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Missouri Governor Fears Obama Attack on Freedoms

2008-09-27T17:41:00.002-04:00

The following comes directly from Missouri Governor Matt Blunt

Gov. Blunt Statement on Obama Campaign’s Abusive Use of Missouri Law Enforcement
JEFFERSON CITY - Gov. Matt Blunt today issued the following statement on news reports that have exposed plans by U.S. Senator Barack Obama to use Missouri law enforcement to threaten and intimidate his critics.

“St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer, and Obama and the leader of his Missouri campaign Senator Claire McCaskill have attached the stench of police state tactics to the Obama-Biden campaign.

“What Senator Obama and his helpers are doing is scandalous beyond words, the party that claims to be the party of Thomas Jefferson is abusing the justice system and offices of public trust to silence political criticism with threats of prosecution and criminal punishment.

“This abuse of the law for intimidation insults the most sacred principles and ideals of Jefferson. I can think of nothing more offensive to Jefferson’s thinking than using the power of the state to deprive Americans of their civil rights. The only conceivable purpose of Messrs. McCulloch, Obama and the others is to frighten people away from expressing themselves, to chill free and open debate, to suppress support and donations to conservative organizations targeted by this anti-civil rights, to strangle criticism of Mr. Obama, to suppress ads about his support of higher taxes, and to choke out criticism on television, radio, the Internet, blogs, e-mail and daily conversation about the election.

“Barack Obama needs to grow up. Leftist blogs and others in the press constantly say false things about me and my family. Usually, we ignore false and scurrilous accusations because the purveyors have no credibility. When necessary, we refute them. Enlisting Missouri law enforcement to intimidate people and kill free debate is reminiscent of the Sedition Acts - not a free society.”

-This is nothing new for the Obama Campaign...we need to keep our eyes on this.

Understanding The Cause of the Financial Crisis

2008-09-27T10:36:00.003-04:00

JETMAN!

2008-09-27T10:03:00.001-04:00

Link to video - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7637905.stm

fact checking the debate

2008-09-27T09:42:00.002-04:00

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First, let me say that the real debates were from the merchants of spin directly following the debate. Journalism is dead and objectivity died with it, it's almost as if they could skip the damned debates and just let the talking heads fight it out.

OBAMA: "Sen. McCain mentioned Henry Kissinger, who is one of his advisers, who along with five recent secretaries of state just said we should meet with Iran—guess what?—without preconditions."

MCCAIN: "Dr. Kissinger did not say that he would approve face-to-face meetings between the president of the United States and (Iranian President Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad. He did not say that. He said there could be secretary-level and lower-level meetings. I've always encouraged that."
THE FACTS: Obama was right that Kissinger called for meetings without preconditions. McCain was right that Kissinger did not call for such meetings to be between the two presidents.

In a foreign policy forum on Sept. 15, Kissinger said: "I am in favor of negotiating with Iran." He went on to say, "I actually have preferred doing it at the secretary of state level" and the U.S. should go into the talks with "a clear understanding of what is it we're trying to prevent. What is it going to do if we can't achieve what we're talking about? But I do not believe that we can make conditions for the opening of negotiations. We ought, however, to be very clear about the content of negotiations and work it out with other countries and with our own government."

Barry can't figure this preconditions thing out, can he? He can't even understand what Henry Kissinger, how's he supposed to understand difficult foreign matter? Either that, or Barry was intentionally misleading here.

OBAMA: "John, you want to give oil companies another $4 billion" in tax breaks.

THE FACTS: The $4 billion in tax breaks for the oil companies is simply part of McCain's overall corporate tax reduction plan and does not represent an additional tax benefit. In other words, the corporate tax reduction applies to all corporations, oil companies included. Both Obama and McCain have proposed eliminating oil and gas tax loopholes.

How is this a post partisan candidate? Seems to me that this is the same old politicas of derision that has been practiced forever. Why mislead the people? If your ideas are so wonderful, why mislead?

OBAMA: "We're also going to have to look at, how is it that we shredded so many regulations? We did not set up a 21st-century regulatory framework to deal with these problems. And that in part has to do with an economic philosophy that says that regulation is always bad."

THE FACTS: Some of the abuses that occurred stemmed from the 1999 repeal of a Depression-era law that separated banks from brokerages. In legislation supported by former President Clinton and Robert Rubin, now a top Obama adviser and treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, this separation was ended—allowing banks and insurance companies to sell securities.

But while regular banks were strictly regulated by the government, Wall Street banks and other non-bank institutions—many of the same institutions whose abuses led to the current crisis—were allowed to operate with less regulation.

The fact of the matter is, there is plenty of blame to go around, but the root cause was planted in 1977 and the Carter Administration. Forcing banks to lighten stringent lending policies to create low income home owners laid the foundations for this crisis. Clinton put Carter's bad ideas on steroids in the 90s, as always government is the problem, not the free market.

MCCAIN: "Sen. Obama twice said in debates he would sit down with Ahmadinejad, (Venezuelan President Hugo) Chavez and (Cuban President) Raul Castro without precondition."
OBAMA: "Now, understand what this means, 'without preconditions.' It doesn't mean that you invite them over for tea one day. ... There's a difference between preconditions and preparation. Of course we've got to do preparations, starting with low-level diplomatic talks, and it may not work, because Iran is a rogue regime."

THE FACTS: Obama was asked in a July 2007 debate whether he would be willing to meet "without precondition" with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Cuba and other countries the U.S. regards as rogue nations. Obama replied, "I would," adding that it was ridiculous to think that America is punishing such nations by refusing to speak with them. Time and again since then he has been forced to defend the statement, both by Democrats during the primaries and by Republicans.

Obama has tried to draw a distinction between a precondition and preparation. He has argued that he wouldn't demand that a foreign leader give in on some fundamental issue before the two sides met to discuss the dispute. But he has said "preparations" would require diplomatic contacts to gauge whether a formal meeting would be useful and to lay the groundwork for those talks.

"Preparations"? Barry is so dangerous.

Priest Accused of Selling Coke...From His Rectory!

2008-09-12T18:32:00.010-04:00

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Look, innocent before being proved guilty...I don't even want to believe this one. I mean if you're down with the powder hows about leaving the priesthood? Doesn't the Catholic Church have enough PR problems to deal with as it is?

On a side note, check out that picture I found...that's what a kilo brick looks like...now you can have a visual image when you hear about those drug raids on the news

Charlie Gibson is a Misinformed Douche...That's Right I Said It!

2008-09-12T18:32:00.009-04:00

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Source Credit - Charles Krauthammer

Washington Post

Is there anything wrong with tough questions? No. There is something wrong with unfairness though.

I beg anyone reading this to read the transcript or youtube Charles Gibson's first interview with Obama.

If you read the transcript, you will not find the constant challenging, the grilling, the accusations of "hubris" or examples of Mr. Gibson taking Obama's words out of context (factcheck.org check Palin's "task from God" comments).

If you watch the video, you'll notice quickly that Gibson's posture is quite different. Gone is the condescending posture and lowered glasses and in its place you will see warm comfort. In my mind, Gibson went from respectable to hack over the course of these two interviews.

Gibson's "gotcha" moment on "The Bush Doctrine" has turned into Gibson's gaffe moment. I hand this blog over to The Washington Post and their respected columnist Charles Krauthammer.

""At times visibly nervous . . . Ms. Palin most visibly stumbled when she was asked by Mr. Gibson if she agreed with the Bush doctrine. Ms. Palin did not seem to know what he was talking about. Mr. Gibson, sounding like an impatient teacher, informed her that it meant the right of 'anticipatory self-defense.' "
-- New York Times, Sept. 12

Informed her? Rubbish.

The New York Times got it wrong. And Charlie Gibson got it wrong.

There is no single meaning of the Bush doctrine. In fact, there have been four distinct meanings, each one succeeding another over the eight years of this administration -- and the one Charlie Gibson cited is not the one in common usage today. It is utterly different.

He asked Palin, "Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?"

She responded, quite sensibly to a question that is ambiguous, "In what respect, Charlie?"

Sensing his "gotcha" moment, Gibson refused to tell her. After making her fish for the answer, Gibson grudgingly explained to the moose-hunting rube that the Bush doctrine "is that we have the right of anticipatory self-defense."
Wrong.

I know something about the subject because, as the Wikipedia entry on the Bush doctrine notes, I was the first to use the term. In the cover essay of the June 4, 2001, issue of the Weekly Standard entitled, "The Bush Doctrine: ABM, Kyoto, and the New American Unilateralism," I suggested that the Bush administration policies of unilaterally withdrawing from the ABM treaty and rejecting the Kyoto protocol, together with others, amounted to a radical change in foreign policy that should be called the Bush doctrine.

Then came 9/11, and that notion was immediately superseded by the advent of the war on terror. In his address to the joint session of Congress nine days after 9/11, President Bush declared: "Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime." This "with us or against us" policy regarding terror -- first deployed against Pakistan when Secretary of State Colin Powell gave President Musharraf that seven-point ultimatum to end support for the Taliban and support our attack on Afghanistan -- became the essence of the Bush doctrine.

Until Iraq. A year later, when the Iraq war was looming, Bush offered his major justification by enunciating a doctrine of preemptive war. This is the one Charlie Gibson thinks is the Bush doctrine.
It's not. It's the third in a series and was superseded by the fourth and current definition of the Bush doctrine, the most sweeping formulation of the Bush approach to foreign policy and the one that most clearly and distinctively defines the Bush years: the idea that the fundamental mission of American foreign policy is to spread democracy throughout the world. It was most dramatically enunciated in Bush's second inaugural address: "The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world."

This declaration of a sweeping, universal American freedom agenda was consciously meant to echo John Kennedy's pledge in his inaugural address that the United States "shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty." It draws also from the Truman doctrine of March 1947 and from Wilson's 14 points.

If I were in any public foreign policy debate today, and my adversary were to raise the Bush doctrine, both I and the audience would assume -- unless my interlocutor annotated the reference otherwise -- that he was speaking about the grandly proclaimed (and widely attacked) freedom agenda of the Bush administration.
Not the Gibson doctrine of preemption.
Not the "with us or against us" no-neutrality-is-permitted policy of the immediate post-9/11 days.

Not the unilateralism that characterized the pre-9/11 first year of the Bush administration.

Presidential doctrines are inherently malleable and difficult to define. The only fixed "doctrines" in American history are the Monroe and the Truman doctrines which come out of single presidential statements during administrations where there were few other contradictory or conflicting foreign policy crosscurrents.
Such is not the case with the Bush doctrine.

