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Friday, October 31, 2008

An 'Idiot Wind'

The Washington Post has this great editorial on McPain's latest attempt to link Barack Obama to extremism.

Here is a piece of it:

"WITH THE presidential campaign clock ticking down, Sen. John McCain has suddenly discovered a new boogeyman to link to Sen. Barack Obama: a sometimes controversial but widely respected Middle East scholar named Rashid Khalidi."

Read the rest here.

After millions of votes, Democrats outnumber repugicans

Early voting is changing campaign strategy and voter behavior like no other presidential race in history, experts say, as John McPain and Barack Obama make final cross-country pushes this weekend.

Both candidates are hoping to reap the lion's share of more than 23 million votes that have been cast nationwide. They're targeting states where polls remain open through the weekend -- and, in some cases, into Monday.

Polls indicate that many, if not most, of the early votes in more than 30 states are being cast by registered Democrats.

Of 23,298,564 total in-person and mail-in ballots in 25 states, at least 6,057,527 -- or 26 percent -- were cast by Democrats or repugicans, according to election officials.
Of that 6 million, 57.8 percent were Democrats, and 42.2 percent were repugicans.

Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said Friday that the campaign has been successful motivating voters to cast ballots early, thanks to a vast national network of neighborhood captains, whom he said will be out in full force this weekend in North Carolina and Florida.

"We are confident that we have a lot of good voters left," Plouffe said, adding that Obama plans to stump hard this weekend in western states such as Colorado, where the campaign is targeting independent voters.

Michael McDonald of George Mason University predicted that McPain will have a "very tough time in some of the western states like Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico, just because we're seeing that Democrats are apparently casting a lot of ballots in those states."

Early voting is handled differently in every state. But in general, it allows voters to cast ballots in person before Election Day using either voting machines or so-called absentee ballots, without having to provide an excuse.

North Carolina topped 2 million in-person early voters Friday, said election officials, about twice the previous record since the state began no-excuse early voting in 2000.

About half the state's 100 counties have voted to extend voting Saturday by two hours, said state election board deputy director Johnnie McLean.

The entire $3 million early voting project, she said, "will enable voters who come on Election Day to vote without staying until midnight."

To the south in Georgia, officials in Fulton Countysaid that they are considering extending early voting through the weekend.

Georgia also has set records in the past two weeks of early voting, and the Obama campaign boasts 4,800 captains who were recruited during the summer and early fall.

How DUMB is Sarah Palin

She is developmentally challenged to say the least!

Her 83 full scale Wechsler I.Q. reported in her Wasilla
High School records was labeled Dull Normal at that time.

In fact, 83 was just slightly
above the range labeled Borderline Retarded (which is 70-80 I.Q.).

Her SAT scores were also
similarly deficient,thus serving to confirm her sub-normal I.Q.

None of the above comes as a surprise.

Having been in the psychological field for many years and hearing her speak, I must say I find the numbers a bit high. Tests run today would reveal a substantially lower score than 83.

How bad is it ... really

Get this ...

In the early voting everywhere Obama is leading.

Yes, even there too. Arizona.

Obama leads the voting 54% to 42% in McPain's 'home state' where he is the sitting senator.

It is also noted that those polled at the polls said by a 53% to 42% margin that if the 2010 senatorial election were held now ... McPain would lose to Democrat Janet Napolitano, who is seeking the senate seat in that election.

Talk about being irrelevant!

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This was sent to me by my youngest granddaughter.
Reminds you of what is really important.

Talk about Idiots

From the "Give me a break!" Department:

First it was Indiana Jones. Now it's James Bond's latest lady friend.

The Communist Party in St. Petersburg says Olga Kurylenko, the Ukrainian-born model who plays a Bolivian agent in the latest Bond film, "Quantum of Solace," has betrayed her roots.

"In the name of all communists we appeal to you, prodigal daughter of poor Ukraine and deserter of Slavic world," the party said in an open letter dated Oct. 21 and posted on their Web site Friday.

The Soviet Union "gave you free education, free medical care but nobody knew you would commit an act of intellectual and moral betrayal that you would become a movie kept girl of Bond, who in his movies kills hundreds of Soviet people and citizens of other socialist countries: Cubans, Vietnamese, North Koreans, Chinese and Nicaraguans," the party said.

Sergei Malenkovich, head of the party's regional organization said that latest Bond movie is "an insult for Russians"

"In this movie they wanted to show that a Ukrainian girl sleeps with an American. It's a part of information and psychological war," he said.

In fact, Kurylenko does not have sex with Daniel Craig's Bond - unlike nearly all other leading ladies in the Bond films - only exchanging a kiss toward the end of the film. And Bond is actually a British secret agent.

