8:30 PM
Local ABC
Who won the presidential debate between Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama?
Choice Votes Percentage of 10510 Votes
Barack Obama won. 6195 59%
John McCain won. 4056 39%
I'm not sure. 130 1%
I didn't watch. 129 1%
Local NBC
Who won the presidential debate between Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama?
Choice Votes Percentage of 10154 Votes
Barack Obama won. 5975 59%
John McCain won. 3924 39%
I'm not sure. 129 1%
I didn't watch. 126 1%
October 7, 2008
CNN Poll: Obama won the night
If there were polls on the local CW, CBS, and Fox, I couldn't find them. So much for a Red County.
Frankly, McCain saying "My Friends" incessantly drove me out of the room a couple of times.
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Damn GOP thieves
Can the GOP Steal The Election Again? You Betcha!
Blogged by Brad Friedman on 10/7/2008 1:11PM
AUDIO: Head-to-Head with the GOP's Hans Von Spakovsky, Vote-Suppressor, Liar
Brad Takes on the Unapologetic Democracy-Hater on Tavis Smiley's Radio Show
PLUS: Taking on John Fund, Another GOP 'Voter Fraud' Scammer, on the Radio, the Following Day... (scroll down for audio clip)
And about that debate tonight...
The Caucus.
October 7, 2008, 2:25 pm
Axelrod Says Obama Will Counterpunch if McCain Raises Ayers
By Patrick Healy
NASHVILLE — Senator Barack Obama is prepared to hit back, including with Keating Five scandal if necessary, if Senator John McCain uses tonight’s presidential debate to attack him over his associations with controversial figures like former William C. Ayers, the former Weather Underground leader, Mr. Obama’s chief strategist said this afternoon.
And if they mention clean coal tonight, just know that at this time, there aren't any clean coal plants in the US right now. Follow the Coal Money
Blogged by Brad Friedman on 10/7/2008 1:11PM
AUDIO: Head-to-Head with the GOP's Hans Von Spakovsky, Vote-Suppressor, Liar
Brad Takes on the Unapologetic Democracy-Hater on Tavis Smiley's Radio Show
PLUS: Taking on John Fund, Another GOP 'Voter Fraud' Scammer, on the Radio, the Following Day... (scroll down for audio clip)
And about that debate tonight...
The Caucus.
October 7, 2008, 2:25 pm
Axelrod Says Obama Will Counterpunch if McCain Raises Ayers
By Patrick Healy
NASHVILLE — Senator Barack Obama is prepared to hit back, including with Keating Five scandal if necessary, if Senator John McCain uses tonight’s presidential debate to attack him over his associations with controversial figures like former William C. Ayers, the former Weather Underground leader, Mr. Obama’s chief strategist said this afternoon.
And if they mention clean coal tonight, just know that at this time, there aren't any clean coal plants in the US right now. Follow the Coal Money
Tomgram: Chalmers Johnson, The Ultimate Election
posted October 07, 2008 10:36 am
Voting the Fate of the Nation
Will Economic Meltdown, Race, or Regional Loyalty Be the Trump Card in Election 2008?
By Chalmers Johnson
... Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal introduced a brief period of approximate democracy. This ended with the U.S. entry into World War II, when the New Deal was replaced by a wartime economy based on munitions manufacture and the support of weapons producers. This development had a powerful effect on the American political psyche, since only war production ultimately overcame the conditions of the Great Depression and restored full employment. Ever since that time, the United States has experimented with maintaining a military economy and a civilian economy simultaneously. Over time, this has had the effect of misallocating vital resources away from investment and consumption, while sapping the country's international competitiveness.
Socioeconomic conditions in 2008 bear a certain resemblance to those of 1932, making a realigning election conceivable. Unemployment in 1932 was a record 33%. In the fall of 2008, the rate is a much lower 6.1%, but other severe economic pressures abound. These include massive mortgage foreclosures, bank and investment house failures, rapid inflation in the prices of food and fuel, the failure of the health care system to deliver service to all citizens, a growing global-warming environmental catastrophe due to the over-consumption of fossil fuels, continuing costly military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, with more on the horizon due to foreign policy failures (in Georgia, Ukraine, Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Pakistan, and elsewhere), and record-setting budgetary and trade deficits.
