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As Mr. Obama signed three orders in a White House ceremony, 16 retired generals and admirals who have fought for months for a ban on coercive interrogations stood behind him and applauded. The group, organized to lobby the Obama transition team by the group Human Rights First, did not include any career C.I.A. officers or retirees.



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United States Army investigation has accused former Halliburton subsidiary KBR, along with contractors the company used and two of the firm's supervisors, of 'negligent homicide' in the electrocution of a soldier, according to a published report.



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GeoEye-1 took these satellite photos of Barack Obama's inauguration ceremony.
(Credit: GeoEye)

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During his campaign, Obama described Guantanamo as a "sad chapter in American history" and has said generally that the U.S. legal system is equipped to handle the detainees. But he has offered few details on what he planned to do once the facility is closed.
Under plans being put together in Obama's camp, some detainees would be released and many others would be prosecuted in U.S. criminal courts.
A third group of detainees — the ones whose cases are most entangled in highly classified information — might have to go before a new court designed especially to handle sensitive national security cases, according to advisers and Democrats involved in the talks. Advisers participating directly in the planning spoke on condition of anonymity because the plans aren't final.
The move would be a sharp deviation from the Bush administration, which established military tribunals to prosecute detainees at the Navy base in Cuba and strongly opposes bringing prisoners to the United States. Obama's Republican challenger, John McCain, had also pledged to close Guantanamo. But McCain opposed criminal trials, saying the Bush administration's tribunals should continue on U.S. soil.
The plan being developed by Obama's team has been championed by legal scholars from both political parties. But it is almost certain to face opposition from Republicans who oppose bringing terrorism suspects to the U.S. and from Democrats who oppose creating a new court system with fewer rights for detainees.

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Results for Guilford County, where Sarah Palin made her remarks about &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;"Real Americans" in "Pro-America parts"&lt;/span&gt; of the country:

&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Obama/Biden  58.75%&lt;/span&gt;
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Naomi Klein
The Guardian, Friday October 31 2008









In the final days of the election many Republicans seem to have given up the fight for power. But don't be fooled: that doesn't mean they are relaxing. If you want to see real Republican elbow grease, check out the energy going into chucking great chunks of the $700bn bail-out out the door. At a recent Senate banking committee hearing, the Republican Bob Corker was fixated on this task, and with a clear deadline in mind: inauguration. "How much of it do you think may be actually spent by January 20 or so?" Corker asked Neel Kashkari, the 35-year-old former banker in charge of the bail-out.

When European colonialists realised that they had no choice but to hand over power to the indigenous citizens, they would often turn their attention to stripping the local treasury of its gold and grabbing valuable livestock. If they were really nasty, like the Portuguese in Mozambique in the mid-1970s, they poured concrete down the elevator shafts.

Nothing so barbaric for the Bush gang. Rather than open plunder, it prefers bureaucratic instruments, such as "distressed asset" auctions and the "equity purchase program". But make no mistake: the goal is the same as it was for the defeated Portuguese - a final, frantic looting of the public wealth before they hand over the keys to the safe.

How else to make sense of the bizarre decisions that have governed the allocation of the bail-out money? When the Bush administration announced it would be injecting $250bn into US banks in exchange for equity, the plan was widely referred to as "partial nationalisation" - a radical measure required to get banks lending again. Henry Paulson, the treasury secretary, had seen the light, we were told, and was following the lead of Gordon Brown.

In fact, there has been no nationalisation, partial or otherwise. American taxpayers have gained no meaningful control over the banks, which is why the banks are free to spend the new money as they wish. At Morgan Stanley, it looks as if much of the windfall will cover this year's bonuses. Citigroup has been hinting it will use its $25bn buying other banks, while John Thain, the chief executive of Merrill Lynch, told analysts: "At least for the next quarter, it's just going to be a cushion." The US government, meanwhile, is reduced to pleading with the banks that they at least spend a portion of the taxpayer windfall for loans - officially, the reason for the entire programme.

What, then, is the real purpose of the bail-out? My fear is this rush of dealmaking is something much more ambitious than a one-off gift to big business: that the Bush version of "partial nationalisation" is rigged to turn the US treasury into a bottomless cash machine for the banks for years to come. Remember, the main concern among the big market players, particularly banks, is not the lack of credit but their battered share prices. Investors have lost confidence in the honesty of the big financial players, and with good reason.

This is where the treasury's equity pays off big time. By purchasing stakes in these financial institutions, the treasury is sending a signal to the market that they are a safe bet. Why safe? Not because their level of risk has been accurately assessed at last. Not because they have renounced the kind of exotic instruments and outrageous leverage rates that created the crisis. But because the market will now be banking on the fact that the US government won't let these particular companies fail. If they get themselves into trouble, investors will now assume that the government will keep finding more cash to bail them out, since allowing them to go down would mean losing the initial equity investments, many of them in the billions. (Just look at the insurance giant AIG, which has already gone back to taxpayers for a top-up, and seems likely to ask for a third.)

This tethering of the public interest to private companies is the real purpose of the bail-out plan: Paulson is handing all the companies admitted to the programme - a number potentially in the thousands - an implicit treasury department guarantee. To skittish investors looking for safe places to park their money, these equity deals will be even more comforting than a triple-A from Moody's rating agency.

Insurance like that is priceless. But for the banks, the best part is that the government is paying them to accept its seal of approval. For taxpayers, on the other hand, this entire plan is extremely risky, and may well cost significantly more than Paulson's original idea of buying up $700bn in toxic debts. Now taxpayers aren't just on the hook for the debts but, arguably, for the fate of every corporation that sells them equity.

Interestingly, mortgage fund giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac both enjoyed this kind of unspoken guarantee before they were nationalised at the start of this crisis. For decades the market understood that, since these private players were enmeshed with the government, Uncle Sam could be counted on to always save the day. It was, as many have pointed out, the worst of all worlds. Not only were profits privatised while risks were socialised, but the implicit government backing created powerful incentives for reckless business practices.

With the new equity purchase programme Paulson has taken the discredited Fannie and Freddie model and applied it to a huge swath of the private banking industry. Again, there is no reason to shy away from risky bets, especially since the treasury has made no such demands of the banks (apparently it doesn't want to "micromanage".)

To further boost market confidence, the federal government has also unveiled unlimited public guarantees for many bank deposit accounts. Oh, and as if this were not enough, the treasury has been encouraging the banks to merge, ensuring that the only institutions left will be "too big to fail", thereby guaranteed a bail-out. In three ways, the market is being told loud and clear that Washington will not allow the financial institutions to bear the consequences of their behaviour. This may be Bush's most creative innovation: no-risk capitalism.

There is a glimmer of hope. In answer to Senator Corker's question, the treasury is indeed having trouble dispersing the bail-out funds. So far it has requested about $350bn of the $700bn, but most of this hasn't yet made it out the door. Meanwhile, every day it becomes clearer that the bail-out was sold to the public on false pretences. Clearly, it was never really about getting loans flowing. It was always about doing what it is doing: turning the state into a giant insurance agency for Wall Street, a safety net for the people who need it least, subsidised by the people who will most need state protections in the economic storms ahead.

This duplicity is a political opportunity. Whoever wins on November 4 will have enormous moral authority. It should be used to call for a freeze on the dispersal of bail-out funds, not after the inauguration but right away. All deals should be renegotiated, this time with the public getting the guarantees.

It is risky, of course, to interrupt the bail-out process. Nothing could be riskier, however, than allowing the Bush gang their parting gift to big business - the gift that will keep on taking.

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&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;socialism&lt;/span&gt; |ˈsō sh əˌlizəm|
noun
a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
• policy or practice based on this theory.
• has nothing to do with taxes.



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&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Video: Sarah Palin Anointed by Bishop Thomas Muthee (YouTube)&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Video: Palin's Graduation Speech at Wasilla Assembly of God (YouTube)&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;blockquote&gt;UCLA physicists demonstrated that if you pull off a piece of Scotch tape inside a vacuum chamber, the tape releases enough X-rays to image bones through skin. Grad student Juan Escobar and his colleagues managed to make an X-ray of a thumb using the technique. Apparently, Russian scientists reported fifty years ago that the act of peeling sticking tape can emit X-rays, but the new research confirms the early results.
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
Watch a cool video &lt;a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/videoarchive/x-rays/"&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-5916394832699567546?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=5916394832699567546&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/5916394832699567546'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/5916394832699567546'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/10/scotch-tape-generates-x-rays.html' title='Scotch Tape Generates X-Rays!'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SQN33HgwscI/AAAAAAAACRA/yoBRSz5SIQ4/s72-c/_news_2008_081022_images_news.2008.1185-2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-3820159366594977965</id><published>2008-10-25T15:24:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-25T15:30:26.617-04:00</updated><title type='text'>"Joe Six-Pack" uses raging intellect to state opinion!</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="349"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yC2MgEEjTJE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6&amp;border=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yC2MgEEjTJE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="349"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-3820159366594977965?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=3820159366594977965&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/3820159366594977965'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/3820159366594977965'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/10/joe-six-pack-uses-raging-intellect-to.html' title='&quot;Joe Six-Pack&quot; uses raging intellect to state opinion!'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-4289516892842464465</id><published>2008-10-25T15:08:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-25T15:18:13.858-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Joe "The Stage Actor" McCain (*really!)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SQNvGF5LQZI/AAAAAAAACQ4/MNMez5s7IuQ/s1600-h/Picture+8.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 312px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SQNvGF5LQZI/AAAAAAAACQ4/MNMez5s7IuQ/s400/Picture+8.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261170940150759826" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;blockquote&gt;On October 18, 2008, Joe reportedly made a phone call to the emergency number 911 in Northern Virginia, complaining about being stuck in traffic, which he ended with an obscenity.
McCain was allegedly stuck on Interstate 495 at the Wilson Bridge. He called 911 and when asked to describe the emergency replied: "Well, it's not an emergency, but do you know why on one side at the damn drawbridge of 95 traffic is stopped for 15 minutes and yet traffic's coming the other way?" The operator then inquired if McCain was using the 911 service to complain about traffic. McCain then issued the expletive "fuck you" and hung up; he later said he believed the call was muted before swearing. "I did not mean to swear at the officers themselves... [if I were in their situation] it would have really frosted me too and I absolutely understand their reaction."  Alexandria Police 911 personell called Mr. McCain back to advise him that abuse of the 911 Emergency System was a criminal offense, but had to leave a voice message on his phone. Shortly thereafter, Mr. McCain again called the Alexandria Sheriff's office and stated that he had been contacted by the 911 Emergency Services and apprised his actons were a violation of the Law. Mr. McCain said "Somebody gave me this riot act about the violation of police" in response to the call he recieved. Additionally, it was reported that Mr. McCain asked them "Do you know who I am" and that he had been on his way to a very important political event that he was involved in for a member of his family.
On October 24, 2008, Joe McCain withdrew from campaign activities and apologized for calling both 911 and the Alexandria Police&lt;/blockquote&gt;

