Thursday, October 30, 2008

MEDIA VINDICATION?!

I couldn't be more pleased.

Finally, FINALLY, CNN has broken the story, at 4:45 am PDT, earlyish in the Central and East Coast zones, straight from Mark O'Brian: Voting machines in over a dozen states can be easily and anonymously hacked into and changed. Votes can be swapped - snap! - into any desired winner the hacker would like. Halla-frickin' lu-jah!

Will this story have legs? It better!

For the stealing of the election to go as planned, the contest must seem to be fairly tight. That way, the public might find it feasible for either side to win, vis a vis the polls.

I hope nothing fishy happens on Election Day. That would be a nightmare.

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Where's the Fed in Federal?

Here's some more jaw-dropping news I heard as a "rumor" and a "conspiracy theory" a while back. America: Freedom to Fascism is a recent documentary from Aaron Russo, the director of Trading Places and The Rose (not that that gives him extra credit, but the money and connections he made didn't hurt). This doc is about the payment of federal income tax.

After exhausting the brains of leading economists, tax attorneys, IRS employees and groups that are vocal in their opposition to paying federal income taxes, the conclusion is a strange one. The argument against paying F.I.T. is that there is no law requiring it in the first place. In 1913, a 16th amendment clarification was made that taxes must be paid for profits, but not for what we earn as laborers. Our labor is our property. In fact, several dozen people have successfully won tax cases because the IRS cannot produce any law on which their side is based! The mainstream press is silent, as usual.

Readers: Google Joe Lewis and the IRS and you'll find yourself fascinated but saddened.

Did anyone know that the Federal Reserve is not "federal" at all, but is a private bank that Congress somehow manufactured to print money and to put federal money into, but the taxpayer never sees a penny of profit from? I never knew that. And I am SO justified in being a conspiracy theorist now!

The newer generations flock to credit so they can be part of the American "culture." We've now gone from freeholder to employee to serf. Now we're all up to our necks in debt, but we've got a new mini-van. In March of 2005, reporter Abid Aslam wrote that "Millions of Americans could be plunged into financial ruin (from) a bill giving credit companies relief from unpaid loans." It's three and a half years later...the entire Congress, working with the Federal Reserve and banks, has enslaved the nation because they chose to ignore inconvenient facts.

Why did the congress give the authority to print money to a private entity (the Federal Reserve)? How can they prove they have the "gold" to back it up? Why have we the people allowed them to do this? Because we are so zombified by American Idol and the right kind of shoe? While we weren't looking, the Federal Reserve has taken all our gold and traded it for, as T. Jefferson said, the "ghost of money - paper." NO media, again. Congress MUST take it back. Gah. The more I learn, the more disgusted I feel. If I've got it right, the Federal Reserve is just a cartel of private banks, headed by someone the president selects from a list of names the banks give him! Somebody tell me I'm crazy!

Now here's a subject that really gets me fired up, and most people look at me like I'm a wingnut. Actually implanting a glass tube with a microchip and antenna inside (about the size of a grain of rice) may still be some years off - though the technology is in place - but putting a tiny microchip on products (described by an "expert" as perhaps being the dot on the "i" in the fine print on a shampoo bottle) is being introduced already without public knowledge. Next, they'll stick a chip on cash, so that money is not even anonymous. Soon, they'll know every tiny detail about us and our private lives - our medical records and communications with each other are already easily spied on. This IS Orwellian.

In a scene from this same documentary, we are treated to a congressional hearing about these "injectable devices." "Oh, yes, sir," the junior salesman answers jovially. "We're ready to start putting them in any time." A family of four from Florida are featured on Good Morning America as the first U.S. family to try the chip. Mom declares that it's all in defense of "terrorism." Sure, terror that your leaders and their corporate pals are going to make you into BOTS.

In a segment on vote rigging, we see another congressional hearing on the evil "black box" voting machines produced by some of GWB's biggest supporters (I bet). A congressman (I can't see who) asks if, using their technology, a vote could be stolen. "Absolutely," the employee answers. "And no one would ever know!" Of course, those of us who have seen Hacking Democracy know all about this.

The Governmental Accountability Office themselves have been quoted as saying, "The integrity of 2006 elections cannot be ensured." And, why is that? Because a 12 year old could hack into a system that cannot be examined because "security" falls under Diebold's (and others') secrecy clause.

I hope, dear reader, that you are alarmed.

Mussolini said: "Fascism should be called Corporatism, more properly, because it's the perfect merger of power between the corporation and the public."

Henry Ford said: "It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."

Just a couple of quotes for you.

So what do we mere citizens do? Force Congress to use their legal authority to shut down the Federal Reserve? I agree with Russo that we the sheeple must demand that the American people's gold be audited, and make certain that it has not been stolen, right?

And computer voting is just the scariest thing ever.

My brain hurts a lot today.

Friday, October 24, 2008

Nodding Off in Afghanistan

Oh, it's so scary to be alive these days. Deedle dee dee, deedle dee dum...

I love www.antiwar.com The title of the site is misleading. It's not an anti war board, really, it's a reference board to articles written about foreign places so you, too, can get a glimpse of the facts. They are usually stories that you probably wouldn't be aware of if you didn't have to search for legitimate news. It has some lefty articles, and Pat Buchanan, of all people, is a contributing editor. Don't let that scare you, though.

Anyway, one of the headliner articles I saw there today made me squeal. I referred to the subject in my last post. Ready? FINALLY, the approach to Afghanistan is being changed. Bush and Co. are pretending that it's all their idea, but Obama was the one spreading the truth around. FINALLY, they have decided to address the fact that Afghanistan provides 90% of the world's heroin. Gee, ya think? Huh. Maybe it would help matters out if you included that fact in your game plan, ya morons!? Granted, the poppy farmers will go berserk, the heroin trade will go berserk, hundreds of thousands of junkies all over the world will go berserk. But it's nice to know that someone is at least thinking about it. No heroin, no money. No money, no guns. BRILLIANT!

Can you imagine that this has been going on for years? That's where the heroin comes from, along with several other areas of the East Asian world. The U.S. is at war with the Afghanistan people (the Taliban) - or at least that's who we're blowing up - yet we allow them to go about their business making 90% of the world's heroin? Isn't there also a "war" on drugs, ya half-baked hypocrits? Does this remind anyone of any other patterns we've seen in recent history? Crack, maybe? All I know is that people are profitting somewhere.

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Oh! Remember the Muslim McCain party security dude from a couple of posts ago? The one who told the nutso McCain fans to pipe down with the bigotry and was then mysteriously kidnapped by the McCain Team? CNN's house idiot Rick Sanchez has just announced that this story really developred legs amongst the jounalist crowd. Who is he? What's with the big hush-up? Well, Rick was told the Muslim McCain Security guy is going to call him! But then the McCain people stepped in and forbade it again. WHAT GIVES WITH THIS WEIRDNESS? I guess Muslims for McCain don't like the First Amendment.

Pundit XYZ tries to explain that the McCain team doesn't want any "muslim" talk right now and thus won't let him. Never does Rick the "brain" Sanchez ever ask how the McCain team can physically prevent a citizen from talking to someone else. Am I crazy? WTF, friends and readers?

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Sheena Hussein Fury's Questions for the Candidates

I must open with a new and alarming article I read today. I've been telling everyone to watch Hacking Democracy on the Internet, and now it's also being run on HBO On Demand. I watched it again yesterday. Well, today, I did a little search and found the film-maker's Web site, which is mighty scary! He and the Ohio Secretary of State have been receiving frequent death threats; Jennifer Brunner, the Ohio SOS, had her Web site shut down and recently had an envelope sent to her with white powder in it! Why? Things aren't right! Where's Kevin Spacey?


I've heard a whole lot (and understood a very little) about the economy, taxes, healthcare and foreign relations. This is all well and good, but I have a list of questions I wish McCain and Obama would answer for me, too.

1. People without kids, or private school attendees, often gloss over the public education situition. It's everyone's tax money involved, so people ought to consider that an educated society will be a healthier one all around. What exactly (beyond vouchers) do you plan to do about schools, teachers, education and the KIDS? Thirty percent of kids don't graduate from high school today. How are they going to live in the future? If you haven't been to a public school lately? They're in a terrible condition. Or has it now become acceptable to dumb the people down, so that they'll be good sheeple we can either manipulate, or jail?

2. Ronald Reagan did it all for the nookie *oops* er, he did it for the wrong reasons. To save money, he let tens of thousands of alcoholic, drug-addicted, psychotic, schizophrenic, whoknowswhatsisetic out of Veteran's hospitals everywhere. I remember all of a sudden, L.A. was full of the most care-needing people ever, demanding to be cared for! Most were Vietnam vets, so they were still young. Now, almost 35 years later, there are whole family's sleeping in the streets and in their cars. Tons of them. Does it even come up at any of your meetings? Should homeless, messed up, jobless, diseased (both mentally and physically) hard luck Vets expect no hope whatsoever from you? Like your friend over there at Lehman Bros., right? How will we finally deal with the huge homeless population in most every city?

Come to think of it, that's a state issue...most of these are State issues, but fuck it, I have something to say! The Feds should involve themselves by being aware of situations and steering the states the right away if they're unable to manage it themselves with efficiency and compassion. Are the people just meant to lie and die in the street if they happen to have a lot of bad luck (and bad choices)?

