Tuesday night Election Coverage

how cool is that, maron reporting from an undisclosed location

>>maron reporting from an undisclosed location

is he interviewing Cheney?

"The Once and Future Rajah of Bhong."

Mud eruption 'caused by drilling'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7699672.stm

By James Morgan
Science & Environment reporter, BBC News

The eruption of the Lusi mud volcano in Indonesia was caused by drilling for oil and gas, a meeting of 74 leading geologists has concluded.

Lusi erupted in May 2006 and continues to spew out boiling mud, displacing around 30,000 people in East Java.

Drilling firm Lapindo Brantas denies a nearby well was the trigger, blaming an earthquake 280km (174 miles) away.

Around 10,000 families who have lost their homes are awaiting compensation, which could run as high as $70m (£43m).

After debating new evidence at a conference in South Africa, most geologists voted drilling as the cause.

Correspondents describe the result a significant development in the tug-of-war to establish liability for the disaster.

The debate on the cause of the eruption took place at a meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, in Cape Town.

It was the first time the two opposing sides had agreed to debate before an international conference of independent experts.

The contest was chaired by a professional football referee - Professor John Underhill, an Edinburgh University geologist, who is also a match official in the Scottish Premier League.

The dispute centres on some newly released data - measurements taken from the Banjar-Panji-1 exploration well during the final 24 hours leading up to the eruption.

Professor Richard Davies, of Durham University in the UK, argued that these readings clearly point to a build up of pressure, causing fractures which propagated from the bore hole to the surface 150m away, resulting in the eruption.

However, Rocky Sawolo, senior drilling adviser of Lapindo Brantas, used the same primary data to argue the opposite - the pressure within the well was within acceptable limits.

His colleague Dr Adriano Mazzini, of the University of Oslo, testified that the fracture was triggered by a magnitude 6.3 earthquake two days earlier, centred on Yogyakarta, some 280km away.

But these claims were directly contradicted by Dr Mark Tingay from Curtin University, Australia, a geological pressure and rock mechanics expert.

The earthquake "was at least an order of magnitude too small," he said, stressing that the force felt at the Lusi site would have been "very small" - comparable to the effect of a heavy truck passing overhead.

When the vote was called, 42 out of the 74 scientists in the audience were convinced that the drilling was the trigger of the eruption.

Only three voted for the earthquake.

A further 16 scientists believed the evidence was inconclusive, and the remaining 13 felt that a combination of earthquake and drilling was to blame.

"The geologists voted overwhelmingly that drilling was the most likely cause," said Prof Underhill.

"The atmosphere was very tense, so all credit to them for not sitting on their hands.

"Hopefully this will be a catalyst for taking things forward. To my mind the result demonstrates that at the very least, the drilling company have a case to answer."

Prof Davies said: "I remain convinced that drilling was the cause of the mud volcano.

"The opinion of the international scientists adds further weight to my conviction."

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"DRILL, BABY, DRILL!!"

all of the people, not one specific party!!! She needs to go! Far away! And she needs to be muzzeled as well. Bye, bye Sarah! Alaska can have ya!

Palin On Dems: 'Do They Think Terrorists ... Are The Good Guys?'
At a rally today in Missouri, Palin hit hard on the theme of McCain's POW time, citing the "lonely cell of a prison camp," in the same breath asking whether Dems think terrorists "are the good guys."

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/11/palin_on_obama-b...

I'm modem-less at home -- unless an electronic miracle occurs -- and can't get Flash video in my iPhone.

So, unless someone can offer me another idea -- judee_b@mac.com -- I'll be camped out at my neighborhood Starbucks' sipping Lattes until they kick me out!

Desperation Watch liveblog: Last minute GOP lies, updated every hour! (or so)

http://www.236.com/news/2008/11/03/desperation_watch_last_minute_9980.ph...

Drudge is currently positing that when Obama scratched his face, he was giving John McCain "the finger." Matty can't understand people who use their fingers for wholesome purposes.

1:33 PM
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Even more with the Rev. Wright thing? Hot on the heels of the Pennsylvania GOP ad below, the Republican Jewish Coalition (shondas to the Jews, one and all) is hitting Ohio with new mailers featuring Rev. Wright and playing up Obama's "anti-Israel and hostile to America" feelings.

Just a few more hours to go, people/

1:02 PM
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Scoot over, Mac. Reverend Wright is back.

11:51 AM
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Oh shit, duck, y'all:

"My friends - the Mac is Back."

Mac, where did you go, and did you know that some plumber is sitting in your chair?

11:45 AM
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Obama is a San Francisco gay who wants to bankrupt your daddy!

Sarah Palin is charging the San Francisco Chronicle of hiding audio of an interview where Obama says he wants to bankrupt the coal industry.

Ok, first of all, he meant that he would make it financially difficult for a new, unclean coal plant to open. Second, McCain said the same thing. And third, that audio has been online for all to hear since January. Nice try, pal.

9:30 AM
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"The Once and Future Rajah of Bhong."

can you use your iphone as a modem? it might require some cables. don't know anything about how the iphone is billed. i use verizon and they ding you by the megabyte.

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press Writer
Article Launched: 11/03/2008 11:30:44 AM PST

NEW YORK—Terence Tolbert, a longtime political operative in New York who directed Barack Obama's presidential campaign in the swing state of Nevada, died of a massive heart attack just two days before the election. He was 44.

http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_10887991

Republican Mailer In Ohio Targets Wright, Says Obama's "Friends" Are "Hostile To America"

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/11/gop_mailer_in_oh...

By Greg Sargent - November 3, 2008, 12:30PM

The Republican Jewish Coalition -- which recently hit Pennsylvania mailboxes with a mailer implying a vote for Obama could produce a second Holocaust -- is now hitting Ohio with a wave of incendiary new mailers that directly target his association with Reverend Wright.

"Barack Obama's friends and advisors: Pro-Palestinian, Anti-Israel, even hostile to America," reads the mailer, adding that his associates harbor "anti-Israel views" that are "dangerous, naive and reckless."

A second mailer attacks Obama on Israel with a picture of the Wailing Wall, a holy site whose use in a political attack could prove offensive to many Jews.

Ironically, both mailers, which are presumably targeted to Jewish voters, landed in the Columbus-area mailbox of Cliff Schecter, the author of the anti-McCain book "The Real McCain." Schecter sent them in to us.

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"The Once and Future Rajah of Bhong."

have to go set up the polling place.

Bob Cesca is off the reservation, and his childlike adoration for Senator Obama is nauseating. I've written about my admiration for Cesca and his blog on my blog in the past. Now I wish that I could retract some of my praise. Cesca has entered into a phase of hero worship for a man who has disrespected Moveon.org and condoned illegal wiretapping (to name two of only at least twenty abominations from this year). Although I want Senator Obama to win this election, everything that I have witnessed about him during the last several months indicates that he is quite possibly to the right of Bill Clinton. He is deserving of your support; he is undeserving of worship.

Aside from Cesca's nonstop propaganda, I think that I came to the realization that he has lost it when he posted this poll on his blog -- a poll that he probably created. He concluded after much hesitation that he wished Kerry had won the '04 election, but it indicates that Cesca and the people who either voted for the first option or hesitated about the choice think that:

1) Bush "ain't so bad."
2) Obama is the actual christ.
3) Kerry was almost as bad as Bush.
4) Some combination of 1-3

Cesca, stop. Please. You're at 50. We need you to be at 5. You're reminding me of the [k]onservatives who blindly worshipped Bush during the early half of this decade.

Seriously.

www.sigzone.blogspot.com

The Republican Rump

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/opinion/03krugman.html?_r=1&hp&oref=sl...

By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: November 3, 2008

(...)Why will the G.O.P. become more, not less, extreme? For one thing, projections suggest that this election will drive many of the remaining Republican moderates out of Congress, while leaving the hard right in place.

For example, Larry Sabato, the election forecaster, predicts that seven Senate seats currently held by Republicans will go Democratic on Tuesday. According to the liberal-conservative rankings of the political scientists Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal, five of the soon-to-be-gone senators are more moderate than the median Republican senator — so the rump, the G.O.P. caucus that remains, will have shifted further to the right. The same thing seems set to happen in the House.

Also, the Republican base already seems to be gearing up to regard defeat not as a verdict on conservative policies, but as the result of an evil conspiracy. A recent Democracy Corps poll found that Republicans, by a margin of more than two to one, believe that Mr. McCain is losing “because the mainstream media is biased” rather than “because Americans are tired of George Bush.”
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"The Once and Future Rajah of Bhong."

Kenya witch doctor predicts Obama win

http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/uspolls2008/Election_Story.aspx?ID=...

Associated Press
Monday, November 03, 2008 11:43 AM (Kogelo, (Kenya))

As the United States presidential election looms, it's not just polls in the US that are putting Democratic candidate Barack Obama in the lead.

A witch doctor in Kogelo, western Kenya, where Obama's father grew up, on Saturday also predicted victory for the Democrat.

John Radima, who lives not far from the home of Obama's grandmother in Kogelo, threw stones, bones and shells on the ground and "read" them.

The message was that Obama will be the winner in the November 4 election.

Meanwhile, the press began to set up camp outside Obama's grandmother's home ahead of Tuesday's historic US election.

Obama has become quite a celebrity in Kenya, where a popular song and a musical have been released in his honour.

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"The Once and Future Rajah of Bhong."

Intrade Market Odds 91.0 10.0

Alaska Statewide 'Opinion Counts' Survey Results

Survey conducted 11/02/08

Question 2

Thinking about Sarah Palin, would you say your opinion of her has changed since she was named the Vice Presidential candidate on August 29th?

(IF YES) Has the change been positive or negative?
Yes, positive 11.3%
Yes, negative 37.0%

btw Mc 47 O 44
http://www.haysresearch.com/OC110208.htm

...After months of hard work, the PSL secured ballot status in 12 states—more states than any other U.S. socialist organization.

The PSL’s La Riva/Puryear ticket achieved ballot status in New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Vermont in the Northeast; Arkansas, Florida and Louisiana in the South; Iowa and Wisconsin in the Midwest; and Colorado, Utah and Washington state in the West. In all, the PSL’s candidates will appear on the ballot before nearly 30 percent of the U.S. electorate.

Accomplishing this was no easy feat. We had to decode complex ballot access barriers in nearly every state. PSL members and allies gathered a total of 45,000 petition signatures to get on the ballot. In New York state alone, in the course of six weeks of 14-hour days, the PSL collected nearly 30,000 signatures. We recruited over 100 electors and held state conventions across the country. We fought blizzards, tornadoes and hurricanes to win ballot access.

Not only did we field national candidates for president and vice president, we also had 10 additional congressional, state, and local candidates in Washington, D.C., Florida, Chicago, South Dakota and California. All ran openly as socialists and members of the PSL; all received significant local media coverage and support from progressive people. Two PSL candidates for Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors received 53,000 votes combined.

‘People over profits’

Unlike the capitalist candidates, who say anything to win voter allegiance, our goal is to build a movement. The PSL is not a party of professional politicians. We are revolutionary activists, organizers and working-class leaders.

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Excellent short article. I think many will give up on conventional politics, and become violent and dangerous. The miltia movement of the 90's never went away, their members were simply satisfied with the reactionary Bush administration.

shades of the early clinton years.

Hold on to your wallet--

Joe the Plumber is short on cash and unemployed but that's not stopping him from opening a new charitable foundation and penning a book on American values.

"I am starting a charity up, it's called 'Secure Our Dream.' It's just about people, neighbors in the community," Wurzelbacher told FOXNews.com.

The plumber-turned-media-fixture got a taste for charity work last week at an event in Philadelphia that aimed to help out family members of police officers killed in the line of duty.

He said he hasn't figured out how he's going to finance the charity, but knows how he wants the money to be spent.
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/11/03/joe-plumber-plans-life-election/

'You can just make those checks out to Sam Wurzelbacher.'

at UNCC

May be live here

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-campaign-coverage

probably on one of the cable nets.

Next to the last rally, I think Maron said the last one would be at 9 PM in Manassas, Va., home of the Battle of Bull Run. Unbelievable!

just for shits and grins check out the drudge report. talk about total and complete meltdown and loss of bodily control.

Submitted by toniD on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 3:24pm.
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which is a good thing.
Hope she does a lot of campaign stops today and tomorrow. Keep her talking.

