Maybe she won'tspeak to the press ever

I will never f*ck a unicorn Alice.

Promise.


Never talking to the press is precisely Dick Cheney's modus operandi.

:)

Phooman has lunch once a week with some folks he works with occasionally. White, male, conservative, casually Christian, xenophobic, Hillary-hating, McCain-service-record-loving, call themselves independent but mostly vote Republican kinda fellas. Yesterday they spent some time talking about the prospective gop veep. They think Palin is hot but want to duct tape her mouth. They started making jokes about Palin being shrill and whiny, just the way they formerly joked about Hillary. And, for the first time, they discussed why they now think Obama would be just as good a president as McCain. First time Phooman enjoyed the part of lunch where they stopped talking shop.

it's ok. Your opinion really does matter to me.

"So?"

Edit: Nuts. I forgot the quotation marks.
Sorry for the misunderstanding, Fernando.
I was only quoting Dick.

...

that sexism is still quite acceptable Cat Chew. And women like Sarah encourage it imo.

so, Cat Chew.... That is why they think their strategy is a sound one. It is how they see reality. We don't matter and Sarah talking to the press is not up to us because enough will vote to put her in office. Remember OBEY and don't question authority!

And the sexist voting block is very big.
Sheesh.
John Lennon - Woman is the Nigger of the World (MP3 - 4.3MB)

...

They Live (The entire movie - 94 minutes):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9005367754264973286

From a plot summary at IMDB:
...a black and white parallel world that the sub-conscious has chosen to ignore. With subliminal messages as "OBEY", "CONFORM", "MARRY AND REPRODUCE", "CONSUME", "WATCH TELEVISION" and "SLEEP". It is through this thought control that the aliens have this world tied up and neatly packaged for its own manipulative uses, to further themselves at the expense of the meek, mild and the lowly sufferers of a job less and hungry world.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/plotsummary

Alice. But when the voters vote like cats it creates a reality for all of us...

the asteroid hunter has found a large diamond shaped rock.

Especially you ALICE and SJ and Crank and ONO.................... Word to yer Movah........

SO this pic I am about to dig up is in honor of all of you. And the insights and freindships you have blessed me with ,,,,,,, enjoy :)

Purdy Please with a bud on top.

after the name of the file and before the /> at the end just add Height="300" so the end of the tag looks like Height="300" />

The width will auto adust.

That'll be $37.50 for the tech call. :-)

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he goes on fox - and as for palin, true, she follows on cheney's example, mcain said (speaking for her) that she will only speak to the "friendly" press, the press that will not question her, just allow her to spout whatever (lies smears bullshit)

i know that fox is not "press" but for all practical purposes functions as a public loudspeaker

it's here folks, it's been here for some time (loss of all freedoms) (fascism?) just getting more and more obvious..... even with obama it will be a hard fight to reverse it, possibly there's nothing we can do no matter what, maybe just slow the process ough that something else, healthier, might germinate...., or just make it a little less horrible

change will come from the outside in the form of some terrible crisis or catastrophe, i hate the thought but is the only thing that seems realistic and makes sense

i know, not nice

I guess that's why he gets the big bucks ;)
Hiya, Bob.

the station is still there but i have never seen a train leave or arrive - i know there was a train to Pensacola which i thought would be handy for weekend trips to the beach...well, didn't work out, crazy hours - it's a 5hrs by car - would have been 2-day trip travel alone by train and the hours didn't make any sense

i just checked the amtrak website, just for the hell of it, NOLA-Miami it takes 4 days and is routed through Wahington DC? crazy crazy

or maybe i just don't know how to read it

in italy it's so much simpler

they have have trains going everywhere anytime, no matter how small and remote a town or village, there's a convenient way to get there...

and now of course thanks to berlusconi the trains always travel on time :) :) :)

i saw that picture and can't figure out what its about. is obey someone running for an office or is it really:

Remember OBEY and don't question authority!

the width=400> command

(the blogggers doesn't like any wider)

is a more important consideration IMHO

nope. passenger trains are totally effed in this country except for a few corridors like boston-washington.

there is a train every other day that comes thru cincy from chicago on the way to washington. last time i checked you need to catch it at 3 in the morning and it takes forever to get you anywhere.

is that how the earth looks? all squinched up and oblong? no wonder we're fucked

(mire attempt to crack a joke chubbybubba style)(not succeeding)

the time was the government could not do enough for passenger trains.

then came the 50s and the mass ownership of cars...dealt a death blow to the privately owned passenger service. Add to it the airline industry...

with the price of fuel skyrocketing, the gov't should sink lots of money into amtrack and the rail infrastructure.

we are still using a rail system designed in the 19th century. the current rails can't handle the speeds modern `bullet' trains (in other countries) are capable of, they'd fly off the tracks.

we need to sink massive bucks into infrastructure. like yesterday.

Wall Street Journal

Mexico's Supreme Court ruled this week that Wal-Mart de Mexico, the country's largest retailer based on sales and a unit of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., violated the constitution by paying workers in part with vouchers only redeemable for merchandise at the chain's outlets.

