For Beasely

Right up your lovely alley…(Start with the one on the far left.)

H/T Andrew Sullivan

Wow

Took the Primary Wife to vote yesterday, and register her car, AND pay a speeding ticket she got, the little lead-foot that she is…

Anyway, in three days of early voting (not counting yesterday) 4,026 votes had already been cast in Robertson County.  We are definitely on track to shatter previous records for turnout.  I have no idea what that means.

Sons Of Bitches

Please, oh please let me come across these cowards BEFORE the cops do.  I promise you, I’ll make them wish they were never born.

Rarely Right, Actually, But Always Thoughtful And Polite

I like Roger Abramson.  He is someone who can disagree and not be disagreeable.  I like that he rarely relies on bullshit slogans and can flesh out a nuanced argument when so many other Conservatives fail miserably.  So color me befuddled when i read his post today.  Really, Roger?  Ayres?

I could write my 1000 words today like Beasley (our new nickname for Aunt B) debunking the notion that serving on a board for the collective good is tantamount to palling around or consorting with or even befriending terrorists, but, surely, you must see the folly of that line of reasoning, right?

The CHICAGO TRIBUNE, fer cryin out loud, an organization that is arguably the best suited to weigh in on the whole Ayres/Obama “relationship”, HAS ENDORSED BARACK OBAMA!  If they ain’t worried, why are you?  Will you be ready to question the working relationships of other potential leaders if they happen to be Republicans?  Do we really want to travel this particular path?

You surprise me, Sir.  You are more than capable of writing something thoughtful and persuasive about Obama’s experience or policy proposals, but you chose to write about an issue most Americans don’t care about?

Well, at least you weren’t shrill about it.  Had you been, Hobbs could rightfully claim you were infringing on his territory.

So Happy About This

I can’t explain why this ugly story affected me so much, but I was very depressed when I heard about it, and haven’t been able to shake it until I read that it has, for now, come to a close.

I just hope against hope that there isn’t any more ugliness in store for this family.

I guess now i can go ahead and let the kids make light of his last name:  Puffinburger.

BREAKING!!

Fox News reports that barack Obama has fathered two African American children in wedlock!

FGF- Do They Have One For Smyrna?

Trust

Weird debate.  No matter what McCain said, the women dialing their responses just weren’t buying.  I think he lost their trust long ago.  There was some substance to this one, and I was happy that Obama handled the Roe V. Wade issue with ease and class.  I am sick of hearing about that during elections.  Also, he pretty much handed McCain his ass on the health care and education, again, two issues that typically motivate women voters.

Best lines:McCain- ” I’m not George W. Bush, if you wanted to run against him, you should have run in 04.”

Obama-”Forgive me if i mistake your policies for George Bush’s, its just that they look the same.”

Mark Your Calenders

If you really want to know more about the sanctioned abuse of people for profit, attend this event:

On Monday, October 20, 2008, at 4:30 p.m., the Vanderbilt Law Social Justice Program will present a lecture by Jennifer J. Rosenbaum, counsel to the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice, entitled “Bonded Labor For A New Millennium:  Guestworkers and Indentured Servitude in Post-Katrina American Politics.”

After Hurricane Katrina, American businesses brought thousands of international workers to the Gulf Coast on temporary guestworker visas to alleviate what employers claimed was a labor shortage caused by the displacement of local populations.  Promised fair wages, housing, and, in some cases, permanent U.S. residency, these workers sold their homes and possessions and often took on crushing debt in their home countries to pay recruiting fees of up to $20,000.00.  They arrived in the United States to face unfair and unsafe working conditions, denial of earned wages, confiscated passports, forced residence in inhumane labor camps, and the threat of deportation were they to leave their jobs or report the conditions they endured.  Despite their collective disadvantage, these workers came together across industry and nationality to form the Alliance of Guestworkers for Dignity.  Working together through organizing, impact litigation, and political protest, they have successfully mounted challenges against their particular employers, the exploitation of guestworkers generally, and Congressional expansion of the guestworker program.

Rosenbaum will discuss her work supporting the Alliance’s guestworkers, including representing a group of more than 100 men trafficked from Mumbai, India to Pascagoula, Mississippi to work in shipyards on the false promise of permanent U.S. residency.  In protest of the working conditions they faced in the United States and to raise awareness of other guestworker program abuses, these men recently marched from New Orleans to Washington, D.C., where they held an almost month-long hunger strike, bringing national attention to their cause.  Rosenbaum will also consider the experience of the post-Katrina Gulf Coast and what its lessons suggest for the next phase of the national immigration debate.

Vanderbilt Law Social Justice Program Lecture Series Presents:

Jennifer J. Rosenbaum, New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice

Monday, October 20, 2008

4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Vanderbilt Law School, Hyatt Room

Reception to follow.

Speaker Biography:

Jennifer J. Rosenbaum serves as counsel to the New Orleans Workers’ Center For Racial Justice, where she provides legal support to workers organizing across race and industry in post-Katrina New Orleans and litigates the impact employment and civil rights claims that are central to the workers’ grassroots campaigns.  Ms. Rosenbaum previously served as a staff attorney at the Immigrant Justice Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center and as a Skadden Fellow at Southern Migrant Legal Services, a project of Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid.  Ms. Rosenbaum is the 2007 recipient of Harvard Law School’s Gary Bellow Public Service Award and the 2005 recipient of the Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services’ Riney Green Award. Ms. Rosenbaum clerked for the Honorable Thomas A. Wiseman ‘54, United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, and is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Tennessee.

Intervention

I’ll admit to being less than objective regarding MoveOn.org, if you’ll admit this is clever as hell: