This should go viral.

From your lips to the blogosphere’s ears…

Eli!

1. McCain successfully unleashes his secret plan to get bin Laden, sends Sarah Palin into Afghanistan with helicopter and high-powered rifle.

By remarkable coincidence, Bin Laden has left his cave disguised as a wolf. Talk about Sarah-n-dipity.

Only 1 correction Ian….

The Straitjacket Hate-talk Express.

Yep, I figured the same principle and skills would apply.

Eli. Preview is my friend.

I’m saving that one for tomorrow.

Minor typo, superfluous “is” in #12.

Or not, my eyes is playin’ tricks.

Eli, You’re looking for magic. Absolutely, freaking magic.

Remember, it costs nothing to DIGG this post and your back won’t hurt either!

Great belly laughs Eli!

On a serious note, do not discount a Bradley effect!

14 the election comes down to one state Ohio ,which McCain wins by 40 million votes!

Hi Eli. Any thoughts on the probabilities of any or all of the above? What’s the line in Vegas?

This reminds me of the old Far Side cartoon, where a mathematician has covered a whole wall full of chalkboards with equations that are some kind of very elaborate proof. Over to the right hand side, toward the end of all the computations, there’s an asterisk, with an arrow and a note that reads “a miracle occurs here.”

New Yorker. One of my favorites.

Sounds like half the papers I turned in for geometry class in HS!

No wonder I couldn’t find it in my quick search of the Far Side.

*g*

Aloha, Eli! Awesome post! I was rolling…!

Medical researchers announce that McCain has survived cancer so many times that his blood now cures it.

Nosferatu!

Aloha, CTut! Thanks!

Oh, for the love of god, there are not enough Alaskan voters to affect diddley.

What if Pastor Murthee declares that Barack Obama and Joe Biden are witches and with Halloween coming, which campaign would that help?

I think she is all decked and primped and stays and falls in love with Osamaaaa; they can agree on secession and he has lots of money. Poor Dude. McCain then drafts Cindy. She tries to buy the White House, but 13 is not her lucky number. And then….she is miffed and goes to live somewhere else. Lucky her.

Actually, #8 doesn’t sound too bad. I’d like in on that action.

What if those four are the *only* participants?

Here all ,a little diversion!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NawhWb8Uu5E

who has the camera?

It’s plausible if OBL lost both his eardrums at Tora Bora. If he hears her voice it’s all over.

Eli, I’m sure that Dick Cheney belongs on that list somewhere . . .

14. OBL endorses BHO.

How about if Joe Biden shoots someone in the face?

Moyers has Soros on tonight.

John McCain finally reveals that he has 100,000 houses and sells them all to pay off the national debt.

Only if he did it before the housing market cratered.

Gnite. Enjoy the Friday nite Sarah dump.

You don’t have to work blue, Eli. You’re better than that.

Nite, eCAHN.

I’m not, actually.

14.RNC produced OBL endorses BHO video clears final editing, post-production, and is released October 30th.

Sounds suspiciously as though Eli had a deadline for a post, reached into the barrel, and scraped bottom. Firedoglake deserves better than such juvenile meanderings.

julia upstairs

sleep well ecahn

“Wind Beneath My Wings” is the background music.

Nite Ecahn!
Goodnight all, I’m turning in as well.

Would that be a Pixar project?

Ooh, that sounds pretty cool! One time I appreciate the time zone difference, I can watch the ALCS and still catch the PBS Friday nite line up…! ;-)

how about if Joe Biden shoots someone in the face?

Joe never moves his aim away from his own foot.

#15, Cindy promise free beer to everyone for four years.

Half the population immediately gets drunk and stays that way and only the Puritans remember to vote.

Want this to go viral? Digg it now!

Aloha, eCAHN!

Seems a tad harsh. In addition to insulting Eli, you’re insulting all who enjoyed it?

Calendar, please.

Nite, bugs.

plz don’t feed trolls.

I can get you the Joe Lieberman one, cheap. Rrrowwrrr!

eeek, it burns!

I was not aware of that one, should have surmised it from the content.

Thank you for your thoughtful comment. Perhaps you can share some other places we might obtain more of this commonsense?

plz don’t feed trolls.

I was just gonna invite her to Saturday Nite Late-Late Live Nude Drunk-Blogging !

beefcake is now fruitcake!?

you never invite ME!

what happened to julia’s post?

I think that would be the Lindsay Graham calendar. *Also* cheap.

Or me, although that’s probably my fault for insisting he buy me dinner.

I’m sorry, that was very juvenile. I was on a tight deadline to produce a comment.

Digg it now!

well, we can’t have ‘em unless wdd shows up - but oh yeah, you’re definitely invited !

grammar police…

or maybe Shelly93108 stole it.

??

the julia post went up early. sorry about that, pups. your comments have been preserved and will appear when it re-publishes

Fits in your pocket, though.

“The Men of JAG”

I got an error when I tried to refresh.

It’s not a bug, it’s a feature!

