Is this the pre-emptive shot in the wingnut war to expunge those non-believers from the Republican Party. What happened to Nicole Wallace's statement about doing her duty as a staffer? I'm willing to be these off-record tidbits come from her.


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CNN:

Several McCain advisers have suggested to CNN that they have become increasingly frustrated with what one aide described as Palin "going rogue."

A Palin associate, however, said the candidate is simply trying to "bust free" of what she believes was a damaging and mismanaged roll-out.

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A second McCain source says she appears to be looking out for herself more than the McCain campaign.

"She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone," said this McCain adviser. "She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else.

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"Linda Howe, executive director of the Lucas County Board of Elections, said a Samuel Joseph Worzelbacher, whose address and age match Joe the Plumber’s, registered in Lucas County on Sept. 10, 1992. He voted in his first primary on March 4, 2008, registering as a Republican."

According to the Ohio Statewide Voter Registration Database, Joe's voter registration was last updated in Lucas county on 8/8/2006.

Joe voted in the state of Ohio in 11/2002, 11/2004, 2/2005, 11/2006, 11/2007, and the March Republican Primary in 2008.

So after the Palin Yahoo social engineering / hacking of her email account, Bill O'Reilly was up in arms and caught the attention of internet griefers for his obvious embracing of the internet is serious business™

Gawker is in hot water over the situation to the point Bill O'Reilly is calling for law enforcement to go after the site because of phone numbers (including those of Palin's kids) and other personal information posted there as a result of the hack.

It's on the front page over in Cheetoland that

"even if by Election Day, many of those Nader voters (and not a few of those Barr supporters) will likely fall in line and decide their vote shouldn't be thrown away."

First of all, we need viable third parties more now than ever. Secondly, I think his Highness Keeper of the Gates will be surprised in November how many people choose third party candidates over the sleaziness of McCain and the smarmy-ness of Obama.

Maybe some people still believe we should be out of Iraq, or believe our economy can't afford more tax cuts, or maybe that you should leave Social Security alone. Maybe there are more than 1 or 2% that think the surge was not a spectacular success.

Holy. Jebus. Soon to be a million views in 24 hours!

"Election Will Hinge on Abortion Issue".

Could it be that Palin was vetted better than people think? Is it possible that her Down-Syndrome baby (and all the babygate rumours) and having a pregnant 17-yr old daughter were known about and the inevitable national headlines.

Is it a viable strategy to turn all campaign talk to pregnancy and keep it a front issue in all the tabloids, blogs and press until November? Or am i too cynical.

UPDATE -- Well the censors or author have deleted the posting since I finished writing this, but it did have 71 comments

The newest Palin conspiracy is based upon a newspaper article published in the Sitka Daily Sentinel, July 2, 1984

(pixftw.com)

(Denver cop greatest hits from earlier this year)
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I've heard this Obama's "fake birth certificate" thing all over the wingnut radio, but was surprised to see an actual real lawsuit has been filed as a civil action in Federal Court. What is surprising is that no one has yet sued Panamanian-born McCain over potentially legitimate reasons regarding his "natural born" status.

Huckabee speaking at NRA convention (CNN)

“That was Barack Obama, he just tripped off a chair, he's getting ready to speak,” said the former Arkansas governor, to audience laughter. “Somebody aimed a gun at him and he dove for the floor.”   Read more…

Is Obama up for the GOP hate machine? I haven't heard him do anything to counter-punch these attacks. He's looking more and more like Kerry.

GOP memo calling immigration a "tar baby" (Politico)

... [McCain] has standing among Hispanics. Barrack Obama has not made the sale to Hispanic voters. Thus, this issue is a tar baby for anyone who touches it, with land mines everywhere.

Prince Frederic von Anhalt, aka Prince Von A-Hole, called Barack Obama's wife a "washerwoman." (TMZ)

Hi-tech face recognition cameras used in Budgens to spot underage drinkers (h/t boingboing)

A supermarket chain is introducing face recognition cameras to prevent staff mistakenly selling cigarettes and alcohol to under-18s.

So in the UK they will automatically record every face who buys cigarettes or alcohol. In the US they have started doing this electronically by swiping your drivers license in many states.

I don't know why I do it, I was looking for some summary of the final numbers from IN and NC, but I read "Now You Want to Make Nice" dkos diary which poses a simple request.... Obama cannot win against McCain without all of Hillary's supporters.