The question is: Can the electorate be mobilized, as in 1932, and will this indeed lead to a realigning election? The answer to neither question is an unambiguous yes.
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I'm excited. My friend is almost 60 and she's never registered to vote. She filled out a voter registration form and put it in the mailbox today. I asked her if it was exciting and she grinned and said "Yeah, it kinda is."
Voting the Fate of the Nation
Will Economic Meltdown, Race, or Regional Loyalty Be the Trump Card in Election 2008?
By Chalmers Johnson
... Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal introduced a brief period of approximate democracy. This ended with the U.S. entry into World War II, when the New Deal was replaced by a wartime economy based on munitions manufacture and the support of weapons producers. This development had a powerful effect on the American political psyche, since only war production ultimately overcame the conditions of the Great Depression and restored full employment. Ever since that time, the United States has experimented with maintaining a military economy and a civilian economy simultaneously. Over time, this has had the effect of misallocating vital resources away from investment and consumption, while sapping the country's international competitiveness.
Socioeconomic conditions in 2008 bear a certain resemblance to those of 1932, making a realigning election conceivable. Unemployment in 1932 was a record 33%. In the fall of 2008, the rate is a much lower 6.1%, but other severe economic pressures abound. These include massive mortgage foreclosures, bank and investment house failures, rapid inflation in the prices of food and fuel, the failure of the health care system to deliver service to all citizens, a growing global-warming environmental catastrophe due to the over-consumption of fossil fuels, continuing costly military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, with more on the horizon due to foreign policy failures (in Georgia, Ukraine, Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Pakistan, and elsewhere), and record-setting budgetary and trade deficits.
The question is: Can the electorate be mobilized, as in 1932, and will this indeed lead to a realigning election? The answer to neither question is an unambiguous yes.
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I'm excited. My friend is almost 60 and she's never registered to vote. She filled out a voter registration form and put it in the mailbox today. I asked her if it was exciting and she grinned and said "Yeah, it kinda is."
Monday, October 06, 2008
Sarah Palin, the trailer-trash beauty contestant
Braizilians get it---
"When cornered, Palin resorted to winks, smiles and other vulgar coquette gestures that must have led to some sort of fascination from the male public— the green line on CNN, which measured the reaction of male independent voters from Ohio, would go up. But the women, represented by the yellow line, were not as fooled."
"When cornered, Palin resorted to winks, smiles and other vulgar coquette gestures that must have led to some sort of fascination from the male public— the green line on CNN, which measured the reaction of male independent voters from Ohio, would go up. But the women, represented by the yellow line, were not as fooled."
Matt Taibbi breaks it down--
"And none of it matters, so long as you remember a few months before Election Day to offer them a two-bit caricature culled from some cutting-room-floor episode of Roseanne as part of your presidential ticket. And if she's a good enough likeness of a loudmouthed Middle American archetype, as Sarah Palin is, John Q. Public will drop his giant-size bag of Doritos in gratitude, wipe the Sizzlin' Picante dust from his lips and rush to the booth to vote for her. Not because it makes sense, or because it has a chance of improving his life or anyone else's, but simply because it appeals to the low-humming narcissism that substitutes for his personality, because the image on TV reminds him of the mean, brainless slob he sees in the mirror every morning."
Naomi Klein: Wall St. Crisis Should Be for Neoliberalism What Fall of Berlin Wall Was for Communism
Sunday, October 05, 2008
Way to change the Middle East, neocon idiots
Source: Saudi hosts Afghan peace talks with Taliban
Crime up in Afghanistan, as is nostalgia for Taliban
Israel tries to dissuade Russia from selling weapons system to Iran
US-Russia divide allows the Middle East arms race to flourish
Iran, Venezuela sign multi-billion-dollar deals
Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:03:40 GMT
Chavez defies US by cozying up to Russia and China
America’s ambassadors have been expelled by Venezuela and Bolivia, a move that Brazil has supported. Brazil has also objected to the presence of American warships in the region, warning that his nation would put its own warships on alert in response. Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchener said recently with obvious satisfaction that the First World, which had been “painted as a place we should strive to reach, was popping like a bubble.”
Meanwhile...
