Poor Hills. After Winning, too!

Honestly, I feel bad for Hills woman. After just winning Puerrrrrrto Riccoooo, she gets booted out ASAP. Apparently, there's a lot of ish on Obama that no one wanted to waste early and they were gonna hold on on releasing closer to the Big Date. I'm actually excited for the events to come and the drama that's going to unfold but also scared at the results.

Regardless, Hill ran a really good campaign and right after Obama was announced as the nomination, I watched street interviews on TV with my Mama and people were giving opinions about how they think Hills is more qualified and experienced but Obama was more charismatic and a great speaker, which is what made him the pick. They then went on to say that they're happy it's not about race and that Obama made history but also that they're not going to vote for him because they don't know a lot about him.

Maybe they saw this. Or this.

Hillary Victory!

She wins in the home of Westside Story...Puerto Rico!!

Puerrrrto Rico

My heart's devotion

Let it sink into the ocean

Always the hurricanes blowin'

Always the population growin'!!

Anyway, that's what I always hear in my head whenever I hear the words "Puerto Rico." Not saying that it's like that...just saying that I do hear the song though.

So Hillary got more than double the votes of Obama. After her campaign has been claiming "victory" for weeks (which we all know is debatable), I got an e-mail from her camp today saying that "this race is not over yet." So in a twisted way, she's indirectly admitting that it was starting to look over for her...haa.

Touchy Subject In My City

So Mission Viejo decided to display "In God We Trust" as an emblem behind where the City Council sits during City Council meetings. That means the emblem would be nice and big when meetings are televised.

Now I believe in God, and I understand why we would choose to have this emblem on display. However, after living in Mission Viejo for 20 years and knowing that there is (unfortunately) a large population of citizens who are TOO HARD religiously, I feel that having this emblem really is unnecessary and will do more division than unify.

For example, residents on my street have used religion to the point where my boyfriend isn't good because he's Jewish, and they use it as a tool to discriminate against others: having public Bible readings to their kids on their front lawn and if you don't openly accept God or go to church, you're a bad person. These people are the ones that push for the emblem.

It may not seem like a big deal, but if you lived in my city with an open mind, you would understand. I LOVE Mission Viejo. I LOVE my city. I am very, very fortunate to have been able to grow up here and go to these great schools. But it's come to the point where believing in God isn't even enough...you must go to Church. If you're home on Sunday, some little kids call you a witch.

So imagine what people would say if you're in office and vote against displaying "In God We Trust." This would be seen as un-patriotic. However, at times people in my city 1) try to live up to "The OC" and "The Real Housewives of Orange County" (since Coto is the gated community right by my house) and 2) resemble "Pleasantville" sometimes (but now with Moms who don't watch their young kids when they play in the streets and instead go workout or go shopping). There are a lot of people I know who are spiritual or atheist but are good, intelligent, hard-working people.


Honestly, we really don't need to have our emblem....our City Council Chamber looks like a scene out of 1984 already without it (with all the cold, contemporary design and colors and technology).

Read the Yes Reason.
Read the No Reason.

Sites of interest:

• HolyCoast: Where they say "I didn't think we had lefty kooks in our town, but there's always going to be a few. If nothing else we should encourage them to speak out to remind us of what strange creatures they really are. It's not unlike displaying poisonous, ugly animals at the zoo."
• The Liberal OC
• Liberal Atheist Vegetarian
  

Finally found the video. Someone should look up the quotes to verify to make sure nothing is out of context.

I've been looking forever for this video. I worked on a post from my home desktop computer and my explorer froze...so I never posted it and couldn't find the video again later!

Wellll I finally found it and wanted to post it for you all! It really just irked me that I couldn't find it again, so now that I have, I figure it's worth putting up at least:

You really do never see an ugly picture of Obama

Because this post got pushed so far back and in light of all the commotion over Obama's explanation for not putting his hand over his heart or wearing the flag pin, I wanted to post something different...so I wanted to back-track you to my other post in case you didn't see it or want to search for it. This is if you want to see Obama yelling at a woman at a question-and-answer round.

DID YOU KNOW THAT DICK CHENEY AND OBAMA ARE RELATED?!!!

Read the story yourself!

It's so calming that they close it with "Every family has a black sheep." Great words. Great words.

Don't believe it still?
Check out:

• The Washington Post
• CNN
• ThinkProgress
• The Guardian (UK)
• NY Post
• NOTE: The NY Post has been the only one that obviously stated Obama is related to BOTH Cheney AND BUSH
  

Obama's poetry as a youngn'

Did you know that Obama started out at Occidental before transferring?
Did you know that he submitted poetry to Occidental's Literary Magazine?

