talking about her is because WE keep bringing her up! (ahem, Josh Marshal, ahem...) She also happens to be every cultural wedge issue Republicans count on personified.
On top of that, any criticism of her (regardless of how true it is) gives GOP Media WHORES a ready-made emotional wedge with the center crowd : "These people don't respect YOUR values!" is the line they hide their COWARDLY MURDEROUS asses behind..
Don't give them that ground!
HERE'S the script for getting this election back on track...
Sarah WHO? Never heard of her.
Have I told you about Barack Obama?
Reasoning: the right wing base likes nothing more than feeling victimized by "The Left" and "The Media." The more we talk about Palin's shortcomings, the more they rally behind her.
Truth is irrelevant in this case. What we view as damning evidence of her inadequacy is playing right into their hand.
Time to move the focus back to the oval office, where there's no contest.
Have I told you about Barack Obama?
Reasoning: the right wing base likes nothing more than feeling victimized by "The Left" and "The Media." The more we talk about Palin's shortcomings, the more they rally behind her.
Truth is irrelevant in this case. What we view as damning evidence of her inadequacy is playing right into their hand.
Time to move the focus back to the oval office, where there's no contest.
Report from On The Ground in Montana...
It's a stunningly beautiful day here in Big Sky Country. I'd always thought there were absolutely no advantages to a June primary until today, when I voted behind an elderly gentleman on crutches who would have had a VERY hard time making it to the polls in February. You learn something new every day.
As of yesterday, an estimated 78,000 absentee ballots had been returned to the Montana's office of Secretary of State. The S.O.S. predicts 35% of '08 primary ballots could be absentee. Thats 3 times the absentee ballots cast in the 2004 primary. Montana has registered over 32,000 new voters sine the 2004 cycle.
Turnout predictions are running at around 47%, unheard of for Montana's late primary. In Cascade County, one of the states largest, they have already registered a higher turnout than they had for the entire 2006 primary.
Montana has an open primary where anyone can choose to vote for any party, but voters CANNOT vote both ballots. This means Operation Chaos voters will have to sacrifice voting for contested Republican state races if they use their vote for the Democratic primary.
Races O.C. voters would not be able to weigh in on:
There are 6 candidates jockeying for the chance to take on Senator Max Baucus.
There is a VERY vigorous and vocal group of Ron Paul activists who are REALLY trying to get him across the finish line ahead of McCain. This is not out of the question; Paul came in second in Montana's GOP Caucus, ahead of both McCain and Huckabee (Romney won). Yesterday someone parked an old Blaser covered in Ron Paul signs right outside the door of the TV station I work for with signs indicating the media were ignoring the other candidate for POTUS.
Montana's lone representative, Republican Denny Rehberg, is unopposed on the GOP side.
There is a pretty heated contest for the GOP nomination for state AG.
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I hope to have more info as the day goes on. Please consider recommending this post so I can update it later. Thanks.
As of yesterday, an estimated 78,000 absentee ballots had been returned to the Montana's office of Secretary of State. The S.O.S. predicts 35% of '08 primary ballots could be absentee. Thats 3 times the absentee ballots cast in the 2004 primary. Montana has registered over 32,000 new voters sine the 2004 cycle.
Turnout predictions are running at around 47%, unheard of for Montana's late primary. In Cascade County, one of the states largest, they have already registered a higher turnout than they had for the entire 2006 primary.
Montana has an open primary where anyone can choose to vote for any party, but voters CANNOT vote both ballots. This means Operation Chaos voters will have to sacrifice voting for contested Republican state races if they use their vote for the Democratic primary.
Races O.C. voters would not be able to weigh in on:
There are 6 candidates jockeying for the chance to take on Senator Max Baucus.
There is a VERY vigorous and vocal group of Ron Paul activists who are REALLY trying to get him across the finish line ahead of McCain. This is not out of the question; Paul came in second in Montana's GOP Caucus, ahead of both McCain and Huckabee (Romney won). Yesterday someone parked an old Blaser covered in Ron Paul signs right outside the door of the TV station I work for with signs indicating the media were ignoring the other candidate for POTUS.
Montana's lone representative, Republican Denny Rehberg, is unopposed on the GOP side.
There is a pretty heated contest for the GOP nomination for state AG.
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I hope to have more info as the day goes on. Please consider recommending this post so I can update it later. Thanks.
Reagan The Appeaser (take 2) essential ammo for confronting conservative crap.
From the NYT Article "The Right Against Reagan" Jan 17 1988.
Emphasis is mine.
