Reddhead!!!!

w00t! It is the feisty reddddheaded warrior-princess. Greetings, m’lady. McC*nt: He’s just an old, wrinkly, white-haird guy.

ooops. Am I allowed to call him by his “Pet Name” for his wife?

But Chrriiisssttttyyyyy! (said with high pitched, nasal whine)

John McCain IS an HONORABLE man. EVERYBODY knows THAT! Why he was a Prisoner of War for 5 1/2 years over forty years ago! So he’s an HONORABLE man.

Honest? Not so much.

Howdy all — how’s tricks?

I don’t care for his policies but I admire McCain’s skill as an aviator.

Lead us where? Further into the ditch? No thanks.

(audible laughter here)

Obama’s crew should keep this line in their pocket for when, and if, they decide to go nuclear on the Pudknocker.

battle Big Oil…

“But Senator McCain, we really don’t need any more money!”

“Look, I’m the maverick around here, and I say you need more money and tax rebates. And I’m not gonna debate you, dammit!”

battle Big Oil…

Not much of a fight really, he tripped over the money they gave him.

Lead us not into temptation’s ditch.
Who are these people who Do want to follow him? I don’t get them.

John McCain – “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”

I hope Obama’s team gets on the Abramoff issue. It’s something that everyone is familiar with.

Thanks Christy,

from the ’straw man bundler’ link above

The law forbids high-level supporters from writing huge checks, but with help from friends in the Middle East and the former chief of the CIA’s bin Laden unit — who now serves as a consultant to his company -

been bugging me all day, just who are they talking about here ?

the obvious answer is Michael Scheuer – but even with the consulting fee temptations, I find it difficult to believe he would do anything to help McScum

…then again, once widely respected Douglas Holz-Eakin done lost his mind working for him so I guess it’s possible

I know — I heard that line and then laughed like crazy. Mwahahahahahaha…who do they think they are kidding?!?

Fought corruption? Uh, Keating Five, anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

You would be surprised how little resonance Abramoff’s name has.

McCain: “The buck stops here.” (cue avalanche sound effect)

Just saw a great new move on add

Correction ad

The bucks stop here (in my wallet)

LOL — with some pix of all his lobbyist pals laughing in the background.

The bucks stop here (in my wallet)

If you catch my grift.

Not to mention Keating 5… No corruption there.

Christy, I have an OT Question. I turned on the justice departments news conference late and I heard the speaker, not sure who, for justice department say they had an air tight case. When a prosecutor has an air tight case wouldn’t they issue an arrest warrant?

howdy Ms LooHoo,

have to agree with Mack above. unless you get a Ludwig Von Drake cartoon explaining all the Abramoff twists and turns, there wont be much effect.

what this dfh is waiting on is an ad with Webb, Murphy, Sestak, Hagel and other vets informing the voting public of his NO vote on the New GI Bill – I have yet to run across anything more damaging to his Maverickyness

Don’t laugh now, you are refering to McCain’s base!

Once you peek below the spin and dig into the facts underlying it especially.

Hummmmm, well, we have a *slight* problem here…………the assumption the pundits are gonna “peek” and “dig” does not compute. :-(

oops, sorry Basharov. Bueller made me do it.

Normally, which is why most prosecutors never utter those words.

Hopefully, Obama will continue to use McCain’s own words to discredit him.

Is that the one with just one guy talking? If so, totally agree.

I’m still all mavericky and shit

Made me laugh

Yes – McCain embarrassed him in front of his family

Those people at Sturgis were all lobbyists? I can’t say I’m surprised. At least when Johnny pulls up his shirt they throw more than beads at him.

Hummmmm, well, we have a *slight* problem here…………the assumption the pundits are gonna “peek” and “dig” does not compute. :-(

But see, that’s why we have folks like Christy and Jane and Dave and Marcy and LHP et al. They do the Digging in the dirt and present the info then we get to do the Digging in the toobz and force the TradMed to cover these issues.

Difficult and time consuming process but necessary nonetheless.

He’ll reform Wall Street, battle Big Oil, make America prosper again.

He’s the original maverick. Shill

A shill is an associate of a person selling goods or services or a political group, who pretends no association to the seller/group and assumes the air of an enthusiastic customer. The intention of the shill is, using crowd psychology, to encourage others unaware of the set-up to purchase said goods or services or support the political group’s ideological claims. Shills are often employed by confidence artists. In the UK the term plant is also used.

