Wonkette
- Tonight is John McCain’s last chance for a dramatic, game-changing debate. Tonight Barack Obama just has to stay awake and speak in complete sentences. WHO WILL WIN??? [San Jose Mercury News]
- The newest McCain economic proposal calls for tax cuts for everyone, all the time. [Los Angeles Times]
- Acorn gently suggests that Mickey Mouse won’t actually show up to vote on election day. [New York Times]
- Barack Obama is spending insane buckets of money on every conceivable form of TV and video advertising, while John McCain confines his ad buys to occasional 30-second spots during Grand Ole Opry Live. [Washington Post]
- The new Apple notebooks are so awesome, the only thing they lack is a Wet-Nap to help you clean up after you cream your pants. [InfoWorld]
- The big government rescue plan does nothing to stop falling home prices, which are still, uh, falling. [Wall Street Journal]
Mickey Mouse won’t vote??? Damned, I was planning on sending my kids to Ohio and Nevada to get Mickey’s autograph on election day. And if the economy continues a tailspin, I plan on shipping them to Nebraska…
Obama widens lead in almost all POLLS!!!
http://roschellenelson.blogspot.com/2008/10/polls-show-obamas-lead-widening.html
Walnuts will win the debate actually pointing out that Obama is flush with cash. A black man flush with cash? That can only happen if Wayne Brady is driving around bitch-slapping bee-yotches to turn over every dollar to Hopey. That dollar you just put in the love cup at Scores used to go to the Bulgarian mafia and crack, now it goes to Hopey. ACORN orchestrated that.
How are Republican operatives supposed to challenge the right to vote of legitimate minority voters at the polls if they are swamped with all these actually fake voter registrations? It makes it that much harder to match up a “Leroy Jackson” who’s in jail with a “Leroy Jackson” who teaches History at P.S. 143 if there are 100 O. J. Simpsons registered at the local YMCA they’ve got to get through first.
So I got to wake up this morning under a new Conservative government. It’s not a cool feeling. Please don’t fuck up your race, my American friends. I’m more emotionally invested in yours.
Also Sara should see a doctor about this whole pants-creaming thing
Great column today
http://community.nytimes.com/article/comments/2008/10/15/opinion/15dowd.html#postComment
Tommy Says Soooo: It’s that hard he be movin’ down on the corner, and them dice. That nyah is cold wit dem dice.
I’m Mickey Mouse, and I approve of this message.
Macbooks fucking rock. When my family bitches about their problems with XP and Vista, I just smile at them and go “awwww” once in a while.
Walnuts is definitely a lousy gambler. What kind of fool brings $3 bucks and a pair of dice to a poker game?
Unfortunately the government cannot and should not try to prop up artificially high housing prices.
They need to drop. They have to drop.
However, in the bad old days before Reagan killed the regulating dragon of FDR Evil Socialism, these situations led to the government influencing your bank to actually renegotiate your mortgage based on a new principle and loan value, not just f***ing about with rates & sh*t.
Grow a pair, America, and demand that sh*t again.
mattbolt:
Meh. Do you think that Harper is going to enjoy this next year? He’s got a couple of scandals to deal with. A budget that will be soon out of whack (tax cuts don’t pay themselves) plus that whole economics downturn fiscal tidal wave.
OH NO
Ex-US Secretary of State Colin Powell has joined a hip-hop band on stage in London to dance and sing in a celebration of African culture.
I bet I somehow wind up seeing some of that no matter how hard I try not to.
The one good reason to watch tonight’s debate is to see is McCain finally has a full scale meltdown on national TV. Spit flying, the whole deal. I can’t believe that he’s saying he’s going to bring up the Ayers stuff. It’s going to make Walnuts look like an old bitter loser. Oh, more of an old bitter loser.
ManchuCandidate: Ha ha, suck it, Canada, with your strong dollar, oil shale, and baby seal corpses. When your economy dips 0.1%, our guntowers in Alaska will keep you out from Sarah Palin’s hobo paradise.
I don’t know why we’re supposed to be reading news about mortgages. Henry Paulson told us today, ” The facts have changed…” I believe this works for both the Bush and McCain strategies, more even than 911 - I’ve been trying it at work all morning - it’s incredible!
Who’s the leader of the club
That’s made for you and me
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(H-O-P-E-Y H-O-P-E!)
H-O-P-E-Y H-O-P-E!
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Forever let us hold our banner
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ManchuCandidate:
XP is pretty rock solid, but Vista is a nightmare. I’ve got a Lenovo laptop with Vista and it crashes regularly, comes to a complete standstill and won’t respond. You have to force a shutdown. It’s an embarrassment. I’ve always been a fan of Apple, but IMHO they’ve made a big mistake in (1) refusing to adopt a 2 button mouse, and (2) by remaining the sole Mac OS hardware vendor your choices are limited. There’s no Macbook that can compete with my dainty Eee PC for portability.
