Argh! “No longer available!” Shit!

I’ll scour about.

I’ve been to three different sites. why is the video no longer available? Still…the idea of JINGLING the key rings is really brilliant.

and your big NEON FURRY DICE

The moment the car stopped at McCain’s hotel in downtown New Orleans, he set out at his usual fast clip for Harrah’s, across the street. McCain is an avid gambler. Wes Gullett, a close friend who worked for McCain for years, told me that they used to play craps in Las Vegas in fourteen-hour stints, standing at the tables from 10 a.m. to midnight. ’Craps is addictive,’ McCain remarked, and he headed for the fifteen-dollar-minimum-bet tables.

McSame the War Candidate: 100 years in Iraq: The new war in Georgia over a Oil pipeline for higher Oil Company profits.
Yhe keys to your car.

McCain’s obviously got a big allowance from Cindy.

What’s a tab? Is it the same thing as a fob?

unlimited…………….AMEX CARD one m o n t h =750,000,000.000$

O N E …..MONTH

Slight exageration there $750,000.00

That’s a lot- too many zeroes?

Here ya go

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Hey David.
Just a regular folks type person checking in here. The UTube isn’t available.
For me, at this point, that’s a small issue. Dealing with paying bills and registering kids for school and is there enough gas in my tank are big issues.
Don’t mean to go off. But there so very much talk here about elitist agendas, right now. Just making it through the rest of the day is what I’m focusing on.
Links to information and information is great, but, hell….I need to survive as well. Too much nit picking sometimes gets in the way.
Still, I appreciate what you do. I just don’t have it at this moment to fully recogize the finer points.
So, I’ll go away and clean the house.
After my nap, of course.

Maybe it should be emblazoned with the Hanoi Hotel logo, whatever that might be.

you are correct….eyes arent what they used to be

and MY KEY RING looks like one of these

http://www.fuzzythis.com/images/4_yellow_dice.jpg

OK, I’ve got it fixed now. The embedding was disabled. Worked this morning, dammit.

If you click on the image or the caption, you’ll go to the YouTube page.

thanks (((Teddy))) !

I love that guy

Did Cindy buy the Hanoi Hilton for her little man yet?

Or perhaps the number of planes he’s ditched. What is it, five? Only people with macs can see this: ✈ ✈ ✈ ✈ ✈

Something to get familiar with:

It appeared as though the government might seize Lincoln for being insolvent.[6] The investigation was, however, taking a long time.[7] 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.[8] Keating now wanted the five senators to intervene with the FHLBB on his behalf.

By March 1987, Keating and DeConcini were asking McCain to travel to San Francisco to meet with regulators regarding Lincoln Savings; McCain refused.[8][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.[8]

On April 2, 1987, a meeting with chairman Gray of the FHLBB was held in DeConcini’s Capitol office, with Senators Cranston, Glenn, and McCain also in attendance.[6] DeConcini started the meeting with a mention of “our friend at Lincoln.”[6] Gray told the assembled senators that he did not know the particular details of the status of Lincoln Savings and Loan, and that the senators would have to go to the bank regulators in San Francisco that had oversight jurisdiction for the bank. Gray did offer to set up a meeting between those regulators and the senators.[6]

On April 9, 1987, a two-hour meeting[4] with three members of the FHLBB San Francisco branch was held, again in DeConcini’s office, to discuss the government’s investigation of Lincoln.[8][6] Present were Cranston, DeConcini, Glenn, McCain, and additionally Riegle.[6] The regulators felt that the meeting was very unusual and that they were being pressured by a united front, as the senators presented their reasons for having the meeting.[6] McCain said, “One of our jobs as elected officials is to help constituents in a proper fashion. ACC is a big employer and important to the local economy. I wouldn’t want any special favors for them…. I don’t want any part of our conversation to be improper.” Glenn said, “To be blunt, you should charge them or get off their backs,” while DeConcini said, “What’s wrong with this if they’re willing to clean up their act? … It’s very unusual for us to have a company that could be put out of business by its regulators.”[6] The regulators then revealed that Lincoln was under criminal investigation on a variety of serious charges, at which point McCain severed all relations with Keating.[6] Glenn continued to help Keating after that revelation, by setting up a meeting with then-House Majority Leader Jim Wright, which turned out to be the only questionable thing Glenn did throughout the whole affair.[9]

keating five

How about his standing at the U.S. Naval Academy? Mr. 894?

big NEON FURRY DICE
Cute. Must be more important than anything else.
Don’t let the fur tickle ya when yur ass is sticking up there, huh?

