As the Keating 5 Savings and Loan scandal proved, John McCain is not a maverick, he is a political hack who eagerly took $112,000 in contributions from Charles Keating, then turned around to protect his good friend and fraudster from being investigated by federal regulators.  The result: the largest bank fraud scandal in American history costing taxpayers billions of dollars.  Somehow, even though Keating went to prison, McCain survived.  John McCain is Kaiser Sose. Watch this video about John McCain and tthe Keating Five and ask yourself: how did this guy survive this scandal to become a candidate for Presdient?  And, what will he do the next time?

Forget about Sarah Palins phoney Bill Ayers rumor and scare mongering.  If Gov. Palin loved half America as much as she claims she would pack up her moose rifle, fly her little helicopter back to Alaska and drop out of the race. Meanwhile, in this little game you can Zap John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney, John Edwards and help Barack Obama get into the Oval Office, a place where no Palin has (or will, if the electorate's IQ stays out of remission) has ever gone...

Subject: Fwd: Clever Ploy and scary too 

Damnit! Now Murphy's Law applies to cell phones. If you can be screwed, you will be. Look out!

From: Catherine J Britton

Clever Ploy
This lady has changed her habit of how she lists her names on her mobile
phone after her handbag was stolen. Her handbag, which contained her cell
phone, credit card, wallet... etc...was stolen. 20 minutes later when she
called her hubby, from a pay phone telling him what had happened, hubby
says 'I received your text asking about our Pin number and I replied a
little while ago.'

When they rushed down to the bank, the bank staff told them all the money
was already withdrawn. The thief had actually used the stolen cell phone to
text 'hubby' in the contact list and got hold of the pin number. Within 20
minutes he had withdrawn all the money from their bank account.

Moral of the lesson: Do not disclose the relationship between you and the
people in your contact list. Avoid using names like Home, Honey, Hubby,
Sweetheart, Dad , Mom, etc..... And very importantly, when sensitive info
is being asked through texts, CONFIRM by calling back!!

Also, when you're being text by friends or family to meet them somewhere,
be sure to call back to confirm that the message came from them. If you
don't reach them, be very careful about going places to meet 'family and
friends' who text you.

Along with that if you have an entry called 'Home' with your actual home   
phone number it's not too hard to do a reverse lookup on the number to & nbsp;   
find the address.  now the robber has your home number, keys, AND address.



PLEASE PASS THIS ON!  I never thought about THAT!

Here's Baby Palin giving her original RNC acceptance speech.  How Adorable!

Help Stop John McCain's Vicious Lies

The rumor-turned-attack-TV-ad that says Barack Obama supported a bill to teach sex education to kindergartners has been repeated so many times we don't blame you if you think it is true.  Not only is this an urban myth, this big fat lie as almost big as the State of Alaska and just ad as cold.  The bill that Obama supported in fact was to teach age-appropriate sex ed, and specifically was to instruct 5 year olds on how to avoid sexual predators and pedophiles!

The bill allowed any parent not comfortable with their kids knowing how to avoid predators to opt out.  What kind of parent would want their kids to be ignorant is another question.  John McCain knows this--but it didnt stop him from putting up a TV ad to scare parent out of voting Obama.  Well it didnt work, and even Karl Rove is saying McCain has gone too far. 

But it really doesn't matter to maverick John Wayne McCain that this isn't true, because he's still running it on his YouTube page:

Palin pressured Wasilla librarian--Anchorage Daily News:

In December 1996, Emmons told her hometown newspaper, the Frontiersman,

that Palin three times asked her - starting before she was sworn in --about possibly

removing objectionable books from the library if the need arose.

Emmons told the Frontiersman she flatly refused to consider any kind of censorship.

In December 1996, Emmons told her hometown newspaper, the Frontiersman, that Palin three times asked her -- starting before she was sworn in -- about possibly removing objectionable books from the library if the need arose.

Emmons told the Frontiersman she flatly refused to consider any kind of censorship. Emmons, now Mary Ellen Baker, is on vacation from her current job in Fairbanks and did not return e-mail or telephone messages left for her Wednesday.

