Open

can you negotiate a constant road-trip for Marc until he meets his next wife?

Happe Talk

...I knew something was missing from today.

Happe Talk

Here is my point about the taxes . The middle class has been holding the burden. If someone making say 2 million a year pays 38% rather than 30% or less they will still be rich and have an easy time of it.

You and I pay 30-35 and it is a true burden. You could not even turn your heat up last winter because of how tight things were for you. It is like this for hundreds of millions of middle class americans.

The extra money brought in from the wealthy, who have only gotten much wealthier under the last 30 years of republican rule(including Clinton) can go to help people who really struggle and do the best they can under the circumstances like you. Remember this is for people who make over 250,000 per year, net.

It is patriotic for the wealthy to carry a little more of the burden. It is democratic for the burden to be shared so that the middle class can look forward to sending their kids to college, get free medical care (or at least reasonable) and can own their homes by the time they are 65. They should be able to have a pension that enables the to rest in comfort after all their long years of hard work, rather than having to move in with their kids. And they should be able to draw social security.

Happe Talk

Happe Talk

On todays show there was a video clip where
Marc Visited the Meteor Crator in Arizona.

I was there in 1996.

Also in 1999 I traveled through that area

Picts Here
http://pws.prserv.net/jmach1p/1999RoadTrip/1999-08-14/1999-08-14.html

I'm fucking addicted to these things!

Your friend needs to see the ANP vid below...

They hide an estimated $100 billion a year from the IRS, but now the U.S. Senate is turning up the heat on offshore tax havens. The man who ratted out some of these tax dodgers now lives in hiding and has a $10 million bounty on his head. This is a story straight out of our new Gilded Age -- one of billionaires, foreign bankers, corruption, secrecy and, of course, greed.

Super Rich Tax Cheats
</bluerootsradio>

Liberal radio host Ed Schultz storms off Fox & Friends
David Edwards and Muriel Kane

Liberal talk radio host Ed Schultz voted with his feet on Friday morning and walked away in the middle of a broadcast of Fox and Friends rather than continue being interrupted and mocked by conservative Steve Malzberg.

The discussion was civil until a question was asked about "Joe the Plumber." Malzberg led off, insisting that even though the actual Joe Wurzelbacher would do far better under Obama's tax plans, the real point is that raising taxes on the wealthy to give relief to the middle class removes any incentive for people to get rich. "That's Marxism, my friend," he proclaimed.

Schultz began to reply that his own sons own a construction firm and that "we really like the Obama plan. We're going to get some tax credits that we wouldn't get under the McCain..."

At that point, Malzberg interrupted to ask, "Do you make more than 250 Ed? Does it make more than 250?"

"You know, Steve, I didn't interrupt you," Schultz replied. As Malzberg continued trying to talk over him, he objected, "This happens every time I go on the air with you. You always torpedo everybody."

"Oh, stop complaining," sneered Malzberg.

A few moments later, as host Brian Kilmeade tried to talk over both of them with another question, Schultz, who was on his own set and not in the Fox studio, got up and walked away from the camera.

The Fox hosts were stunned. "What, did he leave?" asked Kilmeade.

"Wow," added Gretchen Carlson.

"How sensitive do you have to be?" said Kilmeade. "One line and he storms out."

"It was a decent question because he says he's going to get tax credits," Malzberg insisted. He then sneered, "It must be a pretty rotten business."

"I think he just wants to be on YouTube," Carlson concluded.

This video is from Fox's Fox & Friends, broadcast October 17, 2008.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Ed_Schultz_storms_off_Fox__1017.html

..Social Security

</bluerootsradio>

is a total dumb ass piece of sh*t!

..I'm passing it over to the midnight shift.

</bluerootsradio>
G'nite
G'luck
G'bloggin'

I still think: Nooner Punks Palin with Plumber is the best one I've had all week and I'm not ashamed to admit it! ;-)

Low turnout for 'Joe the plumber' protesters
David Edwards and Andrew McLemore

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Low_turnout_for_Joe_plumber_protesters_101...

Just how many politically-active plumbers are there?

Judging by the low turnout of Friday's plunger-waving protest, there are at least five.

After Ohio plumber Joe Wurzelbacher became a hot topic during the final presidential debate Wednesday, several supporters of Sen. John McCain's campaign protested a visit to Roanoke, Virg., by Democratic opponent Barack Obama.

The activists held signs that read "I am Joe the plumber" and "It doesn't take a plumber to know Obama's taxes stink!"

"Don't tax the American dream!" one protester said.

In Wednesday's debate, McCain used Wurzelbacher as an example of the Americans he claims will be aided by his tax plan. The two candidates spoke directly to "Joe the plumber," turning him into a symbol for the ordinary guy chasing the American dream.

"Joe wants to buy the business that he's been in for all these years," McCain said. "Worked 10, 12 hours a day. And he wanted to buy the business, but he looked at your tax plan and he saw that he was going to pay much higher taxes."

Obama shot back with his own fantasy dialogue with Joe.

"What I essentially said to him was, five years ago, when you were in the position to buy your business, you needed a tax cut then," Obama said.
"And what I want to do is to make sure that the plumber, the nurse, the firefighter, the teacher, the young entrepreneur who doesn't yet have money, I want to give them a tax break now."

After his name was mentioned 26 times in the final debate, the real-life Joe Wurzelbacher has become a pipe-fixing sensation, holding a press conference in front of his home Thursday and scheduling appearances on every major television network.

so I'm just going to put it in open mic.

I've got a stack of DVD's
to catch up on this weekend.

"3 Days of the Condor" (Sam recomended this one
on the 9/11/2008 seder v maron show.),

"Slacker UpRising" ( arrived in the mail 9 days ago ).,

and "Woodstock 99"

Happe Talk

who want's a copy of Flynt's Nailin Palin?

LOL! From a commenter at Pharyngula, a blog from Bachmann's district

"Is guanophrenia a word? Can we make it one? Because she is flat-out batshit insane.

Our Local Horror

Getting sleepy, plus I work tomorrow.

Later

Happe Talk

great bloggin 60th!!

Happe Talk

My search engine just dragged me to this page...

which I noticed is linked here.

http://www.liberaloasis.com/

I finally got to watch a MaronVSeder and I thought it was great. The teenager is at the Friday night football game and I don't usually get the computer this long. I'm glad they've got the kinks out, it used to be hard to listen to their homemade show. Annette, Liberal Oasis has a lot of great links. I use Sam's links everyday because I trust him to send me to the best.

I live NW of Tucson and have been keeping a McCain v Obama bumpersticker count. Until recently I saw very few McCain ones, a good sign. Unfortunately there are more now but the Obama count leads. Oh yes, the McCain ones are almost always on SUVs. I just hope the cost of their gas is hurting them.

Well I just heard on the radio- John McCain has asked Joe the Plumber to campaign with him.

Now we are going to see a real Nuremberg Rally.

Great farewell letter from Lahde...

...
On the issue of the U.S. Government, I would like to make a modest proposal. First, I point out the obvious flaws, whereby legislation was repeatedly brought forth to Congress over the past eight years, which would have reigned in the predatory lending practices of now mostly defunct institutions. These institutions regularly filled the coffers of both parties in return for voting down all of this legislation designed to protect the common citizen. This is an outrage, yet no one seems to know or care about it.
...

George Soros, a man of staggering wealth, has stated that he would like to be remembered as a philosopher. My suggestion is that this great man start and sponsor a forum for great minds to come together to create a new system of government that truly represents the common man's interest, while at the same time creating rewards great enough to attract the best and brightest minds to serve in government roles without having to rely on corruption to further their interests or lifestyles. This forum could be similar to the one used to create the operating system, Linux, which competes with Microsoft's near monopoly.
...
Lastly, while I still have an audience, I would like to bring attention to an alternative food and energy source. You won't see it included in BP's, "Feel good. We are working on sustainable solutions," television commercials, nor is it mentioned in ADM's similar commercials. But hemp has been used for at least 5,000 years for cloth and food, as well as just about everything that is produced from petroleum products. Hemp is not marijuana and vice versa. Hemp is the male plant and it grows like a weed, hence the slang term.

more

Not even shooting. Even blanks. Just waiting in this room. Hey! an Omni Magazine! --

The original - from Jonathan Swift, who won the 1728 Pimp My WIg contest. (This is obscenely apt in these dogged days of the declining sun.) Just putting up the link to save space:

http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html

see i dont know if i am wanted here or not
i dont know if i should go or stay
i am one rude mutha and yourll are not
i think i should leave

as much as it might hurt me but i think i should coz i am getting so many mixed messages
as a matter of fact am not getting any at all
i have to go to a place where i can deal with me and mine

i am non of yourll genius'
and yourll think i kid
see why i come thru so rude its because i am looking for answers and no one seems to have them for me

i always search that is just who i am

i cannot be someone else

i am confused and dont understand
and no-one seems to steer me in to the right direction so i continue
and if they do, they do it wrong...confuse me further..so i continue
i dont know if i should or should not so i fight for answers

i mean no real harm

i LOVE pleasing every one and never ME!!!
that is just who i am

and here i am getting awfully confused
never before but now am!!

but i am learning now!
i have to let go
i feel really abused at times here

till i go completley insane and learn to defend me

but what am i defending myself from here?
and why?
why am i fighting here?
is there a reason?
there has to be one
i know one thing i am not insane

there has to be a reason

NOW YOU TELL ME WHY?

that is exactly why

go ahead that is what i would love to do to myself most time
but just cannot get myself to do it

ME have and LOVE them to die for
not like that though

NON OF YOURLL ARE MY FATHER

LETS GET THAT STRAIGHT RIGHT OFF THE BACK

send in the clowns

thought i would help you out there
i misspoke earlier
kew velly velly mush

that is what i do
decide for me
and i have too

coz yourll would love for me to leave
i see that
so go i will

oh but did i tell yourll i am looking for a new apartment

yourll can have all the electrical appliances

i will be ok...ordered me a welcome dover

yup hard me again
i apologize off the back
not meaning to offend

i loved you loving my laughter
i was mad that day nothing made sense
now when i think back i thought you were cute

take your cap off sometimes

i going no where

anyway

I heard this report on All Things Considered tonight

West Virginia Voters Wrestle With Race, Rumors

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95837817

Resident Paul Hardesty calls Logan "small town America" in central Appalachia. The townspeople are still talking about the time John F. Kennedy visited in 1960.

"This is a very strong Democrat part of the state," Hardesty says. "Our ratio here is 10-to-1, Democrat to Republican, among registered voters. People were thrilled to see Hillary when she came."

If you go to the WCPT 820 AM website, you'll see a You Tube video of Batman & the Penguin that is related to the Presidential campaign.

I'd post the link but my internet connection is down & I can't copy & paste on my phone.

Sorry for the inconvenience ...

Submitted by SEDER on Fri, 10/17/2008 - 10:26pm.

This reminds me of why I couldn't get a film permit the other day.... Seder somehow sees all and knows all...

www.sigzone.blogspot.com

"Eliminate capital gains taxes for small businesses, cut corporate taxes for firms that invest and create jobs in the United States, and provide tax credits to reduce the cost of healthcare and to reward investments in innovation."

"Families making more than $250,000 will pay either the same or lower tax rates than they paid in the 1990s. XXXXX will ask the wealthiest 2% of families to give back a portion of the tax cuts they have received over the past eight years to ensure we are restoring fairness and returning to fiscal responsibility. But no family will pay higher tax rates than they would have paid in the 1990s. In fact, dividend rates would be 39 percent lower than what President Bush proposed in his 2001 tax cut."

"XXXXX’s plan will cut taxes overall, reducing revenues to below the levels that prevailed under Ronald Reagan (less than 18.2 percent of GDP).iii The XXXX tax plan is a net tax cut – his tax relief for middle class families is larger than the revenue raised by his tax changes for families over $250,000. Coupled with his commitment to cut unnecessary spending, XXXX will pay for this tax relief while bringing down the budget deficit."

