
An emailer sent me this nifty graph showing how sweet the deal was for Michelle Obama after her husband was elected Senator. She started out at the University of Chicago Hospital in 2002 with a not-too-shabby salary of $120,000 to be director of public affairs (Heck, I’ll answer phones and write press releases for 120k!).
She toiled tirelessly at this grueling endeavor of planning conferences to invite her friends to and writing boilerplate brochures for three LONG years. But then her ship came in — Barack was elected to the Senate and Bingo Blago! the hospital increased Michelle’s salary by 265% — Yowza!
And did this windfall entail more responsibility? Well, sure — the person in charge of business cards,name tags, letter head and name plates had to work REALLY HARD to change the title on all of Michelle’s stuff from “Executive Director of Public Affairs” to “Vice President for Community Affairs and Outreach.” Yep, that poor schmuck worked their fingers to the BONE spiffing up Michelle’s official trappings.
But it was not in vain! Oh, no. The hospital pretty quickly realized a “profit” after nearly tripling Mrs. Obama’s salary for “apparently” no reason. Newly minted Senator Obama got the hospital a million bucks for a new addition just a few months later.
(And as notyoursweetie informs us, this Super Awesomely Important Vice Presidency Job turns out to have been not so important and super awesome after all. Now that Michelle has moved to D.C. the hospital has eliminated the position. Hmm, now that IS a head-scratcher.)
Oh, and in other Chicago news: the wind is still cold; Lake Michigan is still wet; politics is still dirty; and Rod “The Hair” Blagojevich will NOT be attending the inaugural of his hometown buddy, you know — the guy who basically ran his gubernatorial campaign? ( I can REALLY picture Roddy as the evil fairy from Sleeping Beauty in this sordid fairy tale.)
It’s hovering around zero here in the great Metro West of Boston (Damn you, HP!), but Puma PAC is crack-a-lackin!
- The NEW Era Team is meeting with a congressman in California on Tuesday to establish Puma PAC support for the Alice Paul Congressional Medal AND to get him on board with our own ERA goals.
- Ms Magazine is still reeling from the HUNDREDS of letters and phone calls they received from Puma PAC members last weekend. Deny it all you like Ms. Kort — women are NOT pleased with your cover.
- The Senate Finance Committee is keeping a very close watch on our phone calls and faxes. If you have not yet told Max Baucus “No Tax Cheats for Treasury Secretary!” do it now HERE.
- The Crack ACORN Team is nearly finished with its exhaustive documentation of more than 60,000 instances of voter registration and voter fraud during the election. Yep, and most of the fraud happened in swing states like Ohio and Florida.
- Our Louisa’s Law committee is meeting with the director of New Jersey’s Women’s Division in two weeks,
AND fundraising continues apace. To reach our goal we need to raise $300 by 3pm eastern. If you haven’t yet contributed, please find out more HERE, and Thank You! Each and every contribution makes a HUGE difference. If everyone reading today donated $10, we could end the fundraiser early and focus EXCLUSIVELY on our political work. Can you help?




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Alice Rodham Puma 01.16.09 at 11:02 am
repost from downstairs.
This is what Daily Puma Wrote:
“BURN IT DOWN” VIDEO HAS BEEN REMOVED BY THE YouTube POLICE!
Message from from the director and first time filmmaker Ona Kalima…
“Thank you for writing to me. I am in the middle of moving, but was getting ready to write to you for help. I received an email that stated that my video had been removed for violating the community guidelines. I looked to the guidelines and couldn’t see any I had violated. HELP! We had gotten up to nearly 7,000 views and now we have to start from scratch. I was starting to receive a lot of hate-oriented comments about being a “communist dyke” and stuff like that–what do you think??”
DailyPUMA thinks the PUMA community needs to contact YouTube. Suggestions for the best avenue to do this would be greatly appreciated. What is worse than images depicting violence against woman? Striking down a message about Violence against Woman. Shame on you YouTube for not having more common sense.
I have been busy for the last few days so I don’t know if this has already been a prowl. It should be.
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This video is also worth seeing (and download it)
It is called Sexual Violence and Objectification of Women in Music Videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayj29LLe6yM
You can download youtube videos with the latest version of realplayer, and also with a firefox extension called unplug.
Alice Rodham Puma 01.16.09 at 11:12 am
Or you can use this one if you prefer it
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006
scarlet 01.16.09 at 11:14 am
REPARATIONS
Congressional Legislation Bill # H.R.40

Original Sponsor:
John Conyers (D-MI 14th)
1/6/2009–Introduced.
More at:
http://pumapac.org/forums/411-on-the-111/comment-page-1/#comment-276456 post 22
Alice Rodham Puma 01.16.09 at 11:21 am
O/T Murphy, here is some live Blogging software that might compliment this blog well.
It is completely free.
http://www.coveritlive.com/index.php
On a related note, I also think we should be using twitter, facebook and digg more than we do to help gain more coverage and new members.
scarlet 01.16.09 at 11:21 am
OBAMA’S “HOPE” PORTRAIT TO HANG IN NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
Shepard Fairey’s “hope” portrait has been purchased by the Smithsonian U.S. National Portrait Gallery museum – thanks to a donation from Heather and Tony Podesta, brother of John Podesta.
Fairey is known as a street guerilla artist whose office is filled with portraits of his iconic heroes: Lenin, Noam Chomsky (Marxist), Angela Davis, Bobby Seale, and Mao.
In 2005, the Philadelphia Weekly published a story on Fairey. It described his political views as antiwar and alternative capitaism (socialist). Fairey denies being a Marxist, but wants to “reshape the system, the way I’d like to see it, on my own terms.”
Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey
A critique by artist Mark Vallen
Published on the occasion of Fairey’s Los Angeles solo exhibition, Dec., 2007.
Most well known for his “Obey Giant” street posters, Shepard Fairey has carefully nurtured a reputation as a heroic guerilla street artist waging a one man campaign against the corporate powers-that-be. Infantile posturing aside, Fairey’s art is problematic for another, more troubling reason – that of plagiarism.
http://www.art-for-a-change.com/Obey/index.htm
scarlet 01.16.09 at 11:25 am
We no longer need to kill Bin Laden, claims Barack Obama
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 9:34 AM on 15th January 2009
Barack Obama has claimed it is no longer necessary to kill Osama Bin Laden to win the war against al-Qaeda.
In an unprecedented departure from the current wanted ‘dead or alive policy,’ the U.S. President-Elect said that simply keeping bin Laden holed up in a cave was enough to keep America safe.
‘My preference obviously would be to capture or kill him,’ he said.
‘But if we have so tightened his noose that he’s in a cave somewhere and can’t even communicate with his operatives then we will meet our goal of protecting America.
“I think that we have to so weaken (his) infrastructure that, whether he is technically alive or not, he is so pinned down that he cannot function.
‘I’m confident that we can keep them on the run and ensure that they cannot train terrorists to attack our homeland.
Mr Obama’s comments mark a significant move away from the policy pursued by President Bush since the al-Qaeda attacks of September 11 and which he himself endorsed during the election campaign.
In a presidential debate in October, he said: ‘We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al-Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1116823/We-longer-need-kill-Bin-Laden-claims-Barack-Obama.html
Pat Johnson 01.16.09 at 11:27 am
And we question why healthcare is so expensive. Having worked for a long time for a hospital I can attest that many of these “executive salary” earners were paid far too much and contributed nothing substantial beyond having meetings and patting one another on the back.
The fact that her previous job was fully eliminated tells me that it was position created solely on her behalf. Graft all the way.
murphy 01.16.09 at 11:38 am
amen Pat.
Alice Rodham — do you know how to do that? Use twitter and such? I’m from the wrong generation. I brag to my kids about how many facebook friends I have (67!) and they give me the ol’ :eyeroll:
murphy 01.16.09 at 11:39 am
Alice Rodham Puma 01.16.09 at 11:49 am
Yes, I know how to use it
So will you with just a little bit of help.
