me likey

... and he kicked ASS ... but in a very sensible, adult manner.

p.s. "palindrones" works well....

these people R crazy

Friedman: 'Drill, drill, drill..!!' equivalent to 'IBM Selectric, IBM Selectric, IBM Selectric..!!'

Who, exactly, is John McCain's advisor on foreign policy?

Judge, in court, on Palin: "bitterness ... has overridden good judgment"

Sarah Palin turbo-charges the "More of the Same" line of criticism

Must-see: Sarah Palin vs Janet Napolitano roundtable on Charlie Rose

"What are they trying to hide?" (calling out the POW/MIA ticket)

Palin manipulates results of scientific review of climate change effects on polar bears (aka "I'm Sarah Palin, and I support this extinction."

I haven't gotten around to classifying all the Palin stories into their respective Bushian classifications (e.g. abuse of power, science denial, loyalty over competence, etc), but am hoping that her candidacy begins to falter very soon... to obviate the effort.

Wish there was something I could do to get you back on the air. Or the tubes.

My now-6-yr-old nephew howled over the "poopy, poopy, poop" and "Barack Obama, Barack Orama" clips.

Happe Talk

McCain tax plan: "Bush's plan on steroids"
Chris in Paris · 9/07/2008 01:05:00 PM ET · Link
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Naturally McCain is going to promote a radical plan, because the owner of twelve houses thinks that the US has experienced significant economic progress, so why not more? More tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, higher costs for health care (for those who need to pay attention to such costs) and more cuts to Social Security and Medicare. Despite making hundreds of thousands of dollars per year and being married to a beer heiress worth $100 million, McCain still gladly accepts his Social Security money but wants everyone else to cut back.

It must be nice to live in such an ivory tower, where the cost of living or staying afloat financially doesn't matter. Look at how much is being paid by employees today and then think about how expensive it will be on a personal basis when McCain cuts the tax break for employers on health care and it's all thrown into your lap with a pathetic little tax credit, which is useless. Talk about expensive! Also consider how poorly US money has been spent (and lost) in Iraq while John McCain has made that his number one issue. He can't even watch over spending in Iraq yet expects 300 million Americans to wade through the free-for-all health care theory that he wants to promote. Besides wealthy elites like McCain, who can afford the cost and time for such a plan? Not everyone has a team of personal accountants on call to figure it all out.

LINK

for notifying us of the new thread. And the comics!

Plooger, you've been busy. Thanks for all the links.

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Jamesbennett

I was surprised that the title was fact-based.

G'evening, toniD :)

plooger, did you miss Friday's show?
Maron v. Seder 9-5-2008 MP3 links here:
http://www.samsedershow.com/node/3711

Howdy.. hope ya all had a great weekend.
Mine was o.k. - went by way to fast (as usual)

Palin bio on Faux
Submitted by Cat Chew on Sun, 09/07/2008 - 11:20pm.

McClatchy, WaPo and Romney Warn About McCain’s Out of Control Temper
By: Jon Perr @ 4:00 PM - PDT

In a disturbing expose Sunday, the McClatchy papers joined the growing list of press, pundits and politicians raising a red flag about John McCain’s out-of-control temper. Following on the heels of the devastating revelations from the Washington Post in April, McClatchy documents many of the tantrums, outbursts and eruptions that continue to call McCain’s presidential temperament into question. And as Mitt Romney’s campaign revealed in January, those McCain tirades are directed at friend and foe alike.

Starting with an f-bomb hurled at GOP colleague John Cornyn, McClatchy details McCain’s long history of explosions, a record which led Mississippi Republican Thad Cochran to conclude “the thought of (McCain) being president sends a cold chill down my spine”:

There’s a lengthy list of similar outbursts through the years: McCain pushing a woman in a wheelchair, trying to get an Arizona Republican aide fired from three different jobs, berating a young GOP activist on the night of his own 1986 Senate election and many more.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to John McCain’s white hot temper.
(Read the rest of this story…)

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/07/mcclatchy-wapo-and-romney-warn-...

McClatchy: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/51660.html

WaPo: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/19/AR200804...

Romney's Campaign"s remarks:

http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/001210.htm

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HORSE SLAUGHTER BILL UP FOR COMMITTEE VOTE

AWI has learned that the Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act (H.R. 6598) will be voted on by the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, September 10th. The bill, which was introduced in July by Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) and Representative Dan Burton (R-IN), will criminalize the slaughter of American horses. While the vast majority of Americans, the United States Congress and members of the House Judiciary Committee support an end to horse slaughter there are some members on the committee who are staunch supporters of horse slaughter and will attempt to kill the bill through subterfuge.

What You Can Do:

Call and/or email members of the House Judiciary Committee (see full list below) TODAY and ask them “to support passage of the Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act (H.R. 6598) out of committee as introduced, with NO amendments”. Please also ask them “to cosponsor H.R. 6598 if they haven’t done so already.” Let them know that:

Every 5 Minutes an American horse is slaughtered for human consumption abroad. Visit www.every5minutes.org for the current number and to learn more about this industry.
Despite the closure of the country’s three remaining horse slaughter plants in 2007, tens of thousands of American horses continue to be slaughtered in Canada and Mexico in the absence of a strong US law banning prohibiting the trade.

* The photo above is of a horse in Texarkana, Arkansas, found beaten and crammed onto a horse trailer being transported to slaughter with 18 other horses.

Horse slaughter is not humane euthanasia; it is a brutal process during which horses suffer terribly from start to finish. Their trip to Mexico is often on double deck trailers where they are crammed with dozens of other horses for up to 30 hours without food, water or rest. Once in Mexico some slaughterhouses use a “puntilla” or knife to stab the horse to death. The entire process is extremely inhumane.

Despite claims to the contrary, horse slaughter is not a necessary evil through which sick, old and unwanted horses are humanely disposed of. The industry is a predatory one that actively seeks out marketable and healthy horses to be slaughtered at great profit.

According to the US Department of Agriculture, more than 92% of horses going to slaughter are in good condition and could be placed in a new home. Those horses who are truly sick or old should be humanely euthanized on the spot by a licensed veterinarian.

Horsemeat is considered a delicacy in many European and Asian countries where it is consumed by high-end diners.

The Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act (H.R. 6598) will end this cruel trade for good. Ending horse slaughter is a positive step in improving horse welfare in the US, which is why so many horse industry groups and leaders, veterinarians, humane organizations and equine rescues strongly support an end to horse slaughter.

Whether you contact your legislator by phone or email, please be sure to provide him or her with your name and mailing address, and if you are a constituent, request a response on this specific issue. Please also share our “Dear Humanitarian” eAlert with family, friends and co-workers, and encourage them to contact their legislators, too. As always, thank you very much for your help.

NOTE: Because of the urgency and limited time we encourage you to call each office and ask for their support. There is no need to contact Chairman Conyers or Representative Scott given their lead on the bill itself. * denotes that the member has a history of supporting measures to end horse slaughter. Bolded name denotes they are a current cosponsor of H.R. 659

The Honorable John Conyers, Jr., (MI)*
Chairman
Tel: 202-225-5126
Fax: 202-225-0072
Email: john.conyers@mail.house.gov
The Honorable Lamar Smith (TX)
Ranking Member
Tel: 202-225-4236
Fax: 202-225-8628
The Honorable Mark Berman (CA)*
Tel: 202-225-4695
Fax: 202-225-3196
Email: howard.berman@mail.house.gov
The Honorable Lamar Smith (TX)
Ranking Member
Tel: 202-225-4236
Fax: 202-225-8628

The Honorable Rick Boucher (VA)*
Tel: 202-225-3861
Fax: 202-225-0442
Email: ninthnet@mail.house.gov
The Honorable John Sensenbrenner (WI)
Tel: 202-225-5101
Fax: 202-225-3190
The Honorable Jerry Nadler (NY)*
Tel: 202-225-5635
Fax: 202-225-6923
The Honorable Howard Coble (NC)
Tel: 202-225-3065
Fax: 202-225-8611
Email: howard.coble@mail.house.gov

The Honorable Bobby Scott (VA)*
Tel: 202-225-8351
Fax: 202-225-8354
The Honorable Elton Gallegly (CA)*
Tel: 202-225-5811
Fax: 202-225-1100
The Honorable Melvin Watt (NC)*
Tel: 202-225-1510
Fax: 202-225-1512
The Honorable Bob Goodlatte (VA)
Tel: 202-225-5431
Fax: 202-225-9681
The Honorable Zoe Lofgren (CA)*
Tel: 202-225-3072
Fax: 202-225-3336
The Honorable Steve Chabot (OH)*
Tel: 202-225-2216
Fax: 202-225-3012
The Honorable Sheila Jackson Lee (TX)*
Tel: 202-225-3816
Fax: 202-225-3317
The Honorable Dan Lungren (CA)*
Tel: 202-225-5716
Fax: 202-226-1298
The Honorable Maxine Waters (CA)*
Tel: 202-225-2201
Fax: 202-225-7854 The Honorable Chris Cannon (UT)
Tel: 202-225-7751
Fax: 202-225-5629
Email: cannon.ut03@mail.house.gov

The Honorable Jim Delahunt (MA)*
Tel: 202-225-3111
Fax: 202-225-5658
Email: william.delahunt@mail.house.gov
The Honorable Ric Keller (FL)*
Tel: 202-225-2176
Fax: 202-225-0999
The Honorable Robert Wexler (FL)*
Tel: 202-225-3001
Fax: 202-225-5974
The Honorable Darrell Issa (CA)*
Tel: 202-225-3906
Fax: 202-225-3303
The Honorable Linda Sanchez (CA)
Tel: 202-225-6676
Fax: 202-226-1012
The Honorable Mike Pence (IN)*
Tel: 202-225-3021
Fax: 202-225-3382
The Honorable Steve Cohen (TN)*
Tel: 202-225-3265
Fax: 202-225-5663
The Honorable Randy Forbes (VA)*
Tel: 202-225-6365
Fax: 202-226-1170
The Honorable Hank Johnson (GA)*
Tel: 202-225-1605
Fax: 202-226-0691
The Honorable Steve King (IA)
Tel: 202-225-4426
Fax: 202-225-3193
The Honorable Betty Sutton (OH)*
Tel: 202-225-3401
Fax: 202-225-2266
The Honorable Tom Feeney (FL)
Tel: 202-225-2706
Fax: 202-226-6299
The Honorable Gutierrez (IL)*
Tel: 202-225-8203
Fax: 202-225-7810
The Honorable Trent Franks (AZ)
Tel: 202-225-4576
Fax: 202-225-6328
The Honorable Brad Sherman (CA)*
Tel: 202-225-5911
Fax: 202-225-5879
The Honorable Louie Gohmert (TX)
Tel: 202-225-3035
Fax: 202-225-5866
The Honorable Tammy Baldwin (WI)*
Tel: 202-225-2906
Fax: 202-225-6942
The Honorable Jim Jordan (OH)
Tel: 202-225-2676
Fax: 202-226-0577
The Honorable Anthony Weiner (NY)*
Tel: 202-225-6616
Fax: 202-226-7253
Email: weiner@mail.house.gov

The Honorable Adam Schiff (CA)*
Tel: 202-225-4176
Fax: 202-225-5828

The Honorable Artur Davis (AL)*
Tel: 202-225-2665
Fax: 202-226-9567

The Honorable Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL)*
Tel: 202-225-7931
Fax: 202-226-2052

The Honorable Keith Ellison (MN)*
Tel: 202-225-4755
Fax: 202-225-4886

Cat Chew.... you are wonderful!

in those phone #'s up above also ^^^^^^^^^

Why do some of the best comments we can make come long after the conversation is over?

Late night Sea-Cat said she, too had read Antigone as an 11 year old.

Walking to the store a few minutes ago I came up with one of those `I wish I'd said it at the time things':

`Yes, but I read it it was still in its first printing."

that poor horse.

one of the most beautiful creatures on this planet...

And that's just a smattering of the postings. This Palin nightmare may kill me.

Fitzgerald: This is baloney, Tony
'MISLEADING ASSUMPTION' | Fed prosecutor says flier implies he endorsed Peraica

September 6, 2008Recommend (16)

BY ABDON M. PALLASCH Political Reporter/apallasch@suntimes.com

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has asked Republican Cook County state's attorney candidate Tony Peraica to stop passing out a campaign flier that looks to Fitzgerald like Peraica is claiming his endorsement.

