Showing posts with label POLITICS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label POLITICS. Show all posts

Friday, August 14, 2009

Love the Maher

Bill Maher really just calls it like it is. I don't care if you are a liberal or a conservative... you gotta give it to him... he is unabashed and unapologetic. Always brings interesting panelist to his show, or at the very least a combination of panelist that make it very interesting.

He talked about Sara Palin and the "death panels" (right....!) and mostly about healthcare reform and some religion which of course ties into everything.

It's not that the panelist were the most exciting people tonight, but everyone managed to say something that hit it right on the money.... and of course Bill's humor... playing the "death panel game" like it was "Price is Right" or the "Dating Game". Hysterical. His monologues (New Rules) at the end are always raw and express what most people don't dare say, even on cable TV. He poked fun at Obama for playing too much golf, eating too many hamburgers, and reading scriptures in his blackberry. But really, it was a call to the President to BE HIMSELF!

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Dick Chaney's memoirs

Ok so I heard Barack Obama say tonight at the White House Correspondent's Dinner that Chaney was writing a book on his memoirs soon to be titled "How to Shoot friends and Interrogate People". I was on the flooor!!! I thought that was the most hysterical witty comment I've heard in a while. 

Certainly got  a huge laugh from the audience...

Monday, April 6, 2009

Was Obama's Europe tour a failure?

So the other night I was watching Bill Maher and he had David Frum, Bush's old speechwriter and creator of the famous term "The Axis of Evil", as one of his guests. He had two other gentlemen who's name escape me but I believe they were Republicans as well. 

But David caught my attention because of his negativity and his utter determination to label Obama's trip to Europe as a failure because he was "rebuffed". For this guy it was all about money and how Obama's trip was a disappointing failure because he could not get the European nations to spend as much CA$H as he would've like them to. So in $$$ terms, or in David's view, it was a failure. It doesn't matter that he has helped change the tone of American-European relationship, given it was so battered by the end of the Bush presidency. Noooo...  that doesn't count because he just did not get them to open their pockets. 

Is it just money and the ability, if you can call it an ability, to impose ourselves and our views as a nation upon other nations all that the Republicans care about? Is this the meaning of success for them? 

What do you guys think? Enquiring minds wanna know...
Go to my poll and put in your vote

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Letter from Antunez to Obama



This is a letter from Jorge Luis Carcía Antúnez to President Barack Obama, asking him to take into consideration the plight of the political prisoners in Cuba, who are exposed to the worst kinds of torture and punishment for defending Human Rights. It is currently in Spanish, so I apologize to those non Spanish speakers.

Carta Abierta Al Presidente de USA

Señor presidente, le escribe desde Cuba, esta pequeña isla del Caribe, JORGE LUÍS GARCÍA PÉREZ "Antúnez", uno de los miles y miles de ex presos políticos que dentro de las cárceles cubanas conoció en carne propia la tortura, y todas formas de represión por parte de los carceleros en su desmedido afán de rendir y doblegar nuestra voluntad de lucha y resistencia.

Soy uno de los tantos cubanos que inspirados en la lucha de Martin Luther King está en las calles cubanas apelando a la resistencia cívica y la desobediencia civil como estrategias para lograr el tan ansiado y necesario cambio hacia la democracia en mi país donde existe una tiranía que lleva medio siglo, conculcando las libertades fundamentales de sus ciudadanos, encarcelando las voces alternativas, y sumiendo a un pueblo a la más abyecta miseria, tanto económica, y moral que haya padecido pueblo alguno.

Señor presidente, me es dable destacar, que el autor de esta misiva fue arrestado por fuerzas combinadas de la Policía Política en la víspera de su ascensión como presidente, con el deliberado propósito de impedir que asistiera a una sede diplomática, a la que había sido invitado, conjuntamente con el también opositor pacifico LORETO HERNÁNDEZ GARCÍA para presenciar ese importante acontecimiento histórico; es decir, su toma de posesión como presidente democráticamente electo.

