Jon Stewart nails it again + Dem voter registration surge

Hey, have you heard about the surge?

Dem voter registrations surge nation-wide

Nationwide, there are about 42 million registered Democrats and about 31 million Republicans, according to statistics compiled by The Associated Press....
The Democrats have posted big gains in many competitive states, including Nevada, New Hampshire, Iowa, Colorado and Florida...

However...

Nearly 600,000 Subject to Possible Caging in Ohio
Friday 05 September 2008
by: David Rosenfeld, Miller-McCune

Petrodollars and wars

Update 2:39 PM 9/19/2008 Foreign Affairs: Russia has disclosed that it will sell military hardware to Tehran that will protect Iran's nuclear facilities. The time left to halt the Iranian nuclear threat has thus grown that much shorter.

Russia's state arms dealer also said Thursday that it will sell anti-aircraft systems, armored personnel carriers and fighter jets to Venezuela. That in itself is worrisome.

Experts wary of dearer oil's effect on output
Reuters
Published: September 19, 2008, 23:42
But Saudi Arabia, Opec's largest member, has exceeded its output quota over the summer to prevent further harm to its rich-world customers, already reeling from the credit crunch.





Frankly, I don't know squat about Ron Paul, & I didn't learn much watching these.

I would like to know why a lot Americans don't know the basics about oil and petrodollars.

Hat tip to Grumpy Old Man

Ron Paul: The PetroDollar - Part 1/4

Ron Paul: The PetroDollar - Part 2/4

Ron Paul: The PetroDollar - Part 3/4

Three years after the recycling began we were acclimated to truth in fiction and fiction in truth.

Ron Paul: The PetroDollar - Part 4/4

Iranian Oil Bourse

Estimated reserves in order

Yeah, all that blather about Iran being a threat?

It's not about noo-kyu-ler ambitions, it's about economic devastation.

MAJOR FOREIGN HOLDERS OF TREASURY SECURITIES
I believe we got here through a combination of short term goals by business interests and politicians. When you only look towards next quarter's earnings and the next election, the American people get lost in the shuffle.

2008: A Republican Reinvention?

Find 26 minutes to watch this. No surprise that PBS is pitching around once a month here, and this was either bumped or played hours before it was supposed to be on.

Sometimes I hate this city. It's loaded with Repugnant Thuglicans. Nasty, hateful, stupid ones. The kind that "live poor and vote rich."

How Will You and Your State Cast Ballots in November?
By Kim Zetter September 05, 2008 9:00:00 AM
Categories: E-Voting, Election '08
This year, as a result of a lot of changes in voting machines around the country, numerous voting districts across many states will be using new voting equipment that has either never been used in an election or has never been used in a national election involving millions of voters.

The map that shows the variety of equipment used all over the states is interesting.

I'm inclined to think that if McCain wins in November it's another stolen election.

Yes, I do believe it was stolen in '04 through a combination corporate funded media bias (no, that doesn't mean librul, for any freeptard that happens to land on this page), and voter - disenfranchisement , not to mention people having to work three jobs to survive, which doesn't leave time to research the issues ignored by our corporate media, OR vote, hack able optical scanners , hackable DREs (touchscreens) .

I don't trust the GOP/Diebold (Premier Elections now, mybad) operatives in this county as far as I can throw them.

Rambo and the Mean Girl

Juan Cole explains the RNC strategy in St. Paul. (click title link)

Usually I skim over his blog because it's hard for me to handle the unending daily death toll details of Pesident Cheney's war in Iraq.

Moving on.

Do the Fox Newz Fucks ever change?


Nope.

Neither does the average IQ of their fan base.

"Flip Flops" was the buzzword they used in '04.

Peggy Noonan's flip flops?

Or McCain's flip flops?

Or Sarah Palin's flip flops?

Oh, so flip flop isn't working this time?

This time it's Barack Huessein Obama is a Muslim, who doesn't recite the Pledge of Allegiance, right?

Fox Newz watchers don't use snopes or they would know that Obama is not a Muslim, and he does recite the Pledge of Allegiance

Sometimes the stupid just burns.

Friday sqirrel blogging

Does this one look like she's getting ready to pop out a litter to you?

How timely.

Liveblogging. the RNC. no not me, I suck at it, but this blogger is great!

Can't touch that. go, already, wouldja? (title link)

And I am pleased as punch to add AKMuckraker at Mudflats to the blogroll.

Update 11:20pm Ok, the speech was a snoozefest, but AKMuckraker kept us all awake.

I really don't get the drill, drill drill thing. Drilling in ANWR might add 650,000 to 1.9 million barrels per day.

We use 21 million barrels a day.

The Ballad of Sarah Palin


Sarah Palin. Six colleges in six years to get a degree in journalism.