The flier shows side-by-side photos of Fitzgerald and Peraica and says, "U.S. Attorney's Office Needs Help Fighting Corruption in Cook County."

Fitzgerald said in his letter he had never even met Peraica. "The flier creates the misleading assumption that I have endorsed your candidacy. . . . That is by no means the case. I have never endorsed any candidate in any race for anything (much less someone I do not believe I have yet had occasion to meet.)"

Fitzgerald's letter asks Peraica how many of the fliers he has sent out "and where they have been distributed and what efforts have been made to retrieve them."

Peraica said he will make no efforts to retrieve them.

"I don't think the flier is inappropriate," Peraica said. "I think any objective examination of that door-hanger piece would show that no endorsement is stated or implied."

Peraica wrote a letter to Fitzgerald saying that he did not intend to, nor did he, imply an endorsement. He lavished praise on Fitzgerald and said he only meant to emulate his corruption-busting approach.

"It is because of your example and that of your office that the public in Cook County has come to believe that some government officials actually care to protect the public against political corruption," Peraica said. "It is only with admiration that I seek to follow your example."

Sally Daly, spokeswoman for Peraica's Democratic opponent, Chief Deputy State's Attorney Anita Alvarez, said the flier did imply an endorsement. "I think it's a disturbing example of the lengths that Tony Peraica will go to for his own perceived political gain,'' Daly said. "It's unfortunate that someone who's running to become the chief legal officer of Cook County would go to such lengths to mislead the public. That raises serious questions about how he would conduct himself and apply that judgment if he were to become state's attorney."

Thomas O'Brien, the Green Party candidate, said, "Obviously it's a mistake, but I hope we can start talking about the serious issues in the race like the death penalty and innocence claims and the rash of shootings we've had lately."

Peraica, a Cook County commissioner, said the campaign should be focusing on lenient prosecutions against drunk drivers who have killed people.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1148045,CST-NWS-fitz06.article

The Sarah Palin Selection: Why McCain's Inexperienced Running Mate Falls Short of Meeting the Implicit Constitutional Qualifications For Vice Presidents

By JOHN W. DEAN

Friday, Sept. 05, 2008

In truth, the Vice President of the United States is important for only one reason: He or she will become President of the United States upon the death, incapacity or resignation of the President. Nine times in our history, vice presidents have succeeded to the presidency: John Tyler (1841), Millard Fillmore (1850), Andrew Johnson (1865), Chester A. Arthur (1881), Theodore Roosevelt (1901), Calvin Coolidge (1923), Harry Truman (1945), Lyndon Johnson (1963), and Gerald Ford (1974). Of course, the vice president also has a significant secondary role: It is he or she, acting with a majority of the Cabinet, who can declare the president incapable of carrying out the duties of the office, and then take charge - until the action is either ratified or rejected by a majority of the Congress. So far in our history, however, this has never occurred.

Given the fact that the 2008 GOP standard-bearer John McCain is seventy-two years of age, his selection of an inexperienced Vice Presidential running mate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, has again focused attention on the process and procedures for selecting vice presidents - or, to put it more bluntly, the utter lack of process or procedures in selecting the person who is a heartbeat away from the presidency. McCain, not unlike others before him, selected a less than fully vetted running mate for political reasons. That is surely a concern for voters to think over in the upcoming election - but it raises a systemic concern, too, for the long run.

Consider this parallel: Does anyone believe that if John McCain were president and had selected Governor Sarah Palin under the Twenty-fifty Amendment to fill a vacancy in the vice presidency, Congress would have confirmed her? Not likely. In fact, it is even less likely that McCain would have even attempted to do so, for he would have embarrassed himself.

While the Constitution does not expressly set forth qualifications for the vice-presidency, it strongly implies them --- and Palin falls short.

How Our Constitutional Process for Selecting Vice Presidents Evolved

Our founders gave little thought to the vice presidential selection process. Initially, the candidate who placed second in Electoral College votes became vice president. While this worked for the first three presidential elections, the election of 1800 produced a tie in the Electoral College, between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr (both of the same party), and although Burr was the announced candidate for vice president, when he came up with a tie vote, he refused to step aside, forcing the resolution of the contest in the House of Representatives, which proved to be a messy affair.

This clear flaw in the system was corrected by the Twelfth Amendment, which requires electors to vote separately for president and vice president. It was the Twelfth Amendment (adopted in 1804), along with the growth of political parties, that encouraged the pairing of candidates in the presidential election. Since then, the vice presidential selection process has evolved from party leaders' making the selection to the current system, under which the party's presidential nominee is given the power to select a vice presidential running mate.

The Twenty-fifth Amendment (adopted in 1967) indirectly codified the power of a candidate for president to select his vice president, for the Amendment states that when there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, "the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress." A Vice President, like a President, must be a natural born citizen, at least thirty-five years of age, and a resident of the United States for fourteen years.

Of course, Sarah Palin, McCain's running mate, meets the minimum constitutional requirements. But there also exists a clear subtext within the Constitution, and related statutes, that suggests that there are other, implicit qualifications for the Vice President, as well - qualifications as to which Governor Palin falls short. While this subtext is plainly not formally binding on either a presidential candidate or president, candidates and presidents have traditionally followed the implicit qualifications suggested by the Constitution.

The Twenty-fifth Amendment Suggests the Primary Qualifications for Vice Presidents: Be Equipped to Serve as President Starting, if Necessary, on Day One

More here:

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20080905.html

Later

I just finished wrapping my right elbow with an ice pack, doesn't sound too hard, right?

right up to the part you start wrapping the arm with the ace bandage...

to bed - nite all - sweet dreams...

nite smcgee, pleasant dreams

The twenty fifth amendment never foresaw a Couple things...

First, it could have never foreseen the advent of the `hockey mom' and the invaluable lessons and experience imparted by them. Getting all those kids and equiment into the SUV and to the rink on time is more responsibility than you might think...not to mention bake sales and stuff like that.

Nor could it foresee the valuable leadership gained when a woman goes moose hunting.

But, especially, it didn't take into account that Sarah Palin has a Jesus (unlike most people's Jesuses) who makes his followers flop around on the floor of her church like freshly caught halibut on the deck of a long liner. A Jesus like that, you just can't question, especially if he gives you a mission from God.

