Prediction

First!!!!! Yep - the new territory of - nation - of Alaska???

I Will Not Obsess! I Will Not Obsess! I Will Not Obsess!

Okay... Second!

MSNBC Caving to McCain's media attacks?

The text message is asking me to take part in a survey, as they did throughout both conventions. This time, the text asks this:

NBCNews-What do u feel MC's speech did most?
A.Inspired nation
B.Explained motivation 4 Prez run
C.Outlined policy priorities
D.Position him as tough maverick

I'm supposed to reply with my response, either A, B, C, or D.

Obviously, I wouldn't choose any of those responses, as every single one of them kisses John McCain's ass in one way or another. There is absolutely nothing objective about the possible answers, yet MSNBC is a liberal network?

The fact is, Right now MSNBC has one liberal commentator in Keith Olbermann, and even he shouldn't necessarily be classified as liberal, just overwhelmingly honest in his opinions.

Starting on Monday, MSNBC will be adding a second liberal voice to the daily lineup in the form of Rachel Maddow. This in no way compares to partisanship of networks like FOX News who literally won't hire anybody except right-wing blowhards.

Liberal media my ass.

PS. I responded with "E.Made me think i stepped in moose shit"

Their response was "Entry not understood". Go figure.

Happe Talk

September 03, 2008
US says its arms exports boomed this year
Jim Wolf
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. government-brokeredoverseas arms sales are expected to total about $34 billion inthe current fiscal year, up more than 45 percent from the yearbefore, the Pentagon agency in charge said Wednesday.

"Our program is growing by leaps and bounds," Jeanne Farmerof the Defense Security Cooperation Agency told aninternational defense industry conference.

Among the biggest government-to-government buyers in fiscal2008, which wraps up at the end of this month, wereAfghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Egypt and Iraq, Farmersaid.

Overseas arms sales are a key instrument of U.S. foreignpolicy as well as a boon to defense contractors such asLockheed Martin Corp , Boeing Co , NorthropGrumman Corp , General Dynamics Corp andRaytheon Co .

In fiscal 2007, such sales totaled $23.3 billion, up from$21 billion in fiscal 2006, according to the security agency'sfigures.

Farmer, at the conference known as ComDef 2008, said her agency was playing a growing role in the U.S.-declared globalwar on terrorism and national security.

The security agency was currently working with 207countries and had 12,262 "open cases" totaling $274.3 billionas of last month, she said. Open cases include those in whichorders have been filled but which could still involve exerciseof options among other things.

"In the current environment, everybody needs everythingright now," Farmer said. "We do expect to continue to havelarge, large sales."

The United States carries out government-to-governmentconventional arms transfers through the Defense Department'sForeign Military Sales program, which operates on a no-profit,no-loss basis.

In 2007, the Pentagon notified Congress of more than $39billion in such potential sales to 23 countries andChinese-claimed Taiwan, including some funded by grant aid.

This year's notifications are expected to be a record high,led by Iraq. Not all notifications result in final sales suchas those now being reported for this year. Buyers pay a fee,currently 3.8 percent of the cost of the purchase, to cover thecost of administering the program.

The U.S. government says arms sales strengthen U.S.national security by tightening bilateral defense ties,supporting coalitions and enhancing U.S. ability to operatewith foreign militaries.

Critics say booming sales reflect a failure of U.S.diplomacy and show a need for the United States to rethink howit handles foreign policy.

"Instead of spending millions or billions of dollars onweaponry, many U.S. arms customers should be funding education,health, and infrastructure programs that would go much furtherin improving the long-term stability of their countries," saidWade Boese, research director of the Arms Control Association,a nonpartisan group aimed at curbing the spread of weapons.

(Reporting by Jim Wolf; editing by Carol Bishopric)
Reuters

http://www.realclearmarkets.com/news/reuters/finance_business/2008/Sep/0...

That'll fix 'em.

What was Andrea Mitchell doing last night playing with the balloons? I had the sound off.

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bluerootsradio

to see Andrea Mitchell fighting off those balloons with that board three feet up her ass.

Happe Talk

I don't know why, but I thought maybe for this convention the Republican party would drop their tired fear-and-smear playbook and try something different. I guess I assumed with the American people seeming to have forgotten that we still have well over 100,000 soldiers and Marines trapped in the Iraq quagmire, that the GOP's main speakers would at least make the economy a centerpiece in their poisoning of the national dialog.

Boy, was I wrong.