Wal-Mart de Mexico, also known as Walmex, gave store coupons as part of salaries. In a statement, the retailer said the program was voluntary, and "designed to help our employees acquire basic necessities." It went on to explain in the statement that under the program, Walmex would put store credit on electronic cards, and the employees could contribute a matching amount. The credit could then be used at Wal-Mart outlets throughout Mexico.

Representatives for the retailer declined to comment beyond the statement.
The case stemmed from a lawsuit filed by a Wal-Mart employee in Mexico, but details of the suit weren't available.

In its decision, Mexico's Supreme Court likened Wal-Mart's practice to exploitative labor practices in Mexico more than a century ago that led to the Mexican Revolution in 1910.........

Free Democracy

Wall Street Journal

WASILLA, Alaska -- The biggest project that Sarah Palin undertook as mayor of this small town was an indoor sports complex, where locals played hockey, soccer, and basketball, especially during the long, dark Alaskan winters.

The only catch was that the city began building roads and installing utilities for the project before it had unchallenged title to the land. The misstep led to years of litigation and at least $1.3 million in extra costs for a small municipality with a small budget. What was to be Ms. Palin's legacy has turned into a financial mess that continues to plague Wasilla.

"It's too bad that the city of Wasilla didn't do their homework and secure the land before they began construction," said Kathy Wells, a longtime activist here. "She was not your ceremonial mayor; she was in charge of running the city. So it was her job to make sure things were done correctly."

Ms. Palin, now Alaska's governor and Republican Sen. John McCain's running mate, has pointed to her two terms as Wasilla's mayor, from 1996 to 2002, as evidence that she has enough executive experience to take on the presidency, should the need arise -- more than Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, who touts his own background as a community organizer in Chicago.

>>(not succeeding)

not a bad effort for a first effort.

it takes a life time of experience, sweetie.

The `squinchiness' is a problem, but I'm more worried about that huge bird...anything that big has got to be dangerous.

Land Of Big Science

The Large Hadron Collider is a symptom of America's decline in particle physics and, some fear, in science overall.
By Fred Guterl, William Underhill and Sarah Garland | NEWSWEEK
Published Sep 6, 2008
From the magazine issue dated Sep 15, 2008

The eyes of the world are on Geneva, where scientists are expected to throw the switch this week on what may be the biggest experiment ever conducted. It's certainly the most expensive. The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, has spent roughly $8 billion digging a 27-kilometer tunnel on the outskirts of the city and filling it with equipment that pushes the limits of technology—superconducting magnets that operate at close to absolute zero, the temperature at which atoms cease all movement, and can accelerate particles to energies not seen for 14 billion years, and instruments that can detect faint whispers of particles far smaller than atoms.

Probing more deeply than ever before into the stuff of the universe requires some big hardware. It also requires the political will to lavish money on a project that has no predictable practical return, other than prestige and leadership in the branch of science that delivered just about every major technology of the past hundred years.

Those advances came, in large measure, from the United States. The coming decades may be different. The Large Hadron Collider, as the Geneva machine is called, is a symptom of America's decline in particle physics and Europe's rise. Many scientists and educators fear that it also signals a broader decline in scientific leadership on the part of the United States.

[...]

http://www.newsweek.com/id/157514

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Gov. Sarah Palin's church is promoting a conference that promises to convert gays into heterosexuals through the power of prayer.

"You'll be encouraged by the power of God's love and His desire to transform the lives of those impacted by homosexuality," according to the insert in the bulletin of the Wasilla Bible Church, where Palin has prayed for about six years.......

Life on Marijuana Buttsex Island

>>Palin's Bad Judgement Leads To Legal

oh, why won't everyone get off her back?

She's just a moose hunting, hockey mom who loves jesus! ;)

>>a conference that promises to convert gays into heterosexuals through the power of prayer.

I bet the area hotels will be full of these gays hooking up.

I imagine after a long day of sexual repression they'll be looking for some sort of release?

2 Texas men charged in RNC scheme
The Associated Press
Sept. 6, 2008, 4:59PM

MINNEAPOLIS — Two Texas men who authorities say planned to target law enforcement during the Republican National Convention face federal charges of illegally possessing Molotov cocktails.

David Guy McKay, 22, and Bradley Neil Crowder, 23, both of Austin, are each charged with one count of possession of firearms that were not registered to them.

The two Austin men were in custody following an initial court appearance Friday. A court hearing is scheduled for Tuesday in Minneapolis. It was not immediately clear if they had attorneys. If convicted, the pair could each face up to 10 years in prison.

According to the criminal complaint, law enforcement officers overheard a conversation through electronic surveillance in which McKay said the Molotov cocktails he and Crowder made would be thrown at vehicles parked in a St. Paul lot. The lot was used by law enforcement, and patrolled by U.S. Secret Service and the military.

"It's worth it if an officer gets burned or maimed," McKay was heard saying, according to federal authorities.