Just join up free on twitter.com and read through this article for how it can help bloggers.
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/01/25/how-to-use-twitter-tips-for-bloggers/
If you want any other tips I will email you.
It would be great for you (and the other members of the PUMAsphere to use) because you can send updates through your cell phone.
Digg is something that will help bring more hits to the website if we all digg up the articles regularly and cross promote with the rest of the pumasphere.
Facebook can help with recruiting new members. (and gives an option to chat in real time if we are all on there) It is not quite as important as the other two but it can be useful.
tillerylakelady 01.16.09 at 12:00 pm
Hello fellow Pumas,
Been away for a while,sprained my leg and been held up on crutches. Tuesday is goin to be one crazy day I plan on renting movies,since it will be OBAMA DAY.
It’s good to be back!
murphy 01.16.09 at 12:03 pm
hiya Tillerylakelady, glad to hear you’re back on your feet!
Deb55 01.16.09 at 12:07 pm
GREAT POST!
Started a new job, but have been lurking when possible. Some real good conversations over the last week.
Sounds a lot like PAY TO PLAY to me!
Can tell you our ins. want get any better until stuff like this STOPS. Know someone who just left her job as a head nurse over triple billing to Medicad, by a very well know Dr. And I never heard anything more on the scam going on in New Orleans, that was uncovered after the huricanne. Where the state was collecting on 400K+ people for Medicare or Medicad, and only really had a little over 300K+, and this had gone on for years. Think of all the people that could have used ALL that help. Or that Hawaii, went through all the money from the Gov’t for thier 2yr Free health care in 7Mths, that’s why I never see free health care here, to much fraud. The people never learn where all this money is Really going or should I say to HOW!
EWard 01.16.09 at 12:11 pm
Good Morning Pumas -
Murphy – Great job explaining the “play for pay” aspect of MO’s hospital job. Fitzgerald would not say this publicly but Obama could be the real target of his investigation. All crooked deals lead right back to the fake one.
I wanted to respond to KarenWI and ExDeminVA – Kudos to your posts on Thursday describing BO’s real agenda! I agree with both of you. Obama is taking this country in a socialist direction. On top of that, he is fiscally irresponsible.
Examples – $300,000 to repaint his airplane during the campaign, money for rock bands at his rallies to attract large crowds, a false Presidential seal, a mansion that he couldn’t afford, $100 million on his inauguration, and the Hawaiian vacation at a $9 million estate. Good grief, he hasn’t even taken office and he’s spending money like there is no tomorrow. This is during a time that people are losing their jobs, homes, and health care.
His economic programs would turn us into a welfare state. His tax cuts are basically tax rebates to companies that fail or individuals that do not pay income taxes. BO plans to grow government programs while draining and taxing the private sector. And the cultist journalists are acting like his lap dogs.
One last thing, Obama has already started running for President in 2012. These meetup group or change groups are code words for Acorn. The Obama thugs on the Internet and other places are designed to shut down dissent.
Go Pumas and other Patriotic Groups!
tillerylakelady 01.16.09 at 12:15 pm
Thanks Murphy,
It’s great to be up and moving again.
Deb55 01.16.09 at 12:18 pm
One last thing Murphy. Please have whoever is doing the research on Acorn to check out the report out of Ga that thier was 112,000 voters reg. in ALL 3 states, FL.,GA. and Ohio, this also was quieted very quickly. I do know for a Fact, and old TV reports will show that in Duval Co, Fl. we had 4 and 5yr old Kind. registered here. Acorn was everywhere here.
Later, have to go to work so O can have my taxes to give away!
scarlet 01.16.09 at 12:20 pm
Deb55 01.16.09 at 12:07 pm
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One of my doctor neighbors is in the slammer right now for overbilling Medicaid. He had to sell his home. Good. Bye-bye
michelina 01.16.09 at 12:20 pm
In all my life, I have never seen one man so wrapped up in so much DIRT
it’s unbelievable!!
PUMAbear 01.16.09 at 12:21 pm
Is it possible that some of the Acorn hires are paid to “swarm” blogs that criticize Obama?
I’ve been reviewing blogs from 2007 and the same ungrammatical writers are there. The same tactics are also used to overwhelm and direct conversation going into an anti-Obama direction: reason, pseudo sympathy and calls for solidarity, pleas for patience, name calling. This happens predictably in every comment section of every blog with call and response: a very long comment followed by two or three others seconding the statements of the others.
A couple of days on a LGBT site, a commenter was supposedly very religious, quoting and interpreting the Bible and calling gays animals. This went on for at least ten comments. Others came on, also “Christians”, but sympathetic to the LGBT cause, counseling patience and understanding of those who oppose you. You had to scroll two or three pages to get a legitimate comment.
It turned out that the religious commentator was using Louisiana State government property to “argue”. Sounds like a great place to recruit Acorn trolls. The wes site administrator posted the commentators email so emails could be sent back. LOL!
scarlet 01.16.09 at 12:21 pm
DOORWAY ANOINTED WITH OIL FOR OBAMA:
A first time gesture for a presidential inauguration continues to set Obama’s election apart.
Mahoney of the Christian Defense Coalition, both based in Washington, DC, in a prayer service inside the US Capitol that included anointing the doorway President-Elect Barack Obama will pass through on his way to the platform to be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States on January 20
http://www.eurweb.com/story/eur50011.cfm
scarlet 01.16.09 at 12:38 pm
OBAMA’S FIRST MAJOR WIN
THE AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT OF 2009
The stimulus includes just $275 billion in tax cuts, which is clearly less than the $300 billion originally proposed.
Here are just some of the examples of what Obama considers “economic stimulus”:
$3.836 billion for rural water and waste grant and loan programs
$6.2 billion to help low-income families reduce their energy costs by weatherizing their homes and make our country more energy efficient
$400 million to help state and local governments purchase efficient alternative fuel vehicles to reduce fuel costs and carbon emissions
$6 billion for broadband and wireless services in underserved areas
$650 million to continue the coupon program to enable American households to convert from analog television transmission to digital transmission
$400 million to replace the 30 year old Social Security Administration’s National Computer Center to meet growing needs for processing retirement and disability claims and records storage
$3.1 billion for infrastructure projects on federal lands including improvements to visitor facilities, road and trail restoration, preservation of buildings of cultural and historic importance, rehabilitation of abandoned mines and oil fields, and environmental cleanup projects
$400 million for ready-to-go habitat restoration projects
$850 million for hazardous fuels removal and other efforts to prevent wildfires on public lands
$1 billion for 21st century classrooms, including computer and science labs and teacher technology training
$66 million for formula grants to states to provide services to homeless children including meals and transportation when high unemployment and home foreclosures have created an influx of homeless kids
$2 billion to provide child care services for an additional 300,000 children in low-income families while their parents go to work
$30.3 billion to extend health insurance coverage to the unemployed, extending the period of COBRA coverage for older and tenured workers beyond the 18 months provided under current law
$500 million to rehabilitate and improve energy efficiency at some of the over 42,000 housing units maintained by Native American housing programs
$1 billion to help low-income families pay for home heating and cooling at a time of rising energy costs
http://appropriations.house.gov/pdf/RecoveryReport01-15-09.pdf
More at 411 on the 111
http://pumapac.org/forums/411-on-the-111/comment-page-1/#comment-276478
PUMAbear 01.16.09 at 12:46 pm
Scarlet #20,
I saw that article yesterday (but can’t cut and paste with blackberry). Get the feeling that there is a dogfight going on to get Obama’s religious patronage: Rick Warren is speaking at Ebenezer on MLK day, so any protest will be smothered and criticized, the gay Episcopal Bishop is speaking from the Lincoln Memorial on the 18th-called in as a sop to an offended community but Warren has already offered breakaway anti-gay Episcopals a place with Saddleback.
