Gabe Newman's Blog

So, I was on the way back from a Lesbian Dance Party the other night, just riding the Trek as usual, when I made a left hand turn and a lonesome five gallon bucket appeared in the road.  I swerved to the right, and back to the left only to avoid a side swipe with an oncoming vehicle in the next lane. 

It was quite a scare to say the least.  It was a good thing that I got to dance with a couple of lesbians because I think it gave me the moves I needed to avoid that bucket.  I mean the dances didn't last very long, before they left me like a lonely bucket in the middle of the road, but the question remains as to what that bucket was doing in the middle of the road, standing upright at that!

I'm not quite sure how things like that get there.  As I've said before, it's usually one shoe I see in the middle of the road.  Usually, one high heeled show I assume to be there from a night of partying left by a princess with bleach blonde hair, but five gallong buckets... stand upright, although upside down, right in the middle of the street, you know?

The next day, I saw another single shoe, but this time, it was a child's shoe, and not only that, but it was a lace up wing tip.  Then there was another woman's shoe, but this was a flat.  Do you think there's connection?  Maybe the five gallon bucket is meant for picking up all the lonely shoes.  Maybe I'll start a collection, except I didn't have that thought until just now, and I didn't grab the bucket to begin the collection process. 

That doesn't really matter, because I know where I can get my hands on a multitude of five gallon pickle buckets, but I gotta make my way back to Athens first and since I'm busy with the bike tour it may take awhile, but I only have until November 4th.  I'm staying well below the Mason-Dixon line right now for the sake of warmer weather. 

It will be a different day after the ice caps melt and and I can no longer ride this path through the Southern half of this country.  The day will come, if it hasn't already before, where Atlanta will be beach front property, and this path will not be travelled by road bound vehicles, yet a five gallon bucket might come in handy in that case as if your row boat springs a leak, then you can always use it to start bailing it out... except you won't need seven hundred billion of them to do the job, just one will do.  That is, unless, of course, you're on a luxury cruise liner cutting through the waves over what used to be New Orleans.

Until then, I'm peddling my ass off trying to get home before Thanksgiving which is when the feast commences only this year we're eating Gator meat the DAWGS bring back from Florida after this weekend!  I mean the Volleyball team beat Florida this past weekend in Athens after 18 years and over 40 matches!  That's a good sign!  I'm not calling the game before we play it, but those Lady Dawgs set the tone, so fellas take a hint and go down there an do some skinning! 

That reminds me...

It reminds of a story where a blonde woman was shopping for alligator shoes. She told the shopkeeper that the shoes were too expensive, and asked him why?

The shopkeeper said, "If you feel like they're too expensive then you can always go get your own from the swamp down the road!"

The blonde storms out offended, but determined to get her an affordable pair of alligator shoes. She happens to have a shot gun in her car so she proceeds to the swamp as the shopkeeper instructed her.

About an hour later, the shopkeeper is on his way home after closing up for the day and as he drives by the swamp where he told the woman to go. He notices there are five or six dead gators piled up at the edge of the water and the woman still has her shotgun in hand.

Curious, he stops and asks her, "What the heck are you doing? Is everything alright?"

The blonde replies, "Whew... now, I know why those alligator shoes are so expensive! I've killed six of these bad boys and I haven't found one with shoes on yet!"

And, oh yeah, by the way, Holly Huddleston of the Olly Girls sent this video out, and I just thought I'd share it.  It has nothing to do with Alligator shoes, one red shoes, or five gallon buckets, but what the heck!

Just follow this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyspCRmJv7w

Reposted Blog & My Response Follows:

I know this is long, but it still shouldn't take you twenty minutes to read in total. Please ignore the talk about "tiered thinking" if you're not already familiar with it. That doesn't need to be understood in order to grasp the essence of the argument. -Gabe

"Socialist" Is Not an Epithet (The Nation)

"Communism is not necessarily any more evil than unfettered capitalism."

I agree, if communism is implemented by 3rd Tier people for 3rd Tier people.

I'm not advocating Communism but am open to the possibility of some form of socialism -- which we already have at any rate. Why? Because I don't feel that capitalism in its present form is sustainable. Whether economically or ecologically. In "Zeitgeist: Addendum" (video on my profile page), they say that the free-market economy promotes an economy of scarcity when, in fact -- the earth has all the natural resources that is needed to feed, clothe, shelter, educate, provide healthcare, and technology to all of its inhabitants. The only thing that is limited in supply, in fact -- is fossil fuel energy such as crude oil, coal, natural gas, and uranium for the purpose of energy for power. I find it interesting that the preoccupation of three-dimensional modern and postmodern societies is the preoccupation over power in the form of energy. This was a one-dimensional magical preoccupation as well, power over nature. Yet barring energy (power) that is necessary for transportation and powering our homes and other places, the natural resources are unlimited in supply. If we were to replace non-renewable, carbon-emitting or radioactive energy with carbon-free, renewable energy -- we would be able to operate without a monetary system and could turn to a resource-based, sustainable economy.

Of course, such an economy, I agree, is possibly two tier-jumps away and realizable perhaps only at the stage of third-tier leadership of indigo although the people themselves needn't be at that tier for a center of gravity. And not to say that capitalism wasn't "wrong" at one time, prior to the age of technology. Prior to technology, it was absolutely necessary.

I do feel, however, that what is needed at this time is second-tier leadership which would result not in more capitalism but in a direction away from capitalism to that of in-between, which is neither capitalism or communism but socialism. We already have socialism anyway with banking, Social Security, public libraries, public education and defense.

One of the little problems with communism is this - I don't want to push a broom in a nut factory. I want to learn about frogs. But, the state won't let me learn about frogs.

So, I push the damn broom. And ... I see the other broom pusher slacking off! The bastard. We get the same pay, and I do twice the work!

That Bastard!

So, I go to my boss, "can I get paid twice as much as him?"

"Shut up and go back to work. Or you can man the dust pans instead tomorrow."

Communism is the world's greatest experiment in stultifying and repressing all that is healthy in First Tier humans.

I think there were about 20 people between 1917 and 1989 who fled to communist countries. And half of them were spies.

Please tell me you will take that comment back.

Which comment do you mean?

