Maron V Seder 3pm today... bank on it!

to hear we finally have another sam/marc show today

Adviser: McCain Helped Invent The Blackberry!

Is this McCain's Al Gore Moment???

Sean Hannity's Sarah Palin Interview Postponed Due To Hurricane

Palin Won't Cooperate in Probe of Trooper Firing, Campaign Says

Tony Hopfinger Tue Sep 16, 12:21 AM ET

Sept. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Alaska Governor Sarah Palin won't cooperate in an investigation into the firing of the state's top law enforcement official because the probe has become ``tainted'' by partisan politics, a McCain-Palin campaign spokeswoman told reporters in Anchorage.

Hurricane Ike Forces Obama to Scrap SNL Premiere

No kidding.

Sept. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Alaska Governor Sarah Palin won't cooperate in an investigation into the firing of the state's top law enforcement official because the probe has become ``tainted'' by partisan politics, a McCain-Palin campaign spokeswoman told reporters in Anchorage.

Obama has helped....

Oops...nevermind...he hasn't accomplished a single thing. Even his supporters know it:

Looks like some smart people.... yep...

comedy show, fauxnews interview....

i guess they are about equal...

but why is Palin acting like such a celebrity snubbing the press, refusing to answer questions from the national press core....

oh yeah, that's right, because she's another inept puppet-doll just like your last messiah GWB.....

yeah!!!! we love ineptitude..... yeah!!!!! we'd even give Satan himself a blowjob as long as we win.....

McCAIN - the Alzheimerific American TERRORIST!!!!! McStupid/Barbie '08

Suprising. It appears that the 20% of Alaskans who do not support Palin are investigating her. What are the chances of that happening? Life is so unfair :(

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keeping lies real for a long, long time....
McStupid/Barbie '08

1 min speaches - not happy with maneuvering on the energy bill

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any one else notice this?
using windows xp and been looking at windows task manager performance tab
as a given blog thread gets longer.
That last thread makes my processor work at 99 percent.
I upgraded to firefox 3, don't know if that has anything to do with it.
The 20 plus youtubes might be it.

I think if the youtube pasting code is shortened --
just post from -- embed to /embed -- [look at the code]
the video menus are left out.
I'm thinking this might help a lot.

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Jamesbennett

It's the SNL video that SEDER posted. You'll notice the same thing by just going to the main page, cause the video's there too.

this is where we are...

Those Obama supporters are SO SEXIST...

It's not the last thread
Submitted by mambo on Tue, 09/16/2008 - 11:49am.
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I'm thinking multiple causes.
: )

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Jamesbennett

their bread and butter is from tobacco

Former top diplomats urge next president to engage Iran
17 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Former US secretaries of state on Monday urged the next US president to work closely with key allies, engage with Iran, and avoid ruptures with awkward partners Russia and China.

Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright, Warren Christopher, James Baker and Henry Kissinger gave advice at a panel here that often appeared closer to the views of Democratic candidate Barack Obama than than to those Republican John McCain.

And although they did not actually endorse Obama, Republicans Powell and Baker joined Albright, a Democrat, in saying that Obama's election as the first US black president would send a powerful message to the rest of the world.

On Iran and Syria, both Republican and Democratic former secretaries backed engagement when they spoke at a panel at George Washington University. McCain slammed Obama earlier in the campaign for taking a similar stand.

"I believe we need to engage with Iran," said Albright who served under President Bill Clinton during his second term.

Powell agreed with Albright.

"Let's get together and talk about nuclear weapons... Start a dialogue at a low level and let it grow over time," said Powell, who served President George W. Bush in his first term.

While serving for President George H.W. Bush in the 1990s, Baker recalled that the elder Bush's administration offered to meet with Iran at the highest diplomatic level, but Iran refused for its own political reasons.

Baker also said the United States might have to contain Iran just as it did with the Soviet Union for decades.

The next American president, he said, should be prepared to warn Tehran that Washington will aim its "strategic deterrant" at Iran if it points a nuclear missile at Israeli or US targets.

Kissinger, who served under both Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, said: "I'm in favor of negotiating with Iran."

my work computer kept shutting down every time i attempted to open that thread, i had to go to my laptop which can handle it because it's been upgraded to the latest firefox and flash - most likely the flash embed causing the problem, but as an aside the many youtube embeds don't help the situation either

Do you have the Flashblock add-on for FireFox?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=flashblock&cat=all
You can add an icon to your top bar to turn it on and off easily, too. The last page is a big resource pig for me, but not the main page.

Sanctions won't solve Iran nuclear crisis: China
4 hours ago

BEIJING (AFP) — China said Tuesday that UN-imposed sanctions would not resolve the stalemate over Iran's nuclear programme, after the United States raised the prospect of new tough action.

"I don't think sanctions are the way out. The ultimate solution of the Iranian nuclear issue is through negotiations and dialogue," foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told reporters.

The United States warned Tehran on Monday that it faced possible new UN sanctions over its suspected nuclear programme.

"We urge Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities or face further implementation of the existing United Nations Security Council sanctions and the possibility of new sanctions," White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said.

