Sarah Palin Said To Be "Defying McCain Aides" - Remember My Video "Palin Stabbing McCain in The Back?"

Today, Politico's Ben Smith has an interesting top story (which I first saw at the Huffington Post) charging that Alaska Governor and GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin is "defying aides", specifically going against the message of the heads of the campaign and establishing internal divisions.  All to the point of setting herself up for a brighter future in politics. Remember my video on this?  I called it weeks ago:

McCain Campaign Has Paid Staff It Calls Volunteers - Was Ashley Todd Paid?

This video by The Uptake is about Florida McCain workers they call volunteers who have been paid, even though the staff in the video said they have unpaid volunteers.  Also two McCain staffers harrass the reporter.  My question is was Ashley Todd a paid staffer and not a volunteer?

Watch NFL : Watch Tennessee Titans vs. Indianapolis live

The Tennessee Titans (6-0-0, 1st AFC South) are the last undefeated team left standing in the NFL, having ridden the wave of a strong running game and suffocating defense to the top of the league hierarchy. Titans have been awesome this year after taking down the six teams including Jacksonville (week1), Cincinnati (week 2), Houston (week 3)

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NFL's Love Affair with Europe Continues

The NFL keeps sending games to Europe, but for what purpose?

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Rodgers vs Favre: Right move, right time

A comparison of Aaron Rodgers and Brett Favre through the first part of the NFL season shows the Packers may have made the right choice to trade Favre while he still had value and let Rodgers take the reigns.

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Saints' Deuce McAllister Positive for Steroids

Fox 31 reported Friday the NFL has had a "rash" of positive tests under the league's policy regarding anabolic steroids and related substances. Citing a "highly-placed NFL source," the station reported that there have been as many as 10 positive tests, resulting from players taking water pills in an effort to lose weight.

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NFL: Rash of Positive Tests under Steroid Policy

There has been a “rash of positive tests under the steroid policy as a result of players taking water pills to lose weight," a highly-placed NFL source said. “There are about six to ten overall positive tests. Three to four of them are from the Saints organization alone including McAllister and Smith."

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SF Prop H Will Bring A Plan To Use "Clean Energy" By 2040.

http://www.sfcleanenergy.com - PG&E tells people that voting "Yes on H" will cause San Francisco to buy the PG&E grid. THAT'S BULL! All voting "Yes" on Proposition H will do is set San Francisco on a long term plan for the use of clean energy sources by the year 2040; it's not even 2010. What's PG&E scared of?

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Microsoft earnings beat estimates, outlook lower

Microsoft on Thursday reported first-quarter earnings that narrowly topped estimates, while saying that it expects the holiday season results to be slightly lower than analysts were projecting.

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FBI Coordinates Global Effort to Nab Cyber Criminals

The FBI, in conjunction with many partners in international law enforcement, today announced the conclusion of a two-year undercover operation targeting members of the online “carding” forum known as Dark Market.

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Paris Hilton owns a brothel

OK, it's not CURRENTLY a brothel. But it once was. "The heiress has got her hands on an interesting slice of history after making a £850,000 investment for a building that, back in the day, was a haven for drug users and brothels. Paris has no qualms about the illicit history of the building..."

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Sarah Palin Refuses To Answer about Abortion Clinic Bombers

Sarah Palin Refuses To Answer Whether Or Not Abortion Clinic Bombers Are Terrorists. Highlights of Brian William's interview with Sarah Palin and John McCain. WATCH

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McClellan Endorses Obama

Scott McClellan, President Bush's former press secretary, says he is backing Barack Obama for president. McClellan made the endorsement during a taping of Comedian D.L. Hughley's new show that is premiering on CNN this weekend.

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THC fights tumors. Pass it over.

THC has shown to actually inhibit the growth of tumors, that's why heavy pot smokers like you, aren't at any greater risk of getting lung cancer. Feel better now?

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Potent Greenhouse Gas More Prevalent than Thought

A potent greenhouse gas is at least four times more prevalent in the atmosphere than was previously estimated, a new study reports. Research team in California made the first atmospheric measurements of nitrogen trifluoride, which is thousands of times more effective at warming the atmosphere than an equal amount of carbon dioxide.

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New York Times endorses Obama for president

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Times endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for U.S. president on Thursday, saying he had ''met challenge after challenge, growing as a leader and putting real flesh on his early promises of hope and change.'' The Times...

