THE LIBERAL THREAD #3- No Debate Please

[disneyjunkie]

I just found out that Michelle Obama and I share a birthday,

 

[pr surfer]

hey libs.. mind if I share a note from a friend asking for help?

 

[ConcKahuna]

Barack O Coffee Blend:
http://www.hawaiimagazine.com/blogs/hawaii_today/2009/1/16/Hawaii_coffee_honors_Obama

A blend of Indonesian, Kenyan and Hawaiian coffees.

Sounds Irish. "Barack O'Coffee".....

hey libs.. mind if I share a note from a friend asking for help?

Any time


And OT, but I'm kind of excited that i was called obnoxious by a con today. I'd report him if I were a conservative and got upset by that kind of stuff!

 

[mirmartinez]

hey libs.. mind if I share a note from a friend asking for help?

not at all

 

[pr surfer]

here's the note, from my friend Liz

This past Wednesday, my 5 month old cat, Miaowmi, was poisoned by my next door neighbor. I found him laying in my neighbor’s yard, paralyzed. I immediately took him to the veterinarian. Since then he has been hospitalized, and will probably be there until Monday, if he keeps making good progress. From Wednesday to Friday, the veterinarian bill has cost me $330. The daily average for hospitalization, medications, IV, and high-fat food is about $100. By the end of his stay, the bill will total about $600 to $800. Unfortunately, I am unable to pay this amount, since I have not worked since December 18, 2008. I have just started working again, and won’t receive a paycheck until the beginning of February. I have had to turn off my cell phone service, due to the inability to pay. I have also had to ask my father to pay for my car payment. I have had to put off surgery on my kidneys until mid-year, because the cost is $600. I have invested all the money I had saved into saving my cat.
On January 29th, at 8:30 a.m., I have a hearing in front of a judge, demanding that my neighbor re-pay me for the money spent on the animal he poisoned. Up until this moment, he has showed no remorse. Worst of all, he is the brother of the Mayor of Guaynabo. He believes he can do whatever he likes. Last year, he poisoned my other two cats, but I never had proof. This time I do!! This situation has also made me have a problem with my landlords, who are the cousin, and neice of the neighbor. I will probably have to move out of my house.
What I am asking for is for donations, no matter how small, even if it is only $5, any amount will help me greatly! If you have any questions, or want to know the whole story, or support me in the fight against the atrocity, you can reach me at my house phone: [REDACTED]
I greatly appreciate any support given, even if it’s just words of encouragement, or advice!
Thanks!

 

[ConcKahuna]

I dont know how it is in Puerto Rico, but in know many vet facilities will offer financing. If I weren't living paycheck to paycheck right now I'd donate for sure

 

[pr surfer]

I don't know if she'll be able to get financing, but for the record, I am not asking for money, as that is a violation of forum rules

I am hoping she can get some good vibes sent her way.

Right now, she's not going to go to the press, since the main newspaper on the island is the equivalent of Fox News, and the mayors brother belongs to the party they favor.

 

[pr surfer]

 

[Goofyluver]

PR darlin'...I'd take that last one down honey.

 

[pr surfer]

PR darlin'...I'd take that last one down honey.

The good, the bad, the sexually aroused? lol

 

[Oreo Cookie]

Happy thought

Bush's last weekend.

A VERY happy thought indeed!

I don't know if she'll be able to get financing, but for the record, I am not asking for money, as that is a violation of forum rules

I am hoping she can get some good vibes sent her way.

Right now, she's not going to go to the press, since the main newspaper on the island is the equivalent of Fox News, and the mayors brother belongs to the party they favor.

Sending good vibes her way. What an awful person to do such a thing. Is there any chance that he'll get charged with a crime. Pets are members of our family. I hope everything works out for her and her kitty.

 

[LakeAriel]

Happy thought

Bush's last weekend.

You mean he is still here? bummer.

 

[IDoDis]

Tell your friend I'm so sorry to hear about her cat. That is just awful! As soon as she can afford to, she should move far far away from that person.

Sending some good vibes her way.

 

[IDoDis]

You mean he is still here? bummer.

Maybe we need an hourly countdown??

72 hours !

Goodbye, we can say at last, to the most powerful man in the world being such a ridiculous buffoon, incapable of stringing together two coherent sentences. Goodbye to cringing with dread every time our president steps onto the world stage, sure he'll say or do something to embarrass us all. Goodbye to being represented by a man who embodies everything our enemies want the people of the world to believe about America - that we are ignorant, cruel, and only care about foreign countries when we decide to stomp on them. Goodbye to his giggle, and his shoulder shake, and his nicknames. Goodbye to a president who talks to us like we're a nation of fourth-graders.

And goodbye, of course, to Dick Cheney. Goodbye to the man whose naked contempt for democracy contorted his face to a permanent sneer, who spent his days in his undisclosed location with his man-sized safe. And while we're at it, goodbye to Cheney's consigliore David Addington, as malevolent a force as has ever left his trail of slime across our federal institutions.

Goodbye, indeed, to the entire band of liars and crooks and thieves who have so sullied the federal government that belongs to us all. We can even say goodbye to those who have already gone, to Rummy and Scooter, to Fredo and Rove, tornados of misery left in their wake.

