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In Today's Tequila Treehouse... Biden Schools Palin McCain Surrenders Michigan  Cereal for Americans  After the Revolt  Palin's Political Gibberish  Your Election Predictions  Debate Was No Contest  Rachel Bilson Fashions

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"We need to stop that..."
     -- Sarah Palin's plan to clean up Wall Street corruption and greed,  Link
 

  I think that simplistic idea will work..
.
  ...on the people who thought Reagan and Der Monkey were intellectuals.
 

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Biden Schools Young Palin

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 Excerpt:
Biden and Palin both buffed their blue-collar credentials. They told stories of personal woe. 
Biden referenced tough times on streets of Scranton and Wilmington. Palin recalled going without 
health-care coverage. Biden's voice caught as he spoke of caring as a single parent for an injured child.
If they walked the same stylistic line when it came to trying to out-populist one another, however, 
the candidates divided on the issues. And that is how Biden prevailed.
 

Sure, but I'll bet the brain-dead right thought she hit a Home Run.
 

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This Debate Was No Contest

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Sarah Palin's high-energy performance in the vice-presidential debate was the most glaring demonstration
- since George W. Bush's performances in 2000 - of how little you can get away with knowing and still survive 
one of these things, especially if the rules limit the cross-examination as severely as they did in this debate. 
Her relentless opacity was impressive. She refused to answer the questions where she hadn't been prepped 
with answers and when Biden pointed out that an early question had been on deregulation not taxes, she flashed: 
"I may not answer the questions the way you and the moderator want to hear, but I'm gonna talk straight 
to the American people."

Translation:
I don't know very much about the world or how government works, 
but I remember most of the one liners McCain's handlers fed me. 

Talk straight she didn't, with only a few exceptions. She talked talking points. And when the talking points 
concerned areas where she didn't know diddly, she didn't talk them very convincingly. Indeed, there were 
times I got the distinct impression that she didn't understand the points she was talking about (on the VP's
constitutional powers, for example).

Joe Biden, by contrast, demonstrated a real knowledge of the issues in question.
 

If we were picking a Chairman for th Picnic Committee, I might vote for Palin
because she looks like she knows how to make a bad-ass chicken salad sandwich.

But since we're talking about electing the people who'll drive our planet,
let's go ahead and elect a couple of  thinkers like Obama and Biden.
 

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 Subject: that debate

After watching the debate and getting to know the candidates I have come to the conclusion 
that I would like to sit down and have a beer with both of them. But no matter how drunk I got 
there is one thing I would not do to Joe that I would do to Sarah,

I would not punch Joe in the mouth.
Dave
 

Whew!
For a second, I thought you were going G.I.L.F. on us :)
 

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"As a former general in the GOP, I get a lot of emails from operatives around the country. 
Many are old comrades from the forgotten wars of old Republican statewide campaigns. 
These salty old pros have years of experience out in the field actually winning campaigns 
for our side and they are dismayed by the stunning lack of competence in the McCain operation."
      -- Mike Murphy - calling the election for Obama?      Link
 

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 Subject: Mom says hey

Hi Barto!!!
Just got off the phone, post debate with my Mom. She said to tell You Hi! 

And that it would be good for the economy if Palin DOES get elected VP, Cuz with her 
feelings on abortion, the wire coat hanger companies will be doing Booming business! 
and by extension the steel companies that supply the raw material and onwards down the chain.

Mom is a riot and not PC at all. 
At 75 she's seen too much BS to take any more and can smell it from a mile off.

Keep up that Hammering thing you do so well!
 Vic whose Governor is named Palin
 

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McCain Surrenders Michigan
 Are the Dominos* starting to fall?

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 Subject: Election prediction

 Obama/Biden 56% popular vote to McCain/Palin 42% -- Electoral College will be much closer...

 Popular vote will be a landslide
  Tim in Clayton, MO
 

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Cereal made special for Americans

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 Excerpt:
Some breakfast cereals marketed to U.S. children are more than half sugar by weight
and many get only fair scores on nutritional value, Consumer Reports said on Wednesday.

And some brands have more sugar and sodium when formulated for the 
U.S. market than the same brands have when sold in other countries.
 

Why would they do that?
It costs more money to add more sugar.

