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Everyone in the press -- myself included -- is whining about the inability to interview Gov. Sarah Palin. Or, at least shout-out a question or two to Sen. John McCain's choice for vice president. Although considering the speed of light in which a gaffe can travel in this campaign season, her decision to steer clear of reporters may be a very wise one. Reason enough to contact my fellow journalists to help me compile a Top Ten List of "I can't believe he/she just said that" reasons why Sarah Palin doesn't want to take questions from us:

Longhorn Pipeline said on Wednesday it had stopped shipping oil products from its Galena Park, Texas terminal because of a fire earlier at Kinder Morgan's oil products terminal in Pasadena, Texas. "We have ceased pumping from Galena Park, which is our point of origin," said Amber Pappas, a spokeswoman for the pipeline. The 694 mile common carrier pipeline can carry 72,000 barrels per day of different grades of gasoline and diesel

QUESTIONOGRAPHY © A CRASH COURSE IN CURIOSITY by Norman Liebmann Should Americans save their money just on the off chance that it may be worth something some day? If the angry Michelle Obama ever visited the Land of Oz would she pull the wings off the flying monkeys? Did Americans ever think they’d be living in a time when a train wreck in California would be the good news of the week? Are the Subprime defaulters getting ready to merge with the Bourbon Street looters? And is picking up the trash by helicopter an idea whose time has come considering...

  Friends, Election Day may be weeks away, but there are a number of grassroots activities you can do right now to help elect John McCain and Sarah Palin on November 4th. The work we're doing now will lay the groundwork for victory in November. You can get started in your volunteer efforts for McCain-Palin 2008 by making phone calls through our online phone bank any time. Please follow this link to start making calls. Reaching out to undecided voters in your state is vital to spreading the word that John McCain and Governor Palin are the right choice...

~snipped~ Though it's controversial, I believe that weighting for party ID is appropriate if done in a manner consistent with historical norms. I fall into the camp that believes party ID is far more static - that voters can change their preferences and the intensity of their partisanship often, but do not as frequently take the step of giving themselves a new party with which to identify. To me, party ID falls somewhere in between "demographic fact" and "variable question response". Preventing wildly fluctuating data outside historical norms provides a better picture of what real movement is occurring in the...

An organic wine from Chile has oenophiles in San Francisco turning up their noses. But there’s nothing wrong with the wine. It’s the name that bothers them: Palin Syrah. The wine from a boutique vineyard in Chile was once a strong seller, but now it’s an outcast in the City by the Bay because its name comes way too close to a certain governor from the state of Alaska, says Celine Guillou, co-owner of the Yield Wine Bar. Palin Syrah — pronounced Pay-LEEN — takes its name from a ball used in a Chilean-style hockey game, and it has been...

It's been 3 weeks since I placed my order, and still haven't received. Emailed customer service and others. Calls to Customer Service unanswered, and voice mail is full all the time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZel-Hxz-VQ ICYMI -- One of the BEST 10min speeches I have heared from the floor of the U.S. Senate in a very long time !! This speech was given following a hilarious dialogue between Sen Coburm and Sen Harry Reid !! Reid was getting all flustered because Sen. Coburn was objecting to a bunch of bills creating MORE government and NEW spending without debate..etc..etc..etc.. GO COBURN GO !!! I apologize for the poor quality of the video.. I had to record it from a handheld cam on a small TV to upload it to youtube...

Femanists are said to be having extreme panic attacks. First Sarah Palin now this woman..when will these attractive women stop taking all the attention!!! LOL Anyways don't know much about her Politics but she's running for County Commissioner in Michigan. Now the pictures: http://www.careytorrice.com/gallery_category.php?cat_id=11#80 Those are the Political Pictures..I like the one of her with the Vietnam Vets! Nothing like a pretty woman in a Jeep with a Machine Gun...HAHAHAHAHA My favorite... http://www.careytorrice.com/gallery_category.php?cat_id=11#178

Today the New York Times launched its latest attack on this campaign in its capacity as an Obama advocacy organization. Let us be clear about what this story alleges: The New York Times charges that McCain-Palin 2008 campaign manager Rick Davis was paid by Freddie Mac until last month, contrary to previous reporting, as well as statements by this campaign and by Mr. Davis himself.

