Well, my Jena6 perspective isn’t so popular. I’m not surprised. Thinking for ones self, and reacting to your environment in a sane and civil way are almost never popular. I’ll venture one step further now. Overturning the conviction was a typical judiciary response to a few knee jerk radicals. Rather than charge the other individuals they will let these 6 slide as well. Exactly the opposite of what decency would dictate should be done. It isn’t hard to figure out how society has become so adrift when the structures set in place to manage it are failing so monumentally at every conceivable level of government.
You’d think Hillary would understand that she of all candidates really needs to run a squeaky clean campaign. Ethics have never been in large supply in Clintonian politics, and the voters should maybe question her integrity on the Hsu mess. You have to give the Clintons credit…they stay bought as long as you keep paying. I suppose since they are chinese toys they should be painted with lead based paint.
The Packers are now 2-0. The only important thing that happened this week with the exception of the Badgers are now 3-0. Of course they’ve only beaten those two NFC East dynamos, the Giants and the Eagles. So could most good high school teams.
5 republican representatives and 3 republican senators are resigning at the end of their terms. This doesn’t include the restroom retard Larry Craig. i think it is safe to make a prediction for the ’08 elections now. I’m thinking both houses of congress go veto proof to the Democrats, and the White house goes democrat as well. That’s right folks, the Republicans are diving off a sinking ship, and you are about to experience the worst case government imagineable. One controlled completely by one party. I’m checking out foundries in Canada as we speak.
Nope. I’m not going to talk about OJ.
I will mention Ron Paul though. We are one month closer than the last time I checked his numbers, and there has been no movement. The blog furor seems to be dying down as well. The Pauliacs must be starting to realize that they are beating a dead horse this election season. Don’t feel bad though. Ge never had a chance, and we know this because?
Ron Paul continues to place in the top 3 in virtually every straw poll conducted. This one, in his home state of Texas, was only for voters who have either been delegates or alternates to a state or national convention recently.
Duncan Hunter came in first, with Fred Thompson second. No candidate outside the top 3 got more than single digits. Duncan Hunter, famous for his strong Border Security stance did well in the border state, and Fred Thompson, famous for not being a candidate yet, but with strong southern values, also did well.
Ron Paul’s third in his home state isn’t that surprising as these are strong party advocates, and Ron Paul isn’t a good Republican by any stretch. Placing third is actually probably a good barometer of his conservative values. Texan’s aren’t so much conservative, as they are rural, xenophobic, and big business republicans.
Who am I kidding. If you can only muck up a weak third in your home state you don’t have issues…you have become an issue. Time to fold the tent Ron. You have again deteriorated into a no hoper.
Who is Duncan Hunter? No, I’m asking…who is he? this is really kind of funny when you look at it.
Because today I happen to be more disgusted with the right than the left, I felt I would toss out this little tidbit. You may have already seen it, but these fine young medically challenged republicans are the leaders of tomorrow. they are so reminiscent of the leaders of today, and man it makes you nastolgic for the old days
I'm not going to tag this the way i probably should. I'm going to stick to honesty on this one.
ok, i'm tired of tagging it...but i have at least a million more.
it was a long day. It was a brutal day. It had a lot of downs, and only one up. I was not here when this happened. I have however crossed that bridge hundreds of times, and it kind of bothers me that the end of this article is all about how there is no known link to terrorism. Is that really where we are? Any catastrophic incident has to be looked at in light of a possible terrorist connection? They are now saying up to 50 cars in the river.
Some new exercise guidlelines are out. Basically it says if you have sex five days a week for a half hour, and sprinkle in a little weight lifting you’re good to go. It also says physical activity is about as bad as smoking in regards to morbidity and mortality, so get your lazy asses up and go do some boinking.
In the 70’s I remember this big deal being made about glasses from McDonalds that were made in China had to be thrown away because the paint had to much lead in it. Well, it’s 2007, and American companies are still putting you at risk by merchandising dangerous products bought from Chinese Vendors, Almost a million fisher price toys. Have your kids been putting any of them in their mouths? Isn’t it time free trade with this country be reexamined based on risk to our population.
here’s a good one on health insurance. Did you know that in many states you can make as much as 82K plus a year, and still receive federally funded health insurance? Bet that pisses off those of you making 50K a year and paying for your own. This includes adults with no children, but the program is called SCHIP and is intended for children. I pay for my won and my kids, but I think I’ll go get me some poor people money from the government. what the hell.
