“This was not a tire slashing—this was some guy who drove over a bottle and cut his tire,” Plattsburgh City Police Capt. Michael Branch told the Wall Street Journal's Anton Troianovski.

Yeah, but it's a shame to waste a perfectly good flat tire.

I had a flat tire three years ago... now I'm thinking that ACORN was probably the culprit.

I got a D on a test in 5th grade I'm sure ACORN changed some of the answers on my test after I handed it in.

...I bet this person would probably STILL blame ACORN for "slashing his tires."

Oh dear, I mean, didn't Sinclair Lewis set "It couldn't happen here" in this area?

Depends be a soilin'

Thanks, War Room. This is big.

and now I wish I were a teabagging republican in New York!

We keep belittling this 'wacko-conservative' movement, but like a bad cold, it just keeps getting worse.

I am really, really concerend that the media, along with the truly strange quirk of the American poplulace to vote against their better interests, will manage to get these nutbars in full fascist take-over status by 2010.

Maybe that's just what Amrica needs to have happen - be run into the ground by Palinites. Then finally, maybe, some things will change. Becasue from where I sit, I don't see whole lot of difference between this year and last for the vast majority of us.

Barely hagnign on to jobs that could be gone in minutes, thus losing health insurance, and on and on. The tea-baggers are right on one point - somebody sould be in the streets.

What did our ancestors do, Blue Bunny?! Do you know what the average life expectancy of people in the 1950s was? 40 years. Forty years!!

I'm no fan of the ultra-right, but I really hate this meme:

tthe truly strange quirk of the American poplulace to vote against their better interests

There seems to be some assumption that outsiders to an electoral race understand what constitutes a "better interest".

What did our ancestors do, Blue Bunny?! Do you know what the average life expectancy of people in the 1950s was? 40 years. Forty years!!

It can be summed up as "Just die already and quit complaining."

Can I get a bumpersticker from you with that on it?

Voting against their best interests. Voting against the corporate proxy for the cartoon character which had been elected only 10 months earlier by wined-up, texting nonprofit interns.

Dude, I don't know where you've been since January 2001, but the country has already been run into the ground by numbskull Republicans. Most people finally cottoned on to that inconvenient truth about a year ago and were so desperate for relief that they elected a black guy as President last year. The last thing anyone needs or wants right now is to let someone even stupider and more easily manipulated than George W. Bush was (I'm specifically referring to you, Sarah Palin) finish the job and destroy all plant and animal life on earth just to once again prove a point that has already been conclusively proven.

Wow things are getting worse. Life expectancy in the Middle Ages was 45 years

The real question is do YOU know what the average life expectancy was in the United States in the 1950s?

A: NOT 40

Real answer: 68.20

A completely made up claim made by a T bagger. Say it ain't so.

Do you know what the average life expectancy of people in the 1950s was? 40 years. Forty years!!

I'm not sure where you're getting your statistics from, square. Average life expectancy at birth in the 1950s was about 65 years. Life expectancy at birth in the US hasn't been under 40 in over a century -- and even that's deceptive, since a large chunk of the downside of the curve was due to child mortality, which has been greatly reduced by improved sanitation and vaccines. In 1850, a newborn child had a life expectancy of about 40 years; a person who made it to 30 could expect to live another 35 years or so.

Squaresville has suddenly found something more interesting to do and will not be returning to this thread.

What is it with you people with this visceral contempt for Sarah Palin?

She made governor with modest credentials in a remote, sparsely populated state. The underdog contender extends a nothing-to-lose invitation to the lady to try for gains among the majority social-progressives among his Republican base, as well as from moderates and independents unenthusiastic about the cult figure across the ballot.

No TelePrompter to lean on. Gets better after the walk w/ Katie. Holds her own in the debates. Fields inane gotcha questions about a "Bush Doctrine" to which she respectably answers "The what?" (just as you would have done under similar circumstances). National columnists were similarly stumped.

You're comparing this everywoman with these Skull and Bones occultists who have been serving the global elite?

You have similar contempt for what John Edwards did to your party?

And, a few rungs down the evolutionary ladder, we have the commenters on this story at Red State. Drop by for a hot, steaming cup of "who the fuck let these people play with the Intarwebs?"

Seriously, the comments are comfortingly inane: ACORN, SEIU thugs, and using various handguns to blow apart the "libs." Very entertaining. The ignorant right-wing booby in full victim plumage.

Look up "sarcasm." Would it have been funnier if I had said 32?

No, it would have been funnier if you'd had some discernible point.

@squaresville

It really doesn't matter whether anyone here could have answered what the Bush Doctrine was if asked. None of us, as far as I know, were a major party's VP candidate. Palin was the Republican VP candidate and she had no idea whatsoever what our current foreign policy stance was. On top of that, she didn't know what magazines or newspapers she reads. That's one question that just about anybody here could probably answer. GOTCHA!

"sarcasm."? You better go back to sarcasm school because if that was what you actually intended you failed miserably. Seems to me more like back peddling.