*&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_McCain"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; lists his occupation as a stage actor, but I could not find any info about his acting career..&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-4289516892842464465?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=4289516892842464465&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/4289516892842464465'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/4289516892842464465'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/10/on-october-18-2008-joe-reportedly-made.html' title='Joe &quot;The Stage Actor&quot; McCain (*really!)'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SQNvGF5LQZI/AAAAAAAACQ4/MNMez5s7IuQ/s72-c/Picture+8.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-6850404647682609254</id><published>2008-10-25T14:04:00.010-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-25T14:54:45.470-04:00</updated><title type='text'>If you blow up an abortion clinic in the name of christ you aren't a terrorist in Sarah Palin's eyes. You still think she's fit to lead this country?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SQNp2XC_VdI/AAAAAAAACQc/Gwu25REJu3c/s1600-h/Picture+5.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 247px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SQNp2XC_VdI/AAAAAAAACQc/Gwu25REJu3c/s400/Picture+5.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261165172319278546" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
When asked Thursday night by NBC television presenter Brian Williams whether an abortion clinic bomber was a terrorist, Palin heaved a sigh and, at first, circumvented the question.

"There's no question that Bill Ayers by his own admittance was one who sought to destroy our US Capitol and our Pentagon. That is a domestic terrorist," Palin said, referring to a 1960s leftist who founded a radical violent gang dubbed the "Weathermen" -- and who years later supported Obama's first run for public office in the state of Illinois.

"Now, others who would want to engage in harming innocent Americans or facilities that it would be unacceptable to... I don't know if you're gonna use the word 'terrorist' there," the ardently pro-life running mate of John McCain said.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-6850404647682609254?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=6850404647682609254&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/6850404647682609254'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/6850404647682609254'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/10/if-you-blow-shit-up-in-name-of-christ.html' title='If you blow up an abortion clinic in the name of christ you aren&apos;t a terrorist in Sarah Palin&apos;s eyes. You still think she&apos;s fit to lead this country?'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SQNp2XC_VdI/AAAAAAAACQc/Gwu25REJu3c/s72-c/Picture+5.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-5100068846951260752</id><published>2008-10-23T13:30:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-23T13:33:54.524-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Fact check: Would Obama hike taxes on small businesses that employ 16 million? (A: NO!)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SQC1HzuyjiI/AAAAAAAACPM/UnXEUOvn1o0/s1600-h/mccainlies.png"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 310px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SQC1HzuyjiI/AAAAAAAACPM/UnXEUOvn1o0/s400/mccainlies.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5260403510518910498" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
The Statement: Speaking during a campaign stop Monday, Oct. 20 in Belton, Missouri, Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain criticized Democratic opponent Sen. Barack Obama's proposals on taxes. "The Obama tax increase would come at the worst possible time for America, and especially for small businesses like the one Joe dreams of owning," McCain said. "The small businesses Senator Obama would tax provide 16 million jobs in America."

Get the facts!


The Facts: McCain's criticism appears primarily aimed at Obama's personal income tax proposals — which he says would give tax cuts or leave taxes the same for individuals who make less than $200,000 or families that earn less than $250,000 — but increase them on people making more. Roughly 85 percent of small businesses are taxed at the owner's personal income tax rate, according to an editorial in the Wall Street Journal. Most of those businesses earn less than $250,000 a year.

The McCain campaign uses figures from a National Federation of Independent Business survey to back up its claim. The survey says 12 percent of business owners who employ between one and nine people earn more than $200,000 a year — as do 27 percent of those who employ 10-19 people and 50 percent of those who employ between 20 and 250 workers. Obama says $200,000 is the lowest income level at which an individual would see a tax increase under his plan.

But in assuming all of those business owners would see an increase, the McCain campaign appears to suppose that all of the business owners making between $200,000 and $250,000 would file their taxes individually, not jointly with a spouse or other family member. And roughly 15 percent of small businesses aren't taxed based on the owner's personal income rate, as the Journal notes. Based on those facts, it's impossible to know exactly how many of those business owners would see a tax hike — but it surely would not be 100 percent.

The McCain campaign uses census figures to estimate how many people work for the businesses it says would be impacted — an effort McCain spokesman Brian Rogers acknowledges is "admittedly a rough estimate." The NFIB says the number of jobs small businesses create is "impossible to calculate," in part because some people only work at small businesses part-time while holding down full time jobs with a bigger employer.

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;The Verdict: False. McCain uses an overly broad interpretation of the NFIB survey's figures — applying Obama's tax plan to those figures in a way that is highly unlikely to match reality.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-5100068846951260752?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=5100068846951260752&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/5100068846951260752'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/5100068846951260752'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/10/fact-check-would-obama-hike-taxes-on.html' title='Fact check: Would Obama hike taxes on small businesses that employ 16 million? (A: NO!)'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SQC1HzuyjiI/AAAAAAAACPM/UnXEUOvn1o0/s72-c/mccainlies.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-5084165299384423300</id><published>2008-10-21T20:34:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-21T20:37:00.437-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Now, for something completely different...</title><content type='html'>&lt;object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="432" height="285" id="VE_Player" align="middle"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://static.videoegg.com/ted2/flash/loader.swf"&gt;&lt;PARAM NAME="FlashVars" VALUE="bgColor=FFFFFF&amp;file=http://static.videoegg.com/ted/movies/JohnHodgman_2008-embed_high.flv&amp;autoPlay=false&amp;fullscreenURL=http://static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/fullscreen.html&amp;forcePlay=false&amp;logo=&amp;allowFullscreen=true"&gt;&lt;param name="quality" value="high"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="scale" value="noscale"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="window"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-5084165299384423300?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=5084165299384423300&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/5084165299384423300'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/5084165299384423300'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/10/now-for-something-completely-different.html' title='Now, for something completely different...'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-7443235125552855661</id><published>2008-10-19T19:05:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-19T19:10:30.040-04:00</updated><title type='text'>This must be the America Sarah was talking about...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/weekinreview/19cohen.html"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SPu9Y6QInVI/AAAAAAAACPE/ilI2uCoJxCo/s1600-h/palinenthusiasm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SPu9Y6QInVI/AAAAAAAACPE/ilI2uCoJxCo/s400/palinenthusiasm.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259005225536626002" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

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Sunday morning, NBC's Tom Brokaw talked with MSNBC political analyst Chuck Todd about how the polls are shaping up just several weeks prior to the election. Todd told Brokaw that at this point, McCain appears to be "conceding the popular vote" in order to pursue victory through the Electoral College,&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt; similar to how outgoing President George W. Bush came to power&lt;/span&gt;.

Todd, making the argument that older voters could be the crucial demographic in the election's endgame, claimed there's been some evidence that they are shifting toward Obama.

"That's how this thing becomes, from a close Electoral College battle to a landslide," he said. 

"And by the way, one more point about our map, as we're seeing this shift. It's almost as if the McCain campaign is conceding the popular vote. We're seeing a lot of tightening in some places that, while Obama won't carry them, he's not gonna lose by large margins.

"That means the McCain path is solely now an Electoral College path. If he wins the Electoral College, it's hard to see how he actually wins the popular vote."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-537508327390428454?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=537508327390428454&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/537508327390428454'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/537508327390428454'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/10/conceding-popular-vote.html' title='Conceding the popular vote?'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SPuC_XWxoLI/AAAAAAAACO8/EqsrclNyIxo/s72-c/1018_mainchart.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-9093647315299941869</id><published>2008-10-19T10:50:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-19T10:56:46.050-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Colin Powell Endorses Obama!! YES WE CAN!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SPtJ_fdzR3I/AAAAAAAACO0/_m_A75TE9oQ/s1600-h/s-STEVENS-TRIAL-large.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SPtJ_fdzR3I/AAAAAAAACO0/_m_A75TE9oQ/s400/s-STEVENS-TRIAL-large.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258878345012266866" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

