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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
new
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

The Economy Is Strong, Ed. #193
NYT:

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.
--Will Thomas

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/business/06fannie.html?_r=2&hp&oref=sl...

The repubs don't want big government to handle this until there is a problem. Then the tax payers foot the bill for mistakes the market makes with no oversight.

Obstruction
Newsweek: McCain camp and its Alaska allies move to shut down trooper-gate probe.

Definitely take a look at the Newsweek article. Also take note of the following, that we're going to be looking into next week. Within days of Palin's selection, at least seven of her aides and associates, who had previously agreed to cooperate with the trooper-gate investigation, informed investigator Steve Branchflower that they were now no longer willing to be deposed. Not too that this was immediately after the McCain team deployed what George Stephanopoulos reported was a "rapid response team of about ten operatives that includes lawyers" to the state.

So the question is: what contact did representatives of the McCain campaign have with these aides that had agreed to testify but within days of her selection took back their pledge and are now refusing to cooperate?

--Josh Marshall

Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/id/157439/output/print

TPM: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/214188.php

face after this? but they do and will? stupid is one thing, utter fools and liars quite another, they're all of the above

and the people? yeah, there's a percentage out there that is also all of the above, I am just not sure about the exact numbers

Nitpicking
There are plenty of issues in the career of Sarah Palin that deserve a hefty amount of scrutiny, so I'm only going to give this one a few seconds.

The McCain camp is reveling in her sale of the governor's jet on eBay. McCain himself said yesterday, "You know what I enjoyed the most? She took the luxury jet that was acquired by her predecessor, and sold it on eBay -- and made a profit!"

Someone should really tell McCain to be more careful with his words:

In fact, the jet did not sell on eBay. It was sold to a businessman from Valdez named Larry Reynolds, who paid $2.1 million for the plane -- shy of the $2.7 million purchase price -- according to news reports at the time. Reynolds contributed to Palin's campaign in 2006.
Palin, so far as I can tell, has precisely said she auctioned the plane on eBay, without confirming whether or not it actually sold. Just a friendly reminder that details can be pesky things.

--Will Thomas

The repub mentality, leaving out details!

.. what to do with the profits. Let the government pickup the pieces when their greedy tactics result in collapse.
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The media *should* go after Palin
Submitted by maggiesboy on Sat, 09/06/2008 - 9:00am.
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Only if we keep the pressure on them. It was their deliberate incompetence and greed that is responsible for the chaos we are now experiencing.

process has a ring of an eery deja` vue for Italians.... ya'll know the story of how berlusconi went into politics right? dogged by corruption charges and indictments, hints of mafia connections and such, was just a billionaire ceo and "maverick" and nobody knew exactly how he had made his fortune, so what did he do? first he buys a soccer team (yeah, he gets the jingoiism angle down first) - does this remind of a stadium purchase with public funds and team buy in texas, was it baseball or football? whatever, let's get on with the berlusca story.....next step, he decides to enter the arena of politics, from sports and glamor to politics... from then on, all investigations and law suits and judicial problems have been depicted in the media (oh did I mention that he also bought off - and now owns 75% of the networks and tv stations - just as preparation before he entered politics) - so in the media now all this legal and judicial stuff against berlusconi is no longer perceived as legitimate; it is depicted as "political persecution" "judges out of control" "judges with a political agenda"....

and now securely installed without visible opposition other than a lemming very week "shadow" democratic party modeled after the american dlc (they kicked out and destroyed the authentic left wing of the dem party), now berlusconi is changing the juidicial systems and the courts from within, purging the judges that want to go after him, and thundering in the media that this is awful, he's reforming a corrupt judiciary and bla bla

so, why did i mention this? well first, berlusconi is listening to the same people that are moving the string of the bush maccains puppetry, yes, exactly the same people, same names even, same electoral shenanigans (did berlusconi work for the mafia and cia, is this how he made his money? is this how he came to power? the murdoch connection allowed him to build his media empire.... that's a rumor floating out there)

let's get to the point: macain and palin are doing the same; now suddenly the judicial things against her are suddenly "political", it is those liberal that are persecuting and smearing her for "political" reasons, they have an agenda

this is how criminals rise to power

watch out america - just take a look at what's happening in italy, (if you have time) they're now openly admitting they are fascists again and they like it that way.....

