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William Ayers' Role In Obama's Appointment As Annenberg Challenge Chairman

Politics | Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 10:28:12 pm PDT

Prepare yourself for a shock — the New York Times article on Barack Obama’s associations with former Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers did not tell the whole story: NY Times Confirms Ayers’ Role in Obama Appointment as Chair of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge.

I can easily understand why some readers may have become confused by the explosion of stories today on the Obama/Ayers relationship.

The partial story of the Ayers/Obama relationship told by the New York Times today is collapsing of its own weight but has likely added to the confusion. Since I am one of the “bloggers” referred to without an explanation in the Times’ story I thought I would summarize the top ten highlights of the current state of play.

It turns out as these ten key points confirm what I have argued all along - that Bill Ayers was responsible for the elevation of Obama to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge board and the New York Times reporting on this story actually supports my conclusion, though inadvertently.

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1 spirochete  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:30:17pm

Imagine that...

2 Cartman  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:30:40pm

But he was only eight years old...

3 Oldasdirt  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:31:29pm

I would have never have guessed

4 FamHistoryGuy  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:31:33pm

Wonder what the pick criteria was.

5 Noah's Arrrgh  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:32:24pm

Can anyone delineate for me what the substantiative differences between Timothy McVeigh and William Ayers are? The magnitude of McVeigh's crimes are much larger, true, but that's only because Ayers didn't have the means the create the chaos that McVeigh did. From what I've read, it seems that he had the desire.

And, why is Ayers reallowed into polite company? Shouldn't he be treated with the same contempt that McVeigh is?

6 Sharmuta  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:32:55pm

But he was only 8......

7 Sharmuta  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:33:05pm

re: #2 Cartman

GMTA!

8 Killgore Trout  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:33:34pm

Our new president has a friend who blew some stuff up.

9 Cartman  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:34:05pm

re: #7 Sharmuta

LOL

10 Sharmuta  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:34:16pm

re: #8 Killgore Trout

He hasn't won, so please stop.

11 anat  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:35:09pm

It's like learning to read Pravda.

12 spirochete  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:36:07pm

re: #8 Killgore Trout

Our new president has a friend who blew some stuff up.

Nonfatal bombings, according to AP.

13 Miss Molly  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:36:36pm

Barack had a very close relationship with Bill Ayers. Bill Ayers gave Barack his first fund raiser in his home. Why would he do that if they were not close or does he just give fund raisers for any stranger who asks. And, if Barack didn't know exactly who Bill Ayers was he is too stupid to be elected to anything let alone the Presidency

14 Killgore Trout  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:36:52pm

re: #10 Sharmuta

Anything can happen but for right now it looks like a solid Obama victory.

15 stuiec  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:37:03pm

re: #6 Sharmuta

Spread the meme.

16 Killgore Trout  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:37:21pm

re: #12 spirochete

Nonfatal bombings, according to AP.

Those are the best kind.

17 RTLM  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:37:43pm

The Annenburg Foundation was created to improve school performance of elementary age students.

Here's the shocking outcome:

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

The project appears to have failed to achieve any of its stated, measurable educational goals. For example, a comprehensive study by the Consortium on Chicago School Research concludes:

"Results suggest that among the schools it supported, the Challenge had little impact on school improvement and student outcomes, with no statistically significant differences between Annenberg and non-Annenberg schools in rates of achievement gain, classroom behavior, student self-efficacy, and social competence."[5]

The CAC managed to build a successor organization, the Chicago Public Education Fund, with a focus upon principal and teacher leadership. The Fund has supported such programs as Teach for America, Golden Apple Teacher Education program (GATE), and New Leaders for New Schools.

/I like a good rabbit hole.

18 Noah's Arrrgh  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:37:44pm

re: #12 spirochete

Nonfatal bombings, according to AP.

Didn't one of Ayer's girlfriends die from a mishap with a bomb she and others were building, a bomb that Ayers designed?

19 stuiec  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:39:06pm

re: #5 Noah's Arrrgh

Can anyone delineate for me what the substantiative differences between Timothy McVeigh and William Ayers are? The magnitude of McVeigh's crimes are much larger, true, but that's only because Ayers didn't have the means the create the chaos that McVeigh did. From what I've read, it seems that he had the desire.

And, why is Ayers reallowed into polite company? Shouldn't he be treated with the same contempt that McVeigh is?

How would you compare William Ayers and Ted Kaczynski?

20 spirochete  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:39:13pm

re: #18 Noah's Arrrgh

Didn't one of Ayer's girlfriends die from a mishap with a bomb she and others were building, a bomb that Ayers designed?

No idea. There was one paragraph in that story with about 5 different insanisms. Still can't believe it.

21 Noah's Arrrgh  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:40:09pm

re: #19 stuiec

How would you compare William Ayers and Ted Kaczynski?

Ayers, Kaczynski, and McVeigh. Three peas in a pod.

22 Cartman  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:40:50pm

Soros: "This Ayers guy's gotta go."

Obama: "Under the bus?"

Soros: "I'll take care of it."

Obama: "Careful, Grampa. He blows shit up!"

Soros: "Not to worry, son. Not to worry..."

23 Killgore Trout  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:41:09pm

For some reason this was playing in the Atlanta airport the other day.....
Flashlight

Myself and a couple 8 year olds were the only ones dancing.
/Go figure

24 kynna  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:41:20pm

They will destroy themselves trying to whitewash Bill Ayers on Obama's behalf. The man is scum with a capital S.C.U.M.

25 least  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:41:22pm

KT:
What's up w/your Eeyore-like attitude, lately?
Are you trying to emulate EIDE_INTERFACE?
Chill out a bit, dude.
The situation is (ahem) evolving.

26 Sharmuta  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:41:38pm
only Ayers could approve of the appointment of Obama. No one else possessed the legal power to do so.

Gee- why would the nyt want to keep this information from us? Hmmm- let me think....

27 Intrepid  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:41:47pm

re: #8 Killgore Trout

Our new president has a friend who blew some stuff up.

It ain't over yet, Killgore. A month still to go, and it can flip easily.

/tired of nay-sayers and eeyores!

28 stuiec  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:41:51pm

re: #18 Noah's Arrrgh

Didn't one of Ayer's girlfriends die from a mishap with a bomb she and others were building, a bomb that Ayers designed?

Mishap, work accident... it was a nail bomb meant for a dance at an Army base. Note that nail bombs are anti-personnel bombs designed to hurl shrapnel through humans, not simply to blow things up.

29 Irene NYC  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:41:56pm

re: #21 Noah's Arrrgh

Ayers, Kaczynski, and McVeigh. Three peas in a pod.


Not at all. Kaczynski was a loner. McVeigh nearly one. Ayers was a cult leader. In fact, he still is.

30 anat  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:42:26pm

re: #14 Killgore Trout

Anything can happen but for right now it looks like a solid Obama victory.

To the best of my understanding the polls reflect an assumption that fewer Republicans will bother to vote at all. This will surely happen if they despair. So please don't do that.

31 Macker  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:43:09pm

re: #17 RTLM

I wonder if my son's middle school in Chicago was a recipient of funding from this program. Perhaps I should dig a little bit to find out?
And even if it wasn't, the damn Chicago Public Schools is one reason why my son's life hasn't turned out so well for him.

32 Killgore Trout  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:43:23pm

re: #25 least

I'm at one with reality and I'm accepting the reality presented to me. See #23 and dance with me!

33 Cognito  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:43:29pm

re: #21 Noah's Arrrgh

Ayers, Kaczynski, and McVeigh. Three peas in a pod.

I wouldn't do that. Such hyperbole dilutes the truth.

34 Irene NYC  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:43:55pm

Hey Killgore! Feeling jet laaagggged?

35 stuiec  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:44:13pm

re: #21 Noah's Arrrgh

Yep. All of them believing that the system had to be destroyed to be rebuilt in a correct fashion.

It's the same sort of 'love of America' that drives Obama's commitment to 'change': save America by changing everything about it that doesn't conform to the Ayers-Dohrn-Obama vision of utopian America.

36 Noah's Arrrgh  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:44:22pm

re: #29 Irene NYC

Not at all. Kaczynski was a loner. McVeigh nearly one. Ayers was a cult leader. In fact, he still is.

I see your point, but realize that Ayers a cult leader only because of the Leftist chic that is afforded him (cf. Che Guevara). In a sane world, Ayers would be every bit the outcast as the other two.

37 Irene NYC  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:45:40pm

re: #32 Killgore Trout

I'm at one with reality and I'm accepting the reality presented to me. See #23 and dance with me!

Come on, Kilgore. The reality presented to us is that we're in the middle of a presidential election. Last time around, if I'm not mistaken, just at this time, the polls were also predicting a convincing dem win.

Have some faith!

38 MrPaulRevere  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:46:09pm

Bill Ayers, Barack Obama and the Cloward-Priven strategy. I was skeptical when I first started reading this piece, but its very well sourced and worth your time. [Link: www.americanthinker.com...]

39 capitalist piglet  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:46:17pm

re: #13 Miss Molly

Barack had a very close relationship with Bill Ayers. Bill Ayers gave Barack his first fund raiser in his home. Why would he do that if they were not close or does he just give fund raisers for any stranger who asks. And, if Barack didn't know exactly who Bill Ayers was he is too stupid to be elected to anything let alone the Presidency

I'm related to someone who gives fundraisers for state-level politicians in his home. I can tell you right now, no one would make the assertion that he is only casually acquainted ("Hi, nice to see you...goodbye.") with these politicians - the idea is absolutely ridiculous. You don't open your home to do that unless you're involved and invested in the person's politics.

It just doesn't pass the smell test. Obama is such a lying punk.

40 Sharmuta  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:46:30pm

This story's getting legs. That the 0bama camp had to respond to this, while smearing Sarah again, shows MacDaddy's in his OODA loop again.

41 Meremortal  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:46:52pm

re: #8 Killgore Trout

Riddle me this...

What do Obama and Osama have in common?


They both have friends who bombed the Pentagon.

42 Irene NYC  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:47:00pm

re: #36 Noah's Arrrgh

I see your point, but realize that Ayers a cult leader only because of the Leftist chic that is afforded him (cf. Che Guevara). In a sane world, Ayers would be every bit the outcast as the other two.


Kaczynski was not an outcase. He cast himself out. McVeigh felt case out thought, yes.

But who ever said we live in a sane world? Not moi.
;)

43 Intrepid  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:47:13pm

re: #32 Killgore Trout

I'm at one with reality and I'm accepting the reality presented to me. See #23 and dance with me!

HELL NO! You can give up if you want, and it's obvious you want to, but I WILL NOT GIVE UP!

It makes you feel better to come to peace with an Obama victory, fine. But for the rest of us who LOVE OUR LIBERTY, WE WILL NOT GIVE UP!

Come November 5th, if Obama is the next president, I'll still have my self-respect because I fought till the end.

But you, Killgore? You'll have given in.

I'm not prepared to do so.

44 victor_yugo  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:47:37pm

re: #33 Cognito

I wouldn't do that. Such hyperbole dilutes the truth.

How is that hyperbole? If any candidate were "palling around" with Kaczynski, I'd want to know that, too, for the exact same reasons.

(McVeigh, too, except he's dead, and can't confirm or deny.)

45 Walter L. Newton  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:47:40pm

re: #40 Sharmuta

This story's getting legs. That the 0bama camp had to respond to this, while smearing Sarah again, shows MacDaddy's in his OODA loop again.

Could someone (you maybe) define OODA. I've seen this used here and I'm missing the meaning. Thanks in advance (I think).

46 Killgore Trout  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:47:54pm

Chocolate City

The sun will still shine shine and the birds will sing when Obama is president.

If anyone should ask the meaning of this,
Behold the lilies of the field and its fresh sweet-scented verdure.

47 Macker  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:48:19pm

re: #43 Intrepid

LAN ASTASLEM. I Will Not Submit.

48 Killgore Trout  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:48:38pm

re: #37 Irene NYC

Have some faith!

Have you read my posts before?

49 Cartman  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:48:49pm

I think Killgore must have partied with Obama's brother in his hut, whilst in Africa,

50 Sharmuta  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:48:53pm

re: #45 Walter L. Newton

OODA Loop

51 Cognito  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:49:14pm

re: #44 victor_yugo

How is that hyperbole? If any candidate were "palling around" with Kaczynski, I'd want to know that, too, for the exact same reasons.

(McVeigh, too, except he's dead, and can't confirm or deny.)

Well. Kaczynski and McVeigh were two of the worst murders in American history. Ayers hasn't been convicted for any such thing.

Now maybe that's because he's smarter than them. Or a less able bomber. But the truth is they're simply not the same.

52 powerpro  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:49:16pm

Ayers is just the tip of the iceberg. An indication as to how radical Obama truly is.

Consider his unequivocal support of Raila Odinga...his cousin...who uses rape as a weapon, who has nefarious Arab ties and has his hand in the ongoing violence that has all of Kenya in its barbaric clutches. Inconceivable horror. Gang raping little girls and boys as many as ten times.

Please watch this video and share it with others.

America cannot elect this man to be the president. We cannot allow this to happen.

53 victor_yugo  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:49:27pm

re: #38 MrPaulRevere

Bill Ayers, Barack Obama and the Cloward-Priven Coward-driven strategy.

Better, and more apropos.

54 Killgore Trout  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:49:35pm

re: #41 Meremortal

Indeed they do but only one will be your president.

55 Sharmuta  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:49:41pm

Killgore- please keep in mind the polls in 2000 & 2004 showed Bush behind at this same point.

56 Walter L. Newton  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:50:00pm

re: #50 Sharmuta

OODA Loop

Ok, thanks. (too late at night to be looking at flowcharts).

