Wouldn’t it be nice if somehow this Dame could frozen in exactly that position - for the rest of her life? NO blinking! Those glasses. That hair.

FOREVER!

She is such an ignorant idiot.

In a nutshell.. it’s why fundies have to lie or just make shit up. The result of a lifetime of being taught to never question anything.

Someone really ought to ask Palin if she thought she was possessed by witches since she let the Kenyan preacher work his magic upon her.

I want to know.

BT,

Thanks for the post. LOVE the pick.

For a campaign that has tried to define itself as “not Bush”, nothing could be more appropriate and off the mark than the button on her collar. It says to me, “McCain IS “W” but with a twist — upside and backwards to boot.”

I actually think she’s just parroting talking points from July. It’s bizarre.

In the interim, someone might wanna tell her that Bush has already agreed to retreat.

Of course, Katie couldn’t/wouldn’t have pointed that out. I imagine there’s little likelihood of Sarah appearing on The View.

I think maybe she was possessed AFTER that.

Earth to Palin; Earth to Palin krrrrrrrrrch; Earth to Palin - anyone there

Palin talks like a kid who has a five page essay to write and can only think of one sentence.

Maybe she got into mcShames stash

OK I’ll do it.

McCain should never never never pushed her onto the national stage.

Maybe she only had room for one sentence on her crib sheet?

Does anyone know whether or not Katie mentioned that there was a plan in place?

I actually think she’s just parroting talking points from July. It’s bizarre.

But she larn’d ‘em so good!

Great post, BT. I’ll be we see more of that photo…

Maybe she should just skip the interviews and the debate and go “fix the economy.” All the Republicans are doing it these days.

Man, have I been there!

M=McCain is just an upside down W.

Dosido, that is so apt. I have been there watching students try to get this seemingly small task done, yet they are totally overwhelmed. I think this is Palin. Who could have anticipated?

That’s all there’s room for when you have the Big Handwriting with hearts and smiling faces over the i’s.

I feel a LITTLE guilty posting that photo — but not enough to have prevented me pressing “publish.” After all, no one’s forcing Palin to run for president vice president.

Someone really ought to ask Palin if she thought she was possessed by witches since she let the Kenyan preacher work his magic upon her.

It really is a good question. Of course INATSARR (it’s not appropriate to scrutinize a Republican’s religion), especially if it involves exorcism, snake-handling, speaking in tongues, human and/or animal sacrifice, or all of the above.

Glenn Greenwald today backtracks on some of his earlier thoughts about Palin. She is scarier than he thought.

For me she is the logical result of the dumbing down of our political discourse until candidates are chosen not despite their being nitwits but precisely because they are.

Sorry BT, but the beads. . .they speak for themselves. She put them on herself, one can only presume.

“Apparently Ignorant”

nuf said

That’s funny, i didn’t even notice them.

Hate to keep bringing this up but it is so appropraite
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w692uWC8Be8

Well, bgrothus, as I said before Palin has in the few times that she has spoken…she has spoken at length with many words, words that can be repeated with emphasis and, and strength! about leadership and strength and our will to not be daunted and not blink. I know she has said this and she has meant every word that she says when she says them. Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska who lives in the suburb of Wasilla with her five children and husband Todd has many many things to say about our government and Senator John Sidney McCain and they are going to shake things up, I betcha!

Has anyone noticed that Palin is not nearly as pretty when she isn’t smiling. Without that smile she just looks stark and angular. FWIW, I did think she was pretty in the pictures I’ve seen of her.

Okay, enough about her looks, tells self. Don’t want to be seen as sexist.

And she never blinks.

Yep,

But it “could” be backwards too! We HAVE to see it backwards for the sake of allegory…Oh the beauty of symmetry…

To be fair it was the python spirits, and there has been a regular infestation of those recently. I would argue that this explains the current squeeze on the US economy. However if you give me oh say $700 billion, I think I can buy them off.

I noticed them but that’s because I like to bead!

To bead or not to bead, that is the question.

More proof that she is the Stepford candidate.

Can we just shoot the bears on wall street from a helicopter?

After the mention of the sag in Bush 3.0’s face, I notice that the interview with Katie was conducted from camera right. . .

To be fair it was the python spirits, and there has been a regular infestation of those recently.

She’d been watching Britcoms? I might be infected too.

Thanks BT.

digg

Let’s just add that McSame has an age hump on his back and Biden has an old man mullet. That man needs a haircut.

Okay hugh and dosido…

Issue spew alerts…I’m cleaning up coffee from my monitor…

Mark yesterday (9/24) on your calendars.

It will be known as the day McSame’s candidacy died.