Obama toured with gay-basher Donny McClurkin in S.C. when that state was a toss-up and voters leaning toward Hillary.
Religious groups are going to get as much government money from Obama as they got from Bush. If Obama can get Rick Warren and AA evangelicals to join forces there will be a huge groundswell of donations (as with Bush). Gays are always a lucrative target for demagogues. The more LGBT fight back and Obama is their “fierce defender”, but selling them out behind their backs, the more support he garners.
hillstheone 01.16.09 at 1:01 pm
TOPIC: OHIO
Re: “The Crack ACORN Team is nearly finished with its exhaustive documentation of more than 60,000 instances of voter registration and voter fraud during the election. Yep, and most of the fraud happened in swing states like Ohio and Florida,” get outta my brain, Murphy!
Home today helping my daughter apply for college financial aid, got FOX News on & Oblablah is on there right now. He just said, and I quote, “We won Ohio?” like it was a question. It was supposed to be a “hey gang, we won Ohio, remember?” but it came out like a question.
Heh-heh, go FEC Team, I am sending good energy to PUMA today.
And GoPUMAGo, I sent you REIKI this morning because I like you!!!
bqueen 01.16.09 at 1:09 pm
Scarlet #6: Not to worry. Bin Laden is dead. The first comment in the article you gave us the link for also confirms this, but I absolutely believe Benazir Bhutto (r.i.p.) who mentioned Bin Laden’s murderer in this (later cesored) BBC interview (jump to 2:10 if you have little time):
Benazir Bhutto: Bin Laden was Murdered
bqueen 01.16.09 at 1:10 pm
I imagine both Hillary and Obama know this…
bqueen 01.16.09 at 1:15 pm
Pumabear, #22: I hear ya. That’s why it’s especially important to raise some consciousness about GLBT issues on blogs and show 0-ZERO-ZIP tolerance for anti-GLBT attitudes, which I’ve seen surfacing, even here and at the Confluence.
hillstheone 01.16.09 at 1:16 pm
TOPIC: Got time for a quick prowl? Copy & send this along to your local elected officials just to let them know we’re not going away.
Re-posting from the ACORN forum
Sunshinelvr 01.14.09 at 10:51 pm
http://www.nbcaugusta.com/news/local/37502624.html
Rich Rogers rrogers@nbcaugusta.com
Story Published: Jan 13, 2009 at 12:19 PM EST
Story Updated: Jan 13, 2009 at 6:06 PM EST
ATLANTA – Georgia State Sen. Jeff Mullis, a Republican from Chickamauga, has filed legislation urging the IRS to revoke the tax exempt status from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, more commonly known as ACORN, after numerous reports that the organization falsified voter records leading up to the 2008 elections.
“An organization that chooses to undermine the integrity of our nation’s election process should not be entitled to tax exemption benefits,” said Sen. Mullis. “The excessive amount of evidence against ACORN engaging in fraudulent activity demands that the organization to be held accountable for taking advantage of hardworking taxpayers, and I call on the IRS to ensure that justice is executed in this case.”
The controversy surrounding ACORN seemed to die down after the Nov. 4 election, when Barack Obama won by a wide margin. But, according to MSNBC, Obama “has long ties to ACORN.” The ACORN political action committee also endorsed Obama for president.
Several ACORN workers were found guilty of faking registration forms and others are being investigated.
The Associated Press reported that ACORN hired more than 13,000 hourly workers to register 1.3 million voters in minority and poor neighborhoods in 21 states in 2008. But some of the registrations included names like “Donald Duck” and those of professional football players.
Sen. Mullis is calling on the IRS and the Secretary of the Treasury to launch an extensive investigation into ACORN’s voter registration activities.”
murphy 01.16.09 at 1:17 pm
FUNDRAISING UPDATE: We are $160 away from our goal of $300 by 3pm eastern. Can we get 10 Pumas to donate $16 in the next hour? How about 16 Pumas to donate $10? (I’m real good with the commutative property of multiplication, that’s right.)
Some thank -you’s to those who have already contributed to the Year of the Puma 2009 Fundraiser:
Pam
Mary
Mona
Sharon
Maria
Theresa
Chris
Cynthia
Sheri
Catherine
Sarah
Linda
Avril
Penelope
Heidi
Mary Beth
THANK YOU PUMAS!
Dragonfly 01.16.09 at 1:17 pm
$100 donated today!
Donation receipt: 3371-2409-0593-5380
((((((((PUMAS)))))))))
hillstheone 01.16.09 at 1:18 pm
PumaBear, re: “Get the feeling that there is a dogfight going on to get Obama’s religious patronage,”
maybe it’s like that night Stephen Colbert had a “wheel of fortune” for Obama, he’d spin it & say “Hmm, WHICH religion do I want to be now?”, lol…
waterpanther 01.16.09 at 1:18 pm
Just kicked in $20.00 for the fund raiser.
Gods, I hate PayPal.
murphy 01.16.09 at 1:19 pm
dragonfly SWOOPS in and gobbles up 2/3rds of the goal!
(I’m NOT real good with fractions)
{{{{{{dragonfly}}}}}
antifish 01.16.09 at 1:21 pm
This is what we are up against:
“We’ve got 10 million people out there who were involved actively in our campaign,” Obama said. “I don’t want them to just sit around waiting for me to do something. I want them to be pushing their agendas.” – HomophObama
“Pushing their agendas”? WTF?
Dragonfly 01.16.09 at 1:22 pm
scarlet at 11:25 am
thank you for posting that piece on another of Obama’s switcheroos. He is always changing his story. Oohhh, so that is what the “change” means, maybe – he is always changing his position on stuff. . . . .
antifish 01.16.09 at 1:23 pm
Murphy,
My son has my Puma Pac donation credit card right now. As soon as he gets back from Home Depot, I’ll make a donation.
pfinnert 01.16.09 at 1:23 pm
When I heard about MO’s dirty salary many months ago, long before BO denied our right to vote in FL, I knew this guy was a crooked politician, using his elected office and taxpayer money for his own personal wealth…And he was using OUR democratic party as his vehicle for corruption. The sad thing is that our democratic party was hijacked by a crook, and most of our old friends and political allies are seemingly naive or simply don’t want to believe that he’s a crook…a wolf in sheep’s clothing…using OUR democratic party for his corruption.
He reminds me of a televangelist con-man who enriches himself off of the backs of the poor. There is a special place in hell for crooked televangelists and a special place in hell for crooked politicians…they’re both among the lowest of life forms.
Dragonfly 01.16.09 at 1:24 pm
waterpanther
me too – I went to the button on the side of the side of the page instead of the one front and center, and it was easier to navigate through.
PUMAbear 01.16.09 at 1:24 pm
bqueen #26
Yeah. It’s even a divisive issue in pumaworld. This division prevents pumas from fighting as a unit. The same divisive techniques are used on race and feminism. Divide and conquer.
Dragonfly 01.16.09 at 1:24 pm
antifish
HomophObama – LOL! That is perfect.
PUMAbear 01.16.09 at 1:26 pm
Made another donation to pumapac!
Dragonfly 01.16.09 at 1:27 pm
bqueen 26 and PUMAbear 38
I haven’t been online enough to see the division, but that sort of division is exactly what holds everyone back. There should be no infighting re: GLBT issues and feminism generally – the base philosophy of power to rather than power over is at the foundation of both movements. The focus should be on the patriarchal values that exclude women as women and punish expressions of sexuality that do not further patriarchal goals (procreation within marital unit between male and female).
hillstheone 01.16.09 at 1:28 pm
TOPIC: DNC, again.
Just in from the DNC, check your email you, too, may be a lucky recipient!
