musing minds

On with Shep Smith this afternoon, Mary Ann Marsh said (paraphrased):

Barack Obama is taking private donations from people. John McCain is using taxpayer dollars.

So…

because Obama’s taking “private donations” some as small as $100 from real people

Obama = Good.

and because McCain is taking the public financing that every presidential candidate in the past except for Obama has taken

McCain = Bad

Obama is the first presidential candidate to decline public financing.

His fundraising isn’t working as well as predicted.

I think he’ll be the last presidential candidate to decline public financing.

International Talk Like a Pirate Day!

And since it’s on a Friday this year, make it a Talk Like A Pirate Weekend!

That’s the number bandied about by the Obama camp and surrogates trying to say that McCain’s been in Washington that long so he doesn’t represent a change.

Joe Biden’s been in the senate for 36 years.

Isn’t 36 longer than 30?

Saturday, in a completely separate storm from Ike, we got a record amount of rain. We didn’t sleep well from rain all night (Friday into Saturday), and then in the morning we realized the sump pump wasn’t going on.

Hubby went down into the dungeon (our 4 foot, concrete floored crawlspace) and found 6 inches of water. He got the sump working (the float was caught on something and didn’t trip the switch to start the pump). We’re going to have to start removing everything that was stored down there. Lots of video tapes, but we don’t even have a tape player anymore… Everything else that was down there was also ruined. No Christmas tree – have to get a new one this year…

The front and back yards also were flooded on Saturday.

Sunday, Ike arrived. More rain. Sump running on and off, on and off, on and off…

Birds are sheltering on the front porch.

One is sheltering inside the house. We found her last Monday just before it started raining. She’s a baby Cockatiel.

Sunshine the baby cockatiel

Althouse hates it and so do a lot of people.

and now they’re rolling back to the previous version.

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This video was made by the son of one of our local County Republican Committee Chairs, returned from Iraq.

Watch as he walks away.

The Red Cross needs money, volunteers, and blood donations…

Click to help The American Red Cross

Your humble blogger won FIRST PRIZE!

Yay!

Thanks Kate!

Click on over to Electric Venom to see the winning entries!

We’ve been having some server issues. We’re on a shared server and apparently someone has been putting a heavy load on the server which has resulted in intermittent outages for my domains…

My host is telling me that they are working on the issue.

This is the first time in the about three and a half years that I’ve been with them that there’s been any issues of any kind for me. I have been very happy with them.

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