A Welcoming Community
I went over to leave a note of thanks (a somewhat comical one with the help of babelfish) to our friends on the other side of the pond.
I just thought that some of you might want to add a thank you to them, as well. Considering they have had to put up with the failed results of our politics for as long as we have… Yet many of them still tried to help us, daily, in any way they could.
We are, after all, all in this together.
Previously brewed in New Milford:
Help Wanted: Prestigious Senate Career Opportunity
A prestigious opportunity for career advancement in the Senate:
The Democratic party is in search of a new Chairman (or chairwoman/chairperson) for the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Moderate Senators need only apply.(1)
The Chairman’s responsibilities and Jurisdictions will include real oversight concerning failures of the Bush administration in providing security to our nation during times of war, illegal invasions, ongoing occupations, and natural disasters, as well as overseeing the bloated budget and operations of the largest branch of government ever to be created in the US governments’ history through legislation authored under the Republican controlled Senate and House, and signed by the Republican pResident of the time.
Your main and immediate responsibilities will include holding the needed hearings, directing sub-commitees and legislation needed to avoid repeating the previous disasters, corrupt practices, and failures that will be found with the proper direction and oversight of a NON-PARTISAN and ETHICAL Senate leader.
Send all applications to Senator Harry Reid(2)
(1)Minorities such as moderate Republicans having no ties to far-right-wing radical organizations like the Neoconservative movement, the American Enterprise Institute, The Heritage Foundation, Energy Corporations, or the Bush administrations most recent policy proposals that are doomed to failure, are encouraged to apply to Senator Harry Reid for any consideration concerning this soon to be available position.
(2)Note to applicants: Please mark the subject of the Email as “Homeland Security” and refer to this x-posted Blog diary in the opening paragragh of the application. You will be contacted shortly before I post an “I told you so!” diary covering the flawed positions, election statement lies, and propaganda of the far-right-wing radical Neoconservative Joe Lieberman.
ReReReBlogged Since this position
has yet to be filled by a qualified,
ethical or sane candidate.
The qualifications of the much needed applicant may have moved a little to the left since Tuesday…. 🙂
Enjoy…
Do you really want to be that person?
The State Supreme court decision on same-sex marriage becomes official Tuesday with its publication in the Connecticut Law Journal, and that means same-sex couples could be tying the knot in about two weeks.
[snip]
“It could be the 13th, but it will happen the week of November 10th,” Ben Klein, of Gay/Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, said.
Not much time for them to get their wedding plans together… Good luck to any of you that take advantage of actually having EQUAL RIGHTS when it comes to your own personal pursuit of happiness.
Love Makes a Family is looking for donations to help defend this newly minted equality. You know there are wingnuts out there that are already plotting to force their misguided opinions into other peoples’ marriages and happiness. Instead of fighting this decision they might do better to invest their political war chest in marriage counseling to figure out just what, exactly, is so wrong that makes their marriages success so dependent on somebody else’s personal lives?
I don’t know about any of you but my marriage hasn’t changed one little bit, nor has it been diminished in any way, since the Supreme Court decision. Figure the odds?
Get’em to vote in the Nick “Kids Pick the President” poll… But before you do:
Talk to them about the candidates. Teach them a bit about the policies of the candidates. Even a little political talk around the dinner table can be enough to spark their interest. After having them vote in the poll bring them in to volunteer for the campaign if they are old enough. Take them canvassing. Take them to a debate. Take them to see you vote. It is the best lesson in civic responsibility they will ever get. Take them out for a beer afterwards. ERRRRP! Ok, scratch that last one.
Just get them involved now so they will know what to do when they are older.
Teach them to VOTE!
Results for the Nick poll will be viewable on Monday.
Results in your kids will be viewable immediately.
We will find out today, according to Undercurrents:
Same Sex Marriage Decision Today!
Today at 11:30 the CT Supreme Court will
release their decision on same-sex marriage.
Or will they be relegated to the status of second class human beings and citizens deprived of their rights to pursue their life, their liberty and their happiness?
Update [2008-10-10 11:47:4 by Connecticut Man1]: According to mattw at MLN, there is a party in Hartford tonight celebrating Equal Rights:
Like these once prevalent views, our conventional understanding of marriage must yield to a more contemporary appreciation of the rights entitled to constitutional protection. Interpreting our state constitutional provisions in accordance with firmly established equal protection principles leads inevitably to the conclusion that gay persons are entitled to marry the otherwise qualified same sex partner of their choice. To decide otherwise would require us to apply one set of constitutional principles to gay persons and another to all others. The guarantee of equal protection under the law, and our obligation to uphold that command, forbids us from doing so. In accordance with these state constitutional requirements, same sex couples cannot be denied the freedom to marry.
Rally at 5:30, party at 7pm (tba).
It was bad enough watching an inferior team get outrageously lucky and knock my Habs out of the playoffs last season, BUT NOW!
