Thinking Right

By Redneck Convert

October 25, 2008 8:10 AM | Link to this

Well, it’s a good thing the big brains like me and Sister Dusty and maybe this Raghead can see thru this Obama, tho Raghead comes across as just a mouthpiece for this Dr. Thomas Sowell. I don’t know who this Dr. Sowell is, but I wish he would take a look at my piles and my pile-on cyst.

Anyhow, we need to keep cutting taxes till guvmint starves to death and we are all out there on our own the way God intended.

People need to come around to the Republican way of thinking. We live in a jungle and it’s every man and woman for hisself. We don’t need guvmint programs to help people. If someone is so worthless he don’t have some friends that can raise money to help him, he ought to just die and be done with it. The same goes for these old coots when they get too old to hold on to a job. Let them move in with their kids or just starve to death. Don’t expect folks like me to pay taxes for Social Security and Medicare and other guvmint handouts.

As for these kids that need doctoring, well, I didn’t father them and I shouldn’t be made to pay for them. Sure, I’ll go to church and pray for them but that’s about as far as it should go.

You got to hand it to old man McCain. He done put the big Tax and Spend label on this Obama. When what we need is Borrow and Spend, tho old man McCain don’t say nothing about that. When you Borrow and Spend, the red Chinese get stuck with the bill when we cut taxes so much that guvmint can’t repay the loans.

All guvmint should do is help out Big Business so we can keep the Free Innerprize system when it gets in trouble. I know people like Raghead and AJCCommie and people like that will agree with me. I got mine and you need to get yours and keep your hands off of mine. All guvmint should do is perteck mine and keep people from robbing me. Instead of taking money from my paycheck and doing the robbing.

Anyhow, this election is all about weather we are going to be free or just wards of the guvmint, just like Wooten says. No one knows that better than this Captain Freedom. He keeps blasting away at the commies and the towelheads and other godless people that would take our freedom away in the U. S. of A. I just wish he would do his blasting in words most of us can understand. He keeps giving ten bucks in change when a penny would do.

Have a good weekend everybody. And get out there and vote Republican if you ain’t done it already. Two or three times if you can get away with it.

Leastwise, keep the libruls from voting, the way this Handel woman is doing. Challenge them at the polls or tell them the election is November 5 or something like that. Send them letters to their listed address and when the letters come back undelivered see that they are took off the voting rolls. Our freedom is at stake.

By Famuan

October 25, 2008 8:19 AM | Link to this

Must really suck for Wooten knowing that a majority of the country are really socialist/marxist/commie/anti-American/terrorists!! LMAO!!! Yep!! That’s right Wooten! We’re all just socialists in the making!! WOOHOO!! Can’t wait to steal your money and give it to the unworthy!! YIPPEE!!

Seriously, has it come down to the lying scare tactics Jim?? How pathetic of you.

By The Forgotten Messiah.

October 25, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this

Campaign promises are never fulfilled. Being president means never having to say you’re Saudi.

Check out the sunshine and mid 60’s temps today. Glenn Burns, you did it again. I nominate Mr. Magoo for our atmospheric liason.

Dow: The selling yesterday was labeled “light volume” and the same people think the selling is over. The volume yesterday was twice from a year ago. Bottom?

Greenspan apologized for his belief that markets can regulate themselves in a Fed. vacuum. He knows now that markets can strip adhesion in a vacuum and create x-rated executive getaways where particularly-exotic models scotch tape their breasts together for a sexier look, and CEOs radiate charm.

By bearcasey

October 25, 2008 8:44 AM | Link to this

It’s simple. The Republican party will pay for inflicting that dolt “W” on us. McCain should have been President in 2000. Too late now!

By TN Gelding

October 25, 2008 8:45 AM | Link to this

The top 50 percent of taxpayers, who provide 97 percent of the revenue from individual income taxes, cover both the cost of government and the checks sent to those who get more back than they pay in.

If only it were true. With a $500 billion deficit, the refunds and rebates are being borrowed, much of it from China and other foreign entities.

Clinton raised taxes AND cut spending. Why do you think Obama can’t?

By ron

October 25, 2008 8:52 AM | Link to this

Good morning,On the news last night I heard Obama’s wife repeat the 95% tax cut plan.I also believe that at one time or other I heard Obama try to explain the figure by alluding to cuts in sales tax and propery tax.I might have dreamed the last part,so be gentle.Liars figure,figure lie.Same old sleight of hand shell game.Someone is going to pay the taxes,that’s for sure.

Obama needs to put a luxury tax back on yachts.That worked so well last time.The government collected about $11 and collapsed the whole boat building industry.One thing that did work though;Florida suspended the sales tax on boat repairs.Guess where all the repair work was done.Some tax cuts make sense.

Obama will have a large deficit to deal with.Try that without taxing everyone.

I warned about the insurers the other day.Now they’re at the trough to the tune of 100 billion.I don’t think that’s the whole iceberg with them though.

The Fed policy on banking is now picking winners and losers.All the billions are going to go toward buying selected banks,by selected banks,creating super banks. All my life,it seems that everytime a tax credit came along,I missed it for some reason or other.Wrong bracket,My home was paid off,My children had already graduated from college,or some other equeally good reason.I don’t expect that Obama’s tax cuts will be any different.I seem always to be in the segment of the population that gets forgotten.I’m not rich so I can only conclude that tax cuts for certain segments of the population are a big lie.

I will never forgive Daddy Bush for not cutting the capitol gains tax.I counted on that.

By TN Gelding

October 25, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this

ron

October 25, 2008 8:52 AM

I’ll never forgive Daddy Bush for not endorsing Al Gore.

He had to know his rebellious son wasn’t up to the job.

I’m afraid you’re right about the need for further “investment” by the fed.

By True Libertarian

October 25, 2008 9:14 AM | Link to this

I find it odd that self-described conservatives cannot stop blathering about “wealth redistribution”. What do they think just happened on Wall Street? While it may be true that 5% of Americans pay 60% of the taxes; it is also true that the $700 billion bailout was in essence the Federal Government redistributing the “wealth” of middle class and upper middle class to the super rich. Until Americans stop this infantile red state/blue state and conservative/liberal bickering, the Federal Government (both the Executive and Legislature; and BOTH PARTIES!) will continue to do what it wants (govern at the behest of corporate America), and ALL working Americans will pick up the tab, either in increased taxes or a $10 trillion national debt, which we are learning can be more deadly to the economy than a 3% tzx increase on Americans who earn $250,000. Let me let you all in on a secret; it doesn’t matter who wins the election because given the current business model (and governing has moved from a Consitutional model to a business model) does NOT include taxpayer as decision-makers. Think of it like organized crime. The Government has become Tony Soprano, and We the People are his crew. We do the work, and pay our “tribute” every April 15th. In exchange, we get to convince ourselves that we are “safe”. Not a bad way to run a Republic, if you’re a politician. Somewhere between 1791 (ratification) and 2008, the Federal Government succumbed to a coup, and until ALL Amercians demand true “representation” (vote out ALL incumbents, regardless of party affiliation), we will continue to get what we pay for.

By The Forgotten Messiah.

October 25, 2008 9:16 AM | Link to this

The dying words of conservatism: Hitler, antichrist, and Messiah.

And these people expect us to ever read another word they write?

Obama 08: America takes over.

By Peter

October 25, 2008 9:47 AM | Link to this

Don’t be AFRAID Jim of the NEW policy’s coming…….

Of course you will MAKE UP the future, but hey EVERYONE has an opinion.

At least we won’t have John McCain who would give Illegal Aliens a “Free Pass”, as was his original attitude.

We won’t have any more “Cowboy” attacks on other countries. We won’t have the BIG wasteful spending with Cost Plus Contracts…….Those contracts are way BIGGER than any PORK we could imagine !

We might even have a Government who will LOOK after American’s…….We might have a BUILDING of American Infrastructure, instead of blowing up another country and then rebuilding their infrastructure.

Perhaps the IRS will for the first time in 9 years say the Rich are not getting way rich, as the Poor are getting way poorer……….

Yes America can take care of it’s own for a change!

Maybe the Government will look out after American CHILDREN for a CHANGE Jim………

Hopefully Education will be a Priority, instead of Bombing and ripping off of the American Treasury !

Perhaps American children will have after school programs again, and the Boys and Girls Clubs of America will get some help !

Poor Jim looking in the mirror and FEELING SORRY for HIMSELF……don’t worry Jim……you will still get yours………BUT hopefully the Million’s of AMERICAN’S who Have been HURT by the REPUBLICAN’S, will get some relief !

Finally, and this is what I am waiting for…..

The “BUSH TERRORIST PROTECTION PLAN” will come to an end !

America will finally go after BIN LADEN, as a Family’s Oil Business won’t matter !

Change Jim Change…….. Change Jim Change !

America for AMERICANS ! Wow what a concept !

By Sara

October 25, 2008 9:51 AM | Link to this

What’s happening here is that the segment of the population that has a financial interest in containing the growth of government is dwindling, while the one that sees politicians as an income source grows. Under those circumstances, it’s virtually impossible to sell fiscal discipline as an agenda.

Keep in mind that this issue is not limited to solely an Obama presidency. McCain likes to boast about his spending freeze but I think even if McCain manages to win this election, he is in for an eye opening experience. The Republicans aren’t going to give up their pork spending any more than Democrats will. Politicians like getting re-elected and earmarks that come back home are how that often happens. Not to mention McCain needs to quit giving earmarks a bad name - they are not all bad. For one thing, that is how money gets funneled from the federal level to the states. Some good things have come from earmark spending. The planetarium project McCain likes to poke fun of is one of them (see how to lose the science vote in 2 seconds flat). The Bridge to Nowhere? Not so much (and while I won’t give Palin credit for shutting the project down - she didn’t - I won’t ask her to take blame for a project she didn’t actually propose either).

The single biggest problem in government is lobbying. The reality is the “haves” are about the only ones who can afford the lobbyists, which inherently means they are the least in need of them. No business representative has any business being on Capital Hill unless directly invited there to testify to Congress or a sub-committee. Write a letter to you representative (or lots of representatives) to present your point of view on legislation - fine. But any transfer of money via gift, dinner, so much as a Christmas card? I think not.

We also need a desperate infusion of good common sense and a sense of the common good from our elected officials. There is nothing inherently wrong in helping those who truly need help. I would like to see some overhaul in the areas of Medicare/Medicaid and other social programs where fraud is an issue. However I would like to see politicians truly think about what is best for the country as a whole instead of focusing on the most influential segments or the extremist wings of either party.

By the way, in regards to the whole funding issue for these programs. The one thing I do not see reflected in these numbers is the future income potential. Investing now in areas like energy policy that could create millions of jobs has another benefit as well - it creates millions of new taxpayers - tada! Take someone who is unemployed now. Perhaps they take in $1,000 a month in government assistance to support themselves. Create a job for them and not only does the government no longer have to spend that $1,000 a month, they can actually realize income from those wages. Plus the increased net wages can then be spent in our economy, drumming up more revenue for our small businesses. The best part of the exchange between Obama and Joe the Plumber has gotten lost by most of the media. Obama talked about spreading the wealth not just to help americans get to the point where they can perhaps buy a business themselves, it also spreads the wealth to allow them to hire guys like Joe the Plumber. It’s an exponential issue - income growth for one person translates into income growth across the board - companies make more and the more they make, the more tax revenue comes in to the government. With high levels of overall revenue, the government could even afford to cut the rates and still bring in more.

However cutting tax rates for the wealthy does not get it done. Frankly, we’ve seen that the last eight years when Bush and the Republican Congress lowered the rates and look where our economy and people are now. It doesn’t create new American jobs because companies are sending their jobs overseas every chance they get - labor is cheaper in India and in the rest of the Americas than it is here at home. And folks THAT is why businesses look overseas, not high corporate tax rates…because notice they aren’t totally relocating overseas, which would be the reaction to high taxes. They are getting materials and labor from overseas instead to boost their earnings, so they can in turn spend more on materials and labor overseas (and on executive compensation).

Both candidates in this election have some serious flaws - it’s categorically undeniable. But as citizens, we aren’t going to help or change anything if we do not start critically thinking on our own about more than just the party lines or our own self-serving interests. Frankly, if we do not care, how can we expect our representatives to? Politicians are not the leaders folks, we are. It’s time we started leading instead of following.

By HAM

October 25, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this

According to US News and World Reports, they have already had Democratic subcommittee testimony on doing away with tax-free deposits to your 401K plans.

They want to replace it with taxable accounts that will get a 3% return every year. - No higher than 3%.

By Republicans R Crooks

October 25, 2008 10:26 AM | Link to this

Oh, look, Jimmy the Idiot has learned a new buzz phrase “tipping point.” Yo Jimmy, that phrase is at least two years old….Idiot. The Idiot of the ajc prefers wealth to be concentrated into the hands of the top 5% of the country, primarly people in the financial services industry….hence the Repuke bailout of the banks, including the fat cat investment banks like the Golden Sackers, and the Morgan Stealers….Just say no to Jimmy the Idiot by cancelling your subscription to this rag, and say no to their puppets like Evita Palin and Juan McCain.

By GayGrayGeek

October 25, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this

HAM - care to define “THEY”?

By Peter

October 25, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this

WOW Jim….Imagine how many more folks will be paying Taxes after Obama gets in, and we create More Jobs !

The Republicans are going to be sore when poor folks actually get a chance !

The Republicans are going to be sore when American’s get a better education, and cannot any longer be held down because of Ignorance!

The Republicans are going to be sore when they loose a bunch of seats in both the House and Senate !

Americans are going to Celebrate when the Republicans are licking their wounds, and wondering how did it all go so WRONG !

The American People will speak JIM….. Finally it will be time for the Republican’s to WAKE UP, and act AMERICAN for a CHANGE !

By catlady

October 25, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this

Excellent, Sara!

I think the pervasive sense of entitlement is our undoing. See HAMs comment above for an example. But generally: “We are the USA—we are entitled”, and, especially, “I pay the most income tax, I am entitled.” These find Christians have forgotten about the widow’s mite story in the Bible, haven’t they?

By Peter

October 25, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this

Hey Jim Next time the Republicans pick a Presidential candidate, hopefully he won’t be a Dumb A$$, in the bottom percentage of his class!