Yes, Sarah Palin didn't know what it is. But neither does Charlie Gibson. And at least she didn't pretend to know -- while he looked down his nose and over his glasses with weary disdain, sighing and "sounding like an impatient teacher," as the Times noted. In doing so, he captured perfectly the establishment snobbery and intellectual condescension that has characterized the chattering classes' reaction to the mother of five who presumes to play on their stage.

letters@charleskrauthammer.com "

It Would Appear That the McCain Computer Illiterate Ad Was a Mistake

2008-09-12T18:32:00.004-04:00

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All Credit to Jonah Goldberg

So the Obama Campaign has decided to attack McCain's computer savvy, which in my view is unfair. McCain doesn't really need the world wide web in his life, but that's not the point. Read the following transcript from National Review:

"Wondering No More [Jonah Goldberg]
Yep. The day after 9/11, as part of its "get tough" makeover, the Obama campaign is mocking John McCain for not using a computer, without caring why he doesn't use a computer. From the AP story about the computer illiterate ad:

"Our economy wouldn't survive without the Internet, and cyber-security continues to represent one our most serious national security threats," [Obama spokesman Dan] Pfeiffer said. "It's extraordinary that someone who wants to be our president and our commander in chief doesn't know how to send an e-mail."

Well, I guess it depends on what you mean by "extraordinary." The reason he doesn't send email is that he can't use a keyboard because of the relentless beatings he received from the Viet Cong in service to our country. From the Boston Globe (March 4, 2000):

McCain gets emotional at the mention of military families needing food stamps or veterans lacking health care. The outrage comes from inside: McCain's severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes. Friends marvel at McCain's encyclopedic knowledge of sports. He's an avid fan - Ted Williams is his hero - but he can't raise his arm above his shoulder to throw a baseball. "

yeah, well i guess obama's campaign should have googled this before making the ad...this is on Drudge and you will be hearing about it all weekend...huge gaffe.

DEMOTED!

2008-09-07T23:19:00.002-04:00

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MSNBC is removing Olbermann and Matthews from their anchor positions for coverage on political events including the debates and election night. Anchors shouldn't have opinions. We shouldn't know what they're thinking. Opinions are fine in other roles, but the flat out bias these two have is not acceptable in the role of anchor.

The Politics of the Verbal Slip

2008-09-07T19:18:00.006-04:00

On a teleprompter Barack Obama is certainly a Superman. His kryptonite it would seem is speaking without a telprompter. Don't believe me? Google "Obama Gaffes" and find out for yourself.

But we as voters should never judge a candidate by verbal slip ups. What's important is the candidate's policy philosophy, not their inability to avoid embarrassing verbal mistakes. Lately the ravenous dogs of the blogosphere have decided to jump on Obama's latest slip:

"Sen. Barack Obama's foes seized Sunday upon a brief slip of the tongue, when the Democratic presidential nominee was outlining his Christianity but accidentally said, "my Muslim faith." "

Folks this is ridiculous! So he slipped, so what? These small issues don't belong in the political discussion. Playing a game of gotcha isn't going to help compare/contrast big fed vs. little fed, strong military vs. defense cuts, or high taxes vs. low taxes. All you do by highlighting things like this that don't matter is confuse the issue.

Is the free market dead?

2008-09-07T19:18:00.002-04:00

i'm betting on palin

2008-09-07T17:56:00.003-04:00

credit - breitbart.com - click on title for original story

Democrat White House nominee Barack Obama on Sunday offered to go one-on-one with Republican vice presidential pick Sarah Palin -- but only on the basketball court.

Obama, 47, who blows off steam on the campaign trail with games of pickup hoops, however joked that he wouldn't take on the Alaska governor -- and experienced hunter -- with a gun.

"She looks like she's got some game, she played in high school," Obama said of Palin's basketball talents on ABC "This Week."

"You know, I know she's a sharpshooter, and I know that -- I probably wouldn't do target practice with her.

"I think she'd be a better shot than me. But on the basketball court, I think I'd stand up pretty well."

Palin, 44, earned the nickname "Sarah Barracuda" for her fiery performances on her high school basketball team. She styles herself as a "hockey mom" and also says she enjoys moose hunting in her native state.

Who would you bet on?

Gary Coleman hits man with truck!

2008-09-07T17:41:00.001-04:00

E-A-G-L-E-S!!!

2008-09-07T17:22:00.002-04:00

My beloved birds dominated the St. Louis Rams today. Desean Jackson is officially my new hero...the fucking kid looked awesome! Here's a story from the AP...I just don't think that I can provide my usual unbiased(j/k) commentary on this.

McNabb leads Eagles to rout over Rams

By ROB MAADDDI – 1 hour ago

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — This is what a healthy Donovan McNabb looks like.

McNabb threw for 361 yards and three touchdowns, rookie DeSean Jackson had an impressive debut and the Philadelphia Eagles routed the St. Louis Rams 38-3 on Sunday.

McNabb was 21-for-33, including a 90-yard TD pass to Hank Baskett. Jackson, the first Eagles rookie wide receiver to start the season opener in 18 years, had six catches for 106 yards and returned a punt 60 yards to set up a field goal.

Coming off their second last-place finish in three years, the Eagles played like a team that expects to make a championship run. The offense racked up 522 total yards and the defense was dominant.

The Rams, 3-13 last season, were downright awful again.

Marc Bulger didn't have much time to throw and Steven Jackson hardly had any room to run against Philadelphia's stifling defense. St. Louis had 109 total yards through three quarters.

McNabb, the five-time Pro Bowl quarterback, is starting a season healthier than he's been in years. He picked apart the Rams' secondary, spreading the ball around to a group of receivers that didn't seem to miss injured starters Kevin Curtis (sports hernia) and Reggie Brown (hamstring).

Greg Lewis had five receptions for 104 yards, Baskett caught two passes for 102 yards and each of the four wideouts had a catch longer than 30 yards. McNabb also tossed TD passes of 5 yards to L.J. Smith and 1 yard to Brian Westbrook.

McNabb hasn't played an injury-free season since leading the Eagles to the Super Bowl in 2004.

He missed the final seven games in '05 because of a sports hernia and sat out the last six games in '06 with a knee injury. McNabb started slow last season after returning quickly following surgery to repair a torn knee ligament. But he finished strong after ankle and thumb injuries cost him two games late in the season.

Right from the start, this was vintage McNabb minus the scrambling. He had plenty of zip on his passes and threw with pinpoint accuracy.

McNabb connected with Jackson for 47 yards down the right sideline on the second play from scrimmage. Jackson, generously listed at 5 feet 10, was perfectly covered by Tye Hill, but made a leaping catch to the Rams' 33. An unsportsmanlike penalty on St. Louis' sideline moved the ball to the 18.

Three plays later, Westbrook scored on a shovel pass for a 7-0 lead.

McNabb hit a wide-open Jason Avant for 31 yards to the St. Louis 31 on third-and-12 to keep the next drive going. Smith caught his TD pass in the back of the end zone to make it 14-0.

Pinned at their own 8 with less than two minutes left in the first half, the Eagles seemed content to run out the clock as Westbrook ran twice for only 2 yards. Then McNabb found Baskett streaking down the left side on third down. Baskett caught the ball in stride near the 40 and ran untouched the rest of the way to make it 21-0.

The Rams didn't pass midfield until late in the second quarter. Even that play didn't end well.

Steven Jackson took a crushing hit from Sheldon Brown after a 24-yard catch to the Eagles' 47. Brown knocked Jackson's helmet off with the hard blow to the head. But Jackson got right up and swung his dreadlocks around to show he was fine.

Killing Christianity

2008-09-07T16:56:00.002-04:00

"I KISSED A GIRL AND I LIKED IT. THEN I WENT TO HELL."

Can someone explain to me how anyone takes these morons seriously? Homophobia, hatred, intolorance, and gay bashing: Jesus would be proud. These morons really like to pick and chose what lessons they learned from the bible. When did Jesus ever judge anyone other than the money changers and establishment? Never. These fucking inbred rubes are killing christianity.

I also hate the fact that because i believe in a weaker federal government that I get lumped in with these idiots. The conservative movement needs to separate themselves from this hateful and ignorant shit.

Ice Man Melts!

2008-09-07T16:41:00.004-04:00

Few gave underdog Rashad Evans a chance to defeat the ultra popular Chuck Liddell. Well Rashad proved a lot of people wrong last night with his electrifying knockout of the 38 year old UFC legend. After losing three out of his last four fights the 38 year old former champ must now decide his future. Many fans feel that the sport has evolved and the Liddell may be obsolete. Liddell became a legend by knocking out a string of one dimensional grapplers, but now the sport is littered with fighters who are better technical strikers and grapplers than the former 205 king.

Rashad Evans is now eyeing a title shot with Forrest Griffin while Liddell is pondering retirement.

Zogby has McCain with slight lead

2008-09-07T16:41:00.001-04:00

The Democrat Party platform’s hidden Soros Slush Fund

2008-09-06T16:35:00.008-04:00

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This is a great article by Michell Malkin that must be read to be believed. See what the Obama's are truly planning for our future!

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Obama vs. Free Speech

2008-09-06T16:35:00.007-04:00

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Okay, so I touched on this issue over at my myspace blog, but I'm no Michell Malkin. Click the title to read Michelle's well researched article about the Soviet like tactics being employed by the Obama camp.

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McCain's Convention Bounce

2008-09-06T16:20:00.002-04:00

The numbers are in, and it would seem that the Convention Bounce of John McCain will bring this race back to where it was before the DNC, dead even.

"Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Tuesday through Thursday finds Barack Obama with a four-percentage-point lead over John McCain in the presidential preferences of registered voters, 48 percent to 44 percent. While the difference between today's result and Thursday's 49 percent to 42 percent lead for Obama is not statistically significant, some of the broader shifts seen over the past 10 days, spanning both parties' national conventions, have been meaningful."

"The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows the beginning of John McCain's convention bounce and the race is essentially back where it was before Barack Obama's bounce. Obama now attracts 46 percent of the vote while McCain earns 45 percent. When 'leaners' are included, it's Obama 48 percent, McCain 46 percent."

"The presidential race between Barack Obama and John McCain is now even at 42 percent, according to a new CBS News poll conducted Monday-Wednesday of this week. Twelve percent are undecided, according to the poll, and one percent said they wouldn't vote. This is in contrast to a poll conducted last weekend, where the Obama-Biden ticket led McCain-Palin by eight points, 48 percent to 40 percent. McCain has also closed the enthusiasm gap some with Obama, but it still exists. Fifty-five percent of Obama's supporters are enthusiastic about their choice, and now so are 35 percent of McCain's. Last weekend, just 25 percent of McCain's supporters were enthusiastic about him, compared to 67 of Obama's supporters."

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Palin's personal beliefs do not reflect policy

2008-09-06T13:53:00.004-04:00

I'm so tired of folks wanting to pick a fight over what Palin personally believes...i don't give a fuck about what any candidate believes...show me the policy! here's an article that says it better than i could in this state of mind.

