From the New York Times, a look at voting trends county-by-county in this election compared to 2004:
The blue indicates districts that went more Democratic this go round…Obama didn’t necessarily win all those areas, he just performed better than John Kerry did four years prior. As you can see, that’s an awful lot of hope ‘n change fever, even in the deep South. Now, consider what Nation of Islam anti-Semite and hate-monger Louis Farrakhan told his flock this past Sunday: Read the rest of this entry »
This is just lovely. The Golden Arches of Death is reporting a rise in sales.
The No. 1 hamburger chain said total sales rose 5.4 percent during the month, as consumers sought value in the chain’s more inexpensive menu items.
That stuff is just so nasty, and it is expensive compared to making something at home that actually has nutritional value. People don’t have money for groceries, gas, mortgages, medication or utility bills, right? Give me a break! We aren’t that bad off if we can buy greasy crud from McDonald’s. And maybe if we stopped eating that stuff we would have fewer medical bills to begin with.
Think you’re getting a great deal ordering fast food. Think again.
He seems to have a very nice family, and his little girls are just adorable.
I may not agree with him or his wife on much when it comes to issues or how they want to acomplish things (if I had I would have voted for him), so when there is something I agree with them about, I don’t want to let partisan politics get in the way. Recently Michelle had this to say:
Now that Barack has been elected president, it will be an honour to be First Lady. I will work daily on the issues closest to my heart: helping working women and families, particularly military families. But, as my girls reminded me in Denver, even as First Lady, my No 1 job is still to be Mom. At 7 and 10, our daughters are young. My first priority will be to ensure they stay grounded and healthy, with normal childhoods - including homework, chores, dance, and soccer.
Our girls are the centre of Barack’s and my world.
She has also had this to say:
I also come here as a mother; that is my primary title, mom in chief. My girls are the first thing I think about when I wake up in the morning and the last thing I think about when I go to bed. When people ask me how I’m doing, I say, ‘I’m only as good as my most sad child.
I fully support the Obamas on these quotes and while his “family values” differ from mine in some areas I think they have things right on this one.
Truly cringe-worthy. Is it too much to ask that newspaper columnists lay off the booze before they write? If you can suppress numerous waves of nausea while reading this, you’re a better person than I:
He fought the most perfect election campaign in living memory. He gave the world’s most perfect post-election address. He is tall, handsome, the leader of the free world and, days after his perfect victory, the transcript of his presidential election night speech is still making grown men weep. There is no doubting that Barack Obama is the perfect man: perfectly kind, perfectly funny, perfectly in love with his perfect wife and his perfect, charming, beautiful children. Dammit, even his hair is perfect. And here are a few more things that he couldn’t get wrong even if he tried…”
When liberals get their way, like with the election of Barack Obama, conservatives and Republicans are urged to “unite” behind the decision of the electorate for the good of the country. (Yeah, just like they “united” behind George W. Bush, right?) So, let me take this opportunity to urge the California liberals to unite behind their state’s decision on Proposition 8 for California’s sake, lest we have more scenes like this:
More than a thousand gay-rights activists gathered Thursday afternoon outside the Mormon temple in Westwood to protest the role Mormons played in passing Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in California.
It was the latest in an escalating campaign directed against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for its role in marshaling millions of dollars in contributions from its members for the successful campaign to take away same-sex marriage rights.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t remember hearing about hundreds of angry Republicans protesting outside of any Democrat headquarters, union offices, or other left-leaning organizations following Barack Obama’s victory on Tuesday. I don’t recall hearing about a thousand or so conservative rabble-rousers attacking the organizations that fought pro-life ballot measures in South Dakota and Colorado after said initiatives were defeated. Read the rest of this entry »
You know, its not a good sign he’s serious about this whole “unity” thing when he attacks the widow of a former Republican President a mere three days after winning the election, especially when said widow is recovering from a broken hip. And with a lie, no less:
Obama says in his first post-election press conference that he’s spoken to all the former presidents — Carter, Bush, Clinton, as well as the current Bush — and, looser than he’s been in months, dares a joke at the expense of the widow of the most recently deceased.
“I have spoken to all of them who are living,” he says. “I didn’t want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about doing any séances,” he says.