It is a case study of the troubles of the McCain campaign, the problems of its own making as well as those caused by forces beyond the campaign’s control, including a deeply troubled economy that is sharply driving up home foreclosures in many areas of the state. And it provides vivid evidence of the Obama campaign’s success in using its money and organizational skills to put Republicans on the defensive in once-safe states.

“He has the best political organization for a presidential campaign that I have ever seen here,” Tom Slade, a former state Republican chairman, said of Mr. Obama. “Bar none. He has run a phenomenally good campaign.”

Gosh Jim…..A SMART guy is going to win the Election………after that, Palin can go home and slime around Alaska for awhile !

What a concept…..a SMART President………that will be a CHANGE for SURE !

By Just Nasty & Mean

October 25, 2008 10:39 AM | Link to this

G’Mornin Jim, et al,

Just like Clinton, Obla-bla-ma will get into office on promises he won’t keep, and state that things are worse than he expected, so he must therefore raise taxes on more than the bulls-eye big money earners.

You can bet your house on it.

Already, Charles (money in the Dominican) Rangal is talking of a MUCH larger tax increase. Barney (Fannie Mae cohort and culprit) Frank has blurted out we should cut military spending 25%. Dangerous!

When Nancy (Haight-Ashbury) Pelosi gets ahold of Obla-bla-ma, if he thought Michelle (Never proud of America) he’ll be treated like a kitchen-boy

In the words of Joe (Gaff Machine) Biden, “Mark my words”, whatever Obla-bla-ma says now to get elected won’t even be considered.

Bend over, grit your teeth, and pass the Vaseline.

Have a nice weekend everybody!

By Peter

October 25, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this

Hey………By Just Nasty & Mean ……….Pretty funny comment !

“You can bet your house on it.”

Million’s of Americans have and have lost that bet…….

All because of George Bush and the Republican policies……..!

Intelligence going back into the White House !

End of Dumb A$$ for President !

By HAM

October 25, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this

GayGrayGreek @ 10:30 - House Ways and Means Committee’s Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support.

By Republicans R Crooks

October 25, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this

Cancel your subscriptions to the ajc until they fire Jimmy the Idiot….

By Republicans R Crooks

October 25, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this

The Idiot writes “The plunder that the Democrats plan to extract from the ‘very rich’ — the 5 percent that earn more than $250,000 and who already pay 60 percent of the federal income tax bill,” BUT THE IDIOT fails to mention these rich fat cats are only paying a 15% federal income tax rate on all that money…and no social security or medicare tax….MORE LIES FROM THE STINKING REPUKE SCUM….THE PARTY OF THE BIG LIE….

By Matilda

October 25, 2008 11:07 AM | Link to this

The current administration has been speading our tax money into the pockets of private contractors in Iraq for more than five years now, Mr. Wooten. What’s worse, they’ve been borrowing money in our name to put more unaudited BILLION$ into the pockets of their friends, while our bridges and roads fall apart here at home, higher education to increase our competitiveness gets harder to afford, and working people are spending and making do with less every month that goes by. Now they’ve just spread our future tax dollars into the pockets of unscrupulous fianciers on Wall Street and left us with the bill and nothing to show for it. AND YOU DARE SPEAK TO US OF PLUNDERING THE RICH?

Go suck an egg, Mr. Wooten. You’ve enabled and cheered the most irresponsible and unethical behavior in the history of our nation. If you had an ounce of ethics in your cranky, cynical old sack, you’d apologize daily for the rest of your life.

By Republicans R Crooks

October 25, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this

ANOTHER BIG LIE BY THE REPUBLICANS:

Police: McCain volunteer made up robbery story

Oct 24 03:06 PM US/Eastern By JOE MANDAK Associated Press Writer

PITTSBURGH (AP) - A McCain campaign volunteer made up a story of being robbed, pinned to the ground and having the letter “B” scratched on her face in a politically inspired attack, police said Friday. Ashley Todd, 20-year-old college student from College Station, Texas, admitted Friday that the story was false and was being charged with making a false report to police, said Maurita Bryant, the assistant chief of the police department’s investigations division. Police doubted her story from the start, Bryant said.

Todd, who is white, told police she was attacked by a 6-foot-4 black man Wednesday night.

She now can’t explain why she invented the story, Bryant said. Todd also told police she believes she cut the backward “B” onto her own cheek, but did not provide an explanation of how or why, Bryant said.

Todd initially told investigators she was attempting to use a bank branch ATM when the man approached her from behind, put a knife with a 4- to 5-inch blade to her throat and demanded money. She told police she handed the assailant $60 and walked away.

Todd told investigators that she suspected the man then noticed a John McCain sticker on her car, became angry and punched her in the back of the head, knocking her to the ground and telling her “you are going to be a Barack supporter,” police said.

She said he continued to punch and kick her while threatening “to teach her a lesson for being a McCain supporter,” police said. She said he then sat on her chest, pinned her hands down with his knees and scratched a backward letter “B” into her face with a dull knife.

Todd told police she didn’t seek medical attention, but instead went to a friend’s apartment nearby and called police about 45 minutes later.

The Associated Press could not immediately locate Todd’s family.

Bryant said somebody charged with making a false report would typically be cited and sent a summons. But because police have concerns about Todd’s mental health, they are consulting with the Allegheny County District Attorney. She remained in custody and was awaiting arraignment.

Todd worked in New York for the College Republican National Committee before moving two weeks ago to Pennsylvania, where her duties included recruiting college students, the committee’s executive director, Ethan Eilon, has said.

Eilon declined to comment on the investigation Friday or to help The Associated Press contact Todd.

Earlier Friday, police said they had found inconsistencies in Todd’s story. They gave her a lie-detector test, but wouldn’t release the polygraph results. Investigators also said bank surveillance photos did not back up the woman’s initial story of being attacked at an ATM.

Police interviewed Todd after she contacted police Wednesday night and again on Thursday, Bryant said. They asked her to come back Friday, ostensibly to help police put together a sketch of the man. Instead, detectives began interviewing her.

“They just started talking to her and she just opened up and said she wanted to tell the truth,” Bryant said.

Bryant said it doesn’t appear that anyone else put the woman up to the false report.

Police suspected all along that Todd might not be telling the truth, starting with the fact that the “B” was backward, Bryant said.

“We have robbers here in Pittsburgh, but they don’t generally mutilate someone’s face like that,” Bryant said. “They just take the money and run.”

ONLY LYING, STINKING REPUBLICANS MUTILATE THEIR OWN FACE, THE CLAIM A BLACK MAN DID IT….

By yankee

October 25, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this

Why would you call it “a gift back”? Have you never heard of people who claim 0 during the year so not to have a bill at tax time. They still pay a tax, just not as much as is collected. I think you know that, you just choose to lie.

By getalife

October 25, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this

Joe and you will get a tax cut silly.

“Rick Sanchez Calls Out Fox Over “Mutilation” Hoax McCain Aide Gave Reporters Incendiary Version Of Story”.

It’s over.

Obama will be the next President.

Show some patriotism and support him.

Country first remember?

By Mr. KnowItAll

October 25, 2008 11:48 AM | Link to this

To Peter @ 9:47/10:30/10:38/10:50’

If I had to bet my house, I would bet you are a PAID POLITICAL HACK by the Obla-bla-ma campaign (from the multi-multi-millions collected AFTER HE LIED about taking public financing).

You seem to have WAY too much time to attack EVERY SINGLE BLOG that opposes Obla-bla-ma.

IT is clear you are nothing but a tacky billboard spewing talking points and slinging crap on anyone that opposes Obla-bla-ma.

Unless you are a waste of flesh and don’t work, you better grab your Vaseline too. This country is about to **change”” in ways George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams could never have imagined. The country will have taken a turn towards the GOVERNMENT becoming more important in our lives than the individual.

When that happens, we can all kiss the last standing democracy on the planet goodbye. We’ll just be another socialist banana republic with strongman tactics (Fairness Doctrine—just like Chavez, Castro, Idi Amin, and other Muslim dictatorships) to control the masses.

The God that adorns virtually ALL of our monuments and founding documents has been forsaken. Our forefathers warned about the change from individual responsibility to government collectivism. It is the final leg on the stool that makes the USA unique in the world.

Go ahead—-spew your venom and hate on the very system that gave you the right to do so…and weep when they knock at your door for protesting what we will become.

By Republicans R Crooks

October 25, 2008 11:48 AM | Link to this

I wonder how many innocent black men have been hung because of lying republicans like Todd, who is white, and told police she was attacked by a 6-foot-4 black man Wednesday night?

By Right is Wrong

October 25, 2008 12:13 PM | Link to this

Oh, you forget “Republicans R Crooks”. These idiots don’t think that there is a such thing as an “innocent black man”!

By Chad Harris

October 25, 2008 12:19 PM | Link to this

Thio analysis by Wooten is as usual pathetic. Palin has already crammed it into any target for Wooten’s “vaseline.” The distortion of the right reminds me of the book back in the day that was all over college bookstores on “Isms.” Socialism, Communism—that’t be the result of your team Hank Paulson, Bernanke, Greenspan, and the insipidly stupid Phil Graham. They brung you the communism and socialism that is now the government’s ownership of investment banks bailed out.

So if Wooten wants to grease up parts of his anatomy, say a little prayer to the morons who were Republicans that made the lubrication necessary.

Are you all who hate stem cell research that can improve medicine by a quantum leap, cure cancers, defeat cord paralysis, dent diabetes, and become a springboard for organ replacement secretly clone Palens?

I imagine it’s made easier because they don’t need a brain and can be cloned as decerebrate.

Drosophilia and Moronilia or how Wooten’s Girl is sinking in Mooses**t

More Moronicity from Albatross Palin who has buried herself in Mooses**t.

Memo To Palin: Fruit Fly Research Has Led To Advances In Understanding Autism http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/24/palin-fruit-flies/

Do Republicans understand anything ‘bout science or medicine anymore or did all of them get massive lobotomies?

And again. If you’re Republican you are not helping yourself with two phrases so I’d lose them. 1) Joe the Plumber—it’s become a satirical term the goofey way McCain and moron have tried to use it.

I remember when most physicians were Republicans. That’s not the case anymore to the extent it was, for many reasons that are political and economic beyond discussion here like the enormous revisions and incompetent failures in medicaid and medicare reimbursement, but what’s up with the stupidity from the Republicans for years now that is anti-medicine and anti-science? Is it the Right Wing religious nutzism that spawns this?

a) Palin and her husband b) Palin and her boyfriend c) Bristol and some male had a child who is a trisomy 21 child. Just when I think this moron can’t top herself—I see her stepping in a heap of mooseshit. She ridiculued research on fruit flies Friday after the earmarks for genuinelly worthless absurd studies she championed were off the wall.

She launched into the fruitfly stuff either because McCain’s staff who write all her words are idiots or because she is. I assume that she has feelings for the baby whosever is really the father and mother. She drags it around.

So why would she say something that is total medical stupidity and knock fruitfly studies that have been a basic biological/medical research method for years since Palin’s great great grandmother was a child.

Anyone who takes a biology course or anyone who goes to med school knows that about 100 years ago, fruit flies were found to be an ideal way to study and advance genetic and a gamut of other research. One of the areas where fruit flies are used extensively is in studying chromosal disorders, including the one that her child has. You have to be a quintissential moron not to know this, but here we are with this total doofus who has the amalgaum of stupidity and ambition in exponential quantities.

She thinks because she arouses Joe Sixpack, she can say whatever the _ and get away with it.

So she straddles and whizzes on a basic method of research that can help babies like the one she claims to have had or at least owns at present.

Then and this is so frigging McCainesque and Pailinesque. She prances on stage and says she will “make the government” fully fund the IDEA or Disabilities Education Act (with not a clue how she would do this.

McCain has a huge bunch of crap on his website touting a spending freeze with the exception of defense and entitlements just like Hoover. And when asked the other day Jim Wooten’s moron girl said she supported the spending freeze—you betcha, goshdarnit.

So let’s see—the big initiative from idiot Palen is to help children with disabilities by freezing spending on them. And since a large percentage of those disabilities are genetically mediated, and fruit flies have been a cornerstone of genetic research, moron girl is mocking fruit fly research.

And moron girl got her MD from where exactly? You conscious Wooten?

And in the tradition of moron girl we have moron boy Sonny Purdue. Purdue is a licensed vet. He bops around ocassionally putting a nick or a crimp in the vas def of doggies. So what moronic thing does Purdue pull off to make you wonder if he had a lobotomy? He spends $5-6 or more million bucks buying up tons of Tamiflu. It is doubtful that Tamiflu and its 3 other analogues do anything to expedite the resolution of flu symptoms, and anyone with clinical experience knows this. The flu like side effects for this group of drugs is above 30% causing most physicians to eschew using them. Their efficacy at speeding flu symptoms is negligible—always has been and always will.

They do NOTHING WHATSOEVER to help with pandemic mutating H5N1 viruses which are not the same and in fact are a universe away from the standard flu. The only thing these drugs can do documented exhaustively in the medical literature is to make pandemic H5N1 more resistant and enhance its mutation.

So wtf did moron Purdue throw away (not the phrase I usually use on this) millions of dollars for something that totally lacks efficacy.

What is it that makes Republicans so anti-science that they would do such a stupid thing?

Palin’s stupid statement is garnering hits on You Tube and medical websites right and left. Geneticists are having a field day with it.

Keep her talking Wooten. Keep singing her praises. Go get her in 2012 and every year there is a general election. She is the gift that keeps on giving.

What does Wooten want in the White House:

From TIME on Alaskanomics:

“Alaska ranks No. 1 in taxes per resident and No. 1 in spending per resident. Its tax burden per resident is 2 1/2 times the national average; its spending, more than double. The trick is that Alaska’s government spends money on its own citizens and taxes the rest of us to pay for it. Although Palin, like McCain, talks about liberating ourselves from dependence on foreign oil, there is no evidence that being dependent on Alaskan oil would be any more pleasant to the pocketbook.

