Aloha, ES!

Joe Biden!

Hoping I wake up in the morning to find the crooked chat express off the road.

Evening CT

Hi ES,

Thanks for the vid. I’m not familiar with Bettye Lavette. It’s really excellent.

ES that is lovely…… Thank you….. Wahoooo I can do youtubes now…. my new super duper mondo wireless router …… poof they start right away….. another issue resolved…..

If we can’t get America back on track….and I still hope that we can….anyone got ideas of the next best place? I just can’t live in a world where Sarah Palin is in charge……..and I’m just sayin’, John McCain, watch your back!

Digg it!

Everybody get a chance to check out that link that LindaR posted downstairs?

what brand, katymine?

it is a Linksys WRT310N which was rated for commercial use for offices which need high download & upload speeds…. since I work from home….

I was thinking about the left’s insistence on remaining civil and how remaining civil will lose us this election, and I was reminded of a very short but very appropriate song by Warren Zevon, whom we lost five years ago.

At the risk…

You’re sposed to sit on your ass and not at stupid things
Man that’s hard to do
But if you don’t they’ll screw you
ANd if you do they’ll screw you too
ANd I’m standing in the middle of the diamond all alone
I always play to win when it comes to skin and bone
And sometimes I say things I shouldn’t - like…
And sometimes I say things I shouldn’t - like…
And sometimes I say things I shouldn’t - like…

If we want to win, we have to fight dirty. Civil is for losers. Civil has begotten the last eight years.

It’s a fight to the death. Believe it.

It’s such a great youtube, isn’t it? Her first hit was in 1962.

what’s on my mind? da election. it’s exciting. wish it wasn’t. wish it wasn’t so close. scary. so many unknowns and unpredictables. Hey, I read that Biden was great out on the trail in PA today? True. I saw a YouTube link but everybody’s in bed.

Yeah, I was just reading her Wikipedia bio. Recorded her first record at sixteen in ‘62. I was one year old, could have gotten in on the ground floor. Oh well, better late…

It’s a fight to the death…..the death of America. But I think the left can fight with truth, truth and more truth. If we have to stoop to the lies of the Repuke/Rightists, then maybe it’s not worth having. If the voters of the USA are that dumb, then maybe it’s time for the independents and intellectuals to just move on. I don’t want my grandkids raised under the disgusting lies of these folks.

The Biden YouTube.

i meant

“Hey, I read that Biden was great out on the trail in PA today? True?“

That should have been “true?” — a question.

Not “true”– a statement.

Palin/McCain will make Bush II look like Bush I.

-G

thanks ES. I can watch it and he looks good. But everybody’s asleep and I can’t listen. Good? I think he’ll be good. Saw Sarah & McSame. She introduced him. Word-for-word right out of her acceptance speech. I don’t think I’m the only one who’s getting sick of the POW story. I’m also already sick of her “here’s John McCain; isn’t he dreeamy” - school girl intros. Cindy was there to keep an eye on things. The pink cast is back on. Couldn’t wear it during the convention. She can use it to slug somebody, though.

I wonder… is this crazy, clawing-to-stay-on-top spirit similar to what it felt link in England when their empire was nearing its sell-by date?

Anybody see Real Time? Michael Steele was trying to explain why you can’t denigrate Pallin’s experience as a mom and PTA member, but it’s OK to ridicule BO being a community organizer. I didn’t get it. Also didn’t get his explanation as to how being a community organizer was “very different” than Bush I’s “thousand points of light.”

How dare you pick on a POW, a mother with a special needs child and a woman in a cast?

-G

I love, love this YouTube. Thanks, ES.

Now wouldn’t it be nice to see them two in a cat fight… Hockey mom would win over skinny Cindy….

I cancelled all of my premium cable a couple of months ago.. Maher is about the only thing I miss.

You are so very welcome…)

Cindy claims to be a Hockey Mom, too.
Professional courtesy, don’t you know.

Cindy’s job will be to protect her man from the heir apparent……and I mean really. Once again, John McCain, you made a craven decision and now it’s time to watch your back.

Bettye Lavette!

