REGISTER TO VOTE
Get Local
Create/Edit Your Profile
Start a Blog
Create an Event
Contact Your State Party
THE OFFICIAL COLLEGE OUTREACH ARM OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
War Room
Download Materials
On the Issues
Know the Stats
Why Politics Matters
Why We are Democrats
Know the Facts
Donkey Tracks Newsletter
Download Materials
On the Issues
Know the Stats
Why Politics Matters
Why We are Democrats
Know the Facts
Donkey Tracks Newsletter
Alliance of fine and performing arts
About the Author
A Group of local Northeast Chicago Democrats who support local artists in fine and performing art by attending participating in local theatrical events, Dance and Music concerts, gallery openings, Art Institute programming and art fairs.
Palin says, "BOOM."
McCain tussles with Palin over whipping up a mob mentality (Times of London)
McCain has become alarmed about the fury unleashed by Sarah Palin, the moose-hunting "pitbull in lipstick", against Sen. Barack Obama. Cries of "terrorist" and "kill him" have accompanied the tirades by the governor of Alaska against the Democratic nominee at Republican rallies.
Mark Salter, McCain's long-serving chief of staff, is understood to have told campaign insiders that he would prefer his boss, a former Vietnam prisoner of war, to suffer an "honorable defeat" rather than conduct a campaign that would be out of character and likely to lose him the election.
Palin, 44, has led the character attacks on Obama in the belief that McCain may be throwing away the election and her chance of becoming vice president.
She doesn't care, she "has nothing to lose" she said. I think she has a short attention span, she forgot John is the one running?
McCain tussles with Palin over whipping up a mob mentality (Times of London)
McCain has become alarmed about the fury unleashed by Sarah Palin, the moose-hunting "pitbull in lipstick", against Sen. Barack Obama. Cries of "terrorist" and "kill him" have accompanied the tirades by the governor of Alaska against the Democratic nominee at Republican rallies.
Mark Salter, McCain's long-serving chief of staff, is understood to have told campaign insiders that he would prefer his boss, a former Vietnam prisoner of war, to suffer an "honorable defeat" rather than conduct a campaign that would be out of character and likely to lose him the election.
Palin, 44, has led the character attacks on Obama in the belief that McCain may be throwing away the election and her chance of becoming vice president.
She doesn't care, she "has nothing to lose" she said. I think she has a short attention span, she forgot John is the one running?
Today: Palin's future son-in-law meets the press Levi Johnston, who's having a baby with the daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin, has dropped out of high school and taken a North Slope job as an apprentice electrician. He would be a senior had he returned to school. http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/newsreader/story/554608.html
My son is a senior, and he's worked for NOAA, as an apprentice his entire junior year, and did Field and Track and helped build a Science Sphere, now housed at Lena Point (modeled after one in Washington DC). I don't see why his parents would let him quit school to work on the oil slopes with Todd Palin.
These Palin's (Todd and Sarah) are 'loyal to oil' only, and Alaskans are left out, Alaskan issues are left out, they're being duped, as well as the right wing party. They're all about building the oil corporation, look Sarah's mission is to plant miles of pipeline that will eventually corrode and cost tax payers hundreds of millions. It's already happened on her beat on the North Slope (Prudhoe Bay)...oil spills and fires. I keep asking "what's wrong with tanking the gas?" Trucks are easier to maintain and not a national security issue. And what's wrong with a kid continuing his education? Most girls expecting, HAVE to complete school and go to alternative school to receive a diploma. HE's not expecting, BRISTOL is. There's been no mention of Bristol, only that the Palin children are going to the Juneau school district, which is a big hairy lie too. They are NOT in Juneau, maybe in Wasilla, or Anchorage area, but not registered in Juneau, as they claimed. If I were Levi's mom, I'd be pleading for him to stay in school, or he's just going to become a survivor, and holding onto the hem of Palin's skirt. He'll never be independent. He even said that Sarah better win the election. Why? What's in it for him? His life should be separate from DC politics, so the statement was strange. It just makes me wonder if he were taught responsibility of using protection, both in relationships and in governing his life (school). We know Sarah didn't teach her daughter, but what about Levi's parents? Didn't they teach him either? What's wrong with those CONSERVATIVES up north? Ever heard of being conservative with relationships until you can be responsible for one?