Alaska is, in essence, an adjunct member of OPEC. It has four different taxes on oil, which produce more than 89% of the state’s unrestricted revenue. On average, three-quarters of the value of a barrel of oil is taken by the state government before that oil is permitted to leave the state. Alaska residents each get a yearly check for about $2,000 from oil revenues, plus an additional $1,200 pushed through by Palin last year to take advantage of rising oil prices. Any sympathy the governor of Alaska expresses for folks in the lower 48 who are suffering from high gas prices or can’t afford to heat their homes is strictly crocodile tears.

As if it couldn’t support itself, Alaska also ranks No. 1, year after year, in money it sucks in from Washington. In 2005 (the most recent figures), according to the Tax Foundation, Alaska ranked 18th in federal taxes paid per resident ($5,434) but first in federal spending received per resident ($13,950). Its ratio of federal spending received to federal taxes paid ranks third among the 50 states, and in the absolute amount it receives from Washington over and above the amount it sends to Washington, Alaska ranks No. 1.”

I wonder why so many people who dabble in government—Wooten who tries to write about it—Bob Irwin don’t admit and recognize one basic.

Obama or any President doesn’t administer tax cuts or make any programs available. They have a varying degree of a bully pulpit, but Congress has to pass these programs and tax policies. Congress is very closely divided, and even if the Dems do succeed in getting a filibuster proof 60 votes, the Senate will still be closely divided, as will the House.

Their trademark is gridlock. So for Wooten or anyone else to say “Obama will or Obama won’t as to legislation that has to get through Congress is ludicrous.”

By @@

October 25, 2008 12:19 PM | Link to this

We are at that tipping point.

I couldn’t agree with you more Jim. Come November, “the spread” before us, may very well, end up being a huge helping of turkey…….OBlahMa stuffed with Karl Marx.

Karl Marx — ‘The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.’ There’s that word, CHANGE! If only there were some left to tip the waiter.

For the next four years, some will be lulled into that unappetizing slumber that follows a feast of turkey. It is at that point, that Adam Smith will step up with a delectable helping of………

Adam Smith — It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Unfortunately, by then, a liberal helping of peas may have already rolled off the plate, ending up on the floor and wondering how the heck they got there.

While the meal is being scattered about, I will be enjoying my just desserts……

Thomas Acquinas — ‘The most hopeful people in the world are the young and the drunk. The first because they have little experience of failure, and the second because they have succeeded in drowning theirs.’

Thank you Thomas! It was delicious. I look forward to a second helping of your wisdom in four years.

By Jim Jr.

October 25, 2008 12:35 PM | Link to this

* 8 more years – John (George Jr.) McCain*
Umm or should that be 1 year John and 7 years Todd Pallin?

By Captain Freedom

October 25, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this

THE Captain applauds the ironically monikered Mr Know It All for his fact-filled and reasonable takedown of all things Obamandingo. It is posters like Mr Know It All (the name clearly an homage to the famous Bullwinkle character, in itself an homage to Our Sarah the Moose Killer, a sort of meta meta homage, coupled with behavior that makes the moniker ironic in the first place, a veritably Derridean construction of post-meta-ironic-meta layering), yes it is posters like this that makes THE Captain’s job a tad easier on this glorious Saturday. For with Mr Know It All around to so clearly display the true intellectual power of True Belief, THE Captain can rest today.

But not yet…

For THE Captain fears that the Dark Tide of Obamandingoism may be too great for Real Americans to overcome. It seems that Johhny Maverick just can’t catch a break. To wit:

• His campaign mascot, Joe the Plumber, turns out to be a lying sack and near-total fabrication. Add in unpaid taxes and various other low crimes, and it appears that this Icon of True Belief may in fact be an Islamunistoliberal plant who is only out to make St John look like a fool. THE Captain must admit, this Dem operative has accomplished his mission with flying colours.

• In yet another “damn the luck” event, the poor young paragon of Southern Womanly Virtue, Ashely Todd, who was savagely attacked, mutilated, and sexually molested by a Strapping Young Negro Thug, turns out to be a, who’d a thunk it - a lying sack and complete fabrication. Again, THE Captain suspects that this young dumpling is in fact an Islamolesbian Hillaryite operative who, you guessed it, was hellbent upon casting St John in a bad light. How was the McCain campaign to know that this totally plausible story would turn out to be a hoax when they ran gleefully to the press to be sure it received maximum coverage, thereby doing the dirty work themselves.

• And in the cruelest blow of all, Our Sarah Plain and Tall, the epitome of Maverickiness and Stick It To The Man-ism, turns out to be just another high ambition power abuser in stilleto heels and fancy fifth avenue clothes. And now it seems that she has decided that, like everyone who lifted her up in the past, Johnny Maverick is vulture food best kicked to the curb as she prepares for 2012. That many in the McCain campaign have already begun sending out resumes is scant balm for this stab wound between the shoulder blades.

Like THE Captain says, St John just can’t catch a break. The poor man gave his all, all his self-respect and all his reputation for integrity, he fe||ated the man who slandered his daughter, he lapped the nut5ack of the Dobson wing, he did every degrading thing that the GOP demanded of him. He was owed this Presidency, dammit, and the American people have treated him worse than the slanty eyed slopy slopes of Hanoi. Bunch of traitors, not real Americans at all. THE Captain is aggrieved.

Hating all so called Americans who support Obama…it is the Right Thing to do. It is, in fact, all We have left. May it feed Our Withered Souls for the next 8 years.

By gerri

October 25, 2008 12:46 PM | Link to this

Things to look forward to
1 - Democratic President
2 - Democratic Senate
3 - Democratic House
4 - Republican EX President tried by World Court for War Crimes
5 - Republican EX President convicted ty World Court of War Crimes
6h- Ummm Life is good

By John Corbin

October 25, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this

I have decided, since I live in Hotels, fly on planes, take taxi’s, and eat out almost every day of my life, that

instead of tipping 20% as I do now, I will be handing out business cards explaining that Obama”s

redistribution of wealth starts with me giving your tip, which you earned, to a homeless person who has not

earned it, but as Obama puts it, “IS LESS FORTUNATE”.

By Chad Harris

October 25, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this

@@ :

The Turkey is the one we are booting out of the White House who has killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, 5000 GIs, hundreds of civilian contractors (many of whom have killed hundreds of civilians and raped them) spent 3 trillion on Iraq, and has provided no leadership after 8 years of driving this country into a toilet.

Cliches like Turkey and Marxism are insuring that you go down in defeat both at the Presidency level and in the downticket races. Keep those blinders on, Keep Palin on camera, keep her mouth running. You’re making it easy for us to boot Republicans out of Congress.

Now it’s Moron Palin vs. Moron McCain with 10 days to go. Pass the popcorn. The battle of the Mavericks is on as they go down in defeat.

Palin Be Goin’ All Rogue on Us: Palin says she will ignore the advice of the McCain-Bush advisers and Pursue Her Very Own Course of Bein’ a Moron Goshdarnit You Betcha:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14929.html

Yeehaw. And the Wootinisas roll on:

Four Republicans close to Palin said she has decided increasingly to disregard the advice of the former Bush aides tasked to handle her, creating occasionally tense situations as she travels the country with them. Those Palin supporters, inside the campaign and out, said Palin blames her handlers for a botched rollout and a tarnished public image — even as others in McCain’s camp blame the pick of the relatively inexperienced Alaska governor, and her public performance, for McCain’s decline.

What the Republicans have said to the country is “We is Dumb and Dumb is the Answer. We got’s the Palin and she’s dumb just like us.”

And although many Americans are stupid, they aren’t that dumb.

Next Week in Georgia:

**Either the 3 Judge Panel will put the brakes on Evil Handel’s vote caging exploit, or her fiasco will quickly be appealed to the 11th Circuit and then if neceesary to the Supreme Court that already has the precedent that the panel hasn’t seemed to notice in Ohio of shutting down matching with erratic lists by computer challenged people in Georgia compounding the problem to try to destroy the huge democratic turnout.

Psstt Wooten: It’s not working in any of the states that have litigated it so far. It will fail in Indiana as well.

The Supreme Court is saying “No” this time.

By the way every time Wooten writes a Snoopy Dance column celebrating a perceived victory, his side looses. It seems like Sports Illustrated Cover Karma is in the Wooten genes.

By CommunitstAJC

October 25, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this

Redneck Convert, Thanks for the shout out. I do not, however, think the “guvment” should help ANYONE out. This bailout crap is retarded. If a person gets him/herself into unnecessary debt then it is their own fault. Period. Spreading the wealth to the have nots just keeps people poor and in the same place. Welfare in disguise. Just read an article in the Boston Herald about how John F. Kerry wants the New Deal part 2. If Obama Hussein wins then we can all say hello to the Late Great United States.

John Kerry wants New Deal II

By Jay Fitzgerald

The nation’s battered economy needs an old-fashioned “Rooseveltian lift” of regulatory reforms and government spending on the infrastructure, clean energy and other sectors, U.S. Sen. John Kerry said yesterday.

Kerry, facing a re-election challenge from Republican Jeff Beatty, rejected GOP calls for more tax rebates to stimulate the economy, as was done last spring.

“I am for a stimulus package. I am not for a stimulus package that just sends out checks,” said Kerry at a Boston Herald editorial meeting yesterday.

Instead, Kerry said the nation needs to spend more in areas that will both help the economy in the short run and long run - such as on roads and bridges, clean energy initiatives and life sciences.

Calling current financial woes the most “complicated economic time we’ve had since the Great Depression,” Kerry said new approaches are needed to reform the current financial system.

“We’re operating with old institutions that are incapable of responding fast enough, dealing with vast sums of money that cross boundaries in different financial centers,” said Kerry, who plans to provide more details of his economic agenda Tuesday at North Shore Community College in Lynn.

Democrats in Washington are pushing for more New Deal-like spending approaches for helping the economy, while the Republicans support boosting the economy via tax cuts.

But asked to respond to Kerry’s economic remarks, Beatty’s camp made references to a famous anti-Kerry crack by former state Senate President William Bulger and to rumors Kerry might be in line to become secretary of state if Barack Obama wins the presidential race.

“The only thing we know about John Kerry’s ‘plans’ is that printed on the bottom line is JFK - Just for Kerry. We just wonder how he’s going to get all this done from inside the Secretary of State’s suite in Foggy Bottom,” the Beatty camp’s statement read.

By arkansas1

October 25, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this

To Corbin,

Make more money and quit complaining as you leech off of your company money. Mr. I am entitled to everything!

Get over yourself!

Now we need to talk about the McClain camp in total disagreement on how to handle their campiagn. Constant disagreements and you actual believe Senator McClain can run a country when he cannot control his campaign.

This race should not be close!

But it will because people like Corbin who don’t believe his business will grow when everyone is making money will vote for Mcdisorganize!

By Captain Freedom

October 25, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this

THE Captain is sad to note that Joe Lieberman (Cr@pweasel-CT), is the latest to stick a shiv in the ribs of the McCain campaign:

When asked by The Stamford Advocate if Palin is ready to be president from day one, Lieberman said “thank God she’s not going to have to be president from day one.”

Granted, Holy Joe is feeling a tad bitter these days, what with being passed over for the veep nod and all. Then, St John made the comment that Sarah Plain is the bestest ever Veep nominee in recent years, totally like 5hitting on the wonderful work Joe did in keeping Al Gore out of the White House. But still, this outburst of honesty was just way out of line.

THE Captain must go now to perform His mission of educating un-white Americans about how they can be arrested for voting. THE Captain is a good and decent man who deplores the idea of Negros who have the temerity to actually vote.

Disenfranchising the Negro…it is the Right Thing to do.

By arkansas1

October 25, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this

Funny you Republicans had a chance 8 years ago to elect Senator McClain but you fail for a bogus story!

Now Senator McClain is in his last stand and 72 years old you want to give him a chance! What is different now?

You elected President Bush on what? Because he promised low taxes and you can have a beer with him!

Now we are in the worst economic mess in history and fighting 2 wars!

Thanks REPUBLICANS!

By @@

October 25, 2008 1:22 PM | Link to this

Chaddy Cathy:

Four Republicans close to Palin said she has decided increasingly to disregard the advice of the former Bush aides tasked to handle her, creating occasionally tense situations as she travels the country with them.

One thing, among the many, that you do not know, is Sarah Palin, was never a fan of Bush. It would require that you do research rather than perceive her as she’s been painted by the media.

I did mine. What’s your excuse?

Waiting for the media to pull your string so that they could put their words in your mouth?

Take a hike buddy! Your lack of independent knowledge is boring to this reader.

By Chad Harris

October 25, 2008 1:23 PM | Link to this

I’m thinkin’ goshdarnit Palin has a future in mudwrestlin’. A radio show on a wingnut platform, but of course. There brains are not a requirement and Joe Sixpack can fantasize while listenin’ to the radio you betcha.

10 more days to go and these venomous racist b*** who are the nasty underbelly of Dunwoody and Mayretta Big Chicken White Racist Country Club members have their asses kicked off the TV —their cascades of lies targeting the completely ignorant, their robocalls, the sanctimonious idiots like Nicole Wallace will be off the TV for a lot of years.

Pour everyone at the Buckhead Club a double from now on—or make it about 4 fingers.

By Republicans R Crooks

October 25, 2008 1:36 PM | Link to this

Captain Freakdom: After the election, I will make every effort to make all your fears come true for you personally…Now here is a BIG dose of Cancer, catch…

By Republicans R Crooks

October 25, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this

I hear that Wachovia Bank is gonna fire 30,000 employee’s, and offer the rest only 75% of their base salary, with no bonus or stock options….Sounds about right for a failed bank….why not 60% rather than the overly generous 75%? In this job market, the employer can dictate terms….

By GayGrayGeek

October 25, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this

Chad, I believe I’d rather just give the Paleocons one single finger…

By Republicans R Crooks

October 25, 2008 1:49 PM | Link to this

Wall Street layoffs could surpass 200,000 More than 110,000 jobs have been cut this year, and many more trims are expected. The Associated Press October 24, 2008

Reporting from New York — Traders and investment bankers might have more to worry about than dwindling bonus pools this year as mass firings on Wall Street are set to hit a record.

The fallout from this year’s global credit crisis has claimed jobs throughout Wall Street, from hedge fund managers to floor traders and beyond. More than 110,000 people have lost their jobs so far this year, and some industry experts forecast it could come close to 200,000 before the year is over.

