Live, from Threadsville,

Nah, can't be.
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good to be here!

Thanks Incubus!

all good in your world tonite?
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real people saying they cant take 4 mor years of this...

~`~`~`~`~`~
Jamesbennett

rescuing these people who voted for Bush?

What a dude!!

Bet we see him again.

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Thought I read somewhere he was gonna show..

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that are talking now.

Barney Smith lost his job to outsourcing. He was a life long republican. He said no more. He wants a government that takes care of Barney Smith not Smith Barney!

pies in the oven!

once a brainwashed lemming
no doubt.

How could anyone have voted to
re-elect Nixon in '72?

It should have been a LandSlide in
favor of G. McGovern!

BUT NOOOOOOOOOO
-

well, I guess Toby could be a PUMA, but I played the odds

the stadium is packed!

hope Sam got in.

Text Of Obama's Speech: "The American Promise"

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/the_full_text_of...

yes we can

si se puede ...

~`~`~`~`~`~
Jamesbennett

That America is an amazing place.

Yummmmmmmmm.
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he's probably in the perimeter

or does it sound like the MSNBC people have a little echo added to their voices so they sound like they're speaking in an arena?

Republican officials said yesterday that they are considering delaying the start of the GOP convention in Minneapolis because of Tropical Storm Gustav, which is on track to hit the Gulf Coast, and possibly New Orleans, as a full-force hurricane early next week.

The threat is serious enough that White House officials are also debating whether President Bush should cancel a scheduled convention appearance on Monday, the first day of the convention, according to administration officials and others familiar with the discussion.

For Bush and Republican presidential nominee John McCain, Gustav is threatening to become this year's Hurricane Katrina. A major storm along the Gulf Coast would provide an untimely reminder of one of the low points of the Bush administration, while pulling public attention away from McCain's formal coronation as the GOP presidential nominee.

Senior Republicans said the images of political celebration in Minneapolis while thousands of Americans flee a hurricane could be disastrous. "Senator McCain has always been sensitive to national crisis," said McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds, noting that McCain postponed announcing his presidential candidacy in 2000 because of war in the Balkans. "We are monitoring the situation very closely."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/28/AR200808...

Submitted by Sunshine Jim on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 9:48pm.
the stadium is packed!
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Let me know if you hear a vendor selling Frosty Malts.

There's nothing like eating a Frosty Malt with a flat wooden paddle cut in the outline of a spoon.

...well 99.98% of it. It feels more like being at the convention. Of course I missed Rachel dancing in her chair but then I don't have the idiotic words of the biased talking heads messing with my beautiful "Babs" mind. tD was right, there is a lot of good music going on.

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Winds = 70 mph

Forward travel = West

Forward speed = 7 mph

Jamaica is fucked. If you look at the path, the storm went out of its way to track along the length of Jamaica.

http://www.weather.com/maps/news/atlstorm7/atl7stormtrack_large.html

Still Hope
If you're bummed about not getting a ticket to watch the Obama speech at the Invesco Center, you'll be happy to know they're still giving away tickets for John McCain's veep announcement tomorrow at the aptly-named 12,000 seat Nutter Center.

--Josh Marshall

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/08/28/mccain_stadium_ral...

I wonder if mambo is sitting in a warm tub with slit wrists?

..if you don't.

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>>They were inside until I installed a steel roof (on a modified A-frame...so most of the house is covered with steel). Then the bad reception went completely to crap.

have you considered hooking you tv up to that big steel roof that steals your signal?

btw, will a digital cable box wiork with your tv that has dials and UHF?

right now it's giving off a thin grey smoke.

I'll wait until it is thicker and blue/black, right?

And for the first time in along, long time all of us can believe it!

cb

or better yet stream cspan 1

~`~`~`~`~`~
Jamesbennett

That's all I can say! Amazing!

Anybody Remember Admiral James Stockdale?
Submitted by 60th Street on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 8:12pm.
he was the vide presidential candidate on the Perot ticket in'92
*******
of Admiral James Stockdale and his wife..

Her Ex-husband was a Navy Captain..

Her Ex was on the same ship as him I think..
I can't remember right now how they all became friends..
I'll ask her when comes back tonight.
But,I do know she said Stockdale & his wife were very nice folks..

She doesn't like McCain..

It's amazing how many Admirals & Astronauts she knows..

And,she isn't just name dropping..

She's a friend of Jim Lovell..etc..

