"I don't work for a party," , says the guy accepting the party's nomination for the Presidency.

Way to express your gratitude, John!

If you get elected, will you say "I don't work for you people" ?
Don't worry, as a Republican, you don't have to say it. We're used to it.

OK, I had trouble keeping the dinner down while watching Palin's speech. She did a good job delivering it; but the contents made me barf.

What a frigging liar.

In this day and age, people can go back and check news stories from the past. So you can't really claim you were "against the bridge to nowhere" when you actually were for it, and took the money. And you can't claim you are against earmarks when you hire a lobbyist in DC to get you some.

I am sorry.... but I was really disappointed in the content of her speech. Oh, and the "9/11" comments from Rudy "the idiot" Giuliani were just sickening. That guy makes me sick. I don't know what the Republicans see in him.


Anyways: the subject of this post. Jon Stewart, once again, does a _phenomenal_ job in skewering the liars. Take a look for yourself:

Yikes! Here's a list of the latest news stories on Buffalo News' site right now
This makes it look like there's quite a crime wave going on up there! But in reality, this stuff is probably no worse than any other city.

Sometimes I wonder how much of this (crime) is a feedback phenomenon based on what people see/read in the news? I wonder what would happen if "good" news was also reported with such speed as the bad? I'm not saying BN should stop reporting crime; but that I'm sure there's more going on than muggings and rapes....

* National Wingfest opens this afternoon at Dunn Tire Park 08/30/08 1:35 PM
* Man carjacked at Central Park Plaza by shotgun wielding thieves 08/30/08 1:29 PM
* Trio robs, pistol whips man in Allentown 08/30/08 11:18 AM
* West Side man charged with shaking baby, causing brain bleed 08/30/08 10:40 AM
* Man reports gunpoint robbery near Schiller Park 08/30/08 10:15 AM
* Woman reports rape in vacant house on Amherst Street
08/30/08 9:50 AM
* Tonawanda woman robbed of her bicycle, cell phone in Riverside 08/30/08 9:48 AM
* 21-year-old Alden man charged with having sex with underage girls 08/30/08 9:31 AM
* Meat deliveryman robbed on Brewster 08/30/08 9:29 AM

I rarely see eye-to-eye with Pat Buchanan , but I will say this about him: he says what's on his mind, and he doesn't tow the Republican party line like the loyal apparatchiks they are. No wonder he's been shunned by his party.

This OpEd of his was very scary. And yet again the Republicans show that they care about nothing other than lining their own pockets. So what if lives of young men and women are wasted in the process?

I commented in e:joshua 's journal that I was disappointed in something e:drew wrote.

Here's what he wrote:

but I am pretty sure those women knew he was married and knew better. They shouldn't be surprised that he cheated on them. After all, they knew, based on the fact of their relationships, that he was willing to cheat.

Let me take y'all back 5 years. My (then) wife had been making my life miserable for years, and finally I moved out and filed for divorce. As the divorce started its tortuous process through the glacial NYS courts, I met this wonderful woman online. She lived in Pittsburgh, and we shared a lot in common. After a few weeks of banter, she decided to visit me. The first day I met her, I told her that I was officially not single, but "separated". Laid out my situation in front of her, and let her make the choice if she wanted to be involved with me or not.
She made a decision, based on everything I said, that it was OK and she wanted to still be with me. We were together for a few months, and those months were like heaven for me. I had been feeling extremely depressed, but that angel lifted me out of the depression and gave me a new lease on life. For that, I am always grateful to you R., and you'll always be close to my heart.

Now, I could have been lying to her and not really going through a divorce. It could be that my wife was in another town with 2 kids, while I was in Buffalo romping in the bed with my GF.

But she took me at my word, and her faith in me was justified.

My point is: just because a guy is technically married, it does not mean that he can't be in a relationship with another woman. In my humble opinion, almost no woman will go along with a guy who says "gee sweetie! I'm happily married, but I'd still like to tap your ass."

I have known friends who dated married men. In all cases that I remember, the guys gave some serious sob stories about being in the final stages of divorce. In all cases it turned out to be wrong; but my friends got suckered into it somehow. It was probably a result of the powerful emotional pitches; who knows.

So, e:drew, it is not entirely fair to lay too much blame on the women involved.

And e:james , can you provide a more authoritative link? Here's what I've seen:

Sure, it's the Post. But they'd get sued bigtime if they were making this stuff up.