Yahoo! News - The Planets Have Made Up Their Mind: Kerry Wins

Packers beat Redskins=Kerry wins

Kerry pulls ahead in Fox News RV poll, a 6 point swing in a week.

JFK has the mojo.

Yahoo! News - Homeland Security Agents Visit Toy Store

I wonder if they're coming after my mp3 player next? Buying knock-off merchandise is so letting the terrorists win. On the other hand, so is letting them go and giving them 380 tons of high explosives.

2004's Scariest Halloween Costumes

Rovian Slip?

Who brought the confetti to the 9-11 remembrance? nothing like a little falling debris and a president caught off guard to bring this presidency full circle. video above.

Voter suppression time

nothin like some good old "ground attack." wouldn't be a presidential election without crap like this.

NDN's Memorable Media

My favorite ad of the election season. Hands down. But watch out, it's caliente!

Daily Kos :: The fake troops in Bush's new "Whatever It Takes" ad

It's Photoshop Thursday over at georgewbush.com!!

A Sunday Win May Foreshadow Tuesday's Victor (washingtonpost.com)

So I have to root for the Packers this weekend against my heart. But when the Sox break their curse, that should take some of the sports curse mojo out of the air.

P.S. I see you, Fred Smoot. What up.

36 Papers Abandon Bush for Kerry (washingtonpost.com)

Terrorists hope to defeat Bush through Iraq violence - The Washington Times: World - October 27, 2004

The most pro-Kerry, he said, are the former Saddam Hussein loyalists — Ba'ath Party members and others who think Washington might scale back its ambitions for Iraq if Mr. Kerry wins, allowing them to re-enter civic life.
The most pro-Bush, he said, are the foreign extremists. "They prefer Bush, because he's a provocative figure, and the more they can push people to the extreme, the better for their case."

Read that a few times.

As I read it, the Washington Times is saying that the Islamic Extremists (Al Qaeda, Zaquawi, etc.) are pro-Bush.

The real Iraqis, non-terrorist resistance fighters who want to go back to living a regular life in peace, support Kerry.

So a Kerry presidency, according to terrorists, would hurt the terrorists' recruiting efforts....

Love Cats, But Suffer From Allergies? ALLERCA Inc. to Develop the World's First Hypo-Allergenic Cats as an Alternative to Current Allergy Treatments

Finally, I can get a cat. I hope it doesn't mind a warm saucer of Lactaid Milk.....

The New York Times > Washington > Campaign 2004 > Same-Sex Marriage: Bush Says His Party Is Wrong to Oppose Gay Civil Unions

anyone have a pair of fashionable beach sandals that won't explode if they step on, say, 380 tons of high explosives?

DEAD LETTER OFFICE: GeorgeWBush.org: Bush/Cheney in 2004!:

e-mails sent to georgewbush.org instead of georgewbush.com

"----- Original Message -----
From: 'dullain Ehrlich' [dullainehrlich@wsrp.org]
To: ''Donald Povia'' [dpovia@georgewbush.com],''Peter Abbarno'' [peterabbarno@wsrp.org],'Jon Seaton' [jseaton@georgewbush.org]
Sent: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 21:07:52 -0700
Subject: FW: RE: Federal Campaign Law FYI DULLAIN

-----Original Message-----
From: Ann Humphreys [mailto:ash439@gte.net]
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 7:03 PM
To: Dullain
Subject: Fw: RE: Federal Campaign Law

----- Original Message -----
From: 'ardean anvik' [ardeananvik@hotmail.com]
To: [ash439@gte.net]
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 10:08 AM
Subject: FW: RE: Federal Campaign Law

