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Not surprisingly BOTH candidates distorted facts in the debate last night. 

BUT, only one did it in a normal voice that didn't make me wanna puncture my own eardrums with a dull pencil to avoid hearing them. 

As I mentioned in another blog.  Palin sounded SO rehearsed and came off as a Miss Teen USA pageant contestant during the question and answer competition. 

AND, as mentioned above (and that other blog), her freak'n voice made me start slamming my cat's  tail in a door so there would be a much more pleasant sound in the room dont'cha know!

Now back to the original topic....both candidates stretched the truth (AKA lied). 

Here's an article explaining some of the statements made by BOTH people.

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By CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 43 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Republican Sarah Palin criticized a version of a Barack Obama health care plan that doesn't exist and Democrat Joe Biden clung to a misleading charge about Republicans and big oil when the two clashed in the vice presidential debate Thursday.

Some examples of facts cast adrift in the debate:

PALIN: Said of Democratic presidential candidate Obama: "94 times he voted to increase taxes or not support a tax reduction."

THE FACTS: The dubious count includes repetitive votes as well as votes to cut taxes for the middle class while raising them on the rich. An analysis by factcheck.org found that 23 of the votes were for measures that would have produced no tax increase at all, seven were in favor of measures that would have lowered taxes for many, 11 would have increased taxes on only those making more than $1 million a year.

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BIDEN: Complained about "economic policies of the last eight years" that led to "excessive deregulation."

THE FACTS: Biden voted for 1999 deregulation that liberal groups are blaming for part of the financial crisis today. The law allowed Wall Street investment banks to create the kind of mortgage-related securities at the core of the problem now. The law was widely backed by Republicans as well as by Democratic President Clinton, who argues it has stopped the crisis today from being worse.

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PALIN: Criticized Obama's "plan to mandate health care coverage and have universal government run program" for health care, and added: "I don't think it's going to be real pleasing for Americans to consider health care being taken over by the Feds."

THE FACTS: Wrong on several counts. Obama's plan does not provide for universal coverage, only mandates insurance for children and doesn't turn the system over to the government. Most people would still get private insurance through their work. Obama proposes that the government subsidize the cost of health coverage for millions who have trouble affording it and he'd set up an exchange to negotiate prices and benefits with private insurers — with one option being a government-run plan.

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BIDEN: Warned that Republican presidential candidate John McCain's $5,000 tax credit to help families buy health coverage "will go straight to the insurance company."

THE FACTS: That's not surprising — the money is meant to pay for health insurance. The Obama campaign tried to capitalize on the candidates' health care exchange by issuing an ad Friday contending that the Republicans can't explain "the McCain health tax."

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PALIN: "Two years ago, remember, it was John McCain who pushed so hard with the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac reform measures. He sounded that warning bell."

THE FACTS: Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska led an effort in 2005 to tighten regulation on the mortgage underwriters — McCain joined as a co-sponsor a year later. The legislation was never taken up by the full Senate, then under Republican control.

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BIDEN: Said McCain supports tax breaks for oil companies, and "wants to give them another $4 billion tax cut."

THE FACTS: Biden is repeating a favorite saw of the Obama campaign, and it's misleading. McCain supports a cut in income taxes for all corporations, and doesn't single out any one industry for that benefit.

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PALIN: Said the United States has reduced its troop level in Iraq to a number below where it was when the troop increase began in early 2007.

THE FACTS: Not correct. The Pentagon says there are currently 152,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, about 17,000 more than there were before the 2007 military buildup began.

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BIDEN: "As a matter of fact, John recently wrote an article in a major magazine saying that he wants to do for the health care industry — deregulate it and let the free market move — like he did for the banking industry."

THE FACTS: Biden and Obama have been perpetuating this distortion of what McCain wrote in an article for the American Academy of Actuaries. McCain, laying out his health plan, only referred to deregulation when saying people should be allowed to buy health insurance across state lines. In that context, he wrote: "Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation."

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PALIN: Said Alaska is "building a nearly $40 billion natural gas pipeline, which is North America's largest and most expensive infrastructure project ever to flow those sources of energy into hungry markets."

THE FACTS: Not quite. Construction is at least six years away. So far the state has only awarded a license to Trans Canada Corp., that comes with $500 million in seed money in exchange for commitments toward a lengthy and costly process to getting a federal certificate. At an August news conference after the state Legislature approved the license, Palin said, "It's not a done deal."

