What is it about smart jewish women that get us all squishy pants'ed?

"Though I am flattered that Governor Palin has chosen to cite me as a source of wisdom, what I said had nothing to do with politics. This is yet another example of McCain and Palin distorting the truth, and all the more reason to remember that this campaign is not about gender, it is about which candidate has an agenda that will improve the lives of all Americans, including women. The truth is, if you care about the status of women in our society and in our troubled economy, the best choice by far is Obama-Biden."

“This is not the failed Republican economy you’re looking for”

Sen. Obama calls out McCain’s attempt at a Jedi Mind Trick

Financial and Corporate System is in Cardiac Arrest: The Risk of the Mother of All Bank Runs

It is now clear that the US financial system - and now even the system of financing of the corporate sector - is now in cardiac arrest and at a risk of a systemic financial meltdown. I don’t use these words lightly but at this point we have reached the final 12th step of my February paper on “The Risk of a Systemic Financial Meltdown: 12 Steps to a Financial Disaster” (Step 9 or the collapse of the major broker dealers has already widely occurred).

the bailout is capitalism murdering democracy:

David Sirota says the bailout is capitalism murdering democracy: "The United States has always struggled to balance its capitalist economy with its democratic ideals. We've spent the last many years telling ourselves that the two go hand in hand, only to watch capitalism thrive in China in the absence of democratic freedoms. Indeed, if there's been any lesson the last few years, it is that authoritarian capitalism - rather than democratic capitalism - may be the dominant ideology of the 21st century. And as I write in my newspaper column this week, that ideology may be coming to America."

O.J. faces life in prison

13 years to the day that O.J. Simpson was aquitted of brutally murdering his wife and her boyfriend, he was found guilty on all 12 counts of armed robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers in Las Vegas.

McCain doesn't know he's being played. Good for Obama!!

So Obama crossed over into enemy territory.

He walked over to where McCain was chatting with Republican Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida and Independent Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut. And he stretched out his arm and offered his hand to McCain.

McCain shook it, but with a “go away” look that no one could miss. He tried his best not to even look at Obama. Finally, with a tight smile, McCain managed a greeting: “Good to see you.”

We think it's John McCain's heart attack. And the fact that John is a fucking dumb republicant.

Pirates die strangely after taking Iranian ship

A tense standoff has developed in waters off Somalia over an Iranian merchant ship laden with a mysterious cargo that was hijacked by pirates.

Somali pirates suffered skin burns, lost hair and fell gravely ill “within days” of boarding the MV Iran Deyanat. Some of them died.

Andrew Mwangura, the director of the East African Seafarers’ Assistance Programme, told the Sunday Times: “We don’t know exactly how many, but the information that I am getting is that some of them had died. There is something very wrong about that ship.”

John McCain has lost his fucking mind.

McCain: I routinely turn to Palin for foreign policy advice.

If this is true, McCain is dangerous to trust a bimbo like Palin. Most likely, he's lying. Either way, he's lost his fucking mind.

New Rules! Rachel Maddow edition

!. Pat Buchannan is not allowed to be on the Rachel Maddow show any more.
2. The next republican pervert that says, "Thank you sir, uh, Ma'am" is fucking sexist.

Israeli telecoms Verint/Amdocs spying on ALL US civilian and government phone calls.

In 1997, detectives with the Los Angeles Police Department, working in tandem with the Secret Service, FBI, and DEA, found themselves suffering a similar inexplicable collapse in communications security. LAPD was investigating Israeli organized crime: drug runners and credit card thieves based in Israel and L.A., with tentacles in New York, Miami, Las Vegas, and Egypt. The name of the crime group and its members remains classified in “threat assessment” papers this reporter obtained from LAPD, but the documents list in some detail the colorful scope of the group’s operations: $1.4 million stolen from Fidelity Investments in Boston through sophisticated computer fraud; extortion and kidnapping of Israelis in L.A. and New York; cocaine distribution in connection with Italian, Russian, Armenian and Mexican organized crime; money laundering; and murder. The group also had access to extremely sophisticated counter-surveillance technology and data, which was a disaster for LAPD. According to LAPD internal documents, the Israeli crime group obtained the unlisted home phone, cell phone, and pager numbers of some 500 of LAPD’s narcotics investigators, as well as the contact information for scores of federal agents – black info, numbers unknown even to the investigators’ kin. The Israelis even set up wiretaps of LAPD investigators, grabbing from cell-phones and landlines conversations with other agents – FBI and DEA, mostly – whose names and phone numbers were also traced and grabbed.

LAPD was horrified, and as the word got out of the seeming total breakdown in security, the shock spread to agents at DEA, FBI and even CIA, who together spearheaded an investigation. It turned out that the source of much of this black intel could be traced to a company called J&J Beepers, which was getting its phone numbers from a billing service that happened to be a subsidiary of Amdocs.

Two more domestic right-wing terrorist attacks in the US

Obama Effigy Hanged On Oregon Campus

Chemical irritant empties Islamic Society of Greater Dayton's mosque

"John McCain Says HORSESHIT During the 9/26 Debate."

The Guardian's Michael Tomasky says that he thinks McCain indeed swore twice. "Watching this it really does sound like he said 'horse shit,'" Tomasky writes. "If so, what the hell was he thinking? And does this have the potential to mushroom into an official Thing? Could it be the Al Gore's sighs of 2008?"

It's worth noting that Mr. Newman was not just a marvelous actor but an exemplary human being as well.

That he was both makes this loss doubly painful.

It's worth noting that Mr. Newman was not just a marvelous actor but an exemplary human being as well.

That he was both makes this loss doubly painful.