Category: 2008 election

Tentative live hate-blog schedule.

The second Presidential debate on Tuesday, October 7, at 9 p.m.

The third Presidential debate on Wednesday, October 15, at 9 p.m.

Election night November 4, starting at 6 p.m.ish (subject to change).

Unfortunately, can’t do the Veep debate on Thursday, October 2, 9 p.m., due to the fact that I have a class at that time. Well, I could do it, but I don’t think the instructor would be too happy with me watching steaming video and typing up stuff for a blog. :)

Coveritlive.com has some great free software for live blogging for the bloggers out there, by the way.

Presidential debate drinking game.

I wished I had come up with this. From Michelle Malkin’s blog:

A reader proposes the first drinking game suggestion:

Michelle, how about a college-style drinking game tonight – where everyone takes a drink whenever Obama says “Bush” – in his laughably ridiculous ongoing effort to link McCain to Bush.

If you’re looking to get inebriated quickly, start drinking every time Obama says “Uh.”

Or every time McCain touts bipartisanship.

And no, I didn’t watch the Presidential debate. I had no desire to get in a yelling contest with the television that late in the night.

Who knows? Maybe I’ll do a live hate-blog next time.

So, which Caroline County Supervisor is leaking information from closed session meetings of the Board of Supervisors?

A couple months ago, a Caroline County citizen raised objections regarding the Caroline County Board of Supervisors, Caroline’s Promise, and Caroline’s Promise’s faith based initiatives. Separation of church and state and all that.

Feel free to argue amongst yourself as to whether you agree with Caroline’s Promise’s policies and programs or not, but that’s the topic of discussion for another post.

Here’s the topic of this post, however: If you heard over to the Caroline County forum on that waste-of-electrons known as FredTalk, you will see people taking about what the Attorney General said in an legal opinion that was provided to the Caroline County Board of Supervisors during a closed session meeting.

This opinion should be covered under closed session meeting standards, as well as under attorney/client privilege, and not be discussed with members of the public.

The opinion which information was leaked from was an informal/unofficial opinion that the Board requested to see if there were any problems that needed to be rectified immediately.

The Board has also requested an official, formal opinion that will be released to the public in the future, which hasn’t finished being prepared at this point.

County Administrator Percy Ashcraft has confirmed that a leak has occurred and stated that the leak didn’t come from anyone on the county staff.

He pointed out that there were only eight or nine people in the room. Three or four people were county staff: Percy Ashcraft; the county attorney; the deputy county administrator, and possibly Ashcraft’s administrative assistant (she skips the closed sessions sometimes due to the fact that no minutes have to be kept for closed sessions).

None of these persons have the position or reason to leak this information. The County Administrator’s Office would be smart enough not to discuss anyone without the proper “clearance”, and the county attorney should understand the principles of attorney/client privilege.

So, folks, who does that leave?

Well, those five lovely folks on the Board of Supervisors.

Now, which member of the Board of Supervisors has connections to that waste-of-electrons known as FredTalk?

Why, that would be Jeff Sili. His wife loves to post on that forum using the alias “oharascarlett” and is bestest buddies with the persons talking about the information contained in the legal opinion.

Not only that, but isn’t Susan Sili on the Board of Directors of Caroline’s Promise? Why, yes, I believe she is.

Sidebar: Anyone else see a conflict of interest in the Board of Supervisors appropriating money to an organization that is being ran by family members of the supervisors?

Of course, this isn’t the first time that confidential information has been leaked from the Board of Supervisors.

The last time around, it was Susan Sili posting about who would be hired for a job — nine days before there was an official announcement!

The person who was hired? A good friend of the Silis!

If I’m not mistaken, it’s against the law to leak information from a closed session. Even if it isn’t against the law, it’s a violation of the Board’s attorney/client privilege.

Has the Board of Supervisors launched an inquiry into this matter?

Are criminal charges being pursued at this point? Impeachment? Censure? Etc.

Is Obama’s campaign “off track”?

Subject of e-mail sent to his supporters (no, I’m not a supporter): “Get the conversation back on track”.

Obama’s campaign, of course, blames that big, evil John McCain.

I guess McCain has been going around stealing Obama’s milk money or something.

Now, I ask you: Whose campaign is “off track”?

What campaign has their blogger buddies going around stating that the opponent’s Vice Presidential pick faked her pregnancy to cover up for her daughter?

What campaign has their buddies in the media attacking the VP pick using those oh-so-greatly-fact-checked claims by the same bloggers?

What campaign is mocking his opponent because his opponent has difficulty using a computer due to torture suffered while serving his country in the United States Navy?

Why, hot damn, that would be Barack Obama’s campaign!

Is this election over?

No, far from it.

In fact, there’s probably a dozen or so October/November surprises left, but Obama’s campaign can’t stay on message and that’s a problem for them.

This is the piece of trash that will be replacing Jay Leno next year?