Obama A "Transformational Figure," Has "Displayed A Steadiness, Showed Intellectual Vigor"... McCain's Negativity Has Gone "Too Far"&lt;div&gt;
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"It isn't easy for me to disappoint Sen. McCain in the way that I have this morning, and I regret that," Powell said.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The beluga whales of Alaska's Cook Inlet are endangered and require additional protection to survive, the government declared Friday, contradicting Gov. Sarah Palin who has questioned whether the distinctive white whales are actually declining.
It was the Republican vice presidential candidate's second environmental slap from Washington this year. She has asked federal courts to overturn an Interior Department decision declaring polar bears threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
The government on Friday put a portion of the whales on the endangered list, rejecting Palin's argument that it lacked scientific evidence to do so. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said that a decade-long recovery program had failed to ensure the whales' survival.
"In spite of protections already in place, Cook Inlet beluga whales are not recovering," said James Balsiger, NOAA acting assistant administrator.
The decision means that before federal agencies can issue a variety of commercial permits, they must first consult with the National Marine Fisheries Service to determine if there are potential harmful effects on the whales.
That has the potential to affect major Alaska projects including an expansion of the Port of Anchorage, additional offshore oil and gas drilling, a proposed $600 million bridge connecting Anchorage to Palin's hometown of Wasilla and a massive coal mine 45 miles south of Anchorage.
The state does have serious concerns about the low population of beluga whales in Cook Inlet and has had those concerns for many years, Palin said in a statement. "However, we believe that this endangered listing is premature," she said.
Palin in April successfully lobbied for a six-month delay in a listing decision until a count of the whales this summer could be included in deliberations. That count showed no increase over 2007 numbers — 375 whales, compared with a high of 653 in 1995.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-3311699484898241586?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=3311699484898241586&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/3311699484898241586'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/3311699484898241586'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/10/sarah-palin-wants-beluga-whales-dead.html' title='Sarah Palin wants beluga whales dead'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SPla-GcY8TI/AAAAAAAACOE/4EIJMXThgog/s72-c/images.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-2036520010364954050</id><published>2008-10-17T23:16:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-17T23:18:09.973-04:00</updated><title type='text'>America (Johnstown, PA)</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lPg0VCg4AEQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lPg0VCg4AEQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-2036520010364954050?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=2036520010364954050&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/2036520010364954050'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/2036520010364954050'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/10/america.html' title='America (Johnstown, PA)'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-7254969193381889091</id><published>2008-10-16T19:50:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-16T19:52:20.184-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Al-Jazeera Exposes Racism At Sarah Palin Rally in Ohio</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zRqcfqiXCX0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zRqcfqiXCX0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;

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Obama 50.0
McCain 42.6
Spread: Obama +7.4

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The beleaguered Democratic-leaning community group Acorn sends over this photograph: John McCain, in March of 2006, sitting beside Florida Rep. Kendrick Meek at an event Acorn co-sponsored in Florida.

The immigration event, which other photos show was packed with red-shirted Acorn members, was co-sponsored by the local Catholic Archdiocese, the SEIU, and other groups.

McCain, still splitting much of his party on immigration at the time, was the headliner.

Bertha Lewis, Acorn's chief organizer, said in a statement that came with the photo, “It has deeply saddened us to see Senator McCain abandon his historic support for ACORN and our efforts to support the goals of low-income Americans."

”We are sure that the extremists he is trying to get into a froth will be even more excited to learn that John McCain stood shoulder to shoulder with ACORN, at an ACORN co-sponsored event, to promote immigration reform," she said.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-4936318673931617586?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=4936318673931617586&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/4936318673931617586'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/4936318673931617586'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/10/straight-talk-express-has-breakdown-at.html' title='Straight Talk Express has a breakdown at the corner of Lie and Bullshit.'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SPO_Tj9eR_I/AAAAAAAACMc/-5JUrM2g6o8/s72-c/mccainacorn.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-7697480099544450940</id><published>2008-10-13T11:31:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-13T11:33:20.250-04:00</updated><title type='text'>McCain Is A Hate Breeder!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SPNqFeo4IdI/AAAAAAAACMU/_bFvfi1DStM/s1600-h/Picture+1.png"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SPNqFeo4IdI/AAAAAAAACMU/_bFvfi1DStM/s400/Picture+1.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256661832427905490" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;















John McCain opened the Pandora's Box of hate and bigotry, of disenfranchisement and scapegoating, and there's no way for him to reel it in. Nor do I suspect that he truly realizes the power of it either. Not when he says things like:
"After I whip his you know what in this debate, we're going to be going out 24/7," McCain said of his upcoming debate with Obama, but seeming to consider recent criticism that his words have been too inflammatory, he quickly told supporters to be respectful.

Really?
Telling supporters you're planning on whipping (no loaded imagery there) your opponent seems like a smart way to let them know that they must remain respectful? Frank Rich writes an excellent op-ed on how McCain's campaign has framed their battle against "The Terrorist Barack Hussein Obama":
(I)t’s not just the old Joe McCarthyesque guilt-by-association game, however spurious, that’s going on here. Don’t for an instant believe the many mindlessly “even-handed” journalists who keep saying that the McCain campaign’s use of Ayers is the moral or political equivalent of the Obama campaign’s hammering on Charles Keating.What makes them different, and what has pumped up the Weimar-like rage at McCain-Palin rallies, is the violent escalation in rhetoric, especially (though not exclusively) by Palin. Obama “launched his political career in the living room of a domestic terrorist.” He is “palling around with terrorists” (note the plural noun). Obama is “not a man who sees America the way you and I see America.” Wielding a wildly out-of-context Obama quote, Palin slurs him as an enemy of American troops.By the time McCain asks the crowd “Who is the real Barack Obama?” it’s no surprise thatsomeone cries out “Terrorist!”
The rhetorical conflation of Obama with terrorism is complete. It is stoked further by the repeated invocation of Obama’s middle name by surrogates introducing McCain and Palin at these rallies. This sleight of hand at once synchronizes with the poisonous Obama-is-a-Muslim e-mail blasts and shifts the brand of terrorism from Ayers’s Vietnam-era variety to the radical Islamic threats of today.This is a dangerous game to play and it's snowballing out of control. Right wingers are openly comparing Obama to Bin Laden and then dismissing the concern as the fault of the media.Mob mentality is a scary thing to watch. Anybody remember the Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes social experiment? What these McCain supporters are doing is no less rational or frightening than those children ready to beat up their classmates because they had blue eyes. They are being taught to think of Obama as a terrorist, and the implications could be catastrophic.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-7697480099544450940?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=7697480099544450940&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/7697480099544450940'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/7697480099544450940'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/10/mccain-is-hate-breeder.html' title='McCain Is A Hate Breeder!'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SPNqFeo4IdI/AAAAAAAACMU/_bFvfi1DStM/s72-c/Picture+1.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-1906161006420211369</id><published>2008-10-07T20:31:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-07T20:33:59.308-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Text that, Palin!</title><content type='html'>&lt;embed flashvars="autoplay=false" width="400" height="320" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" src="http://www.ustream.tv/flash/video/762520" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ustream.tv/" style="padding:2px 0px 4px;width:400px;background:#FFFFFF;display:block;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-size:10px;text-decoration:underline;text-align:center;" target="_blank"&gt;Online TV Shows by Ustream&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-1906161006420211369?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=1906161006420211369&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/1906161006420211369'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/1906161006420211369'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/10/text-that-palin.html' title='Text that, Palin!'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-2041945813531798676</id><published>2008-10-04T22:52:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-04T22:55:25.078-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SOgsDpbE_zI/AAAAAAAACKE/yYITrFj09fM/s1600-h/Picture+1.png"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SOgsDpbE_zI/AAAAAAAACKE/yYITrFj09fM/s400/Picture+1.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253497406498340658" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;























&lt;a href="http://www.prosebeforehos.com/author/Political%20Ironing/"&gt;prose before hos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-2041945813531798676?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=2041945813531798676&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/2041945813531798676'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/2041945813531798676'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/10/prose-before-hos.html' title=''/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SOgsDpbE_zI/AAAAAAAACKE/yYITrFj09fM/s72-c/Picture+1.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-3949743577653363677</id><published>2008-10-04T16:16:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-04T16:21:46.474-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Bill Kristol, Kirsten Powers, and Bernard Goldberg all agreed in the “obvious fact” of the “transparent agenda” of liberal media bias.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SOfPfIjV0aI/AAAAAAAAB_8/mvJdoAp2Hks/s1600-h/msmtaxcuts.PNG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SOfPfIjV0aI/AAAAAAAAB_8/mvJdoAp2Hks/s400/msmtaxcuts.PNG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253395624129581474" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
 








The multinational corporations that run the mainstream media — GE (NBC), Time Warner (CNN), Walt Disney (ABC), News Corporation (FOX), and Viacom (CBS) — stand to benefit hugely under a McCain presidency. The centerpiece of Sen. McCain’s economic plan — actually, the whole plan — is large tax cuts for corporations. It would deliver $1.44 billion in tax cuts to the five largest media companies, according to an analysis by the Center for American Progress Action Fund.

These giveaways are just one part of McCain’s doubling of the Bush tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy which would create the largest deficits in 25 years and drive the United States into the deepest deficits since World War II. McCain and Palin have promised that the $700 billion bailout would not threaten these tax cuts


&lt;a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/04/mccain-media-tax/#more-30250"&gt;thinkprogress&lt;/a&gt;

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Prior to and following the vice-presidential debates, conservatives on Fox News purported that the “mainstream media” has a preference for an Obama presidency. Bill Kristol, Kirsten Powers, and Bernard Goldberg all agreed in the “obvious fact” of the “transparent agenda” of liberal media bias.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-3949743577653363677?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=3949743577653363677&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/3949743577653363677'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/3949743577653363677'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/10/bill-kristol-kirsten-powers-and-bernard.html' title='Bill Kristol, Kirsten Powers, and Bernard Goldberg all agreed in the “obvious fact” of the “transparent agenda” of liberal media bias.'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SOfPfIjV0aI/AAAAAAAAB_8/mvJdoAp2Hks/s72-c/msmtaxcuts.PNG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-4323028508671401930</id><published>2008-09-30T21:07:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-30T21:08:13.138-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Moose in the headlights</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xRkWebP2Q0Y&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xRkWebP2Q0Y&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-4323028508671401930?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=4323028508671401930&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/4323028508671401930'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/4323028508671401930'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/09/moose-in-headlights.html' title='Moose in the headlights'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-7123615520396752532</id><published>2008-09-29T22:17:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-30T00:57:53.077-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Holy Shit, Bush, those are some lousy numbers.</title><content type='html'>When Bush took office, the national debt was $5.727 trillion. It has grown by more than $4 trillion under Bush, more than any previous president. The Treasury Department's most recent account says it has hit $9.849 trillion. A 71.9% increase.

