The rabbit hole just keeps getting deeper and deeper.

ACORN was founded by a guy named Wade Rathke. In 1969, he was in the SDS, and on the Dohrn-Ayers side when the SDS split up. Most of the people in that faction then renamed themselves "Weatherman," later the Weather Underground.

I can find no solid evidence that Rathke became an active member of the Weathermen, but many people suspect he was in fact a member. If not, he was very close to being a member, since he was a political ally of Dohrn and Ayers at the moment they formed the group.

So, basically, ACORN is itself another ideological descendent of the Weather Underground.

And Obama probably had his first "community organizing" job with ACORN when he moved to Chicago.

Seriously: Could this ALL be one vast coincidence?

Just more evidence that Ayers guided Obama's early career.

I get the signal! I vote NO!

Smokes up to $60.00/carton. Basil Hayden's up to $150.00/fifth.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

No longer available?

“Price signals” = punishment for actually earning money.

Obama wants to punish Middle America for living too well.

And for not voting Democrat enough...

BHO wouldn't know the free market if it bit him on his commie-pinko ass.

I have a new term to coin for this Obama generation of the new left..

The "NeoComs" (just to annoy them, I HATED being given the term NeoCON, never left the Reagan revolution) :)

They are Neo Communists. Stalinism with a superficially nice face.

Obama costs too much.

don't buy it

Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin are high fiving in hell right now.

Reminding people that Obama wants to use the heavy hand of government to influence people's behavior to conform to Obama's "ideal" standard is, again, racist Charles!

/Again, really, really sarc.

re: #6 Spiny Norman

Obama wants to punish Middle America for living too well.

And for not voting Democrat enough...

No, that's your REWARD for voting Democrat too much :)

ugh

None of this is helped by the look of smack smug arrogance painted across his face.

I'm going to send Senator Obama my own "signal" on Tuesday.

Huh? "Change my behavior"? Bub, if you want me to buy nothing beyond the essentials ever again, keep it up.

Think I'll go buy myself that iPod I've been considering now...

Keep your commie-pinko mitts off of my light bulbs and thermostat, BHO.

re: #1 zombie

"The long march through the institutions", *sighs*.

Thanks for your great work, Zombie.

re: #7 MandyManners

BHO wouldn't know the free market if it bit him on his commie-pinko ass.

He's never lived in it. All his life he's gotten privileges from his radical friends

This coming from the same guy who said that it was good that we were paying so much for gas. He said that it would make us more like Europe and think twice about how much we drive.

Here's hoping "price signals" will change voting behavior in 2010.

re: #18 wildcat84

He's never lived in it. All his life he's gotten privileges from his radical friends

Wonder if Ayers will get a dascha.

Behavior modification. Re-education.

Cultural Revolution.

Ring a bell?

re: #13 NoSubmission

None of this is helped by the look of smack smug arrogance painted across his face.

He can't help that. It's natural.///

The most smug I have ever seen him look is during the second debate when he lectured us all on preventative health care. From an underweight chain smoker, no less.

I am now becoming resigned to the thought of "re-education" soon.
/

Charles must be expecting a huge load. The avatars are gone.

A lot of us who can afford it can pay more per unit of electricity !

WTF !

So I'll have to subsidize the bums who sit on their asses all day ?

re: #20 Opilio

Here's hoping "price signals" will change voting behavior in 2010.

Obama IS Jimmy Carter with a tan.

wow, that was fast: "video no longer available"

This goes back to the same sixties radical roots where it was determined that Energy=bad. It's the engine of capitalist imperialism you know. Jeremy Rifkin and E.F. Schumacher are the creators of the left's "just conserve because we are all doomed anyway" real energy policy.

Does this involve ankle bracelets and 10,000 volt messages?

re: #25 MandyManners

Charles must be expecting a huge load. The avatars are gone.

I see a picture of a huge load at the top of this thread.

Traffic is rising, and I expect it to continue, so the avatars are disabled.

re: #19 lone_wolf_in_illinois

I hate people that say "we (the US) should be like Europe". Why? Fascism and Communism both have their roots from Europe.

/And the idiots that say gas should cost as much as in Europe don't realize that Europe's a bit smaller than the US, with the populations more concentrated.

re: #26 Shug

WTF !

So I'll have to subsidize the bums who sit on their asses all day ?

Exactly. It's your "patriotic" duty.

The video is still there...

re: #31 Opilio

I see a picture of a huge load at the top of this thread.

SPEW.

I find myself overcome with a feeling of utter helplessness. Could this guy possibly be worse than I had imagined?

Dear God.

[Link: secure.johnmccain.com...]

Make. Calls. Now.

Are these "signals" going to be the standard Red, Yellow, Green, or just ALL RED?

OH, you can forget these "signals" being Red, White and Blue...See what I mean?

I know now that my behavior has been bad, and incorrect. I need for the One to signal me how to change it. Every day, in every way, I must strive to be more like what He wants me to be.

Pass the Kool-Aid!

re: #32 Charles

Traffic is rising, and I expect it to continue, so the avatars are disabled.

Cutbacks. Already.

re: #11 mitthrawnurdo

Reminding people that Obama wants to use the heavy hand of government to influence people's behavior to conform to Obama's "ideal" standard is, again, racist Charles!

You know it! Charles is linking to Obama talking about coal. And what color is coal! Total, total racism at work here.

/

Do not allow the left to steal a fine capitalist term.

"Price signal" is what a free market sends back to show demand, stimulate supply, and punish government interference.

What Obama wants to send is a "dirigiste tax distortion..."

(PS: Love the fact that spell check here does not recognize "Obama" and permits me to "ignore" !)

re: #33 mitthrawnurdo

I hate people that say "we (the US) should be like Europe". Why? Fascism and Communism both have their roots from Europe.

/And the idiots that say gas should cost as much as in Europe don't realize that Europe's a bit smaller than the US, with the populations more concentrated.

Facts, shmacts.

Actually, I've read of policies that want to concentrate Americans into tight urban areas.

re: #32 Charles

Traffic is rising, and I expect it to continue, so the avatars are disableddifferently-abled.

Send the commies a signal on Tuesday...

Vote for McCain.

Our country will suffer terribly under an Obama, Pelosi, Reid trinity of communism.

re: #32 Charles

Traffic is rising

I suspect the next three days will be a record high-tide.

I just went and turned on all the lights in my house

GFY Obama !

Oh, it gets worse for Barry. In the same interview about bankrupting Coal plants:

"Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad."

Obama: I’ll make energy prices “skyrocket”

It just never stops with this guy.
This is like the 100th time we got him in his own words saying how he want to screw us over and I only ever see it online.
The guy is a freakin' socialist who can't wait to get his hands on America.

The media in this country has truly died.

re: #23 arethusa

He can't help that. It's natural.///

The most smug I have ever seen him look is during the second debate when he lectured us all on preventative health care. From an underweight chain smoker, no less.

