Sep 29, 2008
Sep 27, 2008
rock the vote? rattle the brain
"Oh daddy, are you sick? do you want mouth to mouth again?" Daddy moaning, "Monica save me," Sarah wales: "Who is Monica, I am Sarah, Sarah Palin." (my composite joke)
THE "friends"; better JOKES BELOW THE VIDEO!
Conservative columnist: Palin should go
26sep08
WASHINGTON (AP) — A conservative columnist who welcomed Sarah Palin's entry in national politics says she's proven to be a dud and should step aside as John McCain's running mate.
Kathleen Parker, writing in the National Review Online, says her "cringe reflex is exhausted" after watching the Alaska governor stumble through TV interviews and it's become clear to her that Palin is out of her league.
"No one hates saying that more than I do," Parker writes. "Like so many women, I've been pulling for Palin, wishing her the best, hoping she will perform brilliantly. I've also noticed that I watch her interviews with the held breath of an anxious parent, my finger poised over the mute button in case it gets too painful. Unfortunately, it often does."
Palin, new to national politics, boosted Republican presidential nominee John McCain in polls and excited the party's core conservatives when he chose the first-term governor for his ticket. Some of that shine has since worn off in polls.
Parker said she thought Palin was a "refreshing feminist of a different order" when she joined the ticket, but it's become clear she doesn't know enough about economics or foreign policy to be president should that become necessary in a McCain administration.
"Only Palin can save McCain, her party, and the country she loves," Parker writes. "She can bow out for personal reasons, perhaps because she wants to spend more time with her newborn. No one would criticize a mother who puts her family first."
On the Net:
http://www.nationalreview.com/
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDZiMDhjYTU1NmI5Y2MwZjg2MWNiMWMyYTUxZDkwNTE=
Palin ProblemShe’s out of her league.
By Kathleen Parker
an excerpt from the Parker Piece On Palin condensed above:
Palin didn’t make a mess cracking the glass ceiling.
She simply glided through it. It was fun while it lasted.
Palin’s recent interviews with Charles Gibson, Sean Hannity, and now Katie
Couric have all revealed an attractive, earnest, confident candidate. Who Is
Clearly Out Of Her League.
No one hates saying that more than I do. Like so many women, I’ve been
pulling for Palin, wishing her the best, hoping she will perform brilliantly.
I’ve also noticed that I watch her interviews with the held breath of an anxious
parent, my finger poised over the mute button in case it gets too painful.
Unfortunately, it often does. My cringe reflex is exhausted.
Palin filibusters. She repeats words, filling space with deadwood. Cut the
verbiage and there’s not much content there. Here’s but one example of many from
her interview with Hannity: “Well, there is a danger in allowing some obsessive
partisanship to get into the issue that we’re talking about today. And that’s
something that John McCain, too, his track record, proving that he can work both
sides of the aisle, he can surpass the partisanship that must be surpassed to
deal with an issue like this.”
. . .
If Palin were a man, we’d all be guffawing, just as we do every time Joe
Biden tickles the back of his throat with his toes. But because she’s a woman —
and the first ever on a Republican presidential ticket — we are reluctant to say
what is painfully true.
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TOO LAZY TO READ? well click n watch- Katie and Palin:
JOKES:
hehehehe
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/2/163529/2680/112/583640
"John McCain's VP pick is the governor of Alaska, a unknown hockey mom named Sarah Palin that no one ever heard of. The only other job she had in politics was the mayor of a small town known as Wasilla, Alaska, and now she has the opportunity to be on a ticket opposite of Barack Obama, the first black man she's ever seen." –Bill Maher
"She's not bad looking. She looks like one of those women in the Van Halen videos who takes off her glasses, shakes out her hair, and then all of a sudden, she's in high heels and a bikini. All of a sudden, I am FOR drilling in Alaska." --Jimmy Kimmel
"Alaska Gov. Sarah Pallin is John McCain's choice. Here's what we know about her: her name is Sarah Palin." --Jay Leno
These and other new jokes are coming in bunches:
"Actually, it was kind of a smart choice. McCain went with a woman because he didn't want to have to be in a position to have to get CPR from Mitt Romney." –Jay Leno
"Palin and McCain are a good pair. She's pro-life and he's clinging to life." –Jay Leno
"Today President Bush called Gov. Palin and congratulated her. Bush told Palin the job of vice president is very important because as vice president, you get to tell the president what to do." –Jay Leno
"The McCain people believe that Americans will disregard her inexperience because they will fall in love with her story. She was a runner up in the 1984 Miss Alaska Pageant., which may sound trite, but you try walking in high-heeled snow shoes." –Bill Maher
"Five kids? Does anyone in that party understand the concept of pulling out?" –Bill Maher
"John McCain turned 72 on Friday and apparently decided he deserved a really hot birthday present so he introduced his "Vice President" choice.
"When John McCain takes office, he intends to be less formal than his predecessors. Instead of "Mr. President", he'll have his Vice President call him "Daddy".
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what candidate has been blessed against Witches? (the kind on broomsticks).
