Obama On Defense Last Year:

Hmmm.

Wow! I never get to the party this early. Hi, Lizards!

TWIRRRRRRRLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!

Blizz announces WotLK release date: 11/13/2008

Hey, I got the premium spot. First time ever. :D

Do open threads require open minds?

Give me an open thread, and I'll move the world.

Charles "Archimedes" Johnson.

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. - Thomas Sowell

Wow. Market go woosh.

/Yes, I realize that isn't really an intelligent comment. It's Monday. Cut me a break.

I think Chris Matthews's leg has gone numb. There's no transcript for his show from yesterday yet (nor the week before--dang he's slow) but this is what I heard:

"I can't wait to see Todd Palin on his snowmobile in Washington DC after it snows."

It was right at the end of the show. Don't tell Obama, he might cry...

re: #7 jcm

Give me an open thread, and I'll move the world.

Charles "Archimedes" Johnson.

Give me a big enough lever and ... They knew simple machines back in the day.

[Link: www.nypost.com...]

Note to Matt Damon (from Mickey Kaus): Lots of people like bad Disney movies, and don't like the kind of people who sneer at bad Disney movies.

re: #10 wrenchwench

I think Chris Matthews's leg has gone numb. There's no transcript for his show from yesterday yet (nor the week before--dang he's slow) but this is what I heard:

It was right at the end of the show. Don't tell Obama, he might cry...

That dickhead's just jealous 'cause he ain't half the man Todd Palin is.

re: #15 MandyManners

That dickhead's just jealous 'cause he ain't half the man Todd Palin is.

He's not half the man Hillary Clinton is.

THE suits at Disney-owned ABC are too chicken to re-air or release on DVD their $40 million docudrama that accused Bill Clinton of squandering many chances to capture Osama bin Laden before the Twin Towers attacks.
Shocka!

re: #14 jill e

I really liked the Victorian submarine in Disney's "20,000 Leagues under the Sea".
Victorian Submarine

re: #16 Kosh's Shadow

He's not half the man Hillary Clinton is.

OOH, that's gonna leave a mark!

An update, reposted from the dormant "McCain Photo Fallout" thread: Greenburg will not be paid for her work.

Slow today. did everybody have a bad weekend?

Charles - thanks for the h/t earlier.

In follow up, here are some interesting links:

Folks should be of Obama's "Economic Advisers" who are subprime cronies - Jim Johnson, Franklin Raines and even Jamie Gorelick.

And it looks like Fannie / Freddie were in the thick of Chicago politics by making donations to Jesse Jackson's "Push" as well.

I can't look at Jamie Gorelick's name and not read it in my mind as Gore lick.
Eww!

Wait a minute... wait a minute... a tiny bounce in the market, now... from -412 to -385....

Pull up! Everyone grab the yoke and pull up!

re: #13 MandyManners

[Link: www.nypost.com...]

Is BHO even authorized to hold those kinds of discussions?

re: #21 taxfreekiller

Charles,

We need a quick reference on Obama.

Time line.
Who is under the bus, and why.
Who is not under the bus and should be.

one list of full blown commies

another of full blown anti American terrorist (home grown)

another of the international type

main sources of money, Soros etal

his votes in the state and U.S. Senate

like that,

for people searching for knowledge but without time to view all the threads...?

just thinking out loud

That would be a good idea!

THe paint by numbers campaign may be coming apart but I fear that the market news will give it a fresh coat.

-375...

re: #27 Russkilitlover

Is BHO even authorized to hold those kinds of discussions?

He thinks he is.

bbl

Just asking, how many DNC lawyers do you think are gearing up to contest the election in the courts if Barry loses?

re: #20 wrenchwench

An update, reposted from the dormant "McCain Photo Fallout" thread: Greenburg will not be paid for her work.

Is that a weasel word? She won't be paid for the session.

re: #11 buzzsawmonkey

More fun from the MSM artists re: Sarah Palin.

Don't forget to savor the comments.

This is what passes for intelligent discussion? For political cartoons? What are these guys? 12?

Left Wing Looney Press going Crazy Again:

You’ve heard of “guilty while driving black” of course. I gather this is “guilty while living in the Pacific Northwest”.

If only we could find out if say, and I’m just spitballing here, if Obama had any connection to radical racists, perhaps even one connected to a church of some sort. And as for ‘radial antistatism’, do you suppose Obama ever knew anyone who, and again I’m just thinking out loud here, wanted to overthrow the US government by force?

[Link: ace.mu.nu...]

Some Twit In The Philadelphia Inquirer…Sarah Palin’s Probably A White Supremist Or Something, Right?

re: #13 MandyManners

[Link: www.nypost.com...]

0bama responds

re: #14 jill e

Note to Matt Damon (from Mickey Kaus): Lots of people like bad Disney movies, and don't like the kind of people who sneer at bad Disney movies.

interesting all these comments from the hollywood left against future vp Palin...lindsay lohan, rosie, that idiot damon, pam anderson, just to name a few....I wouldn't want to be bad mouthing the next VP...she will be Vice President of the United States of America. that pulls alot more weight than a movie actor...these leftist actors really think they're untouchable? hint to all leftards in hollywood...you're not untouchable.

re: #22 joncelli

Slow today. did everybody have a bad weekend?

Not bad, just a rather sleepless one.

re: #30 Cognito

-375...

Bargain-hunters?

Milwaukee Brewers manager Ned Yost FIRED with 12 games left in season. Go Packers!

re: #34 debutaunt

Is that a weasel word? She won't be paid for the session.

How is that a weasel word? This is very plain language:

Editor James Bennet said Greenberg behaved improperly and will not be paid for the session. He said the magazine is also considering a lawsuit.

The session is her work. She's not on staff.

re: #30 Cognito

-375...

Do you constantly watch polls as well?

Well, the market's down about 400 points today, which is bad, but not on historical terms. AIG got a NYS bailout, which should help matters somewhat over there, but the NYC metro area is going to be smarting from job losses and lost revenues locally.

The bigwigs at the companies will end up doing okay, but most everyone else will be looking for jobs sooner or later and it's going to be a dour holiday season as bonus money simply wont be around.

Right now, the market's operating on speculation and rumor and hysteria about which financial institution may be next, instead of operating on fact and news. Problem is that there isn't much news, and what little there is, isn't all that good. The financial companies are still exposed to subprimes and their balance sheets are in bad shape.

AP STAT OF THE DAY:

John McCain leads Barack Obama by 23 points among rural voters and by 13 points with voters age 65 and over, according to an AP-GfK Poll of likely voters.

re: #32 MandyManners

He thinks he is.

bbl

Doesn't matter. After Jane Fonda & John Kerry got away with overt aiding & abetting the enemy, almost all bets are off.

re: #27 Russkilitlover

It is a Logan Act Violation for 0bama to try and influence the Iraq governmnet:

Logan Act outlawing private diplomacy.

re: #38 Spider Mensch

....I wouldn't want to be bad mouthing the next VP...she will be Vice President of the United States of America. that pulls alot more weight than a movie actor...these leftist actors really think they're untouchable? hint to all leftards in hollywood...you're not untouchable.

