<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" ><channel><title>A Furious Citizens Blog &#187; Politics</title> <atom:link href="http://furious-citizen.org/category/politics/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://furious-citizen.org</link> <description>Rants, Rambles and Commentary about Economics, Politics, Technology, Cincinnati, and The United States of America</description> <lastBuildDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 02:17:35 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <item><title>A Liberal Mind with Conservative Arms</title><link>http://furious-citizen.org/2009/03/a-liberal-mind-with-conservative-arms/</link> <comments>http://furious-citizen.org/2009/03/a-liberal-mind-with-conservative-arms/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:10:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Furious Citizen</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[2009]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Guns]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lane Campbell]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://furious-citizen.org/?p=159</guid> <description><![CDATA[I call myself a Conservative Liberal. To sum this up let me put it this way: I am an American and firmly believe in the Capitolist ideals that America fostered. I am an humanitarian who would rather help my fellow man than kill him. I think the richest folks in the world today classify themselves [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I call myself a Conservative Liberal.</p><p>To sum this up let me put it this way:</p><ul><li>I am an American and firmly believe in the Capitolist ideals that America fostered.</li><li>I am an humanitarian who would rather help my fellow man than kill him.</li><li>I think the richest folks in the world today classify themselves as internationalists above any other nationality.</li><li>No government challenges an armed populace, probably why the USA has been such a successful democracy for so long.</li><li>My beliefs ensure freedom for all Americans who are not hurting another person.</li><li>I think gays should be able to marry</li><li>I think gays should be able to serve in the Armed Forces</li><li>I think gays are people and should not have to be called gays&#8230;.</li><li>I own a .22 calibre rifle</li><li>I want to own a .357 Magnum by the end of 2010</li></ul><p>That is me&#8230;</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://furious-citizen.org/2009/03/a-liberal-mind-with-conservative-arms/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Obama Won in a Landslide</title><link>http://furious-citizen.org/2008/11/obama-won-in-a-landslide/</link> <comments>http://furious-citizen.org/2008/11/obama-won-in-a-landslide/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:00:31 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Furious Citizen</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Election 2008]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[2008 Election]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://furious-citizen.org/?p=152</guid> <description><![CDATA[Barack Obama won the Presidential election in an electorate landslide, he is a master organizer and he ran a clean campaign that has made me proud to be an American. Congratulations Mr. President.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Barack Obama won the Presidential election in an electorate landslide, he is a master organizer and he ran a clean campaign that has made me proud to be an American.</p><p>Congratulations Mr. President.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://furious-citizen.org/2008/11/obama-won-in-a-landslide/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>John Adams and Politics</title><link>http://furious-citizen.org/2008/10/john-adams-and-politics/</link> <comments>http://furious-citizen.org/2008/10/john-adams-and-politics/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 04:47:11 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Furious Citizen</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Election 2008]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[HBO]]></category> <category><![CDATA[John Adams]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://furious-citizen.org/?p=136</guid> <description><![CDATA[Have you seen the new HBO Mini-Series about John Adams? http://www.hbo.com/films/johnadams/ I am very, very, very, political so this appeals to me on many levels, still with all the complete &#8220;fucktards&#8221; in political office today I feel like its more important than ever to remember why we have a democracy. America is amazing.  We shall [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://furious-citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/johnadamsvpflipped.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-139 alignleft" title="John Adams" src="http://furious-citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/johnadamsvpflipped-257x300.jpg" alt="" width="257" height="300" /></a>Have you seen the new HBO Mini-Series about John Adams?</p><p><a href="http://www.hbo.com/films/johnadams/" target="_blank">http://www.hbo.com/films/johnadams/</a></p><p>I am very, very, very, political so this appeals to me on many levels, still with all the complete &#8220;fucktards&#8221; in political office today I feel like its more important than ever to remember why we have a democracy.</p><p>America is amazing.  