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Sarah Palin’s Family Values Aren’t Mine!

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:30:40 GMT

clipped by: ninja1105

I can’t stand Obama. I think Joe Biden is a poor excuse for a politician. Plagiarists don’t sit well with writers, even if I’m only writing until I can get through film school. I don’t think Obama can change anything. I don’t think he has the skill to fix jack shit. He can’t fix what Bush has done and he’s the most inexperienced presidential candidate ever second only to Bush.

But….I hate Sarah Palin. I don’t mean I dislike her. I HATE that stupid bitch. I cannot stand her. She is the biggest hypocrite on the planet. John McCain made a huge mistake in picking her as his running mate. He wanted the “Hillary” supporters and the Evangelicals all in one vote, but seriously, he’s about to alienate both groups thanks to choosing this woman.

I agree that USUALLY a politician’s kids should be off limits, but:

-When a person is trying to force “beliefs” on a nation that do not even work in her own home she is a fuckin’ hypocrite

Tags: sarah palin, john mccain, barack obama, joe biden, political choice, family values, voting, book banning, pregnant, bristol palin

Why Palin's weaknesses may be irrelevant

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:41:00 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: And why Democrats (including me!) miss the point when they campaign against them. Thought-provoking! This clip just grazes the surface of a very important article.

Clip Source: files.tikkun.org

the Palin nomination is not basically about external realities and what Democrats call "issues,"

The Republicans can't win on realities. Her job is to speak the language of conservatism, activate the conservative view of the world

Our national political dialogue is fundamentally metaphorical, with family values at the center

Conservative family values are strict and apply via metaphorical thought to the nation: good vs. evil, authority, the use of force, toughness and discipline, individual (versus social) responsibility, and tough love

Palin is the mom in the strict father family

Yes, the McCain-Palin ticket is weak on the major realities. But it is strong on the symbolic dimension of politics that Republicans are so good at marketing

But such truths may nonetheless be largely irrelevant to this campaign. That is the lesson Democrats must learn

initial Democratic response to Palin

based on realities alone

indicates that many Democrats have not learned the lessons of the Reagan and Bush years

Tags: palin

Cops search for helpless human, find chatty cockatoo

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:05:32 GMT

clipped by: A53GG4

Clip Source: blogs.usatoday.com

Cops search for helpless human, find chatty cockatoo

Police officers kicked in the front door of a Trenton home Wednesday morning because they thought they heard a woman yelling "Help me! Help me!" But instead of finding a helpless human, The Times says officers found a chatty cockatoo.

Evelyn DeLeon, the bird's owner, says this isn't the first time Luna has called for help.

"Her 10-year-old blue-eyed umbrella cockatoo has twice now summoned police to the family's home and provided the family with some interesting moments over the years with her ever-expanding vocabulary," the paper says.

The Trentonian has more on the incident.

Tags: odd

Guided Bike Tours in Lake Tahoe

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:00:14 GMT

clipped by: odiedog
clipper's remarks: Guided Bike tours information for Lake Tahoe

Clip Source: www.gotahoenorth.com

Guided Bike Tours

Tags: guided bike tours, lake tahoe, activities, summer, vacation, trip, family, adventure

Measure of the Man

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:17:20 GMT

clipped by: lifecyce1898

Clip Source: powwarrior.wordpress.com

The Measure of The Man: Why John McCain doesn’t measure up ….

Since his return from Hanoi, McCain has …

~Ignored pleas of POW/MIA Family Members for his political influence in the overall POW/MIA Issue as well as with their individual cases

~Verbally abused POW/MIA Family Members in public and private

~Attempted to negatively influence those who testified before the 1992 Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs

~Diminished legislation that gave oversight and protection to the families

ismantled protection to any future servicemen that go missing.

Cruel Encounters with McCain by POW/MIA Family Members

The 1991-92 Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs

The Truth Bill

The 1995 Missing Service Personnel Act

Cpl. Greg Harris, USMC

Conclusion

Slow Income Growth For Middle America

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:47:50 GMT

clipped by: jklugman
clipper's remarks: Essentially, family incomes are not keeping pace with the productivity of the United States.

Via Mark Thoma

Clip Source: lanekenworthy.net

The following chart tells the story. It shows inflation-adjusted GDP per capita and median family income from 1947 (the earliest year for which the income data are available) to 2007. To facilitate comparison of the over-time trends, each is indexed to its 1973 level. Since the mid-to-late 1970s, growth of income at the median has been slow — very slow — relative to growth of the economy. The current decade, with no improvement at all in median income, is especially striking.

Various excuses and rationalizations have been offered: It’s okay because Americans now get more in employer benefits instead of in their paycheck. Family size has shrunk, so slow income growth isn’t a big deal. A lot of those in the bottom half are immigrants, and even with slow income growth they’re better off than they would have been in their native country. None of these is compelling (see here or here).

Tags: lane kenworthy, income, inequality, gdp

A pro life woman's view

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:15:05 GMT

clipped by: lp97702

Clip Source: www.slate.com

I love my family and sadly I haven't heard anything from McCain/Palin that would improved the average American's life in the future! There are difficult days ahead and I want McCain/Palin to speak about their plans to improve the national/international issues that affect all American Families not just more hooplah about Gov. Palin's.

I'm already sick of hearing about her family, what about MINE! And please MEDIA, don't take it easy on Palin because she's a hockey mom. As a self-proclaimed pitbull with lipstick, she should know that if you rumble with the Big Dogs you should EXPECT to get bit.

Tags: palin

The Right Choice

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:49:08 GMT

clipped by: sillysam

Clip Source: article.nationalreview.com

And, yes, when she spoke of her son, Trig, and about special-needs children, I cried. She said:

And in April, my husband Todd and I welcomed our littlest one into the world, a perfectly beautiful baby boy named Trig. From the inside, no family ever seems typical.

