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25Apr/116

I Got Mail.

Yeah, I'm doing a post. I hope nobody dies from the shock. :)

I got a very interesting piece of junk mail today. It's from a mobile phone company called CREDO Mobile. You can find them online Here

There is a picture of Sarah Palin carrying a Tea Party sign with the line "If you agree with her politics, please don't open this envelope.". Well, I do agree with Sarah on most things, but, you know me, I rarely do what I'm told, so I opened it.

There's a little flyer with the same pic of Sarah, larger and in color with the headline: Does Your Phone Company Fight the Right?

On the back is the following mission statement:

Sarah Palin, John Boehner, Rand Paul, the Tea Party crow, and the Fox News gang all play on the same team--a team that certain phone companies have no qualms about funding. AT&T gave a whopping $426,000 to House and Senate Tea Party Caucus members in 2009-2010.

AT&T and Verizon Wireless pumped thousands of dollars into the campaign coffers of Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, and Mike Lee, all Tea Party-back Senators.

At CREDO, we're fighting the right wing--with an activist network thats 1.9 million strong and growing, and with millions of dollars raised annually for nonprofits like ACLU, Earthjustice, Democracy Now! and Color of Change to name a few.

Join the fight. Join CREDO Mobile.

Now I've never heard of CREDO mobile before today and had no idea of AT&T or Verizon's donation habits. Perhaps you had not either.

This mailing made me ask a couple of questions.. First, how the hell did some left wing nut job phone company get my name and address? I wouldn't have joined any websites that lean that way and I haven't filled out any surveys or anything. Weird. Next, if Sarah Palin and the Tea Party are so freakin' irrelevant, why does anyone care what they do or who donates to them? And lastly, why aren't AT&T and Verizon ..etc... sending out mail like this?

Oooh, I heard a little blog called Wonkette was looking for new advertisers, perhaps I could steer CREDO their way.

Okay...I"m done. No rant...just a little FYI. :)

Have a lovely day.

UPDATE: I called Credo to find out where they got my address. Turns out it was "donated" to them by a charity I donated to called Falling Whistles. I started laughing and asked the operator "so, based on a single charitable donation, your company assumed I agreed with your political agenda. So, what you're really saying is, that since I do not believe that it is cool traffic in human beings....I couldn't possibly be a Republican?" He said "no ma'am that's not what we're saying at all."

Um, yeah little man it is, since that's where you got my name from, you made a GIANT leap in the wrong direction.

So I told him I did not expect to get another piece of mail from his company no matter what charities I choose to donate my money too.

Dede

Sometimes stuff rumbles around in my brain that's longer than 140 characters and, well......twitlonger just seems like cheating. :)

Tagged as: at&t, conservative, credo mobile, left wing, Liberal, right wing, Sarah Palin, verizon wireless 6 Comments

13Sep/108

Stop Remembering Dead People

Alan Colmes thinks we should stop having 9/11 memorial services. Because, apparently the terrorists like it or ..something....well you listen and see if you can figure him out.

Is he serious? So...no memorial services because the terrorists win. So we should probably not rebuild the site because that would just give the terrorists something shiny and new to knock down...and the terrorists win. Build a mosque there tho' and we win...what?

I do not understand how a person spends everyday being a liberal without the top of their head blowing clean off on a daily..if not hourly basis.

How do you, with a straight face, defend a religion that advocates DEATH to anyone who disagrees, believes differently, or is gay or a woman while simultaneously decrying America for not changing the definition of marriage or screaming that abortion isn't available enough. I don't get it. Islam is a religion of peace, but don't insult them or stand in their way of world domination or you might get beheaded? Thinking in great big circles like that has to be exhausting.

Dede

Sometimes stuff rumbles around in my brain that's longer than 140 characters and, well......twitlonger just seems like cheating. :)

Tagged as: 9/11, Abortion, Alan Colmes, douchebag, Islam, Liberal, Terrorism 8 Comments

14Jun/100

Oh my; 49% of Americans think Democrats are too liberal

The Brain Trust?

That is, according to the notoriously Reich-wing OberGruppenFuhrer McPollster...Gallup ?!? I mean, I'm shocked, SHOCKED! at this result, as I'm sure you are too.

Not only is this figure currently signifigant, it is only 1 point lower than the all time high of 50% recorded...wait for it...following the upset 1994 mid-term elections !

In the past two years, Americans have become increasingly likely to describe the Democratic Party’s views as “too liberal” (49%), and less likely to say its views are “about right” (38%). Americans’ views of the Republican Party, on the other hand, have moderated slightly, with a dip in the percentage saying the GOP is too conservative from 43% last year to 40% today, and an increase in the percentage saying it is about right, from 34% to 41%.

The recent increase in perceptions of the Democratic Party as too liberal could be a response to the expansion in government spending since President Barack Obama took office, most notably regarding the economic stimulus and healthcare legislation.

The 49% of Americans who now believe the Democratic Party’s views are too liberal is one percentage point below the 50% Gallup measured after the 1994 elections, the all-time high in the trend question first asked in 1992.

This doesn't look too good for the most ethical party-EVAR!-going into the midterm election cycle. So, not only have O!&Co. pretty much lost the independants, with their approval deficit standing at 19% (33/52 on Democrat ideological position "about right" vs. too liberal), but this seems to auger a coming fail in their strategy to paint the Republicans as too extreme and to, once again, blame the nation's woes on Boooooooooooooooosh!

Cap'n Ed at Hot air opines that those strategeries might have had a shot before the post-partisan President and most Transparent!, Effective!, and Ethical! Congress rammed through Obamacare, and he goes on to observe:

In November 1994, the split for “too liberal/about right” was 42/40. Post-election, it was 50/32. That bodes ill for Democrats in this cycle as it stands today — but Democrats haven’t stopped spending in 2010, either. If Barbara Boxer and Harry Reid try pushing cap-and-tax through the Senate, they may get to the 1994 post-election number sooner.

Looks like if public opinion keeps trending this way then, you know, some of the usual suspects in Washington are gonna have to start thinking about getting a real job...

(H/T Hot Air on the story, and to Ace on the Obergruppenfuhrer McPollster snark!)