http://www.politicalbull.net Political Bull - Political Ideas about the world we inhabit. These are intended as thought provoking observations about the human world. We hope to challenge our readers to think beyond the conventional by providing a different slant on world news, economics, politics and religion. The Treasury backed away from using a $700 billion bailout fund to cleanse bank balance sheets of toxic mortgage debt, while Europe reported more gloomy economic news and the World Bank warned that international trade may contract in 2009. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Days before American International Group received its latest government bailout on Monday, the troubled insurer hosted a $343,000 conference for independent financial planners at the Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak resort in Phoenix. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Democratic Congressional leaders said Tuesday that they were ready to push emergency legislation to aid the imperiled auto industry when lawmakers return to Washington next week, setting the stage for one last showdown with President Bush. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Dr. Ross -It seems to me that in order for the Republicans to have any hopes of maintaining any sort of relevance in 2012 and beyond, they themselves will need to bring about "Change they (And all of their supporters) can believe in". Let me explain what I mean by this: http://www.politicalbull.net/republicans_need_an_obama.html A Republican congressman from Georgia said Monday he fears that President-elect Obama will establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist dictatorship. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html This would be a great job for John McCain! http://www.politicalbull.net/john_mccain_new_job.html Ford Motor said it lost $129 million in the third quarter and burned up $7.7 billion in cash. Later, GM said it lost $2.5 billion and had $6.9 billion in negative cash flow and could run out of cash early in 2009. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed $4.7 billion in new taxes -- including a three-year increase in the state sales tax -- and $4.5 billion in new cuts Thursday to prevent a cash crisis brought on by a projected $11.2 billion hole in the current state budget. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html This would be a great job for Sarah Palin! http://www.politicalbull.net/sarah_palin_new_job.html Sarah Palin left the national stage Wednesday, but the controversy over her role on the ticket flared as aides to John McCain disclosed new details about her expensive wardrobe purchases and revealed that a Republican Party lawyer would be dispatched to Alaska to inventory and retrieve the clothes still in her possession. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Sales at the nation’s largest retailers fell off a cliff in October, casting fresh doubt on the survival of some chains and signaling that this will probably be the weakest Christmas shopping season in decades. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html My fellow Americans are a tough group of people. They will endure through calamitous times and pull together when the going gets tough. They are easy going people that will tolerate a great deal. But, there comes a time, when you push them too much, and they rise up and make their voices heard. This is exactly what happened on November 4th, 2008 - A day that has gone down in history. http://www.politicalbull.net/america_has_spoken.html To Every African American, Chinese American, Japanese American, Native American, and Latin American that has lived in a nation that has treated them as second class citizens: America has apologized! http://www.politicalbull.net/white_america_apologizes.html The final Rove & Co. electoral map of the 2008 election cycle points to a 338-200 Barack Obama electoral vote victory over John McCain. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html These are some of the freebies that companies are offering customers who participate in the electoral process: http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Circuit City Stores Inc., the unprofitable electronics retailer, will close 155 U.S. stores and renegotiate leases on some of the remaining 566 locations to conserve cash. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html After months of campaigning, hours of election speeches and debates, and hundreds of opinion polls tracking the ebb and flow of the 2008 US presidential election, the time of reckoning is near. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html There is a recurring theme that has circulated throughout this election cycle. It is a down year for Republicans. Republican commentators and politicians have been talking about their struggles as if it is simply an unfortunate set of circumstances that have made this election year exceedingly difficult. They seem to be ignoring the fact that their wounds are entirely self-inflicted. http://www.politicalbull.net/republican_party_election_landslide_defeat.html Joe Wurzelbacher, aka Joe the Plumber, has become an integral part of John McCain's presidential bid, but it appears the Arizona senator's campaign and the now-famous Toledo plumber need to work on their communication skills. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Largest U.S. oil company surges past analyst estimates to post net income of $14.83 billion. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Let’s face it folks Barack Obama is going to lose the election. It is just sad that the prevailing mentality in the USA today is the same mentality that kept slavery alive. That prevailing mentality is a conservative mentality. Conservatives believe that change of any kind is un-American. No matter how good the benefits may be, change is wrong. Conservatives believe that the way the country was set-up by the Founding Fathers is good enough; don’t change it. Never mind that the Founding Fathers wanted a dynamic government that could change with the course of time. http://www.politicalbull.net/barack_obama_will_lose.html Whether the Republican presidential ticket wins or loses on Tuesday, a group of prominent conservatives are planning to meet the next day to discuss the way forward, and whatever the outcome, Gov. Sarah Palin will be high on the agenda. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Joe the Plumber endorsed Republican John McCain for president on Tuesday. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Amazon's listing seems to have caught itself and deleted the Obama mask from the terrorist page. However, before that happened, The Ticket captured a photo (Available at the above link). http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Sunday's surprise raid by helicopter-borne U.S. troops in eastern Syria raises at least three key questions. Given that the U.S. is saying the number of volunteer fighters infiltrating Iraq from Syria has dwindled significantly in the past 18 months, why was this action deemed necessary? Does the raid signal a shift in U.S. tactics in the region? And with just over a week before the U.S. presidential election, why now? http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html McCain campaign has become embroiled by infighting, with signs of tension between Mr. McCain’s advisers and Ms. Palin’s staff, and subject to unusual public criticism from other Republicans for how his advisers have handled this race. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html There are many ways to lose a presidential election. John McCain is losing in a way that threatens to take the entire Republican Party down with him. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Fact-Check.org posted its research on the Anne Kilkenny email the results are in:"Answer: The facts in the e-mail message about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin are mostly correct." http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html A McCain campaign volunteer made up a story of being robbed, pinned to the ground and having the letter "B" scratched on her face in a politically inspired attack, police said Friday. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html There is an old joke about three pollsters out quail hunting. The first one aims and fires high. The second aims and fires low. The third one exclaims: "we got 'em!". This year more money is being spent on electoral polling than ever before yet the polls are providing more questionable results than ever. There are three good reasons to distrust all the polls. http://www.politicalbull.net/polls_cannot_be_trusted.html John McCain and Sarah Palin side by side. http://www.politicalbull.net/john_mccain_sarah_palin.html Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said a ``once-in-a-century credit tsunami'' has engulfed financial markets and conceded that his free-market ideology shunning regulation was flawed."Yes, I found a flaw," Greenspan said in response to grilling from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. "That is precisely the reason I was shocked because I'd been going for 40 years or more with very considerable evidence that it was working exceptionally well." http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html We found the official license. http://www.politicalbull.net/joe_the_plumber.html The one minute preview! http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html If a student of history were to research the rise and fall of civilizations they would no doubt study Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. After a promising start as a Republic the Romans would embrace militarism, slavery and dictatorship in which to maintain and expand their empire. The Patricians, the wealthy Romans whose greed and thirst for power was unquenchable, were in constant conflict with the common man. Both groups' interests were heard and debated in the Roman Senate, but eventually the wealthy prevailed, the farmers losing their land to the wealthy landowners and a system of slavery imposed in their stead. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Sarah Palin in response to a question sent to the network by a third grader at a local elementary school about what the Vice President does, Palin erroneously argued that the Vice President is “in charge of the United States Senate“: http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html A North Carolina congressman locked in a tight re-election race admitted Tuesday to recently telling a crowd of John McCain supporters that "liberals hate real Americans," the latest in a string of comments from Republicans that appear to question Democrats' patriotism. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Economic inequality is growing in the world's richest countries, particularly in the United States, jeopardizing the American Dream of social mobility just as the world tilts toward recession, a 30-nation report said Tuesday.The gap between rich and poor has widened over the last 20 years in nearly all the countries studied, even as trade and technological advances have spurred rapid growth in their economies. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Protesters in Grand Junction, Colorado, try to block Gov. Sarah Palin's motorcade. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html A new national poll suggests that only a quarter of Americans think things are going well in the country today, while the rest of those questioned are angry, scared and stressed out. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html If this election has taught anything about American politics it is that Americans have stopped talking to each other and have turned to talking at each other. Outside of universities there is no longer any political discourse. In its place is just a lot of chatter producing a very destructive political process. http://www.politicalbull.net/american_political_destruction.html This is an attempt to explain way Born Again Fundamentalist Christians follow the Republican Party which in spite of all their public mention of God and Jesus is actually Anti-Christ. http://www.politicalbull.net/christian_support_republican_antichrist.html Retired Army Gen. Colin L. Powell, an adviser to the last three Republican presidents, said today that he is crossing party lines to support the Democratic candidate for the White House. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Barack Obama’s legal team wants a special prosecutor to determine whether partisan politics is at play in a reported though unconfirmed Justice Department investigation of a voter registration effort which has been the target of numerous complaints of late, including one in Michigan. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Financial workers at Wall Street's top banks are to receive pay deals worth more than $70bn, a substantial proportion of which is expected to be paid in bonuses, for their work so far this year - despite plunging the global financial system into its worst crisis since the 1929 stock market crash. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Ailing department store chain Mervyns, which had been operating for almost five decades, has become the latest merchant headed for extinction. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html The average interest rate on a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage this week hit 6.46%, up from 5.94% last week, mortgage giant Freddie Mac reported Thursday. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html The upshot? The District is neither "real America" nor "pro-America." Other parts of the nation? It's unclear, but if you live in a small town, you're probably patriotic from Palin's point of view. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html A NATO airstrike on a village near the embattled provincial capital of Lashkar Gah killed 25 to 30 civilians, according to Afghan officials in the area. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html ROANOKE, Virginia (AFP) – Barack Obama hunted deep on Republican turf Friday as he campaigned to seal the deal with voters 18 days from election day, while warning Democrats of their historic ability to "snatch defeat" from victory.The Illinois senator campaigned in Virginia, which has not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1964 but is now very much in play as Republican John McCain struggles to shore up his own support for November 4. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html The state-owned Cuban oil company says the country may have more than 20bn barrels of oil in its offshore fields - more than double the previous estimate. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Op-Ed: It is well recognized that term limits on the U.S Presidency create a lame duck status for the President beginning on his second inauguration. This status gets cranked up in the final year of a president's term but no one exemplifies the lame duck status more than George W. Bush. http://www.politicalbull.net/bush_the_pathetic.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Construction of new homes plunged by a bigger-than-expected amount in September as builders slashed production to the slowest pace since early 1991, when the country was in a deep recession.A barometer of future building also dropped to the weakest level in more than 25 years.The building industry is on pace to construct the fewest new homes and apartments this year since the end of World War II. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html The rapid decline in prices had alarmed both petroleum company executives and oil producers, who are becoming increasingly nervous that oil's roller-coaster ride undermines the stability of energy markets. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html A US judge has thrown out a case against God, ruling that because the defendant has no address, legal papers cannot be served. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html The last Presidential debate highlight. http://www.politicalbull.net/last_presidential_debate.html Despair over the economy has sent Wall Street plunging again, propelling the Dow Jones industrials to their second-largest point loss ever. Stocks fell on a combination of disheartening economic data, including a big drop in retail sales and a Federal Reserve report that said tight credit conditions are hurting businesses across the country. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html A long-running row over the rights to a rooftop section of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre could bring the entire structure tumbling down, destroying Christendom’s holiest site. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Thai and Cambodian soldiers exchanged rocket and rifle fire for about an hour on Wednesday in a confrontation at their border over a disputed 900-year-old mountaintop temple, according to reports from the area. At least two Cambodian soldiers were killed, the Cambodian foreign minister said. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is investigating what he contends is "unwarranted and outrageous" spending by American International Group Inc even as the struggling insurance giant receives $123 billion of U.S. government funding to stay alive. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html The turmoil in credit markets poses a "significant threat" to an already slowing U.S. economy, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Wednesday, suggesting an openness to further interest-rate cuts. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Barack Obama’s campaign Web site has posted a calculator that tells you how much you would be paying in taxes under his plan. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency's use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects -- documents prompted by worries among intelligence officials about a possible backlash if details of the program became public. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal says he will build the world's tallest building in the Saudi city of Jeddah. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Nearly half the U.S. workers polled in a survey released on Tuesday said they were worried their jobs are at risk amid the current economic crisis. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html The Treasury backed away from using a $700 billion bailout fund to cleanse bank balance sheets of toxic mortgage debt, while Europe reported more gloomy economic news and the World Bank warned that international trade may contract in 2009. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Days before American International Group received its latest government bailout on Monday, the troubled insurer hosted a $343,000 conference for independent financial planners at the Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak resort in Phoenix. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Democratic Congressional leaders said Tuesday that they were ready to push emergency legislation to aid the imperiled auto industry when lawmakers return to Washington next week, setting the stage for one last showdown with President Bush. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Dr. Ross -It seems to me that in order for the Republicans to have any hopes of maintaining any sort of relevance in 2012 and beyond, they themselves will need to bring about "Change they (And all of their supporters) can believe in". Let me explain what I mean by this: http://www.politicalbull.net/republicans_need_an_obama.html A Republican congressman from Georgia said Monday he fears that President-elect Obama will establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist dictatorship. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html This would be a great job for John McCain! http://www.politicalbull.net/john_mccain_new_job.html Ford Motor said it lost $129 million in the third quarter and burned up $7.7 billion in cash. Later, GM said it lost $2.5 billion and had $6.9 billion in negative cash flow and could run out of cash early in 2009. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed $4.7 billion in new taxes -- including a three-year increase in the state sales tax -- and $4.5 billion in new cuts Thursday to prevent a cash crisis brought on by a projected $11.2 billion hole in the current state budget. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html This would be a great job for Sarah Palin! http://www.politicalbull.net/sarah_palin_new_job.html Sarah Palin left the national stage Wednesday, but the controversy over her role on the ticket flared as aides to John McCain disclosed new details about her expensive wardrobe purchases and revealed that a Republican Party lawyer would be dispatched to Alaska to inventory and retrieve the clothes still in her possession. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Sales at the nation’s largest retailers fell off a cliff in October, casting fresh doubt on the survival of some chains and signaling that this will probably be the weakest Christmas shopping season in decades. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html My fellow Americans are a tough group of people. They will endure through calamitous times and pull together when the going gets tough. They are easy going people that will tolerate a great deal. But, there comes a time, when you push them too much, and they rise up and make their voices heard. This is exactly what happened on November 4th, 2008 - A day that has gone down in history. http://www.politicalbull.net/america_has_spoken.html To Every African American, Chinese American, Japanese American, Native American, and Latin American that has lived in a nation that has treated them as second class citizens: America has apologized! http://www.politicalbull.net/white_america_apologizes.html The final Rove & Co. electoral map of the 2008 election cycle points to a 338-200 Barack Obama electoral vote victory over John McCain. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html These are some of the freebies that companies are offering customers who participate in the electoral process: http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Circuit City Stores Inc., the unprofitable electronics retailer, will close 155 U.S. stores and renegotiate leases on some of the remaining 566 locations to conserve cash. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html After months of campaigning, hours of election speeches and debates, and hundreds of opinion polls tracking the ebb and flow of the 2008 US presidential election, the time of reckoning is near. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html There is a recurring theme that has circulated throughout this election cycle. It is a down year for Republicans. Republican commentators and politicians have been talking about their struggles as if it is simply an unfortunate set of circumstances that have made this election year exceedingly difficult. They seem to be ignoring the fact that their wounds are entirely self-inflicted. http://www.politicalbull.net/republican_party_election_landslide_defeat.html Joe Wurzelbacher, aka Joe the Plumber, has become an integral part of John McCain's presidential bid, but it appears the Arizona senator's campaign and the now-famous Toledo plumber need to work on their communication skills. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Largest U.S. oil company surges past analyst estimates to post net income of $14.83 billion. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Let’s face it folks Barack Obama is going to lose the election. It is just sad that the prevailing mentality in the USA today is the same mentality that kept slavery alive. That prevailing mentality is a conservative mentality. Conservatives believe that change of any kind is un-American. No matter how good the benefits may be, change is wrong. Conservatives believe that the way the country was set-up by the Founding Fathers is good enough; don’t change it. Never mind that the Founding Fathers wanted a dynamic government that could change with the course of time. http://www.politicalbull.net/barack_obama_will_lose.html Whether the Republican presidential ticket wins or loses on Tuesday, a group of prominent conservatives are planning to meet the next day to discuss the way forward, and whatever the outcome, Gov. Sarah Palin will be high on the agenda. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Joe the Plumber endorsed Republican John McCain for president on Tuesday. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Amazon's listing seems to have caught itself and deleted the Obama mask from the terrorist page. However, before that happened, The Ticket captured a photo (Available at the above link). http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Sunday's surprise raid by helicopter-borne U.S. troops in eastern Syria raises at least three key questions. Given that the U.S. is saying the number of volunteer fighters infiltrating Iraq from Syria has dwindled significantly in the past 18 months, why was this action deemed necessary? Does the raid signal a shift in U.S. tactics in the region? And with just over a week before the U.S. presidential election, why now? http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html McCain campaign has become embroiled by infighting, with signs of tension between Mr. McCain’s advisers and Ms. Palin’s staff, and subject to unusual public criticism from other Republicans for how his advisers have handled this race. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html There are many ways to lose a presidential election. John McCain is losing in a way that threatens to take the entire Republican Party down with him. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Fact-Check.org posted its research on the Anne Kilkenny email the results are in:"Answer: The facts in the e-mail message about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin are mostly correct." http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html A McCain campaign volunteer made up a story of being robbed, pinned to the ground and having the letter "B" scratched on her face in a politically inspired attack, police said Friday. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html There is an old joke about three pollsters out quail hunting. The first one aims and fires high. The second aims and fires low. The third one exclaims: "we got 'em!". This year more money is being spent on electoral polling than ever before yet the polls are providing more questionable results than ever. There are three good reasons to distrust all the polls. http://www.politicalbull.net/polls_cannot_be_trusted.html John McCain and Sarah Palin side by side. http://www.politicalbull.net/john_mccain_sarah_palin.html Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said a ``once-in-a-century credit tsunami'' has engulfed financial markets and conceded that his free-market ideology shunning regulation was flawed."Yes, I found a flaw," Greenspan said in response to grilling from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. "That is precisely the reason I was shocked because I'd been going for 40 years or more with very considerable evidence that it was working exceptionally well." http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html We found the official license. http://www.politicalbull.net/joe_the_plumber.html The one minute preview! http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html If a student of history were to research the rise and fall of civilizations they would no doubt study Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. After a promising start as a Republic the Romans would embrace militarism, slavery and dictatorship in which to maintain and expand their empire. The Patricians, the wealthy Romans whose greed and thirst for power was unquenchable, were in constant conflict with the common man. Both groups' interests were heard and debated in the Roman Senate, but eventually the wealthy prevailed, the farmers losing their land to the wealthy landowners and a system of slavery imposed in their stead. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Sarah Palin in response to a question sent to the network by a third grader at a local elementary school about what the Vice President does, Palin erroneously argued that the Vice President is “in charge of the United States Senate“: http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html A North Carolina congressman locked in a tight re-election race admitted Tuesday to recently telling a crowd of John McCain supporters that "liberals hate real Americans," the latest in a string of comments from Republicans that appear to question Democrats' patriotism. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Economic inequality is growing in the world's richest countries, particularly in the United States, jeopardizing the American Dream of social mobility just as the world tilts toward recession, a 30-nation report said Tuesday.The gap between rich and poor has widened over the last 20 years in nearly all the countries studied, even as trade and technological advances have spurred rapid growth in their economies. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Protesters in Grand Junction, Colorado, try to block Gov. Sarah Palin's motorcade. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html A new national poll suggests that only a quarter of Americans think things are going well in the country today, while the rest of those questioned are angry, scared and stressed out. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html If this election has taught anything about American politics it is that Americans have stopped talking to each other and have turned to talking at each other. Outside of universities there is no longer any political discourse. In its place is just a lot of chatter producing a very destructive political process. http://www.politicalbull.net/american_political_destruction.html This is an attempt to explain way Born Again Fundamentalist Christians follow the Republican Party which in spite of all their public mention of God and Jesus is actually Anti-Christ. http://www.politicalbull.net/christian_support_republican_antichrist.html Retired Army Gen. Colin L. Powell, an adviser to the last three Republican presidents, said today that he is crossing party lines to support the Democratic candidate for the White House. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Barack Obama’s legal team wants a special prosecutor to determine whether partisan politics is at play in a reported though unconfirmed Justice Department investigation of a voter registration effort which has been the target of numerous complaints of late, including one in Michigan. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Financial workers at Wall Street's top banks are to receive pay deals worth more than $70bn, a substantial proportion of which is expected to be paid in bonuses, for their work so far this year - despite plunging the global financial system into its worst crisis since the 1929 stock market crash. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Ailing department store chain Mervyns, which had been operating for almost five decades, has become the latest merchant headed for extinction. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html The average interest rate on a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage this week hit 6.46%, up from 5.94% last week, mortgage giant Freddie Mac reported Thursday. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html The upshot? The District is neither "real America" nor "pro-America." Other parts of the nation? It's unclear, but if you live in a small town, you're probably patriotic from Palin's point of view. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html A NATO airstrike on a village near the embattled provincial capital of Lashkar Gah killed 25 to 30 civilians, according to Afghan officials in the area. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html ROANOKE, Virginia (AFP) – Barack Obama hunted deep on Republican turf Friday as he campaigned to seal the deal with voters 18 days from election day, while warning Democrats of their historic ability to "snatch defeat" from victory.The Illinois senator campaigned in Virginia, which has not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1964 but is now very much in play as Republican John McCain struggles to shore up his own support for November 4. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html The state-owned Cuban oil company says the country may have more than 20bn barrels of oil in its offshore fields - more than double the previous estimate. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Op-Ed: It is well recognized that term limits on the U.S Presidency create a lame duck status for the President beginning on his second inauguration. This status gets cranked up in the final year of a president's term but no one exemplifies the lame duck status more than George W. Bush. http://www.politicalbull.net/bush_the_pathetic.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Construction of new homes plunged by a bigger-than-expected amount in September as builders slashed production to the slowest pace since early 1991, when the country was in a deep recession.A barometer of future building also dropped to the weakest level in more than 25 years.The building industry is on pace to construct the fewest new homes and apartments this year since the end of World War II. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html The rapid decline in prices had alarmed both petroleum company executives and oil producers, who are becoming increasingly nervous that oil's roller-coaster ride undermines the stability of energy markets. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html A US judge has thrown out a case against God, ruling that because the defendant has no address, legal papers cannot be served. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html The last Presidential debate highlight. http://www.politicalbull.net/last_presidential_debate.html Despair over the economy has sent Wall Street plunging again, propelling the Dow Jones industrials to their second-largest point loss ever. Stocks fell on a combination of disheartening economic data, including a big drop in retail sales and a Federal Reserve report that said tight credit conditions are hurting businesses across the country. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html A long-running row over the rights to a rooftop section of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre could bring the entire structure tumbling down, destroying Christendom’s holiest site. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Thai and Cambodian soldiers exchanged rocket and rifle fire for about an hour on Wednesday in a confrontation at their border over a disputed 900-year-old mountaintop temple, according to reports from the area. At least two Cambodian soldiers were killed, the Cambodian foreign minister said. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is investigating what he contends is "unwarranted and outrageous" spending by American International Group Inc even as the struggling insurance giant receives $123 billion of U.S. government funding to stay alive. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html The turmoil in credit markets poses a "significant threat" to an already slowing U.S. economy, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Wednesday, suggesting an openness to further interest-rate cuts. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Barack Obama’s campaign Web site has posted a calculator that tells you how much you would be paying in taxes under his plan. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency's use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects -- documents prompted by worries among intelligence officials about a possible backlash if details of the program became public. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal says he will build the world's tallest building in the Saudi city of Jeddah. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Nearly half the U.S. workers polled in a survey released on Tuesday said they were worried their jobs are at risk amid the current economic crisis. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Sheikhrezai, who was born in Iran, got the idea for his invention from Ancient Persian buildings, which were constructed in such a manner that they use wind currents and water reservoirs to cool inside the building. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html There have been only a few elections in the nation's history that have dramatically changed the electoral map. In 1932 Roosevelt rewrote the map creating a new Democratic coalition which included the North East with its industrial and financial base with the religious South. In 1980 the Republicans would take over this coalition. It has always been a shaky and unstable coalition and it is about to come apart. What takes its place will dramatically rework the political makeup of the United States. http://www.politicalbull.net/2008_presidential_election_political_map_of_the_future_is_at_stake.html I know that many modern day people, even those from the Christian Right, like and or admire “Indians”, Native Americans. They think it is sad that the white people nearly killed every last one of them. There are other US citizens that believe the Indians were “savages” and the white man was just God’s hand eliminating a people that did not worship the one true God. One thing I know for sure is that at a critical moment in the Indian’s survival they were hated, without question, by the most powerful nation on earth. Some of us look back, as we read the accounts of the atrocities committed by the US upon the Indians, and shake our heads and think “how could our ancestors be so cruel?” http://www.politicalbull.net/columbus_conservatives_dead_indians.html With his electoral prospects fading by the day, Senator John McCain has fallen out with his vice-presidential running mate about the direction of his White House campaign.McCain has become alarmed about the fury unleashed by Sarah Palin, the moose-hunting “pitbull in lipstick”, against Senator Barack Obama. Cries of “terrorist” and “kill him” have accompanied the tirades by the governor of Alaska against the Democratic nominee at Republican rallies. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html On Friday morning, Joseph Prudente put on a pair of shorts and his "Grandpa Gone Wild" T-shirt. He took off his wedding band and put his heart medication in a plastic Wal-Mart bag.Then his daughter drove him to jail. Grandpa had time to do.His crime? He had disobeyed a court order that he sod the lawn at his Beacon Woods home. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html “There are millions of people around this world praying to their god—whether it’s Hindu, Buddha, Allah—that his opponent wins, for a variety of reasons. And Lord, I pray that you will guard your own reputation, because they’re going to think that their God is bigger than you, if that happens,” said Arnold Conrad, the former pastor of Grace Evangelical Free Church in Davenport. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Myriad cultural historians have noted the American belief that success is a sign of God's favor over the past couple of decades.(In that time) He has had a downright lovefest with the already-rich -- so much so that the richest 400 Americans now have more money stashed away than the combined bottom 150 million Americans. Some $1.6 trillion. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html With this video we can take a moment to realize that there is a little humanity left in the world http://www.politicalbull.net/returning_from_iraq.html Mr. Kanjorski sent a letter Thursday to Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke asking him what steps he would take to recover the $443,000 recently spent by AIG executives on spa treatments, golf, ocean-view rooms and surfing lessons at the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html A legislative committee investigating Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has found she unlawfully abused her authority in firing the state's public safety commissioner. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html When it comes to the current financial crisis, it's become pretty clear that an appearance by President Bush doesn't calm nerves. It rubs them raw. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Video interviews by confrontational Barack Obama supporters at John McCain rallies are shooting up the YouTube charts, revealing angry and nasty anti-Obama sentiment that is in turn motivational for the Democratic presidential contender’s supporters. http://www.politicalbull.net/mccain_palin_supporters_gone_wild.html Now, driven by fears that their personal finances could further deteriorate, many see Obama as the better choice — their thinking in some cases driven more by concern about how McCain would handle the economy than any growing admiration for his rival. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Americans should have confidence in the future of the markets and the economy, President Bush said Friday in a short statement from the White House. Bush offered no new measures to stem the meltdown in the banking system, but assured Americans that the government is working aggressively with its global partners to resolve the crisis. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html "People need to understand, for moral reasons and the protection of our civil society, the differences with Senator Obama are ideological, based on clear differences on policy and a lack of experience compared to Senator McCain," Weaver said. "And from a purely practical political vantage point, please find me a swing voter, an undecided independent, or a torn female voter that finds an angry mob mentality attractive." http://www.politicalbull.net/mccain_rally_democrats_hooligans.html Over 5,000 U.S. physicians have signed an open letter calling on the candidates for president and Congress "to stand up for the health of the American people and implement a nonprofit, single-payer national health insurance system." http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html The oldest president to assume office was Ronald Reagan. John McCain would surpass this record if he were elected president in 2008. http://www.politicalbull.net/john_mccain_oldest_president.html The world economy in the midst of the worst economic tumble since 1929. It is not likely to be as long lasting nor as disastrous to the fabric of society because there is a lot more knowledge about economic causes and effects and a lot more tools available to the policy makers. However; these same policy makers are the reason this crash occurred in the first place. http://www.politicalbull.net/why_the_market_crashed.html American International Group Inc could get nearly $38 billion in fresh cash under a program announced by the Federal Reserve on Wednesday, as the insurer tried to fend off criticism of a lavish event held days after getting an initial $85 billion government loan. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pending home sales rose 7.4 percent from July to August, an unexpected piece of positive news for the battered U.S. housing market.The National Association of Realtors said Wednesday its seasonally adjusted index of pending sales for existing homes rose to 93.4 from an upwardly revised July reading of 87. The reading was the highest since June 2007.Home sales are considered pending when the seller has accepted an offer, but the deal has not yet closed. Typically there is a one- to two-month lag before a sale is completed. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html I know that Americans are a generous and fair people. But Americans haven't been told the truth about what happened to us. Americans don't understand that Ossetians are an independent, Christian Orthodox people with a deep history in our land. The world talks only about Georgian freedom. What of freedom for my people? Does our suffering, do our voices, mean nothing? http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html "Across this country this is the agenda I have set before my fellow prisoners," he declared. In the prepared remarks he was supposed to say "fellow citizens." http://www.politicalbull.net/mccain_my_fellow_prisoners.html Days after federal officials agreed to an $85 billion bailout of American International Group, the insurance firm spent more than $440,000 for a corporate retreat at a swanky California resort. An invoice from the week-long getaway, a copy of which you'll find below, was obtained by the congressional panel that has been holding hearings this week about Wall Street collapses and executive excess. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html ...my friends, I know how to do it and "that one" is not! ...health care is a RIGHT! http://www.politicalbull.net/second_presidential_debate.html About 90 elementary school students in Montana have started a series of rabies shots after a parent let them touch a dead bat that was later confirmed to be diseased. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html The economic downturn in many countries is likely to worsen as the financial crisis continues, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html AIG executives spent $500,000 at an exclusive resort just days after the U.S. government agreed to spend $85 billion to protect the giant insurer from collapse, according to Rep. Henry Waxman, the California Democrat who chairs the House Oversight Committee. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Wall Street sinks for several days... http://www.politicalbull.net/stock_market_2008.html As many as 80 percent of Americans are stressed about their personal finances and the economy, according to the annual survey conducted by the American Psychological Association. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html "When you look at what happened to bond holders at venerable institutions like Lehman (Brothers Holdings Inc), and have been left with nothing, it's hardly surprising retirees are getting out," said University of Maryland economist Peter Morici. "Older people have a lower tolerance for risk and the recent turmoil has scared the heck out of them." http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Stocks plunged on Tuesday in their fifth straight declining session as fears mounted that the spiraling credit crisis would drag the economy into a deep recession. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html But to those who know the history of the word, applying it to Mr. McCain is a bit of a stretch — and to one Texas family in particular it is even a bit offensive. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.~ H. L. Mencken http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Nearly six out of ten Americans believe another economic depression is likely, according to a poll released Monday. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Speaking in Albuquerque on Monday, Senator John McCain attacked Senator Barack Obama on several fronts that by now have become familiar. But many of his charges relating to the economic meltdown, taxation and health care contained inaccuracies or exaggerations of his own position or Mr. Obama’s. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html An unemployed accounting industry worker who was despondent over financial problems shot and killed his wife, three children, mother-in-law and then himself in an upscale home in a gated community. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html In recordings from 2006 played at his corruption trial, the Alaska senator maintains that he and a friend did not nothing wrong, but he acknowledges that fines and a sentence behind bars are possible. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html U.S. researchers have found a way to make efficient silicon-based solar cells that are flexible enough to be rolled around a pencil and transparent enough to be used to tint windows on buildings or cars. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html The Dow Jones industrials skidded more than 700 points and fell below 10,000 for the first time in four years, while the credit markets remained under strain. Financial markets took a despairing view of the future Monday, seeing contagion in a credit crisis that threatens to cascade through economies globally despite government efforts to provide relief. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Taxpayers have not even had time to digest that last bailout yet they'd better be prepared to pony up some more dough. The FDIC is soon going to need its own bailout. This time the government will be smart enough not to call it a "bailout." It will be an "involuntary taxpayer funds withdrawal" and it could total another $1-200 billion. http://www.politicalbull.net/vulture_capitalism_and_more_bank_failures.html After days of squabbling, the leaders of Europe’s largest economies vowed Saturday to work together to stop a growing financial panic, but they failed to offer a system wide answer to a credit crisis that has forced them to bail out several banks in just the past week. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Citigroup Inc said it won a court order late on Saturday blocking Wells Fargo & Co. from buying hobbled U.S. bank Wachovia Corp until the court rules otherwise. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html "We're not going to win this war. It's about reducing it to a manageable level of insurgency that's not a strategic threat and can be managed by the Afghan army." http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday ordered a tightening of security in Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region after a bomb blamed by Moscow on Georgian special forces killed eight Russian troops. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html In the middle of a financial crisis of potentially mammoth proportions some people have the political minds made up by shiny beads and twinkling lights. http://www.politicalbull.net/sarah_palin_wink.html She [Palin] then slammed Barack Obama calling him disqualified to be President of the United States, “Some of his comments that he has made about the war that I think may in my world disqualifies someone from consideration as the next commander in chief.” http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html "This bill does nothing for the Addie Polks of the world," Kucinich said after telling her story. "This bill fails to address the fact that millions of homeowners are facing foreclosure, are facing the loss of their home. This bill will take care of Wall Street, and the market may go up for a few days, but democracy is going downhill." http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html The employment report is just the latest in a series of indicators showing that the economy was deteriorating rapidly as the third quarter progressed. These include weak retail sales, weak auto sales, declining durable goods orders, and a sharply weaker ISM manufacturing survey. The economy was on the way down even before the latest tightening in the credit crunch. This underlines that the purpose of the rescue package being debated in Congress is damage limitation – minimizing the extent of the recession. –Nigel Gault, Global Insight http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html With the recent turmoil in the financial markets some economists and politicians are blaming an accounting rule for the stock market volatility. Known as "mark-to-market" or "fair value accounting," it is basically an accounting method that values assets at their current market value. A stock, option, mortgage, or other asset in an investment portfolio must be valued at the price it closes at during the day's trading. The assertion is that this accounting procedure causes an overvaluing of assets in a boom and an undervaluing of assets in a market downturn. This leads to both bubbles and bursting bubbles. This assertion is a smokescreen and the proposed solution is atrocious. http://www.politicalbull.net/suspending_mark_to_market_bad_idea.html Lawyers for the retired American footballer, who also did not testify in the so-called "trial of the century" 13 years ago in which he was acquitted of murder, instead relied upon the testimony of one of Simpson's close friends, Thomas Scotto.Mr Scotto told the court that key prosecution witnesses Walter Alexander and Michael McClinton, two of the men with Simpson during an alleged armed raid last year, cornered Mr Scotto the following night and demanded $50,000."Basically, they said they're in trouble - it's all over TV," Mr Scotto said. "If things went bad they wanted 50,000 to get out of whatever trouble they were in." http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html A big shift to renewable energy and efficiency could produce 4.2 million new environmentally friendly jobs over the next three decades. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Russia has argued that the freewheeling Anglo-American style of capitalism is to blame for the crisis, a position echoed by Germany and other Continental European nations. Medvedev even called it financial "egoism." http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html You probably enjoy eating codfish, but reading about them? Mark Kurlansky has written a fabulous book--well worth your time--about a fish that probably has mattered more in human history than any other. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html MEXICO CITY -- The money that Mexicans living in the U.S. send home, a lifeline for both the economy here and millions of families, has suffered its steepest decline on record, dragged down in large part by the American financial crisis. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Hilarious http://www.politicalbull.net/brain_to_nowhere.html The collapse of top US financial firms will cause a dramatic slowdown in hiring among outsourcing companies. The banking, financial services and insurance sectors account for 40 per cent of revenues for India's $52 billion outsourcing industry (as of 2007-2008). http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html "He certainly did nothing for the first few days," McCain told Fox News on Thursday. "I suspended my campaign, took our ads down, came back to Washington, met with the House folks and got on the phone, and also had face-to-face meetings." http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Sarah Palin talking about several issues and proving to us once again, that she is the most qualified person to be a back-up person for the Presidency. http://www.politicalbull.net/sarah_palin_smarter_than_5th_grader.html http://www.politicalbull.net/john_mccain_energy_conservation.html Don’t relax just because the polls show Obama is leading. We must be kidding ourselves to really believe that Obama’s lead over McCain is any more real than the lead he had over Hillary in the New Hampshire primary. It just doesn’t seem possible that the same people who voted for a white, good-ol’-boy “from Texas”, changed their minds in a span of four years to cast a vote for an educated, “black” man from Hawaii/Illinois. It is a big mistake to assume the race is over. Keep people focused on the real issues, because the polls may be as wrong as they were in New Hampshire. http://www.politicalbull.net/election_polls_lies.html Worth Revisiting. We were lamenting the problems that faced the country in the Spring. Now those seem like the good old days. http://www.politicalbull.net/what_a_wonderful_life.html Google has explored a number of alternative-energy initiatives through its nonprofit organization Google.org, including investments in startups developing related technology. As justification for its interest and investments in alternative energy, the Internet giant has cited a need for more efficient ways to power its data centers around the globe. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html The banking crisis is upending American dominance of the financial markets and world politics. The industrialized countries are sliding into recession, the era of turbo-capitalism is coming to an end and US military might is ebbing. Still, this is no time to gloat. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html "Iraq's continued defiance of the community of nations presents a challenge which must be addressed," Mr. Harper, who is now Prime Minister, said at the time.There was only one problem. That line, along with dozens of others in the speech, now appear to have been taken verbatim from a speech delivered two days earlier by Prime Minister John Howard of Australia. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html He [Business owner in the article] hopes to maintain his present menu prices, but he acknowledges uncertain times lie ahead. However, he has strong motivation to prevail."It's one of the reasons we're so driven here. This is my hometown. I've got three kids and a wife to look after. I'll put in as many hours as I need. We're going to make it work," he said. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html President Bush's job approval rating was already at a record-low 27% when House lawmakers voted down the U.S. financial rescue plan he urged them to pass. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Memo to the next president: There's an old fable I'm sure you know. It's usually credited to Aesop, and the version I found online at storyarts.org, goes like this:"There once was a shepherd boy who was bored as he sat on the hillside watching the village sheep. To amuse himself he took a great breath and sang out, "'Wolf! Wolf! The Wolf is chasing the sheep!'" http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html The Bush administration is searching for a new way to sell its financial rescue plan after acknowledging some blunders and missteps in presenting it the first time around. One big key: Insist it's not a Wall Street "bailout." http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Allen [The woman wearing the cow suit] also urinated on a neighbor's front porch, the report said, and was warned by officers to go home and stay there. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html "The party's over and people don't want to admit it ... I don't want to admit it, but you had to see it coming." http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html If he were to rise from the dead today, Marx might be delighted to discover that most economists and financial commentators, including many who claim to favour the free market, agree with him. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html McCain explained his economic plan to Ohio on April 22, 2008. As Ohio begins their early vote today I wonder if they understood McCain's message that day: Accept that you are a “serf” in a government of, by and for the corporations; and give up that silly dream of the 1950’s middle class society. http://www.politicalbull.net/ohio_vote_mccain_economy.html There is a hidden elephant in the economy that is being overlooked in the media but represents the driving force behind the fear in the financial markets. It is well known that the economy is driven by credit. Consumer spending relies upon it and businesses cannot grow without it. However; Americans unable to get credit is not the major issue surrounding the financial bailout. http://www.politicalbull.net/hidden_secret_of_the_financial_crisis.html The failed rescue of the financial industry has raised a whole series of questions about responsibility, blame, transparency and a public revolt against putting taxpayer money at risk. The American public seems hell bent on assigning blame to a variety of forces and sees itself as a victim. The painful truth is that the American public brought much of this financial crisis upon itself. http://www.politicalbull.net/american_voters_to_blame.html http://www.politicalbull.net/sarah_palin_alaska_russia.html http://www.politicalbull.net/john_mccain_russian_roulette.html The bailout might suck but the alternative is going to suck a lot worse. Do not expect Wall Street to accept all the pain of a frozen credit market on their own. The big banks will make sure it is felt throughout the economy. Actually I think taxpayers should pay the price. They chose to put in power an