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Happy Halloween From Team Obama

Obama Admits To Being A Secret Communist

Deep down, John McCain knows his economic theories don't work. That's why his campaign said if we keep talking about the economy, we're going to lose. That's why I keep on talking about the economy. They don't want to talk about the economy. But that's what you want to talk about. That's what affects your lives day in and day out. Now, because he knows his economic theories don't work, he's been spending these last few days calling me every name in the book. Lately he's called me a socialist for wanting to roll back the bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans so we can give some tax relief to the middle class. I don't know what's next. By next week he'll be calling me a secret communist because I shared my toys in kindergarten. I shared my peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Look, that's his choice. That's the kind of campaign he chooses to run. But you have a choice, too.

Stick a fork in that line of attack.......this destroys the whole socialist/communist narrative just like Reagan did to Mondale on the age issue in 1984

These People Are Just Sick

Dennis Prager: Equality ‘Is A European Value, Not An American Value’

Equality, which is the primary value of the left, is a European value, not an American value. Let me tell you that right now. I know this sounds offensive to half of my fellow Americans, because they have been Europeanized in their values. The French Revolution is not the American Revolution. The French Revolution said Liberty, Fraternity, Equality. The American Revolution said Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. We have lost touch with what our distinctive American values are. We have distinctive American values. … We have a better value system, and this is being protected by one of the two parties: the Republican party.

So someone in the Rethuglican party is finally being honest about the party's views on equality, time to bring back the classics for our kids in school(Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451, 1984) so understand how evil they have become. He made these remarks while campaigning for Michelle Bachmann of all people and the wingnuts on site loved it.

Just a few Animal Farm quotes come to mind when I think of the sick bunch of folks that make up the core of the Rethuglican party.

"Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer— except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs."

"Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure. On the contrary, it is a deep and heavy responsibility. No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?"

"All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others."

This one has "worst person" written all over it.

Wow! Someone At Fox Gets It !!!!

Red Sex, Blue Sex

I have am willing to wager that two years from now when we have final numbers we will see that both teen pregnancy and abortion rates increased throughout the "pro-life" Bush years after steady declines through the Clinton years.

Why do so many evangelical teen-agers become pregnant?
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During the campaign, the media has largely respected calls to treat Bristol Palin’s pregnancy as a private matter. But the reactions to it have exposed a cultural rift that mirrors America’s dominant political divide. Social liberals in the country’s “blue states” tend to support sex education and are not particularly troubled by the idea that many teen-agers have sex before marriage, but would regard a teen-age daughter’s pregnancy as devastating news. And the social conservatives in “red states” generally advocate abstinence-only education and denounce sex before marriage, but are relatively unruffled if a teen-ager becomes pregnant, as long as she doesn’t choose to have an abortion.

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The vast majority of white evangelical adolescents—seventy-four per cent—say that they believe in abstaining from sex before marriage. (Only half of mainline Protestants, and a quarter of Jews, say that they believe in abstinence.) Moreover, among the major religious groups, evangelical virgins are the least likely to anticipate that sex will be pleasurable, and the most likely to believe that having sex will cause their partners to lose respect for them. (Jews most often cite pleasure as a reason to have sex, and say that an unplanned pregnancy would be an embarrassment.) But, according to Add Health data, evangelical teen-agers are more sexually active than Mormons, mainline Protestants, and Jews. On average, white evangelical Protestants make their “sexual début”—to use the festive term of social-science researchers—shortly after turning sixteen. Among major religious groups, only black Protestants begin having sex earlier.

The Evil That Is "Touch Screen Voting"

This Explains So Much!

The Stink in Farts Controls Blood Pressure

A smelly rotten-egg gas in farts controls blood pressure in mice, a new study finds.

The unpleasant aroma of the gas, called hydrogen sulfide (H2S), can be a little too familiar, as it is expelled by bacteria living in the human colon and eventually makes its way, well, out.

The new research found that cells lining mice's blood vessels naturally make the gas and this action can help keep the rodents' blood pressure low by relaxing the blood vessels to prevent hypertension (high blood pressure). This gas is "no doubt" produced in cells lining human blood vessels too, the researchers said.


"Now that we know hydrogen sulfide's role in regulating blood pressure, it may be possible to design drug therapies that enhance its formation as an alternative to the current methods of treatment for hypertension," said Johns Hopkins neuroscientist Solomon H. Snyder, M.D., a co-author of the study detailed in the Oct. 24th issue of the journal Science.