I realize that communism from the 20th century was a failed experiment. However, we don't have a choice but to move into a direction that is more along the lines of socialism from the current capitalism for the fact that capitalism isn't sustainable globally--whether ecologically or economically. So unfair as it is seems that those "slackers" or bastards who do the same job as you and don't work as hard as you or aren't as productive as yourself but nonetheless get paid the same amount of money as you, it seems that we have no choice but to move in that direction. Will it bring down productivity and the entrepreneurial spirit? Perhaps. Yet it may help to save us in the end, and the planet. I don't see capitalism as the way for saving the planet. We may not have "as much" in the way of material wealth individually -- but at least we'd be alive.

(my comment response, from previous post).

"Socialist" Is Not an Epithet posted by John Nichols on 10/20/2008 @ 10:17am

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The McCarthy mentality still lives in our country. We see this is the mistaken comments of those who feel that Europeans are somehow suffering under a socialist system. My friends in Europe couldn't be paid to move here and they are all middle class.

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"There is always a charge that socialism does not fit human nature. We've encountered that for a long time. Maybe that's true. But can't people be educated? Can't people learn to cooperate with each other? Surely that must be our goal, because the alternative is redolent with war and poverty and all the ills of the world." -- Frank Zeidler

John McCain hopes to revive his campaign by suggesting that Barack Obama is some kind of socialist.

The Republican nominee for president says that his Democratic rival's plan for stimulating the economy sounds "a lot like socialism."

"At least in Europe, the socialist leaders who so admire my opponent are up front about their objectives. They use real numbers and honest language. And we should demand equal candor from Senator Obama," the Arizona senator claimed over the weekend.

Asked if he thinks Obama is a socialist, McCain offers an insinuating raised eyebrow and a shrug non-response: "I don't know."

McCain is not really concerned about socialism. He is trying to suggest that Obama is somehow un-American.

Obama's no socialist.

But, as a Wisconsinite, I can't buy the basic premise of McCain's argument.

I grew up in a state where socialism was as American as my friend Frank Zeidler.

Zeidler, an old-school American socialist who served three terms as the mayor of Milwaukee from 1948 to 1960, died two year ago at age 93. His passing was mourned by Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, who recognized the gentle radical as one of the most honorable men ever to cross the American political landscape.

Zeidler actually ran for president in 1976 as the nominee of the American Socialist Party. In fairness, it was more an educational campaign than a serious bid for an office that the former mayor never really coveted. Like so many of the great civic gestures he engaged in over eight decades of activism, Zeidler's 1976 campaign promoted the notion that: "There's nothing un-American about socialism."

Campaigning on a platform that promised a shift of national priorities from bloated defense spending to fighting poverty, rebuilding cities and creating a national health care program, Zeidler won only a portion of the respect that was due this kind and decent man and the values to which he has devoted a lifetime.

Had Zeidler been born in another land -- perhaps Germany, where the roots of his family tree were firmly planted -- his Socialist Party run would have been a much bigger deal. Indeed, he might well have been elected.

In most of the world, the social-democratic values that Zeidler advanced throughout his long life hold great sway. Latin America has been experiencing a revival of socialist fervor in recent years. And virtually every European country has elected a socialist government in the past decade. Indeed, the current leaders of Britain and Spain head political parties that are associated with the Socialist International, of which Zeidler's Socialist Party was a U.S. affiliate. In the recent Canadian elections, the socialist New Democratic Party experienced a substantial boost in its parliamentary delegation.

In Zeidler's youth, America's Socialist Party was a contender. During the 1920s, there were more Socialists in the Wisconsin legislature than Democrats, and a Wisconsin Socialist, Victor Berger, represented Milwaukee in the US House. When Norman Thomas sought the presidency as a Socialist in 1932, he received almost a million votes, and well into the 1950s Socialists ran municipal governments in Reading, Pennsylvania; Bridgeport, Connecticut and other quintessentially American cities – including Zeidler's Milwaukee.

For millions of American voters in the past century, socialism was never so frightening as John McCain would have us believe. Rather, it was a politics of principle that added ideas and nuance to a stilted economic and political discourse.

For the most part, Zeidler and his compatriots campaigned along the periphery of presidential politics, especially as the Cold War took hold.

But they earned respect in communities such as Milwaukee, where voters kept casting ballots for Socialist candidates even as Joe McCarthy was promoting his "red-scare" witch hunt.

Years after he left the mayor's office, Zeidler's contribution -- a humane, duty-driven, fiscally responsible version of socialism that is reflective of the man as much as the philosophy –- was always recognized by Wisconsinites as a very American expression of a legitimate and honorable international ideal.

Zeidler was the repository of a Milwaukee Socialist tradition with a remarkable record of accomplishment -- grand parks along that city's lakefront, nationally recognized public health programs, pioneering open housing initiatives, and an unrivaled reputation for clean government -- that to his death filled the circumspect former mayor with an uncharacteristic measure of pride.

Because of its emphasis on providing quality services, the politics that Zeidler practiced was sometimes referred to as "sewer socialism." But, to the mayor, it was much more than that. The Milwaukee Socialists, who governed the city for much of the 20th century, led a remarkably successful experiment in human nature rooted in their faith that cooperation could deliver more than competition.

"Socialism as we attempted to practice it here believes that people working together for a common good can produce a greater benefit both for society and for the individual than can a society in which everyone is shrewdly seeking their own self-interest," Zeidler told me in an interview several years ago. "And I think our record remains one of many more successes than failures."

Would that John McCain – and, frankly, Barack Obama -- had the intellectual honesty to assess those successes, and the ideals that underpinned them. The candidates would not, necessarily embrace socialism. But they would recognize the absurdity of tossing the "S" word around as an epithet.

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Gabe's Response:

First of all, socialism is not "between" capitalism and communism, except in terms of a progressive nature, and by progressive I mean the liberal idea that this "progression" is somehow to a higher state, in which case communism should be viewed as superior to capitalism which is exactly what Marx and the boys thought, and is contrary to your premise stating that neither is better than the other. Socialism is a precursor to communism and not some in between step the 'more highly evolved' have created, although they have duped themselves into thinking that.

