Open Thread
By bluegal Thursday Oct 30, 2008 7:35pm
McCain office, closed, in Lancaster, NH. Blog smooch to the Fighting Liberals. Open thread below...
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Cafferty...Why isn't Bush campaigning for McCain? (check out the emails he receives at the end. Classic!)
Caption Contest! Join in the fun!
What about this Khalidi guy? How about this?
So, what were Obama and McCain doing last night? Well, Obama was inspiring and McCain was bitching. Same old.
Bob Geiger's Senate predictions.
You start the night off with the best leads. Let's try to make the night a blockbuster. I hope for some more good humor.
I am glad you like 'em.
Not much going on...but I will try to amuse you. :-D
I might be able to help. I have a Photoshopped image of Barack Obama as Sarah Hussein Palin - does that count? He makes an oogly drag queen, my friends. Happy Halloween!
http://mojopo.blogspot.com/2008/10/happy-hall...
drive by tonight!
answer to Caff: cause bush wants to fuck mcc*nt one last time for good measure, even after the 2000 defenestration of mcCoward.
Khalidi: 438k from McFriend = Ouch! don't go there!
Yeah, I think that Bush is fucking him again.
Exactly...McCAIN IS FUNDING TURRORISTS!! Where's the outrage? Where's Fox!
thanks for the clarification on the r. khalidi association. nice work
It needs to be brought up in the MSM.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-ob...
Oh and God Bless America.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4fe9GlWS8
Just got online!
Great links - thanks.
"Unwept, unhonored, and unsung."
going, going, GONE!
McCain: We're a few points down, but, we're coming back!
Say goodnight, John.
The times they are a changing.
and delusional. It's time for him to say bye-bye.
This is very bad news , IF true. TREASON.
Am big Obama supporter, but, how are we going to get ANY change if this is true ? With this piece of garbage ??!!
Obama Approaches Lawmaker About White House Post
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 30, 2008
Filed at 10:40 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Barack Obama's campaign has approached Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel about possibly serving as White House chief of staff, officials said Thursday as the marathon presidential race entered its final, frenzied stretch with a Democratic tilt.
................
The Democrats who described the Obama campaign's approach to Emanuel spoke on condition of anonymity, saying they
were not authorized to be quoted by name
I think that he would best be employed as Special Ambassador to Yakutsk. What do you think.
I think that he would best be employed as Special Ambassador to Yakutsk. What do you think.
Just sayin'!
They will have a bridge across Lena River finally by 2013 - he would somehow keep warm till then. Since he has no cojones, nothing to lose for him. Not a bad idea overall.
I don't think he should pull anyone out of the house or the senate.
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You didn't bother to click on the link - it's the NYT. They rarely publish rumors. This is a very zionist oriented org by now - if they put out news as this, it's to their many as zionist readers, with Israel only priority. To make them feel good, that 'their' man will CONTROL the next, 44th U.S. PRESIDENT.
I'll be calling the BO campaign first thing in the morning demanding they DENY this - if they don't, McShame will win. There is NO difference between bushco-McShame, and Rahm Emanuel, dual citizen, worst piece of garbage in Kongre$$$, with loyalty to Israel first.
Let him be whatever, but NOT in the US WH, and get him out of the US Kongre$$$ altogether. He torpedoed all sane in the Dem party.
NYT doesn't publish rumors? Gee, I wonder how all them stories about yellow cake and wmds got published?
The weekly dose of bullshit from William Kristol.
He's always wrong and they still defend him and let him keep on being wrong.
And it was great. Jon pwned him.
cake, wmds and Kristol: for exactly the SAME audience. That's the problem.
I wish they are wrong - if BO campaign does NOT issue a denial TOMORROW, this crap will put McInsane in the WH.
tell that to wen ho lee
NYT puts out rumors that serve their own zionist/zionist readers goals first, then the rest of the world, after a long empty space.
That's why this news is so bad. Rahm Emanuel is as bad as holy Joe scum, if not worse - he worms for Israel from within, not openly with McShame. There would be nothing wrong with his support for Israel had he registered as foreign interests lobbyist. He acts as the fifth column. Why would Obama go with that ?! CoS has to be very organized and meticulous to be effective. Rahm is NONE of the above. He is a histerical rumor/gossip monger, from turd blossom's school.
re: wen ho lee. I just googled the NYT and cannot see that NYT caused his imprisonment. Their articles did show his ethnic background as the reason govt chased him. The 5 newsprints paid him off to prevent revealing their 'govt sources" that illegally splilled Lee's name. What Lee has to do with scum Rahm ?
