Kay ( http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/person/gjHnH ) is a psycho stalker, has extreem paranoia,and blog comment turrets. But she is a nurse and she is upset because I say killing babies is wrong. Take a look below at the comments she left. She even proves herself wrong in one of the comments. Supposedly I am some other blogger that she must be stalking, paranoia? Then attempts to track me down and reports the wrong person to the DNC and FBI for "disabling my messages, which I didn't do. Will one of Kay's friends please calm her down? Or someone reading this befriend her because this woman is going crazy on me and I am gtting no responses frome the site admin.
here is her profile
Ohh and Blue Blue Eliza Marlow ( http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/elizamarlow ) is her tagalong. She is only slightly less as paranoid as kay. claiming that I posted a false facebook site, whatever that means. Then proceed to impose her prejudices on me, and profile me because she has read a few blog entries that defend human life. No wonder Obama is considering reversing the conscience clause apparently these radical liberels like Kay and Blu Blue feel threatened because some people in this country beleive it is wrong to kill innocent human life.
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I have not posted here for several months, so thought it would be good to stop by and check in. It is not that I have not been active on the web.
Quite the contrary, I write almost every day and post to several different blogs. My main political blog is called South by Southwest. I have a secondary one that I call Behind the Links. I often cross-post to a Canadian political blog, The Reaction. I am a regular at TPM Cafe.
In order to provide a wide variety and cover my particular interests, I write about certain themes dedicated to the days of the week. Sunday - the Constitution and national security, Monday - a Republican rant, Tuesday - Congress, Wednesday - activism, Thursday - wars and the Middle East, Friday - the Obama administration, and Saturday - news of other nations.
Happily, I joined Twitter recently, and follow several officials, including Senator McCaskill, V.P. Biden and Senator Grassley (his writing is fun). I also follow David Gregory, George Stephanapoulos and other talking heads.
What I am wondering is what is this blog like? Would it be worth my time to post here? Who reads it? Would it be fun or useful? I would welcome comments.
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Hey, all. When you post, there is a box for the first paragraph or so of your post. Then there's a box, labeled "Extended Post Text", for the rest of your post. Not everyone wants to read pages and pages of your post. That is the point of only posting a small portion of your post in the first box.
In the long list of blog entries, anything posted in the first box appears. So if you don't use the Extended Post Text box, you may be posting pages and pages of text which many people will not want to wade through. What people want to see are summaries or introductions, so they can choose which ones to read quickly.
Thank you!
This has been a stupendous week for our country. With the election of Barack Obama, our long dark night is over. We have hope, help, a plan and the people to get the nation back on track.
But the adjustment will be a decided challenge for just about everyone. No one with feelings will be able to take in the changes without it being stressful. Due to the effort of adjusting, even positive change is stressful.
To view this blog post with music and Barack Obama messages taped on his podcast in the past access this link
By Daniel Kurtzman, About.com
"They say I need to be seasoned; they say I need to be stewed. They say, 'We need to boil all the hope out of him -- like us -- and then he'll be ready.'" (Watch video
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'Eye Without A Face' by Mark Bellinghaus, Copyright 2008
Life is all about signs...seeing the signs....understanding the signs...acting upon the signs
--Mark Bellinghaus
