I hope Dr. DeWitt isn't looking at this post and still grading me, because I'm taking this blog in a new direction now that the class is pretty much over.
On March 2, 2008 Merge98FM debut a show that featured a B/C-list celebrity from the second season of VH!'s hit series "Flavor of Love." It was exciting to finally get someone famous on a tiny little internet station in suburban Atlanta, but her music selections clearly violate the "No Nonsense Promise." It's her show and I was just simulcasting it from blogtalkradio.com, but new episodes of Buckwild Sunday have lately become so few and far between we've had to dig up old reruns from 2007 when Jerry Falwell died to get something on Sunday afternoons at 2.
Now comes your part. Should I keep Buckwild Sunday or drop it and continue to play Atlanta's Killer Variety? Any help would be appreciated. All day Wednesday November 26, we're running a Buckwild Marathon, and there's a poll to the side of the blog. Good luck, and thanks for the feedback.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
1979, how soon we forget
Folks, we've been down this road before. A gas shortage sent the prices skyrocketing and people were freaking out and getting into these gas lines. Now that prices are down to $1.83 (as of writing), don't let this fact get you so cocky that we forget ALTERNATIVE FUELS.
In late 2006, prices were down to the $2.20s until January rolled around.
I'm urging y'all, please continue to conserve. Conserve! Conserve!
OIL WILL RUN OUT!
IT'S NOT RENEWABLE!
IT WILL RUN OUT!
The good times were rolling so hard in the 1980s that we forgot to take it easy, especially on our planet. As the 2010s approach, WE CAN'T REPEAT HISTORY!
Gas is low now, but it will not last! As demand goes up, so do the prices.
DON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN!
In late 2006, prices were down to the $2.20s until January rolled around.
I'm urging y'all, please continue to conserve. Conserve! Conserve!
OIL WILL RUN OUT!
IT'S NOT RENEWABLE!
IT WILL RUN OUT!
The good times were rolling so hard in the 1980s that we forgot to take it easy, especially on our planet. As the 2010s approach, WE CAN'T REPEAT HISTORY!
Gas is low now, but it will not last! As demand goes up, so do the prices.
DON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN!
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Don't Eight, Appreciate...
It's still a controversy to this day thanks to California. Whether homosexuals should have the right to marry or not. I used to be against it on the grounds that there's already enough brokenness in heterosexuality and why add to the brokenness with homosexuality. I have since lightened up, because it ought to be YOUR choice whether to go against the natural order of the Lord or not. The government should ot be the judge and jury in that respect. That's I join Tila Tequila in the fight to kill Prop 8.
However, this ain't the bigger issue.
It wasn't just conservative Republicans who voted yes on 8, 70/30 the black vote helped pass the bill (granted there are black GOP'ers, but how many came out, really). My fellow Latinos also helped to push this thing through with their vote. Some of our minorities are still socially more conservative than the party most of them voted into office.
This could mean TROUBLE for the Democratic party.
I'm seeing a potential rift in the party between the Minority Caucus and the Stonewall Caucus. If these two wings of the party don't start finding some common ground soon on the gay rights issue, then it could be the issue that sends us right on back to 1968. I think civil unions is a nice middle ground. You get all the rights of a marriage without the actual title, at least until America is ready to lighten up some.
Either way, I'm urging both the Stonewall and Minority wings of the Democratic party. Come together on this, so we can continue the progress we worked so hard for these past few years. We've got a love thang, Democrats, don't let it start slipping...away...
However, this ain't the bigger issue.
It wasn't just conservative Republicans who voted yes on 8, 70/30 the black vote helped pass the bill (granted there are black GOP'ers, but how many came out, really). My fellow Latinos also helped to push this thing through with their vote. Some of our minorities are still socially more conservative than the party most of them voted into office.
This could mean TROUBLE for the Democratic party.
I'm seeing a potential rift in the party between the Minority Caucus and the Stonewall Caucus. If these two wings of the party don't start finding some common ground soon on the gay rights issue, then it could be the issue that sends us right on back to 1968. I think civil unions is a nice middle ground. You get all the rights of a marriage without the actual title, at least until America is ready to lighten up some.
Either way, I'm urging both the Stonewall and Minority wings of the Democratic party. Come together on this, so we can continue the progress we worked so hard for these past few years. We've got a love thang, Democrats, don't let it start slipping...away...
Thursday, November 6, 2008
The Roads to Blue Power
So I just picked up the special election edition of the New York Times titled "After The Vote," and it was interesting to see the shift that took place in American politics county by county. While McCain may have won in Georgia, South Carolina, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota, there is a pattern that I noticed in the way this country has voted.
