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Missing the old McCain

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:24:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Funny and scary at the same time.

Dear Old Golden Dog Days

I miss August. August was neat. The Dow was over 10,000 and nobody had ever heard of Sarah Palin.

Remember how we used to joke about John McCain looking like an old guy yelling at kids to get off his lawn? It’s only in retrospect that we can see that the keep-off-the-grass period was the McCain campaign’s golden era. Now, he’s beginning to act like one of those movie characters who steals the wrong ring and turns into a troll.

During that last debate, while he was wandering around the stage, you almost expected to hear him start muttering: “We wants it. We needs it. Must have the precious.”

Remember when the McCains wouldn’t talk about the fact that their son was in Iraq? Oh well.

Palin has been pressing the line that people don’t really know “the real Barack Obama,” and who could make the argument better than a woman who we’ve already known for almost six weeks? Really, she’s like one of the family.

He's Being Judged On The Content Of His Character....

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:45:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: just now finally focusing on the details of Barack Obama. To the extent that his being black was ever supposed by anyone to be "scary" to white voters, that's now disappeared for all but the most entrenched, most irredeemable outright racists.

Here's my message, then: America, you need not feel guilty for being afraid of Barack Obama. It's not racist to doubt his character and experience and judgment. It's not racist to conclude that they're lacking. He has already proved that a black man can run an entirely viable campaign for the presidency of the United States. Every one of us who looks forward to a post-racist, post-racial society — one in which we've ended racial discrimination because we've stopped discriminating on the basis of race — can be proud. But we can also refuse to vote for Barack Obama for reasons unrelated to race, and we can do so without feeling any guilt whatsoever.

In his own mangled metaphor from the second debate, Barack Obama is still "green behind the ea

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before Obama had clinched the nomination and solidified what the pollsters now paint as a monolithic voting block among black Americans, there were arguments about whether Obama was "black enough."

Now, however — while simultaneously arguing that Obama is heading for a "landslide" — Obama's admirers are pre-testing the meme that "if he loses, it can only be because of racism."

But contrary to Klein's wistful thinking that voters will see "steadiness" in Obama's phlegmatic and professorial personality, what more and more voters are actually coming to recognize is that he's a young man, an inexperienced man, an untested man, a leftist man, a pro-government man, a tax-raising man, a spending-raising man, an overconfident and smug and elitist man, a reckless man who underestimates our enemies, and — therefore, based on the combination of those qualities — a very dangerous man.

His race simply has nothing to do with the growing doubts about him in the still very large number of voters who are

Tags: obama, inexperience, untested, leftist, pro-government, tax & spend, overconfident, smug & elitist

What's This? Comments by Candidates on Possible us of US Troops agains those who disagree?

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:41:14 GMT

clipped by: nedhamson1
clipper's remarks: This is a little scary, I'd be more than a little interested in an explanation

Clip Source: www.commondreams.org

Veterans Group Opposes Combat Brigade's Permanent US Assignment

"It is a sad day for America when government prepares to protect itself by using the military on its own citizens."

WASHINGTON - October 9 - A national veterans' organization sent a letter to the House and Senate leadership today expressing "grave concern" that an active duty combat brigade has been permanently assigned to a post on U.S. soil.

Citing a little-noticed article posted September 30 on the Army Times website, Veterans For Peace said the Pentagon's unprecedented move assigned the 3rd Infantry Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team to NorthCom, a joint command established in 2002, for a 12-month assignment.

Tags: peace, constitution, 3rd amendment, army abused

EPI Pens

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:52:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If your child has a penut allergy like mine. It's scary and you can't be there all the time. Here is some valuable information to reduce the risk of a severe or even fatal reaction

Clip Source: www.allerneeds.com

Anaphylactic shock is a serious and sometimes deadly reaction that can be experienced by people who have a variety of allergies, including peanut allergies. The most frightening thing about this condition is that it can strike at any time. People most often experience this reaction when they are away from home, and consuming foods with unfamiliar or unlisted ingredients.

Tags: allergies, penuts, epi pens, anaphylactic shock

Toddler Planet and Imaginary Wealth

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:26:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The industrialized world is still incredibly rich without it. If we were all (particularly the people at the top) willing to accept a little less, and stop trying to stick somebody else with the entire loss, we'd all be fine.

But apparently this type of behavior—something I've dubbed "not being a three year-old toddler"—is beyond the capability of humanity. We'd prefer to suffer enormously instead.