That’s not a dare he should’ve taken with himself. Its obviously tasteless and devoid of class, given what I noted above, but its also untrue. As the piece notes, Mary Todd Lincoln reportedly held seances, not Nancy Reagan…her crime was reportedly consulting an astrologer during their time in the White House. Way to reach out to the other side, Barry! What’s next, appointing hyper-partisan Clinton attack dog Rahm Emmanuel as your Chief of Staff? Oh, wait…
UPDATE: The President-elect called Nancy Reagan to apologize. An inauspicious start, like I said, but I’ll give him credit for trying to make amends. Certainly, with that phone call, he showed a bit more class than the former McCain staffers have demonstrated as they trash Sarah Palin.
At least in Seattle, where Barack Obama supporters are suddenly very eager to display the flag:
With newfound patriotism, Seattleites want to wave the flag, hang it from their homes and stick it on their cars.
“The thing that’s kind of astounding to me is I never ever would have cared to own a flag,” said Rosemary Garner, 42. “This is the first day in my life I actually feel this funny sense of pride about my country. It’s a very foreign feeling, but it’s a good one.”
“It’s just a rare feeling to feel that type of, I don’t know, national connection,” said Noah Kriegsmann, a 33-year-old builder from West Seattle. He feels that Obama’s win will help America’s standing in the world, and he bought a flag to fly on his truck, though he admitted it felt strange to see the flag in his hand.
“I have just historically felt shame for what the symbol of this country is internationally. Being in someplace like Morocco, and Canadians have their flag on their backpacks — I would never ever do that,” he said.
There are lots of directions I wanted to go with this, and most of them involved trashing liberals and using this as proof that they indeed have not loved their country. However, I’m not going there. Instead, I want to ask if the election of a President-regardless of who it is-should create pride in your country, especially when admittedly none existed before. Read the rest of this entry »
In an interview late Thursday, Harris, 53, said somebody edited the video to make it appear she was an Obama partisan imposing her views on a child. In fact, Harris said, she made gestures after pupils voiced support for Obama.
“It has been doctored,” Harris said. “They didn’t show anything about Obama.”
Gestures? Ummm like what? Never mind I don’t want to know.
And doctored? Did she or didn’t she say those things? I can’t think of any context where those things would be appropriate for a teacher to say to a 10 year old child.
Edited to appear to be an Obama partisan? Is there anything else to call this? And the charge that they didn’t show anything about Obama…. sure showed her Obama button well. Question for you: What do you call someone who wears an Obama sticker, and ridicules kids that support McCain? Ummmmm…. nonpartisan?
My kids would be out of that classroom so fast they’d have mild whiplash. Heh, it’s things like this that keep them from being there in the first place.*
*This post should not be taken to mean that I think all teachers are scummy like this one or that politics should never be talked about in a classroom.
all the hunters gather up, we have a #$%&er in the whitehouse
That’s a really stupid thing to say. Really. It’s too bad that some people feel that way or think it’s a good way to vent frustration. It’s in bad taste and a little on the disturbing side.
What’s also disturbing is that the person that put this sentence up on facebook has been kicked off a football team because of it.
Buck Burnette a lineman for the Texas Longhorn has been booted from the team for making that remark… on facebook…and then apologizing and admitting it was wrong.
Clearly I have made a mistake and apologized for it and will pay for it. I received it as a text message from an acquaintance and immaturely put it up on facebook in the light of the election. Im not racist and apologize for offending you. I grew up on a ranch in a small town where that was a real thing and I need to grow up. I sincerely am sorry for being ignorant in thinking that it would be ok to write that publicly and apologize to you in particular. I have to be more mature than to put the reputation of my team at stake and to spread that kind of hate which I dont even believe in. Once again, I sincerely apologize.
I sinned against man and God posting what I did. That statement breeds hate and it was never my intention to cause those controversial feelings. The people who know me and know my heart will know this to be true. I have received tremendous support from both black and white players on my team and for that I am truly grateful. For those that remain offended, I hope that over time you will be able to forgive me.
Now before you all go saddle up your high horses, I want you to stop and think about all the derogatory/threatening things that have been said about Bush. People wishing him dead, curse words hurled at him, ect… And usually those things are thought and said without an apology.
