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According to the Hill, the House of Representatives has begun limiting emails because of public demand to email in response to the give away of the future to Wall Street.   I guess this is one way to keep politics out of the discussion, just like Jorge Bush wants.

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I’ve had Windows CE, then Windows Mobile devices over the years, and I am looking forward to the release of the HTC Touch Pro by Sprint and AT&T.   From this website, I found out that the ATT Fuze (Touch Pro) is supposed to be released October 23rd, I would assume that Sprint has a similar time frame for it’s release.

It’s not that I am running out to get a new phone, it’s just that I think the Touch Pro is a good upgrade over the AT&T Tilt (HTC Kaiser).  The processor is about 30% faster and there are other features that make it seem like a good upgrade, so it’s something to look at.

On the downside, it has even less buttons for shortcuts, which is getting a little annonying, because I like have options for one push access to applications.

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Here’s an interesting article that shows that Pelosi KNEW beforehand that the republican vote on the bailout would be close to what it was.

The funny thing is that (according to the article) the dimocrats thought that the republicans where misleading them, and that really a lot more republicans would rush to support this.  Maybe that’s why Pelosi gave her inspiring speech.

No, really, that’s what the article says.

Or the truth is that this whole thing is just theatre for the masses to distract us while other bailouts (for instance the Auto industry just got 25 Billion) and other stupidity is going on.

In other words, maybe the bailout (which isn’t needed, especially seeing as Barney Frank and other "D"’s have told us how Freddie and Fannie were never going to be a drain on the taxpayer) is just misdirection, sort of a big show in front of the house, while the theives come into the rear and steal everything else.

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Well, the bailout bill has been temporarily defeated, no thanks to my representative, Jan Schakowsky.  My congress criter is an example of what is wrong in Washington.  Before the vote, her position was:

Before we address the crisis on Wall Street, we have to address the crisis on Main Street.  Millions of Americans are on the verge of losing everything as the cost of health care, energy, and food continues to increase while wages and employment decrease.  The Bush Administration didn’t care about the financial problems facing hardworking Americans until this crisis “trickled up” to Wall Street.  Even now the Bush Administration would rather bail out Wall Street and its CEOs than provide relief to real Americans who are struggling to scrap together enough money to feed their families, fill up their tanks and keep a roof over their head.  President Bush has the wrong policy and the wrong priorities. 

The President is asking Congress and the American public to give astonishing new powers to his administration – to turn over $700 billion to his Secretary of the Treasury – a former Goldman Sachs executive – to spend however he chooses with no oversight – regulatory or judicial.  After the policies of the last 8 years, the American people know the Bush Administration is not worthy of that level of trust.  And there is no way on earth I’m going to give President Bush a blank check to bail out Wall Street.  We must act to protect our economy but not with a bailout package that leaves the American people with nothing but risk and Wall Street CEOs everything to gain.

Of course, that was before she decided that she would posture against the fake republicans in the house, with this statement explaining her vote:

Congress cut in half the Administration’s automatic $700 billion

Blah, blah, blah…So because it’s only "half" on paper (and the real cost is being said to be 5 TRILLION by other Analysts, and that number could just be another starting point), the point is that congress keeps going and doubling down with YOUR future.

In any case I know people who made money in the stock market yesterday, even as the "Plunge Protection Team", also known as the Working Group on Financial Markets, worked to PUNISH Americans for not granting them even more powers.

What people don’t know is that the Federal Reserve has been intervening in the markets, and that even people like the President of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank said that this plan was bad.

But this is all just the show for the masses, because while the markets have been melting down, the congress has overwhelmingly voted to support drastic new copyright laws, with a new copyright Czar, and had even tried to have the DOJ pursue people for civil copyright issues, withdrawing that provision only because the DOJ claimed that was over the top.

Congress doesn’t work for the people, rather they act like the people work for them, turning the tables on the fools who think that what the politician says today is a reflection of what they are going to do in the future (maybe even a minute from now, Ron Paul being the notable exception that proves the rule).

I am not saying that politicians lie all the time, it’s just that they seem to be willing to say one thing to one person and the opposite thing to another, and see no problem with that.

