The sheer genius of the Gingrich/Delay/Rove Republican party over the past 12 years in coming to and retaining their power has been an age old war strategy: divide and conquer. However, their weapon in the destruction of the masses has been the perversion of LABELS, also known as Spin the Democrat.
Busy, busy day. All in 100 seconds!
Now, this is change I can believe in:
WE HEAR…THAT although we didn’t think it would be possible to silence Ann Coulter, the leggy reaction- ary broke her jaw and the mouth that roared has been wired shut…
Sadly, it won’t prevent her from talking out of her ass.
Well elections have come and gone both in Canada and the US, and some are asking — but what of the goal of advancing women in political leadership?
How long will it take us? We already are well into the fourth decade since the contemporary women’s movement of the 1970s spawned a generation that sought to claim an equal place in the halls of power.
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) has started a public awareness campaign for returning veterans, and as part of this campaign, they have released this video (“Alone”) and launched Community of Veterans, a veterans only website dedicated to developing a support network for OIF/OEF veterans.
TPM, all the news you can use in 100 seconds. Just what the short term attention spanners need.
We’re on the cusp, as a party, of moving into a supermajority in the government, and pushing the Republican party to becoming a strictly regionally-based minority. Of course, everyone remembers Karl Rove’s predictions of a permanent Republican majority, and how well that worked out. Certainly, there’s no hard assurance we won’t end up the same way.
The best way I can see to ensure that will happen is to “open the tent”- and including people of all political persuasions to join ranks with us. Moderates, independent voters, the conservative intelligentsia that was so thoroughly driven from the Republican party. The question is, however, how much are you willing to compromise to make that happen? And what will those areas be?
I am a former Republican. I was driven from the party for daring to dissent, for not toeing the party line and accepting things unquestioningly. For daring to suggest it’s not our damn business what goes on in people’s bedrooms; for railing against suggesting people were “pro-abortion”, and refusing to stop prostetylzing and do something to address the causes of the problem; for wondering why a wholesale attack on our civil liberties was needed to fight this intangible and unending “war on terror”.
I was labeled a great many things. Republican in Name Only! Baby killer! Liberal Kool-aid drinker! Commie! You know the names. All because I dared to not accept everything shoved down my throat. So I left the Republican party… and now I’m here. And there will continue to be people like me arriving at our doorstep, and wondering, where do I fit in with the Democratic party? Do I?
I can’t claim to know all those answers. But what I can do is help foster dialogue and understanding; to help you guys understand where I, and people like me, are coming from.
And the first issue in this series is on organized labor. Please keep an open mind; I’m not trying to be a concern troll. I’m trying to foster discussion, but I’ll be playing devil’s advocate more than one in the course of doing so.
As a marketer I have noticed some interesting trends in recent months. Namely that traditional media (print, radio, TV) has started to decline in both consumption and advertising revenue. Here in Canada, budgets are being slashed by international accounts and belts are being tightened.
What is interesting is that not 5 years ago, media outlets were ‘throwing in’ internet advertising as a bonus with a traditional media buy. Well those days are long over. As a medium, the internet has exploded bringing with it much good and bad – especially in the political scene.
I am struck again by the tone of the media in regards to President-e Obama’s choice of Hillary Clinton as our next Secretary of State. I do not watch CNN often and never turn to Fox as I find their newa teams to be inadequite. I do watch MSNBC. I am not always happy with the station, but am usually able to discern the bullshit from relevant information.
Now that we have been told that the Obama’s have selected Sidwell Friends school for their daughters, Sasha and Malia, I thought it might be interesting to explore the history of the school, which I was vaguely aware of when I lived in DC, and whose name had cropped up in my studies of the Society of Friends and their role in the debates over slavery and segregation in this country.
Not much information was available at Wikipedia but it gave me a starting point:
Sidwell Friends School is a pre-K-12 Quaker private school located in the United States with one campus in Washington, D.C. and one campus in the Bethesda unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland.Sidwell was founded in 1883 by Thomas Sidwell. Its motto is Eluceat Omnibus Lux (“Let the light shine out from all”; it can also be translated as “by all,” an allusion to the Quaker concept of inner light). All Sidwell Friends students attend Quaker meetings for worship weekly.