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| Thursday, September 4th, 2008 |
daemonchadeau
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11:50p |
Oh...you'll love this one too! Current Mood:  amused |
daemonchadeau
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11:25p |
McCain's speech
One word best describes the speech tonight: Huh?
Honestly. There was just nothing but rhetoric. And saying that he wants to distance himself from the GOP? Even though he supports mostly everything that Bush has implemented during the eight years in hell we've been experiencing?
I don't mean to sound like an ageist ass, but with his "maverick" attitude and constantly bringing up his POW time and War record (which, you have to respect, even though it was due to ineptitude. I mean, the whole war hero thing didn't work for Bob Dole now did it?), as well as his selection of Sarah Palin as a veep, it makes me think that McCain has either gone senile or he's clinically insane.
I'm feeling a lot better about Obama's chances for winning in November.
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| Friday, September 5th, 2008 |
paladin3
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12:00a |
short thoughts in spare moments Things I meant to write about but time twittered away
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fireheart
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12:55a |
Thank you ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) hughcasey John Stewart tells it like it is. Current Mood:  amused |
| Thursday, September 4th, 2008 |
lordandrei
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8:38p |
That damned liberal biased media The problem is not that the media is making the liberals look good. The problem is that the republican commentators are making themselves look very bad. John Stewart... who doesn't report the news, only the comedy of errors shows the problemAs always... your contributions help support a good candidate who (at least in my opinion) understands what the average American is going through. Current Mood:  annoyed |
mercuryglare
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5:14p |
convention speech retort of the day “Jesus was a Community Organizer, and Pilate was a Governor.” - mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/palin-palooza-wrap-up/He also goes on to say: "The stunner of the speech for me? “I said thanks, but no thanks to that Bridge to Nowhere”. Frankly, I was surprised she said it the first time, shocked she said it the second time, but again? Almost incomprehensible. This must be her test to see if that old George Bush theory that if you say something enough, people will just believe it, is true. No other explanation seems possible. This is easy to fact check. Really easy." Doesn't this fall under the old "I was for it before I was against it" defense? |
byron
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6:33p |
Catching up Okay...I've been a bad LJ friend. Blame 14-16 hour work days, poor health, and World of Warcraft. Lemme try and catch you up... Kelly is in her 2nd week of school and doing well. Better than last year in fact because she's not overwhelmed as much. Eamon has completely reintegrated into his life in Denton and has completely forgotten us. My sister-in-law is still in very rough shape in Saudi Arabia. Her sister flew over to help my brother but due to some ridiculous bullshit involving a stamp she cannot even enter Saudi. So she is at my brother's house in Bahrain. This has doubled my brother's workload because now he has two women to take care of in 2 different countries. Chances are he's flying everyone home in the next two weeks. And finally...there's me. I'm working myself to death. Between my current job, my stadium work and my side jobs...I have been attempting suicide by work. And I am tired. And my insane schedule is promoting even worse eating habits. But I'm bringing it all to a end. I'm finishing my commitments, and taking on no new projects for a while. That being said I have 3 computers in the next room to work on. *sigh* When I am not working I am playing World of Warcraft. I now have my 2nd character to level 70. This means I have TWO characters that I have to gear up. So I am occupied for the next year. Even better....I got gravity hooked and playing on my server. MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Resistance is futile!!!! |
thefreak
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4:19p |
Easiest Benjamin I ever made...
I have been signed up with Adept Consumer Testing since I was poor in 2002 (the year we don't talk about). I usually avoid them now, but they aren't in my phone and so I answered by accident when last they called. I tried to fail the test about travel websites, but passed.
So, I went dow today. Didn't get into the $50 raffle by arriving early, but traffic was light. Sat there for about ten minutes. Then me and another guy were let go...they only wanted three of the five. We took our checks and left. A few minutes on the surprisingly light 101 and I am home again, only slightly richer.