Of course the answer that congress has to people pointing out the duplicity, is to work to pass laws like the proposed "Hate Crime" law, that has been used to harrass conservative Jewish commentators in Canada.

But then again, the constitution is a "living document" now, and as such has become a hollow symbol of a once great nation.

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People have accused me of voting for McCain or Obama, because I have written negative things about both.

Well, I have to say that I am not voting for socialism, and both McCain and Obama support a form of corporate socialism, similar to what Hitler and Mussolini did.   Maybe the system of facism that they support is something that millions of people support, but I don’t.

I apologize for being unclear about things, it’s just that while I was evaluating the situation (and remember this is still a bit away from the election) I didn’t want to be unequivocal until I was certain about the situation.

Up until lately, I have been encouraging people to write in Ron Paul, because they seem more willing to do that than vote for Chuck Baldwin, (sorry Chuck).  Chuck Baldwin is a pastor who has gotten the endorsement of Ron Paul, and who is actually on the BALLOT in Illinois, so rather than write in Ron Paul, I am going to vote for Chuck Baldwin.

All my friends on both sides, those who are voting for McCain (and holding their noses) and those who are voting for Obama (because he is a “Democrat”) can be happy that at least I am not voting for the lessor of two evils.

There is a real choice, and what you do with it is up to you.

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It’s interesting that zdnet has an article about a new zero day hack for all browsers (the verdict, use the NoScript add in Firefox until EVERYONE (Microsoft, Mozilla, etc) patches this issue), just after my blog domain (but not any other domains that run under the same user) got hack attacked.

My hosting provider got a complaint about my account, because the people who had put the hack on (w4ck1ng-shell more info here) had started sending out emails, resulting in my account being suspended at Dreamhost.  The suspension was over quickly enough, so it really wasn’t that bad, but I am still a little confused as to the how of the hack.  I have an idea of the when, and the where, but the how of the back door file getting onto just one web site (of many) escapes me.  At least the last time I got hacked (back in 2000?) I was able to trace that back because I had server logs and was able to identify the exploit, with the Dreamhost issue, I had to dig a lot more just to find out what the problem was, and I still don’t have a solid solution to prevent a future hack, because I don’t know the how of the file appearing.

Of course, I guess this is part of being popular, you get to be a target for attacks.

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In the midst of all this bailout talks, it seems that the American voter is left out of the picture.  We have already spent 300 billion bailing out failed institutions, and now they want another 700 billion for the fat cats on Wall Street.

I am against the government spending any of this money, because quite frankly we are broke.

But if they want to give away money, why not just split 100 billion amongst every registered voter (and citizen) making less than 1 million a year?  That would give everyone 500,000 dollars.  That would help the economy.

Of course, this isn’t about helping the people, this is about helping the big money people like George Soros and Warren Buffet (who are going to be made even richer). Of course the bought and paid for media is all in favor of this transfer of wealth to the richest .05%.  They raid the economy and we are made into serfs, champagne all around boys!

McCain and Obama are both in the pockets of the big money players.  Give the money to the America people (if it really exists) let all those banks go bankrupt, let property be foreclosed if people still can’t pay their mortgages with over $500,000.

Of course, that is socialism, but it might be better than the fascism we now have.  For a good essay on how Hitler embraced the corporatism that we are pursuing today, I recommend this article by Thomas DiLorenzo.

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Apparently, if you are a Republican, you are not allowed to have any private conversations, not with your spouse, and not with anyone else.

At least that is what I get from the complaints about Palin having a private email address in addition to her official email address, after her email accounts were hacked.

Now, I think that people should be able to keep private information, err, private, but I can also understand the issue with government officials, who want to track all of us, wanting privacy.

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One thing that Hillaryis44.org brought to my attention is an article about how Obama has refused to let the rest of the Democrats have any of his money.  Now people might not remember but Obama had claimed that he really wanted to put the whole fundraising madness aside, and use the public funded system, just a McCain said he would.

The difference is that while McCain has abided by his promise, Obama has abandoned his, and by doing so abandoned many other democrats, leaving them begging Obama to help with funding, since Obama is sucking up all the money.