Sep 26, 2008
are you protected?
song for a fall weekend....
if you need a laugh, Monty Python and WITCHES
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Sep 25, 2008
Tiresias & tartarus - words from TOPLIN
Tartarus
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In classic Greek mythology, below Heaven, Earth, and Pontus is Tartarus, or Tartaros (Greek Τάρταρος, deep place). It is either a deep, gloomy place, a pit, or an abyss used as a dungeon of torment and suffering that resides within Hades (the entire underworld) with Tartarus being the hellish component. In the Gorgias, Plato (c. 400 BC) wrote that souls were judged after death and those who received punishment were sent to Tartarus. As a place of punishment, it can be considered a hell. The classic Hades, on the other hand, is more similar to Old Testament Sheol.Like other primal entities (such as the earth and time), Tartarus is also a primordial force or deity.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Greek mythology, Tiresias (also transliterated as Teiresias Τειρεσίας) was a blind prophet of Thebes, famous for being transformed into a woman for seven years. He was the son of the shepherd Everes and the nymph Chariclo;[1] Tiresias participated in fully seven generations at Thebes, beginning as advisor to Cadmus himself.
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Sep 22, 2008
global malaise rooted in cosmic event?
with the ECON news Paul is searching for RAPTURE coverage.
THE CAUSE OF IT ALL: (unless you think the earth is flat)
Space Weather News for Sept. 22, 2008
http://spaceweather.com/
NEW SUNSPOT: For the first time in months, a significant sunspot is emerging on the sun. It is a fast-growing active region with two dark cores, each larger than Earth. The magnetic polarity of the sunspot identifies it as a member of new Sunspot Cycle 24. Because the year 2008 has brought so many blank suns, some observers have wondered if we are ever going to climb out of the ongoing deep solar minimum. Today's new sunspot is an encouraging sign that the 11-year solar cycle is indeed progressing, albeit slowly. Visit http://spaceweather.com/ for sunspot photos and updates.
credit:
Pete Lawrence
Image taken: Sep. 22, 2008
Location: Selsey, West Sussex, UK
Details: Like a breath of fresh plasma, there's an emerging sunspot group on the Sun. This ends a very low period of activity on the solar surface and as it's a cycle 24 spot group is very exciting indeed. Seeing conditions weren't brilliant this morning but, to be honest, I don't care because there's a sunspot group to look at!!
Sep 20, 2008
will our power be on? it wasn't last nite; one of 678 without
About 678 in Akron still have no power
Summit, Medina and Portage report fewer than 1,140 in dark
Published on Saturday, Sep 20, 2008
From staff and wire reportsThe number of those still in the dark in the Akron area is dwindling as much of the state returns to normal and power companies work to restore electricity by the end of the weekend to the remaining 330,000 homes and businesses affected by the remnants of Hurricane Ike.
About 3 percent of the FirstEnergy Corp. customers in Ohio and western Pennsylvania, including about 678 in the Akron area, were still without power Friday night, five days after high winds battered the region.
About 22,000 customers in Ohio and western Pennsylvania had no electricity, down from a peak of about 1 million.
Fewer than 1,140 customers in Summit, Portage and Medina counties were still without power Friday night.
FirstEnergy spokeswoman Ellen Raines said power would be restored to 99 percent of customers by midnight Sunday.
American Electric Power reported that about 13,000 customers were still without power in Stark and Carroll counties, down from a peak of about 69,000.
AEP spokeswoman Shelly Haugh said it could be as late as midnight tonight before power is restored to 90 percent of its affected customers.
All the utility customers should be back online by midnight Sunday, she said.
The storm, which brought wind gusts of more than 75 mph in some spots in Northeast Ohio, is blamed for at least 56 deaths in 11 states from the Gulf Coast to Michigan. At least seven of those deaths were in Ohio.
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland asked residents to donate to area food banks, through the Ohio Association of Second Harvest Foodbanks, to help those still recovering from the storm.
State Job and Family Service clients who have lost food because of power outages can use a temporary procedure for reimbursement of food stamps.
The agency asks clients to attach a letter explaining they were without power and a copy of a newspaper article detailing the power outage in their area to their application for reimbursement.
In the Akron area, the request and documentation can be mailed or taken to Summit County Job and Family Services, 37 N. High St., Akron, OH 44308.
From staff and wire reportsThe number of those still in the dark in the Akron area is dwindling as much of the state returns to normal and power companies work to restore electricity by the end of the weekend to the remaining 330,000 homes and businesses affected by the remnants of Hurricane Ike.
About 3 percent of the FirstEnergy Corp. customers in Ohio and western Pennsylvania, including about 678 in the Akron area, were still without power Friday night, five days after high winds battered the region.
About 22,000 customers in Ohio and western Pennsylvania had no electricity, down from a peak of about 1 million.
Fewer than 1,140 customers in Summit, Portage and Medina counties were still without power Friday night.
FirstEnergy spokeswoman Ellen Raines said power would be restored to 99 percent of customers by midnight Sunday.
American Electric Power reported that about 13,000 customers were still without power in Stark and Carroll counties, down from a peak of about 69,000.
