Thursday edition - September 25, 2008
McCain Cuts and Runs
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Obama calls on McCain to keep Friday debate date
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After McCain tried to bail from debate, Bush bailed him
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Top Officials Knew in 2002 of Harsh Interrogations |
I'm exhausted. The amount of breaking news has been breathtaking. Sorry for the late post.
"You don't suspend your campaign. Do you suspend your campaign? No, because that makes me think, well, you know, maybe there will be other things down the road -- if John McCain's in the White House, he might just suspend being president. I mean, we've got a guy like that now!" - David Letterman
I just love Buckfush!
The-World-Is-A-Safer-Place-Without Saddam
Military: Suicide bomber kills US soldier in Iraq The Associated Press
Pakistan airport on high alert following bomb threats guardian.co.uk
Rice says Russia more authoritarian International Herald Tribune
Oops. Can We Unhang Him?
Nearly two years after an Iraqi court sentenced Saddam Hussein to death, new disclosures by Western lawyers who helped guide the court have given fresh ammunition to critics who contend that he was railroaded to the gallows by vengeful officials in Iraq’s new government.
"You don't
suspend your campaign. This doesn't smell right. This isn't the way a tested
hero behaves. I think someone's putting something in his Metamucil." - David
Letterman
Disturbing News
Finland fears copycat attacks, Sweden arrests teen
Meanwhile Back In Pakistan
Pakistan's military fired at
NATO helicopters along the country's border with Afghanistan as the aircraft
were conducting operations, the alliance said.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization aircraft weren't hit by the small-arms
fire from a military border checkpoint near the Tanai district in Afghanistan's
eastern Khowst province, NATO said in an e-mailed statement.
The alliance said it was working with the military in Pakistan ``to resolve the
matter.''
Meanwhile Back In Pakistan: Part 2
Pakistani troops fired at American reconnaissance helicopters patrolling the Afghan-Pakistan border Thursday, heightening tensions as the U.S. steps up cross-border operations in a region known as a haven for Taliban and al-Qaida militants. Pakistan's president said only "flares" were fired.
It Takes One To Know One
"Wall Street got drunk – it’s one of the reasons I asked you to turn off your TV cameras. It got drunk and now it’s got a hangover. The question is: how long will it sober up.”- George W. Bush, July 2008
I'm a little
confused on this year's candidates and their values, as presented by the
Republican Party.
Let me see if I have this straight:
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If you grow up in Hawaii , raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic,
different."
If you grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, you're a quintessential American
story.
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If your name is Barack, you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
If you name your kids Willow , Trig and Track, you're a maverick.
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If you graduate from Harvard Law School, you are unstable.
If you attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well
grounded.
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If you spend 3 years as a community organizer, become the first black President
of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers
150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8
years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people,
become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend
4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people
while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and
Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real
leadership experience.
If your total resume is: local beauty queen and sports reporter, 4 years on the
city council, 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20
months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're
qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.
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If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2
beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real
Christian.
If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured
wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.
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If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper
use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence-only sex education and
look with disfavor on teaching kids about actual birth
control, while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very
responsible.
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If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a
prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community,
then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent
America 's.
If you're husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DWI conviction
and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was
a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA , your
family is extremely admirable.
Do you find this confusing too?
Sent in by Dennis M.
Republican-Shenanigans News
McCain Team Blasts Poll Showing Obama Leading U.S. News & World Report
Bush Warns "Entire Economy Is In Danger" U.S. News & World Report
Republican Gilchrest Makes It Official: ‘I’m Voting For Obama’ CQPolitics.com, DC
Pa. Republican congressman declines debate The Associated Press
Did John McCain throw the ultimate Hail-Mary?
Opening arguments set in Alaska senator's corruption trial CNN
Letterman unloads on McCain for not showing up The Associated Press
Today, John McCain told the press, “I did not have financial relations with that woman … Fannie Mae.” - LaughLines
Poisoning Our Troops??
Senior Army officials are
investigating claims that National Guardsmen
were exposed to a toxin in 2003 while protecting a water pumping plant in Iraq.
Two employees with the firm Kellogg, Brown and Root told Senate Democrats in
June that members of the 1st Battalion, 152nd Infantry division of the Indiana
National Guard were exposed to sodium dichromate, despite promises from company
officials that the Qarmat Ali facility in Basra, Iraq, was safe.
Rock-The-Voter News
White Women Swing Back From John McCain to Barack Obama
Racism may cost Obama the election
Felon with pistol in car arrested near Obama home
Biden: McCain would deepen US 'hole' Boston Globe
Obama Campaign Comments On McCain/Davis Story
What McCain Supporters Do In Their Spare Time
Officials of a small
Christian university say
a life-size cardboard reproduction of Democratic presidential candidate Barack
Obama was hung from a tree on the campus, an act that outraged students and
school leaders alike.