> FYI - I sent a request to Chris and here is his reply
>
> Ardean Anvik
>
>
> >From: 'Chris Vance' [chrisvance@wsrp.org]
> >To: ''ardean anvik'' [ardeananvik@hotmail.com]
> >Subject: RE: Federal Campaign Law
> >Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 12:52:54 -0700
> >
> >Will do!
> >
> >CV
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: ardean anvik [mailto:ardeananvik@hotmail.com]
> >Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 12:47 PM
> >To: chrisvance@wsrp.org
> >Subject: Federal Campaign Law
> >
> >
> >Chris,
> >
> >I took the information you gave me regarding usage of County Party
> >assets
> >(e.g. newsletters, phone banks) for federal candidates to my County
> >Central
> >Committee and asked for direction as to accepting ads from campaigns or
> >individuals. I explained the information you had provided. Steve
> >VanDenover, Mason County Chair, asked me to check with other counties as
> >to
> >how they are handling national candidates, such as Nethercutt, Bush and
> >Congressional Candidates. I called a few counties and discussed this
> >issue
> >in detail with the State Committeewoman and Editor of the Skagit County
> >Republican newsletter, Ann Marie Humphreys. She was unaware of the
> >prohibiitions that you had outlined to me for newsletters. IN fact she
> >had
> >an ad for George Bush in her latest Newsletter. I told her what you had
> >
> >explained to me about newsletter prohibitions.
> >
> >May I request that you or someone on your staff send directions
> >regarding
> >what Counties can and cannot do as it pertains to newsletters and phone
> >banks usage for federal candidates. There is a great deal of ignorance
> >out
> >here and many counties are violating the campaign law as I understood it
> >
> >from you. God help us if the Democrats find out. I think we all need
> >direction. Can you help us?
> >
> >Thanks, Chris
> >
> >Ardean A. Anvik
> >State Committeeman, Mason COunty"

ABC News: Bush: Several States Could Swing Election:

"'I wouldn't discount Michigan,' Bush says. 'I wouldn't discount the influence of Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota and New Mexico."

He almost sounds like Howard Dean after he lost Iowa. The wave might be breaking.....

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: October 24, 2004 - October 30, 2004 Archives

Apparently the explosives being used for roadside bombs in Iraq was under IAEA lock and key, "sealed," before the US invasion. But soon after the invasion 350 TONS of high explosives were carted off for use by the insurgency, and, although the Department of Defense has known all along that this stuff was missing, is hasn't told anyone, because of the political implications. Click above for more.

Candidates Hit Key States With Election Still a Tossup (washingtonpost.com)

GOP officials who talked to Bush-Cheney campaign leaders said the leaders had grown more worried about Ohio, Florida and other key states where Bush lacks a lead with just 10 days until the election. A poll by Ohio University's Scripps Survey Research Center, completed Thursday night, found Kerry leading 49 to 43 percent among registered voters, with a margin of error of five percentage points.

Sen. Pete V. Domenici (R-N.M.), campaigning with Vice President Cheney in northwestern New Mexico, told the crowd the GOP ticket will lose the state without a lopsided local victory in San Juan County, because of heavy Democratic activity elsewhere in the state. "Without a huge margin in this county . . . we can't win this election," he said.

One Republican official described the mood at the top of the campaign as apprehensive. " 'Grim' is too strong," the official said. "If we feel this way a week from now, that will be grim."
***
That Republican official said polling for Bush showed him in a weaker position than some published polls, both nationally and in battlegrounds. In many of the key states, the official said, Bush is below 50 percent, and he is ahead or behind within the margin of sampling error -- a statistical tie.

"There's just no place where they're polling outside the margin of error so they can say, 'We have this state,' " the official said. "And they know that an incumbent needs to be outside the margin of error."

Lie Girls... call 212-875-7000

This is absolutely mindblowingly awesome.

RollingStone.com: Politics - Fear and Loathing, Campaign 2004

hst is batshit crazy, and this doesn't touch his work from '72, but it's worth a minute of your time.

KR Washington Bureau | 10/22/2004 | Former workers dispute Bush's pull in Project P.U.L.L.

70's Texans for Truth? Bush says in his autobiography: "My friend John White ... asked me to come help him run the program. ... I was intrigued by John's offer. ... Now I had a chance to help people."

But White's administrative assistant and others associated with P.U.L.L., speaking on the record for the first time, say Bush was not helping to run the program and White had not asked Bush to come aboard. Instead, the associates said, White told them he agreed to take Bush on as a favor to Bush's father, who was honorary co-chairman of the program at the time, and Bush was unpaid. They say White told them Bush had gotten into some kind of trouble but White never gave them specifics.

"We didn't know what kind of trouble he'd been in, only that he'd done something that required him to put in the time," said Althia Turner, White's administrative assistant.

"John said he was doing a favor for George's father because an arrangement had to be made for the son to be there," said Willie Frazier, also a former player for the Houston Oilers and a P.U.L.L. summer volunteer in 1973.

Fred Maura, a close friend of White, refers to Bush as "43," for 43rd president, and his father as "41," for the 41st president.

"John didn't say what kind of trouble 43 was in - just that he had done something and he (John) made a deal to take him in as a favor to 41 to get some funding," Maura said.

