10.22.08
Are you smarter than a third grader?
Nope, she’s not smarter than a third grader.
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10.21.08
On the lighter side, White House Halloween party ’07
Fun for all. Funny how it compares with the present.
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10.16.08
The last debate: the final word on the campaign
From TIME’s Amy Sullivan:
In politics it is generally not considered a good sign when voters are laughing at you, not with you. And by the end of the third and last presidential debate, the undecided voters who had gathered in Denver for Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg’s focus group were “audibly snickering” at John McCain’s grimaces, eye-bulging, and repeated references to “Joe the Plumber.”
Undecideds laughing at, not with McCain
McAngry, the debate edition
John McCain is “proud of people who come to his rallies”? Like the guy with the monkey doll labeled ‘Obama’?
I suspect that the reason the McCain campaign was not particularly concerned about racist and threatening shouts from the crowd—”Terrorist!” “Kill him!” “Off with his head!” (Who says that?) and “Defenestrate him!” (Okay, I made that one up…) is because the shouters were plants. I saw a “heckler” take the mike from McCain and then carry on a discussion with him and the crowd, clearly scripted.
But the warmup speakers that were screaming “Barack HUSSEIN Obana” at Palin’s rallies and her crazed Hitleresque whipping up the crowed into a foam-at-the-mouth frenzy—that was not just a little bit of theater. Only once did McCain respond to someone who said something untrue, and Palin has never tried to calm down her crowds.
But remember what McCain said during the debate about people at Obama rallies shouting threats about him and not being told to stop… proof, please. As they say on digg.com, Video or it didn’t happen. Does McCain live in a different reality from the one I live in? You know what I think the answer to that question is…
While we’re at it, here’s a link to a story about how Cindy McCain, tired of not getting cell phone reception at the ranch, which is in the middle of nowhere, asked Verizon and AT&T to do something about it, and they got two cellphone towers! Free! Just like if you and I complained about our reception, right?
While I’m on a roll here, here’s the deal with ACORN.
And speaking of plants, hmm. Here’s what “Joe the Plumber” had to say today on TV:
“It floored me. It’s not something I expected, ever,” Wurzelbacher told “Good Morning America” on ABC. Though he wouldn’t say for whom he was voting, Wurzelbacher said Obama had a “very socialist view” of taxes “and that’s incredibly wrong.”
Except for one thing. Joe’s not even a registered voter in Ohio. He’s a McCain campaign plant, I’ll betcha!
And a little bit on McCain’s temper…
This is too rich. Someone by that last name lives in Wasilla and races dogsleds.
Palin fans, thanks to Al-Jazeera
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10.10.08
McCain’s mental state
This is a very interesting blog post about John McCain’s mental and emotional state. The original poster makes an excellent case that he is paranoid and falling deep in hate for Obama, who he sees as “the enemy”. Others suggest plausibly that he may have an existing personality disorder, PTSD, or incipient dementia, all of which agrees with what I have been saying in a general sense—except for the part about the dementia, with which I have wholeheartedly agreed all along.
But if that’s his excuse, what about Sarah Palin? I mean, aside from being a narcissist, a paranoid religious fanatic, and a right wing gun nut…is that enough or is there more? Is she out and out trying to destroy the world as a part of some beloved End Times?
It certainly looks like they’re trying to incite violence. Does the fact that they are unconcerned about death threats coming from their own followers mean that these are plants in the audience?
Take your toys and go home, Sarah. Stop trying to play Adolph Hitler. It’s time to give the Devil his due.
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10.06.08
Famous quotes for minus 10
What happens when somebody gets so locked into repeating words and phrases that they completly lose their context and end up saying something that makes no sense at all?
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10.04.08
The smoking gun: Palin plastic surgery?
I was working on this post about the Sarah Palin flag pin/brooch issue, and I thought it would be kind of cool to photoshop (actually, paintshop pro) a giant blinking flag sign across her chest, just in case the reason she’s doing poorly is because her flag pin is not large enough.
So I went looking for a photo of her on Google, and I was having a lot of difficulty finding one that showed her upper torso. Most of the photos I found are either official posed photos of her face or shots of her speaking from the chin up.
I finally found this photo on Wikipedia, with a notation that it was “taken at the Alaska Airmen’s Trade Show in Anchorage, Alaska in May 2008″.
I played with it, but it’s not a particularly good photo for what I was intending. However, the more I looked at it, the more I realized that she doesn’t look like that now. Let’s look up close.
Her face is saggy, and her neck and chin are droopy. She looks, maybe 45 or 50. Which, of course, she is. But like I said, she doesn’t look like that now. So I went looking for some more photos.
I remembered reading that several plastic surgeons looked at existing photos of her and, failing to find a “smoking gun” photo, decided she had had a facepeel or something like that. I also remembered that immediately following her selection by John McCain, almost all personal photos were scrubbed off websites she had control over.
So I had to look a while to find another photo from that period. This one is from Monocle, which is some kind of a subscription-only online magazine about Alaska issues. The magazine issue is dated October, 2007.
Now let’s take a look at a closeup.
Note: seeing this, a friend who was unfamiliar with the question going around about the “lipliner tattoos” told me that Sarah’s got lipliner tattoos.
I could only find one more photo from that period that showed her well, the infamous official “family portrait”, undated, but supposedly from October or November of 2007. Clearly it was taken before the long dark winter set in. Find it here.