Not only did they say next to nothing about the economy -- other than Grandpa Fred Thompson implying that Democrats are imagining the economic distress most Americans are feeling -- but they went right back to the most trusted Republican campaign technique: When you have nothing whatsoever to offer the American people, scare the crap out of them.

"Al Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America,"

Radical, violent Islam is evil, and he will defeat it,"

"terrorists, rogue nations developing nuclear weapons" and, of course, ... "that to protect America, we must stay on the offense, stop attacks before they happen, and not wait to be hit again."

Hell, that sorry excuse for a carbon-based lifeform, Joe Lieberman, even threw in a terrorist reference -- though oddly, there was no mention of the fact that Osama bin Laden is still podcasting threats again us and that the Republican party has done almost nothing to catch him in seven years.

And of course they took the time last night to run the requisite video exploiting the memory of all who died on September 11.

What did not one member of the faux, support-the-troops line-up mention -- not even one time? The sacrifice of our military families, the number of troops who have returned home in coffins since Bush lied us into the Iraq disaster and the trials of Iraq war Veterans.

To steal from the shrill Rudy Giuliani's speech on Wednesday, they said "nada, nothing."

For a party that wants to convince Americans that the entire Iraq debacle can somehow be reduced to the small amount of time spent on the "surge," every major speech was missing any acknowledgement whatsoever of the troops who have died and those still serving on the ground in Iraq -- except the couple of instances where they used the troops to lie about Barack Obama's record.

undecideds are decreasing. I feel pretty confident that Obama will just get stronger and stronger now, especially since there is nothing new in this boring McCain campaign. It was good to hear some republicans criticizing his speech. The fact that they are muting Palin won't help either. Her adoring fans will even want to hear more from her and will be disappointed that she is not around on the news.

And remember, the debates are coming and Obama will just look better and better.

Happe Talk

I Love these Grizzly Bay Folks!

Sorry if this is double posting but I thought it good stuff.

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Anne Kilkenny

ny times has word balloons showing which words were used most frequently at the two conventions.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/09/04/us/politics/20080905_WORDS...

i'm not sure there's any conclusion to be drawn here.

I didn't even watch McCain... after Cindy (effin' c#*t) McCain said "we want the federal government off our backs" I had to seriously go vomit.

Lies. Damned Lies. All of it was bullshit.

I honestly can't imagine living a life where the past eight years of big government, constitutional erosion, record deficit spending, home foreclosures, job losses, et al, actually hasn't happened under the Republicans. They say well Democrats have had Congress for two years now! Except the fact that either Bush has vetoed legislation, or the Senate Republicans have filibustered or threatened filibusters over and over and over again, and then blame Democrats for doing nothing. And the issues Dems HAVE capitulated on, much to dismay of our base, nary a mention on that bi-partisanship.

It's sick. I can't imagine being that kind of person who enjoys being lied to day in and day out.

If we end up with McCain, we will end up with a country in tatters. It's already in shambles. I tend to agree with Randi Rhodes on this. That's ultimately what Republicans want.

When all you have to stand on is attacking your opponent over and over and over, barely mentioning the current occupant of the white house and his policies, and then STEAL Obama's message of CHANGE as your own, well, it's like Tom Shales says here...

It's like staging a revolution against yourself -- saying that the Republicans have got to go so the Republicans can move in and clean up the mess.

To quote my Diva, Margaret Cho...."Grrrrl, please!

Oh, and unemployment is now at 6.1% - WTG Republicans!

Nonproliferation Experts Analyze State Department Responses to Congressional Questions Concerning U.S.-Indian Nuclear Deal

September 4, 2008

(Washington, D.C.) As U.S. and Indian officials race against the clock to win domestic and international approval for a controversial proposal to relax rules governing nuclear trade with India, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs (HCFA) has made public the Department of State’s January 2008 responses to more than 40 questions sent by the committee in October 2007 that were aimed at sorting out ambiguous and contradictory statements about the August 2007 U.S.-Indian nuclear cooperation agreement.
-more-
http://www.armscontrol.org/node/3338

http://www.armscontrol.org/system/files/StateresponsestoHCFArel090208.pd...

The culture of life: What you find in a petri dish.

that was my dad's nicname. His greeting was always hiya! He died of esophogeal cancer at 58 when I was preggers with my son. I am 58 this year. My dad was a very eccentric character who is famous for getting toothpics on Continental airlines. He would always try to get Chinese restaurants to serve coffee. He was a trumpet player and a scientist who worked on the first voyager. When he died, he was working on manufacturing optical quality glass in zero gravity. He was pretty amazing and difficult too. He was also an astrologer.

