USA Election 2008

WED 2008-OCT-22

the leftOct 16... Foxseventh grader at New Smyrna Beach Middle School was called a racist by classmates for wearing a pro-Sarah Palin t-shirt.Oct 19 Toledo Blade
"It actually upsets me," Mr. Wurzelbacher said. "I am a plumber, and just a plumber, and here Barack Obama or John McCain, I mean these guys are going to deal with some serious issues coming up shortly. The media's worried about whether I paid my taxes, they're worried about any number of silly things that have nothing to do with America. They really don't. I asked a question. When you can't ask a question to your leaders anymore, that gets scary. That bothers me."Oct 18 Henry Lamb WNDIs Obama a socialist?... Students and young adults no longer know why capitalism is better than socialism. Like Obama, young people really believe that when government redistributes wealth, "it's good for everybody." They do not realize that wealth redistribution is no substitute for wealth creation. They are never taught that the only way to create wealth is for an individual to combine his energy and intellect with resources to produce a product that improves his life, or for which someone else is willing to pay.Oct 19 WNDIn an exclusive interview tonight, a senior Hamas official heaped praise on Sen. Joe Biden, calling him a "very nice" person and a "great man" whose record "speaks volumes" and who can be counted on by the terror group to engage in the "right policy" toward the Middle East.Oct 15 NY PostBarack Obama let slip his plans to become a modern-day Robin Hood in the White House, confiscating money from the rich to give to the poor.... "It's not that I want to punish your success.... I want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance for success, too..... My attitude is that if the economy's good for folks from the bottom up, it's gonna be good for everybody. I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody....."Oct 15 NTVTwo Missourians say they were surprised to receive credit card statements indicating they had donated to Barack Obama's presidential campaign....Oct 14 NROObama funded extremist Afrocentrists who shared Rev. Wright’s anti-Americanism Oct 14 WNDMichelle Obama placed a surprise call to an African news agency to protest its coverage of WND investigative stories about her husband – characterizing the source of the material as "racist" and Jerome Corsi as "evil."Oct 14 WNDA newly discovered anecdote from Bill Ayers' 1993 book "To Teach" solidifies the case that he is indeed the muse behind Barack Obama's "Dreams From My Father."Oct 13 YouTubeObama tells a tax-burdened plumber, "It's not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody that is behind you, that they have a chance for success too." Obama: "When you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody..."Oct 12 WNDDuring deliberations over the $700 billion federal bailout of banks and financial institutions, several members of Congress were threatened with the prospect of martial lawOct 11 NROI've finally read Jack Cashill's lengthy analysis in The American Thinker. It is thorough, thoughtful, and alarming — particularly his deconstruction of the text in Obama's memoir and comparison to the themes, sophistication and signature phraseology of Bill Ayers' memoir.Oct 8 Washington TimesThe McCain campaign has released a statement from John M. Murtaugh, who as a child had his house firebombed by the Weather Underground and who links the group's founder, William Ayers, to Barack Obama.Apr 30 City-JournalJohn M. Murtagh: The Weathermen tried to kill my family.Oct 7 Nikki FinkeSaturday Night Live, a brutal but hilarious Democrat-bashing skit aired about the $700 billion federal bailout and the insanity of those subprime mortgages... SNL labeled Herb Sandler and his wife Marion, the real-life former owners of Oakland's Golden West Financial (aka World Savings), as "people who should be shot"...Oct 7 CNNWhen pressed, Obama said they served on a charitable board together. He also denounced Ayers' support for violence.... But the relationship between Obama and Ayers went deeper, ran longer and was more political than Obama -- and his surrogates -- have revealed, documents and interviews show....Sep 23 WSJObama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools... poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists....Oct 8 USA Today
The National Rifle Association is turning to Hillary Rodham Clinton to bolster its criticism of Barack Obama's positions on gun issues... "Hillary was right: You can't trust Obama with your guns...."Oct 8 ABC...had warmed up the crowd for Biden, but as he finished his introduction, he had an "oops" moment of his own. "Please help me today in welcoming the next vice president of the United States, John McCain!"Sep 21 YouTubeBarack Obama and the leader of Kenya's socialist Orange Democratic Movement.

