Interesting technology used on the race for the White House.

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Watch as the ultra-feminist sisterhood back away in horror from Sarah Palin, John McCain’s new running mate.Mrs Palin is technically female, but she’s enthusiastically married, hates abortion and thinks criminals should not be the only people allowed to own guns.

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And NOW promptly comes out against Palin.

A round-up of the various smears < href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/sarah-palin-her-daughter-and-the-smear-machine/2/">against Palin.

A “sister” in the Daily Telegraph has a good sneer at her.

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The best line I’ve read so far regarding the differences between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama, courtesy of Mark Steyn:

Sarah Palin and Barack Obama are more or less the same age, but Governor Palin has run a state and a town and a commercial fishing operation, whereas (to reprise a famous line on the Rev. Jackson) Senator Obama ain’t run nothin’ but his mouth.

Amen, Brother!

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I said previously that I thought Governor Sarah Palin (R-AK) was a great pick. Here’s a little of why.

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What about scandals Jawa-report speculates and RWNH finds some but debunks it.

She named her children after witches? Well no not really but keep trying.

And after all fair is fair.

Sarah Baxter opines on on Palin complete with a great pic. Melanie Morgan has a t-shirt for sale of a similar pic.

Fred Thompson thinks the smears are a sign of desperation in this interview and I would tend to agree. Here he speaks on Sarah Palin.

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Buy Merc 2 and annoy Hugo Chavez. Fun gaming and doing something useful…who’d a thunk it?


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Now McCain has made his vice presidential pick, Alaska governor Sarah Palin, it ensures with something approaching 100% certitude that America is about to get one kind of change that Democrats have be pushing for years now.

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The hip-hop mogul is peeved he has to fly commercial airlines instead of his private jet because gas prices are too high.

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It’s been less than 24 hours since John McCain made the announcement about making Alaska Governor Sarah Palin his running mate and Obama’s Democratic Machine is already sharpening their knives in preparation to flay her alive.

I found it interesting that Obama’s campaign spokesman Bill Burton tried to play the inexperienced and too young card.

Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency. Governor Palin shares John McCains commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil and continuing George Bushs failed economic policies thats not the change we need, its just more of the same.

Oh? And Obama is experienced in foreign policy? Hmm. If I recall my geography correctly, Alaska borders two foreign nations, Canada and Russia. I would guess she’s had to deal with at least one of them, if not both. That’s far more foreign policy experience than Obama’s ever had, his overseas junket earlier in the year not withstanding.

Sarah Palin has been the chief executive of both a town and a state. How many towns or states has Obama led? Let’s see….how about none. She’s the Commander-In-Chief of the Alaska National Guard. Obama has absolutely no experience commanding anything.

On her economic outlook, I’d say it’s nothing like George Bush’s. She is a true fiscal conservative, and her record as the mayor of Wasilla shows she’s always been that way. Her record as governor shows likewise.

When it comes to Big Oil, she is not a friend of the oil companies. All one needs to do is look how she’s gone after them for their undue influence in Alaskan politics. That doesn’t look like someone in the pocket of Big Oil to me.

She’s fought against the Alaskan political machines, both Democratic and Republican, cleaning out corruption wherever she could find it. Obama is a product of the corrupt Chicago Democratic political machine.

But the most interesting thing I find about the whole thing is that Obama’s campaign is focusing attention on the GOP Vice Presidential nominee, comparing her to their own Presidential nominee. What’s wrong with this picture?

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Roseanne, I dont think youre very bright at all.

Dan O’Brien puts on the hip boots and wades manfully into the wreck otherwise known as “Roseanne [sic] World” to review the blog therein. Somebody had to do it, I guess.

His report here. Or you can cut directly to the chase.

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For Obama complaining about Palin’s lack of experience. I was thinking more a complete and total disconnect.

On the other hand Libertarians are mostly positive to their credit.

And the Dems best efforts against Palin so far…wait for it…she supported Buchanan’s run for the nomination. Now one could point out that Biden probably supported Carter for the Presidency as well. We all know that in his later years Carter has shown his true colours toward Israel and Jews…kind of like Buchanan?