So, all in all, constitution, smonstitution, who cares!

What happened to slapstick?

By Steve Tomkins

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4746822.stm

Slapstick is making something of a comeback, with two film seasons already this year celebrating silent comedy and a BBC series about the genre scheduled for the Spring. So why is no one making new slapstick comedy these days?

At the end of Buster Keaton's short comedy thriller The High Sign, the triumphant Buster (above) walks round the corner of the street and there is a banana skin in his path. With a knowing gesture to the camera, he walks right past it. It gets a big laugh from audiences, and whatever people thought of it 84 years ago it seems to say to the modern viewer, "There's more to slapstick than you thought, you know."

Slapstick does not seem to have a very good name these days. If sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, then slapstick is the lowest form of comedy, all custard pies and banana skins, people hitting each other and falling over.

But Buster Keaton seems to be bouncing back somewhat at the moment, with a two-month season at the NFT and a 28-film DVD The Buster Keaton Chronicles out on Monday. Watching these films is a reminder - or a revelation maybe - that the physical comedy of the inter-war years is vastly more than that. It is inventive, witty, exciting and amazingly skilful.

As an example of the last two, Sherlock Jr. culminates in a one-vehicle chase, Keaton sitting on the handlebars of a motorbike he mistakenly believes someone is driving, as it careers down the road, in an out out of traffic. Finally he comes to a half-built bridge.

The gap in the middle of it is momentarily filled by two buses passing through in opposite directions, and then the bridge slowly collapses to let him safely down. As a visual spectacle, it rivals anything in The Lord of the Rings or King Kong, precisely because you know you're seeing a human being in action. It's a kind of intimacy that computer technology can get in the way of.

Visual tricks can play with your expectations just as cleverly as verbal ones. In the wonderful short One Week, Buster and his wife are dragging their new house across a railroad track (it's a long story). It gets stuck and there's a train coming in the distance. They struggle to pull it out of the way, and give up, only for the train to pass by on a parallel track. Just as we're breathing a sigh of relief, a train comes the opposite way and crashes right through it.

So where did all the slapstick go then? Why do the sticks of today's filmmakers remain so pitifully unslapped?

It is said that audiences today are too sophisticated, but that evolutionary assumption holds less water than Stan Laurel's trousers. The success of comedies like American Pie hardly suggests that today's viewers despise the intellectually undemanding, while Keaton's The General is "arguably the greatest screen comedy ever made" according to the London listings magazine Time Out.

What's more, the whole genre of action films, from James Bond to Spider-Man, is based on our love of spectacular stunts.

Historically several things did for slapstick. The most obvious was the coming of "talkies" from 1927. Visual comedy ruled silent cinema, being one of the few genres of film that doesn't really need sound at all.

The emergence of cartoons in the 1930s offered all the wild stunts of Keaton and Harold Lloyd, and far wilder. And so slapstick followed the same path as fairytales, both of which were originally for adults but were passed down to children when they became unpopular.

That's not to say slapstick for the over-18s is dead. Chris Daniels, who, with comedian Paul Merton, has staged a silent comedy festival at Bristol Watershed arts centre for the past two years, detects a revival of interest.

"The problem is access. People have not had access to these films because they are not on television," says Mr Daniels.

Yet the programme is almost exclusively dedicated to dusting off classic movies of the 1920s and 30s. Are there no contemporary slapstickers?

"What you get these days is elements of slapstick and silent comedy within spoken routines," he says, citing Vic and Bob as two arch exponents.

"The Goodies in the 70s and 80s did a huge amount of it, and Neil Innes in the late 70s. Bottom, with Ade Edmonson and Rik Mayall, was full-on slapstick."

Norman Wisdom, now 91, is perhaps our last truly slapstick comedian, he says.

Mr Daniels admits that while the Bristol festival has been a sell-out for two years running, it is still niche. But that's true of any old film, he argues. "You couldn't put Casablanca on general release and expect it to sell out."

Maybe there is too much money washing around the film world these days. The stars of the 1920s and 1930s did all their own stunts, but no producer would risk having someone as Jim Carrey, or even Rowan Atkinson, diving out of windows or switching between moving cars.

Even the length of films is against slapstick. Though it produced some great feature films, visual comedy thrives in the 30-minute format, much like sitcom and sketch comedy. For whatever reason, shorts are NO longer on the bill in cinemas.

For this reason, visual comedy, while living on as one ever present aspect in all TV and cinema comedy - Del Boy falling over in the bar, the Ministry of Silly Walks - still sometimes heads the bill on TV. The most successful example is Mr Bean, whose 14 silent-ish shorts have been shown in 200 territories worldwide.

In this age of globalisation, perhaps the international language of slapstick is ripe for a comeback.

sorry to anyone who read the slapstick post before I realized I'd pasted in the same section 2 or 3 times.

I think it is fixed now.

I Will Reconfigure My Junk to Get Closer to Rachel Maddow

http://www.236.com/blog/w/patrick_sauer/i_will_reconfigure_my_junk_to_87...

My Dearest Rachel,

On this historic day, your MSNBC show debuts, and a fragment of the cable news network will finally be able to see what I see, to know what I know, to feel what I feel.

We're talking love, baby.

A love that is spreading about the mainstream media like the seed of a teenage hockey star.

"There's no question that the 35-year-old {Maddow} will cut a different figure than most of her cable brethren." - LA Times

Words cannot describe how happy I am that the world at-large will be able to drink in the Maddow goodness that has sustained me these four long years. And yet, it is with a tinge of sadness that I pen this Ode de Rachel.

I fear I will be left behind like a runaway bride at a gay marriage, like Samantha Ronson on June 24, 2009.

"Maddow also knows how to think fast on her feet, a quality that is surprisingly rare in the world of media talking heads." 
- Boston Globe

Rachel, I've long known that you think fast on your beautiful elfin besneakered feet. I've been there from the beginning. No, I am not a Rhodes Scholar, nor do I have AIDS, and I've never spent a night in a federal penitentiary. City jail, yes. But nobody writes his or her dissertation about the societal scourge of the 24-hour drunk and disorderly lockup.

But Rachel, I have always known you were the one for me, even when I didn't know you existed. From the first moment I heard you on Air America's AM New York City station, I was captivated, enthralled right up to when you moved down the dial and I could no longer get reception in my Manhattan apartment.

