Joe The Contractor

“Joe The Plumber” is actually “Joe The Contractor”. The business Joe works for only makes approximately 100 grand annually. Joe himself approximately 40 Grand. Oh, and he doesn’t pay his taxes anyway. 

The Name Game

What’s in a name? Not much.

What McCain Is Doing

Sullivan sums it up well. I am getting more scared, angry, frustrated, and disgusted every minute:

There was always going to be a point of revolt and panic for a core group of Americans who believe that Obama simply cannotbe president – because he’s black or liberal or young or relatively new. This is that point. [...]

Countdown to Troopergate

The investigation findings will be released today.
But that did not stop the “McCalin” campaign from pulling a Bush/Rove and releasing their OWN truth.
We spent 8 years being lied to, do we really want another 4? This is not the time for those that create their own reality.

 

There Are No Words

I am disgusted by what the McCain camp is doing. I refuse to post the ad the McCain has released today, because it stinks of lies and hatred. It is the most desperate attempt at coming up from behind I have ever seen. This is worse than Bush in 2000. McCain should be ashamed of [...]

“The Resentments of Sarah Palin”

Great article by Noam Scheiber from TNR. Money quote:
Palin, by contrast, may be the first conservative politician since Nixon to experience resentment so authentically. For her, it’s not so much a political tool as a motivating principle. A trip through Palin’s past reveals that almost every step of her career can be understood as a [...]

So Called Overhead Projector

Statement from the Adler Planetarium HERE
To clarify, the Adler Planetarium requested federal support – which was not funded – to replace the projector in its historic Sky Theater, the first planetarium theater in the Western Hemisphere. The Adler’s Zeiss Mark VI projector – not an overhead projector – is the instrument that re-creates the night sky in a dome theater, [...]

The Half Truth

A theme is developing around Sarah Palin, it is about half’s. Are there people out there that really think a McCain/Palin ticket is a good idea? Do they realize, not only would she be half a heart beat away from the presidency, but her campaign speech is filled with half truths. This doesn’t seem to [...]

Stop the Tax Lie

I keep hearing the Republican talking point, “Obama will raise your taxes.” Whenever John McCain says Obama will raise your taxes, what he means is, “Obama will raise my taxes,” because unless you are making more than $603,000 a year, your taxes aren’t going up!
Unfortunately, I don’t fall into that bracket, but if I did, [...]

The energy wiz can’t talk no good English

From the supposed ”foremost energy expert in the country”
“Of course, it’s a fungible commodity and they don’t flag, you know, the molecules, where it’s going and where it’s not. But in the sense of the Congress today, they know that there are very, very hungry domestic markets that need that oil first. So, I believe [...]

Gotta love the Onion

The thing is, these days this qualifies as real news.
Palin Unveils 9/11 Firefighter Cousin, Reformed Lesbian Niece, Naturalized Mexican Half Brother
(Thanks, Lexi)

John McCain is Lying

(Thanks, Evan)