The warning followed a new report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN's atomic watchdog, that said Iran had not frozen uranium enrichment activities as instructed by the UN.

Such activities can be a key step towards making nuclear weapons.

The IAEA noted Iran had in fact installed additional uranium-enriching centrifuges, and was testing more advanced centrifuges as well.

Obama will replace Biden in October with a woman.

the algore moment, wouldn't it be great if this worked for mcain the way it did for gore, as unfair as that was, it would be so appropriate and just to have this particular animal come back to bite the gop campaign mo's in the ass - naw, up is down, wrong is right nothing works quite as it's supposed to in this effed up world

Iran boasts its forces can control the Gulf
1 hour ago

TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran has the power to control the Gulf as no vessel can cross the vital seaway without coming in range of its sophisticated weaponry, a top aide to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday.

The sabre-rattling comments from General Rahim Yahya Safavi came a day after the International Atomic Energy Agency accused Iran of stalling its investigation into the country's nuclear drive.

"Responsibility for defending the Persian Gulf has been handed over to the naval forces of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps," Safavi was quoted as saying by the official news agency IRNA.

Their missiles can cover the entire width of the Gulf and "no ship can cross it without being within range," the former commander-in-chief of the Guards told IRNA.

"Our armed forces with their defence equipment including missile, air, naval and torpedo capabilities are able to control the Strait of Hormuz."

"I did not have sex with that woman...."

Israel 'will attack Iran' before new US president sworn in, John Bolton predicts

John Bolton, the former American ambassador to the United Nations, has predicted that Israel could attack Iran after the November presidential election but before George W Bush's successor is sworn in.

By Toby Harnden in Washington
Last Updated: 9:50AM BST 24 Jun 2008

Bolton: 'the argument for military action is sooner rather than later' Photo: PA
The Arab world would be "pleased" by Israeli strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities, he said in an interview with The Daily Telegraph.

"It [the reaction] will be positive privately. I think there'll be public denunciations but no action," he said.

Mr Bolton, an unflinching hawk who proposes military action to stop Iran developing nuclear weapons, bemoaned what he sees as a lack of will by the Bush administration to itself contemplate military strikes.

"It's clear that the administration has essentially given up that possibility," he said. "I don't think it's serious any more. If you had asked me a year ago I would have said I thought it was a real possibility. I just don't think it's in the cards."

Israel, however, still had a determination to prevent a nuclear Iran, he argued. The "optimal window" for strikes would be between the November 4 election and the inauguration on January 20, 2009.

"The Israelis have one eye on the calendar because of the pace at which the Iranians are proceeding both to develop their nuclear weapons capability and to do things like increase their defences by buying new Russian anti-aircraft systems and further harden the nuclear installations .

"They're also obviously looking at the American election calendar. My judgement is they would not want to do anything before our election because there's no telling what impact it could have on the election."

asshole

Let's go with the LIAR and COPYCAT sell out candidacy of McStupid/Barbie '08

Because Honesty is just so overrated......

U.S. Approves Bunker-Buster Bombs to Israel

Sunday, September 14, 2008 7:03 PM

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The Pentagon has approved the sale of 1,000 bunker-busting smart bombs to Israel, a deal worth $77 million.

According to Haaretz.com, the bombs could be used to penetrate heavily fortified targets, such as suspected nuclear sites located in underground bunkers.

The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), the Pentagon department responsible for evaluating foreign military sales, notified Congress over the weekend about the pending sale. Congress now has 30 days to voice its objections.

If the sale goes through, Israel will get other weapons as well. A DSCA news release states that "Israel has requested a possible sale of 1,000 GBU-39 Small Diameter Bombs (SDB1), 150 BRU-61/A SDB1 Mounting Carriages, 30 Guided Test Vehicles, 2 BRU-61/A SDB Instrumented Carriages, 7 Jettison Test Vehicles, 1 Separation Test Vehicle, 2 Reliability and Assessment Vehicles, 12 Common Munitions BIT and Reprogramming Equipment with Test Equipment and Adapters, 3 SDB1 Weapons Simulators, and 2 Load Crew Trainers. Also includes containers, flight test integration, spare and repair parts, support equipment, personnel training and equipment, publications and technical data, U.S. Government and contractor engineering and logistics personnel services, and other related elements of logistics support. The estimated cost is $77 million

James
new
Submitted by Cat Chew on Tue, 09/16/2008 - 12:15pm.

Do you have the Flashblock add-on for FireFox?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=flashblock&cat=all

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all flash - cpu use went to zero

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Jamesbennett

With the Iran war coming before January, I would like to hear how Obama plans to wins that war.

Behold the Lord thy Gods,
the McLying McChristian Duo!

McCrock saith:
"We art all Georgians"

McIgnorant McPalin saith:
"The Russian invasion of Georgia twas UNPROVOKED"

Would that mean America would have to go to war with Russia on behalf of Georgia in any new conflict, asked Gibson. "Perhaps so," saith McPalin.