David, as I have posted yesterday: I went to a junkyard/auto-recycler and got a HUGE ring of keys, free. I put a metal plaque in the middle with my poitical snark. This is then my protest tambourine.

Jane and you must not have seen my post. I claim first dibs on having had this keyring idea. ;-)

jingle them freely …would be devastating in a one-person temper-tantrum-inducing-dog-whistle way to Mc3rd.

fair game? (exploiting POW experience)… at this point, why not.

Perhaps a fob commemorating his years of service to the K St hordes.

Okay, you got it. That and a nickel will get you what?
In an intellectual way, of course.

Founding Member of the Keating Five
Back in the old days, defendants in famous trials got numbers — the Chicago Eight, the Gang of Four, the Dave Clark Five, the Daytona 500. McCain was one of the ”Keating Five,” congressmen investigated on ethics charges for strenuously helping convicted racketeer Charles Keating after he gave them large campaign contributions and vacation trips.
Charles Keating was convicted of racketeering and fraud in both state and federal court after his Lincoln Savings & Loan collapsed, costing the taxpayers $3.4 billion. His convictions were overturned on technicalities; for example, the federal conviction was overturned because jurors had heard about his state conviction, and his state charges because Judge Lance Ito (yes, that judge) screwed up jury instructions. Neither court cleared him, and he faces new trials in both courts.)

Though he was not convicted of anything, McCain intervened on behalf of Charles Keating after Keating gave McCain at least $112,00 in contributions. In the mid-1980s, McCain made at least 9 trips on Keating’s airplanes, and 3 of those were to Keating’s luxurious retreat in the Bahamas. McCain’s wife and father-in-law also were the largest investors (at $350,000) in a Keating shopping center; the Phoenix New Times called it a ”sweetheart deal.”

This idea is a really good one!!!!! An independently funded Obama group should start producing these, because waiting for the beltway DNC to get to it is pointless. They have no sense of humor anyway. Grassroots is what is getting stuff done today.

On the key ring should be 7-10 card stock keys each labeled with a different lie or McSame Macaca moment he recently ACTUALLY perpetrated.

On Kos today I saw a great “But I was a POW!! Get Outa Gaffe Free” card someone photoshopped that would make the perfect key ring fob. This sounds like a great project for Move On to fund/produce.

Nothing like some good old fashioned ridicule to touch the heart of America. I’d love to see these key rings passed out on college campuses, handed out in droves. Great street theatre, esp. if done with humor, moves more people than an old fashioned protest march, it seems.

I hope this idea has legs and runs round the world!! If done well, it would make a great post election collectors item, like the Shepard Fairey HOPE posters.

Keating Five. A blast from the past. Next up, the pre-fab four.

” McCain has himself described having an adverse reaction to the sound of jangling keys, which reminds him of his Vietnam jailers…”

Salon 5/22/8

Correction: I meant to say @23, “servicing the K St hordes.”

Here, on the other hand, is a recap of the Rezko/Obama deal mentioned in the McBush ad– some will note that the ad relies on facts not in evidence:

few months after Obama became a U.S. senator, he and Rezko’s wife, Rita, bought adjacent pieces of property from a doctor in Chicago’s Kenwood neighborhood — a deal that has dogged Obama the last two years. The doctor sold the mansion to Obama for $1.65 million — $300,000 below the asking price. Rezko’s wife paid full price — $625,000 — for the adjacent vacant lot. The deals closed in June 2005. Six months later, Obama paid Rezko’s wife $104,500 for a strip of her land, so he could have a bigger yard. At the time, it had been widely reported that Tony Rezko was under federal investigation. Questioned later about the timing of the Rezko deal, Obama called it “boneheaded” because people might think the Rezkos had done him a favor.

Yeah- I forgot that corruption is OK as long as it happened “IN THE PAST”

Sick….I guess that addictive thing is why he gets off on the thrill of war.

Its not so past …
McCain made Charles Keating part of his campaign team today

Is it really relevant here?

