"It is because the conditions under which a truthful Republican could be elected in 2008 are much more difficult than they were in 2000"

People reminisce longingly about how McCain used to be more of a maverick, more of a truth-teller. Yeah, just before the Republican party left him for dead in his bus in the ditch trying to panhandle enough money for gas. He got the message; now he's their candidate.

if my grandmother wanted to get drunk for free...

Possibly the melamine contamination is partially due to the fact that there really isn't a lot of evidence re melamine toxicity. Ironic, because the reason there isn't that much evidence is that nobody dreamed it would be something that humans would be consuming.

trying to be satirical, back at the beginning of the obamaphemoenon, america may be ready for a black president, but not one who's so engorged with rage and hatred for america and everything it stands for.

hey; maybe the folks who say that stuff now are also being satirical, and we just don't get it? i can hope...

hey, it ain't torture no more!

detroit still supplying fourspeed manuals when every secretarial subcompact from japan was sporting a 5 speed.

said japanese subcompacts running around with silky smooth OHC fours for years, when GM triumphantly trumpets yet another iteration of its rough as sandpaper ecotec 4 or whatever the hell they would call it.

chrysler announces its great leap into the engineering future, the flywheel powered Patriot, complete with grandiose plans of proving itself in competition, by photographing it being towed around a track and photoshopping out the tow cable.

etc.

etc.

etc.

look how well the republicans have done for eight years. we must return them to office. it's time for a change, and the only way to get change is to vote the same party back in. thanks to eight years of republican government, things are so much better now than they were after Clinton was president that we're in such a precarious state that we absolutely need to elect republicans to fix it.

there, did i leave anything out?

ah yes, in the old days we used to call that a Republican. Synonymous for "minds his own business". Unfortunately the mind your own business platform doesn't get votes on either side of the aisle.

the US is ruled/owned by a plutocratic oligarchy who run it to suit themselves, and have gotten more greedy since the Reagan years? that's absolutely unthinkable.

i was cleaning out my desk the other day, ran into some funny (from current perspective) newspaper articles i had saved; from april 2006, some analysts suspect that the real estate crisis may run deeper than it seems; from september 2006, real estate and mortage industry is royally pissed off that anyone would suggest that their industry is not in fine shape, and fear that such slander is driving investment away.

"Remember Neil Bush, the brother of the C.O., who, as a director of Silverado S&L, bestowed enormous loans on his friends without telling fellow directors that the friends were friends and who, when the loans failed, paid a small fine and went skipping off to other things?"

from one year ago:

Lehman hires Jeb Bush as private equity advisor

Thu Aug 30, 2007 5:36pm EDT

NEW YORK, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Lehman Brothers has hired Jeb Bush, brother of the President of the United States, as an advisor to its private equity business, a source familiar with the situation said.

Lehman hired another relative of U.S. President George W. Bush last year--George Walker, a second cousin, who heads up the bank's asset management business.

Jeb Bush is the former governor of Florida.

Lehman Brothers declined to comment.

http://www.reuters.com/article/fundsFundsNews/idUSN3046902620070830

"just sit quietly and don't do anything until i get back"

keep an eye out for the followup, Women Who Shoot Wolves From Airplanes

Time to bring up the old game theory model of the two gas stations and the town with one main street. Main street represents political spectrum, gas station represents candidate. Economic forces etc. assuring that a gallon of gas will be pretty much identical at either station annd the cost will be the same, people will go to the station nearest them. I.e., people will vote for the candidate whose political position is nearest theirs. A little analysis proves that the most logical position for each gas station to pick up the most business then is right smack in the center of main street, right next to the other station.

it was going to be "as putin raises his horned head"

Hmm. I merely ask, "What thoughtful Republican voter?"

anyone whose cognitive abilities were not seriously impaired in one way or another left the Republican party at some point during the past 8 years.

There really are a lot more people with some sort of mental or emotional illness out there than the average person realizes. A quick tour of the internet proves that beyond a doubt.

it's pretty clear, every family absolutely needs one family member who's a member of the medical profession and one who's a member of the legal profession; because a large part of the training both those careers get is the ability to view themselves as a separate quasi-priestly "caste" and distance themselves emotionally from the welfare and outcome of their clients, or they would go insane. and as a result you really don't get the same treatment if you're not in the club than if you are.

only, less than an ounce of (animal/saturated) fat per day, not half your (usually overly inflated) calorie intake. no matter how our ancestors evolved, they weren't eating quarterpounders. and for those who eschew animals, you do indeed usually get enough from insect parts etc. to keep you going.

(20 grams of sat fat being the current RDA)

mccain bow out, let palin run.

hey, either way has about the same chance of success.

option 1

replace her with lieberman

option 2

replace her with Hillary