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Watch: The RNC in a Minute

http://www.236.com/video/2008/watch_the_rnc_in_a_minute_8773.php

Sure, the Republican National Convention was shortened by a day, but three days is still a lot to handle. Here's the whole thing in a minute to help you catch up if you missed it.

USA!! USA!! USA!!

first, what is a snow machine, something that makes snow, clears it?

and why would you race that?

Happe Talk

Betty Bowers, America' Best Christian

I don’t know if it is because of all the Botox that Pan-Am stewardess lookalike and rich, bored voracious pill-popper Cindy got him to try, but it a bit hard to tell when John McCain is joking (especially with that creepy, too-late, too-long, denture-addled “I just made a funny and a poppy in my Depends!” laugh of his).

After all, the basic theme of his acceptance speech tonight was that when he booked out of the Hanoi Hilton he was no longer about his ego and selfish needs, but only about serving America.

As a patriotic American, I find it disturbing that America apparently encouraged him to abandon his sick, devoted wife and throw himself into a flurry of protracted sexual, extramarital affairs until he found someone nubile and rich enough to pay for his ambitions! Honestly, it makes you question America (“USA! USA! USA! USA!”) when she inspires such base, unseemly and selfish behavior!

Free Democracy

I was picturing those huge snow clearing machines racing...

Happe Talk

Prop: You once said that the law is based on precedents and the past. With technology rapidly increasing, there seems to be no real map for the territory that is coming upon us. If there is going to be some kind of change, socially, how do you think it is going to occur?

Wilson: I don't know how change is going to occur. In a rational world there would be enough politicians on this planet, in each country, that, two or three of them would eventually stumble upon the World Game Center in Philadelphia, founded by Buckminster Fuller, and they would study it intelligently, or assign a team to study it intelligently, and they would take out a few suggestions that seems useful to them. If this happened often enough, the world would keep changing in a way that would be satisfactory to everybody on the planet and hurt nobody.

...

We have a government run almost entirely by lawyers. What do lawyers do? They look up precedent. That means the government is always governed by the past, never by the present, much less the possibilities of the future. They're always looking backwards. A government made up of lawyers is by definition reactionary. Looking backwards, all the time looking backwards.

http://www.realitysandwich.com/meeting_with_a_remarkable_man

we look like a flock of Squids in snow suits.

First Hour: Representative for ET contactee Billy Meier, Michael Horn, will discuss Meier's Pacific Northwest tsunami prophecy. Open Lines will follow.

If Palin is knocked off the republican ticket she'll been the latest in the long line of republican laughing stocks.

Remember how many years Nixon was a running gag after Watergate?

She'll eclipse that.

and Larry Craig?

WAY bigger than him.

She could be the death of the republican party if the scandal is big and weird enough.

so far it's been pretty damned weird, but it could get MUCH stranger...

You know how incestuous small town politics can be.

and when I say incestuous...well, let's just say that Palin family strikes me as pretty weird. Breeding ground for that sort of stuff, let's say.

Just a hunch...just a hunch...

but still...

How's this for rumor and innuendo?

What's the name of Palin's oldest boy?

I'm not sayin' he's really the father of Palin's most recent kid...

I'm just sayin'...

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>>I'm just sayin'...

remember folks, you heard this scurrilous and unsubstantiated rumor here first!

Time for the rare friday Daily show here on the left coast.

every four years there are two of them.

last one for another 4 years, provided the world lasts that long.

I'm not sayin' the world is going to end in the next four years...

I'm just sayin'...

Get ready for another stolen election by Faun Otter

Fact 1. Palin was not vetted by McCain but by the leaders of CNP

Link

Fact 2. Diebold are major financial backers of CNP candidates

Link

Fact 3. CNP are Christian Reconstructionists and Christian Dominionists

Link

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The following Source Watch listing will convince you of the bad people that make up this unpleasant group:

Found It !

CNP have a rule that, the media should not know when or where they meet
or who takes part in their programs, before of after a meeting. (Reported in the NYT August 2004)

A good article and links on CNP is at:
http://tinyurl.com/65e6yu

BartCop.com

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I don't think this Nostradamus hat fits very well...

link #1 don't work too good.

>>The following Source Watch listing will convince you of the bad people that make up this unpleasant group:

how does a link to an ebay item that's no longer listed prove anything MMRULES? ;)

This listing (2423496133) has been removed or is no longer available. Please make sure you entered the right item number.