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later... need to go borrow more chairs for the poll workers lunching here tomorrow.

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Jamesbennett

Baghdad

- A bomb detonated near the house of the under secretary of the oil ministry in Atifiyah neighborhood (north Baghdad). The secretary, Sahib Salman, was injured with one of his guards .

- Two roadside bombs targeted the homicide department near the Tahriyat intersection in Karrada neighborhood (downtown Baghdad).The two IEDs detonated in sequence, one was near a concrete fence and one near a tea vendor. Six people were killed and 20 others were wounded, including ten policemen.

- An adhesive bomb detonated under a white Lumina sedanin Zauna neighborhood (downtown Baghdad). Two people were injured including the driver.

- An adhesive bomb detonated under a Hyundai sedan on Palestine street (east Baghdad). Three people were wounded including the driver.

- A roadside bomb targeted an army check point under the highway bridge in Jamia'a neighborhood. Three people were wounded including one soldier.

- A gunman opened fire using a silencer on a man, killing him instantly in Zafaraniyah neighborhood (east Baghdad).

- A roadside bomb targeted a police patrol in Raghiba Khatoon neighborhood (north Baghdad). Six people were wounded including three policemen.

- Police found one dead body in Habibiyah neighborhood in Risfa bank in Baghdad today.

Mosul

- On Sunday night gunmen killed a man and his wife in Baaj (about 20 miles south of Mosul).

- A roadside bomb targeted an Iraqi army patrol in the 17th of July neighborhood in Mosul city. Two people were injured.

- A roadside bomb targeted an Iraqi army patrol in the Intisar neighborhood downtown Mosul city. Two soldiers were killed and two others were wounded.

Diyala

- A roadside bomb targeted the park of the governorate building in Baquba city. Nine people were injured including three policemen.

2008 McClatchy Newspapers

Barack Obama's grandmother has died in Hawaii, his campaign announced.

The statement from Obama and Maya Soetoro-Ng:

"It is with great sadness that we announce that our grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, has died peacefully after a battle with cancer.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/55216.html

(I remember some wingnuts suggesting Barack had gone to Hawaii "to clean" his birth certificate.)

O'Bama's Grandmother has passed in Hawaii according to MSNBC

Some wingers tonight will claim she really died earlier, but the Obama campaign waited to release the info until election evening.

or remind everyone of when he called her a 'typical white person' or that she knew the truth about the birth certificate.

The Ustream site says there is a pending live event.

The many deaths & maimings 'surge success' continues:
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String of bombings shakes Baghdad, kills 10

By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer, Mon Nov 3, 2008

BAGHDAD – A series of bombings struck Baghdad and a neighboring province Monday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 40, including a deputy oil minister who was injured when a bomb went off in front of his house as he was leaving for work.

Most of the six blasts occurred in Baghdad, reinforcing U.S. military warnings that extremists remain capable of launching attacks in the capital despite an overall improvement in security.

The attacks took place on the eve of the U.S. presidential election between Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain, who hold widely differing views on the war in Iraq.

Six people died when a pair of bombs — one of them hidden in a trash can — exploded in Tahariyat square in the Karradah district of central Baghdad during the morning rush hour.

Police said 21 people were wounded, including 10 policemen and two women. The blasts blew out store fronts lining the square in a mostly Shiite area of eastern Baghdad.

Soon afterward, a bomb went off in front of the north Baghdad home of Abdul-Sahib Salman Qutub, a deputy oil minister in charge of crude oil production. Ministry spokesman Assem Jihad said the bomb was attached to Qutub's car and went off as he was walking to the vehicle.

Qutub was treated and released from a hospital, but his driver was seriously injured, Jihad said.

One policeman was killed and six were injured in a roadside bombing in east Baghdad, police said. Another policeman and a civilian were wounded when a bomb went off near a police patrol in the western part of the capital.

In Baqouba, about 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, a car bomb blew up across the street from the provincial council headquarters, killing two policemen and a 10-year-old girl, Diyala provincial police said. Nine people were wounded.

A group of people were inside the council headquarters attending a conference on how to protect journalists in Diyala, one of Iraq's most unstable provinces. None of the participants was hurt, police said.

The police officials all spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not supposed to release the information...

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081103/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq

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"Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said Monday that the United States will 'lose a lot of stature throughout the world' if Barack Obama is elected president."

Honestly. Orrin is vomit-inducing.

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Enjoy it now, Sarah, 'cause we're kicking your silly winking folksy lipsticked butt back to Alaska. For good. Also.

I have. Just recently, actually. And man, I can tell you. Nobody is rooting for McCain. No one.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. ~ George Bernard Shaw

OMG...Did he REALLY say that?

That is so fucking insanely absurd it is funny.

I find myself, sadly, without tolerance or compassion for the Hatches of the world...

My new favorite saying: "Just die already." I am just so sick of these assholes.....

i'm pretty sure that bush and the neocons have destroyed whatever stature we had. unless of course you take pride in torture, starting wars, unjustified aggression, suppression of cultures...

did i mention tonight how much i hate these people? cent, did you catch bill maher last friday

he had Tim Robbins on who had a wonderful idea. Why don't all these people move to Alaska and then when they're all there vote to secede from the United States, so we're finally rid of this scourge

I swear I have not seen this kind of concentrated hatred since that of the German Nazi party against the Jews.

These fuckers have taken hate to a whole new level.

I hate their hate, hate it, hate it, hate it.

That would fix their asses....

I find myself, sadly, without tolerance or compassion for the Hatches of the world...

My new favorite saying: "Just die already." I am just so sick of these assholes.....

Why don't all these people move to Alaska and then when they're all there vote to secede from the United States, so we're finally rid of this scourge

...Works for me too

Reno..
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Submitted by Alice on Fri, 10/31/2008 - 11:52pm.

I was going to ask again how you are doing, but I didn't want to remind you either, smcgee43... :( I'm sorry that happened..I've been thinking of you and hope you're pulling through...

My thoughts & prayers are with Obama & his family.
His grandma suffers no more -

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/11/gop_mailer_in_oh...

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"The Once and Future Rajah of Bhong."

by Robert S. McElvaine, Posted November 2, 2008

Mississippi's Largest Paper Endorses Obama

If Colonel Robert McCormack, the longtime publisher of the arch-Republican Chicago Tribune is spinning in his grave as a result of that paper's endorsement two weeks ago of Democrat Barack Obama, imagine what sort of posthumous somersaults the brothers Thomas and Robert Hederman must be doing after this morning's editorial in the Mississippi paper they controlled for a half century through the middle deacdes of the twentieth century.

No major media organ was more intransigent in its support for segregation and its opposition to the civil rights movement than the Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Mississippi. Typical of the paper's attitudes on racial questions was its headline after the 1963 March on Washington at which Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech:

WASHINGTON IS CLEAN AGAIN WITH NEGRO TRASH REMOVED

In the days when the Hederman brothers owned the paper, it frequently warned of the dangers of the horror of "miscegenation."

This morning the Clarion-Ledger endorsed a mixed race man who identifies himself (as the Hederman brothers would have identified him) as black for president of the United States!

The times, they have a-changed.

Historian Robert S. McElvaine is Elizabeth Chisholm Professor of Arts & Letters at Millsaps College and the author of The Great Depression: America, 1929-1941 (Random House). His latest book is Grand Theft Jesus: The Hijacking of Religion in America

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-s-mcelvaine/mississippis-largest-pa...

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With all the energy and excitement about Obama and this election, the reality is that some folks will have to wait in line before voting. But there's no reason for it to be a downer. With your help, we can turn it into a party!

Why a party? So many people showing up and voting for change is a reason to celebrate. And, of course, we need everyone to stick it out and vote. Here's the idea: If we can make the lines at polling places fun and entertaining, more folks will stay in line and vote. It's easy: after you vote (or while you're waiting), you can bring food, water, and entertainment for your neighbors who have a long wait. Just a few words of kindness and encouragement could mean the difference between a vote being cast or thrown away.

To learn more and sign up, click below:

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How to Start a Party at the Polls

You can do this while you're waiting in line yourself, you can come back after you've voted, or you can go to other polling places in your area where you hear there are long lines. Here are some ways you can make the wait easier and more fun for voters:

* Bring water, food, snacks. A lot of people might not have realized how long they'd have to wait. A little food and water can help give people the energy they need to power through. Cook something the night before, buy some bottled water to share. Healthy snacks are good, but you can also use the opportunity to get rid of extra Halloween candy.

* Bring some folding chairs. Some people may need a break from standing; you can give them somewhere to sit.

* Rain? Bring umbrellas, ponchos, plastic bags. Help people stay dry.

* Tell jokes, juggle, provide some other kind of entertainment. Are you a comedian, dancer, or street performer of some kind? Put on a show! Make sure it's family-friendly.

* Play some music or bring a boombox. Play an instrument? Bring it to the polls and play some songs. Bring a boombox. Take requests. Avoid music that might be offensive or abrasive to some people. Keep in mind that not everyone may like your music, so pay attention to how people are reacting; you don't want to drive anyone away.

* Be prepared to cover up campaign t-shirts, buttons, etc. Some places have rules against campaigning within 100 feet of the polls. Wearing a t-shirt or button can be considered a form of campaigning, so if you're wearing gear from a particular candidate, be prepared to cover it up or change into different clothes if someone asks you to.

* Above all, have fun, and spread it around. Help everyone out, not just people supporting your candidate. This is about making sure everyone has the right to vote. Voters disagree on many issues, but we should all be able to agree that participation in our democracy is an exciting thing. Help bring a festive spirit to the polling place

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Please let us know what you plan on doing, and read our tips for making sure we do this in a responsible and inclusive way. It just takes a minute:

http://colorofchange.org/party08/?id=2263-598689
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>>How to Start a Party at the Polls

They missed an important one...here it is:

*Are you a whore? Many `on the fence' voters may be `tricked' into changing their votes. Or even their sexual orientation! Stay away from time consuming fetishes and concentrate on hand jobs so you can `reach out' to the most voters in the time you have. Don't forget to bring plenty of lotion, sex-toys and condoms, it could be a very long day!

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me too maggiesboy

i hate the media too - all they see fit to talk about is how can mccain win, what's the path for a mccain victory, and if he wins this and this and this then he's up by one, and if he wins this and that and that then bla bla bla

same bs they were doing for hillary up until the last minute of the primary - our seder had told us the scoop long before that and these pundits bloviated on and on - then for hilllary as they do now for mccain, they like losers, or else they like conservative assholes

you'd say why are you watching? good question, i have the mute on, waiting for rachel and possibly the live obama in NC - it's addiction i think, will we all be in withdrawal after tomorrow? (rhetorical question, the answer is NO!)

good obama is starting!

I just came home from srtting up the polls. We have 4 election judges for each party.

The republican judges said they were registered republican but didn't mean they were voting republican this time. None of them like McCain! Many changed to republican when they moved to DuPage County because it was all republican. Now the Dems are moving in and there is competition. So the 4 republican judges are for Obama!

I was the second youngest there. All were Seniors except one Dem judge.

I can no longer stand Mika and her love for Palin. And I cannot abide Pat Buchanen anymore either. It's not only what he says but his voice. It's like scratching on a blackboard!!
\She was covering for David Gregory. So David comes back and his first pundit guest is Mary Matalin! GRRRRRR!!!!!

It says a lot, about a lot. BIG SMILE 80)

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will we all be in withdrawal after tomorrow?

No Mire. For many of us here, it is only the beginning.

I will be glad to have this election over with, if even only to be able to kick El Flacco Negro in the ass for some of his corporatist policies without some McLiberal calling me a traitor.

Obama's grandmother might have wanted to watch the returns with her daughter?

the death of Obama's Grandmother. I was truly hoping she would make it to see her grandson e;ected President.

And I don't normally like to do this, but I have a very good feeling!!

Real Time w/ Bill Maher poll

http://www.hbo.com/billmaher/

Are Barack Obama and the Democratic Party headed for a national landslide?