Great success! |
lordandrei
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3:09p |
15 minutes of fame... What's in a name For the second time in about 2 months I've had someone come up to me and ask the following question: "Are you lordandrei?" I think it's important to use the LJ user link system here, because the question has not been a question of am I that person, but in fact am I that person on LiveJournal. I should also stress the phrase above, "come up to me and ask." This isn't someone randomly IM'ing me. This is real person to person interaction. In the case last month the person asked me while I was on shift at our booth at FaerieWorlds. She'd recognized me from my icon and wanted to tell me that she'd voted for me in the LJ representative election. Today was a coworker in my office building. You'd think I know everyone on my floor. But let's be honest; I work for "A Large Company (TM)" and the non-full time staff around here along with the people not in my sub group tend to rotate and change a lot. In general, it's kind of pleasant to be 'recognized.' Granted... the first person who ever met me with the question "Are you lordandrei?" was sabazius_x on the first instance I had the honour of meeting him. This question can thus be daunting when it comes just after two-three weeks of personal drama on your blog site. I try to not post for an audience, though I've been told by several people that they read me out of interest of the material and don't actually know me or have ever met me. I suppose I'm the same. I suppose the curiosity is 'being recognized.' Again.. it's a nice feeling. But I don't want it to seem like that's going to my head. I've commented with s00j on more than one occasion how much I believe in her as an artist and all the fame I think she deserves with the caveat that I'd hate fame to change what she is and does so well. The balancing act of bringing the depths of your soul thru creation to others without tainting that creation as you have more people desire to bring it to themselves. It's not just art or music or writing. I think it applies to anything you put yourself into. Not much else to say at this point. Just contemplating Current Mood: contemplative |
| Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 |
daemonchadeau
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3:28p |
Lies...LIIIIIIEEEEEESSSS I TELL YOU! Look what I found when I launched my Messenger this morning: Yahoo Fact Check PWNZ Palin.
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice president. In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth. Some examples: PALIN: "I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending...and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress 'thanks but no thanks' for that Bridge to Nowhere." THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor,Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a "bridge to nowhere." PALIN: "There is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform — not even in the state senate." THE FACTS: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation. PALIN: "The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars." THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institutionand the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama's plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain's plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded. Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families. He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise. MCCAIN: "She's been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America's energy supply ... She's responsible for 20 percent of the nation's energy supply. I'm entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that running a political campaign is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America," he said in an interview with ABC News' Charles Gibson. THE FACTS: McCain's phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she's no more "responsible" for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state — by population. MCCAIN: "She's the commander of the Alaska National Guard. ... She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities," he said on ABC. THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their state guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, for example, they assume those duties under "federal status," which means they report to the Defense Department, not their governors.Alaska's national guard units have a total of about 4,200 personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations. FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin "got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States." THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor's election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after theIowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries. FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MITT ROMNEY: "We need change, all right — change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington — throw out the big-government liberals, and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin." THE FACTS: A Back-to-the-Future moment. George W. Bush, a conservative Republican, has been president for nearly eight years. And until last year, Republicans controlled Congress. Only since January 2007 have Democrats have been in charge of the House and Senate.
Oh man...she's gonna get her ass handed to her in the debates.
Also, thank you not_eurotic or finding this little gem on YouTube: Current Mood: impressedCurrent Music: Implant - All I Want |
| Thursday, September 4th, 2008 |
thefreak
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2:48p |
We said what?! Oh, Republicans...yer all so silly. As if the infamous live mic incident yesterday wasn't bad enough, Jon Stewart went to town over how awkwardly they all have to lie about how much they like Palin: |
thefreak
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11:48a |
Somebody's pissed... I remember this laughable bit of Palin's speech last night, where she kept insinuating that being mayor of a small town in Alaska was better than being a community organizer (for even MORE people in Chicago). I believe her exact quote was “I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.” Way to go, whoever-wrote-that-speech. You were probably trying to get in a nice little retarded zinger at Obama...but guess what? Instead you pissed off half the country. Among those insulted: every community organizer, churches who focus on helping the community, and then this guy from CNN: Nice job, guys! |
thefreak
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11:32a |
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weswilson
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1:11p |
Oh Irony... can we never have too much?