Nooo!!!!!
you may have already seen this email, but over @skippy we've got why pets hate halloween
*Big wave hello.*
You have an awesome blog, but what's wrong with dressing up the kids? Don't YOUR kids dress up for Halloween?
Hrmph!
my kids are birds, they don't like clothes.
Sarah Palin Halloween Costumes the Hot Item … for Pit Bulls!
Who Knew? McCain Endorses Forced Busing
I wonder if any of the 4,000 kids they made go to the event were old enough to vote. Apparently, there were only 2,000 adults there.
I am so hoping that Obama gets like 400 electoral votes.
I knew that you could....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/withinreason/296...
ROCKS!! That is hysterical.
I want one!!
...love ur blog. Excellent stuff. Good work.
Did you add your two cents to the caption contest?
...just checked out Jack Caff and your bio...of course. *wink
I'm a bore. :D
your post ~ HOPE ~ since I picked it up here yesterday. THANKS for that!
http://tpzoo.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/this-is...
PS: I'm sure you're not boring.
I teared up big time when I saw that for the first time. It gave me hope for the future of our country. I am sick of the Greed is Good, MeMeMe and Fuck U.U.U attitudes of the youth which has now grown up to be the bankers on Wall Street that I love to loathe.
And, I am pretty boring. I work and read and play with my pooch (best. pooch. ever!!) I live far too much inside of my head. I think I am the single most boring human being alive.
I just need some spice in my life...short of potty humor with the occasional caption contest. :D
a pooch that follows commands in German must make life less than boring.
Dutch and English and hand signals and the occasional evil eye.
She is amazing.
I had a cat once that i was sure was a wiccan
Mo (her nickname) isn't a witch (no visits from African witch hunting pastors, thank you very much), she's just the best dog ever.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/30/alec...
He didn't just say Bible Spice, he said Bible Spice and the guy who's running with her.
Very funny!!
I was tearing up like crazy. I have an 18 year-old nephew who is a freshman. Like most lads his age, he is into working out, playing football, girls and having a good time. But he said on his MySpace that he wants to do something to change the world. He, like those kids in the video and other kids around the world are good kids that will make us proud.
many here wanna watch FOXNEWS on election night to watch heads explode. Not so fast my friends. I'm sure they have rehersed this meme ....'Breaking NEWS Widespread FIX and Voter Fraud accross this great land. RePug voters have been turned back by black,commie,fag,muslim poll workers!!!!' ....You think FuaxNews would ever admit defeat? Not. A. Chance
forgot the Hippies. heh
I bet FOX calls it before anyone else. They would love to be able to say that they called it for Obama before any of the "leftist" stations did. Then they could hold that up and say they're "Fair and Balanced."
they think for themselves. Nope . they are up the ass of The Thugs so far they will follow orders. or else.
attacking Acorn all night.
I bet onit.
Just accidently clicked on FoxNews to see Sean Hannity going absofuckinlutely nuts over this Khalidi guy. He was waving some kind of pamphlet that I guess Khalidi wrote and maybe dedicated to Obama (I didn't watch long enough to find out). Sean look like he found the keys to his dad's porno collection! Anne Coulter was there, too, fuming over why hasn't the media picked up on this story! They were practically FOAMING at the mouth. It was hilarious and frightening. After about 30 seconds I had to turn my tv off.
30 seconds of those two pond scum Together? You,my friend have a far better stomach than I. Congrats
I turned on Hannity (who is about to return to the rant you mentioned above, damn that I missed it before...I love a good exploding right wing head) but now they have on Tito the Builder.
I want to know when they are going to have Chester the Molester on. That's all I'm askin'.
the cartoon characters are lining up as we speak. OH! the Huhanity!
Colmes just brought up the $500k that McCain gave THE TERRORIST!
"Who knows if McCain knew what the group was," was the response.
Damn, Colmes has gotten some balls of late. Wassup with that?
Murdoch feels the pain in being uber conservative. Watch and mark my words...we're gonna see some "lefties" on Fox. But it won't go anywhere because only the true right wing nutcases watch Fox.
Ha! Fuck you Murdoch!!
YOU fuck Him. I won't watch. (peek)
that Colmes balls will shrink soon enough. Hannity will teabag him and that will be that...for now.
painful,but True.I'm glad some people have the stomach for that swill. Not This Guy.
watching the Two Minute Hate for an hour. :D
Shiver.Shake. I can't afford to destroy my electronic devices. I leave that to people in better control than I.
I read redstate and little green snotballs, too. Yeah, it is infuriating but often wildly amusing. They are so delusional. I don't think they know what a news source is other than Fox or the National Review.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
But I already know what they will say. I've known Hannity since he had a radio show in NYC. I don't need to know what they say anymore. i could write the script for them over night.
