KFC's announcement, which won praise from consumer advocates, came an hour ahead of a public hearing on a New York health department proposal to ban the unhealthy fats in the nation's restaurant capital.

Industry leaders dished up a plateful of reasons why such a plan shouldn't be adopted.

Carter: We have to engage in two way talks with North Korea:

China, the United States and North Korea agreed in talks Tuesday to resume the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear programs "at a convenient time in the near future" after a break of almost a year, a Chinese Foreign Ministry statement said.

Carter:Maroon!

Bush, Rove and other shadowy figures plan to steal another election:

There's just one week to go until Election Day, and already the hysteria is mounting...over voting machines.  After the 2000 debacle in Florida, governments across the country have bought these electronic voting machines.  But the media and Democrats, always pushing the "disenfranchised&quo t; lie, are trying to portray them as hard to use and inaccurate.  After all, how can normal people be expected to use a voting machine?  What if they vote for the wrong person?

Think about that position for a minute.  Just about every person walking our streets has used an ATM machine.  We use computers at home....which are much more complicated than any voting machine.  People use self-serve grocery check-out stations.  They pay at the pump for their gas.  The voting machines are not complicated.  They are not hard to use.  But that's not the real issue here anyway.

I want you to consider the possibility that the real issue that Democrats fear is that the machines just might be accurate.  For decades, Democrats have been propelled into office by election fraud.  That is, people voting twice...dead people voting...people being paid off and told who to vote for, etc.  The electronic voting machine gets rid of a lot of that.  Computers are absolute...they only do exactly what people tell them to do...not what some Democratic precinct chief wants.

And then there's the whole issue of the soft bigotry of low expectations.  Shouldn't the people who Democrats say are too dumb to work the machines be offended?  Of course not....not as long as those same Democrats keep the checks coming.

Sensitive caring liberal mocks Steve Irwin:

If the South Park episode that tackled this subject was inappropriate, this is like inappropriate squared. Even someone as crass and insensitive as Bill Maher should know better than this.



(HT: Right Wing News)

Give it up George, marriage is a joke. A woman in England married a dolphin for Chrissakes. 

Terrorists in Iraq try to steal election for democrats:

Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday the increase of violence in Iraq is linked with efforts to influence the outcome of midterm elections in which Republicans are struggling to keep control of Congress.

"It's my belief that they're very sensitive of the fact that we've got an election scheduled and they can get on the Web sites like anybody else," Cheney said. He said al-Qaida and other elements were trying to "break the will of the American people" because "they think we don't have the stomach for the fight long-term."

Asked if the attacks were timed to influence the U.S. elections, Cheney said, "That's my belief."

The government is urgently pushing ahead on the issue because the existing Kyoto protocol runs out in 2012, and there is no binding agreement to extend it. Downing Street is seeking the outline of a package with the G8 industrial nations and five leading developing countries by next year, or 2008 at the latest.

If climate change is irreversable why do anything? From Junk Science.com:

Waiting for Gore-doh... Since Al Gore was offered the opportunity to facilitate serious debate on the underlying science of global climate change, 9 months, 3 weeks, 5 days, 21 hours, 12 minutes, and 52 seconds have elapsed. Despite milking lucrative speaking engagements and book deals with his global warming schtick he declines any such debate. Perhaps he's afraid of the Real Inconvenient Truth.

Populations of many species, from fish to mammals, had fallen by about a third from 1970 to 2003 largely because of human threats such as pollution, clearing of forests and overfishing, the group also said in a two-yearly report.

"For more than 20 years we have exceeded the earth's ability to support a consumptive lifestyle that is unsustainable and we cannot afford to continue down this path," WWF Director-General James Leape said, launching the WWF's 2006 Living Planet Report.

Probably many of the same people are still in the WWF that made the prediction that because of overpopulation the battle to feed humanity would be over and there would only 500 million people left after the famine hit....in the 1970s. Speaking of living beyond their means, I wonder if they included this guy in their report:

 Former Vice President Al Gore appeared in Berkeley on Monday to lend his celebrity and reputation as a crusader against global warming to a measure on California's Nov. 7 ballot that would tax oil companies to raise $4 billion for green energy projects.

``I'm here to change peoples' minds on the climate crisis and to support Prop 87,'' Gore called to a group of reporters after he emerged from the ``100 miles per gallon'' Toyota Prius that brought him to a noontime rally in a sun-drenched park behind Berkeley's City Hall.

A Picture is Worth a Bazillion Words:



...and should scare the piss out of anyone with half a brain...

Now that we have the much ballyhooed "timetable" will our friends on the Flowering Left (who have been so stridently demanding it) criticize it as "cut and run?"

The US military commander in Iraq, General George Casey, has said the country's own armed forces should be able to take over security responsibility within the next 12 to 18 months.

