What??? McCain Over Obama 48% - 47% in One Day Polling???

As Drudge Report noted, the Zogby Poll indicated for its daily polling on Friday that McCain had a one point lead. Zogby said it was due to his increase amongst conservative women.

Pirates Seize 10 People Off Coast of Cameroon

Pirates off the west coast of Africa have boarded an oil barge and seized 10 people, including 7 French nationals. Story here.

Commies Mad at Ukrainian Actress for Aiding 007 "The Killer of Hundreds of Soviets" in the Thatcher and Reagan Years.

The St. Petersburg Russia Communists party is infuriated that Olga Kurylenko stars in the next 007 film Quantum of Solace. They claim that they fed her and schooled her for free while 007 was murdering hundreds of Soviets during the years of Reagan and Thatcher. Story here.

Uhh, hey comrades. 007 is a fictional character created by Ian Fleming. He really didn't exist, and in his later years he fought Thrush, or Flush or some such.

Get a life.

P.S. If you ever go to St. Petersburg, you have to go see the Hermitage, where the Bolsheviks captured the freely elected (6 month old) government of Russia in the October Revolution (Октябрьская революция) in 1917. They have thousands of fantastic artworks on display there which were confiscated from selfish people who did not accept the "Change You Can Believe In" in 1917.

Global Warming Not Political? Satellite That Can Disprove Global Warming to Be Launched, But ONLY AFTER STRIPPING IT OF EARTH FACING SENSORS

Bet you didn't hear this on the main stream news:

"Here is the latest twist in the bizarre story about the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR). Apparently, the US Air Force is in discussions with NASA to take over the mission, with one important catch: that all the Earth observing instruments be removed.
It seems the Air Force is more interested in looking at the Sun than our warming planet and plans are being made to send the spacecraft one million miles distant – only to look the other way.

DSCOVR is unique experiment that would place a spacecraft at a gravitational parking spot one million miles away where it could continuously observe the Earth as it circles the sun.

This unique vantage point would allow us for the first time to directly measure the energy budget of our warming planet. This spacecraft would also immediately lay to rest any remaining scientific questions about the origins or seriousness of climate change. Strangely, this fully completed spacecraft remains in a box somewhere in Maryland, eight years and $100 million after it was built.

DeSmog Blog has written a series of investigative articles on the status of this strange mission. NASA has repeatedly refused to release any internal documents relating the status of DSCOVR or why the space agency refuses to launch it, even when requested through the Freedom of Information Act.

This spring, Congress submitted a bill that included a clause requiring NASA to explain to the taxpayer within 180 days why this mission remains in storage and what it plans to do with it. The bill was signed into law last week by president Bush, meaning NASA must present their plan regarding DSCOVR by April 13, 2009.

Assuming that there are senior scientists within NASA that are threatened by the novel methodology of the DSCOVR experiment, or well placed oil interests that want to keep the so-called climate debate going, this legally mandated deadline presents a problem. What to do?

The latest bizarre development with the Air Force would perversely get NASA off the hook. The spacecraft would be launched, NASA would met the strict legal requirements of resolving the mission, yet DSCOVR would return no data for which it was designed. Problem solved.

This latest twist is entirely consistent with the eight years of foot-dragging and obfuscation from the leadership of NASA. For those of us with a growing suspicion about why DSCOVR remains in a box, we can only wonder how all of this will play out."

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Only in Florida: Nudist Colony Wants Clothing Optional Polling Site

Need I say more?

Story here.

Sorry no picture.

Gallup says Obama Up by 8 Points in Likely Voters

This is a wild turn around from 2 days ago when Gallup said they were tied. This author can't believe the wide swings in polling results. Obviously polling is not true science, but rather voodoo science.

Being within 8 points of the correct answer in a 2 person race is not anywhere at all acceptable. Statistical methods are supposed to control for raw data aberrations. 8, 10, and 15 point swings are simply not tolerable.

Course it's similar to predictions as to who will be the #1 team in March Madness (referring to a college basketball tournament here in the US for all of our overseas readers). That's why we play the game.

McCain Manages to Pull Even with Obama in Two Key Battleground States

The left leaning blog Politico reports that McCain has pulled even with McCain in two key states, Missouri and North Carolina, surprising many.