Palin's per diem under review
$17,000: State will look to see if she should pay taxes on money she gets for staying in her Wasilla home.
By BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE
The Associated Press
Published: October 7th, 2008 10:38 PM
Last Modified: October 7th, 2008 03:18 AM
Gov. Sarah Palin's practice of charging the state when she stays in her home must be reviewed to determine if she should pay taxes on the payments, state Finance Director Kim Garnero said Tuesday. Read More »
$17,000: State will look to see if she should pay taxes on money she gets for staying in her Wasilla home.
By BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE
The Associated Press
Published: October 7th, 2008 10:38 PM
Last Modified: October 7th, 2008 03:18 AM
Gov. Sarah Palin's practice of charging the state when she stays in her home must be reviewed to determine if she should pay taxes on the payments, state Finance Director Kim Garnero said Tuesday. Read More »
Bill Ayers Palin is Accusing Obama of Palling With Terrorist
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/545855.html
Sarah Palin on Saturday accused Democrat Barack Obama of "palling around with terrorists" because of an association with a former '60s radical, stepping up an effort to portray Obama as unacceptable to American voters. Palin's reference was to Bill Ayers, one of the founders of the group the Weather Underground. Its members took credit for bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol, during the Vietnam War era.
Obama, who was a child when the group was active, has denounced Ayers' radical views and activities. (He was probably in Indonesia or Hawaii and was 8 yrs old when this MAN did was part of these acts against the government).
In 1970, the group was blamed for a pipe bomb in San Francisco that killed a police officer and injured another. Three members of the group were killed in 1970 in an accidental explosion of a bomb in their Greenwich Village basement.
While it is known that Obama and Ayers live in the same Chicago neighborhood, served on a charity board together and had a fleeting political connection, it's a stretch of any reading of the public record to say the pair ever palled around. And it's simply wrong to suggest that they were associated while Ayers was committing terrorist acts. Read More »
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/545855.html
Sarah Palin on Saturday accused Democrat Barack Obama of "palling around with terrorists" because of an association with a former '60s radical, stepping up an effort to portray Obama as unacceptable to American voters. Palin's reference was to Bill Ayers, one of the founders of the group the Weather Underground. Its members took credit for bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol, during the Vietnam War era.
Obama, who was a child when the group was active, has denounced Ayers' radical views and activities. (He was probably in Indonesia or Hawaii and was 8 yrs old when this MAN did was part of these acts against the government).
In 1970, the group was blamed for a pipe bomb in San Francisco that killed a police officer and injured another. Three members of the group were killed in 1970 in an accidental explosion of a bomb in their Greenwich Village basement.
While it is known that Obama and Ayers live in the same Chicago neighborhood, served on a charity board together and had a fleeting political connection, it's a stretch of any reading of the public record to say the pair ever palled around. And it's simply wrong to suggest that they were associated while Ayers was committing terrorist acts. Read More »
You can donate here at Party Builder - do it today, there's only 22 days left. (By the way, stock market rose to over 900 today!)
https://www.democrats.org/page/contribute/ChangeWeNeed
Here's a message from Barack Obama about how funds coming in are now DOUBLED, so here goes:
In these final three weeks, our opponents are signaling they will do whatever they can to distract voters and distort the truth, so we need to redouble our efforts.
The negative ads and smears seem to grow by the day. The most effective way to respond is by reaching out to more people than ever before with the truth -- the stakes in this election are too high not to.
We need to grow this movement by 100,000 new donors before Friday.
A previous donor has promised to match your donation to encourage you to give for the first time. This is your last opportunity to partner with a fellow supporter and make your donation go twice as far.
Your donation of $5 will become $10, $25 becomes $50, and $50 becomes $100. Double your impact by making a matched donation today. Read More »
https://www.democrats.org/page/contribute/ChangeWeNeed
Here's a message from Barack Obama about how funds coming in are now DOUBLED, so here goes:
In these final three weeks, our opponents are signaling they will do whatever they can to distract voters and distort the truth, so we need to redouble our efforts.