Winning VA, NC, and FL were important for the Democrats, but holding McCain's victory in GA and SC showed a significant trend. The Democrats are making inroads in the coastal South, and I'm thinking maybe that "East Coast elitist" line didn't really sit well with them anymore. I-95 may be our first gateway to a South Lyndon B Johnson claimed to have lost for an entire generation after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Even Though Obama lost North Dakota and Montana, McCain's lead was less than 10 percentage points in both states. George W. Bush had blowouts in both states in 2004, and this is a testament to one more gateway to the Mountain West via the I-90 corridor for the Democrats. A bridge is being made between the typically blue states of Washington and Minnesota. Libertarianism tends to run rampant in that region, and should the Democrats start leaning in that direction, the Canadian border could be painted blue for some time.
We also held McCain to a less than 10% win in South Dakota. Between there and Colorado is where the Democrats also hve an opportunity. Support for ethanol and moderating on the cultural issues could eventually put Nebraska in play, giving them some breathing room in the upper Great Plains.
Then there's also the I-20 corridors. In states that all went for John McCain, there were many counties that trended towards the Democrats, and even some they won. This could be indicative that we're making inroads in the Deep South.
There is a sliver of hope for the Republicans though...the I-40 corridor. From I-81 in the Great Smoky Mountains to the oil fields of Texas, there's a swarm of voters who voted against the wind and are running scared. Sure you had your blue-trending (some still red) bastions of Nashville, Memphis, Little rock, and Oklahoma City, but along the way, the Mid-South and oil country went against the wind. If the Democrats want to really bridge some divides and get this 50-state strategy off to a healthy start for 2012, their next convention should be held in Memphis, TN. I've got a feeling there's a lot of pissed off PUMA/Clintonites along that I-40 corridor that would appreciate the attention.
The roads to blue power are plenty, and of course there are some parts of the country we don't really need to succeed in a national election, but rebuilding the Democratic party along that I-40 corridor could spell Democratic domination for years to come as well as an end to the Karl Rove 50-plus-one strategy and the rise of the 50-state strategy. The Dems should get serious about this 50-state strategy, because the GOP already has something to build on...the Highlands.
This song's for that I-40 corridor. Dems, you have another opportunity.
Winning VA, NC, and FL were important for the Democrats, but holding McCain's victory in GA and SC showed a significant trend. The Democrats are making inroads in the coastal South, and I'm thinking maybe that "East Coast elitist" line didn't really sit well with them anymore. I-95 may be our first gateway to a South Lyndon B Johnson claimed to have lost for an entire generation after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Even Though Obama lost North Dakota and Montana, McCain's lead was less than 10 percentage points in both states. George W. Bush had blowouts in both states in 2004, and this is a testament to one more gateway to the Mountain West via the I-90 corridor for the Democrats. A bridge is being made between the typically blue states of Washington and Minnesota. Libertarianism tends to run rampant in that region, and should the Democrats start leaning in that direction, the Canadian border could be painted blue for some time.
We also held McCain to a less than 10% win in South Dakota. Between there and Colorado is where the Democrats also hve an opportunity. Support for ethanol and moderating on the cultural issues could eventually put Nebraska in play, giving them some breathing room in the upper Great Plains.
Then there's also the I-20 corridors. In states that all went for John McCain, there were many counties that trended towards the Democrats, and even some they won. This could be indicative that we're making inroads in the Deep South.
There is a sliver of hope for the Republicans though...the I-40 corridor. From I-81 in the Great Smoky Mountains to the oil fields of Texas, there's a swarm of voters who voted against the wind and are running scared. Sure you had your blue-trending (some still red) bastions of Nashville, Memphis, Little rock, and Oklahoma City, but along the way, the Mid-South and oil country went against the wind. If the Democrats want to really bridge some divides and get this 50-state strategy off to a healthy start for 2012, their next convention should be held in Memphis, TN. I've got a feeling there's a lot of pissed off PUMA/Clintonites along that I-40 corridor that would appreciate the attention.
The roads to blue power are plenty, and of course there are some parts of the country we don't really need to succeed in a national election, but rebuilding the Democratic party along that I-40 corridor could spell Democratic domination for years to come as well as an end to the Karl Rove 50-plus-one strategy and the rise of the 50-state strategy. The Dems should get serious about this 50-state strategy, because the GOP already has something to build on...the Highlands.
This song's for that I-40 corridor. Dems, you have another opportunity.
Back off, America!
Any of y'all remember the Project For The New American Century? Didn't think so. Well here's some shocking news for you, or at least for me, on Iraq. It turns out that we were looking for a regime change in Iraq as early as 1998! 1998! Three years before any of this 9/11 and anthrax crap ever surfaced, we were already looking to liberate Iraq...under Bill Clinton. Now whether he was also in on this whole Middle Eastern takeover or he was just being a centrist pushover remains to be seen, but we're in Iraq for a reason that PRECEDES the terrorist attacks of 9/11/01.
