Why I STILL will NOT vote for Lincoln

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Tuesday September 21, 2010 · 12:59 PM PDT

2010/09/21 · 12:59

A few months ago I took a stand and declared that in November I would not be voting for Senator Lincoln in the Arkansas Senate. I took a lot of heat because I was not a team player. I said that I would vote for the Green Party candidate who actually represents what I believe in. Commentors on that particular diary called me a traitor to the Democratic Party.

In my eyes it is is Senator Lincoln who is the traitor to the party and if it means losing the seat to the Republicans to retire her I would vote against her (I mean honestly she is a Republican she just has a D next to here name).

Today, should be the final nail in here coffin. Today she proved that she (as is the other Democrats and all the Republicans) is a bigot.

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Sunday August 29, 2010 · 4:22 AM PDT

2010/08/29 · 04:22

I watched Glenn Beck's Honor Rally and the phrase that kept creeping to mind as I watched him was "social justice". Anyone who has ever listened to his radio show or watched his television show knows that he proclaims that he is not a big fan of social justice because it is one step away from socialism. The longer I watched, however, it became very evident that what Glen Beck was talking about was exactly that, social justice.

I am sure that some in the crowd, who have watched and listened to every show of his, were very disappointed in these moments.

I have long been a critic of Glen Beck and during today's speech I finally figured out why.

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Thursday August 26, 2010 · 10:46 AM PDT

2010/08/26 · 10:46

*Which by of course I mean a new school year for opponents of education will once again attack educators for no other reason than it is the politically thing to do.

It has been awhile since I have blogged on DailyKos. I guess I lost my passion for the site for awhile after I was castigated for not toeing the party line in supporting Blanche Lincoln to win this fall. I had said back in the Health Care debate that if she voted against the public option I would not vote for her. She voted against her and I will not vote for her, period. The main choices are a very conservative Democrat and a mildly conservative Republican. Neither will represent me so I am voting for someone else.

But that is not what this blog is about. Schools all around the country have started up so naturally so have the opponents of education. What follows in my new theory on what these people actually are. My thesis is rather plainly put. This group of people hate education and they will take any potentially negative story about education and exploit it hoping to give it a black eye.

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Wednesday June 16, 2010 · 10:07 PM PDT

2010/06/16 · 22:07

After President Obama's speech last night and after reading several diaries today you would have thought Obama had just lost the 2012 election with one speech.

Clearly the honeymoon is over for some on this site, but frankly the infighting and complaining by some on this site has just been completely unreal.

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Tuesday June 15, 2010 · 9:35 PM PDT

2010/06/15 · 21:35

I posted this blog earlier on another blog site but after reading some of the diaries and the bickering I thought it might be a good idea to focus some of our anger towards the truest hypocrites in America, The Republican Party.

Whether you liked his speech or not (if you were seriously expecting an all encompassing plan that would address everything you were being a tad bit unrealistic) but the two Republican Congressmen and Michael Steele throw out some major whoppers while exploiting a crisis for political gain while moaning and complaining and suggesting that the President was doing the same.

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Wednesday June 09, 2010 · 8:24 AM PDT

2010/06/09 · 08:24

Bill Halter lost last night by four percentage points ... It might as well have been 20.

I am confused, angered, upset, but most of all just absolutely stunned. I just do not understand how over 120,000 Arkansas Democrats could honestly cast their vote and believe that Blanche Lincoln was not only the best Democrat in the race but our best change of keeping this seat.

It has been said on this site already, but Arkansas' new Senator this fall will be John Boozman.

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Friday May 07, 2010 · 12:38 PM PDT

2010/05/07 · 12:38

Well that did not take quite as long as I thought it would. The corporations, who just recently were declared by the Supreme Court were the same as people are already infiltrating the Arkansas Democratic primary in an effort to help their girl, Blanche Lincoln, get to November.

The group in question is called Americans for Job Security. They have already released several misleading ads about Bill Halter, and the latest was nothing short of disgusting. I will not do them a favor and put the ad on my diary but they put Indian-Americans with really bad Apu accents in front of easily recognized scenes from India and thanked Halter for sending jobs to India.

Help Halterout with a contribution so that he can fight these "people" as the Supreme Court calls them.

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Tuesday May 04, 2010 · 3:48 PM PDT

2010/05/04 · 15:48

You have your protesters. You have your bloggers and diary writers (I am both). You have your TV and Radio personalities on every day. You have your campaign workers and volunteers that are the grease to the cog of an election.

All those are well and good, but nothing in my opinion comes close to:

Voting

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Tuesday April 27, 2010 · 7:21 AM PDT

2010/04/27 · 07:21

Amendment IV

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

The new law that Arizona just passed is purely unconstitutional. There is now way around that ... period.

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Sunday April 25, 2010 · 8:28 AM PDT

2010/04/25 · 08:28

"The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretence, infringed."

Original wording of the First Amendment as penned by James Madison

The question of how religion played a role in the crafting of the Constitution is not a new one. Nor is the question of how the Founding Fathers viewed established religion. But it the second question was answered by the Founding Fathers in their words over and over again. They were NOT fans of organized religion. A majority of the founding fathers, including the first three presidents did not identify themselves as Christian, but actually Unitarians.

Originally posted at McCook Gazette

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Monday April 19, 2010 · 5:55 AM PDT

2010/04/19 · 05:55

The Oklahoma City Bombing reminds us all how unchecked rhetoric, vitriol and hatred based on misinformation, lies, and distorions can lead down the path of severity for some individuals. Today there is a new Timothy McVeigh plotting his revenge on the government based off fear perpetrated by people simply trying to get a vote. The Republican Party must put a stop to the vitriol and hatred coming from FOX News and the TEA Parties, instead of pointing fingers at us on the left. I hope it is not too late.

Below is my remembrance of that fateful day in 1995.

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Friday April 16, 2010 · 2:28 PM PDT

2010/04/16 · 14:28

On one of my other blogs a poster posted this email or so I believe it was an email. The poster never said that it was an email just that he had received it. On the whole the entire document is quite funny but it is interesting what the author of the original document is proposing.

Below I will post the document and will make comments throughout in bold.

Before reading I do not and will not ever call for a dissolution of the United States, but again I find the proposal interesting.

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