If you ever had....bad thoughts about Jar-Jar from Star Wars, this post is for you.
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Picking Palin - Cynical & Gimmicky Say Republican Consultant & Speech Writer Caught Talking On Air)
CT: I also think the Palin pick is insulting to Kay Bailey Hutchinson [another more experienced Republican, Texas Senator], too. PN: Saw Kay this morning. CT: Yeah, she's never looked comfortable about this -- MM: They're all bummed out. CT: Yeah, I mean is she [Palin] really the most qualified woman they could have turned to? PN: The most qualified? No! I think they went for this -- excuse me-- political bullshit about narratives --
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OK so maybe I lied bout not wanting to talk more about Palin-gate. The whole Sara Palin backstory has at least given comedians great material
• "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
• "She does know about international relations because she is right up there in Alaska, right next-door to Russia." — Fox News' commentator Steve Doocy
"When you think about it, Alaska is also near the North Pole, so she must also be friends with Santa." —Jon Stewart
Both taken from this daily news rag.
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| morgandawn |
| 2008-09-02 17:55 |
| Don't Talk About The Elephant In The Room |
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I personally don't need/want to hear more details about Sarah Palin's daughter and her soon to be husband. Nor did I need/want to learn that the teenager father proudly declares himself to be a "'f*cking redneck" who " doesn't want kids" on his MySpace page. It is not surprising - he sounds like many other teenager boys who lack the maturity to drive a car let alone father or raise a child.
Of course when the family plans to have both teenagers at the RNC, it makes it harder for the media to not take notice. Almost like dangling a bit of red meat in front of cannibals and then yelling: no fair!!! when they start with the leaping and the grabbing and the chasing you down the street.
To be out in front of the media or not -tough call either way, but if it were my daughter or son, I'd not want to subject them to any more pressure. A brief appearance at most? And you'd have to convince me it would be for something far worthier than my election campaign.
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| morgandawn |
| 2008-09-02 10:21 |
| Economy: Is History Siding With The Democratic Economic Plan? |
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An opinion piece from a NY Times economic analyst - I'd like to dig deeper into his statistics and then see how they support his conclusions. But the conclusions are intriguing (if true):
Looking solely at the post-WW2 period:
1."Simply put, the United States economy has grown faster, on average, under Democratic presidents than under Republicans."
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2. Income inequality (high end income grows faster than middle/low end income aka Rich get richer). "Over the entire 60-year period, income inequality trended substantially upward under Republican presidents but slightly downward under Democrats, thus accounting for the widening income gaps over all. And the bad news for America’s poor is that Republicans have won five of the seven elections going back to 1980."
The article points out that these statistics are surprising given that the President has little direct impact on the economy. To what extent does a Republican/Democratic held Congress play a role?
more here
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Title: This Doesn't Count
By: Bridget McKennitt
Characters: Sam, Dean, (busty Asian beauty)
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 1102
Summary: "I jacked off to some hot porn, and so did you. Just because we were in the same room doesn't mean anything, Sammy."
Disclaimer: Supernatural is owned by Eric Kripke and other companies. They are used here without permission, and for entertainment purposes only. No challenge or infringement upon the copyright is intended, nor should any be inferred.
Author's Notes: Written for Bring Back The Porn. The site Busty Asian Beauties is real, and by real, I mean a real fake site of Warner Brothers. It redirects to WB and was mentioned twice on Supernatural.
This Doesn't Count
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Title: A Mother's Duty
Author: Bridget McKennitt
Fandom/Pairing: Supernatural, Ellen Harvelle/Jo Harvelle
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 100 x2
Disclaimer: Supernatural is owned by Eric Kripke and other companies. They are used here without permission, and for entertainment purposes only. No challenge or infringement upon the copyright is intended, nor should any be inferred.
Highlight for Warnings: *Incest, underage (16)*
A Mother's Duty
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For Synecdochic, in thanks for her Stargate Broken Wings universe, and specifically A Howling In The Factory Yard... and because she told us to play in her sandbox.
I wasn't going to play. I am behind on everything, and I have so many other things I should be doing right now. And then I spotted in a comment thread here that Synecdochic and Ivorygates are both absolutely convinced that they know, one way and the other, whether Delta is the original or not, and I was OK with that, and amused by their disagreement, but then a fucking snake in the back of my mind insisted that they're both wrong.
Beware fucking snakes, indeed.
Read this only if you've read Howling.
Rated R, explicit homoerotic content, issues of dubious consent and cloning mindfucks, set in Synecdochic's Broken Wings universe, within A Howling In The Factory Yard, and at some point, I suspect that she'll Joss this. Apparently the snake in my hindbrain doesn't care about being Jossed; he wanted his story told. Cross-posted to the farrow_marshall comm on LJ.
( Intermediate Move )
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Qwest’s Unofficial 250 GB Data Cap here
You can get bandwidth monitoring software (for free) here.