I am beginning to think that maybe Obama winning isn’t so bad, since he win screw over all his “friends” in the democratic party, just like he is doing RIGHT NOW!

Go Obama, destroy the Democratic party!

I am beginning to think that whichever party wins the White House this year, will end up losing in the end.

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There has been arguments by the Wall Street Experts, that letting companies that are poorly managed but very large go bankrupt is bad.

I disagree.

First, a bankrupt company does not cease to exist, what happens is that the company has more oversight, but it can still engage in business, make deals, and so forth.   Bankruptcy can help all parties, because it removes the behind the scenes bull that bad companies put out.

In short, if a company is badly managed, the best thing is for it to be in bankruptcy court sooner, rather than later, because at least then the bad managment will have some real oversight, rather than the fake oversight that stockholders have.

All these players want the government to stay out of the way when they are making money, and then they want the government to bail them out with money when they make bad decisions.  The right way for the government to “bail out” a bad company is through the bankruptcy courts, not through the public purse.

But then again, that is just my opinion.

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A lot of people have casitgated me because they believe that John McCain will bring back the draft because of his public positions.

Among other things that Obama has said is:

I will always keep the threat of military action on the table to defend our security and our ally, Israel.

And yet there are articles that claim that the Republican vice-presidential candidate, Sarah Palin,  is, to paraphrase, Israel’s female dog,  I find this interesting, when there is an article in the influential Jewish Week publication (that was brought to my attention via this article by Rev. Ted Pike), that says that Palin “may torpedo McCain’s unusually strong support from Jews”.

But what about concerns that McCain will cause there to be a draft, as the Obama apologists claim, first, I don’t think that McCain really thinks lower quality military conscripts are the answer, but I think that Obama might, there is an article that quotes Obama as saying:

If we are going into war, then all of us go, not just some

Frankly I don’t think that there is that much difference between the two candidates in policy, but I do think that McCain was forced to learn skills that Obama never had to.  I realize that many people equate McCain with the “Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran” remark that he made over a year ago.  I think it was a stupid thing to say, and something that many people in the military might say from time to time, but not something that the president should say.

This doesn’t mean that people should vote for McCain, just that Obama is not the answer. Obama allegedly worked to ensure that troop levels stayed high in Iraq (New York Post article), even though I have been told that there are troops that are doing double tours in Iraq.  The reality is that the U.S. forces in Iraq need (want?) a break, and it’s in everyone’s best interests (except Obama’s) for them to leave Iraq sooner rather than later.

As the very pro Hillary site, Hillaryis44.org, has been saying for over a year now:

Obama simply cannot be trusted. Obama cannot be trusted on any issue. Obama cannot be trusted by his friends. Obama cannot be trusted by his enemies. Obama cannot be trusted.

A good look at the Real Obama is this article in the Illinois Times.

I don’t really care about John McCain becoming president, he might be less of a global citizen, and maybe he will do something to help Americans, but I doubt it.  I think McCain will be Obama – lite, which is still better than Obama whom Stephan Kinsella at Lew Rockwell calls “pure evil.”  I don’t think Obama is pure evil, but I do think that he is much more of a globalist than McCain.

And a lot of people like globalism.  Globalism will end all wars, feed the hungry and share the bounty of the world with….err the select few on top.

I know, the World Socialists might disagree, but really in every society, no matter how “enlightened” there are always going to be those who have power over others, and abuse that power, something that Obama has shown he is all to willing to do.

McCain might be caustic from time to time, but he does show a willingness to work with others, despite the fact that I think him dishonest, and I wish that people will vote for someone else, if you have to choose between McCain and Obama, than I think that McCain is the lesser the two evils.

In actuallity, you can probably vote for someone better on the ballot, and you should, I just don’t think that Obama is better than McCain.   I don’t like what McCain wants to do, but at this point, i have become to have serious reservations about Obama, not just taking the brakes off, but cutting the cables in the elevator.

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Wow, I must be psychic or something.  On September 4th, I wrote an article entitled “Sarah Palin gives a great speech, Obama then likened to Christ“, some people thought I was a little over the top, but not Representative Steve Cohen who, as this article and video shows, in Congress on September 10th, said how Obama was like Christ and Sarah Palin was like Pontius Pilate.

