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Sarah Palin made her debut on Fox News last night - I wonder, will she quit before the end of her contract?
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It's about time Congress put the fire to the feet of the bankers us taxpayers bailed out not so long ago.
Record profits, record bonuses for bankers, increased banking fees, increased credit card interest rates and making it more difficult to get a mortgage or get a re-finance should send a loud and clear message to the American people - "thanks for the cash, now take a hike".
No one should begrudge someone making a profit. But to gouge the taxpayers after we saved their asses from their own mistakes is intollerable.
It's time for Congress to grow a pair and slap some new banking regs on that userous industry.
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I see the Oklahoma media is making a big deal out of the state Geological Survey equipment picking up the Haiti earthquake.
I'd be more concerned if it didn't pick it up.
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Smelling blood in the water, national and state Republicans are moving in for the kill in Massachusetts. What better way to rally state and national Republicans than by taking Ted Kennedy's Senate seat.
If the Repubs pull this off, look for a massive GOTV and fundraising across the nation. With the Democratic Party in disarray, losing Kennedy's seat could be the start of a domino effect across the country.
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If it weren't so funny it would be sad: The People's Mujahadeen - a terrorist organization according to the US - is suing the US, claiming it is no longer a terrorist organization.
Will they be handled by a public defender?
Is there a defense fund being set up for their legal fees?
Will Gloria Allred take the case?
Only in America
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get ready for a big education fight in Texas. The Lone Star state is debating how history should be taught in public schools.
As you would expect, the major stumbling block is conservative Christians. They want the Founding Fathers portrayed as Chirstians wanting to set up a Christian country.
That the facts disprove their claim seems irrelevant. While some were no dount Christians, others were Diests. Still others, like a lot of people, believes but not to fanatical about it.
What always gives Christians a bad name and bad PR is this neverending attempt by conservative Christians to "prove" they're right on every issue. They just can't stand the fact that not everyone beleives the way they do.
Personally I don't care what they believe. I just don't want them forcing their religious beliefs on me.
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Friday, May 8, 2009
A Few Stupid American Tricks
It's tough to know where to begin.
Let's start with political celebrity teen mom Bristol Palin.
Here's a poor unwed teenage high school dropout who was paraded around by her politically ambitious mother during a presidential campaign as an example of a variety of things depending on where the campaign stopped for a speech.
On the one hand, she was lauded as a responsible teen/adult that made the difficult but right decision about her pregnancy (no abortion).
She was also used as an example of what happens when teens don't get real abstinence education (she did so I'm guessing it doesn't always work).
She was slammed as a vocal pro abstinence teen that let a penis get in the way of her (and her VP candidate mother) message of no sex before marriage.
Now, the teen mom is being slammed as being an inappropriate spokesperson for teen abstinence.
Are you kidding? Who better to talk about the realities of teen pregnancy and the need for kids not to have kids than Ms. Palin?
We have former drug addicts, alcoholics and gamblers talking in public about their problem and how people shouldn't make the same mistake as they did. They are often moving testaments to the errors of their ways, descriptions of what really happens and why it's bad.
If Ms. Palin has the guts t stand up and tell the world about the hardships of teen motherhood and that she made a bad decision, we should applaud her for having the guts to expose her mistakes in public. If teens listen and some don't make the same mistake (yes, having a baby out of wedlock as a teen is a mistake) she should be commended, not vilified.
And then there's the hubub about Miss California.
it seems the recently busty, self professed Christian beauty posed for semi nude underwear pictures to make a few bucks and continue her career as a model.
So?
Oh i forgot, she's against gay marriage so anything she does must be awful and condemned from the highest minaret.
Blah, Blah, Blah.
Does anyone see a double standard here? We demand our beauty pageant contestants, movie and TV stars, entertainers and teen idols of the female persuasion be hot, sexy, over exposed
and semi X-rated. We want them to look like alleged male fantasies about women.
Pick up most any men's or women's magazine and they're telling women and girls how to be more sexy, more enticing, be better in bed and the object of desire for all men with a pulse. Not only that, kids get the idea that exploring their sexuality at 12 or 13 is perfectly okay - they get it from TV, movies and music videos.
We even have five and six year old girls in bathing suit competitions.
And then we wonder why good kids like Ms. Palin explore their sexuality and get pregnant.
We can't have it both ways.
Manny, Manny, Manny
You took a drug that does one of two things; helps you get pregnant or masks performance enhancing drugs.
A-Rob did some enhancement drugs too.
So let them.
After all, we all pay top dollar for the 21st Century version of the Roman Circus. We want our gladiators (football, baseball - whatever the sport - college or pro) to give us a good show, to be as big as possible and to inflict as much damage as possible to the opposing side o it the longest home run or whatever the sport demands on the jock's quest for immortality.
If sports fans want the highlight reels to show the violent collisions and abuses of the gladiator's body every week , we need to let them take whatever the drug is that keeps fans' butts in the seats and in front of the TV screen.
Above all, let's stop being hypocritical.
And last but not least, let's have a few words about those denizens of the state Capitol, those paragons of virtue..... The Oklahoma State Legislature.
They are determined, let by legislator/wing nut Charlie Keys, and in violation of Oklahoma's Constitution and the US Constitution, to put a monument to the Ten Commandments in a prominent place at the Capitol.
Now if anyone has watched the shenanigans of the legislature the past, oh I don't know, 50 years or so, they'd know these people talk a good game but many seem to lose their memory of the Ten Commandments as soon as they acheive elected office.
