Yes, the self-proclaimed Christian has done it again, but this time Edwards is taking it straight to the White House!
On Friday, Coulter, a writer and columnist known for provocative remarks, told an audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington: "I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot,' so I - so kind of an impasse, can't really talk about Edwards."
Whenever this "woman" picks up a pen or opens her mouth, she proves my point. Noecons can not be Christians. (personal note: I promise to finish that piece this week!)
The Edwards camp is now seeking to capitalize on the slur by soliciting $100,000 in "Coulter Cash" to "show that inflaming prejudice to attack progressive leaders will only backfire."
Three cheers to Edwards and his camp for making this holier-than-thou, judgemental bitch pay for her mud slinging.
Edwards, smiling and forging ahead, is sticking to his agenda. His concerns? Health care, emission limits and global warming, the economy, the wars, the American people..... things you would actually think the Christian right would care about. Guess not, eh?
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Friday, March 23, 2007
Cowboy Shrub Strikes Again
Not that this comes as any surprise, but shrub is stomping his feet, slamming doors and name calling - Again. This time, it's over the Iraqi timetable for troop withdraw.
Just over an hour following the vote, Bush angrily accused Democrats of playing politics and renewed his promise to veto the spending legislation if it included their withdrawal timetable, despite administration claims that the money is needed next month by troops.
"These Democrats believe that the longer they can delay funding for our troops, the more likely they are to force me to accept restrictions on our commanders, an artificial timetable for withdrawal and their pet spending projects. This is not going to happen," he said.
Any guesses what the Dems "pet spending projects" are?
I think bush has completely lost touch with not only the American people but reality as well. He goes off like a spoiled child if he doesn't get his way. He's responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's and his policy's have put our troops and our country in more danger than we were in on 9/10/01.
During my trip across the country I noticed a popular bumper sticker that seemed to be, shockingly, seen more in the red states. "We are making enemies faster than we can kill them." This is his legacy. His failed policies and his cowboy attitude. His warped ideas of religion and even more abstract ideas of other religions and cultures. It is doubtful that this man could even pass a literacy test without cheating.
Now, here we are, standing on a precipice. Our way of life could go either way. We could allow this "man" to lead us into more "designed to fail" illegal wars of aggression and spend us further into oblivion, or we can say, "NO!" Four years ago, I felt alone in my fear of what was happening to my country. Today, I feel like a majority. We, the truly sane and rational, have declared in one voice, "We will not stand for this anymore. We will not stand idly by while you wipe out our liberties. We will not be guided by your fear mongering and war profiting." We spoke loudly last November. We have been on the phone to our senators and signed petitions and stood and marched and this is just the beginning.
"The American people have lost faith in the president's conduct of this war," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. "The American people see the reality of the war, the president does not."
"We're going to make a difference with this bill," bellowed Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., a Vietnam War veteran who helped write the legislation.
"We're going to bring those troops home. We're going to start changing the direction of this great nation," he said, bringing a standing ovation and hugs from his colleagues.
A dear friend of mine smiles when she reads things such as this. She grins brightly and says, "He is going to be the downfall of the Republican party." Ah, her lips to Gods ears.
Just over an hour following the vote, Bush angrily accused Democrats of playing politics and renewed his promise to veto the spending legislation if it included their withdrawal timetable, despite administration claims that the money is needed next month by troops.
"These Democrats believe that the longer they can delay funding for our troops, the more likely they are to force me to accept restrictions on our commanders, an artificial timetable for withdrawal and their pet spending projects. This is not going to happen," he said.
Any guesses what the Dems "pet spending projects" are?
I think bush has completely lost touch with not only the American people but reality as well. He goes off like a spoiled child if he doesn't get his way. He's responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's and his policy's have put our troops and our country in more danger than we were in on 9/10/01.
During my trip across the country I noticed a popular bumper sticker that seemed to be, shockingly, seen more in the red states. "We are making enemies faster than we can kill them." This is his legacy. His failed policies and his cowboy attitude. His warped ideas of religion and even more abstract ideas of other religions and cultures. It is doubtful that this man could even pass a literacy test without cheating.
Now, here we are, standing on a precipice. Our way of life could go either way. We could allow this "man" to lead us into more "designed to fail" illegal wars of aggression and spend us further into oblivion, or we can say, "NO!" Four years ago, I felt alone in my fear of what was happening to my country. Today, I feel like a majority. We, the truly sane and rational, have declared in one voice, "We will not stand for this anymore. We will not stand idly by while you wipe out our liberties. We will not be guided by your fear mongering and war profiting." We spoke loudly last November. We have been on the phone to our senators and signed petitions and stood and marched and this is just the beginning.
"The American people have lost faith in the president's conduct of this war," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. "The American people see the reality of the war, the president does not."
"We're going to make a difference with this bill," bellowed Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., a Vietnam War veteran who helped write the legislation.
"We're going to bring those troops home. We're going to start changing the direction of this great nation," he said, bringing a standing ovation and hugs from his colleagues.
A dear friend of mine smiles when she reads things such as this. She grins brightly and says, "He is going to be the downfall of the Republican party." Ah, her lips to Gods ears.
Happy Liberty Day!
March 23, 2007. Aside from my sisters birthday, it's also known as "Liberty Day". It is a day set aside to commemorate Patrick Henry's "Give me Liberty or give me death" speech.
*"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."
*Patrick Henry at the Virginia Convention, 1788, as quoted by Thomas M. Moneure, Jr., in "Virginia's Great Dissenters", printed in the March, 1999, issue of American Guardian,:
"You are not to inquire how your trade may be increased, nor how you are to become a great and powerful people, but how your liberties can be secured; for liberty ought to be the direct end of your government."
*Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
*I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.