&lt;a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/09/debt-trillion.html"&gt;LA Times&lt;/a&gt;

Dow on Bill Clinton's last day in office: 10,587.59
Dow today: 10,365.4

That was your retirement. Seven years of it. Gone. Thanks to George Bush and John McCain. And if John McCain had his way, that would have been your Social Security money too. Gone. Seven years of growth, seven years of your life, wiped out.

DOW January 19, 2001: 10,587.59
DOW September 29, 2008: 10,365.45

NASDAQ Jan 19, 2001 = 2770.38
NASDAQ September 29, 2008 = 1983.73

CPI, January 19, 2001: 175
CPI, September 29, 2008: 219

Dollar exchange with Euro, January 19, 2001: 1.068
Dollar exchange with Euro, September 29, 2008: .695&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-7123615520396752532?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=7123615520396752532&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/7123615520396752532'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/7123615520396752532'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/09/holy-shit-bush-those-are-some-lousy.html' title='Holy Shit, Bush, those are some lousy numbers.'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-7039246269658943893</id><published>2008-09-28T22:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-28T22:51:39.840-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Sarah writes jokes for Tina! So Sweet..</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zeMypXCUWMw&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zeMypXCUWMw&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-7039246269658943893?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=7039246269658943893&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/7039246269658943893'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/7039246269658943893'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/09/sarah-writes-jokes-for-tina-so-sweet.html' title='Sarah writes jokes for Tina! So Sweet..'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-5056343781459607517</id><published>2008-09-28T22:39:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-28T22:43:14.709-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Palin Claimed Dinosaurs And People Coexisted</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SOBAJ3Bkn2I/AAAAAAAABgU/SOQ9dCk2-vg/s1600-h/Picture+1.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SOBAJ3Bkn2I/AAAAAAAABgU/SOQ9dCk2-vg/s400/Picture+1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251267703647543138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The&lt;em&gt; LA Times&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-palinreligion28-2008sep28,0,3643718.story?track=rss"&gt;reports&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;  Soon after Sarah Palin was elected mayor of the foothill town of Wasilla, Alaska, she startled a local music teacher by insisting in casual conversation that men and dinosaurs coexisted on an Earth created 6,000 years ago -- about 65 million years after scientists say most dinosaurs became extinct -- the teacher said.
&lt;p&gt;After conducting a college band and watching Palin deliver a commencement address to a small group of home-schooled students in June 1997, Wasilla resident Philip Munger said, he asked the young mayor about her religious beliefs.&lt;/p&gt;  Palin told him that "dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth at the same time," Munger said. When he asked her about prehistoric fossils and tracks dating back millions of years, Palin said "she had seen pictures of human footprints inside the tracks," recalled Munger.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-5056343781459607517?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=5056343781459607517&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/5056343781459607517'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/5056343781459607517'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/09/palin-claimed-dinosaurs-and-people.html' title='Palin Claimed Dinosaurs And People Coexisted'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SOBAJ3Bkn2I/AAAAAAAABgU/SOQ9dCk2-vg/s72-c/Picture+1.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-3649327164172902298</id><published>2008-09-28T22:02:00.008-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-28T22:38:27.814-04:00</updated><title type='text'>No evidence of Palin having "trade missions back and forth”</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SOA_Fj5Vu8I/AAAAAAAABgI/iIBpv8Iizjs/s1600-h/Putinsheadrears.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SOA_Fj5Vu8I/AAAAAAAABgI/iIBpv8Iizjs/s400/Putinsheadrears.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251266530281634754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

















Ms. Couric asked Ms. Palin to explain how Alaska’s proximity to Russia “enhances your foreign policy credentials.”

“Well, it certainly does,” Ms. Palin replied, “because our, our next-door neighbors are foreign countries, there in the state that I am the executive of. And there—”

Gently interrupting, Ms. Couric asked, “Have you ever been involved in any negotiations, for example, with the Russians?”

“We have trade missions back and forth,” said Ms. Palin. “We do. It’s very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;As Putin rears his head&lt;/span&gt; and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where do they go? It’s Alaska. It’s just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there. They are right next to our state.”

From &lt;a href="http://www.reddit.com/goto?id=741og"&gt;Slate&lt;/a&gt;:

As you might notice, Palin only cites one discernible foreign interaction under her purview: Trade missions.

I spent some time on the Governor's Web site seeking more details about her trade negotiations with Russia. There's a press release about Gov. Palin's meeting with a trade mission from the Yukon, but nothing about Russia anywhere in the archives. Tony Knowles, a Democrat who was governor from 1994-2002, led a trade mission -- back in 1997, while Palin was running Wasilla -- to the remote island of Sakhalin, off the coast of Siberia. That seems to be about it for Russia-Alaska trade missions lately.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-3649327164172902298?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=3649327164172902298&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/3649327164172902298'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/3649327164172902298'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/09/no-evidence-of-palin-having-trade.html' title='No evidence of Palin having &quot;trade missions back and forth”'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SOA_Fj5Vu8I/AAAAAAAABgI/iIBpv8Iizjs/s72-c/Putinsheadrears.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-1017464331386266025</id><published>2008-09-28T13:22:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-28T13:24:26.670-04:00</updated><title type='text'>John McCain, YOU WERE WRONG.</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xG1aOORf8Pc&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xG1aOORf8Pc&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-1017464331386266025?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=1017464331386266025&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/1017464331386266025'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/1017464331386266025'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/09/john-mccain-you-were-wrong.html' title='John McCain, YOU WERE WRONG.'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-6061080966569858864</id><published>2008-09-27T18:22:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-27T18:25:55.367-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kissinger: Open direct Iran talks</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SN6yZhec-GI/AAAAAAAABfg/tgRUpaC2XRw/s1600-h/Kissinger_Open_direct_Iran_talks.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SN6yZhec-GI/AAAAAAAABfg/tgRUpaC2XRw/s400/Kissinger_Open_direct_Iran_talks.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250830367113148514" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);"&gt;Despite McCain's insistence, in fact Kissinger did in fact say "without conditions, as this UPI article shows:&lt;/span&gt;


Sept. 16 (UPI) -- Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger says the United States should begin direct negotiations with Iran over its nuclear enrichment program.

Kissinger, speaking Monday at George Washington University along with four other former U.S. State Department secretaries, said the next president should initiate high-level discussions with Iran "without conditions," ABC News reported.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-6061080966569858864?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=6061080966569858864&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/6061080966569858864'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/6061080966569858864'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/09/kissinger-open-direct-iran-talks.html' title='Kissinger: 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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WSJ "reporter" Amy Chozick creates Yahoo account to post question on message boards, cherry-picks response, pulls article out of ass, sets the 'nets afire...&lt;/span&gt;



On 15-Jul-08 at 06:04 pm (I'm guessing she came up with this brilliant idea on the bus ride home from the office) Amy Chozick created a Yahoo account and posted this important and insightful question to the Yahoo message boards &lt;a href="http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:rO_M-Va6IoEJ:messages.yahoo.com/Government_%26_Politics/Politics/Campaigns_and_Elections/threadview%3Fm%3Dte%26bn%3D18067329%2523presidentialelection2008%26tid%3D6784%26mid%3D-1%26tof%3D6%26rt%3D2%26frt%3D2%26off%3D1+%22Is+Obama+too+skinny+to+be+president%3F%22&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;cd=5&amp;gl=us&amp;client=firefox-a"&gt;"Does anyone out there think Barack Obama is too thin to be president? Anyone having a hard time relating to him and his “no excess body fat”? Please let me know. Thanks!"&lt;/a&gt;
Most of the responses on the (short) Yahoo thread poke fun at her and her question, only one agrees with her, but that was enough for her to base an &lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121755336096303089.html"&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; on, topping off the article with lifted text from &lt;a href="http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2008/08/rove-street-journal-hey-amy-chozick-of.html"&gt;McCain's website!!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-5836681430451177074?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=5836681430451177074&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/5836681430451177074'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/5836681430451177074'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/08/reporters-are-stupid-with-internet-no.html' title='Reporters are stupid with the internet, (No one expects the Google Cache!)'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SJS2eDZZh-I/AAAAAAAABeI/DxYZosU6EHg/s72-c/images.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-8722191166189363224</id><published>2008-07-30T20:01:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-30T20:10:04.770-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Reverse engineering YOUR Civil Liberties</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SJECAubTr7I/AAAAAAAABdQ/xVPXqmZGcsg/s1600-h/bushit.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SJECAubTr7I/AAAAAAAABdQ/xVPXqmZGcsg/s400/bushit.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228962853839679410" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Justice Department asks court to keep wiretapping challenges secret&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;In a little-reported brief filed late Tuesday with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the Bush administration asked the court to keep any review of the warrantless wiretapping law passed earlier this year by Congress secret.