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PALIN: "Barack Obama even supported increasing taxes as late as last year for those families making only $42,000 a year."

BIDEN: "The charge is absolutely not true. Barack Obama did not vote to raise taxes."

THE FACTS: The vote was on a nonbinding budget resolution that assumed that President Bush's tax cuts would expire, as scheduled, in 2011. If that actually happened, it could mean higher taxes for people making as little as about $42,000. But Obama is proposing tax increases only on the wealthy, and would cut taxes for most others.

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PALIN: Said a McCain-Palin administration "will support Israel," including "building our embassy ... in Jerusalem."

THE FACTS: Moving the U.S. Embassy from its present location in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is a perennial promise of presidential candidates courting the Jewish-American vote. In fact, moving the embassy is actually required by U.S. law. But successive administrations of both parties, including George W. Bush's, have made the same pledge only to find that the realities of Middle East peacemaking have forced them to invoke a waiver to delay it. Jerusalem is claimed as a capital by both Israel and the Palestinians and Israel's occupation of east Jerusalem is not internationally recognized. The city's status is one of the key issues of disagreement in peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.

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Associated Press writers Tom Raum, Steve Quinn, Jim Kuhnhenn, Lolita Baldor and Matthew Lee contributed to this report.

Plan on watching the debate tronight but wish you could add a little something to it?

Well, I may have found the things to spice up the 'ol debate watching experience.

Palin BINGO! 

Yes, anytime she says one of her phrases, you cover a space until you get a "Media Black Out" and WIN. 

Found this link on the KDGE 102.1 the EDGE's website.   

 (You'll have to actually click on the link to print out the cards, the below is just a picture of the website.)

 http://www.palinbingo.com/

Of course to REALLY make it fun, have it be a DRINKING GAME! 

Everytime she says a phrase on your card, take a drink. 

Good Times!!

(note: for some reason the words/sentences seem to keep bunching up even though I'm spacing every line.  SO sorry if it keeps posting like that.)

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PALIN BINGO Thursday 10-02-2008 5:28pm CT


Have some fun during the debate tonight or any of the interviews and speeches leading up the election
(click to print up multiple cards or create your own)

Really,

    If you must listen to only "Christian Rock" (which for the most part sucks big-time) at least listen to GOOD examples of it......

Dust For LIfe - "Step Into The Light"



Shinedown - "Fly From The Inside" (other good ones are "Save Me" & "I Dare You")



Alter Bridge - "Ties That Bind" (other good ones "Open Your Eyes" & "Blackbird")

Here are the first 19 Episodes of "The Retarded Policeman".

If you're easily offended by ANYTHING, don't watch.  They touch on many different subjects, so there's bound to be one that ticks you off.

Enjoy!

or not.

Clara Moskowitz
LiveScience Staff Writer
LiveScience.com Tue Sep 9, 10:35 PM ET

The potential for the world's largest atom smasher to destroy Earth is one question weighing on the minds of some lay people as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) prepares to go online Wednesday.

Don't worry, say the experts, who are more concerned with whether the 17 mile-long particle accelerator underground at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research near Geneva, Switzerland, will work as planned and, perhaps, reveal the existence of the so-called God particle.

 

All that in mind, here are answers to several questions buzzing around on the eve of the LHC's inaugural run:

 

So, will a black hole consume the planet?

 

Some people have suggested that a microscopic black hole, spawned by the powerful crash of subatomic particles racing through the LHC's tunnels, could potentially suck up the Earth.

 

But physicists say these fears are unfounded. For one, creating a black hole at LHC is extremely unlikely based on the laws of gravity alone, CERN officials say. But even if it did happen, as a few highly speculative theories suggest, the miniscule black hole would be so unstable it would disintegrate immediately before it had time to gobble up any of the matter on Earth.

 

Will a 'strangelet' destroy us?

 

Another wild idea: The LHC might produce something called a strangelet that could convert our planet into a lump of dead "strange matter."

 

This hypothesis is equally unlikely, experts say, because the same worries were raised eight years ago before the opening of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a particle accelerator at the Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island. Since RHIC has been operating safely for years, and it's set-up made it even more likely to produce strangelets if such creation were possible, then the LHC poses little risk of converting us into strangelings.

 

Although worrywarts have gone so far as to file suit in Federal District Court in Hawaii and in the European Court of Human Rights to stop the LHC (as they also did before RHIC), the project will go ahead as planned.