October 2, 2008: Clusterf#@k to the Poor House - Bailout Bill Passes
It doesn't matter if you missed the debate, SNL wrapped it up just fine.
Crime up in Afghanistan, as is nostalgia for Taliban
Israel tries to dissuade Russia from selling weapons system to Iran
US-Russia divide allows the Middle East arms race to flourish
Iran, Venezuela sign multi-billion-dollar deals
Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:03:40 GMT
Chavez defies US by cozying up to Russia and China
America’s ambassadors have been expelled by Venezuela and Bolivia, a move that Brazil has supported. Brazil has also objected to the presence of American warships in the region, warning that his nation would put its own warships on alert in response. Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchener said recently with obvious satisfaction that the First World, which had been “painted as a place we should strive to reach, was popping like a bubble.”
Meanwhile...
October 2, 2008: Clusterf#@k to the Poor House - Bailout Bill Passes
It doesn't matter if you missed the debate, SNL wrapped it up just fine.
Friday, October 03, 2008
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Ex-CIA Operative Discusses 'The Devil We Know'
Fresh Air from WHYY, October 2, 2008 · In his new book, The Devil We Know, former CIA operative Robert Baer argues that Iran is an up-and-coming — and often misunderstood — superpower, with strong influences throughout the Middle East.
"The sooner we understand the Iranian paradox — who they are, what they want, how they want to both humble us and work with us — the sooner we'll understand how to come to terms with the new Iranian superpower," writes Baer.
Baer's previous book, See No Evil, was the basis for the George Clooney film Syriana.
"The sooner we understand the Iranian paradox — who they are, what they want, how they want to both humble us and work with us — the sooner we'll understand how to come to terms with the new Iranian superpower," writes Baer.
Baer's previous book, See No Evil, was the basis for the George Clooney film Syriana.
Typical weaseling out of cleaning up after themselves
Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008
Top court will review who pays for Superfund site
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has agreed to decide what share railroads and an oil company should bear of the cleanup of a contaminated industrial site in Arvin, Calif., near Bakersfield, that threatened drinking water supplies.
Shell Oil Co. and the railroads - the Burlington, Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. and the Union Pacific Railroad Co. - say they are being unfairly tagged with an inordinate portion of the cost of cleaning up
The companies contend they merely transported and sold legal, useful products and were not involved in years of soil and groundwater contamination.
The site was once the home of a fertilizer and insecticides manufacturing facility.2008-10-01 14:16:29 GMT
My prediction? They'll just keep fighting in court, the mess won't get cleaned up, and people, and their groundwater will continue to suffer. It's how big corporations work. They protect profits, to hell with people.
Top court will review who pays for Superfund site
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has agreed to decide what share railroads and an oil company should bear of the cleanup of a contaminated industrial site in Arvin, Calif., near Bakersfield, that threatened drinking water supplies.
Shell Oil Co. and the railroads - the Burlington, Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. and the Union Pacific Railroad Co. - say they are being unfairly tagged with an inordinate portion of the cost of cleaning up
The companies contend they merely transported and sold legal, useful products and were not involved in years of soil and groundwater contamination.
The site was once the home of a fertilizer and insecticides manufacturing facility.2008-10-01 14:16:29 GMT
My prediction? They'll just keep fighting in court, the mess won't get cleaned up, and people, and their groundwater will continue to suffer. It's how big corporations work. They protect profits, to hell with people.
Republicans will only win this election if they cheat
Which they are in the process of doing.
hat tip to Scoobie Davis
hat tip Danny
Oh. My. God. McCain supporters must be idiots. Who is John S. McCain?
The VP debate tonight?
No Debate: How the Republican and Democratic Parties Secretly Control the Presidential Debates
The Obama and McCain campaigns jointly negotiated a detailed secret contract dictating the terms of all the 2008 debates. This includes who gets to participate, as well as the topics raised during the debates.
It's a game, and we're not invited to play.
hat tip to Scoobie Davis
hat tip Danny
Oh. My. God. McCain supporters must be idiots. Who is John S. McCain?
The VP debate tonight?
No Debate: How the Republican and Democratic Parties Secretly Control the Presidential Debates
The Obama and McCain campaigns jointly negotiated a detailed secret contract dictating the terms of all the 2008 debates. This includes who gets to participate, as well as the topics raised during the debates.
