I'm taking a break

It is not time for my opinion, it is time for all of us to express our opinion a the ballot box - PLEASE VOTE. I'll be back on Wednesday.

Recycle Your Jack 'O Lantern

Don't throw it away, recycle it!

Sean Hannity Is A Liar: A Master of Deceit, Innuendo, Half-truth and Straw-man Arguement

A Surge on One Channel, a Tight Race on Another??????
As anyone who has listened to Sean Hannity knows he rails about Barack Obama and the democrats advocating a huge transfer of wealth...Thomas L. Friedman quotes, in his column today, that Michael Mandelbaum, in his book "Democracy's Good Name: The Rise and Risks of the World's Most Popular Form of Government" says that George Bush has been responsible for the greatest transfer of wealth since the Bolshevik Revolution.

Sean Hannity is a master of deceit, half-truth, innuendo, straw-man argument and outright lies. He is not to be trusted on any subject at anytime, like the rest of his ilk including Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Michael Savich, Michael Reagan and the rest who only promote their own narrow self-interest to keep their narrowing listener ship.

It is apparent that these guys are panicked. Their influence has, and continues to, diminish and only the most uneducated amongst us still pays any attention except for a laugh and out of boredom. These guys know it too. Their callers are pathetically uninformed and Hannity and the rest work hard to keep it that way. Most of their listeners/viewers get their information from one or two sources only: WABC Radio New York and Fox News. They are only taken seriously by the same 23% who still approve of George Bush's performance in office.

These are serious times and we have serious issues. Democracy, in order to function, requires an educated populace.

For two presidential election cycles America has voted based on who they'd rather have a beer with or because they have allowed themselves to be influenced by fear. As we know making decisions based on fear is highly likely to produce the wrong decision.

Tom Friedman:

"all I can suggest is that you vote for the candidate with these character traits:

First, we need a president who can speak English and deconstruct and navigate complex issues so Americans can make informed choices. We have paid an enormous price for having a president who could not explain and reassure us during this financial meltdown. We wasted a huge amount of time pretending that we could punish Wall Street without punishing Main Street — when, in fact, they are intricately intertwined.

A major money market fund — Reserve Primary — failed in September because the extra interest it offered customers derived, in part, from the $785 million in high-yielding Lehman Brothers commercial paper and notes it was holding. Depositors who told their congressmen to just let that greedy Lehman Brothers fail were shocked to discover this meant that their own money market would be frozen. No, we don’t need a president defending greed on Wall Street, but we do need one who can explain that we are all in the same boat, that a leak at one end can sink everyone and that while we must regulate, we don’t want to kill risk-taking and the rewards that go with that — which are essential to growing our economy.

Second, we need a president who can energize, inspire and hold the country together during what will be a very stressful recovery. We have to climb out of this financial crisis at a time when the baby boomers are about to retire and going to need their Social Security and eventually Medicare. We are all going to be paying the government more and getting less until we grow out of this hole.

Third, we need a president who can rally the world to our side. We cannot get out of this crisis unless China starts consuming more and unless Europe keeps lowering interest rates. Everyone is interconnected, and everyone is still looking to America to lead.

So, bottom line: Please do not vote for the candidate you most want to have a beer with (unless it’s to get stone cold drunk so you don’t have to think about this mess we’re in). Vote for the person you’d most like at your side when you ask your bank manager for an extension on your mortgage.

Vote for the candidate you think has the smarts, temperament and inspirational capacity to unify the country and steer our ship through what could be the rockiest shoals our generation has ever known. Your kids will thank you."

This Woman is Just Breathtakingly STUPID (and an embarrasment to any thinking America), Sen. McCain, how could you?

(Sarah Palin, fashion victim.....so what is the Vice President's clothing allowance anyway????)
Utterly clueless -- the Masked Avengers' comically bad accents and pop culture and pornography references going straight over her head -- Palin blathers for what seems like hours, giving giggly answers and offering the slimmest possible analysis of her candidacy and the significance of campaign figure Joe the Plumber. At one point, she was led even to agree that FOX News broadcasts unfair critiques of her and is just another part of the the media bias in this country against muddle-headed winking Christian hockey moms.

Alternate Realities

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On any given night, there are two distinctly, even extremely, different views of the presidential campaign offered on two of the three big cable news networks, Fox News Channel and MSNBC, a dual reality that is reflected on the Internet as well."

.....we shall see, and see....

We must rejoin the world

From Nicholas Kristoff at the New York Times

Mr. Bush’s presidency imploded not because of any personal corruption or venality, but largely because he wrenched the United States out of the international community. His cowboy diplomacy “defriended” the United States. He turned a superpower into a rogue country.

Huh? An Authority On Such Matters In O'Reilly's Mind..

Thanks For Keeping Us Informed Bill...