Should really upgrade the PalmPilot one of these days...

I want a Me-phone!

I'm waiting for the mePhone.

Sigh. Two more reasons to drool.

d'oh

Is there anything an iphone can't do?

PHILLIES!

Charles, I know the site is being hit hard due to interest as the election approaches, but it is all this traffic legitimate? It would be in the Socialists favor to down this site in hopes of obtaining an Obama victory....

re: #3 HelloDare

I'm waiting for the mePhone.

Beat you by '' that much!

The lady on Deal or No Seal just won a million dollars.

Lady- 0bama's coming for you.

re: #10 Sharmuta

The lady on Deal or No Seal just won a million dollars.

Lady- 0bama's coming for you.

Is the Seal PETA-approved? : )

I'm going to wait a few months till they iron out the kinks. The GPS on my iWaffleIron is giving me problems.

Yeah, these two are cool, but I'm waiting for the LGF Lizard-Reader app...

Jamie Irons

I am very happy with my communication network, thank you very much.

re: #6 Sharmuta

Is there anything an iphone can't do?

It vibrates, so I guess the answer is, "No."

re: #15 HelloDare

It vibrates, so I guess the answer is, "No."

LOL!

re: #15 HelloDare

It vibrates, so I guess the answer is, "No."

Gives the old Ad slogan "Reach out and touch someone" a whole new meaning.

Soon we'll all have an oPhone -- implanted!

/i hope...

Perfect timing.

I need a new cell phone ( currently using a motorola razor)

I'd say I'd use the internet once ot twice per week from my phone. Not a priority for me, but nice to have. I don't feel like spending a fortune for a phone since half the time I can't find it

Would it be worth it to get an iPhone, or are there better options?

I love my iPod and shuffle

Sure enough, even the "journalists" on Fox News are now closing ranks to defend the Los Angeles Times.

The entire media establishment is corrupt.

Almost enough to persuade me to return to CONUS...

/depending on the outcome of 4-11-2008

re: #20 Charles

I don't have Fox, what are they saying?

re: #6 Sharmuta

Is there anything an iphone can't do?

Yes. I work out in the boonies. The iPhone network doesn't reach there. If it did, I'd own one.

Did you say 'free'?

Neato.

Best function of an iPhone.

Rush Limbaugh's "response" to The One™'s propaganda bullshit.

More cowbell.

If there were some national secrets on that Khalidi video, it would have been on YouTube in April.

"journalists 'close ranks'"?

Citizens make a bigger stink, a bigger noise! Indignation rampant!

RELEASE the VIDEO!

re: #27 rawmuse

More cowbell.

Enough to drown out The One.

Bernie Goldberg is the only one I've seen who's even raised the issue of whether the LA Times is telling the truth when they say they promised their source not to release the tape.

I'm not going to mince words. I think they're lying. It took them 3 days to come up with that excuse, and they floated several other excuses before it.

If you had a personal acquaintance who told contradictory stories like this about an incident they were involved in, would you believe them?

Anyone notice The American Flag now appears with The One much more often. The camera will get is, even if they shoot form a odd angle.

re: #20 Charles
They see the writing on the wall. Government run TV. Courtesy of Obama and friends.

The media is rigorously partisan.

But we've had this 'veil of neutrality' sold to us.

re: #31 Charles

Lies are just tools. Any means to an end, got to break some eggs to make and omelette, all in service of the "greater good", blah, blah, blah.

re: #28 HelloDare

If there were some national secrets on that Khalidi video, it would have been on YouTube in April.

No. You'd get a free copy with every subscription.

re: #31 Charles

Reminds me of Christmas in Cambodia.

Hey, I'm spamming myself here.

Can you imagine what the contents are? I keep thinking of damning dialogue over and over again...

If the tape is totally innocuous, they'd have no problem releasing it.

They have a problem releasing it because it's "sensitive" and could hurt Obama and/or the leaker.

It has nothing to do with promises or integrity. It has everything to do with cost/benefit.

re: #31 Charles

Bernie Goldberg is the only one I've seen who's even raised the issue of whether the LA Times is telling the truth when they say they promised their source not to release the tape.

I'm not going to mince words. I think they're lying. It took them 3 days to come up with that excuse, and they floated several other excuses before it.

If you had a personal acquaintance who told contradictory stories like this about an incident they were involved in, would you believe them?

That about nails it, I'm afraid.

iPhone News?

Does this mean that long LGF threads won't crash Safari anymore?

re: #31 Charles

Bernie Goldberg is the only one I've seen who's even raised the issue of whether the LA Times is telling the truth when they say they promised their source not to release the tape.

I'm not going to mince words. I think they're lying. It took them 3 days to come up with that excuse, and they floated several other excuses before it.

If you had a personal acquaintance who told contradictory stories like this about an incident they were involved in, would you believe them?

Think of the implications of this vis a vis Israel:

The individual who "leaked" this to the LAT but did so conditionally now has a major stick that he can hold over Obama.

If Obama makes the "wrong" moves regarding what the PLO wants, the video can be published with or without the LA Times - other copies must exist.

Think about it - Obama is now black mailed by the PLO.

re: #39 WriterMom

I'm betting there's footage of anti-Israel speeches with Obama there, nodding, smiling, smoking, and drinking.

re: #31 Charles

Charles, the National Post has picked up the story here in Canada.

re: #44 godfrey

I picture them smoking a hookah, wearing keffiyahs and ululating to chants of 'death to Israel'. LOL.

Obama's 'Civilian National Security Force'

Gotta have someone to enforce all the new 'hate crime' laws to come.

Is this thing on?

re: #34 experiencedtraveller

The media is rigorously partisan.

But we've had this 'veil of neutrality' sold to us.

It would be nice if they would just admit what they are so the American people can decide if that's what they want to support with their time and money.

But then again- with readership and ratings down, it looks like the American people have already decided.

re: #48 Killgore Trout

Is this thing on?

No.

re: #48 Killgore Trout

Is this thing on?

No.

re: #44 godfrey

I'm guessing it's footage of Obama and Ayers yucking it up together.

Heh.

re: #50 karmic_inquisitor

GMTA!

The blackmail angle is interesting and stands to reason. Once you're in with that crowd, it must be like being pwned by the mafia.

An apostate Muslim being blackmailed by PLO types. There's a good situation for the POTUS to be in...

WM, nah, Obama will be there looking "thoughtful and grave" while the crazies give themselves leg tingles. Not that he's not tingling, himself. He's just good at presenting a front, as we know.

Something to ponder..

If Obama wasn't a politician, he couldn't get a security clearance from the FBI.

re: #52 Killgore Trout

He congratulates Khalidi for his work saying “Israel has no God-given right to occupy Palestine” plus there’s been “genocide against the Palestinian people by Israelis.”

This is the rumor, and it's damning.

This taxcutfacts.org commercial Nobama is running is complete bullshit- It claims the conservative Heritage Foudation supports the asshole's bullshit "tax cut" plan and they do not. They sent his campaign a letter asking them to remove the reference to Heritage and the asshole's campaign refused to.

You owe us a balance of twenty-three dollars and sixty-four cents. When may we expect payment?

What industry in its right mind would report its own corruption? It's against its own nature. We must become the new truth reporters and expose the lies and failings of the current "journalists" that are entrenched in the current media industry. It must be total revolt against what currently exists able to broadcast to the largest population possible. "CNN", "NBC", "ABC", "AP", etc must be removed from our minds and the minds of the common American as traditional and acceptable sources of reliable information. Their tentacles are deep and well-funded but exposing them will prove to be their end.

re: #52 Killgore Trout

lol

Ayers: Barack, dude, you are the bomb!
Obama: No ha ha ha, Bill, YOU are the bomb!
Ayers: (looking around nervously) Hey, easy there...
Obama: Oh. Right. Sorry.
(pause)
Obama: But you are the bomb, you know.
Ayers: No, you the bomb!
(they laugh)

I read this comment at another site:

Alexander Sozhenitsyn is an expert.

