McCain Has A “Soulmate”

O.M.G.

h/t Nicole at C&L

Happiest of Birthdays B’Man!!!

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Well– you are a man of quiet announcements when you want to be! lol… Have a happy!

Catagory 5 by U.S. Landfall

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New Orleanians told to flee storm

Mayor Ray Nagin used emotive language to announce the evacuation
The mayor of New Orleans has issued a mandatory evacuation order for the entire city, as Hurricane Gustav bears down on the US Gulf Coast.
Ray Nagin said residents of the city’s West Bank should begin moving out at 0800 (1300 GMT) on Sunday, with the East Bank leaving at midday (1700 GMT).
He called it “the storm of the century” and added: “You need to be scared”.
Gustav, which is forecast to strengthen to a Category 5 storm over the Gulf, powered through western Cuba overnight.

Anyone who’s thinking of staying – rethink it, get out of town
Ray Nagin
New Orleans mayor

Gustav ploughed through Cuba’s Isla de la Juventud, or Isle of Youth, overnight on Saturday before hitting the mainland in Pinar del Rio province, home to Cuba’s lucrative tobacco plantations.
The storm, which has now moved into the Gulf of Mexico, currently has maximum sustained winds of nearly 240km/h (150mph), with even stronger gusts.
At least 300,000 people have been evacuated in Cuba, says the BBC’s correspondent there, Michael Voss. There has been extensive flooding and reports of severe damage where the storm has hit, but no reports of fatalities.  Officials on Isla de la Juventud said that nearly all the island’s roads were washed out and many areas were underwater.
No help !! That’s the message to those that stay, Hours before Mr Nagin spoke, a hurricane watch was put in place along America’s North Gulf coast, from Texas along to the Alabama-Florida border.
The BBC’s Kevin Connolly, in New Orleans, says Mr Nagin spoke in “passionate and desperate” terms, telling a televised news conference the storm was “so powerful” and growing more powerful every day.
“I’m not sure we’ve seen anything like it,” he told reporters at City Hall.
Mr Nagin said Gustav – expected to make landfall on Monday or Tuesday – was more powerful than Hurricane Katrina.
That storm, which hit New Orleans in 2005, killed some 1,800 people and caused hundreds of billions of dollars worth of damage.
Addressing anyone considering riding out Gustav, Mr Nagin said: “I have news for you – that would be one of the biggest mistakes of your life”.
The mayor said he was aiming for a 100% evacuation, which extends to members of the emergency services – fewer than 50 city workers will remain in the city.
Mr Nagin described the threat facing New Orleans in stark terms, calling Gustav “the mother of all storms” and urging people to follow the evacuation order.
Mr Nagin said that there would be no emergency services to help anyone who chose to remain in the city.
“If you are stubborn enough, if you are not taking this as seriously as we need you to take it, and if you decide to stay; you are on your own.”
The mayor, who was in office when New Orleans was hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, said those who stayed would almost certainly be stranded in a flooded city.
“Anyone who decides to stay, I’ll say it like I said it before Katrina: make sure you have an axe, because you will be carving your way, or busting your way out of your attic to get on your roof with waters that you will be surrounded with in this event,” he said.
“So anyone who’s thinking of staying, rethink it, get out of town.”
Our correspondent says that thousands of people were already beginning to leave the city before the evacuation order was announced, joining a continuous stream of vehicles heading north.
State governor of Louisiana Bobby Jindal was in New Orleans to observe the evacuation taking place.
“We’re pleased to see so many people taking the evacuation order seriously, you’re literally seeing tens of thousands of people being evacuated from this Union passenger station right here.
“You’re seeing people go by bus, by train, they are being taken by bus to the airport to be flown out of harms way as well. We can fly 700 people per hour out.”
Meanwhile, Republican party presidential candidate John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin announced they would travel to Mississippi on Sunday to observe storm preparations there.
Republican officials are considering what to do about the party’s National Convention (due to open on Monday) depending on when and where the storm hits.
Mr McCain hinted there might be changes to the tone of the gathering, rather than a cancellation of the event.
He told Fox News: “You know it just wouldn’t be appropriate to have a festive occasion while a near tragedy or a terrible challenge is presented in the form of a natural disaster, so we’re monitoring it from day to day and I’m saying a few prayers, too.”
The hurricane has already claimed the lives of more than 80 people in the Caribbean.
It has swept through Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica over the past week, causing widespread damage.
It has strengthened rapidly from a tropical storm to a Category 4 hurricane, and is expected to grow to a Category 5 storm – the maximum on the scale – as it crosses the Gulf of Mexico.