They did a big charity with a bunch of astronauts here about
15 years ago..I asked her if she could get a astronauts
autograph for me..
She came back with about 8 autographs..Pretty cool..

She's a cool lady..Much younger than her years..

I voted for Stockdale & Ross,baby..

SNL had a very funny skit on Stockdale with Dana Carvey as Perot and Phil Hartman as Admiral Stockdale..Perot keeps trying to ditch Admiral Stockdale..
Even my landlord thought it was pretty funny..

I'd Check out Wikipedia for more on Admiral Stockdale,60th..

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

for the new wallpaper.

It's like Obama is making this nomination thing all about him!

Why isn't he talking about Hillary? ;)

Submitted by Chubby Bubba on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 10:08pm.
...have you considered hooking you tv up to that big steel roof that steals your signal?

btw, will a digital cable box wiork with your tv that has dials and UHF?
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I installed alligator clips to the two antenna wires and clipped them to the roof here and there. It might work if the leads were clipped in the right places or if the steel roof had two distinct halves not in contact with one another. Sometimes the rabbit ears work better in close proximity to the roof steel.

As for the ancient boob tube and the digital TV signal-converter box: I hope it doesn't ruin the Hi-Fi.

Did you notice. 2nd night in a row and everyone else (that I saw) with blue?

To prove he's the alpha male. ;)

sits on their hands while a city drowns before our eyes....

yikes! Go away Gustav! Go away. NOLA doesn't need you.

>>I hope it doesn't ruin the Hi-Fi.

you can always Crank up the old Victrola and play your Rudy Vallée 78s ...

Style and substance
Hope and change
God's speed
Dude!

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Bury that friggin warpig.

of John McCain. Because he's after him tonight!

doesn't care, it's that John McCain doesn't get it"

knocked that one out of the park!

am i a your project? game for you?

in comparison to this.

Free Democracy

>>zeek? zeek?

perfect example of why you don't feel accepted here:

We are into Barak's acceptance speech (possibly the most important event in a LONG, LONG time) and you are posting the youtube...

who's eyes his? he has 4..who really sees his? who?
am i a guinea fowl?

should you not be resting?

Free Democracy

>>am i a your project? game for you?

naw, you're just some weirdo that drops in, talks to yourself and then gets angry when the rest of don't cater to you...

If you really want to fit in, why not join in our conversation instead?

eyes NOW!!!!!!!!!!

>>should you not be resting?

who are you talking to?

?

you?

stadium is full.

guess that is your plan though right?

The Republican Convention is going to look like a Ghost Town....
new
Submitted by Kevin © on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 10:29pm.
in comparison to this.
*******
The 99.8% old white GOP delegates again ?

The GOP's lame attempt to show they had some diversity of cultures at their last convention..

Remember that ? The GOP is sooooo Pathetic !

I just hope to God that 1/2(minus stolen votes,of course) this country isn't stupid enough to vote for them again..

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

can get off the meme that he never said what he would do. He has been saying it all along ..... they just haven't been listening.

He will not even follow him to the cave where he lives!

Biden is NOT the attack dog in this ticket

this was all good and dandy for me anyway..i got to learn a lot, did not want to be seen maybe heard yeah!! i just walked in.... directions from one person
i did not expect anything..

its now becoming very scary very very scary to me, as much as i might act like it is ok..

i am no ones puppet!

in Crawford

stand-in to give his speech .... one that can talk. He is going to look like a buffoon talking after this.

Free Democracy

is good

~`~`~`~`~`~
Jamesbennett

think i that i will ever meet anyone of yourll..never wanted too
never want too

"Dismiss this talk as Happetalk'?

I think I saw a couple PUMA's throwing their anti-Obama

signs in the dumpster..

Oh..sorry..I must have been dreaming there for a few seconds.. ;)

But,that would sure be nice..

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

instead of pointing to problems, fix them.

controlled---hate it

Happe Talk

>>Oh..sorry..I must have been dreaming there for a few seconds.. ;)

you may say that I'm a dreamer. but I'm not the only one...

>>Happe Talk

Happe Talk makes good sense!

dont give a flying fuk!!!!!!!
tomorrow 2!!
fucking with me way too long and all i had was love!!!!!
if it happens it happens

And it is that promise that forty five years ago today, brought Americans from every corner of this land to stand together on a Mall in Washington, before Lincoln's Memorial, and hear a young preacher from Georgia speak of his dream.

The men and women who gathered there could've heard many things. They could've heard words of anger and discord. They could've been told to succumb to the fear and frustration of so many dreams deferred.