In his Gulag Archipelago, he explains that even "while they are dragging you away, you will tell yourself it is a mistake. I am innocent. They will let me go. " At what point, then, should one resist? When one's belt is taken away? When one is ordered to face into a corner? When one crosses the threshold of one's home?....

In a famous footnote on page 13 of my addition, he writes: "And how we burned in those camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive....Or if, during periods of mass arrests...people had not simple sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door...and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?

"If...If...We didn't love freedom enough... We submitted with pleasure! We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward."

Solzhenitsyn says, "Resistance should have begun right there, at that moment of the arrest itself. But it did not begin."

Of course, he is talking about Russia. Here the same thing would have a different style. For instance, in in the Soviet Union you were simply arrested. Here, if you ask one of the super patriot zombies whether you are being arrested, he will say you are not, but you must go along to the camp.

re: #58 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

That is nervy, no? I belong to Heritage. No way in hell they would endorse anything Obama said. They might even disagree that tomorrow is Thursday.

re: #58 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

Can they sue?

I would like to hear someone ask Obama if he were President would he ever invite his "neighbors" Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn into the White House.

re: #61 godfrey

HAHAHAHAHA

funny

Maybe Ayers and Obama did a comedy act.(Last time ayers tried that he really bombed )
'How do you get a one armed Judge out of a tree? With a bazooka"

/rimshot

and Khalidi was there dressed as the unknown comic, except he was wearing a balaclava

Rev. Wright will be invited to the Lincoln Bedroom.

On the q.t.

re: #55 godfrey

godfrey, if you want me to stick around, you are gonna have to stop putting The One, tingle and self-tingle in the same post.

If Obama were to be investigated by the FBI for a security clearance there would be more red flags than a May Day parade in Moscow.

re: #42 Dar ul Harb

iPhone News?

Does this mean that long LGF threads won't crash Safari anymore?

The only way to prevent iPhone Safari from crashing on long comment threads would be to install some kind of pagination system. It's a memory issue. The iPhone has limited memory and it gets unhappy when you exceed the limits.

Every time I raise the pagination issue, though, LGF readers get unhappy.

There's no doubt that paginating comments would make it more difficult to follow conversations, and introduce other kinds of continuity problems too. People would respond to something they saw on the first page, only to find out that it was a non-issue by the third page.

I'm still trying to imagine a pagination system that gets around the continuity issue, but it's a real conundrum.

re: #65 Mich-again

I would like to hear someone ask Obama if he were President would he ever invite his "neighbors" Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn into the White House.

"Hey, Billy, come over Thursday night. Have a blast."

Mrs. Avery just wants you to hang up.

re: #69 WriterMom

lol

I'm glad I didn't see The One's infomercial. It sounded like a major snooze. What a putz, to blow that kind of cash that way. At least come out and fire things up! For that kind of money, he should've been breathing fire and stomping out every hostile meme in the universe.

He didn't, so it's money wasted.

Which, of course, makes me really happy. Now if he would just go away, permanently.

/off to bed

From Instapundit...
What It Will Take to Build a Rightroots Movement

What will it take to turn this around? If you're a conservative blogger, the question you need to ask yourself is this. Is the main purpose of your blog to express your personal opinion? Or is its primary purpose to build political power for a cause? If you cannot answer yes to the latter, you're probably not going to be comfortable with making the changes necessary to make online conservatism a political force to be reckoned with.

This is not a criticism, but an observation. Most conservative blogs are still stuck in 2003....

Shall we become shills? What say you?

re: #71 Charles

Or, Apple could pump up the iPhone with LGF-ready RAM.

re: #76 godfrey

Or, Apple could pump up the iPhone with LGF-ready RAM.

iLizard

Well, somewhere else, anyway.

Leader dude of Puma is on Fox with Greta....

Greta interviewing a very excited PUMA. Dude is beaming.

re: #64 wolfie

Can they sue?

/I'm not a lawyer, nor did I stay at a Holiday Express last night, so I do not know. : )

re: #80 Mich-again

Greta interviewing a very excited PUMA. Dude is beaming.

YAR!

re: #70 Mich-again

Every military guy I talk to is worried and furious about the security clearance issue.

Check out the role of copper in South America in the 70s.

The demand for that lowly metal changed the face of a hemisphere.

re: #71 Charles

Have you thought about a bare bones version of LGF until after the election? Baybe temporarily ditching avatars and unnecessary graphics might help ease the load.

re: #71 Charles

I'm still trying to imagine a pagination system that gets around the continuity issue, but it's a real conundrum.

On the other hand, I don't think there's that much continuity in a thread of 800-1000 posts. No one goes back and forth that far.

re: #71 Charles

As one who has commented against pagination whenever it's been brought up I should probably tell you I've compromised a bit on that. Pages of 100-200 comments sits well with me. My biggest objection to pagination is based on the ease of scrolling through comments to follow other posters' conversations. But since the comment number is included in replies, a 100-comment pagination wouldn't be very inconvenient to deal with. Just my two cents.

What is a PUMA?

re: #83 godfrey

I hadn't really thought of that before. Is it being talked about much?

I've been using clusty.com as a search engine, typed in Khalidi just now, and the very first thing listed at the top of the page is:

"Sponsored Results
1. Obama and Khalidi Myth - Khalidi Doesn't Advise Barack Obama Barack Obama Fully Supports Israel. - Khalidi.FightTheSmears.com"

It not yet being 8:00 p.m. here in Calif., I suppose I can still catch the Obamamercial, but plan on avoiding it like the proverbial plague. My appreciation to those lizards with tough scales, who have watched it so I don't have to.

That "civilian national security force" is creeping me out. Just what is that supposed to be?

re: #77 Shug

LiZard.

8D

re: #81 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

/I'm not a lawyer, nor did I stay at a Holiday Express last night, so I do not know. : )

PIMF- Holiday Inn Express

re: #82 sharp_discernment

YAR!

Pirate talk is verboten.
/

Dita Beard?

re: #75 Killgore Trout

From Instapundit...
What It Will Take to Build a Rightroots Movement

Shall we become shills? What say you?

The question is really: "what is the purpose of blogs?"

I've never believed that my purpose is to shill for one party or another, and that isn't going to change. Patrick Ruffini is a dyed-in-the-wool Republican, so of course he thinks the purpose of blogs is to shill for the party.

I think the only way blogs will ever continue to be credible is if they stay above this crap, and criticize all sides as needed. Left-wing blogs stink because they're nothing more than mouthpieces for the Democratic party.

And I'll shut LGF down before I turn it into a right-wing clone of the Daily Kos.

Sorry, not interested in being that.

re: #20 Charles

Sure enough, even the "journalists" on Fox News are now closing ranks to defend the Los Angeles Times.

The entire media establishment is corrupt.

It is why I cancelled cable - I hesitated for a moment when I considered that I wouldn't be able to watch FOX - that moment passed when I considered that they gave a show to Huckabee the clown who engaged in class warfare to belittle Romney- and now the cable is gone.

re: #80 Mich-again

Greta interviewing a very excited PUMA. Dude is beaming.

Might have something to do with this.

re: #88 WriterMom

What is a PUMA?

Party Unity My Ass- Hillary supporters for McCain.

re: #85 Killgore Trout

Ooh-a little faster would be great. Things are still very slow and I keep getting the dreaded spinning ball all the time...

Lizards. I got an email from Matthew Mosky and I have sent him screen caps and evidence of Obama's loose standards. Here is his email to me. I also copied charles@littlegreenfootballs.com (I hope this is his email).

---

Thanks for your note, Mr. Hall. I would be interested in seeing evidence of the contribution you're describing.

-----James Hall wrote: -----

To: moskm@washpost.com
From: James Hall
Date: 10/29/2008 11:41AM
Subject: Message via washingtonpost.com: Obama credit fraud

James Hall sent the following message:

Obama's team is not scrutinizing contributions made after the fact either. My $5 donation to his campaign as Osama Bin Laden who resided in a cave in Waziristan, occupation Terrorist Leader was processed and applied to my account even though the address I supplied was completely wrong.

I have screen captures of this process and of my bank statement if you would like. Obama is accepting illicit funds for his campaign and if GOP candidate was involved in fraud like this, he would be arrested and thrown into jail. Please update your article, I can provide supporting evidence if you need.

Party Unity My Ass = Hillary Democrats

re: #75 Killgore Trout

From Instapundit...
What It Will Take to Build a Rightroots Movement

Shall we become shills? What say you?

I've thought about taking one for the team and getting my teacher's cert to start countering the agitprop spewed in the classroom. Even my nephew gets a load of it at his private Catholic school - real moonbat stuff.

But the thought of spending 15K and a year in those stupid classes with the lowest SAT and GPA bunch of leftards

Remember signing up back in my day. My mom was born in Liberia. Recruiting sargeant thought I said Libya. Got really strange when he asked me her nationality and I said Canadian. "Immigrated?" said he. Nope, always been a Canadian. "Dual Citizenship?" Eventually got him straightened out.

/Liberia had it in their constitution that Caucasians couldn't be citizens. Naturally devolved back on the parents nationality.

//Still caused a longer then normal security background check though.

Audio of Obama saying that the Founding Fathers had "blind spots" and the Constitution reflects the "fundamental flaw of this country that continues to this day."

re: #100 earthwirm

Did you want your name out here...maybe flag that.

re: #75 Killgore Trout

From Instapundit...
What It Will Take to Build a Rightroots Movement

Shall we become shills? What say you?

I think the approach is all wrong. The movement starts at the real grassroots level- the actual party in local areas, not on the net. If people are displeased with what they see from the party, change must come from boots on the ground. Republicans must get involved with the party- there is no shifting this onto blogs.

re: #97 Sharmuta

I visited a factory today where I used to work and even some of the rank and file I know were talking up McCain. And like a good salesman knows, once the customer decides to buy, stop talking. So I just nodded and kept quiet.

re: #98 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

thanks

re: #61 godfrey

lol

Ayers: Barack, dude, you are the bomb!
Obama: No ha ha ha, Bill, YOU are the bomb!
Ayers: (looking around nervously) Hey, easy there...
Obama: Oh. Right. Sorry.
(pause)
Obama: But you are the bomb, you know.
Ayers: No, you the bomb!
(they laugh)
Obama: I think about you, Bill...
Ayers: Yeah?
Obama: Yes... (softly) each time I start the car...

Obama and Ayers are Political Predators. They prey on the vulnerabilities of the ignorant masses who they themselves have enfeebled and demoralized.

Sick, disgusting Political Predators.

re: #108 WriterMom

thanks

No problem. That's why I get paid the big bucks! : )

re: #106 Sharmuta

I think the approach is all wrong. The movement starts at the real grassroots level- the actual party in local areas, not on the net. If people are displeased with what they see from the party, change must come from boots on the ground. Republicans must get involved with the party- there is no shifting this onto blogs.

I guess the progressive types have something to teach us after all.

re: #110 DistantThunder

They prey on the vulnerabilities of the ignorant masses

Thats pretty much the definition of demagogue.

re: #111 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

I'll make sure to mention it to my friend at the ZOG payroll department.

re: #95 Charles

I think the only way blogs will ever continue to be credible is if they stay above this crap, and criticize all sides as needed. Left-wing blogs stink because they're nothing more than mouthpieces for the Democratic party.

And I'll shut LGF down before I turn it into a right-wing clone of the Daily Kos.

Sorry, not interested in being that.

You're probably right. Although the polls are tightening, I'm still anticipating an Obama win and there's no telling how the Republicans are gong to react. Future Republican politics may not be some I'm interested in, I assume others might feel the same. It just doesn't make sense to ttry to turn "right wing" blogs into fundraising machines. Readership would evaporate pretty quickly.

re: #107 Mich-again

I met a young Joe the Plumber the other morning. There are more of us then we've been led to believe, and the same is true of the PUMAs.

re: #95 Charles

I LOVE YOU, CHARLES!

re: #117 MandyManners

What am I? Chopped LIVAH?

re: #103 BlueCanuck

Liberia had it in their constitution that Caucasians couldn't be citizens. Naturally devolved back on the parents nationality.

I never knew that.

If Obama wins, there's going to be a big push to get bloggers to sign onto becoming the Daily Right-Wing Kos. And there's going to be an even bigger push to get the GOP to become even more socially conservative, in the misguided belief that "lack of purity" is the reason for the loss.

And they're going to lose me if that happens, just like the Democrats lost me after 9/11.

re: #106 Sharmuta

I think the approach is all wrong. The movement starts at the real grassroots level- the actual party in local areas, not on the net. If people are displeased with what they see from the party, change must come from boots on the ground. Republicans must get involved with the party- there is no shifting this onto blogs.

It has to be information and education based not just opinion. Each individual has to become conversant in economic theories, and educational theories, and foreign policy theories and their strengths and weaknesses.

We need to read more of the political classics so we are literally on the same page. Most of us have been miseducated by the education system - and so a foundation of essential facts is paramount.

I think Charles is exactly right - forget the allegience to party - it has to be an allegiance to principle based on concrete evidence.

re: #114 WriterMom

I'll make sure to mention it to my friend at the ZOG payroll department.

What is ZOG?

re: #104 ciaospirit

Audio of Obama saying that the Founding Fathers had "blind spots" and the Constitution reflects the "fundamental flaw of this country that continues to this day."

WHAT?

re: #95 Charles

I think the only way blogs will ever continue to be credible is if they stay above this crap, and criticize all sides as needed.

Agreed wholeheartedly. To me the best strategy is keep spreading information and increase the knowledge base of the masses. KIP.

I was walking home alone last night, when behind me I heard " BUMP...
BUMP...BUMP..."

So I started walking faster. Looking over my shoulder, I saw this *CASKET* coming down the street after me! It was up on its edge and "walking" like a person would!

It got closer and closer, and the lid started clapping open and closed like it was trying to grab me! So I was *RUNNING* by now, and the thing was keeping up with me!

I got home, ran inside, and locked the door. The casket crashed through the wall! All the time that BUMP BUMP sound, and the occasional SNAP as the lid tried to bite me!

So I ran down the hall into the bathroom, closed and locked that door... and the casket CRASHED THROUGH THE DOOR!

Ok, I was praying to God, Jehovah, Buddah, Pharoh, Isis, EVERYBODY by that time. No where else to go, the casket between me and the door, and only a painted shut window behind me.

I was grabbing things and tossing them. A box of kleenex and rolls of toilet paper didn't hurt a bit. I finally grabbed this bottle of Cough Syrup, wound up like a baseball pitcher, and threw that. The bottle hit the casket and shattered! Cough syrup went everywhere!

And that is when the coffin stopped....

*HAPPY HALLOWEEN, LIZARDS!*

re: #123 MandyManners

WHAT?

There you have it. A major presidential nominee DIRECTLY TRASHING our beloved Constitution.

Someone give me a fucking barf bag.

re: #85 Killgore Trout

Have you thought about a bare bones version of LGF until after the election? Baybe temporarily ditching avatars and unnecessary graphics might help ease the load.

What, ditch our avatars? We take pride in our avatars. ;)

re: #121 DistantThunder

It has to be information and education based not just opinion. Each individual has to become conversant in economic theories, and educational theories, and foreign policy theories and their strengths and weaknesses.

We need to read more of the political classics so we are literally on the same page. Most of us have been miseducated by the education system - and so a foundation of essential facts is paramount.

I think Charles is exactly right - forget the allegience to party - it has to be an allegiance to principle based on concrete evidence.

But the way to bring this to other republicans where it matters is involvement in the party. We don't change the party and bring it back to principles by walking away from it.

re: #120 Charles

If Obama wins, there's going to be a big push to get bloggers to sign onto becoming the Daily Right-Wing Kos. And there's going to be an even bigger push to get the GOP to become even more socially conservative, in the misguided belief that "lack of purity" is the reason for the loss.

And they're going to lose me if that happens, just like the Democrats lost me after 9/11.

No.

And by the way, I'll probably get into trouble for saying this, but this is why I've had zero interest in appearing at CPAC or any of the other Republican events.

