Hold Fox News Accountable

I got the following letter in my e-mail inbox:

Dear Friends,

Right now, Fox News is trying to paint Barack Obama as foreign, un-American, suspicious, and scary. They're trying to send Americans the message that our country's first viable Black candidate for President is not "one of us."

I've joined on to ColorOfChange.org's campaign to push back on Fox, publicly demanding they stop their race-baiting and fear mongering. If that doesn't work, then we'll go to their advertisers and the FCC. I wanted to invite you to sign on as well. It takes only a moment:

http://www.colorofchange.org/foxobama/?id=2157-594745

Here's what happened recently:

After Senator Obama won the nomination, he and his wife gave each other a "pound" in front of the cameras. Fox anchor E.D. Hill called the act of celebration a "terrorist fist jab." Then last week, a Fox News on-screen graphic referred to Michelle Obama as "Obama's baby mama"--slang used to describe the unmarried mother of a man's child. It was a clear attempt to associate the Obamas with negative cultural stereotypes about Black people, an insult not only to Michelle Obama but to women and Black people everywhere.

After each of the incidents mentioned, Fox issued some form of weak apology. But what does it mean when you slap someone in the face, apologize the next day, then slap them again on the third? It means the apology is meaningless.

These aren't one-time incidents--they're part of a pattern that continues no matter how often Fox is forced to apologize. Fox has a clear record of attacking and undermining Black institutions, Black leaders, and Black people in general.

If we don't push back now, we will see more of the same from now until November. Please join me in helping to bring an end to Fox's behavior.

http://www.colorofchange.org/foxobama/?id=2157-594745

Thanks.

To see the kind of BS that they are talking about:



More on Obama


No, I don't like his backing the compromise on the FISA bill (even if he says that he'll work to get immunity taken out). But I do think that he is worth electing. Evidently the wingnuts are scared of him.

David Horsey has an interesting cartoon:




Other topics

Yoga was fun; my yoga teacher has a charming way of pushing her butt out when she bends over to pick up her yoga candles.


No that isn't her, but that is the "kind of bend-over".

Also, one of the other yoginis proved that some slender women really do have cute butts. :-)

when humility pays off

In yoga class, I ended up moving to the back row so as to be able to use the back wall for balance.

It turns out that there were two "easy on the eyes" yoginis in the row in front of the one I moved to; so it wasn't all bad. ;-)



Sure, their Warrior I poses suck, but who cares? :)

Uncontacted Tribes

For more, lots more, go to this link.

Still, I think that firing arrows at an airplane is downright comical. Sure, they don't know what the plane is, but I'll tell you this: if some group or thing that had technology well beyond what we had came around, I sure as hell wouldn't shoot at it. I'd think "those people/beings could kill me easily; I had better be nice to them!"



Note: the women are in black body paint.....actually I'll bet that they are pretty hot!

Note that these folks don't even get colds; I wonder if they do get sick from time to time, and if they do, is it from diseases transmitted by animals? Or do some local viruses mutate enough to become diseases for these people?

Some interesting video

Sights at the Public Gym

I work out at a public gym. Frankly, most of the folks there are, in physical terms, train wrecks. Sure you do have some physically fit types (triathletes, weight lifters who could lift the whole gym at once), but mostly you have fat middle aged people.



This is what most people do around here. :-)

Still, there are some nice, um, sights. Today, I did some run/walk on the track; I am a walker who is trying to reintroduce some running into my program. There were two younger ladies; one was dark haired (almost dyed jet black) and wore grey spandex; the other was a bit taller and wore pastel green not-as-tight spandex. But both of them were asking to be butt-cupped!

Yesterday, I took a yoga-lattes class; the woman in front of me had on white shorts that were hiked up as much as possible; she had on striped underpants underneath. Yep; she had a good shape too.

In short, there is some good to counteract the bad; for every fat woman there is on the track who is going round and round at 25 minutes a mile while yelling on her cell phone "...yeah, she sez......" there is some babe to brighten my day.

Or for every one on the right, there is one on the left...



And there are always races:

I've just added a post

What do you believe about evolution, creationism and/or intelligent design? Take the poll and find out (also on the sidebar of this blog)

Opinion Polls & Market Research

What I love about walking

I am one of those folks who likes to walk long distances; on occasion I've completed marathon walks and, on three occasions, walks of 100 miles.

There are many things I like about such events, and this is one of them: the sights!





No, I didn't take these, and I wonder how the person who did avoid getting slapped. These appear to be taken near the Chicago Lakefront; I've finished three 50K walks there.

This person isn't an athletic walker, but she is still a lot of fun to watch.

Now I need to leave for my final session to help new walkers finish a 4 mile race (we have a program called "Building Steam"); the walkers I am working with are, for the most part, overweight and undermotivated. :-)

The Democratic Primary Ends

Barack Hussein Obama won the Democratic Primary last night. Many are very happy.

But some are not.

I can understand Hillary Clinton supporters being disappointed. After all, their candidate was the presumptive favorite. She even thought so:



And why not? She started with big leads in the polls and she had the big donors behind her.

But her campaign made some huge mistakes; her top campaign manager even called Obama a "flash in the pan"!

But things didn't go so well for them. As they started to get desperate, they started to loudly attack the rank and file Obama supporters.

