As an American and a Veteran, I can assure you that I didn't enter the military to protect racists. I entered the military because of the continuing and decent fight against racists such as LiberalHolocaust. These are not representatives of America. America is here to save the world from these evil people that are obviously the spawn of Satan.

Watching Sarah Palin this morning give a speech was painful. Not just because of her lack of grammar or her obvious lack of any formal education. It was painful because she rallies the pitchfork crowd. Hearing her talk about developing "clean coal technology" and "nuclear power plants" when when can't correctly pronounce the words was on one level humorous, but on another level, tragic.

I suspect if you asked Sarah Palin where the Physicists and scientists and engineers to build nuclear power plants came from, she would say, "From the nuclear power plant people, of course". If you asked her who would regulate and inspect these plants, she would say, "From the inspector people".

The people at her "pitchfork" rallies will never ask these questions. Why? Because they also believe nuclear power plants come from the "nuclear power plant people".

If her people read what I just wrote, they wouldn't understand the issue. They would ask with snarky derision, "Where else would nuclear power plants come from than from the nuclear power plant people? Duh!"

i would say that america has made progress on the issue of race.

off the terrorism list. he also paid them $400 million.

"did you abuse power?"

palin: "sir, no, the report says it was legal for me to fire the commissioner. read the report, sir."

the report also says she abused power.

employer-provided health care. i don't know if the employer will pay the tax or the employees. i guess both when employers cut people off of their health care plans.

is that mccain wants to move people off of employer-provided health care and onto these health care savings accounts with very high deductables. i don't know about these savings accounts. i'm not sure how they work. the devil is in the details.

for the banks.

i said i loved them both but i thought hillary would be a better candidate. i was wrong though, obviously.

otherwise it wouldn't be there. it could be subliminal. it might be designed to remind us that mccain flew a plane in nam.

by pressuring the commissioner but not by firing him.

Thousands of Christians flee killings in Mosul
Posted on Saturday, October 11, 2008
By Leila Fadel | McClatchy Newspapers

BAGHDAD — Christians in Mosul are fleeing their homes after a spate of killings this week that left 12 Christians dead in one of the largest Christian communities in Iraq.

The killings follow large protests by the community last month against the passage of the provincial elections law. An article that would give representation to Christians and other minorities was removed from the law before its passage.

Now the last safe haven for Christians is gone, said Canon Andrew White the vicar of St. George's church in Baghdad.

After a spree of killings and forced evictions of Iraqi Christians in Baghdad last year, many fled to Mosul. But even there they could not escape the danger. In February of this year the Archbishop Paulos Faraj Raho of Mosul was kidnapped and killed.

"Christians are being killed in the only place they felt safe, in Ninevah," White said, referring to the province of which Mosul is the capital. "This is where they fled to and now there's no safe place for them."

Over a thousand Christian families have fled Mosul for outlying villages and villages in the Kurdistan region in search of safety, a spokesman for the Ministry of Endowment and Religious Affairs said. Posters are being put up with guidelines on how to leave.

"The Christian families left in Mosul are very few indeed," said Mariwan Nakshabandee, spokesman for the Ministry of Endowment and Religious Affairs, which oversees Christian communities in Mosul.

Iraqi Assyrian and Chaldean Catholics trace their roots to ancient Mesopotamia and Christian communities were prominent in many major Iraqi cities, including Mosul in the north and Basra in the south and Baghdad. The capital had enclaves in the central neighborhood of Karada, the eastern neighborhood of New Baghdad and nearby al-Ghadir as well as Dora in the capital's south.

Christians once were estimated to be about 3 percent of the Iraqi population or about 800,000 people.

But as Iraq grew bloody and violent the Christian community dwindled. Now some estimate that more than half of Iraq's Christians have fled. White believes that the Christian community is about a quarter of the estimated 800,000.

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Way to go Bush! Jesus must be happy.

Afghan president offers Taliban a role in governing country
By Nick Meo in Kabul
Last Updated: 7:03PM BST 11 Oct 2008

President Hamid Karzai has offered Taliban leaders the possibility of positions in his government if they agree to a peace deal which could bring fighting to an end.

The offer was made through his brother Qayoun at a secret meeting in Saudi Arabia of which Britain was aware.
Britain has been encouraging the Kabul government to talk to its Taliban enemies for more than two years and the Americans are thought to be coming round to the idea of a deal which would end the costly war in Afghanistan.

But The Sunday Telegraph has learned that the allies would insist that the Taliban would have to split with al-Qaeda and provide information on international terrorists in Pakistan and Afghanistan as the price of a deal.
Under the Saudi Arabian initiative more than a dozen former senior Taliban figures travelled to the kingdom with the approval of President Hamid Karzai's government.

The British Government has said little about the initiative in public but British military commanders and diplomats are known to favour talking to the Taliban as a way of ending the war.

In the last year the insurgency has worsened considerably, with UN figures showing a 40 per cent rise in civilian casualties and a 40 per cent increase in insurgent attacks in the past 12 months.

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she fired the commissioner because he would not fire the trooper. the commissioner told her all he could do legally was suspend the trooper for five days.

Palin Booed At Flyers' Game

E&P reports that Sarah Palin was greeted with a chorus of boos at the Philadelphia Flyers game where she dropped the puck at the Flyers' opener:

You never know where you are gonna find a political scoop, but Lynn Zinser at her NYT hockey "Slapshot" blog just posted that Sarah Palin, in her much-ballyhooed appearance dropping the puck at the Philly Flyers' opener, was greeted by "resounding (almost deafening) boos from the Flyers crowd."

The biggest problem: when Palin came out to onto the Wachovia Center ice Saturday night -- greeted by resounding (almost deafening) boos from the Flyers crowd -- the the two hockey players who had no choice but to appear with her in that photo op were turned into props in a political campaign.

Video at link

i wonder why?

He wants to spare the ultra rich from any taxes. These are the same people who take $400,000 corporate golf outings while the nation goes into debt bailing out the corporations. In the mean time McCain and his friends tell the rest of the nation to fuck off.

Obama will not raise taxes on people with income less than $250,000. But he will tax the ultra rich a little more. The people who think they are royalty.

McCain would have us all suffer and go into debt so his rich buddies can live the high life.

Struggling against the documented failures and deceits of Bush, the G0P in general, and having little to offer in fact, McAint made what had to be the densest move in years by picking the obscure Palin.

Now it is rumored that it makes him sick just to look at her. But, big John, it was your selection.

Bushie!  Doin' a helluva job!
G0P Trinity:  Failure, Fraud, Deceit.

Then I have a prediction. The republic