Yes 80%

No 20%

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Palin's Rising Star?
11.03.08 -- 4:08PM By Josh Marshall
I know there's a lot of talk in Republican circles that Sarah Palin is going to be the star, the new face of the GOP in the post-Bush, post-McCain era. And this speculation has been goosed by Palin's own hints that it's full speed ahead with Palinism on the national stage if she and McCain fall short on Tuesday. But for me the whole idea has never really added up. I'm certainly not the target audience. But my own sense is that Palin's appeal is uniquely and paradoxically tied to the dynamics of this particular election -- an election in which Republicans are expecting, rightly or wrongly, to be beaten decisively and the most aggrieved are uniquely drawn to Palin's bright eyed and unapologetic appeal to resentment and victimology.

As I think Noam Scheiber said a week or two ago, Palin is the first Republican presidential or vice-presidential since Richard Nixon to so genuinely appeal to the politics of resentment. Sure, the Bushes and McCain have played to it. But either economically or socially or both, these men were all to-the-manor-born -- elites who've lived their whole lives on greased rails.

To use a different analogy I think Palin (and perhaps Joe the Plumber too) appeal to the brainstem of conservatism, where the most primitive and persistent impulses are registered, even as the areas of higher reasoning and cognition (frontal lobes and all that) are flat-lining or tracking into oblivion.

Even a week or so back a poll of Republicans found that Palin came in third behind Romney and Huckabee in their choice for a 2012 nominee.

The conventional wisdom seems to be that only the conservative 'intellectuals' have a beef with Palin. But I'm pretty sure the post-election view is going to seem very different. The chatter out of the McCain campaign only confirms what her two months on the public stage has made painfully clear. Palin wasn't simply unprepared for intense scrutiny of a national campaign. The woman is an ignoramus of almost unprecedented magnitude in the annals of national politics. It's not just that virtually every-non-Republican has a negative view of her. I just don't see a national party getting behind someone like that. And before you snark, "What about George Bush?" Sorry but there's no comparison. Whatever else I think of him, he's not a moron. And while he appears to be astoundingly incurious, there's simply no comparison to Palin.

I guess I could imagine a rump Republican party nominating Palin. It could be Palin with perhaps Mark Levin as veep to nail down the all important angry, middle-aged DC Jewish male, right-wing ravanchist vote and Joe the Plumber to run her Phalangist paramilitary. But my strong hunch is that if McCain loses tomorrow that will be the end of Sarah Palin's national political career even if there are some persistent twitches and jerks over the coming months.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/242294.php

From Alaskan Daily News:

A report detailing whether Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power by firing public safety commissioner Walt Monegan will be released this afternoon.Anchorage attorney Timothy Petumenos, hired by the Alaska Personnel Board as an independent investigator, says he will release the report during a news conference starting at 3:30 p.m.

He said the report would cover Monegan's firing as well as a separate complaint from Anchorage activist Andree McLeod alleging that state hiring practices were circumvented for a Palin supporter.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/3/185527/147/460/651455

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TPM Track Composite: Obama Approaching 52%
By Eric Kleefeld - November 3, 2008, 5:07PM
Here's our final daily composite of the six major national tracking polls. Many national polls have coalesced around a projected 52% popular-vote share for Barack Obama, and it shows in our composite:

• Gallup: Obama 53%, McCain 42%, with a ±2% margin of error, compared to a 52%-43% lead from yesterday.

• Rasmussen: Obama 52%, McCain 46%, with a ±2% margin of error, compared to a 51%-46% Obama lead from yesterday.

• ABC/Washington Post: Obama 53%, McCain 44%, with a ±2% margin of error, compared to a 54%-43% Obama lead yesterday

• Hotline/Diageo: Obama 50%, McCain 45%, with a ±3.3% margin of error, unchanged from yesterday.

• Research 2000: Obama 51%, McCain 45%, with a ±3% margin of error, compared to a 51%-44% Obama lead from yesterday.

• Zogby: Obama 51%, McCain 44%, with a ±2.9% margin of error, compared to a 50%-44% Obama lead from yesterday.

Adding these polls together and weighting them by the square roots of their sample sizes, Obama is ahead 51.9%-44.3%, a lead of 7.6 points, compared to the 51.5%-44.2% Obama lead from yesterday.

Counting today, Obama's lead has increased by small amounts in the last five consecutive Composites.

Most elections conclude with a tightening of the race, as the underdog picks up some final bit of steam. But this one seems to have been an exception -- McCain began closing the gap, but then Obama just pulled away all over again.

One more important poll is due tomorrow. We'll be live-blogging it when it comes out.

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/11/tpm_track_compos...

Probe of 'troopergate' expands to other Palin complaints

http://www.centredaily.com/206/story/940582.html

Tom Kizzia- Anchorage Daily News

The state Personnel Board investigation of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's firing of Walt Monegan has broadened to include other ethics complaints against the governor and examination of actions by other state employees, according to the independent counsel handling the case.

The investigator, Tim Petumenos, did not say who else is under scrutiny. But in two recent letters describing his inquiry, he cited the consolidation of complaints and the involvement of other officials as a reason for not going along with Palin's request to make the examination of her activities more public.

Two other ethics complaints involving Palin are known. One, by activist Andree McLeod, alleges that state hiring practices were circumvented for a Palin supporter. The case is not related to Monegan's firing. The other, by the Public Safety Employees Association, alleges that trooper Mike Wooten's personnel file was illegally breached by state officials.

John Cyr, the PSEA executive director, said Monday the union plans to amend its complaint to be sure the board investigates "harassment" of Wooten as well.

Petumenos has not spoken to the press, in keeping with the secrecy of the state process. But he gave a rough description of the investigation's course in two letters to an Anchorage attorney threatening a lawsuit over Palin's effort to waive confidentiality.

Attention is turning this week to the Personnel Board -- the state's official avenue for investigating ethics complaints -- after release of the Legislature's Troopergate investigation last Friday. The Legislature's investigator concluded that Palin was within her rights to fire Monegan as public safety commissioner, but abused her power and broke the ethics law in joining her husband to push for the firing of Wooten, who was once married to the governor's sister.

Palin reversed an earlier pledge and refused to cooperate with the Legislature's investigation, calling it politically biased. In an unusual twist, she filed the ethics complaint against herself before the board, saying she hoped to "clear the air" by an inquiry through proper channels. She asked the board to decide if she broke ethics laws or acted improperly in dismissing Monegan or in dealing with Wooten -- basically the same ground Branchflower covered.

Petumenos has requested a copy of Friday's legislative report, including confidential backup material, said Sen. Kim Elton, D-Juneau, chairman of the Legislative Council. Elton said the council will meet Thursday to vote on whether to give Petumenos all the material gathered by its investigator, Steve Branchflower.

Petumenos was hired by the Personnel Board to handle the case because the state attorney general's office, which normally investigates ethics charges, would have a conflict investigating the governor.

Under the state's inscrutable system for investigating official ethics complaints, there's no way to tell how long Petumenos' investigation might take. The Personnel Board, made up of three gubernatorial appointees, has meetings scheduled for Oct. 20 and Nov. 3. Agendas for those meetings mention confidential ethics matters to be handled in executive session.

Nor is there any certainty, if the complaints are settled or dismissed, that the results of the investigation will ever be made public. A review of recent Personnel Board cases, however, suggests it's likely most information will eventually be released.

Palin has been involved in Personnel Board investigations before -- though not as a subject of complaint -- and at the time complained about their secrecy.

In high-profile cases that established her statewide reputation as an ethics reformer, Palin helped with a 2003 investigation of Republican Party chairman Randy Ruedrich, who was working on a state oil regulatory panel, and she co-filed a complaint in 2004 against then-attorney general Gregg Renkes.

Both men were found by investigators to have crossed ethical lines. Details of the investigations were released in the end, as part of a settlement that stopped short of the full public hearing before an administrative law judge that the law requires in serious cases.

In the Ruedrich case, Palin resigned her state job in protest while the investigation was still secret, saying she felt implicated in a cover-up because of the shroud.

"I'd like to find a hero in the Legislature who can take on and change that law and make it more sensible," Palin said at the time she resigned. As governor, she has supported changes to ethics laws, but the secrecy of board investigations has not been changed.

Palin fired Monegan in July and the legislative inquiry began later that month.

Four days after her Aug. 29 selection as John McCain's Republican vice presidential candidate, Palin's lawyer filed an official ethics complaint over the Monegan affair with the Personnel Board, urging the Legislature to give way. The Legislature refused, creating parallel investigations.

Judging from Petumenos' letters on the case, he feels able to range as broadly as Branchflower into subjects related to the original ethics complaints.

One element will distinguish the Personnel Board inquiry: It will have Palin's cooperation.

Sarah and Todd Palin have agreed to be interviewed by Petumenos at the end of next week, said Meg Stapleton, a spokeswoman for the McCain-Palin campaign. She said Monday she has no other details of the arrangement.

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Magnetic Portals Connect Sun And Earth

ScienceDaily (Nov. 2, 2008) — During the time it takes you to read this article, something will happen high overhead that until recently many scientists didn't believe in. A magnetic portal will open, linking Earth to the sun 93 million miles away. Tons of high-energy particles may flow through the opening before it closes again, around the time you reach the end of the page.

"It's called a flux transfer event or 'FTE,'" says space physicist David Sibeck of the Goddard Space Flight Center. "Ten years ago I was pretty sure they didn't exist, but now the evidence is incontrovertible."

Indeed, today Sibeck is telling an international assembly of space physicists at the 2008 Plasma Workshop in Huntsville, Alabama, that FTEs are not just common, but possibly twice as common as anyone had ever imagined.

Researchers have long known that the Earth and sun must be connected. Earth's magnetosphere (the magnetic bubble that surrounds our planet) is filled with particles from the sun that arrive via the solar wind and penetrate the planet's magnetic defenses. They enter by following magnetic field lines that can be traced from terra firma all the way back to the sun's atmosphere.

"We used to think the connection was permanent and that solar wind could trickle into the near-Earth environment anytime the wind was active," says Sibeck. "We were wrong. The connections are not steady at all. They are often brief, bursty and very dynamic."

Several speakers at the Workshop have outlined how FTEs form: On the dayside of Earth (the side closest to the sun), Earth's magnetic field presses against the sun's magnetic field. Approximately every eight minutes, the two fields briefly merge or "reconnect," forming a portal through which particles can flow. The portal takes the form of a magnetic cylinder about as wide as Earth. The European Space Agency's fleet of four Cluster spacecraft and NASA's five THEMIS probes have flown through and surrounded these cylinders, measuring their dimensions and sensing the particles that shoot through. "They're real," says Sibeck...

CONTINUES:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081101093713.htm

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say thank you for the bookmark you sent also...It's cool and I added it to my bookmark collection - thank you... :)

What would you do if you had $150,000 to spend?

Buy a house? Pay for prescription drugs?

The Palin shopping spree is more than the average American household spends on clothes in 80 years.

http://www.dresslikepalin.com/

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-Magnetic Portals Connect Sun And Earth
Submitted by WisePolitics on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 8:28pm.-

VP for vendetta

The Troopergate report suggests how Sarah Palin would govern the US: by abusing her power to settle personal grudges

When I was in Alaska last month, several people told me they were afraid to speak about Sarah Palin on the record, lest they invite retaliation from the governor's office or, God forbid, from the next vice-president. At the time, I didn't take such worries too seriously. As abominable a candidate as Palin is, it was hard for me to imagine vice-presidential staffers trying ruin the lives of private Wasilla citizens just because they had displeased her. But reading the official report of the investigation into the Palin abuse-of-power scandal known as Troopergate, it seems that perhaps her critics were being more prudent than paranoid.

As scandals go, Troopergate is absurdly picayune. According to the report, released Friday by the bipartisan legislative council that authorised the investigation, Palin and her husband tried to use their political power to have her sister's ex-husband, state trooper Michael Wooten, fired from his job and investigated for workers compensation fraud. They also pressed authorities to prosecute him for a moose shooting that was unlawful because of a technicality (the permit had been issued to his then-wife, who was with him at the time, rather than to Wooten, who pulled the trigger). The governor then fired Walt Monegan, the public safety commissioner, because he refused to get rid of Wooten, something he could not legally have done. This stuff is so ridiculously small it seems silly to even be writing about it, especially at time of multiplying global emergencies.

