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Bush says US expects Russians to leave Georgia

By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writer 1 minute ago

WASHINGTON - President Bush is expressing concern that Russia might be violating the cease-fire in Georgia. He said the United States expects all Russian forces to withdraw from Georgia and that Moscow honor the truce after its punishing attacks against Georgia.

Bush said he was sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Paris and then to Georgia to express solidarity with the democratically elected government there.

Bush spoke in the Rose Garden after meeting with his national security team over the crisis in Russia. He said he strongly supported France's efforts to broker an end to the fighting. Bush said that Russia must allow the US and other countries to deliver humanitarian assistance in Georgia.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080813/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_russia_georgia

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Russian tanks head deeper into Georgia
Convoy sent south despite truce; Gori may face shelling

MSNBC News Services
updated 55 minutes ago

TBILISI, Georgia - Russian tanks rolled into the strategic Georgian city of Gori on Wednesday then pressed deeper into Georgia territory, smashing an EU-brokered truce designed to end six-day conflict that has uprooted 100,000 people and scarred the Georgian landscape.



Georgian officials said Gori was looted and bombed by the Russians. An AP reporter later saw dozens of tanks and military vehicles leaving Gori, roaring south.

Soldiers waved at journalists and one soldier shouted, perhaps jokingly, to a photographer: "Come with us, beauty, we're going to Tbilisi!"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26116598/

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Bush Orders Military to Deliver Aid to Georgia

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

WASHINGTON — President Bush has directed the U.S. military to lead a humanitarian mission to Georgia where tens of thousands have been forced out of their homes following a Russian invasion last week that has been described by Georgia's president as an "ethnic cleansing."

Bush said a U.S. C-17 aircraft with humanitarian supplies is already on its way and U.S. aircraft and Naval forces will deliver humanitarian and medical supplies to the country in the coming days.

"The mission will be vigorous and ongoing," Bush said from the White House Rose Garden with Defense Secretary Bob Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice by his side.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,402982,00.html

VIDEO: George Bush squares up to Vladimir Putin over Georgia

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Abkhazian Fighters Plant Flag Inside Georgia

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 1:01 PM

GANMUKHURI, Georgia — An Associated Press reporter says a few dozen fighters from the separatist region of Abkhazia have moved into Georgian territory, planting their flag on a bridge over the Inguri River.



"This is Abkhazian land," one proclaimed. They say they are laying claim to what has historically been Abkhazian territory and that Georgian troops left without challenging them.

The fighters had moved across a thin slice of land dotted with Georgian villages.

http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/abkhazia_flag_georgia/2008/08/13/121660.html

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Lieberman Blasts Obama On Georgia

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 5:55 PM

TEANECK, N.J. — Former Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Joe Lieberman slammed Sen. Barack Obama on Tuesday over the Russian invasion of Georgia and said that the Democrat still wasn’t experienced enough for the White House.

“We’ve got a real clear choice to make. And I say it respectfully to Sen. Obama because he’s a gifted young man. But he’s not ready to be president on Jan. 20th of 2009,” Lieberman, of Connecticut, told a fund raising event for Republican hopeful John McCain.

“As the Russians move into Georgia as aggressors, and if you read the statements from the beginning, from Sen. McCain and Sen. Obama, one had a kind of moral neutrality to it that comes I think from inexperience.

http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/lieberman_obama_georgia/2008/08/13/121737.html

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BACK IN THE USSR
FACING DOWN THE NEW RUSSIA
By JOHN O'SULLIVAN
Putin: Rebuilding the Soviet empire the Soviet way — brute force.

Posted: 3:59 am
August 13, 2008

Moscow girls make me sing and shout

That Georgia's always on my mind.

I'm back in the USSR

http://www.nypost.com/seven/08132008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/back_in_the_ussr_124230.htm

US , ALLIES WEIGH PUNISHMENT FOR RUSSIA

McCain: US must reevaluate relations with Russia

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Georgia president signs cease-fire with Russia

BILISI, Georgia – A reluctant Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said Friday he signed a cease-fire agreement with Russia and declared in the presence of the chief U.S. diplomat that the West had behaved in ways that invited the invasion.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she had been assured that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will sign an identical document. The United States says the pact protects the former Soviet republic's interests despite concessions to Moscow.

"With this signature by Georgia, this must take place and take place now," Rice said. She did not say what, if anything, the United States would do if Russia defies the truce.

http://news.yahoo.com/story/ap/20080815/ap_on_re_eu/us_russia_georgia;_ylt=ApFvMsbYo8Alyqrq1hVMKGes0NUE

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NYC Heroes Lift Bus off Pregnant Woman; Baby Saved
Friday, August 15, 2008
By Wire Dispatches, Associated Press

New York (AP) - Horrified bystanders banded together to lift a 5-ton school bus off a pregnant woman pinned underneath, enabling doctors to save her son.





Donnette Sanz, 33, a traffic agent for the city police department, was pronounced dead Thursday, shortly after her baby's birth by an emergency Caesarean section. The 3-pound, 6-ounce boy was in critical condition.

Sanz was walking across a Bronx street around lunchtime Thursday when she was struck by a van that pushed her in front of the bus.

http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=34175

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Muslim father burns Christian daughter alive
Man slices out girl's tongue, ignites her after 'heated debate on religion'


A Saudi Arabian Muslim father cut out his daughter's tongue and lit her on fire upon learning that she had become a Christian.

The child became curious about Jesus Christ after she read Christian material online, the Gulf News reported.

Her father read of her Internet conversation, detached her tongue and burned her to death "following a heated debate on religion," according to an International Christian Concern report.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=72273

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Dad chokes up as he reads abducted kids' letters

* Story Highlights
* NEW: Steve Groene testifies at sentencing hearing for man who killed his family
* Duncan killed four family members, kidnapped two children
* Standby counsel says Duncan may offer no argument for why he should live
* Duncan pleaded guilty in December, asked to fire his lawyers in May

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/14/duncan.slayings.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

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How Obama deceives non-discerning Christians
Posted: August 15, 2008
1:00 am Eastern

Using biblical imagery to elevate oneself to a biblical-character status is not new in presidential politics, but to use these imageries to deliberately mislead people is a new low level in personal ambition.

Barack Obama knows he does not believe that Jesus is the only way to eternal salvation. "For there is no other name under heaven by which men can be saved." This is the cornerstone of true Christianity. All other "Jesus believers" who don't embrace this biblical truth are not "true Christians." Neither Obama's former church nor his former pastor for over 20 years embrace this foundational fact. Yet Obama uses Christian lingo, such as "I came to Jesus" or "I committed my life to Jesus" or "I knelt before the Cross," which gives the impression that he is a true believer.



Secondly, "true Christians" know that the task of taking care of the poor is their responsibility, not the government's. The Bible makes it clear that "justice" is the government's task, but "mercy" is God's and His children's. Yet to alleviate the guilt of semi-religious people, Obama detracts the attention of the unsuspecting from his position on killing babies in their mother's womb and the recognition of sodomy as an alternate lifestyle, and centers their focus on the so-called "poor."

http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=72344

CARTOON: We're In A Depression

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Influential Pastor to Bring Candidates Together for the First Time
by FOXNews.com
Friday, August 15, 2008

John McCain and Barack Obama bickered for weeks over the kind of debates they wanted — but when California pastor Rick Warren asked them to put that aside and join him for a candidates’ forum, the answer, of course, was yes.

The two political rivals will join Warren Saturday evening at his 23,000-member Saddleback Church, taking the same stage to answer the same questions for the first time.

The event is not technically a debate, or the kind of free-form joint town hall meeting McCain had advocated. Warren will ask each candidate the same set of questions separately.


http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/08/15/influential-pastor-to-host-faith-forum/

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Russia: Will begin pullout from Georgia on Monday

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press Writer Christopher Torchia, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 2 mins ago
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GORI, Georgia – Russia's president promised to start withdrawing forces from positions in Georgia on Monday, but suggested they could stay in the breakaway region at the heart of the fighting that has reignited Cold War tensions.

Top American officials said Washington would rethink its relationship with Moscow after its military drive deep into its much smaller neighbor and called for a swift Russian withdrawal.

"I think that there is a real concern that Russia has turned the corner here and is headed back toward its past rather than toward its future, and my hope is that we will see actions in the weeks and months to come that provide us some reassurance," Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday.

http://news.yahoo.com/story/ap/georgia_russia;_ylt=ApdqSf_UWRxEAb43_E45mGWs0NUE

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Obama Doesn’t Extend Kind Words in Church Onto Campaign Trail
by Associated Press
Sunday, August 17, 2008

RENO, Nev. — So much for hugging in church.


A day after Barack Obama and John McCain exchanged an embrace during a faith forum at a California megachurch, Obama called the U.S. economy a disaster thanks to “John McCain’s president, George W. Bush,” and chided his Republican rival’s campaign team for trying to make him look unpatriotic and weak.

At a town hall meeting with several hundred union members, Obama said he had had a great conversation with McCain at the forum at Saddleback Church sponsored by the popular evangelical pastor Rick Warren. The two candidates shook hands, briefly hugged and stood onstage with Warren, the first time they appeared together in public since the end of the primary season.

But Sunday, after praising the Arizona senator as a “genuine American patriot,” the Democratic presidential hopeful got back to business — methodically tearing into McCain’s health care, tax and energy policies and criticizing his advisers.

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/08/17/obama-doesnt-extend-kind-words-in-church-onto-campaign-trail

Christians to gather in DC for prayer, fasting

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Guessing grows over US running mates

By Edward Luce and Andrew Ward in Washington

Published: August 17 2008 18:51 | Last updated: August 17 2008 18:51

Barack Obama and John McCain enter their final week before the start of the US presidential nominating conventions amid intense speculation about who they plan to choose as their respective running mates – with Mr Obama almost certain to make his choice in the next few days.

Mr Obama, whose four-day Democratic convention starts next Monday in Denver, will this week attend election rallies and “town hall” meetings in the swing states of New Mexico, Florida, North Carolina and Virginia – any of which could provide a potential venue to announce his pick.

Obama aides deny any knowledge of the possible timing or venue of what is traditionally the most closely guarded secret in a presidential campaign. But veteran Democratic operatives say the choice is likely by Thursday. The Republican convention in Minneapolis starts in two weeks.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/36d07254-6c82-11dd-96dc-0000779fd18c.html

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Abortion Leader Confirms that Democratic Platform is More Pro-Abortion than Ever
Also delighted that document now pushes "comprehensive sex education"

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

NEW YORK, August 15, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Pro-Abortion leader Francis Kissling has published an article acknowledging that the new Democratic Party platform favors the cause of abortion and sex education, even more so than in previous years.

Kissling notes that the new platform "derives its moral authority from 'a woman's right to choose safe and legal abortion'", unlike older ones that spoke merely of "privacy."

She is also delighted that the platform makes no mention of making abortion "rare", and for the first time mentions "sex education", which is frequently used to promote contraception, abortion, "alternative sexual lifestyles" and extra-marital sex.

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/aug/08081509.html

Obama's Christian Creds Vs. Abortion and Infanticide

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Steven Curtis Chapman, family hopeful amidst ongoing grief
Allie Martin - OneNewsNow - 8/16/2008 4:10:00 AMBookmark and Share

Steven Curtis Chapman and his family have been sharing their story of how God is working in the midst of the tragic death of their youngest daughter.

In May, five-year-old Maria Sue Chapman was killed in an accident outside the Chapman's home in Franklin, Tennessee. Recently, the Chapman family has appeared on various national television networks, discussing the tragedy and explaining how God's grace and promises are never failing.

During an interview segment on ABC's Good Morning America, Mary Beth Chapman talked of her feelings in the days and months after the accident.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Church/Default.aspx?id=214468

BROOKYN'S BLURBS TO YOUR HEALTH:One Can of Red Bull May
Increase Risk of Heart Damage, Study Says

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Obama goes ballistic over Corsi best-seller
Issues blistering 40-page report challenging WND reporter's high-flying, No. 1 exposé
Posted: August 15, 2008
1:00 am Eastern



The title page to Barack Obama's response to Jerome Corsi's "The Obama Nation"
With the wreck of John Kerry's "swiftboated" 2004 campaign in his rearview mirror, Barack Obama and his surrogates are wasting no time mounting a counterattack against WND staff writer and columnist Jerome Corsi, the co-author of the Swift Boat Veteran's for Truth's "Unfit for Command" and the author of current No. 1 New York Times best-seller, "The Obama Nation."

Obama advisers have been tracking Corsi's media appearances, quickly telephoning producers to react to the book's charges, and last night, the Democratic presidential candidate's campaign issued a 40-page response to the book.

Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor accompanied the release with a shot at Corsi, calling him a "discredited liar who is peddling another piece of garbage to continue the Bush-Cheney politics he helped perpetuate four years ago."

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=72410

Watch for more including I think an anti-Barry & the 527s are going to help the Big Mc..we would do well to send emails w/ copies and leave data on Christian & other websites.

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McCain Sweeps Saddleback Forum
August 17, 2008 10:00 AM EST

John McCain raised the applause of the Saddleback attendees many times over as compared to Barack Obama; some who paid up to $2,000 for seats at the event. What's it all about?

Recently Leith Anderson President of the National Association of Evangelicals said that 'mega-churches comprise only about one percent of the churched in America.' That means if it were not for the television coverage of the Saddleback Civil Forum the result would be nil.

Because evangelical churches that still use the bible for all reference to politics or any aspect of life, largely outnumber the few existing mega-churches, Warren's repeated references to those who 'demonize' the candidates or the political parties was directed to the majority in American Christianity. And although it looks like Warren is a healer of the breach to the main stream media, in fact he is on the fringe in the minds of millions of evangelicals and Catholics.

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/33956.html

McCain appeared 100xs more on top of the issues; he looked like an experienced pol ready to pick-up the red phone @ 3am...ready from day one.


Here's the latest Brooklyn's Blurbs!



China Confiscates Bibles from American Christians

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Clergy divided over Rick Warren's 'gospel'
Jim Brown - OneNewsNow - 8/18/2008 8:00:00 AMBookmark and Share

The head of the National Clergy Council says the man known as "America's pastor" threatens to water down the message of the gospel.

Faith and Action president Rob Schenck says there is a wide concern that California mega-church pastor and The Purpose Driven Life author Rick Warren's approach to the proclamation of the gospel is a "downgraded" version.

"Adapted to be perhaps less offensive or less exclusive, maybe more culturally popular or easy to embrace," Schenk contends. "When in fact, by doing that, Pastor Warren threatens to neutralize the very message of the gospel."

http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=34224

McCain Shines at Saddleback Forum


Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi get married in Los Angeles

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The New Jesus: Obama Be Thy Name
by Doug Giles

A buddy of mine in Texas sent a friend of his, an Obama backer, a devastating article written by Dr. Jack Wheeler in which he spotlights in 398 words the fact that Barack, in reality, is much different from the fabricated Jesus image the Dim-o-crats would have us worship.

Yes, in just a few keystrokes Wheeler deftly dismembered the notion spun by the scribes of Obama that he is the fresh breeze blowing in our land and reveals, instead, that Barack is a typical uberliberal slim shady politician who simply blows.

The thing that floored my Lone Star friend was that his “pal” told him to eff off and ended his “friendship” with him. My buddy ain’t sweating it, though . . . he’s a Texan. We did, however, have a snicker (if the rabid gay crowd doesn’t mind me using the word snicker) over the amazing Bible-like allegiance the Obama groupies sport—which is ironic seeing that most liberals are atheists or agnostics who pride themselves on being skeptics.

http://townhall.com/columnists/DougGiles/2008/08/16/the_new_jesus_obama_be_thy_name

Musharraf Resigns As President

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McDonald's Restaurants Continue to Promote Homosexuality
Sponsors training for homosexuals on how to promote their agenda among corporations from the inside

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/aug/08081412.html

They don't listen at McDonald's NO WONDER A CLOWN IS THEIR SYMBOL; I could've made $$$$$$$ on McDonald's stock but because of the boycott won't..Boycott McDonald's

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PAPER: OBAMA READY TO ANNOUNCE HIS VP
Mon Aug 18 2008 17:01:04 ET

The NYT newsroom was buzzing late Monday afternoon after Obama-beat reporter Jeff Zeleny learned how the Dem hopeful has now finalized his choice for a running-mate.

Obama has set an elaborate roll-out to announce his decision that will begin with an early morning e-mail to supporters, perhaps as early as Tuesday, Zeleny and Adam Nagourney have been told.