Reuters

ST. PAUL - Sarah Palin is the magnet John McCain needs to attract religious and social conservatives who are not convinced he's one of them.

But the little-known first-term Alaska governor is a big risk for McCain who had hoped to market his brand of maverick Republican politics to Democrats and moderates in his party.

McCain, who will accept his party's presidential nomination for the November 4 election on Thursday at its national convention, ignited conservatives by picking as his running mate the staunchly anti-abortion Palin.

Despite his strong opposition to abortion rights, evangelicals have stayed lukewarm on McCain. He did not back a failed federal ban on gay marriage and broke with them on other social issues such as his support for stem cell research.

The first woman vice presidential candidate for the Republican party, Palin is a conservative Christian, avid hunter and has five children.

But her "God and guns" persona may also benefit Democrat Barack Obama and his running mate Joe Biden. Some experts say she will galvanize abortion rights groups and moderate faith groups in a way a more moderate selection for the Republican ticket might have avoided.

"Everybody pays attention to the mobilizing affect on the right but equally important is the mobilizing affect that Palin's nomination makes for the left," said Michael Lindsay, a political sociologist at Rice University in Houston who has written extensively on the U.S. evangelical movement.

"In many ways she is a much more mobilizing figure for both sides than John McCain because he is seen as much more of a moderate middle of the road political figure," he said.

Obama's campaign said that after her fiery speech on Wednesday night to the Republican National Convention, $8 million had poured into it from more than 130,000 donors and that it was on track to hit $10 million by the time McCain takes the stage Thursday night.

"Sarah Palin's attacks have rallied our supporters in ways we never expected, and we fully expect John McCain's attacks tonight to help us make our grassroots organization even stronger," said Jen Psaki, a campaign spokesman.

Abortion rights activists said Palin gave them a target and threw McCain's own views into sharp relief.

"We on the pro-choice side have had a hard time convincing pro-choice women that McCain is not their friend because he has a reputation of being a maverick," said Sarah Stoesz, the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota.

"His selection of Palin has cast his position (against abortion rights) in a bright shining light that can't be ignored," she told Reuters.

Democrats have been concerned that women supporters of Sen. Hillary Clinton's failed bid for their party's presidential nomination would desert Obama after he did not pick her as his No. 2.

THEOCRAT ALLEGATIONS

Moderate religious groups and liberal activists have already started to pin the "religious extremism" label on Palin -- a label that wouldn't stick to McCain.

They focus on her reported comments to a church in Alaska that U.S. soldiers in Iraq were "on a task that is from God," on her strident opposition to abortion and other "culture war" issues which her candidacy has revived.

"Governor Palin appears out of touch with many people of faith, who are desperate for leaders who will move our country beyond the politics of division," said James Salt, organizing director of the centrist Catholics United.

The moderate Interfaith Alliance said it was concerned by Palin's "theocratic rhetoric."

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Can_Palin_also_galvanize_US_left_0905.html

.. doing an "end around" is better imho. It hits them in the profits. That's the only way you can make them listen.

Make your own media
Be your own media

We have to accept what we have to work with, and it ain't much. There have been some promising changes but they are too few and far in between.

The fact that the gestapo treatment of journalists at the RNC got scant attention proves what we are up against. The M$M won't protect journalists for cryin' out loud! I don't remember Rachel making even a passing reference to it last night. Did she?

This is F'd up people. The fascists are winning.
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Headlined on 9/5/08:
John McCain: Morally, Mentally, and Emotionally Unfit

Madison, WI (OpEdNews) – September 5, 2008 – The Republican Party has now nominated the most unqualified candidate for the Presidency in our history, with the possible exception of George W. Bush. Over his entire life-span, he has repeatedly shown that he is out of touch with reality, impulsive and reckless in his judgment, and intellectually lazy and lacking in curiosity.

You already know that he thinks you have to make $5,000,000 a year in income to be rich. How out of touch with reality is that? You already know he can't remember how many houses he and his wife own. How truly bizarre is that? At a bikers' rally, he suggested that his wife should enter the "Miss Buffalo Chip" contest, a lewd affair that includes a topless competition. Did he have any idea what he was talking about? Did he even care?