Clip Source: www.tinyrevolution.com

Toddler Planet

I first learned about the Great Depression when I was ten or so. And I remember thinking: I don't get it. I was mystified by the way this could have happened—everyone suddenly becoming much poorer for ten years—when nothing whatsoever had changed in physical reality.

I understand the process of the Great Depression now. But it's certainly an education to watch a gigantic financial panic in real time. I look outside, and the sun is shining. The world still has all the same people and buildings and cars and factories—i.e., it's not like we've just suffered from a virulent plague or half the planet's been destroyed by bombs. And yet we really may all become much poorer for the next ten years.

It's completely insane. And it could be avoided if we would all just calm down and look at reality, which is not that scary. So we don't have $8 trillion of imaginary wealth we thought we did. Who cares?

Nintendo Surgeon

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:31:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Scary enough... gaming doctor

Clip Source: xkcd.com

Nintendo Surgeon

Tags: cartoon, funny, tech, geek, nintendo, game

Hey Sarah Palin..!

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:09:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Man this is scary..but good..well done..!

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Tags: sarah palin, music, song, art, humor, mccain, republcans, nspd-51, martial law, election fraud

Deja vu! Listen to this 1988 campaign strategy

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:11:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: From Maureen Dowd: Lee Atwater's 1988 stategy, created to help Bush smear Dukakis, sounds awfully familiar: "The Democrat was a ’60s-style liberal who would raise taxes and take away guns. He was weak and would not protect the country militarily. He was a member of the elite 'Harvard Yard’s boutique'. He had a foreign-sounding name and was on the side of the Scary Black Man."
Let's get over the idea that Republican innuendos are not about race; race scare has been the strategy for years.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

But if McCain loses, he will have contributed to his own downfall by failing to live up to his personal standard of honor.

John McCain has long been torn between wanting to succeed and serving a higher cause. Right now, the drive to succeed is trumping any loftier aspirations. He cynically picked a running mate with less care than theater directors give to picking a leading actor’s understudy. And he has been running a seamy campaign originally designed by the bad seed of conservative politics, Lee Atwater.

Atwater relished teaching rich, white Republicans to feign a connection to the common man so they could get in office and economically undermine the common man

In the 1988 campaign,

this unholy quintet of charges:

The Democrat was a ’60s-style liberal who would raise taxes and take away guns. He was weak and would not protect the country militarily. He was a member of the elite “Harvard Yard’s boutique.” He had a foreign-sounding name and was

on the side of the Scary Black Man.

familiar?

Tags: republicans, lies, atwater

Learning to Speak Wolf

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:04:45 GMT

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Clip Source: abcnews.go.com

Learning what's beyond the menace is not for the faint of heart. But Shaun Ellis and his girlfriend Helen Jeffs are willing to risk their lives and leave behind the last remnants of a human existence to survive in the world of the wolf.

"It's almost like the wolf brings out a subconscious in you, a way of dealing with the world," Ellis said. But to do so, Ellis and Jeffs have to become wolves themselves.

It is a skill he has honed in the last few decades. He has done what many scientists thought impossible and has become an accepted member of a captive wolf pack.

"This is the way that you need to study these animals. Get close to their world. And then they will share their secrets," he said.

"In the beginning, the warnings were very, very scary. It was the animal trying to teach me about its world,"

As a man living among wolves, Ellis bade farewell to the comforts of human society and took his place on the ground to learn the ways of a canine hierarchy.

Tags: nature, wildlife, wolves, community, social

Coming Soon: Passengers

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:10:37 GMT

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Clip Source: movies.yahoo.com

Watch the Trailer

After a plane crash, a young therapist, Claire, is assigned by her mentor to counsel the flight's five survivors. When they share their recollections of the incident-- which some say include an explosion that the airline claims never happened-- Claire is intrigued by Eric, the most secretive of the passengers. Just as Claire's professional relationship with Eric--despite her better judgment--blossoms... See Full Description

Genres:	Thriller

Running Time:	1 hr. 30 min.

Release Date:	October 24th, 2008 (wide)

MPAA Rating:	PG-13 for thematic elements including some scary images, and sensuality.

Distributors:	Sony Pictures Releasing

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McCain Resorts to Atwater's Bag of Dirty Tricks

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:54:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Lee Atwater is a master of media manipulation. His talents as 'spin-meister' have served him well as a political consultant for Reagan and George H W Bush. His close association with the undeniably despicable Karl Rove makes him even more reptilian.

