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Oct 10

“This is a moment of maximal physical danger for the young Democratic nominee. And McCain is playing with fire.”

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (October 10, 2008) - The Dangerous Panic On The Far Right

I’ve been thinking about this more and more recently. Seeing the videos of McCain/Palin supporters has increased this fear. I’m worried that Obama’s chances of dying are higher than McCain’s. I’m even more worried about what may happen if that happens.

Oct 9

whiskeycoat:

In-n-Out’s 60^th Year Anniversary is Wednesday, October 22^nd.

All hamburgers will be sold for 25 cents, Cheeseburgers 30 cents, Fries 15 cents, and drinks are 10 cents!!! So mark your calendars!

ACK!! Gotta figure out how to get to an In-n-Out!

Oct 8

Lightning in Super Slow Mo Video

holy shit, holy shit, holy shit…. that was cool!

Oct 6

“But scrapping Roe—which, after all, would leave states as free to permit abortion as to criminalize it—would be just the beginning. Given the ideological agenda that the existing conservative bloc has pursued, it’s safe to predict that affirmative action of all kinds would likely be outlawed by a McCain Court. Efforts to expand executive power, which, in recent years, certain Justices have nobly tried to resist, would likely increase. Barriers between church and state would fall; executions would soar; legal checks on corporate power would wither—all with just one new conservative nominee on the Court. And the next President is likely to make three appointments.”

The Choice: Comment: The New Yorker

Fucking scary

Oct 5

(via plannine)

Oct 4

You've Not Come a Long Way, Baby

election08:

A reader of Andrew Sullivan writes:

In reaction to Rich Lowry, I’m sure I’m not the only woman who, upon reading his words, sat up a little straighter and said, “Is he kidding? Is he goddamn kidding me?” Is this the kind of reaction the women in this country should want men to have to the possible first female Vice Presidential candidate in history? Holy hell.

I thought Palin’s performance at the debate was downright embarrassing and on top of that I have to read this clown’s blog, stating more or less that Palin gave him an erection? Little starbursts my ass. Here’s what I thought when Palin “dropped” that first wink at us: “Did she just wink at us like she was America’s cocktail waitress?” Rich Lowry is on the verge of slapping Sarah Palin on the ass and asking her for another of those fantastic whiskey sours.

My fiancée had nearly the same reaction. “Did she just wink!? There’s no winking in debates!”

Oct 2

lonelysandwich:

Don’t do that.

via cleversimon

She looks like she’s having a stroke.

(via catastrofe)

“So if it’s the economic crisis, she can certainly speak to the fact that she carries a mortgage. She’s got kids ready to go to college, she has a son who is also heading off to the military. So from a military perspective, she is engaged just like any ordinary American. So if she is one heartbeat away, as she is one heartbeat away as a vice presidential candidate, and she assumes the presidency, god forbid — in terms of John McCain, I don’t wish ill, but as your question points — if she becomes president of the United States, she is ready, and that is because she has the experience of an ordinary American who can get in there and knows what is on people’s minds and what people need.”

McCain aide Meg Stapleton setting the bar as low as possible for Palin’s debate performance tonight. They want to show she is a regular person and not some “smooth talking” Washington insider. This pre-spin is as despicable as it is stupid. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want regular people making decisions about how to solve this financial crisis or negotiating with Iran. I want people who know shit and all the regular people I know don’t know shit.

If all it took was knowledge of paying a mortgage or sending a kid to college then anybody could do the damn job. The fact that she can write a check each month to a mortgage company in no way qualifies her to lead the country in dealing with the current financial crisis. Hell, she can’t even explain why it’s a problem. Anyone who can vote for McCain-Palin because they like that Sarah is ‘regular folk’ is just flat-out stupid. This anti-intellectual crap is going to kill us one day and I don’t want to go down like that.

(via election08)

drawohara:

AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka on Racism and Obama (via cameo9876) — Talk about saying it like it is!

Sep 30

(via mollylambert)

Sep 29

“Soon after Sarah Palin was elected mayor of the foothill town of Wasilla, Alaska, she startled a local music teacher by insisting in casual conversation that men and dinosaurs coexisted on an Earth created 6,000 years ago — about 65 million years after scientists say most dinosaurs became extinct — the teacher said.” Palin treads carefully between fundamentalist beliefs and public policy - Los Angeles Times

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