Maron V Seder last minute Show today at 3pm!

last minute no kidding! looking forward to it

Sam has made the point that the reaction to a McCain loss will by the base would be that he lost because he wasn't a true conservative. Now with Palin on the ticket I guess there is someone for every republican to blame.

but what if they win (shudder)

I'll be impressed...

I am still puzzled about how Palin has earned the title `reformer'...

from her record it seems like GOP business as usual...

Palin the Polarizer
Republican political consultant Mike Murphy finds himself lonely among his fellow GOPers since he doesn't think Gov. Sarah Palin was a good choice as Sen. John McCain's running mate.

"I think she'll ultimately be a polarizer. After last night's smash, Republicans are in deep love. Nothing thrills 'em like a good 'us vs. them' speech. But I'd guess that most Democrats had the opposite reaction. In a year where the Democrat generic numbers are 10+ points better than the Republican, I don't like the math of a strategy that just polarized the election along party base lines. Among the vital sliver of voters in the middle, I think Palin's rock solid social conservatism will be a turn off. And while voters may value vision over experience, Palin's inexperience is a weakness, denying McCain an argument that has been helping him against Obama."

http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/09/the_swooning_over_sarah.html

Expanding Democratic majorities in both houses would lessen the effect but McCain would still be a disaster. I hate to make this point but I think if McCain were to argue that he would be a balance to the impending increase in Democratic control some independents might find that to be the best reason to vote for him.

person speaking didn't write the words?

09/11/2008

Hearing on: Hearing on: the Continuing Investigation into the U.S. Attorneys Controversy and Related Matters - Judiciary

I've been looking for a month for this hearing to be called and it was finally scheduled today. I'm not sure when, it wasn't there this morning.

Barbara Boxer calls Palin 'an extremist'
David Edwards and Muriel Kane

Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) has become the latest female Democratic leader to slam Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, telling reporters on Thursday that Palin is "an extremist" and "way out of the mainstream."

"My impression of Sarah Palin is that she can throw a very strong punch, a very sarcastic punch," Boxer began. "I think her speech was laced with ridicule. ... People will respond differently to that. It didn't move me very much. I was uncomfortable with it."

"But the most important thing, it seems to me, is her record and her views," continued Boxer. "She's an extremist. And she's way out of the mainstream. And it's ... hard for me to imagine how Democrats, moderate Republicans, and moderate independents can embrace the McCain-Palin ticket."

According to the Associated Press, Boxer stated that John McCain had showed "a terrible lack of judgment" in his choice, echoing remarks last week by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), who called Palin's selection "an example of colossally bad judgment on the part of John McCain."

"She's anti-science," Boxer said of Palin. "She says that global warming isn't in any way caused by human activities when the world's leading scientists say that it is. She's opposed to stem cell research which will save millions of lives, she's against abortion even in the case of rape and incest, and is against birth control."

This video is from CBSNews.com, broadcast September 4, 2008.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Barbara_Boxer_Palin_extremist_%5BVIDEO.DE%...

Winfrey: Report about Palin 'categorically untrue'

(CNN) – Talk show host Oprah Winfrey is denying a report of division within her staff over booking Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin as a guest.

“The item in today’s Drudge Report is categorically untrue,” Winfrey wrote in a statement issued Friday. “There has been absolutely no discussion about having Sarah Palin on my show.”

Citing sources that had spoken to the news Web site, a story posted Friday morning on The Drudge Report said “Oprah's staff is sharply divided on the merits of booking Sarah Palin.” “One executive close to Winfrey is warning any Palin ban could ignite a dramatic backlash!,” the story also says.

But Winfrey, a longtime and outspoken supporter of Sen. Barack Obama, is flat-out denying the report. “At the beginning of this presidential campaign when I decided that I was going to take my first public stance in support of a candidate, I made the decision not to use my show as a platform for any of the candidates,” Winfrey wrote in the statement. “I agree that Sarah Palin would be a fantastic interview, and I would love to have her on after the campaign is over.”

In addition to holding a fundraiser for Obama, the media mogul has appeared on the campaign trail for the Illinois senator and she attended the recent Democratic convention where Obama became the first African-American to be named the presidential nominee of a major political party. “It filled us with a sense of hope and possibility that, you know, I never even, sort of, been able tap into,” Winfrey said about the convention. “It was beyond anything I’d ever experienced. It really was. It was a transcendent moment.”

Free Democracy

there are legal reasons to impeach...

During the Republican ballyhoo, the Republicans said, "This is a time when we take off our Republican hats and put on our American hats." They are admitting that being a Republican is to be unAmerican. I was on vacation during all this so I don't know if anyone made that point but this is something that really needs to be said.