Have any of you received this e-mail. It's already been sent to me several times today. There is nothing about in hard news, but it's all over the liberal blogs. It smells of urban legend to me. What do you think? Here it is as I received it: FYI, lets get this word out. The story is all over Progressive Talk Radio today about the MCain campaign sending absentee ballot applications to registered democrats or people that have donated to Obama's camapign. These ballots are dilberately misleading and have postage paid return addresses that are for an election clerk that...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- As if getting a DUI wasn’t enough, a man arrested for driving under the influence got in a lot more trouble at the police station. Police stopped Jose Cruz on Route 60 in South Charleston Monday night for driving with his headlights off. Then, he failed sobriety tests and was arrested. When police were trying to get fingerprints, police say Cruz moved closer to the officer and passed gas on him. The investigating officer remarked in the criminal complaint that the odor was very strong. Cruz is now charged with battery on a police officer, as...

Democrats swear they are not socialists, not using class warfare, and do not favor redistribution. However, every which way they wiggle, they say things exactly from that age-old Democrat philosophy. I guess it's only natural for Obama/Biden to downplay the redistributionist rhetoric that got him the nomination as he tried to move to the middle, which begs the question. Why is moving to the middle not considered lying? If you have one philosophy that makes you popular with the hard left redistributionists/socialists/enviro-Marxists and then you switch to more free market talk, then what philosophy do you really have other than...

My fellow Americans, Your urgent attention is needed for an emergency bail-out to avoid a financial melt-down. I am here at the Casino on the Indian Reservation and I am now facing a perfect storm of credit risk and complete lack of confidence in the ability to repay a multitude of obligations. This crisis has grown quickly and with little warning and the situation is indeed dire. Who knew playing a conservative game like roulette, betting on just red, would result in such unforeseen, widespread financial catastrophe? The roulette settlement was just the final stroke following the blackjack dealer hitting...

Amid the onslaught of criticism over the proposed $700 bailout of financial firms this week, Democratic Leaders have been working behind closed doors to pass ...

... The IRA: But doesn't the reaction to this crisis by a nominally Republican administration suggest that America is not the democratic, free market society we all pretend? The Paulson plan would leave the US government as the largest owner of banks and illiquid assets in the country. Does no one in the Bush administration and the Congress care about what happens beyond the next five minutes? Caps on executive compensation will be only the beginning of a process that will lead to wage and price controls as inflation rises. If this idiocy by the Democrats in Congress continues, we're...

I'm planning on a road trip to Walter Reed Army Hospital to join in the very public display of affection for our troops and to keep the bastards from Code Pink and veterans For Peace from the Main Gate so they can't hold signs like "Enlist Here and Die For Halliburton" and "Maimed For A Lie" up to the windows of ambulance busese as they arrive from the war zones with wounded. I'll be leaving the Philly area around 3:00 PM in the afternoon going down I-95. Will have a full size sedan so I have room for 3 passengers,...

Oh, That Joe! (No. 18 in a Series) -- Biden Loves the Jews, Says McCain Hates the Religious Right September 24, 2008 10:35 AM At a speech to members of the National Jewish Democratic Council in Washington, D.C., Tuesday evening, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., started off his speech the way only Joe Biden can. “1972 campaign," Biden said, "I was a 29-year old kid nominated for president -- excuse me, nominated for senator, nominated for senator, senator, from the state of Delaware." Next, Biden was hit by a coughing fit. “There’s a lot to talk about and uh, excuse me,”...

Two men from Texas who are members of a group that planned to disrupt the Republican National Convention have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of possessing an unregistered firearm, possessing a firearm without a serial number, and illegal manufacturing a firearm, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Minneapolis said. David Guy McKay, 22, and Bradley Neal Crowder, 23, both of Austin, allegedly possessed firearms that were not registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record and possessed firearms that did not contain serial numbers as required by law. The alleged actions took place Aug. 31 through...

CINCINNATI, OH - Barack Obama will debate John McCain on foreign policy later this week, but his running mate is already taking on the Republican nominee. In what the campaign is billing as a “major speech,” Biden will say that only Obama has the foreign policy judgment to take the United States in the right direction — and that his good friend John McCain would be a disaster. “The policies he would pursue as president would be wrong for America – nowhere more so than with our security and standing in the world,” Biden will say, according to prepared remarks...