Well, I’ve finally found a few minutes to post my photo highlights from the final night of the DNC! As most of you surely saw for yourself, his speech was amazing and the night was electric.
Enjoy!
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Tonight I will be attending the final night of the Democratic National Convention here in Denver at Invesco Field. I am so thrilled that I can barely contain myself. The thrill-o-meter just went through the roof when I found out that Al Gore will be speaking tonight as well. I have always wanted to see Al Gore speak and the duo of Gore and Obama in the same night is absolutely amazing!
Wherever you are, if you are in the United States please go out and volunteer. We can’t afford four more years of continued failed policies. I can’t afford four more years of this and I’m sure you can’t either. I need guaranteed health care, we all need guaranteed health care and it’s sad that it’s even a question. Please, get educated, get involved, and contribute your time. An hour or two a week helps, so please step up!
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Musgrave Must Go!
This woman is vile. Colorado’s Congressional 4th District has an incredible opportunity this November to relieve Congress of this vile, bigoted woman. To think of the civilian death count in Iraq now documented as between 90,000 to 150,000, the soldiers we’ve lost at over 4,000, and over 30,000 of our young men and women wounded, and this woman focuses on gay marriage? This woman makes me sick.
If you aren’t familiar with Mrs. Marilyn Musgrave she is best known as the main sponsor of the Federal Marriage Amendment that thankfully failed miserably in 2006 and again in 2007. As if those two failures weren’t enough she’s at it again co-sponsoring the same legislation this time around. She’s known in the square state as "Mad Cow" Marilyn and desperately needs to be put out to pasture.
She has a fantastic opponent this year, Betsy Markey, and I’m keeping my fingers crossed and my wallet open in hopes that her bigotry and hatred are finally removed from our Capitol.
Iraq War Sources: http://icasualties.org/oif,
http://www.iraqbodycount.org/,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War#Iraq_Health_Minister_estimate_in_November_2006
This video is funded by Focus Action, the political arm of Focus on the Family. Asking Christians to pray for rain during Barack Obama’s acceptance speech is not only childish, but it’s pretty disturbing. Why shut out free speech and the political process? Seems very unchristian. It has now disappeared from Focus’ site, but Keith Olbermann picked up on it and featured it on his show Countdown:
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From ky3.com:
BRANSON, Mo. — A teenager from Branson who was hit with an electric stun gun 19 times by police has recovered enough to do an interview with a reporter.
Ozark police found Mace Hutchinson on July 19 underneath the Highway F overpass over U.S. 65. Mace’s family says he broke his back in a fall off the bridge. When he wouldn’t move, police repeatedly used an electric stun gun on him.
Mace says he doesn’t remember much about that night and there are still several unanswered questions about how Mace ended up under the bridge. But what he is able to say is he believes there was no good reason why anyone in his situation would be stunned 19 times. He hopes the police officers are held accountable.
“There’s no way that they had to Tase me that many times,” he said.
Mace spent his 17th birthday lying in a hospital bed.
“I had a broken back, broken foot.”
Nearly two weeks later, he’s out of the hospital but still lying in bed, hardly able to move.
“It should be a couple months before I’m able to walk on my own.”
His family says what made his situation worse is that his surgery had to be postponed because he had been stunned by Ozark police 19 times.
“At least I’m alive though.”
Mace says he still can’t remember how he ended up at the bottom of the bridge. He says he knows he didn’t willingly jump.
“I know I’m lucky to survive that far of a fall.”
Police records say Hutchinson was aggressive with them, and tried to get up and get into traffic. Mace points out that he doesn’t weigh much and wonders why an officer didn’t just restrain him.
Police also say he yelled threatening remarks about harming officers. Those things combined were why they used the electric stun gun on him.
“He was saying things like, ‘Kill cops, shoot cops,’” Ozark Police Capt. Thomas Rousset said on July 23.
Mace says he doesn’t remember that and certainly doesn’t know how it would have been possible, with his injuries, for him to move toward the highway.
“There’s no way I could stand up. I had a broken back and a broken foot,” he said.
“I definitely want them to get punished, I don’t want them to get away with it.”
After the incident, the Ozark police chief said he launched an internal investigation. A reporter called the Ozark Police Department multiple times on Thursday but no one returned a call to provide an update on that investigation.
Am I the only one getting increasingly frustrated and concerned over these Tasing stories? This kid had a BROKEN BACK and his heel was detached from the rest of his foot. If the facts are as they appear to be, he was not possibly a threat! He could have been saying, “I’m going to murder every single one of you.” and Tasing him 19 times would still not be appropriate.
Leaving the extremely serious injuries out of the story, he’s a small kid up against multiple police officers. They keep saying he didn’t comply, what exactly was he not complying with? To get up? To stop being incoherent? If these officers were not completely and totally incompetent they would have at the very least checked for injury.
The Captain angers me most of all. “Shoot Cops. Kill Cops.” Sounds fabricated, but even if it’s completely true were they really threatened by the kid sprawled out on the pavement mumbling to shoot cops?
This is simply disgusting. Am I overreacting? What do you think?
MIAMI, June 26 (UPI) — A Washington woman said she filed a federal lawsuit accusing a Miami hospital of “anti-gay animus” after workers refused to let her see her dying partner.
Janice Langbehn and her partner Lisa Marie Pond, both aged 39, intended to enjoy a vacation cruise with three of their four children, marking the women’s 18 years as a couple in February 2007, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported Thursday.
The trip abruptly ended when Pond had a massive stroke as the ship was preparing to leave port, the newspaper said.
She was taken to Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital, where Langbehn said workers would not let her see her ailing partner.
A social worker allegedly said the couple was in an “anti-gay city and state.”
Pond died about 18 hours after she arrived at Jackson’s Ryder Trauma Center.
Langbehn said she was permitted to see Pond for no more than about five minutes.
The suit, lodged in U.S. District Court in Miami, seeks at least $75,000 and accuses physicians Alois Zauner and Carlos Alberto Cruz and social worker Garnett Frederick of negligence and “intentional infliction of emotional distress.”
I don’t actually have any words for this other than my title. The video says it all.
Fantastic work by the people over at Married To The Sea.
Am I the only one stunned by how little coverage the John McCain-lobbyists on the payroll story is getting? Come on people! This guy has been blabbing for years about how he will get rid of lobbyists influence in Washington and then has to spend a couple weeks firing a ton of staffers who work for lobbying firms that represent evil dictatorships, oil companies, etc. etc. etc. The list is extensive and very disturbing. Charles Black, David Crane, Mike Dennehy. Oh, how I love Google…and the truth.
