Free your mind, and the rest will follow. . .
How do you choose the candidate that represents YOUR best interests, YOURwell-being, and YOUR future?
I really wish people would ask themselves these next questions and answer them honestly. And then -- apparently the hardest part -- vote accordingly. And I wish people would think a little further than the immediate questions.
For instance:
Health care: If America had a health care institution instilled that entitled all Americans to coverage, that would eliminate unpaid hospital bills.
If you think of the hospital's services and products the same as you think of a supermarkets -- the more shoplifting that occurs, the higher the prices raise. If every person had health insurance, the 'shoplifting' (which really, what other option do they have but to suffer?) would cease and the cost of being treated would go down. Amazing. I know.
Another instance: Education.
Sure, getting a college degree might not be necessary for you, but if America ever intends to be a globally respected country again, we're going to have to be more competitive as far as educating our citizens goes. Our school systems are plummeting in the rankings of the entire world. How is progress for our country ever going to be made if the very basis of each American's knowledge is his/her education and our system blows?
Before you vote, ask yourself these questions:
Do you have health insurance?
When's the last time you visited the dentist?
The gynocologist?
Took your kid to the pediatrician?
How much did you have to pay for it?
Do you have a family?
Children to raise?
Do you make greater than minimum wage?
Do you even have a job?
Do you count on programs like WIC, Wellfare, Disability, or Social Security? Child support?
Do you live in a household with more than a six figure combined income?
Or do you live pay-check to pay-check?
Do you have more than one house?
Do you even own one home?
Can you afford the mortgage?
Do you believe people in the "wealthy" tax bracket should receive tax breaks, while you do not?
Do you want to be able to retire when you're older?
Do you believe in state funded hospitals for things like the mentally ill?
Are you interested in helping get the homeless off the streets and into the facilities that can help them?
Do you wish to leave behind a better country -- a better world -- than you came into?
Do you want your kids and grandkids to have access to suitable educations?
And clean air to breath?
Do you support the Iraq War?
Do you think American soldiers are dying daily for a just cause?
Do you think the financial crisis is a hoax?
Do you believe our energy policy needs to be reformed?
Do you even know what the American energy policy says?
What about a health care policy reform?
Do you believe we should be dependent on foreign oil?
Are you racist? bigot? sexist? prejudice?
Do you have the ability to see past skin tone?
Do you believe a man who proudly claims to have voted with Bush more than 90% of the time is going to bring about the changes we need to see in order to avoid an all-out depression?
Monday, October 20, 2008
Friday, October 17, 2008
The 'Science' of Politics.
It's campaign season. And oh how I just love it! I love hearing only about McCain/Palin & Obama/Biden because I just know there is absolutely NO other news happening in the world.
Even much of what I've heard about the bail out has been centered around how McCain has put his campaign on hold... I can't help but laugh in sad, sad tragedy.
If you ask me, politicians should get a very limited time to campaign. They should be allotted an amount of time -- use it wisely and use it justly. With a limited campaign period, there would be far less room for mudslinging and mudslinging itself would become less effective. Candidates would be forced to focus on pitching their plan to the American people. Our entire campaign season would be so much more pleasant and cut-and-dry.
It's just too bad Americans thrive on drama.
What gets me though is that cocky, "I am right and there's no two ways around it" attitude that politicians and almost all their sheep-like followers have (no matter party affiliation). I watched the debate a few nights ago between McCain and Obama. The impatience and complete lack of regard for facts on McCain's part pissed me off. He was rude, would interrupt Obama and would repeatedly reiterate statements that were completely irrelevant to the current main question.
I've see party signs for both sides, both positive and negative. I've seen the "NObama" and "McCain't" signs. And while they are clever, they really serve no purpose but to trash the opponent. No self-intelligent, free-choosing American makes their decision for president based on some witty or half-way-witty anti-president slogan. Still, that doesn't mean I don't crack up laughing every time I see "McCain't" on someone's car. Shit, I still laugh every time I see "Worst President Ever" on cars.
What I feel the need to remind people, however, is that when they choose to advertise a negative campaign for one party, in the minds of the public they become unofficially affiliated with the other primary party. You know when you see a "NObama" sign, you automatically assume it's a republican who put it up. It happens -- everyone assumes; everyone makes asses out of everyone else.
Some things to keep in mind while publicly expressing yourself (whether it be for political purposes or otherwise):
1. Do a little fact checking.
Making statements that are boldly and commonly known to be false is not only tactless and time wasting, but it reflects poorly on the people represented by your sign. And how do you imagine they'd feel knowing they were being affiliated with a sign that publicly falsely slanderized someone or thing? (see: "he's not an Arab")
2. Know who you're representing.
Knowing who you're representing is obviously a novel idea. Where would you be without a cause, you rebel? No place. Know who you're representing before you go flaunting your 'proud American' sign.
Yep, Go USA! And all the 'morans' living here. Including this gu
Even much of what I've heard about the bail out has been centered around how McCain has put his campaign on hold... I can't help but laugh in sad, sad tragedy.
If you ask me, politicians should get a very limited time to campaign. They should be allotted an amount of time -- use it wisely and use it justly. With a limited campaign period, there would be far less room for mudslinging and mudslinging itself would become less effective. Candidates would be forced to focus on pitching their plan to the American people. Our entire campaign season would be so much more pleasant and cut-and-dry.