If the listing was removed by eBay, consider it cancelled. Note: Listings that have ended more than 90 days ago will no longer appear on eBay.

REALLY good Daily show tonight.

It'll be all over the youtubes tomorrow.

I took that one down..Link 1 is fine..The nation..

That's what I get for Posting a BartCop.com story..

They have NO permanent links there.

I couldn't find the link to Source Watch either..

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Roger Highfield, Telegraph: Scientists working on the world's biggest machine are being besieged by phone calls and emails from people who fear the world will end next Wednesday, when the gigantic atom smasher starts up.

The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, where particles will begin to circulate around its 17 mile circumference tunnel next week, will recreate energies not seen since the universe was very young, when particles smash together at near the speed of light.

Such is the angst that the American Nobel prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has even had death threats, said Prof Brian Cox of Manchester University, adding: "Anyone who thinks the LHC will destroy the world is a twat."

The head of public relations, James Gillies, says he gets tearful phone calls, pleading for the £4.5 billion machine to stop.

Oh, fix the links so everyone thinks I'm a hallucinating idiot. MMRules!

Well, the greatest prophets were hallucinating idiots.

Fixing the links will just confirm my uncanny, mystical, soothsaying ways!

>>"Anyone who thinks the LHC will destroy the world is a twat."

It must be true, the guy IS a scientist.

This Daily Show just gets better and better!

the bit where delegates try to define `small town values'?

Hilarious!

Added it back on post..

Sorry.. ;)

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I don't know about you, but I've seen a definite McCain bounce for comedy writers this last week.

And now into the Colbert Report.

Full steam ahead!

Jon Stewart Annihilates Sarah Palin's Media Surrogates

http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com

Posted by ralph 23 hours ago

I wasn't alive to see Michelangelo paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. I wasn't born yet when The Beatles toured. And I probably won't ever get out to see that Japanese dude eat all them hotdogs. But goddamn, seeing Jon Stewart at his absolute best running circles around cable news douchebags is almost as good:
[vid]

http://www.digital-librarian.com/reference.html

http://people.hws.edu/hunter/deepwebgate03.htm

http://internetquickreference.net/#WEB%20SEARCH

http://library.uncg.edu/news/

According to Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Watch, a new study was published during the summer of 2000, which gives us a new view of the Web. The study, conducted by a search company called BrightPlanet, estimates that the inaccessible part of the web is about 500 times larger than what search engines are able to serve up to you at this time.

>>This guy agrees with you Chubbs

Rats...I was hoping it was about the incest thing...

>>estimates that the inaccessible part of the web is about 500 times larger than what search engines are able to serve up to you at this time.

you mean there are 500 times as many Asian swimsuit sites than I've already seen?

Yippee!!!

and 500 times as many funny cat pictures?

can this blog handle that many?

I guess we'll find out!

:)

not to mention 500 times more Crank Baits out there somewhere...

http://www.terra.es/personal2/monolith/
Zárate's Political Collections (ZPC)
Dates and figures of the worldwide leadership since 1945

Can't sleep.

welcome to `funny cat picture central', Tonid

Those poor cats. I could never get anythng form of clothing on my cat. Have you ever tried dressing up your cats Chubby?

I can psychicly sense MMRule's disappointment that I didn't go on the `500 times more Asian swimsuit sites' tangent.

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No way in hell I'm going anywhere near the `500 times more Crank Baits' thing...

U.S. Rescue Seen at Hand for 2 Mortgage Giants
By STEPHEN LABATON and ANDREW ROSS SORKIN
WASHINGTON — Senior officials from the Bush administration and the Federal Reserve on Friday called in top executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage finance giants, and told them that the government was preparing to place the two companies under federal control, officials and company executives briefed on the discussions said.

The plan, which would place the companies into a conservatorship, was outlined in separate meetings with the chief executives at the office of the companies’ new regulator. The executives were told that, under the plan, they and their boards would be replaced and shareholders would be virtually wiped out, but that the companies would be able to continue functioning with the government generally standing behind their debt, people briefed on the discussions said.

It is not possible to calculate the cost of any government bailout, but the huge potential liabilities of the companies could cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars and make any rescue among the largest in the nation’s history.