The last rabbit they had to pull out of their hat was Palin, and the scrutiny is killing her/them. I read somewhere that even her approval ratings in Alaska are down from 80% to 68%. Goodbye post convention ‘bounce’.

His poll numbers will now settle in between 38-42% from now to the election, and they know it’s nothing that can be done about it.

The more women and independents look at this freak show of a ticket, the less they like it.

He’s baaaaack. Ironing out the kinks in Vista on this monster machine. Hooyah!!

LOL!

Welcome. Good luck with Vista, surprising to hear there are kinks in a Microsoft product.

Old man mullet! love it. biden has had that haircut forevah! drives me crazy. I’m okay with the full frontal Biden and then profile, ack! it’s still there!!

no one can accuse him of hiring the extreme makeup artist. Gotta give him credit for being true to himself in that department.

She can’t even put a coherent sentence together. No wonder they want her to stay scripted.

Welcome back. If you are not already there, I would strongly urge a switch to Firefox. Explorer and Vista are not good friends in my experience.

Palin doesn’t smile because she’s been possessed.

Obama calling McCain’s bluff.

Obama Will Make Debate A Townhall If McCain Doesn’t Show

I can’t wait to see the actual video. I’ll update the post later.

This afternoons summit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a35mPJ9U_p0

Biden has an old man mullet. That man needs a haircut.

Does he ever! What is the fascination with long hair on your neck?

Hey Hi!

The kinks are me learning the damn thing. Does things a little differently than a 32-bit os. And this 22″ widescreen monitor…. I hear most of the problems are with the enterprise edition that businesses use. Home edition seems to be pretty stable. Time will tell. Been a real bitch not having a machine for 2 weeks.

All ya had to do was head over to the Apple store and they could have helped ya out.

And even shown you how to launch Vista if it were absolutely necessary for you to have it on your machine.

Maybe Maher’s best line EVAH!: Sarah Baracuda? Meet Joey The Shark.
:)

Very first thing I did once I got online.

OK I know all you smart folks out there already knew the economy was in the dumps like maybe you noticed when you gasses up your car or bought groceries or got a pink slip or the goons foreclosed on your house. But I went to my local bookstore and saw many many many books written by many smart people at least one publishing cycle ago (about nine months from manuscript to store, maybe?).

So why all the urgency NOW? I hate this Big Con Game. It’s just another cheap sale to these rip off artists. /rant.

I think he has that haircut for a reason. He had hair plugs done a number of years ago and they take them from the back of the head - it probably shows with a regular haircut - whatever that is.

“There is actually an agreement concluded between the two parties over the definite date, which is 2011, to end any foreign presence on Iraqi soil,” Maliki said.”
Wait just a minute - I saw a video on Rachel Maddow’s site last night where she showed and talked about an interview just done recently with Maliki(and translated by the Administration’s own translation service) where he said that the Bush Admin., after getting that original date, came back and requested to put it off for a year, ‘because of the domestic political situation”. To say the Rachel was aghast - furious - is to put it mildly - as I recall, she said something like, “You mean to say that the Bush Administration requested to keep the war in Iraq going for another year…for political reasons?”

Couldn’t afford a Mac.

Hmmm. I liked the suggestion that he invite Bob Barr to debate instead.

The last Prez election there was much talk about Skull & Bones. Is Palin one?

I want to believe that McCain’s run is over. But we americans so love a freak show. see glennzilla cited above.

Palin at Ground Zero: Every American student needs to come through this area so that, especially this younger generation of Americans is, to be in a position of never forgetting what happened here and never repeating, never allowing a repeat of what happened here. I wish every American would come through here. I wish every world leader would come through here, and understand what it is that took place here and more importantly how America came together and united to commit to never allowing this to happen again. And just to hear and from and see these good New Yorkers who are rebuilding not just this are but helping to rebuild America has been very, very inspiring and encouraging. These are the good Americans who are committed to peace and security and its been an absolute honor getting to meet these folks today.

Back to setting up this monster. The Tampa Tribune is again distributing the Obsession DVD with the Sunday paper this week. Gotta install Thunderbird so I can send a message to my radio station about this anti-Muslim piece of shit rag. Later

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.

Good to be back.

Namaste

And Cynthia McKinney and Ralph Nader.

Well, they started it for political reasons, so why not stretch it out for political reasons.

I’m not exactly sure how Krusty’s gonna fix the economy when “…McCain has not introduced any banking or housing bills in the 110th Congress, while Democratic rival Barack Obama has proposed five”:

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/.....ing-bills/

STTP @41 is right about the death of the R ticket and Obama knows it, too.