B’Man’s Patriot Watch: Bruce Nester

Tax Dollars Used to Squash Democracy

h/t missykcarr

Trickle-Down Madness! The World is INSANE!

Beheaded Man Identified
Gabrielle Giroday and Ian Hitchen ,  Winnipeg Free Press and Brandon Sun
Published: Thursday, July 31, 2008
BRANDON, Man. – Screaming passengers fled in terror from a Greyhound bus as an unidentified fellow passenger suddenly stabbed a man sleeping next to him, decapitated him and waved the severed head at horrified witnesses standing outside.
The apparently unprovoked assault left 36 men, women and children stranded Wednesday night on the shoulder of the darkening Trans-Canada Highway near Portage la Prairie, Man., about 85 kilometres west of Winnipeg, watching while the bus driver and a driver of a nearby truck shut the crazed attacker inside the bus with the mangled victim.
A number of tribute groups on the social networking website Facebook identified the victim as 22-year-old Tim McLean.

At a news conference Thursday afternoon, RCMP confirmed they have a suspect – who is not believed to be from Manitoba – in custody, but offered few new details about this baffling homicide. The suspect is expected to be formally charged Friday.
“By the time the police arrived, the driver and the remaining passengers had all safely exited the bus,” said Sgt. Steve Colwell.
He said officers could see the man walking around inside the bus, but said he refused to exit. The standoff lasted for hours.
“At 1:28 a.m., the suspect . . . attempted to jump out of the bus after breaking a window. He was immediately subdued and arrested without incident and is currently in RCMP custody,” Colwell said.
The suspect’s name has not been released.
“He didn’t do anything to provoke the guy. The guy just took a knife out and stabbed him, started stabbing him like crazy and cut his head off,” said Garnet Caton, 26, a passenger on the Edmonton-to-Winnipeg bus.
“Some people were puking, some people were crying, other people were in shock. . . . Everybody was running, screaming off the bus.”
Caton said the attacker was only on the bus for a brief time, after boarding in western Manitoba.
Passenger Cody Olmstead said he had been watching a movie on the bus just before the attack began.
“We were watching Zorro; next thing I know, I hear someone screaming.”
Olmstead, 21, told reporters he had smoked a cigarette earlier in the trip with the victim, who got on the bus in Edmonton.
He said the victim said he was going to Winnipeg.
After the bus pulled over and the terrified passengers fled, Olmstead said the attacker was taunting those outside with the victim’s severed head.
“He came back, standing in the doorway with the head, looked at him, dropped the head and went back and started cutting buddy back up.”
He said when police showed up, the taunting continued.
“He come up and picks the head up and he’s waving it in the window. I just smoked a cigarette with this man earlier – like, the head. He’s shaking it back and forth in the window.”
Caton said he and other passengers prevented the attacker from getting off the blood-soaked bus by threatening him with makeshift weapons – a hammer and a crowbar.
“We were telling him, ‘Stay put, stay put, stay there, don’t try to come out.’ He tried to get the bus working and the bus driver disabled the bus somehow in the back. I’m not sure how he did it, and at that point, I think the police showed up,” he said, adding officers rushed them away.
Caton and other passengers said the attacker and his victim, who was listening to music on headphones, were sitting together at the rear of the bus, and the attack appeared to be unprovoked; no words were exchanged.
He told a TV station the attacker had actually changed seats to sit next to his victim just before the killing.
Caton described the man who attacked the passenger as bald and wearing sunglasses. He seemed oblivious to others when the stabbing occurred, said Caton, adding he was struck by how calm the man was.
“There was no rage or anything. He was like a robot, stabbing the guy,” he said.