I don't trust any politicians, right or left. People who put their trust in politicians will get exactly what they deserve.

OT - There's a lesson in here somewhere about honesty, charity and true selflessness..........and it has nothing to do with Socialism.

re: #128 Sharmuta

But the way to bring this to other republicans where it matters is involvement in the party. We don't change the party and bring it back to principles by walking away from it.

Will the party let us in...will it seek us out...or will it try to dictate to us. Our collective IQ is greater than that of the party leaders. If John McCain wins, he will be the party leader - and then we've got serious challenges.

re: #130 Charles

And by the way, I'll probably get into trouble for saying this, but this is why I've had zero interest in appearing at CPAC or any of the other Republican events.

I don't trust any politicians, right or left. People who put their trust in politicians will get exactly what they deserve.

Amen!

re: #123 MandyManners

re: #104 ciaospirit

The full quote, as posted by an Obamaton.

/meaning, no editing but avoid the author's personal commentary if possible.

re: #130 Charles

And by the way, I'll probably get into trouble for saying this, but this is why I've had zero interest in appearing at CPAC or any of the other Republican events.

I don't trust any politicians, right or left. People who put their trust in politicians will get exactly what they deserve.

Exactly.

re: #120 Charles

If it isn't the Republicans attempt to be Democrats, while the Democrats run to be socialists, that would lose the election for McCain, what say you IS the problem?

re: #122 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

'zionist occupational government', what antisemites think runs the world..running joke here...

re: #130 Charles

And by the way, I'll probably get into trouble for saying this, but this is why I've had zero interest in appearing at CPAC or any of the other Republican events.

I don't trust any politicians, right or left. People who put their trust in politicians will get exactly what they deserve.

Yes indeed. I'd expand that to include the government at large. We certainly need a strong national government, for many reasons -- but there's no need for 'trust.'

Obama's narcissistic epic is on broadcast TV on the West coast.

30 minutes of this hurl fest?

ARRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!

re: #120 Charles

To me, anti-idiotarianism is about being loyal to facts, and logic, not to any particular Party.

re: #120 Charles

If Obama wins, there's going to be a big push to get bloggers to sign onto becoming the Daily Right-Wing Kos. And there's going to be an even bigger push to get the GOP to become even more socially conservative, in the misguided belief that "lack of purity" is the reason for the loss.

I really doubt that this will happen.

If Obama wins, I think the main feeling out there is going to be to make sure that we don't all go down with the socialist ship.

It's mostly America that will be in trouble - NOT the Republican party.

I think this is the main difference between liberals and conservatives. The liberals want to win even if it means losing America in the process. They hate losing and they would rather side with enemies and see America go down the tubes than to see their competition win.

Conservatives want America and Americans to be safe.

It's a huge, huge difference between liberals and conservatives.

I think the main concern if Obama wins will be how to save America and Israel (i.e., Americans and Israelis.) Obama will put us all in danger if he wins.

Also, I think Americans will start hoarding money and/or sending it elsewhere to protect it (depending on how much money individuals have.)

I already know people who plan to hold off on buying things (like new cars and new houses) until they see if the socialist is elected. They want to save themselves from ruin in case he's the one who wins.

Saving the Republican party will be way down on the list, but I think Republicans will end up holding onto each other (as well as faith and guns.)

re: #97 Sharmuta

Might have something to do with this.

And it might also have something to do with this...
[Link: hillbuzz.wordpress.com...]

All speculation of course, but I'll be crossing my fingers - hell, who am I kidding, I'm barely getting any SLEEP these days!

He's talking about companies spending workers pensions.

WTF about social security?

I do trust John McCain in one thing - he doesn't have to do what he does as a politician - he's married to a beer heiress. But out of devotion to his country, I believe, he wants to make a positive contribution to help America. I think Mitt Romney felt the same way: He was running because he thought he could be of service to his country.

But when you look at most politicians I realize that they are doing it for ego.

Obama = EGO Biden = EGO Obama's ego demands that he shape the country to fit his image of Utopia.

Republicans and Democrats suckle on the taxpayers tit.
Both franchises are basically corrupt.

They do what they can to get reelected.

What a disappointment if was for me to see Bush and a republican majority in both houses and yet the government became massively larger, bloated, more liberal, and they did it while preaching conservatism.

they sold out each and every conservative.

I'm not talking about their social agenda. They can stuff that.

I want a government that functions effeciently. That kills my enemy, and otherwise leaves me the Hell alone.

But with the politicians we have, forget it. Not gonna happen

re: #132 DistantThunder

Will the party let us in...will it seek us out...or will it try to dictate to us. Our collective IQ is greater than that of the party leaders. If John McCain wins, he will be the party leader - and then we've got serious challenges.

Excuse me- I've been working with local republican parties for almost 10 years now. I met with them over the weekend, and I've been speaking with "average" republicans for months now. There are more of us, people who agree with Charles' positions, then you may realize. We are not a force in the party because we're not involved. Those who are involved end up dictating to the rest of us and end up being the voice of the party that the msm and left trash. We don't have to take this. We can get involved and change it from within.

And yes- we can walk right in and don't have to be "allowed" in. Because intelligent, principled republicans don't bother getting involved, I have 2 former BPOUs infested with paulbots and creationists. I can't do this alone- I can't rid the local party of these people by myself. Gee- maybe I should just stay home and let them have their way and wonder why the party is infested with these people?

Correction:

I think the main concern if Obama wins will be how to save America and Israel (and also Americans and Israelis.) Obama will put us all in danger if he wins.

re: #71 Charles

A special mobile-only version of LGF perhaps, that is even more highly AJAXified?

Load only part of the thread, and then hit a button in the page to load the next segment. To non-mobile platforms, the thread isn't paginated, and the threads' not really "paginated" on mobile platforms either, just sort of windowed.

I'm imagining something like the spinning reel interface that iCal on the iPhone uses. Flick the thread up and down, and the content is fetched as needed for just the part you're currently looking at.

(I realize this is probably not possible without a dedicated app.)

re: #139 jcm

Obama's narcissistic epic is on broadcast TV on the West coast.

30 minutes of this hurl fest?

ARRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!

Don't look into this eyes - and Happy Halloween! Welcome to our collective Nightmare.

re: #95 Charles

The question is really: "what is the purpose of blogs?"

I've never believed that my purpose is to shill for one party or another, and that isn't going to change. Patrick Ruffini is a dyed-in-the-wool Republican, so of course he thinks the purpose of blogs is to shill for the party.

I think the only way blogs will ever continue to be credible is if they stay above this crap, and criticize all sides as needed. Left-wing blogs stink because they're nothing more than mouthpieces for the Democratic party.

And I'll shut LGF down before I turn it into a right-wing clone of the Daily Kos.

Sorry, not interested in being that.

Charles....I like your blog the way it is. I find your subject choices very interesting, and I learn a lot here. I also read a lot of other blogs with other subject choices. I would hate to see your blog become a political party blog.

re: #71 Charles

The only way to prevent iPhone Safari from crashing on long comment threads would be to install some kind of pagination system. It's a memory issue. The iPhone has limited memory and it gets unhappy when you exceed the limits.

Every time I raise the pagination issue, though, LGF readers get unhappy.

There's no doubt that paginating comments would make it more difficult to follow conversations, and introduce other kinds of continuity problems too. People would respond to something they saw on the first page, only to find out that it was a non-issue by the third page.

I'm still trying to imagine a pagination system that gets around the continuity issue, but it's a real conundrum.

Have you tried browser-type detection? I think the iPhone's version of Safari will have a different "signature" than the desktop versions...

hmmm. guess not. Ok, well me out!

re: #120 Charles

If Obama wins, there's going to be a big push to get bloggers to sign onto becoming the Daily Right-Wing Kos. And there's going to be an even bigger push to get the GOP to become even more socially conservative, in the misguided belief that "lack of purity" is the reason for the loss.
And they're going to lose me if that happens, just like the Democrats lost me after 9/11.