57 victor_yugo  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:50:33pm

re: #45 Walter L. Newton

Could someone (you maybe) define OODA. I've seen this used here and I'm missing the meaning. Thanks in advance (I think).

Observe
Orient
Decide
Act

It's how fighter pilots do their schtick. Check out Bill Whittle's essay on "Forty-second" Boyd.

58 TheMatrix31  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:50:33pm

**sigh**

I can't believe it.

BTW, I heard something about someone giving Ayers and Obama $50 mill or something? What was that for and what was it used for?

59 Cognito  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:50:42pm

re: #45 Walter L. Newton

Could someone (you maybe) define OODA. I've seen this used here and I'm missing the meaning. Thanks in advance (I think).

It's the latest cliche. All the rage. Stands for "Observe, Orient, Decide and Act," a military term.

60 Meremortal  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:51:16pm

re: #54 Killgore Trout

Indeed they do but only one will be your president.


*

I don't think so.

61 realwest  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:52:20pm

re: #46 Killgore Trout
Hey Killgore - if y'all don't mind

The sun will still shine shine and the birds will sing when Obama is president. And our economy will go from a recession to a major league depression and lots of folks will be out of work and will have plenty of time to see the sun shine and listen to the birds sing"

I think that sorta improves it some.

62 Noah's Arrrgh  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:52:53pm

re: #33 Cognito

I wouldn't do that. Such hyperbole dilutes the truth.

My point is this: All three desired to commit mass murder for fanatical political / ideological reasons. All three developed plans to carry the murder out. Two of the three were successful in their plans. There is a difference, I admit, but from a moral perspective, there are a lot of similarities. How different, philosophically speaking, were the Weather Underground and the Red Army Faction?

63 Walter L. Newton  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:53:00pm

re: #55 Sharmuta

Killgore- please keep in mind the polls in 2000 & 2004 showed Bush behind at this same point.

Yea, but Bush wasn't missing in action. Most everyone here has been complaining about McCain and his lack of making some hard factual points in his campaign. So, I can see why Killgore would see it the way he sees it. He has more evidence on his side than any other view.

64 abolitionist  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:53:28pm

Apology if this has already been posted. Found it today (iirc, at floppingaces.net):

Devastating Video, Obama talks about job Ayers gave him

65 victor_yugo  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:53:40pm

re: #51 Cognito

Well. Kaczynski and McVeigh were two of the worst murders in American history. Ayers hasn't been convicted for any such thing.

Only on a technicality, and Ayers has stated he "didn't do enough" in so many words. Basically an admission of guilt. In a sane world, Ayers would be behind bars for the rest of his unrepentant, damnable life, or else six feet under, for the same reason as McVeigh and Kaczynski.

66 Meremortal  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:54:11pm

Later, Lizards.

67 Irene NYC  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:54:18pm

re: #38 MrPaulRevere

Bill Ayers, Barack Obama and the Cloward-Priven strategy. I was skeptical when I first started reading this piece, but its very well sourced and worth your time. [Link: www.americanthinker.com...]


My dad sussed this stuff out from the very first - back in the 60s. It sounded odd at the time because nobody else was discussing it. From his point of view, the introduction of drugs into mainstream American society was also part of this. But then again, he was an immigrant from a country taken over by the Commies and had seen them in action up close and personal.

68 least  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:55:15pm

re: #32 Killgore Trout

I'm at one with reality and I'm accepting the reality presented to me. See #23 and dance with me!

Actually, the the fact that we are still here should spur us on to do the right thing until we can't do it no more.
There are those of us who will not . . . cannot idly sit by while evil stuff is happening.
Dance away now, Eeyore.

69 Cognito  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:55:36pm

re: #65 victor_yugo

Yep, like I said, perhaps he's a smarter dodger, or a less able bomber.

Neither should make him proud.

70 Cartman  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:55:43pm

Well, that's it for me. Catch y'all on the flipside. G'nite...

71 Irene NYC  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:55:46pm

re: #48 Killgore Trout

Have you read my posts before?


KT, I'm just commenting on this thread. Did I miss somethin;?
;)

72 Noah's Arrrgh  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:56:40pm

re: #51 Cognito

Well. Kaczynski and McVeigh were two of the worst murders in American history. Ayers hasn't been convicted for any such thing.

Now maybe that's because he's smarter than them. Or a less able bomber. But the truth is they're simply not the same.

Just because one is not convicted, doesn't mean one is not culpable. Journalist David Freddoso contends that "Ayers and Dohrn escaped prosecution only because of government misconduct in collecting evidence against them".

73 Syrah  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:57:01pm

re: #59 Cognito

It's the latest cliche. All the rage. Stands for "Observe, Orient, Decide and Act," a military term.

I don't think I would call it "cliche" yet. Outside of four websites, I have not heard it used.

But then again, I don't watch TV so I could be missing something.

74 victor_yugo  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:57:57pm

re: #67 Irene NYC

My dad sussed this stuff out from the very first - back in the 60s. It sounded odd at the time because nobody else was discussing it. From his point of view, the introduction of drugs into mainstream American society was also part of this. But then again, he was an immigrant from a country taken over by the Commies and had seen them in action up close and personal.

Not just the Commies. The Reichstag fire was right along those lines as well, 30+ years earlier.

75 MrPaulRevere  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:58:04pm

re: #67 Irene NYC

Generally speaking I'm not given to conspiracy theories, but that does not means conspiracies don't exist, I'm not naive. That article made a believer out of me. The author did his homework.

76 Intrepid  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:58:07pm

re: #71 Irene NYC

KT, I'm just commenting on this thread. Did I miss somethin;?
;)

I honestly think Killgore Trout wants Obama to win this election. He's been a true "Eeyore" for quite a while now.

Who you voting for, Killgore? You gonna pull that lever for Obama?

77 Killgore Trout  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:58:35pm

re: #71 Irene NYC

Did I miss somethin;?


Nah, I'm just enjoying poking the Republicans with a proverbial stick. I'm actually thinking of working less, fishing more and maybe buying seeds from Amsterdam and taking up pot smoking again.

78 Cognito  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 10:59:14pm

re: #73 Syrah

I don't think I would call it "cliche" yet. Outside of four websites, I have not heard it used.

But then again, I don't watch TV so I could be missing something.

It's a local cliche.

Like the popular dude at your junior high who seemed to crop up in everyone's conversation, and yet -- mysteriously -- failed utterly to be noticed by the world beyond.

79 victor_yugo  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:00:05pm

re: #51 Cognito

Now maybe that's because he's smarter than them. Or a less able bomber. But the truth is they're simply not the same.

As a Greek/Russian/Ukrainian/etc. Orthodox, one of the things I/we hold is that God judges both the action and the intention. In that regard, Ayers is indeed on par with McVeigh and Kaczynski.

80 Irene NYC  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:00:15pm

re: #77 Killgore Trout

Nah, I'm just enjoying poking the Republicans with a proverbial stick. I'm actually thinking of working less, fishing more and maybe buying seeds from Amsterdam and taking up pot smoking again.


Umm, KT? I think the pot in Amsterdam has all gone up in smoke. Somethin' about those darned islamists. But you can still fish!
;)

81 Killgore Trout  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:01:18pm

re: #76 Intrepid

Who you voting for, Killgore? You gonna pull that lever for Obama?


Nah, I don't think that's an option for me. Most of my customers are wealthy and the tax hikes will seriously hurt my finances. Oregon doesn't look like a swing state this time so I'll probably not vote. I've done it before and I'll do it again. Wanna grow yer own weed? I might have tips for you.

82 Irene NYC  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:01:41pm

re: #51 Cognito

Well. Kaczynski and McVeigh were two of the worst murders in American history. Ayers hasn't been convicted for any such thing.

Now maybe that's because he's smarter than them. Or a less able bomber. But the truth is they're simply not the same.


Cog, the fact that Ayers failed shouldn't be held against him. I mean, he really tried, ya know?

83 Killgore Trout  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:01:58pm

re: #80 Irene NYC

But you can still fish!


Close enough for me!

84 TheMatrix31  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:02:30pm

What's the Keating Five thing that they're talking about releasing? I need to know how to defend myself.

85 least  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:02:57pm

re: #37 Irene NYC

Come on, Kilgore. The reality presented to us is that we're in the middle of a presidential election. Last time around, if I'm not mistaken, just at this time, the polls were also predicting a convincing dem win.

Have some faith!

Do NOT use the "F" word around KT.
It makes him testy!
:)

86 lummox  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:02:58pm

re: #51 Cognito

Well. Kaczynski and McVeigh were two of the worst murders in American history. Ayers hasn't been convicted for any such thing.

Now maybe that's because he's smarter than them. Or a less able bomber. But the truth is they're simply not the same.

Not for lack of effort, just lack of talent, TG.

87 Irene NYC  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:03:34pm

KT, You're in Oregon? I thought you were mid-country somewhere - like around Tennessee. My bad.

88 Intrepid  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:03:51pm

For the shoe-lovers/foot fetish folks here at LGF:

Check out Lucianne's Site

Great shoes, Sarah!

89 Sharmuta  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:03:56pm

re: #84 TheMatrix31

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

90 stuiec  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:04:33pm

re: #51 Cognito

Well. Kaczynski and McVeigh were two of the worst murders in American history. Ayers hasn't been convicted for any such thing.

Now maybe that's because he's smarter than them. Or a less able bomber. But the truth is they're simply not the same.

That is a stretch.

McVeigh committed one large, spectacular bombing, which indeed made him one of the largest mass-murderers in American history.

Kaczynski committed a long string of small-scale bombings, only a few of which caused fatalities. His total count of murders was three.

Ayers was a full conspirator and bomb designer for the Weather Underground. He shares full complicity in all of their crimes, which killed one police officer in a San Francisco bombing; three of his own organization in a 'work accident' in New York City; and two policemen and a Brink's guard in an armored car robbery in New York state.

The only reason Ayers was not convicted is that the FBI committed serious errors in gathering evidence against him, rendering the evidence useless. He has freely admitted his status as a Weatherman and thus his complicity in the Weatherman/Weather Underground crimes.

I would argue that Ayers is in fact a 'worse' murderer than Ted Kaczynski.

91 Irene NYC  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:05:58pm

re: #84 TheMatrix31

What's the Keating Five thing that they're talking about releasing? I need to know how to defend myself.


It was the S&L scandal some 20 years ago or so. All you need to know was that McCain was exonerated and was maliciously named to the group to start off with cuz they needed some republican names to offset all the dems. It was just smear. They be gettin' desperate now.

92 capitalist piglet  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:06:25pm

re: #72 Noah's Arrrgh

Just because one is not convicted, doesn't mean one is not culpable. Journalist David Freddoso contends that "Ayers and Dohrn escaped prosecution only because of government misconduct in collecting evidence against them".


Furthermore, do a Google seach on "Guilty as hell, free as a bird" and Ayers. Yeah, that's right - that's what he said about himself.

93 realwest  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:06:29pm

re: #63 Walter L. Newton
Ah yes that's true, Walter, but please keep in mind that Obama has MUCH more money to spend than does McCain, for after saying he would take Public Funding, he then discovered how many "americans" lived in Iran and were sending him millions of dollars in contributions to his campaign and promptly reneged on his promise to accept public funding.
Not to mention the very simple fact that when Obama is riding high (as he would appear to be in the polls right now) he does have a marked tendancy to become full of himself and is a walking gaffe machine, suprerior in every way to Joe Biden in that department.
And also don't forget that there are TWO more debates, and while the First debate - which was supposed to be on McCain's strong suit, Foreign Affairs, over 1/3 of the time was spent on discussing the economy as Congress had just defeated the first version of the bailout bill. The Second debate, however IS on the Economy and honestly, Walter, Obama has NOTHING. His whole campaign was to be based on increasing taxes to help the majority of the poor and even he - no doubt in a weak moment - had to say that he'd have to scale down his economic plans - and it would certainly be Kosher for McCain to start nailing Obama on Obama's lack of any kind of plan to get us out of recession before it becomes a depression. Indeed, today in NC, Obama started his speech saying "McCain doesn't know anything about the economy. Take Health Care for example" and then spent oh 15 minutes or so describing - still in general terms - what Obama would do: give ALL Americans Health care, but that only the very rich of our nation would have to pay for it.
Geebus, even Mom, who doesn't focus too much on politics (she is more sane than her son!) said "WHAT? I thought he was going to talk about the economy not health care!"
Seriously - the meltdown and bailout bill have truly taken away the one BIG STICK that Obama could whack McCain with and now leaves all of Obama's other campaign programs in the lurch.

94 Gorgon Zola  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:06:32pm

we must defeat this communist,,

95 RTLM  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:06:35pm

re: #84 TheMatrix31

What's the Keating Five thing that they're talking about releasing? I need to know how to defend myself.

The Keating Five is McCain and four other Dems - including Jihn Glenn that got mixed up with Lincoln Savings and loan. An S&L that went belly up and took some IIRC 21,000 senior citizen's life savings.

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]


The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The five senators, Alan Cranston (D-CA), Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ), John Glenn (D-OH), John McCain (R-AZ), and Donald W. Riegle (D-MI), were accused of improperly aiding Charles H. Keating, Jr., chairman of the failed Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, which was the target of an investigation by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB).

The result of the collapse of Lincoln Savings and Loan was that 21,000 mostly elderly investors lost their life savings. After a lengthy investigation, the Senate Ethics Committee determined in 1991 that Alan Cranston, Dennis DeConcini, and Donald Riegle had substantially and improperly interfered with the FHLBB in its investigation of Lincoln Savings. Senators John Glenn and John McCain were cleared of having acted improperly but were criticized for having exercised "poor judgment".

All five of the senators involved served out their terms. Only Glenn and McCain ran for re-election, and they were both re-elected.