Caton said the victim boarded in Edmonton, was wearing hip-hop clothing and appeared to be around 20 years of age.
After the killing, the other passengers were later taken to Brandon, Man., to be interviewed by police and to stay overnight at a hotel there.
Crisis counsellors were also at the hotel to provide support to the passengers, and counsellors could be seen chatting with them outside the hotel as groups went out to local stores for snacks or to smoke cigarettes.
One small boy, who was with an adult man and woman, was given a plush teddy bear by a crisis health worker.
“The first thing I heard was something like a terrible type (of) yowl, and that was from the guy who got stabbed,” said an elderly woman on the bus, from Winnipeg.
The woman and her adult daughter said they were three or four rows in front of the man when the attack began.
“(My daughter said) ‘Oh my God,’ and everybody else started screaming,” she said. “They had terror in their eyes.”
Two other passengers on the bus, a 22-year-old man and a 21-year-old woman from France, said they were heading to Winnipeg after visiting the woman’s father in Whitehorse. The 22-year-old man said in French that he saw a man holding a long knife repeatedly stab another passenger. He and his girlfriend said they were shocked by the attack, and the isolation in the middle of the prairie when it occurred.
“There was nowhere to go,” she said.
Speaking in Quebec City, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said the issue of safety on buses may need to be examined more closely once the legal process of this case is over.
“We’re never closed to looking at how Canadians can be more safe and more secure,” Day told reporters in Quebec on Thursday. “This particular incident, as horrific as it is, is obviously extremely rare.”
Greyhound spokesman Eric Wesley, speaking from Texas, said drivers are trained to get help as soon as they can when incidents occur.
“This is very rare, unique occurrence. Bus transportation is one of the safest modes of transportation. This is highly unique that something like this happened,” he said. “Our drivers are trained to provide the safest travel for all our passengers, and every time an incident occurs, they know to pull the bus over and call 911.”
Wesley said counselling will be provided and monetary compensation will be determined on an individual basis.
“We are going to do whatever we need to provide the passengers with counselling or any other measures to make sure they’re taken care of.”

B’Man’s Sabbath Watch: The Healer Is Addicted To Porn

From Jonathon Turley:

Pastor Fakes Terminal Cancer to Hide Pornography Addiction

Pastor Michael Guglielmucci has shocked his flock of faithful at the Edge Church International in Australia that he is not dying from cancer and that he used the fraud to hide a 16-year addiction to pornography. Guglielmucci is internationally known for his hit song, Healer.
The minister explained in an interview that “[t]his is who I am … I’m addicted to the stuff, it consumes my mind … I’m sick and this is why I had to come up some sort of explanation of what was happening in my body.”

He says that his loss of hair and constant vomiting were physical reactions to the addiction — a curious notion. He says that he not only lied to his congregation with falsified emails from non-existent doctors but to his own family, including his father who founded the church. For a video of Guglielmucci discussing his cancer, click here.

There remains the question of criminal fraud and possible civil liability for Guglielmucci.

Guglielmucci was something of a religious sensation after he wrote the hit song Healer that has become popular worldwide. For a video of his playing the song, click here. It is a rather limited piece, but notable for its chorus: “I trust in You” — a reference clearly to the Almighty and not the Minister.

For the full story, click here and here.

And as a bonus, watch this ‘prayer line’ as Pastor Todd bentley goes thru and ‘lay’s on hands’ to the people

Looks like a wild party to me.