McCain's Revisionist History On Bush And Iraq

The old guy just makes shit up and Jed nails him on it in this clip.

WTF - That Is Some Sick Chick

Is This For Real? Someone Needs Some Lithium!

I Love The Pollster's User Generated Graphs

We Miss You Paul!

I posted this last year on the fifth anniversary of Paul's passing, I will likely post on the seventh, thanks to Firedoglake for reminding me to post it today on the sixth anniversary.

Yes We Will

They Will Attempt To Steal The Election

Bush Orders DOJ to Probe Ohio Voter Registrations

President George W. Bush late Friday asked Attorney General Michael Mukasey to investigate whether hundreds of thousands of newly registered voters in the battleground state of Ohio would have to verify the information on their voter registration forms or be given provisional ballots, an issue the U.S. Supreme Court weighed in on last week.

The unprecedented intervention by the White House less than two weeks before the presidential election may result in at least 200,000 voters in Ohio not being able to vote on Election Day. Information on the 200,000 voter registration forms does not match up exactly with information on government databases. Republicans are claiming that's evidence of voter registration fraud.

But the mismatched information can be attributed to misspellings and other minor mistakes, not a malicious intent on the part of voters to cast fraudulent ballots. 

Still, House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, sent a letter to Bush Friday asking that he order the Department of Justice to probe the matter claiming Ohio election officials are not complying with federal law. Boehner wants Mukasey to order the Ohio Secretary of State to identify the 200,000 voters by county and precinct and be given a provisional ballot until their registrations are confirmed. Provisional ballots largely go uncounted.

“I strongly urge you to direct Attorney General Mukasey and the Department of Justice to act." Boehner said in his letter “Unless action is taken by the Department immediately, thousands, if not tens or hundreds of thousands of names whose information has not been verified through the [Help America Vote Act] procedures mandated by Congress will remain on the voter rolls during the November 4 election; and there is a significant risk if not a certainty, that unlawful votes will be cast and counted. Given the Election Day is less than two weeks away, immediate action by the Department is not only warranted, but also crucial.”

Independent studies have shown that phony registrations rarely result in illegally cast ballots because there are so many other safeguards built into the system

Why are Rethuglicans always so fixated on spreading democracy around the world all the while doing everything in their power to suppress democracy at home?

Opie and Richie Tell It ?Like It Is

See more Ron Howard videos at Funny or Die

Anger, Fear, and Racism Follow Palin Rally - Imagine That

http://www.lasvegassun.com/videos/2008/oct/22/983/

Ready, Fire - Aim

Ya gotta love circular firing squads.

Palin allies report rising campaign tension
"She's lost confidence in most of the people on the plane," said a senior Republican who speaks to Palin, referring to her campaign jet. He said Palin had begun to "go rogue" in some of her public pronouncements and decisions.

"I think she'd like to go more rogue," he said.

The emergence of a Palin faction comes as Republicans gird for a battle over the future of their party: Some see her as a charismatic, hawkish conservative leader with the potential, still unrealized, to cross over to attract moderate voters. Anger among Republicans who see Palin as a star and as a potential future leader has boiled over because, they say, they see other senior McCain aides preparing to blame her in the event he is defeated.

"These people are going to try and shred her after the campaign to divert blame from themselves," a McCain insider said, referring to McCain's chief strategist, Steve Schmidt, and to Nicolle Wallace, a former Bush aide who has taken a lead role in Palin's campaign. Palin's partisans blame Wallace, in particular, for Palin's avoiding of the media for days and then giving a high-stakes interview to CBS News' Katie Couric, whose sometimes painful content the campaign allowed to be parceled out over a week.

"A number of Gov. Palin's staff have not had her best interests at heart, and they have not had the campaign's best interests at heart," the McCain insider fumed, noting that Wallace left an executive job at CBS to join the campaign.

Grifters

Of Flies And (Wo)Men!! - Hey Ever Hear of "The Google"

So Sarah Palin gives her first policy speech ever claiming a McCain/Palin administration will fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA),

“a law ensuring services to children with disabilities throughout the nation.”

"For many parents of children with disabilities, the most valuable thing of all is information. Early identification of a cognitive or other disorder, especially autism, can make a life-changing difference"

Then she went on and said reducing earmarks will pay for it,

“is more than the shortfall to fully fund IDEA.” She then ripped on some of the projects — such as “fruit fly research”

Well Sarah got some news for ya..........