Britney Spears is now making death threats. She threatened to kill two photographers. That she intended to do it by making them smell her thong is only a rumor, but I’m pretty sure that would work. Dumb young women are becoming an infestation in the entertainment world. Isn’t there some way we can keep them from procreating?
so now we need more secret wiretapping? The democrats are balking, but how much you bet it goes through, even though their base is dead set against it. Get a clue on the left, you are as marginalized by the people you elected as are the people on the right.
Either Obama has caught a serious case of dumbass disease, or he has decided to move way the hell to the right. Somewhere right of Dick Cheney, actually. He is now threatening to invade Pakistan. Someone needs to tell him to shutup and fast.
Less people get their political news from you tube, myspace, AND blogs than from any other source. Over 60% of Republicans and Democrats say they would consider voting for an Independent candidate, and over 50% of each think an independent would be good for the country. Are you listening Ron Paul? Maybe its time to take down those faded and fake republican colors and run as a libertarian? You say you are one, and the country seems to be ready. Yeah right.
and thats it… i lugged 458 X 80 = 36,640 lbs during todays little 12 hour stint of hell, and my shoulders just now cried nuff.
So the new hue and cry is the Republican candidates are scared to debate on YouTube. I for one do not blame them. I think from a strategic standpoint those candidates currently refusing to attend the debate do so with a level of acute awareness often missing in the politicians of today.
Before the debate has even started Mitt Romney is being accused of saying that he thinks it’s undifnified to be questioned by the general public. The fact that he said nothing close to this is irrelevant because YouTubes have a huge problem with reading comprehension, and think that cesspool the other night was a fine example of democracy at work. What he said was he thought (I paraphrase) the office of president should be held to a higher level than to have to be asked questions by a snowman. I concur. Ratings are important to CNN, and since it is their editors that chose the questions we have to assume that ratings came into play when choosing the snowman question. I’m quite sure one of the other 3000 questions could have addressed global warming just as well. Some level of decorum should be maintained, and lets face it, the global warming snowman was as much about ratings as the psychopath with the assault rifle.
Additionally, the benchmarks in Iraq debate will be in full roar in September, and this is almost certainly the reason those not electing to attend have chosen that course of action. Contrary to what this mullet has to say:
Added state Republican spokeswoman Erin VanSickle: “It’s an important debate in an important battleground state that just moved its primary to Jan. 29th. In other words, we have every confidence that they will attend. They can’t afford not to.” (same link as above).
While I’m sure Florida will be important, it always is, I don’t think being swamped with questions about their Iraq positions will be good for any of the candidates. McCain has chosen to attend, as has Ron Paul. McCain needs a metaphoric homerun to win, and Ron Paul is on the right side of the war issue. Hard to blame either of them. The rest are not desperate enough to go to Florida and be sandbagged by CNN.
It’s not about you tube, although the wretchedly insipid crowd hanging out in the political arena there are absolutely sure there voice is the only one that matters. What matters is that several little CNN gnomes will be picking and choosing the questions, and quite likely stuffing the clip box as they do so. It’s not hard to imagine some little editor having a buddy send in a sleeper clip that they can smear a Republican candidate with. How about in the interest of fairness we have a FOXNEWS/YouTube.com debate?
I’m not raising a conspiracy theory here. CNN has long been known for its softballing interviews with democratic leaders while hammering away at conservatives. It’s easy to se it happen when you think both liberals and conservatives are worng, but I may be the only person left that believes that. The debate for the democrats barely touched on Iraq because quite simply thats not news at a democratic debate. They all profess desire to be out of the war, and everyone knows they aren’t doing anything about it. The republicans on the other hand primarily support some form of presence in Iraq, and I would surmise that based on the timing of the debate, CNN has every intention of using the benckmarks as a club to wield at the candidates.