Is it Nunn? Is it Kaine? Is Hillary there? What about Kerry? Bayh? Biden

http://www.drudgereport.com/flashom.htm

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McCain takes lead over Obama: poll
Wed Aug 20, 2008 4:19pm EDT

By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a sharp turnaround, Republican John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Democrat Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential race and is seen as a stronger manager of the economy, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.

McCain leads Obama among likely U.S. voters by 46 percent to 41 percent, wiping out Obama's solid 7-point advantage in July and taking his first lead in the monthly Reuters/Zogby poll.

The reversal follows a month of attacks by McCain, who has questioned Obama's experience, criticized his opposition to most new offshore oil drilling and mocked his overseas trip.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1927197620080820?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true

Having tons of money, running lots of commercial, the non bounce from Hillary & the fake overseas trip to "look" presidential Barry should be way ahead.
Even Chris Matthews has said how McCain was @ his best in that evangelical lite Rick Warren meeting held last Sat...but Chris' leg isn't twitching ....

US Rep. Tubbs Jones of Ohio dies after hemorrhage
Although she was a liberal supporter of Hillary Clinton I often was impressed when I saw her on the tv talk shows.She looked dedicated...

25 Reasons You Might Be a Liberal


After a long slide, dollar on the rebound
The economy is improving..as someone who just started trading, I've met my monthly goals every month, i.e. already met my August profits & the month isn't over...I am now working on fullfilling my Sept. goal/before Aug. closes out by the way... & may meet that on Thu. or Fri. before the 4th month even begins..
Expect the employment report tomorrow will show a drop in unemployment claims & still a bear market, but a healthy trading day.

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Why Obama's Red Mentor is News
By James Lewis
Barack Obama is still an enigma because a lot of his life has been carefully hidden, as National Review's David Freddoso points out in The Case Against Barack Obama. His campaign is hypersensitive because his life is filled with awkward facts and dubious associations. Obama has declared his personal history out of bounds and scrubbed it clean. The media are obediently censoring things we need to know. The most obvious example is Obama's adolescent mentor and father figure, Frank Marshall Davis.

Frank Davis was one angry black guy, at a time when the South was still segregated and there was plenty of reason for anger. Unlike most black people at the time, however -- like the extraordinary families who raised young Clarence Thomas and Condoleezza Rice in the Deep South -- Davis became a member of the Communist Party and glorified über-tyrant Jozef Stalin in his writing and poetry. This at a time when Stalin was ordering the deaths of tens of millions of people, and indeed enslaved millions of them in the Gulag, in forced communal farms, and in coercive factories all over the Soviet empire. Stalin was a slave-master and mass killer, as any informed person knew at that time. And Frank Davis must have known. There's a great difference between fighting racial injustice and pursuing racial vengeance, and Davis went for revenge against all of white America.

If you think Rev. Jeremiah Wright is over the top, Frank Davis was like that, just angrier. Senator Obama has long hung around with enraged radicals. Davis was apparently his first. Kids without parents often look desperately for father figures, who can have huge influence over their lives. Such, it appears, was Frank Marshall Davis for a young kid in Honolulu named Barry Obama. Obama's long line of rageful mentors and guides include Bill Ayers the Pentagon bomber, Jeremiah Wright the hate preacher, and Barack Obama Sr., a socialist-communist politician in Kenya, whose writings and letters still influenced Barack, Jr., even in his physical absence from his son's life. So we have a series of four radical mentors who shaped Obama's life. Those are just the ones we know about.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/why_obamas_red_mentor_is_news.html

Her Majesty on Drill, Drill, Drill!

Barack Obama's 'lost' brother found in Kenya
Why should this surprise anyone$$$$$$$$$$$$The non-tithing so called Christians Barry & Michelle are tight w/ their own $$$$ & want govt. & you to aid the poor.
PS-Yeah real generous ...OBAMA'S GRANDMOTHER STILL LIVES IN A SHACK!

*****(More below..)


If There Is No God

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Putin Could Face ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ Charges, Experts Say
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer
(CNSNews.com) – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s role in the military invasion of the former Soviet state of Georgia could lead to him facing charges for war crimes, the Georgian ambassador to the United States said at a discussion at the conservative Heritage Foundation on Monday.



“We have to conduct a serious investigation in this regard,” said Ambassador Vasil Sikharulidze.

“What we would like to do is just to make all these places (in Georgia) very transparent, open for the free world, for the media, (and) international human rights activities,” he said.

http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=34311

'Obligation to deny' communion to pro-abortion politicians
Kennedy, Kerry, Dodd,Pelosi,Cuomo,Matthews & other supporters of sin should be tossed out of the churches & put in Satan's hands...which I suspect some may already be in.

JOHN EDWARDS BLOCKBUSTER NEW EXPOSE!

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153 killed in plane crash at Madrid airport
Airliner bound for Canary Islands swerved off runway during takeoff

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26309867/

New Films Say Jesus Had Kids


States Throw Out Costly Electronic Voting Machines

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US, Poland OK missile defense base, riling Moscow
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Aug 20, 4:35 PM (ET)

By VANESSA GERA and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA

WARSAW, Poland (AP) - The United States and Poland signed a deal Wednesday to place a U.S. missile defense base just 115 miles from Russia - a move followed swiftly by a new warning from Moscow of a possible military response.



For many Poles - whose country has been a staunch U.S. ally in Iraq and Afghanistan - the accord represented what they believed would be a guarantee of safety for themselves in the face of a newly assertive Russia.

Negotiators sealed the deal last week against a backdrop of Russian military action in Georgia, a former Soviet republic turned U.S. ally, that has worried former Soviet satellites across eastern Europe. It prompted Moscow's sharpest rhetoric yet over the system, which it contends is aimed at Russia despite Washington's insistence the site is purely defensive.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080820/D92M82281.html

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Texas state legislators challenging 'sanctuary cities' for illegal immigrants
David Paulin
In Texas, two Republican legislators are taking up the “forgotten” issue in the presidential election – illegal immigration. Specifically, they're seeking to challenge municipalities that declare themselves “sanctuary cities” for illegal immigrants. Houston and Austin, the state capital, are among dozens of American cities that might be described as having “open borders” in defiance of America's immigration laws. Not surprisingly, such cities have become havens for illegal immigrants, most of whom arrive illegally from Mexico and Central America.

Writing in today's Austin-American Statesman, reporter Juan Castillo explains that the Republican lawmakers are taking up the issue of sanctuary cities with Attorney General Greg Abbott:

In a letter sent to Abbott this month, Rep. Frank Corte Jr. of San Antonio and Sen. Dan Patrick of Houston asked whether the Texas Legislature has the authority to deter local governments from adopting policies — or to invalidate existing policies — that hinder state enforcement of federal immigration laws.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/08/texas_state_legislators_challe.html

42 arrested in ICE-led operation targeting street gang members/

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The Perils of a Lower Drinking Age
By Steve Chapman

Life is full of surprises, and some 100 college presidents think they have stumbled on one. They think there is too much problem drinking on campus -- no surprise there -- and suggest we might solve the problem by changing the drinking age. They don't propose to raise it to 25. They want to lower it to 18.

The group behind the petition they signed, Choose Responsibility, says the current drinking age is a failure. It has "not resulted in significant constructive behavioral change among our students," the statement says, and in fact has spawned "a culture of dangerous, clandestine 'binge-drinking' -- often conducted off-campus."

It's true that in the old days, there was no college culture of clandestine, off-campus binge drinking. It was out in the open, right on the quad. Another difference back then: There was more of it.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/08/the_perils_of_a_lower_drinking.html

Fay Flooding a 'Catastrophic' Event; 30 Inches of Rain Possible

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BROOKLYN'S BLURBS TO YOUR HEALTH:

New Reasons Not to Mix Fruit Juices, Meds

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 9:31 AM

Grapefruit, orange and apple juices can harm the body's ability to absorb certain medications and make the drugs less effective, said a Canadian study released Tuesday in the United States.

The research showed that these juices can decrease the effectiveness of certain drugs used to treat heart disease, cancer, organ-transplant rejection and infection, "potentially wiping out their beneficial effects," it said.

David Bailey, a professor of clinical pharmacology with the University of Western Ontario and leader of the study, was the first researcher to identify grapefruit juice's potential to increase the absorption of certain drugs two decades ago, possibly turning some doses toxic.

http://www.newsmax.com/health/not_mix_fruit_juice_meds/2008/08/20/123653.html

CARTOON: THE MOST EFFECTIVE WEAPON IN THE RUSSIAN ARSENAL


New Guidelines Would Give F.B.I. Broader Powers


replica
*****
Obama is now complaining about how many houses John McCain may have.......... But The Obama's great givers of $$$ to the needy, have relatives still living in shacks...his brother is living on 1 dollar a month, and Hussein saw him as recently as 2002....Sean Hannity has offered to send a 1000 check...leftist hypocrits...what did Michelle offer Barry's kin????THE VIEW HAND BUMP????????????

Real classy family.

Sean cares more about the Obama brother living in abject poverty ....& Michelle & Obama complain about the US poor.That's all they can say like Michelle AMERICA IS A MEAN COUNTRY...HOW ABOUT THEY ARE BOTH "MEAN", DISGRACEFUL,Un-CHRISTIAN LIKE & SHOULD DROP THEIR HEADS IN SHAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Source: Drudge Report: MCCAIN OFFICE IN DENVER RECEIVES ENVELOPE WITH WHITE POWDER AND DEATH THREAT... DEVELOPING...

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California mulls probing senator over IndyMac crash
Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:51pm EDT

By John Poirier

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - California's attorney general is reviewing a request by former employees of IndyMac Bancorp Inc to investigate whether a New York senator triggered the bank's collapse by releasing confidential information.

At issue is a much-publicized letter that Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, sent in June to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) and Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) questioning the company's ability to survive.

The FDIC took control of IndyMac on July 11 after depositors withdrew more than $1.3 billion over 11 days. It was the third-largest bank failure in U.S. history. At the time, OTS Director John Reich blamed Schumer's letter for causing the run on the bank.

LOUSE LINK..

Yes investigate CHUCKY CHEESE...NY's loud mouth pol!

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MAYOR'S '3RD TERM' MANEUVER
By SALLY GOLDENBERG and MAGGIE HABERMAN

Mayor Bloomberg today for the first time left the door open to considering an extension of term limits.

At a press conference, Bloomberg explained that the City Council has the legal power to pass a bill that would change term limits, which was enacted and reaffirmed by public referendum.

"I don't know what the City Council is going to do," he said. "My job, if the City Council comes to us with a piece of legislation, we will look at it, we will consider it and we'll make what I hope is an informed judgment into what is in the best interest of the city."

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Although I like the mayor & many thought crime would skyrocket after Rudy left; I'd rather see our more conservative Police Commish, former Marine, former DEA head, etc. as our next mayor.

Now on the Hallmark aisle: Gay marriage cards

Bush Offers Job Protection to Doctors Against Abortions

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Federal report refutes 9/11 conspiracy theory
Investigators say fire — not explosives — brought down nearby skyscraper
Roberto Borea / AP

updated 6:54 p.m. ET, Thurs., Aug. 21, 2008

GAITHERSBURG, Md. - Federal investigators said Thursday they have solved a mystery of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks: the collapse of World Trade Center building 7, a source of long-running conspiracy theories.

The 47-story trapezoid-shaped building sat north of the World Trade Center towers, across Vesey Street in lower Manhattan in New York. On Sept. 11, it was set on fire by falling debris from the burning towers, but skeptics long have argued that fire and debris alone should not have brought down such a big steel-and-concrete structure.

Scientists with the National Institute of Standards and Technology say their three-year investigation of the collapse determined the demise of WTC 7 was actually the first time in the world a fire caused the total failure of a modern skyscraper.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26331842/

Nigerian Police Probe Obama Fundraising Dinner

Foreign Money Flowing Into Obama Campaign

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Job boom could be coming soon



NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- There is no denying that the job market is weak.

The Department of Labor reported this morning that 432,000 people filed for unemployment benefits in the past week - making this the fifth straight week that jobless claims topped the 400,000 mark.

And so far this year, there has been a loss of 463,000 jobs.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/21/markets/thebuzz/index.htm

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Is Jesus The Only Way? - Oprah Says No!
August 21, 2008 10:00 AM EST

The next time you have free time in the afternoon or late evening -- and are looking for a television show to watch. Let me show you what you are supporting when you watch the Oprah Show:

Turn up your volume and click on the URL link below. It is a segment of the Oprah Show where she is arguing with women in her audience about Jesus Christ. Many of the women are telling Oprah that Jesus is the only way to salvation, to heaven. Oprah is arguing that there are millions of ways to heaven.

IS THERE ONLY ONE WAY TO HEAVEN?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwGLNbiw1gk&feature=related



For those of us who will, at times, allow the television to baby sit our children -- or those who sit with your teenage children and watch Oprah together; let me show you what you are supporting. Thirty years ago, we had Shirley MacLaine who was the Hollywood New Age Queen -- and she made a fortune with her books telling folks about her psychic experiences and the ETmasters she channeled.

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/33981.html

Same WRONG position as held by her hero so called believer Barry Obama....

CARTOON: OBAMA'S RUNNING MATE


GIVE US TROOPS A VOTE THAT COUNTS

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Obama prepares to name veep
Aug 22 11:36 AM US/Eastern
By LIZ SIDOTI
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama prepared to name his running mate, perhaps as early as Friday, from a small field that included at least one dark-horse finalist.

Democratic officials said little-known Texas Rep. Chet Edwards was one of the few Democrats whose background was checked by Obama's campaign and he was a finalist for the job.

Among others mentioned: Govs. Tim Kaine of Virginia and Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas, as well as Sens. Joe Biden of Delaware and Evan Bayh of Indiana

http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/21/markets/thebuzz/index.htm

BB1 NOTE: I wouldn't be surprised if it is someone that would be a dark horse on either side---maybe Al Gore, Colin Powell, Gov. Barbour, Condi,Santourum--or who knows (the candidate does of course).


Bill Maher's Anti-Religion Movie

Bhutto Widower Proposed for Pakistan President

GOV: THIRD TERM FOR MIKE IS 'GREAT IDEA'








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Obama taps Biden to be running mate
Aug 23 03:25 AM US/Eastern
By LIZ SIDOTI and NEDRA PICKLER
Associated Press Writers

WASHINGTON (AP) - Barack Obama named Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware as his vice presidential running mate early Saturday, balancing his ticket with a seasoned congressional veteran well-versed in foreign policy and defense issues.

Obama announced the pick on his Web site with a photo of the two men and an appeal for donations. A text message went out shortly afterward that said, "Barack has chosen Senator Joe Biden to be our VP nominee."

Biden, 65, has twice sought the White House, and is a Catholic with blue-collar roots, a generally liberal voting record and a reputation as a long-winded orator.

Across more than 30 years in the Senate, he has served at various times not only as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee but also as head of the Judiciary Committee, with its jurisdiction over anti-crime legislation, Supreme Court nominees and Constitutional issues.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D92NROBG0&show_article=1

McCain Campaign Takes Aim at Obama-Biden

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Obama taps Biden to be running mate
By LIZ SIDOTI and NEDRA PICKLER - Associated Press Writers - 8/23/2008 2:40:00 AMBookmark and Share

Barack Obama named Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware as his vice presidential running mate early Saturday, balancing his ticket with a seasoned congressional veteran well-versed in foreign policy and defense issues.



Obama announced the pick on his Web site with a photo of the two men and an appeal for donations. A text message went out shortly afterward that said, "Barack has chosen Senator Joe Biden to be our VP nominee."





Biden, 65, has twice sought the White House, and is a Catholic with blue-collar roots, a generally liberal voting record and a reputation as a long-winded orator.

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Catholic group denounces Obama's pick of Biden for V.P.
Fred Jackson- OneNewsNow - 8/23/2008 6:40:00 AMBookmark and Share

The Roman Catholic group, Fidelis, says Barack Obama's selection of pro-abortion Catholic Joe Biden to be his V.P. running mate "is a slap in the face to Catholic voters" and poses a major challenge for American Catholics.



In a press release sent out overnight, Fidelis president, Brian Burch, declared that Barack Obama has "re-opened a wound among American Catholics" by picking a pro-abortion Catholic politician like Joe Biden.



According to Burch, the American Catholic bishops have made it clear that Catholic political leaders must defend the dignity of every human person, including the unborn.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Business/Default.aspx?id=225738

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Obama-Biden War-Funding Split Draws Fire
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August 22, 2008 5:22 PM

ABC News' Teddy Davis, Arnab Datta, and Rigel Anderson Report: The GOP is planning to step up its attacks on Barack Obama's war funding record if the presumptive Democratic nominee taps Joe Biden to be his running mate.