3. If you refuse to legalize marijuana, will you at least decriminalize it (thus letting hundreds of thousands of people who smoked a joint out of overcrowded prisons)? Some states have the lamest laws on marijuana. In New Mexico, for example, if you get caught with one joint, you'll do a year or longer in prison. I happen to think a drunk person is FAR more dangerous than a stoned one. And let's hear it: What is your stance on medical marijuana? What are we so scared of?

4. We are the only "civilized" country that practices the death penalty. Can we stop the barbarism now? Innocent people have been executed within the past six months. Our judicial system has become a bureaocracy - justice has been left behind. I have something else to say about prisons: Why do we see prisoners using fine new computer systems and modern tools so that they can earn a college degree? What about the kid who didn't get arrested? Doesn't that seen somehow...ironic?

5. Street gangs are becoming a bigger and bigger threat to themselves and to innocent passers-by. Whatcha gonna do about that? It has come to my attention that there is a twenty-square block area of Compton that is nowhere land. The cops don't go in there because they are out-armed. This? Is a big problem, especially when the Civil War II starts - the haves v the have-nots. The Salvadoran Salva Maratrucha gang is slashing and burning - in the most alarming manner - the parts of the city THEY want. Chicago, New York, Miami, and all the little towns in between. Be afraid!

6. If Safeway or Lucky or Ralph's want to open a fully-stocked grocery store in the posh part of town, can you force them to open one in the middle of the hood, too? One of the systematic ways our government keeps the poor powerless is to control what goes in and out of the hood. There is NO hood that has a grocery store less than 25 minutes away by bus. A woman I saw said it would be much easier to buy a gun than a tomato where she lives. Fast food, overpriced, understocked liquor stores, gun stores, boarded up windows and falling down buildings.

7. I'd like to request that all PAC's, lobbyists of ANY kind, must only be able to get on his/her knees and beg whenever the congressperson or senator arrivres at or leaves the office. And they have to wear a diaper.

8. I must say, I'm a little bit confused about this separation of church and state thing. I know that it states in the Constitution that church and state shall be separate, but then I see the Ten Commandments enscribed in Judicial buildings and I hear our kids still have to say "one nation, Under God," (which was never meant to be there in the first place!) in school each morning; In God We Trust is everywhere. I thought we were to be a nation that accepts and respects all religions. Is being an Atheist okay in everyone's book? Why must the President, or presidential candidate, have to end all speeches with "God Bless America," or "God Bless You!" That talk honestly makes me nervous. Let's allow anyone who wants to teach their kids creationism home school or go to private school. Otherwise, let's stick to the facts, shall we?

9. Whatever happened to philanthropy, corporate conscience? If a CEO makes 89 million dollars in ONE year JUST in bonuses, what happened to giving that money back to the community? Even those robber barons knew to keep the public happy. Now we're giving THEM money. There's something very wrong with this picture?

10. If you really know how to manufacture weather, will you let us know already?

I have some more things I'll need doing, but I'll save it for another day. Thank you for your kind attention.

Monday, October 20, 2008

Monday Morning Muslim Mess

Okay, so there's a McCain rally, and groups of nuts show up...duh. One particular group has placards and etc. that are bearing Obama's name, written with the addition of the Muslim and U.S.S.R. symbols (used quite creatively, really). Well, this offends some more fair-minded McCain supporters (Hooray?), and a shouting match ensues. A few minutes later, the growing crowd are approached by a Security type who is niraculously...Muslim himself! He's a Muslim with a long Muslim name and he's repeating over and over that these wackos are not affiliated with the McCain campaign, and they do not support any of this kind of Muslim calling out and that kind of shenanigans. The placard guy literally turns tail and runs away with his meager crew.

So, immediately, everyone's first thought is: who's the idiot that set this up?

CNN is about to get the actual Muslim security guard on the phone...there's a little trouble, though...uh, oh - the kid is not allowed to speak...under direct order of the big dawg himself, John McCain! How can this be? How can a senator prevent a citizen from talking on the phone to CNN? Where are we living? What kind of crazy shit is really going on? Just last night, I heard a story about CIA employees freely listening to regular, run of the mill and perhaps "humorous" telephone conservations. Hey, you never know - it could be you.

I'll say it, though Hey Hey actually wrote it first in comments. I don't disagree with anything the Rev Wright has said, really. God damn America?! Everyone thinks that on April 15th. Yeah, sometimes I think to myself, "God damn America." I think it when people get shot in the street because our ghettos are a shame upon America; the state of education is damnable; building more prisons than schools is damnable; all these homeless people - mostly vets, but families now are damnable. What, are we supposed to stand up and applaud the crappy way this country has been handled?

Why aren't we allowed to criticize? Why must we all be religious and somehow equate religion to political power?

I'm gonna go hug me some Iraqis. Maybe some Iranians and Syrians...

Friday, October 17, 2008

When Republicans Bite: A Discussion With Newsmax.

Yup - more news from Newsmax - your friendly lovers of democracy, the Republican Trust PAC. I can't imagine how these idjits got a mailing list with MY name on it. Unless I was doing some super sneaky reconnaisance. Keith Olberman, of the very blue MSNBC, just told me an interesting fact: McCain is now blaming Obama for literally ruining Joe the Plumber's life. Even though McCain brought him up first and said his name no less than 21 times. David Letterman really gave it to McCain last night. It was thrilling.

Joe the Plumber was a stupid move, just like this run of stupid moves the McCain team has made. The most interesting news today is that Obama et al are asking for an investigation to be made into the role of the Executive and Judicial branches (Bush/Cheney/Rove and the inept and corrupt OCS) in their public interpretation of the ACORN fiasco. They are phoning millions of people with a robotic message that Obama is basicly a terrorist and election stealer. Now, when these folks, and other folks who have some anomaly with their names on Election Day, won't be taken seriously. That is so reprehensible.

It looks like Obama has it in like Flynn, but I put NOTHING past the other side. Someone better be watching those voter machines. Why the hell isn't anyone investigating Diebold? I'm tellin' ya!

So, I wanted to share my newest communique from Newsmax, because it is both so hilarious and so scary. If anyone has a different point of view - please comment. I'm really trying to understand the other half.

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An urgent message from our Newsmax Sponsor, The Republican National Trust PAC:

Dear Newsmax Reader:

We at the National Republican Trust are launching our first 30-second ad attacking Barack Obama and his plan to give illegal aliens driver's licenses.


(There is a giant photo of Mohammed Atta's driver's license here so you, too, can feel the horror of it all.)

We are already being attacked by liberal, pro-Obama blogs and we haven't released our first ad! They are worried about us -- and they should be! Dick Morris says "The National Republican Trust is a very effective organization that can make a huge difference on election day."

(Attacked by blogs? Like this super scary blog? There they go with the panties loving Dick again. NO ONE in America likes this prick, guys)

This weekend our TV ad will hit Ohio in a big way. It will be like a neutron bomb. We are expecting heavy, heavy flak from the enemy.

(THIS? Is too much. What idiot thought up this copy? A neutron bomb? Are you high? I am here specifically to give you flak. If you weren't so dull, so dim-witted, so doltish, I would just let you be, but this is excessive and we're talking about the future of the planet. Neutron bomb. Shut up.

We are now firming up ad buys in other major swing states. You can make a big difference by donation to us because we only have days to roll out our campaign.

(Fuck you.)

Please read Scott Wheeler's Urgent Letter below!

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Obama’s Plan: Mohamed Atta Gets His Driver’s License

Dear Fellow American:

We have just weeks to go before Election Day . . . time is running short for us to avert a major disaster for our country. That disaster’s name is President Barack Obama.


(I'm glad you got his title right: President Barack Obama)

But this disaster can be averted. I’m confident about this — even though the slanted media are overstating Obama’s inevitability. But the numbers don’t lie. The latest Zogby poll had John McCain trailing Obama by two points. Just two points!

(Give it time, dude. Your guy's numbers are dropping more and more every day.)

Despite the full-court press to destroy McCain and Sarah Palin, Katie Couric’s antics against her, and a daily onslaught of media spin . . . McCain is still within striking distance. The stakes have never been higher for the future of the country.

(That Katie Couric, she needs a witchdoctor, Sarah! And, how do you overstate inevitability?)

We either patriotically turn the country over to a man who has proudly served his nation in war time and peace — or we face electing a man who has a checkered past, a man who has counted domestic terrorists among his friends, and a man who spent 15 years in a church where his pastor regularly damned and condemned the United States. Barack Obama is not simply a risky choice as our next president — He is a dangerous one.

(A checkered past! Ooooohh. Were you proud about abandoning your beauty queen wife, the one who WAITED for you for years and years, and then was in a disfiguring accident so you just abandoned her...penniless, John McCain? Were you proud of your behavior then?)

This is why I have taken the helm here at the National Republican Trust Political Action Committee. Here at the National Republican Trust, we understand our mission. It’s simple. It will also drive the left-wing media nuts.

(Well, thank OGG. What would we do without you, you fine example of a guy? I think you're driving everyone nuts already.)

Here’s the plan: We will tell the American people the truth about Barack Obama!

*gasp*

Millions of dubious new voters with the help of groups like ACORN are being registered to put the most extreme liberal in the history of the presidency in the White House.

(What is a dubious voter? Is that code for stupid or Black or poor or what? Is it our duty to protect them from electing a liberal president?)