The drastic effort follows the bailout this year of Bear Stearns, the investment bank, as government officials continue to grapple with how to stem the credit crisis and housing crisis that have hobbled the economy. With Bear Stearns, the government provided guarantees, and the bulk of its assets were transferred to JPMorgan Chase, leaving shareholders with a nominal amount.

Under a conservatorship, the common and preferred shares of Fannie and Freddie would be reduced to little or nothing, and any losses on mortgages they own or guarantee could be paid by taxpayers. Shareholders have already lost billions of dollars as the stocks have plunged more than 80 percent this year.

A conservatorship would operate much like a pre-packaged bankruptcy, similar to what smaller companies use to clean up their books and then emerge with stronger balance sheets. It would allow for uninterrupted operation of the companies, crucial players in the diminished mortgage market, where they are now responsible for nearly 70 percent of new loans.

The executives were told that the government had been planning to announce the decision as early as Sunday, before the Asian markets reopen, the officials said. More...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/business/06fannie.html?hp=&pagewanted=...

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>>Have you ever tried dressing up your cats Chubby?

no, my life is not quite that sad.

yet.

Speaking of sand and cats...I hate this part of town sometimes. people around here don't even bother to get their dead cats out of the street after they've been run down.

I don't know if I mentioned the one the road about 30 feet from here. It was on the road until it was nothing but bones poking out of dehydrated flesh and fur. flatter than I ver thought possible. Someone finally tossed it into the bushes by the sidewalk, where it sits to this day, and it stinks. The cat literally, the situation, generally.

And today an pretty little gray cat joined it. I walked by it twice...the second time, a few hours after the first time, it had been hit enough times to...well, you don't need to know.

Everytime I pass then, I think I should scrape them up. but just thinking about it bums me out. actually doing it would probably drive me to tears.

I guess I should just find a shovel and a couple plastic bags and unceremoniously toss them in the dumpster 10 feet away...one short intensely depressing episode as opposed to many, many less depressing episodes.

but I know those cats deserve better. but anything is better than being in the road like that.

sorry to be so depressing...

Why do people wait till midnight to practice their electric basses?

some people have no sense of community...

and why can't they be better bass players?

for a minute I thought it was mariachi music (very common here) with the bass kicked way up.

but no...

Anyway, that's why I don't let my cats roam at will.

the road, not the bass playing or the mariachi music...

My boys go out for hours on end, but usually don't get too far away from my little back yard.

and I've never seen them anywhere near the road. But I don't want them out there late at night, that seems to be the time the young cats take their chances crossing the road.

I don't have any bikini pic's now but,

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ought to use Headphones at night !

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>>I don't have any bikini pic's now but,

where's mhappenow? when we need her?

I'll need lots of therapy to get that image out of my head.

Did you catch tonight's Monk, MMRules?

the part with the interview with manager of the horror-themed restaurant was hilarious!

and the very last part where they are going through the paper looking for another case to solve? the very last line about a tv writer who disappeared after a wage dispute made me laugh out loud.

(or LOL, to you more savvy bloggers.)

Now..

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I was watching it with the mute on..

Lookin fo Music as usual..

I'll watch it in abit if I can't sleep..Or.today sometime..

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>>I was watching it with the mute on..

You'll enjoy it even more with the sound on.

It's the local news.

Talking about Palin's approval numbers. They are in the 50s but the number that would make people vote for McCain because of Palin is less than 20%

So it's still about McCain.

I hope all this stuff they are digging up about her sticks. Then all we'd have to worry about is the fundie base and that is starting to shrink.

I'd love to see Marc or Sam guest star on Monk...just for shits and giggles...maybe some spare change.

Both of them are easily good enough actors.

but, I guess they have other career goals in mind.

aye ?

;-)

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>>Then all we'd have to worry about is the fundie base and that is starting to shrink.

I hope so. there is something very frightening about them.

MMRules posted about some of them earlier on this thread,

good read.

Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac problem. But first, all about a Fish Hotel

>>Getting a bit snarky now that you got your Electrics back o.

not nearly as stressed.

Things are a whole lot better when things are going a little bit better.

(I had this observation nailed earlier today...the exact wording escapes me now...I should have written it down. That and the song/tune that was running through my head. I heard a few Chords on a Hammond B9 somewhere, Played with it until I had something entirely different. had some lyrics... Then completely forgot it.)

Sen.Harris & those psycho's..

