The 7-Eleven Cup Poll, which accurately predicted the 2000 and 2004 election results, says that Obama is ahead 60% to 40%.
Even though California seems to be clearly headed toward Obama, the conservative San Diego Union Tribune has endorsed McCain.
I'm used to being in Conservative Country. It's the price I pay for living in Paradise.
I found this on Bears Mountain. She says this is not a meme which suits me. Here are my answers:
What is your favorite song?
Anything by Lizz Wright.
Your favorite perfume/smell?
Plumeria is lovely.
Dark or light beer?
Love dark beers. But I can't tolerate much of it any more.
Red or white wine?
Red. It doesn't agree with me either but it's worth the price. I am currently quite taken with meritages. (Is that a word?)
Would anyone like to join me for breakfast fajitas and mimosas? (Just a little aside for the heck of it).
Favorite mixed drink?
Kalhua and cream. A pussy drink really.
Favorite shot?
Don't do shots.
Your favorite weird comfort food?
Spaghetti with Smart Balance and parmesan cheese.
Your favorite color?
A toss up between pink and lavendar.
Do you have an iPod?
Nope.
Favorite song in the whole world.
Amazing Grace.
Mac or PC? Why?
PC. Why? Because I have been coopted by the establishment?
Oh. Right. I am the establishment. Damn.
Kids?
Do I have them? No. Had a foster daughter once. Do I like them? Yes.
Perfect Passion Filled night?
A little wine, a nice fire, and maybe some whipped cream.
Favorite kind of pasta?
Love a good lasagna.
Favorite blog, (besides mine of course...hehe).
Mocha Momma, currently minimally active. So I follow Kelly on twitter.
Also love Lesbian Dad, Raindog Blue, Left Coast Mom, Deb on the Rocks, and Hahn at Home.
What is your biggest worry, social cause, passion??
My biggest worry at this moment is that John McCain will win this stupid thing.
My passion? Social justice and human rights.
Any off the wall thing you want to tell me.
I am the definition of Off the Wall. An old lesbian who lives in a trailer, and is still waiting for the Revolution.
That's me. You can leave your answers in my comment section, put them on your blog, or just skip it all together.
Lots of blogs and websites are fighting for and against proposition 8. The most surprising is this one.
This is not the only place on the net where I have found people saying that Proposition 8 is a part of a Mormon plot to overthrow the Christian faith. This person says that "we can address the issue of same sex marriage later on our own terms."
Not sure why but that scares me a little. I don't know if I ought to say "I'll take it if it's a vote for me," or "Thanks but no thanks." I don't really want to be associated with some anti-Mormon sentiment.
I'm also unsure of what this guy means by addressing gay marriage "on our own terms." I'm guessing it might be a fight for another day.
What is important for me right now is to keep my eye on the prize.
Two folks that I am aware of who are working to raise money for the No on Prop 8 movement are Hahn at Home and Lesbian Dad.
Lesbian Dad started out trying to raise $5,000 and is now close to raising double that amount. Click on this link to contribute. (The icon is not a link).
Lori from Hahn at Home is part of a group called 8 Against 8.
Eight lesbian bloggers of some note have banded together to raise money also. Please remember that about 10% of the US population lives in California. A loss for us here means a giant step backward for all of us.
We have only have ten days left until election day.
I kid you not. For some reason I clicked on my twitter followers list tonight and discovered that Sarah Palin is following me.
Ewwwwwwww! It's like finding boogers on the bed post. I may be old enough to be her mother but seeing her on my twitter site is like walking into the room to find my mother having sex.
Is this supposed to make her cool? Or am I going to wind up on some Wingnut Queers to Watch List?
Help! I'm being co-opted by the republicans! How could I possibly be that important.
Granted, Palin herself isn't following me. She has some idiot group of wingnuts surfing the net for her and trying to find people to prove that Obamaphiles are crazy.
Excuse me. I need to go take a shower. Or three.
Imagine my horror when my boss walked into the lobby of our business office and, laughing, plunked a picture of Obama's face over the police artist's rendering of a local rapist. The newspaper clipping was posted because not only do our staff members use the park where a recent rape occurred, but we take our residents there.
When I said "I really would not go there," her response was "You people have no sense of humor."
Other than myself, her Mexican dietary supervisor and her openly gay department head were in the room. Even the redneck receptionist, whose son is half Mexican, was shocked.
Can you spell clueless? She's not a bad person. But she is certainly clueless.
Later, one of them remarked to me "You know, she really is afraid of Obama."
We have employees who are black, asian, hispanic, native American and muslim.
She loves native Americans yet when she talks about them I cringe. They are, she says, "innocent and childlike."
Interestingly, she can look at the individual and see the talent. She does not let race determine who she puts in the position.
This is how we are alike: Both of us prefer to work in a diverse environment. And that's about where it ends. To her, diverse means more white employees than not because, at least in our area, nursing is dominated by Philipinos. To me, diverse means when no single group dominates, employees seem to work better together.
Truly, I don't understand how her mind works. I do know that it is filled with racial stereotypes. Evidence points to the fact that there are lots of white folks out there who think as she does.
I would say that my best hope is younger people. Unfortunately, I still meet plenty of young ones who think exactly as my boss does. That saddens me. But I still have hope.