Resulta irónico y para muchos una bochornosa paradoja que mientras en ese grandioso y hospitalario país, un hombre de la raza negra asumía la máxima magistratura, aquí a escasas 90 millas, dos jóvenes negros éramos, además de arrestados, confinados en inmundos calabozos de los órganos de represión política por casi 72 horas.

Imagino cuantas misivas habrá usted recibido y continuará recibiendo, de cubanos de dentro y fuera de la isla. En mi humilde carta quisiera en nombre de cientos y cientos de hermanos míos encarcelados por sus ideas, de los golpeados, reprimidos y hostigados por luchar de manera pacífica y abierta, sugerirle que el Gobierno de La Habana continúa y continuará siendo fiel a su tradicional vocación anti democrática y dictatorial. Prueba de ello son los arrestos del que le hice mención y la constante escalada represiva que mantiene contra su pueblo y la oposición pacífica.

Señor presidente, la dictadura de La Habana es renuente a conceder la más mínima apertura por que ello pone en juego lo único y que más le interesa: perpetuarse en el poder a costa del dolor, sufrimiento y sacrificio de todo un pueblo.

La historia lo ha demostrado, por lo que no puede olvidarse que cualquier flexibilización de la política para con el régimen castrista equivale a la oxigenación de su gobierno y aparato represivo.

Por otro lado, me encuentro entre los que consideran que las iniciativas de diálogo y entendimiento, son positivas y denotan cualidades serias de quienes las promueven. Pero ha quedado demostrado que un diálogo con sordos e intransigentes resulta contraproducente, y más riesgoso aún cuando se hace sin reales y concretas condiciones para con los represores.

En ese sentido considero que la básica y esencial condición a exigirle a la dictadura de los Castro, es la urgente e inmediata libertad de todos los presos políticos en Cuba, así como las sinceras garantías de implementar un inmediato y eficaz programa de profundas y radicales reformas, políticas, económicas y sociales que estén encaminadas a la instauración de una sociedad democrática con un genuino estado de derecho, y le aseguro con todo respeto y responsabilidad que lo contrario sería dilatar este largo y difícil calvario que por 5 décadas padece el pueblo cubano.

No puedo pasar por alto, lo que a juicio de todos mis compatriotas es y debe siempre constituir nuestro principal clamor y demanda: la libertad de todos y cada uno de los presos políticos en Cuba. Sepa que cientos y cientos de hermanos míos agonizan en inmundos y solitarios calabozos, por hambre, enfermedades y malos tratos, hombres y mujeres cuyo único crimen ha sido el defender los principales derechos y libertades del hombre, abogar y luchar por una sociedad libre.

Esperamos de usted y su gobierno solidaridad para ellos y sus familiares. Esperamos que su administración no pase por alto un pormenor y realidad tan evidente como fundamental; que las principales y perniciosas restricciones que sufre nuestro pueblo, son las que precisamente nos aplica un sistema que rehúsa la liberación de los mercados, la libre empresa, y que con la pobreza que genera provoca un constante éxodo migratorio, y sobre todas las cosas culpar a otros del daño que a su propio pueblo le causan.

Los cubanos como amantes de la libertad, no nos oponemos a cuanta noble iniciativas que valla encaminada al acercamiento y reunificación de la familia cubana separada, y mucho menos a que puedan ser ayudadas en tan difíciles momentos.

Lo que no consideramos decoroso ni patriótico, es que no pocos continúen usando los llamados vuelos de la comunidad para engrosar las arcas del aparato represivo a lucrarse de los privilegios de que gozan los turistas foráneos que visitan Cuba en grosero detrimento de los nacionales.

La libertad de salir de su país y regresar es un derecho básico universalmente reconocido, pero cuando se usa en detrimento de los que padecen opresión, cuando por pasión o interés personal se fortalece al opresor, se cae en algo tan grave como es el antipatriotismo.