The administration also asked that the court refuse to accept legal briefs from anyone other than the Justice Department itself.
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Bush_asks_court_to_keep_wiretapping_0730.html"&gt;The Raw Story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-8722191166189363224?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=8722191166189363224&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/8722191166189363224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/8722191166189363224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/07/reverse-engineering-your-civil.html' title='Reverse engineering YOUR Civil Liberties'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SJECAubTr7I/AAAAAAAABdQ/xVPXqmZGcsg/s72-c/bushit.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-8709105807341150370</id><published>2008-06-19T22:05:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-19T22:08:05.485-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Three days in the life of the Cranford Rose Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="400" height="225"&gt; &lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt; &lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1193177&amp;amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" /&gt; &lt;embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1193177&amp;amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vimeo.com/1193177?pg=embed&amp;sec=1193177"&gt;Cranford Rose Garden Timelapse at Brooklyn Botanic Garden&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://www.vimeo.com/bbg?pg=embed&amp;sec=1193177"&gt;Brooklyn Botanic Garden&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com?pg=embed&amp;sec=1193177"&gt;Vimeo&lt;/a&gt;. Dave Allen shot this nifty timelapse video of three days at the Cranford Rose Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Each still frame of the video was treated with a tilt-shift lens effect in Photoshop.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-8709105807341150370?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=8709105807341150370&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/8709105807341150370'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/8709105807341150370'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/06/three-days-in-life-of-cranford-rose.html' title='Three days in the life of the Cranford Rose Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-3737564998407434703</id><published>2008-06-18T21:41:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-18T21:42:10.374-04:00</updated><title type='text'>McCain, stupid..</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UBALqvp08Vk&amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UBALqvp08Vk&amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-3737564998407434703?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=3737564998407434703&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/3737564998407434703'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/3737564998407434703'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/06/mccain-stupid.html' title='McCain, stupid..'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-5500795270519338424</id><published>2008-06-17T15:17:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-18T21:47:02.909-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Republicans: RACIST!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SFgO4CyaApI/AAAAAAAABWg/zCSVIeqvukE/s1600-h/black_house.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SFgO4CyaApI/AAAAAAAABWg/zCSVIeqvukE/s400/black_house.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212932924665102994" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;"Funny" pin, available at the Texas &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Republican State Convention..&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-5500795270519338424?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=5500795270519338424&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/5500795270519338424'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/5500795270519338424'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/06/republicans-of-texas-racist.html' title='Republicans: RACIST!!!'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SFgO4CyaApI/AAAAAAAABWg/zCSVIeqvukE/s72-c/black_house.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-4176254758912572022</id><published>2008-05-24T16:53:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-24T16:57:06.239-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hillary's "Hard Working Americans- White Americans" (or..The Trail(er) Of Trash..)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SDiAqOB7dwI/AAAAAAAABQ0/027X4F-UvJ8/s1600-h/04-24-appalachia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SDiAqOB7dwI/AAAAAAAABQ0/027X4F-UvJ8/s400/04-24-appalachia.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204050832235656962" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Electoral Map of Appalachia — In this map, Clinton is red and Obama is blue.  The darker the shade, the higher the margin of victory.




&lt;a href="http://theelectoralmap.com/"&gt;The Electoral Map&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-4176254758912572022?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=4176254758912572022&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/4176254758912572022'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/4176254758912572022'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/05/hillarys-hard-working-americans-white.html' title='Hillary&apos;s &quot;Hard Working Americans- White Americans&quot; (or..The Trail(er) Of Trash..)'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SDiAqOB7dwI/AAAAAAAABQ0/027X4F-UvJ8/s72-c/04-24-appalachia.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-4193512031567290420</id><published>2008-05-24T15:19:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-24T16:09:50.863-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hills- You Are SO Outta Here!...(Goodbye and Good Riddance!!)</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe height="339" width="425" src="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/24798368#24798368" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;

&lt;a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/23/194220/835/114/521601"&gt;GET OUT&lt;/a&gt; Daily Kos
&lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chip-collis/is-hillary-a-racist-assas_b_103354.htmlL"&gt;My experience is so vast that I even committed diplomacy under sniper fire.
Hard-working white people don't vote for my black opponent.
Seating delegations advantageous to me from states that broke DNC rules is like Emancipation in the 1860s or Civil Rights in the 1960s.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-4193512031567290420?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=4193512031567290420&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/4193512031567290420'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/4193512031567290420'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/05/hills-you-are-so-outta-heregoodbye-and.html' title='Hills- You Are SO Outta Here!...(Goodbye and Good Riddance!!)'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-3149319968864383423</id><published>2008-05-19T11:55:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-19T11:57:17.489-04:00</updated><title type='text'>80,000 Oregonians Can't Be All Wrong!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SDGjN8bzJJI/AAAAAAAABQk/ZFo1nCUD3xA/s1600-h/2503237165_906aed318c_o.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SDGjN8bzJJI/AAAAAAAABQk/ZFo1nCUD3xA/s400/2503237165_906aed318c_o.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202118504545985682" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-3149319968864383423?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=3149319968864383423&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/3149319968864383423'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/3149319968864383423'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/05/80000-oregonians-cant-be-all-wrong.html' title='80,000 Oregonians Can&apos;t Be All Wrong!'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SDGjN8bzJJI/AAAAAAAABQk/ZFo1nCUD3xA/s72-c/2503237165_906aed318c_o.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-4786761949291856590</id><published>2008-05-16T14:00:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-16T14:02:03.584-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Obama: "I Will Win" Foreign Policy Debate With Bush and McCain</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Yeejb_cFcjc"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Yeejb_cFcjc" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;


Damn Straight!!!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-4786761949291856590?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=4786761949291856590&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/4786761949291856590'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/4786761949291856590'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/05/obama-i-will-win-foreign-policy-debate.html' title='Obama: &quot;I Will Win&quot; Foreign Policy Debate With Bush and McCain'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-516503759273163981</id><published>2008-05-10T16:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-10T16:15:20.880-04:00</updated><title type='text'>McCain's Pulpit Bullies</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/j6OvUo866oo&amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/j6OvUo866oo&amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-516503759273163981?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=516503759273163981&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/516503759273163981'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/516503759273163981'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/05/mccains-pulpit-bullies.html' title='McCain&apos;s Pulpit Bullies'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-4778411432253459889</id><published>2008-05-09T19:31:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-09T19:36:10.280-04:00</updated><title type='text'>McCain's "Spiritual Guide" Wants America to Destroy Islam</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WXZbIGJrDkg&amp;border=0&amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/WXZbIGJrDkg&amp;border=0&amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;
You may have heard of Rev. John Hagee, the McCain supporter who said God created Hurricane Katrina to punish New Orleans for its homosexual "sins."   Well now meet Rev. Rod Parsley, the televangelist megachurch pastor from Ohio who hates Islam.  According to David Corn of Mother Jones, Parsley has called on Christians to wage war against Islam, which he considers to be a "false religion."  In the past, Parsley has also railed against the separation of church and state, homosexuals, and abortion rights, comparing Planned Parenthood to Nazis.  

John McCain actively sought and received Parsley's endorsement in the presidential race.  McCain has called Parsley "a spiritual guide," and he hasn't said whether he shares Parsley's vicious anti-Islam views.  That's because the mainstream media refuses to ask.  And so, we've taken matters into our own hands, joining Mother Jones to present the truth about McCain's pastor.

&lt;a href="http://www.motherjones.com/"&gt;Mother Jones&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://bravenewfilms.org/"&gt;Brave New Films&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-4778411432253459889?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=4778411432253459889&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/4778411432253459889'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/4778411432253459889'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/05/mccains-spiritual-guide-wants-america.html' title='McCain&apos;s &quot;Spiritual Guide&quot; Wants America to Destroy Islam'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-6928259620396293142</id><published>2008-05-09T18:02:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-09T19:24:56.162-04:00</updated><title type='text'>China’s 2007 “Reincarnation Law”</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SCTO3diF6dI/AAAAAAAABQc/gqNN1BTYJiM/s1600-h/images.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SCTO3diF6dI/AAAAAAAABQc/gqNN1BTYJiM/s400/images.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198507322108144082" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
A friend of mine recently noted that Hitler and Germany hosted the Olympics as justification for not boycotting the Olympics in China this year (Germany won the bid before the Nazi party had gained power and altho there was some talk of a boycott, eventually it had the most representation of nations compared to previous Olympic games). 

I think that kind of reasoning puts criminals like Cheney in power. Anyways, here is another valid reason we should not be at the games this summer:

China’s 2007 “Reincarnation Law”. The case of the 11th Panchen Lama raised implications for what happens upon the death and subsequent reincarnation of the current Dalai Lama (the 14th) living in exile. Apparently mindful of its previous experience with the 11th Panchen Lama, Beijing late in 2007 took steps designed to solidify its future control over the selection process of Tibetan lamas. On August 3, 2007, the State Administration for Religious Affairs (SARA) issued a set of regulations, effective September 1, 2007, that &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;require all Tibetan lamas wishing to reincarnate to obtain prior government approval through the submission of a “reincarnation application.” In a statement accompanying the regulations, SARA called the step “an important move to institutionalize management on reincarnation of living Buddhas.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-6928259620396293142?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=6928259620396293142&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/6928259620396293142'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/6928259620396293142'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/05/friend-of-mine-recently-noted-that.html' title='China’s 2007 “Reincarnation Law”'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SCTO3diF6dI/AAAAAAAABQc/gqNN1BTYJiM/s72-c/images.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-4442101185882513342</id><published>2008-05-09T13:44:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-24T15:28:12.901-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Just a short note to the RIAA/MPAA/NBC/the rest of you goobs who are trying to save a lousy business model.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SDhsR-B7dvI/AAAAAAAABQs/ILw28_5eSZY/s1600-h/bfvista.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SDhsR-B7dvI/AAAAAAAABQs/ILw28_5eSZY/s400/bfvista.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204028425391273714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;




&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;When you add drm to your product, you are making the pirated copies more valuable than your own.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-4442101185882513342?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=4442101185882513342&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/4442101185882513342'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/4442101185882513342'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/05/just-short-note-to-riaampaanbcthe-rest.html' title='Just a short note to the RIAA/MPAA/NBC/the rest of you goobs who are trying to save a lousy business model.'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SDhsR-B7dvI/AAAAAAAABQs/ILw28_5eSZY/s72-c/bfvista.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-1491721818282557605</id><published>2008-05-07T13:08:00.007-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-07T14:40:00.421-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Is It Over? Dear Hillary, Please STOP. It's F'in Over, The Elite have spoken.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SCHjpq7AJMI/AAAAAAAABQM/rpptYL8nJw0/s1600-h/images.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SCHjpq7AJMI/AAAAAAAABQM/rpptYL8nJw0/s400/images.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197685749998167234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&gt;Former South Darkota Senator George McGovern has reversed his endorsement of Senator Hillary Clinton and urged her to drop out of the race for president following her showing in Indiana and North Carolina. McGovern says he now endorses Barack Obama.