Now I say unto thee, go forth armed with this knowledge and defeat the freepers and Red-Staters amongst you! Confront the LGF idolaters with the truth of the Great Communicator as a negotiator, and rejoice at their wailing and gnashing of teeth!
Even before Reagan signed the treaty with Gorbachev on Dec. 8, right-wing strategists were organizing. One week before the signing, the core of ''the outside network'' -some two dozen conservative leaders heading mass organizations that claim a total of 1 million to 2 million members - held a strategy dinner at the Ramada Inn in suburban Tysons Corner, Va.
The table talk, recalled one participant, was full of frustration, and focused on the question of ''what to do about summit fever, what to do about Reagan's relationship with Gorbachev - the idea being that Reagan was appeasing liberals in Congress, appeasing the Communists, caving in on taxes, putting moderates like Frank Carlucci at Defense, and cutting deals with the evil empire.''
But Phillips's knock-out punch will be a full-page ad scheduled to run this month in such conservative-minded newspapers as The Washington Times and New Hampshire's Manchester Union-Leader. Under the headline, ''Appeasement is as unwise in 1988 as in 1938,'' photos of Reagan and Gorbachev are paired with photos of Neville Chamberlain and Hitler, followed by the appeal: ''Help Us Defeat the Reagan-Gorbachev INF Treaty.''
Emphasis is mine.
Now I say unto thee, go forth armed with this knowledge and defeat the freepers and Red-Staters amongst you! Confront the LGF idolaters with the truth of the Great Communicator as a negotiator, and rejoice at their wailing and gnashing of teeth!
Reagan The Appeaser
From the NYT Article "The Right Against Reagan" Jan 17 1988.
Emphasis is mine.
Emphasis is mine.
Even before Reagan signed the treaty with Gorbachev on Dec. 8, right-wing strategists were organizing. One week before the signing, the core of ''the outside network'' -some two dozen conservative leaders heading mass organizations that claim a total of 1 million to 2 million members - held a strategy dinner at the Ramada Inn in suburban Tysons Corner, Va.
The table talk, recalled one participant, was full of frustration, and focused on the question of ''what to do about summit fever, what to do about Reagan's relationship with Gorbachev - the idea being that Reagan was appeasing liberals in Congress, appeasing the Communists, caving in on taxes, putting moderates like Frank Carlucci at Defense, and cutting deals with the evil empire.''
But Phillips's knock-out punch will be a full-page ad scheduled to run this month in such conservative-minded newspapers as The Washington Times and New Hampshire's Manchester Union-Leader. Under the headline, ''Appeasement is as unwise in 1988 as in 1938,'' photos of Reagan and Gorbachev are paired with photos of Neville Chamberlain and Hitler, followed by the appeal: ''Help Us Defeat the Reagan-Gorbachev INF Treaty.''
To my friends and fellow voters who support Senator Clinton I ask, "Which is it?"
Friends,
A curious situation is arising in this primary campaign.
For months we've all seen (and many of us have posted) comments that this race isn't over until it's over.
Over the past several days another common theme has arisen; that the Obama camp is doing little to attract the supporters of Senator Clinton.
To my friends who support Senator Clinton I have to say that I'm confused.
Which is it?
If the Senator from New York still has a chance at this nomination, isn't it disrespectful of the Obama team to prematurely count her out by trying to unite her supporters behind him?
If you believe Senator Obama and his team are not taking your feelings or your past dedication to the Democratic party into account, do you believe deep down that this race is over?
I don't think you can have it both ways.
A curious situation is arising in this primary campaign.
For months we've all seen (and many of us have posted) comments that this race isn't over until it's over.
Over the past several days another common theme has arisen; that the Obama camp is doing little to attract the supporters of Senator Clinton.
To my friends who support Senator Clinton I have to say that I'm confused.
Which is it?
If the Senator from New York still has a chance at this nomination, isn't it disrespectful of the Obama team to prematurely count her out by trying to unite her supporters behind him?
If you believe Senator Obama and his team are not taking your feelings or your past dedication to the Democratic party into account, do you believe deep down that this race is over?
I don't think you can have it both ways.
Where is Destor?
Dear Destor23,
If ever there was a time that we need to be reminded of John McCain's age, it is now.
Please, if you are lurking here at TPMEC, speak up, eh!
If ever there was a time that we need to be reminded of John McCain's age, it is now.
Please, if you are lurking here at TPMEC, speak up, eh!
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I just watched a man choke back tears because his son's going back to Iraq. It's time to end this.
I just watched a co-worker of mine choke back tears.
His son is being stop-lossed. OUR GOVERNMENT is sending him back for a THIRD deployment in Iraq.
He literally went to his ETS processing and the paperwork wasn't signed. Instead of separating in June, he's now scheduled to re-deploy in September. He came home from Iraq last November.