We shall return to the glory state of our forefathers dreams, first things first, lets get Obama elected!!!!!!!!!</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://furious-citizen.org/2008/10/john-adams-and-politics/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Hottie has words for Joe Biden on Sarah Palin</title><link>http://furious-citizen.org/2008/10/hottie-has-words-for-joe-biden-on-sarah-palin/</link> <comments>http://furious-citizen.org/2008/10/hottie-has-words-for-joe-biden-on-sarah-palin/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:58:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Furious Citizen</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Election 2008]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://furious-citizen.org/2008/10/hottie-has-words-for-joe-biden-on-sarah-palin/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Well okay more like milf (if she&#8217;s a mom) but she literally lets her pit bull out in this video clip while egging Joe Biden to attack Sarah Palin in the debates.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well okay more like milf (if she&#8217;s a mom) but she literally lets her pit bull out in this video clip while egging Joe Biden to attack Sarah Palin in the debates.</p><p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="450" height="370" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="menu" value="false" /><param name="flashvars" value="height=370&amp;width=448&amp;autostart=false&amp;autoscroll=false&amp;showstop=false&amp;showicons=false&amp;showdigits=total&amp;controlbar=34&amp;backcolor=0xFFFFFF&amp;screencolor=0x000000&amp;frontcolor=0xDEDEDE&amp;lightcolor=0x00A2FF&amp;logo=http%3A//www.ireport.com/themes/custom/resources/swfplayer/data/images/ireport_wm.gif&amp;file=http%3A//ht.cdn.turner.com/ireport/big/prod/2008/10/01/WE00099911/231659/Anon1222899572-DontHoldBackJoe524039.flv&amp;image=http%3A//i.cdn.turner.com/ireport/sm/prod/2008/10/01/WE00099911/231659/Anon1222899572-DontHoldBackJoe524039_lg.jpg" /><param name="src" value="http://www.ireport.com/themes/custom/resources/swfplayer/mediaplayer.swf" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" height="370" src="http://www.ireport.com/themes/custom/resources/swfplayer/mediaplayer.swf" flashvars="height=370&amp;width=448&amp;autostart=false&amp;autoscroll=false&amp;showstop=false&amp;showicons=false&amp;showdigits=total&amp;controlbar=34&amp;backcolor=0xFFFFFF&amp;screencolor=0x000000&amp;frontcolor=0xDEDEDE&amp;lightcolor=0x00A2FF&amp;logo=http%3A//www.ireport.com/themes/custom/resources/swfplayer/data/images/ireport_wm.gif&amp;file=http%3A//ht.cdn.turner.com/ireport/big/prod/2008/10/01/WE00099911/231659/Anon1222899572-DontHoldBackJoe524039.flv&amp;image=http%3A//i.cdn.turner.com/ireport/sm/prod/2008/10/01/WE00099911/231659/Anon1222899572-DontHoldBackJoe524039_lg.jpg" menu="false" wmode="transparent"></embed></object></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://furious-citizen.org/2008/10/hottie-has-words-for-joe-biden-on-sarah-palin/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Letter to the Repblicans of My Parents&#039; Generation</title><link>http://furious-citizen.org/2008/10/letter-to-the-repblicans-of-my-parents-generation/</link> <comments>http://furious-citizen.org/2008/10/letter-to-the-repblicans-of-my-parents-generation/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:18:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Furious Citizen</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Election 2008]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[US Politics]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://furious-citizen.org/?p=131</guid> <description><![CDATA[I did not write this I was linked to it from this site, however I thought it warranted being shared and that site can&#8217;t be submitted to any social news sites.  I have messaged the Author letting them know this is posted but unless they ask me to take it down I will leave it [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://furious-citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/fairey_obama_hope.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-132" title="Obama for America" src="http://furious-citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/fairey_obama_hope-200x300.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="300" /></a>I did not write this I was linked to it from <a href="http://www.okcupid.com/profile/mutedpalette/journal/9295952870283287899" target="_blank">this site</a>, however I thought it warranted being shared and that site can&#8217;t be submitted to any social news sites.  I have messaged the Author letting them know this is posted but unless they ask me to take it down I will leave it up.</p><blockquote><p>You may be right.</p><p>You probably make more than $250,000 a year, and that does mean that your taxes would probably go up if Obama were elected. There&#8217;s something bigger going on here, though. Something more important than your wealth.</p><p>I know, we&#8217;ve relied on your wealth our entire lives. We still rely on your wealth. And that is what is more important.</p><p>We are the first generation- we, Generation Y, or the Millennial Generation, or Twixters, or whatever you want to call us- we are the first generation to have less economic opportunity than our parents.