Shilling is illegal in many circumstances and in many jurisdictions because of the frequently fraudulent and damaging character of their actions. However, if a shill does not place uninformed parties at a risk of loss, but merely generates “buzz”, the shill’s actions may be legal. For example, a person planted in an audience to laugh and applaud when appropriate (see “claque”), or to participate in on-stage activities as a “random member of the audience”, is a type of legal shill.

“Shill” can also be used pejoratively to describe a critic who appears either all-too-eager to heap glowing praise upon mediocre offerings, or who acts as an apologist for glaring flaws. In this sense, they would be an implicit “shill” for the industry at large, as their income is tied to its prosperity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shill

Do we want a Keating 5 shill as President when the Banks are in trouble?

Keating 5

The U.S. Savings and Loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s was the failure of 747 savings and loan associations (S&Ls) in the United States. The ultimate cost of the crisis is estimated to have totaled around $160.1 billion, about $124.6 billion of which was directly paid for by the U.S. taxpayer.[1].

Keating had made contributions of about $1.3 million to various U.S. Senators, and he called on those Senators to help him resist regulators, when Lincoln Savings and Loan was being investigated by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB). Lincoln had become burdened with bad debt resulting from its past aggressiveness, and its investment practices were being investigated and audited by the FHLBB:[5] in particular, whether it had violated “direct investment” rules, which prohibited savings and loans from taking ownership positions in certain financial entities and instruments;[6] Lincoln had directed FDIC-insured accounts into commercial real estate ventures.[4] It appeared as though the government might seize Lincoln for being insolvent.[6] The investigation was, however, taking a long time.[5] Keating was asking that Lincoln be given a lenient judgment by the FHLBB, so that it could limit its high risk investments and get into the safe (at the time) home mortgage business, thus allowing the business to survive. A letter from audit firm Arthur Young & Co. bolstered Keating’s case that the government investigation was taking a long time.[7]

By March 1987, Keating and DeConcini were asking McCain to travel to San Francisco to meet with regulators regarding Lincoln Savings; McCain refused.[7][6] DeConcini told Keating that McCain was nervous about interfering.[6] Keating called McCain a “wimp” behind his back, and on March 24, Keating and McCain had a heated, contentious meeting.[7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five

And thank Dog for them; the thought of the total darkness otherwise scares the living spit outta me!

So, what should I make for dinner this evening? (This blogging while multi-tasking? Not for sissies…)

How’s tricks? I thought you just covered that.

But Christy, no description of McCain’s ethical lapses could be complete without a mention of the Keating Five.

The only reason McCain got off with a slap on the wrist was that he successfully argued to the Ethics Committee, “I’m an idiot, not a crook.”

Not exactly what comes to mind for a victorious presidential campaign slogan, but the GOP messagemeisters have to work with the candidate they have, I suppose, and not the candidate they’d like.

Ratatouille.

So Mcloveslobbyists is at it again with false ads, I am shocked and dismayed. Not.

So whaddya got in the cupboard and refrig?

Here’s a quick and easy/original hamburger helper:
Brown and drain a pound of hamburger
Throw into sauce pan
Add a can of Tomato Soup and can of Mixed Vegetables
Simmer for about 30 minutes.
Over toast or biscuits or whaever.

Pasta Salad with tuna and fresh tomatoes.

The only reason McCain got off with a slap on the wrist was that he successfully argued to the Ethics Committee, “I’m an idiot, not a crook.”

That’s funny, as if it weren’t possible for him to be an idiot and a crook.

4:15, time for this lowly one to seize the day. Take care, all.

as if it weren’t possible for him to be an idiot and a crook.

heh – he really *is* the embodiment and continuation of G.W. Bush

Keating remains essentially unrepentant, maintaining that not his mistakes but regulators’ actions were ultimately responsible for the losses. He repeated these claims in an interview in 2006. The 2004 book The Savings and Loan Crisis: Lessons from a Regulatory Failure makes similar claims and presents Keating in a favorable light.[7]

In an April 2008 opinion piece titled “The Keating Five Legacy,” William K. Black, Associate Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, presents his views about Keating (among others). Black was counsel to the Federal Home Loan Bank Board during the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and was a whistleblower in the Keating Five scandal. His book on the crisis “The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One” was published in 2005 by the University of Texas Press.[8]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Keating

The bank that wants to take your house away is getting bailout by George Bush and the Federal Reserve, but thats not good enough for the banks thats why they want John McCain as President.
Because its always governments fault even when the government bails you out.
Because the Proud have no guilt.