Why are they doping American kids and not other kids?
Are they putting addictive drugs in kid's food to hook them for life?

Big Tobacco adds formaldahyde and ammonia to their cigarettes too hook kids harder and faster.
What other chemicals are those Kellogg's guys adding to your kid's breakfast cereal to hook them?
 

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 Subject: Election prediction

Obama 302 electoral votes, McCain 236 
 Rick M

Note: It talkes 270 to win 
 

Obama 55%, McCain 42%
 Richard H, recovering journalist
 

Obama eeks it out
Should be a landslide, but the GOP 4-pronged strategy 
for stealing elections will make it seem close.
 FraidSoToo
 

McCain / Palin win, by deciet or racism.
 Dennis in Portland
 

Obama/Biden 56% popular vote to McCain/Palin 42% -- Electoral College will be much closer...
Popular vote will be a landslide
 Tim in Clayton, MO
 

Obama/Biden will WIN
Reason: They are the right people at the right time for the right reasons !!!
 Paul C
 

I'm going with Barack ever since this 700 Billion or probably more ripoff by the 1 per cent.
People can't get loans that I work with and that's what did gramps in.
I hope Obama wins - I'm still worried though.
 joe 
 

Obama is going to ride into the Oval Office on a sea of votes from newly-registered younger voters, 
the wired ones, the first wave of new voters of the 21st century who inform themselves and network 
socially on the WWW via Facebook et cetera and cell-phone twittering, the individuals whom are fairly 
inaccessible by that ilk which conducts polls of potential voters,  I think that this particular age group 
and their immediate seniors from four years ago will turn out in much greater force this time than in 2004.
 Doug.
 

McPalin Wins.
Stolen election, Supreme Court declares McPalin winner. 
Fraud investigation declared illegal.
 Pete Las Vegas, NV 
 

It's going to be obama 70, mccain 30.
They'll tell you it was 60-40.
They'll steal, cage, and defraud it down to 55-45.
Then they'll concede and say obama won but it wasn't a mandate.
That's when you have to remember that according to the republicans, 1% is a mandate.
 love, blaine.
PSA: oh, and we're also going to take the house and a filibuster-proof majority in the senate.
this is a SEA CHANGE
 

Obama with a bigger point spread than Clinton-Dole
 Rev Jim
 

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Palin's Political Gibberish

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"The main reason she is inadequate is her stunning lack of knowledge about the issues that anyone 
in her position should know about, most prominently foreign policy. The few news anchors the 
McCain team has allowed her to speak with - Gibson, Hannity and Couric - could all clearly 
dance circles around the wannabe Veep when it comes to international politics. But Palin's also 
alarmingly unskilled when it comes to a more indigenous matter: speaking the English language. 
Or, as I wouldn't be too surprised to hear her put it, talking American.

The petrified McCain team has, wisely, barely permitted Palin to speak in public. They are so 
worried about her oratorical ineptitude, in fact, that they successfully negotiated to limit the 
amount of time she could be interrogated on a single topic during last night's VP debate. 
Now, each candidate will have just 90 seconds to answer a question, followed by a 
two-minute discussion period.
 

The problem is, sometimes America loves idiotic, cowboy candidates who can't think.

How else could Reagan and Bush the Stupider get in the White House?
 

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Subject: Palin must be a bisexual 

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Subject: Election prediction

McStain over Nobama 49% to 48%
3% going to Barr, Nader, et al.
No matter who wins, they will be a one term president.
 Bob in Orlando 
 

I've been saying it since the primary was over. 
McCain is going to win. Sorry. I hate it too.
 Dee from NJ.
 

Bart, I feel we will lose again, because the republicans will cheat again. 
IF it were a  honest, fair election Obama would win in a landslide. 
Just as Kerry and gore would have won in their elections. But because
the republicans won't allow a fair election the country suffers from their greed.
  Bobby Lee
 

Obama 280 - McCain 258
I honestly hope this is the case, although a complete thrashing would be even better.
 Ken in the Department of Neurology
 

Neither Biden nor Palin will be VP in JAN09
Skullduggery will decide the presidency making it even odds for Obama/McCain
with a chance of an extended Bush term.  I'll be delighted if I'm half wrong.
 Walt
 

Obama will lose in an electoral landslide because in this country racism trumps all.
But keep on hammerin'.  We'll have another chance in four years.
  Wayne, way down South in Dixie.
 