McKay and Crowder allegedly belong to an organization known as the Austin Affinity Group. FBI officials in Texas have been investigating the group since 2007, according to a news release issued by U.S. Attorney's Office in Minnesota.

Authorities say members of the group traveled from Austin to Minnesota on Aug. 28, pulling a rental trailer that contained 35 "shields" crafted from stolen traffic barrels. The shields, confiscated by authorities, were outfitted with protruding screws and were meant to be used as "offensive weapons," officials said.

Crowder, identified as the leader of Austin Affinity Group, was arrested on Sept. 1 for disorderly conduct, the news release said. McKay, a member of the group, was arrested on Sept. 3 at a residence in St. Paul — an apartment law enforcement authorities had been monitoring, officials said.

McKay and Crowder allegedly bought supplies for constructing explosive devices at a Wal-Mart in St. Paul. At the residence where McKay was arrested, St. Paul police officers seized eight assembled Molotov cocktails, along with gas masks, slingshots, helmets and knee pads.

Officials say that on Sept. 1, McKay had a falling out with members of the group and was planning to initiate "red actions" with others on Sept. 2.

The investigation was conducted by the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, which includes officials from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the St. Paul Police Department.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5987368.html

Alice,

It occurs to me that anyone attempting to refute your argument against the entrenched and corrupt two party system places himself in the same position that McCain finds himself.

McCain, a long-time Republican politician, is attempting to distance himself from recent Republican rule (corruption, incompetence, etc.) while simultaneously touting the superiority of Republican ideology over Democratic ideology.

It is an impossible argument. If Republican ideology were superior in recent years, then Republican rule would have been superior in recent years. There is only one Republican party, so its real-world actions must reflect its true ideology.

As it is for McCain, so it is for anyone attempting to refute your claim that voting for the lesser of two evils (or voting against the greater of two evils) in a corrupt political system will produce more of the same. It is impossible to defend something that functions so poorly.

There is an important difference, though. McCain is selling his confidence in a Republican ideology even as he distances himself from recent Republican rule, while the people on this blog are not selling their confidence in a corrupt two-party system. In fact they speak out against it. They often tout runoff voting and the none-of-the-above option and limiting campaign time and money, just to name a few ideas that are not supportive of the two-party system.

What the people on this blog are selling is less death and misery and destruction than the alternative would wreak. Most of the people on this blog don't give a flying fuck about the Democratic party, nor do they give a flying fuck about whatever Peace, Love And Granola party that you happen to support at the moment. The people on this blog are focused on mitigating the damage that will be done in the next four years.

In my opinion, you are far more invested in ideology than I am. Good luck with that. The Republican ideology is couched in altruism and the Democratic ideology is couched in altruism, and neither party rules altruistically.

If and when your party du jour attains enough power to be competitive, its ideology will have succumbed to corrupt pragmatism, though it will continue to bang its ideological drum just like the Republican and Democratic parties do.

Until then, your idealistic ideology will not prevent the death and misery and destruction that the election to the presidency of McCain, who is a hawk and an entrenched politico, is likely to bring about.

Most people believe that electing Bush was a mistake. It is another way of saying that electing Gore, the lesser of two evils in a corrupt two-party system, would have wrought less death and misery and destruction.

It is clearly possible to make a measurably positive difference even while participating in a corrupt two-party system.

((INCUBUS))
messing with me and my mind and computer again

..voting 3rd party that is. I have more but what's the use? Arguing this point here is like arguing with a conservative. If I say

a + b = c,

they counter with well

a + ⌦=lugwrench.

My premise is replaced with a new one and sweet precious time has been lost.

Still, I learn something every time you try. Thanks for that!

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bluerootsradio

>>Peace, Love And Granola party

Wow, I didn't know they were on the ticket.

Sounds pretty good to me, they got my vote!

.

are you gonna do something about ((INCUBUS))?

you always seem to be doing something when i fuck with someone

what is up with that?????

((NOT FAIR))

>>are you gonna do something about ((INCUBUS))?

>>if it really a problem, why not call not call the ny police?

they should be able to get to the bottom of the problem?

Great Day. Feel Great

Gots me a feller gonna rent me garage for fifty bones a month.

That will really help out.

Jimmer around?

"dear Sam"

How do I make my icons appear larger?

Who needs ethics when you have JESUS!

after all, christians aren't perfect, they're just forgiven.

besides, I'm sure anything she might have done would have been done for the greater good!

;)

I'm so glad Melanie Sloan is on this one... The skinny kid from Illinois should put her in charge of the Justice Dept.

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Palin's Public Cooperation and Private Subversion outlined by CREW

what icons do you mean, Bob?

if they are desktop icons, you need to so it through the control panel/ display/appearance tab. click the advanced button, use the pull down menu to select icons. then change the size. if, that is you are in windows XP.

I finally got those dead cats out of the road.

what a mess.

and stinky, too.

Or is it Jesus drawers?
I forget
either way according to Sarah a womb can be the property of a violent rapist
Some Choice Right?

