Well there you go.

Science should be taught in science class.

and evolution taught in Church evolution class

Is there a..um..video?

Arrr, this quote will get the deep six fast!

But Caribou Sarah wears weird lipstick!

/

MSM with fingers in ears "lalalalalalala...can't hear you...lalalalalalala"

Poll at PBS: Is Palin qualified to be VP? Here

Poll is even. I just voted.

re: #3 kevinmumaw

Is there a..um..video?

With firearms and wimins in Bikinis?

re: #5 Truck Monkey

But Caribou Sarah wears weird lipstick!

/

And killed a moose! Yaar! Run for 'ye lives!

re: #9 LoFlyer

And killed a moose! Yaar! Run for 'ye lives!

Makes you wonder what she would do to blacks and jews doesn't it......

And on the other hand:

A noted psychiatrist was a guest at a party and his host, Barak, naturally broached the subject in which the doctor was most at ease.

"Would you mind telling me, Doctor," Barak asked "how you detect a mental deficiency in somebody who appears completely normal?"

"Nothing is easier," he replied. "You ask him a simple question which everyone should answer with no trouble. If he hesitates, that puts you on the track."

"What sort of question?"

"Well, you might ask him, 'Captain Cook made three trips around the world and died during one of them. Which one?'

Barak thought for a moment, and then said with a nervous laugh, "You wouldn't happen to have another example would you? I must confess I don't know much about history."

Science in science class....hmmm next thing you know she'll be demanding math in math class. I always knew she was weirod.

I heard she shoots Jews in ANWR from airplanes.

Thank you, Sarah. Indeed- we should have started drilling ten years ago. Thanks for nothing, democrats!

re: #10 Truck Monkey

Makes you wonder what she would do to blacks and jews doesn't it......

Anathema is kind of vague? You'd think Congressman Hastings could at least slander with specifics.

Not Katie Couric!

re: #14 Sharmuta

Thank you, Sarah. Indeed- we should have started drilling ten years ago. Thanks for nothing, democrats!

I wouldn't have minded drilli........ er, never mind.

Video?

re: #8 Truck Monkey

Hell yeah!

re: #18 galloping granny

Hello granny,nice to see you.

Reload if you're not seeing the video.

re: #17 Truck Monkey

POW/MILF 08

Gee. She thinks science should be taught in science class. Next thing you know, she'll want math taught in math class, English taught in English class, History taught in History class, and God forbid she might ask for Geography.

The education bureaucrats will be beside themselves. They'll be out of a job. Who else is going to concoct all the silly excuses we have for education in this country?

I think she just lost the NEA vote. Not that I care...

re: #22 n in wi

POW/MILF 08

I want that sticker!

Just as I’ve been writing for more than a month, she supports the teaching of evolution as “an accepted principle.”

PROOF THAT SHE IS A HARLOT OF BABYLON!

/

Is she on every night with Katie Couric?

MAAATTTTT DAMON! still isn't convinced.

/just another Hollywood airhead.

re: #7 USA

Poll at PBS: Is Palin qualified to be VP? Here

Poll is even. I just voted.

Haaar, she's a lot more qualified than Obama, much less Biden. Interesting that Biden is more qualified than Obama, hence the allegations that Obama is not qualified and using this election to get his "name in the cards" with no realistic expectation of nomination. In essence the MSM supported all news on Obama whilst suppressing positive news of Clinton resulting in Obama's flawed nomination. This is an extremely weak Democrat "ticket". MSM refuses to investigate serious issues with Obama while "pit-bulling" Palin.
/What? me worry? No sign of bias here.....

I loved her answer to Ms. Perky's question about newspapers. Just because it's Alaska doesn't mean they're not able to get the same sources the rest of the country gets.

re: #23 blangwort

History is SEXIST! Why is it not called HERSTORY?

I sh*t you not, my friends. I have heard the above line of BS spouted in our higher learning intstitues.

The video's way out of sync with the audio. Good work, CBS.

re: #25 Occasional Reader

Maybe a Marmot of Babylon. She's from Alaska.

re: #20 Oldasdirt

Hello granny,nice to see you.

Hey dirt! How're you tonight?

"I see the hand of God in this beautiful creation that is earth."

Nice!

re: #30 Whiterasta

History is SEXIST! Why is it not called HERSTORY?

I sh*t you not, my friends. I have heard the above line of BS spouted in our higher learning intstitues.

Of course. This line was invented in our institutions of higher learning.

re: #31 Charles

The video's way out of sync with the audio. Good work, CBS.

Ha, I was just about to comment on that.

Sarah's pretty damn smart. Bring Willow along to keep Couric in check. Katie's a mom, there are certain things she won't ask a candidate in front of her own child.

Gov Palin, what newspapers and magazines do you read?

I am soooo Sick of the gotcha questions.

What you will never hear Perky Couric ask :

Senator Obama, what books do you read?

Rules for radicals?

re: #32 godfrey

Maybe a Marmot of Babylon. She's from Alaska.

Marmot's very good, but I like Arcteryx better.

re: #33 galloping granny
Im real good tonight,,my aim was straight,and had many kills in our little online game.It's wonderfull to be a winner,if even in a game.

On Thursday night, she'll be live and unedited. This will be a change.

Certainly for CBS News, which has used the Edit button to chop out her intelligent responses to their inane questions even more often than they've used it to delete the One's "uh"s.

cheers

eon

which movie will gross more;
Bill Mahar's "Religous"or "American Carol"

re: #30 Whiterasta

History is SEXIST! Why is it not called HERSTORY?

I sh*t you not, my friends. I have heard the above line of BS spouted in our higher learning intstitues.

I spouted in a history term paper. The professor kindly smacked me down.

re: #38 shug

Presidential Politics for Dummies.

Volume I -- The Amazing Properties of Bullshit

Is Katie Couric a shrew or what?

/dear God, please help John McCain and Sarah Palin turn the latest poll trends around so that they may save us from that which is looking like Obama by five

No matter.
It looks like the electorate is going to hand the 08 election over the corrupt democrats.

[Link: vodkapundit.com...]

Keep science where it belongs and religion where it belongs: Good for her. Now I just hope she tells her handlers to take a 90-minute coffee break so she can debate her way. She's overcoached, and it shows.

re: #31 Charles

BTW, every time I post or refresh comments, the video stops and I have to start from the beginning. And frankly, I don't care enough about Katie's dumb questions to watch ten whole minutes without refreshing comments.

re: #41 eon

Certainly for CBS News, which has used the Edit button to chop out her intelligent responses to their inane questions even more often than they've used it to delete the One's "uh"s.

cheers

eon

They have to take out all the one's uh's and ah's and so.to get a 20 sec sound bite from a 20 min. speach.

re: #47 joncelli

Keep science where it belongs and religion where it belongs: Good for her. Now I just hope she tells her handlers to take a 90-minute coffee break so she can debate her way. She's overcoached, and it shows.

I agree. Overcoached.

Let her go and watch her shine!

re: #31 Charles

The video's way out of sync with the audio. Good work, CBS.

CBS was trying to invoke the image of Godzilla.

re: #30 Whiterasta

History is SEXIST! Why is it not called HERSTORY?

And why is it LITERATURE and not CLITERATURE?

/sorry

re: #40 Oldasdirt

Im real good tonight,,my aim was straight,and had many kills in our little online game.It's wonderfull to be a winner,if even in a game.

ROFL! That it is.

re: #42 n in wi

Well my ticket money is going to American Carol- it's a pre election vote.

Hystery not History

No wonder Couric's ratings are low - she's a pathetic journalist. Her "gotchas" aren't even clever, she just dumps the Party Line right into the middle of a conversation. "Do you eat babies, yes or no?"

It's a wonder that Palin can remain gracious and straightforward in the face of such blatant hackery.

re: #31 Charles

The dinosaur media is out of sync with the rest of the world.....

re: #45 Killian Bundy

Is Katie Couric a shrew or what?