He appears to be a man who has been successful with women and uses them. He not only offered Cindy to score points at that bikers' rally but sent her off to the Republic of Georgia in a crass political stunt. His personal life displays a preference for beautiful women, especially models and beauty queens. He married a beautiful divorcee, Carol Shepp, adopted the former model's two children and had a daughter with her.

McCain has blamed the failure to his first marriage on his own selfishness and immaturity. One month after divorcing his first wife, he married Cindy Hensley, 17 years his junior. A cheerleader at USC, they both say that he lied about his age by taking off four years and she by adding four to hers. Even though she has half-siblings, she refers to herself as an "only child" and suppresses their existence. She seems to be a woman who puts appearance before reality.

According to the AP, "McCain was lucky. Carol McCain, who had been in a crippling car accident while her husband was imprisoned in Vietnam, let him out of the marriage without theatrics or recriminations." Cindy, after all, was "the other woman." If the Christian Right cares about family values-really cares about them rather than merely talking about them when it is politically expedient-how many commandments has McCain violated here? Respect for others is the core of morality and McCain has no respect for women.

He was equally "lucky" in his professional life. Finishing near the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy, he described his experience as a "four year course of insubordination and rebellion". Calling himself a "maverick" appears to be a way to disguise his arrogance and immaturity. Given his own military history, does he even have the self-discipline to subordinate himself to the authority of the U.S. Constitution?

There are reasons to wonder. According to the AP, before he was shot down over Vietnam, he had already crashed a plane into Corpus Christi Bay, ejected from another jet that flamed out as he was flying solo, and knocked down power lines while flying too low in Southern Spain. Most stunning of all, he had survived an explosion aboard the USS Forrestal that left 134 dead.

According to Wayne Madsen, an investigative journalist, "it is believed by many crewmen and those who have investigated the case that McCain deliberately 'wet started' his A-4E to shake up the guy in the plane behind him, . . ."-as a practical joke, in other words-"[which] apparently 'cooked off' and launched a Zuni rocket from the rear F-4 that touched off the explosions and massive fire" that killed 134. "He was quickly transferred to the USS Oriskany," no doubt to avoid being savaged by shipmates. That would have been 134 counts of manslaughter.

I am a former commissioned officer in the Marine Corps. Anyone with a military background can confirm that, given his history of repeated screw-ups, McCain should have been removed from flight status and subjected to courts-martial. Had that been done, 134 lives might have been sparred. I believe that did not happen only because his father and grandfather were four-star admirals and he was receiving preferential treatment.

Such success as McCain has enjoyed appears to have been based upon 5 ½ years as a POW, who was tortured by the North Vietnamese, a story which he tells at the drop of a hat, with a disarming demeanor. But there appears to be a hidden story here. What would 5 ½ years of torture by the North Vietnamese do to you or me? Surely, if the experience was as horrendous as he suggests, then it has to have left profound emotional and mental scars, an issue that has arisen in other cases.

In 1999, the McCain campaign-engaged in a contest with George W. Bush-released 1,500 pages of medical reports, which included a great deal about his mental health. They were open to public inspection. This time around, however, the campaign hesitated and delayed their release. When it finally happened, they restricted access to a few selected reporters. One of them, Sanjay Gupta of CBS NEWS, observed that there was very little-almost nothing-about his psychological state. Something is wrong. Concealing information the nation needs is grossly corrupt and immoral.

It may not be Alzheimer's, but if John McCain is suffering from other serious mental problems, the American people are entitled to know. When he sang about bombing Iran-"Bomb, bomb, bomb; bomb boom Iran"-to the tune of The Beach Boys' "Barbara Ann", that should have set off alarm bells with the national press. It has to be investigated.

Past indications of his reckless judgment have been reinforced by his choice of a transparently unqualified running mate, Sarah Palin, another beauty queen. He married a trophy wife and has now selected a trophy nominee to run with him. She is pro-life, even in the case of rape and incest, and supports drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

She belongs to the NRA and favors teaching creationism in the public schools. The problem is that creationism is not science and has no place in the science curriculum, as I explain in my latest book, RENDER UNTO DARWN. We need to get religion out of public schools, not put more in!

She is the governor of a large state with a small population, the former mayor of a hamlet, and-we are told-a member of the PTA. She received 115,000 votes during her election as Alaska's governor, not many more than Barack Obama drew to his acceptance speech at Mile High Stadium. The typical member of the House has more constituents.

