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Stylists to passe Sarah Palin: Let your hair down
Post Date: 2008-09-04 18:39:55 by A K A Stone
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Yes, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin has a lot on her plate: a pregnant teen daughter, a son on his way to Iraq, an infant with Down syndrome and a looming national election. But must her hair suffer? With her long, straight, often pinned-up locks, Palin looks one humid day away from fronting a Kiss cover band. “It’s about 20 years out of date,” said Boston stylist Mario Russo of the Alaska governor’s ’do. “Which goes to show how off she might be on current events.” For readers who are rolling their eyes about this nonissue - get real. People talk about hair - from Mitt Romney’s perfectly sprayed coif, John Edward’s Breck do, ...
Johnny's got a new girl...Sarah Palin to be his co-pilot was the biggest gamble in presidential history. As of now, it is paying off, big-time.
Post Date: 2008-09-02 20:29:43 by A K A Stone
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Johnny's got a new girl Posted: September 02, 2008 5:55 pm Eastern © 2008 The risk John McCain took last Friday is comparable to the 72-year-old ex-fighter pilot knocking back two shots and flying his F-16 under the Golden Gate Bridge. McCain's choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his co-pilot was the biggest gamble in presidential history. As of now, it is paying off, big-time. The sensational selection in Dayton, Ohio, stepped all over the big story from Denver – Barack Obama's powerful address to 85,000 cheering folks in Mile High Stadium, and 35 million nationally, a speech that vaulted him from a 2-point deficit early in the week to an 8-point margin. ...
Columnist Fatimah Ali Threatens Race War If Obama Loses!!!
Post Date: 2008-09-02 17:37:49 by A K A Stone
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AMERICA is on the brink of a long, harsh and bitterly cold winter, with a looming recession that the GOP won't even admit to. The policies of the current White House have brutalized our economy, yet the wealthiest think that everything is fine. Rich Republicans just don't understand that millions are suffering. But many of their working class do, and they're beginning to abandon their own party. When lifelong Republican Barney Smith told the Democratic convention that he'd vote for Barack Obama for president, he gave pause to even the most conservative members of his party. Smith, like many disgruntled working-class Republicans, is ready to turn his back on his party ...
Bitch Author Sally Quin Piles On Palin
Post Date: 2008-09-02 17:27:41 by A K A Stone
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Palin's Pregnancy Problem My first reaction was shock. Then anger. John McCain chose a running mate simply because she is a woman and one who appealed to the Republican's conservative evangelical base. Now, with news that Palin's 17-year-old unmarried daughter is pregnant, McCain's pick may not even find support among "family values" voters. It has happened before, of course. Geraldine Ferraro was chosen as the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 1984 because she was a woman, but that was 24 years ago. I thought we were past this. Apparently not. McCain's choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate is a cynical and calculated move. It is a ...
New Palin details may help, not hurt
Post Date: 2008-09-02 09:38:43 by A K A Stone
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ST. PAUL, Minn. — Fishing permit violations. A blue-collar husband who racked up a DUI citation as a 22-year-old. An unmarried teenage daughter who is pregnant and a nasty child custody battle involving a family member. All of this, to one degree or another, has surfaced in recent days as a result of efforts to discredit or undermine Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. But these revelations may have the opposite effect: In one sense, they could reinforce how remarkably unremarkable she is. So far — and it is hard to tell what the future may hold for Palin’s unexpected national candidacy — the travails of the Palin family probably seem awfully familiar to many average Americans. ...
McCain to pick Romney?
Post Date: 2008-08-28 11:28:31 by A K A Stone
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Ok I have given this some thought. It is my belief that McCain will pick Romney as his running mate. I got Obamas running mate correct. Lets see if my political observations can go 2 for 2.
Chuck Baldwin: If I Were President
Post Date: 2008-08-24 17:34:32 by A K A Stone
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Due to my frequent criticisms of President George W. Bush, I am often asked what I would do if I were President of these United States. This column will serve as an attempt to answer that question. If I were President, I would begin the process of safely extracting our troops from Iraq. In the first place, our troops are no longer fighting a war, they are an occupation force, which occupies a sovereign country. And this is being done without a Declaration of War. The Iraqi people resent our occupation as much as we would resent another nation stronger than ours invading and occupying America. If such a thing happened to our beloved country, I'm sure many of us would also become ...
Is Obama gonna pick Joe Biden?
Post Date: 2008-08-20 01:32:18 by A K A Stone
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I've been getting a feeling for the last couple of days that Obama is going to pick Joe Biden. Out of the main candidates mentioned Biden seems a wise choice. He looks presidential and serious the main reason being. That plays well on the T.V. you know.
