skeery

from somebody that has worked with mccain, on the same side of the aisle, his entire career:

"The thought of [McCain] being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me." - Senator Thad Cochran (R-Mississippi), the Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Committee

but at least he's not a negro, right?

yikes, ike is big

meaningless symbols

where's mccains flag pen? and without it on 9/11!!!!! he must not love amerika

argonne sunflower

muslin terra

hahahaha---and, no, it's not photo-shopped

florida can be south georgia about half the time

mccan't

follow the link to the video---sic him, girls---

The ladies of the View confronted John McCain today for lying in recent attack ads. In arguably his toughest interview yet, View co-host Joy Behar asked McCain:

"There are ads running from your campaign... Now we know that those two ads are untrue, they are lies. And yet, you at the end of it say you approve these messages. Do you really approve these?
Barbara then threw in her condemnation, by telling McCain: "You, yourself said the same thing about putting lipstick on a pig..."

Watch McCain try and explain the lies

there are four videos

moose caught in the headlights

pathetic and totally frightening when you think about the antiquity of mccain

purty buildings

still the best

1010

they're having better luck than viewpointe in leasing their commercial place----it will be a continuation of the restaurant row that's been going on at the north end of crescent ave for years----

hotel midtown

the new owners of 999 peachtree have promised big changes---they've already opened the wall so there's a pedestrian entrance from peachtree place that doesn't involve going through a parking gate----and they're getting rid of that awkward plaza at the corner of tenth and p'tree, which i think was put in mostly to give the wyndham a face on p'tree, even though the building and its entrance were designed strictly for automobile access, since nobody could fathom back then that somebody might want to actually walk----it will be interesting to see if they fix that as the wyndham is transformed (or more likely simply renamed) hotel midtown----

candler park water ballet

cousin patti and a bunch of her crazy girlfriends, of which there are more than a few

in the seventh year

roger cohen, nytimes:

And in the seventh year after the fall, the dust and debris of the towers cleared. And it became plain at last what had been wrought.

For the wreckage begat greed; and it came to pass that while America’s young men and women fought, other Americans enriched themselves. Beguiling the innocent, they did backdate options, and they did package toxic mortgage securities and they did reprice risk on the basis that it no more existed than famine in a fertile land.

Thereby did the masters of the universe prosper, with gold, with silver shekels, with land rich in cattle and fowl, with illegal manservants and maids, with jewels and silk, and with Gulfstream V business jets; yet the whole land did not prosper with them. And it came to pass, when the housing bubble burst, that Main Street had to pay for the Wall Street party.

For Bush ruled over the whole nation and so sure was he of his righteousness that he did neglect husbandry.

And he took his nation into desert wars and mountain wars, but, lo, he thought not to impose taxation, not one heifer nor sheep nor ox did Bush demand of the rich. And it came to pass that the nation fell into debt as boundless as the wickedness of Sodom. For everyone, Lehman not least, was maxed out.

So heavy was the burden of war, and of bailing out Fannie and Freddie, and of financing debt with China, that not one silver shekel remained to build bridges, nor airports, nor high-speed trains, nor even to take care of wounded vets; and the warriors returning unto their homes from distant combat thought a blight had fallen on the land.

So it was in the seventh year after the fall of the towers. And still Bush did raise his hands to the Lord and proclaim: “I will be proved right in the end!”

And around the whole earth, which had stood with America, there arose a great trouble, for it seemed to peoples abroad that a great nation, rich in flocks and herds and land and water, had been cast among thorns and Philistines; its promise betrayed, its light dimmed, its armies stretched, its budget broken, its principles compromised, its dollar diminished.

And it came to pass that this profligate nation, drinking oil with insatiable thirst, could not cure itself of this addiction, and so its wealth was transferred to other nations that did not always wish it well.

Wherefore the balance of power in the world was altered in grievous ways, and new centers of authority arose, and they were no more persuaded by democracy than was the Pharaoh.

For Bush ruled over the whole nation, and so sure was he of his righteousness that he did neglect the costs of wanton consumption. And he believed that if the Lord created fossil fuel, fossil fuel must flow without end, as surely as the grape will yield wine.

Therefore, in the seventh year after the fall, with 1,126 of the slain still unidentified, their very beings rendered unto dust, their souls inhabiting the air of New York, it seemed that one nation had become two; and loss, far from unifying the people, had sundered the nation.

For the rich, granted tax breaks more generous than any blessing, grew richer, and incomes in the middle ceased to rise, and workers saw jobs leaving the land for that region called Asia. And some fought wars while others shopped; and some got foreclosed while others got clothes. And still Bush spake but few listened.

Behold, so it was in the seventh year, and it seemed that America was doubly smitten, from without and within.

And, lo, a strange thing did come to pass. For as surely as the seasons do alternate, so the ruler and party that have brought woe to a nation must give way to others who can lead their people to plenty. How can the weary, flogged ass bear honey and balm and almonds and myrrh?

Yet many Americans believed the exhausted beast could still provide bounty. They did hold that a people called the French was to blame. They did accuse a creation called the United Nations. They did curse the ungodly sophisticates of Gotham and Hollywood and sinful Chicago; and, lo, they proclaimed God was on their side, and carried a gun, and Darwin was bunk, and truth resided in Alaska.

For Bush ruled over the whole nation and so sure was he of his righteousness that he did foster division until it raged like a plague. Each tribe sent pestilence on the other.

And in the seventh year after the fall, the dust and debris of the towers cleared. And it became plain at last what had been wrought — but not how the damage would be undone.

woe is us

september sky

enough

“Enough! I don’t care what they say about me, but I love this country too much to let them take over another election with lies and phony outrage and Swift Boat politics. Enough is enough!”

grrrrrrr

top, my favorite belt when i got home this afternoon

bottom, guinness feeling ashamed after being chastised for the above

lies, damned lies, and statistics

the sorry polls have gotten me down and they really shouldn't, since there are so many things that can be wrong with them---there has already been the suggestion that cell-phone-only people (like myself) are underrepresented in the polling samples---but there are other problems

Some polling experts say the changing state of party affiliation in the field is slow to be reflected in polls themselves. Democratic pollster Anna Greenberg told the Huffington Post that "when it comes to registration and turnout, the polls often do a very bad job of taking those [factors] into account," because newly registered voters aren't in the voter files used by firms that survey public opinion. "You could make the argument they are under-representing new registrants," she said, which would mean that the Democrats new edge would not be taken into account.

the more things change, . . .

i've been saying this for a while: if we end up with another republican president, after the past eight years, we have only the bigoted white racists among us to blame, and that's a real shame but there's not much to be done about it beyond getting our people to the polls

So what is the true power of Sarah Palin's and McCain's appeal? Why are they doing better than expected in the polls despite 8 years of Republican corruption, incompetence, lies and failures? I hate to say this of my fellow white Americans, but one very important factor appears to be a quality he possesses which many of them consider immutable, and a deal breaker when it comes to voting for Obama: the color of his skin. Hopefully in the debates this Fall Obama can do well enough to convince some of my fellow whites who are on the fence that the content of his character matters more than their stereotypical view of "his kind." If not this will be a long and ugly campaign that will remain close enough for the GOP to steal once more through the use of their vaunted "purge the voters who don't look pale enough" campaigns which have been so effective in 2000 and 2004.

and the debates won't change a thing

another damn sunset

the stupid is setting in

republican government