/dear God, please help John McCain and Sarah Palin turn the latest poll trends around so that they may save us from that which is looking like Obama by five

Amen.

Hard to do when the entire media machine is in the tank with Obama and the corrupt democrats.
[Link: vodkapundit.com...]

re: #37 doppelganglander

Sarah's pretty damn smart. Bring Willow along to keep Couric in check. Katie's a mom, there are certain things she won't ask a candidate in front of her own child.

Wanna bet?

/ends justify the means

re: #54 LEGION

Well my ticket money is going to American Carol- it's a pre election vote.

Ditto

re: #21 Charles

Reload if you're not seeing the video.

Just finished it, she was very good.

re: #16 MandyManners

Not Katie Couric!

Ya ! Heehee look a' me (bounce, bounce) Lil' Miss "Perky" Couric.

/wants to barf now,

re: #42 n in wi

which movie will gross more;
Bill Mahar's "Religous"or "American Carol"

Looking forward to American Carol release on DVD! (don't do theaters)

I also really appreciated what Governor Palin said about homosexuals and not being one to judge them. I'm sure that has moonbats scratching their heads as it defies everything they think about the right.

re: #47 joncelli

She's overcoached,

Agreed. That is the precise word I used today to describe how she seemed in the first interview with Couric. She got this far without all the professional coaching. I say she is way more likable and convincing when she is simply herself.

re: #42 n in wi

which movie will gross more;
Bill Mahar's "Religous"or "American Carol"

Do they both open at the same time?

re: #63 Outrider You save yourself about $8 and don't have to look for parking. Not to mention the luxery of the pause button to relive one's self.

re: #64 Sharmuta

I also really appreciated what Governor Palin said about homosexuals and not being one to judge them. I'm sure that has moonbats scratching their heads as it defies everything they think about the right.

I liked her reply too. totally genuine and I think this sums up the way most conservatives feel about the issue ( at least that's how I feel about it )

tangent

I am waiting for the day of the discovery of the "gay gene" or some such marker that can be obtained on routine prenatal genetic studies.

Can you imagine the conflict on the left the first day that a couple electively aborts a fetus because it's going to be gay.

re: #45 Killian Bundy

Is Katie Couric a shrew or what?

/dear God, please help John McCain and Sarah Palin turn the latest poll trends around so that they may save us from that which is looking like Obama by five

A month before the '04 election, they were crowing it would be Kerry by 6.

The day after, they were parachuting lawyers into Ohio to try to sue everyone who didn't vote the right way.

Thanks to the wisdom of our Founding Fathers in giving us the secret ballot, they had to settle for whining and calling us stupid.

I've got a feeling that this time around, if they lose, it'll be a much more dangerous form of tantrum.

As it stands, I'd say that the Obamatrons are panicking already- hence their legal thug squads' jackboot tactics, as with the NRA ads.

/if they were as sure as they claim to be in public, they'd be saving their yen to play stormtrooper until after they had the reins of power firmly in their grubby little protuberances.

cheers

eon

re: #26 JammieWearingFool

Is she on every night with Katie Couric?

Would boost Katie's ratings

re: #66 kevinmumaw

Religous- Oct. 2
American Carole- Oct. 3

re: #68 Shug

Can you imagine the conflict on the left the first day that a couple electively aborts a fetus because it's going to be gay.

Jonah Goldberg wrote about that possibility a couple of years ago.

Yahoo News is pimping the new W BDS movie.
Controversial trailer my ass. It's an excuse to pimp the biases of Yahoo news.

re: #65 mich-again

She's being "over-coached" IMHO because the media's so in the tank for the "O", but I agree with both of you that she has to be herself to shine in the debate against Biden.

Is it just me or is Katie less perky and more smarmy?

re: #67 n in wi

You save yourself about $8 and don't have to look for parking. Not to mention the luxery of the pause button to relive one's self.

And I don't have a bunch of idiots *talking on cell phones *talking with each other *reciting lines or giving spoilers *manchilds throwing popcorn *rolling cans down the aisle *babies crying (can't get a sitter?) *being puked on (yes that happened at a movie years back-Apocalypse Now if I recall, all over my back...and I'm the one that got tossed from the theater)

;-)>

re: #71 LEGION

Religous- Oct. 2
American Carole- Oct. 3

I will bet you 1 billion dollars American carol wins opening weekend.

I can hardly wait to see Gwen Ifill's treatment of Sarah Palin in the upcoming debate.
/

re: #75 USA

Is it just me or is Katie less perky and more smarmy?

Haven't you heard, she is a serious journalist.

re: #75 USA

Is it just me or is Katie less perky and more smarmy?

No, not just you. The aging cheerleader shit was getting old so she opted for smarmy cum snooty

re: #49 Oldasdirt

They have to take out all the one's uh's and ah's and so.to get a 20 sec sound bite from a 20 min. speach.

Would you even that much ? Hmmm....

re: #59 Truck Monkey

Wanna bet?

/ends justify the means

I haven't watched the whole thing, but I do think that might have been Sarah's thoughts in bringing Willow along.

re: #75 USA

She's not doing the morning show anymore, and somewhere along the line she got the impression that morning = perky and evening = smarmy. But then nobody ever accused her of overthinking things.

re: #77 kevinmumaw

I will bet you 1 billion dollars American carol wins opening weekend.

I agree with you and raise you 47thousand quatloos!

re: #69 eon

As it stands, I'd say that the Obamatrons are panicking already- hence their legal thug squads' jackboot tactics, as with the NRA ads.

Let 'em go ahead and play Thug with the NRA crowd. See what happens.

/we're prepared for this sort of thing. VERY prepared.

re: #69 eon

I agree completely.
with the kids' videos and the media how it is, it's like watching the creation of Mussolini or Adolph all over again, both of whom in the beginning were idolized by the media and hollyweird.
History repeats itself and moonbats are looking for their godman to worship.

In the movie "300"....doesn't Xerxes kinda remind you of Obama?
the man who would be god.

re: #37 doppelganglander

Sarah's pretty damn smart. Bring Willow along to keep Couric in check. Katie's a mom, there are certain things she won't ask a candidate in front of her own child.

To Katie, that is not a child. It's just an unaborted-fetus.

re: #56 Pawn of the Oppressor

No wonder Couric's ratings are low - she's a pathetic journalist. Her "gotchas" aren't even clever, she just dumps the Party Line right into the middle of a conversation. "Do you eat babies, yes or no?"

It's a wonder that Palin can remain gracious and straightforward in the face of such blatant hackery.

Actually, it's "Have you stopped eating babies?"

"Gotcha" questions are always phrased so that no matter what your answer is, you look like Evil Incarnate or The Biggest Moron on Earth.

As Heinlein said, the appropriate answer to such a question is really nothing more complicated than a punch in the snoot.

/which is why journalists love lawyers so much- or at least the ones who work for the journalists' employers

cheers

eon

re: #68 Shug

I liked her reply too. totally genuine and I think this sums up the way most conservatives feel about the issue ( at least that's how I feel about it )

tangent

I am waiting for the day of the discovery of the "gay gene" or some such marker that can be obtained on routine prenatal genetic studies.

Can you imagine the conflict on the left the first day that a couple electively aborts a fetus because it's going to be gay.

Cover your ears!

The sound barrier is about to break due to the speed of libs going from "pro-choice" to pro-life now.

Don't know how the aging sorority girl from UVa get to pretend to be so brilliant, do you?

re: #76 Outrider

And I don't have a bunch of idiots *talking on cell phones *talking with each other *reciting lines or giving spoilers *manchilds throwing popcorn *rolling cans down the aisle *babies crying (can't get a sitter?) *being puked on (yes that happened at a movie years back-Apocalypse Now if I recall, all over my back...and I'm the one that got tossed from the theater)

;-)>

Jeez, you go to a really lousy theater. I'll admit, there are certain theaters around here I will not go to, especially the 10 o'clock shows on Friday or Saturday, because of the clientele.

re: #89 right_in_canada

Cover your ears!