Happy Halloween

Child Wedding To End A Feud?!

Police raided a wedding between a 7-year-old boy and a 5-year-old girl in Pakistan's largest city, arresting the Muslim cleric officiating at the ceremony and the children's parents earlier today(Friday, October 31).

The cleric had not yet begun the ceremony in Karachi, which was attended by 100 guests, said deputy superintendent of police Malik Mazhar.

Pakistan law forbids marriage below the age of 18, but some Muslim scholars say it is permissible if the bride and groom have reached puberty.

TV footage showed both children in traditional wedding clothes in the laps of policemen after the raid, the girl with tears running down her cheeks.

The parents said the wedding had been arranged to end an eight-year feud between the two families, according to a report on Express News TV.

Mazhar said he had heard about similar cases in rural areas but "it is shocking to have this right in the center of the city.
"The parents would be brought before a court on Saturday, he said.

A Pakistan Human Rights Commission official, Hina Gillani, said the maximum possible punishment for the parents was one month in jail and a fine of just over $10.

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OK then ... since when have a 7 year old boy and a 5 year old girl reached puberty!?
Granted there are rare exceptions, but RARE is the operative word.

This is just a case of stupidity - putting window dressing on a dirty window instead of cleaning the window - and it unfortunately is more common than people think in every part of the planet in every culture.
It is a hold over from the days when the human life expectancy was about 12 to 15 years and humans did 'mature' faster as a matter of survival of the species - we as a species have moved beyond that life expectancy range ... just a bit ... today.
But as they say ... 'Old notions die hard ...'

From my book 'Through Different Eyes'

Circa 2525

The room moved Slowly about casting images long and short.
My senses were at a standstill.
The old mill spoke to me with a whisper barely heard telling me of times past.
Times of hunger
Times of peace.
Times of war.
Times of learning.

Shadows of people long dead danced on the walls as the cool dark mist of the swamp moved into the room.
The glaring eyes of the mill looked inward at me shining in an eerie light of a hue unknown to mortal man.
The loft above me was alive with creatures of a thousand breeds unknown to me watching every move I made.
The stairs cried as my foot touched them, since on one had mounted them is a hundred centuries passed.
The land around the mill was rich with many strange flowers growing to many different heights.
Soaring creatures flew into my sight as the haze of the sun set to rest.
The wind called to me to leave the mill and return to my home.

As we left in our ship I asked my friend what planet we were just on.
He said, " It was a planet that died so many years ago and that life was coming back to the land."
"But, what is it's name?" I asked.
"Earth." He said.

Michael Vick must appear in person for plea

Former NFL quarterback Michael Vick won't be allowed to plead guilty to dogfighting charges by videoconference, a judge ruled Thursday.

Vick's lawyers had requested that he be allowed to enter the plea from federal prison in Leavenworth, Kan., where he is serving a two-year term since admitting he bankrolled a dogfighting operation and helped execute dogs.

But citing high public interest in the case, Surry County Circuit Judge Samuel Campbell said it would be better for Vick to appear in person.

"I know from my conversations with Mike and, more importantly, his family that he's looking forward to getting this behind him," said Lawrence Woodward, an attorney for the former Virginia Tech and Atlanta Falcons star.

Prosecutor Gerald Poindexter preferred that Vick's plea wait until his release from federal prison. He objected to the video conferencing motion on grounds that it has never been used in Virginia and he didn't want the county to set a precedent.

Vick, 28, is set to enter his plea on Nov. 25. Under the terms of his plea deal, he would receive only a suspended sentence and a year of probation. If he is able to resolve the state dogfighting and animal cruelty charges, he would be eligible to transfer to a halfway house for the final six months of his term, according to court papers.

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He should have received the same treatment he gave to the dogs!

Repugican ticket has economic priorities 'upside down'

Senator Joe Biden said Thursday(October 30, 2008) that the repugican ticket has its economic priorities "upside down," pointing to news of a shrinking GDP and record quarterly profits for Exxon Mobil Corp.

"Here the entire economy of America is shrinking, and the oil companies ... one, in fact, made the largest profit in its history in a quarter," Biden said at a rally in Arnold, Missouri.

"Ladies and gentlemen, what more evidence do we need that the Exxon Mobils of the world don't need a tax break?" he asked, speaking to supporters in a half-empty high school gym. "That $4 billion should go to middle class taxpayers, people who need the money. John [McCain] and governor [Sarah] Palin have this upside down. They literally have it upside down."

Exxon Mobil set a quarterly profit record for a U.S. company Thursday, saying its third-quarter net profit was $14.83 billion.

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That feeling you are feeling folks is the urge to toss you cookies and the pain from the hosing you have been getting for the last eight years at the obscenity that is the unholy union of repugicans and big corporations.