UNC Protein Discovery Could Boost Autism Research

By UNC News Service Posted: Sep 13, 2007

Now scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have shown that a protein called neurexin is required for these nerve cell connections to form and function correctly.

The discovery, made in Drosophila fruit flies may lead to advances in understanding autism spectrum disorders, as recently, human neurexins have been identified as a genetic risk factor for autism.

“This finding now gives us the opportunity to see what job neurexin performs within the cell, so that we can gain a better insight into what can go wrong in the nervous system when neurexin function is lost,” said Dr. Manzoor Bhat, associate professor of cell and molecular physiology in the UNC School of Medicine and senior author of the study.

The study, published online Sept. 6, 2007, in the journal Neuron, is the first to successfully demonstrate in a Drosophila model the consequences that mutating this important protein may have on synapses.

The research was supported in part by grants from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the National Institute of Mental Health and funds from the state of North Carolina.

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Previous attempts to study these proteins in animal models have been challenging. In vertebrates such as mice, three different genes code for the production of certain neurexin proteins. Deleting just one of these genes causes no adverse effects in mouse models, while removing all three is fatal. But fruit flies have only one gene for neurexin, and when Bhat and colleagues deleted the gene, the flies survived — barely.

“Knocking out neurexin basically resulted in a fly with defective nervous system,” said Bhat, also a member of the UNC Neuroscience Center and the UNC Neurodevelopmental Disorders Research Center.

First of all, the mutated fruit flies had trouble moving around. When the researchers examined the synapses in these flies, they found that half of them were gone. The synapses that remained were deformed, causing them to send out less chemical signals. The researchers, led by Jingjun Li, a graduate student in neurobiology in the UNC School of Medicine, concluded that neurexin is required for the growth of synapses, for the maintenance of their structure and for their function.

Currently, Bhat and other scientists are working to identify the proteins that neurexin binds to, how they interact, and what sequence of events ultimately results in the organization of synapses within nerve cells. The hope is that such studies in Drosophila will one day clarify the role neurexin plays in learning and memory, ultimately leading to a better understanding of how defects in this protein can lead to human disorders such as autism, Bhat said.

Study co-authors include James Ashley and Vivian Budnik from the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

They keep destroying their own narratives, it is down right funny.

An Epidemic Of Incontinence - Just Can't Make This Stuff Up

Blame game: GOP forms circular firing squad

Dan Schnur, a McCain communications adviser during his 2000 run and now a political analyst at the University of Southern California, said McCain should step in to halt the defeatism and self-serving leaks — an epidemic of incontinence — on his own team.

Just gotta love it......even the Republicans not on the team are inept....

My only advice to John is this, if you are having an incontinence issue I would strongly recommend a product with a little better name then "depends", something more like "for sure" or "absolutely"......not "depends"

"Joe The Crazy Brother" Pops Up Again

What Not To Wear - RNC Style

The Republican National Committee appears to have spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August.

According to financial disclosure records, the accessorizing began in early September and included bills from Saks Fifth Avenue in St. Louis and New York for a combined $49,425.74.

The records also document a couple of big-time shopping trips to Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis, including one $75,062.63 spree in early September.

The RNC also spent $4,716.49 on hair and makeup through September after reporting no such costs in August.

It's kinda spendy to clean up Caribou Barbie and the clan.

A Little Daily Show Smackdown

From El Tinklenberg

Bachmann Denies Saying What She Said......Joe McCarthy's Got Nothin' on Her

Colin Powell on Bachmann

Q: Sir, what role did McCain's negativity play in your decision?

POWELL: It troubled me. You know, we have two wars. We have economic problems. We have
health problems. We have education problems. We have infrastructure problems. We
have problems around the world with our allies. And so those are the problems
the American people wanted to hear about, not about Mr. Ayers, not about who is
a Muslim and who's not a Muslim. Those kinds of images going out on al Jazeera
are killing us around the world. And we have got to say to the world it doesn't
make any difference who you are or what you are. If you're an American you're an
American. And this business of, for example, a congressman(sic) from Minnesota who's
going around saying let's examine all congressmen to see who is pro-America or
not pro-America. We have got to stop this kind of nonsense and pull ourselves
together and remember that our great strength is in our unity and in our
diversity. And so that really was driving me

Did you see that...right there #25....Gophers!!!!