“Engaged citizens like you are at the heart of the Democratic Party. Here are a few of the questions folks like you submitted:
Randy in Portland, Oregon, asked how the Democratic Party will take into account the Republicans who crossed over.
Jackie in Boise, Idaho, asked about investment by the DNC in “red states” like hers.
Tom in Warren, Michigan, asked what can be done to help salvage Americans’ homes, jobs, and lives.
These are just a few of the folks we answered — take some time and watch the video answering these questions and others submitted by Democrats across the country:
http://www.democrats.org/questionsvideo
We’ve had some incredible success the past few years, especially in my home state of Virginia, where the electoral votes went to a Democratic presidential candidate for the first time in 44 years.
I hope you’ll be there with me as we continue to change the electoral map and bring change to Washington.
Thank you,
Tim Kaine
~ ~ ~
Excuse me while I up-chuck…
murphy 01.16.09 at 1:28 pm
Don’t believe the HAKA antifish. Those are blowfish numbers.
There are around 14 million self-identified Christian evangelicals in the USA (NOT obama supporters, heh.)
http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v17n2/evangelical-demographics.html
30 million republicans
and 9 million Pumas
he’s high on Hopium.
Dragonfly 01.16.09 at 1:29 pm
division continued . . .
the division is how patriarchy sustains itself – if the victimizers keep the victims fighting each other, no one notices the overlay of oppression that affects all of us, even the heterosexual males who benefit from the system.
Alice Rodham Puma 01.16.09 at 1:31 pm
I can’t donate sadly as it would break the rules. If I was an Obot donating to the Ocause that wouldn’t bother me (or the FEC) at all.
PUMAbear 01.16.09 at 1:33 pm
MoveOn.org and Change.gov are encouraging people to send emails to Obama about his priorities should be in the new administration. This is not only a stupid idea for government, because his followers are stupid, but is a work around of a democratically elected representative government. There will be “winners” of idea contests. Who is going to read all of these stupid emails and analyze them and then pitch a million unworkable ideas, even illegal and unconstitutional ideas for the president?
It’s a good idea, though, for testing public sentiment, harvesting email addresses and returning a message with a DONATE button.
ipotter 01.16.09 at 1:35 pm
#33… yeah WTF!
1. Not surprising, after all, can’t expect HIM to do something.
2. Keep em worked up so they won’t realize they have been had.
3. Perhaps their agendas includes repealing the 22nd Amendment. Certainly hope not.
PUMAbear 01.16.09 at 1:41 pm
Hillstheone #30,
Just scrolled up and saw your message. LOL!LOL!
bqueen 01.16.09 at 1:41 pm
Dragonfly #41 “There should be no infighting re: GLBT issues and feminism…”
I haven’t really seen infighting about GLBT issues. What I’ve seen are remarks that reflect anti-lesbian attitudes. Sometimes these are instances of obvious disassociation “I’m not lesbian!” or writing that expresses “hetero-superiority”, or “lesbians/gays don’t matter as much”, etc., etc. From what I’ve seen the writers don’t recognize their own prejudice/ignorance/misogyny (because anti-lesbian is anti-woman).
ipotter 01.16.09 at 1:43 pm
#46 “Supporters” sent over 100,000 letters protesting Vilseck’s appointment. Last I heard, they were totally ignored.
bqueen 01.16.09 at 1:44 pm
Pumabear #46: not to mention that stupid “xpress your ideas online hoax completely excludes anyone without online access or know-how (older people, differently-abled persons, poor, uninformed…) but of couse, those are the people Obama doesn’t need!
antifish 01.16.09 at 1:45 pm
Embrace your inner lesbian, Y’all!
DancesWithPumas 01.16.09 at 1:46 pm
What a novelty to see a listing of off blog names:
Pam, Mary, Mona, Sharon, Maria, Theresa, Chris, Cynthia, Sheri
Catherine, Sarah, Linda, Avril, Penelope, Heidi, Mary Beth.
Sorta alien, but fun!
Sorry. I’m easily entertained.
bqueen 01.16.09 at 1:47 pm
antifish: or the outer lesbian sitting next to you!
DancesWithPumas 01.16.09 at 1:47 pm
LOL @ antifish and bqueen!!
bqueen 01.16.09 at 1:48 pm
Dances…!!
MKfromLA 01.16.09 at 1:52 pm
Murphy
I contributed to our winter campaign too!
Thank you again for committing to helping us reach our goal of making 2009 the Year of the Puma!
But that was 2 days ago … maybe the above is just today’s list.
I wanna be on today’s list! BBL!
murphy 01.16.09 at 1:54 pm
pumaBEAR #46 said “It’s a good idea, though, for testing public sentiment, harvesting email addresses and returning a message with a DONATE button.”
exactoMUNDO!
DancesWithPumas 01.16.09 at 1:57 pm
What a novelty to see a listing of off blog names:
Pam, Mary, Mona, Sharon, Maria, Theresa, Chris, Cynthia, Sheri
Catherine, Sarah, Linda, Avril, Penelope, Heidi, Mary Beth.
Sorta alien, but fun!
These are like “code” names.
Sorry. I’m easily entertained.
antifish 01.16.09 at 1:57 pm
We all know that the “xpress your ideas on line” scam is just something the O-team dreamed up to keep the stupid bots thinking they are relevant. Only Botards are naive enough to think an arrogant prick like him wants to hear from them. Oops, yeah, he does as long as there’s a credit card number enclosed in the correspondence.
Meanwhile, HomophObama is smoozing with Pastor Dick, meeting in secrecy with neocon journalists, appointing lobbyists to his administration and getting his dirty little hands on $350B by threatening the jello-spined congress with a veto hissy fit. Pathetic!!!!
Dragonfly 01.16.09 at 1:58 pm
bqueen 49:
thanks for the info – I’ll be watching for it when I am online.
“anti-lesbian is anti-woman”
You are right!
murphy 01.16.09 at 1:59 pm
Arent the names lovely dwp?
here’s some more:
Thank you to:
Simone
Lisa
Mecca
Billie
Mary
Adelle
Don
Micheal
Cathy
Emily
Donna
Apara
Mary
Shirley
Patricia
Mary Anne
Marti
Janet
Sue
Joanne
Bettye
Heather
Pam
Mary
Mona
Sharon
Maria
Theresa
Chris
Cynthia
Sheri
Catherine
Sarah
Linda
Avril
Penelope
Heidi
Mary Beth
THANK YOU PUMAS!
DancesWithPumas 01.16.09 at 1:59 pm
bqueen…
or Penelope, or Avril, or Sarah, or…
I wanna be ‘Persephone’ or even Demeter…nah…Persephone!
MKfromLA 01.16.09 at 2:00 pm
Year of the PUMA!!!
conf#3FR5026xxxxx66223D
antifish 01.16.09 at 2:01 pm
bqueen 01.16.09 at 1:47 pm
antifish: or the outer lesbian sitting next to you!
******
Works for me. Where is she?
catsden 01.16.09 at 2:01 pm
I just finished reading this article about the FEC. I did not know it was out of commission for half of last year; I did not know that the team was evenly divided between Reps & Dems. The backlog explains why the BO finances could so easily be ignored. I suspect that it was all planned that way.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/njonline/rg_20090112_6355.php
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Anyway, I stopped by to say that bqueen’s suggestion to post at Gretawire and dailypuma paid off. There were two hits from gretawire last night and the complaints blog link is up at dailypuma. The blog is getting more hits daily. Keep spreading the word.
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Distractions (so many distractions): the problem is that we are so aware of the many, many corruptions in our social, economic, political, religious structures that it is hard to ignore them just to focus on one. That’s one reason why the PUMA idea of teams is so great. But let’s face it, everywhere you turn there is disinformation and corruption. And we are a diverse group with diverse views, so there will always be some disagreement between us. Nothing wrong with that, so long as each of us doesn’t give up and keeps up the dialogue.