(But I’m definitely not about to start counting chickens now).

wouldn’t that be great? invite Ron Paul too. everyone at the party except grampy. then have the reality TV crews at grampy’s house filming the conniption with Palin fetching the nip of brandy.

Okay, time waster, but comedy gold:

Go here and type in “sarah palin.”

Dodd: Agreement reached in principle.

Wishing you much stress-free computing in any event. What did you do with your free time windfall the past couple weeks?

I don’t think she’s an idiot. I think she’s extremely under qualified. It’s so ironic that the conservatives accused Obama of that and now they’re championing her.

love it!

Since McShame doesn’t want a debate what is to prevent him from going to his colleages and cohorts and say no deal announcement until Sunday

did she really say all that? If not, you have a future in Palin speechwriting. Oh wait, she writes her own speeches.

From RFK Jr warning about voting scams from teh GOP in this election

Bobby: “There are about 30 scams the Republicans are deliberately using, particularly in the swing states to get Democratic voters off the rolls.

….

“For example, if I registered as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and yet my motor vehicle license said Robert Frances Kennedy Jr. I’d be removed from the rolls. If your initial is different, if you leave an initial out, if you leave a “Jr.” out, if you leave a hyphen out in your name. And what they’ve done is a study in New York that said 80% of the errors are errors that were done by state clerks who are taking down this information. And particularly immigrant communities that people tend to vote Democratic, people have names … spell Muhammad with an “o” instead of a “u” (crosstalk)

Pap: “Are the Democrats Suing to Stop This?”

Bobby: “No, the Democrats are doing nothing to stop it. In New Jersey, which is a swing state, 300,000 voters in New Jersey were just sent letters saying that they are now ineligible to vote. New jersey is nice enough to actually notify them - most states will not even notify them. And New Jersey intends to send out 870,000 letters so that is three quarters of a million people off the voting rolls in a state that could decide this vote by 50,000 votes. And these are Democrats that are being pushed off the rolls.

Bobby: “Let me tell you about one other of these scams people should know about. If you’re a newly registered voter - and of course the Democrats have done these gigantic registration drives - 12 million people on registration - if you’re a new voter you MUST include your license or some other state I.D. when you come to vote. What that means is that if you’re a college kid (and college kids now - they’re sending in absentee ballots - they’re not going to the voting place, they do everything online or they do everything remotely - they don’t dream of going to the precinct house voting on election day and waiting in a long line) so if they send in the absentee ballot and they don’t include a color copy of their license their vote is going to be thrown into a trash can. And none of these people know this because you have had to read the law in order to know it. So there is no notification for when you fill out your registration form, so all of those 12 million people that the Democrats have registered: those ballots are going to be just thrown out.

….
Bobby: “Hopefully - Obama is getting 66 million dollars a month - hopefully somebody in the Democratic organization is going to pay some attention to this before election day.

http://www.truthout.org/articl.....-vote-safe

No that is the moose bone pile for the dog

“Anal Spar Hi”

I don’t really think she’s an idiot either. McCain’s an idiot for picking someone underqualified who then appears to be an idiot because she is NOT prepared for the position McCain is putting her in.

I think she’s very shrewd.

All ya had to do was head over to the Apple store and they could have helped ya out.

BTW, have any of you been to an Apple store recently?

My first thought was “Economic slowdown? What economic slowdown?”

You couldn’t get more people in the one near me with a shoe horn.

Thanks for the TP link.

I’m not counting chickens either. Regardless of how terrible the Palin/McCain ticket is, I don’t see the GOP relinquishing the executive branch voluntarily. I suspect they’ll have to be dragged out kicking and screaming. Could be difficult with Cheney running his shadow government from an undisclosed location.

I especially like “a sharp nail”

Interesting: Bi-partisan agreement and press conference and Gramps is nowhere to be found.

Hmmm! Maybe Cynthia McKinney, Ralph Nader, Barr, and Chuck Baldwin. Could be interesting.

Hahaha

I typed in John McCain…and 5 came up…how appropriate:

Jam Cinch No
Jam Cinch On
Jam Conch In
Jam Chin Con
Jam Inch Con

Danged arugula eating elitists… (from a 20-year Mac user).

I think this is about Republicans hoping they take back the WH in ‘12. If we are not completely out of Iraq… and I mean to the point where we have destroyed all the bases and pulled every single Blackwater employee as well as the last troop. The GOP wants to be able to go back in, whole hog. In addition to all the MIC contract money this guarantees as long as possible.

She really did and I’ll even find ya some more and bring em to ya!

http://politicalticker.blogs.c.....irst-time/

I don’t get it. wall street wants a bailout, bush is all for it, the dems are working on it, and gop critters are like no no no we don’t want this. wtf? it looks like a dem bailout. no wonder gramps has been shoved into the laundry room.