AP Top 25

1. Texas (65) 7-0 1,625

2. Alabama 7-0 1,543

3. Penn State 8-0 1,506

4. Oklahoma 6-1 1,358

5. Florida 5-1 1,307

6. USC 5-1 1,292

7. Oklahoma State 7-0 1,252

8. Texas Tech 7-0 1,194

9. Georgia 6-1 1,117

10. Ohio State 7-1 1,053

11. LSU 5-1 987

12. Utah 8-0 943

13. Boise State 6-0 849

14. South Florida 6-1 674

15. TCU 7-1 643

16. Missouri 5-2 568

17. Pittsburgh 5-1 540

18. Brigham Young 6-1 412

19. Kansas 5-2 364

20. Ball State 7-0 357

21. Georgia Tech 6-1 338

22. Tulsa 7-0 321

23. Boston College 5-1 281

24. Florida State 5-1 190

25. Minnesota 6-1 149

And No Paper Trail.....................

More W.Va. voters say machines are switching votes
In six cases, Democratic votes flipped to GOP

WINFIELD, W.Va. -- Three Putnam County voters say electronic voting machines changed their votes from Democrats to Republicans when they cast early ballots last week.

This is the second West Virginia county where voters have reported this problem. Last week, three voters in Jackson County told The Charleston Gazette their electronic vote for "Barack Obama" kept flipping to "John McCain".

In both counties, Republicans are responsible for overseeing elections. Both county clerks said the problem is isolated.

They also blamed voters for not being more careful.

"People make mistakes more than machines," said Jackson County Clerk Jeff Waybright.

Shelba Ketchum, a 69-year-old nurse retired from Thomas Memorial Hospital, described what happened Friday at the Putnam County Courthouse in Winfield.

"I pushed buttons and they all came up Republican," she said. "I hit Obama and it switched to McCain. I am really concerned about that. If McCain wins, there was something wrong with the machines.

"I asked them for a printout of my votes," Ketchum said. "But they said it was in the machine and I could not get it. I did not feel right when I left the courthouse. My son felt the same way.

"I heard from some other people they also had trouble. But no one in there knew how to fix it," said Ketchum, who is not related to Menis Ketchum, a Democratic Supreme Court candidate.

Ketchum's son, Chris, said he had the same problem. And Bobbi Oates of Scott Depot said her vote for incumbent Democratic Sen. John D. Rockefeller was switched to GOP opponent Jay Wolfe.

"I touched the one I wanted, Rockefeller, and the machine put a checkmark on the Republican instead," Oates said of her experience Thursday.

She said she caught the mistake, called over a worker in the county clerk's office and was able to correct her vote. But she worries other voters may not catch such a mistake.

When asked if she is sure she touched the box for Rockefeller, she said, "I'm absolutely positive."

Putnam County Clerk Brian Wood said on Saturday that he is upset there are "so many negative stories out there and not enough positive ones. We want people to vote. People need to know the facts.

"But we haven't had any major issues. We try to explain to voters how the machines work then they come in," Wood said.

In Putnam County, early voters have the option of asking for either touch-screen machines or optical scan ballots -- paper ballots on which people mark in their election choices.

Wood said some voters might not realize that touch

It's Back............................

The kossaks found this one for us.........sound familiar...........

Women for McCain video!

From Grittv

Bachmann Channels Joe McCarthy

I find myself terribly torn on the topic of Michelle Bachmann, on one hand I really want her to get smacked down by El Tinklenberg and get her comeuppance, on the other hand, If we really see a serious loss of Rethuglican seats in Congress we can hope that the Bachmanns of the Rethuglican party become the go to for the media talking heads.

The Bachmanns of the world really believe that they are the true Americans and that if the Rethuglicans would just be more conservative they would win all the elections with landslides. I would love to see Bachmann as the face of House Rethuglicans for the next 2 years. But damn woman, you truly are evil.

McCain 4.0

Is that anything like Credence Clearwater Revisited?

Bet Ya Didn't know

From The NY Times via Daily Kos:

Democrats fight for reasoned regulation of the markets using a consistent, fair framework. Republicans chaff at any restraint, sure that the market can be "self regulating." So how much data do you need to see which side is right?

Since 1929, Republicans and Democrats have each controlled the presidency for nearly 40 years. ... As of Friday, a $10,000 investment in the S.& P. stock market index would have grown to $11,733 if invested under Republican presidents only ... Invested under Democratic presidents only, $10,000 would have grown to $300,671 at a compound rate of 8.9 percent over nearly 40 years.

