Sexual Abstinence

The good guys at AllProDad.com always seem to have just what's on my mind. Although my daughter is only six years old, the crap she picks up from her kindergarten friends never ceases to amaze me. The kind of parents that some little kids have to deal with these days just blows me away.

Today, AllProDad had a tip for speaking with you daughter about sexual abstinence. When your daughter's friends are all clamoring for her to give up her virginity, what are some good reasons to keep it? Read about it here http://www.allprodad.com/7teenageabstinence.asp

Although my daughter is just six, its frightening how much she knows, and how much she's exposed to just by playing on the elementary school playground. Although the time for this discussion with her may not be today, I'm convinced the day it going to be here much sooner and faster than I ever imagined.

Nancy Pelosi's promise: "The Dems will not Disappoint."

Nancy Pelosi wants to beheld accountable by the American people. Let us grant her wish. Here are promises that Pelosi made today on behalf of the next Congress:

• Make America safer by implementing the recommendations of the 9/11 commission.

• Make our economy fairer by raising the minimum wage and ending taxpayer subsidies for sending jobs overseas.

• Make college more affordable by cutting the interest rates on student loans.

• Improve healthcare by allowing Medicare to negotiate for lower prescription drug prices and promoting stem-cell research.

• Achieve energy independence within 10 years by investing America's energy dollars in the Midwest instead of the Middle East.

• Guarantee a dignified retirement by improving Medicare, protecting Social Security, and making it easier to save for retirement.

If Pelosi and the next Congress can deliver on these promises, then brace yourself for a "Permanent Democratic Majority."

Read more about it here.

Moderate Liberals are the New King Makers. Will The Democrats Remember This?

Last August, I wrote this plea to Democrats:

"This election is not about big ideas.
I repeat:
This election NOT about big ideas.
It's about winning. Leave your big ideas at the door if you want to win.

I believe Independents can sway this election, and they want to vote democratic.
But if you want us, you need check your extreme left wing at the door. "

Now that this advice has proved a truism, and now that Independent voters have almost single handedly handed Washington, DC to the Democrats, it's time to revist that advice.

The most important piece of advice which still remains true is, "check your extreme left wing at the door." Moderate liberals, such as myself, need to be the new "special interest group" that the Democratic party panders to. That is, if they want to be re-elected in 2008.

DON'TS
Do not pursue an overly agressive agenda filled with expensive big programs.
Do not cut and run from Iraq (chart us an intelligent course out, but don't leave those poor people hanging at the end of a rope for the blunders of the Bush administration).
Do not seek "revenge" on the Republicans.
Beware of K street.
Do not forget that you were handed power by a razor thin margin.
In other words, DO NOT LET DOWN THE MODERATE LIBERALS. We are the king makers and the king breakers
Do create an equal legal structure for gay unions, but please don't call it "marriage."

DO'S
Push ahead with minimum wage increases
Help America get its debt under control
Restore a responsible social safety net
Invest in our children
Find a way to provide health insurance for everyone
Push for hearings into Bush's illegal activities (not a witch hunt, but true congressional oversite).
Do restore habias corpus
Do restore respect to Congress: your actions speak much louder than your words.
Do find us an intelligent solution to the Iraq debacle
Do keep America safe from the terrorists -- the threat is real. Although we've lost faith in Bush's direction, take the threat of terrorism seriously
Do restore America's reputation in the world, and reach out to offended allies such as Canada, France and Germany

If you heed this advice, Moderate Liberals will send you back to Washington in 2008. Do not forsake us, your new centrist constituency, for your extreme left wing. For if you do, we'll send you packing in two years.

Oooh! Republicans are pissed!

Hate radio has even more hateful blather than usual today. Bill O'Reilly is convinced the American people are stupid. Voter's just didn't get it. They were deceived and confused by the democrats.

In O'Reilly's black and white world, Osama Bin Laden has won.

Neo-cons can't conceive that there may be another way to approach the war in Iraq. They can't believe that the American people are putting American values ahead of exporting global hatred.

Jim Webb Wins Virginia. Dems take the Senate from Republicans

It's over.

We're calling the Virginia Senate race for Jim "the spider" Webb.

With this victory, The Democrats now control both the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate! We at the Moderate Liberal couldn't be happier.

Some talk about a recount, but no matter. George Allen has no chance of overcoming Webb's 8,000 vote lead.

Congratulations, Senator Webb!! Hasta la vista, Mr. Allen.

Tester official

Our call has been confirmed. Tester is in.
It's going to be dang cool to have an Organic farmer in the U.S. Senate! Way to go, Montana!

"You're doin' a heckuva job, Rummy!" Even Bush has now had enough of Rumsfeld. Is Rove next?

Rumsfeld to resign as Secretary of Defense

The good news just keeps on coming for America. Just a week after Bush strongly expressed his complete, total, undying, everlasting support for Donald Rumsfeld, he decided to show Rummy how to dance the Texas two-step.

Could it be that, a day after the election that swept Republicans out of control in the House and (we expect) the Senate, that W. has finally heard what the 'mericun people had to say?

If Bush expects to accomplish anything during the next two years, he must move to the center. Firing Neo-con Rumsfeld is, I hope, the beginning of a trend.

Let's have Karl Rove's head on a plate tomorrow, Mr. Bush!!

Tester Wins Montana

Moderate Liberal is calling Montana for Tester. Tester wins with a 1,600 vote margin.

The polling mistake which double counted Yellowstone County votes will not affect the overall results of the election.

Tester wins!

Congratulations, Senator Tester.

