Candidate Calculator

A fmr student sent out a mass email for people to get involved with voting (can you tell she was prob a favorite--but the more I think about it, the more they were all favorites, in one way or another...uh-oh, I think I might be getting the teaching bug. It's just all the excitement of Spet. As my friends start kvetching in November, I'll be over it...)

Anyway, here is the web address that allows you to match up your issues with the candidates:

http://www.vajoe.com/candidate_calculator.html

I got an 85% match with....


Nader.

Been there, done that. Won't be wasting my vote on that megalomaniac again.

But it was fun nonetheless.

Stop Playing the "Gender Card" Republicans

Argh argh argh. I really have to stop listening in on convention coverage and punditry and all that.

Every time a legitmate issue or question is raised about Palin, Republican turn around and throw it back in the face of the reporter or left winger who raised it by calling the question raiser sexist. You know what's ACTUALLY sexist? Denigrating real women's issues by dismissing legitimate question & playing the "gender" card.

Without getting into too much, this "Caribou Barbie" Palin has thrown all my temperance out the window because of this:

http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1010000101/post/1460032546.html

She tried to censor the library books!!!!! Gauntlet thrown lady. You don't go near my house.

Snap snap snap.

This week in WTF #2

It being the week of the convention for the Republicans, I think we're going to have a few of these This Week in WTFs.



This one comes from Amy Goodman, and the folks and the public radio program "Democracy Now." A frightening account of how Democracy is now not really working as well as it could:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jreRSEQ_yg



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBjcqwQgF7Q&feature=related



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvAVHTo0NMc&feature=related



Updates from the Democracy Now website:



http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2008/9/1/update_democracy_now_s_amy_goodman_sharif_abdel_kouddous_and_nicole_salazar_released_after_illegal_arrest_at_rnc

This Week in WTF

This week in WTF covers all manner of Republican-y things.

#1: experience you can believe in

This is where Palin was gaining her executive experience just 20 months ago.

Photo courtesy of http://mudflats.wordpress.com/, a blog about Alaskan politics. There's a lot on the site re: Miss Pretty Lady.

#2 She also said this about the war:

“Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God.” She went on, "That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan."

#3 - Here's a collection of Men 4 Men ads posted on Craigslist St Paul. Thank you so so so so soooo much Wonkette people, for thinking to do this and for posting it. I was just overjoyed while reading through these. Hilarious.

Okie dokie, here's to the crazies, hypocrites and freaks in the Republican party who make it worth blogging.

R o s a' s Blog Post

Here's a message from Ros a on the eve of her first birthday:

tx fgdt;fddd

Happy 1st Birthday Ros a!