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54 degrees with a chill in the air. Had to shut the window.

It was 90 3 days ago!

Man,that had to be the pits with no electricity for so long..

Welcome back to the 21st century ! :)

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How you doing ?

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Just can't seem to sleep through the night lately. A couple of hours sleep then I am wide awake.

It finally warmed up out here. it was in the sixties during the days earlier this week. today as in the high 70s. last night it was warm enough that I was kicking off my blankets.

>>Welcome back to the 21st century !

I would have settled for the late 20th century...

Especially if the World ends Wednesday because of Alice's super-collider...

>>A couple of hours sleep then I am wide awake.

since I screwed up my arm I've found myself really tired in the afternoon. usually take a nap.

but the arm is feeling much better the last couple days. maybe it was the HOT shower with the pulsating shower head?

but I still need to not lift with my right arm for a while.

My doctor, a definite `DILF', wanted me to wear a sling. I just couldn't do it.

Cool..I mess around with this cheap electric keyboard I have,sometimes..

But,unfortunately I can't read music..

A good ear but,can't read..

It's easy to forget stuff..Practices,practices..

It will come back to you,the melody..

I've been slacking on me Geetar playing..Need to get going again..

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>>But,unfortunately I can't read music..

no, I used to have casi. But, like you, I no readee the musee..

I used to play guitar (a little bit) but it was stolen while I was up the river.

Welcome to Michael's world..

Hopefully you will get over that.. :)

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the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac takeover by the government.

It should cost tax payers billions. Then they went into jobless claims and foreclosures.

Recession or Depression?

Local newscaster just spoke about the lack of vetting for Palin and the idea we can't ask her questions. In his own opinion, he said she is running for the second highest office in the US and we should know everything about her. Anyone running for office should be properly vetted and that is the News Media's job.

I guess this is spreading now and maybe is waking up the news media since the McCain campaign won't let anyone ask Palin questions. If there is nothing to hide, why won't she answer questions? This is starting to backfire on the McCain campaign.

the episode of Monk slid into `Psych...which is OK, but I don't like it near as much as monk.

reason I mention it is they mentioned a roller derby girl named Miss Anthropy.

At one point Wiccan Druid (I think) blogged here Ms. Annthropic or some thing close to that.

about your guitar getting stolen..That's F*cked up !

keyboard..Casio ?

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I saw they had a bunch of celebs on,tonight..

Do you know why the Monk's first helper left ?

Sorry,I can't remember her name..The new ones a cutie..

I never saw the show,if they had one,explaining why she left..Went back east,maybe..

I wonder why they really got rid of her..She was good..

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With Groucho Marx and William Bendix.

With my cable, more than half the stations are Paid Programming at this time in the AM. It's close to 3:30 here.

So I am paying to watch paid programming. What a rip off.

:(

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But I missed it tonight.

Was this the first of the new season, Chubs?

The Groucho Movie is "A Girl in every Port" Looks like it's from the late 40s judging by the women's clothing.

>>the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac takeover by the government.

yeah...the wonder of de-regulation and the free market.

the big guys get bailed outr and families end up living in their cars.

Today I counted 2 school buses and 7 (!) RVs parked under the west Seattle bridge. More than I've ever seen.

There's been a `homeless community' living around that intersection (1st ave south and Spokane street) for years. but usually only a couple RVs and a bus.

It is an industrial part of town. a real dump. there is a sexual offender facility where they have a single offender. Really expensive arrangement. It was mentioned in an article of the Sunday NYTimes last spring/summer..I saw the picture of the building and thought, 'I know that place.')

Did I mention that part of town isn't that great?

But there is a 24/7 presence of a police car...not to mention the regular DOC employees staffing the pervert housing.

I seem to have hung onto my hate of sex offenders. filthy perverts that they are. Anyone that touches the kids...Rapist aren't any better, but I know there are statistically at least a few wrongly accused rapists...and 18 year old who got busted with underage girls.

How did I go from Fannie May to Rape-oes?

I guess its the filthy degenerate angle?

Harry Reid Puts Lieberman On Notice
By: John Amato @ 9:14 PM - PDT

(h/t FDL for the video) Anita Dunn gave us an indication something was finally brewing. It’s on CNS, but the word I have so far is it’s true.