Second of all, from Mr. Nichols excerpt, "cooperation could deliver more than competition" as he wrote about Zeidler. On this point I do not disagree. Cooperation at its best, involving competition are SPORTS, where instead of waging a war over some booty, they play a game. In my mind, that is far superior to anything else in the world at settling issues, when the only issue in SPORTS is to win the game, and yet so many elitists hate sports!

Thirdly, in terms of all the wonderful things that Zeidler stood for, including universal healthcare, cooperation and community go hand in hand, and that is the problem I have with the promises of Obama. They promise more from WASHINGTON, who has mismanaged everything they have ever been handed, or should I more accurately say, "taken over".

All politics are local. All solutions should be local from the community, see? Except in the case of national defense what other purpose should the Federal government serve, except foreign policy, really? Should the Federal government be able to say if you should be able to have an abortion?

Maybe I am looking past the whole communist state and going straight to utopia, but even in communist thought, the STATE would disappear.

We stand here witnessing the takeover of our financial institutions not toward communism, or socialism but toward fascism where sure, the lenders will still be private, but under the thumb of Uncle Sam.

Every election it seems we look for a messiah figure to come out of Washington and make everything ok. We MUST stop looking to Washington for anything except a reduction in their presence, and a reduction in how much they collect to mismanage.

It's about PEOPLE, not GOVERNMENT. People who live together, work together, build together and in so doing form communities of like minded individuals that once had their own jurisdictions and not a bunch of fat cats with degrees that taught them "if you're not growing you're dead", coupled with the "microwave mentality" (as I like to call it) which led to the unsustainable growth that you criticize and with which I agree.

We live within a generation of people that have been so conditioned to superficiality and mindless consumerism that they think that their voracious natures are quite normal and if you don't have a stack of clothes that could reach the ceiling that needs to be washed because each parcel of clothing had been worn "once", then what's wrong with you?  Don't you know that it's good for the economy when you buy more soap to wash them with as you drive your car to the store a mile away burning unnecessary fuel for to complete a task that didn't really need to be completed anyway, but because everybody else is doing it, it must be the WAY?

I could go on with several other examples that point the real problem out to the people that have been duped by the marketing messages that have created a generation of people that know nothing more than excess. Everything is more, more, more; and bigger, bigger, bigger...

Scoff if you will, but the solution to our American problem is not Barack Obama. I don't think it's John McCain either, but it is definitely not Obama as so many seem to think. I shake my head, as I hear another trumpeteer coming down the way honking that horn telling you how much more the Federal government can do, and will do for you! It's the same old song people! Their less than century old stronghold in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union collapsed, and we've got Hollywood suggesting we do more of the same here.

By the way, what's with these chumps that make gazillions and then want to send more to Washington? They're like zombies, and they complain about Sarah Palin's wink? That's all they do is go around winking!

Quite honestly, if we'd just get the goverment out of the way AGAIN, then I believe we could actually make some real "progress" toward building a better society, but they've painted our heads so full of crapola we think it's good... kind of like a kid raised on boxed food thinks real food tastes bad. Just think about it! That's where we are. Don't give me another song and dance about managed care, single payer systems, or one more word about gay marriage, or a woman's right to CHOOSE, like those things have any priority in the world for God's sake.

If you want to talk about a priority then get us off the oil!!! If you want to look for solutions, don't look to Obama or McCain. We must look to ourselves! We must quit being a bunch of mind numbed robots as we chomp, chomp, chomp through the day consuming everything from soap to Hot Pockets to gasoline, to cigarettes and beer, to whatever else you can think of that we abuse. Obama can't do anything about that, but WE can!

The reason most people are so dissatisfied with things is because trickle down economics has failed us. It squeezed more and more out of our pockets, than THEY put in there to begin with, but they wanted more on their bottom lines so they began the push back, masking it ultimately in the form of credit with Fannie & Freddie as they broadened their customer bases because they couldn't squeeze anymore out of the core middle class that had already traded up as high as they could anyway. All while building city's that sprawl but won't allow for mass telecommuting because that would kill the false economy THEY built!

What's the message we should all take from this???... s.l.o.w.d.o.w.n.

The high-life isn't over the hill in a greener pasture. That pasture is in as big a mess as the next one, but if you look around... there's nothing wrong with this one, except for the mess we've made. Stupid, greedy lenders lending money to stupid, greedy people wanting what they want right now like it was coming out of the microwave with a Hot Pocket, and a bottle of Powerade from the fridge. Make some room in that trash bag as it is already filled with thirty other plastic bottles from the days of the week before. No, Obama isn't going to do a damned thing about stuff like that. That's up to US... the foundation and root of any and all communities is YOU, and ME; and that's WE.

Don't look to the Democratic party as some sort of righteous counter to the GOP. They're not any different and are in large part responsible for this fictitious world they have helped finance under the false pretense that the American dream is to own a home. Thanks guys for telling us what the American dream is. They're really good at that! Setting your goals for you, when you should be setting them for yourself. If they don't let you think too much, then they'll just keep you jumping through their hoops from now 'til forever. What's a better American dream? How about Freedom for starters. Not to be so vain as to try to tell you what specifically the American dream is made of (as they have while they push a 30 year mortgage at you) but that's why Freedom is the blank canvass that it is. Yet, when you can't even afford to go on vacation with your family because every single penny you've got coming in is going back out, something wreaks of slavery, not freedom.

I'm through for now. Don't be hoodwinked any further. This country will not repair itself without everyone involved and that doesn't start on the campaign trail, or in Washington DC. It starts right at home with YOU!

-Gabe Newman

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A girl was going around passing out copies of Obama's speech in Philadelphia back in March of this year. I have a little more insight as to the way his mind works after reading it, but it's not much different than the opinion I had formed just from listening to and reading the media. I have a stronger appreciation for his perspective as a mixed race American, since I am one myself, just not mixed black and white. The average person would say I was white, but it's not that simple.

I knew a guy that lived in a "cult" somewhere in Oklahoma, or Arkansas, or some place like that. He said he had four wives and children between them. How many I don't know. He had left that lifestyle and moved into the mainstream, having left it before, if I remeber correctly.