But I’ll shock you: that’s OK! Let them spend millions in getting new “voters” and millions more in TV ads. I believe truth is more powerful than lies. How powerful? Well, so powerful, in fact, that I believe one airing of our TV ads will equal at least 10 airings of theirs. This issue will nail him.

(Guys? When you do that tricky truth and lies, verging on religious patter thing? That is wicked offensive.)

In the closing weeks of this election, Obama is trying to remake himself as a moderate to win over lower-income, white, Democratic and independent voters. He wants to hide the facts about his record. He is the most extreme liberal ever to be nominated by a major party. We all know his 100 percent liberal rating in Congress, his support for the TOTAL gun ban in Washington, D.C., his opposition to protecting babies born alive, and his support for tax increases.

(First, of course Obama wants to win over lower-income, white, Democratic and Independent voters. That's the Democratic constituency, ya moron! He's not hiding any facts. I'd go so far as to say that YOUR extreme nature and activities and beliefs are WAY more extreme than Obama's , even on his most liberal day! Someone better get those guns out of DC - the poor are shooting each other all to hell. Protecting babies that are born alive? That's a doozy. Like, how often does that really happen? Five in every two hundred million? And OGG forbid we go a second without mentioning taxes.)

But there is one issue almost all Americans agree on: Illegal aliens should not be given driver’s licenses. Help Expose Obama's License Plan.

(I won't help you because I don't agree. I'm one of those out-of-her-mind liberals who likes to be safer.)

*a second photo of Mohammed Atta's driver's license displayed here*

Not after 9/11. Did you know that Mohamed Atta, the 9/11 ring leader, had a valid Florida driver’s license? Did you know 13 of the 19 hijackers had obtained valid driver’s licenses? Armed with these licenses, eight of the hijackers even registered to vote!

(Huh. The hijackers voted? Are you sure, Newsmax? Who'd they vote for? What a curious thing.)

Here is the shocking fact: Obama strongly supports giving illegal aliens in America driver’s licenses. Obama’s position is not a new one: We discovered that Obama has been a major proponent of driver’s licenses for illegals since his days as an Illinois state senator. We have no doubt that, as president, Obama will also champion this radical plan. With Osama bin Laden still at large, with al-Qaida promising “spectacular” attacks on the U.S homeland, with the threat of them using weapons of mass destruction against our cities — biological, chemical, and nuclear — can we risk putting such a man in the Oval Office?

Doesn’t he remember what happened on 9/11? More than 3,000 Americans were murdered.


(HORROR! FEAR! CRISIS! CATASTROPHE! and with all due respect for the victims of 9/11, 4184 U.S. soldiers have died fucking around in Iraq.)

But we need your help. We’re already preparing our ad budget in key swing states. The more you can donate to us today, the more we can spend in the coming days. And don’t forget, you can donate a maximum of $5,000. Your spouse can also make a $5,000 donation. With $5,000 we can saturate a whole city/market in a key swing state for one whole night.

But even $1,000 helps us. With $1,000 we can run 10 TV ads in a key market.


(I must admit that I get a lot of spam from the Democrats asking for money. But they ask for $25...$10 is just fine! These fools want $5000? And "even $1000 helps"?

Help Expose Obama's License Plan!

*big photo of Mohammed Atta...again*

Thank you.

Yours for America,

Scott Wheeler
Executive Director

P.S. If you agree with this letter, you can help in two ways. First, donate to us, and let us fight for you. Second, forward this e-mail and letter to at least 10 of your friends and family. Encourage them to read it. We can reach millions of Americans if even a fraction of our readers do this.

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Wow. So, I guess there are people like that out there - people who would take that letter seriously. How do you battle the insane?

I still can't get over the "neutron bomb" thing. Beastly.

Normally I wouldn't sign my blog, but until November Fourth, I am yours,
SHEENA HUSSEIN FURY

Thursday, October 16, 2008

The Real Joe

From this morning's Daily Beast:

Election 2008 has a favorite everyman: "Joe the Plumber," whose name was mentioned 26 times in last night's debate. Joe, it turns out, is a real person—Joe Wurzelbacher, from Holland, Ohio, whose 6-minute conversation with Barack Obama about taxes was fodder for McCain's attacks. "It's pretty surreal, man, my name being mentioned in a presidential campaign," Wurzelbacher said. You're tellin' us. But Politico's Ben Smith suggests that after a night of the candidates competing for Joe's affections, it all may be for naught: Joe, apparently, isn't registered to vote.

Get it @ The Los Angeles Times

BWAH!

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

The Last Great Debate of 2008

A longtime friend of mine - the lovely and talented Michelle - is now signing all of her communications with "Hussein" as her middle name. It's catching on and I think everyone should do so in solidarity with Obama.

We're at 37 minutes in the countdown to Debate #3. I cannot post a whole recap tonight - those suckers took hours to write out. I shall provide some short commentary, however. As usual, I'm stuck on CNN. At this point, it looks as though Obama has it in the bag. If McCain has something REALLY BIG on Obama, I would say it's now or never, buddy.

Oh! Listen to this: McCain has apparently been covertly seeing Obama fans. He names "Joe" - an audience member at one of Obama's appearances - as an example of someone who will SUFFER if Obama becomes president. Where did McCain find Joe? Did they meet in a dark alley? A strip club? The third phone booth on the right? Did he have "Joe" kidnapped by four guys in a van? Stop the class warfare! McCain commands. McCain reveals that "Joe" is a plumber. Is he like Joe Six-Pack? Anyway, "Joe" told him that Obama wants to spread the wealth around. I think that Joe the Plumber - McCain's new covert BFF - is clearly a double agent. I, for one, don't trust Joe the Plumber. He's two-faced.

FYI: I will not be commenting on the "mood lines" or the HDTV disk treat fun tonight. I don't care anymore.

Hillary is in the audience tonight. There was some speculation about whether Obama would give her a shout-out. He...did not.

Across the board spending freeze is a bust, Obama says. It never works. There are a lot of "screwy things" we end up paying for, he adds. We need a new direction.

McCain tells Obama that if he wanted to run against GWB, he should have run four years ago. What's THAT supposed to mean? Is Johnny trying to make Barack mad? Obama rightly points out that McCain voted "vigorously" with GWB.

Negative campaigning? McCain is hurt, y'all. Unfair and inappropriate! His eyes well up. Obama didn't keep his word. He hasn't told the American people the truth.

Obama: 100% of McCain's ads have been negative, not issue-oriented. We need to change the subject already!

Joe the Plumber is revisited again. Joe heard no repudiation of Obama's black lies!

Obama calls McCain out on the Palin rally "Kill him!" remarks. Palin did nothing to stop it. But Obama is willing to overlook this for the sake of Joe the Plumber. Eh, I don't get it either.

McCain says the people at his rallies are good and patriotic!

Obama: Let's disagree without being disagreeable.

McCain: ACORN is destroying the fabric of our democracy!

Obama: Ayers seems to be the center of your campaign, John. Bill Ayers is a professor I served with on a board (and he lists everyone else on that board). I'm not affiliated with ACORN.

Obama rises above and doesn't trash Saran Palin when asked why his VP choice is better. McCain retorts that Sarah understands "special needs families." Obama rises above YET AGAIN and compliments Sarah P.

McCain is compelled to tell us that Obama had a "cockamamie" plan to split Iraq into three countries. He adds that now, Iraqis are living in peace and harmony as one people.

Bwah ha ha ha ha ha! Visions of Sunni and Shia holding hands and singing "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" amidst the not yet repaired rubble. Embracing each other in the streets! Cake for everyone!

McCain: Start the drilling, baby! Build dozens of nuclear (or nucular, if you prefer to follow Bush and Palin's stellar example of pronunciation) plants everywhere!

Obama: This is one of our most important priorities. We can't drill our way out of this. I believe in free trade but all agreements aren't GOOD agreements. What we have now is not GOOD free trade practices.

McCain: I really appreciate Obama's eloquence, but you need to pay attention to the words he uses (that's secret code for "he's Black and uppity"). He said we need to "look into" drilling.

SF: YES! Obama thinks we should study it in a timely fashion, be smart about it, do it the right way if it must be done. No "drill, baby, drill," but "make informed decisions."

McCain disses Obama for "never having been south of our border". He rolls his eyes. He's being super cat-tay tonight with the sarcasm, the grimaces and the eye-rolling.

Obama: CLEAN energy.

McCain: Obama loves Hugo Chavez with no preconditions!

As Obama explains his healthcare plan, McCain looks at him as if he's grown a second head. Theatrics...bah. Now he blames much of our healthcare problems on fat children. Yeah...they don't vote so you can feel free to throw them under the bus.

Woop! Joe the Plumber is back. Joe doesn't want to pay for Obama's plan. John KNOWS Joe.

Didn't John steal Joe in the first place? I bet there is no Joe.

McCain looks to be horror-stricken by Obama as he shreds McCain's healthcare plan. Now McCain declares that Joe the Plumber is rich in Obama's eyes. (!?) Joe wanted to buy his business, McCain declares on Joe's behalf. What else does McCain know about Joe? His hat size? Pepsi or Coke? Blondes, brunettes or redheads? Mayo or Miracle Whip?

McCain boasts about his new plan where you can go out of state for your medical needs. What if you live in Alaska? Canada still appears to be a better option! Still yapping about Joe the Plumber, McCain cracks SF up by calling Obama "Senator Government."