Lee Atwater had a hand in designing the current seamy campaign for John McCain.

McCain has basically sold his soul to the devil to win this, most people agree, his last chance at higher office.

Atwater's sulfurous, rumor-mongering campaign stylle is testiment to how low someone will go to win an election.

It is interesting to note how Atqater, in 2000, tore McCain apart in his campaign against G W Bush and now he is attacking Obama in favor of McCain. These guys are all willing to prostitute themselves for power and money without any regard to ethics.

John McCain must be disgusted with himself for some of the choices he has made in his struggle to become president.

Today, he is a very different man than he was just one yea

Clip Source: www.newser.com

(Newser) – Before Karl Rove, Maureen Dowd reminds us, it was Lee Atwater who masterminded the Republican smear campaign, and his demolition of Michael Dukakis was his greatest, dirtiest success. Atwater painted the 1988 candidate as a weak Harvard-educated elitist with a weird last name, a man who supported "the Scary Black Man" and was not on "the American side." Watching John McCain's ugly campaign, the New York Times columnist asks simply, "Sound familiar?"

McCain's campaign has been disarmingly blunt about its need to take voters' focus off the economy if their man is to have any chance of winning. But while Dowd expected Atwater-like tactics from some Republicans—Sarah Palin is an especially eager "Mean Girl"—it's wrenching to watch the once respectable John McCain sink to such attacks. If he loses, "he will have contributed to his own downfall by failing to live up to his personal standard of honor."

Tags: politics, mccain, republicans, smear tactics, atwater

Prospective vs. retrospective

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:55:30 GMT

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Clip Source: www.boston.com

"To a great extent, this campaign has been about how we frame the election," said Dartmouth College political science professor Linda Fowler. "McCain has been trying to make this a prospective election, by saying that he'd be different from Bush. And the Obama people have been trying to make this a retrospective election -- that if you liked Bush, you'd love McCain.

"But the economic woes are too strong for McCain to disassociate himself from the Republican party. What he has left are personal attacks -- to say, 'Whatever you think of the Republican party, this guy [Obama] is too scary.' "

Tags: mccain, obama

Queen Of Hearts Halloween Costume Ideas for 2008

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:36:34 GMT

clipped by: Tracy Mott

Clip Source: rusway.typepad.com

Queen Of Hearts Costume Ideas for 2008

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Do you remember what you wore on last Halloween? How much time did you use to think up the brilliant idea? It must take a very long time and it must be hard. But I can say that is already more interesting than the past. People used to only wear scary Halloween costumes and they hardly came up with creative ideas.

Nowadays you can put on everything you like. You can look traditionally terrible. You can become famous characters such as wearing Queen of Hearts Halloween costumes. You can be anyone you want. I am going to give your more and more ideas.

Queen of Hearts Halloween Costumes - Ideas For Halloween 2008
By Harley Hamilton

Tags: queen of hearts, halloween, costume, ideas, 2008

SCARY HALLOWEEN COSTUME IDEAS FOR KIDS, MEN AND WOMEN

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:29:44 GMT

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SCARY HALLOWEEN COSTUME IDEAS FOR KIDS, MEN AND WOMEN

Most of us who enjoy Halloween parties want to go there wearing one of the most weird looking and crazy outfit. If you can wear a scary outfit then you are sure to be the centre of attraction in the party. Whenever Halloween is around we all crave to get one of the most bizarre costume for ourselves.

CLICK HERE TO SEE 100'S OF SCARY COSTUMES

Shopping for a Halloween costume has been made very easy with the availability of various online Halloween costume stores. You can just log on to these websites, have a look at their online galleries and select one of the most dreadful costume for yourself and also order your online Halloween costume in minutes according to your size.

Choose Your Scary Outfit From Online Halloween Costume Stores
By Geraldine Wright

Tags: scary, halloween, costume, ideas, kids, men, women

Organic vs. Sustainable

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:32:37 GMT

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Clip Source: www.foodnavigator.com

Organic has an image problem. As some consumers fear they are, quite literally, priced out of the farmers market, it’s time to stir up more debate about organic as a set of principals, not as a status symbol.

Monty Don, the president of the UK’s Soil Association, said in an interview in The Guardian newspaper recently that the term organic has become off-putting for many people.

Organic food is seen to be “for wealthy, middle class people indulging in their penchant for peasant food”, he said, arguing that the term ‘sustainable’ could be better since it encompasses the same values but isn’t quite as scary.