"Keeping Good Jobs in America"

"America’s producers can compete successfully in the international arena – as long as they have a level playing field. Today’s tax code is tilted against them, with one of the highest corporate tax rates of all developed countries. That not only hurts American investors, managers, and the U.S. balance of trade; it also sends American jobs overseas. We support a major reduction in the corporate tax rate so that American companies stay competitive with their foreign counterparts and American jobs can remain in this country."

"Small Business: the Engine of Job Growth"

"Eight years ago, when XXXXX controlled the Executive Branch, small business faced a hostile regulatory agenda, from OSHA’s ergonomics standards and attempts to intrude into the homes of telecommuting employees to IRS discrimination against independent contractors. XXXXX turned back those threats, along with much of the onerous taxation that limited the growth of small businesses. We reduced their marginal tax rates, quadrupled the limit on their expensing of investments, and phased out the death tax on family owned small businesses and family farms. We enacted Health Savings Accounts to help small business owners secure health insurance for themselves and their employees. All those gains are jeopardized if XXXXX gain unfettered power once again."

"Our tax reduction and tax simplification agenda will allow businesses to focus on producing and selling their products and services – not on paying taxes."

Ummm...wait just a second here...

Can you tell where Obamas statements end and the republican parties statements begin?

Isn't Obama giving the republicans exactly what they've wanted all these years?...With nearly identical language...WTF Chuck?

For those that need them...

http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/taxes/Factsheet_Tax_Plan_FINAL.pdf

http://www.gop.com/2008Platform/Economy.htm

by Rob Kall Page 1 of 1 page(s)
www.opednews.com

Joe the plumber talks like your average right wing libertarian. He doesn't want to pay his way.

Joe talks like corporate polluters have historically acted-- avoiding paying for the damage they've done by dumping or spewing.

Joe wants to have it easier than his father did--to pay less of the freight than his dad. Joe's father lived during the time when Franklin Roosevelt's taxes were in place, the same taxes that Dwight Eisenhower felt were appropriate. Back then, if a rich person earned more than a certain amount, he or she paid taxes of 90% on the amount above the limit. Now, that number might be $10 or $10 million dollars a year. So, if you earned $20 million, you'd pay the maximum now, about 35%, on the first ten million, then, on the amount over $10 million, you'd pay 90%. Poor Joe, paying all that tax on that fat paycheck. It's what the wealthy of your father's generation and grandfather's generation did-- you know, when the middle class was treated decently.

You say, Joe, that not paying taxes is the American way. No, that's the weasel talk of right wing enemies of middle class-- wealthy people, big corporations and their surrogates... and dupes like you. I'm talking about right wingers like Joe Scarborough, who likes to pretend he's a moderate, or who, like right winger Lou Dobbs, tries to hide behind the libertarian label. Scarborough suggests that Obama's tax will prevent Joe from starting or running that business Joe wants to start, that it will keep Joe from providing jobs to potential employees. What a pile of crap. Joe can start that business and even get extra tax breaks for hiring American, and he's not penalized.

If Joe takes a salary out of the business of more than $250,000, then he'll pay more. Of course, if Joe's small business does pay him that much, he'll be in the upper two percent of small businesses. Now, let's say there is a higher tax and it makes Joe reconsider crossing that $250,000 threshold. What else can Joe do with the money? Invest in the business in new services? Expand marketing? Hire more employees? The other side of the decision helps the economy. Oooh, that sound so un-American, so socialist, as Joe accused.

Sorry Joe. You want to talk about socialism, point the finger at Henry Paulson's bailout and investment at gift rates to bankers. Paulson gave them such a good deal that the Banks that cut deals with Gordon Brown and are now complaining and talking about rebelling.

No, Joe, you're not a typical American. You're a leech who wants to beat the rest of the hard-working Americans who worked hard to build a country where you can make a good living. You're a parasite who's bought the message of the Newt Gingrich- Ronald Reagan right wingers who have worked hard to destroy the US government one regulation, one agency at a time.

And let's talk a bit more about WHY you should pay more if you're making more.

When you earn more, through your small business, you USE more of the USA's resources-- the business-friendly laws, the school system that educated your employees, the roads that your trucks travel upon, without hitting ruts and holes, like businesses in other countries have to deal with. These add up. And then there's that thing your father and grandfather did-- whether they paid higher taxes or not-- they lived and worked in a system that charged higher taxes to those at the high income end-- they paid into the system to help raise the rest of the people in the system. What an Unamerican idea!

What we don't know about you, Joe, is if you just don't get it, that part of being a patriot is paying your share and not ripping the nation off, or if you've drank enough of the toxic right wing koolaid, spewed by right wing talk radio and the likes of other false patriots, like Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Bill Kristol and the right wing echo chamber, to be an ideologue like them.

No, if you take my line of thinking one step further, if you're not a patriot, what does that make you, besides a parasitic leech? Sorry if I'm running this rant aimed at you, Joe, but you were referred to in the debate because you're a modern archetype for right wing libertarian parasitic leeches-- and everything I'm saying about YOU is true for millions of other parasitic leeches who would let people die rather than support the universal health care that every other first world nation provides.

</bluerootsradio>

"Barack Obama and Joe Biden support plans to increase the size of the Army by 65,000 soldiers and the Marines by 27,000 troops"

Because we just can't have enough military ever!

"Integrate Military and Civilian Efforts: An Obama-Biden administration will build up the capacity of each non-Pentagon agency to deploy personnel and area experts where they are needed, to help move soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines out of civilian roles."

Can you say "Blackwater"...."Halliburton"...I knew you could

The problem isn't just with the abuses that these companies engaged in but in the inherent inefficiency of private contractors doing military jobs...

"Support High-Quality Schools and Close Low-Performing Charter Schools: Barack Obama and Joe Biden will double funding for the Federal Charter School Program to support the creation of more successful charter schools. An Obama-Biden administration will provide this expanded charter school funding only to states that improve accountability for charter schools, allow for interventions in struggling charter schools and have a clear process for closing down chronically underperforming charter schools. An Obama-Biden administration will also prioritize supporting states that help the most successful charter schools to expand to serve more students."

Here we go again..."Charter schools = privatized schools"...When schools are run for profit then they are more likely to have profit as their prime motivator and not the quality the students education in much the same way that private contractors doing military jobs will...and throwing more money into "oversight" to keep it clean....you're paying twice what you only need to pay for once.

"The Problem: Iran has sought nuclear weapons, supports militias inside Iraq and terror across the region, and its leaders threaten Israel and deny the Holocaust. But Obama and Biden believe that we have not exhausted our non-military options in confronting this threat; in many ways, we have yet to try them. That's why Obama stood up to the Bush administration's warnings of war, just like he stood up to the war in Iraq."

Start out with a false premise and get a false solution...

These may seem like small things to give up for all else that Obama plans to do but beyond giving up ground on these republican holy calves they point to a thought process that disturbs me...How is it possible to NOT see the fatal flaws in these statements when you're demonstratably as intelligent as Obama has shown himself to be?

I see it not as a lack of intelligence but as either not caring about the end results enough that it makes this "buyoff" for hardcore republicans in an effort to gain power an even trade or as intending the end results themselves. In either case it's disturbing.

Our schools used to work BEFORE privatization...Return to what worked...

Our military budget is a huge drag on our economy and our ability to help our own citizens...They obviously aren't much of a deterrent for those that want to do us harm and seem best able to some small form of revenge for our bruised egos even though it costs us more lives...Throwing good after bad is never wise...

You can spend your money building the biggest fence or can invite your neighbors to the barbecue...Which do you suppose provides the most defense? A neighbor that is going to protect his access to your barbecue or a fence that the bad guys can hide behind while they rob you?

Blindly accepting TV level propoganda while you're a Senator is well a blindspot that can and will be exploited by those that seek to use our military to do their dirty work for them...

Here the fence is preconceptions fed to us by yet another neighbor that builds the biggest fences in the entire neighborhood and driven further by the guy that sells fences...

Stop playing and stop being played....Throw a party and invite everyone in the neighborhood...

...by DEMS...thus HE COULD BARELY BLINK without being attacked by the republicans. Does One forget? It was the BLAME of MANY a DEM that ALLOWED this -- for "some" DEMS, as usual, VOTED poorly. (eye-roll)
And I was a DEM for decades, until now.
I am around for a bit longer, as I close down home. *poof*
Ahhhhhh Harpo Marx and his harp. Grand.

Lahde Quits Hedge Funds, Thanks `Idiots' for Success
Submitted by Alice on Sat, 10/18/2008 - 12:38am.
Great farewell letter from Lahde...
*******

Very interesting & telling !

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

its not getting a lot of press but hedge funds are failing left and right. in england they are estimating that only 1 in 4 will survive.

what this really means is that those lucky few that got above 250K a year and gambled on increasing their wealth are losing it all. these are people that are at the top of their corporate or other game and its surprising that you don't hear them howling. maybe the shock of failure hasn't set in yet.

if you don't subscribe to it already, you might enjoy:

The Big Picture

it mixes a lot of humor with factual reporting / blogging on financial and markets

Many of us refuse to allow the mistakes of the past to be remade. One thing Democrats have historically in their favor is that when there are monumental problems and Democrats have majorities in both houses and the President is strong, great things can be done.

Those days may soon be upon us.

</bluerootsradio>

What's on your ballot?

.

one can only hope. its hard to remember that your objective was to drain the swamp when you're surrounded by alligators.

the media and papers in southwest ohio are simply depressing. obama was here a week ago and got scant coverage. palin was here yesterday and got full front page coverage along with numerous articles. sheesh.

..of whether or not you live in one of the patriotic parts of Amercia. Lucky you!

I want to see someone who has the talent juxtaposition a McCain/Palin rally with one by their unofficial hero Adolph. The McCain/Palin crowds are growing exponentially more fascist everyday and are starting to sound like the mobs of Germany to my ear.

</bluerootsradio>

The hate is spreading.

Several families in Villa Park, Il, who had Obama signs in thier yard, were sent threatening letters that they should remove the signs or they would be killed. The families with children are really freightened and won't go out of their homes.

The local police and the FBI have been investigating these letters.

Just now on local news.

Rep. Lewis was right and he need not appologize to McCain. In fact, McCain is the one that needs to appologize for stiring up an already unstable base and the crazy fringe.

See the girl with the flag pin on
She can sling hate speech all night long
All Right, baby what'd I say
Whoa, all Right, it's the Republican way

See the dude with the squinty eye
Stand at the podium spewin' lies
All Right, baby what'd I say
Whoa, all Right, it's the Republican way

</bluerootsradio>

have happened, that we are not hearing about, throughout
the United States?

Palin was in Indiana yesterday. I'm wondering what will happen there after Palin's visit?

One of those people who received a death threat is a 74 y/o woman.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-villa_park_signoct17,0,1501...

The psychos are definitely coming out of the woodwork since McCrusty started with the crypto-fascist bullshit.

Yesterday, I posted a video of Rep. Michelle Bachmann's insane rant on MSNBC. It was one of the most bizarre and disturbing performances I've seen this year. When I linked to the ActBlue page of her opponent, Elwyn Tinklenberg, his total raised was under $4,000. But, across the progressive blogosphere, there was a visceral reaction to Bachmann. This morning, Tinklenberg's ActBlue page has raised over $100,000.

http://www.americablog.com/2008/10/saturday-morning-open-thread_18.html

Financial analyst fired for criticizing greed
Chris in Paris · 10/18/2008 03:45:00 AM ET · Link
Make a comment · reddit · FARK · Digg It! · Stumble It!

Silly guy. Doesn't he know that the financial industry needs more Gordon Gekkos and fewer analysts with common sense and honesty? Telling the truth will never get you anywhere in this industry so it's a good thing they fired him.
Han Sang-choon, deputy head of Mirae Asset Investment Education Institute, said investors ignored warnings over the past few months that trouble lay ahead for stocks and held on to funds thinking a big pay day was just around the corner.