If the GOP loses, they will need to move to the center, not farther to the right. That will be the way for them to enlarge their tent enough to win. The right wing of the party will have to face up to that reality.
You stick to your guns and let them come to you.

re: #144 DistantThunder

I think he's got a major bone to pick too, like he wants to get revenge on the country he thinks wronged him in some way. I think he hates America as she stands, hence the desire to create his OWN version of it (as you so succinctly pointed out - his own "Utopia").

Anti-idiotarian transcends political party and it offers an opportunity for moral and intellectual argument from both sides of the divide.

/It could probably use a better name...

re: #120 Charles

An independent stance is always preferable...if you're "in the tank" for any political party, you've sold out...you're "owned."

re: #120 Charles

If Obama wins, there's going to be a big push to get bloggers to sign onto becoming the Daily Right-Wing Kos. And there's going to be an even bigger push to get the GOP to become even more socially conservative, in the misguided belief that "lack of purity" is the reason for the loss.

And they're going to lose me if that happens, just like the Democrats lost me after 9/11.

I'm one of those "lack of purity" guys, but the offenses were '92 - '96 when the opportunity to beat back the expansion of federal power was wasted. But then I'd be a Paulistinian if he were sane.

socially conservative not socially conservative.... not the fed's purview. should be something democrats and republicans could rally around - everybody go forth and fuck up your own damn state.

re: #150 Promethea

Charles....I like your blog the way it is. I find your subject choices very interesting, and I learn a lot here. I also read a lot of other blogs with other subject choices. I would hate to see your blog become a political party blog.

I enjoy reading different points of view (as long as those points are intelligent and not too crass). I believe most of us don't want to hang out in an echo chamber. ;)

re: #153 Spare O'Lake

If the GOP loses, they will need to move to the center, not farther to the right.

I agree -- but unfortunately, I'm almost willing to guarantee that's not how it's going to go. There are powerful forces with lots of money who will do their best to push the GOP further to the right. They're already warming up for the effort.

Testing

re: #153 Spare O'Lake

If the GOP loses, they will need to move to the center, not farther to the right. That will be the way for them to enlarge their tent enough to win. The right wing of the party will have to face up to that reality.
You stick to your guns and let them come to you.

I think you may be right. But Charles may be right as well -- there may be a schism coming for the Republican party. One side pushing for a harder line, one side pushing for more centrism.

I think what the GOP needs is:

1) Failure on the part of the Democrats, as you cannot argue with, or defeat, success. And,

2) A big personality to rise up an take the reigns. Look back on the players the Red Team sent onto the field, back during the primaries -- there wasn't a clear winner, even then.

Whoa, I'm actually in! Hey all y'all what's going on tonight?

re: #151 lazardo

Have you tried browser-type detection? I think the iPhone's version of Safari will have a different "signature" than the desktop versions...

I'll just have to note that a guy who can code this entire site and the backend for it probably has some familiarity with the concept of a browser sniff...

/

Went to a lecture tonight and spoke with two big name attorneys, both of whom were Columbia grads. So I asked them if they didn't think it strange that Obama was the only recent presidential candidate who had not released his university records.

I wish I had had a tape recorder on me because when they responded I thought I hadn't heard them properly. Attorney #1 said that he had never even considered this - was it even an issue? He went on to say that there was no need for Obama to release his university records because it was obvious to Ivy Leaguers such as himself that Obama was brilliant otherwise he never would have graduated from Columbia and been head of the Harvard Law Review. Attorney #2 concurred with his colleague. So, what've we got here? Two big shot attorneys and both believe that hearsay is better than evidence and both believe that if an Ivy Leaguer says something is true that it is true.

When I responded that it wasn't so obvious to non-Ivy Leaguers such as myself that Obama had stellar academic credentials they responded that I shouldn't worry because everything was going to be fine come next week and that they were really looking forward to finally having a supreme court that would overturn Scalia's opinion on an individual's right to bear arms (and then I got an earful about militias) and how that opinion was really payback for Roe v. Wade because the right was saying to the left, "If you can find the right to abortion in the constitution, well we can then find the right for individuals to bear arms in the constitution."

And here I thought I was going to get away from Obama brain washing by leaving the house and not watching his infomercial.
*sigh*

re: #153 Spare O'Lake

If the GOP loses, they will need to move to the center, not farther to the right. That will be the way for them to enlarge their tent enough to win. The right wing of the party will have to face up to that reality.

How will we be able to tell the difference between the two parties?

re: #164 Irene NYC

There's only one solution, Irene: baseball.

I am a fiscal conservative first and foremost - and that is a rare breed to find in office. I'd like to see us be know as the Most honest, most open, cleanest, most accountable party. I know by comparisons to the Democrats we already beat them in those areas - but I would like to see the brand become even more brazenly ethical.

re: #159 Charles "There are powerful forces with lots of money who will do their best to push the GOP further to the right."
Well you could certainly be right, but where the hell were those poweful forces with lots of money during this campaign?Were they simply pulling another '06 - teaching the Republican Party a lesson?
And what will they do when McCain wins?

re: #164 Irene NYC

Did Hillary ever produce her thesis? I don't recall seeing it.

Here's some software you don't need a computer for!

Oh, ha, in No. 161, that should be 'reins,' not 'reigns.'

I've got Obama's looming kingship on the brain.

re: #154 sharp_discernment

It's not about equality. It's about payback.

LOL Bill Clinton's four points.

Hey Bill, that's EXACTLY why we're scared!

re: #162 realwest

Check #104. I still insist the Founding Fathers weren't so much "blind" as they weren't visionaries of THE FUTURE.

re: #164 Irene NYC

Wow. Those two idiots sound like they're qualified to be on barry's short list for Appeals court, or SCOTUS

So what about this TV obamanation tonight? Has it already aired on the east coast? Just seeing it on the west coast. What kind of disgusting, depressing, bilge is this? What nation does this moron live in? Will middle-class voters take it seriously, or be disgusted by it?

If you're not watching, it's like the 50's show, "Queen for a day", in which everyone lined up to tell sob stories, and the worst of the lot got a refrigerator and some luggage. It was finally cancelled in an overwhelming wave of national naseau.

re: #159 Charles

I agree -- but unfortunately, I'm almost willing to guarantee that's not how it's going to go. There are powerful forces with lots of money who will do their best to push the GOP further to the right. They're already warming up for the effort.

On that one we disagree. The GOP is at the center, the (D)'s left and moving farther.

What we need is a return to classic liberalism, in modern terms a conservative / libertarian model.

Not just right....

Down and to the right.

I agree with you, many of the forces on the right I am uncomfortable with myself. But those are forces to the up and right.

Down and right, that's the direction.

So does anyone know if this means littleoldlady's gonna be buying celebratory Philly cheesesteaks for us in honor of the Phillies clinching the WS title?

re: #175 Shug

Wow. Those two idiots sound like they're qualified to be on barry's short list for Appeals court, or SCOTUS

The question is what is he afraid of?

re: #167 DistantThunder

There are very easy and simple ways to make "conservatism" a marketable and appealing philosophy again. I'm saying this as an admitted liberal. It can be done but I'm not sure if conservatives are ready yet.

re: #176 itellu3times

I only saw the last 2 minutes of Obamafest. It was plenty enough for me.

re: #159 Charles

There are powerful forces with lots of money who will do their best to push the GOP further to the right. They're already warming up for the effort.

If they had the money ready to confront Obama's massive funds and unfair media advantage in this election, I think they would have spent it to keep a socialist from winning.

re: #178 Fenway_Nation

So does anyone know if this means littleoldlady's gonna be buying celebratory Philly cheesesteaks for us in honor of the Phillies clinching the WS title?

A cheesecake-cup, perhaps?

re: #182 Adina in Judea

If they had the money ready to confront Obama's massive funds and unfair media advantage in this election, I think they would have spent it to keep a socialist from winning.

They don't have that big of a picture, self interest only.

re: #134 lazardo

re: #104 ciaospirit

The full quote, as posted by an Obamaton.

/meaning, no editing but avoid the author's personal commentary if possible.