"Our argument will be that the Biden pick only underscores how inexperienced Barack Obama knows he is," a Republican official told ABC News, previewing the GOP's possible line of attack. "Obama's vote against funding our troops was an example of inexperience and poor judgment. The fact that his more experienced running mate made the right call highlights Obama's mistake."

"Whereas to date that vote hasn't gotten a lot of attention," the Republican official added, "now it will."

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/08/gop-eyes-obama.html

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Analysis: Biden pick shows lack of confidence
By RON FOURNIER

The candidate of change went with the status quo.

In picking Sen. Joe Biden to be his running mate, Barack Obama sought to shore up his weakness _ inexperience in office and on foreign policy _ rather than underscore his strength as a new-generation candidate defying political conventions.

He picked a 35-year veteran of the Senate _ the ultimate insider _ rather than a candidate from outside Washington, such as Govs. Tim Kaine of Virginia or Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas; or from outside his party, such as Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska; or from outside the mostly white male club of vice presidential candidates. Hillary Rodham Clinton didn't even make his short list.

http://townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2008/08/23/analysis_biden_pick_shows_lack_of_confidence

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Time's Halperin: McCain's House Issue Harms Obama

By Noel Sheppard (Bio | Archive)
August 24, 2008 - 13:24 ET

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ABC's George Stephanopoulos clearly had John McCain's houses on his mind Sunday, for during the latest installment of "This Week," the presumptive Republican presidential nominee's real estate holdings were discussed with every guest.

What Stephanopoulos may not have expected was Time's Mark Halperin claiming that "this is going to end up being one of the worst moments in the entire campaign for one of the candidates, but it's Barack Obama."

Adding delicious insult to injury, much to Democrat strategist Donna Brazile's dismay, Halperin saw the Obama campaign's attack on McCain not knowing how many houses he owns as opening the door for the Arizona senator to bring up the Illinois senator's connections to Tony Rezko, Reverend Wright, and William Ayers (video embedded right, partial transcript follows): ...

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/08/24/-halperin--mccains-house-issue-harms-obama

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Clinton Supporters Split Over Biden As VP

DENVER -- Hillary Rodham Clinton's supporters had mixed reactions Saturday to the selection of Joe Biden as the Democrats' vice presidential candidate.

Some realized a long time ago that Barack Obama, the party's presumptive nominee for president, was not going to pick Clinton as his running mate. Others held out hope until they awoke to the announcement Saturday morning.

Susan Castner, a Clinton delegate from Portland, Ore., said she sees some of Clinton's qualities in Biden. She likes his experience, especially on foreign policy.[color]

http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/cvn_biden_clinton_supporters/2008/08/23/124390.html

OLYMPICS END WITH SPECTACULAR CEREMONY

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Iran's Ahmadinejad in new verbal attack on Israel
Aug 23 04:58 PM US/Eastern

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad renewed his verbal attacks on arch-foe Israel on Saturday, accusing it of dragging the world into turmoil and predicting its demise.

"About 2,000 organised Zionists and 7,000 to 8,000 agents of Zionism have dragged the world into turmoil," Ahmadinejad told a rally in the central Iranian city of Arak carried live on state television.

He said that if the West does not restrain Zionism, "the powerful hand of the nations will clean these sources of corruption from the face of the earth," without specifying which nations.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080823205825.ys8eb6lz&show_article=1

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Obama promoting homosexuality, report card reveals
Assessment outlines stark difference in leading candidates' positions

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama has a long and established record of promoting homosexuality in contrast to the presumptive GOP candidate, Sen. John McCain., according to a new report card issued by a pro-family organization in California.



The report card, which has been posted online, was produced by the Campaign for Children and Families, which said it isn't taking a position on the political candidates but wanted people to see the "unrepudiated positions" of the candidates on issues including homosexual "marriage," teaching homosexuality to school children and adoption by homosexuals.

"Let the record show that John McCain and Barack Obama are polar opposites on partial-birth abortion, parental notification of abortion, marriage protection on the ballot, homosexual indoctrination of schoolchildren, gay adoptions, gun-owner rights, activist judges, and raising taxes," said Randy Thomasson, president of Campaign for Children and Families. "No one should base their vote on personality or mere feelings. Our carefully researched report card shows you exactly where Obama and McCain stand on issues of importance to voters, their families, and our nation's future."

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=73120

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Conventions speakers scheduled for Monday

By The Associated Press Sun Aug 24, 5:30 PM ET

A look at Monday's speakers for the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver
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MICHELLE OBAMA: The potential first lady addresses Democrats after a rocky summer as the target of conservative attacks. She was harshly criticized by Republicans for her comment that for the first time in her adult life she was proud of the United States, a comment her husband, Barack Obama, later said was merely an expression of her pride in high voter interest. The criticism of Michelle Obama led Obama earlier this year to call for opponents to "lay off my wife." In recent weeks, Michelle Obama has worked to soften her image, talking about raising two daughters in an interview in Ebony magazine and making a June appearance at an Ohio nursing home. Barack Obama's half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, and Michelle Obama's older brother, Craig Robinson, also will have roles in the convention.

HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI: The nation's first female speaker of the House, Pelosi opens the convention. Pelosi has represented the San Francisco area in Congress since 1987. Since taking the gavel last year, Pelosi has steered a divided House through an economic stimulus package and opposition to many of President Bush's initiatives, including an override of Bush's veto of the 2008 farm bill. But so far she has failed to achieve a top goal since Democrats regained control of the House: halting U.S. combat missions in Iraq. The failure has led to criticism of Pelosi by liberal activists.

SEN. EDWARD M. KENNEDY: The Massachusetts senator is the subject of a five-minute recorded tribute. Diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor and recently completing radiation and chemotherapy, one of the nation's best-known Democrats has been keeping a low public profile.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080824/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_convention_speakers_monday

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Deception on infant protection bill haunts Obama
Jim Brown

Barack Obama talkBarack Obama continues to be dogged by claims that he is misleading people about his past opposition to a bill in the Illinois legislature protecting babies who survived late-term abortions.



New audio reveals that while arguing against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act (BAIPA) in the Illinois Senate in 2002, state lawmaker Obama suggested two doctors tending to a baby who survived a botched abortion would be too much of a burden to the child's mother.

"And that essentially adding an additional doctor -- who then has to be called in an emergency situation to come in and make these assessments -- is really designed simply to burden the original decision of the woman and the physician to induce labor and perform an abortion," he stated.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=223514

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Dems seek peace in party as Obama convention opens

DENVER (AP) - Democrats opened their national convention on Monday, seeking peace in the family as they pursue victory in the fall for Barack Obama and his historic quest for the White House.

An appearance by the ailing, aging Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and a primetime speech by Obama's wife, Michelle, headlined the convention's first night.

In excerpts released in advance, the would-be first lady said she and her husband were raised with solid American values: "that you work hard for what you want in life, that your word is your bond and you do what you say you're going to do, that you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them, and even if you don't agree with them."

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080825/D92PK38O0.html

Chris Mathhews promised not a dry eye in the house would happen ..no lie on CNN a saw a Kennedy family member tearing & less delegates than I can count on one hand.


DNC embraces homosexual agenda

Where Did Obama's Mo Go?

Ousted Dem. Delegate Stars in McCain Ad

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Clinton Advisers Skipping Obama Speech

Updated 8:43 p.m.
By Matthew Mosk
A number of Sen. Hillary Clinton's top advisers will not be staying in Denver long enough to hear Barack Obama accept the nomination for president, according to sources familiar with their schedules.

Clinton will deliver her speech Tuesday night. She will hold a private meeting with her top financial supporters Wednesday at noon, and will thank her delegates at an event that afternoon. Former president Bill Clinton will speak that night. Several of Hillary Clinton's supporters are then planning to leave town -- among them, Terry McAuliffe, Clinton's campaign chairman. Another of Clinton's top New York fundraisers, Alan Patricof, did not make the trip to Denver.

Robert Zimmerman, a Clinton supporter who is trying now to navigate between the two camps, will be staying for Obama's speech. But he said in an interview that it would be unrealistic to expect there would not still be some tension between the two camps -- he noted that the same was true with supporters of Gary Hart and, to a lesser extent, Howard Dean.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/08/25/clinton_adviser_to_skip_town_b.html

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Poll: More than half of Clinton backers still not sold on Obama

By Susan Page, USA TODAY
DENVER — Fewer than half of Hillary Rodham Clinton's supporters in the presidential primaries say they definitely will vote for Barack Obama in November, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, evidence of a formidable challenge facing Democrats as their national convention opens here today.

In the survey, taken Thursday through Saturday, 47% of Clinton supporters say they are solidly behind Obama, and 23% say they support him but may change their minds before the election.

Thirty percent say they will vote for Republican John McCain, someone else or no one at all.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-08-24-campaignpoll_N.htm

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Gallup Daily: Race Tied as Democratic Convention Starts
Candidates deadlocked at 45%

http://www.gallup.com/poll/109792/Gallup-Daily-Race-Tied-Democratic-Convention-Starts.aspx

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Kennedy rallies Dems for Obama as convention opens

DENVER (AP) - Ailing and aging, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy summoned fellow Democrats to rally behind Barack Obama's pioneering quest for the White House Monday night, providing a poignant opening to a party convention in search of unity for the fall campaign.

"The work begins anew, the hope rises again and the dream lives on," Kennedy said in a strong voice, reprising the final line of a memorable 1980 speech that brought a different convention to its feet. The senator has been undergoing treatment for a malignant brain tumor.

Convention planners hoped a prime time address by Obama's wife, Michelle, would begin the work of casting the Illinois senator as a leader with classic American values.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080826/D92PMK701.html

TEDDY THE SWIMMER DID WELL..but again where were the tears??? Maybe Matthews legs were twisting...

Chicago Clinton Supporter: Obama Mentor Called Me ‘Uncle Tom’

VIDEO: Video: Michelle Obama on the ‘great American story’

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Wife stresses Obama’s American values
Address seeks to counter Republican attacks on nominee as elitist

DENVER - Michelle Obama mixed the personal and the political Monday night in painting a picture of her husband, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, as a working-class advocate for the American dream who “will finally bring the change that we need.”

In an address on the opening night of the Democratic National Convention, Obama countered Republican attempts to portray her husband, whom the Democrats will nominate for president on Wednesday night, as an exotic elitist out of touch with the concerns of ordinary Americans.

Obama stressed her and the senator’s middle-class backgrounds, saying the couple “were raised with so many of the same values: that you work hard for what you want in life, that your word is your bond and you do what you say you’re going to do, that you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.”
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26379521/

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FBI looks into Denver reports of threat on Obama

By STEVEN K. PAULSON, Associated Press Writer 56 minutes ago

DENVER - Federal authorities are looking into reports that a man arrested with rifles, ammunition and drugs in his truck may have made threats against Barack Obama, officials said Monday.


Two other men were arrested in the case.

"It's premature to say that it was a valid threat or that these folks have the ability to carry it out," said a U.S. government official familiar with the investigation. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080826/ap_on_re_us/obama_threat_investigation;_ylt=AhL7gKjdeY.gwbrV8UR6Ruas0NUE

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Archbishop scolds pro-choice Biden
Valerie Richardson and Julia Duin
Tuesday, August 26, 2008



DENVER | Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. arrived at the Democratic National Convention on Monday amid rumblings over whether his pro-choice Catholicism would help or hurt the Democratic ticket.

An Irish-Catholic from a working-class upbringing, Mr. Biden won the nod as presumptive presidential nominee Barack Obama's running mate in part because of his appeal to blue-collar Catholics, the same voters who swung during the primary for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.

Although he represents Delaware in the Senate, Mr. Biden grew up in Pennsylvania, a must-win state for Democrats in November.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/aug/26/archbishop-condemns-bidens-pro-choice-stance/

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Carville: Dems wasting first night


...."The way they planned it tonight was supposed to be sort of the personal — Michelle Obama will talk about Barack Obama personally, Ted Kennedy was a very personal, emotional speech," Carville said. "But I guarantee on the first night of the Republican Convention, you're going to hear talk about Barack Obama, commander-in-chief, tax cuts, et cetera, et cetera."

"You haven't heard about Iraq or John McCain or George W. Bush — I haven't heard any of this. We are a country that is in a borderline recession, we are an 80 percent wrong-track country. Health care, energy — I haven't heard anything about gas prices," Carville also says. "Maybe we are going to look better Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. But right now, we're playing hide the message."

Carville also said the party needs to do a better job of communicating its message to the American people.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/26/carville-dems-wasting-first-night-2/

Catholic Bishops Slam Pelosi On Abortion/u]

Olbermann Insults Matthews On Air, Chris Strikes Back

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Bill Clinton: Obama Is the ‘Man for This Job’
by FOXNews.com
Wednesday, August 27, 2008


Bill Clinton, comparing his own upstart campaign to Barack Obama’s, declared before a packed Denver convention center Wednesday evening that the newly minted Democratic presidential nominee “is the man for this job.”

In a powerful and humbling speech that aimed to set aside bad blood between them during the Democratic presidential primaries, the former president essentially took a step back to make way for the Illinois senator, who just hours earlier had become the first black presidential nominee of a major party.

“I am here first to support Barack Obama,” he said. “Like Hillary, I want all of you who supported her to vote for Barack Obama in November.”

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/08/27/bill-clinton-obama-is-the-man-for-this-job/

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The Big Contradiction from the Denver Dems
by Michael Medved


Is the United States a land of limitless horizons, where hard work and big dreams enable people of humble background to scale dizzying heights of privilege and power?

Or is this a society of slammed doors and blocked opportunities, of a trapped middle class and shattered hope, where ordinary people can only provide a better life for their children with the help of an activist government and dramatic new policies?

The Denver Democrats insist that both descriptions are true, and they fail to acknowledge the obvious contradiction in the two primary messages of their convention.

VIDEO: Bill Endorses Obama

Don Imus: Obama an 'Empty Suit and a Phony'

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Hillary Backers Still Wary After Her Speech
Thursday, August 28, 2008
By Fred Lucas, Staff Writer

(CNSNews.com) – The lead item on Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s Web site late Tuesday night praised the speech of his leading primary opponent, Hillary Clinton, and expressed confidence that the Democratic Party had healed.

But some Clinton-backers are not so sure and expressed concern that Obama is the wrong candidate to run at this time.

“Obama and the DNC view us as a bunch of hormonal, angry, and bitter feminists,” Anne Franklin, a co-founder of the Just Say No Deal, a coalition of Hillary Clinton supporters that oppose Obama, told CNSNews.com.

http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=34710

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Stocks jump on better-than-expected GDP, jobs data- AP

Wall Street barreled higher Thursday after a better-than-expected reading on the gross domestic product and a drop in jobless claims gave investors some reassurance that the economy is holding up.

» View more top stories ............

http://finance.yahoo.com/

Watch how Barry tries to make it sound dismal, as a 4 month rookie stock trader I again made money today & could of made 2-3xs as much today but awaiting a stock I have raise 2-3 $.
No one in my family, most have houses are going through any crisis, almost all of my friends are employed or their businesses are doing well.

My charitable donations have gone up....

PS-THE SURGE IS WORKING BUT THE DRIVE-BYS DON'T FOCUS ON OUR TROOPS SUCCESS!

DON'T BELIEVE THE DEM LIES!

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Obama's Temple of Illusion (updated)
James Lewis
Why the faux Greek Temple at Obama's mass rally at the Invesco Park, you ask? Actually, it's probably not his God Complex. It's just the basic stagecraft of visual illusion.

If you want an actor on stage to look tall, put him in a short frame. It's sometimes called Ponzo illusion"forced perspective". The most famous example is the Ames Distorted Room, and the wonderful website VisualFunHouse.Com has an example called the Little People Optical Illusion.

Except that the Obama's stage director will make him look big, tall, and closer than life instead of small, short, and distant. A Greek Temple is a perfect way to frame a human figure, and change perspective any way you like.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/08/obamas_temple_of_illusion_1.html

Hillary still angry, Biden a bad choice, say pundits

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US economy sees surprise 3.3 percent spurt

by Rob Lever Thu Aug 28, 3:31 PM ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US economy outpaced expectations as surging exports fueled a second-quarter growth spurt at a 3.3 percent pace, according to data Thursday that analysts say makes recession less likel.

The Commerce Department revised upward last month's estimate of a 1.9 percent annualized pace of growth in gross domestic product (GDP).