I find it amazing how “Democrats” cry about seperation of church and state, Obama cries how McCain hasn’t attacked his religion, and then “Democrats” use their official capacity as elected representatives to attack people using religion.

The problem with this is that even though I really don’t like the “Republican” party, the “Democrats” are making me sick.  It’s not that I support McCain, it’s just that I am beginning to think that anyone is better than a party that has gone to the bizzare extremes that the Obama dominated “Democrats” have gone.

Let me be clear, I don’t think that McCain would be a good president, but I know that Obama will be a total disaster.  I used to think (pre Sarah Palin attacks) that there wasn’t much difference between the two, but seeing the party of women attacking Sarah Palin for, gasp, being a mother, boggles my mind.

If the stupider party (I still think the “Republican” party is the stupid party, but I now think that the “Democratic” party is the stupider party), would just stick to the issues then I wouldn’t care, but they can’t because their issues are stupid (see this chart).

It’s not that American’s really want to be a socialist country, which is why the people (in both parties) that want national socialism dress up the plans as something else.

Like when the automakers want 50 BILLION dollars, even though they are not going to make, say 65 MPG cars that are available in Europe, available to Americans.  That’s right, rather than allow you to exchange your money for actual products, the Bush Administration and their toadies in congress are going to subsidize the auto companies creating products that are sold in other countries.

This is what both parties, support socialism, it’s just that one party is a little more fanatical about it’s support for socialism than the other.

I hate to say this, but the Obama people have managed to convince me that there is a difference between the two candidates, something that McCain could NEVER have done.

Great job Obama, keep up the good work and you might be working for as a community organizer again, spending 100+ million dollars with little oversight.  Oh, wait that’s what Senators do for the most part.  In any case, Obama doesn’t have to worry, because when this is all over he will still be “someone”, and maybe he will be able to start thinking sanely and win this election, though I have admit, he has finally gotten me to believe that he is much, much worse than McCain would ever be (and I really don’t like McCain).

Obama, making all the other choices look great.  Who would have thought it possible?

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This is an article that I had promised to write for a while, I just got busy .

I had once stumbled across an article that promoted watching television on your computer, and I have seen many ads for some software.

That said, the easiest way I have found is Hulu.com, which offers a lot of shows and movies for, um, free.  You can watch major movies and some of the latest shows, all legal and all free.

Of course, it doesn’t have all the channels that cable has, but then again I don’t really watch “normal” television.

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While I keep wanting to write an article about how the United States is going in the wrong direction with the internet, with Comcast putting caps on usage, and reports showing that the United States will take 100 years to catch up with Japan’s internet, I just keep coming back to the whole election issue.

It isn’t that I think McCain should be president, but rather that I find the lack of interest in Obama’s background startling compared with the scruntiny of everything that has to do with Sarah Palin.  Sarah Palin is running for vice president, and Obama is running for president.   While I would rather that we just repeal the 12th amendment to the constitution and make the whole vice presidential process moot, it’s not going to happen.

Here are some stories that don’t get any signifigant coverage about Obama:

1. The lawsuit contesting Obama’s constitutional eligibility for president, filed by former deputy Attorney General for Pennsylvania, Democrat Phillip Berg.
2. A close friend of Obama, who was chairman of the board of the fund that Obama became a member of, Bill Ayers, said in an article in the New York times date September 11th, 2001 that he felt that he didn’t blow up enough things in America in the 1970′s when they participated in at least 12 bombings.
3. Barack’s strange ability to get help to clear the other candidates off the slate, leaving him the only choice.
4. Barack’s launch on Oprah, back in 2006 Oprah was pushing Barack to run for president, and when he did run, she quickly endorsed him.
5. MSNBC’s mad love affair for Barack.
6. The University of Illinois sealing public records about Obama
7. “he built his entire legislative record in Illinois in a single year”

None of these are deemed major news stories, no major reporter wants to be seen as attacking Barack Obama (also known as the Messiah).  Rather than investigate Obama (ever), the press decides to run front page stories about

1. 1. How Sarah Palin’s daughter is pregnant (Sarah married her high school sweetheart, maybe her daughter is doing the same?)
   2. How Sarah Palin got paid for travelling around the state of Alaska on official business (err, what’s the problem with that again?)