On October 6, 2008 the Keating Five scandal, its parallel to the subprime mortgage crisis of 2008 and specifically the role in the scandal of U.S. Senator and Republican nominee for president John McCain, was reintroduced into public political discourse by the campaign of his opponent, Barack Obama through a documentary entitled Keating Economics.

Obama's threatening to unload a torrent of 1989 news.

96 Intrepid  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:09:08pm

re: #81 Killgore Trout

Nah, I don't think that's an option for me. Most of my customers are wealthy and the tax hikes will seriously hurt my finances. Oregon doesn't look like a swing state this time so I'll probably not vote. I've done it before and I'll do it again. Wanna grow yer own weed? I might have tips for you.

Wow - you won't vote because you don't think it will make a difference?

Hmmmm.

And no thank you, I don't smoke weed. I'd prefer living in reality, even with all its ups and downs.

But thank you for the offer!

Ya'll seeing some autumn leaves changing yet?

97 Irene NYC  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:09:29pm

re: #93 realwest

Hey real!
I'm SOOOOO glad you pointed out all those furrin Americans living in exotic places like Teheran who are supporting The One. Time for that story to go viral, eh?
{smooch}

98 TheMatrix31  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:10:11pm

Thanks, guys. So seems like it's pretty stupid?

99 Cognito  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:10:28pm

re: #79 victor_yugo

As a Greek/Russian/Ukrainian/etc. Orthodox, one of the things I/we hold is that God judges both the action and the intention. In that regard, Ayers is indeed on par with McVeigh and Kaczynski.

Certainly God does hold action and thought equal. Unfortunately*, though, the American system of jurisprudence cannot. So the comparison, in my view, falls a bit flat -- it comes off as hyperbole.

*(Or, perhaps, thank goodness. If the courts could peer into the hearts of men, I would have been convicted of copious and indiscriminate womanizing by the age of 13.)

100 Irene NYC  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:10:45pm

OMG, gotta run - it's after 2 am and I've got work to do in like 6 hours.

101 Killgore Trout  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:11:50pm

re: #96 Intrepid

Ya'll seeing some autumn leaves changing yet?


Yes. Leaves are changing on my pear tree and the Kiwi set a lot of fruit this year. Figs are ripening to but too much rain will spoil them. Let's hope for the best.

102 Sharmuta  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:11:54pm

re: #98 TheMatrix31

Thanks, guys. So seems like it's pretty stupid?

Non-issue.

103 least  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:12:51pm

re: #100 Irene NYC

Me too . . . weet dreams all y'all

104 realwest  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:13:07pm

re: #72 Noah's Arrrgh
With respect to Freddoso, Dohrn was acquited of MURDER because the only convincing evidence that she planted the bomb, and where she planted it and when it went off (and murdered one cop and blinded another for life) was presented by her co-conspirators, to whom she told everything.
And apparently, at least in that time and at that place, no one could be convicted of murder solely on the basis of testimony of co-conspirators.
It was, however, very nice indeed that Dohrn and Ayers raised convicted murderer and member of the gang Kathy Boudin's child as she was in prison for murder.

105 zombie  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:13:24pm

re: #5 Noah's Arrrgh

Can anyone delineate for me what the substantiative differences between Timothy McVeigh and William Ayers are? The magnitude of McVeigh's crimes are much larger, true, but that's only because Ayers didn't have the means the create the chaos that McVeigh did. From what I've read, it seems that he had the desire.

And, why is Ayers reallowed into polite company? Shouldn't he be treated with the same contempt that McVeigh is?

News Bulletin for Noah's Arrrgh:

William Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Angela Davis and dozens of other violent (and murderous) communist revolutionaries in the '60s and '70s were actively recruited by major universities and are all now professors earning wll over $100,000+/year and treated as demigods by their adoring admirers, which includes not only their students and colleagues, but the university administrations as well. Killing for communism is considered the HIGHEST possible achievement on one's resume.

What this indicates, is, yes, that the Grascian plan of taking over the educational system has actually already come true. Most liberal arts departments at most universities are entirely under the control of communists, and they don't really even bother to hide it any more.

Also note that these people get jaw-dropping other perks –– such as Ayers getting control of a $160 million grant to introduce socialist principles into inner-city Chicago schools. That's just the tip of the iceberg. Your brain would explode if you knew the half of it.

If only Ayers had murdered a few more people, he'd be Dean of the Department already.

106 SurferDoc  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:14:28pm

I have a simple question: How could any decent American meet Bill Ayers and not punch him in the mouth?

107 RTLM  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:16:05pm

re: #98 TheMatrix31

Thanks, guys. So seems like it's pretty stupid?

Wacky-stupid. But keep a close eye and bash them with facts when they lie.

/I'd hate to be the seminar organizer tasked with trying to explain the Keating Five to rows of glassy eyed, gaping Obamiacs.

108 Aussie Infidel  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:16:16pm

The 6 o'clock news on both main TV network channels in NZ are carrying the AP story about Ayres and Palin's accusations word for word.

No background. No reporter stuff. Just following the party line right down the street and trying to blacken Palin's name and suggest that she's just a silly little girl.


That's what happens when the MSM is in the Obama tank. Not just the MSM in the States. They churn out their poison everywhere. No wonder folks think Obama walks on water and McCain / Palin have 666 tattooed on their foreheads!


Sheesh. This is getting serious as the left stage their ultimate takeover and crush any dissenting voices.

109 TheMatrix31  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:16:35pm

re: #106 SurferDoc

I have a simple question: How could any decent American meet Bill Ayers and not punch him in the mouth?

A couple hours ago, I was reading LGF, and I got so frustrated that I was about to punch my wall. I let out a scream.

It's really that frustrating. Especially in LA.

110 Intrepid  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:18:31pm

re: #101 Killgore Trout

Yes. Leaves are changing on my pear tree and the Kiwi set a lot of fruit this year. Figs are ripening to but too much rain will spoil them. Let's hope for the best.

Could you send the rain our way? We sure could use it. Pretty dry here.

/mid TN area

Also, what do you use figs for in cooking?

111 SurferDoc  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:18:34pm

re: #109 TheMatrix31

Yah. I know.

112 victor_yugo  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:18:47pm

re: #99 Cognito

Certainly God does hold action and thought equal. Unfortunately*, though, the American system of jurisprudence cannot. So the comparison, in my view, falls a bit flat -- it comes off as hyperbole.

I'll disagree: The difference between manslaughter and murder is that of intention, and the American system of jurisprudence does, in certain cases, take a person's frame of mind into account in the assessment of a crime.

113 Sharmuta  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:18:49pm

re: #108 Aussie Infidel

Sarah's a fluffy bunny according to the 0bama camp.

Beware of fluffy bunnies.

114 zombie  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:19:08pm

Also note that Ayers freely admits killing people and blowing up the Capitol and the Pentagon and police stations and other places. He only got off and walked free because of a legal technicality, and because his fellow terrorists wouldn't squeal on him, so the (inept) prosecutors didn't have enough solid evidence. (Nowadays, with modern forensics and ballistics and so forth, Ayers would have been nailed but good.)

115 realwest  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:19:34pm

re: #97 Irene NYC
Hey Irene, I sure wish it would, however, even though the RNC is filing a complaint about those and other fundraising activies "overseas" by the Obama campaign, we don't have sufficient evidence to make it go viral- it was, after all, mostly credit cards by folks who checke "American" and for less than $200 each.
Who knew so many, many Americans lived in IRAN!
NOT to mention Tunisia, Syriah and Jordan!

116 Aussie Infidel  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:20:03pm

Just how much of this propaganda can we be expected to swallow before striking back/


How does one strike back when the MSM have a monopoly on news dissemination?

When is it justified to take other measures?

117 Scion9  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:20:11pm

re: #5 Noah's Arrrgh

Can anyone delineate for me what the substantiative differences between Timothy McVeigh and William Ayers are? The magnitude of McVeigh's crimes are much larger, true, but that's only because Ayers didn't have the means the create the chaos that McVeigh did. From what I've read, it seems that he had the desire.

And, why is Ayers reallowed into polite company? Shouldn't he be treated with the same contempt that McVeigh is?

Their ideology was almost completely opposite. McVeigh was a Classical Liberal, and took the advice of Jefferson and his contemporaries to literally overthrow the government if it become oppressive, which he believed it was. He was a radical Classical Liberal, and believed that the government had swayed so far from its roots to no longer be dedicated to individual liberty.

Ayers is a Communist, which is a political and economic system that is essentially diametrically opposed on every level to Civic Humanism/Jeffersonian Republicanism and other associated forms of governance dedicated to Individualism.

Their motivation was drastically different, but they were both 'ends justify the means' types and completely unrepentent. I dare say McVeigh, based on his commentary in prison and in his correspondence was a slightly less batshit than Ayers. His weakness as a radical was that he had a long fuse and went out in , where Ayers able to release his exuberant, destructive energies in a

In terms of the PR of Ayers and McVeigh, is that the former is a Hero of the Revolution who is fighting for the side of justice in overthrowing the evil, racist, Imperialist, Capitalist anglo-yanky pigdogs, and the latter is an evil, racist, Imperialist, Capitalist ango-yanky pigdog.

It's probably a very good thing that McVeigh isn't alive now. He would be behind a much larger explosion, and with no need of any fertilizer and gasoline if he got a whiff of Obama and company.

118 RoughRider  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:21:16pm

re: #5 Noah's Arrrgh

Can anyone delineate for me what the substantiative differences between Timothy McVeigh and William Ayers are?

I'm hoping a conservative 527 will make an ad comparing Ayers to McVeigh to Atta and crew, then tying Obama to Ayers. I'm in a pretty safely Republican state and haven't really noticed a lot of TV ads. Are conservative 527's running any ads anywhere about Obama's background?

119 realwest  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:21:42pm

re: #114 zombie
Hey zombie - see my #104 - Dohrn woulda been in jail too.
But then who would have raised poor Kathy Boudin's baby while she did life in prison for MURDER.

120 JacksonTn  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:21:45pm

re: #95 RTLM

Obama's threatening to unload a torrent of 1989 news.

Was that wiki entry changed recently by the Obama campaign to reflect the new site on the Keating Five?

121 Killgore Trout  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:22:30pm

re: #110 Intrepid

Also, what do you use figs for in cooking?

I try to eat them fresh as much as possible. The rest are dried. I sometimes add them do Briani (fish/chicken/lamb/whatever) through the winter. Very tasty.

122 Aussie Infidel  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:22:44pm

re: #113 Sharmuta

That may be so but when Americans wonder to themselves why everyone overseas seems to hate them think on this!


The whole MSM overseas has been running a campaign to brainwash the average Joe for years outside the States.

The wonder of it is that more folks outside the States still give Yanks any creds

123 Temujin  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:23:17pm

re: #114 zombie

(Nowadays, with modern forensics and ballistics and so forth, Ayers would have been nailed but good.)

zombie - you have heard about O.J. Simpson . . . right?

///

124 realwest  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:24:30pm

re: #122 Aussie Infidel
Yeah, but the real puzzelment to me is this: if everyone in foreign nations hates the US so much, why do they keep trying to come here to live?!

125 Scion9  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:24:52pm

re: #24 kynna

They will destroy themselves trying to whitewash Bill Ayers on Obama's behalf. The man is scum with a capital S.C.U.M.

Don't worry. When Ayers has his way, we will no longer be hearing about his Capital thing anymore.

126 RTLM  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:25:22pm

re: #120 JacksonTn

Was that wiki entry changed recently by the Obama campaign to reflect the new site on the Keating Five?

Very likely - anyone can change wiki.

127 Opilio  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:25:28pm

In his 2001 screed, Fugitive Days, Ayers recounts his life as a Sixties radical, his tenure as a Weatherman lieutenant, his terrorist campaign across America, and his enduring hatred for for the United States. “What a country,” Ayers said in 2001. “It makes me want to puke.”

128 Cognito  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:25:52pm

re: #114 zombie

Also note that Ayers freely admits killing people...

Does he!

I didn't know that -- I thought he only admitted involvement in bombs that didn't kill anyone.

129 realwest  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:25:53pm

Well all y'all = it's really late here East coast time, so I gotta get some sleep NOW!
Hope you all have a GREAT EVENING/EARLY MORNING and that I get the chance to see you down the road!


Good night, all.

130 HelloDare  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:26:17pm

How many people would let somebody with Obama's background house sit for them? Yet close to half the voters think he should be our next president. Amazing.

131 zombie  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:27:23pm

And I'd like to convey my personal thanks to Sarah Palin for FINALLY mentioning William Ayers in this campaign. We in the blogosphere have been ranting and raving about the Obama/Ayers connection for nearly a year now, and the MSM deliberately ignored it and swept it under the rug. It took a VP candidate to say it in public in front of 10,000 people and news cameras for the story to finally get some traction. The MSM wanted to ignore it all the way to election day, but they couldn't any more.

The story and the facts are not new to us here, but they're new to the average American.

Thank you, Sarah.

132 Temujin  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:27:33pm

re: #129 realwest

Pleasant dreams, realwest. BTW, hope your mouth is all better . . .

133 Noah's Arrrgh  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:27:42pm

re: #105 zombie

News Bulletin for Noah's Arrrgh:

William Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Angela Davis and dozens of other violent (and murderous) communist revolutionaries in the '60s and '70s were actively recruited by major universities and are all now professors earning wll over $100,000+/year and treated as demigods by their adoring admirers, which includes not only their students and colleagues, but the university administrations as well. Killing for communism is considered the HIGHEST possible achievement on one's resume..

I know. That's what gets my goat. Crimes on behalf of left wing causes are fashionable in these milieux. Crimes, in my book, are crimes, period.

I remember talking a guy whose brother worked at a communist bookstore on Telegraph avenue in Berkeley. He was talking to his brother about the Khmer Rouge. His brother lauded the Khmer rouge. As for the genocide they committed, the worst he could admit to was, and I quote: "I'm not saying there weren't any excesses..." That kind of left wing apologetic is endemic at and about our "elite" universities.