$1700 in growth under Republicans, $290,000 under Democrats. Even if you exclude the failure of the markets under Hoover, Democrats still come out with six times the results of the GOP.

Of seven Republican presidents, three turned in negative results and the average rate of return was only 0.4%. Every Democratic president since 1929 has turned in a positive performance, with Bill Clinton setting the record at a 15.2% rate of growth.

So the next time someone suggests to you that the market averages 6%, or 7%, or 8% growth over the long term, remember this caveat: only when Democrats are in charge.

The KOS Rocks With This Bad Boy

Just Can't Make This Stuff Up

'We’ve got them just where we want them': With McCain down in the national polls -- 10 points (53%-43%) in the latest Washington Post/ABC survey -- McCain’s campaign says the Arizona senator will unveil a new stump speech that casts him as the underdog and as a fighter. "Let me give you the state of the race today,” he is expected to say. “We have 22 days to go. We’re six points down. The national media has written us off. Sen. Obama is measuring the drapes, and planning with Speaker Pelosi and Sen. Reid to raise taxes, increase spending, take away your right to vote by secret ballot in labor elections, and concede defeat in Iraq. But they forgot to let you decide. My friends, we’ve got them just where we want them.” More: "What America needs in this hour is a fighter; someone who puts all his cards on the table and trusts the judgment of the American people. I come from a long line of McCains who believed that to love America is to fight for her.  I have fought for you most of my life. There are other ways to love this country, but I’ve never been the kind to do it from the sidelines."

Turns out John's just been sandbagging all this time and letting Barak get this lead so he could take him down and whip his you know what at the end.........and here I thought John had just lost his marbles......wait.....could it be?

Our Fascist Society - What A Great Use Of Our Tax Dollar

Brown lawn means jail time

On Friday morning, Joseph Prudente put on a pair of shorts and his "Grandpa Gone Wild" T-shirt. He took off his wedding band and put his heart medication in a plastic Wal-Mart bag.

Then his daughter drove him to jail. Grandpa had time to do.

His crime? He had disobeyed a court order that he sod the lawn at his Beacon Woods home.

His bail? Zero.

Prudente, 66, must stay in the Pasco County jail in Land O'Lakes until the required sod work is completed, under a September court order signed by Circuit Judge W. Lowell Bray.

"He's in prison for God knows how long because we can't afford to sod the lawn," said his sobbing daughter, Jennifer Lehr.

Prudente has owned a home in the deed restricted community since 1998. The covenants require homeowners to keep their lawns covered with grass.

Earlier this year, the Beacon Woods Civic Association took Prudente to court after he failed to install new sod on his browning lawn, which had withered after his sprinklers broke. The association had already sent letters telling him to resod his front and back yards by certain dates.

In an interview at the jail Friday evening, Prudente said he thought he had made a good financial hardship case to the association: His adjustable rate mortgage went up an extra $600 a month. Wachovia repossessed his Toyota Scion. His daughter and her two young children, who had fallen on hard times, moved in with him and his wife, Pat.

"To me, keeping the house is more important than the grass," said Prudente, a retired registered nurse from New York. "I just ignored them."

He ignored them, too, after the association filed a complaint in court. He ignored a court order in May, signed by Bray, giving Prudente 30 days to sod the yard.

In June, the court also awarded the association $795 in fees, which included a $645 attorney's fees and a $150 fee for "an expert witness."

By September, there was still no sod. Bray found Prudente in contempt of court, but said in his order that Prudente could "purge himself of this contempt" by doing the required work within the next 30 days. That time expired Friday.

"It is clear to the Court that the ability to avoid incarceration is well within the Defendant's grasp," Bray wrote.

Representatives of the Beacon Woods association expressed regret Prudente had landed in jail. But they said it was his own fault.

"It's a sad situation," said board president Bob Ryan, who added that the association had followed all the correct procedures. "But in the end, I have to say he brought it upon himself."

Lawyer Thomas Gurran, who represents the association, said in a statement that the association had "just wanted Mr. Prudente to comply with the lawn restriction." He added that the contempt power of judges is essential to the system.

"Many orders and judgements … would be absolutely meaningless if they could not be enforced by a judge's contempt power," he said. "This case is an example of what happens when someone defies an order entered by a judge in our country."

Prudente's family said the case had gone too far. Pat Prudente said she and her husband knew they had chosen to live in a community with restrictions. "But they shouldn't have this much power," she said.

Back at the jail — where the population is 1,132, well above the 782 capacity — Parente said he was being treated well. He has no criminal record in Florida and said his stay in Land O'Lakes was his first time ever in a slammer.