Whoops, them without McJesusian faith now having doubts.
The West Begins to Doubt Georgian Leader,
mickey McSakashitli
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,578273,00.html

Let Faith rule over Facts that Almighty God may always be on our side..
For Ignorance and gullibiility art the greatest christian virtues above all others

National Organization For Women Endorses Obama

Rarely does the National Organization For Women endorse a presidential candidate. On Tuesday, the group announced it is endorsing Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

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"I did not have sex with that woman...."

I didn't realize Bill Clinton was running for president again. Thanks for the update, Mambo. You're on the ball today!

Iran Stages War Games to Test Air Defenses

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran staged air defense exercises on Monday and said anyone attacking the Islamic Republic would regret it.

Dozens of aircraft took part in the maneuvers, in which an imaginary enemy would attack Iran's air defenses. The air force drill was staged in half of Iran's 30 provinces.

Iran has said neither the United States nor the Israeli forces are in a position to strike but has vowed to strike back at Israel and US interests and shipping if attacked.

Military analysts say Iran's real ability to respond could be with more asymmetric tactics than a missile salvo.

The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) Commander Brigadier General Ahmad Miqani said the exercise was staged to increase military readiness.

Iran is estimated to have over 300 combat aircraft, including Russian-made MiG 29 aircraft.

Miqani informed reporters at a press conference that all of the Iranian Air Force's antiaircraft units were taking part in the drill, and that the dozens of planes and jets taking part in the drill are "breaking in new equipment, trying out new strategies and doing what needs to be done to increase readiness".

"If Iran is attacked, it will deliver a crushing blow to the enemy…we will surprise the enemy and make them regret they attacked," Miqani said.

I like these rules committee votes.
(a vote on the rules committee resolution enacts the energy bill resolution.)

Maneuvers the rethug obstructionists out of the ball park.

ha.

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this is how impeachment could be debated and voted on (after the ejection [hahaha sic i.e. election ]) in one day and sent to the senate for trial.

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Jamesbennett

Do your stocks go up the more Death, War, and Chaos occur on the planet....

The thought of WAR WITH IRAN seems to be erotically pleasurable for you......

Do you know how unbelievably stupid that makes you look??????

Spending $300,000,000 every day on contracts to support operations in Iraq is
the #1 Reason Our Country Cannot Service It's Debt....

that money is REAL, and we are borrowing to pay for it....

And My GOD! He's a WHITE GUY! What's happening to the world?!

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Continuing his year long effort to reach out to Indies, Barack scheduled a visit to a remote location of Colorado and we, in turn, received a response that campaigns dream about.

Grand Junction, Colorado is located in GOP stronghold, Mesa county, which four years ago, delivered 67% of it’s vote to Shrub.

There are only 20,000 registered Democrats is the ENTIRE county.

It’s also an overlooked part of the map. In fact, it's not any political map. No, really.

Not one presidential candidate has visited Grand Junction, since Harry Truman's train stopped to refuel in 1948.

Think about that. Not a single visit, by anyone, in 60 years.

Therefore, it was a surprise, to say the very least, when people began lining up for tickets this past SATURDAY morning at 5:30 AM!

The line eventual stretched SEVEN BLOCKS !!!

So what happened? Well, yesterday, Barack was greeted by thunderous, overflowing crowd of 6,000.

6,000!!!

Once again, there are only 20,000 registered Democrats in the area and it was a Monday.

Meanwhile, McSame was campaigning to a base strong-hold Jacksonville, Florida (Bush 57% of the vote in ’04) and he could only find 3,500 suckers.

Barack finished the day with another full-house rally, drawing 14,000 in Pueblo.

And capping off what seemed like a perfect day, McSame cried and whined like punk that Barack is being mean to him.

OH! How we’re getting under McSame’s skin.

Pics and more... :)

So now Obama's gotta go out there and get the NAGs, and that's really going to work, that's falling right into our hands. This is a rope-a-dope times two, to bring the NAGs out there to campaign against Sarah Palin. Hillary, they want Hillary to come to Florida on Monday. It says here, Obama was "dispatching Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to Florida on Monday and bolstering his plan to deploy female surrogates--" i.e., NAGs, "--to battleground states." By the way, NAGs for those of you new, National Association of Gals. Don't misunderstand. We're not making any other comment. We just think the National Organization for Women is bogus. They're not an organization for women. How many members they got now, 125,000? They never have had more than 250,000, they never have spoken for the whole female population, nor has Oprah. So I just call them the NAGs, National Association of Gals. So Obama is going to dispatch Hillary. Nobody dispatches Hillary. Hillary is sitting in Chappaqua looking at the security cameras, the spy cameras, see where Bill's been, all of a sudden gets a phone call from the Obama campaign, "We're dispatching you to Florida." "I'm not going to Florida, there's a hurricane coming in down there and I'm not going to be it."

September 15, 2008
LINK
Posted: 12:54 PM ET

(CNN) — McCain's comments came hours after Lehman Brothers — the 158-year-old Wall Street giant — filed for bankruptcy protection and 94 year-old Merrill Lynch sold itself to Bank of America. Both developments sent shockwaves through Wall Street and have dominated the talk on the campaign trail.

McCain's comments seemed out-of-sync with a television ad the Arizona senator released earlier Monday morning declaring the economy in "crisis," a sign his campaign may be struggling over exactly how to respond to the woes on Wall Street.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/15/obamas-teleprompter-hits...