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insomnia
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10:21a |
If Sarah Palin's speech sounded familiar... It's because it was written by longtime Bush speechwriter, Matthew Scully. Really, she did a fine job with it, for a former sportscaster ..you almost couldn't see Karl Rove's hand up her backside! That said, she promised nothing to the people of America other than drill, drill, drill and veto, veto, veto. Because, of course, we can drill our way out of oil dependency... and we need more partisan gridlock in order to address America's problems. George W. Bush promised to reduce our dependence on Middle East oil 75% by 2025... Barack Obama promises to end our Middle East oil dependence entirely by 2018... And John McCain and Sarah Palin want to drill, drill, drill... but hey... no promises. This is a solution?! |
lordremo
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7:24a |
Why the Democrats are so afraid...
My commentary on the speeches during these conventions.
Ignore the crowd reactions, the jabs, one-upmanship and how "real" people sound. As with the Dem. convention last week, all of these speeches are written for the presenters by staff. When Oberman and Matthews were wetting themselves during Obama's speech last week they were really kissing the ass of David Axlerod who wrote and arranges it all. This is why so many Hollywood actors are in love with Barack: He performs the same way that they do. "line please?"
The landmark of this convention was having Lieberman. You won't see Dick Cheaney or Dan Quayle speak at a DNC convention in some future because
A. They won't be invited
B. The DNC won't have a candidate special enough to cross party lines to support.
But Lieberman gets that we are still in a war, with world problems on the horizon, but his party put a rookie with a record that looks worse the more you study it, up for the top seat. He disagrees with 90% of what McCain's plans are but still supports a competent leader over a party's agenda. He spoke to wavering Dems and serious independents to think "Country First". He is now so dead to the party he votes with he needs a food taster and someone to start his car every day.
The left media (Overbite) immediately started to undermine the speech by highlighting so of course uses a prompter, the speech was written for her and she got 6 hours of practice... as if she needed it and nobody else did. But they also pointed out that her prompter had difficulties so she had to fill in things while it wasn't working. See, the prompter did NOT stop when she waited for audience applause, so by half way through it was useless. She was doing it by memory! The same thing happenned to Giuliani before her and he was noticably affected with broken lines and breaks.
They NEVER expressed how the speech was flawless with such difficulties and she works well without a prompter... like at her announcement last week. When Obama's prompter stalled, he was left stuttering and affected.
One on my friends list thought the speech lacked content and details; that Palin doesn't bring gravitas to the ticket. This is the word they used to describe how a VP adds strength to the main candidate. McCain doesn't need Gravitas. That was Obama's problem and why he undid all his campaign's meaning by choosing an establishment insider. The VP doesn't need to have details or content in their speech because they are the #2 seat. They introduce themselves and talk up the nominee then attack the competition... didn't they watch Biden's speech?
But the real attack dogs are in the media and blogosphere and they are pouncing on anything they can with Palin.
* scouring for pics of Palin in bikinis or topless
* interviewing townspeople for dirt
* demanding a blood test to determine Trig's parental proof
* making things up and hiding retractions later
They do this because McCain scooped them. He knew since he met her in Feb. she would be his main choice. But he slow-played his hand so as not to affect Obama's choice. This race would be quite different if Obama knew of Palin and had picked Clinton. The media had nothing ready when he announced her. His shell games worked as well. Pondering Lieberman publicly the week before really snapped the Conservatives in his corner when he picked Palin. Having Pawlenty fly to Ohio the evening before, FBI sweep of Romney's home with a week of stumping leading up to thursday... the media was duped by the old man.