&gt;After Hillary Clinton's squeaker victory in Indiana Tuesday night, opponent Barack Obama's advisers and surrogates are saying the only reason she won at all is because of meddling by conservative Hoosiers following the orders of talk show host Rush Limbaugh. "If it hadn't been for Republicans taking Democratic ballots, he likely would have won in Indiana," Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) said Wednesday on a conference call hosted by the Obama campaign. "Rush Limbaugh was tampering with the primary and the GOP has clearly declared they want Clinton as a candidate."

&gt;Very early Wednesday morning, after many voters had already gone to sleep, the conventional wisdom of the elite political pundit class that resides on television shifted hard, and possibly irretrievably, against Senator Hillary Clinton's continued viability as a presidential candidate

&gt;A posting on the DailyKos Web site included a mock memo to Clinton titled, "To-Do List Before Dropping Out."

&gt;Speaking on CNN, David Gergen, a former adviser to several presidents, including Clinton's husband, said, "I think the Clinton people know the game is almost up."
"The superdelegates are starting to move. The dam is breaking," Gergen said. "No matter what happens in these primaries, it's much less important than the fact that the superdelegates are starting to swing his way, and that, in turn, will try to put pressure on her."

&gt;Stating it more bluntly, Bob Franken, the political analyst, told the MSNBC host Dan Abrams shortly after 2 a.m. Eastern time, "Let's put it right on the table: It's over. It's over."

&gt;Bob Schieffer on the CBS News program "Early Show": "Basically, Maggie, this race is over."

&gt;George Stephanopoulos on the ABC program "Good Morning America": "This nomination fight is over."

&gt;Matt Lauer on the NBC News program " Today": "Good morning, is it over?"

&gt;The commentary was punctuated by some brutal morning newspaper headlines: "Toast!" blared The New York Post; "Hil Needs a Miracle" declared The New York Daily News.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-1491721818282557605?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=1491721818282557605&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/1491721818282557605'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/1491721818282557605'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/05/is-it-over-dear-hillary-please-stop-its.html' title='Is It Over? Dear Hillary, Please STOP. It&apos;s F&apos;in Over, The Elite have spoken.'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SCHjpq7AJMI/AAAAAAAABQM/rpptYL8nJw0/s72-c/images.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-5733289896756832457</id><published>2008-05-06T16:21:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-06T16:28:27.589-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Gas Tax?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SCC-fHuUvZI/AAAAAAAABQE/g8_ET8q5FCY/s1600-h/hillary_drivingmiisshillary.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SCC-fHuUvZI/AAAAAAAABQE/g8_ET8q5FCY/s400/hillary_drivingmiisshillary.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197363411844119954" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

From TPM Reader AB:
"If the government knocks off those 18 cents a gallon, what do you think the oil companies are going do? They're going to raise the price of gas by 18 cents and you'll be paying exactly the same amount. 
Until September when even McCain and Hillary say they'll put the tax back on, and you'll end up paying even more than before. It's not gas tax relief for you, it's a give-away to the oil companies".

&lt;a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/"&gt;TPM&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-5733289896756832457?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=5733289896756832457&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/5733289896756832457'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/5733289896756832457'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/05/gas-tax.html' title='Gas Tax?'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SCC-fHuUvZI/AAAAAAAABQE/g8_ET8q5FCY/s72-c/hillary_drivingmiisshillary.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-6224007584462799994</id><published>2008-05-05T23:47:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-05T23:47:41.589-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Green Day - 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Pastor John Hagee</title><content type='html'>"I'm glad to have his endorsement." ...Senator John McCain
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"No president has ever had a higher disapproval rating in any CNN or Gallup Poll; in fact, this is the first time that any president's disapproval rating has cracked the 70 percent mark," said Keating Holland, CNN's polling director.
The numbers on the Iraq war come on the five-year anniversary of Bush's "Mission Accomplished" moment on board the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, when he proclaimed that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended."
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Hmmm, real or no?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-2075303672494131477?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=2075303672494131477&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/2075303672494131477'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/2075303672494131477'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/03/painting-elephant.html' title='Painting Elephant'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-6797219614036645694</id><published>2008-03-24T12:00:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2008-03-24T21:17:44.330-04:00</updated><title type='text'>97 percent of US death toll came after 'Mission Accomplished'.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/R-fQLPPVlEI/AAAAAAAABHU/Kv9ut1BaK-w/s1600-h/iraqcoffins.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/R-fQLPPVlEI/AAAAAAAABHU/Kv9ut1BaK-w/s400/iraqcoffins.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181338787801044034" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;BAGHDAD (AFP) Agence France-Presse — The death toll of US soldiers in the five-year Iraq conflict has hit 4,000 in what the US military said Monday was a "tragic" loss of lives after four troops were killed in a Baghdad bombing.

The four soldiers died when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb while on patrol late Sunday in southern Baghdad, bringing the overall toll to 4,000, according to an AFP tally based on independent website.

Another soldier was wounded in the attack, a military statement said.

The chaotic and brutal conflict which is now in its sixth year has also wounded more than 29,000 American soldiers, according to icasualties.org.

At least 97 percent of the deaths occurred after US President George W. Bush announced the end of "major combat" in Iraq on May 1, 2003, as the military became caught between a raging anti-American insurgency and brutal sectarian strife unleashed since the toppling of Saddam.

140 American servicemembers died before May 1, 2003, out of a total 4,000.

&lt;a href="http://icasualties.org/oif/"&gt;icasualites.org&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.rawstory.com/"&gt;RawStory&lt;/a&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-6797219614036645694?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=6797219614036645694&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/6797219614036645694'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/6797219614036645694'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2008/03/97-percent-of-us-death-toll-came-after.html' title='97 percent of US death toll came after &apos;Mission 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"Dennis Kucinich stands as the one candidate whose bred-in-the-bone beliefs about war and peace, the rights of working people, environmental integrity, and the sanctity of the Bill of Rights embody the convictions of what may be fairly called mainstream Democrats -- political heirs of the New Deal, the Fair Deal, and the best of the Great Society of Lyndon B. Johnson."

&lt;a href="http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/letters/258647"&gt;Alan Bickley, in a letter to the editor of The Capitol Times, Madison, Wisconson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-4615933750790549544?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=4615933750790549544&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/4615933750790549544'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/4615933750790549544'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2007/11/if-dems-voted-their-consciences-it.html' title='&quot;If Dems voted their consciences, it would be Kucinich by a landslide&quot;'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/R0mo77s8wsI/AAAAAAAAAUc/dk9slV0VTdY/s72-c/images.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-1723508772733911857</id><published>2007-11-08T20:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-08T22:06:19.134-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Fake reports of ironys demise indirectly sardonic says internet.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/RzO9FUYwPYI/AAAAAAAAAUU/CV8UICCkY1k/s1600-h/shit+for+prez%21%21.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/RzO9FUYwPYI/AAAAAAAAAUU/CV8UICCkY1k/s400/shit+for+prez%21%21.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130652299574656386" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;    

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&lt;a href="http://www.calendarlive.com/tv/cl-oe-goldberg6nov06,0,806862.story?coll=cl-tv-features"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Is fake news now the standard?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2007/10/the_colbert_notion_jokes_on_us.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;The Colbert Notion: Joke's On Us&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.prwatch.org/fakenews/execsummary"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Fake TV News: Widespread And Undisclosed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;
White House Tells Musharraf: Never ‘Restrict Constitutional Freedoms’ To Fight Terror

During today’s White House press briefing, spokeswoman Dana Perino condemned Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s declaration of “emergency rule” in Pakistan. She said that the administration is “deeply disappointed” by the measure, which suspends the country’s constitution, and believes it is never “reasonable” to “restrict constitutional freedoms in the name of fighting terrorism”:

&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;Q: Is it ever reasonable to restrict constitutional freedoms in the name of fighting terrorism?&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;MS. PERINO: In our opinion, no.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

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&lt;blockquote style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255); font-family: times new roman;"&gt;A group of men were watching a video (Barry Cooper's Never Get Busted Again: Volume 1 - Traffic Stops) in a vehicle on how to grow pot and transport it without getting caught when they were caught by authorities themselves.
It happened in Marysville, California when four men in a stolen truck were pulled over because the pickup didn’t have mud flaps. The four men were watching the instructional video on a DVD player mounted on the dashboard at the time.