Or just another day at FUX. Ho hum.
I guess they know they'll lose a lot of their "inside info" once president Obama moves into the White House.
I hope he does turn it into a pyramid. That would be cool. Floating eyeball hovering above it, like on the money? (What's up with that anyway?)
The air force ignored a nuke missile silo fire for five days! Palin does her own spreading of wealth. N-Ohio for McCain?
Global warming and drought is forcing Cali to cut more water for cities and farms by next year.
Standard security is shotguns :O in the 21stC
or that they were using cheap harborfreight battery chargers for their radios.
Heckofajob Chimpy, only luck averted something nasty happening.
Of course certain Repugs would have loved a disaster and emergency happening, executive order 51 and funandgames time would have ensued.
American obesity has doubled
the rate of diabetes! So watch how much candy you consume this weekend, folks. Some guy who doesn't like people playing with his McCain sign doesn't mind electrocuting
anyone who touches it, including a boy.
Wiring up your campaign sign? Man, that is hard core.
The FDA permits stevia to be marketed as an herbal supplement, but not as a sweetener. Other countries have been enjoying this herb for it's sweetness a long time. No calories, no buzz, no crash, obesity, tooth decay, diabetes, or advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) aging/diseasing you prematurely.
"In 1991, at the request of an anonymous complaint, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) labeled stevia as an "unsafe food additive" and restricted its import. The FDA's stated reason was "toxicological information on stevia is inadequate to demonstrate its safety."[41] This ruling was controversial, as stevia proponents pointed out that this designation violated the FDA's own guidelines under which any natural substance used prior to 1958 with no reported adverse effects should be generally recognized as safe (GRAS)."
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevia
funny. They look absurd.
we are now leading well beyond the polling error margin.
I just spent 3 hours on the phone for Obama, and will resume in the morning.
McCain is looking more pathetic by the day.
well spent! good for You!
23% of texas voters believe obama is muslim. i'm with the colin powell way of thinking that it doesn't
matter. these texans must be reading the same Palin briefing material.
23% of Texans could read.
Please give Texas back to the Mexicans and be done with it.
Anybody with a brain/morals /works for a living in a real job,
would support Obama.
For a lot of the inhabitants of the SW or Southern US, the Republican party is the voice and mechanism of an occupying force, ruling by fear and oppression of the masses.
In the past Jim Crowe laws, corrupt legal and law enforcement systems, KKK and lynch mob behavior keeps/kept the people down and powerless.
Southern Redstates remind me of WW2 Vichy France in their behavior, history and oppressive culture.
When you get redneck republican supporters in small gangs driving around in pickups waving guns and either implying or threatening violence against everybody they disapprove of, how else could it be described.
Are they spending more than they would have to pay in taxes if Obama wins? I mean these 527s are getting contributions from rich individuals aren't they? Wouldn't it be easier just to pay a little more in taxes? Of course if made sense they wouldn't be republicans.
McCain can't even get Joe The Fluffer to show up for a bow, and Palin cheers on the Phillies -- in Pittsburgh Pirates territory, to scattered booes.
Wouldn't you like to be a fly on the wall inside their campaign management?
Conservatives with a clue are jumping ship by the day.
Joe was AWOL (probaly consulting his agent) And moose lips went into Erie PA and congrated the Phils. Too bad the crowd booed. Pirate Land LMAO.
At that Hockey game they used music to cover some of the booing, at least by the MSM cameras/mics, the audience camcorders picked it up best.
http://tpzoo.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/all-abo...
Foreclosed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kqmNTk6ls0
Foreclosed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kqmNTk6ls0
Foreclosed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kqmNTk6ls0
This girl is off to bed.
Sweetest dreams one and all!
I think I'll stay up for awhile.
She's the pot calling Obama ineffective with security.
Can she even get a security clearance if elected?
Her husband is an Alaskan separatist who pals around with people who don't want to be buried beneath the "damn US flag."
She has also attended and has spoken at their meetings.
Geeyeez.
McSame has to bus in chidren to make a crowd. Joe the plumber stops up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCkGEHQVHK4&eu...
crash C&L for a couple of minutes.
Surely comparing the proven track record of Republican pedophiles and their fondness for publicaly hanging around with kids is permitted.
Top McCain adviser blasts Palin: "OF COURSE" SHE’S NOT READY
Yet , he endorsed McCain.
The republicans are a bunch of dumbasses. What's new?!
^^^I threw this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaleSG97_Sw)
together tonight after reading that story.
Oh, that's a great video. Thanks!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/us_electi...
.
She's the gift that keeps on giving!