Story here.

Obama Calls Those Who Don't Want to Pay Higher Taxes "Selfish"

Hold on to your wallets. The news network web site says that Obama is calling people who don't want to pay higher taxes, "selfish".

Do I mean the right leaning Fox News? No, ABC News quotes Obama.

Read it here.

What It Will Be Like Under an Obama Regime: Reporters Kicked Off Plane If Their Paper Endorsed McCain

Drudge Report states that reporters from the NY Post, Washington Times, and Dallas Morning News were told to get off the Obama plane once their newspapers endorsed McCain.

He told you there would be change. Change you can believe in. You just didn't believe he meant a return to extremely partisan politics.

Obama has already argued to get rid of moderates out of the Democratic party. Here is what he wrote for a liberal blogsite in 2005:

"Let me be clear: I am not arguing that the Democrats should trim their sails and be more "centrist." In fact, I think the whole "centrist" versus "liberal" labels that continue to characterize the debate within the Democratic Party misses the mark. Too often, the "centrist" label seems to mean compromise for compromise sake, whereas on issues like health care, energy, education and tackling poverty, I don't think Democrats have been bold enough."

Read the whole article here.

There aren't going to be any centrist, no meeting of both sides of the aisle, no reporters from papers that don't support him.

You haven't seen nothing yet.

Story here.

Note to 60 Yr Old Thieves: Give It Up If You Have Arthritis

I don't care who you are, this is funny. From Madison Wisconsin:

By Linda Spice of the Journal Sentinel
Posted: Oct. 30, 2008 8:24 a.m.

"Inconspicuous he was not.

A 60-year-old Madison man - already a convicted felon - quickly drew attention to himself yesterday when he dropped a gun not once but twice, prompting someone to contact police in the 1000 block of Moorland Road about 3:36 p.m. Wednesday.

Madison police arrived as the man was attempting to leave a parking lot.

He was stopped, and officers found a loaded .22-caliber pistol and a second unloaded handgun in his vehicle.

Officers also found several knives, including a switchblade, as well as drugs.

The man faces counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm, disorderly conduct while armed, possession of a switchblade and possession of drugs."

There is no report as to what the drugs were, but rumor has it, it was blood pressure medicine and Viagra. ;-)

Al Qaeada Wants Bush and Republicans Humiliated in This Election

Reuters reports that a top al Qaeda leader has publically come out in support of anybody running against the Republicans:

"DUBAI (Reuters) - An al Qaeda leader has called for President George W. Bush and the Republicans to be "humiliated," without endorsing any party in the upcoming U.S. presidential election, according to a video posted on the Internet.

"O God, humiliate Bush and his party, O Lord of the Worlds, degrade and defy him," Abu Yahya al-Libi said at the end of sermon marking the Muslim feast of Eid al-Fitr, in a video posted on the Internet.

Libi, one of the top al Qaeda commanders believed to be living in Afghanistan or Pakistan, called for God's wrath to be brought against Bush equating him with past tyrants in history."

Now it is very tempting for me to say that al Qaeda is supporting Obama and the Democrats, but actually I won't.

Instead I'll say that son of a gun needs to wise up and see the real picture. Here in America we elect our leaders.

We fight with each other like the dickens, and there are some shenanigans from both sides, but it is our own that decide who will be our leader.

As I have said before, some of our leaders might be crooks, but at least they are the crooks that we elected.

Global Warming??? MIT Scientists Baffled, Coldest Days in London, Sweden, Florida

Global Warming, that villain of the past before the election and the banking crisis took all the news, may be Global Cooling instead.

First off, MIT scientists studying methane in the atmosphere are baffled because methane production appears to be increasing FROM THE EARTH rather than from mankind. That is opposed to all the global warming models which say that the greenhouse gas is caused by man. Story here (but it may load slowly due to a mention on the Rush Limbaugh show. It is getting many many hits.)

And today as a Global Warming conference opened in London, London was hit with its first October snow since 1922. Hey, maybe Mother Nature is peeved because we think we know more about the climate than she does. You know, a woman scorned and all that. Story here.

Sweden also got its first snow storm of the season, hikers were caught in the Austrian alps, and Florida is experiencing record cold temperatures.