JOHN HEINZL

From Friday's Globe and Mail

Enjoying September are you? Didn't think so.

Living up to its reputation as one of the cruellest months for stocks, September has a perfect score so far: Three days, three gut-twisting losses.

In the span of just 72 hours, the S&P/TSX composite index has plunged 957 points or 7 per cent, including a 324-point tumble Thursday that could have been much worse: At one point, the index was down as much as 428 points before a few brave – or reckless – bargain hunters stepped in.

“The sentiment has gone from euphoria to panic,” said John Stephenson, senior vice-president and portfolio manager at First Asset Investment Management.

“Right now people want out at any price.”

For the S&P/TSX index, the September freefall is worse than in virtually every other market globally. The S&P 500 is off just 3.6 per cent, Britain's FTSE 100 is down 4.9 per cent and Japan's Nikkei has shed 3.9 per cent. (All figures in local currency.) One exception is the 7.7-per-cent skid on Brazil's Bovespa index, which, like Canada's, is stacked with commodity producers.

Until a few months ago, having a commodity-rich market made you the envy of the world. Even as the U.S. housing downturn was worsening and subprime bombs were exploding all over Wall Street, investors could count on China, India and other emerging economies to prop up demand for oil and metals.

Now that the global growth is slowing and China's sizzling economy is expected to cool, being a resource-rich market has suddenly become a curse.

http://www.reportonbusiness.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080904.wheinzl05/B...

from what I heard...

I would bet they had to have seat fillers at that convention..

I think this is another attempt to cover for the McCain Campaigns plan to shield her from the media by blaming the media for not giving her fair treatment or in this case access to the media.

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

NO. simply, no.

it is inappropriate behavior for middle school kids. it is not `normal' for 12 year-olds. nor should it be.

and even it it was, public schools should not promote it.

promoting it...

and we have been doing TTYL for the teen book club....

Glad to see at least Boxer is "with it.." Hooray for her!!
mainstream media still fawning over Palin (ugh).
Foreign media not so sure.

Goodtimes ? Me thinks Not !

I sure hope people Aren't Drinkin The GOP Kool-Aid they are
trying to serve up !

By JEANNINE AVERSA, AP Economics Writer
7 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - 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.

The Labor Department's report, released Friday, showed the increasing toll the housing, credit and financial crises are taking on the economy.

The report rattled Wall Street again. The Dow Jones industrial average was down about 40 points in midday trading. All the major stock indexes tumbled into bear territory Thursday as investors lost hope of a late-year recovery. With the employment situation deteriorating, there's growing worry that consumers will recoil, throwing the economy into a tailspin later this year or early next year.

The jobless rate jumped to 6.1 percent in August, from 5.7 percent in July. And, employers cut payrolls for the eighth month in a row. Job losses in June and July turned out to be much deeper. The economy lost a whopping 100,000 jobs in June and another 60,000 in July, according to revised figures. Previously, the government reported job losses at 51,000 in each of those months.

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

Con't

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

I asked my friends what that was in the 6th grade I was what..11 or 12? - they laughed at me - and they told me - and I didn't "partake" until I was 21...

>>I'm not sure that writing about it in a fiction book is really

no, but putting on the shelves, at taxpayer's exxpence, would be.

I truly doubt the book promotes pre-teen sex, probably the opposite. but, still, there's lots of other good stuff for the kids to read.

sex sells, but I think a pre-teen demography is a horrible market to target.

MOST kids I have experienced do not read books, and do not want to read books...

If a library is to provide information...who is a library to censor that information? And a parent is given the right to NOT check it out. There is a Latin phrase the the public library uses..school libraries might be different..it means the the library is not in the place of the parent when the parent isn't there...It's like No Loco Parentis or something...But if a book like TTFN or TTYl is on the best seller list..a Library will most likely provide it...

MEXICO CITY (AFP) - A private jet that crash-landed almost one year ago in eastern Mexico carrying 3.3 tons of cocaine had previously been used for CIA "rendition" flights, a newspaper report said here Thursday, citing documents from the United States and the European Parliament.

The plane was carrying Colombian drugs for the fugitive leader of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman, when it crash-landed in the Yucatan peninsula on September 24, El Universal reported.

The daily said it had obtained documents from the United States and the European Parliament which "show that that plane flew several times to Guantanamo, Cuba, presumably to transfer terrorism suspects."

It said the European Parliament was investigating the private Grumman Gulfstream II, registered by the European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation, for suspected use in CIA "rendition" flights in which prisoners are covertly transferred to a third country or US-run detention centers.

weeeeeeeeeee

Jesus Christ, enough already!

