Month: October 2007

You’re voting for Giuliani

Moby comments on Giuliani’s presidential campaign – and like him, I’m really surprised Rudy Giuliani remains at the top of the GOP presidential candidates

in the 90’s he had a radio show wherein he spoke directly to new yorkers.
he had an ongoing battle with a guy named david, who was the head of the ferrets rights association.
this quote from giuliani makes me laugh out loud.

“david, your compulsion, your excessive concern for weasels is a sign of something wrong in your personality,”
-rudolph giuliani

elsewhere in his radio program he:
a-lambasted the nra
b-expressed support for hillary clinton’s health care program
c-bragged about how nyc gave free health care to illegal immigrants
and so on.
and he’s the republican front runner?
awesome.
i kind of want to support his bid for the presidency just because he’s insane and would be a really entertaining president.
ok, i don’t really want to support his bid for the presidency.
but he is insane and he would be really entertaining as president.
i really do love that the republican front runner is a cross-dresser who has publicly supported gay rights and has called for a ban on private gun ownership.
it’s kind of amazing that the republicans are supporting a guy who used to live with 2 gay men and was for most of his political career to the left of hillary clinton.
again, awesome.
mo

But hey – he’s electable right?

A Day That Will Not Live In Infamy (But Should)

KERA ran a commentary by local (Midlothian) writer Tom Dodge this morning.
Pretty interesting. In it he talks about the killing of undercover Midlothian PD Officer George Raffield by two MHS students.

October marks twenty years since the world saw a news helicopter aerial video of a body lying face-down in the woods beside a red pickup. It was a young narcotics officer, murdered by Midlothian High School boys.
It was a tragedy but also an important story, important because the victim, George Raffield, was an undercover police officer and the assassins who planned it and carried it out were only sixteen and seventeen years old. It was also a huge story because it signaled to a complacent country during the Reagan “Just Say No” era that drugs were no longer just a big city problem, no longer just an inner-city problem, no longer just a minority problem. Drugs had come to the white middle-class, church-going, family-values-espousing, small-town suburbs.

Even though I grew up in East Dallas, I don’t recall this story personally, but it was mentioned several times in the newsroom when I worked at the WDL. Interesting history considering the impact it left on folks.
Read the full commentary or listen to the story.

re: Third party candidates for conservatives

From a comment on the Mike Huckabee blog:

With Dr. Dobson’s New York Times Op-Ed talking about how Social Conservatives should be more concerned about Candidates and their support for “key” issues rather than polls, Governor Huckabee was asked about this in a Washington Post.com interview. This is what he said,
“I’m a little concerned that some of the evangelical leaders seem to be less committed to the principles that got them involved in politics in the first place, and more into the politics than the principles,” he said. “You hear some of them saying, ‘Well, this guy believes with us, but we want to get somebody that can raise money. Or, ‘we want to get somebody that we think is going to win.’ Well, when it gets down to their picking things based on completely secular reasons, and it’s not about the issues, I think they completely marginalize themselves.”
Huckabee suggests evangelical Christians should stick to the issues, and not worry about electability.
“When you cease becoming clear about who you are, and what you’re about, you really just become another Republican interest group, and you have no core, you have no center, and therefore you have no influence.”

I agree completely. I heard another story from NPR today about my favorite candidate on the other side of the aisle. A number of people were interviewed and they said, “We love what Barack Obama has to say. We agree. We’re just not sure he can win.” So rather than get out there and commit to a guy who may not win – they’re just going to vote for the person who they already believe will win. Where’s the sense in that?!
Quit voting for the guy that everyone else thinks should stay in the lifeboat! Get off your rear and make a difference by supporting who YOU believe should stay in the lifeboat. Quit letting the “popular” person win elections. Vote with your heart, conscious and wallet. You’ll do it all day long for an American Idol candidate but not the President of the United States!?
Arrrrrggghhh!

Another kind of tree

Erin shares a funny story on her blog about the differences in culture between her American upbringing and the Nigerian way of life.
Just a sneak peak:

First, I have to say that lots of folks say the word s**t instead of ‘poop’ or ‘#2’, as we say in the States. Not sure why, but that is how it is and it is acceptable.