Um... actually, you can bad mouth the Vice President of the United States in perfect safety. And that's a wonderful thing about this country, really.

re: #44 debutaunt

Do you constantly watch polls as well?

Only when they measure my tiny (and shrinking) pile o' money.

re: #37 Sharmuta

Obama is no longer setting the agenda, he is responding to it.

Uh....um....um....uh-uh-uh....you see.....damn! Busted!

re: #42 Cognito

The session is her work. She's not on staff.

I just wondered if she will be paid.

re: #19 Nevergiveup

OOH, that's gonna leave a mark!

Yes, but on who?

re: #53 debutaunt

I just wondered if she will be paid.

No.

re: #51 Syrah

Obama is no longer setting the agenda, he is responding to it.

Damn those OODA loops! ;)

re: #43 buzzsawmonkey

The Greenberg Atlantic cover is just the tip of the iceberg

"[POW] That's for sinking the Titanic!"

re: #37 Sharmuta

0bama responds

Now the NY Post is inside BHO's OODA loop.

re: #52 Russkilitlover

Uh....um....um....uh-uh-uh....you see.....damn! Busted!

Oops! Should be the reply to the Obama response piece in #37.

re: #22 joncelli

Slow today. did everybody have a bad weekend?

I had a good weekend. We had two different concerts this weekend, during our crossover between our regular stage show.

Friday it was Don Conoscenti and Kort McCumber.

And on Sat., it was the Nadas (Jason Walsmith and Mike Butterworth ), from Iowa.

Folk, blues, folk-rock is not my favorite music, but I always have a good time working with the musicians and yapping about their careers.

Otherwise, I don't pay to much attention to the show itself. I had a good paperback in the light/sound booth.

Don Conoscenti and Kort McCumber were very talented, but they were so self-absorbed in each others playing, that I think at times they forgot that there was an audience there.

The Nadas had a good connection to the audience, and even live streamed the concert to their webiste.

Different strokes for different artists.

re: #40 Occasional Reader

Bargain hunting will happen tomorrow. Herd mentality (which also apparently includes the trading programs that the houses use). That's how United got slammed last week when an old story made waves about bankruptcy protection - driving the stock down 90% in minutes before it was halted. Once the computer programs start their magic, they run through the progressions. So, tomorrow we'll see buy opportunities in many sectors hit simply because everyone deserved a ding.

re: #55 Cognito

No.

The photo made the cover.

Just a random, awful thought:
Why is Chertoff on deck about hurricane relief and damage?
Makes me wonder if maybe 3 Ambassadors ousted from Marxist S. American nations in 72 hours was a bit of a botched prelude to some type of incursion across our southern border.

Bad as the flooding and damage has been from Ike, it is still generally sensed that it could have been horrifically worse--what an opportune moment to infiltrate, or even invade.

Take a second look at our reactions to this paranoid scenario, because yes, a thing like that could happen. Remember September 11. We are in danger.

re: #12 Archimedes

Give me a big enough lever and ... They knew simple machines back in the day.

Read an article not long ago. Newly found Archimedes manuscripts, pages and been washed and rewritten, they found the ghost image of the Archimedes under the newer text.

Archimedes was onto the fundamentals of Differential Calculus.

re: #21 taxfreekiller

I think that's a great idea -- but you know what? "The One" changes his positions so frequently, and so quickly, it makes me dizzy. There would have to be minute-by-minute updates to keep track of The Change. Or at least some kind of timeline for when "The One" believed X, then a reference point for when The One issued "the change for X to Y"; then another point for "the change from X to Y to Z"; etc. Guess it could all be mapped out (form some confusing spaghetti strings there)...

The Atlantic is acting totally appropriately, regarding Greenberg.

Some people -- ahem -- have tried to conflate the magazine's actual portrait with the sick mess the photographer pulled on her own, far from the magazine. That's disingenuous.

No, worse: It's a lie.

#38

Maybe they should remember the impact of stupid comments on the Dixie Chicks' income statement.

Just a thought.

Oriana Fallaci
June 29, 1929 - September 15, 2006

Elegy for la Fallaci
By la Figlia d’Emilia

Oriana Fallaci has gone to the grave.
Was ever a woman so noble, so brave?
Her goal, western civilization to save;
La Fallaci would not be a slave.
Fallaci would not be a dhimmified slave
To a death-cult conceived in a cave.

Signora Fallaci is with us no more.
Without her, ’twill be a far lonelier war.
We shall not again hear the lioness roar,
But her spirit forever will soar.
Her body succumbed to the illness she bore,
But her spirit forever will soar.

A daughter of patriots, born to be wild,
She joined the Resistance while still but a child.
Determined to vanquish the Axis reviled,
She would not have her homeland defiled.
A fighter of fascists while still but a child,
Oriana was born to be wild.

She traveled the world on Mercurial wings;
She interviewed dictators, tyrants and kings.
In battle, she suffered the arrows and slings,
And the bullets a battlefield brings.
Fallaci survived many dangerous things,
But her funeral bell finally rings.

Cassandra incarnate, the mantle she wore;
She warned of Islamicist wolves at the door.
She warned that the civilized world, in this war,
Was in peril as never before.
She would not submit, as an infidel-whore,
In this bloodthirsty unholy war.

She strove, with her writing, to brandish a light,
To stave off the looming Eurabian night,
Secure in the knowledge that her war was right;
“Legitimate, dutiful, right.”
The warrior knew that a war can be right.
“Legitimate, dutiful, right.”

Oriana Fallaci was proud to the end,
A passionate voice speaking truth to the wind.
The civilization she fought to defend,
Upon passion and truth does depend.
Her legacy lies in the prose that she penned,
In the luminous prose that she penned.

Farewell, O Fallaci, your time was too brief;
Your character, carved in the boldest relief;
Eternal defiance, your true leitmotif;
And your valor, beyond all belief.
We’ll carry your banner, though stricken with grief,
For a heroine’s life is too brief.

re: #62 debutaunt

The photo made the cover.

She won't be paid.

re: #48 Ojoe

It is a Logan Act Violation for 0bama to try and influence the Iraq governmnet:

Logan Act outlawing private diplomacy.

Unfortunately for all tense and purpose Logan Act is dead. Charges have only been brought once, and never a court case.

re: #61 lawhawk

Bargain hunting will happen tomorrow. Herd mentality (which also apparently includes the trading programs that the houses use). That's how United got slammed last week when an old story made waves about bankruptcy protection - driving the stock down 90% in minutes before it was halted. Once the computer programs start their magic, they run through the progressions. So, tomorrow we'll see buy opportunities in many sectors hit simply because everyone deserved a ding.

Yep. I will be scrapping up some cash. I don't have much, but better to buy in when everything is on sale then to wait for it to go back up, even if it is just a little bit.

re: #61 lawhawk

Bargain hunting will happen tomorrow.

