politics and pitching
rhonda and i are on opposite sides on the palin clothing spending spree, she believes that palin needed the clothes on the stump while i think the symbolism alone is such that reflects badly on the republican message of "joe the plumber", ie the everyday working man is being helped by the republican policies. 150k for clothing (that is the figure quoted today) in a month is not something that relates to joe the plumber and joesphine his wife. on that subject, the republican party has, over the years, convinced working people to vote against their own self-interest. they are quite good at it. they preach the things that really do not matter but resonate with blue collar people, guns (the demos are going to take away your guns), religion (the demos are going to outlaw christianity or the demos are not REAL christians or, in our present case, obama is a muslim), family values (the demos are going to allow queers to marry), patriotism (the demos are not real patriots and are, god forbid, against going to war against anybody we want) and if all that fails calling the democrats socialists, communists and any other ists they can think of. what they do not talk about is economic policies other than always accusing the democrats of " raising your taxes." you know, "tax and spend" democrats.
our economy is on the brink of disaster and so let's talk about william ayers.
jobs are being lost by the tens of thousands per month so let's question obama about his patriotism.
millions are losing their homes so let's accuse obama of being a socialist. (not mentioning that we just GAVE 700 BILLION dollar to banks which, of course, is socialism for the rich).
we spend more on health care than any country on the face of the earth and john mc cain wants us to turn it all over to the insurance companies. (let me tell you something from personal experience: INSURANCE COMPANIES ARE NOT IN THE BUSINESS OF PAYING CLAIMS, THEY ARE IN THE BUSINESS OF COLLECTING PREMIUMS.)
so, john mc cain, who can't remember how many homes he owns and sarah palin whose husband belongs to a group (or belonged to) that advocates alaska succeeding from the union (which is, incidently, high treason) go on painting obama as an elitist socialist but do not come up with viable ideas to get us out of this mess whereas senator obama does have plans and has spelled them out in great detail. read the two parties web pages and see which one applies to you.
great game last night if you like pitching. on both sides, the pitching was just great. when i played baseball (a jillion years ago) i pitched and played short stop and some third base. i pitched several no hitters in junior high but was a horrible batter and so, once in high school, i concentrated on boxing. several kids that i played bb with went on to pro sports, the most notable of which was lance rentzel (sp?) who played pro football. others went on to play bb but got no higher than triple A. our jr. high team went to the state finals twice and lost both times, once, as i spoke of in long ago post, on my error in the last inning. (we had however blown a 6 run lead so my error was only the last fuckup of the day). anyway, point being, i really like pitching.
our economy is on the brink of disaster and so let's talk about william ayers.
jobs are being lost by the tens of thousands per month so let's question obama about his patriotism.
millions are losing their homes so let's accuse obama of being a socialist. (not mentioning that we just GAVE 700 BILLION dollar to banks which, of course, is socialism for the rich).
we spend more on health care than any country on the face of the earth and john mc cain wants us to turn it all over to the insurance companies. (let me tell you something from personal experience: INSURANCE COMPANIES ARE NOT IN THE BUSINESS OF PAYING CLAIMS, THEY ARE IN THE BUSINESS OF COLLECTING PREMIUMS.)
so, john mc cain, who can't remember how many homes he owns and sarah palin whose husband belongs to a group (or belonged to) that advocates alaska succeeding from the union (which is, incidently, high treason) go on painting obama as an elitist socialist but do not come up with viable ideas to get us out of this mess whereas senator obama does have plans and has spelled them out in great detail. read the two parties web pages and see which one applies to you.
great game last night if you like pitching. on both sides, the pitching was just great. when i played baseball (a jillion years ago) i pitched and played short stop and some third base. i pitched several no hitters in junior high but was a horrible batter and so, once in high school, i concentrated on boxing. several kids that i played bb with went on to pro sports, the most notable of which was lance rentzel (sp?) who played pro football. others went on to play bb but got no higher than triple A. our jr. high team went to the state finals twice and lost both times, once, as i spoke of in long ago post, on my error in the last inning. (we had however blown a 6 run lead so my error was only the last fuckup of the day). anyway, point being, i really like pitching.
posted by Ron Shock | 9:35 AM
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Did Sarah spend the money, or did republican campaign advisors spend it on her? Considerable difference. It is unfortunate, but that probably isn't too far out of line--Likely several custom made outfits per day, none to be re-used, a rush job. Not much of the money is for cloth and thread, much of it is essentially "image consulting".
As far as tax money--How much they are taking from me is only half the problem. The other half is what they do with the money--In a lot of cases, I'd rather that they take my money and throw it away instead of spend it how they do. The military should have plenty of money to defend America, but not enough to invade other countries. The DEA should have enough for...um...I'm not really sure what they do that couldn't be done by regular law enforcement.
...which illustrates my point. The more money they have, the more they will meddle in our lives. They will spend it somehow, and it won't always be harmless.
it was spent by the republicans. i am neither for nor against it, i am just commenting on the smybolism of it.
try to figure out just how many different enitities have the right to carry guns and arrest people. cia, dea, fbi, nsa, city police, state police, county sheriff, irs, etc etc etc the list goes on and on and then the question arises just how many "cops" do we fucking need anyway?
The right to carry guns isn't the issue here--Like millions of civilians, I do that almost every day. The real problem is that they are allowed to point them at people to get their way. The other problem is the bureaucrats with the power to add more and more rules until it is impossible to follow all of them.
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