Obama’s “Civilian National Security Force”
Post Date: 2008-08-03 22:26:49 by A K A Stone
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It appears candidate Obama, if elected, fully intends to recruit young citizens into something he calls a “national security force,” apparently a large paramilitary group “just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as the U.S. military. Obama made passing reference to this disturbing idea in a speech delivered in Chicago on July 2. As should be expected, the corporate media, with the exception on the Chicago Tribune, completely ignored the statement and its implications. It was picked up by the real media, that is to say the bloggers, and Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily. “If we’re going to create some kind of national police force as big, powerful ...
Barack Obama and the UN's drive for global governance
Post Date: 2008-08-03 22:18:03 by A K A Stone
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Senator Barack Obama has introduced a dangerous bill and it's on the fast track to Senate passage, probably because of his high profile position as the expected Democrat presidential nominee. Obama hasn't done much legislatively in his freshman Senate term, but this one is very telling about what we can expect from a President Obama. The bill is the "Global Poverty Act" (S.2433) and is not just a compassionate bit of fluff that Obama dreamed up to help the poor of the world. This bill is directly tied to the United Nations and serves as little more than a shakedown of American taxpayers in a massive wealth redistribution scheme. In fact, if passed, The Global Poverty Act ...
Wary of China, Russians look West
Post Date: 2008-07-28 20:19:38 by A K A Stone
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Like his predecessor Vladimir Putin, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev followed his taking over the Kremlin, in May, with a visit to China. For some pundits this raised the specter of a Chinese-Russian alliance as a threat to the West. This is not the case. The Russian - both elite and popular - approach to China is often guarded. And as with all flirtation with Chinese and Asian powers, Russia continues to be West-oriented. My recent visit to Russia confirmed this. My arrival coincided with Medvedev's landing in China. Russian TV carried his speech in which he proclaimed that Russia and China were strategic partners, despite the fact that "someone" might be upset with this. ...
Nader: Obama supporters are in 'political slavery'
Post Date: 2008-07-28 20:07:44 by A K A Stone
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During a Sunday press conference and campaign rally attended by RAW STORY, Independent Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader claimed that liberals and Democrats who will vote for Sen. Barack Obama as the "least worst candidate" are actually trapped in "political slavery." At the campaign stop in Austin, Texas, Nader spoke to an audience of approximately 200 about his campaign's primary issues in the 2008 presidential election. During the press conference -- held in a sweltering classroom at the back of a small, suburban Methodist church -- Nader also directly addressed an elderly white woman as a "political bigot." "What is your answer to people, ...
Inflation: Ron Paul Explains How We Got Into This Mess
Post Date: 2008-07-11 23:11:49 by A K A Stone
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"There were several stages. From the inception of the Federal Reserve System in 1913 to 1933, the Central Bank established itself as the official dollar manager. By 1933, Americans could no longer own gold, thus removing restraint on the Federal Reserve to inflate for war and welfare. "By 1945, further restraints were removed by creating the Bretton-Woods Monetary System making the dollar the reserve currency of the world. This system lasted up until 1971. During the period between 1945 and 1971, some restraints on the Fed remained in place. Foreigners, but not Americans, could convert dollars to gold at $35 an ounce. Due to the excessive dollars being created, that system came ...
What about Bob? GOP mum on Barr
Post Date: 2008-07-10 22:01:59 by A K A Stone
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If Republicans are worried about the third-party presidential candidacy of former GOP Rep. Bob Barr and the possibility that he could win enough votes to affect the outcome in several states, they aren’t showing it. At present there are no plans to follow the time-honored method of dealing with pesky third-party candidates by seeking to knock Barr off various state ballots. Indeed, when asked for comment about the Barr campaign, John McCain’s campaign flat out declined to offer one. Underscoring that indifferent approach, the Republican National Committee offered this response when asked about the former conservative congressman from Georgia. “We’re confident that ...
Forced servitude in America? The U.S. already has high rates of volunteerism, but that's apparently not good enough for our presidential candidates.
Post Date: 2008-07-09 22:03:54 by A K A Stone
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There's a weird irony at work when Sen. Barack Obama, the black presidential candidate who will allegedly scrub the stain of racism from the nation, vows to run afoul of the constitutional amendment that abolished slavery. For those who don't remember, the 13th Amendment says: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime ... shall exist within the United States." Click here to find out more! I guess in Obama's mind it must be a crime to be born or to go to college. In his speech on national service Wednesday at the University of Colorado, Obama promised that as president he would "set a goal for all American middle and high ...
If you really want to understand what this race is about, look at the two candidates' fathers
Post Date: 2008-06-06 13:45:24 by A K A Stone
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The Hillary-dam has finally burst, so now oceans of newsprint are being spilled over the long-delayed Republican vs. Democrat showdown. But as we simplistically blather about the candidates' race and age – it's hip vs hip operation, folks – we seem to be ignoring the best guide we have to John McCain and Barack Obama's hearts. Both men have written strange, searching books about their fathers. It is in their pages that we can find the clearest clues to their potential presidencies. At first glance, these slabs of non-fiction – Dreams From My Father by Obama, and Faith of My Fathers by McCain – are strikingly similar. They both tell the autobiographical story ...