134 Intrepid  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:27:47pm

re: #121 Killgore Trout

You got a good curry and prawn recipe, specifically with hot buttered naan?

Not too hot, mind you.

135 redc1c4  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:27:57pm

re: #106 SurferDoc

I have a simple question: How could any decent American meet Bill Ayers and not punch him in the mouth?

because you might hurt your hand..... better you hit...... /self deleted

136 Steffan  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:28:59pm

re: #5 Noah's Arrrgh

Can anyone delineate for me what the substantiative differences between Timothy McVeigh and William Ayers are? The magnitude of McVeigh's crimes are much larger, true, but that's only because Ayers didn't have the means the create the chaos that McVeigh did. From what I've read, it seems that he had the desire.

And, why is Ayers reallowed into polite company? Shouldn't he be treated with the same contempt that McVeigh is?

The substantive -- the only -- difference between McVeigh and Ayers is that McVeigh was successful. Ayers' main attempt ended in a work accident that he and Dohrn, unfortunately, missed.

Ayers is allowed into polite society for precisely the same reason that the bloody-handed assassin Che Guevara is a T-shirt icon.

Incidentally, you might want to read this: Quite a few avowed Democrats think Obama stole the nomination.

It’s quite troubling, really, that mainstream media outlets are focusing upon “racial misgivings” factors, while all but ignoring the major divides among voting constituencies that occurred during the nominating contest between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. These rifts revolved much more around exactly how Barack Obama received the Democratic nomination than any sort of racial divide or even sour grapes.

In fact, there are dozens of voter groups which claim outright that Barack Obama’s nomination was garnered illegitimately and with decidedly undemocratic methods. These are the PUMA people, the NoBama folks, the caucus-fraud investigators, and a whole lot of others who fervently believe that Barack Obama is not the legitimate nominee of the Democratic Party electorate, but the nominee of the party elite and caucus strong-arm tactics.

If Barack Obama loses a large swath of traditionally Democratic voters in November, then the party should conduct serious introspection, not point fingers at white bigots and rednecks.

137 Opilio  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:29:37pm

re: #95 RTLM

Obama's threatening to unload a torrent of 1989 news.

Seems like an act of desperation to me.

138 zombie  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:30:00pm

re: #128 Cognito

Does he!

I didn't know that -- I thought he only admitted involvement in bombs that didn't kill anyone.

He admitted involvement in the "work accident" in 1969 that killed some of his fellow terrorists who were constructing an anti-personnel bomb at his behest.

We know without question that he was involved in most of the other bombings as well (he was the leader of the organization, after all), though he coyly leaves out those exact details from his admittedly "fictionalized" memoir.

139 Intrepid  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:30:30pm

re: #131 zombie

She seems to be "pit bull" like that. Good choice, John McCain!

140 Cognito  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:30:51pm

re: #95 RTLM

Obama's threatening to unload a torrent of 1989 news.

McCain should unload a torrent of more relevant and recent news from 2003, 2005, 2006, etc.

141 NY Nana  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:31:14pm

re: #55 Sharmuta

I haven't posted for over a day, as this election is really getting to me. Spinoffs? Yes. That I can handle. It is scary, and above all, a danger for all of us, and worse? For our children, grandchildren, etc., etc.....they come first, and what the outcome of this election is, will shape their future. They are innocents, and to have the Manchurian Candidate win? Unthinkable.

Sharm, bless you for giving me hope! I had honestly forgotten re the last 2 elections...and also what I had for breakfast. ;)

Maybe now I can go to sleep, and actually get a good night's rest!

IMHO, anyone who does not or will not vote is doing all of us harm, and anyone who even considers Obama is either nuts or does not give a damn about our country. We have the ability to make sure that Obama is not elected, by getting the info that the MSM hides out to as many people as possible, and I have taken the liberty to send the threads that Charles has put up to anyone I know who is still leaning towards Obama, and it has actually worked in some cases.

Please do not stay home and sulk on election day; as Americans, we are responsible for the future, and this election is frightening. No, McCain is not my first choice, but I am proud to vote for him, and think that the maligned Gov. Palin will be a superb VP. She left Biden stuttering, just like Obama does...

McCain/Palin 2008, and John Bolton as Sec of State!

And Condi, don't slam the door when you leave.

G'nite, all! And Sharm? Thanks for the way to a good night's sleep! Sweet dreams.

142 HelloDare  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:32:24pm

Wonder if Ayers would justify violence if Obama loses. Somebody should ask him.

143 SurferDoc  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:32:38pm

re: #135 redc1c4

because you might hurt your hand..... better you hit...... /self deleted

LOL! Well, I have arthritis in my hands but I know I have at least one good punch left. I would hurt like hell but I'd be smiling...no, I'd be going, "OW OW OW!"

I could do an elbow in the chops...

144 Killgore Trout  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:32:47pm

re: #134 Intrepid

Sorry, prawns are out of my price range. I'll get back to you after Chairman Obama redistributes the wealth.

145 Cognito  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:33:12pm

re: #142 HelloDare

Wonder if Ayers would justify violence if Obama loses. Somebody should ask him.

Now that is just excellent.

146 Opilio  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:33:54pm

In 1970, Ayers’ then-girlfriend Diana Oughton, along with Weatherman members Terry Robbins and Ted Gold, were killed when a bomb they were constructing exploded unexpectedly. That bomb had been intended for detonation at a dance that was to be attended by army soldiers at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Hundreds of lives could have been lost had the plan been successfully executed. Ayers attested that the bomb would have done serious damage, “tearing through windows and walls and, yes, people too.”

His intent seems pretty clear.

147 Wm T Sherman  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:34:25pm

re: #51 Cognito

Well. Kaczynski and McVeigh were two of the worst murders in American history. Ayers hasn't been convicted for any such thing.

Now maybe that's because he's smarter than them. Or a less able bomber. But the truth is they're simply not the same.

Ayers attempted the exact same outcome. It is similar enough to the other cases that relative failure in causing fatalities is no defense whatsoever. Quite close enough. Same motivation - true believers.

The failure to kill more people can be atributed to Ayers' incompetence at designing bombs, not to intelligence. People who know how to handle explosives don't have accidents like the one in New York.

The Unabomber only killed three people. What does that matter? Is he less of an animal than McVeigh?

Recall that the Weathermen placed a bomb at a San Francisco police station that killed one cop and blinded another. Not placing the bomb with his own hands does not clear Ayers in and of itself. You know that.

The subject of this thread is the link between a terrorist who planted bombs and a candidate for President of the United States. Please explain why any of your hair-splitting matters in that context.

148 Sharmuta  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:35:36pm

re: #136 Steffan

Excellent article- thanks for linking it. Just another reason I think we're going to win.

149 RTLM  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:37:34pm

re: #140 Cognito

McCain should unload a torrent of more relevant and recent news from 2003, 2005, 2006, etc.

Cognito, those are the most intelligent words you have ever uttered on LGF.

;)

150 Intrepid  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:39:26pm

re: #144 Killgore Trout

Sorry, prawns are out of my price range. I'll get back to you after Chairman Obama redistributes the wealth.

Don't be his bitch, Killgore! You arent' that kind of man!

Heh!

I can buy a 1 lb bag of frozen prawns at Wal-Mart for 6 bucks. Where the heck do you live that you cannot do the same?

Oregon? Heck, Killgore - come.into.the.light....

Move to the South! It's where "it" is!

We've got "IT"!

("IT" can mean jobs, culture, fun, weather....we've pretty much got "it")

151 redc1c4  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:39:36pm

re: #143 SurferDoc

LOL! Well, I have arthritis in my hands but I know I have at least one good punch left. I would hurt like hell but I'd be smiling...no, I'd be going, "OW OW OW!"

I could do an elbow in the chops...

me too: axe handles are your friend............. i can close it around a grip, but not make a fist with the right hand. (w*rk related)

us old folks have to remember to use tools. %-)

152 Killgore Trout  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:41:48pm

re: #150 Intrepid

Move to the South! It's where "it" is!


You can't get a good biscuit north of the Mason Dixon line.

153 Killgore Trout  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:42:48pm

re: #152 Killgore Trout

Forget about the gravy.

154 Syrah  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:43:00pm

I just took a look at the Asian Markets. The trend seems to be adamant.

In just over 6 hours, Wall Street will open up.

We will survive this, but keep your seat belts on for a while longer.

Good night all.

155 victor_yugo  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:43:16pm

re: #141 NY Nana

IMHO, anyone who does not or will not vote is doing all of us harm

Sorry, NY Nana, but you and I part company here.

Where I live, registering to vote is to put your name in as a candidate for jury duty. It is part of our civic contract: A citizen has a say in how the state is run, in exchange for that citizen's services when the state requires them.

After the way a crooked cop, an incompetent lawyer, and a pussy jury f$*#ed over someone very near and dear to me, there are days I ponder if registering to vote would be worth the opportunity to tell two lawyers and a judge to go f!@# themselves during the jury selection process. I'll never be able to sit in a jury pool without risking days or weeks for contempt of court.

In the meantime, I may be pulling for McCain/Palin, but I'll willingly give up my vote, in order to stay out of a jury pool.

156 Intrepid  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:44:13pm

re: #152 Killgore Trout

You can't get a good biscuit north of the Mason Dixon line.

By biscuit, you mean "cookie"? Or biscuit, which is a glorious confection of the south?

Oh sir, surely you jest!

(I can bake a dozen biscuits that will make you want to slap your granny)

157 Cognito  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:44:40pm

re: #149 RTLM

Cognito, those are the most intelligent words you have ever uttered on LGF.

;)

I think what's frightening to me is that the moment of enlightenment has arrived, and no one is changing his mind. Here's what I mean:

The Wall Street Journal's editorial page has been pouring hail and fire on Fannie and Freddie and their conspirators for years. Years. And during the same span they were accused, by the left, of merely drifting further and further from the center toward the right.

The editors could console themselves with the knowledge that, "Well. This whole thing will collapse some day, and people will see we were correct."

And now the collapse has come, but people still don't see it. They're not calling for accountability from the people in power.

It's the not-seeing-it aspect that frightens me. It's that aspect that sets this current crisis apart.

158 Sharmuta  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:45:10pm

Wierd! I was using Firefox when my comment form, then the bottom of this thread just... disappeared. It was a big blank nothing. I've pulled up IE, and it seems fine, but that was freaky. I had a comment form on the Dufour thread. I tried clearing my cache. I still had a big blank nothing at the end of this thread.

159 Scion9  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:49:32pm

re: #157 Cognito

I feel the exact same way. Bill O'Reilly has for weeks been pushing his populist nonsense that the pols should have come on his show and named names and pointed to exactly what the problem was and informed the electorate.

That just doesn't work any more. Even people that are politically active will see a pol giving his account of what is going on, and a partisan on the other side will give a contradictary account and just point fingers back.

They propagandize out in the open light of day and no one can tell. All Rightys think all Leftys are liars and vice versa, while no one in the middle can decide who is telling the truth. In reality none of them understand the fundamentals and have to rely on a third party to tell them what to think.

160 Sharmuta  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:49:50pm

Weird! Now I'm seeing this in Firefox, logged out, on other threads past 150 or so comments. Can anyone else see this?

161 opnion  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:50:29pm

I am at a conferece full of Republicans & they are resigned to an Obama presidency. I keep telling them that this is not over.
But ya know, where is the fighting McCain?
Sarah Palin gets it.

162 RTLM  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:54:04pm

re: #157 Cognito

Let's see what happens Tuesday.

163 SummerSong  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:54:59pm

I'm using Firefox - not seeing what you are describing, Sharmuta.

164 Sharmuta  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:55:57pm

I'm starting to get the feeling that others are now experiencing the bottom falling out of LGF threads.

165 Cognito  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:57:18pm

re: #162 RTLM

Let's see what happens Tuesday.

I must be sleepy -- what's due to happen Tuesday?

166 Sharmuta  Sun, Oct 5, 2008 11:57:37pm

re: #163 SummerSong

Which version?

167 Abu Al-Poopypants  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:00:23am

re: #160 Sharmuta

Weird! Now I'm seeing this in Firefox, logged out, on other threads past 150 or so comments. Can anyone else see this?

Yes. I closed firefox and opened Chrome and finally saw this. Firefox truncated the page and wouldn't show any more comments or the comment box no matter how many times I reloaded. I suspect a bug in the upgraded code that Charles mentioned earlier in the day.

168 Pvt Bin Jammin  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:00:29am

Sharm...it's way past my bedtime and I think I have FF 3.2 Everything is A-Okay, here.

169 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:01:24am

re: #167 Abu Al-Poopypants

Thank you! Do you think we should put a warning in the spinoffs for the Lizards in the morning?

170 SummerSong  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:01:33am

Ouch! I logged out and DID have the same problem you described. I had to use IE to get back here.

Using 2.0 Firefox.

171 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:02:12am

re: #168 Pvt Bin Jammin

Try one of the threads with tons of comments. Like the fluffy bunny thread.

172 SummerSong  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:02:32am

I signed back in using Firefox.....tried to post and it told me I wasn't signed in...

173 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:02:40am

re: #170 SummerSong

That's it- I'm posting a warning in the spinoffs.

174 Pvt Bin Jammin  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:03:32am

re: #171 Sharmuta

Will do. Maybe I will log-out too.
Tset LOL

175 SummerSong  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:04:15am

re: #173 Sharmuta
Good idea.

176 Spirit93  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:04:31am

re: #160 Sharmuta

Weird! Now I'm seeing this in Firefox, logged out, on other threads past 150 or so comments. Can anyone else see this?

I have the same problem FF3.0.3. Had to switch to IE7.