Or the time he lectured Americans about clinging to the English language when he doesn't even speak Spanish!

re: #41 Occasional Reader

Oh no, you're totally right! How could I have missed the connection? I must still cling to guns, religion, and Mandy's moxie way too tightly still!

/Forgive me, great O.

And what price signals would the poor have? Or would they get free energy under Obama on the backs of taxpayers?

re: #42 Robert Arvanitis

Do not allow the left to steal a fine capitalist term.

See previous thread... he's doing the same thing by breezily painting "cap and trade" as a "market" solution.

Who knew that Friedrich Hayek and Adam Smith were "community organizers"?

The biggest area for Obama's use of "price signals" to change behavior, obviously, is going to be in the field of government-funded health insurance. Namely, if you wish to have health insurance, you must give up risky behavior ___. Government socialized medicine will be the instrument of massive social behavioral controls.

re: #35 Charles

got it run after reloading Firefox

This is so disgusting. He would never have been the dem candidate if the press had done their jobs, much less faved to win the presidency.

That writer who lamented the loss his pride at naming his profession as 'journalism' was onto something. Anyone in a media career should be too ashamed to show their faces in public.

re: #33 mitthrawnurdo

If we'd wanted Europe, we'd have stayed there.

re: #52 rightymouse

And what price signals would the poor have? Or would they get free energy under Obama on the backs of taxpayers?

exactly.
a utilities credit.

so those of you making under 250,000 a year won't have to pay for your electricity and gas.

the patriotic americans earning over 250,000 gotcha covered

re: #52 rightymouse

See "Mugabe economic policy" for details.

re: #40 FightingBack

Cutbacks. Already.

lol

Man, that's disturbing stuff.

re: #49 NeoKong

Not exactly. They want it, too.

re: #46 zombie

I suspect the next three days will be a record high-tide.

But we will remember this as the time that the LGF traffic tide stopped rising, and the blogosphere began to heal!

Once, you know, President Obama shuts down Charles via the Internet Audacity of Fairness Act of 2010.

re: #54 cobalt blue

The biggest area for Obama's use of "price signals" to change behavior, obviously, is going to be in the field of government-funded health insurance. Namely, if you wish to have health insurance, you must give up risky behavior ___. Government socialized medicine will be the instrument of massive social behavioral controls.

That's it exactly.

I'm gonna' retreat to the corner and cling to my bottle of Basil Hayden's.

re: #32 Charles

Traffic is rising, and I expect it to continue, so the avatars are disabled display-challenged.

This seems to be a pattern in Obamas statements - 'we must change human behaviour to fit our enlightened policies'...

Looks like heavy handed socialism to me...

re: #61 Cognito

Man, that's disturbing stuff.

It won't play for me.

re: #24 lone_wolf_in_illinois

I am now becoming resigned to the thought of "re-education" soon.
/

Do any other lizards have a feeling that somehow Michelle O might play a significant part in bringing down the zer0's Court of Fools in DC, if heaven forbid it comes to pass?

I mentioned at the end of a dead thread that I could not believe that Michelle's political ambitions could be so easily kept in check - she would form alliances and make outreaches to radical organizations that would cause tremendous pressure within that administration, eventually causing breakdowns.

Or maybe Barack and Michelle's combined egos would be so massive for their place in history, that they'd feel confident enough to give the finger to more pragmatic advisors and work together on a transformational program so far out on the edge, that they don't see the end coming....

re: #1 zombie

Hi Zombie -- congratulations on making NRO yesterday!

Obama -- arrogant elitist marxist America hater. It'll be a wild 4 years if he's actually elected.

re: #54 cobalt blue

Isn't that already done in Europe?

Where does the use of "price signals" end? If Dear Leader 0 doesn't like an industry, does it get spanked by these "price signals"? Couldn't this cause workers to get fired?

Comrade 0, I live in the country, where I bitterly cling to my guns and Holy Orthodox church. I drive an SUV because getting through Michigan lake effect snow won't happen in a Cooper Mini or Citroen.

re: #58 Shug

exactly.
a utilities credit.

so those of you making under 250,000 a year won't have to pay for your electricity and gas.

the patriotic americans earning over 250,000 gotcha covered

This man is freaking dangerous.

re: #59 jaunte

See "Mugabe economic policy" for details.

No kidding.

re: #57 FightingBack

Damn straight!

re: #56 kynna

This is so disgusting. He would never have been the dem candidate if
the press had done their jobs, much less faved to win the presidency.

That
writer who lamented the loss his pride at naming his profession as
'journalism' was onto something. Anyone in a media career should be too
ashamed to show their faces in public.

The fawning press certainly helped, but his organization stacking the (stupid Dem) caucuses probably had a lot to with it as well.

Had the press simply vetted Edwards (apparently his affair was somewhat of an open secret), that might have been enough to tip the primaries to Hilary Clinton .

Drudge needs to post this link directly below the other.
please send to him everybody.

re: #67 VegasRick

It won't play for me.

Try this.

re: #73 rightymouse

Nee money? Just print more.

Need!

re: #77 MandyManners

Try this.

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

Thank you!

Wait...Obama just said we drive our SUVs too much - but back in the whole McCain car controversy, it was revealed that Obama drove a Ford Escape.

(OK, so it's a hybrid. Is he going to help make hybrids more affordable to those of us who aren't millionaires?)

Could you stand having the blood of my country on my hands for not standing up and doing something NOW?

[Link: secure.johnmccain.com...]

Make calls! Go door-to-door!

Man, this naked emperor news guy(or gal) is something else! Doing yeoman like work that the MSM can't bother with anymore. The one good thing of late....

re: #68 runrabbitrun

She could run like Hill did.

What amazes me is that this guy has been on the record saying things that would have AUTOMATICALLY disqualified anyone else before him to be President. Yet, he is poised to take that job in a few days (maybe). What is it about this guy that everyone loves so much. People should read what he says, not listen to it....when you read his policies, you realize just how radical this guy is......I wonder what all these Obamatrons will do after he's elected and their paycheck starts getting smaller, their electric bills start getting higher, gas costs more, everything costs more....what will they do then? Cling to the Hope and Change mantra?

re: #63 Occasional Reader

But we will remember this as the time that the LGF traffic tide stopped rising, and the blogosphere began to heal!

Once, you know, President Obama shuts down Charles via the Internet Audacity of Fairness Act of 2010.

dont think it will take that long. not with Pelosi, Reid, Biden, and Obama in charge.

I am so gonna have it made if Obama gets elected. You guys are going to be paying all my bills for me. My health care, my gas and electric, my mortgage .........

What's not to love?

/

re: #69 Fearless Fred

Hi Zombie -- congratulations on making NRO yesterday!

Really? Link?

re: #68 runrabbitrun

Do any other lizards have a feeling that somehow Michelle O might play a significant part in bringing down the zer0's Court of Fools in DC, if heaven forbid it comes to pass?

