Are The Big Three Auto Makers Doomed?

The auto industry seems to be next on the list of industries that will need federal support in order to maintain its existence in the United States. The Center of Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Mich., estimates that the failure of the US auto industry would lead to the loss of 2.5 million jobs which is just more bad news in regards to the weakened US economy. Congress is set to debate this week on the fate of the Big Three, GM, Ford and Chrysler. GM has already warned that it may run out of cash and be forced to declare bankruptcy before the end of the year.

They’re a dinosaur in a sense,” Senator Richard Shelby, R-Ala., said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “I hate to see this because I would like to see them become lean and hungry and innovative. And if they did and put out the right products they could survive. But I don’t believe that the $25 billion they’re talking about will make them survive. It’s just postponing the inevitable.” Read more

Amidst Obama Mania, Third Parties Gain Steam

During the hype of the past election, which more closely resembled the Super Bowl, and the ensuing Obama Mania, there was a rumbling that picked up a lot of steam, and that’s the quiet roar being heard from Third Party candidates. As the policies of Democrats and Republicans converge, more and more voters are seeking out other options, and as they learn about their philosophies, they are realizing just how little choice they’ve had when deciding upon our leaders in our recent history. Read more

An inside look at Obama awaiting election results

If you were wondering what President-elect Barack Obama was doing while he awaited the results of the 2008 Election, here is your answer. Click through for some of our favorites… Read more

Lee Dorsey & Barack Obama - YES WE CAN!

I’ve had this Allen Toussaint-produced album for a couple years, and it’s never sounded better than today…especially with Obama speeches mashed up in it! Dig…

Direct link = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gooD9rYUm3k

David Byrne Just Emailed Me…

…and he’s got some things to say to counteract the douchebaggery of Mr. Lawless a couple posts below. Seems David is sans bloody saw blade codpiece…

*photo courtesy of Chris Buck

Click through to read the email… Read more

And the Endorsement (and Codpiece) Everyone’s Been Waiting On Is Finally Here…

Everyone has been on the edge of their seats, not sure of who to vote for up till now. It is now that we can all breathe a sigh of relief; now that the political guru and musical icon who is known to “F*ck Like A Beast” with his rotary sawblade crotch, and who is known to the world over as the amazing…the one…the only…Blackie Lawless, of course of W.A.S.P. mega-fame, has finally laid down all the wisdom that we will need in order to step into the voting booths on Tuesday! Thank you for doing the thinking for us, Blackie…why can’t you be President instead?!

Click through for the Lawless Manifesto… Read more

For amber waves of grain! Obama’s 30 minute / 4 million dollar infomercial

Here is Obama’s half-hour infomercial incase you missed it last night. What are your thoughts on the mega media buy? Worth the money? Effective or just another political tactic?

 

He’s the Candy Man!!!

“The Candy man”… that�s who he is!!!

Promise after sweet promise after sweet promise

“Hope”… “Unity”… “It’s not about me, it’s about you”…”We can change America”… “yes we can”… “Yadda yadda yadda”

No substance!� Speech after speech, add after add, and all I’ve heard�so far is fluff, fluff, fluff.� Cripes, it’s as if some giant cotton candy machine’s exploded, sending pink joy floating through the�skies and the whole world is riding that magic carpet sugar high right on into the ballot booth.

Hmmm…. Just thinkin bout all the goodies he�s cookin up for me …makes me want to sing… Read more

Ten Things Obama Won’t Do If He Becomes President

In a very short while Americans from all walk of life will journey to the polls to elect the 44Th president of these United States. There are lot of rumors flying about what an Obama presidency would resemble if he is elected president. The republican party are sending out emails and making phone calls about what Obama would do if he became president. They are trying to scare people about his associations, while trying to make him unpatriotic. Barack Obama has failed I believe to address these issues with more vigor, so to put some of the nonsense that is being said to rest, I have come up with a list of things you won’t see in an Obama administration. I hope this will wipe away some of the fears that some of us may have if he becomes president. Read more

This post was submitted by Christopher Higgins.

Last nights debate report -or- “Oooooh I hate that rabbit…”

Finally somewhat awake, here’s my take:

• On paper - McCain.  Kind of nice to hear McDude finally “bring it” to the ‘O miester.  His points where valid, but O always managed to bob-n -weave around them all.
• Fashionwise - Obama.  He always looks good… and Mc’s tie was a little “off”.
• With my back to the t.v. - McCain.
• Who looked more at ease - Tie.  Obama spent most of the night backpedaling, but he never really lost his cool.  Yes, McCain looked strong, but ‘O dude looked smooth as ever.

Okay, nuf of that.

I’m glad McCain finally went on the offensive, it just sucks that he took so long to get there.  And no, I ain’t talkin bout Ayers little Acorn, I’m talkin bout Obamas plan to raise taxes in these crazy economic times.  Sheesh, talk about economic suicide!

Now, I get that the ‘O man is smooth as silk, but I’m getting the feeling that the closer we get to voting time, the more people are going to see the error in ‘O’s ways.

Anyways, I give last night to McCain.  He did what he needed to do, for the most part he attacked on the issues that matter, and while Obama always managed to duck and weave around most of them I think most people are now going to have to start taking a serious look at teflon man and where he actually stands on things.  I mean there really is an election coming up… a real one… where your vote really does matter… and sooner or later folks are going to have to wake up from the dream that is Obama, smell the capuchino, and pull the lever for the man (this time) who’s going to direct this nation through the meanest economic time this generation has ever seen.  Do you really think a “tax and spend” liberal is really what this nation is going to need these next few years?  …Really?