177 Abu Al-Poopypants  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:04:40am

I'm gonna take it as a hint that I ought to go to sleep, what with it being 3 AM and all...

178 SummerSong  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:05:50am

Poor Charles...more work.

179 FamHistoryGuy  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:06:33am

I just logged out and back in. Don't seem to be having any trouble. Ubuntu 8.04 and Fire Fox 3.0.3

180 capitalist piglet  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:06:40am

re: #165 Cognito
The debate is happening Tuesday.

181 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:07:09am

re: #178 SummerSong

Poor Charles...more work.

I feel sorry for him at what his inbox will look like by the time he gets up.

182 Cognito  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:07:11am

re: #180 capitalist piglet

The debate is happening Tuesday.

Ah. Gotcha.

183 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:07:46am

re: #179 FamHistoryGuy

Could you try a longer thread? I linked one in the spinoffs with my warning.

184 Killgore Trout  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:08:09am

re: #156 Intrepid

I'm talking about about American biscuits that exist south of the Mason Dixon and east of the Mississippi. British biscuits are a different affair.

185 Killgore Trout  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:09:44am

Namaste, yall.
/G'nite

186 SummerSong  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:13:17am

Everytime I go back to using Firefox to view a thread, it chops off more comments. First time I showed 165 comments - refreshed the page and it went down to 150 comments.

187 SummerSong  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:15:03am

Will an atuo thread pop up later? I guess they'll be good to 150 posts...

188 SummerSong  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:15:29am

atuo=auto

189 TheMatrix31  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:15:44am

I'm experiencing the same issue in FF3 so I opened the site on IE....I tried logging back in and refreshing mutliple times and nothing.

190 abolitionist  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:17:34am

re: #160 Sharmuta

For me, the site broke under firefox 2.0.0.17. A thread or the main page appears to load, but then a huge grey box appears, and then everything below the masthead goes away -- replaced by white.

Using IE6 to post this.

191 Spirit93  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:17:36am

Working ok for me with Chrome.

192 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:17:42am

re: #187 SummerSong

Maybe, maybe not. This thread went up fairly late, so it's possible there won't be an auto thread, we'll just have this one all night.

193 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:19:06am

re: #190 abolitionist

Yeah, abo- there's a firefox bug I think. I hope enough lizards think to check the spinoffs or at least try another browser. Goodness- I hope littleoldlady's on IE or who will do fruitcup?

194 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:21:16am

And- I was going to crack a joke about Charles finally having found a way to get me to shut up. lol

195 neocon hippie  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:22:34am

I have the same problem in Firefox 2 but no problem in Safari.

196 SummerSong  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:22:58am

No problems in the lounge? I don't go there, but I suppose people could pop in there and find out what's going on?

197 victor_yugo  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:25:00am

testing...

198 victor_yugo  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:26:20am

Okay, now that's really strange.

In FF 3.0.1, I logged out, then closed and re-launched. And I was automatically logged back in.

199 FamHistoryGuy  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:27:18am

re: #183 Sharmuta

I went to the front page and a longer thread. Ran into a problem with overlapping images. Seems it is not clearing part of a post and running later posts under that stuck image. Does make it difficult to read.

200 justadot  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:28:59am

re: #193 Sharmuta

Sharmuta, I collected some screenshots earlier and sent them to Charles before seeing this thread. I was hoping it wouldn't affect that many people -- I was wrong. Latest versions of Safari, Google Chrome, and Opera for Windows are OK here, though.

201 SummerSong  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:29:10am

Hopefully the feedback we are giving will help Charles figure it out.

202 jonathan1984  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:29:25am

It's cut off for me in Firefox 3.0.3. I'll try the restarting the browser thing and see if it works.

203 Pvt Bin Jammin  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:29:33am

re: #193 Sharmuta
I am back from internet hell via IE, and I know you guys know that I drink martinis but I kid you not....went to the fluffy bunny thread, thought it was comining up, then, instead of "waiting for LGF", down on the bottom of my screen it said something like this: "Hillary Clinton Forum.net?discussion/forum.display./php?f+84forum ". I kid you not, but I probably didn't write it down right but I have never gone to a Hillary Clinton forum to my knowledge.

On top of that, Sharmuta and Charles, I am having the same "blank" at the bottom of the thread in FF 3.2.

OMG I am getting sober. LOL

204 IslandLibertarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:30:36am

re: #194 Sharmuta

Thanks for the switch browser tip.
I thought I'd never escape that "Non-Racialy-specific-pigmented (black) hole.

/hey, it was awful in there.

205 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:31:35am

re: #204 IslandLibertarian

I try to be a help.

206 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:32:34am

re: #200 justadot

I'm glad you grabbed screen shots. Hopefully, that will help.

207 IslandLibertarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:32:43am

re: #205 Sharmuta
I still say, you don't sound "Blue-ish".

208 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:33:45am

re: #207 IslandLibertarian

And I'm not mean either.

209 IslandLibertarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:35:42am

re: #208 Sharmuta

And I'm not mean either.

Then "Pepperland" is saved!

210 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:37:23am

re: #209 IslandLibertarian

LOL!

211 IslandLibertarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:38:55am

re: #210 Sharmuta

so , you got one of these?

212 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:39:58am

re: #211 IslandLibertarian

Actually- I do have a Yellow Submarine Action figure, but not the Love Glove.

213 littleoldlady  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:43:09am

Well THAT'S a pain!

/pass the martoonis

Thanks for the heads up, Sharmuta! :-)

214 IslandLibertarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:43:52am

re: #212 Sharmuta

action figure?..? tell me more.....one of the liverpool lads or jeremy or the captain ?
never heard of such a thing....Yello Submarine Action Figure....that seems like an oximoron.

215 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:43:56am

re: #213 littleoldlady

Who loves you, littleoldlady?

216 redc1c4  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:44:00am

well, this thread locks up at about comment 144 and disappears in FF3, and everytime i hit comment in IE 6.X, it takes me back to the main page.....

(extended Army language here)

i'm gonna go fix up the fruitcup and wait for Stinky to get on duty to unfuck this...... BTW: who stole Cognito's login and posted sense about #150?

hasta, y'all....... L8r! %-)

217 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:45:01am

re: #214 IslandLibertarian

Scroll down a little-

[Link: www.cmdstore.com...]

218 Pvt Bin Jammin  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:45:28am

'nite, lizards. Still can't see beyond FF comment # 150. Something is wrong. Love all of you lizards.

219 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:47:48am

See! Some of you thought I was crazy when I posted it, but I wasn't!

[insert maniacal laughter here]

220 Sylvester_T_Cat  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:48:14am

Bit of an XP/IE7 bug is showing up here; usually I can scroll through posts a page at a time using the space bar or the page/up--page/down keys. Now the only sure bet for reading is to use the scroll wheel on the mouse. Knowing XP's easily confused, I rebooted the comp and the problem is persisting.

221 IslandLibertarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:52:36am

re: #217 Sharmuta

There were so many........even John with "The Love Glove".....
Imagine that..............

IE7 is so clunky. I'm gonna bail.
Nite 'tiles.

PTTCP
NObama!

222 littleoldlady  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:53:18am

re: #220 Sylvester_T_Cat

It's in Firefox, too, as Sharmuta so helpfully pointed out. You're having a problem in IE?

I'm using AOL and LGF seems to be working okay.

/for now...

223 Spellcheck  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:55:28am

Same problems for me with Firefox 3.0.3 - cuts off mid-post #126. Using Safari now and it seems fine.

224 redc1c4  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 12:58:14am

per # 216, for "comment" in IE 6.0.2800.1106 make that "every time i select either reply or quote, it takes me back to the main page"....

i'm gonna go start stress testing tonights fruitcup, since i can't just take out the tanker's bar and BTS out of the front glacis plate.....

(that was always good fore relieving stress: hard on the paint, but who gave a damn? %-)

225 littleoldlady  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 1:00:01am

re: #224 redc1c4

I think Pvt Bin Jammin left some martoonis.

/smorgasbord!

226 jonathan1984  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 1:00:42am

re: #220 Sylvester_T_Cat

Same thing here. The hamsters must not like Change.

/s

227 IslandLibertarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 1:02:07am

hey, I found some 'shrooooooooooms.

Blissful Dreams.

228 Pvt Bin Jammin  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 1:02:46am

re: #225 littleoldlady
LOL I'm shaking up a few for you guys right now! Come on over.

This is a weird internet thing, don't you think?

229 redc1c4  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 1:03:52am

#225: well, i'll just take on for each rat i've smoted tonight...... and one was, from the look i got when he did a flip on his way down the all, a big one, worth a double, so we're at four right now.....

did i ever send you the Martini.xls file?

red,
going out back to scan the firing lane again %-)

230 redc1c4  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 1:06:14am

#228: i would, but i don;t think 2H6 would understand, and i'd have to sleep on the floor, since there's no way i'm driving home again this late at night..... after martinis.

231 littleoldlady  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 1:07:34am

Pvt Bin Jammin! :-)

I've been thinking my ole computer is real close to biting the dust anyway. This isn't helping. :-(

Thanks for the 'toonies! :-) :-) :-)

232 littleoldlady  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 1:08:36am

re: #229 redc1c4

You're on vacation with rats?

233 Pvt Bin Jammin  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 1:08:53am

re: #230 redc1c4

driving home again? Where have you been?

234 cartoonboy  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 1:09:14am

From Wikipedia:

Confirmation bias
In psychology and cognitive science, confirmation bias is a tendency to search for or interpret new information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions and avoids information and interpretations which contradict prior beliefs.

...rigorous critical scrutiny is applied only to evidence challenging a preconceived idea but not to evidence supporting it.

235 Pvt Bin Jammin  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 1:15:19am

{littleoldlady}...you're welcome for the 'toonies. LOL It's good to see you. Wish I could make it for the fruitcup but I wont. Does anybody ever hear from Miguel?

236 redc1c4  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 1:15:52am

#233: "driving home again? Where have you been?"

nowhere, yet. never left the property today. i was refereing to the idiocy of trying to do so if i were to actually head east on the 134 and take you up on the 'toonis in person.

i blame IE.... it even does text poorly. %-)

237 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 1:18:45am

But of course! The RNC is racist to bring up illegal foreign contributions!

Amazing.

238 littleoldlady  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 1:20:02am

re: #235 Pvt Bin Jammin

Nobody hears from Miguel, as far as I know.

:-(

I don't even want to speculate...

239 Pvt Bin Jammin  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 1:20:40am

re: #236 redc1c4


One of these days we'll have a lgf get-together. Maybe we should do it over coffee.

I am fading fast. Take care, Red.

240 Pvt Bin Jammin  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 1:21:51am

re: #238 littleoldlady
Bless his heart. I miss him.
'nite.

241 Temujin  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 1:23:25am

re: #237 Sharmuta

Money itself is simply another tool of oppression invented and maintained by the white, capitalistic, sexist, racist, homophobic power structure!

CHANGE!

///

242 littleoldlady  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 1:24:03am

Pvt Bin Jammin! :-)

'Night.

243 abolitionist  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 1:24:58am

On topic, there's a "must-see" video about the Weatherman Underground embedded in this page:
Obama donors debated Killing White Babies and Trained in Castros Terrorist camps. VIDEO and link to 420 pages FBI Files Reds

Caveat: I've not been able to reach the site lately. I'd posted the bare link on a previous thread.

Scroll down below "No joke" and play the video. Sorry, I don't know how to link directly to it, or to save it.

Near end of the video, there are a couple near-contemporary (2004) statements to inform us that We are still at war (Dohrn), and It's not over (Ayers).

So it would appear that Obama is *not* entirely lacking in face-to-face negotiating experience, when it comes to dealing with terrorist fanatics who are bent on the destruction of these United States.

/ absolutely dripping with sarcasm

244 littleoldlady  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 1:25:11am

re: #241 Temujin

Temujin! :-)

I wish somebody would frikken oppress me already!

/sheesh

245 Temujin  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 1:27:19am

re: #244 littleoldlady

White folks' greed runs a Powerball in need!

/

246 redc1c4  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 1:29:30am

#244: i'm gonna be good for once and not touch that..... %-)

247 Temujin  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 1:32:19am

re: #244 littleoldlady

I wish somebody would frikken oppress me already!

Perchik: “Money is the world’s curse!”
Tevye: “May the Lord smite me with it. And may I never recover.”

~ from the 1971 film, Fiddler On The Roof

248 littleoldlady  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 1:34:54am

re: #247 Temujin

Double ++!

/ignoring red...

249 redc1c4  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 1:39:57am

#247: and here i was thinking silk neckties, a peacock feather and maybe some chocolate syrup........ after dinner, dancing and champagne...... with strawberries.

oh well. %-)

250 arizona9  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 1:40:35am

Very sweet video of pups greeting their soldier home from Iraq after 14 months.


Happy dogs

251 littleoldlady  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 1:43:24am

Hmmm...

/not ignoring red anymore

252 littleoldlady  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 2:00:03am

Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™

Fruitcup is on the buffet --------------------->
Help yourselves!

253 Temujin  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 2:01:34am

re: #252 littleoldlady

Thank you, littleoldlady!

254 Intrepid  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 2:03:37am

Woot! Fruit cup!

Can I have some?

255 littleoldlady  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 2:06:30am

Temujin!

re: #254 Intrepid

Intrepod! :-)

Of course!

256 redc1c4  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 2:06:48am

#251: it's all about the romance, and what makes your partner trigger. unfortunately for me, HRH suffers from ADD, so the usual things don't w*rk either way, but we make do, and i know i *am* loved..... yeah, we growl back & forth on occasion, but it's not my fault she scared off all the normal guys, but then again

I'm no angel..... %-)

257 littleoldlady  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 2:07:16am

Intrepid

/sorry
//I blame AOL...