So why don't the Obamites take the high road and end the ugly attacks on Hillary. Otherwise it will only take a couple of million Hillary supporters sitting on their hands to end your dream. Think before you say something that could damage party unity. -- shamprez

Cops in small town Oxford, Ohio, home of "Izod" University, tasered a drunk 24 yr old outside of a local bar for interfering when they were trying to arrest another person. You see can they administer at least one 10 second cycle. The man stopped breathing at the scene and died after five days in critical condition.

You'll note if you watch the video again, but look at the timer in the bottom right, the media spliced together the same footage to make it appear he was shocked three times.

So I'm reading this Newsweek article I saw on digg, and after of jawdropping moment of WTF, I noticed the byline "By Marko5 Mou1itsas | NEWSWEEK"

Here's what I don't get, the article essentially pretends to spin the long drawn out Dem primary as a good thing, that has led to better organization, money, boots on the ground, and vetted Obama. But if that is true and if Obama has so clearly won, why all the attacks? Why are OFB so rabid on the WWTSBQ?

If Obama has won, why not focus on McCain or shut up and just let Clinton look more and more desperate? If Obama has enough votes why this long screed about Clinton's dastardly evil plans.

I think a certain douchebag doth protest too much.

"She's already lost."

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The FL Dems walked right into this. Everyone keeps blaming the GOP and claim the Dems had no control over the DNC stripping of delegates, but this video says differently. (Hilariously posted by "floridagop")

Probably nothing wrong with tweaking bacteria genes into producing petroleum products. It's not like a release of these solar-converting bacteria spread across the world's oceans would be a problem (I mean look at how well the Valdez spill cleaned up).

At the very least, it looks like they require a great deal of carbon input (CO2) which makes me wonder how much energy we'd have to put into the system to generate CO2 which ends up as oil. But if the little buggers are using solar to re-bond petroleum chains then it might be semi-efficient.

Could all be talk and PR for VCs, but Venter does have quite the track record. (From EcoGeek)

Apparently Georgia state legislature just passed a bill to invade TN?!

"Us good Tennesseeans will take our long rifles up to Lookout Mountain and fire when ready," said Justin Wilson, a Nashville attorney and former deputy governor.

A mile to the north of the GA-TN border is the Tennessee River which is like texas tea to solve drought issues and allow Atlanta to drain the river like the West has done with the mighty Colorado.

I searched the Diary titles from the last seven days:

'Obama' - 538 Diaries (50 with > 200 comments)
the majority of them positive titles

'Clinton' - 222 Diaries (26 with > 200 comments)
the majority of them negative and/or containing "Obama"

'Iraq' - 22 Diaries (2 with > 200 comments)
one of those two was "Chelsea Clinton Gives An Arrogant Response to a Question on Iraq"

'Economy' - 7 Diaries

'Media' - 21 Diaries

'Health' - 13 Diaries

'Rove' - 2 Diaries (one of those "Hillary Plays a Karl Rove")

Too funny. If you ever read the lobotomy inducing anti-election integrity rants over at big orange by "DHinMI" you won't be too shocked to read the BradBlog discovery of the pro-Holt Bill (pro-eVoting) background of this frontpage poster.

[DHinMI former] well-paid Chief of Staff to the U.S. Congressman from New Hampshire's 2nd district, Rep. Paul Hodes, who has been an ally of HAVA co-author and e-voting champion, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, since arriving in Congress in 2007.

No wonder he was so defensive about the NH irregularities. They happened to his boss's constituents and people hate to rock the boat that sailed them to Washington.

I rescind my previous rant on missing NY Primary votes after further review of the "process" in NYC.

here is a good rundown on the voting and checking process of the votes. I didn't realize one cop takes the results and heads back to the cop precinct to enter in the results. Geez, the more you know about voting, the more f-cked we are.

I searched the blogosphere and other than Raw Story I found almost nothing concerning the moving words yesterday by Congressman Silvestre Reyes, D-TX, Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

His letter to Bush is a rare moment of Hope (and not the OFB type).

I, for one, do not intend to back down – not to the terrorists and not to anyone, including a President, who wants Americans to cower in fear.

We are a strong nation. We cannot allow ourselves to be scared into suspending the Constitution. If we do that, we might as well call the terrorists and tell them that they have won.

Florida has it's own cop controversy:

A veteran Florida sheriff's deputy is in hot water after she was caught on video dumping a quadriplegic man out of his wheelchair while he was being booked on Jan. 29

Anyone who treats another human being this way is pretty sick.

I could post about 1000 links detailing the Hurricane Katrina that is the Ohio 2008 election(s). I can't even begin to describe the utter total meltdown that is going to occur (except the media, Secretary of State, and election officials will say "no problems" but they also did that in 2004)

If you are a videographer there will be plenty of documentaries to be made. I know of five good ones that came out of 2004.