Extract & Photo caption/description posted on OUR MARILYN BLOG - you can find the entire blog article here: blog.ourmarilyn.com/2008/08/31/marilyn-monroe-would-have-voted-f .. and also here: my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/markbellinghaus/gG5W75 Ella Fitzgerald & Marilyn Monroe, in 1955 (above) and in 1962, (below), the year Marilyn Monroe passed away. In 1955, when racism was still a big issue in the United States of America, Ella Fitzgerald became the first African-American to perform at the Mocambo, after Marilyn Monroe had lobbied the owner for the booking. The booking was instrumental in Fitzgerald's career. Marilyn would promise the owner that she would appear every night (and be on time), and this way also fill the house--and she did, she was there every night, and she filled the house and: she was always on time! Their close friendship lasted for many years and Ella would sing Marilyn Monroe's famous 'My Heart Belongs To Daddy' in honor of her wonderful friend Marilyn Monroe, who died almost 34 years before she passed on in 1996, at age 79. Barack Obama Quotes: 'They say I need to be seasoned; they say I need to be stewed. They say, 'We need to boil all the hope out of him -- like us -- and then he'll be ready.' 'I have nothing to hide, I enjoy being myself. I'm not going to change who I am just because it's Halloween." -appearing as himself on Saturday Night Live as part of a skit that featured Hillary Clinton dressed as a witch at a Halloween party * 'It's like I was shot out of a cannon. I'm so overexposed that I make Paris Hilton look like a recluse.' 'Hillary is not the first politician in Washington to declare 'Mission Accomplished' a little too soon.' Marilyn Monroe singing Happy Birthday to President John F. Kennedy, who was a Democrat
Well - it's full steam ahead for my grandmother and her blog. She is consistently posting thoughts to her webiste at 85andchange.com, and her fan base keeps growing. She continues to receive great feedback from old and young. Everyone seems to be so appreciative that a senior citizen has spoken up and made it easier for other senior citizens to fall in line. As we saw in the numbers today - senior citizens are really starting to break for Barack Obama and Joe Biden! Others have said how they are so grateful that she has provided them a way to bridge a gap between grandparents and grandchildren and given them something to talk about with each other.
And if writing on her blog was not enough - she now has a video, too! You can find her video at her website (85andchange.com) or you can find it on You Tube! My smart, hip grandmother speaks up any chance she has and lets people know they are never to old - or young - for change!
Just this week, Granny Gobama met a couple influential people - Kathleen Kennedy Townsend & Alice Travis Germond - not to mention Heather Tom, as well! Meeting all of these women was a thrill for her. She found Kathleen Kennedy to be a thoughtful and inspiring speaker, and Alice Germond to be so enthusiastic and energetic.
Please take a moment to visit her site and pass the link on to anyone who may read (or watch) about why it is important for seniors, and everyone, to think long and hard about this important upcoming election - and why they should seriously consider voting for Barack Obama!
Just wanted to tell you that I've been posting for several days now on my MySpace page about the campaign.
My most recent post deals with the truth about the tax plans of both candidates. I was so glad that CNN - Anderson Cooper 360 showed us the tax chart. It really gives a visual of where the two candidates stand!
I also restructured it putting the lower income on top and the higher incomes on the bottom to show the progression along with making sure people understand that the minus means they are saving on their taxes!
I also pointed out in my blog that I didn't think that this included the Earned Income Tax Credit for the lower income. I hope I was right about that?Clarification would be greatly appreciated. Anyone?
Anyone who would like the graphic can contact me and I'll send it to them. We really need to get this information out! Stick to the policies and issues!
I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities. - Sarah Palin, 2008 Wiith those caustic words, Gov Sarah Palin ignited a firestorm in the African American community.
Many members of the AfroSpear and the afrosphere are blogging today to challenge Sarah Palin’s disrespectful remarks about community organisers. Please join us.
Click here to read my blog.
Drat. I just lost my entire post. Starting over.
I don't have time for yet another blog. Practically every social networking site wants you to have a blog with them, to create user-generated content and keep eyes in their pages. Mostly I either skip it or leave a single entry pointing to my real blog. This particular site is a little different in purpose and focus, but even so, I don't have time to maintain multiple blogs all over Cyberspace.
So here is what I'm going to do. When I write something political on my real blog, I will precis and link to it here. If you like those entries, you can then click on the "Politics" tag for more on the subject, or explore the rest of my blog for rants and rambles about dogs, Tucson, the monsoon, art, my church, Doctor Who, jobs, writing, etc., and lots of pictures of dogs, sunsets, monsoon clouds, Disneyland and local landmarks. Fair enough?