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which is why this is the signature quote at the bottom of my email:
“…here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!” Carroll
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it’s a good thing Murphy got me to writing my own blog; otherwise I would swamp this one with my long-winded post.
bqueen 01.16.09 at 2:01 pm
antifish: Hear, hear! Love your Bambi names, btw. I have to start making a list of all the names Pumas have thought up for the Man with an Indefinite Amount of Passports.
DancesWithPumas 01.16.09 at 2:01 pm
oh beautiful!!
Simone, Mecca, Marti, Avril, Penelope, Micheal…
Persephone
mlhath 01.16.09 at 2:03 pm
Antifish:
Inner lesbian…lol!
murphy 01.16.09 at 2:03 pm
I like Apara.
what a pretty name. It’s Yoruban, and means “one who comes and goes”
like a stealthy puma!
bqueen 01.16.09 at 2:04 pm
Catsden: thanks for the news re Gretawire. I popped the link on 2 posts. You can just post it on every post from now until BO’s show and thereafter. What the heck. copy & paste is fast.
MKfromLA 01.16.09 at 2:04 pm
PUMAbear #46
“stupid idea for stupid people” … yup
“harvesting email addresses” …. yup
DancesWithPumas 01.16.09 at 2:04 pm
bqueen 01.16.09 at 2:01 pm [edit]
antifish: Hear, hear! Love your Bambi names, btw. I have to start making a list of all the names Pumas have thought up for the Man with an Indefinite Amount of Passports.
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There’s also a PumaPAC list of obama names at:
http://pumapac.org/comic.html
scroll down
DancesWithPumas 01.16.09 at 2:05 pm
Yes! I missed “Apara” in my cut and paste
bqueen 01.16.09 at 2:07 pm
(Pssst…! Quick! Somebody send some lonely female soul antifish’s way!!)
bqueen 01.16.09 at 2:08 pm
Thanks Dances. I had to scroll past the microscopic penis!
murphy 01.16.09 at 2:11 pm
bqueen, those little suckers are easy to miss.
antifish 01.16.09 at 2:12 pm
Not just the soul, all of her!
PUMAbear 01.16.09 at 2:12 pm
Alice Rodham Puma #1,
Is there a youtube button for spam or abusive post that Obots could swarm and bring down the site? Everybody, all pumas, please send any youtube contact info you have to the common cause and outreach groups in the action center. Thanks.
New Topic.
Re:Obama a socialist? I wonder. Obama loves to raise money. I read that the civil rights group CORE was demonstrating at Sundance festival in Utah, for MORE oil drilling to *help* the poor. Wasn’t NO drilling part of the Pelosi/Obama plan until McCain struck political gold *favoring* drilling? So BO wants to switch now. He and Pelosi backpedaled in congress and Pelosi didn’t allow the drilling bill to come to a vote, getting the demos off the hook. Why did CORE go to Utah for their poverty message? To pressure the liberals to drop their strong environmental demands? *Liberals* will now be pitted against the *poor* and guilt tripped into going along with some drilling. Obama can be for both sides.
This is a bit rambling, but huge donations were made to Pelosi and Obama from environmental, banking, information and energy lobbies and they will be the recipients of most of the government payouts, not the *poor*.
hillstheone 01.16.09 at 2:13 pm
From FEC in my inbox today, I’ll just paste in the most interesting para, I’m sure the FEC Team already knows all this but good to know for the rest o’ us!
“…Specifically, the Commission learns of possible campaign finance violations in one of three proscribed ways. The first centers on the agency’s own monitoring process; possible violations are discovered through a review of a political committee’s reports or through a subsequent Commission audit.
The second method, the complaint process, largely relies on the participation of the public—anyone may file a complaint, which alleges violations and explains the basis for the allegations.
The third method is the referral process—possible violations discovered by other agencies are referred to the Commission. Each of these methods can lead to the opening of an FEC enforcement action or Matter Under Review (MUR). The law establishes a number of safeguards designed to ensure due process for those involved in an enforcement action, and requires that MURs remain confidential until the Commission closes the case and releases the information to the public (see 2 U.S.C. §437g(a)(12)). As a result, no information is readily available to the public regarding any ongoing enforcement action.
Should you have any future questions regarding the federal campaign finance law, please contact staff in the FEC’s Information Division, toll-free, at 1-800-424-9530 (press #6, when prompted)…”
antifish 01.16.09 at 2:14 pm
bqueen,
“I have to start making a list of all the names Pumas have thought up for the Man with an Indefinite Amount of Passports.”
… and Citizenships.
Dragonfly 01.16.09 at 2:15 pm
antifish 78
LOL!
bqueen 01.16.09 at 2:16 pm
Murph #77: Not when Hillary points them out!
antifish: No need to list passports. Just hang a map of the world on your wall, grab a handful of darts, throw ‘em all blindfolded and there ya’ go!
bqueen 01.16.09 at 2:17 pm
On second thought, make sure there’s a lot of “outer space” on that map too….
hillstheone 01.16.09 at 2:17 pm
anti #81, …and overseas campaign donations!
Alice Rodham Puma 01.16.09 at 2:20 pm
PUMAbear
Yes, that is probably what they did, the Obots probably flagged the video. Most likely from the Stalker Site or the Site That Is Not Worth naming.
I do think we should all contact you tube
http://www.youtube.com/t/contact_us
Alice Rodham Puma 01.16.09 at 2:21 pm
Yet again though, Youtube is owned by Google, in the tank for Obama and no friend of women.
taggles1 01.16.09 at 2:24 pm
hey alice, thanks for your comments over at the confluence!
bqueen 01.16.09 at 2:25 pm
Pumabear #19: Obama’s campaign paid people to “blog”, i.e. comment, report anti-Obama stuff, harass people. There were at least 300 of them.
#79 Any youtube vid can be flagged. I wrote to dailypuma and suggested the videomaker file a complaint with youtube. I’ve done that before and they acted within 24 hours. Appears as tho the videomaker had not tried that venue.
bqueen 01.16.09 at 2:26 pm
tags would you post the link to your show again?
taggles1 01.16.09 at 2:27 pm
you can re-listen to all the shows at any time bqueen.
go to:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/no-we-wont
clintondemocrat 01.16.09 at 2:34 pm
I just listened to a nearly 3 hour press conference that happened at the national press club on December 8. I cannot CAN NOT believe that 1) this press conference happened and NEVER made news. The media couldn’t wait for Wright to get on there and make is ridiculous blunders and statements but they wouldn’t go for legitimate attorneys.
2) I cannot believe that legal work did not begin on the issues with Obama until after the primary and court cases were not filed until after the convention. My Hillary delegate who wimped out of going to the convention just called me crazy and having lost my marbles for asking the kind of questions that were out there. She said that since nothing had come of it, it was nothing to worry about because nothing was there. Well no one even had legal cases put together until well into the general election.
3) I am stunned to hear a woman from the former soviet union emphatically and directly state that the media was more biased and slanted in the USA for this election than the former SOVIET media! This is not the first time I have had some serious conversations with a russian about our media.
4) It is chilling to think that international governments could literally blackmail our userper president because he isn’t legal.
hillstheone 01.16.09 at 2:38 pm
DNC – Again!
Haha, their ears must have been burning, they just called & asked for a donation! At the end of his little speech he said, & I quote:
“Can we ask for your generous donation of $100?”
I said no “because Obama used Caucus Fraud to steal the nomination from the better-qualified candidate, I no longer consider myself a Democrat.”