258 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 2:09:05am

I ♥ Fruitcup™!

259 akak  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 2:10:32am

re: #258 Sharmuta

I ♥ Fruitcup™!


dou you ever sleep?

260 akak  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 2:10:45am

do pimf

261 Intrepid  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 2:11:05am

I've watched the VP debate again - Joe did better than I thought he did, but his lies were even more glaring.

Still, Sarah speaks to the folks.

And Gwen is clearly biased.

262 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 2:12:19am

re: #259 akak

Maybe.

263 Temujin  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 2:12:59am

Time 2 go take care of business.

Later,lizards. Bbiab.

264 littleoldlady  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 2:14:59am

re: #256 redc1c4

Aldo Rey!

/I thought I recognized you! ;-)

265 littleoldlady  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 2:15:44am

Sharmuta! :-)

'Night, Temujin!

266 littleoldlady  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 2:16:56am

re: #264 littleoldlady

Forgot the link.

/sheesh
//is it Monday?

267 littleoldlady  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 2:17:59am

I have to get outta here early, too. Hope Firefox/LGF gets fixed...

Good day, ALL!™

268 HelloDare  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 2:18:59am
269 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 2:20:25am

re: #268 HelloDare

The Russian stock market is down over 12% in early trading.
[RTS is an index of 50 Russian stocks]

Nikkei closed down 4.25%

I blame Congress. ////////////

270 HelloDare  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 2:20:52am

re: #269 Sharmuta

I blame Congress. ////////////

Maybe they think Obama is going to twin.

271 HelloDare  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 2:21:35am

re: #270 HelloDare

Maybe they think Obama is going to twin win.

Now that would have been a miracle.

272 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 2:34:32am

re: #271 HelloDare

Probably just another excuse for putin to implement more fascist policy into Russia.

273 aboo-Hoo-Hoo  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 2:43:51am

59 99.9% Would Vote to Replace Entire Congress after markets open. 100% looking for rope, trees.

Mornin folks.

274 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 2:46:05am

Almost a flying pig moment as Annette Benning defends Sarah Palin.

275 akak  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 2:47:28am

re: #268 HelloDare

The Russian stock market is down over 12% in early trading.
[RTS is an index of 50 Russian stocks]

Nikkei closed down 4.25%

Oil too! woot $90 ish

What is the low price for oil going to be? $50.00 Some are saying $30-40 range

276 Scion9  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 2:49:38am

re: #270 HelloDare


Maybe they think Obama is going to twin.

The stuff of nightmares.

277 x-wing  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 2:52:08am

re: #274 Sharmuta

Almost a flying pig moment as Annette Benning defends Sarah Palin.

You could knock me over with a feather right now.

278 Armywife  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 3:09:18am

re: #269 Sharmuta


Now you know it wasn't congress that did this! It was Bush and Cheney. Possibly Rove had a hand it as well.

279 Armywife  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 3:11:22am

Now this is a shocker, too. AP did NOT respond to my email pointing out their story of Ayers and Obama just kind of sort of knowing each other is not true!

280 TheMatrix31  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 3:25:49am

On another message board, I made a post regarding Ayers and Obama and how they're connected. I told this guy to research Dorhn, Ayers, and Obama. This is what the moron responded to me with.....

----------
"Dohrn & Ayers - Obama's connection to Ayers has nothing to do with Ayers' radical and violent acts. Ayers and Obama have worked together to help further education. Obama, being a senator from Illinois, and Ayers, being a senior professor at the University of Illinois, are both in positions that would work together in most instances to further that cause. They are not serving on boards of bombing buildings. Ayers (and Dohrn) are both very respected educators at very prestigous universities, and thus, as a senator from that state Obama is likely to have to work with them on certain issues being that they are prominant education figures in Chicago. It's not like these guys are buddies. We should hold Obama accountable for everyone he's worked with in his life? Just because you work with someone doesn't mean you agree with all of their beliefs.

So yeah, I think saying that he served on boards for different orginizations with these indviduals means he's in league with terrorists is blowing it way out of proportion."
-------

I give up, dude.

281 loflyer  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 3:26:59am

Yaaar, morning guys, Firefox is not handling the LGF site well. I get down to like 155 posts and the rest is just black. IE works though....

282 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 3:32:56am

re: #281 loflyer

That's funny- I think there's a spinoff thread about that. ;)

283 TheMatrix31  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 3:32:57am
284 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 3:35:25am

re: #280 TheMatrix31

Don't give up so easily. First- Ayers & Dohrn are unrepentant. Also- the money used to help the education system in Chicago didn't help- it made the problem worse. So for this person to try to claim they were helping kids- well... they failed!

285 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 3:36:13am

re: #283 TheMatrix31

No Quarter is run by larry johnson, who is a big, fat fraud. I wouldn't trust him with a dog I didn't like.

286 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 3:37:50am

I think this morning's fruitcup must have been shipped in from China, think it's got lead in it.

287 TheMatrix31  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 3:42:10am

re: #285 Sharmuta

No Quarter is run by larry johnson, who is a big, fat fraud. I wouldn't trust him with a dog I didn't like.

Thanks for that comment. I didn't know about him.

288 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 3:45:20am

BTW, As concerned I am about the economy; there's a bit of schaudenfreude involved for me.

What would suck, is if we suffered an economic downturn while the rest of the world chugged right along.

But, the United States' relationship with the rest of the world is kind of like a one sided set of those crazy fictional sets of twins. Punch them in the stomach, we can see it, but don't feel it. Punch us in the stomach, the rest of the world doubles over in pain.

My intention is not to sound bitter. Do I?

289 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 3:49:10am

re: #287 TheMatrix31

Thanks for that comment. I didn't know about him.

He'a the guy who promoted the rumor about the michelle 0bama "whitey" tape. He's a liar and a fraud. Run an LGF search of him. In fact- I think Charles may have blocked links from his site in the spinoffs.

290 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 3:50:09am

re: #287 TheMatrix31

(psssst. he makes up stories. he's kind of a big liar. he thinks that he can make up lies about democrats and we will like him.)

(he doesn't understand, that we just don't like liars.)

I whispered that just to you Matrix.

291 TheMatrix31  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 3:51:52am

Hahaha, well my bad then! Charles can delete if he deems it necessary! I just liked the way the article was structured. It was organized and easy for these moonbats to follow. I just posted like, 5 links in a rebuttal. We'll see where it goes.

292 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 3:52:09am

re: #289 Sharmuta

PIMF- "He's". Dang- maybe I grabbed one of red's fruitcups instead of lol's.

293 shiplord kirel  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 3:52:18am

This morning I watched on CBS as Dianne Feinstein repeated the now familiar refrain that Barack was only 8 years old when Ayers was "active in the weather underground."
Bob Schieffer, shamelessly Obama tank-turd that he is, just nodded and smirked at what he no doubt thought was a clever evasion that would sink Obama's campaign if the public had more access to the facts.

The opponent in this election is not really the Democratic Party, just as the enemy in this war is not really Islamic radicalism. In both cases, the real enemy is the media-industrial complex. The Democrats are their political arm; the Islamic terrorists, their underground direct-action force.

294 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 3:54:05am

re: #289 Sharmuta

He'a the guy who promoted the rumor about the michelle 0bama "whitey" tape. He's a liar and a fraud. Run an LGF search of him. In fact- I think Charles may have blocked links from his site in the spinoffs.

Boy, had us too. We waited for two days for that tape to come out. Guy may have intended to gain a little notoriety with a quick little lie, and had everything else, well written-researched-documented, etc...

Screwed the pooch on that one didn't he.

295 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 3:54:22am

re: #291 TheMatrix31

LGF Search results on larry johnson

Indeed- "no quarter" is blocked from spinoff links.

296 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 3:55:30am

re: #294 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

To tell the truth, FBV- I was skeptical of that tape's existence because I never forgot larry was a two faced jerk.

297 TheMatrix31  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 3:56:03am

re: #295 Sharmuta

LGF Search results on larry johnson

Indeed- "no quarter" is blocked from spinoff links.

Hmm...it said that it would automatically block the linking? How come it didnt do that for my post? Or is it only for the spin-off submissions?

298 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 3:56:34am

re: #295 Sharmuta

Hey Shar. You skin is looking extra blue this morning. Did you comb your hair differently?

299 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 3:56:37am

re: #297 TheMatrix31

Spinoffs only, Dear.

300 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 3:57:38am

re: #296 Sharmuta

To tell the truth, FBV- I was skeptical of that tape's existence because I never forgot larry was a two faced jerk.

A bunch of Lizards were skeptical. A bunch were giddy in anticipation.

301 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 3:59:52am

11k away from the 6 millionth...today!

302 NC State of Mind  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 4:00:16am

re: #300 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

A bunch of Lizards were skeptical.

Good morning. Speaking of being skeptical, was anything else ever said about the Utah state senator who supposedly knew Ton Rezko was about to spill the beans on Obama and national security violations?

303 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 4:00:28am

re: #298 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I have a new shade of lipstick- Buff Bunny. ;)

304 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 4:01:07am

re: #303 Sharmuta

I have a new shade of lipstick- Buff Bunny. ;)

Hope it hides those fangs!

305 TheMatrix31  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 4:02:24am

**sigh**

I just remembered that I have a weekly Tuesday night class that falls squarely during the debate.

Do I skip the second session of the class or just TiVo and catch up with you guys later? Hmm...

306 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 4:02:52am

re: #302 NC State of Mind

I didn't hear about that. Let's hope it happens and that Larry Johnson is not in the room (or in the building, city, state) when/if it drops.

307 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 4:03:57am

re: #305 TheMatrix31

I've had to TIVO and catch up. Works just as well for me.

308 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 4:05:31am

re: #302 NC State of Mind

That rumor's been persistent too. I think if you use the linkviewer, you'll find some spinoffs about it.

309 shiplord kirel  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 4:15:51am

Compensation demanded as commission finds that Democrats and media conspired to incite terrorism, overthrow democracy.

Not the real headline, needless to say, and the story omits a few pertinent facts about the 1898 Wilmington Insurrection.

Wilmington, then the largest city in the state, had a majority-black population, large number of black professionals and a strong, biracial Republican Party. A group of white supremacists, planning to reestablish the Democratic Party, led the insurgency. They killed twenty two blacks as well as white Republicans


The News & Observer {Note: the very Demo rag linked above} in Raleigh, run at the time by Josephus Daniels, remains today one of the largest papers in the state. There has also been discussion of participation by the Charlotte Observer.

Daniels, a noted racist, served as Secretary of the Navy in the Wilson administration:

Future U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt served as his Assistant Secretary of the Navy. In 1921 he resumed the editorship of the Raleigh News and Observer.

Secretary Daniels believed in government ownership of armorplate factories, and of telephones and telegraphs. At the end of the First World War he made a serious attempt to have the Navy control all radio transmitters in the United States. If he had succeed amateur radio would have ended, and it is likely that radio broadcasting would have been substantially delayed.


Like many "progressives" of the time, he championed white supremacy and considered segregation and further restrictions on blacks to be highly, well, progressive. See Jack London, for instance.

310 aboo-Hoo-Hoo  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 4:17:10am

re: #275 akak

Someone is going to put 2 + 2 together with respect to the high costs of oil and its role in turning what should have been a possibly deeper than normal cyclical slow-down into economic standstill with attendant fiasco...

...a point at which thang's might just get distinctly ugly.

For the more morbid, here's a link to current world market indices(Eurabia in this case) & futures.

And now for the good news:

...Now the next shoe is about to drop. The Washington Post reports that a federal judge in Washington may be about to order the Uighurs{ed: gitmo detainees} released into the United States — i.e., to dwell freely among our population. This is the very nightmare scenario I warned about.

So much for the US civil war Norman Podhoretz describes remaining all that civil.

311 Cap'n DOC  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 4:20:23am

(1) Problems with FF this AM - No border to the comments (Left and right margins), and there is no comment section, front page or previous post links and no bottom margin with back to top link.
(2) IE is slower than crap, including typing in a comment. Anybody else? This is even a rather short thread...

312 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 4:20:50am

By the way, it doesn't matter to me (it really does) if I get the 6 millionth comment or not. I really don't (I really do) care.

313 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 4:21:36am

re: #311 Cap'n DOC

go over to IE. I had to.

314 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 4:23:52am

Hello? Hello? (hellohellohellohello)

Echo! (echoechoechoecho)

Now batting (batting) for Manny Mota (motamota)...Pedro Barbone (barbonebarbone)

315 spynverzyon  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 4:25:06am

Democrat view on domestic politics:
- domestic terrorists who use literal fire bombs are okay;
- politicians who throw figurative "fire bombs" degrade our "national discussion."

Democrat view on foreign policy:
- literal bombs can never work, and military victory is meaningless;
- Iranian terror-masters who declare that Israel and her allies with "will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury" are just speaking figuratively, and should be engaged in "direct talks."

316 NC State of Mind  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 4:34:51am

re: #312 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

By the way, it doesn't matter to me (it really does) if I get the 6 millionth comment or not. I really don't (I really do) care.

At his rate you'll be waiting a long time to get your chance. :)

317 Pullus Iulius  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 4:35:45am

re: #308 Sharmuta

Thanks for posting the Firefox advisory on the spinoffs. FIrefox 2.0.0.17 is impossibly bollixed. The ads come through nicely, though. Could be a quiet morning.

318 Ford_Prefect  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 4:36:19am

Good Morning Lizards!

Anyone know what is up with Firefox? I tried to open a couple of larger threads, including this one, and only got part of the page.

319 Ford_Prefect  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 4:36:56am

OK. Maybe I should read upstream a bit.

320 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 4:38:51am

re: #316 NC State of Mind

At his rate you'll be waiting a long time to get your chance. :)

Ya think!?!?!