Palin has not pushed creation science as governor

By DAN JOLING – 3 days ago

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — As a candidate for governor, Sarah Palin called for teaching creationism alongside evolution in public schools. But after Alaska voters elected her, Palin, now Republican John McCain's presidential running mate, kept her campaign pledge to not push the idea in the schools.

As for her personal views on evolution, Palin has said, "I believe we have a creator." But she has not made clear whether her belief also allowed her to accept the theory of evolution as fact.

"I'm not going to pretend I know how all this came to be," she has been quoted as saying.

McCain said during a debate last year that he believed in evolution when it came to the origin of life.

When asked during a televised debate in 2006 about evolution and creationism, Palin said, according to the Anchorage Daily News: "Teach both. You know, don't be afraid of information. Healthy debate is so important, and it's so valuable in our schools. I am a proponent of teaching both."

In a subsequent interview with the Daily News, Palin said discussion of alternative views on the origins of life should be allowed in Alaska classrooms. "I don't think there should be a prohibition against debate if it comes up in class. It doesn't have to be part of the curriculum," she said.

"It's OK to let kids know that there are theories out there. They gain information just by being in a discussion."

Creationism is the belief that the Earth and its creatures were created by a deity. It's an alternative to the origin of life explanation taught in public schools under the theory of evolution, which puts forth that all living organisms descended from a common ancestral gene pool.

Palin said during her 2006 gubernatorial campaign that if she were elected, she would not push the state Board of Education to add creation-based alternatives to the state's required curriculum, or look for creationism advocates when she appointed board members.

At a GOP presidential debate in May 2007 in Simi Valley, Calif., McCain said he believed in evolution.

"But," he added, "I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also."

Palin's children attend public schools and Palin has made no push to have creationism taught in them.

Neither have Palin's socially conservative personal views on issues like abortion and gay marriage been translated into policies during her 20 months as Alaska's chief executive. It reflects a hands-off attitude toward mixing government and religion by most Alaskans.

"She has basically ignored social issues, period," said Gregg Erickson, an economist and columnist for the Alaska Budget Report.

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People want these morons in charge of healthcare?

2008-09-06T10:27:00.008-04:00

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- excerpt from AP

"Now callers are getting their feathers ruffled over a typographical mix-up in a phone number that tells hunters where to call to buy their duck stamps.

The Duck stamps, which cost $15 a piece, are required to hunt migratory waterfowl in the United States.
The carrier card for the duck stamp transposes two numbers so, instead of listing 1-800-782-6724, it lists 1-800-872-6724.

The first number spells out 1-800-STAMP24, while the second number spells out 1-800-TRAMP24.

As a result, people calling a federal phone number to order duck stamps are greeted instead by a phone-sex line where they are enticed by a husky female voice to "talk only to the girls that turn you on," for $1.99 a minute. "

Allow me to opine...name me something that the government does well...go ahead. Hey, last time you went to the DMV, did you enjoy that experience? Was the service all that it could be? I can't think of a single service that government provides better than the private sector...not one. Yet liberals want these know nothing bureaucrats running healthcare. Life is pretty funny.

Handi-Capable. Wheelchair bound man robs 711....For Condoms!

2008-09-06T10:27:00.004-04:00

Does Fire Plus Ice Equal Life? On Mars?

2008-09-06T10:27:00.002-04:00

The Manager of Planet Earth's Greatest Fighter Comments on Couture's New UFC Deal

2008-09-06T02:08:00.003-04:00

WAMMA Heavyweight Champion and former Pride Champion Fedor Emelianenko is without doubt the baddest human being alive. For the last year Fedor and UFC Heavyweight king Randy Couture have been trying to put together a fight to cement their legacies. Unfortunately, UFC President Dana White and his legal team have blocked the fight and succeeded in holding Randy Couture in legal limbo.

After a year of court battles and stagnation, Randy Couture gave in and agreed to new terms with the UFC. Now Couture is signed on to fight Brock Lesnar and Dana White, the child that he can sometimes be, is back to down talking the undisputed heavyweight king Fedor Emelianenko. Fedor's unwillingness to sign an exclusive contract with the UFC has kept the legendary Russian out of the Octagon and permanently on the mind of the foul mouthed UFC president. Now Fedor's manager reacts to the situation.

"M-1 Global president Vadim Finkelstein comments on the signing of the contract between UFC and Couture and reflects upon Dana White’s words about Affliction and Fedor Emelianenko.

I believe Randy knows what he’s doing. He’s an awesome athlete, one of the world’s best. I know he got tired of these endless litigation and uncertainty that arose after his resignation. UFC had Randy in the contractual trap so he had to choose an easier solution to the problem.

As for his potential bout with Fedor – all the MMA fans are eager to see this happen. The statements mister White still makes about Fedor alert me. It looks as if White is reluctant to let the best fighter in the world fight the UFC symbol. I’m afraid we’ll stumble upon the bricks of the UFC monopoly and the negotiations will lead nowhere. This fight the fans await might never materialize.

Randy has proved long time ago to be America’s number 1, he’s got nothing more to prove but this contract brings him back to the position where he has again to fight younger athletes in order to earn the right he’s already earned to face the best. Randy is a mature fighter and putting him to the test now and again seems not quite reasonable to me. Everyone wants to see Fedor vs. Randy. Apparently Dana plans to destroy Randy by signing him to three bouts. White believes that Couture won’t pass through the hard trial without loss so that eventually the champion will stay with the UFC. Randy is 45 and he defeated a lot of great adversaries but now he is set to face some upstart athlete who Dana intends to turn into the national star if he pulls the victory against the long-time hero. Fight is fight and anything can happen. All this reminds me of the Pride situation when the organization was bought out with the sole goal of completely destroying it.

That’s why it looks like there will be no Randy-Fedor fight ever although we are eager to make it happen, both fighters are eager to get it on.

Fedor is the number one fighter in the world and we always try to give him the bouts against the best opponents while all the statements of White doubting Fedor’s status are caused by the awareness of the fact that the power of the UFC in the world of MMA is not overwhelming. They can’t own every fighter they covet. UFC is very well-known and possesses lion’s share in MMA industry because of its history and popularity accumulated during the years that the organization exists.

In our turn we negotiate a long term collaboration with Affliction. We build a global project helping fighters from all over the world gain fame. That’s why we launched international M-1 Challenge. We want to organize huge events in order to promote MMA and make it popular in the whole world and not in the context of one particular country. We work hard on achieving the goals we set and time will tell whose path was right."

-credit M1 Mixfight

http://www.m1mixfight.com/info/publications/2008/9/5/Vadim-Finkelstein-on-Coutures-return-to-UFC/

OH NO YOU DIDN'T!

2008-09-05T23:29:00.003-04:00

this is my favorite song right now! is it me or are all the best songs in commercials?

McCain wins ratings war!

2008-09-05T20:04:00.003-04:00

Palin Pounces on Obama!

2008-09-05T18:19:00.005-04:00

"Just last night Senator Obama finally broke and brought himself to admit what all the rest of us have known for quite some time, and that's: thanks to the skill and valor of our troops, the surge in Iraq has succeeded. Senator Obama said that the surge, quote, "succeeded beyond our wildest dreams. I think," said Senator Obama, "that the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated." I guess when you turn out to be profoundly wrong on a vital national security issue, maybe it's comforting to pretend that everyone else was wrong, too."
-Sarah Palin
While my opinions on this statement are pure gold, I do not have talent on loan from God. Let's hear what Rush has to say about this comment:
"This woman is dynamite! I mean, this woman is just hammering this poor little man-child! This woman is smart. What an analogy! It succeeded beyond anybodies wildest dreams? See, this is where Obama's dead wrong. If it succeeded beyond anybodies wildest dreams, why plan it? It succeeded as planned, Obama! It succeeded as planned. It was beyond YOUR wildest dreams. I'll tell you something else. He still said, after all this, that he would have opposed it. So he's still gathering. He's still gathering the little nuts and those acorns that make up the loony left of his base."
-Rush Limbaugh

Oprah Won't Have Palin On

2008-09-05T16:56:00.009-04:00

Click the Title for Original Article

Drudge has the details, so i'm not going to bother, just click the title if you want the details..i've got oppinions burning holes in my head, so let's go there.

First - Oprah Winfrey has the right to decide who's on her show and who isn't. Talk Show hosts do not need to be unbiased, she can root for whomever she wants...it's not like she's a news anchor.

What I'm interested in is the business side of this. Oprah makes her money off of white women. Hillary voting white women who were already peeved at Oprah for not supporting the Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants Suits. Now Oprah isn't giving credence to the first ever female Republican Vice Presidential candidate? Politically do what ever you want O, but as a business woman I think that you're screwing the pooch here. Women, regardless of their political beliefs are interested in Palin, and interested in seeing Palin get treated fairly...this is walking a tight line.

Hogan Facing Toughest Opponent Ever....His Spoiled Wife

2008-09-05T16:56:00.004-04:00

Click the article for original document

The original document has all the numbers, but it says that Hogan is only worth a tad over 30 million bucks...I know, you're thinking "only?".

Remember all those big pay per views Hogan used to wrestle on? Well, he got a piece of the gate and ppv buys on all of them. He had a piece of all the merchandise...do you remember all the yellow t-shirts that man sold? His movies have all sucked, but he's been in a bunch of them...so the question is, what the fuck is he spending all that money on? Well if his kids are as spoiled as the wife, I'd guess Hogan doesn't Know Best. This story makes me want to go get neutered.

Bible Belt Town Steals Business!

2008-09-05T16:36:00.005-04:00

Click Title for original article

The good folks of Lavonia, Ga. have their priorities and their top priority was getting rid of the town's only strip club.

The town spent one million dollars, or a third of their budget, in an underhanded land swap so that they could effectively steal the business from its owners.

This summer, a mob led by the mayor tore down gaudy billboards advertising topless dancers, put plywood over glass doors bearing a nude silhouette and purged the awnings proclaiming the incendiary name of the club—Cafe Risque—in a diesel-fueled bonfire.

And how about spending a third of their budget for a strip club, is it worth it? Well Mayor Ralph Owens thinks so, and residents have been backing him up.

"We're in the Bible Belt," says Ron Walters, the owner of a downtown flower shop. "You just don't do things like that here."

OK - so let me opine here....WTF? Government officials decided that a law abiding business wasn't worthy of their morals so they decided to spend a third of their budget to steal this business from the owners. These people probably voted for Mike Huckabee during the primaries...Let me be clear, social conservatives are just as dangerous to our freedoms as liberals are. This is a clear case of Government abusing the individual and if anyone should be forming and angry mob, it should be us! Those of us that care about personal freedoms and civil liberties...you DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO GO THROUGH LIFE WITHOUT BEING OFFENDED! This shit depresses the hell out of me.