What comes next? He doesn't know. "Should I go out and rob a bank? Then I'd be back here," he said. "But then I'd get out on bail."

Oh, by the way, you really have little choice in whether you want to live in a deed restricted community or not as Florida seldom practices actual planning and zoning with actual municipal maintenance and over site, but rather allow, no requires the developers to create deed restriction and neo-fascist HOAs that go with those deed restrictions.

Hell Freezes Over - Bill Kristol Makes Sense

The rats are leaving the SS McCain-Palin............

The Delusional Hockey Mom

Palin: 'Very much appreciating being cleared of any legal wrongdoing or unethical activity at all'
Stapleton: Sure governor, go ahead.

Palin: OK cool.

Well, I’m very very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing … any hint of any kind of unethical activity there. Very pleased to be cleared of any of that. Todd did what anyone would have done given this state trooper’s very, very troubling behavior and his dangerous threats against our family. Todd did what I think any Alaskan would do.

And he, Todd did what the state’s Department of Law Web site tells anyone to do if they have a concern about a state trooper. And that’s you go to the commissioner and you express your concern. And Todd did what our personal detail asked him to do. Bob Cockrell early on as I was elected and was asked are there any threats against you, and Todd brought the concern as I did to Commissioner Monegan about the state trooper’s threats. He did what any – I think -- any rational person would do so again, nothing to apologize there with Todd’s actions and again very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing.

(Stapleton invites the first question).

ADN: Governor, finding No.1 on the report was that you abused your power by violating state law. Do you think you did anything wrong at all in this Troopergate case?

Palin: Not at all and I’ll tell you, it, I think that you’re always going to ruffle feathers as you do what you believe is in the best interest of the people whom you are serving. In this case I knew that I had to have the right people in the right position at the right time in this cabinet to best serve Alaskans, and Walt Monegan was not the right person at the right time to meet the goals that we had set out in our administration. So no, not having done anything wrong, and again very much appreciating being cleared of any legal wrongdoing or unethical activity at all.

ADN: Have you read the whole report? (No response; Stapleton invites question from KTVA reporter).

KTVA-Channel 11: … The report that came out yesterday, do you think that the end result is partisan?

Palin: Yeah, I did think it did turn into a partisan circus to tell you the truth. Yes I did. You know from Day One it’s been the Personnel Board that clearly laid out in state statute there -- Personnel Board deals with any issue of question regarding a governor, a lieutenant governor or an attorney general in the state of Alaska. What this legislative investigation -- quote unquote -- turned into a political circus

You have to listen to the audio on the adn.com website, they just blow off the question about whether she had actually read the report......I think they may have even told her she was cleared, she almost sounds like she believes it...on second thought maybe she is just referring to the report she released clearing herself.

Norm In The Gutter

Coleman To Go All Positive

Coleman calls off negative adsIn the face of the deepening financial crisis, U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman said Friday that he will pull all his negative advertising from television, print and radio and disavow any interest group ads that attack his opponents.

Appearing somber and red-eyed at a news conference this morning at his campaign headquarters, Coleman, who is Jewish, told reporters that after a day of fasting and prayer for Yom Kippur, a "time of fasting, soul-searching and refocusing on your life," he had decided to change the tone of his campaign.

"We're in a place that I don't think any of us of this generation, this time, have ever seen before," Coleman said. "At times like this, politics should not add to the negativity. It should lift people up with hope and a confident vision for the future."

Boy you think tanking in the polls and the new clothing scandel might have something to do with this?

Say It Ain't So: Sarah Palin Abused Power As Alaska Governor

But wait, I thought Sarah cleared herself yesterday, Sarah was lying to us? I am shocked.

A legislative committee investigating Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has found she unlawfully abused her authority in firing the state's public safety commissioner. The investigative report concludes that a family grudge wasn't the sole reason for firing Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan but says it likely was a contributing factor.

The Republican vice presidential nominee has been accused of firing a commissioner to settle a family dispute. Palin supporters have called the investigation politically motivated.

Monegan says he was dismissed as retribution for resisting pressure to fire a state trooper involved in a bitter divorce with the governor's sister. Palin says Monegan was fired as part of a legitimate budget dispute.

Trying To Rescue The Brand

Someone finally got to John and talked some sense into him?



Now someone might want to mention it to the staff.