He gave me a book called Vigilantes of God, which I read about five pages into when it made it very clear that I was not WHITE if I had any other blood than white blood within ten generations, or something like that. At that point, I put the book down and stopped reading. I was relieved to know that I wasn't "perfect", and finally became content with it. Not satisfied, but content, you know?

But, reading this speech reminded me of my own racial make-up that goes by pretty much unnoticed, except in my convictions and behaviors. I'll put it to you like this. Having spent a lot of time in the South, most of my formative years, in fact; I have been influenced, but not designed by the South. We agree on pretty much all of the broader issues that identify one as a conservative, except I don't think there is anything wrong with marijuana.

I am not a hedonist by any means, and know full well that your life's decisions have consequences. Some consequences lead to other consequences, to a point where your decisions mean very little except in terms of how you're going to survive for the day as you aim for freedom and prosperity from the streets of your nearest small city.

Obama said, in speaking of his former pastor, "Ironically, this quintessentially American - and yes, conservative notion of self-help found frequent expression in Reverend Wright's sermons. But what my former pastor too often failed to understand is that embarking on a program of self-help also requires a belief that society can change."

Self-help, as individuals. Community help, as a group. This is the missing link between Obama's great vision for society... as it changes. As we all want "better health care, and better schools, and better jobs". The "self-help" aspect is what Democrats continually overlook, and have somehow have managed to define the "government" as the "community" in their minds, and in the minds of their constituents.

I asked Katie what would happen if she needed to go to the hospital. Would she go to Washington? Healthcare, education, and jobs occur in your neighborhood, not in Washington, unless of course, that's where you work. If all you have to do is go down the road a short ways to get to the hospital for your healthcare, even if you don't have any insurance, then why in the world would you want to send money to Washington, DC to pay for it? It just doesn't make sense!

The Community... with a capital C, is the solution... even to campaign finance reform... I live for the day when we never have to hear another politician run a campaign promising things that they shouldn't be providing in the first place. As far as I''m concerned the Federal government should only exist for Foreign Relations and the Military... everything else should be left to the states and local municipalities.

Call me what you will, even if it is a former rodeo clown, with a BS degree in Comedic Justice from the University of South Hawaii Institute of Technology... but one thing I am not is SOLD on Barack Obama, no matter how mixed he is! Sure it gives me another level to relate to him on, but it doesn't pull the wool over my eyes.

I'm as adamant as Yahoo is not to sell out to Icahn in their hostile takeover attempt, where once again, the big dog is trying to pick on the little dog... as far as I can tell without knowing all the financial details, but it does sound like another David and Goliath story to me.

People are always slow to change. Life is so fragile, and resilient, we keep trying to make things better while trying to keep things the same as why "fix" what isn't broken?

Advances in technology have occurred faster than our minds can even conceive, to the point where we can truly get an objective point of view on things. Now that we have this rapid ability to access information on the fly it's easy to see how stupid we are, and how unreliable a community can be just as has been made evident with the latest war over Wiffle Ball in Greenwich, Connecticutt and Sudbury, Massachusetts where kids have been accused of being in a cult for playing this game in a clearing in the woods. Some locals have accused them not only of being in a cult, but of bringing down property values!

Don't you just love this crap? Are they serious, or just a bunch of jokers? Well, at least, they're covering both issues. Not only are they demonizing the kids, but they're just being perfectly honest too. It's about the money!

Yeah, the community isn't perfect either, but at least it's local. What's the bigger issue is healthcare, and at least these kids are playing OUTSIDE! Can you imagine that? They're not inside playing video games! They're OUTSIDE!! They're not being sedentary and lying around eating potato chips, and whatever other box of processed food they can get their hands on! They're OUTSIDE!

Don't you think, that's where the solution really lies... on the wiffle ball field, so to speak? Do we really need to raise taxes higher just because that's the way they do it in Europe, or Canada? Don't you think we just need to PLAY a little more? I think a little playing is just what the doctor ordered! Not a national healthcare plan!

It doesn't matter if it's Athens, GA, or Chebanse, IL... that's where the community is! On the other hand... there is no community, if there aren't any jobs, and this is the most important issue we have in this age of global capitalism, where casualties are simply written off to the numbers game, and flags don't matter. All that matters is your investments, and your accounts. Global capitalism ignores individuals, and communities unless the numbers make it worth caring about.

This attitude is what's wrong with the future of our nation more than anything else in the tangible realm! It's not going to matter whether you have insurance or not, if there aren't any hospitals to go to... unless that's what they're trying to do and make everyone go to Washington for their healthcare! I mean, if that's what they're trying to do, then it makes perfect sense! Vote for Obama!

Otherwise, just stop and really think about this for a few minutes. We're bright people. Can't we figure this out right here at home, instead of believing Washington has the answers? I mean, I guess they'll be bussing the kids to Washington for school every morning too. That's gonna make for quite a commute, and what about the additional fuel costs! See, it just doesn't make any sense, right?

I got nothing else to say, except let's keep our "communities" at home. The Community of Obama is a long way away!

-Gabe

Hello Fox Atlantans!  For those who may not know, you will note from the results shown on the graph below, that it is still a tight race, and even though Hillary shouldn't even be on the ticket at this point, I haven't updated this poll since her dismissal.

So, cast your vote now on the front page of my My Space site, and read the latest on the campaign at www.street-people.com where you can also nominate your favorite bar as your town's campaign headquarters!

Vote Now! We can't let the Chicken Ceasar Pita run away with this!

Thanks,
-Gabe

Well, Peeps,  I've been very busy lately, especially after recently receiving the 2008 Street Person of the Year Award from the folks at Street-People.com.  Yes, that's right, I won an award, and not only that, but they nominated me for President of the United States too!!!  So, drop by my My Space page and cast your vote.  McCain, and Obama haven't even gotten any votes yet, but I running neck and neck with the Chicken Caesar Pita, so I need all your help!!!  Tell your friends to vote too!  In fact, copy and paste this message and send it to everyone in your email address book.  It'll only take you a few quick seconds.

However, and more to the point, I wanted to be sure to pass along this message for your review as it contains my presidential platform, just so we can all be sure we're on the same page.  Check it out, and let me know what you think!  And, don't forget to VOTE!!  We have less than six months to make this happen, so let's get busy!!!