The sound barrier is about to break due to the speed of libs going from "pro-choice" to pro-life now.

They will demand the Mother be charged with a hate crime

re: #73 FrogMarch

Yahoo News is pimping the new W BDS movie.
Controversial trailer my ass. It's an excuse to pimp the biases of Yahoo news.

So, any bets on just how badly this one will tank? :D :D :D

re: #87 USA

To Katie, that is not a child. It's just an unaborted-fetus.

I've got to say, that was really uncalled for.

Heh, just saw An American Carol commercial on the end of H&C. New clip- funny.

re: #68 Shug

Can you imagine the conflict on the left the first day that a couple electively aborts a fetus because it's going to be gay.

Yikes. What a terrible thought. But closer to current reality, in the UN, they support abortion rights in general, but at the same time vehemently oppose the use of abortion for the practice of sex selection, which apparently happens on a grand scale in China. I don't really get that logic. If abortion is a truly a personal decision, then why should anyone question why that decision was made.

Well, no Brewers/Twins World series.
Maybe Cubs/White Sox?

re: #89 right_in_canada

Cover your ears!

The sound barrier is about to break due to the speed of libs going from "pro-choice" to pro-life now.

Fetuses may not be aborted by race, creed or sexual preference. Woman must demonstrate "inconvenience"

re: #69 eon

Thanks to the wisdom of our Founding Fathers in giving us the secret ballot, they had to settle for whining and calling us stupid.

Not so much anymore in certain states, the ones with the Touchscreen Computers. In every case I've seen or discussed with other people around the nation that use them, the rooms are always set up with the screens facing towards the lines of people waiting to vote. No privacy partitions or screens at all.

re: #69 eon

The day after, they were parachuting lawyers into Ohio to try to sue everyone who didn't vote the right way.

/Jungle Work

wow! was she good or what? much more confident and relaxed than the other Couric interview. good sharp solid answers.

hope she brings that same game to the bout on thursday with the great plagiarizer.

I thought Ms Perky slipped at the end- she complained about how the McCain team is not allowing Sarah to be edited by the msm.

Uh, Your Perkiness? You just openly whined about not getting to manipulate your video. Don't think I was the only one who noticed.

re: #94 doppelganglander

I've got to say, that was really uncalled for.

Did you watch the video? Katie asks questions about 15 year olds aborting daddy's baby....

re: #98 SpartanWoman

Fetuses may not be aborted by race, creed or sexual preference. Woman must demonstrate "inconvenience"

Could a conservative abort a fetus if it carried the "liberal" gene?

re: #91 doppelganglander

Jeez, you go to a really lousy theater. I'll admit, there are certain theaters around here I will not go to, especially the 10 o'clock shows on Friday or Saturday, because of the clientele.

To be frank, I haven't been to a theater around here. Haven't been to any theater since the movie Apocalypse Now was showing. Daughter and neighbors are always complaining about the cell phones though.

After that first bit in the studio, I thought Couric was reporting from Tokyo about the rampaging giant lizard...

re: #23 blangwort

History taught in History class

Dude, we don't even have a history class. It's "Social Studies" now. It has little to nothing to do with history.

I love the way she refuses to take the question on Couric's terms. She just won't bite.

re: #103 USA

Did you watch the video? Katie asks questions about 15 year olds aborting daddy's baby....

Exactly...what they don't do is give the statistics of oh, I don't know...the one time that happened.

Let's base everything on absurd hypotheticals shall we?

re: #89 right_in_canada
When I went back to college, I had to take a sex and gender class. Taught by a lesbian and when I posed that question to her you could see the wheels spinning. Gay/Lesbian groups say it is not a choice but that they are born gay/lesbian. So if they are 'born' there is a 'gay gene'.
One of my good friends, who is a lesbian, is very much pro-life. She and her partner were able to adopt 2 children that might have been aborted.

re: #71 LEGION

Religous- Oct. 2
American Carole- Oct. 3

everyone go see American Carol. it will be like early balloting.
i hope this movie slams those other two.

re: #72 Occasional Reader

Actually, if you read Limbaugh's first book, he noted this.

re: #99 Outrider

Not so much anymore in certain states, the ones with the Touchscreen Computers. In every case I've seen or discussed with other people around the nation that use them, the rooms are always set up with the screens facing towards the lines of people waiting to vote. No privacy partitions or screens at all.

I've used a touchscreen voting machine here in DC, and it was situated to give the voter privacy. Anyone witnessing otherwise should contact the FEC.

re: #84 LEGION

I agree with you and raise you 47thousand quatloos!

I see your 47,000 quatloos and raise you 15 parsecs worth of Elbonian Ore.

re: #70 SCDave

Would boost Katie's ratings

Looks like Katie is trying to boost something else with that top she is wearing.

re: #104 n in wi

Could a conservative abort a fetus if it carried the "liberal" gene?

They all do.

(Think about it.)

OT

Senate to vote on rescue plan Wednesday

[Link: money.cnn.com...]

re: #108 jcm

I love the way she refuses to take the question on Couric's terms. She just won't bite.

i love that too. she does not take the bait. i like her attitude.

re: #109 nightintheruts

Let's base everything on absurd hypotheticals shall we?

Yes yes. And don't forget that a handful of "Christians" who bomb abortion clinics are quite enough to make their entire Religion morally equivalent to Islam.

re: #113 Occasional Reader

I've used a touchscreen voting machine here in DC, and it was situated to give the voter privacy. Anyone witnessing otherwise should contact the FEC.

Excellent! On the last four elections, I have raised (written) hell all the way from the local judge up to the FEC. Has had no impact on the last three elections setups. This time I've started raising cane before the election in order to give them plenty of time to get something going. And this is a Republican county mostly. I can't imagine trying to fight this issue in a Democrat county.

I think she did great with Katie and I can only PRAY (opps am I allowed to say that?) that she does that well or even better on Thursday with the Gaffemola!

re: #98 SpartanWoman

Yeah, we laugh at something like that.

I would not put it past congress for one minute, not to fund some commission to look at it though.

re: #114 kevinmumaw

Just how do you obtain some of this Elbonian Ore? Evaporation?

Conservatism is socially acquired.

re: #55 Shug

Hystery not History

Look, the underlying idea to "herstory" is that women have been largely omitted from the history textbooks. And there is a huge amount of truth there. Let me give you just one example -

I recently got a book for the kiddo about Great Scientists. Published by DK. It contains biographies of 30 of the most important names in science, going all the way back to Archimedes. Two of them are women - Marie Curie and Dorothy Hodgkin. Lost in the clutter of the pages, relegated to a postage stamp size picture and a one sentence fine print description are -

Lise Meissner, discovered nuclear fission
Rosalind Franklin, did the x-ray crystallography which determined the structure of DNA (many scientists believe that she should have shared in the Cricks-Watson Nobel)
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, USN - did the pioneering work in computer programming

All of these women's contributions were the equal of those of the men who "own" the pages they appear on.

re: #114 kevinmumaw

I see your 47,000 quatloos and raise you 15 parsecs worth of Elbonian Ore.

/call and raise one tribble

A little OT, but I just home from work with a message on my machine that has me concerned. Michelle Obama's prerecorded was telling me all about the importance of voting and how I could it from the comfort of my own home. It said they would send me a mail-in ballot. I'm kicking myself as I didn't finish the message because I became disgusted at the gesture since I prefer to vote in a booth and I don't like pressure messages that sound a little fishy. My question is this: Can anyone send me a mail in ballot without my requesting one?

re: #86 nightintheruts

I agree completely.
with the kids' videos and the media how it is, it's like watching the creation of Mussolini or Adolph all over again, both of whom in the beginning were idolized by the media and hollyweird.
History repeats itself and moonbats are looking for their godman to worship.

In the movie "300"....doesn't Xerxes kinda remind you of Obama?
the man who would be god.