But what the people heard instead - people of every creed and color, from every walk of life - is that in America, our destiny is inextricably linked. That together, our dreams can be one.

"We cannot walk alone," the preacher cried. "And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back."

America, we cannot turn back. Not with so much work to be done. Not with so many children to educate, and so many veterans to care for. Not with an economy to fix and cities to rebuild and farms to save. Not with so many families to protect and so many lives to mend. America, we cannot turn back. We cannot walk alone. At this moment, in this election, we must pledge once more to march into the future. Let us keep that promise - that American promise - and in the words of Scripture hold firmly, without wavering, to the hope that we confess.

~`~`~`~`~`~
Jamesbennett

no ifs ands or buts!

dont like you no more---

that was good.

oils expensive, ya don't want to waste it...

Obama offers hope.

McCain offers hopelessness.

Happe Talk

Of course I am prejudice in my taste

Free Democracy

huh?
*puff*

Testes are Shriveling
Submitted by 60th Street on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 10:48pm.
in Crawford

*******
lol..Hahahaha..

Bushtard is probably reaching for a beer right about now, too !

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

>>work mans comp

as usual, nobody knows what you mean or who you are talking to.

that speach was immaculate!

this is like the olympics...after a convention this emotionally draining who the fuck is goign to watch television tomorrow??

McCain sure is on top of things...better put off that VP pick...then again, go right ahead....

..then let me have 'em.

Makes me want to stay up all night and watch the MSM response.

Not!

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The only words I didn't want to hear were "Clean Coal".
But I think they were a red herring.
In the words of Steve Miller,
"Go on take the money and run".

Chris Mathews: "To hell with my critics."

for once I agree with tweety.

...to hell with my critics"

Tweety has been completely converted.

>>McCain sure is on top of things...better put off that VP pick...then again, go right ahead....

right now McCain's only hope is to name Obama his VP choice.

(man, Mathews is going over the top...)

next>>>>>>>>>>

very inspirational speech. Loved that he brought up temperment.

Happe Talk

>>KO and Tweety are falling all over themselves

one wonders what they are saying over at FOXnews.

...be your own media.

You know right from wrong.
Good from bad.
Left from right.

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G'nite
G'People
G'bloggin'

very dramatic but not like Ted Kennedy speaking. Barack Obama is a better choice than John McCain. It's that simple.

Bill Kristol is saying Obama exceed all expectations.

The Fox'ers are having a hard time responding...

I want to hear from Rachel...bet she is way teary.

Happe Talk

OK...some blonde bimbo is dismissing it entirely..."worn out ideas and politics of the past"

Bait: "David Brooks gave a disparaging critique of Obama's speech, while he licked his balls."

Rajah: "Why would Brooks do that?"

Bait: "Because he can."

Actually _watching_ Richardson now.

Yellow with PRD flag in crowd.

Doubt anyone planned that though....

I listened for about 10 seconds and caught

expendable GOP mouthpiece: "I think the film, because that's the visual people are going to walk away with here, the film..."

that's basically it...

Bait: "David Brooks gave a disparaging critique of Obama's speech, while he licked his balls."

Rajah: "Brooks is licking Obama's balls?"

Bait: "Stick to the script I gave you."

is get McCain so angry at a debate, that he shows his "temprament".

I'd love to see McCain go postal at a debate!

>>I'd love to see McCain go postal at a debate!

McCain: "but, but, I'm a war crimina... errr, uhhh, a war hero!"

He's not fit to be president or, in my opinion, senator!

..and I'm goin FedEx on your hiney's!

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Postmaster to the people. ;-)
and gbasin is
Carrier for the Cause.

On the website, I can only find replays of the speeches without commentary, which is what I was watching before.

I thought you went to bed already :)

Submitted by Chubby Bubba on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 11:11pm.
OK...some blonde bimbo is dismissing it entirely..."worn out ideas and politics of the past"
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Monica Crowley, by any chance?

(Somewhere in her closet she has a dress stained by Dick Cheney.)

The following is an excerpt from:

http://www.answers.com/topic/monica-crowley

...In 1990, she became Foreign Policy Assistant to former President Richard Nixon, a post she held from 1990 until his death in 1994. She was an editorial adviser and consultant on his last two books, Seize the Moment (1992) and Beyond Peace (1994). Crowley used this period to record her conversations and observations about Nixon in a diary, and she published two subsequent books on the former President in his final years: Nixon Off the Record: His Candid Commentary on People (1996) and Nixon in Winter (1998)...
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There's a resume only a mother could love. She seems to have an attraction to Dick's.

gbasin accepts the term like Kleenex for tissue.