I listened to both of them, but I'm still missing his point with regards to the fundamental flaw that continues to this day. Maybe I'm just dense. What's he complaining about?

re: #176 itellu3times

So what about this TV obamanation tonight? Has it already aired on the east coast? Just seeing it on the west coast. What kind of disgusting, depressing, bilge is this? What nation does this moron live in? Will middle-class voters take it seriously, or be disgusted by it?

If you're not watching, it's like the 50's show, "Queen for a day", in which everyone lined up to tell sob stories, and the worst of the lot got a refrigerator and some luggage. It was finally cancelled in an overwhelming wave of national naseau.

It's what all demagogues engage in: Castro would go on for 5 or 6 hours - Hugo goes on for hours at a time. He's "in your face."

re: #182 Adina in Judea

If they had the money ready to confront Obama's massive funds and unfair media advantage in this election, I think they would have spent it to keep a socialist from winning.

It's hard when only one party agrees to accepting legitimate donations from only US citizens.

re: #159 Charles

I agree -- but unfortunately, I'm almost willing to guarantee that's not how it's going to go. There are powerful forces with lots of money who will do their best to push the GOP further to the right. They're already warming up for the effort.

The mainstream of the party will probably want to regain power and defeat the Dems badly enough to resist the fringe's desire to veer to the right. At least they always have in the past.

re: #169 J.D.

Did Hillary ever produce her thesis? I don't recall seeing it.

Actually, her senior thesis at Wellesley was about Saul Alinsky.

re: #168 realwest

I wouldn't put it past them.

Are there hundreds of thousands on here or something? I'm growin' old...

re: #184 jcm

re: #182 Adina in Judea

If they had the money ready to confront Obama's massive funds and unfair media advantage in this election, I think they would have spent it to keep a socialist from winning.

They don't have that big of a picture, self interest only.

Socialism isn't just a big picture. It will affect every single one of us.

Who are these mysterious people who have all this money that could have confronted Obama's massive funding but are waiting to use the money against fellow Republicans to make us more conservative instead?

Do they have names?

re: #178 Fenway_Nation

So does anyone know if this means littleoldlady's gonna be buying celebratory Philly cheesesteaks for us in honor of the Phillies clinching the WS title?

If there's anything left of Philly till morning.

///

re: #188 Spare O'Lake

The mainstream of the party will probably want to regain power and defeat the Dems badly enough to resist the fringe's desire to veer to the right. At least they always have in the past.

When the party becomes too centrist the far right sits home and pouts.

Charles, this blog and lots of other blogs out there did not start because of politics and I don't see that changing in the future. You have brought issues that are important to you to the forefront, and they are usually issues the MSM ignores, covers up, or out right lies about. You've also tapped into topics and issues that are important to a lot of people, or all of us would not spend way too much time here. : - )
As the MSM falls off the cliff in an effort to answer to the DNC, instead of their customers, they continue leave a big role for the bloggers as the fact checkers, investigators, and even the news reporters. I think you should continue to be true to yourself and cover what you want. It's obviously a very successful choice.

re: #189 Florida Lady

Actually, her senior thesis at Wellesley was about Saul Alinsky.

I'm thinking there's another...

re: #186 DistantThunder

It's what all demagogues engage in: Castro would go on for 5 or 6 hours - Hugo goes on for hours at a time. He's "in your face."

Don't Americans know better?

Rove was on Hannity today, saying exactly the wrong people would even watch this thing tonight, mostly moonbats and politically interested conservatives, neither of whom would change their opinions. The "undecided" won't turn it on. Dang. I wish everyone would see this crap and act accordingly.

re: #159 Charles

I agree -- but unfortunately, I'm almost willing to guarantee that's not how it's going to go. There are powerful forces with lots of money who will do their best to push the GOP further to the right. They're already warming up for the effort.

Cannot agree, I think anyway. How much father left can the Dems go?
I'd think the GOP needs a very hard right turn, but I am talking about staying within its constitutional authority. We're at a point where we're arguing over what form of federal subsidy we're going to give for health care - direct transfers or tax credits. Direct transfers shouldn't be on the table. McCain should be arguing for the left against a Ron Paul type.
But then maybe you are talking further to the right socially....again, shouldn't even be discussed at the federal level. not their damn business.

A point about tax cuts "for the wealthy" versus the middle class.

When you cut taxes for companies (the wealthy), they are much more able to create new products, and thus create new jobs. The new jobs help the "middle class" much more than any tax cut would. Iows, tax cuts on the rich help everyone, especially the middle class. I mean, if you're unemployed what is the point of tax cuts for you?

This point completely crushes Obama's argument.

Also, when men are freer, they are much more able to move out of poverty, or out of the middle class and to higher and higher income levels. Freedom brings prosperity because it unleashes the brain power of the citizenry, each motivated by his own ideas and dreams, whether it be music, or a cure for cancer.

Now, I would like to say that the biggest point over and above that one is that taxation is wrong. A man has the right to his money because he has earned it. This is the vital point, the practical points logically follow from this, because when a man is secure in his life and property he is much better able to survive. This is why rights exist in the first place.

re: #193 x-wing

I'm surprised there's anything left of Boston after 2004 and last year. Then again, everyone there had some practise with the Patriots....

OK, so now "new comments" doesn't work. Whassup w/that?

re: #153 Spare O'Lake

If the GOP loses, they will need to move to the center, not farther to the right. That will be the way for them to enlarge their tent enough to win. The right wing of the party will have to face up to that reality.
You stick to your guns and let them come to you.

Yep. Where the hell else are they going to go? Even if McCain wins, there's a swing of the ideological pendulum going on and the GOP will have to catch that swing or wander in the wilderness.

re: #165 ciaospirit

I suspect that if The Zero ever enacts 1/2 of what he's so far proposed, there will be no problem creating a party dedicated to "the center"....(another scenario could be that the Democrats turn sharply Leftist; the Republicans turn hard right (as in a Pat Buchanan -- Paleo-conservative way); then leaving it open to a Third party, of the Center....or The Independents' Party...which would denounce both right and left extremes...)

re: #71 Charles

The only way to prevent iPhone Safari from crashing on long comment threads would be to install some kind of pagination system. It's a memory issue. The iPhone has limited memory and it gets unhappy when you exceed the limits.

Every time I raise the pagination issue, though, LGF readers get unhappy.

There's no doubt that paginating comments would make it more difficult to follow conversations, and introduce other kinds of continuity problems too. People would respond to something they saw on the first page, only to find out that it was a non-issue by the third page.

I'm still trying to imagine a pagination system that gets around the continuity issue, but it's a real conundrum.

Maybe you could add a number of comments per page feature; 50, 100, 200, 500, ALL

I watched Hannity & Colmes tonight and Greta because I cannot bear to watch the other stations. I know there are criticizers of Sean Hannity but if we win this election he deserves credit. While some of us find him didactic etc, etc. he is relentless in his pursuit for media fairness. Nobody like him has been as adamant. He is on in NYC on radio and his radio show is certainly more partisan than H & C, but he is fighting the good fight night after night and let me tell you something, Obama hates him. That should tell you something. But the other compliment I give him is this: he believes in what he is saying. He actually calls BHO a liar. That is so, so refreshing. People who think it is all about him have it wrong. I think he is a patriot.

As for Greta, Bill Salmon and Juan Williams were on and while in the past I have liked Salmon, tonight he was absolutely feckless. He sounded like an ivory tower ideologue. Complimenting this BHO infomercial - please. And he is missing the fact how important the Khalidi tape is. Greta also is too soft. If Fox is as rabid as they are alleged to be they should be excoriating every frigging media outlet for bias. But they really have been soft on the subject. This LA Times story is so over the top it is beyond absurd...

For me, Rush, Hannity and Levin are the only ones making any sense. I know I am partisan but even a partisan can see corruption and not call it politics as usual. By the way, there is a reason why Hannity is didactic - because the media refuses to do their job.

re: #199 Archimedes

A point about tax cuts "for the wealthy" versus the middle class.

