Gird thy loins!

A great fact sheet for when you are arguing with your grandma about Bill Ayers.

Also heard that the McShame campaign will be bringing up Rev. Wright again, so study up troops, the bullshit is gonna get real deep!

Maverick my ass!

I was reading today, the New York Times. (all the news thats fit to print so that Sarah can name a newspaper).

They took tyme ouwt frum startin' wars and scammin' for Ahmed Chalabi to say that those mavericky mavericks dont deserve the name the good ol' USAmericans gived 'em, summa them should have maps, cause they don' have 'em, anywhere like such as snooowmahsheeen!

Whatta bunch a eeest cooost illeeetists!

"Its the economy stupid!" 2008

The treadworn James Carville directive to Bill Clinton is still valid.

Even more so, in that if the righties want to bring up Bill Ayres, Obama brings up Charles Keating, which puts us right back to the economy.

However, all is not positive.

A part of Obama's strenghth is in getting votes from rural and religious voters.

As much fun as it is, knocking Sarah Palin may errode this trend.

Pals around with who?

So Sarah was just showing off that she could name a specific newspaper when she delivered the Obama pals with terrorist quip.

So if this is the level of discourse desired;

McCain pals with convicted felon

McCain pals with convicted felon

Sarah pals with own brain

And all of these are voluntary adult relationships, just thought i would mention it.

Can we buy Sarah a clue?

Lets see, she is a member of a fundementalist "bible" church so far in to halucenigenic interpretation of the book of Joel that they were kicked out of the "Assembly of God" for heresy.

So... perhaps she would object to the jurisprudential highjinks of the Supremes on "SCHOOL PRAYER".

You know, where "JUDICIAL ACTIVISTS" took "GOD" out of "OUR SCHOOLS"

Like Abington v Shemp, Engle v Vitale

And just in case she wants to play "GOVERNOR OF ALASKA" again, she may want to take look up the title "Exxon shipping v Baker" where "JUDICIAL ACTIVISTS" "LEGISLATED FROM THE BENCH".

The Real John McCain?

I tend to put some creedence to personal testimony.

When a cousin of mine testified of a chance run in at an airport with Howard Dean and that Dean had tried to get preferential treatment because of "who I am", it lowered my stock in him.

A person is testifying of behavior on John McCains part that is disturbing and matches well with other reports.

We will see how far this goes. Tell me if you see it elsewhere.

UPDATE

Why, after hearing a years worth of "Obama is a Muslim terrorist with an america- hateing christian preacher" variants, i should give a rats ass about acurracy, snopes casts a shadow on this.

But of course Palin can say Obama "pals around with terrorists", she wouldnt know the truth if it bit her in the ass!

Question of balance

As the presidential process is subjected to mind numbing sideshows.

think of this;

Is our national security enhanced or diminished, by a system where despots can purchase U.S. government support and infuence, to the detriment of their people

Word Salad

My dear wife, who is a psych- Nurse, brought home a wonderful term for the disconnected jargon spewed forth by those of feeble mind; "word salad".

Chopped up chunks of thought and language strung together by the dressing of ums and ahhs that cover for the stalls that all of us experience.

But could we please contemplate that these are supposed to be terms applied to the scientific and theraputic observation of MENTALLY ILL PERSONS and that when these terms are accurately applied to those running for public office, we have a problem here kids.

ripping apart a sterio-type with an Uzi

On a night where I ended street canvasing by denying a voter registration form to a women who said she would vote against Obama because he was a "dot head" like those who attacked us on 9/11, I was looking for someone to give society a swift kick in the balls.

I, for a moment dwelled on the delicious irony of this diarrheic opinion( was there an Indian "Jon Stuart" who could sit mouth agape in the foreground of a blazing golden temple after runing a tape of these remarks?)

It got better.
Feeling all bad and catholic about engaging a crudity I said "Do you know what a "dot head" is? " yea, I work for one, they did 9/11!".

"But "dot heads" as you put it, are Hindus! they have had some pretty big fights with Muslims who i think you wish to accuse Obama of being". "So i suppose you wont give me one now?" after recovering from her successful deployment of "suppose" i spit "get one from the McCain Campaign!"

Getting back to that kick in the balls, Bill Maher has this tremendous inversion of a steriotype. If only it could be understood by some of the f#@%ing idiots to whom it applies.

Kennedy Nixon

It has been repeated to the point of folklore, that those who heard the Nixon Kennedy debate on radio thought Nixon won, but that those who saw it on television thought Kennedy won.

