for just a moment while I indulge my partisan leanings.

Sarah the 'reform' candidate keeps talking about shaking up that 'old boy network in Washington.

One of Obama's main themes in his campaign has been against lobbyists running Washington.

Elko today, Obama attacks McCain for the lobbyists around him, again -- a reminder that for all the cable buzz, the core of Obama's negative message at the moment -- the one actually airing --is about McCain's lobbyist ties:

It sounds like he got a little carried away, because yesterday, John McCain actually said that if he’s President, he’ll take on the – quote – 'ol’ boys network' in Washington. I am not making this up. This is someone who’s been in Congress for twenty-six years – who put seven of the most powerful Washington lobbyists in charge of his campaign – and now he tells us that he’s the one who will take on the ol’ boy network.

The ol’ boy network? In the McCain campaign, that’s called a staff meeting.

Music to my ears.

DJIA down 450 pts.
NASDAQ down 100 pts.
S&P down 50 pts.

The DJIA is flirting with sub 10,000 levels.
The NASDAQ is very close to going below 2,000.

The answer seems to be getting bigger.

Tons of mergers in the works.

Bizarre!

Gawker has the details.

Apparently she used the account for official business, which is a major no-no.

Former National Review publisher Wick Allison endorses Obama and says:

"[T]oday it is so-called conservatives who are cemented to political programs when they clearly don’t work. The Bush tax cuts—a solution for which there was no real problem and which he refused to end even when the nation went to war—led to huge deficit spending and a $3 trillion growth in the federal debt. Facing this, John McCain pumps his “conservative” credentials by proposing even bigger tax cuts. Meanwhile, a movement that once fought for limited government has presided over the greatest growth of government in our history. That is not conservatism; it is profligacy using conservatism as a mask.

Today it is conservatives, not liberals, who talk with alarming bellicosity about making the world “safe for democracy.” It is John McCain who says America’s job is to “defeat evil,” a theological expansion of the nation’s mission that would make George Washington cough out his wooden teeth.

This kind of conservatism, which is not conservative at all, has produced financial mismanagement, the waste of human lives, the loss of moral authority, and the wreckage of our economy that McCain now threatens to make worse.

I now see that Obama is almost the ideal candidate for this moment in American history. I disagree with him on many issues. But those don’t matter as much as what Obama offers, which is a deeply conservative view of the world. Nobody can read Obama’s books (which, it is worth noting, he wrote himself) or listen to him speak without realizing that this is a thoughtful, pragmatic, and prudent man. It gives me comfort just to think that after eight years of George W. Bush we will have a president who has actually read the Federalist Papers.

Most important, Obama will be a realist. I doubt he will taunt Russia, as McCain has, at the very moment when our national interest requires it as an ally. The crucial distinction in my mind is that, unlike John McCain, I am convinced he will not impulsively take us into another war unless American national interests are directly threatened."

The rats, they are jumping off the listing ship of Republicanism. Unlike Republicans like Tom DeLay & Karl Rove, I don't want to kill Republicanism. I just want the people that vote for the current leaders to see that the fruition of their votes. There's a place for conservatism in this world. There is also a place for those who hijacked conservatism, but I don't think it's in this world per say.

A high school teacher in Arizona is accused of unwittingly show porn during class.

"Torture porn, of like girls being tied up."

Maybe my high school physics teacher wasn't playing fantasy sports during class.