Smart move Romney, Giuliani, Thompson, et al. No point putting your head in a noose today in hopes of being reincarnated in time for the elections.
While surfing all my favorite we love Ron Paul and never listen to reason sites I found this little tidbit of knowledge. There was also a lot of rhetoric about the reason it is being postponed is they fear Ron Paul. This of course is not the case. The only possible reason for postponing this debate is this.
Thats right. The republican strategists get their news and opinions from CriminyJicket more than from any other source.
Lets start with tonights debate. The spin machine is pumping out what a new and different thing the You Tube debate will be. Ok, tell me how? Because “you” are asking the questions. Lets look at that. Over 2000 clips have been submitted according to CNN. Obviously, they don’t have time in two hours to ask 2000 questions. How do we pare it down? Well, lets have CNN’s editors do it. Out of 2000 maybe 30 will be used. It’s not much of a stretch to imagine that the 30 will be those that CNN wants asked. The only input you have is whether you wear a silly hat, or hold your stupid fleabitten cat while you ask it. This is the first debate sanctioned by The Democratic National Committee this election cycle. What to expect? I think John Edwards and Barack Obama have to be more aggressive. Edwards because if he doesn’t he is dead, and Barack just to show that he is capable of it.
I wonder which $2000 suit wearing reject allowed the Republican debate to be held in September? Seems to me something real serious is going down in terms of Iraq that month, and it is likely to turn the Republican debate into a free for all. Which is good for the viewers, and for Ron Paul, but it sandbags the hell out of the hawks on stage. If I we’re Giuliani, McCain, and Romney I’d be mad as hell. Why? Well, do you think much is going to change in the next month and a half in Iraq? Yeah, me either. The Republican governors say its no big deal that their isn’t a front runner. They may be right. Conservatives are notoriously tight with their campaign funding until it shakes out, meaning they’ll be lots of money for the stretch run, and the geneal election.
Have you paid your “support dead farmers” tax? In a 7 year period over $1.1 billion in subsidies was paid to dead farmers. The U.S. Department of Agriculture pays out over 40% of claims without any review process at all. In most cases they rely on the farm corporations to inform them of a death. They say staff shortages and competing priorities are to blame. Another government agency tossing your money out the window, and generally to people one hell of a lot richer than you. Don’t believe me? Read the article. They’re spending money you could be putting away for your childs tuition to subsidize giant farm companies worth millions.
I was reading this and started doing the math. .09 cents is 3%. That means you now pay roughly $3.00 for a cup of coffee? Oh man, you deserve to be bent over and rammed by Starbucks. That’s pretty much the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.
Obama, Osama, and Chelsea’s Momma? Well isn’t that clever. I can understand Mitt’s argument. He isn’t responsible for his followers, and during photo ops you can’t really stop and check every sign. Further, this is kinda funny. Still, if you’re Mitt Romney, you might not want to give anyone any more reason to wonder about you. I know the Mitt fans are going to hate that comment, but he’s on decidedly thin ice anyway, and I see no reason to hand the guy with the gun some bullets. The Mormon vote can’t get him elected, so he might want to make sure and not alienate “others” with stupid photo op tricks.
Lil Wayne and Ja Rule got arrested Sunday night on weapons charges. Lil Wayne also got zapped with drug charges. I really have to know. What is with hip hop stars these days? Do they think they’re in the NFL?
You may not like him, But nobody packs a punch in publishing like Harry Potter. The latest book “harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows sold 8.3 million hardcover copies in the U.S. in the first 24 hours. That shatters the old record of 6.9 copies of…yep, The Half Blood Prince.
The worst flooding in 60 years in Great Britain. I’m not surprised. Al Gore has not done enough to stop Global Wetting, and now you see the consequences. Had he not spent so much time inventing the internet this tragedy could easily have been prevented.
I know, you think I’m joking. I should be. Our society should be able to see through all the pandering his disciples are doing, but I really don’t think they can. They should be able to see through the political gamesmanship the two major parties are involved in, but if people were cognizant of it then we wouldn’t be where we are today. Here’s just a thought on how Ron Paul could win. There are a lot of hypotheticals involved, but it’s better than his “I have no chance” plan.
