John McCain sure is serious about rich-white-guy voter outreach. Yesterday afternoon, TPM noted that the four links prominently displayed in the upper middle of the John McCain 2008 website, "apparently signaling McCain’s top four agenda items," were: Decision Center, General Election, Obama & Iraq, and… Golf Gear.
However, since yesterday afternoon the McCain campaign has updated the links, apparently to reflect the Senator’s evolving priorities. Now the "Big Four" are Environment, Decision Center, General Election, and… Golf Gear.
That’s right, hawking the McCain-branded Golf Pack ("Show Your Support for John McCain on the Course") is apparently more important than trying to convince people that Obama is a clueless wimp on Iraq. That’s some quality campaign branding right there.
But shouldn’t McCain be wooing the working class and the disillusioned Hillary supporters? I mean, he’s already got the rich white guy vote (and contributions) locked up – where’s the common touch? I don’t think hosting a barbecue for the media counts, although it certainly does ensure that they’ll keep reporting that he has the common touch.
The more I think about it, the more I think McCain is Bizarro John Kerry. Everything that Kerry got nailed for, fairly or unfairly (mostly un-), McCain skates on.
Kerry loved to windsurf, McCain plies his supporters with golf kits. Both have wives who are almost inconceivably rich. And yet, amazingly, Obama, the community organizer, is the designated French-looking elitist in this presidential cycle (See: Bittergate, Bowlinggate, Juicegate, Arugulagate…), while McCain is the designated Regular Guy You Can Have A Beer With (because Republican millionaires are never elitists). The GOP and the media badgered Kerry into releasing his wife’s tax returns, yet somehow Cindy McCain’s privacy is sacrosanct, even if her husband did use her corporate jet for campaign flights.
They both served in Vietnam, they both were injured (McCain obviously much more grievously) and decorated, and they both made their military experience a focal point of their identity and their campaigns. Yet McCain’s service is always treated with the utmost respect (as it should be), while Kerry’s was denigrated, dismissed, and deceptively debunked (as it shouldn’t have been).
Of course, this tells us more about the media than it does about McCain or Kerry. You could match up any pair of Republican and Democratic Vietnam war heroes with rich wives in a presidential election, and the reporting would play out the same every single time. And that, ultimately, is why John McCain can display Golf Gear prominently on his website without fear of ridicule, and Obama can’t even choose orange juice over coffee.
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hey Eli
Hey pun.
The more I think about it, the more I think McCain is Bizarro John Kerry.
Dang Eli… spew alert please!
Swing Home the Troops
My first thought when I heard about that website page was that the designer had cribbed from an existing site and forgot to change the title.
Doing it deliberately puts it on a whole ‘nother plane (possibly the Sugar Momma Special). Haven’t they heard of online/POD stores?
I can’t wait til McCain gets T-eed off on camera.
Well, when you lie a nation into war, it’s easy to slough off the lies by telling them over and over and then swinging a golf club! Spit.
McCain is also just like George Bush in that he has the same kind of father/son conflict going on. Scary indeed.
I bet John McTeleprompter couldn’t reboot his teleprompter fast enough to make a comment about this…
http://www.prosecutionofbush.com/video.php
How embarrassing for McTeleprompter! The teleprompter is on fire now! LOL
I’m pretending Hillary and Obama weren’t at Bilderberg yesterday.
Boy you couldn’t have put that better… “The Press” is liberal…. my ass it is owned by fat rich greedy rethuglians and they would never disparage a rethuglian….
He’s a “maverick” the media tells me so! McSame figures he doesn’t have to reach out to real working people because most of them get their information from the corporate media and they’ll be sure the working stiffs are on board the straight talk express.
I think aquatic horseshoes is an fine sport that combines, as it were, both socioeconomic collar colors. It does pass the time – it also does wonders in raising one’s tolerance for frustration, which will be required on our part while waiting for McCain policies to produce that elusive, half forgotten, quasi mythical quality of public policy known as (I’ve been told by old timers) success.
I think that thingee was called success, it’s been so long. Success? Izzat right?
Any evidence of their attendance? Or just the rumor that they were there because it wasw in the DC area?
Especially since they met last night at Sen Feinstein’s DC residence with no aides or media present.
Obama can’t even choose orange juice over coffee.
A friend in the honey business (orange blossom honey and others) has informed me that OJ is loaded up with a recent chemical insecticide. The spray is systemic and getting into the flesh of the fruit. Underreported in the extreme, its one of the consequences of Republicanism. google citrus greening for more info. I quit the OJ months ago when my friend told me about it.
Does anybody know if Obama plays any sports? I think it would be super-cool if he was a surfer-dude, since he is from Hawaii.
A SUPER, SUPER FUNNY Mark Fiore cartoon: Sh*t Happens by Barney the Dog
That wasn’t exactly the kind of risk I had in mind… But a few more terms of Republican presidents, and *nothing* will be safe.
one should note that rich white guy outreach is very important when your campaign is nearly broke. I don’t know why he doesn’t just take out a very large loan with his zillionaire wife.
