can’t hardly see the Duck Tape residue...

Michelle Obama will appear as a guest on ... “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” on Wednesday, October 8

Mrs. Obama also will drop by “Larry King Live” at 9 p.m. Wednesday on CNN.

awaiting connections...

A University of Tennessee student who is the son of a Memphis legislator has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of hacking Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s personal e-mail.

*runz in circles*

Obama Admits Bumming Cigarettes on the Campaign Trail

...“I figure, seeing as I’m running for president, I need to cut myself a little slack.”

Contestants in the 2008 Amazing Beauties Philippines, a beauty pageant for transsexuals and cross-dressers, pictured backstage in Manila.

whitewash

Nevada state authorities seized records and computers Tuesday from the Las Vegas office of an organization that tries to get low-income people registered to vote, after fielding complaints of voter fraud. 

Guess.  No, really - guess.

...the raid was prompted by ongoing complaints about “erroneous” registration information being submitted by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN. ...through a voter sign-up drive known as Project Vote.

You guessed didn’t ya?

“Some of them used nonexistent names, some of them used false addresses and some of them were duplicates of previously filed applications,”

response?

“Today’s raid by the secretary of state’s office is a stunt that serves no useful purpose other than discredit our work registering Nevadans and distracting us from the important work ahead of getting every eligible voter to the polls.”

In WA, in 2006, “ACORN submitted just over 1,800 new voter registration forms, and all but six of the 1,800 names were fake.”

More recently, 27,000 registrations handled by the group from January to July 2008 “went into limbo because they were incomplete, inaccurate, or fraudulent,” said James Terry, chief public advocate at the Consumers Rights League.

Comuuuuunity Activism.

John McCain is a RACIST CRACKER.

So we have McCain today getting his crowd riled up asking who Barack Obama is and then apparently giving a wink and a nod when one member of the crowd screams out “terrorist.”

And later we have Sarah Palin with the same mob racket, getting members of the crowd to yell out “kill him”, though it’s not clear whether the call for murder was for Bill Ayers or Barack Obama. It didn’t seem to matter.

These are dangerous and sick people, McCain and Palin. Whatever it takes. Stop at nothing.

See for yourself:

The look on McCain’s face reveals that he in fact heard the man shout “terrorist,” and yet he says nothing. As Josh Marshall appropriately says, it’s the “Scare-Talk Express.”

William Ayers, Chicago’s Citizen of the Year award winner 1997

Her performance?
Positively horrible.

The 545 People Responsible For All Of U.S. Woes

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president and nine Supreme Court justices - 545 human beings out of the 235 million - are directly, legally, morally and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.......................

Pat Riotic

Shares on the main Arab stock markets have fallen sharply amid concern the financial crisis in the US and Europe is spreading to the Middle East.

Egypt’s main index dropped by more than 16%, while shares in Saudi Arabia lost about 8% cent of their value.

Both markets have dropped by more than 40% since the beginning of 2008.

Analysts spoke of panic in markets, with investors concerned about the future for banks, and companies exposed to a faltering property market.

While billions of dollars were wiped off share values in the Arab world, the Israeli stock exchange rose sharply after the central bank cut interest rates.

JR had the nerve to flip me shit about my shoe closet the other day when he opened the door and shoes fell out.
( To be honest, it WAS a bit disheveled )

So I tidied it tonight AND MADE MORE ROOM!!!

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

*snerk* ‘em if ya got ‘em

*clicky*clicky*

Ya got ‘em if ya can *snerk* ‘em…

but it hit Drudger

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has raised about $3.3 million from contributors who did not list a home state or who designated their state with an abbreviation that did not match one of the 50 states or U.S. territories, according to records provided by the Federal Election Commission.

And when combined with this...

Thing is, we likely won’t find out anything substantial until it’s too late.  Maybe Nancy will call for a full scale investigation and they’ll haul his arse off to jail…

...and maybe UF really will power my car Giant SUV™ tomorrow.

the storm commences

“They are trying to throw out these codes,” said Representative Gregory Meeks, a Democrat from New York.

“Codes?” My kingdom for a cryptographer!

“He’s ‘not one of us?’” Mr. Meeks said, referring to a comment Sarah Palin made at a campaign rally on Oct. 6 in Florida. “That’s racial. That’s fear. They know they can’t win on the issues, so the last resort they have is race and fear.”
“Racism is alive and well in this country, and McCain and Palin are trying to appeal to that and it’s unfortunate,” said Representative Ed Towns, also from New York.

