Be vigilant and get ready for a real fight. Don't drink the poll kool-aid. Expect struggle and controversy:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/26/voter.suppression/index.html
Observing the manner of this (real) voter suppression illustrates the innocuous nature of the Acorn activity. Somehow I don't see O'Reilly getting amped up about this. It is my prediction that this won't be over on November 5th. There will be intense emotions and post electoral challenges no matter what happens.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Friday, October 24, 2008
Attack in Pittsburgh on Ashley Todd
When I saw this story this morning it immediately smelled of a hoax.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/24/mccain.sticker/index.html
1. The backwards B: very amateur
2. Let me get this straight...I'm a mugger, I rob you (in what I found out later is one of the whitest parts of Pittsburgh at 9 pm)..I am a black male, I look at your car and say "Oh snap..This biznitch be havin a McCain bumper sticker I'mo havta whoop dat ass" So I stay in this white area to make a political point instead of fleeing..risking incarceration? Chappelle couldn't have come up with something that good
3. The black eye is makeup..the discoloration is off
4. Even MICHELLE MALKIN is calling it a hoax..
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/23/why-that-mccain-volunteers-mutilation-story-smells-awfully-weird/#comments
5. Will this woman apologize to Black Males, Obama, and McCain Palin after this hoax is exposed?
Amateur, race-baiting loser
More updates on this as the story progresses
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/24/mccain.sticker/index.html
1. The backwards B: very amateur
2. Let me get this straight...I'm a mugger, I rob you (in what I found out later is one of the whitest parts of Pittsburgh at 9 pm)..I am a black male, I look at your car and say "Oh snap..This biznitch be havin a McCain bumper sticker I'mo havta whoop dat ass" So I stay in this white area to make a political point instead of fleeing..risking incarceration? Chappelle couldn't have come up with something that good
3. The black eye is makeup..the discoloration is off
4. Even MICHELLE MALKIN is calling it a hoax..
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/23/why-that-mccain-volunteers-mutilation-story-smells-awfully-weird/#comments
5. Will this woman apologize to Black Males, Obama, and McCain Palin after this hoax is exposed?
Amateur, race-baiting loser
More updates on this as the story progresses
Thursday, October 23, 2008
GOP Pimpology: The trickle down game
An article talking about the rise in the working poor.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27181041/
The simplicity of the formula: Grow an economy from the ground up...Consumer spending makes up 2/3 of the nation's economy.
The GOP runs the same game again and again: Exploit the deeply rooted Puritan work values in American culture that brainwash people into thinking that government investment into wealth (job) creation for the aggregate is akin to Godless communism.
The American "Joe the Plumbers" are so hypnotized by this distorted presentation of a patriotic work ethic that they/we (like an abused prostitute) keep going back to the Pimp (Republican culture warriors) to get more game spit in our ears. Why? Maybe this cultural, historical narrative gives us an identity and makes us solidify a little more our confidence in who (we think) we are.
I pray that we are wising up to this game. And we don't fall for the trickle down argument. We are supposed to trust the aristocrats to trickle down jobs to us when they pay less taxes, but that's an outdated model (if it ever worked in the first place) now, in this era of high tech job displacement and outsourcing for dirt cheap labor.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27181041/
The simplicity of the formula: Grow an economy from the ground up...Consumer spending makes up 2/3 of the nation's economy.
The GOP runs the same game again and again: Exploit the deeply rooted Puritan work values in American culture that brainwash people into thinking that government investment into wealth (job) creation for the aggregate is akin to Godless communism.
The American "Joe the Plumbers" are so hypnotized by this distorted presentation of a patriotic work ethic that they/we (like an abused prostitute) keep going back to the Pimp (Republican culture warriors) to get more game spit in our ears. Why? Maybe this cultural, historical narrative gives us an identity and makes us solidify a little more our confidence in who (we think) we are.
I pray that we are wising up to this game. And we don't fall for the trickle down argument. We are supposed to trust the aristocrats to trickle down jobs to us when they pay less taxes, but that's an outdated model (if it ever worked in the first place) now, in this era of high tech job displacement and outsourcing for dirt cheap labor.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Chocolate News, what happened to hip hop?
David Alan Grier, Lamenting on the demise of Hip Hop:
My take? It's not dead yet, get ready for a massive resurrection.
(Much) more on this topic in future posts.
My take? It's not dead yet, get ready for a massive resurrection.
(Much) more on this topic in future posts.
death threats to Acorn
This is why I felt the need to get up and write about these things:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/10/21/delacruz.acorn.harassment.cnn
The undercurrent of institutionalized racism and its associated violence is becoming stronger as this election goes on but the good news is that the polls show it won't make any difference in the outcome (Obama victory), of course that is with all things held equal (no real voter fraud by the GOP).
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/10/21/delacruz.acorn.harassment.cnn
The undercurrent of institutionalized racism and its associated violence is becoming stronger as this election goes on but the good news is that the polls show it won't make any difference in the outcome (Obama victory), of course that is with all things held equal (no real voter fraud by the GOP).
Monday, October 20, 2008
Socialism
Redistribution of the wealth....ok I'm good with that..
I mean really, what's so bad about socialism? The "S" word...For those out there who think it's so terrible...for a moment, imagine a society with no paved roads, no police force, no Food and Drug Administration, no water treatment plants, no Fire departments, no military, no garbage collection, no stoplights, no schools or teachers, no health care (ok bad example) ummm, no Federal Aviation Board.