He’s apparently pretty good at basketball. I think there’s some kind of sports-and-race post in there, but I don’t want to be the one to attempt it…
Not a surfer, but, he is a Basket Baller…! Definitely not a bowler…! ;-)
Now don’t start saying the video is coming!!!
Once again the crackerjack corporate media doing it’s best to keep the public in the dark and out of the know.
He can’t get his BALLS down the alley!!! They keep going in the gutter.
That wasn’t just a home run, that was a Grand Salami…!!! *g* Btw, isn’t Barney a Scotty err… Scottish Terrier…? ;-)
Badreporter – Sen. Craig in Space Station Restroom
Fortunate Sons.
Spit.
It is a thing of beauty!!
He’s a “maverick” the media tells me so!
Yep. Bravely co-opting GWB’s positions on the war, illegal wire-tapping (Article II rules, bitchez!), etc.
Maybe it does take a “maverick” to embrace Mr. 25% and his suicidal policies…
It’s a Spit Parade! LS is leading. LOL ;-)
I love Spit Parades.
If you’re Dubya, he’s a lapdog. But if you’re the Constitution…
He can’t get his BALLS down the alley!!!
I’m leaving that one alone. Truly great hitters don’t swing at underhanded pitches… *g*
Chhhhrrrrruuggghhh…spit!!!
LOL
If you’re Dubya, he’s a lapdog. But if you’re the Constitution…
Obama, McCain, Constitution, Debates.
I can’t wait. I’d go for pay-per-view for that schooling in Con Law….
Of course, Kerry spanked Dubya pretty handily in the debates, especially that first one, and look where that got him.
Voter fraud in Ohio?
But basketball is not a “life sport”. At some point the body does not let you participate anymore. He needs to take up something like Tennis, Golf, Surfing or yes, even bowling.
That is rich.
Browning said it’s not practical to eradicate citrus greening, but the spread of the disease can be slowed with an effective integrated pest management program (IPM) that includes limited use of systemic insecticides and beneficial insects that attack the psyllid.
Limited use is incorrect. They are going hog wild with the poison. The poison is showing up in the citrus fruit in dangerously high levels according to my friend. He said, don’t drink OJ of any type or brand.
Possibly, but it shouldn’t have been that close.
True. He was insipid and ineffectual.
I saw the most realistic and unvarnished article today on Iraq, not written by Joe Galloway, since we invaded, so much so that I devoted today’s post to it…! *g*
Also, fruits and veggies from Central and South America. Full of chemical insecticides that are in the fruit. Bananas not so bad, but still bad.
I liked the licking himself on the White House lawn part.
Do you know if organic OJ is safe?
Not a “life sport”? LOL! I’m 62, and I run 5-on-5 full court pickup with ex-Pros and Div I cats all the time, 24 Hour Fitness Sport at W Sahara and Buffalo in Vegas, where all the Big Dogs hang (along with us nebbish short & slow grey dudes). My buddy Ronnie Foster is only a few years younger than me, and I’ve seen him do 4-5 hours of full at a stretch.
I’m impressed! Good on you.
97 yr’s old? Dayam…!
He’s jivin’
BTW, I took that photo.
I don’t even know when boxing season ends.
I don’t. You’ll have to research their product sources. Anything from Florida or Asian juice concentrate is affected. Privately owned Citrus trees that are not sprayed produce untainted fruit. That is the only sure thing. The chemical is the type that is used in Advantage or Frontline flea killer. It is illegal in France b/c it is so nasty/systemic.
The Republicans have screwed up so many things that we don’t know about.
I love Froomkin.
Mr. No Hops. Stapled to the planet. Cursed with what we call the Wax Museum D. Move in geologic time.
I tell these young Iverson wannabees, “dawg, I may be 62, but I warn ya, I got the moves and reflexes of a 50 year old.”
I am reminded of my second-favorite line from Space Jam:
“I’m not tall… but I’m slow!”
They have a SEASON for Boxing… Shit when does the season end… seems it has been going for a while!
Quote of the day:
So 62 is the new 50?!!
LOL!
The Republicans have screwed up so many things that we don’t know about.
Most notably the FDA… Subsequently, we don’t know what we’re eating or drinking…! 8-(
But basketball is not a “life sport”. At some point the body does not let you participate anymore.
I’m pretty sure that it’s a Rule of The Universe that, after age 40, the games are all half-court.
Adds ten years (trust me).
In Dawg years, yes.
*swigging with milk* Spit! This is fun. ;-)
Trying for distance….spit……………..ding.
I hate half-court. Rather run full. At Sahara & Buffalo we run the full 94 feet, too.
Though, I seem to shoot better during half court (3-on-3). I’m mainly an assist guy anyway.
oops – just saw BobbyG’s post.
Never mind!
(even if I do think that’s kinda freakish) *g*
Sounds sweet to me!!
my wheels went flat at about age 42 – had to give it up altogether, dammit.
Hi jayt – hope the tornados pass you and Indy by tonight…..
I’ll be 39 tomorrow, and I ended up outlasting my Sunday softball game, alas.
Mr. Gnome had to give it up after the second trip to the ER in three months. the mean ol’ nurse there suggested he was a little old for B-Ball. He was 45 at the time. And had just been kicked out of a church league for fighting.