And there are other stories, each one dumber than the next.  There are “Christians” who argue that Sarah Palin is not a good christian woman, and other people who argue that she is too christian.  There are those who refuse to give her any credit for her acceptance speech, ignoring the fact that the speechwriter actually dislikes many of the things that Sarah Palin promoted.

It seems that in order not to be accused of racism, everyone is willing to bash someone who isn’t even at the top of the ticket, even if it is sexist, and go through her life with more vigor than they ever went at Obama.

As Burt Prelutsky says:

I was wondering if someone could please explain why it is racist to vote against someone who is half-black, but not racist to vote for someone for that very same reason?

Why does no one care about Barack Obama’s past, but they care about every detail of Sarah Palin’s life?

Now, while you might have heard that some polls show McCain ahead, according to Rasmussen, Obama is ahead in electoral college votes (I support the electoral college by the way, because otherwise, the presidential campaign would only be New York and LA).  So the stories that Barack’s campaign is on the ropes, aren’t quite true, rather they are more wishful thinking.

Now there are lot’s of people who say that McCain is better than Obama, and I agree with that to a point, but some of the people who served with McCain strongly disagree.

It might be that many people refuse to admit, as Salon writer and Obama fan, Camille Paglia does:

I have always frankly admitted that abortion is murder, the extermination of the powerless by the powerful

Such frank truths have no place in the “Democratic” party, because the “Democratic” party claims to represent the powerless everywhere, but in reality it’s all about consolidating power.

Now there are complaints that people aren’t voting on the issues, that they are voting on the people (err, that’s what always happens, how else did Obama and McCain get to the top of the tickets?).  There are articles complaining about how much jewelery Cindy McCain wears (here is an article that confuses the issue nicely).  I don’t know why Cindy McCain’s jewelery is so important, but her charity work is not.

While there is a nice chart that I recently got in my email that shows the differences in the respective candidates rehtoric, there is no indication that McCain would really do anything different in the end from Obama.  I have become incredibly distrustful of “classified” information, after all the politics that have been revealed to be behind the scenes in manufacturing intelligence.

The sad thing is that Obama has become more fickle than I had ever accused McCain of being, Obama used to support the Palestinians, now he supports moving the capital of Israel to Jerusalem.  He was against the war, now he is for teaching the Iranians a lesson.  I’ve said it before, Obama is the one making McCain look good, not the press, not McCain, not even Palin, Obama is his own worst enemy.

I’ve come from saying that McCain would be worse for America than Obama, to thinking that Obama might actually be worse than McCain.

And the thing is, it’s not that McCain has gotten any better, it’s that Obama has just gotten so much worse.  Obama should focus on the issues, and try take the high ground, unless this election is really just a big circus for the masses, where it doesn’t really matter which of the two wins.  Obama is no longer running unopposed, for the first time in his life, he has to run in a real election, one where being funny and witty and telling the right jokes doesn’t matter that much any more.

In short, Obama needs to get serious, take a position and stand by it.  Something that he hasn’t done yet in his career in public office.

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AS I pointed out recently, there are demands that the media become more “balanced”, or in other words, some people think that the Media doesn’t show Barack Obama enough love.

Of course it might have some thing to do with the fact that only both anchors for MSNBC’s election coverage until recently when it was just too much were obviously biased in favor of Obama.  I mean you have Chris Matthews who had thrills going through his legs when Obama spoke, and then there is Keith Olbermann who according to the New York Times:

Mr. Olbermann, a 49-year-old former sportscaster, has become the face of the more aggressive MSNBC, and the lightning rod for much of the criticism. His program “Countdown,” now a liberal institution, was created by Mr. Olbermann in 2003 but it found its voice in his gnawing dissent regarding the Bush administration, often in the form of “special comment” segments.

