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Governor. Palin to Campaign in Scranton Last Updated: Oct 13, 2008 05:34 PM By Jon Meyer Supporters lined up for our area's latest political visit and those getting tickets are really excited. This is the first time Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is making a stop in northeastern Pennsylvania. All day Monday people signed up for tickets for Sarah Palin's campaign rally Tuesday in Scranton. Democrat Joe Biden had a rally in Scranton Sunday. Tuesday it's Republican Sarah Palin's turn and both are campaigning at the same place. The Riverfront Sports Complex in Scranton has become a center of the political...

Another poll that showed President Kerry winning Ohio by 6 points on October 22 2004. Kerry Leads Bush 49% to 43% In Ohio (October 22 2004) Jeremiah Wright apprentice also has the polls on his side but the elections will be against him.

In the Ohio 2008 primaries, Hillary Clinton received 70% of the White democrats votes versus for Obama. In total Hillary Clinton received 1.1 million from the White voters in Ohio excluding the number of votes she received from the Republicans who participated in this primary. According the most optimistic pro-Obama media polls at least 25% to 30% of Hillary Clinton voters will be voting for John McCain this November. If we make a conservative assumption that only 20% of them will vote for John McCain then this will be 220,000 Hillary Clinton voters in Ohio will be voting for John...

ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Sarah Palin told voters in southeastern Ohio on Sunday that she and running mate John McCain would bring jobs back to this economically depressed piece of Appalachia. Using her folksy appeal, Palin highlighted her record as mayor of a city about the size of this small one near the West Virginia border. She said Democratic rival Barack Obama doesn't understand places like this. "I love 'Small Town USA' because hardworking, good American (families), you just get it," Palin said while standing on a stage with an open barn as her backdrop. "It's kind of like...

BAGHDAD — Market by market, square by square, the walls are beginning to come down. The miles of hulking blast walls, ugly but effective, were installed as a central feature of the surge of American troops to stop neighbors from killing one another. “They protected against car bombs and drive-by attacks,” said Adnan, 39, a vegetable seller in the once violent neighborhood of Dora, who argues that the walls now block the markets and the commerce that Baghdad needs to thrive. “Now it is safe.” The slow dismantling of the concrete walls is the most visible sign of a fundamental...

GALLIPOLIS, Ohio (WSAZ) -- Ohio GOP officials announced Friday that Governor Sarah Palin, the vice-presidential nominee on the Republican ticket, will make a stop in Gallipolis Sunday on a tour of Southern Ohio. Governor Palin will start her day in Huntington, West Virginia, before heading to Gallipolis and Marietta in Ohio. She will wrap up her day in St. Clairsville, Ohio for a rally. There are no details just yet on the nature of the stops in Gallipolis and Marietta.

Here are my Get Out of Dodge posters/ Farmers' Market:

I worked the booth at Farmers' Market here in Pasadena, CA -- the Belly of the Beast. We were right next to the Obama booth, well-funded by our Marxist friends around the world. We had a steady, feisty, conservative bunch coming by to get yard signs and bumper stickers. One lonely lib wanted to argue/ I let my husband take him on. Our last visitor was a woman who had JUST become an American citizen and wanted to vote for McCain. I GAVE her a yard sign and welcomed her to America. We heard that a lot of the new...

She's on right now 10:39am http://www.c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN_wm.aspx

Palin draws students to Johnstown speech By Mandy Hofmockel Collegian Staff Writer Several College Republicans are planning to see Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in Johnstown Saturday. Palin is scheduled to make a campaign stop in Johnstown on Saturday to speak at the Cambria County War Memorial Arena. Samuel Settle (freshman-political science) said he is planning see Palin speak and the more people who attend, the better it will look. Settle said he likes Palin a lot and she is the most interesting candidate in the national election. "McCain's an old face. Obama's an empty suit," Settle said. "Biden is the...

