Gone golfin'!

DaBlade has left the building! One last long golf gasp in northern Michigan (before the snow flies) and the weekend starts NOW! See ya Monday!

Mr. T bails out AIG

In the economy...
Gold prices post biggest 1-day gain ever
due to fear of more credit market turmoil.

Who knew that Mr. T was such a wise investor?



With all the turmoil in the markets, I was worried about my 401K. So I checked. Whew. My outstanding 401K loan balances have not shrunk. Thank goodness.


Politics...

Sarah Palin's email account hacked! Her super secret moose stew recipes now on Ebay! OK, I have no idea what "shocking" revelations these stolen emails contain, but I'm willing to bet not much. Still, all I can say to this is "That's not change, that's more of the same".

Is race a factor in the presidential race?

"...polls remain close. Doesn't make sense…unless it's race," says some CNN lib.

Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius says “Have any of you noticed that Barack Obama is part African-American? That may be a factor. All the code language, all that doesn’t show up in the polls. And that may be a factor for some people.”



Isn't THAT exactly what Geraldine Ferraro meant back in March when she said, "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any color), he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept."

And Ferraro is a liberal feminist, but was hung out to dry for this. The party line they want to create (even then) is, if you are white and don't vote for Obama, then obviously you are a racist.

How many white liberals have Obama bumper stickers on their cars because it makes them feel good about themselves and assuages their manufactured guilt? Way more than the number of racist rednecks who won't vote for him because he's black.

This is not a sitcom

Can Obama feign outrage with any credibility when McCain points out his Britney and Paris style celebrity after this?:

Barack Obama raises millions in Beverly Hills

It was clear why Barack Obama's campaign barred television crews from a Beverly Hills mansion at twilight Tuesday as the Democratic presidential nominee mingled with movie stars on a giant terrace overlooking Los Angeles.

The cocktail reception was part of Obama's biggest night of Hollywood fundraising so far, an evening capped with a live performance by Barbra Streisand at the Regent Beverly Wilshire.

"Let me tell you, my friends, there's no place I'd rather be than right here with the working men and women of Ohio," McCain told cheering supporters in Vienna, Ohio, with running mate Sarah Palin at his side.

Hollywood liberal elites. Obama's kind of crowd. A collection of "glittering jewels of colossal ignorance" (Rush phraseology nod).

"This is not a sitcom," Obama told the adoring crowd. But if it was, it might go something like this...
Now, this is a story all about how
Your life got flipped-turned upside down
And I liked to take a minute
Just sit right there
I'll tell you how I became the lord prince messiah because of Bill Ayers


In Chicago, Illinois - thug politics born and raised
On the playground was where I spent most of my days
Community organizin' relaxin' all cool
And all shootin some b-ball outside of the school
When a couple of guys
Who were up to no good
Launched my career in my neighborhood
I spent 20 short years in Wright's racist church and Michelle got us scared
She said "For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country"

I whistled for a MSM cab and when it came near
The license plate said messiah and it had the White House in the mirror
If anything I can say this cab is rare
But I thought 'Now forget it' - no more talk of Bill Ayers

I pulled up to the house after inauguration
And I yelled to the cabbie 'Yo homes smell ya later'
I looked at my kingdom
I was finally there
To sit on my throne as the lord prince messiah
OK, this is a little rough on short notice, but you get the idea. The golden child can do no wrong in the eyes of the left.

Todd Palin on Greta

Todd Palin goes ON THE RECORD with Greta Van Susteren



GRETA: OK, help me out. I don't know what to call you. It could be Mr. Palin, Todd, mister Todd, first dude or mister first dude.



TODD: Yes Greta. By all means, call me "Mister Todd". Do you think ahead as to what questions you might ask in an interview, or are you just winging this? Tell ya what. Call me anything you like, just don't call me late for moose burgers!



GRETA: If I asked you in September of 1981, (when you were 17 years old, full of testosterone and playing basketball in high school) do you ever think she (Sarah) will go into politics?



TODD: Seriously? You are winging this, aren't you? Let's just say I knew she was "destined for higher positions". By the way, are you feeling OK? You don't look so good.


GRETA: Let me tell ya somethin' mister first dude Todd! When you were a newborn baby, did you ever think, "hey, I'd like to grow up and be a snow machine racing champion"?




TODD: "..."

Old feminism gets thrown out with the bathwater and the burned bras

Sorry Charlie! (a Charlie Gibson reference. Why? What were you thinkin'?)

Why DO feminists hate Sarah Palin? Don't ask me. I'm a dude who is married to a strong devout Catholic conservative wife. As far as I know she has never field-dressed a moose, but her three sons have never dared to push her far enough to find out. Oh, and like Sarah, my wife is a hot hockey mom.

Did somebody ask Why Feminists Hate Sarah Palin?

"Her greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman."

Certainly not in the mold of your typical democrat woman liberal-feminist ... like Lindsay Lohan and her girlfriend Samantha Ronson. Or animal rights activist and cerebral celebritard, Pamela Anderson, who recently stated that she couldn't stand Sarah Palin and that "She can suck it!" Or Madonna, who is using her "Sticky and Sweaty" tour to bash McCain and promote The Barack. Talk about "cones of silence" and cluelessness. I wonder if she hears phantom crickets in her ears when the amps are cold and she is left with her own thoughts.