Bill Clinton said that Obama supporters "didn't need a president".

Of his wife's recent travails, he said, "the caucuses aren't good for her. They disproportionately favor upper-income voters who, who, don't really need a president but feel like they need a change."

Bill Clinton dismissed some of Obama's wins:



Bill Clinton called Obama supporters "elitists" who don't follow the same rules as anyone else.

Bill Clinton on Barack Obama’s suppoters:

In Clarksburg, Clinton contrasted his wife’s appeal to working-class people with the elitists he says support Obama. He made the same comparison two months when he last campaigned in West Virginia, calling his wife’s critics in the party “glitterati” and “elites.”

“The great divide in this country is not by race or even income, it’s by those who think they are better than everyone else and think they should play by a different set of rules,” he said in Clarksburg. “In West Virginia and Arkansas, we know that when we see it.”

Clinton said his wife’s primary challenger has “got so much money and it’s a different electorate. It’s a little more upscale and modern … than those poor people in Texas and Ohio.”

Official Clinton surrogates called Obama supporters a collection of "African Americans and eggheads"



Obama supporters are called, well, read for yourself:



Of course, there is "he wouldn't be winning if he weren't black" comment by Geraldine Ferraro:



Then Hillary Clinton herself: she implied that Obama supporters are delusional:



She says that she has the support of hard working Americans, White Americans



Much broader base?

Oh she has a much broader something all right:



Then came her graceless, classless speech last night.


Nevertheless, Obama and his official campaign continued to show class.

But I don't have to.

Just listen to some of the more moronic stuff from some of her rank and file supporters:

Here's a sampling of the pearls of wisdom being offered at HillaryClinton.com:

They have totally skrewed Hillary, lets get her on the ballot ourselves!!!We need each other not the DNC or Obama, I refuse to support him! [bb]

I sincerely wish that Hillary does not accept the second slot. I just cannot and will not support the Democratic party nominee. I will vote for McCain B4 I vote for BHO. The present DNC has stabbed Hillary in the back, I cannot continuing supporting the Undemocratic party. I will always support and Vote for Hillary but cannot support Chicago mafia(BHO) [bestpresident]

Let's take this to DENVER..........She is the only one. I will never vote for BO...Neither will my family or friends..We will either not vote or vote for McCain...Oh, today I just registered and my family and friends too as INDEPENDENTS....SCREW THE DEMOCRATES.... We love HIllary with all of our heart and we will always support and back her...but what the democratic party has done to her they have done to us....ENOUGH!!!!LET THE DNC HANG THEMSELVES........................DISGUSTING!!! [caspercat]

I say run as INDEPENDENT NOW!! Obama will want Hillary to campaign for him. Hillary is much greater than that. I hope Hillary goes with the "will of the people." She is the "People's President." I will never think of BO as my President. Nope, I just cannot do it. It is about the way they treated HILLARY. Call it whatever you like, dirty politics, etc. etc. She worked so hard, and every step of the way, they tried to diminish her, even when she won her landslide victories. I say, DENVER - DENVER - DENVER - DENVER [LillaBet]

Some even resent his running at all!



And of course there are the moronic Clinton supporters who showed up at the DNC rules meeting:



No, you aren't a second class citizen, you aren't even a humanoid; barely a vertebrate perhaps. ;-)

But this was not an isolated thing:





For moronic ranting about all this supposed misogyny, go here.

Well, I (and my friends) have something to say about that:
More Things the Obama Campaign Couldn't Resist to Anger Clinton Supporters:

1. Enter the race.

2. Be so damn likable and inspirational.

3. Be a better candidate.

4. Win election contests - even in states like Iowa, Maine, Idaho, Wyoming, Minnesota, and Wisconsin where hard working White people live.

5. Encourage real people to send him money.

6. Be so solid on women's issues that NARAL threw their support behind him.

7. Draw huge crowds.

8. Appropriate hip-hop gesture from Jay-Z and not look stiff doing it.

9. Establish meaningful grass roots campaign organizations in all 50 states and U.S. territories.

10. Win in the South.

11. Win in the Northwest and Mountain states.

12. Win in the Midwest.

13. Always look unflappable.

14. Play by the rules of the DNC in Michigan and Florida... just like the other Democratic candidates other than Hillary.

15. Win over superdelegates, including many formerly committed to Hillary.

16. Not cheat on his wife.

17. Give citizens hope for the future.

18. Call Hillary out on that STUPID gas tax idea.

19. Write his own game-changing, law-dropping speech on race relations.

20. Not hire Mark Penn.

And I have some things to say.

To those who voted for Hillary Clinton because you like her, or think that she is the best candidate: I am glad you worked for her.

But for the others: if you are one of those who resented Obama for even running, or thought that Obama won only because of sexism, or because the people who voted for him are delusional, or because you want a "full blooded" American, or if you are one of those "Hillary or else" types:

A few articles:

Educated People vote for Obama.

Not winning educated voters isn't a good thing.

Now others are taking the high road.

I am not. Here is what I have to say to you who will vote for John McCain in the fall or not vote:



Frankly, I am glad to purge losers like you from the Democratic party. The sooner we get rid of low-lifes such as yourself, the sooner we can become the party of winners.

Get the hell out. But my guess is that even the Repukes won't want you.