Posts Tagged ‘Democrats’
The Pirates Have Come To The United States – Introducing The Newest Political Party
The Massachusetts Election Division has granted approval to the Massachusetts Pirate Party as a political designation. This gives the go signal for its members to finally take their place in the state. The long-awaited time for voters to register as a “Pirate” has come at last. Way back in 2006, the United States Pirate Party was founded. It has been a long time for it to be officially accepted by some states.
Having been given the official approval, the party can already begin working toward its vision and mission. The party has always openly expressed its ideals and tried to live up to them. They endeavor to “increase government transparency, promote personal privacy, reinforce the spread of knowledge through copyright reform, and abolish patents.”
One of the major reforms that the party strives to maintain is personal privacy. They have criticized the government’s use of the 9/11 occurrence to strengthen its surveillance and control over citizens. They have cited the PATRIOT ACT, wiretapping, surveillance cameras as some of the government’s methods of curtailing privacy of people. They have also pointed out how corporations step up their spying in order to get more labor out of their workforce.
The party is also trying to look at the question of government transparency. The party believes that citizens should have more control of their democratic future. This can be achieved if people have information about what the government does. The government has reduced its obligation to abiding by open meeting laws. They have also amplified closed door deals that support mostly corporations. Furthermore, they enter into deals involving public information being sold to private interests. These are injurious to democracy and privacy.
Massachusetts Pirate Party has issued a statement emphasizing that the government no longer gives people the opportunity to live up to the old ideals. These are understood to be the ideals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Now, corporations have overwhelmed the people with the government escalating their control. To the party, these ideals should be lived once more and be real for all.
At this time the party’s organizer said that the party is in the process of training activists. These are the ones who will work for coordinating and building local chapters. They are actively trying to eradicate the Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act (COICA). Approval of this bill would allow government to “take down any web domain found to host copyrighted material without permission”. They are also looking for legislation before the Massachusetts General Court that they can support or should dispute. The party’s organizer is hopeful and positive that the party will find its future in Massachusetts.
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Ask A Republican w/ Conservative Rep. Martin!
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Stephen Colbert, Drew Carey, Garry Trudeau: Political Humor and Campaigning Part 3 (2004)
March 6, 2004 http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FStephen-Colbert%2Fe%2FB001H6NLEI%3Fqid%3D1281414695%26sr%3D1-2-ent&tag=doc06-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325
Watch the full program: http://thefilmarchived.blogspot.com/2010/08/stephen-colbert-drew-carey-and-garry.html
Philip Stephen Hendrie (born September 1, 1952) is an American radio personality. He is best known as the host of The Phil Hendrie Show, a comedy talk radio program that is syndicated throughout North America on Talk Radio Network. While The Phil Hendrie Show became renowned for its unique and controversial guests, those guests are not real people at all. They are fictional characters created and voiced by Hendrie himself.
Hendrie has performed voices on the animated FOX sitcoms King of the Hill and Futurama, and as I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E. and the Terrorist in Team America: World Police. In Spring of 2006, he had a supporting role in the live-action NBC sitcom Teachers.
Hendrie moved from Minneapolis, Minnesota and then to Miami, Florida where he further developed his show. The show then moved to KFI in Los Angeles, California and was nationally syndicated to approximately 100 radio stations. Hendrie was married in 1997 to radio talk show host Maria Sanchez. Their wedding was held at the Queen Mary and was broadcast live on KFI. In February 2005, Hendrie was moved from his flagship station, KFI, to XTRA Sports 570 AM, a sports talk radio station also centered in Los Angeles.
In early 2006, Hendrie announced that he was retiring from radio; yet the retirement proved to be temporary. He said that he felt he had reached the limits of what he could do in “terrestrial talk radio” and expressing a desire to shift his career focus toward acting. On June 4, 2007, it was announced that Phil Hendrie would return to radio June 25, 2007 from 10 PM to 1 AM PST on Talk Radio Network, with shows airing weeknightly. The new incarnation of Hendrie’s program is a combination of character voices from his old show and lighthearted political commentary.
In 1970, Garry Trudeau’s creation of Doonesbury was syndicated by the newly formed Universal Press Syndicate. Today Doonesbury is syndicated to almost 1,400 newspapers worldwide and is accessible online in association with Slate Magazine at doonesbury.com.
In 1975, he became the first comic strip artist to win a Pulitzer, traditionally awarded to editorial-page cartoonists. He was also a Pulitzer finalist in 1990. He was nominated for an Oscar in 1977 in the category of Animated Short Film, for A Doonesbury Special, in collaboration with John Hubley and Faith Hubley. A Doonesbury Special eventually won the Cannes Film Festival Jury Special Prize in 1978. Other awards include the National Cartoonist Society Newspaper Comic Strip Award in 1994, and the Reuben Award in 1995.
He was made a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993. Wiley Miller, fellow comic-strip artist responsible for Non Sequitur, called Trudeau “far and away the most influential editorial cartoonist in the last 25 years.”
In addition to his work on Doonesbury, Trudeau has teamed up with Elizabeth Swados and written plays (such as Rap Master Ronnie and Doonesbury: A Musical Comedy). In 1988, Trudeau joined forces with director Robert Altman for the HBO miniseries Tanner ’88 and the Sundance Channel miniseries sequel Tanner on Tanner in 2004. In 1996, Newsweek and the Washington Post speculated that Trudeau penned the novel Primary Colors, which was later revealed to have been written by Joe Klein.
