Young people with a purpouse, I love it
Saturday, September 8, 2007
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Friday, May 18, 2007
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Friday, April 27, 2007
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
STOP THE HATE! Part 2
That's a bad Rudy
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Guns don't Kill People, People with Guns Kill People
Friday, April 13, 2007
Sharpton is Wrong on Imus
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Enough with the Hate
I am writing this, not because it was on the news, not because someone on TV said something, but because someone in my personal life said something. Someone asked me about my religious beliefs and I told them the truth “I am an atheist.” I did not want to get into it, because I know it can start heated arguments. The person asked enough times that I had to say it, “Religion turned me into an atheist”
Do not get me wrong, religion does a lot of good for a lot of people. When Hurricane Katrina happened, religious organizations got there and helped way before FEMA did, and they deserve credit for that. My problem with religion is when it is used as a tool to divide people. I am pro gay marriage, and I always make that clear, even though it brings out the idiot on a lot of people. I have been called a faggot, gay, queer. Never bothered me because although I am straight, I have gay and bisexual friends who are some of the best people anyone will ever have the chance to know. I am thankful I can call them my friends.
However, when I am asked about my religion, and I said I am an atheist, I use the gay issue as an example of why I am not a religious person. I find it so morally wrong to judge a person because of whom they chose to love. How can anyone just say that someone’s life style is an abomination? That’s when they quote the bible. The bible does call homosexuality an abomination, that is true. The bible also calls touching a pig’s skin an abomination, so I guess if you ever played foot ball you are as guilty as anyone. The bible also says it is ok to sell your daughter to slavery. They even give the rules on how to treat slavery. The bible also says it is ok to stone your kid death if he is insolent. My point is, just because the bible says it, it does not make it right.
I don’t care what people call me. Call me all the names in the book, it does not hurt me. It does not mean that I think discrimination is ok, but I know better. IMHO discrimination is an abomination. Unfortunately ignorance is powerful although it makes the person weak. All this anti gay marriage movements are based on discrimination, on the need to feel superior to someone. Just like Men wanted to feel superior to women before women got the right to vote. Just like some whites had the need to feel superior to blacks before the civil rights movement. This is the movement of our times. This is when a few of us must stand for what is right, not for what is popular. After all, if no one did in the sixties we would have segregation still.
Sunday, April 8, 2007
Thursday, April 5, 2007
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Who Is Irresponsible?
Monday, April 2, 2007
Inhofe is still and Asshole
THERE IS NO DEBATE ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING! Over 99% of scientists believe we are the cause of global warming, that is not a debate. Saying that there is a debate about global warming would be like saying there is a debate about the earth being round or flat. For example there is something called the “Flat Earth Society”. They claim that the earth is flat, and they also claim to have a few thousand members. All reasonable people besides those few thousand loonies know there is no debate. There are not one thousand scientists who believe that we are not influencing climate change in the world, so why do we believe there is a debate about that? 30% of Americans believe the earth is only 6 thousand years old. Well we have fossils and carbon dating, and the 30 percent are wrong, no debate. Evidence is such a beautiful thing.
There have been climate changes throughout history, but the patern is not even close to what we have been going through in the past few years, all you have to do is look at current trends to understand that we are in for something this planet has never seen before, Even past ice ages trends pale in comparison to our current trends.
Now let’s say that the less than 1% are right and Senator Inhofe is right, which they are not. Is it really worth the gamble. If we get ready and try to correct the current trends we would waste money. But if he is wrong and he is and we don’t do anything then he and the less than 1% will be responsible for the deaths of millions of people and the displacement of millions more. He is gambling that his less than 1% chance of being right is worth the lives of millions of people and animals. IMHO ASSHOLE!!!
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Friday, March 30, 2007
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Senator Inhofe YOU ASSHOLE!