September 15, 2008

(CNN) — It appears Barack Obama's teleprompter is hitting the campaign trail.

The Democratic presidential nominee has never tried to hide the fact he delivers speeches off the device, though normally he doesn't use one at standard campaign rallies and town hall events.

But the Illinois senator used a teleprompter at both his Colorado events Monday — making for a particularly peculiar scene in Pueblo, where the prompter was set up in the middle of what is normally a rodeo ring.

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You can fight the Iran War now with conventional weapons.

Or you can fight a Nuclear War with Iran in a few years.

Which do you think Obama will pick?

Do you think Obama will wait for a strike on Washington?

OBAMA: Iran is a major threat. Now, I don't think that there is a — the same — they are not part of the same network. You've got Shia, and you've got Sunni. We've got to have the ability to distinguish between these groups, because, for example, the war in Iraq is a good example, where I believe the administration lumped together Saddam Hussein, a terrible guy, with Al Qaeda, which had nothing to do with Saddam Hussein.

O'REILLY: We'll get to that.

OBAMA: And as a consequence, we ended up, I think, misdirecting our resources. So they're all part of various terrorist networks that we have to shut down and we have to destroy, but they may not all be part and parcel of the same ideology.

O'REILLY: But I still don't understand — and I'm asking this as an American as well as a journalist — how threatening you feel Iran is? Look, if Iran gets a nuclear weapon, OK, to me, they're going to give it to Hezbollah if they can develop the technology. Why not? And they'll say, "Well, we didn't have anything to do with it."

So therefore, the next president of the United States is going to have to make a decision about Iran, whether to stop them militarily, because I don't believe — if diplomacy works, fine, but you've got to have a Plan B, and a lot of people say, "Look, Barack Obama is not going to attack Iran."

OBAMA: Here's where you and I agree. It is unacceptable for Iran to possess a nuclear weapon. It would be a game changer, and I've said that repeatedly. I've also said I would never take a military option off the table.

O'REILLY: But would you prepare for one?

OBAMA: Well, listen...

O'REILLY: That's the question though, senator. Anybody can say option. Would you prepare for it?

OBAMA: Look, it is not appropriate for somebody who is one of two people who can be the president of the United States to start tipping their hand in terms of what their plans might be with respect to Iran. It's sufficient to say I would not take the military option off the table and that I will never hesitate to use our military force in order to protect the homeland and United States' interests.

The race for Pennsylvania’s 21 Electoral College votes is tied.

The latest Fox News/Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state finds Barack Obama and John McCain each attracting 47% of the vote (demographic crosstabs available for Premium Members). Eighty-three percent (83%) of Obama voters are certain they will vote for him and not change their mind before Election Day. An identical percentage of McCain voters say the same thing.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2...

looks like messiah has a dogfight on his hands....hope he handles it better than he handled O'Reilly interview last week....he got bullied by Bill....it was nice!!!

The refining capacity shortfall due to Ike and the continuing drop in the price of a barrel of oil is interesting.

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Jamesbennett

They will replace John McCain for "health reasons" in October. LOL!

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Seems like the McCain campaign's claim that McCain invented the Blackberry isn't really going over that well. You can practically hear the snickering in the articles. Here's AP, which, for the most part, has been hyper-supportive of McCain:

Move over, Al Gore. You may lay claim to the Internet, but John McCain helped create the BlackBerry.

McCain has acknowledged that he doesn't know how to use a computer and can't send e-mail, one of the BlackBerry's prime functions.

McCain's top aide held the device in his hands and told reporters that the Blackberry is the McCain miracle. Part of the miracle is that McCain doesn't really know what the Blackberry is or does. But, he created it anyway.

Btw... Research in Motion, the maker of the Blackberry, is a Canadian company.

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a nation of whiners we are.....

http://www.videosift.com/video/Maher-Garafelo-Rushdie-destroy-Funds-defe...

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Jamesbennett

That's really disgusting.

Israel Ponders "Special Action" Against Iranian President Ahmadinejad's Deadly Threats

Joseph Grieboski September 15th 2008

Cutting Edge Foreign News Editor

Joseph Grieboski

An Israeli special operations hero, Rafi Eitan, currently Minister of Pensioner Affairs but nonethelsss a member of Israeli’s inner cabinet of ministers with security responsibilities, suggested to German magazine Der Spiegel that Israel could capture Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over threats he has made against Israel.

Eitan is no stranger to such operations. In a daring 1960 mission, Eitan and his team went to Argentina to kidnap Adolf Eichmann—the lynchpin of the “Final Solution”—and take him to Israel where he was tried and found guilty of atrocious crimes against the Jewish people during WWII. Eitan said he was expressing his personal opinion in raising the abduction option.

BBC reports Eitan as arguing that the Iranian leader had threatened genocide and should therefore be brought for trial to The Hague, the seat of the international war crimes tribunal.

"And all options are open in terms of how he should be brought," he was quoted as saying on Tuesday by the Associated Press news agency. When asked if kidnapping was acceptable, Eitan replied: "Yes. Any way to bring him for trial in The Hague is a possibility." Eitan refused to backtrack on his statements, saying they were not the result of a slip of the tongue.