The dog is still barking at the neighbors but we're working on it. This is Deputy Dawg and his posse. Jaz is highly toy motivated. So we started with me sitting on the couch waiting for her to start with the barking thing.
I started by throwing one of her favorite toys into her line of vision. It was already established that she loves to play chase and tug of war.
At first, it would work for a minute or two and she would immediately return to her wicked behavior.
Then it occurred to me. She likes praise better than food. So if she would return the toy to me, I would pet her and tell her what a good, good, good, good girl she was.
By now, all I have to do is say "Bring me the toy!" She stops barking and races for her nearest toy. The chipmunk is her favorite. Not sure why because she can barely fit it into her mouth. And she prefers to take it by the head. The tail doesn't seem to be as much fun for her.
It could simply be that Deputy Dawg always seems to have his nose in a book and won't engage in any sort of play.
There's always a downside to this training. Example: I'm starting to work on the computer. The next thing I know, she's sitting at my feet barking madly. She won't shut up. I look down and there she is with the chipmunk.
This means I'm supposed to pick up the toy, play tug of war, and then throw the darned thing.
I suspect that she has outsmarted me by now. If I'm not paying attention to her, I'll hear 30 seconds of barking at the door, then suddenly find her in my lap looking for a pat and some praise. "Aren't I a good doggie?"
She hatin' on me here because I took her toys to take pictures.
You and your little dog too, Dorothy.
Bwaaaaaaaaaaahahahaha!
Adrenaline's Shadow posted this and I think it's funny. Come on guys, admit it. I love Obama but this is priceless.
Chris Buckley, son of the late champion of upper middle class right wing intelligentsia and the American way, William F. Buckley, was unceremoniously cut loose from the National Review. The publication was founded by Bill back in the day when the commies were coming.
Technically, Chris was not fired. After he published his conservative case for Obama in The Daily Beast, he offered his resignation to the National Review as a gentlemanly gesture. It was promptly accepted, not to anyone's surprise. But one would think the conservatives might think about this before continuing to present the conservative movement as a "big yurt" rather than the "big tent" they like to talk about. This is paraphrasing one of Chris Buckley's recent comments online.
On the Huffington Post today, in an artice by Jason Linkins, Chris Buckley offers up this explanation of the situation:
Within hours of my endorsement appearing in The Daily Beast it became clear that National Review had a serious problem on its hands. So the next morning, I thought the only decent thing to do would be to offer to resign my column there. This offer was accepted--rather briskly!--by Rich Lowry, NR's editor, and its publisher, the superb and able and fine Jack Fowler. I retain the fondest feelings for the magazine that my father founded, but I will admit to a certain sadness that an act of publishing a reasoned argument for the opposition should result in acrimony and disavowal...
So, I have been effectively fatwahed (is that how you spell it?) by the conservative movement, and the magazine that my father founded must now distance itself from me. But then, conservatives have always had a bit of trouble with the concept of diversity..
In one article Chris quotes Ronald Reagan: I haven't left the republican party. It left me.
NursePam's Word of the Day: Fatwah
noun (Islam) a legal opinion or ruling issued by an Islamic scholar; "bin Laden issued three fatwahs calling upon Muslims to take up arms against the United States"
Is this anything like Fatuous?
Main Entry: 1 Part of Speech: adj Definition: inanely foolish and unintelligent; stupid Etymology: Latin fatuus 'foolish'
Bill Buckley was quite the Renaissance man. I liked him, may he rest in peace. I like outrageous people no matter what their politics. And if they are charming and can use words of three syllables or greater, I will listen to what they have to say even though I may not agree.
You can tell by the above picture of Chris that he grew up happy and confident. Meaning Bill was probably a decent dad. Which is why I think it possible that Bill is turning over in his grave right about now.
I can only hope that Chris decides to follow in his father's footsteps, perhaps to found a publication that represents a more reasoned and diverse picture of the American conservative movement.
On a different but related note, Stanley Kurtz has this to say in an article in the National Review Online entitled Wright 101:
It looks like Jeremiah Wright was just the tip of the iceberg. Not only did Barack Obama savor Wright’s sermons, Obama gave legitimacy — and a whole lot of money — to education programs built around the same extremist anti-American ideology preached by Reverend Wright. And guess what? Bill Ayers is still palling around with the same bitterly anti-American Afrocentric ideologues that he and Obama were promoting a decade ago. All this is revealed by a bit of digging, combined with a careful study of documents from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, the education foundation Obama and Ayers jointly led in the late 1990s. Give me a break! I fail to understand why a thinking, young black man of Obama's era and born of an African father and a white mother, would not venture into exploring Afro-centric politics and culture. And why is this anti-American? It pleases me that Barak Obama seems to be more a Child of the Universe than does the typical middle American, ethnocentric over 60 white guy. I want someone who has looked at all of the possibilities to lead this country. I want a person who is not the standard issue candidate. We have been there and done that. And now we have damn near bought the farm. The fact that our culture has not psychologically grasped the truth that by 2050 caucasians will make up only 46% of our population, does not make it any less true. To ignore this reality is grossly counterproductive to any sort of progress we hope to achieve as a nation. If the conservative faction does not wake up to this fact, they will be in danger of following in the steps of the dinosaurs and taking the rest of us with them.