By Chad Harris

October 25, 2008 1:50 PM | Link to this

Yo Cathy.

Sarah Palin is a moron. She continues to spue stupidity. She’s deep into the anti science anti medicine anti research meme of the Republican Religious right.

She couldn’t be more like Bush—except she’s dumber.

McCain said he was going to freeze spending except on defense and entitlements. It’s on his website this second.

Palin said “You betcha me too.”

Then she talks about fully funding research for children with disabilities—with what during the purported freeze—frigging pixie dust?

Then Palin or her daughter and some father has a Trisomy 21 baby. The only thing we know for sure is she drags around a baby and illegal RNC funds were spent for clothes for the baby and clothes for other people’s children as well. The FEC complaint was filed on that last week.

One of the cornerstones of genetic research and research in autism has been the fruitfly for over one hundred years and Palin takes a derisive whiz on the fruitfly.

If you are a woman or a man and you think “Palin is just like me” you must think you’re consummately stupid.

And odds are you aren’t wearing a $10,000 outfit every time you move bought with illegal funds. Or living in a $12.5 million home you or your husband didn’t pay for.

Keep Palin talking 24X7 for the next 10 days. Keep Palin and the senile erratic “self-annoited Maverick” fightin’ as they have begun to now that the fingerpointing is in full bloom.

I can’t get enough popcorn to enjoy these 10 days.

And in every effort by the Rethugs to voter supress, they are losing every bit of litigation including the moron Handel’s futile voter supression effort using erratic databases in Georgia.

It ain’t gonna work this time. This ain’t 2000. We will shutdown every Republican SOS who attempts to vote cage and supress the Democratic vote as Handel has futilely tried to do. Bring it. It’s a pleasure to shut the thugs down.

By Bob

October 25, 2008 1:54 PM | Link to this

Republicans are Liberals just like Democrats. The only difference is Abortion and Gay marriage. Abortion will not be eliminated by laws anymore than cocaine has been eliminated by laws. Gay marriage will never pass the US congress. To Vote Conservative we will need to vote for Bob Barr.

By GayGrayGeek

October 25, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this

Pssst, RRCrooks…Cap’n Freedom is on our side, stupid. Retract that knee, at least where it pertains to our Good Cap’n, please.

By Dusty

October 25, 2008 2:01 PM | Link to this

Goodnight!!!

There are more undercover agents prowling here today than those at a Halloween Mask Festival. RedNeck Convert is nothing but an Obama Convert spreading the word with “jollies”. He tries to dig up every thing he thinks will turn people off from Republicans which, of course, leaves the champion of cheap Chicago politics, Obama.

Repubs R Crooks isn’t undercover. He is just objectionable as usual. He runs the story that was hashed out yesterday about the unbalanced girl who made up a false attack story. Shades of Tawana Brawley!! Today’s poor girl is not the first but you’d think so. Leave it to libs to turn a 20 year old unbalanced woman into the monster of racial indignation. You’d have to be unbalanced yourself to turn that story into a whiz whopper of accusations.

Then there is Captain Freedom, eloquent as Obama, black hearted as Blackbeard and twisted as Spaghetti Junction. What a turncoat! His cumulus cluster of clothes reporting on Palin is as out of step with the glorious Captain who would never stoop to conquer with the poor shreds of ordinary fashion. His stripes run down his back like a yellow yazoo ready to poison any conservative smart enough to support the famous American hero McCain.

But our degraded Captain (now a private)has imagined all the ills that he himself is involved and tackily tacks them on the Man of Integrity McCain. What lies!! What falsehoods! What liberal like!(But how was I to know he was a living bomb. I was only nine years old then!! ..an old Obama idiom.)

But not to forget the pure propaganda machines that relentlessly pour a tsunami of fabrications and adjustments to fit the image of their hero ObieEmbama here. Peter the Imperfect and Chad Harasment are the speaking puppets of Obama Adoration.

Would one honest lib stand up please? I want to put your name in Ripley’s Believe it or Not as the one and only.

By Dusty

October 25, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this

Glad you caught that one, GGG. You musta been awake for a while. Repubs R Crooks is so SLOW that he doesn’t even get the obviously crooked lib Captain. FIGURES!!! best joke today…

By @@

October 25, 2008 2:12 PM | Link to this

Chaddy Cathy:

And odds are you aren’t wearing a $10,000 outfit every time you move bought with illegal funds. Or living in a $12.5 million home you or your husband didn’t pay for.

A member of the dem-cultivated class envy crowd, are ya wordswart?

What you fail to recognize is the WE in “Yes WE can!” doesn’t include you. It’s the same sloganeering that Chavez used before squandering Venezuela’s limited wealth in pursuit of his own personal pursuits.

To OBlahMa errr Marx, a tool is a tool, not sharpened but dulled. You fit neatly into the toolbox.

By Ray

October 25, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this

How is Obama’s 39% ‘spreading the wealth’ and McCain’s 36% not?

Is this fairyland place where there is no ‘spreading the wealth’ just some sort of fictitious island to where the leftover conservatives have now run to avoid accountability?

The conservative movement threw in the towel when they sat on their hands and watched the neocons rape and pillage the party – hardly Obama’s fault.

By Mr Snarky

October 25, 2008 2:30 PM | Link to this

The problem behind all this is, of course, the baby boomers. Jim, you wouldn’t happen to be one of those would you? Well, I’m sure you’re planning to send your social security checks right back to the government just out of principal, right?

By getalife

October 25, 2008 2:33 PM | Link to this

LSU vs Ga.

Time to whoop some dawgs.

Geaux Tigers!

By Tom

October 25, 2008 2:42 PM | Link to this

If the GA senate seat goes to a runoff, I’m writing in THE Captain.

By needtoknow

October 25, 2008 2:47 PM | Link to this

Is Barrack Hussein Obama an natural born American citizen? This is a question that needs to be answered before Nov. 4th election. This may mean that BHO is not qualified to be president in america. Birth certificate please!!!

By Republicans R Crooks

October 25, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this

Dirty Ball Dusty is still looking for her G spot, hasn’t been able to find it in all her 42 plus years of wasting oxygen on this ball of mud….

By catlady

October 25, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this

Saxby Chamblish has sent out a VERY OFFENSIVE mailing that I got today. If I had ever had a plan to vote for him, I would not after today.

Saxby: you’ve been in Congress quite a while. So why can’t you tell us the good you have done? Because so much is tainted? You don’t have to attack your opponent if you think you have done so much for Georgia!

We need this guy OUT OF THERE right away! Georgians, think about what he has done (including his pork, his support of the megafarms, his support of illegal immigration, and his lies like that he has put out in the last 2 weeks.

We weren’t important enough for him to court until it looked like Martin was tapping into the dismay with what Saxby has wrought.

By The Forgotten Messiah.

October 25, 2008 2:52 PM | Link to this

Grading Wooten. C+

The first paragraph is awkwardly constructed, “…not a pocket book authority we’d willingly hand over to a…..” Who even thinks like that? Pocket book authority. Arcane. Vague. Without the saving grace of any poetic flow.

The election is a week away, after Monday Night Football, of course. Falcons tomorrow. They’ll win. This is the Year of the Peregrine!

How did Obama get over a half trillion in contributions? What kind of mighty machine is he running? McCain cant get a free steak dinner. Palin met with Amelda Marcos recently to trade shoes. They happen to be the same size. Some of those Marcos shoes are classics and never worn. Palin is this country’s greatest clothes horse. She’s ready to run the senate.

Seriously. Palin is certainly a fine looking American and I’m proud of her. I love that the French are drooling in their pants over Palin. We finally have the international sex symbol.

Obama 08: He’s right for what’s left of America.

By The Forgotten Messiah.

October 25, 2008 3:03 PM | Link to this

Greenspan did some real damage this week with his knockout punch, “…once in a century credit tsunami….”.

That phrase just reverberates and it was very easily translated into Joe Sixpackese. (The Fed to Joe Schmoe dictionary).

I admit I never could understand a word of what Greenspan ever said. Read his book. “the age of turbulence”. Good luck.

But this week he probably doesn’t know himself how well he communicated the serverity of this crisis. Once in a century. Tsunami.

Who would invest after a warning like that?

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 25, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this

Good afternoon all. I think jim’s analysis of the tipping point is about right. The economy was flying along nicely until the democrats took Congress two years ago. Their only two substantial acts had the predicted adverse consequences.

Raising the minimum wage increased the unemployment rate about 1% within six months; fortunately the only people who lost their jobs were the poorest among us (raising the minmum wage generally injures only those who earn less than minimum wage.)

Then, in an act of compassion for Archer Daniels Midland, the leftists decided we should burn food in our automobiles, thus inflating food costs and worsening gas mileage.

There was an uncharacteristic act of sanity in Congress, when several conservatives declined to take August vacaction while Mrs. Pelosi traveled the country to sell 6,800 copies of her autobiography. The conservatives conducted something like a 1960s sit-in, in the capitol, to attempt to eliminate government constraints on drilling. While ANWR is not yet open to drilling, much of the coastal territory is now available for lease. The government constraints lapsed on September 30, and the leftists lacked political courage to reinstate them before the elections. Just wait.

Anyone with any sense of economics history knows how government actions turned a stock market hiccough into a 10 year depression. The 1930 Republican Congress worked to eliminate free trade, substituting “fair” trade. (The American public could not be trusted to purchase the right things, so the overlords had to substitute their superior judgment.)

Then, so the government could buy more, the Congress imposed much larger corporate income taxes and higher personal income taxes, but only on the highest earners.

When those two brilliant moves failed to generate any economic improvement, the Roosevelt administration decided a spending binge and new regulations on commerce was the prescription for a workers’s paradise. And, of course, he was right. By 1937 the economy hit rock bottom, collapsing under the weight of regulation and tax and misdirected wealth-redistribution. Works that way every time.

Fortunately only Obama is advocating such programs, so the American public can still pull out of the dive. And the intelligent ones will endeavor to do so.

By Captain Freedom

October 25, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this

THE Captain responds to the honestly monikered needstoknowatleastonetruefactbeforeIdie by asserting that yes, indeed, it is a known fact that one of the major party candidates was in fact born in Panama, yes, in Central America, the very same place that Vladimir Noriega was a Bloodthirsty Commie Dictator like Saddam Hussein, and where Our Leader’s Daddy went to kick some dictator a55 of his own back in the day.

So how about it, Obamandingo. Ready to confess that you were born in a country with a Bloodthirsty Commie Dictator? THE Captain has never heard you denounce Noriega, so perhaps you carry a birthplace loyalty to this Bloodthirsty Commie Dictator? What about it? Stupid Commie.

needtoknow is waiting for your answer, my friend, or should THE Captain say, mi amigo?

By Captain Freedom

October 25, 2008 3:13 PM | Link to this

Uhm, err, ahhhh, welll then…

THE Captain urges everyone to ignore His last post, as it turns out that it was in fact St John of Maverick who was born outside the United States of America. It seems his father was an itenerant of some sort and was in Panama taking on whatever work he could find.

As such, the whole kerfuffle over who was born where should just ahem harumph indeed and look over there, Sarah Palin is wearing slingback cherry red Mahnolo Blahniks. THE Captain needs to go lie down with a tube of lotion now.

Ah, yes, to the patriot who wishes to write THE Captain in on the ballot. Kudos to you sir, you are a fine judge of character, but like any good Right Thinker such as John Maverick, if nominated, I shall not run (competently, anyway) and if elected, I shall not serve, save for tossin a few favors to S&L pals and getting my wife’s prescription drug violations erased from the record. THE Captain will accept cash donations, however, and promises to spend them on Mrs Freedom’s hair and makeup needs.

By Peter

October 25, 2008 3:16 PM | Link to this

Funny Stuff …….By Mr. KnowItAll …….

It seems you don’t know squat………Talk about a Political Hack…..

King George has Raped America, run ramped over the Laws of the land, and Bilked the Treasury into the largest Deficit ever…..

What was the DOW at when King Bush took office ?

Hey I know you like it when George plays “Cowboy: and invading a country under “Faulty Intelligence”…

I know you also like the fact, Bin Laden has been given a FREE PASS !

Won’t it be refreshing to have an Intelligent President in the White House after 8 years of a Dunce !

How Funny your comment…….”AFTER HE LIED about taking public financing”

You are talking about a guy not taking Tax Payers money to run for President.

I know you REPUBLICANS talk the small Government, and talk saving money, so why don’t you donate to a loosing cause, it seems no one really is putting their money where their mouth is on the RIGHT…..

I guess the Republican’s just want to Run up the National Debt a little more all in the name of John McCain !

Wow, Gee, Gosh what a smart move…..

Save the taxpayers money, and make the idiot and his followers show their true colors.

Hi……..we are Republicans and we believe we should spend the Taxpayers money every chance we get !

WHAT a Joke the Republican’s have become…..And that is why the party is imploding !

Do want some Cheese with YOUR Whine !

By Peter

October 25, 2008 3:30 PM | Link to this

Wow here is more funny stuff………….

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 25, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this

Good afternoon all. I think jim’s analysis of the tipping point is about right. The economy was flying along nicely until the democrats took Congress two years ago

Wow that is correct…….. we had NO WAR….. and WE had a ZERO deficit…….

Gee I forgot how wonderful all WAS …..Don’t you ?

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 25, 2008 3:41 PM | Link to this

Poor Peter, whose memory runs less than 18 months. Most of us still remember the better world when Republicans ran it. Of course you think the Democrats economy is now better. But you have no memory.

By Peter

October 25, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this

Poor……………..By Ragnar Danneskjöld ………….

Bush was lucky…… he walked into office with a good economy…… a budget surplus……. and BLEW it big time…….

Yes I am sure the WAR and Deficit made the economy very Strong !

Then he gave Bin Laden a Free Pass…….so now we have another WAR to fight.

Very Intelligent thought !

By The Forgotten Messiah.

October 25, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this

Nobody knows squat. That’s the point he’s making. If Greenspan cant explain it, then nobody can.

Will Al Queda strike us again and when? How? They seem to stick with one target till they succeed. 1993 and 2001 at the Trade Towers. They also tried to knock out 10 planes at one time and failed. So perhaps the next 911 will be multiple planes blown up in the air at once. They could use scotch tape to create radiation and make the fuel explode.