"Everything about her radiates competence and a deft, bright careerism." - Nation

During our time apart, my love for you only grew fonder, like a P.O.W. yearning to clutch Uncle Sam to his breast. I did what I could to stay connected, going so far as to download Public Enemy's Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age, New Whirl Order and How You Sell Soul to A Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul? in hopes that Chuck D. would sample one of your progressive bromides about the Zimbabwean economy for my "I Luv U RM" iMix.

To prove my devotion to your wise radio mentor, I attempted to leave a flaming bag of dung on Craig Kilborn's front porch. Maddeningly, his forwarding address led me to a foreclosed McMansion overrun by bobcats. But this isn't over Craiggers, not by a longshot.

"Yet here was just this headline, delivered by Maddow, looking like Sylvester the Cat, practically licking yellow feathers from the corners of her mouth." - Nation

And then, like a former beauty queen turned sportscaster, there you were, lighting up MSNBC more than the dye in Chris Matthews' mane.

Yet, there too, were the intelligentsia, taking up the air we breathed together. Unlike The Nation, I don't see you as a cartoon cat, an animated pussy, but as the woman that has stolen my heart like the votes in a poor black neighborhood.

"MSNBC should let Rachel Maddow be Maddow. Let Maddow freely, proudly share all her values, most of which are the values of the Democratic Party's left-wing ruling elite." - Newsmax

Even the conservative blogosphere is ga-ga, but I will not allow Maddowmania to sweep me away in a fawning avalanche. Pat Buchanan has a thing for you? Well, guess what? I too am named for the patron saint of the Emerald Isle. I too attended a Jesuit University. I too have Celtic roots. And I too fear Mexicans.

Rachel, we are meant for each other. We are soulmates. We are McCain/Palin. We share not only a deep an abiding love for defense industry appropriations, but my Father was also a military man who served stateside during Vietnam. Think of our long fireside chats over a bottle of Chianti. I may even be able to offer insight into the political mysteries of the Last Frontier as I was born on an Army base in Fairbanks Alaska. (What up, Sarah!)

You once said you like to "professionally bully people about what they drink." I'll put my cocktail napkins on the table: beer (craft, cheap, domestic or imported); wine (red, white or in-between); whiskey, gin, rum and the occasional margarita. But Rachel, I'm drinking whatever your drinking. I imagine it to be a holy spirit of Raki, tonic, honey, Sapphic sweat and mint leaves.

"We're gay for Rachel Maddow...Okay, we still don't want to kiss her or anything." - New York Magazine

How dare the liberal media proclaim itself gay and not want to feel the feathery snog of Maddow's soft lips and hot breath? I would live through ten more Bush years for just one supple kiss. I am not a schoolgirl with a crush, although I could be if it helps. Nor do I have deep-seeded inner-confusion even though you once said, "I look like a dude."

Not in these eyes.

To me, you look like an angel.

That is why I am going to reconstitute my genitalia for you, my progressive petunia. There is no greater gift a straight married man can give, than the very flesh he calls his own. No point in trying to talk me out of out it, my penis is going to be offered up as a sacrifice of my devotion and our burgeoning love.

And don't tell about your lifetime "commitment" to Susan Mikula. Seeing as you haven't gone the Ellen and Lindsay Funke route, to me that says more than "cold beautiful elfin feet," it says you are yearning for something more than domestic stability and the 9 p.m. Eastern slot on MSNBC.

And that something is me.

I will be the Gertrude to your Alice, the Amy to your Emily, the Lana to your Brandon...the Lorena to your Eleanor. We don't need to rush. Doctors tell me this will take some time. But if you desire my darling, send me a sign during your debut broadcast, and I am off to Lithuania to let my flower bloom.

Yours in love everlasting,

Patrick, soon to be Patricia, Sauer

Submitted by Chubby Bubba on Mon, 09/08/2008 - 2:02am.

not too long ago..

Chubby: "Why do you think that Rachel getting a show is a sure thing?"
M the master: "Did you read the article?"
Chubby: "I read that she was being considered."
M the master: "It's going to happen at anytime now. It's in the bag. DID YOU READ IT?"
Chubby: "Don't jump to conclusions."

Hey... I'm just sayin'...

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http://www.samsedershow.com/node/3337#comment-249826

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

>>Hey... I'm just sayin'...

yeah, but weren't you saying the switch would be earlier? about a month ago?

I thought the switch would be made at the end season. I was surprised the move made a couple weeks before that.

Ok, I'm big enough to admit I was wrong about the timing.

but so were you.

BTW: the script you wrote was self-servingly inaccurate.

"It's going to happen at anytime now."

and it happened 4 weeks later...my time frame would have been 6.

you were talking about it happening earlier than it actually happened

which means I was closer!

But, M the M, if crowing in victory over this inconsequential matter makes you feel good about yourself, have at it.

Chubby: "I read that she was being considered."

which is exactly what the article said.

Aside from the cutesy combination of 'Palin' and 'drone' (substituting for the more common 'bot'), the definition of the word it echoes underscores the core argument against Palin: that she's a mirror of Bush-style governance -- the same going forward as backward.

And her followers definitely appear to be just as fanatical and faith-based as those of Bush.

Overthink, much? ;)

John Renbourn - The Pelican

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

It's time to shift the discussion about Palin to what really matters: her far-right views on the issues.

Let's forget for a moment that Sarah Palin likes to kill moose, has lots of children and was once voted the second-prettiest lady in Alaska; that's all part of the gusher of sensationalist, but not particularly substantive, news that has dominated coverage of the Alaska governor's addition to the Republican ticket.

Before the next news cycle brings the shocking information that Palin was actually impregnated by Bigfoot, we need to shift the discussion to what really matters about her in the context of the White House: her dangerous views.

AlterNet has compiled a list of Palin's most shocking beliefs, ranging from her positions on the economy to her views on reproductive rights. This list has nothing to do with her personal life, her looks or her gender. It's the stuff that voters need to know: what Sarah Palin really believes.

http://www.alternet.org/story/97907/sarah_palin%27s_9_most_disturbing_be...

