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September 11, 2008

Whistleblower breaks 15-year silence to allege McCain hid wife's drug abuse

Raw Story | Whistleblower breaks 15-year silence to allege McCain hid wife's drug abuse

Tom Gosinski, a former employee of the medical-aid charity Cindy McCain used as personal supplier of Percocet and Vicodin, is speaking out publicly for the first time. On Wednesday, Gosinski sat down with RAW STORY and other outlets to tell his story and distribute copies of his personal journal from his time with the American Voluntary Medical Team in the last half of 1992, where he voiced ever more acute concerns and frustrations over McCain's drug use and its impact on her mood and job performance.... "I have always wondered why John McCain has done nothing to fix the problem," Gosinski wrote on July 27, 1992. "He must either not see that a problem exists or does not choose to do anything about it." Less than a month later, Gosinski was clearer about McCain's knowledge of his wife's problem: "John McCain has known about it for some time," he wrote on Aug. 14.... Several journal entries also mention McCain's daughter Meghan, who was 7 when the journal was written. Now 23, Meghan blogs about pop culture and her father's campaign and has recently written a children's book. Gosinski details a conversation with Jeri Johnson, Cindy McCain's aunt, regarding Cindy's nanny, Diane, in a July 28, 1992 entry.

Diane voice concerns regarding Cindy's use of drugs and the effect it is having on the kids. Diane told Jeri that Meghan recently told her to "fuck off" after trying to discipline her. She also told Jeri that she is concerned that Cindy is giving the kids drugs which unnecessarily sedate them. I hope that is not happening.

Posted in Politic(k)s. Posted by Alan at 10:35 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Can't unsee

Posted in (K)omix. Posted by Alan at 01:15 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

September 10, 2008

Palin a chronic liar? Obama's Mythbusters on the case up north!

Obama campaign's 'Alaska mythbusters' lay bare Palin facts

On Wednesday, former Alaska governor Tony Knowles and Bob Weinstein, mayor of Ketchikan, the town at the heart of the controversial "bridge to nowhere" project, teamed up in the latest salvo fired by the Democrats at the Palin nomination: the "Alaska Mythbusters." The two officials questioned Palin's ethics and the judgment of McCain in choosing her to run alongside him in the race for the White House.... "When Senator McCain picked Governor Palin, he ignored the fact that there was a very serious ethics investigation against Governor Palin going on," said Knowles. "I think its important that the resuilts of this investigation be known to the American people before voting," he said. Palin has launched a delaying tactic to put back any decision-making in the ethics probe -- by filing another probe against herself.... Palin claims to have blocked an expensive federally funded project to build a bridge linking Ketchikan, a town of around 7,600 people, to an airport on the nearby island of Gravina. "I told Congress thanks but no thanks for that bridge to nowhere up in Alaska," she has told cheering supporters at last week's Republican National Convention, at a rally in Ohio this week, and again in Virginia on Wednesday. A myth, said Weinstein.

Posted in Politic(k)s. Posted by Alan at 11:43 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Obama's "Chicago" education plan: 30,000 new teachers and much more money for at-risk

NYT | Obama Looks to Lessons From Chicago in His National Education Plan

...the Democratic nominee for president, is campaigning on an ambitious plan that promises $18 billion a year in new federal spending on early childhood classes, teacher recruitment, performance pay and dozens of other initiatives.... Mr. Obama added a new flourish to his stump speech, promising for the first time on Tuesday to double federal spending on public charter schools while holding those with poor records accountable.... In the two decades since Mr. Obama arrived in Chicago, its public schools have undergone a sweeping turnaround, from an education wasteland to a district that, while still facing major challenges, is among the most improved in the nation. The city has closed many failing schools and reopened them with new staffs, making it an important laboratory for one of the country’s most vexing problems. The city closed the failing Dodge Elementary School, for example, in 2002 and reopened it as an academy where candidates for advanced degrees in education work in classrooms under master teachers while studying at a local university. Mr. Obama visited the school in 2005, liked what he saw and now proposes to create 200 such teacher residency programs nationwide. The goal, he says, would be to turn out 30,000 teachers a year to work in the toughest schools.

Posted in Politic(k)s. Posted by Alan at 10:46 AM | Permalink

World fails to end

If you can read this, you haven't been subsumed into a naked singularity. Massive particle collider passes first key tests

GENEVA (AP) — The world's largest particle collider passed its first major tests by firing two beams of protons in opposite directions around a 17-mile (27-kilometer) underground ring Wednesday in what scientists hope is the next great step to understanding the makeup of the universe. After a series of trial runs, two white dots flashed on a computer screen at 10:26 a.m. (0826 GMT) indicating that the protons had traveled clockwise along the full length of the 4 billion Swiss franc (US$3.8 billion) Large Hadron Collider — described as the biggest physics experiment in history. "There it is," project leader Lyn Evans said when the beam completed its lap. Champagne corks popped in labs as far away as Chicago, where contributing and competing scientists watched the proceedings by satellite. Five hours later, scientists successfully fired a beam counterclockwise.... The start of the collider came over the objections of some who feared the collision of protons could eventually imperil the Earth by creating micro-black holes, subatomic versions of collapsed stars whose gravity is so strong they can suck in planets and other stars. "It's nonsense," said James Gillies, chief spokesman for CERN.