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Stephen Colbert, Drew Carey, Garry Trudeau: Political Humor and Campaigning Part 1 (2004)
March 6, 2004 http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FStephen-Colbert%2Fe%2FB001H6NLEI%3Fqid%3D1281414695%26sr%3D1-2-ent&tag=doc06-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325
Watch the full program: http://thefilmarchived.blogspot.com/2010/08/stephen-colbert-drew-carey-and-garry.html
Stephen Tyrone Colbert (born on May 13, 1964) is an American political satirist, writer, comedian and television host. He is the host of Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, a satirical news show in which Colbert portrays a caricatured version of conservative political pundits.
Colbert originally studied to be an actor, but became interested in improvisational theatre when he met famed Second City director Del Close while attending Northwestern University. He first performed professionally as an understudy for Steve Carell at Second City Chicago; among his troupe mates were comedians Paul Dinello and Amy Sedaris, with whom he developed the critically acclaimed sketch comedy series Exit 57.
Colbert also wrote and performed on the short-lived Dana Carvey Show before collaborating with Sedaris and Dinello again on the cult television series Strangers with Candy. He gained considerable attention for his role on the latter as closeted, gay history teacher Chuck Noblet. It was his work as a correspondent on Comedy Central’s news-parody series The Daily Show, however, that first introduced him to a wide audience.
In 2005, he left The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to host a spin-off series, The Colbert Report. Following The Daily Show’s news-parody concept, The Colbert Report is a parody of personality-driven political opinion shows such as The O’Reilly Factor. Since its debut, the series has established itself as one of Comedy Central’s highest-rated series, earning Colbert three Emmy nominations and an invitation to perform as featured entertainer at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in 2006. Colbert was named one of Time’s 100 most influential people in 2006. His book, I Am America (And So Can You!), was No. 1 on The New York Times Best Seller List.
Drew Allison Carey (born May 23, 1958) is an American actor, comedian, photographer, and game show host. After serving in the U.S. Marines and making a name for himself in stand-up comedy, Carey eventually gained popularity starring on his own sitcom, The Drew Carey Show, and serving as host on the U.S. version of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, both of which aired on ABC.
Carey has appeared in several films, television series, music videos, a made-for-television film, and a computer game. He currently hosts the game show The Price Is Right. He is interested in a variety of sports, has worked as a photographer at U.S. National Team soccer games, and is a minority owner of the Major League Soccer team Seattle Sounders FC. Carey is engaged and has written an autobiography detailing his early life and television career.
Garretson Beekman “Garry” Trudeau http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FG.B.-Trudeau%2Fe%2FB000AP9XQ2%3Fqid%3D1281414757%26sr%3D1-2-ent&tag=doc06-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325 (born July 21, 1948) is an American cartoonist, best known for the Doonesbury comic strip.
Philip Stephen Hendrie (born September 1, 1952) is an American radio personality. He is best known as the host of The Phil Hendrie Show, a comedy talk radio program that is syndicated throughout North America on Talk Radio Network. While The Phil Hendrie Show became renowned for its unique and controversial guests, those guests are not real people at all. They are fictional characters created and voiced by Hendrie himself.
Hendrie has performed voices on the animated FOX sitcoms King of the Hill and Futurama, and as I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E. and the Terrorist in Team America: World Police. In Spring of 2006, he had a supporting role in the live-action NBC sitcom Teachers.
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Humor U, BYU Stand-up Comedy – “Republicans and Democrats” – Bryson Kearl
See more Humor U videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/theofficialHumorU
See Bryson at Humor U’s shows, go to http://humoru.org for details.
Bryson jokes about writing a joke in the middle of the night and waking up to find a strange scribbling about his name and estrogen. He also jokes about republican and democrat party mascots and colors, strip poker, band wagons, and naming babies. Bryson is hilarious and brilliant. You’ll laugh at his jokes.
Bryson is a stand-up comedian in Humor U, BYU Stand-up Comedy.
Filmed at a live performance April 2010 at the Pardoe Theater on BYU campus in Provo, Utah.
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Is Sarah Palin Hot? Featuring Zach Livingston, Neeto Star Part 2 Political comedy, humor, funny
Is Sarah Palin Hot? Featuring Neeto Star, DD Brown, Dookie Slim, Political comedy humor funny – http://neetostar.com satire, jokes, spoofs, parody, comedian, black, democrats, republican, dumb, stupid, late night, satirist, stand up, funniest – Facebook http://bit.ly/9IAvUL Twitter http://bit.ly/aCUdaD
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A “How-to” guide for ditto-heads!
Song: Dreamscape
Mildly Relevant Sources!
A spoof about President Obama as the Cat in the Hat to a tune from 1929 Tiptoe Through the Tulips. He’s trying to do so many things he looks like the Cat in the Hat who came crashing down. It feels more like Tiptoe to the poorhouse, with all the spending and the possibility of inflation, and more taxes to pay for the spending down the road. He’s also managing warranties for cars sold by a company that’s going bankrupt and trying to convince the French not to walk out of the G20. He’s also trying to convince our allies to send troops to Afghanistan, help us with China surrounding our ships, or eliminating the dollar from the world currency standard. Think he will send billions to Africa for assistance the way Bush did? Bush saved 10 million lives in Africa, will Obama, while he’s running car companies?