Yet given that there is still a chance - albeit a diminishing one - that Palin could soon be in a position of national political power, it's worth looking at how she has exercised power in the past. As a window into how Palin might rule, Troopergate's very pettiness is what makes it so troubling. We're used to politicians who do favours for campaign contributors, who are too cozy with lobbyists and who resort to underhanded tactics against political foes. What we are not used to are politicians who use their offices to intervene in family quarrels and punish their relatives' personal enemies. For the last eight years, we've suffered under an administration that sees no difference between politics and governing. Palin is something arguably worse, a person who sees no difference between her private life and her public duties. Even Dick Cheney, after all, hasn't used his office to torment disfavoured former in-laws.

Though Palin claims the report has exonerated her, that's an outright lie. It is true that it concluded that she was within her rights to fire Monegan, since the governor is allowed to replace department heads without cause. But it also found that Palin "abused her power" by violating the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act, which holds that any "effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action" is a violation of the public trust.

More interesting than the report's conclusion, though, are its pitiful little details. There are endless haranguing phone calls to people throughout the bureaucracy demanding action against Wooten, even after the Palins are warned that their actions could get them in legal trouble. There are scenes of Todd Palin, who apparently spent a great deal of time working in no official capacity out of his wife's office, presenting Monegan with dirt on Wooten unearthed by a private investigator. We see Todd trying to bust his ex-brother-in- law for dropping his kids off at school and then at church in a patrol car (both times, it turns out Wooten had permission to use the vehicle for personal business). We learn that the judge presiding over Wooten's divorce from Palin's sister weighed the Palin family's vendetta against him in splitting up their assets, ruling that Wooten is likely to earn less in the future because his ex-wife's family "have decided to take off with the guy's livelihood".

This is not, of course, the only case in which Palin has behaved like Gossip Girl's Blair Waldorf, mobilising her minions against those who've fallen from her good graces. One of the people enlisted against Wooten was Palin's legislative director John Bitney, a friend of hers since junior high school. Bitney later angered Palin by having an affair with Debbie Richter, who at the time was separated from Todd Palin's best friend. He was summarily fired. (Debbie Richter has since become Debbie Bitney).

All this is, of course, pretty trivial stuff. But how terrifying to think of a vice-president - or a president - wielding the power of her office to settle such personal grudges. The Bush administration has famously been described as the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis. Palin promises something tawdrier still. Again, bad prime-time soap operas offer the best analogy. Could America survive the rule of the Mayberry Carringtons?

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-The Troopergate report suggests how Sarah Palin would govern the US: by abusing her power to settle personal grudges-

"Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No Yes... "

“There is no probable cause to believe that the governor, or any other state official, violated the Alaska Executive Ethics Act in connection with these matters,” Timothy Petumenos, the Anchorage lawyer hired to conduct the probe, wrote in his final report.

http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/

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I'm Joe the Plumber and I suck at life.

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

Just figured it's a good moment for a "cute" break:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRzTfgds0UI&fmt=18

and i have a collection of page holders - the one I sent you is from the time i lived in tuscany, a little earmarked and smudged, but i thought you'd like it

comment on "joe the skinhead"
November 2, 2008, 5:23PM

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/jchaus/2008/11/comment-on-jo...

Josh Marshall's take on Joe the Plumber is spot on. But it is worth remembering that he represents a fake demographic: plumbers that make over $250,000. There were reports following the last debate the Joe actually makes around $42,000 or so. Note that he needs to make SIX times that income to qualify for Obama's proposed tax increase. He claimed he wanted to buy a business that would make $280,000. But that is just a pipe dream (pun intended). He would like to make 6-7 times the income he now does. But there is no indication he ever will do so. After all, he doesn't even have a plumber's license, which presumably he will need to go into business for himself.

I don't mind him taking advantage of his media opportunity, but he represents a demographic that does not exist. He is not part of the "quarter-of-a-million-dollars-a-year" plumber's demographic. I suspect that there are some plumbing contractors who make that much; but I would be surprised if they get their hands dirty by the time they can achieve this. And a contractor or builder is a very different demographic than he is representing.

So, not only does he appear to be a skinhead, but he is a fabricator. This is entirely appropriate for the McCain campaign, where EVERYTHING is made up.

The McCain campaign is truly reprehensible. Once this campaign is over, President Obama might well forgive him; but we don't have to. We can keep active, keep organized, and call McCain out for the repulsive campagin he waged. And keep at it. And keep at it. And do it again. So that such disrespectible tactics have consequences, and are less likely to happen again.
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Maya Angelou: 'If he wins, it means my country has agreed to grow up'

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"Senator Obama has proven that he knows how to be a president to all the people, not just the rich and mighty, not just to whites, not just to blacks, but all the people. I'm so excited, the excitement can hardly be contained."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/i-never-dared-dream-of-...

mediawise, I will be here and on the chat with sam

have you ever watched the magnetic field attacks that come with solar storms?

who was speaking at a rally in Nevada. It was on c-span.

What a wonderful speaker she is! What a duo!

Disturbed, Desperate Republicans filed FEC complaint against Obama today for visiting his dying grandmother
Joe Sudbay (DC) · 11/03/2008 06:31:00 PM ET · Link
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Heartless bastards. The California Republican Party filed an FEC complaint against Barack Obama today for visiting his dying grandmother -- just hours before his grandmother died. BarbinMD at DailyKos has the details in a post aptly titled, "This Is What Desperation Smells Like." The Republicans are somehow alleging Obama that a presidential candidate using the campaign plane to fly to one of the 50 states is a violation of the law. They're sick. Really, they're sick.

You know, maybe the GOPers don't actually know that Hawaii is a state. They just know about Alaska. Remember all the talk from idiots like Cokie Roberts that Hawaii was "exotic."

Anyway, this is what we get from the GOP. Heartless bastards. Any political attack is acceptable. No wonder this country is such a mess after years of GOP rule. This action says everything you need to know about the Republicans. And, this is another reason why the GOP must be crushed, just crushed, tomorrow.

Soon enough, Obama will be flying on Air Force One. That's pretty sweet revenge, too.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/3/141032/949/825/651082

Alice. did you catch SNL's Countdown parody?

what did you think of the part about Miss Precius Perfect?

And now as promised, a special comment. The letter was brief and to the point. "Dear Mr. Olbermann," it read. "The co-op board, having reviewed your request for an exception to its 'no pets' policy in order to accommodate your cat, Miss Precious Perfect, regretfully concludes that in consideration of the rights of the other co-op residents, such an exception is not possible at this time. Sincerely Richard Lieberstein, co-op president."

And there it was. All perfectly legal. Like the 1942 internment of more than 100,000 Japanese American citizens. Or the forced relocation of the Cherokee on the trail of tears. Or the monstrous injustice of our nation's Jim Crow laws. It was all perfectly legal, and every bit as wrong. If not indeed more so! Mr. Lieberstein, you speak of considerations of the rights of others. How dare you, sir? How dare you? Where, sir, in any of this were the rights of Miss Precious Perfect considered? Damn you Mr. Lieberstein, damn you to hell! No, Mr. Lieberstein -- your decision is not based on consideration but on fear. Fear of the carpets stained, of deliverymen clawed, of kitty litter, boxes tipped over, of hairballs coughed up! We have seen this fear before in Cambodia under Pol Pot. In Russia under Stalin. In Massachusetts under Mitt Romney. It is the fear, sir, and the tyranny up with which we dare no longer put. I pray thee, sir, let us have done with it. And what of the building's other residents? The Donnellys in 7a. The Gaspens in 4b. The gay guys in the garden apartment. Their silence is deafening. See they not that horror to which the Liebersteins have so willingly blinded themselves? This, sir, is a genocide! A feline genocide. And so the verdict is rendered, there is no appeal. Miss Precious Perfect, my mother and I, shall find another apartment. For me, the financial damage is negligible. For Miss Precious Perfect, the psychological damage, incalculable. Still, one imperative remains. Mr. Lieberstein, sir, if you yet retain any trace of honor, you must at once resign as president of this co-op, indeed, sir, justice and decency demands you so to do! Good night. Good luck.

http://celebrity.rightpundits.com/?p=4581 (video)

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/11/02/snl-skewers-olberm...
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Thanks, Bill Kristol

We owe you one.

There is evidence that Palin’s presence on the Republican ticket has hurt McCain with some voters. Fourteen percent of Obama's supporters say they once supported McCain, and the top reason given for their switch was McCain's selection of Palin as his running mate.

-Atrios 19:04

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/03/opinion/polls/main4566821.shtm...

Who wants to be Cindy McCain on Wednesday morning?

http://www.236.com/news/2008/11/03/236_predictions_for_election_n_10007....

Seriously, when this is all done, let's stay in touch.

It's almost over -- the time when we can stop focusing on the election and get back to who, or what gender, Lindsay Lohan is f***ing. How's it going to end? Only the good lord, and Diebold, know at this point. But the pundits have made their predictions. In the list at Huffpost, only Fred Barnes has Obama under the 270 needed to win. We would make fun of him, but he has to talk to Morton Kondrake regularly, which seems punishment enough.

Here are our predictions for the night...

• Keith Olbermann will solemnly use the phrase "this republic" several times.

• John King's relationship with his big map will finally cross the line.

• Piper will drop Trig.

• McCain will drop the C word.

• Fox will make a big deal out of calling Utah for McCain.

• Joe the Plumber will pass the big exam and finally get that plumber's license.

• Levi will break off the engagement before polls close in Alaska.

• "Zack and Miri Make a Porno" will concede to "High School Musical 3: Senior Year" by midnight.

• Matt Drudge will demand to know how the mainstream polls could have been so right.

• Bristol has a "miscarriage."

• Sarah Palin will announce her running mate.

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Oh, Krustol the Clown is owed much more than one.

The main PNAC mouth piece...He is one of the few that I would gladly do time for if I could give them just one solid smack in the mouth.

i apologize if this is a repost...

As for what we will witness tomorrow night:
* Expect the theft of a landslide victory in the presidential race. The announced results may still be convincing. But those results will not show the same level of mandate that the people voted for.

* Be prepared for the possibility of a contested presidential election. McCain continues to insist, all evidence to the contrary, that he can win tomorrow.

* Expect the theft of at least one, potentially many, U.S. Senate and House seats.

Under any of these outcomes, democracy is denied. We must be ready. We must be organized.
WHAT TO LOOK FOR TOMORROW

At No More Stolen Elections!, we will be looking for, and reporting back to you, specific voting rights violations:

* Vote suppression in the form of voter intimidation and polling place, ballot, poll worker, and machine shortages.

* Voting machine problems involving vote flipping and denied recounts.

* Exit poll manipulation and the possibility of a concerted effort to force the winning candidate to concede.

WHAT WE NEED YOU TO DO

In the next 24 hours, please take the following three steps:

1 - PLAN TO ASSEMBLE ON WEDNESDAY - Go to our website and look for a Voter Assembly in or near your community. If you don't see one, organize one. Go to: http://www.NoMoreStolenElections.org/va

2 - TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT THE POLLS - Tell the media to report the truth on Election Night: http://www.nomorestolenelections.org/urgentaction/polls

3 - REPORT VOTING RIGHTS VIOLATIONS - Report any voting rights violations you are aware of: http://www.nomorestolenelections.org/addreport

Frederick Douglass said, "Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both."
Thank you for your refusal to submit.

hey! i just got off the phone with my sister and she said you sent the flotsam book to my nephews. thank you so much! it's now my brother-in-law's favorite kids book and my 4-year-old has started taking his own pictures like that to make his own book. it's a big hit and so sweet of you to send.

i should have an email from my sister to forward to you in a while...

i am so restless. this last day may do me in.

McCain camp: "all examples of fraud" should be addressed

The McCain-Palin campaign released the following statement today:

"With the tomorrow's election, our Honest and Open Election hotline will serve as an informative guide for all Americans participating in the electoral process," said McCain-Palin National Political Director Mike DuHaime. "The hotline will allow us to learn about and take steps toward remedying any voter irregularities at polling places across the country. While we are hopeful that Election Day will be free of any wrongdoing, allies of the Democrat Party, such as ACORN, have shown a willingness to commit fraud in both this election cycle and in 2004. Given the tightness of the polls, all examples of fraud must be addressed to preserve the integrity of the election."