I cooking pasta with smoekd salmon and peas in cream sauce.
(The good and bad chloresterol can duke it out)

off to commute and cook that now

OT. Pathetic!!! Obama’s and McCain’s comments on the Hamdan verdict: http://elections.foxnews.com/2…..n-verdict/

Mmmmm…salmon. That sounds lovely. Feel free to share the recipe some time, would you? *g*

you know I thought of something grand while at the gym today trying to get back in shape and horning in on someone else’s political discussion;

you know how there is a “base” of right wing morons that no matter what happens will find an excuse to excuse the president? (funny how those two words are spelled the same but pronounced differently, “excuse to excuse”, but I digress);

if a black man is elected the next president of our country of bigots, there is only one way that man could have overcome the bigotry in this country;

that would be the vile hatred for president bush, and it will seem brutally obvious to “the base” that they have president bush to thank for a barrack president

yes, if barrack is elected they might actually get on board to hold him to criminal account, they won’t verbalize “because of him barrack is president”, they might not even whisper speak it consciously to themselves, but they will whisper it to themselves and they will stew and they might blame the man in office and search for themselves why he is so reviled and they might get on board to revile him with us

if only Obama is true to the country and turns from his corporate sponsorship, he will likely be considered one of the greatest presidents who ever served our country

and let’s not forget..
I am not a crook
– Richard M. Nixon

My husband is the cook (but I’m a heckuva baker) – do you have boneless chicken or a fish filet by chance? Make an envelope of tin foil (parchment paper works best), add some olive oil, fresh herbs, lemon, onion, carrots, whatever veggie you like sliced thin, and make it in a moderate oven. Look up envelope on the Food Network and you might find it there too – takes 20 minutes or so and it’s delicious!

Do you mean singularly ‘pathetic’?

Or equally, ‘pathetic’?

The responses were remarkably similar, almost like the amazingly similar MSM reportages, on many, many occassions.

You know as if they were from the same ‘play’ book?

We are not quite yet to Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber, but it is still early in the ‘game’ …

I say just slap together some peanut butter and jelly sandwhiches and call it a nice healthy dinner.

you know my parents had no clue what was and was not healthy when I was growing up, I had peanut butter and jelly sandwhiches every single day

my mom used to swear the only healthy part of an egg was the yellow and the white was worthless

my dad use to peal the skin off the chicken and give it to us because “it was the best part”

and whenever my mom broiled steak we would skoop up the fat with bread or spoon it out and have it straight

my mom also use to let the chocolate pudding cool on the window in individual cups and they would develope a hard 1/4″ coating which I always considered the best part

only later did I find out most people don’t think it’s good pudding if it has that layer

Preview is my firend. Preview is my friend. That would be “bake” not “make”…

My #58 was to wigwam’s 51.

Ooooh, that does sound lovely. Will look for that — thanks! Decided to go with the old stand-by — chicken souvlaki. Have it marinating at the moment, will throw together some quick tzatziki (yogurt/cucumber sauce) and use the grill pan for the chicken and some zucchini and cherry tomatoes. Then, all I need is some pita and a little hummus and…bingo!

Does that mean that Bush will finally have lived up to his campaign promise to be a uniter and not a divider

Wha???? He calls himself “one”?

With not the slightest trace of shame. Sadly, yes.

David is upstairs. Or next door. or somewhere nearby.

Hi Christy!

As it so happens, I used to work in the commercial Real Estate industry and worked for a competing developer (for those who are familiar with the Phoenix area, maybe you remember the “road to nowhere” in “Sun Valley” way out west). Several people I worked with had previously worked for Keating, and they said he was such a nice man. He would call and have a nice lunch brought in for everyone that worked in the main office, about 50-90 people most Fridays. She thought it was wonderful…until she realized that was, in essence, his way of raiding the coffers of Lincoln Savings. It’s that kind of arrogant egotism that caused the entire problem for Lincoln. Especially when you consider the wording of one of his company’s memos that the people selling their junk bonds in the lobby of Lincoln Savings Banks should consider their target market to be the weak, the meek, and the ignorant.