There’s a reason I bring this up, even though there are many things I want to cover, and that is that there is now a clip of a British star Russel Brand goes into a rant telling Americans to elect “Global Citizen” Barack Obama. Of course the Associated Press is very pleased because they hate Bush, and think that Barack will do something different when he is president than he did when he was a Senator.

But then again, there are people who tell me how Barack lives a poor humble life, and of course accuse me of being blindly behind McCain (hmm, I don’t see that).

I think that both are bad for America, and but at least you know you are going to get a total meltdown with Obama.  Vote for Change, vote for none of the above!

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Lately Jim Rogers (article at wikipedia), an American Investor who has relocated his headquarters to China, has said that the United States, with the recent Fannie-Freddie bailout, is more Communist than China.  Lew Rockwell correctly points out that this is really national socialism.

As this election season progresses we can see more of the examples pointed out by Stefan Burger and Hugh Compston in their 2002 book, Policy Conertation and Social Partnership in Western Europe: Lessons for the 21st Century, which says, (on page 132):

“Whilst the Nazis established a ‘directed economy’ in which the autonomy of the economic management of employers was restricted, the overall relationship between big industry and the National Socialist regime was characterised by a good deal of harmonious cooperation.” [citations omitted]

At the current moment in time, small businesses and families are suffering, while the majority of U.S. corporations pay no income tax (source: New York Times).  The tax code favors the large corporations, while crushing the smaller businesses.  Large corporations (like McDonalds) lobby to force into law extending benefits to employees, knowing it will drive out of business their smaller competitors.

Unfortunately Obama has done everything possible to make McCain look good, including Obama’s wanting to raise taxes by billions of dollars while creating a new corp of government funded social workers (see this article at Wold Net Daily).  I have to wonder if Obama is deliberately throwing the election after discovering that he was trailing McCain in the polls with Gallup giving McCain a 5 point lead (article at Gallup.com).  Obama then tries to make an issue out of the fact that McCain didn’t attack Obama’s Muslim faith on ABC.  It’s almost comical, as if the election is just a show now.

Let’s face it, all Obama had to do was work out a deal where there was a Obama-Clinton or Clinton-Obama ticket, for some reason that wasn’t something that Obama thought worth pursuing.  Or maybe he just wanted to get the money that was paid from his HOPE fund for all those super delegates.

The problem is that the attacks that worked so well on Hillary (face it half the people hated her anyway) didn’t work as well on Palin.  Maybe they should have researched some of the smears before they claimed they were true.   For instance there were the fake pictures that I had written about, and now are picked up by the international press, though the really “bad” pictures are of course not published by any reputable source. Though the LA Times did find a picture from when she was in College with a stupid t-shirt.

There is a whole article written by Karl Schwarz that debunks a lot of the misleading statements about Sarah Palin, for instance pointing out for “abuse of power” allegation, that

Sarah Palin fired Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan for refusing to fire a rogue Alaska State Trooper Mike ‘Bull’ Wooten who was her ex-brother-in-law.  The Alaska State Trooper had threatened to kill Palin’s father, terrorized her sister, TASERED the 11 year old nephew of the governor and threatened bodily harm to Sarah Palin, too. As a matter of law and fact, as the Chief Executive Officer of the State of Alaska, Gov Sarah Palin, has the authority to fire people who refuse to do their job or follow her orders.

Of course, this DNC operative site did not bother to tell their readers that Wooten has been reprimanded many times for excessive use of force, drinking problems… including drinking on the job, steroids abuse and terrorizing and threatening the Palin family. So much for the legitimacy and integrity of grizzlybay.org.  These DNC agent thugs have been especially quiet about him tasering the 11-year-old child, his former stepson. I would have fired his sorry ass, too, and that might have been after I used a baseball bat or a taser on him. There are two things that do not set well with my genes and that is abuse of a woman or a child by a man.  You can check the facts at this link:
http://www.judicial-inc.biz/88palin_hires_attorney_for_trooper.htm

Now unfortunately Sarah Palin isn’t running for president (though many people would say that is a good thing).  Instead, John McCain is running.  This is the same John McCain that was part of the “Keating 5“, and whose son is linked to a recently failed bank. [As a side note, BankImplode.com seems to have decent reporting about Bank problems]

I think the only difference in the socialism that McCain would bring is that he would bail out the wealthy, while Obama will just drown everyone.  Of course that could be why there are now reports of McCain having up to a 10% lead on Obama!  Of course the answer to this is, according to an article at the Huffington Post:

most importantly we should bring up re-regulating the media and who owns it and what that conflict of interest is a lot more

Why is it than while people complain about bad government, they seem to think the answer is more government?