</p><p>When you were our age, you could graduate from high school and get a job that would provide for you family. So many more of you went to college than your parents. Generation X, our predecessors, could count on a job out of college that would provide them the same. Now? With our bachelor’s degrees, we can get secretarial positions that pay us slightly more than minimum wage. If we&#8217;re lucky.</p><p>We are the first generation in the history of this country with less opportunity than you, our parents.</p><p>And that is was this election is about. Yes, you might lose some money to taxation, but you&#8217;re not going to get taxed out of your home. But you don&#8217;t have much to worry about. You&#8217;re set for life- you have Social Security. You have money already saved away for your retirement. We don&#8217;t.</p><p>And we know why you want to maintain your wealth. It&#8217;s for us. You want to know that your children, and our children, are provided for when you&#8217;re gone. And we appreciate that. But we want more- we want what you had when you were our age. We want to opportunity to build our own wealth, and to provide for our own families.</p><p>I think I understand you. Obama and his politics frighten you, because they are not FOR you. For the first time in your lives, this election is not about you. It is about us. It&#8217;s about whether we will start to shift our policies for the realities of OUR lives, and not for yours. It&#8217;s a statement that perhaps your time has passed. Of course that seems unfair- you&#8217;re still working hard, you&#8217;re still active and healthy, but that&#8217;s where we are now. The time seems to have come in this country to stop building policy around you, and to begin to build policy around us.</p><p>We are already worrying about providing our children with the health care. We grew up surrounded by the struggle of you and our friends’ parents trying to cover the health care expenses of children with ADHD and autism. We don&#8217;t even dream of making what you made when we were children. We see home ownership as a terrifying and impossible dream and risk at once, no longer a standard step towards adulthood and security. We are ready to start providing for our children, and you are terrified to take the next step in providing for yours. The step of letting them take charge of their own destinies.</p><p>Your fears are warranted. We don&#8217;t have the experience that you do, we don&#8217;t have the resources, or the opportunities. But we share with you one fundamental thing- our values. American values. We want to make a life for ourselves, to eke out our own niche, our own livings, and provide everything for our own families.</p><p>You will never be able to prepare us for this, but you are our parents. It&#8217;s your job to understand us and to support us. To help us make the right choices. Not to take all choices away from us.</p><p>Thank you for the past thirty years. They&#8217;ve been so different from the thirty years before, and we are different people than you were when you were thirty years younger. But you&#8217;ve finished your job, and we&#8217;re ready to claim our country.</p></blockquote><p>Thank you to the girl from Chicago who shared this.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://furious-citizen.org/2008/10/letter-to-the-repblicans-of-my-parents-generation/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>McCain and Palin pose</title><link>http://furious-citizen.org/2008/08/mccain-and-palin-pose/</link> <comments>http://furious-citizen.org/2008/08/mccain-and-palin-pose/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:21:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Furious Citizen</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Election 2008]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[McCain Palin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[US Politics]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://furious-citizen.org/?p=112</guid> <description><![CDATA[If McCain wanted nothing but a Woman with a pretty face he should have just picked his wife as his VP.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://furious-citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/mccain-palin.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-113" title="mccain-palin" src="http://furious-citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/mccain-palin.jpg" alt="" width="252" height="252" /></a></p><p>If McCain wanted nothing but a Woman with a pretty face he should have just picked his wife as his VP.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://furious-citizen.org/2008/08/mccain-and-palin-pose/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Poland responds to Russian Invasion of Georgia</title><link>http://furious-citizen.org/2008/08/poland-responds-to-russias-invasion-of-georgia/</link> <comments>http://furious-citizen.org/2008/08/poland-responds-to-russias-invasion-of-georgia/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:45:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Furious Citizen</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Missile Defense Shield]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Poland]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Putin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://furious-citizen.org/?p=95</guid> <description><![CDATA[Well&#8230;. They didn&#8217;t exactly call it a response but after more than 18 months of negotiations they have allowed the United States to build part of the missile defense shield inside of their borders.  