ok, so a nice get out and vote ad....

colbert endorses obama

ok, so...

who would leave his crippled wife for a rich woman?

ok, so.....this ad had to happen......

ok so.....liddy dole has met her match...

mamma's friend jane.....

ok, so...mamma's friend jane, a lifelong conservative, emailed me today because she was concerned about my pre-election angst and related sleep problems...to assure me that she had already voted (in ohio) for obama-biden.....in hopes that i could get back to restful slumber.....thanks, jane......you are a good woman.....

a good night's sleep...

ok, so i put aside my political (and professional) angst long enough to get a long and restful night's sleep.....will need to be at my best on this day, when the other shoe will surely drop.....gentle reader's, the shoe is question is thankfully not mine....

the knives are out....

ok, so this from daily kos....A second McCain source says she appears to be looking out for herself more than the McCain campaign. "She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone," said this McCain adviser. "She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else.
"Also, she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: Divas trust only unto themselves, as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom."

a new obama ad...

ok, so....a message of hope...

palin and domestic terror?

ok, so

1st class intellect; 1st class temperment

ok, so....

ron howard goes all-out for obama

See more Ron Howard videos at Funny or Die

ok, so this is a sweet surprise...

palin and the donkey scarf.....

ok, so....sarah is not especially attune to political symbolism.......

backpedaling....

ok, so this conservative morning talk show host really backpedaled on palin's 150K wardrobe when the emails started coming in.....

$150K

ok, so this from politico....The Republican National Committee has spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August.

According to financial disclosure records, the accessorizing began in early September and included bills from Saks Fifth Avenue in St. Louis and New York for a combined $49,425.74.

The records also document a couple of big-time shopping trips to Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis, including one $75,062.63 spree in early September.

The RNC also spent $4,716.49 on hair and makeup through September after reporting no such costs in August.

The cash expenditures immediately raised questions among campaign finance experts about their legality under the Federal Election Commission's long-standing advisory opinions on using campaign cash to purchase items for personal use.

m.m.m.m.

ok, so.....today i had a glimpse of m.m.m.m......roughly translated as mean mamma's machiavellian moment.....and i am embarrassed to admit that i felt guilt...... the prince would have moved on quickly and chalked it all up to experience....the reality of the event is not yet public knowledge...and i have no need to take credit...public or private.....the bottom line is this....a detracting/destructive force has been removed from the equation.....

mccain's black kin

ok, so...this from cnn.....i do not post this video smugly....having already acknowledged my own northern ohio black connections...seems my mother grew up knowing but not knowing the black family that came for supper on sunday nights was family not just work-friends.....i hope to meet my black kin someday.......

money to burn

ok, so i actually took the time, along with thousands of other concerned citizens, to give over $640,000 to the congressional opponent of this wing-nut....i was so reminded of old mccarthy-era verbage.....reminded enough to cough up cash...........

an ad from moveon.org

ok, so....

the week that was....

ok, so....numerous folks came in and obtained applications for the job i am applying for/currently doing.......some looked more capable than others.....my car literally died in the parking lot of a sheltered workshop in frankfort.....thankfully i was able to get a battery jump before every able-bodied worker went home......in govt. folks tend to leave the leave the premises very quickly.....i spent most of saturday digging out daylilies from one of my oldest planting beds,....and i replanted/repositioned 36 old-fashioned irises in front of my hydrangeas before i tucked them all in with black mulch...10 bags that i bought the minute that lowes opened this morning.....the black mulch hides my drip hoses so much better than the brown mulch.....though it takes much more black mulch to hide brown mulch...i applied 10 bags in a 20 x 20 foot area.....at this rate it will take 30 more bags to protect my new plantings for the winter....yikes....seems decadent to buy mulch in a recession......but then i have this second job.....which is supposed to represent my travel funds....i have yet to hear from the 25th student....the one who failed to show up for the 2nd exam on thursday.....i did check to see if she dropped the class.....hopefully she is having a blonde moment and forgot the test....that is better than many of the scenarios that have crossed my mind.....we drive to cincy in the morning to attend a christening..it will be a quick turnaround as we have lots to do and little time to do it.....all of this...and i have not even mentioned the debate.....seems a decade ago.....

100,000

ok, so this is the crowd that showed up to hear obama in st louis today....wow.....

a message to sarah palin

ok, so this ad is quite a powerful message............

crazymccain

ok, so i could not help myself but to upload this picture from the debate.....

ok, so i cried for this young woman when i saw this ad.....

from the willamette weekly

ok, so....this says it all.........

talk to your parents about john mccain

ok, so this from moveon.org....

jackson run

ok, so i walked 3 miles in the blazing heat yesterday afternoon...by myself as the folks who usually show up at this event to walk in its usual saturday morning format failed to show up....ah well.......at least i can still walk this morning......no harm, no foul....

from crooks and liars..

ok, so....

daily show- the stupid vote

ok, so....

more from the daily kos...