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June 2008

Written By:
The Boxman
Of Street-People.com



Gabe Newman's Presidential Platform


Tired of Presidential politics? Obama and Hillary bumming you out? Then let's talk about a real bum – Gabe Newman. Gabe is a unique street person. Prior to winning our 2008 Street Person of the Year award he had a dream to rise above his condition of living in his late model American made car and be one of the most recognized men in America, live in a big mansion, have men fear his power and women desire him as he sets the tone of American culture.

Gabe wanted to be our generation's Hugh Hefner. Recognizing that he needs a stepping stone to launch this campaign, he has agreed to use his media exposure as Street Person of the Year, for the good of our country, and run for President.

His thinking is based on all the other bums running for office... "Why not put a real bum in the White House?"

If you think about it (but not too hard, and preferably after you have had a beer or four) it all makes sense.

Gabe is unemployed.  Or, as he expresses it, he is pursuing his dream job; but it is not impacting his revenue streams in a manner that creates a slightly, positive cash flow. Thus, he ends up relying on the American system of social services, the generosity of the common man, and the free peanuts in bars to exist.

Yet, he has a plan to free America of this burden, and the burden of others like him. Elect Gabe Newman as President with your write in ballot this November!! Your tax dollars are paying for both the White House and Social programs that assist people like Gabe so why not put a street person in the White House, then you can save the budget dollars because he will be employed and have housing? I am pretty sure he can do just as good a job as President Bush.

To help make your choice even easier Gabe, has developed his own platform of issues and promises. Screw bogus stimulus packages that were proven not to work over 40 years ago, or Universal Health Care that will be squashed by the drug and insurance company lobbyists. Gabe has programs and promises that may not make you better off in four years, but are sure to distract you from how crappy everything is currently.

Here is Gabe's set of promises that he scrawled on a bar napkin and passed to me to share with you:

1. Hef & Gabe's birthdays will be named federal holidays by executive order. The German's get six weeks off a year and we all are blowing at least two days a year looking at stuff on MySpace at work anyway.

2. Liven up those boring House meeting and debates by adding "The House Hotties" a cheerleading team comprised of one cheerleader from every state. Just like pages but in skimpy outfits and they will have their own calendar for sale the proceeds of which will help to erase the national debt.

3. Beer & Gin added to the list of food staples and are now tax free just like bread. Plus WIC coupons may now be used to purchase these items.

4. All newspapers must have a centerfold. English newspapers have the Page 3 girl (if you don't know about this journalistic soft-core porn check it out) and our papers have nothing creating a "Hot chick gap" that must be closed.

5. ESPN must be included with all cable and satellite TV packages free of charge. .QVC and Home Shopping channels are banned or must share a channel with Telemundo.

6. Every man, woman and child in this great nation gets to bitch slap one of the following celebrities of their choice, one time: Tom Cruise, Any of the ladies on The View, Matt Lauer, Oprah, or any male performer that has ever appeared on American Idol.

7. People who drive with their hazard lights on or can't remember to turn off their turn signal are allowed to be run off the road by other drives and the offending driver has to pay to have any damage done to your car in the process of running them off the road to be repaired.

8. No more mixing of two breeds of dogs and giving their offspring cute names like Puggles. They have a name for dogs like that and they are called Mutts.

9. Congressional hearings into if Lindsey Lohan, Brittney Spears, and Jessica Simpson had boob jobs and why cute Kate Hudson has not.

10. Barry Bonds record removed from the record books.

11. National Health Care for everyone. Unfortunately it will consist of Gabe's mom coming to your house, feeling your forehead and saying "You don't have a fever. Go to school/work and you will feel better by lunch."

12. National Job Program: 5 cent deposit on all water bottles, soda bottles, and beer bottles spurring people to pick up all that are thrown onto the side of the street and redeeming them for money.

13. Education Program: Students attending schools of Massage (especially those that teach how to give a Happy Ending), Exotic Dancing, and Casino Worker Training are now eligible for Pell Grants because those guys in India are going to end up with all the computer and call center jobs and you can't export Happy Endings.

To achieve these lofty goals our candidate needs your help. If Obama can raise $280 million on the internet and Hillary can loan herself $20 million, we hope you can spot Gabe a $Dollar so we can launch a media blitz to announce Gabe's run for the presidency.

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Why?  Why?  Why? 

Cash flow is the issue and in this case, cash would only flow to Cuba from the USA, and Barack supports that idea.  Is he a supporter of expatriates, or what?  This issue is old, and has been debated for many years.  I don't know where he was when he made the statement that I heard on a news report just a couple of days ago.  Maybe he was in Miami. 

Regardless, I find it confusing... or maybe just another case of telling your audience what they want to hear even if it has no integrity whatsoever.  I mean, come on.  Healthcare for all, and enable people to send more money out of the country to communist countries.  Is he a global capitalist, or a commie?  I can't decide. 

What else?  I can't understand the enthusiastic support he receives from the educated of this country.  We have seemingly educated our people into a new form of stupidty!  Yes, I am further convinced that the Enlightenment was when they actually shut the lights off, as it goes in this world of opposite meanings.  Say one thing and do the other.  White is black; new is old; and "smart people" vote for commies in a land of freedom...

It is definitely 'an enigma wrapped in a mystery' and then folded over at least four or five times, kind of like a properly rolled pita... throw it all inside, tuck and roll!  You should really try the cheesburger pita, if you haven't already.  They're not made with ground beef, but philly steak and melted cheddar instead.  Throw in some lettuce, tomatoe, mayo, mustard and the dreaded ketchup, and you have yourself a great meal, unless you're a vegetarian, that is.  In that case just go with the Babaganoush and throw in some Feta.

In either case, it's a wrapped up delicious mess just like this political season we are witnessing this election year.  We've got a stale ex-POW as the front runner on the conservative side, and a couple of commies with huge support on the other. 

Having studied a little on political philosophy, and then trying to discuss my ideas as a young communist with conservative family members, and having born a child with Polly Anna Vertigo, I soon embraced the conservative philosophy as realistic, over idealistic. 

Sure, communism is a great idea.  Everyone has everything they need, and they go to work each day with smiles on their faces without any lack of motivation because it's for the good of the state.  It's a perfect world!  Who wouldn't want that?