"He didn't help run the program. I was in charge of him and I wouldn't say I helped run the program, either," said David Anderson, a recreational director at P.U.L.L.
***
Other accounts have suggested his service was involuntary. A book published in 2000, largely discredited, said Bush was there to serve out a community service sentence for a drug arrest. At the time, however, Harris County, Texas, where Houston is located, had no formal community service program. A 1999 book, by a political reporter for The Dallas Morning News, said Bush's father had insisted on the service after Bush was involved in a drunk-driving incident.

WolfpacksforTruth.org: The Real Story on George Bush's "Wolves" Commercial

what do you call a bear....
holding a daisy under a mushroom cloud?

So you may have seen the new Bush ad, the one that looks like it was directed by M. Night Shyamalan, called "Wolves."

It's amazing. They're literally "crying 'wolf.'" Apparently when they showed the ad on Crossfire this afternoon the audience laughed at it.

It's admittedly scary, until the part at the end where W shows us that he can approve a message while reading a piece of paper AND talking on the phone. If he had approved at the top of the ad it would be much more effective.

And.....aren't the wolves getting into this country by hiding in uninspected freight cargo? how else did they get into that field in the first place?

And what about all the Wolves of Mass Destruction that we were supposed to find in Iraq? Apparently they weren't under the President's desk.

Maybe they were thinking of Paul Wolfowitz, but he's already breached the perimeter...

Hip-Hop Debate

word to cspan

Political Poseur - Pretending to be a Republican in Blue California. By Richard Rushfield

A story about wearing a Bush/Cheney t-shirt in my old neighborhood.

RollingStone.com: News - John Kerry:

"Do you have a favorite Beatles song -- or Stones song?

I love 'Satisfaction' and 'Jumpin' Jack Flash' and 'Brown Sugar.' I love 'Imagine' and 'Yesterday.'

You're a greatest-hits kind of guy.

My favorite album is Abbey Road. I love 'Hey Jude.' I also like folk music. I like some classical. I love guitar. Oh, God. I mean, you know -- Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Buffett . . ."

he had me till that last sentence.

Monster Slash | The New Monster Mash

watch dick cheney do the dance from "thriller."

Regret The Error

a blog about newspaper corrections.

Daily Kos

desperate Bush to fly to Kabul/Baghdad? October surprise?

I'm Just Sayin': Poop Valhalla

triumph the insult comic dog in spin alley

the truth about john kerry

look for the tom harkin/tom arnold double dose.

George Bush Bulges

The thing about this web page here is not whether the president has a wireless receiver in his back. The thing about this web page right here is the president's tailor. There's a picture of him in the second to last row from the bottom.

It's the little guys like him that make this the most important election of our lives.

CNN.com - Robertson: I?warned Bush on Iraq casualties - Oct 20, 2004

CNN.com - Robertson: I?warned Bush on Iraq casualties - Oct 19, 2004

Lawmakers Ask CIA to Turn Over Internal 9/11 Report

The 9/11 Secret in the CIA's Back Pocket

Read this. Talk about this. Link to this. Demand this gets released before Nov. 2nd.

My guess is that this will sneak out before Nov. 2nd given the bad relationship between the White House and the CIA.

According to the intelligence official, who spoke to me on condition of anonymity, release of the report, which represents an exhaustive 17-month investigation by an 11-member team within the agency, has been "stalled." First by acting CIA Director John McLaughlin and now by Porter J. Goss, the former Republican House member (and chairman of the Intelligence Committee) who recently was appointed CIA chief by President Bush.

The official stressed that the report was more blunt and more specific than the earlier bipartisan reports produced by the Bush-appointed Sept. 11 commission and Congress.

"What all the other reports on 9/11 did not do is point the finger at individuals, and give the how and what of their responsibility. This report does that," said the intelligence official. "The report found very senior-level officials responsible."

(insert richeous indignation here.)

seriously, I'm so pissed off at these guys that I'm almost tired of being pissed off.

it's all one thing: What if George W. Bush had been elected president?

Bin Laden is in China

Osama, of course, is the October surprise that Rove has been hinting at. We are selling Taiwan and MFN status to China in exchange for Osama. We also are likely giving up some leverage with respect to China's client state North Korea. Two weeks till the deal goes through.

NIFL-WOMENLIT 2004: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:3015] Fwd: SCAM ALERT: Voter

Those GOP voter registration scam artists (America Votes, Sproul & Associates, etc.) were doing the same thing (only registering Republicans) in PA too. Their malfeasance may have been nationwide.

Rapper: Blacks 'cheered when 9-11 happened'

KRS-One: used to be dope. now his records kind of honk and he's saying some ignant stuff.