Hypothetical discussions about hypothetical backlash from a campaign that has declared a war on the media and sequestered their candidate!! What a fucking farce!

...

>>and I didn't "partake" until I was 21...

chances are pretty good that if you were giving blow jobs at 11 you would have turned out way differently. and chances are, not for the better.

but, I think we should agree to disagree on this.

you know how sharp-tongued I can be in extended arguments.

I thought the media was McCain's 'base'?

hurry up

>>Are there any publicly traded pornography stocks?

absolutely.

(soft-core) porn is VERY mainstream. Many of the major media conglomerates have porn divisions. think about pay-per view porn on cable or in hotels, they are big money makers.

I think there is a HUGE difference between the free love of a few decades ago and the commercialization of sex that we are seeing now.

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Jamesbennett

Good posts as usual.. Thanks.. :)

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

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Jamesbennett

"It's over. It's over. It's over for the special interests,'' McCain promised. ``We're going to start working for the people of this country.''

``Change is coming, change is coming,'' McCain promised the audience, borrowing the same theme that Democrat Barack Obama has made the centerpiece of his run for the White House.

McCain took note of gloomy economic news from Washington: The government reported that the nation's unemployment rate soared to a five-year high of 6.1 percent in August as employers slashed 84,000 jobs.

``Rough times all over America,'' he said.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7777572

Apparently McCain made part of his speech in front of a picture of Walter Reed. Not the hospital, the high school in Hollywood, CA. It was the part where most saw only a closeup where it looked like McCain was in front of a green screen. What was his point? Here is the biggest speech this bozo will give in so far in his life and the details are muddy. He just doesn't care about doing a good job.

...

may be more to the point than we thought

or a real player option..I can run DN video streams...he needs to ask Amy what she uses...

(Repost for Alice... since I was asleep at the wheel obviously)

LOL!

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

~-~-~

It's Friday ya Bastards!

HAHAHAHA... ! :)

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Alaska Legislature will work to complete its ethics investigation into Gov. Sarah Palin's firing of her public safety commissioner earlier than expected, weeks before the national election.

State Sen. Hollis French says seven witnesses told the Legislature's investigator they will not provide depositions and canceled their meetings. French, who is overseeing the investigation into whether Palin abused her power, said the Legislature will subpoena witnesses.

is that coat hanger behind sam a statement?
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Jamesbennett

Tweety gone wild
John Aravosis (DC) · 9/05/2008 03:10:00 PM ET · Link
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Me likey the new Tweety. It's like one of those movies where the media is in a coma for 8 years and suddenly wakes up. Of course, in those movies, they then die after 3 days, but still, we do get a gloriously 3 days of democracy.

Video here:

http://www.americablog.com/2008/09/tweety-gone-wild.html

One last thing...

I don't think corporate America should be shoving fellatio down pre-teenage girls throats...

(hee-hee, I'm so naughty!) ;)

LTD

Intimate Brands-- Famous for Victoria's Secret.

McCAIN-PALIN: A BRIDGE TO NOWHERE
John Aravosis (DC) · 9/05/2008 01:40:00 PM ET · Link
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A reader writes:
"McCAIN-PALIN: A BRIDGE TO NOWHERE"

Can you help get this meme out into the world at large - PLEASE???

Excuse my ego-tripping, but this is the kind of catchphrase that will stick right into people skulls once it starts spreading. It ties together that freakin' bridge she was on both sides of (hey, there's ANOTHER metaphor!) with Bob Dole's loser '96 campaign. (Remember his bridge to a better past vs. Clinton/Gore's 'bridge to the 20th century'?).

http://www.americablog.com/2008/09/mccain-palin-bridge-to-nowhere.html

www.marcmaronrules.blogspot.com/

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

Governor Palin has been quietly undermining ethics inquiry into firing of Public Safety Commissioner
John Aravosis (DC) · 9/05/2008 09:05:00 AM ET · Link
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According to CREW, it's politics as usual in Palin's Alaska.
"Alaska Governor and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has been quietly undermining the ethics inquiry into her firing of Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan from the beginning, even as she publicly pledged her full cooperation. "
CREW has a lot of documentation, check it out via the link above.

http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/33987

WARSAW (Reuters) - The Polish prosecutor's office is investigating allegations that there was a CIA prison in Poland where al Qaeda suspects were questioned and guards might have used methods close to torture, the prime minister's top adviser said on Friday.

Polish media reported earlier on Friday that a classified note written by the Polish secret service had proved the existence of a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency base in Poland.

"I am not familiar with such a note and I don't think Prime Minister Donald Tusk is either," Slawomir Nowak, who heads Tusk's political office, said in an interview with Tok FM radio.