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Rick Berman and unionfacts.com = lame anti-union campaign
www.unionfacts.com was registered to Berman & Co. in May 2005 and it is part of lobbyist Rick Berman's family of front groups including the Employment Policies Institute. It started running in... you better sit down for this, because you will not believe it... Fox News. I thought they were fair and balanced. Anyway Rick Berman is a former labor lawyer, and according to http://www.sourcewatch.com/ "Berman was tied to former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich through possible ethics violations involving Gingrich's PAC (GOPAC). In 1993, Berman made a $25,000 contribution to Kennesaw State College for Gingrich's class on "Renewing American Civilization" on condition that Gingrich teach ideas supported by EPI. House Ethics Committee reports revealed that Berman's contribution was solicited by GOPAC and that Berman had already helped GOPAC in recruiting big donors. In the cover letter to the check, Berman thanked Gingrich for his "help" in enabling Berman to testify at a Congressional hearing on another matter of interest to the industry."
He also opposed the Americans with Disabilities Act because it "will cost our industry untold millions in added construction and labor costs"... Asshole.
So who is funding Berman and Unionfacts.com, well they won't reveal their sources, however it is known that they called on Wal-mart, there is a surprise, for help on funding. Lee Culpepper, who was hired by Wal-mart in 2005 as a lobbyist worked with Berman from 2000-2005. They argued against raising the minimum wage all those years. Culpepper remembers Berman “I’ve worked with Rick for years, and indeed he is a lightning rod." Yeah that's nice. To be fair Wal-mart denies funding the add.
Let's look at Mr. Berman's resume shall we? His company represented the Alcohol industry against MADD (Mother's against drunk driving), the cigarette industry against the CDC (Centers for Disease Control). He is such a pro-death character, isn't he?
Now, some union officials make some money and Unionfacts.com, quotes THEIR salaries, but I wonder if they quote the obscene salaries that CEO's make? You guessed it, not a peep. They also say that Unions usually back democrats, well that is true, and that is because most democrats favor organized workers and higher minimum salaries.
If union members feel their leaderships are corrupt, the fact is that they CAN vote them out. Unions are an asset to workers, because if you think that companies give their employees salaries higher than minimum because of the goodness of their hearts, IMHO you are beeing naive. There is one thing that most CEO's and big cats in wall street care about... the bottom line. So Mr. Berman, if you're gonna throw your money on TV ads while trying to poison the minds of people at least have the balls to say that you are anti-union and that In Your Humble Opinion they are bad... until then, good luck you pussy.
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Friday, March 23, 2007
Elizabeth Edwards' Cancer Returns
We at Lou-IMHO hope Mrs Edwards will have a speedy recovery. Thanks to John and Elizabeth Edwards for showing the courage they did
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Virtual Bitch Slap... You go girl
I have 2 new heroes one is Senator Patrick Leahy, and the other is Senator Barbara Boxer.
If you were not paying attention, Patrick Leahy of VT said he would issue subpoenas will be issued and that the offer by the Bush administration is not acceptable. Gee I wonder why? Lets review, The offer from the Bush administration says that Harriet Myers and Karl Rove will be available to testify if
-It is not under oath
-there is no transcript
-the public does not get to hear it
So Super Leahy told them thanks but no thanks.
And Barbara Boxer while Senator Inhofe, who does not believe in global warming, dinosaurs or the atmosphere, bitch slapped him for not letting Al Gore answer the questions he was throwing. Senator Inhofe has been a sternch non believer of global warming, and by the way his 2 top contributors are Oil and Gas, and Electric utilities… wait does that sound like a buy out or what?
Joe Barton from TX is another senator who does not believe in global warming has Electric Utilities as his number 2 highest donnor and Oil and gas as his fourth. I wonder if he is a republican as well?
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Why not Hillary?
Excuse me?
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Sunday, March 18, 2007
EDWARDS AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY: Highlights
here is a little taste of the Howard University speech I went to, courtesy of politics.tv
Friday, March 16, 2007
Thursday, March 15, 2007
John Edwards at Howard University DC
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
One down, anyone else to go?
Republicans point to the fact that democrats had the same information that the president had and that’s why the authorized the war. Well no, the democrats had the information that the administration cherry picked and gave them to make their case for war. The democrats also authorized the motion to give the president the authorization to go to war, because the president promised he would use it as a last resort.
