This is what happens when you pick "My Friends" as the drinking word for a McCain/Obama debate.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Monday, October 6, 2008
401-Keg
If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines one year ago, you will have $49.00 today. If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in AIG one year ago, you will have $33.00 today. If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Lehman Brothers one year ago, you will have $0.00 today. But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the aluminum cans for recycling refund, you will have received $214.00. Based on the above, the best current investment plan is to drink heavily & recycle.
It is called the 401-Keg.
A recent study found that the average American walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found that Americans drink, on average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year. That means that, on average, Americans get about 41 miles to the gallon!
Makes you proud to be an American!
Friday, October 3, 2008
From Joe Biden
If you saw tonight's debate, you saw Governor Sarah Palin give a spirited defense of the same disastrous policies that have failed us for the past eight years.
She couldn't identify a single area where she or John McCain would change George W. Bush's economic or foreign policy positions.
If you want something different, Barack and I need your help.
Make a donation of $5 or more right now to bring about the change we need.
The change we need is fixing this broken economy from the bottom up -- not tax breaks for the wealthy and huge corporations that ship U.S. jobs overseas. We need to focus on defeating al Qaeda and the Taliban and restoring America's standing in the world -- not an unending commitment in Iraq.
Let's be clear: Governor Palin and Senator McCain are offering nothing but more of the same failed Bush policies at home and abroad, trying to disguise them in the rhetoric of change.
Americans need real solutions and real change.
We're in this together and there's a lot to do before Election Day. Please make a donation of $5 or more right now to support this campaign for change:
https://donate.barackobama.com/changeweneed
This is the most important presidential election you'll be part of in your life.
Thank you for all that you're doing.
Now let's get to work and change this country,
Joe
She couldn't identify a single area where she or John McCain would change George W. Bush's economic or foreign policy positions.
If you want something different, Barack and I need your help.
Make a donation of $5 or more right now to bring about the change we need.
The change we need is fixing this broken economy from the bottom up -- not tax breaks for the wealthy and huge corporations that ship U.S. jobs overseas. We need to focus on defeating al Qaeda and the Taliban and restoring America's standing in the world -- not an unending commitment in Iraq.
Let's be clear: Governor Palin and Senator McCain are offering nothing but more of the same failed Bush policies at home and abroad, trying to disguise them in the rhetoric of change.
Americans need real solutions and real change.
We're in this together and there's a lot to do before Election Day. Please make a donation of $5 or more right now to support this campaign for change:
https://donate.barackobama.
This is the most important presidential election you'll be part of in your life.
Thank you for all that you're doing.
Now let's get to work and change this country,
Joe
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Friday: Last Chance to Stop Paulson's Plunder
Friday: Last Chance to Stop Paulson's Plunder
(1) Call your Representative at 800-473-6711 or 800-828-0498 or 202-224-3121 and say "No Bailout!"
(2) Find or Organize a "No Bailout" protest near you:
http://bailoutmainstreet.com/
(3) Visit your Representative's local office
The Senate's 74-25 vote for Paulson's Plunder came as no surprise, since the Senate is run by and for millionaires. So now it's back to the House of Representatives, where we shocked those millionaires on Monday by defeating their bailout bill by 228-205.
A terrified army of corporate lobbyists is working around the clock to switch 13 votes, but only 7 have switched so far - Jim Ramstad (R-MN), John Shadegg (R-AZ), Zach Wamp (R-TN), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Shelley Berkley (D-NV), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) and John Lewis (D- GA). Other possible switches include Pat Tiberi (R-OH), Pete Hoekstra (R-MI), John Yarmouth (D-KY), Brian Bilbray (R-CA), Steve Rothman (D-NJ), Lee Terry (R-NE), Jim Gerlach (R-PA), Tim Murphy (R-PA), Jason Altmire (D-PA), and Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ). But others may switch from Yes to No, including Ed Markey (D-MA), Charlie Melancon (D-LA), and Spencer Bachus (R-AL).
Bush's first Treasury Secretary, Paul O'Neill, called Paulson's plan "crazy" and "lunacy" with potentially "awful" consequences for the world's largest economy. Many of the best economists agree with O'Neill. Paulson's strongest supporters - including panicked CNBC hosts - now admit it will not raise stock prices or boost the economy as it falls into recession. Then why on earth should we give $700 $850 billion of our tax dollars to Wall Street??? Joe Lieberman gave away the real game when he told FOX " it will be good for John McCain."
With so much at stake, Congress should stay in session for another week (or two) to pass a much better (and cheaper!) plan proposed by Pete DeFazio (D-OR). But Congress desperately wants to go home so Friday may be our last chance to stop this $850 billion disaster .
(1) Call your Representative today!
First check how your Representative voted on Monday (and note switches above):
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/
If (s)he voted NO, say "Thank you for helping stop the Bailout on Monday. Don't betray us now by voting YES on Friday, or I will vote NO against you on Election Day."
