No one knows, and if anyone does they're not going to tell. If you'd like to read the article, this is the link for it: Someone called Meg Whitman a whore, but she's being the "bigger man".
If you'd like a synopsis, Jerry Brown's team met up to discuss some campaign plans and some jackass forgot to hang up the telephone all the way after leaving a message for the LA Police Union. They brought up Ms. Whitman, called her a whore a few times, and the recording finished catching the "slur". It was then leaked to the press, Brown canceled his "get out the vote" showing, and Whitman is refusing to comment even though her aides want everyone to know that it's degrading for women everywhere!
Now, as a woman I'm not feeling too degraded. As a republican I'm not even outraged. But as a voter, I am pissed that we have to put up with this nonsense. With all the knowledge that every breath you take is being scrutinized by the public, you are stupid enough to call an opposing candidate a whore? And of all things, why whore? Do you posess knowledge that Ms. Whitman is sleeping around for money? Of course not. If you're going to resort to that kind of behavior to pass the blame and inflate your ego, I don't want you making decisions. I don't want you to blame the working class when you mess up, I don't want you to play any of those ego trip games. I believe that the issues at hand are important, more important than anything else you have to say. I want to know your plan of action.
I may not be 100% on anyone yet, but there are three things that I know right now. 1. We must QUIT deficit spending and outrageous spending. 2. We must create jobs for everyone, not just upper or lower class. We must create jobs across the board. 3. We must increase taxes, and we must be okay with that as Americans. I know people will fight me on at least the last point. But I don't believe my children should be forced to pay off a debt that was incurred without Mark and I even thinking about having children. That is unfair. This was OUR fault, this was OUR vote, or OUR lack thereof. We need to rise to the challenge and fix things ourselves, not pass the blame and pass the decline.
Love, Polly
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April 17, 2010: Comment Moderation
It saddens me to say that charm school isn't known as what people send their daughters to anymore, but it's now a reality show on VH1 starring the losers from their celebrity dating shows. Every time I realize that, I'm torn between running to the bathroom and sacrificing to the Porcelain God or playing "emo-kid" and saying, "Saionara, suckers" to the world.
These girls are rude, crass, inconsiderate, and quite frankly not a tribute to themselves, their family, their friends, their gender, their ethnicities, their cultures, society, or humanity as a whole. I can't say what disappoints and scares me more about these shows being on television; that there are people who take this behavior and exhibit it themselves, or that these women feel justified in acting this way. As a person who advocates moving forward, I'm frankly appalled that mainstream media has decided to portray the current generation in this way. The truth is that what we see on television and through the media is something that future generations are going to judge and remember us through. We remember our own childhoods with the shows we woke up early on Saturday for, and the movies we watched on VHS tapes. We use classic movies, shows, and music to define generations and mark them in a time-line for our understanding.
Having not grown up so much in the world as it is right now, I hope dearly that the things I grew up with still exist. Discipline, respect, cleanliness, dependability, honesty, compassion, and a drive to find success in life (whatever that means to you). None of those things are by any means innate, you have be taught them. And if what we're looking at on television is just an example of what we have to look forward to for future generations, I'm disappointed.
How you act is something that in the end has to be regulated by yourself, and if you're unwilling to conduct yourself properly in public then I think you need to really check yourself for a minute. While I'm writing this, I can see a link for comment moderation, and the concept is astoundingly simple. It means I can keep things hidden unless I think they meet my requirements of respect and politeness. People now should moderate their life in the same manner, they should hold back and make sure that what they say or do is something that won't hurt them in the long run.
As a human being, we're reliant on each other for something at some point. There is no such thing as a completely self-reliant person, it just doesn't exist. You cannot create 100% of every good known to man in your personal space (home, farm, ranch, etc.), you just can't. So since we all have to deal with each other, let's try not to be the last person everyone else wants to deal with.
Love, Polly.
[Author note: this blog has been pre-scheduled to post as I will be unavailable this weekend in an attempt to be more reliable. Thanks for reading. ]
These girls are rude, crass, inconsiderate, and quite frankly not a tribute to themselves, their family, their friends, their gender, their ethnicities, their cultures, society, or humanity as a whole. I can't say what disappoints and scares me more about these shows being on television; that there are people who take this behavior and exhibit it themselves, or that these women feel justified in acting this way. As a person who advocates moving forward, I'm frankly appalled that mainstream media has decided to portray the current generation in this way. The truth is that what we see on television and through the media is something that future generations are going to judge and remember us through. We remember our own childhoods with the shows we woke up early on Saturday for, and the movies we watched on VHS tapes. We use classic movies, shows, and music to define generations and mark them in a time-line for our understanding.
Having not grown up so much in the world as it is right now, I hope dearly that the things I grew up with still exist. Discipline, respect, cleanliness, dependability, honesty, compassion, and a drive to find success in life (whatever that means to you). None of those things are by any means innate, you have be taught them. And if what we're looking at on television is just an example of what we have to look forward to for future generations, I'm disappointed.
How you act is something that in the end has to be regulated by yourself, and if you're unwilling to conduct yourself properly in public then I think you need to really check yourself for a minute. While I'm writing this, I can see a link for comment moderation, and the concept is astoundingly simple. It means I can keep things hidden unless I think they meet my requirements of respect and politeness. People now should moderate their life in the same manner, they should hold back and make sure that what they say or do is something that won't hurt them in the long run.
As a human being, we're reliant on each other for something at some point. There is no such thing as a completely self-reliant person, it just doesn't exist. You cannot create 100% of every good known to man in your personal space (home, farm, ranch, etc.), you just can't. So since we all have to deal with each other, let's try not to be the last person everyone else wants to deal with.
Love, Polly.
[Author note: this blog has been pre-scheduled to post as I will be unavailable this weekend in an attempt to be more reliable. Thanks for reading. ]
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