Not much to add here. The self-deprecating reference to attendance at the United States Naval Academy in the Coolidge Administration did not get the laugh Old Lord McCain expected -- and probably gets from the BBQ Krew on the Double Talk Express.
But talk about how you rely on others to staff your internet use is just ludicrous. I don't expect the President to have texter's thumb from Blackberrying constantly. But McCain's approach -- "rely on my wife for all of the assistance I can get" -- does not bode well for a presidency facing many challenges on the technological front. How do you even explain cyberterrorism to this guy?
America has had its ride with a stupid, ill-spoken, illiterate, spoiled rotten child of privilege as President. We don't need another one. No Bush third term, please.
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zed!
Teddy!
Greetings to all NN PUPS.
Can’t he even speak proper English?
If You Can Read This - You’re Not Our President
He probably uses the DVD drive for a cup holder.
What’s the breaking FDL news? Inquiring minds want to know!!
Only us poe foks here. Waiting for Lady Jane’s announcement. I can haz pride of lionz in the meantime?
That’s all right, he apparently expects to be in the Senate next year.
When does his term expire?
Hey Teddy and Firedogs -
on tenterhooks here as well :D
Hi! Are you in the ballroom now for the FDL caucus?
Hi Teddy.
Is Senator McCain’s wife on the list of UBS super-rich tax avoiding customers? Or is that a bad question when we should be asking if Obama’s wife has “pride” or “really pride”?
You sure got that right, no confused old man, perhaps suffering from the early stages of dementia. How else can one explain his remarks, then his saying 5 min later that he never said that, that was never his position, he is after all a “war hero” so don’t you ever question me. The MSM has bought into the McCain world view totally, which is why no negative story ever lasts more than 1 news cycle. Its just like ground hog day, only we are repeating the 2000 election. McCain(bush) gets all the great press, while his opponet Obama(gore) gets slamed, slimed, and lied about-every damn lie that comes from the repig gets repeated as some kind of revealed truth, and the 50% of the voters-those who are sheeple-hear the lies, and willingly repeat them. After all, the sheeple don’t want someone to lead them who is really smart, they just want someone who they could sit and have a beer with while talking all about sports. The MSM has shown itself to be puppets for McCain. Every word treated as pearls of wisdom.
no such luck. home awaiting Jane’s announcement. have a ball and send our best to all.
sad but true
David Niewart is the only person up front I recognize. The others are AJ Plotkovitch? Deveria? and Ari?
Monday around noon FDL will have diaries!
(bows) Konnichiwa, Elliott
It’s Pach!
Competing with the Orange Satin now, are we? We’re nicer.
Oh cool.
Ari Robenhauf…
Norske is gonna like that. He’ll get his project off the ground yet.
Most of us!
Loo Hoo where are you seeing this?
Yeah, the really important stuff.
(bows) Konnichiwa
Jane, Spencer, everyone wants to see continued action.
Ari used to work in Harry Reid’s office…and will help with getting the diaries off the ground.
Christy isn’t here because of ill parents-in-law, and Jane is moving again???
Sure hope we get a full length vid.
Austin. Netroots Nation.
Good one!
I thought you were looking at a video feed. No video feed for the announcement?
Liveblog?
Crumbs?
Policy on progressives we’re pissed at…Do Not Endorse, Do Not Destroy. (ie Obama on FISA)
No. But CSPAN is here and a big Obama mobile gizmo…apparently Howard Dean is in it. He’s the Keynote this evening.
While we’re waiting, I have an announcement:
Congratulations FDL on 59,000,000 site visits!
——Girl Geek Squad
cosmic timing
Next week, D.C. has to vote, including McCain and Obama , about this landgrab:
Neocon landgrab of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac , and it will be legal in a few days , step by step
1) In the House Hearings June,3,2008 and in the Senate June,23,2008, under oath, it was very clear and agreed by all that Oil Speculation was at least 30 to 40 dollars in the price of each barrel of oil,and that Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley among others , had huge crude oil , gas and heating oil futures positions.