"But the premier asked the justice minister to clarify this matter and the country's prosecutor's office is investigating the potential existence of the CIA prison."

Life on Marijuana Buttsex Island

It looks like the NFL helped instead of hurt...

McCain's address at the Republican National Convention was seen by about 38.9 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research. Obama received 38.4 million.

That means McCain's speech is now the most-watched in convention history -- 41% higher than President Bush's acceptance speech four years ago, and 1% higher than Obama's address last week.

Though anticipation has been running high for McCain's address, the speech also benefited from a strong NFL lead-in on NBC, which brought 13.6 million viewers to the doorstep of its 10 p.m. NBC News telecast. Also, with interest in his running mate Sarah Palin spiking viewership for the RNC on Wednesday, the convention was able to gain some significant momentum after losing its first night to Hurricane Gustav coverage. McCain received 5% more viewers than his running mate.

Even with NBC getting an NFL boost, Fox News is expected to win the network-by-network breakdown.

Six percent unemployment. This country may really be hopeless--

John McCain speech draws record TV ratings

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A record 38.9 million U.S. TV viewers watched John McCain accept the Republican nomination for president on Thursday, slightly more than the 38.3 million people who tuned in for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's speech, Nielsen Media Research reported.

McCain's tally was also higher than the 37.2 million Americans who tuned in to hear Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's address, Nielsen said on Friday.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN0439266820080905

>>is that coat hanger behind sam a statement?

I think so. Authorities took a box of wire coat hangers from one of those `terrorist /anarchist' groups they raided.

Wire coat hangers are a symbol of the pro-choice people. or used to be, because they are used in backroom abortions.

"Never Again," is the statement.

http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/9/5/133459/7362

link from the above link gets
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http://openthread.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/5/131718/5054/904/587949
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more info here
http://www.the-peoples-forum.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=4301
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Jamesbennett

xpressyourview.com has a bumper sticker, but with McCain-FAILIN, 08 ...

Spiro Palin and the Coming Charge of the Hillary Women! (Brent Budowsky)
@ 11:24 am
The McCain convention has ended and the theme was all white, far right. Now comes the charge of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic women who will fight for economic opportunity for all and against the civil war over abortion promised by the Republican VP, who runs in the tradition of Spiro Agnew, with a nominee using the tactics of Karl Rove, in a party with the policies of George Bush, with a vision of Republicanism that dates back to Richard Milhous Nixon.

The Republican Party that once fought to save the nation under Lincoln is enraptured by a right-wing extremist sympathetic to a group that believes Alaska should secede from the union, thrilling those who would reverse Roe v. Wade and oppose abortion even after rape and incest, who embodies the pork barrel corruption of the worst of Washington, and ridicules Catholic parishes, Protestant ministries and Jewish temples that help jobless workers because they are what she calls derisively "community organizers.” > Read More

http://pundits.thehill.com/2008/09/05/spiro-palin-and-the-coming-charge-...

I quit Listening to AAR a while ago ...

Air America Media adds a new show next week when former first son Ron Reagan is added to the regular programming schedule. “The Ron Reagan Show” will air weeknights from 8-9P ET beginning Monday, September 8. The new gig carves an hour off of “The Rachel Maddow Show,” which airs from 6-8P ET. Maddow begins a new weeknight show on MSNBC next week as well in the same timeslot.

Reagan has been reporting from the 2008 Republican National Convention on all Air America programs originating from Minneapolis-St. Paul and co-anchoring the evening coverage with David Bender. He also is a regular panelist on Air America’s “7 Days in America,” and guest-hosted “American Afternoon” in the spring.

“Sitting next to Ron this week as he co-anchored our coverage at the Republican National Convention made me realize his biting commentary and unique experiences were a ‘must’ addition to our talk line-up,” said Bill Hess, senior vice president of programming for Air America Media. “Our affiliate stations will benefit from his insight, story-telling talents and entertaining style during this historic election season and beyond.”

“There are too few progressive voices in the media and Air America plays an important and vital role,” said Reagan. “I’m proud and pleased to be involved as Air America expands and solidifies its position in the media landscape.”

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2008/09/ron-reagan-added-as-permanent-air.ht...

The shortcut way to judge any Alaska capital project.

Do The Math: $50,000,000.00 for Wasilla, Pop. 5,000. Hotlist
by Jbearlaw [Subscribe]
Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 12:15:17 PM PDT

Am I right about this? I've been trying to keep up with the flood of information about Palin, and I'm having a hard time believing that I'm right about what the reporting actually says about the amount of money Palin spent as mayor of Wasilla.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/5/151517/4747/44/586783

When they built our bridge in Kodiak-- I think it was '94-- we all wished the Feds had just mailed us a check for 12 grand instead.

