Bush No Mas!
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Saturday, September 06, 2008
Open alternative: The Correct Palin
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Open Quote
Alaskans Speak (In A Frightened Whisper): Palin Is “Racist, Sexist, Vindictive, And Mean”
September 5, 2008
“So Sambo beat the bitch!”
This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidential nomination.
According to Lucille, the waitress serving her table at the time and who asked that her last name not be used, Gov. Palin was eating lunch with five or six people when the subject of the Democrat’s primary battle came up. The governor, seemingly not caring that people at nearby tables would likely hear her, uttered the slur and then laughed loudly as her meal mates joined in appreciatively.
“It was kind of disgusting,” Lucille, who is part Aboriginal, said in a phone interview after admitting that she is frightened of being discovered telling folks in the “lower 48” about life near the North Pole.
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Friday, September 05, 2008
Open and honest assessment?
Walter Reed Middle School in North Hollywood, California ... because he thinks his constituency is 12-14 years of age???
Bush no mas!
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Open Speaking: Truth to Impotence
4 more years? No!
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Thursday, September 04, 2008
Open Notable Quote
From Joho the Blog ...
No amount of saber rattling or stamping of petite feet will overcome the stigma of buffoonery.
America can return to greatness only when it begins to act great. (This will include not insulting our or anyone else's intelligence.)
I am going to vote for Barack Obama.
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I experienced the conv in another alienated way: Among Europeans, to whom SP looks like the ultimate US joke on itself.[ SP = Sarah Palin ]
No amount of saber rattling or stamping of petite feet will overcome the stigma of buffoonery.
America can return to greatness only when it begins to act great. (This will include not insulting our or anyone else's intelligence.)
4 more years? No!
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Open Calendar Check
Regardless of who John McCain chooses for his running mate ... it would still be
I am going to vote for Barack Obama.
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4 More Years !?!?!
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Open Sky: Nikos' view
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Open Sky: One Future
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Open Collar, Green
This was borrowed from
Green California Community Colleges Summit to Take Place October 8 - 9
On October 8 - 9, a conference entitled Green California Community Colleges Summit will take place at the Pasadena Convention Center. Some sessions at the conference will focus on themes relevant for green collar jobs, including "Educating the New Green Workforce" and "Meeting Current and Evolving Workforce Needs for the Green Economy."
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(Emphasis mine!)
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Open Questions
Daughter: Mom, can I have a beer?Bringing new meaning to the phrase "Family Values" since August of 2008
Mother: No!
Daughter: Mom, can I have unprotected sex before I am married?
Mother: No!
Daughter: Well the Republican nominee for Vice President let her children... Why can't I?!?!?
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Open Retrospective: Part 1
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Monday, September 01, 2008
Open Green Jobs Opportunity
Excerpted from ...
It’s Getting Hot In Here
Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement
Reporting from the Big Tent in Denver
Published by janosmarton, August 25th, 2008 global warming
. . .
Oakland area activist Van Jones wastes no time getting to the heart of how clean energy can be sold as a pragmatic solution in the current political climate, and he does so by tipping his hat to everyone’s favorite capitalist, Adam Smith.
. . .
Van’s second great skill, as you may have gathered, is an oratorical eloquence that takes a somewhat stilted phrase- “green collar economy” – and keeps it lively until you’ve heard it out.
. . .
Van concluded that the first political step is to acknowledge that “government today is on the side of the problem, providing tax credits to polluters, the Pentagon and the prison system- we need to incentive the problem solvers who use the wind and the sun.” There is nothing radical here. For those in the activist community who have felt beaten back for so long, know that you aren’t just on the side of social responsibility and justice. You’re also on the side of common sense, any way you spin it.
Green Jobs Now!
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Open Hope, Open Change
It is my greatest hope and my worst fear that the United States of America will choose its next leader. As a staunch supporter of democracy I believe in the will of the people expressed in the electoral process. I recognize that the democratic process is essentially one of balance and compromise. I acknowledge that the will of the people, no matter how close or distant from my own, is the best democratic resolve. So in that closeness or distance lies both my greatest hopes and my worst fears.
Of my fellow country people I can make only one observation; we are fickle. As the election approaches self-interested power brokers will temporarily drive fuel (gas and heating) prices down toward the $3.25 range. My fellow Americans will all shout hoo-rah that prices are sooooo low - easily forgetting the BILLIONS of dollars of profits BIG Business has taken from our food budgets, from our prescription drug budgets, from our ever diminishing quality of life budgets.
PEW Research reports...
So there is a very real possibility that the democratic electoral process will prevail and that we will have 4 more years of fear. We will continue to have record unemployment. We will insist on sacrificing our national treasures - our sons and daughters as well as our pristine wilderness - to feed our addiction to oil.
All of that being said I am turning my attention and energies away from the current sound-bite battles between figure heads. Instead I will be lending my voice to WORKing alternatives. I believe that work, working responsibly is the way to make this country great. Responsible work means through personal initiative contributing to the health and welfare of this nation. Responsible work means not furthering the detrimental affects of those systems that brought us to this crisis. Responsible work allows responsible people to flourish.
Let responsibility beget responsibility.
I am going to vote for Barack Obama.
I am William "Papa" Meloney and I endorse this message.
Of my fellow country people I can make only one observation; we are fickle. As the election approaches self-interested power brokers will temporarily drive fuel (gas and heating) prices down toward the $3.25 range. My fellow Americans will all shout hoo-rah that prices are sooooo low - easily forgetting the BILLIONS of dollars of profits BIG Business has taken from our food budgets, from our prescription drug budgets, from our ever diminishing quality of life budgets.
PEW Research reports...
The vast majority of self-identified middle class workers (89% overall) are either completely or mostly satisfied with their job. These high levels of job satisfaction registered by virtually all types of workers demonstrate that worries about employment in the future doesn't translate directly into dissatisfaction with the current job. Among workers who are worried about job loss or cutbacks of benefits or wages, eight-in-ten report high job satisfaction. Variations in job satisfaction by demographic groups within the middle class are quite small. There is no real difference between male and female workers and few differences based on age. In terms of income, 81% of workers in families with incomes below $30,000 are satisfied with their jobs, as are 92% of those in families with incomes above $100,000. Finally, 89% of blacks express job satisfaction, while the figure is 90% for whites and 88% for Hispanics. Middle class workers are not unique in their high levels of job satisfaction: 91% of upper class workers are either completely or mostly satisfied with their jobs, as are 78% of lower class workers."...worries about employment in the future doesn't translate directly into dissatisfaction with the current job." Truer words were never let slip by any professional politician, lawyer, snake oil sales person or the current president of the United States of America. Middle class Americans are ecstatic that they have any job at all right now - let alone one that might offer any additional satisfaction. In other words fickle America will be susceptible to political line: Don't threaten your current well being by voting for my opponent.
(Emphasis mine.)
So there is a very real possibility that the democratic electoral process will prevail and that we will have 4 more years of fear. We will continue to have record unemployment. We will insist on sacrificing our national treasures - our sons and daughters as well as our pristine wilderness - to feed our addiction to oil.
All of that being said I am turning my attention and energies away from the current sound-bite battles between figure heads. Instead I will be lending my voice to WORKing alternatives. I believe that work, working responsibly is the way to make this country great. Responsible work means through personal initiative contributing to the health and welfare of this nation. Responsible work means not furthering the detrimental affects of those systems that brought us to this crisis. Responsible work allows responsible people to flourish.
Let responsibility beget responsibility.
I am William "Papa" Meloney and I endorse this message.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Open Abhorrence : Alaska's dirty little secret
Alaska's dirty little secret... needs to be spread far and wide.
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