I mentioned at the end of a dead thread that I could not believe that Michelle's political ambitions could be so easily kept in check - she would form alliances and make outreaches to radical organizations that would cause tremendous pressure within that administration, eventually causing breakdowns.

Or maybe Barack and Michelle's combined egos would be so massive for their place in history, that they'd feel confident enough to give the finger to more pragmatic advisors and work together on a transformational program so far out on the edge, that they don't see the end coming....

Brought down by a cluster-fuck?

re: #78 jaunte

Nee money? Just print more.

YAY! INFLATION!
/

It's Football time.
and
Beer O'Clock

have a great day lizards

"Price signals" That is too much. In his mind he can control everything!

ATLAS SHRUGGED was a work of fiction when I first read it two decades ago.

This idiot is turning it into a work of nonfiction.

I simply cannot believe that almost 8 years after 9/11 this country is on the verge of destroying itself by electing this smug b*****d. Judging from the size of Michelle's Waldorf room service bill, Obama excludes himself from any behavior changes.

re: #85 Desert Dog

What amazes me is that this guy has been on the record saying things that would have AUTOMATICALLY disqualified anyone else before him to be President. Yet, he is poised to take that job in a few days (maybe). What is it about this guy that everyone loves so much. People should read what he says, not listen to it....when you read his policies, you realize just how radical this guy is......I wonder what all these Obamatrons will do after he's elected and their paycheck starts getting smaller, their electric bills start getting higher, gas costs more, everything costs more....what will they do then? Cling to the Hope and Change mantra?

I think more than love for Obama it is a media-frenzy of hatred toward Bush for 8 years that has created the ripe climate for this Revolution of Clowns.

arrrrrrrgh! Where was all this stuff weeks ago?

Jesus, why are we just hearing this today? Why the hell didn't the MSM report this months ago, or during the primaries so the dems could have at least selected a better choice? Christ, this guy beat Hillary?
I am sick to my stomach over the thought of this guy being elected.
If he is elected, I shall only refer to him as "Beloved Leader". I don't want to be "Plumbered".

re: #87 mama winger

I am so gonna have it made if Obama gets elected. You guys are going to be paying all my bills for me. My health care, my gas and electric, my mortgage .........

What's not to love?

/

Well, for openers, we'll have nothing to pay with....

Lord Numbnuts' policies will quickly become so onerous that major U.S. corporations will flee in droves to reincorporate overseas, just as a matter of due diligence.

/good luck pissing on Exxon after that

re: #93 The Other Les

ATLAS SHRUGGED was a work of fiction when I first read it two decades ago.

This idiot is turning it into a work of nonfiction.

Sort of his blueprint. Must find my inner Dagne

re: #94 Bobblehead

I simply cannot believe that almost 8 years after 9/11 this country is on the verge of destroying itself by electing this smug b*****d. Judging from the size of Michelle's Waldorf room service bill, Obama excludes himself from any behavior changes.

Urban legend -- didn't happen.

re: #81 arethusa

He has not driven that thing in quite a while.....I'd like to see him limo bills, even before he was candidate Obama

The ONLY bright spot to me would be that the dipshit down the road who runs his ATV all over the land and up and down the road would not be able to pay for the gas and would stop fucking up every pretty day with the incessant whine and growl of the engine.

Nah. I can put up with that.

re: #87 mama winger

You know the drill, Mama Winger. The big O wants people to think that way but if (and I mean if) he gets elected, it isn't going to go down like that. Capital will flee, the poor and the middle class will get shafted, and the ones that can afford to leave will.

re: #94 Bobblehead

I simply cannot believe that almost 8 years after 9/11 this country is on the verge of destroying itself by electing this smug b*****d. Judging from the size of Michelle's Waldorf room service bill, Obama excludes himself from any behavior changes.

It turned out to be false.

The hat tip for the video went to " . "

Can we call you dot? ;)

A while back, the NRA did a show about gun control in Australia & England. The show highlighted how citizens in those countries cannot defend themselves and it had interviews with Aussies and Britons, highly effective, because you got the word straight from the source.

I cannot for the life of me fathom why Republicans and Libertarians haven't done the same thing, have Euros who have fled socialism tell their stories on You Tube.

re: #94 Bobblehead

The bill may have been a hoax, but the ideologically pure are always excluded from sacrifice. Look at Bill "Commonwealth Edison" Ayers

re: #96 Who Watches the Watchmen?

arrrrrrrgh! Where was all this stuff weeks ago?

exactly! Just imagine how pissed we all are going to be when the tribute video of the PLO guy(don't care to memorize his name)comes out, and it will, weeks or months from now, and no one can do a thing about it!

re: #100 SpartanWoman

Who is John Galt?

/Not the biggest fan of Objectivism, but I'd prefer living under that than the socialist nightmare Obama and his friends have planned for us.

Okay guys - here's a challenge:

I'm going out to make calls for John McCain now. What are your plans for today ? What are you going to do? Is there a way you can make some calls, go door to door with flyers, man the stations at your local RNC HQ?

Give yourself two hours of concentrated effort and see what you can do, okay? There are only so many hours left. Make the most of your time.

Make a plan. Execute the plan. GO

see ya's later. I will expect a report :)

re: #104 mitthrawnurdo

You know the drill, Mama Winger. The big O wants people to think that way but if (and I mean if) he gets elected, it isn't going to go down like that. Capital will flee, the poor and the middle class will get shafted, and the ones that can afford to leave will.

see Great Britain.

re: #66 Jimmah

This seems to be a pattern in Obamas statements - 'we must change human behaviour to fit our enlightened policies'...

Looks like heavy handed socialism to me...

All the Left has ever offered to the rest of Humanity are chains or death.

Practically all of their policies are a elaboration of the Stone Age practice of assaulting or killing other people and taking their stuff for themselves.

"They are going to have to change the way they create power."

Ok, by your own admission, drilling for oil will take at least 10 years to have an effect. But you don't want more oil, more nuclear energy, or more coal. So whatever this completley undeveloped system you are talking about will take more than a decade to research, much less implement, and you will not let us use what we have in the meantime. Instead, I'm going to have to pay more because of your caps, but not only that, I'm going to have to take up the slack for those who don't pay their own.

I guess I'm just not compassionate enough to understand.

re: #84 FightingBack

She could run like Hill did.

hmmm, Michelle's success in the next decade would be quite a stretch, considering that even the DNC has judged she best be kept 'behind the scenes' right now - her intensity, toughness and obvious radicalism are a bit scary intimidating.

re: #109 ziggyelman

No one would do a thing about it now, either. Anointed is Anointed.

Bah, us stupid peasants can't be trusted to make the right decisions, let Government do it for us!
/sarc

In all seriousness, my right eye is twitching over the extreme amount of civil liberties and freewill that could be lost by Americans under an Obama Administration. My distaste for Obama's ideology grows significantly by day..

re: #110 mitthrawnurdo

Better to live in a society where you are rewarded for your efforts than in a reeducation camp.

re: #109 ziggyelman

The press will pat themselves on the back for hiding it. They are happy with their subterfuge and will feel no shame

re: #114 NC State of Mind

Well, that, and you seem like a bitter clinger. Unleash yourself and follow the O into the future, comrade!

