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4 November 2008 By Leave a Comment

Sent this out this morning – posting it now!

Sorry if you can’t vote quite yet – I just grabbed my entire address book. I also apologize if you get this multiple times!

It is so important this year. I don’t care who you vote for (that’s a lie, I do care, but let’s pretend I don’t) either way it’s history in the making and don’t you want to be a part of that?

We’ve voted already (early voting) but if you were not able to take advantage of early voting or absentee voting, please make sure you take the time to go vote today.

Many places are offering voting incentives! StarBucks is offering a free cappuccino if you bring in your “I voted” sticker, my kids school is offering the class with the most “I voted” stickers a party of some sort, and I’ve heard many other businesses are offering goodies as well.

So quit reading your email (well, your blog list), go vote!

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Palin hits Obama for ‘terrorist’ connection – CNN.com

8 October 2008 By Leave a Comment

ENGLEWOOD, Colorado (CNN) — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Saturday slammed Sen. Barack Obama’s political relationship with a former anti-war radical, accusing him of associating “with terrorists who targeted their own country.”

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin lashed out at Sen. Barack Obama’s ties to controversial figure William Ayers.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin lashed out at Sen. Barack Obama’s ties to controversial figure William Ayers.

Palin’s attack delivered on the McCain campaign’s announcement that it would step up attacks on the Democratic presidential candidate with just a month left before the November general election.

“We see America as the greatest force for good in this world,” Palin said at a fund-raising event in Colorado, adding, “Our opponent though, is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country.”

Palin made similar comments later at a rally in Carson, California. CNN Fact Check

Obama’s Chicago, Illinois, home is in the same neighborhood as Bill Ayers, a founder of the radical Weather Underground, which was involved in several bombings in the early 1970s, including the Pentagon and the Capitol, and the two have met several times since Obama’s 1995 campaign for a state Senate seat.

Palin hits Obama for ‘terrorist’ connection – CNN.com.

How does that not reflect poorly on the McCain group? I mean, really, how does it not?

Obama is over here saying “look at his record, he did this, this and this” and McCain is over on the other side saying “when he was 8, he lived in the same neighborhood as an accused, but not convicted bomber.” They are grasping at straws and I cannot understand how so many people can’t see this.

I also didn’t realize how young Obama was (48 whenever that statement was made!) and I would think that more people would vote for someone younger. I mean, I can see the seniors voting McCain, he’s their age, supposedly on their side (ha!) but…

As I said a few posts ago, I want someone who is going to inititate the change we need, not bring us four more years of decline. I don’t need the US to be a world supoer power, but I certainly don’t need it to become a third world country either, where our children are broadcast on European televisions as needing a few pennies a day for rice. In my world, we get that country, we send them food, and while I have always believed we should help our own homeless, our own hungry, I have never in my life thought that our country as a whole would turn into that hungry little girl.

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Michigan Messenger » Lose your house, lose your vote

11 September 2008 By Leave a Comment

Michigan Messenger » Lose your house, lose your vote.

Michigan Republicans plan to foreclose African American voters

The chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County Michigan, a key swing county in a key swing state, is planning to use a list of foreclosed homes to block people from voting in the upcoming election as part of the state GOP’s effort to challenge some voters on Election Day.

“We will have a list of foreclosed homes and will make sure people aren’t voting from those addresses,” party chairman James Carabelli told Michigan Messenger in a telephone interview earlier this week. He said the local party wanted to make sure that proper electoral procedures were followed.

State election rules allow parties to assign “election challengers” to polls to monitor the election. In addition to observing the poll workers, these volunteers can challenge the eligibility of any voter provided they “have a good reason to believe” that the person is not eligible to vote. One allowable reason is that the person is not a “true resident of the city or township.”

You have to read the whole article. They are targeting people who have lost their homes, and who have no proof of address. Perhaps they have moved outside of their voting area, or in with family and don’t have proof of address available (such as utility bills in their name).

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Sarah Palin

29 August 2008 By Leave a Comment

OK, So I lied. I have news. And commentary. Alaska gov. Sarah Palin may be McCain’s VP pick.. we will know more when he announces it this afternoon   http://palinforvp.blogspot.com/

Does it matter? Are you going to vote McCain just because he chose a woman? I bet he’s hedging his bets on that. I bet over half the Repub party is as well.

Think on this: what exactly does the VP do other than pointedly not be wherever the President is? Yes, the VP is slated to take over if the Pres is incapacitated, but that has happened, I think, six times in our entire history of having a United States president. The last time it happened was Nixon, due to death it was Kennedy, and prior to that it was I think Roosevelt. I’m not positive. There have been many times the VP has gone on to become President in a succeeding election, but is it worth the risk to hope for that outcome? Wait, is it worth the risk if you both want a female president and agree with her politics? I don’t agree with her politics from what I have read *only* today, so I am kind of talking out of my ass there. I am not well-read on her as yet.

I live in Florida. They are using real paper ballots this year (scantron even!) but I am hedging my bets that they find a way to set the storage facility on fire before they are run/tallied or they accidentally fall into a chipper-shredder on the way there or something. I’ll be voting, but it certainly will not based on what is hiding or dangling between someone’s legs.

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02 November 2004

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Last night we bought paint for the bedroom. It’s a deep eggplant purple and a lighter one. I am torn between painting one wall the eggplant and the other three the lighter or sponging the light paint over the eggplant on one (or more) walls or sponging the darker over the lighter. Ideas anyone? Oh, and I might not sponge it at all, I might cheat and get one of those rollers to do it with.

We woke up this morning, took D to school, had our meeting with the teachers, went to vote, picked up my moms bag she forgot, and then went to breakfast. We were home by about 11. I was afraid the voting place would be packed, but we found a parking space quickly (quickly as in as soon as we got there) and walked in and voted and left. This was my first election voting. I could have voted last election, but I wasn’t registered to vote.

The meeting with D’s teachers was fine. He is still doing “parallel” play, which means he isn’t playing *with* the other kids, but *next* to them. I have no issue with this personally. He told me last week I should tell Miss Ellen he wants to play by himself, so it was also something I was already aware of. They also want me to call and have him evaluated for speech therapy (I know, I should have called last month when they originally brought it up) but it is such a pain. Not the evaluation, but the fact that if he does need it, I have no way to get him to school. The ST would be at the local elementary school, which is around the corner. I don’t want to walk it, but I could if I had to. Then how do I get him to school once it’s done? Couple that with the fact that I can’t understand any four year old who I meet and I don’t think he is out of the ordinary. I know some children who speak especially well before age 4, but I know far more who don’t. He still has issues identifying some numbers, but he has taken to asking what time it is almost every half hour, so I’ve been pointing out numbers on the analogue clock, so that shouldn’t be an issue soon enough. Some letters he has issues with, again, no big deal. Oh, and apparently a lot of the kids in his class have issues counting past about 14. He does all right once he gets to 14 and then again past 17 or so lol They said he didn’t get the 1:1 thing (she said “give me 20 bears and he handed her a pile of them, didn’t count them out… had she said count 20 bears me for I bet he would have though).

So he is right where he should be in everything as far as I’m concerned, a head in a few things, behind in a few I guess, but all in all, about where he needs to be.

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