To start you off, here are links to my most recent politics-related entries:
Weekend Assignment #231: Candidates With a Difference (August 29, 2008)
I post a Weekend Assignment writing prompt every Thursday night, usually after midnight. In the current one, I ask, Who is the most unusual political candidate you have ever supported, either seriously or in jest? My own answer: Howard the Duck! (But yes, I still voted for Carter that year.)
Scroll down to get to my review of the Obama and Gabrielle Giffords web sites.
Chasing the Invisible Motorcade (July 19, 2008)
GWB came to Tucson for a Tim Bee fundraiser. My commute coincided with the motorcade route. I photographed the preparations, including sign-carrying activists on both sides of the political divide. Funny thing: nearly all the Democrats were diverted to an intersection miles away from the action.
Defending the Constitution (July 05, 2008)
That's enough for now!
Let's discuss the election, politics, current events and how we can help Barack Obama win the presidency and the Democrats take a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate at my personal blog (not affiiated with this site):
Help Fight the Negative with a Positive - Join me at my Obama fundraising page (this IS part of the Obama official site).
I sure like Michael Moore's idea of Caroline Kennedy running as Obama's Vice President, and tomorrow, Howard Dean III, M.D., is coming to Santa Fe, and I will have a chance to ask him about my deepest concern, overhauling the FDA with a true consumer protectionist as Commissioner, not the corporate-serving lackey we have right now.
I decided to join 112 Obama groups, some at the official website, and some interesting sounding Obama Yahoo! and one Google group located in Colorado. I get 1200-2000 emails a day, and it is an amazing flow of information. Recently, the news about Musharraf “resigning”appeared on the Net at least 36 hours before it came out in the New Mexican, the "oldest paper in the West."
On the other hand, my wise friend who graduated from St. John’s College believes the “cool” or “cold” media, in which he included newspaper, magazines, and books, ultimately had a much greater effect on the recipient than the jillions of bits of information pouring in off the Internet.
At times, with 112 groups’ membership, including some strange ones (LasVegasAgnosticsAtheistsforObama), Secular Humanist (my favorite), some funny ones (PoliticallyNCorrectisOK), and the high-powered Action Teams in all of the key states, the flow of information at times resembles looking up at Niagara Falls, from that little boat below, the Maid of the Mist. At other times, I notice a real self-congratulatory narcissistic attitude in the groups, as if to say, “Aren’t we cool?” and not nearly enough of the real mechanics of politics, the door to door, the articles to hang from the door, getting the people to the Polls, etc., all of which may be boring to many, but is the pulse of not only who is in the White House for the next 4 to 8 years, but whether the Senate has a filibuster-proof 60 Democrats. The people who like that and are good at that are out doing just that, not yakking it up on the Internet, basking in the ill-founded Kaffee Klatch milieu that seems to be the result of useless Liberal Arts Degrees from many years ago.
It will be a very tight election, because of that supposed 16% of American voters who are outright or secret BIGOTS, who will vote against Obama above all, even with all of the bloggers, the right TV ads, the Unions, the traditional Democrat alliance between Jews, Negroes, Minorities, Intellectuals, Indians, etc., the victorious debates, as so on. Some say it is always decided in the last 4 days anyway, which I don’t think is true with this election. Such a large percentage of Americans recognize the absolutely calamitous disastrous economic effects of 8 years of Bushies/Neocons/Cheney/Blackwater/Kellogg Brown and Root/the Pentagon and the Industrialists, etc.: I don’t see how any thinking American could not vote for Obama, but, have I been wrong before? Yes. The bloggers will get out in due course and eventually Pound the Pavement; at least, I know for sure that Obama's Campaign Manager, a few others, and me, will ask them to do that, and I will be sending at least 400,000 people emails with encouragement to get strategic and cut the yakking till after the Election.
But the observations about the effects of the Internet on Society (more than Politics) are very compelling and very interesting. Marshall McLuhan posited many years ago that all of this electronic communication and related advances would eventually create The Global Village, but obviously, the cohesion is very thin, if it there at all, eh?