When you cut taxes for companies (the wealthy), they are much more able to create new products, and thus create new jobs. The new jobs help the "middle class" much more than any tax cut would. Iows, tax cuts on the rich help everyone, especially the middle class. I mean, if you're unemployed what is the point of tax cuts for you?

Sorry, I don't believe a word of that.

There is a much simpler reason why tax cuts for the rich are a good idea - they are the only ones paying much tax anymore. There's simply nowhere else to cut, and in general, cutting is still a good idea.

re: #186 DistantThunder

It's what all demagogues engage in: Castro would go on for 5 or 6 hours - Hugo goes on for hours at a time. He's "in your face."

I've seen excerpts from some of Obama's rallies. They aren't rallies where he says something inspiring and everyone cheers.

He's up there talking on and on and on and on while the people behind him on the stage hold their little signs and frozen smiles as if they are sitting in Freshman orientation and being told that one out of three of them will not be at the school a year from now.

Obama likes to hear himself speak and he subjects his audiences to it.

re: #153 Spare O'Lake

If the GOP loses, they will need to move to the center, not farther to the right. That will be the way for them to enlarge their tent enough to win. The right wing of the party will have to face up to that reality.
You stick to your guns and let them come to you.

With respect, when in modern history has the GOP had any electoral success moving to the center? There is a reason the GOP once had a party civil war about "a choice not an echo". It is something conservatives would do well to remember when taking electoral advice.

/ Just my opinion

re: #195 seekeroftruth

Charles, this blog and lots of other blogs out there did not start because of politics and I don't see that changing in the future. You have brought issues that are important to you to the forefront, and they are usually issues the MSM ignores, covers up, or out right lies about. You've also tapped into topics and issues that are important to a lot of people, or all of us would not spend way too much time here. : - )
As the MSM falls off the cliff in an effort to answer to the DNC, instead of their customers, they continue leave a big role for the bloggers as the fact checkers, investigators, and even the news reporters. I think you should continue to be true to yourself and cover what you want. It's obviously a very successful choice.

I agree. Integrity matters.

Some interesting news at Wizbang about Florida early voting:

Exit polls show more democrats have voted early, yet McCain is up 49-45 over Obama

re: #207 Adina in Judea

Obama likes to hear himself speak and he subjects his audiences to it.

Whaaat? Have you seen these people praising him like invented the cheeseburger?

He's not subjecting them to anything. They're doing that themselves.

I think the party needs to remain fiscally conservative, socially- we need to be moderates.

re: #210 Intrepid

Some interesting news at Wizbang about Florida early voting:

Exit polls show more democrats have voted early, yet McCain is up 49-45 over Obama

GO, PUMAs, GO!

re: #164 Irene NYC
Hi {Irene } - as the grad of an Ivy League Law school, let me tell you that you were talking to two of Obama's "elitites"; only a true fool would think that there was nothing unusual about Obama being editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Law Review and NEVER having written an article himself or even having edited (with approporiately footnoted "notes") another Scholars's submission to the Law Review.
When I went to my Ivy League law school I was 6 days out of Vietnam and not quite - how to put this - uh, re-socialized to the civilised world - and those two are typical of the types I would run into in the Student Lounge who talked openly about how "socially upwardly mobile" (and use that exact phrase) they were. I'm afraid Elitism isn't created at the Ivies, although they do reinforce it, but it's sort of part and parcel of the folks who go there (I only went cause I got an "early out" from the Army of almost 90 days to attend law school and the one I went to offered me scholarship, and full loan guaranties and was the first law school I applied to and accepted me first, as well).

Off-topic for a bit, gotta love Grand Theft Auto's parody talk radio, equal-opportunity skewerings for all!

Left: "The only thing liberals run in this country is the TV networks!"

Right: Rush Limbaugh much?

re: #208 TheWasteLand

With respect, when in modern history has the GOP had any electoral success moving to the center? There is a reason the GOP once had a party civil war about "a choice not an echo". It is something conservatives would do well to remember when taking electoral advice.

/ Just my opinion

I agree. I'd rather take my lumps pushing conservatism and booting out the RINO's, than look to rebound by widening the goalposts by watering down the meaning of it.

The social stuff crosses over into the fiscal stuff - like abortion, (who funds it) like vouchers, like immigration. What else....

Take a look at what Governor Deval Patrick just signed into law in Massachusetts, for this election only..
[Link: www.capecodonline.com...]

re: #165 ciaospirit

How will we be able to tell the difference between the two parties?

The differences are and will continue to be defined by the right and left wings of the respective parties. The centre of the political spectrum is still a very big place.

re: #43 karmic_inquisitor

I'm not worried about indivduals blackmailing Obama, but rogue States and other organizations.

Along with the Indonesians, Pakistanis, Cubans, Kenyans, Venezuelans, Syrians, Iraqis, the Chicago Outfit, Soros, FARC, WUO, and any other group with which he has had interactions that he has been less then forthcoming about.

Any of these guys may have damning evidence of something he said or did in his enigmatic past that could ruin his Presidency if released.

re: #199 Archimedes

Now, I would like to say that the biggest point over and above that one is that taxation is wrong. A man has the right to his money because he has earned it. This is the vital point, the practical points logically follow from this, because when a man is secure in his life and property he is much better able to survive. This is why rights exist in the first place.

I see you've spotted 'the fundamental flaw' in the Constitution, Archimedes!

Government can use every individual's money MUCH BETTER than the citizen can. Obama will have government control ALL your our earnings, so EVERYONE BENEFITS by redistributing YOUR wealth to US, THEM, they...

Drudge: Huffington Post writer stabs her lover 222 times with a phillips screwdriver.

re: #210 Intrepid

Some interesting news at Wizbang about Florida early voting:

Exit polls show more democrats have voted early, yet McCain is up 49-45 over Obama

The're illiterate. Thought they were voting for The One but picked McCain since he's number One on the ballot

Whatever it takes

re: #213 Sharmuta

GO, PUMAs, GO!

As Austin Powers would say, "MEOW."

re: #216 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

I agree. I'd rather take my lumps pushing conservatism and booting out the RINO's, than look to rebound by widening the goalposts by watering down the meaning of it.

As to both comments, Republicans win elections being true to core conservative principles such as what Reagan stood for and even GWB in the beginning before he went off half-cocked behaving like a democrat. Most Americans are conservative. But the heck with that, it is the correct philosophical approach to life and government in my humble opinion.

re: #215 lazardo

GTA iv is out for PC soon. I'm very much looking forward to it.
/Lazlo rules!

re: #222 maddogg

Drudge: Huffington Post writer stabs her lover 222 times with a phillips screwdriver.

Mental illness defense. "I am a liberal therefore, by my very nature I am unstable, and irrational."

re: #218 CapeCoddah

Take a look at what Governor Deval Patrick just signed into law in Massachusetts, for this election only..
[Link: www.capecodonline.com...]

McCain, nor anyone else with an "R" after their name, has any chance in MA these days for national offices.

If the GOP doesn't move to the center socially, they're going to be out of office for a long long time. It's a violation of the core principles of conservatism to attempt to dictate to other people how they should live.

re: #222 maddogg

Drudge: Huffington Post writer stabs her lover 222 times with a phillips screwdriver.

But...they are such nice people over there, who among them would harbor such rage? I'm shocked!

re: #227 DistantThunder

Mental illness defense. "I am a liberal therefore, by my very nature I am unstable, and irrational."

She shot herself.

So I predict an acquittal

Charles: Any way to add a timer to the client end of the 'new comments' button? When the endless spin occurs it would be nice to have a graceful exit.

re: #227 DistantThunder

Mental illness defense. "I am a liberal therefore, by my very nature I am unstable, and irrational."

And don't forget, she didn't contribute to gun violence:)

re: #222 maddogg

Drudge: Huffington Post writer stabs her lover 222 times with a phillips screwdriver.

I'm so naive. It took me a second or two, looking at their photos, to say, "Hey... wait a minute..."

re: #210 Intrepid

Some interesting news at Wizbang about Florida early voting:

Exit polls show more democrats have voted early, yet McCain is up 49-45 over Obama

Palm Beach county democrats will probably elect Pat Buchanan President again.
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re: #172 IslandLibertarian

It's not about equality. It's about payback.

