McCain Accidentally Agrees: Western Pennsylvania Is Racist

It is sad that people are so unforgiving of older err atic Americans who so desperately need psy cho logical.... hey wait a minute.... isn't that guy running for ... oh man.
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Fox News Manufactures Outrage Over Fox Network Show

Didn't little Stewie sound kind of like Ringo Starr in HELP! ??

Talk about confused little kids.... anyway.

Ya gotta walk a fine line between earning the huge bucks for low humor, and complaining about it.
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Family Guy: Nazis Back McCain-Palin (VIDEO)

Darn, I knew I shoulda stayed up to watch last night.
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Warren Buffett: Buy Buy

Warren's written an interesting op-ed about the market in the NYT. Have a read on me.

White House Ordered Waterboarding by CIA

The Washington Post reports today that the Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency's use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects -- documents prompted by worries among intelligence officials about a possible backlash if details of the program became public.

Does it take the CIA off the hook for carrying out torture?

The classified memos, which have not been previously disclosed, were requested by then-CIA Director George J. Tenet more than a year after the start of the secret interrogations, according to four administration and intelligence officials familiar with the documents. Although Justice Department lawyers, beginning in 2002, had signed off on the agency's interrogation methods, senior CIA officials were troubled that White House policymakers had never endorsed the program in writing.

Perhaps, but given the fact the CIA already knew that waterboarding wasn't an effective way to get valuable information - a water-boarded detainee will say literally anything to get the torture to stop - the point is moot. They should have pushed back, and said, 'listen, we know how to get information out of people, and it's by respecting their humanity.  We don't need to be in the torture game.  It is ineffective and demeans us a a country.'

Man behind "Obama is a Terrorist" Line Identified By NY Times

Until this month, the man who is widely credited with starting the cyberwhisper campaign that still dogs Mr. Obama was a secondary character in news reports, with deep explorations of his background largely confined to liberal blogs.

Now we find out he's basically a pimp-for-attention scoundrel with a history of unstable acts.

What happens if abortion is made illegal?

Time to Ask McCain: "Have You No Sense of Decency Left?"

Last night, Bob Schrum wrote a piece which began:

The McCain campaign crossed the line today from negative character attacks to the kind of character assassination that plays to the basest impulses and incites the most dangerous reaction. We've seen the prelude this week in the McCain crowds and in Sarah Palin's well-rehearsed, carefully telepromptered and increasingly ugly diatribes.

To which one reader responded:

' What a laugh, he doesn't even have control over his own rallies.'

What a laugh, the reader's silly enough to think McGrumpy doesn't know EXACTLY what he's doing!  Politics, like growing old, ain't for sissies. And McGrumpy is versed well in both.

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Troopergate Report: Palin "Unlawfully Abused Her Authority"

"I think there are some problems in this report," said Republican state Sen. Gary Stevens, a member of the panel. "I would encourage people to be very cautious, to look at this with a jaundiced eye."

Yes sir, you are indeed correct. In this report there are problems for the G.O.P.

No wonder he would recommend viewing it with sick, rather than clear, eyes. They're gonna spin this one large and long.

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About Sarah Palin

Ouch.

Can you say ....Grumpy?

NYT Editorial: McCain-Palin Have Sunk To "Race-Baiting And Xenophobia"

I applaud the NYT for finally doing what needs to be done: Addressing the negativity as divisive and destructive (and ineffective).

I too hope McGrumpy's campaign comes up with something a little more honorable to blather about. If only to give the contest a little more of the dignity it deserves.

Last night I was at a meeting where a man came in with a McCain/Palin button, hiding the spot on his shirt where a tie might have gone. I politely asked him whether he was planning to watch the debate, and he didn't think he'd bother, but allowed as someone will probably shoot that Obama guy anyway. I reminded him there are people out there protecting him and kidded him that he shouldn't be overheard saying this stuff. 

Know what he said?

"They can't all protect him. No one can protect him."

Someone who can Get It Done should take McGrumpy out IN PUBLIC and call him on this behavior. And demand an appeal from him, sans sarcasm, smiles, and any of the other Moosecrap, that people stop thinking in this fashion

He doesn't get that once you whisper into a lizard's brain, that's all they know.