Or they could put anthrax in all of our women’s douchebags. There’d be nothing left of us. We have to stay alert, people.

Emergency! Everyone to get from street!

By Captain Freedom

October 25, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this

THE Captain implores the potty mouth libs here to be compassionate with Ragnon. It was only this week that Alan Greenspan, the High Priest of Shrugging Rand said this:

“The whole intellectual edifice … collapsed in the summer of last year.”

Of course, Ragnon pretended that this amounted to nothing, but reality bites, and with the dentures of Mr Andrea Mitchell firmly attached to his a55, thus we find Ragnon in a state of denial, soon to be followed by anger, bargaining, and ultimately, blaming you potty mouth liberals for the whole dang kerfuffle. For that is the Right Thing to do.

So be kind. It’s not often one must endure having one’s entire world view revealed as utterly useless, and by one’s own ally, at that.

Imagine how THE Captain might feel if it were revealed that Iray never actually had any WMD. Why, He would be devastated. Lucky for THE Captain that it can never happen, as there is no fact-based reality that can shake THE Captain’s unshakable faith.

Sad, very sad. THE Captain sheds a tear for Ragnon, and hopes that the counseler enjoys life in the gulch.

By The Forgotten Messiah.

October 25, 2008 4:18 PM | Link to this

This new xray machine made out of scotch tape has really confounded me.

If radiation is so easily created then very powerful bombs can be constructed using everyday office materials in a vacuum, which is also easily achieved.

Imagine an H-bomb that only costs ten bucks. How is it possible that xrays can appear simply by unraveling scotch tape? Doesn’t that bother anyone else? What are you all, Tin Trolls? Why doesn’t somebody do something? Why doesn’t somebody act?

WHY? WHY? WHY?

By Dusty

October 25, 2008 4:21 PM | Link to this

Dear Ragnar @3:41

Your patience is beyond anything I could possibly bring forth. I slink away to the world of reason to escape the ignited ignorance shown here today. The ship of fools is marooned here.

Maybe tomorrow I will put on my waterwings of wisdom (Ha) and brave the tide. Maybe the sermon will lead me to higher levels of latitude. Thus I plan a return tomorrow in sweet solicitude and kind demeanor. Well, it is worth a try!

Keep up the good work…..

By Jackie

October 25, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this

The Repubs are still having problems recognizing the fact that Dubya has reached into their pockets and literally stolen from all of us.

Now, they are in fairlyland wanting us to believe that Dems are the cause of this economic tsunami.

As for the Repubs new mantra of “…spreading the wealth.” I would ask a simple question: if you file you state, local and Federal taxes, you are participating in a wealth-distribution system. Is it the plan of the Repubs to opt out of the system?

Now that we have drawn that curtain on that one-act play, what is their next “talking point?”

By Jackie

October 25, 2008 4:54 PM | Link to this

The Repubs are having problems with Gov. Palin. She wants to be the headliner.

“Even as John McCain and Sarah Palin scramble to close the gap in the final days of the 2008 election, stirrings of a Palin insurgency are complicating the campaign’s already-tense internal dynamics.

Four Republicans close to Palin said she has decided increasingly to disregard the advice of the former Bush aides tasked to handle her, creating occasionally tense situations as she travels the country with them. Those Palin supporters, inside the campaign and out, said Palin blames her handlers for a botched rollout and a tarnished public image — even as others in McCain’s camp blame the pick of the relatively inexperienced Alaska governor, and her public performance, for McCain’s decline.

“She’s lost confidence in most of the people on the plane,” said a senior Republican who speaks to Palin, referring to her campaign jet. He said Palin had begun to “go rogue” in some of her public pronouncements and decisions.

“I think she’d like to go more rogue,” he said.

The emergence of a Palin faction comes as Republicans gird for a battle over the future of their party: Some see her as a charismatic, hawkish conservative leader with the potential, still unrealized, to cross over to attract moderate voters. Anger among Republicans who see Palin as a star and as a potential future leader has boiled over because, they say, they see other senior McCain aides preparing to blame her in the event he is defeated.”

This story is post on www.politico.com

By sunshine and thunder

October 25, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can exist only until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.

• Alexander Fraser Tytler (later Lord Alexander Fraser Woodhouslee), in “The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic,” published 1776.

By The Forgotten Messiah.

October 25, 2008 5:22 PM | Link to this

Tipping point defined: Never before have so many entitlements been enjoyed by so many liberals yet paid for by so few conservative, hard working, and patriotic God-fearing taxpayers.

Wooten is right when he points out that historically, entitlements stunt productivity, and taxes stunt growth. Some think it was entitlements that finally finished Rome.

Specifically, healthcare is the best example. National Healthcare for all? Raise Taxes to pay for this entitlement. A double whammy: Taxes to stunt our economic growth; Entitlements to stunt our worker productivity.

Wooten thinks that every taxpayer should work harder, and become entrepreneurial, using the American Dream as a compass, and get the money to buy his own healthcare. Liberal cheese eaters think that healthcare is a right, guaranteed by our constitution as part of the Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness ideal.

Healthcare is a big issue. Huge. Yet, it’s so complicated that it’s nearly impossible to debate. Every healthcare plan is different. A large part of the cost of running any medical clinic is the staff required to decipher the different plans.

I have data. I was mailed a statement from my healthcare provider, a United Healthcare, that summarizes recent chemotherapy costs for my wife. It showed that for one two week period, United was billed 6,907.84. They authorized only 2600 dollars of that 6907.84. they charged me 100 dollars for this exemption and that exception. I pay them 1500 bucks a month. I have healthcare, but how many americans can afford the plan I have? I cant afford it. the system is broke. I’m broke. Healhcare must be solved. I dont understand why we dont have a country-wide plan with 300 million americans all in the same plan. Why not? Why? tell me why? Surely the costs spread out among 300 million americans would be affordable.

Wooten is probably right about entitlements and taxes and the effect on our economy. the problem is the actual healthcare plan. They’re useless. Even if you do work hard and can afford to buy healthcare, there will still be exorbitant out of pocket costs to you if you get sick. That’s wrong.

Wooten’s correctness about the theoretical costs of entitlements betrays his ignorance about healthcare plans themselves. There shouldn’t be an insurance industry for healthcare. No middlemen. Just doctors and patients. Period.

So it’s not our ideological differences that should steer this debate, but our unequal understanding of the healthcare industry itself and the maze a patient has to negotiate to get treatment.

By The Forgotten Messiah.

October 25, 2008 5:29 PM | Link to this

sunshine, the USA is not a democracy. It’s a democratic republic.

This is the main problem with blogs as debate forums. There’s no premise touchstones which are shared by all and from which real informed debate can prosper.

Aside: Anyone notice how the subtitles provided on television are rarely correct?

By Disgusted

October 25, 2008 5:42 PM | Link to this

My primary health care provider paid $6,100 for a single chemotherapy session. Medicare paid the remaining $2,200. And those are the discounted amounts negotiated by the primary insurer and Medicare. Now add in $1,800 for each CT-scan and assorted other expenses.

Now multiply the sum of those payments by the number of sessions and you have an idea of why so many people without coverage like mine are forced into bankruptcy by health care expenses.

And yet we hear from idiots who deride the notion of health care as a right. Pitiless, they flock to church on Sundays and piously proclaim their righteousness. They care much more for their own wallets than for the lives and welfare of fellow citizens. About 99% of these idiots are Republicans. Care to guess how I’m voting?

By ron

October 25, 2008 5:52 PM | Link to this

By ron

October 25, 2008 6:06 PM | Link to this

Ill hazard a guess.Electrons are ripped out of their orbits when Scotch tape is unrolled in a vacuum.The little photon devils become xrays.This is apparently only done with 3M brand tape.Perhaps just the right formula was stumbled upon.Other things are going to be examined to see if they will duplicate Scotch tapE.In the meantime,put some Wint-O-Greens in your mouth,go into a dark closet,take a mirror with you and watch what happens when you chew.

By GaLiberal

October 25, 2008 6:31 PM | Link to this

Moron Jim says: When a majority of voters become convinced that somebody else is paying for their happiness….

Well there MJ, isn’t that what the Rethuglicons have convinced people ever since Reagan. You can have it all and not have to pay a dime. You can have your big house and your big car and your nice retirement and the government will make sure it doesn’t cost you a dime. The government made sure credit was cheap (low Federal Reserve rates) and energy was cheap (the Iraq wars and military spending) and labor was cheap (union busting and defeating any minimum wage increases). So all these anti-tax whining Rethuglicon bootlickers have been enjoying the good life for over 20 years. Now the bill comes due and no one wants to pay up. Cut spending is the only thing they understand because that means they get a free pass and pass the bill along to their kids either in more debt or decreased standard of living. Of course the Rethuglicons have to retool their con-job with this fake “socialism” outcry.

What people don’t realize is that while they have been on a buying spree, the wealth has become concentrated in a smaller number of people. There have been studies that compare today to the 1890s robber barons when over 80% of the nations wealth was held by about 5% of the population. The Rethuglicons and their uberrich buddies and contributors think that’s just fine. So the working class struggles to make ends meet, lives paycheck to paycheck, can’t afford to send their children to college or decent health insurance, and will have to work their entire lives. The Rethuglicons think that’s just fine.

When you vote Rethuglicon, you vote against your own best interests. And their lies about cutting taxes and less government are living proof.

By Captain Freedom

October 25, 2008 6:45 PM | Link to this

THE Captain asserts that if one wishes to assert the right to get sick, one should be able to pay for the privilege.

Can’t afford the doctor? Then don’t get sick.

Can’t afford health care for your children? You should have had healthy children instead, or better yet, kept your private bits locked away.

Mr Wooten and Dusty and Ragnon agree with THE Captain’s opinion, because it is very true.

This is the Common Sense Right Thinking approach. Obamandingo does not believe this basic truth. The SocialistMuslimBaby KillerprobablyHomosexual Darkie Man wants to provide health care to everyone, even those who are sick and cannot afford to pay for medical care. This will only encourage more people to get sick and demand medical care, leading to an endless spiral of the very horrors that Chairman Ann with Manhands will no doubt describe in a way that gets Ragnon very wet. THE Captain demands to know where it will all end.

What next? Some made up right to food and shelter? THE Captain says that we have a Right to have homeless people to look down upon. Where would THE Captain be without a homeless wretch to put a boot to every now and again? Why, His self-esteem would plummet!!! It is THE Captain’s right to have a homeless wretch to take His wrath when He feels the urge.

Socialism. Boogety boogety. Terrorist. Muslim. Scary Negro.

Vote McCain.

By Republicans R Crooks

October 25, 2008 7:43 PM | Link to this

The current financial melt down was explained over 100 years ago…all major inflations end in depression…the Greenspan inflation in asset prices is no exception…Read an economic history book sometime, fools…

By ron

October 26, 2008 8:33 AM | Link to this

Good morning,It is becoming clear to me that we are the victims of a large swindle.The largest in history.Banks here have their 250 billion and they’re going to keep it,thank you.They’re apparently going to spend the lion’s share on themselves.Let the main street economy implode.

Northern Rock,Britains nationalized bank has started repossessing houses for any unpaid debt.Auto,credit card,unsecured ,business,any kind of default leads to home loss.Reports of unpaid credit card debt of as little as £1000 leads to home forfeiture.Since nationalization the rate of these type forclosure has sky rocketed.

The insurers both here and there have their hands out for taxpayer money.Auto companies are in line,despite receiving promises of low interest loans totalling 25 billion.They don’t want loans,they want handouts.

AIG received 122 billion.They partied.Their new CEO say’s he’ll freeze future bonuses,leading to ron’s Reverse Law of Thermodynamics,where frozen assets magically thaw when the heat is removed. The heat here being public scruity.Say during the first 100 days of a new Presidency,when all eyes are on the Annointed One.

It occourred to me that the CEO of AIG has to swindle someone out of an additional 122 billion in order to pay back the taxpayer.I watched said person in an interview the other night and I certainly believe he’s capable.Of the first part at least.

Michelle Obama is now an active campaigner for President.Does this remove her from the protection from comments that family members should deservedly have?I will say only this:No one is going to be allowed to go on SNL or any other program and mock her.No one.

The records of Joe the Plumber were apparently accessed by someome on government computers.Some entity in the government wanted his information splashed around for reasons known only to them.

By JIMMY

October 26, 2008 8:42 AM | Link to this

Chambliss is shameless and corrupt. The earlier post is correct; Chambliss has received large campaign donations from the sugar industry and specifically Imperial Sugar. During the senate hearing, he falsely accused the whistleblower of being the one who was responsible for the conditions that led to the tragic explosion. But this is Chambliss’ pattern. Consider the tragedy of Katrina. Afterward, he voted against all legislation that would have helped schools and individuals. He was opposed to investigations of the government’s response to the hurricane. Instead, he voted for tax breaks for businesses. Also, consider his response to the financial markets plunge. There are a large and growing number of foreclosures taking place in Georgia. There are hundreds of thousands of mortgages that are 60 days past due. Instead of trying to figure a responsible way to reduce the number of foreclosures, he hands $700 billion to the former CEO of Goldman Sachs. For those of you who do not know, Goldman Sachs was one of the biggest players in sub prime lending and derivative trading. Chambliss is a corporate lackey.

By jm

October 26, 2008 8:48 AM | Link to this

Funny, Mr. Wooten seems to be very much in favor of spreading american wealth in Iraq but not here. Then again, that really isn’t spreading the wealth since the wealth is borrowed from overseas.

By The Forgotten Messiah.

October 26, 2008 8:56 AM | Link to this

I read a history book once, but I already knew the ending, being in the future and all, and guess what? Nothing happened. Nothing ever happens in history. It always ends up being a bunch of guys standing around. Ever notice? Like the high tide at Gettysburg. It was just a bunch of yankees standing around firing point blank into a bunch of rebels who were standing around firing back. I mean, what’s that? Ooo, it’s the civil war, I’m so scared. Is the confederate trash gonna do a reverse flip and land on our flanks? Get lost, and take the post, idiots. (Grant at the Wilderness). Grant knew too. Nothing bad can happen to any large army in the field. Not if you relax and not react to every single report. Grant couldn’t have cared less about what the enemy was doing out of his sight. Sherman claimed THAT was what made him the greatest general in the war.