"I reckon people haven't cashed in their funds because of personal greed and expectations (of profits)," he told an investor, according to quotes from the Friday TV show that appeared widely in South Korean media.

Even though Seoul shares ended down 2.73 percent on Friday for their lowest close since late October 2005, brokerage Mirae Asset did not like the investment advice.

"Therefore, we decided to sack our deputy head, Han Sang-choon, who gave individual views out of line with our institute's original purpose, and caused concern to investors," Kang Chang-hee, the head of the company's research institute said in a written statement.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081017/od_nm/us_korea_greed;_ylt=Aj_M96eOQY...

I hadn't checked for more info on that news story yet.

Top McCain/Palin scare tactics off with what Michelle Bachmann's remarks yesterday and it seems, to me anyway, that this is more of a plan than just outcomes from speeches at a rally.

Hate?

Is that what you call opposition to Obama's Redistribution Plans.

Did you think Obama would get a free pass?

Did Bush?

If Obama wins, he will be in for the roughest 4 years of his life.

Two wars, failed economy, no cash, and long list of bullshit promises he made with no way to fulfill them.

Obama will go into office with 50% of the voters against him.

Can you say turn about?

Everyone has the right to post whatever they want within reason but what the hell are those early morning hate Obama tirades from someone that can only post as a "Nobody".

Sounds like someone favoring a communist dictatorship which is no better than right wing fascism.

It's paying your fair share.

Quit being a fucking leech.

If you don't want to shoulder the burden then go somewhere else.

Bush redistributed it all to his base you fucking moron with his tax cuts. The rich are now gilded in gold because of the REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH.

It's the some old shit. Privatize profits and socialize losses.

BLOW ME you punk ass bastard!

Super-rich Tax Cheats

McInsaneVoter/BushLover in FACT it was W. Bush who continually lied and bullshitted the american people about everything. The failures of lost wars & the failed economy are the W. Bush legacy.

FACTS show that Obama was right and you were dead wrong on everything.

Case Closed...

How the Bush Recession Could End the Iraq War

By TONY KARON Tony Karon – Fri Oct 17, 2008

John McCain has made a point throughout his campaign of pooh-poohing Barack Obama's promise to withdraw all U.S. combat forces from Iraq within 16 months of assuming office. McCain has steadfastly refused to set a withdrawal date, suggesting that to do so would be defeatist and vowing instead to bring the troops back when they've won. During Wednesday's debate, McCain saw progress in the fact that U.S. and Iraqi negotiators are close to reaching a Status of Forces agreement governing the future presence of U.S. troops there. But the agreement they're reportedly close to concluding does, in fact, set a withdrawal date: At the insistence of the Iraqis, it requires that all U.S. forces leave Iraq by the end of 2011. The schedule may be longer than Obama's, but the Iraqis appear to have walked the Bush Administration back to accept the principle of setting a departure date. The plan reportedly also requires U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraq's cities by next summer, and removes their right to continue the practice of open-ended detention of Iraqi citizens...

STORY CONTINUES:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20081017/wl_time/howtherecessioncouldendthe...

-

US court puts gray wolves
back on endangered list

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Gray wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains of the United States returned to the endangered species list Tuesday, thanks to a court victory by environmental groups over the US government.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/usenvironmentwildlifewolves;_ylt=AmgduT8dewZ...

mmr
Submitted by dan on Sat, 10/18/2008 - 8:02am.
if you don't subscribe to it already, you might enjoy:

The Big Picture
*******
I need all the help I can get when it comes to financials..
For the life of me,it puts me to sleep..
But,that Site you recommended has some humor there,so that should help alot..

I just didn't get my Dad's math & financial genes..
He was Mr.MBA and loved investing & markets..But,not much patience to teach us less financially aware..

But,I can book ya a trip to Philly or load your bags !
Ah....Use to be able to..No Mas..On the Government Dole.. ;)

Thanks again,Dan.. :)

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

Your Congress just invested Trillions of dollars into Capitalism.

It sure looks like we are going to stick with our economic system.

And what does that mean to the average Joe the Plumber?

It means ya gotta work.

Get a job and support your family.

Get an education.

Speak English.

Take care of yourself without looking to government.

You know - The American Way.

The standard for the world!

US court puts gray wolves back on endangered list
________________________________________________

What?

This means that Sarah Palin won't be able to hunt them from the air.

The burdens they put on hunting now days.

Will The Wolf Survive?

- Los Lobos -

So much for any reason or logic from the moronic troll.

McInsaneVoter/Bush Lover is a leech & doesn't work.

-

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows Barack Obama attracting 50% of the vote while John McCain earns 45%. These figures reflect a remarkably stable race in which Obama has enjoyed a four-to-eight point advantage for twenty-three straight days. McCain has not been up by even a single point in over a month (see trends).

Obama is viewed favorably by 55%, McCain by 53%. Those figures include 40% with a Very Favorable opinion of Obama and 30% with a Very Unfavorable opinion of him. For McCain, the comparable numbers are 23% Very Favorable and 24% Very Unfavorable.

Forty-four percent (44%) of voters are certain they will vote for Obama and not change their mind. Forty percent (40%) say the same about McCain. Thirteen percent (13%) have a preference for once candidate or the other but still say they might change their mind.

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

Free Democracy

Media Matters: Loose ends
by Jamison Foser

Finally, for the first time this year, a prominent media figure asked John McCain about his relationship with G. Gordon Liddy last night.

The lack of media attention to the Liddy-McCain relationship is one of the clearest double standards in recent political history. McCain and the news media have devoted an extraordinary amount of attention to Barack Obama's ties to Bill Ayers, yet until last night, McCain hadn't been asked a single question* about his ties to Liddy, a convicted felon who has instructed his listeners on how best to shoot law-enforcement agents. Liddy has held a fundraiser for McCain at his home and describes the Arizona senator as an "old friend"; McCain has said he is "proud" of Liddy.

Imagine for a moment that Barack Obama had said he was "proud" of an "old friend" who urged people to shoot law-enforcement agents in the head. Do you think maybe he would have been asked a question or three about it? Do you think maybe there would have been more than the occasional passing mention in the news of the relationship? Of course there would have been.

Yet McCain hasn't been questioned about Liddy. The media have largely ignored the relationship, even while working themselves into a frenzy about Obama and Ayers. McCain's relationship with Liddy is obviously newsworthy in its own right, but coupled with his attacks on Obama over Ayers, it's a textbook case of hypocrisy -- exactly the sort of thing that political reporters supposedly drool over. But not when it's John McCain. When it's John McCain, the nation's leading news organizations band together in what is, in effect, a blackout of information that could be damaging to their longtime favorite.

Until last night, when McCain was finally asked, point-blank, about his relationship to Liddy and the similarities between that relationship and the Obama-Ayers relationship he has attacked so harshly.

Who finally asked the question? The New York Times? The Washington Post? CNN's "best political team on television"?

Nope.

David Letterman asked McCain about Liddy, putting the nation's journalists to shame in the process.

For years, political professionals, academics, and media watchdogs have lamented the fact that some Americans get their news from late-night comedians and other entertainment. As it turns out, that might be a good thing.

Unfortunately, after Letterman broke the media's embargo on questioning McCain's relationship with Liddy, reporters quickly pretended it never happened -- or, if they did mention it, downplayed the significance of the relationship. Time's Mark Halperin described Letterman "hound[ing]" McCain over his Ayers attacks, adding, "The late-night host doesn't let up on where the former Weather Underground leader fits into the campaign." But, inexplicably, Halperin didn't so much as mention that Letterman confronted McCain about his relationship with Liddy. Several news reports that did mention the Liddy exchange described him as a Watergate felon -- omitting Liddy's much more recent statements about shooting law enforcement personnel.

But the worst was MSNBC. This morning, the cable channel played a clip of McCain on Letterman -- but not the Liddy exchange. Then, immediately after the clip, MSNBC anchor Tamron Hall referenced the McCain attacks on Ayers. At no point did Hall mention Liddy.

More here:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200810170018?newsref=www.eschatonblog.com

New evidence shows Carter didn't fuck up Iran, it was Nixon, Ford and Rumsfeld

LA TIMES

BEIRUT -- A new report based on previously classified documents suggests that the Nixon and Ford administrations created conditions that helped destabilize Iran in the late 1970s and contributed to the country's Islamic Revolution.

A trove of transcripts, memos and other correspondence show sharp differences over rising oil prices developing between the Republican administrations and Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi in the mid-1970s, says a report to be published today in the fall issue of Middle East Journal, an academic journal published by the Washington-based Middle East Institute, a think tank.

The report, after two years of research by scholar Andrew Scott Cooper, zeros in on the role of White House policymakers -- including Donald H. Rumsfeld, then a top aide to President Ford -- hoping to roll back oil prices and curb the shah's ambitions, despite warnings by then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger that such a move might precipitate the rise of a "radical regime" in Iran.

"The shah is a tough, mean guy. But he is our real friend," Kissinger warned Ford, who was considering options to press the monarch into lowering oil prices, in an August 1974 conversation cited by the report. "We can't tackle him without breaking him."

Analysts and historians often contend that President Carter, a Democrat, fumbled Iran, allowing the country to eventually become one of the chief U.S. opponents in the region. But the report suggests that his Republican predecessors not only contributed to the shah's fall but also were inching toward a realignment with Saudi Arabia as the key U.S. ally in the Persian Gulf.

The examination of pre- revolutionary Iran has special relevance today. Cooper said Iran's economic situation just before the revolution resembled its current state, this time with big-spending President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad banking on high oil prices to sustain his power.........

Recent Revelations Suggest There Are No Adequate Safeguards In Place To Protect Innocent Americans From Invasive Surveillance.

*The ACLU FOIA requests ask the NSA and the Justice Department to produce:

• Any and all legal memoranda, procedures, policies, directives, practices, guidance or guidelines created between 1993 and the present pertaining to the acquisition, processing, analysis, retention, storage or dissemination of Americans' communications – whether targeted for interception or incidentally intercepted – during the course of NSA surveillance activities conducted inside or outside the United States; and

• Any and all records created between September 2001 and the present concerning complaints about, investigations of, or disciplinary actions related to the NSA's monitoring of U.S. communications.

Con't-ACLU

Surveilance Gone Amok(ACLU)

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

Submitted by maggiesboy on Sat, 10/18/2008 - 9:40am.
...It's paying your fair share...
------
The local radio call-in show made me seethe once again. My tolerance for stupidity is gone.

The subject was public education and taxes to support it. I freely admit that the ad valorem tax (the "property tax" which was a portion of the discussion) is a flawed method of funding schools. I also believe that the local school board system of school oversight is flawed because the school board members tend to be rank amateurs with goofy personal agendas to promote.

That said, following is the statement I often hear that drives me nuts: "Only the people who benefit from the use the schools should be taxed for the schools."

An educated society is of benefit to everyone. The purpose behind educating a child is not limited to enriching the life of the child (and the eventual adult). The purpose behind educating a child is to bring the kid up to speed to enter an educated society. An educated society moves forward by riding on its collective knowledge.

The citizens who do not currently have kids in the public education system are benefiting from the public education system. In fact, we all benefit from the public education system that existed, and was funded, before we were born.

Most of my education was in a private school. My parents paid their share for public education but chose to tax themselves further by sending their kids to private schools.

I have no children but I pay taxes to educate the children of others. I disagree with various details of the method of taxation and I disagree with the unqualified citizens who often find themselves sitting on school boards.

I do not disagree with paying my share for public education. The advantages to society resultant from public education were extant when I was born and the advantages should continue after I am dead.

Perhaps, someday, all graduates of the public education system will be skilled in critical thinking. Then we won't have idiots calling in to radio shows with small-minded and unsupportable opinions.