I think you get the point.
And for all my (right wing) Christian brothers and sisters, notice the similar root in all of these words:
Communism
Commune
Communion
Communicate
Community
Heaven forbid we should all commune, and communicate in the spirit of communion for the sake of building community.
Before you call me a communist or socialist though, stop. I would call myself a guerrilla capitalist. This is a term coined by none other than Ice T. Modern day Robin Hood philosophy...only we're not robbing the rich, we're taking back what's rightfully ours.
I mean really, what's so bad about socialism? The "S" word...For those out there who think it's so terrible...for a moment, imagine a society with no paved roads, no police force, no Food and Drug Administration, no water treatment plants, no Fire departments, no military, no garbage collection, no stoplights, no schools or teachers, no health care (ok bad example) ummm, no Federal Aviation Board.
I think you get the point.
And for all my (right wing) Christian brothers and sisters, notice the similar root in all of these words:
Communism
Commune
Communion
Communicate
Community
Heaven forbid we should all commune, and communicate in the spirit of communion for the sake of building community.
Before you call me a communist or socialist though, stop. I would call myself a guerrilla capitalist. This is a term coined by none other than Ice T. Modern day Robin Hood philosophy...only we're not robbing the rich, we're taking back what's rightfully ours.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Memo to Acorn haters: Mickey Mouse is not real
Well, I have been waiting to start blogging for a minute. I live in Austin, so I procrastinate a little..it's just the nature of how things go here. At any rate, after all this time, I have finally decided to get off my tail and start typing in the wake of this Acorn "controversy". I have found my inspiration.
Little gets me heated more in the political spectrum than the topic of voter disenfranchisement. After living through two elections of the most egregious, unpatriotic and racist voter suppression in modern history (Florida 00 and Ohio 04) the Republicans are now crying foul on Acorn, claiming that their fraudulent registration process will sway the election. Those with a trained eye will see this for what it is: A smokescreen to hide the GOP's truly fraudulent activity some of it well summarized in this interview with RFK Jr.: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Votes-are-being-stolen-no-by-Robert-F-Kennedy-080923-511.html
The Acorn controversy is a sham quite simply because Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck (examples of fraudulent Acorn registrations) cannot vote. They have no chance of swaying the election. The only fraud that took place was Acorn's workers defrauding the organization, so in a sense, Acorn is the victim in this story. Indeed, Acorn has responded:
ACORN, which claims to have registered 1.3 million people nationwide since 2007, says that any fraudulent voting registrations have more to do with canvassers making up fake applications to get better commissions than a concerted effort to influence the outcome of the election.
This is an excerpt and link from and article which "onionizes" this registration of imaginary character issue:
In Cleveland, Ohio Republican officials complained to the Federal Election Commission after early-voting sites barred observers when thousands of Invisible-Ohioans arrived at the polls aboard hundreds of invisible ACORN buses. In Ida Grove, Iowa, Ida County Registrar Debby Ballard expressed concern when a convoy of Chicago ACORN semis submitted 4,000,000 provisional ballots, 17 seconds before a 5 pm deadline.
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2008/10/acorn-files-vot.html
On the real side, I won't be available to travel to swing states during the next couple of weeks as I am expecting my first child but I would encourage any who can, to travel to Ohio, Florida, Virginia, Colorado and Nevada to work at the polls. Here is a link to sign up as a pollworker:
http://act.credoaction.com/pollworkers/index.html
Little gets me heated more in the political spectrum than the topic of voter disenfranchisement. After living through two elections of the most egregious, unpatriotic and racist voter suppression in modern history (Florida 00 and Ohio 04) the Republicans are now crying foul on Acorn, claiming that their fraudulent registration process will sway the election. Those with a trained eye will see this for what it is: A smokescreen to hide the GOP's truly fraudulent activity some of it well summarized in this interview with RFK Jr.: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Votes-are-being-stolen-no-by-Robert-F-Kennedy-080923-511.html
The Acorn controversy is a sham quite simply because Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck (examples of fraudulent Acorn registrations) cannot vote. They have no chance of swaying the election. The only fraud that took place was Acorn's workers defrauding the organization, so in a sense, Acorn is the victim in this story. Indeed, Acorn has responded:
ACORN, which claims to have registered 1.3 million people nationwide since 2007, says that any fraudulent voting registrations have more to do with canvassers making up fake applications to get better commissions than a concerted effort to influence the outcome of the election.
This is an excerpt and link from and article which "onionizes" this registration of imaginary character issue:
In Cleveland, Ohio Republican officials complained to the Federal Election Commission after early-voting sites barred observers when thousands of Invisible-Ohioans arrived at the polls aboard hundreds of invisible ACORN buses. In Ida Grove, Iowa, Ida County Registrar Debby Ballard expressed concern when a convoy of Chicago ACORN semis submitted 4,000,000 provisional ballots, 17 seconds before a 5 pm deadline.
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2008/10/acorn-files-vot.html
On the real side, I won't be available to travel to swing states during the next couple of weeks as I am expecting my first child but I would encourage any who can, to travel to Ohio, Florida, Virginia, Colorado and Nevada to work at the polls. Here is a link to sign up as a pollworker:
http://act.credoaction.com/pollworkers/index.html
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