I miss calling voters for Barack Obama.
When I first joined the campaign, I made about 300-400 (maybe 500) calls this week.
School and work is getting in the way of my 'work' for Obama.
I am commiting to make 300 phone calls this weekend, no matter what!
I might need some encouragement to motivate me on Friday and Saturday night.
So. If you have time, meet the challenge and do some phone-banking also and let me know how you are doing.
The race is on!
Palin's pregnant child proves abstinence education works!
If keeping our girls pregnant and our teens covered in genital warts and taking Valtrex herpes treatment everyday for life is your goal.
The press kept bringing up Chelsea Clinton's fictional pregnancy and wondering how they (the press) would've handled her fictional pregnancy.
Chelsea Clinton's mother and father educated her on safe sex and proper condom use and it's silly to talk about her fictional situation, when a real pregnant teen and her careless parents attempt to move into the Whitehouse.
While using a condom isn't 100% effective, having sex without any protection or education increases the chances of pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease exponentially.
I know this blog is ugly, but sometimes the truth is ugly.
Dennis Kucinich told America to Wake up! Wake up! Wake up America!
I believe most Americans woke up last night, during Barack Obama's acceptance speech.
Our candidate, hit every issue affecting U.S. workers and retirees, even our hard-working octagenarian Retiree/Walmart associates!
Sen. Obama, thank you once again.
YES WE CAN
PS If you aren't awake yet, what are you dreaming about?
Open you eyes, baby!
Get up and get at 'em!
Why has the media embraced this book and it's author?
Corsi's book belongs in the fiction department.
"Fortunate Son" was much more realistic and factual than "Obama Nation," but the media spurned, ignored and crucified J.H. Hatfield until he finally committed suicide. Corsi is merely an opportunistic writer, not a reporter. Please read the book in the bookstore(a fool and his money). It shouldn't take an attentive reader long to see the truth. While you are there look at his other writings. Corsi's subjects and ideas range from widely ridiculous to just plain foolish. Don't take him seriously.
I'm not sure if a candidate's tax plans are important to your decision making, but if it they are check out this article in "The Wall Street Journal and this article in "The New Standard". Now here's "Clayton's Most Unprofessional Opinion." Taxes aren't important to me personally(drum-roll please), because I'm so poor I can't afford to pay attention(and there's the rim-shot). Ha! But seriously folks, the tax plans are very important to me on a much larger level. Good and fair tax laws increase, reward and encourage the middle-class, ignore the poor and of course punish the rich. I don't want rich people actually penalized for making money, but if some are taxed down into the upper-middle-class(not likely), I know people in much worse situations. Above all, I don't want the middle-class paying as much tax as possible. Rich people pay lots of taxes and pay lots of money(tax-deductible) to their lawyers and accountants to trim as much as possible off that amount. If we see their "real" income , they pay little or nothing and the super-rich know how to actually receive huge refunds.
I hear people say, "It's not fair to tax rich people, more than poor people." I have an answer for them, "Life ain't fair!" You are fortunate to be a rich person(it doesn't matter how) and have been rewarded "unfairly." Is it fair, that a guy drives a $100,000 car, works 35 hours a week and earns $700,000 annually, but another guy rides a bus, works a combined 60 hours a week from two jobs and makes minimum wage? No, but like I said, "Life ain't fair!"
Life isn't fair, that's why we make laws. Our taxes can't fix everything, but they help.
I played with the IRS tax estimator today and used fictional criteria to come up with the numbers. The fictional information I used is listed at the bottom of the page. Joseph Magnum-of-Cristal: Earned 1 million dollars Pays $45,033 or .045 of his income for taxes* Joe Six-pack-of-Bud: Earned $100,000 Pays $11,794 or .12 of his income for taxes* That's not cool. You'll notice that Joseph has more tax credits and deductions than Joe, but I figure in the real world Joseph's CPA would make sure his client gets a few breaks. I also figured that Joe's CPA (most likely himself or an in-law), wouldn't be clever enough (or maybe brave enough) to take all possible deductions. Joe also makes less and can't contribute as much to his I.R.A. or other tax shelters.
*Clayton's math might not be "correct." If I made an error, please let me know and I'll correct it promptly!
Joseph Magnum-of-Cristal's IRS criteria:
I don't understand why the public buys the branding of candidates as "flip-flopping" or "wishy-washy." When a person changes their mind, it is usually after discovering a flaw in a previous idea. Scholars and fishermen refer to this as "thinking."
I don't know why educated people blindly follow the herd in this type of discourse.Only an idiot makes a bad decision and sticks to it, despite mountains of evidence showing the idea's flaws.Intelligent people change their minds, sometimes a thousand times per day, in a process known as thought. I know it's unfathomable to some, but it's true.
A fisherman starts his morning with worms and commits to the bait. He gets no bites all day. The folks fishing around him get their limit fishing with minnows. They even offer him free bait, but he sticks to his worms and goes home with an empty stringer.
I'll hire "wishy-washers" or "flip-floppers," before hiring idiots unable to make decisions, change directions, before damaging the company or going home with empty stringers.
America contracted a nearly fatal disease on November 7, 2000.
America is a tough country and although the infection is tenacious she will survive.
Right now America’s sores are healing, although the source of infection is still present in our body. The source of infection is G. W. Bush and America is strong enough to recover from him alone, but Barack Obama speeds our healing time and boosts our energy.
When America gets up from the sick-bed and begins working again, we can wear our citizenship with pride and enjoy the envy of the entire Earth!
The United States of America is the best nation on Earth and soon she'll get the best leader on Earth.
Thank you Senator Barack Obama. I am very proud of you and America.
Don’t forget to vote!
This is it.
I started voting at 18 and never stopped, but seldom felt emotionally and intellectually connected to a single candidate.
H. Ross Perot made me excited about politics. I recognized the smartest candidate running in 1992 and I watched, heard and read everything available to the public. I voted for Mr. Perot in 1992 and again in 1996. I knew he wouldn’t win, but I wanted America to understand, Clayton Riggs votes for the right candidate, not always the winning candidate.
I proudly and fondly tell my fellow Texans about my votes for Mr. Perot. They laugh at me and say “You threw your vote away.” Of course, they are dead wrong. My vote counted and America witnessed the most successful third-party presidential candidate since Theodore Roosevelt in 1912. Mr. Perot earned18.9% of the popular vote and scared the shit out of the Republicans and the Democrats.
I continued voting and waiting for the right candidate.
The right candidate deserves my time, money and most importantly my vote.
On July 27, 2004, the right candidate appeared . . . and he wasn’t even in the race!
He spoke with authority and conviction. His words stuck with me and I couldn’t wait to hear the speech again and again. “The Audacity of Hope” rang in my head. I watched, heard and read the speech countless times.
Barack Obama is the right candidate and with my help, he will also be the winning candidate.