I heard parts of the first hour with my headphone radio at the Gateway- Norwin game, I was somewhat subdued by what a "good speech" John McCain was giving, he was presenting his bumper stickers without regard to the questions posed, a winning tactic (not stategy) for Republicans for years.

Then we got home and saw the replays and recieved the classic "different" impression, but to take it one step further, we watched some of it with the sound down(Alaska rules?).

I saw Barak Obama; confident, focused, engaged.
I saw John McCain looking like a pedaphile under interrogation at a Turkish police station.

Your urgent responce is desired please.

Any one with an e-mail account has encountered the broken Victorian English, and hyper-polite approach of these financial scam offers that usually come from Nigeria or elsewhere in west Africa.

Cynthia gets credit for passing this along:

Dear American:

I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude. I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you. . .

I am working with Mr. Phil Gramm, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a Senator, you may know him as the leader of the American banking deregulation movement in the 1990s. This transaction is 100% safe.

This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank check. We need the funds as quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these funds in the names of our close friends because we are constantly under surveillance. My family lawyer advised me that I should look for a reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the funds can be transferred.

Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund account numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to wallstreetbailout@treasury.gov so that we may transfer your commission for this transaction. After I receive that information, I will respond with detailed information about safeguards that will be used to protect the funds.

Yours Faithfully
Minister of Treasury Paulson

Stop the debate?

So McCain wants to stop the campaign and the attendant debates so he can jet back to D.C. to "fix" the economy.

He showed no such compunction the night they hatched the de-regulation that led to this debacle.

Will the real John McCain please stand up.

The $800 Billion kick in the ass

I have been trying to muster optimism ever since the corporate media spent 2 weeks talking about lipstick.

Now we have to pay out $800 Billion because the great deregulators Phil (kiss my ass you whiners) Gram and John (i was NOT staring at Sarahs who-haw) McCain, thought they knew more about bank regulation than Franklin Roosevelt.

Responsibility must be assigned!

I say we pay a make-up artist to write "McCain took your $800 Billion" on the well shaped leg of one of the participants in "Dancing with the stars".

When the people attend to bread and circuses, you must write the message on the bread.

President Paulson is trying to put together a "coalition of the bankrupt" but Germany and France have told him to cram it.

Chriss Dodd is throwing on the brakes.

McCain inc. complains that the "Liberal Media" is mean

What a predictable pile of shit!

CET

New York Times Bullshit

The singular leader of the "Eastern Establishment" "liberal media" the New York Times, The Paper that started the Iraq War with its front page, stirs up fantasy on abortion, on its front page.

How shocking!

Considering the Energy future

The writers at Earthfamily alpha consider the science of things down the road.

Everything you know is wrong

'Twas the title of an absurdist offering from Firesign Theatre years ago. It is now reality.

O.K tin-eared, echochambered, corporate media mouthpieces.

After shouting "lipstick" for an entire week, fundamentals for another, it time to shout "Elitist"!, as Obama has been labeled by Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild.

WTF

cet

Economics 101

The excellent "Things I've figured out" puts you uppity working class folks in your place.
(warning, this site lacks the same "family values" naughty word filters as this one, but the truth is being told and falsehood is the ultimate obsceanity.)

Holy torture

From the frightening edge of the sociological Grand Canyon; majority of Southern Evangelicals favor torture. Results show variability when the word Crucefiction is substituted.

We are the "fundamentals of the economy"

No Campaign has shown more contempt for "low information voters" than John McCains.

and there is no lower TV IQ to be had than ABC's "Good Morning A$$#@ls".

This Morning John picked this blonde universe to float the latest highjack of fact.

"fundamentals of the economy"= Nurses, Factory Workers, Farmers...( whatever YOU are)

Therefore: when Obama and his supporters Mock the premise of the "fundamentals of the economy being sound"

THEY ARE MOCKING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THEMSELVES

It is the kind of ridiculous retrodefinition of inconvinient (to McCain) facts that might work.

there are 100 video clips of McCain saying "fundamentals of the economy are sound"

the statement is untrue, so we will make the statement true by re definining it

YOU are now a FUNDAMENTAL, just remember that now.........

Sex Ed talking point

"Obama wants to teach kids sex before reading" Getting hit by such a broadside (from your grandmother) could put you a bit off balance.

One page of propaganda dissection to give you the moral framing of a reasoned response.

The design of such outlandish distortions is to exploit gullibility and to piss off the defender (you) so that your brain cant work.

Suggested responses:

John McCain is defending perverts!

Obama supported a bill in the Illinois legislature which called for "Dont talk to stangers" "good touch bad touch" "go get a grown up for help" type education for children.

By opposing this, John McCain lets the perverts win!

UPDATE

Looks like Illinois could have used that program