Folks:

No amount of hemming and hawing here is going to convince undecided voters to vote for McCain. There's a good chance that the majority of people here are solidly McCain. Videos like the one above are ammunition against Obama. Put together a pamphlet, go door-to-door, make some calls... Anything!

Electing McCain is a non-negotiable necessity.

Charles, I confess to not following your Creatonist posts as closely as your others... But would it be safe to say that Obama's supporters are somewhat Creatonist in their views of Barry? Rather than being the result of 150+ years of evolution of Marxist ideologies - recently adapted to the unforgiving (for marxists) ecosystem of America - they think Barry guy was just miraculously created by God to deliver us from evil.

You know, unless of course, Barry IS God?

Not sure if that made any sense. I think I'm gonna go put a flexi-straw in a coffee pot and see where it leads me.

re: #81 arethusa

There aren't enough hybrids to keep the NYC taxi industry in business, so how and where are all the rest of the hybrids going to go... there simply aren't enough of them. And if you tax the bejeebus out of the coal industry, where is the power to run those plug in electrics that are supposed to be the cureall coming from?

Like all good Marxists, Obama cannot intuit the consequences of his ideology.

Without wealth and free markets, societies are doomed.

Every Marxist 'utopia' has failed and millions have suffered and died.

Obama can't change that fact.

re: #115 runrabbitrun

This is now. That will be Then.

re: #71 Marlin925

Comrade 0, I live in the country, where I bitterly cling to my guns and Holy Orthodox church. I drive an SUV because getting through Michigan lake effect snow won't happen in a Cooper Mini or Citroen.

Hell, driving in the Upper Peninsula in a old Ford Pinto in early June isn't fun either.

I'm in despair. Does anybody out there voting for Obama know about or even care about this stuff?! I could accept Obama winning fair and square, but people are basing their vote completely on lies of omission!

re: #23 arethusa

He can't help that. It's natural.///

The most smug I have ever seen him look is during the second debate when he lectured us all on preventative health care. From an underweight chain smoker, no less.

I think the freeze frame at the beginning of this video is a close second.

re: #64 MandyManners

Tell me more about this "Basil Haydens"
something tells me I might need some tuesday night...

All this "price control" stuff reminds me of the Roman Emperor Diocletian's Edict on Maximum Prices in 301. It tried to fix the Roman economy by combating inflation caused by a wildly debased coinage and setting prices for common goods. It just ended up making things worse and contributed to the decline of Rome. Obama's suggestion is for "behavioral" reasons, but messes with the economy as well, in ways as fundamental as Diocletian, without balancing it out. I expect it will have a similar effect.

OK, rest assured, that's the classical snippet for the day.

re: #122 lennysquiggy

Charles, I confess to not following your Creatonist posts as closely as your others... But would it be safe to say that Obama's supporters are somewhat Creatonist in their views of Barry? Rather than being the result of 150+ years of evolution of Marxist ideologies - recently adapted to the unforgiving (for marxists) ecosystem of America - they think Barry guy was just miraculously created by God to deliver us from evil.

You know, unless of course, Barry IS God?

Not sure if that made any sense. I think I'm gonna go put a flexi-straw in a coffee pot and see where it leads me.

Tape your phone to the ceiling now and have 911 on speed-dial.

re: #127 Reluctant Democrat

I'm in despair. Does anybody out there voting for Obama know about or even care about this stuff?! I could accept Obama winning fair and square, but people are basing their vote completely on lies of omission!

The answer is No. He's cool, he's young. That'll do it. (See Hillary)

Don't change the world, vote McCain.

re: #116 FightingBack

No one would do a thing about it now, either. Anointed is Anointed.

Well, that's true....some Jews might feel awfully stupid supporting him, if they knew what he said that day....pray someone somehow can get a copy of it...tomorrow? Tuesday would be too late. Yeah, I know...I'm a dreamer.

Time for the nation to wake up to the nightmare that could be our first communist/socialist/Marxist president.

re: #127 Reluctant Democrat

I'm in despair. Does anybody out there voting for Obama know about or even care about this stuff?! I could accept Obama winning fair and square, but people are basing their vote completely on lies of omission!

NO they don't care. If you tell them or furnish a link, they call you a selfish liar, or worse.

re: #129 redshirt

Tell me more about this "Basil Haydens"
something tells me I might need some tuesday night...

Some consider it the best bourbon ever distilled. Smoother than a baby's butt.

re: #15 arethusa

Huh? "Change my behavior"? Bub, if you want me to buy nothing beyond the essentials ever again, keep it up.

Think I'll go buy myself that iPod I've been considering now...

__________________________________
My cousins in the former DDR [East Germany] had plenty of essential food to eat - potatoes and more potatoes and then some more potatoes.
They had money [like aluminum coins] but there wasn't anything on the shelves to buy.
IF one was a card carrying Communist then things were a little better; you could buy Cuban cigars. That's one way we knew one of our cousins wasn't to be trusted.

re: #129 redshirt

Tell me more about this "Basil Haydens"
something tells me I might need some tuesday night...

Oh, and it's not for slamming back. It's to be sipped.

re: #105 MandyManners

Doesn't matter whether it was false or not. Both of them have that air of "do as I say not as I do" mentality that seems to be a part of any liberal's bag of tricks.

re: #139 MandyManners

Oh, and it's not for slamming back. It's to be sipped.

How much does it cost? I may buy some for Tuesday night.

re: #138 right_on_target

__________________________________
My cousins in the former DDR [East Germany] had plenty of essential food to eat - potatoes and more potatoes and then some more potatoes.
They had money [like aluminum coins] but there wasn't anything on the shelves to buy.
IF one was a card carrying Communist then things were a little better; you could buy Cuban cigars. That's one way we knew one of our cousins wasn't to be trusted.

No cabbage? No beets?

re: #136 SpartanWoman

NO they don't care. If you tell them or furnish a link, they call you a selfish liar, or worse.

Or, they refuse to look at the evidence. Just flat-out refuse. I've had that happen.

re: #109 ziggyelman

exactly! Just imagine how pissed we all are going to be when the tribute video of the PLO guy(don't care to memorize his name)comes out, and it will, weeks or months from now, and no one can do a thing about it!

We've been royally hosed.

re: #137 MandyManners

I'm a single malt scotch kind of guy, but always looking for something new.
Is it pricey? Cause all I'm gonna have is change if "Beloved Leader" gets elected.

re: #140 Bobblehead

Doesn't matter whether it was false or not. Both of them have that air of "do as I say not as I do" mentality that seems to be a part of any liberal's bag of tricks.

Her mentality is what caused many to believe it.

Obama lies and uses the Heritage Foundation in his ads.

the Hertiage Foundation has asked him to stop, but Obama won't.