But what they're really afraid of is both McCain and Palin do what they say, not always what their party asks. When someone like that gets in office, they are successful. McCain will go 4, possibly 8 years and Palin's youth guarantees 8 more. That means losing executive control and judicial appointments for 12 to 16 years! With Bush that's a quarter century and they can't bear to see it. It would mean goodbye to Hillary's chances, too many years for Obama to risk damaging his brand and most of the old guard too old for serious contention. Politically speaking, McCain could be the "put-away shot". |
athena
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8:02a |
*Knock Knock* Hello.... delivered hot and fresh by LoudTwitter... |
thefreak
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2:08a |
Taxes BTW, since McCain keeps spewing lies about the Obama tax plan (despite being repeatedly proven to be false), here's the basic comparison of the two guys:  Sucks to be rich. Good to be...me and my mates and my family. |
| Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 |
daemonchadeau
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1:42a |
C15 LONG BEACH BABY!!!! WOOOOOOHOOOOOOO!!!! Long Beach won the Convergence XV bid!!!! Congratulations, ladyclayton and the rest. Thank you for bringing this to my hometown! Current Mood: excited |
| Thursday, September 4th, 2008 |
thefreak
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12:47a |
McPalin Suffering through the speech right now. There's something familiar about all these lies and exaggerations she's spewing about Obama and McCain. Oh, wait...what's this I see? Not anticipating that McCain would choose a woman as his running mate, the speech that was prepared in advance was "very masculine," according to campaign manager Rick Davis, and "we had to start from scratch."Well, that explains a lot...they had it all written for her before they even knew who she was. She is the Mouth of Sauron. The stuff she DID write? A loooong summary of her family, golly shucks. Lies about fighting pork (she was the biggest milker of federal pork projects as mayor), told Congress she didn't want the bridge to nowhere (she ran on a platform in support of the bridge and bitched when they stopped funding it), and is all for drilling in Alaska (since royalty checks are given to residents...and she helped increase the amount since becoming governor...no wonder everyone loves her). Make it stop, daddy! |
paladin3
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12:00a |
short thoughts in spare moments Things I meant to write about but time twittered away
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| Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 |
mercuryglare
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8:21p |
Convention
Way to go negative, Mommie Dearest. Pitbull is right. Hillary is a bitch but she's a tough hockey mom!
I must admit, this shit is going to go over HUGE in middle America. They are going to eat up this mega-breeder, blue collar, gee whiz, small town crap.
I find it amazing that the GOP still uses the "they will raise your taxes!!" line. I mean, do people still buy that shit?
I love that they trotted out the gum-chewing baby daddy - and don't let go of my hand dammit!
And there are a few too many "McCain as Jesus" analogies to make me feel comfortable with any of this. |
insomnia
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8:12p |
Palin affair rumors shake up big speech day. From CBS: John McCain’s campaign threatened legal action against the National Enquirer today for running a story about McCain’s running mate, Sarah Palin, allegedly having an affair with her husband’s business partner.
“The smearing of the Palin family must end. The allegations contained on the cover of the National Enquirer insinuating that Gov. Palin had an extramarital affair are categorically false. It is a vicious lie,” said McCain senior adviser Steve Schmidt.
“The efforts of the media and tabloids to destroy this fine and accomplished public servant are a disgrace. The American people will reject it.”
The Enquirer also alleges that Palin unjustly fired a public safety official while she was governor of Alaska, but the story is based entirely on unnamed sources. ...like every other news story out there. The thing is, the National Enquirer has a very good track record on such claims, which are invariably backed up by multiple sources. Why? Because, they don't want to be sued to death. And they're quite good at reporting on affairs, because it's something they cover with an obsessive, invasive, sordidly detailed passion. They literally dig for the truth... in garbage cans, sometimes. The National Enquirer has responded to the lawsuit threat, as follows: "The National Enquirer's coverage of a vicious war within Sarah Palin's extended family includes several newsworthy revelations, including the resulting incredible charge of an affair plus details of family strife when the Governor's daughter revealed her pregnancy. Following our John Edwards' exclusives, our political reporting has obviously proven to be more detail-oriented than the McCain campaign's vetting process. Despite the McCain camp's attempts to control press coverage they find unfavorable, The Enquirer will continue to pursue news on both sides of the political spectrum."
Can it just be said that the Democrats had nothing to do with this?! Maybe Sarah Palin should've patched things up with her enemies before her big public premiere, because all the dirty laundry is going to come out. But given that she threw every crappy allegation she could against her former brother-in-law to get him fired, and then canned the Head of Public Safety when he didn't fire him... well... it seems sort of appropriate, really. |
lordandrei
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7:27p |
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lordandrei
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7:06p |
MEMETime: Looking for love in all the right places Snarfed from sidhefireReply to this post, and I will list three things I love about you. Maybe more than three :D Then repost to your own journal, if you want, and spread the love. All responses will be screened or emailed. :) Current Mood: amused |
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