1. We suffer no major terrorist attack on our soil between now and the election. This is important because as long as there is no attack George Bush’s policies will get no credit for it. People wouldn’t give George Bush credit for pharting if he let a loud, disgusting whopper in front of the white house press corps. As long as there isn’t an attack the democrats and Ron Paul take the edge. I’m not counting Fred yet, because Fred isn’t counting Fred yet.
2. The democrats nominate Hillary Clinton. I think this is going to happen. I knw all the newsies are gaga over Barack right now, but it is going to become all to obvious that he hasn’t the experience necessary to win the white house. Neither does his campaign staff. Hillary would lose the centrists, and even some of the lefties. She isn’t all that likeable.
3. Rudy continues to go right. His comments about only seating strict constructionist judges does not sit well in the center, and the right wing christian conservatives are not a large enough block to get him elected. Right wing Rudy can’t win the nomination, and this would open the door for Ron.
4. Mitt continues to be mormon. i know it shouldn’t matter, but we live in a very bigoted society. If you are different we hate you or fear you, and that isn’t going to change before 2008. I can’t see Mitt repudiating his religion, and he shouldn’t. It’s his albatross though. You’ve never heard a politician say “we have to get out the mormon vote.”
5. Ron doesn’t do anything incredibly stupid. His borderline stupid statements won’t kill him with the middle class. They are discouraged, in debt, and watching wages decline versus inflation. They see themselves being vut out of the American Dream by politicians that squander their resources at an alarming rate. They watch as the rich get tax breaks, and the breaks they get don’t ever seem to make a differencei n their lives. They are disenfranchised, and know that either party will promise them the moon, and give them more of the same. This works for Ron because all he promises them is what they already feel is theirs.
6. The war in Iraq continues. Which it will. Politicians make a lot of strategic mistakes. The republicans are wrong to think its a winnable war. The democrats are wrong to think they can benefit by allowing it to continue. Ron Paul has the market cornered here, and if the two sides don’t change he will keep this ground to himself. None of the other end the war candidates have any credibility left on the issue.
7. Gas prices go up, foreclosures continue to rise, and nothing is done about immigration. The two parties should be ensuring that enforcement of current law is accomplished, and a compromise can be reached on the reform of immigration policy.
8. Instead of picking another libertarian style candidate, or a Republican to run as his vice president, he waits for Hillary to win and then chooses Barack. Barack makes a nice addition to the team, and Ron doesn’t look so radical anymore. Barack has to bend some for this to work, but I could see them securing enough of the left, a bunch of the right, and maybe 80% of the middle.
the key here is can Ron Paul compromise, or does he need to have it his way? If he does he should head to burger king, because he will never win the election.
So Rudy and Mitt can raise roughly half of what the leading democratic candidates can raise? I’m not surprised. Nobody has set the world on fire on the Republican side yet, and probably won’t before they sort it out a little better. Fred Thompson is waiting in the wihgs, and a lot of money will pour his way. Fred wants people to look at him as another RR, but he is no Mr. Reagan. Never will be. What he is is different from who is there now. Giuliani has the east coast base, but politics are local, and 9/11 is already a distant memory to many. This may even entice Newt Gingrich in..who knows.
You know who those numbers look good for? Ron Paul. I know, and I’m still not a fan, but you can’t deny the shallow campaign funds being raised make him look like a potential superstar. Who’s to say some of the money th others aren’t getting he is? Remember, he doesn’t need as much because he is blitzing online, and its cheaper. He almost certainly gets the democrat vote almost anywhere that is allowed because they would ostensibly rather face him. Plus, just the outright disgust people have for Republicans is almost as high as the disgust they have for the democratically controlled congress. thats the kind of things you want to see if you’re Ron, and I for one can’t wait tosee his fundraising numbers. If the bloggers that vote for him over and over again actually send him money to, he could compete. I’d say if he can pull half what the others have he can be a factor deep into this thing.