How to tell when you're doing something right:

Lieberman Blasted on All Sides at Debate

Brilliant insight:

Media pundits have just about given this year's election to the Democrats -- at least in the House of Representatives and perhaps in the Senate as well. They might even be right, for a change.

Kim has mostly been absent from the public eye since North Korea test fired seven missiles in July, leading some to speculate the North's defiant acts over the past few months have put his leadership to the test.

Kim was accompanied by several top North Korean officials as they watched performers sing the praises of the communist state and Kim's leadership with songs such as "Love of Comrades" and "Always looking up to the Leader", KCNA reported.



Quite a spectacle, obviously the light bulb hasn't been invented yet...Gorbachev compares U.S. border wall to Berlin Wall:

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev compared the United States' proposed 700-mile wall on the U.S.-Mexico border to the Berlin Wall during a Tuesday visit to Midland.

Reid also announced he was amending his ethics reports to Congress to more fully account for a Las Vegas land deal, highlighted in an AP story last week, that allowed him to collect $1.1 million in 2004 for property he hadn't personally owned in three years.

In that matter, the senator hadn't disclosed to Congress that he first sold land to a friend's limited liability company back in 2001 and took an ownership stake in the company. He collected the seven-figure payout when the company sold the land again in 2004 to others.

Reid portrayed the 2004 sale as a personal sale of land, not mentioning the company's ownership or its role in the sale.

A mere oversight I'm sure... 

Reid said his amended ethics reports would list the 2001 sale and the company, called Patrick Lane LLC. He said the amended reports also would divulge two other smaller land deals he had failed to report to Congress.

"I directed my staff to file amended financial disclosure forms noting that in 2001, I transferred title to the land to a Limited Liability Corporation," Reid said in a statement issued by his office.

He said he believed the 2001 sale did not alter his ownership of the land but that he agreed to file the amended reports because "I believe in ensuring all facts come to light."

Reid labeled the AP story as the "latest attempt" by Republicans to affect the election.

Yeah, that's it!!

 AP reported last week that it learned of the land deal from a former Reid adviser who had concerns about the way the deal was reported to Congress.

Damn the Right Wing Noise Machine, probably blackmailed the poor man..

On the Ritz-Carlton holiday donations, Reid gave $600 in 2002, then $1,200 in 2004 and $1,500 in 2005 from his re-election campaign to an entity listed as the REC Employee Holiday Fund. His campaign listed the expenses as campaign "salary" for two of the years and as a "contribution" one year.

Reid's office said the listing as salary was a "clerical error" and that the use of campaign money for the residential fund was approved by his lawyers. "I am reimbursing the campaign from my own pocket to prevent this issue from being used in the current campaign season to deflect attention from Republican failures," he said.

Residents and workers at the Ritz said the fund's full name is the Residents Executive Committee Holiday Fund and that it collects money each year from the condominium residents to help provide Christmas gifts, bonuses and a party for the support staff.

Federal election law permits campaigns to provide "gifts of nominal value" but prohibits candidates from using political donations for personal expenses, such as mortgage, rent or utilities for "any part of any personal residence."

The law specifically defines prohibited personal use expenses as any "obligation or expense of any person that would exist irrespective of the candidate's campaign or duties as a federal officeholder."

Land deeds show Reid and his wife, Landra, purchased a condominium for their Washington residence at the hotel for $750,000 in March 2001. The holiday fund has existed for years at the condo, workers said.

Reid said Monday he believed the expenses were permissible but he nonetheless was reimbursing the campaign.

"These donations were made to thank the men and women who work in the building for the extra work they do as a result of my political activities, and for helping the security officers assigned to me because of my Senate position," Reid said.

Larry Noble, the Federal Election Commission's former chief enforcement lawyer, said Reid's explanation is aimed at a "gray area" in the law by suggesting the donations were tied to his official Senate and political work.

"What makes this harder for the senator is that this is his personal residence and this looks like an event that everybody else at the residence is taking out of their personal money as they're living there," Noble said.

Back in 2000, Congress rebuked powerful House Transportation Committee Chairman Bud Shuster, R-Pa., for among other things creating the appearance, through poor record-keeping, that campaign committee expenditures were for personal rather than bona fide campaign uses.

On the land dealings, Reid announced Monday he had failed to disclose two other transactions on his prior ethics reports and would account for those on his amended reports along with the 2001 sale.

The first, he said, involved the sale in 2004 of about one-third acre of land in 2004 he owned in his hometown of Searchlight, Nev. And he said he had not reported his ownership since 1985 of a quarter acre of land his brother gave him in 1985.

Reid said the failure to disclose those transactions previously was due to "clerical errors" and they amounted to "two minor matters that were inadvertently left off my original disclosure forms."