Happe Talk

Was Obama Girl at the convention?

Happe Talk

Oh tD!
The pain!

I still love's ya! I know you meant no harm.

A better term would be to go "Bush" on somebody. There's a real killer for ya!
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The USPS is actually about 50th on the list of places where peeps are killed at work and we're one of the nation's largest employers.
We just get all the bad press cuz it's easy to take a cheap shot. That and we don't own the mainstream media.

One more "postal" quip...
Submitted by maggiesboy on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 11:21pm.
..and I'm goin FedEx on your hiney's!
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(A complaint from the priority male.)

(Who got carriered away.)

(In his dreams he's Junk Male.)

is coming up on FAUX

the faux reporter Major Garret must be with the "Fair and Balanced" news section because he always surprises me with his straight F&B reporting. The confusing part is faux goes from the news people to the comment people in a way the two can't be told apart.

~`~`~`~`~`~
Jamesbennett

.

quirky people.

Happe Talk

Toni, I was saying earlier about Admiral Stockdale...

From what I gathered so far, Stockdale has always defended McCain...but, McCain confessed having broken under torture and Stockdale noted in an interview (I think it was with Jim Lehrer) that those who broke were given preferential treatment like a larger cell and a cellmate.

Stockdale didn't ever relate anything about what McCain experienced, but once after being beaten and tortured, Stockdale was left alone in the room and he broke a window and slit his wrists with a piece of glass. His captors found him in a pool of blood, but still alive and he spent four of the seven and a half years in solitary confinement. he also organized a communication system between prisoners of tapping code on the wall.

Stockdale is the one the media ridiculed for seeming confused and out of place during the debates.

This is from Wiki:

"He was held as a prisoner of war in the Hoa Lo prison for the next seven years. Locked in leg irons in a bath stall, he was routinely tortured and beaten. When told by his captors that he was to be paraded in public, Stockdale slit his scalp with a razor to purposely disfigure himself so that his captors could not use him as propaganda. When they covered his head with a hat, Stockdale beat himself with a stool until his face was swollen beyond recognition. He told them in no uncertain terms that they would never use him. When Stockdale heard that other prisoners were dying under the torture, he slit his wrists and told them that he preferred death to submission."

"Together with other captives such as George Thomas Coker, Stockdale was part of a group of about a dozen prisoners known as the "Alcatraz Gang", separated from other captives and placed in solitary confinement for their leadership in resisting their captors."

I also read a that a study of prisoners of war found that those who don't break under pressure are more apt to be stable in the future than those that didn't. They are more self-assured and confident.

Bait: "David Brooks gave a disparaging critique of Obama's speech, while he licked his balls."

--------

David Brooks has balls?

to describe what McCain would do. Maybe ape shit would be a better description.

..of Election

If his convention speech tonight is any indication, Barack Obama has (finally) signaled that progressive economic populism is going to be the central thrust of Democrats campaign in the stretch run of the 2008 election.

The speech is probably the most populist national speech Obama has given.

Read the rest from David Sirota

...licked where his balls would be were he had any.
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It's a common slip. Don't bust his balls over it. :-)

but we are getting some good milage out of the postal remark ;)

Happe Talk

over the centerfield wall! TCGW!!! nice one eep!

turd blossom says obama was being clintonesque and trying to "square the proverbial verbial."

[he did say proverbial circle]
~`~`~`~`~`~
Jamesbennett

wuh???

Happe Talk

Jesus Tweety...get a grip!

"I heard osamma owns 7 caves..."

[off cspan]

~`~`~`~`~`~
Jamesbennett

Me

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No, on second thought, actually bite me.
Let me mark the spot you dumb fuck!

Is he competing with McCain?

Before Obama's speech, someone let the knuckle dragger's out. Cspan was taking calls. The nutty Christian right must have made a deal with the Span. It was abortion this and abortion that. Of course they were from the South.

It was damn funny.

she said she went into the green room and wept.

Happe Talk

maggiesboy,

Several years ago I was asked to fill-in for a lady during and after her knee surgeries (yes, toniD, it's true).

Among her tasks was (is) to handle the postal paperwork and sorting for mailing 12,000 copies of a weekly newspaper, which I happened to know how to do. Sorta.