Rather than any advanced form of communication, some see serious Blogging as a new form of Insanity, recognized by the Medical Profession as a brand new syndrome, and others see it as just plain old Lemming-like behavior, especially in the political context. I have a keener perception of how the Internet has requited at least 50% of the compulsion to read several daily newspapers, and let me tell you in conclusion: there sure are a lot of really smart people Blogging for Obama, and I am sure we are going to win.
Stephen Fox, Contributing Editor, Santa Fe Sun News
I just created a Google Blog (free) and it took a few short minutes to create a blog directing people to support Barack by donating to his campaign. I linked it to my fund raising page here. All of us should do it and spread the word to everyone we know to create blog pages to support Barack.
The election is closer than your realize and the money is going to have to keep coming in floods!
Here's my page as an example: http://supportbarackobamatoday.blogspot.com/
Pass it around and tell everyone to make their own!
“An electronic mail message, Usenet posting or other (electronic) communication which is intentionally incorrect, but not overtly controversial (compare flame bait), or the act of sending such a message. Aims to elicit an emotional reaction from those with a hair-trigger on the reply key. A really subtle (one)makes some people lose their minds.”
Yes folks, I’m talking about those who live under the bridge and desire that we follow them there.
“I believe that most trolls are sad people, living their lonely lives vicariously through those they see as strong and successful.
Disrupting a stable newsgroup gives the illusion of power, just as for a few, stalking a strong person allows them to think they are strong, too.
For trolls, any response is 'recognition'; they are unable to distinguish between irritation and admiration; their ego grows directly in proportion to the response, regardless of the form or content of that response.
Apparently, the media's obsession with Barack Obamaincludes the candidate's own weblogs.
Word analysis from Wordle.net shows that the most frequently used word on both Barack Obama's and John McCain's blog is "Obama".
Senator McCain's name doesn't appear anywhere on Barack Obama's blog.
John Schwenkler used Wordle.com to find the word frequencies.
h/t: jf
. . . how does your garden grow? Blogging isn't growing a garden but there are certain similarities. Perhaps the most obvious are these two: How do you keep critters from destroying your handiwork?How do you know it's growing?
Last night I had the opportunity to try to convince a very dear friend of our family, a very bright and dynamic woman, that she should vote for Barack Obama in November. Normally this would be an easy sell with this very liberal college professor but she seems to be a victim of some very bizarre distortions of just who our candidate is.
This friend was a very commited Hillary Clinton supporter and I think is stilling hurting badly from her defeat in the primaries. Hillary's campaign was her source for information about who Obama was and she will be the first to admit that Hillary vetted Obama viciously. As Hillary faded away, she was left with traditional media sources as her source of information with CNN the primary outlet. Our friend had really no exposure to the online resources that many of us used for a more balanced look at the candidates and issues.
Her primary distaste for Obama stems from the fact that she perceives him as an elitist that is all talk and no action, something that seems to be reinforced from the media portrayal on places like CNN. I'm certain that image began during the primaries since that was one of the messages from the Clinton campaign. She's convinced that his promises to remove us from Iraq are just empty rhetoric and that he's flip-flopped on key issues. She also was greatly upset that "he didn't visit the troops". I explained that she was a victim of the corporate-run media and that CNN was no longer the Ted Turner balanced news organization that it once was and that there was a huge resource of facts on the Internet that would counteract all of her concerns. I showed her a wide selection of online blogs including Daily Kos, Andrew Sullivan, Huffington Post, even MyDD although I know that there's some real Obama bashing still going on there. At least on a site like that she can see how unreasonable some of the hatred looks. I showed the area on this website that answers all the vicious rumors out there. I told her that if she's going to watch television news pundits that she must include people like Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow for a bit of balance.
She's convinced that Obama is going to win in a landslide and dislike McCain immensely but she's still not convinced she can vote for Obama. I think she's much closer after our long talk last night. Oh, and she did make say that Obama's choice for VP is going to greatly influence her vote. I think she knows Hillary is very unlikely but she wants someone strong and experienced in that role. Sam Nunn or Wesley Clark would be very palatable to her.