Just wondering if it's already started... bounced up from -413 to -369 in a matter of two or three minutes.

re: #49 Occasional Reader

Um... actually, you can bad mouth the Vice President of the United States in perfect safety. And that's a wonderful thing about this country, really.

oh yes. and its a great thing, but one lesson that works in business as well as anywhere in life, your comments will come back to haunt you. it would never be in a public forum but things aren't always as they seem..haven't you ever heard of the clinton enemy list? wouldn't want to be on that list, some folks on that list ended up in bad ways. nixons list? he had one too. it does happen...not my place to say if it is good or bad, right or wrong, but it does happen

re: #7 jcm

I assume you are aware of this?

Chechnya to name street after commander killed in Perm air crash

[Link: en.rian.ru...]

re: #7 jcm

Give me an open thread, and I'll move the world.

Charles "Archimedes" Johnson.

:-) cool.

re: #72 Occasional Reader

Just wondering if it's already started... bounced up from -413 to -369 in a matter of two or three minutes.

That was becuase of all the profits made at McDonalds where all the brokers had to eat lunch.

If the Logan Act had any teeth and were ever enforced, Jimmah Catah would be in SuperMax.

re: #69 Cognito

She won't be paid.

I don't think she should be paid, but I don't understand how they can use her work and not pay her.

re: #78 debutaunt

I don't think she should be paid, but I don't understand how they can use her work and not pay her.

She broke her contract.

I promise you she won't be paid.

re: #74 Bobibutu

I assume you are aware of this?

Chechnya to name street after commander killed in Perm air crash

[Link: en.rian.ru...]

Interesting.
The info in that crash doesn't add up.

Obama attacks McCain on the market. McCain must tie this back to the Congress and the Democrats.

Richard Wright Dies at 65

Founding member of the seminal British rock band Pink Floyd died in his home Monday after a battle with cancer

re: #64 jcm

Read an article not long ago. Newly found Archimedes manuscripts, pages and been washed and rewritten, they found the ghost image of the Archimedes under the newer text.

Archimedes was onto the fundamentals of Differential Calculus.

Cool, is this linkable?

I know that Eudoxus' methods of exhaustion were similar to integral calculus, the idea of dividing an area or volume up into smaller and smaller chunks to get more and more accurate values.

re: #77 scathach

If the Logan Act had any teeth and were ever enforced, Jimmah Catah would be in SuperMax.

Please, SuperMax is a respectable prison, we don't want Jimmah in Colorado.

Walter in Golden, Co.

re: #45 lawhawk

Right now, the market's operating on speculation and rumor and hysteria about which financial institution may be next, instead of operating on fact and news. Problem is that there isn't much news, and what little there is, isn't all that good. The financial companies are still exposed to subprimes and their balance sheets are in bad shape.

My question is: Where was the adult leadership in the financial industry when all this was going on. I'd pick up some beaten down financial stocks, but which ones are going to turn out to be toxic? It may be a long time before the caterpillar stops dropping shoes.

re: #38 Spider Mensch

The hollywood left against future vp Palin... you're not untouchable.

Spider - Have to agree with ya! Failing projects and the lack of financial returns will place a lot of that crowd "at leisure".

Vote with your wallets, watch the entertainment "climate change". I guess it's a case that sometimes "Change is good!"

re: #65 J.S.

I think that's a great idea -- but you know what? "The One" changes his positions so frequently, and so quickly, it makes me dizzy. There would have to be minute-by-minute updates to keep track of The Change. Or at least some kind of timeline for when "The One" believed X, then a reference point for when The One issued "the change for X to Y"; then another point for "the change from X to Y to Z"; etc. Guess it could all be mapped out (form some confusing spaghetti strings there)...

You would end up with a real weird Rube Goldsberg type flow chart.

re: #82 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Richard Wright Dies at 65

He has become comfortably numb?

re: #79 Cognito

She broke her contract.

I promise you she won't be paid.

She got what she wanted and ought to pay them!

I tell ya this market is murder...even celery stalks are off...

re: #89 debutaunt

She got what she wanted and ought to pay them!

Oh. I daresay she may indeed end up paying them.

re: #78 debutaunt

I'm going to guess that they will argue that they were unaware of her comments when this issue using her work went to press and that they would never have used her photos if they had known she broke the contract.

dear lizards, I am so tired of the logical fallacy inherent in the conventional wisdom regarding media, POTUS and VP debates. Specifically, in the 'gotcha' question category; where media opinion holds that the person who fails knowing the most obscure and abstruse bit of information is the loser, and somehow less qualified to be President or VP.

I have cyberbumped into hundreds of folks who are as well-informed and are as rhetorically skilled in presenting the positions in political issues held by Obama, Biden, McCain and Palin. Thousands more online chatterers could be prepped to win a 'Trivial Pursuit' type debate in a week.

But that doesn't equate to all these folks being suited to hold the highest offices in the land, does it? That's why it's infuriating that so many don't hold the results of the debates in their context, as ONE indicator of administrative intelligence amongst many - the PRIMARY indicator being the person's life history of achievement and character, competence, and the longitudinal success of his/her official accomplishments.

After that analysis of CV, then it is instructive to learn how the candidate handles the pressure of the forum, and how valid his arguments for his political philosophy. But only after seeing how one's political career has actually been managed. Barry, one practical example of the value of your past work would be worth a million of your carefully memorized words.

re: #88 redstateredneck

He has become comfortably numb?

I remember when the Cardinals were in the World Series a couple of years ago, one of their pitchers was asked how he feels out on the mound, or some such question, and he responded "I feel comfortably numb." My thought was, Pink Floyd fan. Don't know for sure.

re: #90 Peacekeeper

PK!

re: #79 Cognito

She broke her contract.

I promise you she won't be paid.

The editor of Atlantic Monthly said that specifically when interviewed on FNC this morning around 10:30am Eastern. He also indicated that the magazine was considering its legal options for a possible lawsuit.

#84

I live in Georgia and we don't want him either. But, if he were in SuperMax, he would have no communication with the outside world and the inability to get the adoration of the Leftards would probably have a detrimental effect on his health. Minimally, not having to listen to his crap would be beneficial for my blood pressure.

re: #58 Son of the Black Dog

And who is this "Wendy Morigi?" I wonder...ah yes, the same one who was asked about why Obama's website was scrubbed of any reference to Obama stating that "the surge is not working" -- all references went down the memory hole..., then Morigi stated (falsely as it turns out): "Campaign aide Wendy Morigi said Obama is 'not softening his criticism of the surge. We regularly update the Web site to reflect changes in current events'” as related here.

Socialist Utopia Update; Military crackdown hushes rebellious Bolivian city

COBIJA, Bolivia: Bolivian troops on Monday started rounding up people accused of organizing protests against leftist President Evo Morales in a remote Amazon province where martial law has shuttered schools and businesses.

Clashes between Morales' supporters and opponents killed up to 30 people in Pando province last week as protests flared across the poor nation's eastern lowlands against the president's drive to redistribute land and change the constitution.

The streets of Pando's small capital, Cobija, were nearly deserted on Monday and protesters demanding greater regional autonomy continued to occupy government agencies, including the customs office.