Someone needs to tell Palin that to much moose meat will ultimately cause your bowels to plug up to the point that your own shit will come out of your mouth.

Palin looks a tad over- medicated in that picture up top.

Yup, but a lot of them are just looking.

wow. let’s have a sarah palin speechwritin’ contest.

Since that is a Yale specific entity and she didn’t get anywhere within a thousand miles of Yale, no, she is not a member of Skull and Bones.

Sarah Palin is not stupid, she is extremely ill-informed and unworldly….and she speaks way, way too fast…too many words…and she skips topics every other word…and she needs to lower her voice….and, and…she comes off like…teh Ayerack girl.

You betcha, and I’ll try to find some and I’ll get ‘em to ya.

And those beads, I didn’t know it was Mardi Gras.

Good point.

Got as far as Anal Parish and stopped

Republicans will consider it in their best interest to make a Dem WH and Congress appear ineffective, just as they have (in the House and Senate) since the 2006 mid-term. Dems better come up with a good counter strategy or they may be out again in 2012.

a bead for every bounty

707!

Here is an answer to a question from a National Geographic writer asked her:

“I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some … people out there in our nation don’t have maps and uh, I believe that our, ah, education like such as in South Africa, and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uh, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., or should help South Africa, it should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future, for our children.”

Maybe you and I just don’t have the right designer. :)

a bead for every bounty

The quicker picker-upper picker-offer.

OMFG! The Sarah Syndrome has struck Twinpeaksnikki!

Here is an answer to a question from a National Geographic writer asked her:

Hopefully, a Governors Gone Wild video will appear soon.

lordy, what a mangled mess that is. The only things I understood were the “uhs”.

Paul Begala here for Book Salon

Hey, isn’t that picture photoshopped? Shouldn’t her head be on backwards?

[Note: Palin was exorcised of “Satanic influences” by her African witch-doctor after she named her daughters witchy-names Willow and Piper…but she apparently is still influenced by paganistic influences…next child is named TRIG, after a Norse God. Hmmmm!]

Can you spell “read?” A lot.

I’m not counting chickens either. Regardless of how terrible the Palin/McCain ticket is, I don’t see the GOP relinquishing the executive branch voluntarily. I suspect they’ll have to be dragged out kicking and screaming. Could be difficult with Cheney running his shadow government from an undisclosed location.

I’m not suggesting for a minute that Obama stop campaigning, kick back and take up cigarettes again.

I just think when we look back, yesterday will be seen as the point when McCain’s campaign knew the internal numbers didn’t look good, Rick Davis was facing the devastating prospect of having to resign this close to the election, and desperation ruled the day.

As for the ‘dragged out kicking and screaming part’ I couldn’t agree more.

Lots of folks are gonna be in a world of hurt if McGramps isn’t around to cover up all the illegal activities of the last eight years, so they won’t go quietly.

In the Gibson interview she talked about Alaskan issues for a minute. For that minute she seemed confident and capable. But that’s all she knows. I’ve been reading the views of different economists for a week now, still wouldn’t feel confident talking economics with someone like Ian. He’d ask me a question I couldn’t answer in 5 seconds flat. That’s Sarah. (Not to mention that she’s being tutored from one perspective only) Complex issues take a lot longer than a few weeks to understand. It was irresponsible and dangerous to choose her. McC should lose for that reason alone.

Not to worry…she wearing the Flag

McWATB - Tits ‘08: Change you can’t afford. Now with last year’s kool-aid!

Like I said, Bush, only upside down and backwards.

Ruh Roh:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyo...../99/610095

If McCain is ill, he needs to drop out immediately.

OT - drive-by - rumors swirl that Biden will drop out for “health reasons” and be replaced by Billary - (I doubt it but it is interesting)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....-mate.html

He needs to have Palin drop out. Pick a new VP. Then drop out assigning the VP as the choice.

Wow. I was just saying yesterday “what is wrong with his eye?” I’m glad others saw it as well.

” So, again, I believe that… a surge in Afghanistan also will lead us to victory there as it has proven to have done in Iraq. And as I say, Katie, that we cannot afford to retreat, to withdraw in Iraq. That’s not gonna get us any better off in Afghanistan either.”

So where precisely are those troops going to come from to serve in Afghanistan? Everyone in the military, including Gates, says the military is at the breaking point, and that they don’t want to increase the tour length yet again for over-stressed deployed divisions.

The fact is that the “surge” cannot continue in Iraq beyond next summer just by attrition. And where PRECISELY are those troops going to come from to deploy to Afghanistan?

