Mike's Blog Roundup
By Mike Finnigan Thursday Oct 30, 2008 7:00amMinnesota Independent: History-challenged winger declares, "equality is not an American value"
The Washington Monthly: Conservative heavyweights plan postmortem
Jesus' General: God hates Barack Obama and HOV lanes
Long waits continue to mar early voting; Video captures machine flipping votes in W.Virginia; Florida no-match list grows to 12,165 voters; Investigation finds thousands wrongly denied right to register in Houston; Bogus flier in VA tells Democrats wrong date for elections
The Bonddad Blog: The Detroit death march continues
Unqualified Offerings: Socialism? Is that all you've got?
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They have hypnotism (h/t John Cole), the API recordings, the LA Times tapes...Bible Spice and Joe 'Not So Much' The Plumber.
John McCain's bizarro campaign FTW? No, but it's been magically delicious.
I started to read it and I found myself getting sleepy, sleepy. I'm okay now, vote McSame
Snark
Hypnotism? Yeah, if it's something out of the comic books.
How many people actually see an Obama speech start-to-finish? More often than not, it's the :10 soundbite.
On the other hand, if you look at McCain, even during his soundbites, there's someone in the background doing a slow head nod. Cindy, another supporter, whoever. And that's a definite con-man trick to influence a listener. (The theory being that we mimick behavior, so if someone's nodding, we will also start to nod; our bodies, now primed with the movements associated with agreement, respond differently to statements.)
Make sure that your vote isn't flipped. Tell all your friends and email all your contacts.
http://wvgazette.com/News/200810180251
"Rotten" ACORN Ad Funded by Anti-Minimum Wage Group
by Mosi Secret, ProPublica - October 29, 2008
Tags: Acorn, Elections
.The New York Times ran a full page advertisement today in the front section of the paper featuring an attack on ACORN, Directing readers to the Web site www.rottenacorn.com,the ad does not indicate who or what organization paid for it, but a click to the Rotten Acorn Web site reveals the source"the Employment Policies Institute.
The Institute, is connected with Rick Berman, a Washington lobbyist who for several years has been fighting ACORN"s efforts to increase the minimum wage at the state and federal levels. Berman could not be reached for comment. Among clients listed on his firm"s web site are the American Beverage Institute, a trade group of bars and restaurants, and the Center for Union Facts, which opposes "check card" organizing drives by labor.
Tim Miller, spokesman for the Employment Policies Institute, said his group timed the ad to take advantage of the flurry of negative publicity about ACORN.
, the appearance of the Times ad is curious for the people at ACORN, who have battled Berman and his clients over minimum wage ballot initiatives in Florida, Missouri, Colorado, Ohio and Arizona, but not over presidential politics. "What we"ve been told is he"s a Republican Party operative above all else," said Steve Kest, executive director of ACORN. "He must have been recruited into this effort. Somebody is paying them to run this ad."
Young people and women don't beleive in the republican brand anymore. The country is changing. We are truly a melting pot. The righties just don't want to believe it. Hence the violence and race baiting at McCain/Palin's rallys. These people are terrified. Good!
And his un-American bullshit!
fuck that Denise Prager asshole. I once sent him an irascible critical email, and shortly thereafter got a call from a friend in California letting me know that he'd heard it read verbatim on the air, replete with my name, location, and email address.
Kinda cool ya got his goat like that...but isn't giving your name, location, and email illegal?
and his employer heard about it straight away. I never got any shit from any of his mouth-breathers in the wake of it anyway (a sign of his impotence, I thought), so I let it drop.
I guess those truths aren't self-evident afterall.
He meant to say,"equality is not a Republican value."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q9NSVUu8nk
After all cheating is the republican way...
Well, it's Day #8 and still no medical records on either John McCain or Sarah Palin which leaves plenty of room for speculation and input from her fellow Alaskans. They've concluded it's either an abortion or a boob job that she's hiding from the people.
Come on, Si;leton Sarah, the Secessionista - fork over your medical records as you promised.
Or is that one of those "lies" you spewed ad nauseum when you promised to "cooperate with Troopergate"???
We already know why McGeyser isn't providing his - it's called fatal Stage 3B Invasive Melanoma and it's spread to his brain which we've all witnessed, my fellow prisoners, youbetcha!
Then factor in his psychiatric records and this campaign would have been over long ago. We've seen evidence of PTSD and/or the meds necessary to control it many times over the past year and a half.
i never thought of Palin having breast augmentation. i was thinking Palin has been medicated for
DEPRESSION. a friend mentioned a possible abortion. we're NOT going to see/hear about medical
records.
..the car crash they're trying to keep the lid on.
