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ENQURIER RESPONDS TO MCCAIN/PALIN

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:02:46 GMT

clipped by: reimers

"The National Enquirer's coverage of a vicious war within Sarah Palin's extended family includes several newsworthy revelations, including the resulting incredible charge of an affair plus details of family strife when the Governor's daughter revealed her pregnancy. Following our John Edwards' exclusives, our political reporting has obviously proven to be more detail-oriented than the McCain campaign's vetting process. Despite the McCain camp's attempts to control press coverage they find unfavorable, The Enquirer will continue to pursue news on both sides of the political spectrum."

Republicans Launch Sexist Attack on Sarah Palin

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:11:54 GMT

clipped by: dulios
clipper's remarks: This is the definition of "not getting it'.

Clip Source: www.thestar.com

Shortly after the news conference, the McCain campaign unveiled a new button in the Xcel Center, touting Palin as "The Hottest VP."

Tags: republicans, mccain, palin, sexism

Theocrats to Pray for McCain's Death

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:55:10 GMT

clipped by: wiccantexan

Clip Source: www.talk2action.org

The more theocratic elements of the Religious Right have a disturbing habit, (more like a practice) of invoking "imprecatory prayer" -- a call for God to literally pour his wrath down on those they consider to be his enemies.

The most recent target of theoractic imprecations is none other than Republican presidential candidate John McCain. They hope that an act of God will make Sarah Palin president.

Well, that is quite a standard, and one that is arguably prone to abuse. That said, at least two people have written in recent days that hope that McCain/Palin are elected so that they can pray for God to crush John McCain and to elevate Sarah Palin to her rendevous with destiny.

Tags: mccain, palin, politics, religion, god

Wait, where are the partisans at? This place is empty!

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:43:34 GMT

clipped by: ratilfar
clipper's remarks: Just noticed on BBC World that about a third of the convention floor is empty. And then I saw this pictures? Where are the teaming masses of Republicans? Wassup with that?

Clip Source: wonkette.com

Clip Source: www.flickr.com

Tags: gop, convention, hall, empty, where, you, at, nobody, show, up

Palin's Selective History

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:48:42 GMT

clipped by: Wisco
clipper's remarks: Also missing, Afghanistan.

Pretending you belong to some other party or that George W. Bush doesn't belong to yours is one thing, but overlooking a whole goddam big ol' flaming war?

That's pretty inexcusable.

Clip Source: marcambinder.theatlantic.com

Two words you did not hear in Gov. Palin's speech last night:

George W. Bush

and

Republican.

Tags: news

Futurese- English in 3000 AD

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:13:57 GMT

clipped by: wildcat
clipper's remarks: So how far will another thousand years take it?

Clip Source: www.xibalba.demon.co.uk

Predicting the future of the English language is rather easy, in the short term. The odds are, over the next few decades its New World dialects are going to gain increasing global dominance, accelerating the demise of thousands of less fortunate languages but at long last allowing a single advertisement to reach everybody in the world. Then after a century or two of US dominance some other geopolitical grouping will gain the ascendancy, everyone will learn Chechen or Patagonian or whatever it is, and history will continue as usual. Ho hum. But apart from that... what might the language actually look like in a thousand years time? For comparison, the English spoken at the turn of the last millennium looked like this:

Wé cildra biddaþ þé, éalá láréow, þæt þú taéce ús sprecan rihte, forþám ungelaérede wé sindon, and gewæmmodlíce we sprecaþ...

We children beg you, teacher, that you should teach us to speak correctly, because we are ignorant and we speak corruptly...

Tags: language, future

Dept. of You Can't Make This $#!& Up! Cheney Edition

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:51:22 GMT

clipped by: ratilfar
clipper's remarks: Should have added that the world is only big enough for one Empire at a time, hey Dick!

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

TBILISI, Georgia — Demonstrating Washington's support for war-ravaged Georgia, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney condemned Russia for what he called an "illegitimate, unilateral attempt" to redraw this U.S. ally's borders by force.

Speaking during a closely watched trip to this strategic South Caucasus nation, Cheney also said the United States was "fully committed" to Georgian efforts to join NATO.

"Georgia will be in our alliance," Cheney told reporters while standing alongside Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili.