*Caesar had his Brutus-Charles the First, his Cromwell-and George the Third-('Treason,' cried the Speaker) . . . may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.
Patrick Henry was born in 1736 and died in 1799. His words of over 200 years ago should be ringing from the mountain tops today. People should be listening. They are not. They have not headed his warnings. They have gladly given up liberties for the illusion of security. They have forged ahead, lead by fear and greed.
Earlier this week, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said if Western countries "want to treat us with threats and enforcement of coercion and violence, undoubtedly they must know that the Iranian nation and authorities will use all their capacities to strike enemies that attack."
In February, President Bush said: "The Iranian people are good, honest, decent people and they've got a government that is belligerent, loud, noisy, threatening — a government which is in defiance of the rest of the world and says, 'We want a nuclear weapon.'"
On a day that our government has set aside to honor and remember Patrick Henry and his "give me liberty..." speech, we once again have been slapped in the face by a man and an administration that would dearly love to remove them all and wage more illegal wars of aggression.
*"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."
*Patrick Henry at the Virginia Convention, 1788, as quoted by Thomas M. Moneure, Jr., in "Virginia's Great Dissenters", printed in the March, 1999, issue of American Guardian,:
"You are not to inquire how your trade may be increased, nor how you are to become a great and powerful people, but how your liberties can be secured; for liberty ought to be the direct end of your government."
*Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
*I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.
*Caesar had his Brutus-Charles the First, his Cromwell-and George the Third-('Treason,' cried the Speaker) . . . may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.
Patrick Henry was born in 1736 and died in 1799. His words of over 200 years ago should be ringing from the mountain tops today. People should be listening. They are not. They have not headed his warnings. They have gladly given up liberties for the illusion of security. They have forged ahead, lead by fear and greed.
Earlier this week, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said if Western countries "want to treat us with threats and enforcement of coercion and violence, undoubtedly they must know that the Iranian nation and authorities will use all their capacities to strike enemies that attack."
In February, President Bush said: "The Iranian people are good, honest, decent people and they've got a government that is belligerent, loud, noisy, threatening — a government which is in defiance of the rest of the world and says, 'We want a nuclear weapon.'"
On a day that our government has set aside to honor and remember Patrick Henry and his "give me liberty..." speech, we once again have been slapped in the face by a man and an administration that would dearly love to remove them all and wage more illegal wars of aggression.
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Supporting Our Troops
We Americans like to think of ourselves as civilized. Pick up a paper, click on the evening news, turn on your computer, you'll see we are not as wonderful as we think we are.
Our latest proof of this is comes from the loving way we treat our veterans.
Reports of a rising death rate and rooms spattered with blood, urine and feces at the Armed Forces Retirement Home prompted the Pentagon yesterday to begin investigating conditions at the veterans facility in Northwest Washington.
The Government Accountability Office warned the Pentagon this week that residents of the home "may be at risk" in light of allegations of severe health-care problems. Residents have been admitted to Walter Reed Army Medical Center with "the most serious type of pressure sores" and, in one case, with maggots in a wound, according to a GAO letter sent to the Defense Department.
(snip)
Cox was hired from private industry in 2002 to bring down costs. In the past three years, the workforce has been cut from 736 to 447, and the operating budget has been reduced from $76 million to $54.7 million, according to figures provided by the home. The maintenance staff has shrunk from 127 to nine, despite a rising population, according to the senators' letter.
(snip)
In one statement, Cox said the reports of human waste in the rooms may have stemmed from an outbreak in February of highly contagious norovirus, which infected more than 100 residents. "When you're sick with vomiting and diarrhea, sometime you miss the john," he said.
FEBURARY! I know many health care workers. I know that patients can get sick, I also know that they clean the mess illness leaves and they don't wait a month to do so.
Is cutting the care and costs of that care to our veterans supporting the troops? Am I the only one thoroughly disgusted and ashamed of these conditions and outraged at the administrators comments?
Our latest proof of this is comes from the loving way we treat our veterans.
Reports of a rising death rate and rooms spattered with blood, urine and feces at the Armed Forces Retirement Home prompted the Pentagon yesterday to begin investigating conditions at the veterans facility in Northwest Washington.
The Government Accountability Office warned the Pentagon this week that residents of the home "may be at risk" in light of allegations of severe health-care problems. Residents have been admitted to Walter Reed Army Medical Center with "the most serious type of pressure sores" and, in one case, with maggots in a wound, according to a GAO letter sent to the Defense Department.
(snip)
Cox was hired from private industry in 2002 to bring down costs. In the past three years, the workforce has been cut from 736 to 447, and the operating budget has been reduced from $76 million to $54.7 million, according to figures provided by the home. The maintenance staff has shrunk from 127 to nine, despite a rising population, according to the senators' letter.
(snip)
In one statement, Cox said the reports of human waste in the rooms may have stemmed from an outbreak in February of highly contagious norovirus, which infected more than 100 residents. "When you're sick with vomiting and diarrhea, sometime you miss the john," he said.
FEBURARY! I know many health care workers. I know that patients can get sick, I also know that they clean the mess illness leaves and they don't wait a month to do so.
Is cutting the care and costs of that care to our veterans supporting the troops? Am I the only one thoroughly disgusted and ashamed of these conditions and outraged at the administrators comments?
Lovin' the Weather in Arizona!
We had a great trip west, longer than expected, but fun none the less.
We found a great little apartment here. It's rather empty, our furniture won't arrive for another few weeks.
I have a lot of catching up and researching to do so this is all I am posting for the moment. This picture was taken at the New Mexico Welcome Station. I looked at my husband and scowled, "Did you make a wrong turn?"
Looking confused, he shook his head, "No, why?"
"Well look at that sign! You took us right to the White House!"
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