Month: May 2008

Yes We Can

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Over the weekend my husband ran for a national delegate position for Barack Obama and he got it!

Here’s my husband’s speech ( he actually sang a few lines from a couple of songs and played his guitar ).

I’d like to say how proud I am of him… Luis does great work for our community and I’m grateful he was given this chance to be part of this historical delegation.

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a Delegate’s Speech

 

This land is your land,

This land is my land…

And the times

They are a changin’

 

Good afternoon fellow delegates, alternates and political warriors.  I am LUIS MOSCOSO:  community organizer, union activist and Democratic “CHANGE AGENT!”

 

YOU are the FORCE for CHANGE I’ve been organizing for – and Senator Obama is the LEADER for CHANGE that is so desperately needed now!

 

I am excited to be here with all of you. The ENERGY of INCLUSION that has been set in motion cannot be stopped!  WE are a force to be reckoned with. YOU are the America I’ve always dreamed of.

 

I have been in these battles before – and I’m ready for the FIGHT of OUR LIVES.

 

Let me work with you to take back our country starting in Denver at the Democratic National Convention – then back at home in our Congressional and Legislative Districts and throughout our State.

 

I am Luis Moscoso, # 44

…working to change these times!

Luis was elected along side  Jessica Beckett, Kendal Hamilton, Ron Oshima,  as the 1st Congressional District’s ( Washington State ) national delegates for Barack Obama

Luis Moscoso ( left ) and Tomas Villanueva at the 1/27/07 Washington Democratic Party reorganization. Mr. Villaneuva, a founder and past president of United Farmworkers — and a recent candidate for State Senate — gave the nominating speech for Luis Moscoso’s re-election as State Party Secretary. Ricardo Polintan, State Committee Member from the 47th District, gave the seconding speech.
Meet Luis:

My support of Barack

Obama is consistent with my work as a Democratic progressive activist. Like Obama I

have been and continue to be a community organizer dedicated to grassroots

activism and involvement in every thing I do.

Democratic Activist:

Secretary, Washington State Democrats (2 terms)

Affirmative Action Committee

PCO – MLT 13

SCDCC – Diversity Committee (founder and member)

State Caucus member: Hispanic/Latino; Labor; Progressive; Women’s Federation

2004 WA State Howard Dean Steering Committee

DNC Delegate (2004 Boston)

Union Activist:

32 years in WA Labor Movement (ATU 1576 & WPEA/UFCW 365)

Government Relations Director (legislative/political programs & activities)

Labor/Neighbor Campaign Leadership Team (Snohomish County)

WSLC Political Roundtable

CTW Legislative Political Representative

Community Activist:

Sno. Co. Citizens Committee for Human Rights – Organizer, Community Liaison

NAACP Snohomish County – Founding Member, Executive Committee

Institute for Washington’s Future – President & Board (www.forwashington.org)

Communities of Color Coalition (C3) of Snohomish County – Co-Founder

I have lived my democratic and progressive values since moving to Washington from

Iowa 32 years ago. I have the experience and stamina to stand up for progressive

policies and action in our state and in the Democratic Party that can only happen

with the election of Senator Barack Obama.

 

Please VOTE for me to represent you in Denver!

“Yes we can!” —Senator Obama “¡Si se puede!” —Luis Moscoso

Political, Union & Community Activist!

Performing with

3 Chord Progressives:

“Activism through music!”

Eat Your Heart Out Hillary

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Long before Hillary and Michigan and God help us Florida

a woman named Hatshepsut was called Pharaoh.

Snark.

Safety First!

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Australian fined for buckling in beer, not child

An Australian man has been fined after buckling in a case of beer with a seat belt but leaving a 5-year-old child to sit on the car’s floor, police said Tuesday.

Constable Wayne Burnett said he was “shocked and appalled” when he pulled over the unregistered car Friday in the central Australian town of Alice Springs.

The 30-can beer case was strapped in between two adults sitting in the back seat of the car. The child was also in back, but on the car’s floor.