Lieberman, a Democrat-turned-independent and a close friend of Republican presidential candidate John McCain, still caucuses with Democrats, which allows them to control the Senate with a 51-49 majority . A spokesman for Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., indicated Thursday that Lieberman may no longer be welcome.

“Lieberman went too far when he distorted Sen. Obama’s record,” said Reid spokesman Jim Manley. “From Reid’s perspective, (Lieberman) has every right to give a partisan speech to whomever he wants. But he doesn’t have the right to distort Sen. Obama’s record like that. Sen. Reid was very disappointed in Lieberman’s speech.”

Added Manley: “The Democratic caucus will likely revisit Lieberman’s situation after the November elections.”

Asked if Reid was putting Lieberman on notice, Manley replied: “Without overplaying it, the answer is, yes.”

I’m not sure what that means yet, but it is a step in the right direction that took way too long to happen. He’s smeared Obama endlessly. The Democratic Party should have taken much stronger action against Joe many moons ago. Vid at link.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/05/harry-reid-puts-lieberman-on-no...

If it doesn't work, I'll see you soon!

>>next to the last episode of the season, the 100th in all.

Remember when you were a kid and you asked you Mom or Dad why there were commercials?

they'd explain it was to keep us from having to put a nickle in the tv every 15 inutes.

and then came cable. and, seemingly even more commercials.

Cable cost has gone through the roof since it first came out in the 80s. yet we not only still have commercials, we now have the infomercials you mentioned.

And I think some of them might have commercial breaks?

So cable companies like Comcast and Adelphia went from NOTHING to huge multi-national entities nearly over night...partially thanks to deregulation.

But especially because the consumer has no real choice or, especially, input.

Why can't we have ala carte programming?

there's a lot of channels I simply do not want to watch, like the shopping channels. And others I don't want to support like FOXnews and religious-right networks...

but they all get a cut of the cable dollar and we have no choice in the matter.

"call your local cable provider", they say. But it does no good.

>>I'm going to try to sleep again.

good luck!

I should be hitting the hay myself. I thought I'd go to bed around midnight, but ended up blogging the night away.

It's almost 2 am here.

My posts are getting to meander way too much.

that's a sign I'm getting over-tired.

Time to shut down the computer and turn off the lights.

nite all!

wonder what the news will bring in the morning?

maybe another cigarette?

:)

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Palin, the CNP and Diebold are linked

Abramoff links, right wing 'religious' whacko links.

whoa! no wonder she scares me.

ever read about the inquisition?

"socker mom" my ass.

cartoonishly large mammary. Are those normal?

Police in St. Paul arrested several journalists, including Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and an AP photographer as they were covering protests of the Republican National Convention. In addition, local law enforcement raided a meeting of the video journalists' group I-Witness with firearms drawn to arrest independent media, bloggers and videomakers.

Fill out the form below to demand that press intimidation cease immediately and that all charges be dropped. Your message will be delivered to:

St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman
Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner
St. Paul City Attorney John Choi
Host Committee of the Republican National Convention

Petition - Please Read & Sign - Thank You

Even if it's over..Let them hear you !

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gal with a flashlight walking up the side yard, maybe the new news paper deliverer.

5 or 6 people in a group going in and out of the pizza joint.

cars screeching around, half dozen or so in the last hour.

friday night eh? used to be a sleepy hood. action central tonight.

i should open up an all night casino...

Visit Wasilla!

The Associated Press
Friday, Sept. 5, 2008

The Wasilla Bible Church included an insert in its latest worship bulletin promoting a conference by Focus on the Family, a national Christian fundamentalist organization.

So Sambo beat the bitch! - Sarah Palin

“The GOP is kind of like organized crime up here,” an insurance agent in Anchorage who knows the Palin family, explained. “It’s corrupt and arrogant. They’re all rich because they do private sweetheart deals with the oil companies, and they can destroy anyone. And they will, if they have to.”

“Once Palin became mayor,” he continued, “She became part of that inner circle.”

..w/ minimal commercial interruption..
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Last nights Daily Show in Full

How religion guides Palin
By Manya A. Brachear | Chicago Tribune reporter
1:46 AM CDT, September 6, 2008
When Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin promised to lead the nation with a "servant's heart," evangelical Christians immediately recognized her as one of their own.