Rangel's Rentals

2008-09-05T16:21:00.003-04:00

Click the title for the original article.

So in case you didn't know, Charlie Rangel is one of the biggest political hacks that there is. Usually I don't care about these kinds of stories, but anything that hurts Charlie makes me smile, so I figured that I'd share.

"Rangel is Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.
The Complaint asks for a criminal investigation of Rangel following newspaper reports that he did not disclose rental income from his beachfront villa in the Dominican Republic resort of Punta Cana. The appearance that Rangel had not disclosed rent on his Financial Disclosure Forms was first reported by the New York Post on August 31, 2008.

On September 4, Rangel's attorney Lanny Davis confirmed that Rangel failed to report rental income of $75,000. "
-Breitbart

$75,000...what a greedy moron!

Sarah Palin: it's go west, towards the future of conservatism

2008-09-05T09:08:00.016-04:00

EU Taking Europe Down a Slippery Slope

2008-09-05T09:08:00.014-04:00

-Source Telgraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/2686538/EU-wants-to-ban-sexist-TV-commercials.html

There is a reason I used that ad in this blog, it's because leftists, socialists and liberals like to take our freedoms away by targeting things that are hard to justify, as in tobacco, firearms, gory movies, naughty language, gangsta rap, death metal..."surely we must think of the children!!!"

And the leftist sheep follow along because they think that by doing so, they look like good people. Well, under this law those anti-fur campaigns get banned as well. Remember, the government that can ban the things that you don't like is also powerful enough to ban the stuff that you DO like. It's called FREEDOM! FREEDOM ISN'T SAFE! FREEDOM ISN'T GUARANTEED! FREEDOM CAN RESULT IN FAILURE! FREEDOM CAN RESULT IN HURT FEELINGS! But, I'll take freedom over safety from hurt feelings any day. I'll take freedom and failure over socialism and guaranteed mediocrity any day, and so should you!

This is why party loyalty on issues that truly don't matter is STUPID. There is one fucking issue that matters, Socialism vs. Freedom. That's it! All you fucking moron Right vs. Left Culture Warriors are the fucking problem...you're distracting America from what's truly important and both sides strengthen the hand of tyranny by their very short-sighted existence.

This election isn't about Jeremiah Wright, Abortion, Teenage Pregnancy, Associations, George Bush, or experience...this fucking election is about Big Powerful Socialist Government vs. Freedom!

Original Story:

MEPs want TV regulators in the EU to set guidelines which would see the end of anything deemed to portray women as sex objects or reinforce gender stereotypes.

This could potentially mean an end to attractive women advertising perfume, housewives in the kitchen or men doing DIY.

Such classic adverts as the Diet Coke commercial featuring the bare-chested builder, or Wonderbra's "Hello Boys" featuring model Eva Herzigova would have been banned.
The new rules come in a report by the EU's women's rights committee.

Swedish MEP Eva-Britt Svensson urged Britain and other members to use existing equality, sexism and discrimination laws to control advertising.
She wants regulatory bodies set up to monitor ads and introduce a "zero-tolerance" policy against "sexist insults or degrading images".

Ms Svensson said: "Gender stereotyping in advertising straitjackets women, men, girls and boys by restricting individuals to predetermined and artificial roles that are often degrading, humiliating and dumbed down for both sexes."

She added: "Gender stereotyping in advertising is one of several factors that have a big influence in efforts to make society more gender equal.

"When women and men are portrayed in a stereotypical way the consequence may be that it becomes difficult in other contexts to see women and men's resources and abilities."
The Advertising Standards Authority however had said there are already checks in place to prevent "discriminatory or harmful" material.

A spokesman said: "Although the ASA supports the overall objectives of the report... the approach suggested is inflexible and impractical."

Do you think sexist adverts should be banned?

The most watched woman on the planet...no, not oprah

2008-09-05T09:08:00.009-04:00

-Credit Drudge -- http://www.drudgereport.com/

The numbers are in for Palin's speech and despite being on four less channel than Barack Obama was on last week, Palin nearly matched the Junior Senator from Illinois' ratings!

TV VIEWERS FOR PALIN, 10 PM ET

FOXNEWS 9,038,000

NBC 7,720,000

CNN 6,114,000

ABC 5,050,000

CBS 4,630,000

MSNBC 3,277,000

The numbers also show that folks just don't wan their blatant bias from MSNBC, they'd prefer fair and balanced journalism from Fox. Look, if the rest of the media is blatantly liberal, doesn't it make sense from a business standpoint to go the opposite way? MSNBC's latest attempt at ratings by giving the channel over to Keith Olbermann isn't working, here's to hoping that the bespectacled, Bush bashing, Biased bonehead gets his walking papers in short order.

McCain Speech

2008-09-05T09:08:00.005-04:00

I can't fathom any other Party National Convention where the top name of the ticket was so thoroughly upstaged by his running mate. John McCain and his speech were mere afterthoughts in the wake of Hurricane Sarah, but did McCain really need a big time speech?

Anyone that pays attention to these things knows that McCain, unlike Sen. Barack Obama, is at his best when he's NOT reading from a teleprompter. McCain is at his best at town hall meetings and debates (could be why Barack refused McCain's challenge to ten town hall debates). Unlike Palin and Obama, McCain has such a long history and wealth of experience that he didn't need to introduce himself to the public. McCain doesn't need the soaring rhetoric or perfect delivery of his young rival and even younger running mate, The Maverick can just point to his biography to let us know his qualifications. Overall McCain's speech may not have been the most inspiring, but it did what it needed to do, make a strong and convincing case that John McCain is the steadiest hand for guiding our nation over the next four years.

On a side note, McCain's 96 year old mother was in attendance, all of this hoopla over John McCain's age is ridiculous. If he has his mother's genes then McCain may out live me, and I'm 28!

hotel's anti soldier policy leads to injured soldier sleeping in car

2008-09-05T09:08:00.002-04:00

-source material The Times

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4674411.ece

This may be one of the most sickening stories ever. How do you discriminate against those that live to serve? To some antiwar folks this might seem acceptable, which is starting to make me see that side of the argument for what it is...insane. Full story here:

A hotel that refused an injured soldier a room, forcing him to spend the night in his car, was backed into issuing a grovelling apology yesterday after receiving a barrage of abusive phone calls.

The Metro Hotel, in Woking, Surrey, called the police as its phone lines were flooded with angry and threatening calls from the public.

The attack on the switchboards came after it emerged that Corporal Tomos Stringer, 24, had been told that it was company policy not to accept members of the Armed Forces.
A soldier since the age of 16 and veteran of multiple tours in Northern Ireland, Iraq and Afghanistan, Corporal Stringer had travelled to Surrey to help with funeral preparations for a friend killed in action.

The corporal, who was not in uniform, presented his warrant card when asked by the hotel for proof of identity. After being refused a room, he had to bed down in his car, with his wrist, broken during a convoy ambush, encased in plaster.

Corporal Stringer’s MP, Hywel Williams, Derek Twigg, the Defence Minister, and Bob Ainsworth, the Armed Forces Minister, have all written to the hotel. After a resolute silence, the hotel, owned by a company called American Amusements, finally issued a statement: “The Metro Hotel, Woking, sincerely regrets any upset caused towards Corporal Stringer and his family . . . The hotel management has always had an open-door policy to all its visitors and guests, including members of the military and Armed Forces.” The receptionist had made a mistake, it added.

Corporal Stringer, of 13 Air Assault Support Regiment, The Royal Logistic Corps, has returned to Afghanistan. His mother, Gaynor Stringer, from Criccieth, North Wales, told The Times: “I’m very, very angry. It’s discrimination. They would never get away with it if it was against someone of ethnic origin.”

She added: “In America, they treat soldiers as heroes. We went to Disney World with Tomos and the whole family was moved to the front of the lines. Everybody was clapping and cheering. Here, soldiers can’t even get a bed for the night"

Having fun with voters and their reactions to the Palin Speech

2008-09-04T14:12:00.003-04:00

-Note, I have borrowed the voter comments to Palin's speech from the Free Press, you can check out the original article here: http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080903/NEWS15/80904002

“Originally, I was a not too happy about McCain’s choice for a running mate, Sarah Palin … However, after her speech tonight I am beginning to see her in a different light. She seems like a real fighter, someone who would stick it to the lobbyist and special-interest groups that have run ramped in Washington. Her perspective between Obama and McCain was brilliant. … Palin hit it on the nail, the Democratic Party is about big government and high taxes. McCain has walked the walk on change while Obama has to date only talked the talk about change."
-Walter E. Capers, 41, Highland Republican

err, not to hate on Walt or anything, but this is kind of a simplistic view he puts forth....but hell, I agree with him!

“Palin is a far better orator than McCain. But the tone of her speech is sarcastic, mean-spirited and divisive. Apparently, her role is to look good and throw out red meat for the base. …

“Palin has repeated her lie about ‘saying no’ to the bridge from nowhere. Has she no shame?”
- James Melton, 45, Detroit Democrat
James baby, you really must not have been paying attention to Vice Presidents in your lifetime. The Vice President's main role during a campaign is to act as attack dog...no different from Joe Biden, and bless his heart and his hair plugs the little fella tries to look good.
The bridge to nowhere talking point is a nonstarter. When in a position where her opinion mattered she said, "No thanks". You see once you get that executive position you're privy to all of the facts that are out there, and once Palin got all the facts, she put her position in big bold letters, "No Thanks". After last night there is no reason to think that Sarah Palin is a moron and only a moron would lie about something that big...stop grasping for straws bud.

“Sarah Palin came out strong, confident, articulate, and she connected well. This was her introduction, and it went well. I am looking forward to the VP debate where she can continue to demonstrate how ready she is. She is going to give Biden a run for his money.”
- Jacki Shipley, 42, Plymouth Republican
Jacki understates this...Palin is more likable than Biden, the debate is hers to lose....period.
“Palin delivered a good speech but I am not convinced she has the experience to carry her through tough debates with Biden or to be vice president. It was a well crafted and well written speech but given it was her big debut, I would not expect anything less from Republican speech writers. I believe the real test will come when she begins to answer tough questions and debates with Joe Biden.”
-- Aurora Torres, 27, Democrat
from a woman no less...geez...when is the last time anyone mentioned a male politician's speech writer? Every politician has speech writers, this is the most idiotic statement ever. Obama has less experience than Palin and he cleaned Biden's clock, in truth folks...Biden is weak and everyone will get to see it in October.

