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October 29, 2008
Don't Let This Happen
Vote!!
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Every Vote Counts
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October 27, 2008
From Michelle Obama
Michelle has a new blog post up at BlogHer. Check it out!
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Guilty On All Counts
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A jury found U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska guilty Monday of all seven counts in his federal corruption trial.The jury found Stevens guilty of "knowingly and willfully" scheming to conceal on Senate disclosure forms more than $250,000 in home renovations and other gifts from an Alaska-based oil industry contractor.
Read more at CNN.
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October 26, 2008
Too Funny
I love Will Ferrell!
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October 25, 2008
An Amazing Candid Look At Obama In Pictures
Some really fabulous pictures of Barack, his supporters, his family...Check it out!
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October 23, 2008
Change Is On The Way
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October 22, 2008
Tax Calculator
What would taxes look like under Obama and McCain? Why not find out yourself here.
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October 17, 2008
Fall Is Coming
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October 13, 2008
Scary!
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October 7, 2008
Well Said As Always
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I Cease To Be Amazed By Anything
Worse, Palin's routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's questions for her "less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media." At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, "Sit down, boy."
Seriously...This is beyond ridiculous at this point! I've had people argue with me for years that Republicans are not racist, that they are kind, God fearing individuals who wouldn't hurt a fly. I'm going to say it again, no they aren't! The racism is there and it's blatant. The hate is there...It's blatant too. The shear meanness is there as well and if you support the Republican party then that is you too. This is what you are voting for. Their answer for everything is violence. Don't agree with them? That's ok they'll pull out their guns and just shoot you. Or better yet they'll just beat the hell out of you, because you know talking is over rated in their minds. Sick!
Found via the Washington Post.
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October 6, 2008
There Is Still Time To Register To Vote...
But time is running out! For many states today is the last day to register, so if you haven't already be sure and get yourself registered to vote!
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Hold On...It's Going To Get Bumpy!
NEW YORK - Financial markets took a bleak view of the future Monday, seeing contagion in a credit crisis that threatens to cascade through economies globally despite government efforts to provide relief. The Dow Jones industrials skidded more than 500 points and fell below 10,000 for the first time in four years, while the credit markets remained under strain.Investors around the world have come to the sobering realization that the Bush administration's $700 billion rescue plan won't work quickly to unfreeze the credit markets. Global banks, hobbled by wrong-way bets on mortgage securities, still remain starved for cash as credit has dried up.
That's caused stocks to plunge in the U.S., Europe and Asia, and drove investors to sink money into the relative safety of U.S. government debt. Fears about a global recession also caused oil to drop below $90 a barrel; and the benchmark index that gauges fear in the market jumped to the highest level in its 18-year history.
It's down about 535 point as I type this according to my iPod stock tracker. It's delayed about 20 minutes, but still! Hold on tight! The ride is bumpy!
Read more at MSBNC.
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October 5, 2008
Well Said!
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Amazing
He really is a nice man, even then.
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October 4, 2008
Can You Afford The McCain Health Tax?
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More on the Biden-Palin Debate
Carl Bernstein has a very interesting piece up at HP about the Biden-Palin Debate:
Who won the Palin-Biden debate? Barack Obama, I suspect.Who was the big loser? In an historic fortnight that had already underscored his erratic nature, John McCain.
The fact that Palin was able to string her sentences together last night - which she couldn't manage to do in her unscripted interviews with Katie Couric -- shows only how low McCain has strapped his presidential quest.
Sarah Palin's task was an impossible one: to demonstrate that she is ready to be president of the United States. McCain put her in that impossible position; and her performance -- all prep and no depth -- demonstrated the bind he has put himself in.
I'm often floored by anyone that thinks that she is actually a good choice for anything. She's terrifyingly unqualified and she knows absolutely nothing about any of the issues. That is completely uncalled for in terms of someone that would be so close to the presidency of a candidate who has had cancer four times and won't let anyone view his medical records. It's an extremely valid concern that this woman might end up with her finger on the button should McCain win and from all indication she would set off "nucular" war thinking she was ordering coffee instead of setting off missiles.
Just how scary a notion that is went on full display last night: She appeared to lack any semblance of the requisite depth, knowledge, or sense of history we should expect in a president or vice president; then she sought to excuse it by saying, "I've only been at this for five weeks."Yes, she could wink, she could tell Biden, "Say it ain't so, Joe, there you go again," and she could remind us again and again that she is a hockey Mom from the land of Joe-Six-pack (as if Western Republicans don't swill Pinot Grigio with the rest of the country at their fund-raisers). She seemed incapable of thinking through the American condition and responding to it except by scripted answers, theatrical gestures, and tested buzzwords -- and by announcing at the outset that she would decide which questions from the moderator to answer and which to ignore.
Yet Biden's performance (deeply knowledgeable, sensible, and generally responsive to the questions) was perhaps the best evidence that -- considered non-ideologically, but rather on judgment and temperament -- Obama may be ready to be president, and McCain -- who ought to be ready -- is not.
Time after time, Biden had to tell Palin what John McCain's real record is -- as instance after instance -- she misrepresented it (or misunderstood the legislative process), repeated easy slogans and bromides and, for the most part perhaps, offended the intelligence of voters who are not already die-hard, ideological proponents of right-wing Republicanism, creationism, or simplistic solutions to tough problems.
The winking thing was totally out of line. I mean seriously, you are in a vice presidential debate, not a beauty pageant so act like it! You looked like a simpering idiot and a complete disgrace to any self respecting woman who uses her brain instead of her eye lashes to argue a point! But of course that would mean actually having a point to begin with, which she has demonstrated time and time again that she just can not string together. Of all the Republican women he could have chosen that might actually have been able to intelligently argue their case (or at least try) he had to go and choose this woman who gives all women a bad name!
The sad thing is that she's not just turning off Democrats and Independents, she's also turning off some Republicans too and those Republicans are speaking out against her in increasing numbers. That in and of itself speaks volumes.
Read more at Huffington Post.
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Poetic Justice
LAS VEGAS, Nevada (CNN) -- Former gridiron great O.J. Simpson was found guilty Friday of all 12 counts in the armed robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers at a Las Vegas, Nevada, casino hotel last year.Simpson, 61, and his co-defendant Clarence "C.J." Stewart, 54, were charged with a dozen offenses stemming from the sports memorabilia heist. Stewart was found guilty of the same charges as Simpson.
Simpson sat quietly and showed little emotion at the defense table as courtroom clerk Sandra Jeter read the verdicts.
After the verdicts were read, deputies immediately handcuffed Simpson and led him out of the courtroom.
Simpson and Stewart could spend the rest of their lives in prison for these convictions. Clark County District Judge Jackie Glass set sentencing for December 5.
Karma's a bitch!
Read more at CNN.
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October 2, 2008
Fosset Wreckage Possibly Found
(CNN) -- Search teams looking for millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett may have found the wreckage of the plane he was flying when he disappeared more than a year ago.The Madera County, California, Sheriff's Department said the wreckage was spotted Wednesday during an aerial search of the area where a hiker had discovered identification with the missing aviator's name.
According to The Associated Press, Preston Morrow said he found three identification cards with Fossett's name and about $1000 in cash Monday tangled in a bush just west of the town of Mammoth Lakes.
Erica Stuart, a spokesman for the sheriff's department, said a ground crew will be dispatched to make a definite determination on the wreckage. The sheriff is expected to reveal more information on Thursday.
Hopefully this will help his family have a bit of closure if it turns out to be what it appears to be. Still very sad though.
Read more at CNN.
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October 1, 2008
Register To Vote And Get Five Friends To Vote Too!
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