At our court, it’s mostly the younger cats that piss and moan about running full. ‘Cuz they ain’t in shape. Three trips up & down, they’re all hands on hips, mouths open, walkin’. BobbyG is usually first one back on D. My son calls me “The Energizer Geezer.”
Actually, my brother referreed BB (HS and some college) until he was nearly 70 (got 50 years as a ref), but the refs don’t run as much as the players. He was also a soccer official.
Well early Hippo Birdies 2 Ewe Eli!
Gawd…you youngsters need to come and unload my hay truck every week…geez…14 X 80lbs…plus lift 160lbs everyday into the frikkin’ truck…and lob it…
Then…kick back with a beer or so…
Ah. That may be why I have found ticks crawling on me after trips to the woods, but not biting me. ;-)
Ewwww…me too!!!
Friend of mine is a schools & rec leagues hoops official. He said ref’ing the church leagues was the worst.
Tanks, dakine!
thanks kirk – I think it’s all good now – last Friday I sat here typing away while a large part of town got seriously messed up.
Blissful ignorance – that’s me!
Ha ha ha. Me too. Drink a fair amount of OJ. Have to die of something.
WWJF?
Who Would Jesus Foul?
Maybe even quote of the month. We’ll see tomorrow.
BobbyG is usually first one back on D. My son calls me “The Energizer Geezer.”
But how often do y’all call time-out for smoke breaks? *g*
I like it. I feel it. (56 here)
Especially when they went to three refs.
Nah, this is the quote of the day…
Where does one start in dissembling that BS…? Maybe, that Darth intercepted the dissent…
has this been published anywhere? i’d like to read about it….
I took up hoops at age 43, after my doctor said “I would advise you to get out and start movin’ around, or buy more life insurance.”
It was my knees, then I went to distance running, now it’s a mile a day in the pool. . .58.
My dad was a football referee. High School and SDSU. Guess what I was every Halloween.
What? Tomorrow? My only sib’s B’day is tomorrow… My Sis turns 40…!
I played street ball for a long time at city parks with a lot of scuzzy characters. Cats would stop between games for a smoke and a chug of the Colt 45 in the brown sacks.
I am like a zero-tool basketball player: Can’t run, can’t shoot, can’t pass, can’t dribble, can’t defend…
I’m only slightly better at softball, but I’m at least good enough to not embarrass myself.
Happy B-Day Eli :>)
Who Would Jesus Foul?
In the little known Book of Kareem, it is shown that Jesus was a baller. “Thou shalt always, in the fourth quarter, foul thy big man”.
He would made a fine coach, but then I guess some other stuff got in the way…
Woohoo. My friend Estelle Parsons is playing her old lady role (Roseann’s mother thingy) on L&O-SVU on USA network. (Full discolsure, I’m a L&O addict.)
Cool! It’s a pretty bleak day for celebrity birthdays. Prince, Liam Neeson, Thurman Munson, and not much else.
Anyone can learn to box out.
“Turn the other cheek” is actually a poorly-translated instruction on how to take a charge.
*lands next to my foot* Hey! Watch it. LOL
This will make us happy while at the same wanting to spit on Joe Lieberman’s face…
http://www.crooksandliars.com/…..rontation/
Way to go Barack!
Black & white striped short days?
My dad was a phys ed teacher (boys & girls) in elementary school. He got transferred to my school for my final semester. It wasn’t pretty.
Hey Eli, happy birthday tomorrow :)
That I could maybe do. I’m not typically a real physical guy, but jostling and fighting for rebounds is actually kinda fun.
I played street ball for a long time at city parks with a lot of scuzzy characters.
I knew there was a reason I liked you. That takes some guts – and the ability to keep one’s mouth *shut*.
Been there.
Thanks, eg!
“shirt” not “short”.
I got Lucky…. JFK and Bob Hope! Hope I live as long as Bob did :>)
Happy Birthday, Eli!
For citrus greening and chemicals this link is pretty good:
http://www.broward.org/extensi…../hc027.htm
Ever read this one
The In-Your-Face Basketball Book (Hardcover)
by Chuck Wielgus (Author), Alexander Wolff (Author)
I was on a team in Champaign with Derek Holcomb, he started at Indiana, was Bobby Bender’s roomate, and came to Illinois when Bender got run off by my favorite coach.
She’s basically saying Darth and W told me to say, “prove it.”
Just in the past 4 years or so, I’ve gotten to where I can dribble no-look w/either hand, between the legs, behind the back. Lets me see the floor and never get trapped. Then I hang along the baselines and when they diss ol’ Grandpa I rain on ‘em if the ball pops back out. Deadly from 17-20 feet. 80-90% from the stripe. Shoot close to 50% from the arc.
No moves, no hops, though. My poignant 6-inch Vertical.
Digg it!
Hey, Eli, I like the idea of Bizarro John Kerry — that one we can ride for a while, I imagine….
Thanks, Loo!
thank you!
I gave up street ball after getting threatened with a Glock one day. Just play club ball now.
