Pelosi keeps door open on war tax.
What.
The.
Fuck.
I'm sorry, but you're considering a "graduated surtax" on the American people to pay for a war that many of the people in the country don't want in the first place??
How about we stop paying Halliburton and Black Water the outrageous amounts of money we're giving them? How about we get some of the other members of our "Coalition of the Willing" to pony up some cash??
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Commentary: Sexist treatment of Palin must end
Oh PLEASE. They're not being sexist - they're just afraid of what she'll say when she opens her mouth. Why else have they been so controlling about her public appearances?
I think that at this point in the campaign - especially with McCain now "suspending" his campaign to worry about the economy - we're all past Caribou Barbie and pitbulls wearing lipstick. She gives bad interviews. Deal with it. Let's move on to our failing economy, shall we?
If you haven't seen it yet, go over to NBC and watch the SNL skit with Tina Fey as Sarah Palin and Amy Poehler as Hilary Clinton. Go on, I'll wait.
You liked it, right? Funny stuff. I've said for a while - although apparently not here - that I think that Palin and Fey look alike. Especially when Jen and I watched "Baby Mama
In other TV news.... The BBC has an article about how the current campaigns between Obama and McCain seem to mirror those found in the sixth season
I wonder if the McCain camp has watched the West Wing
Barack Obama recently described McCain's gum-flapping about how he's different from King Bush II as "Putting lipstick on a pig" - it may look better, but deep down, it's still a pig. See the Urban Dictionary definition if you're not sure I'm right. Or any of the thousands of pages that come up when you search the phrase.
The problem is, as CNN points out....
Sen. Barack Obama's reference to "lipstick on a pig" has Republicans demanding an apology and Democrats accusing Sen. John McCain of a "pathetic attempt" to play the gender card.McCain's campaign said Obama's remarks were offensive and a slap at Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin -- despite the fact that the Arizona senator himself used the phrase last year to describe a policy proposal of Hillary Clinton's.
So if McCain says it, it's ok, but if Obama says it, then he's insulting Palin apparently - but mostly due to Palin's recent remarks about Hockey moms and pit bulls.
Whatever. The campaign should be about the issues, not the personalities. I look forward to the first - possibly only - Vice Presidential debate, if only to see just how much new knowledge the Republicans have managed to cram into Palin since they chose her....
Like many people, I have multiple email addresses. I've been having a small problem with one address - it's apparently tied to some demographic profile of my wife and I, so I occasionally get crap sent to it. It's one thing when it's a local car dealership - at least it's quasi-local, and makes some sense.
But how is it that I am getting emails from the John McCain campaign, asking me for money? Technically, I'm an Independent voter - perhaps that's why?
I've commented before about the junkmail before, but this is the first time it's invaded my Inbox. And I have to say that opening an email titled "57 Days Until Election Day" that allegedly comes from John McCain, and then finding his lying face in the message - that was a bit of a shock.
Click here to donate to Barack Obama.....
BBC NEWS | Americas | Rare stamp 'used on US post vote'
A rare stamp worth as much as $200,000 may be on an envelope sealed in a ballot box after the US mid-term elections, poll officials say.
Officials in Broward County, Florida, say they saw a famous "Inverted Jenny" stamp while reviewing postal ballots.
About 700 of the stamps were mistakenly printed in 1918 with an upside down illustration. Just 100 went on sale.
But it will be 22 months before laws will permit the box with the envelope to be reopened and the stamp checked.
The original stamps bear a picture of a Curtiss JN-4 plane, known as a Jenny, which was used for training pilots in World War I and later became an airmail plane.
I can only imagine that any and all philatelists (stamp collectors) in Florida are rushing to their collections to see if their stamp is missing. Well, if they had one in the first place:
Four "Inverted Jenny" stamps sold for almost $3m last year
SSRN-Fuck by Christopher Fairman
This Article is as simple and provocative as its title suggests: it explores the legal implications of the word fuck.
I haven't had time to read it yet, but it looks like it will be quite interesting.
The Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act (COPE) Act is supposed to be a good thing. Turns out that it's been hacked quite a bit by various people (aka special interest groups) to allow them to disregard the network neutrality agreements. What is network neutrality? Check out the wikipedia link (new window) for more info.
Basically, the way things are worded now, if the bill becomes a law, then your ISP will be able to "tax" websites for access to their customers. If, say, Google doesn't pay the fee, then an ISP could slow customer access to the website, or block it entirely. They could even, theoretically, make it so that when you go to Google, you end up at their own search engine. And blogs that are critical of the ISP? Oh darn, you no longer have access to that site - it's now on the black list.
It would also allow companies to do whatever they wanted on their own networks - in the mid-90's, Cox Cable blocked the common ports used for VPN access - "forcing the state of Washington, for example, to contract with telecommunications providers to be sure its employees had access to unimpeded broadband for telecommuting applications." (Wikipedia).
If you enjoy the internet the way it is now - where you can access a wide variety of information in a timely manner (based on the level of your internet access, of course), then you need to take action.
You can:
Contact your Congressperson (via the House website, or MoveOn.org)
Daily Kos: The President Speaks, Americans Demand Answers
It would seem that while Bush is talking about how the nations intelligence activities are being targeted at "al-Qaida and their affiliates", the new nominee for CIA Director is saying that "we cemented a deal with another corporate giant to jointly develop a system to mine data that helps us learn about our targets" - aka everyone in the country.
Add to that the fact that the NSA Knows Who You've Called and you have a nice comfy feeling in the gut of Joe American, who hasn't done anything wrong but has Big Brother breathing down his neck....
