42 posts tagged “politics”
very interesting, from Pam at Pandagon --
Murray speaks out against homophobia and hypocrisy
just out of this world wonderful
(there are torrents for it around too)
Sorry i haven't posted in a while--work's been crazed...ugh....
always hysterical, and timely too, now that he's running. ; >
He developed Quark, and is now targeting local and state officials who are trying to legislate hate and discrimination all over, instead of funding national or presidential candidates--The software mogul Tim Gill has a mission: Stop the Rick Santorums of tomorrow before they get started.
A complaint made against a Hell Pizza billboard featuring US President
George Bush has been partially upheld by the Advertising Standards
Complaints Board (ASCB).
The advertisement featured Mr Bush and the words "Hell. Too good for some evil bastards". ...
... On the same day that Britney was shaving her head, a guy I know who works in the office of Senator Bernie Sanders sent me an email. He was trying very hard to get news organizations interested in some research his office had done about George Bush's proposed 2008 budget, which was unveiled two weeks ago and received relatively little press, mainly because of the controversy over the Iraq war resolution. All the same, the Bush budget is an amazing document. It would be hard to imagine a document that more clearly articulates the priorities of our current political elite.
Not only does it make many of Bush's tax cuts permanent, but it envisions a complete repeal of the Estate Tax, which mainly affects only those who are in the top two-tenths of the top one percent of the richest people in this country. The proposed savings from the cuts over the next decade are about $442 billion, or just slightly less than the amount of the annual defense budget (minus Iraq war expenses). But what's interesting about these cuts are how Bush plans to pay for them. ...
Unbelievable (altho nothing is anymore with this crowd in charge)
Mrs. Clinton rolled out a new response to those demanding contrition: She said she was willing to lose support from voters rather than make an apology she did not believe in.
“If the most important thing to any of you is choosing someone who did not cast that vote or has said his vote was a mistake, then there are others to choose from,” Mrs. Clinton told an audience in Dover, N.H., in a veiled reference to two rivals for the nomination, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois and former Senator John Edwards of North Carolina.
This stubborn mule act does not help her at all. I don't know a single person who is excited about her running, and i don't know a single person who thinks she's done a good job as our senator here in NY. I know many women in politics feel they have to overdo it so they don't appear weak, but this is getting Bushlike in its obstinancy and tells us a lot about her willingness to admit mistakes (unwillingness, that is) and her willingness to respond to voter needs and wants and concerns (unwillingness again, that is)
I know she's the pick of the DC Democratic establishment (like Kerry was, and Dukakis and Tsongas, etc) but she didn't get my vote for senate in the primary last time, and she won't get my vote for president unless she changes her tune and actually pledges to listen to us--we are her boss. We are all of their bosses. They have to be reminded i guess. And sitting Senators don't get elected, usually.
And this is very troubling: why does the GOP want Hillary to be the Democratic candidate?
great post by Silber at his Power of Narrative on the emotional reality of being marginalized, being excluded, and very often being ridiculed, and even demonized in our society for all sorts of reasons.
... It is one thing to be openly hated and despised, as gays and lesbians are by many on the right. We're used to that, and we got used to it a long time ago. As was required, we manufactured intellectual and emotional armor to protect ourselves. In the current climate, we have to put it on every single damned day. It weighs a great deal, and it exacts an awful price. But without it, we would suffer injuries too grievous to be borne.
But how much worse it is to be cajoled into taking off that armor -- to hear you tell us that you understand we're "just like you" in all the ways that matter, and that we're really "just the same" -- and then to read or hear about "how easy" you think it is to "make fun" of us, especially when our status as Freaks is too obvious. How much worse it is when we believe you, when you tell us you think we're all equal -- except that you can get married, while almost every leading Democrat will say, well, no, we can't get married. But we can have "civil unions." Because, you see, Freaks don't get married. ...
