No more politics after today. This was never meant to be a political blog. Cooper in her comment brings up a great point. The “real” money and hence recovery from the Depression took place because of World War Two–air craft plants and much else. They could do whatever they wanted then as there was no red tape to snip–they were beginning from scratch. This recovery will have much red tape that I hope can be somehow circumvented. We need jobs in the USA. It’s a strange problem. We’re a global economy and outsourcing has helped keep things cheaper but the jobs lost directly and jobs lost because of them probably are more costly in the end
We’re not the hated elitists anymore. We’re not dreaded liberals. We’re not the outsiders.

We’re the majority. In an honest election we landslided Barack Hussein Obama. I almost screamed that out loud last night. Then I remembered I wasn’t in the Upper West Side of Manhattan but Crescent Beach, North Myrtle Beach, SC. (I like to write out all those Beaches.)

I’m not sure if what I’m feeling is similar to a form of dementia, PTSD, euphoria, or something incapable of being named. Every four to six hours I remember the USA has been unshackled of Republican repression.

My goddaughter, LucianaMae was so psyched Tuesday night when CNN called the election, she almost pulled a Connor Clapton as she leaned over the window and screamed in response to people screaming from apartments and the street. That’s why I suggested we go downstairs sooner rather than later. Her mother couldn’t leave until she found her Obama tee shirt and put it on.

I’m not sure why they found it so easy to believe and I still think there’s going to be a recount.

It might have something to do with the inherent nature of the Republican Bush blogger; the frigging superiority, my dick is really small but I want you to think it’s large, that made them feel so free to comment on blogs that they didn’t like for whatever reason they wanted.

No they can’t swoop down anymore, and I learned that I could delete two years ago, but….

In reading some blogs by Republican’s I have been amused by their belief that Obama will take their money and give it to a poor person.

What exactly does “redistributing resources” mean?

We’re in the worst fiscal crisis since the Great Depression. What happened then? The Works Project Administration (WPA) for one quick example was formed. It gave people jobs and not make-work but meaningful work. Some of the most beautiful public buildings and public art (murals) were created then.

Obama’s not a fool. He knows you can give a person a fish, but if you teach a person to fish the person can fish for himself.

Is teaching work skills socialist?

I don’t know the details of Obama’s plans, but I know that like Hillary Clinton he was very influenced by Saul Alinsky. Such a leftist, that Saul. He codified community organizing. I know, I know, Sarah Palin thinks it’s not a real job. That means a rational person should think it’s the best hardest job in the world.

I won’t have Internet service or TV until Wednesday. I’m complaining because I can.

I’m interrupting my eat my way through my last month as a New Yorker for the following post
Three years ago this week I had post up in Blog Critics on Intelligent Design It was a good post and garnered many comments. It would have gotten more but I hysterically tried to stop it. I was told I was Americancentric and many more things.

I bring this up not because I’m enamored with the post, though I am, but because I tried to stop it when it became obvious to me that Katrina was going to be the most deadly storm in my lifetime.

This morning at my bff, Lucia’s we saw Sarah Pallin on Maria Bartiromo’s. Sarah said we’re in war over oil. And I thought first we were in war to find Bin Laden and WMD’s, then to find Hussein.

Of course we’re in war to dominate the MidEast and he or she who dominates gets oil.

How can I write about oil at a time like this? Because they’re already exploiting Gustav and the people of New Orleans–a city I hope is spared but if not is never rebuilt until the levees….and maybe even then.

Sarah Pollin stands for everything I was brought up to and then learned on my own to disdain.

This election’s not about me. Well my old age, and damn it I do deserve a good one. But it’s really about younger generations. Kids just in school who might never get a decent education because of No Child Left Behind, all women–and I can imagine a country without choice where rich girls or girls from affluent families who could tell their families went to other countries or the best doctors who surreptiously performed abortions. Every other girl took her chances.

The Republican’s party already gotten rid of Bush and Cheney. They won’t be hanging at the convention like embarrassing relatives who long ago wore out their welcome.

They’re saying McCain’s a maverick who voted against Bush. Ten percent of the time does not a maverick make.

I don’t usually believe in political parties. I do this year. This year I will vote straight Democratic because this is the election of our lifetime.

There might be up to three new Supreme Court Justices in the next four years.

I thought all this was behind us. I must have been living in a dream world as I focused on moving–which I’m still doing.

But Sarah Pollin–and New Orleans three years to the day. It’s too much.

Three years ago many bloggers didn’t like it when others of us, many of us, said “yes, we can cast blame and help at the same time.” We were proven more right than most of us wanted to be.

I saw somewhere in The Times that Bush said Gustav is deadly serious. I guess we do need comic relief.

I won’t let people forget that Bush didn’t interrupt his vacation; that Condi Rice didn’t think a Secretary of State had anything to do with domestic affairs so she stayed in New York, shopped and saw Spamalot

My friends are all convinced Obama is going to win. I’m not so sure. She orates well. A lot of people who might have been wavering might find her a moral authority or some shit. My friend said he would sleep with her in a second. No he won’t vote for her, but people have based their voting decisions on less
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I had all the restaurants I have eaten in listed and all the ones I plan to were going to be listed. It’s kind of nice that my friends–the same ones who are convinced of an Obama win–have declared this coming month “eat anything month” in my honor. I put on my size too big pants this morning Fortunately they still were.