At Breitbart: NBC’s Conan O’Brien Tells Crude Joke About Palin’s Daughter

For those that don’t want to waste their bandwidth — or their IQ points watching the video — here’s the transcript:

Conan O’Brien: During [Sarah Palin’s] speech [at the Republican National Convention] — I don’t know if you saw this — Sarah Palin spoke proudly about being a hockey mom.

That’s what she said…yeah, yeah.

It’s unknown what positions her kids play, but one of ’em isn’t very good at protecting the crease.

[Scattered jeers and applauses.]

Okay, then…that joke’s going to follow me around for awhile.

Mike Huckabee: Just ignore what the supreme court says.

You know, I thought I had seen/heard the last of the Huckster after he opened his mouth and removed any doubt of his stupidity by making a joke about someone aiming a gun at Barack Obama.

Alas, we weren’t that lucky.

He’s talking specifically about Mitt Romney and how Romney should have ignored a Massachusetts Supreme Court decision that declared a ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional (Hot Air).

You know, you can say what you will about Supreme Courts decisions — not just ones from the Massachusetts Supreme Court — but the last I checked this isn’t a dictatorship.

There are plenty of Supreme Court decisions I disagree with (take your pick) but if you have the member of the executive office — be it Governor or President — ignoring what the judicial branch of government says, you cease to have a system of check and balances. Soon the executive will be ignoring the legislative branch, and then we are are on our way to a grand old dictatorship.

And while we are on the topic on Supreme Court decisions and Mike Huckabee, maybe someone can explain to me why the Huckster seems to think a Supreme Court of the United States decision finding a constitutional right to sodomy “probably was appropriate” (Ann Coulter #1 & #2)?

The last time I did a read-through of the United States Constitution, I sure enough didn’t see a provision involving sodomy; what about you guys?

The fact that people support this idiot (Huckabee) just goes to show the collective stupidity of certain people.

Ace of Spades HQ has more.

The pointy-haired boss of Virginia [Tim Kaine] redraws state boundaries.

Our esteemed Governor seems to think that the Commonwealth of Virginia borders Delaware:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV-mB3Wjuqs

Did we take over the People’s Republic of Maryland when I wasn’t looking?

H/t: Black Velvet Bruce Li, Virginia Virtucon, Hot Air

A Festivus miracle! Obama picks Joe Biden as veep!

This is a great decision — if his plans were to help the Republicans this year.

If Obama isn’t the personification of narcissism, then Biden definitely is.

Case in point, from The WaPo:

One of the most overlooked episodes during the 1987 collapse of Biden’s [Presidential] campaign was a snippet of footage captured by C-Span in which the Delaware senator, in response to a question about where he went to law school and what sort of grades he received, delivered this classic line: “I think I have a much higher IQ than you do.”

While any human being — especially a candidate for president who is constantly being poked and prodded — can be forgiven a momentary flash of temper, Biden’s detractors point to that incident as evidence that the senator thinks he is the bee’s knees and doesn’t care who knows it.

Biden, by his own admission, has the capacity to fall in love with his own voice and wander off on tangents about his life that have nothing to do with the topic at hand.

During the 2006 confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, the Post’s Dana Milbank wrote this of Biden’s performance:

“Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., in his first 12 minutes of questioning the nominee, managed to get off only one question. Instead, during his 30-minute round of questioning, Biden spoke about his own Irish American roots, his “Grandfather Finnegan,” his son’s application to Princeton (he attended the University of Pennsylvania instead, Biden said), a speech the senator gave on the Princeton campus, the fact that Biden is “not a Princeton fan,” and his views on the eyeglasses of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.).”

Virginia Democratic net nut roots on suicide watch.

Fox News:

Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has put the brakes on ads that were running in seven states carried by the GOP in the 2004 presidential election, FOX News has learned.

Of the seven states — including Alaska, Georgia, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota — Florida and Virginia are considered key battlegrounds this year. Obama’s decision to stop advertising in those states is raising eyebrows.

[…]

When Obama’s campaign took over the Democratic Party earlier this year, it embraced Howard Dean’s 50-state strategy, which is aimed at courting Democrats nationwide. The strategy has generated controversy, though, because many Democrats say it wastes money in states where they have no chance of winning.

H/t: Ace of Spades HQ

Obama: You know what’s great? ChiCom infrastructure.

From National Review Online:

Obama, yesterday: “Everybody’s watching what’s going on in Beijing right now with the Olympics, Think about the amount of money that China has spent on infrastructure. Their ports, their train systems, their airports are vastly the superior to us now, which means if you are a corporation deciding where to do business, you’re starting to think, ‘Beijing looks like a pretty good option.'”

Ed and Hugh object, with the latter noting Obama “ignores how those structures were assembled, the source and conditions of the labor, the lack of pollution controls in Beijing and throughout China, the many complaints that Chinese infrastructure outside the Olympics zone remains shoddy, the recent record of Chinese manufacturing scandals, including the heparin fiasco which killed many Americans, and of course the catastrophe brought about by Chinese building standards in the region rocked by the recent earthquake.”

But beyond that, let’s look at Obama’s examples of Chinese excellence…

Go read the whole thing as they say.