...“If McCain’s attacks don’t cross the line, they’re certainly teetering on it,” said Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. of Illinois. “He is certainly appealing to people’s fears and not their hopes.”

...“Some may say their true colors are showing,” said Representative Yvette Clarke of New York. [hey - isn’t *that* raaacist??] ...“Who exactly is Joe Six-Pack and who are these hockey moms? That’s what I’d like to know,” she said. “Is that supposed to be terminology that is of common ground to all Americans? I don’t find that. It leaves a lot of people out.”

...New York State Senator Bill Perkins, an early supporter of Mr. Obama, said, “They are obviously playing on people’s fears and prejudices in a desperate way. While not explicitly relating to race, they are clearly creating the opportunity for those inclined to come to those conclusions. I think it is going to become more explicit as we move forward. It’s subtle now, but not so subtle as to be mistaken.”

...And Kevin Parker, a New York state senator from Brooklyn, said, “If you have to remind people that Barack Obama is African-American, you have reached the bottom.” [who said that?  you.]

...

Refresher:

“This is not a man who sees America like you and I see America,” [Palin] said. “We see America as a force of good in this world. We see an America of exceptionalism.”

Raaaciist?  uhm, yeah, okay.  How again?

McCain Campaign responds:

“It is disappointing that Barack Obama and his supporters continue to play the race card from the bottom of the deck. This is a tactic that the Obama Campaign has used before, and which McCain campaign manager Rick Davis correctly called ‘divisive, shameful, and wrong.’ It is legitimate for John McCain to ask questions about Barack Obama’s relationship with the unrepentant domestic terrorist William Ayers because Senator Obama has not been truthful about this relationship.  Many Americans want these questions answered. Despite the fact that Barack Obama has been running for president since joining the Senate, many Americans are still wondering, ‘who is Barack Obama?’ These comments are a sure sign of a flailing campaign that refuses to be honest with voters and that is bordering on desperation.”

Too verbose and not sound-byte-able.  But accurate.

timing

The government of Kenya is holding WND senior staff reporter Jerome Corsi incommunicado at the airport until he departs the country after police shut down a scheduled news conference in which he planned to announce the findings of his investigation into Barack Obama’s connections in the country.

...Corsi had promised a news conference today that would “expose details of deep secret ties between U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and a section of Kenya government leaders, their connection to certain sectoral groups in Kenya and subsequent plot to be executed in Kenya should Senator Obama win the American presidency.”

How dumb is it to poke a snake with a stick then hold a presser in its den?

...the management of the hotel where Corsi was scheduled to hold the press conference has repudiated its plans to provide the facility.

In a press release, the hotel said: “We would like to assure our business partners and the public at large that Laico Regency Hotel is a law-abiding institution and does not condone any smear campaigns. The management cannot allow such activities to take place.”

Well, that was pretty clear…

“Obama is revered in Kenya for his paternal roots here and as a flagbearer for Africa on the international stage,” explained the [al] Reuters dispatch.

There may be a cousin and a school that may be a leedle ticked with him…

Not this fella, tho....

impressions

DROP DOWN TO NEXT THREAD PLEASE—I DUNNO HOW I MANAGED TO START 2 *oy*

Mine & yerz:

Yeah—the economy is all about the Bushies.  And the Most Important thing is to make sure the executives don’t profit…

impressions
typos R Me

now below the fold, in the past, gone with the wind-power, down the stream, gone like Michelle, .....

“the sinking ship of free market republicans going beneath the waves...”
on Fox.  woman in orange.  re: on top of the $700 billion, buying mortgages. 
and she’s right.  $300B MORE.

[Michelle’s zipper - it flashes!]

When is it no longer my fucking problem?

..........So now once again guys like me are being asked to foot the bill. There goes my economic incentive check that was my fucking money to begin with. I can’t wait to see how they bust my balls next time want to refinance or buy a new home. “Hey whitey weren’t you a day late paying that electric bill in 1988? No loan for you!” Yet a guy who wears shower cap as a fashion accessory gets a no money down loan based on his food stamp allotment. This nation is fucked and has been for some time now. If you think it’s bad now you just wait and see what happens when that light skinned, Whole Foods shopping mook gets into the White House. On the bright side I can solace in the fact that in another 30 or 40 years or so it will all be over for me. Maybe then it will no longer be my fucking problem.

(You gotta scroll down for the post, he doesn’t provide permalinks...)