"Kidnapping enemy leaders is a legitimate method used by states to combat threats to their existence," Eitan said. "A man like Ahmadinejad who threats the existence of the state of Israel and is preparing for it, is worthy of being brought before the international court in The Hague, even if it is by means of abduction. Abductions still occur. It is a fact that the Americans do it all the time when they kidnap Al-Qaida operatives in Iraq quietly and without any fanfare and bring them to trial."

Have a groovy day, maaaaan.... :)

Happe Talk

among many other things.
http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/

that was a quick turnaround, what is it today, the 16th?

and found this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBGd4PxXOSM&feature=related

But the channels on which I usually watch real time either have the vids taken down or the channel taken down completely. (That was a an especially good one: heartofdrakn [no typo]). Something's definitely rotten over there.

It will be interesting to go back later to check that channel and see if it's Viacom related or repug related.

"KEEP YOUR JOHNSON IN YOUR LEVIS."

How ironic is that?

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/09/the-irony-in-sarah-pal...

You can fight the Iran War now....
1st: What makes you think a war with Iran is inevitable? They have not made any act of war against us to date and I have no doubt they won't in the future, with or without a nuclear weapon. We have way more than they could hope to have anytime soon. We're not at war with India or Israel and they both have nuclear weapons-and are NOT signatories of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, btw.
2nd: Another middle east conflict, or conflagration would be more like it, would have disastrous effects for the majority of the world's population. ONly a very small minority would stand to benefit-and neither you or I are part of that minority.
3rd: your posts of the panel of former secretaries of state, the foreign policy wealth of our country in a way, led me to believe that you were seeing the light on IRan-they ALL agree that conflict is not the way-negotiation is. Try to figure out what IRan wants and meet on some common ground. That is the way adults converse and avoid fisticuffs. Why do you want to act like a child and have a war? Wise up. The minority who think they will benefit from a conflict with Iran, ie. those who will economically gain by forcing Iran to play nice or taking control of her resources and geopolitical position, (think oil, gas, Persian gulf) are playing you like a kazoo. I could go on....

The five -- Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright, Warren Christopher, James Baker and Henry Kissinger -- all said they favored talking to Iran as part of a strategy to stop Tehran's development of a nuclear weapons program.

"Frankly the military options here are very poor. We don't want to go down that route," said Christopher, who worked for former President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997.

Powell, who worked for Bush from 2001 to 2005, said U.S. officials in Bush's first term had held low-level talks with the Iranians until 2003 "and then it was stopped."

"I agree with Madeleine, and I suspect my other colleagues, that we should try to talk to them," Powell said during a forum hosted by The George Washington University and taped for broadcast on CNN.

Therapy!

I'll miss the show again.

Oh Well, story of my life.

Later!

Thanks for the heads up CC :)

http://www.wikihow.com/Take-High-Dynamic-Range-Photographs

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Jamesbennett

one big torrent has the torrent of last friday's show! the whole show - I do recommend it - you'll have to download some type of bit torrent software if you don't have it already

http://www.onebigtorrent.org/

i would expect alice to be familiar with this site, no? lots of anarchist stuff, it used to be called chomsky torrents before it changed its name to onebigtorrent

Iran want a Nuclear Weapon and an intercontinental missile with which to deliever their weapon.

That goal ties in with the fact that Iran is the number one sponsor of terrorism in the world is why...

Obama, Bush, Kerry, McCain, Palin, Israel, Europe, Nato have all said Iran will NOT be allowed to have Nuclear Weapons.

Europe has been using words for years in trying to talk Iran down.

All have failed.

We all know what comes next.

thanks : )

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Jamesbennett

McStupid/Barbie '08

the warm home of celticman/papers/warpig/McStupidVoter.....

Dude !

That huge pic of McNuts is making me ill..

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

Campaign chant:

Out of touch, full of shit, senile, or just unfit?!
Out of touch, full of shit, senile, or just unfit?!
Out of touch, full of shit, senile, or just unfit?!
Out of touch, full of shit, senile, or just unfit?!

At least three people have been killed in Mexico after a series of explosions ripped through a crowd of revellers celebrating the country's independence day.

Fifty people were also wounded in the blasts, the government confirmed on Tuesday, a day after the explosions disrupted celebrations in the western city of Morelia.

Mexico's El Universal daily newspaper reported that the explosions could have been caused by grenades.

"There are three dead and 50 injured, nine of them very seriously," said Leonel Godoy, the Michoacan state governor who was leading the street celebrations when the blast went off.

Morelia is the capital of Michoacan, a state increasingly hit by drug-gang violence in recent years.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/09/200891610018124347.ht...

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Making It Up As We Go Along®

Detroit Free Press:

"Several municipal clerks across the state are reporting fraudulent and duplicate voter registration applications, most of them from a nationwide community activist group working to help low- and moderate-income families.

The majority of the problem applications are coming from the group ACORN, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which has a large voter registration program among its many social service programs. ACORN's Michigan branch, based in Detroit, has enrolled 200,000 voters statewide in recent months, mostly with the use of paid, part-time employees.