This is just like when the US fascist Government sent in all those troops to Denver and St. Paul to kill and arrest those protestors there!

///

re: #91 Cognito

Did you see what Jeffrey Goldberg wrote about her?

Every so often, journalists become deranged at the sight of certain candidates, and lose their bearings

Every so often! LOL. Understatement of the year perhaps?

Well.....E_O's Biden Watch continues:

The calls for Sen. Obama to dump Biden are starting to get louder and more overt.

It started when the left began speculating as to how long Palin had left on the Republican ticket (obvious projection). Now they're making specific suggestions at HuffPo.

I hope Obama doesn't fall for it, but nothing would surprise me about the left.

#96

If you live in Mass., vote for former Delta Force member Jeff Beatty. If you don't send him a check. I doubt Beatty will win, but it would be nice to see a closer race.

re: #51 Syrah

Obama is no longer setting the agenda, he is responding to it.

Did this start with the lipstick/pig comment?

I was watching a pundit on t.v. (forget the name) who was saying that regardless of what Obama meant by that, it was a good strategy for the McCain campaign to highlight it as a slight at Palin. The point being that it forced the Obama campaign to spend valuable time (48hrs+) defending/explaining that statement rather than getting out his message/agenda.

re: #74 Bobibutu

I assume you are aware of this?

Chechnya to name street after commander killed in Perm air crash

[Link: en.rian.ru...]

Things that make you go, "Hmmmmmmm".

re: #83 Archimedes

Cool, is this linkable?

I know that Eudoxus' methods of exhaustion were similar to integral calculus, the idea of dividing an area or volume up into smaller and smaller chunks to get more and more accurate values.

Archimedes Palimpsest

Scholars decode ancient text, shake up pre-calculus history

"It has always been thought that modern mathematicians were the first to be able to handle infinitely large sets, and that this was something the Greek mathematicians never attempted to do," Netz writes in an essay on Archimedes published in the Nov. 1 issue of Science magazine. "But in the palimpsest we found Archimedes doing just that. He compared two infinitely large sets and stated that they have an equal number of members. No other extant source for Greek mathematics has that."

re: #37 Sharmuta

0bama responds

Nice - so far, every 'spokesperson for the Obama campaign' has never spoken to the facts of an ad, or, here, to the facts of a story, but simply comes out with 'its a lie' all the time.

Feeble.

re: #98 scathach

#84

I live in Georgia and we don't want him either. But, if he were in SuperMax, he would have no communication with the outside world and the inability to get the adoration of the Leftards would probably have a detrimental effect on his health. Minimally, not having to listen to his crap would be beneficial for my blood pressure.

After looking at him at the DNC convention, I'm not sure how much of a detriment anything else could be to his health.

I don't want him in Georgia either.

re: #93 runrabbitrun

Well said! The single largest predictor of a persons future conduct is their past. Again, again and again, when hiring someone for a job, the HR gurus tell us (correctly) check references! A Tiger does not change their stripes, nor a leopard change their spots.

The editor of Atlantic Monthly said that specifically when interviewed on FNC this morning around 10:30am Eastern. He also indicated that the magazine was considering its legal options for a possible lawsuit.

It's be like if I leased a building to sell hardware. The lease says I can sell hardware, but not liquor or fireworks. I sell hardware, liquor and fireworks. The landlord says he is kicking me out and suing for damages. I say "but I sold what the lease said I could...hardware". But I also did things not allowed. So the whole contract could be void.

Would that be a proper analogy. The lady took the photo as contracted, but she also used the time, paid for by the Atlantic, to do nasty political work.

re: #102 eschew_obfuscation

Well.....E_O's Biden Watch continues:

The calls for Sen. Obama to dump Biden are starting to get louder and more overt.

It started when the left began speculating as to how long Palin had left on the Republican ticket (obvious projection). Now they're making specific suggestions at HuffPo.

I hope Obama doesn't fall for it, but nothing would surprise me about the left.

The Clintons would know how to handle this, if you get my drift.

re: #102 eschew_obfuscation

I doubt it would make a real difference. Changing the Veep at this point would also likely backfire against Barry since it provides loads of ammo for McCain / Palin that Barry is so inexperienced that he can't even pick his running mate properly.

re: #99 J.S.

We regularly update the Web site to reflect changes in current events'” as related here.

Hee hee...change.

re: #80 jcm

Interesting.
The info in that crash doesn't add up.

Rgr ... and Troshev was getting political. Ah, we'll probably never know.

re: #18 Ojoe

I really liked the Victorian submarine in Disney's "20,000 Leagues under the Sea".
Victorian Submarine

I'm a fan of Jules Verne scifi. He was what I'd call a real SCIENCE fiction author, since he made plausible machines many of which were actualized in the future. Lots of scifi authors are really doing science fantasy, rather than applying real science.

re: #95 WriterMom

PK!

{Meritworm}!

#109

And yet, he continues to "pontificate" making an ass of himself and generally being a detriment to fee peoples everywhere.

Pink Floyd's Rick Wright dies at 65

Aw Man, could this day get any worse?

re: #105 Son of the Black Dog

Things that make you go, "Hmmmmmmm".

Russian says "engine failure." Witness say it went down like a comet. Radar and com at the same time before impact. That doesn't ad up.

re: #21 taxfreekiller

Don't leave out this sort of thing!

re: #113 Athos

I doubt it would make a real difference. Changing the Veep at this point would also likely backfire against Barry since it provides loads of ammo for McCain / Palin that Barry is so inexperienced that he can't even pick his running mate properly.

I think that the proof statement is that Biden's son has resigned as a lobyist. Part of the Barry strategy is that McCain advisers are lobyists.
They pretty much are stuck with Biden, unless he slips in the shower.

re: #70 jcm

re: #77 scathach

Ah yes, but the President takes an oath of office to uphold the Constitution which says that the President " shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,"

Article 2, Section 3.

What is going on here?

re: #72 Occasional Reader

I'd have to check, but that could happen with a move on a single Dow 30 stock, like GE or MSFT. Most of the Dow losses come because AIG and BoA and Citigroup make up a big chunk of the financial sector covered.

There's weightings involved, but AIG is down 50%+ on the day. Only Coca Cola is showing positive today among the Dow 30.

And if AIG goes South, watch for the Dow to replace it with another company shortly.

re: #122 opnion

......unless he slips in the shower.

Don't plugs fall out in the shower?
/

re: #105 Son of the Black Dog

Things that make you go, "Hmmmmmmm".

Kinda up there with Ron Brown. But tin foil is much easier when Putin is on the planet.

Help, whimper,sniffle; withdrawals setting in. Would an astute lizard be able to tell me why my new pc will not allow me to download Adobe?

Old news, but maybe Willie understands Gov. Palin.

re: #72 Occasional Reader

Just wondering if it's already started... bounced up from -413 to -369 in a matter of two or three minutes.

"Never mind!"