The figure was much better than the average Wall Street estimate of 2.7 percent and showed a strong acceleration from the 0.9 percent rate of the first three months of the year.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080828/bs_afp/useconomygrowth_080828193133;_ylt=AhTa0U_JqD3_4pECJ0VIFyqs0NUE

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Jobless claims ease for 3rd week
Number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell for the third week straight, as predicted, with 10,000 fewer initial filings reported.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/28/news/economy/jobless_claims/index.htm?postversion=2008082815

Mortgage rates at lowest in more than a month

Tales from 57 States: The Donkey Clan Gathers


THE DEM CONVENTION ENDS TONIGHT!!!

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Muslims in fed terror probe making donations to Obama
Will candidate follow other Dems who gave back jihad-tied funds?


Islamic leaders tied by federal investigators to the radical Muslim Brotherhood in America – including one under active investigation for alleged terror-financing – have recently donated to Sen. Barack Obama's campaign for president, according to Federal Election Commission records reviewed by WND.

Jamal M. Barzinji earlier this year gave Obama $1,000, a gift that records show has not been returned. Other Democratic candidates, including Rep. Jim Moran, have refunded donations from Barzinji since federal agents raided his Virginia home and offices in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.

Obama's top Muslim adviser resigned earlier this month over controversy surrounding his ties to an alleged Muslim Brotherhood front connected to Barzinji, who heads a network of Islamic charities and businesses.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=73719

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Obama vows to reverse Republican legacy

By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent 1 hour, 5 minutes ago

DENVER (Reuters) - Barack Obama launched a sharp assault on Republican presidential rival John McCain on Thursday with a promise to reverse the economic failures of the past eight years and restore America's global reputation.

The first black presidential +++nominee of a major U.S. party linked McCain directly to President George W. Bush and said their failed Republican policies were responsible for a faltering U.S. economy and a decline in U.S. standing in the world.

"We are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look just like the last eight," Obama told a flag-waving crowd of about 75,000 supporters in Denver's open-air football stadium as he accepted the Democratic nomination on the last night of the party convention.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080829/pl_nm/usa_politics_dc

As a 100% minority & although I'd never vote for Barry, who's 50% minority....a minority or woman as prez has always intrigued me...bb1

Obama embarks on 67-day sprint to election

Michelle Obama: Family-Values Feminist - or Phony?

Good morning!!! In a super-brilliant move McCain's VP pick..has taken all of the normal attention Barry should be getting on the cable news programs....bb1

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McCain to Name VP Pick on Friday; Pawlenty, Romney Appear to be Out of Running

DENVER — Speculation about who John McCain would name as his running mate focused on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin after reports circulated early Friday that two short-listers — Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty — were out out of the running.

Adding fuel to the Palin possibility was a report that a charter aircraft from Anchorage had arrived in Dayton, Ohio, where McCain has scheduled a noon ET rally to announce his choice.

Palin is considered a rising star in the Republican Party. She is the state’s first female governor, the mother of five — and at 44 is its youngest chief executive.

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/08/29/mccain-to-name-running-mate-on-friday/

If it's Lieberman or Ridge my McCain baseball cap & buttons go out in the trash....Maybe it is Sarah Palin....bb1


Oprah on Obama: 'I cried my eyelashes off'

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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

There’s now talk that John McCain may choose a woman running mate — so there’s hope for Hillary yet.

Earlier today, Hillary Clinton released her delegates, making Barack Obama officially the Democratic nominee. I wonder how many people thought Hillary should have kept her delegates and released Bill.



You can tell the Olympics are over in China. That stadium they called the bird’s nest? It was converted into a giant coal-burning, lead toy factory.

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

During the Democratic Convention, delegates are being warned not to drink too much. When asked why, Democratic officials said, “Last time we got drunk at our convention, we ended up nominating Walter Mondale.”




The publisher Simon & Schuster came out with a children’s book about Barack Obama. They also came out with a book about John McCain — “Horton Gets a Hearing Aid.”

A woman in Illinois discovered that her Jeep Cherokee used to be owned by Barack Obama. She could tell it used to be Obama’s because Hillary keeps trying to get into the driver’s seat.



Late Show with David Letterman

Tonight’s speakers at the Democratic National Convention: Sen. Harry Reid, former New Hampshire Gov. Jeanne Shaheen, and Charles Schumer. Fire up the TiVo!

Hillary Clinton wore a bright orange pantsuit at the convention last night. She looked like a Caltrans worker on the Hollywood freeway.


She gave a rousing speech — so passionate, so emotional. Nancy Pelosi’s face almost moved.



Earlier, her husband Bill spoke at the convention. He got four standing ovations and five phone numbers.


http://www.newsmax.com/jokes/

BB BULLETIN:

FOX NEWS IS REPORTING IT"S SARAH PALIN....10:35 am....awaiting copy....

Mother of five....life-long NRA member..for DRILL DRILL! DRILL!

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McCain chooses Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for V.P.

By LIZ SIDOTI and BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writers 29 minutes ago

DAYTON, Ohio - John McCain picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a maverick conservative with less than two years in office, as his vice presidential running mate Friday in a startling choice as the Republican National Convention drew near.

At a raucous rally in the swing state of Ohio, McCain introduced Palin as the political partner "who can best help me shake up Washington and make it start working again for the people who are counting on us."

Palin, the first Republican woman tapped for national office, promised: "I'm going to take our campaign to every part of our country and our message of reform to every voter of every background in every political party, or no party at all."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080829/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_veepstakes;_ylt=AqMurlx6j0GpiWFfRzLAybGs0NUE

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New Orleans Residents Are Ordered to Flee Hurricane
By ADAM NOSSITER and SHAILA DEWAN

NEW ORLEANS — City officials ordered everyone to leave New Orleans beginning Sunday morning — the first mandatory evacuation since Hurricane Katrina flooded the city three years ago — as Hurricane Gustav grew into what the city’s mayor called “the storm of the century” on Saturday and moved toward the Louisiana coast.

Mayor C. Ray Nagin said Gustav was larger and more dangerous than Katrina, and pleaded with residents to get out or face enormous flooding and life-threatening winds.

“This is the mother of all storms, and I’m not sure we’ve seen anything like it,” he said at an evening news briefing. “This is the real deal, this is not a test. For everyone thinking they can ride this storm out, I have news for you: that will be one of the biggest mistakes you can make in your life.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/us/31orleans.html?_r=2&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

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Michael Moore: Hurricane Coming During GOP Convention 'Proof There Is a God in Heaven'
Controversial filmmaker admits he's delighted to see a natural disaster potentially interfere with the Republican event.

http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080830000004.aspx

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Gustav slams Cuba as Cat 4 storm; many evacuated

HAVANA (AP) - Gustav howled into Cuba's Isla de Juventud as a monstrous Category 4 hurricane on Saturday while both Cubans and Americans scrambled to flee the path of the fast-growing storm.

Forecasters said Gustav was just short of becoming a top-scale Category 5 hurricane as it powered its way toward mainland Cuba, where authorities were hurriedly evacuating more than 240,000 people from the nation's tobacco-rich western tip.

The hurricane was projected to plow into the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico at full force Sunday, and reach the U.S. coast as early as Monday afternoon. A hurricane watch was issued from Texas east to Florida, an area that includes New Orleans, which Hurricane Katrina devastated in 2005.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080830/D92SSJV80.html

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Storm scrambles GOP convention
By MIKE ALLEN & JONATHAN MARTIN | 8/30/08 10:32 PM EST
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ST. PAUL, Minn. — President Bush is unlikely to make it to the Republican National Convention, and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) may deliver his acceptance speech via satellite because of the historically huge hurricane threatening New Orleans, top officials said.

The RNC issued a release last Saturday night that anounced the formation of " working group of representatives from each of the states in Hurricane Gustav's path. The group will ensure that all affected delegates have information and assistance in real time.

"The Affected States Working Group is led by all five state party chairs from the affected area along with other delegation officials. The purpose of the group will be to regularly brief their delegates and convention planners, provide access to timely information and assistance, and give input on appropriate steps that can be taken from Minnesota."

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/13013.html

ACCUWEATHER: Radar & Updates

McCain, Palin going to region threatened by storm

GOP convention schedule for Monday


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Hurricane poses tough test for McCain, Obama
Aug 31 05:58 PM US/Eastern

Hurricane Gustav barreling towards New Orleans Sunday gave presidential foes John McCain and Barack Obama their first real chance to show they can lead the nation at a time of crisis.

As more than a million people fled Louisiana, the two men vying to be the next commander-in-chief, vowed not to use the hurricane for political gain, and called for partisan politics to be set aside.

"Now is the time to rise above party politics," Republican White House hopeful McCain said. "Now is the time for action."

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080831215832.qksvg2an&show_article=1

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Giuliani out, Thompson and Lieberman in for GOP
Sep 2 08:56 AM US/Eastern
By SARA KUGLER
Associated Press Writer
75 Comments

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Republicans revamped their convention plans for a second day, dropping former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani as keynote speaker Tuesday night while trying to determine President Bush's role in the political pageantry celebrating John McCain's candidacy for president.

In Giuliani's speaking slot were former Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee, one of McCain's rivals for the Republican nomination, and independent Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, the Democrats' vice presidential candidate in 2000 and now a McCain supporter. Republicans say the two will talk about McCain's life and their friendship with him.

Whether Bush will address delegates via satellite Tuesday night had not been decided, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and others had been expected to speak Monday night, but the McCain campaign and convention officials agreed to trim back the politics and focus instead on fundraising for victims of Hurricane Gustav.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D92UJHNG0&show_article=1

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Thompson Speech Hits Media on Palin, Obama on Abortion

Fred Thompson will forcefully defend the selection of Sarah Palin tonight in a speech Republicans are characterizing as "red meat." He will argue that the feeding frenzy over Palin's is the result of "panic" from the Democrat-friendly mainstream media.

"What a breath of fresh air Governor Sarah Palin is. She is from a small town, with small town values, but that's not good enough for those folks who are attacking her and her family. Let's be clear, the selection of Governor Palin has the other side and their friends in the media in a state of panic. She is a courageous, successful, reformer, who is not afraid to take on the establishment."

Thompson will also criticize Barack Obama's answer on abortion from his recent appearance at Rick Warren's Saddleback Church. Warren had asked: "Now, let’s deal with abortion. 40 million abortions since Roe v. Wade. you know, as a pastor I have to deal with this all of the time. All of the pain and all of the conflicts. I know this is a very complex issue. 40 million abortions. At what point does a baby get human rights in your view?"

http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/09/thompson_speech_hits_media_on.asp

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Palin electrifies GOP convention
Party leaders see vice-presidential nominee, abortion platform signaling 'conservative' path

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=74113

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McCain Accepts Nomination, Says He'll Fight to Restore Party Principles
Anti-War Protesters [aka the great unwashed!] Disrupt McCain Acceptance Speech at Republican Convention
By JENNIFER PARKER
ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 4, 2008

Republican presidential nominee John McCain accepted his party's nomination Thursday night in a speech designed to recast the conservative party of President Bush and Karl Rove in his own maverick image.

Early on, a small group of protesters in the hall disrupted McCain's speech holding a sign that read "McCain votes against vets." Two women wearing pick yelled "end the war!" and were dragged out of the hall by security.

Trying to drown out the protesters, the crowd began chanting "USA, USA!"

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Conventions/story?id=5727354&page=1

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CBS Poll: McCain, Obama Tied
McCain Closes Eight-Point Gap From Poll Taken Last Weekend

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/04/opinion/polls/main4416798.shtml

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Palin delivers star-turning performance at RNC
Tom Raum and Liz Sidoti - Associated Press - 9/4/2008 6:35:00 AMBookmark and Share

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Sarah Palin delivered. An embattled vice-presidential candidate, a novice on the national stage, the head of a family suffering its "ups and downs," the first-term Alaska governor rocked the GOP convention with a star-turning performance.

Wielding a stiletto and a smile, Palin belittled Democrat Barack Obama and praised her new boss, John McCain, jolting the crowd of GOP partisans.

"Don't you think we made the right choice for the next vice president of the United States!" McCain said, hinting the controversy surrounding his pick. "And what a beautiful family."

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=237718

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A Pit Bull With Lipstick
Why the smiling, sudden, relentless Sarah Palin should scare Democrats.

http://www.slate.com/id/2199250/

A female Ronald Reagan, thank God for her appoinment! bb1

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Larry [or as Curtis Sliwa says The Living Cadaver]King Live: Jesse Ventura, Actor D.L.Hughley Call Republicans 'Nazis'
By Warner Todd Huston (09/04/08)

It always comes down to this one, doesn't it? Leftists and fringe politicos calling Republicans "Nazis." Well, the "N" word was once again unleashed against John McCain's Republican Convention on September 2 during CNN's Larry King Live show. Actor D.L. Hughley and Independent former Governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura both went for that shopworn epithet as King discussed the Convention.

Along with Hughley and Ventura, King had on former Clinton Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers who claimed that Republicans were saying with their convention theme that “only Republicans put their country first” ridiculously saying that Independents shouldn't vote for the GOP because they are insulted so much. "I don't understand why any independent or Democrat would consider voting for the McCain/Palin ticket," Myers partisanly intoned, "after being called all night that only Republicans put their country first."

Only a true sell out, though, would see it that way. Certainly the convention was cheerleading for its own members and saying that Republicans do, indeed, put their country first. But no one was saying that no one else does. Still, isn't this what conventions are for? To cheerlead and buck up the troops? And tell me, Dee Dee, why should anyone outside the Democrat Party go over to their side of the aisle after the Democrats so monotonously claim that only they care about people? Isn't that just as insulting?

http://americandaily.com/article/23037

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Harry Reid Puts Lieberman On Notice After GOP Convention Speech
Lieberman Risks Payback from Senate Democrats
Thursday, September 04, 2008
By Andrew Miga, Associated Press

Washington - Senate Democrats hinted at payback Thursday for Sen. Joe Lieberman, who called Barack Obama an untested candidate beholden to Democratic interest groups in a prime-time Republican National Convention address.

Lieberman, a Democrat-turned-independent and a close friend of Republican presidential candidate John McCain, still caucuses with Democrats, which allows them to control the Senate with a 51-49 majority . A spokesman for Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., indicated Thursday that Lieberman may no longer be welcome.

"Lieberman went too far when he distorted Sen. Obama's record," said Reid spokesman Jim Manley. "From Reid's perspective, (Lieberman) has every right to give a partisan speech to whomever he wants. But he doesn't have the right to distort Sen. Obama's record like that. Sen. Reid was very disappointed in Lieberman's speech."

http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=35177

Minority Leader Would Welcome Lieberman to GOP
Come over Joe from the DARK SIDE..however when McCain wins, look for Joe to be Chief of Staff, or Sec. of Defense or State..bb1


Mrs. Obama - suburban mom or 'radicalized diva'?


Obama Tells O'Reilly Surge Succeeded

CARTOON: Hurricane Obama


Sarah Palin Is Not Just An Average Hockey Mom

Rev. Jesse Jackson hospitalized for stomach pains


BRAVO ! Fri. am:I See that Bravo is showing Dule Hill, Mary McCormack...& Mr. Don't Take the Bible Literally as Prez...on THE WEST WING!

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Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Sarah Palin spoke at the Republican Convention last night. She says she’s opposed to same-sex marriage. Palin said, “Everyone knows marriage isn’t for gay people — it’s for pregnant teenagers.”



She says she’s a lifelong member of the National Rifle Association. Which explains why she is in favor of shotgun weddings.

John McCain got the endorsement of the gay Republican group known as the Log Cabin Republicans. The endorsement comes not because he supports gay rights, but because he was actually born in a log cabin.

Late Show with David Letterman

John McCain lasted 5 1/2 years in a POW camp in North Vietnam — even he couldn’t get through Joe Lieberman’s speech at the Republican Convention last night.



Dick Cheney did not attend the convention in Minnesota. Apparently, he had already scheduled a heart attack.

Has everyone seen Sarah Palin? Sarah Palin looks like a model for LensCrafters.




The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Joe Lieberman, who ran as a Democrat in 2000 as Al Gore’s vice presidential nominee, spoke at the Republican Convention last night. A Democrat at the Republican Convention. That’s like Bill Clinton speaking at a sexual abstinence rally.



John McCain arrived in Minnesota today. The last time he visited that state he was shooting buffalo from a train.

I don’t want to say that the Republicans are trying to distance themselves from President Bush, but last night while Bush was speaking via satellite, they were trying to change the channel.


http://www.newsmax.com/jokes/

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Is Oprah Biased? Host Won't Interview Palin
Republican VP Nominee Sarah Palin Isn't Welcome on 'Oprah'
By EMILY FRIEDMAN
Sept. 5, 2008


She may have let Tom Cruise jump all over her couch, but Oprah Winfrey says that Sarah Palin can't even sit on it.