Greenspan said “once in a century credit tsunami”. That includes the Great Depression. He’s implying things could get worse than then.

My grandmother lived through worse than the great depression. She lived through the German occupation of Belgium in WW1, when she was only 19 years old. Thing got so bad, she used to get arrested on purpose for stealing potatoes and coal off of railroad cars just to get fed in the jail. There was an incident she spoke of many, many times about the military action going on around her home. The British used to patrol the area from the air, and pretty much strafed anything that moved, especially around the railroad tracks. Well, one day, me grand mama was crossing the tracks in the front of her house in order to get noticed by the germans again, when a Sopwith Camel spotted her and began a strafing run. Now, my grandma had seven sisters. They were all watching, and seeing the Camel dive down firing it’s machine pistolas at her, they began to shout and wave their arms, “Rachela, run! Come back! Hurry! Rachela!”

My grandmother claims that as she dove through her open front door, that bullets splattered against the threshold and eaves of that doorway. “It’s a good thing they missed me,” she said as she took a drink of water. Her sisters claimed later that the water sprayed out of 14 holes in her stomach…..wait, this was a bugs bunny cartoon I saw in the sixties. Dammit! I always get my history of heirs mixed up.

If bugs bunny were alive today would he say, “what up, krunk?”

Oh, there’s just so many things that I need to say 2U this day, but so leetle time…..adieux! (gesuhndheit!)

By JIMMY

October 26, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this

Things don’t look that good for OUR GIRL

http://rove.com/election

By Tom Turner

October 26, 2008 9:33 AM | Link to this

The Spread is too Thin to Cover Costs

I’m not sure that Obama meant “spread the wealth” in the way you assume. However, I agree that the government certainly should not be the spreader of wealth. By the same token, I think corporate welfare, i.e., not just social programs, also qualifies as spreading the wealth and should cease.

The sheer size of government really has me worried, but neither party seems concerned. I would have thought that both parties would be very concerned, especially the Republicans. What’s the deal? I no longer see either major party seeking to protect the individual from government.

By The Forgotten Messiah.

October 26, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this

Yes, me grandma was rubbing elbows with the Germans during the occupation of Belgium in WW1 when she was only 19 years old. (1915). Things were really raw then, and it could be compared to how raw things might get around here if Greenspan is correct about this being a once in a century credit tsunami. What do we do if we prove that Rove, Cheney, and Bush cronies stole all these trillions for defense contractors and the bailout? What if we find out that a relative handful of people have taken possession of all these assets? What if the Saudis are part of this conspiracy?

But I digress. We’ll get around to Cheney and Rove soon enough. Hey, Weathermen: Hands off Cheney. He’s mine. jklol

Suddenly I understand the poignancy of famous lines that came out of the Depression: “Buddy can you spare a dime”, and “You no good dirty rat, I’ll get you just like you got my brother, nyeh nyeh” (camera to tommy gun firing pell mell at the no good dirty rat).

Of course this leads us to the most quoted group of men in our history, of course I’m referring to the Knights Who Say Neh.

My grandmother used to say neh. Honest. It meant many things, but mostly, “nuff said”, or “when”, or “stfu moron”.

I hated my grandma. She was mean but she had a right 2B mean. UC, she lived through the German occupation of Belgium in WW1. She used to steal potatoes from railroad cars just to get caught and jailed by the Germans who then would have to feed her. Her mother tried to stop her from continually getting arrested for food, (will get arrested for food), but to no avail. She was 18 and quite a babe then. I look at old photographs of her, and she coulda been the VP, okay?

Now, my grandma told me once of an incident that occurred when the German actually were quartering in her house. It was about 3AM and she went downstairs to the kitchen for a glass of milk…milk that the germans provided as consideration for them sleeping all over the house. (take those boots off you clods! I just waxed the floor!) She had opened the ice box, and it was an ice box, not an electric fridge, and a young german soldier approached her in stealth. He stood next to her and grabbed her wrist. She said he was shaking. A moment passed. Grandma was about to find love in all the wrong places. But at the last moment, when all seemed lost, the commander appeared and scolded the boy, he let go, and all was well. I asked what the commander had said, and my Grandma said that she didn’t understand it, but she remembered the words like it was only yesterday, “Ixnay on the ussypay, umbkaupfday”. I smiled.

Then my grandma said something like, “Now, I dont know what he wanted”. I said, “Grandma, he wanted sex.” She nodded and shrugged and said, “Ya think? Maybe. I dont know.” “No, Grandma, that boy woulda forced himself on you. You were in trouble, deep trouble grandma….”

“Neh.”

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 26, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this

Dear PoFo @ 9:37 and at various other times, many of your more entertaining posts, today and otherwise, reflect a humorous recollection/reflection of your life and family. Have you ever considered publishing a “My Life and Hard Times”-style work?

By Gary Cushnie

October 26, 2008 10:04 AM | Link to this

If Obama wants to spread the wealth, why doesn’t he give half of his campaign money to McCain. If would go to a better cause than his.

By Redneck Convert

October 26, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this

Well, I see old man McCain is a real American man. He can’t make that woman he’s running with do what he wants her to do. The people he told to look after her say she’s turning rogue. They say she’s out for herself and not old man McCain.

This tells me old man McCain is mighty stupid if it took him 70 years to learn you might as well try to pull a stubborn mule as make a woman obey. I learned my lesson early in marriage and it only took two broke frying pans to get it to sink in. Old man McCain better be careful or one day he will wake up dead or worse see all his campaign signs changed to read Palin-McCain instead of McCain-Palin. He done wasted $150,000 on clothes for the woman. Every man with the IQ of a gnat knows what women really want is to run things.

Have a good Sabbath everybody and pray that old Saxby wins. I’ve already give up on old man McCain but it will be even worse if our party can’t filibuster everything the librul Democrats want to do and then blame the librul Democrats for running a do-nothing Congress.

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 26, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this

Dear Dusty @ 4:21 yesterday, thanks. Whenever we get even one of them to think through their ideas, it makes the effort worthwhile. The core problem with our friends on the left is their tendency to cultism, to view the world as Team A vs Team B, rather than reviewing the game plans and style of play that forms the foundation for their plans. For leftists, it is who is playing, whereas for conservatives it is “how the game is played.” Thus they defend their team’s serial rapist in the oval office as a “private matter,” whereas conservatives condemn the democrat-like spending of a republican president.

By Peter

October 26, 2008 10:37 AM | Link to this

HA HA HA………By Ragnar Danneskjöld ….

HA HA HA…….. HA HA HA……….HA HA HA……….

“The core problem with our friends on the left is their tendency to cultism”

You would have Sarah Palin as President !!!!!!!!

HA HA HA…….. HA HA HA………… HA HA HA………

By The Forgotten Messiah.

October 26, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this

Coldplay tore up SNL last night. Tore. it. up.

The scotch tape xray thing could be the basis for building not an atom bomb, but a molecule bomb. Molecules share electrons and perhaps there a force holding those bonds that can be exploited.

Now, apparently you dont need a vacuum for the scotch tape to create xrays. the xrays appear in your house when you unroll scotch tape, but those xrays are absorbed by the air.

This means that we can run our homes and cars on the energy that is stored in very volatile electron bonds found in the molectular structure of every day common items if we know how to capture the radiation.

I think we are on the verge of a great discovery and source of energy. I think science is going to save us. It’s all a matter of perception and how we observe the universe. I can make a neighborhood’s sewer system explode too by flushing all the toilets at the same time.

SO anything’s possible, man.

All I’m saying. new era much?

By Peter

October 26, 2008 11:08 AM | Link to this

Hey……………..By Ragnar Danneskjöld

Palin’s ‘going rogue,’ McCain aide says

A second McCain source says she appears to be looking out for herself more than the McCain campaign.

“She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone,” said this McCain adviser. “She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else.

“Also, she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: Divas trust only unto themselves, as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom.”

“Her lack of fundamental understanding of some key issues was dramatic,” said another McCain source with direct knowledge of the process to prepare Palin after she was picked. The source said it was probably the “hardest” to get her “up to speed than any candidate in history.”

With the presidential race in its final days and polls suggesting that McCain’s chances of pulling out a win are growing slim, Palin may be looking after her own future.

“She’s no longer playing for 2008; she’s playing 2012,” Democratic pollster Peter Hart said. “And the difficulty is, when she went on ‘Saturday Night Live,’ she became a reinforcement of her caricature. She never allowed herself to be vetted, and at the end of the day, voters turned against her both in terms of qualifications and personally.”

How does the ” Republican Kool Aid ” taste today….as you watch your Lemming’s Party Implode ?

By getalife

October 26, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this

There are many ways to lose a presidential election. John McCain is losing in a way that threatens to take the entire Republican Party down with him.

Guess who will campaign with Obama this last week of this cycle?

President Clinton, yep, yep, you betcha/wink.

By Republicans R Crooks

October 26, 2008 11:38 AM | Link to this

The ajc’s pet Idiot, woodenhead, prefers wealth to be concentracted in a few hands, so he only has a few butts to kiss in hopes they will buy him lunch….a lunch of 600 dollar per claw rock crab. The private equity thieves did not deserve, nor did they earn the billions of dollars they extracted from American businesses, at a price of massive debt for the surviving business, many of which are now failing. What makes that theft worse is the very favorable tax treatment of the “carried interest” of the private equity thieves, allowing them to pocket 85% of the illgotten gains, while paying UncleStupid only 15%. They paid no social security, or medicare, or any other federal tax, just the stinking low 15%. but that allowed the little weasle’s like Stevie Swartzmen of BlackStinkersGroup to have his private chef prepare 600 dollar per claw rock crab for his lunch everyday, and oh yeah, buy off alleged reporters like our own little idiot…..just say no to McCain, Bush, Palin and all Republicans…..

By Gator Joe

October 26, 2008 11:42 AM | Link to this

Wooten: You Republicans have once again confused, and seek to confuse, the “low information voter” (many of which are Republicans)about the issue of tax fairness. You repeat, ad nauseum, terms such as “wealth redistribution.” You and other high-rolling Republicans have had no problem building wealth by avoiding taxes, which the rest of us pay, and by allowing the national debt to grow in order to fund your obscene tax breaks. Vote Obama/Biden and vote Democrat for tax fairness.

By June

October 26, 2008 11:42 AM | Link to this

Face it we as Americans are responsible for what has happened. As grown ups we knew we could not afford the expensive homes and cars but as spoiled uneducated brats that we are we went ahead anyway. We said what the “heck” the government will bail us out and we can get another home from some other credit company. Face it we did it ourselves and now we must pay the price. Obama is a bold faced liar and just like all democrats always wanting someone else to do the hard work while they reap the praise and pleasures.

By Republicans R Crooks

October 26, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this

Oh yeah, that “equity extraction” by the private equity boys came in the form of Loans from you and me to the aquired companies, and the profits for the private equity boys came in the form of special dividends in which the proceeds of our loans were awarded to the private equity boys….the loans for the most part have not been repaid, and in many cases never will be repaid….many of the now debt loaded companies were ipo ed back to the public markets after the companies fired hundreds of thousands of workers to make themselves look leaner and meaner….never mind that the surviving work force could not possible do the work required….If I take a large loan from the bank, and give the proceeds to my brother, then walk away from the loan, the authorities are going to come after both me and my brother…yet in essense this is what private equity did….and we are all paying for it now…

By Republicans R Crooks

October 26, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this

June, you started off so well, but then you lost it, blaming a man who has been in the Senate less than one term for the financial melt down that has been eight long years in coming….The fault lies with Bush and his administration, Allen Greenspan, who should have known better, and all the free market liars out there. Don’t get me wrong, Bill Clinton’s eight years in the white house set the stage for the Bush disaster, and the worthless Clintons and their f a gs are just as guilty….ALL SHOULD BE PUNISHED…..

By The Forgotten Messiah.

October 26, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this

Palin’s going rogue? I like the old Palin, you know, the one who went rouge.

By Republicans R Crooks

October 26, 2008 12:45 PM | Link to this

A rouge elephant is just out for itself, sounds about right for our little Evita Palin, rouge elephant crushing her benefactors…..

By Jackie

October 26, 2008 1:15 PM | Link to this

Most polls show that Obama can win the election without winning OH, FL, NC, CO.

The math says that Sen. McCain has a MAJOR problem.

By The Forgotten Messiah.

October 26, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this

It’s going to be an historic Obama landslide. It’s a new era. New demographics. 65/35

The right knew this months ago and that explains the trillion dollar pilfer of our treasury in something disquised as a bailout.

The right is handing over the country like the confederates handed over the south after the civil war: broke, and in economic ruins. I think it’s class action treason, that is, the bush base is taking their football and going home. Little do they know that there is a new Robespierre (the american people) who will hold them accountable.

By Republicans R Crooks

October 26, 2008 2:47 PM | Link to this

Tomorrow may very well be BLACK MONDAY on Wall Street, as the Hedge Funds and Private Equity Boys must raise cash to cover redemptions and cash outs….November 30 is a common date set by the boys for investors to notify the funds of their intentions to redeem or cashout….He who sells first gets the best price, the boys who wait till the last minute will get the lowest price of all…..I SEE THIS AS PAYBACK TO THE FATCATS….SUFFER AND DIE, FATCATS….

By Chad Harris

October 26, 2008 2:53 PM | Link to this

The title of this article was “the spread is too thin.”

What planet are Wooten and the Wingnuts on?

Insurers Are Getting in Line for Piece of Federal Bailout

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/25/business/25bailout.html?8br

It is ludicrous for the $150,000 wardrobe moron to screach (a voice that is like scratching a blackboard we won’t have to hear in a few days) about isms—socialism, communism and the Wooten wingnuts to screach about them when in fact the Wooten party has spread the wealth stupidly to failed companies and now the failed auto companies want to steal the taxpayers’ money to the tune of hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars.

Bob Nardelli is asking for a handout. The Wooten nutcases want to give it to him. They’va already given 16 trillion dollars to comp;anies and banks that are giving hundreds of millions in bonuses on the back of taxpayers.

Bob Nardelli has an opulent home at 1290 Garmon Road Atlanta 30327 and he owns a second home at 1250 Garmon Road.