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A Plea for Transparency

Swiftboat, Anti-Obama Author Bites Hand that Feeds Him

This is not new news, (it's from Nov 7th last year) but it's new to me, and perhaps to others. Seems that Jerome R. Corsi, late of Unfit For Command defame, decided along with other conservative writers that his publishing house was avoiding royalty payouts.  How one may ask?

Five authors have sued the parent company of Regnery Publishing, a Washington imprint of conservative books, charging that the company deprives its writers of royalties by selling their books at a steep discount to book clubs and other organizations owned by the same parent company.

In a suit filed in United States District Court in Washington yesterday, the authors Jerome R. Corsi, Bill Gertz, Lt. Col. Robert (Buzz) Patterson, Joel Mowbray and Richard Miniter state that Eagle Publishing, which owns Regnery, “orchestrates and participates in a fraudulent, deceptively concealed and self-dealing scheme to divert book sales away from retail outlets and to wholly owned subsidiary organizations within the Eagle conglomerate.”

Now, ordinarily I'd have an issue with someone not getting their due for distribution of intellectual .... whatever you want to call what these guys write.  It's not cool to deprive these guys of royalties.

But consider something:  The point of the publication here is not really to get the truth into millions of hands, it's to get an editorial point of view into the public dialog.  It's to get a piece of red meat out to the Bill-O's and pill-popping hate jockeys, so they can drone the contents into the lizard brains that listen to them.

In short: their reward is not of this earth.  It is of the airwaves.  The sales numbers these guys achieve to make the best-seller lists would be impossible without the massive dumping of books into book clubs, remainder tables, and recycling centers that is routinely done by the conservative masters they serve.  So why should they get royalties for books no one reads?

Mr. Miniter said that meant that although he received about $4.25 a copy when his books sold in a bookstore or through an online retailer, he only earned about 10 cents a copy when his books sold through the Conservative Book Club or other Eagle-owned channels. “The difference between 10 cents and $4.25 is pretty large when you multiply it by 20,000 to 30,000 books,” Mr. Miniter said. “It suddenly occurred to us that Regnery is making collectively jillions of dollars off of us and paying us a pittance.” He added: “Why is Regnery acting like a Marxist cartoon of a capitalist company?”

Waaaaaaah.  But not all of these authors are completely disingenuous about the way things are:

“You get 10 per cent of nothing because they basically give them away,” Mr. Patterson said in an interview.

Ohhhhh.  Guess you gotta put something in those books to make folks wanna read 'em!

Not that we need to think about this now, but....

Some folks are saying that McGrumpy's choice for veep might make a surprisingly viable contender for the Executive in '12.

Obama Hatred At McCain-Palin Rallies: "Terrorist!" "Kill Him!" (VIDEO)

Perhaps the Secret Service should be attending these rallies, to locate and detain the person/s calling for this violence. They've detained people for less before. And who knows if McGrumpy will actually spawn violence from these events?
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Who Knew Wiki Knew?

There's been a posting at The Register, an online news source (meaning they verify before printing, an old concept with little respect these days) that suggests the Wall Street Journal, Wikipedia, and the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation may have known, and encouraged, the downfall of the market due to Naked Shorts.... and get this..... for money.

I suppose we shouldn't be surprised.  I just hope we have enough rope to hang them all.

Palin On Fox News: Couric Annoyed Me

Man the comments on this article were hot!  That Catie Couric.  So mean to Ms. Palin. She doesn't know how hard it is to look good when ya just aren't so gosh darn smart

God help us if Sarah finds a reason to need to look presidential.
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Frank Demolishes O'Reilly: "Your Stupidity Gets In The Way Of Rational Discussion"

I'm afraid, this is why the Repugs have won in the past. They lie and lie and lie and don't care when people call them on it... this phenomenon has been in the discussion for a while, and the Dems are starting to understand if they play in the frame they're given, they reinforce it. When they reply with their own frame and project new and different ideas, they can get new ideas into the heads of viewers.

That was a cute try last night, wasn't it? Palin winking at the camera and smiling slyly when she corrected Joe and said "No, Joe, it's Drill Baby, Drill!" That's gotta go into Larry Flynt's new movie script....
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A Brief Guide to the Debates by George Lakoff

A simple set of rules to follow, to navigate the people behind the debate. I wonder if Sarah will have a box on her backside as W did not so long ago. If Biden follows this good advice even that may not save her.

Thanks again Mr L. for some clear sane thinking.
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