/Emily Litella voice

(Dow now off 444... pass the Lemon Pledge)

re: #18 Ojoe

That was a cool movie when I was a kid & I showed to my kids just after we got our first VHS tape-player.

re: #120 jcm

Catastrophic engine failure that damaged wing and fuel tanks? I'm thinking ingestion of something or a fault that caused the engine to explode?

damn, close the market already.

re: #125 jcm

Don't plugs fall out in the shower?
/

Yeah, but that's just a cosmetic thing & the Mens Hair Club is still solid for Biden.

re: #118 scathach

#109

And yet, he continues to "pontificate" making an ass of himself and generally being a detriment to fee peoples everywhere.

Hard to change a lifetime of bad habits. He has been a first class idiot for some 40 odd years that I know of. Years back, I thought he was a good man working way out of his league. Over the years I became convinced he was a not so good man, with hidden agendas, that was working out of his league.

re: #102 eschew_obfuscation

Well.....E_O's Biden Watch continues:

The calls for Sen. Obama to dump Biden are starting to get louder and more overt.

It started when the left began speculating as to how long Palin had left on the Republican ticket (obvious projection). Now they're making specific suggestions at HuffPo.

I hope Obama doesn't fall for it, but nothing would surprise me about the left.

If Barry puts the former Pres and Hillary on his ticket, his administration would be a 3-POTUS media circus, with the press running to quote Bill & Hill as often (or more) than they would Obama. Not to mention the dirty tricks and scandals they would invite, with their truckload of goons and diehard supporters tagging along. I think that Barry would rather wait a few years to run again, than share the office in a ... um, three-way now.

re: #104 Slumbering Behemoth

The point being that it forced the Obama campaign to spend valuable time (48hrs+) defending/explaining that statement rather than getting out his message/agenda.

:)

re: #119 Maximu§

Pink Floyd's Rick Wright dies at 65

Aw Man, could this day get any worse?

John had just won first prize at a cat show and had received a 10-day cruise to the Puerto Rico. The catch was, though, pets weren't allowed on the cruise. So John decided to leave his cat with his brother, Al.

The next day, John phoned Al on his cell phone and asked, "How are things?" To which Al responded, "Things are fine."

"How's Mom?"

"Mom's fine."

"How's the cat?"

"The cat's fine." Satisfied, John hung up.


Next day, John called Al again, asking the same questions.

"How are things?"

"Things are fine."

"How's Mom?"

"Mom's fine."

"How's the cat?"

"The cat's DEAD."

"WHAT?!?" John was quite distressed. "How could you let it die? It was my prize cat!"

"Well, John, I'm sorry, but I couldn't do anything, I didn't see it. But what I think happened was that the cat was on the roof, fell off, and broke his leg. Then, he hobbled out into the road, and got run over."

John was cooling down a bit now, and said, "Well, couldn't you have tried to break it to me over time? You could have said it bit by bit. For example, you could have first said 'The cat's on the roof', then the next day said 'The cat fell off the roof, and broke its leg', see what I'm saying."

"Yeah, yeah, I get it. See you later, John."

"Ok... bye." John hung up.

The next day, John phoned Al again.

"How are things?"

"Things are fine."

"How's Mom?"

"Umh," Al said, "Mom's on the roof."

re: #132 SummerSong

damn, close the market already.

Nah. This is a very bad day, but not a "close the market early" day.

re: #136 runrabbitrun

If Barry puts the former Pres and Hillary on his ticket, his administration would be a 3-POTUS media circus, with the press running to quote Bill & Hill as often (or more) than they would Obama. Not to mention the dirty tricks and scandals they would invite, with their truckload of goons and diehard supporters tagging along. I think that Barry would rather wait a few years to run again, than share the office in a ... um, three-way now.

Actually, I don't think Obama's ego would allow Hillary in the VP slot. As you point out, it'd be all Hillary and Bill all the time. Obama would end up as the defacto VP.

#123 Ojoe

The Logan Act is not enforced because winning a case is virtually impossible with the statute as written, thus the U.S. Attorney will not charge someone - to do so would be a large waste of money.

re: #47 opnion

Doesn't matter. After Jane Fonda & John Kerry got away with overt aiding & abetting the enemy, almost all bets are off.

And links The New York Post articles will be about as effective this time around, too.

/bummed out.

re: #123 Ojoe

re: #77 scathach

Ah yes, but the President takes an oath of office to uphold the Constitution which says that the President " shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,"

Article 2, Section 3.

What is going on here?

Law when written legislatively, then has to be tested in the courts becoming case law, proving it's Constitutional correct. Logan has never been "proven" in court and run up through the appeals courts to iron it out.

No prosecutor would take a century old, un-proven law into court against a high profile defendant. To many pitfalls.

That is what it is, not commenting the right or wrong of it, just what it is.

A century old law that's never been used is effectively not a law.

Britain Adopts Islamic Law, Gives Sharia Courts Full Power to Rule on Civil Cases

re: #140 eschew_obfuscation

Actually, I don't think Obama's ego would allow Hillary in the VP slot. As you point out, it'd be all Hillary and Bill all the time. Obama would end up as the defacto VP.

So he wouldn't set polisah?

re: #117 Peacekeeper

Haven't seen much of you lately. Real life and work interfering with blog life?

Anyone here look into the post from sourcewatch.org stating Taheri is less than truthful himself? I am going to look at a few things, but if its already been done...

re: #104 Slumbering Behemoth

Did this start with the lipstick/pig comment?

I was watching a pundit on t.v. (forget the name) who was saying that regardless of what Obama meant by that, it was a good strategy for the McCain campaign to highlight it as a slight at Palin. The point being that it forced the Obama campaign to spend valuable time (48hrs+) defending/explaining that statement rather than getting out his message/agenda.

It started with McCain introducing Palin as his running mate. It poleaxed the Obama campaign and his supporters.

They should have seen it coming, at least the possibility of it, but they did not.

From that point forward, they have have done nothing but look like fools, kooks and back peddlers.

re: #81 lifeofthemind

Obama attacks McCain on the market. McCain must tie this back to the Congress and the Democrats.

Yeah well - neocommunists like B0 (and others, in other countries ...) always cry doom and gloom when financial markets are in trouble - and make this trouble worse by panicking their citizens.
Happened here in the UK about a year ago.

Its a self-fulfilling prophecy - and McCain just needs to hammer home the fact that the dems in congress caused this.

Lefties and liberal fascists thrive on a crisis, they like nothing better than a crisis becasue they can rollout their increased governemnt programs.

Conservatives roll up their sleeves and get on with things.

re: #127 vagabond trader

Oh sure...

BECAUSE IT HATES YOUR GUTS.

/I have no clue

re: #113 Athos

I doubt it would make a real difference. Changing the Veep at this point would also likely backfire against Barry since it provides loads of ammo for McCain / Palin that Barry is so inexperienced that he can't even pick his running mate properly.

And no guarantee that the Hildebeast would accept a VP offer. She's waitin' for the 2012 spot cause Berry's gonna lose.

re: #104 Slumbering Behemoth

It started with the Palin pick.

re: #150 yma o hyd

Lefties and liberal fascists thrive on a crisis, they like nothing better than a crisis becasue they can rollout their increased governemnt programs.