In 2004, multiple forms of voter fraud occurred, including voter intimidation, fraudulent registrations, multiple ballots cast and votes bought for money. Already during the 2008 election cycle, a dead woman in Missouri cast an absentee ballot, individuals were arrested for voting twice in Florida and people in Ohio registered and voted on the same day.
http://www.pollster.com/blogs/

i needed a break from the angstiness, to be away from tv and computer, from politics, just a walk among the oak trees and bayous, it was so peaceful, such a beautiful sunday, gorgeous weather

http://tinyurl.com/6673lo

John McCain's campaign sued Virginia's electoral board today, hours before the election, seeking to force the state to count late-arriving overseas military ballots.

The lawsuit asks a federal judge to order the State Board of Elections to count any overseas absentee ballots sent by November 4 and received by local election officials as late as November 14.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/03/AR200811...

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Eh, I thought McCain wasn't polling well with the military these days? Or is that just those serving in Iraq and Afghanistan?

Joe the Plumber gets 'free pass' from TPD (Caught speeding - Police worried about negativity)

TOLEDO, OHIO -- Joe the Plumber has had run-ins with John McCain and Sarah Palin in the past few days. He has also had a run-in with Toledo Police.

Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher was stopped by two Toledo police officers after he was clocked going 50mph in a 35 mph zone on Dorr St. last week.

Officers ran Wurzelbacher's plates and asked for his license. It was then that the officer realized who he had pulled over. A second officer gave Wurzelbacher a verbal warning and released him.

A police report obtained by NBC24 states that the patrol unit did not issue a citation to Wurzelbacher because it felt doing so would have "negative repercussions to the department and city as a whole".

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The Ohio Attorney General's office has made an inquiry into why Wurzelbacher was not issued a citation since it was a legitimate traffic violation.

http://www.wnwo.com/news/story.aspx?id=216450

very funny and ben affleck was so good; good writing too, the miss precious perfect, so cute, so perfect

..was that Blue Bayou?

The unexpected wave of millions of early voters casting ballots for Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama may prompt Congress to mandate some form of early voting nationwide for future elections, experts say.

So far, more than 24.4 million voters have cast ballots in states where early voting is allowed, providing convenience for voters and, in theory, rescuing poll workers from an overwhelming turnout on Tuesday. This historic election is expected to fuel congressional support for a law that allows voters to cast early ballots without providing an excuse, said the director of the nonpartisan Early Voting Institute, professor Paul Gronke.

In many states that require a reason for early voting, mail-in voters must provide election officials with a formal excuse explaining why they cannot vote on Election Day. They often must obtain signatures from notaries or physicians before they can be granted a ballot.

"It is almost certain that after the election there will be legislation proposed in the next session of Congress that will mandate no-excuse absentee balloting nationwide," said Gronke. "This will especially be the case if Democrats take the White House."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/03/early.voting/?iref=mpstoryview

That place should do it mire.

It looks very peaceful...zen-like.

Highway workers found voter information scattered on the side of Interstate 4 this morning in Tampa, according to the St. Petersburg Times.

The documents, which filled nine garbage bags, "carried an alphabetical listing of Tampa residents, their party affiliations, age, sex, home address, and sometimes phone numbers," the paper says. "Each entry includes a check boxes to mark whether each person supports John McCain or Barack Obama, whether they voted and whether they need a ride to the polls on Election Day."

Local election officials say the documents are based on public information. "They're not our papers," Mia McCormick, a spokeswoman for the county elections office, tells The Tampa Tribune. "Sometimes candidates request this information for campaign surveys. But we don't know whose they are."

Officials say the documents will probably be destroyed.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/11/voter-informati.html

Photo from Bryan Farrow

The documents found today on I-4 appear to be survey results but remain unclaimed. The elections office says the information in the documents is public record.

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/nov/03/031139/hillsborough-voter-record...

that looks quite wild but it's right in the middle of the city - as to the catfish, yes probably, occasionally i have seen people fish there, people letting their dogs run unleashed (or swim), young couples picnicking, but most of the time it's very quiet, it really feels like being in some remote place, I think not many people know about it, known to just a few who don't wanna talk about it too much so they can have it to themselves for as long as possible -

http://tinyurl.com/6673lo

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton is back in Minnesota today with the goal of adding Al Franken as a colleague and nudging the Democrats toward that magic total of 60 seats in the Senate.

Clinton, the former First Lady who pushed to the very end in her campaign for the Democratic nomination for president, is scheduled to appear on Franken's behalf at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.

The rally to get out the vote for Franken and Barack Obama, her party's choice for president, is scheduled for 4 p.m. at the Romano Gym. The doors open at 3:45 p.m., and no tickets are required.

A Franken victory over GOP incumbent Norm Coleman is seen as vital to the Democrats' drive to control 60 seats in the Senate, a total that would give the party a better chance of thwarting filibusters.

http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/33744774.html

My Top 10 Wish List
by BooMan
Mon Nov 3rd, 2008 at 03:14:42 PM EST

Here's my Top Ten list of Republicans I'd like to see lose tomorrow (that have at least a reasonable shot of being defeated):
1. John McCain- because that means we get President Obama!!
2. Rep. Virgil Goode (VA-05)- because of his histrionic anti-Muslim bashing.
3. Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia- because of his campaign against Max Cleland in 2002 and his view of black people as 'the other guys'.
4. Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky- for being a total corporate tool and because he's the leader of the obstructionist Senate Republicans.
5. Rep. Michele Bachmann (MN-06)- because she wants the FBI to interrogate Democrats for signs of anti-Americanism. Because she's a hero of the loony religious right.
6. Sen. Liddy Dole- for running an ad that falsely accused her opponent of atheism.
7. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (CO-04)- for her over-the-top gay-bashing.
8. Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska- because he's a convicted felon. Because I am very excited about the job Mark Begich will do in the Senate.
9. Rep. Steve King (IA-05)- because he's a frothing-at-the-mouth lunatic and because his opponent Ron Hubler would be an awesome progressive replacement.
10. Rep. Charlie Dent (PA-15)- because his opponent Sam Bennett and I had a great time together in Austin, and I'd like to have a friend in Congress.

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2008/11/3/151442/295

I like your pics! Thanks for sharing.

Have to be at the polling place at 5 AM. Lots still to do tonight and I have to set an alarm for 3:30AM

I'm intrigued to know how many people will vote at our poll tomorrow. I wish I had the amount from the 2004 election for our polling place to compare.

The election commission said they may approve a later close subject to the lines we have. If it's really bad, I may not get home until Wednesday!

Beautiful photo!

...that's one long day for sure.

Thanks for steppin' up.

No newspapers, TVs, radios, laptops, cameras. No wearing political clothing, buttons, logos, etc.

If someone tries to come in with apolitical t-shirt, they may not be admitted to the polling place.

We are not to ask for an ID if the voter's name is on our list. If they aren't on the list, we have another place to look which is our little blackberry that we can use to go to the election commission's list of voters to make sure they are at the right polling place.

We have the voter sign below thier signature that was copied onto our form and the only time we ask for IDs is if their sig doesn't match or their file copy is flagged.

That new Rev Wright, `Obama too radical' commercial from whatever GOP's PAC bugs me...

God, I can't imagine anyone truly stupid enough to fall for it at this point in the game.
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I've been an election judge for many years now. I missed the primary this past year because of my knee but I've been doing it for awhile.

They're going to be needing more election judges in the future. With early voting and more voters, election judges will be at a premium.

but only found out too late - they were giving classes, certifications and hiring poll workers, last saturday - by the time i read about it in the paper they were done with their search

they had many openings in preparation for large turnout and paying $200 for the day - not too bad for interesting work

i was sorry for the missed chance - I will have to keep my eyes open for the next time (2012)

If McCain is The Maverick

Then Palin MUST be the Escort.

How do you feel? I mean, this is the moment we've all been waiting for. Would you liken it to childbirth? You've followed along with this matter for the longest time, and now, here we are...Election Eve!

Is John McCain the Second Coming of Christ?

http://www.236.com/blog/w/meg_favreau/is_john_mccain_the_second_comi_100...

Meg Favreau | Bio

On the eve of an election so important that it will physically force the Hale-Bopp comet to once again pass by the Earth, I worry about the information people will have when they go to the polls. This campaign season, there has been too much misdirection and not enough facts. This is why I want you to consider one important question before casting your vote: Is John McCain the second coming of Jesus Christ?

Think about it. Both have suffered great torture. Both have had friends who have betrayed them (Judas, Colin Powell). And both are deeply loved by the elderly.

But that's not all. John McCain is against gay marriage and abortion, and in the Bible, didn't Jesus say "I am against gay marriage and abortion?" (not a direct quote). And where Jesus magically turned water into wine, John McCain magically turned himself from someone who was kind of hated by Republicans into a Republican-loved guy who uses an unlicensed plumber as a campaign mascot.

Moreover, if we're talking about mavericks, Jesus was the original maverick--rallying against the system to bring a totally new religion to the people. John McCain is kind of like that in how he will bring a new sense of hatred and depression to many of the American people if he wins.

So when you go to the polls tomorrow, just remember this one plain fact: John McCain is Jesus Christ
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Thank you so much! I love it.

A Letter for McCain Supporters' Eyes Only

http://www.236.com/blog/w/adam_mckay/a_letter_for_mccain_supporters_1000...

If you're voting for McCain and you've clicked to read this I promise this will be pain free and fast. First off, I respect you for voting tomorrow. Right away you've set yourself above the apathetic millions and clearly you care about this country.

Before you punch, click or fill in your ballot for John McCain I would like to have a small one sided non-argumentative conversation with you as a person who also cares whether this country continues to grow and flourish or not.

If you're not going to vote for Barack Obama because of the emails and rumors that he is a terrorist or hangs out with criminals or is a Muslim please do not let that be the reason.

This begs the first question: why in the hell should you listen to me? Well my answer would be, why not? I have no tax breaks or corporate interests to be supported by Barack Obama. In fact, as someone who makes over 250k a year I will pay more. So why would I lie or shill for him unless I truly believed he is the right choice?

And remember, there were a lot of us who said very early on that Bush was up to no good and that the Iraq war would be a mistake. If you voted for Bush in the past why not at least listen to another point of view? If you're one of the twenty something percent who still think Bush has done a good job then I'm guessing you aren't reading this anyway.

The bottom line is that I believe no one wants a bad leader on purpose so clearly you were given some bum information if you voted for Bush. That's okay. You were doing the best you could. But don't rely on that very same information all over again. Whether it be FOX news, emails or friends or family.

Which brings me back to the rumors and emails about Obama. They are false. Not only are they false, they're crazy false. They are. And it would be a tragedy for anyone to make a decision based on those kinds of dark ugly lies.

It's also possible you are voting for McCain because he is "pro-life." I ask you to please remember that there is not one person in this country who thinks abortion is a "good" thing. The only reason any of us think that it should be open as an option to women is because if it wasn't, then people would do it anyway and they be hurt and assaulted by creeps offering illegal abortions. That is literally the only reason. The way to stop abortion is to offer sex education and protection. For that reason there were fewer abortions during the Clinton administration then during the Bush tenure.

If by chance your religion is against protection or sex education then I ask you to question that stance and any group that resists educating kids about how easy it is to have a baby. After all, is there anything more precious than a baby? Nope.

I'm almost done. Stay with me (or stay against me but please keep reading).

If you are a person who is voting for McCain because you think Obama is a communist who wants to redistribute the wealth, I know you are smarter than that. Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet and we are saying it's not fair. Why would we work against our own interests? The answer is simple: because fair taxation makes the whole country stronger and if the country isn't strong our money ends up disappearing anyway (see massive stock market crash currently in progress). Bush redistributed the wealth and McCain has been very clear that he will continue to give tax breaks to big corporations and the wealthy in the name of trickle down economics. He really truly has. It's a big fat fact.

I also know that from years of Corporatists and fundamentalists turning the word "liberal" into a code word for gays and hippies and commies you think that blue staters all want to corrupt our country and have people marrying dogs and smoking crack and burning Christmas trees. Here's the real truth we're pretty much just like you. We really, truly are.

And finally if you are not voting for Barack because of the color of his skin, then there may be nothing I can say to you. But I just ask that you really consider this decision. Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way. And I think in your heart of hearts you know that is very true. The world is changing and if we think and act like it's the 1600s then America will slip hard.

That's it. Thank you for reading. Now let's send a message to the world and our children that the United States learns from it's mistakes and can change when necessary. Remember, you're alone in that voting booth. You don't have to tell your McCain loving friends who you voted for. And chances are one or two of them will secretly vote for Obama. And as a reward for reading this a 30% off coupon for Dave & Busters is being sent to your home.
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>>Then Palin MUST be the Escort.

wicked hilarious, bibi!
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Happy birthday to me...
Happy birthday dear 'nnette-y..
Happy birthday to me!

