Hi everyone!
Welcome to Social Notes, the sometimes weekly goings-on of Houston’s lesbian community. You
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the upper right hand corner of this page. Now, let me show you around the website:
- The Calendar page contains a listing of events for the next couple of months.
- To find out about clubs and organizations, check out the Organizations page. This page is
sub-divided to make it easier to find things.
- I know all you kind-hearted pet-loving lesbians would want to know about animals needing a
new home, so I included a Pets page.
- The Jobs Page lists both women in search of jobs, and job openings for gay-friendly
positions.
- If you want to support lesbian, women-owned, or just generally gay-friendly businesses,
then check out the Networking Page. This page has also been recently subdivided to make
it easier to find what you are looking for.
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As many of you know, it is my goal in life to own and operate an upscale dude ranch/wilderness
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The Rant
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Monday, August 21, 2008
Well, Johnny McSame seems to be having bad adventures in Economic Land. First of all, in last
week's JesusThon conducted by televangelist Rick Warren, McCain basically implied that the
dividing line between middle class and rich was $5 million. Sooooo, everyone making
$4,999,999 is in that middle class bucket, eh??? Maybe if you and your wifey are worth over
$100 million, that would sound right to you, but for the rest of us, stuck living in the Real
World, Johnny gets an F.
But let's give him a chance to make it worse: When asked yesterday how many houses he owns,
he said that he couldn't remember and would have to consult his staff!!! For the record, the
answer is SEVEN, and they are worth a total of $13 million. How could you forget how many
houses you have??? With their backs against the wall for the candidate's latest bone-headed
statement, his spokesman implied that we should forget his memory lapse because McCain spent
five years in a very small house - ie a prison in Vietnam. That is apparently McCain's whole
political position these days: A noun, a verb and POW!
According to this logic, being a POW allows you to cheat widely on your first wife, and then
divorce her for a younger, richer woman. Being a POW allows you to crawl into bed with
scoundrels from the S&L scandal and pay no price (McCain was one of the Keating Five
senators). Being a POW allows to posture that you are against torture, but then vote for
whatever Kommander Kodpiece wants in order to violate the Geneva Conventions and our own
long standing prohibitions against torture. I could go on, but you get the drift. Rudy Giuliani
tried to run on the platform of "A noun, a verb and 911". Wonder if this will blow up on McCain
they way it did on America's Mayor.
But for me, McCain's biggest economic transgression of the week was to bring Phil Gramm back
into his campaign fold. For years, McCain has counted on Gramm to 'splain the economic world to
him. Gramm, who looks remarkably like a cranky turtle, was briefly banished for calling the
American people "whiners". But now he's back and ready to wreak more havoc.
As a congressman from Texas, Gramm shepherded legislation that led to the Enron scandal -
facilitated by the bill that deregulated the power markets. Heady with the success of ruining
one market, he moved on to banking. He slipped language into a 2000 page banking bill (that
apparently no one was reading) to allow the deregulation of lending practices. You can thank Phil
Gramm directly for the mortgage crisis. Yet when McCain is pushed about economic matters
that he simply can't grasp, he says "I rely on the circle I have developed over many years --
people like Phil Gramm."
Just for the record, McCain says he also would have hired Darth Cheney and Rumsfeld if he had
been elected in 2000. Even in retrospect, after watching the spectacular failure over which
those two presided, John McCain says he thinks they did a swell job. Great judgement, Fly Boy!!
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