At least not until after the presidential election, that is.

Responding to media reports first publicized on Matt Drudge's "The Drudge Report" claiming there was turmoil at Winfrey's Harpo Studios about whether to book the GOP vice presidential nominee on the popular talk show, Winfrey's camp said today that while she has nothing against Palin, the veep hopeful won't appear on the show anytime soon.

"The item in today's 'Drudge Report' is categorically untrue," Winfrey said in a written statement provided to ABCNews.com. "There has been absolutely no discussion about having Sarah Palin on my show.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=5736716&page=1

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McCain Attracts Record TV Audience, Tops Obama, Palin (Update3)

By Andy Fixmer

Sept. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain attracted a record 38.9 million television viewers to his acceptance speech last night, surpassing Democratic rival Barack Obama and McCain's running mate, Sarah Palin.

The total exceeded the 38.4 million who watched Obama accept the Democratic nomination in Denver on Aug. 28, Nielsen Media Research said today in a statement. Palin drew 37.2 million on Sept. 3 after three days of intense media coverage.

The last night of the Republican gathering in St. Paul, Minnesota, was seen in 28.3 million homes, breaking the record of the 27.7 million who watched Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention. McCain's ratings are the highest for a political convention since Nielsen began collecting data in 1960.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aKjsGDFVPt3E&refer=home

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The Unexamined Life
By Linda Chavez

The biggest story to emerge from the Republican National Convention was the media's effort to destroy Gov. Sarah Palin. Members of the Fourth Estate behaved more like a Democratic fifth column this week than they did like honest reporters. Palin's stunningly effective speech Wednesday night showed they will not easily take her down -- but their malicious attacks on Gov. Palin's family prove that they will stop at nothing to achieve their aim. Since when is the private life of a 17-year-old fair game in a political campaign? Apparently only when that 17-year-old's mom is a Republican candidate.

Make no mistake -- the press outed Bristol Palin's pregnancy. Reporters descended on Alaska following vile and false accusations on Internet blogs that Gov. Palin faked her own pregnancy and that her daughter was actually baby Trig's mother. These lies weren't only spread by left-wing fanatics but by journalists like Andrew Sullivan, whose blog appears on Atlantic.com, the online version of what was once one of the most respected magazines in the country. As the rumors got uglier, the McCain campaign decided they had no choice but to reveal to the world intimate details about Gov. Palin's daughter. And the media stood by their decision to muckrake by arguing for the public's right to know.

If you don't think this reflects media bias, contrast this insatiable prying into Bristol Palin's life with the press's lack of curiosity about the behavior of another 17-year-old -- one whose story would seem to have more relevance to this year's presidential election.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/the_unexamined_life.html

Perfection Is Not Required To Be A Christian… Nor A Republican


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Tropical Storm Hanna continues move rapidly up the Eastern Seaboard after making landfall overnight. Meanwhile, Hurricane Ike is expected to reach the Bahamas by Sunday before entering the Gulf of Mexico next week.

http://www.accuweather.com/news-top-headline.asp?partner=accuweathe
r&traveler=0&date=2008-09-06_08:48

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Palin's son's job to guard his commanders in Iraq
By RICHARD LARDNER



The long and divisive war in Iraq is about to resonate with presidential candidates in a way not seen so far in the campaign: The sons of both vice presidential nominees are assigned to go there soon.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's eldest son, Track, will perform security duties for his brigade's top officers.

"He's just like any other infantry soldier here," said Army Col. Burt Thompson, who heads the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team at Fort Wainwright, Alaska. "He tries to remain as anonymous as he possibly can."

http://townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2008/09/05/palins_sons_job_to_guard_his_commanders_in_iraq

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Obamedia Still Scrambling For Angle to Bury Palin
By JB Williams (09/06/08)

The 24/7 Obama press was sent into frenzy last Friday when John McCain named the one VP running mate that they had not performed preemptive personal sludge searches upon in preparation for the announcement. They thought that they were ready to bury whomever McCain announced, but nobody had Sarah Palin on the war room radar...

Lacking any sludge prep on Palin, the Obama press immediately turned to left-wingnut blogs like Daily Kos for anti-Palin material.

* Nobody knows who she is…
* She’s a girl…
* Alaska’s not a real state, so she’s not a real governor…
* She was only mayor of a small town…
* She has no foreign policy experience…
* Her daughter mothered her secret grandson…
* Her 17 year old daughter is pregnant out of wedlock…
* Her husband has a 25 year old DUI…
* She opposes a woman’s right to kill…
* She likes guns…
* She’s a card carrying member of the vast right-wing conspiracy…
* She had an extramarital affair…

http://americandaily.com/article/23051

Rice Meets Gaddafi on Historic Libya Visit

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Convention Ratings Show People More Interested In GOP's Views



September 6, 2008 - 01:42 ET


Want to know why John McCain and Sarah Palin are laughing in the picture to the right?

Numbers just released by Nielsen Media Research show the average per night viewership of the just concluded Republican National Convention set a record this week topping the audience for the previous week's Democratic National Convention by more than 4 million viewers each evening.

This is quite different than the media meme that Americans are disinterested in politics, in particular Republicans, wouldn't you agree?

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/09/06/convention-ratings-show-people-more-interested-gops-views

BROOKLYN'S BUSINESS BEAT: The Best Places to Launch a Career


Dick Morris: Democrats in Trouble

Maher Mocks Palin's Down Syndrome Child

Matthews: 'Foul Play' Behind Balloon Drop on Mitchell?
I watched & Mitchell said more than once on camera...she said SHE PUT HERSELF IN THE WRONG SPOT..how can anyone take that tingling leg phoney who worhips the zero candidate?


Gov't May Soon Back Fannie, Freddie

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The Rangel scandal deepens

Charles Rangel, a man who writes federal tax laws as head of the House Ways and Means Committee, not only failed to pay taxes on income he received from a luxury resort property he owns, he financed the purchase with an interest-free loan from a campaign backer who is also a politically active lawyer.



David Kocieniewski and David M. Halbfinger report in the New York Times:

Representative Charles B. Rangel paid no interest for more than a decade on a mortgage extended to him to buy a villa at a beachfront resort in the Dominican Republic, according to Mr. Rangel's lawyer and records from the resort.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/09/the_rangel_scandal_deepens.html

When will Matthews,Keithy & the do-nothing House address????????..and send Charlie back to Harlem!

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Palin Effect May Bring Ga. Evangelicals to McCain

Alaska's Governor Sarah Palin could swing Georgia's powerful evangelical vote to John McCain.



“I think she clearly articulates a conservative view that evangelicals appreciate and hold dear to their hearts,” the Rev. Bob Jolly, a Southern Baptist, told The Atlanta Journal Constitution. “People are getting to know who she is, and they like what they hear.”

Gov. Palin, who as a Christian evangelist, shares beliefs with most evangelicals, who, the Journal reports, constitute 1.25 million out of Georgia’s 3.29 million voters. According to the Atlanta paper, fully 38 percent of Georgia voters in 2004 identified themselves as evangelical, according to an exit poll analysis by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.

http://www.newsmax.com/politics/Palin_Effect_evangelicals/2008/09/06/128355.html

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Biden’s Legacy

Catholic Votes With NARAL, Not Church

BY CHARLIE SPIERING

REGISTER CORRESPONDENT


WASHINGTON — Sen. Barack Obama’s choice of Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., as his running mate for was lauded by many Democrats who were attracted to his Irish Catholic roots. Biden was described by both press and pundits as a “fighter” with a “working-class background” and foreign policy expertise who could attract voters to support the young Illinois senator.



If Obama is elected in November, Biden would be the first Catholic vice president.

Biden has long served in the Senate, accruing significant influence, particularly in his position as chairman of the Foreign Policy Committee. Although he voted in favor of the Iraq war, he has since been a sharp critic of the Bush administration. His foreign policy credentials were recently highlighted when he held discussions with leaders in Georgia during the conflict with Russia.

http://ncregister.com/site/article/15793

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Nation's Largest Police Organization Endorses McCain-Palin
September 06, 2008 11:00 AM EST

by Jim Kouri, CPP - Chuck Canterbury, National President of the Fraternal Order of Police, today announced the organization's endorsement of Senator John S. McCain III for the office of President.

"The FOP carefully considered the records and the responses of both candidates and, in our evaluation, Senator McCain will provide greater leadership for our country and for our nation's law enforcement officers," Canterbury said. "We will be proud to stand behind him this November, and to stand with him for the next four years."



For a candidate to receive the endorsement of the Fraternal Order of Police, he must receive a two-third majority of the National Board, which is made up of one Trustee from each of the organization's State Lodges.

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/34319.html

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Jemima Khan: Mad and bad – but the West will turn a blind eye

Dogged by allegations of crime and corruption, Pakistan's new president could lose power to his army if he fails his restive people

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/jemima-khan-mad-and-bad-ndash-but-the-west-will-turn-a-blind-eye-921544.html

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Wilson row over green 'alarmists'

Sammy Wilson's view on climate change has angered environmentalists

The Environment Minister Sammy Wilson has angered green campaigners by describing their view on climate change as a "hysterical psuedo-religion". "hysterical psuedo-religion".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7599810.stm

Hurricane Ike at Cat 4; Packs Winds of 135 Mph

Breaking News: Zogby: GOP Gets Small Bounce, But Palin More Popular Than McCain, Obama, Biden

What has Obama done?

VIDEO: Old Glory Debacle Did Democrats throw out American flags, or did Republicans steal them?
Wonder if Michelle did The View hand-bump w/ the perps; does this by the Michael Moore
party...surprise anyone??????????

Will be in Manhattan Sun...FOX NEWS is reporting that new data will show a major bounce for McCain-Palin in a day or so,...have a great day! bb1

If Bill Clinton Could Juggle Five Chicks
, Sarah Palin Can Manage Five Kids

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Late Night with Conan O'Brien

During Sarah Palin’s speech last night, she spoke proudly about being a hockey mom. It’s unknown what positions her kids play, but one of them isn’t very good at protecting the crease.

Sarah Palin’s husband was at the Republican Convention. At one point, Palin said her husband’s parents were Eskimos. Then John McCain, during his speech, said his parents were Vikings.


It was reported that Sarah Palin’s speech was actually written by President Bush's speech writers. Which explains the title of the speech — “I Like Trucks.”


The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Barack Obama got beat by a girl last night. What happened?

Sarah Palin mocked Obama for giving speeches in front of adoring crowds and standing in front of a stage backdrop. Ironically, Palin made those comments in front of adoring crowds and in front of stage backdrop.

Even Bill Clinton said, “When Hillary attacks Obama, it’s wrong. But when Sarah does it, it’s somehow hot .

Late Show with David Letterman

I like that Sarah Palin. She looks like the weekend anchor on Channel 9.



She looks like the hygienist who makes you feel guilty for not flossing.



She looks like the mom in a Tide commercial.



The people of Alaska are rugged individualists. Gov. Palin has some wild ideas. She wants to change the U.S. currency from dollars to pelts.

http://www.newsmax.com/jokes/

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US Government takes over mortgage giants

The Bush administration's seizure of troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is potentially a $200 billion bet that it will help reverse a prolonged housing and credit crisis.

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER and ALAN ZIBEL

AP Business Writers
WASHINGTON —

The Bush administration's seizure of troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is potentially a $200 billion bet that it will help reverse a prolonged housing and credit crisis.

The historic move announced Sunday won support from both presidential campaigns, but private analysts worried that it may not be enough to stabilize the slumping housing market given the glut of vacant homes for sale, rising foreclosures, rising unemployment and weak consumer confidence.

Officials announced that both giant institutions were being placed in a government conservatorship, a move that could end up costing taxpayers billions of dollars. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said allowing the companies to fail would have extracted a far higher price on consumers by driving up the cost of home loans and all other types of borrowing because the failures would "create great turmoil in our financial markets here at home and around the globe."

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008161349_apmortgagegiantscrisis.html

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NY POST ENDORSES JOHN MCCAIN



THE Post today enthusiastically urges the election of Sen. John S. McCain as the 44th president of the United States.

McCain's lifelong record of service to America, his battle-tested courage, unshakeable devotion to principle and clear grasp of the dangers and opportunities now facing the nation stand in dramatic contrast to the tissue-paper-thin résumé of his Democratic opponent, freshman Sen. Barack Obama.

McCain has been in Washington for many years now, but he is not of Washington. He knows where the levers of power are located - and how to manipulate them - but he is not controlled by them.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/09082008/postopinion/editorials/post_endorses_john_mccain_128044.htm

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Poll: Convention lifts McCain over Obama

By Susan Page, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — The Republican National Convention has given John McCain and his party a significant boost, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken over the weekend shows, as running mate Sarah Palin helps close an "enthusiasm gap" that has dogged the GOP all year.

McCain leads Democrat Barack Obama by 50%-46% among registered voters, the Republican's biggest advantage since January and a turnaround from the USA TODAY poll taken just before the convention opened in St. Paul. Then, he lagged by 7 percentage points.



CONVENTION: GOP rejuvenated

The convention bounce has helped not only McCain but also attitudes toward Republican congressional candidates and the GOP in general.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-09-07-poll_N.htm

MAJOR ! Look for McCain to win 2 out of 3 debates..maybe all & then it's on to the White House!

The incredible shrinking New York Times+++ shrinks again
+++ A piece of absolute trash!

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MSNBC Takes Incendiary Hosts From Anchor Seat
By BRIAN STELTER




MSNBC tried a bold experiment this year by putting two politically incendiary hosts, Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews, in the anchor chair to lead the cable news channel’s coverage of the election.

That experiment appears to be over.

After months of accusations of political bias and simmering animosity between MSNBC and its parent network NBC, the channel decided over the weekend that the NBC News correspondent and MSNBC host David Gregory would anchor news coverage of the coming debates and election night. Mr. Olbermann and Mr. Matthews will remain as analysts during the coverage.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/business/media/08msnbc.html?_r=2&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

I am amongst many fellow citizens that complained to the parent about these 2 Barry cheerleaders/clowns!

Andrea Mitchell Changes Mind, Now Thinks Palin a Good VP Pick
Sarah America WILL be in time our 1st woman prez & Harold Ford in about 3 terms our 1st black prez...He needs to run for Gov. or something & start building more experience..---bb1!

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Obama flexes his pro-abortion muscles
Jim Brown - OneNewsNow - 9/5/2008 6:00:00 AMBookmark and Share

McCain and ObamaA Wisconsin-based pro-life group is urging Republican presidential nominee John McCain to counter an ad being aired by the Barack Obama campaign that warns voters McCain will overturn Roe v. Wade.



The campaign for the Democratic presidential candidate is airing an ad in key states such as Florida, Virginia, Iowa, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Colorado, telling female voters that John McCain "will make abortion illegal."

A nurse-practitioner who narrates the ad says: "Let me tell you -- if Roe v. Wade is overturned, the lives and health of women will be put at risk. That's why this election is so important. John McCain's out of touch with women today. McCain wants to take away our right to choose. That's what women need to understand. That's how high the stakes are."

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=238864

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Union strikes Boeing
Walkout by 27,000 assembly line workers shuts aircraft maker that holds key place in job market and economy. Customers await new plane.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/06/news/companies/boeing_strike_begins/index.htm

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Stocks surge on plan for mortgage giants
Investors bet on a broad economic recovery after Fannie, Freddie move

NEW YORK - Stocks surged early Monday as investors rushed to lay bets on a broad economic recovery following the weekend announcement that the U.S. government will bail out mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.



Meanwhile, bond prices fell sharply as emboldened investors looked for riskier but higher-yielding bets.

The announcement Sunday that the Treasury Department was seizing control of the companies, which own or back about half the nation's mortgage debt, brushed aside investors' persistent worries that the companies would be felled by a spike in bad mortgage debt.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3683270/

In the first 1/2 hour of the opening 1 of my stocks rose $5+...I'm holding out believing it'll go up even more (Stock:BEN)

World stocks soar after Freddie, Fannie bailouts


BROOKLYN'S TIME OUT FOR SPORTS: Season Opener May Be Season Ender for Patriots QB Tom Brady


Once Spurned, McCain Finds Corporate Support


Why the dollar is hot again

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Palin raises hope for parents of disabled kids
By SHANNON McCAFFREY

Polishing off his strawberry-banana yogurt, Jacob Moore races to his keyboard with a whoop, picks his way through "Pop Goes the Weasel" and gives his mom a high five. This is the average stuff of childhood, and it has not come easily to the 8-year-old with Down syndrome.