Obama's punitive taxes will ruin this nation. But his fawning press will paint a picture that "everything is wonderful" even as jobs are cut and unemployment skyrockets.

mark my words.

re: #138 right_on_target

__________________________________
My cousins in the former DDR [East Germany] had plenty of essential food to eat - potatoes and more potatoes and then some more potatoes.
They had money [like aluminum coins] but there wasn't anything on the shelves to buy.
IF one was a card carrying Communist then things were a little better; you could buy Cuban cigars. That's one way we knew one of our cousins wasn't to be trusted.

I can hardly wait for that Utopia! Perhaps if I join the new Domestic People's Army Lord Obama is going to make, my lot in life will be good as well? So, you all have that then? > Join the Party, enlist in the People's Army....you will not have to stand in line as long, and you might get a nicer government apartment from the Central Committee!

re: #54 cobalt blue

The biggest area for Obama's use of "price signals" to change behavior, obviously, is going to be in the field of government-funded health insurance. Namely, if you wish to have health insurance, you must give up risky behavior ___. Government socialized medicine will be the instrument of massive social behavioral controls.

Ding Ding Ding

Socialized medicine gives the state a vested interest in citizens behavior. Further expansion of the Nanny state. Further control over its citizens.

Barry, you are a naive, little man.

re: #40 FightingBack

Cutbacks. Already.

Can't we get a 700 billion MB bailout from the government?

re: #134 ziggyelman

How much more do they need? He doesn't deny he was in the congregation, does he?
What do they think, he was the Shabbos Goy?

re: #96 Who Watches the Watchmen?

arrrrrrrgh! Where was all this stuff weeks ago?

It's always been there, the media has refused to report it.

If Obama wins, it would be much easier for me to take if I thought people knew what they were actually voting for, but they don't.

Why should we be surprised. When the cost of gas rose to $4 a GALLON. The only problem Obama had with that was it rose too fast! (He said that in a video interview.)

OT - YouTubie no longer has that Affleck/Olberidiot video - does anyone have a copy to view?

Thanks.

re: #143 Occasional Reader

Or, they refuse to look at the evidence. Just flat-out refuse. I've had that happen.

It's a cult, not even an ideology. One bright note is that a man I work with, big time dem, picked up a copy of O's last book believing he would learn about his idol. After reading it he decided to vote McCain and said "I had no idea. I don't agree with any of this shit!"

Maybe they should have to read his memoir.

Anybody remember John Lovitz on SNL (as Dukakis) looks right at the camera (during a debate) and says, "I can't believe I'm losing to this guy."

Hope. Faith. Charity.

Dope. Pain. Therapy.

/Obama win

Regarding Beloved Leaders" new national security group, would it be fair to call them "NaSe's"? (nasee)

OT:
Has anyone seen that Axe Chocolate guy commercial?

At first it was creepy, but by the end of the commercial I was almost in tears I was laughing so hard.

Just received a chain/mass email from an online buddy (who's actually a very infrequent commenter here) which purports to have info from "internal polling" taken by the Republicans over the last week -- i.e. the polling which has the real data about voter preferences, not the slanted crap produced for public consumption. Anyway, according to this mass-email, the Republican internals are WAY rosier for McCain than the standard Gallup/etc. polls. In fact, McCain is ahead in most if not all battleground states.

Don't know how much stake to put in that -- could be real, or could be just a way to give McCain voters a reason to go to the polls on Tuesday.

Civilian Security Force

Why would we even need that?

/because it's the only way to confiscate all personal firearms, think about it

Pay more for electricity?

Here in the socialist hellhole of NYC this summer, I paid over $100 a month in electricity bills to ConEd to air condition my 300 square foot apartment. I turned all appliances off when I was not in my apartment, which was pretty much from Monday through Friday, from 7am to 7pm.

How much more can you f*cking take away from me Obama? Do you want my firstborn?

re: #141 rightymouse

How much does it cost? I may buy some for Tuesday night.

Depending on your local taxes, a fifth is just $40-$50.

I am off to forage for lunch. I will ensure that it is a lowfat, dolphin-safe lunch; I will change my behavior.

I love Big Brother.

Under the spreading Chestnut Tree
I sold you, and you sold me...

re: #64 MandyManners

That's it exactly.

I'm gonna' retreat to the corner and cling to my bottle of Basil Hayden's.

OK, but you'd better be in good shape by Tuesday.

re: #163 La Mauvaise New Yorkaise

Only his Mind.

re: #155 Miss Trixie

OT - YouTubie no longer has that Affleck/Olberidiot video - does anyone have a copy to view?

Thanks.

Try NBC.com. They usually have SNL skits on there.

re: #145 redshirt

I'm a single malt scotch kind of guy, but always looking for something new.
Is it pricey? Cause all I'm gonna have is change if "Beloved Leader" gets elected.

See no. 164.

re: #88 zombie

Really? Link?

Link -- Asteroid!

Quote --

It may very well be that an army of glum, dispirited and pessimistic conservatives will reluctantly trudge to the polls on November 4, each one imagining they are the only remaining person in the entire country voting for McCain, and lo and behold — they’ll turn out to be a silent majority after all.

re: #160 CyanSnowHawk

yes. frikin hilarious. Do you have Comcast where you are and if you do how do you like all of their commercials? example: "Save a load of Benjamins"

I had a revelation last night, being that I'm a young lass, I never experienced the "malaise" of the Carter years and have been a Republican/Libertarian by way of my upbringing. Due to the mass adulation of my generation and the younger generation and the MSM, I'm going to experience the Carter malaise (Thanks jerks!).

I made my dad give me the lowdown on the Carter years last night over coffee and cigarettes. Dear me, when Biden said "Gird your loins", he wasn't kidding.

re: #150 WindHorse

Barry, you are a naive, little man.

There is NOTHING naive about him. He knows what he's doing.

re: #90 rightymouse

Who just said "nee!"?

He did say that he would change America, AND the world.

seriously though, how arrogant is it to say that Americans like to have every light in their houses on?

rascist, selfish, wasteful, bitter and clinging. a portriat of middle-America by Barack Obama.

O on Nuclear - voted twice against Yucca Mtn storage, voted for more stringent regs on Nuclear plants (if any coal or gas fired plant had to meet the regs nuclear does they would be bankrupt.... wait that sounds familiar....) Voted twice against drilling ANWR. Was opposed in past to offshore drilling, changed stance just for the election.