Newt Gingrich, in front of the Family Research Coucil's Values Voters Summit last Friday...
"She has shattered the ability of left-wing feminists to define legitimate behavior by women in America and they will never recover."

She's now more interesting on college campuses than Obama. She is more of a change agent than Obama and the contrast between a mother of five raising all five children and the Obama defense of infanticide by abortion doctors in the legislature in Illinois is such an enormous gap, that I believe when every American understands that senator Obama in the state legislature blocked a bill to require abortion doctors to help babies if they were born alive - and blocked a bill after a nurse talked about holding a baby for 45 minutes while it was dying because the doctor wouldn't help it. I think the gap in these two views - he's got about 15% of the country and the other 85% is going to find it totally and utterly unacceptable.

"You've convinced me Newt," states Joe Biden. “Sarah Palin is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Let’s get that straight. She was most definitely a better pick than me."

Text from some dusty document on yellowed paper, written by a bunch of extremists over 200 years ago:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Unless you are a liberal feminist Democrat, then these rights do not extend to your opponents (ie: Republicans, Christians, conservatives, and babies in the womb to name a few tens of millions)

GAMEDAY ND UM

PREDICTIONS??

Slipping away from the Dems

“Jesus Was a Community Organizer,Pontius Pilate a Governor”
RUSH: Now, this is just grasping at straws, folks, we're shooting fish in a barrel here. I mean, they're not even making this a competition. Jesus was a community organizer? Pontius Pilate was a governor? Sarah Palin is going to crucify Obama? Is that what we're supposed to take out of this, because Obama is the new messiah? Jesus Christ was the first messiah. Now Obama is taking his place, he's The Messiah, he's the savior. Pontius Pilate was a governor? The only thing Pilate is remembered for is murder. We are comparing the governor of Alaska, who is only qualified, say the Democrats, because she has not had an abortion, which is murder, of murder.


Usually, when Rush speaks on a subject, there is nothing left for anyone to say. But not in this case... :)

Check this out and continue with the biblical "association" game.
"Pontius Pilate, Prefect of the Roman Province of Judaea.
Loved to give speeches in front of Doric columns, oh wait that's Obama."

Particle Platitudes

By guest blogger (and brother), Glacial Greg:
As you know, scientists started up a huge particle-smashing machine on Wednesday called the LHC (Large Hadron Collider), in an attempt to re-create the "Big Bang" that is said to have created the universe. A 17 mile circular tunnel buried under France is the largest and most complex machine ever made for what experts say is the largest scientific experiment in history.

The experiment began with a particle beam the size of a human hair appearing in the tunnel, prompting the project leader to exclaim "We've got a beam!" Several hundred physicists and technicians in the control room burst into applause at the news and later again celebrated loudly when the beam completed a journey in one direction “Fantastic!" Sentiments we can relate to having been part of childhood experiments with magnifying glasses and bugs.

Some “doomsdayers” have fanned fears that the experiments could create black holes, which experts dismiss as unfounded. I for one hope not… after all, it IS beneath France Oui? That loud, sucking sound you hear is simply the latest massive retreat of the French!

So the "World did not end." I wonder how long before Nancy Pelosi and company claim credit as part of her "I'm trying to save the planet!" strategy?


[DaBlade response] Hey bro, I like the magnifying glass analogy, but actually this particle accelerator thingy makes me think of the time in our childhood when we lit an M-100 and placed it in a neighbor's brand new shiny aluminum garbage can just to see what would happen. Dyn-o-mite! Of course, the explosion was bigger than our young skulls could have imagined, sending shock waves down Lockhead street and rattling the windows on Dell Street. I still can remember the can's lid launching into the sky, spinning like a silver alien saucer, getting smaller and smaller. In the middle of the street sat the remnants of the base, with the can's sides split and peeled back like a banana. I'm glad our hearing eventually came back.

Maybe instead of crashing light beams at each other at high velocity, these scientists should launch M-100's at each other. Just sayin' from experience.

Beam me up Scotty!

The REAL Obama and Stephanopolous interview *snicker*

"My Muslim Faith", via Mike in the Morning on the WRIF

Well, George Stephanopolous interviewed Barack Obama recently. Obama slipped up and said, “MY MUSLIM FAITH”…
It was pasted all over the net! Well, most of those videos have been yanked from YouTube!

Luckily, we had our TIVOs rolling and caught the “extended version”…
Check out what Obama REALLY said…

Lipstick?

Due to the controversial "Lipstick" remark, Obama has changed his stump speech just a little. See if you can spot the nuance....

“That’s not change."

"You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called 'change,'" Obama continued, "it's still gonna stink after eight years."

"You can get a good look at a T-bone by sticking your head up a butcher's ass... No, wait. It's gotta be your bull's."

Bishop to King's pawn two

Bishops criticize Biden's abortion statements.

