I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Yeah, I LOOOOOVE the regressives who call names while taking benefits from the government that they didn't earn, or taking advantage of COBRA and unemployment while bragging about their nice vacation. And you can absolutely bet that if they or their children needed government help, they would be first in line and scream loudest if they didn't get what they feel they are entitled to. And they can go ahead and think of me as a taker ... It doesn't change the facts of my circumstances one iota. (smug smile). They can be a "taker" like me only in their dreams.



I have already voted, too -- we have in-person absentee voting if we are going to be out of the county for any reason on Election Day. It is very pleasant driving around my county - the Obama signs and huge banners on people's porches and in their hards far, far and away outnumber the Robme/Ruin signs. I love my county! My state is purple and just may yet swing blue. Hoping common sense (and a third party racist idiot from downstate with popular name recognition) will save the day.



L

Just read that Romney/Ryan official gear is made in China, while all Obama/Biden official gear is made in the USA.



Any regressives with official RR gear care to refudiate?

I think we all heard that Colin Powell endorsed Obama, but I think it is important to hear why, since we've all heard the baffoon (sorry to baffoons) Romney co-chair Sununu make his racist remark as to why:

Powell expressed his concern about Republican candidate Mitt Romney's changing positions on international affairs. "The governor who was saying things at the debate on Monday night ... was saying things that were quite different from what he said earlier. I'm not quite sure which Gov. Romney we would be getting with respect to foreign policy."

"One day he has a certain strong view about staying in Afghanistan but then on Monday night he agrees with the withdrawal, same thing in Iraq. On almost every issue that was discussed on Monday night, Governor Romney agreed with the President with some nuances. But this is quite a different set of foreign policy views than he had earlier in the campaign. And my concern ... is that sometimes I don't sense that he has thought through these issues as thoroughly as he should have."

Powell also said that he has given close consideration to Romney's domestic policies. "As I listen to what his proposals are especially with respect to dealing with respect to our most significant issue, the economy, it's essentially let's cut taxes and compensate for that with other things but that compensation does not cover all of the cuts intended or the new expenses associated with defense."

This is one of my ALL TIME FAVORITE videos, 'fraid it might'a gotten lost in my last post, so

http://vimeo.com/51920265

Mary, I too am a believer, albeit of the New Age ilk. I don't believe God is even aware of our childish human insanity. When we decide to act like grown ups and turn to love instead of fear S/He is there for us. 

I'm with yorkie, and jackie....also rather happy when I think of how His Holiess the Dalai Lama has described his religion: "My religion is kindness."

Yup - it was Leslie Gore - she "opened" the piece saying "I'm Leslie Gore and I approved this message" and ends it with "I wrote this in 1964, and we're STILL fighting for the same things. V.O.T.E."

We don't have early voting in my town ( of about 885 eligible voters) - but I still enjoy going to the voting place, using the dark graphite pencil on the PAPER form, and watching the election person grank the brass handle when I put my ballot in the slot of the wooden box, and watch the flap numbers register another ballott as she does it.   We're "checked in" and "checked out" on lists and as we all KNOW each other, sure would be difficult to have any "fraud" - still feel my blood boiling when I heear that EXCUSE to disenfranchise people...grr

Just catching up.  Have I said lately how much I love all of you?  Coming here to read your posts always makes me feel better about the world.  Even when we're angry, or sad or discouraged, there's always humor and kindness . . . and hope.

I went out for a run this morning and then did the grocery shopping (lines were insane -- would have been shorter if I'd reversed the order, but I really wanted to get my run in before the winds got too high).  Now we're holed up in the apartment for the duration.  We're on pretty high ground, the electric lines are buried, and the NYC water system is gravity-pumped, so even if we lose power, we should still have water (but are filling up pitchers just in case).  The only other hurricane I've been through was Gloria, back in my western Mass grad student days, so this is all new to me. As a midwesterner, I'm used to tornados striking with little warning, not this extended period of waiting and watching.

Hope everyone else in Sandy's path weathers the storm OK.

Linda 

I love you ladies. I love people who can discuss, even argue issues and have actual positions beyond, "neener neener, you've got cooties."

Susie-I so appreciate that while your views may be more conservative than most on this thread, you prefer to stay with us and be civil. 

Mary

Sun - great piece...one sentence from above:

You can call yourself a “pro-conception-to-birth, indifferent-to-life conservative.” I will never refer to someone who pickets Planned Parenthood but lobbies against common-sense gun laws as “pro-life.”

A Mormon friend of mine called it ADHD (on Romney's part), but alas, he's voting for Romney, so he must interpret it in the kindness of ways possible.

Lest Romney suffers Romnesia during what looks like a possible impending weather disastor in the East...he said this during the Republican Primaries:

Asked about federal disaster relief for recent tornado and flood victims at last night’s GOP debate, candidate Mitt Romney called the spending “immoral” and said the Federal Emergency Management Agency should be privatized. With greenhouse pollution on the rise, the United States has been struck by a “punishing series of billion-dollar disasters.” 

Embracing a radical anti-government ideology from the most extreme elements of the Tea Party, Romney said that the victims in Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Massachusetts, and other communities hit by tornadoes and flooding should not receive governmental assistance. He argued it is “simply immoral” for there to be deficit spending that could harm future generations:

Kam-do you have a source for that quote? I'd like to post it on my facebook page.

Mary

Thanks, Kam!

This may have been posted already. Very tongue-in-cheek, talks about Romney and the Zombie Apocalypse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TiXUF9xbTo&feature=share

Yes, Susie, and civil politics combined with friendship, is much more important than hateful slop.  Did you enjoy your celebration dinner the other night?

Mary