the right

Oct 16 NY TimesHe is not — traditionally speaking — the sort of man to make an offhand reference to the black-tie affair he recently attended at the New York Public Library, as did Richard Breslaw of the George Breslaw & Sons plumbing company in Manhattan. Mr. Breslaw recounted how he charmed a young woman at the function by referring to his job as “the first thing you think about when you wake up.” Long the object of putdowns and distasteful humor — Mr. Breslaw cited the classic “If you don’t go to high school, guess what you become?” — plumbers are, in many cases, exceedingly well paid. Mr. Breslaw said that one of his top men “clears two, maybe two-and-a-quarter” every year. He even paraphrased Einstein: “If I had my life to live over again, I’d be a plumber.” It’s probably fair to say that plumbers like this are not what the candidates had in mind. [WHY NOT??]Oct 2 American Spectator...a governor of Alaska has to be more cosmopolitan in world outlook than her insular colleagues in the lower 48. Surrounded as Alaska is by the seven Arctic nations (Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia and Sweden) Alaska has a truly strategic location, unmatched by any other U.S. state. It has a contiguous boundary with Canada of 1,538 miles, but none with the lower 48. It is also closer to the Russian Federation than any other U.S. state. There are no international waters between Russia and Alaska.... Oct 5 Wash PostMcCain in Vietnam--In Ordeal as Captive, Character Was ShapedOct 22 Jewish PressThe Jewish Press heartily endorses John McCain for president of the United States.... has long been the poster boy for what's made America great.... Sen. McCain is also being linked to the current economic downturn, again because both he and President Bush are Republicans. But as documented by the release of Sen. McCain's correspondence file on Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, it was Sen. McCain who had long been drawing attention to the excesses of the two agencies which contributed so greatly to the current economic meltdown....If anything, President Bush inherited a mess left by President Clinton... there is a rather disturbing dimension to Sen. Obama.... From where we sit, Sen. Obama emerges as a representative of the radical left, which does not accept the notion of American exceptionalism and the presumptive validity of American tradition. We recall his gratuitous ridicule of those middle Americans who, supposedly out of frustration, "cling to their religion and their guns...."Oct 15 ComputerworldMcCain's campaign sent a letter Monday to YouTube parent company Google Inc., protesting YouTube's removal of unnamed videos from the site after receiving take-down notices claiming copyright infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).... letter asserts that numerous times during the campaign, YouTube removed videos that do not violate the DMCA Oct 15 ABCActor and Democrat Josh Brolin portrays President George W. Bush in director Oliver Stone's biopic, "W...." "I told my wife, I can't believe I'm saying this, but I really like the guy," mused Brolin about the 43rd president of the United States Oct 12 McClatchy...a conservative campaign that blames the global financial crisis on a government push to make housing more affordable to lower-class Americans has taken off on talk radio and e-mail.... Federal housing data reveal that the charges aren't true, and that the private sector, not the government or government-backed companies, was behind the soaring subprime lending at the core of the crisis....Oct 12 APRepublican John McCain vowed Sunday to "whip" Democratic rival Barack Obama's "you-know-what" when the two presidential candidates meet Wednesday in their final televised debate.

Political WorldOct 17 The TimesOklahoma: weird but strangely nice
And to think I thought Oklahoma was all cowboys. In the past 72 hours on the US election trail, I’ve met a black-Indian; a white Indian; a Teamsters trucker dude; a gay small town bureaucrat; a space shuttle programme doctor; punk kids; evangelical kids; activist kids; assorted politicians; and a science teacher who teaches that our universe is 6000 years old....Oct 7 ABCABC News Fact Checks Claims Made By White House Contenders During Second Presidential Debate Sep 19 NORMLA defense attorney who supports decriminalizing drug use is challenging a former police officer in the race for a Tulsa area House of Representatives seat. Oct 7 AP
ACORN office in Vegas raided in voter-fraud probe JFK
The night before the Kennedy assassination, Lyndon Baines Johnson met with Dallas tycoons, FBI moguls and organized crime kingpins - emerging from the conference to tell his mistress Madeleine Duncan Brown that "those SOB's" would never embarrass him again. It's a jaw-dropping deposition and it's the biggest JFK smoking gun there is - despite the fact that it has received little media attention.Wikipedia
Madeleine Duncan Brown WikipediaH. L. Hunt

Meanwhile...Oct 7 The Times
Leading geneticist Steve Jones says human evolution is overAug 3 The TimesUS plans 6,000mph bomber to hit rogue regimes from edge of space... able to travel more than 10,000 miles around the globe in about two hours.... directly from America to neutralise regimes threatening to use weapons of mass destruction. It would avoid the need to rely on forward airbases in unreliable third countries.Oct 20 WNDDocuments recovered from a remote area along the Pakistan border have revealed that Osama bin Laden wants al-Qaida to launch a "global fireball" by lighting forest fires in Europe, the United States, Australia and South America Oct 15 APAmerican troops acting on a tip killed the No. 2 leader of al-Qaida in Iraq — a Moroccan known for his ability to recruit and motivate foreign fighters — in a raid in the northern city of Mosul Oct 14 USA TodayThe number of justifiable homicides committed by police and private citizens has been rising in the past two years to their highest levels in more than a decade

Just for fun...Sep 4 Dark Roasted BlendThe Most Alien-Looking Place on Earth--Socotra Island: you have to see it to believe it NASAOn Oct. 6, 2008, at 4:40 a.m. ET, MESSENGER successfully completed its second flyby of Mercury....NASACat's Eye Hubble Remix Oct 7 BetaNewsMail Goggles a lot of $(@)!# fun, but safety net has holes Oct 8 NY PostWhat's the easiest way to get a 25-foot-long missile into Manhattan? Apparently, the Queens Midtown Tunnel.(via Weird Universe)Moist Towelette Online MuseumCNNKenya is the first country to try elephant texting YouTubeKitt3h! Best of the best footage on cats