5 posts tagged “2008 presidential race”
(I can not restrain myself: John McCain has eyes like Dagwood Bumstead. his wife is a walking stick insect with bleached hair. They both are scary.) John McCain’s website reads: "No matter who wins this election, the direction of this country is going to change dramatically. But, the choice is between the right change and the wrong change; between going forward and going backward." Well put. Are they trying to discourage you from voting Republican? I think it is an IQ test. Furthermore, there is a speech he delivered on June 3 in New Orleans in his website. Here are some excerpts: A brief record of his voting: (he did not vote on many bills, by the way, esp. in 2007) John McCain voted yes to table (get rid of) the repeal of the amendment that forbids women in the military and their dependents from getting an abortion in a foreign hospital. (I know, double negatives…he voted to keep it that women in the military and their dependents can not receive abortions in foreign hospitals) He voted no to to pass a bill that would reauthorize federal agricultural programs, in such areas as rural development, food aid, price supports, and conservation, for a five year period. (the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act) He voted yes to the 2007 Defense Dept (Budget) Authorization Bill for $505,230,000,000.00 (the bill passed) He voted no to an amendment which would provide funds for a program to assist low-income families with their energy bills (it got passed anyway). This bill was sponsored by Sen John Kerry and Reps Bill Young and C.W. Bill. He voted no to a bill which would expand access to preventive health care services that reduce unintended pregnancy (including teen pregnancy), reduce the number of abortions, and improve access to women's health care. This bill was sponsored by Senators Hillary Clinton and Gregg Judd. The bill did not pass. He voted yes to a bill which allows banks to sell insurance and insurance companies to buy banks. (It passed. Weeee, free enterprise...bank 'em and yank 'em.) Anyone for a Dagwood sandwich?
Nuttier than a Snickers Bar. They are all nutters. I am talking about, the people campaigning for president of the U.S. of A. this year. Here is why: John McCain is simple. He is so obviously insane, there is no denying it. You can see it in his eyes. They glow with an inner light fueled by misfiring synapses that flap around in the dark like bats in a bellfry. They shimmer like the gas planet Saturn, methane and CO2 from all the greenhouse gas spewed by his party's homies, churning around in a soup. And anyone who would run for this position for the Republican party after the oil company dictatorship that has reigned supreme in this country for the past seven and a half years, would have to be. Plus, he says wacky things that contradict themselves. Hillary Clinton was driven nuts by her husband. He may have been a good president, but he was a shyte hubby. He believes receiving oral sex from other women is not cheating. And she remained married to him all these years. Also, she is not right in the head if she thinks taking away the gas tax for a season will improve the economy. I don’t know about you, but saving one dollar eight cents a week (18 cents times ten) is not going to inspire me to suddenly run out to Macy’s department store and buy a pair of $100 sandals (If you want to improve the economy, punish the oil companies, whose record profits will enable their executives’ great-great-great-etc grandchildren to inherit more cash than Anna Nicole Smith’s baby. Gas tax pays for many things, and does not punish them. In fact, people might buy MORE of their product if it is cheaper, so it could actually REWARD them). Now she is putting on her Blue Collar hat, portraying herself as the champion of the working class. Really? When was the last time she had to forgo dining out for a month in order to get both the electric bill and the water bill paid (never)? And why exactly, when she was a big-wig for Wal-mart in the ‘80s and ‘90s, did she do nothing when the retail giant fought against labor unions? (we all know what a great employer the company has been) But apparently, many Democrats are nutters too, cause they believe her when she says she represents the working people. Barak Obama is a nutter. He thinks telling the truth and having really good ideas that will cause actual improvement, will get him elected president of this country. He believes he will be able to get this government to pull away from corporate lobbyists like Big Oil. The people of North Carolina are nutters. They voted him in 56%. (1% picked "no preference". Is that a choice?) They are inspired by someone who seems honest and intelligent. When was that ever a factor in electing a president? (With sarcasm, I speak, said Yoda)
Giuliani and the rest, well…
Over the past week, voters in the Triangle area of North Carolina have been receiving strange phone calls. Strange in that it is an automated voice call instructing them that their voting registration packet will be arriving in the mail soon, and this after the period for registering by mail had passed. Strange also, in that these calls seem to be targeting black voters (in other words, Democrats). Strange again, in that many of the people who were contacted had also already registered. And lastly, strange that the interest group making the calls did not identify itself in the call nor how to reach them to stop these calls, which is the law. Someone let the State Attorney General know about it, and he issued a statement denouncing it. When his office investigated the calls, they discovered they were coming from Women’s Voices-Women Vote. Who works for this group? Interestingly, its president is someone who recently donated a shed-load of cash to Hill-Pac, Hillary Clinton’s campaign org. And, the Executive Director is someone who used to work for Bill Clinton during his 1992 campaign, and Women's Voices-Women Vote's attorney also has worked for the Clintons. Hillary’s camp denies anything to do with it. In a statement, her Raleigh, North Carolina spokeperson stated that Hill-Pac "has no connection to the organization conducting these robo-calls… and has never accepted any funds from this organization." Hogwash, Hillary, hogwash. You are very worried about Barak Obama in North Carolina, and are on the warpath in a nasty way. Shame on you. I hope this news gets out there into the mass media. I was straddling the atmosphere on who I would vote for, but this has certainly made up my mind. I do not vote for liars and cheaters, thanks. My son said to me months ago, in his youthful 19 year old way, he's not voting for her, she seems like a liar. Her eyes are dishonest. This coming from a registered Democrat, who wants peace and sanity from his country. (would I have raised anyone other than, a John Lennon Jr?)