“Sarah Palin came across as the small town girl who made good. I knew that I disagreed with her on some issues before this evening. After listening to her speech … it appears that once she makes up her mind, that is the end of it. We live in a gray world, not every answer is black and white.”
-- Diane Murphy, 42, Sterling Heights independent
I guess that's why you claim to be independent...well you have the luxury of being in a grey world, but those with responsibilities need to be decisive even when the choices in front of them are shades of grey. Children get to sit on the fence, leaders make up their minds.
“Watching Sarah Palin's speech tonight put a smile on my face. She was humorous when appropriate and cleared up some misconceptions that I had made of her. She does seem to have the knowledge of America's problems today, but I think she needed to put more emphasis on the issues of the present rather than what has already been accomplished. ... Overall, she is for sure going to make this election more interesting and I look forward to what the next couple months bring.”
-- Nicole Perry, 34, Wyandotte Democrat
Nicole seems like a fair minded individual, if only she knew what the purpose of a convention really is...Ms. Perry, she had to talk about the past to prove to democrats that she in fact had a past.

“I was completely underwhelmed. She was a Republican novelty act with a sophomoric script. It was not even a speech I would expect for a someone running for the local PTA, much less for vice president.”
-- George Lentz, 66, Southfield independent
another genius "independent"...George, why is she a novelty act? I know that back in your day the "broads" knew their place, but welcome to 2008. Sarah Palin is an accomplished Governor, not a novelty act.
“Who is Sarah Palin? I'm sorry but I still don't know anymore about this young lady tonight than I did last night ... The way it looks to me, she's the Republican vice presidential nominee for one reason: because Hillary wasn't selected.”
-- Mike Kosh, 38, West Bloomfield independent
Can we just state one fundamental fact here? We can? Thanks! Independents fall into three areas, 1. fucking liars! Independent my ass! most of these folks are frauds. 2. Morons! You know, the type that don't pay attention enough to know the fundamental differences between the parties. 3. Honest to God Independents...folks that pay attention, follow the issues and simply have different priorities than either party...so far I haven't seen any Honest to God independents interviewed for this piece.
"Sarah Palin is a self-described ‘pitbull with lipstick.’ She spent little time helping Americans learn who she is. She is a cool, poised speaker, but her speech contained few statements about policy or the party platform. … I am not convinced that Palin's experience as a mayor or governor in Alaska meet the qualifications to be vice president much less one stroke or heart attack away from being commander in chief.”
-- Ilene Beninson, 52, Berkley independent
Ilene, one question...What in Obama's experience tells you that he is ready to be the President? The fucking guy suggested that the UN deal with Russia...fuckin' Russia has a Veto in the UN...you see where I'm going here?

-So there you have it...I wonder whom that particular paper is endorsing? Aren't we used to bias in the media by now? Please America, if you're not an independent, don't call yourself one.

2008 election

Both Sides Need to Shut UP!

2008-09-04T11:30:00.008-04:00

I've had it up to here (holds hand all the way up) with hearing liberal commentators use Bristol Palin's pregnancy as an example of why sex education needs to be taught in school. Hey geniuses, just because your mom is against sex ed. (in theory, in practice Palin had NEVER signed or pushed for any legislation that would ban sex ed), doesn't mean that you've never took sexual education.

Bristol Palin went to public school. Bristol was attending public school when she met her fiancee Levi, Bristol was not sheltered. If anything this weakens the case of the sex ed. champions, one could reasonably argue that perhaps Bristol would have chosen abstinence had her only influence been her parents. But never allow common sense to get in the way of an agenda.

But the title of this piece is "BOTH SIDES Need to Shut Up." I am equally as fed up with the religious right trying to hold up baby Trig as a reason to further their pro life agenda. The fact of the matter is this, the choice that you people laud, wouldn't be available if it weren't for Roe v. Wade.

I may come off here as being anti-sex ed. and pro abortion, but I'm not. I'm just tired of the little stuff being turned into big stuff. I'm exhausted at the notion that every detail of this family's life is being turned into a political debate. I'm terrified that the "Culture Wars" may make a comeback. As a Goldwater conservative, I don't necessarily understand what these issues have to do with smaller government, less taxes, less regulations and stronger military. Both sides seem to want to distract America from the issues that matter in an attempt at tricking the uneducated to vote for their side.

Sarah Palin may be a leader in the Republican party for the next 16 years, hopefully we'll be able to follow her career instead of her family's upbringing.

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Grand Slam!

2008-09-04T10:43:00.005-04:00

After nearly a week of personal attacks, sexist statements, rumors of scandals and assaults on her family, Sarah Palin gave the speech of her life. I'm a Reagan baby, born in 1980, so I never really had the thrill of watching the man in action. Last night Ronaldus Maximus must have been smiling from heaven as a new leader for his beloved conservative movement was born.

To borrow a line from MSLSD's Chris Mathews, I felt a tingling sensation coming up my leg as I watched one of the greatest political speeches given in this generation. I was moved by her and her family's unflinching bravery in the face of vicious attacks.

"Our family has the same ups and downs as any other ... the same challenges and the same joys. Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge."

-Sarah Palin

I don't know many people that can't relate to this narrative. I've never met the perfect family, and the Palin's aren't perfect, but they stand by each other through thick and thin.

Sarah Palin came off as a warm and loving maternal figure, but she wasn't soft. She showed that she was more than qualified to take on the traditional role of the Vice Presidential candidate, attack dog.

"Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown.

And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves.

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a "community organizer," except that you have actual responsibilities. I might add that in small towns, we don't quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren't listening.

We tend to prefer candidates who don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco."

-Sarah Palin

This line may have been the most successful line of the season, as Obama had fumbled the ball during the Pennsylvania primary, unfortunately for Hillary supporters, their candidate did not recover that fumble. Palin picked it up and scored a touchdown.

The best part of the night was watching the biased left wingers on CNN and MSNBC reacting to the speech. They all had this gaze that appeared to be similiar to post traumatic stress. They had been punched in the gut and didn't know quite how to react.

Harry Reid called her "shrill", which is a word that I've never heard used to describe a man. Liberal commentators gave us the Earth shattering news that she didn't pen the speech herself, as if any politician actually writes their own speeches. CNN's Candy Crowley implied that women aren't allowed to attack men, and that Palin's attacks wouldn't work.

I'd say that if anything, the dems that overlooked Palin are feeling a little silly and a little sore, and the once divided conservative electorate is feeling revitalized. That my friends is a homerun in any ballpark.

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Obama vs. Palin/Newt vs. MSNBC

2008-09-03T17:50:00.003-04:00

Newt Gingrich destroys the Democratic talking point concerning Palin's experience. It would appear that MSNBC sent a lamb to interview a lion, which was stupid. The fact of the matter here is that Newt Gingrich is one of the best and most effective speakers that conservatives have.

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Who Will Unify?

2008-09-03T17:03:00.004-04:00

Let's look at the facts, Barack Obama has voted with his party 97% of the time, his idea of unity isn't reachng across party lines in the way that McCain has, but instead barreling democratic ideas down the throats of conservatives. McCain has a proven track record of reaching across the aisle and working with the likes of Lieberman, Feingold and Kennedy, Obama has a track record of voting for whatever his party wants. If I hear the word unity in association with the ultra partisan Obama again I may vomit.

Let's take a look at what the former VP candidate from the democratic party has to say:

"Sen. Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who can do great things for our country in the years ahead," Lieberman said in prepared remarks. "But eloquence is no substitute for a record — not in these tough times."

The Connecticut lawmaker, who sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, argued that Obama has not reached across party lines to achieve anything of significance and has been unwilling to take on Democratic interest groups.

In a clear appeal for backers of Obama's former rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Lieberman said, "Contrast that to John McCain's record, or the record of the last Democratic president, Bill Clinton, who stood up to some of those same Democratic interest groups and worked with Republicans to get important things done like welfare reform, free trade agreements, and a balanced budget."

-Credit AP

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Anderson Cooper Gets it Right!

2008-09-03T11:29:00.020-04:00

If you're my age, then there is no doubt you remember a young Anderson Cooper filing reports from around the world on Channel 1. Channel 1 was the school's attempt at teaching us kids about current events, but other than Anderson Cooper, nothing really stood out. It was wild the first time that I saw a grey-haired Anderson as the anchor for CNN, and while I rarely agree with Anderson's views, I respect the hell out of him for not letting his biases cloud his commentary. Here is an example from Anderson Cooper 360, as Mr. Cooper fights off an incredibly unfair attack on Governer Palin:

PHILLIPS: Can she be a mom and have five children and keep care of that home and also be the vice president of the United States?

COOPER: It's interesting that you hear people saying, "Well, can she care for her family and her children and also be vice president?" You never hear those questions being asked about a man, I mean I don't know if this is sexist or simply a double standard, but I have yet to hear Barack Obama asked, "Well, can you be a father, take care of your family and also be president of the United States?"

Bravo Mr. Cooper! It is so unfair to attack working mothers and it is so refreshing to see someone in the media completely forget about party lines and inject some fairness into this discussion

If I Could Sing

2008-09-03T11:29:00.018-04:00

A silly lil' love song I wrote back in the day

If I Could Sing

If I could sing and play guitar
I'd sing a song to you
from afar
I'd rain down praise
in waysto leave you dazed
It may be sappy
but baby
i'm amazed

I came
from such a scary place
Embittered and disgraced
But you've helped met
o brighten my dark days
And I thank you
in sentimental ways
I thought
that my trusting days were dead
These fears
residing in my head
You saved
the man I used to be
My thanks
this lovestruck poetry

But If I could sing and play guitar
I'd sing a song to you
from afar
I'd rain down praise
in ways
to leave you dazed
It may be sappy
but baby
i'm amazed

I'd lost
everything I never had
and yes
the story's really sad
But now
you've given all
that back
Picked me upand set me back
on track
And I thank
the good lord up above
For givin' me another chance at love
So I'm beggin'
down on bended knee
That some day
you'll see the girl I see
And you'll know
what you've really
given me
And you'll accept
my humble poetry

But
If I could sing and play guitar
I'd sing a song to you
from afar
I'd rain down praise
in ways
to leave you dazed
It may be sappy
but baby
i'm amazed

Nick Romano

Let Me

2008-09-03T11:29:00.017-04:00

Let Me...
Let me listen to your problems
I promise not to solve them
Just listen and empathize
Do you see the love in my eyes

Let me trust you totally
Lie to me and I'll believe
I promise not to run and hide
Just please never leave my side

Let me rub your aching feet
Lovingly, soft and sweet
Tell me all about your day
I promise not to run away

Just let me love you baby
Though you drive me crazy
And sometimes hate me
I just wanna love you baby

I promise not to rush you
No matter how badly I want to
There's more important things than sex
It's that level of love I must express

Let me hold you through the night
I promise you that I won't bite
And don't you dare believe the mirror
Look into my eyes, the picture's so much clearer

Let me charm you with my smile
Sit and laugh and talk awhile
I promise not to tell you lies
Just see the love within my eyes

Let me pull the weeds and do the dishes
And grant all of your wishes
Be the partner you always dreampt of
I promise you that this is love

Just let me love you baby
Though you drive me crazy
And sometimes hate me
I just wanna love you baby
Nick Romano

I feel that this is completely pathetic, and comes from a completely pathetic point in my life

I'm a Goldwater Conservative, what's that mean?