After analysis, any hypothetical torrenting will not be the main source of any problems - backing up three computers to our paid online backup service will be the problem. I use online backup to protect our data in case of fire, flood, earthquakes etc where on-site storage just won't cut it. This is a legitimate and sound use of bandwidth. My regular surfing/mail/vid viewing bandwidth is around 30-40GB per computer a month, but our hard drives are much larger (my desktop is 250GB alone). I am already having to select what files to not backup.
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Title: Need You Tonight
Fandom: Supernatural
Characters: Sam, Dean
Summary: Sam has one chance to survive
Rating: PG
Word count: 100
Disclaimer: don't own 'em; not for profit
Notes: for the 'life line' challenge at winchesters100
Need You Tonight
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from jonquil's journal
"If you'll recall, during Hurricane Katrina New Orleans residents who were unable to make it out of town -- bear this in mind, you needed private transportation to evacuate -- fled to the Superdome to ride out the storm, an event the local authorities were unprepared for and the national authorities could not manage, leading to a national scandal.
The solution? New Orleans police are roaming the streets with bullhorns, telling residents that if they "ignore orders to leave" they are on their own. The Superdome will be locked. At present, "The state has a $7 million contract for more than 700 buses to carry an estimated 30,000 people to shelters." There's a mile-long line at the bus pickup point."
There are an estimated 310,000 to 340,000 people currently living in New Orleans. How many of them need help to move? No idea, because in order to get transport assistance, you need to use the city's 311 service to register. But the system was flooded with calls last night so they had to shut it down. "In response, Gov. Bobby Jindal ordered that the 311 registration process be suspended."
I stress again and again - in the event of any natural or man made disaster, You.Will.Be.On.Your.Own. Our government (federal, state and local) is no longer serving its citizens and is no longer providing for our common defense and well-being.
So make emergency plans and get your emergency kits together. Start pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps and for God's sake America, stop whining.
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An excellent analysis of McCain's decision to pick Palin as his running mate. It also answers the question: why did he bypass so many other qualified candidates?
It starts off by pointing out:
"....Nor can McCain argue that he was looking for someone he could trust as a close adviser. Most people know the staff at the local Starbucks better than McCain knows Palin. They met for the first time last February at a National Governors Association meeting in Washington. Then, they spoke again — by phone — on Sunday while she was at the Alaska state fair and he was at home in Arizona.....
The fact that McCain only spoke with Palin about the vice presidency for the first time on Sunday, and that he was seriously considering Lieberman until days ago, suggests just how hectic and improvisational his process was....."
then goes on to explain:
1. "Will this push those disgruntled Hillary voters McCain’s way? Perhaps. But this is hardly aimed at them: It is directed at the huge bloc of independent women — especially those who do not see abortion as a make-or-break issue — who could decide this election....
2. The McCain campaign has made a calculation that most voters don’t really care about the national experience or credentials of a vice president, and that Palin’s ebullient personality and reputation as a reformer who took on cesspool politics in Alaska matters more. 3. He’s worried about his conservative base. If he had room to maneuver, there were lots of people McCain could have selected who would have represented a break from Washington politics as usual. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman comes to mind (and it certainly came to McCain’s throughout the process). He had no such room. GOP stalwarts were furious over trial balloons about the possibility of choosing a supporter of abortion rights, including the possibility that he would reach out to his friend....It is no secret McCain wanted to shake things up in this race — and he realized he was limited to a shake-up conservatives could stomach.
4. In the end, this selection gives him a chance to reclaim the mantle of a different kind of politician intent on changing Washington. He once had a legitimate claim to this: after all, he took on his own party over campaign finance reform and immigration. He jeopardized this claim in recent months by embracing ideas he once opposed (Bush tax cuts) and ideas that appeared politically motivated (gas tax holiday)."
Summary: he needed to find someone who would not alienate his strong conservative base and would appeal to women who don't place abortion rights near the top of their list.
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Spent last night messing with my first ebook in 5 yrs. I'm taking it on my vacation next week, so I want to fill it up with as much fanfic as I can. For now, things that I've noticed:
- Clicking back and forward does that exactly, click. Which might mean I can't use it for reading in bed if Mr. Logovo is trying to sleep. The amount of text in the screen, even at the smallest adjustable font, is about 1/3 to 1/2, so click-click-click.
- The screen is wonderfully sharp and readable. I have no experience with these newer ebooks (I had a short and sad fling with earlier generations) so I was somewhat surprised.
- Whispernet coverage is pretty good in my city, so I had some fun previewing books last night. I'll probably download a couple before I leave on my trip. No coverage in Alaska (or Montana) so I have to do it here.
- I understand that a new Kindle is coming out in October, so I'm wondering if they'll take care of some of the ergonomic problems, mainly the clicking on to the next page by accident, because of the way you are holding the device.
For now I'm very excited, glad I got it, although at $259 I still think it's priced too high. I'm looking forward to seeing ebooks priced at just under $100.
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The Barack Obama campaign allows you to set you your own personalized fundraising website. Very simple and easy to use. Our goal is to raise $500 for the campaign so if you're thinking of donating and want to participate, go here
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