A Tiny Revolution: Uh Oh

sy hersh from a talk last friday.

Daily Kos :: Comments Open thread

Very, very weird. Granted, this is coming from someone who can read lips, but...

apparently Bush wanted to meek with Kerry after the debate for a bit. and some speculation that Bush's health is seriously failing....note for example that his face was drooping on one side last night and there was some drool/froth on the right side of his mouth (his right, our left).

The Onion | 2004 Election Guide

FT.com / World / Europe - Germany in rethink on Iraq force deployment

John Kerry just passed the "Global Test"

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: October 10, 2004 - October 16, 2004 Archives

So it looks like a Republican funded voter registration group has been literally shredding registration forms of people who registered as democrats in Nevada.

literally shredding. hundreds to thousands.

shredding.

literally.

oh, and they did it in Oregon, too.

anybody got a phone number for a UN election monitor? or Jimmy Carter? or the FEC?

I mean, what the hell?

Please mention this tonight, John Kerry...

TVHeads.com Viewer

al roker is about to be blown away

and now for a quiz:

which major news organization recently circulated a flyer among its campaign reporters that encourages those reporters to double-check the accuracy of claims and features "Facty, the Fact-Checking Dog"?

Yahoo! News - Top Stories Photos - AP

you know, it really does look like there's something under his jacket.

Bush Administration Plans to Delay Major Assaults in Iraq

I guess the rush to war makes good politics, but the realities of it do not.

Topobo Video

this has nothing to do with politics

Live from New York...
It's 1-3 points nationwide!!!
want some wood?

John Forbes Kerry just won the second debate. Not the one that was broadcast live from Washington University in St. Louis (holla) friday night, but the one broadcast live from NBC studios in NYC.

Or, he just won the prior by absolutely cleaning up in the latter. Think back to 2000. The conventional wisdom about the debates was that Gore lost because he seemed so different at each debate. But polls taken right after the debates aired showed that people thought Gore won. It wasn't until Saturday Night Live spoofed the debates that the image of Gore as pandering reallt gelled. And I'd bet that you remember the SNL debates as well or better than you remember the actual debates.

Now, the friday debate: It was on a Friday night during a Yankees/Twins playoff game. Undecided voters aren't undecided because they, after watching C-Span/CNN/Fox religiously, just can't choose. They're undecided because they would rather go out on a friday night, or watch the Twins and the Yankees, than watch Bush and Kerry. And so the spin and the process of forming the Conventional Wisdom for this particular debate are much more important in terms of moving votes.

I thought it was a tie when I watched it. But now that my mind has been made up for me by television, I echo JFK's line from last night:

"Mr. President, you're 0-2."

and the last round, a domestic policy debate in the one-on-one format of the first contest, W isn't likely hit one out of the park.

remainders: is the forced airing of the Anti-Kerry movie on network TV one of Rove's October surprises?

(also there's a great Victoria's Secret ad I just saw that used "Monkey Man" by the Stones as the backdrop. It will not matter in the presidential campaign.)

Dred Scott, Explained: It's About Abortion

I didn't get it, when Bush said it, but now it makes sense. Code words and winks for the base. Got it. A Dred Scott litmus test is a Roe v Wade litmus test.

and this isn't the right place for it, but....

Bush-Cheney '04: Because I need some wood.

Tucker Carlson loosens the bowtie. He and Begala had literally been crowdsurfing not 4 minutes earlier.

Appetizer Baby for Hungry Candidate

Mom, turn on the TV! I'm about to play Hardball!

Aaaaaaaiiight!

yeah, uh...that wasn't even a particularly useful lie, mr. vice preseident

umm..ok, sure.

actually "light bulb" was one of the first phrases I learned as a baby. my first word was "bus"

Jeffrey M. Stambovsky, Appellant,
v.
Helen V. Ackley et al., Respondents.
Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York
July 18, 1991

Whether the source of the spectral apparitions seen by defendant seller is parapsychic or psychogenic, having reported their presence in both a national publication and the local press, defendant is estopped to deny their existence and, as a matter of law, the house is haunted.

Might as well forget Poland after all.

you forgot poland

CNN's "undecided" voter is actually a patriot

I know my nose is a bit stopped up. Even so, this smells a bit like dirty tricks.... A similar odor wafts from this dude as the stench from the guy who snuck into that Kerry event, held up a Bush sign, then had his son, dressed up like a Union man, rip up the bush sign, so that his daughter cried.

By any means necessary...