George Fox University President Robin Baker said a custodian discovered the
effigy early Tuesday and removed it.
Sarah Palin met with the presidents of Afghanistan, Colombia, and Iraq. She was excited because these are all countries you can’t see from Alaska. - Jay Leno
Biz-Tech News
Oil Prices Move Lower Wall Street Journal
FDIC May Need $150 Billion Bailout as Local Bank Failures Mount Bloomberg
Durable goods orders fall 4.5%
Delta-Northwest shareholders to vote on merger MarketWatch
Buffett Drove Hard Bargain With Goldman Wall Street Journal
More nations pull tainted Chinese food
Palin Hacking Probe: What's Next? PC World
"See, you know the way a bailout works? Here's the way a bailout works. A failed president and a failed Congress invest $700 billion of your money in failed businesses. Believe me, this can't fail."- Jay Leno
Subject: I'm against
the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG.
Instead, I'm in favor of giving $85,000,000,000 to America in a "We Deserve It
Dividend".
To make the math simple, let's assume there are 200,000,000 bonafide U.S.
Citizens 18+.
Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman and child. So
200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up..
So divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billon that equals $425,000.00.
My plan is to give $425,000 to every person 18+ as a We Deserve It Dividend.
Of course, it would NOT be tax free. So let's assume a tax rate of 30%.
Every individual 18+ has to pay $127,500.00 in taxes. That sends $25,500,000,000
right back to Uncle Sam.
But it means that every adult 18+ has $297,500.00 in their pocket. A husband and
wife has $595,000.00.
What would you do with $297,500.00 to $595,000.00 in your family? Pay off your
mortgage - housing crisis solved. Repay college loans - what a great boost to
new grads Put away money for college - it'll be there Save in a bank - create
money to loan to entrepreneurs. Buy a new car - create jobs Invest in the market
- capital drives growth Pay for your parent's medical insurance - health care
improves Enable Deadbeat Dads to come clean - or else
Remember this is for every adult U S Citizen 18+ including the folks who lost
their jobs at Lehmann Brothers and every other company that is cutting back. And
of course, for those serving in our Armed Forces.
If we're going to re-distribute wealth let's really do it...instead of trickling
out a puny $1000.00 ( "vote buy" ) economic incentive that is being proposed by
one of our candidates for President.
If we're going to do an $85 billion bailout, let's bail out every adult U S
Citizen 18+!
As for AIG - liquidate it. Sell off its parts. Let American General go back to
being American General. Sell off the real estate. Let the private sector bargain
hunters cut it up and clean it up.
Here's my rationale. We deserve it and AIG doesn't.
Sure it's a crazy idea that can "never work."
But can you imagine the Coast-To-Coast Block Party!
How do you spell Economic Boom?
I trust my fellow adult Americans to know how to use the $85 Billion We Deserve
It Dividend more than I do the geniuses at AIG or in Washington DC.
And remember, The Birk plan only really costs $59.5 Billion because $25.5
Billion is returned instantly in taxes to Uncle Sam.
Ahhh...I feel so much better getting that off my chest.
Kindest personal regards,
Birk T. J. Birkenmeier,
A Creative Guy & Citizen of the Republic
PS: Feel free to pass this along to your pals as it's either good for a laugh or
a tear or a very sobering thought on how to best use $85 Billion
Hmmm...doesn't that come out to $425.00 per person?
It was a nice thought while it lasted though, sigh.
How Many GITMO Prosecutors Have Quit? Five, Six?
Contending
that the government had suppressed evidence that could help a young man facing
life in prison,
a prosecutor has quit the war crimes tribunals here, several military defense
lawyers said Wednesday.
Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld quit the case -- and the Office of Military
Commissions -- after growing increasingly concerned about the lack of due
process afforded to Mohammed Jawad and his legal team, according to Michael J.
Berrigan, deputy chief defense counsel for the commissions.
"They're
still calling it a correction. I love this. When CEOs make bad decisions that
cause Wall Street to crash, oh, it's called a correction. You know what we
should do? Take these people and put them in a correctional institute. Okay,
that's what we should do." --Jay Leno
Bush-Prison-Torture News
Officer cites abusive US interrogations in Iraq The Associated Press
"Sarah
Palin says she was very impressed with all of the landmarks in New York City. As
they were driving over the Hudson River, she said, 'Wow! Your bridges actually
go somewhere!'" --Jay Leno
Creepy Sarah
A grainy YouTube video surfaced Wednesday showing Sarah Palin being blessed in her hometown church three years ago by a Kenyan pastor who prayed for protection from "witchcraft" as she prepared to seek higher office.
Go-F**k-Yourself News
House GOP rises up against Cheney Pioneer Press, MN
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Odd News
In this image
from video released by FreeCreditReport.com, former 'Tonight Show' sidekick, Ed
McMahon is shown in a scene from a rap video for FreeCreditReport.com, a
financial Web site owned by credit bureau Experian.
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Peace.