I know its unpopular to say, but most people in America we’re hoisting the flag, and rattling there sabres when we went off to bash the heathen muslims. I wasn’t. It wasn’t out of some humanitarian hand wringing impulse, but self serving as hell. I have a son that was 13, and I knew, yes knew, that we would still be there when he turned 18. Which happens soon.Today that son asked me how I felt about him joining the military. It seems the pied pipers of bloodshed and gore were at his school. I don’t have any particular problems with recruiters, except they talk about college tuition, exciting travel opportunities, and not the incredible drudgery of garrison life, or the horrific trauma of their stock in trade. Thats called salesmanship, and hearkening back to my last post, well, for lack of a more accurate description,disingenuous.
So I sat and discussed it with my eldest progeny. I explained what a green stick fracture was, and how to apply a tourniquet to what remains of the leg of your best friend. I waxed nostalgic about the sound a bullet makes as it pierces the flesh of a human being lying next to you, or the pitiful moans a grown man makes when he knows he’s hit bad and isn’t going to make it. Not the “tell susie I love her crap” but the begging, pleading, making deals with god if your able to speak reality of it. I didn’t mince words with him, as he’s almost a grown man, and i confess the description of the smell of a 3 day old corpse covered with dried feces, and urine, and blood and shredded into something that didn’t really resemble a human corpse at all was not proper pre-dinnertime conversation.
Unfortunately it was all lost on him. As were the descriptions of the sounds of screaming and explosions, the raw terror of that near miss buzzing sound, or the agony that folllows being waxed by a hand grenade. The fact is he is a man, and men for whatever reason have this urge to run to the sound of the bugle.
All over the world people are fielding that same stupid question from their children, or picking up the remains of children that asked it last year. I’m sure smart people can explain in detail how its instinctual and dates back to when we were writing on cave walls; this desire to go out and conquer our fellow man. I’m not one of them. The only explanation I have for it is that the ignorant often make bad choices, and war seems a hell of a lot more glorious when you watch it on tv than when you’re wiping the shit off you after you luck out and don’t die when it all goes horribly wrong.
and it always does.sooner or later.
If you don’t wish to have this conversation with your children, exercise your right to vote. All of the democratic candidates, and at least one Republican (Ron Paul), have pledged to end the war. Of course they only said one war. We have several that we’re involved in.
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because I said so again, why? 
Just some thoughts on…
September 18, 2007Well, my Jena6 perspective isn’t so popular. I’m not surprised. Thinking for ones self, and reacting to your environment in a sane and civil way are almost never popular. I’ll venture one step further now. Overturning the conviction was a typical judiciary response to a few knee jerk radicals. Rather than charge the other individuals they will let these 6 slide as well. Exactly the opposite of what decency would dictate should be done. It isn’t hard to figure out how society has become so adrift when the structures set in place to manage it are failing so monumentally at every conceivable level of government.
You’d think Hillary would understand that she of all candidates really needs to run a squeaky clean campaign. Ethics have never been in large supply in Clintonian politics, and the voters should maybe question her integrity on the Hsu mess. You have to give the Clintons credit…they stay bought as long as you keep paying. I suppose since they are chinese toys they should be painted with lead based paint.
The Packers are now 2-0. The only important thing that happened this week with the exception of the Badgers are now 3-0. Of course they’ve only beaten those two NFC East dynamos, the Giants and the Eagles. So could most good high school teams.
5 republican representatives and 3 republican senators are resigning at the end of their terms. This doesn’t include the restroom retard Larry Craig. i think it is safe to make a prediction for the ’08 elections now. I’m thinking both houses of congress go veto proof to the Democrats, and the White house goes democrat as well. That’s right folks, the Republicans are diving off a sinking ship, and you are about to experience the worst case government imagineable. One controlled completely by one party. I’m checking out foundries in Canada as we speak.
Nope. I’m not going to talk about OJ.
I will mention Ron Paul though. We are one month closer than the last time I checked his numbers, and there has been no movement. The blog furor seems to be dying down as well. The Pauliacs must be starting to realize that they are beating a dead horse this election season. Don’t feel bad though. Ge never had a chance, and we know this because?
I said so