So this 72-year old man with a history of cancer is putting an anti-environmental, anti-choice, creationist zealot-who has so little respect for other women that she does not trust them to choose for themselves about the most private matters!-just a heartbeat away from the Presidency of a nation with a population of some 300,000,000! How responsible is that?

http://www.opednews.com/articles/John-McCain--Morally-Men-by-Jim-Fetzer-...

countdown@msnbc.com

metro@washpost.com

news-tips@nytimes.com

hardball@msnbc.com

Keep the pressure on The M$M ! :)

I think I'll add Press The Meat to that list..

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

>>Email Sam..

So done!

And it does scare me. This is the time for America. If you don't change control now...forget it.

Looks like, instead of Germany and Italy, it is now the US and Italy.

History repeating with a different player. We fought to free the world of Hitler and Mousolini only to become what we fought.

:)

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

Big Oil and Palin’s ‘experience’
By Jerry Mazza
Online Journal Associate Editor

Sep 5, 2008, 00:18

It’s difficult to evaluate the experience of the Republican vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, since her job as governor of Alaska was somewhat atypical. Aside from the fact that the state has a population of 680,000, about a third of Brooklyn’s, Alaska has a budget surplus of $5 billion thanks to its oil and natural gas supplies. After you gasp, listen to this . . .

In fact, Alaska, as the New York Times reported, is now passing out a $1,200-per-resident oil-bounty bonus check. This while the governors of 31 other states wonder how their people, working in the shattered US economy, will make it through the winter with the price of fuel oil, gas and other commodities going through the roof.

Actually, one third of Alaska’s economy has been sustained by Big Oil, another third by federal spending, and the balance by the state’s own efforts. And so, working people across the country might have real trouble identifying with the bonanza belt’s US oil and natural gas exploitation. I don’t know of many extractive industries -- or of any other kind in America -- that are passing out bounty bonus checks. Do you?

Mrs. Palin arrived in office in time for the bonanza, having run-out some of her own Republican Party members from cash-guzzling power, albeit with considerable help from state Democrats, who are actually a minority in the legislature. She wielded her power to best her own party members on important bills and suggested that those in disagreement with her were in the pocket of “Big Oil.” Actually, the whole state of Alaska is in the pocket of Big Oil.

con't
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_3709.shtml

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what is happening with this mcain interference in the judicial
Submitted by mire on Sat, 09/06/2008 - 9:45am.
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or,
a M$M newspaper website..

Really ! :)

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

This is Hell! broadcasts live this Saturday beginning at 9 AM (US central). You can also hear us live online via WNUR's web site (http://www.wnur.org) under the heading, "Listen Online."

Our guests this Saturday will be:

* Mark Weisbrot, co-director at the Center for Economic Policy Research, who has just co-authored a report entitled, "Oil Drilling In Environmentally Sensitive Areas: The Role of the Media."
* Matt Kennard is a writer who, while studying for his Master's in Investigative Journalism at Columbia University in New York. looked into the increasingly liberal attitude of the US military to allow neo-Nazis and white supremacists to serve in the armed forces.
Read Matt's work at http://nazisinthemilitary.com/
* Jessica Montell, executive director of B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. Jessica will discuss her group's work on human rights and their "Shooting Back" project.
Here's how B'Tselem describes the project: "In January 2007, B'Tselem launched "Shooting Back", a video advocacy project focusing on the Occupied Territories. We provide Palestinians living in high-conflict areas with video cameras, with the goal of bringing the reality of their lives under occupation to the attention of the Israeli and international public, exposing and seeking redress for violations of human rights."
* author Alexander Cockburn of Counterpunch.
* as a reporter, Gregg Erickson (http://www.ericksoneconomics.com) has covered Sarah Palin for over 20 months. Gregg is an independent economic consultant serving clients in "government, business and the legal profession." He is also editor-at-large and reporter for the Alaska Budget Report, a newsletter covering the state's the state budget, economy and government. And Gregg's a columnist for the Anchorage Daily News and the Juneau Empire.

They always start late.

This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

According to Lucille, the waitress serving her table at the time and who asked that her last name not be used, Gov. Palin was eating lunch with five or six people when the subject of the Democrat’s primary battle came up. The governor, seemingly not caring that people at nearby tables would likely hear her, uttered the slur and then laughed loudly as her meal mates joined in appreciatively.

