60 More Small Donors to Get FPC to Denver

Okay, now we're in the homestretch. With less than four weeks to go until we leave for Denver, we need you to really commit to helping us get to Denver. Even if you can only toss us a few bucks, please do it as soon as you can. We want to get things taken care of before prices rise on travel costs and the like. The sooner you donate to us, the less money we have to raise. Pay day is tomorrow or the next day for many people. Please set aside a little bit to help us get to Denver, be it $10, $25, $50 or more.

In our fundraising efforts to attend the Democratic Convention in August, we've decided to focus on a small donor campaign. We originally figured out that it'll take us 240 people contributing $25 each for us to reach what we need to go to Denver and provide you with the best convention coverage in America. We've managed to cut some costs, though, so we've reduced that number a bit. So far, we have the equivalent of 98 ($2460). That means we need only about $1500 more to be able to cover our costs. That's just 60 more $25 donors. We need you to be one of them.

(BTW, if you want a preview of our Denver coverage, check out our Netroots Nation 2008 Coverage).

Go to PayPal and donate through our Florida Progressive Coalition account (quinnelk@gmail.com), or you can write a check to Florida Progressive Coalition and send it to me:

Kenneth Quinnell
3328 Whirlaway Trail
Tallahassee, FL 32309

You can also inquire about advertising by sending me an e-mail. FPC is a media entity set up as an LLC, so we don't fall under campaign finance laws and contributions are not tax-deductible. But they do go to a good cause.

If we don't get the 60 donations we still need, someone will have to stay home and miss the convention. That shouldn't happen, as there's no need for your $25 to prevent someone from going, so give as soon and as often as you can.

We'll also publicly thank all of the donors, so let us know if you wish to remain anonymous or pseudonymous. Our latest contributions came from:

Rosa Castro Feinberg
Leslie Scales
Ed Luscinskas
Edwin Wujciak
Ellyn Stevenson
Ben Kirby
Katherine Howard
Linda Miklowitz
Roxane Dow
Shirley Zahn
Susan & Kenneth McLeod
Norma Washington
Ray & Delphine Herbert
Nancy Noonan

You can read more about Florida Progressive Coalition's fundraiser and Democratic Convention Coverage if you'd like.

Adventures in "Big Waffle"

Ladies and Gentleman and those still confused, I had a dream last night and when I woke up, it frightened me. I went to bed thinking about how much the United States of Belgium hates us. Think about it Citizens, what happened whenBritian, Russia, Japan, Vietnam, and Korea got mad at us or vice versa? We went to war and they attacked us. They attacked our men and our Nations patriotism. Remember when "guerilla warfare" was invented? Well we are dealing with is a new type of warfare, something only seen in acient times and in the movies. See while we were looking Iraq dead in the eye, going for the victory that we all want so bad and just around the corner from getting, then all of a sudden BigWaffel hits us from both sides stealing our livelyhood and one of our GREATEST AMERICAN icons. Because I think it fits and I love the movie, I call it "Raptor Warfare". I woke up and started thinking about what other things "Big Waffle" could steal from us tocompleatly rip away all of our AMERICAN way of life, so here are the top five

5.)Porn - Let me ask you something, you know on the last clear night, when that illegal hookup you have was comming in pretty clear, and it was about 11:43 at night and you caught the "Naughty" channel? Through the somewhat fuzzy screen, you saw him rubbing something all over her and it was pretty amazing.Thats body oil you thought, or maby Whipped Cream. as you get closer to the T.V., you notice that you have never seen whipped cream come in a container like that. Then. just for a momentary lapse, you notice........HUNGRY JACK IS HAVING A FIELD DAY ALL OVER THIS WOMAN!!! Look other countries may have invented it, but we perfected it.

4.)Baseball-O.K. Let me ask you something, You go to the ballgame, get your program, sit in your seat, and name the to three vendors that are walking around. Coke, Bud and....PRALINES?!?! WHERE IN THE HELL ARE MY CRACKER JACKS?!?! DAMN IT BIG WAFFLE STRIKES AGAIN!! OH THE HUMANITY!! Speaking of which.

3.)BEER- The invasion has already begun.(See previous posts) By the way the new official AMERICAN beer, as voted on by AMERICAN college students, is now.........Samual Adams.(More to come later.)

2.)Apple Pie- This tasty little AMERICAN treat is the pinnacle of AMERICANA life. Just think about it, back at the end of WWII, when or fighten' boys came home, what was sitting in the window ledge Apple Pie, When little Timmy comes in from playing a friendly game of neighborhood baseball, what is for dessert? Apple Pie. When I finish my quarter pounder with cheese(Royal with cheese for you overseas group)(Ketchup only) What do I want next, my APPLE PIE! If the Belginiums want to attack my soul reason for living, they will attack my pie. I will surrender struddle to them, but never my pie!

1.)THE ALAMO- Citizens, this is our last stand. If we have one last great icon of America it is the Alamo. We let our enemy think that they beat us there but they really didn't cause obviously, as General Sam Houston said" I want Texas!" Well as red as the state is, it very well be the last stronghold we have as an AMERICAN Icon.

So Ladies and Gentlemen in closing, I ask you for one thing,
" REMEMBER THE ALAMO "

Stay Safe Citizens
Legend Killer

McCain Hates History, Troops Serving in Afghanistan

McCain said Iraq was the first major conflict after 9/11. I wonder what the people serving in Afghanistan and their families think about that?

McCain Loves Castro

The St. Louis Post Dispatch reported InBev has "570 full-time workers and 44 percent share of the Cuban beer market flowing from its brewery in Holguin, Cuba." [St. Louis Post Dispatch, 7/24/08]

McCain's family holdings include Anheuser's Arizona distributorship and McCain is going to make nearly $2 million on InBev's takeover. And he'll have a direct line into the Cuban dictatorship through his business holdings. Will he sell it or will he tell Cubans to go screw themselves?

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McCain Hates Veterans

Apparently McCain wants to ration health care for veterans. That's just plain wrong. This isn't a zero-sum game, it's quite easy for us to afford to take care of all of our veterans, just like we said we would when they signed up. Shame on McCain.

WTF? McCain Now Supports A Timetable?

McCain on timetables:

BLITZER: So Why do you think he said that 16 months is basically a pretty good timetable?

MCCAIN: He said it's a pretty good timetable based on conditions on the ground. I think it's a pretty good timetable, as we should -- or horizons for withdrawal. But they have to be based on conditions on the ground.

I basically agree with this statement, but McCain doesn't:

MCCAIN YESTERDAY: “Speaking at a town hall meeting here, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee said that Obama, even after visiting Iraq, was showing ‘a remarkable failure to understand the facts on the ground’ by continuing to call for a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq on a fixed timetable.” [Atlanta Journal Constitution, July 24, 2008]

MCCAIN LAST WEEK: “An artificial timetable based on political expediency would have led to disaster and could still turn success into defeat,” Mr. McCain said. [New York Times, 7/19/08]

MCCAIN DURING THE PRIMARIES: Later, McCain turned his fire on Democrats, including Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton, accusing them of endangering Americans by advocating a specific timetable for withdrawal. "It would be an unconscionable act of betrayal, a stain on our character as a great nation, if we were to walk away from the Iraqi people and consign them to the horrendous violence, ethnic cleansing and possibly genocide that would follow a reckless, irresponsible and premature withdrawal," he said in a California speech.