Oh and you want a reason to vote McCain? Cretins like Michael Stipe promise to leave the US.

The British press on the other hand are still enthralled by Obama and seem, on the BBC especially, to only mention McCain because they have to do so. BBC commenters knowing nothing at all about Palin are already trashing her.

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My mother phoned me at work just before 11AM to tell me, He’s selected Sarah!

I still felt a little down about the bread-and-circuses closing of the Democratic Convention last night, seeing it as a sleight-of-hand effort by the Obama team divert the public away from what he was really selling. But the news of McCain’s selection made all of that fade away.

There has certainly been a groundswell of reactions McCain’s selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be his running mate, most of it positive, even from many Democrats. There are quite a few links to reactions around the blogosphere and from the MSM to be found at Instapundit, here and here.

This selection is something I’ve been discussing with quite a few of my Republican friends for some time, and even wrote about almost two weeks ago.

McCain can capture the moderate voters in both parties all by himself, but he needs someone with the conservative credentials that will pull in the conservatives of the party while not turning off the moderates and the undecideds. That narrows his choices.

This should make Mitt Romney one of the last people McCain should choose, because too many in the GOP see him as a RINO (a Republican In Name Only), trying to wear the mantle of a conservative. But all anyone has to do is look at his record as governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to see he’s no conservative.

McCain must choose wisely. Frankly, by choosing Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska, former US Senator Fred Thompson of Tennessee, or Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, he’ll have a pretty good shot at being able to move into the White House next January.

This is going to be one heck of a race for the White House!

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It looks as if she is going to get the nod. She has chartered a flight to Dayton, Ohio to be with McCain. I am so pleased as I have been pushing for her to get the spot.

As they say in the UK Palin is SOUND.

Unless McCain is really doing us over…its Palin.

See the annoucement live…in a few minutes.

See it here.

They got cheerleaders…and country music!

Sammy Hagar as intro music…classy.

Update: Here is a pic of her with some some fans. Can we expect Palin to be listening to Viking metal in the White House?

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Here it is… Imbed code leads to Hills speech no matter what. Have PUMAs been hacking?

And the McCain advert response (after releasing an advert congratulating Obama for the nomination).

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Steve Jackson’s table top game (that I adapted to use Matchbox/Hot Wheels cars) now finally has a movie inspired by it. The movie has online game that seems like a complete update of the ole Car Wars computer game that was released for the Apple II back in the 80s. The movie may be called Death Race but has far more to do with Car Wars than the camp Deathrace 2000 movie all those years ago.

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In a new company filing discovered by AppleInsider, iPhone maker Apple Inc. illustrates a number of techniques that would pave the way for tablet Macs that display a near full-sized multi-touch keyboard and run an undiluted version of the Mac OS X operating system.

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It’s the final night of the Democratic National Convention, held at Invesco Field, home of the Denver Broncos. 84,000 of the faithful filled the stadium, waiting for The Anointed to make his appearance. The stadium was decked out more like a huge meeting amphitheater, reminiscent of Nuremburg during one of the less enlightened periods of the 20^th Century.

This evening’s media coverage started with a ten minute tribute film about him. It took less than a minute to mention that he was raised by a single mother. That seems to be a big meme running through his campaign.

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Barack Obama wasted no time accepting the nomination from the Convention.

He talked about change, but never really got around to explaining exactly what he’ll change, except who’s in the White House.

After praising his opponent, John McCain, for his service in the military, he slammed him for voting with President Bush 90% of the time. Maybe he did because it was the right thing to do, eh?

Much of what Obama said can be broken down to this: The government will help you because you can’t help yourself. What he doesn’t understand that most of us just want the government to leave us alone.

He made grand promises. The only thing he never said was how he was going pay for it all…except raise taxes on businesses. (Uh…Barack, American businesses already pay the second highest business taxes in the world. Could that be the reason so many of them have moved jobs and corporate headquarters overseas?)