The national media is all over Sarah's little town of Wasilla and what they are finding should prove shocking to anybody who really believed that Sarah Palin was ethical, honest, or even a human being.

Besides insulting Obama with a Step-N’-Fetch-It, “darkie musical” swipe, people who know her say she refers regularly to Alaska’s Aboriginal people as “Arctic Arabs” – how efficient, lumping two apparently undesirable groups into one ugly description – as well as the more colourful “mukluks” along with the totally unimaginative “f**king Eskimo’s,” according to a number of Alaskans and Wasillians interviewed for this article.

But being openly racist is only the tip of the Palin iceberg. According to Alaskans interviewed for this article, she is also vindictive and mean. We’re talking Rove mean and Nixon vindictive.

I read this with a mixture of revulsion and sense of relief that finally people are learning about the REAL Sarah Palin. And they are also learning about just how corrupt our Republican party is up here in the last frontier.

“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.”

http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/05/alaskans-speak-in-a-frightened-w...

So, is Sederville going to end once they build Seder/Maronville or Maron/Sederville?

...was there ever a time when Lucille could string together a coherent sentence? I seem to remember it, but, then again, she was new when I came back to the blog this past spring.

Palin, the CNP and Diebold are linked
http://www.samsedershow.com/node/3713

I'm in a rush, but just had to log in and thank you!
Later.

i heard something interesting...that when Palin spoke and people applauded, the audio for the applause and hoots and hollers was "juiced..." to make it sound louder than it actually was....

please tell him something....he loves being the promoter don "queen"

60th hussein street

I love seeing dads be dads. Mine wasn't much of one.

I also feel very left out that I was not on Lucilles list of people she hates. I email Sam on a regular basis asking him to please speak to her. Maybe now I will be on it.

Happe Talk

Bushies Come to Palin's Aid
Michael Isikoff
By Michael Isikoff

The McCain team has hastily assembled a team of former Bush White House aides to tutor the vice-presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, on foreign-policy issues, to write her speeches and to begin preparing her for her all-important Oct. 2 debate against Sen. Joe Biden.

Steve Biegun, who once served as the No. 3 National Security Council official under Condoleezza Rice at the White House, has been hired as chief foreign-policy adviser to the Alaska governor, campaign officials told NEWSWEEK. After taking leave from his job as vice president for international affairs at Ford Motor Co. last Friday, Biegun flew to St. Paul and, together with McCain’s foreign-policy guru Randy Schuenemann, began briefings for Palin on national-security issues—an area where her resume is conspicuously thin.

Biegun is hardly the only Bushie to be tapped for Palin duty. Among others:

Matt Scully, a former Bush White House speechwriter who helped draft some of the major foreign-policy addresses during the president’s first term, is working on Palin’s acceptance speech to the convention Wednesday night.

Mark Wallace, a former lawyer for the Bush 2000 campaign who served in a variety of administration jobs including chief counsel at the Federal Emergency Management Agency and deputy ambassador to the United Nations, has been put in charge of “prep” for the debate against Biden.

Wallace’s wife, Nicolle Wallace, the former White House communications director, has taken over the same job for Palin.

Tucker Eskew, another senior Bush White House communications aide, is serving as senior counselor to Palin’s operation.

Douglas Holtz-Eakin, the former chief economist at the Council of Economic Advisers who has been serving as top economics guru for the McCain campaign, has moved over to serve as Palin’s chief domestic-policy adviser.

The proliferation of former Bush White House aides in the Palin team may strike some as ironic—and could even provide some fodder for the Democrats—given the McCain camp’s efforts to distance itself from the unpopular president. (It has been widely noted, for example, that while the president is addressing the convention tonight by satellite, neither the president nor Vice President Cheney will be coming anywhere near St. Paul. And when Palin's selection was announced last week, McCain aides touted it as an example of the senator returning to his "reformer roots" and rebelling against the GOP establishment.)

One administration critic, Steve Clemons of the New America Foundation, said today that while he personally liked Biegun and viewed him as “extremely competent,” his retention as Palin’s foreign-policy tutor could have unpleasant consequences. Describing Biegun—a Russia expert who once served as staff director for Sen. Jesse Helms at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee—as a “big gun” in conservative foreign-policy circles, Clemens said “he will turn her into an advocate of Cheneyism and Cheney’s view of national-security issues.”