Well Happy Birthday Eli :>)
My mother and father drank, smoked, ate red meat, and laid around at every opportunity..no exercise at all for 80 plus years…(they did “entertain” which was stressful, because it was my Dad’s work), but other than that…they didn’t do diddlysquat….My dad sailed and flew when he was young…that is it. The only thing they definitely did was eat a salad every day. They were from two totally different gene pools.
My dad lived to 86 and my mother to 88.
I was kinda hoping this thread would collect suggestions on more sort-of-parallels and/or McCain elitist proclivities. I have a nagging feeling that I left a lot on the table.
no – haven’t read it. I’ll check the library. I remember Bobby Bender, but I can’t place Holcomb. You sure it was Indiana where he was a starter?
Jebus.
That’s gotta be a T, right?
My old man ran marathons into his late 60’s, worked out everyday until 6 months before he died at 82. . .he couldn’t relax.
Thanks, nahant!
Oy. Twasn’t pretty in high school when my dad was vice principal and I forged his name on a sick note either…
All BS. UN Inspector Hans Blix was tearing his hair out – he had Saddam’s full cooperation with inspections – when Dim Sun Frogblaster called in the air bombardment from Carriers already positioned in the gulf.
Amazing.
I walk about a mile, mile-and-a-half every day. But not much else, especially since my softball game up and died.
BUT, fighting and jostling for RIGHT is right up your alley. Happy Birthday and thanks for your great work.
My folks were straight & narrow. Lived to 86 & 89.
It’s in the genes. Why I don’t ever call it “health” care. It’s medical care. Health is primarily related to genes, secondarily to life style, and very little related to medical care, except for some very basic stuff like innoculations.
Haha!! LOL! 707!
That kid was serious.
That particular park was pretty dicey. Cats that just got outa jail or were on the lam, etc.
after getting threatened with a Glock one day.
What, did you call for a foul or something?
(no such thing in street-ball, even if there’s blood involved)
Double OY. You definitely one-upped me.
I agree.
no, Condi got them and put them in her desk drawer and conveniently ‘forgot’ to tell Bush about them.
Like the PDB ‘bin Laden determined to Strike in US’
He was probably scoring too many points and pissing off the Alpha dog.
No, I knocked his hackin’ ass down, hard. He got some street pizza out of it and was majorly pissed.
Hee, hee…
An impeachment proceeding would prove it…
There’s something to be said about living a sedentary life. Too much exercise can damage the heart because it’s a muscle. Your comment made me think of my parents who will be celebrating their 50th anniversary next year. They’ve both basically ate the same meals all that time and when my father had his gallbladder taken out, my mother’s gallbladder flared up a week later and she too had hers taken out. Then a couple weeks ago they came to my house for dinner. My mother’s left leg was in a Velcro cast (she missed the last step and fell and now has a hairline crack in her ankle). Then a week later, they’re over to my house again and my father was limping because his right foot was hurting. He had no idea why except to say he was painting the house and now it hurts. Turns out, he misstepped off the ladder and has a hairline crack in his ankle.
For the love of the Banana Cupcakes! What is up with my parents? 50 years of marriage and they bruise, crack, and get organs taken out a week apart? Weird!
He was probably scoring too many points and pissing off the Alpha dog.
Yep. The city park courts always “belong” to somebody. Which is made quite clear very quickly.
He started his career at IU, played at Peoria Richwoods. Was on a really good Illinois team with Eddie Johnson and Mark Smith. I still have the SI Cover he was on.
No. I never start shit, but neither do I take any. Never. Probably ill-advised. But…
Crazy Irishman.
Have you got a short story on that one at your site? Would make a colorful short story.
Do you mean we’re really old enuf to laugh at our childhood traumas? That cannot be so. I’ve carried mine around in high seriousness for too many years to laugh now.
What’s the joke? The extra longevity you get from exercising is equal to the time you devote to it?
Wouldn’t that be wonderful. It’s coming after the election. Think Obama would defy the Constitution?
And they probably look like each other now, too.
No, I never wrote about that. It was kinda stupid on my part, given that crowd. But, he fucked with me once too often and I made him pay.
The Glock, though, gave me Seller’s Remorse. I quit goin’ to that park pretty soon.
True love? Psyco stuff? It is strange, maybe.
Happy Birthday, Eli. Golf is so Repub. Basketball is much more Democratic. Don’t you think?
No, I knocked his hackin’ ass down, hard. He got some street pizza out of it and was majorly pissed.
Ha!
Incidental contact in street-ball. (well, it is for the “home” team, anyway)…
Thanks, Twain!
Absolutely. Basketball, baseball, football, hockey, soccer – all team sports.
My mother has always been taller than my father. He’s “shrinking” faster than my mother and I always say, “Gawd Dad, someday Mom will be able to use you as a table to put her tea on”. LOL
BobbyG, no joke. ;-)
Theres Only one thing :>) They Are Still in Love after all these years and are in tune with each other in life! Good For Them!!!
I played golf as a kid and found it boring. I remember everyone drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon at the club house. I think the beer at the end was the game.
I don’t miss the street pizza either. Playin’ on concrete or asphalt, you will get it episodically.
LOL. I got some today. Out ridin’ my Trek and crashed.
My parents are still going strong at 78 and almost 80. Neither of them look or act their age. I have more gray hair than my mother! But my dad had all white hair by 40. Both of my grandmothers lived to be over 100 – one 102 the other 103. They were both walkers.
