her sister’s husband (whom the sister is divorcing).

Let’s see..

Drove a squad car while drunk,
Tasered his step son
Shot and killed a moose illegally
and threatened to shoot a F…ing bullet into his father in law..

Real gem of a guy.. been married and divorsed 4 times..
you know, after the 2 divorce, it might be you..

less than a minute with google..

God bless the internet

Comparing Palin’s short Gov. experience to Obama’s longer Senate experience is like comparing a SFPD cop with 2 years on the force to a meter maid with 10;0

“Barack Obama has been a US Senator for 3 years.”

20 of those months have been campaigning for POTUS..

not to mention all the month long vacations they have..

if you are a Governor, you are a Governor 24/7..

Dalen: I loved the wedding pictures you took! Fabulous. I’m kinda into weddings right now since I’ve attended three in the last several weeks! Very nice, indeed!

Are you a Redding boy? (saw the sundial!).

I posted this in the wrong place (under the blog topic below) so am re-posting it here.

I’ve been doing some research, and sadly it is true that the Roe v Wade decision was brought to us by Republicans. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Blackmun

The woman in the case (Norma McCorvey) never had an abortion. She gave birth to a baby girl and gave her up for adoption. She is now a pro-life advocate.
I was 23 during this time but was rather oblivious to what was going on in the world politically.

On another topic, wouldn’t it be nice if both sides just talked about their plans and what they would try to do for the country, and REFRAINED FROM SAYING ANYTHING NEGATIVE ABOUT THE OTHER CANDIDATE?
Just dreaming, I guess!

I too may change my affiliation to Independent. (But I still plan to vote for McCain.)

THanks, Jean. Yes I’m in Redding. I’m about to redesign my site. I’ve recently gone back to using 35mm film. I’m also mostly shooting for myself and artistic pleasure. There’s something about the process of film that makes it more fun. Also the look and depth of field is still not the same in digital. I have a 7200 dpi scanner that outputs a 22×33(350mb 48bit color file) that’s close to a 40 megapixel camera in native output. I’ve yet to print that size and see if it is real world, but soon.

Hey dude. Just to clarify, do you mean you’re re-registering as the Independent party, or as unaffiliated?

I think it’s great to change your mind, or swing the other way. I do think you’ve changed your mind, but you were reasonable in the first place by admitting that your mind had not been made up. I think you should wave your flag proudly and say ‘yep, I’ve changed my mind.’ Because logical people are used to changing their minds. They know the truth is outside of them. So hear hear, dude!

p.s. I am terribly sick and have a high fever, and upon reading my last comment, realize that I used the word ‘mind’ five times in four sentences. Back to lying on the couch.

Dalen: I’m SO photographically challenged!! You’re talking Greek to me. I have a digital and am happy when I can turn it on properly. Whatever you said, sounds impressive to me!

I loved the pictures of the little girl dancing. What a sweet, little thing!

Sorry, my wife gives me that blank stare when I start talking technical as well. She takes great pictures, but really doesn’t want to know all the crazy details. Some of the stuff on the site is hers. That picture of the girl dancing was taken at the intermission of a Bethel conference. There was a quiet stillness over the atmosphere, the worship leader was delicately picking out notes on his guitar and she turned to her grandfather and said, ” I’m going to go move mountains now.” I love the responses I get from the secular worl d the most, though. I give no context, just the picture.

Donny,

Wise choice. I say that not because I’m a Democrat, but for your children, my children and our grandchildren. Do we want our children to continue to suffer more years of the failed policies of the Bush Cheny admin. Do we want our children sent off to more wars because of warmongers, like the Iraqi war waged based on lies and greed?

I’m a teacher, and a darned good one, I must say. My concern is for the students that I love to teach. With the NCLB, we’re having to teach to the test, as opposed to teaching these children the skills they need to compete in a gobal economy. You say, well, then, just do it? Not without the resources and funding needed, which the NCLB policy failed to consider.

As I sit here listening to the disgusting talking points from John’s acceptance speech, one of the issues he addresses is the need for quality teachers. His solution is to “find the bad teachers another line of work.” Well, I say, JohnBoy, there are very few jobs left, thanks to your Republican cronies whose policies you still espouse! What should “bad” teachers do? Move to, ummmm Alaska, a state that Palin thinks should not be a part of the U.S. (That’s another story in itself)

Donny, I want to leave you with some thoughts from Susan Eisenhower. She’s a formidable former Republican, granddaugher of former President, Dwight D. Eisenhower. Her stance on her decision to leave the Republican party speaks volumes, IMO.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/carolynmonroe/gG5tyS

She, too, has opted to support the Obama-Biden team.

You and your wife must be a great team. The wedding pix were unique and beautifully unusual – definitely not the same ole same ole! Great! (I especially liked the Spiked groom! That guy and his gal have great self determination!)

The dancing little one looks like it was totally planned. I was wondering why the young man was prostrate on the floor, but in my mind it meant the children can dance whenever, wherever, and however they want. Pure expression and joy.

I guess the guy was talking to God. I walked in just at the time everyone was leaving. I wanted to get a picture of the speaker( a friend of mine) he had already left, so I thought maybe I can get a shot of something up front, and the girl started dancing as I arrived.