administration hell bent on transforming the country from a production to financial system. This is the result. If the voters do not pay a price for their own ignorance they'll continue to do exactly what they have done in the past 28 years. http://www.politicalbull.net/pain_trickles_down.html Dow hit by biggest-point loss ever, topping post 9/11 loss http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Republicans killed the $700bn Wall Street bail-out plan, but their vision of laissez-faire capitalism won't survive this crisis http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html It is beyond comprehension the audacity of an administration that expected the American Taxpayer to bail out the stupidity and mismanagement of the financial sector and all those who's speculative activities resulted in this disaster we are in today. http://www.politicalbull.net/no_bailout_for_you_wall_street.html Just as nearly everyone ignores the Democratic VP candidate in the campaign; so nearly all the attention in the upcoming Vice-Presidential debate will be on Republican candidate Sarah Palin. Democrat Joe Biden actually cannot win this debate. The problem is with the expectations. Typically campaigns spend the week leading to a debate downplaying their own candidates chances and praising their opponent's debating skills. It is done to make "achieving victory" easier by lowering the expectation bar for their own candidate. This time Republicans can skip this ritual as the bar set for Sarah Palin is so low it is laying on the ground. This presents a serious problem for Joe Biden. http://www.politicalbull.net/palin_debate_advantage.html Soon after Sarah Palin was elected mayor of the foothill town of Wasilla, Alaska, she startled a local music teacher by insisting in casual conversation that men and dinosaurs coexisted on an Earth created 6,000 years ago -- about 65 million years after scientists say most dinosaurs became extinct -- the teacher said. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html The recent financial problems among the financial and investment banks, plus their insurers has brought into question the role that regulation played or did not play. The need for a bailout brings renewed calls for more regulation to govern the industry. The amount and nature of federal regulation has always been a heated debate. Despite the proclamations of libertarians, the evidence shows that federal regulation is beneficial for industries and good for the economy at large. http://www.politicalbull.net/regulation_and_business_benefits.html "It's really a disgrace for the state school board to impose evolution on our students without teaching creationism." http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html The worst outcome of the upcoming election is a McCain-Palin victory followed by McCain, a year or so into his presidency, becoming physically incapable of running the country. Worse than dropping dead, McCain could end up much like Wilson and Reagan in their last years in office.Others, a wife and aids, would essentially run the country with the invalid president serving as a ceremonial figurehead. Or, worse still, our ready-shoot-aim Annie Oakley would take the oath of office and become commander in chief. Sarah Palin would not only be America's first woman president, but America's first truly hardcore Christian fundamentalist president. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Palin's absence looked particularly awkward given the fact that Joe Biden was appearing all over the place after Debate. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html A West Bend pastor is among more than 30 across the country who plan to endorse a presidential candidate from the pulpit Sunday in a showdown with the Internal Revenue Service.Pastor Luke Emrich of New Life Church is believed to be the only Wisconsin minister participating in the conservative Alliance Defense Fund�s Pulpit Initiative, aimed at challenging a provision of the tax code that prohibits churches and charities from participating in political campaigns. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Before we hand this Munster-esque unelected official 700 billion no-strings-attached dollars, Stewart remarked, "there is one thing you should know -- this financial guru never saw it coming." http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html The CEO of failed Washington Mutual Inc., on the job only a few weeks before the nation's largest thrift was seized by the government and sold to JPMorgan Chase & Co., is entitled to more than $13 million in severance and bonus pay. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html A growing number of Republicans are expressing concern about Sarah Palin's uneven and sometimes downright awkward - performances in her limited media appearances. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html The staff at Curry General Hospital in Gold Beach gave the retired mechanic and logger the ridiculously happy news this month, along with some pain pills. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Senator Obama doesn't understand - doesn't get it... http://www.politicalbull.net/first_presidential_debate.html Palin's recent interviews with Charles Gibson, Sean Hannity, and now Katie Couric have all revealed an attractive, earnest, confident candidate. Who Is Clearly Out Of Her League. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Royal Dutch Shell opened an office in Baghdad this week, the first major international oil firm to do so since 1972 when the industry was nationalised. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Mr Medvedev told military commanders that "all combat formations must be upgraded to the permanent readiness category" by 2020. He added that Russia would begin "mass production of warships, primarily nuclear cruisers carrying cruise missiles and multi-purpose submarines". http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html McCain Wins Debate! declares the ad which features a headshot of a smiling McCain with an American flag background. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html The McCain campaign is resuming all activities and the senator will travel to the debate this afternoon. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html It has for a long time been a party with a significant internal conflict. The Republican party is composed of three primary components: free market libertarians who are the supporters of industry and finance; social conservatives that put more emphasis on social values than economic issues; and libertarians who simply want less government. It has been a sometimes awkward, sometimes conflicting, but politically solid coalition. In the midst of the financial bailout legislation this coalition has crumbled as has any clout President Bush may have once possessed. http://www.politicalbull.net/republican_party_split.html French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned Europe on Thursday that it cannot escape shock waves from the U.S. financial crisis and that to protect its future, it must take the initiative in rewriting worldwide banking rules to end the "folly" of an under-regulated system he said is now "finished." http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Negotiations in the U.S. Congress toward a massive bailout for Wall Street fell into disarray on Thursday night after a contentious White House meeting, with lawmakers later offering conflicting reports about the position of presidential candidate Sen. John McCain. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html JPMorgan Chase & Co., the third- biggest U.S. bank by assets, agreed to pay $1.9 billion for the deposits of Washington Mutual Inc. after the thrift was seized by regulators in the biggest bank failure in U.S. history. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin defended her remark that the close proximity of Russia to her home state of Alaska gives her foreign policy experience. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html U.S. and Pakistani troops exchanged fire Thursday along the Pakistani-Afghan border minutes after the Pakistani military fired shots at two American helicopters that were providing cover for the troops, a U.S. military spokesman said. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Russia may launch nuclear energy cooperation with Venezuela, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday during talks with the country's fiercely anti-US leader Hugo Chavez. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Sen. John McCain returned to Washington on Thursday after declaring that he has suspended his campaign, but he appeared largely detached from the flurry of negotiations on a $700 billion economic rescue package that appeared to be headed to a successful conclusion.McCain's "Straight Talk Air" landed at National Airport just after noon, and McCain's motorcade sped toward the Senate. But by then, senior Democrats and Republicans were already announcing that a deal in principle had been reached. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Delta Air Lines stock one year ago you would have $49.00 left. With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1,000.00. With WorldCom, you would have had less than $5.00 left. http://www.politicalbull.net/drink_beer_humor.html Germany blamed the United States on Thursday for spawning the global financial crisis with a blind drive for higher profits. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Pakistani and American ground troops exchanged fire along the border with Afghanistan on Thursday after the Pakistanis shot at two American helicopters, ratcheting up tensions as the United States increases its attacks against Qaeda and Taliban militants sheltering in Pakistan's restive tribal areas. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Bowing to President Bush's demands, the House passed a mammoth package for the Pentagon. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html The Holy Bible Review:This book doesn’t work. I’ve tried the “praying” method to get a new Porsche 996 delivered but to no avail. There’s nothing in the instructions about not wanting German sports cars but I tried praying for less ambitious things. I gave up when it didn’t even get me a Big Mac. In the early part there’s a bit about people crossing the desert and being sustained by manna from heaven, so you’d think that it would be able to manage at least a hamburger.I’m disappointed and will contact the publisher. In the meantime I can’t recommend this book as it is clearly faulty. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Why John McCain needed to halt his campaign? Couldn’t his running mate, Sarah Palin, take over while he was in Washington? http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html I can't believe John McCain wants to suspend the debate. You can't suspend the democratic process because we're facing problems. At what point do you think then, maybe we should suspend the elections? We'll have the elections later.... Some people have done that before - Castro did it, Napoleon did it, Julius Caesar did it... http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html In the coming weeks and months American taxpayers are going to face a number of bitter pills regardless of whether the financial bailout legislation is passed or not. The stark reality of the situation is that Americans are going to have to bail out not only Wall Street banks, but foreign investors AND governments like Saudi Arabia and China. The pitiful state of the American economy makes this a necessity. http://www.politicalbull.net/no_choice_but_to_support_the_bailout.html In an interview with Katie Couric, Palin has trouble finding an example of McCain pushing for regulation. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Hold everything, got to solve that economic problem.... http://www.politicalbull.net/mccain_economic_rescue.html Op-Ed: President Abraham Lincoln was able to campaign for a second term in office in the middle of biggest crisis in the nation's history. However; John McCain feels it necessary to suspend his campaign to deal with the crisis - as if there aren't enough people in Washington already up to their armpits in this mess. http://www.politicalbull.net/mccain_stops_campaign.html John McCain's decision to suspend his campaign comes as two new polls show him slipping in the head to head matchup against Barack Obama. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html There is nothing good to say about the Paulson Bailout Plan. Nothing. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Sarah Palin made her international debut at the United Nations today in much of the same manner that she has made her entrance onto the national stage: among friends and with minimal press access. http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Who's Whining Now? Gramm Slammed By Economists. Who's Whining Now? Gramm Slammed By Economists. Phil Gramm, John McCain's former economic adviser, left the campaign in July when he tried to counter criticism of the Republican candidate's economic policies by asserting that the country "had become a nation of whiners" in a "mental recession." http://www.politicalbull.net/index.html Mother of all Bailouts http://www.politicalbull.net/u.s.treasury_henry_paulson.html McCain's Straight Talk Express 2008 http://www.politicalbull.net/mccain_straight_talk_express_2008.html One of the little quirks in the proposed $700 billion financial bailout legislation is that the bill would prevent judicial review of actions taken within the scope of the legislation. Those drafting the legislation are trying to avoid court challenges to actions taken while executing the this bailout legislation. This is likely to open a "huge can of worms" and it poses some series constitutional issues that can have huge ramifications for future legislation. http://www.politicalbull.net/mortgage_bailout_unconstitutional.html Vote Palin/McCain 2008 http://www.politicalbull.net/palin_mccain_2008.html John McCain: Political Cock http://www.politicalbull.net/john_mccain_political_cock.html With a single act the concept of "conservatism" as espoused by centuries of free market capitalists is washed away. The heart and soul of the ideology; small government, low taxes, and free markets; has been exposed as nothing but a fair weather ideology, something that works when things go well and fails when circumstances do not. The U.S. government bailout of Insurance Giant AIG demonstrates the failure of the conservative ideology and exposes its proponents as frauds. http://www.politicalbull.net/AIG_destroys_capitalism.html “So you’re looking at the miracleJohn McCain helped createand that’s what he did.” http://www.politicalbull.net/mccain_create_blackberry.html Let us for a moment take an imaginary trip to a Perfect Utopian Society and examine the qualifications the Ideal Leader would have. Chances are that this would be the case in the real world are less than seeing pigs flying, or lipstick on a pig for that matter, but nevertheless, let us make this hypothetical journey. http://www.politicalbull.net/what_makes_an_ideal_leader.html Where will American citizens draw the line on the damage caused by trickle-down economics? We have already lost the 1950's style middle-class family with the stay-at-home-mom to Republican deregulation. Do we have to bring back child labor before the American citizen starts making the connection that what is good for corporations is not good for the citizens? Will the American citizens ever make the connection that a vote for a Republican is a vote against the 1950's style middle-class economy? A Republican vote is: a vote against the individual, a vote against the family, a vote in favor of deregulated-corporations free to run amuck as they have done these past eight years with ever increasing carnage. http://www.politicalbull.net/republicans_fucking_themselves.html According to various news sources, Sarah Palin, vice presidential nominee for John McCain, has stated that she would not rule out going to war against Russia. According to The Australian News website: When asked if the US would have to go to war with Russia should Georgia join NATO and Russia invade the country, she said, "Perhaps so". Sarah, you perhaps may not have been entirely made aware of, seeing as how you have had quite a busy schedule in your life being a hockey mom and balancing the immense workload of managing Alaska. http://www.politicalbull.net/sarah_palin_does_not_rule_out_war_with_russia.html Sarah Palin's first media interview on ABC NEWS with Charles Gibson http://www.politicalbull.net/sarah_palin_interview_with_charles_gibson.html Vote McCain / Palin 2008 http://www.politicalbull.net/mccain_palin_bridge_to_nowhere.html In the Political Connection that lead to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, the true motivation for the 2003 invasion of Iraq is spelled out. This article is an analysis of the political ramifications that stem from the invasion as well as a look at how the Iraq invasion has been subsequently analyzed. http://www.politicalbull.net/who_is_responsible_for_the_iraq_war.html The reasons for launching the U.S. invasion of Iraq have been cloaked in suspicion, conspiracy and misread intelligence. The most patriotic of Americans choose the misread intelligence theory while championing the byproduct goals of removing Saddam Hussein from power. The most skeptical usually lean on the war for oil theory. In a strange sense there is a possibility that both have some truth within them yet neither adequately puts all the pieces together because they leave out one major component: 9/11 and the political strategy for avoiding further attacks. For the first time we put all the facts together in their proper sequence to help explain and understand the real reason for the invasion of Iraq. http://www.politicalbull.net/reasons_for_the_iraq_war.html The party line for both Republicans and Democrats is clearly celebratory about the "success" of the increased troop level in Iraq. Both sides seem to be in accord about the surge success and both sides have severely missed the point on how to obtain stability, if not peace, in Iraq. http://www.politicalbull.net/the_troop_surge_myth_and_failure.html When two Automobiles collide in an intersection there are a number of explanations for the accident posed by the participants and observers. Each individual may develop his own conclusion about the true cause of the accident. The conclusions can be based on observation, on a scientific investigation of the evidence, on past assumptions and even prejudices about they type of people or automobiles that entered the intersection. All of the conclusions can be right and all can be wrong. Ultimately; however, there was a true cause for the accident. It just may not be possible to know it from the observation point of the human inquirer. http://www.politicalbull.net/the_problem_of_god_and_religion.html The first full day of the Republican National Convention, Maverick anyone? http://www.politicalbull.net/republican_national_convention_maverick.html The new book from John McCain for "those" women. http://www.politicalbull.net/sarah_palin_hillary_alternative.html Boeing machinists and aerospace workers are poised to go on strike for the same reasons all unions strike: wages, benefits and job security. They don't seem to grasp three basic facts: 1. Boeing is in the process of moving much of their manufacturing oversees. 2. There is nothing these American workers can do that foreigners cannot be trained to do as well. 3. Boeing is in an extremely competitive market and a strike will simply provide additional incentives to move production oversees. http://www.politicalbull.net/boeing_workers_strike.html A Look At McCain's New VP Pick, Palin http://www.politicalbull.net/mccain_and_palin_in_2008.html It appears Western political thought is stuck in the colonial mindset of the 19th and early 20th century. This is the mindset that divides borders between states based on natural landmarks and sometimes arbitrary dividing lines that completely ignore local ethnic distinctions. http://www.politicalbull.net/the_wrong_side_of_the_war_in_Georgia.html