Hope he enters that one down in his little tally book. Gotta love it.
hillstheone 01.16.09 at 2:38 pm
Outta here, BBL! ((( PUMA’s )))
DancesWithPumas 01.16.09 at 2:40 pm
Taggles
Good post of yours at the confluence. thanks.
bqueen 01.16.09 at 2:40 pm
clintondem: Was that #3 woman Orly by any chance? She’s been a driving force behind legal action in CA and is a former Russian. She knows what she’s talking about…
Re #4: It’s not just governments. It’s also a whole slew of individuals! Anyone who has access to any records… I have reason to believe that all of Kenya is being muzzled right now.
bqueen 01.16.09 at 2:41 pm
Tags – thanks for the link. I’m downloading them.
taggles1 01.16.09 at 2:43 pm
all of them?
can you send me copies?
bqueen 01.16.09 at 2:49 pm
Tags, honey, you can download them yourself! There’s a link under each of the shows (I’m on a mac using firefox..but that shouldn’t make a difference.) They are about 20 mgs each, so I can’t send ‘em (too big).
Love this line you wrote: What are we now, Lord Voldemort?
taggles1 01.16.09 at 2:54 pm
I can? just kidding. I need to get them on CD and haven’t had the time. I will though, some day!
PUMAbear 01.16.09 at 3:01 pm
bqueen #89,
I think the Obot blog squatters have been around since 2006 and will continue as long (or longer) as BO is in office. They receive talking points from the BO team based on what the public is discussing or what is the BO embarrassment dejour. They probably have a number of scripts to follow and blog sites to attack. The funding must be enormous. I’ll bet the Obot IT army numbers in the thousands and is paid on a per comment basis, like a boiler room. Even at minimum wage, that’s a lot of money which must be continually raised by solicitation of donations. BO has a large number of IT members on staff along with Google and prolly Yahoo apparatciks. BO must model cult organizations that have information ministers and propaganda ministers. I would love to discover the architecture of his organization. He’s calling for everybody to get hooked up with a computer. The troll in Louisiana using the State government computer equipment will be glad to know that.
You can see how he admires the organizational structures of such diverse charismatic, dogmatic, fund raising success stories as Rev. Wright, Farrakhan, Rick Warren, even Oprah (with women), even Ronald Reagan.
bqueen 01.16.09 at 3:03 pm
Tags – O, you wanted a cd. I don’t have all of them, just the last few I missed. You need to find a groupie!
Just left a comment on rd for ya. it reads:
Taggles you are so right about the importance of acknowledging other women by name, even those you consider your opponents!
But I’ve seen and experienced refusal-to-acknowledge-women even on lovely Puma blogs, so Wolff’s slight doesn’t surprise me.
Acknowledgement is affirmation. It’s recognition. It means recognizing each other, as in seeing each other. It’s a tip o’ the hat. It contributes to ALL of our herstory. Whether it’s an idea, a written post, a graphic or a vid, we need to acknowledge each other with a credit (when visual) or named (when audio).
Lady Voldemort
Alice Rodham Puma 01.16.09 at 3:04 pm
hi Taggles
You’re welcome.
It is a great post.
By the way, did you all know that you can listen to PUMA Radio Podcast in Itunes?
Just load up itunes, go to the store, search for “PUMA United Radio Podcast” (without quotes) and then click subscribe.
sandipuma 01.16.09 at 3:05 pm
Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray in the morning
My body is in one peice,
My husband keeps his weapons loaded
Scares and is mean to our children
Beats me untill my head feels it has exploded
My eyes are swollen and black
I shake and shiver with fear from his abuseive acts
The whip marks in the mirror shows on my back
God give me the strength to run
If not I know the day will come
When our lives are over and done.
bqueen 01.16.09 at 3:08 pm
Pumabear: A-rod is running his show and even A-rod companies are top secret.
But I was thinking…
He’s calling for everybody to get hooked up with a computer.
We need to get him to fund computers for women. We so need to go online and stay informed about his transparent and accountable government, but we only earn 70 cents on every man-dollar! So we need special funding! Hey, he is the feminist, isn’t he??
sandipuma 01.16.09 at 3:12 pm
I loved todays prowl as Reid is my pukey senator.When i called Senator Baucus office he said they had tons and tons of calls and were taking everyones names.
taggles1 01.16.09 at 3:12 pm
You aren’t a groupie Bqueen????
I did not know that Alice. Thank you!
sandipuma 01.16.09 at 3:13 pm
Not him but the man who answered.
DancesWithPumas 01.16.09 at 3:15 pm
bqueen #102
amen, sistah
bqueen 01.16.09 at 3:16 pm
Keep workin’ on it Taggles. “Was nicht ist, kann noch werden!”
PUMAbear 01.16.09 at 3:17 pm
Bqueen #105,
Let’s get the equipment and install special virus software to screen out all of his BS propaganda! LOL.
PUMAbear 01.16.09 at 3:19 pm
Yup. Just got the Tim (traitor) Kaine, DNC video BS message. Sure enough, there is a DONATE button at the bottom. What a cancer of a scam!
taggles1 01.16.09 at 3:24 pm
alright bqueen. I’ll try, you are a tough one though!
bqueen 01.16.09 at 3:28 pm
Tags: yup! never a push-over (unless tipsy!)
bqueen 01.16.09 at 3:29 pm
Pumabear #111: yeah, and he’s gotta fund that too! : D
theamericanway 01.16.09 at 3:30 pm
An article about the fundraising concert last night for Hillary.
http://www.politickerny.com/1476/hillarys-last-political-event :
…On Thursday morning, Clinton essentially bid farewell to the Senate as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee overwhelmingly approved her confirmation as the next secretary of state. That evening, her supporters celebrated at a Clinton fund-raiser intended to erase the debt she accumulated during the campaign and make it easier for her to move on.
In literal terms at least, Hillary Clinton’s political career is most likely over. Thursday night’s event marked her last appearance in the foreseeable future in the role of elected official.
“This is a very nostalgic and bittersweet time,” said Clinton, wearing a blue pantsuit. She stood under the word Hillary scrawled in her handwriting across a white electronic screen. She referred, almost haltingly, to “this night, which is my last political event.”
Raising money is a chore the Clintons have excelled at for decades. But the event felt like more than that. The catharsis period had already come and gone, but Thursday evening had the markings and sentimentality of a premature reunion of the Clinton class of 2008….
Thanks for EVERYTHING, Hillary. We are watching. And we are moving forward.
carol haka 01.16.09 at 3:53 pm
Good for USC. Just received this email.
About Us » Contact Us » Giving To USC » Webmaster
sandipuma 01.16.09 at 3:55 pm
Andy Martin criticizes Barack Obama for staging a $150 million “inauguration.” Andy says that Obama’s lavish spending will trigger resentment and reaction. Borrowing $150 million so Obama can strut around on January 20th is a disgrace to our nation. Obama should not be living the high life at a time when ordinary Americans are suffering economically. Martin says austerity should start at the White House and restrict the excesses of what is rapidly becoming the most vulgar presidency in history. Instead of mimicking Lincoln, Obama should be studying Lincoln, Martin says. Obama’s “Lincolnesque” behavior is a parody of our greatest president.
“The Obama’s are the most vulgar, nouveau riche family to ever occupy the White House. Our long national hangover is now beginning; we just don’t realize it yet”
Martin says, “Borrowing money from China to stage an inaugural party shows just how far removed from reality Barack Obama really is”
“In 2009, Barry Obama is so 2008; maybe he should sit down with Robert Rubin and Bernie Madoff and see where his hubris will lead him
“The Obamas are not the Huxtables,”
WHY ARE U. S. MEDIA AFRAID TO TELL AMERICANS THE TRUE COST OF BARACK OBAMA’S “HANGOVER INAUGURATION” ON JANUARY 20TH?
“LET THEM EAT CAKE,” SHOULD BE BARACK OBAMA’S NEW MANTRA,
(NEW YORK)(January 16, 2009) If you learned that your neighbors were planning to borrow $15,000, from you, to stage a birthday party, after they lost their jobs and their car needed fixing, you would be justifiably offended by your neighbor’s contempt for reality. Would you lend them the money for a party?