Posted in Scientific(k). Posted by Alan at 10:34 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Biden: How to beat a woman

The Palin move now seen as pure Rovesque genius, as Biden is forced to de-gender-fy and stomp the attractive mommy every dipshit white American woman wants to be and every dipshit white American man wants to lay. Newsweek Blogs | Stumper | In Chicago, Biden Previews Palin Debate

CHICAGO, IL - At the beginning of this week, Stumper was looking at Joe Biden's impressive dismantling of claims that he would have trouble debating Gov. Sarah Palin because of her gender. “The only guys who think that way have never been around strong women,” was one of the standard lines. The rationale: Biden was laying the ground work to take gender out of the equation, making it sexist NOT to throw some tough jabs at her. It didn't take that long to move from Phase A (dismantle claims about gender) to Phase B--attack. At two private fundraisers in Lincoln Park homes in Chicago last night, Biden gave his audience a new take on debating Palin. He did pretty much what he’s been saying he’s going to do for the past few days: left gender completely out of it.... This doesn’t mean Biden has decided that gender is completely irrelevant. At those same fundraisers, he dropped the news that Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm is going to spend four days prepping him for his Oct. 2 debate.

If only Obama could have swallowed his pride and picked Hillary.

Posted in Politic(k)s. Posted by Alan at 09:56 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Nostalgia Critic: Top 11 Saddest Moments

Posted in (K)inetascopic, both filmic and televisual. Posted by Alan at 12:23 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

September 09, 2008

Yeah, I'm goin' there: Palin shakes snakes, speaks tongues

CNN | Pastor: GOP may be downplaying Palin's religious beliefs

WASILLA, Alaska (CNN) -- For more than two decades, vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin was a practicing Pentecostal. She belonged to the Wasilla Assembly of God church in her hometown of Wasilla, Alaska. But though she attended the church from her teenage years to 2002, the Alaska governor hasn't talked much about her religion since joining the Republican ticket. Palin's former pastor, Tim McGraw, says that like many Pentecostal churches, some members speak in tongues, although he says he's never seen Palin do so. Church member Caroline Spangler told CNN, "When the spirit comes on you, you utter things that nobody else can understand ... only God can understand what is coming out of our mouths." Some Pentecostals from Assembly of God also believe in "faith healing" and the "end times" -- a violent upheaval that they believe will deliver Jesus Christ's second coming. "Our basic belief is that God is God and he knows where history is going and he has a purposeful plan and within the middle of that plan we live in an environment in our world where certain events would take place," says McGraw. "Sarah wasn't taught to look for one particular sign -- a cataclysmic sign. She knew as every Christian does ... that God is sovereign and he is in control."

Election, 2008: Obama isn't a muslim, but every backward-assed country fuck in the US of A says he is. Palin is a pentacostal, but will be given a free pass by every backward-assed country fuck in the US of A.

Posted in Religion and the Ephemeral. Posted by Alan at 11:57 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Googasm: IT pundits don't know shit

The Register UK | Chrome-fed Googasm bares tech pundit futility | It's a f***ing web browser

Fail and You Last week, Google released a web browser called Chrome, and the online tech media had a powerful Googasm. We were long overdue for another climax like this, having been lightly stimulated with half-baked Google web products in the four years since GMail was released. Every time the media fires off its gravy so violently, it highlights how little some of the supposed "experts" actually know about computers. Case in point: People saying that Google Chrome is an operating system designed to compete head-to-head with Microsoft Windows.... When journalists jump on a story like this, they will publish just about anything, no matter how poorly thought out. Let's take, for example, Henry Blodget of Silicon Alley Insider. He says:

[Google is] building the equivalent to Windows in the cloud-computing world.

Too bad the SEC can't ban this guy from the tech industry for life. People are calling Chrome a cloud operating system because it is a "platform for running web apps". It renders HTML and interprets Javascript, you know, like every fucking browser made since 1995. It's also got Google Gears built in. Great. I'll alert Tim Berners-Lee. This bullshit is a common theme when talking about Chrome. Those who realize that Chrome is not a full fledged operating system but still want to get in on the page-view party are calling Chrome the cloud operating system. Get it, because it's like clouds. All nature and shit. Don't you want to read that story?

Posted in Tec(k)nical Arts. Posted by Alan at 11:44 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)