One of the U.S. administration's most hawkish figures and a longtime critic of Russia, Cheney was visiting Georgia and two other ex-Soviet republics _ Azerbaijan and Ukraine _ that are nervous about Moscow's intentions.

"America will do its duty to work with the governments of Georgia and our other friends and allies to protect our common interests and to uphold our values," Cheney said in the joint appearance with Saakashvili.

Tags: richard bruce cheney, war, international law, criminal, war criminal, georgia, empire, russia

Abramoff asks for Mercy

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:52:23 GMT

clipped by: papananook
clipper's remarks: Here's your true face of the Rethuglicans...corruption, and mewling beggars for mercy when caught!

Clip Source: www.politico.com

Jack Abramoff, once a top GOP lobbyist, is asking a federal judge to show mercy when she sentences him Thursday.

Jack Abramoff, once a top Republican lobbyist on K Street, is asking a federal judge to show mercy when she sentences him Thursday in an epic corruption case that continues to rock Capitol Hill and the GOP establishment.

Abramoff, who is already serving a 70-month sentence stemming from his fraudulent purchase of a Florida casino-cruise ship company, will go before District Judge Ellen S. Huvelle to be sentenced in a scandal that resulted in a prison term for one former member of Congress, a dozen other guilty pleas by former Republican aides and officials, and new ethics legislation enacted at the start of the 110th Congress.

In an e-mail letter to Huvelle that was released on Wednesday, Abramoff told the judge that he was "not a bad man (although to read all the news articles one would think I was Osama Bin Laden), but I did many bad things.

Earmark-loving Sarah Palin is not a reformer

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:27:27 GMT

clipped by: ratilfar
clipper's remarks: BTW, how can you say your the party of change when you are the party in POWER? Just wondering what is it you are going to change, exactly.

Clip Source: www.crooksandliars.com

One of Sarah Palin’s major selling points is her supposed reputation as an anti-wasteful-spending reformer who will clean up Washington. Well, the only problem with that is her records from back when she was mayor have surfaced, and in those records she boasts about getting, you guessed it, federal money for pork barrel projects.

And the most ironic part of it all? I’ll let The Washington Independent sum it up:

As Laura pointed out earlier, John McCain didn’t think so. Indeed, The LA Times reported that McCain was criticizing Palin’s earmarks at the time that his now-running mate was securing them. It’s revelations like these that can quickly erode candidates’ maverick reputations.

When will the media start scrutinizing Palin’s real record? The McCain campaign is going to attack them as being unfair/sexist/liberal/etc. no matter what they do. Might as well report the real story.

Tags: palin, gop, corruption, earmarks, power, change, not

St Paul kid, busted on way home from bank

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:05:54 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: "Get on your stomach or I'm gonna tase you!"

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

"Yeah, you know -- I was just arrested."

John

was walking home from the bank a few blocks away when he spotted what he thought was a police riot club

I checked it out but it ended up being a broomstick." He put it down and kept walking, when suddenly he was surrounded by police officers

'Get on your stomach or I'm gonna tase you!'

He asked them what he had done, but they wouldn't say

"No, they didn't read me my Miranda rights at all. ... They cuffed me, and when I complained to one one guy about the cuffs being too tight, he was like, 'Oh yeah? Well, let me tighten that up for you.'"

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

"They tried to get me to admit to some involvement ...

John was put back in his cell. He was never told how long they might hold him

They were like, 'You probably shouldn't go outside, because if the same cops see you they're not gonna be happy.

A woman

said, "this city I live in has so much egg on its face. I'm embarrassed to say I live here. It's just tragic."

It's like we don't have rights. Like we don't

live here

Tags: st paul, rnc, human rights

Want to live in a glass pyramid?

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:46:34 GMT

clipped by: cakebelly

Clip Source: mysterytopia.com

Glass pyramid that could house 1m people

With its sharp angles and its glass walls shimmering in the sunlight it looks like a piece of modern art.

But this innovative design is actually a blueprint for the city of the future - a giant glass pyramid that could house up to one million people.

The development, named the 'Ziggurat', will be self sufficient and carbon neutral with power being supplied by wind turbines.

No cars will be allowed inside the 2.3 square kilometre building, with residents being whisked around by a monorail network which operates both horizontally and vertically.

Security in the city will be provided by biometrics with residents relying on facial recognition to enter their homes.

Dubai based designer Timelinks has already patented the design and technology incorporated into the project.