Near the end of the very first day of printing and mailing, the intercom called my name to respond to a phone call from the Postmaster. Everyone laughed raucously as I marched to a phone. Every employee was certain that I had fucked up Big Time and they were enjoying it immensely.

As it turned out, the Postmaster was filling-in for the guy who normally handled the newspaper details at the Post Office. The usual guy was on vacation or off sick or something.

The Postmaster didn't know what the hell he was doing and he wanted me (who also didn't know what the hell he was doing) to give him a hand.

But the Postmaster didn't know that I didn't know what the hell I was doing. I picked-up on that pretty quickly. He assumed that I knew what the hell I was doing...so I allowed him to believe it was true.

I made the Postmaster a hero. I made the print shop employees eat crow.

Can Bait bluff? You better believe it.

Submitted by maggiesboy on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 11:34pm.
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Oh I know Maggiesboy.

Calls out the AP on bullshit analysis of Obama's speech!

"bore no resemblance to the speech you an I just watched, none whatsoever!"

"a remarkable failure of that news organization!"

"Charles Babbington find-new-work!"

GOP: Your columns are goofy! Dems: But you had them first!
A funny thing happened on Obama's way to the forum
By Jason George | Chicago Tribune Correspondent
6:40 PM CDT, August 28, 2008
DENVER—The Democratic rallying cry Thursday night was "Yes We Can," but Republicans delivered their own slogan to the masses: "Toga! Toga! Toga!"

The battle began early this week, when organizers unveiled the stage setup at Invesco Field at Mile High, with a set of Classical columns serving as the backdrop for Sen. Barack Obama's appearance. The GOP pounced quickly, saying the "Zeus-like" setting fit for Obama's cult-of-personality appeal. Sen. John McCain's campaign jumped in soon after, labeling the Denver Broncos' football stadium the "The Barackopolis" and "The Temple of Obama."

"The toga may have gone out of style centuries ago, but after Obama's temple speech tomorrow night, they're sure to be flying off the racks," McCain's camp said in a press release Wednesday.

In response, Democratic leadership sighed and shrugged, doing their best to downplay the issue. Eventually they responded by circulating a photograph of President George W. Bush standing in front of similar columns when he accepted the GOP nomination in 2004.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-080829-columns-web,0,...

Mitt Romney seems pretty likely to be the vice president. They probably cut a deal a few months ago.
This will give Sam something to do.

Walk upright please!
new
Submitted by edna ellen poe on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 11:43pm.

Before Obama's speech, someone let the knuckle dragger's out. Cspan was taking calls. The nutty Christian right must have made a deal with the Span. It was abortion this and abortion that. Of course they were from the South.

It was damn funny.
»
***********

I was listening to some of those calls .... right out of the KKK Trailer Park.

just bent for Obama.

>>I know how the bait cranks

Ask not for whom the Crank Baits, the Crank Baits for thee.

callers. I think they are all those guys in suits who protested with their briefcases in Fla....repub operatives...... great call on Brook's "balls"

Happe Talk

http://ap-144976.newsvine.com/

Read his body of "work" on that link and you decide.

>>great call on Brook's "balls"

yes, truly a `I wish I'd said that' moment.

Obama: "I Don't Know What Kind Of Lives McCain Thinks Celebrities Lead"
By Greg Sargent - August 28, 2008, 9:52PM
One noteworthy nugget in his speech: Obama delves into his biography and directly takes on McCain's "celeb" sneer attack.

Obama runs through the story of his mom, who raised him and his sister and once needed to turn to food stamps; his work organizing on the South Side of Chicago on behalf of laid off steel plant workers; and his grandmother, who made tough economic choices and "taught me about hard work."

Then Obama hits the celeb line...

I don't know what kind of lives John McCain thinks that celebrities lead, but this has been mine. These are my heroes. Theirs are the stories that shaped me. And it is on their behalf that I intend to win this election and keep our promise alive as President of the United States.
It must be said that that's artful. It's mocking, rather than defensive. Rather than saying, "No, I'm not a celebrity, as McCain says," he's saying, "McCain's silly buffoonish celeb attack shows that he's the one who's out of touch with what ordinary people want from a president right now."

The speech pads this out with an extensive populist attack on McCain, and a detailed explanation of what Obama will do differently from McCain on the economy.

Good.

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/obama_i_dont_kno...

convention in CA. 4 years later he spoke and tonight he is the nominee...wow

Happe Talk

I flipped across all the channels I get .... and he was live on the Korean Stations and all the Spanish Speaking stations ... so he got a lot of coverage in my area.