This is a move that is likely to piss off Putin but it’s a win-win for the good ole&#8217; US of [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well&#8230;. They didn&#8217;t exactly call it a response but after more than 18 months of negotiations they have allowed the United States to build part of the missile defense shield inside of their borders.  This is a move that is likely to piss off Putin but it’s a win-win for the good ole&#8217; US of A.</p><p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/14/usa.poland" target="_blank">US and Poland agree to missile defence deal</a></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://furious-citizen.org/2008/08/poland-responds-to-russias-invasion-of-georgia/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>JibJab presents &quot;Time for some Campaignin&quot;</title><link>http://furious-citizen.org/2008/08/jibjab-presents-time-for-some-campaignin/</link> <comments>http://furious-citizen.org/2008/08/jibjab-presents-time-for-some-campaignin/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:19:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Furious Citizen</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Music]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Crazy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[JibJab]]></category> <category><![CDATA[McCain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://furious-citizen.org/?p=46</guid> <description><![CDATA[This video cracks me up, oh and did I mention that I put it on repeat for two and half hours the other day?  No, well I did and I am crazy enough to have actually enjoyed it for the entire 2.5 hours.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="425" height="319" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="id" value="A32863" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="scaleMode" value="showAll" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="allowNetworking" value="all" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="FlashVars" value="content_url=http://aka.zero.jibjab.com/files/production/tentpole_config.xml&amp;service=sendables.jibjab.com" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://aka.zero.jibjab.com/client/zero/ClientZero_EmbedViewer.swf?content_url=http://aka.zero.jibjab.com/files/production/tentpole_config.xml&amp;service=sendables.jibjab.com" /><embed id="A32863" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="319" src="http://aka.zero.jibjab.com/client/zero/ClientZero_EmbedViewer.swf?content_url=http://aka.zero.jibjab.com/files/production/tentpole_config.xml&amp;service=sendables.jibjab.com" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="content_url=http://aka.zero.jibjab.com/files/production/tentpole_config.xml&amp;service=sendables.jibjab.com" allowfullscreen="true" allownetworking="all" quality="high" scalemode="showAll" wmode="transparent"></embed></object></p><p>This video cracks me up, oh and did I mention that I put it on repeat for two and half hours the other day?  No, well I did and I am crazy enough to have actually enjoyed it for the entire 2.5 hours.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://furious-citizen.org/2008/08/jibjab-presents-time-for-some-campaignin/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Obama Campaign Called Me</title><link>http://furious-citizen.org/2008/04/the-obama-campaign-called-me/</link> <comments>http://furious-citizen.org/2008/04/the-obama-campaign-called-me/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:27:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Furious Citizen</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Database]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Election 2008]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://furious-citizen.org/?p=5</guid> <description><![CDATA[If anyone who knows me ends up reading this blog they would probably chastise me for not having something up about my man Obama. This past weekend his campaign called me again, this is like the fourth time this year that they called me but this time they had my name messed up in the [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://www.barackobama.com/images/downloads/posters/obama08_01thumb.jpg" alt="Barack Obama" />If anyone who knows me ends up reading this blog they would probably chastise me for not having something up about my man Obama.</p><p>This past weekend his campaign called me again, this is like the fourth time this year that they called me but this time they had my name messed up in the database.  Instead of being called &#8220;Mr. Campbell&#8221; or &#8220;Lane&#8221; they had me in as &#8220;Campbell&#8221;.  The conversation went well but thats because I want this man to be my next president, no ammount of disinformation in the database is going to change that.  The troubling factor for me was that the gentlemen on the phone seemed completely disinterested that my name was wrong and even after he was corrected he insisted on calling me &#8220;Campbell&#8221;.</p><p>Still regardless of a bad volunteer I am willing to campaign for the man and I hope that America wakes up and votes Obama this November.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://furious-citizen.org/2008/04/the-obama-campaign-called-me/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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