 

"The LHC will enable us to study in detail what nature is doing all around us," said CERN Director General Robert Aymar. "The LHC is safe, and any suggestion that it might present a risk is pure fiction."

 

Just how big is this thing?

 

The LHC is an underground ring about 17 miles (27 kilometers) long, running through parts of both Switzerland and France. Inside are 9,300 magnets guiding two beams of particles around the circle in opposite directions until they smash into each other, spewing out loads of energy and hopefully some new and exciting particles.

 

How fast will the particles go?

 

The speeding particles will travel the full LHC ring 11,245 times a second, travelling at 99.99 percent the speed of light. At this rate, some 600 million collisions will take place every second.

 

Don't we already have a bunch of atom smashers? What's so special about this one?

 

The LHC will be the mother of all atom smashers: the largest, the most powerful, with the biggest and most sophisticated detectors ever built. Although there are a number of particle accelerators around the world, each was built for a unique purpose. Scientists are hoping the LHC will be able to answer some of our most puzzling outstanding questions about the nature of the universe, including how stuff gets mass, what makes up dark matter, and why the universe is made up of matter and not anti-matter.

 

How much does it cost?

The facility cost $8 billion, $531 million of which was contributed by the United States. More than 8,000 scientists from almost 60 countries will collaborate on LHC experiments.

How long have they been working on this?

The green light for the project was given 14 years ago, though some physicists have been planning the LHC since the 1980s.

Why does it have to be underground?

The planet shields the accelerator from radiation that could interfere with the experiments. Not to mention buying that much land aboveground would have been really expensive!

By the way, what's a hadron?

Hadrons are particles made up of bound quarks. A quark is a building block of larger particles such as protons and neutrons. The LHC will manipulate two kinds of hadrons - either protons or lead ions - because a) they are charged (this allows them to be accelerated by the electromagnetic forces created in the machine) and b) they do not decay and are heavy so they will not lose too much energy as they are accelerated along the ring.

And what's a 'God particle'?

The God particle is the nickname given to the theoretical Higgs boson, a particle thought to explain why some things are more massive than others. The Higgs is one of the holy grails of physics, though its existence has yet to be proven.

Will the LHC find the God particle?

While many are hoping that Higgs bosons will pop out of the powerful collisions created by the LHC, the famous British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking is betting it won't. He's wagered $100 (70 euros) that LHC won't produce the elusive God particle and physicists will have to go back to the drawing board.

"I think it will be much more exciting if we don't find the Higgs," Hawking told BBC radio. "That will show something is wrong, and we need to think again."

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I hope they at least learn SOMETHING from it. 

 I've always loved science and am always thrilled to hear about new discoveries. 

I have my fingers crossed for them.

  (and also that they don't destroy the world...LOL)

By now we've all heard about Obama saying the phrase "lipstick on a pig". 

Of course Republicans are saying this was a slam on Palin. 

Here's the clip:



Well,   when McCain used the same phrase earlier this political season, was he referring to Palin as well?  



Of course not, he was referring to policies, just as Obama is. 

Here's the Obama comment again with another clip of McCain using the phrase at another venue.

ok, in going over the posts about me and POV being alters, or I'm his alter, though I've been around longer so he should be MY alter, but COD claims POV to be HIS alter, but Mrs Bobble Head says COD is POV's alter, which would make him/her an alter of mine, so I have an alter making fun of another one of my alters that I'm supposed to be an alter of even though the timeline wouldn't work that way, and at one time didn't people think POV was Bugs, so is Bugs my alter as well, or is he another alter of POV's since apparently he makes all the alters including me, or is POV, Bugs, and myself all alters of COD since they claim that POV is their alter which would mean all the others are their alters as well, or if Mrs Bobblehead is right and COD is POV's alter, what does that make Bugs and ME, or are they all my alters since I was created first but no PA and Chard say I'm POV's alter...........

I'm confused.

 

 

UPDATE:

 

OH wow, I just looked at POV's bio...I had no idea he did create his first. 

Just by a few days, but his WAS first.

DANG,  guess I would be his alter, not the other way around.

BUT, I'm not, and he's not, so it doesn't matter anyways!

Can't wait til my shift's over so I can go to my day job of selling copiers! (LOL)

 

 

   Proud American had posted a blog about my "Retarded Policeman" blogs getting deleted because I accidentally posted the donation part of their descriptions, but another blog in the political section has remained that has a "contribute" button for Hillary Clinton.