One of my favorite scenes from 300 is when the Persian ambassador comes to Sparta demanding soil and water as the Spartans' acknowledgement of Xerxes' rule.

My first thought was, "Oh, so that's where the Gaia cultists I have to put up with today got the whole 'worshiping dirt' thing."

The comparison of Obama to Xerxes is a good point. Both were men of little actual accomplishment (Xerxes inherited his throne and empire from Darius I, Obama got it by playing the game by the Big Boys' rules), who were raised in hothouse political cultures (the Persian court and Cook County), who considered themselves to be divine, and who demanded and got worship from their subjects, who regarded them as demigods.

And I suspect that in the end, Obama will find himself with a deeper understanding of how Xerxes felt after Plataea in 479 BC.

cheers

eon

re: #110 newsjunkie_ky

When I went back to college, I had to take a sex and gender class. Taught by a lesbian and when I posed that question to her you could see the wheels spinning. Gay/Lesbian groups say it is not a choice but that they are born gay/lesbian. So if they are 'born' there is a 'gay gene'.
One of my good friends, who is a lesbian, is very much pro-life. She and her partner were able to adopt 2 children that might have been aborted.

nj...great looking Pek. Looks just like a Pekingese we had in our family for 16 years.

re: #128 Idle Drifter

How about some acorn's instead?

re: #119 mich-again

Yes yes. And don't forget that a handful of "Christians" who bomb abortion clinics are quite enough to make their entire Religion morally equivalent to Islam.

I know, right? It's frustrating because they attempt mass mind control with crap like that.

I'll never forget though...the 9/11 concert thing. Richard Gere came out in front of New York and stated we shouldn't hate them but show them love and try to understand them better.
Bodyguards had to escort him off the stage. Priceless.

If you don't acquire conservatism through socialization, you end up parading with giant papier mache puppets and demanding someone else take care of you.

re: #126 galloping grannyFrom the movie"Braveheart"
History was written by men who have hanged hero's.

re: #104 n in wi

Could a conservative abort a fetus if it carried the "liberal" gene?

Lib is nurture not nature.

Good evening.

The Chicago White Sox are in the playoffs, by the skin of their teeth, and th market today went up 5%. A good day all around.

Overseas the Nikkei exchange is up about 1%. Looks like the FDIC insurance cap will get raise, and Cos with the SEC is finally looking aw waiving the mark to market requirement.

Look for the Senate to pass a bill on the market situation sometime tomorrow night

re: #126 galloping granny

Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, USN Fascinating. Inspired me to learn COBOL, albeit 4 years after hearing her speak while I was still in the Navy.

Here is the latest email spam McCain hit piece, probably sent to me by mistake.

MY HOLIDAY WITH JOHN McCAIN

by Mary-Kay Gamel

It was just before John McCain's last run at the presidential
nomination in 2000 that my husband and I vacationed in Turtle Island
in Fiji with John McCain, Cindy, and their children, including Bridget
(their adopted Bangladeshi child).
It was not our intention, but it was our misfortune to be in close
quarters with John McCain for almost a week, since Turtle Island has a
small number of bungalows and their focus on communal meals force all
vacationers who are there at the same time to get to know each other
intimately.
He arrived at our first group meal and started reading quotes from a
pile of William Faulkner books with a forest of Post-Its sticking out
of them. As an English Literature major myself, my first thought was
"if he likes this so much, why hasn't he memorized any of it yet?" I
soon realized that McCain actually thought we had come on vacation to
be a volunteer audience for his "readings" which then became a regular
part of each meal. Out of politeness, none of the vacationers
initially protested at this intrusion into their blissful holiday, but
people's buttons definitely got pushed as the readings continued day
after day.
Unfortunately this was not his only contribution to our mealtime
entertainment. He waxed on during one meal about how Indo-Chine women
had the best figures and that our American corn-fed women just
couldn't meet up to this standard. He also made it a point that all of
us should stop Cindy from having dessert as her weight was too high
and made a few comments to Amy, the 25 year old wife of the
honeymooning couple from Nebraska, that she should eat less as she
needed to lose weight.
McCain's appreciation of the beauty of Asian women was so great that
David, the American economist, had to move his Thai wife to the other
side of the table from McCain as McCain kept aggressively flirting
with and touching her.
Needless to say I was irritated at his large ego and his rude behavior
towards his wife and other women, but decided he must have some
redeeming qualities as he had adopted a handicapped child from
Bangladesh. I asked him about this one day, and his response was
shocking: "Oh, that was Cindy's idea - I didn't have anything to do
with it. She just went and adopted this thing without even asking me.
You can't imagine how people stare when I wheel this ugly, black thing
around in a shopping cart in Arizona . No, it wasn't my idea at all.
I actively avoided McCain after that, but unfortunately one day he
engaged me in a political discussion which soon got us on the topic of
the active US bombing of Iraq at that time [i.e., Clinton era policing
of no-fly zone]. I was shocked when he said, "If I was in charge, I
would nuke Iraq to teach them a lesson". Given McCain's personal
experience with the horrors of war, I had expected a more balanced
point of view. I commented on the tragic consequences of the nuclear
attacks on Ja pan during WWII
-- but no, he was not to be dissuaded. He went on to say that, if it
were up to him, he would have dropped many more nuclear bombs on
Japan. I rapidly extricated myself from this conversation as I could
tell that his experience being tortured as a POW didn't seem to have
mellowed out his perspective, but rather had made him more aggressive
and vengeful towards the world.
(continued)

re: #128 Idle Drifter

Can anyone send me a mail in ballot without my requesting one?

In a word, no. You the voter have to request the absentee ballot.

The crooked Township clerk in my locale got busted for mass-mailing out absentee ballots during a nasty recall campaign a few years back. Low and behold, she supported the recall of her political enemies who were being targeted.

Of course she claimed it was an honest mistake and nothing ever came of her malfeasance. Did I mention she is a dyed in the wool Demonrat?

re: #123 Cap'n DOC

Just how do you obtain some of this Elbonian Ore? Evaporation?

It's under the mud.

Then again, so is everything else in Elbonia.

re: #130 jorline
My Little Meggie passed away yesterday. I'm still in the grieving process.
Listening to Rush from today's show and reading LGF is sure helping this evening.
Meg is a pek-a-poo but does look more like the Pekingese than the poodle. I swear I can't see any poodle in her.

re: #23 blangwort

The problem is, there are so many liberal wingnut teachers in the system now that they have a tendency to teach their views in whatever class they are in, whether it's math or music or social studies. Her statement is perfectly fine. Hmmmph!

Part II
My final encounter with McCain was on the morning that he was leaving
Turtle Island. Amy and I were happily eating pancakes when McCain
arrived and told Amy that she shouldn't be having pancakes because she
needed to lose weight. Amy burst into tears at this abusive comment. I
felt fiercely protective of Amy and immediately turned to McCain and
told him to leave her alone. He became very angry and abusive towards
me, and said, "Don't you know who I am." I looked him in the face and
said, "Yes, you are the biggest asshole I have ever met" and headed
back to my cabin. I am happy to say that later that day - when I
arrived at lunch - I was given a standing ovation by all the guests
for having stood up to McCain's bullying.
Although I have shared my McCain story informally with friends, this
is the first time I am making it public. I almost did so in 2000, when
McCain first announced his bid for the Republican nomination, but it
soon became apparent that George Bush was the shoo-in candidate and so
I did not act then. However, now that there is a very real possibility
that McCain could be elected as our next president, I feel it is my
duty as an American citizen to share this story. I can't imagine a
more scary outcome for America than that this abusive, aggressive man
should lead our nation. I have observed him in intimate surroundings
as he really is, not how the media portrays him to be. If his
attitudes toward women and his treatment of his own family are even a
small indicator of his real personality, then I shudder to think what
will happen to America were he to be elected as our President.
--
Mary-Kay Gamel
Professor of Classics, Comparative Literature, and Theater Arts Cowell
College University of California, Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, California

re: #126 galloping granny

I agree 100% with you. At least you are presenting a rational arguement, backed up with facts and truth.