H= Hillary and B= Barak (duh...) H: Industries pay for GHG emissions 100% B: Industries pay for GHG emissions 100% H: Reduce GHG emissions 80% from 1990 levels by 2050 B: Reduce GHG emissions 80% from 1990 levels by 2050 H: 25% of electricity from alternative energy by 2025 B: 25% of electricity from alternative energy by 2025 H: Funding 10 "smart grid" cities* B: Invest in a digital "smart grid"** H: All new fed buildings have to be carbon neutral after January 2009 B: Reducing electricity demand 20% by 2020; making all new buildings carbon neutral; improving energy efficiency 50% in new buildings and 25% in existing by 2030 H: $50 billion Strategic Energy Fund & $150 for green energy research funding B: $150 b invested in clean energy switchover; double green energy research money from current levels H: Get away from nuclear plants B: Use of clean coal plant H: 60 b gallons of biofuel for vehicles by 2030 B: 60 b gallons of biofuel to be in use by 2030 H: Cars 55 mpg standard by 2030 B: Double car fuel economy standards by 2026 B: Address and reduce deforestation & promote carbon sequestration with incentives for farmers and "forest owners" *Hillary’s smart grid is a city where there is peak demand has protection against blackouts; there are plug ins for hybrids (wassup wit plug-in hybrids? Why not simply, plug in vehicles, as have already been in the past?) as well as making other green technology easier to use. **Barak’s smart grid is referring to the grid of electrical power that connects cities where renewable energy is a part of the grid and more accessible. They are nearly the same, even the numbers and years. My problems with the plans are as follows: Couldn't they have been more creative? As well as, SOMEBODY is copying off someone else's test paper. I feel like a high school teacher who caught someone cheating. Biofuels produce CO2 & take up a lot of room to grow. Stop acting like they are the answer, unless they can come up with something that is super duper presto whammo biofuel. They should only be used for mass transportation if necessary. 55 mpg as well as double the current standard for car fuel efficiency, is still pathetic. With technology even as it is today, this should be much higher in the future. If you want to use coal, tell it like it is. It produces CO2 and unless you capture its emissions, don’t act like it’s a good thing to use it when you are trying to reduce GHG. If you are going to promote the use of electric cars, go for it and promote completely electric ones. The hybrids produced now do just fine with recharging their own batteries and switching over to fuel. You do not need to plug them in. This is just people who obviously do not know how a bloody hybrid works, apparently, writing this stuff. Dang. The good stuff: 100% industry responsibility for producing GHG rocks. Nuclear plants do suck for environmental reasons, as well as, they don’t really make a profit even. Sod the "smart grid" thing. If you are going for a better system, make the power system for the whole damn country work. And quit using corny catch phrases. (no one ever really keeps those catch phrase promises anyway, do they? Shut up.) The real answer: Make the oil industry pay for what it has done. It’s kinda like the cigarette companies making ciggies more addictive and then our being able to sue them for getting cancer. They lobbied for the ability to have bigger cars and SUVs. They lobbied against greener technology for many years. Make them pay for ALL the research as well as all the money needed to build greener cities, power plants, etc. They can afford it: they made more money than any other industry, what the past 2 years and running?
In the news of late, the media is speculating on who will be chosen as John McCain's running mate. His 2nd in command. Co-pilot to his pilot. Shorty to his Homie. Imbecile to his insanity.
I am convinced, he is insane. He has said some wacky things, and they have gotten wackier. He makes Nixon look stable. And of course, he will be the Repub's choice, because no sane person would want that job at this point.
All finalists have Good Family Values, in the Republican Tradition. Also some like their liquor at lunchtime, which is also very very upper class Republican, in the Country Club Way.
Here are the finalists for his Shorty, and their responses or conditions for doing it:
Jim Carrey:
"I can do it.
Only if I get to play God."
Amy Winehouse:
"I get an unlimited supply of topshelf gin and vodka, and you can never censor my mouth. In fact, ****! "
Paula Abdul:
"I get a QVC credit card in my name with no limit. Ever.
And white pumps will be in fashion all year round. In fact, I'll be bringing back stirrup pants.
One more thing: I get to have Skeet Ullrich as my pool boy."
Marcia Cross:
"I get my own church, and people have to worship me. And I get as much free Botox as is medically possible as often as possible (I'm maxed out right now), and the wife gets nil. In fact, kill her and marry me. Redheads are better anyway." (om...that's not real read in your hair)
Angela Bassett:
"Oh, HELL no!" (then she hung up on them)
Tom Cruise:
"I am related by DNA to the master race aliens. Of course, you will choose me. It is your destiny.
And I get control of NASA. By the way, global warming is due to our spaceship armada hovering over your weenie planet. F*ck the whales."
