You know you're political party is in trouble when you have an infamous boxing promoter Don King speaking out on behalf of your candidate.. We were having lunch today when I began flipping channels - and I thought I'd take a look to see what the folks at Fox News were doing.. That's when I saw Don King talking with Nick Caputo (or whatever his name is..) I had it on mute, but I could see the closed captioning..
Neil was asking him questions about his impressions of Bush and King was all in favor of Dubya.. But then Neil asked him why a small percentage of African Americans voted for Bush last time..
The result of that answer was unexpected as I almost choked on my pita wrap..
King believes that African Americans don't know the "essence" of the man George W. Bush is.. I about laughed my ass off my chair.. Of course I had to rewind it to the point, wait for Darby to come into the living room before I could un-mute it and play it again.. Hearing it was even funnier than reading it.. I realize there's a stereotype circulating that Bush and the republicans do not have a strong minority backing -- and yet they found Don King..
Then in King fashion, he tries to rally up some sort of pep yell: "four more years," and then starts scatting out other things as Neil was trying to head to commercial..
The only thing I could think about was WHY.. King doesn't have the best reputation out there as it is.. An ego, money-makin' focused, monopolizin' to get his way, King.. I do admit this though, he would be one of the last people I'd think about leading the GOP battle cry.. When you hear how much Bush is out of touch with people, makes me wonder exactly how he got King's support..
In any event - it was interesting and entertaining at the same time..
Tuesday, August 31, 2004
Friday, August 27, 2004
Stability
I've mentioned it before, but I'm going to say it again:
As a nation, as a member of the world population, George Bush does not make us safer.. I can point to a lot of things, but it comes back to the fact that he has totally destabilized the entire Middle Eastern region - which was held together by Elmer's glue to begin with.. Bush has had more than enough opportunities to try to bring the world together again, but that's not even a possibility now..
The Europeans are skeptical of him, the African nations gave up on us, we already know what's brewing in the South East theater.. But what did we hear in the news recently?? He's put forth a plan to close bases around the world.. What this translates into: Bush realized that he's alienated the US with the rest of the world - and now has to circle the wagons..
But we forget that our southern border remains virtually undetected.. Bush even went as far as to wanting law to grant amnesty to any illegal immigrants who are in the country today.. Instead of trying to thwart the next attack - now we're just welcoming them into our land.. (brilliant move Dubya..)
I've said it before, I'll say it again - no.. I honestly don't know if Kerry would do any better.. But for any conservative to actually USE that argument only is a really piss poor argument when you think about it.. Let's suppose that you get a really bad car mechanic who doesn't know what to do to fix your car - I show up, not knowing one thing about automotive mechanics.. Does the mechanic who can't fix your car do a better job than someone who hasn't worked on them before?? Who knows - even though I may not know word one about a carburetor might actually be a good thing because I research the crap out of things before I take on a project.. Because I'm a planner and if I can see how to work into a problem there's a really good chance I can do something about it..
Is Kerry that way?? I don't know.. But to use the argument that just because Bush is *currently* the President somehow makes him more qualified is very disturbing to me.. One has to say that statement a little louder.. Just because Bush thinks he's doing a good job, doesn't mean he is.. When one thinks about exactly how screwed up the country is, might think twice about sending Kerry to office.. The second thought I'm giving is:
Can Kerry fuck this country up anymore than the W. has??
Unfortunately I don't think Kerry can screw up the country anymore..
With the expanding poverty line.. Record setting budgets.. A President out of touch of the men and women he's sending to Iraq.. Alienating us from the rest of the world.. Further inciting the Islamic-followers.. and talk about "flip flopping.." Damn, those are just the highlights in the last week or so!! Watching Bill Maher tonight only brought out fresh ones.. One of the ones I loved was when Bush was quoted about the North Korean leader saying:
"I don't give a deadline for dictators..." um, you did, sorry Mr. President..
The Swift Boat story fell apart on him.. He wasn't too quick to distance himself to it because they couldn't confirm or deny whether it was true.. Had it been true, do you really think that Bush would've aligned himself when he could clearly see blood on his opponent?? No.. His advisers stepped in and probably saved the campaign at this point..
There's a lot of crap that's unfolding right now.. The 9/11 commission report still proves to be interesting.. The evolving story about leaking the CIA operative's name has now reached the Dick Cheney's chief of staff (oops).. Speaking of Dick Cheney, it's interesting how he has come out in defense of his lesbian daughter in the midst of Bush's attempts to illegalize gay marriages.. hmmmmm
Again, we're living in very interesting times..
As a nation, as a member of the world population, George Bush does not make us safer.. I can point to a lot of things, but it comes back to the fact that he has totally destabilized the entire Middle Eastern region - which was held together by Elmer's glue to begin with.. Bush has had more than enough opportunities to try to bring the world together again, but that's not even a possibility now..
The Europeans are skeptical of him, the African nations gave up on us, we already know what's brewing in the South East theater.. But what did we hear in the news recently?? He's put forth a plan to close bases around the world.. What this translates into: Bush realized that he's alienated the US with the rest of the world - and now has to circle the wagons..
But we forget that our southern border remains virtually undetected.. Bush even went as far as to wanting law to grant amnesty to any illegal immigrants who are in the country today.. Instead of trying to thwart the next attack - now we're just welcoming them into our land.. (brilliant move Dubya..)