"Barack Obama's attacks on Americans who support John McCain reveal far more about him than they do about John McCain. It is clear that Barack Obama just doesn't understand regular people and the issues they care about," read a statement from spokesman Brian Rogers. "Even worse, he attacks anyone who dares to question his readiness to serve as their commander in chief in chief. Raising legitimate questions about record, character and judgment are a vital part of the Democratic process, and Barack Obama's effort to silence and shame those who seek answers should make everyone wonder exactly what he is hiding."

Unringing Ringing The Bell - The Silence Was Deafening

Republican John McCain Friday urged his supporters to stop hurling abuse against Barack Obama at his rallies, saying he admired and respected his Democratic rival.

"We want to fight, and I will fight, but we will be respectful. I admire Senator Obama and his accomplishments and I will respect him," McCain said at a Minnesota rally.

"I want everyone to be respectful and let's make sure we are, because that is the way that politics should be conducted in America."

The tone at the rallies of McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin has become increasing inflammatory in recent days with shouts of "terrorist" and "liar" from the crowds directed against Obama. At one Florida rally, someone even shouted "kill him."

The stream of vicious attacks against Obama, who has left McCain trailing in the polls ahead of the November 4 vote, was ramped up at the weekend by Palin who accused the Chicago senator of "palling around with terrorists."

And McCain has taken to asking, "Who is the real Barack Obama?" leading one supporter in Pennsylvania to shout back, "he is a bomb."

So much for Minnesota nice

They Howled When Barack Predicted Their Behavior

Great job Jed:

John McCain howled in protest when Barack Obama predicted
the GOP attack strategy, but it turns out that Obama knew McCain better than
McCain knew McCain. I guess we can call him "Nostrobamus."

Oh, Never Mind Then - Thanks For Clearing That Up!

Palin pre-empts state report, clears self in probe

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - On the eve of a report on a legislative panel's abuse-of-power investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, campaign officials released their own report clearing her of any wrongdoing

Palin, running mate to Republican presidential nominee John McCain, is the subject of two inquiries into whether she abused her power by firing her public safety commissioner. The commissioner says he was dismissed for resisting pressure to fire Palin's former brother-in-law, a state trooper.

Lawmakers are expected to release their findings Friday.

The report the McCain-Palin campaign released Thursday night says the firing was based on a budget dispute. Since then, the report says, the matter has been muddled with innuendo, rumor and politics.

The Wack Jobs Are Out In Force! And John Agrees With Them!

Cindy Please Step Away From The Medicine Cabinet

@Think Progress:

Cindy McCain: Vietnam vets with PTSD were 18-year-olds who didn’t know what they were doing.»

During a recent interview with Marie Claire, Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) wife Cindy suggested that her husband has never had PTSD symptoms because “he was trained.” She also added that symptoms such as “cold sweats in the middle of the night” are reserved for the “the 18-year-olds who were drafted”:

Q: You met your husband after his POW days. To what extent is that still with you - or is it a part of history?

McCAIN: My husband will be the first one to tell you that that’s in the past. Certainly it’s a part of who he is, but he doesn’t dwell on it. It’s not part of a daily experience that we experience or anything like that. But it has shaped him. It has made him the leader that he is.

Q: But no cold sweats in the middle of the night?

McCAIN: Oh, no, no, no, no, no. My husband, he’d be the first one to tell you that he was trained to do what he was doing. The guys who had the trouble were the 18-year-olds who were drafted. He was trained, he went to the Naval Academy, he was a trained United States naval officer, and so he knew what he was doing.

"Trained United States naval officer".....he was stinking legacy who was given a commission and wings because of daddy and grandpa, he couldn't even lose his wings after tanking 5 planes, Trained only in the sense tha Ham the astro chimp was trained for the first chimp mercury flight:

Beginning in July 1959, the two-year-old chimpanzee was trained at the Holloman Air Force Base Aero Medical Field Laboratory to do simple, timed tasks in response to electric lights and sounds.[5] In his pre-flight training, Ham was taught to push a lever within five seconds of seeing a flashing blue light; failure to do so would result in an application of positive punishment in the form of a mild electric shock to the soles of his feet, while a correct response earned him a banana pellet.[6]:243 After all of the training, it was time to find out whether he could function under the stress and pressure that comes with space travel. What differentiates Ham's mission from all the other primate flights to this point is that he was not merely a passenger, and the results from his test flight led directly to the mission Alan Shepard would make on May 5, 1961 aboard the Freedom 7. On January 31, 1961, Ham was secured in a Project Mercury capsule labeled MR-2 and launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, into outer space.[6]:314-315 Ham had his vital signs and tasks monitored using computers back on Earth.[7] The capsule suffered a partial loss of pressure during the flight, but Ham's space suit prevented him from suffering any harm.[6]:315 Ham's lever-pushing performance in space was only a fraction of a second slower than on Earth, demonstrating that tasks could be performed in space.[6]:316 Ham's capsule splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean and was recovered by a rescue ship later that day.[6]:316 He only suffered a bruised nose.[7] His flight was 16 minutes and 39 seconds long.[8]