BTW: did I mention that McCain can kiss my sweaty balls right after I’m off the treadmill at the Gym? Because he’s welcome to, as long as he kisses them from behind.
2druk2phluq: At least Colin can bring the boogie. Unlike…
Terry: McCain’s entire debate script will consist of the following phrase:
“Obama bin Laden pals around with a a terrorist and a scary black preacher. I didn’t want to bring this up, but Obama forced me too, with his big black dick.”
The debate is still debating whether to allow McCain to change the wording a little, or if that’s too much of a risk of a gaff.
Serolf Divad: Vista! Crashed. Frozen. Ain’t wokin’ right. You should call Hank Paulson for a Vista bailout bro!
*The campaign is still debating….
Goddamn…
Terry:
Precisely why Obama should just politely stand there, enjoy his free Halloween show and not get suckered into an argument with an irrational old man.
“The new Apple notebooks are so awesome, the only thing they lack is a Wet-Nap to help you clean up after you cream your pants.”
The evolution of the laptop computer will not be complete until they build-in a little hand that comes out and jerks you off…and then dispenses the Wet-Nap.
“The big government rescue plan does nothing to stop falling home prices, which are still, uh, falling.”
Falling! Falling! Falling!
Then homes they keep a falling!
Though the money’s flowing!
Rawwwwwwwwwdeal!
Serolf Divad: Think RAM… lots and lots of RAM. Seriously, that is the biggst problem with VISTA, it needs a shitload of RAM.
RAM here and RAM now!! (well, that’s what SHE said)
mattbolt: Yer Canadian? Well, I hope you’re not a Leafs fan too, cuz they suck some vicious dick this year. I wouldn’t you to be ruined by both of these doomed continuances.
Serolf Divad: XP and cold, dead fingers, etc. Based on everything I have heard and read about Vista I will either switch to a Mac when I have to upgrade or hope that MS has developed a replacement for Vista that actually works.
One problem I have with the Mac side of the street is summed up by the this: “By now, there’s probably relatively little you don’t know about Apple’s new Mac notebooks…”
There is quite a bit I don’t know but InfoWorld is not the place to get it.
The big government rescue plan does nothing to stop falling home prices, which are still, uh, falling.
The median home price in Detroit, Michigan is $9,250. That is NINE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS.
Housing prices should be allowed to float as much as possible, because most people don’t sell their houses in a given year or even decade. True, people who DO are phucked in a downturn, but the theoretical downturn wouldn’t so bad as if housing prices were artificially stabilized. Sad thing is if they’re trading down, the smaller the move-to house, the less the purchase price drop.
WHO WILL WIN???
Ah, drama.
Considering their pitiful build quality, homes are settling into a realistic price.
azw88:
Yeah, but I’ve got 2 friggin’ Gigabytes on that laptop! I maxed out the RAM.
Serolf Divad:
You’re right about Macs. The price is a real bitch too. I saved up two years before I got mine.
The only gripe I have about MacBooks is they don’t have a good selection of games.
If software manufacturers made efficient and elegant programs, people wouldn’t outgrow their laptops in 18 months.
nurple:
The problem is that the engineers/designers are at the mercy of the managements’ unrealistic product release timeframes and budget constraints.
Serolf Divad: It’s the bloatware. Vista suffers from bloat. (It’s always on the rag.) Once you remove the bloatware–weird stupid programs that do stuff you only need if you are an astronaut–then Vista runs okay. My computer used to make this sound like an airplane taking off whenever I started it. Then I fixed it. Me! He he.
I’ve been using Vista all day every day for over 8 months now and I’ve never had any of the problems you folks are describing. It’s probably a lack of RAM on your part like azw88 said. I’ve got 4GB, but my wife’s Tablet PC runs it fine at 1.5GB (looking at the performance monitor my standard use rarely goes above that). 2GB should be fine for any non-gaming needs, and less than 1.5GB is probably insufficient.
Three words to describe how McCain will change, and end, the game tonight:
Depends
Wardrobe Malfunction
Serolf Divad: Ouch…. if you can get an install disc, you are legally entitled to install XP on that machine. The Vista License includes rights to all previous versions of Windows (ask McCain, he tried going back to DOS).
My multiply broken arms prevent me from learning how to use a computer. Good thing they’re just a fad.
Serolf Divad: Two gigs of RAM is the minimum you need for Vista. I have 4 gigs on my laptop and it never cra
I still want to know where Mickey Mouse is going to pull the Voter ID from without any pants.
Roschelle: That’s true only if ACORN-registered fraudent voters are included. If these negroes and other criminals are purged from the polls, then the advantage swings to McCodger.
If I had made a billion dollars, and then named one of my products “Vista”, I would feel obliged to pay it all back.