Nardellli raped Home Depot and ran it into the ground.

And the Wooten Right Wingnuts want to give him a socialist communist hundreds of million dollar handout.

Now that’s stupidity at its best.

And Moron McSame made a fool of himself on MTP this morning:

“MCSAME: She has more executive experience than Sen. Biden and Sen. Obama, together. She took on the governor of her own party because she had seen what she’s thought was corruption. She’s been a mayor. She has 24,000 people underneath her. Her husband is a, uh, works the third shift on the oil who…in…facilities in the North Slope. He’s a, ah… the-they have a won…she has executive experience…”

The scores of insurance lobbyists with key positions on McPalin’s staff are pushing for billions of taxpayer money to be sprad to the insurance companies.

We aren’t that stupid Wooten. Not this time. We’re going to crush you and your racist socialist party

By Republicans R Crooks

October 26, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this

The most pressing need in the new Obama administration for for experienced federal prosecutors to pursue and destroy all the Repuke crooks who have been looting our pension plans for lo these last long eight years….Put them all in prison…forever….git their lap dogs too, like little jimmy woodenhead, the mouth piece for neoscum thieves….

By lea

October 26, 2008 3:04 PM | Link to this

McCain’s performance on the Meet the Press today was sad and pitiful. He is a confused, angry man who can’t even remember who his supporters are. He should not lead this country. That would just be too scary! Tom Brokaw was very KIND to him today— too kind, in my opinion. He just let him ramble on about how awful Obama was… no discussion of what HIS policies would be. He got terribly defensive over and over again. No logic, no facts— just sputtering.

And by the way, the RNC should have used that $150,000 to buy Sarah Palin a brain instead of squandering it on clothes.

Oh yeah, I’m voting for Obama and Jim Martin. I want mean-spirited Saxby Chambliss voted out of Washington. He called Max Cleland a coward and unpatriotic. Max Cleland— an honorable veteran who lost 3 limbs in Vietnam, fighting for his country!! Has Chambliss ever been in a war?

Wake up, Georgia… This is not the kind of man who should represent us.

By lea

October 26, 2008 3:11 PM | Link to this

McCain’s performance on the Meet the Press today was sad and pitiful. He is a confused, angry man who can’t even remember who his supporters are. He should not lead this country. That would just be too scary! Tom Brokaw was very KIND to him today— too kind, in my opinion. He just let him ramble on about how awful Obama was… no discussion of what HIS policies would be. He got terribly defensive over and over again. No logic, no facts— just sputtering.

And by the way, the RNC should have used that $150,000 to buy Sarah Palin a brain instead of squandering it on clothes.

Oh yeah, I’m voting for Obama and Jim Martin. I want mean-spirited Saxby Chambliss voted out of Washington. He called Max Cleland a coward and unpatriotic. Max Cleland— an honorable veteran who lost 3 limbs in Vietnam, fighting for his country!!.

Wake up, Georgia… It’s time to see the light… just like other literate, fair-minded populations.

By Peter

October 26, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this

Hey June…………….

“By June

October 26, 2008 11:42 AM | Link to this

Face it we as Americans are responsible for what has happened. As grown ups we knew we could not afford the expensive homes and cars but as spoiled uneducated brats that we are we went ahead anyway.”

I am afraid you are talking to a small percentage of the population with this remark !

“We said what the “heck” the government will bail us out and we can get another home from some other credit company.”

Is this WHAT YOU DID ?

I never did………. I don’t know anyone who did ?

The Republican’s with WAR, “Faulty Intelligence”, lack of over site, let the markets POLICE themselves, created this environment the economy is in today.

You would have to be blind to not see the cost plus contracts in the Iraq War, are so bloated, they actually make the National Pork spending look like we don’t care amount America !

Pork spending at least helps out American’s……cost plus contracts waste American Taxpayer’s Money, so a Few can get RICHER !

Bush did not get Bin Laden, so now Al Quaeda is stronger……..and we have a new War…….NOW we need to step that battle up…….so it will cost America even more money to be a Safe and a Secure Land.

Bush did zero by invading Iraq, except get his friends and Family a BIG PAY DAY !

I guess go back to YOUR Cheating ways, go bankrupt, default on your loans……..I guess that again resembles more “Republican Family Values” !

I guess that is what you think being a True American is !

By Republicans R Crooks

October 26, 2008 3:20 PM | Link to this

he he he ha ha, Rouge Evita Palin…Ya kin’t make this stuff up….ha ha ha, just shows you McCancerFace’s poor decision making skills…

By Republicans R Crooks

October 26, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this

Well lea, I disagree that vietnam was ever a threat to America - so no one fighting there could really be said to be fighting for our freedom…But Max was a true believer, and he paid a very high price for that, so he gets far more credit in my book than that coward SackerChamber or whatever its name is….We were the evil in vietnam, and we had no business being there…..Regardless of what the WashingAss Ho’s said at the time…

By The Forgotten Messiah.

October 26, 2008 3:32 PM | Link to this

this bailout is being discussed all day long on several different round tables on different channels. it’s being given more airtime than the campaign.

Greenspan has awakened everyone with his once in a century remark.

Now, it appears that the credit crunch in Europe is worse than ours at every level. They dont have the New Deal in their history so there is no federal intervention there. Nothing replaced communism when it fell, and this collapse is sending europe back to the middle ages. Russia is sure to capture Eastern europe again.

A Napolean is going to emerge from this because Europe replaced purely economic stakes with geo-political ones by allowing governmental ownership of capital assets, and also by guaranteeing bank actions with their very constitutions.

What happened to no federal meddling? that was a good idea, when combined with common sense regulatory statutes.

i’m hearing 3 year estimates for our economy to recover from this. I think those are hazard guesses.

We will know the extent of this calamity when Obama takes his oath of office. It’s going to be a sad day. Bush, and Cheney, and their cronies who caused this will be drinking champagne and laughing at us all.

Robespiere 08: Not a guillotine. But retribution. We cant let them just get away with this, not when they laughed at us.

By Jackie

October 26, 2008 4:15 PM | Link to this

News reports indicate that US helicopters attacked a village in Syria today.

I wonder if this is the “October Surprise” the Repubs typically roll out to bolster their mantra of our foreign policy experts and protectors of our freedom?

Don’t think it will work this time.

By Dusty

October 26, 2008 4:33 PM | Link to this

Well, it must be LIB DAY at Wooten’s. Did somebody give out tee shirts or something to everybody who would lean LEFT? Or did Obama raise the wages for the paid “volunteers”? Some of you are getting rich so he might take it back. Spread the wealth, you know.

Even PoFo has spent the afternoon being the Messiah. Ah well, there are worse things to do. RagNar likes your stuff, PoFo. Maybe I will stop skipping over those LONG ones.

I shall go away and worry about something other than politics.. One son is out riding his motorcycle, a big ol’ red 1000 one. Now THAT is something to worry about.

By Chad Harris

October 26, 2008 4:37 PM | Link to this

Administration to Bypass Reporting Law

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/25/washington/25legal.html

The letter that Mr. Chertoff sent to Congress in March was addressed or copied to 10 Congressional leaders. But it was not publicly disclosed and received no press coverage. It is not clear how many lawmakers saw it.

*WASHINGTON — The Bush administration has informed Congress that it is bypassing a law intended to forbid political interference with reports to lawmakers by the Department of Homeland Security.

The August 2007 law requires the agency’s chief privacy officer to report each year about Homeland Security activities that affect privacy, and requires that the reports be submitted directly to Congress “without any prior comment or amendment” by superiors at the department or the White House.

But newly disclosed documents show that the Justice Department issued a legal opinion last January questioning the basis for that restriction, and that Michael Chertoff, the homeland security secretary, later advised Congress that the administration would not “apply this provision strictly” because it infringed on the president’s powers.

The Supreme Court has never ruled on whether Congress can pass a law that puts an executive branch official beyond the control of the president when it comes to giving information to oversight committees.

The court has, however, upheld statutes that gave regulatory agencies and prosecutors independence from presidential control.*

The Administration does not have the legal right to tell Congress that if it passes a law they don’t like, they’ll ignore it.

By ron

October 26, 2008 4:41 PM | Link to this

Are the fat cats going to jump out of windows tomorrow like they did in “29?Without their “Golden Parachutes”,one would hope.

By Chad Harris

October 26, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this

No Dusty. We had eight years of a murduring moron in the White House and you have an idiot who is too afraid to take press questions because her stupidity would show up just as it did in the Couric interview. Everthing Bush touched turned to s* and Chambliss and McPalin were his lapdogs. They’re going down.

By Chad Harris

October 26, 2008 5:24 PM | Link to this

This time the October surprise is that McBush picked a running mate impuslively that those in the base who hire and fire would never touch she is so stupid, and she actually hates mocks McCain who has been in Washington for 26 years while his wife lived with her boyfriends in California.

And Valentino Barbie is delusional in thinking she could actually be President after “running” in 20whartver and that she has any level of educationwhatsoever.

I heard the Wing nut Martha Zoeller say that Palin is being smeared in the media but not Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama is educated, capable of holding many administrative positions, and she has, and infinitely more ready to take over as President except that she’s not running.

McCain’s stupid assertion that Palin has more executive experience than Biden is ludicrous. Biden has years of experience in all the fields Palin understands as well as the Trisomy 21 baby she carries around.

By Dusty

October 26, 2008 5:32 PM | Link to this

Chad Harris,

I don’t know whether you have been brain washed or a paid objector to be an ingrate. Your insults are so overused and mostly ficticious that your arguments are long wasted material. Try and open your mind a bit. But shorten them on the internet. Most of us can’t linger too long over graffiti.

By Chad Harris

October 26, 2008 6:12 PM | Link to this

Dusty—

Rest assured I’ve watched a lot of administrations—probably in the ball park of the ones you have. I’ve never seen the egregious arrogance where the Executive would assume it can rule all the other branches of government that were structured pretty well by the founders (although not perfectly) to keep checks on each of the others.

2) I’ll put what you claim you don’t know to rest. I’ve hardly been brain washed and I’ve spent a lot of time gathering my info and ocming to conclusions. It ought to be obvious to you that I read widely, understand the legal aspects of this administration and the attempt to vote cage by Republicans in every state in this country far beyond the level of the AJC which is very superficial as is Wooten when it comes to legal matters.

3) Nobody pays me to want to clean up this egregious mess and needless killing and waste of treasure (3 trillion in Iraq), potentially a worse situation than 1929 crafted almost totally by Republicans who had all the controls for years despite the Wingnuts trying to loosely tie Dems to Fanny and Freddy which are only a component of the financial fiasco.

If you have a brain you cannot believe Palin should ever be President and you have to understand she is a parody of an election. The characters in all the recent movies are about elections are infinitely smarter than Palin.

There is no one in there right mind that doesn’t think Robin Williams could clean Palin’s clock in a debate. Palin has been dressed up like Eliza Doolitlle and words have been put in her mouth. When she goes “rogue” she makes a fool out of herself. And for everyone who numbers themselves “in the base”, I can guarantee you are about to see the views of the base rejected Writ Large come November 4.

If you have any level of legal sophistication at all, Chambliss’s statements during the foreplay to the reprehensible FISA bill were pure lies and I can document that letter for letter.

If you have a scintilla of medical sophistication, Palin’s comments about fruit flies and her systemic ignorance on sstem cell research are pathetic or as some have termed her Paleonistic. They are from the stone age.

What precisely do you think I need to keep an open mind about? McCain? Palin? The reprehensible effort by partisan Republican secretaries of state like Handel to get Democrats and minorities and particularly less affluent people off the voting rolls?

Checks against lists where objective university research has shown (a recent study at Harvard that is well known) by Lorraine Minute that found only 24 voters from 2002-2005 guilty of vote fraud out of hundreds of millions of votes cast?

The interpid attempt by Handel to deny a citizen Jose Morales, his right to vote even after he showed up with irrefutable proof of his citizenship. Last time I checked Handel wasn’t a native Indian. ISn’t that a German name? Doesn’t that mean that her great grandparents likely came from somewhere not the US?

I know HAVA well and I also know how Hans von Spakovsky formerly from Ga. and Donneta Davidson have used the White House’s coopting of DOJ to try to distort HAVA in an effort to take several hundred thousand Obama voters off the rolls in each state.

Tomorrow or the next day Handel’s vote caging efforts will be crushed.

I butress my statements with facts Dusty. If you have any at all, why don’t you put ‘em up instead of worrying about who is being paid.

As for brevity, I’ve posted links that will educate you.

Like most Republicans reading is an effort you’re not interested in.

Try to tell me why Palin is not taking any objective interviews from the press right now and has not taken comp;rehensive questions from the press in a half hour or hour long conference. Obama has done scores as has Biden.

Did it ever occur to you it’s because she couldn’t answer the questions.

Palin wouldn’t understand the nuances of how OLC has been coopted by Cheney and Addington if it bit her in the butt.

By fearless fosdik

October 26, 2008 6:13 PM | Link to this

Headlines today…The Anchorage Daily News. the largest newspaper in Alaska supports Obama…

Obama draws over 100,000 to a rally in Denver! Prior to Denver he was in New Mexico where he drew well over 45,000.

McCain, well he drew around 1,000!

Folks, this election should, could be a total LANDSLIDE or AVALANCHE!

By Shawny

October 27, 2008 8:11 AM | Link to this

The people paying, pay more. More people will not pay. The annointed one talks a big game about redistribution, but the large number of tax rebates he promises do not mesh with the goal of whittling down the deficit. There is just no way that the math can work.

By findog

October 27, 2008 8:40 AM | Link to this

Jim,

I just do not see the jobs argument. Job growth during the Clinton era of taxation was much better than during the Bush era of tax cut and spending. I believe in capitalism. When the top income, capitol gains, and corporate tax rates were dropped I did not notice a single drop in salary or prices. It was a give away to Bush’s base.

What Senator McCain should do is pull a Reagan, promise to completely sanitize the 90,000 plus IRS code and rid it of all the special interest meddling Congress has done over the last twenty years; which in conjunction with spending freezes might realistically produce a balanced budget by 2012.

By Jeff

October 27, 2008 8:48 AM | Link to this

Thanks Jim for your article. It looks like the lunatics aren’t far from running the asylum.