Roe v Wade? McCain would NEVER apply a litmus test for Supreme Court Justices. He voted for Breyer and Ginsberg, even though he thinks Roe v Wade was a mistake. Obama says that he will look for judges with an intellect and a feel for what the public is going through.

SF: Boo for both of you. Obama? You have this in the bag, you can start being honest now. Pro-choice is not, in fact, the DEBIL's tool.

McCain: We need to change the culture of America. Those of us who understand being pro-life understand this.

SF: SCARY TALK!! That scares me, Mr. McCain!

Obama: Abortion is such a difficult subject. We must somehow come together. Education is the answer (which evokes much eye-rolling from McCain.)

McCain: Obama is bamboozling you again with his eloquence. "Mother's health" can be interpreted any way those heathens want now!

Obama: Education must be reformed completely. Tuition for community/global service.

McCain: It's the civil rights issue of the 21st Century! We can't keep throwing money at it! We must find bad teachers new jobs.

(Like, sleeping with the fishes? Boy, that sounded a tad threatening.)

Obama: No vouchers. More college accessibility.

McCain: You're not paying attention. (Hey - take it easy Mr. Grouchy-Pants!) Vouchers for all (white) people! Head Start needs to be reformed, not funded.

McCain: These are difficult times. America needs a new direction. We've had a healthy debate here. We have to stop the spending. Can you trust us? I've spent my entire life in service of this country, as has every McCain male ever. Joe? Meet me in the third stall of the Mezzanine Men's Room in ten minutes.

Obama: Tough times. I'll work tirelessly. Elect me. Who the hell is Joe?

AFTERMATH:

Adorable Anderson Cooper and Wolf Jackyl joke about Joe the Plumber. They'll get to the bottom of this!

Paul Begala calls McCain Grumpy McNasty! Ha! That's like Filthy McNasty!

Well, tie me to a tree and ____ me! Everyone agrees that McCain was wonderfully strong. Obama was on defense, they say. This was not Obama's best moment.

I object! What debate were you fools watching?

Ooop...Soledad O'Brian just asked her Ohioan Undecided's: Why no resonance with Joe the Plumber? No one really liked Joe the Plumber at all!

I wonder if Joe the Plumber has a Facebook page?

The rest of this analyzing charts and poll numbers is just silliness. I'm done with it.

Sheena Hussein Fury - I like the sound of it!

Newsmax Special

My favorite Right Wing, Joe-Six-Pack, getting desperate online magazine - Newsmax - has been making me laugh. This stuff is funny, yo.


The Love Affair With Barack Obama:
Has the Media Gone Too Far?


SheenaFury: You dolts obviously sit around watching the sly FOX channel all day. Your stupid Right Wing radio shows, like that most heenious (as Sarah P. says) Rush Limbaugh, who is such a disgusting example of...and his ratings are HUGE! How can you mistake the news reporting on how happy some of are that asshats like you don't get to run AMERICA any more, with an all encompassing media "Love Affair" is beyond me. Gah! Y'all frustrate me to no end!

Newsmax: Big media instantly fell hard for Barack Obama, the smooth-talking new kid on the block, while John McCain, once a media darling, has so far failed to attract the same kind of adoring coverage.

SF: I see McCain's malformed head at least as much as I see Obama's nicely-shaped one. "Adoring coverage" of the "smooth-talking new kid on the block." I think Obama should be on the cover of Tiger Beat. He can't help that he's good looking. Get over it, Johnny. Ooh, does the crypt-keeper have a little crush? Does she need herself a real man?

NM: But as it turns out, that's not all bad news for the Republican candidate.

SF: Really? How so, Newsmax?

NM: Newsmax magazine's special report "The Media and Obama: Love at First Sight" takes an in-depth look at the media's decidedly unbiased and unbalanced coverage of the Obama and McCain campaigns — and reveals how the favoritism for the Democratic nominee could backfire on Obama come Election Day.

SF: First, let me applaud the fact that the article will be "in-depth." Many of the word selections that follow confuse me, though - "decidely" is the first. Who decided? "Unbiased and "unbalanced" follow. Unbalanced is a word that usually signifies a nutter, someone who's mental state is unhealthy. Even when we hang a picture on the wall, we don't comment that it's "unbalanced," we say "tilt it to the right," or it's "not even." I'm just saying - word selection is important. "Unbiased"? Eye of the beholder, dude.

SF: It's going to "backfire" on Obama? The fact that he's a telegenic, intelligent, interesting person? Please explain, do!
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NM: This special must-read issue also includes political guru Dick Morris' analysis of the media battle and his advice to McCain on what he must do in these closing days to win.

SF: Um..."political guru Dick Morris." Need I say more? He was the one who was caught in the panties, right? And he did a bunch of bad stuff. I hope he has a lot of advice for McCain. And I hope McCain takes that advice to heart.

BWAH!

Monday, October 13, 2008

What's This I Hear About Obama Being Black?

Gads. Is he really? This could be a problem. Does everyone know? Oh - some think he's Arab. I thought his dad was from Kenya. And now he's a Muslim because his father was a Muslim because his father was a Muslim? Oy. This could really be a problem.

He's so articulate and intelligent - he's a Harvard grad! Is this going to be problematic for other Blacks?

Many of my posts are informed by someting I read, or see on TV. Over the past few weeks I have watched the CNN Series (there's that damn CNN again) Black in America. It really is an excellent look at where Blacks are in the year 2008 - forty-some years after the Civil Rights Act was signed into law. Like people of all colors, Blacks are doing many different things; unfortunately one in three youg Black men will land in jail at some point. Or in the grave. Most Blacks live in poverty - in those awful project-prisons built to store them in during the 1960s and 70s. Middle and upper middle class Blacks are rarely given any "good publicity." The rest of America is more interested in hearing about the hood, gangstas, violence, drugs, rap music and general mayhem. More exciting, you know. Oh yeah, there were the Cosby's, once upon a time.

I have what may be considered by some a strange interest in Black life in America. I sort of inherited it from my dad, who as a young man in L.A., lived at 113th and San Pedro in L.A. and went to Washington High. He and his friends would go to Black clubs in the 1940s to listen to jazz. He told me once he had always secretly wished he was Black. Me too. Why? Has the media glorified the gangsta life so blonde - headed fools like me feel attracted to it? Do I have a genuine desire to lift up people who need help standing on their own two feet in this culture that has systematically broken them down? Do I have White guilt? Do I just really love the music and the art that comes from this generation (and generations before) of Black Americans?

Back in the day, when I wore pink or blue hair and ripped up fishnets and safety-pins, I lived on Exposition, which is certainly within the borders of the 'hood. My USC schoolmates were too scared to visit the liquor store a couple blocks away from out apartment. Not me, though. The only trouble I ever ran into was a crowd come to see the crazy white girl. They laughed and asked me where the hell I was from (this was pretty early in punk rockdom). And though the liquor store where I bought my pink champale was right next to an ambulance service, which was really a drug sales point disguised as an ambulance service, the folks gathered 'round really couldn't have been friendlier. I don't think they would have been as sociable if I were wearing Abercrombie & Fitch and had my nose in the air and my purse clutched close to my breast.

Come to think of it, most punk rock venues were in some kind of hood. That's the only place punk rock bands were allowed to play. So, while the locals never went inside the club, we drank 40s of Olde English 800 out in the parking lot with them. Anyway, I never wanted to be one of those "look at those interesting niggers, dear," types, but I was always genuinely interested.

I saw some of the first rap/hip hop acts in the early 1980s at a place called Radio in downtown L.A. Grandmaster Flash came there, with Mel E Mel, Ice-T, and others I can't remember anymore. When The Message (Grandmaster Flash) came out, everyone I knew bought a copy.

I spent some years in Europe in the 80s, and when I came back, Gangsta Rap was getting ready to take over the genre. It was rough and rude and scary and I loved it - Dr. Dre, Snoop Dog, Eminem, Eazy-E, Tupac, Ice Cube, BoneThugs. Why would I love music that was misogynistic, full of bravado, threatening, even criminal? Well, it had wicked beats, for one. It remended me of punk rock in its utter rebellion. It was local - as in L.A. It was naughty and humorous. Some was great, some was bad, and some was worse. I sure wasn't going to put on my punk rock garb and check out the parties in the LBC, though. Times had changed.

I could write forever about race and class issues, about music and how different colored people are represented in the media. And I will, but for the next three weeks, I'm focusing on the election. How does this tie in? Well, because when I look at Obama, I don't see the same type of Black citizen I am accustomed to seeing in my city, on TV, in music videos. I wonder how young Black men feel about Obama. Is he "too white"? Is he someone to look up to? Is he the first in a new line of politically aware Black men who will begin fighting to get their communities back? Will the entrenched "system" allow them to become more powerful than they are now? Is life just so bleak, most Black boys and men give up before they've ever started? Who is in charge of zoning in every major American city? Why aren't there grocery stores with fresh produce and cheaper prices in most every Black ghetto? Why are there three times as many liquor and gun stores in those same areas?