You are so right about this. Global warming "crisis", the "crisis" of this and that. Everything is a crisis situation for them.

So, what does the Lehman Brothers thing mean to foreign investors?

There a Chinese or Saudi having a "freak out"?

re: #148 ArmyWife

Anyone here look into the post from sourcewatch.org stating Taheri is less than truthful himself? I am going to look at a few things, but if its already been done...

Taheri is generally factual, it's his spin that you have to watch. I've called him out in the past for not liking the word "terrorism".

re: #148 ArmyWife

Are you talking about what showed up in the NY Post? I saw that via Power Line. Have you guys already run that one to ground?

re: #119 Maximu§

Pink Floyd's Rick Wright dies at 65
Aw Man, could this day get any worse?

Ah, I spent the night in a Holiday Inn Express?

/

re: #148 ArmyWife

Amir does have some history of less than credible reports - however, I think that the difference here is that the Iraqi Foreign Minister is on the record in the column. I haven't heard any release from the Minister that Amir is misquoting or misattributing him - but this might not, at this point, be a big enough issue to garner a comment from Baghdad.

What Obama is accused of doing is not new at all for the 'modern' (post 1968) Democrat party. There is a history of a number of Dems / Dem supporters choosing party / personal interests over those of country....

I doubt much of the MSM will even investigate this to see if it is a viable story......given the candidate involved. Now, if the parties were reversed....

re: #131 Athos

Catastrophic engine failure that damaged wing and fuel tanks? I'm thinking ingestion of something or a fault that caused the engine to explode?

Even that would leave the comms and transponder up while it went down. They pilots could have gotten out a mayday.

In catastrophic engine failures, engines are designed to separate from the wing to prevent that.

re: #127 vagabond trader

Help, whimper,sniffle; withdrawals setting in. Would an astute lizard be able to tell me why my new pc will not allow me to download Adobe?

You must not have administrative rights..are you using Vista or XP?

re: #149 Syrah

It started with McCain introducing Palin as his running mate. It poleaxed the Obama campaign and his supporters.

They should have seen it coming, at least the possibility of it, but they did not.

From that point forward, they have have done nothing but look like fools, kooks and back peddlers.

I should have kept reading. They couldn't see Palin coming- she wasn't even on their list of people to prepare themselves for, and ever since then they've been at a loss for how to deal with what was for them the unforeseen.

And that 0bama and his people can't seem to deal with the unforeseen pretty much should show all Americans this guy should never see the Oval Office- ever.

re: #154 WriterMom

There's no crisis, just another tricky day.

To mangle the Who.

re: #149 Syrah

re: #153 Sharmuta

I think you're both right. I think the lipstick/pig comment just amplified it. "0" is on the defensive, and (thankfully) not doing that very well.

re: #145 rose4421

Britain Adopts Islamic Law, Gives Sharia Courts Full Power to Rule on Civil Cases

Very slippery sloop. Very bad idea. Remind me to never go to Britain again.

re: #119 Maximu§
Youtube- Richard Wright Documentary

re: #37 Sharmuta

His response blows. This ain't an agreement that Congress could or should have any interest in manipulating. This is an agreement between the government of Iraq and our government. That the obamessiah is confused about such matters means he shoulda kept his big yap shut.

re: #164 Sharmuta

... that 0bama and his people can't seem to deal with the unforeseen pretty much should show all Americans this guy should never see the Oval Office- ever.

Nicely said.

re: #167 midwestgak

Very slippery sloop.

I think yawl are right about that.

re: #157 buzzsawmonkey

Buzzsaw? Never heard the "bricks without straw" before (with the exception of "The Ten Commandments".

"I must have killed more men than Cecil B. DeMille." The Waco Kid

re: #162 jcm

Under normal circumstances - but shrapnel from the engine, like turbine blades, can do to the wing the same thing that tire debris did to the Air France Concorde that went down outside of Paris. Just thinking out loud as I hadn't heard that all comm and transponder info went dead prior to the crash.....

Into the Obama Tank for the Final Push

We cannot let this happen!

Did you guys read this?

Obama's Descent To Earth: It’s hard to maintain a celestial conceit for four years — even if you believe it yourself.

OH FART.

Here's the link. Not the bold.
GA.

re: #85 Son of the Black Dog

My question is: Where was the adult leadership in the financial industry when all this was going on. I'd pick up some beaten down financial stocks, but which ones are going to turn out to be toxic? It may be a long time before the caterpillar stops dropping shoes.

They were investigating steroids in baseball.

re: #170 unreconstructed rebel

Thank you.

RIP Richard Wright.

Off to the Great Gig in the Sky

Interesting local color, I had my windows open this morning and I could not help but notice the sound of motorcycles, Harleys, hundreds and hundreds of them.

It was the funeral for this guy.

re: #155 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I heard that around 4,000 + (?) Lehmen employees in London could be let go -- they've lost their jobs...

re: #175 Typicalwhitey

Into the Obama Tank for the Final Push

We cannot let this happen!

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/ into_the_obama_tank_for_the_fi.html

Link fixed, article worth reading.

re: #174 Athos

Under normal circumstances - but shrapnel from the engine, like turbine blades, can do to the wing the same thing that tire debris did to the Air France Concorde that went down outside of Paris. Just thinking out loud as I hadn't heard that all comm and transponder info went dead prior to the crash.....

It's possible, of course. Just given who was on board and the info I've seen it doesn't quite add up.

re: #169 Cap'n DOC

But, he could not help trying to obfuscate the issue -

This article bears as much resemblance to the truth as a McCain campaign commercial.

I received a Pre-Release 1 hr. DVD edition of the movie "Obsession" in Saturday's mail. It comes completely unsolicited, which is fine by me. I am wondering if they were distributed to every residence in my mid to upper income chattering class zip code. I honestly don't need the info it provides, though the Liberals and other Run of the Public Education Mill Ostriches around me sure could use the edification it can provide.

It is being distributed by The Clarion Fund. It has no address label and was attached to a glossy promo mailer card. It came wrapped around my daily rubber banded bundle of mail. I only hope that this is being distributed to many other similar zips in metropolitan areas around the country as a targeted information saturation campaign, and is not something I received as a result of some data mining/mass mailing effort to people who subscribe to certain publications. Again, it is not I that need this DVD, it is the willfully uniformed and generally ignorant that do.

Has anyone else received anything similar from The Clarion Fund?

Hi. Have you guys read the adn.com story about Palin using her Blackberries all the time? Interesting read.....

re: #146 opnion

So he wouldn't set polisah?

Well, I'm just speculating, but I think he's a Soros sock puppet already. He would be the front man and the official executive, but I'd bet the decisions and policy would be made elsewhere.

re: #136 runrabbitrun

On top of that, someone would be liable to dig up ol' (RIP) van Winkle Paw from among the mysteriously dead and buried. Can't have that, can we?

re: #175 Typicalwhitey

Linky sicky.

re: #119 Maximu§

Pink Floyd's Rick Wright dies at 65

Aw Man, could this day get any worse?