2008-09-03T11:29:00.009-04:00

"When you say "radical right" today, I think of these moneymaking ventures by fellows like Pat Robertson and others who are trying to take the Republican Party away from the Republican Party, and make a religious organization out of it. If that ever happens, kiss politics goodbye."
-Barry Goldwater

“Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.”
-Barry Goldwater

“The rights that we have under the Constitution covers anything we want to do, as long as its not harmful. I can't see any way in the world that being a gay can cause damage to somebody else,”
-Barry Goldwater

As you can see from the quotes above, Mr. Conservative would have been considered a liberal by today's standards...but that's just because somewhere along the line a lie was created that stated that if you want to be a conservative, you have to be religous. This is simply not true!

Whenever I debate policy with liberals, they inevitably bring up issues that are of great import to social conservatives, but really have nothing to do with my oppinions. I feel that anyone should be able to marry anyone, and that discrimination in any form is the antithesis of what a true conservative should believe in. Goldwater Conservatives, or Libertarian Conservatives do not believe that issues such as gay marriage and abortion belong on the party platform for either side, nor do they belong in federal politics.

Goldwater took on many positions that were against the grain in Conservative circles, but no one can argue that his core beliefs are what have driven this country since 1980. Less invasive federal government, less entitlements, less taxes, strong military, less regulation, and more individual freedom. Goldwater was the original straight talk express, and though I don't agree with him on everything, I encourage folks to learn more about him.

Our Day with Dad

2008-09-02T21:00:00.008-04:00

My father is the single greatest influence on who I am. Growing up he was like John Wayne, Superman, and King Kong all rolled up into one. He was the center of attention in crowded rooms, simultaneously the funniest, smartest and toughest guy wherever he went. I tried so hard to please him. Literally everything that I did, was for his approval. I wanted to be as funny as him, as smart, as tough, I even wanted a belly just like him (something I have accomplished unfortunately).

As time went by I would start to pressure myself so hard to please him that I didn't enjoy anything I did. I quit baseball when it became apparent that I'd never be as good as him, and I'll never forget how disappointed he was. But that one time disappointment was better than an entire season's worth of them, at least in my eyes. What if I did try out for baseball in high school, but only made the freshman team? My father was starting varsity for four years, how could he have been proud of that?

The point is that my father's oppinion of me is to this day one of the driving factors in how I live my life. No one can hurt me the way that he can, and because of that I find myself trying to distance myself from him. A petty disagreement with him can illicit tears to start flowing from my eyes, so I stay away. My father's capacity for causing deep pain within my very soul, from all the times he sided with my brother over me, to all the hurtful things he has said to try to motivate me, has always kept me from completely opening up to him.

But some of the happiest moments of my life came from the times when he and I were on the same page. When we transcended the father/son dynamic and were friends. The days at theme parks when he would cut in line and act like a child, the Eagles games that we shared together, the hiking trips, even the long car rides with just me and dad. Those were the greatest times for me. The following story is of one of those days, when me and dad were just out for some fun. Hope you enjoy.

-Nick

Dad had been on the road working for months, and my brother and I were excited to have the day with him. When he suggested the three of us go to the driving range to hit a couple of buckets of golf balls, the two of us jumped at the chance (despite the contempt we both felt for the game of golf). The drive to the driving range was especially cheerful, the three of us singing along to some Beatles tunes, my father telling us the meanings of the lyrics in between songs. It couldn't get much better.

When we finally got to the driving range, after about a twenty minute drive of singing and laughing, dad set the two of us up with buckets and clubs. After taking some time to instruct us on the proper way to strike the balls, he took his buckets to his range and started launching the balls. I stopped and watched in wonder how effortlessly everything came to my father. A natural athlete, he picked up every athletic endeavor he attempted with ease and grace. My brother and I were lucky to get our balls off the ground, but we were just happy to be there with the old man.

Half-way through his bucket my little brother had started to find his groove, and thankfully so had I. We were really starting to make good contact when I noticed a change come over my father. His skin turned red and his face shiny with sweat. Through pained eyes he yelled at my brother and I, "Get in the car!!!".

I immediately complied, but my brother wasn't so sympathetic, "I still have balls left!"

"Now," my father bellowed in a voice that left no room for argument.

As my brother and I hurried to the car, my father looked odd. He was trying to move as fast as he could, but he looked so stiff, as if he couldn't bend the joints beneath his waist. We got into the car and buckled up, my father hit the gas and was out of the driving range, speeding down the two-lane street that would take us home. When dad got the car into fifth gear and started hovering around the 80 mph mark, I finally had to ask, "D-Dad w-w-wwhats wrong?"

"Oh I gotta shit, please God let me make it home!", my father replied shaking back and forth almost in a trance.

My brother and I were relieved that it wasn't more serious and started to laugh as my father weaved in and out of traffic at break neck speed. All the way home my father continued his mantra, "please God let me make it, please God let me make it....."

As we approached the house, my brother started stating his need to pee, and taunting my father that he would beat him to the bathroom, my father gravely warned him, "Son, I love you, but don't even think about getting in my way!" The warning would have worked on me.

When we finally made it to the driveway my brother quickly lept out of the car and started to strut down the walkway to our house, my father fumbled with the car keys and dived out of the car. One clubbing forearm to my brother's skinny shoulder sent the boy flying out of the way. My father was at the front door to our house before my brother landed. I heard him let out the loudest string of profanities I had ever heard as he fumbled for the right key, finally letting out a triumphant yell when he got the door open. He made it to the bathroom and let out an almost orgasmic moan, I thought that was the end of it.

Ten minutes later as I sat on the couch watching television with my sore little brother, the bathroom door opened, followed by my father's voice, "Nick, come over here, you have to see this."

"No"

"C'mon son, you have to see this"

"I really don't want to dad, please I'll take your word for it."

"Get over here NOW!"

Well that tone convinced me, and I angrilly complied. When I got to the door of the bathroom, at first my mind couldn't comprehend what I was seeing. Why was my father's shirt off? How did shit get on the side of the toilet? How did shit get on the mirror next to the toilet? What was shit doing on the wall facing the toilet? Oh my God, what is shit doing on the ceiling?

My father started laughing as soon as he saw my befuddled reaction to what I was looking at. Then I started laughing. Apparently when my father sat down on the toilet his shirt was still hanging over his ass, when he let out his first wave of explosive diarrhea, he realized that his shirt was in the line of fire, and wondered to himself if had just shit on his shirt. To answer the question he quickly pulled his shirt over his head, the sound of splatters that filled the room answered his question. What he had managed to do, was to spread and splatter his bowel movement to every corner of the bathroom. Once he had explained how he did it, I left the area before vomiting, and excitedly called my brother in to see the devastation my father had left.

Later in the night, after my father had finished cleaning his mess, my mother came home. After recanting the story to her in full detail, my mother was nonplussed. Stonefaced her only reaction was, "You know Nick, I have never heard of anyone who shits themselves more than your father."

Nick Romano

misspent youth

2008-09-02T21:00:00.005-04:00

MisspentYouth

It had to be sometime in '95 considering Kill didn't have his driver's license at the time, though I'm so unreliable with time that you need not worry too much about it. I was either 14 or 15 but probably not 13 or sixteen, thankfully the story in question does not rely on those details.

One lazy summer day, my friend Anthony decided to visit from Southwest Philly with his buddy Chris Seamon (who could forget that name), to join Kill and myself for a day of Golf at Ron Jaworski's Eagles Nest Golf Course.

Considering none of us were any good at so much as chip and putt, the predictable outcome of the day was us sucking pretty badly and getting bored, so we decided to have fun with the Golf carts. We raced, played chicken and eventually Anthony crashed his cart, fuckin' fuck up.

We were whisked into the club house by an employee of the course and read the proverbial riot act, while we were being reamed out the owner of the course, and former Eagles quarterback and present ESPN analyst Ron Jaworski made his way in. Anthony began to ignore the reaming that we were recieving and preceded to tell Jaworski that the Eagles sucked, fuckin' fuck up.

In the end the angry course employee asked us to supply our names and phone numbers, thinking quickly on my feet I supplied the name John Pazzetti. "Spell that.", ordered the frustrated course employee.

I hadn't planned on that, it was a good sounding fake name, but how the fuck do you spell it? "P-a-z-z-uh-e-t-t-um-i" I replied, proud of myself for getting through it, hopefully he won't ask me to spell it again.

Kill followed my lead with "Chris S-c-a-r-p-o-n-e", smartly he just spelled it out before being asked.

Even fuckin' fuck up himself Anthony was able to play along with "James M-a-s-s-a".

Chris Seamon, our ride and oldest among us was last, all he had to do was provide a fake name and we were scot free, his answer, "John S-m-i-t-h".

Nick Romano

Welcome Back

2008-09-02T21:00:00.002-04:00

wrote this piece a couple years ago to try and deal with something that refuses to go away

welcome back....the price
Category: Writing and Poetry

I hear the footsteps of a child and I open my eyes
To find myself in a place I barely recognize
In a home where only spirits dare to roam
Panic strikes! I shouldn't be alone
The footsteps stop and the floorboards creek
A draft fills the room and I hear it speak
You were here before but you ran away
Turned your back and forgot this place
You've found you're way back and we're glad your here
Enjoy your stay...you have nothing to fear
I didn't believe the phantom voice
Stuck in this place I had no choice
The floorboards creek and the footsteps soften
Coming closer my way, in this place i had forgotten
The room is dark, moldy and stinking of my fear
The tick-tock of a clock that isn't there
A phantom faucet drips and I hear a newborn cry
I stand up out of the bed, even though I'd rather die

I open the door to the room, and enter a long and narrow hallway
The empty wooden floor creaks beneath my feet, i hear the child play
The newborn cries again, I turn to run away
Keep walking boy you aren't done
There's no escape you cannot run
Not this time, no never again
You belong to us, now be a man
The voice is true, it doesn't have to lie
And closer now the newborn cries
I'm coming to the door and I hear the faucet
The door opens, I try to stop it
Powerless I go into the room, so bright
Typical bathroom industrial and white
The dripping faucet starts to flow, the cries so loud inside my head
I look to the dripping sink, to find the crying baby laying dead
In a pool of blood rotting at the bone, the cries stop but my panic rises
A clusterfuck of emotion, please take me away, no more surprises
I lose my footing and fall, blackness overtakes me as i wish for death

I awake in a new room very much alive
Staring at boy of four or five
I'd never witnessed beauty like this boy
His eyes fill my heart with sorrow and joy
His hair brown and curly, his face a mirror of my own
I've been waiting for you here all alone
For you to come back, and see my face
To see the boy you abandoned without a trace
To face yourself within my eyes, to come back home
Son, you weren't here before, how could I have known
I'd take you away, if we could just escape
How did you ever come to this place?
I'll take you away, show you what its like to be alive
MISCARRIAGE OF TRUTH...LIES, LIES, LIES
You knew I was here and you stayed away
I've been here alone, learning games I'll never play
You've found you're way back for the treasures within
But now you have to face your sin

You'll never leave now, nowhere to run
Opened up your heart and its just begun
Cry the tears that were always there
Its the price you pay for the gifts in here
And the tears flow now, as I write these words
Finding my gift has brought with it this curse
To feel what has been pushed down so deep
And fear the dark and floorboard creaks

Nick Romano

Ali promises race and class war if Obama loses!

