Burning down America to prove a point

 

Why vote?

1. You're not just voting for President.

2. You're voting to prevent a 7-2 dangerous conservative majority on the Supreme Court. Note: 87 year old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is single-handedly fighting off all 10 plagues so she can hang on until we have a new president. This alone should be enough for historic turnout!

3. You're voting for the next Secretary of Education, Housing Secretary and Attorney General.

4. You are voting for the "down" ballot, as well......to keep the House and to gain majority of the Senate in Congress.

5. You're voting for federal judges.

6. You're voting for the rule of law.

7. You're voting for saving national parks.

8. You're voting for letting kids out of cages.

9. You're voting for clean air and clean water.

10. You're voting for scientists to be allowed to speak and do something to protect us from climate change and pandemics.

11. You're voting for greater transparency and confidence that the President isn't using your tax dollars as a slush fund for his family and friends.

12. You're voting for housing rights.

13. You're voting for former incarcerated persons to be treated with dignity and assisted to be proud and productive members of society when they return.

14. You're voting for everyone to be able to adopt a child without a lot of red tape.

15. You're voting for Dreamers.

16. You're voting so that there will be Social Security and Medicare when you retire...and in your children's future.

17. You're voting for veterans to get the care they deserve.

18. You're voting for rural hospitals.

19. You're voting so that everyone can have access to affordable health insurance.

20. You're voting for teaching to be treated like the noble profession that it is and for teachers to be paid like the heroes they are.

21. You're voting to have a President who doesn't embarrass this country every time he attends an international meeting.

22. And you're voting against allowing the USA to become yet another authoritarian regime.

23. You're voting for sensible gun laws.

24. You're voting for children born to Military Troops overseas to still be counted as US citizens.

25. You’re voting to curb homelessness and find solutions to affordable housing.

26. You’re voting to take measures to end the racial asset and wealth disparities.

27. You're voting to defend women's reproductive rights and a woman's right to make all health related decisions regarding her body.

28. You're voting to acknowledge the humanity and protect the safety of our family and friends in the LGBTQ+ community.

29. You're voting to stop the normalization of white supremacy and dangerous bigotry in the mainstream.

30. You're voting to rebuild a functional CDC to help prevent or eradicate dangerous pandemics like the coronavirus.

I know we can't all agree on everything. Now, this is a two candidate race Biden or Trump. Those are our only choices. One of them will be our President as a result of this election.

The Biden-Harris ticket isn't perfect. No ticket ever was and no ticket ever will be. Perhaps, for whatever reason, Vice President Biden and/or Senator Harris don't pass your purity test. Just know this, they will be much better than four more years of 45. We must do all we can to ensure that the Biden-Harris ticket wins!!

Stolen from the book of faces

To Democratic Party voters who "will never vote" for so-and-so:

You're not voting for President.
You're voting for who replaces RBG.
You're voting for the next Secretary of Education.
You're voting for federal judges.
You're voting for the rule of law.
You're voting for saving national parks.
You're voting for letting kids out of cages.
You're voting for clean air and clean water.
You're voting for scientists to be allowed to speak about climate change.
You're voting for what the President says on Twitter.
You're voting for housing rights.
You're voting for LGBTQ people to be treated with dignity.
You're voting for non-Christians to be able to adopt and to feel like full citizens.
You're voting for Dreamers.
You're voting so that there will be Social Security and Medicare when you retire.
You're voting for veterans to get the care they deserve.
You're voting for rural hospitals.
You're voting so that someone else can have health insurance.
You're voting for PBS.
You're voting to have a President who doesn't embarrass this country every time she or he attends an international meeting.
And you're voting against allowing the USA to become yet another authoritarian regime.

No Democrat is perfect. Your first AND second choices may have dropped out. Your third might. But here's the thing--and I need you to understand it--the nominee, no matter who she or he is, will not be perfect. They won't pass your purity test. And yet every single one of them will be better than four more years of Trump.

~ Author: unknown

Blog sprinkles

Sailor at SteveAudio tracks the Media's weird tilt to the right.

Biden at the top of his game:



What you can do with a bunch of kids.