321 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 4:40:37am

hey, let's count the number of lizards who tell us something is wrong with firefox. Starting now (Ford? your safe, you don't count. Me neither, heh. I make the game, I make the rules!)

Who run Bartertown!?

322 Ford_Prefect  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 4:42:40am

re: #321 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I take it that has been a prime tlking point today. I hate IE though. Not happy about starting off the week this way.

How is everyone BTW?

323 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 4:45:51am

Firefox- yes, there is a problem. I tried to warn y'all with a spinoff thread about it, and if you read upthread you'll see it's pretty widespread.

Poor Charles and Stinky.

324 NC State of Mind  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 4:47:50am

re: #322 Ford_Prefect

How is everyone BTW?

Hey Ford, how ya' doin? This was the first weekend in a while when I didn't watch any news of any kind. I've been trying to keep optimistic, but the one sidedness of all of the coverage has me despondent. For God knows what reasons, I always watched a Tivo'ed Real Time with Bill Maher on Saturday mornings. I could not even watch it. You had Alec Baldwin up there claiming all Republicans are professional liars all the time and also doing facial impersonations of Sarah Palin.

Professional liars? Damn! Where is everybody when Joe Biden claims America and France kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon. France threatened to blow Israeli planes out of the sky for violating Lebanese airspace.. If Palin had said this their would be calls for her to step down from the freaking governorship!

325 Ford_Prefect  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 4:51:29am

re: #324 NC State of Mind

Easy NC. Step away from the ledge. It is too early on a Monday morning to be so riled up. At least wait until your third or fourth cup of coffee.

326 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 4:52:16am

*Sigh* I even tried to warn people on the thread downstairs.

327 alien_mind  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 4:52:58am

okay so McCain/Palin starts hitting Obama on Ayers, and the Obamatrons
respond that McCain is desperate, throwing a hail-mary pass, doesn't want to talk about economy, or health care, or issues that matter to the middle class, blah, blah, blah.
two days later? well as gomer would say, surprise, surprise,surprise.
Obama to roll out an offensive against McCain on the Keating Five scandal.
you know, the scandal that McCain was exonerated of any wrongdoing on.

328 Typicalwhitey  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 4:53:03am

I keep seeing where Obamas excuse for hanging out with Ayers is "he was only 8 years old " when it happened.

Since when is there a time limit for which a terrorist is considered good company?

329 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 4:55:54am

re: #328 Typicalwhitey

I keep seeing where Obamas excuse for hanging out with Ayers is "he was only 8 years old " when it happened.


Obama was hanging out with Ayers when he was only 8 years old?

330 NC State of Mind  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 4:56:35am

re: #327 alien_mind


And this add by the California nurses group is the most despicable thing I've ever seen.

re: #325 Ford_Prefect

As long as I don't watch, I'll be ok.

331 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 4:58:22am

re: #328 Typicalwhitey

I keep seeing where Obamas excuse for hanging out with Ayers is "he was only 8 years old " when it happened.

Since when is there a time limit for which a terrorist is considered good company?

Darling- didn't you know?! In like 30 years- it will be the hip thing to hang with osama.

332 Ford_Prefect  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:00:02am

re: #331 Sharmuta

Darling- didn't you know?! In like 30 years- it will be the hip thing to hang with osama.

It's going to be hip to hang out in cemeteries?

333 Beach Lover  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:02:27am

using IE here, so for once I'm OK.

had to show a link here that speaks to the Obama associations.

What is the Significance of Obama's Ties to Ayers (and Wright?): Here's my take: Obama is an extremely ambitious man. He's been interested in a national political career for many years. It's not that surprising that he wouldn't find Ayers and Wright objectionable company--in the very liberal, Hyde Park/Ivy League circles that he's traveled in since attending Columbia, people with such views are more mainstream than, say, the average conservative evangelical Christian. That itself makes Obama far more liberal than the image his campaign attempts to portray.

But what is interesting to me is that not only did Obama not personally find anything especially obnoxious about Wright's radicalism, anti-Americanism, ties to Farrakahn, and so on, or Ayers' lack of regret for his terrorist past, he apparently didn't expect that much of anyone else would care, either. How else do you explain why he didn't jettison these individuals from his life before they could damage his presidential ambitions? How else do you explain how his campaign seemed to be caught flatfooted when Obama's ties to Wright and then Ayers became campaign issues? And, perhaps most tellingly, how else do you explain that when Obama was asked in a debate with Clinton about his ties to Ayers, he analogized his friendship with Ayers to his friendship with Senator Tom Coburn, as if being friends with a very conservative senatorial colleague is somehow analogous with being friends with an unrepentant extreme leftist domestic terrorist?

In short, Obama's ties to Ayers and Wright suggest to me NOT that Obama agrees with their views, but that he is the product of a particular intellectual culture that finds the likes of Wright and Ayers to be no more objectionable, and likely less so, than the likes of Tom Coburn, or, perhaps, a Rush Limbaugh. Not only that, but he has been in his particular intellectual bubble so long that he was unable to recognize just how offensive the views of a Wright are to mainstream America, or how his ties to Ayers would play with the public, especially post-9/11.

334 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:05:05am

Heh. Hang out in cemeteries. Ha.

Like he'll be in a cemetery. I'm hoping he's sealed in a collapsed cave that ran out of air veeeeery slowly.

335 pingjockey  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:08:34am

Mornin' all. FNC just slammed the msm for "taking a pass" on obambis past. No shit, Sherlock.

336 rednaxela  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:10:03am

These chickens will come home to roost soon.

The MSM obvioulsy doesn't realize it, but the fact that information is scarce and that it is confused is actually helping McCain/Palin here, because on people will want to know whats what before long.

McCain/Palin have got to run with it and not let if cool off. Keep pounding Barry on his associations until he comes clean.

The O'Reilly interview might come in handy too because in it, Barry dismisses the whole Ayers episode as "I know thousands of people". Good material for an ad.

337 pingjockey  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:10:57am

You are known by the company you keep.

338 Sharmuta  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:11:34am

I think I'll see you guys later. I'm getting frustrated that my posts trying to help folks with this Firefox thing are not being read or something. Have fun with IE, kids.

339 Ford_Prefect  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:14:30am

re: #338 Sharmuta

I think I'll see you guys later. I'm getting frustrated that my posts trying to help folks with this Firefox thing are not being read or something. Have fun with IE, kids.

Thanks for trying Sharm. Unfortunately some of us are computer challanged. If a problem goes beyond "turn it off, wait ten seconds, turn it back on" I'm more inclined to go buy a new computer.

340 NC State of Mind  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:14:46am

re: #336 rednaxela

The O'Reilly interview might come in handy too because in it, Barry dismisses the whole Ayers episode as "I know thousands of people". Good material for an ad.

Scary to imagine how many of them have terrorist connections as well and this asshole doesn't care.

341 alien_mind  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:15:47am

re: #330 NC State of Mind

And this add by the California nurses group is the most despicable thing I've ever seen.

re: #325 Ford_Prefect

As long as I don't watch, I'll be ok.

there are no words that i can immediately come up with to describe that steaming pile.

342 MandyManners  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:16:22am

re: #339 Ford_Prefect

Thanks for trying Sharm. Unfortunately some of us are computer challanged. If a problem goes beyond "turn it off, wait ten seconds, turn it back on" I'm more inclined to go buy a new computer.

SHOOT YER COMPUTER.

343 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:17:28am

re: #342 MandyManners

SHOOT YER COMPUTER.

MANDY! 6 MILLION COMES TODAY! WILL IT BE YOU (I hope it's me).

344 Beach Lover  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:17:53am

re: #335 pingjockey

Mornin' all. FNC just slammed the msm for "taking a pass" on obambis past. No shit, Sherlock.


McCain has to know they would try this tactic. To say he say he would rather talk about this than the real problem ....the economy. Clinton did it for 2 yrs..."I need to get back to work for the American public"...yada, yada, yada.

McCain better be fired up to blast Obama on ALL fronts. Bring up Ayers, et al, then B Frank & F.Raines, and the dems (economy), then lack of experience, not supportive of military. Commitment of taking public campaign funds...where is it coming from now...then voter registration (ACORN).

There's no topic that McCain can't pin him on. He just has to do it!

345 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:18:40am

re: #344 Beach Lover

psst. amen corner, right over here.

346 pingjockey  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:20:16am

re: #344 Beach Lover
Yep. No prisoners! Press on all fronts.

347 pingjockey  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:22:08am

re: #343 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
6 million, wow. I should hit 10k posts this week. I am a blabber mouth!

348 pittrader1988  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:22:15am

re: #13 Miss Molly

Ayers has babysat the Obama children. Ayers father was instrumental in getting Barack a position at Sidley Austin as a summer intern.

349 Pawn of the Oppressor  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:22:32am

re: #280 TheMatrix31

On another message board, I made a post regarding Ayers and Obama and how they're connected. I told this guy to research Dorhn, Ayers, and Obama. This is what the moron responded to me with.....

----------
"Dohrn & Ayers - Obama's connection to Ayers has nothing to do with Ayers' radical and violent acts. Ayers and Obama have worked together to help further education. Obama, being a senator from Illinois, and Ayers, being a senior professor at the University of Illinois, are both in positions that would work together in most instances to further that cause. They are not serving on boards of bombing buildings. Ayers (and Dohrn) are both very respected educators at very prestigous universities, and thus, as a senator from that state Obama is likely to have to work with them on certain issues being that they are prominant education figures in Chicago. It's not like these guys are buddies. We should hold Obama accountable for everyone he's worked with in his life? Just because you work with someone doesn't mean you agree with all of their beliefs.

So yeah, I think saying that he served on boards for different orginizations with these indviduals means he's in league with terrorists is blowing it way out of proportion."
-------

I give up, dude.

In summary

1. The ends justify the means.
2. They're wrong, but they really care, man!
3. Shut up.

Lovely.

350 Beach Lover  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:24:10am

re: #347 pingjockey

6 million, wow. I should hit 10k posts this week. I am a blabber mouth!


well, I didn't want to say anything, but
;-)

351 Pawn of the Oppressor  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:24:22am

re: #337 pingjockey

You are known by the company you keep.

We Enlightened Humans have long since abandoned any such Dead White Male Christofascist Imperialistic Hegemonic ideas about society and culture. You need to stop seeing things in, like, black and white, you know? Life is totally made up of shades of gray.

/The Excuse

352 pingjockey  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:24:37am

re: #350 Beach Lover
Heh!

353 pingjockey  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:26:48am

re: #351 Pawn of the Oppressor
Ah, but see me being me, and being raised out here in the wilds of eastern Wa. state, I do see things in black and white, good and bad. Those asshats can take their moral equivelance and stuff it up their asses!

354 Beach Lover  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:31:25am

ya know, it really irks me after all this is over, no matter who loses, they go back to being a Senator and job sercurity and pay as usual. "Gee, I spent millions of $$, and tried", but back to work.
And where are we?

I think we need to make them give up their seat in congress if they run for president. Of course, I think term limits would solve a lot of problems, but who's gonna fight for that one?

355 Killgore Trout  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:32:59am

The man in a priceless castle in downtown Rome says money stinks......
Pope: financial crisis shows futility of money

Will he be giving his money away?

356 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:33:44am

re: #355 Killgore Trout

The man in a priceless castle in downtown Rome says money stinks......
Pope: financial crisis shows futility of money

Will he be giving his money away?

That's why it's easy KT. IT AIN'T HIS!

357 Killgore Trout  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:33:48am

The Dali Lama doesn't fly coach.
/just to be fair.

358 pingjockey  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:34:55am

re: #355 Killgore Trout
Ah, as far as I know, the Pope doesn't have any money. OTOH, the Church has a pile. IIRC, the Catholic church does 'give' a ton away in the form of charities and such.

359 Ford_Prefect  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:35:35am

re: #356 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

That's why it's easy KT. IT AIN'T HIS!

Doesn't stop the Dem's from keeping it.

360 pingjockey  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:36:27am

re: #359 Ford_Prefect
"We're going to take things away from you for the common good".

361 NC State of Mind  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:37:20am

re: #355 Killgore Trout

He's trying to have a Thomas Aquanis moment:

Thomas Aquinas once visited Pope Innocent II and the Pope showed Thomas the abundance of funds in the church treasury, the works of art, the extravagant decorations and ornaments in the chapel.
"You see, Thomas," said the Pope, "the church can no longer say, ‘Silver and gold have I none.’ "
"True," Thomas replied, "but neither can she now say, ‘Rise and walk.’ "

362 NC State of Mind  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:38:44am

re: #360 pingjockey

"We're going to take things away from you for the common good".

"[t]he truth is, most Americans don't want much. Folks don't want the whole pie. ... The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and revamped education system then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so someone else can have more." ~WAB

363 pingjockey  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:39:19am

Y'all see the video of the bear visiting the Subway store?

364 pingjockey  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:40:08am

re: #362 NC State of Mind
Let's see how loud she would howl if we took her slice of the pie!

365 Killgore Trout  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:41:25am

re: #356 Fat Bastard Vegetarian


The Curch has as much moral authority to preach the nobility of poverty as the Queen of England.

366 Miss Trixie  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:41:44am

&#9834 &#9836 Good morning {lizards!} &#9836 &#9834

We've a loverly Autumn day in the valley with lots of sinshine and boyhowdy it's pretty outside.

:D

367 rednaxela  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:41:46am

Re: 6 million posts.

If Charles had actually got the proverbial 0.02¢ for every post at LGF, he'd still only have as much money as Barry has gotten in the form of pork dollars for every 2.8 hours that he has been a member of the Senate.

Think about it.

368 doriangrey  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:45:06am

Good morning Lizards. Well FF is not working for me this morning.... wonder what's up with that?

369 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:45:48am

re: #365 Killgore Trout

I wasn't saying they did. Just saying the money did not belong to the Pope. Though he does have a pretty big say on how it's spent (I guess).