Carol,

Thanks for pointing me to Eisenhower’s letter. That was very interesting to read. Folks, check out the link she posted. Here it is again, to make it easier:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/carolynmonroe/gG5tyS

Carrie,

I’m re-registering as Independent.

(PS: Hope you’re feeling better)

Nancy wrote:

I’ve been doing some research, and sadly it is true that the Roe v Wade decision was brought to us by Republicans. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Blackmun

I’m very happy you discovered this. That’s really my main goal: to motivate people to find more information for themselves in order to make better informed voting decisions. If one or two people do so, then I say (quoting the worst President in US history – GWB), “Mission Accomplished!”

oh, hey Jean, you may like the video I have on the site as well. It’s a slideshow of many frames from that shoot.

donny dont forget about this man. i know i dont want to get you emotional but you have to watch this video and ill leave it at that.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYRpIf2F9NA]

sorry here it is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYRpIf2F9NA

I like this quote:

“Jesus was a community organizer. Pontius Pilate was a Governor.”

And watch this-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hPR5jnjtLo

Nancy,

About the video you just posted, here is what I just listened to that man say:

God Damn America for killing innocent people

Please tell me that you HAVEN’T heard the same thing said from Evangelical pulpits time after time, usually relating to abortion. I know I have. I’ve heard preachers talk about how God is going to damn this country for the murders of innocents.

Nothing new here.

God Damn America for treating its citizens as less than human

How many times have you heard people complain about the way citizens are treated here? When I worked for an employer, I remember such conversations regularly in lunch break rooms. When I was in the Navy, I heard fellow soldiers complaining about the way our government treats us.

Know what? Considering all of those who complained, I think it’s safe to say that not a single one of those boys hated their country.

We bombed Hiroshima. We bombed Nagasaki. And we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon and we never batted an eye.

I can’t say he doesn’t have a point. We did kill a lot more people with our atomic bombs than the amount killed on 9/11. And I don’t really hear anyone expressing regret for those murders. In fact, many of us consider them necessary.

But we think our enemies should never fight against us. I read a long speech by Osama Bin Laden, after the 9/11 attacks, where he listed all the reasons they had for attacking us. He listed time after time where we’ve killed his “Muslim brothers” or when we’ve supported those who have done so. Now, don’t get me wrong, because I am no Bin Laden sympathizer, but I am intelligent enough to realize that in HIS mind he had a reason to attack us. And so it goes, attacks back and forth between two enemies, tit for tat like the Hatfields and McCoys.

(For the record, I’ll post Osama’s speech as another comment)

We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans and now we are indignant because the stuff that we have done overseas is now being brought right back into our own front yards

Again, he does have a point. We support Israel in their fight against Palestinians, and then we complain when supporters of the Palestinians want to fight back. Personally, I am a fan of Israel. But my opinion is not the only opinion in the world. Some think the Palestinians deserve their land just as much or more than the Israelis. Just because I disagree with those who side with Palestinians does not mean I have the final authority to help kill those Palestinians through financial support to the Israelis. And if I choose to do so, can I honestly be surprised when retaliations occur?

And we did take an awfully long time to recognize that injustices were being committed against black people in South Africa.

The way I take this man’s sermons is the same way I take the sermon of an evangelical preacher when he says we’ll reap what we sow in regards to abortion. I take this man as saying, “we are reaping what we’ve sown”. It is his opinion on why things happen as they do. I seriously doubt he hates his country. Instead, I think he is just telling us to wake up and smell the coffee and realize our actions may come with consequences.

We seem to feel more entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness than other children of God. Every human on earth is a child of God. The Palestinian. The black South African, the Japanese person killed by one of our atomic bombs. ALL of them are God’s children.

And when we kill God’s children, can we really be outraged when they try to fight back?

We have a right to defend ourselves, but we can’t blame our enemies for striking us if we’ve struck them.

I don’t think it’s unpatriotic to point out that we reap what we’ve sown. We don’t have to be so stubbornly blinded by Patriotism that we can’t recognize that we’re not perfect. We make lots of mistakes. It’s okay to admit that. Nobody wants to deal with a person who refuses to take responsibility for his or her actions, much less a country that behaves that way.

I know a man who I respect greatly who at one time attended Jeremiah Wright’s church for awhile. I’ve heard him say a lot of good about Pastor Wright. In the course of dozens and dozens of years of life, just about anyone could have sound clips, or entire days, of their lives “played” for the country and come across as a hater of the United States. We all have days when we feel outrage.

John,

Have you had the chance to visit the website listed at the end of the video you posted? If so, can you honestly tell me that the group doesn’t have a major agenda? Here’s their site:

http://nohussein.org/

Have you made an attempt to balance the picture shown in that video with information from wider, non-biased sources, or from sources for the other side? Like this article, perhaps:

http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2008/01/from-the-archiv.html

Or maybe this one:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0108/Live_Birth_abortion.html

There are always more sides to a story…

By the way, when it was time to actually vote on that bill, he did not vote FOR or AGAINST it. He remained neutral and did not cast a vote either way.

I doubt you or I have ever read that bill (I can actually guarantee that I haven’t). Often times politicians try to package many things into one bill. Without reading and understanding exactly what it was trying to accomplish, there is no way we can pass judgment. From what I’ve read, Obama didn’t like one of those parts that were packaged into it.

PS: allowing a live baby to die was and still is a felony in Illinois. Just some food for thought.