Friday, October 10, 2008

Bettye Lavette - Talking Old Soldiers

Wow! My hair is standing on end!

If you can't view here - go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0nO9VXC6lw

Thursday, October 09, 2008

John McCain - did he just wake up or what?

Looking for the real Obama...
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In a speech on the campaign trail in Wisconsin today, McCain said we need to know about Obama's relationship with William (Bill) Ayers - the founder of the Weather Underground - that radical breakaway group of the SDS (Students for a Democratic Society). Sarah Palin has been talking about it all along, saying Obama palled around with a domestic terrorist. The argument had been raised in the early part of the campaign by Hillary Clinton of all people - she and her husband have some iffy socialist connections of their own don't they? Anyway - the Dems and the media are saying all of that is old news and it has been settled. Really?
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He did not know that...
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Obama was 4 years old in those exciting revolutionary days of Vietnam protest, thus he could hardly have been connected to Ayers at the time. As adults the Ayers and Obamas live in the same neighborhood and served on at least two committees together. Did he know of Ayers past? - most likely - Ayers never kept his past a secret. (Did Bill Clinton inhale or have sex with that woman?) Funny thing is, Ayers isn't the only '60's radical to be rehabilitated to mainstrean American life. In fact, a few have taken jobs in academia, and neighborhood/city politics - and they have been blending in for quite sometime. Coincidently, Bill Ayers is married to Bernadine Dohrn who happens to be an associate professor of Law at Northwestern University of Law - how does that work? Ms. Dohrn was also a leader in the SDS and Weather Underground - and quite a communist. She is quoted here:
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"We are building a communist organization to be part of the forces which build a revolutionary communist party to lead the working class to seize power and build socialism. [...] We must further the study of Marxism-Leninism within the WUO [Weather Underground Organization]. The struggle for Marxism-Leninism is the most significant development in our recent history. [...] We discovered thru [sic] our own experiences what revolutionaries all over the world have found — that Marxism-Leninism is the science of revolution, the revolutionary ideology of the working class, our guide to the struggle [...]" - Wikipedia
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Yeah - so when Ayers hosted a fund raising coffee for Obama in 1995, don't you think the wife helped? But Obama didn't know who they were? Yet when pressed, he said something to the effect Ayers had changed his views. I do not think so. Teaching in law schools and universities, active in grass roots politics - what better way to change the system?
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In 1994 Dohrn said of herself: "I still see myself as a radical."
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In 1995 Ayers is quoted describing his politics: In an interview published in 1995, Ayers characterized his political beliefs at that time and in the 1960s and 1970s: "I am a radical, Leftist, small 'c' communist ... [Laughs] Maybe I'm the last communist who is willing to admit it. [Laughs] We have always been small 'c' communists in the sense that we were never in the [Communist] party and never Stalinists. The ethics of Communism still appeal to me. I don't like Lenin as much as the early Marx." - Wikipedia

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Crap - just when I was getting to kind of like Obama. See how things can change before an election?
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Yom Kippur (Contains details of Obama's association with ACORN.)

The Campaign...

And the Candidates.
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Why isn't the life issue brought up on the campaign trail or during the debates? Must be that the economy is more important.
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Didya know?
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In Spain they cover up late term abortion remains by placing it in a blender. Pro-abortion proponents are asking for more humane treatment of the remains by using a baby crushing machine... how Spanish-inquisitional is that?

Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Who won the debate last night?

That one or the other one?

Depends on who you talked to... and whose side people are on. Those who support McCain say McCain did. Those who support Obama say Obama did. So really, no one did.
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I'm very much in the middle however. I know who I "have" to vote for - so that frees me to express my totally unbiased opinion. That said, Obama made more sense to me than the other one.

Monday, October 06, 2008

Another 9,110?


My Sharia-Moor!
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Stocks closed below 10,000 today - after the bailout.
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This is what Al - Qaida was trying to do on 9/11 - bring down the American economy. What if?

We hardly noticed.


Will contemporary Americans know how to cope with poverty and homelessness?
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We have been in a war for almost 8 years now, and most Americans hardly notice.
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We were duped by greedy banks and realtors to buy houses much too big for our incomes.
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We maxed out our credit cards and took out all sorts of loans for everything from vacations to student loans.
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We hardly noticed while politicians and financial wizards picked our pockets.
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Now I wonder if we will notice as it is all taken away?
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What's in your wallet?