The negative ads and smears seem to grow by the day. The most effective way to respond is by reaching out to more people than ever before with the truth -- the stakes in this election are too high not to.
We need to grow this movement by 100,000 new donors before Friday.
A previous donor has promised to match your donation to encourage you to give for the first time. This is your last opportunity to partner with a fellow supporter and make your donation go twice as far.
Your donation of $5 will become $10, $25 becomes $50, and $50 becomes $100. Double your impact by making a matched donation today. Read More »
A message from those of us who think that wolves have had enough of the short end of the stick. This is why I donate $40 per week, for this commercial, simply because if McCain thinks so highly of his VP nominee, than I have to question their integrity, judgment and ethics.
The republicans are so ascew, backwards and out of touch they don't come close to getting it.
The aerial killing of wolves is so disgusting it makes the political history of Chicago look honorable. Sure we may have our own way of doing things, but at least our hearts are in the right place and our souls are intact. They don't call this the heartland for nothin.
Hi,
Have you ever heard of aerial wolf hunting? It's a brutal practice. Wolves are shot from low-flying aircraft or chased to exhaustion, then shot and killed at point-blank range.
Governor Sarah Palin, the Republican nominee for Vice President, promotes this barbaric practice, exploiting a loophole in the Federal Airborne Hunting Act to allow private wolf killers to shoot down wolves using aircraft. We have to get the word out about this!
Please watch this powerful video by Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund, and then share it with every wildlife lover and conservationist you know:
http://actionfund.defenders.org/palinvideo
The republicans are so ascew, backwards and out of touch they don't come close to getting it.
The aerial killing of wolves is so disgusting it makes the political history of Chicago look honorable. Sure we may have our own way of doing things, but at least our hearts are in the right place and our souls are intact. They don't call this the heartland for nothin.
Hi,
Have you ever heard of aerial wolf hunting? It's a brutal practice. Wolves are shot from low-flying aircraft or chased to exhaustion, then shot and killed at point-blank range.
Governor Sarah Palin, the Republican nominee for Vice President, promotes this barbaric practice, exploiting a loophole in the Federal Airborne Hunting Act to allow private wolf killers to shoot down wolves using aircraft. We have to get the word out about this!
Please watch this powerful video by Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund, and then share it with every wildlife lover and conservationist you know:
http://actionfund.defenders.org/palinvideo
Well it's a long list, diplomacy, universal health care, equality, civil rights, public education, environment, to name just a few but of course, wildlife come up as a major concern of mine. After writing to Richard J. Durbin, our Democratic United States Senator, I received this letter from him.
Dear Ms. Falck-Pedersen:
Thank you for your message in support of the Great Cats and Rare Canids Act. I appreciate knowing of your interest in this legislation.
The Great Cats and Rare Canids Act (S. 1033) would add an additional program to the Multinational Species Conservation Fund (MSCF). Federal funds directed to this new program would be used to protect 13 feline and canine species, including lions, cheetahs, jaguars, and wolves.
I have long supported the MSCF, which helps us preserve Asian and African elephants, tigers, rhinoceroses, great apes, and marine turtles. Multinational species programs have succeeded in maintaining or increasing key populations such as rhinos in Indonesia and mountain gorillas in East Africa.
Protecting animals that are endangered or threatened is one of the most important legacies we can leave to future generations.
The Great Cats and Rare Canids Act has been referred to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. I am not a member of this committee, but I will keep your views in mind in case S. 1033 is brought to the Senate floor for a vote.
Thanks again for your message. Please feel free to stay in touch.
Sincerely,
Richard J. Durbin
United States Senator
Now see...this is why....
I am grateful for our democratic leaders. This is one of the many reasons why I support Obama. It's not just because of the economy, education, Iraq, and of course the environment. It's because he like so many other democrates, cares about the world around him. I can't say that about McCain. I just don't see McCain or other republicans caring about much other than profiting from their own petty self interests.
Viva Obama~!