I wish Obama could speak the truth. The REAL truth. If he did, he'd never be elected, though. I hope after we elect him, he'll do the right thing, as Spike Lee says. Obama, especially with his Kenyan name, is not a stereotypical American Black man, at least in the eyes of the White/Latino/Asian communities. He wears a natty suit and uses big words. Still, he is accused of being associated with something "scary" - he's a Muslim, an Arab, a "druggie" in his high school days, and a co-conspirator with domestic terrorisis today. He can behave as every other senator does, but he can't change the color of his skin. He's stuck with it. Will it be a deal-breaker? I guess it partly depends on whether the Repub PTB are REALLY willing to go there, now that the stakes are so high.

Friday, October 10, 2008

Shitting Acorns

This ACORN sitch is shitty. There's no other word for it. Now these bastards are calling us out on their own game before we have a chance to call them out first! Sure, there are fraudulent Democrats. Politics gets filthy on both sides, all the way down to the local level. The Repubs are just better at it. Or more sneaky. What ACORN has done, though, is so heenious (as Sarah P. says), it's going to screw us good when it comes time for us to call out the fraudulent Republican shenanigans. In fact, I'd bet the Repub PTB clandestinely founded ACORN and pretended to be liberals, just to set this scenario up! Gotcha!

The big heist of votes would most likely be found by hacking into a certain Web site. This making up of registrations from dead people and folks who live at fast food restaurants is kid stuff. A few ballots here, a few ballots there. A list of felons - or people who have names that sound like felon's names (usually Black people) - or the accusation that felons are being allowed to vote? How many felons are there who are so bent on voting, they'd try to sneak in? Cops. Good cops, bad cops. Maybe that won't happen as much this time.

I just want to be on record here that ACORN (if it's not just some Repub trickery) are traitors to the country. I'd say they should hang but I'm pro-life when it comes to the death penalty.

Can Stealing be Stolen?

In my last post, I mentioned a right-wing organization that had somehow gotten me mixed up with my nemesi (plural for nemesis). NewsMax is typical of crazed orthodox right-y publications. They use too many exclamation points, they try in vain to make old, false rumors into SCARY, new revelations about the DEBIL Obama, and they write in a style that makes one feel like they really do care. For that matter, NewsMax doubles as a "healthcare" mailer, often sending out two or three political articles a day, along with a couple of "heart healthy" and "diabetic recipe tips" articles because they care just that much. A day or two ago, I wrote about stealing elections. Coincidentally enough, I received a NewsMax article just today about the FEAR of Obama and the Democrats stealing this election. It's kind of stupid timing, what with Obama so far ahead in the polls, but those crazy hardcore right-wingers! They're the masters of diversion.

Will Obama and the Democrats steal the 2008 election using voter fraud?John Fund, a Wall Street Journal columnist and Fox News analyst, warns of that very real possibility.

Butterfly ballots, balky machines, absentee ballot scandals, felons voting, Supreme Court intervention— all these made headlines during the infamous 2000 Florida recount.

Could it happen again in this year's presidential election?

The answer is yes, because not much has changed to improve our election systems, while both major parties are poised on a hair trigger to file lawsuits and challenge any close statewide vote. The issues may boil down to whether the margin of victory in any state exceeds the "margin of litigation."

Author John Fund spotlights the perils of "provisional ballots," the flaws of the "Motor Voter" law that has allowed people to get absentee ballots for phantom voters, and the shady registration drives of the radical group ACORN, a group with close ties to Barack Obama.

Meanwhile, the simple safeguard of a photo ID requirement is fiercely resisted on specious claims that it would disenfranchise poor and minority voters.

Stealing Elections presents a chilling portrait of electoral vulnerability, as a combination of bureaucratic bungling and ballot rigging put our democracy at risk.

This is a must read book for the 2008 elections! 

FREE OFFER! Get this book free!

My first reaction was laughter. I've seen this John Fund on the Bill Maher HBO show. It's the first time I've ever seen Bill really lose it, because Fund would not, could not, answer a single question without twisting it, back-flipping it, or simply changing the subject entirely. It was truly maddening.

I had intended to dedicate at least a couple of entries to election stealing - this makes for an interesting first post, as apparently the liberal/Democrat fear of the possibility was so well-founded, the right-wing Repubs had to steal the idea for themselves! Is that stealing on top of stealing? 

Obviously, someone handed the task of debunking the liberal theory about the ease of stealing elections, and hijacking the theory for their own benefit, to this John Fund, who is a loudmouth, an interrupter (I hate that), and one of those "golly, gosh, who me?" type of snakes. Hacking Democracy, the documentary I spoke of in my most recent post, is such an effective film, because everything that happened (including Election Supervisors throwing ballots and other "paper trails" into garbage bins) is actually ON FILM. There's no need to debate - the proof is right there before your eyes.

I think this must have caused ants-in-the-pants for some Repub higher-ups, so they enlisted Fund to turn the evidence around so that it's back-assward, and then offer it for FREE, as you can see. I see right through it. Unfortunately, most righties won't. I implore my readers to watch Hacking Democracy - http://www.freedocumentaries.org, and then write to Fund, or to FOX, to tell them how stupid and dishonest this book is.

They're so desperate now, they're liable to do the unthinkable. We MUST call them out. 

And what the heck is a "balky" machine? Is Bronson Pinchot behind all this treachery?

Just to whet your appetite about Newsmax, here's a paragraph from the latest article I was sent, on Obama's history as a "drug addict":

“I remember he didn’t hang out with a group I thought was the right group to hang out with,” said the woman who attended Punahou High School in Honolulu with Obama. “It was the group known as the Bingham benches, the druggies’ group.”
Obama has admitted taking drugs in high school, but the fact that he kept company with others who were known to take drugs has not been reported previously. That appears to be part of a pattern of associating with questionable people, raising questions about his character and judgment. Among those people are William Ayers, who has admitted bombing buildings; convicted fundraiser Tony Rezko; and the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., whom Obama considered his mentor and who gave an award for lifetime achievement to Louis Farrakhan.

Amazing how they can fit so much unrelated material into one paragraph, huh? And, I surely need to know all about who he smoked pot with in high school, right? Those scary, scary kids he "kept company with" must be vetted!! They have not been reported on previously! This may change my mind about Obama entirely! He may be the DEBIL after all...

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Polls Down, Criminal Intentions Up?

The country is in fight mode. The Blue Gang is looking good, with a month to go. The question now is, will the Red-Team Republican machine be willing to steal this election?  It's a valid question! Elections CAN be stolen, whether theoretically or in real life examples. Is this one worth so much - and they really thought McCain was a sure thing - to compel the Republican power-keeping counsel to take advantage of some really screwy voting conditions? We'll see what happens on that front in November.  A 12 year old boy could hack into the Diebold machines. I saw it in a great documentary called Hacking Democracy:

www.freedocumentaries.org (yes, free and legal)

Why can't I get these links to go live? Somebody tell me how to fix it! Grrrrr. I'm in a fightin' mood tonight, too. I feel the need to restrain myself from writing things I really want to write about anyone who would vote for McCain/Palin. I feel like I'd say things I'd regret. Or not.

Why is it so important to some people that their president and vice-president be a person they'd enjoy a meal with? Why should a president be a "wo/man of the people," a guy/gal you'd share a beer and a laugh with? Why should leaders be just like a middle-class citizens? It's the Bush syndrome. Low expectations!

I would hope that my president would be the smartest guy in the world; both open-minded but an excellent decision-maker; interested in learning all he can about all the issues he has to deal with; not particularly social, except as a diplomat (he's not drinking beer with the guys); patient, level-headed and incredibly well-spoken, stuff like that. If that makes me an elitist, well give me a big E I can wear on my chest. It just seems best, am I wrong? 

For that matter, if there were a God, I would hope he wouldn't require his sheeple to spend so much time in glorification of him. Our God is a vain God. Where is that saying from?

Back to the matter at hand - which was? Ah - stealing elections. As the polls start leaning so heavily toward Obama, the Republican Powers That Be must be turning to plans D, E and F - the really dirty stuff. 

Another aside: I watched the greatest movie last night. Director Jonathan Demme has done a documentary on Jimmy Carter that is so well done. It's on On Demand and is definitely worth watching unless you're a hardcore Zionist. I can't wait to see Bill Maher's Religulous, which has gotten excellent reviews from friends. Atheism is something I need to be more comfortable about standing up for. I'm aware that I'm part of a very small minority...less that 20% of Americans are Atheists. Once again, while watching the Carter documentary, I was astounded by how such a brilliant, rational man could believe that Jesus was borne of a virgin. 

It's pretty godless and un - christian to steal an election. But I have to remind myself that most of these people really believe in what they think and say and enact. I have to try and understand that many of them (and by "them" I mean those who would conspire to manipulate democracy) actually have good intentions. They think that we great masses need to be properly contained. 

The debate tonight was just not worth a grand recapping. These debates beween Obama and McCain have been quite predictable. No sparring, really, no ire or pounding on the podium. No real outbursts.

Meh. I have some interesting news articles I've been sent by some right-wing organization. I have no clue where they got a hold of my e-mail address but their articles make for some good laughs. Khow thine enemy, right?!  I think I shall drag them through the mud tomorrow.  I've got some Diebold information to wax poetic about, too, so we might as well have a week of accusations, proof of guilt and some laffs, no?                                                                                                                         

 Hasta luego, politicos y politicas!


Monday, October 6, 2008

Stock Market CRISIS!!

CNN is naturally covering this morning's stock market plunge. I'm wondering if mass media can trump the global economy. If all everyone sees and hears is that we are, in fact, having an eonomic CRISIS, the event follows and fulfills the prediction, right? Especially since we're talking about the "emotional" stock market and the lending of credit.