  She also mentioned that I used to be a "horses patoot" and that I might still be, but one blog shouldn't be deleted and another be allowed to stay.

   I commented that I agreed with her.  I had had posted the contributions part accidentally, and had reposted the films without them.  

  I also stated that she would probably believe I was still a "horses patoot".

  The reason because I had made fun of her (and Chardonay) in a couple more postings of the Retarded Policeman.

  Apparently just because I also believe her to be racist, I MUST be POV. 

  Here is what she posted on the Retarded Policeman Blog:
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ProudAmerican
Aug 25, 2008 | 12:43 AM

I always knew you were POV, so my trick of cough cough defending you to the mods worked!

SCORE!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was the taco right?

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She then deleted her blog about the "contribute button".

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Those with half a brain, and have been here more than a few days know this not to be true. 

I have never, and will never have an alter.  Anything I wish to post, I'll post as myself.  I've always said that and still do. 

Not to be outdone by her shadow...er...friend Proud American, Chardoney decided to be in an episode of the Retarded Policeman as well.

Since she's generally seen as a harsh, judgmental, unoriginal hag who gives all true Christians a bad name, she wanted to show her softer, loving side.

Here is her finished work.......

Retarded Policeman # 11: "GILF"







directed & edited by Greg Benson
written by Greg Benson
created by Greg Benson & Kim Evey
Retarded Policeman: Josh "The Ponceman" Perry
Old Lady: Peggy "Mema" Grigsby (Josh's grandma!)
Mime: Doug Jones
camera & sound - Greg Benson
crew - Scott Perry
theme song by Greg Benson
piano version of theme - Jonathan Green
special thanks - Connie & Al Perry, Rich Gedney
extremely special thanks to the Mime, Doug Jones, who played 'Abe Sapien' in HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY , 'Pan' and 'Pale Man' in PAN'S LABYRINTH, and 'Silver Surfer' in FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER! Cooooool!!!

When Proud American started watching the "Retarded Policeman" series, she knew she wanted to be in one of them.

When she read the script for episode # 10, she KNEW it was for her and demanded to be cast in the part.

Here she is in all her racist glory.....

Retarded Policeman #10: "Mexicans"



directed & edited by Greg Benson
written by Greg Benson
created by Greg Benson & Kim Evey
Retarded Policeman: Josh "The Ponceman" Perry
His Actual Parents: Connie & Al Perry
Bad Harvey Keitel Impression: Greg Benson
theme song by Greg Benson
camera - John Schmidt
sound - Scott Perry
special thanks - Rich Gedney!

No actual Mexicans were harmed in this episode.

...about the "R" word.




Here is a video from the Perry Boys, in response to the N.D.S.S (The National Down Syndrome Society) wanting to boycott Tropic Thunder. The younger brother has Down Syndrome and is also the star of the famous internet series: The Retarded Policeman ( a HILARIOUS series that makes fun of EVERYTHING). Yes, whether you like it or not, I'll be posting some of the series (many I can't because of content). Please watch:








Here's what they have to say in print as well:

Added: August 14, 2008 (Less info) Rate/Fave/Review

Seriously, if this keeps up we will never move forward as a species. Language evolves... so let it. "Retard" does not have the same meaning it did decades ago.

Remember "Revenge of the Nerds"? It's cool to be a NERD now. And the word GAY... do you really think when someone says an outfit you're wearing is GAY that they mean it is as an attack on GAY PEOPLE?

SERIOUSLY, this country, the U.S. of A... and I love my country, has gone over the cliff of political correctness.

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   Here's a comment I made on Steve Noviello's blog about A/A now charging fees for every piece of baggage that you check:

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Airlines need to start treating people like what they REALLY are....Freight!

No, I'm not joking.

If you ship a package by air (and even by ground) and it weighs too much or is "oversized", then you get charged more.

The airlines should do the same with people. It shouldn't be by how many bags you have, it should be your total weight. You, and everything you're bringing combined.

And literally charge by the pound. Or charge a base price for a certain poundage, and then charge extra for anything over that.

We are literally human freight, and we're paying to ship ourselves to a certain destination. We should be charged just like any other cargo.

It makes no sense for a 90 pound person with three bags to be charged extra, and then the person behind them be 220 pounds with no bags and not be penalized with having to pay more.

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      Of course overweight people will scream discrimination.  And it simply wont be the case. 