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McCain Supporter Ashley Todd Made Up Story About Being Attacked

The blogsphere was abuzz with a story that a McCain supporter was attacked by a black man because she, well, supported Senator John McCain for President.  A photo got out and went international that had Ms. Todd with a black eye and a kind of red "B" branded into her right cheek.  


Even as it went out, some expressed skepticism, of all and unexpectedly, the clumsily right-wing blogger Michelle Malkin called it early:

I’ve reported on the great lengths that warped attention-seekers have gone to in perpetrating fake hate crimes, including beating themselves up, carving swastikas on their dorm room doors and walls, locking themselves in bathroom stalls, and burning down their own houses.

Which is why I’m not jumping up and down with outrage over Drudge-promoted story of a McCain volunteer claiming to have been attacked by a black man whom she accused of carving a “B” in her face after spotting her McCain bumper sticker.

She refused medical treatment after reporting the incident to police. Why on earth would she do that?

And yep, she made it up.  She said she was attached at an ATM; cameras didn't pick up her image at the ATM.  The "B" on her face -- as you can tell -- is backward, as if someone (her?) stamped it on her face in the mirror.  


Here's a general rule, folks.  Anytime a woman, and more specifically a European American woman claims that she's been attacked by a Black man and that incident is tied to a major event such that it would give her a lot of attention, your best counter-action is to disbelieve the story until a lot of credible evidence comes in.  


Why?  Simple.  She elected to drag negative images of Black men into her claim.  That's done so much -- seriously -- that it in itself should be a crime.  I think Todd believed she would get more attention by saying that and of course the police reacted to her cries for justice.  


Now they're pissed and she's being charged with making a false police report -- and maybe more.   Not a good situation for this 20-year old woman. Which begs the question: she's just 20; what kind of parents and friends does Todd have in Texas that would cause her to want to point a false finger at Black men?


That's the unanswered question.  

Yes on 8 v. No on 8 - Oakland, CA Political Culture War

 

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• This is a video capturing two warring factions - Oaklanders in support of "Proposition 8" which would make Gay Marriage illegal, and those in opposition to the measure.
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GOP Sicko Brad Blakeman Crits Obama For Visiting His Sick Grandmother!!

Oliver Willis points to Brad Blakeman's criticism of Senator Barack Obama for...taking his campaign plane to visit his sick Grandmother. 

I saw the original post and didn't bother to get the video.  Brad's definitely not a good person.  I'd like to know what his parents think? 

Blogger Was Down For Some Reason...

Now it's up.  Why I could not post, I don't know.  But it's working again. 

Whew!

"Obama A Better 007" - Daniel Craig Who Plays James Bond

In an interview for his upcoming movie "Quantum of Solace", Daniel Craig -- who plays James Bond -- picks Barack Obama over John McCain as the better James Bond:

I finally ask this British actor a deeply American question: “Who do you think would be the better James Bond—Barack Obama or John McCain?”

Craig doesn’t hesitate. “Obama would be the better Bond because—if he’s true to his word—he’d be willing to quite literally look the enemy in the eye and go toe-to-toe with them. McCain, because of his long service and experience, would probably be a better M,” he adds, mentioning Bond’s boss, played by Dame Judi Dench. “There is, come to think of it, a kind of Judi Dench quality to McCain.”

GOP Conservatives For Barack Obama

Many Republicans are coming over to the side of Senator Barack Obama and Senator Joe Biden and in this video some of them explain why. Personally, I think Governor Palin really wants to be an Obama supporter. (Thanks to Andrew Sullivan for spotting this video.)

Palin's $150,000 Makeover - Socialist Charge Is Racist

My commentary on the RNC's expenditure of $150,000 for Governor Palin and her family, and my assertion that the McCain / Palin Campaign's charge that Senator Obama is socialist is a racist claim that has it's basis in American civil rights history.

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Jets Left it on the Field

Jets left it on the field By TJ Rosenthal for Football Reporters Online

The Jets invented yet another way to blow a game Sunday. This, coming in the form of a clumsy tight end. Not even the legendary Bret Favre, who has been pedestrian for much of this season, or shall we say has turned into a Jet, could rescue them. Favre's brilliant last minute heroics, highlighted by his patented escape from a game ending sack in his own end zone, set the Jet's up for a last second FG. The first 52-yard attempt by Jay Feely (former 2nd round pick Mike Nugent's injury replacement. Second round? Thanks a lot Terry Bradway, for wasting an early round pick on a kicker in '05, then stepping down as GM) hit the left upright. Yet, thanks to a Raider time out, you know the one where the coach calls it RIGHT before the kicker lets loose? That ploy is starting to backfire a lot now throughout the league, giving the kicker a chance at redemption. Yesterday, the J-E-T-S Jets Jets Jets got a second chance. Moments later..Bang!! Right through. Game tied. Heading for Overtime.