If there is no CNN to report a lack of confidence, will that confidence be lacking? Are everyday Joes and Jills pulling out of the market because they panic at the news that everyone is panicking? 

We're definitely in uncharted waters. 

In other let's piss people off news, the Supreme (ly mean) Court has ruled that they will not intervene in the execution of the Georgia man who might not have done the crime, as there is new and compelling evidence. The Black community is going to be furious, along with everyone else who thinks it's a bad idea when governments are allowed to murder their citizens. Even when there is new evidence that should be heard, at least.  This is a travesty. 

Here's a report now that the number of homeless families has skyrocketed. They didn't have 401K's. Don't panic, but make sure you have some emergency money stashed away. Don't panic or rush without thinking, but assess whether you need to pull out of the market immediately. This is all the advice of CNN anchors and financial pundits.

Now CNN is showing me Sarah "Femmebot" Palin sharing a stage with a beaming *urp* Joe Lieberman. I'm gonna go play on Facebook.

See this MSNBC story - it's obviously not just CNN, it's everywhere you look. It's impossible to ignore (unless you are playing with your fluff on Facebook).

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27045699/

Shite - I don't know how to make the link live. What? I'm new at this! Copy and paste, folks!

 

Sarah Comes to Visit

I am amused that Sarah Palin visited San Francisco today. What, is she crazy? Tons of protesters showed up at the airport Hyatt to greet her, so the Repubs scraped a dozen loyalists together to show how mighty their side is. One guy on the news said, "Sarah is so good, goodness just comes out of her." The obvious question is...

Anyway, right off the airplane she had a statement. It seems to be true that she won't answer any questions. She thought it was important for us to know that Obama socializes with domestic terrorists. (!!!) Yeah, the Weathermen dude who works at a charity Obama volunteers at. Obama was EIGHT YEARS OLD when the Weathermen were joining in the early 1970's radical protest fun. 

I want to hear about when McCain came home from Vietnam, back to the woman - a beauty queen - who had faithfully waited for him. Only she was very sick and not such a beauty anymore. After being unceremoniously dumped by John, Ross Perot (I know, right?) paid for her medical bills while McCain went in search of something prettier. How he ended up with the crypt-keeper is beyond me. I want to hear THAT story. 

Saturday, October 4, 2008

Friday, October 3, 2008

Potential Pronunciation Fun

Things may be improving on the Palin Front. I just heard her say "heenious," instead of "heinous." Now we have:

NUCULAR
HEENIOUS

Let's see where else this goes!

Thursday, October 2, 2008

The Great VP Debate: Say it ain't so, Joe!

Finally! It's the Joey and Sarah Show! Shark vs. Femmebot! I hope there's a crack medical/robotics crew backstage. Sarah may blow a fuse and Joey may sink some of them blinding white choppers into her. 

Or, as CNN pundit David Gergin projects, the crazy "Ross Perot" mood in the country may aid Sarah, what with her folksy, plain talk program #A62, designed especially by Karl Rove himself. Just how involved is Rove in this campaign anyway? Even if such involvement has been carefully hidden? Who really knows what happens down by the 'crick at Rancho McCain?

CNN is my Debate headquarters again, tonight. I like shiny bells and whistles, too. I'm an American, after all. Wolf Jackyl welcomes we viewers - he is clearly excited. These two need to show that they're ready to become the VP, and mayhaps the President, he proclaims. Now he lets us know that the two have been preparing for this momentous occasion.

SheenaFury: Or, Joey has been preparing and Sarah has been busy being pre-programmed by some wacky evil brain-enhancing device...probably developed by Goebbels himself...or maybe Bernays!

Gergin: The American public is unpredictable right now. There's a rebellious, populist vibe spreading across the country. Who knows what the public will latch onto? They may relate to Sarah. 

SF wishes the public had latched onto a real populist, like my boy Kucinich. Alas, he is not shiny...at all.

The lovely Soledad O'Brian re-explains the very complicated "mood" lines at the bottom of our screens. There is a change tonight, however. This time, the lines will represent Ohio Repubs, Dems, and Independents, who are all still undecided (?!), and will show an average of the three, only divided into men and women. There will, then, be only two lines tonight. Sweet chicken, that's hard to understand. The lines are representing what now? And for why?  I do lurve me some Soledad, I must say. She was once our local anchor here in San Fran. This is all too much, though. I think they could have created a simpler, more telling device to act as a barometer of Ohioan's moods during the debate. 

Again, we - specifically HDTV owners - will get our special circular pundit marking card fun tonight. Those without HDTV will have to suffer alone. (Who is behind this nonsense anyway?) The circle cards somehow don't seem so special tonight, though.  Begala, Borger, Castellanos, King, Ed Rollins and Rosen will be our official participants.

Sadly, my fave Christiana Amanpour is not there. Probably part of the demands-package-rider from the McCain crew. Christiana is just too much woman. According to Wolf Jackyl, the ground rules have been carefully...oh, so carefully worked out between the two campaigns. Gergin, Campbell and Toobin are sitting sidelines tonight. 

The countdown clock on the corner of the screen, which has been up since six a.m., is nearing the zero hour. Aaaaannnd, "let's go there," Wolf announces.

SF: PLEASE go there, Joey the Shark and Gwen!

PBS's Gwen Ifill announces that all of the questions have been decided by her and there will be no untoward outbursts allowed. You go, Gwen! She's got that Vicodin smile going on but she's all business. I don't much like her jacket. Just saying.

Sarah and Joey walk out, Sarah beaming. "Nice meeting you! Hey, can I call you Joe?" (wink, wink.) And that will be the first in a long series of winks to the American public tonight. She must have practiced that at Rancho McCain as well. Sarah thanks Gwen five times and the candidates take their positions.

Sarah is dressed in "serious business black," with a neutral, non-threatening lipstick shade, but she's...shiny! And such a lovely complexion! What a role model, eh? Five kids and she's managed to keep her attractive figure. I wonder if Gwen will ask her if she plans to have any more babies while in office. I guess only God knows!   

First question goes to Joe - it's on the economic bailout plan that I revile. The very second Joey the Shark opens his mouth, the Ohioan men's mood line plummets and the women's rises just slightly. Joey ticks down the list: disastrous economic policy under Bush, too much deregulation, letting Wall Street run wild, etc. 

Don't even get me started on the booze and the jets and the chicks, Joey. 

Joey continues with an emphasis on fairness to the middle class - he even says "middle class," not that idiotic and meaningless term "Main Street." No unfair profits for CEO's. Obama and I plan to focus on the Middle Class, not the rich and powerful. People could even end up making money on this "rescue plan." 

SF is still skeptical, as are Ohioan men.  

Here's something a little confusing. Though she has yet to speak, Rollins, Begala and Castellanos have already given Palin a "good" mark on thier HDTV fun cards. Has she bewitched, beguiled and bewildered them already? What is this based on? 

Sarah uses her rebuttal time to talk about Soccer Moms and FEAR.  She says "betcha" for the first of many, many times tonight. 

SP: Our economy is hurting.

SF: Ya think?

SP: McCain represents reform. Two years ago, he pushed really hard for the Fannie and Freddie reforms. He sounded that warning bell. His colleagues didn't want to listen to him. I think the alarm has been heard, though, thanks to John McCain's bipartisan reform efforts. He even suspended his campaign!

SF's head does a full 360, Linda Blair-style.

GI: How will you deal with this polarization we've seen in the last week, which you've both mentioned tonight?

J(tS)B: Well, Gwen, that's what I've done my whole career, on controversial issues, too: violins against women, thousands of new cops on the street, Bosnia... Do I have to stay on topic, Gwen?

Really! And she assents!

J(tS)B (paraphrasing, as I am wont to do): Sarah just told a whole bunch of lies. McCain has no conceivable notion of whether the economy is good or bad. He has nine houses and a couple of jets. He was clueless until two week ago, when he changed his view to the polar opposite side twice in one day.

SP: The American workforce is the greatest in this world (or, bend over, Labor, I'm gonna kiss your ass, too!) The work ethic is entrenched in our workforce. 

SF: I just shouldn't go there, right?

SP (verbatim): It's true, I have a track record of reform and I've joined a team that is a team of MAVERICKS, with John McCain, also with his track record of reform, we're known for putting bipartisan politics aside to just get the job done.

SF: Are you speaking of MAVERICKS! like Phil Graham? And, er, did they program you to believe you have already solved the country's problems with your maverick pal Johnny?

Sarah accuses Obama of voting on party lines. 
Ya mean like Johnny voting with his pal GWB 90% of the time? Like that?

SP: Let's put this special interest stuff aside and let's git down to business. I do respect your years in this business but I think the folks are craving some change. We need something new and different!

SF and Joey are somewhat perplexed by Sarah's quick yet inane answers. Joey flashes a nervous smile. SF feels a little sick.

Gwen points out that no one answered the question and offers a new one: Whose fault is it? Greedy lenders or risky homebuyers?

SP: Darn right it was the predatory lenders! There's greed and corruption on Wall St. We're going to follow up on getting rid of corruption, ya know.

As I type her words, I realize just how crazy Sarah's speechifying really is. It makes little sense, it mixes metaphors, it contradicts itself and it's based on fairy tales.

The Ohioan mood lines are both up for Sarah, here, though the men, as before, are not quite as high on her.