It's just too bad Americans thrive on drama.
What gets me though is that cocky, "I am right and there's no two ways around it" attitude that politicians and almost all their sheep-like followers have (no matter party affiliation). I watched the debate a few nights ago between McCain and Obama. The impatience and complete lack of regard for facts on McCain's part pissed me off. He was rude, would interrupt Obama and would repeatedly reiterate statements that were completely irrelevant to the current main question.
I've see party signs for both sides, both positive and negative. I've seen the "NObama" and "McCain't" signs. And while they are clever, they really serve no purpose but to trash the opponent. No self-intelligent, free-choosing American makes their decision for president based on some witty or half-way-witty anti-president slogan. Still, that doesn't mean I don't crack up laughing every time I see "McCain't" on someone's car. Shit, I still laugh every time I see "Worst President Ever" on cars.
What I feel the need to remind people, however, is that when they choose to advertise a negative campaign for one party, in the minds of the public they become unofficially affiliated with the other primary party. You know when you see a "NObama" sign, you automatically assume it's a republican who put it up. It happens -- everyone assumes; everyone makes asses out of everyone else.
Some things to keep in mind while publicly expressing yourself (whether it be for political purposes or otherwise):
1. Do a little fact checking.
Making statements that are boldly and commonly known to be false is not only tactless and time wasting, but it reflects poorly on the people represented by your sign. And how do you imagine they'd feel knowing they were being affiliated with a sign that publicly falsely slanderized someone or thing? (see: "he's not an Arab")
2. Know who you're representing.
Knowing who you're representing is obviously a novel idea. Where would you be without a cause, you rebel? No place. Know who you're representing before you go flaunting your 'proud American' sign.
3. Use a dictionary. The incredible irony of the misspelling on her sign demanding English (the language she just screwed up) be the official language just cracks me up. Yep, go America! Let's make English (the language that immigrated here from ENGLAND) be our official language. Never mind the NATIVE American languages like Chickasaw, or Inuit, or Navajo. Don't you forget, we English speaking folks immigrated here as well.
4. Understand your place.
4. Understand your place.
Yep, Go USA! And all the 'morans' living here. Including this guMonday, October 13, 2008
Turn Those Clapping Hands into Angry Balled Fists
1 thing that makes Facebook worth it:
I got a bumper sticker from the excellent Vania Lopez. This is what it says:
This is one of those moments -- maybe days -- that I want to yank some yuppie soccer mom (not a Palin jab, although it should be) out of her SUV, snatch her by the scruff of her neck, drag her hater-blocker wearing self to the back of tank she's driving, shove her plastic face into her 'I support our troops' magnet and remind her that supporting the troops is not the same as blindly supporting a war led by deceptive profiteers.
Supporting the troops means putting their best interest first. Bring. them. home. Though no amount of rectification will restore the lives of the some 4000 soldiers who've died. And who've died fighting a war every American has been lied to about. I do not stand for this.
I'm tired of people acting as if turning a blind eye is the same as being supportive of what is right. Beyond that, I'm tired of people following the leader just because he is elected one; being a leader does not make someone impervious to error, poor judgment, or even intentional deception. In cases like the Iraq War, doing nothing is the same as doing wrong -- lives are at stake. Lives are at stake and are lost every day because Americans sitting in their cushy easy-chairs dilute their perception of right and wrong with a sugary concoction of half "the president can choose for me" and half "I don't have time to be bothered."
When in reality, if it were you lying in the trenches -- or your son or daughter, you'd be pleading for Americans back home to stand up and object. This has gotten out of hand.
I got a bumper sticker from the excellent Vania Lopez. This is what it says:
"I'm leaning towards voting for the presidential candidate not endorsed by the worst president in American history."
Ah, God bless America -- the only country who votes for a moron not once, but twice. And then, when given a third chance -- they choose to listen to the moron who screwed them up to begin with. Why would any semi-intelligent, self-respecting, heart-possessing American vote for a man who's campaign bears bone-chilling resemblance to the hideous, idiotic, and immoral past eight years we have all witnessed/experienced/died from?This is one of those moments -- maybe days -- that I want to yank some yuppie soccer mom (not a Palin jab, although it should be) out of her SUV, snatch her by the scruff of her neck, drag her hater-blocker wearing self to the back of tank she's driving, shove her plastic face into her 'I support our troops' magnet and remind her that supporting the troops is not the same as blindly supporting a war led by deceptive profiteers.
Supporting the troops means putting their best interest first. Bring. them. home. Though no amount of rectification will restore the lives of the some 4000 soldiers who've died. And who've died fighting a war every American has been lied to about. I do not stand for this.
I'm tired of people acting as if turning a blind eye is the same as being supportive of what is right. Beyond that, I'm tired of people following the leader just because he is elected one; being a leader does not make someone impervious to error, poor judgment, or even intentional deception. In cases like the Iraq War, doing nothing is the same as doing wrong -- lives are at stake. Lives are at stake and are lost every day because Americans sitting in their cushy easy-chairs dilute their perception of right and wrong with a sugary concoction of half "the president can choose for me" and half "I don't have time to be bothered."
When in reality, if it were you lying in the trenches -- or your son or daughter, you'd be pleading for Americans back home to stand up and object. This has gotten out of hand.
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