It's a game, and we're not invited to play.
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Bush had no plan to catch Bin Laden
By Gareth Porter
Asia Times
Oct 1, 2008
WASHINGTON - New evidence from former United States officials reveals that Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders were able to skip Afghanistan for Pakistan unimpeded in the first weeks after September 11, 2001, as the George W Bush administration failed to plan to block their retreat.
Top administration officials instead gave priority to planning for war with Iraq, leaving the United States with not nearly enough troops or strategic airlift capacity to close the large number of possible exit routes through the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area where Bin Laden escaped in late 2001.
Because it had not been directed to plan for that contingency, the US military was also forced to turn down an offer from then Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf in late November 2001 to send 60,000 troops to intercept the al-Qaeda leaders...
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New York Times Managing Editor Admits Pre-War Failings
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And today I had some Southern Fried idiot McSame campaigning in my comments section.
F-U-C-K-I-N-G --- A-M-A-Z-I-N-G.
Asia Times
Oct 1, 2008
WASHINGTON - New evidence from former United States officials reveals that Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders were able to skip Afghanistan for Pakistan unimpeded in the first weeks after September 11, 2001, as the George W Bush administration failed to plan to block their retreat.
Top administration officials instead gave priority to planning for war with Iraq, leaving the United States with not nearly enough troops or strategic airlift capacity to close the large number of possible exit routes through the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area where Bin Laden escaped in late 2001.
Because it had not been directed to plan for that contingency, the US military was also forced to turn down an offer from then Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf in late November 2001 to send 60,000 troops to intercept the al-Qaeda leaders...
Home » Spin of the Day » Sep 30, 2008
New York Times Managing Editor Admits Pre-War Failings
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And today I had some Southern Fried idiot McSame campaigning in my comments section.
F-U-C-K-I-N-G --- A-M-A-Z-I-N-G.
San Diego's RepugnanThuglicans
Hmmmm. Last night I watched a TV ad for the local right-wing hate spew radio station . There's plenty of brainwashed, hate-spew loving, RepugnanThuglican freeptards in this city, what's up with the ad?
This morning I flipped on NPR (I thought) and was instantly irritated by a whiny, nasally voice and doubly irritated that she was complaining about Gwen Ifill ("Who is black." she said, and I thought, wtf? who cares?) and a book and the debate. I realized with horror that I was listening to AM radio (which is only safe for liberals from 3-6 weekdays on 1700 when Stacy Taylor is on) and that whiny, nasally voice was Laura Ingraham. Laura spent time as a "white collar criminal defense attorney" Ewwwww, what a way to wake up. I was instantly reminded of this National Geographic special I watched last week on stress. The animals studied were baboons, and humans. Put some Dockers and chambray shirts on the tailed bullies in the National Geographic special and you've got a portrait of most AM radio listeners in this city.
Stress: Portrait of a Killer
A National Geographic Special
It was fascinating.
Sarah Palin needs to sit down, shut her speaking in tongues mouth and watch it.
I can't wait till Palin makes an a$$ of herself at the debate. I happen to adore Gwen Ifill. I think Ms. Ifill is beautiful.
This morning I flipped on NPR (I thought) and was instantly irritated by a whiny, nasally voice and doubly irritated that she was complaining about Gwen Ifill ("Who is black." she said, and I thought, wtf? who cares?) and a book and the debate. I realized with horror that I was listening to AM radio (which is only safe for liberals from 3-6 weekdays on 1700 when Stacy Taylor is on) and that whiny, nasally voice was Laura Ingraham. Laura spent time as a "white collar criminal defense attorney" Ewwwww, what a way to wake up. I was instantly reminded of this National Geographic special I watched last week on stress. The animals studied were baboons, and humans. Put some Dockers and chambray shirts on the tailed bullies in the National Geographic special and you've got a portrait of most AM radio listeners in this city.
Stress: Portrait of a Killer
A National Geographic Special
It was fascinating.
Sarah Palin needs to sit down, shut her speaking in tongues mouth and watch it.
I can't wait till Palin makes an a$$ of herself at the debate. I happen to adore Gwen Ifill. I think Ms. Ifill is beautiful.
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