Saturday, November 1, 2008
Don't forget
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Punk'd
Another 'How DUMB is Sarah Palin' Moment
The popular Montreal comedy duo Marc-Antoine Audette and Sebastien Trudel, aka "The Masked Avengers" ( Les Justiciers Masqués ) are notorious for prank-calling heads of state and celebrities who take themselves a little too seriously. Surely none take themselves so seriously as Sarah Palin. She was pranked by the pair today when they social-hacked their way past security and convinced her she was speaking to Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of France.
Fake Sarkozy tells Palin that his wife is "hot in bed," drops plenty of hints it's a fake call, and suggests Palin would make a good president "one day you too." She replies, "well, maybe in eight years!"
Here is a partial transcript:
He tells Palin one of his favorite pastimes is hunting, also a passion of the 44-year-old Alaska governor."I just love killing those animals. Mmm, mmm, take away life, that is so fun," the fake Sarkozy says.
He proposes they go hunting together by helicopter, something he says he has never done.
"Well, I think we could have a lot of fun together while we're getting work done," Palin counters. "We can kill two birds with one stone that way."
The comedian jokes that they shouldn't bring Cheney along on the hunt, referring to the 2006 incident in which the vice-president shot and injured a friend while hunting quail.
"I'll be a careful shot," responds Palin.
Playing off the governor's much-mocked comment in an early television interview that she had insights into foreign policy because "you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska," the caller tells her: "You know we have a lot in common also, because ... from my house I can see Belgium."
She replies: "Well, see, we're right next door to different countries that we all need to be working with, yes."
(...) He also tells the Alaska governor that he loved the "documentary" made about her and referred to a pornographic film with a Palin look-alike made by Hustler founder Larry Flynt. She answers tentatively, "Ohh, good, thank you, yes."
How stupid can she be? Well, these two just proved how stupid - not to mention the idiots around her.
Did You Know ...
It was necessary to keep a good supply of cannon balls near the cannon on old war ships.
But how to prevent them from rolling about the deck was the problem.
The best storage method devised was to stack them as a square based pyramid, with one ball on top, resting on four, resting on nine, which rested on sixteen.
Thus, a supply of 30 cannon balls could be stacked in a small area right next to the cannon. There was only one problem -- how to prevent the bottom layer from sliding/rolling from under the others.
The solution was a metal plate with 16 round indentations, called, for reasons unknown, a Monkey.
But if this plate were made of iron, the iron balls would quickly rust to it.
The solution to the rusting problem was to make them of brass - hence, Brass Monkeys.
Few landlubbers realize that brass contracts much more and much faster than iron when chilled.
Consequently, when the temperature dropped too far, the brass indentations would shrink so much that the iron cannon balls would come right off the monkey.
Thus,it was quite literally, cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.
And all this time, you thought that was just a vulgar expression, didn't you?
But how to prevent them from rolling about the deck was the problem.
The best storage method devised was to stack them as a square based pyramid, with one ball on top, resting on four, resting on nine, which rested on sixteen.
Thus, a supply of 30 cannon balls could be stacked in a small area right next to the cannon. There was only one problem -- how to prevent the bottom layer from sliding/rolling from under the others.
The solution was a metal plate with 16 round indentations, called, for reasons unknown, a Monkey.
But if this plate were made of iron, the iron balls would quickly rust to it.
The solution to the rusting problem was to make them of brass - hence, Brass Monkeys.
Few landlubbers realize that brass contracts much more and much faster than iron when chilled.
Consequently, when the temperature dropped too far, the brass indentations would shrink so much that the iron cannon balls would come right off the monkey.
Thus,it was quite literally, cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.
And all this time, you thought that was just a vulgar expression, didn't you?
Ronald Reagan endorses Barack Obama
Not that there was any doubt, but Ronald Reagan Jr. has made his endorsement official.
It's all in the numbers
From the Political Wire:
Brian Adams, a mathematics and computer science professor at Franklin & Marshall college, reports that there's a 99.98% chance that senator Barack Obama will win the presidential election on Tuesday.
Adams has developed a simulation model that involves running 50 million simulated state-by-state races, using the late-October poll results for each state.
He ran his simulation 50 million times to allow him to calculate all the different combinations of electoral votes that might result, even long shots.
While the number of possible outcomes is very large, the result is always the same.
Obama receives 270 or more electoral votes 99.98% of the time.
Using intervals of electoral vote results, there is a 95 percent chance that the outcome will have Obama winning between 303 and 381 electoral votes.
Brian Adams, a mathematics and computer science professor at Franklin & Marshall college, reports that there's a 99.98% chance that senator Barack Obama will win the presidential election on Tuesday.
