State & Lake

The snake calmly replied, “you KNEW I was a snake when you picked me up.”
The above phrase comes from a series of stories involving people who picked up a snake because it pleaded with them.  In one story, a woman picks up the snake, takes it home, nurses it back to health and then she [...]

It’s obviously not socialism when the same words come from the mouth of a wealthy man.  Apparently not.  I remember a statement made by McCain during his 2000 run for the presidency on the very topic of what he is now calling socialism.  A young girl asked him why her father should be punished for [...]

After McCain stated he would not run a negative campaign, like the screaming lawyer losing his case, McCain and his supporters have stooped to the level of negativity like nothing I’ve seen in a very long time.  It has also brought to memory some very old, tired and hurtful experiences of my life that were [...]

This photo is freaking me out.  Truly, it’s rather reptilian.  This photo, from Reuters, is captioned:
US Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain (R-AZ) reacts to almost heading the wrong way off the stage after shaking hands with Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) at the conclusion of the final presidential debate at Hofstra University [...]

Rolling Stone’s article, Five Myths About John McCain is clear, concise and to the point.  The six minute video, in particular, points out five of the many things I have found to be myths about John McCain and quite frankly after delving deeper into the candidate and the man, I was very disappointed.
I wanted to [...]

The problem with McCain and his campaign lately has been an undertone of racist thinking and remarks by the candidate himself and his supporters.

A few weeks back I spotted a suspicious car sitting halfway in the street as I was coming home one night.  Noting I had never seen the car prior and the house it sat in front of is not a home where you will see frequent visitors, particularly late night visitors.  I decided to make [...]

The other day I logged onto Facebook and saw I had an email.  After checking the email I immediately noted the subject line was poorly written with numerous misspellings which immediately told me the email did not come from this person.  The subject line stated this person had a video with me in it.  Not [...]

Palin Biden Debate & Wink[/caption]
Margaret & Helen have been friends for 60 years and they have a blog.  At 82, Helen dared to say what many are thinking but really don’t want to say.  Yeah, Sarah Palin is out for Sarah Palin and this past week her ambitious goals became very obvious.
In a discussion with [...]

My Fair Lady - The Rain In Spain

Yeah you know, you go off to college and you learn a little something and suddenly you’re an elitist.  Okay, so, let’s see, we have ageism, sexism, and racism.  How about we add classicism as well?  That will make the mess complete in this Divided States of America.  I tell you, we must have a [...]

I too wondered what was the ploy behind suspending the campaign — which apparently meant dropping his ads for one day — to return to Washington and work on the bail out.  In the meantime, McCain bailed on Letterman and was later seen getting his face powdered for Katie Couric.  Hmm.
We now have John Kerry [...]

First, last night’s debates were underwhelming not because there were no zingers or catchy phrases or statements knocked out of the park.  It was underwhelming because of John McCain’s inability to face his opponent or even address him in any way.
Now I cannot force my values on others but, when you are a candidate for [...]

The McCain Family[/caption]
Why is she seated on the floor?  Oh, I get it.  All of the boys have arthritis and those lamps in the back were given to John McCain by Abraham Lincoln.  Okay, that makes sense because I was beginning to wonder if they really believed her to be an “Untouchable.”

I expected Lehman Bros. would either fail or file bankruptcy.  They were on my list of banks and financial institutions that would have problems after the fall of Fannie and Freddie.  I did not expect BofA’s purchase of Merrill Lynch in an “all stock deal.”  That should cause Merrill’s stock to rise — for a [...]

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin sits down for her first national television interview as a Republican vice presidential candidate with ABC News' Charlie Gibson in Fairbanks, Alaska on Sept. 11, 2008.(Donna Svennevik/ABC News)[/caption]
Okay, saw Palin tonight.  Underwhelmed to say the least.  I listened to her talk and she needs more of the Karl Rove Repub Charm [...]

Let's not forget the perfume[/caption]
I am so over political news these days as the campaigns and their surrogates sink into something on the order of childish grade school behavior.  Others have obliged both sides by posting rumors about the candidates and launching into smear campaigns.  The most recent, the banned books list, was so transparent [...]

. . . runs on horse power — varroom!
No wonder they won’t let the woman do interviews, she’s got some real issues and it seems anyone who has a mouth with anything to say about the “First Dude” and “First Duddete” of Alaska are saying it.  McCain’s handlers don’t want something to come out, have [...]

Well you don’t say.  One of the reasons why I’m not big on polls has a lot to do with the “Bradley effect.”  Tom Bradley, a black man and long-time Mayor of Los Angeles, ran for Governor of the State of California.  Pre-election polls showed Bradley ahead but, when people entered their polling places to [...]

Ben Stein can go off on tangents and this video is no different.  He makes it clear that he’s not feeling Palin and his feelings reflect a number of Republicans who are now rejecting the Far Right Wing side of the party and the far choice McCain made, or was forced to make, perhaps, [...]

When he regurgitated the leave no child behind and voucher education program, I heard G.W. “if I only had a brain” Bush.  It was the same with everything else.  Basically, four more years of the Bush/Cheney game.  I hope that earned him enough “suck up” points cause he’s gonna need them.  Now my theory is [...]

Sully & Palin - Alex Wong / Getty[/caption]
Now that I’ve had time to sleep on my anger, I feel good today.  I’ve talked with a few people about this week’s RNC convention and I feel really good knowing two people have made up their minds and have reconsidered their decision to vote Republican.  That too [...]

They ain’t good and this is a rant.  First, who wrote her speech?  I’ve seen and heard Palin speak in videos all over YouTube and elsewhere on the web.  My impressions, prior to tonight’s speech, were she’s a woman that can hold her own, feisty, and I have a great deal of respect for her [...]

Mike Murphy and Peggy Noonan, two conservative bobbleheads, have a Jesse Jackson moment while talking with Mike Todd.  Their mics were open and their words, loud and clear.
After the cameras dimmed, Todd, Noonan and Murphy say what they really feel about McCain and his VP choice Gov. Palin.  Yikes!!  Peggy Noonan refers to it as [...]

This was a long weekend for the McCain campaign.  You would have thought Gustav made landfall in the life of John McCain, not the Gulf Coast.
This weekend, after the Daily Kos and others started the rumors on the internets, this morning the McCain campaign issued a statement that Palin’s daughter is pregnant.  That now has [...]

A focus group was conducted yesterday, sponsored by AARP, to gauge the feelings of undecided Minnesota voters.  This was done prior to today’s news regarding Palin’s daughter.  Many in the room were not in favor of McCain’s choice stating they felt Palin inexperienced for the job and an unknown.  Others, many of the women, felt [...]

Ah, the music of South Pacific.  I loved the film only because of the music.  The music was by Richard Rodgers, the lyrics, Oscar Hammerstein II.  Now that McCain has chosen his VP, Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin, all I can think about are the words “some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger, you may [...]

US Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.[/caption]
I know a few of my friends — former and die-hard Hillary supporters — are livid right now.  They have accused McCain of patronizing women with his VP choice.  They’re livid.  I have heard every bad name a man can be called today [...]

What I gathered from this interview is Arnold saying something sounding vaguely like don’t believe anything McCain says, go with what he’s done.  Well, taking his crude jokes from the prior post and adding to that his stump speeches, Arnold might be right.  Don’t believe what he says.  He will continue to be rude, crude [...]