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Monday With McCain

"I think she's most qualified of any that has run recently for vice president, tell you the truth." ---on Sarah Palin, interview with Don Imus, Oct. 22, 2008

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Titties, Toes, & Tater-Tot Tuesday

Titties, Toes, & Tater-Tot Tuesday

Monday With McCain

"Do we share a common philosophy of the Republican Party? Of course."---on President Bush, "Meet the Pres Interview," Oct. 27, 2008

McCain Supporters Pray That His God Is More Powerful Than Obama's God...

Courtesy latimes.com:

Rev. Arnold Conrad, in delivering an invocation at a rally today for John McCain in Davenport, Iowa, apparently didn't get the word from the candidate about elevating the tone at such gatherings.

Conrad, who appeared before the crowd before McCain had arrived, offered a prayer that seemed to urge divine intervention to prevent Barack Obama from winning the presidential election -- and cast the outcome as a referendum on differing religions.

The Times' Maeve Reston was at the event, and she passed along the key passage from Conrad's words:

I would also pray Lord that your reputation is involved in all that happens between now and November, because there are millions of people around this world praying to their God -- whether it's Hindu, Buddha, Allah -- that his [McCain’s] opponent wins for a variety of reasons.

And Lord I pray that you would guard your own reputation, because they’re going to think that their god is bigger than you, if that happens. So I pray that you would step forward and honor your own name in all that happens between now and Election Day.

Oh Lord, we just commit this time to you, move among us, make your presence very well felt as we are gathered here today in Jesus's name I pray.

Some in the crowd greeted the prayer with applause.

Someone Is Listening In On Your Phone Sex...Uncle George, Dick, etc.

The bastards are at it again! Any time you are tempted to believe the bland assurances that government wiretapping (or any other broad surveillance) is strictly for purposes of national security, think about this story and remember that government employees are the same kind of monkeys the rest of us are — snoopy, gossipy, voyeuristic, and inclined to disregard “the rules” whenever it seems likely that we’ll get away with it. Which means, they will listen to your phone sex if you let them listen to anything that they don’t have to justify (individually, specifically, each and every time) to a skeptical judge. From abcnews.com:

Despite pledges by President George W. Bush and American intelligence officials to the contrary, hundreds of US citizens overseas have been eavesdropped on as they called friends and family back home, according to two former military intercept operators who worked at the giant National Security Agency (NSA) center in Fort Gordon, Georgia.

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“These were just really everyday, average, ordinary Americans who happened to be in the Middle East, in our area of intercept and happened to be making these phone calls on satellite phones,” said Adrienne Kinne, a 31-year old US Army Reserves Arab linguist assigned to a special military program at the NSA’s Back Hall at Fort Gordon from November 2001 to 2003.

Kinne described the contents of the calls as “personal, private things with Americans who are not in any way, shape or form associated with anything to do with terrorism.”

She said US military officers, American journalists and American aid workers were routinely intercepted and “collected on” as they called their offices or homes in the United States.

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Another intercept operator, former Navy Arab linguist, David Murfee Faulk, 39, said he and his fellow intercept operators listened into hundreds of Americans picked up using phones in Baghdad’s Green Zone from late 2003 to November 2007.

“Calling home to the United States, talking to their spouses, sometimes their girlfriends, sometimes one phone call following another,” said Faulk.

The accounts of the two former intercept operators, who have never met and did not know of the other’s allegations, provide the first inside look at the day to day operations of the huge and controversial US terrorist surveillance program.

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Faulk says he and others in his section of the NSA facility at Fort Gordon routinely shared salacious or tantalizing phone calls that had been intercepted, alerting office mates to certain time codes of “cuts” that were available on each operator’s computer.

“Hey, check this out,” Faulk says he would be told, “there’s good phone sex or there’s some pillow talk, pull up this call, it’s really funny, go check it out. It would be some colonel making pillow talk and we would say, ‘Wow, this was crazy’,” Faulk told ABC News.

Anyone surprised?

Thoughts On Presidential Debate #2...Or Just McCain

So sure, Obama totally won that debate Tuesday night. I say this mainly due to McCain telling the stupidest effing jokes ever, which is like an automatic "F" in my book. Stick to your day job, old man.