I had company today. My friend came over for dinner and to use my computer. Her computer won't even turn on. Seems she got a bad virus awhile ago. She is looking for a new job because she found out, recently, that her department may be eliminated. She works for Waste Management. I really feel bad for her because this is not the time to have to look for a new job.

Crank,

Your post to Alice is what I have been trying to put into words to her for 4 years. Well done in my opinion but I don't know about Alice's opinion. I have called her an idealist and told her I was a realist. I learned long ago that the Ideal is never reachable for our humble lives.

Maybe
Riding the train is like voting for a "third party" candidate.

I love the train tracks. A direct route when you are on the train, not so obvious a route when you are on the main stream highways.

I don't ride the train very much nor do I vote for 3PC's very often.

I do want the choice to be there.

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

McCain Throws Aside Free Market Rhetoric, Embraces Government Bailout Of Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac
In March, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) took a hard line against government economic intervention, saying that it is “not the duty of government to bail out and reward those who act irresponsibly, whether they are big banks or small borrowers.” Watch it: at link

In what may be the “largest financial bailout” in U.S. history, the federal government is now set to take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two government-sponsored enterprises that “own or guarantee almost half of the country’s $12 trillion in outstanding home mortgage debt.”

Despite McCain’s supposed opposition to bailing out “those who act irresponsibly,” Senior Policy Adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin has issued a statement supporting the bailout:

John McCain supports the steps needed to keep the financial troubles at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from further squeezing American families and endorses the idea that management and shareholders should not benefit from government backing. While details are not yet available, the actions taken today are consistent with those objectives. Fannie and Freddie have been the poster children for a lack of transparency and accountability, and remind us of the needed reforms to financial markets in general.

Organizations such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are too important to allow to fail. McCain and the Bush administration are willing to throw away their hard-line ideologies when it comes to powerful corporations, but not when it comes to struggling homeowners who also need government intervention. As Center for American Progress Senior Fellow David Abramowitz noted:

There are many good reasons, of course, to act to avert a [financial corporation’s] bankruptcy. … But the reasons are no less compelling when the devastation hits individual Americans directly—home by home, block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood—instead of mainly in the boardroom circles in which F. Scott Fitzgerald traveled, and which have changed so little since the Roaring Twenties.

This is now the second major government bailout McCain has backed this year. In March, he supported the Federal Reserve’s $30 billion credit line to finance the takeover of Bear Stearns by JP Morgan.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/06/freddie-mac-mccain/

McCain Throws Aside Free Market Rhetoric, Embraces Government Bailout Of Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac

THINK PROGESS

In March, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) took a hard line against government economic intervention, saying that it is “not the duty of government to bail out and reward those who act irresponsibly, whether they are big banks or small borrowers.”

Watch it at link~

In what may be the “largest financial bailout” in U.S. history, the federal government is now set to take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two government-sponsored enterprises that “own or guarantee almost half of the country’s $12 trillion in outstanding home mortgage debt.”

Despite McCain’s supposed opposition to bailing out “those who act irresponsibly,” Senior Policy Adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin has issued a statement supporting the bailout:

John McCain supports the steps needed to keep the financial troubles at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from further squeezing American families and endorses the idea that management and shareholders should not benefit from government backing. While details are not yet available, the actions taken today are consistent with those objectives. Fannie and Freddie have been the poster children for a lack of transparency and accountability, and remind us of the needed reforms to financial markets in general.

Organizations such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are too important to allow to fail. McCain and the Bush administration are willing to throw away their hard-line ideologies when it comes to powerful corporations, but not when it comes to struggling homeowners who also need government intervention. As Center for American Progress Senior Fellow David Abramowitz noted:

There are many good reasons, of course, to act to avert a {financial corporation’s} bankruptcy. … But the reasons are no less compelling when the devastation hits individual Americans directly—home by home, block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood—instead of mainly in the boardroom circles in which F. Scott Fitzgerald traveled, and which have changed so little since the Roaring Twenties.

This is now the second major government bailout McCain has backed this year. In March, he supported the Federal Reserve’s $30 billion credit line to finance the takeover of Bear Stearns by JP Morgan.

PS> This was an aircraft carrier which endured the worst fire in American History. My Best Freinds Dad was aboard that shit, when McCain was, and Oh yes , John fired the rocket that set the blaze. Also, he is well known as a snitch ie giving up river boat patrol routs scheduales and the way in which they alternated to keep them not knowing when they were coming. He even gave me a name they used to call him: But I forget it , Ill call tommmorow and get it.

McCain and The Forrestal

By Robert Dreyfuss

Perhaps it is too much to expect McCain, born on a naval air station in the Panama Canal Zone and programmed virtually since birth for his part in the war, to have let his conscience get the better of him. Continue

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20698.htm

What the people on this blog are selling is less death and misery and destruction than the alternative would wreak. Most of the people on this blog don't give a flying fuck about the Democratic party, nor do they give a flying fuck about whatever Peace, Love And Granola party that you happen to support at the moment. The people on this blog are focused on mitigating the damage that will be done in the next four years.