Now all eyes are on Virginia.

Election Results Reflect American Sentiment. [or.. Glenn Beck is an idiot.]

I'm listening right now to the radio, where horses's ass Republican party mouth piece, Glenn Beck, is holding a national conservative pity party, trying to say what the election results aren't actually what they are.

What a blind stooge Beck is. Even when the American people speak very loudly and very clearly, conservatives still don't hear what we're saying.

If you want to have some fun today tune into national liberal radio show host Ed Shultz, at 2 pm cst. Click here to find a rare liberal radio station near you. Ed called this election like no other pundit. He's entitled to a golden gloat award.

Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Republican Party

Borat tried to warn the Whitehouse. Just weeks before today's U.S. national election, Borat visited the main guardpost of the Whitehouse and asked to speak with President Bush. He was rebuffed.

Just like the American people have been rebuffed by a President who thinks he knows better than the people. The President's obstinance and complete disregard for running roughshod over the hard-fought rights of the American people have led to today's political bloodbath.

Or least I hope it will be a bloodbath for the Republican Party. As I write this, polls are open, and Republicans are "gettin' out thar vote." At least three states have already reported "irregularities" and "failures" with their electronic voting equipment.

But today I cast my vote against the corrupt Republican party with a purpose and conviction that I have never felt before. I didn't just want to vote. I didn't just feel an obligation to vote. I NEEDED to vote: against the direction the country is headed, against holding Americans without charge, against corruption and Republican sex scandals, against the fleecing of the American public by Bush's big-oil buddies, against the blundering that made the Katrina disaster a national travesty, against curtailing America's privacy rights, against secret European prisions, against torture, against the idiocy of the Iraq war, against warrantless eavesdropping, against Halliburton's corrupt contracts, against unchecked deficit spending, against the parade of sex scandals and Republican hypocracy, against Bush's lies. Against Bush.

George Bush would have done well that sunny day to greet Mr. Borat, and to receive Borat's "Cultural Learnings." It may have been enlightening to the President.

Unlike Bush, Borat seeks to know the American people, and seeks to share his "Cultural Learnings" with others. Unlike Bush, Borat wants to know what people are thinking.

But then again, Bush hasn't much cared about what anybody is thinking, has he?

Maybe he will today.

Get yer anti-Republican ass out to the polls and vote, now!!


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3 More Soliders Dead in Iraq

CNN radio just reported that 3 more soldiers are dead in Iraq.
That brings the total for the month of November to 5

Last month, we lost 105 citizen soldliers. That means that just last month, 105 of our neighbors, children, husbands, brothers and sisters, friends, neighbors fathers... were killed fighting a vanity war for the glory of el Presidente Bush.

Let's not forget what this election is about.

It's about Republican blunders in executing this war.

We're in too deep to cut-and-run, as the President would say. And if the democrats are elected, cutting-and-running is not an option. But what is an option is to have some congressional oversight of the President. We will NEVER have congressional oversight of a republican president with a republican congress.

And God help us -- this war needs some oversight.

Dutcher blunders for 4 minutes in Minnesota. Pawlenty blundered for four years.

Mike Hatch's campaign for Minnesota Governor hit a rough patch when his running mate confessed to a reporter that she didn't know what E-85 is. E85 is considered to be an issue that is very important to the rural Minnesota economy. The blunder was shown on TV newscasts last night, and appeared on the front page of Minnesota newspapers today. Gov. Pawlenty was quick to jump on the Hatch campaign, and no doubt a commercial featuring the blunder will be ready in time for tonight's local newscasts.

If politics proves anything, its that people make mistakes. Sure, Hatch's running mate made a huge blunder, that could cost him votes in a very tight election.

But then again, maybe not. Is E-85 really the defining issue in Minnesota's gubernatorial campaign? And does it really carry the same weight as if Mike Hatch had said it himself?

I think not. Again, Minnesota voters are not given the credit that they deserve. As a highly engaged and educated voting populace, with a very strong independent streak, they will see past this small bump.

During the past four years, we've seen Minnesota suffer through 4-years of Pawlenty cuts to education and services, cuts to local government aid that has forced up my property taxes. I have "fees" coming out my ears, just beause Pawlenty doesn't want to call them taxes. Fees on professional licenses, fees for "filing" just about everything.

Yes, Mike Hatch's running mate made one hell of a high profile blunder, but it was a very small blunder compared to 4-more-years of Pawlenty's tax shell game.

I for one will not be distracted. As blunders go, it's not that big of a deal. It's one very small issue in a very large campaign.

As an independent voter, I see through Pawlenty's attempts to shift the spot light away from his 4-years of slash-and-burn tax cuts. I would rather take a chance on a ticket that needs a little education on E-85 (lobbiests and rural lawmakers will certainly take care of that), than to continue on with Pawlenty's dismantling of Minnesota's world-class educational system.

Kerry's gaffe now ancient history. But can he shutup for a week?

John Kerry continues to typify what has been wrong with the Democratic party during the past 12 years. His ill-timed stupid botched joke, just as Democratic control of the Senate is becoming a statistical possibility, is the kind of low-ground turn-off politics that NO Democrat should not be exhibiting prior to one of the most important elections in recent US history.

To his credit, John Kerry apologized to the troops today. This will neuter the Republican attack for Independent voters, but no matter -- Kerry's comment will serve to mobilize the Republican base, which means that Democrats will need to work that much harder over the next week to turn out that many more Democratic voters.

Senator Kerry -- help your party and America. For just one week, please keep your big ego under control and your big flap shut.