She’s a big-g-g hit around here in SEastern Michigan. Grammy nominee for contemporary blues this past year, Scene of the Crime.

go Joe, go!!! he’s very comfortable doing this stuff.

even if Cindy has a pink cast?

we did that for awhile. i was the same way. but we got it back and there are some decent things on. Don’t know if it’s worth it what with Maher being off half the year.

Hehe.. You listened. And I was about to suggest you buy some headphones. Be sure and listen to Bettye tomorrow.. it’s worth it.

hey she’s a Hockey mom so right in character…

I’m listening to Christine Todd Whitman on a rebroadcast of NOW. Naturally, I’m not a fan but one can’t help but think what a superior candidate she would have been to Palin, or McCain…

Ya always come up with the good stuff ES
Nice.
Between you and Suze ya keep me busy.
Thanks.

Or so she claims…
I’m having a hard time imagining it.

This from my favorite Alaska blogger. He has had little to say this week, because he ha been traveling. He’s a PhD, a fan of emptywheel’s writings, and has never, ever jumped the shark. He has a lot of contacts inside law enforcement, mostly at the Federal level:

The army as an alternative to jail may or may not be a good option. Vandalism doesn’t usually involve a possible death sentence. Making a policy of getting people out of jail because military recruiters can’t otherwise meet their recruitment goals raises serious questions about the popularity of a war.

Using your son to prove your fitness as a vice presidential candidate, by boasting of his enlistment in the army and impending trip to Iraq, knowing he chose the army as his alternative to jail, is both hypocritical and stupid. Hypocritical because you know that the only reason he’s headed to Iraq is that he had no choice. Stupid because it’s going to come out.

What kind of mother risks the emotional stability of her kids by exposing them to national and international ridicule to further her career? What kind of candidate thinks it is ok for her to tout her children’s positive achievements, but off limits for the opponents to discuss their more problematic behaviors? You can’t have it both ways.

And what does this all tell us about the presidential candidate who makes impulsive decisions based on his gut feelings? I think McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin has done us all a giant favor. He’s shown us that he’s willing to take risky decisions, risky important decisions, with shoddy data gathering and analysis. It’s better we know that and see it clearly before November.

Agree with his analysis, around here I’ve already started calling Palin “The gift that’ll just Keep On Giving™!”

Jesus.

Jesus.

The lunatic fringe has ascended.

I notice she also lied about him being deployed on 9/11.

-G

Chris Floyd documents the Obama atrocity of admitting the surge is a great success on the O’Reilly show.

sorry for the OT reply, but did you see my #201 to you on Jane’s last thread - (Early Polling on Palin)?

I think there’s gold in those files….

The problem, imo, is what kind a framing will pierce the hard headed folks who really need to both hear those questions and answer them?

I watched just enough of that to keep my dinner down but if you were paying attention, that kid was having a serious deer in the headlights moment and you could almost hear his bowels churning.

Ooh, so that’s how he ended up in the Army, eh?

Chris Floyd documents the Obama atrocity of admitting the surge is a great success on the O’Reilly show.

I’ve read some pieces today suggesting that this may not be a big loss.
So, when McCheese packages this into ads…
Conceding the central point of McCheese’s judgment…
right

Someone’s got to know specifically what books she tried as Mayor to have removed from the public library.

Let’s not forget that this will be reduced to:

1) Attacking children.

2) Attacking the military

-G

Subject: Fw: Sarah Palin
email form my neighbor(local community activist)

this is from a college classmate and old friend. read it, weep, and pass it on to anyone —
Dear classmates -
As an Alaskan, I am writing to give all of you some information on Sarah Palin, Senator McCain’s choice for VP. As an Alaska voter, I know more than most of you about her and, frankly, I am horrified that he picked her.

The most accurate description of her is red neck. Her husband works in the oil fields of Prudhoe Bay and races snow mobiles. She is a life time member of the NRA and has worked tirelessly to allow indiscriminate hunting of wildlife in Alaska, particularly wolves and bears. (This is with Fish and Game, so there are more moose and such for people to hunt.) She has spent millions of Alaska state dollars on aerial hunting of these predators from helicopters and airplanes, dollars that should have been spent, for example, on Alaska’s failing school system.We have the lowest rate of high school graduation in the country. Not all of you may think aerial predator hunting is so bad, but how anyone (other than Alaska wolf-haters, of which there are many, most without teeth), could think this use of funds is appropriate is beyond me. If you want to know more about the aerial hunting travesty, let me know and I will send some links to informative web sites.

