http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/ent…..692974.stm

D’ya think McC’s mysterious morning announcement was announced to deflect attention from Todd’s affidavit?

what announcement ???

what did he announce ???

I been hearin about a mcsame surprise, and readin about peoplesellin Obama short on intrade

but I ain’t heard any announcement yet

if mcsame has something to get the first dude off the front page, he better hit it QUICK

todd palin comes off as petty and UNSTABLE, and that’s just based on HIS OWN STATEMENTS

tomorrow, the first dude is gonna be in over his head, and his wife is the one footing the bill on this. sarah palin has a positive duty to keep todd palin out of confidential state records. sounds to me as if todd palin took a gander at the trooper’s disability file

that would be a crime, and the responsible party is NOT todd palin

paging princess pandora, obstruction indictment, table for one …

so somebody needs to tell me what mcsame announced ???

or is GONNA announce

that could deflect the shit storm that is about to destroy princess pandora and the first dude

So he goes to the debate and there he “sprung his surprise idea” complete with posting around a document that explained under McCain’s plan “… the government would buy the mortgages at a discounted rate, reflecting the declining value of the mortgage paper”

All of which no doubt sounded good to McCain, had that right “gut” appeal. It just showed a complete ignorance of the real problems, particluarly those of cascading defaults in the shadow financial market. So now that some probably fairly panicked people who do understand the problems have had a chance to talk to him, uh, well, McCain reissued the document.

That would mean the U.S. would pay face value for the troubled documents, which was the main reason Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) gave for opposing the plan.

I particularly like the campaign’s position that since the sentence they removed ran completely contrary to the intentions of their initiative, it was a “simple mistake” to include it to start with.

Also OT, apparently some members of Pakistan’s parliment have made their way over to visit Aafia Siddiqui and they want her sent back to Pakistan.

Their take, after meeting with her, was that “She seemed calm and composed, and her mind was active and alert”

The USAtty handling her case, though, has had a different take:

In a letter to the judge, U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia has said that there was reason to believe Siddiqui, who has refused to cooperate with prison doctors, is suffering from a mental disease and is unfit to stand trial.

So it’s the USA has started the ball with “oooh, she’s crazy crazy crazy” And her lawyer wants her to receive medical treatment as the victim of torture.
And if Reuters keeps the same picture it has now with the story, well, let’s just say you could read the whole story and never get an explanation for why the protestor’s sign that starts, “Release Dr. Afia” goes on to say “and her innocent children”

Because no on in the press seems to really give a damn about her children and what has been done to them over the years. In particular, Nancy Grace and the US press have never gotten around to having even a minimal interest in the 11 yo child, a US citizen, that the US deliberately left to be disappeared by the Afghanis.

If Garcia (wasn’t he involved with ICE when they had the informant who they had wearing a wire to murders in Mexico and they sat back and did nothing while they listened to the torture and murder over the wire – didn’t want to save a man from torture and death bec it might hurt their drug case here?) thinks Safia is nuts, I wonder what phrase comes to mind to describe the men who would walk away from an 11 yo and leave him to be disappeared and used as leverage.

The protective order gambit is particularly nasty abuse of the justice system. I understand why temporary orders are given with limited or no evidence but I do not understand why an individual who seeks one disingenuously and lies in the court of law does not pay a price. There must be consequences for abusing this public safety mechanism.

Page 2, Line 16: “In 2005 and 2006, State Trooper Mike Wooten was the subject of a court ordered domestic violence protective order.”

Palin of course leaves out the fact that the order was granted while Wooten was out of state taking his step son to Portland. While he was away, Sarah Palin and her sister went before a judge in Palmer and convinced the judge to grant the order without any evidence of domestic violence. Upon his return, Anchorage Judge John Suddock questioned Palin’s sister and immediately revoked the order, calling it an egregious abuse of the legal system.

Compare and Contrast the Honor of Capt. Langsdorff to Bush, McCain, the Palins and the Republican Party.