Dear Ms. Falck-Pedersen:
Thank you for your message in support of the Great Cats and Rare Canids Act. I appreciate knowing of your interest in this legislation.
The Great Cats and Rare Canids Act (S. 1033) would add an additional program to the Multinational Species Conservation Fund (MSCF). Federal funds directed to this new program would be used to protect 13 feline and canine species, including lions, cheetahs, jaguars, and wolves.
I have long supported the MSCF, which helps us preserve Asian and African elephants, tigers, rhinoceroses, great apes, and marine turtles. Multinational species programs have succeeded in maintaining or increasing key populations such as rhinos in Indonesia and mountain gorillas in East Africa.
Protecting animals that are endangered or threatened is one of the most important legacies we can leave to future generations.
The Great Cats and Rare Canids Act has been referred to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. I am not a member of this committee, but I will keep your views in mind in case S. 1033 is brought to the Senate floor for a vote.
Thanks again for your message. Please feel free to stay in touch.
Sincerely,
Richard J. Durbin
United States Senator
Now see...this is why....
I am grateful for our democratic leaders. This is one of the many reasons why I support Obama. It's not just because of the economy, education, Iraq, and of course the environment. It's because he like so many other democrates, cares about the world around him. I can't say that about McCain. I just don't see McCain or other republicans caring about much other than profiting from their own petty self interests.
Viva Obama~!
An email from my friend, astrologer, and one of my favorite writers, contained this regarding the republican ticket. IMHO, no one phrases thoiughts better than Caroline.
"McCain couldn't be a better cartoon of the emotionally arrested fighter pilot. Mars haunted by guilt, with an infantile relationship to Venus. One beauty queen after another, and now, completely unmoored from any anchor of integrity or authenticity. He has been flailing to shirk his appointment with Fate, (See Appointment in Samarkand. In fleeing our appointments with our fate, we always end up keeping them.)
So let's invite his soul to return - to admit, confess, reveal his state of self, and in doing so take a small step towards mental health.
And Sarah Palin, bless her heart, "Wowee, I'm over my head, and given away my autonomy to the Rovian Dementors, reached the limits of my visualization of what it would look like to meet world leaders, the Road to Nowhere is my Fate, and returning home to Alaska to be impeached and face indictments is starting to look good."
Awoooooo-yip-yip-yip,
Onward!
Caroline
I wish you all could meet Caroline, see her and, listen to her speak. Caroline Casey is that wonderful combination of wit, wisdom, truth and beauty that many of us aspire to.
Obama 08
Save the wolves
Awoooooo-yip-yip-yip,
"McCain couldn't be a better cartoon of the emotionally arrested fighter pilot. Mars haunted by guilt, with an infantile relationship to Venus. One beauty queen after another, and now, completely unmoored from any anchor of integrity or authenticity. He has been flailing to shirk his appointment with Fate, (See Appointment in Samarkand. In fleeing our appointments with our fate, we always end up keeping them.)
So let's invite his soul to return - to admit, confess, reveal his state of self, and in doing so take a small step towards mental health.
And Sarah Palin, bless her heart, "Wowee, I'm over my head, and given away my autonomy to the Rovian Dementors, reached the limits of my visualization of what it would look like to meet world leaders, the Road to Nowhere is my Fate, and returning home to Alaska to be impeached and face indictments is starting to look good."
Awoooooo-yip-yip-yip,
Onward!
Caroline
I wish you all could meet Caroline, see her and, listen to her speak. Caroline Casey is that wonderful combination of wit, wisdom, truth and beauty that many of us aspire to.
Obama 08
Save the wolves
Awoooooo-yip-yip-yip,
On Creationism being taught in grade school/high school, as part of a science curriculum...
Ahem....
Why not teach Buddhism, islam, jannism, why not teach every friggen religious theory possible ...
Oh wait they do..as elective theology courses. lol
But no, it is not a science, and it has no business being taught in a science class, because... creationism has nothing, WHATSOEVER, to do with science.