The US Has 761 Military Bases Across the Planet, and We Simply Never Talk About It
Here it is, as simply as I can put it: In the course of any year, there must be relatively few countries on this planet on which U.S. soldiers do not set foot, whether with guns blazing, humanitarian aid in hand, or just for a friendly visit. In startling numbers of countries, our soldiers not only arrive, but stay interminably, if not indefinitely. Sometimes they live on military bases built to the tune of billions of dollars that amount to sizeable American towns (with accompanying amenities), sometimes on stripped down forward operating bases that may not even have showers. When those troops don't stay, often American equipment does -- carefully stored for further use at tiny "cooperative security locations," known informally as "lily pads" (from which U.S. troops, like so many frogs, could assumedly leap quickly into a region in crisis).

http://www.alternet.org/audits/97913/the_us_has_761_military_bases_acros...

Vancouver - As the U.S. election campaign kicks into overdrive, Canadian politicians and oil executives are stepping up lobbying efforts to make sure whoever controls the White House keeps purchasing notoriously dirty oil from the Alberta tar sands.

Executives from Nexen Inc., which has major investments in northern Alberta's heavy oil industry, and Tony Clement, chair of a Canadian cabinet committee on energy security, met with Democratic candidate Barack Obama's top energy advisor Jason Grumet late last week to cement the "energy partnership" during the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado.

http://www.truthout.org/article/canadas-tar-sands-lobbyists-focus-democr...

The LA Times reports on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's leadership style and follow-through, based on interviews of individuals involved in Alaskan politics and Government. While she's praised for some things, she's raked up criticism in many areas. Key points those interviewed made:

She often failed to follow through on her initiatives, including ethics reform.

Yet a strange thing happened on the ethics issue once Palin became governor: She appeared to lose interest in completing the task of legislating comprehensive reform, some who supported the cleanup say.

The ethics bill she offered was so incomplete that its supporters had to undertake a significant rewrite. Moreover, when it came to building support for the bill, politicians in both parties say the new governor was often unaccountably absent from the fray.

A similar criticism was levied against her on the oil rebate checks: [More...]

http://www.talkleft.com/

re-pub-lick-thugs to liberals - we'll be all set!

Palin church promotes converting gays
Republican vice presidential hopeful's church promotes prayer to make gays straight
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.

Palin's conservative Christian views have energized that part of the GOP electorate, which was lukewarm to John McCain's candidacy before he named her as his vice presidential choice. She is staunchly anti-abortion, opposing exceptions for rape and incest, and opposes gay marriage and spousal rights for gay couples.

http://pageoneq.com/news/2008/Palin_church_promotes_converting_0907.html

Lawsuit: Prevent Cheney from withholding, destroying documents on his exit from office

Nick Langewis
Published: Sunday September 7, 2008

Historians and scholars are among those joining a lawsuit aimed at preventing the Bush administration from destroying or withholding documents related to the role of the "most influential vice president in U.S. history," Dick Cheney, in forming public policy, the Washington Post reports in its Monday edition.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is expected to file the suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday to assert the requirement to preserve the documents in question under the post-Watergate Presidential Records Act of 1978, contrary to loopholes engineered and statements made during Cheney's time in office.

Expected to be named as defendants are Vice President Cheney, the executive offices of Cheney and President Bush, the National Archives and chief archivist Allen Weinstein.

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

do you really think this is a deterrent to someone who sees themselves as above the law?

Bummer..

By RICHARD PYLE, Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK - When reports circulated over the weekend of a last-minute deal to keep Coney Island's historic Astroland amusement park open for another year, owner Carol Hill Albert was not amused.

Indeed, her tone was bitter as she described plans to close the park Sunday night in lieu of an agreement with the city or with private developer Thor Equities, which have competing plans for the 3-acre Brooklyn site.

"Despite rumors to the contrary, there are absolutely no negotiations going on, and there never were," said Albert, whose family has owned Astroland for more than four decades.

The park would close permanently, she said. Late Sunday night, visitors were herded out of the park and the lights were shut off for the last time.

The Cyclone, the famous Coney Island roller coaster, and the 150-foot-tall Wonder Wheel, a Ferris wheel, are separately owned and landmarked by the city so they are unaffected by the closing.

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

WSJ reports one of the U.S.'s largest student-loan companies is suspending the remaining part of its student-lending business. In a letter addressed to college financial-aid officers, College Loan Chief Executive Cary Katz says the co will "cease all private loan disbursements, effective immediately," because it lost its funding. "Regrettably, our financing from a large New York bank was abruptly canceled yesterday," reads the Sept. 4 letter. Brian Jones, a CLC spokesman, identified the bank as Citigroup (C). While CLC knew its line of credit was up for renewal this year, Mr. Jones said the cancellation was "unexpected" at the start of a school year, when it had around 9,000 applications from students pending. Those applications, Mr. Jones says, have been canceled, and students are being notified.

palin used to be michael.

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Another perversion of culture
Jim Cramer on morning Joe on the bail out of fannie and fredie.

Send out the red cross to the hamptions. Do you know how painful it is for these guys to have to sell a 4th and 5th house.

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more crap - likely voters - usa today - mc54% - obama44%

polls can't tell us who and how many are beyond their poll

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the electoral map is unchanged...Obama 301 McCain 224

If you are dieting don't weigh yourself every day due to fluctuations. This can be discouraging and cause a falling away from abstinent eating

same kind of deal

Happe Talk

only if the margin of error is 100%. where did they take the poll, the floor of the rnc?

oooo she is so pretty! I'll vote for McCain

I listened to an interesting coast to coast last night about the horoscopes of all the candidates. the guy said Palin has a kind of charisma that will initially help McCain since he has none.

He said it is a toss up in the end.

Happe Talk

Lots of horse manure going around this AM. Polls? Don't even bother to look.

another problem...

Will OPEC cut oil production?
Chris in Paris · 9/08/2008 03:51:00 AM ET · Link
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And why wouldn't they? Prices have plummeted to barely over $100 per barrel so one has to wonder how OPEC producers are even making ends meet. Besides, with the world on the edge of a recession, there's obviously a few more dollars to squeeze out before the money disappears. No matter, we can surely count on our good friends, the Saudis, who believe the oil floor ought to be around $80. That would naturally be higher than the average price of oil for 2007. Thanks!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080908/ap_on_bi_ge/opec_meeting;_ylt=Akfsu_...

