LOL. NORAD: Palin has no role in guarding U.S. airspace.
Category: News and Politics
Yeeeaahhhhhhhhhrrgghhhh!!! Look out... it's Putin rearin' his head!!!
NORAD: Sarah Palin has no role in guarding U.S. airspace despite claims in Katie Couric interview
BY JAMES GORDON MEEK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
Tuesday, September 30th 2008, 5:21 PM
WASHINGTON - When Russian bombers approach American airspace and U.S. Air Force fighters are scrambled, Sarah Palin's phone doesn't ring.
The Alaska governor has no command authority over the guardians of U.S. airspace despite her recent suggestion otherwise.
"She doesn't have any role in that process," Air Force Maj. Allen Herritage, spokesman for the Alaska North American Aerospace Defense Command, told the Daily News.
"The authority to launch and respond to a Russian incursion lies with the Alaska NORAD Region commander" - Air Force Lt. Gen. Dana Atkins, he said.
Palin said last week that her foreign policy experience includes facing the Russians.
"It's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia, as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America - where do they go? It's Alaska," Palin told CBS' Katie Couric.
Fuck the bail out... how about a "We Deserve It" dividend?
Category: News and Politics
I got this from my friend Mike tonight and I gotta tell you... I like the way this man thinks...
Pass it ON... don't you all think this would be a better way to stimulate the economy?
Pass around the pitchforks and torches everyone...
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Hi All,
I'm against the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG.
Instead, I'm in favor of giving $85,000,000,000 to America in a "We Deserve It Dividend".
To make the math simple, let's assume there are 200,000,000 bonifide U.S. Citizens 18+.
Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman and child. So 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up.
So divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billon that equals $425,000.00.
My plan is to give $425,000 to every person 18+ as a "We Deserve It Dividend".
Of course, it would NOT be tax free. So let's assume a tax rate of 30%.
Every individual 18+ has to pay $127,50000 in taxes. That sends $25,500,000,000 right back to Uncle Sam.
But it means that every adult 18+ has $297,500.00 in their pocket. A husband and wife has $595,000.00.
What would you do with $297,500.00 to $595,000. 00 in your family?
Pay off your mortgage, housing crisis solved.
Repay college loans, what a great boost to new grads Put away money for college, it'll be there Save in a bank, create money to loan to entrepreneurs.
Buy a new car, create jobs Invest in the market , capital drives growth Pay for your parent's medical insurance, health care improves Enable Deadbeat Dads to come clean, or else
Remember this is for every adult U S Citizen 18+ including the folks who lost their jobs at Lehman Brothers and every other company that is cutting back. And of course, for those serving in our Armed Forces.
If we're going to re-distribute wealth let's really do it..instead of trickling out a puny $1000.00 (vote buy) economic incentive that is being proposed by one of our candidates for President.
If we're going to do an $85 billion bailout, let's bail out every adult U S Citizen 18+!
As for AIG liquidate it. Sell off its parts. Let American General go back to being American General. Sell off the real estate. Let the private sector bargain hunters cut it up and clean it up.
Here's my rationale. We deserve it and AIG doesn't.
Sure it's a crazy idea that can never work. Maybe???
But can you imagine the Coast-To-Coast Block Party!
How do you spell Economic Boom?
I trust my fellow adult Americans to know how to use the $85 Billion "We Deserve It Dividend" more than I do the geniuses at AIG or in Washington DC.
And remember, The Birk plan only really costs $59.5 Billion because $25.5 Billion is returned instantly in taxes to Uncle Sam.
Seperated at birth? Palin’s "Miss South Carolina Moment"
Category: News and Politics
When people give such bullshit padded answers, attempting to disguise their ignorance, it looks like this. She sounded like every asshat in school trying to jabber their way through an oral exam that they didn't study for:
ONE NIGHT ONLY... SEE "THE DARK KNIGHT PROJECT" ON THE BIG SCREEN IN CHICAGO SATURDAY NIGHT!
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
THE DARK KNIGHT PROJECT" HAS BEEN SELECTED TO SCREEN AT THE 2008 CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL REEL SHORTS FESTIVAL!
See it on the big screen! Saturday, September 13th - After the 7 PM Sci-Fi/Horror Show
Film Row Cinema at Columbia College - 1104 S. Wabash - Top Floor
Get your tickets at the door!
Chicago filmmaker Jerry Vasilatos's contribution to the "Batman" mythos, set between the events of Christopher Nolan's "Batman Begins" and this summer's blockbuster hit, "The Dark Knight" premiered online July 14th, four days before "The Dark Knight" hit theaters after being produced in just under a month. The film has been seen by over 7,000 viewers in it's first two months online and gotten rave reviews by several online media outlets.
This will be the first public screening of the HD film before a live audience. The Chicago International Short Film Festival is being held Thursday, September 11th through Sunday, September 14th.