SP: Joe Six-Pack! Hockey Moms across the nation! I think we need to band together and say never again! Never again to ring around the collar!

I'm kidding - not about the Joe Six-pack and Hockey Moms' rally cry, though.

Wouldn't it be funny if Sarah and husband Todd turned out to be secret swingers?  Sometimes crazy things happen behind closed doors, or toilet stalls, as the Repub party well knows. Sarah would make a good Madame, I think, for an escort service, or a special Alaskan Snow Bunny Ranch. Hey, that baby daddy of her daughter's looks like he'd patronize a Snow Bunny Ranch, doesn't he, the little rascal!?

The "mood lines" are very active tonight. Both male and female Ohioans are groovin' on Sarah. I guess low expectations are paying off. The HDTV doo-hickeys are full of "good" marks for Palin, even from Begala! Castellanos is up there in Rollins territory with the "good" marks. I think he fancies himself a ladies man.

J(tS)B: Two years ago, it was Obama that questioned the sub prime loan problems. McCain wouldn't listen. He said to deregulate. Twenty times he called for more deregulation! In fact, John McCain recently wrote an article in a major magazine that he wants to do the same for the health care industry - deregulate!

Mood lines plummet. These Ohioans don't seem to like our Joey much, especially the men.

Yes! Joey tells a personal story about a guy at his local gas station. I hate 'em, but the sheeple seem to love a good "story."

Sarah gets rebellious. She wants to go back to an earlier point about taxes. (When did they talk about taxes?) 

SP: Darn right! Obama wants to increase taxes! Government is going to have to learn to live with less! Obama voted 94 times to increase taxes! Taxes, taxes, taxes! 

Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!

J(tS)B: Everything she just said? Is a damn lie. McCain voted the same way. Using Sarah's logic, McCain voted 477 times to raise taxes. It's a bogus claim. And, Gwen? Sarah's not answering the questions.

Gwen offers Sarah the opportunity to answer the deregulation question again.

SP: I want to go back to taxes! I may not answer the questions the way you or the "moderator" want me to, but I'm going to talk straight to the Amurican people. I want to let them know my track record.

SF: Is that even allowed?! I am gobsmacked yet again!

SP: Me, me, me! The Dems are stodgy and Johnny and I are the fiesty young rebels! We're going to...

Gwen cuts her shit off. Woot!

More $5000 medical tax credit talk. Gah! Don't get me started. I note, however, that the plan calls for "erasing state borders" so as to increase competition. Is she suggesting that we drive out of state for medical care? 

Joey goes into shark mode over taxes and Sarah takes issue. Paying higher taxes is not patriotic, she argues. She and Todd were (notice the verb tense) part of the middle class. Joey flashes his choppers again. The Ohioan men seem to like Sarah's tax talk.

Joey gets a nice laugh from the audience when he calls McCain's health plan the "ultimate bridge to nowhere." 

Sarah pretends to be interested in her notes - which are probably a new meat loaf recipe Cindy McCain stole from Rachel Ray. Her answers are already pre-programmed, right? Down by the 'crick at Casa McCain? They've programmed her very well, indeed. She's given a question she doesn't like? Some mechanism kicks in and she changes the subject because it's "best" for everyone involved. Or, she sasses the "moderator." 

Her name's Gwen Ifills, Sarah, and some of us uppity intellectual liberals are familiar with her! We even *gasp* respect her.

Gwen tries again to set Sarah straight about answering questions.

Ohioan men hate on Joey as he talks about education, affordable health care, tax dodges and wasteful spending

Sarah says that Johnny never lies about anything. He NEVER tells one group one thing and another group another thing. But she doesn't want to talk about the question. She wants to talk about energy. She took on the oil companies in her state, she's so tough.

Joey scratches his cheek and tries not to explode as she talks about those evil multi-national corps she and Johnny are going to go after.

Now Sarah goes back to doodling "Sarah loves Johnny" in her notebook while Joey the Shark rebuts her fairy stories. Then she refers to herself as a "Main Streeter."

SF is super confuzzled because the mood lines title reads: Uncommitted Ohio Voters. Soledad told me otherwise! Why does this have to be so complicated?

I'll only report it one more time, because Sarah simply NEVER answers the question. And she seems proud of it! She tells us up front that she won't be answering the question. Does MAVERICK mean "Fuck you, Gwen" tonight? Oop - she got a mood line drop from both sexes this time.

Anyone interested in the rest of the economic discussion tonight should go elsewhere. I've had enough of Sarah's BS. I will share my special secret HDTV club information, however. Rollins is rollin' along on the Sarah train with 12 "good" marks. Castellanos is right behind with 11. She scores no higher than 4 with everyone else. Rosen gives Joey the highest "good" mark score with 10, and 0 "bad" marks. In fact, Begala and Borger haven't given Joey any "bad" marks either.  Sarah's got several "bad" marks from everyone but Rollins, the highest being 6, from Borger.

Hooray! On to energy!

SP: I was the FIRST governor to set up the FIRST climate change sub cabinet office. I blame all the other countries in the world for global warming and it's not all man made. It doesn't matter what caused it, anyway.

SF: Oh, silly Sarah. There's this thing called SCIENCE...

J(tS)B: It is CLEARLY man made. Let's look at the facts. We need to know who/what caused it. We can create jobs! If other countries will accept it, we need to export "green" technology. McCain has voted ONLY for drilling - he's voted against other energy sources 20 times. His only answer is DRILL DRILL DRILL!

SP:  Oh, our funny supporters and their "Drill, baby, drill!" hee hee. Drilling has no downside! Drilling is healthy for the earth! I love a good drilling!

SF: I have a personal downside. How about tar covering Cali's beautiful beaches? When I was a kid I thought it was normal to bring lighter fluid to the beach. Even the hotels provided it to clean the tar off our bodies after a refreshing water/tar swim. A nice walk on the beach? Expect the bottoms of your feet to be black and sticky for a week. And that shit smells, too, yo. But, then again, what does Washington care about Cali?

GI (in a dramatic subject change): What about same-sex benefits?

J(tS)B: Same sex unions are fine. There should be no legal or constitutional difference between same sex and hetero unions. It's what the Constitution calls for - but only for property rights, rights of ownership, hospital visitation, etc. No same sex civil marriages. 

SF: Oh! Fuck you, Biden! What a disappointment! And Obama, too? Fuck the both of ya on that issue.

*SF considers watching Survivor instead*

SP: Traditional marriage only. One man, one woman. I have a diverse family and friends and I am TOLERANT! Visitations in hospital is okay, as is joint property ownership. But I must be "straight up" (heh) with the American people. No same sex civil marriages.

SF: Eh. Why dontcha be "gayly forward up"? 

This debate is not as much fun as I thought it would be. Do something stupid, Sarah! Lemme understand something here, though. Sarah says that adults should certainly have the freedom to do as they choose. But women shouldn't have choice when it comes to their own bodies? How do you explain THAT one, hmmmm?

Double eh. The Ohioans don't seem to support gay marriage either.

Moving on to FOREIGN POLICY -

SP: SURGE! Surgey Surge Double McSurge! SURGE am gud! It will be a travesty if we lose in Iraq. No early withdrawal!

SF: A motto she lives by in the bedroom as well, I see.

J(tS)B: The only person who has been left out of the Iraqi war fun is McCain. Even Bush and the Iraqi leaders have left him out. WE WILL END THIS WAR! McCain will NOT.

SP: That's like putting up a white flag of surrender! That's not what our troops need to hear today. You're endangering troops! 

SP: You once said you'd run on McCain's ticket and Obama was not ready! 

GI: Which is the worse scenario, an unstable Pakistan or a nuclear Iran?

J(tS)B: McCain voted against funding because of the time line. He didn't want one. McCain and Cheney promised we would be treated as liberators back in 2003. No one read the history of that region in the past 700 years! McCain and Cheney said oil would fund the war. Pakistan already has a nuclear bomb and that's scary enough. Iran is not really that close to a nuclear plan. A stable democracy must be aided in Pakistan. New schools, no more madrasas!

SP: They're both terrible, but the central terrorist activity is in Iran. Dictators are bad. 

Hold up! Sarah said NUCULAR! 

SF picks Sarah Palin as VP as the real worst case scenario.

Sarah re-spouts more BS about talks w/o preconditions. It's naive and dangerous! They hate our democracy and our freedoms and our frozen yogurt! They mean to destroy us and we have to bury them!

JtSB: In Iran, it's all about the theocracy. 

SF: Thank OGG someone is doing some real research and actually relying on facts.

SP: I had a real good talk with Henry Kissinger the other day.

J(tS)B: What you say about Obama is simply not true.  Contrary to every uneducated or stubborn Republican's belief, Achmenijad is NOT the head guy in Iran. McCain won't even sit down with Spain!

SF is glad he's milking that for all it's worth. Ole!

HDTV only red and blue disk numbers (sigh): Castellanos, as usual, has gone mad with the marks. And so has Rollins, the ole coot, with 12 and 16 "good" marks for Palin, respectively. They must be wowed by her ability to enunciate words, even though they don't really mean anything. Rosen has 14 "goods" for our Joey, Begala's got 6 for him. King has two more "good" marks for Palin than he does for Joey. Meh. It's getting old. Who cares what these folks think? Anyway, those who are feeling negative about Palin are Begala (5), Borger (7), and Rosen hates her (9). Rollins has zero "bads" for Sarah. What a jackass.

