MI ballet 08

I stole the ideal from Michael Dietsch's blog to do a blog post talking about all the people and issues that are on my state's ballet this year.

I did my best to search for site that had information on the people running. (with some exceptions like office where everyone running is a shoe into win giving that they are running in areas where every running will get a seat)

Presidential
Barack Obama/Joe Biden for the Demoratic party

John Sidney McCain/Sarah palin 4 the Republicans

Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clemente 4 the Green Party

Chuck Baldwin/Darrel Castle 4 the U.S Taxpayers party

Bob Barr/Wayne A. Root for he Libertarian party

Ralph Nader/Matt Gonzales for the Natural Law party.



Congressional

United State Senator
Jack Hoogendyk Jr. (Republican)
Carl Levin (Democratic)
Harley G. Mikkelson (Green Party)
Michael N. Nikitin (U.S taxpayers)
Scotty Boman (libertarian)
Doug Dern (Natural Law)

Representative in Congress (9th District)
Joe Knollengberg (Republican)
Gary Peters (Democrat)
Douglas Campbell(Green)
Adam Goodman (Libertarian)
Jack Kevorkian (no party...holy crap Doctor Death is running for congress!!! of course no political party wants him)

Legislative
Representative in state legislature
Scott E. Sampeer (republican)
Tim Melton (Democratic)

State Board

Member of the state board of education (pick 2)
Scott Jenkins (Republican)
Richard Zelle (republican)
John Austin (Democratic)
Kathleen Straus (Democratic)
Dwain Raynolds III (Green)
Karen Adams (US Taxpayers)
Bill Hall (Libertarian)
Jeff A. Steinport (libertarian)

Regent of the U of M (pick 2...and go blue)
Susan Brown (Repub)
John G. LaFond (republican)
Laurence B. Deitch (Democrat)
Denise Illtch (Democratic)
Ellls Boal (Green)
Richard Ryskamp (U.S taxpayers)
Joe Sanger (U.S Taxpayers)
Eric L. Larson (libertarian)
Kerry L. Morgan (libertarian)

Trustee of Michigan State University (no more then 2)
Lisa Bourchard (Repub)
George Scott Romney (Republican)
Dianne Byrum (Democratic)
Diann Woodard (Democrat)
Therese Marie Storm (Green)
Robert Gale (U.S taxpayers)
Crystal Van Sickle (U.S Taxpayers)
David A. Brown (Libertartian)
Joseph Roesenquist (libertartian)

Governor of Wayne State University (2)
Torian J. Bridges (republican)
Danialle Karmanos (republican)
Paul Massaron (Democratic)
Gary S. Pollard (Democratic)
Margaret Guttshall (Green)
Rick Butkowski (U.S Taxpayers)
Terry Halnes (U.S Taxpayers)
Dan Kelzer (Libertarian)
Nicole Michalak (libertartian)

County

Country Executive
L. Brooks Patterson (Republican)
Brenda Lawrence (Democratic)

Sheriff
Michael J. Bouchard (Republican)
Jane Bourdreau (Democratic)

Clerk/Register of Deeds
Ruth Johnson (Republican)
Shella Smith (Democratic)

Treasurer
Pat Dohany (Republican)
Andy Meisner (Democratic)

Drain Commissioner
John P. McCulloch (Elephant party)
Brett Nicholson (Donkey party)

County COmmissioner 10 district
Karen L. Toth (Republican)
Mattle McKinney Hatchett (Democratic)

Judical ...or here come the judge

Justice of Supreme Court (1)
Robert W. Roddis
Cliff Taylor
Diane Marie Hathaway

Judge of Court of appeals 2nd district (pick 3....wait there are only 3 people running they must be happy about the fact that they are all going to win again)
Mark J. Cavanagh
E. Thomas Fitzgerald
Henry William Saad

Judge of Court of Appeals 2nd district (1)
Elizabeth L. Glelcher (only person running so we know that L can't stand for loser)

Judge of Circuit Court (5) is there a reason to care about this 5 people running and there 5 spots
James M. Alexander
Martha D. Anderson
Nanci Grant
Shallna D. Kumar
Rudy J. Nichois

Judge of Circuit Court 6th Circuit non-incumbents(2)
David Carl Anderson
Mary Ellen Brennan
Lisa Gorcyca
Thomas E. Kuhn

Judge of Circuit court 6th circuit incumbet
Leo Bowman

Judge of probate court non-incumbent
Mark Frankel
Daniel A. O'Brien

Judge of District court 50th district incumbent postition
Michael C. Martinez
Cynthia T. Walker

Judge of district court 50th district non-incumbent
Ronda Fowlkes Gross
Richard Terrell Taylor

Community College

Community college board of trustees members (2)
Timothy Terpening
Phillip J. Abraham
Shirley J. Bryant
Sandra L. Ritter
Carlyle Fielding Stewart

community college board of trustees member partial term ending in 2011
Debble Macon
Christopher P. Maloney
Thomas Patrick Sullivan
Sherry Cormier Kuhn

Proposals

Prop 1
Medical Marijuana.