For his mother, Heidi Moore, achieving average "is like climbing Mount Everest." The family has been clambering up with the help of therapists, 15 surgeries, prayer and a tight-knit community of parents whose children live with the disorder.
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That network is abuzz with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's arrival on the national scene as Republican presidential candidate John McCain's running mate. A little more than four months ago, Palin, 44, gave birth to a son, Trig, with the extra chromosome that causes Down syndrome

http://townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2008/09/08/palin_raises_hope_for_parents_of_disabled_kids

Ms. Palin's Pipeline Her attempt to deliver natural gas from Alaska is revealing about her governing style.

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General Election: McCain vs. Obama
RCP Electoral Map | Changes in Electoral Count | Map With No Toss Ups | No Toss Up Changes


Polling Data
Poll Date Sample McCain (R) Obama (D) Spread
RCP Average 09/05 - 09/07 -- 48.6 45.4 McCain +3.2
CNN 09/05 - 09/07 942 RV 48 48 Tie
USA Today/Gallup 09/05 - 09/07 823 LV 54 44 McCain +10
Rasmussen Tracking 09/05 - 09/07 3000 LV 48 47 McCain +1
Hotline/FD Tracking 09/05 - 09/07 924 RV 44 44 Tie
Gallup Tracking 09/05 - 09/07 2733 RV 49 44 McCain +5

See All General Election: McCain vs. Obama Polling Data

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html

Religious ‘Defamation’ on Agenda at UN Rights Session


Top 25 Competitive Congressional Races
Once the swiftboat type ads & more of Barry's background & lack of ANY experience comes out, the dems may not win as many seats as they thought..If McCain-Palin win by a landlide..the GOP may even take back the senate.bb1

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Obama's verbal slip fuels his critics
Christina Bellantoni (Contact)


ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Sen. Barack Obama's foes seized Sunday upon a brief slip of the tongue, when the Democratic presidential nominee was outlining his Christianity but accidentally said, "my Muslim faith."

The three words -- immediately corrected -- were during an exchange with ABC's George Stephanopoulos on "This Week," when he was trying to criticize the quiet smear campaign suggesting he is a Muslim.



But illustrating the difficulty of preventing false rumors about his faith from spreading, anti-Obama groups within one hour of the interview had sliced it out of context and were sending it around via email. They also were blogging about it.

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/07/obama-verbal-slip-fuels-his-critics/

Russell Brand calls George Bush a 'retard' at MTV awards

Barack Obama — Magna Cum Saudi?


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Russia to hold military exercise with Venezuela
Moscow to send naval squadron, anti-submarine patrol planes to region

Source: MSNBC

Bauer: Gloomy future if Obama elected

Vatican Official: Palin 'Dream' for Pro-Lifers

Hurricane Ike Turns West, Away From Florida Keys

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Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Arizona Sen. John McCain accepted the Republican nomination for president — just as I said he would.

McCain issued a call for Americans to take it upon themselves to help change the country. We all want to see things change for the better, but very few of us are willing to do something about it. By the way, when I say us, I don’t mean me. And not just for white people, but for all.

There was a story going around that Oprah doesn’t want Sarah Palin on her show. But Oprah issued a statement saying there have been no discussions about having her on. Apparently, between bathroom makeovers and the best look for curvy women, they’re all booked up. It has nothing to do with Obama.



Late Show with David Letterman

A sure sign fall is around the corner here in New York: In Central Park, I saw a nut gathering squirrels.



The shadow of the guy following you gets longer.

It’s Fashion Week. All the guys in the Village are dressed like Sarah Palin.


The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

John McCain gave his big speech. He looked so life-like, too.

He was full of energy. I haven’t seen him this fired up since they came out with Super PoliGrip.

He talked about serving his country in Vietnam. Which is a nice change after 16 years of two presidents who couldn’t quite explain how they got out of serving their country.



Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is out on the campaign trail, and today she attended a rally in Wisconsin. The Alaska governor said she was thrilled to visit Wisconsin, because she’s never been to the Deep South.



Oprah Winfrey is in the middle of a scandal today, because she is refusing to have Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin on her show. The friction started because Palin said if she was elected she’d be the most powerful woman in the country, and Oprah said, “The hell you will.”

During John McCain’s speech last night, an anti-Republican heckler began yelling at him. Officials removed the man and immediately gave him a job at MSNBC.





http://www.newsmax.com/jokes/

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Let's Never Forget

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McCain Now Winning Majority of Independents
Majority of independents now prefer him over Obama, 52% to 37%

by Lydia Saad

PRIN CETON, NJ -- John McCain's 6 percentage-point bounce in voter support spanning the Republican National Convention is largely explained by political independents shifting to him in fairly big numbers, from 40% pre-convention to 52% post-convention in Gallup Poll Daily tracking.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/110137/McCain-Now-Winning-Majority-Independents.aspx

Remember when McCain was running with an almost empty campaign coffer;no entourage, Was going around solo and dragging along his luggage........ & the media was counting him out--- & then in NH a miracle turnaround!
Even though Barry has drawn big crowds (youth might register but frequently youth don't vote)..and Barry has televised the most ads...McCain is due for another major miracle.

Exposing the 'climate change' myth

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‘Give the American People Their Energy Vote’
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
By Susan Jones, Senior Editor

(CNSNews.com) - With Congress back in session, House Republicans are continuing their push for an “all of the above” energy plan that includes expanded domestic oil drilling.



“We have three weeks left in this Congress, and it’s time for the Democrats who control it to do the right thing and give Americans the energy vote they deserve,” said House Republican leader John Boehner (Ohio).

The Republican-sponsored American Energy Act would increase production of American energy, promote conservation and efficiency, and encourage the use of alternative and renewable fuels. Under the GOP plan, a share of new drilling revenues would go directly into a renewable energy trust fund to accelerate the development of clean, renewable energy.

http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=35385

Gingrich: Pro-Obama Media Bias is Backfiring (video)


Honor the troops: Beat Murtha!

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U.S. 'Dangerously Vulnerable' to Attacks: Reports

Tuesday, September 9, 2008 11:22

WASHINGTON — The United States remains "dangerously vulnerable" to chemical, biological and nuclear attacks seven years after the 9/11 attacks, a forthcoming independent study concludes.



And a House Democrats' report says the Bush administration has repeatedly missed opportunities to improve the nation's security.

The recent political rupture between Russia and the U.S. only makes matters worse, said former Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., who helped lead the 9/11 Commission and now chairs the independent group's latest study.

http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/vulnerable_chemical_attac/2008/09/09/129307.html

Bishops criticize Biden's abortion statements
If the Catholics were true to the Bible--they would of tossed many of the Kennedy's, Cuomos,Biden,Kerry,Pelosi & other rebellious ones should be handed over to Satan ...although by appearance many dems are already there...

Why Do They Hate Sarah Palin So?

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McCain makes huge gains among women voters

Rick Moran
More good polling news for the McCain campaign as the numbers start to roll in showing that his pick of Sarah Palin may have been the masterstroke of the election.



The vital demographic of white women have surged to John McCain since the GOP convention ended last week:

Republican presidential candidate John McCain has gained huge support among white women since naming Sarah Palin as his running mate and now leads Democrat Barack Obama among those voters, according to a survey published on Tuesday.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/09/mccain_makes_huge_gains_among.html

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BROOKLYN'S BLURBS: To Your Health!

Vitamin B12 May Protect Aging Brains

Tuesday, September 9, 2008 9:30 AM

Vitamin B12, a nutrient found in meat, fish and milk, may protect against brain volume loss in older people, according to a study published in the September 9, 2008, issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

For the study, 107 people between the ages of 61 and 87 underwent brain scans, memory testing and physical exams. Researchers also collected blood samples to check vitamin B12 levels. Brain scans and memory tests were also performed again five years later.

The study found that people who had higher vitamin B12 levels were six times less likely to experience brain shrinkage compared with those who had lower levels of the vitamin in their blood. None of the people in the study had vitamin B12 deficiency.

http://www.newsmax.com/health/B12_protect_aging_brains/2008/09/09/129038.html

I take a monthly shot & supplemnt the B vitamins daily.

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Stopping underage abortion in California
Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow - 9/9/2008 7:00:00 AMBookmark and Share

California's version of a parental notification law -- has been a bit overshadowed by another election measure that would overturn homosexual "marriage."



Prop. 4 is called "Sarah's Law." Sarah was 15 years old when she died four days after an abortion. Doctors said if the parents had known, the death may not have occurred. The proposal calls for parents or another relative to be notified 48 hours before an abortion. But Grace Delaney of Friends of Sarah notes it would also require Planned Parenthood to report underage abortions.

"Over 50 percent of the pregnant teens in California are actually impregnated by adult males, so these aren't girls who are getting pregnant by the kid next to them in algebra class," Delaney explains.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=242840

Eggs for sale -- the human kind


'Does Obama Seek to Re-educate our Kids?'


College entrance still an obstacle to home schoolers


Rev. Wright in 'steamy' sex scandal
Watch this racist/evil character..as he knows Obama 20 years..it would'nt be a surprise that he sticks a knife in Barry's back in some Oct. surprise!

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Rangel Owes U.S. Back Taxes, Lawyer Says

Representative Charles B. Rangel, chairman of the Congressional committee that writes the nation’s tax code, failed to pay an unspecified amount in federal taxes during the past five years on rental income from a villa he owns in the Dominican Republic, his lawyer said on Tuesday.

Mr. Rangel, a Harlem Democrat who is chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, has owned the beachfront house at the Punta Cana resort and club since 1988, but never declared the $75,000 in rental income he has earned either on his tax returns or on his Congressional financial disclosure form.

When Mr. Rangel’s legal advisers first acknowledged the unreported income last week, during interviews with reporters, they said his accountants had determined that he would probably owe back taxes to the city and New York State, but not the federal government.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/nyregion/10rangel.html?em

Listen up this man is a national disgrace the left tried to make an issue out of amount of houses that John & Cindy owns...the MSM never said it was investment property & one was given to their daughter..

But this sleazy character had 4 apartments in 1 building in Harlem...one he used as an office.Taking away hard to get apartments by three low-income or middle class fellow NYers

He owes US, NYS & NYC taxes.

I hope a Mccain's AG begins launching suits against crooked pols...Rangel belongs w/ Sheriff Joe in XXXL PINK DEPENDS!


Everyone's talking about the news that they see on BROOKLYN'S BLURBS..BB You Give Us 22 mins. we give you the world!

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N.Y. Gov.: GOP Injects Race in Obama Critiques

Tuesday, September 9, 2008 7:00

New York Gov. David Paterson said Tuesday that there were racial overtones in the Republican presidential ticket's criticism of Democrat Barack Obama's work as a community organizer.

"There are overtones of potential racial coding in the campaign," Paterson said at an event in New York City.

Paterson said that while Republican candidates John McCain and Sarah Palin haven't directly talked about race, it's strongly implied in comments Alaska Gov. Palin and others have made about Obama. McCain's camp said Paterson's claim is false.

http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/obama_racial_politics/2008/09/09/129252.html

I guess the serial adulterer can't see reality..SEE MY BIO on post #1...Way back when I had done neighborhood, political & union organizing in Cali., NY & NJ........the majortity of those who risk sometimes life & limb are latino, Catholics & lots of our Jewish friends.
A friend, Jewish-- was a Freedom Rider& blinded in one eye. Very few AAs were involved & I've done such literally from coast to coast

Paterson is a liar.

http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/obama_racial_politics/2008/09/09/129252.html

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Autumn Angst: Dems fret about Obama
By DAVID PAUL KUHN & BILL NICHOLS | 9/10/08 7:31 PM EST
Polls showing John McCain tied or even ahead of Barack Obama are stirring angst and second-guessing among some of the Democratic Party’s most experienced operatives, who worry that Obama squandered opportunities over the summer and may still be underestimating his challenges this fall.

“It’s more than an increased anxiety,” said Doug Schoen, who worked as one of Bill Clinton’s lead pollsters during his 1996 re-election and has worked for both Democrats and independents in recent years. “It’s a palpable frustration. Deep-seated unease in the sense that the message has gotten away from them.”

Joe Trippi, a consultant behind Howard Dean’s flash-in-the-pan presidential campaign in 2004 and John Edwards’s race in 2008, said the Obama campaign was slow to recognize how the selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as McCain’s running mate would change the dynamic of the race.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13357.html

I know that McCain won't win my neighborhood & probably NYS (unless there's a terror attack)

I always wear my McCain cap & buttons and am seeing more AAs asking questions..although you can see many have hate written all over their faces or make negative comments.

The AA brothers that you recently might have seen on tv as they held up a banner & was shouting...OBAMA WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR BLACKS??????????

They recently held a rally in Brooklyn and look forward to other guerilla tactics.

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Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Controversy on MTV last night: Russell Brand, on the VMA Awards, referred to President Bush as a “retarded cowboy.” Of course, everyone knows the correct term is “special needs” cowboy.



This is sweet — Barack Obama took his daughters to their first day of school. In a related story, John McCain took his daughters to pick up their first Social Security checks.

There is some good news for John McCain: According to the latest polls, McCain has started to open up a lead over Barack Obama. The USA Today poll has McCain ahead by 10 points; CBS news poll has the two tied; and the MSNBC poll says that Obama won the election last week.





Late Show with David Letterman

It’s Fashion Week here in New York City. Everyone’s got fashion fever; in fact, the Statue of Liberty, earlier today, was wearing some of those hip Sarah Palin glasses.


Everyone’s out campaigning. Sen. McCain and Sarah Palin were in New Mexico. They were having lunch at a diner. I thought this was so sweet. She was there cutting his meat for him.

It’s like old times — today is the first day of the O.J. Simpson trial.

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The government is spending $200 billion to bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; unemployment is at a five-year high; foreclosures are at a 19-year high . . . you know, this means the Democrats are going to have to work extra hard to blow this election.



It looks like John McCain’s speech beat Barack Obama’s in the ratings. That’s like “American Idol” being beaten by reruns of “Matlock.”



They say John McCain’s biggest challenge is trying to convince people that he’s not George W. Bush. Just the fact that he went to Vietnam shows he’s not George W. Bush.


http://www.newsmax.com/jokes/

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Twin Towers Memories PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 11 September 2008
By Alan Caruba
In the years prior to 9/11, if you lived in New Jersey as I do and drove into New York there was a sweeping curve of roadway leading into the Lincoln Tunnel that provides a view across the Hudson River of downtowntwintowers Manhattan. One could see the Twin Towers from that vantage point and it always bespoke the financial power of the nation, the greatness of our economic system, and our role in the world.

Little wonder it was targeted, along with the Pentagon, for destruction by al Qaeda, the evil spawn of a seventh century religion whose name translates as “submission.”

Though preceded by a number of violent attacks that included U.S. embassies and other manifestations of the Islamic mandate to make war until the entire world accepts Islam, it was 9/11 that demonstrated the demonic forces it has let loose in the world.

There are more than a billion Muslims worldwide and most desire peace no less than the vast majority of mankind. Too many, however, are driven by their worst instincts, their sense of victimization, their romanticized view of Middle Eastern culture and history.

http://www.borderfirereport.net/alan-caruba/twin-towers-memories.html

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9/11 is a story of people

BY EAMON STEWART

Thursday, September 11th 2008, 4:00 AM

This week, New York City high school students took part in a nationwide pilot program focusing on educating youths about the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.



I, for one, need no film or textbook to recall the day. I can remember it with perfect clarity. Seven years ago Thursday terrorists attacked our nation and killed my father. I had just started middle school and as I waited for class to begin, one of my classmates ran into the room yelling that a plane had hit the twin towers.

My father had not been working at the World Trade Center for long, so it took a few moments to digest what was happening.

That morning, nothing seemed real because what I witnessed was too brutal, catastrophic and personal.

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/09/11/2008-09-11_911_is_a_story_of_people.html

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Some Would Rather Not Remember September 11th
Society piece by Aaron Goldstein

The events that occurred seven years ago that resulted in the deaths of nearly 3,000 innocent civilians were so calamitous and beyond our previous collective experience that we would be inhuman if we did not commemorate them. Some of these commemorations will take the form of public ceremonies mourning those who were lost be it at a house of worship or some other common meeting place. Others will mark the occasion more privately whether through a moment of silence at the workplace or by lighting a candle at home. However Americans choose to remember September 11th we will remember.

But there are those amongst us who do not approve of such public displays of lament. Most will have the good sense to refrain from making such views known out of respect for those who were lost and their families. Still others will not be able to resist the temptation of hearing the sound of their own voice and all the pretensions contained therein.