Heres the e-mail making the rounds:

This was sent to me and, as a reader, it is a subject that I feel passionately about.

Some of the best books in American literature on are on this list. Anyone who could

think it is a good idea to ban A Wrinkle in Time, To Kill a Mockingbird, Huckleberry

Finn and A Separate Peace, among so many others, makes it very clear that she does

NOT have good judgment and doesn't belong anywhere near the White House.

Therefore, counter to my usual policy, I am forwarding this to virtually everyone I know.

Sincerely,

Zoey (O'Toole) Hampton

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Friends, this is making the rounds. Interesting. KTL

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I know that Sarah Palin is not the one who is running for president but

take a good hard look at what she tried to do while she was Mayor of Wasilla.

Are we living in the 21st Century?

If you haven't already seen it, here is a list of books that Sarah Palin tried to

have banned from the Wasilla Public Library, according to the official minutes

of the Library Board. When she was unsuccessful at having these books banned,

she tried to have the librarian fired.

As many of you will notice, it is a hit parade for book burners.

Pass this on as best you can. I find it unbelievable!

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Blubber by Judy Blume

Sarah Palin, maverick John 'Wayne" McCain's surprise pick for VP, has a great life story. She's a moose hunting hockey mom maverick politician who has gone from mayor to Governor to VP candidate. She opposed the bridge to nowhere, she's a reformer, a tax cutter who is against earmarks and pork barrel spending..or is she? Turns out that most of this story is a great big urban myth.

1. Myth: Sarah Palin opposed the $200 million bridge to nowhere. Actually, Governor Palin supported it until she opposed it. According to The Atlantic:

"Palin supported the project and even told residents of Ketchikan that they weren't "nowhere" to her."

"OK, you've got Valley trash standing here in the middle of nowhere," Palin said, according to an account in the Ketchikan Daily News. "I think we're going to make a good team as we progress that bridge project." --Governor Sarah Palin

But that was before the $200 million bridge to nowhere story got national coverage. Now she claims that shes the one that stopped the bridge to nowhere--after she had already supported it! So where did the all the money go? Its being used on other projects that the State does not need. Some of the funds are being used to build a road to an empty beach in the very same place the bridge was to be located:

According to the Anchorage Daily News:

The Alaska governor campaigned in 2006 on a build-the-bridge platform, telling Ketchikan residents she felt their pain when politicians called them "nowhere." They're still feeling pain today in Ketchikan, over Palin's subsequent decision to use the bridge funds for other projects -- and over the timing of her announcement, which they say came in a pre-dawn press release that seemed aimed at national news deadlines.

"I think that's when the campaign for national office began," said Ketchikan Mayor Bob Weinstein on Saturday.

Meanwhile, Weinstein noted, the state is continuing to build a road on Gravina Island to an empty beach where the bridge would have gone -- because federal money for the access road, unlike the bridge money, would have otherwise been returned to the federal government.

Oh well, and it sounded so good at the time.

2. Myth: Sarah Palin is a tax cutter. Well, not quite Actually, as Mayor, Palin cut property taxes but raised sales taxes, which are more of a burden on the poor and elderly with fixed incomes. Se also supported windfall profts tax o noil companies, a policy Barack Obama supports and her potential future boss John McCain opposes.

3. Myth: Sarah Palin is a maverick politician just like John McCain. The truth: Sarah Palin is a skilled politician who stepped into the void left by all the corruption in Alaska state politics, and her politics are from the extreme right wing of the Republican Party. Extreme, yes, maverick, no.

4. Myth: Sarah Palin has more experience than Barack Obama to be President of the United States. The truth: Barack Obama has more political experience at both the local and national levels than Sarah Palin. He has eight years as a state senator from Chicago and two as a US senator, she has six years in a local political capacity on the city council and Mayor of Wasilla, population 8,000. Plus he was selected by the voters over Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and several other more experienced politicians, who obviously believe that Barack Obama is ready to be President. We will no know until election day if the voters feel the same way about Sarah Palin.