Palin's Churches and the Third Wave: This posting documents the extensive involvement of several of Sarah Palin's churches in the Third Wave Movement, also known as the New Apostolic Reformation, Joel's Army, and Manifest Sons of God.

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/9/5/03830/11602

http://www.236.com/blog/w/lee_camp/mccains_voice_mail_to_palin_le_8644.p...

privately, I'm an asshole.

on the air, I'm a much Bigger asshole...

hey, that Noonan fellatio with a corpse thing was remarkably similar to comments I made about Bush at Tony Snow's funeral.

all that was missing was the `GI like boom-boom?' and `love you longtime' stuff.

Immaculate reception was Franco Harris & the Steelers.

I don't remember the name of Flutie's `Hail Mary' pass.

aside from that very slight misspeak, very apt comparison.

I wonder, now, how long ago that affair happened? It puts in question, again, baby Trig if that affair was recent.

Miami and whoever else

Miami and Boston College

>> Miami and whoever else

Boston College.

Some east-coast liberal media elite you turned out to be...

Diageo/Hotline **
9/2-4/08; 877 LV, 3.3%
Mode: Live Telephone Interviews

National
Obama 46, McCain 40

Breaking: Todd's Biz Partner Seeks Emergency Motion To Seal Divorce Papers
by lipris
Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 09:41:28 AM PDT

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/5/123217/9370/955/587898

does that mean we have two presidential candidates at risk of being capped?

but how bout those machines and rethug dirty tricks?

Immaculate deception.
Respect the Assassin!

Specifics on the Enquirer affair story
by therealcervantes
Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 12:35:21 PM PDT
This is totally beneath me, but I figure I'll give y'all the link so you can satisfy your morbid, or voyeuristic curiosity, as it may be, and then hopefully just sit back and wait to see if anything comes of it. This web site -- which you will never visit again, is called Hotties in the News. (I don't actually think Sarah is all that hot but anyway. . .) Here's what they say is in the National Perspirer story.

therealcervantes's diary :: ::
HERE are the Allegations surrounding this developing story:

-The affair apparently happened in the mid 1990's, around the time Palin had just become mayor of the small Alsakan town of Wasilla.

-The man alleged to have had the affair with Sarah Palin was a guy by the name of Brad Hanson.

-Some reports say Brad Hanson is a council member with the Alaskan city of Palmer.

-Brad Hanson was a business partner of Sarah Palin's husband, Todd. Brad Hanson and Todd Palin shared a Anchorage Car Wash venture together.

-Brad Hanson was apparently also married at the time, he divorced his wife not long after.

- According to reports today, this week Brad Hanson filed an emergency motion to have his divorce papers sealed with an Alaskan family court. The motion was... denied.

-According to the National Enquirer, there definitely "was" an affair, but some sources suggest it was pretty tame. Just "reportedly flirtatious.... but (Palin and Brad Hanson) never consummated the relationship."

-In its latest news stand editions, The National Enquirer said: "Todd discovered the affair and quickly dissolved his friendship and business associations with the guy. Many people in Alaska are talking about the rumour and say Todd swept it under the rug."

-Speaking out against the National Enquirer, John McCain spokesman Steve Schmidt said, "Its a vicious lie."

According to other sources, the National Enquirer said it would be holding off on further details until "next week."

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/5/153241/8545/750/588111

Add 2 points for any national poll to O ( conservative undersampling).
Then add 3 to M for theft.
Hope for a positive balance when done.

Backlash: 2,000 People Show Up To Obama HQ Opening In L.A.
by dday
Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 12:29:31 PM PDT
The general election has begun. On a random Thursday night, when most political junkies were watching POW McCain's cottage cheese and lime Jello speech at the RNC convention, in a town notoriously hard to get anywhere in on time, 2,000 people showed up at the opening of Barack Obama's first campaign office in Southern California.

There were a couple speeches from locals (Eric Garcetti, Harb Wesson, Mark Ridley-Thomas, and a couple others) at the beginning, and they handed out a few yard signs and bumper stickers, but basically, this was an office opening. Just a walk-through of the building. And the campaign sent only one email out about it, with just 24 hours advance notice.

Two thousand people.

Wow.

More:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/5/152431/2722/738/588099

In 2006, state investigators found Wooten guilty of "a significant pattern of judgment failures," including using a Taser on his 10-year-old stepson and drinking beer while operating a state trooper vehicle. Wooten was suspended for 10 days as "a last chance to take corrective action."