2008-09-02T10:37:00.004-04:00

Fatimah Ali posted an op ed in the Philadelphia Daily News that quite simply went overboard. This is why some folks believe that liberalism is a mental disorder. Filled with lies and hyperbole this may rank as one of the most insane articles that I've ever read in my life. I've included the comments, because they make me proud. Fortunately people are paying attention out there and lies and hyperbole on this level will only work on the least informed among us.

I originally found this story on The Drudge Report. Let me know what you think.

-Nick

Posted on Tue, Sep. 2, 2008

Fatimah Ali: We need Obama, not 4 more years of George Bush

By Fatimah Ali Philadelphia Daily News

AMERICA is on the brink of a long, harsh and bitterly cold winter, with a looming recession that the GOP won't even admit to.

The policies of the current White House have brutalized our economy, yet the wealthiest think that everything is fine.

Rich Republicans just don't understand that millions are suffering. But many of their working class do, and they're beginning to abandon their own party.

When lifelong Republican Barney Smith told the Democratic convention that he'd vote for Barack Obama for president, he gave pause to even the most conservative members of his party.

Smith, like many disgruntled working-class Republicans, is ready to turn his back on his party because he's having such a hard time providing for his family. Like others, Smith fell victim to the loss of 3.2 million American jobs as factories closed or their work was outsourced to cheap labor markets overseas.

Poet Langston Hughes once wrote, "Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly, Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams go, life is a barren field, frozen with snow."

Many wealthy folks live in a dream state and ignore people like Smith, whose tale of personal woe preceded Obama's acceptance speech.

He opposes John McCain because, he says, America can't afford another four years of failed GOP policies that have extended $200 billion in tax cuts to big corporations but not to the nation's 100 million families.

Our national debt has soared from $5.6 trillion to $9.6 trillion under Bush. The Republicans have overstayed their welcome and dragged us into a nightmare that must end soon, or this nation may be headed for chaos.

Obama tugged on the nation's heartstrings when he challenged McCain's tough talk and told the truth about the current policies.

Critics of the GOP believe that a four-year extension of the Bush administration will be disastrous. People are struggling, and the privileged are so out of touch they pretend it's OK that children go hungry.

Over the last eight years, we've lost 3.2 million jobs, and started a war that's cost trillions. The lies and deceit that got us into Iraq in the first place are just the tip of the iceberg and have ruined America's reputation across the globe.

Meanwhile, our economy continues to crumble, while crime, homelessness and poverty continue to soar.

Despite the fact that thousands of immigrants risk their safety to come here because this country may offer them better opportunities, the truth is that poverty lives right here in our own backyard.

Suffering is widespread as the gap between rich and poor widens. The Bush administration doesn't get it and neither does McCain. He is so out of touch that he hasn't a clue how many homes he owns, while the working class struggles to hold on to one.

The Democrats desperately need many more voters like Smith to cross party lines in order to secure the White House. Obama says electing him to the nation's highest office will not only help restore America's moral standing globally, but will lift the nation's low morale and improve our declining economy.

He promises to cut taxes for 95 percent of American workers and ease the burden for millions of families. And I believe him, although his critics say he's out of touch with the working class and blast him for not having a lineage that includes slavery.

But just because his ancestors never wore shackles, and he has paid off the student loans from his elite education doesn't mean he doesn't have compassion. Or that he doesn't understand the pain of those who live in dire poverty, who've lost their homes, who want yet can't afford college, and who lack health insurance.

His acceptance speech indicated that, unlike McCain, Obama gets it because hard times aren't so far behind him that his memory's been erased.

If McCain wins, look for a full-fledged race and class war, fueled by a deflated and depressed country, soaring crime, homelessness - and hopelessness!

Plenty of Americans would rather stay in their dream state than to recognize the poverty sweeping across the country, right here, right now.

Obama understands that people are suffering. Every week, prices go up at the supermarket, and people are unable to feed their families. It already is dark and stormy for millions, who can't even afford pencils, book bags and lunch money for their children.

But when Obama wins the White House, we may just see a revolution that can turn the tide and improve this nation for everyone, not just a select few.
And I expect him to keep his word.*

Fatimah Ali is a regular contributor. E-mail her at fameworksmedia@yahoo.com.
phillycom:http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/27755834.html

Posted by juliuseezar 07:29 AM, 09/02/2008
that would be great, maybe nancy pelosi's husbands government contract of 250 million dollars a year (Iraq war contract) and Jack murpha's brothers contract: 22 milion dollars ayear will be canceled when Obamam's elected.........NOT!

Posted by cwoulfe2000 07:33 AM, 09/02/2008
Who signed NAFTA

Posted by philly3t0 07:35 AM, 09/02/2008
What a bunch of nonsense. Obama is in touch with struggling people, how??? If we all got mansions with the help of convicted felons we would all be in better shape. We are not on a brink of recession, the GDP was strong in Q2, but don't let facts get in the way of your race baiting rhetoric. The housing crisis was a democrat debacle as they blocked all analysis of fannie mae and freddie mac because they are democrat organizations. How many sweet VIP mortgages did dem politicians get from countrywide?? A lot. Inflation-thank the democrats, high oil prices driving inflation, because we are reliant on foreign oil. You hide the fact dems are responsible because they won't let us drill in our own country- because they are in the pocket of environmentalists. BTW-no attacks in the US since we took the fight to the terrorists, your guy obama would still be negotiating. I'm praying for many more years of pro American policies.

Posted by wfs0868 08:08 AM, 09/02/2008
A full-fledged race and class war if Obama is not elected? A revolution that will turn the tide for everyone if Obama is elected? Please go to the dictionary and look up the definition of hyperbole.

Posted by fbpdplt 08:12 AM, 09/02/2008
This idiot is threatening us with race wars...if her poster child loses...Doesn't that sound typical!..Geez..she couldn't be a product of inner city violence could she...Heres a real American...vote my way or we'll kill you. Her patriotism is so touching..full of compassion

Posted by 0bamaFatigue 08:22 AM, 09/02/2008
Another reason I will never spend one dime on the biased partisan Democrat Inquirer and Daily News... may the layoffs continue. Even the 0bamassiah won't be able to save you.

Posted by littleonions 08:48 AM, 09/02/2008
There is a lot of hyperbole going around here. Pols in both parties have benefited from this administration's policies. But I agree that the threat of a "race war" is over the top and I am sure the author regrets writing it and maybe should do a follow-up column apologizing. With friends like these, Obama needs no enemies.

Posted by dpcoz 08:59 AM, 09/02/2008
LOL, McCain being 4 more years of Bush is just like saying that Obama's really a Muslim. You want 4 more years of an incompetent president? Vote for Obama, who's too extreme left political opinions are as bad as Bush's too far right opinions. Neither work in such a diverse country! Make your claims that he voted with bush 90% of the time - let's also remember in 2004 he was the democrats sweetheart as most of you were swooning over the potential of MCCain jumping sides and becoming Kerry's running mate! Liberals are worse than most think. Must be the media!!!

Posted by NJsux6569 09:19 AM, 09/02/2008
Will there be riots if Obama loses?

Posted by Nicher 09:24 AM, 09/02/2008
Sorry I'm late to the discussion. I just got out of the soup line, and man...it was around the block. See if you can spot all of the Democratic talking points in this story...Whoo boy!! I think she hit them all: The Republicans have "brutalized the economy" (which actually grew by 3.3% last quarter, still no sign of the long-promised recession)If the Republicans win, the race struggles will continue, but Obama can unite us all. This lady has seen (and bought into) too many movies. Remember when Clinton was in the White House, and a 5.5% unemployment rate was seen as good news? How amazing is it that 8 years later that same unemployment rate is the indicator of how far this country has fallen. Hypocrisy, thy name is Fatimah Ali.

Posted by Phils1208 09:42 AM, 09/02/2008
This may be one of the most ignorant articles I have ever read and I am considering stopping my print subscriptions. Taxing the hell out of the wealthy corporations will do nothing but drive more jobs overseas.Second, you have to remember the top 1% of wealthy people pay 27 times the national average in taxes. These people pay more than enough. Obama would bring in nothing but a semi-communist regime.

Posted by Delaware Vol 09:43 AM, 09/02/2008
Typical story from someone of your ilk!!! May you be the next person to be relieved (fired)of your job you hack!!!

Posted by m-1911 09:44 AM, 09/02/2008
Race baiting, class wafare are still alive in the Democratic party. I thought that Obama was the "candidate of change" I too would like Fatimah to tip us off where the riots will be. I hope they are not in Perkasie.

Posted by davenp35 09:44 AM, 09/02/2008
This is probably the most radical and overtly disgusting op-ed I have EVER read in my life!

Posted by boquin09 09:46 AM, 09/02/2008
As someone whose job it is to help manufacturing companies save money (and therefore jobs), America is losing factory jobs because unions (which are supported by Democrats) have destroyed American manufacturing. I'm sorry that the guy in this story lost his job, but his brethren were responsible, not Republicans.

What If?

2008-09-02T01:57:00.000-04:00

She came to me looking for strength, and I proved that I had none

What if I had tried a little harder

Tried to make it work

Instead of pretending to be the one

Nick Romano

Intervention

2008-09-01T20:01:00.000-04:00

Intervention

So my old and former friend Anthony's(anthony's sad fuckin' story here) mom asked me to write a letter for Anthony's intervention. This intervention occurring three months after Anthony called me to try to make amends, three months after telling me that he had his priorities settled and that "being clean" was his top priority. I stopped taking his calls.

Fuck him, and fuck anyone else that calls addiction a "disease". The "disease" is being a careless spoiled brat, the side effect of said "disease" may be substance abuse....anyways, i'm an open book, so fuck it...I will post the letter that I wrote for Anthony's intervention for whomever chooses to read it. I know that it's not appropriate for an intervention, and i'm sure that it wasn't read.