The current problem is that with every economic downturn, the common man calls out for some way to “correct” the social injustices, but in the end, those “reforms” tend to benefit (or create new) privileged classes.

Face it, there is no magic bullet, no Santa Claus, and it’s up to individuals to make the world a better place.  Forcing people into some kind of group only creates problems, just as we have freedom of religion, we once had free states that had different laws, but worked together, now we just have big brother.

And both candidates for the major parties seem to want an even bigger brother.  If you don’t worry about Big Brother type tactics, l will point out how McCain’s people stole a revolutionary war flag that signed by Ron Paul from credentialed delegates at the RNC, or how official election observers have been arrested for observing elections in the United States.

I will be voting for the best candidate, whether that person is listed on the printed ballot or not, and I hope that other people make the choice that they feel is best.  I don’t agree with everyone about everything, but I think most people can all agree that it’s time for less government, not more.

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On the heels of a devasting ruling that the French courts were going ahead with charges against the alleged “Church” for “organized fraud” and illegally prescribing drugs (Tolerance.ca, AFP, LaMonde [French, english translation]), the organization of Scientology moved quickly with it’s lawyers issuing over 4000 DCMA notices against youtube critics, shutting down many of the accounts (EFF, Slashdot).

The Scientology organization likes to hide behind the fig leaf of “religious freedom” while the number one tool that they use is a book called Dianetics, the Modern Science of Mental Health (can a science be a religion?).  The “Church” of Scientology has a long history of fraud convictions against it, along with a pattern of attacking critics, often hounding them to extremes.

For more about how this “Church” will help you (not!), go here.

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I get these briefings for free from Stratfor, and they sent me a briefing (pdf) that said:

It was therefore no accident that the Russians invaded Georgia on Aug. 8 following a Georgian attack on South Ossetia. Forgetting the details of who did what to whom, the United States had created a massive window of opportunity for the Russians

This service (which I read) is allegedly “the world’s leading online publisher of geopolitical intelligence“.  And they sell their briefings at $349 a year.  That said, I think it is obvious that they don’t like Russia.  Stratfor believes that the United States should be the top dog, and do whatever the people running the United States want to do, without any reasonable check (don’t pretend that you think the American voters are a check on the government).

I realize that many people believe the courts to be a check on the government, but the courts only go as far as the judges let them go, and that usually doesn’t mean challenging the foriegn policy decisions.   And let’s face it, there were over 1000 U.S. Personnel in Georgia when South Ossetia was attacked.

I mean Russia got top secret Israeli Defense Force material from Georgia, and the Russians also got top secret NATO communication equipment as well.  It seems like these Georgian forces were plugged into the whole US-Israeli military system.

And it’s really not fair to compare this situation with Kosovo, in Kosovo, there was no mass slaughter of United States citizens, so the comparison is not even close.   In fact, I think that the Russians viewed it more as we did the World Trade Center attacks, but not very many people want to look at the world from some else’s point of view, so I will probably be villified for comparing anything to that incident.

And that is part of the problem, that people (including myself) have an inability to look at situations from different sides, to see how other people might be effected by what we do or say.  It’s the same way in the vast world as it is in our own lives, we see things from our point of view, and get caught up in the prevailing paridigm (or our own inertia).

In my opinion Russia did not want to increase the threat level, but it wants to be dealt fairly with, and that is something that the United States has not really been doing.  There was a lot of money to be made during the cold war, and now that relations with Russia have frozen over again, the friends of Condolezza Rice are singing happy days are here again.

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First, I want to say that I tended to agree with CNN’s Jeffery Toobin, that McCain’s speech was bad, and as I watched my mother, a life long democrat, sob during his speech, I thought it must be because the speech stinks, not the story, but the delivery was just bad, but that was my opinion.