You are a wordsmith...

As a smart guy once said, "absolute power corrupts absolutely", and it's a fact that things fall apart. Politics and physics agree, even the most benign organizations, when given power and enough time, will fail.
Not even fairy dust + positive vibrations can avert it.

..and it's stinkin' to high heaven.

Don't blame me for this one. Lubba made me do it.

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Submitted by Bob26003 on Sat, 09/06/2008 - 8:32pm.
How do I make my icons appear larger?
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Only date women who have small hands.

Kyl: McCain’s earmark pledge is ‘more symbolic than it is signficant.’
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has claimed that he can cut up to $100 billion in earmark spending, a major tenet of his plan to balance the budget. The Wonk Room has noted, however, that McCain’s budget numbers do not add up. In a Tuesday event at the RNC, a host noted that the total cost of earmarks pales in comparison to the war in Iraq, Social Security, and health care spending. Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) admitted that the earmark pledge is in reality just “symbolic”:

KYL: It is true that the question of earmarks is more symbolic than it is significant in terms of the total amount of money. But if he combines that with the notion of ending wasteful Washington spending…And so if addition to earmarks, which are relatively small, you begin to focus on not just raising taxes but to reducing spending here and there, that is a big deal.

Watch it: at link

Kyl also said that the frequent conservative catch phrase “wasteful Washington spending” is just political rhetoric. “The reason that I use it is because the consultants who look at the polls tell us that if there’s anything that drives American taxpayers crazy it’s that phrase ‘wasteful Washington spending,’” he admitted. “They hate it.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/06/kyl-mccain-earmarks/

US spying on Maliki angers Iraq:

"If it is true, it reflects that there is no trust and it reflects also that the institutions in the US are used to spying on their friends and their enemies in the same way," said Mr Ali al-Dabbagh, spokesman of the Iraqi government.

http://www.asianage.com/presentation/leftnavigation/news/international/u...

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Report: UN to demand Israel pay Lebanon $1 billion in reparations: The United Nations will require Israel to pay Lebanon nearly $1 billion for environmental damages caused during the 2006 Second Lebanon War, the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reported on Saturday.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1018564.html

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Iraq does not need agreement violating country's sovereignty – Iraq’s Vice President : "We do not need the agreement unless it guarantees sovereignty conditions, taking Iraq out from the UN charter seven, and assures the implementation of the Iraqi law in general," al-Hashemi said during a visit to al-Adhamiya neighborhood in Baghdad

http://www.aswataliraq.info/look/english/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPubl...

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Report: UN to demand Israel pay Lebanon $1 billion in reparations: The United Nations will require Israel to pay Lebanon nearly $1 billion for environmental damages caused during the 2006 Second Lebanon War, the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reported on Saturday.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1018564.html

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Biden: Israel will be more protected with Obama: Democratic vice presidential candidate addresses Jewish pensioners near Miami, declares Jewish state's security to improve if Obama is elected president

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3591392,00.html

and Palin is Roslin
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/02/john-mccain-is-a-cyl.html

"If it is true, it reflects that there is no trust and it reflects also that the institutions in the US are used to spying on their friends and their enemies in the same way," said Mr Ali al-Dabbagh, spokesman of the Iraqi government.

eh... duh.

Cat Chew, are you a fan of BSG too?

[crossing fingers]

McCain Plays the Cameron Card
According to a article just out from Huffington Post, the story about flags from the Democratic National Convention being thrown away is simply false. The story was jumped on and apparently authored by the McCain campaign. But the real tell is down in the Huffpo piece where it traces the story to none other than Fox News' Carl Cameron.

Longtime readers of TPM will remember that back in October 2004 this site caught Cameron publishing a series of fabricated quotes attributed to John Kerry on the front page of the Fox News website.

After I placed a series of calls to Fox News inquiring about the Kerry story, the story was eventually pulled, and Fox was forced to issue an apology and retract the fabricated story. Fox spokesman Paul Schur told TPM: "Carl [Cameron] made a stupid mistake which he regrets. And he has been reprimanded for his lapse in judgment. It was a poor attempt at humor."

Why anybody would believe anything this joker says is difficult to fathom. But he's good enough for McCain.

--Josh Marshall

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/06/thrown-away-flags-story-f_n_124...

Incubus good now dont cut him off please
he working with me now

((FUCK WITH ME AGAING INC.))

i will tell on you in a heart beat

s'tall

Sorry, no. I just remembered that you were.
I was thinking about you earlier. I posted a link to Planet Unicorn and I think you tipped me to it.

>>You are a wordsmith...

especially that "flying fuck" part...

the imagery...pure poetry.

She's seeing her son off to Iraq that day.

Obama and McCain To Visit World Trade Center Site Together
The two presidential nominees have announced that they will make a joint visit to Ground Zero in New York this Thursday, the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. "All of us came together on 9/11 - not as Democrats or Republicans - but as Americans," they said in a joint statement. The statement later adds: "On Thursday, we will put aside politics and come together to renew that unity, to honor the memory of each and every American who died, and to grieve with the families and friends who lost loved ones."