More here:

http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/09/02/bushies-co...

Silver State of Nevada Is 11th Bank Failure This Year (Update2)

By Alison Vekshin and Ari Levy

Sept. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Silver State Bank of Henderson, Nevada was closed by U.S. regulators today, the 11th bank to collapse this year amid a surge in soured real-estate loans stemming from the worst housing slump since the Depression.

Silver State, with $2 billion in assets and $1.7 billion in deposits, was shut by the Nevada Financial Institutions Division and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the FDIC said today in a statement. Nevada State Bank in Las Vegas will assume the deposits from Silver State, which was run by Silver State Bancorp. The failed bank's offices will open Sept. 8 as branches of Nevada State and National Bank of Arizona, the FDIC said.

``Deposits will continue to be insured by the FDIC, so there is no need for customers to change their banking relationship,'' the FDIC said.

Banks are being closed at the fastest pace in 14 years and regulators have publicly ordered dozens of institutions to shore up capital or restrict their business. California lender IndyMac Bancorp Inc., which had $32 billion in assets, was closed July 11 in the third-largest bank seizure, contributing to a 14 percent drop in the U.S. deposit insurance fund that had $45.2 billion at the end of the second quarter.

In July, Silver State announced the resignation of Andrew McCain as a director of the bank. McCain, who had served on the audit committee and was a director for five months, is the son of Republican presidential nominee John McCain. A call to the campaign's press line wasn't immediately returned.

Nevada State

Nevada State will buy insured deposits for a 1.3 percent premium, the FDIC said. Silver State had about $20 million in uninsured deposits in 500 accounts, the FDIC said. The FDIC insures deposits of up to $100,000 per depositor per bank, and up to $250,000 for some retirement accounts at 8,451 institutions with $13.3 trillion in assets.

The FDIC last week said 117 banks were classified as ``problem'' in the second quarter, a 30 percent jump from the first quarter. The agency doesn't identify ``problem'' lenders.

``More banks will come on the list as credit problems worsen,'' FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair said at an Aug. 26 Washington news conference.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=adweqGJO2lNc&refer=h...

CNBC host praises Palin for ‘putting a skirt on’: ‘I want her laying next to me in bed.’Filed Under: Media
By Ali on Sep 5th, 2008 at 7:52 pm CNBC host praises Palin for ‘putting a skirt on’: ‘I want her laying next to me in bed.’»
Donny Deutsch, host of CNBC’s Big Idea, praised Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) as the “new creation” of the “feminist ideal” yesterday on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street. “Women want to be her, men want to mate with her. It’s as simple as that,” he said, adding that Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) failed because “she didn’t put a skirt on!”:

DEUTSCH: There is the new creation that the feminist woman has not figured out in 40 years of the feminist ideal that men can take in a woman in power and women can celebrate a woman in power. Hillary Clinton didn’t figure it out. She didn’t put a skirt on! […]

She [Palin] talked about energy. Didn’t matter! Today everybody’s running in circles — we want to have her over for dinner. I trust her. I want her watching my kids. I want her laying next to me in bed. That’s the way people vote.

Watch it: at link

Host Erin Burnett suggested Deutsch could use “a four-letter acronym beginning with M and ending with F.” (HT: Jezebel)

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/05/cnbc-host-praises-palin-for-putting-...

Add me to your list, I really don't care.

The attention you have always sought, and apparently never gotten to your satisfaction, has morphed into the same kind of attention trolls need when they come here and it's getting really old.

It's one thing for you to be pasting videos on the blog, some of which are enjoyable, it's another when you're berating the people who come here for positive and constructive reasons.

You're a drag and you really need to grow up and cut that shit out. I have no qualms asking Sammy to cut you off.

Being a harmless distraction is one thing and most people can live with that, but being a consistently negative presence, is another.

Donny Deutsch, host of CNBC’s Big Idea, praised Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) as the “new creation” of the “feminist ideal” yesterday on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street. “Women want to be her, men want to mate with her. It’s as simple as that,” he said, adding that Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) failed because “she didn’t put a skirt on!”:

See video:

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/05/cnbc-host-praises-palin-for-putting-...

Kiss my gay ass. God that man drives me crazy.