I threw this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaleSG97_Sw)
together tonight after reading this story on HuffPo: http://tinyurl.com/5h9nmh
Just a few more days....!
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I think this goes to show that these people don't care about the country, only what they can get from America!
I thought it was interesting what happened in class today at the college that I attend. Our instructor asked our class for someone to lead in a little fundraiser that was being held. No one came forward. It got to the point where our instructor was wondering if there were no leaders in her class. After a time two people did come forward, myself and another student along with one other that was willing to assist. Turns out, we (the ones that came forward) are all Obama supporters and we sit in the front of the class.
To bad he doesn't close all his lousy offices and go home!
A quick shout out that Dad is on NBC’s Squawk Box this morning. We are in the green room right now and let me say Dad is looking good and on his game today. He walked in from the parking lot reciting his new economic plan all the way. The one where he says he will make the oval office a branch bank and then bundle up the deficit and sell it off in Europe making tons of money. You guys should really live blog it.
Gotta run. Becky just walked in and Dad thinks they named the show after her.
hmmmmm, according to MSNBC its mostly............ redstates !
why are we not surprised.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27463646
And which states benefit the most from the redistribution of taxes ?
redstates !
http://democraticactionteam.org/redstatesocia...
If the data for credit card debt was available and cross referenced by state, would it also show a redstate bias, maybe maybe not !
Sarah Palin is a muslim!!! :o
That picture...is worth a hundred thousand words...
Happy Halloween!
And Happy Halloween right back at you. Hey, are you wearing a mask today? ;)
Not yet.
Will be goin as the red guy tonight...you know...the "devil".
Trick or Treat?
Guess we'll know Tuesday night.
This country needs a treat...
Four Days until the 2008 Election - GO VOTE, VOTE EARLY IF YOU CAN...
PEAK OIL UPDATE: 5 Years From Now Peak Oil Pinch Could Devastate the UK & WORLD Economy, New Report Warns - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/10/peak-...
Peak Oil Greater Threat Than Terrorism, Demand Outpaces Supply by 2013, New Discoveries Can't Keep Up
REPOST: Royal Dutch Shell CEO Admits Peak Oil Could be Here in 7 Years (January 2008) - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/01/shell...
In a rare moment of candor, Jeroen van der Veer, the chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell, acknowledged what many have long considered a forgone conclusion: the end of the oil era is almost upon us, and sooner than you might think.
Why offshore drilling is insanely idiotic/stupid/all of the above and an oil-based economy is doomed...
Updating the National Electric Grid: Obama talks up electrical grid improvements on cable tv -- seriously, I have video evidence - http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/10/30/2...
This is so critical for our nation, its imperative for the economic survival of our nation
Biggest... profit... ever: Exxon Mobil (who else) sets all-time U.S. history mark -- post net income of $14.83 billion. - http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/30/news/companie...
Once again...they break their own record for the largest profit in history....meanwhile, expect to pay $5 a gallon starting around the beginning of December....if not before.
McCain Doctrine: Pre-emptive ejection: Pro McBush Audience members removed at McCain rally in Cedar Falls - http://www.iowastatedaily.com/articles/2008/1...
"I saw a couple that had been escorted out and they were confused as well, and the girl was crying, so I said 'Why are you crying?' and she said 'I already voted for McCain, I'm a Republican, and they said we had to leave because we didn't look right.'
“If I had been disruptive, then I would have deserved to be taken out,” Elborno said. “But at the time I was asked to leave, I wasn’t doing anything.” Elborno said she’s stunned at how the situation was handled, especially McCain’s staffers’ refusal to discuss the matter.
“I’ve never seen anything like this,” she said. Despite repeated attempts, McCain’s campaign could not be reached for comment.
Republicans....if you don't think they're robots yet....what's wrong with you?
Campaign Co-Chair Throws McCain Under the 'Straight Talk Express'; "I just don't see how he can win." - http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/...
Washington Post Editorial Excoriates McCain for His Sleazeball Ad Hominem Campaign - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/...
Poll predicts Obama landslide in California - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/...
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is poised to win California by the biggest landslide in the history of modern elections - outweighing even Ronald Reagan's huge wins in his home state - thanks to a crushing margin of support from young voters, independents and Latinos, a new Field Poll shows. Obama and his vice presidential running mate, Sen. Joe Biden, now lead Republican presidential candidate John McCain and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin by a whopping 55-33 percent in the nation's most populous state, according to the Field Poll of 966 likely voters conducted Oct. 18-28.
The Mandatory Rejection of Sarah Palin (R-Airhead) - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/the-m...