I thought Bryan had found the worst webcam ever with the cheese webcam, but these might actually be the most boring webcams EVER.

Teachers having to think about murderers and killers as they practice lockdowns.

Skinheads sentenced to work in Holocaust museum. Good idea, hope it works.

So we finally passed a health care bill... NEXT.

And just so you know:

The following Democrats voted against the House's effort to pass the Senate health care bill: Adler, Altmire, Arcuri, Barrow, Berry, Boren, Boucher, Bright, Chandler, Childers, A.Davis, L.Davis, C.Edwards, Herseth Sandlin, Holden, Kissell, Kratovil, Lipinski, Lynch, Marshall, Matheson, McIntyre, McMahon, Melancon, Minnick, Nye, Peterson, Ross, Shuler, Skelton, Space, Tanner, Taylor, Teague

Help vote Stupak out of office. (Btw, Stupak backwards is kaputs....) And oh, my... they are turning on him already. Update 3/23: REALLY turning on him!

What ever has happened to Riverbend of Baghdad Burning? Does anyone know?

Sometimes the joke is too close to the truth

But I laughed anyway.



(via Eli at Multi Medium)

Sarah Palin prepares for the debate

No, actually we're being told it's all a setup and Palin will be snarky and brilliant and clever. Don't underestimate her perkiness saving the day.

Mad Kane takes her down a peg:

Sarah Palin, who likes to refer to herself as “Joe Six Pack“, is trying to dupe us into believing she’s “an everyday, working-class American.” Palin even claims that her “Joe Six Pack” status is why “the Washington elite” don’t think she should be running for Veep. (Apparently it has nothing to do with her making Dan Quayle look like a genius and George Bush look coherent.)

They want us to think she'd be fun to have a beer with? ... Didn't they say that about the last guy?



Eureka Springs of Firedoglake:

You might be an idiot if:

• You nominate the former head of The Harper Valley P.T.A. to be Vice President of the United States.

• You keep meeting up with Katie Couric.

• You graduated with a degree in journalism, but can't name one newspaper you've read.

• You don't understand the source or value of your husband's Union provided health care benefits.

• You think your friend of 30 years "made a choice" to be gay.

This is going to be interesting...

But.. this campaign wasn't supposed to be about the issues!

The McCain campaign group had all the media parroting talk about lipsticks and pigs! Things were going wonderfully! Now suddenly the obviously liberal media is demanding specifics. What specifics? The media is lying!:

Sen. John McCain’s top campaign aides convened a conference call today to complain of being called “liars.” They pressed the media to scrutinize specific elements of Sen. Barack Obama’s record.

But the call was so rife with simple, often inexplicable misstatements of fact that it may have had the opposite effect: to deepen the perception, dangerous to McCain, that he and his aides have little regard for factual accuracy.

The errors in McCain strategist Steve Schmidt’s charges against Obama and Sen. Joe Biden were particularly notable because they seemed unnecessary. Schmidt repeatedly gilded the lily: He exaggerated the Biden family's already problematic ties to the credit card industry; Obama’s embarrassing relationship with a 1960s radical; and an Obama supporter’s over-the-top attack on Sarah Palin when — in each case — the truth would have been damaging enough.

[snip]

Asked about the series of errors, McCain aides could not provide evidence to back up Schmidt’s assertions.

Facts? We don't need no stinkin' facts! Repeat after McCain: The fundamentals are strong! Strong I tell you! Rippling with muscles... like America should be! Like it should have been back in 'Nam! Which is on the list to bomb once McCain gets into office! Facts? Look... something shiny!

They will make a good team

And a fantastic administration.

Give 'em hell, Joe!

What we need in a Vice President

A man to bloody noses...

Update: Better video and transcript at Huffington Post. The following videos aren't complete.

Obama/Biden

When looking up Joe Biden's info on Wikipedia, this caught my eye:

Since 1991, Biden has also served as an adjunct professor at the Widener University School of Law, where he teaches a seminar on constitutional law.

And from Obama's Wikipedia site:

He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.

I hope this means as president and vice president, they know what the Constitution stands for and will repair or undo what the Bush regime has done to our country, our citizens, and our Constitution during these last eight horrible years.