Dow is now down 500. Does that count for worse?

re: #183 jwb7605

Thanks!
Sometimes my links have a double http://
Don't know why.

re: #157 buzzsawmonkey

Not being able to download Adobe! That's just bricks without straw!

You sound like you have feet of clay. There's mortar this than meets the eye.

re: #188 Alaska Kim

Hi. Have you guys read the adn.com story about Palin using her Blackberries all the time? Interesting read.....

Racist! They're "Berries of Color".

LMAO! First pic in a Palin slide show

re: #192 kansas

Dow is now down 500. Does that count for worse?

Its only worse if you sell.

Good time to buy.

re: #178 DeafDog

They were investigating steroids in baseball.

Yeah, interesting what Congress's priorities are.

re: #195 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Racist! They're "Berries of Color".

One of my favorite bloggers calls them "Crackberries" because people are constantly using them. I thought that was funny!

re: #194 Occasional Reader

Oh No! Groan!

(heh)

re: #196 Sharmuta

LMAO! First pic in a Palin slide show

LOL! That's great!

re: #196 Sharmuta

LMAO! First pic in a Palin slide show

Love it!

The King walked through his village. All was peaceful. All was quiet. Every house had a fresh coat of paint. Every chimney glowed from the warm fire within. Every pot had a chicken in it and every child had put their toys away before doing homework.

The King entered his palace and went into the council chamber where his wisest and most loyal lords were waiting for him. He placed both hands on the table and ran a regal eye over them all then spoke, "We face a crisis."

UH OH

It's late afternoon Punny Hour at LFG?

re: #199 Alaska Kim

One of my favorite bloggers calls them "Crackberries" because people are constantly using them. I thought that was funny!

It's not original. People have been calling them "crackberries" for years.

Here's another one. Got Lipstick?

re: #154 WriterMom

You are so right about this. Global warming "crisis", the "crisis" of this and that. Everything is a crisis situation for them.

I've only followed Jonah Goldberg's arguments and drawn them out to the present time.
Thats why I think his book ('Liberal Fascism') is so important - what happens right now illustrates what he said when he wrote that book about a year or so ago.
I'm still amazed by his perspicacy.

re: #171 Moe Katz

I think yawl are right about that.

What are you barqing about?

St. Pancakes alma mater in the news............

Fires at Evergreen State College likely intentionally set

Arson is believed to be the cause of two early morning fires on The Evergreen State College campus in Olympia, Wash.

Sunday's blazes caused an estimated $35,000 in damage; $30,000 at the college's organic farm and $5,000 to five dumpsters.

The first fire was reported at about 2 a.m. and engulfed the five dumpsters in a residential housing area. The second fire was reported about 4:20 a.m. by a neighbor who saw smoke and flames. It destroyed a tool shed and greenhouse at the organic farm.

Save the earth! Stop organic farming?
/

re: #193 Typicalwhitey

Thanks!
Sometimes my links have a double http://
Don't know why.

There's always a default "h t t p / /" when you click the link icon ... if that doesn't get over-written, that's what does it.

Man! It's gone viral!

re: #111 Dave the.....

It's be like if I leased a building to sell hardware. The lease says I can sell hardware, but not liquor or fireworks. I sell hardware, liquor and fireworks. The landlord says he is kicking me out and suing for damages. I say "but I sold what the lease said I could...hardware". But I also did things not allowed. So the whole contract could be void.

Would that be a proper analogy. The lady took the photo as contracted, but she also used the time, paid for by the Atlantic, to do nasty political work.

McCain showed up there to be photographed and interviewed based on the reputation of Atlantic magazine.

Imagine showing up at Georgio's restaurant and having a waiter dump a bowl of soup on your head. It may not have been Georgio's fault personally, but it certainly reflects badly on him, and he's ultimately responsible.

This photog, meanwhile, was hired to do a job, not to inject her personal feelings into the photo shoot. Even if she hated McCain's guts (and clearly she did), she still should have taken the best possible pictures of him for her employer. Taking extra "bad" ones for her personal portfolio was totally inappropriate.

Further, she may not have had the legal right to use said photos on her own website.

I don't know exactly what the contract between her and Atlantic specified, but its extremely likely that Atlantic (and not this photog) owned the copyright to unused images from the photo shoot.

re: #203 lifeofthemind

The King walked through his village. All was peaceful. All was quiet. Every house had a fresh coat of paint. Every chimney glowed from the warm fire within. Every pot had a chicken in it and every child had put their toys away before doing homework.

The King entered his palace and went into the council chamber where his wisest and most loyal lords were waiting for him. He placed both hands on the table and ran a regal eye over them all then spoke, "We face a crisis."

Isn't that the truth! When I head the Obama strategist on NPR say "The McCain plan of lower taxes and smaller government is a job killer, not a job maker," I thought, yeah it might kill your job! These people and their plans are beyond useless.

re: #174 Athos

Under normal circumstances - but shrapnel from the engine, like turbine blades, can do to the wing the same thing that tire debris did to the Air France Concorde that went down outside of Paris. Just thinking out loud as I hadn't heard that all comm and transponder info went dead prior to the crash.....

Modern engines shouldn't have such catastrophic failure, but we don't know if they were really using Western parts and maintenance standards.

re: #209 jcm

St. Pancakes alma mater in the news............

Fires at Evergreen State College likely intentionally set

Save the earth! Stop organic farming?
/

Practice for who-knows-what. Their alumni have helped terrorists smuggle weapons and killed cops, what's next? Truck bombs? Shooting Republicans?

re: #211 Sharmuta

BHO is so screwed.

re: #205 Occasional Reader

It's not original. People have been calling them "crackberries" for years.

Well, by living in Alaska, and not owning a cell phone or a Blackberry, it's safe to say I don't get out much! I had never heard "crackberry" before.

Has this post digressed to a boob thread yet?

This is just a quick drive by post but I wanted to encourage all you lizards to try and catch the history channel's "102 minutes that changed America"

[Link: www.history.com...]

Me and my youngest turnspawn were clicking around on the tube last night and caught the very start of it. Absolutely mesmerizing, not for the feint of heart (it kept replaying in my mind when I slept last night.) It was followed up with brief interviews with some of the eyewitnesses who caught the video. If you see that you'll definitely never forget.

What? We have a new verb in the lexicon?

to lipstick

/heading for cover

re: #207 yma o hyd

Yes-I just read it. His analysis is right on. Practically everything that comes out of Hilary's mouth is crisis talk. He's very funny. I have to admit though-I was reading a P.J O'Rourke book right after, and there were several PJ nuggets that it appeared Jonah 'liberated'. Like about "It Takes A Village" coming from the ancient tribal African village of Hallmarkonia (or something like that).

re: #198 Son of the Black Dog

Yeah, interesting what Congress's priorities are.

They had to do something when not having 45 votes on cutting off funding and mandating surrender in Iraq.

re: #187 Ackomanyuki

I got it through the Chronicle of Higher Education last week. Someone else mentioned getting it through one of their subscriptions - National Review? - and I heard from a friend in Chicago that she got it through the mail.

re: #211 Sharmuta

Man! It's gone viral!