By Eli Jones

October 27, 2008 8:52 AM | Link to this

Barack Obama is America’s Hugo Chavez. Chavez has used the tax money from Venezuela’s government to buy votes for himself. Obama is using the same Marxist strategy of taking from and then REDISTRIBUTING the wealth to buy votes for himself here in America. Not only is the Marxist Obama planning to REDISTRIBUTE your hard earned money in America but also all over the world. Barack Obama is currently sponsoring US Senate Bill S2433 and it will add 845 Billion in “ADDITIONAL” taxes to American’s that pay already pay too many taxes. Your tax money takened from you for Obama’s S2433 will be given to the United Nations, specifically for “The UN Global Poverty Act”. Your hard earned money will then be REDISTRIBUTED to third word dictators. S2433 is only one of many Marxist Wealth Redistribution schemes that Obama has planned. You can forget Obama’s promise to only raise taxes only on the rich because the rich aren’t rich enough to fund Obama’s Marxist programs in the US, let alone worldwide. Obama, Biden and their Marxist allies also have vowed to eliminate the death inheritance tax so they can get their sticky hands on most of your inheritance money. I already know people who have been selling off property because they fear a President Obama and his vow to double the capital gains tax thus clobbering their investment. I have seen what Marxism does to a nation’s economy, it keeps everyone poor with no hope of pulling out of the hole. The Democrats have given your tax money to Obama’s proxie “ACORN” for the purpose of buying and stealing votes for Barack Obama. If you blindly believe that Obama will not raise your taxes as well as raising the rich folks taxes, you will be sadly illuminated when it’s too late. Google: “Obama’s S2433” and you can read about Obama’s first GLOBAL MARXIST WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION act. There are several sites on Obama’s S2433 including Ron Paul’s site. Read and be informed.

By Chad Harris

October 27, 2008 8:54 AM | Link to this

Paulsonomics

What should be of bipartisan interest to everyone are the spectacularly failing policies of Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke. Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman nails this when he says this mornning that:

“There’s also bizarre stuff going on with regard to the mortgage market. I thought that the whole point of the federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the lending agencies, was to remove fears about their solvency and thereby lower mortgage rates. But top officials have made a point of denying that Fannie and Freddie debt is backed by the “full faith and credit” of the U.S. government — and as a result, markets are still treating the agencies’ debt as a risky asset, driving mortgage rates up at a time when they should be going down.

From

The Widening Gyre

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/27/opinion/27krugman.html?_r=1&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print

“What’s happening, I suspect, is that the Bush administration’s anti-government ideology still stands in the way of effective action. Events have forced Mr. Paulson into a partial nationalization of the financial system — but he refuses to use the power that comes with ownership”

The McCain Bush Republican attempt to socialize banks and bail out General Motors and Chrysler soon is failing dramtically in real time before your eyes.

No wonder Bob Barr is running. It must be painful to watch for libertarian Republicans—I know it is for me as a Democrat, particularly with the Wingnuts like Williams, Kent, and Wooten screaming Obama is a socialist. This ain’t Obama folks—this is the Bush-McCain administration—this is the work of Paulson, Bernanke, Greenspan, and Phil Graham writ large.

286-163 is the Electoral vote number this morning. Colorado and Virginia are firmly in the Obama column and Arizaona may be up for grabs. Even if McCain wins Penn, Ohio, Florida, and Missouri Obama still has a firm path to 270. So all the cluck clucking Dick Williams’, the Phil Kents, and Martha Zoellers continue to exhibit RWFRS or Right Wingnut Failure to Read (and Comprehend) Syndrome best exhibited by George Bush and John McCain, and the postergirl for this is incorrigible moron Sarah Palin.

What was McCain doing in Iowa yesterday? He’s deader in the water than the Titanic there. Continued stupid organization reigns in the campaign plan.

Michell Obama on Leno tonight. Compare a woman with education with the moron Sarah Palin. in a debate Obama would take her apart—but then so would a 15 year old working at Chick Fil-a.

By Republicans R Crooks

October 27, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this

Today’s wsj has a very interesting graph of income distribution in America from 1910 to present….The percentage of income going to the top 1% peaked just prior to the 1929 stock market crash at ~30%, then dropped to a much more reasonable 15% or so till the mid 80’s, and has since risen to its current peak at ~30%…just as we are beginning another depression….correlation? oh yeah….

By Republicans R Crooks

October 27, 2008 9:08 AM | Link to this

At the peak of American prosperity and productivity, roughly 1950 to 1980, the percentage of income going to the top 1% was roughly 10 percent. Don’t believe me? Here is the free line, cause I know how lazy and stupid you republicans are, and how worthless you Clinton Democarats are at looking anything useful up: …http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122506174552170247.html

By GMAN

October 27, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this

Oh, what a beautiful morning! The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and the McCain/Palin ticket is falling further in the polls!

Bush/McCain - Gambling with your children’s futures… and losing!

By Churchill's Mom

October 27, 2008 9:32 AM | Link to this

Jim why are you writting about John McCain,, SARA is the future of our party.. Here’s a good article written by DUSTY’s favorite By MAUREEN DOWD Published: October 26, 2008 McCain advisers have been scathing about the “sexism” of critics who dismiss Sarah Palin as Caribou Barbie.

How odd then, to learn that McCain advisers have been treating their own vice presidential candidate like Valentino Barbie, dressing her up in fancy clothes and endlessly playing with her hair.

In 1991, with Americans fretting about a shaky economy, Poppy Bush visited a J. C. Penney and bought $28 worth of tube socks and a toddler’s sweat suit in a desperate effort to seem in touch with the common folk. Palin might have followed that example and popped into Penney’s to buy some new American-made duds. She is so naturally good-looking, there is no need to gild the Last Frontier lily.

Instead, with the economy cratering and the McCain campaign running on an “average Joe” theme, dunderheaded aides, led by the former Bushies Nicolle Wallace and Tracey Schmitt, costumed their Eliza Doolittle for a ball when she should have been dressing for a bailout.

The Republicans’ attempt to make the case that Barack Obama is hoity-toity and they’re hoi polloi has fallen under the sheer weight of the stunning numbers:

The McCains own 13 cars, eight homes and access to a corporate jet, and Cindy had her Marie Antoinette moment at the convention. Vanity Fair calculated that her outfit cost $300,000, with three-carat diamond earrings worth $280,000, an Oscar de la Renta dress valued at $3,000, a Chanel white ceramic watch clocking in at $4,500 and a four-strand pearl necklace worth between $11,000 and $25,000. While presenting herself as an I’m-just-like-you hockey mom frugal enough to put the Alaska state plane up for sale on eBay, Palin made her big speech at the convention wearing a $2,500 cream silk Valentino jacket that the McCain staff had gotten her at Saks.

At that point, Palin should have been savvy enough to tell those doing her makeover that she was a Wal-Mart mom. The sartorial upgrade was bound to turn into a strategy downgrade, as Palin pressed her case as a homespun gal who was ever so much more American than the elite, foreignish Obama, while she was gussied up in Italian couture.

Politico broke the news that the Republican National Committee spent over $150,000 on a “Pretty Woman”-style shopping spree for Palin, including about $75,000 at Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis and nearly $50,000 at Saks Fifth Avenue in New York and St. Louis.

Palin advisers did their best to spin the fashion explosion during the economic implosion, telling The Times that she needed new outfits to match the climate changes across 50 states.

Republicans once more charged the media with sexism for reporting on Palin’s Imelda Marcos closet. “No one would blink if this was a male candidate buying Brooks Brothers suits,” said William F. B. O’Reilly, a G.O.P. consultant.

It doesn’t wash to cry sexism now any more than it did at the beginning, when the campaign tried to use that dodge to divert attention from Palin’s lacunae in the sort of knowledge you need to run the world. The press has written plenty about the vanities and extravagances of male candidates. (See: Haircuts, John Edwards and Bill Clinton.) Sexism would be to treat Palin differently, or more delicately, than one of the guys.

The governor who spent all her time talking about how she had cleaned up excesses in Alaska, and would do the same in Washington, also went over the top on hair and makeup. As a former beauty pageant contestant and sports anchor on TV, Palin already seemed on top of her grooming before the McCain campaign made her traveling makeup artist, Amy Strozzi, the highest-paid individual on the campaign for the first two weeks of October. Ms. Strozzi, who earned an Emmy nomination for her war paint skills on the TV show “So You Think You Can Dance,” made $22,800 for the first half of this month.

Governor Palin, who used to get her hair done at the Beehive in Wasilla and shop at an Anchorage consignment shop called Out of the Closet, paid her traveling hairstylist — recommended by Cindy McCain — $10,000 for the first half of October.

In The New York Times Magazine today, Robert Draper reveals that the campaign also hired a former New York stage and screen actress, Priscilla Shanks, to be her voice coach for the convention. The expense was listed in finance reports as Operating Expenditures and Get-Out-The-Vote consulting. Apparently getting out the vote includes teaching a potential vice president the correct way to pronounce “nuclear.”

The conservative big shots who have not deserted Palin and still think she can be Reagan in a Valentino skirt are furious at those who have mishandled the governor and dimmed her star power. They mourn that she may have to wait now until 2016 to get rid of the phony stench of designer populism.

Makeovers are every woman’s dream. But this makeover has simply pushed back Palin’s dream of being president.

By Matt

October 27, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this

to chad harris 6:12 yesterday,

Question: *What is America ‘s first line of missile

interceptor defense that protects the entire United States?*

Answer: * 49th Missile Defense Battalion of Alaska
National Guard*

Question: What is the ONLY National Guard unit on
permanent active duty?

Answer: 49th Missile Defense Battalion of Alaska
National Guard

Question: Who is the Commander in Chief of the 49th Missile Defense Battalion of Alaska National Guard?

Answer: Governor Sarah Palin, Alaska

Question: What U.S. governor is routinely briefed on
highly classified military issues, homeland security, and counter terrorism?

Answer: Governor Sarah Palin, Alaska

Question: What U.S. governor has a higher classified security rating than either candidate of the Democrat Party?

Answer: Governor Sarah Palin, Alaska

By Ragnar Danneskjöld

October 27, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this

Why isn’t the blog open yet? I have a great essay ready to post.

Dear Crooks @ 9:08, “At the peak of American prosperity and productivity, roughly 1950 to 1980…” Are you kidding? Who prospered under Nixon wage and price controls, or even worse, under Carter’s stifling regulations? 1950-1966 you have a pretty good argument, or even better 1982-2006.

By Eli Jones

October 27, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this

Hitler had his Brown Shirts that helped him seize control of Germany and in 2008 Obama has his Red Shirts (ACORN) to steal the American Presidency for himself. Hitler was right wing and Obama is left wing. There’s not much difference in the two extremes as both are about total control of the masses. Obama has his MARXIST WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION SCHEMES and this approach will destroy America as we knew it. The rich aren’t rich enough to fund Obama’s MARXIST WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION SCHEMES and Comrade Obama will be coming for your money too. Obama’s US Senate Bill S2433 will cost tax paying American’s 845 Billion in ADDITIONAL taxes, with the money going to “The UN Global Poverty Act” to be REDISTRIBUTED to third world dictators. This is only one of many of Obama’s MARXIST WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION SCHEMES. Google Obama’s S2433 and read how Obama plans to REDISTRIBUTE your hard earned money.

By Matt

October 27, 2008 10:14 AM | Link to this

chad harris 8:54,

If you go back and check the facts you will see overwhelmingly that the percentage of the democrat party that voted for the bailout was extremely higher than that of the republican party.

Also, if you listen to people in the market, they are pulling out and shifting their money elsewhere for fear of an obama takeover and spreading their investments as he see’s fit.

By Thinking Correctly

October 27, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this

Here’s a puzzler: Do Wooten’s comments come directly from the McCain campaign, or do the McCain campaign’s talking points come directly from Wooten’s column?

This nonsense about redistributing income and socialism is the last wretched death throes of the neocon republicans. They’ve apparently decided that if they’re going down, they’ll try to take down as many others as possible with them. How patriotic.

What I find most amusing in reading blogs like this one, is that when its all said and done, no one will have helped more in getting Obama elected than the last 8 years of W, Cheney, Rove and all the other idiots people like Wooten point to as their saviors. How does that sit with you, Jim?

By ButtHead

October 27, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this

Why not look here as democrats tell republicans that Fanny and Freddie are just fine, 4 years ago. Kind of makes you wonder… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGTcSi7Rs

By Sterling

October 27, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this

I thought it very interesting to read the “Redneck Convert” state that “people need to come around to the Republican way of thinking.” That from a Republican controlled state legislature and govenor…. that’s one of the top 10 states about ready to go bankrupt, that’s illegally purging voter rolls just weeks before the election. Yes… let’s all go the Republican way so we can stay in wars and keep spending billions each month rather than here in our own country. Let’s keep FORCING our beleifs down peoples throats. if we don’t like the way they live, lets START a war… I guess the next war (Iran?) will be blamed on 9-11 also? I wonder how much money we’ll spend on Palin’s (and her family’s)wardrobe if Mccain wins? What you say it doesn’t matter? It was RNC money and you donated it so it’s OK? Do you give to Charities? What if you gave to the United way and then discovered the United Way staff bought clothes for themselves? Same thing. The woman makes $125,00 a year (not including possible kick-backs and free-bees)! Can she not “survive” on that! Maybe her husband should get a job? Yes… let’s go the Republican way so alol states can end up with the financial mess that GA is in. I was born and raised in GA and now, being away, I miss the way it used to be, Living there now would really be upsetting. By the way Redneck Convert, who IS going to pay for the war in Iraq? Spending money on the aftermath of hurricane Katrina… is that not spreading the wealth? What about hurricane Ike? relief efforts there are spreading the wealth? Fllods? How much money is spent there? Better highways, schools, teacher pay, better fire protections: all of these things “spread the wealth”…. wake up! Use your brain. Of I forgot, you’re a self-proclaimed “redneck” so you don’t.

By Ellis Wyatt

October 27, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this

Ragnar,

I must say, I commend you recommendation on reading your book. Its funny how a book written in 57 holds true today. Have you read The Fountainhead?

By A different Joe

October 27, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this

gerri @ 12:46,

You left off the next one…