Sarah Palin, cheerful and combative.

And a typical GOP lying sack of shit. Still, I'm sure she was very popular in junior high school, and I'm sure that the GOP freeptards will lap up every lie she spits out.

I'll bet she was popular as Mayor of Porky-Podunk-Moosetown, Alaska. Rednecked freeptards don't do their homework, but they do have beauty contests, popularity contests and uh... Aerial Wolf Gunning 101.

And obviously they like pit bulls with lipstick on. Even ones who use their tax dollars to defend themselves when they abuse their power. And they seem to love batshit crazy rapturists. They never learn. They just keep doing the same shit over and over again.

Our GOP owned and operated mainstream media is busy looking retarded:

Palin Comes Out Fighting
WaPo

Sarah Palin, as governor, takes on energy companies
LA Times

The Unusual Challenges Palin Faced in Alaska
NY Times


AlJazeera actually went to Palin's hometown and the AK state fair.


The crew at the UK Guardian are laughing their asses off. (this IS some funny stuff they found)


And here in San Diego we're stuck with 30 million dollars worth of hackable voting equipment, Ohio '04 rejects and GOP/Diebold operatives.

Gah, thank God for Jon Stewart.
I wish Michael Phelps was still in the news and stealing some of her press. This kid really did something heartwarming. It made me want to root for him to do well on SNL.

Bristol Palin's privacy

And your daughter's uterus.


Sarah Palin
Palin Slashed Funding for Teen Moms
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin wrote in her line-item veto changes by hand in this copy of a 2008 spending bill obtained by The Washington Post.

Is she a distraction from the RNC goon squad tactics? They have received 50 million in Homeland Security money for law enforcement, as did Denver. Law enforcement? When did "pre-emptive" arrests become legal?

Or is she a distraction from No Se Nada Torquemada (Gonzales) ?

Heerz how yur librul media (ABC & CBS) dealz with the DNC and RNC

Palin Wants Independent Trooper-Gate Probe Called Off
By Zachary Roth - September 3, 2008, 10:09AM

Yeah, I'll bet she does.

Sarah Palin like, babbles on and on in church

You have to see this in order to believe it.

Truly. I'm stunned.

Hmmmm, this is an interesting little tidbit I found posted in the comments section of Huff Po.

She is enormously popular; in every way she’s like the most popular girl in middle school Even men who think she is a poor choice and won't vote for her can't quit smiling when talking about her because she is a "babe".

Oh. My. God.

Would someone please inform the McCain campaign that running the country is not like running Porky-Podunk- Moosetown, Alaska. And explain to her what she's supposed to do as VP? She doesn't know. Better tell her more than once, she's a Barbie girl

She's also a conservative. I know conservatives. They are rigid, inflexible, selfish, and they don't want any lip from their kids. They see things in black and white, right or wrong. In their minds, they are never wrong, and if you disagree with them, you are wrong.

Amy Goodman and Two Democracy Now! Producers Unlawfully Arrested at RNC

And everybody's talking about the feds busting kids in Minnesota before they even get a chance to protest.
Coulda told you this would happen.
The War on Terra has a disgustingly disproportionate percentage of the budget.


Watch these thugs.




From what I can gather, Amy has been released, but Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar, her producers trying to cover the "riot" ? have not.

Update from Tom D'Antoni at the Huff Po
No one knows what they are being charged with, but Palmer attributes their arrest to "suspicious behavior."
Kouddous and Salazar are still being held without any formal charges.
11:33PM: Kouddous and Salazar have been released. Sgt. William Palmer called me back and said they have been released with "Pending complaints," which essentially means they were not charged while in custody, but may yet be charged with some felony at a later date.
12:00AM: Democracy Now! has posted this update:

Palin's unmarried 17-yr-old pregnant

Palin says 17-year-old daughter is pregnant

By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer
25 minutes ago


ST. PAUL, Minn. - John McCain's running mate Sarah Palin said Monday that her17-year-old unmarried daughter is five months pregnant, an announcement campaign aides said was aimed at rebutting Internet rumors that Palin's youngest son, born in April, was actually her daughter's.

A statement released by the campaign said that Bristol Palin will keep her baby and marry the child's father. Bristol Palin's baby is due in late December.

Associated Press Writers Eric Gorski in St. Paul and Steve Quinn in Anchorage, Alaska, contributed to this report.

This family values crowd just gets more and more comical every day. Tristero over at Hullabaloo has some James Dobson, of Focus on the Family fame, on adolescent rebellion . for you.

Update 5:04 PM 9/1/2008

Palin hires attorney for Troopergate investigation
By STEVE QUINN, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 32 minutes ago
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the GOP vice presidential candidate, is being represented by an attorney in the investigation into the firing of her public safety commissioner.

Man, it's like watching the Three Stooges.