I resent the shrill left's screeching man-hatred and general bat-shattery.

re: #109 nightintheruts

Exactly...what they don't do is give the statistics of oh, I don't know...the one time that happened.

Let's base everything on absurd hypotheticals shall we?

I wouldn't say once, but this is very very rare.

re: #135 SpartanWoman

Lib is nurture not nature.

I was just arguing the opposite, actually.

We're all born liberals, but some of us grew up.

re: #99 Outrider

Not so much anymore in certain states, the ones with the Touchscreen Computers. In every case I've seen or discussed with other people around the nation that use them, the rooms are always set up with the screens facing towards the lines of people waiting to vote. No privacy partitions or screens at all.

We have them in Ohio. They are set up exactly the way our old punch-card system booths were. And they are set up so that no one at the desk, or even the next booth, can see what you're doing.

I could write-in Mickey Mouse for County Auditor, and The Seven Dwarves for County Commissioners, and no one would know I was the one who did it.

/And considering what prize A-holes our auditor and commissioners are, it's very tempting

cheers

eon

Desperation is setting in on the BHO camp.

re: #128 Idle Drifter

A little OT, but I just home from work with a message on my machine that has me concerned. Michelle Obama's prerecorded was telling me all about the importance of voting and how I could it from the comfort of my own home. It said they would send me a mail-in ballot. I'm kicking myself as I didn't finish the message because I became disgusted at the gesture since I prefer to vote in a booth and I don't like pressure messages that sound a little fishy. My question is this: Can anyone send me a mail in ballot without my requesting one?

I would do my dangest to record that message and then I would file a complaint with the FCC, the FEC and your state Attorney General.

re: #126 galloping granny

Hystery referring to the Uterus.... I think that's a cooler way of saying Herstery and since I just invented it, I like it even more

Interesting poll at Greta Sustern's site

Do you think the media has already made up its mind on whether Gov. Palin will win or lose the debate?

Greta's Poll

re: #45 Killian Bundy

I noticed a change in Couric's demeanor the minute she started asking the abortion issue questions. She really starting getting ugly in the face when Sarah wouldn't give her a straight answer regarding the Morning After pill. Old Katie probably used them more than once in her lifetime.

re: #135 SpartanWoman

Lib is nurture not nature.

Amen!
I'm gonna make sure my 3 month old granddaughter becomes a conservative. Her mom (my daughter who was indoctrinated in college) is nearly a moonbat.

re: #137 Cap'n DOC

Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, USN Fascinating. Inspired me to learn COBOL, albeit 4 years after hearing her speak while I was still in the Navy.

She has inspired more than a few. One thing I did not notice about that book until I was just posting that bit - there is not a single male illustrated as a postage stamp on someone else's page.

re: #117 Walter L. Newton

There are going to be a lot of pissed off taxpayers in a bit. Because of the bs that Pelosi pulled, they didn't get a chance to move the AMT amounts, etc. If you do your taxes with one of the programs around, it will usually do it for you and have your taxes right based on your inputs. But if you do it by hand and are not used to the AMT, you may well get some greetings from Uncle in a year or two saying that you owe them more money with interest.

re: #148 rawmuse

Desperation is setting in on the BHO camp.

They think Biden's going to do that badly, huh?

Internet polls are useless, but one that asks who won a debate are particularly stupid.

re: #153 newsjunkie_ky

Amen!
I'm gonna make sure my 3 month old granddaughter becomes a conservative. Her mom (my daughter who was indoctrinated in college) is nearly a moonbat.

It is an indoctrination process. I resisted this in college, but will admit to lefting up my papers for good grades

re: #52 Occasional Reader

And why is it LITERATURE and not CLITERATURE?

/sorry

I majored in Cliterature..it has served me well///

re: #141 newsjunkie_ky

I swear I can't see any poodle in her.

I see the poodle, it's the eyes.

/I know those eyes, I was bitten by them as a child many times, poodles are easy to aggravate

re: #138 rawmuse

That is complete BS. I would go after the person that emailed that filth to you.

re: #93 NomadOfNorad

So, any bets on just how badly this one will tank? :D :D :D

Except for ivory tower bubble dwelling elitist hollywood a-holes, Even the BDS sufferers are sick of their own sickness.

couric is a hungry maggot sniffing about for a bit of decayed meat,,

re: #151 CynicalConservative

Interesting poll at Greta Sustern's site

Do you think the media has already made up its mind on whether Gov. Palin will win or lose the debate?

Greta's Poll

WOWeeeee! 98% to 2%.

Guess everyone thinks the media is turbo-objective

re: #143 rawmuse
I think she may be an Obama supporter.

re: #161 newsjunkie_ky

That is complete BS. I would go after the person that emailed that filth to you.

I work for him sometimes. Yes.

re: #157 mich-again

Internet polls are useless, but one that asks who won a debate are particularly stupid.

I agree completely. The one I posted was fun for me in that it plays into the O' media bias we see every day.

re: #159 joecitizen

Aw... The Huwomanities. Would that be a Major or Minor?

re: #141 newsjunkie_ky

Newsjunkie.... my heart goes out to you. Your good friend is now running through fields full of flowers, and the sun is shining.... and she is happy.

Hang in there.

re: #96 mich-again

Yikes. What a terrible thought. But closer to current reality, in the UN, they support abortion rights in general, but at the same time vehemently oppose the use of abortion for the practice of sex selection, which apparently happens on a grand scale in China. I don't really get that logic. If abortion is a truly a personal decision, then why should anyone question why that decision was made.

Because, beyond their usual skills at foresight, they actually understand what happens when there is a significant imbalance in the M/F birth ratio on the M side.

re: #129 eon

quite right.

We've already seen 0bama's wicker shield/presidential shield.

And Xerxes was so puffed up with himself in the last naval battle he believed he could win even with the weather against him. (Of course his advisors were whispering in his ear...)
But...0bama can calm the seas, so he is greater yes?

re: #164 SpartanWoman

WOWeeeee! 98% to 2%.

Guess everyone thinks the media is turbo-objective

Wonder what results you'd get a CNN (blech) or PMSNBC (double blech)...

Didn't get a chance to read through the "October Surprise" thread. What was the final read on that? I wouldn't put anything past the Dems at this point.

re: #163 Gorgon Zola

couric is a hungry maggot sniffing about for a bit of decayed meat,,

Oh, ick. Well, accurate. But, ick.

re: #157 mich-again

Internet polls are useless, but one that asks who won a debate are particularly stupid.

No they are NOT useless

-- Ron Paul

re: #141 newsjunkie_ky

My Little Meggie passed away yesterday. I'm still in the grieving process.
Listening to Rush from today's show and reading LGF is sure helping this evening.
Meg is a pek-a-poo but does look more like the Pekingese than the poodle. I swear I can't see any poodle in her.

I'm sorry to hear about your loss...it is like losing a family member. We got our Pek when my sister was six...died when she was 22 and broke my sisters heart, she did everything with that dog.

Best advice I can give...get another one as soon as possible...cuts the pain and you'll smother it with love.

re: #172 CynicalConservative

Wonder what results you'd get a CNN (blech) or PMSNBC (double blech)...

Same ratio, reversed.
What surprises me is the ratio of conservatives that watch Greta.

re: #166 rawmuse

That b.s. Turtle Island report is getting a lot of circulation. Here it is again:
[Link: www.ireport.com...]

Great news on the nature/nurture thing: My kid just sent me a link from Rush Limbaugh (patting myself on the back)!

re: #175 Shug

No they are NOT useless

-- Ron Paul

Normally I'd say 2 points, alas I have but one ding to give...

re: #141 newsjunkie_ky

So sorry to hear about the loss of your beloved dog. {newsjunkie_ky}

re: #141 newsjunkie_ky

terribly sorry to hear that.

re: #143 rawmuse
google her name and title and you will see her email address.

re: #141 newsjunkie_ky

Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.