“The child was sitting in the lump in the center, unrestrained,” Burnett told reporters Tuesday.

“I haven’t ever seen something like this before,” he said. “This is the first time that the beer has taken priority over a child.”

The driver was fined 750 Australian dollars — about $710 — for driving an unregistered and uninsured vehicle and for failing to ensure a child was wearing a safety belt.

The Doctor is IN

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Hey!

Come on back after you watch this episode and let me know what you thought of it.

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05/16/08 The Sontaran Stratagem 8.30 / 7.30 C Sci Fi 

Martha Jones summons the Doctor back to modern-day Earth, but an old enemy lies in wait, as Russell T Davies’s Bafta Award-winning time-travelling drama continues. With the mysterious ATMOS devices spreading across the world, Donna discovers that even her own family is not safe from the alien threat – but is it too late to save them?

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Questions to Ponder

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So many stupid questions, so little time. Just in case you DO have the time, here are a few questions you might take the time to ponder.

Why is “phonics” not spelled the way it sounds?

If quizzes are quizzical then what are tests?

If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know?

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

Why is there an expiration date on sour cream?

Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack?

Why isn’t 11 pronounced “onety-one”?

You can be overwhelmed and underwhelmed, but why can’t you be simply whelmed?

Shouldn’t the opposite of shut up be shut down?

If you get cheated by the Better Business Bureau, who do you complain to?

How come there aren’t B batteries?

If you got in a cab and the driver drove backwards, would he end up owing you money?

Why is the word for “a fear of long words,” hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, so long?

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Why do they call it a TV “set” when you only get one?

How do “Do not walk on the grass” signs get there?

If I melt dry ice, can I take a bath without getting wet?

Why is it that night falls but day breaks?

How do you remove a club soda stain?

 

Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?

How come you never hear father-in-law jokes?

When your pet bird sees you reading the newspaper, does he wonder why you’re just sitting there, staring at carpeting?

How do people get discombobulated? Have you ever seen someone who was combobulated?

Who closes the door when the bus driver gets off?

If You Tried

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I’ve heard it for years now.

” You could be pretty…if you tried. “

Guess what- I have tried.

Lots of times.

I think I have the right to ‘ not try ‘ anymore.

Shallow Bastards.

I really should do something about the company I keep.

Real Archaeologists Don’t Have Whips

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Real archaeologists don’t have whips

I can vouch for that.

I wanted to be an archaeologist pre- Indiana Jones ( this was in 1973 or maybe 1974  so I was about 10 ) until I met one.

He was wearing a Grateful Dead t-shirt and reeked like Patchouli and when I asked if he had ever been in a mummy’s tomb  he said yes, several in fact.

 So of course I asked

” are they really cursed? “

And he says no.

He enjoyed telling me no.

Jerk.

So I said,  ” that’s too bad. “

I decided to be a Mortician after that.

 

Taking The Ghost With You

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Years ago I heard a story about a woman who checked into a somewhat upscale hotel without any luggage. She didn’t even have her purse or any I.D- somehow it had been left behind.

This was back in the early 1950’s and I’m guessing they let her do this because people were more trusting back then- that and from all accounts the woman was well dressed, well spoken and by appearances seemed like a  real lady.

At any rate, it was on it’s way she told the Hotel Clerk- in fact it was going to be showing up any minute so could she just check into her room- it had been a long day.

The Clerk let her check in and the next morning when the maid went into the room they found the woman dead, sitting in a chair facing the window.

They authorities would only ever learn one thing about the woman- she was dead from cyanide poisoning- an odd thing to use to kill yourself,  but that was the cause of death and that’s what was reflected on the death certificate.

The woman’s luggage never did show up, and no one ever came forward to I.D Jane Doe- and somewhere in Seattle under a little grey stone with numbers on it- probably overgrown with grass now is a woman who according to some never existed.

So I wonder.

Can a person who never existed-

Truly Ever Die?