Over the next few days, the United States is going to borrow $150 million to “inaugurate” Barry Obama as “president” of the United States. Our great national hangover is now beginning; we just don’t yet realize it.
Long ago, I started out liking Barack and Michelle Obama. Then she did her “Obama means less” routine and showed her arrogant, obnoxious and racist side. I don’t care much for Michelle any more. For a long time I thought her husband Barry, was a sweet and decent person, even if I thought he was a total space cadet when it came to pubic policy. I called Obama the “world’s greatest entertainer.” John McCain took my phrase and turned it into the “word’s greatest celebrity.” We were both right.
I now find both Obamas rude, vulgar, nouveau riche and the wrong people for the times. They have lost touch with the zeitgeist.
Obama surfed into the White House in 2008 just as the world was slowly beginning to confront the reality of 2009: in the long run, borrowing money from your neighbors to stage a party creates ridicule, not admiration.
Barry says he is a “Lincoln president.” Well, as Senator Lloyd Bentsen would have said, “I knew Abe Lincoln and you’re no Abe Lincoln. You’re an African-American Bernie Madoff, a sweet and likeable con man that is likely to leave the nation with a historic hangover.”
Why am I so negative when the mainstream media are drugging the world with Obama propaganda? Because the media is using Obama the same way he is using them.
But someone ultimately has to pay the bills. That someone is you.
If I asked you to vote on whether we should borrow $150 million from China to “inaugurate” Obama, how many people would vote yes? How any Americans would be disgusted? But that’s what we are doing. We’re borrowing money from China to inaugurate Obama and no one even realizes the connection.
Why are U. S. media afraid to tell Americans the true cost of Barack Obama’s “hangover inauguration” on January 20th?
Actually, before long, people will be attaching another less flattering racial epithet to Obama, and it will fit perfectly. Barack Obama’s causal attitude toward our money, and the way he is borrowing from the Chinese to feed his hunger for personal spectacle harkens back to a more biting racial stereotype. I won’t go there, but you know what I mean.
When the history of this era is written, America will be seen as living in the past, and electing a man for the past when we needed someone to lead us into an uncertain future.
What sticks in my craw is that this country is engaging in “business as usual” at a time when we need a leader-an Abraham Lincoln, really-that knows “business as usual” is over. Business as usual in 2008, before the collapse on Wall Street, before trillion-dollar deficits, before the challenges of the shaky future, is dead and gone. Clearly, Obama does not realize that fact. Yet. And the media won’t tell us. Yet.
Obama had perfect pitch for 2008. He surfed into leadership. The problem is, he’s still surfing in the same direction while the rest of the world has reversed course.
You can argue with me if you wish, and I invite your reactions if you will, but here’s my take on 2009, and why I believe that the Obama family will prove to be the most vulgar family ever to occupy the White House. Obama’s parvenu ways will lead this nation to ridicule, embarrassment and even further world decline.
The logic of my views is not always apparent at the time, but I get paid to present a “contrarian” view. And that’s exactly how I feel right now, watching Obama’s excesses, the media’s concealment and the wolf at the door.
This year, we could approach a $2 TRILLION dollar deficit if current trends continue. We are borrowing money from abroad to support our profligate national lifestyle. The Chinese piano player downstairs in the lounge is saving his paycheck so we can borrow his money to have a party upstairs with the girls in the rooms that rent by the hour. How long can this go on?
So what kind of a president do we need? Lincoln? Yes.
Lincoln was a sparse, simple man. He brought a sense of dignitary and restraint, and even a touch of melancholy, to the White House at a time when the nation was sundered. There was no time for partying.
The vulgar Obamas are so out of touch they can’t even make up their minds which “designer dog” to bring into their household. Please.
“The people have no bread,” Empress Marie Antoinette was told. “Why don’t they eat cake,” she replied. At a time when most people are finding it difficult to feed their dogs, and abandoning their pets to animal shelters, a family that can’t even make up its mind over when costly pooch to purchase is very much out of sync with the radically altered zeitgeist of 2009.
Back to borrowing money to stage a party.
You need to go to the London newspapers to find out how much Obama’s binge next week is costing taxpayers.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1115942/Bush-declares-state-emergency-Washington-cost-Obamas-swearing-ceremony-soars-110m.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/14/barack-obama-inauguration-cost/print
United States media are afraid to put a total tab on Obama’ excesses.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/13/AR2009011301583.html?hpid=topnews
What kind of an example does a leader set when he borrows $150 million from foreign countries (who are, after all, financing our deficit) to stage a party for himself? Chinese leaders must be laughing. At us. Barack Obama? Or Idi Amin?
In October I was excoriated by the hard left media from the New York Times on down for saying on Sean Hannity’s America, “If you love Hugo Chavez, you’ll love Barry Obama.” I was more accurate in my prediction than perhaps even I realized. Chavez is spending Venezuela into poverty; Obama is next in line to become a Chavista.
What we needed for 2009 was a president who said simply and truthfully, “At a time of economic distress, when Americans are suffering, and when current indications are the economy will get worse before it gets better (Obama’s own words), we need to cut spending, starting with the White House, and starting with my own inauguration.
“I have asked President Bush to cut back on plans to spend large sums for my inauguration. We will scale down the security and pull in our perimeter. I have asked my friends and supporters to plan for a modest celebration. January 20th should be a day of prayer and supplication, not crass celebration and contempt for financial reality.
“We will begin out austerity program at the White House, where Michele and I will carefully scrutinize every expense and seek to reduce the cost of the presidency. We will use Air Force One less often, and cut back on lavish entertaining and unnecessary pomp.”
Obama isn’t making that speech. He is, sadly, going in the direction of the African-American stereotype that acts “enriched” by nonexistent and illusory wealth. At a time when we need modesty and restraint, he is pulling out all the stops. For himself.
Last month Obama went to Hawaii and stayed-at someone’s expense, not his own-in a $3000 a day rental complex. He was too “big” to buy his own airplane ticket for his own “vacation.” Someone had to pay for a private jet. When he “had” to move to Washington few days earlier for his daughters’ sake, he took the entire floor of a luxury hotel, again at someone else’s expense, instead of more modest lodgings.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a new expression, and a new challenge, for “Barry O,” our zoot-suited leader at a time when we need a country pastor: “What Would Lincoln Do?”
Lincoln? Would Lincoln have borrowed $150 million from China to stage his inauguration? Come on. Lincoln is turning in his grave every time Obama misuses and abuses Lincoln’s memory with more falsification and fabrication.
There is something drastically wrong with us. No one will stand up (except maybe my own lonely voice) and say “How can we justify spending $150 million on an “inauguration” at a time when we are borrowing $2 trillion to pay our daily bills? How? Have we lost all sense of shame? Have we abandoned any connection with reality?
Do we still secretly think we are the world’s only “superpower?” Are we addicts to our own illusions who have contempt for the reality of the rest of the world? It appears so.
No sensible family would borrow money to stage a party at a time when neighbors know the same people are borrowing money to pay for their groceries. We are borrowing money, and Barack Obama plans to borrow more money, to pass out groceries to people he says don’t have enough to eat. We are selling “bonds” to pay the gas and light bill. And Obama is borrowing $150 million to throw a party for himself at a time when we are unofficially stealing from our grandchildren by saddling them with an immeasurable debt that will catapult this great nation into perpetual poverty.
Yes, we needed a “change” in 2008, only we didn’t yet know what kind of change. We didn’t yet know the markets were going to change; we didn’t yet know our retirement plans were going to change. We didn’t yet know banks would fail and more and more people would lose their jobs. We didn’t yet know we would be asking foreign governments to finance our daily expenses, and our daily excesses.
There was a hint of what lay ahead, but not enough of a big, bad picture to scare us into rethinking our November 5th priorities. We needed a leader. We didn’t get one. We got a freeloader.