Señor presidente, para los cubanos la patria es mucho más grande e importante que nosotros mismos y después de esta larga y desastrosa experiencia totalitaria hemos arribado al pleno convencimiento, que a similitud del movimiento por los derechos civiles en los Estados Unidos, nosotros los cubanos solo vamos a ser libre cuando estemos dispuestos al mayor de los sacrificios, y vicisitudes.

Aunque la solución al problema de Cuba no es demócrata ni republicana, sino del esfuerzo y decisión de los cubanos, estamos conscientes de que el apoyo solidario de un presidente de su inteligencia, carisma, y prestigio podría ayudarnos a acelerar el cambio que tanto anhela los cubanos.

Deseándole muchos éxitos en su gestión de gobierno, y reiterándole que no se olvide y siga de cerca este pueblo y su lucha por la libertad.

* Jorge Luís García Pérez Antúnez.

Ex preso político cubano que permaneció 17 años y 38 días en celdas de castigo y confinamientos, sometido a las más crueles torturas de todo tipo por mantener su dignidad como defensor de los Derechos Humanos

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

We have neglected Latin America!

Watch this video where President Obama speaks on how we have neglected Latin America
Chavez is now in bed with the Chinese and the Russians. It is quite obvious at this point he wants to take over all of LA and turn it into a Communist Continent! He wants to take over.

I encourage all Amercians, and Cuban-American, and Venezuelans living out here, and all other Latin Amercians living in the US to support our President in getting more involved in LA issues. Bring conciousness, constructive ideas, dare to expose the truth, GET INVOLVED YOURSELVES in whatever way you can, even if through a blog like Yoani Sanchez in Cuba. What's happening in LA is very scary and we don't want all of these nations to turn into another Cuba. 

I like what the Prez said..." a relationship of mutual respect, mutual dignity .... the notion that Latin America is a Junior to the United States... we need to be full partners... that is our focus"

Ladies and gentlemen, this guy is DIFFERENT, this guy understands that we can't impose ourselves as a nation on other nations just because we think we are the most powerful nation in the world and that everyone needs to do as we do. I think he understands that we can be different and live in mutual respect, and that even socialist countries can live with dignity. Folks, there is nothing inherently wrong with certain socialist notions, such as government involvement, taking care of the social aspect of a country, spreading some wealth... these are terms that even the president of our nation, which is a heavy capitalist nation, has used. The question is HOW you achieve these goals, how you as a leader go about them, and we know it's certainly not through military force, not by taking in political prisoners, not by silencing freedom of speech, and certainly not through dictatorship.

We need to support him in this notion and become actively involved in whatever way we can. We can start by becoming open to changing our mentality and the way we perceive the world. 

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

WE HAVE A NEW PREZ!!!!


A new era...
A new hope...
A renewed promise...
Another chance to do it better...
Let's do it together...
We are ONE!

Let's help him, help ourselves and help the world move into this new age. 

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Violence in Gaza













 


Israelis have recently air bombed the Gaza strip in response to a cease fire and some rockets launched at Israel by the Hamas group that caused minimal damage and 1 casualty.

In response the Israeli forces deployed something like 6,500 soldiers and bombed and air raided the Gaza strip killing 277 and wounding approximately 700 people, including young soldiers who were graduating from military training. From my understanding of the articles I've read in Drudge Report and HuffPost, they attacked the ceremony site. Isn't that like shooting at somone who has no weapons, or from behind when they don't see it coming and cannot defend themselves? How cowardly! Was that really necessary? Was this type of response really necessary?

The EU has condemned both nations, Palestine for the instigation and Israel for the excessive use of reckless force. 

The Israeli response makes it look like they are dying to come down on the Palestinians with all they got and are waiting, or actually, craving the smallest excuse to unleash their wrath. These is from people who are supposed to be deeply religious, profoundly spiritual and call themselves "God's chosen people."