She has been a strong supporter of increased use of fossil fuels, yet the McCain campaign has the nerve to say she has ‘green’ policies. The only thing green about Sarah Palin is her lack of experience. She has consistently supported drilling in ANWR, use of coal-burning power plants (as I write this, a new coal plant is being built in her home town of Wasilla), strip mining, and almost anything else that will unnecessarily exploit the diminishing resources of Alaska and destroy its environment.
(And she was quoted as saying, ” “I’m not one though who would attribute it to being manmade,” in reference to Global Warming. According to Newsmax, and referred to in an article by the Associated Press.)

Prior to her one year as governor of Alaska, she was mayor of Wasilla, a small red neck town outside Anchorage.The average maximum education level of parents of junior high school kids in Wasilla is 10th grade.

Unfortunately, I have to go to Wasilla every week to get groceries and other supplies, so I have continual contact with the people who put Palin in office in the first place. I know what I’m talking about.

These people don’t have a concept of the world around them or of the serious issues facing the US. Furthermore, they don’t care. So long as they can go out and hunt their moose every fall, kill wolves and bears and drive their snow mobiles and ATVs through every corner of the wilderness, they’re happy. I wish I were exaggerating.

Sarah Palin is currently involved in a political corruption scandal. She fired an individual in law enforcement here because she didn’t like how he treated one of her relatives during a divorce. The man’s performance and ability weren’t considered; it was a totally personal firing and is currently under investigation. While the issue isn’t close to the scandal of Ted Steven’s corruption, it shows that Palin isn’t ’squeaky clean’ and causes me to think there may be more issues that could come to light. Clearly McCain doesn’t care.

When you line Palin up with Biden, the comparison would be laughable if it weren’t so serious. Sarah Palin knows nothing of economics (admittedly a weak area for McCain), or of international affairs, knows nothing of national government, Social Security, unemployment, health care systems - you name it. The idea of her meeting with heads of foreign governments around the world truly frightens me.

In an increasingly dangerous world, with the economy in shambles in the US, Sarah Palin is uniquely UNqualified to be vice president. John McCain is not a young man. Should something happen to him such that the vice president had to step in, it would destroy our country and possibly the world to have someone as inexperienced and inappropriate as Sarah Palin. The choice of Palin is a cheap shot by McCain to try to get Hillary supporters to vote for him. when McCain introduced her today, Palin had the nerve to compare herself with Hillary and Geraldine Ferraro. Sarah Palin, you are no Hillary Clinton.

To those of you who, like me, supported Hillary and were upset that she did not get the nomination, please don’t think that Sarah Palin is a worthy substitute. If you supported Hillary, regardless of what you think the media and the democratic party may have done to undermine her campaign, the person to support now is Obama, not Sarah Palin. To those of you who are independent or undecided, don’t let the choice of Palin sway you in favor of McCain. Choosing her shows how unqualified McCain is to be president. To those of you who are conservative, I guess you have no choice for president. But please try to see how the poor choice of Palin tells us a great deal about McCain’s judgment.

While the political posturing inherent in the choice of Palin is obvious, the more serious issue is the fact that the VP is, literally, a heartbeat away from the presidency. Sarah Palin is totally and unequivocally unqualified to be vice president, let alone president.

I know this is a lengthy and emotional email, but the stakes are high. I thought it might help for all of you, regardless of political affiliation, to know something about Palin from someone who has to live with her administration in Alaska on a daily basis.

I somehow get the feeling that Palin is Karl Rove with boobs….. that is the part that scares me……

As a mother…. of children that had special needs, that she would expose them…. that ambition is more important than her children…..

The higher a pol climbs, the more likely that they are ruled by ambition. Most of them love their families but most also use them as props. Having said that, since nominating Palin, the McCain campaign has really raised the bar in regard to exploiting kids for political gain. I know it’s all part of pandering to social conservatives but you would think even they could see through it.