Is it only me who remembers that when the inspectors started sending information that said they were not finding weapons that’s when the administration told the UN inspectors to get out? The Bush administration lied to get us into this war, make no mistake about it. They lied and when Ambasador Wilson gave info that contradicted their lies, they uncovered his wife’s identity. But it wasn’t just her, they revealed where she was, what she was doing, putting at risk not just Valerie Wilson, but the whole operation and any contacts the operation had.
Scooter Libby is not a patriot, Dick Cheney is not a patriot, Rove is not a patriot, their hunger for money and power is what drives them. It is not interest in the comon good. Libby lied to protect the lie. Dick Cheney says he has not benefited from the was and yet he still has Halliburton. President Bush promised to fire anyone involved in the leaking of Valery Wilson, Rove was involved and still has a job at 1600 PA avenue. IMHO that is understandable, since the President’s word hasn’t meant anything ever.
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Coulter a Small Sample of the Far Right
Ann Coulter has been treated like a rock star in the right, If you watch the video of the comments made by her during the CPAC political event the people who were listening to her, were far from offended, they were clapping and cheering her on. Coulter has said that it was a “joke. I would never insult gays by suggesting that they are like John Edwards. That would be mean.” Pehaps it was necessary for her to tell us it was a joke, because it was not funny.
But to the people in the CPAC political event it is amusing. IMHO this shows the bigotry and intolerance that make up the far right. That’s who they are, Ann Coulter is their face, their representative. That is what they stand for.
Monday, March 5, 2007
Ok Media, Say It with me “Dar-Fur”
Darfur is not one of those issues that divide Americans. Christian Evangelicals who usually vote republican, have launched the “Evangelicals for Darfur.” Hollywood liberals like George Clooney have been themselves very active in calling attention to Darfur. Darfur is not a republican issue, it is not a democrat issue, it is a human issue. Over 400 thousand people in the low estimates have been killed and millions displaced. And yet the United Nations, the African Union and the United States seem not to be acting. Waiting while the number of dead keep rising.
Where is the media? IMHO the media has take a lot of the blame. While people are dying in this barbaric display of lack of humanity, the media is telling us that Anna Nichole’s body is flying to the Bahamas, and that the judge was crying during the dispute, and that some girl in American Idol possed topless. Where are the priorities of the media. Is the killing of thousands of people not worth the television time? Is it not sexy enough a story? Will the advertisers pull out?
It is sad to me that the media has become a laundry basket of yellow journalism. Where are the Edward R. Murrows, the Karl Grossmans, where are the Woodward and Bernsteins of this era? Where are the Margaret Bourke- Whites? Unfortunetly those people don’t sell anymore.
If you want to get involved please visit http://www.savedarfur.org/.
Leave Howard alone
Jon Markman is the latest in a bunch of “reporters” who have in the past two years attacked Sirius Satellite Radio for hiring Howard Stern. They have attacked Howard Stern himself saying that his arrival has caused little impact in satellite radio.
Little impact? Howard Stern put satellite radio on the map. He has attracted millions of new subscribers to Sirius Satellite Radio, a medium that had less that 1 million subscribers when he arrived to close to 9 times as much in the past 2 years.
Why are this reporters predicting doom for Sirius? Could it be because their jobs are on the line? Mr Markman is a regular contributor for MSNBC and CNBC cable and radio all competing with Sirius. Could it be that he has a stake in the failure of satellite radio?
Let me tell you something, Sirius is not going anywhere. Just ask anyone who owns a satellite radio. I do, I never listen to terrestrial radio anymore, because the only reason I used to listen to it was the “Stephanie Miller Show” and she is in Sirius as well.
The fact is that Sirius gives programing that is by far better than anything regular radio has to offer. Howard Stern is at his best, so get used to it, better yet, get one and hear how radio is supposed to be done.
Sunday, March 4, 2007
So what?
Are we Really Discussing Al Gore's Electric Bill?
Friday, March 2, 2007
What a Clown
You see Mr. Beck,IMHO the reason Olbermmann’s guests seem to agree with him is not so he looks good. His show is not a debate show. He is not trying to be better than his guests. Keith Olbermann is proving a point. He exposses the powerful, he informs. He does not attempt to speak for America, he speaks to America. He does not demand anyone show loyalty to anyone or anything he shows who is not loyal to country. He tells the truth, not that you would know anything about that. In doing so Keith Olbermann has exposed himself to the poison from the right, to mail of fake Anthrax. He puts the truth ahead of himself, unlike certain right wingers who are loyal to party instead of flag.