Sarah Palin may be new to the national political scene, but she will get a rock star’s welcome in Johnstown. At least 6,000 people are expected to attend the Republican vice-presidential nominee’s speech Saturday morning at Cambria County War Memorial Arena. Free tickets for the event have been disappearing at a rapid rate. And on Thursday, Cambria County Republican officials reported that they had run out of tickets at their 636 Main St. headquarters in Johnstown. “Clearly, the people here are excited and energized about Sarah Palin’s visit,” said Ann Wilson, Cambria County Republican Committee executive director. Wilson said officials...

John McCain returns to Minnesota Friday for a town hall meeting in Lakeville. The event, to be held at Lakeville South High School, is free and open to the public, although tickets are required. Tickets are available at the McCain headquarters in Saint Paul at 678 Transfer Road or at the McCain Victory offices around the state. For more information, call 651-645-5432. In exchange for a ticket, the campaign is asking volunteers to make 50 calls and sign up for one get-out-the-vote shift. The event begins at 4 p.m., with doors opening at 1 p.m. Parking will be limited, according...

Republican presidential nominee John McCain is bringing his campaign to La Crosse Friday at the La Crosse Center's South Hall. Doors for the rally will open at 8:00am, and the public is asked to arrive no later than 9:00am. According to McCain's campaign website, the program is scheduled to begin at 10:00am. You can view the event via live video stream: http://www.wkbt.com/Global/Category.asp?C=149579 http://www.wkbt.com/

WHITE founts falling in the Courts of the sun,   And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run;   There is laughter like the fountains in that face of all men feared,   It stirs the forest darkness, the darkness of his beard;   It curls the blood-red crescent, the crescent of his lips;          5 For the inmost sea of all the earth is shaken with his ships.   They have dared the white republics up the capes of Italy,   They have dashed the Adriatic round the Lion of the Sea,   And the Pope has...

Dear Freepers We are going to win the Presidency this November. Do not be fooled by the biased media polls because they have done the same thing in 2004 and 2000 but neither Gore nor Kerry became Presidents. We are going to win because at the end a defeatist, a socialist, and a left wing liberal like Barack Obama will not be elected President. We are going to win because at the end Barack Obama who voted to cut the funding for our brave troops in the battlefield, who voted against the surge, who voted against victory, and who voted...

Palin Helps McCain With Christian Voters By Deal W. Hudson 09/29/2008 The evening Gov. Sarah Palin spoke at the Republican National Convention a cry went up from the floor so loud, so thunderous, that you would have thought you were at the Super Bowl. This was the sound of Christian voters, the ground troops of the GOP, expressing their relief that John McCain had embraced one of their own. Immigration aside, Christian voters have no serious problem with Mr. McCain's record. They have had a problem with a candidate who did not associate with them. Over the years, Mr. McCain...

Here are some videos from todays McCain/Palin rally in Columbus OH http://www.blogsforjohnmccain.com/mccain-and-palin-speak-columbus-oh-09-29-08

Breaking News McCain, in Bexley, pledges to 'clean up Wall Street' Monday, September 29, 2008 3:36 PM By JEFF DONAHUE ThisWeek Staff Writer Republican presidential candidate John McCain gives a thumbs up to the crowd as he stands with vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, Palin's daughter, Willow, and his wife, Cindy, during a rally at Capital University on Monday. Sen. John McCain's presidential bid is back on track, and the Republican nominee isn't offering any apologies for his brief detour from the campaign trail last week. McCain came out swinging during a Monday morning rally in front of a packed...

Early this afternoon, the House defeated a $700 billion bailout of the financial markets, dealing a major blow to the Bush Administration’s plan to stop the hemorrhaging of Wall Street institutions. The plan failed on a 228-205 vote. Republicans voted 65-133 against the bailout, while Democrats voted 140-95 to pass it. It was a major victory for House Conservatives of the Republican Study Committee, led by Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), former chairman Mike Pence (R-Ind.) and other floor fighters such as Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and Jeff Flake (R-Ariz).