It is good to hear "Hap" again, thanks

Happe Talk

"If they really want to run on "change", we have some old t-shirts, they can have."

yes, Rush, you're right, people are definitely going to start calling John McCain, John "McBrilliant"!

Friday, September 05
Race Poll Results Spread
National Gallup Tracking Obama 48, McCain 44 Obama +4
National Rasmussen Tracking Obama 48, McCain 46 Obama +2

Updates to Anne Kilkenny's Open Letter on Palin
new
Submitted by maggiesboy on Fri, 09/05/2008 - 12:29pm.

Combined with her speech on Wednesday night, she sounds like "Darth Vader" with high-heels. It could be deja vu all over again with this hockey mom who carries a big stick.

Former CIA nutjob still pissed about Hillary. Here we go with poor ACORN again.

From Franklin's site:

ACORN IV: Obama, ACORN, Citizen’s Services Inc: False FEC Filings

EXCERPT:

Irrefutable evidence indicates that Obama’s campaign has been doing business with CSI, which appears to have been operating fraudulently in the State of Maryland and Ohio, and ACORN, which has been associated with a laundry list of fraudulent business practices. The full nature of the relationship between ACORN and Citizens Services Inc is not known but this much is clear: both share the same address in
New Orleans and officials with CSI refer folks to ACORN for questions about “political consulting” and “Get-Out-The-Vote” activities. These are questions that mainstream media should examine.

con't

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/08/15/obama-acorn-citizens-services-in...

Free Democracy

Let me repeat: The level of violence at this moment in Iraq is similar to what prevailed on average during one of the 20th century's worst ethnic civil wars! It is still higher than the casualty rates in Sri Lanka and Kashmir, two of the worst ongoing conflicts in the world.

Only in an Orwellian society could our press declare the relative decline in monthly death tolls in Iraq to constitute "calm" in an absolute sense.
http://www.juancole.com:80/

Comment by MEchelle Hates America! | 2008-08-15 14:23:33

The MSM views ACORN as newly freed slaves fighting the boss man Republicans who

SHUDDER!

expect voters to be living breathing humans.

It’s pathetic. People fought and died for the right to vote, so that ACORN crooks could steal votes.

Don’t hold your breath for unbiased coverage.

And there is no investigative journalism - just uninformed opinionating.

Look no further than former sports teleprompter reader Keith Olderman and his boy Scumster

to prove the adage “opinions are like assholes - every body’s got one

"Open Mike" Murphy posts a note in the village square before exile...

The Swooning over Sarah...

"What I don’t like is the effect I think Palin will ultimately have on the ticket. With all her charm, she is still a pick aimed squarely at the Republican base. In a high turnout Presidential year, I am not worried about turning out the base. I’m worried about everybody else we need to win and I fear that among those voters, Sarah Palin will be a dud."

...then again, maybe he'll decide to save his skin and speak the truth a little more often from now on..we're nothing if not a forgiving bunch as long as you embrace the facts...there's plenty of room for redemption over here...not much over there I'd say, though, buddy...safe journey

BTW, read the comments...LOL..."Open" Mike...love it!

wow. whatever gets you though the campaign season, schmuckowitz.

just so ye know :)

on the creep factor scale of 1-10, this registers a 14.3

he must not have been very good in his CIA job ........ everything this guy has said ..... has been wrong. The only ones that listen to him are these people...

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ABC News has exclusively learned that Alaska Senator Hollis French will announce today that he is moving up the release date of his investigation into whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused her office to get the Alaska public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, fired. The results of the investigation were originally scheduled for release Oct. 31 but will now come almost three weeks earlier, according to sources.

Alaska state senator Hollis French, who is running an investigation of Gov. Sarah Palin, says the McCain campaign is using stall tactics to prevent him from releasing his final report by Oct. 31st.
(The Associated Press)The announcement is set for 9 a.m. AKDT time.

"It's likely to be damaging to the Governor's administration," said Senator Hollis French, a Democrat, appointed the project manager for a bi-partisan State Senate Legislative Counsel Committee investigation.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5734511&page=1

Who would want to go on a cruise with Bob Schrurm, and Ron Reagan.

the cat REALLY needs the tin foil hat or else he chases his tail all day and NOTHING gets done.

Submitted by 60th Street on Fri, 09/05/2008 - 1:29pm.
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Thanks 60th. I get my right wing Larrys mixed up!

