Wednesday, October 29, 2008

The Manchurian Candidate


There are some odd parallels with McCain and Raymond Shaw from the original movie the Manchurian Candidate.
Sergeant Raymond ShawJohn McCain
A Korean War HeroA Vietnam War Hero
Held in a Communist POW camp.Held in a Communist POW camp.
Brainwashed into doing whatever his Communist handlers want him to.Brainwashed into doing whatever his Right Wing handlers want him to.
Has a weakness of the queen of hearts.Has a weakness for the queen of the north.
Has a ruthless, politically calculating mother.Has a ruthless, politically calculating running mate.
Involved in a plot to assassinate a candidate for President to propel a crazy communist puppet the Vice Presidential candidate into high office.His death would propel a crazy right wing (Alaskan separatist) into power.
Is supported by mysterious Chinese Government operatives.Is supported by Shi Sheng Hao a mysterious "Taiwanese Business Man" and possible front for the Chinese government

Spooky!

Saturday, October 25, 2008

My favorite fruit company!


"No on Prop 8
Apple is publicly opposing Proposition 8 and making a donation of $100,000 to the No on 8 campaign. Apple was among the first California companies to offer equal rights and benefits to our employees’ same-sex partners, and we strongly believe that a person’s fundamental rights — including the right to marry — should not be affected by their sexual orientation. Apple views this as a civil rights issue, rather than just a political issue, and is therefore speaking out publicly against Proposition 8."

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Pie!



One of our Sunday traditions is to go to the farmers market when it is open for the season. This time of year is great for apples and one stand has an amazing variety of apples. So we usually get one or two of each kind and I make a pie with the different types of apples. The pie turned out good, I decided to not use much sugar in it but the flavor of the apples is great.

That's what I love about the farmers market. You have a connection to the food. You know where if was grown and how, and you make something out of it. So support your local farmer and get out to the farmers market in these last days of the season and enjoy the local treasures you will find there.

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Inspiring



This was his vision from the start of the campaign and it still is.

Seen on The Jed Report

Strip Poker 2





Maybe there is hope after all!



Government lists Alaskan belugan whales as endangered species, despite Sarah Palin's objections

Via Daily News

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

I'm am not your friend, you have not earned that!

So we have made it through another debate. Grumpy McBlinking was at his usual ridiculousnesses. I really liked how whenever McCain took the low road with an attack, Obama defused it by turning the conversation back to the issues. I also liked how he was calm and reasoned it was a great contrast. I was also glad that Obama finally took the opportunity to set the record straight on the attacks from the McCain camp. I was glad to see his attacks backfired on him.

I hope that people watching saw clearly what an Obama presidency would look like, someone thoughtful, who actually reads the bills he is signing. Who takes the time to understand complex issues and looks for common ground. An running mate who also embodies the same thoughfullness and dedication to people. A president that respects leaders around the world, and restoring our image in their eyes.

By contract I hope they saw what a McCain Presidency would look like (goddess forbid). A man who jumps into the fray without knowing the facts. A running mate who clearly doesn't know anything and is not willing to learn either. A leader that jumps to rash decisions that further anger other nations leading to more conflict.

I hope, "hope" wins the day in the end.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Black Silicon

A new breakthrough in solar technology could yield more efficient solar panels as well as better digital cameras.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/10/black-silicon-sionyx-solar-power-technology-breakthrough.php

Monday, October 13, 2008

Fascist Republican Bitch!

From the title I you might be thinking I'm talking about Palin, but it was actually a dream I has last night.

We were trying to get into the city (not sure what city, kind of a cross between NYC and San Francisco) and the only way to get there was across this bridge. We started to walk across but since my parents were with us it would have been to far to walk. Plus it was dangerous, walking up the shoulder. Then I saw there was a tram that we could take across the bridge. We starting into the station but there was a woman stopping people. She looked like a mixture or Barbra Bush and Newt Gingritch. She was trying to stop protesters from getting on the train. She wanted to know if you were a republican in order to go past. I got so pissed that I pushed past her, yelling that you was a Fascist!

I think the stress of this election is getting to me!

Liberal media bias my ass!!!

I understand that the Obama campaign does not want to stoop to their level, but I think it is valid to bring to the attention of the American people the very real connection the woman calling Obama a terrorist has with a party that was founded by a real life "domestic terrorist".

So why is it ok for the media to spend hours of airtime on the supposed "relationship" of Obama to an ex 60s radical and hardly mention Palin's more substantial and more recent dealings with the Alaskan Independence Party, a group once supported by guess who, Iran!!! She was the keynote speaker for their 2006 convention for Christ sake!!! The major Networks don't seem to care. Just do a google news search for Obama + Ayers and you get loads of stories, FOX News (well you've got to expect that), the Boston Globe, Chicago Sun-Times, ABC news, etc. (I've even seen it on our local news). Yet do a search for Palin and Alaskan Independence Party and you get mostly blogs, some editorials, at least the BBC gets it! WTF!!!!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/alaskan-independence-part_b_133261.html

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Sarah (Fembot) Palin




I've seen the picture of Palin and McCain as Dr. Evil and Mini Me, but I think she is more like his fembot.

Electoral Map? Guess again!

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Friday, October 10, 2008

"This sun is a mass of incandescent gas..."