Yet, while we continue to try to build the perfect world, we have a divergence specifically apparent in these united states... the good ole USA... where the heads of two philosophies meet to debate every four years.  Why every four years?  I mean the lunar eclipse happens every three years, right?  Why not every three years?.?.?.  But, that is an aside, a distraction, a click thru a link on a website to carry you off into another discussion altogether; something I was always very good at doing without thinking about it, but now that I think about it, I don't do it.  If your mind wanders at this point then it is your own fault.

So, back to the issue at hand and "remittance to Cuba".  Why?  Why?  Why?  He's definitely a Commie... in the good ole USA... and so is sHE!

-Gabe

Why?  Why?  Why? 

Cash flow is the issue and in this case, cash would only flow to Cuba from the USA, and Barack supports that idea.  Is he a supporter of expatriates, or what?  This issue is old, and has been debated for many years.  I don't know where he was when he made the statement that I heard on a news report just a couple of days ago.  Maybe he was in Miami. 

Regardless, I find it confusing... or maybe just another case of telling your audience what they want to hear even if it has no integrity whatsoever.  I mean, come on.  Healthcare for all, and enable people to send more money out of the country to communist countries.  Is he a global capitalist, or a commie?  I can't decide. 

What else?  I can't understand the enthusiastic support he receives from the educated of this country.  We have seemingly educated our people into a new form of stupidty!  Yes, I am further convinced that the Enlightenment was when they actually shut the lights off, as it goes in this world of opposite meanings.  Say one thing and do the other.  White is black; new is old; and "smart people" vote for commies in a land of freedom...

It is definitely 'an enigma wrapped in a mystery' and then folded over at least four or five times, kind of like a properly rolled pita... throw it all inside, tuck and roll!  You should really try the cheesburger pita, if you haven't already.  They're not made with ground beef, but philly steak and melted cheddar instead.  Throw in some lettuce, tomatoe, mayo, mustard and the dreaded ketchup, and you have yourself a great meal, unless you're a vegetarian, that is.  In that case just go with the Babaganoush and throw in some Feta.

In either case, it's a wrapped up delicious mess just like this political season we are witnessing this election year.  We've got a stale ex-POW as the front runner on the conservative side, and a couple of commies with huge support on the other. 

Having studied a little on political philosophy, and then trying to discuss my ideas as a young communist with conservative family members, and having born a child with Polly Anna Vertigo, I soon embraced the conservative philosophy as realistic, over idealistic. 

Sure, communism is a great idea.  Everyone has everything they need, and they go to work each day with smiles on their faces without any lack of motivation because it's for the good of the state.  It's a perfect world!  Who wouldn't want that?

Yet, while we continue to try to build the perfect world, we have a divergence specifically apparent in these united states... the good ole USA... where the heads of two philosophies meet to debate every four years.  Why every four years?  I mean the lunar eclipse happens every three years, right?  Why not every three years?.?.?.  But, that is an aside, a distraction, a click thru a link on a website to carry you off into another discussion altogether; something I was always very good at doing without thinking about it, but now that I think about it, I don't do it.  If your mind wanders at this point then it is your own fault.

So, back to the issue at hand and "remittance to Cuba".  Why?  Why?  Why?  He's definitely a Commie... in the good ole USA... and so is sHE!

-Gabe

Why?  Why?  Why? 

Cash flow is the issue and in this case, cash would only flow to Cuba from the USA, and Barack supports that idea.  Is he a supporter of expatriates, or what?  This issue is old, and has been debated for many years.  I don't know where he was when he made the statement that I heard on a news report just a couple of days ago.  Maybe he was in Miami. 

Regardless, I find it confusing... or maybe just another case of telling your audience what they want to hear even if it has no integrity whatsoever.  I mean, come on.  Healthcare for all, and enable people to send more money out of the country to communist countries.  Is he a global capitalist, or a commie?  I can't decide. 

What else?  I can't understand the enthusiastic support he receives from the educated of this country.  We have seemingly educated our people into a new form of stupidty!  Yes, I am further convinced that the Enlightenment was when they actually shut the lights off, as it goes in this world of opposite meanings.  Say one thing and do the other.  White is black; new is old; and "smart people" vote for commies in a land of freedom...

It is definitely 'an enigma wrapped in a mystery' and then folded over at least four or five times, kind of like a properly rolled pita... throw it all inside, tuck and roll!  You should really try the cheesburger pita, if you haven't already.  They're not made with ground beef, but philly steak and melted cheddar instead.  Throw in some lettuce, tomatoe, mayo, mustard and the dreaded ketchup, and you have yourself a great meal, unless you're a vegetarian, that is.  In that case just go with the Babaganoush and throw in some Feta.

In either case, it's a wrapped up delicious mess just like this political season we are witnessing this election year.  We've got a stale ex-POW as the front runner on the conservative side, and a couple of commies with huge support on the other. 

Having studied a little on political philosophy, and then trying to discuss my ideas as a young communist with conservative family members, and having born a child with Polly Anna Vertigo, I soon embraced the conservative philosophy as realistic, over idealistic. 

Sure, communism is a great idea.  Everyone has everything they need, and they go to work each day with smiles on their faces without any lack of motivation because it's for the good of the state.  It's a perfect world!  Who wouldn't want that?

Yet, while we continue to try to build the perfect world, we have a divergence specifically apparent in these united states... the good ole USA... where the heads of two philosophies meet to debate every four years.  Why every four years?  I mean the lunar eclipse happens every three years, right?  Why not every three years?.?.?.  But, that is an aside, a distraction, a click thru a link on a website to carry you off into another discussion altogether; something I was always very good at doing without thinking about it, but now that I think about it, I don't do it.  If your mind wanders at this point then it is your own fault.

So, back to the issue at hand and "remittance to Cuba".  Why?  Why?  Why?  He's definitely a Commie... in the good ole USA... and so is sHE!

-Gabe

After listening to Alan Greenspan's interview with Wolf Blitzer I'm considering changing who I am going to vote for president in 2008!  That guy is the most straightforward, unappologetic, pure capitalist I ever heard!  Especially, when he suggests we increase immigration to gain skilled workers that will bring more balance to the polarization of the classes we have come to know. 