Adams has developed a simulation model that involves running 50 million simulated state-by-state races, using the late-October poll results for each state.
He ran his simulation 50 million times to allow him to calculate all the different combinations of electoral votes that might result, even long shots.
While the number of possible outcomes is very large, the result is always the same.
Obama receives 270 or more electoral votes 99.98% of the time.
Using intervals of electoral vote results, there is a 95 percent chance that the outcome will have Obama winning between 303 and 381 electoral votes.
There is no one as Irish as Barack Obama!
There is no one as Irish as Barack Obama!
Just ask the Irish ...
Just ask the Irish ...
Top o'th'mornin' tae ye
Obama 'congratulates' McPain on Cheney endorsement
At an event in Laramie, Wyoming, on Saturday, Vice President Dick Cheney said he will cast his ballot for the McCain-Palin ticket.
In Pueblo, Colorado, Obama had this to say about the endorsement:
"I'd like to congratulate Sen. McCain on this endorsement, because he really earned it. That endorsement didn't come easy," he said. "George Bush may be in an undisclosed location now, but Dick Cheney's out there on the campaign trail because he'd be delighted to pass the baton to John McCain."
"He knows that with John McCain, you get a twofer: George Bush's economic policy and Dick Cheney's foreign policy. And that is a risk we cannot afford to take."
Bold-Face Liars
Just picked up the mail and got nauseated by the 'fliers' from the repugicans saying that Obama and the Liberals caused the economic crises, raised and are going to raise taxes, gave tax breaks to companies that shipped jobs overseas and so on and so forth.
Accusing everyone else of doing exactly what they have been doing - and it is a matter of public record that they were the ones that did everything they are accusing the Liberals of doing.
The economy is a direct result of their polices.
The highest taxes rates and increases in history - in fact ALL history setting tax increases EVER have been done by the repugicans.
Tax breaks to corporations, yep them too.
We the American people are wiser than that, but the repugicans are not.
We see through the lies and we are telling them NO MORE in a loud and clear voice.
You have fucked us over for the last time and the 'perfect storm' has developed and WILL sweep the halls of the White House and Congress clean!
Accusing everyone else of doing exactly what they have been doing - and it is a matter of public record that they were the ones that did everything they are accusing the Liberals of doing.
The economy is a direct result of their polices.
The highest taxes rates and increases in history - in fact ALL history setting tax increases EVER have been done by the repugicans.
Tax breaks to corporations, yep them too.
We the American people are wiser than that, but the repugicans are not.
We see through the lies and we are telling them NO MORE in a loud and clear voice.
You have fucked us over for the last time and the 'perfect storm' has developed and WILL sweep the halls of the White House and Congress clean!
A reader responds
Anonymous responds to the post about "How DUMB is Sarah Palin" with this hooey:
Both the SAT scores and IQ test are exposed hoaxes.
And even if those scores were real (which they are not) it would be impossible for someone with an 83 IQ (mildly retarded range) to achieve that high a score on the SATs
One ... SAT and IQ scores are not hoaxes - only those who are in the 70-80 score range think they are.
Two ... the scores for Sarah Palin are quite real and a matter of public record.
Third ... isn't odd that one so gullible as to swallow the notion that Sarah Palin is NOT DUMB would be scared to leave their name - then again no it isn't odd at all.
Addendum:
The anonymous one still is afraid to leave their name and still won't admit they have a problem with reality ... still claiming the idiot is not dumb. Something that is apparent to everyone else on the planet even with her IQ scores unknown, her scores just re-enforce what everyone all ready knows.
Point of fact ... I have a friend who works at the local RenFaire who has a IQ score of 74 and is more intelligent than is Sarah and he has wondered how such a dumb person 'got by' in the world himself ... even he said it was because of her gender, albeit he used a more colorful phrase to say so.
Two ... the scores for Sarah Palin are quite real and a matter of public record.
Third ... isn't odd that one so gullible as to swallow the notion that Sarah Palin is NOT DUMB would be scared to leave their name - then again no it isn't odd at all.
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Addendum:
The anonymous one still is afraid to leave their name and still won't admit they have a problem with reality ... still claiming the idiot is not dumb. Something that is apparent to everyone else on the planet even with her IQ scores unknown, her scores just re-enforce what everyone all ready knows.
Point of fact ... I have a friend who works at the local RenFaire who has a IQ score of 74 and is more intelligent than is Sarah and he has wondered how such a dumb person 'got by' in the world himself ... even he said it was because of her gender, albeit he used a more colorful phrase to say so.
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:
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.
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!
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!
Watch a Panda Grow
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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.
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.
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