He also talked a pretty good game about Iraq, Afghanistan, and Osama bin Laden. He repeated the canard that we had no need and no right to go into Iraq. Obviously he’s forgotten UNSC Resolution 1441, which authorized force to be used to bring Iraq into compliance with the original cease fire agreement after the Gulf War. Saddam had violated 11 UN Security Council Resolutions, including the one that laid out the conditions of the Gulf War cease fire.

This guy is promising everyone This, That, and the other Thing. Frankly, I doubt he’ll deliver on those promises…except the one about raising taxes.

He was right about one thing. We all have cynicism about government. Most of us feel that way for good reason: for far too long government has been the problem, not the solution. Yet he wants the government to take on even more control over our lives in order to fix the problems government created. Isn’t that what is called a paradox?

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Other than those few dozen points, it was a good speech. Thank goodness the teleprompters were working.

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Next week we follow up with the Republican Convention.

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Wretched Excess

As spoken by ABC’s Ted Koppel to Gavin Esler on BBC’s Newsnight a few minutes ago. The phrase is at 41.48 minutes on the player that is to the right of the screen.

Update: Alex Cockburn feels the love but points out what Obama faces to become President.

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Even before his coronation at Invesco Field. Then again I agree with the conclusion, just not how it gets to that point.

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Hi, I’m Daedren. You might remember me from other articles such as “The effectiveness of raiding in only a tubesock” and “Erling Ellingson: Age of Conan Dev by day, Transvestite Cyborg by night?”. It’s me, alright, and I’m here, playing the role of the unbearer of bad news. I’m not bearing it, because it’s not even news. Age of Conan sucks.

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Anne Applebaum agrees that Hillary said the right things but wonders whether she really meant it. There is a good piece at TR on the subject in extremis.

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His pithy observations abound and amuse. Worth the read, even more so than his normal fare.

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It’s Night Three of the Democratic National Convention and the time of decision has arrived.

It was after I returned home from an errand that my wife informed me Obama was nominated by acclimation after Hillary Clinton interrupted the roll call votes of states to ask the delegations to do so.

I have no doubt 18 million people that voted for her felt disappointed.

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Hillary’s speech on the behalf of the New York delegation, and her motion to suspend the convention rules and allow nomination of Barack Obama by acclimation, certainly seemed to bring the party together. But I wonder how many of the die-hard Hillary faithful will actually vote for Obama come November? Some polls suggest 20% or more will not vote for him. That’s a substantial number. However it doesn’t automatically mean the disaffected will vote for John McCain.

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The headliner tonight was former President Bill Clinton.

I find it interesting he has so drastically changed his tune in regards to Barack Obama’s qualifications to sit in the Oval Office. Tonight he praised him to high heaven. Only a few months ago he was slamming him for being so inexperienced.

Bill Clinton did bring up the Republicans claims during the 1992 campaign that Clinton was too inexperienced and too young to be President. Obviously Clinton was not. But Clinton was the governor of Arkansas, the type of office that does give the kind of experience one needs to become President.

Barack Obama has none of that kind of experience. Not one bit. Clinton was a font of experience in comparison to Obama. He’s never had to run a state, never had to balance a budget, never had to make the tough decisions of the kind a governor makes. His time in the Illinois and US Senates adds up to less than 6 years. And in all that time he’s done little in the way proposing and passing legislation.

That doesn’t bode well for one aspiring to the highest office in the land.

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Joe Biden’s son gave a rousing introductory speech for his father. I have no idea if he has any political ambitions, but he could certainly follow his father into office. There’s some talk that if the Obama/Biden ticket wins in November, Beau Biden could be appointed by the governor of Delaware to fill his father’s Senate seat.

Biden praised Hillary Clinton, graciously mentioning that she will continue to make great contributions.

He then accepted the nomination as Vice President, and did it with uncharacteristically few words. (He is known as a talker, being able to use 500 words when 10 will do.) He also made a Freudian slip, talking about the nomination of George Bush, then corrected himself and saying John McCain.

He then got into bashing John McCain, using the phrase That’s not change. That’s more of the same! He talked about some of the votes McCain made, not bothering to mention that in many cases he himself made the same vote.