In all seriousness, this is just one more example of a few religious fanatics demanding that everyone cow tow to their particular brand of religion.
It's wrong.
What is it about these self professed Christians that the only way they can feel comfortable with their faith is to demand everyone else be bombarded with the tenants of their religion?
Are they so unsure of their faith that they are determined to make everyone else believe that way? I guess they subscribe to the herd mentality or safety in numbers as opposed to genuine belief in their God. If they truly believed, they wouldn't be threatened by other faiths or demand everyone believes as they do.
And let's not forget, these are the same Christan leaders who get their panties in a wad when Iran or Iraq or some other country declares that it has a state religion, one that bars Christianity. These leaders rant and rave about how these countries should be feared because they are ruled by a faith they don't believe in, much less understand.
But isn't that what these Christians want? They want the US to be a one faith theocracy (their's of course).
The spend a lot of their time trying to force their religion on everyone and condemning other faiths.
They need to spend a bit more time not preaching,but practicing what they preach.
Let's start with political celebrity teen mom Bristol Palin.
Here's a poor unwed teenage high school dropout who was paraded around by her politically ambitious mother during a presidential campaign as an example of a variety of things depending on where the campaign stopped for a speech.
On the one hand, she was lauded as a responsible teen/adult that made the difficult but right decision about her pregnancy (no abortion).
She was also used as an example of what happens when teens don't get real abstinence education (she did so I'm guessing it doesn't always work).
She was slammed as a vocal pro abstinence teen that let a penis get in the way of her (and her VP candidate mother) message of no sex before marriage.
Now, the teen mom is being slammed as being an inappropriate spokesperson for teen abstinence.
Are you kidding? Who better to talk about the realities of teen pregnancy and the need for kids not to have kids than Ms. Palin?
We have former drug addicts, alcoholics and gamblers talking in public about their problem and how people shouldn't make the same mistake as they did. They are often moving testaments to the errors of their ways, descriptions of what really happens and why it's bad.
If Ms. Palin has the guts t stand up and tell the world about the hardships of teen motherhood and that she made a bad decision, we should applaud her for having the guts to expose her mistakes in public. If teens listen and some don't make the same mistake (yes, having a baby out of wedlock as a teen is a mistake) she should be commended, not vilified.
And then there's the hubub about Miss California.
it seems the recently busty, self professed Christian beauty posed for semi nude underwear pictures to make a few bucks and continue her career as a model.
So?
Oh i forgot, she's against gay marriage so anything she does must be awful and condemned from the highest minaret.
Blah, Blah, Blah.
Does anyone see a double standard here? We demand our beauty pageant contestants, movie and TV stars, entertainers and teen idols of the female persuasion be hot, sexy, over exposed
and semi X-rated. We want them to look like alleged male fantasies about women.
Pick up most any men's or women's magazine and they're telling women and girls how to be more sexy, more enticing, be better in bed and the object of desire for all men with a pulse. Not only that, kids get the idea that exploring their sexuality at 12 or 13 is perfectly okay - they get it from TV, movies and music videos.
We even have five and six year old girls in bathing suit competitions.
And then we wonder why good kids like Ms. Palin explore their sexuality and get pregnant.
We can't have it both ways.
Manny, Manny, Manny
You took a drug that does one of two things; helps you get pregnant or masks performance enhancing drugs.
A-Rob did some enhancement drugs too.
So let them.
After all, we all pay top dollar for the 21st Century version of the Roman Circus. We want our gladiators (football, baseball - whatever the sport - college or pro) to give us a good show, to be as big as possible and to inflict as much damage as possible to the opposing side o it the longest home run or whatever the sport demands on the jock's quest for immortality.
If sports fans want the highlight reels to show the violent collisions and abuses of the gladiator's body every week , we need to let them take whatever the drug is that keeps fans' butts in the seats and in front of the TV screen.
Above all, let's stop being hypocritical.
And last but not least, let's have a few words about those denizens of the state Capitol, those paragons of virtue..... The Oklahoma State Legislature.
They are determined, let by legislator/wing nut Charlie Keys, and in violation of Oklahoma's Constitution and the US Constitution, to put a monument to the Ten Commandments in a prominent place at the Capitol.
Now if anyone has watched the shenanigans of the legislature the past, oh I don't know, 50 years or so, they'd know these people talk a good game but many seem to lose their memory of the Ten Commandments as soon as they acheive elected office.
In all seriousness, this is just one more example of a few religious fanatics demanding that everyone cow tow to their particular brand of religion.
It's wrong.
What is it about these self professed Christians that the only way they can feel comfortable with their faith is to demand everyone else be bombarded with the tenants of their religion?
Are they so unsure of their faith that they are determined to make everyone else believe that way? I guess they subscribe to the herd mentality or safety in numbers as opposed to genuine belief in their God. If they truly believed, they wouldn't be threatened by other faiths or demand everyone believes as they do.
And let's not forget, these are the same Christan leaders who get their panties in a wad when Iran or Iraq or some other country declares that it has a state religion, one that bars Christianity. These leaders rant and rave about how these countries should be feared because they are ruled by a faith they don't believe in, much less understand.
But isn't that what these Christians want? They want the US to be a one faith theocracy (their's of course).
The spend a lot of their time trying to force their religion on everyone and condemning other faiths.
They need to spend a bit more time not preaching,but practicing what they preach.
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