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/election_central...

i will tell Sam....you think i kid
i kidd you not
oh Samuel
MMRules too

"He's written two memoirs and no laws." Elizabeth Hasselbeck on faux at the FAUX experience - rnc, to Hannity
Elisabeth Hasselbeck (née Filarski; born May 28, 1977) is an Emmy- nominated American former reality show contestant of Survivor: The Australian Outback and current co-host on the United States daytime talk show The View.
==
Do the rethugs go to school on how to effectivly apply talking points, lie etc?

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

don seem to play no more
sup with dat?

neither
take care of him too please
he is still ugly anyway

Submitted by Chubby Bubba on Sat, 09/06/2008 - 9:45pm.
especially that "flying fuck" part...
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It's a Mile High expletive.

>>"He's written two memoirs and no laws."

the problem woith tv `journalists and taling heads is the don't do research, they just report what has been told to them.

are they lazy? do they lack the time?

I don't know.

I am not ashamed to admit that I watched the original cheesy Battlestar Galactica RELIGIOUSLY as an 18 year old, learned to say FRACK rather than Fuck (like it better), and was over the top happy when the new series came out in 03. I am a sci-fi nerd for BSG, having watched it start to finish 3 times. And got the RSS feeds from Scott Ian's BSG blog.

BSG NERD! That's me! I'm always trying to find someone to talk to about it. Not a shrink, just another fan.

And yes, i think I did post the Planet Unicorn links. he he.

Does anyone know off hand who started the Sam Seder facebook page?

Obama never wrote any laws...so easy to check that one out.

one thing, Obama has wrote as many or more than Palin broke in her short time in Alaska offices.

I don't call fox "the press". That's just propaganda.

cent, It's Texas. Much like Alaska. Remember Ron Paul. He is from here too. Like Alaska, seceding is also in our Constitution. Where the Branch Dividian complex and and FLDS people look for a bit of "anarchy" and independance.

Democrats post big gains in voter registration

By JULIE PACE and STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press Writers

CLAIRTON, Pa. - Five days a week, Linda Graham trolls tattered neighborhoods of this once thriving steel city outside Pittsburgh for unregistered voters she can sign up as Democrats — one of thousands of unknown volunteers whose work outside the limelight has already altered the basic arithmetic of the November election.

The epic nomination battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton helped put millions more Democrats on the voter rolls while Republican registration declined. Now Graham, 45, has taken three months of unpaid leave from her job at Pittsburgh's Central Blood Bank in the hope of adding to those gains before the presidential vote.

She's encouraged by the response here. "They're all feeling the crunch" of lost jobs and a sagging economy, Graham said. "But people are feeling empowered. They're feeling like, you know what, I hold a little bit of power in this."

To counter this effort, the Republicans are counting on a formidable, high-tech get-out-the-vote operation that has helped them win the past two presidential elections.

Since the last federal election in 2006, volunteers like Graham combined with the enthusiasm generated by the Obama-Clinton struggle to add more than 2 million Democrats to voter rolls in the 28 states that register voters according to party affiliation. The Republicans have lost nearly 344,000 thousand voters in the same states.

The Democrats hope their voter registration efforts can boost Obama to victory in competitive states like Pennsylvania, Nevada and Florida and perhaps even give him a shot at winning traditional Republican states like Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia.

Both Obama and his Republican rival, John McCain, are fighting for independent swing voters, and many of the new Democrats had been unaffiliated voters.

The number of unaffiliated voters dropped by nearly 900,000 since 2006. Many joined the Democratic Party to take part in the primaries and caucuses, and now they will now be targeted by an aggressive get-out-the-vote campaign.

"We feel that our supporters are more enthusiastic than we've seen in previous cycles," said Jon Carson, Obama's national field director.

The Obama campaign is taking the lead among the party organizations and labor unions that traditionally work on voter registration efforts.

Because party organizations and unions, like the Service Employees International Union to which Graham belongs, can raise unrestricted amounts of money, presidential campaigns typically rely on them to handle the bulk of voter registration drives, Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean said in an interview.

"This is the first campaign I've seen where the voter registration is done by the campaign," Dean said.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Democrats_post_big_gains_in_voter_0906.htm...

The "flying Fuck" part conveyed exactly, precisely, what it meant to. That's poetry.

what's up with dead cats in your street? Hope they weren't yours...

Just talked to a stagehand friend that worked the DNC in denver.

Asked about the flags. This is called SWAG [ See WhAt I Got.] Anything left over on a gig like that is taken home by somebody.

He said the vendors took all the left over flags.
=
[Except for those bags of flag swag stolen for that repub. operation.]

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Jamesbennett

820, 427, 152....

they haven't mentioned the Shannyn interview.

don't know if this is a repeat.

