Thursday Blogwrap
Brighton Beach. Photo by J Blough. Marriages From a Scene [CityRoom] Bergen Street Sinkhole Update [Gowanus Lounge] Favorite Tailors and Seamstresses [Brooklyn Based] How Not the Get Beat Up in the Hood [Greenpointers] New Brooklyn Book Spins Stuckey’s AY Account [AY Report] Long Island Restaurant Still Closed, Still Missed [McBrooklyn] Will Gentrification Keep Burg Condos…
Brighton Beach. Photo by J Blough.
Marriages From a Scene [CityRoom]
Bergen Street Sinkhole Update [Gowanus Lounge]
Favorite Tailors and Seamstresses [Brooklyn Based]
How Not the Get Beat Up in the Hood [Greenpointers]
New Brooklyn Book Spins Stuckey’s AY Account [AY Report]
Long Island Restaurant Still Closed, Still Missed [McBrooklyn]
Will Gentrification Keep Burg Condos From Glowing in the Dark? [Curbed]
Silly Dems and Libs:
-No new attacks on our homeland since 9/11, and it’s not like they haven’t tried.
-POSITIVE growth in our economy for the entire Bush presidency. Sorry, it’s the facts Jack.
-Unprecedented economic/suportive aid to the entire world: be it the AIDS- in- Africa initiative or the Tsunami relief or creation/support of new democratic nations. that’s a good thing to those of us who aren’t annoying Marxists.
-Decimation of al quaeda on several fronts on the war against radical islam; including Somalia (where Clinton ran away).Al quaeda, by their own words, have been humilated and defeated on their self proclaimed major battlefront (Iraq)
-Highest homeownership level in history. (that’s a good thing to those of you who aren’t annoying Marxists.)Notwithstanding the pull back in housing currently underway which is consistent with past peaks in economic sectors.
-Lowest average unemployment rate in modern American history. Lower than the 60’s, the 70’s, the 80’s and yes the Clinton 90’s. (look it up)
-Loss of popularity around the globe you say? by whose standards? The conniving Russians? The maniacal Iranians? The cagey Chinese? The drug traffiking Venezuelans? The backstabbing French? By the way, many nations have elected more conservative governments like the aforementioned French, the Canadians, the British, etc.
-oh and by the way, we WON in Iraq, the Iraqis have a self sustaining democratic government. The NYTimes forgot to do a cover story on the recent handover of the most war torn part of Iraq to the Iraqi national forces, and plans for a phased withdrawal of US forces are underway.
-Go McCain/Palin.
P.S.: the difference between a conservative like myself and you boorish liberals, is that I would not run away from my nation should the opposing party win an election. I would get back to work and trust in the democratic process. Not cry and whine like a little girl. I respect the Obama/Biden ticket. That’s the difference.
P.P.S. That chica is smokin’. God bless America.
Lies, damn lies and statistics…
McCain’s affair, fwiw, was when his wife was either in hospital or recovering from a disfiguring car accident. Cindy supposedly “set her cap” at him and soon he was involved with her.
http://www.kitv.com/politics/17374494/detail.html
And where in the world is Vicki Iseman?
http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/02/21/what-we-actually-know-about-mccain-and-iseman.aspx
Biff, I never heard about the affair, but he also voted against Bush tax cuts and waterboarding, and got in trouble for stating he didn’t understand how you could fight a war without a tax increase. Supporting the war makes him wrong but not necessarily a bad person. The fact that many rabid right conservatives don’t like him either helps my argument 🙂
Are you saying you’ve never called anyone any of those epithets? I have. Altho I’ve never called my wife those things, even after 33 years of being together. Then again, if she had me on a pre-nup like that I might, lol.
cmu, I fit all those categories except religious and the only ‘publican I ever voted for was Bloomberg!
From HuffPost: “Bush voters generally were significantly more married (12 million more); protestant evangelicals (16 million more); people with annual income exceeding $50,000 (9 million more); and living in households owning guns (15 million more) than Kerry voters. (These numbers are derived from exit polls conducted by the broadcast networks and are the only, albeit imperfect, source of information on the demographics of voting)”
“These specific demographic groups – white, married, avid gun owning, devoutly and politically religious, with incomes over $50,000 – were the bedrock of the Republican Presidential electoral majority in 2004.”
dittoburg- ya think?
Which just goes to prove my point we’re a religion and actually many different cultures. What was your point?
“I find McCain to be a decent person”
denton, I don’t know about that. He had an affair on his first wife, supports a war that’s killed civilians in the 6 figures, “has called opponents and colleagues “shitheads,” “assholes” and in at least one case “a fucking jerk.””, called his current wife a trollop and a cunt, etc.
I don’t think the ethiopian jews would consider themselves white.
I’m sorry, I don’t find Palin to be particularly attractive. I didn’t find her attractive even in her beauty queen shot. Too bimbo-ish. Michelle, otho, I could spend time with her.
I find McCain to be a decent person, altho I don’t plan to vote for him. I have a one big issue with him, which is that he refused to learn about computers. Not the kind of interested flexible thinking you’d want from a President. I have several big issues with her of course, but the fact she’s never been out of the country except for some politically motivated tour of Kuwait bothers me greatly.
I prefer to use the cuisinart for that myself.
But when it comes to my people, confusion reigns. I’ve read the ultra orthodox believe we are a race to be preserved by intermmarriage with those of “proven” bloodlines. I’m uncomfortable with that- it was used against us in Germany, now I don’t see where if we weren’t a race then, how did we become one now? For me, it’s my religion and my cultural identity within my American one. As a voting bloc, well, as I say- yea!