And Kathleen Hall Jamison, whom I do like alot, does commentary on some of the ads, the debates, etc. She comes on after Soros.

It is the moderator’s fault. Oh, that’s me…
Julia will return.

All hail the mods!~

Is that the scratch and sniff calendar? At any rate, I’ll bet it reeks of cheap cologne.

I was wondering what happened to it…! ;-)

oh Doodle! Ms Doodle to the courtesy phone.

take a mulligan Lurk !

Suz or lurk: you can kill my comment on the forthcoming Hoolia post - it was just a grammar police thingie.

thx

Where’s Marcy’s rugby team when ya need em? ;-)

I thought you were still downstairs, entertaining.

oops! FDL switched posts on me while I was trying to Digg Julia’s post, which is now “404 Not Found”! So don’t use the Digg link in my 67 unless you want to Digg Julia’s nonexistent post.

on the other hand, why not?

I check periodically…! ;-)

will it work when her post reappears?

very zen

if a digg falls in the forest….

Imagine the sound of one hand clapping. Oh wait, never mind.

who knows the mysteries of the Digg?

reply to TexBetsy at 86

what is the sound of no shovel Digging?

I know error message haiku…

who knows the mysteries of the Digg?

where’d y’all go?

I have been wandering the Toobz in search of Julia…

A mass beer run?

julia will be back up in a minute. she was accidently published early.

LOL Julia’s missing in action post now has 4 Diggs…

OR

14. A terrorist incident (the “Reischtag Fire of 2008″) occurs, Prez Bush declares a state of emergency, and the election is “temporarily postponed.”

Digging the 404 post

Busted, I really liked your writing at Oxdown. Forgot to put a comment but I did recommend. Keep writing.

I had this happen to me once, and the post’s “phantom” appearance ended up with way more diggs than the real one…

15. A terrorist incident (the “Reischtag Fire of 2008″) occurs, Prez Bush declares a state of emergency, and the election is thrown to the Supreme Court, which appoints McSame president, citing Bush v. Gore as precedent to its extraordinary power to do so

I’m wondering what Eli was drinking. It sounds like a miracle cure for depression.

Maybe in earlier thread…has the McLiar pair responded to the trooper report? I had heard of its own earlier report, but not about reponse to the Alaska report. Any words from the campaign?

A chicken in every pot, I say. A chicken in every pot.

I am still blushing furiously.

Thank you.

the missing julia has reappeared

Their reply was “Obama did it.” ;0

Although I am still putting my money on a 365 vote landslide win for our man (all yellow states + 1 disgruntled Nebraska elector), I am still concerned about the depth of hidden racial resentment in some of those yellow states. Assuming NH and NV are now safe for us, I can still easily picture under-polling for McCain in the other yellow states, due to in-the-closet racism, which might manifest itself only in the voting booth or on the absentee ballot… if everything goes kaflooey due to such a well of hatred, we could easily end up with 269:269… and, thinks to Darth and Hojo for the VP senatorial vote, an Obama-McCain or Obama-Palin administration :P Only partially kidding here…

hi Missing Julia!

yep DIGG IT!

Now it will be Pre-Dugg!

My gut feeling is that all but the most diehard racists will say something like, “I’m not comfortable voting for a black guy, but goddammit, I can’t afford another four years of this shit.”

tbsa, how do you get the line through the words?

Iraq and Cuba’s market’s are doing well.

Economics through the looking-glass: only Iraq thrives in world slump•

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From Russia

Russia’s two leaders, meanwhile, have wasted little time in blaming the crisis on the US. President Dmitry Medvedev this week memorably accused the US administration of “economic egoism”. Vladimir Putin, the prime minister, said: “Confidence in the US as the leader of the free world and the free market… has been undermined - for good, I think.”

Cuba
Cuba’s isolation from global financial markets has largely protected it from capitalist contagion, allowing it to watch the turmoil with relative equanimity. “It was expected,” Fidel Castro noted in his regular column in the communist party newspaper, Granma. He did not elaborate. Cuba is facing its own crisis after a series of recent hurricanes devastated its agriculture and infrastructure.

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Iraq
The Baghdad bourse is booming, with the general index of Iraq’s stock exchange up by nearly 40% last month. The floor was heaving with investors and brokers on Thursday, many glued to their phones and eager to snap up bargains on the second day of trading after a national holiday. Hotels and banks were the hottest picks among the exchange’s 95 listed companies.

But Iraq’s 2009 budget depends on oil staying above $80 a barrel. Prices - above $140 in July - have fallen below $90 in recent months.

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Venezuela
Venezuela is bracing for the petro-state to curb its free-spending ways after President Hugo Chavez said his socialist revolution was not immune from the global financial crisis. State bonds on international markets have dropped to their lowest levels in five years and plunging oil prices are expected to squeeze next year’s budget. Consumer spending on cars and other big items has already started to shrivel.

Chavez says he hopes the crisis will prompt other Latin American leaders to forge ahead with his cherished plan for a Bank of the South, to counter the influence of the World Bank.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi.....omy-europe