And for a nice article on the ‘movement of God’ that the Tattooed maniac is leading the sheeple in can be found at Alternet.

Follow up to Bristol Palin Pregnancy Rumor

B’Man: My friend the Blog Queen at Sagacious Rambling is a nurse and she has noticed something about Gov Palin that I did not put together immediately. I know she is somewhat hot, but at 44 and her 5th child, something seems amiss about Trig. The Blog Queen points out what I overlooked and added this pic (and has an excellent video of an 8 month pregnant Governor that shows no buns in ovens):

Rumors are circulating online like wildfire about whether Governor Sarah Palin is young Trig’s, supposedly her 5th child, mother at all.

According to comments from classmates and other members of the community Bristol Palin, the governor’s 16 year old daughter was out of school during what would have been the last trimester of the governor’s pregnany due to a bad case of mono. A case so severe, according to the Palin family, Bristol missed nearly 5 months of school. Her own staff had their doubts back in March.

The story is that Sarah Palin’s water broke while she was attending a conference in Texas. She then proceeded to give a 30-minute speech before taking an 11-12 hour flight home to Alaska to give birth.

Now here’s where my nursing experience and judgment come in. This was alleged to have been Gov. Palin’s 5th pregnancy. It has been my experience that the more pregnancies a woman has….the quicker the labor progresses. And in the event that there is a spontaneous rupture of membrane (water breaking), there isn’t a very long window of time before the eagerly anticipated bundle of joy makes his debut to the world. More importantly, once a pregnant woman’s water breaks she needs to seek medical attention immediately as not doing so can predispose mother and child to sepsis – a serious systemic infection. In other words, this doesn’t add up.

It is difficult for me to believe Governor Palin was able to complete a speech, board a plane for a 12 hour flight and then get to the hospital in time to deliver Trig. Although it’s a bit far-fetched…but let’s just consider her story is true. Governor Palin knew Trig was going to have problems. Why didn’t she alert her staff immediately and seek treatment at the nearest hospital? What if there’d been complications?

So, what is really happening here? Is this a mother who was simply trying to protect the image of her family or was this a deceptive politician using this falsehood to bolster her career and win admiration for claiming the child as her own and choosing not to terminate the pregnancy knowing the child would have Down’s Syndrome? Does this type of behavior mean she won’t be a great asset to our country’s government?

True or false…don’t know that the real story will ever be revealed. But it’s certainly strange that all photos on the Alaska State Department’s official website that show Sarah Palin and her family have been taken down.

New Rules: Just Ask John McCain

Barack Obama’s Brother: George Obama

Barack Obama’s Brother Lives In A Slum.
Obama asked how many houses McCain had. But Obama’s half brother lives in a hut.
Barack Obama’s little-known haft brother lives in a slum in Nairobi.

h/t missykcarr

B’Man’s Patriot Watch: Ralph Nader

B’Man: I dare you to watch this video. If you ever wanted to know what this man has done or is capable of doing, please watch this. You have no idea what this man has done for you, already. Can you imagine what he would do for America if he were elected as president?

Ralph Nader’s Achievements

Some of the books Ralph Nader has written or helped produce:

Unsafe at Any Speed
Action for a Change(with Donald Ross, Brett English, and Joseph Highland)
Whistle-Blowing (with Peter J. Petkas and Kate Blackwell)
Corporate Power in America (with Mark Green)
You and Your Pension (with Kate Blackwell)
The Consumer and Corporate Accountability
Corporate Power in America
Taming the Giant Corporation (with Mark Green and Joel Seligman)
Verdicts on Lawyers
The Menace of Atomic Energy (with John Abbotts)
The Lemon Book
Who’s Poisoning America (with Ronald Brownstein and John Richard)
The Big Boys (with William Taylor)
Winning the Insurance Game (with Wesley Smith and J. Robert Hunter)
Canada Firsts
The Frugal Shopper (with Wesley Smith)
Collision Course (with Wesley Smith)
No Contest: Corporate Lawyers and Perversion of Justice in America (with Wesley Smith)
The Ralph Nader Reader
Cutting Corporate Welfare
Crashing the Party: Taking on the Corporate Government in an Age of Surrender