Man it's a b---- being a global warming scientist this winter.

LA Times Admits It Is WithHolding a Video of Obama Praising a Palestinian Hamas Activist

The LA Times admits it is withholding a video of Barack Obama praising Palestinian activist Rashid Khalidi at a 2003 banquet.

LA Times reported:

"A major news organization is intentionally suppressing information that could provide a clearer link between Barack Obama and Rashid Khalidi," said McCain campaign spokesman Michael Goldfarb. " . . . The election is one week away, and it's unfortunate that the press so obviously favors Barack Obama that this campaign must publicly request that the Los Angeles Times do its job -- make information public."

The Times on Tuesday issued a statement about its decision not to post the tape.

"The Los Angeles Times did not publish the videotape because it was provided to us by a confidential source who did so on the condition that we not release it," said the newspaper's editor, Russ Stanton. "The Times keeps its promises to sources."

Wait a minute. Aren't newspapers supposed to expose the truth? Well not if it would hurt your candidate.

Full story here.

Effigy of Palin Hanged in West Hollwood - Not a Hate Crime. Obama Effigy Hanged in Ky - Is a Hate Crime

An effigy of Sarah Palin is hanging in West Hollywood. Police investigated but said it was not a hate crime and left the effigy. Story here.

"Offensive as it may be, the Palin doll -- outfitted with beehive wig, glasses and a vintage Neiman Marcus red coat dress -- appears to violate no law, said officials of the Secret Service, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the West Hollywood city Code Enforcement Division.

"The sheriff made this clear: This is a country that has freedom of speech, and we protect that right even when we think it's idiotic and stupid and in bad taste," said Steve Whitmore, spokesman for the Sheriff's Department."

An effigy of Obama was hanged at the University of Kentucky in Lexington and police immediately took it down and the university issued an apology.

"University President Lee Todd said he planned to apologize to the Obama family on behalf of the school and that he is "personally offended and deeply embarrassed by this disgusting episode."

Federal authorities have been notified, Todd said. He said the effigy violates the university's code of ethics and won't be tolerated.

'I am outraged because we work very hard, every day, to build bridges across the divides," Todd said. "Diversity and inclusion are among our most precious core values. Episodes like this serve only to erode our confidence in and respect for one another.'" Story here.

Go figure.

Barack Obama’s Aunt Found in Boston Slum

Barack Obama’s aunt Zeituni Onyango has been found in a Boston tenement.

Zeituni Onyango, the aunt so affectionately described in Mr Obama’s best-selling memoir Dreams from My Father, lives in a disabled-access flat on a rundown public housing estate in South Boston.

Story here.

Gallup says 2 points, Rassmussen says 3: Maybe this is Still a Horse Race!

The Drudge Report is reporting that Gallup says that Obama only leads McCain 49-47 of likely voters and that Rassmussen says that it is only a 3 point spread.

But the Pew Center shows that Obama has a 15 point lead

The Washington Post addresses the question of whether the polls are accurate:

"Could the polls be wrong?

Sen. John McCain and his allies say that they are. The country, they say, could be headed to a 2008 version of the famous 1948 upset election, with McCain in the role of Harry S. Truman and Sen. Barack Obama as Thomas E. Dewey, lulled into overconfidence by inaccurate polls.

"We believe it is a very close race, and something that is frankly very winnable," Sarah Simmons, director of strategy for the McCain campaign, said yesterday.

Few analysts outside the McCain campaign appear to share this view. ...

Still, there appears to be an undercurrent of worry among some polling professionals and academics. One reason is the wide variation in Obama leads: Just yesterday, an array of polls showed the Democrat leading by as little as two points and as much as 15 points. The latest Washington Post-ABC News tracking poll showed the race holding steady, with Obama enjoying a lead of 52 percent to 45 percent among likely voters.

Some in the McCain camp also argue that the polls showing the largest leads for Obama mistakenly assume that turnout among young voters and African Americans will be disproportionately high. The campaign is banking on a good turnout among GOP partisans, whom McCain officials say they are working hard to attract to the polls.