7…is one greater than the number of houses on my 2 block long street that have gone into foreclosure.

Wow, spin that, MSM!

And you meant?

Seriously???

You think this is a good idea???

This is what makes progressives/liberals look stupid.

I can’t believe people like this nonsense. I really can’t.

Today I’m ashamed to call myself a progressive.

Baby teething rings with keys are readily available. Exaggerated key size and very colorful. Also, since they are not metal, may be easier to get through security.

The downside is, most don’t have more than 3 or 4 keys.

I can understand Shrub, Barnacle and the rest of the non-serving neocons being thrilled by war but McSFB should know better.

Saw these great McSame house keychains linked over at TPM this morning
http://www.zazzle.com/NYPragmatist

He’s cut from the same cloth as that lot, despite the legend in his own mind.

Sure it is- McCain just brought up Rezko- misrepresenting the facts and implying that Obama was corrupt—

Keating was, perhaps, the most decisive moment in McCain’s political career- it was what required him to come out against campaign financing corruption.

buy 2,3 or 4,depending on what THE REAL count is

i think this is a spirited inspired idea,of an out of touch spoiled SOB,who thinks everybody else should work 2 jobs (his words) and NOT take the needed vacation

Nice catch, Rufus!

And your idea would be what?

Sure, whatever floats your boat. I mean the guy is clinically insane, but what the heck. Go for it!

Ah, a graduate of the Bill Frist School of Diagnosis I presume.

Did you ever hear about how the GOP in ‘04 had everyone brandishing Purple Ban-aids to mock Kerry and his purple hearts from Vietnam?

Of course it seems stupid if you have a functioning brain.

Who says we’re trying to reach the folks with a functioning brain? We’re attempting to reach those folks who don’t think and get their news in sound bits off the evening infotainment.

which guy?

Some weeks back we had a pretty big page and discussion when McC’s medical records were sort of released; they could be read, but in a certain amount of time & no notes, I think.

Has there been anymore press for a more full disclosure? I do not recall that the psychiatric stuff came out, certainly nothing noting memory, etc. It seems to me as more of these odd episodes have been exposed (the pressured speech during last week’s church night, forgetfulness, etc.)that there should be more public interest in a deeper medical discussion. Or, am I crazy?

McCain.

i agree,he and reality rarely intertwine

The psychological portions of his records were withheld and since that initial flurry of non-information *crickets*

Only an insane person or Grandpa Simpson would be hollering at Mother Russia the way McCain has been carrying on.

Well, thanks. I think it is definitely time to review the bidding. Maybe our own Dr. Kirk can help us frame the issue. Calling Dr. Kirk. I know he was part of that earlier conversation.

from the Salon link upthread

There are behaviors associated with the candidate that would be consistent with a diagnosis of PTSD. Author Robert Timberg mentions McCain’s intense explosions of anger — a hallmark sign of lingering mental trauma from war — in his book “John McCain: An American Odyssey.” Timberg describes the episodes as “an eruption of temper out of all proportion to the provocation.” Timberg, who McCain has said “knows more about me than I do,” wrote that McCain’s sudden fury is a result of Vietnam coming “back to haunt him.”

Anyone wanna make/sell/giveaway hats/bumper stickers/coffemugs/tshirts?

“HOW many houses?”

might get legs. Luvtoseeit in Mich., Ohio, Penn.; could flood the Louisiana market.

You mean the same Louisiana where W just told us how successful the recovery has been? What would they care about housing?

On the other hand, he may have ALWAYS been an asshole!

McSFB has painted himself into a corner. “The Maverick” finds himself in a position where he has to follow the administration’s game plan to keep the 27%ers while at the same time trying to distance himself from Shrub to pick up the rest of the Rethugs. Shrub and company have been cozying up to Georgia and now find themselves at loggerheads with Russia, which the neocons have never given up hating. They still want to play Cold War. Shrub and Barnacle thought they were smarter than Putin. They were engaged in a battle of wits totally unarmed. McSFB isn’t crazy, just not very smart.

Back to being a wage slave.

Namaste

“Let’s call it 9 shall we?”

Will someone suggest the author fix the post?

I still think it’d be awesome for everyone to jingle their keys everytime they hear “McCain.”

Pound that shit into the ground — all week long.