Vitamin B16

• I will be covering a local story tonight, so won’t be able to comment live on the townhall debate tonight #

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• Dang it! Fox livestreaming just froze #
• Wall Street running wild? We’re in this mess because of govt regulatory meddling, not deregulation #
• Everybody is buddy-buddy: Joe, John, Barack… #
• Palin brought up small business — yay! #
• Palin: cross-state healthcare & $5k healthcare #
• But taking $$$ from ExxonMobil & giving it to middle class families *IS* redistributing the money! Biden claims that its “Fair” #
• Biden: No tax cut b/c of bailout. He keeps refering to ExxonMobile, but a biz tax rate cut covers SMALL & MED biz too #
• Palin: bringing in her background as AK guv multiple times #
• Biden: voted for energy bill b/c of support for alt energy — WRONG method to encourage alt energy #
• Palin: jeez, don’t blame it solely on Wall Street! Ok: reminding abt Fan&Fred reform blocked #
• Biden: wants bankruptcy judges to get wizardly powers to rewrite mortgages. Erg. #
• Ann Althouse sez Palin looks tiny behind her lectern — I hadn’t noticed #
• Biden: global warming caused by man, no doubt; sigh. The science is not open and shut. #
• Biden: 10yrs before wells yield oil. CA offshore wells could produce in 2 yrs #
• Biden: same-sex couples same rights as heterosexual couple; gah — he just slipped from “committed couple” to “marriage” #
• Palin: supports marriage between one man & one woman, traditional marriage #
• Biden: O’Biden doesn’t support gay marriage #
• Overarching impression: Palin is full of fight, good stage presence, attentive, responsive. #
• Biden: looking into camera but doesn’t have the stage presence #
• Biden: all for intervention (eg, Darfur) until things get sticky #
• Biden: if I become prez, I would follow thru on Obama’s policies. I listed bunches that I just don’t agree with. #
• Prevention! Cooperation! Cuz nobody has ever tried that before. #
• Biden: hey! I’m just a regular guy! #
• Palin: Say it ain’t so, Joe! Ok: with *THAT* line she sounded genuinely amused. Boom! #
• Biden said “principal” & I thought he was back in grade school for a minute… sent to the principal’s office! #
• Biden: Cheney most dangerous Veep in history!?! Oy. #
• Ann Althouse & Hugh Hewitt live-blogging & load just fine; NRO’s The Corner & Campaign Spot won’t load #
• Biden: “I haven’t changed in 35 years.” Another oy. I would hate to think I’m the same as when I was 17 years old! #
• Ann Althouse on Palin: “She hasn’t stumbled, and he’s seemed a bit boring.” http://tinyurl.com/4voftz #
• Biden: O’Biden won’t question people’s motives… unless O’Biden accuses them of racism for disagreeing. #
• NRO down per RedState: http://tinyurl.com/3nlnro #
• Palin: nice to talk straight to American people wo filter of MSM. Heh. #
• Biden: “most important election in your life” — um, it’s important, but some folks have lived a long time… #
• Debate’s over: everybody on stage for a group hug! #
• “Regular Joe” Biden had a senior moment during the debate last night, calling up a recent meal at a long-ago diner http://tinyurl.com/49y5oe #

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• sponge for 7 grain bread now rising #
• Just tried adding DISQUS plugin to a blog — couldn’t get past authx in configuring the plugin #

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• @Scobleizer, re: John Culberson’s nay vote: when will Dems who opposed reform answer for that? Or for the mods to CRA that led to this? #
• @scobleizer, I understand the reason for bailout - not happy with the one we got - angry how we got here #
• 95 Dems voted against the now failed bailout bill - Mme Speaker couldn’t wrangle her own partymembers #
• @davewiner, why couldn’t Mme Speaker get the bill passed along party lines? She lost 1/3 of her caucus to nay votes #
• @lesliecarbone - Mme Speaker couldn’t wrangle her own caucus — & GOP is in disarray? Hmph. #

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• @lileks, if I could be convinced that transporters worked & didn’t separate you from your soul, I’d use one to get from here to there #
• @lileks, but for going nowhere in particular slowly, a train pulled by a steam engine is hard to beat… #