I'm also aware that this letter was not written for a general audience. It's inside, from one old friend to another. But it does have value, and I think that if you have a loved one that has a problem, then you should see what it is like when you no longer love the addict...when an undying love is broken. I love the guy that Ant used to be, but he isn't that guy anymore, so I have stopped giving a fuck about him and his well being. He's either gonna get busy living, or get busy dying...but i'm tired of the whole thing.

Ant,

Eighteen years. Eighteen, going on nineteen years ago, you and I metin the school yard on the first day of school...we've been family ever since.

I am writing this letter for the benefit of your parents, I love them very much and I wish that you would have class enough to just leave them alone. I'm sure that many people will write letters detailing the wrongs that you have done to them, but ultimately those folks will try to spin the ending in some optimistic fashion...not this letter.

This letter is going to be brutal, I have nothing nice or optimistic to say to you, I do not believe that your addiction is a "disease"...I think that you're a self-centered spoiled brat. I think that you're a child. I think that you're a lazy asshole looking for short cuts. I think that you're dumb enough to think that you can get over on life. I think that you run away from responsibility. I do not think that you'll ever be worth anything, nor am I holding out hope that you will prove me wrong...because I know that you won't.

Why do I go against conventional wisdom and deny the "disease" justification that so many ex junkie drug counselors and liberal douche bag politicians like to give folks like you? Because I actually know you...your disease is being an asshole, a side effect of being an asshole was opiate dependance, but no one should pretend that the opiates have made you an asshole. Since I've met you, you have avoided responsability, passed off blame, run away from obligations, lied, cheated, stolen, manipulated, quit everything you've ever started and bullshitted everyone you've ever met...Can we blame opiates on all of your gambling losses? Can we blame opiates on the so-called friends that you've screwed over? No. The disease is you. You are a cancer, and the best thing for all of us that know you and who have loved you is for you to be cut the fuck out.

You've never cared about the consequences of your actions, you've never cared for other people's feelings and you've never put in an honest effort into living up to your responsibilities.
I sincerely hope that your parents are finally ready to wash their hands of you. They are good people and have never deserved to have such a rotten sociopath of a son in their lives. You've never given thought to your parent's health, their financial future, or their emotional well being. If you were an actual human, you'd just leave them alone.

Let's face facts, if the only thing that you had done was leave my brother as he was dying from heroin that you had purchased with him, i might be able to move on...but it's not just that. You've systematically lied to me for the last five years, you stole from my best friend's mother (ryan), you stole from my little brother, you acted disrespectfully in front of my parents (who the fuck are you to sit at the poker table with some fucking prostitute in front of my mother?), and you've effectively manipulated my heart felt love for you for your advantage.

As Joey lay in the hospital fighting for his life, I very nearly attacked my Uncle Tony for his suggestion that Joseph was with you....motherfucker, even then, with no reason to believe a word you said to me, I was about to physically attack a man that actually loved me and my family in defense of a child that only loves himself. That's the last time i'll ever believe anything that you say to me, that last lie....that last lie that could only work if my brother had died.

When your mother called me and asked me to write this, i knew immediately that this letter was going to be brutal...because i don't believe in interventions, I really don't give a fuck if this "helps" you because i can't believe that you can be helped...but let me tell you the truth about yourself and your future.

You are a sniveling, conniving, piece of shit and the best thing that you could ever fucking do in your life...the only thing that you could do to redeem yourself in anyway is to walk away from all of us that have had the misfortune of loving you. That includes Blake and Jessica. You do that child no fucking favors by being around him, you are a horrible example of what a man should be and that child should not be influenced by your piss poor example of "manhood". With any luck, Blake will grow up with a conscience, with honor, with respect for others, and with constraint...to summarize, hopefully he'll growup nothing like the sperm donor that he calls dad.

Whatever....whatever happens, i only give a fuck because of your family...after eighteen long years...i just don't have it in me to care about you any longer.
Later,

Nick

that's it for me party people...back to work

Is it me?

2008-09-01T19:28:00.000-04:00

Look, i'm well aware that having a popular poetry blog on myspace was not going to attract the young republicans in my friend's list. I was fine with having polite disagreements with my pinko commie poet loving myspace friends...but with the advent of Obama I've honestly started to question my sanity. I mean either they make sense and i'm nuts, or they're absolutely ridiculous...here is an unedited discussion between a myspace Obama supporter and yours truly.

So in the beginning I responded to a Nic-e's poem:

Blind By Choice

I read something today that made me laugh. A blog, from the blind...
I thought in this country? In this time?
You want to stay not smart?
You get off on lies found deep in your heart?
America's trust has been broken.An empty headed decision is a vote for McSame
With all the knowledge that's obvious... closed your eyes remain

Should you be a pathetic little boy?
Oil companies and lobbiest mindless toy?
Is it fear that has you turned inside out?
Your so-called morals make the mass shout!
CHANGE!!!
CHANGE!!!
NO MORE George W.McCain!!

Romano's Comment:"very well written, even if i don't agree with your political views, i still dig your writing" (Note: i didn't think this was well written...but he's usually much better, the blog he mentioned was mine, in which I mentioned how Obama had attacked free speech my blog is found here: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=36413456&blogID=428234028 )

His response to my comment was pretty cool:

From: Nic-eDate: Aug 31, 2008 8:44 PM

I totally respect you too. I don't believe this conversation can be had with just anyone. I am very happy that we can talk like this and still remain friends.You know I dig your writing as well. I believe we both want what's best for our country.Much Love,Nic

So seeing as how he was being reasonable, I figured that I'd refute his "McSame" arguments, which are actually McLame...hahahhaha...yeah, it wasn't that funny:

I checked out factcheck. org...here are the facts behind the 95% number....if you want to critisize mccain, i'm sure there are better ways, but this stuff just is misleading...and makes me think less of obama for confusing the issue intentionally.

Q. Is it true John McCain voted with George Bush 95 percent of the time?The Obama campaign keeps claiming McCain has voted with President Bush 95 percent of the time. Is this true? Is this significant?

A: Yes, it's true, according to Congressional Quarterly's assessment of McCain's voting record.Sen. Barack Obama has attempted to use the Arizona senator's voting record against him in statements like this:

Barack Obama (June 3): It's not change when John McCain decided to stand with George Bush 95 percent of the time, as he did in the Senate last year.

The claim is true. According to Congressional Quarterly's Voting Studies, in 2007 McCain voted in line with the president's position 95 percent of the time – the highest percentage rate for McCain since Bush took office – and voted in line with his party 90 percent of the time.

However, McCain's support of President Bush's position has been as low as 77 percent (in 2005), and his support for his party's position has been as low as 67 percent (2001).Democrats are, of course, attempting to make the case that a vote for McCain is a vote to continue the policies of Bush, whose approval ratings are, to put it charitably, not a political asset for McCain.

Is 95% "Significant"?As for whether voting with Bush 95 percent of the time last year is "significant," that's a matter of opinion that we leave to readers to determine for themselves.When doing so, they may wish to consider that Obama's votes were in line with the president's position 40 percent of the time in 2007. That shouldn't be terribly surprising. Even the Senate's Democratic leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, voted with Bush 39 percent of the time last year, according to the way Congressional Quarterly rates the votes.

The McCain campaign points out that Obama told a local TV interviewer recently that "the only bills that I voted for, for the most part, since I've been in the Senate were introduced by Republicans with George Bush." Obama was actually wrong about that. In 2006 he voted alongside the president 49 percent of the time, and in 2005, the year before Democrats took control of the Senate, Obama voted with the president only 33 percent of the time. Also, Obama voted in line with fellow Senate Democrats 97 percent of the time in 2007 and 2005, and 96 percent of the time in 2006, according to CQ.

And so . . . So to sum up, McCain has indeed voted to support the unpopular Bush 95 percent of the time most recently, but less so in earlier years. And Obama has voted pretty close to 100 percent in line with fellow Democrats during his brief Senate career.- Emi Kolawole

So this is where things get interesting, his response in the face of facts and research was:

Again, McBush is an old fart with old ideas. It shows with his poor choice for VP... This is like watching "TALES OF THE CRYPT and Clueless!! He McCain is a very poor choice and we will be in BIG trouble as a nation under his lacking attempts toward leadership. This man has no interest in our future. His thought process and his peers have raped the progress. The record shows it... it's all in balck and white. Regardles of race or class... we are the furture of this great land. But in the hands of the blind we have less than nothing. McCain is blind.With a sicky old guy half out of his mind man in office, I would look for the worst. Just as I said when W. was elected then re-elected! Every Repub. I know is NOW ashamed of thier vote... Now today, we face the ignorance and fears of people who are determined to put this guy filled with poor judgement in office. This is most shameful. By the way, your attempt to educate me with old news or repub. versions of truth have already been researched years ago by myself and millions of others... including former republicans. Obama is not the source of this light and pure truth, all anyone has to do is.... OPEN THEIR EYES!!! Today your fables falls on deaf ears.Once agian, I will say... we respectfully disagree. No hard feelings.

Seriously, is it me? Here's my response for those of you that haven't fallen asleep:

this was brand new news talking about Obama's claims. You didn't offer me a single rational reason to agree with you at all Nic. You just said a bunch of oppinions. That's not how political discourse is supposed to happen friend. McCain's overall record shows more of a willingness to disagree with his party than Obama's 97% party line would. How is that a change. How will partisan politics unify? I'm not a republican, but i'm not ashamed of my vote for Bush.

Honestly, I don't know why in the hell I bother. I don't mind it when I talk to people who actually get it, but these zealots that have no understanding of what they're voting for drive me nuts. I promise this blog isn't going to just be about politics, but i'm sure that everyone regardless of their views knows the frustrations of trying to reason with unreasonable people.

Later Party People

I finally agree with Obama!

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“I have heard some of the news on this and so let me be a clear as possible: I have said before and I will repeat again, I think people’s families are off limits, and people’s children are especially off limits. This shouldn’t be part of our politics,” the Democrat said forcefully. “It has no relevance to Governor Palin’s performance as governor, or her potential performance as a VP. And so I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories,” he continued.

Anyone that would make this a political issue is disgusting. This is a seventeen year old girl going through a pretty tough and stressful time. It's bad enough that certain liberal bloggers were speculating that Gov. Palin's youngest child was actually her daughter's, going so far as to analyze the "baby bump" on a picture taken in 2006 (Trig, the baby in question was born in 2008). That's right, these jerks were calling the girl fat.

Fox News anchor Alan Colmes, of Hannity & Colmes, titled a recent post on his blog Liberaland "Did Palin Take Proper PreNatal Care?" In it, he wondered if she somehow was at fault for having a disabled child.

Seriously??? What does this have to do with political debate? What does this have to do with policy differences? Blaming a woman for her child's unfortunate condition? That's just wrong and disgraceful.