His logic is flawless, and as a self-described Libertarian-Republican he earned my attention as he spoke as clearly as one could possibly speak.  When Wolf challenged him as to why not have Americans perform the highly skilled jobs that he would have immigrants perform, from what I gathered, it boiled down to expedience, .  It was almost as if you could hear him say, "Let them eat cake, and Mach Schnell" all in the same breath.  They could have the jobs if they only had the skills, he reasoned, so why not just bring in the fully trained from elsewhere and re-establish our society.

We have moved into a new manufacturing era with high tech manufacturing being the new jobs of purpose, where GM once had around a quarter of a million workers, they have now been skinnied to around seventy-five thousand.  He didn't say what we should do with the jobless, and unskilled remaining American populace.  Maybe we should just round them up and put them in concentration camps since Habeus Corpus laws have been suspended, while suspending disbelief, by our smirking Leader in the Oval.

Yes, Mr. Greenspan made a lot of sense until I actually tried to reason with my heart, because it was as stone cold as it could possibly be, and almost made me want to support Hillary because at least she seems like she cares about people, and has some allegiance to our current legal residents as her health care program would not cover illegal immigrants.

So, Mr. Carolla, after further analysis, I am still going to vote for you even though you haven't made a large purchase of t-shirts from the officially, unofficial campaing manager, myself!  It is abudantly clear that if we really want people like ourselves in office, then it would be very easy to accomplish, if Carolla and Kimmel would make the announcement, but alas it doesn't seem that is going to happen.  That's why I even considered voting for anyone else. 

When it's all said and done with, maybe I'll just vote for myself since the voice has been telling me to run since I was 18 years old, although I thought it was just telling me to run to California, which I didn't do either.  I finally just told it to shut up because it started contradicting itself, and then I knew I couldn't listen to a word it had to say.  I wonder if anyone would vote for a former rodeo clown who lives in his car anyway.  But, then, what good would it do because I wasn't ever a member of one of those Harvard or Yale fraternities, so how in the world would I be able to work with those guys that are so good at spending so much money, but never getting anything done? 

Beeshtooken?

I thought this was worth sharing.  Mr. Shipp always has a way with words, but when someone quotes Lester Maddox, then you know it's a doozy!

http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/091907/opinion_
20070919034.shtml

I have to applaud Hillary for her latest recommended mingling of governmental dollars and private sector dollars in order to achieve her glorious goal of universal healthcare.  At least it's not socialized medicine any more.  The analysts will have the final word as to how this proposal would work, but as I read the AP article posted this morning, the first thing that came to mind was how the poor would be able to afford it.  This was also a  concern expressed by those on both ends of the political spectrum. 

Apparently, Hillary is recommending insurance reform which is what squashed her previous attempt to actually socialize medicine in these United States back when Hill and Bill took over for the first time.  I understand Mrs. Clinton's bleeding heart as it relates to this issue, as not anybody could deny that it is a beautiful idea.  However, as someone who hasn't had insurance coverage for the past five years, I have considered what would happen if I needed healthcare.  I haven't been to the doctor in ten years.  I rarely get sick except for an occasional cold.  Maybe I'm blessed that way, but I truly believe that people with insurance go to the doctor entirely too often, and for unneccesary reasons.  In fact, I know this for a fact.  So, I am often confused by Mrs. Clinton's tenacity in this department.  If I needed healthcare, I would go to the emergency room and receive care regardless of whether I had coverage.  Anyone else could do the same.  I can cite several examples of individuals who have experienced this exactly and they have all received care without insurance.  

So, what is the big deal, and why is Hillary intent upon offering some form of universal care, when it is actually already available?  What is really going on here is that the dollars are redistributed in costs to the wealthy and insured.  The reason healthcare is so expensive and so unaffordable for the poor is that the pricing and premiums are grossly over inflated to cover the losses that occur in a free market system where there exist those that are "uninsured".  It appears to me that this is purely a battle over dollars and whose pockets they go in.

I like to say that the only difference between the Mafia, and the United States government is that the U.S. goverment got here first, but they are both systems of operation with a lot of power, or at least they both would be if indeed the Mafia actually existed.  Since the Mob only exists in the movies, then we'll have to think of this hypothetically.  But, the point being, is that it is a war over dollars and Hillary just happens to sit on the side of the U.S. Government.  She is a Fedarlist, plain and simple.  Instead of the Mob we have the insurance industry that currently controls what Hillary wants to control all in the name of providing healthcare to the people... right? 

Now, at least she has offered a compromise and suggests a mixed approach, without creating a governmental beuacracy that would essentialy create a fourth branch of government, in addition to the legislative, judicial and executive branches we would have had the medicinal branch.  Geez, they could have just lumped it in with the ATF and saved a lot of heated debate!  But, that is a moot point with Hillary's new found love for the free market; or at least there are signs of love... with an individual mandate!

This is where I get stuck everytime.  When politicians go around trying to legislate morality, I get sick in my stomach.  It is the essence of legalism screaming loudly we can build a better society through the law!!  To require an individual mandate for one to carry health insurance is not quite the same as legislating morality, but when the basic premise of the argument for individual mandates is a bleeding heart, then it's kind of the same thing.

Why don't we also issue individual mandates that require people to buy decent food for their bodies?  For that matter, we should require that every individual buy a gym membership, or at least some form of exercise equipment for the home, even if it's just a jump rope?  Why don't we require that everyone has insurance to ensure that they always have running water, and electricity?  Heck, why not require that everyone buy an insurance policy that would afford them a home to live in if they were to become disabled?  And, why not have real automobile insurance that would make sure that everyone has a car, by individual mandate.  The inusrance companies must be torn with this most recent proposal realizing that it means more sales for them, at the same time it means reform.  The sales they'll gladly take, but reform???

Let me offer a different suggestion that is about as far fetched as universal healthcare in this country.  Let's take all of our politicians on both sides of the aisle, and all of our corporate executives that have never done without anything in life, and make them live for one year without all the 'bennies'.  That'll put them back in touch with the less than 15% of Americans that don't have healthcare.  That'll teach 'em.  Let's let all of them live with their grandmothers with only a small room 10x10, or so, without insurance, credit cards, or reliable transportation, or a job and see how they feel about things then.  Been there done that myself, and I'm still a believer in the free market system.

