I’m so excited! I’m going to take my sister up to the mountains for her birthday this weekend! Our other sister and my 16 year old daughter will be coming with us, as well. I’ve reserved a condo at the same place where my family and I stayed back in May. We absolutely loved it there! It’s so peaceful and so beautiful.

I’m hoping there will be some snow on the ground (we got our first snow two nights ago). Nothing prettier than a fresh Rocky Mountain snowfall! She’ll be able to breathe in nature, relax by the fire and take a heavenly jacuzzi. And so will I! LOL Yay! I can hardly wait!

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Wow. Sarah Palin couldn’t even convince her own state’s number one newspaper — The Anchorage Daily News — that she and McCain have the answers for this country. That’s pretty bad, but completely understandable — and 100% correct! While praising Palin’s energy and bright future, the Anchorage paper’s editorial today added:

Sen. McCain describes himself as a maverick, by which he seems to mean that he spent 25 years trying unsuccessfully to persuade his own party to follow his bipartisan, centrist lead. Sadly, maverick John McCain didn’t show up for the campaign. Instead we have candidate McCain, who embraces the extreme Republican orthodoxy he once resisted and cynically asks Americans to buy for another four years.

It is Sen. Obama who truly promises fundamental change in Washington. You need look no further than the guilt-by-association lies and sound-bite distortions of the degenerating McCain campaign to see how readily he embraces the divisive, fear-mongering tactics of Karl Rove. And while Sen. McCain points to the fragile success of the troop surge in stabilizing conditions in Iraq, it is also plain that he was fundamentally wrong about the more crucial early decisions. Contrary to his assurances, we were not greeted as liberators; it was not a short, easy war; and Americans — not Iraqi oil — have had to pay for it. It was Sen. Obama who more clearly saw the danger ahead.

The unqualified endorsement of Sen. Obama by a seasoned, respected soldier and diplomat like Gen. Colin Powell, a Republican icon, should reassure all Americans that the Democratic candidate will pass muster as commander in chief.

Furthermore:

Yet despite her formidable gifts, few who have worked closely with the governor would argue she is truly ready to assume command of the most important, powerful nation on earth. To step in and juggle the demands of an economic meltdown, two deadly wars and a deteriorating climate crisis would stretch the governor beyond her range. Like picking Sen. McCain for president, putting her one 72-year-old heartbeat from the leadership of the free world is just too risky at this time. (read it in its entirety here)

OUCH!

The Huffington Post states:

My magazine, Editor & Publisher, has been charting all of the editorial endorsements around the country and Obama now leads by a whopping 160 to 59. More than 35 papers have switched from Bush to Obama. The latest major papers to flip: The Providence Journal and The Fort Worth Star-Telegram today in Texas. That, amazingly, gives Obama three of the five major papers in that state, with the Houston and Austin papers earlier flipping their support from Bush to Obama.

Just today Obama picked up the backing of (besides the papers listed above) the Baltimore Sun, St. Petersburg Times, Des Moines Register, Charlotte Observer, Hartford Courant, Rochester Democrat & Chronicle and many, many others. McCain held on to his home state Arizona Republic and papers in Richmond and Cincinnati.

In a nutshell: The Indianapolis Star, which backed Bush the last time, decided not to endorse anyone. The Times-Picayune, which also sat out 2004, endorsed Obama today.

In fact, a Democratic candidate for president has never done this well with editorial endorsements. E&P reviewed our tallies since 1940 and in that time only LBJ in ‘64, Bill Clinton in 1992 and John Kerry last year earned the most backing, and in the last two cases, just barely.

In fact, Obama has carried at least 9 out of 10 major metros, including both dailies in Chicago, Seattle and Los Angeles. He is even winning the majority of papers in Red states.

Right on! The majority of Americans, as well as the majority of publications in America, can see clearly and decisively that Barack Obama is the absolute best person for the job of President!

Too bad The Anchorage Daily News felt they had to praise Palin as much as they did, but I’m sure they thought it would only be right to throw her a bone. ;)

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That ugly fringe element of our society have taken their cue from the thinly-veiled vitriol being spewed by Sarah Palin and John McCain and are beginning to come out of the woodwork into the light of day. I’m sure they think it is what is wanted, and dare I say even expected of them when they listen to Palin at her rallies. The following stories should scare and incense you. The truth of the matter is that these kinds of things will continue to happen if McCain and Palin don’t stop their racist-laced rhetoric and innuendo:

ADA, Okla. — Newspaper subscribers in an Oklahoma town have found fliers for the KKK wrapped up in their Sunday editions the past three weekends, and police are working to find out who’s behind it.

Jeannie Coplin has received the paper for the last 30 years.

“This is the first time we’ve ever experienced anything like this,” Coplin said.

Recently, Coplin said she’s been getting material from the Ku Klux Klan along with her daily paper.

Ada Evening News workers have fielded more than 300 calls from angered customers.

“They’re mortified and so are we that our newspaper would be used in this way,” Publisher Lone Beasley said.