It belongs in some sort of mystical theology class for the priesthood..., or maybe for anthropology or christian/religious historians, or abnormal psych majors...lol
There is, however, a direct correlation between the lack of comprehension in creationists and the lack of tolerance for them in scientists..lol
We are clear on that, now, right?
Ahem....
Why not teach Buddhism, islam, jannism, why not teach every friggen religious theory possible ...
Oh wait they do..as elective theology courses. lol
But no, it is not a science, and it has no business being taught in a science class, because... creationism has nothing, WHATSOEVER, to do with science.
It belongs in some sort of mystical theology class for the priesthood..., or maybe for anthropology or christian/religious historians, or abnormal psych majors...lol
There is, however, a direct correlation between the lack of comprehension in creationists and the lack of tolerance for them in scientists..lol
We are clear on that, now, right?
On most everything....
Oil drilling in Alaska,
De-classifying polar bears as endangered,
Shooting wolves from the air in planes and helicopters,
Reducing gun restrictions,
Denying civil rights to GLBT,
Privatizing education,
and...of course....last but not least.....
Palin and the Bush administration are anti-pro choice.
Here is how our current anti pro-choice administration operates abroad.
It's worked wonders... Read More »
Oil drilling in Alaska,
De-classifying polar bears as endangered,
Shooting wolves from the air in planes and helicopters,
Reducing gun restrictions,
Denying civil rights to GLBT,
Privatizing education,
and...of course....last but not least.....
Palin and the Bush administration are anti-pro choice.
Here is how our current anti pro-choice administration operates abroad.
It's worked wonders... Read More »
Palin is an anti-choice, vindictive, gun toting, Alaskan drilling, wolf-killing republican puppet.
Will that win her new found best buddy McCain any votes on their ticket for the GE?
From who?
Who would choose to be that dumb, unless they were already dinked before?
Which of the right wing conservatives has he won over now, which of those were considering voting for Obama anyway?
What has he gained other than a cupie doll with no value?
Let the political wolves and polar bears have at this little decoy, that would be poetic justice.
McCain will soon regret tethering himself to this ball and chain!
Will that win her new found best buddy McCain any votes on their ticket for the GE?
From who?
Who would choose to be that dumb, unless they were already dinked before?
Which of the right wing conservatives has he won over now, which of those were considering voting for Obama anyway?
What has he gained other than a cupie doll with no value?
Let the political wolves and polar bears have at this little decoy, that would be poetic justice.
McCain will soon regret tethering himself to this ball and chain!
She wants to drill in Alaska, is against gun control and is for aerial shooting of wolves, which is disgusting, if you've ever seen it. No wonder the good old boys in the White House approve of the newest puppet/dummy as a running mate.
What a yes girl, she's turned out to be, absolutely no integrity!
Prevent them from shooting wolves...
Please sign the petition in the link below in the comment section.
Please forward it to people you know.
Please help.
What a yes girl, she's turned out to be, absolutely no integrity!
Prevent them from shooting wolves...
Please sign the petition in the link below in the comment section.
Please forward it to people you know.
Please help.
In tribute to Shopman and all others who have had their hard work, and honest thoughts erased, I would like to say thanks Shopman, though I know you're out for the night.
My favorite was the groucho post, does anyone remember that one?
I know I went off the deep end, but it was such a funny picture I couldn't stop myself.
I confess, I went back to it many times, just for the crack up.
I can't do that anymore.
I can't read Ben's fantastic blogs, or any of the people who were wrongfully silenced and whose words were permanently deleted.
This site will never live that down, unless.....
Things can be put back the way they were, otherwise, it is just a crime of ignorance.
Never will this site have as much integrity as it once did,
until these senseless crimes have been atoned for.
My favorite was the groucho post, does anyone remember that one?
I know I went off the deep end, but it was such a funny picture I couldn't stop myself.
I confess, I went back to it many times, just for the crack up.
I can't do that anymore.
I can't read Ben's fantastic blogs, or any of the people who were wrongfully silenced and whose words were permanently deleted.
This site will never live that down, unless.....
Things can be put back the way they were, otherwise, it is just a crime of ignorance.
Never will this site have as much integrity as it once did,
until these senseless crimes have been atoned for.