Oh, Good mornin' everyone! :)

please cut him off
he cums here with the butt of his gun
he is violent

But CNBC's Donny Douche-bag and Larry Cutthroat are known for sexist statements. Kudlow is on the board of that right-wing women's group, the Independent Women's Forum.

Wait, we're seriously talking about Fox News? The Fox News?

How transparent are McCain's bogus claims? Even Fox News has noticed. Consider this report from Major Garrett:

Based on the crowd reaction to recent attacks from Barack Obama and Joe Biden about John McCain's tax policy, the Republican nominee may have something to worry about. [...]

The crowds roar with approval when Obama and Biden describe their plans for a middle class tax cut and boo loudly at statistics showing how McCain's continuation of the Bush tax cuts favor the wealthy. Of course, these are partisan Obama crowds. But it would be unwise for anyone seriously backing McCain to dismiss their full-throated roars for Obama-Biden on an issue that historically has favored the GOP nominee. [...]

Add to this the mounting evidence that McCain's TV commercials assailing Obama's tax policy contain serious distortions, if not out-right lies.

Wait, is that a Fox News report accusing John McCain of blatant dishonesty? Yep, I think it is.

Sorry you don't like me Lucille. That's too bad because I actually do like you. It's ok though. I'll find a way to get over it.

mire- you better not be thinking about staying in NOLA if Ike gets comes your way. Isn't there someplace you can go that's even only 50-60 miles inland?

regarding that audio clip of Palin. Double standards based on partisan/racial/socioeconomic lines is common place within the GOP. But the really insane part is they want to make that Cheneyesk nutcase a future leader of their party whether she wins the election or not.

The time to stop that nonsense is now.

Andy Borowitz

Coming out on the offensive after a day of controversy, presumptive GOP vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin said today that the media was to blame for making her daughter Bristol pregnant.

"My husband and I are well aware that Bristol is pregnant, and we know who made her that way -- the media," she told reporters in Pittsburgh.

It has become common in presidential campaigns for candidates to lash out against the news media, but Gov. Palin's attack was the first known example of a politician blaming the media for her daughter's pregnancy.

Gov. Palin went on to say that since the media had made her daughter pregnant, it was now up to the media to "do the right thing and marry her."

Moments after the governor's statement, the National Enquirer said that it would marry Bristol Palin in exchange for exclusive rights to the wedding photos and the first pictures of the baby.

The Enquirer's proposal was just one of several positive developments for Gov. Palin, who today picked up the endorsement of Unplanned Parenthood.

Elsewhere, the Republican Party officially changed its slogan to "Condoms First."

McCAIN TRYING TO SHUTDOWN
PALIN INVESTIGATION

Key Alaska allies of McCain are trying to derail Troopergate investigation of Palin

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Key Alaska allies of John McCain are trying to derail a politically charged investigation into Gov. Sarah Palin's firing of her public safety commissioner in order to prevent a so-called "October surprise" that would produce embarrassing information about the vice presidential candidate on the eve of the election.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/157439

Is a great Alaskan Blog with all of the Sarah Palin news-as well as Daily Show clips.

Check it out Blogafellows!

http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/

Bhutto widower elected
Pakistani president

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The widower of slain former leader Benazir Bhutto will succeed Pervez Musharraf as president of Pakistan after winning a landslide election victory Saturday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080906/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_election;_ylt=A...

Melting Swiss glacier yields
Neolithic trove, climate secrets

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Some 5,000 years ago, on a day with weather much like today's, a prehistoric person tread high up in what is now the Swiss Alps, wearing goat leather pants, leather shoes and armed with a bow and arrows.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080905/lf_afp/switzerlandarchaeologyclimat...

The time to stop that nonsense is now.

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You are absolutely right.

Bigots Oppose Barack by 1000-1 Margin

In a potentially ominous sign for the presumptive Democratic nominee, a new poll shows Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill) trailing far behind G.O.P. standard bearer Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz) among voters who identify themselves as racists.

Pundits and pollsters alike have wondered about the role racists might play in the 2008 presidential contest, but the new survey released today was the first concrete attempt to take the pulse of this key voting bloc.

The poll, conducted by Duh Magazine, suggests that Mr. Obama faces an uphill battle in his effort to win the votes of dyed-in-the-wool bigots.

