The Failed Pacifist: October 2008

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Voting Machine Failure Update

On today's edition of Democracy Now, Amy Goodman talks with Brad Friedman about the recent rash of voting machine failures which have been occurring during early voting.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

15% Vets Sexually Assaulted

Is it a surprise that most are women?

Friday, October 24, 2008

McCain Camp Pushed "Mutiliation" Story

Rather sick and pathetic.

Thursday, October 23, 2008

"This Young, Black Adolf Hitler"

That was part of a letter distributed by Jill Jackson, the County Clerk in Johnson County Indiana. When employees complained to the police, she said it was just a joke. Har har har har har.

The letter does not mention Obama by name but makes references to his ties to a Chicago church whose pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, adheres to black liberation theology. It is heavy with racial references, criticizing the candidate's parentage with such comments as, "He is proud of his 'African heritage' (a father who got a white girl pregnant and deserted her)" and asking, "Where is the pride in his 'White heritage?'"

"Maybe those votes should be discarded"

Why does the GOP hate America?

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Al-Qaida Supporters For McCain

An post on an al-Qaida linked web site is suggesting that a pre-election attack against the U.S. would help the G.O.P candidate get elected, and work in favor of the terrorists.

"If al-Qaida carries out a big operation against American interests," the message said, "this act will be support of McCain because it will push the Americans deliberately to vote for McCain so that he takes revenge for them against al-Qaida. Al-Qaida then will succeed in exhausting America till its last year in it."

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

"I couldn't agree with him more"

He really is an old, old man.

Sarah the Clotheshorse

The RNC has spent more on Sarah Palin's clothes over the last couple months than Joe the Plumber makes in years.

Pants on Fire!

The Rep. Robin Hayes edition.

Monday, October 20, 2008

Un-American Activities

Rep. Michele Bachmann doesn't trust Americans.

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Bob Grant is a Very Old Racist

But that's just conjecture.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

"Waterboard Barack Obama"

Welcome to KKKalifornia.

Diane Fedele Doesn't Know She's Racist

Which means she must be an ignorant moron.

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Too Little Too Late

After weeks of hate filled rhetoric and whipping up audiences into a violent frenzy, the Wrinkly White Haired Guy^TM has finally tried to rein things in. But when he tried to explain that all that stuff he's been saying is wrong, he gets booed. Indeed, the chickens are coming home.

Friday, October 10, 2008

McKKKain

Indeed, this must stop.

Thursday, October 09, 2008

Petraeus: "You have to talk to enemies"

I guess he's just young and naive.

Wednesday, October 08, 2008

"My black skin does not make me inferior"

Let us be clear on the upcoming vote.

Pompous Pronunciation of Pakistan

Mark at BoingBoing is on the case.

"My Fellow Prisoners"

Heh.

Tuesday, October 07, 2008

"That One"

As if the violent undertone of the Republican campaign isn't enough, supporters of the Wrinkly White Haired Guy^TM apparently think his "That one" moment is a good thing.

Monday, October 06, 2008

SCOTUS Rejects Abu-Jamal Appeal

From the AP:

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal for a new trial for death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted in the 1981 killing of a Philadelphia police officer.

"True only in the most technical sense"

Apparently when the Wrinkly White Haired Guy^TM wrote that his first plane crash was because the engine stalled, he neglected to mention it stalled because he screwed up. Just like other crashes and accidents later in his flying career.

The official Navy report into the Corpus Christi accident on March 12, 1960, concludes that the AD-6 Skyraider trainer crashed because McCain failed to "maintain an airspeed above the stall speed." It attributed the accident to "the preoccupation of the pilot coupled with a power setting too low to maintain level flight." The single-engine prop plane sank to the bottom of Corpus Christi Bay. McCain was rescued by a helicopter after swimming to the surface.

Sunday, October 05, 2008

Browkaw: 80's Are Ancient History

But apparently the 60's aren't.

Ralph Stanley's Obama Promo

This is an awesome endorsement. Really awesome.

Thursday, October 02, 2008

Bosniaks

Apparently Joe Biden knows more about the Balkans than Cokie Roberts.

via tpm

The word I don't use... is "surge"

That's Gen. David D. McKiernan, head of the NATO coalition in Afghanistan, quoted today in the Washington Post.

No word yet from General McClellan.

Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Frat Boys For War

From Sam Stein at HuffPost:

In hopes of organizing a robust demonstration for the vice presidential debate this Thursday in St. Louis, the pro-Iraq War (and ostensibly pro-McCain) organization, Vets for Freedom, is resorting to offering local college fraternities hundreds of dollars if their members come and hold signs.

Arnold To Med. Marijuana Patients

Suffer bitches.

Another Taser Death

An armed bank robbery suspect died near Vancouver after Mounties used a Taser to subdue him. He had reportedly jumped out of a window "naked and bleeding", but police were unable to catch him. When he headed back for the home, a decision was made.

"At that point, believing that he was a possible armed robbery suspect, the fact that the firearm was unaccounted for and the fact that there was a known female still inside... officers used their [taser] in an effort to restrain this individual, which they subsequently did," the officer said.

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Dowd Kicked, Confused

The Wrinkly White Haired Guy^TM doesn't want Maureen Dowd traveling on his planes. So now she's claiming it's some kind of First Amendment violation. Huh?

via huffpost

McCain's Dictatorial Desire

Remember when 43 said how cool it would be if he was a dictator? It seems the Wrinkly White Haired Guy^TM has a similar dream. It comes about thirty seconds into the Economic Bill Failure video found here.

"If I were dictator, which I always aspire to be."

I'm sure it will be explained away as a joke, but it's noteworthy that nobody, including the candidate, is laughing, and it's hardly a lighthearted moment.

Be sure to watch the entire Des Moines Register interview.

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