"Ziggurat communities can be almost totally self-sufficient energy-wise.

"Whole cities can be accommodated in complexes which take up less than ten per cent of the original land surface.

Every Alaskan gets $3200 from oil money - for nothing!

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:49:36 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: $22,400 for a family of 7, like Palin's. When oil companies pay taxes to Alaska, they deduct it from their federal taxes, and we of the other 49 make up the difference. 85% of budget from oil companies; residents pay no income or sales taxes, and state is rolling in dough, while most states are laying off teachers.
How ironic, when an Alaska Republican opposes a windfall profits tax, and favor reduced government services - when they live, in part, off of government handouts from revenue the oil industry pays them to get oil to us!

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

Welcome to the People's Republic of Alaska, where every resident this year will get a $3,200 payout, thanks in no small measure to the efforts of Sarah Palin, the state's Republican governor. That's $22,400 for a family of seven, like Palin's. Since 1982, the Alaska Permanent Fund, which invests oil revenues from state lands, has paid out a dividend on invested oil loot to everyone who has been in the state for a year.

No wonder she is popular with voters in a state whose residents pay no income or sales taxes but are blessed with state coffers rolling in cash at a time when all other states are suffering. Indeed, when the oil companies pay more taxes to the state of Alaska, they get to write that off against their federal tax obligation, leaving the rest of us to make up the shortfall.

Alaska

was getting upward of 85 percent of its budget from the oil companies

Why is it a good thing for the folks up in Alaska to get a cut of exorbitant oil company profits, but not the rest of us

Tags: alaska

The End Of The World and what you can do before its to LATE!!

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:19:12 GMT

clipped by: wiganfootie

Clip Source: www.thesun.co.uk

The atom smasher ... the 17-mile-long machine that some fear will destroy our planet

WITH just nine days to go until the end of the world, here’s what you could get up to before it’s too late ...

1. Eat 27 Big Mac meals. Who’s counting the calories?

2. Visit all seven continents.

3. Try out all 64 Kama Sutra positions.

4. Watch the entire box sets of Lost, Heroes and Prison Break.

5. Cruise the River Nile.

6. Drive to Switzerland for a ringside seat of doomsday.

7. Complete Super Mario: The Lost Levels.

8. Catch England’s World Cup qualifiers against Andorra on Saturday and – if we’re still alive – England v Croatia on September 10 If we lose, it’ll feel like the end of the world anyway!

9. Cancel the milk and papers.

Blackwater seek to expand

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:09:41 GMT

clipped by: papananook
clipper's remarks: Nip those asssholes in the BUD, if ya can.

Clip Source: www.commondreams.org

"If I had known about this earlier, I'm sure we could have packed this room with people opposed to Blackwater," he said. "I think the public has a right to know, and zoning is really a way for us to protect our land."

"It will in no way be hazardous or detrimental to the surrounding properties," promised Blackwater employee Eric Davis.

"A training facility is being used on agricultural land, and it seems kind of strange to me," said Hippie, Democratic candidate for the county board. "Either the zoning should be changed, or the use should be stopped."

Kenny drew parallels between the modus operandi of Blackwater in Jo Daviess County, and the early stages of training center development in Camden County in North Carolina and San Diego County in California.

"What happened in Camden County, what happened in California can also happen here," Kenny argued. "Small steps. It doesn't even have to be in their name. Right now they're leasing the property."

The Democratic Dossier on Palin: 62 Pages of 'Oppo Research' Revealed

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:52:53 GMT

clipped by: dewitte

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

The McCain team may not have vetted Sarah Palin with boots on the ground in Alaska, but the Democrats sure did -- two years ago when she ran for governor. The oppo-research, compiled in a 62-page document with countless summaries or direct quotes, largely from local newspapers, covers all of the important issues you would expect to see, from her views on abortion and abstinence to tangled oil pipeline questions. But it also gets into some quirky, if revealing, areas as well, such as Palin founding a company called "Rouge Cru" -- what she called a "classy" way to say redneck -- in case her political career didn't work out a few years ago.

These included serious matters such as her use of the mayor's office in political campaigns. But it also posted a PDF of the entire document which, I'd wager, few have examined. I have completed that task and present here some of the more outrageous, or surprising, revelations.

Tags: palin, huffington, mccain