Although not listed on the festival site's schedule, "The Dark Knight Project" was a late entry addition and will be shown SATURDAY NIGHT after the 7:00 PM sci-fi/horror block at the Columbia College Film Row Cinema, 1104 S. Wabash - Top Floor.
Jerry will also be a presenter at this year's Chicago New Media Summit on Monday, September 15th, at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art on Chicago Avenue where he will talk about the short film at 7:00 PM and how it was virally marketed online. More info at:
"Well with all the rumors of Nolan maybe not doing a sequel, maybe WB should look at this guy! Vasilatos' crew shot 5 days in using several downtown locations, leading to a climactic alley fight between Batman (being played by Chicago actor Chris Nendick), and the Joker's thugs filmed behind the Fine Arts building off Van Buren."
FANCINEMATODAY.COM says:
"Kudos go to Chris Nendick as Batman, and George Hroziencik as the Gotham Times News Vendor, who leave the rest of the ensemble in their dust, but the true star is Chicago itself. The architecture of everything—from bridges to simple back alleyways—really pops in the film, aided by great camerawork (they splurged on a steadicam), and creative framing... so, want to go back to Gotham for a little sightseeing? Check in on "The Dark Knight Project."
DIG.COM reports:
"Fan film to the extreme! This group went all out to create as they say, "A Batman fan film made by fans for fans!"
The Authoritative Trig Palin Conspiracy Time Line by Vanity Fair September 5, 2008, 12:20 PM
The McCain campaign won't countenance it, and Barack Obama has even declared it off-limits, but the question of Trig Palin's parentage—whether his real mom is Sarah Palin or her five-months pregnant, 17-year-old daughter Bristol—has transfixed the blogosphere. To settle the matter once and for all, VF.com presents this handy timeline juxtaposing both the official narrative and the wingnut conspiracy theories.
Hmmm.... let's figure this one out... darn it, I'm settling for column 1... because it's how I want to see things, I don't want to see things with the facts that the column 2 presents because durn it... Sarah Palin's the type of person I would want to have coffee with because she's just so fiesty!
That's the head up the ass mentality that elected George Bush (he was the candidate everyone wanted to sit down and have a beer with... not that brainy intellectual Al Gore. Which never made too much sense even on it's face because what idiot voter would want to have a beer with a recovered alcoholic? Oh yeah, the same ones who want to have coffee with Ms. Baked Alaska with the foreign experience because her state is right next to Russia).
MnIndy RNC reporter Jeff Severns Guntzel is at the Minneapolis Food Not Bombs house, which was raided by police this morning. Facts are still coming in, but Guntzel says that at 8 a.m. neighbors near the home, located at 2301 23rd Avenue South, reported hearing a loud bang followed by yelling. A single police squad car was parked out front. When Guntzel arrived he saw eight or nine officers enter the house in what he says is a joint operation between officers of the Ramsey County Sheriff's Department, the Minneapolis Police Depatment, and the FBI. According to one witness who was in the house at the time of the raid, the action is related to last night's raid on the RNC Welcoming Committee's "convergence space." Several other spaces have been raided this morning.
Glenn Greenwald and Jane Hamsher are in Minneapolis for the RNC and went to two of the raided houses. Glenn:
Each of the raided houses is known by neighbors as a "hippie house," where 5-10 college-aged individuals live in a communal setting, and everyone we spoke with said that there had never been any problems of any kind in those houses, that they were filled with "peaceful kids" who are politically active but entirely unthreatening and friendly. [..]
There is clearly an intent on the part of law enforcement authorities here to engage in extreme and highly intimidating raids against those who are planning to protest the Convention. The DNC in Denver was the site of several quite ugly incidents where law enforcement acted on behalf of Democratic Party officials and the corporate elite that funded the Convention to keep the media and protesters from doing anything remotely off-script. But the massive and plainly excessive preemptive police raids in Minnesota are of a different order altogether. Targeting people with machine-gun-carrying SWAT teams and mass raids in their homes, who are suspected of nothing more than planning dissident political protests at a political convention and who have engaged in no illegal activity whatsoever, is about as redolent of the worst tactics of a police state as can be imagined.
Glenn Greenwald and I arrived at one of the houses shortly after it was raided this morning. It was a hippie house full of people in their late teens and early twenties who said they were here to "watch history." They were forced on the floor by roughly twenty cops carrying assault rifles, who initially refused to show them search warrants and joked about the "Terminator" and the "Executioner."
We spoke with the people who were staying at the house about the raid in the video above, and they were really sweet and inspirational, interested in "food not bombs." Coming off the Denver DNC where most young people were blackberry-wielding Young Democrats hustling tickets to bigger and better parties, they were extremely refreshing and a much needed part of our political landscape. The idea that they were a serious threat to security is rendered rather ludicrous by watching the video above.