The Republican presidential ticket, Sen. John McCain of Arizona and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, will appear at a rally Monday morning in Columbus. McCain, however, will not be in town Sunday morning, as previously scheduled, to appear on ABC'sThis Week with George Stephanopoulos before a live audience at the Westin Great Southern Hotel. McCain instead will do the show from Washington. McCain and Palin will appear Monday at a "Road to Victory Rally" at the Capital Center, the athletic complex at Capital University. Doors open at 9 a.m. for the event, expected to begin about 11 a.m. Ticket Locations McCain...

Here's a link to a video report on Sarah's visit to Philly. Not in this video, but shown on CBS3 TV, was video of her returning from jogging along the Schuylkill River today. http://cbs3.com/video/?cid=234

How important is Pennsylvania to the Republicans? GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will arrive today in Philadelphia and make a very limited public appearance, before an extended stay in the Delaware Valley. Palin will be at the Irish Pub on Walnut Street on Friday night for a public debate watching party, if the debate between John McCain and Barack Obama continues as planned. On Thursday, Palin will arrive at Philadelphia International Airport at 12:45 p.m. She had planned to appear at a rally at the airport, but Palin suspended her campaign on Wednesday night along with John McCain, in...

Inside Today's Bulletin Poll: One-Fifth Of Clinton Voters Are Now Backing McCain By John P. Connolly, The Bulletin 09/24/2008 A recent telephone poll of voters in key states around the country shows that Sen. John McCain is pulling down an important section of voters: supporters of Sen. Hillary Clinton. The poll was taken Sept. 18 and 19, by ccAdvertising, a communications corporation that specializes in providing artificially intelligent personalized telephone surveys to commercial, political, congressional and nonprofit clients. It surveyed 10,000 in each of 13 states, simulating head-to-head elections between Sen. Barack Obama and Mr. McCain. The survey, conducted by...

 Facing the Giants

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23, 2008 – Amid an 80-percent drop in violence and with further withdrawals of U.S. forces in sight, the coalition in Iraq has reached the “endgame,” Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said here today. “I believe we have now entered that endgame – and our decisions today and in the months ahead will be critical to regional stability and our national security interests for years to come,” he told the Senate Armed Service Committee during a hearing on Iraq and Afghanistan. Highlighting success in Iraq are reductions in U.S. casualties and overall violence, and the handover of...

Senator Barack Obama’s answer to Katie Couric’s question a few days ago about why he thinks there have been no terrorist attacks on American soil since September 11, 2001, was bizarre. “Well,” he said, “I think that the initial invasion into Afghanistan disrupted al Qaeda. And that was the right thing to do. I mean, we had to knock out those safe havens. And that, I think, weakened them. We did some work in strengthening our homeland security apparatus here. Obviously, the average person knows that when they go to the airport, because they are goin’ through taking off...

Obama's Campaign — Emperor's New Clothes Monday, September 22, 2008 9:50 AM By: Pat Boone You remember the story, don't you? Or, like me, some semblance of it? The main point or moral? With apologies to Hans Christian Andersen, here's my rendering — with a moral for our time. The emperor was bored. He had anything and everything a human being could want — riches, absolute power, peace in his kingdom, the companionship of lovely damsels — everything. But now he was bored. So he thought, “I need new clothes! And not just any clothes, not clothes that some other...

McCain campaigning in Cleveland Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 10:49 a.m. CLEVELAND (AP) -- John McCain is spending the day campaigning in the Cleveland area, where he arrived Monday night. The Republican presidential nominee is expected to visit Strongsville on Tuesday, tour a business in nearby Middleburg Heights and stop at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea. McCain's campaign events are not open to the public, only to those who've been invited. In Pennsylvania on Monday, the Arizona senator called for greater oversight of the Bush administration's proposed bailout of U.S. financial markets. McCain said a $700 billion plan being crafted by...

BAGHDAD — At first, I didn’t recognize the place. On Karada Mariam, a street that runs over the Tigris River toward the Green Zone, the Serwan and the Zamboor, two kebab places blown up by suicide bombers in 2006, were crammed with customers. Farther up the street was Pizza Napoli, the Italian place shut down in 2006; it, too, was open for business. And I’d forgotten altogether about Abu Nashwan’s Wine Shop, boarded up when the black-suited militiamen of the Mahdi Army had threatened to kill its owners. There it was, flung open to the world. Two years ago, when...