AEP spokeswoman Shelly Haugh said it could be as late as midnight tonight before power is restored to 90 percent of its affected customers.
All the utility customers should be back online by midnight Sunday, she said.
The storm, which brought wind gusts of more than 75 mph in some spots in Northeast Ohio, is blamed for at least 56 deaths in 11 states from the Gulf Coast to Michigan. At least seven of those deaths were in Ohio.
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland asked residents to donate to area food banks, through the Ohio Association of Second Harvest Foodbanks, to help those still recovering from the storm.
State Job and Family Service clients who have lost food because of power outages can use a temporary procedure for reimbursement of food stamps.
The agency asks clients to attach a letter explaining they were without power and a copy of a newspaper article detailing the power outage in their area to their application for reimbursement.
In the Akron area, the request and documentation can be mailed or taken to Summit County Job and Family Services, 37 N. High St., Akron, OH 44308.
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Sep 19, 2008
now we are one of 1100
By Beacon Journal staff
POSTED: 12:41 p.m. EDT, Sep 19, 2008
About 3 percent of the FirstEnergy Corp. customers in Ohio and western Pennsylvania, including about 1,100 in the Akron area, were still without power this afternoon, five days after high winds battered the state.
A total of about 30,200 customers in Ohio and western Pennsylvania had no electricity. That's down from about 1 million after the remnants of Hurricane Ike led to widespread outages.
Fewer than 2,000 customers in Summit, Portage and Medina counties were still in the dark. That number includes the approximately 1,100 in the Akron area.
FirstEnergy spokeswoman Ellen Raines said power would be restored to 99 percent of customers by midnight Sunday.
Customers in hard-hit areas such as Springfield, outside Dayton, and the Salem area in Columbiana County, are among those who still might not have power Monday morning, Raines said.
The storm, which brought wind gusts of more than 75 mph in some spots in Northeast Ohio, is blamed for at least 56 deaths in 11 states from the Gulf Coast to Michigan. At least seven of those deaths were in Ohio.
About 3 percent of the FirstEnergy Corp. customers in Ohio and western Pennsylvania, including about 1,100 in the Akron area, were still without power this afternoon, five days after high winds battered the state.
A total of about 30,200 customers in Ohio and western Pennsylvania had no electricity. That's down from about 1 million after the remnants of Hurricane Ike led to widespread outages.
Fewer than 2,000 customers in Summit, Portage and Medina counties were still in the dark. That number includes the approximately 1,100 in the Akron area.
Sep 18, 2008
in the dark?
now I see we are 1 of 4,000 still in the dark!
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Thousands still waiting for electricity in Akron-Canton area
By Katie Byard
Beacon Journal staff writer
POSTED: 10:56 a.m. EDT, Sep 18, 2008
Four days after the remnants of Hurricane Ike whipped through Ohio, about 4,000 FirstEnergy Corp. customers in the Akron area were still without power.
Throughout Northeast Ohio and western Pennsylvania, 70,000 customers were in the dark this morning. These included 300 customers in northern Summit County, 700 in the Kent area and 300 in the Medina area.
FirstEnergy spokeswoman Tricia Ingraham said power has been restored to about 90 percent of the customers who lost electricity as a result of Sunday's storm.
The remaining work, she said, is ''labor intensive,'' involving repairs affecting small numbers of customers.
Echoing earlier FirstEnergy statements, Ingraham said it could be sometime this weekend before power is restored to everyone.
The storm, which brought wind gusts of more than 75 mph in some spots in Northeast Ohio, is blamed for at least 50 deaths in 11 states from the Gulf Coast to Michigan. At least six deaths were reported in Ohio.
American Electric Power reported that about 26,000 customers were still without power in Stark and Carroll counties, down from a peak of about 69,000 on Monday.
AEP spokeswoman Shelly Haugh has said it could be midnight Friday before power is restored to 90 percent of affected customers.
Four days after the remnants of Hurricane Ike whipped through Ohio, about 4,000 FirstEnergy Corp. customers in the Akron area were still without power.
Throughout Northeast Ohio and western Pennsylvania, 70,000 customers were in the dark this morning. These included 300 customers in northern Summit County, 700 in the Kent area and 300 in the Medina area.
FirstEnergy spokeswoman Tricia Ingraham said power has been restored to about 90 percent of the customers who lost electricity as a result of Sunday's storm.
The remaining work, she said, is ''labor intensive,'' involving repairs affecting small numbers of customers.
Echoing earlier FirstEnergy statements, Ingraham said it could be sometime this weekend before power is restored to everyone.
The storm, which brought wind gusts of more than 75 mph in some spots in Northeast Ohio, is blamed for at least 50 deaths in 11 states from the Gulf Coast to Michigan. At least six deaths were reported in Ohio.
American Electric Power reported that about 26,000 customers were still without power in Stark and Carroll counties, down from a peak of about 69,000 on Monday.
AEP spokeswoman Shelly Haugh has said it could be midnight Friday before power is restored to 90 percent of affected customers.