* One more reason to hate the Flyers: Sarah Palin will drop the puck at their opener.
BooMan should get some of his Blogging buddies to convene a special Drinking Liberally meeting for that game and boo the hell out of her. And Palin better watch out – judging by the last time she was in Philly – because the Zamboni driver might run her over.
Via Think Progress, a note on the slippery slope of freedom of speech in the United States of America:
This is no different than the “free speech zones” that they are using to cage demonstrators in like animals. Are all of you journalists happy that you let the rights of citizens slip without speaking out?
Well? Here is your future headline if the media doesn’t hit back hard on these things:
The incumbent kept the opposing candidates locked inside a
challengers area to prevent them from saying "negative things."
Here is an opportunity for the media to take back the truth. And, even, to give some sense of freedom back to the people. Freedoms are being stolen from the people, the media…
Who will be next? And will there be anyone remaining to publicly stand up for their rights?
Before they start a laughable attack on Joe Biden…
We know that Sarah Winky Palin’s flub with the General’s name was a minor one, the issue is more the fact that Winky Palin said the opposite of what the General said concerning a “Surge” (escalation) in Afghanistan not being useful in that country and, also, seemed to think reciting his statements on counter insurgency operations and other issues given by the mis-named General justified her lie.
But Red State thinks that the GOP giggle gaggle should be making fun of Joe Biden for dropping names:
“The Vice Presidential Debate
Posted by: Pejman Yousefzadeh
From what I heard, her worst gaffe was calling General McKiernan in Afghanistan “General McClellan,” which appears to indicate that Sarah Palin was having a Civil War flashback. Of course, Joe Biden referred to “Bosniacs” so the gaffes were not one-sided and for a Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to refer to “Bosniacs” . . . well, it’s kinda interesting, to say the least. I wonder if people will make an issue of it. They should and they most certainly would if Sarah Palin made that comment. Again, it is kind of silly that we are penalizing candidates for innocent verbal flubs that have little to nothing to do with how they would govern, but fair is fair and this gaffe deserves a fair amount of ridicule. Wonder what the Bosnians thought about this statement.”
Now… I know that Winky Palin may have had you, the willingly uninformed right wingers, mesmerized with her non-answers to questions – How can you win a debate when you don’t, NO, you REFUSE to even answer the questions? Anyways – but your entire right wing giggle gaggle of Grade 3ers that she winked at all night would do much better to check your dictionary before you get all falling over yourselves silly OR, at least, read up a bit on Bosnia and other foreign countries so you might actually have a world view worth commenting on:
Although the international community has done a laudable job in getting refugees and displaced persons back into their homes, the effort to find enough common ground amongst Bosniacs (Bosnian Muslims), Croats and Serbs to run the country on their own, or to develop a sense of loyalty to their common state, has failed.
Davos man meets Homo Balcanicus by Bardos, Gordon N. / The National InterestAs the Bosniacs retreated, a plain-clothes policeman discharged a pistol in the air, and “at least two plain-clothes officers” then fired into the retreating marchers, killing 1 person and wounding 20.
Former Yugoslavia by UN ChronicleThat had resulted in another round of population movements along ethnic lines, further separating Bosnian Serbs and Bosniacs and delivering a “telling blow to the multicultural nature of Sarajevo society”,
‘Relatively stable military environment’ established by collective … by UN Chronicle
When you do finally learn to check your dictionaries, you might be well on your way to graduating 3rd grade and – one day, maybe 10 or 20 years down the road – you might even merit being a front page Blogger somewhere…
Some remedial homework for you Red State kids… Since you won’t be getting extra credit… And don’t spill your right wing koolaide on it at snack time!
And as a side note: Isn’t it nice that we have a Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who actually knows what he is talking about? Imagine that kind of competence in the White House?
They are talking about kicking Connecticut Junior Senator Joe neocon Lieberman to the curb tonight:
Connecticut Democrats are considering a bid to force Sen. Joe Lieberman out of the party for speaking at the Republicans’ convention and backing GOP presidential nominee John McCain.
The party scheduled a debate Wednesday night on a resolution that would censure Lieberman and ask the veteran politician to resign from the Democratic Party.
Lieberman was re-elected to the Senate as an independent after losing the Democratic primary in 2006 to businessman Ned Lamont, but while he calls himself an “independent Democrat” in the Senate he remains a registered Democrat and has said he has no plans to change his affiliation.
The state Democratic party has scheduled a debate tonight on a resolution that would censure Lieberman and ask him to resign from the Democratic Party.
One supporter of the resolution says Lieberman’s GOP convention speech, in which he praised McCain and criticized Barack Obama, convinced her that state Democrats need to take a stand.
It is unclear if there is enough support to finally oust the neoconservative bush boot licker but at least they are finally talking about straightening out the Connecticut Democratic party.
John McCain, his stepping stone wife
and Chris Shays with their pet neocon and
foreign policy poodle Joe Lieberman