"There appears to be a sizeable number of duplicate and fraudulent applications," said Kelly Chesney, spokeswoman for the Michigan Secretary of State's Office. "And it appears to be widespread."

Chesney said her office has had discussions with ACORN officials after local clerks reported the questionable applications to the state. Chesney said some of the applications are duplicates and some appear to be names that have been made up. The Secretary of State's Office has turned over several of the applications to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

The U.S. Attorney's Office on Friday declined to confirm whether an investigation was taking place.

In recent years, ACORN's voter registration programs have come under investigation in Ohio, Colorado, Missouri and Washington, with some employees convicted of voter fraud.

ACORN officials said they were looking into the problem.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008809140383

``This isn't 9/11,'' Obama said. ``We know how we got into this mess. What we need now is leadership that gets us out. I'll provide it. John McCain won't.''
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7802399

It is the central charge against the Bush White House, that the administration lied its way into a war in Iraq.

For years, left-wing pundits and groups like MoveOn.org beat the drums with this accusation. The White House response: We were just acting on the same intelligence everyone else had -- evidence, which turned out to be faulty, that Iraq's Saddam Hussein was harboring weapons of mass destruction.

Now comes Dick Armey, once House Majority Leader, who described a classified one-on-one briefing in the vice president's hideaway office in the U.S. Capitol where he says Vice President Dick Cheney went beyond that into outright deception.

According to a new book on Cheney called "Angler," by Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman, Armey, a Texas Republican, had spoken out against the war. Cheney was trying to change his mind. So the vice president told him the threat from Iraq was actually "more imminent than we want to portray to the public at large."

The POWER OF THE PURSE refers to the constitutional power given Congress to raise and spend money.

Republicans controlled Congress under Clinton.

Democrats controlled Congress under everyone but Clinton and Bush II.

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/ebf425277b

From Wikipedia:

US Debt from 1940 on. Red lines indicate the public debt and black lines indicate the gross debt, the difference being that the gross debt includes funds held by the government (i.e. the Social Security Trust Fund). The second chart shows debt as a percentage of U.S. GDP or dollar value of economic production per year. Data from the FY 2009 U.S. Budget historical table

(cue scary music)

(deep VoiceOver): McCain says he wants to start an all-out war with Iran. And with our brave soldiers already feeling the strain of Iraq and Afghanistan, what is HIS PLAN?

Reinstate the Draft. The Draft? Really? Yep, that what he says.

Because all families should be supporting the preemptive wars... with their young sons and daughters.

Well, can our economy afford another war? How can we pay for this?

Easy, we decrease the tax burden on weapons manufacturers and the oil industry, and let the Free-Market take care of itself, like it always does.

(happy VoiceOver): I'm John McCain, and I approve this message.

hurts my heart

Happe Talk

you graph still shows debt rises during times with a (R) president...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/14/karl-rove-mccains-ads-hav_n_126...

i really think that inside, it's just what he would do, but he's lying publically because he thinks people are stupid enough to believe it when he tries to seem "kinder and gentler..."

I'm stunned... seriously. McCain campaign spokeswoman Carly (anyone who criticizes Palin is a sexist) Fiorina actually made that assertion this morning on St. Louis's KTRS Radio.

Personal Treason Soils John McCain
By Richard Cohen

I am one of the journalists accused over the years of being in the tank for McCain. Guilty. Those doing the accusing usually attributed my feelings to McCain being accessible. This is the journalist-as-puppy school of thought: Give us a treat and we will leap into a politician's lap.

McCain has soiled all that. His opportunistic and irresponsible choice of Sarah Palin as his political heir -- the person to whom he would leave the country -- is a form of personal treason, a betrayal of all he once stood for. Palin, no matter what her other attributes, is shockingly unprepared to become president. McCain knows that. He means to win, which is all right; he means to win at all costs, which is not.

But Joy Behar knew better. And so McCain lied about his lying and maybe thinks that if he wins the election, he can -- as he did in South Carolina -- renounce who he was and what he did and resume his old persona. It won't work. Karl Marx got one thing right -- what he said about history repeating itself. Once is tragedy, a second time is farce. John McCain is both
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/mccain_tries_to_win_at...

seems like all the activists are gearing up !

Melina has the info on Michael Moores new free movie!

http://www.ripcoco.com/

a phrase i don't use casually

http://www.funnyordie.com/vid
new
Submitted by 08Obama08 on Tue, 09/16/2008 - 2:02pm

Come watch the trailer for the new Michael Moore movie entitled "Slacker Uprising". You will be able to download the entire movie for free on September 23rd if you sign up!

http://slackeruprising.com

Submitted by mambo on Tue, 09/16/2008 - 2:13pm.

Just what's needed after 30 years of Reaganism.

Yesterday, some idiot at the New York Joke blamed Obama for keeping our troops in Iraq. Today, the McCain campaign figured that this lie was as good as any, so they jumped on it, too. If you were dumb enough to be a Republican yesterday, you could actually feel the earth move under your feet.

Judging by the hooting and feces-throwing on the right, they're ready to just blame the continued occupation of Iraq on Obama, and that means ...