When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge.
There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together.
There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.

All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor; those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by.
The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.

They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent; His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.

You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.

Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together....

Anon.

re: #164 SpartanWoman

WOWeeeee! 98% to 2%.

Guess everyone thinks the media is turbo-objective

OMG. I know it's Fox, but there are over 14k votes on that poll. You don't suppose that someone figured out how to game it, do you? Or maybe the Paulbots got bored?

Finally, after weeks of a bunch of us pounding on this issue in every outlet possible, Cox at the SEC woke up:

SEC gives banks more leeway on mark-to-market

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. securities regulators on Tuesday gave the financial industry a reprieve from marking hard-to-value assets down to fire sale prices, throwing a lifeline to an industry beset by strained credit markets and the latest round of bank failures.

The U.S. stock market added to gains on the news, in hopes that regulators' new interpretation of fair value, or mark-to-market, accounting rules, will slow or reverse the heavy flow of mortgage-related losses on banks' balance sheets.

In the new guidance, first reported by Reuters, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reminded financial services firms that they don't need to use fire sale prices when evaluating their hard to price assets.

"This is a significant first step and adds stability, confidence, and liquidity within the capital markets," said Steve Bartlett, president and chief executive of The Financial Services Roundtable. "By clarifying how to treat assets in an uncertain market, the SEC is continuing to provide transparency to investors and helping institutions to provide credit in periods of market stress."

U.S. accounting rule maker, the Financial Accounting Standards Board said on its Web site on Tuesday that it would change the agenda for its Wednesday meeting to focus on fair value accounting. The board is contemplating issuing additional guidance through a FASB staff position as soon as Wednesday, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Thankfully this is finally happening. This frees up hundreds of billions of encumbered capital on the banks books and should (along with the FDIC coverage increase) go a long way toward easing the credit situation. All FASB has to do is shift to net present value. This is not that hard.

re: #139 mich-again

In a word, no. You the voter have to request the absentee ballot.

The crooked Township clerk in my locale got busted for mass-mailing out absentee ballots during a nasty recall campaign a few years back. Low and behold, she supported the recall of her political enemies who were being targeted.

Of course she claimed it was an honest mistake and nothing ever came of her malfeasance. Did I mention she is a dyed in the wool Demonrat?

Our Secretary of State , Miss Brunner (intentional Jerry Cornelius ref), has been bombing everyone's mailboxes with absentee ballot applications for the last month. She claims that everyone should vote absentee in every election, and we should abolish polling places altogether.

I suspect so that she is spared the embarassment of people showing up at the polls on Election day only to be told, "Sorry, you'll have to fill out a provisional ballot because our records show you've already voted absentee."

/for a straight Democratic ticket, of course

I'm looking for dirty tricks on Chicago levels in this state on Election Day, especially in Hamilton Co. (Cincinnati area), which the Dems believe have enough votes to let them blow off the other 87 counties and still win Ohio's 23 Electoral College votes.

cheers

eon

re: #173 Noam Sayin'

Didn't get a chance to read through the "October Surprise" thread. What was the final read on that? I wouldn't put anything past the Dems at this point.

I didn't either but that's an avalanche of lawsuits waiting to happen. If he actually dies that's one thing, bait and switch chicanery at this point is quite another.

/absentee voting has already started

re: #151 CynicalConservative

Interesting poll at Greta Sustern's site

Do you think the media has already made up its mind on whether Gov. Palin will win or lose the debate?

Greta's Poll

98% YES.

re: #183 newsjunkie_ky

google her name and title and you will see her email address.

I have it already. I did not publish it because I have a thread of common courtesy, and it may be a violation of the Lizard code. I do not know if she is even a real person. UC Santa Cruz = moonbat rich territory.

re: #143 rawmuse

Now Ms. Gamel (snicker -- it means -- yes -- camel in Arabic) wouldn't be lying would she? She wouldn't be one of those win at any cost Obamatrons would she? I mean this is just her altruistic way of stopping McCain right?

But if she was really serious she would call the MSM! Get he own interview with Katie! Cry her eyes friggin' out that WE CAN NOT ELECT SUCH A HORRIBLE PIG TO BE PRESIDENT! She would get some of that G. Soros money and post B-Grade actor depictions on Youtube and file signed affidavits in state court asserting that, yes all of this by God is true.

...

It's camel spit. Enough said.

re: #141 newsjunkie_ky

My Little Meggie passed away yesterday. I'm still in the grieving process.
Listening to Rush from today's show and reading LGF is sure helping this evening.
Meg is a pek-a-poo but does look more like the Pekingese than the poodle. I swear I can't see any poodle in her.

I'm so sorry for you. We lost our little Lily last fall and we still miss her. Not too long before she passed, she brought home a gangly, awkward half grown male with a wounded paw. We took care of his paw and Lily taught him manners - how to sit on the fence and wait nicely for chicken on BBQ night, how to get in the door, not to pee in the house. Mr. Boots has never quite moved in, but he eats here twice a day and is finally starting to sleep in the house instead of under it. Two days ago he got hit by a car - and my poor daughter (Lily's personal servant) was devastated. Luckily, the lady behind the guy who hit Boots loaded him into her car and ran him back up the road to the Vet. Boots will be coming home tomorrow.

re: #138 rawmuse

but decided he must have some
redeeming qualities as he had adopted a handicapped child from
Bangladesh. I asked him about this one day, and his response was
shocking: "Oh, that was Cindy's idea - I didn't have anything to do
with it. She just went and adopted this thing without even asking me.
You can't imagine how people stare when I wheel this ugly, black thing
around in a shopping cart in Arizona . No, it wasn't my idea at all.

Wow. That whole letter is bad, but the bolded sentence above is the biggest pile of horsesh*t I've read lately from any leftist loser, and that's saying something.

Holy cow. Really, there is no way, even if McCain felt that way, that he would ever be so stupid as to say it out loud or in public. Gah.

re: #176 jorline

I'm sorry to hear about your loss...it is like losing a family member. We got our Pek when my sister was six...died when she was 22 and broke my sisters heart, she did everything with that dog.

Best advice I can give...get another one as soon as possible...cuts the pain and you'll smother it with love.

Yup. Been there, done that. Four times.
Second thing I'd do is get something you don't expect to "live up to" or "be like" the original.
Always a big disappointment if you do that. Dogs are different just like humans and cats.

re: #141 newsjunkie_ky

My Little Meggie passed away yesterday. I'm still in the grieving process.
Listening to Rush from today's show and reading LGF is sure helping this evening.
Meg is a pek-a-poo but does look more like the Pekingese than the poodle. I swear I can't see any poodle in her.

I'm so sorry for your loss of Meggie. It is so hard to part with their earthly presence in our lives, but their memories live on in our hearts. May you find some peace and healing to ease the pain.

The video is way out of sync with the audio. Good work, CBS.

Actually, if you go full screen with it, it syncs up. Which indicates it has something to do with the whatever method Flash is using to encode the video on the fly while saving FPS....but you new that, you techie you..

re: #193 gop_patriot

I can't believe that Snopes is still 'undetermined' on that letter's status.

re: #138 rawmuse

Here is the latest email spam McCain hit piece, probably sent to me by mistake.

That sounds so over-the-top that it's either absolutely true, or complete horseshit made up by a Kos poster on their break at Starbucks.

re: #7 USA

Poll at PBS: Is Palin qualified to be VP? Here

Poll is even. I just voted.

Still neck and neck.

My main problem with the "Morning after Pill" RU-486 is that it has brought on complications that have killed a number of women who took it as an after-the-fact contraception. I wonder if RU-486 was an acne treatment or a blood thinning agent, if the same number of deaths would have rendered it illegal for sale due to adverse health risks.

I think that politics overrule health concerns when it comes to that particular drug, and I find the hypocrisy in its continued availability alarming.

re: #186 3 wood

Thankfully this is finally happening. This frees up hundreds of billions of encumbered capital on the banks books and should (along with the FDIC coverage increase) go a long way toward easing the credit situation. All FASB has to do is shift to net present value. This is not that hard.