Will end the notion of Yucca Mountain nuclear storage
I will end the notion of Yucca Mountain because it has not been based on the sort of sound science that can assure people that they're going to be safe. That was a mistake. You hate to see billions of dollars having already been spent, but I don't want to spend additional billions of dollars and potentially create a situation that is not safe. I've been clear from the start that Yucca was a misconceived project. I want to get the best experts and make a determination on the best science available.
Source: 2008 Democratic debate in Las Vegas Jan 15, 2008

Promote green technologies and fuel efficiency standards
this to happen, we've got to be courageous enough to not just talk about it in front of the sierra club or organizations already sympathetic to us. When I announced my proposal to increase fuel efficiency standards on cars, I went to Detroit in front of the automakers and said they had to change their ways. I have to say the room was quiet and nobody clapped, but that's okay. Part of what the next president has to do is not just tell the American people what they want to hear, but what they need to hear
Source: 2007 Des Moines Register Democratic Debate Dec 13, 2007

Organized inner-city recycling; fought environmental racism
One environmental magazine called Obama a "bona-fide, card-carrying, bleeding-heart greenie." As a student at Columbia University, Obama worked for three months as an environmental activist to promote recycling in Harlem. As a community organizer, he fought against environmental racism by helping public housing residents demand to have their apartments tested for asbestos and repaired. He noted, "Environmentalism is not an upper-income issue, it's not a black issue, it's not a South or a North or an East or a West issue. It's an issue that all of us have a stake in."
Obama introduced a bill requiring more pollution controls at coal plants to block Bush from rolling back the Clean Air Act in Illinois. He cosponsored a bill to require that 10% of electricity in the state come from renewable sources by 2012, and supported measures to increase energy efficiency codes. Obama sought tougher standards for diesel engines and proposed protecting wetland and stopping toxic dumping.

More here and here

re: #163 La Mauvaise New Yorkaise

Pay more for electricity?

Here in the socialist hellhole of NYC this summer, I paid over $100 a month in electricity bills to ConEd to air condition my 300 square foot apartment. I turned all appliances off when I was not in my apartment, which was pretty much from Monday through Friday, from 7am to 7pm.

How much more can you f*cking take away from me Obama? Do you want my firstborn?

If the past history of Socialist States is any reasonable indication of probable behavior of the Obama administration then the answer is YES!

re: #171 bellamags

yes. frikin hilarious. Do you have Comcast where you are and if you do how do you like all of their commercials? example: "Save a load of Benjamins"

I've got Cox for my cable provider. I don't think Comcast is anywhere in the San Diego area.

re: #167 FightingBack

Right. They want your kid from birth to 7 years old, then you can have your kid back.

/Following the old Stalin adage of training the child during their early years to form the base of their indoctrination.

#131:

Excellent idea. Thank you.

re: #162 Killian Bundy

Civilian Security Force

Why would we even need that?

/because it's the only way to confiscate all personal firearms, think about it

I'll whack 'em with my empty bottles.

re: #166 Gang of One

OK, but you'd better be in good shape by Tuesday.

I'm not drinking it. Just clinging to it.

re: #175 alien_mind

Imagine an entire country lit by a single 40 watt bulb.

re: #170 Fearless Fred

Oh, yeah, that -- I saw that two days ago! Thanks for re-pointing it out though. I thought there was a new mention yesterday!

Being linked to by Bill Whittle -- can cross that one off my list of life-goals.

Look behind you, Obama!

My Facebook is full of LGF posts I've Shared. My computer is practically smoking from all of the emails I've been sending this week.

I am so grateful that all of this is finally coming to light, but I am FURIOUS that the mainstream media has actively refused to do it's job this election cycle.

Average, non-journalist citizens have had to take up the slack. And it's awesome that these people- Charles, Zombie, and all the others here and at other blogs spent many hours and much effort to bring the outrageous past of this man who is running for President into the light and the public eye.

But the fact is that it is the profession, the job, of journalists and the media to do this. They get paid for it, it's what they do, it's how they make their living.For them to turn their backs on the basic tenant of their job, which is to get the truth and information to the people who are depending on them for the news of the day is despicable. The fact that the rest of us are having to do our jobs, go to work every day doing what we do to make a living- and then also have to do the journalists jobs too is just ridiculous in the supreme, and makes me sick.

I saw this quote today:

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. -Thomas Jefferson

it works for all the media, really- and it pretty much sums up how I feel about the MSM anymore.

re: #160 CyanSnowHawk

Hey, you play Warcraft III on battlenet?

re: #164 MandyManners

Depending on your local taxes, a fifth is just $40-$50.

Yikes!

re: #14 looking closely

I'm going to send Senator Obama my own "signal" on Tuesday.

I already have.

re: #172 baxtrice

I had a revelation last night, being that I'm a young lass, I never experienced the "malaise" of the Carter years and have been a Republican/Libertarian by way of my upbringing. Due to the mass adulation of my generation and the younger generation and the MSM, I'm going to experience the Carter malaise (Thanks jerks!).

I made my dad give me the lowdown on the Carter years last night over coffee and cigarettes. Dear me, when Biden said "Gird your loins", he wasn't kidding.

I vaguely remember it. Even I knew it was shitty.

Damn, that's a whole new vocabulary I'm not willing to learn.

I'm heading out to deliver some signs, back in a bit.

re: #163 La Mauvaise New Yorkaise

How much more can you f*cking take away from me Obama? Do you want my firstborn?

He and Michelle have admitted that they will not be satisfied until all of us are conscripted into his socialist army of global reformers. They have lots of unpaid work for us to do.

re: #189 Macker

I already have.

That will soon become illegal and earn you some jailtime

Americans like to leave on their lights in their house

That civilian military force that Obama wants to built is going to go around turning out your lights?

re: #183 FightingBack

Imagine an entire country lit by a single 40 watt bulb.

And, the bulb is sitting in the Oval Office.

re: #119 SpartanWoman

The press will pat themselves on the back for hiding it. They are happy with their subterfuge and will feel no shame

The press and academics who adore the One assume of course that hardship will not ever happen to them!
And in a way they're right - think of the life of the Nomenklatura in Soviet Russia, compared to that of the masses.

Conceptualize misery, vote Obama.

re: #170 Fearless Fred

No, Here is an ASTEROID. So maybe all this worry is for not...

re: #188 rightymouse

Yikes!

Worth every cent.

re: #174 favorednation

Who just said "nee!"?

We need more shrubberies! Let's print lots and lots of shrubberies!

re: #195 Opinionated

More like breaking them if the behavior of certain Obamatrons is of any indication.

re: #175 alien_mind

PIMF! Portrait

re: #182 MandyManners

I'm not drinking it. Just clinging to it.

Then can I drink it? You can keep the bottle, m'kay?

re: #178 CyanSnowHawk

They aren't the greatest cable provider, but their advertising keeps me from dropping them.

re: #195 Opinionated

That civilian military force that Obama wants to built is going to go around turning out your lights?

They'll leave warnings nailed to your door at first.

re: #201 rightymouse

To each according to his nee!

We can NOT afford 4 years of this guy!

re: #183 FightingBack

Imagine an entire country lit by a single 40 watt bulb.

Ever see a satellite photo of North Korea at night? A little cluster of lights around Pyongyang, and utter darkness everywhere else.

re: #200 MandyManners

Worth every cent.

Haven't done bourbon in a while. I'll take your word on this. It will be a perfect night to imbibe. :)

re: #187 mitthrawnurdo

Hey, you play Warcraft III on battlenet?