Needless to say the muslims wreak havoc in the name of Allah. Need I say more? This sudden unrest is not going to go away quickly... and I believe will set out a chain of events (along with other happenings around the globe) that might truly culminate in what is widely talked about these days as the 2012 prophecy.

Is this fight about territory, or is it about religion? Is it about justice vs. injustice or about our lack of tolerance of each other? 

It is time for nations all over the world to get deeply involved in the Palestinian-Israeli issue, and for all leaders of organized religion (which I've always found questionable) to also get involved and make a genuine effort to meet and listen to each other and have a profound dialogue among themselves on how to better this situation, instead of standing in their palaces and waving to the crowds. It is inhumane for Palestinians to continue living the way they live, and Israelis should be able to rest assure that nearest café will not be bombed at any given moment.


Saturday, December 27, 2008

Finally we admit it... it's a Recession!

Well... after the Christmas season recorded dismal sales, even though we had killer sales, the kind every woman dreams of, CLEARANCE sales that typically happen in January happening now, we finally have the balls to call this situation a "Recession". What took us sooo long?

In this country we make sure the truth is never too complicated. We are masters at concealing the real truth... masters at blinding ourselves and keeping ourselves entertained until it's too obvious to ignore while in the process, becoming masters at the art of desperately trying to constantly live "like a Rock Star." 

The American people are never really told the truth. I remember when I was younger I really thought that all the news we heard in the American channel was pretty much what happened in the entire world and positively believing that if the news made it out the mouth's of those anchor people, it was certain to be the truth about in matter.

weeheeewww... how far from the truth was I!!!!

It's only a partial view... a particular point of view that is truly communicated to the audience.

We now finally admit that we are in a recession and that we are in deep shit. And.... that it's going to take us longer than we thought, to repair the situation and get out of this mess.


Sunday, December 14, 2008

Bush and the size 10 shoes

Today it's all over the news that on Bush's last public appearance in Iraq as President of the United States, he was met with a pair of shoes traveling at great speed in the direction of his head by an Iraqui journalist saying something like "this is a goodbye you dog". 

My first reaction was appalled. The President of any nation, no matter what his political views are, should be respected in public no matter what. But then I thought to myself... if this was Saddam Hussein standing there, wouldn't I wanna throw a shoe at him? Let's get more personal... what if it was Fidel Castro? I'm Cuban-Italian and my family left Cuba a long time ago when the revolution broke out. Now after everything he's done to the Cuban people, wouldn't I wanna throw a shoe at him? God, probably worse...  I would wanna practice a circus act that required daggers and use him as my blindfolded model standing in front of the bull's eye. Then, I think again and I say, NO, because "what is this world coming to" if we don't maintain a certain kind of appropriate behavior, as difficult as it might be considering our feelings toward the person in question, towards the leaders of our nations.

I gotta say though it was pretty fucking funny. I think dogging those shoes was the only move Bush has made that I've been impressed by.

I wonder what they're going to do with the guy? Click here to watch.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Barrak Obama President Elect!!!

YES WE CAN!  and yes we did celebrate an Obama victory in New York City the only way we New Yorkers know how. 

Check it out....


Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Election Day!

It is election day... I must admit I've been anxious since the weekend. Almost loosing sleep. Thinking about today's outcome and waiting for this day as if I were waiting for some historical rock concert. Madonna's farewell tour or something... the Rolling Stones.

I went to vote with my two son's, Luc and Maxie (my teacup Yorkie). It is the first time I vote. I've never been much interested in politics until now. My support for Hilary, her tenacity, strength, smarts, was inspiring. Not to mention the possibility of a female President for the 1st time, got me going. Got me hooked. 

In the process I realized how important this year's election was. But most of all how important election is in general and always, and how I've passed on a few opportunities in the past. 
But going back to this year's election... I realized the next time we elect a President will be 2012. That alone told me that whoever we elect this year will be key in taking us through this last chapter and into a New World, or as Ekard Tolle says, A New Earth. 