Thus setting Jet fans up for yet another head between the seats crash landing destined for oblivion. A heartbreaking loss was sure to be on the way. The question was, how? The moment came halfway through OT. Favre, avoiding the determined yet tiring Raider rush, stepped up in the pocket to find a wide-open Chris Baker at the Raider 35. With a catch Baker may have found five to ten yards of running room thus leaving the Jets with a first down and within 45-yard FG range. Instead, Baker seemingly tripped on a yard line. All by himself. Didn't need anyone's help to do it. Falling helplessly to the ground, the ball and the Jets chance at stealing the win sailed past him. Soon a punt ended the drive. You can't fault Baker. He's a career Jet. For six years the Gang Green disease has built up around him. Rearing its ugly head yesterday as the opportunity to keep pace with the 5-1 Bills came and went in a flash.

Minutes later, Sebastian Janikowski brought his monster leg onto the field to bury a monster field goal that was kicked from Mars and had enough to make it to Mercury. In the end, it was the Same Old Jets. The faces change; the final chapter is the same. A winnable game against a beatable team followed by a gut wrenching loss. Now 3-3, the Jets find themselves in a familiar place. Desperate for a win before Halloween even gets here.

McCain Accidentally Agrees: Western Pennsylvania Is Racist

Sen. John McCain offered, on Tuesday, what may go down as one of the more awkward moments of this campaign cycle, in which -- speaking in Western Pennsylvania -- he declared he 'couldn't agree more' with the sentiment that some of the people from that region were openly racist.

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Palin Claims Vice President "In Charge Of The U.S. Senate"

Yesterday, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) sat for an interview with KUSA, an NBC affiliate in Colorado. In response to a question sent to the network by a third grader at a local elementary school "What does the Vice President do?", Palin erroneously argued that the Vice President is "in charge of the United States Senate". Reporter asked her...

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Top Ten Videos in Women's Rights

The following ten videos represent various segments and voices of the women's rights movement. These visualizations of the movement by the young, the old, the male, the female, the famous and not-so-famous, the vocal and silent all contribute to the greater quest for justice and equality everywhere in a way that is often more powerful than......

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UFO Files Reveal Attempt to Shoot Down a UFO

The British National Archives has opened its UFO files to the public. The online document, consisting of thousands of pages, is full of UFO data and information collected by the British military and includes several first-hand accounts, including those of two pilots who claim they were ordered to open fire at a UFO.

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Why It’s A Bad Time To Buy A Blog But A Great Time To Sell

Without doubt Blogs have been the flavour of the month for quite some time now (should it be called flavour of the year?) and I have paid close attention to the marketplaces. However, I’ve yet to see a blog which was worth buying. Don’t get me wrong, there have been some great blogs for sale but they have all in my opinion, been greatly overpriced.

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Lance Armstrong Will Race in Tour '09 If He Feels Welcomed

Lance Armstrong could still race in the 2009 Tour de France, as long as race organizers make him feel welcome, Astana team director Johan Bruyneel said Tuesday.

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Emissions from burping cows 'higher than family car'

A herd of cows belches out more climate-changing gas than a family car, a university researcher said today.

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs holds court on earnings day

The rare appearance by the Apple CEO produces a few more pithy quotes than you would usually hear on an earnings call. Here are a few...

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4 Reasons Why Dead Space is the Scariest Game Ever

Dead Space, the new survival horror video game, is a major step forward in the genre, with panic-inducing game mechanics that are as effective as they are subtle. But what makes it so scary? Our gaming expert has some ideas, and he spoke to the EA wizards behind the game to get the details.

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13 Free Online Tools Helping You Create And Host Your Site

These are 13 free web applications that helps you to create and host your website when you want to create a website for yourself or for your clients. To use these web applications you don't need to be a designer or developer and don't need any technical knowledge.

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Fragile Cowboys on brink of self-destruction

The Dallas Cowboys could miss the playoffs. A team built for a Super Bowl is on the brink of self-destruction, of self-implosion. And when you dust the crime scene for fingerprints, Jerry Jones' are on every piece of Cowboys furniture.