Don't care if Sarah had the front end done.
It's gotta be an abortion or something that would cause her rabid racist religious rally monkeys to drop her like a moldy potato.
I don't like how you insinuate that monkeys would align themselves with any rally that involves rabies, racism and religion. We may fling poo, but we have standards.
Chimps... You can make fun of chimps (they're nasty creatures).
Looks like an investigation of Joe, the Fraudulent Plumber, has come up with all kinds of new "goodies" on this man. Unbelievable....he's been on the welfare roles, too! This man is a colossol fraud and no one with a brain is buying his fiction any more. He's a disgrace and has become a weight around McCain and Palin's neck in these final days of the campaign. This new news will do the final "sinking" of John McCain in the coming 4 days.
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_ne...
Joe The Fluffer
Hey John! Another awesome pick for your posse, dawg!!
The shear ignorance of that statement is beyond comprehension.
Once you get beyond the ignorance...you then need to look at the values of the individual speaking those words and question...not simply their patriotism...but whether or not they understand what America is about.
... that not only are Prager and his ilk anti-American, they don't even uphold the 'Christian beliefs' of our founding fathers. Jefferson wrote, "... that all men are created equal."
No He's right. It isn't and never has been an American value. It's a Human Rights Value, Which is why he and many other Americans have trouble grasping it, think racism is done yadda yadda yadda.
I don't understand why local officials are being rather dicks about this. Devote more staff to the voting and get more booths open.
I went to vote early Wednesday (Oct. 29) at a rather small county courthouse. It had six or seven regular voting booths with two machines to feed the ballots, and two electronic voting machines and four employees (two to take names and hand out the appropriate ballots and two to watch the machines.)
There are serious issues at stake in this election, and serious differences between the candidates. And we will argue about them, as we should. But it should remain an argument among friends; each of us struggling to hear our conscience, and heed its demands; each of us, despite our differences, united in our great cause, and respectful of the goodness in each other. That is how most Americans treat each other. And it is how they want the people they elect to office to treat each other.
That's from a McCain fundraising letter, though he made similar remarks in at least one other speech.
But this is from the guy who's blaming the tone of his campaign on the fact that the other guy didn't want to hold 'town hall' meetings.
It is a direct quote from a speech made by John McCain on May 15, 2008 in Columbus, OH (GO OHIO!)
He does say "we will argue about them, as we should". And he is arguing, or debating, and wanted to do more of that in town hall forums where the people could speak directly to the candidates and vice versa. I wish I could have gone to one.
Actually, it appears to me that the "tone" of his campaign has been pretty civil, except when he puts commercials on TV to answer a misrepresentation of his position from an opposing ad or TV comment. He appears to not like misrepresentation. It is something that he and I have in common.
He doesn't seem to be saying anything bad about Obama himself, just about his actions taken and his positions on issues.
say nothing BAD????
oh yeah he's only a Marxist, Terrorist ,Socialist
and if you have'nt noticed he's [black]
be afraid ,VERY afraid
I'll be manning (or is it personing? LOL)the phones for Obama this weekend.
So, if you live in NJ and get a phone call from some nasely voiced white guy reminding you to vote...it's ME! LOL!
Could you do me a favor and post an actual quote of McCain's in which he said that Obama is any of: Marxist, Terrorist, Socialist? In fact, he was directly asked on Larry King last night if he thought that Obama was a socialist and he said no.
And, by the way, I hadn't noticed much about Obama's race. He appears to me to be part white, part black, and possibly part brown by marriage.
The first troll of autumn has fallen.
Just using the type of words that you chose to use. I would have chosen Caucasian, African-American, and Indonesian) to replace white black and brown. But that's just me.
I'm actually starting to really not like all the vitriol that I find on this website, and frankly, in Obama's speeches. That's why I'm starting to take a closer look at McCain.
One thing I like about McCain is his position on JOBS!
He is talking about establishing a National Commission on Workplace Flexibility and Choice. He wants to: modernize labor LAWS so that they allow for MORE FLEXIBLE SCHEDULING, make sure that the labor laws don't get in the way of WORKING AT HOME, promote telework so we don't have to COMMUTE so much, and make health care PORTABLE so we don't lose our health care if we lose our job or switch jobs.
There's more, that's just the part that I like, and it sounds pretty good to me.
It is Corporate Welfare, donchano!
Brother can you spare a Trillion?
Well, I gotta go; to work!
Wish it were telework!
Vote early but not often! :^)
The voter suppression efforts are very troubling, and with the White House-AG involvement, go all the way up to the top. It really needs to be a much bigger story.
Did I mention I'm an extremely under-employed editor?
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