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• Just clicked in to the debate: financial crisis, not foreign policy. #
• Hrm: both McCain & Obama talk like the president has a line item veto on spending bills. #
• #debate08, OK: I’m no fan of earmarks, but repeating how much Obamarama earmarked gets wearying #
• #debate08, Obamarama says US businesses pay effectively one of the lowest tax rates…!? #
• #debate08, gaaah! Obama wants to make college affordable for all children! No no no! Make it HARDER to get into college. #
• #debate08, everybody does NOT need to attend college. Plumbers! Electricians! Mechanics! Lots of kids are ill suited 4 college #
• #debate08, Obamarama is dropping his g’s — is that supposed to be endearing or folksy? #
• #debate08, McCain: spending freeze!?! #
• #debate08, Obamaram: increase spending on early childhood education? Gaah. Kids should be with their family preK. Teach the parents. #
• #debate08, McCain keeps saying “many many years” to highlight his experience… #
• #debate08, neither is willing to specify programs to drop because of the $700b bailout #
• #debate08, Obamarama blames Washington spending spree on Pres Bush; what, Congress didn’t vote on the budget bills? #
• #debate08, “I’m a maverick” has gone stale #
• #debate08, Obamarama goes back to “I opposed the war” instead of answering the question — still says nothing good from Iraq #
• #debate08, Obamarama keeps harping on the Iraqi govt surplus — the $$ isn’t equivalent to troop presence, not comparable #
• #debate08, hah! McCain caught Obamarama on the difference between tactic & strategy. Heh. #
• #debate08, Obamarama doesn’t present himself as understanding the situation in Waziristan & the border area btw Pakistan & Afghanistan #
• #debate08, McCain presents himself as much more knowledgeable on the area #
• #debate08, Obamarama restates that he would take out OBL on Pakistani soil w/wo Pakistani permission #
• #debate08, *coddled* Musharref?!? LOST legitimacy in Pakistan?!? He doesn’t know what he’s talking about. #
• #debate08, gaah! battle of the bracelets! decisions of war & peace should not be based on sentiment #
• #debate08, nuclear Iran an existential threat to Israel, destabilizing to region #
• #debate08, McCain: “league of democracies” to impose sanctios on Iran - outside the United Nations to get around Russia #
• #debate08, finally audience reaction to McCain’s restatement of Obama’s talking with Ahmadinejad #
• Just submitted bid letter to new client #
• @jaysolo, the strike tag has been deprecated by the W3 folks as of HTML 4.01 and is not supported in XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD #

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• Loaf of potato bread on its second rising - should be baked in time to run errands at 11a #

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• watching video tutorials for Adobe Illustrator CS3… learning new software feels like all my fingers are broken #

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• Potato bread on its second rising in the kitchen - fresh bread for dinner! http://tinyurl.com/4qmddr #
• Stanley Kurtz on Obama’s relationship to Bill Ayers, in WSJ: http://tinyurl.com/3wbxtu & at NRO: http://tinyurl.com/4kx2uh #

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• Domenico Bettinelli passes along info on how to help Galveston Catholics after Ike, http://tinyurl.com/479j9y #
• Worth reading: Kevin Hassett on the Wall Street mess, http://tinyurl.com/4u9rnk #

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• @gapingvoid - welcome to SoCal — hope you brought cooler weather with you #

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• poking thru sitemeter’s new UI - some rpts in awfully small type for us geezer geeks #
• Weeding out affiliations & memberships; designers: your Great New Web Idea should have some way for users to request acct deactivation #
• sitemeter response sluggish - probably everybody upgrading & complaining! #
• The New Sitemeter is rolling back to The Old Sitemeter. Uh, huzzah? #

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• @lileks - your BLEAT link for ‘winged with a troll gun’ is missing the initial ‘h’ in ‘http:’ — love the party pic #

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• Sarah Palin, point guard, by Jessica Gavora: http://tinyurl.com/6kpcgz #

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• @PatrickRuffini - has Todd Palin campaigned in the past? Or just supported from the sidelines? #

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• @lesliecarbone - LOL re: plural v. possessive — but you’re not allowing the Kidz 2 B Real… #
• #rnc - just finished McCain intro video & McCain walks out on the rebuilt stage #
• #rnc - sustained applause, chants of “USA!” & “John McCain!” Crowd won’t quiet #
• #rnc irrelevant fashion note: McCain is wearing a GOLD tie?!? #
• #rnc quick TV cut to sign: “McCain votes against vets” #
• #rnc McCain thanks Bush for keeping America safe & preventing a second terrorist attack on American soil — also nice words for Laura Bush #
• #rnc08 another irrelevant fashion note: Cindy McCain is wearing her hair down — makes her looks less battened down #
• @NewsHour #rnc McCain just said that his mother is “96 years young” — who’s right? You (at 92) or Mccain? #
• #rnc08 interesting - “tough times” brings out chant of “USA!” #
• #rnc08 “government stand on your side, not in your way” — yes #
• #rnc08 whoops - I missed a protester of some sort? Twitter traffic says a protester of some sort has been removed #
• @petehoekstra - “civility” is a vastly underapprciated virtue — democracy can’t function without it #
• #rnc08 - McCain seems genuinely proud of Palin #
• #rnc08 - McCain promises to out porksters in Washington #
• @lileks - post a link - lots of twitter traffic that the guards were over-the-top violent #
• #rnc - uh-oh: “education is the civil rights issue of this century” — I am no fan of public education generally & federal meddling in same #
• #rnc08 ambitious project — energy? crowd interrupted #
• #rnc domestic energy production: drill now. Crowd behind that notion, loudly. #
• #rnc08 buid more nuclear power plants, clean coal, wind, tide, flex-fuel, hybrids #
• #rnc08 green collar jobs — eh #
• #rnc08 Russia invaded Georgia for exactly the reason that liberals say Bush invaded Iraq, to control the (Caucasus) oil supply #
• @RobTornoe - abt South Ossetia, see background at http://tinyurl.com/6g9tld #
• @lesliecarbone - re: McCain broken as POW - see http://tinyurl.com/5vztan - he attempted suicide #