He said that he was a new Taser instructor, and his stepson was asking him about the equipment. "I didn't shoot him with live, you know, actual live cartridge," Wooten said. Instead, he said, he hooked his stepson up to a training aid "with little clips. And, you know, the Taser was activated

Asked whether it was a dumb decision, Wooten told CNN, "absolutely."

and

The father of three, who was married four times, told CNN, "I'm trying to move on and be the best dad I can to my children. Be the best trooper that I can be. You know, I love my job. I love this state."

He added that McCain's choice of Palin as his running mate was "absolutely wonderful for the state of Alaska."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/05/palin.trooper/index.html

Shadow Governor
http://www.the-peoples-forum.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=4001
In the aftermath of the Walt Monegan firing, one question keeps surfacing over and over again; why does the governor's husband, Todd Palin appear to hold so much power?

After all, Nancy Murkowski or Susan Knowles were never accused of pressuring a commissioner or inappropriately sitting in on meetings that should have been private.

The stories started last year when Representative Ralph Samuels told me about going into a meeting, he thought would be private, with Governor Sarah Palin. Much to his surprise, Todd Palin was there and proceeded to sit through the entire meeting.

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Jamesbennett

passed away.

Just now on CNN

By William John Cox | Online Journal

Although Americans have access to the greatest selection of information sources in the world, including books, newspapers, magazines, radio, television, cable, and the Internet, the frequency of the news cycle has increased to the point where we have forgotten that our president and vice president have committed horrendous war crimes, or we may have missed the fact as it flashed by.

Most of us may have been fleetingly aware in 2006 that President Bush and Vice President Cheney were lying to us about their reasons for the Iraq War, which caused the murder and maiming of tens of thousands of our American troops and the waste of billions of our tax dollars. We elected a majority of Democrats to Congress to hold them accountable; however, the Democratic leadership immediately announced that impeachment was off the table and it has been business as usual ever since.

Recently, there has been a flood of new evidence clearly proving beyond any reasonable doubt that our president and vice president, along with others, conspired to engage the United States in an unnecessary and illegal war and repeatedly and deliberately lied to the American people about the true facts of the matter. Most specifically, the president committed felonies when he lied to Congress about his justification for ordering the attack on Iraq which resulted in the murder of all who have died in his fraudulent "War on Terrorism."

Con't

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

Segretti's people will be in touch.

Carol Cafferty's wishes, instead of flowers.

Wake up America, Sign up America! We're in the Countdown to a Million More!

A million signatures by Sept. 10 will send a powerful message to Congress that Americans want to reclaim the Constitution and hold the Administration accountable. September 10th, the day before the world changed, could be the day WE change the world! Rep. Kucinich writes:

Dear Friends,

On August 1st, I delivered to Speaker Nancy Pelosi; a petition bearing the names of over 100,000 Americans that, like us, feel that the President must be held accountable for abusing executive power and disregarding his Constitutional obligations.

Your voices have been heard and your support continues to send a powerful message to lawmakers. That is why I call on you again to help us in a new effort to deliver 1 Million signatures to Speaker Pelosi on September 10, 2008.

Together we can:

Urge real Congressional action to hold President Bush accountable now
Reinstate the authority of our Constitution
Document crimes committed by President Bush for historical account
Facilitate post-Administration law enforcement and prosecution
Reset the standard for the incoming and future administrations
Demand justice for the over 3,000 who died on 9/11and whose deaths were tragically exploited to take us into an illegal war in Iraq
Demand justice for the estimated 30,324 U.S. military personnel who have been injured/wounded
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"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Is that Marc, Sam, and Future Marc I see?

"Palin's run her own small business, been the mayor of a city, is a governor of the state of Alaska, and she's getting all these smears and criticism from a bunch of left-wing bloggers who still live in their mother's basement." - Mike Huckabee

i haven't been commenting lately. been busy with my own show. plus my car was stolen so life is weird. can i get a ride to the drug store? thanks.

spectacular idea doing the show in the same room, btw. even when you were in the same room i expected there'd be some echo and simultaneous talking. but no!

Submitted by toniD on Fri, 09/05/2008 - 3:53pm.
...The man alleged to have had the affair with Sarah Palin was a guy by the name of Brad Hanson....

...Brad Hanson was a business partner of Sarah Palin's husband, Todd. Brad Hanson and Todd Palin shared a Anchorage Car Wash venture together...
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Heart's "Barracuda" was played at the RNC as a reference to Palin's high school nickname "Sarah Barracuda."

There should be a referencing song for an affair with a guy who was a partner in a car wash.

What song would it be? Let me see; an affair and a car wash...an affair and a car wash...thinking...thinking...