She’s my ex-governor. The base will never accept her. Also she ran clean campaigns. Before he became governor, McGreevey ran against her and just barely lost. Afterward he kept thanking her for running a clean race and sticking to the issues. I remember thinking “why does he keep saying that so much?” In retrospect, at the time it wasn’t common knowledge that McGreevey was gay. But there wasn’t even a whispering campaign by her surrogates. Unlike what Bush & McCain would have you believe,candidates really can control that shit if they want. By the time McGreevey ran and won the next time, it seemed like everybody knew he was gay. Except his wife. Nasty, nasty divorce . I digress. But Whitman comes from that old-time line of northeast republican. Fiscally conservative, pretty liberal socially. Not as liberal as, well, liberals. But liberal enough to have no place in the national GOP. Whitman is to be commended for quitting the Bush administration. They put her front and center to peddle the bullshit that there was nothing wrong with the air quality at ground zero.

I thought all the kids and mom looked like the deer who had already been run over last night.

The very thing that rallied people to him in the first place.

Does the name Obama mean Dukakis in Kenyan?

-G

ABC has eight people here, CNN nine, and so on. But that particular bit appears to mostly be the domain of the National Enquirer, the place for Palin stories to be, for sure. They’re pissed from the pushback McCain’s campaign has given them, and have they’re dander up now.

I was just reading at one of my favorite blogs, mondoweiss. I was hoping to go there and get away from wall to wall Sarah.

Sheesh!

Yet she will assist in foisting the McCain/Palin atrocity on an unwitting nation.

-G

According to an ex-drummer in my son’s band, who knew Track well - they scored from the same source - he hates mom and dad. Note that he didn’t have his uniform on.

Cindy McCain is such a … a…. C’mon. Help me out here.

A little breast feeding on the podium… gee how homey

Nahant, are you trying to give ET a heart attack? *g*

I can’t wait to his reply to that letter.

I sure miss edit…..

“Sarah Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Hillary Clinton. She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.”

Gloria Steinem, The Los Angeles Times

It’s fixed, ET.

Heh, the CinC didn’t order him to wear it? ;-)

well, like any family, they’ve had their ups and downs.

Hey ET did you get my email?

Wait till October after he gets a real dose of reality. he might just turn into a liberal democrat!

Uh oh.

yeah. why didn’t he have his uniform on? is he ashamed of the uniform?

That was basically the gist of of the NOW interview, that moderate Republicans don’t feel all that welcome in the party these days. Still, the fact that she is intelligent and articulate stands in such stark contrast to the rubes who lead the party. I can imagine moderate Republicans breaking away and forming a new party but of course they never will, since the resulting schism would likely give Dems an enduring majority.

Brought to you by the same types who wants ordinances prohibiting it in public places.

ME to ES my neighbor is a true hippie type and a Dem activists… She just loves the stuff I send her specially some of the cartoons from darkblack and anything that points out what turds the rethugs are…

She got treated like crap in Bush’s cabinet.

sorry to bother you.

http://maverick.com/ is one of Madonna’s web pages. I can’t believe she hasn’t worked the McAngle one way or another.

MY sister sent this one
New bumper sticker: Jesus Was A Community Organizer; Pontius Pilate Was The Governor

No offense to you, ET, but I have to say, the more I learn about what goes on in our 49th state these past few days, the more I come to treasure the spirit of our 50th. The difference is striking.

I just don’t see how a mom of a kid in that situation can stand there and say “John McCain is just the kind of commander in chief I want.” To say that, to put her daughter through this public ordeal, to shamelessly exploit them… I question whether she likes those kids. She’ll have no trouble balancing the roles of her job and being a mother ’cause she doesn’t give a shit.

Any news on whether Track was conceived before she was married. Was that one ever run down? Or are people looking into more relevant stuff? Enquiring minds wanna know.

I certainly didn’t like Lingle’s shilling at the convention…! ;-)

I think McCain needs a hysterectomy.

couldn’t agree more. That’s why I’m fighting so hard to change it.

This Government needs an enema!