"Averaged over an entire year and the entire Earth, the Sun deposits 342 Watts of energy into every square meter of the Earth. This is a very large amount of heat—1.7 x 1017 watts of power that the Sun sends to the Earth/atmosphere system. For comparison, a large electric power plant would produce 100 million watts of power, or 108 watts. It would take 1.7 billion such power plants to equal the energy coming to the Earth from the Sun—roughly one for every three people on the Earth! "

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/Oven/

That's a lot of power we could tap into, if everyone had a solar rooftop (like we do) we would not need another drop of oil or lump of coal!

Strip Poker

I have a thing for Strip Poker so this is the start of a regular series, enjoy!!





"Rage... taking over... "

Unsustainable Economy


In all of this market turmoil I have not heard anyone talking about the real issue with our market system. This issue is with the very assumption on which our whole economy is built upon. The assumption is that of unlimited growth. Everything is built on growing the economy. If we don't grow fast enough it is called a recession, if we stop growing it is called a depression. But can we sustain unlimited growth over the long run?

We live on a tiny blue-green planet with finite resources. To grow we must use resources, (pump oil out of the ground, rip down mountians, cut down forests etc) resources that are finite. But the idea of growth is built on the idea that resources are infinite, or worker efficiency can be increased infinitely. But we have to realize that people and the planet have limits. We can't keep growing beyond the ability for the planet to support us. And increased worker efficiency is usually at the expense of quality of life. These "bubbles" that we have in the economy are because of the short term gains in the present that are paid for in the future.

Our growth has been subsidized in the past hundred years by oil. We use oil to create and move things, grow food, etc. It is the basis of our growth. But oil is a finite resource. It is at its heart the energy of the sun hitting the earth for millions of years the stored in a liquid form. Which gets us to what our economy should be built on.

The amount of sun hitting the earth in a day. That should create our food, heat our homes, and sustain our economy. We need to start living within those means and build an economy that provides a good quality of life for all but knows that everything must be sustainable over the long term. Maybe this meltdown will be the start of the change that is needed to fundamentally shift how we think about our economy of the world we live in. Until we move to a sustainable model we will never have real long term prosperity.

Wednesday, October 08, 2008

The New McCarthy


"You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, [Madame], at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"

Joseph Welch, June 9 1954

My response to Palin's baseless and downright evil hate mongering, calling Obama a terrorist (communist).

I'm back


I started blogging a while back and then it just kind of fizzled. But this election has really got me so riled up so I felt like I needed to get back into it if just so I could have some place to vent. So here goes.

Not a nice clown (Dream)


We were at a lodge somewhere in the country. I had to pee but there were no bathrooms so i found a place behind a screen. just before i could pee, this guy dressed as ronald McDonald came in with a little girl. He wanted to go to the bathroom as well but the little girl would not leave us. Then a whole bus load of college jocks people came in through the porch window. I'm not sure where ronald and the girl went, but then my dad came in an asked if i was going to help look for the missing girl. They were forming parties to search the woods. (I later realized that maybe the missing girl was the one with ronald, and that maybe he was not a nice clown)

Snakes in a car (Dream)

Snakes in the car, falling from sky, someone is sending the snakes to attack us. We are driving in the car, there are kids in the car, trying to escape for something, driving snakes fall in through the sun roof . I’m bitten, have to find emergency room, look at map, I start to go to the closest one but greg gets mad and says we shouldn’t go to that one but some other one by the campus of towson university. I drive up to a nurse’s station in the middle of the road. I ask nurse at drive up info booth if this is that one and she says yes she thought so, like they just changes the name and noone really knew about it, Greg is satisfied with that answer . I start getting shaky and cold try to get nurse to help but she says I’ll have to wait. I go outside to go back to the car to wait with greg. I start feeling better as I walk outside, as if I was just faking it to get sympathy from the nurse.

In the parking lot I realize that there are stil snakes in the car. I start getting the snakes out, they keep striking at me. My sister, like Ms. Coulter, with a snake starts to circle me with her snake daemon. I get them to follow me up a hill to a college campus, we climb a fence. There are tutor style buildings. I convince her that I saw this in a vision and that we should fight I one of them.

In one of the buildings there is a tour going on, some people from work on the tour. The house belonged to Teddy Roosevelt.

I’m talking to someone about how some places are destined to be great places, like for some reason great events throughout history seem to happen at these places. History coalesces at these places. Like there is a rock and a tree at this place and someone sits there then there is a trail by that rock then a town is build around that place, which is paved with cobblestone. And on this street is the home of someone like George Washington.

Spiral staircase very narrow leads to upstairs have to wait for tour ot come down before going up, give up and instead looking at exhibits around a room. I look closer to find that in one there is a movie playing, like an old grainy black and white movie. Feels clinical, in the movie are children, teen boys playing with each other, masturbating each other. But there being punish for doing it by nurses with electroshocks, ice water torture. The exhibit seems to be about how homosexuality was ‘cured’ back then using aversion therapy.

My parents are there, looking at the exhibits I try to get them to skip the exhibit but they want to stay. In one of the exhibits there is a movie of a boy waving around his penis and you can reach our and touch it somehow. My Dad reaches out to grab it but it gives off an electric shock. I wake up.