=edit says 10pm ET must be live
This Weekend: Geraldo and Team LIVE and 'At Large'

Sat., Sept. 6 and Sun., Sept. 7:
• Profiling Palin: We'll bring you an in-depth look at VP candidate Sarah Palin and her family

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Jamesbennett

>>what's up with dead cats in your street? Hope they weren't yours...

no, not mine.

I mentioned them in the last thread. I was complaining about the people in the neighborhood not bothering to pick up their dead cats. one of them was there for over a month.

late last night as I was drifting off to sleep and realized the fresher one, a gray cat killed yearly yesterday morning, could be the one who come over to hand out with my boys. I call her Rusty's girlfriend.

Thankfully I heard her rowling outside the door and figgered she's ok.

I don't want my boys out at the prime cat times of 2 till 5 am. that seems to be when cats are prone to try chancing crossing the road.

Submitted by Cathy in Seattle on Sat, 09/06/2008 - 9:55pm.
...what's up with dead cats in your street?
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I often wish that I could draw a cartoon and post it as easily as I can type text and post it.

I imagine a simple black-lines-on-white-background cartoon of a classroom with cats seated at the desks.

The rotund Rajah is standing at the blackboard using a pointer to direct their attention to a crude drawing of an automobile.

ToniD >
maybe it's just melanoma
(really sorry about that!)

Crank, they make Lord knows how much money and connections , do you honestly think they give a damn about journalistic integrity.

Come on now. Corporate schills buddy ol boy.

Cats seated at desks?

that's ree-diculous!

...

Submitted by Bob26003 on Sat, 09/06/2008 - 10:10pm.
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Bob,

I think you have me confused with one of the many other cranks on this blog.

i don't even know what that is, and i don't think i wanna know... but this is probably more important for fox viewers than shannyn.... but it might come up next so i'll keep watching

It's not easy to talk someone into compromising their principles.

Nor should it be.

Some people would rather fight to their death than betray themselves. I can't hold that against them. Who are any of us to put a price on some one else's personal integrity?

If we all were so quick to give in, there would never be any change.

George Bernard Shaw once said "the reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (or woman)

I believe him, but I have also learned accept the euphemism for surrender of "picking my fights".

I don't want to vote for the son of a bitch either, but I will, for all the usual practical reasons.

I don't know about the rest of you, but for me, the choices suck so badly that any vote I cast is an exercise in compromise, and every time I do it, it gets a little easier, and hurts a little less.

I often wonder if that sacrifice is worth it. Sometimes I don't think so.

When do we stop compromising? How do we stop compromising? Can anyone answer that?

Stand your ground Alice.

There is only ONE crank. Dont crank my chain. Anyways, what was the topic again?

Iran slams French OK for Israeli strike: Earlier on Thursday in Syria, President Nicolas Sarkozy said, "Iran is taking a major risk by continuing the process of seeking nuclear technology for military ends."

http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=68534&sectionid=351020104

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Chubby do you support War, Do you think we need more Socialistic measures such as universal Healthcare and stringent Labor standards and the right to form Unions regardless?

what change happens from not taking another choice? Is there a consequence as to whether anything good or bad would happen by not doing?

I'd say the folks from Austin would be more successful at implementing the change than how you vote. They were really standing for something.

It's on yahoo answers it must be true.

from the answers
by skyhunter

Simply, completely, ridiculously untrue:

"During the first - 8 - eight years of his elected service he sponsored over 820 bills. He introduced
233 regarding healthcare reform,
125 on poverty and public assistance,
112 crime fighting bills,
97 economic bills,
60 human rights and anti-discrimination bills,
21 ethics reform bills,
15 gun control,
6 veterans affairs and many others.

His first year in the U.S. Senate, he authored 152 bills and co-sponsored another 427. These included

1. Coburn-Obama Government Transparency Act of 2006 - became law,
2. Lugar-Obama Nuclear Non-proliferation and Conventional Weapons Threat Reduction Act, - became law,
3. Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, passed the Senate,
4. 2007 Government Ethics Bill, became law,
5. Protection Against Excessive Executive Compensation Bill, In committee, and many more.

In all, since entering the State/U.S. Senate, Senator Obama has written 890 bills and co-sponsored another 1096."

* 11 hours ago

Source(s):
http://you.presscue.com/node/442
Library of Congress: www.loc.gov

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Jamesbennett

Lawmaker accused of politicizing Palin probe By MATT VOLZ, Associated Press Writer
2 hours, 50 minutes ago

A Republican lawmaker wants the Democrat overseeing an investigation into Gov. Sarah Palin's dismissal of her public safety commissioner removed because he seems intent on damaging her vice presidential candidacy.

Democratic state Sen. Hollis French "appears to be steering the direction of the investigation, its conclusion and its timing in a manner that will have maximum partisan political impact on the national and state elections," state Rep. John Coghill said in a letter dated Friday.

Coghill, from North Pole, is on the Alaska Legislature's Legislative Council, the body that appointed French to oversee the investigation. The letter was sent to the council chairman, Sen. Kim Elton, D-Juneau, whom Coghill asks to convene a meeting to discuss whether French should be replaced.