What might be sexist is the way the McCain campaign is treating Palin
John Aravosis (DC) · 9/08/2008 01:45:00 AM ET · Link
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Apparently, they think she's so fragile that they don't want the media interviewing her until the big bad media promises to be nice to her and not ask her anything mean like, you know, about her ethics investigation, her lies about being against earmarks, her lie about selling the plane on eBay, her lie about traveling to Ireland - you know, mean "sexist" questions like that. And yes, at some point the campaign has now promised that she'll speak to Charlie Gibson at ABC, but only him, because everyone else is mean. So how is she going to stare down Osama, if and when she takes over the presidency from McCain, who is 72 years old and has had 4 bouts of cancer, if she's as fragile as the McCain campaign keeps saying she is? The media, if it has any backbone left (we know MSNBC/NBC certainly doesn't), ought to destroy the McCain campaign for this orchestration of lies and cover-up.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/palin-media-a-2.html

yeah the polls, i won't even look at them, there's only so much disgust to go around, mine is all spent

good morning folks, back to work today and actually looking forward to it: it feels like normalcy

lots of catching up to do and i won't be able to blog much, but i hope i'll find some time for seder maron later today

cautiously optimistic about the hurricane path avoiding new orleans, fingers so crossed that it's hard to type, but i still "don't like ike" (stolen headline from a times picayune column yesterday) especially since it's battering my favorite place in the whole world, poor island of Cuba, damn you condoleeza rice - but what to expect from these republican monsters (disgust yes disgust is overflowing)

of course nothing on my tv about cuba - i mean live shots, tv anchors standing against the wind and rain - and i have no time right now to be scouring the foreign media..... will have to catch up with it all tonight...

before i run, a thank you to all on the blog that expressed concern and good wishes for new orleans, offers of shelter etc.... can't always respond individually (quite a task to keep up with the activity on this blog!) but i read everything and everyone and I do appreciate it so much

here's to peace and harmony (granola?) and all good things on the blog (things were quiet last night, at least as far as i was able to read, i hope it continues)

http://tinyurl.com/6zv66u

Time to review McCain's poor judgment on the economy
Chris in Paris · 9/08/2008 05:11:00 AM ET · Link
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As McCain is forced into talking about the Republican economy that he helped create, it's time to look back at what he said in the past including what he failed to say even last week. By August of 2007 - just over one year ago - the Dow had already lost 1,000 points in one month as British lender Northern Rock sent the first big shock to the market. Northern Rock was nationalized after a run on the bank and everyone who was paying attention was introduced to the downside of subprime lending. They were a casualty of the subprime lending crisis when banks stopped lending to other banks. Even putting aside the McCain-Phil Gramm connections to the subprime lending crisis, it's hard to imagine that someone running for President of the United States would not notice the impending crisis coming to Wall Street. You would think that any serious candidate would quickly bring themselves up to speed on this issue, unless they didn't see it as a problem.

A few months later in November while on the campaign trail, McCain was asked about the economy and he responded "The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should," McCain said. "I've got Greenspan's book." Again, it was obvious at this point where the economy was going as the housing crisis had already been dragging down the real estate market in many of the previously high flying areas around the US. US banks were starting to fall apart so anyone who was paying attention could not have missed the clouds building over Wall Street. For McCain, owner of 12 houses and friend of Phil Gramm, he was clueless. The crisis was so irrelevant, that he could jokingly dismiss it all and just say he would read Greenspan's book, as if a chief architect of the credit bubble would have the answers.

In April of 2008, roughly one month after the bailout of Bear Stearns, McCain told Bloomberg in an interview that the US had experienced "great progress economically" during the Bush years. He added a few words slightly more comforting than the Phil Gramm "whiners" comment but clearly he was promoting the same general idea. McCain somehow saw good news in an economy that has yet to generate positive jobs growth in 2008 and only hit the minimum 150,000 per month (to break even with incoming jobs) twice in 2007. For McCain, that's progress.

McCain can talk about his personal history as much as he likes and yes, we all appreciate his sacrifices for the US but he still does not understand the most important issue facing Americans today. If he had any understanding about the problem, he would have discussed it at the Republican convention instead of ignoring it all week.

http://www.americablog.com/2008/09/time-to-review-mccains-poor-judgement...

MSNBC says Olbermann, Matthews won't anchor
By DAVID BAUDER ; AP Television Writer
Published: September 7th, 2008 10:55 PM | Updated: September 7th, 2008 10:58 PM
NEW YORK -- MSNBC said Sunday it is replacing Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews as co-anchors of political night coverage with David Gregory, and will use the two newsmen as commentators.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/tacoma/24hour/entertainment/story/475288.h...

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any question about media bias and who owns the M$M.
Only the right please.

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sorry, my bias is showing, but whenever i watch him, he gives the right a free pass.

of having to sell your 4th and 5th houses.

It can be depressing.

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is a good one. Olberman actually asked for this. This will enable him to continue to do his show in his own way. Rachel is good at being neutral but factual while being the voice of the left. Olberman needs to do his thing the way he does it. He will still have a forum for that.

Happe Talk

over the weekend the government announced they are taking over freddie and fannie. they have initially used numbers like 10 billion dollars for the cost of the bailout to the taxpayers. in reality treasury has committed to providing up to 100B to each company or 200B of our money.

analysts are saying the actual amount needed could exceed 2 trillion.

i think we will see an initial suckers rally for the next few days and then the reality will sink in and we will be looking at serious declines across the board.

of special note is that another bank failed this weekend. its the one where mccains son was on the board in nevada. whats significant is that their losses were in the commercial real estate market, so this is an indicator that the next wave of failures is starting (commerical would be one, credit would be the next).

the usual disclaimer: anyone who makes investing decisions based on what i say is a bigger idiot them me.

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a question i think dodd needs to get an answer to is why isn't the senior management of these companies looking at serious jail time for as wall street says "cooking the books". at the least, forfeiture of all pay and bonuses for the past several years would be a good start.

and what a voice. her friday night segment where she called the mccain campaign on their lies was refreshing.

One of my favorite parts in this Obama vid Sam posted is how Obama addresses the media's treatment of Palin.

"I've been through it for 19 months, she's been through it, what, 4 days now?"