One such example of this is Garrison Keillor. Last year, I had the opportunity to hear the host of A Prairie Home Companion give a talk at Northeastern University on the subject of cheerfulness. Keillor’s talk took place a few days after the sixth anniversary of the September 11th attacks:

http://americandaily.ws/index.php/article/1376

McCain and Obama commemorate 9/11 anniversary

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The Terrorists Are Losing
By Quin Hillyer
Published 9/11/2008 12:08:33 AM

Seven years. Zero attacks. And almost zero credit.

President George W. Bush deserves better.

Seven years ago today, evil men killed 2,998 innocent people in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. They did so in service of an evil ideology. And they were directed by evil, small-souled creatures protected by a rogue state halfway across the world. The creatures called their murderous organization Al-Qaeda, which means "The Base" -- a name appropriate for an organization that serves man's base instincts, for base motives, to achieve base results.

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=13862

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Home of the brave?
Posted: September 11, 2008
1:00 am Eastern

My mind is reeling from having just read an account of the events of Sept. 11, 2001, as experienced by a New York City police officer and a FDNY fireman. I grieve as if it were yesterday when I stood transfixed with horror as images of jet-fuel-laden airliners plowed into the World Trade Center Towers in Lower Manhattan.


firehose door

Work had captured my focus that morning when my son called. His voice broke as he said, "Mom, turn on your television; a plane has just flown into the World Trade Center in New York City." As I reached for the remote to power up the set, he said in a deadly monotone, "My God, another plane has hit the other tower." Never have I heard my stoic child so emotionally drained – not when his father died, not in numerous family crises, but this day, he could not maintain that stoicism. He mourned with the rest of this nation; we mourned together at the loss of life and the blatant disregard for humanity by the terrorists who commandeered the planes and used them as giant bombs.

The third plane, flown into the Pentagon, was almost anti-climactic. Our senses were seared by the revulsion and awfulness of it all. And when the brave men and women in the final aircraft spiraled into the ground in Pennsylvania, numbness overcame horror. How could any living being achieve such callousness? We prayed; we cried; we ranted; and then, we prayed again. We lauded the brave men and women who died while trying to rescue the stricken in both towers. We watched in abject terror as some chose to plunge to the ground rather than face a certain, gruesome death inside the raging inferno.

(Column continues below)

Source: www.worldnetdaily.com

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Devastating Ike roars ashore in Galveston, Texas

By JUAN A. LOZANO and CHRIS DUNCAN, Associated Press Writers 22 minutes ago

GALVESTON, Texas - Massive Hurricane Ike ravaged southeast Texas early Saturday, battering the coast with driving rain and ferocious wind gusts as residents who decided too late they should have heeded calls to evacuate made futile calls for rescue.

Though it would be daybreak before the storm's toll was clear, already, the damage was extensive. Thousands of homes and government buildings had flooded, roads were washed out, 2.9 million people lost power and several fires burned unabated as crews could not reach them. But the biggest fear was that tens of thousands of people had defied orders to flee and would need to be rescued from submerged homes and neighborhoods.

"The unfortunate truth is we're going to have to go in ... and put our people in the tough situation to save people who did not choose wisely. We'll probably do the largest search and rescue operation that's ever been conducted in the state of Texas," said Andrew Barlow, spokesman for Gov. Rick Perry.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080913/ap_on_re_us/ike

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Texas reels from Hurricane Ike's power

* Story Highlights
* NEW: Galveston, Houston residents emerge to scenes of destruction
* NEW: Dump trucks, boats employed to reach stranded victims
* NEW: Flooded garage dooms pickup, two Harleys, appliances
* Bush promises to protect consumers from gas-price gouging

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/09/13/hurricane.ike.texas/index.html

RADAR

Bush declares Texas a disaster area after Ike


Some Sunday early news..

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Randi Rhodes On Palin: She's Friends With Teenage Boy
By Kerry Picket (Bio | Archive)
September 14, 2008 - 02:26 ET

Liberal radio host Randi Rhodes made some terribly odd assumptions about GOP vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin on September 12(my emphasis added throughout):

She's the woman that shows up at the kids' birthday party and starts opining about everything from politics to lawn care. This is the woman that knows it all...will shout you down...will get revenge on you. That's who she is. She's friends with all the teenage boys. You have to say no when your kids go, 'Can we sleep over the Palin's?'...'No!, No!'

Brian Maloney of The Radio Equalizer initially found this terribly disturbing monologue of Rhodes. It is one thing for a liberal like Rhodes to critique conservative ideology. However, it is a whole other for a broadcaster to make such outlandish insinuations without any evidence whatsoever.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kerry-picket/2008/09/14/randi-rhodes-palin-shes-friends-teenage-boys

This ugly bull-dagger took over Gregory's slot. We need to pressure NBC ,set your search engine to the parent co.
When I 1st saw it a couple years ago....I was like yes she differs with me..she's a nice guy.
Now like probably 97% of homosexuals would vote for the dangerous Obama's.
Now when I see it..I change the channel.

Lib Photographer Admits Making McCain Look Sinister for Mag Cover

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Help Obama's Half-Brother Move Out of His Hut

The biggest scandal of the election campaign is going unreported, for the most part, by the mainstream newspapers and TV shows. Imagine if John McCain or Sarah Palin had a half-brother who was living in a hut. Imagine if McCain, a multimillionaire, did nothing to help the guy. Imagine if McCain came to the convention and spoke incessantly about compassion and how he was inspired by the biblical mandate: we are our brothers' keepers! This would be the lead story on the evening news.


file..not Barry's families living in squalor..]

So why aren't the networks covering the fact that Barack Obama's half-brother George lives in a 6 by 10 foot hut in the slums of Kenya? It took a reporter for the Italian edition of Vanity Fair to locate George Obama. Obama noted that when he met his famous half-brother in 2006 “we spoke for just a few minutes. It was like meeting a complete stranger.” George Obama also told the magazine that “I live here on less than a dollar month,” and “if anyone says something about my surname, I say we are not related. I am ashamed.” Obama has done absolutely nothing to help his unfortunate half-brother.

Apparently alarmed that this report could hurt Obama, CNN dispatched one of its reporters to do cover-up work for the Obama campaign. This is a hopeless enterprise; anyone who sees pictures of George Obama's dwelling place on the web knows that they reveal the worst images of African poverty. Moreover, for all its propagandistic intent, the CNN report is unintentionally damaging to Obama. The reporter cannot hide the fact that George Obama comes from a "ramshackled slum." A neighbor tells CNN that Barack Obama really should connect with his half-brother and "see how he's living" and do what he can to "improve our way of life."

http://townhall.com/columnists/DineshDSouza/2008/09/08/help_obamas_half-brother_move_out_of_his_hut

The record shows the stingy Michelle & Barry's minute charitable giving..THEY OBVIOUSLY DO NOT REFLECT THE TEACHINGS OF THE BIBLE (that's why many of feel they are not solid believers.

PLEASE NOTE OBAMA'S GRANDMOTHER ALSO LIVES IN A HUT .

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Biden/Obama – Charity & Savings – Failing Grade

If it were not so important, we should be able to laugh at the tax returns and U.S. Senate disclosure forms of Senators Obama and Biden.


SHAMEFUL!!!

In 2004, obviously neither Senator Biden nor Senator Obama realized that their tax returns would be made available to the public. And neither of them “walked their talk”.

In 2004, the Bidens reported that they had $234,271 in adjusted gross income and made contributions of $380. Biden spokesman David Wade said the deductions on the tax forms ``are not the sum of their annual contributions to charity.'' The Bidens ``contribute to their church, and they also contribute to their favorite causes.'' Sure, maybe he tossed a quarter into the Salvation Army kettle. No one forgets to list their charitable contributions in their annual tax return. In 2004, the Obamas reported $207,647 in adjusted gross income and contributed $2500 to charity, an inch over 1% of their income.

http://townhall.com/columnists/HankAdler/2008/09/12/bidenobama_%E2%80%93_charity__savings_%E2%80%93_failing_grade

NOTE: Even when my primary source of income was a fixed disability check..I manage(d) to give about 20%

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Tax expert Rangel mangles facts in ethics mess
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Sep 13, 9:47 AM (ET)

By DEVLIN BARRETT

WASHINGTON (AP) - Even when Rep. Charles Rangel tries to explain how he got into his tax mess, he mangles the facts so much it's easy to see how his accounts - and accountants - are muddled. And this from the lawmaker who has such a big say in determining who pays taxes and how much.



The chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee spent the past week reeling from a series of embarrassing revelations: He failed to report about $75,000 in rental income over two decades from a beach villa he owns in the Dominican Republic; he owes about $5,000 in back taxes to the government; he never knew he paid no interest on the villa's mortgage for more than a decade.

The New York Democrat is resisting calls from Republicans that he should lose his committee post, among the most coveted on Capitol Hill. The House ethics committee has begun inspecting Rangel's personal and professional life.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080913/D935SAE01.html

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Jesus was no 'community organizer'
Democratic Party officials have gone too far this time.

They're not just calling Sarah Palin a pig with lipstick, now they're doing the following:

* equating Barack Obama with Jesus Christ;
* demeaning Jesus as a "community organizer";
* comparing Palin with Pontius Pilate.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=75094

We need to beat the DEVIL out of the Obama's & send them back to Ill.

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INTERNATIONAL DIGEST: Saudi official kills own daughter for conversion to Christianity

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--A government official in Saudi Arabia cut out his daughter's tongue and burned her to death after learning she had become a follower of Jesus Christ. The man, who was not named in the news report, works for the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, a government agency that enforces religious purity.



The girl came to know about Jesus Christ through the Internet and when her father learned about her decision, "a heated debate on religion" ensued, according to International Christian Concern (www.persecution.org), a Washington, D.C.-based human rights group. The man is in custody but news reports gave no indication as to his identity or when the crime occurred.

"Saudi Arabia is intolerant of Christianity and non-Muslim faiths," a press statement from International Christian Concern said. "Its education curriculum openly inculcates hatred against Christians and other non-Muslims through their textbooks and teachers. Saudi Arabian officials are using their huge oil wealth to export Wahabbism (the most intolerant version of Islam) to other countries including in the United States."

http://townhall.com/news/religion/2008/09/12/international_digest_saudi_official_kills_own_daughter_for_conversion_to_christianity

Insurers loss from Ike seen from $8 bln to $18 bln

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Wall Street Prepares for Potential Lehman Bankruptcy (Update2)

By Craig Torres

Sept. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Wall Street readied for a potential Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. bankruptcy after Bank of America Corp. and Barclays Plc pulled out of talks to buy it and the government indicated it wouldn't provide funds to prevent a collapse.



Banks and brokers today held a session for netting derivatives transactions with Lehman, or canceling trades that offset each other, in case the New York-based firm files for bankruptcy before midnight.

``The purpose of this session is to reduce risk associated with a potential Lehman'' bankruptcy, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association said in a statement today. The ISDA includes 218 banks, brokerages, insurance companies and other financial institutions from the U.S. and abroad.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aNMh_8NRE6QM&refer=worldwide

& I was hoping to make some $$$$ Monday; holding a stock that I could of made a profit with on Friday....
I know the left loves to blame Bush...when frequently IT IS THE CEOS, & CO. BOARDS THAT DON"T KNOW HOW TO MANAGE/are responsible for firings and lay-offs...and then after they showed incompetency the co. heads---- get a 20M Bonus...

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Zogby: McCain Surges in Electoral Votes

Saturday, September 13, 2008

An Electoral College tidal wave has followed the surge of interest in the rejuvenated Republican presidential ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin, nearly erasing a once-daunting Democratic advantage and creating a race for the White House that is nearly dead-level even.

The latest Zogby Interactive polling in 11 key battleground states, and a further analysis of polling in other states, has resulted in the recalibration of the Zogby Electoral College Map, available at www.zogby.com.

In this latest Zogby calculation, Obama/Biden lead the race with a projected 234 Electoral College votes in 18 states and the District of Columbia, compared with 226 votes from 25 states for the McCain/Palin ticket. Another 78 Electoral College votes from seven states remain up for grabs, the latest Zogby analysis shows.

http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/Zogby_McCain_Surges/2008/09/13/130504.html

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Dear Mr. Obama: My sacrifice was no mistake
Soldier's hit YouTube video condemns politicians that dishonor military


^^^TO BARACK HUSSEIN, HIS WIFE, THE BLACKPANTHERS & WEATHERMAN BOMB THOWERS!

VIDEO & STORY!
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=75092

McCain-Palin seeing a 'Gibson Bounce'?

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ChiTrib Debunks Media's 'McCain Will Die Soon' Anti-Palin Attack

By Noel Sheppard (Bio | Archive)
September 14, 2008 - 13:54 ET


As we move into week three of the Sarah Palin era, it has become clear that one of the media's attacks on her has involved convincing the public that John McCain -- due to age and illness -- will likely die while in office thereby putting her in charge of the White House.

As such, her qualifications must be greater than those of the normal vice presidential candidate.

The Chicago Tribune nicely debunked this scare tactic Sunday by -- heaven forbid -- actually addressing the facts involved in age and mortality in the year 2008 (emphasis added):

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/09/14/chitrib-debunks-medias-mccain-will-die-soon-anti-palin-attack

Obama's embellished resume?

McCain Holds Three-Point Lead over Obama

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Palin power hits many young conservative evangelicals
Eric Gorski - Associated Press Writer - 9/14/2008 3:50:00 PMBookmark and Share

When Jessica Stollings learned on Facebook that John McCain had named Sarah Palin as his running mate, the 26-year-old from Bristol, Tenn., took the day off and picked up some campaign yard signs. Just like that, she went from "just a voter" to a McCain evangelist.

"He's a lot more visionary than I thought," said Stollings, a blooming evangelical activist for her generation who believes God has raised up Palin "for such a time as this."

Similar excitement built on the Virginia campus of conservative Christian Patrick Henry College, where busloads of students went on a road-trip to a McCain-Palin rally that drew thousands.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=250800

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Brokaw parrots 'Jesus was community organizer' line
Confronts Giuliani on 'Meet the Press' with Democrats' new favorite phrase

WASHINGTON – "Jesus Christ was a community organizer. Pontius Pilate was a governor."

It has become the favorite new party line of Democrats incensed at Sarah Palin's Republican National Convention speech in which she poked fun at Barack Obama's career experience as a "community organizer" in Chicago.

Former Democratic presidential campaign manager Donna Brazile was the first major Democratic figure to use it publicly, followed by Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn, in a speech on the House floor last Wednesday.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=75342

I have been an organizer coast-to-coast..I have friends who have done community organizing..Rep. Steve Cohen...Jesus THE LORD was not a community organizer.

Nor is Hussein Obama the messiha

Obama's missing years

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The RNC's cash advantage

DNC spokeswoman Karen Finney says the party raised more than $17 million and has $17.5 million on hand, having spent more than $28 million last month, largely on the Democrats' ground game.



That cash figure is a fraction of the $110 million a Republican official says it has, which includes transfers of money McCain is no longer allowed to spend and money from state fundraising vehicles.

The disparity shows the Republicans' continued edge with the wealthy donors who can give in five-figure chunks.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/The_RNCs_cash_advantage.html?showall

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Crisis on Wall Street as Lehman Totters,
Merrill Is Sold, AIG Seeks to Raise Cash



Fed Will Expand Its Lending Arsenal in a Bid to Calm Markets;
Moves Cap a Momentous Weekend for American Finance

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122139688846233147.html?mod=hpp_us_whats_news

Lehman Lists Debts Of $613 Billion In Chapter 11 Filing Monday

Lehman Files Biggest Bankruptcy Case as Suitors Balk (Update4)

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Desperate HuffPo Blogger: 'Time to Dump Biden,' Replace with Hillary
By P.J. Gladnick (Bio | Archive)
September 15, 2008 - 10:22 ET


It's been less than a month since Barack Obama has picked Joe Biden to be his running mate and already there are calls from liberals, made desperate by Obama's plunge in the polls, to replace Biden with Hillary Clinton. One such plea comes from Huffington Post blogger Andy Ostroy, described as a "New York City-based political analyst," with a blog entry titled, "Why Replacing Biden With Hillary Makes Perfect Sense for Obama." Here is Ostroy's rationale for one of the biggest flip-flops in political history (emphasis mine):

Sen. Joe Biden's a perfectly appropriate vice presidential running-mate for Sen. Barack Obama. He's got 36 years of Senate experience, is a true intellect, a foreign policy expert, and a genuinely nice guy. But ever since Sen. John McCain added plucky Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to his ticket, the old adage nice guys finish last is beginning to take on new meaning in this year's presidential contest. It's time to dump Biden and replace him with Sen. Hillary Clinton. I don't care how it's done. Campaign chief David Axelrod can figure that out. And the sooner the better. Because I'm starting to think that if Team-Obama doesn't do something dramatic fast, it's gonna lose this election. There's a worrisome shift in momentum and in the polls. The Palin phenomenon, while truly unfathomable to Democrats, has energized McCain's campaign and allowed him like Houdini to snatch Obama's "change" theme right out from under him. It's time to snatch it back.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2008/09/15/desperate-huffpo-blogger-its-time-dump-biden-replace-him-sen-hillary-c

It seems as if Biden & Michelle are being kept under wraps..since his nomination Biden has only done one Sunday news show.