Not Pabst, Hamms beer.
Good for your relatives, and you!
So, I asked my golf fanatic Pop one day, “Dad, lemme see if I got this right: you spend thousands on this gear, hundreds for a decent round, and the object of this game is to DO LESS OF IT?”
It was kinda stupid on my part, given that crowd
Well, first ya gotta get shot, come back in a few months – *then* you’ve got the respect.
Tough game, street-ball. Fuck it. (did I mention that I was always very careful to keep my mouth *shut*?)
Even worse selection of beers…! ;-)
I would say a combo of both. They completely love each other. I stopped in there tonight (their home is on the way to mine). We got talking about ticks because there is a ton up here…more than most years. My father says, “Your mother gives me tick checks”. I said, “That’s good Dad”. He says, “Well, I love it so much that I ask her if I can give her a tick check now”. I said sticking my fingers in my ears, “Lalalala, too much info Dad!”. Then from the other room I hear my mother yell, “Stop it!” to my Dad.
Fun times. I’d feel fortunate to have 1/10 of their love.
Anybody know about Murdoch backing Obama? What is that about?
Murdoch backs winners.
LOL That sounds about right. ;-) My father dresses like a golfer but has never played golf (except mini-golf) a day, minute, or hour of his life. Hysterical.
I never talked trash, “talked” with my picks and my elbows when required to make a point.
Too much macho trash-talking in the parks. In the clubs at least you run the risk of getting banned, and that and the fees tend to keep the really bad actors out.
Anybody know about Murdoch backing Obama? What is that about?
CYA?
I’m gonna shoot 72 on every hole. Get my moneys worth.
Very cool.
And you watch…to suck up to the Obama White House, Fox News will become extreme liberal to keep their ratings up. I’m sorry but there is nothing that will get me to watch Fox News even if they make a change like this.
Very interesting. It is something other than physical (JMHO okay)….
My ex’s grandparents lived in the Caribbean…the grandfather got stomach cancer, and a couple of months later..the grandmother got the same thing…they both died from it. They were taking a magnesium supplement.
My aunt married to my blood uncle got esophageal cancer…her husband, my uncle got the exact same condition right after she died…he died. He had a business involved in gas light products…could have been asbestos related.
A cousin of my mother’s got cervical cancer…a couple of months later her husband died of some cancer…she survived and years later died of cancer.
The thing is…they were all alive and became ill after WWII (Hiroshima/Nagasaki)…all alive during the A-bomb testing in the 40’s and 50’s.
My brother who is 65 has lost many friends to leukemia. All were East of the A-bomb testing during the 50’s.
I haven’t lost any friends to it. I’m ten years his junior.
Just sayin’.
When is the US going to look at the fall out of the fall out of the above ground testing????
Dayam, it will take a week to finish a round…!
O’Really would choke on his words if he had to be liberal but that’s okay with me.
I’m thinking Obama will control the direct access press he gets/gives. He seems like a take-charge guy! Hope the sleepover is going well…
Success has a thousand fathers…
I never laugh at childhood traumas.
there is nothing that will get me to watch Fox News even if they make a change like this.
I don’t even know where FoxNews is on my teevee.
But then, I’ve got the ‘Fascist-Blocker’ turned on.
Me too.
That is soooo not going to happen. Their primary purpose is to be a propaganda organ, not a profit center.
Gotta run.
Carry on, eminent ‘pups.
Dayam, it will take a week to finish a round…!
A Good Walk Spoiled….
Is it true that Roger Ailes got fired?
I don’t put anything past Murdoch. That man is a blight.
Later, BobbyG…
FWIW: McCain starts running new ad Friday and Saturday in Iowa, Michigan, Colorado, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Missouri, New Mexico, Nevada, Wisconsin, and West Virginia.
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“Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war,” McCain says in the ad. “I was shot down over Vietnam and spent five years as a POW. Some of the friends I served with never came home. I hate war. And I know how terrible its costs are.”
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Is anyone terribly dizzy yet?
How did the sawing go??
I saw an article recently in the local press(Hawaii) that we’re still denying benefits to many kids(at the time) that ran out and played in the ’snow’ that fell on them in nearby atolls…!
I’m off too. Cut down a lot of dead wood with my new SawsAll and need to get some sleep.
Well, it’s simple. Republicans are the party of guns and antiabortion. It’s really interesting how the Republican party manages to convince so many uneducated voters w/ respect to the issues to vote against their own economic best interests (A democratic administration would probably be a lot better for the economy in the long run) over a few wedge issues. I have to respect their ability to spin in that regard. But this is our time, and people are very bitter about their economic situations so they’re clinging to God and Guns /snark
See my 186. I LOVE my new tool!
LS, it is very strange what goes on between my Father & Mother. They are definitely connected in more ways than one. They were born in 1939/1942, but my thinking is they’re not getting any of the symptoms from nukes. Though, I could be wrong. You never know. One of our family friends came down with the asbestos lung disease (can’t think of the name…starts with an “M”) and died last year from it. She used to go with her father back in the 40’s/50’s as a little to his workplace. Asbestos was in the work environment. Her father did not die of the disease but she did. Why? Because her father wore a mask and because she wasn’t an employee…she never donned one. Sad.