SP: Condi Rice is still trying to fight, even in these waning days. 

SF:Well, yeah. It's her job.

SP: I adore Israel! No second holocaust! 

Now she instructs us about Israel. As if she just found out and really wants to share.  

J(tS)B (gets real serious): No one has been a better friend to Israel for the past 35 years than ME. Rice is foundering. The whole mideast plan is just one hot mess. Bush/McCain policy is an abject failure. Obama and I begged Bush/McCain to follow our more sage advice in re Hamas and the Hezbollah. Now look who's in power! Being thoughtful is good! 

Can you tell I'm not enjoying this debate? I'm not laughing at Sarah like I get to laugh at GWB. She's doing a pretty decent job, though, of sounding like she's smarter than she is. I have not heard anything come from her that is substantive. She uses numbers only during attacks. There's nothing behind the RAH! RAH! GO U.S.A!

SP: I never have done any research of any type on my own. I don't read books or newspapers. I am uninformed and my mind is closed. I simply repeat what people tell me to say.

I'm kidding. She didn't say that.

Now she's repeating that she respects Biden. And now she says we're really not killing civilians, we're building schools! So, how does the society function on an hour or two of electricity a day? Some small areas may be safer, you moron, but the whole country has been ruined! It's for shit! Are you blind?

(I'm so excited that she says "nucular.")  

J(tS)B: Facts matter. 
SF: That's deep.

SP: Obama is reckless when he says we're killing civilians and children. What a horrible, dangerous thing to do! What is he thinking in that erudite head of his?

She SO didn't use the word "erudite." I think she would have said "doggone," or "cotton-pickin'."

J(tS)B: The SURGE principle will not work in Afghanistan. Commanding general McKinnon (or McClellan as Sarah calls him) in Afghanistan. said so. Now? We spend more money on Iraq in 3 weeks than we have in 7 years in Afghanistan.

SF: What? That's absurd!

Both parties are restrained in their reactions to the outlandish things the other is saying. Sarah looks at Joey much more than he looks at her. He always directs his answers to Gwen. That's clever of him.
  
SP: Oh man, it's so obvious that I'm a Washington outsider. I'm someone who's just not used to the way you guys operate. Here you voted for the war - and now you oppose it! It's crazy, I tell ya! 

SF: Having an opinion, then learning new information, and then changing that opinion, is surely a sign of psychosis. 

J(tS)B: Lines need to be drawn. Are we capable of intervening in a given situation? McCain's strategy with Cheney was wrong, so wrong. The conduct of this war has been deplorable. 

Well, bless my soul. Joey the Shark is getting lots of good information out there, he's just doing it quietly. Who knew? Is this the restrained but even more effective Joey? I love how he keeps throwing the "Cheneys" out there.

The pundits are going wild with their HDTV club toys. Rollins now has 37 "good" marks for Sarah. Castellanos has 18 though he has 16 for Joey. Passionate guy, that Castellanos! How can they think she's winning here? Rosen has given Joey 26 "good" marks, so that's pretty good. Rosen is still on the hate train for Palin with 15 "bads."

Palin tries to bring the confab back to more general insights. She gets real folksy with the "you betchas." "I'm a Main Streeter, y'all! And I'm shiny! McCain knows what evil is and since he is such an incredible hero, he's going to combat evil wherever it may be! Take politics out of war," she says.

Huh? Does she know the definition of politics?

GI: How would a Biden administration be different if Obama sadly bites the dust?

Hee! I love where this is going!

JtSB: I would run it just like Obama. End the war. Reject the Bush Doctrine. Raise our standard in the world. I agree with every one of his major plans.

SP: We're Mavericks! We can't always agree! 

Is she kidding? She's sounding absolutely rebellious! And now back to the GOLDEN KEY PHRASES.

JtSB: Over at Katey's Restaurant and Home Depot, where I spend a lot of time, folks "get it." Walk with me through MY neighborhood. These people know. The Middle Class got the short end of the stick. Obama will change it!

SP (verbatim): Oh, say it ain't so, Joe! There ya go again, pointing backwards!

Doggoneit! Now she's going all Reagan-y on me. 

SP: Education is important. I know Joe's wife is a teacher, God bless her. She'll get her reward in heaven! I love teachers! My family is FULL of teachers. 

She makes a shout out to her sister's third grade class. Extra credit for you! she says.

GI (to SP): You said you don't know what the VP does. 

SP: It was a lame attempt at a joke, kinda like Joe's lame attempt at a joke. Nobody got it.

Audience laughter.

Sarah likes the idea of a powerful VP - a la Cheney. And she love special needs children!

SP: Our founding fathers were very wise. They gave us lots of flexibility. 

SF: STFU, Sarah! You're being extra scary now!

JtSB (fiesty): Cheney should understand that he is a member of the executive branch alone. The Constitution is explicit - the VP is only the tie-breaker in a legislature tie. That's all he has to do in the House. 

Sarah relates how much empathy she has for the Middle Class because she WAS one of them for so long. She knows just how Americans feel.

She has NO idea how SF feels.

Sarah has always shared a "world view" of our nation as "exceptionalism." The City shining on a hill of lights. 

Joey chuckles good-naturedly and flashes some serious teeth. He knows the sheeple eat that shit up.

Gwen asks Joey if he is undisciplined.

JtSB: Undisciplined or passionate? 

He lists off some more successes. Then he brings up the death of his wife and child. He knows what it's like to be a single father. His eyes well up. Awwww, Joey! 

SP: McCain is the ultimate dissenter of his party. He's a MAVERICK! Liebermann and Giuliani love him! 

SF: You use those shining examples of human beings?

JtSB: Let's talk about Mavericks for a second. McCain's record shows that he gives not a shit about health care. He's so mean, he voted against children's health insurance. He's no maverick on the war. He's no kitchen table maverick. He voted against helping poor people with heating oil!

GI: How do you change the tone of the US?

SF: Exile all the orthodox Republicans.

JtSB: I wish McCain was here to answer that question. 

SP: Um...I have a diverse family! Er...I wish there was no filter of the mainstream media. We'll fight for Main Street! I'm proud to be American, cuz at least I know I'm free... 

Oh, wait. That's that god awful song. 

JtSB: This is the most important election ever. We have economic and foreign disasters. There will be no tax breaks for the Exxon-Mobil crowd. We'll strive for the best healthcare and education. I think of my old neighborhood - good old-fashioned values. We will re-establish certitude. GOD BLESS AMERICA.

Oooh, snaps! It's all over and Sarah didn't get to God Bless anything! Woot!

The two VP candidates engage in some friendly chatter and flirting - I'm SO glad to meet you, Sarah; oh, I'm SO glad to meet you, Joe! The families emerge and Palin's side looks huge. Everyone hugs. 

Impressions? Meh. I wanted her to out-Quayle Quayle. She spoke well, and to too many people, that's all it takes. Plus those stupid GOLDEN PHRASES: We're Mavericks! Winning and Victory! Evil is bad! TERROR and MAYHEM! Main Street! Other cultures are scary! Shut Up and Go to Church! Stuff like that.

THE CNN AFTERMATH:

King: Palin had an uneven and erratic performance. But everyone loves her tonight anyway. She's folksy like Perot. 

Campbell: There were no major gaffes. Palin's first half was good, her foreign policy was bad. Her obvious mix-up of Gen. McKinnon's name was not corrected by Biden, who showed much restraint.

Gergin: Biden wins, but Palin did well.

Toobin: The war in Iraq discussion was VERY interesting. The two sides' major philosophy differences showed.

Borger: Palin didn't answer the questions. 

Rosen: There were no substantive answers from Palin. She wandered everywhere on Iraq and she constantly came back to energy on the economy issues.

Begala: Palin did well.

Oh, shut up, Paul. You just think she's shiny.

The ads are back on now. Huh. Apparently my "economic future" is at Sizzler's, where I can eat their sumptuous signature steak dinner for less than ten bucks.

The Beginning of the Spin: 

Palin's an asset, or so says my local news channel anchor. She's a populist and a fighter. 

*looks around* Am I still in San Francisco?

Biden was restrained, my useless anchorman tells me. Now we're treated to video of Sarah, with the Rocky theme song playing in the bg, as she is hailed as a hero at her afterparty. She exceded expectations! my totally idiotic local pundit crows. She showed her human side. She "blew away" the first two questions and worried Biden. Apparently, the undecided voters are even more confused now. 

Really. Is this a joke? Am I being punk'd? Ashton? Are you in my house somewhere, feeding fake images and voices onto my HDTV? Why are the idiots at my local news channel acting like fundamentalist Christians who adore the "new" Sarah? What's happened to my city?!

Hold me! I'm scared! 

And speaking of "hold me," what about your children, Sarah? You obviously failed to instill any virginal values in your eldest daughter. And judging by her taste in men? you've got some rebellious kids there, Mama Palin. Don't you have some catch-up work to do in the child rearing department? 

If Obama had a knocked up daughter, what would you say about that? I think we'd be stormed by the "values" police, myself.

Now that I have finished my Great VP Debate recap/blog, the Congress is about to vote on the "Bush just stole the shirt off my back" Bailout Plan. I am disgusted. Gustusted, even. 

Obama? (I wish his first name were Obama.) You better get ready to save the world.