This bullshit primary is the greatest gift we could have given that Lame Duck and his henchmen. While we're pixel-whacking about flag pins and middle fingers, people are fighting and dying because we STILL can't find the guts to say NO MORE!
We need to do everything we can to end this bullshit now.
Are your representatives undecided? GIVE THEM HELL. Don't use kid gloves. Tell them lives are at stake.
Know of any party Superdelegates in your area? Call them up. Tell them we can't wait another minute.
NO MORE.
His son is being stop-lossed. OUR GOVERNMENT is sending him back for a THIRD deployment in Iraq.
He literally went to his ETS processing and the paperwork wasn't signed. Instead of separating in June, he's now scheduled to re-deploy in September. He came home from Iraq last November.
This bullshit primary is the greatest gift we could have given that Lame Duck and his henchmen. While we're pixel-whacking about flag pins and middle fingers, people are fighting and dying because we STILL can't find the guts to say NO MORE!
We need to do everything we can to end this bullshit now.
Are your representatives undecided? GIVE THEM HELL. Don't use kid gloves. Tell them lives are at stake.
Know of any party Superdelegates in your area? Call them up. Tell them we can't wait another minute.
NO MORE.
Since ABC brought it up, lets talk Wright.
Do you know what a liturgical stole is?
It's that cloth sash that clergy wear around their neck.
At this moment, there are dozens of liturgical stoles on display in my church. Each one represents the life story of a Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, or Trans-gendered person of faith. Together, they represent an astonishing spectrum of human experience, from dizzying inspiration to heart-wrenching tragedy. They are each profoundly moving.
I don't believe in God.
But that is MY church.
Three weeks ago I had the spne-tingling experience of watching two of the pastors, both openly gay, both women, discuss their doubts about the gospel. That was the sermon.
And it was so much more than novel. The scope of each woman's knowledge and imagination was breathtaking.
I don't believe in the gospels.
But that is MY church.
Two weeks ago the sermon was given by a minister whom I would have described as developmentally disabled upon first hearing him speak. I spent the first few moments of his sermon trying to decide whether or not he had downs syndrome.
By the end I was in tears and the whole room was shouting. His sermon drew incredible parallels between St. Matthew, Steinbeck, MLK, and others. The other ministers called him the Prophet of Love.
I don't believe in prophets.
But that is MY church.
MY church has welcomed parishioners and leaders of any sexual orientation for FIFTEEN YEARS.
MY church has a PROUDLY displayed library on climate Change. MY church's leaders have demanded, loudly and publicly, that other religiously leaders break their silence and urge their congregations to combat climate change. MY church has organized a religious coalition supporting environmental initiatives across my red state.
MY church sends people to Oaxaca, Columbia, and many other places to do real work against tyranny and imperialism.
I am not a Christian.
But that is MY church.
MY church is the UCC church. It is the church of Senator Barack Obama. It is the church of Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
I wish more churches were just like it.
What is your church like?
It's that cloth sash that clergy wear around their neck.
At this moment, there are dozens of liturgical stoles on display in my church. Each one represents the life story of a Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, or Trans-gendered person of faith. Together, they represent an astonishing spectrum of human experience, from dizzying inspiration to heart-wrenching tragedy. They are each profoundly moving.
I don't believe in God.
But that is MY church.
Three weeks ago I had the spne-tingling experience of watching two of the pastors, both openly gay, both women, discuss their doubts about the gospel. That was the sermon.
And it was so much more than novel. The scope of each woman's knowledge and imagination was breathtaking.
I don't believe in the gospels.
But that is MY church.
Two weeks ago the sermon was given by a minister whom I would have described as developmentally disabled upon first hearing him speak. I spent the first few moments of his sermon trying to decide whether or not he had downs syndrome.
By the end I was in tears and the whole room was shouting. His sermon drew incredible parallels between St. Matthew, Steinbeck, MLK, and others. The other ministers called him the Prophet of Love.
I don't believe in prophets.
But that is MY church.
MY church has welcomed parishioners and leaders of any sexual orientation for FIFTEEN YEARS.
MY church has a PROUDLY displayed library on climate Change. MY church's leaders have demanded, loudly and publicly, that other religiously leaders break their silence and urge their congregations to combat climate change. MY church has organized a religious coalition supporting environmental initiatives across my red state.
MY church sends people to Oaxaca, Columbia, and many other places to do real work against tyranny and imperialism.
I am not a Christian.
But that is MY church.
MY church is the UCC church. It is the church of Senator Barack Obama. It is the church of Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
I wish more churches were just like it.
What is your church like?