Yikes!
The listed pesticides there include:
Dursban/chlorpyrifos
Marathon II/ imidacloprid
Dursban/chlorpyrifos is incredibly toxic – even for a pesticde. Dursban/chlorpyrifos is so toxic that Pesticide Action Network and Californians For Pesticide Reform put it on their bad actor list.
Blergh.
Dursban/chlorpyrifos is definitely not allowed on organic products. IIRC, imidacloprid is also not allowed on organic products.
Only way I know to avoid OJ with either is to buy/squeeze organic oranges…
Aloha, BobbyG and eCAHN…!
FWIW: McCain starts running new ad Friday and Saturday in Iowa, Michigan, Colorado, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Missouri, New Mexico, Nevada, Wisconsin, and West Virginia.
I still think it’s bad planning for the cash-strapped McCain campaign to be advertising this hard, this early.
Voters have very short memories.
I hope you’re right Eli. Murdoch is a whore if you ask me. I don’t trust him.
This photo still gives me nightmares…
http://unitedagainsthillary.fi…..rdoch2.jpg
So does McC. :)
Exactly. This is a serious crime that has never been addressed. What about half lives and all that?
I’ll bet that in the long run it will show itself to have been the biggest cover-up of all time.
Just look at the repercussions of Chernobyl.. It’s okay if you FU if you are Russian….
We need a new look at this…especially in light of Cheneyco floating the use of nukes in Iran…as if it has no consequence…
Gee, no consequence after Japan…No worries….
Bombs away.
These people are batshit crazy. They are old and don’t care what happens to those who are younger.
It is a travesty.
Nite nite eCHAN BobbyG!
Sounds cool. Good work eCAHN!
The NY Post endorsed Obama before the NY primary and his daughter co-hosted a fund raiser for obama
In other words, Murdoch is a standard businessman hedging his bets.
Saw that ad during KO here in San Diego County. Not part of KO’s program. An ad.
Pukesville.
Also, I just got wind of two articles about our “contract” so to speak with Iraq. One was in The Independent on who Bush wants and is trying to arrange 50 permanent military bases in Iraq.
The other is about the renewal of our UN sanction to be in Iraq that is up in Dec. This article WAS BURIED on page A-15 in the Washington Post today. Rachel Maddow brought it up on her show. Bushies still don’t want to give up ANY executive willfulness re Iraq. Trying to pull out an Iraq WIN by the election. Rachel says maybe WE are uniting Iraq factions since they all agree they want us OUT. But not a biggie to the mainstream media… the U.S. mainstream media, that is. Other countries are keeping track. Good God!
http://www.independent.co.uk/n…..40512.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..03687.html
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California Oranges free of this junk??
So does McC. :)
heh. So you think he might come up with a “new” plan in October of running the same ads he ran in June?
Nuclear bombs from Dakota to Louisiana? Not atomic bombs, nuclear bombs. GO GATES!
Oh yeah… I forget. The lobbyists need to bankroll both sides of the aisle. Greased palms for everyone.
Happy Birthday Eve, Eli.
No elitist ideas to share, but there is another example I learned firsthand today on BushCo incompetence in furtherance of Grover Norquist style governance. For ”efficiencies” the US Weather Service screwed around with the local radar system covering the Park Rapids, MN area.
This morning, when the tornado-ey weather blasted through to the west and then east of our wee cabin in the tall timber, yep, no local radar.
Even the rightwing radio station owner was ranting as he tried to pull together coverage as the storm moved thru. Will be spending the 10 o’clock newstime listening to Twin Cities stations to find out what happened up here in Hubbard County.
Maybe we should all write to John McTeleprompter’s campaign telling him to run those ads a million more times, so his campaign will go bankrupt?
True, even Maliki is having second thoughts, even tho, his continued rule is dependent upon our staying there… Here’s an excellent take on it…
I can’t imagine these chemicals would be needed in California. We have groves spilling oranges all over the place. Orange trees not even being watered, much less fertilized.
That was from Minot North Dakota AFB. And more recently they had some kind of simulation testing that was botched, in part because one of the guards was busy playing a video game.
oops, me manners be sucking.
Happy Night Before, Eli!
Mesothelioma.
Substances such as asbestos can be transported on the clothing of the worker and affect whomever is in the house.
The simultaneous gallbladder problems are different…or maybe not…that could also be related to the asbestos somehow. They’ve been married for so many years. That means their environment has been so similar. I don’t know what affects gallbladders, but I assume that whatever they’ve fueled themselves with at the same time (air or sustenance) probably has some correlation…some shared habit…or some shared environment.
Maybe not. Maybe there is no connection, but it sounds connected on some level. JMHO.
here’s a paper on the psyllids and greening. Lots of photos. Apparently the preference is for live controls.
dumb question from: why 50 bases? ’cause we have 50 states? ’cause its a nice round number that shrub can relate to in its simplicity? Shrub wanted a hundred but couldn’t count high enough? I assume its not something so logical as the actual amount of bases military experts think we need to effectively occupy the country and subjugate our conquests.
ooops, toobz
not cooperatingactingupout…my 209 a reply to loo hoo’s 203
Thanks, PS! Thanks, jayt!