Back to Alaska
Howard Fineman reported tonight (and I heard something similar) that Sarah Palin will, after a brief stretch on the trail, head back to Anchorage and away from the national media.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Back_to_Alaska.html

A U.S.-educated Pakistani scientist was tortured by officials of either the government of Pakistan or the government of the United States, according to her attorney. Aafia Siddiqui, who lived in the United States for 12 years while studying at M.I.T. and Brandeis, was arrested in Afghanistan based on an anonymous tip. She is currently facing trial for murder and firearms charges. Her attorney argued that as a result of her trauma, Siddiqui is mentally unfit for trial. (Washington Post)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/AR200809...

Submitted by ghettodefender on Fri, 09/05/2008 - 1:37pm.
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That's so she can shred documents and cover up stuff.

ST. PAUL – In the eighth year of Republican dominance of the executive branch of the federal government, after an extended period in which Republicans also controlled the legislative branch of the same federal government, the party's nominee for president told its convention, "We need to change the way government does almost everything: from the way we protect our security to the way we compete in the world economy; from the way we respond to disasters to the way we fuel our transportation network; from the way we train our workers to the way we educate our children."

Never in recent American history has the candidate of a party seeking to maintain its hold on the presidency seen its candidate so aggressively dismiss the legacy of the incumbent commander-in-chief and his allies. ...

Even as he was pledging to "change the way government does almost everything," the senator from Arizona announced his commitment to much, much more of the same.

>>Larry Franklin (...) everything this guy has said ..... has been wrong

sounds like Franklin might be blogging here as `Mambo'?

During his acceptance speech, John McCain had some very strong criticism of his opponent. I'm not talking about Barack Obama; I'm talking about George Bush. After rushing headlong into the embrace of Bush and the Rovian wing of the GOP, McCain has now decided that he desperately needs to distance himself and try to reclaim the maverick mantle. Not an easy thing to do when you have sided with Bush 90 percent of the time.

But McCain gave it his best shot. After dispensing with the obligatory opening nod to the president for "leading us in those dark days following the worst attack on American soil in our history," he offered a stinging indictment of the last seven-plus years of Bush and largely Republican rule.

He promised to "make this government start working for you again" and to "stop leaving our country's problems for some unluckier generation to fix."

(In other words, stealing Obama's message of change)

Listening to McCain, you'd think it was the Democrats who occupied the White House the last seven-plus years and it was time to throw the bastards out.

Given that 82 percent of voters believe we are heading in the wrong direction, it's a logical position to take. But for the American people to buy into the notion that McCain, who has raced to Bush's side on tax cuts, on offshore drilling -- even on torture -- is this campaign's agent of change, it's going to require an incredible suspension of disbelief. Or a serious case of amnesia.

RNC closes out of town!

Obama @ 301 electoral votes!!!

http://www.electoral-vote.com/

While there was much to react to last night in Minnesota, I have to comment on a particular line of attack employed by Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin. The utter contempt and disdain they showed for Senator Obama's history as a community organizer is something that we all must stand up against. I'm particularly angered by the lies and distortions because my foundation has proudly financed millions of dollars of incredible work by community organizers over the past fifteen years.

I was also reminded that the ghosts of Willie Horton and Jesse Helms were on display in the Twin Cities. Make no mistake: inside that convention hall "community organizer" was shorthand for radical, black activist. It's certainly not all community organizers they trivialize and dismiss. What else is the pro-life, creationist, anti-tax, pro-gun movements but the work of Right-wing community organizers? Clearly, Palin is specifically condemning those organizers who work to improve the lives of poor and marginalized Americans.

In belittling community organizing work, the Republicans made the case for what they really stand for. Just to review the record, community organizers work in houses of worship, neighborhood centers, union halls and schools. They have taken the lead in fighting for living wage laws in cities across this country, defended tenants against illegal evictions and foreclosures, led the rebuilding of Los Angeles in the aftermath of the Rodney King verdict and the rebuilding of New Orleans following Katrina. They have registered millions of young people, African Americans, Latinos and senior citizens to vote for the first time. It is they, not people like Rudy and Sarah, who respond when factories are shutdown and families find they have nowhere else to turn. Community organizers were the first people in this country to stand up against the war in Iraq. Their organizations are also the first to provide basic services such as health care and education in the wake of a generation of mean-spirited and hateful conservative policies. Community organizations, and their talented organizers, are the social safety net for many in this country.

majority of its existence...there seems to be, (and I admit I might just be sensitive to this right now), an inordinate amount of the C-word, bitch, etc... speaking of the women in politics....

So...I think there needs to be more ASSHOLE - DICK - BASTARD - FUCKTARD.... :)

saw yer shout out yesterday.

back @ U, boy!