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Obama Rally in DC Sparsely Attended
Christopher Alleva
Buried all the way on page C4 of the Metro section the Washington Post reported yesterday on a rally Saturday. The rally was so sparsely attended the best the photographer could come up with was a picture of an Obama cardboard cutout in front of the Lincoln memorial with a lone supporter decked out with a crude pre-printed paper campaign sign on their back. Sunday tourists on the mall vastly out-numbered the Obama faithful.

Evidently, the Post is trying to downplay this less-than-rousing display enthusiasm for the "one." Ironically, the very same day, Ombudsmen Deborah Howell tackled complaints that the wildly successful McCain-Palin rally in Fairfax Virginia last Thursday was relegated to the Metro section, whereas an Obama rally in June (attended by less than half the number at the McCain event) was given front page

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/09/obama_rally_in_dc_sparsely_att.html

Now its the next prez & veep that is drawing crowds..the wheels may be coming off the mesiah's wagon!

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NY allows AIG to borrow from subsidiaries

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - American International Group Inc. will be allowed to use $20 billion of assets held by its subsidiaries to provide cash needed for the troubled insurer to stay in business, New York Gov. David Paterson said Monday.



The move comes as AIG continues to review its operations and discuss possible options with outside parties, reportedly including Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., to improve its business amid concern the world's largest insurer could need up to $40 billion to shore up its balance sheet.

Paterson asked New York state insurance regulators to essentially allow AIG to provide a bridge loan to itself. The governor has also asked the head of New York's insurance department to talk with Federal regulators about providing an additional bridge loan to AIG.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080915/ap_on_bi_ge/aig;_ylt=AgVK8V3.e8b46qcbFeq801Ks0NUE

I never agree w/ our leftist adulterer-in-chief..but Paterson here did the right thing.

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Late Show with David Letterman

John McCain was on “The View.” And I thought, Good Lord — hasn’t this man endured enough torture?


When he was finished on the show, he bought everyone on the show a house.

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

All the candidates are preparing for the debates — Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm has agreed to help Joe Biden prepare for the debate by standing in and playing the role of Sarah Palin. Up until now, the only Sarah Palin role-playing has come at the request of Bill Clinton.

Speaking of Bill Clinton, yesterday in New York, Barack Obama had lunch with the former president. Afterwards, Clinton said, "It’s the first time the two of us have had a chance to sit down together and really [edit] about Hillary.”


The latest political commercial by Barack Obama attempts to portray John McCain as being unfamiliar with technology. McCain was outraged and responded with an e-mail — or as McCain calls it, "a computer letter from the future.”

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

John McCain and his wife Cindy stopped in for a visit with the ladies on “The View.” I don’t think it was the light, chatty experience the McCains were hoping for. At one point Whoopi Goldberg asked if she should worry about slavery making a comeback if he’s elected . . . he never did answer her.


After “The View,” McCain went and taped an episode of Rachael Wray’s show. He did a recipe that was one Sarah Palin’s — spaghetti and moose balls.


Sarah Palin had her first real interview. It was with ABC’s Charlie Gibson. The McCain people were happy with the interview. It went so well, they may even let her do another one.

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

If you watched TV last weekend, you know that ABC’s Charlie Gibson did something John McCain has never done — interviewed Sarah Palin.

Then, earlier today, her son was on Maury Povich.

At one point, Gibson asked about the Bush Doctrine, and she didn’t know what it was. But to be fair, even Bush doesn’t know what it is.



Sarah Palin has her own action figure. And just today, a Joe Biden action figure was released. It talks . . . and talks . . . and talks . . .




http://www.newsmax.com/jokes/

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Dow falls 500 points in worst day since 2001
Investors react to Lehman Brothers bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch sale

NEW YORK - A stunning makeover of the Wall Street landscape sent stocks falling precipitously Monday, with the Dow Jones industrials sliding 500 points in their worst slide since the September 2001 terrorist attacks. Investors recoiled after a shakeup of the financial industry that took out two storied names: Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and Merrill Lynch & Co.



The pullback occurred across much of the globe as investors absorbed Lehman’s bankruptcy filing and what was essentially a forced sale of Merrill Lynch to Bank of America for $50 billion in stock. While those companies’ situations had reached some resolution, the market remained anxious about American International Group Inc., which is seeking funding to shore up its balance sheet. A faltering of the world’s largest insurance company likely would have implications far beyond that of Lehman, already the largest U.S. bankruptcy in terms of assets.

The swift developments that took place Sunday are the biggest yet in the 14-month-old credit crisis that stems from now toxic subprime mortgage debt. For the first part of Monday’s trading, the market was falling, but in a largely orderly fashion as investors seemed to draw some relief from the resolution of Lehman’s problems.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3683270/

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Lipsky: Global Economy Faces Difficult Test



The global economy faces its most difficult test in many years with economic growth slowing sharply even as high commodity prices put pressure on inflation, a senior International Monetary Fund official said last Tuesday.

IMF first deputy managing director John Lipsky said strains on financial markets remained significant more than a year after wider tensions from problems in U.S. mortgage markets surfaced, constraining growth and banks' balance sheets.

Commodity prices remained high and volatile, bringing risks of knock-on inflation effects, but recent sharp falls in oil prices should ease short-term inflation pressures in advanced economies.

http://moneynews.newsmax.com/streettalk/john_lipksy/2008/09/15/131014.html

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ELECTION 2008
Prof tells students:
'Undermine' Palin
Metro State class assignment
compares VP pick to fairy tale

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=75426

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TrooperGate Shows Palin's Reform Creds

Democrats be warned, “Troopergate” may backfire.

The latest revelation in the investigation on Sarah Palin’s decision to fire Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan reinforces her credentials as a reformer who strived to abide by her state budget and maintain dignity within the ranks of her law enforcement as Governor of Alaska.

Emails released by Palin’s lawyer in the evolving “Troopergate” investigation show Palin fired Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan because he routinely undermined her on budget issues, not because of his refusal to fire Palin’s ex brother-in-law Trooper Mike Wooten.

While Monegan’s firing was unrelated to Wooten, Palin did make her concerns about the trooper, who admitted to “tasering” his stepson, threatening the Governor’s family with violence and who has had a restraining order issued against him by his ex-wife, known.

http://townhall.com/columnists/AmandaCarpenter/2008/09/16/troopergate_shows_palins_reform_creds

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Palin jolts U.S. Capitol, energizes Republicans
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate has given Republican lawmakers new hope of minimizing anticipated losses in the Nov. 4 congressional elections.

"We have had a disgruntled base that Sarah Palin has clearly ignited," said Sen. Robert Bennett, a Utah Republican in the Democratic-led Congress. "The McCain campaign had been dull as dishwater. But it has suddenly become exciting."

"She's given us a huge lift," added Sen. Kit Bond of Missouri. "Any Republican candidate for Congress who's in a tough race would love John McCain and Sarah Palin coming into their district and states."

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/080914/3/3p134.html

PELOSI PUSHES RANGEL TO STEP DOWN FROM COMMITTEE CHAIR


Iran boasts its forces can control the Gulf

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Stocks Rise on Report of Government Aid for AIG

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

NEW YORK -- Stocks turned higher Tuesday after CNBC reported that the government is considering extending aid to troubled insurer American International Group Inc.



A partial recovery in shares of AIG and several other financial companies helped the sector show signs of life a day after leading Wall Street to its worst session in years. Investors also grew hopeful about a Federal Reserve interest rate cut.

Worries about AIG's well-being intensified Monday and early Tuesday after several ratings agencies downgraded the company. Lower ratings can add to the amount of money the already cash-strapped company has to set aside. Investors fear that a failure by the world's largest insurer would touch off a wave of financial turmoil.

http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/wall_street/2008/09/16/131263.html

Luckily I took my AIG tda out in May..but remember even if these companies go belly up, your interests are protected.

Today I made a profit from 2 stocks..

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14 Bishops and Counting Correct Senator Biden

By Tim Waggoner

WASHINGTON, September 15, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Catholic bishops across the nation have rebuked Senator Joe Biden for claiming, during a September 7 appearance on NBC's Meet the Press, that his support for abortion is in keeping with his Catholic faith.

To date at least 14 bishops have responded to Biden's erroneous statement about Catholic teaching and abortion.



Responding to a question from Meet the Press Moderator Tom Brokaw, Biden stated that he agreed with the Catholic Church that life begins at conception. He then continued, "I'm prepared as a matter of faith to accept that life begins at the moment of conception. But that is my judgment. For me to impose that judgment on everyone else who is equally and maybe even more devout than I am seems to me is inappropriate in a pluralistic society."

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/sep/08091502.html

As I've stated before pols like the Kennedys, the Cuomos, John Kerry, Matthews, And Biden should be thrown out & turned over to Satan..many dems (Note: Catholic GOPers like Santourum know how NOT to be disobedient)will end up there as they turn away from God & ignore their churches teachings..

Many took communion esp. when the Pope was here...disgusting.

Samuel L. Jackson Hopes U.S. Joins 'World Community' with Barack

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In New Book Actor Dan Akroyd Says he Would Support Bestiality if Animals Were Sentient, Bashes Catholicism
Catholic League warns: "Don't drop off Fido at Akroyd's house"

By John-Henry Westen

NEW YORK, September 16, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A new book on the shelves called "Being Catholic Now" has sparked the ire of some Catholics. Catholic League President Bill Donohue lambasted the book in an interview with LifeSiteNews.com today, noting that the offering compiled by Kerry Kennedy is filled with contributions from anti-Catholics, wayward Catholics and only a few authentic Catholics.

"The Kerry Kennedy book is rather amazing," Donohue told LifeSiteNews.com. "It's called 'Being Catholic Now,' yet many people in the book reject the Church's teaching on almost everything. Some of them are outright haters of the Catholic Church, and they admit that. Many of them have fallen away, and they admit that. So you have to wonder about the title."

Contributions from anti-Catholics Bill Maher and James Carroll are in the book, alongside dissidents such as Nancy Pelosi, Susan Sarandon and Sister Joan Chittister. However, there are also chapters by retired Washington Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Catholic philanthropist Tom Monaghan and author and columnist Peggy Noonan.

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/sep/08091610.html

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U.S. Stocks Rally Most in Six Years on Plan to Shore Up Banks

By Elizabeth Stanton
More Photos/Details

Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks rallied the most in six years on prospects the government will formulate a ``permanent'' plan to shore up financial markets, while regulators and pension funds took steps to curb bets against banks and brokerages.



Traders erupted into cheers on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange as the Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 617 points from its low of the day after Senator Charles Schumer proposed a new agency to pump capital into financial companies. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index climbed 4.3 percent as 68 companies in the gauge rose more than 10 percent.

Wachovia Corp. soared 59 percent, Citigroup Inc. added 19 percent and Bank of America Corp. jumped 12 percent, sending the KBW Bank Index to its biggest gain since July. Morgan Stanley erased a 46 percent tumble and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. recovered most of a 25 percent slide after the nation's three largest pension funds stopped loaning shares of the brokerages to investors betting on their declines.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a5SOK1vsQl50&refer=worldwide

Yesterday I chose two stocks that went up in a few minutes; after feds meeting last night w/ congress I think we might have a new initiative by Monday..maybe even today.

SEC bans short-selling for financials
This is not for small day-traders like me; however some companies restrict your day trading if you have less than 25K in your account, I'm exempt because I have more than that.bb1

Bush says he's working hard on economic turmoil


The Lord may repair the system by election day & either way we might see great signs of recovery and a bull market,bb1
McCain aides: Obama 'cheerleading' market crisis

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California home sales surge as prices plummet
Sep 18 07:19 PM US/Eastern
By JACOB ADELMAN

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Home sales in California surged 13.6 percent in August as a flood of foreclosures drove down prices.



The figures released Thursday by MDA DataQuick showed 37,988 new and preowned homes were sold statewide last month, up 13.6 percent from August 2007 but down 3.8 percent from July.

The firm said 46.9 percent of all homes sold last month were foreclosed properties.

That helped send the statewide median home price plunging 35.3 percent to $301,000 during the year ended in August.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D939E5SO0&show_article=1

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Stocks surge on report of entity for bad debt
Thursday September 18, 9:31 pm ET

(Its still a bear market if it's bullish by election add another few nails in Barry's coffin, BB1)

By Tim Paradis, AP Business Writer
Stocks end sharply higher on report that government will create entity to hold banks' debt

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080918/wall_street.html?.v=44

I'm looking to make some money today as the market opens in about an hour & a half.

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Never Sell America Short [Barry, Michelle & your socialist bomb throwing crew]
By Larry Kudlow

We can fix this. If nothing else, that’s the message I hope readers take away from this column. Of course, the “this” is the run on the world banking system. Stock markets have plunged globally, gold prices have shot up, and U.S. Treasury-bill rates have plummeted to 10 basis points, the lowest since the 1950s.



We’re witnessing a desperate flight to safety by investors. Folks are running away from financial assets and financial institutions simply because confidence has disappeared.

This week, Treasury secretary Hank Paulson said “no” to a government bailout of Lehman. Paulson and Ben Bernanke then took over AIG with an $85 billion bailout, with the Treasury issuing roughly $100 billion in new T-bills so the Fed has the cash to resuscitate AIG.

http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2008/09/never_sell_america_short.html

I've never been a Barney Frank fan, but the gay liberal seems to fully grasp the situation & dems & GOPers should seek his advice & support.he is a close associate of our treasury secretary.

I noticed the rotund Charlie Rangel was not at the meeting, maybe he was resting at 1 of his 4 Harlem apartments, where by his selfishness blocks out needy poor & middle class NYers.

Then there's my senator Chucky Cheese trying to desperately get into last nights closing shots w/ the bipartisan officials....as they say the most dangerous place in America is to be caught between Chuckie & a tv camera.BB1

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How to Cure This Sick System
Steve Forbes 09.11.08, 6:00 PM ET
Forbes Magazine dated October 06, 2008

Not even during the Great Depression did we witness what is now unfolding--a sizable number of big financial institutions going under. What enabled their taking on so much debt and so many questionable assets was, primarily, the easy-money policy of the Federal Reserve. Chairmen Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke created massive amounts of excess liquidity. If the dollar had been kept stable relative to gold, as it was between the end of WWII and the late 1960s, the scale of the bingeing in recent years would have been impossible.

The first prescription for a cure is to formally strengthen the dollar and announce it publicly. A year ago August the price of gold was more than $650 per ounce. In late 2003 it had breached $400. The Fed should declare that its goal for gold is around $500 to $550. That would stabilize the buck--and stability is essential if animal spirits and risk taking are to revive.

Also of immediate urgency is for regulators to suspend any mark-to-market rules for long-term assets. Short-term assets should not be given arbitrary values unless there are actual losses. The mark-to-market mania of regulators and accountants is utterly destructive. It is like fighting a fire with gasoline.

http://www.forbes.com/opinions/forbes/2008/1006/017.html

Having been born & raised in NJ I am familiar w/ their politics....I always wondered why Forbes never ran for Gov..it would of helped to make him a GOP prez/vp contender.bb1

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Congress Promises Quick Action on Bailout Package
‘Detox for banks,’ analyst says
Friday, September 19, 2008
By Jeannine Aversa and Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Associated Press



Washington (AP) - Congress promised quick action on a plan to buy up toxic assets, such as bad mortgages, held by troubled banks and other institutions, hoping to lift the nation out of its worst financial crisis in decades.

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke are crafting a plan, which they plan to soon deliver to lawmakers, after concluding they need broader powers to combat fallout from a housing and credit market meltdown that has sent shock waves through Wall Street and around the globe.

Congressional leaders said they expected to get the plan Friday and act on it before Congress recesses for the election.

http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=35998

CARTOON: The End Is Near



****I will be @ home monitoring the stock market from 9:30 am to 4 pm,it looks like a power packed day....will add new stories over the day & of course who hacked Sarah America's private emails; McCain still gaining ground; & national & intl. stories...RETURN OFTEN!****

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