Whether before an audience of ministry students or on a national stage at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday, the 44-year-old Palin speaks fluently about her faith, striking chords with phrases that evoke Christian virtue. Palin has called on people to pray for the cooperation necessary to build a natural gas pipeline across Alaska, labeled the U.S. mission in Iraq a "task that is from God" and argued that students should be taught the creation account from Genesis in public schools.

In a race where both presidential candidates, Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain, have tried to court religious voting blocs, Palin's introduction to the Republican ticket adds another dimension.

Just as McCain's politics are largely shaped by his experience as a prisoner of war and Obama's by his embrace of his racial identity, Palin's approach has been shaped by her relationship with God. Palin sees her government work as paling in comparison to a greater mission.

"I can do my job there in developing our natural resources and doing things like getting the roads paved and making sure our troopers have their cop cars and their uniforms and their guns, and making sure our public schools are funded," she said in June to ministry students at her former church. "But really, all of that stuff doesn't do any good if the people of Alaska's heart isn't right with God."

Palin found palatable
Historically a key constituency for the GOP, conservative Christian voters had been uneasy about McCain, doubting his commitment to fighting abortion. For them, the choice of Palin as his running mate removes doubt, as they know Palin's position on the issue is sealed by her faith.

Palin was baptized as an infant in the Roman Catholic church, but she would spend nearly three decades in the Assemblies of God church, the nation's largest Pentecostal denomination and the church of former U.S. Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft.

She now eschews the denominational label, choosing to attend independent churches in Alaska and calling herself a generic Christian when asked. But she remains connected to the Assemblies of God, addressing pastors' conferences and ministry students.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-palin-religion_06sep0...

i don't think her hairbun is becoming... of course that would only be a slight improvement on the overall appearance - it's mostly that maniacal look in her eyes reinforced by the devilish smile that makes the picture very disturbing...

man! you night people had so much fun! i wish i could stay up and hang out with this crowd one of these nights! camel toes and bears, the music and the poetry...and the jokes (even I can get these jokes!) what a wild ride, this IS the best blog in the webwide world

I've been wanting to wipe that smile off her face for days now. Maniacal smile! Very true. The hair? Maybe a nice haircut, yes. When her hair is down it looks stringy. And that bun is used to make her look authoratative, along with the glasses.

if it comes to New Orleans it's gonna kill a lot of people, because people here are not gonna evacuate again - we're just starting to settle in, it's so wonderful to watch the city slowly coming back to life..... i do believe neworleanians are ready to go down with it this time....

for the north carolina people who are dealing with hanna? I just jumped forward and started worrying about ike....i am selfish, yes but also all hurricaned-out, i don't have it in me any more, sick of the whole thing, need to block it out, why do i have the weather channel on?

just wanted to put this on record Sam sorry

i dont like mire and fernando

oop lighter chest now back to eating my noodle soup

Hope your all doing ok..

I can't blame you for hurricane burnout,Mire..

Your only human..Most of in your position would have been burned out sooner..

Hang in there..

I saw some of that Documentary "Blood & Oil".
I had no idea that New Orleans was about 30 to 40 miles inland about 30 years ago..

The oil companies canaled all that offshore landed..
And,basically flooded it..
The Oil Companies get out of paying what the should.as usual..

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Has Faiz Shakir from Thing Progress and this guy from the right who is supposedly a media checker who is complaining about the media going after Palin.

Marvin Kalb is on the phone now about the media also.

whatever

The GOP are abunch of Hypocritical Whiners !

We all know that..When will the Stupid M$M figure that out ?

My bad..The M$M knows but,that wouldn't Please their Bosses !

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Got after the rightie Kincaid is his name and said that this is a democracy and in a democracy the people have the right to question a candidate and a party cannot limit these questions. He said it was like the Soviet Union to not let these candidates be questions.

Blaming Obama for talking to someone that is a communist. Now he is bringing up Ayers.

Some caller accused this Kincaid of being like the Senator McCarthy that had the black lists of communists back in the 50s. and the caller was right. We are headed back to that era.

Then welcome back to the 1950's..

And,don't forget to bring your Rapture Hoodies !

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just thought i would throw that in this morning

thanks

Yeah right ! These Racists Clowns are So Sick in The Head & Pathetic !

WASHINGTON -- A Republican congressman from Georgia who referred to Barack and Michelle Obama as "uppity" says he wasn't aware of the term's racial overtones and did not intend to insult anyone.

