Poor Michelle Bachman. All she wants to do is root out un-American members of Congress (here’s an idea: why not create a House Un-American Activities Committee), and now she’s facing some real consequences for her patriotism.
The first independent poll is out in Minnesota’s Sixth District, which has been put into contention thanks to Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) McCartheyesque rant on Hardball last week — and it shows a race that could be tightly contested all the way to Election Day.
The new numbers from SurveyUSA: Democratic candidate El Tinklenberg 47%, Bachmann 44%, and Independence Party candidate Bob Anderson 6%, with a ±4% margin of error.
Oh well. I’m sure Bachman’s willing to make the supreme (political) sacrifice, spend more time with her family, and maybe become a seven figure lobbyist or a highly paid speaker on the wingnut circuit. Maybe even score a gig with Fux News. I wonder if she can wear Caribou Barbie’s hand-me-downs?
pj- Didn’t see your query about the obama channel til late. I’ve got DISH network- it’s channel 73. He probably didn’t buy in NY since it’s in the bag. Very up in the air here.
Yeah, we’re spared a lot of these political ads here. I don’t watch commercials, except in the morning during the lo-cal news, and the constant local political ads are bad enough.
A no-brainer, of course, but the NY Times endorses Obama for President.
Happy United Nations Day, everyone!
And even happier, it’s Sarah and Todd Deposition Day! Will Caribou Barbie be able to answer questions coherently under oath? There’s a first time for everything, I guess.
At least she’ll look really nice with her new wardrobe and all.
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Bachmann would happily serve as a concubine for Dubya (remember her crazy-eyes at a State of the Union?); that is, if he swung that way.
Looks like a bad day on Wall Street:
Stock index futures tumbled so sharply on Friday they had to be frozen at several points as global markets tumbled on signs the global economy is in the throes of recession.
Stock markets were in freefall around the world as panicked investors moved to liquidate risky positions. Japan’s Nikkei index ended down 9.6 percent and European shares lost 8 percent.
By 7:00 a.m. in New York December Dow Jones futures were down 6.3 percent, Standard & Poor’s 500 futures were off 6.6 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures were down 6.8 percent.
All three contracts lost the maximum amount permissible before the start of futures trading in the United States.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE49B3PW20081024?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
OPEC cut oil 1.5 million barrels
Palin does not mention that the Weathermen always gave advance warnings of their attacks and the three Americans they killed were Weathermen (and woman). The clinic bombers don’t give warnings and have killed innocent Americans. But in the GOP it’s always topsy-turvy day.
Stock markets plunge across world
That’s a happy little headline, isn’t it?
By the way, if you weren’t an economics major and you find all this Wall St. crap as confusing as I do, I highly recommend giving a listen to the 10/3 episode of This American Life (#365), for a pretty darn good explanation.
Something to amuse yourself with while you watch today’s meltdown. :tap:
http://www.palinaspresident.us/
I made copies of #365 along with “The Big Pool of Money” and gave it to my friends and loved ones.
So PJ…did you ever get a chance to listen to Episode 355 -The Giant Pool of money?
Essential listening before Episode 365.
Also the excellent podcasts daily that came from that 355 episode.
I am sick of it all… :smack:
John McCain, who has harshly criticized the idea of sitting down with dictators without pre-conditions, appears to have done just that. In 1985, McCain traveled to Chile for a friendly meeting with Chile’s military ruler, General Augusto Pinochet, one of the world’s most notorious violators of human rights credited with killing more than 3,000 civilians and jailing tens of thousands of others.
The private meeting between McCain and dictator Pinochet has gone previously un-reported anywhere.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-dinges/mccain-meets-a-bloody-dic_b_137422.html
So has anyone else thought that maybe “they” were trying to bring on a false “armageddon” with all of the global economy meltdown so Bushbaby can have his rapture on 1/19 /09?
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No, I didn’t listen to 355. I’ll have to check into it.
Just as with whether ‘they’ were behind 9/11, the massive incompetence tells me they’re incapable of planning something that time specific but I do worry about how little it would take (say exposure of massive vote fraud or a complete meltdown like was predicted for today) for bush to declare martial law and the urge to stay on with all the power going to his tiny brain. :growl:
That’s comforting Art :tongue:
Liar, liar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laot_Eomr3s
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Anyone in the NYC area going to Maron’s performance tomorrow?
Also, when going home Wednesday night, i saw a pretty teeny and pathetic pro-McCain rally. They can have their First amendment rights, but it was right in front of the new NYTimes building. Anyone here in favor of a demo in front of the NewsCorp building? And how soon will we be hauled away by the cops?
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You have to go back and edit your original failed embed post and put the embed in again most of the time. Then it usually comes up the second time. I usually reduce the embed and copy the post so it is easy to edit. You have a bout 20-30 minutes to make this happen.
Close enough to Halloween, I guess…
Now it thinks I have already said that…true :knit:
Thanks Vernon!
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Some Marc poached from LTR
a bout
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Former Grateful Dead Keyboardist Merl Saunders Dies
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Final voter figures released Friday by state election officials show more than 1.4 million Nevadans are registered to cast ballots Nov. 4—and there are 111,617 more Democrats than Republicans.
The final registration numbers show that the 624,995 Democrats account for 43 percent of all Nevada voters, while the 513,378 Republicans account for 36 percent. Another 229,039, or 16 percent, are nonpartisans and the rest are minor-party members.
The record-high total is 26 percent higher than registration for the 2004 presidential elections. That year, there were 4,431 more Republicans than Democrats registered in Nevada.
Secretary of State Ross Miller, who last week released preliminary figures that were close to the final count, said the big increase from 2004 shows that Nevadans “are taking their role as a potential swing state very seriously.”
Miller also repeated his prediction of a record voter turnout this year. He estimates as many as 1 million Nevadans may cast ballots in the election, or about 85 percent of all active voters. In 2004, 78 percent of the active voters cast ballots.
The heavy amount of early voting, which began Oct. 18 in Nevada, backs up Miller’s prediction. By Monday, the early and absentee vote total may exceed 300,000, and early voting will continue through Oct. 31, Nevada Day.
The margin of early-voting Democrats to Republicans so far is more than 2-to-1 in Clark County, encompassing
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Las Vegas, and nearly 2-to-1 in Washoe County, which takes in Reno. The two counties have 87 percent of all the state’s registered voters.
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