Officers then discovered about 90 pounds of marijuana in garbage bags in the back of the truck.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-1723508772733911857?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=1723508772733911857&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/1723508772733911857'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/1723508772733911857'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2007/11/fake-reports-of-ironys-demise.html' title='Fake reports of ironys demise indirectly sardonic says internet.'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/RzO9FUYwPYI/AAAAAAAAAUU/CV8UICCkY1k/s72-c/shit+for+prez%21%21.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-310617847229291092</id><published>2007-10-25T17:07:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-25T17:29:54.600-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Dana Perino kills polar bears dead.</title><content type='html'>"There are public health benefits to climate change, as well!"
&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/RyEGBEq3jII/AAAAAAAAAUM/U3OQR5P3Qdo/s1600-h/dana-perino-showtime-042907.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/RyEGBEq3jII/AAAAAAAAAUM/U3OQR5P3Qdo/s400/dana-perino-showtime-042907.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125384466427513986" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
MS. PERINO: Sure. In some cases, there are -- look, this is an issue where I'm sure lots of people would love to ridicule me when I say this, but it is true that many people die from cold-related deaths every winter. And there are studies that say that climate change in certain areas of the world would help those individuals
&lt;a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/10/20071024-8.html"&gt;Yeah, right..&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.cdc.gov/mmwR/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5529a2.htm"&gt;What about heat?&lt;/a&gt;

After yesterday denying that it “watered down” congressional testimony by the head of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Bush administration officials are now acknowledging that “they heavily edited [her] testimony on global warming.” Officials, for example, took out the line: “CDC considers climate change a serious public concern.”&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-310617847229291092?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=310617847229291092&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/310617847229291092'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/310617847229291092'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2007/10/there-are-public-health-benefits-to.html' title='Dana Perino kills polar bears dead.'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/RyEGBEq3jII/AAAAAAAAAUM/U3OQR5P3Qdo/s72-c/dana-perino-showtime-042907.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-1705580202031080959</id><published>2007-10-24T14:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-24T15:49:08.338-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/Rx-UEWoKZxI/AAAAAAAAAUE/_NT07j3mGgM/s1600-h/911poll.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/Rx-UEWoKZxI/AAAAAAAAAUE/_NT07j3mGgM/s400/911poll.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124977703485335314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Image:&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.scrippsnews.com/911poll"&gt;Scripps Howard News Service&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Poll_Democratic_candidates_far_surpass_GOP_1024.html"&gt;  
Poll: 41% of Americans unable to name any GOP candidates&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;The Pew Research Center has released a new poll showing that 41% of Americans responding are unable to come up with the names of any Republican presidential candidates without prompting. In contrast, only 19% are unable to name even one Democratic candidate.
This level of awareness of Democratic candidates is far beyond what it was at the equivalent point in the 2004 campaign, while the awareness of Republican candidates is generally similar to that in past elections, resulting in what Pew describes as "a sizable partisan gap in campaign interest."
&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;a href="http://rawstory.com/news/2007/TUCKER_911_Truthers_should_leave_country_1023.html"&gt;  
Tucker: 'I don't want to know' what Americans believe about 9/11&lt;/a&gt;
Responding to a suggestion that cynical Americans were "ready to believe just about anything negative" about their government, Carlson proposed that those individuals might want to skip the country.
"If you have a population that stupid and reckless and they're in charge of the government, maybe it is time to leave the country," he said. "I don't even want to think it through it any more. This is why we never do this topic on the show. It just upsets me too much. I don't want to know these kind of facts about America."
&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2007/10/white_house_edited_statement_t.php"&gt;White House edited statement to Congress on climate change, according to document&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;The White House significantly edited testimony prepared for a Senate hearing on the impact of climate change on health, deleting key portions citing diseases that could flourish in a warmer climate, documents obtained by The Associated Press showed Wednesday.
&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/mochila.php?articleId=9885360&amp;amp;channelId=76&amp;amp;buyerId=talkingpointsmemo_com400732&amp;amp;buid=866"&gt;Senate reverses Bush's cuts to education, health as veto battle looms&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Senate Democrats on Tuesday reversed President Bush's cuts to education, health research and grants to local communities as they gird for Bush's first-ever veto of a regular appropriations bill.
&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-seery/huckabee-immigrants-are-_b_69576.html"&gt;Mike Huckabee: Immigrants are Taking Jobs Away from Aborted Fetuses&lt;/a&gt;
"Sometimes we talk about why we're importing so many people in our workforce. It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our workforce had we not had the holocaust of liberalized abortion under a flawed Supreme Court ruling in 1973."
&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;a href="http://mediamatters.org/"&gt;Beck: "[A] handful of people who hate America ... are losing their homes in a forest fire today"&lt;/a&gt;
On the October 22 edition of his nationally syndicated radio program, host Glenn Beck stated, "I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today."
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&lt;a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200607070010"&gt;Ann Coulter's "Flatulent Raccoon Theory"&lt;/a&gt;
In her book Godless: The Church of Liberalism (Crown Forum, June 2006), right-wing pundit Ann Coulter devotes two chapters to a bizarre attempt to disprove the theory of evolution. With a mix of misleading claims, pseudo-scientific arguments, distortions of evolutionary theory, and outright falsehoods, Coulter places herself not only outside the mainstream but truly toward the lunatic fringe.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-1705580202031080959?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=1705580202031080959&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/1705580202031080959'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/1705580202031080959'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2007/10/image-scripps-howard-news-service-poll.html' title=''/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/Rx-UEWoKZxI/AAAAAAAAAUE/_NT07j3mGgM/s72-c/911poll.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-2104563991631425672</id><published>2007-10-24T14:17:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-24T14:25:07.717-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Bush wars to cost 40 times higher than original estimates; $8,000 per man, woman child in US</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/Rx-NaGoKZwI/AAAAAAAAAT8/XsHyZ6eGttc/s1600-h/images.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/Rx-NaGoKZwI/AAAAAAAAAT8/XsHyZ6eGttc/s400/images.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124970380566095618" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

 New estimates show Iraq, Afghanistan will cost US $2.4 trillion; White House refuses to provide estimate

The United States is spending about $8,000 per man, woman and child in the country to pursue wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to new estimates that show the wars will cost about $2.4 trillion over the next decade.

More than one-fourth of the money spent in Iraq and Afghanistan -- $705 billion -- will go to paying interest on the wars' costs, which are being funded with borrowed dollars, according to an estimate to be released Wednesday by the Congressional Budget Office. Iraq accounts for about 80 percent of the costs with a $1.9 trillion tab, including $564 million in interest, a House budget committee staff director told USA Today, which reported the numbers Wednesday morning.

"The number is so big, it boggles the mind," Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) told the newspaper.

Nick Juliano, &lt;a href="http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Your_bill_for_US_wars_8000_1024.html"&gt;Raw Story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-2104563991631425672?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=2104563991631425672&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/2104563991631425672'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/2104563991631425672'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2007/10/bush-wars-to-cost-40-times-higher-than.html' title='Bush wars to cost 40 times higher than original estimates; $8,000 per man, woman child in US'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/Rx-NaGoKZwI/AAAAAAAAAT8/XsHyZ6eGttc/s72-c/images.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-1543835406062292617</id><published>2007-09-27T20:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-27T20:03:19.608-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ol' Bill kicks some ass!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vFzs_qCEGxY"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vFzs_qCEGxY" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-1543835406062292617?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=1543835406062292617&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/1543835406062292617'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/1543835406062292617'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2007/09/ol-bill-kicks-some-ass.html' title='Ol&apos; Bill kicks some ass!!'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-155729093302840718</id><published>2007-09-24T19:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-24T19:28:11.043-04:00</updated><title type='text'>What did you expect?, You racist bloodclot!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/RvhGOWoKZvI/AAAAAAAAATM/IUqP06TPkrg/s1600-h/oreillymad-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 315px; height: 269px;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/RvhGOWoKZvI/AAAAAAAAATM/IUqP06TPkrg/s400/oreillymad-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5113914589285345010" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

Discussing his recent dinner with Rev. Al Sharpton at the Harlem restaurant Sylvia’s, Bill O’Reilly reported that &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;he&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt; “couldn’t get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia’s restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it’s run by blacks, primarily black patronship.” O’Reilly added: “There wasn’t one person in Sylvia’s who was screaming, ‘M-Fer, I want more iced tea.’”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;
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BILL OREILLY AMBULANCE CHASING RACIST PROPAGANDIST MASHUP by &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/riphotpotatomash"&gt;riphotpotatomash&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-155729093302840718?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=155729093302840718&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/155729093302840718'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/155729093302840718'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2007/09/what-did-you-expect-you-racist.html' title='What did you expect?, You racist bloodclot!'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/RvhGOWoKZvI/AAAAAAAAATM/IUqP06TPkrg/s72-c/oreillymad-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-5146779214594625138</id><published>2007-09-20T21:31:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-20T23:22:00.646-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Oh, man...Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas..</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="353"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Jjlo8QR9KVY"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Jjlo8QR9KVY" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="353"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;"..somebody said to me, I heard somebody say, where’s Mandela? Well, Mandela is dead, because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/currency/convert?amt=1&amp;amp;from=USD&amp;amp;to=CAD&amp;amp;submit=Convert&amp;amp;"&gt;$1.00 USD = $1.00 CAD.&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/053744.php"&gt;More senators voted to condemn Moveon.org (72) than to make our troops safer (56).&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href="https://pol.moveon.org/donate/donate.html"&gt;Donate to Moveon.org here.&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/nation/stories/092007dnnatlibraryhold.32e1044.html"&gt;A Republican senator is secretly blocking a bill that would reverse Bush’s 2001 executive order allowing ex-presidents to seal their records indefinitely.&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href="http://www.democrats.org/page/content/partybuilderWriteCongress/."&gt;Write letters to congress here.&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/20/bush-econ101/"&gt;President Bush tells reporters  "I think I got a B in Econ 101." He actually got a C. Minus.&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href="http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/09/19/ap4136749.html"&gt;GuilIani: " I'm probably one of the four or five best known Americans in the world.”&lt;/a&gt;




                    The Minutemen "King Of The Hill"
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I was just rounding the corner on may way to the UPS store and walked into this!
I was so suprised I barely caught my breath and got this on my ($#@^%$$phone)
he must be on David Letterman tonight!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-2582697488730409319?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=2582697488730409319&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/2582697488730409319'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/2582697488730409319'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2007/09/ol-bill-c-in-wilds-of-53rd-st.html' title='Ol&apos; Bill C. 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class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-1510922387492386908?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=1510922387492386908&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/1510922387492386908'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/1510922387492386908'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2007/08/mia-is-jam-sht.html' title='M.I.A. is the JAM sh*t'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-4300848486388751574</id><published>2007-08-09T01:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-09T01:03:45.980-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Os Mutantes- Panis et circenses</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XYp4iTudxmc"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XYp4iTudxmc" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-4300848486388751574?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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Senate website withholding spy law roll call</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/RrYHHNakPII/AAAAAAAAAOQ/3ZN6z-X3ljc/s1600-h/images.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/RrYHHNakPII/AAAAAAAAAOQ/3ZN6z-X3ljc/s400/images.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095267848857861250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
The US Senate website is not publishing the roll call of votes by Senators on the bill to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act making President George W. Bush's illegal wiretapping order retroactively legal.