Basically it was the same liberal tax-and-spend blather, saying black is white, up is down, Left is right and Right is wrong.

Will an Obama administration stand up to Russia as Joe Biden claimed in his speech? Or will they merely make strong sounding noises, yet do nothing? I believe it will be the latter and not the former.

Biden is claiming Obama was right on withdrawing the troops from Iraq, and John McCain was wrong. Biden conveniently forgot to mention that Barack wanted to surrender two years ago when withdrawal meant a bloodbath and the need to return at an even higher cost. Now that conditions have changed in Iraq after the surge, a staged withdrawal makes sense. Yet Biden is claiming Obama was right all along?

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The night closed out with the surprise appearance of Barack Obama after Biden’s speech. A nice finishing touch.

Tomorrow night is going to be interesting.

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A closing observation:

My wife was telling me a number of her clients were opining the Republicans shouldn’t even bother to hold their convention because the Democrats have blown them out of the water. My words to them: Remember that the Democrats were preaching to the choir, a Democratic choir. Do they really think there won’t be similar actions and speeches at the Republican convention?

Update: Below the Beltway has some interesting analysis of last night.

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Pixifood (PIKZ-ee-food), noun: Any food substance that is highly pleasant to the taste as a child and tastes shockingly unpleasant once you become an adult.

Joe Posnanski:

OK, beyond the obvious vegetables question, I have another one: What do they mean AT LEAST six essential vitamins and minerals. Might there be more? Have those just not been discovered yet? Are scientist working in the SpaghettiO labs non-stop and occasionally shouting out, WAIT, I found one! Oh, no, sorry, that was some lint from my pocket. Damn. False alarm. Or does it depend on what you consider to be essential? Like do these have Calcite in them, but many Moms dont feel thats essential?

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What the hell happened to Fox News once Obama was nominated? I mean where did their integrity go? Obama got the nomination by affirmative action. 18 million voters for Hilary Clinton got shafted and these fools are acting like sycophantic nonces.

What happened to fair and balanced?

It was a disgrace and all those Fox reporters should be ashamed of themselves. We expect this sort of crap from the other networks not them. The worst of the lot was Major Garrett. His credibility has taken a major blow.

Juan Williams gave a good turn on the historic occasion; the rest of them should have left it at that.

Yes a black man has got the nomination which is a good thing. But that does not mean you have to completely lose your objectivity. Obama would be Carter II and would be a disaster as President. His race is a non-issue. What matters is his inexperience, lack of judgement and socialist ideals.

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Welcome to the August 28, 2008 edition of carnival of the vanities.

Carl in Jerusalem presents DNC: ‘Eric Cantor is Jewish, oh my!’ posted at Israel Matzav.

Silicon Valley Blogger presents 10 Free Tools to Help You Get a Handle on Your Personal Finances posted at The Digerati Life.

Madeleine Begun Kane presents McCain Thought They Were Asking How Many Combs He Owns posted at Mad Kane’s Political Madness.

Alvaro Fernandez presents Should Social-Emotional Learning Be Part of Academic Curriculum? posted at SharpBrains: Your Window into the Brain Fitness Revolution, saying, “Schools are beginning to offer an increasing number of courses in social and emotional intelligence, teaching students how to better understand their own emotions and the emotions of others.”

debergerac78 presents I Have an MBA. Now What? posted at Creating With Impact, saying, “It’s not just about having the degree and the opportunities that come with it, but what you actually learn along the way.”

Jim presents » United First Financial Money Merge Accounts: Scam or Legit? on Blueprint for Financial Prosperity posted at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity.

Steve Faber presents How to Improve Diesel Fuel Economy for Your Truck or Car posted at super gas saver, saying, “In these times of expensive fuel, every little bit helps. Here are some little bits.”

Jeff Sullivan presents Christmas Shows In Branson posted at Branson Travel Attractions.

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Check out the latest Watcher picks. Head over to HH for some good links as well.