First, Philadelphia talk radio host Michael Smerconish:

On his talk show on WPHT today, conservative Philadelphian Michael Smerconish endorsed Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.

Smerconish did so by reading a couple paragraphs from his pending op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

"I've decided," he said. "My conclusion comes after reading the candidates' memoirs and campaign platforms, attending both party conventions, interviewing both men multiple times, and watching all primary and general election debates.

"John McCain is an honorable man who has served his country well. But he will not get my vote. For the first time since registering as a Republican 28 years ago, I'm voting for a Democrat for president.

"I may have been an appointee in the George H.W. Bush administration, and master of ceremonies for George W. Bush in 2004, but last Saturday I stood amidst the crowd at an Obama event in North Philadelphia," says the Republican.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/17/conservative-talk-radio-h_n_135...

Happe Talk

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban oil officials said on Thursday that Cuba may have more than 20 billion barrels of recoverable oil in its offshore fields, more than twice the maximum estimate of the U.S. Geological Survey.

Such a large oil find would likely make Cuba an oil exporter and bring prosperity to the communist-run island that now imports half its energy needs. Officials said they hoped to drill the first production wells next year.

Kansas will play Oklahoma today. Missouri will play Texas tonight.

Will Annette gloat? Will Bait gloat? Will both gloat?

...or will we shut the fuck up and wait for next season?

Quit being a fucking leech.
Submitted by McCainVoter on Sat, 10/18/2008 - 10:07am
**
But,First Take Your Head Out Of Your Ass !

I'll trade Chronic Pain & taking about 15 pills aday for my Old Job Any day..

Your Just a little Pathetic,Narcissistic,Masturbating,Troll Cartoon !

Go play in the freeway !

Be sure to log off of ManCoulter.com & Pigboy.com first !

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

Sorry Crank But,

Hook Em Horns ! Go Longhorns ! :)

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

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/18/late-night-jokes-of-the-w_n_135...

Happe Talk

Submitted by MMRules on Sat, 10/18/2008 - 10:42am.
Sorry Crank But,
Hook Em Horns
------
Supporting Texas is unpatriotic. Why do you hate America?

Happe Talk

ABC NEWS

Embattled Republican Sen. Susan Collins is calling on Sen. John McCain to stop paying for automated phone calls which describe Sen. Barack Obama as having "worked closely" with "domestic terrorist Bill Ayers."

"These kind of tactics have no place in Maine politics," said Collins spokesman Kevin Kelley. "Sen. Collins urges the McCain campaign to stop these calls immediately."

Contacted on Friday by ABC News, the McCain campaign would not say if it was going to heed the request of Collins who serves as his campaign's co-chair in Maine.

"Obviously, Sen. McCain has great respect for Sen. Collins. But beyond that," said McCain spokesman Brian Rogers, "we don't have any comment."

Ayers is the former leader of the Weather Underground. To protest the Vietnam War, his organization ran a domestic bombing campaign which resulted in fatalities.

Obama, who was 8 years old at the time, has repudiated those acts as "despicable." Friday's statement from the Collins campaign came after Maine's Democratic Party issued a press release earlier in the day challenging the Republican incumbent to denounce what it called "blatantly false phone calls personally attacking" Obama.

Collins' Democratic opponent was not satisfied.

"If she truly feels that strongly about it," said Carol Andrews, communications director to Democratic Rep. Tom Allen, "she should resign as co-chair of McCain's campaign in Maine."

Here is the script of the McCain-RNC robo call about Bill Ayers, which Collins criticized on Friday: "Hello. I'm calling for John McCain and the RNC because you need to know that Barack Obama has worked closely with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, whose organization bombed the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, a judge's home and killed Americans. And Democrats will enact an extreme leftist agenda if they take control of Washington. Barack Obama and his Democratic allies lack the judgment to lead our country. This call was paid for by McCain-Palin 2008 and the Republican National Committee at 202-863-8500."

Politico has the audio HERE.

The Collins criticism of McCain's robo call was first reported by Jessica Alaimo of Politicker-Maine and later confirmed by ABC News.

Wait a minute!

WTH? I never heard him say anything about fund managers making half a billion a year and we would ALL benefit. I think those who made the most out of the artificially inflated bubble should pay the most. Maybe its because he's a Repuglycan and only believes in money focused at the very top.

Fairness my ass. The wealthiest have it the easiest and use our infrastructures the most.

When we go to work, who benefits by using the public roads? Business does. If that's not true then we need to reset all of the wealth and make employment illegal. I promise, the individual will do fine but the wealthiest will show precisely how invalid they truly are. Absent employment, the upper crust would have to depend on the charity of others.

YA!!! I'm John McCain And I approve this dream

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday showed Barack Obama ahead 50% to McCain’s 46%. The two candidates were even among men and Obama leads by eight points among women.

A rough estimate assuming equal numbers of male and female voters: Obama’s entire lead comes from the “gender gap.” Even when Democrats lose, their share of female voters has been consistently higher than their share of male voters. Republicans have consistently done much better among men. The fact that both parties share the male vote evenly at this point is a very bad sign for Republicans.

http://mensnewsdaily.com/2008/10/18/mccain-palin-losing-the-gender-gap-w...

Anther failed Socialist System.

Obama Continues to Lead in the National Polls

With seven new national polls released yesterday, Barack Obama continues to lead John McCain in all of them, with the average lead being 6.3%
- Battleground (Obama +4)
- Diageo (Obama +10)
- Gallup expanded (Obama +6)
- IBD (Obama +5)
- Rasmussen (Obama +4)
- Research 2000 (Obama +10)
- Zogby (Obama +5)

http://www.electoral-vote.com/

and you can add 2 or3 for cell phone users

Study of Cell-Only Households

Close to a third of all 18-24 year olds do not have a landline. Pollsters are seriously beginning to be concerned that their presidential preference (Obama by a landslide) is being undercounted. Mark Blumental wrote a column in the National Journal looking at this issue and concluded that Obama's strength is probably being underestimated by 2-3% as a result of this effect.

Happe Talk

Happe Talk

Subtract the 6% Obama Over-poll/Underperformance demonstrated in the Primary and you can see how important the next 17 days will be.

Cuba says may have 20 billion barrels of oil offshore
Submitted by Kevin © on Sat, 10/18/2008 - 10:35am.
*******
Or,Knowing those Moron's they will pull out the Old Bay of Pigs Invasion plans !

Where's Rumy & Wolfowitz ?

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

American teacher's want Obama

After reading through questionnaires and interviewing the presidential contenders more than a year ago, the NEA PAC Council—made up of all state Association presidents, national officers, and heads of NEA member caucuses—developed a list of “acceptable” candidates based on their commitment to public education.

Obama was one of many to respond. Sen. John McCain chose not to return the Council’s questionnaire, so he did not get an interview. After a studied analysis of the acceptable candidates and their positions on everything from professional pay to No Child Left Behind, the PAC then unanimously asked the NEA’s Representative Assembly (RA) to recommend that members support Obama. The RA made the final decision by a secret ballot vote in July, when 80 percent of delegates voted in favor of Obama. The vote was well above the minimum of 58 percent required by NEA bylaws.
http://educationvotes.nea.org/news/2008/09/how-obama-became-neas-recomme...

"At least in Europe, the Socialist leaders who so admire my opponent are upfront about their objectives," McCain said in a radio address. "They use real numbers and honest language. And we should demand equal candor from Sen. Obama. Raising taxes on some in order to give checks to others is not a tax cut; it's just another government giveaway."

Yeah,from a guys who's been in Congress for what,26 years ?

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

Violence predictably follows right-wing hysteria about ACORN
By David Neiwert Friday Oct 17, 2008 4:00pm

Just as surely as night follows day, violence is being directed at ACORN offices and officials in the wake of the flood of right-wing demagoguery about its vote-gathering efforts:

An ACORN community organizer received a death threat and the liberal activist group's Boston and Seattle offices were vandalized Thursday, reflecting mounting tensions over its role in registering 1.3 million mostly poor and minority Americans to vote next month.

Attorneys for the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now were notifying the FBI and the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division of the incidents, said Brian Kettenring, a Florida-based spokesman for the group.

Republicans, including presidential candidate John McCain, have verbally attacked the group repeatedly in recent days, alleging a widespread vote-fraud scheme, although they've provided little proof. It was disclosed Thursday that the FBI is examining whether thousands of fraudulent voter-registration applications submitted by some ACORN workers were part of a systematic effort or isolated incidents.

Kettenring said that a senior ACORN staffer in Cleveland, after appearing on television this week, got an e-mail that said she "is going to have her life ended."

A female staffer in Providence, R.I., got a threatening call from someone who said words to the effect of "We know you get off work at 9," then uttered racial epithets, he said.

John McCain has played a leading role in whipping up this frenzy of hatred. In Wednesday's debate, he charged:

We need to know the full extent of Sen. Obama's relationship with ACORN, who is now on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy.

This is consistent with the hateful language being spewed from the right by the likes of Lou Dobbs, who has taken to routinely characterizing ACORN as a "radical left-wing activist group" as well as "a Democratic Party adjunct".

In fact, the hysteria's being generated across a broad spectrum of the Right, from Outer Malkinite Wingnuttia to Inside Beltway Villagers, from McCain and Palin to the frothiest freepers.

And we can see what's coming, too: We're being set up for a running yammer from the right after Obama wins questioning his legitimacy because of a supposedly "tainted" vote. Conspiracy theories and talking points from the right will circulate, driving up the temperature and feeding the right-wing populist frenzy.

And they're not even waiting until Election Day to begin.

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/violence-predictably-follows-rig...

On the other hand, there’s a lot the federal government can do for the economy. It can provide extended benefits to the unemployed, which will both help distressed families cope and put money in the hands of people likely to spend it. It can provide emergency aid to state and local governments, so that they aren’t forced into steep spending cuts that both degrade public services and destroy jobs. It can buy up mortgages (but not at face value, as John McCain has proposed) and restructure the terms to help families stay in their homes.

And this is also a good time to engage in some serious infrastructure spending, which the country badly needs in any case. The usual argument against public works as economic stimulus is that they take too long: by the time you get around to repairing that bridge and upgrading that rail line, the slump is over and the stimulus isn’t needed. Well, that argument has no force now, since the chances that this slump will be over anytime soon are virtually nil. So let’s get those projects rolling.

Will the next administration do what’s needed to deal with the economic slump? Not if Mr. McCain pulls off an upset. What we need right now is more government spending — but when Mr. McCain was asked in one of the debates how he would deal with the economic crisis, he answered: “Well, the first thing we have to do is get spending under control.”

If Barack Obama becomes president, he won’t have the same knee-jerk opposition to spending. But he will face a chorus of inside-the-Beltway types telling him that he has to be responsible, that the big deficits the government will run next year if it does the right thing are unacceptable.

He should ignore that chorus. The responsible thing, right now, is to give the economy the help it needs. Now is not the time to worry about the deficit.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/opinion/17krugman.html?em

Happe Talk

Self-Existing 1 (4-0.0.0.1)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

blue solar night ~ kin 243

PULSE in order to DREAM,
REALIZING INTUITION
seal the INPUT of ABUNDANCE
with the SOLAR tone of INTENTION.
guided by the power of SELF-GENERATION.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
◄ 12.19.15.3.15 ≈ oxlahun men ►

talk about stirring up the fear and hate...

i don't understand how you the republicans are able to convince people that earn less than 200K a year that they won't be better off under obama. what i read this morning is that mcbush is using the line of reasoning that the republicans have fucked the economy so bad that obama is lying when he tells you he's going to cut taxes.

the worst part is these morons believe him.

maybe obama needs to introduce the lottery exception to his tax plan. that would mean that if you have a once in a lifetime windfall that it would be taxed at say the average rate you've paid for the last 5 years rather than what the rich should be paying which is the pre-raygun tax rates.

the Aggie Texas Tech game starts in 30 minutes. The UT Miss. game is at 7 central.

