• Biden actually did it. He blamed the gop for the economic crisis when they tried to fix it…. Damn liberals…. Can’t own up to anything #
• Biden sounds angry… Not good for the king of gaffs! #
• Biden just said that the general in afganastan said the surge wouldn’t work there… Then he said we needed more troops in afganastan… #
• Heh… He said dick luger… #
• What happened to biden’s upper lip?? #
• Well that was fun. I think Palin won that one…. What do you think? #

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I was sitting in the hot tub tonight, imbibing in a rum and coke (yes, Coca-Cola) and a cigar as I’m prone to do every so often when I need some “down” time and it dawned on me that the blog here can be put to a better use for the next 31 days. I’ve spent a lot of time trying to convince people that McCain/Palin is a good choice. By this point, I think though, most people have made up their minds as to who they’re going to pull the level for on November 4th unfortunate as that may be. After all, as Brian Williams said on Letterman tonight, a week in a Presidential Campaign is literally a year (look at the past two if you need any proof) and a lot of things can change.

Instead of focusing on why McCain/Palin would be a better choice for this country, I’m going to focus, at least five posts a week (figure one a day during the work week) on why Obama/Biden are a bad fit for the country. We’ll look at things like their policies, their beliefs, their associations and more. I’m going to work hard to try and sway you to at least reevaluate why you’re planning to vote for who you’re planning on voting for.

Parts won’t be too easy, other parts won’t be too hard. Its hard to argue with Biden’s time in the senate, but its not hard to argue with his view on patriotism, taxes and other areas. With Obama, it shouldn’t be too hard to argue with anything.

We’ll start today with looking at the tax returns for the two VP candidates. Biden’s were released earlier this month and show that the Bidens earned approximately $320,000 in 2006 and they paid approximately $66,000 in taxes. For charitable contributions, the Bidens biggest year of giving was 2007 in which they gave a whoping $995 to charity. Now, even if he was following the Christian principle of tithing (which is %10) he should have given approximately $32,000.

On the other hand, the Palin family earned approximately $170,000 in 2007 (about $160,000 in 2006) and paid $25,000 in taxes in 2007. They donated approximately $8200 to charity (figure church and other charities) over a two year period. If I did my math right, they donated approximately 9 times the amount that Biden has in roughly the same period.

I’d point out that Obama donated about 5.6% of their pretax earnings to charity and McCain donated approximately 26% of his earnings in the same time period. I think before Biden talks about paying taxes as the patriotic thing to do, he should look at increasing his donations to charities that help more people.

Why didn’t someone tell me September was over?? Anyways, back at the beginning of September, I started another Contest with Coffee and EntreCard Credits being the prizes. Well, the month is over and the winnarz are announced!

Congratulations to Karen Z who won the 500 Entrecard Credits and to Lyndon who won the Coffee and the 1000 EC Credits!

The cool tool at ContestMachine sure helped making this contest easy (it even picked the winners for me!). If you’re going to have a contest, I seriously suggest checking it out!!

Oh and a big shout out to Twitch and Jitter my supplier for excellent coffee!

If only I had found out about this sooner!!

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The past two weeks has been a little bit of a mess. From botched interviews by Palin to the Democrats trying to pin the blame for the current economic crisis on the Bush Administration and the GOP to the original “bailout” bill failing miserably things have not gone well in the world of politics until last night. If you missed it, I suggest you google for the Vice Presidential Debate and watch the whole thing in its entirety. It was far more entertaining than the Presidential Debate last week and Ms. Palin (or should I dare say, Madame Vice President) definitely brought her A game to the debate floor.

She was charming, happy and down to earth whereas Biden seemed to be most of the time angered that he had to debate her and at times he seemed frustrated. Its true, both sides had their share of fibs, though it seems that Biden may have had more than Palin. In all, the night was probably a draw as far as the points go, with each side proclaiming their person the victor, when in fact, I think the American people actually won that one last night. Hopefully, the days of keeping palin quiet are over and the McCain camp will let her loose. Its not like she can do any worse than she or John have done over the past couple of weeks.

Wednesday we saw the approval of the “Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.” For those who want a shorter name, just call it the “Lets Screw America Act”. Here’s some of the stuff that the senate included:

• The Democrats wanted a new Wall Street tax, which would essentially set a fee on securities transactions, in order to recover the potential costs for the taxpayers. The fee would be assessed after five years if the Congressional Budget Office determined that the taxpayers lost money in this bailout. In the end, the Democrats didn’t get their way. Instead, the next president will be responsible for proposing to Congress his plan to pay the taxpayers for any loses. Can you imagine what this plan will look like if Obama wins?
• The $700 billion will be allocated in stages. $250 will be available immediately, $100 billion available “upon report to Congress,” and $350 billion “available only upon Congressional action.”
• The good news … it seems as though Republicans have managed to kill the proposal to devote 20% of any potential profits to community organizations like ACORN
• There will be new executive compensation requirements including “no multi-million dollar golden parachutes”
• The bill contains some provisions to help families avoid foreclosures by creating a plan to “encourage services of mortgages to modify loans”
• It will expand the range of firms that can sell troubled assets to the government to include pension plans, local governments and community banks serving “low- and middle-income families.”
  If you want to read the full bill check it here. I didn’t like the original bill and I don’t like this bill. I told Chambliss that and it appears to have landed on deaf ears, maybe the Congress will get it right and not pass this bailout. We, the American people, should not be covering for the mistakes of those who believe they know better. Any parent can tell you that a child learns best when he or she has to pick themselves up from a fall and do it all over again. Thats what wall street needs. They need to be taught a lesson and handing them money (even if the government expects to be paid back) isn’t the way to do it. Thats called enabling.

  Want to know more about the speaker of the house? This about sums up the crazy moon bat.

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