Not Just Another Slogan
It is our belief that “Tomorrow Begins Today” is not just a slogan. John Edwards is about bringing change. He talks straight, he does not tell us what we want to hear. He tells it like it is. Remember honesty? Remember values? Dare I say, the “straight talk express.” Listen to his interviews, and speeches. He does not pretend things are great, he does not act as if he is above human. He knows mistakes were made and knows they need to be corrected. How can you fix something if you won’t even admit it is broken?
There are challenges ahead though. He will not raise the money other candidates will. He needs our help. We may not be Hollywood or big oil, but we have a voice. Let’s help the one man who truly represents the people get elected. Contribute to the John Edwards campaign at http://www.johnedwards.com/, and while you are there read what he has to say, become informed, begin our tomorrow today.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Laura Bush On Larry King - Iraq Is Safe
Just so you know, the average is 76 per month... and a month has 30 days, now I am no math teacher, but I think that would be more than 1 bomb a day. IMHO stupid runs in the Bush family
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Friday, February 23, 2007
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Monday, February 19, 2007
YOU WHORE!
This is John McCain now "I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned,"
So the new darling of the Evangelicals “wanna be” is showing his face all over the place. John McCain R. Arizona has declared that he wants Roe v. Wade overturned. This is the same John McCain who said it would be her daughter’s decision if she ever had an abortion then had to apologize.
Ah yes, the hunger for power has gotten to the “Maverick.” What ever happened to that maverick? Did he die during the 2000 presidential campaign? What happened to the war hero who stood up to powers foreign and domestic? Is the hunger for power so big that it takes a man’s character, chews it up and spits it out?
It is sad to see a Vietnam era hero lower himself to this level. He now trades his honor for a few votes.he is nothing but a whore to the Christian evangelicals. IMHO I think it is ironic that in associating himself with the “God people” John McCain sold his soul.
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Does God Hate New orleans?
If that is true then God hates all the red states in Tornado Alley, he hates the east coast during hurricane season, he hates the north east and gives them all the blizzards, he hates the mid west that’s why most of it is a dessert, and he hates the west coast with all the earthquakes, not even Hawaii is safe, they have all the volcanoes. I guess when Christian Conservative loonies say “God bless America” God is saying “No! I hate America.” Well IMHO that is a hateful insecure little God who does not deserve any praise or love. God is supposed to be love, not hate. At least that is what I remember being told as a kid as the church was attempting to wash my brain.
Monday, February 12, 2007
I Pick John Edwards
Although I like all the people who have announced that they are running for president I have to say that my favorite is John Edwards. Don’t get me wrong, all the candidates running for president on the Democratic side would be a huge improvement from the clown who now resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. That’s not much to say, a stray cat would make a better president than W.
The reason why I am picking Edwards as the best candidate is that he is talking about two things that no other candidate likes to mention. Universal health care, and the poor.
It is about time someone said it, it is embarrassing that in the most powerful nation in the world we do not have universal health care. Every industrialized nation in the world takes care of the health of its citizens, and don’t tell me that the health care in this nations does not compare to ours, believe me, a person in Toronto has as good a chance to make it as does someone in Chicago. The people in power do not want you to know that because that’s how they make money. I find it disgusting that people have to decide between food or medicine. That is just wrong. Isn’t that a moral issue?
The other subject is the poor. Does anyone really care about them anymore? John Edwards does. He has been calling attention to their issues ever since I learned his name. Senator Edwards is a man of the people and as such he shows he cares. It is sickening to me that in a country as wealthy as the United States of America, we have people going hungry at night struggling to find a way to get the next meal. Kids going to school hungry, seniors deciding between medicine or food. Not in my country! I feel John Edwards is the man for the job, the man with the vision.
IMHO I believe that John Edwards is the man who will rescue this country from mud the current administration has created. He is the man who will dig us out of the hole. I just hope that when he gets out of the primaries as the winner, he picks the best candidate for VP. Not Lieberman, not Kerry… How about President Edwards and Vice President Clark?