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McSame's Last Stand
What did everyone think of last night's debate? A lot of CNN analysts were saying right after the debate that they thought McSame gave a good performance and Obama was weak. Polls seem to be showing that Obama won handily. But there were some obvious factual errors from both sides too, as there tends to be in these things. Your thoughts? -
Former Goldman Sachs Exec wins worlds biggest lottery....with a little help.
So, against my better judgment, we gave Paulson the check for $700 billion dollars and a little extra pork for our congress-critters to take home as a consolation prize to their districts for holding out just a little. Besides the obvious continuation of the market mess, there is another story developing which worries me a great deal ( Read more... ) -
Community Business
Back at the end of August, I mentioned that I would be pruning the membership list to rid us of abandoned journals, spam, and so forth. Slowly, over the last month, I've gotten through the entire membership list. Now, I didn't delete anyone who has just been quiet--I realize that some people like to lurk and that's fine. What I deleted were the ( Read more... ) -
How much is $700 billion?
The short answer: a lot. The long answer: depends on how you look at it ( Read more... ) -
Terrorists strike America with chemical weapons
This past Friday, newspapers in Ohio distributed copies of the Clarion Fund's inflammatory DVD, Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West. Of course, I'm sure that the fact that these DVD's are being distributed in swing states only weeks before the election are simply a coincidence...right ( Read more... ) -
Jim Lehrer meme
So you think it's easy to participate in a presidential debate? Below are Jim Lehrer's leading questions for Friday night's debate between Obama and McCain. Copy and paste the questions into an entry on your own journal. Then pretend that you are standing on the stage in place of the candidate you support and give your own answers. In other ( Read more... ) -
Palin's Email Hacked
Hackers got into at least one of Governor Palin's Yahoo email accounts, which seems to confirm that she's had a practice of using non-governmental accounts to conduct Alaska state business. Hackers have leaked several of the emails over the Internet.
To add another twist to this story, there have been rumors that Governor Palin is a hacker ( Read more... ) -
A New Kind of Politician
She governed Wasilla, and later Alaska, by putting loyal political cronies into government jobs, making loyalty more important than competence ( Read more... ) -
Qualifications:
Meaning of 'High Crimes and Misdemeanors' by Jon Roland, Constitution SocietyI post this because in the end this is what matters. This is an assertion of the definition of high Crimes and Misdemeanors. Most of it is concerned with one basic thing: Lying. When you take office for the President of the United States of America, you make a simple ( Read more... ) -
Welcome to New Members.
I'd like to extend a warm welcome to the community to kleios_kiss, tracyraz, xforge, and voicetrackPlease feel free to post away and throw out ideas for discussion. You might want to check the community guidelines on the user info page if you haven't already ( Read more... )