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• #rnc Romney: “Radical violent Islam is evil & we will defeat it.” He looked a bit alarming while emphatically underscoring the idea. #
• #rnc08 - CNN commentator says Romney is warm-up act to Huckabeen #
• #rnc08 Huckabee starting now #
• #rnc08 is Huckabee’s second choice for president this year #
• #rnc08 - Huckabee: reporting tackier than a costume change at a Madonna concert… #
• #rnc - Huckabee congratulates Obama’s nomination but opposes Obama’s election because of his policies #
• @RobertBluey - I had to switch to Fox from CNN - the CNN people dripped snobbery #
• @Scobleizer - Huckabee didn’t mention Twitter - he was talking about gossipmongers not Twitter in particular #
• #rnc @Scobleizer - again, you’re misleading - Huckabee talked about European big govt & socialism, not alt energy ideas #
• #rnc - Gov. of Hawaii up next… #
• #rnc - Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle makes mention of Palin’s grandchild on the way grandchild on the way — Lingle is delivering single sentence #
• #rnc - Lingle is delivering single sentences rather than a speech that gathers steam #
• #rnc Gov Lingle got the crowd chanting “zero! zero!” re: amt of executive experience on Dem ticket, top & bottom #
• #rnc - hmmm… typographic fun with “O” for “Obama” and “0″ for “Zero” — eek, too tempting #
• #rnc08 Todd Palin just joined Cindy McCain on the convention floor #
• #rnc08 #
• #rnc08 rudy up now — enthusiastic reception from crowd #
• @lesliecarbone - big tent Republicanism - imagine a pro-life pro-gun NASCAR fan keynoting for Dems? #
• #rnc - okay, the fourth or fifth repetition of the POW story in the same evening begins to grate #
• #rnc - “community organizer” gets the crowd chanting “zero!” again #
• #rnc - Chicago machine politics gets booed; Rudy pounding on O’s dozens of “present” votes #
• @PatrickRuffini - This Rudy was out to lunch, schmoozing with the real Fred Thompson #
• #rnc - rudy relaxed and laughing - answering back to crowd chant of “Drill, baby, drill!” #
• @MackCollier - I agree abt Rudy - he’s having a good time & the crowd is eating it up #
• #rnc rudy running thru O’s flips: undivided Jerusalem, public campaign funding… #
• @Mlsif - abt the veep-in-writing thing - most people would call it a barbed joke #
• #rnc08 Sarah Palen up now — loud and enthusiastic reception — rudy really warmed ‘em up #
• #rnc08 this speech could go far in establishing Palin’s bona fides, or buyring the McCain-Palin campaign #
• #rnc08 palin: “I will be honored to accept your nomination to be vice president of the Unied States.” followed by hoots & hollers #
• #rnc08 Todd Palin now holding Trig Palin on convention floor #
• #rnc08 Track Palin — oldest Palin child — just acknowledged, to deploy to Iraq in a week #
• #rnc08 Three Palin daughters acknowledged — Piper is a cutie #
• #rnc08 Todd Palin waves Trig’s hand in acknowledgement #
• #rnc08 shout out to families of special needs children from Palin: I’ll be a friend in the White House #
• #rnc now Todd — “quite a package” & “still my guy” #
• #rnc08 - Piper Palin slicking down Trig’s hair by licking her hand and rubbing his head #
• #rnc08 somebody being hustled out of the arena? #
• #rnc08 Palin taking a swipe at political & media elite now #
• #rnc08 Palin: “I’m not going to Washington to seek the good opinion of media elites but to serve the people of this great country.” #
• #rnc08 Palin knows at least a little about European dependence on Russian natural gas #
• #rnc08 Palin: Obama has written two books but zero legislation #
• #rnc Palin: litany of Obama positions contrasted with current political challenges, all negative solutions #
• #rnc08 - don’t see Palin family with Cindy McCain… gone backstage? #
• #rnc08 just an observation: Palin doesn’t seem cowed or fazed a bit by the mudslinging & gossip of the last week #

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• Fred Thompson up now — hope he gives a rip-snorter #rnc08 #
• If Fred Thompson had campaigned as forcefully for HIMSELF as he now speaks for McCain-Palin… the “teleprompter speech” line drew blood #
• @wbaustin - re: 9/11 comment storm: think people got tired of hearing abt the English burning Washington, DC in the War of 1812? #

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