Why?, you may ask, Because The Are Fucking Pussies!! They don't want you to know who folded! I'll bet you many of our "Presidential Hopefuls"  caved to the Republican wishes. Fuck this Shit!!


&lt;a href="http://pressesc.com/news/87005082007/senate-website-withholding-spy-law-roll-call"&gt;Press Esc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-6165959513895971784?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=6165959513895971784&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/6165959513895971784'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/6165959513895971784'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2007/08/bold-bullshit-senate-website.html' title='BOLD BULLSHIT!!! Senate website withholding spy law roll call'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/RrYHHNakPII/AAAAAAAAAOQ/3ZN6z-X3ljc/s72-c/images.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-2722689954963500105</id><published>2007-07-25T03:00:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-25T03:27:18.522-04:00</updated><title type='text'>liar, liar constitution on fire!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/Rqb1J9akPHI/AAAAAAAAAOI/wcWLlltIR-8/s1600-h/liar,liar.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/Rqb1J9akPHI/AAAAAAAAAOI/wcWLlltIR-8/s400/liar,liar.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091025980242541682" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;


ok that's it- I'm going to tear my eyes out now.. just go &lt;a href="http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Senator_shows_Cheney_granted_authority_to_0724.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/24/AR2007072400207.html?hpid=topnews"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Leahy_to_Gonzales_Why_not_just_0724.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-2722689954963500105?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=2722689954963500105&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/2722689954963500105'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/2722689954963500105'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2007/07/liar-liar-constitution-on-fire.html' title='liar, liar constitution on fire!!'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/Rqb1J9akPHI/AAAAAAAAAOI/wcWLlltIR-8/s72-c/liar,liar.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-4784712779601899776</id><published>2007-07-11T00:49:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-11T20:17:25.282-04:00</updated><title type='text'>President Bush said Tuesday that the United States would be able to pull back troops “in a while,”....adding "Crocodile"..</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/RpRhZq1WXMI/AAAAAAAAANg/hSAZAHLBYUI/s1600-h/bsht.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/RpRhZq1WXMI/AAAAAAAAANg/hSAZAHLBYUI/s400/bsht.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085796972830809282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

John McCain, Republican of Arizona, fresh from a trip to Iraq, joined in the call for patience, imploring lawmakers not to “let fatigue dictate our policies.” (Or deaths, for that matter, I guess..)

“I’ll be glad to discuss different options,” Mr. Bush said to a business group in Cleveland. “I believe we can be in a different position in a while, and that would be to have enough troops there to guard the territorial integrity of that country, enough troops there to make sure that Al Qaeda doesn’t gain safe haven.”

Meanwhile, senior Intelligence officials tell &lt;a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/07/al-qaeda-cell-i.html"&gt;ABC News&lt;/a&gt; : Al Qaeda cell 'in US or coming' 

&lt;a href="http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/cheney"&gt;afterdowningstreet&lt;/a&gt; lists 12 co-sponsors to the impeach-Cheney bill.

  First term Senator David Vitter (R-LA) admitted Monday night that his phone number was on the phone records of the so-called "DC Madam." From 1999 to 2004, Vitter served as a congressman in Louisiana's 1st district. The 46-year-old politico is also the southern regional chair of Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign.
  In 2004, Vitter campaigned with a promise of "protecting the sanctity of marriage," and was a co-author of the "Federal Marriage Act" that sought to prohibit courts from interpreting same-sex marriage laws.
  In the wake of U.S. Sen. David Vitter’s apology after his phone number turned up in an escort service's call list, a member of the Republican State Central Committee called for him to resign.
  Vincent Bruno of Kenner said today that Vitter should resign “for his own good, the good of the party and the good of his family.” If he doesn’t resign, Vitter should “join the Democratic Party where they think that kind of behavior is OK.”&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-4784712779601899776?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=4784712779601899776&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/4784712779601899776'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/4784712779601899776'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2007/07/president-bush-said-tuesday-that-united.html' title='President Bush said Tuesday that the United States would be able to pull back troops “in a while,”....adding &quot;Crocodile&quot;..'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/RpRhZq1WXMI/AAAAAAAAANg/hSAZAHLBYUI/s72-c/bsht.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-3349618057193699426</id><published>2007-07-11T00:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-11T00:19:48.140-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Lying. Like a good Bushie.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/RpRWSq1WXLI/AAAAAAAAANY/t9AqvxfzrXE/s1600-h/uyuy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/RpRWSq1WXLI/AAAAAAAAANY/t9AqvxfzrXE/s400/uyuy.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085784757943819442" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
Gonzales Was Told of FBI Violations After Bureau Sent Reports, 
Attorney General Said He Knew of No Wrongdoing

 As he sought to renew the USA Patriot Act two years ago, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales assured lawmakers that the FBI had not abused its potent new terrorism-fighting powers. "There has not been one verified case of civil liberties abuse," Gonzales told senators on April 27, 2005.
 Six days earlier, the FBI sent Gonzales a copy of a report that said its agents had obtained personal information that they were not entitled to have. It was one of at least half a dozen reports of legal or procedural violations that Gonzales received in the three months before he made his statement to the Senate intelligence committee, according to internal FBI documents released under the Freedom of Information Act.
 Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales has said he was unaware of violations in the FBI's use of national security letters until an internal Justice Department report uncovered them in March 2007. But Gonzales was routinely sent notifications from the FBI when such violations occurred and had to be reported to the president's Intelligence Oversight Board. Look at excerpts from one of the notifications, sent on Dec. 11, 2006.
 The acts recounted in the FBI reports included unauthorized surveillance, an illegal property search and a case in which an Internet firm improperly turned over a compact disc with data that the FBI was not entitled to collect, the documents show. Gonzales was copied on each report that said administrative rules or laws protecting civil liberties and privacy had been violated.

&lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/09/AR2007070902065.html"&gt;WSJ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-3349618057193699426?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=3349618057193699426&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/3349618057193699426'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/3349618057193699426'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2007/07/lying-like-good-bushie.html' title='Lying. Like a good Bushie.'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/RpRWSq1WXLI/AAAAAAAAANY/t9AqvxfzrXE/s72-c/uyuy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-2202881505595483748</id><published>2007-07-10T21:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-10T21:17:08.003-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Either you're with us, or again' us...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/RpQuP61WXKI/AAAAAAAAANQ/_ihlMqbkLvM/s1600-h/captan+cheney+f.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/RpQuP61WXKI/AAAAAAAAANQ/_ihlMqbkLvM/s400/captan+cheney+f.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085740730234068130" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats moved Tuesday to cut off funding for Vice President Dick Cheney's office in a continuing battle over whether he must comply with national security disclosure rules.
A Senate appropriations panel chaired by Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., refused to fund $4.8 million in the vice president's budget until Cheney's office complies with parts of an executive order governing its handling of classified information.
  At issue is a requirement that executive branch offices provide data on how much material they classify and declassify. That information is to be provided to the Information Security Oversight Office at The National Archives.
Cheney's office, with backing from the White House, argues that the offices of the president and vice president are exempt from the order because they are not executive branch "agencies."
The funding cut came as the appropriations panel approved 5-4 along party lines a measure funding White House operations, the Treasury Department and many smaller agencies.

By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press Writer, Via &lt;a href="http://www.rawstory.com"&gt;Raw Story&lt;/a&gt;, Via &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070710/ap_on_go_co/democrats_cheney"&gt;Yahoo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-2202881505595483748?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=2202881505595483748&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/2202881505595483748'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/2202881505595483748'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2007/07/either-youre-with-us-or-again-us.html' title='Either you&apos;re with us, or again&apos; us...'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/RpQuP61WXKI/AAAAAAAAANQ/_ihlMqbkLvM/s72-c/captan+cheney+f.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-3787053167527116645</id><published>2007-07-03T01:03:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-03T01:03:53.274-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Bad Brains- Livin' at the movies</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/aWWI2rGdda4"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/aWWI2rGdda4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10409716-3787053167527116645?l=jetfighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10409716&amp;postID=3787053167527116645&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/3787053167527116645'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10409716/posts/default/3787053167527116645'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jetfighter.blogspot.com/2007/07/bad-brains-livin-at-movies.html' title='Bad Brains- Livin&apos; at the movies'/><author><name>dustjacket</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09190371711446170622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/SXZqF7rscfI/AAAAAAAACYU/ISTwfZviBOk/S220/kdc.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10409716.post-1787533077767836519</id><published>2007-07-01T07:07:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-01T07:13:14.613-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Skeppsholmen</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/RoeMN61WXFI/AAAAAAAAAMo/wkzUHLj0ZYM/s1600-h/IMG_0628.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_tDFlX9Yf7t0/RoeMN61WXFI/AAAAAAAAAMo/wkzUHLj0ZYM/s400/IMG_0628.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5082184875270102098" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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