We got Barry Obama.
And we got what we deserved: the most vulgar, uncouth and arrogant family ever to occupy the White House.
We got what we deserved because of our contempt for humanity, in borrowing money for years. We were spending money we didn’t have to finance national and international binges in order to satisfy our egotistical sense of overweening nationality. Now we have Michelle and Barack, who are saying “let them eat cake” when they spend $150 million to stage a party for themselves.
Obama clearly has many good role models for vulgarity and corruption in Chicago. “Screw the People” should be engraved on City Hall, the County Building and the State Capitol.
The Obama era will not end well. The disaster begins on January 20th.
As for myself, I am going out and buying a cake. Michelle has already warned us. We won’t have cake around much longer. For us anyway. By the time Obama is through with us, this nation will be impoverished. Cake will be a luxury most of us can no longer afford.
We will probably realize that fact too late. Too late to change from vulgarity to reality. Too late to get rid of Obama. I’m just a little “too early” right now. I’m out of step with Obama’s parade.
I know what Lincoln would say about my fears and concerns.
“Thank God somebody stood up and told the truth.”
The Obamas? They think they’re “rich.” Only they’re spending your retirement dollars, your hard-earned tax dollars to throw a party for themselves. They are spending other-peoples-money. Yours.
Have a party. The long national hangover begins on January 21st.
Madoff and Obama. Perfect together.
vwade 01.16.09 at 3:55 pm
Just donated! Sorry, I couldn’t send more, but Bush and the Democratic Congress have me between a rock and a hard place, like everyone I’m sure.
I had a great idea the other night after reading all the PUMA posts. (yes, I mainly a lookey-loo, although I do do the Prowls)
Anyway, we should try to get some big name women to start a women’s cable channel, not like Oxygen, but more like Spike TV.
Our channel would be dedicated to empowering women and showing women in non-traditional areas of power, success or non-traditional job roles. Like fighter pilots, race car drivers, mechanics etc… The commercials could be role reversal existing commercials. Like, the kids asking mom to borrow the car, or a man debating what kind of cleaner is going to get the tub clean. Etc.. Just a thought, from my off centered mind, but think it could be real successful if the right people were in on it.
PUMAbear 01.16.09 at 3:57 pm
Everyone who received BJ’s NOW message can respond.
Alice Rodham Puma 01.16.09 at 4:01 pm
I think the idea of a TV channel is a great idea.
On a smaller scale http://www.ustream.tv/ can reach new people on the Internet if any brave PUMAs wanted to do it.
taggles1 01.16.09 at 4:02 pm
well alice, maybe we can branch out from there? cool idea!
michelina 01.16.09 at 4:04 pm
Have a good week-end ((((pumaland)))))
I’ll be lurking
stay safe and warm
catsden 01.16.09 at 4:05 pm
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 6, 2009
Mr. SERRANO introduced the following joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification:
Article — ‘The twenty-second article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.’.
I found this comment by HARP at NO Quarter: READ IT ND WEEP –
Introduced in the House of Representatives. This is the original text of the bill as it was written by its sponsor and submitted to the House for consideration. This is the latest version of the bill available on this website.
Obama isn’t even sworn in yet and the dhimmicrats are setting the stage for Obama to pull a Hugo Chavez.
vwade 01.16.09 at 4:06 pm
Nothing personal Alice, I checked it out, but a website that eagerly promotes BO’s inaugration is not what I want to be part of. Thanks though! I’m sure someone braver than I will post their comments against BO.
sandipuma 01.16.09 at 4:06 pm
Alice that is a great idea.Costly but great and we sure would be heard.
catsden 01.16.09 at 4:07 pm
Sorry about that post #123; I stuck my comment in the middle of the article.
PUMAbear 01.16.09 at 4:10 pm
Dances #63,
No Dances, not Persephone, she had to spend six months of the year cooped up with ugly, woman abuser Hades!
sandipuma 01.16.09 at 4:10 pm
Be back later , have a few errands to do.Have a good day all.
Alice Rodham Puma 01.16.09 at 4:15 pm
sandipuma ustream.tv is free to broadcast.
vwade, I did see that, but then again other views like PUMA need to be heard.
Alice Rodham Puma 01.16.09 at 4:16 pm
I like your idea better in the long run anyway vwade, but all great ideas have to start small?
Alice Rodham Puma 01.16.09 at 4:23 pm
Maybe this one is a better example?
(although it is not broadcasting live now)
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/hillary-clinton-live
DancesWithPumas 01.16.09 at 4:26 pm
PUMAbear 01.16.09 at 4:10 pm
Dances #63,
No Dances, not Persephone, she had to spend six months of the year cooped up with ugly, woman abuser Hades!
————————-
Hades Schmades… I have a posse… Persephone didn’t…
we can take care of him in a heartbeat… and then we wouldn’t have severe winters to contend with
Ex-DemInVA 01.16.09 at 4:34 pm
EWard 01.16.09 at 12:11 pm
“I wanted to respond to KarenWI and ExDeminVA – Kudos to your posts on Thursday describing BO’s real agenda! I agree with both of you. Obama is taking this country in a socialist direction. On top of that, he is fiscally irresponsible.”
Thank you EWard. It is kind of you to say that.
I have to add something as well. I happened to watch Bush’s speech last night when C-Span re-played it later in the night. IMHO, I think there were some hidden messages that Bush was telling the American people and possibly to Bambi.
First, he pointed out several times that he kept the country safe from another terrorist attack. He said that when he got up in the morning, he was briefed every day, and that his concern was keeping America safe. He said it again towards the end of his speech in such as way that I got the message that he was either challenging Bambi to do the same or that he was concerned that Bambi was not as concerned with America’s safety. He definitely was trying to convey some type of message.
Next, towards the end of his speech, he said something like I am honored to carry the title with me the rest of my life. I thought that he meant POTUS and that was what he would say. He didn’t. He said he was honored to be a CITIZEN of the United States. I immediately thought that it was odd and sort of out of context. We all know that he is a citizen and you HAVE to be a citizen to be POTUS. Bingo! IMHO, I think that Bush was giving another message that they know that Bambi’s citizenship is in question. Something is going to come of this down the road – I have that feeling. Maybe, he was warning it is coming or is telling people to look into it. I don’t know. It was too odd for him to say that sentence. I even asked someone else who watched the speech about that sentence, and they thought it was odd too and seemed out of place.
Ex-DemInVA 01.16.09 at 4:35 pm
BTW, I hear that Bambi did NOT watch Bush’s speech last night. He went to dinner at Equinnox (sp?) at that time.
vwade 01.16.09 at 4:37 pm
Alice: You’re right! Guess we should fight them where they live, “on the net”.
Seems to me, though, that there are so many specialized shows for men on TV, I just wish I could even the playing field. The commercials are just as bad. Every time you sit down to eat, there is a female freshness commercial on or some shit like that.
Loved to see a man try to enjoy dinner while they’re talking about jock itch or proctology exams.
bqueen 01.16.09 at 4:39 pm
Hey, anybody know when Hillary will be officially sworn in?
carol haka 01.16.09 at 4:49 pm
Hillary will be sworn in on Tuesday at high noon when she accidentally knocks BO off of his pedestal on the steps of the Capital and takes the oath of office!
CAROL HAKA
Alice Rodham Puma 01.16.09 at 4:51 pm
vwade I completely agree with you about the male slant on tv and crappy sexist commercials, it is the same here.
murphy 01.16.09 at 5:21 pm
motown posted, take it upstairs!
bring links!
Jill 02.02.09 at 8:10 pm
interesting enough, super touch has posted a response to all this obey plagarism:
http://www.supertouchart.com/2009/02/02/editorial-the-medium-is-the-message-shepard-fairey-and-the-art-of-appropriation/
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