... the American right wing just gave up on Iraq.

...

Yeshua ben Joseph on a jack 'o lantern, the American right has gotten to be about as dumb as two bulls fucking.

I guess the joke here is that the right wing knows its readers are too stupid to remember anything from three months ago, when Obama was talking about this in public, so now they can pretend it's a conspiracy. But the biggest joke, a joke even bigger than the New York Joke itself, is that the right is now saying it's Obama, not Bush, who's keeping our troops in Iraq.

Here is what La Jornada says (in Spanish)

http://tinyurl.com/69jwmp

Death toll is now at 8 and wounded at 101 (some commenters say 102).

Governor of Tabasco says he and unnamed other state governors got threats about similar things happening in their states at "Grito" celebrations.

Several of the commentaries below the story are wondering why people weren't warned and more precautions weren't taken. They think the federal gov't will use the attack to jack up security measures in ways that won't be helpful but will look good to US gov't.

I'm not sure I understand the next-to-last paragraph. Fernando? Anybody?:

"En tanto, para no entorpecer las labores de auxilio, los más de mil 400 trabajadores de la Secretaría de Salud estatal liberaron las instalaciones de cinco hospitales de Morelia que mantenían tomados desde hace cinco días en demanda de basificación."

great clips - I LOVE when JG said -

"THAT IS TOTAL BULLSHIT!"

:) she so rules...

Feds holds rates.

Palin-Hannity Chat Bumped One Day
McCain campaign reschedules Sarah Palin's interview with Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity for Wednesday in Youngstown, Ohio.

By B&C Staff -- Broadcasting & Cable, 9/15/2008 11:52:00 PM
The campaign of Republlican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) rescheduled vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin's interview with Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity.

Originally scheduled to take place Tuesday in Cincinnati, the sitdown was bumped to Wednesday. Hannity will interview the Alaska governor in Youngstown, Ohio. Palin and John McCain are campaigning in the battleground state.

The interview will air in two parts, Wednesday and Thursday, on Hannity & Colmes from 9 p.m.-10 p.m.

...

What ever happened to that little Cindy person.

Remember when she was going to lead us out of Iraq?

Funny how wrong she turned out to be.

That's why we need McCain as President.

He alone stood for victory in Iraq.

And by God he won his victory!

...

Our side got rather excited yesterday at the InstaFlipFlop yesterday from McCain, in which he channeled the ghost of Herbert Hoover and revealed just how closely he and his butt-buddy George W. Bush share the Vulcan mindmeld that is Republicanspeak.

"The fundamentals of our economy are strong," he said.

Of course later he rather clumsily retracted that statement, which attracted most of the light and heat. There's a juicy ad waiting to be made, reminiscent of a certain senator in a certain wetsuit, windsurfing this way and then that.

But the real money quote is what he said next.

WE WILL NEVER PUT AMERICA IN THIS POSITION AGAIN.

That's all you need. There it is, right there. If the Obama campaign has been seeking McCain's "I was for it before I was against it," there it is.

McCain Adviser: Palin Not Qualified To Run Major Company

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

Fiorina Ups the Ante
Defending her remarks that Sarah Palin is not qualified to run a Fortune 500 company, former HP CEO Carly Fiorina says she doesn't think John McCain (or Obama or Biden) could run a major corporation either.

Video soon ...

--David Kurtz

Gotta go!

Later

>>"I did not have sex with that woman...."

Mambo, you're the last one I'd suspect of having sex with a woman...

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BUSH DIDN'T WIN EITHER ELECTION!!! Janeane Garofalo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0LfzBETb4Q

JANEANE GAROFALO having a moment of brilliance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eeMl0APsN0

McCain Economic Plan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVE72Ae82Tw

and you thought they were gonna serve the little doggies, nah

got it from the dailykos website

Me neither. Sarah on Fox or Fox on Sarah is parody on parody.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/17/world/middleeast/17iraq.html

and i thought there were a bunch of you here clamoring for jeanine garofalo on bill maher, you can get the whole episode at onebigtorrent.org

you would think america fancies herself the new rome! ah!

Sam: Fix the misspelled word (should be panicking) @ http://www.samsedershow.com/YKCam. It looks like something you would find at Little
Green Footballs.

http://www.samsedershow.com/YKCam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDccnCq74iY&NR=1

Lift that sack, tote that bale...(sounds of whip cracking overhead)

Back story on yesterday's bombing in "Mission Accomplished" occupation:
35 Killed in Bombings, 73 Wounded;
In Baladruz, in Diyala Province east of Baghdad, a female suicide bomber attacked a homecoming party for an Iraqi soldier just released from nearly a year of detention in a US prison in Iraq. The bombing killed 22 persons and wounded 33. The returning prisoner, Ahmad Shukri al-Tamimi, appears to have been a Shiite who was accused of fighting for Iran-backed militias. Likely he was killed by a Sunni group such as the Islamic State of Iraq or the 1920 Revolution Brigades. The bombing killed a number of high-ranking police officers in Baladruz,who were at the party. A lot of police in Diyala are Shiite because the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq led by Abdul Aziz al-Hakim won the provincial elections there in January, 2005. Diyala is though to actually have a Sunni majority.
http://www.juancole.com/

How are they in the same room, right next to each other~~and Sam is still really loud? Love em anyway

haven't you heard we are the remaining superpower - Empire rules...