Can we tell BHO to lip-stick it where the sun don't shine? Sideways even?

re: #188 Alaska Kim

Hi. Have you guys read the adn.com story about Palin using her Blackberries all the time? Interesting read.....

Haven't read anything but saw in some photos of her. She has two Blackberries on the table and she was going back and forth with them as she was also conversing with her daughter. Simply impressive.

Sarah Palin- hockey mom and inspiration

re: #206 Sharmuta

Here's another one. Got Lipstick?

Click to picture 25

re: #187 Ackomanyuki

I received the Obession dvd last week in the mail. Several other folks here got it in the mail too. And I saw that over the weekend, lots of folks got the dvd as an insert in their newspapers. Interesting way of getting the film out into the public.

re: #196 Sharmuta

LMAO! First pic in a Palin slide show

Surprising number of good pictures. Even the ankle shot. The camera loves that woman.

re: #206 Sharmuta

Here's another one. Got Lipstick?

Gotta say - she has a very attractive husband and wears killer shoes.

Can this be real?

re: #178 DeafDog

Why would anybody put steroids into the baseballs?
Isn't it meant to go into human bodies?

(Sorrreee - couldn't resist!)

re: #229 Syrah

Surprising number of good pictures. Even the ankle shot. The camera loves that woman.

I ♥ her too.

re: #20 wrenchwench

“One of the nice things about this situation is people can look at the cover shot and make their own determination about whether or not it is fair to John McCain. I believe very strongly that it is,” Bennet said."

Fake but fair?

Is Mandy here? if so [Link: news.yahoo.com...] from women to women! goooo palin! a time of fun in a serious world

re: #193 Typicalwhitey

I maybe do. When you click on the link button and prepare to paste in the link, make certain that you click on the existing http:// otherwise if you click next to it, it will leave the original there.

re: #217 Alaska Kim

Well, by living in Alaska, and not owning a cell phone or a Blackberry, it's safe to say I don't get out much! I had never heard "crackberry" before.

I don't own a cell phone either....I don't miss it at all.

re: #226 Typicalwhitey

Click to picture 25

That just shows everything.

re: #225 Sharmuta

Check out the caption for this pic:

Republican presidential candidate John McCain attends the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Sylvania 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon. McCain and Sarah Palin stand accused of trying to "lie" their way into the White House with discredited claims and advertising -- and it's not just outgunned Democrats crying foul.

WTF does that have to do with the picture, AP?

re: #193 Typicalwhitey

Thanks!
Sometimes my links have a double http://
Don't know why.

If you cut and paste the link from an address bar, it starts with http://
The link dialog box adds its own. Leave that one highlighted when you paste, and it gets replaced by the entire link. If you click after it first, the link you paste gets added to the end.

re: #209 jcm

St. Pancakes alma mater in the news............

Fires at Evergreen State College likely intentionally set

Save the earth! Stop organic farming?
/

Considering that it will take 3 times the land under cultivation to go completely organic, that's actually a sensible cry.

re: #196 Sharmuta

LMAO! First pic in a Palin slide show

Put your lipstick in the air...now wave it like you just don't care!

re: #230 Intrepid

Gotta say - she has a very attractive husband and wears killer shoes.

He looks so proud of her.

re: #226 Typicalwhitey

Awwww. He is still totally ga-ga for her!

re: #206 Sharmuta

Here's another one. Got Lipstick?

Got shoes?

re: #226 Typicalwhitey

You know, I'm comfortable enough with my masculinity to say, "Gosh, he is a handsome man!"

San Tropez. Wright on piano.

re: #237 Vergeltung

I don't own a cell phone either....I don't miss it at all.

Me either! Getting rid of that thing (and the monthly bill) was almost liberating.

Somebody tell me this is a fake...

re: #233 Sharmuta

I ♥ her too.

A long time ago when I was a portrait photographer, I would occasionally have clients who for some magical reason could not take a bad picture. It think she might be one of them.

All that Obama had was a golden voice and good looks. Palin has that, and much more. Palin wins.

re: #239 Fat Jolly Penguin

Check out the caption for this pic:

WTF does that have to do with the picture, AP?

WTF does the AP have to do with the facts? This is the same organization that employs terrorist stringers, accepted photoshopped pics, and has a number of beat writers that cannot distance their opinions from their news reporting.

re: #187 Ackomanyuki

I received a Pre-Release 1 hr. DVD edition of the movie "Obsession" in Saturday's mail. It comes completely unsolicited, which is fine by me. I am wondering if they were distributed to every residence in my mid to upper income chattering class zip code. I honestly don't need the info it provides, though the Liberals and other Run of the Public Education Mill Ostriches around me sure could use the edification it can provide.

It is being distributed by The Clarion Fund. It has no address label and was attached to a glossy promo mailer card. It came wrapped around my daily rubber banded bundle of mail. I only hope that this is being distributed to many other similar zips in metropolitan areas around the country as a targeted information saturation campaign, and is not something I received as a result of some data mining/mass mailing effort to people who subscribe to certain publications. Again, it is not I that need this DVD, it is the willfully uniformed and generally ignorant that do.

Has anyone else received anything similar from The Clarion Fund?

Yup. Received DVD in Ft. Myers News-Press Sunday. Haven't watched it yet but I know the dangers of islamic extremism. Maybe check it out later when bored completely out of my mind.(often)

re: #249 Peacekeeper

Why? What's the problem with that site?

re: #190 Cap'n DOC

On top of that, someone would be liable to dig up ol' (RIP) van Winkle Paw from among the mysteriously dead and buried. Can't have that, can we?

With the arrogant DNC sniffing that Mac took a huge chance choosing Palin for the RNC ticket, they must have some idea what a chance they themselves would be taking if they fake up some excuse for the resignation of Biden.

The Obama organization's first major political decision, and the nation is aware, regardless the fiction, that they had to arrange a do-over? What a McCain ad that would make against choosing those same hands to be on the red button.

Wow, a lot of serious stuff here for an open thread.

/I should do something about that ;)re: #218 turn

My 18 yo son watched it the other night. There were videos and photos that he hadn't seen before, and he said it really made a big impression on him. He also highly recommends it.

re: #250 Syrah

A long time ago when I was a portrait photographer, I would occasionally have clients who for some magical reason could not take a bad picture. It think she might be one of them.

All that Obama had was a golden voice and good looks. Palin has that, and much more. Palin wins.

She stole his celebrity mojo. His OODA loop still hasn't recovered.

re: #211 Sharmuta

Man! It's gone viral!

Amazing that a little thing of lipstick from an Obama gaffe could be such a potent symbol for this election.

Obama/Biden just keeps giving the McCain/Palin camp more ammo.

Okay, ladies. Now that you have your lipsticks out, just what does the shape say about you?

Here's a really nice piece:

Your Brother Is A Blessing

re: #219 unreconstructed rebel

Whomever said that originally deserves big dings. I like it.