Huh?

Who is Sarah Palin? Here’s some basic background:

• She was elected Alaska’s governor a little over a year and a half ago. Her previous office was mayor of Wasilla, a small town outside Anchorage. She has no foreign policy experience.¹
• Palin is strongly anti-choice, opposing abortion even in the case of rape or incest.²
• She supported right-wing extremist Pat Buchanan for president in 2000. ³
• Palin thinks creationism should be taught in public schools.⁴
• She’s doesn’t think humans are the cause of climate change.⁵
• She’s solidly in line with John McCain’s “Big Oil first” energy policy. She’s pushed hard for more oil drilling and says renewables won’t be ready for years. She also sued the Bush administration for listing polar bears as an endangered species—she was worried it would interfere with more oil drilling in Alaska.⁶
• How closely did John McCain vet this choice? He met Sarah Palin once at a meeting. They spoke a second time, last Sunday, when he called her about being vice-president. Then he offered her the position.⁷

This is information the American people need to see. Please take a moment to forward this email to your friends and family.

We also asked Alaska MoveOn members what the rest of us should know about their governor. The response was striking. Here’s a sample:

She is really just a mayor from a small town outside Anchorage who has been a governor for only 1.5 years, and has ZERO national and international experience. I shudder to think that she could be the person taking that 3AM call on the White House hotline, and the one who could potentially be charged with leading the US in the volatile international scene that exists today. —Rose M., Fairbanks, AK

She is VERY, VERY conservative, and far from perfect. She’s a hunter and fisherwoman, but votes against the environment again and again. She ran on ethics reform, but is currently under investigation for several charges involving hiring and firing of state officials. She has NO experience beyond Alaska. —Christine B., Denali Park, AK

As an Alaskan and a feminist, I am beyond words at this announcement. Palin is not a feminist, and she is not the reformer she claims to be. —Karen L., Anchorage, AK

Alaskans, collectively, are just as stunned as the rest of the nation. She is doing well running our State, but is totally inexperienced on the national level, and very much unequipped to run the nation, if it came to that. She is as far right as one can get, which has already been communicated on the news. In our office of thirty employees (dems, republicans, and nonpartisans), not one person feels she is ready for the V.P. position.—Sherry C., Anchorage, AK

She’s vehemently anti-choice and doesn’t care about protecting our natural resources, even though she has worked as a fisherman. McCain chose her to pick up the Hillary voters, but Palin is no Hillary. —Marina L., Juneau, AK

I think she’s far too inexperienced to be in this position. I’m all for a woman in the White House, but not one who hasn’t done anything to deserve it. There are far many other women who have worked their way up and have much more experience that would have been better choices. This is a patronizing decision on John McCain’s part- and insulting to females everywhere that he would assume he’ll get our vote by putting “A Woman” in that position.—Jennifer M., Anchorage, AK

So Governor Palin is a staunch anti-choice religious conservative. She’s a global warming denier who shares John McCain’s commitment to Big Oil. And she’s dramatically inexperienced.

In picking Sarah Palin, John McCain has made the religious right very happy. And he’s made a very dangerous decision for our country.

In the next few days, many Americans will be wondering what McCain’s vice-presidential choice means. Please pass this information along to your friends and family.

Thanks for all you do.

–Ilyse, Noah, Justin, Karin and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. “Sarah Palin,” Wikipedia, Accessed August 29, 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin

2. “McCain Selects Anti-Choice Sarah Palin as Running Mate,” NARAL Pro-Choice America, August 29, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17515&id=13661-9503641-R4VM7Ox&t=1

3. “Sarah Palin, Buchananite,” The Nation, August 29, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17736&id=13661-9503641-R4VM7Ox&t=2

4. “‘Creation science’ enters the race,” Anchorage Daily News, October 27, 2006
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17737&id=13661-9503641-R4VM7Ox&t=3

5. “Palin buys climate denial PR spin—ignores science,” Huffington Post, August 29, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17517&id=13661-9503641-R4VM7Ox&t=4

6. “McCain VP Pick Completes Shift to Bush Energy Policy,” Sierra Club, August 29, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17518&id=13661-9503641-R4VM7Ox&t=5

“Choice of Palin Promises Failed Energy Policies of the Past,” League of Conservation Voters, August 29, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17519&id=13661-9503641-R4VM7Ox&t=6

“Protecting polar bears gets in way of drilling for oil, says governor,” The Times of London, May 23, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17520&id=13661-9503641-R4VM7Ox&t=7

7 “McCain met Palin once before yesterday,” MSNBC, August 29, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=21119&id=13661-9503641-R4VM7Ox&t=8

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I’m just sayin…

Ha just kidding.

After the mass success of the first nine vector art sets by GoMedia, Inc., these geniuses release their 10th

set, the fun just keeps going! As you can tell just from the image to the right what you’re getting is another incredible installation of superb graphics and designs that really bring out the pro in many people, including me. (coming soon)

Let’s go over some of the highlights of this release, including some returning heavyweights.

Lightning

Every good artist needs an electric personality. Unfortunately, some of the greatest artists of all times were ashamed to show their faces and weren’t quite hot with the ladies. If Da Vinci had lightning vectors to supplement his artwork, he’d be rocking today.

What GM says: Lightning is a robust assortment of various lightning vector shapes, both realistic and cartoony. Add an outer glow to any realistic lightning bolt and you instantly have some photo-realistic lighting to add to your piece. Insane!

These are hand drawn by us, so they are unique. Look out!