Gen. Keane wants to make sure people understand why the surge worked. "I have a theory" about the unexpectedly fast turnaround, he says. "Whether they be Sunni, Shia or Kurd, anyone who was being touched by that war after four years was fed up with it. And I think once a solution was being provided, once they saw the Americans were truly willing to take risks and die to protect their women and children and their way of life, they decided one, to protect the Americans, and two, to turn in the enemies that were around them who were intimidating...

Sarah Palin To Make Appearance At The Villages People lined up Friday to get their tickets to see the vice-presidential candidate. The line wrapped around the square about three times, with people waiting as early as 7 a.m. Friday for tickets to see Sarah Palin at The Villages this Sunday. At The Villages 16,000 tickets were handed out, but that only accounts for half of the crowd that's expected for the vice-presidential candidate's Sunday appearance. Thousands of tickets were also handed out in other parts of Florida. Annie Marie Delgado, president of the Greater Ocala Republican Club, said the last...

The Mainstream Media Is Dead As It Attempts To Steer Election By Herb Denenberg, The Bulletin 09/19/2008 You should be aware of how, in a most unexpected and unintended way, the mainstream media is determining the outcome of this election. As every reader of this column knows and, as perhaps everyone knows or suspects at this point, the mainstream media has been in a massive full court press to sell Sen. Barack Obama as president, without vetting him, without asking him tough questions and with treatment that some would think should be reserved for the second coming. By the mainstream media,...

--snip the Sunni population switched from attacking American (and Iraqi Army) soldiers to aligning with them. What prompted that switch was the contrast in behavior of the American versus the al Qaeda fighters. Beginning in 2003, the Sunnis had invited or at least accepted al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). The rate of infiltration from Syria, primarily into western Anbar Province, was about 100 to 200 a month in ’03 thru late ’05. This small minority proselytized among the dozen of resistance cells, many of whom were Baathist-led or influenced. AQI recruited the weak-minded and especially the criminal elements. AQI, wrapped...

But the way ahead is becoming clearer, with a road map provided by men such as Col. Dominic Caraccilo, a brigade commander in the 101st Airborne whose men patrol a patch south of Baghdad that used to be called the Triangle of Death. The soldiers now laughingly refer to it as the "Triangle of Love." A year ago, there were as many as 50 attacks every week; now there are just a few. Caraccilo is overseeing a drawdown of U.S. forces; his brigade of about 4,000 soldiers is shipping out, to be replaced by a task force of fewer than...

Isaiah 54: 17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.

A BID to legalise euthanasia in Victoria has been defeated in parliament. Greens MP Colleen Hartland introduced a private members Bill to legislate right-to-die laws in the upper house in June. The Bill was defeated today by a vote of 25-13. "I'm very disappointed because we've put a lot of effort into this, the disappointing part is all the people ringing my office urging me to do this and for them this is a terrible disappointment," Ms Hartland said. The Medical Treatment (Physician-Assisted Dying) Bill would have enabled Victorians suffering "intolerably from a terminal or advanced incurable illness" to end...

Amid new poll numbers tonight showing John McCain with as much as a 10 point lead among likely voters, and early knockout blow would be exactly what the doctor ordered. Barak Obama has one strategy and one strategy only. He preaches "change" and his campaign is all about tying John McCain to George Bush. Because of the low approval ratings of George Bush, this would seem to be a very solid tactic. Obama is overlooking something here that nobody else seems to take note of. There is extensive polling data that shows that George Bush does not have the lowest...

The Republicans are, to swipe a phrase from that other campaign, all fired up and ready to go. They are more fired up than they've been since Ronald Reagan's Morning in America in 1980, only this time their hopes are pinned not on a controversial former California governor but a controversial Alaska governor. The GOP, per its convention, is running a hiding-in-plain sight, anti-incumbent incumbent campaign that essentially has it running against itself, which isn't half as painful as its sounds and which, in many corners of America, may just work. In St. Paul last week, Sarah Palin won the...