No, why? Did someone snake my nic?

re: #204 Gang of One

Then can I drink it? You can keep the bottle, m'kay?

Noooooooooooooooooo.

re: #173 MandyManners

There is NOTHING naive about him. He knows what he's doing.

Exactly what he is doing. And he knows the consequences. And, he only cares about the speed in which he can cause these consequences.

Loved this from the thread downstairs...

capitalistbaby
I hate this guy with the fire of a thousand suns.

re: #186 gop_patriot

You were raised right. They were told that their job is to get The Message out.
Truth doesn't enter into it. But their day is ending, and I hope it's not too late.

re: #207 jaunte

To each according to his nee!

Absoluteleeeee!

re: #190 MandyManners

I vaguely remember it. Even I knew it was shitty.

I remember it well. The want ads in Lansing Michigan were 4 inches long in the paper...and only for welders. I stayed in school as I was able to find nothing. Michigan never really recovered and Obama wants Michigan for the rest of us.

I ate a lot of rice

re: #209 doppelganglander

The only pace there will be lights will bw the White House and Bill Ayers house. The rest of us will using hand cranked generators to run our computers so we can be on LGF.

re: #210 rightymouse

Haven't done bourbon in a while. I'll take your word on this. It will be a perfect night to imbibe. :)

For Tuesday.

He, like most liberals, has no respect for the law of unintended consequences, for example: Remember the "luxury tax" the dems shoved down Bush I's throat back in 1990? Rich folks took their business overseas and workers at marinas here lost their jobs. Result, reduced tax revenue and increased suffering. That's what you get when you "tax the rich."

re: #209 doppelganglander

Ever see a satellite photo of North Korea at night? A little cluster of lights around Pyongyang, and utter darkness everywhere else.

2012 campaign slogan
"OBAMA

BRINGING AMERICA DARKNESS SINCE 2009"

Obama: I won't answer any questions until after the election.

re: #192 Thanos

Heh. Here's yer sign.

re: #162 Killian Bundy

Civilian Security Force

Why would we even need that?

/because it's the only way to confiscate all personal firearms, think about it

Well hell, I never wanted to die old and sick anyway.

OBAMA"S PRICE BEHAVIORS

Punish behavior with MORE taxes
More Sloth reward it with government handouts
Punish success you get less success

Outcome: Failed Economy
Governmental Control

re: #216 SpartanWoman

I saw a lot of Michigan license plates in Houston during those years.

IBD/TIPP (the most accurate poll in terms of final percentage of the votes in 2004) has McCain within 2.1, within their margin of error.

re: #213 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

And, what he doesn't know, his future members of the politburo will take up the slack.

re: #207 jaunte

To each according to his nee!

The Knights who say NEE!

Lizards, you can call for McCain/Palin from your own home. The campaign website will hook you up with phone numbers in battleground states.

[Link: www.johnmccain.com...]

I spent 8 hours walking and knocking on doors for the campaign. While I was out, somebody left a McCain door hanger on my place :-)

Henderson, NV is getting lots of attention, and I walked yesterday with Californians who were here for their second weekend!

Get out and do something, or just call from home. It's easy!

re: #190 MandyManners

I vaguely remember it. Even I knew it was shitty.

My dad used about the same vocabulary. :)

The pessimist in me says: I'm pissed to a certain extent, I feel like the next 4 years of my life are about to be confiscated to someone else (but Socialism will do that for you..) I am going to hold a nasty grudge against my generation come Tuesday...

The optimist in me says: Americans simply cannot let this happen to them. They're smarter than this.

re: #193 runrabbitrun

He and Michelle have admitted that they will not be satisfied until all of us are conscripted into his socialist army of global reformers. They have lots of unpaid work for us to do.

opps, I forgot that even Tito the Builder admitted that we will be granted 0.97 cents per hour.

re: #211 CyanSnowHawk

Well, I remember playing somebody with your nic or one similar. Wasn't too long ago. I cling to Warcraft III whenever experiments go bad or I'm generally having a bad day (can't play Dawn of War online for some reason or another).

/Got my ass kicked and was going to commend (or yell) at you for it, lol.

re: #221 NoSubmission

Obama: I won't answer any questions until after the election.

And then he will answer them by having the person asking them arrested and re-educated....

re: #216 SpartanWoman

I remember it well. The want ads in Lansing Michigan were 4 inches long in the paper...and only for welders. I stayed in school as I was able to find nothing. Michigan never really recovered and Obama wants Michigan for the rest of us.

I ate a lot of rice

Well you'll fit right in for the next four years if BHO wins.

re: #101 Opilio

Urban legend -- didn't happen.

Are you missing a sarc tag, or are you serious?

re: #206 MandyManners

They'll leave warnings nailed to your door at first.

My guess is that they will also turn out some lights if anyone braves to attend political demonstrations against the Administration. And without any warning.

OT - If Obama is elected, here is a glimpse of the future:

I own a tanning salon and have to change the lamps out of the beds about once per year. I used to take my old lamps to the local dump and they would dispose of them for around seventeen cents each. I take roughly 350 lamps. I would cost me around $60.
A month ago I pulled up to the dump and she said "we don't take those anymore. You have to call this number". I called them and they offered to come get them and dispose of them for the low low price of $3.00 each!
They are still sitting in my garage.

I am sick of this argument that we have to change via government mandate.

They always assume there is a finate amount of wealth. There isn't. The amount of wealth can be expanded in a way that benefits everyone. Same with all this crap about energy conservation. We cannot conserve our way into more energy. All we can do is diminish our way of life.

We should be seeking alternative, cheaper, and cleaner forms of energy. This makes sense in the long run....it is less expensive then polution, etc. At the same time, we need the old energy to survive long enough to lead us to alternatives. We cannot go bankrupt and then develop new things. Where will the money to support this come from? You cannot tax your way to wealth, either.

Why should Americans lessen their way of life in order to improve the lot of others? All this does is make the third world feel more equal because we will be third world as well. We need to raise people up, not tear them down.

Obama is anti-capitalism...hence he is anti-American to my way of thinking.

re: #226 arethusa

IBD/TIPP (the most accurate poll in terms of final percentage of the votes in 2004) has McCain within 2.1, within their margin of error.

Wasn't it like, 1.1 last week?

It's quite obvious that the whole "man-made global warming" hoax is a method for destroying capitalism. "Energy" is the life-blood of all economies, and if you intentionally make energy unaffordable, as Obama just overtly stated he would do, you are purposely crippling the capitalist system. This whole thing with carbon-tax and "carbon credits" and blah blah blah is just one giant euphemism for: Let's destroy the capitalist system. And Obama is stepping up the to plate to make that happen.

Obama says:

No more energy from coal. Period.

No more nuke plants -- I'll vote against any new waste disposal sites, making new plants unfeasible.

No more drilling for oil.

I will purposely cause electricity rates to skyrocket.