Ouch. My home state.
Are you insinuating that our government is blocking some portions of these weather satellite so the local weatherman can’t forecast accurately? Wow. That would protect them from another Katrina, now wouldn’t it? Can you imagine if they had blocked the satellite of the Katrina hurricane? Oh boy. Not sure if that can be done or not but I put nothing past the Death-Perverts in the White House at this point.
late nite zed upstairs
Yeah. Man of few words. “My grandfather came home from the war. Next day he died.” Wasn’t that a sound bite, too? Hello!!!!
The psuedo patriotism spin is getting revved up already. “Trust me.” Just don’t see my betrayal of the troops. The MSM doesn’t call him out on it.
Watching him in this is like watching lulling pharmaceutical commercials of meadows and beaches with DIRE side effects being told at the same time. CRAZYMAKING. We should do an ad with him doing his soft-soulful-I-am-not-really-a-war-mongerer with a crawl or voiceover reporting all his flipflopping with GI Bill, torture, etc.
Flipflopped on FISA … now the telecoms are his friends. Not long ago he said he was standing firm against telecoms.
nah.. it’ll be more shrub’s style to intimidate and blackmail the NWS to not report accurately the data streams from their satellites. As we saw with climate change research and NASA, shrubco’s better at politicizing science than the Russians or the Chinese are…
It was definitely weird to say the least. First my father went in and then we kids get another call a week later saying my mother was having hers taken out. What the heck! *shaking head*
Personally, I think it’s because they’ve shared almost every breakfast, lunch, and dinner together. (my Mother made my Dad’s work lunches with the food she would be eating for lunch too…stay home Mom, though, she did work odd jobs at times). They haven’t spent many days apart in their marriage either.
I doubt that. I don’t know why, but I doubt that America has the hold on hurricane info. Am I wrong?
Organic would be (again, if I’m correct about the imid…). California doesn’t use all the chemicals allowed in other states for insectides/pesticides, but I believe both of these are licensed for use in CA.
Only way to avoid (or minimize) poisons in our food is t oselect only organic produce/food. Sad, but true.
The only OJ I drink is that I’ve (or my friends) have squeezed from organic oranges.
The bulk OJ brought in from outside the US scares me because of pesticide residues.
Good point. I’ve noticed my local weather guy getting the forecast wrong a lot. Connection? Could be. ;-)
Okay, going to bed. Nite nite everyone. Have a great night.
Happy birthday eve, Eli!
Well, if it could be done, the Bush White House would be doing it. Trust me on this! LOL
Thanks, kirk!
hippo birdy eli – you share the date with my little sister but i won’t hold that against ya :)
Night, Kay. Pleasant dreams.
other countries have the technical capability to launch weather satellites and so.. but those that maintain a watch over US airspace are most likely to be ours and ours alone. Nobody else would care enough to… and if they did, they wouldn’t share their data with us. But again, more likely, if shrub wanted to manipulate the weather reports, he’d do so by the political expedient of threatening the government scientists who evaluate data from the satellites rather than playing with the hardware itself.
Thanks, Suzanne! Which means your sister shares it with CTut’s sister… and Prince, Liam Neeson, and Thurman Munson.
I was wondering why HRC would “consider” the VP position until it was pointed out to me that it would probably be more respectable to try for the presidency from the VP position rather than from being a loser, although she can’t shake the fact that she IS a loser.
Thanks for the link. Isn’t Maliki even consulting with Iran about this?
Makes me think of how the paranoid and cruel Burmese government won’t let in U.S. aid army helicopters to help rescue the victims. I mean maybe they wouldn’t anyway…. BUT WHAT COUNTRY CAN TRUST THE U.S.?
*shrugs*.. am I the only one here who actually thinks that a fusion ticket might just be a good idea? Or who is at least willing to entertain a discussion of such an option?
FYI — Edwards said no VP spot for him recently. Maybe Biden? Would love Edwards as AG.
Biden leaves me pretty cold overall, but the beating he would administer to McCain on foreign policy would be truly epic.
Watching Bush’s War on Frontline… I am sure no
logicsanity was applied to the situation!Biden for Secretary of State.
I wish they could clone Feingold and put them all in the Senate!
I’m certain you’re right. Cheney’s fortune teller must’ve determined that 50 was the cosmologically auspicious number.
I like Biden for that.
But this Administration we’re imagining is a bit Senate-heavy.
And Biden is a fairly Liberal guy, and he’s where we need Liberals right now.
Absolutely… unless we can scrounge up some Wellstone DNA.
you’re not concerned he’d put his foot in his mouth, as he has often been prone to do in the past, and accidentally use a racial epithet on a foreign ambassador?
Me. Lil ‘ol me.
Yes, that is a point. Maybe go with a governor?
Re Congress:
I can’t believe the climate change fillibuster ended things for this year. But Kerry is optimistic for next year? They are getting CLOSER???? Senators must be into GLACIER races. (Ulp … not for long, though!)