Coghill said the council instructed French, an Anchorage Democrat, to keep politics out of the investigation.

"He just failed that, in my view," Coghill told The Associated Press Saturday.

Elton did not immediately return a message left at his office.

In July, the council approved $100,000 for an investigation into whether Palin abused her power by firing Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan. Monegan has said he felt pressure form Palin family and staff to dismiss a trooper, Mike Wooten, who went through a messy divorce with her sister before Palin's election as governor.

Coghill wrote in the letter that French was quoted in media reports that the results of the probe were going to be an "October surprise" that is "likely to be damaging to the administration." The comments lead Coghill to believe the investigation is lacking in fairness, neutrality and due process, he wrote.

Coghill said he was not approached by the McCain-Palin campaign to draft the letter, but that he called the campaign to "apprise" them of the letter.

"I'm on my own in this one," he said.

French said he said some things he probably shouldn't have, but noted that he is not in charge of gathering the facts and writing the report. Prosecutor Stephen Branchflower was hired to conduct the investigation and the integrity of the probe remains intact, he said.

"The reason we hired Steve Branchflower was to avoid this entire discussion. Sooner or later everybody gets accused of partisanship no matter what you're doing," French told the AP.

A recent decision to not subpoena the governor in the probe was evidence that the investigation was not politicized, French said.

On Friday, French said the Legislature will subpoena seven other witnesses and that the investigation on a fast track now that Palin is Republican John McCain's running mate.

The investigation previously was expected to end on Oct. 31, five days before the Nov. 4 election. The new target date for Branchflower to complete the report is Oct. 10.

Wooten divorced Palin's sister and served a five day suspension after the Palins filed a complaint against him for threatening Palin's father. The Palins also accused Wooten of using a Taser on his stepson, drinking in his patrol car and illegally shooting a moose.

Monegan was fired by Palin in July. She has strongly denied that Monegan's dismissal had anything to do with her former brother-in-law and has said she welcomes the investigation.

Coghill's efforts were initially reported by Newsweek.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080906/ap_on_el_pr/palin_troopergate&printe...

ESPN here now if anyone cares.

finally

He missed an opportunity, maybe on purpose. The illusion of coverage that isn't.

Didn't even give her blog a plug.

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and fox? he gave her a minute and a half and it was mostly just about oprah! who cares about oprah - shannyn was good and said the right things, but i'm sure she wanted to say more than just talk about oprah

Ok Crank....
Submitted by Alice on Sat, 09/06/2008 - 10:11pm.
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Alice,

I have one more comment then I'll drop it entirely.

I don't believe that the third party vote you cast, which is based on your convictions, is worth a nickel.

On the other hand, I don't believe that the major-party vote I cast, which is based on preventing as much harm as possible, is worth a nickel either.

No one would characterize either of our votes as "kickin' ass!"

Most of the votes that I have cast in my lifetime supported the losing candidate. So there's that to consider.

(Shit. Now I'm depressed. I think I'll slit my wrists with an absentee ballot.)

instrument for change. I fight that impulse every day.

I do not mock their efforts, only their organizational skills.

The only change they will be making is in residence. It was dumb.

now say something else!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

once again

FUCK OFF

>>Chubby do you support War, Do you think we need more Socialistic measures such as universal Healthcare and stringent Labor standards and the right to form Unions regardless?

Bob, I really don't want to play your games. What I choose to share on the blog is my business, not yours.

Palin Accuses 'Obama/Biden Democrats' of Attacking Her Family, But Campaign Can't Name One
September 04, 2008 8:05 PM

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin sent out a fundraising solicitation today that charged that "the Obama/Biden Democrats have been vicious in their attacks directed toward me, my family and John McCain."

I asked spokespeople of the McCain campaign and the Republican National Committee just which "Obama/Biden Democrats" they're referring to.

The response I got was that Obama spokesman Mark Bubriski erroneously attacked Palin as a supporter of Pat Buchanan.

That's it. That's the evidence.

An attack on Palin herself.

In other words, they can't name one person affiliated with the Obama-Biden campaign who attacked the Palin family.

But she made the charge anyway, to help raise money.

Incidentally, in 1998 Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, told the following joke at a Republican fundraiser:

"Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?" McCain joked about the then-President's then-teenage daughter. "Because her father is Janet Reno."

''This is the bad boy,'' he told the New York Times' Maureen Dowd. "It was stupid and cruel and insensitive. I've apologized. I can't take it back. I could give you a whole bunch of excuses, but there are no excuses. I was wrong, but do you want me crucified? How many days does it need to be a story?'"

Now THAT is attacking someone's family!

- jpt

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/palin-accuses-o.html

agreed.

>>(Shit. Now I'm depressed. I think I'll slit my wrists with an absentee ballot.)

Just don't leave any chads hanging.

It'd be a terrible waste to have your last act voided.

PS: can I have the Karmen Ghia when you're gone?

http://blip.tv/file/1232001