Obama wins popular vote with 53%, McCain 44%, 
assorted others (Barr, Nader, McKinney, etc.) get a combined 3%.
 badgerobama
 

Obama, by a freaking electoral landslide. Suck on that, Rush.
 Joe D'Al
 

MacCain decides to retrieve whats left of his honor and cleans up his campaign.
Obama wins with 320 electoral votes.
                                   OR
MacCain accuses Obama of sleeping with white women and black boys. 
Obama wins with 370 electoral votes.
 Len R
 

Obama by 34 electoral votes
 The Architect from Seattle
 

Obama in a blow out (the Big Dog said so!)
 animaux
 

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Subject: There will be no election

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Bush's Sad legacy

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It would have been nice to let Bush's two terms marinate a while before invoking Herbert Hoover and 
James Buchanan from the cellar of worst presidents. But then -- over the last two weeks -- he completed 
the trilogy of national disasters that will be with us for a generation or more. George Bush entered the White 
House as a proponent of a more humble foreign policy and a believer that government should get out of the 
way at home. He leaves as someone with a trillion-dollar war aimed at making people who've hated each 
other for a thousand years become Rotary Club freedom-lovers, and his own country close to bankruptcy 
after government did get out of the way.

It's a Mount Rainier of shame and folly...Historians will recall that in each of the major disasters on Bush's watch, 
there were ample warnings -- from the intelligence briefing that Osama bin Laden was determined to strike 
a month before the lethal blow, to the projections that Hurricane Katrina could drown a major American city, 
to the expressed fears that letting Wall Street regulate itself could be catastrophic...
 

And where was Bush when they told him doom was around the corner?
 

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Quotes

"I'm as healthy as the economy."
       -- McCain, talking about his cancer, April 6, 2008,    Link
 

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For those who fought the bailout

Have you seen today's headlines?

Payrolls shrink by 159,000 in September, most in 5 years 

Toyota sales down 32%

Brits rush to 'guaranteed' banks

Investor's Fear Rages Higher

Rampant signs of concern

Festering Global Pain

Worsening Credit Markets

International airfares soar

Marriott's profits down 28%

Finding cover in a Financial Storm

Stocks Dive as worries soar

There's doom and gloom as far as the eye can see
so let's put the fire out and let Obama fix this in February.
 

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Subject: I just can't picture Palin as president

I watched the VP debate and, who would have thought Joe Biden would be the first one to tear up? 
Neither side made any serious mistakes and both were interesting to listen to. But the bottom line is 
that Joe Biden seemed competent and having a deep understanding of the issues. 

Sarah Palin did an artful job of talking around issues and questions that she clearly didn't understand, 
but being the President of the United States isn't the kind of job you can fake your way into. 
George Bush has proved that. So even though Sarah had some answers that I agree with, 
the bottom line is - I just don't see her as President Palin.

Marc Perkel
San Bruno, CA
 

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Bush and Wall Street - After the Revolt

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Conservatives are truly out to lunch. Their plan featured suspending capital gains taxes (as if investors 
would then rush to put their money in the banks' toxic paper), and further deregulation, letting banks 
hide the current value of their assets by suspending mark-to-market rules. That actually made it into the 
final bill, but it hardly would increase confidence in Wall Street. Rather than making further compromises 
with the conservatives who simply don't get it, Democrats should put forth a plan that is far bolder and 
that deals with the real problems.
 

I say we put out the fire, give the world a reason to think we've seen the light,
and then President Obama can send a real economic stablization bill to congress in February.

...but putting out the fire has to come first.

If we "break" Detroit and the housing industry, we may lose the Big Three forever
and housing could go into the tank for a long, long time.
 

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Dear Osama

Hey, it's your old friend Greorge, what's up?  Pickles says to tell you hi.

I haven't talked to you in what - it's been at least a couple of years, 
I hope it's not too cold in your cave, heh heh.

How's your dialysis coming?
That Fresenius 2008E I got you works great, right?
I was going to send you the Fresenius 2008K  but they told me the Fresenius 2008E 
was more portable - and besides - America's economy isn't what it used to be, heh heh

Dude, the reason I'm wrioting, we could really use another video from you,
and we'd get the most bang for our Euro if you drop it on, say, the 25th or so?