Prop 2
should Michigan allow stem cell research?

Obama needs change and a few dollar bills as well!!!

I have decide to take a active inactive role in helping Obama became the next President of the united states of America by being one of his fundraise.

I set a small goal of $200. this is the first time I have done anything like this so I wanted to set a small bar. If I meet it I'll do it again and set the bar higher.

Al Franken is running for senate

Al Franken just annonced on his radio show he will be running for senator of minnesota.

Not much of a surprise since that has been rumored to be the reason why he is ending his radio show.

when the hangman comes a calling

Saddam Hussein is set to be killed at 10 o'clock to night.

sucks for him. But hey kids this is a lesson for you, don't be murderous dictators because pay backs a B----.

they couldn't wait to kill this guy. first they gave him about a month to live. then earlier today they said they might kill him by tomorrow and now they are going with it tonight.

heck I bet they might move it even sooner then 10.

just say no to sex

This is crazy the goverment is now going to spend money on abstinence programs not for kids and teens but for adults.

That's right the goverment is now trying to push the ideal that people under the age of 30 shouldn't have sex.


who the hell do they think they are to tell adults not to have sex?

And do they really think this is going to work? it's just going to be a waste of millions of dollars that could be better used for something else.

people of the yac really do want to better the city

although I am still bummed about affirmative action being axed in Michigan I am glad to say that mileages on the ballot to help improve the city of Pontiac have passed.

These mileages where to increase police funding, money for senior citizens programs and to keep are crappy library open (and hopeful make it less crappy)

I wasn't sure about this because like affirmative action it looked like these mileages (with the expectation of the senior citizens one) would not be supported by the voting public.

But it looks like a millage to fund programs for youth might not pass which is sad. But fits into my theory that people really hate kids. oh yeah we say we like them and want them to have a better future but collectively we F*** them over every chance we get.

if that millage doesn't pass I think that will be a reason why

affirmative action is now banned in the glove state

that right affirmative action is gone in the state of Michigan.

I'm very depressed by this but not to shocked. Watching channel 7's numbers when they where counting the results it stated that the ban was in the lead. But most of what I saw was when less then 20% of the vote was counted.

with all the problems that may have been with a program like affirmative action it still did more good then it did bad. With it gone I fear things will slip to how they were in the 60's and earlier. when your looking for a job or applying for college you might begin to notice coloreds need not apply.

What you think I'm over blowing things?

I hope so.

But truth is are nation still has race issues.

Not to long ago there was a study that showed that people with Black sounding names are less likely to get job interviews to places they send their resumes then those with more White sounding names. EVEN WHEN THEY HAVE SIMILAR EXPERIENCES AND SKILLS.

and that's just one example.

and the ending of affirmative action doesn't just effect people of color, it will also have and effect on women.

Because this will also mean an end to programs that make sure females also get equal opportunities as males. let it be in school or in the work force.

and just racism hasn't ended in America so hasn't sexism. Or did the old boys network closed down recently and I didn't hear about it.

So this is all a bit ironic giving the fact that the person that was used as figured head for the ban was a white woman who felt the reason she didn't get into the university of Michigan was because of her race. Now she will less likely to get in because of her genitals.

who is staying the course now?

I find it interesting that Dick Devos is running ads against Jennifer Granholm saying that she is all about staying the course.


the reason this is odd to me is the Devos the republican candidate for govenor of Michigan and Granholm is of course the Democrat and the term stay the course is something that has been used as a tag line by the Repbulicans the last few years. That tag line of course hasn't been doing well for them and so it just seems odd that one of them is trying to pin it on a Democrat. Of course the Republicans using that term in the past (trying to spin it for the postive) were talking about Iraq and the Republican using this term now (and spinning it for the postive) is talking about the economy.

Hey terrorist! no need for a jihad we can destory are selves. Thank you very much

with all the focus on terrorist it seems that the goverment has over looked some of the basic things need to run the country.

Just voted

I Voted... Did You?

I just got in from voting. For those who didn't do so yet you still have half an hour or more depending on the time zone your in as you read this (assuming your reading this when it was posted)

It was a nice day so I walked to the polling place but ran into a friend of my brother's when I was half way there and ended up with a ride.

