Open Thread

12 Comments

1. 

   Brad on October 4, 2008 at 8:46 pm

   Tsk, tsk…She’s going to have to give back that Miss Congeniality award.

2. 

   Hurria on October 4, 2008 at 8:52 pm

   Yeah, well, Larry and Susan over at No Quarter started selling that particular line of bull** six or eight months ago.

   I can tell you what is coming next. Next they will try to make a close association between Obama and Saddam Hussein because Obama knew Tony Rezko, and Tony Rezko knows someone else who met Saddam once. Larry and Susan have been trying to sell that one too for at least the last 8 months or so.

   It is desperation time, I guess.

3. 

   idredit on October 4, 2008 at 9:04 pm

   via TNR’s The Stump

   Dems Surge in Nevada -Palin phenomenon doesn’t register in Nevada, figures show  

   Here’s one from the Las Vegas Review Journal, on a big surge in Nevada Democratic voter registration which, for reasons unclear, has not been reflected in recent state polling. Money bit:

       Democrats have been beating Republicans in the registration game almost every month since the election in November 2006. At that time, Republicans had 6,998 more registered voters in the Silver State than Democrats. [Democrats now have an 80,666 advantage.]

       In September, Democrats added even more voters in Carson City, where Palin visited Sept. 13 in her first appearance without McCain and drew 5,000 enthusiastic supporters.

       At that appearance, Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki, who chairs the McCain-Palin campaign in Nevada, said the Alaska governor was generating so much excitement, it would lead to additional registration and a victory for their ticket in November.

   But that hasn’t happened: Nevada Democrats increased their registration advantage over Republicans by 18,961 voters in the month after Palin’s selection

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     Hurria on October 4, 2008 at 9:28 pm

     Today there was a jazz, art, and wine festival not far from my home, so I went to check it out. At one end they a place for voter registration with one table for Democrats, one for Republicans. The Democrat table had placed pretty prominently an Obama/Biden sign, but the Republican table did not have a similar sign for McCain/Palin. Then I noticed a sign was under the table. And then, after looking more carefully I saw a big cardboard cutout of Palin next to the table. Seriously, I felt such revulsion that I could not restrain myself from making a disgusted face before walking away.

     You know, in this area it takes a lot of nerve to put up a big cardboard cutout of Sarah Palin.

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       Hurria on October 4, 2008 at 11:31 pm

       Wait a minute! Palin IS a cardboard cutout! How do you make a cardboard cutout of a cardboard cutout?

4. 

   BooMan on October 4, 2008 at 9:21 pm

   It was a banner day for the GOP.

5. 

   americanforliberty on October 4, 2008 at 9:49 pm

   It seems we have forgotten about Hurricane Ike..

   http://news.aol.com/article/as-ike-hit-victims-made-their-final/200418?icid=100214839x1210921296x120
   0662273

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     Indianadem on October 5, 2008 at 12:52 am

     Sadly, to often we fail to recognize our frailty in the face of nature’s wrath, whether hurricane or climate change that comes more slowly. Disaster is inevitable if we don’t heed the warnings. May those poor souls rest in peace.

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     Isis on October 5, 2008 at 11:12 am

     Ike’s Katrina’s husband.

     The MSM has been instructed to ignore Houston and Galveston, just like they were instructed to downplay the flooding of New Orleans and the absence of evacuation from New Orleans.

     The Capitalists want another disaster to suck off of. Just like Iraq, just like Katrina — flood the cronies with FEMA money and let the people suffer. Surprisingly, nothing gets done, people affected are outraged, but since the MSM stifles their stories, there’s no support, no outrage from the public at large.

     This is Disaster Capitalism at work.

6. 

   paradox on October 5, 2008 at 10:05 am

   About the bailout bill.  I’m not sorry I’ve donated to this blog, and I will do so again.

   My only excuse was that I was very upset about the whole evolution, and instinctively I will get very defensive when I feel one of my people is being attacked. [Krugman]

   Well, it’s just one thing, and I’m sorry I said that shit, Booman.  I wasn’t wrong about the bailout, okay, but I admire you and your blog, and hope you have a great Sunday.

   It’s fucked up, but I’m most upset Cabin Girl likely saw it.  Feels like I let her down, somehow, I don’t know what’s up with that.  Sorry.

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     melo on October 5, 2008 at 10:30 pm

     it’ll cheer you no end

     Clusterfuck Nation by Jim Kunstler

      It’s odd to watch the talking heads on CNBC this morning, parsing endlessly over the latest minutiae of the latest deal for CitiGroup to land on Wachovia like a giant amoeba and begin the gruesome process of digesting its innards. The TV heads are just like the medieval monks trying to explicate the labanotation of x-number of angels dancing on the head of the pin. Religion really is the only metaphor left to discuss the epochal disaster underway right now, because God alone knows where this will take us.

     feeling better?

     thought so…

7. 

   Cee on October 5, 2008 at 4:05 pm

   Ha. Palin screeched that Obama said America was imperfect.

   I know who did. Her minister Larry Kroon. Someone alert the Obama campaign to look up the sermon “Sin is Personal to God.”