Angry Blackman Theory Quieted By Obama

For those who have been waiting to see the angry black man bust out of the closet during this election season we are probably a little disappointed. Senator Obama has displayed a steady hand throughout. He was often accused of being too arrogant, a common theme for successful black men. He debated Senator Hillary Clinton who threw everything at him but he was able to remain calm under fire. The republican are the latest to try to disrupt his steady, calm demeanor that he displays. They have brought out every possible attack to throw him off but he quietly responds and stay on message.

John McCain’s frustration with not been able to get under the skin of Obama is so evident. He tried unsuccessfully in three debates to throw him off his game but Obama never once got down to the complaining McCain level. There are times when I wish he would fire back zingers at McCain and the constant lies that are the running theme of his campaign. McCain’s long windedness that Barack Obama will raise taxes , even though Obama consistently reminds the American people that he won’t, is an example of how I want him to hit back. He just calmly replies it isn’t true, while McCain’s arms are flaying away and foaming at the mouth with frustration. Read more

This post was submitted by Christopher Higgins.

AS SEEN ON TWITTER: Debate 08!

The presidential debate tweets were buzzing on Twitter Wednesday night. While McCain and Obama attempted to detail their fundamental differences, social media addicts were tearing McCain apart (probably due to Obama’s connection with younger web savvy voters). However, our internet friends like CNN reporter Rick Sanchez did raise a few quality talking points and questions; Who is Joe the Plumber? What do Obama and Whitney Houston have in common? How much volume can a Depends diaper take? What does Obama have against sex?

Let’s take a look at Debate 08’s Twitter highlights: Read more

Two Blacks Don’t Make A Right

Jessie Jackson is trying to insert himself into this year election not realizing that his time has come and past. According to news report Jackson said, “Obama is about change, and the change that Obama promises is not limited to what we do in America itself. It is a change of the way America looks at the world and its place in it.” He also went on to say that under an Obama administration, Israel relationship with the United States would be different. The McCain campaign which has been faltering the last few weeks and is need of resuscitation is trying to latch onto these comments and make hay out of them. They are trying to say that Mr. Jackson speaks for the Obama campaign even though he is not an adviser.

Jesse Jackson, I have always maintained is unwilling to let go. He still wants to be the voice that Black America holds onto. His time has elapsed and his service throughout the years are well appreciated by many. He needs to move on and allow Obama to carve out his niche and become what he was created to do. Jackson also made news a earlier in the campaign season for some comments he made while unaware of a mike being opened. His comments back then was dismissed by many, including his own son, and the McCain campaign did not hold onto those comments because it was not politically convenient. They were too busy linking Obama to Paris Hilton and others. Read more

This post was submitted by Christopher Higgins.

Jesus Was A Democrat

I’ve never been a big Everclear fan, but Bob Lefsetz just turned me on to their new song, “Jesus Was A Democrat”, which the band is giving away on their website…absolutely no strings attached (no email address, no pop-up ads, no nothin’). Here it is on their website. Grab it, take a listen, and conitnue reading. Why are they making it free? Lefsetz says it best:

…America is pissed.

America is pissed about so much. And feels too often that politicians don’t care about them. And there’s scads of ignorance, purveyed by biased talk show hosts and bloviating, supposedly neutral, TV talking heads. And everybody’s afraid. You get people saying Sarah Palin won the Vice Presidential debate and you wonder if you watched the same show. When I didn’t answer the questions in school, I flunked. And suddenly, by going to school, working damn hard, studying to get good grades to get into a good college, I’m an elitist, my opinion is to be discounted. I shouldn’t have gone to public school, I should have gone to a parochial institution, to be indoctrinated in viewpoints that don’t square with reality. Worse yet, be home schooled. That’s code for “Christian Right Education”.

Hate me all you want. Tell me you can get infections hanging with the underprivileged in regular high schools, that you can teach your kids better than those underpaid teachers. But what about socialization, what about opposing viewpoints? How can there be a dialogue when there’s not another side?

And that’s what we have in America today, only one side. Everybody’s on his own side, only speaking to himself, like-minded people. Who’s going to change the equation? Certainly not politicians, elected officials. Obama’s got to say he’s for drilling to get elected, because the person paying four bucks a gallon doesn’t know that it’ll take eons for said oil to reach the pump. We’ve got the businessmen raping and pillaging, the politicians lying, at best being expedient, and the only people we can count on to speak the truth have abdicated their power, their duty, their role. That’s what the job of the artist is. To question authority, challenge convention, speak the unpopular, if it’s the truth. And that’s what Art Alexakis and Everclear have done in “Jesus Was A Democrat”.

That is a large quote from Lefsetz’s argument but you should also read the rest here, because it’s pretty damn brilliant. He’s right, America is pissed, and I’ve never been more pissed about the ignorant thinking of some of my fellow Americans than right now….after seeing the McCain campaign chose Palin as a running mate (pure bullshit right-wing strategy that even Sarah Palin should be offended by), the lies that McCain’s campaign is spewing about Barack Obama (which Obama’s campaign is brilliantly taking the ’stay positive’ moral high-road on), the bullshit emails from right-wing relatives in the sticks claiming that Bill Clinton is responsible for all the disasters of the past eight years (c’mon!), the scary YouTube videos of folks outside the McCain rallies in Ohio and Pennsylvania yelling that Obama is a terrorist (and somehow believing that), and all the other complete idiocy that bull-headed Republicans have to make themselves believe in order to stick with their party…which has now become more important than the well-being of other fellow Americans who live under different circumstances then they do. Read more

Obama’s Life…Lets Hope and Pray

Before Barack Obama started his quest to become President of the United States numerous people quietly voiced their concerns for his life. Over the past few months with him winning the democratic nomination and becoming the leading candidate, the fears that people had were replaced by joy and hope with him becoming president. Lately the fears that first crept into people’s minds are back with the latest campaign rhetoric. Read more

This post was submitted by Christopher higgins.

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