This Wednesday, Gothtober 29th, 2008 from 9pm to midnight at Akbar, it’s CRAFTNIGHT!!!
Project: Días de los Muertos Sugar Skulls!
$2 Processing fee, please, as well as some extra cash for extra skulls you may want… we made a bunch of really cool ones in differing in design and detail.
I am so excited, because we sat down, mixed the egg white and the sugar, pressed it all into the little molds, put them all in the oven to dry and VOILA, a veritable armada of beautiful little sugar skulls to decorate and take home with you. We’ll be celebrating the continuity of life, honoring the memory of our ancestors, and I’ll have made a little altar with some goodies on it, in case any dearly departed souls want to stop by and do some crafting. You are welcome to contribute to the little altar with photos or favorite little trinkets/treats in the memory of those who were called into the great beyond.
Speaking of departed, if you have time on Wednesday, go over to the Eagle (just down the street from Akbar) and spend some time at the very last night of SHOTGUN. Meredyth and Sarah, CraftNight salutes all your hard work and efforts in running one of the most wild and rowdy gritty eastside ladies nights the eastside has ever seen. We’ll miss SHOTGUN, and hope you’ll come raise a ruckus and cause trouble over our way in the future.
See you at the Craft Table!
JP Craft Captain
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Now then.
A POLITICAL SUPPLEMENT FOR SWING VOTERS:
It has come to my attention that there are some of you who are not decided on whether to vote for Obama or McCain. CraftNight endorses Obama, but not in that “Obama’s a complete angel and makes poo made out of 24-karat gold” kind of way. All politicians are sleazy and power-hungry and egomaniacal, and you can’t really trust a donkey any more than you can trust an elephant when you get right to it. However, I think if CraftNight had to say it, the words from the following top-brass military fellows would put it best:
“It isn’t easy for me to disappoint Sen. McCain in the way that I have this morning, and I regret that. But I firmly believe that at this point in America’s history, we need a president that will not just continue, even with a new face and with the changes and with some maverick aspects, who will not just continue basically the policies that we have been following in recent years,”
“I think we need a transformational figure. I think we need a president who is a generational change and that’s why I’m supporting Barack Obama, not out of any lack of respect or admiration for Sen. John McCain.”
COLIN POWELL 65th United States Secretary of State, 12th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 16th National Security Advisor, Retired General
“The truth is that, in national security terms, he’s largely untested and untried. He’s never been responsible for policy formulation. He’s never had leadership in a crisis, or in anything larger than his own element on an aircraft carrier or [in managing] his own congressional staff. It’s not clear that this is going to be the strong suit that he thinks it is.”
FOUR STAR GENERAL WES CLARK, former Supreme Allied Commander Europe for NATO during the Kosovo War (speaking here in reference to McCain)
And I’d like to give you a few more nuggets (from reliable sources!) that send it home for me:
McCain opposes Roe versus Wade, he believes it should be overturned.
McCain received a ZERO from the League of Conservation Voters last year.
The Childrens Defense Fund voted McCain as the worst senator in congress for children.
McCain’s reputation is built on his opposition to torture. McCain voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban.
Here’s what McCain has said about waterboarding in 2007
“Anyone who knows what waterboarding is could not be unsure. It is a horrible torture technique used by Pol Pot and being used on Buddhist monks as we speak,”
“People who have worn the uniform and had the experience know that this is a terrible and odious practice and should never be condoned in the U.S. We are a better nation than that.”
And if this doesn’t resonate with you, here are places to go that might help you make your decision:
PolitiFact.com
Tube the Vote
Politico
Slate
Candidate Calculator
Candidate Match Game
The Washington Post
Where each candidate stands on Women’s issues
I wouldn’t normally nag you like this, but this election is kind of a big deal.
This concludes CraftNight’s political supplement for this bulletin. Thank you for reading!