I have little time for canvassing neighborhoods, making phone calls, or manning booths to help with the campaign but I participate heavily on internet blogs and work hard on my personal contacts with friends and relatives. I think it's a very important step. One person may not feel like much but if every one of us reaches one, it adds up quickly.
A philosophical amusement....
Clicking around my MyBarackObama dashboard today to see what certain buttons did, which I had never tried, I noticed that when one clicks on one's own "Profile" from the Blog page, the little box up on the right says this:
Your Relationship to this person: YourselfYou are not permitted to message this user. (Why not?)
Your Relationship to this person: Yourself
You are not permitted to message this user. (Why not?)
Suddenly a disturbing hyper-Sartrean predicament presented itself....to be a self, I must be able to undertake the task of striving to be a self; but if I cannot message that self, what is the point of my strivings, as their achievements would go unnoticed by, and therefore unrelated to, their goal, which is me? It would not only be pointless--'man is a useless passion'--but not even possible as a task, as a project. But certainly, paraphrasing Descartes, I must exist so as to be in doubt about my identity as a blogger?
I decided to dig deeper...
Is "Why not?" perhaps a philosophical clue?
I Googled....(what are the existential implications of "googling"? worry about that later)....I googled "why not philosophy?" Well, I quickly find that "Why Not?" is someone's Amazon list of favorite philosophy books....
I Clicked again....this person's favorite philosophy book is Plato's "Sophist". AH! I mentioned Sophists in an email to the 'CountdownKeithOlbermanFans For Obama' listserve today....I was being brought closer to myself....
I clicked over to an electronic copy of Plato's Sophist, in which the Sophist receives his first definition as one who has not real knowledge, but only the semblance or image of it. I scroll to find that part of the text, where the tortuous pathways of "non-being" open out into the density of the dialogue, and come to Plato's line, "And now arises the greatest difficulty of all. If not-being isinconceivable, how can not-being be refuted?"
AH! yes, this kind of predicament is how I described the effect of the right wing irrationality machine in that post...If the right argues in manners that make clear conception impossible, it is impossible to ever refute them and aporia and misology ensue. Yes, this was a clue....I was in fact being brought closer to myself, but not self 'in-itself' but self as 'blog-poster'...or perhaps as the post itself, the one that had mentioned this sophistry of the right? My self, my identity must be bound up with the blogging....
I google again..."identity blogging"....the most relevant looking hit takes me to a blog post that does indeed talk about the blurring of "identity" into "activity" in the teeming world of blogging, and tries to push a distinction of 'blogger' from 'blogging', to preserve the reputation of the latter (the weblog) from the problems associated with so many of the former (bloggers). Interestingly, this blog I'd found was from 2004, and uses as illustration the topic of the likely unreliability of electronic voting machines and its role in Bush's victory that year in the minds of many bloggers. Because electronic voting terrifies me, I ignored that and seized on only the philosophical point about the existential gap between blogger and blogging....what does this mean...
AH....yes--that's it! I am not allowed to message myself because I am not the blogging activity that would include or invite the messaging process. Someone else could message me, but I cannot, for I do not exist as such within the horizon of the activity of my blogging.
I found this strangely acceptable, and the permanent barrier to self not so much a refutation of Hegelian achievement of reunified self-consciousness as a protection from the buffeting that the blogosphere might be to my identity. If I cannot damage myself "blogistentially," as it were, then no one else could either, and my 'existential' project could continue apace.
Wow. This is one sophisticated campaign website, facilitating the protection of our existentiality from our blogistentiality. Surely that is a metaphor for the empowerment of the individual citizen in the Obama campaign.
Tell me again why we might want to elect those other guys? On this site, when I search my zip code for events within 25 miles, I find 36 things to choose from, 36 things Obama people have undertaken to do (one of which I attended last night). Over on McCain's site when I search for events in my zip code (and I live in a red town, mind you) I find only one, which is actually MORE than 25 miles away--and the screen says I need to "Ask to Attend". Over there, I need permission to get empowered, apparently. No thanks!
I'll stay here where existential and political empowerment abound!