I cannot believe Obama's grandmother chose today to die. That is so depressing.

>>If McCain is The Maverick

unsafe at any speed?
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>>Happy birthday to me...

what did you ever do to deserve a birthday? ;)

Happy birthday!
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But I like 'em! Presents and good food! Yay!!

and thanks!

California Prop guide.

http://goypm.org/images/2008/10/postcard-6-orgs.jpg

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Enjoy the month and celebrate!

Berman will be interviewing Obama and McCain at halftime

On ESPN though....

great one as usual!

Happy Birthday and many many happy returns!

Happe Talk

>>Berman will be interviewing Obama and McCain at halftime

I expect an interview that is fluffy and right-leaning. w/ the ABC ownership, and all...
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I couldn't get on today - I was working so hard I got no lunch break and only 1 break late this afternoon. So..yeah...that's why I'm just now tellin' ya. :-)

But thanks for the birthday wishes!

Seriously.

I think the gamers have gone too far.

http://www.prepareforthefuture.com

It's my B-Day too. Happy Birthday to us!! That's my one post for this quarter...now back to lurking :)

mccain doddering already.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY 2 ANNETTE!!!!!!!

McCain panders to the Chris `he-could-go-all-the-way' Berman vote...
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Happy Birthday.

Did anyone tell you that John McCain is a Nimrod?

Well,
I just did.

"Hope lies eternal in the human breast". JS McCain, Nov 3rd, 2008.

Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you

(Sorry, I wanted to post a picture of
some sorts - but I'm on a PC @ work -
I don't remember how to do it)

is on Malloy now........

Wow, that's amazing... THANKS! Same b-day huh? Too cool :-)

:-)

I'm watching ESPN.

Barack was just on.

They're going to air McCain next.

How hard it must be for Barack to smile right now...

The real nimrods are the people who don't read anything or watch the news, but they're going to go vote for him because he's more of the same.

But the thing is, it reminds me of the mousetown thing that somebody posted...mice that keep electing cats. They're all rich...and yet we expect them to do things to protect the middle class.

I'll vote for Obama, and hope that he keeps his promises.

whoa!

what a blog day for a B'day!

the nekkid dancer boys i hired could'nt find your apartment so i baked a cake instead.

this week myself. I like to
forget about them though.
After turning 40 I said " I don't want
any more b-days, I do like a
present or 2"

Happy Birthday to you

I hope all your wishes come true!

>>I think the gamers have gone too far.

good lord, does this take forever to load!

do not attempt this on dialup!

I love the graphics, but...
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on espn right now.

Happy whenever B'day to u 2!

And yeah, chubby, I know...I gave up on it, but the commercial said:

FALLOUT! Prepare for the future! And it looked like end of the world shit...you know after talking to my sisters and people I go to church with, I'm getting tired of all the end-of-the world talk.

My husband just got done telling me that Obama probably won't be too long before following his grandma.

Now THAT just ain't NICE!!!

So, does that mean they're not comin'?

thanks for hanging out with us!

http://www.ragerlaw.com/PostcardImages/PostcardHappyBirthdayFlowersForYo...

WWE is on the telly, my husband is snoring, and I can't find the remote.

Happe Talk

It's my B-Day too. Happy Birthday to us!! That's my one post for this quarter...now back to lurking :)Happy Birthday

Don't just lurk, join in the fun :)

last i saw they were talking pizza joint raid.

I'll send em over if they show up later.

My step-daughter's is the 6th of November. A true Scorpio she is!

By the way, if you are at all interested, Palin released her medical records. Breaking news on CNN.

I finally found the remote, and changed it to ABC (which I never get to watch) and Boston Legal was finishing up, and the attorneys were shooting each other with paintballs.

I so want to try that...

I'll take a raincheck.. :-)

>>pizza breath naked dancer boys?

not to much for the second hand anchovies?
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Obama's last rally tonight in Manassas, Virginia.

You can see the sadness in his face.

shooting attornies?

we should rig an expresso cart with an attorney shooting gallery game and hang out down at the courthouse.

$20 for ten shots.

Yeah, and the garlic...ew. No ty..

As for the gallery game, wanna go in with me on a patent?

http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=ubnt1uv51q

Court weighs amputee's case, limits on drug suits

By Joan Biskupic, USA TODAY
Supreme Court justices struggled Monday with when people hurt by federally approved drugs may sue for their injuries in state courts.
At its broadest, the case could lead to a sea-change in how manufacturers are held accountable when something goes wrong with a prescription drug because of inadequate labeling.

Yet, arguments Monday suggested the justices could also end up with a narrow decision based on the specific facts of the dispute brought by a woman whose arm had to be amputated after a drug was wrongly administered and she developed gangrene.

Diana Levine won a $6.7 million jury award against drug maker Wyeth. It was upheld by the Vermont Supreme Court.

The question before the justices was when drug labels that have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration can be targeted in state product-liability lawsuits.

The case could come down to whether the FDA specifically had considered and rejected a revised label for Wyeth's anti-nausea drug Phenergan that would have prevented its mis-use.

Numerous outside groups have lined up on the two sides of the case in anticipation of a broad ruling that would dramatically affect state remedies for personal injuries.

The National Conference of State Legislatures, siding with Levine, warned the court of the high social costs to states of injured and uninsured people with no recourse in state courts for damages from manufacturers.

The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, siding with Wyeth, countered that the threat of liability under myriad state laws can drive beneficial drugs off the market and discourage the development of new ones.

A majority of the justices did not tip their hand during the hour of oral arguments. Many suggested a key question may be how the FDA had handled any attempt by Wyeth to change its label to made clear the dangers from the particular administration used on Levine.

Levine had gone to a Vermont Clinic in 2000 to be treated for a migraine headache. The Phenergan was inadvertently injected into an artery, rather than a vein, and caused immediate gangrene.

Levine sued Wyeth under Vermont laws related to manufacturer negligence and failure to warn about dangerous side effects.

She said the intravenous "push" method used to inject the drug directly into her arm significantly increased the risks of arterial exposure to the Phenergan. Vermont courts said Wyeth should have warned of the greater risks of IV-push administration of Phenergan so clinicians would not use that method. (Levine separately settled a case with the clinic.)

In the company's appeal Monday, Wyeth's lawyer Seth Waxman said labeling claims are the domain of the FDA, which has the authority to determine what should be on a label. He said Wyeth had sought to change the drug's label but was turned down by the FDA.

Waxman emphasized that the agency has comprehensive authority to determine the benefits and risks associated with drugs and their labeling language.

Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Antonin Scalia appeared most open to arguments that would limit state authority for such product-liability cases.

Scalia suggested that the Phenergan label might already have provided sufficient warning about methods and that allowing states to add more requirements could "make a mush out" of product-liability policy faced by manufacturers.

Levine's lawyer, David Frederick, argued that the FDA had never specifically reviewed whether a new warning related to the so-called IV-push method should be on the label.

Justices David Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg seemed most sympathetic to his arguments. Ginsburg expressed doubts that the FDA would have rejected a stronger label warning for a method shown to cause gangrene.

In Frederick's written filing he noted that, "For more than a century, patients injured by dangerous drugs have successfully brought state-law failure-to-warn claims against drug manufacturers."

He said the FDA had regarded such state claims as a complement to federal regulatory efforts until the Bush administration changed the policy in 2002.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-11-03-supreme-court-amputee...

People trying to early vote, getting turned away today...

So I'd better get to sleep!

Night you guys!!!

He had a new story today. You can probably watch it on his site if you missed it.

"Are you fired up?"

"Are you ready to go?"

Is this thing over yet ? ;)

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

Long day tomorrow.

Submitted by GBC on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 6:28pm.
...Enjoy it now, Sarah, 'cause we're kicking your silly winking folksy lipsticked butt back to Alaska. For good. Also.
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And the great Ronald Reagan.

we're eating garlic/anchovy pizza,

shooting attorneys and chasing Annette around at her B'day

party trying to give er a big ol' smooch!

ya know, same ol boring stuff.

whaddya up to yerself?

hope ya get a good snooze in!

He just took off. It is 11 PM in Manassas, VA and he is improvising his speech.

Maron was there this afternoon and I am guessing was still there a few minutes ago. I can't wait to hear his impressions tomorrow. I hope he stayed around.

Sunshine Jim
It's Friday

SJ..Just getting caught up on MvS..
Waiting for the live/tape stuff to pop up on their site..
Watching today's show.. :)

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

traditional Blog B'days last a week!

yer good til the 14th!

where do you want us to send the naked pizza strip dancer polka band boys?

Theres not enough Vicodin in Connecticut to keep me from killing myself if Obama loses....

good on ya bud!

Submitted by cent on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 9:23pm.

Oh, Krustol the Clown is owed much more than one.

The main PNAC mouth piece...[Bill Kristol] is one of the few that I would gladly do time for if I could give them just one solid smack in the mouth.

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Kristol Knocked Wurst.

get a grip on yourself. Think of the comedy of it.

HeeHee..long time no see.. :)

He better friggin win !

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

Submitted by toniD on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 11:53pm.

c-span has Obama's last rally tonight in Manassas, Virginia.

You can see the sadness in his face.

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Second Bull Run.

says he's willing to shave a heart in his back hairs!

is that boy a true artist or what?

Toni, I can't find any info on Palin's medical records being released.

Happe Talk

come from ? ;)

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

Car talk

Submitted by bibimimi on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 10:41pm.

If McCain is The Maverick

Then Palin MUST be the Escort.

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If Palin is the Escort

Then John McCain MUST be the Gremlin.

hey mmr, fernando and Sunny J ,and all other cool liberals from M.R. ...

right on right on....

1 more day.

heh!

who's the Edsel?

sh*t..According to them..FascistsRThem !

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

Northern IL.
Just south of the Wisconsin
border. By the way -
I'll send you pictures of my
new home. Just moved in yesterday.
I'm exhausted!!

ACK!

Hong Kong,still ?

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

congrats on the new house!

Neo London , Connecticut

they expect 90% voter turn-out here.

Yee-ha !!

This is a blue state

Don't remind me that there is no more Opus..

I'm still in Mourning.. :(

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

Normally I like to make nice blog birthday cards...and I just haven't been up to it lately...I am sorry and I owe you and mhappenow better blog b-days..

for now...

Enjoy your birthday week.. :)

picture hosting made easy!

http://www.oosah.com/
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good to read ya!

and lurkers deserve a B'day post too!
Submitted by Sunshine Jim on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 11:41pm.

Happy Birthday to you to pee.ey!
Submitted by toniD on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 11:43pm.

Jmach1JP

http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc108/Jmach1P/Obama20081103-06.jpg

don't tell me about no hobo-bouquet.com...
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long time no see!

LTNS

best wishes!

SEDER

Submitted by Annette on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 10:42pm.

How do you feel? ... and now, here we are...Election Eve!

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May she bite lasciviously of the tree of knowledge.

236.com John McCain Senior Moment Video Library

http://www.236.com/news/2008/11/02/236com_john_mccain_video_libra_1_9967...

Just in time for his crushing loss on Tuesday, every John McCain senior moment on file. Enjoy.
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^

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

My little friend came in and freaked me out when he said - "Hey thanks for telling your friend Sunshine Jim about my site" - then he said you left a comment on his website...He was so thrilled.. so THANK YOU - he is a cool kid... and you are very thoughtful...

DEATHTONGUE!

http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~mortenj/fimland/boingers/deathtng.jpg

Polls point to a McCain upset if you are polling John McCain

http://www.236.com/news/2008/11/03/_poll_spread_sean_hannity_9999.php

The right wing is still hoping for a McCain win. On Friday, Rush Limbaugh analyzed the polling data and concluded, "It's a dead heat."

Five Thirty Eight.com has Obama at +12. So which polls are Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the right-wing consulting?

The Rush's Message Board Poll
McCain +2

The Dad's office not including the secretaries Poll
McCain +8

The 23% of Texans Poll
McCain +7

The People who thought they heard that John McCain switched to the Democratic Party after the 2000 primary Poll
McCain +7

The McCain family except Bridget Poll
McCain +1

The Karl Rove "Of course he'll win! Oh, we're off the record? Ok, no f*cking way" Poll
McCain +4

Zogby
McCain +1
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I won't embarrass you...