Like last time, if you would, make it real scary and stuff, you know, with all that
"Death to America," and "We're comin' to git you" type of stuff.

It would really help because McCain is - Tony Blair calls him "a proper wanker."

If you'd do that for me, it'll be 2013 at the earliest before America will try to catch you.

I'll let you go now - say hi to the wives and kids.
By the way - how many kids you got now? lol!!!

Last thing - you owe me for that buy-short Wall Street tip last Monday.
I'll add it to your tab. heh heh

George

PS. I'm free in late January - want to do something?
      If we do hookers again, let's go somewhere besides Amsterdam. 
      They have warrants our for me and Dick there.
 

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The Real Great Depression
Another panic like 1873 is what we should be afraid of

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As continental banks tumbled, British banks held back their capital, unsure of which institutions were 
most involved in the mortgage crisis. The cost to borrow money from another bank - the interbank 
lending rate - reached impossibly high rates. This banking crisis hit the United States in the fall of 1873. 
Railroad companies tumbled first. They had crafted complex financial instruments that promised a fixed 
return, though few understood the underlying object that was guaranteed to investors in case of default. 
(Answer: nothing). The bonds had sold well at first, but they had tumbled after 1871 as investors began 
to doubt their value, prices weakened, and many railroads took on short-term bank loans to continue 
laying track. Then, as short-term lending rates skyrocketed across the Atlantic in 1873, the railroads 
were in trouble. When the railroad financier Jay Cooke proved unable to pay off his debts, the stock 
market crashed in September, closing hundreds of banks over the next three years. The panic 
continued for more than four years in the United States and for nearly six years in Europe.
 

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"Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. 
  Give a man religion, watch him starve to death praying for fish." 
           -- Scott Stockdale
 

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House OK's Senate Bailout Plan
 Can they get Der Monkey to sign it?

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 Excerpt:
The House approval of the government's $700 billion make that $850 billion for the pork 
the GOP added financial rescue plan Friday gave stocks a brief lift, but overall failed to set off 
much euphoria in financial markets that are facing the reality of a prolonged economic downturn.

Investors had been anxious for resolution on the government's plan to buy up bad assets from banks 
and other institutions to shore up the financial industry and help resuscitate credit markets. Trading 
across markets has been volatile throughout the week based on investors' reading of whether the plan 
would win approval; on Monday, the House's rejection took Wall Street and Capitol Hill by surprise.

The Senate subsequently passed its sweetened version of the plan that added one final round
of tax breaks for the super-rich because those days are over and everybody knows it.
 

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"Last night, Sarah Palin walked a fine line between hokie and folksie."
     -- John somebody on CNN Friday morning,
 

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Subject: Letter to the Editor

What if John McCain were a former president of the Harvard Law Review? 
What if Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class? 
What if McCain were still married to the first woman he said "Till Death Do We Part" to? 
What if Obama were the candidate who left his first wife after she no longer measured up to his standards?

What if Michelle not only became addicted to pain killers, but acquired them illegally 
through her charitable organization? What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard? 
What if Obama were a member of the "Keating 5"? What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?

If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are?

This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate 
and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference.
  - Kelvin LaFond, Fort Worth
 

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Treehouse Crossword Puzzle 24

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 Today's Puzzle is Riddles Old and New
 

 Thanks to GK!
 She works hard on these customized-for-you puzzles.
 

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They read it in Town with No Name, Bulgaria

Jayesh reads it in Chandigarh, India 

They read it in Izmir, Turkey 
Mary D reads it in Voca, Texas - Happy Birthday, Mary! 
 

  Want to sell stuff everywhere?

They have money - their economy isn't run by a religiously-insane moron.

 Why sell to America when you can sell to the world?
 

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Old Man's Discount

Walking into the local grocery store yesterday, a sign caught my eye.

"Old People's Discount - 10% off everything (but drugs) if you're 55 or older."

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittttttttttttttttt, drugs is what I need the most!

...but it was the first time I got an Old Man's Discount.
 

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Bart.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee just called to ask for a donation,
I told the guy "I just gave" He asked "to the DNCCC'?
I said "No, to Bart Cop, he's on your side but fights harder"

I saw the idea on Wednesday's page, and it made my day
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