Toni, I noticed a "Chicago" tab on the Huffington post font page. It leads to a whole (beta)page of Huffington Post news on Chicago. I have an account there so it's probably picking up on my zip code, but I thought it was a pretty cool new feature of theirs.

If anyone else has an account there, you might want to see if your city/state is represented in the beta.

I've been on that Huffington Beta Page for Chicago. I haven't signed up yet, but it is interesting.

me likey too!!

Barak Obama and Rachel starts tonight also.

I'm telling all my friends to tune in to up the viewers. He's already getting good viewership but if we can get his viewership up even more, the powers that be at MSNBC may see there is an audience for more liberal views. Money and viewership talks.

To add to the discussion of MSNBC, make no mistake they are backpedaling away in fear faster than you can say liberal media.

Here's another example:

Notice a Problem?

It's all about the ratings. Do not trust the polls. I repeat...

Oh, and never take Chuck Todd seriously again (If you ever did). He was supposedly the impartial "numbers" man. After the Noonan video, now we know he's a total enabler. How can these people sleep at night knowing it's just a sham.

Image: TPM

exactly - we need to support Keith and rachel!

BTWo have you heard the wingnuts are in a snit because Oprah won't have Palin on her program? Oprah said she will not have candidates on her show (that also means Obama).
Chees, crybabies

As I have stated over and over on this blog- the same media that brought you two stolen elections, two illegal wars and a failing economy -is again perpetuating another fraud on the American People. This time with Palin and McCain. They would have you believe that McCain who has to have an audience bussed in, is winning. They would have you believe that Palin is more experienced than Biden or Obama. Furthermore, the study that proved Obama's media coverage was mainly negative was ignored.

If we do nothing, then we will get what we deserve. And so far we've done nothing! Now, they've thrown Obermann aside for McCain. This in spite of the entire network of FOX, Sinclair Broadcasting, and thousands of right-wing radio shows advocating for the conservative cause.

It really isn't about Barack Obama here. No indeed. It's about these cretins that have brought that have devastating this country. They have had 40 years of unchecked criminal behavior. We are all paying for it. Therefore, it really is time to launch a serious boycott against the media. Please! Let's do this!

By the way, I notice two sponsors during the Morning Joe Show. They were Exxon Mobil and Walmart. Enough said!

A CQ analysis finds that this year, federal lawmakers in both parties “have opposed the president far more often than at any other time since he’s been in the White House, and the erosion in support is dramatic among Republicans.” GOP House members, for example, supported Bush 94 percent of the time in 2001 and 2003, but just 63 percent in 2008.

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=weeklyreport-000002944948

Oh wow, so it's not picking up on my zip code. I wonder if everyone sees Chicago when they go there, or, is the site picking up on where we are via a cookie or our IP addresses.

Anybody know?

Look on the main menu of buttons on the HuffPo front page right nest to "236". What do you see?

The War for the White House
Video at link:
'No Values Voters' Looking To Support Most Evil Candidate

Why settle for less?

Alaska lawmakers “are scheduled to meet Friday to decide whether to issue subpoenas” to members of Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R-AK) administration as part of their investigation into abuse of power allegations against Palin. The McCain campaign has also endorsed a plan by “key Alaska allies” to derail the investigation to prevent it from producing “embarrassing information” about Palin before the election.

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

I know! Republicans are intolerable cybabies!

"How dare you not extend an invitation for us to turn down! YOU must be the elitist!"

what a laughable bunch they are! Like Sam said, though. here we are again working our guts out to help Americans become more educated about the process and the Republicans are working just as hard to dumb them down.

THAT is the real fight here!

Palin’s church, Wasilla Bible 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,” reads a recent insert in the church’s bulletin describing Focus on the Family’s upcoming Love Won Out Conference in Anchorage.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/07/politics/main4423486.shtml?sou...

Excuse me, but if God is all powerful and created mankind, then maybe his plan was to create gay people. These people are saying this was a mistake by "God" and are trying to fix a mistake by "God" that they think is all powerful. Do you see more hypocracy here?

In a move that will spare conservatives from a politically difficult vote before the November elections, “Congressional Democrats have scrapped plans for another vote on expansion of the Children’s Health Insurance Program.” Democrats concluded “that President Bush would not sign their legislation and that they could not override his likely veto.” Bush has already twice vetoed similar legislation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/washington/08insure.html?ref=us

of Superman coming to earth from a dying planet?

That particular comic stuck in my mind. I've got to find it again and send it to my progressive group. I send them much of what is posted here and always get responses from the members.

It stuck in my mind because people are not considering this planet we live on. And that seemed to bring it to you in a very simple but powerful way.

Declaring that clergy “have a constitutional right to endorse political candidates from their pulpits, the socially conservative Alliance Defense Fund is recruiting several dozen pastors to do just that on Sept. 28, in defiance of Internal Revenue Service rules.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/07/AR200809...

Rather than noting immigration reversal, Todd claimed McCain "is not getting votes that his record deserves" from Hispanics

McCain "is not getting votes that his record deserves" from Hispanics
Summary: Interviewing McCain campaign manager Rick Davis, who touted Sen. John McCain as differing from his party in his support for immigration reform, NBC's Chuck Todd failed to note that McCain reversed himself on a key component of immigration reform, aligning himself more closely with the base of his party. Todd also said that McCain "is not getting votes that his record deserves" from Hispanics.

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http://mediamatters.org/items/200809050015?f=h_latest

Mark Belling called Gloria Steinem a "grizzled old bag," "old witch"

Summary: Radio host Mark Belling called Gloria Steinem a "grizzled old bag," "old witch," and "embittered old has-been" and also stated that the "previous generation" of feminists "were so ugly you couldn't stand to look at them."

http://mediamatters.org/items/200809050016?f=h_latest

a disinformation email campaign came out saying this huge list of books were included in the books Palin wanted to ban. They just talked about it on Stephanie Miller. That list is a hoax... Great way to discredit the left media outlets.

I tend to focus more on the delusional aspect of it.

Here's the Superman comic, toniD:
http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images/2007-11/bizarro-climate-change.jpg
Speaking of delusions, one of the odder beliefs I used to hear from a few folks who think we can keep fouling our nest without consequence is that we'll probably be able to emigrate to other planets soon. I love comics and science fiction but...!