He had asked the Senate Ethics Committee last Wednesday for an opinion on the 2001 land sale but decided to amend his forms prior to the committee acting.

Reid's announcement came after numerous newspapers nationwide published editorials criticizing both his initial failure to disclose the full details of his Las Vegas land deal and his response to AP's story.

The $1.1 million land deal was engineered by Jay Brown, a longtime friend and former casino lawyer whose name surfaced in a major political bribery trial this summer and in other prior organized crime investigations. Brown has never been charged with wrongdoing, except for a 1981 federal securities complaint that was settled out of court.

Ethics experts told AP that Reid's inaccurate accounting of the deal to Congress appeared to violate Senate ethics rules and raised other issues concerning taxes and potential gifts.

This happened because Bush is bogged down in a pointless war for oil for Halliburton in Eyeraq and let Bin Laden exscape at Tora Bora and then cut taxes on the rich, resulting in Global Warming, a Bush Administration ban on sunsets, where light streams down through parted clouds in bright unbroken beams, more intense hurricanes, earthquakes in Hawaii, Madonna kidnapping a baby, Boy George doing coke, Tom Cruise eating placentas, Ronald Reagan's death, climate change on Mars, North Korea, South Korea, diarrhea, Karl Rove and Paul Wolfowitz, the Council on Foreign Relations and Crusty the Clown's controversial nude photos from the 1970's..

"The level of damage is still being assessed right now," Rodney Haraga, director of the Hawaii Department of Transportation, told CBS'"The Early Show" Monday.

"We know that on the Big Island we have had some problems with road closures, some rock slides and right now we're sending a team this morning to go to the Big Island to do an assessment on several highways."

Air America filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy today. They vow to valiantly remain on the airwaves in case somebody accidentally tunes in, but I fear it’s only a matter of time before they hang up their microphones for good. It is truly a sad day for Free Speech in this country.

Air America was a vital educational resource, so it should have been completely taxpayer-funded instead of forced to compete for listeners on the open market. Once again, the GOP has used capitalism to silence the lone liberal voice in the conservative-dominated radio wilderness. Now all we progressives have left to counter the Right-Wing Noise Machine is ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, TBS, NPR, CNN, BBC, HBO, HSN, MTV, VH1, Showtime, The Abortion Channel, Gore TV, Reuters, The Associated Press, Time Magazine, Newsweek, The New Republic, the Nation, The New Yorker, TV Guide, People Magazine, Teen People, Us Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, Oprah Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, Woman’s Day, The Advocate, Esquire, Vogue, Cosmopolitian, Humpty Dumpty, Architectural Digest, Cat Fancy, Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler, Swank, Sugar Tits Quarterly, the Harvard Perspective, High Times, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Seattle Times, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle Weekly, The Boston Globe, The Village Voice, The San Francisco Chronicle, The San Francisco Examiner, USA Today, The Washington Post, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Arizona Daily Star, The Anniston Star , The Decatur Daily, Montgomery Advertiser, The Tuscaloosa News, Anchorage Daily News Arkansas Time, Tuscon Daily Star, The Alameda Times-Star, Contra Costa Times, The Los Angeles Daily News, The Fresno Bee, Marin Independent Journal, Merced Sun-Star, The Modesto Bee, The Monterey County Herald, The Oakland Tribune, La Opinion, The Santa Rose Press Democrat, The Sacramento Bee, San Jose Mercury News, San Mateo County Times, Santa Cruz Sentinel, The Valejo Times-Herald, The Eureka Times Standard, The Ventura County Star, Aspen Daily News, The Boulder Daily Camera, Durango Herald, Fort Collins Coloradoan, Greeley Daily Tribune, The Stamford Advocate, The Wilmington News Journal, Bradenton Herald, Daytona Beach News-Journal, Florida Today, The Gainesville Sun, The Miami Herald, Orlando Sentinel, The Palm Beach Post, St Petersburg Times, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Treasure Coast News/Press-Tribune, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Macon Telegraph, The Honolulu Advertiser, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Bonner County Daily Bee, The Idaho Statesman, Chicago Defender, Chicago Sun-Times, Edwardsville Intelligencer,Rockford Register, Lafayatte Journal and Courier, The Des Moines Register, Iowa City Press-Citizen, Quad City Times, The Storm Lake Tribune, The Hutchinson News, Lexington Herald-Leader, The Louisville Courier-Journal, Teen Lexington Herald-Leader, Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer, The Shreveport Times, Bangor Daily News. the Kennebec Journal, Portland Press Herald, The Baltimore Sun, The Berkshire Eagle, The Framingham MetroWest Daily News, Milford Daily News. The Springfield Republican, The New Bedford Standard-Times, the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, The Argus-Press, The Bay City Times, The Battle Creek Enquirer, the Detroit Free Press, The Flint Journal, the Lansing State Journal, Livingston County Daily Press & Argus, The Muskegon Chronicle, Parasites Weekly, Petoskey News-Review, The Saginaw News, the Port Huron Times Herald, Traverse City Record-Eagle, Duluth News Tribune, The Mankato Free Press, St. Cloud Times, the Columbia Daily Tribune, The Kansas City Star, St. Louis American, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Springfield News-Leader, Billings Gazette, Las Vegas Mercury, the Las Vegas Sun, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the Nevada Appeal, the Reno Gazette-Journal, the Concord Monitor, The Keene Sentinel, the Portsmouth Herald, The Nashua Telegraph...