Bill Kristol cited that weapons inspectors were chased out, but they never tell you how long those inspectors were snooping around, whether those inspectors were really measuring the drapes for some heavy commerce in the future, or whether those weapons of mass destruction could really compare in strength to what we were cooking. Even rogue regimes have a right to defend themselves, and who's arrogant enough to be calling every nation they don't like for some reason rogue to begin with? Israel maybe? America? I'm tired of our troops being used to kill in the name of the Lord.
Look, y'all. The PNAC stated it themselves. This is their plan, and most Republicans, Democrats, and misguided Independents are falling for their crap. Here's just a few of their intentions:
• we need to increase defense spending significantly if we are to carry out our global responsibilities today and modernize our armed forces for the future;
• we need to strengthen our ties to democratic allies and to challenge regimes hostile to our interests and values;
• we need to promote the cause of political and economic freedom abroad
• we need to accept responsibility for America's unique role in preserving and extending an international order friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles.
Which OUR are we talking about ladies and gentlemen? Is this country's policy so arrogant to think we can just do whatever we want around the world and NOT expect any blowback? Is it going to take another 9/11 because we backed some other third-world country into a corner and laid another uppercut in order to us to HUMBLE OURSELVES IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD?
This reminds me of when the Europeans divided and conquered Africa because it wasn't seen as "civilized enough" in their eyes. That Biden/Brownback bill last year to divide Iraq into three parts is another prime example. We're being driven by this "relativism is arrogace disguised as humility," "fair is foul, and foul is fair" mentality.
...and look out for the code words "spreading democracy" because that's the same code language used in Vietnam and Korea when we wanted to open up more shop. Our troops are being misused and anyone who would hide behind the yellow ribbon to justify a haneous foreign policy is supporting an interest mutually exclusive from our troops. Our troops were supposed to defend OUR freedom, NOT everyone else's around the world, well-intentioned as that may be. Who's morals are we trying to "clarify" here?
"Talk and trade with all nations, entangling alliances with none." -Thomas Jefferson
The bible says something about turning your back on Israel and being doomed for it, bu it also says if something causes you to sin, get it out of you (metaphorically speaking of course, don't gouge your eyes out or anything).
Talk and trade is not turning your back on Israel. It can defend itself, but we must not allow it to use Europe or our country as a clutch for killing in the name of the Lord and exploiting the Jewish vote with a little group called AIPAC.
Plain and simple, America. When it comes to the Middle East...BACK OFF!!
It's in our best national security interest.
Bill Kristol cited that weapons inspectors were chased out, but they never tell you how long those inspectors were snooping around, whether those inspectors were really measuring the drapes for some heavy commerce in the future, or whether those weapons of mass destruction could really compare in strength to what we were cooking. Even rogue regimes have a right to defend themselves, and who's arrogant enough to be calling every nation they don't like for some reason rogue to begin with? Israel maybe? America? I'm tired of our troops being used to kill in the name of the Lord.
Look, y'all. The PNAC stated it themselves. This is their plan, and most Republicans, Democrats, and misguided Independents are falling for their crap. Here's just a few of their intentions:
• we need to increase defense spending significantly if we are to carry out our global responsibilities today and modernize our armed forces for the future;
• we need to strengthen our ties to democratic allies and to challenge regimes hostile to our interests and values;
• we need to promote the cause of political and economic freedom abroad
• we need to accept responsibility for America's unique role in preserving and extending an international order friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles.
Which OUR are we talking about ladies and gentlemen? Is this country's policy so arrogant to think we can just do whatever we want around the world and NOT expect any blowback? Is it going to take another 9/11 because we backed some other third-world country into a corner and laid another uppercut in order to us to HUMBLE OURSELVES IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD?
This reminds me of when the Europeans divided and conquered Africa because it wasn't seen as "civilized enough" in their eyes. That Biden/Brownback bill last year to divide Iraq into three parts is another prime example. We're being driven by this "relativism is arrogace disguised as humility," "fair is foul, and foul is fair" mentality.
...and look out for the code words "spreading democracy" because that's the same code language used in Vietnam and Korea when we wanted to open up more shop. Our troops are being misused and anyone who would hide behind the yellow ribbon to justify a haneous foreign policy is supporting an interest mutually exclusive from our troops. Our troops were supposed to defend OUR freedom, NOT everyone else's around the world, well-intentioned as that may be. Who's morals are we trying to "clarify" here?
"Talk and trade with all nations, entangling alliances with none." -Thomas Jefferson
The bible says something about turning your back on Israel and being doomed for it, bu it also says if something causes you to sin, get it out of you (metaphorically speaking of course, don't gouge your eyes out or anything).
Talk and trade is not turning your back on Israel. It can defend itself, but we must not allow it to use Europe or our country as a clutch for killing in the name of the Lord and exploiting the Jewish vote with a little group called AIPAC.
Plain and simple, America. When it comes to the Middle East...BACK OFF!!
It's in our best national security interest.
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