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Posted by -Chuck
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Friday, 05 December 2008 |
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Louisville, Ky - This is the final posting of the Atomic! project.
We've come a long way in 4 years, and that could only be accomplished with the support of people like you...reading this...right now! We've never asked for a penny from our members. We don't accept donations. We do all of the work ourselves. We host our own sites, pay for them, build them, and maintain them.
Since our launch WAY back in 2004, the world has changed in some significant ways. Kentucky has changed too. We've gone from a hard-right-Red-State, to a solid 'purple' one. Our people have felt the effects of an out of control government. We've even had a few criminal Governors along the way. But we've also elected a true Liberal to the Congress in John Yarmuth. We rejected the politically retarded, and self obsessed Anne Northup in the process. We almost unseated Sen. Mitch McConnell. We elected Democrat Steve Beshear...and he's turned out to be a better leader than initially expected. We've managed to get some 'pork' into the state as well, by way of infrastructure improvements...roads...bridges...you name it. Viva la Pork!
We've also done whatever we could to oppose the war in Iraq, and better support the effort in Afghanistan. We've done anything that we could to support troops both on the battlefield, and at home.
I have no idea if we had any impact at all...but we had to try.
Bill Maher said it best:
So, this is a new age...a new time for us. What will we do with it? Will we hold the new government to account to the promises made, the changes we really require?
Let's hope. While the Republican party has the simpler task of rebuilding itself as a national party, the Democrats have the more difficult task of actually running the show. There will be some mistakes along the way. Not everything works out. But we need to be ready to hold fire to feet and never allow a government to grow out of control in the way the Bush administration has.
We get the government we deserve. And right now, for the first time in a long time, I am feeling pretty good about it.
Feel free to go back in time...read through our archives. It's been interesting :)
And don't forget to check out our new project at: http://BlackWednesday.org on January 1, 2009.
-Chuck |
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Posted by Berry Craig
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Sunday, 09 November 2008 |
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By: Berry Craig
MAYFIELD, Ky – I passed the old clunker on the way home from school the day before the election.
The 80s-vintage Buick compact was more primer than paint. The driver’s clothes looked bargain basement, not Brooks Brothers.
Yet a “McCain-Palin” sticker clung resolutely to the rust bucket’s rear bumper.
Based on his wheels and his threads, Buick Guy is one of what the Good Book calls “the least among us.”
Yet he was apparently voting for a millionaire who believes that rich people and big corporations – not Buick Guys -- ought to get more tax breaks. John McCain also thinks bosses shouldn’t be bothered by strong unions and by government regulations that protect the safety and health of workers, including Buick Guy, on the job.
I’ve never understood Buick Guys. Kentucky – not one of the wealthiest states – is full of them. While Barack Obama won in a landslide nationally, the Bluegrass State went big for McCain, as it did twice for Bush.
Meanwhile, Buick Guys in Kentucky and elsewhere continue to vote for candidates who aim to make the rich richer and keep Buick Guys driving heaps.
Maybe President-elect Obama’s skin color prevented Buick Guy from voting for him. Like Pap in Huckleberry Finn, Buick Guys don’t get it. Poverty transcends race. “The issue is not black and white – it’s green,” said the Rev. W.G. Harvey, the first African American city commissioner in Paducah, where I teach in the community college.
Buick Guys are really elitists, said David Nickell, who teaches sociology at the same community college. He wasn’t kidding.
“They are the least secure group in society,” Nickell added. “They are right on the edge of the poverty line. They’re a paycheck away from losing everything.”
So Buick Guys look down on people poorer than they are, Nickell said. “And they readily accept the ideology of the real elite.”
Buick Guys oppose most government aid for people who need it, even thought that aid also benefits them. “They see redistributing the wealth as taking from them and giving to those below them. They don’t see it as taking from billionaires and helping them, too.” |
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