The country needs to reject McCain / Palin and their campaign. The reason for their outlandish lies is they can't get elected by telling the truth. That is a simple fact. America needs to understand this. Do you really want a president who is a liar. Didn't we already have enough of that? How many American lives have been lost to republican lies? I say too many.

The senate is working on and a senate panel has passed proposed legislation that places government in a situation where it effectively litigates on behalf of owners of IP (Intellectual Propety). This is so messed up.
 
It isn't up to government to protect the Intellectual Property of owners of that property. This isn't any different than saying it is up to government to litigate on behalf of anyone who owns property of any type who claims to have suffered an alleged harm. The inherent value of any property doesn't vary as a function of the property type. Be it real physical property or IP, the protection of the property is up to the owner.
 
We know who will foot the bill for this and also know that owners of said property will use this to engage government in inappropriately harrassing individuals or competitors. We can also be assured that major corporations will take advantage of this and laugh all the way to the bank because of the hundreds of millions of dollars they will save annually by having taxpayers cough up to pay for their litigation. Litigation that will in some cases be targeted at taxpayers.

Senator Patrick Leahy and Senator Arlen Specter are the sponsors of this legislation.

Dumb bastards.

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There is no way we should or could or would be anything but insane to seriously contemplate going to war with Russia. That is the last thing a president or VP should ever state in a public interview. The only correct answer is to state that such a war is to be avoided no matter what. Russia and China are the two nations that we cannot go to war with for the simple reason we cannot ever beat either without using our nuclear arsenal. And that would be very bad.

Palin is a dumbass. I surely hope she isn't expressing a view based upon a description of armageddon from a religious teaching. Way to go Palin. You just bumped up Putin's paranoia a couple of notches. But then I am sure Putin is aware Palin is a nut case and probably realizes she just tossed off the election with her statement. Putin is probably relieved.

Whatever the reason for her having said this the country doesn't need any additional proof that McCain and Palin are a dangerous choice.

In the wake of the housing meltdown Michigan Republicans are adding insult to injury by attempting to take away the voting rights of citizens due to a foreclosure action. Home mortgage borrowers have suffered a great deal in the mortgage fiasco and now those same persons are being targeted by republican authorities in a grossly unfair and in all likelihood an illegal procedure to strip those same persons of their voting rights. It isn’t bad enough that people have been victimized by a mortgage marketplace gone amok but now face voter suppression activities directed by republican backed legal teams. Apparently there are no limits to what republicans will do to retain power. This is consistent with the brazen lies the McCain campaign is using to smear his opponent. This is unethical, mean spirited, an abuse of power and unpatriotic, all of which are bedrock underlying themes of republicans.

Screwing people out of their jobs, out of their homes and out of their vote. This is the America George Bush has given us and that John McCain will perpetuate.

http://www.michiganmessenger.com/4076/lose-your-house-lose-your-vote

I fail to see the distinction in this comparisn. McCain and Palin have unabashedly and disturbingly 'stolen' the Obama campaign slogan of 'Change'.

And at the same they are stealing that they are committed to blatant lying to the American people.

The blatant dishonesty of McCain and Palin has to end in their defeat. A different outcome is not possible for the simple reason of having crossed the line of truthfulness.

It's becoming plain that corporate America is in McCains corner. Or it feels like that to me anyway. It was all but impossible not to flip on CNN or FOX or MSNBC this weekend without seeing McCain or Palin. I am critical of the general state of ownership and control of major media outlets because that ownership influences independence of reportage. The political and business relationships of the giant corporations that own our airwaves and cable outlets I think ends with at least somewhat state sponsored control of what we see and hear. It can be argued that Bush has done things that once upon a time would have been more critically reported and in effect challenged on the national stage. That this hasn't occurred is in part connected to what many people view as gross abuses of power by the Bush administration. It is also apparent that this dovetails with the cozy relationships held by corporate America with the congress. Unless you have lived long enough and have watched this for 30 or 40 years it isn't likely you will have noticed how all of this has transformed the nation so dramatically. We once had what could only be called an adversarial relationship between government and business and government and the media. I've no doubt that was a healthy condition for our democracy. To the extent this has changed has a direct bearing on the health of our democracy. I have serious reservations of attributing to corporations those same aspects of freedom and citizenship that belong to individual citizens. Corporations aren't citizens and have an entirely different reason for being. The logical proof of that statement rests in an examination of civil litigation that typically has corporations in contest against citizens. An objective examination of such litigation reveals that the interests and goals of corporations and citizens are not the same. This specifies that they are very different in their core aspects of nationalism and exposes the extent to which they are illogically attributed a common notion of citizenship. It is my view that this attribution of citizenship is an unfounded and contrived legal fallacy. This is more true than ever before when we consider the aspect of very large corporation being termed as multi-nationals. The very conduct of corporations in this day and age has purely to do with profit and is completely bereft of any notion of patriotism. You cannot ignore those actions of corporations that harm Americans without gaining an insight into this marked difference and knowing full well that corporations should not be accorded a status similar to that of citizens. You truly have to close your eyes and stop thinking in order to not see the difference.