Speaking to reporters Thursday, Rep. Lynn Westmoreland of Grantville, Ga., described the Obamas as members of an "elitist-class ... that thinks that they're uppity," according to The Hill, a Capitol Hill newspaper.

Asked if he intended to use the word, he said, "Yeah, uppity."

Con't-RAW

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oh and fucking rules too
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Submitted by Lucille on Sat, 09/06/2008 - 8:34am.
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I'm sure about 98% of the folks here will help you find one !

Oh and,

when are You going to Post Your Picture ?

Without The Edit ?

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

Get my information here and comedy (thanks cb and all). I did enjoy posting here more often. But I just can't abide the hatred Lucille spews. It is just too upsetting to read that stuff. Why is she allowed to undermine and distroy this blog. Is there no way to stop her?

uploading the videos from my recent visit, gee I miss them already....

this is just a regular morning in the ithaca household, everybody a little cranky and strung-out, methinks they don't get enough coffee..... they think it's a drug and avoid it, and the grandma is just a degenerate druggie, they have to go out and buy it just for me when i visit...but that's another story

now, chiara is only 13 months old and started walking about a month ago - we think she's a little godsend gift in this family (if we believed in god that is) just because of her calico coloring...

click on the tiny url link to see her

http://tinyurl.com/5a8owf

The right wing media watch group, Accuracy In Media, are a bunch of kooks. Cliff Kincaid was representing the organization this morning. Check out this from Wikipedia.

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In November 2005, AIM columnist Cliff Kincaid criticized Fox News for broadcasting a program "The Heat is On," which endorsed the view that global warming represents a serious problem (although the program was broadcast with a disclaimer). Kincaid stated that this "scandal" amounted to a "hostile takeover of Fox News" [4].

In a December 13, 2005 column, Kincaid called for a "Quit Gay Sex" campaign to rival "Quit Smoking Campaigns" launched by certain media outlets in the United States. He contended that homosexual sex is widespread and homosexual men "simply cannot stop having homosexual sex" and that it was spreading HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.
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Sound familiar!

Critics say AIM's attacks on the media seem to have little to do with actual misrepresentation or inaccuracies in media accounts. They assert that Irvine and AIM is quick to attack groups that do not fit in the group's ideological niche. Donald Graham, the publisher of The Washington Post, alleges that Irvine tends to "throw around accusations about people being communists."[citation needed]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_in_Media

No Official Explanation Yet for Holly Lowder's Sudden and Unexpected Departure, Just 60 Days Prior to Presidential Election in a Very Important 'Swing State'

..But We Have a Few Well-Informed Guesses...
From Rocky Mountain News today...

The director of elections at the secretary of state's office resigned suddenly Thursday.

The departure of Holly Lowder, former Alamosa County clerk, comes two months before what is expected to be one of the biggest elections in recent Colorado history. Lowder's work centered on the implementation of the new statewide voter registration system, said Richard Coolidge, spokesman for the agency.

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Sources in CO tell us there will be more coming, likely tomorrow, on this. We're also told that there may be a salacious aspect here that might just make the well-worn euphemism about "election officials being in bed with voting machine vendors," um, somewhat more than just a euphemism. (Talk about your voting machine "sleepovers"!)

Con't-Bradblog

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

..and no one explains it better than
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Sarah Palin

woodlomond

Email Sam..

samsedershow@gmail.com

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

louisa is almost four and the most beautiful charming girl in the world (other than your own grandchild I am sure) except for her oh so unladylike nose picking (and eating the buggers) she just doesn't care when we point this out, she says she likes it :)

in display here

http://tinyurl.com/5moek9

..I can see why you are missin' her already.

Coffee?!!?!? Geez, that's what's wrong with me this morning! Must correct that right now!!!

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The little ones are a handful right now. Heh!

i'll get me another cup

and then i'm off to the gym (hoping it's open) they might be already closed again in prep for Ike? :)

lessons just so they can help inspire the little ones....ah! a little exaggerated if you ask me... but whatever

they did the same with Italian, picked up the rosetta stone and a lot of italian songs and books, they studied it so they could speak it with Louisa, that was when Louisa was the only baby and they had a little more time for this stuff...they have abandoned the idea....i am not with them long enough or often enough to impart them my knowledge, so it goes, but Louisa still remembers a few words, she's so cute and smart, enough gush, stop now