Time to Up your Meds,Brother ! :)

Don't make me post a pic of Bevo !

Or,Missouri's won/loss record against Texas..

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

It's Football Season Dang Kumit ! :)

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

If you get that help you need, you let me know.

Maybe you can be my sponsor.

Editor of The Nation Responds to Bachman's Call for McCarthy like Investigation

I was listening to the post-debate thing again and I don't know if anyone has already addressed this but...

I don't know if McCain is actually aware of this or if he was just being stupid, but yeah, there kind of is a big autism constituency because there's been a big increase in kids getting diagnosed with ld on the autism spectrum. "They" say (infact I keep hearing it on a PSA on the "Air America" station here, but maybe it only runs locally) that it's due to there being mercury in vaccines, which there doesn't even have to be, but they make them with mercury anyhow.

Obama is aware of this. When I went to his campaign website almost a year ago, he already had a position paper on this. I was impressed. I didn't like that he emphasized increased funding for community colleges only, since autism spectrum disorders are a SPECTRUM and nobody should assume that people are going to need to be relegated to community colleges only. It would be better to make the ADA work at every level.

One thing I really liked, though, is that he came out for automatic screenings for autism spectrum when kids start school. Takes the onus off the parents and shows the committment of the school for catching this stuff early and getting the kids the help they need instead of fighting the extra expense of accommodations, etc.

Anyways, that was my long answer, based on personal experience and reading. I'm not a professional with special needs, as I know some here are...

Thanks to whoever it was that posted the link.

I am not reading above cause I have got to do this paper.

Some early W.Va. voters angry over switched votes

October 18, 2008 - At least three early voters in Jackson County had a hard time voting for candidates they want to win.

Virginia Matheney and Calvin Thomas said touch-screen machines in the county clerk's office in Ripley kept switching their votes from Democratic to Republican candidates.

"When I touched the screen for Barack Obama, the check mark moved from his box to the box indicating a vote for John McCain," said Matheney, who lives in Kenna.

When she reported the problem, she said, the poll worker in charge "responded that everything was all right. It was just that the screen was sensitive and I was touching the screen too hard. She instructed me to use only my fingernail." Even after she began using her fingernail, Matheney said, the problem persisted. . .

http://www.wvgazette.com/News/200810170676

I'll wait and use the optical scanner that has paper ballot backup!

Whale Protection Is Bolstered as Palin Objects

By WILLIAM YARDLEY
Published: October 17, 2008

The federal government on Friday placed beluga whales that live in Cook Inlet in Alaska on the endangered species list, rejecting efforts by Gov. Sarah Palin and others against increased protection.

The relatively small, whitish whales, sometimes visible from downtown Anchorage, declined by almost 50 percent in the late 1990s, and federal scientists say they have not rebounded despite a series of protections, including a halt to subsistence hunting by Alaska Natives. About 375 whales have been counted in Cook Inlet each of the last two years, according to scientists with the National Marine Fisheries Service.

...

As with the polar bear, Ms. Palin’s administration opposed the beluga listing in part because of its potential to restrict coastal and offshore oil and gas development. The beluga listing could also affect other projects, including the expansion of the Port of Anchorage and a proposed bridge over Knik Arm that would connect Anchorage to the Matanuska-Susitna Valley and Ms. Palin’s hometown, Wasilla.

“I am especially concerned,” the governor said in a written statement in August 2007, when her administration submitted documents to fight the listing, “that an unnecessary federal listing and designation of critical habitat would do serious long-term damage to the vibrant economy of the Cook Inlet area.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/18/us/18beluga.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Whats up people?

________________________________

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” –Helen Keller

Well of course he is.

Antiwar vets attacked by police outside debate

WHILE BARACK Obama and John McCain were getting makeup touchups for their Wednesday night debate at Hofstra University, in Hempstead, N.Y., police outside made sure that the voices of antiwar veterans wouldn't be heard.

Officers of the Nassau County Police Department reacted with reckless violence to a protest organized by Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) outside the debate site. Among several people injured in the assault, former Army Sgt. Nick Morgan was knocked unconscious and his cheekbone broken when he was trampled by a police horse.

LINK

I used to calibrate touchscreen machine at my old job (catalogue access in a CD store). It is tricky. If the machines are used by a lot of people at once, it can be thrown off easily. Someone who knows what they are doing has to be present to fix it.

I still can't fathom why we would put our Democracy at risk for the sake of quick "results".

________________________________

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” –Helen Keller

Tribune Editorial
Article Last Updated: 10/17/2008 08:06:04 PM MDT

The next U.S. president will lead a nation that remains embroiled in two wars and is beset by an economic meltdown more severe than any since the Great Depression.
By necessity, the country's next commander in chief must also be its mender in chief, capable of inspiring his angry and divided constituents to join together in a recovery project to restore the peace, prosperity, and self-confidence we once knew.
We fear that a lesser effort may be insufficient to reverse America's slide toward economic, political and societal chaos. The times require dramatic and comprehensive change.
The presidential candidates know it, and have made it their mantra.
Most Americans know it, and, in growing numbers, are demanding it.
The countries that have long depended upon the United States for enlightened global leadership long for it.
For the sake of all, and for those who follow us, we must have it.
The editorial board of The Salt Lake Tribune believes that Barack Obama can deliver it.

snip

Indeed, we see too many of Bush's failed policies in McCain's recipe for recovery. The country desperately needs a new and well-defined road map for the 21st century and leadership that can unite the country behind it.
We believe that Barack Obama can give us both.

http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_10750163

But voting problems are all the more reason to vote early. If you wait, there is no time to fix any problems and you are screwed.

________________________________

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” –Helen Keller

Sunday, October 19, 2008

The 44th president of the United States will take office in an uncertain and dangerous time for this country. The challenges we face both overseas and here at home are complex and unfamiliar, and the road ahead is likely to be very different from the road we have traveled to get here.

Leading the country in such a time will require someone of intellect, creativity, honesty and passion for those traits that have made America great. That person is U.S. Sen. Barack Obama.

In the past eight years, the policies and ideologies that have animated the Bush administration have proved disastrous in almost every field of endeavor, from foreign policy to economics to relatively straightforward tasks such as responding to natural disasters. As a consequence, President Bush’s approval rating is as low as or lower than that of any other president in the history of polling.

snip

The contrast with the campaign run by Barack Obama could not be more stark. More than a year ago, when he was still a long shot without much money, Obama somehow managed to attract a staff talented and disciplined enough to defeat Hillary Clinton and the Clinton machine in the Democratic primaries. It has since gone on to demonstrate a great deal of political discipline, skill and innovation, running a 21st century campaign that appeals to 21st century America.

Different challenges require different strengths. Obama has demonstrated a calm, thoughtful leadership style that fits this time and this challenge well. He has laid out a wiser, more measured approach toward foreign policy that elevates diplomacy and negotiation while reserving the use of force if necessary to protect this country and its allies in a dangerous world. He understands that international respect and admiration can’t be forced at gunpoint.

http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stories/2008/10/19/prezed_101...

for real people.

Even Joe the Plumber won't see a tax cut unless he becomes very wealthy.

Too bad Ohio Republicans aren't going to let Joe the Plumber vote.

________________________________

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” –Helen Keller

PARIS – The idea is ambitious: World leaders joined by aides to the new U.S. president-elect would gather before the year's end in New York and attempt to forge a new vision for the global economy.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has teamed up with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to press for such a summit, and the French leader travels to Camp David this weekend to lobby President Bush to sign on.

Brown, buoyed by the praise he won for engineering a British bank bailout that inspired U.S. and European rescues, is proposing "radical changes" to the global capitalist system, including a cross-border mechanism to monitor the world's 30 biggest financial institutions. Sarkozy has floated the idea of reforming rating agencies and even exploring the future of currency systems.

"This is a defining moment for the world economy," Brown wrote in Friday's Washington Post. "The old postwar international financial institutions are out of date. They have to be rebuilt for a wholly new era."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081017/ap_on_re_eu/eu_meltdown_new_economic...

Tax cuts do not create jobs. The market creates jobs. If there's a need for something, there will be jobs in that need area.

It's not rocket science. The Republicans are full of shit.

________________________________

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” –Helen Keller

Taxes are already cut.

And they will stay that way so long as the economy is on the skids.

Crank Bait, you may not be able to count on casino winnings or have good bets on the stock market these days. But *this* my friend, you can always count on:

Annette will *never* shut the fuck up and wait, for anything. The very idea is against the laws of nature.

But then again, Kansas # 16 going up against Oklahoma, who got creamed by Texas last week. Piece 'o cake.

Missouri, ranked # 11, is going up against Texas, rated # 1.

My guess is, that game ain't gonna be pretty.

Anybody got a broom? Cuz they goin' be needin' sumpin' to pick up what's left of the Tigers today after the Longhorns are through!

Heh!!!!

No worries!

Obama will fix the market.

Hahahahahahahaha.

Jimmy Carter II.

How you have plenty of cash-on-hand.

Carter wasn't re-elected. Reagan is still destroying America from beyond the grave.

________________________________

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” –Helen Keller

Human rights posters from around the globe.

http://good50x70.org/2007/gallery/gallery03/

I know he's gone but I had to respond to his comment about public schools. Public schools are one of the greatest successes of this country. They are the great equalizer and offer opportunity to all. And guess what, inspite a lack of funding most of them are making progress with kids. If an area has a high crime rate, do we just blame the cops and fire them to "privatize" the job? John McCain wants vouchers and the wingnuts push them here in AZ. What most people don't realize is that public schools must take every child in a geographical area regardless. I was reading a heart rending diary on DailyKos by a mother with two kids with autism. She was lamenting the fact the school district wouldn't place her daughter in a special school with a 1:1 student teacher ratio. Obviously what's best for her child but paid for with money taken from other children's education. And vouchers do the same, they take money away from the larger group to pay for a few, often kids whose parents would cough it up anyway. In fact, we have a law here that allows people to deduct $ from their state taxes and give it to a relative for private school. You can't do it for you own, but you can for a nephew or grandkid. Welfare for the wealthy.

I have tried to debate MCV and at times he seems reasonable and centrist like me. But he is usually just sprinkling bullsh*t just to make people scream. Do you think he has no friends? I wouldn't be surprised.

Hey Joe! We Republicans will use you up and then stop you from voting. Because if someone made an error entering your registration information, you must be some kind of terrorist, right?

----------------------------------------
Voting dispute snares 'Joe the Plumber'

Democrats say discrepancy in his name is typical of errors that Republicans target to suppress vote.

By William Hershey
Staff Writer
Friday, October 17, 2008

COLUMBUS — Republican presidential candidate John McCain did his best during the debate to make Toledo's "Joe the Plumber" a household name.

On Thursday, Oct. 16, Ohio Democratic Chairman Chris Redfern added a chapter to Joe's everyman saga.

Redfern used Joe — whose real name is Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher — as an example of what he said is an effort by Deputy Ohio Republican Chairman Kevin DeWine to suppress voter turnout. DeWine denied the charge.

Barack Obama met the famous-for-now Wurzelbacher while campaigning this week. With the cameras rolling, Wurzelbacher told the Democratic presidential nominee that Obama's tax plan would keep him from buying the business where he worked. Obama disputed that.

McCain took up the cause during the debate in hopes of demonstrating that his tax plan is better than Obama's. The two candidates went back and forth about Joe so much — his name came up about two dozen times — that the nation's media began scrambling for information about him.

Well, it turns out Joe the Plumber is not a licensed plumber. Wurzelbacher told The Associated Press that he doesn't need a license to do the residential plumbing work he performs for a small company. He is a plumbing apprentice in a work force development program the state oversees.

Wurzelbacher was besieged with interview requests Thursday as reports erupted that he was not registered to vote. He is and that's how Redfern got involved.