If (s)he voted YES, say "I'm outraged that you supported the Bailout on Monday, and I will remember on Election Day. If you want my vote on Election Day, you must vote NO on Friday."
(2) Join or organize a street protest against the bailout:
http://bailoutmainstreet.com/
(3) We're also partnering with Progressive Democrats of America and USAction/TrueMajority to schedule local meetings with our Representatives to demand a Fair Deal for Main St . If you'd like to help,
- Print this letter and fax it to your Representative's district office - use the phone book or search here . On your cover sheet, request a meeting for group of activists as soon as possible.
- Better yet, visit your Representative's district office and follow these instructions .
- Report scheduled meetings to bailout@democrats.com
For inspiration, watch this great video from Agit-Pop:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Find more information and comment here:
http://www.democrats.com/
Thanks for all you do!
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Republicans Blame OBAMA for Wall Street Meltdown - Help Us Fight Back!
Even before the House voted on Monday, the Republican National Committee broadcast an outrageous TV ad blaming Barack Obama for the Wall Street Meltdown:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Our friends at Agit-Pop produced a rapid response 30-second ad that places blame for the meltdown exactly where it belongs, namely Bush-McCain economics :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
We don't have Wall Street millions to put this ad on the air, but we have you so please forward this 30-second ad to everyone you know!
Find more info and comment here:
http://www.democrats.com/gop-
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Election Day Countdown: 39 Days
If you want a real scare, watch this video nightmare about Election Night 2008:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
If you don't want that nightmare to come true, visit:
http://www.voteforchange.com/
1. Register to vote
2. Request to vote absentee
3. Find your polling location
Republicans are working quietly to steal another election by disenfranchising Democratic voters, just as they did in 2000 and 2004. So please make sure your vote counts!
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
An 8 Year Old's Take on the Michelle Obama Rally
My Report on Michelle Obama
Today I went to see Michelle Obama, Barack Obama's wife. She was at the University of Colorado, speaking to thousands of people about voter registration. She wanted to get people to sign up because she wanted people to vote for a great president.
Not everyone is registered to vote yet and she wanted everyone to get registered in time because the deadline is on Monday.
My favorite part of Michelle Obama's speech was when she was talking about college students getting in debt because they take money from loans to stay in college, and when they get out they're still in debt and they can't become teachers or stay in the community.
I thought she was amazing! She was strong and powerful and a great speaker!
Running for vice president is nothing new.
Posted October 1, 2008 6:30 AM
The Swamp - Mark Silva
Running for vice president is nothing new.
Sarah Palin runs every day
""I get to go running every day, which is my sanity," the Republican nominee told CBS' Katie Couric on the campaign trail in Ohio. "Sweat is my sanity."
And, for the record, Palin, who opposes abortion in all instances, including for rape victims, yet stops short of saying anyone should be jailed for their abortion, considers herself a feminist.
"I do," Palin told Couric in an interview for the CBS Evening News. "I'm a feminist who, uh, believes in equal rights and I believe that women certainly today have every opportunity that a man has to succeed, and to try to do it all, anyway. And I'm very, very thankful that I've been brought up in a family where gender hasn't been an issue.
"You know, I've been expected to do everything growing up that the boys were doing. We were out chopping wood and you're out hunting and fishing and filling our freezer with good wild Alaskan game to feed our family. So it kinda started with that."
Also, for the record, Palin believes that evolution should be taught as "accepted principle.... I say that also as the daughter of a school teacher, a science teacher, who has really instilled in me a respect for science.''
But Palin isn't so ready with an answer about where she has gotten her information from all these years.
Read the rest of the story:
Running for vice president is nothing new.
The Swamp - Mark Silva
Running for vice president is nothing new.
Sarah Palin runs every day
""I get to go running every day, which is my sanity," the Republican nominee told CBS' Katie Couric on the campaign trail in Ohio. "Sweat is my sanity."
And, for the record, Palin, who opposes abortion in all instances, including for rape victims, yet stops short of saying anyone should be jailed for their abortion, considers herself a feminist.
"I do," Palin told Couric in an interview for the CBS Evening News. "I'm a feminist who, uh, believes in equal rights and I believe that women certainly today have every opportunity that a man has to succeed, and to try to do it all, anyway. And I'm very, very thankful that I've been brought up in a family where gender hasn't been an issue.
"You know, I've been expected to do everything growing up that the boys were doing. We were out chopping wood and you're out hunting and fishing and filling our freezer with good wild Alaskan game to feed our family. So it kinda started with that."
Also, for the record, Palin believes that evolution should be taught as "accepted principle.... I say that also as the daughter of a school teacher, a science teacher, who has really instilled in me a respect for science.''
But Palin isn't so ready with an answer about where she has gotten her information from all these years.
Read the rest of the story:
Running for vice president is nothing new.
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