"We wanted to know, why isn't Barack Obama closing the deal among racists?" said Charles Plugh, editor-in-chief of Duh. "The answer seems to be, because he's black."

In a head-to-head match-up, likely bigots chose Sen. McCain over Sen. Obama by a margin of one thousand to one, with a majority of racists saying they "strongly disagree" with Sen. Obama's decision not to be white.

Asked under what conditions they would conceivably vote for a black presidential candidate, 95% of racists responded, "Only if he was running against someone from a group I hated even more, such as Arabs."

Duh editor Plugh says the poll indicates that Sen. Obama "has his work cut out for him" if he is going to make up lost ground among racists.

"Sen. Obama made a choice at the beginning of this campaign to run as a black man," Mr. Plugh said. "He could change his position on that, but racists might see that as too little, too late."

Boeing Machinists on Strike

Some 27,000 Boeing machinists launched a strike early this morning after failing to reach an agreement with the company on a new contract, reports Reuters. A boisterous crowd of more than 100 workers gathered near the entrance of Boeing's factory in Everett, Washington, whistling, honking and waving picket signs as the strike started. The action followed two days of fruitless emergency talks with a federal mediator after the union rejected Boeing's latest offer.

Boeing said it would keep its plants open, but its massive assembly lines and plane production will stop. The strike could cost the company about $100 million in revenue a day. No further talks are planned. Machinists earn about $65,000 a year with overtime. They're seeking a 13% wage hike over three years and a rollback of provisions that allow Boeing to outsource work.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN0529451820080906

isn't there a national security clause that would let the government force the strike to end? something along the lines that boeing is critical to the country, blah blah blah

Submitted by Kevin © on Sat, 09/06/2008 - 10:53am.
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Muh ha ha ha ha ha (evil maniacal laughter)

Ralph Nader volunteer, Peace and Freedom state official beaten, hospitalized at GOP convention; PF Party condemns 'brutal' attack

MINNEAPOLIS -

A volunteer with the Ralph Nader for President campaign - and an official of the Peace and Freedom Party California State Central Committee - was beaten by police and hospitalized at the Republican National Convention here in what party leaders condemned as a "brutal assault on Barry Burgess and our liberties."

Burgess, elected to the Peace and Freedom Party Contra Costa County Central Committee and state committee in June, was attacked distributing literature for the Ralph Nader for President campaign, according to Kevin Akin, California State Chair, Peace and Freedom Party. Atkins statement follows:

"Barry Burgess was handing out literature for Peace and Freedom presidential candidate Ralph Nader (and) was the subject of an unprovoked attack by club-wielding police, who inflicted head injuries and arrested him... he was treated at a hospital and released, and is now recovering at a Nader supporter's home.

"Following similar but smaller attacks on demonstrators in Denver, the police attacks on peaceful demonstrators in Minneapolis, which have occurred without any criticism from leaders of the Republican and Democratic Parties, show how seriously our civil liberties have been eroded.

"The Peace and Freedom Party demands accountability from Minneapolis, Minnesota and federal authorities, and an investigation with appropriate consequences for those engaging in this mass brutality and intimidation. We also demand that all the trumped-up charges against those exercising their constitutional rights be dropped.

ah, the free market forces are at work again. road salt or coarse salt is used in the northern states during the winter to melt ice and snow on the roads.

this mornings paper blared that all of a sudden it is in short supply and that if you can get it all, that the price has almost tripled from last year at $40 / ton.

the lame excuse given is that flooding on the mississippi prevented barges from bringing the supply to market, and oh yeah, the price of gas has gone up making it more expensive to transport. you do the math, and tell me this isn't blatant price gouging.

i can't wait till january 21, 2009

http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2008/09/socialist-alexander-ho...

- by Peter Orvetti

Socialist Party USA vice presidential nominee Stewart Alexander is calling for a national conference on labor, he writes at Indymedia. He says he “is hoping that plans for such a conference would begin with the Socialist Party USA and the Peace and Freedom Party; he has membership with the two socialist parties. Alexander would also want other left groups involved; such as the Party of Socialism and Liberation (PSL), Freedom Socialist Party (FSP), the Green Party, the Liberty Union Party, Workers World Party, Communist Party USA, and many other left groups and activists.” Alexander says he hopes “a national conference could convene by May 2009 and use the struggle for May Day as a kickoff.”