Wurzelbacher has been registered since 1992 and for the first time this year voted in a partisan primary as a Republican, said Linda Howe, director of the Lucas County Board of Elections.

Howe said that on the registration rolls, his last name is spelled with an "o" instead of a "u" — Worzelbacher. She said that when Wurzelbacher signs his name to vote, it's hard to tell if the letter is an "o" or "u."

Read On...
________________________________

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” –Helen Keller

Over Bush III any day...

</bluerootsradio>

There’s that word again: maverick. In Thursday’s vice-presidential debate, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, the Republican candidate, used it to describe herself and her running mate, Senator John McCain, no fewer than six times, at one point calling him “the consummate maverick.”

But to those who know the history of the word, applying it to Mr. McCain is a bit of a stretch — and to one Texas family in particular it is even a bit offensive.

“I’m just enraged that McCain calls himself a maverick,” said Terrellita Maverick, 82, a San Antonio native who proudly carries the name of a family that has been known for its progressive politics since the 1600s, when an early ancestor in Boston got into trouble with the law over his agitation for the rights of indentured servants.

In the 1800s, Samuel Augustus Maverick went to Texas and became known for not branding his cattle. He was more interested in keeping track of the land he owned than the livestock on it, Ms. Maverick said; unbranded cattle, then, were called “Maverick’s.” The name came to mean anyone who didn’t bear another’s brand.

Sam Maverick’s grandson, Fontaine Maury Maverick, was a two-term congressman and a mayor of San Antonio who lost his mayoral re-election bid when conservatives labeled him a Communist. He served in the Roosevelt administration on the Smaller War Plants Corporation and is best known for another coinage. He came up with the term “gobbledygook” in frustration at the convoluted language of bureaucrats.

This Maverick’s son, Maury Jr., was a firebrand civil libertarian and lawyer who defended draft resisters, atheists and others scorned by society. He served in the Texas Legislature during the McCarthy era and wrote fiery columns for The San Antonio Express-News. His final column, published on Feb. 2, 2003, just after he died at 82, was an attack on the coming war in Iraq.

Terrellita Maverick, sister of Maury Jr., is a member emeritus of the board of the San Antonio chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas.

More here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/weekinreview/05schwartz.html

You are really easy to please.

If you like the output of Public School system you should just keep doin the same thing we are doin now.

Never quit a winner!

Oh, he's gone?

Thank God.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95613983

Cuz as you know, we're all gonna die.

Hey McCainVoter, are you younger or older than McCain?

I've got my fingers crossed.

No looks like War Dog is still here.

But I'm off to the Farmer's Market.

Good day everyone!

________________________________

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” –Helen Keller

Berkeley Breathed explains how our coarse national dialogue led him to end his strip. But what fate awaits our beloved, big-nosed hero?

http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/10/18/opus/

I guess by MCV's reasoning he is a public school success. We can all see how well educated he is.

WE have an internet charter high school here. I'm sure MCV would love it. He could sit at home stroking himself and get an idiotucation. And he'd never have to show his pimply ugly pug when he asks a girl for a date.

Yes MCV, I work hard everyday with all kinds of kids. Kids who speak little English, kids with emotional disabilities (the district's program is at my school), kids who tell me about their parents' meth problems and incarcerations. And kids from stable, and/0r religious families. What do you want to do with all those kids? Private schools don't want them, they want the easy to teach kids.

Sorry about the typos. I didn't apply myself in typing class and my fingers won't stay on the homekeys.

That's fair enough.

We have had a Democrat Congress for two years.

So far so good.

Well, if you don't count being on edge of a depression.

But why not test the Democrat theory is the real world?

Let's start with Iran.

Talk or War?

Leading to disarmament or thermonuclear war.

No risk - No gain

…We have been in training for a dark time such as this, since the day we assented to come to Earth. For many decades, worldwide, souls just like us have been felled and left for dead in so many ways over and over – brought down by naiveté, by lack of love, by suddenly realizing one deadly thing or another, by not realizing something else soon enough, by being ambushed and assaulted by various cultural and personal shocks in the extreme. We have a history of being gutted, and yet remember this especially … we have also, of necessity, perfected the knack of resurrection. Over and over again we have been the living proof that that which has been exiled, lost, or foundered – can be restored to life again. This is as true and sturdy a prognosis for the destroyed worlds around us as it was for our own once mortally wounded selves.

http://www.cta-usa.org/Pinkola-Estes.html

Obama Will Break Spending Record This Week
When Barack Obama broke his promise to take part in the public campaign financing system, he took a lot of flak for it with Republicans accusing him of being untrustworthy. However, now he is reaping the benefits of that decision. He is currently outspending John McCain on TV advertising four to one. This week he will surpass the $188 million the Republicans spent in 2004. Because McCain opted into the public system, he got $84 million without having to waste any time going to fundraisers, but he is also limited to spending no more than $84 million, although the RNC can raise and spend unlimited money. All in all, Obama is swamping McCain on the airwaves.

http://www.electoral-vote.com/su2.html

Vouchers mean choice.

Are you pro-choice?

And it mean accountability.

Do you think people will spend their voucher in a failed school?

Supply and Demand.

Just like college.

The Help America Vote Act, passed after the 2000 debacle in Florida, mandates that states have a statewide data base of eligible voters to help people vote and to prevent fraud. However, these data bases are full of minor errors and hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of voters may be disenfranchised as a result. To make this clear, consider the five newly registered voters listed below on the left. The data for the same people (matched by social security number) appears in the drivers license data base below on the right.

http://www.electoral-vote.com/su2.html

They'd be funny as hell if they weren't true.

http://www.liberty-news.com/showCartoons.php?index=Government%20Pork%20%...

McCain suggests Obama tax policies are socialist

What a Evil Assbite

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

Kevin at 10:24. I'm sorry you can't blame EVERYTHING on Carter. And blaming Dems for a depression; you don't really read much, do you? Guess what, Rush isn't always right. But doesn't he have a blog you could haunt?

BEIRUT -- A new report based on previously classified documents suggests that the Nixon and Ford administrations created conditions that helped destabilize Iran in the late 1970s and contributed to the country's Islamic Revolution. - LA Times

“Though little noticed in Washington, political battles also were breaking out inside the Iranian leadership. Iran’s acting Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh told Agence France Presse on September 6 that he had information that Reagan was ‘trying to block a solution’ to the hostage impasse. The secret Republican plan to delay release of the hostages until after the U.S. elections had become a point of tension between Iranian President Bani-Sadr and Ayatollah Khomeini…. - [In U.S. Congressional testimony]

Public schools must take every child, private schools don't have to. I remember when a local private high school had some kids drink on a school outing in the fall. They were kicked out and the parents didn't get the tuition back.
I don't know why I try to reason with you, you really lack any logical arguments. I guess I should go clean the toilets, it is a better use of my time and slightly less disgusting.

About accountability in private schools- In AZ they do not have to take the State achievement tests and post the results in the paper. They can also flunk kids and kick them out. Public schools get dinged for drop-outs too.

Biden blasted Palin for saying parts of America aren't pro-America

The AP's headline sums it up: Biden mocks Palin, says entire nation is patriotic

Link-Vid Too

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

You can't have it both ways.

Dems in power.

Dems run the oversight committees.

Dems are accountable.

You wanted Barney Frank you got him.

It wasn't Frank's and Dodd's fault, it was a lack of regulation. Don't remember the details, but that is what I read yesterday. How typical for you to try to demonize two smart, hard working dems who are the ADULTS in this situation while you ignore all the greedy, whiny deregulators like Phil Gramm.

And while the Dems have had a majority since 06, the Rethugs have filibustered more bills (twice as many) in this Congress than any other.

just proves that our technologists have made complex things like photoshop and video editing so easy to do that even a mornonic asshole can use them.

and people aren't stupid. We've had enough.

whats with the repeated reference to turtles in the article?

And who is it that is responsible for that Regulation???

BARNEY FRANK!!!

Two years!!!

If the Dems do not what to be accountable, then have them step aside.

You can't have it both ways!

from beyond the grave - that certainly is happening and fortunately we are seeing the end of it. This crisis is the cumulative effect of it.

all i can find are articles that say the republican controlled senate and house refused to bring the legislation to the floor. sort of a reverse filibuster since they were in control.

hmmm. could it be that the republiscum are lying?

Washington Monthly

And here I thought John McCain couldn't slip further from reality on economic matters. I stand corrected. Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Saturday accused Democratic rival Barack Obama of favoring a socialistic economic approach by supporting tax cuts and tax credits McCain says would merely shuffle wealth rather than creating it. [...]

Obama has said his tax policies would cut payments for 95 percent of working Americans, while increasing them only for families making more than $250,000 a year. McCain has argued that 40 percent of Americans don't pay income taxes, either because they are seniors or don't meet minimum earnings thresholds, so the only way to cut their taxes is to give them various credits.

"In other words, Barack Obama's tax plan would convert the IRS into a giant welfare agency, redistributing massive amounts of wealth at the direction of politicians in Washington," McCain said in the radio address.

We talked the other day about why McCain doesn't know what he's talking about, but Obama is prepared to deliverer a speech in St. Louis today that drives the point home nicely. According to the prepared text, Obama will explain that both candidates are offering tax cuts: "The difference is who we're cutting taxes for."

"It comes down to values -- in America, do we simply value wealth, or do we value the work that creates it? For eight years, we've seen what happens when we put the extremely wealthy and well-connected ahead of working people. Now, John McCain thinks that the way to rebuild this economy is to double down on George Bush's policy of giving more and more tax breaks to those at the very top in the false hope that it will all trickle down. I think it's time to rebuild the middle class in this country, and that is the choice in this election.

"Senator McCain wants to give the average Fortune 500 CEO a $700,000 tax cut but absolutely nothing at all to over 100 million Americans. I want to cut taxes -- cut taxes -- for 95 percent of all workers. And under my plan, if you make less than $250,000 a year -- which includes 98 percent of small business owners -- you won't see your taxes increase one single dime. Not your payroll taxes, not your income taxes, not your capital gains taxes -- nothing. It's time to give the middle class a break, and that's what I'll do as President of the United States.

"Lately, Senator McCain has been attacking my middle class tax cut. He actually said it goes to, 'those who don't pay taxes,' even though it only goes to working people who are already getting taxed on their paycheck. That's right, Missouri -- John McCain is so out of touch with the struggles you are facing that he must be the first politician in history to call a tax cut for working people 'welfare.'

The only 'welfare' in this campaign is John McCain's plan to give another $200 billion in tax cuts to the wealthiest corporations in America -- including $4 billion in tax breaks to big oil companies that ran up record profits under George Bush. That's who John McCain is fighting for. But we can't afford four more years like the last eight. George Bush and John McCain are out of ideas, they are out of touch, and if you stand with me in 17 days they will be out of time."

Did they edit the Congressional Record as well?

The pattern in American politics is well known:

Democrats accuse Republicans of voter suppression, Republicans accuse Democrats of voter fraud (though as Gerry Hebert of the Campaign Legal Center told me in an interview last week, almost all the evidence is in favor of the Democrats on this; voter fraud is quite rare).

From KLAS-TV Channel 8 in Las Vegas, here's a case where it appears the Republicans may be engaging in voter fraud:

Federal, state, and local officials are gathering information about allegations of voter registration fraud that were first raised Channel 8 Eyewitness News.