I've said it before, I'll say it again - no.. I honestly don't know if Kerry would do any better.. But for any conservative to actually USE that argument only is a really piss poor argument when you think about it.. Let's suppose that you get a really bad car mechanic who doesn't know what to do to fix your car - I show up, not knowing one thing about automotive mechanics.. Does the mechanic who can't fix your car do a better job than someone who hasn't worked on them before?? Who knows - even though I may not know word one about a carburetor might actually be a good thing because I research the crap out of things before I take on a project.. Because I'm a planner and if I can see how to work into a problem there's a really good chance I can do something about it..
Is Kerry that way?? I don't know.. But to use the argument that just because Bush is *currently* the President somehow makes him more qualified is very disturbing to me.. One has to say that statement a little louder.. Just because Bush thinks he's doing a good job, doesn't mean he is.. When one thinks about exactly how screwed up the country is, might think twice about sending Kerry to office.. The second thought I'm giving is:
Can Kerry fuck this country up anymore than the W. has??
Unfortunately I don't think Kerry can screw up the country anymore..
With the expanding poverty line.. Record setting budgets.. A President out of touch of the men and women he's sending to Iraq.. Alienating us from the rest of the world.. Further inciting the Islamic-followers.. and talk about "flip flopping.." Damn, those are just the highlights in the last week or so!! Watching Bill Maher tonight only brought out fresh ones.. One of the ones I loved was when Bush was quoted about the North Korean leader saying:
"I don't give a deadline for dictators..." um, you did, sorry Mr. President..
The Swift Boat story fell apart on him.. He wasn't too quick to distance himself to it because they couldn't confirm or deny whether it was true.. Had it been true, do you really think that Bush would've aligned himself when he could clearly see blood on his opponent?? No.. His advisers stepped in and probably saved the campaign at this point..
There's a lot of crap that's unfolding right now.. The 9/11 commission report still proves to be interesting.. The evolving story about leaking the CIA operative's name has now reached the Dick Cheney's chief of staff (oops).. Speaking of Dick Cheney, it's interesting how he has come out in defense of his lesbian daughter in the midst of Bush's attempts to illegalize gay marriages.. hmmmmm
Again, we're living in very interesting times..
Thursday, August 19, 2004
Gas prices...
I've noticed something very interesting..
1.) The price for a barrel of oil has now reached RECORD proportions due to the volatile situation in Iraq..
2.) The price for gasoline has actually gone DOWN in recent weeks..
3.) They are actually FORECASTING that the price of gasoline will continue to go down for the remainder of the summer..
Why this is interesting is because anytime there is an oil-related calamities - we usually feel the pinch at the pump.. SOMETHING is suspicious about this whole thing..
Let's not forget one thing: we have an election coming up.. I don't want to sound like some conspiracy theorist, but it's strange how gasoline prices have stabilized in reaction to RECORD oil prices.......
....afterall bad gas prices in an election year is something that would hurt Bush, don't you think?? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....
1.) The price for a barrel of oil has now reached RECORD proportions due to the volatile situation in Iraq..
2.) The price for gasoline has actually gone DOWN in recent weeks..
3.) They are actually FORECASTING that the price of gasoline will continue to go down for the remainder of the summer..
Why this is interesting is because anytime there is an oil-related calamities - we usually feel the pinch at the pump.. SOMETHING is suspicious about this whole thing..
Let's not forget one thing: we have an election coming up.. I don't want to sound like some conspiracy theorist, but it's strange how gasoline prices have stabilized in reaction to RECORD oil prices.......
....afterall bad gas prices in an election year is something that would hurt Bush, don't you think?? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....
Monday, August 16, 2004
Saturday, August 07, 2004
Tuesday, August 03, 2004
1 577 846.3 minutes
That's how many minutes there are in 3 years..
What really confuses Me is we all hear: "Go about your business..."
Yet, we're acting upon intelligence that is THREE YEARS OLD
Excuse Me, but why is this supposed to make Me feel all secure that nothing is wrong?? I realize I sometimes scream into nowhere, but exactly why do we have an intelligence gathering capability that is coming up with warnings of 3 years ago??!!??!?!?
So excuse Me for laughing it up here..
It's nice to know that our country is making policy and decisions based on OLD intelligence...... but WAIT!!!
Think about that: Saddam did at one time have Weapons of Mass Destruction, but maybe we were looking at intelligence that was over 10 years old when his daddy was in office and took care of most of it.....
Oops, probably didn't get that memo, did ya' Dubya??
What really confuses Me is we all hear: "Go about your business..."
Yet, we're acting upon intelligence that is THREE YEARS OLD
Excuse Me, but why is this supposed to make Me feel all secure that nothing is wrong?? I realize I sometimes scream into nowhere, but exactly why do we have an intelligence gathering capability that is coming up with warnings of 3 years ago??!!??!?!?
So excuse Me for laughing it up here..
It's nice to know that our country is making policy and decisions based on OLD intelligence...... but WAIT!!!
Think about that: Saddam did at one time have Weapons of Mass Destruction, but maybe we were looking at intelligence that was over 10 years old when his daddy was in office and took care of most of it.....
Oops, probably didn't get that memo, did ya' Dubya??
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