You get the picture...

success:

The North Korean test appears to have been a nuclear detonation but was fairly small by traditional standards, and possibly a failure or a partial success, federal and private analysts said yesterday.

Throughout history, the first detonations of aspiring nuclear powers have tended to pack the destructive power of 10,000 to 60,000 tons — 10 to 60 kilotons — of conventional high explosives.

But the strength of the North Korean test appears to have been a small fraction of that: around a kiloton or less, according to scientists monitoring the global arrays of seismometers that detect faint trembles in the earth from distant blasts.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council on Friday urged North Korea not to carry out a planned nuclear-weapon test and warned Pyongyang of unspecified consequences if it did.

The warning, in a formal statement adopted unanimously, came three days after North Korea's announced it planned its first underground nuclear test, saying its hand had been forced by a U.S. "threat of nuclear war and sanctions."

San Francisco Uber Leftist and loberated woman Nanci "Artemis the Chin" Pelosi resorts to time honored sexual stereotypes to make a political point:

'MAYBE IT WILL TAKE A WOMAN TO CLEAN UP THE HOUSE'...

Hmmm, the quote isn't in the article but this is interesting:

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is thinking 100 hours, time enough, she says, to begin to "drain the swamp" after more than a decade of Republican rule.

Don't Democrats generally protect swamps as "wetlands"? I notice that I misspelled "liberated" as "loberated" I think I'll leave it alone for these purposes, "loberated" fits Pelosi much better. Silly bitch is already picking out carpet samples and cutlery schemes. I love the agenda, raise the minimum wage to $200.00 an hour, we love the marketplace as long as it's in shackles and roll back the Bush era tax cuts, which in reality have caused the wealthy to shoulder a higher percentage of the tax burden now than they did back when Bill Clinton raised taxes on them. Plays well in Haight Ashbury I guess...In reality the democrats have a three point plan for America: Impeachment, Impeachment, Impeachment, feed the slavering beast..

Further evidence that there is no Bush Police State: Liberal wet dream opens at a theatre near you. Or does it? If we lived in a real police state this film would have been shut down the moment the writers put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard as it were) instead, as is true in free societies, the major chains are refusing to run it. Michael Moore needs to step in and exert his elephantine influence and get this picture released. I think they should run it, as close to the November elections as possible.This could be a Karl Rove masterstroke!

"Yes, it's controversial," Newmarket co-founder Chris Ball said. "It's quite a compelling political thriller. In many ways it is sympathetic to George Bush. (HitlerBurton W. McChimpstein)  It talks about a rush to judgment. In no way is it a call for violence."

Whatever. It may be a heady atmospheric think piece but many on the left will swell the coffers just to watch a cinematic Bush take a bullet.

TV spot links democrat Braley to Communist Party:

A new Republican television ad links Democratic congressional candidate Bruce Braley to the Communist Party and says he’s supported by “ultra liberals.”

Accuse republicans of dragging blacks to their deaths and burning churches in political ads, that's fair game, but call a democrat a Communist, shame on you! Scum.

Tom Cruise running out of placentas. Reckless Bush Eco-policies cause space shuttle to take a hit.



Scumbag Foley Fallout: People stoned in glass houses shouldn't throw anything:

I really didn't pay a whole lot of attention to this as I was in flux the last week or so, it's interesting to see republicans acting like democrats and democrats act like republicans. Foley is a dirtbag, but the usual  October Surprise stuff comes into play, many point out that people on both sides of the aisle knew of this for a long time. Republicans may have tried to cover it up and democrats held on to the information as long as they could to do the most political damage so as to sway the election. Reprehensible behavior on both sides. This guy sat on missing children subcommittees from what I understand. Freak. There's enough scumbaggery to go around..

Democrats should tread carefully, I guarantee there is a democrat out there doing the  same damn thing.

Quote of the Day, Ann "Artemis the Adam's Apple"Coulter:

But now, the same Democrats who are incensed that Bush's National Security Agency was listening in on al-Qaida phone calls are incensed that Republicans were not reading a gay congressman's instant messages.