"I have been wondering for weeks" whether the polls are accurately gauging the state of the race, said Steven Schier, a political scientist at Carleton College in Minnesota. Borrowing from lingo popularized by former defense secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Schier asked what are the "unknown unknowns" about polling this year: For instance, is the sizable cohort of people who don't respond to pollsters more Republican-leaning this year, perhaps because they don't want to admit to a pollster that they are not supporting the "voguish" Obama?

If so, that could mean the polls are routinely understating McCain's support. ...
...

"As other public polls begin to show Senator Obama dropping below 50% and the margin over McCain beginning to approach margin of error with a week left, all signs say we are headed to an election that may easily be too close to call by next Tuesday," McCain pollster Bill McInturff wrote in a memo released last night by the campaign. Obama officials voiced confidence in their ultimate victory but said they have always expected the election to be close.

To buttress its point of view, the McCain team points to results reported yesterday by the Gallup organization, whose daily tracking poll showed Obama up 49 percent to 47 percent using Gallup's traditional turnout model, which assumes that turnout will follow the patterns of past elections. Obama has a larger lead, seven points, using a model that allows a higher presence of first-time voters."

Read the whole story here.

It May Depend on Who Goes to Vote: Gallup Says McCain Pulls Within 2%

The Gallup daily poll might indeed be instructive on who will win the election.

Amongst REGISTERED VOTERS Obama leads McCain 50% - 43% - a whopping 7% lead.

And amongst LIKELY VOTERS EXPANDED (meaning voters who say they will probably vote), Obama's lead is still 7% at 51% - 44%.

But amongst TRADITIONAL LIKELY VOTERS (meaning those that have voted in the past) Obama's lead shrinks to 2%, 49% - 47%.

In North Carolina, WRAL-TV reported that voters were split evenly 47% - 47%. Some said that showed that McCain was really bad off since the state has voted for the Republican candidate over the last several elections, but at the same time, NC has had a Democratic governor for at least 16 years as well as a Democratic legislature and council of state despite several prominent Democratic politicians now serving time in jail for bribery, etc.

So who will show up to vote. There certainly are plenty of people who were signed up at the mall or on park benches, but will they vote. Will there be vans to pick them up and take them to the polls in return for a smoke, drink, or some other coupon?

In short, you're vote may be very important.

Zogby Poll: Obama by 49% McCain 46%

Just when I think that McCain is dead, the polls swing back. Today, the Zogby Poll shows McCain within 3%, 49% - 46%

Here is what John Zogby said in his analysis:

“There is no question that this race continues to tighten and that McCain is finding his message again,” said Pollster John Zogby. “It is after all about the economy and that is how McCain tightened it up the last time. I have said over and over again, when he focuses on extraneous issues, he screws up. In today's single day of polling, it was 49% to 46% in favor of Obama. McCain has moved his own numbers each of the three days and Obama has gone down from 54% to 50% to 49%. I have alluded before to this strange, magnetic pull that brings Obama down to 48% or 49%, a danger zone for him. McCain's gains are among white voters, where he now leads by 12 points, and with men, where he again has a healthy lead. There is still a lot of campaign to go. A lot of campaign to go.”

But the polls vary widely. RCP has Obama with a 7.6% lead, while TIPP/IBD shows that McCain only trails by 2.2%

Tina Fey Puts on Blackface and Makes Fun of Michelle Obama Growing Up Black!!!

Can you believe that Tina Fey on Saturday Night Live put on black face, and mimicked Michele Obama talking to her black friends in a beauty shop???

Well I'd like to sell you some swamp land in Florida, because if you think the main stream media woud allow Tina Fey to make fun of Michelle Obama the same way she makes fun of Sarah Palin, you are gullible.

But they sure will make fun of Pain's middle class roots and Alaska heritage. I say, what's fair for the goose is fair for the gander.

Read this great post by Patrick Buchanan here for more on the subject.

IBD/TIPP POLL: Obama Only Leads McCain by 1.1%

IBD summary results here.

"Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2008

McCain has cut into Obama's lead for a second day and is now just 1.1 points behind. The spread was 3.7 Wednesday and 6.0 Tuesday. The Republican is making headway with middle- and working- class voters, and has surged 10 points in two days among those earning between $30,000 and $75,000. He has also gone from an 11-point deficit to a 9-point lead among Catholics."