Hopefully, I don't think that's what he got in for. He was probably stoned when he wrote this and thought everyone looked like Apes when he would go to the underground gatherings and talk (I know he did that later in college, but I don't know if he did also at Occidental.... underground meetings were for radical get-togethers I hear).

Underground

Under water grottos, caverns

Filled with apes

That eat figs.

Stepping on the figs

That the apes

Eat, they crunch.

The apes howl, bare

Their fangs, dance,

Tumble in the

Rushing water,

Musty, wet pelts

Glistening in the blue.

Credit: Paul Vermeersch. He's a poet and editor. Check out his blog.

McCain's site more like Obama's now

A while back I wrote about the change in John McCain's website to be more welcoming. I have print screens for you to see the difference. The McCain Store is a good example of what the entire old site used to look like.

BEFORE (the whole site was dark and dreary like a 24 episode)

AFTER (more airy and friendly looking...similar to Obama's)

IMPROVEMENTS: 1) They made the site easier visually and localized things.
2) They also got high tech on us with the left side bar transforming into a slideshow with different topics.
3) They included Cindy McCain more on their site and really have you focus and realize that she has a history of doing work
And I have a print screen of Obama's so you can see what I mean. Most of the students in our class said they preferred Obama's and liked the ease of the site and said that McCain's was too dark and serious.

OBAMA's SITE

Soooooo I've been hearing all this fuss about Hills saying that she wants to assassinate Obama and all these people saying that they are offended by Hillary saying that she wants to wait around for Obama to be assassinated...

I dug around (not that hard to dig thanks to Das Internet Jaaaa) and found this video:

Can you name 1 accomplishment Obama has made from the top of your head?

Since past blogs were bumped down, I REALLY wanted people to see THIS.

The Net is great, but easy to take advantage of

The end of the clip hurt my head. Apparently, according to people who saw the interview, and you can also tell from the clip even...

McCainy was asked multiple questions and he was answering the previous one when the vote for Bush question came up.


While I would have loved something more entertaining, I couldn't resist to post on this. While there are many videos that make an impact out there, this one is straight up propaganda to make an impact on people and you can totally tell. At least they tried. If you want a good video, go to my previous post. Those people did a really good job.

At least he corrected himself on the Al Quaeda comment....

So sad. But I have to give credit to people who put this together! We definitely need more bashing on everyone. Then it can be a big party.



There are only 2 things I don't see anything wrong with (everything else is just sad):

1) Iran training extremists error...at least he corrected it (not by himself..but understandable if you get confused while talking about the issue)
2) celebrating his birthday with Bushy....the picture is just of him and Bushy holding a cake...they aren't even sitting down. They're standing up on a desert-y ground. I would be appalled if he were having a birthday party and wearing party hats and all....but there's really nothing wrong with catching a picture of him posing with a cake made for him on his birthday and he's standing outside.

The others, however, are just pathetic.

Honesty is the best policy! Maybe that should be a policy....someone should pass something called "Honesty." Maybe Barack since he hasn't passed a single legislature yet.

I Know How You Can Beat George Bush and His Failed Policies--DONATE TO ME!!!!

E-mail I got from Obama:

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We'll see more of this dance in the weeks and months ahead, but we already know the steps.

As we prepare to take on John McCain, now is our first chance to show that a grassroots movement of people giving only what they can afford can go toe-to-toe with the Bush-McCain fundraising machine.

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Hillary says our donation will be worth double in Puerto Rico.....

She says a group of supporters has agreed to match every dollar she gets....or is it really because she means our dollar is worth more in Puerto Rico??? I wonder who this group of supporters is!

The Mafia!!!! That would be interesting...hmmmmm



Dear Friend,

This Sunday, voters in Puerto Rico will go to the polls and make their voices heard -- the first time the island has played such a vital role in selecting our party's nominee. At this critical moment, I am depending on you to help me make sure they have a choice. We are depending on the voters of Puerto Rico in our fight to secure the nomination.

It doesn't matter what the pundits say. You and I know this race is up to the voters, and I'm going to keep fighting for every last vote. That's why it is so important that we get voters to the polls over the next few days -- and we can't do that without your help.

Over the next four days, we have the opportunity to make history in the Puerto Rico primary -- and win the national primary vote by redoubling our efforts. That's why a group of supporters has agreed to match contributions today from new donors -- meaning every dollar you give is worth double. Your $50 gift is worth $100, your $25 gift is worth $50 -- even a donation as small as $5 will have twice the impact.

Contribute today, and your donation will go twice as far toward helping us make history.

Puerto Rico isn't the only important deadline our campaign faces. The final two races -- in South Dakota and Montana -- are just six days away. And this Saturday marks another crucial end-of-month fundraising deadline.

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