Anyways, after watching a replay of the debate at 3am, I had to go back and read the debate transcript because during the actual debate I was quite distracted writing a boring essay for Thursday night's class. Here are a few of McCain's statements that caught my eye:

We obviously have to stop this spending spree that's going on in Washington. Do you know that we've laid a $10 trillion debt on these young Americans who are here with us tonight, $500 billion of it we owe to China?

Yes, I do read the news and am quite aware of this ridiculous debt that future American generations will be paying off FOREVER. Hey, speaking of spending spree, why are we spending $12 BILLION DOLLARS A MONTH IN IRAQ?!

I was under the impression that Iraq's reconstruction would be paid for by their oil revenues, but perhaps I misheard the neocons.

You know that home values of retirees continues to decline and people are no longer able to afford their mortgage payments. As president of the United States, Alan, I would order the secretary of the treasury to immediately buy up the bad home loan mortgages in America and renegotiate at the new value of those homes -- at the diminished value of those homes and let people be able to make those -- be able to make those payments and stay in their homes.
Is it expensive? Yes. But we all know, my friends, until we stabilize home values in America, we're never going to start turning around and creating jobs and fixing our economy. And we've got to give some trust and confidence back to America.

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I think it depends on what we do. I think if we act effectively, if we stabilize the housing market -- which I believe we can, if we go out and buy up these bad loans, so that people can have a new mortgage at the new value of their home -- I think if we get rid of the cronyism and special interest influence in Washington so we can act more effectively.

WTF? I thought McCain was a Republican? Maybe those commies out there in Arlington must have gotten to him. He wants the federal government to buy up "bad" mortgages and renegotiate them based on the house's current value? He wants to "stabilize" home values? The home values that are STILL TOO HIGH?! This is a ridiculously stupid plan that I'm 100% against, yet I'm glad he announced it because I love seeing idiots like Michelle Malkin and those guys at National Review bitch about it. It's like they finally realized, "Whoa, our candidate totally sucks!"

On appointing a SecTreas:

McCain: You know, that's a tough question and there's a lot of qualified Americans. But I think the first criteria, Tom, would have to be somebody who immediately Americans identify with, immediately say, we can trust that individual.

Joe Six Pack for SecTreas?

My friends, we are not going to be able to provide the same benefit for present-day workers that we are going -- that present-day retirees have today.

Thanks for the reminder, dipshit. And stop calling me your friend, dammit. There's a reason I ignored your request to be friends on Facebook (OK, to be honest here, I ignore everybody's request to be friends on Facebook).

Sen. Obama was wrong about Iraq and the surge. He was wrong about Russia when they committed aggression against Georgia. And in his short career, he does not understand our national security challenges. We don't have time for on-the-job training, my friends.

Earth to McCain! Sarah Palin WTF?

I'll get Osama bin Laden, my friends. I'll get him. I know how to get him. I'll get him no matter what and I know how to do it.

If you know how to do it, then why haven't you done it yet? Being a United States Senator I do believe that you have a duty to your constituants, and if you fail to fulfill that duty it's called nonfeasance. Sounds like treason to me!

And I'm going to act responsibly, as I have acted responsibly throughout my military career and throughout my career in the United States Senate.

Deviating from flight plan, slicing through power lines, and plunging Spaniards into darkness equates to acting responsibly? What about the Savings & Loan scandal? Or Charles Keating?

Now, long ago, I warned about Vladimir Putin. I said I looked into his eyes and saw three letters, a K, a G and a B.

GAAAAAAAG! We have heard you say this line, like, A MILLION TIMES ALREADY! For the next week's debate, please think of something else to say.

John McCain Loves Big Brother

John McCain says he, "didn't really love America until I was deprived of her company [as a POW during the Vietnam War]."

Sean Hannity asked, "What does that do to a person, to spend that much time in solitary confinement?"

McCain responded, "I think it makes you a better person. Obviously, it makes you love America."

Now I understand McCain's support of the Iraq War. He wants all our soldiers to be captured so that they too can become overzealous patriots and "better" people. Kind of reminiscent of 1984 where Winston is tortured into loving Big Brother. Surely if America is so great, then people would love her without being tortured...right?