Before I got into the polling place to vote I was hammered with people trying to get me vote for them or candidate. I ran into a guy I knew when I was a kid (yet he didn't hand me anything think fully) and some guy trying to get on as a write on.

Which brings to a big question. Why is this guy running as a write in? It doesn't seem to hard to run in a local election. Not to expensive.

Also the guy had no info about himself. He just handed a flyer with his name asking you to write it end. He had nothing stating where he stands on any issue. In fact this has been a problem with most of the people I've seen running. They'll give you a post card asking for you to vote for them but none of them say what they would (at least like/try to) do when they will get into office. I only saw two people with websites.

Dear people running in local elections give the people so F'ing info about you.


as I walked back home I ended up giving a crackhead a heart attack because she thought I was a cop.

well that's my 2006 primary voting story. What's yours?

Supreme Court judges bush guilty of breaking war time laws

Wow, I wonder how fox news is going to spin this?

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that President Bush overstepped his authority in ordering military war crimes trials for Guantanamo Bay detainees.

Nebraska the state time lift behind

The Nebraska government is planning on cutting up the school district in Omaha along state lines. The only thing different this time is that the racial divide is not going to be just Black and White like it was just 50 years ago but between Blacks, Whites, and Latinos. Sorry Asians but I guess your kids don't get to go to school.

See how much we progressed.

I'm not sure what is more stunning the fact that this maybe become law, the fact that this proposal went through or the fact that this ideal came form the only Black member of that state's legislature.

That's right! If your like you where thinking that this ideal came from some old racist white guy wanting to return to the good ol' days where women and darkies knew their place.

But NOOOOOOOOOOOOO it comes from Ernie Chambers. I don't know if this old man is just gone crazy with age, suffered from brain injury or if he has always been in a slave mentality.

Or maybe he's really Strom Thurmond in Black face

Of course there people who are voicing against this like the 2nd richest man in the world Warren Buffett. So I am sure there will be enough force to stop this from actually happen.

Homeland security pedophile

Department of Homeland Security press secretary Brian Doyle was busted for having sexual contact to what he thought was a 14 year old girl.

Doyle sent the "girl" porn, naked pictures of himself (like a 14 year wants to see a nude 55 year old), and sexually explicit AIM's. Doyle also repeatedly ask the girl to by a webcam so he can see her things a little kid shouldn't be doing.

luckily for all the children in this nation this 14 year old girl was really a Polk County police detective.

Not only is this and the fact that Doyle kept bragging about his job to the girl he thought he was talking to bad enough this article took me a new level of shock (I didn't thing I could pass after reading about sir Doyle) when it stated this is the 2nd Homeland Security official to be caught having improper relations with a minor.

WTF!!!

Why don't I remember hearing about the other guy (of course with all the scandals of people in high office these day I guess it's easy to miss one or two).

This really makes me wonder about the office culture of those who work in Homeland Security offices and who are they really protecting because it sure aint are kids.

I allways feel like somebodies watching me...or evil Quacker terrorist

So we all know about the recent news that the goverment has been tapping peoples phones with out a warrent.

They said that they were only looking at people that mayhave ties with terrorist but it seems like what that really means is they are spying on anyone that doesn't agree with Bush and his policies (which is why I must add that I love Bush and like thing he is the Messiah or something) .

a few antiwar groups say that they have been spied.

Even the quackers are saying that they are been watched, and Florida congress rep Robert Wexler said "Neither you nor anybody in that (Quaker) church had anything to do with terrorism,"

the mothaf***ing Quakers what are they going to do bomb us with oatmeal? Go WWE on us and whack us with furniture?

Oh no New Orleans is going to be a chocolate city

It seems that Ray Nagin's comment about New Orleans will be a chocolate city again in his MLK day speech the other day has made some people upset.

I can understand why he made the comment. Many people worry that people will come in a buy the cheep property and push the poor (i.e. many of the Blacks) out of the city.

some how some people that heard Nagin's comment thank that saying that NO will be Black means he is saying "No whiteys allowed" but if one looks at the histories of the other chocolate cities in this country then you know that they are mostly Black not because anyone actively pushed Whites out. It just when city got a little brown many of the Whites decided to leave town (see Detroit, DC, Watts, etc)

Looks like another French Revolution

Due to high level of unemployment and racism many minority youth in France are rioting. Burning car and whatnot.


Time line

The happiest mug shot I ever saw (Tom Delay)

Is it me or is the smile Tom Delay is giving in his mug shot a bit creepy.

Why is he smiling, my guess he is thinking "ha ha you may have caught my money laundering but at least you didn't find those bodies in my yard"