Let’s get an upclose and personal look at Sarah’s face now. It looks to me like she’s been photoshopped. Look at that perfect, smooth, glossy, waxy tan skin. In November?
So at this point I thought to myself that I wanted to see what she looks like right now as a comparison.
Looking around, I happened across a number of “celebrity” sites where Sarah is featured prominently. Funny, no Barack Obama celebrity page… Is that why McCain shut up about the celebrity shtick? If you read about her “beauty queen” days, you will see that she didn’t win. She came in 3rd at the state pageant and got Miss Congeniality.
Back to the photo hunt.
What a cute “Mom and Dad” picture. Nice firm jawline on a 44 year old woman who has just given birth.
You see this one everywhere. Doesn’t she look great! Now look at the sign in back. The photo is 3 years old.
This one’s a favorite of mine.
What’s going on with her neck? Is that a shadow of an earring? Nope.
It’s two fresh scars that the makeup artist forgot to cover up and the photoshop artist botched. Is that a swelling on her neck?
And now I admit that I didn’t look at her neck in the family photo until I enlarged the face crop and brightened it to see if it changed how her face looked while I was writing this article. It didn’t, but didn’t it bring her neck out of the shadows? Uh, what’s up with that? Did she have a chemical peel on her neck, or get the skin sanded down? And the photo editor missed that when photoshopping her face?
Let’s take another look at that 3 year old photo that was taken while she was running for governor. Let’s look at her neck close up.
She had the same scars on her neck then, but at that time they were faded. Similar scars in the same place…hmm… Now I’m sure there’s a reason. Second necklift? Is that some kind of lesion you see on her neck in the older photo?
Let’s look again at her neck as it appears in the photo at the top of the page. There’s that peel/scarring effect still going on. There’s also a major discoloration where the old scars are, almost like bruising. Is there something going on that we should know about?
Here’s her official state portrait. Nice big smile there, Sarah.
Now compare her lower eyelids in the gubernatorial campaign photo from 3 years ago. In the older photo, again a big grin, but lots of crow’s feet and baggy lower lids.
Now here’s the photo that started my quest. Go back up to the top. Do you think that the woman at the top of this blog entry looked like that last May but like this last Friday night without surgery?
Here’s the two together to compare. Neck lift, mid-facelift, lower eyelid lift, peel, lipo, and cheek implants.
“Joe six-pack” my ass. That’s $50,000-$100,000 worth of plastic surgery you’re looking at. Will the real Sarah Palin please stand up?
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LolPalin
And then there’s the flag pin controversy. Earlier in the campaign, the McCain camp was snarking out rumors that Obama was unpatriotic based on the fact that he was not always seen in public wearing a flag pin on his lapel. Then, come the first debate, who was the one not wearing a flag pin? McCain, of course. How did his handlers miss that?
And then after last Friday’s VP debate, Fox News made the ultimate flag pin comparison.
Palin won the debate because of the size of her flag ‘pin’! And since it was a brooch, not a pin, it also qualified as a ‘shiny object’!
Of course, the subversives are muttering about the propriety of putting it beneath that other object she has pinned to her top, though nobody was sure what it was. Read the comments.
Unfortunately for Palin, the pin doesn’t seem to have scored enough points to have won the debate with any of the independent voters she was trying to snag for the campaign. Probably the flag pin was not large enough, and maybe it wasn’t sparkly enough. But we can fix that for her. She needs a placard to hang around her neck. Do you think that would help?
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09.24.08
McCain to the rescue!
After brief discussion with Barack Obama about something else, John McCain, king of backroom deals, has decided that they need him in Washington to broker this sellout…er…rescue package. He’s unilaterally “suspending” his campaign, eliminating advertising, and will pull out of debates until the crisis is over.
I guess they really need him there because of his economic expertise, level temperaments, reliable attendance… nah. Actually they haven’t missed him one bit in the 6 months or so since he stopped attending session or voting on any issues at all. So what’s the deal?
This is just the latest step in a trend away from contact with the public and the press. This is about foreign policy, and they think he’s going to mess up royally, mix up Iran and Iraq, Sunnis and Shi’ites, Pakistan and Afghanistan, Spain and South America, Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic… No, wait, he already did get all them confused, see what I mean?
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09.22.08
If McCain/Palin=Bush/Cheney…
I don’t know what happened… Well actually, I do know. I was looking at these more or less random free graphics software download thingies, and all of a sudden I had the irresistable urge to morph something more meaningful than the line drawing smilies I saw in the little demo on the web.
Whew! I know I’m preaching to the choir, but here it is.
Does she really, really want us to think of her as a “pit bull with lipstick”? I’ve done the research and it’s .not.flattering.at.all.
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09.20.08
Campaign ads, video and tv
I blame it on Firefox. What happens is that when I open up a link in digg.com, it opens a new tab. If it looks like it’s interesting enough to blog up, I leave the tab open and go back and look for more stories. Sometime later I have so many tabs open that the idea of blogging all these important stories—even just to drop in the links—starts to become burdensome.
I will try.
Here’s a good one: Palin forgets the answer to her “National security experience” question the first time it is asked publicly.
McCain on health care
Note the part about how he assumes that the employee is going to receive enough money from his employer to buy a cheaper individual policy that pays more benefits, just because he wants it to happen.
Mccain celebrating his birthday with Charles Keating, just in case anybody has forgotten about his role in the last big financial collapse in this country.
This I believe, by a vet who returned to find out what his government really thinks of returning vets.
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