♥∞♥∞♥∞♥

THANK YOU! A very LARGE thank you...

I'm Sarah Palin and I'm here to say
Ole Johnny Boy's gonna kick some day
And when he does, I gots no grief
'Cause then I'll be the Commander-in-Chief

Whoompa, whoomp. Whoompa, whoomp.

And when I am, you pussies'll squeal
While I blast me some presidential seal
No Crawford for me on my days off
I'll fly over the tundra with my Kalashnikov

Whoompa, whoomp. Whoompa, whoomp.

And The Rapture? Don't get me started
I'll be the first of the dearly departed
My designer shoes will have stayed
But who cares? The RNC paid!

Whoompa, whoomp. Whoompa, whoomp.

http://picbanker.com/cooler_pics/birthday/happy-birthday-g.gif

(Just my way of saying thanks for all the soft porn.)

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.♡. - .☮.

he IS a good kid.

tell him to pass it on sometime in the future! ;)

eya Zeek!

dandy Steven Stills take!

always enjoyed that crew.

alice!
Submitted by jenise on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 9:27pm.

Don't know if I have
Internets service where
I'm @. Phone gets turned
on Wed.
Won't be able to blog
until I get back to work
tomorrow.
Happy Obama election day to
everyone.
Now for the long ride home....................

Too excited.

I have illusions.

I know Chomsky says that's not allowed...

2 Xanax. Nothing.

Alarm set for 4:15.

AAAAAAAGH!!

dr!

Submitted by Alice on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 1:05am.

I won't embarrass you...

♥∞♥∞♥∞♥

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Whew.

I gots enough troubles embarrassin' myself w/o others pilin' on.

I wonder where his parents came up with it..Ott Henry...But I heard his mom call him Ottie tonight...

in Reno tonight, even as we post. We're getting a good dose of snow in the Sierra's tonight, luckily the voting lines get shorter above 6,500 feet.

LMFAO!

goodun Crnkr!

Sarappin'

Submitted by Crank Bait on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 1:06am.

I'm Sarah Palin and I'm here to say
Ole Johnny Boy's gonna kick some day
And when he does, I gots no grief
'Cause then I'll be the Commander-in-Chief

Whoompa, whoomp. Whoompa, whoomp ...

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Sarahn Sarappin' Sirhan Satrappin'.

Submitted by Alice on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 1:12am.
I wonder where his parents came up with it..Ott Henry...
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Real name = Zero.

Nickname = Aught.

but since I only read what Keith says here and have never seen his show I guess I didn't get it..someone here said it was long..it was long...but I thought it was just b/c I didn't get it that it seemed too long...

--what did you think of the part about Miss Precius Perfect?-

Shoot sorry, Chubbs..I don't remember that part...but I saw you guys posting about it..wasn't sure what you were referring to..now I know...I'm sure it'll repeat soon tho..they always do huh..?

when he's doing something interesting with the site!

think he was here in the last few days but did'nt stick around long enough to get a few replies.

Worried about L a bit, hope she's ok.

Hope the spat pup has a good supply of thorazine, might keep him of the ledge.

Viva La Revolution!

do you?

Submitted by gbasin on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 1:13am.

Sarah the impaler is speaking in Reno tonight, even as we post. We're getting a good doze of snow in the Sierras tonight, luckily the voting lines get shorter above 6,500 feet.

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Sarah the Mile-High Bull Dozer.

And now as promised, a special comment. The letter was brief and to the point. "Dear Mr. Olbermann," it read. "The co-op board, having reviewed your request for an exception to its 'no pets' policy in order to accommodate your cat, Miss Precious Perfect, regretfully concludes that in consideration of the rights of the other co-op residents, such an exception is not possible at this time. Sincerely Richard Lieberstein, co-op president."

And there it was. All perfectly legal. Like the 1942 internment of more than 100,000 Japanese American citizens. Or the forced relocation of the Cherokee on the trail of tears. Or the monstrous injustice of our nation's Jim Crow laws. It was all perfectly legal, and every bit as wrong. If not indeed more so! Mr. Lieberstein, you speak of considerations of the rights of others. How dare you, sir? How dare you? Where, sir, in any of this were the rights of Miss Precious Perfect considered? Damn you Mr. Lieberstein, damn you to hell! No, Mr. Lieberstein -- your decision is not based on consideration but on fear. Fear of the carpets stained, of deliverymen clawed, of kitty litter, boxes tipped over, of hairballs coughed up! We have seen this fear before in Cambodia under Pol Pot. In Russia under Stalin. In Massachusetts under Mitt Romney. It is the fear, sir, and the tyranny up with which we dare no longer put. I pray thee, sir, let us have done with it. And what of the building's other residents? The Donnellys in 7a. The Gaspens in 4b. The gay guys in the garden apartment. Their silence is deafening. See they not that horror to which the Liebersteins have so willingly blinded themselves? This, sir, is a genocide! A feline genocide. And so the verdict is rendered, there is no appeal. Miss Precious Perfect, my mother and I, shall find another apartment. For me, the financial damage is negligible. For Miss Precious Perfect, the psychological damage, incalculable. Still, one imperative remains. Mr. Lieberstein, sir, if you yet retain any trace of honor, you must at once resign as president of this co-op, indeed, sir, justice and decency demands you so to do! Good night. Good luck.
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"The Once and Future Rajah of Bhong."

"Give Us the Ballot," Address Delivered at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, Washington, D.C.

Give us the ballot, and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights.

Give us the ballot (Yes), and we will no longer plead to the federal government for passage of an anti-lynching law; we will by the power of our vote write the law on the statute books of the South (All right) and bring an end to the dastardly acts of the hooded perpetrators of violence.

Give us the ballot (Give us the ballot), and we will transform the salient misdeeds of bloodthirsty mobs (Yeah) into the calculated good deeds of orderly citizens.

Give us the ballot (Give us the ballot), and we will fill our legislative halls with men of goodwill (All right now) and send to the sacred halls of Congress men who will not sign a "Southern Manifesto" because of their devotion to the manifesto of justice. (Tell 'em about it)

Give us the ballot (Yeah), and we will place judges on the benches of the South who will do justly and love mercy (Yeah), and we will place at the head of the southern states governors who will, who have felt not only the tang of the human, but the glow of the Divine.

Give us the ballot (Yes), and we will quietly and nonviolently, without rancor or bitterness, implement the Supreme Court's decision of May seventeenth, 1954. (That's right)

http://www.mlkonline.net/ballot.html

me too...I hope Lucille is ok...

Spanish name usually.

Good one, interesting.

I tried going to your little friends site yesterday..

I couldn't get link to work..Probably my connection,though..

It freaks sometimes..

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

Lucille and McCainVoter?

Neither one has been seen since some of the bloggers wrote Sam about banishing her.

Is it a coincidence?

I doubt it...
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David Sedaris hadda bit in the New Yorker 'bout that peculiar brand of fatuous "it's-really-all-about-me-you-know?" navel-gazer what is knowed as the "undecided voter". You can look it up if yer innerested in what he said, cuz it's easier for me to relate the (his) upshot inna joke format:

Twere an undecided voter onna plane 'n the stewardi axed him:

"You got yer choice. We gots broiled chicken or a steamin' pile-a-shit w/some glass shards mixt in."

So the undecided voter mulled his options real earnest-like, as were his wont to do, then w/his customary gravity 'n caution, he axed:

"Say, uh, how'd'ya say that chicken were prepared again?"

...I liked to play the original mario brothers one he had on there...

He's only 9...!

truth be told, I enjoyed the McCaVo persona more, but had more tolerance for Lucille...
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Hate to admit the check for K is not yet in the mail. I filled it out then have been waiting to get paid myself. Hope by the end of the week!

Don't know if L got bored or banned or something else but I wish her and all of us better / less bitter times.

Even war dog, wherever he is.

Cream - Politician

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

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I agree, McV was a nice foil for all the literate posters.

L, I think, was truly a lost soul. Bipolar or some such malady? She seemed good most am. but increasingly nasty in the pm.

Hope she's ok.

I do know that this blog was not good for L. It was interfering in her family life and taking up time at work. I think she is probably feeling better now that she is not here. I hope the best for her truly. But it is like the patrons at the bar feeling badly that the alchy is no longer here. May she find peace and happiness.

Happe Talk

Submitted by Chubby Bubba on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 1:34am.
truth be told, I enjoyed the McCaVo persona more, but had more tolerance for Lucille...
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I don't tolerate anyone whose hobby, raison d'être, illness or philosophy is to be an asshole with the prime intent of irritating others.

They are ticks. Mosquitoes. Except ticks and mosquitoes are attempting to dine and would prefer to do so without being noticed.

A pox on them. Two poxes. A whole box o' poxes.

DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H. – Democrat Barack Obama came up a big winner in the presidential race in Dixville Notch, N.H., where the nation's first Election Day votes were cast and counted early Tuesday.

Obama defeated John McCain 15-6. Independent Ralph Nader was also on the ballot, but received no votes.

The first voter, following tradition established in 1948, was picked ahead of the midnight voting and the rest of the town's 19 registered voters followed suit in Tuesday's first minutes.

Town Clerk Rick Erwin says the northern New Hampshire town is proud of its tradition, but says the most important thing is that the turnout represents 100 percent vote.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081104/ap_on_el_pr/new_hampshire_first_vote...

Let Them Eat Their Own Shit And Die

Submitted by Crank Bait on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 1:46am.

I don't tolerate anyone whose hobby, raison d'être, illness or philosophy is to be an asshole with the prime intent of irritating others.

They are ticks. Mosquitoes. Except ticks and mosquitoes are attempting to dine and would prefer to do so without being noticed.

A pox on them. Two poxes. A whole box o' poxes.

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"There are souls that, crablike, crawl continually toward darkness, going backward in life rather than advancing, using their experience to increase their deformity, growing continually worse, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in the intensifying viciousness."

"Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo

>>. A whole box o' poxes.

Lucille only attacked those who addressed her...if you didn't say anything or look at her cross-eyed ...or noticed her in any way, she'd leave you alone.

Most of the time.

McCaVo, OTOH, never really attacked anyone that I recall. Pretty amazing when you consider how many of us he drove to fits of profanity.

But, I don't think either of them were really who they presented themselves to be.

One thing I am unclear of: Did any of the NYC bloggers actually meet her? I remember some talk of possibly meeting up a couple months ago, but I don't remember if anything came of it.
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Touche

Submitted by Crank Bait on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 1:46am.

A pox on them. Two poxes. A whole box o' poxes.

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Cheney-Linked War Dog: Pox Americana.

"Not flesh of my flesh, or bone of my bone,

But still miraculously my own.

Never forget for a single minute;

You didn't grow under my heart, but in it."

MERRIE DAY OF BIRTH AND ALSO THE NIGHT ;)

/|\)0(
*POOF* ;)

JFI I wasn't able to POST even at SAMHAIN...Luckily, for this "second in time" I can... ;) again *POOF*

>>"Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo

So! Lucille was a deformed and vicious crab!?!

This, sir, is beyond the pale!

How dare you!

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I have no idea if it's the same person, but i expect we'll see some smug-tard driveby posting from McV tomorrow.

L will probably return when the mood hits, i'm guessing.

>>This, sir, is beyond the pale!

Which reminds me.

I am anxiously awaiting Crank Bait's soon to be published book on sand castle engineering, "Beyond The Pail."
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Cheap Trick - I Want You To Want Me

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

I decided to have an anarchistic Saturday by watching V for Vendetta and then Soylent Green back to back. Somehow it made me feel calmer. Strange huh?

If McSenile wins I have a new survival plan.

Soylent Green is Republicans.

Cannibals for McCain!

Almost made up a batch of bumper stickers for that one. Hope it's too late now.

I don't think Lucille and mccavo were one and the same. I think they shared an internet connection.

Mother and son, they are.

Which means mccavo was deported!
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hurray!!!!

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Jamesbennett

>>Hope it's too late now.

Amen to that!
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Hope it's over by the ol' man's bedtime!

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. ~ George Bernard Shaw

was it through husbot?