That’s how it is with us.

Our family has the same ups and downs as any other . . . the same challenges and the same joys.

Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge.

And children with special needs inspire a special love.

When you look at that beautiful boy and realize that in America, some 90 percent of parents would not have let him live, how can you not be both terrified for us and filled with joy for the love this little boy has? How can you help but be excited by the prospect that Americans might become more aware of the silent elimination of such blessings?

Family Dollar Logo

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:47:31 GMT

clipped by: ReadButler

Clip Source: www.familydollar.com

Should I become a mother

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:24:22 GMT

clipped by: Tri-City Psychology

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

My family was dysfunctional and I haven't had much success with relationships. I still long to have a partner and children, but is that beyond my reach?

For as long as I can remember, I have had an overpowering longing for love and a family of my own. I grew up in a dysfunctional household and was an introverted kid, then a troubled teenager. Although I believe I have managed to grow into a pretty decent 35-year-old despite the odds, I still have not got a partner and children.

The concept of relationships is alien to me. I have never been in a functional one - I have only been with two men - and it has dawned on me that I have idealised the concept due to my lack of experience, which in turn is the result of my fear of rejection and heartbreak.

More to the point, I am terrified of ending up with a man like my father, who is emotionally detached. He drove my mother to extremes, psychologically.

How can I start believing in myself, so that others will too?

Goopers Spin Pregancy

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:51:35 GMT

clipped by: papananook
clipper's remarks: What a wonderful Family the Goopers are!

Clip Source: www.sfgate.com

Clay's Park September 5-7

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:20:51 GMT

clipped by: ouchick

Clip Source: www.clayspark.com

Fri. 6:00PM - Hayride leaving Campgroung Barn

"This Weekend At Clay's Park!"
Sept. 5 -7 : Fall Camping Season

Sun. 11:00 am - Family Fellowship Hour at the Music Row Pavilion

Sat. 8-10:30 pm - Family DJ at the Music Row Pavilion w/ "DJ Brian"

Sat. 9-12noon - Breakfast buffet at Ralphies
Sat. 10 am - 6 pm - Yankee Peddler Festival
Sat. 6:00 pm - Hayride leaving the campgound barn

Fri. 5:00-9:00 pm - Fish Fry at Ralphies

Sun. 9-12noon - Breakfast Buffet at Ralphies
Sun. 10 am - 6 pm - Yankee Peddler Festival

Every Alaskan gets $3200 from oil money - for nothing!

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:49:36 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: $22,400 for a family of 7, like Palin's. When oil companies pay taxes to Alaska, they deduct it from their federal taxes, and we of the other 49 make up the difference. 85% of budget from oil companies; residents pay no income or sales taxes, and state is rolling in dough, while most states are laying off teachers.
How ironic, when an Alaska Republican opposes a windfall profits tax, and favor reduced government services - when they live, in part, off of government handouts from revenue the oil industry pays them to get oil to us!

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

Welcome to the People's Republic of Alaska, where every resident this year will get a $3,200 payout, thanks in no small measure to the efforts of Sarah Palin, the state's Republican governor. That's $22,400 for a family of seven, like Palin's. Since 1982, the Alaska Permanent Fund, which invests oil revenues from state lands, has paid out a dividend on invested oil loot to everyone who has been in the state for a year.

No wonder she is popular with voters in a state whose residents pay no income or sales taxes but are blessed with state coffers rolling in cash at a time when all other states are suffering. Indeed, when the oil companies pay more taxes to the state of Alaska, they get to write that off against their federal tax obligation, leaving the rest of us to make up the shortfall.

Alaska

was getting upward of 85 percent of its budget from the oil companies

Why is it a good thing for the folks up in Alaska to get a cut of exorbitant oil company profits, but not the rest of us

Tags: alaska

Sarah Palin's E-Mail Trail

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:39:48 GMT

clipped by: DanaGarrett
clipper's remarks: These e-mails could be the undoing of Sarah Palin. They provide prime facie evidence that Palin pressured former Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan to fire her ex-brother-in-law from the Alaskan police force over family matters. In short, they provide apparent evidence that she abused her power as Governor.

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Gov. Sarah Palin sent e-mails to the state's top police official, criticizing Alaska State Troopers for their investigation of an officer who went through a bitter divorce with her sister, a newspaper reported Wednesday.

Former Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan showed copies of the e-mails to The Washington Post. He didn't provide copies to the newspaper, but said he has turned copies over to an investigator probing the firing for the Legislature.

Monegan has said he felt pressured by Palin family members and her administration to fire Trooper Mike Wooten, whom they say threatened to kill Palin's father, among other accusations, all taking place before she became governor. Monegan was fired by Palin in July.

Monegan has said he was never told directly to fire Wooten but felt pressured by members of the governor's family and administration.

Palin's Daughter's Pregnancy OFF LIMITS

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:39:21 GMT

clipped by: klippety
clipper's remarks: Clearly, Obama must distance himself from those who attack family and children. One can't help and wonder if the GOP would be so gracious.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Obama To Media: "Back Off" Palin Pregnancy

At a brief press availability in Monroe, Mich., ABC News asked Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., if he had any response to Gov. Sarah Palin's statement that her unmarried 17-year-old daughter Bristol is pregnant.

"Let me be a clear as possible: I have said before and I will repeat again, I think people's families are off limits," Obama said, "and people's children are especially off limits.

"This shouldn't be part of our politics," he continued, "It has no relevance to Gov. Palin's performance as governor, or her potential performance as a vice president.

"And so I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories," he said. "You know my mother had me when she was 18, and how a family deals with issues and, you know, teenage children, that shouldn't be the topic of our politics and I hope that anybody who is supporting me understands that's off limits."