Naturally, at the outset she appeared compatible, I recall she favored allowing polluters to monitor their own compliance with environmental laws. When she learned the Bush/Cheny junta’s real goal was to gut the department and basically eliminate all government oversight, she must have been appalled.

Regarding McGreevey, I remember reading at the time that being gay was the cover story. In reality, he was under investigation and likely to be indicted on corruption charges if he stayed in office. The article I read noted that New Jersey has a history of corrupt government surpassed only by Illinois and Louisiana. Being from Illinois, I considered that quite a feather in our cap.

why surprised me was the redneckedness that I’m seeing or reading about. I know it’s not everyone. But I just never associated “redneck” with “Alaska.”

tw3k!

Dick Cheney is running arond Russia’s backyard telling the little guys that he’ll be with them when the shit comes down.

Stupid mothers.

Col. Lang reported that Deadeye Dick got such and icy reception that he cancelled the dinner like a fucking child.

Look for more death to follow that bloated old goon. Death stalks him like a vulture.

-G

Sadly, I was lolling about in Honolua Bay during all that, and couldn’t be happier about having missed both conventions.

Be careful to stand to the side while you administer it.

Ever more power to ye, sir.

wazzzup!

tw3k! Dude!
Dems in PA the last couple of days. You get a look?

jeebus, hip wader wouldn’t ever protect ya.

I’m too fucking pissed at the dems.

Palin’s stall: Governor is stonewalling the Troopergate investigation is an Anchorage Daily News opinion piece.

true about McGrevey. the joke was “McGreevey’s having a news conference and he’s going to announce he’s gay.” — “But what’s the news?” there was alot of stuff percolating. alot of people were pissed he resigned and used his homosexuality as the reason when almost everybody knew he was gay. We just assumed one of the things that was percolating was about to boil over.

Just whipping up on the Palinbangelicals.

colonoscopy if you ask me… without the meds!! Rip the polyps out!!

Line forms a few miles away.

thanks!

I wrote this at the immediate previous post:

Alaska bloggers got the information out fairly quickly, places like firedoglake, Huffpo, TPM and KOS helped turn some in the MSM onto how totally unqualified and dangerous Palin is, all did a good job.

Most impressive - to me - was this place. With just a few posts from either me or celtic diva - the fdl crew gathered facts about Palin and issued them in cogent essays.

I was a very complacent Democrat in Oregon….. my state senator was my Vet and where I lived it was pretty blue….. it was moving to Arizona where we have radical pols like Sheriff Joe and Russel Pierce with their wacky hate laws and violations of civil rights….. That got me fired up…… we fight harder because we have to….. we have to fight just to keep what we have……

McCain, Palin. McCain, Palin. Huh. Maybe the R’s are going for the marital infidelity demographic?

Dude.. The AR Dem party replaced recently murdered Bill Gwatney today with Senator Mark Lieber-lovin’ Pryor’s father, David Pryor.

The only good thing David Pryor ever did was make us look better (nice polite Democrat) after Orval Faubus.

I swear, this is like the dark ages with electricity and plastics.

Hey ET your website sure helped a lot. I sent the link out saying Meet The Real Sarah..

Read the piece. Like this:

BOTTOM LINE: Gov. Palin is stonewalling on Troopergate; the Legislature should issue subpoenas.

Just what a maverick and a reformer would do!

But if you ask her about it you are attacking her because you aren’t asking Joe Biden about his involvement in trooper gate, you sexist.

-G

Hoofah…Was Dale Bumpers too busy lobbying?

-G

Gustav lives on in AR

Heckuva job, Chertie

How about that FEMA? They did a heckuva job moving sick folks out of harm’s way in advance of Hurricane Gustav. Something like almost 250 evacuees were airlifted into Little Rock for hospital care here ahead of the storm.

Er, but Director Chertoff … didn’t anybody think about getting those sick folks home AFTER the storm?

Apparently not. Or so we are told by a reliable hospital source. Take St. Vincent Infirmary. It received 63 patients at two locations. The storm’s long gone, but some 57 or so evacuees are still on hand. Does FEMA have a plan to get these folks home? It does not. In fact, I’m told that during a conference call this week, FEMA officials suggested to hospital officials that it could just turn out the able-bodied to homeless shelters.

Kid you not.