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It must be funny pics day at Raging Tech, because I found two that made me laugh and decided I needed to share them. These come from MikeInk.com, which has some pretty offensive stuff on it, but these I thought were clean enough to share:
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Digg had a good article today (surprisingly not at all technology related) from the Chicago Tribune where they actually talked to legitimate Socialists in the USA about McCain’s calling Obama a “Socialist” after his comment about “spreading the wealth around” being good for everybody. I’ve had several friends post really hateful comments on my Facebook notes and other places about how Obama is going to dip his hands into their pockets and steal their hard-earned wealth to “spread it around,” simply because they don’t understand the actual economic policies.
The things they’re mad at Obama about are things he didn’t come up with. The government already unequally taxes the wealthy more than the poor. It’s called a tax bracket. Look into it. And taxes have been going to public services for years, Obama is just trying to get us more bang for our buck and raising taxes higher may actually prove to be a good thing, even if we end up whining about it. But let’s face it, when have we not whined about taxes and the high price of… anything.
Either way, Socialists say McCain is full of crap, and doesn’t actually know what the word means:
“Obama is about as far from being a socialist as Joe The Plumber is from being a rocket scientist,” said Darrell West, director of governance studies at the Brookings Institution. “I think it’s hard for McCain to call Obama a socialist when George Bush is nationalizing banks.”
And this from Bruce Carruthers, a sociology professor at Northwestern University: “Obama is like a center-liberal Democrat, and he is certainly not looking to overthrow capitalism. My goodness, he wouldn’t have the support of someone like The Wizard of Omaha, Warren Buffet, if he truly was going to overthrow capitalism.”
It’s all just a big 11th Hour tactic (or is it a strategy, *nudge nudge*?) to recall people’s feelings about the Cold War and what socialism was in Russia. I’m not saying I’m for communism or socialism, but at least get your facts straight.
And, while we’re at it, how about Mr. Colin Powell stepping in to say thumbs up to Obama? Bravo.
This wasn’t exactly an unbiased post, it was definitely bad news about McCain’s continuing blunders and name-calling. However, I want to point out that we should support whoever gets elected, all said and done it’s a tough choice between both majority candidates. I’m a Christian, and we’re called to pray for our leaders, and if McCain wins somehow, I will pray for him to make wise decisions and pray for our country to still come together and be the united country we’re supposed to be. Same for Obama.
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Tuesday is it for many of you. You have to have your voter registration in the mail and to the board of elections by your registration deadline, or you don’t get a say in America’s future. My friend posted this video on MySpace, and I thought about several of my friends who I’ve heard say “this election is bull****, both candidates are going to ruin this country.” They are pretty sure they’re not going to vote. Watch this video, and please, please, please, go register to vote and then ACTUALLY VOTE.
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I said a while back I wouldn’t put forth any clearly political blog posts… well, I’ve turned hypocrite (or maybe liar, at least) and have decided to renig on that promise. Today I sent an emailed Letter to the Editor at the newspaper in the town where my job is, because the town where I live really doesn’t have much in the way of newspapers. So here’s the letter I sent:
Dear Editor,
Joe Biden clearly won the debate on Thursday against Sarah Palin. Palin did a great job giving her canned and well-rehearsed answers, but she was ridiculously condescending in the way she refused to answer questions asked by the moderator. While it may seem cavalier and bold to do so, she showed complete disrespect for the moderator and the purpose of the debate.
Palin’s talking points all seem like a retro-rewind of the same-old same-old we’ve had from the Bush administration for eight long, insufferable years. Calling pulling our troops out of Iraq “a white flag of surrender” is not only a mud-slinging scare tactic, she’s basically puppeting John McCain from last week. We heard nothing new here, and getting our boys out of harm’s way is in no way a failure, especially if we do it correctly, turning power over to the Iraqi people.
I’m sick of all the talk about huge tax cuts on corporations. It’s not punishing them for being successful, as many will claim. It is also not, as John McCain would have us believe, to keep them from moving business over seas. Taxes alone are not what makes doing business in America a great thing. It would be exponentially expensive for major corporations to move their entire operations off-shore to save on taxes.
What’s important is what Biden said about the middle-class driving America. We are the ones who make America go. We drive trucks, we sweep floors, we serve your food, we answer your calls for help, we defend this country and it’s freedoms. It’s not a Robin Hood take from the rich and give to the poor situation. It’s not being foolish and giving the wealthy a break but leaving Joe Blue-Collar to struggle.
People complain Obama doesn’t have enough experience to be President. I say, he doesn’t have the years of corruption and indebtedness to lobbyists and PACs to influence his decisions. Yes, he’s got big ideas and not all of them will be able to be done with the budget he’ll be working with. But now, more than ever, people need to vote with their heads and not just their hearts, and not just for whoever’s the most popular in the news. Check your facts, know what’s real about the issues. Don’t vote for Obama just because he’s about “Change you can believe in” and don’t vote for John McCain just because he’s not Obama.
It is time for a change, America. We don’t need four more years of the same old song. Let’s be the America we were meant to be, the best country in the World, the *United* States of America.
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Just a reminder, the 2008 United States Presidential Election is Tuesday, November 4th, 2008. Make sure you are registered to vote 30 days before the election, or your vote doesn’t count. Also, be sure to request your absentee ballots if you’re away from home for now.
Not sure who to vote for? Don’t take mine or anyone else’s word for it: go to VoteSmart.org and check the unbiased, non-partisan facts on each of the candidates (including full texts of their actual speeches and on-the-record press statements) and make an informed decision. I cannot stress enough how annoying it is to see these campaign smear ads and YouTube videos edited together by idiots trying to spread propaganda with false facts, speech clips taken out of context, and blatant lies. That’s idiots on both sides of the party lines, folks.
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I saw this on Digg this morning and it made me laugh. Barack Obama just has this way of carrying himself, like he’s a real person. He doesn’t seem to have that air about him most politicians seem to have. He fits that picture in my head of a regular American who got fed up and got involved in the political process to change things. I don’t know if he’s going to be a good president or not, because everyone makes promises during election campaigns, and not everyone keeps them. All we can do is weigh the candidates and see who we think will be the best for the job.
Here’s a LOLCat-esque picture with Barak enjoying some fajitas:
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