Instrumental in the passing of the following legislation:

Clean Air Act
Clean Water Act
Consumer credit disclosure law
Consumer Product Safety Act
Co-Op Bank Bill
Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Freedom of Information Act
Funeral home cost disclosure law
Law establishing Environmental Protection Agency
Medical Devices safety
Mine Health and Safety Act
Mobile home safety
National Automobile and Highway Traffic Safety Act
National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act
Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act
Nuclear power safety
Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)
Pension protection law
Safe Water Drinking Act
Tire safety & grading disclosure law
Whistleblower Protection Act
Wholesome Meat Act
Wholesome Poultry Product Act

Obama, Carter, Israel

August 30, 2008 www.votenader.org www.officialnaderstore.com

Obama is such a man of principle. Take Israel/Palestine as an example. Tradition has it that former presidents get a speaking slot at the national conventions. Not at Obama’s convention. Not in Denver. President Jimmy Carter was scheduled to speak at the DNC in Denver. And then, at the last minute, his speech was cancelled. Why? Because Carter has spoken out about the plight of the Palestinian people? Because Carter has written a book with the descriptive title: Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid? Because Obama didn’t want to offend the militarist American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)? Apparently yes, according to this article from the Jewish Daily Forward. Denying Carter a speaking slot at the DNC “shows the party gets it and Barack Obama’s campaign gets it,” according to one Democratic party activist. Well, we get it too. While Obama and McCain take the hardline AIPAC militarist line. Nader/Gonzalez will stand with the millions of Americans, Israelis and Palestinians who want peace, with justice for all. Stand with us now. Stand with a candidacy that will be on 45 ballots, that is bumping up against ten percent in key swing state polls, and that will push hard over the next two months to make it a viable three way race. Help us reach our goal of $100,000 by September 4th. We’re about a third of the way home. But we need to push hard this Labor Day weekend to make it. Give whatever you can — $10, $20, $50, $100 — for the peace candidacy. And remember, if you give $100 or more now, we’ll send you three DVDs — the Denver rally, the Minneapolis rally, and a special debate DVD. (Three DVD offer ends September 4 at 11:59 p.m.) Onward to November The Nader Team

B’Man’s Hypocrite Watch: Bush’s Brain Fart

Richard Noggin’ Saturday: The St Paul Police

The Police State is in full force in St Paul. You think this is Americanism or Nazism? h/t The Stimulator

Beware: rough language

RNC EMERGENCY DISPATCH #1

http://submedia.tv

At 9:15 Friday night, the Saint Paul Police entered all doors of the RNC Convergence Space in St. Paul, MN with guns drawn. The Space serves as a community center and organizing space for the upcoming protests against the Republican National Convention. At the time of the raid, people were sitting down to dinner and watching a movie.

A Mississippian Goes To The DNC… Guess What Happened?

B’Man: I have to admit that I am a fan of young Jeff Walter’s writing (down at CottonMouth), even though we come to a different conclusion who to support as president. Such is the way with the two party brainwashing that happened to America many years ago, but that is besides the point of this post.

I have been following the Police State in America and wanted to show you how a Mississippi boy experiences the DNC (and he is a delegate). Jeff writes it off as a loss for him, but what he doesn’t realize is that the entire bullshit show he has gone to see is pretty much represented by his first day’s activities. It may not get much better than his first day (even tho I do hope he improves his situation).

But what Jeff doesn’t really grasp is that he just witnessed the Police State in action. There are videos galore of cops attacking protesters (and I put a video up this morning where they arrested an ABC guy for what is apparently bullshit reasons).