An employee of a private voter registration firm alleges that his bosses trashed registration forms filled out by Democratic voters because they only wanted to sign up Republican voters.

http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/press-3401.html

http://www.gallup.com/Home.aspx

(From Sideshow)

It's funny, but after having become used to reading him because of his outrage at Bush's antidemocratic activities and Congress' refusal to hold him accountable, I'd forgotten that Paul Craig Roberts is an economist, so I didn't look to see what he had to say during the great bail-out rush the other week. He provided his own must-do list, including: "The government should then turn to the military budget, which at about $700 billion is larger than the combined military spending of the rest of the world combined. The only justification for such an enormous amount of military spending is a policy of US world hegemony, a policy that financial collapse makes nonsensical. The defense budget needs to be cut sufficiently to bring the US budget into balance or, better still, into $100 billion surplus." Via Democracy Lover.

argest US crowd. (per MSNBC)

Alaska's Bullshit Artist is never going to draw a crowd half that size.

*

Darth Cheney finally gets his "Star Troopers
The "Dark Side" is everywhere, especially in the Pentagon's latest scheme, to rocket troops through space to hot spots anywhere on the globe within two hours. Planners are discussing how to plan the development of the Small Unit Space Transport and Insertion (SUSTAIN) program. The idea of space troopers is a “potential revolutionary step in getting combat power to any point in the world in a timeframe unachievable today.” Marines launched the concept to transport small, mission-tailored units through space from any point on the globe after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
Skeptical critics say the concept defies physics. John Pike, a military analyst who runs Globalsecurity.org. said “This isn’t even science fiction,” Pike said. “It’s fantasy.” Private rocket pioneer Burt Rutan claims the plan is technologically possible. Pike said an enormous amount of fuel would be needed to return from such missions. He questioned what 13 troops could accomplish in a hostile environment without getting killed or captured.

The Democrat Stereotype.

Newsweek

Tom Slade, a former Florida GOP chair, was getting about five calls a day last week from fellow Republicans saying the same thing: "Do something." The source of their alarm was the seemingly perilous condition of Sen. John McCain's campaign in the state. After leading for months in Florida, recent polls show him trailing Sen. Barack Obama by about five points. Much of the reversal, no doubt, stems from the economic crisis.

But part of the blame lies with the McCain team itself, according to numerous Florida Republicans. Slade says he's hearing complaints that the campaign isn't coordinating volunteers well and its state director, Arlene DiBenigno, is ineffective. Others say its voter-turnout operation is lagging. (A Florida spokesman for McCain declined to respond to these assertions.) "The campaign is kind of on the ropes," says one GOP strategist who requested anonymity to give a candid assessment. McCain "could lose Florida now, and if he does, it's game over."

Tension has reportedly been mounting between the campaign and state Republicans. Several weeks ago, Florida GOP chair Jim Greer convened a private meeting with both camps to discuss the darkening outlook. News of the gathering, which apparently grew tense, leaked to media. Greer denies any discord, telling NEWSWEEK the point was to "make sure that the ship was on its right course." But a McCain loyalist who was present and also requested anonymity says Greer was just looking out for himself— either by appearing to save the day or "forewarning of a crisis so he couldn't be blamed."

Then there's Republican Gov. Charlie Crist, whose enthusiasm for McCain, some say, has waned since he was passed over as a veep pick. He recently told reporters that "his foremost responsibility" is governing his state and that he was eager to help the Arizona senator "when I have time." Then about a week ago, he went to Disney World instead of a McCain rally.........

ACLU Files New FOIA Requests for NSA Spying Documents. EFF Charges Telecom Amnesty Unconstitutional

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI9X-WXTBfE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuMAC6Dy66c

HONOLULU (AP) - Hawaii is dropping the only state universal child health care program in the country just seven months after it launched.

Gov. Linda Lingle's administration cited budget shortfalls and other available health care options for eliminating funding for the program. A state official said families were dropping private coverage so their children would be eligible for the subsidized plan.

"People who were already able to afford health care began to stop paying for it so they could get it for free," said Dr. Kenny Fink, the administrator for Med-QUEST at the Department of Human Services. "I don't believe that was the intent of the program."

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D93SBEUG0&show_article=1

i've always been a big aviation fan (insert bad pun here) and was very skeptical when they retired the highest faster plane, the sr71 back in the 70's. in the years that followed there were whispers of a plane called aurora and there were ocasional contrail shots that looked like doughnuts on a rope, the supposition being that the govt was using or testing a hydrogen fueled ramjet. in the early 90's that all went silent which is usually an indication of success rather than failure.

it wouldn' surprise me at all if we don't have a limited capability like this already. even popular science went so far as to say the "space base" was in a remote corner of colorado which was barely accessible meaning the govt could control access.

factor in that ufo's have gone dark as in you never hear about them anymore and you wonder whats up. when was the last time we heard from this guy:

"People who were already able to afford health care began to stop paying for it so they could get it for free,"

================

After you make if free, then you must cut cost.

Long lines.

Poor care.

Obama needs to stop and think!

Submitted by MMRules on Sat, 10/18/2008 - 11:31am.
...Don't make me post...Missouri's won/loss record against Texas..
------
Your quip would have cut me to the quick if Mizzou hadn't had a lousy football team for nearly a century. That's why M.U. fans are so excited: The games are not merely an excuse to get drunk anymore.

The University of Missouri is noted for its Journalism school. Thousands of J-school students matriculated so they could write excellent articles about Mizzou's losses.

before you get carried away with yourself, you might note that she is a republican and we all know how good they are at running good things into the ground.

"People who were already able to afford health care began to stop paying for it so they could get it for free,"

this is either a self serving justification like rayguns welfare queens or an indication that they structured the program wrong which should be no surprise because she's a REPUBLICAN, who we all know are incompetent when it comes to governance.

Forbes: McCain Will Cut Defense Spending To Cover Corporate Tax Cuts - HuffPo

at this point the winless bengals (i know its not college) are going for the number one draft pick. god forbid they win a game, because then we'll just be another mediocre team rather then the best of the worst.

Cuba Has Better Health Care Than U.S. - Cuba has great socialized medicine -- much better than the half-socialized system the United States has. - RCP

making statements without a back up source, study, or factual reference is really bad blogging.

if the interests of the people aren't their goal - they don't work.

Submitted by Annette on Sat, 10/18/2008 - 12:10pm.
...Kansas # 16 going up against Oklahoma, who got creamed by Texas last week. Piece 'o cake.

Missouri, ranked # 11, is going up against Texas, rated # 1.

My guess is, that game ain't gonna be pretty.

Anybody got a broom? Cuz they goin' be needin' sumpin' to pick up what's left of the Tigers today after the Longhorns are through!
--------
Please note that the only prediction in my post stated that one, both, or neither of us will be gloating by the end of the evening.

You, on the other hand, have gone all-in.

Good luck with that and may the most deserving gloater win.

Democrats hold far more than the two-thirds majority ...

Hahahahahahaha..

I hear they make a great cigar as well.

Cuba, $4500 (2007 est.) per capita income.

A great example for all of us to follow.

Obama knows all this.

That is why he is going to work with the insurance industry to sell you insurance.

Just what you should have bought years ago.

Now Obama is going to help you see the light.

;

The End of Opus
Submitted by Cat Chew on Sat, 10/18/2008 - 12:35pm.
Berkeley Breathed explains how our coarse national dialogue led him to end his strip. But what fate awaits our beloved, big-nosed hero?

*******
Thanks Cat Chew for the post.. :)

http://samsedershow.com/node/3905

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

>>"People who were already able to afford health care began to stop paying for it so they could get it for free," said Dr. Kenny Fink, the administrator for Med-QUEST at the Department of Human Services. "I don't believe that was the intent of the program."

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D93SBEUG0&show_article=1

regardless of the intent, the market place has spoken.

Outcomes, the market place...remember?if the people chose single-payer insurance instead of the laisserfaire system we currently have...what does this say?

what about the "let the market place decide" mantra so popular with the wingnuts?

Do they favor restricting marketplace choices to game the system for their own self- interests?

Of course they do.

Free is not a marketplace.

Free is the Hippie Dream come true.

Sit around, smoke dope, play video games, until you get sick, then go to the free clinic.

Dream?... you betcha!

College football...

College football...

when will you guys ever learn that today's college football is meaningless?

what really matters is that 30 years ago you could hardly turn the on TV Saturday afternoon without seeing the Washington Huskies.

The Huskies are 0 & 5 this year...lord knows how long it's been this way. seems like it never will change.

So...that is why, in a nutshell, All your talk about fancy,, nationally ranked teams (with winning records!) is meaningless -- College Football (in all meaningful ways) ended when Don James retired!!!

There.

I said it.

Let the chips fall where they may.

(on the right of course)

Hey - - to all of my Sederites

Hope ya all are feeling good today.
I have a lot of reading to do today, the
blog is full of GREAT info.

In my garage packing & going thru shit.

>>Free is not a marketplace.

bullshit.

the choice of a nationalized system should be a consumer choice.

Those people in Hawaii who gave up their pay-per healthcare...I think they quit because they simply could not afford coverage.

That's the problem with wingnuts. deep inside they look at citizens as consumers. Not just consumers, but rubes to be sucked dry of every last dime.

What ever numbers Election Officials across this country are preparing for on Nov 4th, they'd better double it.

Nowhere To Go But Up
Submitted by Crank Bait on Sat, 10/18/2008 - 2:18pm
*******
favorite team,UCLA..

U$C - The Evil Empire/Football Factory/University of Spoiled Children !

Oh forgot..And,Must be paying off the NCAA investigators because they haven't gotten busted in a long time !

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

>>100,000 in St Louis? Holy Shit is right. This is getting scary.
new
Submitted by cent on Sat, 10/18/2008 - 3:53pm.

yeah..I can see Bill Ayers in his mansion, saying "Excellent" like J. Montgomery Burns.

I think they quit because they simply could not afford coverage..

===

If I am giving away free gasoline are you going to buy it from Phillips 66?

And how long before I am ruined financially carrying your ass around?

You get just what you pay for.

Obama is gonna fix you right up.

He is going to take 400 dollars a month away from you and give you nice policy.

Just don't expect anyone else to pay the 400 bucks for you.

Or buy you car.

Or a house.

Or food.

Or cable.

Or Internet.

Or anything else.

We don't want to!

He was a coach at UCLA first ! :)

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

>>He was a coach at UCLA first ! :)

everyone has a skeleton in their closet.

We've all done things we should be ashamed for.

I don't hold the association with UCLA against Don James, he was young and foolish at the time, I'm sure.

;)

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

Ben Smith
Sat Oct 18, 7:56 am ET

New polling and a trickle of stories from the battleground states suggest that Sen. Barack Obama's coalition includes one unlikely group: white voters with negative views of African-Americans.

continue

We must have more old people over here.

Ya think MoveOn could do an election judge drive or somethin?

http://www.jacksongov.org/content/3971/4499/default.aspx

Oh, and I guess KC is also short some Republicans.

http://www.myfoxkc.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=7441764&version...

http://www.myfoxkc.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=7441764&version...

We have the opposite problem on this side of the line...

Mr. President (Have Pity On The Working Man) - Randy Newman

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

McCain Hires GOP Operative Who Helped Smear Him in South Carolina in 2000
McCain hires another racist who told voters McCain's daughter was a "black baby" in 2000 ABLOG

in our next civil war?

====

its clear now that mcbush / palin are practicing a scorched earth policy that is being coordinated by the highest echelons of the republican party. the groundwork has been laid to protest the election outcome thru the doj and the constant smearing of community organizers like acorn (remember the rnc convention?). all the statements, all the outbursts are part of a bigger plan. bush has deployed the army to the continental united states, something that would have been unthinkable eight years ago.

over the next 20 days the wing nut rhetoric is going to go off the richter scale. and then the fun begins.

So it is really Obama you fear.

>>So it is really Obama your fear.

in English, please?

>>And how long before I am ruined financially carrying your ass around?

oh, shut up.

You are not carrying anyone's ass around (except for the military budget).

You really think that people would rather lice on 1000 a month on welfare, etc. than earn 2 or 5 grand that a good job would get them?

Also, do you really think it is possible for a working age male without any disabilities to qualify for welfare?

It is easier finding work!