Goodbye to the rotating cast of butchers manning the White House's legal abattoir, where the Constitution has been sliced and bled and gutted since September 11. Goodbye to the "unitary executive" theory and its claims that the president can do whatever he wants - even snatch an American citizen off the street and lock him up for life without charge, without legal representation, and without trial. Goodbye to the promiscuous use of "signing statements" (1,100 at last count) to declare that the law is whatever the president says it is, and that he'll enforce only those laws he likes. Goodbye to an executive branch that treats lawfully issued subpoenas like suggestions that can be ignored. Goodbye to thinking of John Ashcroft as the liberal attorney general. Goodbye to the culture of incompetence, where rebuilding a country we destroyed could be turned over to a bunch of clueless 20-somethings with no qualifications save an internship at the Heritage Foundation and an opposition to abortion. Goodbye to the "Brownie, you're doin' a heckuva job" philosophy, where vital agencies are turned over to incompetent ****s to rot and decay. Goodbye to handing out the Medal of Freedom as an award for engineering one of the greatest screw-ups of our time. Goodbye to an administration that welcomed gluttonous war profiteering, that was only too happy to outsource every government function it could to well-connected contractors who would do a worse job for more money.

Goodbye to the Bush Doctrine of preemptive war. Goodbye to the lust for sending off other people's sons and daughters to fight and kill and die just to show your daddy you're a real man. Goodbye to playing dress-up in flight suits, goodbye to strutting and posing and desperate sexual insecurity as a driver of American foreign policy. Goodbye to the neocons, so sinister and deluded they beg us all to become fevered conspiracy theorists. Goodbye to Guantanamo and its kangaroo courts. Goodbye to the use of torture as official U.S. government policy, and goodbye to the immoral ghouls who think you can rename it "enhanced interrogation techniques" and render it any less monstrous.

Goodbye to the accusation that if you disagree with what the president wants to do, you don't "support the troops."

Goodbye to stocking government agencies with people who are opposed to the very missions those agencies are charged with carrying out. Goodbye to putting industry lobbyists in charge of the agencies that are supposed to regulate those very industries. Goodbye to madly giving away public lands to private interests. Goodbye to a Food and Drug Administration that acts like a wholly owned subsidiary of the pharmaceutical industry, except when it acts like a wholly owned subsidiary of the fundamentalist puritans who believe that sex is dirty and birth control will turn girls into sluts. Goodbye to the "global gag rule," which prohibits any entity receiving American funds from even telling women where they can get an abortion if they need it.

Goodbye to vetoing health insurance for poor children but rushing back to Washington to sign a bill to keep alive a woman whose cerebral cortex had liquefied. Goodbye to the ban on federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research.

Goodbye to the philosophy that says that if we give tax cuts to the rich and keep the government from any oversight of the economy, prosperity will eventually trickle down. Goodbye to the thirst for privatizing Social Security and to the belief that the success of a social safety-net program is what makes it a threat and should mark it for destruction. Goodbye to the war on unions and to a National Labor Relations Board devoted to crushing them. Goodbye to the principle of loyalty above all else, that nominates Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court and puts Alberto Gonzales in charge of the Justice Department. And goodbye to that Justice Department, the one where U.S. attorneys keep their jobs only if they are willing to undertake bogus investigations of Democrats timed to hit the papers just before Election Day. Goodbye to a Justice Department where graduates of Pat Robertson's law school roam the halls by the dozens, where "justice" is a joke.

Goodbye to James Dobson and a host of radical clerics picking up the phone and hearing someone in the White House on the other end. Goodbye to the most consequential decisions being made on the basis of one man's "gut," a gut that proved so wrong so often. Goodbye to the contempt for evidence, to the scorn for intellect and book learnin', to the relentless war on science itself as a means of understanding the world.

Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye to it all.

Though President Obama will be spending most of his time cleaning up the mess George Bush made, we probably won't have Dubya to kick around anymore. It's hard to imagine Bush undertaking some grand philanthropic effort on the scale of the Clinton Global Initiative, or hopping around to international trouble spots like Jimmy Carter. Republicans won't be asking him to speak on their behalf, and publishers are reportedly uninterested in the prospect of a Bush memoir. His reign of destruction complete, Bush will return to Texas and fill his days with the mundane activities of a retiree - puttering around the yard, reading some magazines, maybe enjoying that new Xbox Jenna gave him for Christmas ("I'm the Decider, and I decide to spend this afternoon playing Call of Duty 4").

This presidency is finally over. We can say goodbye to an administration whose misdeeds have piled so high that the size of the mountain no longer shocks us. In our lifetimes, we will see administrations of varying degrees of competence and integrity, some we'll agree with and some we won't. But we will probably never see another quite like the one now finally reaching its end, so mind-boggling a parade of incompetence and malice, dishonesty, and immorality. So at last - at long, long last - we can say goodbye.

And good riddance.

http://www.truthout.org/111208S

 

[LakeAriel]

 

[Oreo Cookie]

Maybe we need an hourly countdown??

72 hours !

http://www.truthout.org/111208S

I'll join ya's

 

[mirmartinez]

what can I say I drank the koolaid

 

[Oreo Cookie]

what can I say I drank the koolaid

Me too! (And I spiked it with a little vodka - shhh, don't tell anyone!)

 

[mirmartinez]

little cut and paste from this article
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/inauguration_rdp

"Starting now, let's take up in our own lives the work of perfecting our union," Obama told several hundred people gathered for the sendoff inside a hall at Philadelphia's historic 30th Street train station. "Let's build a government that is responsible to the people and accept our own responsibilities as citizens to hold our government accountable. ... Let's make sure this election is not the end of what we do to change America, but the beginning and the hope for the future."

 

[mirmartinez]

little cut and paste from this article
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/inauguration_rdp

this was post # 1000 for me.