They finally put Randi back on my local station so at least I can have that at work. (I mean...compared to Kuby...c'mon!)

I wondered because yesterday morning they were streaming KPHX over the air and it really made me do a double take when realized I was in my car.

Sorry to interrupt.

Wished I'd known John McLiar was involved.

Global Crossing Tossed More Cash Around Town Than Enron

Global Crossing, founded in 1997 by Gary Winnick, a former junk-bond salesman and associate of Michael Milken, contributed $2.9 million to candidates and political parties during the 2000 election, up from just $34,000 in 1998, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics (CRP). That made Global Crossing, based in Beverly Hills and Bermuda, the fifth-highest donor among communications companies--ahead of WorldCom and BellSouth. Global even topped Enron's $2.4 million in such donations for 2000. "They came out of nowhere and papered the town with money," says Larry Makinson, executive director of CRP.

Here's the beef:
Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) got $31,000. In 1999, on behalf of Global Crossing, McCain asked the Federal Communications Commission to encourage the development of undersea telecom cables.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_06/c3769068.htm

That's not change you can believe in.

OK Sam you have two weeks. Bring back Dewey, probably not daily but say weekly or on an irregular but frequent basis. Maron I want to second the call last week for a return of Svetlana, one of the best recurring bits from your previous show, I think you it was funnier than most of the bits w/Jim Earl.

us a "RIM" job.

(Geek joke)

I have heard others say the Rethugs will take a loss this election, let Obama "get a record" during a Presidential term, and trash whatever he does to regain power.

a reality shock observer...

"Troopergate investigators"... actually, there is ONE investigator for Troopergate, a prosecutor named Branchflower, and he reports to a bipartisan investigative commission... a commission that has been working together to move towards the truth until the McCain campaign saw the need to obstruct and delay the investigation.

Re: "a role model for kids"... Are you referring to the neglectful parents, Sarah and Todd Palin, or their pregnant teen daughter?

Re: "who do you want to face down Iran?"... Simple answer... Obama, the guy who recognized the need to keep lines of communication open with our allies *and* opponents, and the guy less likely to take a swing at any Iranians sitting at the negotiating table. (As opposed to the guy who sang "Bomb, Bomb Iran", and his partner who has declared that our military is carrying out God's plan. Might not lend to reasoned dialogue.)

loose cells...

speaking rather well.

Yeah, it should be entertaining to see how weak Hannity's interview of Palin is. Could make for good SNL fodder for *this* Saturday.

watch peoples heads a roll......(Dave Mustaine)

Nothing says "nothing to worry about" like your accountant calling to say, "nothing to worry about"...

of the campaign is in the first 3 min of this video. I can't watch it without laughing.

discussing the demise of humanity

"Actually the cause was quite simple, the extinction was caused by humanity's addiction to greed and stupidity."

Rally vs. Rally. Do the Math.

"I’ve been asked a couple times for comparative images of the Pro-Palin rally and the Anti-Palin rallies. So, here they are."

See Photos:

http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/rally-vs-rally-do-the-math/

This station makes no sense. I don't think anyone who works there actually ever listens to it. It's just a computer doing what it wants.

Has Maron been working out or has he started wearing women tees? Great to hear you guys and excited for the new show!

that's why they called it...........that.

Way I figure it the new show will start Oct 2? What a terrific birthday gift -2 ME-and everyone else of course!

FWIW. Doesn't really live up to its title.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/the-battle-plan_b_126856.html

The GOP Has NO Shame !

By STEVE QUINN, Associated Press Writer

JUNEAU, Alaska - Five Republican state lawmakers filed suit Tuesday to end the bipartisan investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's firing of the public safety commissioner even though the vice presidential candidate once said she welcomed the probe into allegations of abuse of power.

The lawsuit called the investigation "unlawful, biased, partial and partisan." None of the lawmakers who filed the suit in Anchorage Superior Court serves on the bipartisan Legislative Council that unanimously approved the investigation.

The scandal known as "Troopergate" gained national attention after Republican presidential candidate John McCain chose Palin as his running mate. Since then, Palin and the McCain campaign have sought to distance Palin from the controversy and have taken actions that could slow its resolution until after the November election.

Con't

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

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/3785#comment-256801

Today John McCain hit the morning talk show circuit and bragged:

The point is, I was chairman of the commerce committee. Every part of America's economy, I oversighted. I have a long record, certainly far more extensive of being involved in our economy than Senator Obama does.

Seriously, this is something that John McCain wants to take "credit" for? I say, let him.

Submitted by mambo on Tue, 09/16/2008 - 2:13pm.

Good to know there are older farts than me, you numb-head McCarthy-ite, or maybe you just have an idiotically ancient outmoded idea:
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/welch-mccarthy.html

You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?

I reckon you don't.

I apologize if your intent is parody, but there is a wee problem with the anti-russkis now and too many folks are taking these things deadly seriously. Also, We are not amused!

Queen Chew

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