Due to all of the cries from the wingnuts that Barack Obama's birth certificate was a forgery, Factcheck.org has sent it's investigators to Chicago to actually, physically view Obama's birth certificate.

What they had to say, below the fold.

There's a new kid in town. It's call Cuil (pronounced cool) which was created by former Google engineers Tom Costello and his wife Ann Patterson and Danny Sullivan, also joined by Russell Power and Louis Monier. (Monier of eBay search, AltaVista and BabelFish fame)

It claims to provide much faster lookups than the usual search services.

But what got me was their privacy policy.

More below the fold.

A blogger in my local paper, Aubrey Marron, wrote today with some awesome insight tying John McCain's comment against Cindy McCain's makeup wearing habits, her addiction to pain killers, and how it might all tie into John McCain, the tortured "war hero".  

It's an excellent, yet scary read. What initially looks like yet another opinion of McCain's nasty screed against Cindy, it's much better. It is a look at Cindy McCain's drug abuse in a different light.

The meat of the article, below the fold

For all those who are shocked that Senator Obama, Democratic Nominee for President, is not the Messiah who can part waters and stop FISA bills from passing with a single swoop of his hand, I encourage you to stop by E-Bay to peruse the listings for several useful items.

"No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her - that's by Susan B. Anthony,"

Where have we seen this quote before?  Any guesses?  hillaryis44 perhaps?  Yep.

Noquarter?  Yeah.

All of them.  It's been their Mantra.

Well, it's also been Debra Bartoshevich's mantra.  She's become a Clinton Dead-Ender. Why is this a big deal?  She's a pledged delegate from WI.  Even better, she plans on voting McCain in November.

More below the fold....

You may recall a diary by jesses on this last March, U.S. Marine Throws Crying Puppy Off A Cliff, of two marines who were caught on tape, throwing a puppy high in the air, over a cliff.

The story of the incident was on CNN

(CNN) -- The military is investigating a "shocking and deplorable" YouTube video that seems to show a Marine throwing a puppy off a rocky cliff.

In her noble attempt to call Hillary supporters to come back to Dkos, much respected blogger nyceve posted this diary, Come back Alegre, come back Hillary supporters, to mixed reviews.

Many people felt that, while Alegre was an excellent blogger, and fierce Clinton supporter, she could be just as formidable an Obama supporter, once she came back into the fold and accepted him as our Democratic Nominee.

Her answer, below the fold.

Their web site has been corrected, but according to conservative political commentator, radio talk show host, columnist, and attorney, Debbie Schlussel, the print version of The Detroit News, the headline reads:

Fox News was named in a lawsuit that was dismissed in Lewiston, Maine, in which the hosts of "Fox and Friends" reported, as fact, a parody of a prank perpetrated on Somali Muslim students in April, 2007.

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Newsday.com

The case was an outgrowth of an April 2007 prank in which a middle school student tossed a slab of leftover Easter ham onto a table surrounded by Somali Muslim youngsters, knowing the Muslims would be offended. Muslims consider pork unclean.

Howard Fineman is reporting on MSNBC right now, saying that Obama would consider offering Hillary the VP slot, but ONLY.  ONLY... if she refuses it.

WTF?

What does this mean?

More before the fold.

A quote by a commenter here: here

Here's the full quote, for your viewing pleasure:

I truly believe that HRC's female supporters . .
of the type that Brazille is describing are fucking nutcases.

They have lost all sense of proportion and judgment, to the point that their desire for some kind of "feminist" vindication in seeing a woman as President has become a warped obsession that has blinded them to every other issue at stake.  Yes, it would be nice to see a female president.  

[snipped for brevity]

These people are truly fucked-in-the-head.  (And that's an understatement.)  They are nutsos.  Wackos.  Mentally ill, even.

In fact, they share a similar pathology to Bush's hardcore supporters.

In my book, they're sick in the head and they need to be treated as such.  

Why this pisses me off, and it should for you too, down there.

CNN

A Florida court threw out a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the Democratic Party's decision not to seat delegates from Florida — as litigants prepared to appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Political consultant Victor DiMaio and his lawyer Michael Steinberg had compared the party's decision to earlier prohibitions against allowing African-Americans to vote and invoked the trauma of the Florida recount in the 2000 contest between Al Gore and George W. Bush, both arguments also used by Hillary Clinton to support the seating of the state’s delegates

In her speech yesterday, in Boca Raton, FL, Hillary spoke of how the outcome of elections should be determined by the will of the people, a "supporter" sitting behind her is engrossed in her argument to count all the votes.

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Just heard Andrea Mitchell say that Senator Ted Kennedy has been diagnosed with a brain tumor.

No word yet on its operability.  No prognosis at this time.

Breaking, Ted Kennedy has MALIGNANT brain tumor

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Update [2008-5-20 14:22:0 by second gen]: You can send your wishes to Senator Kennedy at his website. (Although, it appears to be about ready to crash right now, I can't get in.  Tons of traffic, perhaps?)

Twenty disabled activists for ADAPT, a disability rights organizatoin, await processing after arrest at Senator McCain's Washington Office this week.

AP Story via CBS News

At least 20 disabled activists, most of them in wheelchairs, were arrested outside Sen. John McCain's offices Tuesday after being refused a meeting with the GOP presidential nominee-to-be over a bill to expand Medicaid coverage to more people who want in-home care.

Cassie James, an Organizer with ADAPT of Pennsylvania, says:

"I don't get it, Sen. McCain's website says 'There is no cause greater than protection of human dignity.' We were at his office asking him to partner with us to protect OUR human dignity by supporting legislation that allows all older and disabled Americans to live in their own homes instead of being forced into nursing homes where all dignity and personal privacy are lost. This is not rocket science; it's basic human and civil rights!"

More below the fold.

Yep, that's what he said in his "Forgotten America" tour. He utteed these words while standing in front of a factory that is essentially shut down, to it's five remaining workers, cut from 100, and residents of Youngstown, OH.

During a town-hall meeting in Youngstown, former local labor leader Jack O'Connell stood to denounce NAFTA as a "bad four letters."

McCain jokingly pointed out that NAFTA in fact is composed of five letters, though O'Connell seemed to be equating it to a "four-letter word," as in a curse word.

Ha.. ha ha... hooo, that McCain, he's a funny one, alright.

The Lansing State Urinal Journal (the daily newspaper of Michigan's capitol city) has a poll between McShame and Obama.  My guess is, the paper is trying to determine if he really is "Unelectable"  

Daily news poll

The Democratic presidential nominee has not yet been selected. But, if the choice for president were between these two candidates, who would get your vote?

It currently stands at 50/50.  This is one paper most assuredly read by the Legistlators and Supers.

(scroll to bottom of page)

Now stands at 54/46

ALBANY, New York, Nov. 20, 2000

"We are a very different country than we were 200 years ago," Clinton said. "I believe strongly that in a democracy, we should respect the will of the people and to me, that means it's time to do away with the Electoral College and move to the popular election of our president."

The first lady also said that because of the closeness of this year's presidential election, "I hope no one is ever in doubt again about whether their vote counts."

Well, that was, of course, when she was against it, before she was for it.