Absolutely! Those Frank Capra-type heroes are fewer and farther between. Integrity and justice over security and power!
The occupation of Iraq would get immensely more complicated, and much more dangerous for the troops there, were Iran to be struck by the USA and/or Israel. I hope those who think they can solve their Iranian problem through military strikes think about how their long-term occupation solution for Iraq would fare.
I was absolutely broken-hearted when he died. He was what I want Democrats to be.
Remember, this is Team Bring’ Em On we’re talking about.
MONSTER SNAFUS!!! Situation Normal… ALL F*CKED UP!!!! AGGGGGHHHHHH.
Someone explain to me why Biden has trouble getting elected to Pres or VP please. I want some concrete reason.
foot-in-mouth syndrome
They’ve all had foot in mouth syndrome…much worse than anything he’s ever said.
What else? Substance.
I have always liked him. Thought maybe HIS Iraq plan deserved more exploration. And I have a vague memory of him being accused of plagiarism in some statements? Will have to google and explore.
He’s whiney.
the racially and sexually intolerant comments he’s made make him unelectable in my eyes. I don’t care how “liberal” he says he is. In my book, good liberals don’t have the type of thoughts that lead to such words. Ever.
Whiney?
Are we sure he isn’t a victim of media slamastics?
Yep. It’s not just lack of filtering – it’s more. And it hurts him badly.
The above from Wikipedia on plagiarism.
Here we go. Racist T-shirts.
Fuck.
They wasted no time.
Those are all good ones. Just wondering. Thanks for digging.
I’ve watched him for years, and agree with him on substance. The tone, though, seems like he’s got a chip.
I wish he would just speak his mind.
Yeah, and Bush had an ear piece feeding him the answers during the debate with Kerry. But Biden is vilified for quoting RFK?
DOUBLE STANDARD with the mainstream press.
Hmm.
:)
Sometimes I despair.
I think spontaneous feeling types like Biden and even Edwards are more in danger of titillating the mainstream media and bringing things down on their heads. I think in long run, Obama’s cool intellectual deliberateness with a winning smile will help him walk through the media mine fields. Though, not sure how many preachers are linked to his life, poor guy.
Holy sh*t…the mofos…
What is wrong with people???!!!
Grrr..Geez…
It makes me so furrrrriousssss!!!
Haven’t been over to Taylor Marsh’s place for months, but here we are:
“Obama’s cool intellectual deliberateness with a winning smile will help him walk through the media mine fields.”
Well said… He’s something else….
Ahem…She’s not backin’ down…
OY VEY!!!!!
I THOUGHT THE FAT LADY FINALLY GOT TO SING ON SATURDAY?
It’s not over????? Is that why she asked people to WRITE her to tell her what to do?
Can we organize our own card?
Yeah… I am cultivating this little flame of hope lately!
hehe.. some latenight fun. I just checked facebook’s popular politicians ranking. Barack has nearly a million supporters, and is the most popular politician with a facebook profile. Hillary is number two at at 158,000 (she lost a few hundred thousand since Senator Obama won the nomination, as people like me migrated to him). McCain is third, at 138k, followed by Paul, Huckabee, Wen-Jia Bao (China’s PM?), Mitt Romney, Edwards, Kucinich, Schwarzenegger, and three European PMs. Shrub’s way down there, with a mere 12k supporters.
Doppler’s not satellite based. Watch live doppler, and you can tell: the circular sweep from someplace (mountain, airport) on the ground.
What is this message emerging?
White females don’t want a bi-racial male to be president, because the white female deserves to win….
or is it that the bi-racial male didn’t win, because the white female actually won but her votes were robbed by the bi-racial male.
or is it that the bi-racial male won, but the white female won’t let him have the win.
or is it that the bi-racial male was chosen and the white woman was pushed out.
or is it that the bi-racial male was a loser, and the white woman won but the numbers were skewed, so the bi-racial male won so the white woman could lose.
What the fuck is going on????
welll. she did put this on her facebook page earlier today:
“I will be speaking on Saturday about how together we can rally the party behind Senator Obama. The stakes are too high and the task before us too important to do otherwise.”
nothing defiant or petulant in the rest of the longish message either… all very courteous, in terms of thanking her supporters. I think its over for her.. supporters might do their own thing though, of course.
Let Senator Clinton ease her way out in whatever fashion our nominee is comfortable with. I trust him on this.
George W. Bush would rank #1 on a list of Top Dragnetters of Social Networks.
perhaps we need to find a way to limit the suffrage to Facebook users…. on the other hand, my own congresscritter, Susan Davis (D-CA) only has a mere 107 supporters. I kinda feel bad for her…
Fuck Taylor fucking Marsh.
The 5 stages of grief.
D-E-N-I-A-L
A-N-G-E-R
B-A-R-G-A-I-N-I-N-G
I think they are seriously working on those. Last two are depression then acceptance!
Wow! Thanks for sharing. I’m “embarrassed” to say that most of my Facebook friends are high schoolers. LOL Why are they mainly high schoolers you ask and I’m 40 years old? Because the son of one of my customers loves my blog and when some of his friends read it, they wanted to be my friend. LMAO It caught on like wildfire too. I bet there are a 100 on there. ;-)