/almost eliminates the need for legislation

Why I adore Fred Thompson:

"Governor Palin’s every comment was scrutinized by the media and judged against what Jefferson or Lincoln might have said. Never mind that her counterpart, the 30-year-Washington-veteran Joe Biden, apparently is unaware that America relies upon coal for a lot of its electricity or that he recently referred to a top level U.S. official’s visit to Iran that never happened. That’s just Joe being Joe – protected by the sheer number of his gaffes and the fact that he is Barack Obama’s running mate."

(insta.P)

re: #158 SpartanWoman

It is an indoctrination process. I resisted this in college, but will admit to lefting up my papers for good grades

I was lucky enough to go back to college when I was 48. I dared them to give me a bad grade. I spoke out in class and called them on every frickin' lefty-loony opinion/not fact thing they said. I had a really fun time. This was prior to finding LGF. Wow I would have loved to have access to the Lizard brains then.

re: #104 n in wi

Could a conservative abort a fetus if it carried the "liberal" gene?

I should think they have a moral duty to do so!

re: #185 CyanSnowHawk

OMG. I know it's Fox, but there are over 14k votes on that poll. You don't suppose that someone figured out how to game it, do you? Or maybe the Paulbots got bored?

No. I think that Greta supports Sarah Palin (her hubby was a big Hillary supporter who is now campaigning for John McCain) as are many of her audience.

re: #141 newsjunkie_ky

My Little Meggie passed away yesterday. I'm still in the grieving process.
Listening to Rush from today's show and reading LGF is sure helping this evening.
Meg is a pek-a-poo but does look more like the Pekingese than the poodle. I swear I can't see any poodle in her.

My heartfelt condolences for your loss.

I think there is a special place in heaven for our pets.

re: #197 jaunte

I can't believe that Snopes is still 'undetermined' on that letter's status.

You're kidding me. Sheesh.

re: #203 newsjunkie_ky

Good for you.

re: #145 SpartanWoman

I wouldn't say once, but this is very very rare.

right. I didn't mean to imply it had happened only once; I'm sure there have been more instances unfortunately.
But they try to twist everything around to base thought upon the exception rather than the rule.
kinda like....

Gazillions of years ago, Reelfoot Lake was created in Tn due to a massive earthquake. (the mississippi ran backwards)
Based upon that, shouldn't we ensure that FEMA give all Tennesseans earthquake protection at the cost of billions of dollars just in case it happens again in the next gazillion years?
(and yes, "gazillion" is a real estimate according to my 7 year old)

For those not monitoring downthread, Eide's crying about being picked on now (starting at 423).

(We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...)

re: #168 Cap'n DOC

Aw... The Huwomanities. Would that be a Major or Minor?

only janecitizen knows the truth...

re: #160 Killian Bundy

I see the poodle, it's the eyes.

/I know those eyes, I was bitten by them as a child many times, poodles are easy to aggravate

Then Meg had no poodle in her. She is the sweetest fur baby around. EVERYONE loved her because she is so sweet. There will never been another one like her. I really miss her so much.
Luckily my granddaughter (3 months) babysat me tonight. She sure helped Grammy get through this evening.
KB, again thanks.

more from Fred on Palin:

When John McCain selected Governor Sarah Palin, as his running mate, the Democrats and their far-left constituency let out a primal scream that could be heard from sea to shining sea. How dare he choose someone that they and their pals in the media had not had a chance to vet (i.e. libel, slander, and otherwise and otherwise eviscerate). Ah, but it was not too late. These seekers of “a new kind of politics” poured torrents of malicious abuse upon her and her family.

Plane loads of scandal mongers, lawyers and other truth seekers became more numerous in Alaska than the polar bear, as they rallied local Democrats and disgruntled Republicans to their cause.

Here was a woman who chose to have children and a career. Aging Washington socialites weighed in with newly discovered sensitivity for mothers with careers outside the home. Here was a woman who became upset because her ex-brother-in-law had tasered her nephew and threatened her father. The Democrats and their friends had to save the country from a woman like this.

re: #207 gop_patriot

Some things, like the happy news from my Nigerian banker friends, should be immediately obvious to Snopes by now.

re: #149 galloping granny

I would do my dangest to record that message and then I would file a complaint with the FCC, the FEC and your state Attorney General.

re: #139 mich-again

In a word, no. You the voter have to request the absentee ballot.

The crooked Township clerk in my locale got busted for mass-mailing out absentee ballots during a nasty recall campaign a few years back. Low and behold, she supported the recall of her political enemies who were being targeted.

Of course she claimed it was an honest mistake and nothing ever came of her malfeasance. Did I mention she is a dyed in the wool Democrat?

Galloping Granny, I already deleted the message but if I do receive an absentee ballot I'm keeping it and reporting to the FCC, FEC, and the Colorado State AG.

mich-again, thanks for confirming my concerns that it should be me requesting for an absentee ballot.

The strange thing is a couple weeks before I had received a phone call for an obscure University (again kicking myself for not recording the name) ask polling questions. It's probably nothing and my imagination running away with my reason. But if this keeps happening I'm going to start recording everything.

re: #200 mich-again

My main problem with the "Morning after Pill" RU-486 is that it has brought on complications that have killed a number of women who took it as an after-the-fact contraception. I wonder if RU-486 was an acne treatment or a blood thinning agent, if the same number of deaths would have rendered it illegal for sale due to adverse health risks.

I think that politics overrule health concerns when it comes to that particular drug, and I find the hypocrisy in its continued availability alarming.

Have you got numbers or links to trustworthy sources to back up that allegation, or is it as reliable as the Taser==Death allegations of the LLL?

re: #138 rawmuse

Here is the latest email spam McCain hit piece, probably sent to me by mistake.

I would forward that entire piece to the McCain campaign. Make sure you include the full header. For that matter, you can examine that yourself.

You might also consider filing a complaint with the State of California. It is illegal in most states to use your state paid title/position when you are advocating a political candidate.

So she's been permanently sealed into that red suit?

As for Mary-Kay I saw this on a site called "Reject McCain". She is an OBOT to her marrow

I've been duking it with the libs at Jonathan Martin's blog on Politico.com the last day or so. Subject being Sarah Palin, of course the crazies have been out blah blah-ing about how she flubbed the supreme court decision question with Couric. Here is one of my favority responses, reposte here:
Kendra: I know Palin flubbed the supreme court decisions question. My response to that is, so what? A similar question would have been, "What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?" Irrelevant, and a "gotcha" question from the start. If you were in her position, with the high stakes she faces and knowing the abject hatred and distain of the questioner, you would probably have done no better. Neither would I. The point is that these questions do not show us a damn thing about what is really important, which is what are the values they subscribe to, and what is the judgement they will use to make decisions? You realize that with modern medicine the odds are that if elected Palin will spend the next four years presiding over state funerals and hosting dinners for visiting poobahs. How many supreme court decisions will she need to do that?

re: #209 nightintheruts

I wonder how Katie would have responded if Sarah advocated the death penalty for fathers who are guilty of that heinous crime. Now that would twist a lefties brain into a pretzel.

re: #210 CynicalConservative

Sorry, forgot the OT prefix... mercy please.... ;-)

re: #128 Idle Drifter

A little OT, but I just home from work with a message on my machine that has me concerned. Michelle Obama's prerecorded was telling me all about the importance of voting and how I could it from the comfort of my own home. It said they would send me a mail-in ballot. I'm kicking myself as I didn't finish the message because I became disgusted at the gesture since I prefer to vote in a booth and I don't like pressure messages that sound a little fishy. My question is this: Can anyone send me a mail in ballot without my requesting one?

Only if you're a democrat. It's in the Constitution dinchano?

re: #138 rawmuse

He arrived at our first group meal and started reading quotes from a pile of William Faulkner books with a forest of Post-Its sticking out
of them.