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First it was the speech in Berlin in front of a statue to Prussian military hegemony to 250000 chanting Germans and now his next rally is in front of a mock Greek temple. There has to be someone working for Obama who is undermining him? They can’t be that daft can they?

If there are any torches involved…

Update: Is it Greek or Roman asks this video?

Update II: A guide to appropriate dress for the event.

Update III: Krauthammer is not impressed either.

Update IV: The sane Senior Democrats are wondering about the Temple. And it was designed by Britney Spears designers.

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You be the judge. I think whomever did this video went a bit over the top for some to grasp the humor. Its a “heh” laugh rather than a LOL methinks.

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RWN does another one of their famous blogger polls.

Andrew says: I am pleased to see that Palin from Alaska doing well. Not surprised to see Lieberman is not a popular choice.

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A piece of comedic genius from Paul Marks or maybe he does have someone on the inside.

Comrades! – and revisionist Hillary supporting scum. Only a little joke, Hillary comrades – your support is really most welcome.

Read the whole thing.

Oh yes and guess what you get when you combine Obama and Biden?

And have fun with Election Kung Fu.

Some ideas of how Obama’s speech will look.

Simon Heffer has some thoughts on the Obama Circus.

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We’ve survived the first night of the Democratic National Convention, the only high points being speeches by Ted Kennedy and Michelle Obama. Let’s see what the Democrats have in store for us tonight.

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Tonight’s headliner? The big speech delivered by Hillary Clinton.

There’s no doubt this isn’t the speech she was hoping to be making at the convention.

The question about her speech has got to be this: Will it be what she says, or how she says it that will be remembered?

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Is this 1992 all over again?

Apparently the state of the US economy is the number one issue of the campaign at this point, with the war in Iraq being a distant second. Can Obama win based upon economic issues just as Bill Clinton did 16 years ago, even though the economy isn’t nearly as bad as the media and the campaign rhetoric make it out to be?

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There was a slew of speakers tearing into John McCain during today’s convention session. That in and of itself is no surprise. But at least they could have been original rather than reading from the same script.

As far as they’re concerned John McCain isn’t enough of a Democrat because he supported some of George Bush’s moves in regards to the War on Terror, the economy, and energy policy. He’s guilty of being a Bush clone because he’s a Republican!

I wasn’t aware John McCain was supposed to be running against Obama as a Democrat.

Someone inform the media!!

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After a video paying tribute to Hillary Clinton, she was introduced by her daughter, Chelsea. Call it a rhyme, an echo of last night’s headliner, Michelle Obama.

The video was well done, no doubt about it.

I wish I could say her rhetoric was as well done. At least she let everyone know that she’s proud. She said it often enough.

She claims George Bush’s leadership has failed over the past eight years. I guess she has a short memory. All one needs to do is remember September 11th, rousting of the Taliban out of Afghanistan, chasing Obama bin Laden into Waziristan and making him nothing more than a tinny voice heard every once in a blue moon when an audio tape could be smuggled out of the mountains where bin Laden hides. I certainly don’t call that a failure.

She laid out a lot of plans for a Democrat-dominated government – the House, the Senate, and the White House – implying that all would be cured once that day came. The lame would walk, the blind would see, the ignorant made smart, our enemies made to melt away, the economy would magically heal itself, oil would flow from every faucet, our teachers made powerful, our children indoctrinated, global warming reversed to bring on a new Ice Age, partisanship eliminated by eliminating political opponents, make the government the provider of all things and the controller of all our lives. After all, we aren’t capable of making decisions for ourselves.

Yeah, and pigs will fly.

She also slammed John McCain, making it appear he is nothing more than George Bush in other clothing. I think McCain’s voting record says otherwise.

She mentioned our country has been around for 232 years. I fear that if the Democrats get their way, America will likely become unrecognizable, and our freedoms and our economy will fade away. We will likely become more and more like Europe and something unique will have died, and done so to the adulating cries of Obama! Obama! Obama!

She used every cliche in the book.

No surprise there.

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And so the second night of the convention comes to a close.

Interesting take on the speech from Dean Barnett.

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