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Jamesbennett

Sunshine Jim on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 2:00am.
: )

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Jamesbennett

-But it is like the patrons at the bar feeling badly that the alchy is no longer here. -

I can't speak for anyone else...but to me it's more like a human being feeling badly that another human being isn't here...(troubles and all)...

...and her other brother is a 25th ward alderman...

I think he was gone before she was too..by a certain number of hours or days..not sure..just my recollection..

http://dev.www.jsonline.com/news/president/33804019.html

Volunteers remain committed to end

Candidates need them to reach out to voters

Chris Knowlton walks the streets of Wauwatosa armed with a map, campaign literature and a smile. He has one mission: help Barack Obama become the next president of the United States.

Karen Mueller spends much of her free time in a Waukesha strip mall, working the phones, sorting campaign fliers and training other volunteers. Her goal: help send John McCain to the White House.

The two are among the thousands of campaign volunteers in Wisconsin so committed to seeing their candidate win the presidency that they are willing to give up free time with their families, burn through vacation days and endure a constant stream of rejection from people who might not share their enthusiasm for their choice of candidate.

...

Volunteers for third-party candidates also got involved in pre-election efforts. Doug Freedman of Chicago drove 90 miles to the UWM campus to hand out fliers for his candidate, Gloria La Riva, who is on the ballot representing the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

It's important work, he said, though he might just be the only La Riva volunteer in the state.

"She was standing before an arched doorway, over which were the words 'QUEEN ALICE' in large letters, and on each side of the arch there was a bell-handle; one was marked 'Visitors' Bell,' and the other 'Servants' Bell'."

-- Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871)

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-I have a b-day
Submitted by smcgee43 on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 11:27pm.-

Happy Birthday, smcgee43...I'll have to send you the daily kaballah thingie I got today via email...

>>feeling badly that the alchy is no longer here

to me it is more like the crazy neighbors who've moved out.

I think about them sometimes.

I hope they are OK.

But I'm not really eager to see them again.
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soft like putty again...

Do you vote tomorrow Chubbs? Or have you done it or what?

>>Do you vote tomorrow Chubbs?

I must have not told you...I'm a convicted felon.

and even though the state agreed not to take my right to vote away as part of my plea agreement, away my vote remains...

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but after Kevin..I see it differently..and after being a bit wonky myself here in years past if Sam were that intolerant I could have been gone since then...when something or someone is intolerable..I have to think it's me and not them...we don't have any more right to be here than she does...and if the current mix screams loud enough then we are all at risk for this banning thing...if that's what occurred..I don't know...

"I don't recall."

-Aliceberto Gonzales...

Antelope's sex signal in the knee

To demonstrate their sexual prowess, peacocks spread their tail feathers, men flex their muscles and eland antelope, it seems, click their knees.

Scientists from the Zoological Society of London and the University of Copenhagen recorded the sounds of eland bulls in Kenya, Africa.

Reporting in the journal BMC Biology, the researchers say that the depth of the sound correlates to body size.

The tactic signals the bulls' fighting potential, establishing mating rights.

The sound is thought to be made as a tendon in the animals' legs slips over one of the leg bones, and can be heard from hundreds of metres away.

"The tendon in this case behaves like a string being plucked, and the frequency of the sound from a string correlates negatively with both its length and diameter," said Jakob Bro-Jorgensen.

That means that the sound signals how large - and thus how fighting fit - the antelopes are. The antelope can thus establish mating rights among each other while avoiding actual fights.

The unusual approach adds to the list of signals that are known in the animals to provide an indication of their status.

A fold of skin under their throats called the dewlap indicates age, and the darkness of their hair indicates levels of aggression.

sexy antelope knee-clicking sounds

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I don't know if Lucille was who she presented herself to be.

I've always had the suspicion she was a right-winger's parody.
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http://www.liviodemarchi.com/casauk.htm

A house in which even the table, the chairs and the bed seem to have been made of pages to turn and bound covers? You might say that this is a dream turned into reality by Livio De Marchi!

(courtesy of Miss Anne)

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...dewlap...hmmm...trippy story, Chubbs...I hope you can change your status with voting since it seems to have been in an agreement you made with someone...

and same with others too...(I won't name names)...

It is just the man keeping me down...you get used to it.

but, yes, I should be able to clear things up.
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Hope you have great dreams tonight, Chubbs...(you left-wing plant!)... ;)

xoxo

Nite Alice.

Don't get caught up in all the riots tomorrow! ;)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GArqqAgK9sQ
: )
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Jamesbennett

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

Yes. Hopefully today!
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"The Once and Future Rajah of Bhong."

I hope this thing is all over by the time Sam and Marc's 2nd show tonight!

I pray the voter caging, voter discouragement and vote flipping won't be enough for the righties to steal this one.

they do this because they think they know best for America, more so than the voters...sort of elitist, wouldn't you agree?

and they are an organized bunch.

a well practiced, organized bunch
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"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Good I hope..

I agree with you..Hopefully,it will be all over early

And,we can start to take our country back from The Fascists !

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

the key was lost for one of the office doors and I'm spending the rest of the night in the campaign office, for the best any way. This would be the time for dirty tricks. Hope for the best prepare for the worst. Literly, this country could swing the whole state.

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Jamesbennett

Can we have a party first?

Coming up for The West Coast Folks.. :)

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

Hell Yeah,Harold !

But,we Need to Beat their Fat Asses First !

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

For All The Work Your Doing ! :)

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

that my home town in a red state (13% for GWB'04)... would feel like it really matters to this country... (as all do)....

Barack first came to Charlotte, NC in April to a little community college gym. About 5000 showed up and about 3000 got into the event. When I ended up close to what they call the rope line, I started to think about what I would say if I had that 5-10 second chance to have his attention at the end. Well, after working the line to my right, as he came to me, the only thing I was thinking was, 'I wish my wife, who was working two miles away, could be here with me'.

So what came out my mouth? As I shook hands, I paused to give him the chance to look at me to see if I had his attention. Then only three words came out....

Please Come Back!?! (I tore myself up on the waste of a chance).....

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So today.... the last day, we knew Barack was coming back to see us for the fourth time, but the venue was at the University which is 20 minutes north of the Charlotte campaign HQ office. Having been to his three other events here, I decided to stay at work at HQ, and not break the momentum of supplying all the volunteer canvassers with their materials. The event would have absorbed my day, and we had a lot more work to do preparing for our last GOTV day.

Well, when a canvasser we just sent out, came back in following our press guy (he had told him he might want to stick around), I could feel it coming. Barack was going to make the crowd of 25,000 wait in the rain while he took 20 minutes to stop off at CLT Campaign Central, and make a few calls and meet us all and say thanks, and to remind us: DON'T LET UP!!!

I guess "Please Come Back!?!" wasn't such a waste after all......

And being able to chat it up with Reggie Love for a couple minutes waiting for Barack to come my way was pretty damn cool... That man is freaking cool as ice....

.

Neil Young - Lookin' For A Leader

Not This one,for sure !

A joke,NSA man.. :)

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

got home a little over an hour ago.... gotta GOTV today in about another hour.... see you all after the big day!!!!...

REMEMBER TO TELL EVERYONE YOU SEE!!!!

As long as you are in line when the polling time ends, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE!!!!!

Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come

Steely Dan - Change Of The Guard

Tracy Chapman - Talkin ‘Bout a Revolution

The Replacements - Election Day

More Tunes At..
http://www.samsedershow.com/node/3337#comment-277087

Leave a tune if you can.. :)

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

Of course it was long underwear. And there was a coat over it. And there were lots of other people there. And she wasn't Tracy Chapman, per se, then.

But I _was_ very very drunk.

-I must have not told you...I'm a convicted felon.-
Submitted by Alice on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 3:21am.

"I don't recall."

-Aliceberto Gonzales...
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mmr thanks too

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Jamesbennett

I'm up and about to get ready for the polls today. Couldn't sleep well of course! And it's going to be a long ass day.

Hope I make it without colapsing.

Hoping for the best with all my heart. But I will truely be glad when this day is over.

Changing of the Guard/Patti Smith

For working the Polls..

Don't work too hard.. :)
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I would have worked my Polling place here
But,the people who work there are all Wingnut looney's..

I probably would get booted out in No Time !

But,You Go Girl ! :)

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

Love the Patti Smith ! :)

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We all seem abit nervous..

That just shows you how far this country has strayed from

it's core principals,when you have to Really worry about

the other side stealing the Election..

Very Sad & Frustrating..And,Totally Wrong ! Duh ! :)

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

its 1/4 to 4 here. the crew should be getting here in an hour or so too.

Have a good one. Here being obama headquarters in gallup nm.

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Jamesbennett

original posted yesterday

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Jamesbennett

Right ?
I forget which one..

Too funny..
Imus is crazy but,he's ranch for kids is cool..

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

chocolate sunflower seeds
http://www.sunflowerfoodcompany.com/sunnyseeddrops/sunnyseeddrops.html
got some on the desk here -- from Jessica... : )
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Jamesbennett

Oh Happy Day

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Jamesbennett

DOW poised to open sharply higher.

How McCain Could Win

Monday 03 November 2008

by: Greg Palast, t r u t h o u t | Perspective

It's November 5 and the nation is in shock. Media blame it on the "Bradley effect": Americans supposedly turned into Klansmen inside the voting booth, and Barack Obama turned up with 6 million votes less than calculated from the exit polls. Florida came in for McCain and so did Indiana. Colorado, despite the Democrats' Rocky Mountain high after the Denver convention, stayed surprisingly Red. New Mexico, a state where Anglos are a minority, went McCain by 300 votes, as did Virginia.

That's the nightmare. Here's the cold reality.

i got to the polls 20 minutes before they opened and was number 18 for my precinct. the verification process takes about 45 seconds per person and we had 5 booths. with a 3 page ballot it takes several minutes to ink in your choices and then feed it thru the scanner. by the time i was leaving the line was easily 100 people long.

it was impossible to tell from peoples demeanor who they were voting for and nobody was saying except for one old curmudgeon who was voting for mcasshole.

i read that and i'm at a loss to understand democratic complacency. the article says we've known about the vote purging and all the other republican dirty tricks but we have failed to mount an effective offense. is it obama's belief that the number of people voting for him will simply overwhelm the opposition and that he can suffer a 20% slippage?

nobody, i haven't been able to figure out why your stance is so different in this election than it was in 2004. i know you don't like obama much, but is that all?

It was already over 50 degrees at 5:45 when I got in line. It was cloudy but not raining and it didn't look like it was gonna start anytime soon.

Pretty much since shortly after that, the line was consistently maybe 200 people. This is a largely Democratic precinct (racially mixed, mainly African-American and white) in a majority Democratic city.

Voters and election workers were handling things very efficiently. We had the option to vote on paper ballots that weren't provisional. No chads, just unambiguous forms with rectangles to fill in all the way. My neighbor informed people of that choice right when they came into the main room and I made sure to ask "These are not provisional?" and "They go in the machine like the old days and we can see them get counted?" They had a lots of paper-voting cubicles and about six machines (which could get hairy later). Maybe more ppl will be encouraged to vote on paper.

I gave them my collapseable chair that I don't use and then I hung "stay in line and exercise your right" signs for about an hour until they told me to go home.

There were about ten folks there when I left so they really didn't need me.

So, a very good experience. I wish I could average out some of the stress with the people who are getting a hard time, but I can't so I'll just enjoy it.

Oh yeah, and there was a tiny tiny card table for McCain with a plastic box of supplies with the lid still on, but when I left there was still no one there. (Well there was a guy in a sports jacket standing back against the wall looking very self-conscious.)

I really hate talking to strangers on the phone, because I used to have to do it for a living, but I might do it after work until (knock knock) it looks like a done deal.

The bar for Drinking Liberally is right down the street from the office. But that means nothing because I've got to study doncha know. Seriously, I can't stomach the price they want to charge you for cocktail in restaurants, especially with the gentrification here and all.

OT: I thought Bill Press (:-p) just called a male caller "bitch," but I think his name must have been Mitch or something.

The thread right before this only has 56 Comments..

So,let's all move there now or when it actually hits Page 2..

Sounds like a plan Stan ! :)

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/4025#comment-277100

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should NOT try to do "Fired Up! Ready to go!"

There ought to be a law.

62 degrees and sunny in northern Michigan!

http://images.google.com/images?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:o...

See Ya Here..

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/4025#comment-277100

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

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/4025#new