Jeff (and everyone at CottonMouth): please understand what you are supporting by supporting that party. You are continuing the same old stuff… the same old military and corporate expansion of the American Empire and at the same time, supporting the Police State activities that Jeff witnessed first hand, but didn’t have the understanding to call it what it was.

I know there are some accolades and press from your venture, but in my opinion, you have ended up on the wrong side of what America needs. But in the case I am discussing there are more than 2 sides. I wish you could fully grasp this.

DNC Day 1 Report: Denver 1 – Jeff Walters 0

It was tough day for the home team here at Cotton Mouth. The day started for me at 6:00AM with the realization that I had lost my debit card the night before. My ride was to pick me up at 6:30 to take me to the airport for my 9:00 flight. I frantically had to make sure my room which was booked on the lost card would not be cancelled by my subsequent cancellation of the lost card.

For money, I had to write an enormous check to a friend of mine who went the extra mile that only a true friend would do, and spent a good hour of his work day attempting to, and finally succeeding to wire me some cash. I had to handle all of this from the Jackson and Houston airport terminals while still trying to make my flights on time with my stuff intact.

My stress level was pretty high to say the least. Finally I received word from the Hotel in Denver that as long as I paid cash up front, I would not have to put down a credit card. This was my first of a couple of victories today, stacked against a ton of losses.

I arrived in Denver around 1:30 local time. It took another 45 minutes for my shuttle to show up to take to the hotel. I had to stop at a Safeway to pick up my Western Union. The only problem was, was that they did not have enough cash to fill my transfer. I then had to call the shuttle again this time to take me to a Wal Mart who presumable had the money. The bank inside of the Wal Mart was able to do it for at 3:58 local time. The bank closed at 4:00. That was the second and last of my victories today.

Finally with cash in hand I was able to check in. The computers at my hotel were down when I arrived, and it took the nice lady at least 30 minutes to check me in. I quickly cleaned up and prepared to headed downstairs to find my way downtown. There was a free shuttle that would take you to the convention as long were credentialed. The only problem there was my credentials were downtown. This was a classic case of chicken or the egg. Without my credentials the was no shuttle for me, so I caught a ride with the hotel to the bus stop.

The bus I needed to be on to get downtown pulled away from the gate as we turned in. I had to wait another 30 minutes for the next bus. By this time it was 6:00 local time. It was supposed to be a 30 minute bus ride to downtown. Due to traffic, I did not arrive until 7:00 local time. Now I had to get my credentials. I was told repeatedly that I needed to go the Sheraton on Court street a few blocks down to pick up my credentials.

I made my way slowly through the crowd to the Sheraton. I was getting agitated because nobody could give me a straight answer on where to pick up my credentials. Finally I arrive, out of breath to the front door of the Sheraton. As I reached for the door, they slammed it in my face and locked it. Shouting through the glass a concierge yelled “We are under lock down, no one can come in or leave.”

Bewildered, I turned around and came to the realization I probably was not going to get in the convention tonight. About that time a group of 30 or 40 riot gear clad police trotted right by me. One of the police officers on the scene not dressed in riot gear told me that if he were me he would be moving along. I took his advice to heart and quickly started backtracking. I did not make it to the end of the Sheraton when another group of 30-40 riot gear clad police jogged right by me again.

Now I was really curious as to what was going on. I joined a group of 25 or so onlookers at the corner of the Sheraton and watched the riot police form a secure perimeter around the back side of the building. Before long they had their pepper spray dispensers pointed right at us and told us to get down the road or get sprayed. I don’t think I heard the end of this sentence.

Feeling defeated I found a little dive to get something to eat. Figuring my best bet was to call it day and recharge for a full day Tuesday, I headed back to the hotel. There I found other bloggers who informed me on where and when to pick up my credentials. As I lat down on the bed I chuckled to myself, Denver 1 Jeff Walters 0.

Happy Birthday John McCain: Keep The Booze Coming

LOL. Damn, Jack. That is so freaking funny!

h/t The Familographer