Gen. McKiernan says US in Afghanistan overtaxed

Is Tinkerbell gonna wave her wand and create an army of toy-soldiers?

He isn’t speaking with his usual speed and even his gestures seem slow. Strange.

Yup, but a lot of them are just looking.

Agreed (just like I was), but the line at the four registers was 5 deep and stayed that way for the 20 min. I was there.

And they weren’t all buying Ipod covers, either.

I think she’s very shrewd.

And ambitious, with a “mission”. Did you hear the sermon by the African “witch-hunter” pastor who annointed her. He said Sarah was going to go on into National politics and change “America”…not just Alaska. The whole kaboodle! She’s a stealth “Manchurian” candidate.

Glory be, finally. Wondered where you’d got to, and glad to see you.

rumors like that just make me think if a gooper is saying it about a dem it’s really true of a gooper, ie that McCain is really truly ill and they have assign illness to someone in the Obama camp, who better than Biden.

Biden RAN up to the podium the other day lookin’ fit n fiddle.

President Joe!

I heard that John “Unitary Executive” Yoo was just recalled back to Washington in an “emergency”. My guess is that they have him poring through the Constitution to find a way to “suspend” the elections because it’s unfair to simply have ONE candidate campaigning…plus look at all those poor Congressional Republicans who have had their major RNC moneymaker removed from “fundraising” for them. That gives all those Democrats an “overwhelming advantage”. So obviously one has to “delay” the election.

Maybe a National Emergency will be declared!

Wow, our grocery store parking lots aren’t even very full.

Personally, I love how outspoken Biden is - his “gaffes” ring true. How lovely to have a truth spoken that gives one insight into a person instead of only hearing political-speak. BUT this rumor really is all over the internet - and, of course, all over Fox News, so we can be absolutely sure it’s not true. There was a poll yesterday that said 63% felt Biden could fulfill the role of president - maybe this is a Republican response to that.

I heard that rumor the other day too.

The Rs will try anything. Obama wouldn’t do that and Biden certainly wouldn’t go along with it. It’s just plain silly but desperation will make Rs do things like this.

Palin At the 9/11 Site: “I think our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan will lead to further security of our nation, again, because the mission is to take the fight over there. do not let them come over here and attempt again what they accomplished here.”

This idiot still thinks that Saddam Hussein had something to do with the 9/11 attacks? Sheesh!

And then when asked whether she supported Ted Stevens and Don Young she said merely “The trial started today (for Stevens), we’ll see where that goes.” IOW She refuses to take a real stand against the corruption she supposedly is against.

I did see that “rumor” over on “pollster.com” and it was being pitched by one of the more notorious Right Wing trolls on that site…for what it’s worth.

If it’s a rumor that you don’t give credence to, why are you spreading it?

BREAKING!!!
GOP and Dem agree on bailout “in principle”

Didn’t mean to spread it but thank you for pointing that out to me. I will take more care in the future. I just thought it was an interesting side-note because it is spreading like wildfire.

I’m liking Biden more and more these days. I didn’t appreciate him until chimpy came and trashed the country.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/2.....2008092513

linky if you need it

Biden looks fit as a fiddle to me and roaring like a lion…Go Biden!

The Biden rumor is probably a Rovian whisper campaign thingy…attack your opponent with your candidate’s weakness, i.e., McCain is the most likely one to drop out for health problems.

OT: Per http://www.dailykos.com/storyo.....660/609542

The Alaska criminal tampering statute is as follows:

a)Tampering with a witness in the second degree: A person commits the crime of tampering with a witness in the second degree if the person knowingly induces or attempts to induce a witness to be absent from an official proceeding, other than a judicial proceeding, to which the witness has been summoned. (b) Tampering with a witness in the second degree is a class A misdemeanor

This rumor, IMO, is the GOP machine’s preemptive response to rumors that will begin circulating about McCain’s health.

McCain does indeed look sick. The droop in his face is alarming. What’s more alarming, however, is that the GOP is going to continue flogging him along like an old donkey in the field. He’s the figurehead for the next GOP administration and there’s no turning back now. They don’t have anyone else they could put forth who has clean hands. Cleaner than McCain’s anyway. Their own corruption and inaction has made it impossible to field a viable candidate.

I imagine that Mitt is beginning to look better and better to Rs right now.

That’s Hannity bullshit

Mc Cain was always a setup. They can’t wait to get Obama in there and have a target for their bullshit.

Most accurate Sarah Palin anagram:
Sharia Plan

Proof Sarah Palin’s coaching by the McCain staff amounted to nothing more than flash cards. Looks Like Katie Couric dressed he moose.