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Happy Halloween!
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The current time is I’m on vacation.
The current time is I’m on vacation.
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Propaganda papers asked to leave Obama jet
It looks like the New York Post, Washington Times, and Dallas News were asked to leave Obama’s campaign jet, to make room for documentary film makers. There is only so much room on a plane, obviously. It was pointed out that the three newspapers are second or third tier publications in their markets (New York City, Washington D.C., and Dallas) and none of the three are up for grabs–the NY and DC metro areas are double digits ahead for Obama and have been for some time, and Dallas is McCain’s.There is no benefit for America for these smaller newspapers to take multiple seats on the campaign jet that can be used for more important local newspapers in swing states and the national media. An Obama spokesperson said,
“We’re trying to reach as many swing voters that we can and unfortunately had to make some tough choices. but we are accomodating these folks in everyway possible,” he said.
If anyone actually believes this is political, it’s a laughable idea. There is simply only so much room on the plane, and the staff for these newspapers are not valuable for the Obama campaign now. They’re local papers in markets that have been won, one way or the other. If this was a political “purge”, like Matt Drudge made out with his usual tortured and over the top hand-waving, why is Fox News still on the Obamaplane? Stupid. Political purges from your plane would be the fact that John McCain has long barred Maureen Dowd, a prize-winning columnist, from traveling with him.
Also, if you didn’t know about these newspapers, they are mouthpieces for their owners:
The Washington Times is the equal of the New York Post, a garbage rag sponsored by a rich person that is a mouthpiece for their pet conservative and Far Right ideologies (New York Post is Rupert Murdoch, who also owns Fox News), and The Washington Times is the money sink of the Unification Church.
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Google Adwords has a sense of humor
I just noticed this on my site…
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Terrified corn
Happy Halloween. Scared corn, from Serious Eats:
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Defeat all robots
Via Kos, the robots must be stopped:
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Netflix and it’s instant viewing
This is probably one of the greatest inventions ever. Netflix, if you have an account, lets you watch films on-demand. I’m watching Bad Boys right now. Why? Because I can. I love it.
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Further reasons to consider Sarah Palin bad for America
If you hadn’t heard, there’s now discord in the McCain-Palin camp over the handling of Sarah Palin by McCain’s people, and also over Palin’s own rogue behavior.Palin has even, apparently, been angling and fishing for positioning and saving her (slim) political bacon to possibly angle for a Presidential run of her own in 2008. Even Bill Kristol, conservative arch-troll and son of the founder of the Neo-conservative movement that includes such charming personality types as Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, considers the Palin situation bad.
If Palin is actually thinking that she is cut out to be President, America has reasons to be very afraid. How much should you be afraid, and how much should your Sarahcudaphobia be spreading? According to this, very much so:
In the waning hours of the campaign, otherwise known as the end days of Republican rule, acolytes of Sarah Palin are preparing the way for her triumphal return after the dust of defeat has settled. She is the future of a re-born party and the flag bearer for a new populist Conservatism – so they say – an American Thatcher.
If you’re not sure who Margaret Thatcher was, she is the British female Ronald Reagan. Are you terrified yet, of another Reagan of any form getting anywhere near the Oval Office? A man who did more to damage the world than few others? I’ll grant that one-time cigarette pitchman did help to take down the Iron Curtain and the more corrupt elements of the USSR regime (who I have no love for). Ronald Reagon also did irreparable and catastrophic damage to the early fight against HIV/AIDs:
Following discovery of the first cases in 1981, it soon became clear a national health crisis was developing. But President Reagan’s response was “halting and ineffective,” according to his biographer Lou Cannon. Those infected initially with this mysterious disease — all gay men — found themselves targeted with an unprecedented level of mean-spirited hostility.
A significant source of Reagan’s support came from the newly identified religious right and the Moral Majority, a political-action group founded by the Rev. Jerry Falwell. AIDS became the tool, and gay men the target, for the politics of fear, hate and discrimination. Falwell said “AIDS is the wrath of God upon homosexuals.” Reagan’s communications director Pat Buchanan argued that AIDS is “nature’s revenge on gay men.”
Do we want another person driven by religious fueled goals (and biases) near the highest position of authority in our Constitutionally sectarian nation? Do we want a peer of Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson as President? Do we endorse these people?
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A kitteh challenger appears! Maybe?
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Are you a Republican?
You may want to read this, if you are.
Contrary to popular belief, a large percentage of Republicans are unhappy not because of the Bush administration itself, but because of the recent clear revelations of what direction the Party is heading. Actually, we’ve started realizing the problems began all the way back in Reagan’s presidency, and the only thing that has remained “Republican” has been the talking points. Let’s quickly review the Republican Principles listed on the GOP site itself.
Republican Principles
I’m a Republican Because…
I BELIEVE the strength of our nation lies with the individual and that each person’s dignity, freedom, ability and responsibility must be honored.
I BELIEVE in equal rights, equal justice and equal opportunity for all, regardless of race, creed, sex, age or disability.
I BELIEVE free enterprise and encouraging individual initiative have brought this nation opportunity, economic growth and prosperity.
I BELIEVE government must practice fiscal responsibility and allow individuals to keep more of the money they earn.
I BELIEVE the proper role of government is to provide for the people only those critical functions that cannot be performed by individuals or private organizations, and that the best government is that which governs least.
I BELIEVE the most effective, responsible and responsive government is government closest to the people.
Is that your Republican party? Yes? No? Maybe? That article is an interesting dissection of the Republican principles on the GOP site itself. My parents were Republicans. That sounds like what they believed in, and believed in deeply. I used to be much more conservative and to the right myself, at least on fiscal matters and national security, in the early to mid 1990s. But really–is this your own Republican party, or has it been stolen from under you by zealots? Read that article carefully. Maybe it’s time to force some people to fork off to a third, religious party, if you care about your true Republican ideals.
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“Name the other one?”
Speaking of humiliation… watch this–it’s very short, and probably worthy of appearing on Failblog.com. It’s astonishing stupidity and shows how desperate things have become.
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John McCain humiliated on live TV by Joe the Plumber
McCain was told that Joe would be in the crowd for a campaign event–but he never showed up. Oops. Pretty much the last thing that McCain can afford is any screw ups, especially this close to Election Day.
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Wil Wheaton
Found by Warren Ellis, creepy Wil:
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Rednecks 4 Obama
From Slog and Andrew Sullivan.
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Some useful web applications
I think some of them will never even be looked at by myself, but some of them do sound pretty useful. Maybe one for you?
Helpful stalking
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