/McCain knows how to use Post-It notes?

re: #169 WindHorse

Newsjunkie.... my heart goes out to you. Your good friend is now running through fields full of flowers, and the sun is shining.... and she is happy.

Hang in there.

Thanks. Once she comes home in her little urn I will feel better. I get up from the computer and catch myself before I call her name to see if she wants to go 'walky'.

re: #201 Killian Bundy

/almost eliminates the need for legislation

I they would reinstate the uptick rule, banish the mark to market rule forever, and create an exchange market for the mortgage backed securities, I could go with the insurance option that the House Republicans were pushing. You would not get a single Democrat vote so it would not pass, but I could see it.

I look for a little more jump out of the market tomorrow if the Senate does not mess around.

Look for Pelosi to start running her yap cause I think she wants to tank the economy to get Obama elected.

Didn't Joe Biden invent Post-It notes?

re: #186 3 wood

Finally, after weeks of a bunch of us pounding on this issue in every outlet possible, Cox at the SEC woke up:

SEC gives banks more leeway on mark-to-market

Thankfully this is finally happening. This frees up hundreds of billions of encumbered capital on the banks books and should (along with the FDIC coverage increase) go a long way toward easing the credit situation. All FASB has to do is shift to net present value. This is not that hard.

Reversing MtoM is the only

bailout

that is needed. Congress should now focus on reforms to stop these idiotic loans to unqualified borrowers guaranteed by taxpayers (FannieMae and FreddieMac). I say let the market take care of the rest.

re: #209 nightintheruts

right. I didn't mean to imply it had happened only once; I'm sure there have been more instances unfortunately.
But they try to twist everything around to base thought upon the exception rather than the rule.
kinda like....

Gazillions of years ago, Reelfoot Lake was created in Tn due to a massive earthquake. (the mississippi ran backwards)
Based upon that, shouldn't we ensure that FEMA give all Tennesseans earthquake protection at the cost of billions of dollars just in case it happens again in the next gazillion years?
(and yes, "gazillion" is a real estimate according to my 7 year old)

Reelfoot Lake was created by the New Madrid quakes in 1811/1812.

Is Couric kidding with those glasses?

re: #216 CyanSnowHawk

Here's the first one I came across. link. Perhaps that number is no big deal in the grand scheme.

re: #141 newsjunkie_ky
I'm so sorry for the loss of your dog.

re: #218 itellu3times

So she's been permanently sealed into that red suit?

/if it's good enough for Sarah, it's good enough for me

After reading about half of the last thread, I'm thoroughly convinced that the Obamabots are executing a concerted moby strategy of going onto conservative sites and attempting to foment discontent with the McCain/Palin camp, spread panic over the rise in Obama's poll numbers, and generally distracting conservatives from fully supporting McCain/Palin and the Republican party.

I've seen it blatantly at Hot Air, a bit at Michelle Malkin and quite a lot at open comment sites. And all of us here have noticed the antics of EIDE_Interface these last few weeks since it joined here. A plant?

Good thread at HC Forum - "Attention Eeyores"

re: #198 Pawn of the Oppressor

That sounds so over-the-top that it's either absolutely true, or complete horseshit made up by a Kos poster on their break at Starbucks.

If you've seen John McCain speak about his daughter, you know that nothing could be further from the truth than what is said in that letter. This is the same strategy as was done over Sarah Palin's daughter - and probably by the same people.

re: #176 jorline

I'm sorry to hear about your loss...it is like losing a family member. We got our Pek when my sister was six...died when she was 22 and broke my sisters heart, she did everything with that dog.

Best advice I can give...get another one as soon as possible...cuts the pain and you'll smother it with love.

Soon, but not now. Still grieving and having crying jags and anxiety attacks.

re: #69 eon

Can somebody explain why people in Ohio can vote TODAY? This is unfair as the campaign still has over a month to go, and anything could happen. Not to mention the little question of exactly WHO is voting there, if you get my drift. Do we have poll watchers yet?

re: #227 jaunte

Didn't Joe Biden invent Post-It notes?

I think that was one of the moms from the Monkeys

no seriously.

or was that liquid paper?

I have a question for any folks who are knowledgeable about the stock market.

I can't imagine 3 wood is on right, but it actually goes to some concerns in his previous posts relating to this market situation.

He referred to short selling, and wanting to have the government step in, and curb it as a way of stabilizing the fluctuations.

Has the short selling really been a problem over the last week or so?

re: #201 Killian Bundy

Did you see LIBOR was up to 6.85% today?

That is going to be a big problem. If people think the US has a market problem, you won't believe the problems Europe has and they do not have as many monetary policy tools as we have in the US to deal with it.

More on the dinner with McCain fiction!

why am i not surprised, the moderator of Thursdays debate is Gwen Ifill of PBS. apparently she has a book coming out on Jan 20th,
“Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.”

more at Malkin

re: #225 newsjunkie_ky

Thanks. Once she comes home in her little urn I will feel better. I get up from the computer and catch myself before I call her name to see if she wants to go 'walky'.

She's happy and I like to think that she'll be waiting for you.......just like mine will be waiting for me.

Sorry for your loss.......

re: #181 Pvt Bin Jammin

So sorry to hear about the loss of your beloved dog. {newsjunkie_ky}

Thank you Pvt Bin Jammin. I appreciate your kind words and the hug.

re: #227 jaunte

Joe Biden couldn't find his ass without one.

I read that Obama supports increasing the FDIC limit to $250,000. That doesn't sound very progressive does it? How many of the downtrodden masses have bank accounts in that ballpark?

re: #31 Charles

The video's way out of sync with the audio. Good work, CBS.

It felt like I was watching a Chinese marshal arts movie.

re: #215 Idle Drifter

Galloping Granny, I already deleted the message but if I do receive an absentee ballot I'm keeping it and reporting to the FCC, FEC, and the Colorado State AG.

mich-again, thanks for confirming my concerns that it should be me requesting for an absentee ballot.

The strange thing is a couple weeks before I had received a phone call for an obscure University (again kicking myself for not recording the name) ask polling questions. It's probably nothing and my imagination running away with my reason. But if this keeps happening I'm going to start recording everything.

You might consider filing a complaint anyway. I certainly would. It is easy enough to for them to get your phone records if need be.

re: #184 MandyManners

wow...almost got misty-eyed on that one, Mandy!

I had a border collie when I was 8. She died just before I left for college. I had lost my best friend.

We will see our loved ones in heaven, it is said. I believe there will be many four-footed loved ones there as well.

re: #245 unclassifiable

Joe Biden couldn't find his ass without one.

And that's saying something considering he is an ass.

re: #226 3 wood

You are here.

re: #193 gop_patriot

Wow. That whole letter is bad, but the bolded sentence above is the biggest pile of horsesh*t I've read lately from any leftist loser, and that's saying something.

Holy cow. Really, there is no way, even if McCain felt that way, that he would ever be so stupid as to say it out loud or in public. Gah.

It can't be factually true, being an adoptive parent BOTH OF US signed the papers. While its true Cindy brought home the baby unannounced, from what I've read at the airport McCain ask, "where is she going" referring to the baby, Cindy said "home with us". And McCain's response was "I thought so."

re: #188 Killian Bundy

Thanks.

re: #239 formercorpsman

I have a question for any folks who are knowledgeable about the stock market.

I can't imagine 3 wood is on right, but it actually goes to some concerns in his previous posts relating to this market situation.

He referred to short selling, and wanting to have the government step in, and curb it as a way of stabilizing the fluctuations.

Has the short selling really been a problem over the last week or so?

It certainly was - had been for a long time. My understanding though is that Bush stopped it by executive order last week sometime.

re: #184 MandyManners

Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.

When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge.
There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together.
There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.

All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor; those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by.
The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.

They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent; His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.

You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.

Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together....

Anon.

This helped me a lot last night.
Thank you.

re: #205 galloping granny

re: #238 Shug

I think it was white-out......Yes, it was the mom of one of the Monkees....