McCain Campaign: Obama is Not a Leader Because He Agrees with McCain on Some Things

Funny:

Why did they delete the word “but” from each segment they showed of Obama agreeing with McCain?

Again, I’m starting to think that the McCain campaign is not even trying anymore.

Mexican Supreme Court to Walmart: You Can’t Pay Your Employees with Company Scrip

Good move:

Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled that the country’s top retailer, Wal-Mart de Mexico, violated the constitution by paying workers in part with vouchers only redeemable in the chain’s outlets, the court said on Friday.

Wal-Mart de Mexico, also known as Walmex and a unit of U.S. retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc, gave store coupons as part of salaries, harking back to exploitative labor practices of over a century ago, the court said.

Snip

“A labor contract that requires workers directly or indirectly to buy items in certain stores violates the constitution and will be declared null and void,” the court said in a statement.

Yeah, we all know the problems with Walmart, but paying their employees in Mexico with company scrip? Unbelievably wrong, even for Walmart.

New Job

Have you ever started a job where the challenge given to you is far greater than what you were told it was?

Did you ever have the challenge to turn the organization around to make it viable in its community again?

Have you ever panicked and thought that the new place you are working is far more dysfunctional than previously imagined?

That’s how I am feeling right now.

The situation in my new job is REALLY bad.

Why Does Bush Hate Thomas Jefferson?

What Bush said:

Thomas Jefferson understood that these rights do not belong to Americans alone. They belong to all mankind. And he looked to the day when all people could secure them. On the 50th anniversary of America’s independence, Thomas Jefferson passed away. But before leaving this world, he explained that the principles of the Declaration of Independence were universal. In one of the final letters of his life, he wrote, “May it be to the world, what I believe it will be — to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all — the Signal of arousing men to burst the chains, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government.”

What Jefferson said:

May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government.

I agree with Jefferson on the monkish ignorance and superstition part. Apparently, Bush doesn’t.

Dumbest Person in the World?

Obama has Arab tendencies?

Poor Joy.

Quitting a Job

Why does it feel so good to write these words?

Dear ________

This letter is to inform you of my resignation from ___, effective _____ in order to accept my new position as ______ at the _____.

I have enjoyed my ____ years at _____ and the time I have spent with my co-workers and _____. Both have taught me many valuable lessons.

I will do anything I can to spend the next month to ensure a smooth transition for my clients and co-workers.

Hillary is 44 – Vile Beyond Words

Thanks to some readers of this blog for pointing out some of the vile comments from the Hillaryis44.com people:

rjk1957 starts the party with this gem:

Admin, I will not be polite… Karma baby that is all I will say, first Kennedy and his brain tumor, then the flooding in Iowa and now Russert… Obamatrons beware the wrath of God, you could be next

Nice. Iowa is flooding because God willed it upon them because Iowa Democrats chose Obama? Then why is Indiana flooded?

Dot48 chimes in:

David Gregory talking about Tim making Pillows for his kids.

MSNBC talking heads need to get off the air .. go black and mourn.

“mourning” .. how ironic.

Sucks that he got to dance on Hill’s grave though but he won’t get to brown nose Bambi into the oval office.

Sorry folks but I’m “extremely bitter and clinging to my memories of how he treated Hillary”

rjk1957 retorts:

Now if only Barack and Michelle would both choke on turkey sandwiches….

Nice Mama Cass reference.

Filbertsf chimes in:

I’m beginning to think Obama is a curse. Notice what happens to the states that BO wins and the people who pimped for him.

Norma Desmond tells us:

Well well well…

condolences to the Russert family and his colleagues. I believe he used to be quite good, but unfortunately, he became part of the Big Media Machine. He sold out. Period.

Now, back to the wars….

They go on and on and on in their hatred of Russert and Obama.

It’s quite sad to read their hate.

Rabid Clinton People Baffle Me

Where to start?

Nightmare. Tragic. Horrific. WTF?

I just saw on the evening news that a friend with whom I’ve worked for 7 years was stabbed in her home this weekend. I’m more than a little bit stunned.

Apparently, an acquaintance of hers from the homeless day shelter where we work found her in her home, knocked on the door and asked for a sandwich. She invited him in and prepared him a sandwich. He asked for a knife to cut the snack and then used the knife to demand money.

Soon after, he started stabbing her because she only had $100 to give him. He stopped stabbing her and left her for dead when she was on the floor playing possum. He her must have heard her the blood gargling in her throat, so he went back to stab her some more.

Fortunately, she seems to have survived and is now in critical condition.

He turned himself in today and is in custody. It’s amazing how crack (my guess) can play such a role in causing this kind of shit.

I break into chills and tears when I imagine the fear, horror and pain she must have felt during those moments. I worry that while the physical pain will heal, the psychological trauma may last a lifetime. I’m enraged that a fucking dick head like that was able to inflict that kind of pain on someone who was trying to help him simply because he wanted some fucking crack.

Motherfucker.

She (for some reason, I feel more comfortable not using her name) is one of the sweetest people I have ever known. She is always willing to go well out of her way to do what she can for our homeless clients. She hasn’t developed the cynicism that most of us working in the field have — it just simply isn’t part of her nature. Her smile and the daily morning chat we have always brightened my day, and I know her warm personality has always been a comfort to people trying to end their homelessness.

Please send some good thoughts her way.

Hell Freezes Over Part 2 – Peggy Noonan Makes Sense

From the Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan states:

Mrs. Clinton spent this week making it clear. In a jaw-dropping interview in USA Today on Thursday, she said, “I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on.” As evidence she cited an Associated Press report that, she said, “found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”

White Americans? Hard-working white Americans? “Even Richard Nixon didn’t say white,” an Obama supporter said, “even with the Southern strategy.”

If John McCain said, “I got the white vote, baby!” his candidacy would be over. And rising in highest indignation against him would be the old Democratic Party.

What I want to know is how Clinton thinks she can win without African-Americans and white liberals as parts of her coalition? It seems like she thinks she can only win among lower-income whites. It baffles me that she seems to be saying, “fuck the ‘eggheads’ and African Americans! If I get the nomination, where the hell will they go?”

As one of those horrible, well-educated white people, I’d vote McCain in a flash over Hillary if SCOTUS appointments weren’t hanging in the balance. But that issue it too vital to make me even consider voting against Hillary (if she were the nominee) out of spite.

Hillary, just do a Huckabee. Stay in the race for as long as you feel the need to, but don’t spend more time attacking our likely nominee than his opponent if you want to see a Democrat in the White House next year.

Or maybe you don’t, as you you’d LOVE to run for president again in 2012.