Biden tries to nuance around his so-called Catholic faith and his liberal facist extremists views on abortion rights during spot on Meet The Press:

Asked on the program about when life begins, Biden said: "Look, I know when it begins for me. It's a personal and private issue. For me, as a Roman Catholic, I am prepared to accept the teachings in my church."

He added that while he believes life begins "at the moment of conception," it would inappropriate to impose that view on others in a pluralistic society.

Check.

The bishops said Biden was right to say human life begins at conception. But the church "does not teach this as matter of faith; it acknowledges it as a matter of objective fact," they said.

"Protection of innocent human life is not an imposition of personal religious conviction but a demand of justice," they added.

Mate.

via Hot Air: Joe Biden lectures on special needs children, birth defects, and Republicans opposition to infanticide....

"If you care about it, why don't you support stem cell research?"

Who is against stem cell research? Oh, you mean EMBRYONIC stem cells, not ADULT stem cells. Obviously, the democrats feel that if a living human embryo isn't killed in the process of harvesting stem cells, what's the point? After all, this is a "bait and switch" issue to these liberal facist extremists.

There is this: "In stark contrast to the failures of embryonic stem cell research, the future looks very promising for treatment with adult stem cells."

Obama double dribbles

Obama stopped by Flint town again yesterday to trash talk John McCain and to work on his baseline jumper. Flint has a proud B-ball tradition and Barack is hoping to reinvigorate his slumping campaign with our nice soft rims.

FLINT, Michigan

"You don't need to tell people in Flint and our country that the economy is in bad shape," said Obama.

"But you do need to tell John McCain."

Obama touched on Flint's high unemployment and housing crisis, all the while criticizing McCain's recent claims that the Republican ticket is for change. "Government can't be for change when you brag about supporting George Bush," said Obama.

And as we all know, George Bush and the Republicans have been in charge of Detroit, Flint, and all of Michigan for years now. Governor Granholm? Never heard of her. Levin? Kwame? The Don? Who? We want more urban socialism!

More:

Most of the audience members appeared to be Obama supporters, despite the fact the event was touted as a speech for undecided voters, as well as campaign volunteers and community leaders.

Many of the attendees were wearing union gear.

Soft rims indeed.

Is your hair style better off now than it was 8 years ago?

McCain leads Obama 50%-46% among registered voters
He leads 54%-44% among likely voters.

Which proves a point I have made repeatedly that these people don't vote.

McCain's numbers have no doubt benefitted by a large post-convention bounce, due in no small part to the outstanding performance by his VP running mate, Sarah Palin. It's true that a VP's primary job is simply to hold the clipboard on the sidelines. But if there is one thing that the Tom Brady situation has proven, knee injuries happen. The second-stringer better be ready. You can't always rely on George Stefanopolous correcting a mistake for you in the fourth quarter of your campaign.

Joe Biden or Sarah Palin. Are they ready? It is high time we get to the REAL ROOT of that answer. Have they each been properly vetted and coifed? I think you know what I'm driving at. Is their hair style better off now than it was 8 years ago?


From the right, Sarah Palin's style: the issue at hand

Sarah Palin, 44, has stolen the campaign's style spotlight, causing a run on Kawasaki 704 eyeglass frames and upswept hairstyles... (blah blah blah)... Her hair is a study in contrasts, carefree and "done" at the same time. The untidiness of her updo has a can-do spirit that says, "I have more important things to do than worry about my hair, so I just twirled it into this clip so I could get to the real business of governing and shooting caribou and having babies and taking them to hockey practice."

From the left, First Hair Club For Men Veep?:

Perhaps they (Hair Club For Men) should have picked Joe Biden. He, after all, now has a special status as the first Vice Presidential pick of a major party to have a very obvious set of hair plugs. He is the only Veep candidate I know of to have gone from being bald (other than at infancy) to suddenly having a growing mane in front. There is no doubt he had hair transplants. The guy is wearing Barbie's hair.

Hey!

Schlussel goes on to make the point that Biden's plugs are, "...symbolic of the whole Obama candidacy. It's all about fake, faux, phony, false."

Biden needn't worry. Stefanopolous and cohorts will be there at his side with a bottle of gel and a hair brush to tame any stray out-of-place lock.

Wild Warthogs in Flint?

You may have heard the following funny 911 call making the email rounds:


But where did this unfortunate warthog attack take place?

Click this map link and "Look straight south," says Chattering Teeth reader Cartman.

Obama on The Factor

Obama interviewed by O'Reilly on the Factor:


O'Reilly: "Thank's for doing this senator. You're a beautiful man and I promise to act tough but promise to serve up nothing but softballs here to make you look good. Am I wrong?"



Obama: "errr... uhhhh... ummm..."



O'Reilly: "Sarah Palin. Good choice by McCain? What say you?"



Obama: "So what I'm saying is, I now know Biden blows but you can't risk electing Palin. You know, she's new, she doesn't look like the other vice presidents on the currency. Her children have funny names. Trig? Like gun "trigger"? Track - Willow - Piper - Bristol? What the hell is that? What will Bristol name her child when it's born? Bullwinkle? That's basically my argument -- she's too risky."



O'Reilly: "Batman or Superman? I'll give you the last word."



Obama: "errr... uhhhh... ummm..."