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Lonon Smith

Member since: Feb 5th, 2007

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Voting Machine Maker Threatens Legal Action Against Auditors (Switched)

Mar 21st 2008 12:45PM So ... they don't really care if their voting machines work as long as we don't get to hear about it? Nice. Welcome to George Bush's America.

Boycott Rosie? (AOL Video Blog)

Apr 21st 2007 1:10PM Ah, such good Americans you all are. She said something that with which you don't agree so we must drive her from the air. Did she say something that a great many other people believe? Yes. Did she rattle the cage of self-satisfied, lock step, think-what-they're-told Republicans everywhere? Yes. Is she any worse than Bill O'Reilly who has his own co-host's mic turned off when she disagrees with him? No, ol' Bill still gets the prize. And is Rosie fat? Yeah. But better a fat ass than a fat head.

Vieira vs. Rev. Sharpton (AOL Video Blog)

Apr 13th 2007 2:24PM It isn't that the Reverand Sharpton and the Reverand Jackson don't have the right to criticize Dom Imus, it's that they need to stop their own hypocrisy before they choke on it. The New Testament Bible that they claim to represent speaks eloquently about the need to forgive and instructs us to treat other people as we would like to be treated. Since both gentlemen have made racist comments equal to Mr. Imus' in the past, they should follow their own opinions and ban themselves from all radio and television appearances. They obviously won't since they would perish without seeing their own faces on TV. They won't criticize black rappers either, no matter how much "gangsta" rap denigrates their own black sisters and mothers with an unbroken stream of insults that stem from what seems like some deep insecurity about their own manhood.

I don't care that Imus lost his job. He'll land on Sirius radio along with Howard Stern -- and hopefully the public will remember that his programs that help children still need support. What I know is that hypocrisy is a form of cancer. When it infects our politics and our speech, all real discussion will cease -- and we will be trapped, unable to move forward toward some resolution of our long buried racism because it will be politically incorrect to express our feelings from either side of the issue. Shutting up white people while giving a section of black America free rein is a sure recipe to keep racial hatred in place for years to come. That will be the true work of Sharpton, Jackson and any other "progressive" white or black who joined the stampede under the guise of actually leading us to a better world.

In Six-Party Talks, Condoleezza Missed Perfect Opportunity to Use Leg-Gun (This Just In)

Apr 12th 2007 2:27AM Gee, guys, kinda' forgot about that separation of the branches of government? Not that I don't want the spoiled frat boy who some of you elected to actually be the President of the United States to get every little blank check/free pass that he demands. He's shown such leadership so far that, I have no doubt, with a free hand he can actually destroy put our country into permanent second class/also ran status.

Pelosi went to Syria because she's SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, you idiots! The Democrats won the majority in the last election! And someone -- someone! -- needs to establish some kind of foreign policy besides that of the neo-con morons that are still advising Bushie while they wait for their indictments to be handed down.

Grandma Crashes into DMV (AOL Video Blog)

Mar 2nd 2007 9:37AM When my mother was over ninety -- THAT'S NINETY --the DMV in California renewed her driver's license. AT the time she was becoming senile and had the reaction time of a chair. I actually called to confirm this because I was convinced that she was lying so that she could go on driving. The DMV was happy to tell me that I was wrong. I had to take her keys away after one of th eworst fights I ever had with this elderly woman who had raised me. And then there was the swell gentlemen who drove his car into farmers market in Santa Monica a few years back. That was a few blocks from where my daughter and her family live. I'm an AARP member, but they are largely responsible for the weak laws we have about the elderly driving.

Multiple Choice Mitt? (AOL Elections Blog)

Feb 19th 2007 4:23PM Several great leaders in the past changed their opinions and party affiliations (Winston Churchill for one), but they did it after some struggle with their consciences. Mr. McCain has a Presidential fever that lets him hold any position that will get him the Republican nomination, and Mr. Romney seems not to ever had a position he truly believed in in the first place. Their pasts tells us a lot. Mr. McCain comes from generations of a military family and seems unable to consider any options except complete victory no matter what the consequences. Mr. Romney, of course, is the son of a car salesman.

As to Barak Obama, he was raised by his white mother in an American middle class world. I assume that the comment from Mr. Meeker posted above is meant to imply that, because Mr. Obama has the middle name Hussein, he is a fanatical Muslim. This holds about as much water as the story that he was educated in a fundamentalist Muslim school. This is an example of a Republican party that has abandoned all ties to moraltiy except in its continuing flim-falm of the so-called Christian right. He was named by an African father who, one hopes, was proud of his heritage. If names matter, mine is Irish. It doesn't make me a member of the IRA.

Mr. Romney is being questioned about his Mormon religion (a religion I respect very highly BTW) because it is unfamiliar to a lot of Americans in a way that say the Baptists are not. Mr. Meeker knows this, and his comment is reflective of an American political process that -- despite the disgust of the American people -- is still being run by men like Karl Rove by smear and innuendo.

A Swift Boat For McCain (AOL Elections Blog)

Feb 5th 2007 12:29PM Senator McCain, for all his talk of honor and patriotism, seems quite willing to take a page from the Karl Rove book on smearing other candidates. Why else hire men whose skill is exactly that. It's good that McCain lets us see his hypocrisy early in this election. If the Republican Party selects him as their candidate, we can all know that its leaders learned nothing from the last national election.