He made a mistake. He’s sorry for it and has apologized. What more can he do?
Heh, he would have been better off had he been caught speeding while drunk with a bunch of drugs in his car or something.
No joke (you can also go here for the awesome audio):
Heh, that’s a smart dog…too bad it wasn’t Keith Olbermann. Lest you think Barney just has an unpleasant disposition, Greta Van Susteren of Fox News sets the record straight.
uni·ver·sal–1 including or covering all or a whole collectively or distributively without limit or exception
vol·un·tar·y–1. Done or undertaken of one’s own free will
Voluntary, universal pre-school!
Seriously? What ever happened to families raising their own children? Government school teachers spend more time with these kids than their own parents 9 months out of the year. You really think it’s a good idea to give them 5 more? And this is going to be universal, as in including all. I don’t think so.
So, really, what part should parents have in raising their children? Give them to the government when they are infants. All you have to do is tuck them in at night and maybe give them a bath.
What we need is voluntary universal parenting; not preschools.
Universal Voluntary Public Service!
Pubic service is great, but it isn’t voluntary if it’s required. I think the great wall of China was built using universal voluntary public service. Hmmm, so was Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia.
Dean revealed his party used credit card data to predict voting outcomes. However, Democrats and the media have been highly critical of credit card companies that provide that data.
“We now can do what they can do,” Dean said. “We have your credit card data like they do. They’ve been for years doing something that we, until 2006, weren’t able to do. We can predict with 85 percent accuracy how you’re going to vote based on your credit card data without bothering to see what party you’re in – the Secretary of State’s office.”
Nice. Dean goes on to claim the Republicans have been doing that all along…maybe so, but that isn’t the point. Democrats have always been against using such methods-they included regulating the practice in their 2008 party manifesto, er, platform-and in fact attacked the Bush Administration when it was learned that they were using the same techniques to try and prevent terrorist attacks. Apparently, its ok to do this for elections but not for national security. You got that?
Take a look at what it’s been showing for the last two days. Does this mean it will start showing Obama quotes now rather than Bush quotes? Maybe throw in a few of Biden’s best to spice things up. One can dream…
Russia, for example, celebrated the One’s historic victory by announcing they’d be placing short-range missiles on the eastern border with the European Union. Hamas, too, cheered Obama’s meteoric rise to the White House by firing a few dozen rockets into southern Israel. Perhaps its a little premature to suggest that the Presidential election results had anything to do with these events, but Obama’s own running mate guaranteed voters an international crisis within six months of Obama taking office. I guess we’ll see.
Oh, by the way…the US stock market joined in the celebratory atmosphere by posting the biggest post-election drop in history. There’s really not going to be much wealth to spread around should that continue, huh?
It’s so tempting to just throw our hands into the air and say, “You asked for it and now you’re going to get it.”
You voted to elect a socialist. You want the wealth redistributed. You want the government involved in your health care. You want life thrown aside. You want universal 0-5 preschool (why bother having children if you’re going to let someone else raise them) and universal national service. The list goes on and on.
You really want the government running that much of your lives? You really want those making money to see no point in doing so any longer? Already the sports agents are looking for ways to avoid the Obama tax. As businesses shut down, cut back, leave or find loop holes, who is going to pay for all these grand programs?
Part of me thinks the most effective thing republicans could do regain their popularity is to stand back and let the Liberals have their way.
I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone— for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.
We heard those verses often while Bush was in office and I hope they aren’t forgotten about now that there is a new man leading us. I had never really noticed the last part of that sentence before, maybe because we often stop a the comma. It gives a reason we should offer up those prayers and intercessions–that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. Yes, indeed, pray for our leaders so we can continue to live peaceful lives, worship and raise our families without interference from our government.
I hope everyone, no matter who you wanted to win, will join me in praying daily for our new president. Yes, I’m very disappointed, but we have to make the best of what we have. Wisdom, moderation, and safety would probably be good things to start with. And we can be thankful that such dramatic changes can happen in our government without bloodshed. And pray that continues. (The lack of bloodshed part, not the dramatic changes part. )
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