McCain/Palin Healthcare: A Pro-Death Policy
by JDWolverton
Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 12:04:25 PM PDT
The McCain/Palin health care proposal preserves the American profit seeking health care empire. The choir of stakeholders (pharma, AHIP and insurers) sing a harmony of approval. Corporatists and Wall Street investors and analysts alike roar accolades "Bravissimo!" when earnings meet expectations. Congress Critters, the recipients of health care sponsored campaign contributions, countenance the endorsement. Their approval ranges from enthusiastic approbations to polite applause to unspoken dissent. All while the patients and patient advocates protest our current system and plead for a system that rations care based on likely patient outcomes (rather than income) in the streets...and in our blogs.

That's a little dramatic.
Maybe. Maybe not.

Summing up Republican healthcare reform proposals is simple. Leave the system in the private sector. Ignore or deny unisured people exist. Tweak a little here and there, but leave the over all framework in place and let Wall Street analysts call the shots.

When it comes to health care McCain is no maverick. Neither is Palin. In looking over their health care position statements I don't see a "Call to Action." I see bloody carnage in the wake of their non-reform proposals. I see patient dumping, both foreign and domestic, unnecessary suffering and death. I don't understand how McCain and Palin can say they are Pro-Life, I think Semi-Pro-Life is more descriptive of their political position (i.e. Pro-Death Penalty, Anti-Universal Health Care, Anti-Choice - with the Anti-Choice being their only "Pro-Life" position...and even then it ignores the life of the mother).

The two remaining 2008 Presidential candidates look at these 2 problems from different perspectives.

Over 47 million uninsured. As reported in: A Shared Destiny: Community Effects of Uninsurance, Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, 2003.
Communities with high rates of uninsured suffer along with the individuals and families directly affected. Many uninsured residents cause strains on health providers and institutions including fewer hospital beds and fewer services such as trauma centers. Half of all bankruptcies are caused by high medical bills, creating an economic burden touching entire communities. Public health risks increase in proportion to uninsured populations. When uninsured patients delay early detection and preventive care, they are forced to access care at later stages of disease, when problems are more difficult and costly to treat. These increased costs are shifted onto private and public payers causing a cycle of rising health care costs and more uninsured.

This was reported in 2003 and the situation is worse in 2008. More:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/5/15425/18159/6/582737

Great show today.

I like the part about "more bells and whistles" on the new show.

jeeez, Mark can't handle the bell and whistle he already has...

and about the whistle, what kind? I can easily imagine a slide whistle, but that was Al Franken's thing. Maybe a steam whistle?

nice job guys. It was good to have you in the same room and marc's face a little further back from the camera. not that there is anything wrong with marc's face.

Vicky Christina Barcelona... an excellent movie. You can't go wrong with an hour and a half of scarlett johannsen and penelope cruz. I loved it. But then I liked "Curse of The Jade Scorpion". what does that say?

>>$50/hr Lettuce speech is old

it may be old, but it confirms that McCain thinks Americans are whiners.

50 bucks an hour is $400 a day, before taxes. I think a lot of people would get out of bed @ 3 am for that, considering there are lots of people don't make that much in a week working 2 jobs...

McCain didn't wear flag pin

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The McCain campaign made a small but significant tactical mistake tonight when they sent their candidate out to speak without adorning a flag pin.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/04/no-flag-pin-for-mccain_n_124105...

The Sammies - Glisten

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

What we have all known.

City in 'hot seat' over RNC arrests
60,000 letters to St. Paul mayor seek charge drops for all arrested journos.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/timothy-karr/st-paul-authorities-get-t_b_1...

this campaign is going to get a lot uglier before its over. don't expect a party that thinks "personalitys" is a platform and that its more important than issues to go away quietly.

you can't help but admire this man....

Ron Paul: RNC slot would have cost 'everything I believe in'
David Edwards and Muriel Kane

Former Republican president candidate Ron Paul appeared on The Colbert Report Thursday to discuss his absence from the Republican National Convention at a time when other unsuccessful candidates -- Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee -- were all making appearances to praise John McCain.

"You say you did not speak at the Republican National Convention because you do not feel welcome there," Stephen Colbert suggested.

"No, I did not. I don't like to be pushy," Paul replied modestly, before flashing a wide grin.

"But just because you weren't welcome, that's no reason not to speak," Colbert objected. "I mean, certainly Bush spoke, and he was not welcome."

"Could you have gotten a slot if you'd played ball with those guys?" Colbert continued.

"Yes," Paul replied

"What would it have meant to you?" Colbert asked. "What would you have to have given up?"

"Everything I believed in," Paul stated.

"So, just like everybody else," Colbert commented, adding, "Listen, you want to play with the big boys, you got to play along."