It turns out, the only thing that's actually working for the McCain campaign is the daily inciting of rage, fear and hatred among the easily-led gomers lined up outside of Sarah Palin's rallies. I repeat. The one thing that appears to be working nicely for Sarah Palin and John McCain right now is the really evil and divisive stuff. And we simply can't allow Sarah Palin's fear-mongering -- her Neo-McCarthyism and her Neo-Southern Strategy -- to ultimately be the one successful thing about this otherwise laughable McCain campaign. We can't let this be the one thing that might win the election for the Republican ticket.
Front Window of Cindy Sheehan's Campaign Office Shattered - http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/37240
Likely Obama Victory Aided by Globally Aware Youth Vote - http://www.prleap.com/pr/128257/
Most pundits acknowledge that the likely Presidential election victory for Senator Barack Obama will be aided by the massive turnout of young voters. Part of this is due to the fact that the Millenials, or Generation Y, are more globally aware than previous generations. Today, more American high school and college students study abroad than ever before. Study abroad at the university level has become mainstream, and its trickling down to the high school level. This increased global awareness is having an effect on politics. Political campaigns need to take into account the impact of a generation of globally-minded, politically active, highly educated students on the political discourse. This could be the last Presidential campaign where tactics like Kenyan clothing or non-Christian religions will be widely used in an effort to scare voters. The youth vote will be too worldly to fall for that.
Like I keep saying, the future is bright...we just have to keep exposing the right wing & how con-servatives and government never go together
Brad Blog: Vote-Flipping Diebold Machine Removed, Quarantined in CO - http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6592
Hagan hits back on Dole; Great to see immediate reaction to distasteful ad - http://www.americablog.com/2008/10/hagan-hits...
David Swanson: How the Government Spies on and Prosecutes Peace Activists - http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/37239
Bob Geiger: Senate Predictions Part Two: The Democrats Get 60 - http://bobgeiger.blogspot.com/2008/10/senate-...
The fun never stops when it comes to Sarah Palin ethics stories: "Palin Target Of New Ethics Complaint CBS News Investigative Unit Has Learned Of New Complaint Related To Travel By Alaska Governor's Children"
- http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/28/cbs...
33.5 Million Watch Obama Infomercial - http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/...
John McCain actually drew 6,000 people to a rally in Ohio, but -- well, you knew there was a catch: 4,000 were students that were bussed in. Even a kid will pick a McCain rally over school
- John McCain actually drew 6,000 people to a rally in Ohio, but -- well, you knew there was a catch: 4,000 were students that were bussed in. Even a kid will pick a McCain rally over school 10/31
Gore to Campaign in Florida for Obama, Where He Was Mugged by the Busheviks in 2000 - http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/30...
ON NOV. 4 voters will elect not only a president for four years - but also hundreds of federal judges for decades to come.
- http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_o...
Clean Coal? Just say no - http://www.desmogblog.com/clean-coal-just-say-no
Coal is about acid rain and peasouper smogs, asthma and mercury contamination, radioactive waste emissions and ripping apart mountains, killing trees, lung cancer and, of course, global warming.
Coal emits more carbon dioxide for every unit of energy generated than any other fuel. Sure you can clean it up a bit – though the toxins you've taken out of the ground have to go somewhere. But clean coal? Just say no.
Political Irony: http://politicalirony.com/2008/10/31/late-nig...
“Yesterday, in Washington, I don’t know if you heard about this, the Secret Service arrested a man who climbed over the White House fence. True story, yeah. Yeah, the Secret Service told the man, ‘Get back here, Mr. President. You have two more months.’” -Conan O’Brien
Sarah Palin is the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week. But beyond all the Cold War notion of winning elections by accusing people of guilt by association (not that there is not any guilt here) -- not by their actions and record -- there is the deep and profound hypocrisy of Palin accusing anyone of being radical, considering her extremist religious beliefs and the long association of the Palins with the anti-U.S. Alaskan Independence Party (AIP).
- http://gophypocrites.com/2008/10/hyp08044.html
Reslugs clearly see it as a hopeless cause and that McBush was never presidential material.
the network doesn't seem interested in how they get their ratings , with silly , ridiculous issues like Kyra " I'll pander anybody in uniform " Phillip's EXORCIST TV debate w/ 3 guests , arguing the merits of the Exorcist TV show, shows that they are not interested in informing the public about important issues , just creating an infotainment cIRCUS w/ garbage , repetitive political theater and is just as damaging as Fox , for what they won't REPORT .
Kyra shamelessly said at the end " a lot of people are talking about this and I could do an hour about this " , put a fork in it , news is dead in this country , except for the internet and you can blame CNN, Fox for the trash the people consume .
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