5. Myth: Sarah Palin had nothing to do with efforts to get her ex brother in law fired as a state trooper. The truth: there is mounting evidence that she was involved in the dozens of phone calls from herself and her own staff members to the Public Safety commissioner to get her sister ex-husband fired. After refusing to fire the trooper, the commissioner himself was fired--by Governor Palin. There is now an ongoing state investigation that should be wrapped up by late October, just in time for the election.

6. Myth: Sarah Palin opposes earmarks for pork barrel spending. The truth: Sarah Palin took trips as the mayor of Wasilla to beg for earmarks, and won $27 million in federal funding by employing lobbyists. This is what all politicians do, so if anyone says "Vote for me and I'll turn down money government for our home town" don't believe them.

Palin's Small Alaska Town Secured Big Federal Funds--Washington Post: 

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin employed a lobbying firm to secure almost $27 million in federal earmarks for a town of 6,700 residents while she was its mayor, according to an analysis by an independent government watchdog. 

In fiscal year 2002, Wasilla took in $6.1 million in earmarks -- about $1,000 in federal funds for every resident. By contrast, Boise, Idaho -- which has more than 190,000 residents -- received $6.9 million in earmarks in fiscal year 2008.

"She certainly wasn't shy about putting the old-boy network to use to bring home millions of dollars," said Steve Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense. "She's a little more savvy to the ways of Washington than she's let on."

7. Myth: Sarah Palin is ready to be Vice President of the USA. The truth: she told a television interviewer this summer that she did not fully understand what it is that a vice president does. Maybe she should ask Dick Cheney?

8. Truth: John McCain had met Governor Sarah Palin only once before putting her on his list of VP candidates. John McCain met her once in DC at the annual Governor's conference. They say that first impressions matter. That must have been quite a first impression! Enough to get her on the short list with Sen. Joe Lieberman and Govs. Pawlenty, Jindal and Crist, and then enough to get her the #2 spot after just one more meeting with McCain. With friends like John Wayne McCain, who needs affirmative action?

9. Myth: Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for the pregnancy of her underage daughter. This is untrue. Since her selection as the VP running mate, rumors have been flying in cyberspace that Palin faked being the mother of her new son in order to cover up the underage pregnancy of her unmarried 17 year old daughter Bristol. Governor Sarah Palin did in fact recently give birth to a baby, and her 17 year old daughter is also now pregnant. From the Clackmas Review:

According to these rumors, Sarah Palin had faked a pregnancy and pretended to have given birth in April to her fifth child, a son named Trig who has Down syndrome. The rumor was that Trig was actually Bristol Palin's child and that Sarah Palin was the grandmother.

Liberal blog the Daily Kos has been blamed for spreading this rumor, but Kos himself denies this is true. And if this all sounds a bit like a bad episode of Hee Haw on steroids, we won't disagree with you.

10. Myth: Governor Palin fired the chef at the Governor's mansion to save the taxpayers money.  This is untrue.  The chef was merely transferred to another state job since Gov. Palin decided to live mostly in Wasilla instead of Juneau. Wasilla, which is over 500 miles away from the state capitol.  Thats right, she lived in Wasilla with her family, not in Juneau where the mansion and chef is actually located!  This makes the following quote from the McCain Palin Colorado Springs rally sound even more ridiculous: 

Sarah Palin said :  "I fired the chef.  My children aren't starving."

The chef wasn't fired because the children weren't starving, or to save the state money, he was transferred because in Alaska, unless you are an Ice Road Trucker, a 500 mile commute is considered to be a bit too grueling. 

Sorry fellas (and felines) but there is no Sarah Palin sex tape. Rumors are swirling that a video is out there and will surface any day.  While there may not be a Sarah Palin sex tape (that has surfaced, at least not yet) that doesn't mean our future VP can't be a little bit sexy. Especially at cocktail hour. In a leather skirt.  Kind of makes you want to move to Alaska and hug a moose,now  doesn't it?  In fact, Sarah Palin may be the sexiest politician to occupy the White House since JFK and Dan Quayle combined.  Some think she may be the hottest power female in designer eyewear since Ashley Banfield.  We have to agree.