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silveradept) wrote2008-10-26 12:03 am
silveradept) wrote2008-10-26 12:03 am
Visits from the great people - 25 October 08
Family is great to have - when they bring you nice stuff that would have broken had it been shipped, all the better. Of course, figuring out where to put it... another story entirely. It’ll work out, though.
A light smattering of stuff tonight. Pakistani troops getting training to fight the Taliban, OPEC cuts production, trying to stabilize prices of crude.
Governor Palin claims another vict- err, Manny Legace out after tripping on the carpet the Governor used to drop the ceremonial first puck.
Much more seriously, are you living in a Constitution-Free Zone? If you're within 100 miles of any United States "external boundary", you could end up being stopped and harassed by the Border Patrol.
ACORN alleges that the McCain campaign and conservative media outlets have been attempting to suppress voters, implying that the current call for investigations into ACORN’s voter registrations is a part of this campaign to disenfranchise voters (many would likely vote Democrat, both sides are thinking).
In the candidate matters, Liberal Eagle points out all hat, no cattle has been a Republican strategy for a while now, trusting that if you make the image good enough, the substance won’t matter. You know, it could be said that if that’s really the case, then that explains why Senator Obama is popular - his image is good, and now we have conservatives scrambling to shout “Look at his content!” Well, a little bit. In some ways, they’re trying to fight Obama’s image and tarnish it. Things like trying to paint Obama as someone who would refuse treatment to a survivor of an abortion attempt, trying to paint him as a member of the very far left based on the past associations of people he's worked with and that one of the foundations he chaired gave money to, and reinforcing that accusation by calling his tax plans "wealth redistribution", if not outright “welfare” or “socialism”, as they play up Senator McCain's plans to cut taxes for "capital" and businesses, accusing Senator Obama of inexperience and inability to make sound judgment in a world with Big Bads everywhere just waiting for a weak President, and continually playing up how close the polls are as a way of trying to make Obama seem weaker than he may be.
Mike Gallagher comments on how it's obvious (to him) that the mainstream media is striving to have Obama elected, among complaints about the “scandal” of $150,000 spent on wardrobe and makeup for Governor Palin with nary a peep about spending on sending Senator Obama home to be with his grandmother, the Senator’s tax plans, and the evil Democratic plan to bring back the Fairness Doctrine, which will bankrupt talk radio because liberals suck at it and want conservatives to be silenced as well.
The WSJ notes that several members of Senator Obama's campaign support health-care plans that have components that Senator McCain also includes, trying to make it appear like a wedge, when they probably like the Obama plan better and campaign against the flaws they see in the McCain plan. Grey, not black and white, y’know?
Tension between Sarah Palin and her handlers, as the Governor notes how well she’s been taken and what sort of image she’s been tagged with, and that she and McCain both will look like excellent fall people if the Republicans lose the election. It sounds like the Governor has not ben fond of the way she’s been handled, and the way the campaign’s being run, and she wants to try and undo as much of that damage as she can, much to the chagrin of her handlers.
Fringe Christianity intensifies their attacks on Senator Obama, painting disaster scenarios such as legalized homosexual marriage everywhere, the Boy Scouts needing to hire homosexual scoutmasters (who are also, apparently, pedophiles to a man), terror attacks everywhere because the President isn’t sending troops anywhere, and long lines and no hospital access for those over 80 in a nationalized health care plan.
In potentially disturbing art, giant spider in the process of devouring bird. In just weird stuff, as the UFO archives open up, more and more odd stories, including being told to shoot down a UFO, a transplanted cornea still functions after 123 years of service, counting the original and the transplanted person's eyes, pictures of the future from the past that have come really close to the mark. That’s it for tonight, everyone. Tune in some other day for more.
A light smattering of stuff tonight. Pakistani troops getting training to fight the Taliban, OPEC cuts production, trying to stabilize prices of crude.
Governor Palin claims another vict- err, Manny Legace out after tripping on the carpet the Governor used to drop the ceremonial first puck.
Much more seriously, are you living in a Constitution-Free Zone? If you're within 100 miles of any United States "external boundary", you could end up being stopped and harassed by the Border Patrol.
ACORN alleges that the McCain campaign and conservative media outlets have been attempting to suppress voters, implying that the current call for investigations into ACORN’s voter registrations is a part of this campaign to disenfranchise voters (many would likely vote Democrat, both sides are thinking).
In the candidate matters, Liberal Eagle points out all hat, no cattle has been a Republican strategy for a while now, trusting that if you make the image good enough, the substance won’t matter. You know, it could be said that if that’s really the case, then that explains why Senator Obama is popular - his image is good, and now we have conservatives scrambling to shout “Look at his content!” Well, a little bit. In some ways, they’re trying to fight Obama’s image and tarnish it. Things like trying to paint Obama as someone who would refuse treatment to a survivor of an abortion attempt, trying to paint him as a member of the very far left based on the past associations of people he's worked with and that one of the foundations he chaired gave money to, and reinforcing that accusation by calling his tax plans "wealth redistribution", if not outright “welfare” or “socialism”, as they play up Senator McCain's plans to cut taxes for "capital" and businesses, accusing Senator Obama of inexperience and inability to make sound judgment in a world with Big Bads everywhere just waiting for a weak President, and continually playing up how close the polls are as a way of trying to make Obama seem weaker than he may be.
Mike Gallagher comments on how it's obvious (to him) that the mainstream media is striving to have Obama elected, among complaints about the “scandal” of $150,000 spent on wardrobe and makeup for Governor Palin with nary a peep about spending on sending Senator Obama home to be with his grandmother, the Senator’s tax plans, and the evil Democratic plan to bring back the Fairness Doctrine, which will bankrupt talk radio because liberals suck at it and want conservatives to be silenced as well.
The WSJ notes that several members of Senator Obama's campaign support health-care plans that have components that Senator McCain also includes, trying to make it appear like a wedge, when they probably like the Obama plan better and campaign against the flaws they see in the McCain plan. Grey, not black and white, y’know?
Tension between Sarah Palin and her handlers, as the Governor notes how well she’s been taken and what sort of image she’s been tagged with, and that she and McCain both will look like excellent fall people if the Republicans lose the election. It sounds like the Governor has not ben fond of the way she’s been handled, and the way the campaign’s being run, and she wants to try and undo as much of that damage as she can, much to the chagrin of her handlers.
Fringe Christianity intensifies their attacks on Senator Obama, painting disaster scenarios such as legalized homosexual marriage everywhere, the Boy Scouts needing to hire homosexual scoutmasters (who are also, apparently, pedophiles to a man), terror attacks everywhere because the President isn’t sending troops anywhere, and long lines and no hospital access for those over 80 in a nationalized health care plan.
In potentially disturbing art, giant spider in the process of devouring bird. In just weird stuff, as the UFO archives open up, more and more odd stories, including being told to shoot down a UFO, a transplanted cornea still functions after 123 years of service, counting the original and the transplanted person's eyes, pictures of the future from the past that have come really close to the mark. That’s it for tonight, everyone. Tune in some other day for more.
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