That's all.

370 Wishing  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:45:59am

Oil is down to 89/barrel..amazing.

371 pingjockey  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:46:20am

re: #368 doriangrey
Your damn mind control device is screwing with the Lizard transmission system! Mornin' DG. How's your mouth?

372 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:46:35am

re: #368 doriangrey

Ain't working for LGF for anybody. It's cool. Charles will kick the problems ass when he wakes up.

373 Miss Trixie  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:46:45am

re: #368 doriangrey

Good morning Lizards. Well FF is not working for me this morning.... wonder what's up with that?

Morning!

No idea - I'm technologically-challenged in the worst way.

374 doriangrey  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:47:33am

re: #371 pingjockey

Your damn mind control device is screwing with the Lizard transmission system! Mornin' DG. How's your mouth?

My mouth hurts worse than it has yet. Really sucks to be exact.

375 doriangrey  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:48:07am

re: #372 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Ain't working for LGF for anybody. It's cool. Charles will kick the problems ass when he wakes up.

Damn it... I told Charles not to wrap the servers in tin foil..... ;)

376 Killgore Trout  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:48:09am

re: #369 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

If the Pope did try to give it all to the poor they'd lock him up in a loony bin.

377 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:48:26am

Hey KT, the other thing I was saying was meant to punch the Dems in the snout a bit too.

It is easy to talk about giving more, when I am talking about you giving more.

378 NR Pax  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:48:33am

re: #106 SurferDoc

I have a simple question: How could any decent American meet Bill Ayers and not punch him in the mouth?

Might have something to do with being a "decent American" and not wanting to go to jail no matter how justified.

379 pingjockey  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:48:43am

re: #374 doriangrey
Damn. Sorry dude. Jerry Doyle on FNC now. Didn't know he had a radio show.

380 Killgore Trout  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:49:38am

re: #377 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Obama's meager charitable contributions are proof. Poverty is only noble for us, not them.

381 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:49:49am

re: #376 Killgore Trout

If the Pope did try to give it all to the poor they'd lock him up in a loony bin.

Anthony Quinn movie, "The Shoes of the Fisherman" (IIRC) he does just that. But the movie ends before the Cardinals impeach his ass!

382 doriangrey  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:49:54am

re: #379 pingjockey

Damn. Sorry dude. Jerry Doyle on FNC now. Didn't know he had a radio show.

Yup, I've heard him a couple of time... He is definitely a kick ass and take names kind of guy.

383 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:50:54am

re: #379 pingjockey

Damn. Sorry dude. Jerry Doyle on FNC now. Didn't know he had a radio show.

Jerry has a GREAT! radio show. Used to be on Sirius. Not any more. Spencer Hughes does (what?), yeah.

384 pingjockey  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:50:57am

re: #382 doriangrey
Out here in the boonies we get Rush and Michael Medved and that is it! :(

385 pingjockey  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:51:54am

re: #383 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Don't know Spencer Hughes. Doyle was on Babylon 5.

386 doriangrey  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:52:08am

re: #373 Miss Trixie

Morning!

No idea - I'm technologically-challenged in the worst way.

I'm normally pretty savvy, but just don't have time in the mornings. Thank god I have more than one browser (using Safari right now)

387 A Typical Patriot  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:52:50am

For you Hussein O supporters: If John McCain had the radical friends that BHO has would you vote for him? This would be reason why you would not vote for him, right?
BTW if the economy is in the tank why would anybody vote for somebody who is going to take at least 25% more of your paycheck in taxes?

388 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:53:03am

re: #385 pingjockey

Spencer's a nice guy on "Fox News Talk". Jerry (while an actor) is a smart, sharp, keen witted MOfo who ain't there anymore.

389 HoosierHoops  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:53:04am

re: #382 doriangrey

Yup, I've heard him a couple of time... He is definitely a kick ass and take names kind of guy.


Good Morning Dorian.. I'm sucking down coffee faster than Marion Jones on Steriods.. Wanna cup?

390 doriangrey  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:53:14am

re: #384 pingjockey

Out here in the boonies we get Rush and Michael Medved and that is it! :(

Yes, living out in the boonies does have one or two disadvantages...

391 NC State of Mind  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:53:24am

re: #384 pingjockey

Out here in the boonies we get Rush and Michael Medved and that is it! :(

Buy a Sirius sat radio. Please, my stock is tanking!

392 doriangrey  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:53:51am

re: #389 HoosierHoops

Good Morning Dorian.. I'm sucking down coffee faster than Marion Jones on Steriods.. Wanna cup?

Please and thank you...

393 doriangrey  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:54:48am

re: #391 NC State of Mind

Buy a Sirius sat radio. Please, my stock is tanking!

My nephew has XM, thats close enough right?

394 doriangrey  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:55:59am

re: #389 HoosierHoops

Good Morning Dorian.. I'm sucking down coffee faster than Marion Jones on Steriods.. Wanna cup?

Oh and you do realize that my idea of "a" cup of coffee is 64oz, right?

395 kcladderman  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:56:33am

re: #368 doriangrey

Its not working for me either

396 NC State of Mind  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:56:47am

re: #393 doriangrey

Yes. Bless him!

397 doriangrey  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:57:42am

re: #395 kcladderman

Its not working for me either

It's probably something as mundane as a comma in the wrong place in Charles newest script.

398 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:58:17am

If John McCain pulls the picture of Ayers standing on an American Flag unfolds it, and shows it to the camera, as he is asking Obama about it, would that help him?

399 scottishbuzzsaw  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:58:22am

re: #394 doriangrey

Oh and you do realize that my idea of "a" cup of coffee is 64oz, right?

*bitterly clinging to coffee pot*

400 doriangrey  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:58:25am

re: #396 NC State of Mind

Yes. Bless him!

Now I just have to get him to let me use it in my car...

401 kcladderman  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:58:45am

re: #391 NC State of Mind

Buy a Sirius sat radio. Please, my stock is tanking!


I am planing on getting one this week. I'll tell them you sent me.

402 CIA Reject  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:59:51am

re: #387 A Typical Patriot

For you Hussein O supporters: If John McCain had the radical friends that BHO has would you vote for him? This would be reason why you would not vote for him, right?
BTW if the economy is in the tank why would anybody vote for somebody who is going to take at least 25% more of your paycheck in taxes?

If John McCain had served on a charity board with Eric Rudolph the MSM would scream so loud and so constantly that you would not be able to hear yourself think. But BO has his political career launched by an admitted and unrepentant terrorist and they are mute.

Go figure.

403 doriangrey  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 5:59:57am

re: #399 scottishbuzzsaw

*bitterly clinging to coffee pot*

ROTFLMAO... You're about as bitter as a cadbury chocolate egg... Morning sweetie pie...

404 realwest  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 6:01:25am

Good morning all y'all - from a pleasant (54 degrees going up to 81 degrees) bright and sunny Charlotte!
How is everyone doing this morning?

405 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 6:01:32am

re: #403 doriangrey

ROTFLMAO... You're about as bitter as a cadbury chocolate egg... Morning sweetie pie...

Would you two get a room?

406 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 6:02:40am

Sarah looks really nice in white.

humminah humminah

407 doriangrey  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 6:02:57am

re: #402 CIA Reject

If John McCain had served on a charity board with Eric Rudolph the MSM would scream so loud and so constantly that you would not be able to hear yourself think. But BO has his political career launched by an admitted and unrepentant terrorist and they are mute.

Go figure.

The MSM is not mute... They are doing everything in their power to run interference for the messiah. His values are their values. They have already sold their souls to stan, and Barach is Stan's main man. So there is no lie to big that they will not gleefully embrace it to further their man Stan's main man.

408 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 6:03:23am

re: #406 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Sarah looks really nice in white.

humminah humminah


(FNC) about to speak.

Maverick! (drink)

409 realwest  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 6:03:27am

Hey have any of y'all seen 3 wood yet this morning?
He e-mailed me that he was having difficulty getting LGF to operate correctly and I told him to refresh the page he was getting cause of the changes Charles put in place late last night.

410 scottishbuzzsaw  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 6:03:32am

re: #403 doriangrey

ROTFLMAO... You're about as bitter as a cadbury chocolate egg... Morning sweetie pie...

Shhhh...don't tell anyone.

Good morning, luv...sorry to hear your pain is worse...just a quick drive-by...family matters to attend...somebody just shoot me now...pity since the thread is actually going slowly enough for me to keep up...hope you have a great day and feel better soon, dorian.

411 NC State of Mind  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 6:03:35am

re: #398 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

If John McCain pulls the picture of Ayers standing on an American Flag unfolds it, and shows it to the camera, as he is asking Obama about it, would that help him?

I hope that it would, but who knows? ploome had a great post the other day about how we just aren't teaching the younger generation to be patriotic and what it means to be so. On Fox last year they interviewed New Yorkers, young ones, asking them what they owed their country. Upwards of 80% said they owed America nothing. Upwards of about 30% said it owed them.

Do kids even say the pledge in the mornings at school anymore?

412 doriangrey  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 6:03:39am

re: #404 realwest

Good morning all y'all - from a pleasant (54 degrees going up to 81 degrees) bright and sunny Charlotte!
How is everyone doing this morning?

Good morning realwest. I hope you are feeling well this morning.

413 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 6:04:10am

re: #409 realwest

tell him to use IE...FF is broke.

414 doriangrey  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 6:05:08am

re: #409 realwest

Hey have any of y'all seen 3 wood yet this morning?
He e-mailed me that he was having difficulty getting LGF to operate correctly and I told him to refresh the page he was getting cause of the changes Charles put in place late last night.

Seems everybody is having those problems this morning. I had to switch to Safari in order to post this morning.

415 realwest  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 6:05:28am

re: #412 doriangrey
Hi dorian - I'm feeling ok I reckon - I notice from scottishbuzzsaw's drive by post (#410) that your not?!

416 HoosierHoops  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 6:05:33am

re: #399 scottishbuzzsaw

*bitterly clinging to coffee pot*

Good Morning Scottish.. How are you doing today?

417 DeafDog  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 6:06:45am

re: #370 Wishing

Oil is down to 89/barrel..amazing.

When the price at the pump starts falling, I'll feel good about it. Until then, it's just a number.

418 scottishbuzzsaw  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 6:07:26am

re: #416 HoosierHoops

Good Morning Scottish.. How are you doing today?

Doing okay, HH...finishing a cup of coffee with y'all before I head out...how are you today?

419 HoosierHoops  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 6:07:32am

re: #409 realwest

Hey have any of y'all seen 3 wood yet this morning?
He e-mailed me that he was having difficulty getting LGF to operate correctly and I told him to refresh the page he was getting cause of the changes Charles put in place late last night.

Haven't seen him this morning.. good Morning Realwest..
It's going up to 80 today and it's Oct.
It's global warming wonderful?
/Heh

420 Cap'n DOC  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 6:08:07am

re: #365 Killgore Trout

You are full of crap. Find another horse to ride, Killgore.

421 HoosierHoops  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 6:08:19am

re: #418 scottishbuzzsaw

Doing okay, HH...finishing a cup of coffee with y'all before I head out...how are you today?

Well you have a wonderful day.. I'm thinking of going golfing this afternoon.

422 doriangrey  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 6:08:49am

re: #415 realwest

Hi dorian - I'm feeling ok I reckon - I notice from scottishbuzzsaw's drive by post (#410) that your not?!

Nope, afraid not, the dentures are absolutely killing me this morning. They are so damned bad I had to put an oral anesthetic on my gum's and the dentures to get them in this morning. Obviously I am going to have to go see my dentist about this.

423 Ford_Prefect  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 6:09:13am

FBV - you mentioned that we will hit 6 mil today, but looking at the statistics I see that we are still almost 14,000 away. Yesterday there were less than 4,500 comments. Are weekdays that much bigger?

424 ArmyWife  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 6:10:26am

This should help Obama and his denial of knowing this guy and besides he was just 8: [Link: chronicle.uchicago.edu...]

425 CIA Reject  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 6:10:40am

Good morning everybody!

I haven't had a chance to check out any real news yet this morning, but from my little masochistic hobby of divining the news from what NPR (Naked Propaganda Radio) does NOT report I'm fairly confident that the Ayers story is gaining some traction and that McCain is closing in the polls - am I right?

BTW, in case anybody is wondering how I came to that conclusion this morning's top stories on NPR were:

1) A story on the Nobel Prize winners in medicine

2) An overly drawn out analysis of the Wachovia bank buy-out.

3) A re-hash of last weeks news

Not ONE WORD about the election, the candidates, or the campaigns which I take to mean that there has been good news for McCain and bad news for BO.

426 Killgore Trout  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 6:10:44am

Speaking of poverty: I just logged into my stock portfolio for the first time in a month. Ouch!

427 doriangrey  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 6:10:55am

re: #417 DeafDog

When the price at the pump starts falling, I'll feel good about it. Until then, it's just a number.

Couldn't have said it better myself. Hell crude oil could be being given away for free and unless gasoline came down significantly it really wouldn't matter one damned bit.

428 realwest  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 6:11:04am

re: #418 scottishbuzzsaw
Hey hi there! I thought you'd posted that your post (#410) was a drive-by as you had family matters to attend to! I'm sorry I misunderstood and hope you are well as is your family!

429 Killgore Trout  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 6:11:23am

re: #420 Cap'n DOC

Maybe your holy man will preach to us about the evils of buggering children next.

430 scottishbuzzsaw  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 6:12:21am

re: #428 realwest

Hey hi there! I thought you'd posted that your post (#410) was a drive-by as you had family matters to attend to! I'm sorry I misunderstood and hope you are well as is your family!

Thanks, real...now I'm off...have a great day.

431 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Oct 6, 2008 6:12:55am