       Airplanes can only hold so much weight.  After that it can affect the speed, altitude, and of course FUEL CONSUMPTION.   With rising fuel costs they have to make up the money somehow, just like every other frieght service. 

     That's why they need to treat passenger planes just like every other cargo plane.  A base price for a certain weight, and then charge extra for every pound you go over.  UPS, does it, FedEX does it, the airlines should too. 

      You don't like it?   Like Scotty said, have you tried a taxi lately?  Or better yet, drive yourself there and you don't have to worry about it. 

I know this may be a shocker, but Bill O'Reilly can have quite the temper. Here's a video of him blowing up about not understanding what's on the teleprompter. Warning he does drop the "F-bomb"

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1815558



Also, here's Sue Simmons of CNBC channel 4 news dropping the 'ol "F-bomb" at the director during a tease.

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1815716

   Moderation on here as always been less that perfect, ok, it's been down right horrible.  BUT, there is a shining light, they DO appear to be TRYING.  They are starting to move posts where they belong.  They are getting rid of comments that they feel shouldn't be posted.  They definitely seem to be TRYING. 

    Opps, but it seems we didn't want FULL moderation.  We wanted everyone we didn't agree with's blogs moved, deleted, etc, but not OUR blogs.  Because as soon as the moderators move or edit or whatever a blog done by one of the people that complain the most about moderation, they complain about it!  Go Figure!

   And then like little kids, fingers get pointed (well this blog is also this way), the past get's brought up (well, so and so did a blog similar to this back in November of last year), etc.

   Blogs needs to be in the right areas.   "Chat blogs", cutesy picture blogs, comedy blogs, blogs like THIS one bashing others blogs or the people themselves, are NOT news.  They are personal entertainment. 

   And people who post non-news blogs in the news section just because they'll get more exposure than the section that they belong in, who the hell do yo think you are?  What makes you think you're more important than anyone else and just because YOU want more exposure, you think YOU should be able to break the rules and post your non-news post in the news section.  Get a life.   No one on here is more imporatant, deserves any special treatment or anything else more than anyone else on this board, except for the Fox 4 staff.

   You've been here a lot?  You post all the time?  Does that make you more important than a newbie?  No, Just means you have less of a life. 

  Once again it comes down to it.  Quit complaining about how things are moderated in here.  If you don't like it, you can always LEAVE.

  

   Just thought I'd chime in on this one.  I truly have two takes on this.

1)  Sally, you and I have always gotten along on here.  I believe you are in the right, and you  were wronged.  I think you SHOULD take all your "evidence" and send it to upper management. 

 Though she's never done anything to me personally, just reading her blogs, Illusions seems like a total B!+CH.  And if you get punished for reposting her original pic, then she should have been punished as well.  And what SHOULD have happened, if the pic went against the TOS, then HER blog should have been pulled and it never should have gotten to the point where you got in trouble Sal. 

Now the other side of me looks at it THIS way.......

2) My opinion, it wasn't really THAT bad a pic, could have been worse.  This blog site is for ADULTS.  It's not for children.  I don't agree with the censorship of of curse words on here as well. 

BUT, it's in the TOS, so I'll deal with it I guess. 

You ALL know the moderators (and I use that term VERY loosely)  have always been lazy, wishy-washy, and appear to be one-sided.  Is that going to change, I doubt it. 

So, what do you do??  Complain until you're fingers fall off from typing?  Sorry, I don't see that doing anything. 

Truth is,  you don't HAVE to come here if you don't like how it's being run.  Sure many of you have been coming here for a long time, and many of you are on here day after day after day after day after day (geesh you people need a life). 

But this blog site is NOT yours.  Just because you've been here a long time doesn't mean you really have any say on how it's run.   Are you a paying customer?  No, I don't recall ever paying a monthly due to type here. 

You don't like it?  Leave!  Nuff said! 

Maybe the blogs will die out without all yall's daily presence?  If so, then yall made your point, and maybe something will change. 

More than likely just another group of  "regulars" will take over, and things will continue as normal. 

But all this constant complaining about the thing is POINTLESS.  Obviously they put I_AM_BORED's post as featured for a reason.  They DON'T agree with you.

So, like I said, Sally, send your stuff to upper management and even the sponsors and see what happens.  I DO TRULY hope you get "justice"(?).  

But if it doesn't, WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?????

My guess, nothing.  Yall will keep coming back again and again.