ok, so i especially enjoyed this piece in the daily kos...

this is the best part....Yeah, she's firing up the wingnut base. Who cares. The wingnut base is the easiest group of people on the planet to fire up. They get fired up when they think gays might steal their marriages. They get fired up when they have to press "one" for English. They get fired up when some black guy gets all uppity and runs for president. They get fired up when their sub-sub-sub-version of Christianity isn't the dominant religious ideal of the nation. Holding Sarah Palin in front of them is like teasing a dog through a fence, but that's about it. what a great line...about teasing a dog through a fence....she seems determined to push the racial/terrorist/not like us card to the point that somebody gets hurt.....and how unamerican is that?

freudian slip of the week....

ok, so.... johnno refers to us as his fellow prisoners....and even sarah palin turns her head when he makes this slip.....

See more Paris Hilton videos at Funny or Die

ok, so paris hilton seeks fake presidential campaign advice from fake president martin sheen....very funny...for the record, i'd trust entrepreneurial paris hilton with the country long before sarah palin....at least paris gets it....

palin's rape kit scandal earns her special place in hell..

ok, so this from mudflats.....an alaskan blog....

kathleen parker speaks up

ok, so this from crooks and liars....

from bill maher...

ok, so this on the election from bill maher... And finally, new rule: You can’t be President if you practice a violent, Middle Eastern religion and worship a genocidal desert god. Which is why Sarah Palin can’t be President. Now all the churches that Sarah Palin has attended, and she’s been to almost as many churches as she has colleges, have one thing in common: a belief that the Bible is literally true. She’s not “Country First”, she’s “Bible First”. And not just the New Testament. That’s the happy half of the book: the baby in the manger, Jesus doing magic tricks, long romantic walks on the water that turn into fishing trips with the guys and a generally positive message. Jesus, after all, preached love and forgiveness, not shooting wolves from an airplane.

The problem is Gov. Avon Lady, she takes the Old Testament literally too, and in that one, God is an insecure, rage-filled hybrid of Bobby Knight and Suge Knight. He’s been alive forever and He has anger issues. He’s like John McCain if John McCain could fart hail. He’s pro-slavery, pro-polygamy and homophobic and he’ll kill you for masturbating. More people get stoned in the Old Testament than in my Jacuzzi. That’s what I have to tell you guys… If there was a video of Barack Obama standing in front of his congregation being healed by a black witch doctor, this election would be over.

But there is that video of Sarah Palin.

planting plans for spring....

ok, so these are the bulbs i am ordering for my middle bed for spring....a lovely mass of yellow and red.....

colbert makes shakesperean parallels

ok, so this is a tad long, but the harvard shakespeare guy is just marvelous......

the waiver

ok, so....our daughter's switch from the city school to the county school has been complicated by her sports eligibility: she competed in cross country as a freshman, and according to the rules she must sit out an entire year from all sports unless she qualifies for this rule to be waived. The most widely used qualification is bonafide change of address. We live in the county school's district- and have no need to change address. We switched our daughter to a school that provides coursework unavailable in the city school, like agriculture, equine science, small animal science as well as clubs like the FFA.....yeah, well, that and the fact that she did so very poorly as a freshman and the d-ville school counselors seemed disinterested in helping her.....to make a long story short, we were turned down on our request for a waiver, a decision that we appealed. The hearing was thursday in lexington.....imagine our surprise when the d-ville football coach showed up to argue against the waiver.....like our child was some sort of star runner that would give her new school an unfair advantage......we have to wait another 10 business days to get the transcript of the hearing, and then another couple of days to hear what the athletic association board decided. we understand fully that this has more to do with football and basketball players and the recruitment that goes on....it makes no sense that our child has changed to the school across town but cannot run in a few races.

ok, so this is an especially funny colbert clip...

ok, so my sibling sent me some wingnut email about how a judge somewhere has questioned barak's citizenship.....the birth certificate is already google-able....what a desperate attempt to derail an election- from mccain, a candidate who was born in panama...and not the us of a......

ok, so...this was the most poignant moment of the debate for the c-dubs....and we were in awe that ms plain responded to this man baring his soul to america with the assertion that mccain is a maverick....

i just love wonkette....

ok, so this from wonkette.....

new respect for the whole state of michigan

ok, so.....i am so very proud of michigan for basically rebuffing j. mccain to the point that he is pulling his campaign staff out and on to other battlefields.....

can't think of a single supreme court case except roe v. wade

ok, so.....it pains me to share this piece from palin....

all palin, all the time...

ok, so in the most recent mouth-dropper moment from katie couric's series of interviews with ms. palin is this....when asked about what news sources she reads to get her 'world view', palin remarked that she reads a vast variety of news sources.....but when pressed to name one....palin chose to ramble on about how alaska is not out of the media mainstream and how they get the news up there and on and on.....yet she could not come up with a single news source......i'd have been satisfied if she'd said fox news.....given that fox is so very pro-palin.....but she couldn't even come up with that....