How can you *not* vote for somebody that says "dag nabbit"....  con sarn it! 

Obama has weapons of mass destruction!

‘Alaska Women Reject Palin’ Rally is HUGE!
14 09 2008

I attended the Welcome Home rally for Sarah Palin this morning.  Hooo.  It was an experience. About a thousand (maybe) hard-core Palin supporters showed up to hear her speak at the new Dena’ina Convention Center in downtown Anchorage. 

After shaking it off with a good double shot of espresso, and a brisk walk back to my car, it was time to head to the Alaska Women Reject Palin rally.    It was to be held outside on the lawn in front of the Loussac Library in midtown Anchorage.  Home made signs were encouraged, and the idea was to make a statement that Sarah Palin does not speak for all Alaska women, or men.  I had no idea what to expect.

The rally was organized by a small group of women, talking over coffee.  It made me wonder what other things have started with small groups of women talking over coffee.  It’s probably an impressive list.  These women hatched the plan, printed up flyers, posted them around town, and sent notices to local media outlets.  One of those media outlets was KBYR radio, home of Eddie Burke, a long-time uber-conservative Anchorage talk show host.  Turns out that Eddie Burke not only announced the rally, but called the people who planned to attend the rally “a bunch of socialist baby-killing maggots”, and read the home phone numbers of the organizers aloud over the air, urging listeners to call and tell them what they thought.  The women, of course, received many nasty,  harassing and threatening messages.

So, as I jettisoned myself from the jaws of the ‘Drill Baby Drill’ crowd and toward the mystery rally at the library, I felt a bit apprehensive.  I’d been disappointed before by the turnout at other rallies.  Basically, in Anchorage, if you can get 25 people to show up at an event, it’s a success.  So, I thought to myself, if we can actually get 100 people there that aren’t sent by Eddie Burke, we’ll be doing good.  A real statement will have been made.  I confess, I still had a mental image of 15 demonstrators surrounded by hundreds of menacing “socialist baby-killing maggot” haters.

It’s a good thing I wasn’t tailgating when I saw the crowd in front of the library or I would have ended up in somebody’s trunk.  When I got there, about 20 minutes early, the line of sign wavers stretched the full length of the library grounds, along the edge of the road, 6 or 7 people deep!  I could hardly find a place to park.  I nabbed one of the last spots in the library lot, and as I got out of the car and started walking, people seemed to join in from every direction, carrying signs.

Never, have I seen anything like it in my 17 and a half years living in Anchorage.  The organizers had someone walk the rally with a counter, and they clicked off well over 1400 people (not including the 90 counter-demonstrators).  This was the biggest political rally ever, in the history of the state.  I was absolutely stunned.  The second most amazing thing is how many people honked and gave the thumbs up as they drove by.  And even those that didn’t honk looked wide-eyed and awe-struck at the huge crowd that was growing by the minute.  This just doesn’t happen here.

Then, the infamous Eddie Burke showed up.  He tried to talk to the media, and was instantly surrounded by a group of 20 people who started shouting O-BA-MA so loud he couldn’t be heard.  Then passing cars started honking in a rhythmic pattern of 3, like the Obama chant, while the crowd cheered, hooted and waved their signs high.

So, if you’ve been doing the math…  Yes.  The Alaska Women Reject Palin rally was significantly bigger than Palin’s rally that got all the national media coverage!  So take heart, sit back, and enjoy the photo gallery.  Feel free to spread the pictures around (links are appreciated) to anyone who needs to know that Sarah Palin most definitely does not speak for all Alaskans.  The citizens of Alaska, who know her best, have things to say.

http://www.realitysandwich.com/

Read Daniel Pinchbeck.

Don't ask us to explain... ask the Town of Stettler... we didn't pick these wonders nor call them seven wonders even though there seem to be ten of them(the main street xmas tree is missing from this gallery)...

But the town seems to be doing something good and proper and is on the righteous path judging by the face which has miraculously appeared in each picture.

"If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to
your enemies."
  - Moshe Dayan


"We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace
requires a world of new concepts, new definitions."
   - Yitzhak Rabin


Or at least we should familiarize ourselves with existing definitions so
that we will know what the hell we are talking about...
( a little knowledge of history wouldn't hurt either ) right Kevin?     lol

Interesting and somewhat humorous video but like many I would say that Obama is as much a part of the Evil Empire as any he is running against (see the anecdotes in the piece below for a few examples).


Here is a link to a good explanation of a common anarchist position in terms of voting and lesser-evilism if anyone is interested. I use this link instead of the original one at Anarkismo.net because I like the Charlie Chaplin/Great Dictator youtube clip at end of this one:


Nobody for President


Why I Won’t Vote for Obama...
...Or for Hillary, And Certainly Not for McCain, And Not Even For Ralph
http://carnival-of-anarchy.blogspot.com/2008/03/nobody-for-president.html


excerpts:
When pressed, many liberals and social democrats will admit that Obama, like Hillary Clinton, is a candidate of capitalism, militarism, and imperialism. But, they argue, he is far less of an evil than Senator John McCain...


In response, I accept that the Democrats, however evil, are indeed the lesser evil. I only doubt that the greater evil can really be defeated by supporting the lesser evil. After all, liberals, unionists, the African-American community, the women’s movement, the environmental movement, the GLBT community, etc., etc., have been supporting the Democrats for decades, generations. And yet the Republicans have moved more to the right, and the Democrats have also moved to the right (but remain just a little bit to the left of the Republicans). Lesser-evilism has not worked very well....


The gains of the thirties labor movement were won mainly through sit-ins in the factories as part of mass strikes. The gains of African-Americans in the fifties and sixties were won through mass civil disobedience and urban uprisings (“riots”). The struggle against the Vietnam war was fought through massive demonstrations, student strikes, and a virtual mutiny in the army.


The gains of most social movements have been won through non-electoral means, not by electing lesser-evil politicians. Independent electoral actions, such as that of Ralph Nader or the Green Party, have never been very useful. If successful (as in some European countries), they will also be corrupted by the pressures of electoralism, money, and the need to administer a giant capitalist government....


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http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/04/12/real-time-with-bill-maher-new-rules-3/

"Whenever a cult leader sets himself up as God's infallible wingman,
here on Earth, lock away the kids. Which is why I'd like to tip off
law enforcement to an even larger child-abusing religious cult. Its
leader also has a compound, and this guy not only operates outside the
bounds of the law, but he used to be a Nazi and he wears funny hats.
That's right, the Pope is coming to America this week and ladies, he's
single!

Now I know what you're thinking: "Bill, you shouldn't be saying that
the Catholic Church is no better than this creepy Texas cult." For
one, altar boys can't even get pregnant. But really, what tripped up
the little cult on the prairie was that they only abused hundreds of
kids, not thousands, all over the world. Cults get raided, religions
get parades. How does the Catholic Church get away with all of their
buggery? Volume, volume, volume!

If you have a few hundred followers, and you let some of them molest
children, they call you a cult leader. If have a billion, they call
you "Pope." It's like, if you can't pay your mortgage, you're a
deadbeat. But if you can't pay a million mortgages, you're BearStearn
and we bail you out. And that is who the Catholic Church is: the
BearStearns of organized pedophilia. Too big, too fat. When the
current pope was in his previous Vatican job as John Paul's Dick
Cheney, he wrote a letter instructing every Catholic bishop to keep
the sex abuse of minors secret until the Statute of Limitations ran
out. And that's the Church's attitude: "We're here, we're queer, get
used to it…"

is it too late for drama gopher to be part of the poll?

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