Yes, I am a believer that something BIG will happen in 2012... don't know yet what exactly, if it will be cataclysmic, the end of the world, or the end of the our Galaxy. But I feel it will certainly be the end of something and the beginning of another; a new consciousness,  a new way of living on a physical, socially, mentally, and spiritual level. 

Then Hilary lost and well... I still think she's the one that should have been in the ticket. But that is past and now, it was time to open myself up to something else. So I backed Obama.

Today I'm anxious and praying that he wins!

My first election experience was in a way, uneventful, mostly because I felt everyone around me had voted in the past, so this was nothing new for them. For me it was exciting. I was getting my voice across and my vote would be punched by a machine from the 1930's and my choice irrevocable.  

Even my dog was excited. I had to leave him outside with my husband, even though he is a pocket dog. He was whining. A lady comes up to me and says "I think it's great that you bring your son to vote with you so you can start inculcating what being a good citizen is". I thought that was sweet. I was proud.

Now, I await at home drinking a Mimosa, my second one actually, expecting to celebrate an Obama victory.  A historical day. Our first black President. A woman will follow, I tell myself, just as long as it's not Palin.

I HOPE YOU HAVE VOTED!!!  And not voted out of fear or based on what the Bible might or might not say. I hope you have voted from the heart, and from a real profound wisdom.... It is when we tap into that wisdom (not on dogmatic teachings), when we become quite and listen, when we trust our instincts, that the right answers become crystal clear. When we put the ego aside and the years of mental conditioning, when we forget for a moment what "we've been told" to do, to think and say... when that happens, then we usually know what to do.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

If McCain could have...

grabed a baseball bat he would have beat him up...
If he could have...
ripped his clothes and turn green he would have turned into the HULK.
If he could have....
exploded, he would have
If he could have..
ground Obama every time he forced a smile, he would have turned him into dust particles
If he could have...
rolled his eyes a few more times he would have turned into Linda Blair in the Exorcist
If he could have....
spit fire, he would have burnt Obama's little "fro" to a crisp
If he could have...
told Bush, "motherfucker you ruined it for me", he would have
If he could have...
punch Obama in his face he would have felt better
If he could have...
successfully made Obama admit he hangs out with Bill Ayers and pops a few beers with him, he would have slept better
If he could have...
gotten under Obama's skin as his advisors probably directed him, he would have been less angry
If he could have...
Strangled "Joe the Plumber" he would have
If he COULD...
win the White House, we would have no future in America

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

OBAMA WINS DEBATE... Yeayy!


Not his most passionate debate but he still won it... and I don't think his somewhat uneventful performance will change the people that already believe in him, or enough to turn off the undecided folks from not voting for him.

WONDER WOMAN SPEAKS!!!!


Love Linda Carter...forget Madonna, I wanna look like Carter when I'm old. 
She's still my hero... now more than ever that she slams Palin for being the ANTI-WONDER WOMAN.  

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

21 Days to Election

So now I'm getting really scared. I'm of the opinion, like Tina Fay, that if the McCain/Palin ticket wins, I'll leave earth! It seems McCain has narrowed down the gap a little although Obama is still ahead. 

This is what I'm afraid of, the Bradley effect. That all those who said would vote for Obama, come election day, will not because they would never vote for a black man, but never had the "cojones" to say so. I'm worried about all those Cubans in Miami (and I am Cuban by the way!) that will not vote Democrat because of Bay of Pigs fiasco and their hate for Kennedy. This was 40 or some years ago guys....   I'm afraid of the Jews, some of whom I've heard confess on the news, that they feel Obama and them are just "not the same color" and don't care much about anything or anyone else than Israel and keeping those damn Palestinians, that don't belong in a land that was theirs in the first place, out.