2) In the House Hearings July 10, 2008, Congress members asked Ben Bernanke,chairman of the Federal Reserve,why the Fed had given Bear Stearns and JP Morgan a 29 billion dollar loan and why the weekend deal was done after the 3 top executives of Bear Stearns ( Cayne,Schwartz,Spector) had secured their 20 to 60 million dollar stock payments each….he just slided with technical and emotional talk…
Bernanke was also asked why he had given the contract to administer Bear Stearns assets to BlackRock without bidding, and he said that it was the best choice at the time, and when asked if he was going to put the contract out for bidding, he said no!, when asked again that since the situation was stable, why not put the contract out for bidding, he again said no! …… Bernanke has no legal authority to do this, he is breaking the Law, AND THAT’S WHY HE IS ASKING FOR MORE AUTHORITY FROM CONGRESS, TO TURN HIS ILLEGAL AUTHORITY grab INTO A LEGAL ONE,AND CONGRESS WILL VOTE ON THIS IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS….the first grab…
3) in the Senate July 15,2008 Hearings, Bernanke was asked by various Senators about Oil Speculation, and he said flatly that there is NO Speculation ! just like that, he covered up for his friends in Goldman Sachs( Blankfein,CEO ) and Morgan Stanley (Mack,CEO)… and how can he say that there is no speculation? is he incompetent ? ignorant ? or a liar ? and when asked in all the Hearings why Investment Bankers were getting a free ride to do as they please while Commercial Bankers have a lot of regulations, he just excused the whole farce with the “difficult times…” , so the Hedge Funds like BlackRock getting billions of dollars in Taxpayers assets are free to do as they please, while he takes upon himself the authority to distribute taxpayers funds as he sees fit….the second grab…
4) and now comes his request to get Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac under his wing, so he can distribute fees , commissions and contracts to his chosen Hedge Funds, like Blackrock,KKR,Blackstone,Merrill,Goldman Sachs,Morgan Stanley,Cerberus,TPG,Lehman,Lazard,etc.etc.,and slowly start to transfer the assets themselves , the land of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, about 5 trillion dollars in mortgages,to them and others, a huge chunk of America is about to ge transfered to these groups and others, because no one will demand to supervise Bernanke and his partners , no one will demand an account, and Congress is about to vote on it…the third and final grab……America, no one to blame but ourselves !!!
5) All these Hearings details are out of the spotlight,Bernanke and his partners, Kohn,Friedman,Fischer,etc., are about to take over 5 trillion dollars in real estate assets, some of the best in America, and in a few years when the disaster hits the news, they will blame Bush and the 110th Congress, but by then, the neocons will have converted these stolen USA assets into legal assets, no one left but the usual christians to take the blame, as usual….and if you look at it, these land grabs are similar to the ones being done in the Middle East and the ones done in Russia by the oligarchs in the 90’s , and what a coincidence…it’s the same organized military-religious-political-financial orthodox group ! , oh well, my christian community will never get it,see it, never care and never do anything about it….or will you?
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/.....e2Parties/
Moving to where? Isn’t she in the DC area now?
He didn’t say. Pach is talking about getting DC eyeballs reading FDL. He says that a lot of people in DC read Marcy.
I am biting my nails metaphorically speaking
Mr. Springs, do you have some suspense music for us?
I feel like I’m the only one here anymore, has everyone else left the building?
Ari is talking about setting up the site such that people can share their expertise more…
There will be recommend buttons on the diaries so that they can’t be “gamed” by anyone at FDL.
I’m in the water, breathing through a reed.
Which is probably better than Cosmik Debris
The diary will be called Oxtown and will be another tab up top.
:)
at least you’re breathing
That’s what I want to know!
Hello, everyone. Do we have an announcement yet?
maybe I should run around the house, that’s what I used to tell the little kids to do
Hey… Zappa’s da man.
Does that mean that there will be more stuff about HoJo? Ways to hold Harry and Nancy accountable?
oh wait, that was so I could ditch them while I talked to my boyfriend
I’ve got a feeling that diaries and how they’re gonna be set up is the announcement.
The Announcement
hey, GGS we love ya
You guys have more nicknames for me, makes me laugh :)
ahhh!
I thought John McCain did mean that he went to Annapolis during Calvin Coolidge’s administration (1923-29), the same time that his dad went there. Only a candidate with an intact memory would have remembered he enjoyed the Academy during the latter years of the Eisenhower administration.
McCain thinks his joke was funny; he also thinks the Internet is a tennis tournament.
ya forgot mean-spirited. *g*