Legislators Move Up Release Date For Trooper-Gate Probe
By Zachary Roth - September 5, 2008, 1:30PM
ABC News reports that Sen. Hollis French will announce later today his intention to move up by three weeks the results of the Trooper-Gate investigation he's overseeing, which had been scheduled to wrap up October 31. French accused the McCain-Palin campaign of using stall tactics to prevent the results from being released by October 31.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5734511&page=1

Trooper-Gate Trooper Breaks Silence
AK State Trooper Mike Wooten, the former brother-in-law of Sarah Palin who is in a bitter dispute with her family, gave what appears to be his first interview. Video at link

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/trooper-gate_trooper_b...

I have a cat story to tell...

We have this cat called Daisy... she was wandering around the road in front of the community college when I stopped and picked her up...Anyway...she is funny.Because of the way she chatters at us when we see her, and how she MUST be there when ANYTHING is going on. We started calling her Betty, (As in "Move along Betty, there's nothing to see here)...

So the night before last P and I were in bed and talking about the cats...and we hear this noise..and Betty had climbed up on something under our bedroom window and alla sudden her face is at the screen chattering at us again...Like "Hey, what are you guys doing? Tell me too"....

Man, we laughed so hard.. :)

And speaking of them..Little Black has dried crap on her tail...my goal for today is to remove it without being injured... bbl...

:)

gee I am glad i checked the blog or i might have missed it

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/3708#comment-251442

this past week...

"Explicit" book pulled from middle school library in Marietta OK

"It’s nasty -- it's soft porn. As far as I have read -- if it was a movie, she couldn't go see it."

The book -- "TTFN" -- came from the Marietta Middle School library, and what's more -- it was on an advanced reading list worth eight points to any student who checks it out and reads it.

The book is recommended for older students, grades ten through twelve, and is written in "instant message" style, depicting online conversations between three fictional eleventh grade girls.

"She read page 32 to me and that was the end of the book. I took it away from my daughter and I can't believe they have these things, this type of reading in a middle school," Kathy Davis said.

That book, which does contain crude references to fellatio and other sexually explicit innuendo, has now been pulled from the shelves here at Marietta Middle School.
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(crude reference...as if there's some uncrude reference...I wonder how this mother will get 90210 off the air since they had a scene with FELLATIO in it...?)

>>in bed and talking about the cats(...) and alla sudden her face is at the screen chattering at us again...Like "Hey, what are you guys doing? "....

"talking about cats"? Is that what you kids are calling it these days?

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's unemployment rate zoomed to a five-year high of 6.1 percent in August as employers slashed 84,000 jobs, dramatic proof of the mounting damage a deeply troubled economy is inflicting on workers and businesses alike.

So far this year, job losses totaled 605,000.

=== and now a little understatement ===

"There is no question that the labor market is not as strong as we'd like," said press secretary Dana Perino.

with Don Rickles....a comedy issue...fun..

Maron V Seder last minute Show today at 3pm!
http://www.samsedershow.com/node/3708

-"talking about cats"? Is that what you kids are calling it these days?-

The Sunday Shows
Sen. Barack Obama will appear on This Week with George Stephanopoulos.

Sen. John McCain will appear on Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer.

Sen. Joe Biden will appear on Meet the Press with Tom Brokaw.

Gov. Sarah Palin has no scheduled appearances. This morning, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis "downplayed Palin's need to do interviews with the press." Howard Fineman says Palin is returning to Alaska to read briefing books.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/09/05/the_sunday_shows.html

Gallup Tracking: Obama Maintains His Lead
The latest Gallup tracking poll shows Sen. Barack Obama continues to hold a lead over Sen. John McCain, 49% to 42%.

The results, so far, suggest the Republican convention has done little to dent Obama's national edge. However, the survey was mostly completed before Gov. Sarah Palin gave her speech last night.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/110032/Gallup-Daily-Dent-Obama-Lead-Far.aspx

I can understand why they'd pull a book w/"crude references to fellatio and other sexually explicit innuendo" from the selves of a middle school library.

not really appropriate reading for middle school libraries... if kids want crude references to fellatio and other sexually explicit innuendo they should watch TV lie everyone else.

All this talk of moose hunting has got me hungry. Why hasn't Sarah given us a moose burger recipe yet? The only ones I could find were these, which seem fake. What give, Palin?

according to some middle schoolers..

And fellatio happens in middle school..if it happens..it should be discussed...no?

one that looks like a Polar Bear cub or something...

ain't cheatin'

:)

LOL!

On a really good day, I'm all four of those, Alice.

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It's Friday ya Bastards!