I am concerned...about those conservative Americans that go on CNN at the GOP rallies and say that they "turn off the liberal media" and stay conservative and "God Bless America". So they shut out any information that does not agree with them and they turn off their TV's so they can stay in denial and open themselves to some more politcs of fear and brainwashing. They are arrogant enough to think that in this day and age they can afford isolation and separation from the entire world, because the world revolves around the United States of America right....? And then they call the media "elitist."

I am concerned that pretty soon we'll go back on the separation between church and state and that we will be run and forced to live by the philosophy of the Christian Right. 

Maybe things need to get worse before they get better, but here is the question... what does worse mean? Does it mean that there will be natural catastrophes, does it mean that we will not agree on anything and this will become a battle of ideas and religions? I mean, pretty soon we will have Christian Jihadists in America. I mean... aren't these the folks that say that the war in Iraq is "God sent". Aren't these the people that try to infiltrate themselves into positions of power so they can convert all of us "infidels"?  Who are we really against here? Who are the real crazies? We say the Arabs are nuts, but what do we do here at home? Some people here shouted when referring to Obama "kill him". I thought we didn't do that kind of thing in America anymore. I thought we were past that and that this country was the "shining beacon" of freedom, and I include racial freedom, and expression.


Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Madonna tell's Palin she's not invited to THE PARTY (her concerts!)


Go Madge...she's not invited to my party either!

Altough you also wonder if Madonna really means it or if she's just capitalizing on the controversy to grab some attention as usual?

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

SNL VP Debate video


The must see video of the moment!!! 
Go to www.huffingtonpost.com and search it!



Sunday, September 14, 2008

One of the many reasons why Palin should not be in the White House, from a woman's POV

I agree with Lindsay in the sense that I support her as a woman and mother as I would any other woman that has the ambition to take on both career and family and not allow herself to be forced into choosing one over the other.

However, electing this particular woman to office, I think, would be the downfall of this country. As Lindsay mentioned in her article, it's taken us a LOOONG time to get to a point where we are able to decide what to do with our bodies in many issues from contraceptives, family planning and choice. This woman would not only attempt to reverse, but also pollute all that hard work that women in America have done so far and fought for so very hard. SHE SIMPLY MUST NOT BE ELECTED because there is a good chance she might end up President. SAVE US LORD!!! (not her Lord)

And trying to reform gays is absolutely ridiculous!!! Being gay is not a disease that you cure... it's a way of life, and once again, a CHOICE that should be respected.

I feel that if elected Palin will spend all her energy drilling, trying to impose her religious views on the country and trying to reform all of us who do not agree with her personal views.

GO BACK TO ALASKA!!!

Lindsay Lohan actually managed  to write an insightful article opposing Palin.  READ...

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Body Language in Politics

Take it from someone who's been a dancer and actor all her life, body language never lies.
Did anyone see Palin's interview with Charles Gibbons? She looked like and old lady hunched over as she desperately tried to make her point, as opposed to a straighter posture that would have communicated more assertiveness, self assurance, confidence and certainly a more presidential attitude.  She looked nervous, tense, and...did I say NERVOUS? Her eyes were bugging OUT.  And what's up with never really answering the questions asked? It seems like the Republicans are masters at this. 

When asked about abortion and if she was opposed to it in cases of incest and rape, she just didn't have the balls to say NO. Why, because she knows it's ludicrous, and that she is being severely judged on this issue, and deep down she knows that only a monster would say NO to abortion in the event someone gets raped by some thug that might have God knows what kind of disease.  She didn't have the guts to say, "NO because I believe I should impose my religious beliefs on the entire country>"

Sure, like I'm gonna be looking forward to bringing into the world my perpetrator's child?

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Seth Grahame-Smith and his article on McCain calling Cyndy a C**t

You need to check out his article "The Man Who Called His Wife a "C--t" Cries "Sexism!"

It is fantastic! and mostly it talks about all the hypocrisy that goes on in the Republican campaign, especially from McCain himself (not to mention Palin). He was very bold in this article and was not afraid to "call it like it is"! 

PLEASE READ IT!!!!!!