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Pound Drops To New Multi-Year Lows Against Dollar & Yen

The UK's sterling staged a sharp slide against its major rivals on Wednesday morning in Asia. The pound fell to new multi-year lows of 1.6512 against the US dollar and 165.43 against the Japanese yen by 8:00 pm ET, compared to yesterday's closing values of 1.6708 and 167.36, respectively.

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Ten Innovations Inspired By Nature

Scientists and engineers are getting some wild ideas from the wild kingdom. Gravity-defying geckos. Heavily armored fish. Toxin-spraying beetles. The wild kingdom is inspiring some wild ideas and inventions.

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Palin Doesn't Get That We're In Economic Trouble

I just watched CNN's Drew Griffin's interview with Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and I've got to briefly share that she doesn't get the economic problem we're in.

On the matter of the Bailout plan and our financial problems, Palin fears that it would be used as a reason to "spend" and to have "big government" and that the "private sector" would be forgotten.

Man.

Memo to Governor Palin: it was the private sector that created the problem we're in.

Geez.

The Stanford Roundtable - What Makes A Great Leader?

 
YouTube featured this video that's over 90 minutes long, but worth every minute of it. It's of a speaker conversation held at Stanford University's Maples Pavilion called "The Stanford Roundtable" and featured Historian David Kennedy, professor emeritus, Kavita Ramdas, CEO Global Fund for Women, U.S. Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Los Angeles, Stanford President John Hennessy, Associate Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, Carly Fiorina, former head of HP, and Jeff Raikes, CEO of the Gates Foundation.

Inspite of the fact that Florina represents the McCain / Palin campaign and Anthony Kennedy is a conservative Supreme Court Justice, the event was not partisan.  It was essentially about what great leaders are and what we need as a leader in the next President of The United States.

Sen. Hillary Clinton Introduces Al Franken For Senator - Minnesota

The full speech of Senator Hillary Clinton introducing Al Franken. who's running for Senator in Minnesota, isn't online yet, but it should be -- Franken and Clinton gave great speeches.

Franken's taking on Republican incumbent Norm Coleman and is ahead in a poll Rassumsen conducted on October 9th, 43 percent to 37 percent. A more recent poll by the Minn Times Star Tribune has him at 3 points, 39 percent to 36 percent.

None of this has reduced the sense of humor of Franken. At today's rally, after a rousing speech by Senator Clinton, Franken took the podium and said "When we decided to run for Senate, Franni (his wife) and I, I said, "And Franni, I'm going to be the Senator," then turned to Clinton with a wry smile.

It was pretty funny to me, though I'm not sure Clinton got the full "yuk" out of it.

Oh well.

Ross Mirikarimi - SF Supervisor - "Yes On H"; San Francisco

At a party fundraiser for San Francisco "Yes On H", I sat down with San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirikarimi to talk about SF Proposition H and how it will benefit San Francisco.

Sarah Palin Tackled By Terry Tate - Literally

This is undoubtedly hard to watch, at least for me. Then again, I just discovered "Terry Take" more myself today. In this video he tackles -- I mean tackles -- Sarah Palin just as she's being interviewed by CBS News' Katie Couric.

Take says he's an "equal opportunity hitter" -- the best office linebacker ever.

Terry Tate has a Painful Message for Sarah Palin

Wow. Well, I gotta admit it's a bit too harsh, but it's one of those train wrecks you can't help watching. But that's no way to treat a lady.

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Pat's Rodney Harrison Has Season-Ending Injury

The veteran New England Patriots safety has been diagnosed with a torn quadriceps muscle in his right leg and will not play again this season, his 15th in the NFL.

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Running back investigated for spitting drink in woman's face

Chiefs running back Larry Johnson is being investigated for spitting a drink in a woman's face at a nightclub during the Chiefs' bye week.

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Niners Fire Nolan

The San Francisco 49ers fired coach Mike Nolan on Monday.

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Aaron Peskin - SF Supervisor Says "Yes On H"; Explains Why

Zennie's CNN Question For Senator John McCain On Urban Policy

I don't know if it will be used on the Situation Room, but I'd like to know if McCain really has a National Urban Policy. He's said nothing about cities at all.

Joe Biden In Colorado Live Stream Of Speech NOW

Thanks to The Uptake for this feed.