Ten months later, another chimp, named Enos, successfully orbited the earth.[6]:

McCain & Palin - Appealing To The lowest Common Denominator

At The Entrance To McCain Rally

I think Daniel DiRito at The All Spin Zone has nailed it. "Terrorist" is the new code word Rethuglicans are substituting for Nigger. John have some balls and say it to his face next you instead of all the trash you and your side are spewing on the air and on the stump

These Idiots Cannot Be Gone Soon Enough

Get your ass back to work damn it!!

Please make it stop!!

Thanks Think Progress

Now John's Having Vietnam Flashbacks

The Best Exchange Of The Night

Ya gotta love how John walks right into this one, then has to go lay by his dish.

She Is Really Heartless

Palin Criticizes Biden While He's At Mother-In-Law's Funeral

While the presidential campaign has taken a decidedly personal and vicious tilt these past few days, one individual who has generally been left out of the fray has been Sen. Joe Biden. That's because the Delaware Democrat has been off the trail bereaving the loss of his mother-in-law to a heart attack.

As such an informal detente has been in place when it comes to attacking him. But on Tuesday, Sarah Palin broke the truce.

Speaking to a rabid crowd in Florida, the Alaska Governor was set to focus her ire primarily on Barack Obama. And, for the most part, she did, arguing that he was associated with domestic terrorists, tied to the heads of evil Fannie Mae and dangerously committed to hosting summits of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Then, however, she let loose. "Will [Obama] now claim that his ticket doesn't define higher taxes as patriotic? Remember that's what Joe Biden had said. Will he claim that he has just learned now that tax increases on small businesses kill jobs?"

How low will she go

John McCain: Dishonorable and Dispictable

John you have no honor left, time to look in the mirror and see what you have become, all because of personal ambition.....

Sarah just what is the difference between these quotes:

"We've got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there."

OR

"In the most obscene chapter in recent American history is the conduct of the Kosovo conflict when the president of the United States refused to prepare for ground operations, refused to have air power used effectively because he wanted them flying -- he had them flying at 15,000 feet where they killed innocent civilians because they were dropping bombs from such -- in high altitude."

Cindy's Been In The Medicine Cabinet Again!

The woman is more delusional then Sarah...........

Cindy McCain said today that she expects her husband to clear the record at tonight’s debate and let America know where he truly stands.

McCain, who stopped to visit a half-dozen children at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt today, said the presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama has "waged the dirtiest campaign in American history,” and her husband Sen. John McCain will use tonight’s debate to correct the distortions.

“What I have found is that it’s necessary to make sure the American people understand what we have to say, what we stand for as a husband and wife, and what we will do for the American people if we’re lucky enough to be elected,” Cindy McCain said.

Cindy McCain, who has said she initially did not want her husband to enter the 2008 race after the contentious primary he lost to President George W. Bush, said this race is even nastier.

Sarah Palin: Palling Around With Secessionists

More McCain Lies!

I have been telling you all along he is a rat faced lying bastard.........

Drilling Down on the Facts in McCain’s Speech

By Larry
Rohter

Speaking in Albuquerque on Monday, Senator
John McCain attacked Senator Barack Obama on several fronts that by now have
become familiar. But many of his charges relating to the economic meltdown,
taxation and health care contained inaccuracies or exaggerations of his own
position or Mr. Obama’s.

For instance, Mr. McCain claimed that “as recently as September of last
year,” Mr. Obama “said that subprime loans had been, quote ‘a good idea.’” But
that quote is taken out of context and reverses the intent of Mr. Obama’s
remarks, which were clearly meant primarily as a criticism of practices on Wall
Street.

Keating Economics!

Stewart Rocks!!

Bush in 2000 = Palin in 2008

Just The Finger We Want On The Trigger! Not!

Ignorant & Evil - Very Scary !

Gotta Love It!

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