Right, I mean wrong, I mean RIGHT! :)

ps. I don't know if this comment will post but I'm getting dizzy watching the thingy spin round and round. I'm ready for hypnosis. :|

LGF is greatest for taking stands on issues without being confined within a particular political party, which I think is wonderful.

Most often the interests of Republicans coincide, but the stands on issues come first (which is indeed, as someone else pointed out, a matter of LGF's integrity.)

re: #222 maddogg

Drudge: Huffington Post writer stabs her lover 222 times with a phillips screwdriver.

Must have been in a cross mood.

re: #6 Sharmuta

Is there anything an iphone can't do?

It doesn't play Adobe Flash. Well...it could...if Apple would approve the Adobe app to do so.

222 times with a phillips screwdriver, now thats love.

Paleostinians calling Americans to vote for Obama!

re: #222 maddogg

Drudge: Huffington Post writer stabs her lover 222 times with a phillips screwdriver.

Lesbian lover, not that there's anything wrong with that.

re: #217 DistantThunder

The social stuff crosses over into the fiscal stuff - like abortion, (who funds it) like vouchers, like immigration. What else....

I guess I'm talking about things like ID. Things like Joe Gibbs turning the convention into a religious revival. It's harmful to the party when the head of a BPOU turns up at a political meeting asking people if they've been introduced to Jesus. (Yes- this happened.) Things like this make us easy targets for the left and their shills in the msm, and turn people off, even if they really have more conservative leanings then they realize because they don't look at us as viable when we've allowed ourselves to be demonized by the other side.

I know I'm not popular among these lizards these days. Just wait until after the election: those who hate me now will despise me later. Believe it or not, I'm holding back.
Peace, G'nite, namaste

re: #229 Charles

If the GOP doesn't move to the center socially, they're going to be out of office for a long long time. It's a violation of the core principles of conservatism to attempt to dictate to other people how they should live.

Name an attempt conservatives do on how one should live?

How does the left differ. The left tells you what light bulb, what size toilet, what gas mileage your car should get. It wants to allow thuggery to be the norm for union elections.

I will digress.

I think the Republican party has gone too far left, and has forgotten the base that is actually loyal to them.

My preference would be to go back to Reagan.

Republicans once stood for conservatism. They have decided to move away from some of the very core principles which made this country great.

Some don't like this, my aim is not confrontation. If you lean left, there are plenty of Democrats who have not gone totally socialist, and perhaps might be the future of that party.

I just don't buy the whole notion of the Republican party becoming the Democrat party in order to be successful.

The route to fiscal conservatism is simple -

Break up congress.

What I mean is to have Representatives and Senators telecommute for most of the 2 year session, with periodic "conclaves" held in different cities.

The problem with Washington is Washington - the place feels powerful and it is very expensive and people get in their pecking orders quickly and try to climb, spending your money to do it.

Decentralize the congress and the way to climb is through good old populism with folks in the district/state and dealing. And it would cost a lot less to run congress.

re: #227 DistantThunder

Mental illness defense. "I am a liberal therefore, by my very nature I am unstable, and irrational."

No defense necessary. The doer shot herself.

re: #174 lazardo When I let a community organizer lecture ME about the Constitution and the Founding Fathers, I hope one of you will have the decency to shoot me and put me out of my obvious dementia.
Obama's ignorance of the US Constituion and of the Founding Fathers would, PERHAPS, be understandable if he didn't pretend to be a constitutional scholar - Our Founding Fathers KNEW that times and people would change, that's why the made it possible for the PEOPLE to amend the Constitution but so valued it's basic principles, that they deliberately made it HARD to amend the Constitution.
Obama's no more a constitutional scholar than I'm a quarterback in the NFL.

Conservatism does not tell people how to live, rather it empowers the individual to achieve all that they are capable of by getting gov't out of their way. Lower taxes, smaller gov't, strong military defense and defense of the constitution as an original static document. No judicial oligarchy. Traditional Family values over secular-progressivism. That means a culture of life. The expansion of capitalism vs. Socialist-progressive policies. These are values of the right not the center.

I have an aversion to Google Earth, even though it's a fantastic product. The map of Israel is entirely spammed by Palestinian zealots (maybe just a couple of guys at best) and converted into that "lost Palestine" they love to mass murder for, based on sources from parallel universes. Google only needs to remove the name "Israel" now that they've managed to secure a status quo of ignoring American memorial and 9/11 days.

Unless they enforce the user based data efficiently, which they don't, I will passionately skip Google Earth.

Dumb question : Why count 222 holes in somebody who's been murdered?

I mean after 80 or 90, wouldn't you just say " Ok, this person was killed by a crazy person with some rage issues. No need to count every single hole. They're dead whether I count every hole or not"

re: #250 wright1

Conservatism does not tell people how to live, rather it empowers the individual to achieve all that they are capable of by getting gov't out of their way.

Y'know, back in the day, that was actually called liberalism.

Wonder what happened.

re: #252 Shug

Dumb question : Why count 222 holes in somebody who's been murdered?

I mean after 80 or 90, wouldn't you just say " Ok, this person was killed by a crazy person with some rage issues. No need to count every single hole. They're dead whether I count every hole or not"

It's the medical examiner's job to, well... examine. Maybe someone made all those stab marks to hide some other feature on, or damage to, the victim's body. And so forth.

re: #252 Shug

Dumb question : Why count 222 holes in somebody who's been murdered?

I mean after 80 or 90, wouldn't you just say " Ok, this person was killed by a crazy person with some rage issues. No need to count every single hole. They're dead whether I count every hole or not"

Overtime.

re: #217 DistantThunder

The social stuff crosses over into the fiscal stuff - like abortion, (who funds it) like vouchers, like immigration. What else....

It shouldn't. They should be arguing about foreign policy, rail width standards, the price of postage, and whether or not Dale Earnhardt is going to be on the 3 dollar bill. We shouldn't be arguing about the fed funding abortion unless you are talking about DC.

^{Section 8. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;}

^{To borrow money on the credit of the United States;}

^{To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;}

^{To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;}

^{To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;}

^{To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;}

^{To establish post offices and post roads;}

^{To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;}

^{To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;}

^{To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;}

^{To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;}

^{To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;}

^{To provide and maintain a navy;}

^{To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;}

^{To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;}

^{To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;}

^{To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;--And}

^{To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.}

re: #223 Shug

The're illiterate. Thought they were voting for The One but picked McCain since he's number One on the ballot

Whatever it takes

Most states' ballots are arranged alphabetically by last name, which (depending on your state) would put Chuck Baldwin or Bob Barr first.

re: #253 itellu3times

Y'know, back in the day, that was actually called liberalism.

Wonder what happened.

Liberalism has always been about subjugating the individual to be a ward of the State in some shape or manner. It is an ideology of dependency - not self-reliance.

re: #229 Charles

Charles, can I ask a serious question?

In what way is the Republican party dictating how people should live?

Please don't take my question as confrontation, because I am not trying to be. But this could apply to many different aspects of our society, and some arguments on the surface actually have many layers beyond in my opinion.

re: #252 Shug

Dumb question : Why count 222 holes in somebody who's been murdered?

I mean after 80 or 90, wouldn't you just say " Ok, this person was killed by a crazy person with some rage issues. No need to count every single hole. They're dead whether I count every hole or not"

And though the holes were rather small, They had to count them all; Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.

re: #220 de La Valette

Any of these guys may have damning evidence of something he said or did in his enigmatic past that could ruin his Presidency if released.

What I wonder is how long it will take for the first ones to turn.

They will all want their spoils, but there is only so much the guy can do before he gets a stink on him that Blue Dog Democrats won't want to touch.

That said, he will have the entire Executive Branch at his disposal with plenty of acolytes at all levels willing to do deeds for the POTUS and advance his interests by playing unfairly, so some of these would be blackmailers may find pulling the trigger hazardous.

I am sure there is a manual in Chicago somewhere that tells a politician how to deal with such situations.