Brandy "Right Here (Departed)"

OMG! I am soooooo happy that my girl Brandy is back!

She is literally... my FAVORITE ARTIST EVER!
Yes, I love Beyonce.. but me and Brandy have history! I was with Brandy from the beginning!

I love this new song!

GO BRANDY!

Fact Check: Palin and the Bridge to Nowhere

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new ad from John McCain's presidential campaign contends his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, "stopped the Bridge to Nowhere." In fact, Palin was for the infamous bridge before she was against it

THE SPIN: Called "Original Mavericks," the ad asserts the Republican senator has fought pork-barrel spending, the drug industry and fellow Republicans, reforming Washington in the process, and credits Palin with similarly changing Alaska by taking on the oil industry, challenging her own party and ditching the bridge project that became a national symbol of wasteful spending.

Obama spokesman Bill Burton came back with fighting words. "Despite being discredited over and over again by numerous news organizations, the McCain campaign continues to repeat the lie that Sarah Palin stopped the Bridge to Nowhere," he said.

Burton said McCain would merely carry on supporting President Bush's economic, health, education, energy and foreign policies, and that means "anything but change."

THE FACTS: Palin did abandon plans to build the nearly $400 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport. But she made her decision after the project had become an embarrassment to the state, after federal dollars for the project were pulled back and diverted to other uses in Alaska, and after she had appeared to support the bridge during her campaign for governor.

McCain and Palin together have told a broader story about the bridge that is misleading. She is portrayed as a crusader for the thrifty use of tax dollars who turned down an offer from Washington to build an expensive bridge of little value to the state.

"I told the Congress 'thanks but no thanks' for that Bridge to Nowhere," she said in her convention speech last week.

That's not what she told Alaskans when she announced a year ago that she was ordering state transportation officials to ditch the project. Her explanation then was that it would be fruitless to try to persuade Congress to come up with the money.

"It's clear that Congress has little interest in spending any more money on a bridge between Ketchikan and Gravina Island," Palin said then.

Palin indicated during her 2006 campaign for governor that she supported the bridge, but was wishy-washy about it. She told local officials that money appropriated for the bridge "should remain available for a link, an access process as we continue to evaluate the scope and just how best to just get this done."

She vowed to defend Southeast Alaska "when proposals are on the table like the bridge and not allow the spinmeisters to turn this project or any other into something that's so negative" — something that McCain was busy doing at the time, as a fierce critic of the bridge.

Even so, she called the bridge design "grandiose" during her campaign and said something more modest might be appropriate.

Palin's reputation for standing up to entrenched interests in Alaska is genuine. Her self-description as a leader who "championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress" is harder to square with the facts.

The governor has cut back on pork-barrel project requests, but in her two years in office, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. And as mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million.

By Calvin Woodward.

RNC - Day 3

So I'm sitting here trying to get through Day 3 of the RNC. Yes, it's boring!

Honestly Gov. Palin, we did not need the 10 minute introduction about your family. Yes.. they're f*cked up! Also... we do not need to know the day/time/etc. that you're son is heading to Iraq. So my brother is going to Iraq too...along with thousands of other young men and women...

Is it me, or does she sound like a broken record...

Ok....more to come.
I'm getting annoyed...

McCain's VP Pick

I'm not sure why I didn't see this coming...but ummmm.. Yea!
McCain definitely surprised me with this pick, Sarah Palin.

Honestly, if I was a Hillary supporter, I would honestly be offended! Regardless of what the the Republican strategists say...this is a very desperate attempt by the McCain campaign to sway Hillary's supporters. Right off the back Palin started reaching out to Hillary's supporters. As a woman, I am somewhat insulted! You figured most women voted for Hillary because she's a woman. Ok, that may be right for some...however, have it ever occurred to the McCain campaign that people actually LIKED Hillary? Yes, she had her faults...however, she still received 18 million votes! That's something that can not go unnoticed!

I'm reading all these different blogs about this story! And honestly, there are actually women out there (e.g. P.U.M.A) that will be voting for McCain come election day because of this decision. I'm not sure if they just really really hate Obama or they just really want a woman (any) to be in the White House! The most interesting thing I heard about her all day was the fact that she loves moose burgers. Yes folks... moose burgers. Apparently that's the big thing in Alaska!

I mean...come on people! This is really annoying me! So let's say the tables were turned. Let's say...Hillary won the Democratic nomination and she selected John Edwards (w/o the controversy) as her VP vhoice. So to try to get the black Democrats, the McCain camp chose a black person as his VP. Do you really think blacks would flock to the GOP? Hellllllll Nooooo! #1...If you are a real Democrat, you can not seriously vote for them! They are against everything that the Democratic party stands for! Come on ladies! We are smarter than that! If you are pro-choice...Sarah Palin is not your lady! If you support gay rights...Sarah Palin is not your lady! If you believe in the theory of evolution...Sarah Palin is not your lady! She's an ultra-conservative!

McCain alone is a bad choice for women! He voted against equal pay for women! He also voted against the domestic violence act!

If McCain wins... I can honestly see many people doing the same thing they did after the voted for G. Bush the second time.... they would regret it! Election day isn't here yet! Please... let's make a smart choice.

DNC - Day One

So I've just finished watching Michelle Obama's speech! WOW! This is literally one of the best speeches I've heard! I mean... I'm still tearing up. Her speech felt like it came from the heart! It was so real!

Tear drops

More to come...

Obiden!

So... Obama chose Joe Biden! Very predictable.

I approve! :) Now it's time for me to get my Obama/Biden t-shirt! :-)

To Drink or Not to Drink...that's the question!

So there apparently seems to be this debate about changing the drinking age from 21 to 18.

Here's my view...

I do not want to party with 18 year olds in the lounge/club/etc.! Yes, that's the reason I am against it.