It's about controlling greed, and also respecting our system of operation, but we don't need to raise taxes to put more money in Washington that will only end up creating fuller emergency rooms for unneccesary reasons.  This hotbed issue affecting less than 15% of Americans takes center stage time and time again, but the problem isn't with this minority of people.  It's with politicians who 'swallow camels while only straining gnats' and create frenzy in the media that is not so much about insuring people as it is about getting elected. 

Call me cold hearted if you will.  I am not against everyone being covered for healthcare.  I am just leary of the means that feed more mismanaged money to Washington.  I would be more apt to support such a homogenized plan if it were implemented on the state level and only if it also affected our educational system that would put greater emphasis on life issues such as health, and exercise, budgeting and finance and all the things that lead to an unhealthy public in the first place.  We are attacking things from a superficial perspective when we only focus on insurance.  That's what irks me the most.  Universal healthcare is a bandaid, not a fix; and as with all bandaids they must be changed to facilitate effective healing.  I ask, if we put the big bandaid of Washington aided insurance on the wound, will we ever get it off?   Somehow, I doubt it, but I'm sure we'd still see the obese riding around on scooters at Disney World.  Instead of mandating healthcare insurance, why don't we all break a sweat today.  I think that would do more for the real problem than Hillarycare.

Once again, I am reminded of those Pilgrims that got off the Mayflower with no benefits whatsover.  How in the world did we ever get this far to the point that we actually have prospective candidates for office in this country that are fundamentally un-American.  If they want to be like Europeans and Communists, maybe they should move over there... by individual mandate!

I was officially called a racist today because I suggested Barry Bonds has gotten away with something while Michael Vick, and Tim Donaghy, the NBA ref, got busted.  Immediately, it was suggested that my "racist system", as Mouthpeace put it, was the problem, and that I just didn't want Hank Aaron to hold the record anymore... which doesn't have any logical foundation whatsoever, because if by suggesting that Barry shouldn't be recognized as the home run king, then Hank would still be the home run king,  By the way, Hammerin' Hank is still the home run king in my mind.

What I have noticed since posting on this board for the past couple of weeks is that there is a lot of resentment toward white people on here and a ridiculous amount of attention being given to the Michael Vick situation which has frequently been referred to as a racial issue.  I don't understand this at all.  The guy was doing something despicable, on the same level as an illness, if you ask me, and he gets busted.  So, it's the white man's fault?  How does one draw this conclusion? 

There is also a lot of talk about how divided we are as people, and how we must constantly work toward unity as if this is some kind of huge struggle.  I've lived in the Atlanta area for all of my life, at least since I was 7 years old.  I'm pretty much a native.  I went to High School in Dekalb County where integration was in it's infancy.  I'm sorry folks, but I don't remember a hostile moment due to race when I was groing up.  We all got along well.  Having also spent some time in school in Alabama where tensions were much higher between the races, I still never witnessed any blood shed where the mix between white and black was nearly 50/50. 

I feel that we as people get stuck in these mindsets which drive our perceptions.  In my case, I see a pretty peaceful world outside.  But, that does not seem to be a shared perception among many of the users of this site.  I hear despair, and hatred, and blame, and a whole lot of old resentment especially toward white people.  This seems like 1950's thinking stuck forever.  None of us were slaves here today, and we all wake up each day with the same opportunity to make something of it.  Believe me; I know what it's like to be down and out.  I am still trying to recover from my latest job loss, and everytime I want to get angry about it and blame the Man, I just have to bite my lip and realize I still have a shot.  I've got to look at this thing like it's a game and try to figure out how to win without doing anybody wrong along the way.  That can make it exceptionally difficult, but that's the way I want to play. 

At any rate, I just wanted to put this out there because I'm starting to feel insecure about posting anything on this site for fear that I'll be called a racist if I don't agree that Michael Vick should be forgiven.  Come on people!  What he was doing is disgusting.  Can't we just admit that and move along instead of covering this blog site with nothing but Michael Vick posts, and blaming whitey for it.  What is whitey to blame for anyway?  That Michael got busted?  Would that  be to suggest that he should have just been allowed to go on with the dog fighting, as barbaric as it is? 

A better topic to be talking about at this point is why in the world we allow this ultimate fighting to take place LEGALLY!  These aren't dogs, these are human beings, voluntarily stepping in the ring to beat the pulp out of each other.  What is this, the rebirth of the gladiators?  I don't understand the mentality of the fighters, or even less the spectators?  That there is even a segment of the population that likes to watch this stuff is disturbing enough. 

So, I'll close this out for now, but I felt like I should say something, because there is apparent disunity here, but seemingly much of that starts with one side thinking the other side is always to blame.  Stop the blame game and that's where we can start working together, but geez if we don't get past blaming whitey for everything then that's all we'll ever do is blame, blame, blame.  I can't help it if I'm white, but I'm not going to be made to feel guilty for it just because Michael Vick got busted.  That's insane!  He's a jerk and I'm glad he got busted, does that make me a racist?  Certainly not.  I'm just a former rodeo clown and the NEXT Hugh Hefner! 

Moving forward,

-Gabe

It seems to me that we spend a great deal of time seemingly, intentionally, creating problems for to find solutions.  Stress and anxiety in great supply from an urban sprawling existence leading people to shrinks and medications and even to hospital visits that probably wouldn't occur otherwise.  I simply believe if we would stop creating the problems to begin with, we probably wouldn't be having a supposed health care crisis. 

Rather than hear the Dems talk about taking over the healthcare system, that's supposedly broken, why don't they talk about changing the contributing factors that have created the mess from the start, including a diet for many that is composed of empty calories.  Not to mention we have a generation of children that don't even really know what it's like to have a good regular game of wiffle ball in the back yard because now they just play wiffle ball on their computers!  What's that say for the future?

The healthcare system isn't broken.  Our perspective is!  Government provided healthcare is as old as Communism, and that didn't last a hundred years.  Why does Hillary and Obama think it'll work here?

'Tickle their ears and tell them what they want to hear', and you might just get elected President, but you wouldn't be a true leader!