The racist organization has been illegally wrapping fliers around the Ada Evening News, greeting Sunday morning readers with messages like, “God Bless America and the Ku Klux Klan,” according to newspaper representatives and the Ada Police Department.

It’s a message that is not being received well in this south-central Oklahoma city.

“They go in the dark, take our newspaper and wrap a flier around our newspaper,” said publisher Lone’ Beasley.

He said it’s being done to make it seem as if the Klan is advertising with the newspaper.

The KKK papers included a release saying the group does not support Presidential candidate Barack Obama. It included discussion about protecting Caucasian Christians.

“This is the year 2008. We’re supposed to be above things like that,” Coplin said.

According to some, whoever is responsible for the ads are going to Ada recycling bins to gather papers, wrapping them with the KKK propaganda and dropping them at houses.

“This happened not only in the city of Ada, but also out in the county and even some surrounding counties,” said Mark Bratcher of Ada.

“It’s unauthorized, something we would never condone,” Beasley said.

It’s also against the law, police said.

While investigators are looking into hate crime charges, trespassing and littering charges are also being considered but there are no suspects.

“We need the public’s help if anybody sees anything suspicious…they certainly need to report it to police,” Bratcher said.

Many who received the papers have chosen to throw them away.

Newspaper managers said they are confident the documents are not coming from any of their employees or paper carriers.

If that’s not enough, how about this shocking story out of Atlanta, Georgia:

ATLANTA (AP) — Federal authorities are investigating an inflamatory racist flyer containing a threat against Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama that was circulated in mailboxes of a suburban Atlanta subdivision.

An FBI spokesman said Friday that investigators “reported the matter to the U.S. Secret Service for further review and determination on handling.”

The Secret Service did not immediately return a call.

The flyer purportedly from “some of us KKK brothers,” which surfaced this week in Clayton County south of Atlanta, contained derogatory references to blacks, Asians and homosexuals. It said if Obama won the election “we may have to get rid” of him and “in fact we will.”

All of this, not to mention rally-goers who continue to yell things like “kill him!” and “terrorist” while Sarah speaks, and yet she does absolutely nothing. NEITHER of them do anything! John McCain even announced how “proud he is” of the people who go to their rallies! You should absolutely be livid by now. You should write letters, emails — stand up and shout it if you have to — that we will NOT stand for this! Not again! (this is McCain’s contact page) McCain and Palin have shoved us back in time by decades with their hateful and fear-mongering rhetoric! None of this KKK crap was happening until they started in with all of their insinuations and innuendo about Obama being “dangerous”, beginning with the LIE that Barack Obama “palled around with terrorists”. How dare they play on people’s fears about 9/11 to win a damn election!! Don’t even try telling me that they didn’t mean anything racist by it, or that they didn’t think anything bad would come of it. BULLSHIT! They knew EXACTLY what they were doing. SHAME ON THEM! Is this what we want in a President? Someone who is DIVISIVE and uses fear and intimidation to get what he wants, in his OWN country from his OWN fellow Americans?! WTF?! He will absolutely do ANYTHING — and I mean ANYTHING — to get elected! So much for country first, eh?! Yeah, as if! The truth is that it has and always will be MCCAIN first!

JOHN MCCAIN AND SARAH PALIN ARE DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA!!!

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OK, first of all, before any of you start coming down on me or anyone else for completely invading Joe’s (who’s first name is really Sam) privacy, remind yourselves that it was John McCain who first invoked the name of “Joe the Plumber” during the debate. Twenty-one times. Then he has the nerve to say that the Obama camp began attacking and smearing him. Are you freaking kidding me? As soon as that name passed his lips the media were jumping on their computers and in their vans to find out just who the guy is! And then, of course, the truth comes out.

Listen, and learn.

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Hmmm, look at that — the biggest Republican “voter fraud” cause, involving ACORN among others, just got thrown out by George Bush’s conservative Republican US Supreme Court. Well isn’t that just sooo interesting. As reported by AMERICAblog.com:

The Ohio GOP tried to take away the voting rights of 200,000 voters in that state, after ACORN and others registered voters with misspelled names. George Bush’s conservative Republican U.S. Supreme Court just took the side of Democrats in Ohio, and ACORN, and overturned a lower court’s decision which took the side of the GOP. Ohio’s Secretary of State appealed that earlier ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court — and won:

The Supreme Court is siding with Ohio’s top elections official in a dispute with the state Republican Party over voter registrations.

The justices on Friday overruled a federal appeals court that had ordered Ohio’s top elections official to do more to help counties verify voter eligibility.

Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat, faced a deadline of Friday to set up a system to provide local officials with names of newly registered voters whose driver’s license numbers or Social Security numbers on voter registration forms don’t match records in other government databases.

Ohio Republicans contended the information for counties would help prevent fraud. Brunner said the GOP is trying to disenfranchise voters.

Typical GOP shananigans. They always do something to try to suppress the vote. But not this time!

Today, the George Bush’s conservative Republican U.S. Supreme Court suppressed the GOP and told the nation, the only fraud is the Republican party.

Exactly!

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