War of wills? An absolutist China vs. an egocentric U.S
Post Date: 2008-05-12 20:52:37 by A K A Stone
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Lev Navrozov emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1972 He settled in New York City where he quickly learned that there was no market for his eloquent and powerful English language attacks on the Soviet Union. To this day, he writes without fear or favor or the conventions of polite society. He chaired the "Alternative to the New York Times Committee" in 1980, challenged the editors of the New York Times to a debate (which they declined) and became a columnist for the New York City Tribune. His columns are today read in both English and Russian. Chris Ruddy, President and CEO, NewsMax Media, Inc., has kindly drawn my attention to the essay “Stealing Weather” by William ...
Divide and Conquer the Gov't
Post Date: 2008-05-11 13:40:23 by barkentine
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Received this in a forwarded email: "I think we should all vote for the worst possible president in order to motivate secession, then vote in all other elections for the people who most hate that president and hope they come to blows. Divide and conquer the government." I think it's a good strategy at this point in time, since there are literally no good viable candidates (except Ron Paul).
Is Obama one of us?
Post Date: 2008-04-25 07:32:45 by A K A Stone
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As one looks at the polls, the issues and the candidates, the election of 2008 resembles what poker players call a "lay-down hand." Two-thirds of the nation believes the Iraq war a blunder. Sixty-nine percent disapproves of President Bush. Eighty-one percent thinks America is on the wrong course. Inflation is at 4 percent and rising. Unemployment is 5 percent and rising. Gasoline, heating oil and food prices are soaring. The dollar has lost half its values against the euro. Homes are being foreclosed upon at Depression rates. The stock market is in a swoon. And 3.5 million manufacturing jobs have vanished under Bush. Hillary and Obama have both raised far more than John McCain. ...
Bob Bar To Run Third Party?
Post Date: 2008-03-21 16:51:23 by A K A Stone
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There is talk on the TV today about Bob Bar possibly running for President. A lot of people have been bummed out since Ron Paul isn't going to win the Republican nomination. This is good news. We should take that energy that was involved in the Ron Paul Revolution and turn it towards Bob Bar. Since Ron Paul has insisted that he isn't going to run third party it would be a worthy place to place our energy. Bob Bar even gave Ron Paul a heroes introduction at this years CPAC meeting. So how about it all you Ron Paul supporters can we get behind a Bob Bar candidacy? Maybe Bob Bar could even pick Ron Paul for his vice president.
Geraldo Rivera is an asshole.
Post Date: 2008-03-16 21:38:23 by A K A Stone
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Hey Geraldo fuck you.
Fear for the Second
Post Date: 2008-03-16 21:23:47 by A K A Stone
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Later this week the Supreme Court will rule on the Second Amendment. “The nine justices of the highest court in the land will meet Tuesday to hear arguments on who the Founders Fathers intended when they called for the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms: a well regulated militia or all individuals,” reports Fox News. It all hinges on that word: militia. “The awkward construction of the amendment — linking ‘a well regulated Militia’ to ‘the right … to keep and bear Arms’ — has spawned decades of debate about whether the framers of the Constitution meant to grant an individual right to own guns,” writes Chris Casteel for the ...
Do Americans Care About Big Brother?
Post Date: 2008-03-16 20:59:45 by A K A Stone
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Pity America's poor civil libertarians. In recent weeks, the papers have been full of stories about the warehousing of information on Americans by the National Security Agency, the interception of financial information by the CIA, the stripping of authority from a civilian intelligence oversight board by the White House, and the compilation of suspicious activity reports from banks by the Treasury Department. On Thursday, Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine released a report documenting continuing misuse of Patriot Act powers by the FBI. And to judge from the reaction in the country, nobody cares. A quick tally of the record of civil liberties erosion in the United States ...
Stagflation/Hyperinflation Or Just The End Of Your Way Of Life?
Post Date: 2008-03-16 19:36:27 by A K A Stone
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I haven't written anything for public consumption in a while, because I've been busy living in what I like to call, "the real world" and making my living by trading my own money. That's what I do these days. I'm a fly on the wall with electronic access to the dens of thieves. If I come out on top then I transfer those digits for things I need. Yes I'm still long gold from $290, and crude from $60 but whatever, I've been doing ok. I've been doing ok that is, if the money I have was worth what it used to be, but it isn't. So rather than just slap a label on what it is when words have already arguably lost their meaning, let's discuss it. I am ...
The Dumbing Of America
Post Date: 2008-03-16 19:33:28 by A K A Stone
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"The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself." Ralph Waldo Emerson offered that observation in 1837, but his words echo with painful prescience in today's very different United States. Americans are in serious intellectual trouble -- in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations. This is the last subject that any candidate would dare raise on the long and winding road to the White House. It is almost impossible to talk about the manner in which public ignorance contributes to grave national problems without being labeled an "elitist," one of the most ...
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