The high school basketball arena still echoes with the sounds of one unforgettable night in 1982. Number #22 was Sarah Palin, but back then her name was Sarah Heath. She was captain of the Wasilla High School girls' basketball team. But she was also known by another name: Sarah Barracuda. Wasilla basketball coach Roger Nelles remembers 18-year-old Sarah as the star point guard. "The name probably fit her because of that intensity. She led by example. She's diving on the floor, she's playing tough defense against their main offensive player," he told INSIDE EDITION. Hollywood couldn't have written a more...

OK I've got one. I'm one of those people. Proudly. Proclaiming my support for Sarah Palin. You can tell when you're sporting a statement of some sort, wheter it's impacting. For a couple days, mostly it's been registering complete blanks. I concluded, other drivers confused "Palin" with some Indian casino, or perhaps an illegal alien advocate Spanish-language dj, named for Tweetie Bird.

Psalm 141:2 Let my prayer be set forth before Thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

In media's war of words, Georgia emerging as victor President's PR savvy has Russia looking like the bad guy in conflict By MATEA GOLD, TRACY WILKINSON and MEGAN STACK Los Angeles Times Aug. 23, 2008, 5:37PM NEW YORK — He is the leader of a small country that, until recently, was not on the radar for most Americans. But it's been hard to turn on a news channel this month without encountering the brooding glare of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, railing against the Russian troops pouring across his country's borders, doing his best to turn a military disaster into a...

Luke 12:34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Americans finding soaring food prices hard to stomach can battle back by growing their own food. [Click image for a larger version] Dean Fosdick Dean Fosdick Home vegetable gardens appear to be booming as a result of the twin movements to eat local and pinch pennies. At the Southeastern Flower Show in Atlanta this winter, D. Landreth Seed Co. of New Freedom, Pa., sold three to four times more seed packets than last year, says Barb Melera, president. "This is the first time I've ever heard people say, 'I can grow this more cheaply than I can buy it in...

II Thessalonians 3:3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.

So I'm finally in a place where I can rest a bit, and have some more time for blogging. But here's a quick note on all that's happening in Iraq concerning the Provincial Elections Law, the Oil Law, and Kirkuk: the question that everyone should be asking is "Will this political turmoil lead to violence?" and answer is that the potential for increased violence in minimal. It's politics, folks. Why should Americans involve themselves in the nitty-gritty details of Iraqi politics? It is all being sorted out in heated bargaining and deal-making. Should Iraqis concern themselves with the pork-barreling and...

Bush, Republicans, and Americans all stand to gain if the moratorium on offshore drilling is lifted. With President Bush and congressional Republicans beating the drums daily for more oil and gas production, the Democrats are finally starting to crack and offer compromises. The Democrats, of course, can read the polls, and they know drilling is the one issue that threatens their otherwise commanding position heading into the November elections. But Bush and the Republicans can do better than a compromise. Indeed, a full no-compromise victory on domestic energy production is less than two months away if they can just stick...

Daniel 12: 3 Those who are wise shall shine Like the brightness of the firmament, And those who turn many to righteousness Like the stars forever and ever.

Camp Pendleton commander backs cut in Marine forces in western IraqCamp Pendleton's Maj. Gen. John Kelly said Friday that the military is on the verge on victory in Iraq's once rebellious Anbar province. "We have all but won this thing when they once said that was impossible," Kelly said during a telephone interview with the North County Times from his headquarters in the city of Fallujah, once a flash point in the battle against the insurgency. "The rest of the country is now following Anbar's lead." The two-star general was deliberately cautious about declaring outright victory, stressing that work remains...

American and Iraqi forces are driving Al-Qaeda in Iraq out of its last redoubt in the north of the country in the culmination of one of the most spectacular victories of the war on terror. After being forced from its strongholds in the west and centre of Iraq in the past two years, Al-Qaeda’s dwindling band of fighters has made a defiant “last stand” in the northern city of Mosul. A huge operation to crush the 1,200 fighters who remained from a terrorist force once estimated at more than 12,000 began on May 10.