The Obama campaign raised some eyebrows the other day by suggesting that Obama didn’t know who Bill Ayers was, and David Axelrod clarified a bit today, Carrie Budoff Brown reports. He said Obama didn’t know about Ayers’ background when he attended a meet-and-greet at his house in advance of his first state Senate race, but he learned afterward.

“It was sometime after their first meeting that he became aware of it. I don’t know the exact moment,” Axelrod said. “The fact is a lot of people who didn’t live through that era, particularly who didn’t live through that era in Chicago. When he came to Chicago, Ayers was advising Mayor Daley on school reform issues. That was his profile, was that he was an expert on education issues.”

”No one is suggesting he never knew,” Axelrod said.

Ok, everyone back to sleep now.

I just wonder why not more has been made of the statement by Palin during the debate last night that “Maliki and the Talabani”–this is a quote from the transcript–”also in working with us are knowing again that we are getting closer and closer to the point of victory.” The Talibani obviously are our absolute enemy and have been since 9/11; Maliki, our central ally in Iraq. This to me is a tremendous blunder, revealing a very superficial familiarity with these sorts of terms.

Ace

A US judge has ordered that 17 Chinese Muslims held at Guantanamo Bay be released into the United States.

In a landmark ruling, US District Judge Ricardo Urbina said Washington could not detain the 17 because they were no longer considered enemy combatants.

The Uighurs were cleared for release in 2004 but the US will not return them to China fearing they may face persecution as “suspected terrorists”.

“Sarah Palin can’t come to my party. Sarah Palin can’t come to my show. It’s nothing personal,”

~ * ~
She also told the crowd, “Here’s the sound of Sarah Palin’s husband’s snowmobile when it won’t start,” followed by a loud screeching noise

To which Sarah Palin replied:

Sweet interactive map of Obomber’s relationships.

huh???

So howcomes I keep hearing on da Nooz about the “credit freeze” and “credit markets drying up” between adverts for equity mortgages & E-Z mortgages?  And howcome everywhere I went to do errands last Sat. was full of folks shopping?  And the streets and freeway was full?

Are all those shoppers just in denial?  Do ya call up US Bank—and ll the others—after their commercial and they tell ya “nevermind?”

Howcome my pal the electrician has all the work he can throw a wire nut at - both at his regular job and his side job outfit?

What’s the matter with meeeeeee?

We have had heard from numerous people across the country that there has been some ticket fraud when buying a ticket for An American Carol this past weekend.

Please check your ticket. If you were in fact one of those people that were “mistakenly” sold a ticket for another movie please fill out the form below. Hold on to your ticket so we can have proof.

If you have noticed other irregularities with the theatres in your area please let us know in the comment section below. For instance, Rated R film rating (when in fact we are rated PG-13), posters not being up, not being listed on the marquee, image or focus problems, sound issues, etc.

Please email us a picture of your ticket stub to

We are investigating.

NewsBusters

Yeah, I know… been postin’ too many silly videos’n stuff, but this was ideally short’n funny.

better late than never

This got lost in tabs but I think it’s still worthy of mention.  If only as an indicator of judgement, character and ch-ch-ch-chaaaange…

Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) conspired with allies inside the Treasury Department to ambush minority Republicans at the meeting, causing the talks to devolve into a partisan shouting match.

According to a source in the Obama campaign, Sen. Obama was provided with advance notice of an alternative financial rescue package being crafted by House Republicans through a campaign fundraiser and current employee of Goldman Sachs, Treasure Secretary Hank Paulson’s former employer. Obama was also made privy to Secretary Paulson’s concerns about the Republican plan. Republicans no doubt intended to present the plan at the White House meeting, which was billed as a negotiation. But Democrats opened their presentation by turning the floor over to Sen. Obama, who proceeded to attack the Republicans at the table using Paulson’s notes on the Republican plan, foreclosing on any possibility of constructive negotiations being conducted.

But those concerns weren’t necessarily his, as he was not aware of the GOP plan before reviewing notes provided him by Paulson loyalists in Treasury prior to entering the meeting.
According to an Obama campaign source, the notes were passed to Obama via senior aides traveling with him, who had been emailed the document via a current Goldman Sachs employee and Wall Street fundraiser for the Obama campaign.

The memo allowed Obama and his fellow Democrats to box in Republican attendees and essentially took what President Bush had billed as a negotiating meeting off the rails.

No way of knowing for sure, but there’s a certain flavor that is consistent with Uh-snaky’s past tactics.