The reality is that I think McCain reached people that are continually ignored by the fast paced, slick media of today, older people.  People who heard McCain’s speech and thought that McCain was, as one web site states, that they connect with John McCain in that:

in their hearts they believe that the United States Constitution, it’s government, the aura of every American form a secular religion “just under God” for the good of all mankind as the Pledge of Allegiance speaks of.
America has it’s holy of holies in the White House, Capitol and Supreme Court. America has it’s commandments in the Constitution. America has it’s temples in Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln. America has it’s icons of the Statue of Liberty and Mount Rushmore

And I do think that John McCain believes in America, and that the people around him believe in America, and I think we all know that Obama has people very close to him that don’t seem to believe in America, in spite of making over 300K a year.

Heck now there are even McCain haters who say that they support McCain.  That McCain is going to bring real change, blah, blah, blah.  I don’t question that McCain has more dedication to America than Obama, and if voting for someone better than Obama is the only criteria you have, then McCain would do (heck lot’s of people would do).

Now, many people argue that voting for McCain now will help the Republican party in the future.  Maybe yes, maybe no, but what about America now?  How have the McCain campaign treated Republicans at the convention who had some differences?

Well, apparently the McCain people had the Secret Service go to the Ron Paul delegates and had them searched and seized their dvds and buttons about Ron Paul.   Now these were delegates that were elected by the people, and went to represent vote for Ron Paul at the convention.  And sadly even though the Ron Paul delegates voted for Ron Paul, and their votes were supposed to count, they were discarded.

This is what the McCain people believe in, tyranny.  McCain might be espousing something different now, but Ronald Reagan claimed to want to get rid of the IRS, and he really didn’t accomplish much on that.  Maybe the McCain people were upset that Ron Paul had a rally that was bigger than their 60+ million dollar tax payer funded rally, just across the river (even though the media censored it, interviewing people like former Governor Jesse Ventura, and then never airing the interviews).  So what, why is it okay to take away votes from someone just because you are jealous?

As far as I know, McCain still believes in the Manmade Global Warming nonsense, even though:

1. The Artic has had a massive gain in Ice Coverage
2. There are ice storms in Kenya, and China has had it’s coldest winter in 100 years!
3. 3 Million years ago, Anartica had a massive forest
4. The whole solar system was heating up for a while

Personally I get the feeling that while McCain might believe in America, he is willing to do whatever his advisors push for.   I think the result will be worse than the mistakes Reagan made.  And John Kerry has been reported as saying:

Talk about being for it before you’re against it. To those who still believe in the myth of a maverick instead of the reality of a politician, I say, let’s compare Senator McCain to candidate McCain. Let me tell you, before he ever debates Barack Obama, John McCain should finish the debate with himself.

Basically the new talking point is that McCain is flip flopping around, saying and doing whatever it takes to get elected, while still have the same “Black Hats” to enforce the rules of the Empire.  In other words, think about the Star Wars movies, it’s not what they say publicly, it’s what they actually do.

Of course that goes both ways, while the Democrats have claimed that they are somehow “less” negative, the truth is that Obama made SEVEN times more negative comments about McCain, than the “attack dog” Sarah Palin did in their respective speeches.  But don’t let that stop you from voting for Obama, I am just saying that Democrats will get lauded in the press, no matter what they do.

Now according to polls (Rasmussen, Gallup), McCain is still behind Obama, and I think that is a good thing, because with Obama, at least people shouldn’t be surprised when they get screwed.

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This is really amazing, according to WoldNetDaily, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service is going to issue about 3.5 million stamps promoting a phone sex line.

The stamps sell for $15 each, and the government blames the problem on a printing error, but really it’s a sign of the incompetence of the government officials when they just shrug when they do something wrong, because really what can we do?

It’s not as if we have a real choice in who is going to run the country.   I mean we are arguing over whether the vice presidential nominee on one side is better than the presidential nominee on the other, what kind of nonsense is that?

Just another example of the incredible stupidity that we all too easily accept from the idiots who want to run our lives, because they are so much better than us.

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