Instead, let's place our hopes in pie-in-sky non-existent future energy sources that I KNOW are decades away from being feasible.

Basically, Obama has already spelled out his blueprint for destroying the economy ON PURPOSE.

Hey. Anybody who can tell me if you can, or how to quote a comment from a previous thread without cutting and pasting it?

re: #214 FightingBack

I know it's been ranted here before, but I just had to get it off my chest. Thanks for listening. lol

*sigh*

re: #209 doppelganglander

Yes, thanks, I have. Have you ever flown down the Eastern Seaboard and seen the beautiful lights stretch along the entire route?

Obama : America
Mugabe : Zimbabwe

re: #235 BaseballMom57

Yeah, I also read that the Michelle hotel thing was an urban legend. (I think the correction showed up on the NY Post).

re: #230 baxtrice

My dad used about the same vocabulary. :)

The pessimist in me says: I'm pissed to a certain extent, I feel like the next 4 years of my life are about to be confiscated to someone else (but Socialism will do that for you..) I am going to hold a nasty grudge against my generation come Tuesday...

The optimist in me says: Americans simply cannot let this happen to them. They're smarter than this.

I ran into an Eeyore at the park yesterday. I gave him a friendly ass-chewing.

Just make sure you go vote....and tell all your friends to vote too.....except the ones that want to vote for Obama....tell them to hop in a lake instead!

re: #218 MandyManners

For Tuesday.

I'd like to stay sober. Can one do that drinking this brand of bourbon?

re: #226 arethusa

I see why McCain has been spending all of his time in PA, OH & VA. Look at all of the undecideds. If he can get 2/3 of them then he can squeek by.

Dick Morris says McCain is getting over 2/3s of the undecideds. I am calling the battleground states todya and tomorrow. Thank God for Vonage!

re: #236 Opinionated

My guess is that they will also turn out some lights if anyone braves to attend political demonstrations against the Administration. And without any warning.

Light lights or the brain's lights?

re: #240 TheMatrix31

Wasn't it like, 1.1 last week?

Only one day - here's how that poll has been moving:

Date McCain Obama Not Sure Spread Details
11/2 44.6% 46.7% 8.7% Obama +2.1 View
11/1 43.4% 47.9% 8.7% Obama +4.5 View
10/31 43.8% 48.2% 8.0% Obama +4.4 View
10/30 43.6% 47.7% 8.7% Obama +4.1 View
10/29 43.9% 46.9% 9.2% Obama +3.0 View
10/28 43.7% 47.7% 8.6% Obama +4.0 View
10/27 44.2% 47.0% 8.8% Obama +2.8 View
10/26 43.3% 46.5% 10.1% Obama +3.2 View
10/25 41.9% 45.8% 12.2% Obama +3.9 View
10/24 42.3% 45.8% 11.9% Obama +3.5 View
10/23 43.7% 44.8% 11.6% Obama +1.1 View
10/22 42.0% 45.7% 12.3% Obama +3.7 View
10/21 40.9% 46.9% 12.1% Obama +6.0 View
10/20 41.4% 46.7% 11.9% Obama +5.3 View
10/19 41.5% 46.6% 11.9% Obama +5.1 View
10/18 39.8% 47.2% 13.0% Obama +7.3 View
10/17 40.6% 45.9% 13.5% Obama +5.3 View
10/16 41.6% 45.2% 13.2% Obama +3.6 View
10/15 41.9% 45.2% 12.9% Obama +3.3 View
10/14 41.9% 44.8% 13.3% Obama +3.0 View
10/13 42.7% 44.8% 12.5% Obama +2.1 View

re: #183 FightingBack

Arg. Why is it that people feel that *WASTING* energy is their God-given right? Are you insane? Do you just want to flush money down the drain that could go in your pocket?

Incandescent vs. CFL, or better yet LED (yes, you can get them now from China, the US can't make them). 7% of the energy usage! Laptop computer (new) - 50W. New Energy Star washer / dryer - 80% less energy use than a model 7 years ago. New heat pump - 16SEER available. Triple pane Low-e windows - cuts your heating/cooling bills by 70%.

Energy efficiency is not a liberal / conservative issue. My parents are die-hard conservatives, but they built their house a decade ago using ground-source heat pumps, high insulation, south-facing passive solar. Electric

re: #245 tappin52

That would be a good question for the SATs!

Embrace double digit inflation and double digit unemployment, vote Obama.

re: #221 NoSubmission

May Jake Tapper's name be erased from the Book of Life along with all the other journalists who abandoned their country to join a personality cult.

re: #161 zombie

Just received a chain/mass email from an online buddy (who's actually a very infrequent commenter here) which purports to have info from "internal polling" taken by the Republicans over the last week -- i.e. the polling which has the real data about voter preferences, not the slanted crap produced for public consumption. Anyway, according to this mass-email, the Republican internals are WAY rosier for McCain than the standard Gallup/etc. polls. In fact, McCain is ahead in most if not all battleground states.

Don't know how much stake to put in that -- could be real, or could be just a way to give McCain voters a reason to go to the polls on Tuesday.

The Democrats surely know this, too. That may be why the Obama campaign is running massive amounts of advertising in states the Media thought they had in the bag, like Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio.

re: #237 bellamags

OT - If Obama is elected, here is a glimpse of the future:

I own a tanning salon and have to change the lamps out of the beds about once per year. I used to take my old lamps to the local dump and they would dispose of them for around seventeen cents each. I take roughly 350 lamps. I would cost me around $60.
A month ago I pulled up to the dump and she said "we don't take those anymore. You have to call this number". I called them and they offered to come get them and dispose of them for the low low price of $3.00 each!
They are still sitting in my garage.

BHO's thugs will take them for $20.00 each.

re: #248 Desert Dog

Just make sure you go vote....and tell all your friends to vote too.....except the ones that want to vote for Obama....tell them to hop in a lake instead!

Nah. Just make you tell all Obama voters about the special VIP voting on Wednesday afternoon.

re: #219 blastforth

He, like most liberals, has no respect for the law of unintended consequences, for example: Remember the "luxury tax" the dems shoved down Bush I's throat back in 1990? Rich folks took their business overseas and workers at marinas here lost their jobs. Result, reduced tax revenue and increased suffering. That's what you get when you "tax the rich."

DING! DING! DING! We have a WINNER!
Tax away luxuries and other products, peeps who make their living with saws, hammers, and rulers go on the unemployment line.

re: #254 windbrother

Strawman.

re: #234 MandyManners

Well you'll fit right in for the next four years if BHO wins.

Rice is more expensive these days. Maybe my dogs will share

When Clinton enacted the retroactive tax hike on small businesses, my wifes company employed 3 full time and one part time employees.

Following this tax, all four employees were let go, and I had to cash in a life insurance account just to pay the IRS.

Ms Clinton made a statement when asked about this effect on America's small businesses. saying "We can't help it if this companies do not have proper cash flow"

O will do nothing less