You are obviously still stuck on Reagan's masturbatory fantasy, the welfare queen driving a Cadillac. If there was ever anyone living high on the hog on welfare, they did it by abusing the system. They call it fraud--and it is illegal.

Not only that, but we `ended welfare as you know it' last decade ! It doesn't seem to register in your soulless brain that we have cut, re cut and cut again welfare funding.

Yet you drivel along complaining that you are footing the bill for some imaginary Cadillac driving, welfare recipient.

for every penny you cry over with social spending, you willfully, even gleefully, fork over a couple bucks towards the black hole of Bush's spending, the Iraq war and its absolute lack of accountability.

that crowd picture is a doozie!

Bgurl Bday yesterdiddy, i told here we're celebrating for the rest of the week!

she's such a cool person. she just finished my serving of her brunch especial and is reading the sun.

beauty day here, gorguss fall weather.

bush has deployed the army to the continental united states

==========

I don't think Bush will be calling the shots after January.

"What ever numbers Election Officials across this country are preparing for on Nov 4th, they'd better double it."

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

yeah... people are in la-la land if they think these crowds won't translate into votes.......

We are not talking about welfare.

We are talking about single payer health care.

But not Obama.

He is talking about you buying an Insurance Policy.

Capitalism at it's best.

>>I don't think Bush will be calling the shots after January.

you live in a fantasy world\ if you think this announcement isn't meant to send a chilling message to the left about questioning the validity of the upcoming election.

An honest look into McCain the man does not reveal a strong role model.

An honest look into Obama the man reveals a strong role model.

Barack Obama is exactly where he is in large regards to his ability to work tirelessly towards accomplishment. He is not the destination, he is the bridge, and the form the bridge takes. He is only a man, but the collective human community has produced this particular man at this particular moment to do this particular role.

That is why Obama has collected the momentum he currently commands. He has become a powerful being, and his power comes from the American people. What he chooses to do with this power is what will determine all of our collective future. He has the power thru unity to change our world by re-establishing the "staging ground." The collective pool of potential energy from which all great leaps into human future have come. Whether he utilizes the power he will wield to this end will be our next chapter...

McCain was never destined to take hold of this power, as instanced by his campaign. Obama has shown himself quite able to take hold, to lead and to inspire that which Earth has been calling for for a long time. Whether the citizens of the United States of America seize this opportunity will be evident soon enough.

That "Reverse Bradley Effect" concept fascinates me. I live in an area where I could actually imagine it happening too. Racism is part of the culture down here. The idea that someone would have to pretend to be racist to save face is hard for me to get my Liberal Brain around. It conjures bizarre images of young white males wearing NWA and Snoop Dog tee shirts under their Klan robes.

Happy Birthday to Bgurl ! :)

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

that was such a happy post.

Most folks expect the United States to be attacked after Obama takes office.

Wouldn't you test a new leader who talks about diplomacy and surrender durring a war?

After the chemical attack on Oregon you will happy to see your troops in the city to restore order.

Of course it will be President Obama who will send them in.

S.P.I.T. on the A-Hole..

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

After Bailout, AIG Execs Head to California Resort - ABC

Rescued by Taxpayers, $440,000 for Retreat Including "Pedicures, Manicures"

That is what capitalist insurance brings you ""at it's best"

Wow, are you in for a big let down.

stop threatening people MCV.

I don't mind you acting stupid around here but you are out of line with that bull shit you pussy.

"Thank you all!"

so she wants to know

election wise what comes after "bizarre"?

Oh yeah, I forgot, the worst kind.

You are really starting to piss me off Dog.

I think I will forward your last post to DHS. You've got 5 minutes to edit it.

"Haiku W" was our best troll.

That Sarah Palin is one unreal Alaskan

By SETH KANTNER
GUEST COLUMNIST
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/383843_alaska19.html

I'm sitting on my bearskin chair beside the woodstove, in Kotzebue, Alaska, 50 miles above the Arctic Circle, while outside the ocean begins to freeze over. Inside I have about 49 things piling up to say to you, America.

I'm an Alaskan -- born in an igloo, enjoy whale muktuk, all that -- and in case you aren't sick of our state by now, I'll start off with an apology for one of our residents: Sarah Palin.

We Alaskans are not generally so magazine-pretty like her, nor are we so confrontational and vapid. Most of us don't have those peachy cheeks -- we have sunburn, windburn and frostbite. Our fingernails are dirty from actually gutting moose, not yakking about it. Our hands are chapped from picking thousands of salmon out of nets, not holding one up for the camera.

Having said that, here in Alaska we are accustomed to getting jobs we're not qualified to fill. In our far-flung villages and towns we have big money surrounded by big wilderness; the combination causes warped career opportunities. Sort of an Edge of Nowhere phenomenon -- cousin to the Bridge to Nowhere one.

For example, in the village closest to the wilderness homestead where I was raised, I remember standing in my friend's cabin when his dad got a call on the CB radio: "People are writing you in for mayor."

"Nope!" my friend's dad transmitted. "Tell 'em no, I ain't doing that." He spit in a can, peered out the door at his Honda generator -- idling rough -- an extension cord running up the hill and under his door, to power the rerun of "Dukes of Hazzard" he was watching.

If he'd lived in Wasilla 25 years later, he could have responded, "Call Sarah, she'll want it."

(...)By now the world knows our Gov. Palin is an expert at swishing around in color-coordinated this and that, with her makeup, fake Minnesota accent, and her mooseburger and mean-spirited commentary. We can only hope people realize she's a pretty unreal Alaskan, one who is simply skimming the gravy off our hard-earned Alaskan mystique to mix with her varnished nonsense.

(And yes, some Alaskans do sell varnished moose turds, also.)

In the Arctic, where global warming is melting our world regardless of Palin's lone charge against reality, her alleged appeal leaves many of us cold. With our long winters and tough trails, we still value a beaver hat and common sense more than high heels and clip-on hairdos. We simply don't want another leader less intelligent than we are.

Eight years with the cowboy and copilot Halliburton at the helm has been hard on our land. Too much polluting, an unnecessary war draining our economy and both men too cool for global warming. We can't afford to turn now to a beauty contestant and an old guy who's acting like he's run the Iditarod too many times without winning. (Beating his dogs, he's so desperate to win.)

Come on, people. Our ice is melting. Your jobs are turning to dust. Everyone's bank statements are on the verge of being firestarter. Your heating oil is $4 a gallon, ours is $8.

John McCain's answers to those problems? Heck, I honestly don't know what he stands for this week. Talk about a shifting ice floe. But his running mate, we've heard her answers: She's already sued the polar bears, now she's chanting, "Drill, baby, drill!"

Wake up, folks. Sarah Palin is America's bridge to nowhere. Get off it.

From up here in the Arctic -- not left or right but north of the campaign trail -- the reality is clear and cold: When John McCain chose Sarah Palin, he wrote America out of his will. It's time for us to write him out of our future.

Seth Kantner was born and raised in the Arctic and is a commercial fisherman in Alaska's northernmost salmon fishery. He is the author of "Shopping for Porcupine" and the best-selling novel "Ordinary Wolves."

We don't wish for an attack.

We prepare the the inevitable attack.

President Obama is no exception.

Do you think Radical Islam has been defeated?

We may be well ahead, but they will attack soon.

Forward everything you like.

But they already read everything here.

It's part of the FISA bill Obama voted for in the Senate.

v 1.02 Symbol

The symbol of the Alaskan Independence Party shall be a polar bear depicted with the Big Dipper and north star in the background. The party symbol incorporating these elements may be used on clothing, on pins, signs and other means for advertising and raising party funds.

3.02 Goal

The Alaskan Independence Party's goal is to let the people vote on the question they were entitled to but were denied in 1958. - Alaska Independence Party bylaws

Oh, so you and your terrorist group are going to launch this attack yourselves?

I'm sure DHS will find that interesting as well.

Quit while you are ahead Dog. Your moronic posts are going to land you on a watch list....

pity the moron whose job it is to watch that list...

Hell, Radical Christianity is still out there too.

baboon.

You think this blog is not on a watch list?

As a great man once said "Bring it on!"

On October 17, 2008, the Campaign Legal Center and other groups sent a letter to Attorney General Mukasey emphasizing the steps that the Department of Justice must take to make election protection its highest priority this season.

The letter addressed reports of continued voter intimidation tactics across the country including voter purging, vote caging, and challenges to voters' registrations. The groups urged the Department of Justice to issue a letter to the public ensuring that the rights of all voters to participate in an election free of intimidation will be protected.

Among the groups included are Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Common Cause, DEMOS, FairVote and National Council of La Raza (NCLR).

Link

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

Your moronic posts are going to land you on a watch list....
Submitted by dan on Sat, 10/18/2008 - 5:29pm.
pity the moron whose job it is to watch that list...
------
Imagine a man at a desk. There is a very large stack of paper on his left. There is a very large and a very small stack of paper on his right.

We pick up the scene as the man quickly views each paper in succession from the stack on his left and places it onto one of the stacks on his right.

Man: "Dumbfuck. Dumbfuck. Dumbfuck. Dumbfuck. Dumbfuck. Hold for further review. Dumbfuck. Dumbfuck. Dumbfuck. Dumbfuck..."

Not really what I expected to see when I clicked on a link designated thusly after "we prepare for the inevitable attack"....

What was there was interesting (and sad) but not nearly as colorful.

What you wrote when you fristed, that was kind of my feeling too. But don't tell anyone, 'kay?

nothing like a roadtrip.

It would clean out Maron's skull like only a toilet brush could.

http://citizenspace.us/

Citizen Space is a coworking space in San Francisco located at 425 Second St on the third floor. It is generally open from 10am - 6pm weekdays.

The idea of Citizen Space is to take the best elements of a coffee shop (social, energetic, creative) and the best elements of a workspace (productive, functional) and combine them to give indie workers the chance to have their own, affordable space. Citizen Space was built on coworking philosophy.

Day-tripping and casual guests can visit for free, but you must follow our ground rulez and be a good neighbor. If you want to leave your stuff, we rent out desks for $350/month. We also hold various events at our space and are happy to consider making our facilities available for event hosting.

If this sounds interesting to you, drop us a note or join either the Citizen Space mailing list (low volume) or Coworking Group. Or just drop by!

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/3963

Barack Obama’s Nuclear Ambitions

by Jeffrey St. Clair & Joshua Frank / October 18th, 2008

PSL

War Dog won't be on any watch list. They are to busy eavesdropping on troops serving in Iraq to mess with any real terrorist threats. Besides, it is ok to be a terrorist if you are a white male Republican.

________________________________

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” –Helen Keller

Alcoholism. It's really sad. Good to know the Piano Man still gives a shit about the people of this country though. My first proper rock concert was actually seeing him on his Storm Front tour with my Republican Dad, hell of a show actually...

"Captain Jack" and "Say Goodbye to Hollywood" are still badass songs BTW.
His wiki has more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_joel

----------------------------------------
http://www.vodamusic.com/blog/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K62DdoFoNeg

So anti-American... Hang the piano man.

----------------------------------------
http://www.vodamusic.com/blog/

ircask
sohbet sitesi üzerinden chat ve aşk odalarında muhabbet edilebilir.
sohbet siteleri
sohbet Ask Adminserv Komutları Chanserv Komutları Memoserv Komutları Operserv Komutları Sohbet Komutları AskFm sohbet ekle pagerank sohbet fıkra güzel sözler sohbet ekle
ircask IRCAsk Mirc portal blog irc forum sohbet ekle islami sohbet galeri msn mp3 güzel sözler chat directory
sohbet chat muhabbet
araba resimleri
bebek resimleri
Gemi resimleri
genel resimler
gül resimleri
güzel bayan resimleri
hayvan resimleri
Icon resimler
manzara resimleri
motor resimleri
sapka resimleri
smile resimler
ucak resimleri
Ateşli Bayan resimleri
ask ve sevgi