Category — Politics

Tennessee Senate Has Passed Don’t Say Gay Bill | Gay Blog, Gay Friendly, Gay News.

So instead of being concerned over the fact that grocery bills and gas prices have risen while jobs have yet to recover, the state Senators have decided to control how people speak.

Absolutely brilliant, Tennessee. Let us be scared to utter the word gay while children go hungry in dark houses because their parents cannot get a job to pay their basic bills.

I woke up this morning to new that Osama bin Laden was confirmed dead. Were his and Saddam’s deaths worth the trillion plus debt, the choice to prioritize war spending over helping people have homes, jobs and food, and all the men and women who have died for what? To hunt someone down? Wow. I am impressed.

9/11, I was picking up my paycheck from the nursing home and my daughter had just turned nine months old the day before. We were both babies since I was 21 at the time.

Now, I am considered to be one of the lucky ones to have a house and a job, and yet, it is really hard to keep up with the bills even with two people working.

I don’t think he was worth it in the end.

Hunter: Deport U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants

So many things wrong with that idea, i don’t even know where to begin. Someone not paying attention in class, someone letting their idealogy blind them to reality, and general ignorance to start off with.

There is a ‘gentleman’ in Sweetwater who believes that President Obama is not a citizen of the US and as such is unfit to be President. He believes this so much that he has attempted to have the grand jury hear his case twice now, both times denied as not having any grounds.

I saw earlier today that apparently he attempted to arrest the grand jury foreman for preventing him him from presenting his case to the grand jury and instead was arrested.

Rather appropriate result, I say, as he has absolutely no grounds for his claims.

The Advocate and Democrat – News Story – Monroe County grand jury hears case for Obama indictment
The Advocate and Democrat – News Story – No indictment for President Obama from Monroe County grand jury

I write this at 11:36 AM on January 20th, 2009.  In 24 minutes, Barack Obama will be sworn in as the 44th President of the United States.  I am hopeful that he will make a difference. What a wonderful gift to the world, hope, hope that things will change, will be better.

whisperwords: Sarah Palin

This post sums up some of the points to ponder re: Sarah Palin and her being chosen as VP by John McCain.

Just because someone is a woman, does not mean that I, as a woman, should vote for her. I vote based on ideas, not on skin color or gender. And if that makes all the difference to you as to what set of genitals someone has or what color someone is, then, really, I have no sympathy for your plight.

Pandagon :: Can we keep the sunroof on the glass ceiling open? :: January :: 2008

[via ginmar]

So Hillary Clinton is being called a cunt by some in the Republican party.  How charming.  Because she has no problem with speaking her mind or *gasp* actually TRYING to do something good for the country, she is called a nasty word?

Perhaps in their world, a woman is only good for babies and being pretty.  What a shocker that a smart woman is actually ambitious and speaks her mind, not whatever a man told her to say.

I would say grow up and quit being scared, but that won’t happen.

Six Years Later, Bin Laden is still out there.

Six Years Later, $450 Billion wasted in Iraq, when our children make do with out dated schools, we drive on unsound bridges and more and more people lose their homes every day. More money was used to find one person, than was used to help an entire geographical area devastated by Katrina.

What has six years brought to us as a nation? Debt, a wasteful war, failing infrastructure, and the mastermind still holed up in a cave somewhere.

Brilliant move, Washington.

Between the idiotic behavior of those in Washington, the bridge collapse in Minneapolis, and the idiots at LJ/6A, lots of fodder for musings.

First of all: Washington.  The Attorney General is contradicted on sworn statements to Congress.  The Vice-President invokes executive privilege then turns around and says that his office is not part of the executive branch.  Bwah?

Second of all, the I-35 bridge collapse in Minneapolis.  Our infrastructure in America ie bridges, roads, airports, pipes, utilities and ports are falling apart.  Our national parks are in genteel poverty.  We’re spending money flexing muscles and getting people killed while at home things are falling apart around our ears.

And finally, LJ/6A’s behavior.  WTF?  Not even warning for infractions. Summarily deleting accounts including permanent accounts. 

I have two posts at The Abbey Annex, my LJ journal with more links.

• Updates about the Recent Mess
• LJ Makes Fandom Bend Over and Cough

This is it.

I’ve been saying this, not as eloquently or not here lately, but yes.  Contempt is serious business and quite frankly I am tired of them spending my tax dollars on stupid penis-waggling fights.

Contempt of Congress and maybe impeachment of both Bush and Cheney.  Pull out of Iraq.  Shut up about Iran.  Concentrate on finding Osama and try him in an international court under the Geneva conventions, you know those pesky little rules that Gitmo and Abu Ghraib ignored.