"I would have had to do this," said Paul, raising his hands as if to kowtow and intoning, "'I accept everything in your platform and I love John McCain.'"

"What's your problem with that?" Colbert asked. "When you're a Republican, those guys are known for their discipline. ... It's a war, sir."

"I didn't feel too badly about it," Paul affirmed. He added conspiratorially, "There's a few members of Congress who say, 'Would you help me out, because I'd like you to support me and send out an email and give me an endorsement.'"

This video is from Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, broadcast September 4, 2008. At Link

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Ron_Paul_I_wasnt_welcome_at_0905.html

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/ted-rall-says-it-better-than...

Tracking Polls: Obama Maintains National Lead
The first Gallup tracking poll with a full day of interviewing included from after Gov. Sarah Palin's convention speech shows Sen. Barack Obama leading Sen. John McCain by four points, 48% to 44%.

A Diageo/Hotline tracking poll over the same time period also gives Obama the lead, 46% to 40%.

A Rasmussen tracking poll shows Obama ahead 48% to 46%.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/09/05/tracking_polls_obama_mainta...

clogging my brain again
and all the questions..i dont know what to answer and when
i am probably signing onto to the fucking nigerian letters too who the fuck knows
((((((((((NOT FAIR))))))))))

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/3710#comment-251561

I swear, God has sent you to me gizmo, God loves me

you have to watch the whole thing: Huckabee AND the surprise ending about bloggers and basements! I love you mambo! I LOVE the Republicans!

They are doing a segment on the green screen and the Walter Reed Middle School on CNN, right now and the talksd about how TPM was all over the story

Ready ... Eventually
I'm officially laughing my head off at the McCain camp's -- oh, sorry, 'Drudge's' -- attempt to bully Oprah into doing a puff interview with Sarah Palin.

--Josh Marshall

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/214064.php

Delicate Dance
The investigators up in Alaska have come out with their press release announcing how they plan to deal with Gov. Palin's stonewalling of the trooper-gate investigation. It seems Palin has now gotten seven others to also refuse to speak to the investigators (they all signaled their refusal to testify post-Palin announcement). And they've now decided to meet on September 12th to decide whether or not to issue subpoenas to compel testimony. However, they will not issue a subpoena for Palin herself. Why? The press release from the investigators says it's because: "She has told the public that she intends to cooperate with the investigation, indeed, she has told the public that she welcomes the investigation and I have every faith that she means it."

Now, this is a bit artful since just two days ago Gov. Palin made clear that she will not cooperate with the investigation. She is insisting that she will only provide testimony once the committee closes down its investigation and allows the probe to be taken over by the State Personnel Board made up of three members appointed by the governor. So she's saying she's not going to cooperate but they're insisting on taking her at her earlier promises to cooperate.

Now, there's some backstory here that's critical to understand. The point-man for the committee which voted to start the probe is Democrat Hollis French. However, the committee, that voted unanimously to begin the probe has a Republican majority.

So what if Palin just absolutely refuses to testify and continues to stonewall?

TPMmuckraker's Zack Roth just spoke to GOP Rep Jay Ramras, also a member of the committee. And he says no, that even if Palin refuses to cooperate, compelling her to testify would be "inappropriate conduct given the unique political circumstances" and "disrespectful."

--Josh Marshall

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/214041.php

Harsh but Very True
MJ Rosenberg ...

You would never know it from the media coverage but John McCain is not one of America's greatest war heroes. He is a former POW who survived, heroically. He deserves to be honored for that heroism.
But one thing distinguishes McCain from other war heroes, the kind whose heroism changes history rather than their life stories.

America's two greatest war heroes were Ulysses Grant and Dwight Eisenhower. Grant saved the union. And Ike saved civilization.

And neither one ever bragged about their experience. (Can you imagine Ike smacking down Adlai Stevenson by saying that while Adlai ran a nice medium-sized state, he was the Supreme Allied Commander who ran D-Day, defeated Hitler, and liberated Europe?).

Impossible. Like Grant, Eisenhower did not brag.

--Josh

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/05/on_bragging_war_heroes/

WH Gets Temporary Stay for Testimony
By Kate Klonick - September 5, 2008, 4:27PM
The latest in the back and forth between Harriet Miers and the House Judiciary, from the AP:

A federal appeals court has blocked former White House counsel Harriet Miers from testifying about the firing of nine U.S. attorneys until judges decide whether they have authority to wade into a battle that pits Congress against the Bush administration.
Miers is supposed to testify at a House Judiciary Committee hearing next Thursday.

. . . The three-judge panel gave House lawyers until 4 p.m. next Wednesday to make its case on why the court should uphold an earlier ruling forcing Miers to testify. The Justice Department must submit i