File Format: EPS
File Size: 3.3 MB
Number of Items in Set: 28

Cute Stuff

Who says killer art has to be all masculine and nothing but a sausage fest? If you were bothered by the description I just gave which totally stereotyped art and awesomeness then Cute Stuff is something you want to add to your collection. I promise you, you will not be disappointed by the contents of this package in Set 10. Don’t worry, that time of the month won’t be included and you can break up with Cute Stuff at any time, without having to worry about it taking half of your stuff… unless you use it in half of your stuff, then it’ll always have it’s mark. Good luck.

Cute Stuff is a silly selection of all those cute and trendy round monsters and bubbly shapes you are seeing lately. We’ve premade a bunch of those elements for you to use.

Very cartoony and urban feeling. Now you can feel free to submit a design on Threadless and have a chance at winning!

File Format: EPS
File Size: 1.8 MB
Number of Items in Set: 40

Blood Drips

This third pack brings a new style to the table. If you ever punched someone in the face before, you know that blood runs in a downward motion. Let’s showcase that and throw in some blood. Maybe it’s not really blood, maybe it’s a wet paint drip or someone spilled syrup on your wall?

Blood Drips is a series of extremely versatile brush shapes that resemble blood or ink. These can be made into Illustrator Brushes for some really cool creative ideas.

At least that’s what Hillary Clinton is doing, as she has no money left because she has spent it all. Hillary has made the most out of all of the campaigners for the ‘08 President seat, and guess what, she blows it all.

Hillary has always been about our country’s economy, which is fine by me. However, there comes a point where you can only talk about the economy (or anything else that involves money) when you, yourself, have it to spend. You cannot be in debt and want to manage a nation’s budget. No. It just does not work that way!

Hillary Rodham Clinton is $7.6 MILLION in debt right now, according to Politico and damn it all to hell if she wins but wait… that’s “…not including the $5 million personal loan she gave to her campaign in the run-up to the critical Super Tuesday elections, according to financial reports released Wednesday.”

Woman, you now officially suck at life and your face scares small children. It is official. You have lost any chance of me voting for you.

“…the Clinton report paints a picture of a one-time front-runner under enormous pressure after miscalculating that she would wrap up the nomination before or on Feb. 5… [a]ccording to the reports, Clinton raised about $20 million in January, including her loan. She spent … $29 million during the month … $2 million[+] of the red ink is owed to chief consultant and adviser, Mark Penn … the lengthy laundry list of IOUs also includes unpaid bills ranging from insurance coverage, phone banking, printing and catering at events in Iowa, New Hampshire and California … Obama won every one of [the Super Tuesday States Hillary could not afford] on Feb. 5, opening up a critical lead among pledged delegates…”

I don’t know about you but there’s nothing wrong with making a compact car that can still have a good amount of room to transport people and cargo. The Corolla does a goob job of that and even the Civic has a good name.

I would like to remind my readers that this here is America and we are a bit bigger than the folks over in Japan. We are, as my tagline up top of my blog has said before, Hugantic. We own the title of ruling with huganticism and that’s how we are.

This car, on the other hand, is the exact opposite. It’s small. It’s Minisculantic. That is a new word I am adding to my personal dictionary as I type. It’s a car that does better as something that sits on a kid’s bookshelf with the ‘69 Mustang and the ‘67 Chevelle SS 454 that he’s put together and collected over the few blatantly insane years he’s been alive.

I say nay to this vechile.

If you drive, you must follow the rules of the road. If you are handicapped, you can either get a tag to hang on your mirror (some states) or get a DP license plate. here in the state of Washington, you get a five-digit plate with a whellchair symbol and the letters DP to the right.

For those who dro drive and are handicapped in whatever way, answer this question for me… who the hell do you think you are? I have seen more people with DP plates and tags cut me off, overtake me and almost cause an accident, or just plain drive insane and risk my safety as a fellow driver on the road than ANYBODY else. I don’t care if you’re paralyzed from the waist down and have a gas lever on your steering wheel or are missing a leg. When you get into a car and drive, you become just like every other damn person on the road and it’ll be a cold day in hell before you deserve to be treated special when driving.

For the driver of this White Jeep Liberty, you are the first I am publicly announcing this to. I want you to know that I watch all and If I feel you violate, I will let everyone else know about you. However, I do have a soul and I removed your license plate from this photograph. But If you live in the Parkland/Spanaway, WA area, be on the lookout for this Jeep. They have a very bad sense of driving courtesy and seem to not care.

Now that I have ranted, Have a good one people.

As a graphic designer and someone that can make litterally everything from nothing, I worked my ass off and for what? Nothing. Being the only male on the editorial staff (along with one guy who was nothing but a wannabe, and I guess he got his wish of taking my place and being the “hot shot”) I had to deal with self-centered, closed-minded females. No insult intended to the female population who actually reads what I write, but I must say that when given power, the female human eats it up and demands more.

After a semester of bending over and being the bitch, I just stopped showing up and dropped out of it. I honestly stopped caring about a month and a half before the semester ended. I cared so little I just wouldn’t stick around to see sh*t fall apart because of my lack of effort. I knew what was going to happen and after everything I had to put up with, I think they damn deserved it. I was mistreated and I must say that because my creativity was limited and I was forced to a female structure that had no room for ideas and originality, I just gave up.

That’s why over the next couple of weeks, I will be using my creativity and compiling together a few different works that resemble the lack of structure. I want to superimpose and juxtapose and reimpose and outpose and buttpose and whatnot whatever comes to my mind. Creativity is not about totally planning. When something is planned out on paper, it NEVER looks as good as it did in your head when you had all the structure laid out.

I figure it’ll give me some new ideas and information to post about and relate to the community in which my website resides.

Be on the look out for software every week and articles all the time!